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Take the 2-minute tour ×
I want to do conversion in T-SQL from a varbinary type to string type
Here is an example :
First I got this varbinary
And then I want to convert it to
How to do this?
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What version of SQL Server do you have? Andras's answer only works on 2008 or higher, for example. – Pondlife Aug 27 '12 at 9:16
That's true, I updated my answer, so if you have older version you need a different solution – András Ottó Aug 27 '12 at 9:19
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DECLARE @varbinaryField varbinary(max);
SET @varbinaryField = 0x21232F297A57A5A743894A0E4A801FC3;
SELECT CONVERT(varchar(max),@varbinaryField,2),
UPDATED: For SQL Server 2008
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I know this is an old question, but here is an alternative answer that I have found more useful in some situations. I believe the function has been available at least since SQL2K. Adding it here just for completeness.
declare @source varbinary(max);
set @source = 0x21232F297A57A5A743894A0E4A801FC3;
select varbin_source = @source
,string_result = master.dbo.fn_varbintohexstr (@source)
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If you want to convert a single VARBINARY value into VARCHAR (STRING) you can do by declaring a variable like this:
SET @var = 0x21232F297A57A5A743894A0E4A801FC3
If you are trying to select from table column then you can do like this:
FROM myTable
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This works in both SQL 2005 and 2008:
declare @source varbinary(max);
set @source = 0x21232F297A57A5A743894A0E4A801FC3;
select cast('' as xml).value('xs:hexBinary(sql:variable("@source"))', 'varchar(max)');
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How to do the same convert for field but not for variable? – Oleg Nov 9 '12 at 13:16
To do the same but for a column rather than a variable, you would use the sql:column function (technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms191214.aspx). So it would be cast('' as xml).value('xs:hexBinary(sql:column("someColumnNameHere"))' – Anssssss Dec 2 '13 at 17:33
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Reports | May 19, 2011 17:07
Happy birthday ChessBase
Happy birthday ChessBaseFor the ChessBase founders it is not easy to determine the exact date when their company was born, but in the end they decided that it was on May 19th, 1986. In other words: exactly 25 years ago. We congratulate the Hamburg based company with reaching this wonderful milestone.
Today, for a period of 24 hours, ChessBase offers a 25% discount to all products in their shop. The reason? They somehow decided it's their 25th birthday. 'Decided', because it's not that clear when the company started, and apparently the German founders didn't want to pick the date on which the company was officially filed in the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce.
Today in an article on their website it is described how the idea of a database of chess games emerged for the first time in the minds of Frederic Friedel, Matthias Wüllenweber and... Garry Kasparov. Friedel is one of the founders of the company, and in the eighties a 'philosopher turned science journalist'. He still writes most of the articles on the English ChessBase website.
Wüllenweber was a physics student 'who had single-handedly programmed a chess database on the Atari ST, showed it to Kasparov and, at his urging, founded the company ChessBase together with Frederic'.
ChessbaseWhat follows is a nice story, with even better pictures in black and white, about Kasparov getting excited about the idea of browsing through the opponent's games using a computer, thereby winning lots of time. (No doubt it wouldn't take long for the World Champion to conclude that it was possible to study their openings more effficiently as well!)
Having worked with ChessBase 4 on Windows 3.1, and having purchased the latest version (11) of ChessBase's database product only a few days ago, we can confirm that a lot has changed over the years. And although we might be competitors, to some extent, in the field of online news reporting, we've never kept it a secret that we're big fans of their software products.
We take the opportunity to humbly congratulate ChessBase with their 25th anniversary. It's a wonderful milestone to reach, and in that respect we've got a long way to go!
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Author: Peter Doggers
Chess Master School
choufleur's picture
scid is far superior to chessbase, and is free. Moreover, it works under linux. I recommend it !
I must also mention that I once wrote to chessbase webmaster to indicate (kindly, I think) that a link was broken. The answer was that my computer was responsible for this ! A strong german gm, not hard to guess who, but really arrogant.
Thomas's picture
So what? Chessbase was a pioneer (or at least among the first) in various fields and later got competition:
- very first one to commercially distribute chess engines?
- first ones to develop databases commercially
- for online chess, world leader together with ICC (I wouldn't know who was first)
- one of the first chess news sites (together with TWIC?), still going strong and currently the only multilingual one.
All the better for us chess players that they aren't the only ones, and no reason to diminish their 'historic' role if others became as good or better - which, except for chess engines, remains a matter of personal taste.
Arne's picture
Not for the invention of the computer but for the dehumanization of our beloved game, making it about memory instead of creativity and hard work (working to get your own ideas, not to memorize the computer's idea).
For this, Chessbase is to be blamed!
Frits Fritschy's picture
You can't blame evolution for creating mosquito's - it just happens and you'll have to live with them.
noyb's picture
Go away quietly Arne, there's a good lad.
S3's picture
Thomas's picture
Apparently Wüllenweber reinvented the wheel (and didn't know), but does it matter? They were the first ones to recognize the commercial potential of the idea, hence they get credit and earn money with it.
That's life ... also in other chessic and non-chessic fields: Whoever first plays a strong opening novelty gets credit and might win an important game, even if someone else had already found it independently. In my field (science): whoever first publishes a new discovery gets credit. If someone else had already found the same but kept it secret or in-house, bad luck ... and lack of time to write that article is no excuse!
BTW, the German Chessbase site has many more details - too much for me to translate but maybe some people can read German: .
My personal "early Chessbase connection": Around 1988 I played a correspondence game against "the other Matthias" Feist - he occasionally mentioned that "Chessbase takes up lots of my time" (then it was his student job). Maybe two years later I played another correspondence game against his (former) clubmate Michael Buscher and sent greetings - "I cannot tell him personally, he has moved (from Cologne) to Hamburg where he's working (full-time) for Chessbase". That's now roughly 20 years ago ... .
GLorscheid's picture
I know Chessbase from its very first Atari version and remember to have also a license of Nicbase for some time. But in my memory it could not compete except that it used only 7 bits per move instead of 8. So if someone remembers the dates Nicbase was developed this would been interesting.
S3's picture
Is Chessassistant DB software so much worse?
Or the free ChessDB program (ok the lay out sucks but it works) combined with twic-updates?
I have some CB products but I really dislike the company for it's bad service and silly site that used to be good. And the fact that they are overpricing of course..
GLorscheid's picture
Some things are mixed up here. 25 years ago there was the chess database. So you could take your Atari to a tournament instead of the last twenty Informator books. Kramnik spoke about engines. There were no usable chess engines for at least the next ten years. So Chessbase only replaced books, but it did not change the way to play chess.
Arne's picture
There is nothing as good as their database but the damaged they do to our ancient game is not worth it.
noyb's picture
You are totally full of crap.
Arne's picture
This is exactly what I mean! This should be a day of morning! They are killing our game!
help's picture
So that's why you hold ChessBase responsible for the invention of the computer, now I understand.
Arne's picture
That company destroyed chess and allowed cheating at the highest levels. I'm not happy about this.
Hortensius's picture
Please clarify...
help's picture
He's a troll. I've noticed all of his comments are like that.
But anyway. From
On March 9, 1949, Claude Shannon (1916-2001), a research worker at Bell Telephone Laboratories in New Jersey, presented a paper called “Programming a Digital Computer for Playing Chess.”
Zomerschaker's picture
Please ban this Arne guy, he's even worse than Arne Moll ;-)
noyb's picture
Ignore this guy, he sounds like a nut!
Peter Doggers's picture
Don't see how this article describes Chessbase as the first games database - as a former NiC employee I know better. The only part that comes close is ' the idea of a database of chess games emerged for the first time in the minds of Frederic Friedel, Matthias Wüllenweber and… Garry Kasparov'. For this to be wrong, the phrase would need a comma after 'time'.
chandler's picture
nice foto !!!
Stefan Loeffler's picture
Well, it´s remarkable that all the stories, including the one on a Dutch side present Chessbase as the first games database and omit the real inventors. Chessbase was the first one on the market, but the founders of New in Chess had a chess database running well before Wüllenweber (who most likely wasn´t aware of that), but they were so busy with launching their excellent magazine and yearbooks that they didn´t understand what product could have made them a fortune.
I don´t wish to belittle the achievement of Wüllenweber. Congrats to him and his company.
onurengin's picture
In this article, we also see why Kasparov was/is such a great chess player, performing always in front of the others!
He was right there when the "progress" (or you may call this in a negative way) of computers started! He had his own ideas, used softwares, and prepared with computer database!
That is why he opened the gap between him and his apponents later on, I think...
He caught the time of computer assistance for opponent specific preparations, game analysis and for testing the opening ideas.
sporty's picture
Chessbase are getting old and falling behind: Houdini, Stockfish, and even Critter are now better software. Not to mention databases, they are updated less than ever.
blueofnoon's picture
Your post certainly have the point. However, when it comes to chess database I still cannot find the substitute for ChessBase. Perhaps you can recommend something as good?
Frits Fritschy's picture quotes from Kasparov's autobiography:
"I had played a 'simul' against the Hamburg team and lost, mainly because I was tired. I hadn't studied the players, who were pretty good, including a grandmaster, and I got into terrible time pressure. I swore to avenge my defeat."
"In January 1987 I was back to play another ‘simul’ against the Hamburg team. This time I had two days to prepare, so we dug out the names of all the players and checked their records in the computer. It was an eye-opener for me. It took about ten minutes to find 192 games. If I ask my trainers to find me a game, going through the books, it could take days. This time, armed with the information I needed, I beat six of the Hamburg team and drew with the other two. The result, 7-1, was extraordinary. They couldn't believe it. Because I knew their habits, I could lead them into traps. I did the same thing with the Swiss national team later in Zurich. I saw that one player had had a smashing victory, but when I replayed his game on the computer I saw a way in which his opponent could have stopped him. So I tempted him into similar moves. He couldn't believe his luck. I was leading him onto familiar ground where he had won his great victory. Then wham! I closed the trap on him."
A bit odd: being proud of a result using means not available to your opponents, a result you were unable to perform earlier when you had to do without those means. Of course he later proved to be the best even when his opponents had the same means.
Still: mixed feelings. It helps to go back to the origin of a development to see it's consequences. The eight Germans thought they were again playing Kasparov, but in effect the second simul they were playing Kasparov plus database. And everyone followed, because when your opponents have the right to bring a gun into the fight, you better be armed yourself. And, as nature will have it, the arms will ever get bigger. Until they make the players unimportant.
What does Kramnik have to say about it? (, 13 May)
"...getting rid of theory, if you get can’t rid of engines – if you can’t destroy them – of course I’d be in favour. But you need to think up something sensible, so there are no flaws. I wouldn’t regret it. I want to play chess. That’s what interests me and not preparation. Even if, in general, that’s something I’m good at, I’d be happy to have a complete disarmament. I want to play chess. What can I do if that’s possible less and less often at the top level. I prepare out of necessity, not because I like doing it. I’d be very happy to work less, have a clearer head, sleep a bit, read a book, go for a walk and play chess. It was great the way it used to be. A century ago. But people won’t let me."
So what do we have, a day of celbration or a day of mourning?
RealityCheck's picture
Liebe Chessbase GmbH,
Alles Gute zum Geburtstag wuenscht Dir,
Dein, RealityCheck
supergrobi's picture
SCID is of course a nice freeware, but I from my point of view it's (unfortunately) currently no match for ChessBase. I wished it would be. Chess software, especially ChessBase, is the only reason for me not to switch completely to Linux at the moment.
Looks like the ChessBase company supports proprietary software only. There's now a ChessBase app for iPhones but nothing for Android.
What really annoys me is that they always implement the latest Microsoft gimmicks into their programs (software activation, "panes" (?) instead of the old style menus etc.).
Still it's currently the best chess software around in my opinion.
(At least this final statement will give me a lot of thumbs down... lol).
noyb's picture
Kudos to Chessvibes for the tip of the hat to Chessbase. Chessbase has single-handedly revolutionized chess and for much the better! There would be no ChessVibes today perhaps were it not for Chessbase's tools popularizing and making chess available to the mainstream. There is certainly plenty of room for both, and for both to grow!
Hal Bogner's picture
I don't recall NICBase being on the market at the time I was trained by Federic Friedel and introduced ChessBase into the US market, which was late 1987.
I recall two powerful statements by Garry Kasparov that formed our advertising in the US market at that time:
"The greatest development for chess since the invention of the printing press."
"In three years, all serious players will be using ChessBase."
Congratulations on your 25th anniversary, Matthias, Frederic, and company!
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new study by Ohio State's Zhenchao Quian reveals why more young adults than ever are living with their parents.
There are the obvious factors like unemployment and the lousy housing market, then there are others like gender and race.
Quian found men were more likely to live at home than women, in part because they were waiting longer to get married and "sons have fewer domestic responsibilities—such as cleaning and cooking—when they live at home with parents." We'll spare the feminist commentary for now, but Quian seems to feel the more guys are let off the hook for these "women's chores," the less of a problem they'll have mooching off their parents.
Check out the chart below for proof:
In terms of race, Quian found that African Americans, Latinos and Asian millennials are more likely to live at home than their white counterparts. Conventional wisdom says "extended family living" arrangements are ingrained in these race's culture, however, there are two other factors at play: marriage and location.
Asian Americans, who saw the sharpest increase in people living with parents between 1980 and 2007-2009, marry later compared with other racial groups. They also tend to live in high-rent cities like New York City and Los Angeles.
For both of these reasons, "doubling-up" makes sense. It cuts the rent (or eliminates it entirely) and offsets the pain of having to shack up with strangers on Craigslist
The chart below shows how this trend has evolved since the early 1980s:
DON'T MISS: The pros and cons of living on your own in NYC >
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Backchannels What has US spending done for Afghan women? US doesn't know.
It's a common theme when it comes to US spending in Afghanistan. One official said accounting for spending on women was more of an 'optimistic, aspirational statement.'
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In the frequent audits of US spending in Afghanistan, a word that comes up again and again is “unsustainable.”
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The Audacity of Teresa Giudice
The audacity of Teresa Giudice to criticize Skinny Girl Cocktails by Bethenny Frankel as “diety”, well first, let’s explain to this amoeba that “diety” isn’t even a word but if I start with grammar and spell check with Mrs. Giudice I’d go on forever.
If it wasn’t for Bethenny Frankel’s success she and the rest of the housewives wouldn’t be riding on her coattails that’s for sure. She wouldn’t have a clue to come up with a cookbook of Italian family recipes and not that’s its so hard to come up with either. I honestly couldn’t even give Teresa credit for coming up with it, because I have a hard time seeing it. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if someone approached her with the idea when they saw a couple of episodes of her cooking and making some home made marinara. (but doesn’t every Italian do that?). Oh and one more thought, your not an author and just because you put in a bunch of your mother’s recipes in a pile of paper added some text with a ghost-writer while bashing your family and friends then seal it, cover it with a picture your abnormal forehead and cheesy fake smile to then call yourself an author, not happening.
She is the epitome of opportunist. I don’t know who’s worse Kim Kardashian or Teresa Giudice? It might be a close tie, at least Kim isn’t as nasty to her friends and family as Teresa has been.
It seems Teresa is living the lifestyles of the wannabe-rich and fame-whore famous and will do whatever it takes to get there, even if she steps on a few family members and life-long friends if she has to. It makes you wonder what Dina Manzo is thinking befriending such a female all the while not talking to her sister Caroline Manzo but then again Dina is into all that witchcraft, psychic reading, astrology stuff.
Hey, listen, I like a bit of it myself but I don’t have people coming to my house burning sage to cleanse the bad energy, that’s just extreme.
