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A strange/silly question but.. I have created a simple WCF service that listens for requests for data from a database. It runs normally as a service on my machine no problem, but I was wondering - could this WCF service be used as a normal class? Say something like
public static void main (String [] args) {
MyWcfService service = new MyWcfService ();
/* Code to set-up and start listening for requests... */
Or would it simply have to run as a service on my machine?
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Have you tried it? – John Koerner Jan 25 '13 at 23:41
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Depends what do you want to achieve:
• If use class's functionality, yes, you can just instantiate it and call it's members
• If use it as a real WCF service, no, you need to host it first. In IIS or Windows Service, etc.
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What I have is a server to parse downloaded data and send notifications to an Android device - I was hoping to create some sort of REST service so that the Android app could send requests to the server e.g. get data, changing parameters and so on – SCassidy1986 Jan 26 '13 at 0:12
Now that I think about it... I don't really need it as a WCF service - even just a simple HttpListener that can accept REST requests would be brilliant, I just have very little to no experience of doing this and was hoping for a few pointers thats all! – SCassidy1986 Jan 26 '13 at 0:18
@SCassidy1986 - sounds like Web API might be interesting to you: asp.net/web-api – Tim Medora Jan 26 '13 at 1:50
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Yes, you can self-host a WCF service in console application if that is what you want. You do not need IIS or a Windows service to host a WCF service. This is quite convenient for development and debugging, but probably not something you want for production. See this for a detailed example. I have modified the example to configure an endpoint completely in code below. Again, not something you want all the time.
public static void Main()
MyWcfService instance = new MyWcfService();
using (ServiceHost serviceHost = new ServiceHost(instance))
var endpoint = serviceHost.AddServiceEndpoint(typeof(IMyWcfService), new NetTcpBinding(), "net.tcp://localhost:8000/MyWcfService");
// The service can now be accessed.
Console.WriteLine("The service is ready at {0}", endpoint.Address);
Note that this uses a single instance to service all calls where as typically WCF would create instances of the service class as needed.
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I am currently creating my own framework in C++ (MSVS 2008) which exports a dll with a bunch of functions for a user of my framework to use/call. In the beginning, when my project was still small, all worked fine. I compiled my project. A MyFramework.dll and MyFramework.lib were spit out. I pretended to be a user; put the MyFramework.dll file in my new VS project's Debug folder, put the MyFramework.lib and MyFramework.h file in my project folder, #include-d MyFramework.h in my code and voilá, I could call the (still simple) framework functions from within my new project.
But now I have expanded my framework. It now uses an external dll of its own (let me call it Graphics.dll) and included it in the same way (.dll in Debug folder, .lib/.h in project folder, #include Graphics.h in code).
The problem is that when I nów create MyFramework.dll/MyFramework.lib, include it in my new project and build, the linker complains about not being able to include Graphics.h, which obviously was included in MyFramework.dll somewhere.
So my question. I would like the user of MyFramework.dll to solely have to include the MyFramework.* files in their project and not have the need to copy/paste all external libraries I decide to use in MyFramework. How can I accomplish this? I took a look at this thread. It says something about adding an existing item and pressing the small arrow next to the "Add" button, but...the arrow is nonexistent in my version of MSVS...
Help is very much appreciated.
Kind regards W. Spek
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the linker complaining about an include file? no way! – stijn Oct 15 '09 at 10:20
You're right, it's the compiler. – Waldo Spek Oct 15 '09 at 10:42
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What is happening is the user is including one of your library's header files. This file is then including "graphics.h". If you don't want to require your users to have access to this file you must hide it from your libraries interface.
That is your library must have public api header files and private implementation header files. Your user only includes the public api header files, these do not include any 3rd party or private include files. When these files reference private types or 3rd party types, they can only use pointers or references, these are forward declared. This enables the private part of a class to use private library code and 3rd party types.
The chances are using the Pimpl Idiom will fix this for you.
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I think you might be right. Right now I am including Graphics.h in the MyFramework.h interface header file. This is wrong. I also spoke to my supervisor who told me the same. This is why the user's compiler is complaining about missing the Graphics.h file. I will have a look at the PIMPL pattern and see if I can fix my problem. Have to do it a bit later though. I will get back on the final solution. – Waldo Spek Oct 16 '09 at 8:08
I was trying to use an unmanaged library from a managed DLL using C++/CLI. Unfortunately my header was using an OpenCV header which meant it needed mixed-mode building, which wouldnt work. Using the Pimpl idiom was exactly what I needed – Fuzz Jan 13 '10 at 3:15
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Have you put the path to the header file? The compiler is reporting that the header file is not in the same directory as the cpp file being converted and its not listed in the additional include directories either.
Go to Project->Properties then select C/C++
The first option you'll see is "Additional Include Directories". You need to put the path to your header Graphics.h in there along with any other paths required all semi-colon seperated. The project I have open at the mo has, for example: "../AudioLibrary;../CoreLibrary;"
Edit: From your comments to Mark's post you say you want to embed the Graphics.DLL in your DLL. My answer is as follows:
If you don't have the source code to the Graphics.dll then you have a problem. What you are asking IS possible but VERY complex to do. Basically you can't use LoadLibrary. You will be forced to write your own for of LoadLibaray and GetProcAddress that will look at the embedded DLL and not try and find it on disk ... Its doable but you are going to need to do a lot of reading on the Portable Executable (PE) file structure.
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And that exactly pins down what I do not want to have to do. What can I do in my "MyFramework"-project, to not have to include external files in my new project which uses the MyFramework.dll? – Waldo Spek Oct 15 '09 at 10:44
Well you need to know what the function prototype looks like. Using GetProcAddress, as suggested by Mark, is all well and good but either you have to create a header file which has a copy of the stuff in Graphics.h or you have to include the original Graphics.h. Otherwise how can the compiler possibly know what parameters are needed? – Goz Oct 15 '09 at 11:17
I should also point out that if you are going to use GetProcAddress then you will need to create a bunch of correct function pointers with the relevant function prototype embedded in the pointer. – Goz Oct 15 '09 at 11:19
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If you don't want to require the user to have or include Graphics.h, one way around that is to use LoadLibrary to dynamically load Graphics.dll at runtime.
This will mean that the user will be able to compile against MyFramework without Graphics.dll being available, so it might be wise to do some kind of error reporting if LoadLibrary fails.
Once you have successfully called LoadLibrary on Graphics.dll, you'll need to manually import each function (and its signature) using GetProcAddress -- this will actually give you function pointers. How you store the function pointers is up to you; I generally prefer to have wrap a class around the imported functions but there's nothing stopping you from keeping the function pointers in the global scope.
As mentioned in the comments, if you don't want to distribute Graphics.dll at all, it will need to be a static library (i.e. "built in" to MyFramework.dll). If you do want to distribute Graphics.dll (so the user can use Graphics.dll without MyFramework.dll), then the above approach remains the better option. Really, the above approach assumes you are distributing Graphics.dll with MyFramework.dll, but that the user may not necessarily have Graphics.h available.
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But probably the user will still need a separate copy of Graphics.dll somewhere on his harddisk, right? That too is an unwanted situation. The user need not know about the existence of Grpahics.dll. He should only have to care about the MyFramework.* files... – Waldo Spek Oct 15 '09 at 11:12
Are you talking about embedding the DLL in the executable? If so .. use a static library not a dynamic library! – Goz Oct 15 '09 at 11:20
Yes, I am talking about embedding the Graphics.dll in the MyFramework.dll. So the suggestion is a static library? But what do you mean; make the MyFramework library static, or somehow include a static Graphics library in the MyFramework.dll. Please do note that I do not have source code for Graphics.dll, except for the Graphics.h. – Waldo Spek Oct 15 '09 at 12:04
I think although you include a static copy of Graphics.dll inside MyFramework, you still need to add the .h file in the Client Project. MyFramework.h includes Graphics.h and your Client Project cannot access that file. I'm having this problem right now and i'm not sure how can i solve it. To keep going, I added the Graphics.h folder to Client Project include folders. – HyLian Oct 15 '09 at 12:22
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I'm working on a simple game, this is my first game project.
Most of the samples I find have a Render Loop where all the game logic is made too and I just don't like this. Let's say I have a ball with X=0, and a wall in X=10 and in a slow machine, the first loop places the ball in X=7 and in a second loop, it places the ball in X=14. It would just crash the game!
Is this "render loop" the right way to make games? Should I write code to check for things like this in every frame? Example, new frame X=14, last frame have X=7, so I should check if there's anything from X=7 to X=14??
I was thinking that I should have a separated thread for the game logic and in the render loop, I should just "take a snapshot" of the current game logic and display that, no?
How do you guys, experienced game developers work around this?
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If you create a separate thread for this you also create a lot of complexity that you might not want to deal with. It's easy to handle with one thread and one loop.
Basically what you want to do is have a loop that does both logic and rendering, but not necessarily in every iteration. See this pseudo-code:
while(true) {
oldTime = currentTime;
currentTime = systemTime();
timeStep = currentTime - oldTime;
// Only do logic x times / second
if( currentTime > lastLogicTime + logicRefreshTime ){
doGameLogic( currentTime - lastLogicTime );
lastLogicTime = currentTime;
// Extrapolate all movements using timeStep
renderGraphics( timeStep );
wait( screenRefreshTime );
void doGameLogic( timeStep ) {
// Update all objects
for each( gameObject obj )
obj.move( timeStep );
Let all solid movable objects inherit the class SolidObject. When you call SolidObject.move(timeStep) that method checks to see how far the object can be moved within the given timeStep. If there is a wall before this point then the object should stop, bounce and change direction, die or whatever you like.
If two objects move you might want to check if and where they collide. Lots of games don't do this very well, but here's how you do it:
First calculate the line of movement between the oldTime and the currentTime for every object that moves. Then compare the lines to see if two lines intersect. Note, you need to take the objects' size into account. The intersection point is where the objects collide. Using this method you can accurately detect collisions of moving objects.
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Hmmm shouldn't you check the game logic then render? I think rendering is the last thing you should do since you need all your data to be valid before actually displaying it on screen. – Cristina May 6 '10 at 23:04
@Cristina: yeah, you should probably do that. You can also choose to interpolate instead of extrapolate if correctness is more important than responsiveness. – bitc May 6 '10 at 23:22
The reason why a lot of games don't do it well because the "then compare the lines to see if two lines intersect" is not trivial to solve if the geometry gets complex. Naively comparing each pair of lines will kill your frame time pretty quick. Plus- even if the lines intersect you've still got a lot of work to figure out if the objects should actually collide; the collision shouldn't happen if the intersection is at the "start" of one object's movement and at the "end" of the other's. – dash-tom-bang May 7 '10 at 19:25
@dash-tom-bang: you are so right. One way to simplify the object collision test is to use simpler collision shapes than the actual shapes of the objects. Old 2D games usually had invisible collision boxes. For 3D games you can use cylinders or even spheres with good results - that's only the line + the radius of the sphere. I'm not saying it's trivial, of course. – bitc May 8 '10 at 15:26
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As another answer stated, the problem you're seeing is called "tunneling" It's the "bullet through paper" problem, the bullet is moving fast, the paper is thin, how do you know that a collision happened?
It's easy if your world boundaries are simple. E.g. in Tetris, the blocks are only allowed to move left and right until they hit the sides, and it's easy to test if the bottom-most coordinate is hitting the "ground." These tests are simple because you can do one axis at a time, and collisions against the sides means something different than collisions against the bottom of the pit. If you have a rectangular room, just "stop" the moving object if its movement has put it outside the room by clamping its coordinates. I.e. if the room width is from -3 to +3, and your object has an X of 5, just change it to 3 and you're done.
If you want to handle more complicated worlds, it's a bit trickier. You'll want to read up on "swept" geometry collision. Basically, if you have a circle, you need to do collision tests with a capsule instead, the shape that would be made by "sweeping" the circle from its start point to its end point. It'll be like a rectangle with semicircles on either end. The math is surprisingly straight forward (IMHO), but it can be tricky to get it right and to truly understand what's going on. It's worth it though!
Edit: On the thread issue- no need to complicate things. One thread is fine. Skipping update frames can get messy too, and is pretty advanced since you actually need to figure out "the future" and then do interpolation of all interesting values up to that point. I don't call it the "render" loop, myself, as the render loop is just one part of the process.
def GameLoop():
while True:
Edit 2: This seems like an interesting discussion: http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=482397
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It is possible to have a separate update-thread and a drawing-thread, but it isn't easy! Usually you'll need to do a lot of mutex checking to prevent multithreaded access to the same variables so this isn't really viable (plus you don't want to handle with half-updated states). For a correct implementation you indeed need to have some form of snapshot of the last render state. If you don't mind the difficulty involved, there is a good implementation that van be found here:
Don't let naysayers discourage you. It is possible, it is viable and efficient. The only downside is that it is very difficult to implement and therefore probably not worth your time (unless you have a very CPU-heavy game).
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Don't thread it -- you'll cause more problems than you'll solve. You can thread things and separate logic updates and rendering, but it's tricky to get right and large portions of game loops are inherently single-threaded.
Instead, look into advancing your game loop using a delta time to scale things so that the logic update is largely independent of the machine's ability to chomp through the frames.
In simplified terms, if you use a delta to scale things, regardless of how long it takes to get through a frame, a ball moving from one side of a room to another will take the same amount of time to do it on a really fast PC and a slow one.
E.g. If a ball moves 10 units in one second and you can determine that 0.1 seconds has passed since the last update (use the high performance timer or whatever is available to you), you simply scale the movement by 0.1 and the ball moves 1 unit.
private const float BallSpeedInMetresPerSecond = 10;
public void Update(float deltaTimeInSeconds)
float adjustedSpeed = deltaTimeInSeconds * BallSpeedInMetresPerSecond;
// set ball's speed / move it etc. using adjusted speed
This won't entirely solve your problem (if something is really fast, it's going to get stuck in walls regardless!), but it is a simple and effective way to keep things predictable and consistent until you get into more complicated problems.
If you get that working and then want to solve a more complicated problem, as dash-tom-bang said, look into swept collision detection.
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There is no way that is simple, safe, and fast to take a snapshot of a massive lump of game state. You can double-buffer it, which is probably the next best thing. But it doesn't fix the problem anyway, so no, you wouldn't do this, at least not for this purpose.
Threading the two wouldn't solve this, unless you could guarantee that every single computer you used would always be fast enough to check X=1, X=2, X=3... X=10. You can't make this guarantee. And even if you could, it's rare to use integer numbers for positions. Can you iteratively check X=0.0000001, X=0.0000002, X=0.0000003 ... X=0.9999999, X=10.00000 ? Nope.
How do you guys, experienced game developers work around this?
We typically still have one loop. input, update, render, repeat. Collision problems as you mention are solved by using a collision detection method that calculates the area that the object would pass through, eg. resolving for X=[0 to 17]. On a really slow machine it might be X=[0-50] and on a fast machine it might be X=[0-5] followed by X=[5-10], but each will work as expected.
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From my limited experience in game design and AI I would say to have a logical loop and a display loop (much like XNA sets up). The logical loop (Update method in XNA) will basically handle updating positions and what not, while the display loop (Draw method in XNA) will draw everything to the screen. As for collision detection, I would personally localize that to your ball. When it moves have it look for collision and react appropriately.
Threading is another topic, but in my opinion I would say not to seperate the update and draw. It just seems intrinsically wrong to me to potentially have 2 draws for 1 update or vice versa. Why draw if nothing has updated... or why update multiple times before showing the user what is happening.
Just my opinions, hope I'm not way off base.
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If logic updates are usually cheap, and rendering is occasionally expensive, the easiest thing to do is decide to have N logic updates per second. N=60 is common -- but you should just pick the smallest value that lets the game work well, pick a value and tweak the game until it works at that rate, or (more likely) some combination of the two.
At runtime, keep track of time actually elapsed, keep track of how much time has logically elapsed (in terms of updates performed), and when there's more than 1.0/N seconds of discrepancy (because the rendering is taking too long) perform extra updates to catch up. This is better than than trying perform an arbitrary period of time's-worth of updates in one go, because it's more predictable. (Should the reader disagree, they are welcome to find this out the hard way.)
The disadvantage of this system is that if the rendering becomes particularly time-consuming, and the logic has to perform too many updates because of this, the two can get a bit out of sync, and the logic will never catch up. If you're targetting a fixed system, this just indicates that you're trying to do to much, and you'll have to somehow do less, or (if this situation is likely to be rare) just dump the whole idea and do a 1:1 render:update. If you're targetting something variable like a Windows PC, you'll just have to clamp the number of catch-up logic updates, and hope that this will let things get back in line.
(If the logic is more expensive, this approach isn't appropriate; I've never worked on a game where this was a problem, though.)
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In CSS the overflow:hidden is set on parent containers in order to allow it to expand with the height of their floating children.
But it also has another interesting feature when combined with margin: auto...
If PREVIOUS sibling is a floating element, it will actually appear juxtapose to it. That is if the sibling is float:left then the container with float:none overflow:hidden will appear to the right of the sibling, no newline - just as if it was floating in the normal flow. If the previous sibling is float:right then the container will appear to the left of the sibling. Resizing this container will accurately show it centered inbetween the floating elements. Say if you have two previous siblings, one float:left the other float:right, the container will appear centered inbetween the two.
So here's the problem...
How do I maintain that type of layout WITHOUT masking children?
Googling all over the web gives me ways on how to clear:both and expand a container... but I can't find any alternative solution to maintaining the left/right previous-child centering. If you make the container overflow:visible then the container suddenly ignores the layout flow of the floating elements and appears layered ontop of the floating element.
So question:
I have to have the container overflow:hidden to preserve layout...
how can I make it so the children aren't masked? I need to have the child absolutely positioned relative to the parent outside the container.
How do I overflow:visible so I can absolutely position a child relative to the parent outside the container... YET preserve the sibling float-like-layout-flow?
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You can use the clearfix to do "layout preversing" the same way overflow: hidden does.
