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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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I have found the HTML to show the flair, and I was wondering if it was possible to place this in a LinkedIn profile.
Where would be the best place to put it?
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Asking for the best place to put it is a Linkedin question, not an SO one. – Ian Elliott Sep 19 '09 at 14:46
(I'll put my answer in a comment instead as this was closed before I could post it.) Interesting idea. As far as I can tell it's not possible though, as you can't include any arbitrary HTML in a LinkedIn profile. So the closest would probably be to simply include a link to your SO profile. – Jonik Sep 19 '09 at 14:52
I am having similar question which is closed due to this question. How can I show my flair on Facebook, or Google+ – Somnath Muluk Mar 10 '12 at 8:47
Posted on 2012-09-04 on Web Applications: webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/30699/… – Peter Mortensen Sep 5 '12 at 2:28
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It seems like it wouldn't be too hard to write a LinkedIn application for this.
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Thanks, looks like this is the only way to do it. Cannot include arbitary HTML or hotlink to an image. – Shiraz Bhaiji Sep 20 '09 at 18:59
Turns out there was an existing meta question about this very topic: meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3635/… – Jonik Sep 27 '09 at 17:05
I thought about this a bit more, and while it technically wouldn't be hard at all, there would be other major obstacles: meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3635/… – Jonik Sep 27 '09 at 17:54
LinkedIn Apps are now officially dead, and are replaced by a "Media Linking Feature", which works so-so. – Stefan Lasiewski Apr 3 '13 at 22:13
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You could place your flair within a Google Presentation embedded in your LinkedIn profile. Check my profile:
Here's a blog post I wrote about it:
[ Update ]
LinkedIn has revamped their profile editing features and now it's possible to add a link that points directly to your StackOverflow flair. Just click the "Add a link to a video, image, document, presentation." Then enter your flair URL. Mine is this one (replace the last part with your StackOverflow user id):
The good part is that the flair image reflects your current rep (is updatable) and so is a great win over the older Google Presentation method where the image wouldn't be updated.
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+1 nice idea, will try it – Shiraz Bhaiji Jan 20 '11 at 15:39
I don't have an "add media" option. It looks like it might still be under limited release: help.linkedin.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/34324 – JSuar Mar 19 '13 at 3:30
@JSuar well noted! :) – Leniel Macaferi Mar 19 '13 at 3:43
Is it possible to make this a hyperlink to our page on StackOverflow, Server Fault or Stack Exchange? I cannot find a way to make it work. – Stefan Lasiewski Apr 3 '13 at 19:38
@StefanLasiewski: Yes, it's possible. My LinkedIn profile has a flair that points directly to my StackOverflow profile. – Leniel Macaferi Apr 3 '13 at 19:57
Thanks @LenielMacaferi . Your article refers to the Google Presentation method, and I wasn't sure if that was still relevant. Does the image update dynamically when our reputation increases? Unfortunately I cannot see your LinkedIn profile as it is not public. – Stefan Lasiewski Apr 3 '13 at 21:54
@StefanLasiewski In fact, the StackOverflow badge is only visible to your connections. linkedin.com/in/leniel is only visible to people outside of LinkedIn and so it won't show the StackOverflow badge. Just sent you an invitation to connect on LinkedIn so that you can see the StackOverflow badge on my profile there. – Leniel Macaferi Apr 3 '13 at 22:01
Thanks for the help. I included the image in my profile as well, and I'm trying a couple different formats. The Google Presentation method didn't work for me (Couldn't get it to work using Google Docs either), but I'll try a few tweaks. – Stefan Lasiewski Apr 3 '13 at 22:05
@StefanLasiewski: the image updates but it may take sometime (days)... I confirm that I can see your flairs on your LinkedIn profile. Really nice. Congrats! :) – Leniel Macaferi Apr 3 '13 at 22:08
To display your flare on a specific site, just add the URL of that site. For example, my drupal.stackexchange.com flare is drupal.stackexchange.com/users/flair/7100.png – Druvision Sep 4 '13 at 6:42
Thing is, if I'm just going to add a link, why not link directly to my profile on SO or another SE site? – Jonik Oct 19 '13 at 3:02
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Linkedin has a Websites section on your profile. You can add up to 3 websites so this can be one of them if you find it valuable enough.
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Thanks, I added it – Shiraz Bhaiji Dec 10 '09 at 19:00
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In new LinkedIn profile layout you can add "media" to each block. I've added url to my flair in my summary block and account url to it's description. Here You can see how it looks like:
• minus: it's visible only on your "non-public" profile
• plus: it's using an actual flair url, so it's dynamically changing with your rep.
Turns out that miniature created by SO isn't refreshed. So to see Your actual score You have to click on the content and view it as a "popup window". I would be happy with some better way to do this.
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It is refreshed, but only periodically.
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SO badge on LinkedIn
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I would like to see, but it is just as you said. I can't view your profile at all, because we know no one in common. It doesn't even show me a "public" profile. I will try that on my profile on LinkedIn, as your answer seems like the best idea so far! – Feral Oink Dec 28 '12 at 5:23
It would be more convincing if you can post a screenshot to let others see what it looks like. – yorkw Jan 15 '13 at 2:15
I found this solution worked well. However, LinkedIn seems to only allow media in certain sections, none of which perfectly apply to SO. – SouthShoreAK Jul 30 '13 at 16:31
How often does it get refreshed? – Franck Dernoncourt Jan 22 at 17:07
@FranckDernoncourt I honestly don't know. I have last rep change from 7 days ago and it's updated on linkedin. – Grzegorz W Jan 22 at 22:00
@GrzegorzW Thanks, same here, it took between 7 and 10 days for me. Cool trick! – Franck Dernoncourt Feb 1 at 16:26
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Are you able to hotlink to an image on a LinkedIn profile? If so, this might be kind of a duplicate of "Can we get flair as an image?"
The first answer there includes one user's implementation of image-based flair, since there is no official solution. But if you're unable to hotlink to an image, then this wouldn't help.
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As far as I could figure out, you cannot do that on LinkedIn. – Jonik Sep 26 '09 at 10:59
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Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Grande Tradition à Quantième Perpétuel 8 jours SQ
The highly regarded Manufacture once again shows the depth and breadth of its expertise with the new Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Grande Tradition à Quantième Perpétuel 8 jours SQ. The new model is inspired by a historical Grande Complication pocket-watch from 1928. Eighty-six years after, the skilled hands of skeletonisers and enamellers created a masterpiece of contemporary Haute Horlogerie in a limited edition of 200 timepieces.
The Art of Engraving and Skeletonising
The engraving and skeletonising artists have dedicated themselves to a new technical and artistic challenge. “It is indeed a high art to pare away as much ‘flesh’ as possible from a movement without adversely affecting its qualities”, master engraver Dominique Vuez explains.
The engravers know the necessary tricks. “Our customers want to be able to see as many of the details as possible. But when we skeletonise a movement, we must assure that neither its rigidity nor its reliability could potentially be undermined.” The engraver began by obtaining the relevant documents for Jaeger-LeCoultre Calibre 876 from its designers. He then determined which components could safely be pierced and which portions of those components could be cut away. In collaboration with watchmakers from the ateliers for Complications Horlogères, he specified every tiny detail in his sketches and plans. Of course, he could rely on the many years of experience and on the legacy handed down to his generation from his predecessors in the Manufacture, who had used similar technical aids to accomplish the intricate tasks of skeletonising.
Alongside the technical aspect, the Master Grande Tradition à Quantième Perpétuel 8 jours SQ prioritises and embodies lofty aesthetic standards because its creators were eager to pay tribute to the model from 1928 and simultaneously to prove that the non plus ultra had not yet been achieved.
After completing a detailed skeletonising plan, the master and his team take their traditional jigsaws and limes in hand and begin the delicate work. Millimetre after millimetre are meticulously sawn away to eliminate superfluous “flesh” from the movement. The skeletonising process is irreversible, so even the slightest error would be fatal. All parts of the movement are then bevelled, polished and elaborately engraved by hand, one by one. The farther the work progresses, the more clearly this synthesis of the horological arts comes into view.
The Art of Enamelling
The next task is to decorate the white gold rings, one adorning the dial and another one for the case back of the watch. First finely chiseled by hand, they are then covered with blue transparent enamel using the grand feu “champlevé” method. Master enameller Miklos Merczel and his team begin by applying the enamel on the surface of the piece using a very small paintbrush. Afterwards the piece is repeatedly fired in a kiln until it acquires the desired blue hue. Each firing, which reaches temperatures between 800 and 820 degrees Celsius, jeopardises the artwork because the torrid heat could cause cracks or undesired inclusions. The piece is then delicately polished with diamond powder. Enamelling always demands plenty of patience, and the Manufacture’s most experienced enamellers need 2 days of work to complete the two enamel rings that surround the dial and movement.
Now a watchmaker from the atelier for Complications Horlogères begins to unite the more than 200 springs, levers, program wheels, pinions and gears with the tiny artworks from Dominique Vuez and Miklos Merczel. But anyone who assumes that this ticking objet d’art is finished would be mistaken, because the assembled timepiece is now subjected to meticulous tests of its functions and to numerous stress tests, which are performed in the Jaeger-LeCoultre’s 1000 hours control unit. The examiners here are unforgiving because the Manufacture’s high standards of quality must be unconditionally upheld. Only now is the artwork of the Master Grande Tradition à Quantième Perpétuel 8 jours SQ complete.
2004 Master Eight Days Perpetual model
Our main subject is the Master Grande Tradition à Quantième Perpétuel 8 jours SQ, but let us take a closer look at the model which served as its basis. The Master Eight Days Perpetual equipped with Jaeger-LeCoultre calibre 876 ranks among the most interesting complications currently made at the Manufacture in the Vallée de Joux. Unveiled in 2004, it’s a beautiful example of timekeeping artistry and a genuine jewel for the wrist. In addition to the time of day or night, its dial also hosts several calendarical displays: the date, the day of the week, the month, the complete year as a four-digit number, and the age of the moon. A power-reserve indicator and a day/night display with a red safety zone highlighting the calendar’s daily switching phase further increase the already plentiful array of information. All displays on the dial are intelligently conceived and structured in accord with their significance so the viewer always enjoys a clear overview, despite the high density of the data presented. The time, the day of the week, the date and the month are all depicted in large, readily legible fashion. The power-reserve display and the day-night indicator are harmoniously and symmetrically integrated into the upper half of the dial. The complication is a so-called “perpetual calendar”, which means that all of its displays are mutually synchronised so no manual corrections are necessary — not even in leap years when February has a 29th day. The next exception to this rule will occur in 2100, a secular year that is not evenly divisible by 400 and is therefore not a leap year. If the watch is left to languish without running for a lengthy interval, its owner can press a button to advance its displays in single-day increments: all indicators respond by switching exactly one day forward, thus eliminating the need for elaborate resetting.
Hand-wound Jaeger-LeCoultre Calibre 876 concatenates 262 components, including 37 rubies, but is a mere 6.6 mm tall. To the greatest practicable degree, this calibre is manufactured, assembled and elaborately decorated on the Manufacture’s premises. A glance at its surfaces instantly discovers côtes soleillées decorations, which are reserved for the exclusive creations from Jaeger-LeCoultre. The balance, which has no regulator, oscillates at a frequency of 28,800 semi-oscillations per hour. After the mainsprings have been fully wound, the power reserve suffices to keep the movement running for eight full days. Only afterwards must one take the watch in hand and turn its crown, thus refreshing the supply of energy stored in its two barrels.
A total of 200 Master Grande Tradition à Quantième Perpétuel 8 jours SQ wristwatches will leave the Manufacture in the Vallée de Joux, and each one of them is unique! The engravers and enamellers cannot possibly fabricate two absolutely identical models. Numerous tiny details necessarily distinguish one skeletonised movement from all others, and the grand feu enamel in one watch will never be wholly identical with its counterpart in another.
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I have a pokemon platinum and this is my pokemon
Torterra leaf storm,frenzy plant,stone edge,earthquake
Staraptor steel wing,close combat,brave bird,quick attack
Floatzel surf,ice beam,brick break,quick attack
Toxicroak X-Scissor,poison jab,revenge,Earthquake
Golem flamethrower,earthquake,stone edge,brick break
Glaceon ice beam,iron tail,shadow ball,secret power
so which move should I change
asked Jan 9, 2011 by brendan5417
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Torterra-Consider seed bomb instead of leaf storm. His attack is a lot better. Also, leech seed or rock polish works better than having two grass moves, so drop frenzy plant.
Staraptor-He's already pretty fast, so you don't really need a priority move. Instead, use Return for STAB, U-Turn for defense (also works great with close combat), or Roost to help with Brave bird.
Floatzel-He's probably better with a physical set. Ice punch and waterfall will do. Rain dance is great for the doubled speed, powers up his moves, and helps toxicroak, assuming he has dry skin. Aqua jet is a better choice if you don't like that, because it gets priority just like quick attack, but also gets STAB.
Toxicroak-Maybe have Swords dance instead of revenge. Sucker punch is good for his okay speed.
Golem-No special moves. So drop flamethrower. Explosion is a great last ditch move. If this is for in game playing, he's fine, but for competitive battling, I would switch him for a different wall pokemon. I'd suggest using Magnezone, who gets coverage from the rain by softening his fire weakness, as well as letting him use STAB thunder with 100% accuracy.
Glaceon-This works fine. If you're lucky enough to get hidden power [ground], you could cover rock and fire types that get the advantage.
All in all, consider using more support moves to balance your team out.
answered Jan 9, 2011 by DarkTyphlosion
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Meh...too much attacks...
Put in something protective, like a Bronzong with double screens.
answered Jan 9, 2011 by Kristza
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• n 1991, 54 percent of students in the United States reported using calculators in school, a proportion that fell mid-range among all the countries included here. Ninety percentage points separated the country with the highest rate of calculator usage (France) and the countries with the lowest rate (Korea and Brazil). Half of all the nations providing data reported percentages of less than 50 percent.
• When students in the U.S. states were asked about calculator use, they also reported considerable variation. The range extended from 47 percent in Mississippi, the state with the lowest use of calculators in school, to 88 percent in Maine, the state with the highest use.
• The United States was also in the middle of the range of countries in the proportion of students using computers for school work or homework (37 percent). Slovenia and France had the highest percentages, 61 and 57 percent, while several countries had about 5 percent. Slovenia's rate was 24 percentage points higher than that of the United States. The difference between Slovenia's rate and that of S o Paulo and Fortaleza, Brazil, with the lowest percentage, was 57 percentage points.
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So who out there is aspiring to make a living in the music industry? I know I am, and I'm pretty sure I can't be the only one... I mean I'm flattered that you would read my blog and listen to my music just out of enjoyment and perhaps quirky habit, but I have to believe that out of the several thousand people that drop by here every week there might be a few people on a similar path or trajectory to me!
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I have the following HTML code:
<div id='ad_fulldiv'>
//Some text and images
<div id='ad_content''>
I have also a Jquery code with Ajax request. In the file adcontent.inc.php there is a switch loop which echoes random content what depends on the content in a database. After the user clicks on a button a Ajax request is called which updates the database. If the file returns 'true' (update is successfull) the div ad_content should fadeout en should be reloaded with adcontent.inc.php. It should have other content now, because the Database is updates.
But how can I reload the div? I think the load option doesnt work. I tried to do that, but exactly the same content is loaded.
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you'll have to post more code. Or even better, a jsFiddle. – ilia choly Aug 6 '11 at 14:01
jsfiddle.net/a5GbN I hope this is ok. – Jordy Aug 6 '11 at 14:05
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Why not have your includes/adcontent.inc.php script return the div content rather than true/false?
url: 'includes/adcontent.inc.php',
cache: false,
beforeSend: function (data) {
success: function (data) {
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$('#ad_content').html("<span class='error'>Error!</span>");
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Fixed! Thanks! It was a fault in my other script that prevents the script from direct call, but many thanks for the replies! – Jordy Aug 6 '11 at 14:13
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Magpahatid Filipino
maghanap ng salita, tulad ng poopsterbate:
The slang/sarajevo way of saying friend, buddy, pal.
Ej ba djes jarane!!?
Dino, ti si moj jaran.
ayon kay AnjaBANANA ika-19 ng Hulyo, 2006
8 6
A Bosnian slang for "pal".
You use it when talking to a really close friend, or to describe someone who is friendly.
The word is of Turkish descent (yaran) which came from persian yârân (yâr-friend).
When you meet a friend:
OO what's up jarane. (OO DJES JARANE)
When talking about someone who is friendly:
Mujo is a jaran (Mujo je jaran)
ayon kay neko_ceko ika-27 ng Marso, 2010
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Thursday, July 5, 2012
Step right up and join TSA!
Step right up, folks!
Bullied as a young person growing up in your middle-class neighborhood?
Ridiculed in the gym locker room because of underdeveloped/non-developed reproductive organs?
Failed your ACT or SAT tests?
Unfit for military duty?
Is your IQ the average of that of a wilting houseplant?
Do you have strong leanings towards sexual predation?
Unable to pass a bonafide background check?
Are you otherwise unemployable in this age of Obama?
Have zero concept of Constitutional freedoms, in particular the Fourth Amendment?
Join TSA, where our motto is: "The worse you are, the better we become!"
You can thank our absolutely gutless elected officials, going back to George W Bush and his stupid-assed Patriot Act and creation of the Department of Homeland Security, for this travesty.
They did, after all, have the option of bombing the terrorist back into the Stone Age, allowing passengers to fly armed, profiling terrorists instead of toddlers and 87-year-old grandmothers in wheelchairs.
Like I said, GUTLESS elected officials.
But I'm convinced the majority of America doesn't care.
Who's on American Idol tonight?
T.N.B.C. said...
Eric Holder fits the crieria...
T.N.B.C. said...
ooops left out the "t" in criteria...
MaddMedic said...
My son is flying out this week-end on a mission trip...To Costa Rica...How to really prepare him for ....TSA....How to tell him he needs to not always say what he is thinking....
Old NFO said...
Sigh... Once again you're right...
Bob Easton said...
Costa Rica is a piece of cake ... relatively.
Yet, on exit they DO run you through the normal security station (magnetometers and x-ray). Then, at the gate they have yet another hand search of carry-on luggage.
Are the x-ray machines used in the first search inadequate? Do they think you built a McGiver bomb from things found at the gift shop? Are they just following Homeland Security requests.
DON'T ASK!!! If you're lucky, the search agent will pretend not to understand English. Just DON'T ASK.
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Part of Sublime Frequencies‘ most popular series, Guitars From Agadez Vol. 3 is being reissued after instantly selling out during its original release in 2010. Group Inerane is from Niger’s Tuareg guitar scene, and this LP is a triumph from guitarist Bibi Ahmed and guitarist Koudede Maman, who is considered legendary for his Tuareg guitar lineage. Though Maman’s addition to Group Inerane arose after the death of the original second guitarist, Adi Mohammed, who was shot during rebellion fights, the group’s perseverance is a true testament to the strength of the Tuareg people. This strength clearly inspires Ahmed and Maman on Vol. 3, taking listeners through a haze of blues, infectious rock and hollered vocals that cry out against political oppression and are created from revolution, with a strong sense of hope and resilience behind the music. Having been recorded on location in Niger’s capital city of Niamey, right after the military junta had overthrown President Mamadou Tandja, the songs have a politically charged backbone that make them much stronger.
Starting with the murky medley of bluesy guitars, incoherently soulful vocals and a minimalist drum beat, “Telalit” starts Vol. 3 off strong, sounding like a familiar classic rock song with many compelling cultural twists in sound from the Tuareg guitarists. Similarly, “Alemin” represents the commanding nature of Tuareg music, meshing crooning vocals with Tom Petty-ish guitar riffs that bounce back and forth off of one another and encompass the track completely. With twangy guitar licks that sound straight out of classic bluegrass or country, Ahmed and Maman manage to merge the cowboy Western vibe with the Tuareg sound to create bouncing, looping, guitar-laden beats that make it clear why Vol. 3 was such a quick sell for Sublime Frequencies.
A purely classic rock vibe propels “Golf” forward, enhanced by faded vocals and heavier percussion, with several guitar melodies intertwining with one another. Closing out Vol. 3 with “Deran Deran,” slightly deeper vocals create a circular rhythm, along with looping guitars and soft percussion. Telling stories of political struggle and oppression, Group Inerane’s meshing of genres speaks volumes about the group’s tradition and the overwhelming feeling of hope and resistance that empowers the band during hard times.
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Memorable moments: Clay makes his mark
The Olympic boxing competition has spawned many a successful professional career - Lennox Lewis, Oscar de la Hoya and Barry McGuigan to name three (just don't mention Audley Harrison).
Yet none has gone on to change his sport like Cassius Clay, who won light-heavyweight gold in Rome in 1960.
The journey to Rome was problematic in itself for the 18-year-old from Louisville, whose fear of flying meant he tried to pull out of the Games - he was eventually persuaded to fly, but not before purchasing a parachute in case of emergency.
Though considered a promising youngster, few thought Clay was destined for stardom, though the man himself's brashness and confidence earned him the nickname "the mayor of the Olympic Village".
In the ring Clay was next to flawless, stopping his first opponent, Yvon Becot, in the second round, before winning unanimous verdicts in his remaining bouts - outclassing Zbigniew Pietrzykowski to claim gold.
Few will need reminding what happened next. He beat Sonny Liston to become world champion in 1964 and never looked back. As Muhammad Ali, he established himself as one of the most important sporting and cultural figures of the 20th century.
Ali later wrote that he threw his gold medal into the Ohio River after being refused service in a whites-only restaurant.
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NATO’s “Victory” in Libya
Genocide and Rebel Infighting
NATO's "Victory" in Libya
Desperate to declare NATO’s mission in Libya a victory ahead of the September 19, 2011 deadline on their contrived UN Security Council resolution, already violated in every conceivable manner possible, NATO planes in tandem with NATO special forces obliterated Tripoli ahead of swarms of Libyan rebel troops led by notorious Al Qaeda thug Abdulhakim Hasadi (aka Balhaj.) Three weeks later, NATO’s proxy Libyan representative, long-time globalist and servant of the West Mahmoud Gibril Elwarfally, touched down at Tripoli’s airport, one of the few enclaves held by rebels in the city, to give the impression that his “National Transitional Council” (NTC) actually controls the capital and therefore the country.
In reality, Gibril (also spelled Jabril) is in control of nothing, apparently not even his own rebel forces, and stunts such as landing in Tripoli are desperate ploys to portray a sense of strength and resolve to garner continued “international support” as NATO’s deadline quickly approaches. Libya’s rebellion, despite the corporate-media’s disingenuous presentation, is divided along tribal and ethnic lines, with most of Libya’s rebels being motivated, not by aspirations for liberal-democracy, but rather by ideological extremism cultivated over the last 30 years by US and British intelligence in the eastern cities of Darnah and Benghazi. As NATO enables these violent ideologues to expand their control over the country, they are systematically committing war crimes including large-scale theft and looting, exiling entire civilian populations from cities, and wholesale genocide. They are also reportedly turning their weapons on one another.
To compound Gibril’s precarious situation, the few fighters he has that are following orders are stretched thin between attempting to hold parts of Tripoli, holding other towns and cities beyond their Benghazi stronghold, and attempting to siege entire cities still standing defiantly against NATO and rebel conquest. The cities of Bani Walid and Sirte, both claimed by rebels as ripe to fall “within hours” have now entirely balked rebel advances, causing many forces to flee with reports that fighters coming back from the front lines are overwhelmed and demoralized.
Despite heavy, and quite obviously indiscriminate bombing by NATO for the better part of two weeks, resistance in these two cities is still fierce enough to keep the rebels well at bay. It is quite apparent that initial reports by Gabril’s “NTC” that only 60-150 Qaddafi fighters remained in Bani Walid, were yet another lie and that the entire city’s civilian population is putting up resistance. The number of “resisters” has gone up piecemeal as the rebel operation drags on, with the number of “Qaddafi soldiers” fighting in Bani Walid well past 1,000 now.
Bani Walid is predominately made of members of Libya’s one-million strong Warfalla tribe, and is decidedly not interested in NATO’s sponsored “Benghazi liberation.” In the wake of NATO’s bombing campaign and special forces entering Tripoli and their setting the stage for looting, torture, and genocide, and after months of reporting on the Libyan rebels’ penchant for war crimes, the London Telegraph has finally admitted in short that the rebels are in fact genocidal racists. In the Telegraph’s article “Gaddafi’s ghost town after the loyalists retreat,” it is reported that rebels have taken the city of Tawarga, where the entire civilian population was either killed, rounded up, or exiled.
The article notes “racist undercurrents” within the Libyan rebellion, a factor independent analysts have been warning about since NATO intervened in March. The report also quotes rebel leaders as saying in regards to the vast amount of property left behind by the exiled population, “the military council will decide what will happen to the buildings. But over our dead bodies will the Tawargas return.” Another rebel commender concluded, “Tawarga no longer exists.” Of course, exiling an entire civilian population from their homes and arbitrarily seizing their property is a grievous war crime, and in this particular case, a war crime done under NATO cover, with US and British diplomatic recognition of the war criminals remaining steadfast, and even many of the arms and the training used to carry out such war crimes courtesy of NATO.
With the fate of Tawarga befalling an increasingly larger number of cities and towns amidst NATO’s campaign of “liberation,” increasingly fierce resistance throughout Libya, including by the entire populations of both Sirte and Bani Walid, is not unexpected. They indeed face NATO sanctioned door-to-door genocide, exile, theft, looting, torture, and in essence everything in reality that NATO falsely accused Qaddafi of doing to justify their military intervention in the first place.
Libya is turning out to be a NATO-led Hitlerian campaign of conquest, complete with collective punishment and ground troops carrying out appalling atrocities. The rebels are literally led by a US State Department and UK Home Office listed terror organization, the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), who’s commander Abdulhakim Hasadi has openly admitted to fighting NATO troops in Afghanistan. What’s worse is that these facts are not revelations, but well-known inconvenient truths NATO, with the help of the corporate-media, has tried to bury, spin, or otherwise obfuscate until the point of no return in their Libyan intervention had been reached.
As NATO races to dress up their failed operation in Libya as a success so that they can escape an upcoming September 19 vote on continuing the UN mandate under which this crime against humanity is being committed, the lies will become more acute and the atrocities infinitely more brutal and widespread. Now more than ever do Libyan’s require a robust alternative media to cover the truth, “read between the lies” of the corporate-news networks, and ensure that this nation of 7 million is not buried by NATO in deception or the stark silence of public apathy.
Articles by: Tony Cartalucci
For media inquiries: [email protected]
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ALBANY, N.Y. - As a rookie with the Binghamton Senators two seasons ago, Bobby Butler put up respectable numbers against Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, but he wasn't known for being as much of a nightmare for the Penguins as other prolific foes like Chris Bourque or Keith Aucoin.
He scored four goals in six games against the Penguins before graduating to the NHL last season with Ottawa. Spending the lockout with the Albany Devils, he seems to be making up for lost time.
The right wing capitalized on a slew of Penguins mistakes in a four-goal, five-point performance and the Devils handed the Penguins their third straight loss, 6-3, on Wednesday at Times Union Center.
The offensive outburst, which tied Devils franchise records for most goals and points in a game, gave Butler seven points in Albany's two meetings with the Penguins this season. The third-year pro has six points in his other 18 games with the Devils, who won their fourth contest in a row.
"He played well and happened to be the guy that scored most of their goals, but they have a good group of forwards and their team, collectively, played real well," Penguins coach John Hynes said.
One of the main reasons for that was Albany's ability to capitalize on Penguins turnovers.
All three Devils goals in the second period came off errant passes or defensive breakdowns as the Devils built up a 4-2 advantage before the game was halfway through.
"That type of performance, that type of detail, that type of effort should not happen - whether it's in a 76-game schedule or any other schedule," said Hynes, whose team fell to 13-8-1-1.
The Penguins led 1-0 late in the first period when Riley Holzapfel beat goalie Keith Kikaid, but Butler finished off a rush by one-timing a pass that got past two Penguins defenders to tie it 1-1.
The Penguins' mistakes really began to hurt them in the second period.
First, they botched a breakout attempt and Jacob Josefson found Harri Pesonen across the ice for a wide-open one-timer at the 1:03 mark. Then, 45 seconds later, Steve Zalewski found Butler camped out at the far side the crease and he tapped the puck past goaltender Brad Thiessen.
Penguins defenseman Brian Dumoulin cut the deficit to 3-2 on a shot from the left-wing circle at the 3:16 mark, but Butler completed his hat trick on a shorthanded breakaway a little less than five minutes later.
A cross-ice pass hopped over Trevor Smith's stick at the right point and Butler sped down the left-wing boards before beating Thiessen for the Devils' fourth goal on their first 10 shots.
"When we made mistakes, they capitalized on it," Holzapfel said. "We had a few bad turnovers that cost us a couple goals. When you play a good team like that they're going to capitalize on it and make you pay and they did."
Thiessen, filling in for an injured Jeff Zatkoff, stopped 18 of the final 20 shots he faced and Jayson Megna scored late in the second to bring the Penguins within a goal, but Butler set up Zalewski's goal early in the third and banged in his fourth goal on a rebound with 14:25 remaining. That put the game out of reach and touched off five fights in the game's final 14:07, including three in the closing 57 seconds.
"They got up, we were able to answer back, but the way they played was very solid," Hynes said. "Even though we were able to score some goals and keep it fairly tight if you look in general at the game, they deserved to win the game and the score is indicative of the game."
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Take the 2-minute tour ×
Find all units of $S$, where $S$ is the set of polynomials in $\mathbb{Q}[x]$ whose coefficient of $x$ is $0$. I think the units are $\mathbb{Q} \setminus \{0\}$. Is that correct?
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What is $Q$? Do you mean the rational numbers, $\mathbb{Q}$? – Brandon Carter Apr 4 '12 at 17:16
Q means the set of rational numbers – max Apr 4 '12 at 17:27
@TheChaz: That was an edit made after Brandon's comment. – joriki Apr 4 '12 at 17:29
"units of $S$, where $S$ is the set of ..." is a somewhat unusual use of the terminology -- usually in "units of $X$", $X$ is a ring; otherwise one would say something like "the units of $\mathbb Q[x]$ that lie in $S$". But it so happens that $S$ is indeed a ring, so you could say "Find all units of $S$, where $S$ is the ring of ...". – joriki Apr 4 '12 at 17:32
so, what are the units then? – max Apr 4 '12 at 17:38
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We have $R=\mathbb{Q}[x]$ and $S=\mathbb{Q}[x^2,x^3]$. Since $U(R)=\mathbb{Q}\setminus\{0\}\subseteq S$, it follows that $U(S)=\mathbb{Q}\setminus\{0\}$.
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Hint $\ $ Let $\rm\:T = \mathbb Q[x].\:$ By $\rm\:U(T) = U(\mathbb Q)\:$ and unit inheritance $\rm\:R\subset R'\:\Rightarrow\:U(R)\subset U(R')\:$ follows
$$\rm\: \mathbb Q\subset S\subset T\ \ \Rightarrow\ \ U(\mathbb Q) \subset U(S) \subset U(T)\subset U(\mathbb Q)\:\ \Rightarrow\ \ U(\mathbb Q) = U(S) = U(T) $$
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Geneva Bible
Geneva Bible, also called Breeches Bible, new translation of the Bible published in Geneva (New Testament, 1557; Old Testament, 1560) by a colony of Protestant scholars in exile from England who worked under the general direction of Miles Coverdale and John Knox and under the influence of John Calvin. The English churchmen had fled London during the repressive reign of the Roman Catholic Mary I, which had halted the publication of Bibles there.
The work acquired the sobriquet “Breeches Bible” because it described Adam and Eve as having made “breeches” to cover their nakedness (Genesis 3:7), instead of “aprons” or “loincloths.” The Great Bible (named for its large page size and first ordered by Henry VIII in 1538) was restored to the churches after Elizabeth I’s succession halted persecution of Anglicans and Protestants, but the Geneva Bible, imported from Europe and not printed in England until 1576, quickly surpassed the Great Bible in public favour. The work’s enduring popularity made the Geneva Bible an important influence on the translators of the King James Version of 1611.
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A video of the invisible cloaking device can be seen below:
This study was published in IOP Science.
Sources: IOP Science, Wired, Fox News
Comments Threshold
By TheEinstein on 10/5/2011 10:08:40 PM , Rating: -1
Sorry a heat created mirror only is so effective. Notice the angle of attack here was designed to make the reflection happen?
Think of a sphere from a 'cloaked' target. Make that sphere scale to size... A tank normally can be seen for a couple miles in the right conditions... Now cover at LEAST 75% of every 'pixel' at the range of 2 miles just to reduce the visibility enough to consider calling it a cloak...
Now rotate the viewing point and change what the 'cloak' has to send.
Universal cloaking is IMPOSSIBLE! Please hold a charged electric fence for the remainder of the time you believe that such is possible!
RE: Laughable...
The earth is flat.
RE: Laughable...
By Reclaimer77 on 10/5/2011 10:45:30 PM , Rating: 3
Well we're a long way off from a Klingon Bird of Prey, but this is still pretty cool! Come on grumpy Guss...
RE: Laughable...
By Da W on 10/6/2011 8:55:48 AM , Rating: 2
PPfffffffffff, so much effort put into technology. My mom can cloak using only her superpowers!
RE: Laughable...