I will admit for the first time I think Caroline Manzo is on to something when she’s predicted the demise of Teresa and Joe “Juicy Meatball” Giudice’s marriage. How can you not see it. He’s already lied to her in the past about their finances, he’s already cheated on her, he has several legal issues including ID fraud, bankruptcy fraud and so on, then lies about owning a pizzeria, has one too many cocktails, treats his kids like shit and Tri as well. Sounds like a match made in heaven. I don’t think so.
I have a feeling the fall of Teresa Giudice will be greater than the rise of her so-called success.
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tha boy larry's a wasteman, bruv!
作者 jon_ilford 2005年11月22日
a man that is waste
you're a wasteman...
作者 Anonfaggot1111 2010年8月03日
Older men who do nothing with their lives. Also known as a waste of space; or wastefran.
A lazy wasteman; someone who had potential to hold a white collared title, but prefers to live like a slum.
作者 travestyfund 2013年12月01日
An ape who cant control his emotions due to possibly having a small penis and being unfulfilled with their life. And also constantly acts like a girl on their period.
Yasin is a complete Wasteman. He couldn't even control his bitch from shagging next man! He has real wasteman stench!!
作者 Realtalkingnigga 2014年7月21日
People who miss all lectures
Neil and David did not attend hardware. What wastemen
作者 wastemancrew 2013年11月22日
Get the fuck away from me you Waste man
作者 Fayola 2006年9月13日
A wasteman is someone who doesn't provide for their children, instead fucks off taking no responsibility, also a hypocritical cunt who beats women and miss judge others who actually care for their family.
Will is a wasteman, he's got two women pregnant, got them to fist him, beat them, then fucked off without a care in the world
作者 bbooshka 2014年6月02日
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Catwoman #75 Review
Will Pfeifer's Catwoman outruns Salvation Run.
It's amazing how this Salvation Run tie-in issue of Catwoman manages to be so much more entertaining and readable than the actual miniseries itself has been thus far. Part of the reason is because, unlike the Salvation Run writers, Will Pfeifer is free to give his story a more cohesive flow by focusing on his one main character. The other main reason this single issue shines above and beyond the mini is because Pfeifer squeezes way more mileage out of his Joker and Luthor characterizations than either Bill Willingham or Sturges managed to in their issues of Salvation Run.
That's saying a lot, really, seeing that both Willingham and Sturges hit nearly pitch-perfect marks with their handling of DC's two greatest villains. Pfiefer blows both scribes away, though, scripting a Luthor that's as amusingly egotistical as he is crafty and a Joker that cackles with the perfect mix of humor and insanity. It's also a testament to how far Selina Kyle has come as a character in recent years (since Ed Brubaker and Darwyn Cooke re-imagined her) that she stands toe-to-toe with both iconic villains in every scene she shares with them. Her scene with the Joker in particular is brilliantly written, and it's eclipsed only by a scene in which Selina appraises her current predicament while trying to light the Joker's "Congratulations, it's a girl!" cigar.
The whole fantastic issue was enough to make me wonder whether Salvation Run might have benefited from focusing on Selina as its main character and narrator as opposed to the rather schizophrenic, multi-perspective style it employs now. Any time you throw fifty colorful, psychopathic personalities together into one story, you run the risk of pushing some fun and deserving characters to the background, and using Selina as the main character would have made it easier to give each – or at least most – of these various villains a chance to shine. Plus, Catwoman also happens to be one of the most three-dimensional, morally complex characters in the DCU, and watching her interact with the likes of Cheetah, Bane, Luthor, Joker and Deadshot is a hell of a lot of fun, as this issue proves quite convincingly.
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(June 4,1953 / Albany, New York)
What do you think this poem is about?
Virginia Woolf in hollywood
an article in a prestigious journal
claimed she won the Oscar because
they made her act with a rubber nose
the nose transformed her
from sex goddess
to tortured writer who ended up
putting rocks in her pockets walk in
over her head and drown
in a deep river it must
have been a great performance
she kept her composure throughout
even though the rubber nose
wanted to fall off after every cut
i was secretly rooting for the nose
to stay on but how could it?
it was so unnatural
she just had to go
when she walked into the river
insiders on location watched the nose
finally fall and float quietly
unfortunately the underwater camera
jammed and the most thrilling
shot of the film
was lost
hours later i couldn't help think
what a better writer
she could have been if only
she wasn't forced to wear that damned
suffocating rubber nose surely
the screenplay would have included
humor and she might have even believed
she was a little happier
Submitted: Tuesday, November 09, 2004
Edited: Thursday, December 09, 2004
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look up any word, like thot:
to vent, use a lot of words, free form rap, a braindump of ideas.
could be used to describe a lengthy blog post, or a boring speech.
can be used in a positive or negitive way.
wow honey, that was quite a spill.
by Jesse Colburn August 14, 2007
1. To knock over a liquid of some sort.
2. To tell everything.
3. To fall.
4. To do poorly.
1. Man, my Mom's gonna kill me for spilling that red wine on her pillow. That stuff never comes out.
2. Come on, spill. What did you do?
3. Man, that was a gnarly spill I took on the 360, man.
4. Her grades took a major spill this year. I think she'll have to do summer school.
by M.E.R.E.D.I.T.H!! June 17, 2007
(v) to ejaculate, primarily for females
"Yo that loose bitch I fucked last night... she spilled all over my sheets."
by TomiDat October 27, 2006
(v) To take a taste of, hit of, sip of, drag of, pull of. Generally, any form of tasting or taking a small portion of something.
1: "Yo man, lemme get a spill of that rum and coke"
2: "Sure, lemme get a spill of that cigar first"
by Mike February 23, 2005
The Christmas tree needles that have fallen off of the tree and unto the floor.
Let's take out the tree and vacuum up the spills.
by EJ GF November 29, 2007
to ditch someone or to leave a group.
or to "spill" out of a group.
Jason: "Bro, this party is boring."
Hyde: "Get Kelly and George and spill this place."
Jason: "Alright, man."
by Catty McFatty July 14, 2011
1)adj. Refers to the fat which "spills" out over the top of a (usually, although spills can be male as well, if the spilling is that revolting) female's pants. Such breeds of this animal that have been officially documented include: the double spill, the 270 degree spill, the 260 degree spill, the half spill, the vaginal spill, among others.
2)noun A nickname given to those who spill.
1) Oh god, look at those spills, they make me want to vomit.
The half spill is a rare creature, rarely seen out of its natural habitat.
2) Damn! Check out Spills! That bitch is spillin!
Oh god! Look at Spills Jr.!
by PLagg January 24, 2005
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Take the tour ×
In my rhythm game, I have a note object which can be of different colors depending on the note chart. I could use a sprite sheet with all the different color variations I use, but I would prefer to parametrize this. (For information, a note sprite is compound with one main color, for example a red note has only red, light red and dark red.)
So, how to change the colors of a sprite basing on a new color ?
I'm working with opengl, but any algorithm or math explanation will do. :)
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I'd probably use a single color image (eg. your note-sprite) with alpha channel and then color the whole image with your base-color. So, something like in the following image (from wikimedia commons):
image of a music-note
If your color was red, you would then color the note (all the black parts) with the same red. What you would need in addition, is a grayscale image with the shading of the note. Then combine the shading with the flat color by using blend-modes like Multiply and/or Screen.
Another, probably simpler approach would be to just have a grayscale image where you would multiply each color component with your selected color. So if you have a gray value of 0.5, and a red color RGB(1.0, 0.0, 0.0), that would result in RGB(0.5, 0.0, 0.0) for the given pixel.
Update: Here's an example image to illustrate what I mean with the blend-modes:
blending layers
Of course you could just use the shadow layer if you don't need the highlights (which is basically the same as the simpler approach mentioned above).
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This is so off-topic but I got to ask - how did you make that second image? – DMan Feb 12 '11 at 4:18
@DMan Photoshop for the different note images and then Illustrator to arrange stuff ;) – bummzack Feb 12 '11 at 10:10
Thanks for your explanation. :) Is it possible to do the blend into a fragment shader ? Or is it preferable to stay with the opengl blend function and render the 3 images separately ? – Mr_Qqn Feb 12 '11 at 11:31
I'm not a shader expert, but from my limited knowledge I'd say it shouldn't be a problem. Alternatively you could just pre-calculate the images you need on the CPU? – bummzack Feb 12 '11 at 12:04
Yes, for the moment I will generate a sprite sheet with all the variations. – Mr_Qqn Feb 12 '11 at 16:46
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Make a greyscale (or just white) version of the image you want to show, with a suitable alpha channel. Use the vertex color to "dye" the image.
Vertex color multiplies each channel, so white x red = red, 50% grey x red = 50% red, and so on.
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Problem with this is that the shading won't be recognizable when using bright colors (for example yellow). – bummzack Feb 11 '11 at 23:00
Not sure what you mean. Black or very dark grey in the greyscale image multiplied by very bright yellow is still black or very dark yellow. – ggambett Feb 11 '11 at 23:02
BTW, I'm sorry, I hadn't seen the "probably simpler approach" in your answer. – ggambett Feb 11 '11 at 23:04
You're right about the multiplying. I was mixing things up. Lack of coffee I guess. – bummzack Feb 11 '11 at 23:55
Thanks for your answer, but as I'm learning opengl 3 I'd prefer to use the other method. :) – Mr_Qqn Feb 12 '11 at 11:35
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1. (10765.1)
Ah yes, the good old days of Zork and Adventure. Map-making was never so much fun.
2. (10765.2)
• CommentTimeAug 2nd 2012
Good old Boris, still entertaining the masses.
Anything that paints him as a lovable, clownish buffoon is useful - it helps you forget that he's a member of the ruling classes, a Tory, an old Etonian, a descendant of George II, and a ruthless right-wing bastard, with all the sympathy of a starving fucking cobra.
• CommentAuthorFlabyo
• CommentTimeAug 2nd 2012
Boris has his own page on TV Tropes you know. It's a little more entertaining than his wikipedia one.
• CommentTimeAug 2nd 2012 edited
Between rapists explaining themselves and someone getting gallery space for screencapping google street view (admittedly the screencaps are pretty though) I just...want to go get some cheese and triscuits and hide under a blanket today.
• CommentTimeAug 2nd 2012
3. (10765.7)
Argh! A link trap to TV Tropes! EVENT... HORIZON... MAKING... ME... SPEAK... LIKE... SHATNER... GO ON WITHOUT ME
• CommentTimeAug 2nd 2012
@oldhat -
I read through that entire Reddit thread about 2 days ago, and if there's anything good that can come out of that...whole thing...then it would be the fact that the comments that were rated up? The ones that survived on the top level? They were almost always comments from survivors and supporters and allies.
With the following disclaimers: Not being a survivor myself, not reading Reddit regularly and having a generally low expectation of humanity....I found the thread actually lifted my spirits and gave me a bit of hope in humanity. If you only read it with the screening set to the most popular does seem pretty positive.
I fully realize that the whole thread was sick in intent, that the primary responder was a criminally guilty sociopath, and that no woman who has been through that trauma needs to read that thread to feel empowered. For the lurkers, though...I think there was some value in seeing how much of an outpouring of support and validation did show up in that thread.
4. (10765.9)
I thought this might hve been posted here already but I went back several pages and couldn't find it:
Cheap, environmentally safe, transparent solar cells.
• CommentTimeAug 2nd 2012
• CommentAuthorcardo
• CommentTimeAug 3rd 2012
@Texture - I hear ya. I'm not a fan of those in power either. Doesn't it make it all the more satisfying that he acts like a buffoon?? He is being discussed in the media at the mo and other people are warning of a clown's smokescreen. I just like to laugh at him.
5. (10765.12)
• CommentTimeAug 3rd 2012
@cardo - Tories. Never. Acceptable. Sorry for the rant but I just can't stomach them. Not any of the bastards.
• CommentAuthorFishelle
• CommentTimeAug 3rd 2012
@Oldhat and Finagle
I read bits and pieces of that thread a few days ago, and one other thing that you could say, out of hope that it did some good as well as all the bad, is that before it showed up, some of those guys didn't think what they'd done was rape. But they were corrected. And to see that rapists aren't always people that see themselves as such, to understand how men could go so low and do something so terrible, I hope would help stop those who might have that inclination from getting into situations where they think they can get away with it.
But yeah, most of that thread just made my skin crawl.
• CommentAuthorRenThing
• CommentTimeAug 3rd 2012
• CommentAuthorWood
• CommentTimeAug 5th 2012
The world is changing :
Demonstrators hold Vietnam's 1st gay pride parade
HANOI, Vietnam -- More than 100 demonstrators rode bicycles and motorbikes through Vietnam's capital Sunday in the country's first-ever gay pride parade, spurred by an unexpected government proposal to recognize same-sex couples in law.
The parade to raise awareness of Vietnam's gay and lesbian community and call for equal rights began in scorching heat at Hanoi's national stadium Sunday morning and ended about 10 kilometers (6 miles) away at a downtown park. Demonstrators trailed rainbow-colored streamers and shouted "Equal rights for gays and lesbians!" and "We support same-sex marriage!"
It was a scene that was unimaginable a few years ago, when Vietnam still labeled homosexuality a "social evil" alongside drug addiction and prostitution. The country's gay community was once so underground that few groups or meeting places existed, and it was taboo to even talk about the issue.
But Vietnam's state-controlled media now explores gay issues, and the Justice Ministry recently proposed including same-sex couples in its overhaul of the country's marriage law - positioning Vietnam to be the first country in Asia to allow same-sex couples to marry or legally register. The new law could provide rights such as owning property, inheriting and adopting children.
Who wants to bet on Vietnam getting marriage equality before California ?
6. (10765.17)
Yknow I had conversations with conservative Christians the other day at work, and they must get their propaganda from the same places. They both honestly believe that if gay marriage were legalized, that homosexuals would begin storming churches and places of worship to demand that priests & ministers perform marriages, and that legally those ministers woukd be forced to acquiesce.
I tried explains that
1) nobody needs a priest or a church to actually be married,
2) There are actually lots of churches that perform those ceremonies already
3) anyone can be ordained and perform marriages
4) or they can just go to a justice of the peace
5) that people who are in love and want to be married don't actually want the person who performs the ceremony to be some bigot they don't know from a church they don't worship at, who hates them and only performs the ceremony because they are "legally forced" to do it
They seemed very suprised that I'm getting married by a friend of mine, with no religious affiliation of any sort. And gay people can (and will) do the same thing.
• CommentAuthorRenThing
• CommentTimeAug 5th 2012
@Gov Spy
There's also the simple fact that churches, due to the nature of the wedding ceremony being a religious one there, are not required to perform said ceremony for anyone in the same way that churches do not have to let gays be members.
The thing that will stick in churches' craws however is when they find they cannot forbid rental of church facilities to gays for weddings IF said facilities are being run as a business and are available to rent to the general public. At that point they cannot discriminate but it's still a long cry from priests or ministers being forced to conduct the ceremony themselves.
And, with it stuck in their craw, I hope they choke on it.
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The Syrian Prime Minister has apparently defected to the opposition.
Three other ministers may have gone with him although their identities aren't yet known.
Seriously, I can't think of another example of that happening - ever.
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Heiress and adventurer Louise Boyd's dual existence
By Jordan E. Rosenfeld
You can have your famous women of history: gun-slinging Western gals, frontierswomen and female pilots. Give me Louise Boyd any day. A Marin County heiress to a gold-rush fortune and a groundbreaking arctic adventurer, Boyd resisted socially dictated constraints, taking up a pastime that put the female hobbies of her peers--like lace tatting and croquet--to shame.