.clearfix:after {
content: ".";
display: block;
height: 0;
overflow: hidden;
.clearfix:after {clear: both;}
add class="clearfix" class to the parent, and remove overflow: hidden;
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Hmm! Clever, I am just now experimenting with it. What I am currently getting is that the generated content behaves correctly, being preserved in the flow of the layout, however the parent will still ignore it and layer ontop of the floating elements. However, this is a very good idea and I will play with it more to see if I can get it to behave correctly, and comeback to vote. Thank you :). – marknadal Jan 29 '12 at 10:39
This is awesome, fixed my issue completely, and @marknadal should come in and rate this as the fix, hint hint! :) – Mason G. Zhwiti Oct 25 '12 at 17:51
@Frexuz please show us some demo. I tried but unable to get it. – Praveen Jul 17 '13 at 9:52
@Frexuz I'm not able to get it jsfiddle.net/ewNbu – Praveen Jul 17 '13 at 10:59
@user1671639 your example doesn't really apply for a clearfix. You need something else, so I suggest you post a question with your problem. – Frexuz Jul 17 '13 at 14:31
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This is an old question but encountered it myself.
I have semi-solutions that work situational for the former question("Children visible in overflow:hidden parent")
If the parent div does not need to be position:relative, simply set the children styles to visibility:visible.
If the parent div does need to be position:relative, the only way possible I found to show the children was position:fixed. This worked for me in my situation luckily enough but I would imagine it wouldn't work in others.
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Here is a crappy example just post into a html file to view. <code><div style="background: #ff00ff; overflow: hidden; width: 500px; height: 500px; position: relative;"> <div style="background: #ff0000;position: fixed; top: 10px; left: 10px;">asd <div style="background: #00ffff; width: 200px; overflow: visible; position: absolute; visibility: visible; clear:both; height: 1000px; top: 100px; left: 10px;"> a</div></div> </div> </code> – Thomas Davis Jan 19 '11 at 5:45
Thanks for trying to answer, but this doesn't work because fixed position automatically positions the element relative to the viewport, meaning it does not move with the parent. In fact, if you have a scrolling page, it'll stay at 10px,10px as you scroll. – marknadal Jan 20 '11 at 8:42
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Neither of the posted answers worked for me. Setting position: absolute for the child element did work however.
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But wouldn't the parent DIV mask it out if it went beyond the boundaries of the parent DIV (which has overflow:hidden)? – marknadal Jul 15 '12 at 18:16
Afaik it doesn't, as long as the parent does not have position:relative. Then the child is positioned relative to its first positioned (not static) ancestor element, taking it out of the regular (parent's) dom flow. – Pim Schaaf Jul 2 '13 at 13:47
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How long is the comment option avaliable for posts on the feed? Can you comment on every post or just on posts that are not older than a specified date.
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I'm pretty sure you can comment on any post at any time. I know I've seen some that are at least a few months old and have been commented on.
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I want to get data into a database on a multicore system with ative WAL using JDBC. I was thinking about spawning multiple threads in my application to insert data parallely.
If the application has multiple threads I will have to increase the isolation level to Repeatable Read which on MVCC-databases should be mapped to Snapshot isolation.
If I were using one thread I wouldn't need isolation levels. As far as I know most Snapshot isolation databases analyze the write sets of all transaction that could have a conflict and then rollback all but one of the real conflict transactions. More specific I'm talking about Oracle, InnoDB and PostgreSQL.
1.) Is this analyzing of the write sets expensive?
2.) Is it a good idea to multithread the inserts for a higher total throughput? Real conflict are nearly impossible because of the application layer feeding the threads conflict free stuff. But the database shall be a safety net.
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Oracle does not support Repeatable Read. It supports only Read Committed and Serializable. I might be mistaken, but setting an isolation level of Repeatable Read for Oracle might result in a transaction with an isolation level of Serializable. In short, you are left to mercy of the database support for the isolation levels that you desire.
I cannot speak for InnoDB and PostgreSQL, but the same would apply if they do not support the required isolation levels. The database could automatically upgrade the isolation level to a higher level to meet the desired isolation characteristics. You ought to rethink this approach, if your application's desired isolation level has to be Repeatable Read.
The problem like you've rightly inferred is that optimistic locking will possibly result in transaction rollbacks, if a conflict is detected. Oracle does so by reporting the ORA-08177 SQL error. Since this error is reported when two threads will access the same data range, it could be avoided if the threads work against data sets involving different data ranges. You will have to ensure that this is the case when dividing work across threads.
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What Oracle calls Serializable is really Snapshot isolation, or am I mistaken? I don't think any of these databases has real Serializable. – Franz Kafka Jun 14 '11 at 13:11
It is snapshot isolation in that the SCNs (System Change Numbers) at the time of the read/update is compared to the one at the beginning of the transaction. If it detects a change, it throws the ORA-08177 error. – Vineet Reynolds Jun 14 '11 at 13:16
Okay for my multithread system I would need Orcales Serializable. Will that still be cheaper than one thread? – Franz Kafka Jun 14 '11 at 13:28
Can't say from my armchair :) You should profile this, for it will be performance hotspot in either case. – Vineet Reynolds Jun 14 '11 at 13:32
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I think the limiting factor here will be disk IO, not the overhead of moving to Repeatable Read.
Even a single thread may be able to max out the disks on the DB server especially with the amount of DB logging required on insert / update. Are you sure that's not already the case?
Also, in any multi-user system, you probably want to be running with Repeatable Read isolation anyway (Postgres only supports this and serializable). So, I don't think of this as adding any "overhead" above what I would normally see.
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The server will be scaled to handle the WAL, the data can stay in memory (hopefully). The checkpoint interval will be set very high, so that WAL can use the disk on its own. – Franz Kafka Jun 14 '11 at 13:38
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Im trying to access the org.testng.reporters.XMLReporter from my Java code. I am writing code with eclipse plugin and I am new to testNG.
I have a simple class with a @BeforeSuite, @AfterSuite and 1 @Test (Just as a demo) I thought I could simply add Reporter.getOutput(); to my @AfterSuite method which looks like it returns a list but it is always null. I assume I need a listener but im not sure where or how to add it.
My end goal is to access the XML results that get generated in a file by default to write to my own test DB I have created I can parse the XML since its generated by default I would rather do it all in code.
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I'm not sure what you're trying to do. If you want to access the generated XML, why not do this in a SuiteListener? Or even in a process that gets run after TestNG has finished?
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I guess thats my question I am not sure how to do this is a suite listener. – ducati1212 Aug 30 '11 at 20:43
The results in the generated XML file contain the exact info I want to store. I was starting to write a XML parser that got the results file from disk after a test ran and parsed it into my DB format. I would much rather be able to do that in my test code rather than reading the file. – ducati1212 Aug 30 '11 at 20:53
Either you parse the XML or you create your own SuiteListener (or better, IReporter) which will receive the result of the entire suite in Java. From there, you can do whatever you want. – Cedric Beust Sep 1 '11 at 16:17
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To add a suite listner you have to follow these step. 1. Create a class implementing ISuiteListner.
public class PlatformSuiteManager implements ISuiteListener {
1. Add the listener to the testng.xml or if you are running a through maven surefire add listner to the xml.
For TestNg.xml suite add following tag to indicate a listner
<listener class-name="com.example.PlatformSuiteManager" />
<listener class-name="com.example.MyMethodInterceptor" />
For sure fire add following under configuration tab
If you need to do a report listner you have to implement IReporter
public class PlatfornReportManager implements IReporter {
public void generateReport(List xmlSuites, List iSuites, String s) { //Implementaion }
I think this answers how to add suite listner and how to add report listner.
Note that report listner is called at the end of the suite.
Please make a sound if this is not clear to you
Please answer me to generate report using default listener. tell me default listeners of TestNG
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I put together tarball'd releases of software that include the output from several different projects. These tarballs themselves are considered a release. The released tarball includes a BOM (bill of materials) that itemizes all the projects in it and their associated SHA1 (git) signatures.
To make recreating these tarballs easier, I put together a make system that parses the BOM line-by-line cloning the repository into a subdirectory, checking out the specified version then performing the build. Say a line in my BOM has:
prog-a b5286f27d65ef20eb4508f76de5a1c57d8b21d85 git+ssh://git-user@localhost/~/prog-a
the repository, if not already cloned, would be placed in repos/prog-a, then a checkout is done (cd repos/prog-a; git checkout b5286f27d6) and finally a make (make -C repos/prog-a).
I've not figured out how to let gnu make decide if the checked out version of the code has already built the binary I need. Currently every single sub-project is forced to checkout and rebuild.
How can I present a git repo's SHA1 to GNU make so that it can decide if the project is out of date and needs to be updated (by performing a git checkout)?
[EDIT] This is my pattern file:
BOM=$(shell sed -r 's/([^ ]+).+/\1/' bom)
BOM_DIR=$(shell sed -r 's_([^ ]+).+_$(REPO_DIR)/\1_' bom)
BOM_BLD=$(shell sed -r 's_([^ ]+).+_$(REPO_DIR)/\1/\1_' bom)
.PHONY: clean dist-clean
all: $(BOM)
@rm $(BOM) $(BOM_BLD) -rf
dist-clean: clean
@rm $(REPO_DIR)
$(BOM): % : $(REPO_DIR)/$$*/$$*
@echo " CP $< $@"
@cp $< $@
$(BOM_BLD): % : $$(*D)
@echo " GIT CHECKOUT"
@cd $<; git checkout -q $(shell sed -rn '/$(shell echo $@ | sed -r 's_.+/__')/ s/.+ (.+) .+ .+ .+/\1/p' bom)
@echo " MAKE $@"
@make -w -C $< $(@F)
$(BOM_DIR): | materials
@echo " GIT CLONE $@"
@cd $(REPO_DIR); git clone $(shell sed -rn '/$(shell echo $@ | sed -r 's_.+/__')/ s/.+ (.+) .+ .+/\1/p' bom)
@echo " MKDIR $@"
@mkdir $@
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If the checkout only replaces files that needs replacing, you could just do the checkout unconditionally. Are you saying it replaces more than it needs to? – ikegami Sep 1 '11 at 1:51
No, the checkout works just fine, as do the sub-project makes. What I'd like to have is the top level make see which checked out version a sub-project is, and determine if it is the one that's required/specified by the BOM line. – Jamie Sep 1 '11 at 1:55
Just do the checkout. make will determine whether anything needs to be done or not based on file timestamps. – ikegami Sep 1 '11 at 2:03
I see what you're saying. I wasn't being clear. What I was trying to avoid was running the make for the sub-projects altogether, which as you pointed out wouldn't take long if I'm checking out the same version of sub-project. – Jamie Sep 1 '11 at 2:21
To simplify things you could consider tags per 'subfolder' (prog-a, prog-b). Referring to the commits will become much easier. You could also resort to git submodules (sharing a shared repo) and profit from git's submodule handling – sehe Sep 1 '11 at 12:39
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This would be my pattern:
TARGETS=prog-a prog-b prog-c
all: $(TARGETS)
prog-a: SHA1=123fa
prog-b: SHA1=234ab
prog-c: SHA1=345bc
make -C "$@" -e PARAM=$(SHA1)
In your subdir makefile, imagine something like this:
git checkout $(PARAM) -- ./
# ... other build rules
assuming makefiles in the subdirs; you can of course do whatever you want in the make rule.
For even more dynamic make scripts, at least have a look at .SECONDEXPANSION, .PHONY, .PRECIOUS
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update: showed example of where the git checkout would fit in; you could of course lift all/some of the logic into the toplevel makefile. – sehe Sep 1 '11 at 8:56
Thanks for taking the time to respond, I'm already doing something like that (see my forthcoming edit). My question is still 'How can I have make make the decision to proceed with pattern rule to do the checkout or not?' – Jamie Sep 1 '11 at 13:23
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i have the following problem :
I'm using Jquery mobile , user can search for products and the details of those page are created dynamically :
something like :
$("body").append('<div class="products" data-role="page" id="'+pageId+'"><div data-role="header"><p class="backSearch"><a href="#base" data-rel="back" data-role="button" data-inline="true" data-icon="back">back</a></p><h1>' +data.title+ '</h1></div></div>');
// create the content DIV
$('#'+pageId).append('<div data-role="content" id="content_'+pageId+'">...</div>');
It's working fine , but the problem is that when you go to the product details and you click on the refresh the form appears again and since the Dom is refreshed i don't have access to the product details anymore (need to do another search etc..)
Any solution in mind to resolve this issue ?
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I've always used a placeholder page, added the data dynamically and refreshed the page – Phill Pafford Sep 16 '11 at 18:46
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To save these details locally, and keep them available after a browser refresh, try using store.js. It's a cross browser javascript library for storing local variables:
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Thank's for the answer but i prefer to only use a jquery solution – Tarek Sep 16 '11 at 16:28
You won't be able to store these variables using jQuery alone. You'll need to use local storage. So your best options are either local storage via something like store.js or doing something clever with your URLs. – Spike Sep 16 '11 at 17:15
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I'm storing data using localstorage of the browser. When the page is refreshed i check the data in the variable and load from the localstorage if I need.
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Use empty() to clear the contents of the target
$('#'+pageId).empty().append('<div data-role="content" id="content_'+pageId+'">...</div>');
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According to what I've read, there are three main connection types in computer networks:
• Unacknowledged, connectionless (e.g. UDP)
• Acknowledged, connectionless (e.g. ?)
• Acknowledged, connection-oriented (e.g. TCP)
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From memory those three connection types are defined by the OSI network model, and while the TCP/IP and OSI Models may share some similarities the support of certain features required/implied by OSI does not necessarily translate into support in the TCP/IP model.
Everything I can find regarding "acknowledged, connectionless" protocols simply refers to it being a feature/requirement in the Data Link Layer of the OSI model
While the OSI model is a good model for learning how a network should work, is not necessarily perfect for widespread usage and some of the features are simply not worth the effort to implement in common networking protocols.
The two types you listed (TCP and UDP) are enough to support 99.9% of situations that are likely to occur, and as connections "cost less" with faster networking devices and features like Selective Acknowledgement the requirement for acknowledged yet connectionless protocols becomes minimal, and if you truly don't want a connection (i.e. broadcasting to multiple computers) then acknowledgement could create a processing bottleneck coming back to you.
The only real use I can see for that particular type of connection is in a system like a factory where you absolutely must know that certain data has been received by all machines and I cannot see why, with modern hardware speeds and capabilities, you would want to use a connectionless protocol as a connection-orientated protocol would provide much better quality of service.
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It's not that I'm trying to use such a protocol, the question is more of educational use for me :) I was just wondering what such a protocol would be used for, because I didn't came up with a good use for it either. – x3ro Jul 1 '11 at 15:34
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TFTP uses UDP, and relies on acknowledgements to function.
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Not exactly what I was looking for, but nevertheless useful ^^ – x3ro Jul 1 '11 at 15:35
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There is a protocol called Reliable User Datagram Protocol (RUDP). It is a trade off between the reliability of TCP and simplicity of UDP. It attempts to minimize the complexity and overhead of TCP connections while improving reliability.
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Does UDP with a request-response protocol qualify as acknowledged-connectionless? E.g. UDP Echo per RFC 862?
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Minority Report was an enjoyable action flick, but it may hold the blame for getting the idea stuck in our collective heads that 3D gesture control is the next frontier for computing. The Kinect from Microsoft helped further this idea around as well, with a pretty good (though highly limited regarding needed space, applications, etc.) gesture experience. But a lot of startups and other companies are chasing this carrot – and it begs the question of whether there’s even a carrot to chase.
Maybe the most headline-grabbing of those going after the gesture control birdy is Leap Motion. The company raked in lots of pre-order interest for its device, which uses infrared tech to track finger and hand movements in 3D space and them map those to controls for apps on a computer. But then it arrived, and the reality was nothing like people had imagined, even after the device delayed its release for an extended beta to amp up the consumer user experience.
Leap Motion had good reason to go back to the drawing board: there’s a huge risk with this kind of device because when you aren’t just blown away by a device like this, it ends up in a drawer and no one ever uses it again. Unfortunately for the company, that’s likely the fate of a lot of their controllers, I realized after a couple of weeks of using one.
Early reviews were not very kind to the Leap Motion, but really a lot of them may have been over-generous. The controller is impressive enough during its demo when it’s showing you the finger points and hand model skeleton its detecting, but already it’s apparent that the detection is finicky. The controller is finicky in its appraisal, and requires your hands to occupy a sweet spot relative to the gadget itself to work really well.
Even when you’re in that zone, the problems don’t end. How each app uses gesture input varies, and things like web browsing with it are a definite pain. In the end, the fact is that on balance you get more frustration than pleasure out of the experience, and that’s not good for long-term adoption.
The experience of Leap Motion is flawed enough that it makes me wonder whether gesture control is actually something that it’s even possible to get right. Minority Report painted an idealized picture of how that might look, but it is, after all a work of fiction, and think about what the Tom Cruise character is actually doing in many of those scenes; wouldn’t it be easier to work with a traditional multimonitor setup and keyboard and mouse to accomplish the same thing?
There are a lot of people looking at gesture control right now, including Waterloo’s Thalmic Labs with its MYO armband, the new Haptix Kickstarter, and pmdtechnologies from Germany with their CamBoard pico. Microsoft is also refining and improving upon its Kinect for the upcoming Xbox One console.
Gesture input is a tempting area of focus, since it has clearly been a focus of lots of imaginative work for speculative and science fiction. Kinect and Wii showed us that large groups of people could enjoy that kind of device interaction, but those are in very specific contexts. Even if executed well, I’m not sure any solution is going to be anything other than a niche curiosity – we’ll probably see input take other, unexpected courses of evolution instead. They MYO and others could still prove me wrong (and I hope it does), but if you’ve got a farm to bet, I wouldn’t bet it on a gesture control revolution. | dclm-gs1-013270000 |
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This is the preamble to a book I'm editing:
Trying to compile this document yields the error:
LaTeX Error: Command \proof already defined.