By iceonfire1 on 10/5/2011 11:02:22 PM , Rating: 2
...effective for what? It makes a mirage, a bunch of images of the sky leaving tread marks and making exhaust aren't exactly going to hide, regardless. As for the research, it changes the refractive index of air. Whether the same method could completely cloak something depends on experimental parameters (shape of object, insulation of air, method of heating, etc). The distance the object is viewed from is irrelevant.
I, for one, am looking forward to cloaking stuff like every other stair on a stair case, or making bubbles of light or something
RE: Laughable...
By Solandri on 10/6/2011 12:38:37 AM , Rating: 3
Universal cloaking is IMPOSSIBLE!
I wouldn't be so sure. Time-symmetry for light has already been broken (that is, you can construct a device where light travels one way but not the other). That's half the problem (arguably the harder half).
The other half of the problem is recording light coming in on one side of the object to be cloaked, and retransmitting it out the other side. If we ever come up with holographic displays, that problem will be solved. Since static holograms have already been invented, and people are working on holographic video, I'm pretty sure we'll eventually lick this problem.
Combine the two and you have universal cloaking.
RE: Laughable...
By Omega215D on 10/6/2011 12:58:09 AM , Rating: 2
Hopefully this will be out before 2027. You know, before the push for augmentation regulations. It's a time of great innovation and technological advancement. It's also a time of chaos and conspiracy.
I never asked for this.... I demand it. =P
RE: Laughable...
By Strunf on 10/6/2011 7:57:51 AM , Rating: 2
That would only work on one direction, what I mean is that if you only transmit what is on the opposite side and you rotate your clocked object by a few degrees your cloak is gone.
RE: Laughable...
By TheEinstein on 10/6/2011 2:52:48 AM , Rating: 2
Let me clarify. A tank, a soldier, a M1 Carbine... all are normally identifiable, though per scale at different distances (and also determined by natural background, movement, etc, but lets assume they are not moving and background is 'neutral')
Take the first Micron on an edge with visibility for approximately a 150 degree sphere around to and from (in all three frames of reference, x,y,z)
This Micron amazingly can retransmit light (assuming it is not an emission source itself) a significant distance with only itself.
Take the neighboring 99 microns as well... We now have 100 microns transmitting for miles with only a bit of entropy inside the sphere they are transmitting (a good telescope after all can see objects very far away with very little real loss)
You have to 'color scheme' not the individual micron of the 100... But the end resulting partial SPHERE they create. This is miles out, and in a full radius of the view. I do not even want to consider how many different locations need a potential different ray representing a color of an object that would have been in line of sight if the microns were not there.
This is why cloaking is truly impossible. And do not get me started on different wavelengths.
Please refrain from EVER using the word CLOAK or CLOAKING... It is Stealth, Camouflage, and/or Obfuscation.
Yes I am ANAL over this, but seriously... if you follow science, and follow math, you should refrain from hyping false terms!
RE: Laughable...
By Black1969ta on 10/6/2011 11:33:41 PM , Rating: 2
Please refrain from EVER using the word CLOAK or CLOAKING... It is Stealth, Camouflage, and/or Obfuscation. Yes I am ANAL over this, but seriously... if you follow science, and follow math, you should refrain from hyping false terms!
You Sir should refrain from speaking until you have at least used Google to back-up your mistaken ideas.
A simple Google search "Define: Cloaking," defines cloaking as, "2. Hide, cover, or disguise (something)."
Clicking on the Merriam Webster link lists, "Camouflage" as a Synonym of Cloak!
As to the rest of your Theories, Cloaking is not expected to completely obfuscate an item, at least not at first, the goal is to just disguise it long enough to provide a clear tactical advantage, much like Stealth technologies.
RE: Laughable...
It doesn't need to be perfect for military use.
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Gui Configuration
Managing and/or configuring GUI's.
Topic Name Issue
[I generally think of "configuration" as performance tuning, setting OS-specific flags, fitting system into specific environment, etc. I am not sure "configure" is the right world, but am lost for alternatives right now.]
Configuration is not performance tuning. Configuration is the storing and retrieval of metadata, ie. INI files, XML config files, setting connection strings, app specific settings like where to log to, etc...
[Am I the only one bothered by the use of "configuration" here?]
I can't help you if you don't explain what about the word "configuration" troubles you. defines "configure" as: "to set up for operation especially in a particular way <a fighter plane configured for the Malaysian air force>"
That definition obviously applies to what has been discussed, but there's no way for me to know how well it fits what you have in mind but have not succeeded in communicating yet.
["Configure" usually means to change or customize what already exists. When you "configure a server", you make adjustments for the local environment. You are not writing one *from scratch*. Yet, when you build GUI screens and widget layouts, you are creating this layout information from scratch. The layout did not exist at all before. I rarely or never hear, "go use VB or Dephi to configure a GUI for our new project."]
The first time you configure the server (when you create the first configuration), it is still configuration. All of your examples (and your web site) talk about setting values that existing code will act upon. They don't discuss how to write the code that acts upon them. That looks like configuration to us.
Agreed, and further: But that's precisely the point of this page, so I don't think it's a terminology issue: we understand about table-oriented GUI configuration, but I don't think any of us yet understand what you might mean about table-oriented GUI creation.
I don't know VB nor Delphi, but my understanding is that GUI creation in those two languages is a purely procedural matter, involving neither OO nor your table-oriented approach, no?
I've never used Delphi, but I have created GUIs in VB. It's not as OO as some languages, but I wouldn't call it procedural. It uses interface inheritance to define new widgets.
[It is more a question of terminology than it is classifying the paradigm of such tools.]
Yeah. Whatever. Are you saying that you don't feel like saying how the table-oriented approach is used to create new widgets?
Top has never felt like saying how the table-oriented approach is used to create new widgets. I've asked repeatedly, but he always says that's not something "application developers" need to do. He even suggested off-shoring that task.
He was being a real tease, I actually thought for a moment that he was going to explain.
If the absence of an explanation continues for any extended length of time, that will make refactoring the text a lot easier. ;-)
Example 7
Title........["Employee Number Lookup"]
Width........[800 ]
Height.......[400 ]
isModal......[No ]
isDialog.....[No ]
(Example moved from above because of nesting formatting problems)
X11 uses an app-defaults directory and/or a per-user .Xdefaults configuration file, which allows setting the attributes of 100% of the widgets in an application: position, text labels, foreground/background color, you name it.
This is as opposed to things that cannot be set via configuration: the widget toolkit chosen requires custom programming per toolkit (e.g. Motif). Each individual widget chosen requires custom programming (e.g. a background canvas versus a slider). And the interrelationship between widgets requires custom programming (e.g. the main window contains 12 buttons, each of which contains a text label).
More programming, not configuration: Typically the majority of GUI events are handled automatically by the widget toolkit skeleton, with appropriate events being translated into widget-related function callbacks as appropriate. E.g. if a textbox has focus, it will potentially receive a callback per keystroke, to allow the app to capture the keys typed into the widget.
However, the details are up to the widget set. If some widget set is particularly clever about something, e.g. allowing reparenting of a widget or allowing redirection of events/callbacks, then it may support putting those things into the configuration Xdefaults as well.
So there isn't an absolutely sharp line between what can be configured versus what must be programmed, however, if 100% of the GUI can be specified by configuration, no programming needed, then one has a purely declarative GUI language, which is a different paradigm.
As far as I know, currently no such purely declarative GUI language is used standalone; they simply record design decisions made e.g. interactively in a GUI Wizard or some such.
Perhaps the title topic should then be "declarative GUIs" or "The declarative portion of GUIs". I am still bothered by the use of "configure" here.
Only if it's 100% declarative, which no one has been talking much about. The examples that I give above, such as specifying a background color, are indeed classic kinds of "configuration". But feel free to expand on what makes you feel uneasy.
Table/Database-related GUI techniques
This has been a controversial topic. As of 2004-May-6, it is clear that GUI configuration can usefully be stored in tables/databases; everything else is still being argued about.
One criticism sometimes given against table-centric GUI techniques is handling a wide variety of attributes. One solution is an AttributeTable, another is perhaps "dynamic relational" (MultiParadigmDatabase).
How do you specialize GUI widgets in a non-OOP GUI methodology?
"A kind of" or "A type of" is pro-sub-type design, which I generally don't subscribe to. (See ThereAreNoTypes and LimitsOfHierarchies.) Generally the approach I take is to view widgets as a series of "features". You pick and choose the features you want. For example, take the "combo box" from Visual Basic. It is like a pull-down list, but also can act as a free-form text input box. The hierarchies commonly used look something like this:
But actually the combo box is really a hybrid between the drop-down list and a text box. Logically a combo box is the sum of two sets: text boxes and list boxes, and not a hierarchy. (But the hierarchy is probably too ingrained so in practice I would probably not use that approach in a framework. QwertySyndrome.) A combo-box is really a text box that HAS-A drop-down list option, but most frameworks make it an IS-A. As a hierarchy, it violates OnceAndOnlyOnce because leaf "combo-box" shares tons of features with "text-box".
That isn't the question, though. How do you specialize GUI widgets in a non-OOP methodology? Let's say the API provides a combo box. I want to make my own specialized kind of combo box. How do I do that? (If the phrase "kind of" offends you, think of it as once I've chose the features I want, I want to re-use them.)
Actually, I would view a combo-box as being two different widgets: a text-box and a "look-up widget" of some kind that populates a particular box. Look-up buttons can incrementally grow increasingly complex, such as including a QueryByExample form, and thus looking to being change-friendly, perhaps we should just consider the drop-down list as a stripped-down look-up screen. But then again, trying to be generic may complicate things. Thus a widget called a combo-box may keep things conceptually simple for newbies. A UsefulLie if you will. Actually combo boxes are not common enough to justify a dedicated widget perhaps. This is why HTML form standards don't include one. Thus, as long as we can make something that acts like it using other parts, we perhaps don't need a specific widget for that. As far as packaging it so that "combo-box" is an option in our IDE, that depends on what the IDE looks like. In other words, the answer seems to depend on what you wish the interface/API to look like from the application implementor's point of view. Thus, I probably cannot answer your question without looking at a specific app designer UseCase. Specifically, what are you trying to reuse?
You aren't answering the question. It doesn't matter how you view combo boxes. Someone gave me one. I want to specialize it. Let's say I want to add a an animation to it that responds to mouse movements. The details don't matter. How would I do that?
The details *do* matter. I cannot describe how to implement such without knowing what the base graphic primitives are. And, many GUI IDE/APIs simply don't have the capability to do that. I assumed you don't want to get into the individual pixel level here, but I could be wrong.
You assume that I just want to configure existing widgets and that I don't want to create my own or customize existing ones. You're talking about using tables to store configuration and I'm talking about using OOP to write software.
[That's non-responsive. This isn't 1985; there should be no question of pixels. Assume some widget toolkit at the least; if you need to pick one that supports the operations you need or are required by the problem statement, do so.]
It doesn't matter what year it is. Sometimes we have to get into the pixel level, but that's not the topic at hand. No toolkit I pick will have all of the components I need. None of them are that complete. They provide the basics, but it is up to me to refine them.
Let's try this. Assume we use a table-driven architecture. Generally you will have some tables that describe the attributes of the widgets. Let's assume our framework supports mouse-related image attributes for (at least) the combo-box button such as default-image, mouse-over-image, on-click-image, etc. If we want to put in an animation (such as an animated GIF) in place when the mouse is over that button, we simply change the attribute to reference the animated GIF image.
But the combo box doesn't have an animation. I want to add that. I know how to add the flag to enable it. I need to add the behavior the flag will enable. How do I do it in your hypothetical non-OOP GUI methodology?
What "flag"?
The flag you just described: "...we simply change the attribute...". That attribute is a flag. It enables the animation. I'm not asking about how to enable/disable the animation. I'm asking how to take a combo box that has no animation and specialize it by adding the code to load and render the animation.
It doesn't matter. A value in a table will not add new behavior to the widget. All it can do is configure existing behavior.
I am still not clear on what you are asking. I am using off-the-shelf animated GIF's, not implementing movement myself here.
But I'm not asking what you're doing. I'm asking how I would specialize a combo box.
I better let you build the UseCase instead of me guessing what you have in mind. No GUI system I have ever seen is 100% extendable at the app side.
You've never used XWindows, MFC or Swing? They are all 100% extendable at the app side. They all allow me to take an existing widget and specialize it.
At some point you either have to live with or workaround its limits or wait until somebody codes at the pixel level in say C++, which may not be possible if we have to work with an existing protocol on multiple platforms.
No I don't.
Sometimes one can fudge things with enough fiddle-faddle. For example, I once worked with a GUI system that had no double-click, in part to be compatible with Macintosh (or was it X-Windows?). I found a way to implement double clicks by counting and timing single clicks.
Good for you. Now how do I specialize GUI widgets in a non-OOP methodology? Your argument seems to be that inheritance hierarchies are either wrong or overkill, but you're arguing from the perspective of someone who configures existing GUI widgets. I'm someone who writes new GUI widgets. Inheritance is used for this task because it simplifies the act of writing the code. Before I used OOP for this I used procedural modules that roughly emulated classes. That's how XWindows works. The GUIs we're describing co-evolved with object oriented programming for good reasons.
Maybe at the lower levels OO is better that, I don't know. (WhenToUseWhatParadigm) I generally have not gone into the direct implementation/OS-level of GUI's, so I won't claim experience there. However, I still don't find your animation example very illustrative of the benefits of inheritance (above). That does not mean I discount them at a low level, but have not seen their benefits demonstrated thus far.
It's the low level you're complaining about, though. The class hierarchy you described above came from that level. Your first statement on this page talks about "implementing" GUIs, but then your links describe configuring GUIs that have already been implemented. OO GUI APIs give you the power to describe entirely new GUI components based that use or extend existing GUI components. We can hide that power and only provide the ability to configure existing GUI components, but we can't pretend configuration is a substitute for implementation. -- EricHodges
[I think it's quite obvious that top only configures existing systems, and doesn't know how to write the systems he's learned to configure. Top, the OO guys you're arguing with know how to write "new" systems, they write those tools you use, since you can't do that, you really don't have a leg to stand on when trying to criticize how things are done. You can't do any of the GUI stuff we're discussing with a database, because databases are just data, the best it can do is act as a big really really flexible configuration file, but it has to configure something... that something is what we're talking about, and that something is probably written in OO, because it's the most flexible way to do it. All those tools you use... query analyzers, dbadmin tools, databases, ide's, etc... those are all applications, and most are probably written with OO, so when you say application developer... we consider those applications. You seem to think application developer just means "custom business software" written with existing components, but that's not what it means to most of us. Custom business software is but one small section of what we consider "Applications". You wouldn't have widgets to configure if it weren't for us OO guys writing them for you, so what exactly is it you're complaining about?]
Let's first make a distinction between the "view" of the custom application developer and the GUI engine implementer (GEI). You seem to be implying that if OO is good for the GEI, then it is *also* good for the custom app developer. It is this "jump" that bothers me. I won't battle you at the lower end because I have insufficient experience there, but would still like a more explicit example. I would like to see some sample code rather than just take your word for it. Using DeltaIsolation to "extend" things has a lot of practical roadblocks, such as the "overriding 1/3 of a method" problem. But, DeltaIsolation is still possible with functions.
That's not the proper distinction. Custom application developers need to change the behavior of an existing widget or create a new kind of widget.
I am envisioning an attributes + events (A+E) model. Most of the GUI is defined by setting attributes.
Change "defined" to "configured".
Events are triggered over the course of interaction, and these events process information and/or change GUI attributes as they go along. Nobody has found a show-stopping/slowing flaw in this model so far. It is true that one may have to add new events or new attributes to handle new widgets and so forth, but that is mostly the frame-work and/or GUI engine builder's issue, not those using the GUI system to build custom software. But to use new stuff is still just a matter of adding more attributes and/or events. Making A+E creates more layers to alter for new stuff, but that may be one of the trade-offs for having it more language-neutral.
None of this has any bearing on the reasons OOP is frequently used for GUIs.
If you are suggesting that A+E is not powerful enough to actually build tools like VB and Delphi, not just use them, I won't dispute that. But A+E can nicely be part of such a tool.
VB and Delphi let you customize widgets. How will you do that with A+E?
The main benefits of A+E are that attributes and relationships between them are language-neutral. An OO approach cannot fully provide that without making compromises.
Sure it can. See .NET and XWindows.
Recap of A+E benefits:
All of which can be achieved by storing the attributes and events used by an OO program in a relational database. You're still talking about how and where the configuration data is stored, not a "GUI methodology". You could do this with procedural code, functional code or object oriented code.
That is why it is called a NonOopGuiMethodologies. Perhaps you would prefer naming this ParadigmNeutralGuis? or the like?
[You're still only talking about configuration data, nothing you've proposed is a GUI methodology. A+E is nothing more than configuration data, doesn't matter where you store it, it's not building a GUI. We're talking about building GUI's and you're talking about configuring them... can't you see that? You can't build GUI's with databases, you can only configure them. To build them.. you have to program.]
I'd call it "StoreConfigurationInaRelationalDatabase". That's what you seem to be proposing. There's no methodology, it isn't isolated to GUIs, and it isn't related to any particular programming paradigm.
[[As an onlooker I'd have to say that at this point Top has lost the argument; despite several apparent attempts to squirm out of it by making the focus hazy again, he's been pinned down pretty clearly here. And I have no axe to grind, I was interested in learning what sort of declarative-vs-procedural approach he had in mind. -- DougMerritt]]
[I second that, he's not proposing anything new or interesting, just "StoreConfigurationInaRelationalDatabase". -- RamonLeon]
The "interface" to the GUI engine is via tables.
[No, it's via code, there is no GUI engine that works directly from tables.]
Tables may be the "interface" to the pre-defined widgets. You haven't shown how tables will support the creation of new widgets, the specialization of existing widgets or their re-use and distribution.
What carries out the actions and executes events is immaterial to that user (app developer).
[No it's not, they have to write it. They have to decide what the interesting events are, and hook them up to custom written functions that do something, like Save for example.]
It is a black box to them. Think of an HTML form with some JavaScript. (The HTML is roughly equiv to the tables and JS to the events.) The creator of that HTML and the JavaScript does not know or care whether the browser uses C, C++, or Gerbils to run the HTML + JavaScript. It may run on multiple browsers written in multiple languages and multiple paradigms. That is an implementation detail. If OO is better for writing the browsers themselves, so be it. As a custom application developer, It does not matter to me.
[A browser is an application, but I get your point. Regardless, can't make heads or tails of that paragraph.]
It is "here is the spec". You create GUI commands/attributes based on this spec. Because OO, functional, p/r are TuringComplete, they can all be used to carry out that spec for the low-level implementation. One is writing to a specification, not a paradigm. (This sort of relates to my question below about how does a DOM user tell if DOM is OO?)
[Because the only way to access the DOM is via it's OO api. You can't use it and not know it's OO.]
There are procedural APIs for DOM.
--Where, DOM, that stands for DocumentOBJECTModel, it's OO by it's very design, name, and implementation?
Yes, DOM was envisioned as an object model, yet there are still procedural APIs for it. You can get APIs in C, RPG, PL/SQL, etc. It's just like XWindows in that way. It uses object oriented programming techniques but they can be exposed via procedural APIs.
HTML + JavaScript-events:
.....JavaScript events.-----*
Attribute and Event Tables:
(Ignore the dots. Used to reduce TabMunging)
Your argument seems to be that OO is best for implementing the specification (far right node). Is that the limit of your claim? I can't tell.
[I can't even tell what you're trying to say, but from your little legends there... I still don't think you understand how all this stuff even works.]
I don't know how else to explain it. But, it is perfectly logical. Can somebody help out perhaps? One writes GUI information against a specification and NOT a particular programming language (other than the events). It is that simple.
[OK.... do you not understand that the DOM is the Specification, it already is that language neutral thing you're calling Specification. The DOM is a specification, that is implemented slightly differently by each browser, but is mostly the same.]
The most important difference between OO and many non-OO GUI systems is that the attributes and state are stored independent of language objects. It is not "in" the objects of the language being used, but rather an independent data structure. The independent data structure is a database, or is treated more or less like a mini-database.
What I don't know about DOM is if the structure is in the language being used, or independent of the language. Thus, if we have:
windowA.documentB.formC.selectBoxD[itemE].selected = true;
[OK... that is JavaScript, but windowA.documentB.formC.selectBoxD[itemE].selected is a DOM path to the DOM objects, take away the ; and it's now VBScript, but accessing the exact same DOM object. The DOM objects are independent of any language.]
I am not clear as to whether this talks directly to a JavaScript object path, or is translated to a DOM path. Does the above change a JavaScript structure (set of dictionaries), or does it change a DOM structure? Thus, if another language, say a Java applet, wants to change "selected" back to false, would it be talking to a JavaScript object path or a DOM structure path? (Or some weird combination of both)
[It changes a DOM structure, several languages could be talking to the same DOM structure. But the DOM isn't a database, nor anything like a database, it's an object structure(a running object model), not a datastructure.]
DOM data is a tree (acylcic graph) structure. A document has a root element. A root element can have other elements. Elements can have attributes. Object oriented programming languages make the coupling between DOM data types (elements, attributes, lists of those) and their operations explicit. You don't have to use an object oriented programming language to traverse, generate or manipulate DOM data.
[Those DOM objects are more than just a graph, they are an actual object model, with methods and behavior not just mere nodes and attributes, and the DOM is inherently OO, slapping a procedural API on top doesn't change that, it just dumbs it down.]
The methods and behaviors don't have to be in the same class as the data. It's convenient to organize the code that way, but not necessary. Nothing is "dumbed down" by de-coupling them.
[Correct, it doesn't have to be, but it is because of that convenience, it�s smart to do it that way. That convenience is what makes it easy to use, so I disagree, changing that is dumbing it down IMHO.]
I manipulated object models in procedural languages for several years. It was a pain in the ass. But I'm not convinced that object oriented programming is "the" smart way to do things. I've never seen a functional API for DOM, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was "a" smart way to do it.
Please clarify the difference between an "object structure" and a database (not necessarily relational, nor persistence-enabled).
[The object structure has behavior, it's more than the data contained within it's shape. Databases are just data, they don't have behavior. The object may change color when the mouse goes over it, or move and run away from the mouse for example, this isn't something you're going to do through the database. Events on a GUI happen too fast to be routed through a database, thus objects directly interact with other objects live. If a button chases the mouse around the screen, do you have any idea the number of events that get fired off to make that happen? You simply can't do that by saving events to a table and then processing them, its not even rational to think so.]
I agree that there has to be an "engine" that processes the attributes and displays/handles them. But whether such is implemented via OOP or some other technique one cannot tell in DOM.
[window.close() say's "window object" "close method", no matter what language you call it in, that's an object.]
Again, how can one tell for sure that DOM uses OOP. What is an example of a dead giveaway? In other words, yes DOM has data-structures and an "engine" that acts on the data-structure, but I have yet to see that it does or must use OOP.
[It's not that it does or must use OOP... it is OOP. Document is an object, window is an object, every piece of the DOM is an object.]
Where is the sign of integration of data and behavior that OO is famous for? When one executes the following JavaScript:
As far as one can tell, DOM might be executing something like this:
Or, more general:
can be translated into:
executeMethod(method="methodX", path="")
We have operations (such as "closeWindow") and the node or path in the structure being operated on. There are many ways to implement that, and OOP is just one.
[There are certainly many ways to possibly implement a DOM... none of that is relevant, since its implement with OOP already. is an OO call any way you slice it.]
That is JavaScript, not necessarily DOM. As far as I am concerned, it is not really different than a file/folder call such as:
delete /foo/bar/deleteme_txt
We could dress it up in OOP such that it would be:
It is just "paths and operations". Nothing special, nothing new to OO.
As far as speed, I am talking about business GUI's, not game development. Whether DB's are too slow for cutesy stuff is another topic or sub-topic. Save it for AreRdbmsSlow.
[Business GUI's need that speed too. Business gui's have tons of little event related behavior that can't go through a database. Collapsing/expanding windows/tables/divs, appearing and disappearing elements like buttons or menu's. Dropdown menu's that slide out or in, all event related OOP type stuff that wouldn't work if processed through a database call. You honestly gonna tell me that every time you hover a menu... you make a database hit to see how to process that event? Get serious.]
I used to create Clipper pop-up menus that read from tables. Even on a 386 they were generally pretty quick. And it cached stuff in RAM such that on subsequent calls it did not have to go to disk. Any structure that does not fit all in RAM or not used in a while is going to be cached anyhow, regardless of your GUI technique. FoxPro used to store its GUI attributes in tables also, and I think it still does to some extent. Machines are getting faster and faster, allowing us to use more high-level and cleaner abstractions, such as relational. The days of pointer webs are numbered. Navigational structures are the Goto's of attributes and relationships. I find them ugly in a similar way I found Goto's ugly. If you like Goto's, I mean data pointers, that is fine by me, just don't force it on everyone else.
Your Clipper menus read their configuration from tables. I seriously doubt they went to the table every time the menu changed. You're still talking about StoreConfigurationInaRelationalDatabase.
[What is it you don't seem to grasp about the difference between configuration storage and behavior? Those clipper popup menu's read their configuration from the tables... but their behavior came from code, not from tables. Relational is not a higher level cleaner abstraction than code. Relational is good for one thing, data manipulation, period, code is required to anything else. Menu's are code, grids are code, widgets are code, relational and code are not competing technologies. Why must you always try to pit the two against each other as if it's one or the other? Relational theory has zilch to do with GUI's, you can't write anything with relational theory, SQL let's you manage and query data, that's it, apps consist of a thousand things above and beyond querying of data. You need both to do anything useful and scaleable, they aren't competing! [Gratuitous rudeness to Top deleted. Chill, guys.].]
And [I disagree, and claim you have no evidence--rudeness edited]. DataAndCodeAreTheSameThing. Code is simply data to an interpreter/compiler, and machine code is data to the chip. [Removed text that didn't make sense with insults above removed.] Like I said before, heavy-duty TOP starts to feel like interpreter building, just a custom-purpose interpreter.
addMenuItem(1, "open file", "openFile()")
addMenuItem(2, "close file", "closeFile()")
addmenuItem(3, "rename file", "renameFile()")
That adds 3 menu items to one menu. Now how do you reuse that menu in multiple situations? How do you specialize it? How do you avoid duplicating that code? How do you specify which menu you're adding those items to? And how do you declare the behavior invoked by those menu items as data in tables, which seems to be what you're claiming.
There are two fundamental questions that you guys keep failing to answer:
In terms of this discussion, though, I think that it's pretty much purely the notion of inheritance that applies. If you can create a new widget that inherits and extends a previous widget's API/interface and its implementation, then (a) that's OO for the purposes of this discussion, I believe, and (b) it's a win to do so, since it allows OnceAndOnlyOnce and avoidance of CopyAndPasteProgramming in creating the second widget. (Others may disagree, of course. -- dm)
Don't forget that subroutines are also to avoid copy-n-paste.
Have you ever used the C API for XWindows? Try that for a year and then tell us why you wouldn't rather have objects. It isn't the world that forms trees, it's software developers who form trees. We do that because trees provide a convenient way to structure behavior.
How do you know it is the only way to "structure behavior"? So far I only see ArgumentFromAuthority. C is a crappy language. Anything in C is hard. But CeeIsNotThePinnacleOfProcedural. Things like lack of named parameters drive me bats.
I never claimed trees are the only way to structure behavior. I said trees provide a convenient way to structure behavior. I know that because I (and many others) have done it both ways. I'm not talking about the C language, I'm talking about writing GUI code using a procedural API.
If you want some rectangular graphic objects to have height and width and allow resizing, it makes the code simpler if that behavior can be described in one class that other classes extend. I've done it both ways, with and without inheritance, and inheritance makes the process of writing code simpler.
I would like to see example code where this is the case. Often OOers remember the times when OO works and conveniently forget change patterns that OO made harder. I don't know where this FilterSyndrome? comes from, but it exists.
For example code, see just about any OO GUI API. Smalltalk, C++, Java, Delphi, etc.
You have never addressed those issues. You've never shown a simpler way to solve those problems. You say it's "personal preference", but you're the only person I've encountered with your preference and I don't think you've ever written this sort of software.
I never claimed it was objectively simpler. I suspect it is mostly subjective. If you have any evidence that any paradigm is objectively better, then let's see it. Subjectivity cannot be objectively demonstrated, but objectivity can be, by definition. Thus, unless you agree that the differences are subjective, the burden of evidence is on you. Make sense? It might be that at the lower levels OO may be shine. I am pretty much suggesting the division of GUIs into high-level and low-level. An app developer will mostly use the high-level, and consult a GUI expert for lower-level tweaks. It is similar to VB programmers versus C++ COM programmers. The first focused mostly on the business logic, while the COM guys made custom UI thingies when VB couldn't do it. (Actually, the GuiComponentIndustry replaced many in-house COM guys.) Anyhow, until somebody provides a specific example of OO making "extension" better, we won't get anywhere.
No, the burden of evidence is on you. You'll have to show me a better way, not just claim that one exists. I've written GUI code in procedural languages with procedural APIs. I've written GUI code in OO languages with OO APIs. The OO was easier. I provided a specific example of OO making "extension" better. You provided no example of procedural/relational allowing "extension" at all.
Hmm, what would be a really clear example...someone fill one in here, I don't have a GUI class hierarchy references at my fingertips right now to jog my memory.
Units Scaling
Somebody brought up the issue of percentage-based units versus pixel-based units. Although there are probably many ways to do it, I would probably include a "unitType" column in the Forms entity table. The values in the various widgets would be interpreted based on the unitType of the containing form. The interesting thing to note about this technique is that one could issue a query to re-scale from one to the other without depending on the IDE because we are using a regular relational engine to manage our tables. We don't have to anticipate all the possible fiddlings because we have the power of relational queries at our finger-tips for such changes.
As far as "flow-based" or "nested" GUIs like HTML, I am not a fan of those for data-entry forms. But it is possible represent trees with relational tables. See CoordinateVersusNestedGui.
Unfortunately, the "unit" problem is more complex than simple scaling. Much of the complexity results from the inherent nonlinearity of both human vision/perception and also display and input technology. This is particularly apparent with text, resulting in the various "stroke font" technologies (TeX, PostScript, TruType?, PDF, SVG, etc). For any given font face (Times Roman, for a trite example), the relative proportions must be very different for an 8 point, versus a 24 point, rendering of comparable legibility. These problems are compounded when rotation and quantization error is taken into account. For example, a 1-pixel horizontal stroke looks significantly bolder than a 1-pixel diagonal stroke, because the effective dot-density is 70.7% of a horizontal or vertical line. The result is that computation -- in some cases, lots of computation -- has to be done when size and resolution change. And don't forget that some display technologies (specifically CRT screens and printers) have non-square pixels.
Text is always a sticky situation. Generally in the end it is visual trial-and-error. Many companies want to jam as much as possible on a single screen, and visual fiddling is the only practical way to achieve this. One interesting approach I have yet to see implemented is to supply a bounding box for a given text element, and the GUI system sizes the text to fit within that box (could be smaller, but not bigger). If by chance it can't be made to fit, then have a little tag one clicks on to see the whole text, or perhaps a roll-over tag.
Yup. And the dilemma is whether to specify that bounding box in pixels, radians (the visual arc subtended), or some absolute distance measurement like mm, in, or pt. When a graphic designer is doing the work (which in my experience always leads to superior results), absolute distance seems to work best. Then, an outline or stroke font is almost always more pleasing, especially since anti-aliased text looks better. And within a particular font family, the proportions of each glyph are differ non-linearly with point size. All in all, well beyond the sort of thing possible with a table-driven lookup process. A good graphic designer will see and work with similar factors in non-text graphic elements -- the same forces are at work, its just harder for mere mortals to see (in comparison to text).
Since a table-oriented approach is a super-set of, or at least TuringEquivalent to an OO approach, I don't see this as a have-versus-not-have issue. I don't know what graphic designers do, but I am sure there are many ways to fiddle with text that most actual GUI designers never consider. I am talking mostly about "regular use", not ideal billion-dollar-gold-plated-budget projects. TeX is a declarative system, I would note. OO is anti-declarative for the most part. By the way, I disagree that anti-aliasing is inherently better. I turn it off if I can. It might look prettier, but it is harder on the eyes, at least my eyes.
Graphic designers are professionals who specialize in visual communication. Nobody is talking about "ideal billion-dollar-gold-plated-budget projects". The Boston-area contract rate for Graphic Designers is $70-90/hour, comparable to area programmers. The differences in legibility between anti-aliased and non-anti-aliased fonts have been quantitatively measured for decades and don't have anything to do with "prettier" or "harder on the eyes".
[You're being too hard on him. Yes, they've been measured, and yes, they're more legible, but perhaps you hadn't's also been demonstrated that, under many conditions, they are indeed "harder on the eyes" -- they can cause eyestrain, because the image is more blurry, which causes the visual system to try to find a way to focus better, which is impossible, so there's just more tension in the eye muscles. Whereas non-anti-aliased fonts have nice sharp edges that do not muck about with the visual system in those ways, even though legibility is lessened. It's a tradeoff.]
{Let's just agree that it is subjective. Studies of aggregate complaints are not necessarily going to apply to each and every individual. And so you'll design your programs based on your specific experience, as opposed to the aggregate? No, ask the customer.}
[Doug, do you have a citation on that? In any case, the issue here isn't just anti-aliasing, though it tends to come for free. The issue is how many different pixelmaps have to be precomputed and stored to accommodate the various permutations of screen resolution, pixel geometry, color intensity, and so on for even the simplest graphic. The industry didn't settle on outline fonts ala PostScript because they thought they were "pretty".]