Her critics, and even some admirers, felt the socialite-turned-explorer led a split life unbefitting her gender and station in Depression-era society. After visiting with curator Dawn Laurant of the Marin History Museum--which is hosting an exhibit on Boyd subtitled "Marin's Arctic Explorer" showing through August--and perusing Boyd's possessions, I feel confident that Boyd would have proclaimed that hers was not a split life, but rather a complete one. She found ways to satisfy both her debutante self (this woman knew how to throw good parties) as well as her free, ruffian self, who rode horses with her brothers during childhood summers.
Born in 1887 and described as "tall, poised and blue-eyed" (read: not beautiful), Boyd had the finishing-school degree and comportment of a lady and future wife, though not a single prospective husband appeared in the picture. But if her beauty was in question, her decisiveness was not. When the arctic ambrosia took possession of her on a tourist cruise of Norway at age 34, she put aside her fine china, heirloom jewelry and her father's investment company to sail glacier-laden waters seven more times.
Boyd's possessions, made possible by the estimated $35 million fortune she derived from her father and uncles' 19th-century California gold strike, reveal the rival aspects of her nature. A pair of mother-of-pearl and gold-inlaid opera glasses sit opposite her rugged, black expedition binoculars. A silver, engraved picnic set, which looks too dainty and pristine to have ever left the house, rests against a battered, plain leather traveling case. Two weathered snow shoes tower over an ivory pocket knife, embossed leather journals and a beautiful silver compass.
Photographs courtesy of Marin History Museum
Double Life: Marin heiress Louise Boyd seen dressed for presentation at court...
...and an arctic expedition.
The photographs at the museum also show Boyd's dual aspects. In one photo, she reclines like a heroine from an F. Scott Fitzgerald novel draped in elegant silk and beads, her Roman nose and smug grin framed by feline eyes tilted slightly down. In another, only a portion of her face, a giddy smile, is visible within the thick, fur-lined expedition gear. She looks like a woman who could barely be bothered to sit still for the camera and who eventually would prefer to be behind it.
It must be asked why Boyd, who grew up swaddled in privilege, chose to finance and spearhead dangerous arctic expeditions, primarily of Greenland, Denmark and Norway, from which people often did not come back alive and on which she had her share of close calls. Laurant believes Boyd was drawn to the arctic as a "final frontier" beyond all the continents she had already traveled.
"She wrote that the arctic held a beauty she wanted to unlock. Once she got inside the landscape, she would never be outside of it again," Laurant says. "Her first impression of the arctic was of a blank and soundless world, but that she soon came to know the tremendous variation inside it, and it opened up some of its mystery to her."
Indeed, a passage from one of Boyd's journals delivers a mortal meditation on the arctic, a lyric piece of PR: "The icebergs in the fiords--so majestic in height and size--give one a first impression of permanence and everlasting durability. This idea is soon dispelled, however, a booming sound and an instant later what had seemed indestructible is an unrecognizable mass of broken ice."
For a woman whose considerable wealth came to her as the result of so many deaths of those beloved to her--her two younger brothers, her parents and her uncles--one could easily believe that "inside" the arctic, with its reputation for the barren, Boyd sought a tangible mirror of the death that felled her family. And in her explorations, it appears she found these icy climes to be full of life, compelling her to return.
Alternately, perhaps Boyd wanted an antidote to privileged boredom, to go far from the strictures of civilized high society that was a part of her life on land. It's hard not to imagine that the mansion known as Maple Lawn, which belonged to her parents, and the Gate House built by her grandfather, which became a temple to her deceased brothers, were suffocating tributes to loss. Donated to Marin County in honor of her brothers in 1935, the Gate House has been the home of the Marin History Museum since the mid-'60s.
It's also easy to cultivate an image of Boyd as a lost and lonely spinster, or perhaps a closeted lesbian, since, as Laurant notes, no amount of digging through her letters and journals reveals a hint of a lover. But it is clear that Boyd did have one great love: the chilled beauty of the arctic itself, the thrill of discovery to which her wealth allowed her access.
With no experience, in 1926 she chartered a Norwegian sealing vessel, the MS Hobby, and hired a team of polar experts and scientists for a further expedition of the icy wastes of the arctic. Stakes were high and skeptics were full of wind that the heiress could not do anything that male explorers before her, like Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, hadn't already done. Not one to halt for criticism, Boyd handled everything herself, from hiring crew to ordering provisions (the lists read like ingredients for a feast) and equipment (these crews were likely the envy of others), financing the venture in full.
On that first trip, Boyd even did some hunting, bagging a few polar bears, next to one of which she is proudly posed in a photo. According to Laurant, she soon realized this wasn't an appropriate way to treat the wildlife she so admired. On the next of her seven total expeditions, all shots fired were from her Kodak Eastman.
This particular camera had its standard wood construction replaced with aluminum to make it arctic-friendly. Louise later sold this camera to her friend Ansel Adams, who went on to use it for years. Her photographs became well-known and won her the prestigious Cullum Geographical Medal from the National Geographic Society, which also published two of her books.
Both by chance and by intention, many of Boyd's trips did serve larger purposes. In 1928 she garnered international attention when she joined a search in Greenland for the missing explorer Roald Amundsen. Boyd changed her personal plans and led a 10,000-mile search for Amundsen, traversing the coast of Spitzbergen and crisscrossing the Greenland Sea.
Though the lost explorer was never found, King Haakon of Norway recognized Boyd's contribution and presented her with the Chevalier Cross of the Order of St. Olav. She was the first woman to ever receive this honor. It wouldn't be her last medal; Boyd was eventually as decorated as a war veteran, earning five other honors, among them medals from the Swedish and French governments.
Boyd's gritty determination took her to places no one had ever been. During a 1931 expedition, she made it to Ice Fjord, an inlet never before visited by ship. The Danish government named the area Weisboydlund, or "Miss Boyd Land," in her honor. Who needs a husband when they're naming fjords after you?
Still, it's clear that her biggest contributions were her photographs--bigger even than her assignment for the U.S. government leading reconnaissance to provide maps, charts and photographs essential to radio transmissions between allied pilots and submarines during WWII. Only a fraction of her photos hang on the Marin History Museum's walls. Most are retained in the National Geographic collections, but even the handful here are enchanting.
Boyd's photographs of glaciers and fjords are shocking and gorgeous. Life throbs inside contrasting configurations of dark water and bright icebergs. It's hard not to fall prey to the obsession that bit Boyd, imagining oneself trekking blank slates of ice, and navigating through subzero temperatures and bone-carving winds.
Boyd's final expedition, in 1955 when she was 68, was not by sea. During all her trips, she had had never come closer than 300 miles to the North Pole. She chartered a DC4 plane and crew and made headlines again by becoming the first woman to fly over the North Pole, as well as the first person to privately finance such a journey. After that, she retired back to the civilized world of parties and connections, though she maintained correspondence with many of her expedition associates, who had come to respect, admire and possibly even fear the regal woman who out-hiked and out-endured them yet stood to lose a lot more than they.
Eventually having to depend on friends for subsistence, Louise Boyd died on the eve of her 85th birthday, her fortune spent but surely not, as some have suggested, squandered.
'Louise Boyd: Marin's Arctic Explorer' exhibits through August at the Marin History Museum, 1125 B St., San Rafael. Hours are Monday and Wednesday-Thursday, 1pm-3pm, and the third Saturday of each month, noon-4pm. Free. 415.454.8538.
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Resistors Answer Design Challenges for Harsh Environments
Mon, 11/14/2011 - 6:18am
Kory Schroeder, Stackpole Electronics Inc., www.seielect.com
Many resistor applications have operating conditions that don’t require anything beyond a standard thick film chip resistor or general-purpose carbon film leaded resistor. However, when the application environment requires something more robust, choosing the correct resistor technology is an important factor to keep design costs down and time-to-market short. It is important for design engineers to understand the various resistor technologies and how they perform with respect to harsh environmental conditions. Two of the most important environmental considerations for resistors are high moisture and exposure to high amount of sulfur. Many engineers are surprised to learn that commodity thick film chips, the most commonly specified resistor today, perform well in high moisture environments, but have some long-term reliability concerns in high-sulfur environments. In addition, certain SMD and thru-hole metal film resistors are susceptible to corrosion due to moisture. Fortunately, there are answers to both of these design challenges and they don’t have to be expensive.
Thick film chip resistors use printed thick film conductor inks for their inner terminations, which are typically composed of a palladium silver alloy. Over the past few years, in an effort to reduce costs, the composition of inner conductor inks has trended toward a higher percentage of silver and a lower percentage of palladium. During the same time period, sulfur began to be more prevalent in the environments in which many types of electronic devices are found. Sulfur can be present in many types of rubber gaskets, hoses, and grommets. Some types of plastic used for connectors can also have a high concentration of sulfur, as can the atmosphere in highly industrialized areas. The combination of these two factors has led to a potential latent failure mode for thick film chip resistors, which has become more prevalent in the past five years. Silver is highly susceptible to reaction with sulfur; and high levels of sulfur can migrate through the outer plated terminations and barrier layer to the inner palladium/silver termination, leading to the formation of silver sulfide. Silver sulfide is non-conductive and its continued migration may eventually lead to open circuit failure. Fortunately, there are several solutions for sulfur contamination.
resistors for harsh environments
The most common solution to sulfur contamination for thick film chips is to reduce the amount of silver in the inner termination material and to slow down the overcoat print operation so that it can be more precise. These two remedies are extremely effective in slowing the growth of silver sulfide and are relatively low cost. However, since some silver is still present in the inner termination, the potential for sulfur contamination still exists. Another thick film solution, which provides a part that is impervious to sulfur corrosion, uses a gold sub-layer to protect the inner terminations. Since gold is impervious to sulfur, this is a reliable solution, but it is an expensive one and not practical for most commercial applications.
resistors harsh environs figure 2a
resistors harsh environments figure 2b
A more recent solution to this problem uses thin film technology for the inner terminations. Nichrome is the typical material for these solutions and is also impervious to sulfur contamination. Thin film technology can be scaled up for mass production when the TCR and tolerance requirements for the element are comparable to the above solutions. This significantly reduces the manufacturing costs. The same thin film elements can also achieve higher power ratings than the above solutions, and are completely lead-free. The previously mentioned thick film solutions are typically produced using a lead-containing dielectric glass, which is exempt from RoHS at this time. As a result, the thin film, high power anti-sulfur solutions are currently the most intriguing of the available solutions for sulfur rich applications.
Applications that have moisture-rich environments can also present challenges when using metal-film-based SMD and leaded resistors. Moisture, together with ionized impurities containing sodium, calcium, chlorine, or fluorine, combine with the carbon, nickel and chromium. For carbon, the ionized moisture combines with the carbon in the film resulting in CO2 gas; hence the resistive element evaporates away. For resistive elements containing nickel and chromium, they will combine with the oxygen to form nickel oxide or chromium oxide, which are non-conductive. Both of these chemical reactions lead to an increase in resistance and eventually will lead to the resistor failing open. The figures above show resistors that have experienced resistive element vaporization.
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For film-based axial resistors, the solution to this performance issue requires special processes, improved process control and the use of special materials. First, the film process is optimized and the temperature adjusted to ensure the film is as robust as possible with respect to moisture resistance. Then all processes are closely monitored to ensure that ionized impurities are not introduced into the part at any point. Finally, a silicon-based intermediate layer is deposited on the film prior to the final coating process. This sub-layer is impervious to moisture and allows the final coating process to remain as it would for any axial leaded resistor, rather than try to optimize this coating to be the moisture barrier itself. Each of these product improvements individually has been shown to improve the moisture resistance of the product. The moisture withstanding performance of product with all of these improvements combined is exceptional, as can be seen in the graphs above. These product enhancements can now be implemented without a significant increase in manufacturing cost.
resistors for harsh environs 4a
resistors harsh environs 4b
Metal film based chip resistors will have the same problems as the axial leaded metal film resistors because their nichrome resistive elements are essentially the same. For chip resistors, however, pinholes in the passivation print layer are more common than they are for through-hole resistors. The figures above show a standard thin film chip resistor structure on the left. Even tiny pinholes in the protective layer may allow enough moisture into a surface mount chip to cause a failure. The inspection systems and methods for detecting pinholes in mass production are not adequate to completely eliminate these from occurring. Like the coatings used for axial leaded resistors, most standard passivation materials for SMD chip resistors currently exhibit this potential for developing pinholes. For most applications using thick film resistive elements, pinholes are only considered a cosmetic defect. Passivation materials therefore have been optimized for high-speed manufacturing and low cost.
The solution is to use a silicon-based layer between the resistive element and the passivation to serve as the primary moisture barrier. Silicon oxide and silicon nitride can be sputtered onto the resistive element and thus will not have the same problem with pinholes that a printed epoxy passivation would. An additional anti-moisture passivation layer is also added prior to the final normal epoxy passivation. The figure on the right above shows a chip resistor with this structure. Thin film nichrome-based resistors with this type of moisture protection exhibits outstanding long term reliability under the harshest of biased humidity testing. The chart below shows 3000-hour life test data.
harsh environment resistors fig 5Conclusion
Film based resistors are the most widely used technology today. In the past, sulfur contamination has been a problem that was only a concern in a few specific applications. With the increased industrialization of many countries worldwide, it has become an issue for many more electronic applications than just automotive or industrial equipment. Fortunately there are low cost options for the design engineer that might be faced with this kind of environmental condition.
Thin film and metal film resistors have long been susceptible to moisture corrosion or evaporation under certain conditions. Through process improvements, unique designs and materials improvements, these two failure modes no longer need to be a barrier for the design engineer.
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Earlier this week, news broke that GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) filed with the European Union to bring a new, longer lasting diabetes drug to the market. GSK got the key ingredient that extends the drug's life from Novozymes, and while this made news generally, it hit home for me in a different way. Last week, I wrote an article about Prolor Biotech (PBTH), a development stage pharmaceutical company that also develops ingredients to increase drug life, specifically therapeutic proteins. These two events - one public and one personal - piqued my interest to look into other companies developing technologies that increase drug life. In my extensive research through this field I came across many new and exciting technologies, but the advances that companies like GSK have made in the diabetes field really caught my attention. In this article, I will present my findings in this area, but in order to understand the significance of the different studies currently underway, we will need to take a step back and look at some scientific and market background.
Diabetes Scientific Background
Diabetes comes in two flavors: Type I and Type II. Type I diabetes, or juvenile diabetes, is when the pancreas doesn't produce enough insulin to remove glucose from the bloodstream and into cells. Type II diabetes, or adult onset diabetes, in some cases has a similar pathology to Type I, or occurs when your body produces enough insulin, but your body doesn't respond to it, thus increasing glucose levels in your blood. Type II diabetes accounts for 95% of the diagnosed cases of diabetes.
Any treatment of diabetes will seek to reduce blood sugar levels, and doctors can accomplish this goal through a variety of ways. We can break down these methods in two broad categories - insulin products and non-insulin products. We can further break down the non-insulin products between injectables and those taken orally.
Insulin Products
Insulin products seek to supplement the body's natural insulin production with a synthetic insulin. Because insulin is a hormone it cannot enter into the bloodstream through the stomach lining, thus patients must administer the medication through self injection. Type I diabetes patients need to inject themselves with insulin, but those with Type II usually resort to insulin injections as a last measure, and even then in combination with other non-insulin products.
Injectable Non-Insulin Products
Your pancreas has two different types of cells - alpha cells and beta cells. Alpha cells secrete glucagon (glucose used by your body in certain situations) and beta cells, which secrete insulin. When you eat your body produces a hormone called GLP-1, which stimulates insulin production, and suppresses glucagon production. It has been found that patients with Type II diabetes have decreased levels of GLP-1. Doctors can counter this problem by prescribing a synthetic GLP-1 hormone that patients can take to supplement their naturally occurring GLP-1.