This error only occurred after the inclusion of amsthm in the above list, which I need for one of the chapters. Obviously amsthm is clashing with some other package in the list, but I have no way of finding which one (the other packages are needed for other chapters anyway).
Is there any way of telling LaTeX to ignore the definition of proof from amsthm, thus hopefully resolving the conflict?
Edit: The class I'm using is monog3, which is provided to me by Oxford University Press. I don't know if I can share its contents, but I have checked and it does contain the conflicting definition:
\def\proof{\trivlist \item[\hskip \labelsep{\bf Proof\ }]}
With this in mind, is there a way to get around the clash?
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This works for me. If you're using TeX Live, I suggest you do an update: tlmgr update --all (I just did that myself.) – Marc van Dongen Feb 8 '12 at 15:29
Welcome to TeX.sx! Please take a look at advice on creating a minimal working example (MWE), as this may well help you isolate the issue you have. – Joseph Wright Feb 8 '12 at 15:33
Please, show what class you're using. Probably it's defining \proof. – egreg Feb 8 '12 at 15:35
@MarcvanDongen I've tried this. It didn't help (but thanks for pointing this out anyway, I definitely needed to update). – Edward Grefenstette Feb 8 '12 at 16:19
@egreg There is indeed a clash at class level. I've edited the post above. – Edward Grefenstette Feb 8 '12 at 16:19
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If the class defines either a macro or an environment called proof, add the instructions \let\proof\relax and \let\endproof\relax before loading amsthm.
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That doesn't seem to do the trick. Same error is popping up :-( – Edward Grefenstette Feb 8 '12 at 15:25
If your document class is defining "proof" then the above line from David has to go before loading amsthm (not after). – Frank Mittelbach Feb 8 '12 at 16:12
@FrankMittelbach That solved it! – Edward Grefenstette Feb 8 '12 at 16:23
@EdwardGrefenstette You got several people trying to help you and it took a long time to solve your problem. In the end only you knew what was going on because you didn't suply a minimal example. For future reference, please provide one, it will save us all some time.... – Marc van Dongen Feb 8 '12 at 22:55
This just saved me. – Jayesh Badwaik Sep 22 '13 at 4:25
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President Calderon moves to legalize drugs in Mexico
Immigration alert! The face of immigration is about to change rapidly, and not because President Obama is pushing forward bold policy to protect Americans inhabiting our nation’s back door from Mexican drug cartels. Felipe Calderon, Mexico’s president, is aggressively moving forward legalized access to drugs on the streets of Mexico.
American farmers are already inundated along the border with the cartels and illegal immigrants. They certainly don't need these unwelcome aliens coming across drug-infested, armed and dangerous as well.
Obama apologizes again
Why is the president of the United States apologizing to President Calderon of Mexico about an Arizona law that enforces federal laws curbing illegal Mexican immigrants?
President Obama should be castigating President Calderon over the conditions in Mexico that encourage these illegals to cross the border. The Mexican government should be working with the American government to prevent illegal immigration and enforce immigration laws. This might have the spin-off benefit of contributing to the defeat of the drug lords that informally rule much of Mexico and sell illegal drugs in the U.S.
Miss Oklahoma’s simple declarative sentence
‘Bring it on!’
OK, incumbents, all you defenders of the status quo: As the angry political earthquake shakes your terra unfirma, you can quake behind the gates of your communities or you can step out and boldly go where some have only dared to, with the challenge to BRING IT ON!!!
*Forget the lack of Protestants on the Supreme Court. Isn't in time the president nominated someone who is an active atheist? BRING IT ON!!
*And speaking of presidential choices, shouldn't he select as Defense secretary an openly gay person ... a lesbian at that? BRING IT ON!!!
Who is Tim Bridgewater? Bad news for Romney.
Time to get a job, Al Sharpton
Here we go again. Someone somewhere is playing the victim card, and the Rev. Al Sharpton is there to somehow pretend he’s a victim too. The latest country-trotting for Sharpton involves a trip to sunny Arizona to feign utter outrage over the state’s enactment of tough new immigration laws.
I’m not here to argue the merits of the state law. Even the Arizona Legislature just last week had to tweak the measure to ensure it was doing what lawmakers intended without violating constitutional rights. But Al Sharpton? Again? Didn’t I see him at the local Dairy Queen last week? And just before that, on HBO with Bill Maher?
Immigration reform compromise
The new law in Arizona should be seen less through the prism of politics or constitutional law and more through the lens of national psychology. It really is a cri de coeur, or a cry from the heart.
The law may seem punitive or intrusive from the ACLU’s perspective. But as I have said before, desperate times require desperate measures.
You only need to glance over the border and see the situation that is unfolding in Mexico to understand that the people of Arizona are panicking that the drug war, like a swarm of killer bees, is coming to a location near them.
Immigration bill: Bad politics for everyone
The Hill's A.B. Stoddard looks into whether the Obama administration could take up the issue of tax reform once the Senate moves on to immigration, an issue that will most likely split the two parties even more than financial reform.
Arizona law awakens the sleeping giant for Democrats
Under the new Arizona immigration law, if the same conduct is done by whites and Hispanics, the whites will never be stopped and asked for their papers, and the Hispanics very often will be. This law should be thrown out by the courts and pre-empted by national legislation. It guarantees abuses that are an outrage to our nation. It will awaken the sleeping giant of the Hispanic vote that will be politically transforming and powerfully helpful to Democrats. | dclm-gs1-013290000 |
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1960Republican Wrote:
Dec 05, 2012 3:09 AM
slaw - "The parties robbed in the process are never named as parties of interest," Might part of "parties of interest" be referring to savings in banks earning less than 1% interest? You know, no civilization has ever had a saver's bank interest rate below 3%, not even in the USSR days, or the ancient Rome days. Never, until Greenspan and his ilk. | dclm-gs1-013320000 |
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I will be traveling to Israel soon and am concerned because some colleagues have suggested that the visa stamps in my passport from the United Arab Emirates (eg Dubai) might cause me difficulties on arrival.
Is this something I should be worried about? And if so, any practical solutions?
(Related: Will an Iranian or Kuwaiti visa or stamp in my passport pose a problem on a future visit to Israel?)
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from my understanding, not. The problem is only happens if you are doing it the other way around. That's why usually people asks the Israeli Immigration to stamp the Visa on the separate paper. – Rudy Gunawan Sep 10 '12 at 7:21
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It didn't stop me, I got a grilling about the contents of my passport when I traveled for business in February.
The people doing the checks were El Al staff, before departing LHR. They asked me about stamps for Egypt x2 (from the beginning of the civil unrest), Jordan, UAE, Turkey, Morocco and a trip to Lyon, France (though I suspect that was to get a baseline). The whole process took about 45 min plus another 45 min for a search at the gate. Then no questions asked at customs - they stamped my boarding pass as I requested and let me in.
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"The Green Hills Of Earth" is a short story by Creator/RobertAHeinlein first published in 1947.
!!This short story provides examples of:
* BawdySong: Rhysling's unpublished works are alluded to, occasionally by title, and described as being "unfit for publication in a family magazine".
* CommonMeter
* HeroicRROD: The poet Rhysling makes critical repairs to a nuclear core, but sustains fatal radiation poisoning. He composes [[spoiler: the eponymous song as he dies]].
* {{Hobos}}: Old blind Rhysling, the Singer of the Spaceways, is a kind of hobo. He's an unusual example, as he's built up something of a reputation as a wandering poet and is well-regarded by pretty much everyone.
* PerilousPowerSource: Rhysling loses his sight this way - he peers past the baffles of a rocket's reactor and is then blinded by Cherenkov radiation. Ouch.
* WalkingTheEarth: Rhysling. Until the accident that blinded him, he had been a spaceship engineer; after the accident, he took advantage of the informal custom that a spacer could have one free trip home, using it to wander at will all over the solar system. | dclm-gs1-013340000 |
[[caption-width-right:301:Features a "Juke Box Hero" who is "Urgent"ly "Waiting for a Girl Like You"]]
->''For the science-fiction novels, see {{Literature/Foreigner}}''
A British-American rock band originating in TheSeventies and TheEighties, Foreigner was one of several HardRock bands (along with with groups like Music/{{Journey}} and Music/{{Survivor}}) that gained fame in the [[ArenaRock AOR]] scene during the early 1980s. The group's mainstays were English guitarist Mick Jones (not [[Music/TheClash that one]]) and American lead vocalist [[FaceOfTheBand Lou Gramm]], with [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters a rotating cast of other musicians]]. Since Gramm's departure in 2003, Jones is the only founding member still with the group.
The group had it's greatest success with a string of seven multi-platinum albums between 1977 and 1987, and had hit singles with songs including "Cold as Ice", "Juke Box Hero" and the ballads "I Want To Know What Love Is" and "Waiting for a Girl Like You". While members have come and gone, the band continues to tour today, often sharing the stage with fellow AOR stars such as Music/{{Journey}}, Music/{{Styx}} and Music/{{Chicago}}.
!!! "Trope Box Heroes!":
* ArenaRock
* GratuitousFrench: During the fade-out of "Girl on the Moon", the background vocalists can be heard singing "Fille sur la Lune" (the literal translation of the song's title) twice.
* HotBlooded: ''Check it and see! I've got a fever of a hundred and three.''
* IceQueen: "Cold as Ice"
* {{Instrumentals}}: "Tramontane," from ''Double Vision''.
* IntercourseWithYou: "Hot Blooded," "Urgent"
* LighterAndSofter: It began with one song from ''Double Vision'', and then their 80s albums became much softer than their older 70s recordings.
* PowerBallad: They recorded several. "I Want to Know What Love Is" is a particularly famous example.
** That song has lately become a BlackSheepHit or OldShame for the band, as they've admitted to wishing they never recorded it at all.
* RecordProducer: Starting with ''Head Games'', Mick Jones produced all of the group's albums in collaboration with another producer (most famously, Mutt Lange co-produced the number one album ''4'').
* RedOniBlueOni: By all accounts, Lou Gramm was Hot Blooded while Mick Jones was Cold As Ice.
* RhymingWithItself: From "Hot Blooded":
--> You don't have to read my mind
--> To know what I have in mind.
* RockStarSong: "Juke Box Hero"
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Film: Triangle
Just to start the confusion, these two are the same person.
Triangle is a 2009 British-Australian psychological horror film directed by Christopher Smith (who also directed Creep and Severance).
The story revolves around Jess (Melissa George), one of the passengers of a yachting trip in the Atlantic Ocean who, when struck by mysterious weather conditions, jump to a deserted cruise ship only to get stuck in either a "Groundhog Day" Loop, Stable Time Loop, Alternate Timeline, Bad Future or Close Enough Timeline.
Yeah... it's pretty confusing...Naturally, Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory occurs.
Not to be confused with the 2007 Hong Kong film of the same title.
This film provides examples of:
• Abusive Parents: Jess, as it turns out (both physically and verbally), although she really does love Tommy.
• Action Mom: Toyed with. Maternal figure Jess reveals her decent combat skills while on board.
• Alpha Bitch: Sally, to an extent.
• Alternate Timeline: The first time the first Jess meets the second Jess ignoring the Killer Jess before a new timeline has been created where the other passengers died differently. Subverted in that the two timelines play off at the same time and each influence each other. For example the new timeline eventually causes the second Jess to have her own story, which we don't see, where she eventually killed some of the passengers as the second masked killer which eventually made the first Jess turn into the first masked killer.
• Ambiguously Gay: Greg seems to be viewed this way by Downey: "You are living on a boat with an 18-year-old boy and you are asking me not to bring girls." He later also enquires if Greg and Victor sunbathe together. He seems to be implying that the two are involved.
• Amicable Exes: Greg and Sally used to date in high school, and still refer to each other as their "ex". They remain best friends to their late 20s when they die.
• Amnesia Loop: Both versions of Jess who turn up at the harbor have underwent traumatic experiences and it is evident in their behavior. Later in the timeline of the first of them, she falls asleep for a couple of hours. When she wakes up, one of the first thing she mentions is "I don't remember". During the loop she seems to re-learn things that she had forgotten about. One interpretation is that the loop gives her temporary amnesia and she keeps attempting to recover her memories. When she succeeds, its time for the cycle to re-start.
• Anti-Villain: Jess kills all her friends, but she did it in order to stop the time loop from happening.
• Apologetic Attacker: "Mean Jess" from the second loop, after she's finished repeatedly stabbing Downey. "I'm sorry, but I love my son."
• Arc Number: Several scenes occur in either the residence of Jess or a cabin of the Aeolus. Both are numbered "237".
• Asshole Victim: Arguably Sally, due to her bitchy and disdainful attitude towards Jess (even going so far as to snottily refer to Jess' son as a "retard").
• Ax-Crazy / Broken Bird: "Mean" Jess from the second loop. We don't get to see her full story, but Word of God believes her to be a Jess who has gone through the loop so many times she's become callous and psychotic.
• Bat Deduction / Insane Troll Logic: When she becomes aware from the time loop, Jess tries to prevent the deaths of her companions. Trying to rescue them from somewhat more experienced versions of herself, and consequently trying to stir events to a different reaction. When that fails, she concludes that she has to kill them to end the loop. Because all the previous versions of herself eventually tried to do so. That she has not seen even one of them succeed in breaking the loop, and that she has personally taken out one of them evidently fail to convince her that this method doesn't work either.
• Break the Cutie: Jess.
• Break the Haughty: Sally.
• California Doubling: Well, Australia Doubling, at least. It is set in America, but was filmed in various locations throughout Australia.
• Cassandra Truth: Greg doesn't believe Jess when she claims that she's sure she's been on the boat before, trying to tell her that it's all in her head.
• Victor figures early on that something is off with Jess, because she had trouble answering where her son was and then claimed he was at school. On a Saturday. He warns Greg, who ignores the warning and theorizes that special needs schools are open at weekends. Jess is lying and her son is dead by this point.
• The cab driver warns Jess that there is no point in trying to save the boy (her son). Yet she voluntarily re-enters the loop in an effort to do just that, despite the mounting evidence that it is futile. One view of the events of the film is that the only way to actually end the loop is for Jess to finally quit trying.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Victor. Per the backstory, got in trouble at home (wherever that is), run away, and spend time as a vagrant. Greg found him sleeping at the harbor and took him in.
• Designated Love Interest: Greg to Jess. Per his words, he only visited the diner out of hunger and not loneliness. He didn't feel the need for female companionship, until one day prior to the events of the film when he suddenly decided to ask her out. The two are barely acquaintances, and it isn't clear if there is more to their "romance" other than they didn't have anything better to do for the weekend.
• Disappeared Dad: Jess raises her son Tommy as a single mother. No indication what happened to the father, though she casually mentions that he was an asshole.
• Dreaming of Things to Come: While on board Greg's yacht, Jess dreams of her body washing up ashore on a beach. This happens much later on the film. Due to the nature of the time loop, this scene may instead be a fading memory of a previous cycle of the loop
• Fake American: All of the main actors (and a few of the ones playing minor parts) are Australian.
• Also the ship itself. According to it's life preservers, it is registered in Miami, but it is clearly modeled after the British pre-war steamer RMS Queen Elizabeth, and even betrays its origins by using the Commonwealthian spelling of "Armoury" instead of the American "Armory".
• Fate Worse than Death: Jess is stuck in a presumably endless time loop (or purgatory, depending on your interpretation) in which she murders her friends and accidentally kills her son over and over again.
• Final Girl: Jess... sort of.
• First Name Basis: The main characters address each other by first name only: Downey, Greg, Heather, Jess, Sally, and Victor. No family name is ever given. Curiously, they are not that familiar with each other.
• Greg is a longtime friend of Downey and Sally, and the current employer of Victor. Jess seems to be a recent acquaintance, and he has never met Heather before.
• Victor was an 18-year-old vagrant which Greg took in as an employee and roommate. There is no real indication that he is particularly familiar with the rest of the crew.
• Downey and Sally are friends with Greg and Heather. They don't know or care much for either Jess or Victor.
• Heather is a friend of Sally, and an acquaintance to Downey. She doesn't know any of the others.
• Jess became acquainted with Greg at her workplace, but this seems to be the first time they spend any time together. She has no known previous interaction with Victor, and does not actually know any of the others.
• Foreshadowing: Greg points out to Jess: "But you can't be everywhere all of the times". For most of the film, there are multiple versions of Jess running around. Three or more versions, with different timelines, are at various areas of Aeolus at any point in time.
• Future Me Scares Me: Jess threw the masked killer overboard which she later finds out is herself. The second time it happens the killer has even been unmasked, but the new Jess tries to kill her anyways.
• Futureshadowing: Pretty much everywhere.
• Ghost Ship: The Aeolus is deserted,its crew and passengers apparently long gone. The ship actually dates to The Thirties and there is a photo of it dating to 1932.
• Gold Digger: Sally expresses the belief that Jess is after Greg's money, and that her sob stories about an autistic son are part of an extortion plan.
• Greasy Spoon: Averted. Jess works as a waitress in such a diner and Greg is a regular customer. That is where they met, but the place is only mentioned in dialogue. Never depicted on screen.
• The Grim Reaper / Archangel Gabriel / Manipulative Bastard / Alternative Character Interpretation: The taxi driver, due to Epileptic Trees. Christopher Smith himself has even suggested The Grim Reaper theory.
• "Groundhog Day" Loop: Jess witnesses the death of her co-passengers from different views because apparently the whole situation starts all over again when they die. Subverted because for everyone she has killed apparently the corpses stay.
• Except sometimes they survive for a bit longer, only to die in other ways, in other places, and sometimes their bodies stay... or don't.
• Hollywood Autism: Tommy, son of Jess, is a mild example. Male child who is unable to live what most people would call a normal life. Otherwise his behavior is not that abnormal for a child, including an interest in painting, a tendency to leave his toys everywhere in the house, and leaving the occasional accidental mess when handling liquids.
• I Hate Past Me: Future Killer Jess, having gotten tossed off the boat, finds herself at the beginning of the day and sees herself physically abusing and yelling at her kid. Hating what she used to be, and having long since jumped off the slippery slope she smashes her past self's head in and tries to take her place. Somehow this does not result in erasing herself from time, but sets up an infinite loop.