[I don't have a citation handy, but note that what I'm thinking of applies to lower-resolution such as display screens at 75dpi with smaller fonts, not huge fonts (e.g. 30 point) nor high resolution (e.g. 300dpi), where anti-aliased is pretty much always a win.]
[I suspect the following misunderstands several of his points, too, but I imagine he'll address any such right away. :-) -- dm ]
I'm certainly not going to get sucked into the "table-oriented" argument. God knows "Turing Equivalent" has nothing to do with this discussion. Similarly, I haven't the foggiest clue of what "declarative" or "anti-declarative" has to do with any of this. A rendering of a particular glyph of a particular font is non-linearly different for an 8-point versus a 24 point face. A glyph that looks "normal" at 12 point looks "bold" at 24 if linearly scaled. When a typographer creates a font, they create a variety of different faces and weights for the various sizes. If you have persuaded yourself, or can persuade a client, that pre-computing all the possible outcomes of all the possible permutations is "better" (whatever that means) than computing it as needed, then by all means go for it. I would suggest, though, that you first of all learn more about what graphic designers do (since you profess to not know, and it matters in this case) and second of all do some order-of-magnitude estimates of just how many table lookups you're contemplating.
Oh, so you are saying that "tables are too slow". Why didn't you say so? How about first we do a survey on how many current GUI engines do complex "font math" (excluding stuff farmed off to the OS).
As I said, I don't have a dog in the "tables are too slow" race. You build your user interfaces (graphic or not) from tables, I'll build mine with my graphic designers. We'll each achieve whatever commercial (or otherwise) success we achieve. Fair enough?
What exactly are we comparing here? When a graphic designer is done, what does the electronic result look like?
OO GUI systems tend to be tied to a specific language. If you untied it, then you would end up with a NavigationalDatabase more or less. For example, DOM (DocumentObjectModel) seems to be tied to JavaScript to some extent. I don't think it would be easy to hook a statically-typed OOP language into DOM, because of DOM's dynamic nature. Java or Eiffel, for example, would have to treat DOM more or less like a database.
You just don't have a clue what you're talking about do you? I hate to sound mean, but you seem to write oodles of text and yet nothing comes out, your hatred of OOP wreaks in everything you write, yet you don't even seem to understand what the hell you're talking about.
If I am, I am not aware of it. Perhaps I am the stupid ignoramus that you make me out to be. If so, I am not aware of it, and an internal "self-diagnostic" does not show any significant problems. Sometimes there are communications difficulties, but that is only because English is not the best tech language or one or both of us are simply not conveying thoughts clearly enough.
Like I said, I'm really not trying to be mean or anything, but I think you don't really have a firm grasp on the topic. I think you should really listen to what some of these people are telling you and study the topic some more, you are way out of your element here, and I apologize for being so blunt above.
The DOM has nothing to do with JavaScript, the DOM is a library to manipulate HTML documents, JavaScript is but one language that can access that library.
You are perhaps right. I thought DOM was influenced by JavaScript, but I may be mistaken. My point still stands regardless. What shaped it is historical only. It is what it is. Any GUI system that is not tied to a specific language is more or less a database of some sort, or at least accessed like a database, usually a NavigationalDatabase these days. The DOM interface is basically a navigational interface. Note that navigational systems are not necessarily OO.
[You're confusing tree structures with databases again.]
Would "big structure" be better? It is still:
Language <-------> Structure <--------> UI Display
Not conceptually really much different than:
Language <-------> Database <--------> UI Display
(With an API or query language in between for the language to talk to the structure/database)
The thing is, multiple languages may have to talk to the structure. For example, Java, VBscript, and JavaScript may all want to talk to the same DOM model. At that point it starts to be like a lite-duty database rather than a "structure".
The DOM is not a database, not comparable to a database, and not like a database. The DOM is a structure of objects representing the objects displayed on the screen. The "DocumentObjectModel" is a structure of active live objects, that have behavior, and interact with the user, interact with each other, its not a database or anything like a database. In fact, the "DocumentObjectModel" is the UI, are you now saying the database is the UI? Also, databases don't talk to UI's, and your Language <-------> Database <--------> UI Display would really look more like Database <-------> Language <--------> UI Display.
Is IBM's CUA still around? If so, it should be included
Why on GodsGreenEarth? does the issue of OOP/non-OO have anything whatsoever to do with such issues as font anti-aliasing and the like? Why is it even mentioned on this page?
Good question. Perhaps it deserves its own topic. My impression was that it is implied that relational engines are too slow to handle certain kinds of font calculations.
Basic Menu Table Example (continued from above)
Table: menuItems
menuItemID // could be auto-number or pneumonic
parentRef // parent itemID, null or zero for top
sequence // Float - order in the menu
onSelect // script or code reference to run upon selection
Table: window ------------- windowId menuItemRef // reference menuItems table windowTitle ...
To reduce tying our sample system to any one language, lets assume we send XML for any actions. (One may want to wrap the XML with their favorite language. I will not assume wrapping here.)
<openWindow id="window7">
In our event cells (such as "onSelect" above), one might have something like:
// open foo window
if (zaz == grazz) {
guiXML('<openWindow id="window7">');
} else {
guiXML('<messageBox value="Sorry, zaz is not correct">');
What is this supposed to demonstrate?
Somebody wanted more details, so I supplied them. They wouldn't supply specifics, so I thought I would try to spark something.
You're still demonstrating how to store configuration in a relational database. I think we all understand that. These questions remain unanswered:
Note that any attribute can be set with XML similar to:
<setAttrib window=[window ID] widget=[widget ID] attrib=[attrib name] value=[value]>
If there is an operation that is done often, then one can make a shortcut wrapper for such. If setting a window attribute, then widget-ID is not needed -- top
Top.... none of that is building a GUI, it's configuring one. Everyone on this page is talking about building new gui widgets, and you're talking about configuring existing gui widgets. Your code demonstrates that you are using an existing menu system, your code does nothing but configure it. EVERYONE else is talking about the actual menu itself, how it was built, what paradigm was used to build it, alternative approaches to building them. We don't give a crap how they're configured once built, we're programmers, and it's the building of the menu itself that interests us. You keep trying in vain to show us your way, and what you fail to see is that we understand your way, we understood your way years ago when we first started programming, but we've moved far beyond just simple configuration of existing widgets that someone else wrote.
People here are talking about building widgets, not about using someone else's widgets. I don't know how else to say it, several people keep telling you we're not talking about where to store the configuration data, and you keep offering up your configuration approach. In all likelihood, that menu you are using is an OO menu, so it doesn't fit with the page topic. If you want to participate, show us something that is a menu system, that isn't programmed in OO. Databases are totally not relevant to this discussion, nor are tables or anything else you've shown, because that's all configuration. Your arguing with people and your the only one not in on the actual topic. Would you feel better if we say OO gui's are often configured via a database? Big whoop, any first year programmer knows that, it's just data, doesn't matter if it's in an INI file or and XML config file or a relational database, it still has zilch to do with building the components that are used to make GUI's.
You like procedural so much, show us procedural code that actually makes a menu system, or a button or a textbox or a dropdown list, hell, show us anything other than how you configure existing systems, because we don't care about that. The truth is I don't think you can, I think as usual, you're in way over your head in this conversation and simply don't understand what most of us are talking about. So I'll give you a sample... you need to extend the textbox widget to make it a datetextbox that has a popup calendar beside it and only allows valid input between specified ranges and formats the date while the user types it? Now show me how to do that with a table? That's what Doug's talking about when he asks about how to specialize it? That's what we all mean by building GUI's and that's what I think you don't seem to grasp. -- AnonymousDonor
First off, I would probably look for an existing product instead jumping directly in and re-inventing the wheel. Example:
It is called "reuse". Perhaps building or distributing a calendar widget like the above from scratch would be easier under OOP. However, it is not something an application developer has to do very often in my experience. In the past, such was either a one-off need that I would create out of existing components, or there was a commercial component from the GuiComponentIndustry available. Thus, the chances of needing such a custom widget in multiple spots AND there not being a commercial one available are rather small. It appears the more likely it is to be used in multiple places, the more likely it is a generic need that has already been filled. If neither of these were the case, then I would go ahead and include a hand-built one into the framework, perhaps even having to add new case statement entries in multiple spots (The Horror!). I perfectly agree that under SOME conditions OOP makes some changes easier. But they are generally infrequent, and don't counter the down-sides of OOP. SoftwareDevelopmentIsGambling, and the polymorphic horse does not win often enough.
Also, I am generally approaching this from an application developer's perspective, not a widget builder's. You seem to think that actual packaged widget builders are somehow more dignified or "high-level". Personally, I think widget building is more likely to be offshored because generic widgets can be described relatively easy in specifications and are not as close to the end-user.
I'm an application developer. I also build new widgets. These are not separate job descriptions. There's no way I'm going to offshore a simple task like making a new kind of frame or combo box. It isn't worth the trouble to bill an offshore developer for (at most) 20 minutes of work.
You guys keep talking about how behind all the wonderful tools we use is usually OOP or should be OOP. That may indeed be the case. Maybe database engines are best written in OOP also. I don't care because I am a custom business application developer. I don't see where OO helps more than it gets in the way from this perspective. Perhaps we should split this topic into high-level GUI issues and low-level GUI issues.
Further, OOP makes it harder to have language-neutral GUI protocols. Separating behavior and data simplify making something cross-language because data is more transferable than behavior, and intertwining them drags them both down to behavior's limitations. -- top
Ok, so we seem to have reached a certain degree of agreement here, and identified differing concerns.
Attempted summary. Top is concerned with "high level" issues, in other words, use and configuration of widgets. He advocates reuse and avoiding reinventing the wheel by e.g. buying commercial widgets. He thinks that a need for truly custom widgets is rare, and that widget builder's are in danger of off-shoring.
OO advocates seem to agree that tables/databases are useful for widget configuration, but may wish to argue about how often truly custom widgets are needed and whether they're going to be off-shored.
The OO side of the argument has largely been concerned with the question of creating new custom widgets, which Top here labels "low level", so it would appear that a lot of the conversation has been at cross-purposes.
Top then returned to more general themes about OO. At this point it seems quite possible that 100% of the table vs OO discussion could be moved to a page with a title that doesn't include "gui methodologies", to be more descriptive.
Earlier Top also raised several times the well-worn theme that there is no perfect hierarchy, which I agree with, but thinks that this means that OO inheritance hierarchies therefore have more drawbacks than gains, which most of the OO crowd disagrees with. (Note that the LOC and Dewey Decimal Systems also face the problem of being imperfect hierarchies, yet are still quite useful for libraries).
It is not so much hierarchies but polymorphism and encapsulation in this case. Widget makers pretty much just follow a protocol instead of inherit existing functionality I suspect. -- top
Top however has made some fairly rare concessions: that OO may be good for a number of things...but not for the "custom business applications" he develops.
My response to this is that 99% of the work on OO and OO-related Design Patterns occurred in that context, not in e.g. systems programming nor scientific programming, so this seems dubious -- and in any case diverges from the previous topic of this page.
In my opinion Design Patterns are an (failed) attempt to solve the messes created by OO. At least GUI widgets somewhat follow the simplicity of the device driver examples found in TextbookOo. Low level GUI stuff tends to fit device-driver patterns, and that is why OO may be helpful there. Each widget is like a little device. Design patterns seem to write off that simplicity. But I suppose that is another topic.
Lastly he says "OOP makes it harder to have language-neutral GUI protocols". I don't think I understand this, although I have a couple of guesses as to what that might mean.
I will see if I can articulate this better.
Anyway, it seems like we can shift the perpetual tables vs OO argument to a new page on this note, yes? After which, any material not transferred to the new page would in short order be game for refactoring on this page - very little of the argument probably should survive here, rather than being moved.
-- DougMerritt
Thanks for your attempt to summarize. I disagree with some of it, but it appears you made a good-faith attempt to be even-handed, so I appreciate your effort. -- top
[1] In the custom round volume knob example, if the GUI is being partially controlled over the network (such as a GuiService), then it may not be realistic to manage such a control from a server because of latency. To get a reasonably-smooth animation of a turning knob as the mouse drags would require approximately 10 send/receive update cycles per second. Obviously, it's not realistic to rely on such frequency over a typical network. (X-windows suffers from a similar problem.) Either we rely on an existing widget, such as a slide-bar control, or have a mechanism to download the implementation to the client GUI system. -t
As an author of widgets, I can state with confidence that your concerns -- at least in terms of distinct behaviour between a volume knob and a slide-bar control -- are largely unfounded. A volume knob is not appreciably different from a slide-bar control, and indeed the two may well share a common parent class that defines most of the functionality for both.
I think you misunderstood my point. The slide-bar is a common "built in" widget in most kits (at least the non-lite versions), meaning it comes out of the box in most cases. If we have to implement a custom volume knob and update the animation across the network, then we can't use the built-in one. I suppose one could implement a generic "range control" interface, but how to handle the animation across the entire range can be tricky. If you say pre-define a "rotation" action, then a given image of a knob can be rotated, but there are at least two problems with this:
There are at least two approach to complex slide-range widgets: use some mathematical transformation, such as Rotate and Scale on an existing or calculated image, or present an animation series for 0% to 100% (normalized). You may need several dozens or more of such "movie frame" images for a "clean" animation transition and sufficient precision. The formulaic transformation approach complicates the multi-language interface goal, and the animation approach can be a bandwidth hog if not managed carefully. I'd lean toward the animation approach.
A basic slide control probably just re-positions a fixed "knob" image against a fixed back-ground slider "rail" image rather than have a different image of the entire slider for each level. The knob itself stays the same throughout the entire range, other than position. But this won't work for fancier designs, thus you are not correct. (One could implement a basic slider with using an animation frame for each range, but it's not the most resource-efficient way to do it.)
I think you misunderstood my point. In good OO-based widget kits, you can quite trivially inherit the volume knob from the "built in" slider or from the slider's "built in" parent. I have done this several times, with different kits. It's not difficult -- certainly nowhere near as difficult as your speculation appears to make it.
Please present an example, such as configuring the pump/flat sports ball slider. You seem to be making an unstated assumption somewhere. Inheriting "magic" is easy, the hard part is implementing it.
You want me to post a gaggle of Java code? A volume knob is easy. It's a dynamically-drawn circular scale around a static circle with a dynamically-drawn tick for a knob. There's no "magic" to it. Don't know what you mean by "the pump/flat sports ball slider."
Staying with the volume knob scenario for the moment, how would this work as a GuiService? How would the service work with different languages? If everything is born and dies in Java, things are relatively simple. But I'm tossing that convenience into the trash for now.
It would be straightforward to define a protocol by which GUI definitions and activity could be communicated to and from the endpoints in some client/server architecture. Essentially, the X Window system does this. You could probably build a language-neutral GUI system along the lines of GuiService using CORBA. However, I question its value. It's far more common -- and perhaps justifiable -- to use native GUI code plus domain functionality on the client side (e.g., HTML5/Javascript), with an application-specific application protocol (often built using JSON or XML) to communicate with an application-specific server (written using Java, C#, PHP, whatever.) This allows you to manually optimise overall application performance by locating application functionality where it belongs: Presentation and user-interaction stuff on the client side; data processing on the server side; and minimised data transfer between them.
Far more interesting, however, would be to create a general-purpose distributed application development platform, and associated language, to support automated optimisation of distributed functionality in general. Why limit yourself to just the GUI? Rather than specifying that the GUI runs over here and everything else runs over there and this is the protocol between them, you would specify the application in its entirety as an application-architecture-neutral definition. The optimiser would then decide -- in a manner invisible to the developer, and probably entirely at run-time -- what code runs where: on clients, on servers, on you-name-it. A benefit of this approach would be the possibility of targeting a multitude of run-time platforms and architectures with a single application definition.
Your solution appears to be continue client-side-centric GUI's. X-Window suffers latency problems over HTTP because it's too low-level. And, I don't believe in the value of distributed applications for most apps, I have to say, other than maybe as an emergency spare or load balancing. Security and configuration is simpler if you can limit which server(s) stuff runs on. Configuration effort and security are bigger costs/problems than CPU cycles in most apps. App tools are not commoditized enough to have them hop servers willy-nilly yet.
I don't know what "client-side-centric" means. You seem to suggest a return to a classic, centralised, "mainframe-and-terminals" architecture, which is fine for certain problems but only scales well in limited directions. Distributed architectures generally scale in more directions. However, developers currently need to be aware of the architecture in either case. What I propose is elimination of developer concern for architecture, because that should be the automated optimiser's problem.
The problem with HtmlStack-based solutions is that there are too many languages involved, and too many client version variations. It's language and version overkill. It's generally easier to tame servers than clients. And it wasn't originally designed for GUI's. I agree that for custom widgets that fat-client approaches may be necessary to get decent performance on the client, but for most business-oriented apps, I see no reason that an HTTP-friendly over-server protocol can't be provided to do at least 95% of a typical GUI. Desktop GUI's have been around for almost 20 years now: we know what's needed and what works as far as GUI techniques and standards for biz apps. Most of the changes have been eye-candy fads.
I agree that HtmlStack-based solutions suffer from a festoonment of languages. My proposal offers a more general and broader solution than yours, with potential for greater flexibility and performance.
Perhaps have it so that if the client can't implement a fancy volume knob, then allow it to use a generic slider in its place. For example, if the server detects that the client is Internet Explorer 8 or 9, it's safe to use the fancier slider/knob, but for the rest of browser-space use the generic slider. Another reason to switch off or block client-side custom widgets is security. See NtcSecurityRant.
Such decisions should be left to the automated optimiser.
Maybe when true AI finally comes out and taps the Universes' black holes as an energy source; and it can then test all the product versions for every combination.
If that works for you, great. I'll probably stick with having the compiler emit a few appropriate "if (navigator.appCodeName == ...)"s in the Javascript.
And how would the compiler know that a feature has a bug in it for a feature combo only needed by your company?
If an "optimizer" was smart enough to detect bugs and propose work-arounds, then it would probably be AI. Otherwise, how would your compiler know that putting more than 4 volume knobs on the same row happens to crash Opera version 6?
It wouldn't, until a human recognises the problem and puts appropriate rules in the compiler's optimiser. It's the same way programming language compilers currently deal with processor-specific issues.
That's seems a bit too specific and "twiddly" to hard-wire into a "compiler". How would one keep it up to date with all newly-found display bugs for multiple vendors and versions? It would possibly be cheaper to pay Opera to fix it. Plus, we'd be behind the fixes too.
Fine. It was merely an example.
See also: TablesAlreadyExistInOop
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LABEL Candlelight
RELEASED ON 2/12/2008
Secrets And Lies
posted on 5/2008 By: Sasha Horn
Au revoir to cliche.
There is a language being spoken here that Taint is very fluent in. I've really only heard its most common dialect being used within that circle of bong tokes, cheap beer, and occasional showering. It's easy to decipher and it's far from romantic. So eventually ear fatigue set in, and was then followed by several years of snobbery to which Secrets And Lies has humbled me back to base.
This UK trio has been making noise since '94. Fourteen years later, they have only a second full-length to show for it. That which is Secrets, and it builds on 2005's Ruin Of Nova Roma, really builds on it, constructs all over it. Ruin was already showcasing some atypical "stoner rock/metal" (as so many people chose to call it), but 2008 exposes their veins and shows you just what courses through its twists and turns. I wouldn't call it "stoner" anything. To call it "stoner" would be to imply that hippies "kick ass". Just to even use those two words in succession implies some sort of quick action taking place and I've never known anybody stoned to move quickly towards anything. "Stoned" should imply a lack of momentum, and molasses or passive this is not. There is rock 'n' roll "groove" here, sure, but it's often quickly subjected to sharp left turns toward unseen progressive forks in the road. These traits are immediate as heard in album opener "Hex Breaker", where a pissed-off stock rock riff scrapes away for only seconds before a full band frontal assault comes into play and plants the flag 4/4 style. It's a bit expected, but performed incredibly well; it's tight as hell. The two minute and one second mark is the symptom that sets all of Secrets an addictive listen. Here, on "Hex Breaker", they strip down the parts at the half way point for a crush groove that has catchy Zeppelin-esque appeal, but fast-forward to "Goddamn This City" and hear a gloomier Taint with a Voivod-ian surprise at 3:58. "Barnstorm Zombie Revival" revives a bit of the late 80's/early 90's Amphetamine Reptile roster (Helmet, Unsane, Today Is The Day, etc.), vocals and all, and at 1:39 into "Mass Appeal Sadness" they evoke.......Taint; dusk and dawn. I can draw out comparisons all day, but at the end of it they really are doing their own thing, even if I am laying it on thick with my game of "connect the dots". They upset the set-up consistently and it seems to have become a secret weapon that fired so quiet on Ruin that I doubt that they knew just to what degree they could convince and persuade. How fitting that Alex Newport (vocals/guitar;Fudge Tunnel/Nailbomb. producer;The Mars Volta/The Melvins/Sepultura), acting as producer here, should have a hand in giving this realization its aural push. It's upfront, it's a bit dirty, and has some loose ends. He took away the gloss and sheen to reveal himself as rightful heir to the title of Fourth Member. As a whole, and in all three categories, this is textural like a motherfucker.
Something is being smoked here, and it sure as hell ain't what you think. I can't wait to hear the exhale.
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The Joris Luyendijk Banking Blog
Restructurer: 'I have had stones thrown at me'
Joris meets a restructurer who sees his job as repairing companies that saddled themselves with debt in good times
We are meeting one winter morning in a juice bar near Bank, in the heart of the old City. He is an affable man in his mid-20s, English and well dressed. He is tired from a trip early that morning. Later that day he will have to travel again.
"In an ideal world my job shouldn't exist. I have had stones thrown at me on industrial estates. Yet other customers will take you to the racing. Restructuring is such a diverse place to be.
"It's almost like people in companies go through the five stages of grief when we come in. First denial over how bad it is, then they think they can bargain and make it go away, when that doesn't work they enter the anger phase, followed finally by acceptance. That last step may take hours, or months.
"Basically we come in and repair companies that saddled themselves with debt in good times. It's an odd place to be, now, with so much going on. It's a small area of finance, and before the crisis four years ago it was tiny. Back then it was a business of maybe £400m, now it's tens of billions. This crisis is particularly deep and vicious. Veterans are saying, it was never this bad.
"I suppose the fairest criticism you could level at the banks is that when times were good, they did not know how much money they could get out of the door. Getting credit at banks was so easy, it was almost free. From the perspective of the salespeople at banks who were peddling all that easy credit, well, it they didn't do it someone else was going to. And their success was measured by how many new clients they were getting, how much money they could loan to companies. They were never told to worry about the strength of these businesses. The credit risk committees at banks were asleep at the wheel. Or rather, they were bottom-line chasing. They faced a choice between high risks and high profits, or low risk and lower profits.
"Nowadays credit risk committees are doing their job, which is good but it means such a reversal. Imagine you are building a business, running the operational side while leaving finance to others in the organisation. Suddenly this whole financial thing impinges on you. In frustration people may call us greedy and throw stones.
"The complexity of some of the financial instruments that companies have on their books... Sometimes it looks like witchcraft to me. I have to comb through all that, dozens of different instruments, dozens of different kinds of bonds issues... Many of these financial instruments are bespoke, put together by the bank specifically for the client. The good thing is that allows for nuance and it can be tailored to the circumstances and unique needs of the company. The problem is the lack of clarity.
"There are too many businesses who don't have someone in charge with a grounding in finance. They have 'a guy who does the books'. That won't do anymore. In this world you need to get a numbers person in there. Those complex products, they make my life very difficult because they are so hard to understand, and then untangle.
"The companies that are in trouble suffer from any combination of 'bad luck, bad timing and bad management', as we like to say in the business. The biggest thing we find is very good business that could potentially survive, listed ones, and they are not willing to realise the position they are in. That kills the business. They think they have to 'stay the course' and that's what's driving their business into the ground. Management is key and adaptability is everything. Often you have people who are bullish and forceful, and they think they just need to keep on doing what worked so well in the boom years.
"So, we take the time to understand the business. We look at their accounts, we talk to the management, to employees, to their competitors, we try to understand the market they're in. Often I find that management is unwilling to share with you. They look at us as the bad guys. The thing is, my bank owns a lot of the risks, we lose the money when the business goes bust. The easy way would be to take the company into administration. But then we lose our money and they lose their jobs.
"On the other hand, when we decide to go in, it's because we see potential for a good outcome. And we will charge additional interest and fees as it involves a lot of work on our part.
"It starts with forensics, when we look at their books. Sometimes we say, look, it's worse than you think, X Y and Z have happened. Sometimes we say, it's bad, this is what we want you to do about it. We look primarily for awareness and initiative. It's how I imagine a doctor delivers a tough message to a patient: things are bad but we will help provided you help us help you. Still, we are often seen as the bogey-man. And you need to be realistic, we are doing all this because we are trying to get the bank's money back.
"Larger business do understand the financial instruments they are buying. Smaller ones, with a debt level less than £40m, their people typically understand part, but they won't know the ramifications. So we come in, look at what they've bought, and try to explain and help. Then, when top management discover what they have bought, there's anger and frustration. They are responsible, and they know it. At the same time they were pressured into buying these instruments by our sales teams. To some extent this happened to them.
"Some days I spend looking at spreadsheets, other days I visit clients all over Europe. What is great is that my work has tangible results. If we do our job right, we save jobs, sometimes thousands of them. Also, the companies we deal with, they produce real things, shoes or steel or chairs. That is so much more satisfying than seeing a number on a screen. What can be tricky is not to get emotionally involved. Particularly with smaller businesses, they are often family-owned and family-run. They have doing things their way for 50 years, then the banks come in and say, you're doing it all wrong. Often there are tears, there is shouting. Sometimes I feel more like a therapist than a banker.
"Maybe this is why there is quite a lot of camaraderie among restructuring teams. And no ceremony, it's not like at some investment banks where as a junior you can't take something to a managing director. No one's bigger than the team, we say, and everyone takes turns getting coffee.
"All in all it's a real difference with, say, equity traders on the trading floor. That's like being in a trench, bullets flying over your head, with the traders in the role of gunners and juniors as medics and supply guys... We are much further from the front. And as I said, I don't live in numbers. Much of this, a surprising large part in fact, comes down to gut feeling. I shake someone's hand, look him in the eye and I have to decide: can I trust this guy? I am getting a feel for people, learn to suss them out. A computer could never do any of this. And 'arrogant bankers' would never succeed in restructuring, as more than anything, you need to connect with people.
"I suppose this is one of those industries where people will brag not about how good their clients are, but how bad they look, what a hassle they are. I have become very careful. You can never use clients' names in a pub or somewhere public. That's why we have code names for them, like this guy says. It's usually the lawyers, or the managing directors who come up with them. Pets, cartoon characters from cartoons or fictional films or books, perhaps we'll take a place name that is close. Say we have a client in Munich, we might call it Project Berlin. You don't want to be too clever with code names, else others might figure them out. They need to be a little random.
"This is such a new industry that we do not yet have real stereotypes. Also, a typical team will have people from all sorts of divisions; ex-traders, ex-lawyers, ex-credit people. I'd say one thing everybody in this business needs is some psychology. You need to be able to read people; can I trust this person? Can I work with him?
"The equivalent of restructurers in the animal kingdom... Beavers? Perhaps, or chimpanzees. Animals with a social nature for whom survival depends on co-operation. Especially nowadays co-operation is essential. It happens even across banks. More often than not a company's loan will be syndicated, meaning that a lot of banks hold a piece. Usually they appoint one 'arranger', often the one with most of the debt.
"I need to liaise with huge number of people, those who originated the instrument, those who manage it, I need to know its current price. The legal terms needs to produce the original document, the finance team needs to explain how the instrument connects to the rest of the financial picture for the client, the credit team has to say if we can alter aspects of the instrument... Generally the culture among restructurers is very co-operative. People will come up to you and say, 'you wanna talk to this guy at that law firm, he dealt with that particular problem before.'
"I went into this job straight out of university, almost right when the crisis happened. Those four years or so feel a lot longer. They were dog years. I like the job and it's quite unlike some other jobs in finance. I get to have most of my weekends, and my evenings. Older people get to see their kids. We work to our corporate clients' schedules, so it's never really crazy. Though the travel is tough. You need to travel out to these companies and they are often quite far away. After this I can do everything. So I'll stick it out here a couple of years, until corporations are hiring again.
"Things that have surprised me, coming into finance... Let me think. How egalitarian it is. You have people from so many backgrounds, from all over the world. People without university degrees who worked their way up. If you have drive and willingness, you can work here. You do need to like early morning, though.
"I am on £80,000 a year plus bonuses – which in 'restructuring' depend on personal performance and are paid in cash and shares. I am saving a bit, and I am paying down my student loan. If you really want to be rich, you shouldn't go into 'restructuring' or banking, for that matter. You should start a business and sell it for £100m."
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Topic: ARTS
set piece
set piece [countable]
1A part of a play, piece of music, painting etc that follows a well-known formal pattern or style, and is often very impressive:
The trial scene is a classic set piece.
2 British English a move such as a free kick or a corner in a game of football, hockey etc
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Should women be allowed to buy Mace and pepper spray over the counter?
Yes, they deserve a fighting chance against an attacker
71% (1436 votes)
No, it could be taken away and used against them
2% (32 votes)
Yes, and they should be able to buy guns over the counter, too
25% (513 votes)
No, the best policy is to turn and run
2% (40 votes)
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Lecturer to shed light on those affected by ADHD at Cranberry Public Library
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Susan Lieber's lecture about attention deficit hyperactivity disorder begins at 1:30 p.m. Oct. 6 at the Cranberry Public Library, 2525 Rochester Road.
By Shawn Annarelli
Sam Jones is a sophomore majoring in music at Temple University, and Ed King is a pediatrician in Pittsburgh at Pediatric Alliance.
Jones, 20, and King, 45, said they have lived with ADHD, or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, all their lives, and their lives could be different without the help of Susan Lieber, a professional organizer.
Lieber, who has a bachelor's degree in occupational therapy from the University of Kansas and a master's in health care supervision and management from the University of Pittsburgh, works exclusively with people who have ADHD through her 10-year old business, Leave It To Lieber.
Lieber's lecture at the Cranberry Public Library at 1:30 p.m. Oct. 6 will focus on so-called executive function skills, the cognitive skills responsible for work efficiency, regulation of impulses and behavior.
Lieber said the lecture will help people with ADHD and their loved ones understand why they struggle with different tasks. Hyperactivity, impulsivity and distractibility are all typical symptoms.
“ADHD affects how people approach things, because their brain processes things differently,” Lieber said.
Jones said his brain operates in way that a typical person can't fully understand.
Sometimes when a teacher says something, his mind will go off on a tangent, connecting what his teacher said to something that happened the day before, which then connects to something else and so on.
“When I'm in class, I make connections in my head very rapidly and in many different directions, like my mind is moving forward like a train that won't stop,” Jones said.
The distractions sometimes cause him to be disorganized, and Lieber has helped him control that.
“If a big project is due, write down ‘Big Project' on a piece of paper, bullet all the steps you need to do and schedule that across a period of time,” Jones said. “Visually, organizing content by different color tabs, folders, notebooks, that sort of thing, that's really where I fell short.”
Jones said he went from being a “B” and “C” student in high school to having mostly A's in college.
King couldn't take notes or study for long periods of time and regularly forgot where he put things that he just had in his hand.
“I couldn't take notes well in med school, so I had to make my own study groups where we did comics to study for microbiology,” King said.
Lieber helped King set-up external cues, like having a large bedside bowl in which to empty his pockets so he doesn't spend time every day looking for his car keys or wallet.
Although ADHD may present challenges to Jones and King, they embrace the advantages it gives them.
“ADHD actually really helps me with music, because I can pay attention to quite a few things at the same time,” Jones said.
“Instead of going through routines, we're stuck with never having a routine thought,” King said. “Whatever I'm doing, I'm always coming up with creative ideas. It just doesn't stop.”
Shawn Annarelli is a freelance writer.
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Moderate Rock Reviews Tera Melos’ Patagonian Rats
Tera Melos have changed. But that shouldn’t be a surprise. Tera Melos hate ‘the same’. And ‘normal’ and ‘safe’ and ‘simple’ too. So while the Californian combo have kept the instrumental math-rock backbone from their early efforts, they’ve added loads more fuzzy layers, blissy melodies and smooth hooks to the mix for album number two. Oh and vocals too. Yeah, vocals. And guitarist Nick Reinhart’s words don’t come out like you’d imagine either- all surfy vibes and subtle pop tones instead of any spat venom or spazzy rage.
Opener proper, ‘Kelly’, is the case in point- spacey, bright and breezy but a blistering wall-of-noise that sounds intent on smashing not just your eardrums but whole mountains to dust; it’s like Rivers Cuomo writing Slayer riffs. ‘The Skin Surf’ makes like a nursery rhyme for a minute before feedback and fragmenting guitar patterns neatly pull and push it apart, ‘Trident Tail’ is half fidgety limboscape, half sleazy desert session, and ‘Frozen Zoo’ could be a Beach Boys song. Basically, Tera Melos are now the only group capable of appealing to fans of Daughters, Ed Gein, An Albatross, and the Beatles. It’s the last thing anyone would expect. And that’s exactly how the band like it. Ace.
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Chicago Vegan Restaurant
The vegan diet has gotten a lot of press lately whether in vegan cookbooks, vegan activism, or the latest vegan restaurant. Chicago is warming up to the vegan way of eating and Protein Bar is helping lead the pack by offering vegan choices in a mainstream way.
Going vegan means everything eating except animal products (meat, cheese, honey, etc).