Oral Non-Insulin Products
Sometimes patients don't need a hormone supplement to treat their GLP-1 deficiency, rather doctors can prescribe a medicine that inhibits the breakdown of this hormone. Specifically, when your body produces GLP-1, it also produces an enzyme called DPP-IV, which breaks down GLP-1, thus inhibiting normal insulin secretion. By inhibiting the breakdown of DPP-IV the body can maintain more normal levels of GLP-1, and thus more normal blood glucose levels.
Obviously, diabetes treatment encompasses more than the above. However, these treatments represent some of the newest (with the exception of insulin) drugs available. These drugs have come to replace older ones that proved hard for patients and doctors to manage. A large reason for the constant drive to improve treatments is because the rate of diabetes has increased dramatically in the past 30 years.
Diabetes Worldwide Market
The following chart shows worldwide diabetes growth since 1995:
As you can see from 1995 to 2010, incidents of diabetes doubled from 135mm to 284mm, and the estimates expect them to nearly double again between 2010 and 2030 - from 284mm to 439mm.
America, reflecting this trend, has seen similar growth:
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Again, here we see between 1995 and 2010 a huge spike in diabetes cases, from 7mm in 1995 to over 20mm today.
Unfortunately, no one expects these numbers to slow either worldwide or in the US. As mentioned above, 135mm people worldwide currently have diabetes and that number will grow to 429mm by 2030. In the USA, the CDC predicts by 2030 the diabetes number will grow to 30mm.
However, these unbelievable numbers only tell part of the story. Diabetes cost the US economy $245bn in 2012, a significant increase from previous years. This number takes into account all medication, medical equipment, and importantly costly hospital stays. Of the $245bn, 18%, or close to $50bn got spent on medication. Importantly, this $245bn also only tells part of the story. While we don't have reliable figures from around the world, considering the US only has 15% of the world's diabetes population, we could infer that the total cost worldwide stands at around $1.5tn, and $225bn on medication. While we cannot draw this inference, because the rest of the world doesn't have the wealth to spend on diabetes that the US does, even this weak inference strikes us at a very profound level. Furthermore, these numbers only tell us current statistics, and as we have seen diabetes growth will continue to accelerate worldwide creating an even larger cost burden.
Now that we have the appropriate scientific and economic background we can turn our attention to our more specific nook of the diabetes industry - the effort to make longer lasting insulin injections. In this next section we will examine one company making significant advances in this area, and we will see how they have carved out a niche in this tremendous market.
Longer Lasting Injectables
Above, we discussed two different types of injectable diabetes medications - insulin and GLP-1. The GSK diabetes medication mentioned in the introduction seeks to elongate the life of GLP-1. Work on this front has already been undertaken - the original GLP-1 hormone, Eli Lilly's (LLY) Byetta, required twice daily injection, before getting upstaged by Novo Nordisk's (NVO) once daily Victoza, and finally the most recent improvement coming way of Bristol Myer's (BMY) and AstraZeneca's (AZN) once weekly Bydureon (part of the Amylin acquisition). We should also note that Prolor Biotech also has a longer lasting GLP-1 injection under development.
However, the progress made in the GLP-1 injectable market - steadily reducing the number of injections - has not been matched in the insulin space. Currently, the two top selling insulin drugs - Sanofi Aventis' (SNY) Lantus ($6bn in sales), and NVO's Levemir ($2bn in sales) both require daily injections. Recently, NVO's application for its long lasting insulin drug, Ryzodeg, was rejected by the FDA, sending its shares lower by a whopping 12.5%, with some estimating that the drug will not come to market until 2017-8.
Into this yawning chasm between demand (increased diabetes patients) and supply (current insulin market) enters a new company - AntriaBio (OTC:ANTB). ANTB, which recently conducted a reverse merger to take itself public, began building its technology by buying the intellectual property of PR Pharmaceuticals, which went bankrupt in 2008 when it couldn't access the capital markets. PR invested more than $100mm in bringing the proven technology called PEGylation, which increases the life of therapeutic proteins, to the insulin space. ANTB bought this technology and has begun taking it from preclinical development to phase 1 testing.
Considering the current stage of the company - still in preclinical development - anyone considering investing in the company needs to go in with his/her eyes wide open. Early investors will have to contend with many bumps along the road including but not limited to, liquidity risks, equity dilution risks, and most importantly scientific/regulatory risks. However, despite all this investors can take solace in three elements - the significant investment made by PR pharma in ANTB's IP, ANTB's strong management team, and other products in ANTB's pipeline.
We already discussed the value of ANTB's IP, so let's move to their management team. Two members of ANTB's management team - Nevan Elan and Hoyoung Huh - both have previously sold companies to big pharma, with Mr. Huh selling his company BiPar Sciences to Sanofi for $500mm.
Moving to ANTB's other products we find that ANTB, beside having a longer lasting insulin ingredient moving from preclinical to phase 1 trial, they also have an ingredient in preclinical trials that seeks to reduce the number of injections of GLP-1 from weekly to monthly (see above). While this drug too has risks, nonetheless we see that ANTB has other products in their pipeline, further insuring them from the risks associated with development stage companies.
Valuing a company so early in development is nearly impossible, but I would make two points. First, as mentioned, PR Pharma invested $100mm in the technology currently owned by ANTB, yet ANTB only has a $44mm market cap. Second, as the global diabetes epidemic continues to spread we could look for catalysts to the stock beyond the standard regulatory approvals. Specifically, we could look for one of the big pharma players to look in and either buy the company or make a strategic partnership with ANTB. Remember, Sanofi currently has the market lead in the insulin market, and Mr. Huh sold his previous company to Sanofi.
Amylin: An Instructive History
Most healthcare investors know the Amylin story. Amylin had two drugs in its portfolio - Symlin and Bydureon, Symlin had already been approved, but Bydureon -- which we mentioned above because of its revolutionary improvement in GLP-1 injections, decreasing injections from once daily to once weekly - still had not received approval. Bidding for the company lasted four months, ending only after BMS and AstraZeneca doubled their original bid paying $7bn for the company. However, what many investors might not know is that Amylin almost went bankrupt in 1999, only getting saved after a cash infusion from a software entrepreneur. Thus began their long road, from development company, to almost bankrupt, to getting sold for $7bn to two of the biggest pharmaceutical companies in the world. ANTB has taken the first two steps of the same journey, and only time will tell if they'll complete the long trip ahead.
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Coat of arms of Daruvar
County Bjelovar-Bilogora
Mayor Zvonko Cegledi (HSS)
Surface (km²) 64
Population (municipality)
Time zone (UTC) UTC+1 Central European Time
Daruvar (German: Daruwar, Hungarian: Daruvár, Latin: Aqua Balissae) is a town in central Croatia, population 9,815 (2001), total municipality population 13,243 (2001). Daruvar is a spa town, located in the western part of the Croatian plains, on the foothills of the fruitful Papuk mountain, with wine tradition longer than 2200 years, and along the fertile Toplica river.
• Coordinates: 45.5905556 N; latitude, 17.225 E; longitude
• Area: 64 km²
• Altitude: 190 m
Daruvar is located in the Bjelovar-Bilogora county. Within the city limits there are eight suburbs:
Archaeological findings here, (stone axes), could be traced back to the stone age. The history of Daruvar could be traced to the 4th century BC, when the first organized habitation emerged near the warm geothermal spas in today's Daruvar valley. Celtic - Pannonian tribes living here and familiar with water treatments benefiting health, were Iassi, (meaning healers), so called by both Greek and Roman writers.
As allies of the Roman Empire, the tribes provided support to Emperor Augustus during the siege of Siscia, (today's Sisak), and in year 35, Iassi were granted local autonomy know as Res Publica Iasorum. The center of it was Aqua Balissae, meaning very strong springs. In the year 124, during the reign of Hadrian, the area gained additional autonomy as Municipium Iassorum. Stretching between the rivers Sava and Drava, on the roads which ran between Siscia-Mursa, (Sisak- Osijek), Salona-Aquincum, Sirmium-Poetovio, it was easy to access. As did Hadrian, emperors Marcus Aurelius, Commodus, Septimius Severus and Constantine I, all visited Aqua Balissae's thermal complex, its decorated temple, its forum and its, (though not as big as the one in Pula), amphitheatre .
Podborje, Sirač and Pakrac were bought by count Antun Janković who in 1771 renamed Podborje to Daruvar, (daru=crane in Hungarian), after one building of his own he already called the Crane's castle. In 1837 Daruvar was declared a free city by decree of king Ferdinand I. Still empty lands were soon repopulated by people skilled in crafts, trade, agriculture from around Croatia and beyond. Germans, Hungarians, Czechs, Italians, (around so called Little Italy), others were invited to came.
Before the Croatian War of Independence, Daruvar's municipality had a Croatian majority.
According to the census of 2001, the population of the Daruvar municipality (township) was 13,243. In ethnic terms, 58,36% are Croats, 18,91% Czechs, 14,07% Serbs and 1,05% Hungarians. As for the religion, 74.5% are Catholics, 12.7 % Orthodox, 10.5 % agnostics and atheist while the rest belong to Baptism, Islam, Calvinism and other.
The Czech population is of significant size having its own newspaper, schools, societies and clubs, (Ceska beseda or Czech word, Jednota - Unity in Czech language), publishing company. The entire area, (Veliki Zdenci, Grubišno Polje, Končanica), is actually bilingual with Czech being the second official language.
Since mixed, there are numerous local ethnic festivities celebrating important points in different cultures — youth, harvest etc. with most interesting and picturesque that of the Czech minority. The food is reflecting full range of tastes ranging from baklava and sarma to stuffed peper, mlinci, knedlichke and kolach(i)y (biscuits in both Croatian and Czech language).
The park within the complex is positioned containing 65 different kind of trees like 250 years old Ginkgo tree from China, Variegatum from Arizona and others. Pleasant Hotel Termal renovated and extended in 1996 is also here. The smaller one, Balisse is just few minutes walking distance from here in the traffic friendly downtown.
The first school was opened in 1856. With support of the Countess Ljudevita Janković, a school for women was opened here in 1866.
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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) _ The Creighton University Athletic Hall of Fame has added three more members.
Christy Neneman, Nate Funk and Dan Smith were inducted Monday night during a ceremony in downtown Omaha.
Neneman was a women's basketball player who graduated in 2004, Funk played on the men's basketball team and graduated in 2007, and Smith was a pitcher for the baseball team and a first-round draft pick of the Texas Rangers in 1990.
Volleyball player Megan Bober and men's basketball player Ethan Wragge were named Carl M. Reinert Scholar-Athletes of the Year.
Bober and men's basketball player Doug McDermott were named the school's Athletes of the Year.
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The Standardisation of Calender System
Among Indians in Malaysia.
This is a paper presented to the International Seminar on Standardisation of Lunar Calenders which was held in the Science University of Malaysia, Penang in December, 1999. It was done on behalf of the Malaysian Hindu Sangam. (Hope they remember with gratitude).
The scope of this paper-
The scope of this paper is to examine :-
1.The types of Hindu calender systems that are used
by the Malaysian Indian Hindus.
2.The types of Almanacs that are used in the reckoning of
these systems.
3.The pit-falls that occur in the reckoning
4.The problems created by the pit-falls.
5.The solutions to the problems.
6.Proposals for Improvisation, Rectification, Standardisation,
Implementation, and Regulation.
1.1 The types of Hindu/Indian calenders used in Malaysia:-
Malaysian Indians are made up of several racial and linguistic
groups. Of them, the prominent groups are the Tamils, Telugus, Keralites, Punjabi Sikhs, and other North Indians. The Tamil group includes the Tamils of North Ceylon Island.
All these groups universally accept the Julian calender. Since birth-days, anniveraries, salary, retirement, holidays, and other day-to-day
activities are governed by this system, this system is the predominent
one in their daily lives. It also forms the basis for numerology and Gem
The Indian calenders are the Tamil and Malayalam calenders
which follow the Solar Year pattern, called the Sauramaana.The Telugu calender adopts the Lunar Year called the Chaandramaana. Since the majority of the Hindus in Malaysia are Tamils, the Tamil calender has been broadly accepted all over the country. However, there is an increased inclination of the Telugu people to opt for a totally separate identity and recognition.
This has been reflected along several lines, one of them being the
Yugadhi or Telugu New Year's Day, which has come to herald a new awareness among them. The Sikhs have also been showing similar tendencies.
As far as this particular field is concerned it is best to leave things as they are, in the broader perspective of inter-linguistic harmony.
But there is unanimity among all the Hindus in the celebration of the major festivals, which are determined according to the Tamil calender.
Such being the case, one would expect no difficulties at all. Far from it. What we witness is utter confusion bordering on chaos. We will presently go into the details.
1.2. Main uses of the Hindu Calender-
What do the Hindus use their calender for? Not for day-to-day affairs. The Western calender takes care of that.
The Hindus use the calender for the following purposes-
1.2.1.Fixation of Festivals:-
Pongal, Tamil New Year and Malayalam New Year are all based on the Solar year.
Deepavali, Navaraathri,etc.,are based on the Lunar Year. There are problems in this area.
1.2.2.Casting horoscopes:-
In this field we have problems. We will go into details later.
1.2.3. Fixing Muhurtha or Aspicious time:-
Same problems here.
1.2.4. Miscellaneous Astrological Purposes:-
Casting Prasna Tantra, Pancha Patchi Saastra, and Hora Sastra, etc.
2. The Almanac System-
The Hindu calenders are determined by ephemeris tables called the Panca Anga or Pancaanga or Almanacs.These are ready reckoners, provided that the user knows how to reckon with them in the first place.
2.1.These Alamanacs are based on two systems of calculation.
One based on the Precession of Equinox-Trik calculation.
The other without course corrections- Vaakya calculations.
2.2.The Different Alamanacs available in Malaysia.
2.2.1.The Trik Panchaanga of Jaffna.
This has a Malaysia/Singapore version also. The sun-rise and sun-set times have been rectified for Malaysian standards and given in hours and minutes. The reading can be done straight away without being converted. The language used is Jaffna dialect and the style is archaic.That makes it difficult to understand for many.
2.2.2.The Vaakya Panchaanga of Jaffa.
This is the Jaffna version. It has Indian Standard Time.
All the readings have to be coverted to Malaysian standards.
The language is Tamil of Jaffna with an archaic style. The
fore-cast is specifically for the people of Ceylon island.
2.2.3.THe Vaakya Panchaanga Sri Gaja Lakshmi.
This is locally produced. It claims that is computed for
Malysia/Singapore. Although it is claimed that it is Vaakya,
through experience, I have found that it is neither Trik nor
Vaakya. Also the reckonings do not conform to the norms. It is
best to leave it at that.
2.2.4.The Suddha Vaakya Panchaangam of Manonmoney Vilas.
It is also known as the Number 28 Panchaangam and Paambu
Panchangam. It is thus called because it contains a diagram of
triple snakes called the Rahu Paani Chakra. This is actually
a yantra which is used for finding suitable days for sowing
seeds. It also has another yantra for finding the auspicious day
for the initial ploughing of the land. This is totally India - orientated.
2.2.5. The Aarkkaadu Sarva Muhurtha Panchaangam-
This is another totally India-based almanec. This has the maximum number of features. As its name suggests it is very usual
for computing
uspicious dates and time.
This almanac has a lot of potentials if it can be converted
suitably to Malaysian environment and users.