• I Thought It Meant: It's not a film about The Bermuda Triangle, despite what the title and part of the premise may lead some to believe. However, Word of God states that one of the early ideas was for it to be a Bermuda Triangle film, and, although that idea was scrapped, some of the mythology surrounding the Triangle did make its way into the plot.
• Its location in Miami and the waters outside it, seems however to place it within the Triangle. The Triangle as originally defined in 1964, is the area between the cities of Miami and San Juan, and the island of Bermuda.
• Ironic Hell: Everything mean Jess has tried to do to get back to her son (killing her friends being one of them) has led to her being directly responsible for his death, starting the sequence all over again.
• Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: Jess.
• The Killer In Me
• Made of Plasticine: In the midst of trying to convince Victor that they keep dying and coming back to start everything all over again, Jess accidentally kills him by pushing him into one of the pointed hangers attached to the wall, completely penetrating the back of his head.
• Subverted a bit in that he doesn't die right away, and in fact appears to suffer a bit of brain damage and die from an internal hemorrhage rather than the wound itself. Still, a hanger piercing that deep into the skull is not likely.
• Actually this seems quite legit as the hanger seems to penetrate the part where the skull and spine connect, there is a small area that isn't protected neither by the skull or the spine, you should be able to even feel it when your neck muscles are relaxed. However this raises the other question of how does he keep moving around after having his spinal cord snapped.
• Mama Bear: To save her son Jess is willing to kill her best friend and everyone else on the yacht. And when she comes across a third Jess mistreating him she murders her.
• The Matchmaker: Sally is not too subtly trying to be this for her single friends Greg and Heather. Greg is rather frustrated with the idea, and points out later that Sally keeps trying to bring him an eligible girl "every year".
• Meaningful Name: The name of the ship, Aeolus, refers to a mythological Greek figure whose son, Sisyphus, was doomed by the gods to roll a boulder uphill for all eternity, where each time he reaches the summit the rock rolls over him and then back down again.
• Mind Screw: You're gonna need multiple viewings to actually get everything, and even then you'll either be confused, thinking there's gonna be a sequel or that a sequel is impossible.
• Narnia Time: Subverted. Jess ends up back home where her son is still painting, but she's actually still stuck in the time loop.
• Never the Selves Shall Meet: Averted. Jess throws the masked killer overboard, threatens the second Jess which created a second timeline, gets motivated by the second Jess who turned into the second masked killer to become the first masked killer and gets thrown overboard by the third Jess which will apparently walk the exact same path she did.
• Jess discovered a grate in one of the ship's rooms through which she could see a whole pile of the locket she wears which indicates that there are presumably several if not many other Jesses that went through the loop, but she never meets them. Then her locket falls in with the rest...
• Once More with Clarity: The opening scene shows several brief snippets of Jess' morning. We see this scene again toward the end of the film, and it becomes clear that the parts that were skipped over were Jess verbally and physically abusing her son.
• Perpetual Frowner: Jess. She very, very rarely smiles, and when she does, it seems to be forced rather than a genuine smile.
• Plot Hole / Leave The Plot Threads Hanging: The second Jess got a totally different story which may or may not have influenced the first Jess to become the masked killer of her own story which can either be a Plot Hole for the sake of the story or Leave The Plot Threads Hanging for a sequel.
• Many of the loop's elements have no logical beginning, in a sort of My Own Grandpa situation.
• Reset Button: Killing the other passengers is a reset button. Only it isn't a reset button.
• Rule of Symbolism: The "Mean Jess" (as she was nicknamed by the director) from the second loop (the killer who was a lot more callous and brutal than the other Jesses) has a bullet skim the top of her head, causing blood to run down it. Later, the "past" version of Jess who is seen abusing her son has blood running down her face in the exact same pattern, from the exact same spot.
• Scenery Porn
• Set Right What Once Went Wrong: This is what Jess tries to do but only created another timeline which we don't see completely in the movie.
• Shout-Out: According to the commentary, the killer wearing a sack as a mask is a Shout-Out to Friday the 13th Part 2, in which Jason Voorhees wears a pillow case over his head prior to the iconic hockey mask.
• As seen several times through the film, there is a message written in blood on the mirror of room 237. This is a direct reference to The Shining, where there is also a message written in blood on the mirror of room 237.
• There is a seagull which constantly follows Jess around, and which she is revealed to have killed in a traffic accident prior to the sailing trip. Per the director, this is an allusion to The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. The seagull is a stand-in for the albatross which the mariner killed, the event which set off his curse.
• Another allusion to the tale of Ancient Mariner is the weather pattern of the sailing trip of the Triangle. Following the death of the albatross, the fair breeze blows and all seems right. Until they realize that the breeze led them to uncharted waters ,and then that breeze fades to dead calm. Trapping the ship of the Mariner.
• The Mariner and his companions also met a ghost ship in the poem. A ship with only a deathly-pale woman and Death as its only passengers. Notice how pale Jess looks for much of the film. As for the description of the woman in the poem: "And is that Woman all her [ghost ship's] crew?/Is that a DEATH? and are there two?/Is DEATH that woman's mate?/Her lips were red, her looks were free,/Her locks were yellow as gold:/Her skin was as white as leprosy,/The Night-Mare LIFE-IN-DEATH was she,/Who thicks man's blood with cold."
• The music in the record that Jess listens to is a rendition of Anchors Aweigh by Glenn Miller and his band. Miller famously disappeared while flying over the English Channel in 1944, and the music is probably an allusion to the fact that Jess and her companions are not about to return.
• The original Sisyphus, who Jess seems to imitate, is said in the film to have cheated death, though the characters fail to remember how. While there are several versions of his myth, there is one where he broke a promise to the death gods. His family failed to offer him proper funeral rights, and he convinced the death gods to offer him a second lease at life in order to prepare his own funeral. He promised to voluntarily return to the Underworld and then failed to do so. In Triangle, there is a sign which says Goodbye, Please Return and Jess later promises the cab driver (a ferryman like Charon?) that she will come back to him and pay for her ride. Which she doesn't actually intend to do.
• Slashed Throat: Downey, in the second time loop. This doesn't kill him straight away, and he ends up being stabbed repeatedly by Jess. He lives long enough to attempt to scrawl the name of his killer in his own blood, but dies partway through.
• Stable Time Loop: Jess comes to the harbor looking dazed and eventually ended up being on the mysterious boat and threw a masked killer overboard. She realizes the "Groundhog Day" Loop and tries to break the chain by killing herself becoming the masked killer and getting thrown overboard. She drifted back to the shore where she was able to hitchhike back home seeing herself with her son. She killed her other self and wanted to dispose of the body which resulted in a car accident killing her son. She gets on a taxi to go to the harbor and the trauma seems to have caused amnesia. She comes to the harbor looking dazed and eventually ended up being on the mysterious boat, etc. etc. etc.
• The trauma didn't cause amnesia. Jess gets on the boat at the end with the intent of killing everyone to reset the loop, then going back to fix things surrounding the incident with her son. The Jess that gets on the boat at the end is the Jess that is involved in the first loop which we don't get to see all of (when she was wearing the black jacket and went ape shit on the guy in the cabin). The time split didn't happen when she killed herself on the boat, it happened when she killed herself in the house.
• Word of God states that one of the possible interpretations of the film is that amnesia was involved... starting when Jess wakes up from her nightmare looking bewildered, almost as if she doesn't know why she's there.
• Unresolved Sexual Tension: Jess and Greg.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: At one point Greg mentions that he decided to invite Jess to the sailing trip on an impulse. The previously smiling Jess stares at him and then adopts a sullen expression. One view of this scene is that she just realized that Greg and his impulse unwittingly set off the events leading to the time loop and all the carnage involved.
• Villain Protagonist: From one point of view, anyway.
• The Walrus Was Paul: Christopher Smith has stated that the movie is supposed to be ambiguous to let people interpret the movie in different ways.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Due to the time loop, viewers meet several versions of each main character except Heather, who is lost at sea before the main events begin. She is only there for the introductory scenes.
• Weather Dissonance: The sailing trip goes well until the weather becomes odd. The ship goes from a speed of 7 knots (8,061 miles /12,98 kilometers per hour) to 0 in mere seconds. A change which Greg, the only experienced sailor among them, quickly marks as strangely abrupt. Then some kind of strange electrical storm turns up on the horizon, heading their way. A quick communication with the coast guard establishes that there is no other report of any strange weather in the area.
• What Happened to the Mouse: What happened to Heather after their ship capsized? Other than the surviving suspecting she survived, got on the cruise, and dropped her keys (which was done by Jess by the way), we never know whether she survived, died, or became part of the time anomaly.
• Who Wears Short Shorts?: Jess does.
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"Senna, we can make pleasent memories anytime anywhere."
"You don't remember them because they are the memories that you need to forget Onii-chan.."
"Everything that Senna did... she did for my sake..."
W~Wish~ (pronounced Double Wish) is about a boy, Junna Tōno (遠野潤和, Tōno Junna), who has a twin sister named Senna Tōno (遠野泉奈, Tōno Senna). He is an Ordinary High-School Student at Sakurahama Private High School happily living with his twin. However, in the past, a traffic accident deprived him of his parents and his memory. Junna survived the accident and since then, he lived only with his sister alone in a house. Senna and Junna support and rely on each other, and due to this Senna is very fond of her Onii-chan.
Junna's present life with Senna at the same high school is so pleasant that he can forget his severe past. However, Junna begins to recall the memories he lost in the accident. He enjoys the happy and pleasant days, but he is tossed by his past, his present, and his future.
Then one day a girl transfers named Haruhi Inohara (井ノ原春陽, Inohara Haruhi) who claimed to be his childhood friend but later as his younger sister who he suddenly remembers. Who is his actual sister, Haruhi or Senna?What is the truth hidden in his memory?
Adapted from a Princess Soft Visual Novel, it consists of 13 half-length episodes which aired alongside Final Approach (also from Princess Soft) during the "Princess Hour."
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A different sort of horror
This isn't the sort of horror that relies on a slasher villain with near-invincibility or supernatural forces. The horror comes from the uneasiness that the viewers feel as Sergeant Howie goes through the island trying to figure out what is going on. The people seem normal enough but they also give the impression that they're hiding something, waiting for the right time to spring a trap on the hapless hero. The horror comes from the idea that the viewers know something is wrong, but can't quite put their finger on it yet.
The Wicker Man is a fascinating piece of work that not only keeps a suspenseful atmosphere, but is also quite the feast for eyes while maintaining its mood. The beauty of the landscape helps emphasize the growing uneasiness that there is something wrong. The festival thrown by the people is rich in color and full of happiness, yet it also causes uneasiness because it seems that everyone is just a little too happy and that the climax of the festival will get ugly. This is a movie that should definitely be checked out; it is a horror film, but one of a different kind.
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The command
ls .*
when run gives as output the following :
• All the files in the current directory starting with a . (hidden files)
• All the files in the hidden directories present in the current directory
• All the files in the current directory
• All the files in the parent directory
Why does the command
ls *.
not display :
• All the files in the current directory
• All the files in the parent directory
Reason I am thinking so is : The regular expression *. should match both . and .. So ls should be run on both and thus the output which I am expecting should be displayed
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It's because * doesn't match files starting with a . by default. Consider the following directory:
$ ls -la
total 8404
drwxrwxrwx 2 terdon terdon 8105984 Dec 31 13:14 .
drwxr-xr-x 153 terdon terdon 491520 Dec 30 22:32 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 terdon terdon 0 Dec 31 13:14 .dotfile
-rw-r--r-- 1 terdon terdon 0 Dec 31 13:14 file3.
Let's see what each of the globs you used expands to:
$ echo .*
. .. .dotfile
$ echo *.
$ echo *
file1 file2 file3.
As you can see, the * does not include files or directories starting with . so both ./ and ../ are ignored. The same thing happens with your ls example. In bash, you can change this with the dotglob parameter:
$ shopt -s dotglob
$ echo .*
. .. .dotfile
Other shells behave differently, for example csh:
% echo .*
. .. .dotfile
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Great explanation – X Tian Dec 31 '13 at 11:45
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The rule for filename expansion have a special case for . as the first character in a filename: it must be explicitly matched (i.e. the pattern must contain a starting ., or . after a /). Otherwise these files are not candidates.
This is why your first version does pick up filenames that start with ., but the second doesn't. * doesn't match . as the first character of a filename.
POSIX Shell Command Language describes it as:
If a filename begins with a period ( '.' ), the period shall be explicitly matched by using a period as the first character of the pattern or immediately following a slash character. The leading period shall not be matched by:
• The asterisk or question-mark special characters
• A bracket expression containing a non-matching list, such as "[!a]", a range expression, such as "[%-0]", or a character class expression, such as "[[:punct:]]"
It is unspecified whether an explicit period in a bracket expression matching list, such as "[.abc]", can match a leading period in a filename.
Your shell might have options to change this behavior. Bash has this for instance (Filename expansion):
Note that these are not regular expressions. .* as a regex would match anything at all (including nothing). *. would be ill-formed.
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I have linux (Ubuntu) server which I have root access to through ssh (port 22) only. On that server there is a MySQL database listening on port 3306. Is it possible to use putty (on my machine) and tunneling (on the linux machine) to create a tunnel from a local port on my machine (say 4000), to the linux server on port 22 and then from the server to itself on port 3306 ?
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The simple answer is yes, but please note that the tunnel is actually started on your computer. The way it works is that you create an SSH connection to the server (which is secure) and then instruct the SSH to listen to a port on your side and forward whatever connections come in - to a specific port on a specific host address on the server side. The target of the tunnel need not be the same server - it can be any other valid address, which - in the case its not the server running the SSH server itself - will see the incoming connection as if it came from the SSH server instead of from your client.
To set it up, open the Putty configuration dialog, select the setting of the connection you normally use to access your server and click "load" (and not "open"). Then in the tree on the left side, navigate to Connection->SSH->Tunnels and create a new "local" tunnel with the source port 4000 and the destination "localhost:3306" (because the destination address is resolved on the server, from the server's point of view the MySQL port is on the localhost). Then navigate back to "session" and click "Save" to keep your settings for the next time. Now you can use the saved connection to log in to your server and after you successfully log in, everytime you connect to port 4000 on your computer you will actually connect to port 3306 on the server.
If you are seriously into tunnels, and running an MS-Windows client, then I suggest looking at Putty Tunnel Manager which uses Putty to set up and run tunnels easily without needing to have an open putty console.
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Thanks a lot :) – Muhammad Gelbana Oct 18 '12 at 18:43
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Physical education is great for working off some steam, getting the heart rate up and improving hand-eye coordination. But it may actually help kids read and learn math.
Research shows moving around is not just good for the muscles, but also for the brain. Jean Blaydes is a former PE teacher who now travels the country helping schools add more movement into the day. She says exercise doesn’t make you smarter, but it does make it easier to learn.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services analyzed several studies and concluded that there’s substantial evidence to show physical activity can pay off in higher test scores, more focus, and a better mood.
Matt Belles oversees physical education programs for CMS. He has a poster in his office that reads, “If the bum is numb, the brain is too.”
The district requires 45 minutes of PE a week for elementary students and 60 minutes a week for middle-schoolers. The state suggests about three times that amount of PE per week. Half of the state’s districts say they’re actually doing that.
Belles has become a salesman of sorts for adding more PE and movement.
“With the growing needs for math scores, science scores and reading scores, it seems like the conversations we have across the district are really being shaped by how we provide these opportunities for our students,” says Belles.
Most principals he talks with buy into the academic pay-off of physical activity, but they have a lot to juggle. Schools are under more pressure to improve reading and math scores. With the introduction of No Child Left Behind in 2002, many schools across the country reduced or even did away with PE and recess time to pack in more classroom instruction.
Jordy Sparks, the principal at Bruns Academy in West Charlotte is a big believer in the benefits of physical activity, but he says there isn’t enough time for more PE. He’s got extra reading instruction to fit in and 30 minutes of recess a day mandated by the state.
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Smithfield Elementary in south Charlotte has figured out a way to make it work. Principal Allison Harris says her students take a break every 20 minutes. They’re called brain breaks. Kids dance, maybe do a few calisthenics while counting by fives or saying their multiplication tables. She says kids are more engaged and teachers actually feel like they fit more reading and math into the day. | dclm-gs1-013410000 |
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Day 1: Arrive Bogotá, Colombia | City of Contrasts
Arrive in Bogotá, where you are met and transferred to your hotel. In this city of contrasts, skyscrapers stand side by side with old single-story houses, and cars share modern expressways with mule carts.
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Day 2: Bogotá | La Candelaria
Explore the well-preserved historical colonial quarter of La Candelaria. Pause at Plaza de Bolivar for photos of Congress Palace, the Cardinal’s Palace and the colonial church of El Sagrario. View a display of the world’s greatest collection of pre-Hispanic Indian gold crafts at the Gold Museum. Take a break with coffee and pastries before stopping to see the contemporary art collection at the Fernando Botero Museum. Afterward, head to Cerro de Montserrat for spectacular views and lunch. Later, visit the statue of the Fallen Christ, a famous site for pilgrimage. Gather this evening for cocktails and a festive welcome dinner.
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Day 3: Bogotá | Salt Mine Wonders
Drive to the small colonial town of Zipaquirá and explore the extraordinary Salt Cathedral, where religious sculptures and cavernous pools are hewn from salt mine tunnels under the Halite Mountains. Tour the city’s historic main plaza before continuing to scenic Cajica, a delightful Colombian town nicknamed “the stone fortress.” Enjoy a traditional lunch and this vibrant community’s panoramic views; then return to Bogotá, stopping to visit the little town of Usaquen, known for its quaint, Spanish-colonial style of architecture.
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Day 4: Pereira | Heart of the Coffee Triangle
Fly to Pereira, located in Colombia’s best-known coffee production region, to visit an authentic working coffee plantation — the Hacienda Venezia. Learn about coffee culture and the production process, and then savor the aromatic brew at a tasting session.