At Protein Bar Chicago, we are proud to be able to offer most of our menu with vegan options that trade none of the flavor in favor of a meat-free meal:
1. Any of our Signature Blended Drinks or savory breakfast bowls can be made vegan by choosing almond milk, soy milk, soy protein, tofu or soy yogurt.
2. All of our bar-ritos and bowls can be made vegan by choosing tofu, vegetarian chili, dairy and soy-free cheese.
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Creating a Custom Debug Engine
A debug engine (DE) is a component that allows debugging of particular run-time architectures. There is typically only one DE implementation per run-time environment.
A DE works with the interpreter or operation system to provide such debugging services as execution control, breakpoints, and expression evaluation. These services are implemented through the DE interfaces and can cause the debugger to transition between different operational modes. For more information, see Operational Modes.
Creating a DE consists of the following steps:
1. Registering a DE with Visual Studio
2. Enabling a program to be debugged
3. Execution control and state evaluation
4. Sending events
5. Termination and detaching
In This Section
Registering a Custom Debug Engine
Explains the steps needed to register a debug engine with Visual Studio so that it can be used.
Enabling a Program to Be Debugged
Explains that before your DE can debug a program, you must first launch the DE or attach it to an existing program.
Execution Control and State Evaluation
Discusses why debugging an application requires implementing execution control features.
Sending Events
Describes communication between the debugger and the DE as an event model based on DCOM.
Termination and Detaching
Explains how to achieve normal termination, which means that there are no breakpoints, exceptions, run-time errors, or infinite loops in the application to be debugged.
Calling Debugger Events
Documents the calling order of the events occurring in a debugging session.
How To: Debug a Custom Debug Engine
Explains how to debug a custom DE.
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You may be able to get along well with your daily routine with just five or six hours of sleep. But, to ensure optimum fat loss and good health, you have to get atleast eight hours of sleep every night. Adequate sleep controls the hormones that regulate your appetite. Researchers from the University of Chicago say that six days of reduced sleep decreased glucose tolerance and insulin response by 30 per cent. In simple terms, this means lack of sufficient sleep reduces the body's ability to process sugar efficiently, which increases the chances of gaining more body fat. So, if you are unable to get eight hours of continuous sleep at night, try to compensate by taking a nap during the day.
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Latin Alphabet
1. The Worldwide Web Just Went Global
2. Countries And Languages
For instance, here's the charset meta tag that says a page is written using a Latin alphabet set (also called ISO-Latin-1): The character set is like the alphabet you are using on the page. Someone writing in English will use a standard alphabet...
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Most serve without pay
April 21, 2013
Area school board members are not paid for their services.
Those who serve on a number of county non-profit boards, some with organizations responsible for more than $50 million, are not compensated.
So explain again why the Dunkirk Housing Authority Board needs stipends for attending each meeting? "It is a difficult board to be on, it has a lot of responsibilities ... I think in this case with all the benefits we get back from the housing authority I think it warrants for them to keep their stipend," councilman Adelino Gonzalez said last week. "Yes, we would like them to pay their own stipend, but according to legal issues they can't do that. So that's why I'm voting yes."
Gonzalez is not incorrect, but a number of board members - some of those you know well in this community - do not get paid while serving on those non-profit boards that have "a lot of responsibilities."
Dunkirk Housing Authority, however, exposes a flaw of government. For some reason - years ago when municipal budgets were nowhere near the spending levels they are today - people were compensated with a stipend as a way of saying thank you. But today - no matter how small - we just cannot afford that $2,740 in stipends when problems and services are being ignored due to budget cuts.
Normally, when you are a member of an organization that gives back to the community, you often want that organization to flourish through fund-raising and special events. Not by making money off of it.
Government, however, does not work that way. It wants as much of your money so it can continue to compensate individuals for doing "volunteer work."
The Dunkirk Housing Authority could have taken the lead for the other city board members who receive stipends. They could have set the example.
But no. Instead, the stipends were reinstated.
It's small money, but it is also a principle. Those who serve on boards normally do so for the honor and enjoyment. Not the pay.
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It seems the Bash built-in help command help does some really strange globbing:
• help read shows the documentation for read, readarray and readonly.
• help rea? shows only the documentation for read.
• help 'read$' doesn't work.
• help read | sed '/^read[^:]\+/,$d' is just silly.
Is there some more intuitive way to get only the read output?
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It seems by defaul help foo is actually equivalent to help foo*. But if some special globbing characters are used then the ending "*" is not implicitely added.
So, a possibility would be help [r]ead.
The globbing used is the one used by the shell for file matching; afaik there isn't any equivalent of \< nor \>.
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It's globbing, just like filename completion, but it is expanded after you enter it, and I don't see anyway to control it (see builtins/help.def, it's a for() loop over all builtins). Since [] trumps *, [r]ead gets my vote. read, time and type are the only problematic complete commands (and the two types of for if you're a pedant). – mr.spuratic Feb 25 at 21:43
Accepting since it also works for help [s]et. – l0b0 Feb 26 at 7:54
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Luckily there's nothing else ending in ...read so this should work:
help *read
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+1 This is a good solution, but setting Pablo's as accepted since it also works for commands which end with the same string like set. – l0b0 Feb 26 at 7:53
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pipe the output of help through a small awk script:
help () {
builtin help "$1" |
awk -F: -v command="$1" '
p && /^[^[:space:]]/ {exit}
$1 == command {p = 1}
Now help read will only give you the help for the read builtin.
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Moby-Dick By Herman Melville Summary and Analysis Chapters 74-80
Ishmael compares the heads of the sperm and right whales. He sees the sperm whale's forehead as an extremely efficient battering ram while the massive tun of oil in the sperm whale's head reminds him of the Heidelberg Castle wine cask, which has a capacity of 49,000 gallons. Tashtego falls into the whale's head and is rescued by Queequeg. The sperm whale's brain is relatively small, only a "nut."
Ishmael returns to one of his favorite topics, cetology, as he compares the two heads that are attached to the sides of the ship. Throughout the book, the narrator seems to thrive on contrasts: good vs. evil, white vs. black, starboard vs. port, God vs. Satan, madness vs. reason. However, it must be said that Ishmael seldom actually sees the world in such simplistic terms. Ultimately, opposites are only philosophical points of departure for the narrator. Neither Ahab nor Moby Dick, for example, can be limited to a single definition. The characters and issues here are complex, and Ishmael seems to delight in that rich view of life.
In these chapters, Ishmael's starting place is the contrast between the heads of the sperm and right whales. These are the only types of whale hunted by man, he tells us. Of the two, Ishmael feels that the sperm has more character; it is also much more valuable commercially. Its forehead is the world's most efficient natural battering ram, foreshadowing events at the end of the novel. The whale's eyes are small, reminding Ishmael of a colt's but lashless; they are placed on either side of the head so that the leviathan must get two distinct pictures of the world simultaneously, an ocular dichotomy that fits Ishmael's own initial view of life. He wonders how the whale blends the two outlooks. The ears are tiny, barely large enough to hold a writing quill. The sperm's ears have an outside opening; the right whale's ears are covered with a membrane.
Chapter 78 features an interesting literary device. Before long, it is apparent that Ishmael is more interested in the sperm whale. He enjoys the unique fact that the sperm's head can carry up to 500 gallons of valuable spermaceti oil. The image of Tashtego nearly drowning in it, rescued only by Queequeg, is an instance in which Melville uses dramatic action to illustrate a cetological point. It also breaks the monotony of what could be an excessively dry topic.
vacillate to sway to and fro, to waver in mind.
shoemaker's last a block or form shaped like a person's foot and used for making or repairing shoes.
for the nonce for the time being.
volition the act of using the will, a deliberate decision.
prairie a type of clam, here compared to the whale's head.
citadel a fortress, usually on a commanding height.
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10 summer health risks to watch out for
Be sure to keep a close eye on your children when they're playing at the beach or in the pool. (©iStockphoto.com/David Winters) Be sure to keep a close eye on your children when they're playing at the beach or in the pool. (©iStockphoto.com/David Winters)
By Marisa Ramiccio
When summer finally arrives, people start spending a lot of time outdoors, basking in the sun's long-awaited rays. But the great outdoors can harbor some health risks, especially during the summer, so before you step outside, prepare yourself for these 10 summer health risks.
Insect-Borne Illness
Summer is also a time for insects to frolic outdoors, but what they bring to the party can be harmful to humans. Mosquitoes are common carriers of many viruses including West Nile virus, while ticks are known for carrying Lyme disease. These insects are impervious to repellent, so it's best to protect yourself with clothing when spending time outdoors. Be mindful of wearing lighter, summer-friendly colors as insects are more attracted to bright colors. You'll also want to skip the sweet-smelling perfume, which will attract every bug in the neighborhood.
Sun Exposure
Although many people enjoy spending the summer months in the sun, too much sun exposure can cause serious problems such as heatstroke or even heat rash. Heatstroke occurs when the body becomes overheated. It can cause dangerously high body temperatures that can lead to fainting and possibly death.
Heat rash is a less serious condition and is caused by blocked sweat glands. Tiny, itchy bumps form on the skin and they can be irritated by chafing clothing, moisture and heat. If you're prone to developing heat rash, wear light, breathable fabrics to cover your skin when going in the sun and avoid using an oily sunblock.
Sun Damage
Heatstroke and heat rash aren't the only conditions that are caused by the sun. Prolonged exposure can lead to the development of skin cancer. But this is preventable by taking precautions such as wearing protective clothing and sunblock with an SPF of at least 15 when going outdoors.
But your skin isn't the only part of your body that you should protect from the sun. Your eyes can also suffer damage from the sun's UV rays, which can become permanent. To fully protect them, wear sunglasses that are equipped with UV-filtering lenses.
During the summer, the pollen count is high and the number of pollutants in the air is exacerbated by the heat. This is bad news for asthmatics as smog and other pollutants can trigger a reaction in a matter of minutes. If you have asthma, always check the air quality before going outdoors and try to stay indoors when the air quality is particularly poor.
Beaches and pools are popular family hang-outs during the summer, but unfortunately, many children are left unsupervised when playing in and around the water, which can lead to an accident such as drowning. Be sure to keep a close eye on your children when they're playing at the beach or in the pool, and have another adult around to help with supervising duties.
Fungal Infections
Spending time around the public pool can lead to the development of fungal infections such as Athlete's Foot, which can cause the skin on your feet to itch and peel. To prevent this, wear closed-in shoes or cotton socks when possible around the public pool and in public showers.
Garden Safely
Gardening may not seem like a health hazard, but it is possible to overtax yourself with all of the squatting and digging. Always kneel on a knee pad to protect your knees and when doing a repetitive motion, be sure to switch hands so you don't overwork on side of your body. Also, be aware of your surroundings. Keep an eye out for hidden wasp's nests or snakes that could be hiding in your shrubbery.
Poisonous Plants
You probably know that poison ivy and poison oak are, well... poisonous, but do you know what they look like? Before camping, hiking, or jogging through your favorite nature trail, educate yourself on poisonous plants and trees and how to identify them.
Athletic Injuries
During the summer, many people feel adventurous and want to try something they've never done before like rock climbing or kayaking. But inexperience can lead to injury, so learn the ropes before jumping into a new activity.
Even if you're just getting back into an old activity like running or jogging, don't do so on unfamiliar terrain. There may be unexpected hazards on the route that you may not be aware of, so walk the trail first to avoid those hazards and to familiarize yourself with the route.
Food Poisoning
After a long day, you may want to treat yourself to an outdoor picnic. But be sure to pack your foods correctly -- food that's too warm or has been contaminated can cause food poisoning. According to the CDC, food poisoning is responsible for 5,000 deaths a year. To avoid getting sick, put an ice pack in your picnic basket to keep your foods from spoiling, and seal and store meats away from fruits, vegetables and other foods to avoid any cross-contamination.
These are just a few of the health risks to be mindful of this summer. Have fun and enjoy the weather, but also be vigilant when it comes to summer health risks.
Health magazine
Marisa Ramiccio is a contributing writer for SymptomFind.com and has also written for Insight Magazine and copy edited for the Seminole Chronicle. Based in Orlando, she graduated from the University of Central Florida with a B.A. in Journalism. Her mom, who has a wide knowledge of health topics, sparked Marisa's interest in writing about healthcare. That interest grew in college when she covered the UCF Colleges of Nursing and Medicine for the Orlando Sentinel's website. She is very excited to share her passion for healthy living with SymptomFind readers!
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## # name: Pegex::Tree::Wrap # abstract: Pegex Wrapper Parse Tree Receiver # author: Ingy döt Net # license: perl # copyright: 2012 # see: # - Pegex::Receiver # - Pegex::Tree package Pegex::Tree::Wrap; use Pegex::Base; extends 'Pegex::Receiver'; sub gotrule { my $self = shift; @_ || return (); return $_[0] if $self->{parser}{parent}{-pass}; return {$self->{parser}{rule} => $_[0]} } sub final { my $self = shift; return(shift) if @_; return {$self->{parser}{rule} => []} } 1; =head1 SYNOPSIS use Pegex; $tree = pegex($grammar, receiver => 'Pegex::Tree::Wrap')->parse($input); =head1 DESCRIPTION L is receiver class that will shape the captured data from a Pegex parse operation into a tree made out of hashes. The keys of the hashes are the rule names that matched, and the values are arrays of captured data. This module is not often used as a receiver base class, but it is the default receiver for a Pegex parse. That's because the tree is very readble with all the rule keys in it.
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'I used to be a janitor'
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Stuart Murdoch (front row, far right) with Belle and Sebastian bandmates.
Being a pop star is not all it's cracked up to be, especially if you're Belle and Sebastian frontman Stuart Murdoch. He spoke with Bernard Zuel.
Ego may not be a dirty word, but in certain parts of Scotland, art apparently is. Just ask Stuart Murdoch. For nearly a decade, the Glaswegian has been the heart and soul of indie pop band Belle and Sebastian, but only recently has he found himself able to admit that fact to strangers.
Murdoch, who is 34, didn't write his first song until his 20s. When asked when he began to see himself as a songwriter he confesses, "I think maybe a year or a year-and-a-half ago."
What, for the first six or seven years it was just a hobby (or illness) that would hopefully go away?
"In Scotland, if you march around the place telling people you're a singer/songwriter, they'll set you straight pretty quickly," Murdoch says with amusement rather than rancour. "In America people go around saying, 'Yeah, I'm a poet,' and you ask them, 'What do you really do?' and they'll say, 'I work in a bar right now'."
It's similar in Australia, I tell him. The worst thing you can do is set yourself above your station, big-note yourself, even if you have some grounds for doing so.
"That's one thing you've inherited from the Brits isn't it?" he chuckles gently.
So what was it that finally convinced Murdoch that he genuinely was a songwriter? Was it a song that fitted perfectly? Was it the peer recognition?
Well, no. Actually, he admits, it was the cab rides.
"I gave up the caretaker job I had at a church a year or so ago, so I had to start telling taxi drivers what my real occupation was," he says. "You'd come back from London and the driver would say, 'What were you doing in London? Oh, aye, a musician, eh? What's your band called? Belle and Sebastian? Never heard of you'."
After laughing ruefully again Murdoch sighs. "I used to be able to say, 'I work at a church as a janitor', and that was easy."
"Not talking to the press was all about trying to keep the family together. It was a dysfunctional band, and if I had a dysfunctional family, the last thing I'd want to do is talk about it."
The shame hardly seems justified. After all, it's not as if Murdoch were in some embarrassing Popstars offshoot or could reasonably be confused with Dannii Minogue. In fact, the band he fronts has long been a critical darling.
Despite being almost faceless in the media (until the most recent release, Dear Catastrophe Waitress, the album covers never showed the band members at all, and their occasional press pictures weren't much better) and despite existing on a tiny independent label (Jeepster), Belle and Sebastian have slowly built a steady career.
They've released five albums and a movie soundtrack, they took away the prize for best newcomer at 1999's Brit Awards and they've established a substantial following in the US.
Along the way, Murdoch's thoughtful songs have come to symbolise an emergent strand of music that is both fey and intellectually meaty, low-key and yet wildly whimsical.
The band's name comes from a French novel and TV series about a young boy and a dog who search for the boy's missing mother, and the CD covers feature black-and-white photos or photo montages that revel in the enigmatic.
Their songs feature boys being beaten up at public schools, fat girls with lisps and low-level clerks staring dreamily out of windows, while the music is likely to be played on skippity drums, acoustic guitar, cello and trumpet. And Murdoch's voice is wan and short of anything that would pass muster on Australian Idol.
Think of the package as being equal parts The Smiths and Tin-Tin, or a bit like an honours English student with a folk habit meets Arran jumper-wearing bedsit tragic. Think of it too as being almost irresistible at its best, as on Dear Catastrophe Waitress.
In all, it's quite an achievement for an outfit that grew out of a government-funded music course for the unemployed in Glasgow, which Murdoch joined in 1996.
(Actually, if you want to be picky - and Belle and Sebastian fans are inclined to be - the concept of the band existed before the band itself did, as Murdoch had the songs written and then sought people to play on what would become the course project, the album Tigermilk. Original pressings of the 500-copy vinyl release are now highly sought.)
Even as they immediately recorded a second album, If You're Feeling Sinister, and began to play the occasional live show, the band was on the brink of disintegration.
It was a fragile beast with mixed abilities; there were tensions between Murdoch and the other writers in the group. There was also a relationship between him and cellist/vocalist Isobel Campbell, which ended acrimoniously three years ago.
This fragility, rather than what many presumed was arrogance or disdain, was the main reason the band rarely gave interviews in those early years, Murdoch explains.
"It was all about trying to keep the family together. It was a dysfunctional band, and if I had a dysfunctional family, the last thing I'd want to do is go on Oprah and talk about it."
But Campbell is gone (as is original bassplayer Stuart David) and Belle And Sebastian tour extensively, sell a healthy number of records and even get occasional airplay. In short, they aren't just a functional band, they're a reasonably successful one.
As bizarre as it seems when hip-hop rules the charts, manufactured pop rules the TV and angry white boys rule the radio, you can be fey, melodic and practically demanding to be beaten up by sexually repressed bullies and still exist. Such a revelation might be worth a celebratory drink. But not for Murdoch.
"I like a Scotch whiskey but I'm allergic to alcohol, would you believe, which is a tragedy in itself," Murdoch says.
"It's only in the last couple of years. I got eczema and one of the things I had to do to get rid of it was give up alcohol."
Hmmm. That's probably something else he shouldn't confess to Scottish taxi drivers.
Dear Catastrophe Waitress is out now. Belle and Sebastian will play the Palais on July 24, with the full 12-piece line-up. Tel: 136 100.
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Companion Urns: Divider or Co-Mingled
Wooden Companion Urn with SwansMany wooden companion urns can be designed with or without an interior divider. This option allows the couple to choose to have their remains co-mingled inside the urn as a symbol of their unity in life and in death, or, alternately, to keep their ashes separated to represent their individuality while still being united forever in a beautiful companion urn as a token of the depth of their love.
The simplicity, economy, and nearly endless stylistic options make companion urns an affordable choice for the budget shopper, and the symbolism of two united as one makes companion urns the romantic choice.
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Take action now:
Professors Kevin Johnson (lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration), Jennifer Chacon, and Bill Hing of UC Davis have scored a true coup for the blogosphere: an interview about immigration with Barack Obama! Of course, it probably helped that all three of them "have served as members of an Immigration Policy Group for the Obama campaign". Another help was that the questions are complete puffballs and they didn't have any followup questions despite the answers being mostly stock replies and full of holes. I suspect that the "interview" (http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2007/09/exclusive-barac.html) was conducted via email and with a staffer, perhaps with the staffer simply copying and pasting from past Obama statements.
The interview does, however, reveal that Obama would make things even worse than previously suspected.
I will not stop pushing Congress to pass comprehensive reform this year... [opposes point-based immigration] We also need to bring the 12 million undocumented immigrants out of the shadows. We need to be realistic about the fact that they are here, we can't deport them, and they have become an integral part of our society. [standard amnesty provision blather, says he'll work for amnesty in first year of his term]
There are mostly likely more than 12 million here, and while we can't deport all of them tomorrow we can cause a large percentage to go home simply by enforcing our laws. He should have been called at least on that.
[reiterates opposition to point-based system, drops name of Senator Menendez]... The point system instead of family visas betrays American family values, the same values that the family-based preferences in our immigration law are designed to enforce. It gave no preference to an immigrant with a brother or sister or even a parent who is a United States citizen unless the immigrant met some minimum and arbitrary threshold on education and skills.
Maybe it's in our best interests as a country to bring in those who do in fact have something above a grammar school education and who have some skills so they can contribute to the U.S. I guess that decreases the likelihood that they'd vote Democratic, so what's in the best interests of the U.S. flies right out the window.
[Johnson et al falsely imply that increased enforcement leads to border deaths; in his response, Obama dances around his forced support for the fence and slightly contradicts them on their implication but is afraid to take them on on that issue.] ...Additional fencing on the border is not a comprehensive solution, but it sometimes helps deter people from taking the risk of entering illegally.
His response to the question of what to do about Elvira Arellano is such a classic of political doublespeak that I'll include it in full:
I've met with Elvira Arellano and her son, and I understand the challenges that they and millions of other undocumented immigrants face. Although I do not condone Ms. Arellano's defiance of the law, her plight is representative of a broken immigration system. [copy and paste begins] We need comprehensive immigration reform that creates a system that is fair, consistent, compassionate, and emphasizes both maintaining the rule of law and the security of our borders while working to keep families together. I will not stop pushing Congress to pass comprehensive reform this year. Part of this issue involves family reunification, an issue which I have fought for in the Senate, most recently working with Senator Menendez and others during the most recent debate to ensure that families were not left out of immigration reform. If President Bush cannot lead on this issue, I will, by reviving our national discussion on comprehensive reform in my first year in the White House and working diligently toward a solution rooted in pragmatism, the rule of law, and our history as a nation of immigrants.
[...supports "comprehensive reform"...] The anti-immigrant law passed by Mayor Barletta was unconstitutional and unworkable – and it underscores the need for comprehensive immigration reform so local communities do not continue to take matters into their own hands... [...supports "comprehensive reform"...]
His response to the final question, one about assimilation, is vague although it contains an anti-Obama nugget at the end. He says he wants to pass the anti-American DREAM Act and then throws in his other plans just for a bonus: establishing universal healthcare, ending the Iraq war, etc., etc. Then, he drops the name of Luis Gutierrez, with whom he wrote the Citizenship Promotion Act. See the link for the issues with that. Then, he goes off on an education tear, with a Latino emphasis.
Then, a bit of a bombshell:
I am a supporter of transitional bilingual education to help our English language learners thrive.
From that I assume he supports allowing the Mexican government to spread their propaganda to U.S. public school children.
That shouldn't come as a surprise, considering that he marched in the May 1, 2006 illegal immigration march in Chicago, the one that was organized by several people linked to the Mexican government and Mexican political parties.
The bottom line is this: he would be a complete disaster as president. What we can do about this is go to his campaign appearances and ask him real questions (the kind that Kevin Johnson et al won't), and then upload his responses. That will help further reduce his popularity, it will put pressure on his competitors to reform their stances on immigration, and it will also help put pressure on the MSM and on academic hacks to ask real questions.
UPDATE: Sometimes even I reach MSM levels. I misread his statement above regarding bilingual education as "transnational" rather than the "transitional" that he actually said. Supporting the second is certainly problematic, but not anywhere near as problematic as supporting what I originally thought.
Tue, 09/25/2007 - 09:08 · Importance: 4
Tue, 09/25/2007 - 19:49
"We also need to bring the 12 million undocumented immigrants out of the shadows. We need to be realistic about the fact that they are here, we can't deport them, and they have become an integral part of our society." It never ceases to amaze me how these pro-invasion people can so blatantly contradict themselves and twist reality - and here in just two short sentences! If Obama (and Eliot Spitzer and John Edwards) wants to be "realistic" then why does he use evasive euphemisms like "bring them out of the shadows"? "Legalize them" would be more brief and honest. Why can't we deport any of them? Apparently they are not such an integral part of our society if they need to be legalized. Isn't that the point? They need to be legalized in order to integrate them. The burden is on you to explain why we should - to explain why enforcing our immigration law is optional but integrating illegal aliens is not. Bear Stearns estimated 20M illegals [1] _three years ago_. So yes, let's be realistic and stop pretending it's only 12M. Propaganda and distortion, the modus operandi of invasion supporters. Obama and the rest aren't stupid, they twist the truth because they know nobody but invaders would vote for them if they spoke plainly about reality and the disaster their policies are producing.
[1] www.bearstearns.com/bscportal/pdfs/underground.pdf
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An affair that rubs salt into Russell's wound
The gash in Robbie Russell's cheek is healing up nicely, or so it looked when I met him at Vicarage Road yesterday, which was about the only good thing that can be said about yesterday from a Saracens perspective.
Robbie's wound is the only aspect of the Martin Johnson affair which can be said to be closed, and that's bad for everyone - for Johnson, Russell, England and rugby as a whole. I don't understand English rugby justice, and it's high time for it to be overhauled. Johnson threw the punch. There's no doubt of that, and it's not the kind of act that should go without punishment. Russell was badly hurt. I was there as he came over the touchline after being given his yellow card, and he turned to us, pointed at his cheek, and said: "Look at what he did to me."
Johnson is a recidivist: he's done this kind of thing before on several occasions, and indeed, during the match against Saracens he was involved in another earlier incident which might have merited a yellow card if the referee had not overlooked it. In some ways, it's better to be Martin Johnson than someone else if you're going to get involved in this kind of thing: I definitely get the feeling that referees find it harder to penalise him than they do other, less important players.
What Johnson did was worth a three-week ban, but the ban should have come into effect from the day of the offence. He should not have played against Ireland, but having played against them, it seems unfair to me as a fellow player that he should be deprived of taking part in Saturday's match against France - the biggest match of England's whole season - simply because it took the RFU almost two weeks to summon a tribunal. There is no consistency in the system.
If Johnson can protest that the tribunal is not valid, because he was given a yellow card, and could be said to have been punished on the spot, that is an anomaly. The solution in the long-term would be for the RFU to set up a disciplinary commission which looks at match videos immediately and is prepared to over-ride referees' decisions if the verdict is considered to be too lenient. And they should look at the location of tribunals - why have the hearing in Bristol, which isn't the most convenient place for a player like Johnson to get to?
I'm fully behind Bernard Laporte's policy of not selecting players who have been given yellow or red cards immediately before international weekends. In France we see the need to clamp down on violence on the pitch as important, as it's been a big problem for us in the past. If people want to watch boxing, they can go to a boxing match. We're on the pitch to play rugby, not to fight.
If Laporte wants to exclude those players who fight or respond badly to provocation, there is also a pragmatic element to his line. As he's already said, he doesn't want to end up playing with 14 men in internationals - and it's fair to say that if you look back, say 20 years, not many of the French team from back then would be in his side now.
There is less and less violence on the pitch during French club games now, but it's fair to say that in France the incident involving Johnson and Russell would have ended up in a free-for-all melee.
That's the bad side of the Latin temperament. There isn't the sense of fair play that there is in the English Premiership. There are fewer players with really hot heads and more respect in general, if you take Johnson out of the equation, and there aren't many punches thrown except in the odd game such as the infamous Gloucester-Newcastle match.
If Johnson's appeal is not upheld, it's hard to speculate about the effect on England. It used to be said that without Lawrence Dallaglio, they would not win, but that's clearly not true. Now they say the same about Johnson, but Danny Grewcock is there to replace him. On the field, they are similar players, so the only real difference is in Johnson's psychological importance to the side.
For the France game, Jonny Wilkinson or Jason Robinson would be a far greater loss to England than Johnson. England are perfectly capable of winning in Paris with or without their captain.
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Photo by Vicki Harris
Photo by Vicki Harris
In the newspaper business, the written word is, well, everywhere. Here is a look at some mostly useless, but interesting, tidbits about word-related items.
* It's better to be safe than sorry ... Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
* Don't judge a book by its cover ... Clothes make the man.
* Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today ... Don't cross that bridge until you come to it.
* Absence makes the heart grow fonder ... Out of sight, out of mind.
* You are never too old to learn ... You can't teach an old dog new tricks.
* Two heads are better than one ... Paddle your own canoe.
* Many hands make light work ... Too many cooks spoil the broth.
* Haste makes waste ... Time waits for no man.
* The two longest words that can be typed using only the left hand are stewardesses and reverberated.
* Lollipop is the longest word that can be typed using only the right hand.
* Skepticisms is the longest word that can be typed using alternate hands.
* The average person's left hand does 56 percent of the typing.
* Typewriter is the longest word that can be made using the letters on a single row of the keyboard.
* The letters H, I, O, and X are the only letters that look the same when flipped upside down or viewed from behind.
* The word "deeded" is made up of only two letters, each used three times.
* Three consecutive double letters can be found only in the words "bookkeeping" and "bookkeeper."
* When pelling out every number from 0 to 999, every vowel is used except for "a." It is necessary to go all the way to one thousand to find that particular vowel.
* "Queuing" is the only word with five consecutive vowels.
* The only word that uses each vowel only once and in reverse order is "subcontinental."
* "Widow" is the only female form in the English language that is shorter than its corresponding male term (widower).
* There is a seven-letter word in the English language that contains 10 words without rearranging any of its letters, "therein": the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, ere, therein, herein.
* The shortest word in the English language with all its letters in alphabetical order is the word "almost."
* Some Biblical scholars believe that Aramaic (the language of the ancient Bible) did not contain an easy way to say "many things" and used a term which has come down to us as 40. This means that when the Bible -- in many places -- refers to "40 days," they meant "many days."
* Of all the words in the English language, the word "set" has the most definitions!
Oxymorons are figures of speech which produce seemingly self-contradictory effects. Eamaples include:
* good grief * pretty ugly
* virtual reality * same difference
* freezer burn * even odds
* student teacher * minor crisis
* clearly confused * now then
* near miss * genuine imitation
Palindromes are words or phrases which read the same in both directions. Some simple examples are:
* nun * madam
* eye * deed
* level * civic
* racecar * radar
* Good blood, bad blood.
* Ed had edited it.
* Six short slow shepherds
* Are our oars oak?
* Nine nice night nurses nursing nicely.
1. What do the following words have in common?
2. What are the next four letters in this series.
Y Y H L Y E Y T ..
3. Rearrange these letters to give four different 6-letter words:
4. Here is a quotation with all the spaces and vowels removed. What is the quotation?
5. Rearrange these letters to give the title of a Clint Eastwood movie:
Folks in the South seem to just have a way with words. To those of us fortunate enough to have been raised in this part of the country, southern sayin's make perfect sense. Here are a few favorites.
* He's two bricks short of a load.
* Tell the truth and shame the devil.
* She's about as useful as buttons on a dishrag.
* He's tougher than a two dollar steak.
* He'd steal the bridle off a nightmare.
* Either fish or cut bait.
* Happy as a dead pig in the sunshine.
* Even a blind hog finds an acorn now and then.
* Just hold your beans 'til your taters cool.
Newspaper headlines sometimes imply more than the writer intends...Here are some examples.
* Stolen painting found by tree
* Dealers will hear car talk at noon
* Red tape holds up new bridge
* Hospitals are sued by 7 foot doctors
* Miners refuse to work after death
Answers to "Just for Fun": 1. The first letter of each can be changed to form a color word (yellow, black, blue, brown, gold) 2. R R R (the last letters of the remaining htree months of the year) 3. bluest, bustle, sublet, subtle 4. To err is human, to forgive divine (Alexander Pope) 5. "High Plains Drifter"
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'Mama' should be full-blown musical
WEST HARWICH — "Mama and Her Boys," the new musical playing at the Harwich Junior Theatre, often feels like a hodgepodge of other musicals. In fact the show steals (or should I say, borrows) from a wide variety of sources including "Mama Mia!," Guns N' Roses and even Lady Gaga.
That's not necessarily a bad thing. I mean, "Moulin Rouge" borrowed from scores of other sources and was, at the very least, consistently entertaining. I think that was partly because of the musical numbers and partly due to the ingenious plot. (I admit I'm a sucker for stories about depressed writers). "Mama and Her Boys" has maybe the thinnest storyline of any musical I've ever seen which I don't fault it for as it is a musical revue. As the Oxford Musical Encyclopedia reminds us, a musical revue is a "topical theatrical entertainment consisting of a series of scenes having a central theme but no plot."
What: "Mama and Her Boys"
Where: Harwich Junior Theatre
When: Through Sept. 30; Friday and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m., Sundays at 2 p.m.
Tickets: Adults, $25; youth under 21, $15
I suppose the proper thing would be to accept the genre on its own terms and forget the transparent setup about the neurotic mother and her two sons in favor of the brilliant performances. Still, I wonder if the play would have been better as a full-blown musical with a fleshed out comic storyline rather than just a revue. For example, the backstory about Mama and her failed marriage to the boys' father told in colorful dialogue would have been a welcome substitute for at least one of the songs.
That's not to suggest any of the songs are badly performed. Indeed, both Wendy Watson, who plays Mama, and Ethan Paulini and Christopher Sidoli, who play her boys, have remarkable voices. I won't soon forget their rendition of Guns N' Roses' "Sweet Child of Mine," which they transform into an elegiac ballad about the pain of growing older.
I can't say they do the same for Lady Gaga's "Born This Way," but then they're mostly using that song for comic relief.