2.2.6. The Kanchi Muttam Panchaangam
This is calculated, based on the coordinates of Kanchi.
Its sustem is Trik and computations are checked against Astrnomical observations. It has been given sanction and authorisation by the Sankaracharya of Kanchi. It is noted for its high accuracy and prestige.
This Almanac has potentials, if it can be Malaysianised.
2.2.7. The Sethu Samasthaana Panchaangam
This Almanaac has been computed by the royal order of the SethuPathi kings of Ramnad. It is totally India-based.
Problems arising from existing situation.
Problems in Fixing dates for Festivals:
1.There have been instances where the date of Deepavali was wrongly announced and then later on rectified. In certain instances, it was because of wrong assessment of the Lunar day called the thithi. This will be dealt with in the next section.
In some instances, Deepavali was pushed forward or backward by one month. Why was this? There is another factor that needs to be clarified here. The Hindu calender system incorporates both the Solar and Lunar years. If put in a simplistic manner, the underlying main frame-work is the Solar Year. The Lunar Year is layed along over it. As everybody here is already aware, the Lunar calender is 354 days and the Solar or Tropical Year is 365.24219 days in length. There will be a precession of the Lunar year by a difference of 10 days and a few hours per year. So we always see the Moon-day based festivals like Deepavali, moving forwards. It moves forward and backwards in 2nd half of October and 1st half of November. But Deepavali is never allowed to go beyond the month of Aippasi or Thula. This is done by the addition of an extra Lunar month. This extra Lunar month will be added once in three years. It is reckoned from one New Moon to another New Moon. Its either called "Adhiga Maadham" or "Suunya Maadham". Since its just an extra bit of arrears which has been paid back, it is declared as Taboo. No auspicious ceremonies or festivals take place. This is known as the "Inter-calary Month".
2.Starting and Ending of the NavaRathri Festival is another case in point. This is one of the major fetivals of the Hindus. Like Deepavali, it is universally celebrated by all Hindus. But in a way, it has got more weight because it is celebrated mainly by women and lasts for 10 days.
It is a festival which is dedicated to the Supreme Being in His Female Form, known as Shakthi. The importance is added to by the fact that the Temples dedicated to the Goddess are more than any other in this country.
The Navarathri is a festival celebrated at night-fall for nine continuous days and ends in a 10th day celebration - The Day of Victorious Glory called "Vijaya Dhasami".
But in some years the whole Navarathri lasts for a total of only 9 days.
How come?
Navarathri is based on the "thithi" or Lunar day. Due to the elliptical path of the Moon around the earth, the length of the Lunar day may last fron 22 to 26 hours.
If the Moon is at Apogee or approaching nearer to the earth, the orbital velocity of the moon increases, while there is a shortening in the arc of obital path, due to the decreased radius. Hence the moon transits fast in a shorter duration of time. As the Moon approaches maximum Apogee,
the time of the Lunar day gets steadily shorter by a few minutes everyday.
It will recede from 24 hours to 22 hours and then progress to 24 hours and on to 26 hours as the Moon nears the Perigee.
If the Apogee were to fall during the Navarathri period, the total span of Navarathri of 10 Lunar days will last only 9 and1/2 or 9.5 Solar days.
This might be 9 full-days and a day-time. That wil be 9 nights and a day-time.
Under the circumstances, the 10th Day of Victory has to be celebrated
on the final day., the 9th day itself.
But the temple decides otherwise and continues. The Agama and Saastra
may say anything. The temple has already got 10 days of Ubayam or 10 sponsors.
It has to go on.
And so it goes on.
The Vijaya Dhasami is celebrated on the 11th thithi - whether the Goddess likes it or not.
There was one year, the Navarathri was begun on the New Moon's Day.
It happened because the high priest did not know when the 1st thithi
We find certain temples declaring the festivals on certain days while others declaring on other days. We find certain high priests announcing rather imperiously, at what time Hindu New Year begins. With all his imperiousness he manages to miss the correct time by 6 hours!
The Problem of setting Auspicious Times;
Here, the situation created horrendously insane.
This is caused because of:
The useage of Indian and Jaffna Vaakya Almanacs without converting the Indian Standards to Malaysian standards.
Certain beleifs and fallacies.
According to Indian Standards, all those Almanacs follow the Indian Standard Time. Indian Standard Time is based on the coordinates of Ujjaini in Central India.
The Almanacs are compiled according to thae coordinates of Jaffna and other places in India.
In India, the sun-rise time is at 6-00a.m. on the average.
Normally you have to add, for example, 1hour and 19 minutes to whatever sun-rise time is given for any day of the year. This is for Penang.
We know as a fact, that sunrise is between 7-15a.m.and 7-45a.m.
These variances are from December/January to July/August. This rectification has to be done.
The other, is the time of Asterisms(Nakshatra), Thithi(phases of Moon/Lunar Day) and several other readings. To this we have to add
2 hours and 30 minutes for rectification to Malaysia.
Problem Identification:
For this, a preamble has to be given regarding the process.
(i) The fixing of auspicious time is determined by several factors.
Certain taboo and forbidden days and months are summarily rejected-
the months of Aadi, Maargalzhi, KariNaaL days etc.
(ii) Bad inauspicious time periods are avoided.
(iii) The best suitable time is chosen according to astrological calculations. For this a very suitable "Lagna" is chosen.
The Zodiacal path has 12 divisions. Each mansion is governed by a
constellation called Raasi. At any part of the day, a particular sign will be rising in the east together with all its stars and the planets which happen to be there at that time. It takes two hours on an average for a sign to complete its rising and give place to the next one.
The chosen Lagna has to be free from malefic effects and has many criteria to fulfill. Thus a Lagna is screened.
Important Note:
The computation for a lagna is anchored to the sunrise of the particular
day. If you miscalculate the sun-rise, your Lagna computation goes wrong.
(iv)Apart from it, certain malefic periods have to be avoided.
Case in Point:
A most important factor is the Raahu Kaalam period. It occurs for a peroid of 1.5 hours daily during the day-time. Ditto for night. It does not
daily come at a uniform time. And it is also anchored on to the sunrise.
It occurs in a weekly cycle.
Friday- Take sun-rise at 7-15a.m.
Raahu Kaalam would be lasting from 4hrs.30min. to 6th hour after sun-rise.
That would be 11-45a.m. to 1-15p.m.(Sun at zenith).
Tuesday- Raahu Kaalam would be from 9th hour to 10hrs.30min. after sunrise.
That would be 4-15 p.m. to 5-45 p.m.
It can be caused when the sunrise is not calculated correctly.
Case Study:
A wedding is to take place on a Friday morning. Everybody knows that
there is a Raahu Kaalam during the Friday morning. It has to be avoided
at all costs!!!
The ignorant priest or the half-baked astrologer would take 6-00a.m.
as the sun-rise for granted and add 4hrs 30min. to it.
That will make it - 10-30a.m.
So he avoids the one and a half hour peroid from 10-30a.m. until 12-00noon.
He thinks that, that is Raahu Kaalam and avoids it.
He fixes the marriage to take place between 12-00noon and 1-30p.m.
The wedding party is immensely pleased with the arrangement because the function takes place at lunch-time on a Friday. Its either a long
lunch-break or week-end. Ceremony followed by a sumptuous mid-day feast!
But in reality, the Raahu Kaalam was at 11-45a.m. to 1-15 p.m.on
a Friday morning.
So, they fall into that which they wanted so much to avoid.
Problem of Astrological Computations:
Casting Horoscopes,
Naming new-born babies
Current readings of horoscopes.
Problem Identification:
In most of the cases, the birth lagna is missed. The Lunar
Mansion or Raasi can be missed by anything of about 2hrs.30min.
But it can cause greater degrees of difference in an Asterism(Nakshatra)
or the Paadha(one quarter)of an Asterism concerned.
It is customery to name babies according to the Quarter of Asterism concerned. Each Paadha has its corresponding syllable or "Maatrikaa VarNa". When the Paadha goes wrong, the syllable goes wrong also.
Certain evil effects called "Dhosha" are determined mainly by
the Lagna. A mistaken lagna will cause misinterpretation and it will be
thought that the individual has an affliction. But in truth it might not
On the other hand, a subject may have some afflictions. But the
miscalculated lagna does not reveal it.
When a current reading is done, the subjest might be subjected
to abject terror by declaring that he/she is having impending bad periods
when there is actually none!
Then the poor individual's misfortunes are made worse by making
him/her poorer by a few hundreds to a few thousands. He/she is made
to do a lot very expensive, time-consuming, elaborate, and complex rituals to satisfy the already satisfied planetary over-lords for Dhoshas that never really existed.
There are many unmarriable maidens in this country. A large number
of them could not get suitable matches because some muddle-headed nitwitted nincompoop goofed and said that Rahu the Black Serpent afflicted them with a Dhosha. They would surely attain early widowhood! Which well-wishing mother would venture to marry her to her son? To lose him?
Just think of how many a poor unmarried maiden, past marriable life,
living lives of sorrowful solitude in silence, ever-longing, eagerly waiting
for that glorious day when the respective Prince Charming would step out of the gloom, to grasp her hand to put the golden knot!
Just because of Raahu or Sani Dhosha which never really existed!!!
Solutions to the Problems:
The situation is so very deplorable and is affecting the lives of millions of Indian Hindus in malaysia. So it becomes necessary to solve the problems.
The problem-solving approach has to be multi-pronged.
1. Regulation of the Calender:
There has to be a genuine, fool-proof, easy-to-use, user-friendly Almanac for Malaysia/Singapore.
The present Jaffna Trik Almanac is quite good. But it has to be modified to suit the Malaysian Hindus. Some factors need to be incorporated.
The important festivals in the Hindu Temples of Malaysia; market forecast; economy report, etc. The language should be the one that Malaysian Hindus use. Since many Hindus do not read Tamil nowadays, it becomes necessary to have an English or a Romanised version.
The Almanac should have explanatory notes in it. It should also have directions or guidelines for useage.
2.Proper Training Sessions/Courses:
These have to be organised for priests/newbie astrologers.
Old astrologers must have the system explained to them. Hard-core perpertrators should be subjected to turn-over.
3.Education for the Public:
This will be very important componet. True knowledge increases
awareness and deucation is a key to knowledge. This will go a long way
in forcing the astrologers and priests to follow the correct order.
4.Education on the use of Computers:
Programmes must be made available for Calender reckoning and
Astrology. Standardised Ephemeris must be used in the programme.
5.Determination and Validation of on-coming Hindu Festivals
This should be done by a learned panel.
6.Checks and Balances:
There is a misbeleif among the Hindus that the priestly class
knows everything. So whatever a priest says passes off as Divine Decree and Declaration. Nobody checks the veracity, capacity, competency or
quality of the priest.
The whole corrective regulatory efforts can be undermined if such a sentiment persists. They will finally be totally nullified if false pretenses and favouritism and vested interests predominate.
The Regulators:
So a panel of three persons with a very sound knowledge in
Astrology/Astronomy are to be the Regulators and Moderators.
It is doubly stressed that it should be based on knowledge
and capabilty alone and not on representation or delegation or position.
The End.
Sungai Petani.
jayabarathi <jaybee555@yahoo.com>
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The shrine of knowledge.
Parapsychology >> Hypnosis
social cues, forces of influence, core self, core value
Evil Hypnosis
Author: Todd I. Stark
From the Hypnosis FAQ by Todd I. Stark
Web version, revision 2. Last update: February 16, 1997.
as something that is used by devious agencies or individuals to
control people's minds surreptitiously. Mind control or behavior
control are possible with hypnosis only temporarily, and only
to a similar degree as with other forms of psychotherapy. Roughly
the same forces of influence apply in and out of hypnosis. Individual
differences and personal psychological needs are much more important
in determining our capacity to be lastingly influenced than our
state of consciousness in hypnosis. The roles we play under hypnosis
are temporary. Permanent change to our personality occurs only
when our core self-image is altered., which requires more than
just superficial exposure to hypnosis.
Hypnosis can be used to some extent as a tool for gaining influence
by someone who betrays our trust in them. It might be slightly
easier to take advantage of someone with hypnosis, since they
are relaxed, they are not evaluating ideas critically, and they
are very sensitive to social cues. Increased vulnerability to
persuasion is not an intrinsic characteristic of hypnosis, however.
It takes time and skill to turn the hypnotic situation into
one of profound persuasion by altering the self-image.
The qualities of hypnosis that make it useful as part of an influence
technology are the capacity to create vivid, realistic fantasies,
and the capacity of a very skillful hypnotist to make these fantasies
seem as if they actually happened (pseudomemories). We are also
temporarily less critical during hypnosis, and more willing to
consider ideas that would otherwise seem unorthodox. These are
traits that many people (particularly certain highly hypnotizable
people) have without hypnosis, however. Hypnosis may only
increases these factors by a relatively small amount and cannot
be considered the only or even the most important reason for people
accepting bizarre new ideas.
Simply going through hypnosis does not leave you vulnerable to
having your core values or beliefs altered. Beliefs, values, and
attitudes shift slightly over time, and hypnosis can provide fertile
ground for new experiences that help to shift them. This is particularly
true when we are already vulnerable to the influence of strong
social forces such as trusted authority or the need to be immersed
in a group identity. Advertisers use various methods of influencing
our buying behavior, and religious groups have their own kind
of tactics of persuasion. Not only do these not require hypnosis,
but many are actually more powerful than hypnosis at influencing
us. The power of social influence techniques might increase somewhat
under hypnosis, because we are less critical, but the influence
does not originate with the hypnosis.
The capacity to influence depends largely upon what aspect of
personality is being influenced. Some aspects of personality
are far more malleable than others. Aspects of our sense of identity,
such as our sense of gender, can be nearly impossible to change
by any means. In order to make profound and lasting changes
to someone's personality, their sense of identity would need to
be destabilized, and a new additional sense of identity created
to replace it. Even with this extreme process, without constant
reinforcement of the new identity, we tend to revert to the original
identity. Analysis of the results of extreme conditions of "brainwashing"
and thought reform show us that spectacular temporary success
is sometimes achieved if total environmental control of the person
is available for an extended time. There is much less success
is achieving longer term changes in personality, even after years
of continuous reinforcement is undertaken. This is not to say
that years of thought reform do not change people, only that many
people do not conform permanently to the desired ideal even after
years of forced indoctrination.
Experiments have shown that it is actually possible to mimic the
symptoms of dissociative identity disorder by building multiple
identity senses over time with the help of hypnosis. Some have
claimed that this process could be used to create the "Manchurian
Candidate," a person with an assassin personality that is
unknown to their other personalities. This is quite a bit beyond
what was demonstrated, however, and is not consistent with what
has been observed so far about the process. The identity senses
built over time are not as distinct or autonomous as this extreme
scenario would require.
"Mind control," to the extent that it actually occurs,
is rarely a matter of simple technology applied to an individual
by another individual. It is much more likely to be the result
of our dependence upon an organization in a rigidly controlled
physical, intellectual, and social environment. An example intended
to be used for healing is a psychiatric hospital. A negative example
would be a totalitarian religious cult or prisoner of war camp.
Other, less extreme examples of the use of social pressures to
help change us are addiction recovery groups. In perhaps the
most extreme example, the prisoner of war camp, one analysis found
that only one in a hundred prisoners exposed to Korean communist
indoctrination attempts actually showed much acceptance of communist
doctrine after repatriation. (Segal, 1956). This helps put the
potential for easy and complete mind control into a little more
realistic perspective.
Can I be hypnotized without my knowledge ?