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Day 5: Salento/Cocora National Park | The Wax Palm
Drive to beautiful Salento, a typical paisa (coffee-region) town known for its bahareque architecture, and stop for a caffe latte demonstration at Cafe Jesús Martín. Enjoy a Colombian-style lunch, and then head into Cocora National Park by local Jeepao (Jeep parade) to see the wax palm, Colombia’s protected national tree.
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After breakfast, travel to a Colombian Paso horse farm to learn about the art of training these magnificent animals. Return to Pereira for an afternoon and evening at leisure.
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Day 7: Cartagena | Walk the Walled City
Board a morning flight to Cartagena, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and set out with an architecture expert on a walking tour of the 500-year-old walled city. Wander the streets of the Badillo neighborhood that lead to the old shopping malls along the docks. Bask in the romantic atmosphere and balmy climate that helped inspire the writings of beloved Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez. Later, sip on champagne as you enjoy a relaxing carriage ride.
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After breakfast, explore the city’s historical monuments. Drive to the 17th-century Convent of La Popa for beautiful views of the city and the bay. Continue to San Felipes Fort and stop at Las Bóvedas, once a dungeon, now home to shops and boutiques. After lunch, sample an assortment of authentic Colombian rums and quality chocolates led by an international sommelier. Your evening is at leisure.
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This morning, embark on a gastronomic tour led by a personal chef who takes you to a local market to gather the fresh ingredients needed to prepare the typical regional dish that will become your lunch. This colorful experience was designed by a highy-regarded local chef and restaurant owner and was once featured on a popular television culinary program. Your time is then free until this evening, when you embark on a sunset cocktail cruise of the bay that takes you to Club de Pesca and your farewell dinner.
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TV viewers may have to choose between two competing telefilms about Matthew Shepard if either HBO or NBC doesn't reschedule its respective project, reports the Los Angeles Times. Cable giant HBO announced a few weeks ago that The Laramie Project, a film adaptation of Moisés Kaufman's play based on interviews with the townspeople of Laramie, Wyo., following Shepard's murder, would make its broadcast premiere on March 16. Earlier this week, NBC chose the same night to premiere The Matthew Shepard Story, which stars Stockard Channing and Sam Waterston as Shepard's parents and was originally slated to air in the fall of 2001.
Chris Albrecht, HBO's president of original programming, said his network would likely shift Laramie Project, which had its world premiere at this year's Sundance Film Festival, to another night, adding, "It's taking this whole one-upmanship thing to a new low. I'm just surprised that [NBC] would damage their [own] movie...and sacrifice what should be an important project for the sake of--I don't know what." NBC, on the other hand, claimed that the scheduling matchup was pure coincidence. "Why would we ever pay attention to them?" said NBC entertainment president Jeff Zucker, alluding to the cable channel's smaller ratings in comparison with those of the major networks. Zucker also noted that NBC has not locked in the date for The Matthew Shepard Story and that it too could move.
A spokesman for the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation lauded both films but noted, "If they're competing against each other, no one wins." | dclm-gs1-013440000 |
SPMG 6003 - Sport Marketing, 3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): MKTG 2073 with D or better
Level: Upper
This course is designed to be an examination of the unique nature of Sport Marketing. This course will examine the elements of the marketing mix form that perspective. Major topics include an overview of the sport market, the critical nature of market research and market segmentation, developing an understanding of the special nature of the sport product, pricing within sport marketing, the role of promotion in the sport market, and the theory of place" in sport. Students will be responsible for designing | dclm-gs1-013450000 |
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Excerpt: 'Body Piercing Saved My Life'
A brief foray into the not-so-seedy underbelly of the Christian rock scene.
One of the funny things about being a rock journalist is that you quickly find out that the most restricted areas of venues are usually dumps. Dressing rooms, tour buses, and the wings of a stage are all stark exceptions to the glamour we assume cossets our rock stars.
Switchfoot's trailer at the Cornerstone [Christian rock festival] was no exception. The stairs swayed ominously as you entered, and the interior was a spartan, wood-paneled reminder that this room would be someone else's home tomorrow. Some of the band members sat on aluminum chairs talking on their cell phones; others perused the card table piled high with snacks courtesy of well-wishers from earlier days: JON, TIM, CHAD & JEROME, WE'RE SO PROUD OF YOU! GOD BLESS YOU! read a note affixed to a cellophane-wrapped plate of cookies.
The group's manager introduced me to the fellows in the band, and I had a few moments of amusing banter with guitarist Andrew Shirley, who offered to tell me "the truth about these guys." And then, suddenly, I was whisked into an adjoining room where Foreman was sitting in a folding chair.
Immediately, I sensed this interview wasn't going to go well. Foreman was anything but hostile, but he was maddeningly vague about his relationship with the festival and Christian music. Keyboardist/guitarist Jerome Fontamillas had told me he'd been to Cornerstone 13 times, but Foreman kept trying to steer away from questions about his own history at the festival with nonanswers like, "I dunno. It's a unique experience."
Then, I asked if this was the only Christian event Switchfoot played.
He lowered his eyes.
"You have to be -- the thing is, when you're talking about Switchfoot, you're talking about music that we've fought really hard to keep out of boxes," he said.
"I'm not interested in 'proving' you guys are a Christian rock band," I told him. "But this is a Christian festival."
"That's the thing," he replied. "If we're gonna stay out of the box, we're gonna have to be very conscientious of what everything is saying. Even opening up for Kid Rock (which they had done earlier that year) says something. Like everything in life, any relationship is a compromise. But where we're at right now, we're fortunate enough to pick the shots, and this is one of the festivals that, for the most part, it's a lot of people that are, you know, searching spiritually. It's actually a bunch of people that want to see the world change for the better. I don't know, that's important to me."
Later, he told me that most of the kids at Cornerstone "can relate to being treated by how they look, and maybe they can band together and be part of changing that."
Now, I'm willing to grant him a bit of room on the idea of Cornerstone being filled with "spiritual seekers" rather than Christians who were stuck in their ways. The crowd here was young, and fire and brimstone was definitely at a minimum. But I'd never seen such a clean-cut crowd in my life. For every punk kid with piercings or tattoos, there were ten who looked like they'd come straight off the set of "Everwood." Overwhelmingly below 20, well-scrubbed, fresh-faced, and good-natured, if anything, these were the kids school administrators wished all their students looked like.
Foreman's insistence that Switchfoot came to Cornerstone to connect with these radicals was beginning to sound more and more like cognitive dissonance. Especially in light of the fact that the same summer, Switchfoot played at two other Christian festivals and showed up for the Dove Awards -- the Christian Grammys -- where they took home three statues. It's easy to understand why Switchfoot would want to avoid being known as a Christian rock band, but they also seemed to want to have it both ways.
Later on, as Switchfoot played, Foreman introduced his songs using terms not entirely unfamiliar to the crowd. "This is about the war that goes on inside," he said, introducing "Ammunition."
"I'm burning for something beyond what we have in a physical sense" led into "On Fire."
"You can never get comfortable here," he told the audience after finishing "The Beautiful Letdown," with its gospel music-like chorus "I don't belong here."
The concert, like Switchfoot's records, was terrific. But I had to wonder how Foreman could play his cards so close to his chest and still achieve the connection he repeatedly told me he longed for with his audience.
Reprinted with permission from "Body Piercing Saved My Life: Inside the Phenomenon of Christian Rock" by Andrew Beaujon (Da Capo Press, 2006).
Andrew Beaujon is a music journalist and the author of "Body Piercing Saved My Life." | dclm-gs1-013460000 |
Update coming that will make signal appear to be better
Verizon Galaxy Nexus signal strength
It's not every day that smartphone users want to be lied to. But in the case of signal strength, we'll apparently make an exception. Verizon has told Computer World that in the case of the Verizon Galaxy Nexus, the LTE signal is being received and reported accurately. Too accurately, actually. So accurately, in fact, that if you appear to have a worse signal and more 3G/4G bouncing with the Galaxy Nexus, it's probably because your other LTE phones weren't as accuate as the Galaxy Nexus.
So, as Verizon told Computer World, it will make the Galaxy Nexus report signal strength a little less accurately as to ease our minds and be more in line with its other LTE devices. And so long as the phone at least appears to have a better connection, we're apparently OK with it.
This isn't an unprecedented move -- Apple did pretty much the same thing with the iPhone 4. While we're not disputing that things have appeared to be a bit off -- our own Verizon review unit definitely has appeared to be more wonky than our other 4G devices -- there's probably a little bit of the internet microscope at work here, too. Verizon (and every other carrier) is always working on improving connection, even after a phone is released. It's why we see new radios in updates all the time.
Anybody want to put money on what the next bug of the week is going to be?
Source: ComputerWorld
More: Verizon Galaxy Nexus forums
There are 66 comments
bold1193 says:
First lol
sproketz says:
I'm going to take a wild guess and say that because this is a Google Nexus phone aimed at developers it's reporting the signal correctly.
Other 3rd party phones we are used to are probably doing what Apple did with their signal strength software and jacking up the signal a bar so you think you're getting more than you are.
icebike says:
I doubt it has anything to do with precise signal strength. This problem has always been around.
When do you drop 3G and just go back to Edge? As soon as 3G signal gets weaker than Edge?
WRONG: You stay on 3G as long as signal strength is adequate, and drop to Edge only when you can no longer hold 3G.
And you don't go back to 3G until it is SIGNIFICANTLY stronger than Edge, and has been for a while.
The idea is to minimize switching. Because switching is disruptive. Its probably way more disruptive to Verizon because they are completely different Radios.
Verizon appears to be swapping radios too soon, and wanting to blame someone else. They need to stay on LTE till it won't work, then drop to 3G and stay there until LTE is again strong and steady, instead of bouncing back and forth. They simply need to lengthen their dwell interval and stop jumping back and forth.
Actually, in the case of WCDMA on AT&T, WCDMA drops down to EDGE when about half of the requested data doesn't come back. If you lock your phone into WCDMA only mode, you will always see faster data speeds and the entire system will work better, as WCDMA and EDGE have the same J/S failure point.
The only reason why carriers drop down to EDGE is because there is too much traffic on the WCDMA channel, making any new connections impossible. The fallback is designed to support a large number of users in one area, or to provide legacy coverage from an older network.
In terms of going back to WCDMA, that time is all in the firmware and differs from phone to phone(although you can change it in your firmware if you really know what you're doing. There switching takes more power on the UE end of things, using more power and reducing your battery life.
The entire LTE thing is a completely different beast, as Verizon hasn't upgraded all their towers to LTE yet. A lot of the handover stuff will be sorted out once Verizon fully upgrades its network.
There are advantages and drawbacks to setting specific handover times, and I feel that the Galaxy Nexus preforms quite well in that regard.
RaiderWill says:
You can't imagine the laughter I'm getting from this "Half-Baked" joke of a phone with my Droid Charge parts in it.. My EP4D Radios work just fine Thank You.. What a ripoff product!.. $800-900.00 (Off Contract + Tax & Accessories ) for this.. Really?
Blazing ( Laughing & Connected! ) on my 1,300 mhz Droid Charge.. Awaiting a *Real SuperPhone* KAL-EL....
hoosiercub says:
I <3 it when trolls, specifically you, have no idea what you're talking about.. the inside of the gnex has about as much in common with the charge as it does a stack of pancakes.
Happy holidays
sfreemanoh says:
mmm...pancakes... *drools*
threepio says:
Sorry for everyones complaints, but I have full bars of 4G at my office and 3-4 at my house with the Gnex. I am satisfied.
Rigelian says:
Sounds like you share the same office and home that I do. Full bars at my office and 3 to 4 at home. You're not stalking are you?
Wicket says:
I get 3-4 in between home and work.. 1 at home sometimes and none at work :(
glassmanstan says:
I knew it! It's all in my head (or perhaps I'm going deaf).
smooth3006 says:
This happened on the nexus s 4g i believe. Maybe google willsmarten up next time and have htc make the nexus.
MazoMark says:
After spending $12.5 billion on them, I think Motorola has the inside track.
Happened on the Nexus One as well. In fact, every new phone seems to have network issues when they first come out. It's how well, and how soon, they get fixed that matters.
gtg465x says:
Or maybe Google will smarten up and go back to releasing unbranded GSM versions here.
Delayed release? Verizon's fault. Bad press from bloatware and restricted tethering? Verizon's fault. Poor battery life? Because of Verizon's non-integrated radio approach to LTE. Complaints of less bars than other phones? Because Verizon has been lying with every other phone and people got used to it.
Meanwhile, the GSM version released everywhere else is getting high praise all around while the Verizon version flounders.
Regardless of what's being said here i know exactly what i saw on my Lg Revolution before purxhasing my Galaxy Nexus. I get great 4g LTE sevice everywhere except home when my device falls to 3g with always zero to 1bar of service at always -120dBm 1asu. I have never seen LTE 4G service inside my home yet since purchase last Thursday. My Revolution at showed LTE servuce at 2bars but switched often between 4g and 3g as well as 1x. This is just wierd..
MazoMark says:
Sounds like you have weak 4G and 3G signal inside house - that's why Revolution jumps between all three and your GN shows weak signal on 3G. Might want to think about investing in a network extender to boost signal.
icebike says:
Or replace that Aluminum Siding they sold him in the 70s.
squiddy20 says:
What you apparently fail to realize is that your LG Revolution was reporting the wrong signal all along. Your shiny new Galaxy Nexus is reporting the ACTUAL signal strength you are getting. And if your home is made of concrete, brick, steel, or aluminum, it greatly affects signal strength. I guess people who need to be shown how to use modern day technology don't understand even the most common sense things. How sad.
orlanka says:
I now have no signal. No network. Um, pretty sure it's not the phone.
orlanka says:
Signal is back after a reboot. Called Verizon tech. They said they have been issues since 2am last night but that they are rolling it back out now. Told me to pull the sim for a few seconds and that should help. I am not sure how that fixes anything but the phone is now back on and still 2 bars. I'm only 30 minutes west of St Lou so shouldn't be an issue.
On a side note, since I bought the phone at the store, this is the first time I have ever taken off the battery cover. Scary taking it on and off. Really surprised at how flimsy they would make it on a developer phone considering battery pulls may be a common fix for things. Then again, I am not a developer and this is my first Nexus so nothing to compare it to except my old DInc.
Azaurath says:
Um. Its actually really not that fragile. This video is for the SII but its cover is just as thin.
orlanka says:
I'll take their wor...er.., video for it as I am not going to test it out.
Rigelian says:
I've been taking it off and on a lot. I'm a heavy user and I have a backup battery. After you get use to it you realize nothing is going to break and all is good.
gtg465x says:
It's not fragile. Same backing material on my Galaxy S II. I am a developer and have taken the back off probably a thousand times (no joke). Still as good as the day I bought it.
BKVic says:
I dont know much but I do know that I drive about an hour and fifteen min to and from work and I never lost the siganl with my Droid X while streaming Slacker. My GNex lost it 3-4 times Mon and Tues and of course there was nothing this morning.
I live in a rural area. My dx had 1+ bars all the time. My gn reports zero bars AND PROVIDED ZERO SERVICE. AFTER 3 DAYS OF ZERO HOME SERVICE I RETURNED IT AND BOUGHT THE DROID RAZR. I'M SURE IT WAS ALL IN MY HEAD..
gtg465x says:
Yeah, we aren't as impressed.
milesmcever says:
DO YOU YELL AT YOUR FRIENDS TOO? I have to say my nexus works better than my HTC Thunderbolt and Motorola Bionic, but remember I could buy another one tomorrow and it work totally different. I've always been a moto fan when it came to cell service but my gnex just took the lead.
moosc says:
If u go to mydroidworld u can fkash the newest radios and bootloader thanks to P3droid.
Bob61 says:
Maybe it's all in the bars.... I just picked up a Nexus, I'm showing 2 bars but signal strength is show as -93dBm, inside my house in interior room. Calls on the phone sounded great, I asked those I talked to how it sounded and they said it was fine. Who knows.
Fillyo says:
So its official, HTC Thunderbolt has a better radio than the Nexus, because this thing drops out or drops to 3G all freaking day, my Thunderbolt didn't do that.
Depressing, aint it?!?
aergern says:
Yeah, and there were like 9 radio updates between May 2011 and ... oh .. LAST week when yet another dropped as part of that update they pushed. I mean SERIOUSLY .. my TB had some BIG issues with 4G and it's radios when I got it in May. So you can't TALK trash and compare because GN = New Shiny while the TB = is old and patched. ;)
I have both the Thunderbolt from day 1 of its release and the Galaxy Nexus from day 1. I recall when I first got the Thunderbolt it having all kinds of connection issues. There are even videos of it on my youtube account from way back then (wow, 9 months, LOL). It took three different radio flashes to finally make the thing stable, but it was a miserable device (connection-wise) the first month or two. I'm willing to give Sammy a bit of time to fix it if there really is a radio issue...
...and I think there really is because side-by-side testing my Thunderbolt gets 5 bars but the GN only gets 2. Okay, it's just the signal indicator, they say; I don't buy it. If I lay both phones side-by-side on top of my aluminum MacBook Pro, the Nexus loses all signal, including voice and can't place a call, but the Thunderbolt maintains its 5 bar connection.
It's just strange, I even commented on this the moment I got it the first day. I didn't think anything of it at the time, but I'm not sure it's THE CUSTOMER's fault Verizon. I know Moto might have better radios than Sammy, but still I went from a Droid Charge to the GNEX and so I have some Experience with Samsung. I always had 3-4 with my Droid Charge and it never dropped to 3g at my house, with the Gnex, I have 0-1 4G bars and it’s constantly dropping to 3G. I think there is more than meets the eye with this one Verizon. If my Droid Charge is now reporting the 4G strength but is instead displaying 1X CDMA or even 3G, then why has this never been a big issue before.
majiklantrn says:
Damn you mifi, Thunderbolt, Rezound, and Razr for lying to me!