Watson plays Mama as a loving but stern matriarch who believes in the law of reciprocity. As she often reminds her boys, "When you're good to Mama, Mama's good to you." The boys tow the line for the most part, that is until they start suggesting it's time they leave home. Mama would prefer they stay by her side forever rather than take off like their good-for-nothing father who blew the family fortune at the race track. Whenever the boys disappoint her, Mama inevitably accuses them of being "just like your father."
I suspect that "Mama and her Boys" is a labor of love for Watson, Paulini, and Sidoli who conceived and created the show together. As performers they're top notch, but as creators I would challenge them to push themselves further. Why not try to write some snappy comic dialogue to fill in the dead spots between songs? They might find themselves with a full-blown musical on their hands rather than just a revue.
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Warming Cabinet Automatic Recorder & Verification System
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Enthermics dual-purpose injection/irrigation fluid warming cabinets feature intuitive controls, rugged construction and reliable warming. Now a new optional feature ensures even greater temperature accuracy and significant labor savings. The WarmWatch™ automatic recording and verifying system features a continuous temperature monitoring system that provides instant confirmation of the chamber temperature. An independent monitoring probe verifies that the chamber reaches and maintains the set-point temperature. This option also digitally documents the warmer's temperature performance. The independent monitoring probe ensures that the actual chamber temperature is recorded, not just the displayed set-point temperature. This data can be downloaded to a USB flash drive and then to a computer at any desired time interval to provide reliable documentation.
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Francis Blanchard obituary
He steered the ILO through the east-west divisions of the 1970s
• The Guardian,
Francis Blanchard
Blanchard played a key role in getting international recognition for Solidarity
Francis Blanchard, who has died aged 93, was director-general of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) in interesting times, from 1974 to 1989. In this period the US left the organisation and then came back, Taiwan left and China joined after a long hesitation, the "basic needs" development concept was launched, and ideological battles ran high.
However, life had made Blanchard a man who could handle delicate situations. Born in Paris, he studied at the Sorbonne, did his military service in the air force from 1937 to 1940, and survived his airfield being bombed by the Germans. He spent several years during the second world war at Vichy, working as an assistant to Lucien Romier, a former director of Le Figaro, who was appointed minister of state by Marshal Philippe Pétain, leader of the collaborationist government. Blanchard later told me that he was involved in resistance activities while at Vichy.
By October 1944, he was in Paris at the ministry of the interior, working in a unit that dealt with refugees, displaced persons and prisoners. He was part of the team negotiating with Soviet officials over the return of thousands of Soviet soldiers. This delicate balancing act suggested he was the right person to participate in the creation of the International Refugee Organisation in Geneva, where he worked from 1947 until 1951.
David Morse, the long-serving director-general of the ILO (1948-70), asked Blanchard to join this UN agency in 1951, starting a 38-year career there. He became assistant director-general in 1956 and deputy director-general in 1968. The following year, which marked the ILO's 50th anniversary, brought significant success for the organisation. It was awarded the Nobel peace prize; Pope Paul VI addressed the International Labour Conference ("development is the new dimension of peace"); and Morse launched the World Employment Programme.
Morse left in May 1970, and in the election that followed, Blanchard was defeated for the post of director-general by Wilfred Jenks, a British lawyer who won by only two votes. Jenks died in October 1973 and Blanchard became his successor in March 1974.
In the meantime, difficulties had accumulated and Blanchard entered a minefield. Jenks had appointed a Soviet official as assistant director-general immediately after his election, to the fury of an influential delegate, George Meany, the boss of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organisations. Soon after, the US stopped paying its financial contribution and threatened to leave the organisation. The UN general assembly decided in 1971 to withdraw Taiwan's seat and give it to mainland China. But China was hesitant about entering the ILO. With the US threatening to withdraw, and China hesitant, the universality of the organisation was in danger. The ideological battles thus let loose, on top of the Palestine question, threatened the ILO's very existence.
There were also heated discussions, across the entire UN structure of organisations, about international income redistribution, prompted by President Houari Boumedienne of Algeria's New International Economic Order proposals in 1973.
The ILO is a tripartite organisation – governments, employers and trade unions – and most of these members wanted it to concentrate on labour market questions and the international labour code. To his credit, Blanchard pushed the organisation to work in the more general field of social progress through economic development. In line with this priority, in 1976 he launched the World Employment Conference, which introduced a development strategy designed to fulfil the basic needs of the entire population over the next 25 years, in terms of food, shelter, education and health, by a combination of economic growth and income distribution. This was a courageous initiative on Blanchard's part because income distribution was (and still is) a red flag for the Americans.
I was director of the ILO World Employment Programme in those days, and remember Blanchard as nervous but steady. The US administration under President Jimmy Carter embraced the concept of basic human needs in January 1977, but then decided to leave the organisation some 10 months later. The reason was that Meany resented the fact that the Soviet Union, according to him, had nine votes in the ILO (three countries with three representatives each). When Meany died in 1980, the US rejoined the organisation and in 1983 China finally decided to join. Patient diplomacy was rewarded, universality was restored and Blanchard was secure.
During the 1980s, Blanchard played an important role in getting Lech Walesa and his Polish Solidarity trade union recognised internationally. He also tried to change the absurd structural adjustment policies of the international financial institutions by organising a high-level conference in 1987, but the US and the UK refused to be represented at the appropriate level and no follow-up came about.
Months before the Berlin wall came down, Blanchard left the ILO. In retrospect, he was proud of his efforts in Poland in the 1980s and his contribution to social development and employment in the developing world in the 1970s. But what many of us who knew him remember most is his good heart, reflected in his help to trade unionists in mortal danger and political refugees from behind the iron curtain who needed assistance.
Blanchard made a last public appearance at the 90th anniversary of the ILO in June 2009. He was predeceased by his wife, Marie-Claire, and a son. Another son survives him.
• Francis Blanchard, international labour administrator, born 21 July 1916; died 9 December 2009
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Movies From the Black Lagoon: Hard Revenge Milly
Movies From the Black Lagoon
Hard Revenge Milly - 2008, Unrated
By Tom Doty
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A gang of nihilistic thugs meet their match when they cross the titular woman in this gory revenge melodrama from Japan.
The action takes place in a bleak future that has seen the collapse of Tokyo and the rise of Yokohama City. When we first meet Milly she is making short work of a goon after luring him to an abandoned warehouse on the pretense of buying drugs. Milly may not look all that tough but she doesn't have to when she rocks a nasty sword that springs from her elbow. She effectively disarms the bad guy by slicing his shoulder in two like she was carving up a Christmas ham.
Flashbacks lowly reveal that she lost her husband and infant to gang called 'The Jack Brothers." She seeks out a retired weapon smith, Jubei, who has seen it all and tries to convince her that vengeance is a bad way to go. When Jubei realizes that Milly is going forward with or without his assistance he relents and helps her come up with a few gadgets that James Bond would be afraid to try.
Milly's plan is simple. Lure one thug to his death and then stash the body at an abandoned apartment building that she can then booby trap until it's a roach motel for thugs. Next she uses the guy's phone to get the rest of the gang on her trail and they promptly show up. Sadly they have done so many bad things that none of them can remember her except for their vicious leader.
Milly makes short work of the gangsters in a series of excellently staged battles within the apartment complex. She doesn't just put them down. She puts enormous holes in them, sets fire to one, and even decapitates a victim so quickly that their torso fires several shots before dropping to the floor. It is all an appetizer for her showdown with the boss. They go at it for almost a half hour in one of the bloodiest seesaw battles ever filmed. It's an exciting conclusion that rivals the last confrontation in Quentin Tarantino's "Kill Bill: Part One."
This is one of the goriest films I've seen of late but it's nothing compared to some of the splatter that is currently coming out of Japan. These films have been doing better in America than at home so expect more. These gory thrillers are just one cycle of genre film form a country with a rich tradition of embracing genre material. Next week the Lagoon will begin a month long tribute to Japanese cinema with a quartet of excellent releases that showcase some of the best brain candy you'll ever treat yourself too. Till then look for "Milly " on DVD. Not only is it a fun flick but also it is so short (about an hour) that the DVD also features the sequel 'Bloody Battle" wherein Milly teams up with a young lady who also has an axe to grind with a very bad dude.
Best Line: "You probably are whacko but your nose is normal."
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Whether the separated soul knows singulars?
Objection 1: It would seem that the separated soul does not know singulars. For no cognitive power besides the intellect remains in the separated soul, as is clear from what has been said above (Q[77], A[8]). But the intellect cannot know singulars, as we have shown (Q[86], A[1]). Therefore the separated soul cannot know singulars.
Objection 2: Further, the knowledge of the singular is more determinate than knowledge of the universal. But the separated soul has no determinate knowledge of the species of natural things, therefore much less can it know singulars.
Objection 3: Further, if it knew the singulars, yet not by sense, for the same reason it would know all singulars. But it does not know all singulars. Therefore it knows none.
On the contrary, The rich man in hell said: "I have five brethren" (Lk. 16:28).
I answer that, Separated souls know some singulars, but not all, not even all present singulars. To understand this, we must consider that there is a twofold way of knowing things, one by means of abstraction from phantasms, and in this way singulars cannot be directly known by the intellect, but only indirectly, as stated above (Q[86], A[1]). The other way of understanding is by the infusion of species by God, and in that way it is possible for the intellect to know singulars. For as God knows all things, universal and singular, by His Essence, as the cause of universal and individual principles (Q[14], A[2]), so likewise separate substances can know singulars by species which are a kind of participated similitude of the Divine Essence. There is a difference, however, between angels and separated souls in the fact that through these species the angels have a perfect and proper knowledge of things; whereas separated have only a confused knowledge. Hence the angels, by reason of their perfect intellect, through these species, know not only the specific natures of things, but also the singulars contained in those species; whereas separated souls by these species know only those singulars to which they are determined by former knowledge in this life, or by some affection, or by natural aptitude, or by the disposition of the Divine order; because whatever is received into anything is conditioned according to the mode of the recipient.
Reply to Objection 1: The intellect does not know the singular by way of abstraction; neither does the separated soul know it thus; but as explained above.
Reply to Objection 2: The knowledge of the separated soul is confined to those species or individuals to which the soul has some kind of determinate relation, as we have said.
Reply to Objection 3: The separated soul has not the same relation to all singulars, but one relation to some, and another to others. Therefore there is not the same reason why it should know all singulars.
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Zheng Zhilong
Koxinga and Zheng Zhilong.jpg
Illustration of Zheng Zhilong and his son Koxinga
Personal details
Born 1604
Died 1661 (aged 56–57)
Beijing, Qing Empire
Spouse(s) Tagawa Matsu
Relations Father: Zheng Shaozu
Mother: Lady Wang
Children Zheng Chenggong
Tagawa Shichizaemon
Religion Catholic, Mazu (goddess), Marici (Buddhism)
Zheng Zhilong
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese 郑芝龙
Traditional Chinese 鄭芝龍
Japanese name
Kanji 鄭 芝龍
Kana ジェン・ジーロン
Hiragana てい しりゅう
Western name
Western Nicholas Iquan Gaspard
Early life
Zheng was born in Nan'an, Fujian, the son of Zheng Shaozu (鄭紹祖), a mid-level financial official for the Quanzhou government, and Zheng Shaozu's wife Lady Huang (黃氏). Contemporary biographies tell a possibly apocryphal story of how when Zheng was a child, he and his brothers wanted to eat longan fruit.1 They found a fruit tree in an enclosed courtyard but whose branches hung over the top of the wall into the street. They threw stones in the hope of knocking some of the fruit clusters loose.1 It happened to be the courtyard of the governor of Quanzhou City, and he was struck by the stones. The boys ran but were caught and hauled before the governor. Due to the child's age and apparent charisma, the governor forgave Zheng and released him, saying "This is the face of one destined for wealth and nobility."1 The story may or may not be true, but it encapsulated the character of Zheng: he ran wild, grasped at low hanging fruit, got in trouble, and came out the better for it.1
Zheng left home as a teenager, jumping aboard a merchant ship. Sources vary on why he left home, some saying he slipped his hand up his stepmothers skirt, others recording his father chasing him through the streets with a stick.1 Zheng went to Macau where his mother's brother lived (his uncle).1 He was baptized as a Catholic in Macau, receiving the Christian name Nicholas Gaspard.2 His uncle asked him to take some cargo Nagasaki, Japan, where he met a rich old Min man named Li Dan, also known as "Captain China", who became his mentor and possible homosexual lover.1 Li Dan had close ties with the Europeans and he arranged for Zheng to work as an interpreter for the Dutch (Zheng spoke Portuguese which the Dutch could also speak).1 In 1622, when Dutch forces took over the Pescadores archipelago off the Taiwan Strait, Li Dan sent Zheng to the Pescadores to work with the Dutch as a translator in peace negotiations. Before leaving Japan he met and married a local woman named Tagawa Matsu.1 He impregnated her with Zheng Chenggong (Koxinga), leaving Japan before she gave birth in 1624.1 After Li died in 1623, Zheng acquired his fleet of ships.
The Dutch, wishing to control and monopolize commerce routes to Japan, collaborated with Chinese pirates.3 Zheng initially worked as a translator but soon became a highly successful pirate under the tutelage of the Dutch, who provided ships and weapons in exchange for a cut of the loot.1 Zheng prospered and by 1627 he was leading four hundred junks and tens of thousands of men.1 He built ten outposts on Taiwan's southwestern coastal region, between Tainan and Chiayi, but was evicted shortly after when the Dutch arrived on the island.
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1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Tonio Andrade. Lost Colony: The Untold Story of China's First Great Victory over the West, Princeton University Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0-691-14455-9.
2. ^ "Zheng Zhilong". Enyclopædia Britannica. 2011.
3. ^ (Chinese) "海禁下的民間活力: 尼古拉‧一官" [Nicholas Iquan]. National Palace Museum. Taipei.
• Andrade, Tonio (Dec. 2004). "The Company's Chinese Pirates: How the Dutch East India Company Tried to Lead a Coalition of Pirates to War Against China, 1621-1662". Journal of World History 15 (4): 415–444. doi:10.1353/jwh.2005.0124.
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***************************************************************************** I sit on the chair by the bed. My hands are in my lap. I'm staring at them. Just staring. They're folded, fingers laced together. Long, thin hands, with long, strong fingers. But they're not doing anything right now. A little while ago they were hitting Gandalf. And when Aragorn and Éomer dragged me off of him I started hitting them. By the time I was done hitting people I'd graduated to hitting the walls. And screaming. I remember screaming. I won't look at the bed. Oh, damn. My eyes are filling up again and my hands have gone all cloudy. I can see the edge of the bed at the top of my peripheral vision. The comforter is blue. I bought it after Faramir left me. I was so tired of pink, I guess I wanted the antithesis. So it's blue. I blink the tears away. I'm so tired of tears. And my throat hurts from screaming. And it's tight. Merry's sitting next to me. They've all taken turns sitting with me. They don't say anything, just sit there. Sometimes I don't sit. Sometimes I lie down on the floor. It makes a change. But after I've laid down on the floor for a while I get back up and sit in the chair. But I don't look at the bed. I know what it looks like. Heaven knows I did that enough. Merry sighs. I can tell from the corner of my eye that he's looking at me. But he doesn’t say anything. No one does, not any more. He gets up, walks out of the room. I can hear his shoes on the tile, clunk clunk clunk. He walks away, into the living room. Now I can hear voices, people talking. They're probably talking about me. I don't care. I won't look at the bed. I know what's on it. I don't want to see it. It hurts too much, and I’m so tired of hurting. I'm restless, I want to stand up. But if I stand up I might accidentally look at the bed. Someone's walking down the hall to the bedroom. Footsteps stop at the doorway, I can hear someone breathing. It's a man. "Éowyn?" It's Éomer. Oh please, don't talk to me. I can't talk. Every time I open my mouth my throat gets all tight again and I get that feeling like someone's just punched me in the stomach. Silence. He waits. Then he tries again. "Éowyn." I shift my feet, letting him know I'm listening, but I don't look up. "Do you want me to sit with you?" His voice is shaky too. Everyone's is. No one who's said anything for the past six hours has been able to say it straight. Wobbly, trembly, unsteady voices. Six hours. It feels more like six centuries. I decide to not stare at my hands any more. I’m going to stare at my feet. At least that's a little different. Long thin feet, red painted toenails. No calluses, no corns, no bunions. Just perfect feet to go on the ends of my perfect legs. My two-klick legs. It hits me like a blow, I double over, I can't breathe. I've got my hands over my head and I'm rocking, rocking, back and forth, the pressure building up in my skull until I think it's going to explode. There's a whining, a high keening noise coming out of me, like a prelude to an eruption. I feel hands on me, Éomer's hands, he's holding me, rubbing my back, trying to hug me. But I would have to sit up, my stomach hurts, and I might see the bed. He's speaking, he's saying something, he's crying. Then the sob comes out, horrible wrenching in my chest, tearing out my throat. How can I have any liquid left in my body to make more tears? Surely I must be dehydrated by now. I slide out of his arms to the floor. Cold hard tile on my face, my elbows, my knees; I'm hiding, hiding from him, hiding from this horrible pain. More footsteps. Aragorn is speaking, low quiet voice, bedside voice, the hands of the king are the hands of the healer. "Just leave her alone, Éomer. There's nothing we can do, nothing we can say. We all just have to ride it out." His voice shakes. He's crying too. The footsteps leave, the breathing leaves. There are two people in this room but only one of them is breathing. I don't know how long I crouch there, my tears making a puddle under my face, but after a while the racking sobs stop again and I roll onto my side. I lie there, waiting for my chest to stop hurting. I keep doing this. I stop, then I start and my chest hurts. I stop until my chest stops hurting, then I start again. It was worse at first. The screaming was definitely worse. I'm not sure who was louder, me or Gimli, but this place was mayhem for a while. I open my eyes. I can see under my bed. A shoe, an earring, a couple of dust bunnies. When was the last time I vacuumed under here? I stretch out my arm and pick up the earring. I thought I'd lost this at work. I'd put it in my jewelry box but that would entail getting up, and I'm so tired. So I cradle it in the palm of my hand and stare at the dust bunnies. I'll never answer the phone again. I didn't believe him at first. I could hear yelling in the background, Gimli yelling, Éomer yelling. It was Aragorn, trying to explain what had happened. I didn't understand. Fifteen thousand years of survival, and one touch does it? It didn't happen. He'll be all right, just wait a couple of minutes. I'm sure you're mistaken. Then Gandalf. Hysterical. The staff, the ring, the flash of light. He's a Maia. He knows. That's why I attacked him when he came back. It was his hand that did it. I was screaming, "Bring him back! Bring him back!" as though it was just as easy to reverse it as it was to do it. But then Éomer brought him in and I knew. I still tried to argue. How did they know? Stupid of me. A doctor and a Maia. Of course they knew. What are the stages of grief again? Anger, denial, bargaining, what comes next – is depression one of them? I think I went through the first three and I'm stuck on the last one. No, wait, the last one is acceptance. Fuck that. Like I'll ever accept this. My cheek is starting to hurt from lying on the tile. I roll over onto my back and stare at the ceiling. There's a crack in the corner, and a stain from an old leak over my head. It's kind of shaped like a teapot. Or an amphora. That's it. I could drink. I could drink and drink and drink and drink until I passed out, then when I woke up I'd be hung-over, and have a damn good reason to feel this bad. That's what Gimli's doing. He hit the tequila within minutes after coming back. Tears streamed down his cheeks into his beard, his eyes were red, bloodshot. He could barely speak for sobbing. "He said he was sorry," was all I could get out of him. Sorry. Sorry for ending it. Sorry for obeying his master. Sorry for hurting me. I get punched again and I curl in. My stomach hurts, my throat hurts, my head hurts. My eyes burn from so many tears. I roll over onto my other side and face the wall. Something digs into my hand when I clench it into a fist. It's my earring. Another sob rips its way out of me and it hurts. Footsteps, soft ones this time, soft hands on my side. The smell of baby powder and hairspray. Small strong arms in soft silky sleeves slide under me, pull me up into a warm comfortable bosom, hold me there, rocking me like a baby. A quiet voice, a mother's voice, a mother who knows death and loss and pain and sorrow. "Go ahead and cry, dear," says Rosie, and I do what she says, I cry and cry and cry into her breasts until her pretty satin shirt is all stained with my tears, but I can feel drops of water on my head and I know she's crying too. I don’t know how long I cry but when I'm done I lie there, staring past her at the wall, one hand on my mouth, the other holding my earring. And still she rocks me, rocks me like a baby, and I lie there and let her. When she speaks again I can hear her voice through her chest, can hear it over her heartbeat. "We all loved him," she says softly. "But you and Gimli loved him best, and you two are the ones hurting the most." Oh, you understand, don't you; you understand what I'm feeling. You know that sucker-punch, the jab to the kidneys. I inhale, a deep shuddering breath. "Rosie," I say. I'm still sobbing, my voice thick and choked. "What am I going to do?" "There, there, now, dear," she croons, and I feel her hand stroking my hair. "You'll do just what he would have wanted you to do. You'll go on and do things and go places and meet people. You'll be strong, you'll be his Shieldmaiden." I start to sob again. It's too hard. "I don't want to be a Shieldmaiden anymore," I say, I know it's stupid but I say it anyway. Rosie sighs. "Well, you might change your mind about that eventually, dear," she says, and gives me a squeeze. I shut my eyes. "Now then, dear, would you like a cup of tea? Might settle your stomach a bit." I haven't had anything to eat since dinner. We all sat around the table when the guys left, swapping stories, trying to distract ourselves from what they were going to do. Not that I think any of us really knew what they WERE going to do – if I'd known Gandalf was heading out to off Faramir I wouldn't have been as calm as I was. Lothíriel kept asking me what he was like in bed. Arwen and Rosie wouldn't listen; Arwen because he was like a brother to her and it grossed her out, Rosie because it "wasn't proper-like." But Lothíriel, Diamond, and Estella hooted with laughter when I told them how many times we'd done it. Twenty-four hours. We were together barely twenty-four hours. Rosie squeezes me again, and I say, "No thanks. No tea." "No?" She kisses the top of my head, where her tears wet my hair. "Well, let me know if you'd like any. Do you want to come out with us into the lounge? We won't talk to you if you'd rather not." "No," I say. My voice is a little stronger, I think I'm done for now. "I want to stay in here a little while longer." Rosie pauses. I know she doesn't like me being in here, but she knows now would be a very bad time to start ordering me around. "All right then, dear. Do you want to get back up into your chair?" And look at the bed? Hell, no. "No," I say. I roll out of her lap and lie on the floor again. The tile is cool on my cheek. She kneels beside me for a minute, stroking my hair; then she squeezes my shoulder, gets up, and pads out of the room. I can hear voices in the living room. Gandalf is explaining something; his Oxford accent is slipping, catching, snagging on his sorrow. "I don't know why he did it," he's saying, for about the twentieth time. "But the Valar accepted the substitution. I didn't know, I couldn't stop it – " He sobs, I hear Frodo say something like, "It wasn't your fault," and I close my eyes. Typical of the stubborn bastard, dying just because Manwë told him to. I'm not sure whether I admire him or hate him for it. Faramir goes free and the Listener dies. The Listener. I haven't thought his name since I came in here. I started out looking at him, then I sat down and looked at my hands, and now I'm here on the floor again. I open my hand, look at the earring. It's not even a real pearl. I drop it on the floor. I can't lie here forever. I'll have to get up eventually. I may not ever stop hurting, I might cry for centuries, I might slog through the rest of my days doubled over with pain, but even ceramic tile isn't eternal and if I lie here long enough watching the dust bunnies reproduce I'm sure I'll miss out on something important. It's only cowardice preventing me from getting up. If I can just get up and look at him, if I can just walk out of this bedroom and leave him behind for a while, I'll have proven that I really AM a Shieldmaiden, and not that gutless, weak-hearted, spineless wimp I was when he picked me up in Pasadena. He spent twenty-four hours awakening my Inner Shieldmaiden and I'll repay him poorly by cowering under the bed, refusing to face him. First things first. I roll onto my knees and elbows, rest my forehead against the tile. How he'd laugh at me if he saw me, my butt stuck up into the air. I push up so my arms are straight. He wouldn't laugh now. He'd be biting my ass, or reaching around to unbutton my fly, or rubbing up against me from behind. I feel the thrill of anticipation quiver through me and more tears drop onto the floor. Never again . . . It takes me a minute, but I close my eyes and stand up. I can see the reddish glow of the bedside table lamp through my eyelids. I'm facing in the right direction, right next to the bed. All I need to do is open my eyes. I know they're not glued shut. They just feel like it. Oh god, why did this have to happen? Why did he even come? It would've been better if he'd never come. No, that's not true. Even twenty-four hours with him is better than no hours at all, despite the horrible ending. I open my eyes and look down at the bed. Legolas. I knew he was dead when Éomer laid his body down on my bed. That quick, kinetic, twitchy, energetic form was limp, flaccid, sagging in my brother's arms, head lolling back, limbs askew. The eyes were half open, lightless, dull; his jaw was clenched, teeth gripping the tip of his tongue, testament to the torment of his death. As I look down upon that still gray face I remember hearing Aragorn speak to Arwen and Lothíriel – "Did he suffer?" Lothíriel had asked anxiously. Aragorn was sobbing. "Oh god, he was in agony – " And I heard Pippin in Diamond's arms, brokenly describing his screams, his thrashing, the long body arching up in anguish before the light left his eyes and he dropped lifeless to the ground. It's so strange to see him like this; it's almost as though it's not really him. That translucent abalone skin is colorless, waxy; the hair has lost its luster, spread out on the pillow, the thin nimble fingers lightly flexed, perfectly still. It's the lips that convince me he's gone, he's left the shell of this body and gone elsewhere, where, Gandalf couldn't say; rejected by Námo, he said. Harborless, anchorless, homeless; abandoned, deaf, mute, halt and blind – a worse agony than the physical death is the spiritual one. The rose-leaf pink of those cupids-bow lips is gone, replaced by a lackluster purply-blue. The marble cheeks have lost their hint of color, the creamy thick eyelids darkened, wrinkled. When they first laid him down I threw myself across his body, wanting to make him start breathing, make him come back. The chest was still, I couldn't hear a heart beat, and I just lay there with my face in his cold dry hair, until the scent of rosemary faded completely. Then I started screaming. The tears roll down my cheeks, down my neck, down my chest, over my breasts. I'm not sobbing, but the tears roll down and down, like a dull trickle from a heavy gray sky, a drizzle, dribbling down my chin and soaking into my shirt. All right. I think I've looked at him long enough. I KNOW what he looks like dead. Now I want to think about what he looked like when he was alive. It's all I've got, now. I can't, here in this room, with his body lying there inert in front of me. It mocks my memory, reminds me I'll never hear his loud brassy laugh, smell the rich piney scent of his hair, feel the satiny smooth hardness of his skin. I'll never lie with my head on his breast, hearing the comforting thrum-thrum of his heartbeat after we make love. Love. I never told him I loved him. I was too scared. The Shieldmaiden was too fucking scared. He kept trying to tell me, casting hints, hoping I wouldn't run off screaming. Well, it's too late now. I can't even ask Gandalf to tell Manwë to tell Námo I said I loved him, because he's been denied entry to the Halls of Mandos and no one's talking to him now. I screwed up. I spent thousands of years desperately loving a worthless piece of shit, and when the perfect guy came along I was too fucking timid to put my heart on the line and tell him how I felt. Oh sure, I sang him that aria, but he was the one who said, "Die Liebe ist’s allein." And how did I respond? " Réponds à ma tendresse, verse-moi l’ivresse." What a cop-out. I turn my back on the bed. Will I come back in here later? I don't know. Probably. I look at the door. Gimli is standing there. Well, propped up against the door-jamb, anyway, holding a nearly empty bottle of tequila. Bleary-eyed, still damp about the beard area, red-nosed and sniffling. Someone who feels as bad about this as I do. Amazing. He swallows a couple of times; I can tell he's gearing up to say something and doesn't want his voice to break again. I wait. I have forever to wait, after all, and nothing to hurry to do. At last he says in a quavery voice, "Gonna sit here a while, 'kay?" I nod. He totters in, his eyes on Legolas' body. I step aside and he sits heavily in the chair, broad shoulders sagging, hands drooping limply from the ends of his arms, bottle swinging, staring blankly. Neither of us moves for a long time. All I can hear is his breathing, heavy, through his mouth, and my own, whistling through my nose. I clear my throat. "Okay?" I ask. He nods. I turn and walk out. People are lumped around the living room like sacks of potatoes. No one's moving, they're just sitting around, slumped over, heads in hands, drooping. Only Rosie is upright, weary-eyed but alert; Sam's head is in her lap, and he's asleep. I look at the clock. It's almost six thirty. The sun will be rising soon. I look out of the sliding glass doors to the patio. The back wall is a black shadow; the sky is lightening from deep blue to purple. Suddenly I want to see the sunrise. I missed it yesterday morning; by the time I woke up I was in Legolas' arms as he made sweet love to me in our bedroom. Our bedroom. Not mine. Quite a difference twenty-four hours makes in a person's life. I cross to the glass doors and unlatch them. The click makes Lothíriel's head jerk up; she's curled up in Éomer's arms. They both look over at me. "Where are you going?" she asks, brushing her hands over her face. Tearstained face, like mine. "Outside," I say. My throat is getting tight again and I don't want to talk. "Do you want to be alone?" Arwen turns to me from her spot on the floor, where she's cushioned in Aragorn's lap. Her lovely eyes are ravaged, bright with tears. He was like a brother to her, the brother given her after the Twins broke ties. "Yes," I say. It's hard enough handling my pain. I don't want to have to deal with someone else's, too. The door rumbles open, I step onto the rough stone floor of the patio, and slide it shut behind me. I hear crickets, tree frogs, the soft distant roar of traffic. I inhale. Damp grass, concrete, the faintest after-scent of barbecue. The Christmas lights are still up, turned off but hanging from the palm trees and oak branches; the tiki torches are burnt out, black and smelling of fuel. I walk carefully, trying not to hurt my feet on the bumps and knobs of the patio tile, and when I get to the edge I sit down and put my feet in the cold grass. I look to the sky. It's lighter now, almost lavender, and the stars are fading. Yes, this is better. Better than sitting in that hot little room, watching him grow colder and stiffer. Better than watching the others watch me, better than fielding questions about how I'm doing, better than hearing the self-recriminations, the angry accusations, the weeping. I think I'll stay out here forever and not ever go back inside, never never never. Shit. My feet are cold, and the dew is soaking my butt. Okay. Not forever. But at least for a while. I wish I could turn my brain off. I keep seeing him alive, then him dead. I see him in my head, talking and cooking and throwing his head back to laugh, then I see him limp and gray and cold. I watch the sky as it gets lighter, then I get tired of that and bury my head in my arms, propped up on my knees. Peace, Shieldmaiden. I raise my head, look around. Who said that? I am Yavanna. Oh shit. I'm either going nuts, hearing voices in my head, or . . . Or I'm hearing voices in my head, and I'm NOT going nuts. Either prospect scares the shit out of me. You are not going mad, Shieldmaiden. With the Listener gone, I must speak to you directly, for his intervention has been taken from you. It sure the hell has. What's up with that, anyway? What the hell was Manwë thinking, doing that to him? All he ever did was obey perfectly, he Listened when he was supposed to, told everyone what they were supposed to do, did everything you and Elbereth and Manwë told him to do. And what thanks does he get? An excruciating death and eternal damnation. I don't call that very fucking fair. In fact, it's fucking UNfair, and I'm pissed as hell, and I don't want to listen to you, I don't care what you have to say to me, I'm mad and I don't give a flying fuck about ANY of you any more, so you might as well just shut up and leave me alone. You've never done a damn thing for me anyway, just gave me a worthless trashy husband who treated me like shit, and just when I think things are finally going right you fucking pull the rug out from underneath me, and if that's not bad enough you punished the GOOD guy and let the BAD guy go off scott-free. What the fuck's up with that? Don't you have any sense of right and wrong? Or are you so removed from normal people's lives that you just sit up there on your damn fat immortal asses, throwing lightning bolts down at the poor shitheads living beneath you, thinking it's some damn computer game like the Sims? Oh no, we don't matter at all, we're not Valar after all; we must not have feelings or opinions or anything else that matters to you, so you think you can just jerk us around and ruin our lives and do whatever the hell you want with no consequences or responsibility at all. Well, fuck you! Take your Valinor and your Two Trees and your stuck-up superiority complex and shove it up your ass, because I am NOT having ANYTHING to do with ANY of you ANY MORE. The crickets chirp and the tree frogs croak. I lift my head. The sky has streaks of green in it now, and it's a pale blue – like his eyes were blue – clear blue – deep blue. Oh god, I miss him. I know how much you desire to be with him, and it pains me to feel your grief. But sorrow, like night, has its end; you need only wait for it to dawn upon you. Sorry, Yavanna, there's no end to grief for me. I've got to live for at least another fifteen thousand years, and if I can't have him there's nothing for me to do. Ah, there you are mistaken, my Shieldmaiden. There is much left for you beneath the circle of this earth. There is sorrow here, and hurt; pain and suffering, toil and poverty, confusion and hatred. All these things you are here to combat; you are our vessels, our hands. And the soul that has felt these griefs is all the more mighty to oppose them. Oh, great. So not only do I have to live alone for another hundred centuries, I get to work my ass off trying to get people to treat each other properly. What a charming prospect. Thanks all the same, my lady, but I think I'll just stay here. Would you reject your calling, as your husband did, and cower beneath a cloak of mortality, rejecting our commands? Um . . . well, when you put it that way . . . no, I guess not. And besides, if I did that, I'd lose touch with everyone else again, and that would suck. Do you then accept your destiny? Do I have a choice? You always have the choice, Shieldmaiden. Well? Do you accept what I have planned for your future? Sure. Why the hell not? I'm not doing anything right now, anyway. Hey. Since I can hear you, does that make me a Listener, too? I mean, now that Legolas is gone, you're going to need someone else to Hear. Does this mean you've picked me? Am I the one that's going to go all weird-glowy-eyed now? I told you, in the Listener's death, other channels had to be sought. For now, you are that channel. Oh. Well. Okay, I guess. I can do that. I mean, that's not so bad. And Legolas never seemed to mind. And you're always there, right? I mean, as long as you're speaking to me. So it's not like I'll ever really be alone. I promise you, beloved Shieldmaiden, you are never alone. So I can talk to you when I need to? Yes. And ask you questions, things I need to know? Yes, Éowyn. Like, what do I do now? I would suggest you rejoin the rest of the Chosen. See, the sun is rising; night is ended. Sorrow endures only for the night. Your presence will reassure them. It will? Funny, thought I was being a major downer. Guess I'd better stop moping and start doing something. Like fix breakfast or something, right? Well – I'm not much of a cook. Maybe I'd better let Sam and Rosie do that. Or – wait, I know. Rosie keeps pushing cups of tea on me. I bet it would make her feel better if I had a cup of tea, it would make her feel like she was helping me. Is that a good idea? Is that sort of what you meant? Well done, Shieldmaiden! Your desires honor you. Should I go inside now? Yes. Okay then. Oh – and, um, I'm sorry about cussing you out – but I'm still kind of pissed, you know. Anger fades as well as sorrow. Be well, Shieldmaiden. I sigh, heave myself to my feet. Damn – my butt's drenched. Oh, well. Water dries eventually. And if I do it right, I can leave little butt-cheek-shaped wet spots all over the furniture. Legolas would've liked that. Probably just because it would've pissed off Faramir, but still. I turn back to the sliding glass door. Now it's lighter outside than it is inside, and I can't see through the glass. All I can see is the reflection of the sky on the glass, and as I watch, the sun-reflection rises over the wall-reflection, and I'm bathed in light. Things could've been worse, I guess. I mean, he could've died without our having had that twenty-four hours at all. Sure, I'd never have known what I missed, but I wouldn't have had all that happiness, either. It hurts like hell now, but he was worth it – oh man, was he worth it. I turn around, watch the sunrise for a while, and wish like hell he was standing next to me.