Yes, we can be in "trance" without realizing it. Our
consciousness shifts constantly, most of the time without any
recognition on our part that anything is changing. Certainly we
can drift in and out of absorption without realizing it, and a
skillful hypnotist may well be able to perform an induction that
doesn't seem at all like an induction. Some of the usual elements
of hypnosis would be missing, such as the elaborate set of expectations
that are normally provided by the patter of an induction. The
"trance logic," and other elements of hypnosis may be
there nonetheless.
The more interesting question is whether this has any real significance
by itself, and the answer to that is no. It is not the induction
of trance that is important in hypnosis, but what is done with
Can I be hypnotized without my consent ?
No. You don't need to formally consent to hypnosis for it to happen,
but you do need to cooperate at some level. Cooperation is one
of the essential elements of hypnosis. It is even more important
than relaxation or vivid imagery. If you do not cooperate, there
can be no hypnosis. You don't need to explicitly recognize that
you are cooperating, you just have to have enough trust to relax
and focus on the voice of the hypnotist, allowing their words
to capture your imagination.
The only things approaching "involuntary" hypnosis would
be conditions in which you are drugged, or those where you are
confused or distracted, and the need to understand what is going
on becomes stronger than your desire to resist hypnosis. Under
these conditions, you might temporarily cooperate with a hypnotist,
and this temporary cooperation could conceivably be built into
a stronger trust under the right conditions. Stage hypnotists
make extensive use of confusion and distraction tactics to gain
temporary compliance. Their tactics only work with a subset of
people, however, and only up to a point. There is a critical moment
with such "shock" inductions when the client either
complies or breaks trust with the hypnotist. In order for them
to comply, they must still be willing to cooperate to some degree
at that critical point.
Under the influence of drugs strong enough to reduce our critical
abilities, hypnosis is also very difficult because it requires
some concentration. Drugs are sometimes used by hypnotists with
"resistant" clients who are unable to relax, but this
also of limited effectiveness since it reduces our ability to
concentrate and follow instructions. Such drugs also reduce our
arousal level and change our biochemical state, making it more
difficult to transfer hypnotic suggestions to the waking condition
outside of hypnosis. Much of the interesting work done under such
"narcohypnosis" is lost when the client comes out of
the effect of the drug. Posthypnotic suggestions sometimes remain
after narcohypnosis, but they are generally not as effective as
those given with full attention during normal hypnosis. The most
powerful posthypnotic effect of narcohypnosis is amnesia for hypnosis,
and that is probably because of state-dependent memory related
to the drug.
Can I be forced to do horrible things under hypnosis ?
Hypnosis is a cooperative process. However, if you are comfortable
cooperating with a fantasy about something you would normally
find horrible, you might act it out under hypnosis, or under posthypnotic
suggestion. In the same sense that we might do something unusual
and then later blame alcohol, even if we didn't drink enough to
actually lose control, we might also blame hypnosis for our loss
of inhibitions. Even under "deep" hypnosis, under the
influence of a dramatic fantasy role, we are still in some sense
completely aware of what is going on around us. After hypnosis,
we may have partial amnesia for the events that happened under
hypnosis, although hypnotic amnesia will eventually be breached
if you try to remember over time.
If you are very uncomfortable, you will resist the suggestion,
or modify it to make it more acceptable. The same is true of suggestion
outside of hypnosis. Hypnosis does not operate at the low reflex
level of behavior, it functions at a high level of centralized
mental function. The involuntary nature of responding to hypnotic
suggestion does not extend to complex behaviors that violate your
deep values. These type of suggestions will break trust with the
hypnotist, and you will find your own way to deal with them. People
often find very creative ways of reinterpreting unacceptable suggestions
and sometimes for punishing the hypnotist for their attempts to
take advantage of them.
Can I be "brainwashed" to change my beliefs and
attitudes under hypnosis ?
To the extent that this happens outside of hypnosis, it can also
happen with the help of hypnosis. Hypnosis isn't generally the
critical factor in this kind of change, it is at best a catalyst
in the process. A possible interpretation of such a process will
be described below. The general drift is that hypnosis itself
is not neccessarily used in this process, but that total and complete
control of the physical, social, emotional, and intellectual environment
permit the use of something resembling hypnosis over an extended
period of time.
The potential role of hypnosis in dramatic personality change
in an isolated group
In order to help understand the complex relationship between hypnosis
and potential "mind control," I have included this section
as a composite of various views of how dramatic personality change
occurs from psychological forces. It should be noted that the
principles of personality change are basically the same, whether
we are talking about forced indoctrination ("brainwashing")
or psychotherapy. The attitude and ethics of the people attempting
the change are the primary difference. The primary elements are
breaking down current sense of identity by various means, followed
by solidifying a new sense of identity through active participation.
Our capacity to resist personality change comes from the strength
of our sense of identity, and our attitude in refusing to cooperate
in a change process in order to gain rewards or avoid punishments.
Our deep beliefs and core values are part of our sense of who
we are. In order to change these, we would have to change our
sense of identity. Our sense of identity is normally maintained
by constant reinforcement provided by our friends, family, and
environment. Personality is normally very stable over our lifetime.
It is extremely rare to find significant aspects of personality
change permanently, short of organic brain damage or unusually
traumatic experience, which change personality in unpredictable
"Brainwashing" someone (altering their core values and
deep beliefs) requires that their sense of identity be changed,
which is not a simple task. In fact, what most often happens is
that a new, superficial sense of identity, or role, is created
and is temporarily preferred to the original sense of identity,
which usually remains intact. This most often means removing the
person from the physical and social environment that helps maintain
their attachment to their current sense of identity. Hypnosis
can provide psychological and sensory isolation, though only temporary,
and can encourage enactment of alternate roles or personalities.
Lasting real personality change requires control of our environment,
the breakdown of existing identity sense, replacement by a new
identity sense, and continued reinforcement of the new identity
sense. Not only is such complete control of the environment very
difficult, but breaking down existing identity sense is next to
impossible if someone has a strong sense of who they are.
Part of how hypnosis may sometimes play a role in personality
change is that it can very effectively promote extraordinary
experiences that may be interpreted as significant spiritual experiences
These serve as pivotal experiences that allow our worldview to
shift in new directions. This may manifest in any of a number
of ways, from a personal spiritual renewal to a commitment to
a totalitarian religious cult. This is to a great extent the basis
for the belief by some religious groups that hypnosis is inherently
evil. This requires expectations to be carefully set so that the
individual will interpret their experience in the desired way.
Hypnosis can also be a catalyst in significant changes by providing
a relief of anxiety
. As our anxiety is relieved by the relaxation
aspect of hypnosis, participation in consciousness altering practices
is reinforced, as is identification with the group. This is an
important part of the process of becoming immersed in a new group
Finally, selective amnesia and other effects can be carefully
used in hypnosis to help build separate identity senses within
the same person. This is in effect practicing playing multiple
roles that are distinct from each other.
Three stages of building a new identity
Personality change was modeled by Kurt Lewin as a three stage
process : unfreezing the current worldview, changing the worldview,
and refreezing the new worldview (Schein, 1961).
The first stage involves reducing our alertness and forcing
on us various kinds of sensory or information overload, confusion,
or distraction. This builds a tremendous psychological and physiological
tension that needs to be released. This is roughly analogous to
the first step in a stage hypnosis induction, creating confusion
or distraction by means of a sudden shock. When longer term effects
are desired, the means of destabilizing people include inducing
anxiety and terror, physical and social isolation, sleep deprivation,
nutritional deprivation, infantilizing treatment, and sexual frustration.
Shame and guilt are always central elements in destabilizing
the current identity sense. The extreme psychological pressures
needed to break down our identity sense cannot be continued for
more than a few days.
The second stage involves reducing the tension and anxiety
generated in the first stage, and providing something to focus
on. This is the step where we enter "trance," as our
welcome relief. The person temporarily becomes weak, with no
strong convictions or standards about what is logical, and begin
unable to distinguish fantasy from reality, dependent upon authority,
basically to regress to a childlike state. In some ways, hypnosis
is similar to regression to a childlike state. In fact, some
psychoanalytic theorists have claimed that hypnosis is a kind
of regression. This provides a distinct relief from the psychological
stresses imposed in the first stage.
Other ways of manifesting or utilizing an altered state at this
point to reduce anxiety include meditation, marching, repetitive
slogans or movements, monotonous musical rhythms, body manipulations,
or hyperventilation. At this point, we are cooperative and focused
on the leader of the process, and may well be hypnotically responsive.
At this point, elaborate fantasy may also be used to help create
novel experiences, and to reinforce the belief system of the group.
By controlling behavior, information, thought, and emotions to
some extent, experience both within and outside of hypnosis will
begin to be interpreted in a new way, causing a shift to the new
belief system (Hassan, 1990). These latter elements are missing
from simple hypnosis, which is why hypnosis alone cannot be considered
a mind control technique. Personality change is made possible
by the extension of the "trance" (by imposing more severe
stresses), and the use of the "trance" to help create
additional changes that will be reinforced by the environment.
The third stage involves reinforcing the new beliefs and
new sense of identification with the group. This involves immersion
in the shared symbol system of the group, isolation from reminders
of the previous identity, increasing dependence on the group,
new role models, continued control of behavior, thought, information
and emotions, and immersion in new activities. This stage is
also missing from normal hypnosis. Physical isolation is usually
needed for this kind of control. In addition, the new identity
sense usually reverts if the person is removed from the isolated
group and returned to their former environment. The active participation
of the individual in new activities for the group is a key element.
Personality factors which allow some people to be influenced more
permanently than others by these kinds of pressures include :
• Lack of assertiveness
• Low intelligence
• Reliance on external supports for perception and belief
• Lack of self-confidence
• Valuing conformity above independence
• Moralism
• Black and white thinking
• Identity confusion
• History of embracing outside influences in unconditional surrender
("True Believer")
• Other-directedness vs. Inner-directedness
These are entirely different from the traits even loosely associated
with hypnotic suggestibility, such as "fantasy proneness."
This reflects the distinction between "primary" and
"secondary" suggestibility.
There are a number of factors that influence how effectively we
can take on a new identity or role in general (Sarbin, 1964) :
1. role expectations
2. role perception
3. role demands
4. role-taking aptitude or skill
5. self-role congruence
6. reinforcement properties of the audience
Self-role congruence is probably the most important factor determining
whether forced compliance will lead to permanent change. It
is the lack of self-involvement that prevents prisoners of war
from being fully indoctrinated by "brainwashing" attempts.
Also, the personality factors alone are not enough to allow for
personality change. The people who are best at resisting change
often have very similar personality traits to those who are most
influenced. A major difference is their initial willingness to
cooperate in the process : "desire for preferential treatment,"
or "need to avoid threat and abuse" (Holt, 1964).
This roughly parallels the case in hypnosis. Many people appear
incapable of making use of hypnosis because they are unable to
trust the hypnotist enough to cooperate in the induction.
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Another Christmas break-in story
Here's another classic Christmas break-in story. Yet again, we have a homeowner working with an anonymous security company, and the incredibly incurious reporter doesn't bother to investigate further into this technology that allows the homeowner to view video cameras over the web. Ho hum, why bother reporting on the interesting part of the story? Especially when you can make awesome sentences like these: Treanor has changed his locks, deadbolts and installed motion lights around his home, however, these aren't not the only steps he's taking to protect himself. and Moreover, the cameras will allow him to view whatever the camera has record even if they get stolen. The second is particularly nice. Not only do we get a butchered past participle, but we also get subject-pronoun disagreement and confusion. Brilliant. People wonder why the evening news isn't taken seriously....
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This painting is of Sir William Ffaryngton of Worden Hall, Leyland, Lancashire. Sir William Ffaryngton (1537-1610) was part of one of the most powerful families in Lancashire. During his life, Sir William Ffayngton had many important roles including being Deputy Lieutenant of Lancashire, High Sheriff of Lancashire and Constable of Lancaster Castle. He was a well known man in his day and would have attended the Court of Queen Elizabeth I. Although he swore allegiance to the protestant Queen Elizabeth, Ffaryngton married into a Catholic family and had many catholic associates.
As Keeper of the privy purse of Ferdinando Lord Strange, he would also have known Shakespeare as he was responsible for paying the Shakespeare players. It is thought that the character Malvolio in Twelfth Night was based on him.
Ffaryngton was one of the first people in Lancashire to receive information about the famous "Gunpowder Plot". He was sent a letter two days before the event happened (this letter is now in Lancashire Record Office). It's not known whether he was told because of his official capacity as High Sheriff of Lancashire or whether he had some involvement and was being speedily tipped off that the plot had been discovered!
The portrait was painted in 1593 by Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger (c1561-1635). The portrait is in oil paints on canvas. Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger was the son of a painter from Bruges. He came to England soon after 1580, and was appointed painter to Queen Elizabeth I and Queen Anne of Denmark. He is particularly remembered for his portraits and paintings of Royal State occasions. He remained in England until his death in 1635.
This painting is undergoing painstaking conservation to remove layers of dirt which have built up over time. If you look closely you can see the original bright colours which are being revealed beneath.
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Transparency International's 2002 Corruption Perceptions Index 2002 (CPI), released Aug. 28 in Berlin, did not put Latin American countries in a favorable light. Argentina was singled out for its dramatic increase in corruption during the previous year, while Paraguay was ranked one of the three most-corrupt nations of those rated.
"Political elites and their cronies continue to take kickbacks at every opportunity. Hand in glove with corrupt=D4 and hampering sustainable development," said Peter Eigen, chairman of TI, the respected global coalition against corruption, at the release of the 2002 CPI. "Corruption is perceived to be dangerously high in poor parts of the world, but also in many countries whose firms invest in developing nations."
The CPI this year ranked 102 countries on the degree to which corruption is perceived to exist among public officials and politicians. It uses 15 different polls and surveys from nine independent institutions carried out among business people and country analysts, including surveys of residents, both local and expatriate. For the purpose of the CPI, corruption is defined as the abuse of public office for private gain.
Leading the survey's list of least-corrupt nations were Finland, Denmark, New Zealand, Iceland, Singapore and Sweden, all with index scores above 9.3. The US was 16th with 7.7, Germany was 18th with 7.3, and France 25th with 6.3. But in the 2002 index, 70 countries--including many of the world's most poverty-stricken--score less than 5 out of a "clean" score of 10.
In the new index, the most extensive released by TI to date, Paraguay, with a 1.7 rating, had the highest perceived level of corruption of the 19 Latin American and Caribbean nations included in the survey. The Latin American country with the best rating was Chile, 17th, with 7.5.
Other Latin American countries and their ratings include Bolivia, Ecuador and Haiti, all with 2.2; Venezuela, Guatemala, and Nicaragua, with 2.5; Honduras, 2.7; Argentina, 2.8; Panama, 3.0; El Salvador, 3.4; the Dominican Republic, 3.5; Colombia and Mexico, 3.6; Peru and Brazil, 4.0; Costa Rica, 4.5; and Uruguay, 5.1.
Perceived corruption increased in Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, and Venezuela. In contrast, the Dominican Republic showed the most improvement at 3.5 compared with an index score of 3.1 last year.
Eigen, a former World Bank official, said that, compared with 2001, confidence in democracy in Latin America suffered a serious setback, because bribery and bad government by political elites greatly reduced the credibility of democratic structures.
"In the past year, we have seen setbacks to the credibility of democratic rule. In parts of South America, the graft and misrule of political elites have drained confidence in the democratic structures that emerged after the end of military rule. Above all, it is the political parties that have undermined economic prosperity," said Eigen. "Argentina, where corruption is perceived to have soared, joins Panama, Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, Haiti, and Paraguay with a score of 3 or less in the CPI 2002."