I came from the thunderbolt and droid razr and the first thing i notixed was poor 3g strength and dropped data and calls... Its not the customers Verizon.
XavierMatt says:
I dont want to see a lie. Not only do I always have 4G my speeds are always great.
NordicNinja says:
I can't comment on other Android's, this is my first one, but using the GSM/HSPA+ GNex at home I am at times completely losing my signal and being dropped from service. If I move around the room it comes back. My place is notably bad for having spotty cell reception as I live pretty close to a big rock wall, but my last phone (a Bold 9700) never had issues with completely losing the connection.
Vetdoctor says:
Apparently phonearena was confused too. I guess Verizon will set them right. Maybe a couple of guy's named Vinnie will drop by and explain their error.
stkman7733 says:
I have a Bionic and GNex...my Bionic keeps 3-4 bars ALL the time and I can put my Gnex right beside it and maybe get 2 bars...mostly back in forth from 1-2 on 4g signal. Nice try Verizon but um try again!!!!
hoosiercub says:
Moto has always inflated their signal strength. My friends with. DROID X's would always pick at me over the weak signal bars on my Incredible til we speed tested right next to each other and I always came out on top with my de-throttling script and such on CM7.
Signal bars are there for the sake of piece of mind. They mean a whole lot of nothing in the real world. Its all dependent on environment to regulate how strong the radio frequency is in your location.. big aluminium building? Not so much.
No question Anandtech needs to really understand the truth....http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/12/19/this-is-why-your-verizon-galaxy-...
vinny jr says:
There is no excuse for this lousy quality on a phone that took so long to put together. The techs who spent months doing their homework should all be fired. I didn't buy the new Nexus because I just wasn't too thrilled about some of the choices about the so called LandMark phone. No SD card is complete bull shit I don't care how the so called know it alls want to spin it. Just bull shit. I know the camera isn't terrible but come on, all the new phones, even Samsung's GS2 has a better camera and Google decided on a cheaper camera. Just those two features along with a screen that is just a little too big for me turned me to buying a better piece of hardware and flash the ICS Rom on it myself. I own several of the past Nexus phones and I am just bull shit over this.
radgatt says:
So basically, the Nexus has been reporting accurately. If a phone has a -107dBm it shouldn't show having 2-3 bars. It should only show 1 bar. They are going to update the phone to show 2-3 bars when it should only show 1 bar??? This is dumb, in my opinion. There is a problem with data going in and out, I agree to fix that, but I don't agree with being lied to and saying that I have 4 bars when I should have 1-2 bars. Verizon is giving in to the customers complaints because customers stating they used to have 4 bars on their old phone but now only have 1-2. I hope that when they do this update they have an option to go into the settings and change it back to how it shows the signal strength. This would be a way of Verizon messing up the nexus if they do this. Fix the data issues but don't do anything to how the signal strength is displayed. Lastly, everyone should know by now that the dBm and not the bars is the true way of telling you if you have good signal strength. It would be funny if Verizon updated this phone to show us having 3 bars with -95dBm when it reality it should show 1-2 bars with that dBm. I urge Verizon to be smart when they do this update.
Forget bars, ever since last Thursday my SGN had a -120dbm and no data (except an occasional 1x sniff) where my Thunderbolt was giving me -92dbm and solid 3g. I took it back to Verizon and tried out another one with the same results (both in the store & at home). I am fighting beck the tears as I am now a Thunderbolt user again. I hope & pray they actually fix the things so I can get one again b/c I loved it!
ro1224 says:
I remain mystified why anyone would buy a phone that doesn't offer signal where they live or work. We spend most of our time in these two places so should we at least have SOME signal there? I left Verizon when they couldn't provide a signal at my home and I have never looked back since. 25 years later they still DON'T provide any signal. At work we have signal from all four carriers. Well I hope that Verizon improves its network, but tweaking the phone to ARTIFICIALLY "improve" signal is just another chapter of smoke and mirrors, that can be chalked up with those annoying inaccurate (read: intentionally misleading) coverage maps.
Davest says:
This makes me really angry. I had a Bionic for over two months, and was always able to get a 4G signal at my home. I exchanged it for a GNex, and I can *never* get a 4G signal at my home. It's that simple. I don't care how many bars it shows, or what the dbm numbers are. All I know is that one phone would give me 4G connectivity, and the other won't.
craigrn16 says:
I have had no signal issues so I have to agree with Verizon on this one. I get 3g and 4g when I am suppose to get it and my sisters Thunderbolt shows more bars but yet I am still able to download pages faster than hers. People calm down.
LangHoo says:
My download speeds are great (25Mbps+) and so is my call quality. If someone lives in an area with crappy service on their Nexus they should get something else. I also don't spend all day staring at the signal bars or dbms pretending I know what is good or not based on some other phone.
Davest says:
So, because you're not having an issue, no one is?
nkd says:
Thank you for reporting this and verizon better fix this. Me and my friend at work both have same issues. It is not the bars it is not damn speed. It is the reliability of the signal. Going to 3 bars to none and than dropping data all together? really verizon? It happens 4-5 times a day.
Coming from a razr I can tell the difference. One of my friends still has his razr, pulls out his phone and bamn -80dbm and I pull out my phone it is at a lousy -100dbm, really? Yea its in my head. I don't even care about the dbm, just stop the 4g drop outs. Razr never did that, if I am in 4g area painted in bloody red color, I better have 4g.
LangHoo says:
Here we go again with people comparing signals on different phones that are measuring different signals.
If you are having a problem, you should just take the GN back and get something else.
Davest says:
He's not comparing different signals - he's comparing 4G on a RAZR to 4G on a GNex. I agree that you can't compare a 3G signal to a 4G signal...that's not what he's doing. I'm in the same situation...I went from a Bionic to a GNex, and I'm never able to receive a 4G signal at home now, while I always could with the Bionic.
The larger issue, though, is why do you care? If you're not having a problem, great...congratulations. Why does it bother you so much to hear that others of us are having issues?
gwtx2 says:
I had this same problem with a 3G phone. Would have three bars and several times a day it would just drop the data and switch to 1X. With the Gnex, I don't see this happening when on 4G nor do I see it happening when the phone is set to 4G off.
MazoMark says:
I've been watching this whole discussion unfold as I try to decide if I want to spring for a GN. While I am sure there is a group of people who have a legitimate signal problem, based on what I've read on this and other sites, I think the majority of people are just plain throwing a hissy fit because they are confused about how to interpret the signal strength information this phone reports in comparison to other phones.
I think most people have to take a deep breath and remember this phone has only been out a week. If you can't live with it, take it back and get something else. Life's too short to have a coronary over a phone.
Jambanc says:
Just another throttling ploy 2 get people 2 take their gnex back and buy a droid line phone. Think about it they didnt even want 2 release the dam thing!
craigrn16 says:
Good point.. I never looked at it that way. It makes complete sense.
paul_704 says:
Sitting here at work and figured I would look to see what my phone is reading, I'm at a downtown Boston location and I am getting
-88dBm of LTE with two bars showing on my HTC Rezound.......that doesn't seem like false advertising to me. I hope Verizon fixes this problem for all the GN people out there, I think it's a great phone and just needs some tweaking to get it right.I gave my son my old Thunderbolt and got the Rezound for myself and both are working well with no signal issues at all and I have to say the Rezound is the best phone I ever owned. Hang tight people I'm sure their working on a fix to make the GN a great phone that it is.
dacp283 says:
The Nexus is the problem not Verizon. If you don't like it get rid of it. End of story. Blaming verizon for the pos nexus is just ridiculous.
Synycalwon says:
You can put lipstick on a pig.....
This is most likely a hardware issue just like the GSM volume bug (due to poor shielding). Like that issue, may be it can be fixed via software, but both of these problems speak to quality of hardware! Unacceptable! Wonder what other bugs may be lurking?
drinks says:
On my GN, it's not so much as switching to 3g, but the signal just dropping out all together. Last night at dinner, my friends bionic was at 4 bars, functioning perfectly while my gn could not lock on any signal.
Davest says:
Exactly. I've seen quotes from Verizon execs saying that this is simply an issue of how the signal is being reported. While that may also be an issue, the bigger issue is that a lot of us are unable to pick up a signal at all, while other 4G devices have no problem in the same location.
Trun says:
So wait, "reporting signal TOO ACCURATELY."
So they are saying it's our fault their signal quality is low because the Galaxy Nexus is reporting signal too accurately?
I'm confused here. Maybe it's because I'm not a Verizon employee or something.
bonito13 says:
well i received my nexus Wednesday.about 11am. about 1 pm i tried to activate it with no success. called Verizon, an after about 40 minutes we finally got it to activate. As the crow flys i am about 1100 feet from Verizon's tower. I had one bar of service with 3g for about 2 minutes. Then i lost 3g and have not got it back since even after talking with tech for over an hour. Two droid x's on my plan with my nexus and they all have great 3g service. No 4g lte in my area till spring. I had enough, i just called and reactivated my old droid x. Good luck all | dclm-gs1-013480000 |
[QUOTE=dr bob] I made the mistake of thinking a Wratten 11 or 15 would bring out the "sparkles" in a local scene - wrong! The result was completely dark shadows without any detail (TX400). I rephotographed with a Wratten 47 (blue) and the shadows popped out perfectly. This seems to fly in the face of general logic until one considers that the shadows in a sunlit scene are illuminated by blue light.
Dr. Bob it seems to me that your stated experience verifies that shadows are illuminated with blue light. Yellow filtration would be minus blue and that would account for the deepening of shadow values that you noted. The 47 blue filter is plus blue and would account for the lightening of shadow values that you indicated.
This blue filter would have the effect of lowering local contrast within the snow itself since local contrast within the snow itself would contain small shadow areas that are lit by the same blue light that you noted in the shadows.
While a full scale scene may have shadow and snow both included, the actual scene would need to be evaluated to determine the exposure and development considerations. However for local contrast in the snow itself yellow filtration and expanded development would enhance local contrast. | dclm-gs1-013490000 |
1: Learn to develop your own film
2: Learn to print your own photos in the darkroom, or if you don't want to do that, get a GOOD film scanner and learn to use it.
3: Practice. A lot. Years of practice are needed to get really good. Its worth it. Don't be stingy about film, waste a lot of it, its not really waste, its practice and if you learn from your mistakes you will get very good.
4: Learn to get perfect exposure every time, it makes a big difference in your image quality. Either use an incident meter like 2f/2f suggested or learn the zone system and use a spotmeter.
5: The true speed of a black and white film is not what is marked on the box. Different developers affect the speed of the film, and you may need to use a lower or higher speed if your light meter is not in agreement with the meter used by the manufacturer to determine speed. Test your film. | dclm-gs1-013500000 |
Hello Kevin,
Durst negative carriers are a modular system which the end user can "customize", as you've already find out.
When you're using both metal masks, the "Sivoma" goes on top and the "Sixma" is the lower one. But remember that they're supposed to be mounted with writings OUTSIDE the negative (flat side OUT). You'll see that it makes sense as there's a retaining clip which holds them on the edge, and it wouldn't work if the writings were toward the negative.
The glass/metal combination is a Durst classic. The suffix "Sivo" suggests you that the glass shoud replace the UPPER mask. You can then leave the Sixma mask below. That's what Durst suggests, but if you want you can as well experiment a bit by swapping the metal mask and the glass and see if you like better to have the glass in lower position. | dclm-gs1-013510000 |
The big surprise of the L.A. Film Critics Assn. awards, which were announced today, was that the critics group gave its best picture award, along with the best picture runner-up, to two of the biggest-grossing movies of the year, "Wall-E" and "The Dark Knight." The move should drive the clown-suit clad Oscar pundits crazy, since "Wall-E," despite being a huge critical favorite, has no chance at an Oscar best picture nomination. (No animated film has ever won that Oscar.) Passions run high at any critics gathering, the LAFCA being no exception. This year's meeting was held at LAFCA President Lael Loewenstein's house, with 39 critics on hand to vote (along with four critics voting by proxy).
With Sean Penn winning best actor, Sally Hawkins winning best actress and Danny Boyle winning best director--Variety has the entire list here--the awards raised some hopes and dashed some others. There was good news for "The Dark Knight" (with Heath Ledger winning best supporting actor and Chris Nolan winning runner-up for best director), "Milk" and "Slumdog Millionaire," which my spies say came in a close third in the best picture race, but bad news for a host of films looking for a critic award boost, notably "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," "Revolutionary Road, "Doubt," "The Reader" and "Che."
Here's a few highlights from my spies in the room: They say that "Slumdog" sparked the most divisions of any film. Its partisans praised its filmmaking energy and social consciousness. But its scrum of detractors said they wouldn't vote for it under any circumstances, with some critics claiming it was too derivative, coming off like an amped-up Satyajit Ray film. The only slam dunks in the voting were Penelope Cruz, who won best supporting actress for "Vicki Cristina Barcelona" and Ledger for "The Dark Knight." The voting for best picture was extremely close, with the joke being that whether the vote went for "Wall-E" or "The Dark Knight," that it was still a thumbs-up for an animated film, since "Dark Knight" is loaded with computer animation effects.
The biggest loser was probably Kate Winslet, who is considered a big academy favorite for her roles in "Revolutionary Road" and "The Reader" but got no love at all from the critics. The best actress runner-up was Melissa Leo ("Frozen River"), with the remainder of the voting going to Kristin Scott Thomas ("I Loved You So Long"), Meryl Streep ("Doubt") and Angelina Jolie ("Changeling"). Penn and Mickey Rourke dominated the best actor voting, with some critics expressing surprise that Frank Langella didn't poll higher. Left out in the cold were "Revolutionary Road," "Doubt" and "The Reader," which all need strong critical support to find an audience, along with "Benjamin Button," which too many critics said left them cold. "Milk" and "The Wrestler" earned raves for their acting performances, but were not viewed as best picture material.
It's not the end of the world for any movie, since critics awards are not an especially great predictor of Oscar riches, but I found it surprising to see the LAFCA so eager to embrace the commercial mainstream. Maybe it's a fluke, but maybe it's a sign that critics aren't as out of step with audiences as they've been in years past. | dclm-gs1-013520000 |
GB skier Jade Etherington wins second World Cup gold
Britain's Jade Etherington has won a second downhill gold in two days at the IPC Alpine Skiing World Cup in Tignes, France.
Etherington, who is visually impaired, and guide Caroline Powell beat GB team-mate Kelly Gallagher and her guide, Charlotte Evans, by 0.46 seconds.
Etherington, 22, and Powell, 19, also won Tuesday's first downhill race for their maiden World Cup title.
They will next be in action in Friday's Super Combined event.
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Andy Murray beats Roger Federer in Shanghai Masters semi-final
Andy Murray remains on course for his third successive Shanghai Masters title thanks to a 6-4 6-4 victory over Roger Federer in a one-sided semi-final.
The Briton, 25, took the first set after three straight double faults from Federer gifted him a pivotal break.
Two rain delays in the second, one before Murray served for the match, threatened to upset the Scot's rhythm but he kept his composure to win.
Murray now faces world number two Novak Djokovic in Sunday's final.
Both players produced some scintillating tennis in a semi-final that was halted for almost half an hour by light rain in China, with US Open champion Murray preparing to serve for the right to face Djokovic in a repeat of the New York final.
But the delay did not affect Murray's concentration as he powered to victory.
"He didn't serve that well for him so I was able to be very aggressive on his second serve," said Murray.
"He maybe slowed down his first serve a little bit so I was able to take a few more chances on the first serve. Obviously that helped, but I went for it like I did the last few times I played against him."
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On Federer's three straight double faults, Murray added: "I haven't seen him do that in his whole career. I was being aggressive on the second serve, but still that is not something he would normally do.
"The balls here are very light so it can be tough sometimes to control the serve. But it was surprising."
The Scot led Federer 9-8 in head-to-head meetings going into the match following his gold medal-winning victory in the Olympic final.
Murray oozed confidence throughout, attacking Federer from the start in a stylish, aggressive display that left the Swiss looking well below his best.
It was an uncharacteristically edgy display from the 17-time Grand Slam winner, who struggled to cope with Murray's excellent returning - and it was a sign of the Scot's determined mood that he broke in the first game.
Murray surrendered that early advantage in the next, before the world number one saw his serve broken for a second time in the fifth game.
It came in remarkable fashion as Federer produced a scarcely believable run of three double faults to gift Murray the break.
The Wimbledon champion was again on the back foot in the opening game of the second set, saving six break points before the game's contentious first rain delay.
As a light rain shower began, and with the game still finely poised, Federer implored the match officials to halt play - to the displeasure of Murray, who was keen to continue.
A six-minute break ensued before Federer won an epic point immediately on the resumption, followed by an ace to complete the hold.
But it proved only a temporary reprieve for Federer.
At 2-2, the Swiss raced into a 40-0 lead only for a composed Murray to fight back to deuce and seal the break with two brilliant forehand winners.
Andy Murray's Shanghai record
Murray has won 12 matches, had two walkovers, and lost only two sets at the Shanghai Masters in three years.
With Murray 5-4 ahead and ready to serve for the match, the rain came again - but despite an even longer delay while the roof was closed, the Scot served it out without fuss.
Earlier, Djokovic improved his chances of replacing Federer as world number one by dismissing the challenge of fourth seed Tomas Berdych 6-3 6-4.
Djokovic, who won last week's China Open, has yet to drop a set in the tournament.
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Thursday 13 March 2014
How Madonna inspired a little toilet humour in Hugh Cornwell's music
As he prepares to play the Out to Lunch Festival, former Stranglers singer Hugh Cornwell tells Edwin Gilson about almost meeting the pop superstar ... while queuing for the loo
Dinner date: Hugh Cornwell closes this year's Out To Lunch festival later this month
Go on, have a guess. How many years is it since Hugh Cornwell performed with The Stranglers? The answer is sure to make you feel old, for the Londoner, now 64, played his last show with the seminal rock band more than 23 years ago. He departed after the release of The Stranglers' 10th album in 1990, a risky move for many reasons, given that The Stranglers were the biggest-selling act to come out of the UK punk scene. At the time, he felt the band could go no further artistically. Today, the engaging singer's opinion on the matter doesn't seem to have shifted.