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View Full Version : My take on Felton
01-29-2008, 09:00 PM
Lurking quite a bit on the board I noticed that the play of Felton is discussed alot.
Felton's three year here have been up and down. He's been inconsistent. Has games where he looks brilliant, one's where you dont know what the hell he's doing. Now he should be criticized for not producing at a consistent rate, but does he deserve most of the blame?
Ray ended his rookie campaign on a high note, showed flashes of brilliance. The start of his second year, Brevin Knight remained the starter. One may say that Knight should have started due to the fact that he was the more experienced PG, but we were not really expecting to make any sort of playoff run, why not give your second year PG all the PT he could get, inorder to learn? Whatever, Felton was later moved to the two spot, so that he could get PT. You see here is where I just cannot understand what the coaching staff was thinking. You dont put an inexperienced young PG at a different position, that just screws things up because each position has a different role, different mentality. Later in the year, Knight gets hurt, Rays starts at PG. He had a great run before and after the AS break. He tailed off towards the end of the season. Knight comes back, Ray goes back to the two spot.
This year he was named the starting PG, but was he really the teams PG? Even before Jeff got the starting spot Jeff was playing more PG minutes. Ray would start the first 6min of every half at PG, but Jeff would finish games. You cant flip flop, ask the man to do one thing, what do you want him to be? Guys point to his flaws, but imo some of those flaws can be linked to his time at SG.
1. Aggressiveness: There are moments in the game when you dont even know he is on the floor. Then there's times when he is dominating. That's mental. Now, that could be something he came into the league with, but seeing as how the position(s) he has been playing flip flop on a constant basis, it would be foolish to not factor it in into what is a lack of balance in his aggression.
2. Lack of progression/Inconsistency: Inorder for a player to progress, they must feel comfortable. The game should get slower. This is Felton's third year and a guy like Rajon Rondo who was in the 06 draft has played more minutes (at PG). Some of Felton's issues like decision making improve with experience because the player is learning, with Felton it's been on and off, not much time for him learn from his errors and 'get it'. Inconsistent minutes at a position = inconsistent production
There are people who are writing off Felton (not just here) as an nba PG. To those people I will ask, has he gotten the opportunity to prove what he can do? I believe Felton is a very good passer, but his inconsistent behavior has me concerned. THIS is the year to find out whether or not he is the guy. We must play him at the PG spot. Why? We need to find out whether or not he is the guy. This will effect our moves in the offseason. Can we really make personnel moves at the PG spot, and feel comfortable about them right now? For example the Magic have played Nelson at PG, given him tons of opportunities to prove himself, he has failed, and now they can make moves to address that position. Can we say the same thing about Felton?
I dont want Felton to leave, get to play PG on another squad, and blow up (the kid has the talent to be great). Judging from Vincent's comments I believe he doesn't really like Felton (as a player). All in all, we used the number 5 pick on this guy, it's just crazy how he has yet to have ONE year where he was the the team's starting PG. I just want this team to succeed, we would be a playoff team right now if Jeff wasn't killing us.
oh yea....
01-29-2008, 09:10 PM
I agree with evrything you said and especially the last two words!
01-29-2008, 09:13 PM
Dang man you beat me to it.... :g:
Welcome to BobcatsPlanet Cashville :biggrin:
01-29-2008, 09:34 PM
I think part of Felton's problem this year is Vincent's reluctance to play him as the sole point guard. McInnis should primarily be an insurance policy or a player who gives Felton a rest, not someone who comes in, takes over the PG role for some amount of minutes, and relegates Felton to SG. Not only does this hinder Felton's development into a true point guard, it also hurts the team overall as McInnis is much worse than Felton. Vincent (or Jordan) needs to realize this and make this line-up change, because it would help Felton and the team. Also, leaving Felton at PG would free up the SG spot 100% of the time, meaning that J-Rich, GW, and Carroll (whom I would consider to be the next member of the Big Four if one was to add another player to the group), which can only add to our scoring total, as Felton is able to develop into a better passer and the best shooters are allowed to shoot more.
01-29-2008, 09:51 PM
Willy Fray on the bobcats planet... I know him (bonus points for getting new members to the sight?). Anyways yeah felton has been a big part of our discussions, however we obviously need him. We break down without him, so either him or a better true PG. god if we dont make the playoffs send us derrick rose
01-29-2008, 10:02 PM
Amen :) Welcome to BobcatsPlanet and... Fine Ham Biscuit!
01-29-2008, 10:34 PM
Welcome to BobcatsPlanet Cashville!
Very well said post here. I agree with everything you say. Hopefully Felts will develop into a fine point guard. We know its there. It's just getting it to work with this team.
01-29-2008, 11:31 PM
Cashville welcome, and I echo what everyone else said.
Vincent shouldn't have been pressured to make the playoffs so strongly his first season; that put the emphasis on the RECORD vs. the best interests of the team. It's much more important for us to find out what we really have in Felton vs. getting sweeped in the 1st round. The cost could be very severe.
I don't like Vincent, can't stand his comments to the media and pretty much just want him gone...but this isn't entirely his fault. At any point Jordan could just step in and change it all.
01-30-2008, 01:12 AM
Watch Felton when he's at SG with McInnis at Point. Nearly every offensive set he trots to the corner near the baseline and just stands there for a while. Sometimes he swings around to get the ball; but a lot of times he never touches it.
Thats called disappearing, but its not Felton; its what he's being told to do.
01-30-2008, 01:16 AM
Your take on Raymond is spot-on! People can say what they want about him, but he means as much to this team as anyone outside of Crash. We've proven we can't even beat a team like Philly without him (0-2, in fact!). He should be getting primo PG minutes but for whatever reason, Vincent prefers Jeff to start. Also, this lineup has shown us that Raymond is NOT a 2 guard; he can't make a jump shot consistently, and at times, not even an open jumper.
He thinks too much, whereas most great PGs operate on instinct. As I've said 4 or so times on this site, I think this is a product of being a Tarheel PG. Tarheel PGs are the equivalent of "system quarterbacks" in that each, because their role in college is so vastly different from what is run in the pros, has trouble adjusting to the pro game.
Also, it hasn't helped that he's had no real mentor while he's been in the league, what with BK concerned about getting his minutes and all.
Ultimately, it comes down to wins and losses, and as we've seen, though we may lose with Raymond at times, we can't win without him, and in that sense, maybe less of a focus should be put on his "numbers", and just say he's an "intangibles" guy. I know we can't find a PG any more genuine and hardworking than Raymond, so that's good enough for me.
01-30-2008, 07:47 AM
So looking back now do you think perhaps we should have passed on a PG instead of taking Felton? Just used BK as a stop gap until the next year? Wonder what things would be like.
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On my 1999 Saturn SL2, there are clips that are supposed to hold the ignition/plug wires in place onto the coil pack and the bolt that goes through it may play a role in grounding the circuit. One of them is missing. There's corrosion on the pack where it's missing, so it's apparently important. What is that part called, and can you buy replacements anywhere?
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Can you post a picture of the offending part? That may make IDing it easier. – Timo Geusch Feb 8 '12 at 15:36
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I'd say check at a dealership parts counter, except that Saturn dealers don't exist anymore. I thought I heard something about Saturn having their own parts system separate from what all the other GM divisions used, but I can't find anything to confirm/deny that at the moment. You could try the parts counter at a Cadillac/Chevy/Buick/GMC dealer. Taking some donuts wouldn't hurt. If you're lucky they can ID the part and possibly even order it if there are any to be had. If nothing else, maybe they can get you a part number you can use to find what you need from a vendor of NOS parts.
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Best answer is a GM parts counter as @Mark answered. Depending on the exact design/configuration you may be able to secure it with a ziptie. I broke the clip for the power transistor plug on my Mitsubishi, but was able to thread a ziptie through it to keep it secure.
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A dozen atoms enough to store a bit—provided they’re kept near absolute zero
IBM research has managed to store information in tiny clusters of 12 iron …
Individual Iron atoms with different orientations are shown in blue and white. Numbers indicate the bits stored in each cluster.
Magnetic media has been the mainstay of computer storage for decades. Just as with processors, shrinking feature size—smaller clusters of magnetic atoms—have allowed huge gains in storage density. Just as with processors, though, these gains are starting to push up against physical limits, as it's getting harder and harder to set the magnetic state of a cluster of atoms without wiping out the information on the neighboring clusters.
Now, researchers at IBM have teamed up with collaborators in Germany and Switzerland to store information using a related phenomenon, antiferromagnetism. And they've shown that it's possible to store a bit in a feature that contains as few as six iron atoms. The downside is that the storage was only stable at extremely low temperatures. If the sample was allowed to heat up to 5K, the information on the bits vanished.
The magnetism we're familiar with from things being stuck on the side of the fridge comes from materials where the magnetic moments of the atoms in the material are all aligned and pointed in the same direction. Antiferromagnetic materials also have aligned magnetic moments, but they exist in alternating stripes. You can think of this in terms of a set of bar magnets, arranged so that the north end of one was always next to the south end of its two closest neighbors. The net result is that, even though the magnetic moments of the material are highly ordered, the sum of those moments is zero, meaning it doesn't generate any external magnetic field.
A magnet (left) and an antiferromagnet both have ordered magnetic moments, but they cancel in the case of the antiferromagnet.
That makes it rather difficult to read the state of an antiferromagnet with standard magnetic hardware. But since the magnetic moments vary on the atomic level, the researchers reasoned, it should be possible to read them with hardware that can read individual atomic states. To do that, they polarized the tip of a scanning-tunneling microscope by applying a six Tesla external field.
Small rows of iron atoms, they found, spontaneously formed an antiferromagnet. The first atom in the row would adopt a specific orientation, and then the following atoms would take on alternating states. (So, either up-down-up-down... or down-up-down-up...). Applying a larger voltage to the STM tip was sufficient to flip the orientation, changing the first atom from down to up, and forcing the rest of the row to flip accordingly.
The more neighbors an atom had, the more stable its state would be. A single row of atoms would switch states spontaneously at a fairly high rate. Adding a second row of atoms would extend the lifetime, as would making the row of atoms longer. The researchers settled on a cluster of 12 atoms, arranged in two rows of six. At the temperatures the experiments were performed, these clusters retained their states for at least 17 hours.
The combination of stability, a change in orientation on demand, and a readable state (first atom up or down) are all you need for magnetic memory. So, the authors set up an array of 96 iron atoms to form an 8-bit device, with each bit composed of two rows of six atoms. The geometry enables the authors to place each bit in a way that its state is very unlikely to bleed over into the surrounding ones and, in fact, acts to stabilize their state.
Using the STM tip, they were able to read the states in each bit, and write new information into the bits on demand. The density of information there (or, put another way, the atoms needed to store a bit) is 100 times higher than current hard drive technology.
But don't expect to see this in your desktop any time soon. Scanning-tunneling microscopes haven't exactly been miniaturized yet, and the temperatures at which the bits are stable are extremely low, less than 5K. So unless you want your computer hooked up to a high-end piece of refrigeration hardware, that presents a serious issue as well. (Although overclockers would probably relish the chance to hook up a heat sink to the same hardware.)
So, what to think of the paper's last sentence? It concludes by stating, "Our results demonstrate that switchable nanoscale antiferromagnets are candidates for future memory, storage, and spintronic applications." That candidacy depends on two things: getting atomic-level precision in a miniaturized device, and getting antiferromagnetic materials to retain their state at room temperature. Both of those are very large leaps over the technology demonstrated in this paper.
Science, 2012. DOI: 10.1126/science.1214131 (About DOIs).
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I was playing with the letters in numbers written in English and I found something quite funny. I found that if you count the number of letters in the number and write this as a number and then count the number of letters in this new number and keep repeating the process, you will arrive at the number 4. I've confirmed this (using a computer program) for all numbers up to 999999 and was wondering if there's a way to prove this or to find a counter example for which it does not hold.
Just to give an example of the above statement, let's start with thirty seven (I chose this randomly) Thirty seven has 11 letters in it, Eleven has 6 letters in it, Six has three letters in it, Three has 5 letters in it, Five has 4 letters in it. It may look like I just picked this number, so let me show this for another random number, say 999. Nine hundred and ninety nine has 24 letters in it, Twenty four has 10 letters in it, Ten has 3 letters in it, Three has 5 letters in it, Five has 4 letters in it.
What are your thoughts on how to prove this?
(Just a note: I only confirmed this for numbers written in the standard British way of writing numbers - for example 101 is one hundred and one)
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Define $f: \mathbb{N} \to \mathbb{N}$ as the number of letters in a given natural number spelled out.
Four is the only fixed point under $f$, and it's not too difficult to see that $f$ is almost always strictly decreasing with the only exceptions being one, two, three and four. So the $n^{th}$ iterate of $f$ must eventually become smaller than 5, which doesn't leave very many cases to verify.
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Is there actually a systematic way to name arbitrarily large numbers in English? It seems that one would have to specify this before claiming that your $f$ is eventually decreasing. – user83827 Dec 11 '11 at 19:56
@ccc I suppose one would have to make the assumption that the numbering system is relatively uniform - and if no such nomenclature exists for a certain number, that the number of letters in that number would not spike by an enormous amount of digits. Perhaps one could adopt the convention of saying one million million for one million squared, for instance, so that all numbers may be accounted for. – analysisj Dec 11 '11 at 20:01
@ccc Do those Hebrew letters used for Cantor algebra accomplish that (naming arbitrarily large numbers)? I don't recall exactly though... – Feral Oink Dec 11 '11 at 20:06
@ccc This is a bad question: Why have you NEVER voted on any question, up or down? (That needn't be answered.) – Feral Oink Dec 11 '11 at 20:10
There is such a systematic method of naming numbers in English, although the details escape me. Given that a 1000-factor increase in the size of the number results in roughly a 28-35 letter increase in name size ("three hundred and thirty three -illion" and so on) it's clear that the naming convention will never catch up. Consider also what it would take for the size of the name to grow as the number: you'd have to write in unary. – jprete Dec 11 '11 at 22:11
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Note that the number of letters in the number is almost always going to be less than the number itself; in fact, this should be true for all numbers greater than four. Four is the only number which has this property (that the number of letters is equal to the number itself). Therefore, we can say that if a number repeats eventually, it must repeat at 4. Furthermore, since the value of the number of letters in the number is always less than the number itself for values greater than 4, the number is always decreasing until four.
So, all that remains is to show that the numbers 3,2, and 1 always go to 4 eventually, and then we can know that it will repeat. 3 goes to 5 which goes to 4. Both 1 and 2 go to 3 which go to 5 which go to 4. Though this is fairly informal, this is the gist of how it could be shown.
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As an interesting side note, no such number should occur in French. There exists no number when spelled out such that the number of letters is equal to the number, but you can get patterns such as 3,5,4,6,3,5,4,6,... because 3 is trois which goes to 5 which is cinq which goes to 4 which is quatre which goes to 6 which is six, which goes back to three... – analysisj Dec 11 '11 at 19:50
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$2 \to 3 \to 5 \to 4$
$3 \to 5 \to 4$
$4 \to 4$
$5 \to 4$
$6 \to 3 \to 5 \to 4$
$7 \to 5 \to 4$
$8 \to 5 \to 4$
$9 \to 4$
$10 \to 3 \to 5 \to 4$
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I don't mean this as an exhaustive list (!), as this is what you have shown for n < 999999. Rather, if you can show that the function (as Dustan writes) decreases to eventually give you a value less than 10 (or 5), then you're done. – The Chaz 2.0 Dec 11 '11 at 19:41
You should edit your comment into your answer – Henry Dec 12 '11 at 0:05
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Game Review: L.A. Noire
You pretty much know what you're getting into with this game just from the title. A good, old fashioned, film noir crime drama based in Los Angeles. Think Chinatown or The Big Sleep, except you're controlling one of the guys from Mad Men. No, not that one...this one.
If you've played any of the games in Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto series, L.A. Noire will feel familiar. It's a third person, open world game. You explore on foot and in cars; the vehicles evoking models from the mid-1940s, where the game takes place. Your character starts as a beat cop, but quickly gets promoted to detective in the L.A.P.D. Each mission starts with a video clip of a crime. Then you're assigned the case, you drive to the scene, and you start looking around. This generally involves walking in circles till the controller vibrates, then hitting X to see what's on the ground. Not everything you pick up is relevant, though. After you get enough clues, you can interview any potential witnesses.
This is where the game gets interesting. Based on what you've learned searching the crime scene, if a witness is lying, you can call them on it. If you can produce evidence of the lie, they'll fold and tell the truth. There is also a bit of body language you can interpret to see if the person is uncomfortable with what they're saying. This is no game version of Lie to Me, though, and these "tells" aren't always accurate. Eventually you'll get involved in a broader story arc, but I won't spoil that here.
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Kairouan, in the northern-central part of Tunisia, is the home of the oldest mosque in Africa and as such is Islam's holiest city there, second only to Mecca, Medina, and Jerusalem. Because of its historical, cultural, and religious significance, the entire city is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Jongleur and I visited Kairouan on 23 and 31 May 2002. The first time we took a louage (shared taxi) from Monastir, leaving early in the morning so as to get there before the Great Mosque (the aforementioned oldest in Africa) closed. The drive is about an hour and a half, depending on how aggressive your louage driver is; your mileage may vary. The first time we went our driver was so smooth he kept a glass of mint tea on the dashboard the entire time and never spilled a drop; the last time we came back, our driver was younger and very enthusiastic, in other words almost killed us. He told us he was "champion du route," as if daring us to contradict him. I told him all the louage drivers in Tunisia were the champions and masters of the road, and he laughed like it was the funniest thing anyone had ever said, so that was either the right thing to say or terribly mispronounced. That was after the second time we saw Kairouan; it was the last stop in a two-day travel agency-organized tour to the southern part of Tunisia, visiting mountain and desert oases, riding camels (dromedaries, actually) and generally doing a lot of touristy stuff. The desert tour began and ended in Hammamet for everyone but me and Jongleur. We met it in El Jem and left after Kairouan to save some time and put in a lot more exciting louage travel.
Anyway, Kairouan was founded by Muslim Arab invaders in 671; its location in the central plains was strategic as the native Berbers living in the surrounding mountains had not yet been converted to Islam. After some fierce fighting, the Berbers adopted the invaders' religion and Kairouan was free to prosper as a trade center. Today it is home to holy places like the Great Mosque and several zaouias, which are a combination of mosque and mausoleum built in honor of a marabout (Islamic holy men). It is also home to a thriving medina, where what feels like hordes of vendors will aggressively try to sell you everything from food (including makroud, which are like very sweet and dense date newtons local to Kairouan) to ceramics, jewelry, and handwoven woolen mats and the more expensive carpets, made of wool and/or silk. Kairouan is famous as a carpet center, and there are many "musées de tapis" (so-called "carpet museums", which are actually stores). More about carpets in a bit, but first a quick summary of:
Things to See in Kairouan.
4.2 dinar buys you a ticket to all the major Kairouan tourist attractions, which include:
• The Great Mosque, the oldest in North Africa and one of the few which non-Muslims are allowed to visit
• Bir Barrouta, home of the saddest camel in the world: he is brought into a house before he grows too big to fit through the doors, where he is trained to walk in circles and pump water out of a well, and spends his entire life, until he dies and is cut into pieces to be removed.
• The Aghlabite pools, two huge water reservoirs built in the 9th century with "hand tools and attitude", as Jongleur put it.
• The Mosque of the Three Doors
• the Zaouias of Abi Zamaa/Sidi Sahab, Sidi Abid, and Sidi Abada
• the Rakkada Museum
We saw the Great Mosque, the Aghlabite Pools, and the mausoleum of Abi Zamaa/Sidi Sahab on 23 May 2002. The Great Mosque is amazing because it's so old and built partly out of Roman ruins. Non-Muslims are not allowed into the prayer hall, but the parts visible from outside are spectacular, as is the three-tiered minaret across the courtyard (also not open to the public, although we did see some very nice gentlemen in very important-looking uniforms climb it). The important thing to know about the Great Mosque and the mausoleums both is that shorts and sleeveless shirts/dresses are not allowed. This may sound obvious enough, but we saw plenty of tourists who were lent robes and blankets to cover themselves, and felt pretty good about having the sense to 1) dress decently and 2) protect ourselves from the sun.
The Aghlabite pools are, as mentioned, really impressive for their age and sheer enormity (the larger is 125 meters in diameter). But what's really funny about them is that they seem to be the place to bring a date if you're from Kairouan; there were a lot of locals smooching and snuggling in the park around it, and the guy at the gate just kind of snickered when we showed him our ticket, and it wasn't until later that we figured out why).
The Mausoleum/Mosque of Abi Zamaa, also called the mausoleum of Sidi Sahab or the Barber's Mosque, was built in honor of one of the companions of Mohammed, who carried three hairs of the Prophet's beard with him as a holy token. It is a phenomenal display of Islamic architecture, ornately decorated with beautiful tiles, carvings, and stained glass. We weren't sure exactly where it was okay for us nonbelievers to go, but many friendly visitors who seemed to know what they were doing us invited us into the open-roofed mausoleum itself, where we narrowly escaped a huge group of French tourists. (One of these guys was not only wrapped in a blanket to hide his bare legs but wearing one of those tacky "breasts of the world" t-shirts that depicts dozens of topless women. It was hard to believe anyone could be so blatantly ignorant, but easier to understand after our desert tour experiences with other French tourists.)
The Carpets of Kairouan
After the aforementioned desert tour and French tourists, we stopped off in Kairouan for a very expensive cup of tea. It went a little bit like this:
As mentioned before, there are lots of carpet stores in Kairouan. The ONAT (national artisanry/crafts guild office) is probably the only place in town with fixed, much less marked, prices on carpets and other crafts, so it's recommended as a place to get an idea of how much things cost, if not necessarily the best place to shop as the prices tend to be a little higher. There is an ONAT in most major cities in Tunisia, especially ones that attract a lot of tourists. Sales staff at the ONAT are considerably less in-your-face than the merchants in the medina, so that can be a welcome shopping atmosphere as well.
Although we'd gotten an idea of carpet prices in the ONAT of Sousse on 25 May 2002, we'd resolved to buy a carpet in Kairouan, since that's what it's famous for. We didn't shop around much, choosing a carpet store based on the recommendation of the tour guide who brought us to the desert and whom we left in Kairouan, as mentioned earlier. It turned out to be a really fun, if expensive, experience. Think of carpet shopping as being invited into someone's home for an intense conversation over a really expensive mint tea (hot, sweet, and intensely strong, kind of like the espresso of teas, only sometimes with toasted almonds or hazelnuts floating in it). The classiest carpet stores are almost exactly that; instead of being disguised as museums, they're set up in refurbished homes. Our carpet store was somewhere in between these two, but the sales staff was eager to show us dozens of carpets and mats, expanding and narrowing down the selection as we indicated our tastes (wool rather than silk, smallish since we didn't know where we were going to put it, hopefully in what seems to be a typically Kairouan blue), and price range (silk is the most expensive, woolen mats called kilim are the cheapest and most uniquely Tunisian; prices are generally per square meter and dependent on knot density: between 25x26 and 50x60 knots per square meter). They even found us someone who spoke English to bargain with (he told me later they'd actually recruited him from another store with the promise of a percentage of the sale, as if to apologize for driving the price up what seemed like a piddling amount to everyone involved). We decided to look at the kilims, and eventually settled on a beautiful black, brown, gray, and white mat about 1.5x1 meters in size. This clinched our decision to fly back to Amsterdam and drop off souvenirs and excess weight before continuing the rest of our journey; it spent the rest of our trip spread out on display on the guest bed in my grandparents' house, and now resides in our living room in Eugene.
Sources: our visits to Kairouan, 23 and 31 May 2002, various brochures and maps from the Kairouan tourism office (translations from French by me, so I apologize for any and all mistakes), and the Footprints guide to Tunisia by Anne and Keith McLachlan (I think the title is Tunisia Handbook with Libya but it's a bit confusing).
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Austin Carty
Former Survivor Contestant on How to Win Survivor
Posted: 09/14/11 02:52 PM ET
Six years after being on the show, I still have countless people approach me with the question "What does it take to win Survivor?"
In fact, because the new season's premiere is tonight, I just had someone approach me via my blog this morning and, amid a series of questions about the show, pose this very one.
Whenever asked this, I can't help remembering a piece of wisdom New York Times bestselling and Edgar-winning author John Hart told me last year over coffee.
"It takes three things to make a book a bestseller," John told me. "It takes a lot of talent, an ability to harness that talent to write a great book, and, most important, a lot of luck."
John then sipped his coffee and said, "You've got the talent, and you've written a hell of a book... "
"And now I just need the luck," I said.
"Now you just need the luck," John nodded.
This conversation, I think, best answers the question of what it takes to win Survivor.
It first takes skill. You must be smart, socially adept, and able-bodied to win.
It then takes the ability to harness those skills. Any Survivor fan knows that countless capable contestants have seen their torches snuffed due to poor thinking, massive social blunders, and/or key physical failures.
It is here that some contestants -- but not many -- are eliminated.
Each season, there are at least two cast members who, no matter how many times he or she were to play the game, could never win. Though these characters often make it very close to the end, they never have a chance at actually winning. They simply don't have the talent, or, in the rare case they do, they simply don't have the capacity to harness that talent in the way required to win (think Russell Hantz and Johnny Fairplay).
The wonderful thing about these characters is that they never -- I repeat never -- know this is the case about themselves. In fact, when reading this, they would nod in agreement at what I'm saying, never considering that I may actually be referring to them. Instead, these unique characters invariably believe they should have won their season and, if given another chance, would absolutely win. It was true of my season (I won't name names because I am still close with my cast mates) and it was glaringly true last season (if you watched, you know who I'm referring to).
Though this eliminates some from the field, it still leaves the vast majority with a chance at winning. This is the beauty of Survivor: each season there are many cast members who potentially could win.
And this is where the final element necessary in winning Survivor comes into play: luck. Hence luck, just as John Hart said of writing a bestseller, is the most important element of winning Survivor.
Every season, while the winner employs massive amounts of physical, mental, and social skill, he or she also experiences a vast amount of luck. This luck takes many forms, but it is always the wild card helping dictate who will emerge victorious.
So this dynamic causes three tiers of players, the odds of winning getting slightly less with each tier.
The first tier is an elite group, a group whose skill and ability to harness that skill is greater than most. These select few can -- and likely will -- make it very close to the end each time they play.
Parvati Shallow falls in this group. So does Boston Rob Mariano. So does a select group of others.
Under this group is a tier of people who have slightly less skill, but have more than the average player. These characters have a great chance of making it to the end, but they also have a great chance of being booted before the jury.
Cirie Fields is in this group. So is Tom Westman. So is Bobby Jon Drinkard. So is Rafe Judkins. So is Mike Skupin. So are a countless number of contestants, because it is this tier that contains the majority of players.
Below them is a group who theoretically could win, but the chances of the vote going their way are slim. They have the skill to get there, but the social game makes it virtually impossible (albeit not impossible, like in the case of Russell Hantz and Johnny Fairplay) to win.
People such as Jerri Manthey and Sue Hawk are in this group.
In the end, though, for each group, it all comes down to luck.
Someone else must flub a challenge; someone else must make a poor strategic move. A tribal shuffle must happen; a challenge must be better suited to one's strengths than to another's. The ways luck comes into play in Survivor are endless.
Ultimately, the secret to winning is perhaps best summed up by a conversation I had with my friend Aras the night he won our season of Survivor.
"I just got really lucky a few times," Aras said to me, in his usual self-deprecating way.
"Yes, but you also played a great game," I said.
And I was right.
But so was he.
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Ack, there's no node for brown rice?!
Brown rice is basically white rice that has not been milled. Natural rice has a layer of bran and fiber around it. To make white rice, the milling process remove this layer leaving just the core of the rice. Now, this has a few important consequences. The inner part of the rice is esentially just carbohydrates. The layer of bran on the rice contains extra proteins, minerals, and dietary fiber. This makes it a much better choice in terms of eating a healthy balanced diet. Many manufacturers add minerals to white rice to make up for what is lost in milling, however it still does not contain as much fiber (which studies have suggested helps to reduce the risk of heart disease).
So go buy some brown rice and do your body a favor. Topped with a little salsa, it tastes great!
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Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: The $45,000 Callaway Porsche 944?S
Only 23% of you felt that Barack Obama's Chrysler 300C was really worth $100,000 yesterday, and value calculation really is a tough call on a presidential car when the ex-owner isn't even president yet (and there are no photos of him actually driving the thing). Today we're going to explore the concept of rarity; here we've got a seriously rare high-performance car, modified by a highly respected company better known for its work with Chevrolets than with Porsches…
According to the seller, the '83 Callaway Turbo 944 made 284 horsepower, nearly double the stock figure of 143, which gave it outrageous-for-its-time performance. In a car weighing 2,675 pounds (or about 200 pounds less than the current Boxster), that's going to be a lot of fun, and the seller points out that it ought to be legal for vintage racing. Only 20 of these little beasts were made, and the seller feels that makes it worth 45 American grand. Seriously cool car, heavy-duty price. What do you think?
[Craigslist Monterey, go here if the ad disappears]
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Market Overview
TheraBreath's 2012 Holiday Guide to Fresh Breath
With the holiday season upon most of the world, dentist and bacteriologist Dr. Harold Katz and his line of TheraBreath Oral Hygiene products present the 2012 Holiday Guide to Fresh Breath, featuring the top five things that cause bad breath during the winter holidays.
(PRWEB) December 20, 2012
With the holiday season upon most of the world, dentist and bacteriologist Dr. Harold Katz and his line of TheraBreath Oral Hygiene products present the 2012 Holiday Guide to Fresh Breath. This bad breath guide features the top five things that cause bad breath during the winter holidays and details how to prevent and treat each from happening this holiday season.
1. Alcohol, Dry Mouth and Bad Breath
Commonly served at holiday parties, wines, beers and fine liquors represent major causes of bad breath. Alcohol, or more specifically the ethanol in alcohol (typically between five percent and 40 percent in most alcoholic beverages), is a desiccant. Desiccants are substances that absorb moisture from things with which they make contact. One or two glasses of wine, or one mixed drink, are capable of significantly reducing saliva flow enough in the mouth to create dry conditions resulting in bacterial growth responsible for bad breath.
2. Food Bad Breath
Another reason for experiencing holiday bad breath is due to the different kinds of food eaten at family and business get-togethers. Cheeseballs with onions, baked beans, potato salad and sugary desserts are all major culprits of bad breath. Any strong-smelling foods containing garlic or spices will also give someone halitosis that may be difficult to eliminate. In addition, many of these foods cause acid indigestion and uncontrollable belching, which exacerbates an already foul-smelling odor emanating from the mouth.
People who may not realize they are suffering from gum disease or tooth decay may notice worsening halitosis over the holidays. Owing to the excessive amount of sugary foods that most people consume between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day, an existing condition of gingivitis and/or dental caries can deteriorate and cause severe bad breath, toothaches and bleeding gums. Drinking alcohol and sugary sodas further aggravates bad oral health as well as chronic halitosis.