"In Argentina, first under President Menem, then President de la Rua, the state seems to have been captured by a network of leaders who misused it in the service of their business and political interests," said Eigen in a written commentary summarizing the CPI conclusions. "That is why an economic and social crisis has spiralled out of control. If businessmen only lobby to secure contracts illegally or to obtain sector benefits, their companies will have no lasting value for any stakeholders."
Argentina's 2.8 rating was the lowest it has received since the CPI began in 1993. Its ranking went from 57th (3.5) to 70th in one year.
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Grandparent Custody Rights: Best Interest of the Child or Interference with a Parent's Preprogative?
by Margaret Klaw and Mary A. Scherf
Spring 2000, Vol. 63, No. 1
The Supreme Court of the United States is diving headfirst into the thorny area of grandparents' custody rights this session in Troxel v. Granville, 137 Wash. 2d 1, 969 P.2nd 21 (1998) (cert. granted 1999 U.S. Lexis 474). This is a timely development. Cases involving the custody rights of parties other than a child's biological parents are burgeoning as the family rapidly changes, outdistancing the efforts of legislatures and the courts to keep pace. The traditional nuclear family mother, father and their biological children living together is now only one of many family structures. Children live in blended families, with same sex parents, single parents and, increasingly, outside the care of either parent.
In many states, including Pennsylvania, grandparents have been given a special statutory status to seek partial custody or visitation over the objection of the parent. While it is not the special status of grandparents, but any third party's ability to override a parent's choice that is now under constitutional review, it should come as no surprise that grandparents are at the heart of the debate. When the nuclear family falters, we often look first to grandparents as the logical refuge for children. According to 1996 census data, in more than 1.4 million American families, neither parent is present and children are being cared for solely by their grandparents.
Courts and legislatures have approached the status of grandparents and other third parties on a patchwork basis. Pennsylvania's domestic relations statutes affecting grandparent visitation have received fairly regular legislative attention in order to define "grandparents' rights," beginning in 1981 with efforts to preserve contact between grandparents and grandchildren after the parents' relationship ends and, most recently in 1996, by expanding those circumstances in which grandparents can seek primary physical custody of their grandchildren. (See 23 Pa.C.S.A. §§5311-5313).
All of this policy-making arises against a backdrop where the best interest of the child is the time-honored legal standard against which all competing claims have been measured. However, if a "best interest" analysis were to be applied to any third-party petition on a case-by-case basis, a child's individual circumstances and cultural roots could result in any number of persons (such as grandparents, stepparents, significant others, extended family, godparents, family friends) asserting claims to and obtaining partial custody or visitation rights.
What limits to such broad-based assaults on the wishes of the biological parent(s), if any, make sense? What do children actually need? Is ongoing contact with grandparents or other nurturing non-parents the child's right, and worth protecting despite the impact of protracted custody litigation, or is it an impermissible interference with a parent's prerogative? Who makes up the "family" we seek to protect? And who will be the best protector of a child's rights the parent, a third party, the court or an independent advocate? These are questions Troxel may begin to answer on a national basis.
Troxel Case
Troxel v. Granville involves a challenge to Washington state statutes that permitted grandparents and other third parties to petition for custody rights. The case involved Natalie and Isabelle Troxel, the daughters of Brad Troxel and Tommie Winn (nee Granville). Brad and Tommie, who were never married, separated in 1991 and Brad moved in with his parents. Natalie and Isabelle spent weekends with their father at the elder Troxels' home until May 1993, when Brad committed suicide.
Although initially the girls continued to visit their grandparents regularly, Tommie eventually limited the contact to one visit per month. In response, the Troxels filed a petition for visitation rights and subsequently were awarded visitation with Natalie and Isabelle one weekend per month, one week in the summer, and four hours on each grandparent's birthday.
Tommie appealed the decision. During the pendency of the appeal, she married Kelly Winn, who adopted Natalie and Isabelle. The Washington Court of Appeals then reversed the visitation order and dismissed the Troxels' petition, holding that they lacked standing to seek visitation since no custody action was pending at the time they filed their petition.
The Washington Supreme Court granted review of Troxel and consolidated it with two other cases involving challenges to grandparents' and other third parties' standing to petition the court for visitation and to the awarding of visitation itself. With respect to the Troxels' case, the court found that, while the grandparents did have standing under the applicable statutes, those statutes were unconstitutional as they impermissibly interfered with parents' constitutionally protected interests.
The court's analysis acknowledged that the rights of parents to raise their children without state interference is a fundamental liberty interest protected by the Fourteenth Amendment and a fundamental right derived from the privacy rights inherent in the Constitution. As fundamental rights are involved, state interference can be justified only by a compelling interest and the interference must be narrowly tailored to meet only the compelling state interest involved.
The court then discussed the two sources of the state's power to intrude on family autonomy: the police power to protect citizens from threats to their health or safety, and the parens patriae power that allows the state to act on behalf of a child where the child has been harmed or is subject to threat from harm. However, the court determined that the Constitution does not permit the state to interfere with child-rearing decisions in the absence of actual harm or threat of harm to the child.
The Troxels and other petitioners argued that a judicial determination that visitation is in the best interest of the child is a sufficiently compelling justification to override the parent's opposition, despite no showing of harm or threatened harm to the child. The court soundly rejected this argument, stating:
"Short of preventing harm to the child, the standard of best interest of the child is sufficient to serve as a compelling state interest overruling a parent's fundamental rights. State intervention to better a child's quality of life through third-party visitation is not justified where the child's circumstances are otherwise satisfactory. To suggest otherwise would be the logical equivalent to asserting that the state has the authority to break up stable families and redistribute its infant population to provide each child with the 'best family.' It is not within the province of the state to make significant decisions concerning the custody of children merely because it could make a 'better' decision." Id. at 29.
The court did not acknowledge that there are circumstances where arbitrarily depriving a child of a significant relationship could cause severe psychological harm and implied that such circumstances could justify state intervention to override the parent's wishes. However, since the statute required only a "best interest" determination, rather than a threshold showing of finding of harm to the child if the significant relationship were cut off, it failed to meet constitutional requirements.
One member of the Washington Supreme Court vigorously dissented with respect to this constitutional analysis. Justice Philip Talmadge accused the majority of ignoring the "realities and complexities of modern family life" by giving almost absolute and undue deference to the rights of biological parents. He noted that many children form close attachments to adults other than their biological parents and that stepparents, foster parents, grandparents and others often become psychological parents to children whose nuclear families are not intact.
Justice Talmadge also took issue with the majority's assertion that the state's power cannot be exercised to assure the best interest of a child in the absence of threat of harm. Rather, he said, the court must engage in a balancing test, weighing the extent of the infringement on parental autonomy against the state's responsibility to promote the physical and mental health of the child. He found that the ordering of grandparent visitation, so long as it is found to be in the child's best interest, is permissible when this balancing test is applied, as it constitutes only a minor infringement on parental rights.
Effect on Pennsylvania Law
While the majority and dissenting opinions of the Washington Supreme Court give us some idea of the arguments that are being considered by the Supreme Court of the United States, it is less clear what effect the high court's decision could have on Pennsylvania's grandparent visitation statutes. Our statutes are far narrower in the scope of potential petitioners, in the configuration of families where such petitions may be filed, and in the standard to be applied by the court when they are filed than the ones at issue in Troxel.
Potential Petitioners
The Washington statutes permitted any person to petition the court for visitation rights at any time. Pennsylvania's statutory scheme is limited to grandparents and great-grandparents. Is there a legitimate reason why grandparents should be treated differently from other close and loving relatives whose contact with a child ends in the event of divorce? Why should, for example, an aunt and uncle who had daily contact with a niece since birth, not be permitted to ask the court to continue that relationship?
The answer may lie less with a legal distinction than with the special cultural significance we as a society place on the grandchild-grandparent relationship, with its emphasis on the continuity of generations and the passing down of family heritage and traditions. Do those cultural values make the relationship any more important, from the child's perspective, than a relationship with an aunt or uncle? What about the completely unrelated adult who has a close and special relationship with a child? Is blood lineage significant? Is marriage significant?
Family Configuration
Our statutes allow grandparents and great-grandparents to petition for reasonable partial custody or visitation rights of grandchildren or great-grandchildren in only the following three instances: when a parent (the petitioner's child) has died; when the parents are divorced or have been separated for more than six months; or where the grandchild has resided with the grandparents for a period of at least twelve months and was then removed from their home by the parents.
In some measure, we are permitting grandparents to "stand in" for the relationship that their deceased, divorced or separated child had with his or her children; the rights awarded are essentially derivitate in nature. Visitation rights under the Washington statute were not. A petition for visitation by a grandparent or other third party could be filed in Washington against an intact family; that is, one where both parents agree that their child should not have contact with the petitioner.
From the perspective of the parent against whom such a petition is filed, it may not matter whether she is defending against a claim by her ex-husband's parents or by her current husband's parents; however, looking at the emphasis on the rights of biological parents set forth by the Washington Supreme Court, and considering current cultural norms, most people would probably agree that a challenge to an intact family is a qualitatively different and graver type of interference with child-rearing from that in a separated family.
Again, we must ask does it make a difference to the child? Does the child stand to suffer less by having a relationship with a grandparent end if the child is in an intact family? Most importantly, should this determination be made in advance, in all cases, as in Pennsylvania where the grandparents would have no standing in such an instance, or is it better to leave this decision to the court on a case-by-case basis?
Or perhaps, as a practical matter, is the potential for expensive and harassing litigation between disgruntled family members so great that we must close the courthouse doors to whole categories of petitioners despite the fact that some legitimate claims may not be heard?
Awarding Visitation
The Supreme Court of the United States will undoubtedly consider the standard for awarding visitation once standing is conferred. Our statute probably would not survive under the Washington Supreme Court's analysis. We have no requirement of a threshold showing of harm to the child if the visitation is not ordered; we, like the state of Washington, say the court must consider the best interest of the child.
However, our legislature placed an important qualifier in our law that is not in the Washington statute: partial custody or visitation can only be ordered for a grandparent if the court finds that it would not interfere with the parent-child relationship. While surely this is a difficult standard to apply if a parent is opposing contact between his child and the petitioning grandparent, doesn't an order allowing contact over the parent's objection by definition interfere with the parent-child relationship? it seems to resonate with the balancing test suggested by Justice Talmadge in his dissent, i.e., a minor infringement on a parent's child-rearing decision might be permissible but a major infringement may not be.
We can expect that the Supreme Court will address all three of these issues in Troxel, thus enabling lawyers, advocates and policy-makers to examine our own statutes in light of their constitutional analysis.
The Center for Children's Policy Practice & Research Amicus Brief in Troxel v. Granville
by Barbara Bennett Woodhouse
Despite their importance to ordinary citizens, custody and visitation cases rarely reach the Supreme Court of the United States. When the court grants certiorari in a family law case, it is treading on unfamiliar ground. "Friend of the Court" briefs can play an important role in helping the justices situate the issues in a broader family law context. Not surprisingly, Troxel v. Granville generated a flurry of amicus briefs. Among them was a brief submitted by the Center for Children's Policy Practice & Research at the University of Pennsylvania (CCPPR), a newly formed project of the Schools of Law, Medicine and Social Work.
The mission of CCPPR at Penn is to mobilize the resources of a nationally known university around issues of importance to children. CCPPR is especially concerned with children at risk of entering the child welfare system or already in the system.
When CCPPR learned that the Supreme Court had granted certiorari to consider the constitutionality of a grandparent visitation statute, we assembled an interdisciplinary team to brief the Supreme Court on the potential impact of its ruling on children in formal or informal foster care.
The team included, in addition to myself, third-year Penn law student Sacha Coupet (who holds a Ph.D. in psychology) and third-year Penn law student Keren Rebin, visiting from Harvard Law School. Dr. Annie Steinberg from the medical school contributed her expertise in child and adolescent psychiatry, and Drs. Richard Gelles and Carol Williams from the School of Social Work provided input on family sociology and the child welfare system, assisted by social work student Alyssa Burrell Cowan.
Our task was to explore any unforeseen consequences of the decision in Troxel for 600,000 children living in foster care and 3,500,000 children living in grandparent-headed households, highlighting the issues of children's relationships with extended family from a sociological and psychological, as well as a legal, standpoint.
The CCPPR brief argued that a statute granting standing to "any person at any time" to seek visitation is unconstitutionally broad. But the brief also points to current research on the role of grandparents and extended families in providing a safety net for families in crisis. It stresses the diversity of American family forms and the need to examine each child's situation in context. CCPPR's brief urges the court to avoid sharpening the battle of rights over children by making broad pronouncements about parents' rights that might adversely impact the functioning of extended family relationships or deprive kinship caregivers of any legal protection.
The justices had obviously done their homework and peppered the advocates with highly specific questions. Their hypotheticals probed not only the specific facts of the case but its ramifications in other contexts. How would a decision that parents have the right to block a child's contact with extended family affect a grandparent with whom a child had lived since birth? How would a decision requiring a showing of "harm" as a predicate to non-parent visitation be implemented by a real world judge in a complex case?
Whatever the justices decide, they will have had the benefit not only of the parties' arguments, focusing on their own case and controversy, but of a wider range of amicus curiae briefs analyzing the issues from every perspective.
(Barbara Bennett Woodhouse is a professor of law and co-director of the Center for Children's Policy, Practice & Research at the University of Pennsylvania.)
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Why do clock's hands always rotate clockwise?
Long before we have watches, people have always tell time by Sun Dials. Mechanical watches did not become generally available until early 20-century. The designers of these watches natually make the hands of their watch to emulate the movement of the shadow of a sun dial.
Plant a 8-ft long post on the ground. This pole is called the "gnomon" of the Sundial. Stand in front of it facing North. Watch the shadow cast by the Sun on the ground. It looks like this.
The Sun is on the Southern part of the sky. It casts a shadow of the post on the ground to the North of the pole. Mark the end point of the shadow as the hour goes by. As the time passes, the Sun moves from East to West in the sky. The end point, on the other hand, moves from west to east. The shadow of the pole, which looks like a line, rotates around the pole in the clockwise direction.
Is it any wonder that when the watchmakers began to make watches to compete with sun dials they make the hands of their clocks rotating clockwise as well? Just like the Sun Dial!
NASA has a webpage showing this fact as well as a lot of additional details. bri
Sun Dial Page
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Portland, Maine City Council to weigh in on abortion clinic buffer zone
November 18, 2013, 9:20 pm
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(NECN: Amy Sinclair) - The City Council in Portland, Maine is expected to vote Wednesday night on whether or not to create a "buffer zone" around a clinic where abortions are performed.
The demonstrators say they have the constitutional right to speak out against abortion on any city sidewalk, but patients at Planned Parenthood say it's not free speech -- it's harassment.
The protesters have been a fixture on the 400 block of Congress Street every Friday morning since the summer of 2012.
Carrying signs depicting developing and sometimes mutilated fetuses, they say their goal is to discourage women from seeking an abortion at the clinic upstairs.
"The women are murderers," said Leslie Sneddon, holding a sign declaring 'Babies are Murdered Here.' "If she's not confronted before she dies and doesn't have the blood of Jesus Christ covering her, she will go to Hell."
College senior Deena Metzler says she had to walk past the demonstrators en route to her abortion appointment last year.
"It just felt like a real invasion of my privacy," recalled Metzler.
She says what should have been a deeply personal decision made with help from her partner, her parents and her health care provider was suddenly up for public discourse on the sidewalk.
"I think it makes someone feel shame, like someone is judging them, when they don't know anything about their life or their experiences," said Metzler.
The staff at Planned Parenthood said the sidewalk sermons amount to harassment, not just for their patients, but for everyone who’s entering the multi-use office building, and they asked for protection in the form of a buffer zone on the corner of Congress and Elm streets.