"I wanted to branch out and try new things," he reflects, speaking down the line from his sister's house in London where he spent the recent festive season. "That's why, when I play Stranglers' songs in my set nowadays, I change all the arrangements around. The Stranglers at the moment are sticking rigidly to the old formula, and good luck to them if that's what they want to do. But I couldn't do it. I don't want to be a parrot."
Cornwell is referring here to his solo career, which has yielded nine albums.
And he promises to draw on all of his material, Stranglers and solo, when he plays The Black Box in Belfast on January 26 to close the annual Out To Lunch arts festival.
It's been a decade since Cornwell was last in Northern Ireland, he recalls.
"I stayed up near the lovely park near the university before. It was a part of Belfast I didn't know existed, and I thought it was great."
Quite aside from favourable impressions of the Botanic Gardens, though, Cornwell remembers staying at the Europa hotel with The Stranglers at the height of the Troubles, a "dangerous place" with a "fortress mentality".
"We had to go through a sandbag blockade to get into the building. There were soldiers surrounding the place."
Cornwell admits he doesn't know "how dangerous Belfast is now" but reacts with surprise when I inform him of fellow music veteran Julian Cope's decision to cancel his Out to Lunch gig over security fears. Having survived, even thrived on, the raw violence of The Stranglers' early shows, the band's ex-singer is evidently not easily daunted. Indeed bassist/vocalist Jean-Jacques Burnel, who is still a member of The Stranglers, described in a recent interview how there'd be "blood every night" at gigs. While the aggression that defined the UK punk scene was evident in The Stranglers' stage presence, it soon became apparent that the band were an altogether more idiosyncratic proposition.
Cornwell, Burnel, drummer Jet Black and Swedish keyboardist Hans Warmling formed The Guildford Stranglers in 1974, taking their name from the Surrey town in which they met. Shortly, though, Dave Greenfield replaced Warmling, the band dropped the first half of their name, and began to experiment with a variety of sonic elements. That innovation, that desire to push the boundaries of rock, spawned three albums in just 13 months.
However, despite outselling both The Sex Pistols and The Clash and penning now classic songs like Peaches, No More Heroes and Something Better Change, the legacy of The Stranglers is arguably not as large as that of the two above bands, or even New York's New Wave act Blondie, who Cornwell's gang "used to hang around with". Cornwell is pragmatic on the matter.
"It's not really my place to make comments as to whether The Stranglers were, or are, underappreciated," he says.
"My task is to do what I do. It's the job of the critics to make calls like that. I'm very happy; my career's going very well. Legacy, and everything like that, all becomes clear as time moves on. I don't know ... that era's finished, you know?"
Cornwell has fond memories of the sense of community the punk scene offered, though: "We used to see members of The Clash and The Pistols all the time," he remembers.
"Even before The Clash, Joe (Strummer) was in a band called The 101ers, who we always found ourselves playing with at some college in Kent or somewhere.
"Joe and I always used to toss a coin to decide who would play first. We both wanted first spot so we could get back to London early to go out drinking!"
Cornwell doubts the potential for another punk movement anytime soon. "Would anyone take notice? If it's not on the internet, would anyone care? The youth of today are more likely to put stuff online than go out and play a gig. I'm not sure what they're capable of."
Clearly Cornwell is aware of the transformations occurring within the business, which makes his later diatribe about change all the more unexpected.
"I was thinking about writing a song called Nothing's Ever Changed, to follow on from The Stranglers' Something Better Change. Nothing ever changes really. We fool ourselves into thinking we change things, but in reality little does."
Much has changed in Cornwell's world since 1990 however, a fact reinforced by a recent gig the singer played in Cleveland, America, a million miles away from the raucous first Stranglers' shows.
"It was awful, the people seemed half asleep and unwilling to wake up," he laments. "Why would they even bother coming to the show? Generally, though, I get a communicative and responsive audience these days. It's a 50-50 split between the young and older generations."
Cornwell released his 2008 album Hooverdam for free. His 2012 effort, Totem And Taboo, sees him on aggressive form lyrically, ranting about commercialism (I Want One Of Those) The Daily Mail (Stuck In Daily Mail Land) and Madonna (The Face) over raw, jagged guitar lines.
"I find it dumbfounding when you can't hear what modern rock bands are singing," he says. "Maybe I'm just old-school, but my lyrics are at the forefront because I have something to say."
The Face is about a disorientating incident that occurred when Cornwell was invited to a party thrown by Madonna (left).
"I joined this queue, thinking it was for the toilet, and I was confused by how slow-moving it was," he explains. "Then someone explained: 'She's spending five or ten minutes with each person.' It was a queue to meet Madonna. I just wanted to go to the bathroom. So the full title of that song became The Face That Launched a Thousand S***s. I'm not a huge fan of Madonna, but I don't know if I could do what she had to do that night; greeting people. I thought it was very odd, but she probably thought she was carrying out a worthy service."
At the same bash Cornwell came to face to face with Paul Roberts, the then Stranglers' singer who was brought in after Cornwell's departure (and who has since left the band). The two apparently had "nothing to say to each other", a state of affairs echoed by Cornwell's now non-existent relationships with the other members of the band.
"I'm not in touch with them, no. If possible, they avoid talking about me. It's the easiest solution, really."
As Cornwell pauses to ponder the modern day Stranglers' incarnation, a hint of bitterness creeps into his voice.
"The band's new songs don't seem to be setting the world on fire; they're playing a lot of older songs, which is great for me. People flock to see them played, so it's testament to how good all those old songs that I wrote and co-wrote are."
Belfast this month is the place to be if you want to hear such classic rock songs. More than two decades after leaving the band, one gets the feeling Cornwell will always think of himself as a Strangler. | dclm-gs1-013550000 |
Belfast Telegraph
Thursday 13 March 2014
Energy bills 'could rise by £300'
Friends of the Earth claims energy bills could rocket if more investment is given to fossil fuel-reliant power plants rather than renewables
Friends of the Earth hit back at claims that "green taxes" were causing energy bills to rise with a report which suggests that investment in fossil fuel plants rather than renewables would leave British households footing the bill for the increasing costs of coal and gas to make electricity.
The report said that if the Big Six energy companies were to abandon building new renewable energy sources such as wind power and forged ahead with new fossil fuel plants in order to bridge the looming energy gap, householders would see rises in bills.
According to the report, electricity bills rose by 30% in real terms between 2000 and 2010, while gas bills jumped 78%. The rises were largely due to increased costs of coal, which rose by 71%, and natural gas, which rose 90%, in the decade, Friends of the Earth said.
In 2010, green policies added £42 on to bills, while in latest rises this year the Big Six pushed up the average energy bill by as much as £170, according to the report, blaming increases in wholesale prices.
If gas and coal costs rise in the coming decade by the same amount as they did between 2000 and 2010, the nation would face an additional bill of £8 billion a year by 2020 to generate electricity, costing the average householder an extra £300 compared with what would happen if the UK met its targets to boost renewables, Friends of the Earth claimed. Rising gas prices would also push up the cost of heating homes, the green group warned.
If they rise according to central predictions by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc), bills would go up by £150, but they could soar by more than £500 if fossil fuel prices spiralled, the green group said. Analysis from Decc suggests that green policies to support renewables and decarbonise the power sector could push up electricity prices by around a third by 2020, but officials claim that these rises will be offset by other policies such as energy efficiency and that environmental action would only increase the average energy bill by £13 by the end of the decade.
Friends of the Earth's executive director Andy Atkins said: "The Big Six are tipping the UK's energy system in favour of expensive gas while neglecting investment in clean energy and slashing energy waste which would give consumers a better deal in the long run. David Cameron must urgently set up a public inquiry into the power of the Big Six energy companies - ending their stranglehold over the UK's energy system will be good for consumers, good for business and good for the planet."
A Decc spokeswoman said: "We know rising energy prices are hitting households hard. That's why we are taking action now to make sure Britain will not be so vulnerable to the rising global cost of imported fossil fuels in years to come by moving to a cleaner, greener homegrown energy mix here in the UK."
British Gas has pledged not to raise prices this winter after raising gas and electricity prices by an average of 18% and 16% respectively in August. Phil Bentley, managing director of British Gas, said: "We want our customers to be confident they are on the right deal for them. That's why we're ensuring everyone benefits from the discounts and rewards available."
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Rachel Atherton (Great Britain) won the elite women's downhill world championship in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa on Sunday afternoon. Frenchwoman Emmeline Ragot earned the silver medal while Australian Tracey Hannah claimed bronze.
Atherton was celebrating her second-ever downhill world title. Her first was in Val di Sole, Italy in 2008.
"It was a shock to come here," said Atherton, who had never previously raced in Pietermaritzburg, having missed the earlier World Cups here due to injuries.
"The track was way harder than I expected. It's been such a close season, you don't have much time to prepare for this specific race. I was pretty nervous and didn't know how anyone would go. I figured a lot of people took it easy in the timed run, and I didn't know how they would go today." Atherton was the fastest women during the time session.
Former four cross world champion Caroline Buchanan (Australia) was the first woman down the mountain, setting the first fast time of 4:41.655 on a sunny, beautiful day.
Three riders later, fellow Aussie Tracey Hannah, who has just returned to racing after breaking her collarbone, clocked a 4:40.438, a time that would hold up well enough for third on the day.
"I like the fact that this track is dry and dusty. It reminds me of home," said Hannah. "I like when you can hold it wide open and just brake check occasionally."
"The world champs were my focus until I broke my collarbone seven weeks ago. I learned a lot in the last seven weeks and didn't come into the race with too high expectations."
Jill Kintner (United States of America) put in a solid run to stop the clock at 4:41.468, which put her in second spot at the time.
Hannah, Kintner and Buchanan would occupy the hot seats until the heavy favorites got their turn to come down the mountain in what were dry and dusty conditions on a notoriously pedally track.
Neither French gravity rider Myriam Nicole nor 2012 world champion Morgane Charre (France) could go fast enough to get into the top three.
Manon Carpenter (Great Britain) made a mistake up top and lost 34 seconds before the first split, an un-recoverable error.
"I started good - hard out of the gate, but then about 15 seconds in, a rock just caught my wheel and pushed me off the track. I landed on a photographer who was lying on the ground. I hope he was ok. That was it for my race after just a few seconds into it. I know I can do well on this track. It feels like a bit of a waste."
2009 and 2011 world champion Emmeline Ragot (France) was the second to last woman down the mountain, and after making up five seconds on the upper part of the course, she set a new best time of 4:36.675, improving on Hannah's time by 3.763 seconds.
"It's a hard track. I feel like I'm too small for this track," said Ragot. "I like the technical parts, but can't carry speed. I pegged a tree during my race run, but I was trying to push hard. It was fun. It was a lot of pedalling - a little too physical for me."
Finally, Atherton was up, and she blazed down the track with a super smooth run. She was 1.7 seconds up on Ragot at split 1, then up to eight seconds ahead at split 2. She finish 8.632 seconds faster than Ragot crossing the line for the gold medal.
Atherton wisely chose where to expend energy and where to conserve energy based on her own strengths and weaknesses. "On this track, if you're good at pedalling, you can push hard at the bits where you know you're going to be slow."
1Rachel Atherton (Great Britain)0:04:28.043
2Emmeline Ragot (France)0:00:08.632
3Tracey Hannah (Australia)0:00:12.395
4Jill Kintner (United States Of America)0:00:13.425
5Caroline Buchanan (Australia)0:00:13.612
6Morgane Charre (France)0:00:15.637
7Emilie Siegenthaler (Switzerland)0:00:18.269
8Casey Brown (Canada)0:00:18.525
9Floriane Pugin (France)0:00:20.769
10Micayla Gatto (Canada)0:00:20.906
11Myriam Nicole (France)0:00:27.532
12Fionn Griffiths (Great Britain)0:00:30.378
13Lauren Rosser (Canada)0:00:38.035
14Jana Bartova (Czech Republic)0:00:38.998
15Alia Marcellini (Italy)0:00:42.913
16Zarja Cernilogar (Slovenia)0:00:45.537
17Manon Carpenter (Great Britain)0:00:49.108
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LAWRENCE, Mass. (AP) — Authorities are offering a $1,000 reward for information that leads to the apprehension and conviction of the person torturing and killing cats in a Lawrence neighborhood.
MSPCA law enforcement officials on Thursday announced the reward after learning that a ninth cat was found dead. A necropsy revealed the cat found last week had a fractured skull, spine and detached tail, as if it had been swung by the tail against a hard surface.
A cat found dead in November died of a hematoma and a fractured skull.
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PrivCo, a research firm that tracks private companies, reported yesterday that daily-deals company LivingSocial had taken an "emergency" round of debt from current investors.
Now LivingSocial CEO Tim O'Shaughnessy has strongly denied that report in an email to employees obtained by Fortune's Dan Primack.
LivingSocial is the No. 2 player in the daily-deals market behind Groupon, whose stock has taken a hammering since it went public in 2011. Amazon is a major investor in it.
In particular, O'Shaughnessy said that quotes attributed by PrivCo to a senior executive at the company are "fiction," and the deal, in which the company sold a 7.5% stake for $110 million, values the company at nearly $1.5 billion.
He confirmed that this was a "down round"—an investment done at a lower price than previous rounds. A previous round valued the company at $5.7 billion.
But he said that employees' options would still be worth something in the event that the company sold for $1 billion or more.
Venture-capital investors typically put money into startups in the form of preferred shares. Those shares typically come with preferences that guarantee that investors will at least get their money back from any sale, and sometimes get a larger share of the proceeds than their straight-up ownership percentage would indicate.
PrivCo suggested that LivingSocial had taken on debt, which would be very dangerous for the company's business—since debtholders would have to be paid off before LivingSocial's merchants. If merchants grew worried that they wouldn't get fully paid for deals they ran, that could cripple LivingSocial's business.
Meanwhile, Primack reports on Twitter that PrivCo is "standing by its story." So we'll keep watching.
LivingSocial and an investor, Jeremy Liew of Lightspeed Venture Partners, did not respond to requests for comment on PrivCo's report yesterday.
Thursday morning, Andrew Weinstein, a spokesperson for LivingSocial confirmed the authenticity of the memo and provided us with a copy. Here it is in full:
Hey folks,
If you've seen some of that misinformation, here's the real story:
This was an equity round, not a debt infusion.
There were no warrants issued as part of this round.
There were no "double-digit" cash dividends. (Typical of many financing rounds, including our own past rounds, there was a nominal 3% dividend for a class of shares.)
There is no "4x liquidation preference." (Once again, typical of almost all venture rounds, there is a liquidation preference, but it slides up or down based on a key metric and gets nowhere near 4x.)
The quotes from a "senior LivingSocial communication executive" are straight up fiction.
Two of the three investors listed on the PrivCo site as participating in the round didn't participate, and one isn't even an investor in the company.
On valuation, people always seem to be overly enamored with market value, which has puzzled me because as a private company, there is no liquid market on which to buy and sell shares, so a valuation is established without any degree of market efficiency. In short, it's an educated guess between the company and a set of investors at one particular snapshot in time.
We are a company that does over half a billion in revenue. If we stay diligent, we hope to turn the corner to become profitable soon. Thanks to this round, we have significantly more capital to be able to be opportunistic and drive the future growth of the business.
Hopefully this will help clear up any questions you may have or get on yesterday's round. Now it's back to executing on our plan.
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Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak wasn't a fan of the first Macintosh computer. He thought it was a "a lousy product."
In an interview with The Verge's Chris Ziegler, Woz reminisced about the early days at Apple, and cofounder Steve Jobs. He discussed how the Mac compared to its predecessor, the Lisa, the first PC to have a graphical user interface.
The story goes that back in 1982, the CEO of Apple at the time, John Sculley, was starting to butt heads with Steve Jobs. Sculley forced Jobs off the Lisa project, and Jobs joined the Macintosh project instead, where Woz was working.
"The Macintosh should've been a whole different product, not a mouse-driven GUI machine like it was, and the Lisa, he should've just waited five years, and then it would've been ready," Woz told Ziegler.
"Steve really took over the [Macintosh] project when I had a plane crash and wasn't there," he said saying it was his opinion that Jobs wanted the Macintosh to "compete with the Lisa group that had kicked him out."
But the Lisa needed a lot of memory and back in that day, 1 megabyte "cost 10,000 of today's dollars," Woz recalls. Jobs wanted to make a less expensive computer.
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Toby Cosgrove
Cleveland Clinic
The business of healthcare is changing rapidly. New legislation, the pace of medical innovation, and an older and more obese population mean the way we do things is going to have to change.
We spoke to Dr. Delos ("Toby") Cosgrove, the CEO of the Cleveland Clinic, which is regarded as one of the most innovative hospital systems in the United States on these massive trends.
Consolidation is coming
During our conversation, Dr. Cosgrove pointed out that all of those trends, accelerated by the cost pressures of the Affordable Care Act, are pushing the industry in one direction — consolidation. "When you look at industries in the United States, particularly low margin businesses — and healthcare is clearly a low margin business — you figure that 25 percent of the hospitals right now are in the red, so it's very low margin." Cosgrove said. "What happened to airlines, what happened to supermarkets, what happened to bookstores? They all consolidated, they brought scale so they could drive efficiency. I think that's what's happening in healthcare right now."
As a result, as Dr. Cosgrove says, "Hospitals are coming together in systems and systems are beginning to talk to systems." His own Cleveland Clinic is talking to three facilities in the area about joining up.
It's not just costs, healthcare has gotten more complex
It's not just about costs and margins, it's the increasing complexity of the healthcare business. "If you look at the back office, what it takes to drive a hospital now or even a doctor's office, the IT, the contracting, the purchasing, you get advantages from scale." Dr. Cosgrove said. "Simply, the dynamics are driving it, because it's all so complicated to do it in private practice. I mean, think about the explosion of knowledge there's been in healthcare. Docs don't want to practice by themselves anymore, they simply can't scrounge up all of the knowledge they need, so they're looking too team up with other people to do it."