3. Smokers Bad Breath
Holiday parties also encourage people to talk and smoke more than usual. Both activities can lead to an excessively dry mouth that provides the perfect breeding ground for anaerobic bacteria proliferate and exude noxious sulfur gases. This specific type of bacteria prefers stagnant, dry environments where protein-rich particles are plentiful, such as food particles left behind from a holiday party feast. Consumption of mouth debris supplies oral bacteria with the excretory elements necessary to produce sulfur-based gases.
4. Canker Sores
Additional causes of holiday bad breath include frequent outbreaks of canker sores provoked by alcohol and spicy foods; sinus infections and postnasal drip irritated by cold, dry weather and tonsil stone formation encouraged by the abundance of holiday foods.
5. Neglected Oral Hygiene
Bad breath over the holidays is also due to people simply not taking the time to practice good oral hygiene. With the stress and chaos of trying to get everything purchased, wrapped, baked and decorated before Christmas, a quick, 30-second brushing once a day may be all someone feels like doing before collapsing into bed.
Stay Hydrated to Prevent Bad Breath
Fortunately, bad breath does not have to dampen anyone's holiday spirit by embarrassing and alienating them from family and friends. Halitosis can be defeated and prevented not only over the holidays but throughout the year as well by performing several clinically tested actions. To begin, bad breath sufferers need to keep the mouth sufficiently hydrated and oxygenated enough to inhibit anaerobic bacterial activity and stop these nasty microorganisms from exuding foul-smelling gases. Drinking water, chewing sugar-free gum or sucking on sugarless hard candies are effective methods for stimulating saliva flow.
Use Alcohol-Free Mouthwash
Avoid using mouthwashes and oral rinses that contain alcohol. Most people do not realize that the majority of name-brand mouthwashes include nearly 15 percent alcohol in their formulas--remember that alcohol is considered a desiccant! Oral hygiene companies include alcohol in mouthwashes because it is an effective antiseptic, but its strong ability to absorb moisture totally negates its cleansing properties.
Benefits of SLS-Free Toothpaste
Brushing and flossing twice a day can help lessen the severity of halitosis and reduce the risk of tooth decay and gingivitis. However, brushing with toothpastes containing sodium laurel sulfate (a foaming agent) and saccharine (encourages tooth decay) may promote eruptions of mouth lesions, canker sores, as well as lead to dry mouth syndrome. Xerostomia, or dry mouth syndrome, is a chronic form of reduced saliva flow intensified by sodium laurel sulfate, another known desiccant used in oral hygiene products.
TheraBreath® Oral Hygiene Products Target, Treat & Prevent Bad Breath
For individuals suffering from severe and embarrassing bad breath, avoiding holiday parties altogether may seem to be the only way to avoid the distress and awkwardness caused by unrelenting bad breath. Luckily for people who have considered turning down most holiday invitations due to chronic halitosis, TheraBreath provides products made with ingredients that have been clinically tested and proven to be the best and most powerful natural ingredients available to kill anaerobic bacteria and keep breath smelling fresh and clean all the time.
Considered by millions of people all over the world to be best and most effective mouthwashes, rinses, toothpastes and breath mints available to consumers, TheraBreath products contain only non-abrasive, non-desiccating breath freshening ingredients such as aloe Barbadensis leaf juice, glycerin, Sorbitol and Dr. Katz's own, patented compound OXYD-8® (his exclusive proprietary blend of sodium chlorite). Customers of TheraBreath know they will not find sodium laurel sulfate, saccharine or other ingredients detrimental to oral hygiene in any of Dr. Katz's products.
Dry mouth and anaerobic bacterial growth do not stand a chance against Dr. Katz's TheraBreath oral hygiene products. By brushing with TheraBreath toothpaste or the PerioTherapy treatment gel, users will immediately begin to stimulate saliva flow and enrich the mouth with oxygenating molecules that rapidly kill bacteria and eliminate sulfur gas excretions. TheraBreath PLUS Oral Rinse as well as Dr. Katz's AktivOxigen Serum, not only removes mouth bacteria but also nasty-smelling anaerobes that accumulate in the back of the throat and tonsil crevices. Click this link to view the complete line of TheraBreath® products, guaranteed to prevent bad breath:
The holidays represent a joyous and festive time of the year when families gather together to eat, drink and talk about the wonderful memories of past holidays as well as the anticipation of future memories just as warm and pleasant. No one should miss the delights of the holiday season because of chronic halitosis. Start using TheraBreath oral hygiene products today and become part of those memories without needing to fear the embarrassment of bad breath.
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(CNN) -
It wouldn't be surprising if you assumed the monster success behind Fun.'s "We Are Young" with Janelle Monáe was the calculated work of a studio, but that's not the case.
"It wasn't about a record label putting two hot artists together," Fun. member Andrew Dost told CNN on the red carpet. "Janelle's an artist and just wanted to be a part of the song."
Indeed, Monáe told us on Sunday that she "didn't know it was going to be such a big song, I just knew I loved it."
To Monáe, "We Are Young" is "cross-generational," but for Dost, Nate Ruess and Jack Antonoff the song "was a little more negative, and suddenly it just had this positive anthemic effect on people."
The band, which is one of the lead nominees at the 55th ceremony, is made up of "great guys," Monáe said. "[They] deserve every accoalade."
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I'm a lummox of an American and I have to admit I get confused when dealing with multiple currencies. On this trip, I've been juggling USD, HK dollars, and RMB—and that really makes the going rough. So when I asked Peter Chang how much this Audio Art Jasmine Model 3A integrated amplifier (9Wpc) would cost in the US, I was sure he'd gotten confused too, when he said $42,000.
Nope. BTW, it's manufactured in the US and the construction quality (Vishay resistors, Partridge metal-work) is pure audio catnip. And yes, those are 300Bs.
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Grinspoon "Black Rabbits"
Black Rabbits (Universal)
What a great release from a band who has managed to plug out seven albums and maintain their reputation as the soul bearers of great Australian alternative rock.
With this release, you get the grown-up effect of Grinspoon's experience. There certainly is a sense that they're taking each tune in their stride and not endeavouring to impress too much, nor rest on their laurels - or at least not much. Instead, their experience manifests itself in tracks that confidently celebrate who Grinspoon are, and take them into some new, rather endearing territory.
The band demoed this album in the famous Music Farm Studios, which has been given a second life by Pat Davern (guitar) and Pete Murray. Recorded in Los Angeles with Dave Schiffman (Rage Against the Machine, Weezer, the Mars Volta) I found album opener Passerby to be confident and capable, flourishing with the kind of guitar work that doesn't need to bash on doors to let you know it has a growl in its voice.
Becoming one with his time and place, with Davern's guitar and Schiffman's production setting the tone, Phil Jamieson's penmanship and vocals complete this album. His affection for methamphetamines behind him, you don't feel Jamieson grasping for attention or really needing to be any more than he is - an accomplished and brilliant musician who has delivered some of the best rock anthems in a year with the two in front of it.
Thankfully, these aren't the sort of skills that go away. Instead they conjure up tracks such as Emergency, Another Sun, and Beaujolais. The best track on this album, Branded, also sees Grinspoon take on a pop face and deliver one of the most contemporary and pure pop melodies to come out of an Australian band in a while. It's as if the celebratory ''yeahs'' that couple the chorus are unnecessary, dragging the tune back to a hard-rock scene that almost spoils the infectious groove. I would love to hear the track without those embellishments.
Maybe they were testing the waters, because next up is a song that doesn't really hide its pop roots at all. Relaxed and confident, Carry On has a chorus Daniel Jones (Savage Garden) would be proud of.
Old-school fans need not smart too hard though, as this album certainly goes down some of the heavier paths with which these lads are more acquainted. That said, for me the most interest lies away from battles Grinspoon have already won. And I think that is where their interest lies, too.
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What do January’s unemployment numbers tell us about the economy? Plus, Mitt Romney won the Florida primary, but his comments about the poor are making headlines. Also, new FEC disclosures shine light on Super PAC money. Joining Gwen: Karen Tumulty, Washington Post; John Harwood, CNBC and New York Times; Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times; Jim Tankersley, National Journal.
On the Webcast Extra: February brings more caucuses and primaries in the hunt for the GOP presidential nomination. How are the candidates positioning themselves for the months ahead? Also, how are women affecting the vote? Economic issues continue to dominate the campaign trail. The latest job numbers show an improving economy. What trends do they indicate for the future?
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Q&A: Tabrez Noorani
Tabrez Noorani's decade-plus experience as a line producer of Western film projects in India came in handy when he was approached by the producers of "Slumdog Millionaire," a shoot that involved a lot of challenging location work. But the thirtysomething Noorani also has worn the director's hat for commercials and music videos since his film school days at Loyola Marymount University. While line producing for other projects, Noorani is prepping his directorial feature debut, "Love Sonia," about global sex trafficking. Jet-setting between Los Angeles and Mumbai, Noorani and his New Delhi-based partner Parvesh Sahni run India Take One Prods., which they established in 1995 to service international film shoots. The company has handled, among other projects, Gurinder Chadha's "Bride and Prejudice," Jane Campion's "Holy Smoke" and commercials for director Joe Pytka. With "Slumdog" turning out to be an international hit, Noorani spoke with The Hollywood Reporter India correspondent Nyay Bhushan about the growing potential for foreign filmmakers to look to India.
The Hollywood Reporter: How did your involvement with "Slumdog" come about?
Tabrez Noorani: I actually got a call from the film's London-based co-producer Paul Ritchie, who was the line producer on "Bend It Like Beckham." We all met up in London and then Danny Boyle flew down to India for the shoot, which was done between October and November of 2007. I also introduced Danny to (New Delhi-based) casting director Loveleen Tandon.
THR: How was the experience working with Danny Boyle?
Noorani: I have worked with many interesting directors in the past. Danny was different in that he would do things that nobody thought of. He would keep pushing all of us to get that extra shot and we would end up shooting in offbeat locations where not even Indian filmmakers have ventured. We all knew the film was going to be something special but we had no idea it would end up this big. Danny drove us mad, which was great. He would keep shooting non-stop and tested all of us beyond our measure.
THR: How did you handle the chaos of India, something that every foreign film shoot has to be prepared for?
Noorani: I think the entire unit handled it very well, starting with Danny, who was brilliant. I mean, he would just walk around a location such as a slum and meet anyone who came up to him. He loved to shake people's hands because people in India always do that, especially with foreigners. I would sometimes tell Danny you don't have to shake everyone's hand. But that was Danny. And it's not that he would then reach out for his anti-bacterial bottle to wash his hands. He was quite accessible and as a result the people got used to him and even opened up their homes to him and the crew. He would ask them in detail about their lives and challenges given the conditions in the slums. Once you have an emotional connection with the people, more than half the battle is won.
THR: Were there any scary moments?
Noorani: In terms of pushing the limits during shooting, there is always a fine line between safety and danger. For instance, we shot a sequence in Mumbai's red light district at night and the crowds would just appear out of nowhere. Danny would see my face and, looking at my expressions, he knew when to stop shooting. But the biggest challenge was to shoot inside Mumbai's Victoria Terminus railway station (frequented by up to 8 million passengers a day). The film ends with a full-blown Bollywood dance number with the lead actors and thousands of men and women dancing in and out of trains. VT station is only closed for about three hours daily. In order to light the seven platforms, this had to be done over a period of eight nights, setting up the scene before they could even begin to shoot. The final scene was shot over four nights. The dangerous task of just getting the lights up there above the platform was probably the most difficult because each platform above it had live electrical wires that could have killed someone had it not been done correctly. They were unable to shut off the live wires at any time, so for the scene to be shot, I had to somehow maneuver and work around these challenges and the result is probably one of the most breathtaking and exhilarating endings in recent film history.
THR: How has India developed as a shooting location for foreign projects?
Noorani: To be honest, after "Gandhi" (Richard Attenborough's 1982 Oscar-winner), "Slumdog Millionaire" is really the next big international film shot in India by a Western director that is generating so much buzz. But over the years, India has been developing as a location base for international shoots -- from commercials to music videos and features -- in that now it's faster to get approval for a script than in the past. A script for a commercial can be cleared in a week, which is a big improvement. When we submitted the "Slumdog" script, the government only had some reasonable objections, which we agreed upon, but otherwise approvals were not a problem. In some areas there is still some red tape, such as getting clearances for aerial shots or shooting in wildlife locations, archeological, heritage sites and railway permissions. By comparison, other countries, especially Morocco, offer strong competition to India but then India has much more to offer given the sheer size of the country. I am optimistic that foreign shooting norms will continue improving as they have over the years and India can be an attractive destination. The biggest advantage here is cost. We had a 12-week shoot with multiple crews and there is no way we could have done what we did in any other country at the cost we did it in India.
THR: How does it help to have the world's largest film industry here?
Noorani: The Indian industry has developed tremendously, especially in terms of equipment and trained manpower for logistics and support services. Today, it's much easier to get things like a Technocrane or a Steadicam at short notice in Mumbai than in the past. Some directors of photography also own their cameras and equipment, which makes it much easier to work with than just dealing with rental agencies.
THR: What kind of projects are you handling now?
Noorani: After the success of "Slumdog," we have been bombarded with projects of all kinds, from features to ad shoots and, for the first time, we have to even say "no" to some projects. There is new interest by Hollywood producers for India-based projects for sure. At the moment we are handling "Bollywood Hero," a comedy miniseries produced by IFC that stars "SNL" alum Chris Kattan as a Hollywood actor who is tired of being rejected as a leading man and decides to move to Mumbai in search of a starring role in a Bollywood film. We begin shooting by the end of February.
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Rock your body
Katherine Schwarzenegger does the book fair
By Madeleine Marr
You won't catch Katherine Schwarzenegger on the latest fad diet. Been there, ate that. The daughter of Maria Shriver and Arnold Schwarze- negger talks all about her strug- gles with weight in Rock What You've Got (Hyperion, $22.99), which she'll discuss at 4 p.m. Sunday at Miami Book Fair International. Rock's main message is directed to young girls who don't necessarily fit the size-2 mold seen in magazines and on screen. "It's unrealistic to compare yourself to models, who are most of the time airbrushed," says the 20-year-old USC student.
"It's really important to know what is and isn't real." A recent example of someone taking things to the extreme is Disney star Demi Lovato, who entered rehab for body image issues. ‘‘She's in an industry where that's all anyone focuses on," says Schwarzenegger, whose favorite splurge is cereal. "It's a lot of pressure to always be thinking about how you look on the outside, every single day." The California governor's daughter considers herself lucky that her upbringing was different.
"My parents are an amazing support system," she says. And does your ex-body building dad ever want you to pump it up in the weight room? "Oh no, he's never critical," she says. "He tells you when when you're doing something wrong and how to correct it -- it's in a more educational way."
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is scheduled to travel to israel next month. >>> we're hearing from jesse jackson jr.'s family as they speak in support of the former congressman just a day after details of his plea bargain were made public. jackson admitted to misusing campaign funds for personal expenses such as a $43,000 watch and fur coats, apparently. his brother talked about how jackson is handling these recent events. >> still under a strict regimen with the doctors and he's had todite wito deal with his health issues, as well as the legal issues. we ask that you continue to be mindful that he's not able to speak for himself. >> jesse jackson jr. stepped aside to deal with his health problems. he could be sentenced to as many as five years in prison. >>> let's go to los angeles now where some are showing support for cop killer christopher dorner. the group protested outside the police department yesterday what dorner did was wrong by killing four people and injuring others, they still believe his accusations of racism and unfair treatment by his former department. the protesters say police corruption needs to be addr
so much for that report. >> thank you. >>> to crime and politics now. jesse jackson jr. says he's guilty of misusing campaign funds. the former congressman reached a plea deal with federal prosecutors. jackson and his wife were accused of using around $750,000 from his campaign. on personal items. his wife who was also his campaign manager also is facing charges. >>> facebook says it is the latest company to be a victim of an internet hacking attack. the social media giant says that no user info was compromised, though. some of their computers were infected by malware in january. in the last month, hackers have also gone after twitter, the "new york times" and the "wall street journal." >>> now to outer space and the asteroid that narrowly missed earth. maybe not so close, though it was around 17,000 miles away. this is what it looked like through a high-powered telescope. it is about half the size of a football field. >>> you know, there were lots of reasons to look up in the sky this week. the asteroid, one of them, lightning strikes at the vatican, another. and then the meteo
heading back to work. >>> jesse jackson jr. now admits he used campaign funds for personal expenses. he reached a plea deal with federal prosecutors. jackson and his wife were accused of using around $750,000 from his campaign on things like furs, michael jackson memorabilia, as well. they will pay back hundreds of thousands of dollars and could still face prison time. >>> in chicago, president obama again called on congress to act on his gun control proposals. the president spoke about gun violence at a high school in his hometown. president obama said it's not just a gun issue, it's also an issue of community and responsibility. the president also talked about one of chicago's victims of gun violence. 15-year-old hadiya pendleton. >> it's not unique, it's not unique to chicago, it's not unique to this country. too many of our children are being taken away from us. >> remember hadiya was gunned down just days after performing at the president's inauguration. her parents were at yesterday's speech as well as tuesday's state of the union address. >>> and on the subject of guns, we know n
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Frist's Fury Over Filibusters
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, the health insurance industry heir who went into politics for the purpose of protecting his family's financial interests against even the most tepid federal regulation, is not exactly an expert on the workings of Congress.
But that has not stopped the Tennessee Republican from launching an attack on one of the Senate's most time-honored traditions.
Speaking to the Federalist Society, the conservative legal affairs group that has become the nation's premier proponent of judicial activism, Frist lashed out against Democrats who threaten to use filibusters to block corrupt, incompetent or ideologically extreme nominees for federal judgeships.
"One way or another, the filibuster of judicial nominations must end," griped Frist, whose new cause offers another reminder that little changed when he replaced former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, the segregationist-praising Republican from Mississippi.
"This filibuster is nothing less than a formula for tyranny by the minority," argued Frist, who claimed that if Democrats succeed in using procedural tactics to block some of President Bush's nominees, "they will have effectively seized from the president the power to appoint judges."
Frist's rhetoric is dramatically overblown. Senate Democrats have cleared the way for the approval of the overwhelming majority of Bush's judicial picks; they have used the threat of a filibuster to block only the nominations of 10 particularly unfit nominees for federal appeals court positions.
There is no "tyranny of the minority." In fact, if Senate Democrats were to make real on the threat of a filibuster -- which halts Senate action as one senator or a group of senators engage in an extended discussion of a nomination or issue being considered by the chamber -- it would only be because there is no other way to get Senate Republicans and the White House to consult with the opposition party in the manner that the nation's founders intended.
Frist delivered his bombastic remarks to the Federalist Society in an effort to try to scare Senate Democrats before the new session of Congress begins. If the Democrats launch a filibuster, or even threaten to employ the tactic in order to slow down the process of making judicial nominations, Frist signaled that GOP leaders in the Senate might implement what is refered to as "the nuclear option."
When he employed the phrase "one way or another, the filibuster of judicial nominations must end," the majority leader indicated a willingness to sanction an effort by some Republicans to circumvent Senate rules and declare filibusters against executive nominations to be unconstitutional. This dubious strategy is troubling even to many Republicans, who worry that rewriting Senate procedures in order to advance the Bush administration's court-packing agenda could come back to haunt the GOP when a future Senate is controlled by the Democrats.
For all of Frist's bluster, Senate Republicans wont have the guts to bar filibusters if Americans express support for the use of the tactic as it was intended -- to prevent the Senate majority from doing something that would harm the country.
Frist's attempt to portray the tactic of filibustering -- or threatening to filibuster -- as a new and dangerous phenomenon is a lie. This tool has been employed repeatedly over the past two centuries -- most famously in recent years when former President Lyndon Johnson's nomination of Abe Fortas to serve as the chief justice of the US Supreme Court was blocked in 1968.
The filibuster was a particularly popular tool of progressive senators at the dawn of the last century. Former US Senators Robert M. La Follette, R-Wisconsin, George Norris, R-Nebraska, and their allies used it in the 1910s and 1920s to battle against the takeover of the Senate by crony capitalists, military adventurers and war profiteers.
The Senate progressives who would go on to be remembered as some of that chamber's greatest members were passionate defenders of the filibuster. Burton K. Wheeler, the Democratic senator from Montana who was La Follette's running mate on a progressive independent ticket in the 1924 presidential campaign, wrote about the subject in his classic autobiography Yankee from the West. Wheeler recalled that La Follette's most passionate advice to him as a young senator was to always support the right of fellow senators to filibuster.
"Never vote for cloture," said La Follette, referring to the procedure used to counter filibusters by getting 60 senators to vote to force an end to debate. Even on an issue where a progressive senator disagreed with colleagues who were filibustering, La Follette argued that it was always wrong to stifle debate on important issues and nominations.
La Follette was right. The filibuster is one of the few tools that a minority party can use to counter the worst excesses of an out-of-control majority party. The practice should be defended -- and, yes, it should be used even in the face of Bill Frist's threats.
Danger for Dems: A Moral Misstep
Democrats who place too much credence in those exit polls that suggest that American politics is being reshaped by voters who are charged up about "Moral Values"--as defined by social conservative opposition to same-sex marriages, the right to choose and out-of-control Super Bowl halftime shows--run the risk of making a mistake that could put them not on the wrong side of one election but, rather, on the wrong side of history.
After every election, the insta-pundits seek to explain the results with a one-size-fits-all analysis that often becomes the accepted wisdom of the political seasons that follow. The flavor of this fall moment is the suggestion that voters are dramatically more interested in "Moral Values" than in the past. This theory is based on the fact that, when exit pollsters asked voters which of seven issues was most important to them, 22 percent chose "Moral Values." And 79 percent of voters who picked "Moral Values" backed President Bush. Hence the theory that a silent tide of "Moral-Values" voters--as opposed to shameless exploitation of the war on terror by the Bush team, vapid media coverage of the campaign and major missteps by the Democrats--tipped the election to the president.
"Moral values... propelled Bush," announced MSNBC. "Contest turned on voters' values, exit polls show," announced the Indianapolis Star. "Values voters seek their reward in policy," read a Knight-Ridder News Service headline. "'God gap' may force Dems to search souls," declared the Arizona Republic.
This would all be quite compelling if there had been a genuine surge in "MoralValues" voting. In fact, socially-conservative voters have been citing some variation on "Moral Values" as their defining issue for years. For instance, in 1996 when then-President Bill Clinton was reelected by popular vote and Electoral College margins far wider than those accorded President Bush this year, 17 percent of voters selected "Family Values" as their top issue.
In 2000, exit polls did not offer a "Family Values" or "Moral Values" option on the issues list. But a 2000 survey for Emily's List found that 26 percent of women who backed Republicans that year ranked "Moral Values" as their top issue, while 20 percent of men did--roughly the same rate as this year.
While the political and media chattering classes are quite absorbed with the fact that those who selected "Moral Values" as a top issue this year voted by a roughly 4-1 margin for Bush, they seemed to miss the fact that respondents who selected "Economy/Jobs" as their most important issue voted 80-18 against Bush.
Twenty-two percent of the voters included in the exit-poll sample selected "Moral Values" as their top issue while 20 percent selected "Economy/Jobs." In a poll such as this one, with a one-percent margin of error up or down, there is no meaningful difference between the portion of the American public that selected "Moral Values" and the portion that selected "Economy/Jobs." So why haven't there been at least a few headlines suggesting that: "Economy/Jobs... propelled Kerry to near Electoral College tie with incumbent president" or "'Jobs gap' may force Republicans to search souls."
And what about a new issue on the list: Iraq? Fifteen percent of those surveyed chose Iraq as their top issue--far more than selected "Education," "Health Care" or the once-significant "Taxes." Among the roughly one in seven voters who picked "Iraq" as their top issue, the split was 73-26 for Kerry. Doesn't it seem logical, since Iraq has been such a high-profile issue, that a few pundits might have noted that, among Americans who are most charged up about the war, Kerry was a 3-1 favorite.
The point here is not to suggest that Democrats, Republicans or any other political players should neglect the fact that roughly one in five voters cite "Moral Values" as their top election issue. Rather, the point that needs making is that this is nothing new. And if Democrats seek to downplay their support for gay rights and other socially progressive stances, they won't just be wasting their time. They will be alienating a substantial portion of their base-- something the Republicans would never do--and they will be putting themselves on the wrong side of historical trends that will ultimately make support for gay rights the winning stance.
It is important to go beyond the post-election spin to examine just exactly who these "Moral Values" voters are. Of the four regions of the country, "Moral Values" ranked highest on the issue list in the south, where voters who cited it as their top concern broke 89-10 for Bush. Yet, aside from Florida--the one state in the region where "Moral Values" ranked second on the issue list--there were no major battleground states in the south.
If respondents from southern states where Democrats are unlikely to seriously compete in the near future are removed from the pool of those surveyed, "Moral Values" becomes a far less significant factor in deciding the direction of the election.
In the East, for instance, "Moral Values" ranked fourth on the list of top issues--behind "Iraq," "Economy/Jobs" and "Terrorism." In the West, "moral values" was in a statistical tie with "Iraq" as the top issue. In the critical Midwestern battleground state of Ohio, "Economy/Jobs" ranked above "Moral Values." The same was true in Michigan, and Pennsylvania--where "Moral Values" ranked fourth behind "Economy/Jobs," "Iraq" and "Terrorism."
Let's be clear, if the Democratic Party wants to get on the good side of the crowd that always ranks "Moral Values" or some variation on that term as its top issue, that will require adjusting Democratic positions to be more in tune with those of the old Confederacy. (It is notable that every state that fought to defend the institution of slavery in the Civil War voted for Bush, while the vast majority of states that sided in that distant struggle with the first Republican president, Abraham Lincoln, voted for Kerry.)
And what are the moral values of the old Confederacy? Well, there is no question that gays rights stances are a tough sell in places like Mississippi and Alabama. But last week in Alabama, voters appear to have narrowly turned down a proposal to remove "Jim Crow" segregationist language from their state Constitution. So it's not just gay rights that America's hotbed of "Moral Values" voting rejects.
Before Democrats allow a cursory reading of the exit polls to send them on a long march away from socially progressive stances, they might want to ask themselves: Exactly how far backward do they want to go? Just back to the point where they abandon a commitment to equal justice for gays and lesbians? Or do they really want to be in line with voters who support keeping "separate-but-equal" language in the law books?
Democrats can spend the next four years trying to make themselves acceptable to the social-conservative voters who, election after election, cite "Moral Values" as their top issue. But it won't win them Alabama. And it almost certainly will turn off voters in other regions of the country---particularly under-30 voters who consistently support gay rights in exit polls and other surveys, and who are likely to carry that stance with them as they become more significant players in the political process.
The bottom line is this: Democrats can either waste four years developing a doomed outreach to voters for whom "Moral Values" means denying rights to others, or they can work on getting more in tune with the vast majority of voters who rank other issues as their top priorities.
If Democrats fight for Alabama, they will lose. If they fight for America, they at least have a chance of winning.
The Missing Mandate
A day after the 2004 presidential voting was done, when it was finally possible to declare victory, Vice President Dick Cheney introduced a reelected President George W. Bush to the United States. But Cheney did not merely claim the win. He announced that, "President Bush ran forthrightly on a clear agenda for this nation's future, and the nation responded by giving him a mandate."
Even by the accepted standards of vice presidential hyperbole – which have been dramatically expanded during the Cheney interregnum – that's a stretch. But it is a stretch that right-wing talk radio and cable television have been quick to make, with The Weekly Standard's invariably over-the-top Bill Kristol declaring Bush's win to be "an even larger and clearer mandate than those won in the landslide reelection campaigns of Nixon in 1972, Reagan in 1984, and Clinton in 1996."
Kristol was, of course, wrong. There was no sense in which Bush's mandate was even comparable with those of Nixon, Reagan or Clinton. But if Kristol's assessement was ridiculously wrong, so too were the reviews of the result presented by much of the so-called "mainstream" media. Doyle McManus and Janet Hook of The Los Angeles Times have declared that "Bush can claim a solid mandate." In The New York Times, David Sanger went event further, claiming that, "Mr. Bush no longer has to pretend that he possesses a clear electoral mandate. Because for the first time in his presidency, he can argue that he has the real thing."
Truth-challenged statements are to be expected from Cheney, who continues to peddle the now entirely-discredited theory that Iraq posed a threat that necessitated the invasion and occupation of that country, and who still stands by the fiddled figures that were used to justify the administration's fiscally fraudulent overhaul of Medicare. But no one else, not even a Bill Kristol or a David Sanger, has any excuse for calling what Bush won on Tuesday a mandate.
In the language of American politics, the term "mandate" refers to a sweeping electoral win that confers upon the victor the authority not merely to govern but to radically alter the course of the country. Few presidents get them. And George W. Bush is not one of those presidents.
Let's get clear regarding what Bush got out of Tuesday's election:
* He won a popular vote majority that currently stands at about 3.5 million. If that number holds, he'll end up with a roughly 51-48 margin over Democrat John Kerry.
* He won an electoral vote majority of 286-252 (assuming that reviews of ballots in Ohio, Iowa and New Mexico leave those states in his column).
* He will govern with both a House and Senate controlled by his party. But in both chambers moderate elements of the Republican party could combine with Democrats to slow his agenda.
By comparison with most presidents elected in the past century, that is anything but a mandate.
Consider this: In the presidential elections from 1904 up until this year, the victors in 21 of 25 contests won by wider percentage of the popular vote than that achieved by Bush on Tuesday. During that same 100 year period, the victors in 23 of 25 presidential elections won by wider margins in the Electoral College than did Bush – the only narrower wins were those of Bush in the disputed election of 2000 and Woodrow Wilson in 1916.
Bill Clinton, George Herbert Walker Bush, Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson, Dwight Eisenhower, Harry Truman, Franklin Roosevelt (in all four of his campaigns), Herbert Hoover, Calvin Coolidge, Warren Harding, Woodrow Wilson (in 1912), William Howard Taft and Teddy Roosevelt all won elections by significantly wider popular vote AND electoral vote margins than did Bush in 2004.
So which president's "mandate" is most comparable to that earned this year by Bush? Jimmy Carter's in 1976. Carter won the Electoral College by a slightly larger margin than Bush will this year, 297-240, while his popular vote margin was an almost identical 51-48. Carter had far more friendly majorities in the House and Senate. But, far from accepting that he had any kind of mandate, Republicans moved immediately – and with notable success – to build bipartisan coalitions in opposition to Carter initiatives such as the Panama Canal Treaty. Outside of Congress, Ronald Reagan dismissed the notion that Carter had any kind of mandate, and traveled the country organizing opposition to the new president's policies.
History came to see Carter as an embattled president, rather than a man with a mandate. Today, the University of Virginia's Miller Center on Public Affairs, one of the most respected centers of scholarship on the American presidency, says this in its review of the 1976 results: "Carter squeaked out a narrow victory."
That, rather than the inflated claims of Dick Cheney and William Kristol, is an accurate description of George W. Bush's victory this year. There is no mandate to be found. The president squeaked out a narrow victory – nothing more. And his critics would be wise to grant him precisely the same amount of slack that Ronald Reagan and the Republicans granted Jimmy Carter.
Rove's Race
George W. Bush may have secured the presidency this week. But the real winner was Karl Rove.
The White House political czar has solidified his position as the nation's campaigner-in-chief. Republicans love him, Democrats fear him, and everyone now agrees that Rove is the political genius of the age.
So, let's listen to Rove.
In the epilogue of Bob Woodward's book, Plan of Attack, the author writes about how Rove saw the presidential race in early February, 2004.
Noting that Rove believed the war in Iraq was turning into "a potential negative" for the Bush-Cheney reelection campaign, Woodward wrote, "Previously, Rove had claimed he was salivating at the prospect that the Democrats would nominate former Vermont Governor Howard Dean in the 2004 presidential race. But Dean had imploded and Senator John Kerry, the Massachusetts Democrat, had won 12 of the first 14 Democratic primary contests and it looked like he was headed for the nomination."
What did Rove have to say about this development? "'The good news for us is that Dean is not the nominee,' Rove now argued to an associate in his second floor West Wing office. Dean's unconditional opposition to the Iraq War could have been potent in a face-off with Bush. 'One of Dean's strengths though was he could say, I'm not part of that crowd down there.' But Kerry was very much a part of the Washington crowd and he had voted in favor of the resolution for war. Rove got out his two-inch-think loose-leaf binder titled 'Bring It On.' It consisted of research into Kerry's 19-year record in the Senate. Most relevant were pages 9-20 of the section on Iraq."
Woodward explained that, "Rove believed they had Kerry pretty cold on voting to give the president a green light for war and then backing off when he didn't like the aftermath or saw a political opportunity. Whatever the case, Rove sounded as if he believed they could inoculate the president on the Iraq War in a campaign with Kerry."
"Rove," Woodward observed, "was gleeful."
Ten months later, as the returns rolled in on Tuesday night, Rove's glee seemed well placed.
After every imaginable revelation about the missteps, misdeeds and lies that the Bush administration used to steer the country into the Iraq misadventure, and after all the news about the quagmire it had become, America effectively said to George W. Bush: We trust you to manage the mess more than we trust John Kerry.
This is the most painful reality of the fall campaign of 2004: For all the talk about Iraq, the debate about the U.S. occupation of that country never really took hold.
Kerry tried to offer himself up as a clear alternative to Bush, and from a stylistic standpoint he succeeded. But when the debate got down to the practical question of when American troops would be out of harm's way -- and when the Iraqis will really be running things in their own country -- about all Kerry had to offer was a vague sooner-rather-than-later promise that sounded a bit too much like the "secret plan" to get U.S. troops out of Vietnam that Richard Nixon peddled in 1968.