"The currently proposed 39-foot patient safety zone strikes an adequate balance that ensures that patients can access healthcare while free of harassment, while still protecting freedom of speech right," said Eric Covey, organizer for Planned Parenthood of Northern New England.
If it passes, anyone violating the ordinance would be given a verbal warning for a first offense. The second time, they’d get a citation and face a minimum $100 fine.
The anti-abortion activists say they will abide by whatever decision the Portland councilors make.
"If it passes, then we'll stand where we're permitted to stand and do the Lord's business where we're allowed to," said demonstrator Marguerite Fitzgerald.
They say they’ll probably move across the street and demonstrate with larger signs and louder voices. What they won't do, they say, is go away.
Similar laws have survived constitutional challenges in other states, but that could change. The United States Supreme Court will hear a challenge to Massachusetts' buffer zone law in the current session. Attorney General Martha Coakley will defend the law.
Tags: maine, portland, Amy Sinclair, Planned Parenthood, Portland ME City Council, Portland ME Planned Parenthood, abortion protesters, Portland ME Planned Parenthood buffer zone
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#95 - ekesss (10/31/2012) [-]
#1 - retrochris (10/31/2012) [-]
Seems like 4 Billion is a magic Disney number.
Remember when Marvel was sold to them.
#2 to #1 - Milos (10/31/2012) [-]
There are some things money can't buy.
Those are bought with ******** of money.
There are some things money can't buy.
User avatar #3 to #1 - dementedllama (10/31/2012) [-]
Sure, who wouldn't sell their operation immediately if the first offer is 4 billion dollars?
#114 to #55 - robpattinsonisafag (10/31/2012) [-]
How did you reply to #3 comment?
User avatar #56 to #55 - dementedllama (10/31/2012) [-]
But that's because he can't even comprehend the number 4.
#62 to #56 - anonymous poster (10/31/2012) [-]
Left 4 dead?
User avatar #214 to #56 - dixego (11/01/2012) [-]
Let alone 4 billion.
#300 to #55 - kokainum **User deleted account** has deleted their comment. [-]
#70 to #55 - roarflmao has deleted their comment. [-]
User avatar #15 to #3 - Ragon (10/31/2012) [-]
that wasn't their first offer, Disney had been working on this for about a year and a half now
User avatar #13 to #3 - mhden (10/31/2012) [-]
Bill gates
#98 - lametitan (10/31/2012) [-]
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#106 - schizoo (10/31/2012) [-]
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#281 - mikhailovych (11/01/2012) [-]
If Battlefront 3 is made I won't care where it comes from
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If Battlefront 3 is made I won't care where it comes from
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#294 to #281 - maxbomb (11/01/2012) [-]
I love battlefront...
I love battlefront...
User avatar #296 to #294 - mikhailovych (11/01/2012) [-]
I did hate though how after a while even on the highest difficulty you become unstoppable because of all the medals that become permanent
User avatar #292 to #281 - Rockaman (11/01/2012) [-]
Dunno, if mickey mouses are included then I do care!
User avatar #286 to #281 - hydraetis (11/01/2012) [-]
....You make an incredibly valid point of valid points.
User avatar #338 to #281 - safo (11/01/2012) [-]
why did they cancel Megas XLR? that show was hilariously good
User avatar #314 to #281 - pianoasis (11/01/2012) [-]
Theres also something called sya wars 1313 coming out
User avatar #393 to #281 - tkfourtwoone (11/01/2012) [-]
Oh yeah, you're having it rough with Battlefront, you poor things...
What about LucasArts made REALLY GOOD Star Wars games... like the Space Sims (X-wing, TIE Fighter, X-Wing Alliance)?!
Us space sims fans didn't have a breadcrumb since 1999!
Heck, remake them with HD graphics, but leave the gameplay unchanged!
User avatar #78 - commanderbunbun (10/31/2012) [-]
disney wants a monopoly of all franchises starring an orphan.
batman, you're next.....
#59 - slendie (10/31/2012) [-]
Get out there and make me some God damn money!
User avatar #61 - devorezz (10/31/2012) [-]
And now: Kingdom Hearts 4. Sora teams up with Spiderman, Thor, Yoda, and Obi-Wan.
#83 - ninjajunkie (10/31/2012) [-]
What George really did....
What George really did....
#155 - controlled (11/01/2012) [-]
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#34 - alucord ONLINE (10/31/2012) [-]
#175 to #34 - samxdaxman (11/01/2012) [-]
*cough cough*
#193 to #34 - drillur (11/01/2012) [-]
*cough cough*
User avatar #208 to #193 - GraphJam (11/01/2012) [-]
I think he''s saying that Han Solo didn't get anywhere
User avatar #211 to #208 - drillur (11/01/2012) [-]
He's not, considering Ford has had plenty of acting jobs past Star Wars, whereas Hamill has gone under the radar of most people. So, in the picture, since Luke didn't sign, his career "stopped."
Although I guess in the picture Hamill could be backstabbing Ford... **** now I don't know anymore
User avatar #217 to #211 - GraphJam (11/01/2012) [-]
That's what I meant. My apoogizes.
User avatar #218 to #217 - GraphJam (11/01/2012) [-]
#326 - konamicode (11/01/2012) [-]
>Why would I make any more when everybody yells at you all the time and says what a terrible person you are?" Lucas told The New York Times earlier this year.
I don't think you're a terrible person, Mr. Lucas..
User avatar #333 to #326 - dragonhorn (11/01/2012) [-]
I know. Everyone nitpicked the 3 prequels to death because they were so in love with the original trilogy. Now, I expect to be thumbed down repeatedly, but I was entertained by the prequels, and that's all I ask from a movie. If you hated them, that's ok too.
#139 - theugandanhero (11/01/2012) [-]
#313 - lolfire (11/01/2012) [-]
Holy **** it could happen.
#317 to #313 - evantheboss (11/01/2012) [-]
I wanna bang the red head in that game. Or at least I did back when I was like 13 lol. I miss Kingdom Hearts :(
#322 to #317 - lolfire (11/01/2012) [-]
I know what you mean...
User avatar #356 to #322 - gidmp (11/01/2012) [-]
i hear a crack in my childhood...
User avatar #350 to #322 - vortexrain (11/01/2012) [-]
I must know the source of this, for reason.
#340 to #313 - loffarn (11/01/2012) [-]
Disney & SquareEnix BRING IT ON!
Disney & SquareEnix BRING IT ON!
#318 to #313 - youxbarstard (11/01/2012) [-]
I actually wouldn't mind watching Luke and Sora fight each other.
#353 to #313 - anonymous poster (11/01/2012) [-]
and marvel :O
#359 to #353 - gidmp (11/01/2012) [-]
i am started to thinking that we are asking too much from KH... travel to different worlds=infinite possibilities!!!
User avatar #352 to #313 - gidmp (11/01/2012) [-]
Don't dissapoint me, KH3!!
User avatar #349 to #313 - vortexrain (11/01/2012) [-]
But only in KH3, if the damn thing is ever released.
User avatar #351 to #349 - gidmp (11/01/2012) [-]
Square announced that they will work on KH3 when FFvsXIII is finished
User avatar #355 to #354 - gidmp (11/01/2012) [-]
And i heard that FFvsXIII will have the same combat method as KH(fast paced), and judging by the preview, i cannot wait!!
User avatar #357 to #355 - vortexrain (11/01/2012) [-]
I've never played FF, ever.
User avatar #358 to #357 - gidmp (11/01/2012) [-]
me too, better start now...
User avatar #361 to #358 - vortexrain (11/01/2012) [-]
I don't have enough time. I have to fap, do a **** ton of college work, go on here, and some how find time to play AC3, which I haven't started yet.
#362 to #361 - gidmp (11/01/2012) [-]
AC3 is some serious **** . I too have too much college work, and other work that is not related to college at all. i haven't touched my ps3(not in sexual way) for 3 month more of less.
( Then again, why do i have time for Funnyjunk...)
User avatar #363 to #362 - vortexrain (11/01/2012) [-]
I ask myself that question at least twice a week.
#364 to #363 - gidmp (11/01/2012) [-]
And i should start making a personal statement for transferring to University. CURSE MY LAZYNESS!!!
User avatar #365 to #364 - vortexrain (11/01/2012) [-]
I've missed 2 quizzes, 2 exams, and 1 writing assignment, and that's just for my online class.
User avatar #368 to #365 - gidmp (11/01/2012) [-]
that is already quite cross in' the line ya know. unless ya'all gonna drop that class. if i were you i would at least try before failin'
User avatar #370 to #368 - vortexrain (11/01/2012) [-]
I plan on passing it. I was busy the couple of weeks that the quizzes and the first exam were due, I forgot about the second quiz, and I didn't know about the writing assignment until, like, a week before it was due. It would've taken at least three days to get my research done, another two to "write" it in my head, and another two to write both a rough draft, and then hammer it out in to a turn-in-able final draft. I have a hellish work schedule, I go to school for the majority of two days, and it's too damned noisy at my house to be able to concentrate.
User avatar #371 to #370 - gidmp (11/01/2012) [-]
that's rough, just like when i found out that my English 102 teacher is racist. He gave me a frickin 2.5 for 'all' my hard work (i shed blood and tears making those essays, dammit!)
User avatar #372 to #371 - vortexrain (11/01/2012) [-]
That....sucks, that's the only way to describe it. No, wait....that ******* sucks; there, that's better.
User avatar #374 to #372 - gidmp (11/01/2012) [-]
at the bright side: i still passed though it lowered my cumulative GPA in a cruel way...
User avatar #376 to #374 - vortexrain (11/01/2012) [-]
Good for you dude.
Sorry to be rude, but could you leave me alone?
I'm about to go take care of some business that's related to comment 332.
#380 to #376 - gidmp (11/01/2012) [-]
Of course... Thanks for your company
#290 - theblockhead (11/01/2012) [-]
i dont know, 4 billion, i would probly give up anything for that much
#306 to #290 - fracturedlaser (11/01/2012) [-]
Yeah? What about masturbation?
User avatar #323 to #306 - rjgnal ONLINE (11/01/2012) [-]
with that money you could change whores more often than socks
User avatar #311 to #306 - pianoasis (11/01/2012) [-]
definitely would
#411 to #306 - theblockhead (11/01/2012) [-]
if i had 4 billion i would have to do that
User avatar #223 - jellyman ONLINE (11/01/2012) [-]
I don't see whats wrong with this. Disney bought Marvel and The Avengers turned out to be amazing and it reached third in the box office and maybe it can get higher.
Maybe the new Star Wars trilogy won't be so bad either
User avatar #225 to #223 - NolanNasty (11/01/2012) [-]
am i the only one who dosen't have a boner about that movie?
#227 to #225 - zeustesticle (11/01/2012) [-]
User avatar #229 to #227 - NolanNasty (11/01/2012) [-]
honestly, what was so good about it? I mean it was ok... but personally i think it got WAY too much attention.
#234 to #229 - zeustesticle (11/01/2012) [-]
Thats because you're a hipster going against the mainstream.
User avatar #235 to #234 - NolanNasty (11/01/2012) [-]
So if i don't like the avengers movie i am a hipster?
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#238 to #235 - cactaur (11/01/2012) [-]
now you're getting it!
User avatar #239 to #238 - NolanNasty (11/01/2012) [-]
tell me then, what was so ******* amazing about that movie?
#246 to #239 - arbazio (11/01/2012) [-]
The graphics. The story. The way each hero got a fair amount of screen time and they each contributed towards driving the plot forward. This was a difficult challenge, as each hero is epic in their own way, but I, personally, connected with all of them. The choreography was fantastic too, the action was just immense. I could go on, but I'm sure that will suffice.
You probably didn't read any of this, as you are a feeble minded facile ape-like being who is contempt with flinging its own poop at things it doesn't understand. I bid you good day, or as your people say; "SCREEEEEECH RAAAAAAAR GRRRRR UGG!!!!!"
User avatar #409 to #246 - NolanNasty (11/01/2012) [-]
you are either 12 or a retard... now i can respect the fact that you like the movie. However when you start binging in poop and whatnot you are dumbing yourself down to astounding levels.
I thought the movie was fine but i also thought the "villains" except from Loki sucked.
User avatar #248 to #239 - robxsandwich (11/01/2012) [-]
Well, it's an opinion, but I thought it was funny, had some awesome action parts, and had an interesting story with really cool characters.
#136 - austinschut (11/01/2012) [-]
Can someone explain to me why everyone is bitching about star wars getting bought out by Disney?
Disney bought out Marvel and as soon as they did, we got The Avengers, a new spider-man revamp and a big boost in the quality of Comic Book movies. It's not like Disney is going to throw Mickey mouse into all the movies, it just means the movies are distributed by a different company.
All Disney is doing is buying out franchises that aren't doing so well and giving them a 2012 polish. Sure it may seem unnecessary, but the star wars franchise is dying compared to how it was 10 years ago.
Disney just gets the rights to distribute it while George Lucas can retire to 4 billion dollars in his pocket. Nobody loses.
I can see why people are upset about the old remakes being made, but in all honesty, if we didn't have remakes, the star wars franchise would die and the future generations will have no clue what star wars is.
User avatar #157 to #136 - ivoryhammer (11/01/2012) [-]
The gaming market of Star Wars is booming pretty well, you have the BioWare games, the new Star Wars game I can't remember the name of, and a big demand for Battlefront 3
User avatar #190 to #157 - bigbawser (11/01/2012) [-]
In all honesty SWTOR may just be bioware's worst game. The class stories are great, but it acts like a single player game that is populated by other people playing the game. I'll admit, I loved playing as a Chiss Imperial Agent, but there is also literally no end game to speak of other than what was there when you were leveling. While i may finish the story after it becomes Free to play, there isn't anything tying me down to it. Then again i haven't played since march.
User avatar #250 to #190 - ivoryhammer (11/01/2012) [-]
It is BioWare's worst game, but pretty much all of BioWare's games are amazing so it's not really saying much, I would have preferred it if they just made a KoToR3 instead of the MMO
User avatar #257 to #250 - bigbawser (11/01/2012) [-]
here's a crazy theory: SWTOR is KOTOR3, but when EA wanted an mmo Bioware was forced to start over, and add terrible multiplayer. oddly the pvp was okay. except sorcerers. **** them. The sooner they drop it, the sooner they can get back to doing what they do best: Making RPGs with interesting and exciting IPs. KoToR was tecnically a new branch of the star wars IP, since they more or less brought it to life.
User avatar #276 to #257 - ivoryhammer (11/01/2012) [-]
Yeah I figured EA pushed BioWare into the MMO thing, I wish BioWare would self publish
User avatar #279 to #276 - bigbawser (11/01/2012) [-]
There may be hope, but the Iron Vice that is EA... well, there's a better chance of EA actually collapsing in 10-15 years, than some of the good companies that were fooled in to partnering with them ( I say that cause I want to believe it, but we both know it's probably not true) being able to leave. Sad thing is that I love Visceral's work with Dead Space but my hatred for EA went into full "steam" when they started pushing Origin.
User avatar #297 to #279 - ivoryhammer (11/01/2012) [-]
Yeah Origin is stupid, I wish they'd just use Steam, it's much better
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User avatar #73 to #38 - finni ONLINE (10/31/2012) [-]
I only liked Episode 3
#40 to #38 - anonymous poster (10/31/2012) [-]
So do I. And I don't think that they ruined Star Wars at all.
Nor the Star Wars game with the dancing minigame for XBOX360. That game was awesome and I loled when I saw the emperor dancing Ghosts 'n' Stuff.
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