It is a stretch to suggest that Howard Dean would necessarily have been a better foe for Bush than Kerry. Dean had enough baggage to fill several of those loose-leaf folders on Rove's desk.
But, at a fundamental level, Rove was right. A Democratic challenger who could have distanced him-or herself from the use-of-force resolution and Bush's plan of attack would have been, as Woodward suggests, "potent in a face-off with Bush."
To be sure, Bush lost the actual debates. But the results of the election suggest that he did not loose the broader debate about the war. Hindsight is always 20-20, but it is worth noting that a lot of progressives rejected Kerry's candidacy during the primary season because they feared that -- in light of his vote on the use-of-force resolution -- he could not hold Bush fully accountable for the rush to war that has now cost so many American and Iraqi lives. They, like Karl Rove, were proven right on Tuesday.
'We Can Wait One More Night'
Nothing frustrated Democratic loyalists more in 2000 than the sense that their presidential nominee, former Vice President Al Gore, failed to aggressively, and effectively, challenge Republican moves to steal that year's election--and the presidency--in the disputed state of Florida.
This year, Democrats again find themselves stuck in a close election where the final results of one state's voting could decide the presidency for or against their candidate.
The difference is that, this time, the disputed state is Ohio, where Republican George W. Bush, the man who elbowed Gore aside in 2000, was maintaining a roughly 120,000 vote lead in the Buckeye state over Democrat John Kerry, out of more than 2.6 million votes cast. Some television networks declared Bush the winner of Ohio last night, others did not.
That left the fight for the presidency unsettled. And Kerry aides argued early Wednesday morning that Bush's Ohio margin could yet be reversed when there is a tallying of an estimated 250,000 provisional ballots--which were cast by citizens of that state who were denied the right to vote because their names did not appear on registration rolls.
With the Electoral College closely divided, a reversal in Ohio could provide Kerry with enough electoral votes to pass the 270 mark required for him to defeat Bush.
With the presidency again hanging in the balance in a battleground state--however tenuously--the Kerry team did not want to be seen as having displayed a willingness to surrender prematurely.
So at 2:30 this morning, Kerry's running mate, North Carolina Senator John Edwards, appeared in Boston's Copley Square to inform thousands of Kerry backers that, this time, the Democratic ticket would concede nothing.
"It's been a long time--but we've waited four years for this victory,'' Edwards explained to the crowd. "We can wait one more night."
Then, referencing the concerns of Democrats who thought Gore backed out too soon in 2000, Edwards said: "John Kerry and I made a promise to the American people that in this election, every vote would count and every vote would be counted. Tonight, we are keeping our word."
When all is said and done, it will be difficult, perhaps impossible, to reverse Bush's lead in Ohio and nationally. The president's election night position is significantly stronger than in 2000, as he has secured the popular-vote win he lacked that year.
But Kerry took as his campaign's theme song Bruce Springsteen's "No Surrender." Democrats with bitter memories of the Florida debacle embraced that theme. It was part of what made them warm this year to Kerry, who often delivered "count-every-vote" comments at his rallies.
Now, at the close of a very long campaign, with the pressure on for Kerry to fold his candidacy and let Bush claim a second term, that is the message his supporters want to hear from Kerry's campaign. And, so far at least, he is giving it to them.
Bush's Lone Star Scheming
The final event on George W. Bush's schedule on the final day of the 2004 presidential election campaign was not a late-night gathering in a "battleground" state such as Florida or Ohio. Rather, it was a Monday evening "victory rally" on the campus of Southern Methodist University in his home state of Texas.
Texas? After months of focusing on the dozen or more targeted states that supposedly will decide this election, why did the Bush camp decide to finish things off in the one state that ought to be securely in the president's column?
Because, despite everything that has been said over the past few months, this campaign is not just about battleground states. There is also a national fight to win the popular vote, and Bush's election-eve trip to Texas was an acknowledgment of that fact.
To be sure, the fight for the popular vote was overshadowed during this year's long campaign by the fight to reach the "magic" number of 270 electoral votes. That Electoral College fight plays out in the battleground states. And as the 2004 campaign raced to a close, it was far from settled. At least 20 states--from Hawaii to Maine--saw pre-election poll numbers that suggested either Bush or Democrat John Kerry could win their precious electoral votes. Never before in the modern history of American electoral politics have so many states been so undecided on the eve of an election.
The candidates could not possibly visit all of those states before the voting started, however, so they effectively ceded states to one another in the final days. Both campaigns narrowed the focus of their last-minute campaigning to a handful of states where polls suggest the two campaigns are effectively tied. Bush campaigned in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Iowa and New Mexico, while Kerry awoke Monday in Florida and then flew north for a stop in Wisconsin, several stops in Ohio--including a huge rally in Cleveland where Bruce Springsteen sang and urged the crowd to "Vote for Change"--and a return to Wisconsin for a 1:00am Tuesday rally in the city of LaCrosse. Kerry spent the night in LaCrosse, where local television news programs reach audiences in the battleground states of Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa, before beginning a Tuesday morning journey home--via Ohio, again--to Boston.
Kerry can be reasonably assured of winning roughly 200 electoral votes from states where he led going into today's election, while Bush is assured of at least that many electoral votes. This means that whichever campaign secures a clear majority of the roughly 135 electoral votes that are up for grabs in the so-called "super-battleground" states that have been the targets of so much late-in-the-day politicking will be well positioned to claim an Electoral College majority and the presidency.
On election eve, late polls from the "super-battleground states" suggested that Kerry might be the one staking that claim.
But the key word there is "claim."
With so many undecided states at the close of campaigning, the Bush team was determined to cover all of its bases. And one of those bases involves securing the popular-vote win that could convey legitimacy in the chaotic aftermath of a close and contentious election.
The Bush camp got a huge break in 2000, when Al Gore and his backers failed to play up a clear popular-vote win by the Democrat in order to gain an advantage in the public relations fight that was every bit as significant as the confusing and inconsistent recounting of Florida ballots. When Democrats failed to press the case that Gore was the popular choice of the American people, they made it easier for Florida Republicans and a politicized US Supreme to hand the presidency to Bush.
As the campaign wound down, Bush campaign czar Karl Rove and his aides were fully conscious of the prospects for similar scenarios to play out this year.
For instance, let's say that no clear winner emerges tonight, or that the states split in a manner that produces either an Electoral College tie or a very narrow lead for Kerry. There are no guarantees of such a result, but there is a prospect. And the Bush camp does not fret about prospects that might prevent the president from securing a second term. It plans.
Essential to such planning is the assembly of all the tools that could be required to win a post-election PR battle--including that popular-vote win.
Hence the trip to Texas, where polls showed Bush leading Kerry by a comfortable but not overwhelming margin. The Bush stop in Texas on election eve was designed to ramp up excitement about the president's campaign in hopes of spurring a "home state pride" increase in turnout that could pad Bush's popular-vote total not just in Texas but nationwide.
Make no mistake, the first goal of the Bush campaign is an Electoral College win.
But, failing that, they want a popular-vote win that they can use as part of a push to raise questions about the legitimacy of a Kerry victory in the Electoral College and, if that victory cannot be upset, about a Kerry presidency.
Is it really possible that Kerry could win the Electoral College even as Bush wins the popular vote?
Of course.
Kerry leads in the District of Columbia and 14 states, including some that are rich in electoral votes, such as California (55), New York (31) and Illinois (21). Bush leads in 25 states that, for the most part, have small numbers of electoral votes, such as Wyoming (3), North Dakota (3), South Dakota (3), Idaho (4) and Mississippi (6). By far, Bush's best state when it comes to electoral votes is Texas (34).
If polls are to be believed, however, Bush should win his "safe" states by significantly greater margins than Kerry piles up in his "safe" states. For instance, polls show Bush leading by 45 points in Utah, 36 points in Wyoming, 30 points in Oklahoma, 29 points in Nebraska, 26 points in Louisiana, 23 points in Kansas, 21 points in Montana and 21 points in Kentucky.
By contrast, the only place where Kerry leads by more than 20 points is the District of Columbia. Kerry's lead in New York state is a solid 18 points, but the latest poll from California has him ahead by just 7 points.
Of course, New York and California produce a lot more raw votes than Wyoming and North Dakota. So, to secure a popular vote win, Bush needs a big "bump" from Texas. Yet, on the ground in Texas last week, some polls have suggested that Bush is likely to win the state by a relatively narrow 55-45 margin. That would translate to a margin as small as 600,000 votes, as compared with the 1.4 million vote margin Bush secured in Texas in 2000.
That 800,000-vote slippage could spell the difference between a popular-vote win and a popular-vote defeat for Bush. And the Bush team does not want to cede the popular vote.
So, when Bush went to Texas Monday night--to deliver a pointed anti-Kerry speech in which the president pumped up the crowd with "He's from Massachusetts, I'm from Texas" rhetoric--he did not do so simply because he wanted to sleep in his own bed on the ranch at Crawford. Bush and Karl Rove were, even at the last minute of the campaign they have so skillfully manipulated, cooking up one last scheme for maintaining their grip on the White House.
Even Republicans Fear Bush
The most divisive election campaign in recent American history has not merely split the nation along party lines, it has split the Grand Old Party itself. Unfortunately, most Americans are wholly unaware of the loud dissents against Bush that have begun to be heard in Republican circles.
If the United States had major media that covered politics, as opposed to the political spin generated by the Bush White House and the official campaigns of both the Republican president and his Democratic challenger, one of the most fascinating, and significant, stories of the 2004 election season would be the abandonment of the Bush reelection effort by senior Republicans. But this is a story that, for the most part, has gone untold. Scant attention was paid to the revelation that one Republican member of the US Senate, Rhode Island's Lincoln Chafee, will refrain from voting for his party's president -- despite the fact that Chafee offered a far more thoughtful critique of George W. Bush's presidency than "Zig-Zag" Zell Miller, the frothing, Democrat-hating Democrat did when he condemned his party's nominee. Beyond the minimal attention to Chafee, most media has neglected the powerful, and often poignant, condemnations of Bush by prominent Republicans.
Former Republican members of the US Senate and House, governors, ambassadors, aides to GOP Presidents Eisenhower, Nixon, Ford, Reagan and George Herbert Walker Bush have explicitly endorsed the campaign of Democrat John Kerry. For many of these lifelong Republicans, their vote for Kerry will be a first Democratic vote. But, in most cases, it will not be a hesitant one.
Angered by the Bush administration's mismanagement of the war in Iraq, record deficits, assaults on the environment and secrecy, the renegade partisans tend to echo the words of former Minnesota Governor Elmer Andersen, who says that, "Although I am a longtime Republican, it is time to make a statement, and it is this: Vote for Kerry-Edwards, I implore you, on November 2."
Many of the Republicans who are abandoning Bush express sorrow at what the Bush-Cheney administration and its allies in Congress have done to their party: "The fact is that today's 'Republican' Party is one that I am totally unfamiliar with," writes John Eisenhower. But the deeper motivation is summed up by former US Senator Marlow Cook, a Kentucky Republican, who explained in a recent article for the Louisville Courier-Journal newspaper that, "For me, as a Republican, I feel that when my party gives me a dangerous leader who flouts the truth, takes the country into an undeclared war and then adds a war on terrorism to it without debate by the Congress, we have a duty to rid ourselves of those who are taking our country on a perilous ride in the wrong direction. If we are indeed the party of Lincoln (I paraphrase his words), a president who deems to have the right to declare war at will without the consent of the Congress is a president who far exceeds his power under our Constitution. I will take John Kerry for four years to put our country on the right path."
In the end, of course, the vast majority of Republicans will cast their ballots for George W. Bush on Tuesday, just as the vast majority of Democrats will vote for John Kerry. But the Republicans who plan to cross the partisan divide and vote for Kerry have articulated a unique and politically potent indictment of the Bush Administration.
Here are a dozen examples of what Republicans are saying about George W. Bush--and John Kerry--as the November 2 election approaches:
-- Former US Senator Marlow Cook, Republican from Kentucky, endorsing Kerry in an opinion piece that appeared in The Louisville Courier-Journal, October 20, 2004.
-- Former US Senator Bob Smith, Republican from New Hampshire, from an endorsement letter sent to John Kerry, October 28, 2004.
"Nixon was a prince compared to these guys."
-- Former Chrysler chairman Lee Iacocca, who campaigned for George W. Bush in 2000 and appeared in television advertisements for the Republican Party of Michigan that year. Iacocca, who complains that under Bush deficit spending is "getting out of hand," endorsing Kerry on June 24, 2004.
"In a dangerous epoch -- made more so by a president who sees the world in stark black and white because simplicity polls better and fits into sound bites -- John Kerry may seem out of place. He is, in fact, in exactly the right place at the right time to lead our country."
-- Tim Ashby, who served during the Reagan and George Herbert Walker Bush administrations as director of the Office of Mexico and the Caribbean for the US Commerce Department and acting deputy assistant Secretary of Commerce for the Western Hemisphere, endorsing Kerry in a Seattle Times, October 14, 2004.
"I have always been, and I still am, a registered Republican, but I shall enthusiastically vote for John Kerry for president on November 2... If the Bush administration stays in power four more years, it will pack the Supreme Court with neocons who reject the idea that the Constitution is a living document designed to protect the freedom of the citizens."
-- Anne Morton Kimberly, widow of former Republican National Committee chair Rogers C.B. Morton, Secretary of the Interior during the Nixon administration and Secretary of Commerce during the Ford administration, endorsing Kerry in a an opinion piece that appeared in the Louisville Courier-Journal, October 14, 2004.
"Mainstream Republicans believe in fiscal responsibility, internationalism, environmental protection, the rights of women, and putting middle-class families ahead of big business lobbyists. Moderate Republicans should not be asked to swallow the right-wing policies of George W. Bush."
-- Clay Myers, who was Oregon's Republican Secretary of State for 10 years and the state's Treasure, endorsing Kerry at a press conference for Oregon Republicans for Kerry, September 1, 2004.
"The current administration has run the largest deficits in U.S. history, incurring massive debts that our children and grandchildren will have to pay. Two and a half million people have lost their jobs; trillions have been wiped out of savings and retirement accounts. The income of Americans has declined two years in a row, the first time since the IRS began keeping records. George W. Bush will be the first president since Hoover to have a net job loss under his watch... President Bush wanted to be judged as the CEO president, it is time to say, 'you have failed, and you're fired."
-- William Rutherford, former State Treasurer of Oregon, endorsing Kerry as a press conference for Oregon Republicans for Kerry, September 1, 2004.
"I served 20 years in the Ohio General Assembly as Republican. People have asked me why I oppose George W. Bush for president. My first response is, 'He is incompetent.' His behavior, his bad judgment, his record, all demonstrate a failure as president. He certainly misled the country into a no-win war in Iraq. Following his preemptive invasion, he totally misjudged the consequences of his action. He made a bad situation worse, fomenting widespread terrorism, all done with a frightful loss of lives and money."
-- Former Ohio State Representative John Galbraith, a Republican legislator for 20 years, endorsing Kerry in a letter to The Toledo Blade, September 28, 2004.
-- Clyde Prestowitz, counselor to the secretary of commerce in the Reagan administration and an elder of the Presbyterian Church, from "The Conservative Case for Kerry," published in the Providence Journal and other newspapers, October 15, 2004.
Springsteen's Political Poetry
The art of political speechmaking is now so lost to the dark machinations of the spin doctors, pollsters and pundits that most Americans have never heard a live campaign speech of any particular consequence. Perhaps that is why the crowd of 80,000 people who rallied for John Kerry on Thursday in Madison, Wisconsin, fell so completely silent a few minutes into what turned out to be the most poignant and powerful election address of 2004.
The speaker was not a candidate. Rather, the words that cut through the rhetorical fog were those of a guitar player from New Jersey.
"As a songwriter, I've written about America for 30 years," explained Bruce Springsteen, after he finished playing the appropriately chosen song, "Promised Land."
"I've tried to write about who we are, what we stand for, what we fight for," he continued. "I believe that these essential ideals of American identity are what's at stake on November 2."
Springsteen's voice did not rise with the false drama of electioneering.
His words mingled so smoothly with the soft strumming of his guitar that it was easy to imagine that the singer might let those few spoken words be his message.
But there was a lot more to it.
With a nod to Tom Paine and a kiss for Walt Whitman, Springsteen reviewed the crisis and then called voters to be guided not by their fears but by the better angels of our nature. Lincoln spoke this way, Bobby Kennedy did, and so did Paul Wellstone. But, as this campaign closes, that rare mixture of politics and poetry is coming not from politicians but from a man who until Thursday had never appeared on the stage of a presidential campaign rally.
The response in Madison, and a few hours later in Columbus, Ohio, where the Kerry-Springsteen tour stopped next, was more than merely campaign-stop enthusiastic.
When the shouting stopped, the tens upon tens of thousands of people who filled the streets in front of him began to listen. Really listen.
Springsteen detailed the subjects that mattered to him: "the human principles of economic justice, healing the sick, health care, feeding the hungry, housing the homeless, a living wage so folks don't have to go out and break their backs and still not be able to make ends meet" and "the protection of the environment, a sane and responsible foreign policy, civil rights and the protection and safeguarding of our precious democracy here at home."
Now, the crowd that stretched for block after block up a hill to the state Capitol began to settle. Something was being said here, and these people -- who just moments before had been rocking along with Springsteen -- were suddenly listening as the singer ran through his litany of progressive passions.
"I believe that John Kerry honors these ideals. He has lived their history over the past 50 years and formed an adult view of America and its people," Springsteen told the voters of Wisconsin, a battleground state that could well tip the electoral-college balance of this year's presidential contest. "He's had the life experience; I think he understands that we as humans are not infallible and that, as Senator (John) Edwards said during the Democratic National Convention, that struggle and heartbreak will always be with us. That's why 'united we stand,' 'one nation, indivisible,' aren't just slogans. They need to remain guiding principles of our public lives."
With autumn leaves drifting slowly from the trees that lined the street, Springsteen described the Democratic nominee for president in terms that made Kerry's resume read a good deal more lyrically than it has during this ugly campaign of Swift Boat vet charges and FOX-TV sneer fests. "He's shown us, starting as a young man, that by facing America's hard truths, both the good and the bad, that's where we find a deeper patriotism. That's where we find a complete view of who we are. That's where we find a more authentic experience as citizens, and that's where we find the power that is embedded only in truth to make our world a better and safer place."
Springsteen paused and then invoked the name of Wellstone, the late Minnesota senator who is an iconic figure among progressives in the neighboring state of Wisconsin.
"Paul Wellstone," the singer repeated, as the tension broke and the crowd began cheering. "He said the future is for the passionate and those who are willing to fight and work hard for it. Well, the future is now. And it's time to let your passions loose." Now, the applause was swelling. "Let's roll up our sleeves," Springsteen shouted above the roar of approval. "That's why I'm here today -- to stand alongside Senator Kerry and to tell you that the country we carry in our hearts is waiting, and together we can move America towards her deepest ideals."
Springsteen pulled his black guitar up and, referencing the musical instruments preferred by former President Bill Clinton and Kerry, said, "Besides, we had a sax player in the house. We need a guitar player in the White House." As the crowd roared its approval once more, the singer quietly continued, "Alright, this for John. This is for you, John." Then he launched into "No Surrender," a song that has been adopted as the Kerry campaign's anthem. Stripped down and slowed down, the song's words resonated even more clearly with crowd, especially the line, "I want to sleep beneath peaceful skies."
When Springsteen finished, he introduced Kerry, who bounded to the stage and announced, "I may be running for president of the United States, but we all know who the boss is."
Energized by the crowd and the company on stage, Kerry delivered a muscular, well-received address. And, surely, the throngs belonged as much or more to him as they did to Springsteen. Yet, when the day was done, it was the singer, not the candidate, who had delivered the most meaningful political address.
There are often debates about the extent to which serious attention should be granted to the political musings of singers, actors and other celebrities. The quality and character of Springsteen's addresses in Madison and Columbus on Thursday, and the responses to them, suggests that this issue may finally be settled. In a year when so many meaningless words have been spilled along the campaign trail, Bruce Springsteen is saying something that matters.
Political Laughs? Try Fox
Sorry, Jon Stewart, but Sean Hannity is the king of television comedy.
Yes, of course, "The Daily Show" is hilarious.
But the Emmy Award-winning Comedy Central program featuring Stewart's cutting comments on the foibles of campaigners for president and spot-on parodies of network election coverage by his crew of fake news reporters is just too intellectually advanced. If you want to see fall-down funny political humor on cable television, click over to the Fox News Channel and watch Hannity "interview" members of the Republican ticket.
No, Hannity does not fashion himself a comic. He doesn't even know he's funny.
It is that unintended quality that makes Hannity's "interviews" so remarkably ridiculous that it is impossible not to laugh. When the men who run the country come on his show -- as they have been for "energize-the-base" appearances in recent days -- Hannity greets them with a demeanor reminiscent of the "Wayne's World" guys falling to their knees before Alice Cooper and crying, "We are not worthy!"
There will be those who suggest that it is unfair to pick on Hannity because, as a Fox host, he is not supposed to be concerned about his credibility as a television interviewer. But Hannity's "interviews" are not Fox bad, they are William Shatner singing "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" bad.
Hannity's suck-up session with Vice President Dick Cheney last Thursday was so syrupy that it made those Julia Roberts celebrity interviews on "Entertainment Tonight" look like Prime Minister's Question Time in the English House of Commons.
Hannity, the wide-eyed conservative who is paired up with in-his-place "liberal" Alan Colmes on Fox's creepily amusing "Hannity & Colmes" show, did not so much fawn over the vice president as desperately beg the big guy for approval. Hannity wasn't merely tossing softball questions; he was playing up to Cheney like a half-wit intern trying to get on the good side of an annoyed boss.
"Right," Cheney replied.
"Right," Cheney replied.
Seated on a hokey set where he was surrounded by bales of hay, the vice president did his best to answer Hannity's questions seriously. But it was simply impossible. As the questions got sillier and sillier, the vice president grumbled out the sort of several-word responses that are usually reserved for the final uncomfortable minutes of sit-down sessions with the editorial board of the Mason City Globe Gazette.
Holding up a booklet, Hannity breathlessly announced, "I brought another prop with me."
"You brought a lot," Cheney observed, with all the enthusiasm of an airline passenger being chatted up by a hyperactive seatmate.
What makes Hannity's performances all the more hilarious is the fact that the Fox host does not appear to have the faintest inkling of how of how much his "interviews" look like a local television station's "remote" broadcast from the grand opening of a new car wash.
When the session was finished, an excited Hannity greeted the Democratic guest on his "fair-and-balanced" program, U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La. After Hannity referred to what had just finished as "the interview I had with the vice president," Landrieu corrected him. "I wouldn't call what just happened with the vice president an interview. I think it was an infomercial for the Bush-Cheney reelection campaign."
But, of course, he did care.
The man is serious.
That's the genius of his humor.
Other shows hire writers to come up with funny lines. Hannity is funny without even trying.
The Race Right Now
With 12 days left before the election, millions of Americans have already cast their ballots -- records are being set for early voting and absentee ballots in all of the battleground states and in many non-battleground states. Yet, it is no easier to identify a frontrunner now than it was last spring. Rarely in history has an American presidential contest remained this close for this long, and it is beginning to appear that, like 2000, 2004 may be a year when neither candidate opens up a clear lead at the close of the contest.
That's got George W. Bush's reelection campaign team running scared, as races that stay close to the end tend to break for the challenger. But John Kerry's camp has had a hard time identifying themes in the post-debate period. For instance, it took the Democrat the better part of a week to figure out that the shortage of flu vaccine is precisely the sort of real-life crisis that illustrates the problems that result when the federal government adopts a hands-off approach to health care concerns.
The big movement seems to be occurring not in the presidential race but in contests for the Senate, where Republican overconfidence has created unexpected openings for the Democrats.
Here's where the race stands right now:
READING THE POLLS: The polls are all over the place, reflecting the challenges that arise when the practitioners of an inexact science attempt to predict a contest that is too close to call. In recent days, polls have anticipated everything from a Bush landslide to a narrow Kerry win. The latest surveys from the Gallup organization put President Bush well ahead of Democrat John Kerry. But four years ago at this time, Gallup was also predicting a landslide win for the Republican who ended up losing by almost 600,000 votes nationally to Democrat Al Gore.
On the other end of the spectrum are John Zogby's tracking polls, which have Kerry moving up in recent days to a point where he is now consistently tied with Bush. Zogby's group goes out of its way to contact potential voters who are not always reached by other polling groups -- Americans under 30, the urban and rural poor, new citizens -- and the hope of Democrats is that his numbers offer a better sense of what the November 2 results will look like if turnout surges.
One of the most traditionally reliable surveys, the Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll, has Bush and Kerry tied at 48 percent each. That's probably about right, as far as the national polling goes. But, remember, national polls are the cotton candy of presidential politics. You need a balanced diet of battleground state information to get a clear picture of what is going on.
BATTLEGROUND STATES: The big news of the week appears to be that Kerry appears to be opening up a small lead in Ohio. Three recent polls have him ahead by margins of 49-47 (WCPO-TV/Survey USA), 48-46 (University of Cincinnati) and 50-47 (ABC News). Only a FOX News survey still has Bush narrowly ahead. If Ohio breaks for Kerry, and every other states votes as it did in 2000, as is possible, the Democrat wins the presidency.
Kerry also appears to be in position to pick up another state that went for Bush in 2000: New Hampshire. The latest Suffolk University poll has the Democrat ahead there by 46-41, although some other polls have it closer.
Kerry's prospects for pick-ups in other states that once seemed competitive have dimmed. He's down 51-45 in Missouri (KSDK/SurveyUSA) and 52-45 in Nevada (KVBC-TV/SurveyUSA). Colorado could still be a prospect, depending on what poll you look at, although most surveys give Bush a reasonably comfortable lead. Intriguingly, Virginia and North Carolina remain relatively close in most surveys; a new WSLS-TV/SurveyUSA poll for Virginia has Bush ahead by only a 50-46 margin. A WBTV/SurveyUSA North Carolina poll has Bush with 50 to Kerry's 47.
Are there states that went for Gore in 2000 and could go for Bush this year? Possibly. There's still a lot of talk about New Jersey being in play, and Bush visited the state early in the week in hopes of causing a turn. But the latest polls still have Kerry ahead by margins varying from 1 to 10 points. Another Gore 2000 state, Oregon, remains competitive this year, with most surveys showing Kerry and Bush inside the margin of error. The same goes for Maine. In both Oregon and Maine, third-party candidates are drawing what could turn out to be significant support. Bush also has a shot in the Gore 2000 state of Iowa, which remains exceptionally close.
What of Florida? It's still a mess. The polls say the state is a toss up -- the latest Washington Post poll has the candidates tied 48-48. Turnout for early voting seems to be running strong in traditionally Democratic areas, such as the Tampa area and Palm Beach and Broward counties. But there are already complaints about the difficulty of voting in Jacksonville and other communities. Bottom line: Florida remains in flux and both candidates had better stock up on suntan lotion. They will be heading to the Sunshine State regularly between now and November 2.
Where else will they be? Watch the allocation of candidate time in the coming week. Both campaigns will have to start to get very serious about where they send their presidential and vice presidential nominees as states begin to lock in. With the race this close, neither candidate can afford to spend time in states that should have been secured log ago -- if a poll shift forces Kerry has to go to New Jersey, he's in trouble; if Bush has to go to North Carolina, Virginia or Colorado, it's likely that he is finished. The sure bets are these: Kerry, who has opened a lead in Wisconsin and Minnesota, and who must win Iowa, will make repeated runs to the Upper Midwest in hopes of tying the region up; and, of course, he will camp out in Ohio and Florida. Bush will spend even more time in Ohio, which he must pull back into play. Bush knows that, if he can win can win both Ohio and Florida, a second term is almost certainly his. If he loses one of them, he's headed back to Crawford.
GENDER GAP: One thing that all of the national and battleground-state polls agree on is this: Men prefer Bush, women prefer Kerry. That should be good news for Kerry. In recent election cycles, women have voted in somewhat higher numbers than men. The Democrats are working hard to make sure that the pattern holds, as they need women to turn out in disproportionate numbers -- the latest New York Times national poll has male respondents backing Bush by a 53-40 margin, while women supported Kerry 49-41. Gloria Steinem and other prominent women are taking to the road to pump up enthusiasm for Kerry in battleground states; slogan: "It's Up to the Women!" Republicans are dispatching Laura Bush, who polls better than anyone on either party's ticket. Bush once promised her that he would never ask her to make a campaign speech. Strike that.
One woman who has made her choice is Winona LaDuke, a prominent campaigner for Native American and environmental causes. LaDuke issued a strong endorsement of Kerry this week. Four years ago, she was Ralph Nader's running mate on the Green ticket.
BIG GUN: Kerry will be joined Monday for a Philadelphia rally by former President Bill Clinton. While 2000 Democratic nominee Al Gore avoided being seen with then-President Clinton, Kerry will get at close to Clinton as he can. Clinton's approval ratings are solid in polls from most of this year's battleground states and his appeal remains particularly strong among the African-American voters whose turnout levels could determine the results in Wisconsin, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Florida and a number of other key states.
MEDIA BIAS: The media is giving George W. Bush a hard time. No, not the liberal media. Bush is taking it on the chin from conservative publications. Pat Buchanan's American Conservative magazine, which has been harshly critical of the Bush administration's military adventures abroad, will not be backing Bush. "Unfortunately," the latest issue explains, "this election does not offer traditional conservatives an easy or natural choice and has left our editors as split as our readership." The American Conservative is not alone. At least a dozen Republican-leaning newspapers that backed Bush in 2000 have refused to do so this year, including the Seattle Times; the Portland Oregonian; Boulder, Colorado's Daily Camera; Columbia Missouri's Daily Tribune; and Bradenton, Florida's Daily Herald. The conservative Tampa Tribune, one of the highest-circulation papers in Florida, abandoned the GOP nominee with an announcement that, "We are unable to endorse President Bush for reelection because of his mishandling of the war in Iraq, his record deficit spending, his assault on open government and his failed promise to be a 'united not a divider' within the United States and the world." So far, according to Editor & Publisher magazine, 45 daily newspapers with a circulation of 8.7 million are backing Kerry, while only 30 newspapers with a circulation of 3.3 million are backing Bush. The president says he does not read newspapers -- not even the conservative ones. Now we know why.
SENATE SHIFTS: Could Democrats retake control of the Senate on November 2? It's possible -- not because Democrats have done so much right but, rather, because Republicans have done so much wrong. The big mistake? In several states, Republicans nominated loose-cannon candidates who have blown up. For instance, Oklahoma Republican nominee Tom Coburn has been hit by scandal after scandal; most recently, he was caught on tape ranting about "issue" of "rampant lesbianism in some of the schools of southeast Oklahoma." In South Carolina, Republican nominee Jim DeMint stirred controversy by declaring his personal enthusiasm for banning not just gays and lesbians but unmarried moms from teaching. Now, in Oklahoma and South Carolina, both Republican-leaning states, polls show the Senate races are toss-ups.
But the most fascinating GOP crack-up has come in Kentucky, a state where the Senate race wasn't supposed to be competitive this year. Republican U.S. Senator Jim Bunning refused to show up for a scheduled debate last week; he demanded that he be allowed to present his remarks from the Republican National Committee's television studio in Washington. Bunning then used a Teleprompter to deliver his opening and closing statements. Bunning has also compared his Democratic challenger, Dr. Dan Mongiardo, with Saddam Hussein's sons. And when the senator visited Paducah, Kentucky, he demanded extra police protection because he feared being attacked there by al-Qaeda. The Louisville Courier-Journal, Kentucky's largest daily newspaper, asked in a recent editorial: "Is (Bunning), as he ages, just becoming a more concentrated version of himself: more arrogant, more prickly? Certainly that would be a normal occurrence. Or is his increasing belligerence an indication of something worse? Has Senator Bunning drifted into territory that indicates a serious health concern?" Both the Courier-Journal and the state's second largest newspaper, the Lexington Herald-Leader, have endorsed Mongiardo. "Fortunately," wrote the Herald-Leader. "Democrat Dan Mongiardo is as in tune with what Kentucky needs as Bunning is out of touch." Most polling shows the race getting closer. Mongiardo has momentum, although he still lacks the funds he needs. If national Democrats decide to shift attention to the contest, that could change. Best bet: Democratic Senate Campaign Committee chair Jon Corzine will make a move. This is too attractive a prospect to pass up.
Where does this leave the competition for control of the Senate, where the current split is 51 Republicans versus 48 Democrats and 1 Independent (Vermont's Jim Jeffords, who caucuses with the Democrats)?
With five Democratic senators stepping down in the south, and with Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle facing a tough reelection race in South Dakota, the party went into the 2004 competition at a distinct disadvantage. But Daschle is running even or better and Democrats now appear likely to hold several of the southern seats. At the same time, they will pick up a GOP seat in Illinois and could do the same in Colorado, Oklahoma and Alaska. If Kentucky comes into play, the prospect of a 50-50 split in the Senate, or even a 51-49 Democratic majority, will no longer seem so remote as it did just a few weeks ago.
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Proton-based transistor could let machines communicate with living things
Weird Science thinks that computer memory could grow on trees
Tree + memory = circuitry: The race for ever shrinking circuitry has apparently headed for the trees. Researchers have found that a protein isolated from poplar trees can host silicon nanoparticles as small as 5nm across. The protein's stable and acts as an insulator, isolating each nanoparticle and allowing them to be addressed individually by an atomic force microscope tip. The authors demonstrate they can use this combination as a Set-Reset machine, a very simple logic circuit with memory.
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