A great example is Dr. Cosgrove's own experience as a surgeon before he became CEO. "I started out as a chest surgeon. I used to do esophageal surgery, lungs, coronary bypasses, aortic aneurysms, valve surgery. Now you have doctors who do just esophageal or lung surgery, I did just valve surgery by the end of my career. The knowledge and the expertise has gotten so big that you've got to narrow your field."
When fields narrow, it becomes increasingly difficult to have small practices.
Healthcare is the second largest industry in the country
Consolidation's not just huge news for healthcare. It's huge news for the economy. For one thing, healthcare is one of the biggest employers in the country. Dr. Cosgrove argues that employment is just the beginning of the impact. "It's not just employment, I mean its 24 percent of the federal budget. After restaurants and hospitality, this is the biggest industry in the United States. It's big business news." Dr. Cosgrove said, "It was big news when the airlines started to consolidate. This is a much bigger industry."
It's going to change how we experience healthcare.
Hospitals systems can't just get bigger, they have to get better
Though the idea of losing small family practices might seems scary, it's not all bad. These cost pressures don't just mean hospitals have to get bigger. That won't be enough. They have to get better.
Systems like the Cleveland Clinic are already starting that process, its doctors are on salaries rather than being paid by procedure to emphasize quality over quantity of care. Also, the system's hospitals are organized around patient needs rather than keeping the traditional division between medicine and surgery, which is both more efficient and better for the patient.
Check War Room over the next few days for more from Dr. Cosgrove on how exactly the healthcare business can and needs to change.
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About Those EMC Rumors...
By Peter Elstrom Cisco (CSCO
) in talks to acquire EMC (EMC
)? That was the news report that came out of SearchStorage.com on July 1. The article on the site, which covers the storage industry for tech professionals, didn't say the megadeal was definitely happening, but it laid out a strong argument for why combining the two companies made some strategic sense.
That article was followed by a Reuters news story the same day that EMC shares had risen 3% in the light trading before the July 4 holiday weekend on rumors of a potential acquisition. The next week, the independent research firm Precursor Group picked up on the reports and gave a thorough analysis about why combining EMC's storage products with Cisco's networking gear "makes a lot of sense."
NOT NEAR AND TOO DEAR. Well, the rumors aren't true. One very well-placed source says the two outfits haven't been discussing an acquisition. This source explained that acquiring EMC would violate two of the key principles for acquisitions that Cisco CEO John Chambers has articulated in public repeatedly.
First, Cisco doesn't do megadeals. (EMC's market cap is $35 billion.) Second, Cisco doesn't acquire companies that are geographically far away because it's difficult to integrate the two groups of employees. (Cisco is headquartered in San Jose, Calif., while EMC is based outside of Boston, in Hopkinton, Mass.)
The two businesses have been cooperating more in recent months -- selling products together, for example -- but that's all. Cisco says it "does not comment on rumors and speculation." An EMC spokesperson also said the company would not comment on the rumors.
STRAIGHTFORWARD MANIPULATION. So how did the reports get started? Check out the trading in EMC options. Volume soared on that Friday, July 1, to nearly 60,000, or six times the normal trading volume. Close to 55,000 calls, which give people the right to buy EMC stock at a fixed price, changed hands. Some traders were placing outsize bets on an increase in EMC's stock price.
At the same time, with most investors on vacation or headed to the beach, trading was so light that EMC shares were pushed up 3.4%, to $14.17. For the most part, the shares continued to rise, closing at $14.48 on Wednesday and dipping slightly to finish at $14.43 on Thursday. What are the chances the options' buyers are the same people who started spreading the word that Cisco could be looking at acquiring the storage giant?
Here's the math behind such motivation. On the morning of Friday, July 1, you could pick up July call options on EMC stock, with a $14 strike price, for 15 cents apiece. So you could get the right to acquire 10,000 shares of EMC stock at $14 each for a total of $1,500, plus commissions. After the rumors of Cisco's interest, the options soared in value, closing at 70 cents each. That would make the same options on 10,000 shares worth $7,000. A quick trader could make nearly five times his money over the course of a few days.
Trouble is, this is the sort of trading strategy that the Securities & Exchange Commission takes a very dim view of. Buying into a position and then spreading rumors to make money is straightforward manipulation. There may be a completely innocent explanation for all this. Still, expect the SEC's enforcement division to start investigating. Elstrom is a senior editor with BusinessWeek in New York
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11 Awkward Situations Bisexual Folks Are Tired Of Dealing With
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1. Answering outrageously personal questions:
Kindly direct them to this chart:
2. “But only girls can be bisexual!”
As countless studies, and common sense, have shown: Bisexual men exist.
3. The never-ending saga of threesome inquires/jokes/comments:
4. Answering this question:
5. People thinking you simply haven’t made up your mind yet…
6. …or that you’re being super slutty:
7. When you are in a relationship, people think *poof* you’re not bi anymore.
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Evan Rachel Wood knows what’s up when it comes to being a bisexual lady.
8. Feeling pressure to simply choose a side:
9. Your girlfriends won’t trust you around boys, and your boyfriends don’t trust you around girls.
10. Having everyone question the label you choose:
*No, they are not.
11. As if all that isn’t exhausting enough, you run into some people who don’t “believe” your orientation exists:
It’s like they simply CANNOT wrap their brain around the concept:
Because obviously, you are just lying to yourself and the world:
So when you get frustrated, just remember what Woody Allen said:
Also, remember that you are in fantastic company:
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Only in America would a waitress say "have a fantastic day" and mean it.
Only in America would a waitress say "have a fantastic day" and mean it. Photo: Alamy
You've gotta love travel. You've gotta love visiting foreign countries and discovering things you would never get the chance to see at home.
That's what makes the world great, these differences. It may sound like travellers are poking fun when they shake their heads and say, "Only in America", or, "Only in China", but really, it's a compliment. You've got something that no one else in the world possesses – that's something of which to be proud. Well, mostly.
To celebrate these unique features, here are a few of my favourite "only in" moments. (I should also point out that there will inevitably be exceptions to all of these rules, which I'd love to hear about.)
Only in ... America
Will someone in the hospitality industry tell you to "have a fantastic day" and you'll actually believe they mean it. Only in America do you have to choose between "white, multi-grain, wheat, rye, sourdough, bagel, English muffin or biscuit" before someone will bring you breakfast. Only in America are guns considered a fundamental human right. Only in America do gyms have escalators.
Only in ... Japan
Do you receive a message of apology when a train is two minutes late. Only in Japan can you drink in a bar built for a maximum of four customers, served by bartenders dressed as manga characters. (Oh, and most of the bottles of spirits sit on the bar all night, unattended.) Only in Japan can you safely leave your handbag outside a restaurant while you go in and order. Only in Japan can you eat sumptuously from a convenience store.
Only in ... Brazil
Will you find people enjoying "comida por kilo", a smorgasbord-type meal where plates of food are charged by how much they weigh. Only in Brazil will you find a traditional, conservative society where people wear practically nothing to the beach.
Only in ... Vietnam*
Will you see an entire family of five riding on one scooter. (*Actually, you'll find this in a few South-East Asian countries, but most often in Vietnam.) You'll also see live pigs on scooters, huge bits of building equipment on scooters, entire T-shirt stalls on scooters ... You're getting the idea.
Only in ... Scotland
Do they think it's a good idea to deep-fry Mars Bars. And slices of pizza. Only in Scotland are men forced to wear skirts without underpants. Only in Scotland does the Coca-Cola Company not own the country's number-one-selling soft drink: Irn Bru.
Only in ... Ethiopia
Do they use a completely different system of time to the rest of the world. Each 24 hours is divided into two 12-hour periods, one of day, one of night. Day begins at our 6am (when their clock is at 12), and ends at our 6pm (when their clock is back at 12 and night begins). Makes sense when you think about it.
Only in ... Canada
Do weather forecasters "call for" rain or snow. "They're calling for four inches tomorrow." They are? Who are they calling? God? Wayne Gretzky?
Only in ... Russia
Is smiling at strangers considered bad form; but leopard-print mini-skirts and knee-high boots are considered good form. Only in Russia is a bottle of vodka ordered with dinner like it's a fine wine.
Only in ... India
Is a wobble of the head considered an accurate, viable form of communication. What does it mean? Yes? No? Welcome? I'm not sure? I wish you'd go away? As far as I can tell it means all of those things, and probably several more.
Only in ... China
Is progress so frighteningly fast that you might wake up to find a new 30-storey building was erected across the road last night. Only in China will communism be widely embraced – until you try to buy anything from anyone. Only in China will you be constantly amused by "Chinglish" translations like, "If you have any trouble, please feel free to hang your employees." (Er, that's an error, right?)
Only in ... Italy
Will train workers be striking, buses won't turn up, national monuments will be randomly closed, garbage won't have been collected in a couple of weeks, and no one will bat an eyelid. But if you add one tiny extra ingredient to the carbonara everyone will go mental. Only in Italy are envelopes not sold at the post office.
Only in ... Albania
Will you find McDonald's that's not McDonald's. It's called Kolonat, and it looks like McDonald's, it tastes like McDonald's, but it's... Kolonat. There's also "AFC", a fried chicken joint that is a bold rip-off of Colonel Sanders' better known franchise.
Only in ... Dubai
Can you go skiing in the desert. And play golf.
Only in ... Thailand
Does riding a scooter, despite the fact you've never ridden a scooter, seem like a good idea. Only in Thailand will you be hit on by more lady-boys than actual ladies. Or actual boys. Only in Thailand will you find that politicians are universally despised, but the royal family is universally revered.
Only in ... Australia
Will you find friendly, laidback people who have strict rules and laws covering just about everything. Only in Australia will you consider thongs as formal footwear. Only in Australia do we eat the animals on our national coat of arms. Only in Australia do we consider AFL to be a proper sport. Only in Australia do people pride themselves on giving everyone a fair go, without actually giving everyone a fair go. Only in Australia will you find anyone who knows that the way to spell Woolloomooloo is "sheep-toilet-cow-toilet".
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Atlin, BC
A group of cavers from Prince George is on a quest to B.C.'s far northwest to identify what could be Canada's deepest cave.
Bob Rutherford, president of the Northern B.C. Caving Club, will begin exploring a large limestone formation near Atlin, on the Taku River, along with eight others from the club.
The group scoped out the area last year and based on the elevation, Rutherford estimates the cave could be up to 1,000 metres deep.
He is packing about 600 meters of rope, but if he finds what he's looking for, he doesn't think it will be enough.
"I don't think we have enough time, and possibly not enough rope to get to the bottom of it."
In addition to reams of rope, the expedition requires lots of cash.
"We're looking at between $1,500 to $2,000 per person to get in there."
The cavers will likely have to brave cold, dark, damp and dangerous conditions.
"A little bit of fear's a healthy thing, I think," Rutherford said.
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Moments In Space
1957 - The Space Age Begins
The Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik I, the world's first artificial satellite, on October 4, 1957. Though only the size of a basketball, and weighing about 183 pounds, it inaugurated the Space Race, and even the Space Age. At the time, the announcement caused confusion and alarm but also admiration in the United States, as is clear from these excerpts from a CBS News special report broadcast two days later.
"How did the Russians beat us?" correspondent Howard K. Smith asks Homer Newell, science program coordinator of Project Vanguard, the U.S. satellite program (and future NASA official); Dr. Newell's reply, at least seen from the perspective of 50 years later, is hilarious.
A note on Daniel Schorr's report from Moscow: Only his voice is heard; what viewers saw on their screen is an early-generation teleprompter. With only one satellite in the air, there was, of course, no satellite transmission in 1957.
1961 - First Man in Space
1.Russians Are First
Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human being in space on April 12, 1961, when he successfully orbited the Earth in a 108-minute flight.
"I do not regard the first man in space [being Russian] as a sign of the weakening of the free world," said President John F. Kennedy at a press conference full of obviously frustrated people, excerpts of which are included in the CBS News Special Report that day.
2. The Red Stuff
Also interviewed was astronaut John Glenn, "This is not a stunt being done for international prestige or propaganda," he said, talking in general about the space program, before a scene of …well, stunts… that could best be described as weightless.
3. Kennedy's Commitment
In an address to Congress on May 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy proposed putting an American on the moon by the end of the decade. He acknowledged the space race. "But this is not merely a race," he said. "Space is open to us now; and our eagerness to share its meaning is not governed by the efforts of others." He called as well for telecommunications and weather satellites, and for a nuclear rocket "for even more exciting and ambitious exploration of space, perhaps beyond the moon, perhaps to the very end of the solar system itself."
His speech came 20 days after Alan Shepard, on May 5, became the first American to travel in space, albeit for only about 15 minutes.
1962 - John Glenn
When John Glenn orbited the earth three times on February 20, 1962, he was the fifth man to go into space (two Americans, two Russians preceded him); his trip wasn't even the longest of the five. But his flight, and his persona, touched a chord with the American public. The journey of Friendship 7 (Shepard's flight had been called Freedom 7) set the tone in many ways for the next decade of intense public interest in space, and epitomized all of the manned American missions - the six Mercury (one-man) flights from 1961 to 1963, the 10 Gemini (two-man) flights in 1965 and 1966 and even the 11 Apollo (three-man) missions from 1968 to 1972.
Live television captured the countdown - "T-minus 10…" and then the launch, and frequently followed up with animated graphics, narrated from beginning to end by the friendly baritone of Walter Cronkite.
Thirty-six years later, when he was 77 years old, John Glenn went up in space again, the oldest person ever to do so.
In 2002, at the commencement of the year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of the flight of the Wright Brothers (the first powered and sustained human flight) in 1903, Senator Glenn, then 81 years old, was interviewed at the National Air and Space Museum, in the Milestones of Flight Hall, surrounded by the Wright Brothers plane, the Spirit of St. Louis, the plane flown solo across the Atlantic by Charles Lindburgh in 1927, Chuck Yeager's X-1 plane that broke the speed of sound in 1947, and the Friendship 7 space capsule.
1967 - Mission: The Moon
Astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chafee, the crew of Apollo I, die on January 27, 1967 after a fire breaks out during training in their command module.
Four months later, Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Komaroz is the first person to die during an actual space flight. Between 1967 and 2007, 22 astronauts and cosmonauts have died while in a spacecraft.
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Walter Cronkite recounts the mission of Apollo 8 on December, 1968, the first spacecraft to escape Earth orbit. William Anders, Frank Borman and James Lovell took two days to reach the moon, and orbited it ten times in 20 hours without landing.
1969 - First Man On The Moon
The Apollo 11 astronauts travel to the moon, where Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walk on its surface for two and a half hours, on July 20, 1969.
In 2005, Ed Bradley talked with the famously reticent Neil Armstrong. (For a full transcript of the broadcast segment, read Being The First Man On The Moon.) When asked how he came up with his first words on the surface of the moon, Armstrong said: "I thought, 'Well, when I step off, I just gonna be a little step.' … But then I thought about all those 400,000 people that had given me the opportunity to make that step [that's the number of people working in one way or another on the moon mission] and thought 'It's going to be a big something for all those folks and, indeed, a lot of others that even weren't even involved in the project.' So it was a kind of simple correlation of thoughts."
Astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Charlie Duke, an astronaut on a later flight to the moon, talk about their participation in the 2007 documentary about the only 12 men who visited another world, "In The Shadow of the Moon."
Unmanned Space Traveling
Though not given live television coverage, the unmanned spacecraft in many ways work even harder than their human counterparts. Voyager I and II are unmanned spaced probes launched in 1977 that over the course of three decades have been working their way beyond the solar system, taking pictures as they go.
1981 - The Present, The Space Shuttle Era
The first Space Shuttle is launched into space on April 12, 1981 -- and, unlike the Mercury, Gemini or Apollo programs that preceded it, the spacecraft lands back down on earth like an airplane, able to be used over and over again.
A look back 25 years later at the beginnings of the space shuttle.
Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space. This was 20 years after Soviet cosmonaut Alentina Tereshkova became the first woman of any nationality in space.
1986 - Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster
On January 18, the 25th launch of a shuttle, the Challenger explodes 73 seconds after launching, killing all seven aboard.
1990 - Hubble Telescope
The telescope is launched into orbit around the earth, providing scientists with vast new stores of information (such as the date of the universe) and the public with some spectacular images, such as the birth of the birth of a star.
CBS reported on its 15th anniversary.
1998 - The International Space Station
The first two ships, one Russian, the other American, form the beginning of the International Space Station, and missions to it ever since have been making it larger. In 2006, Bill Harwood interviews via satellite two astronauts living at the station, one for six months (and about to go home), the other for just a week.
2000 - Space Diversifies
2003 - The Space Shuttle Disaster
February 1, The Space Shuttle Columbia breaks up on re-entry, killing all seven aboard.
A year later, two authors discuss the investigation into what went wrong.
It was not until two and half years after the Columbia disaster that there was a resumption of shuttle launches.
On the day of the launch of the Shuttle Discovery, CBS News interviewed the widow of Columbia shuttle astronaut Michael Anderson.
On October 15, 2003 Yang Liwei becomes the first astronaut from China. Two years later, two more Chinese astronauts go into space.
President George W. Bush gives a speech laying out his plans for the future of space exploration, inlcuding the completion of the International Space Station by 2010, and new manned missions to the moon.
Over the Mojave Desert, the privately-built SpaceShipOne snagged its designers the $10 million prize from a private foundation for successfully launching twice into space.
Anousheh Ansari, space tourist.
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What does this chameleon have in common with a snake?
Though they are both reptiles, chameleons and snakes seem very different, but they actually share several traits. For example, they both have skin covered in scales and are cold-blooded animals. But notice the distinct eyes and "horns" on the chameleon. And some chameleons have the ability to change color.
Characteristics of Reptiles
What reptiles can you name? Snakes, alligators, and crocodiles are all reptiles. Modern reptiles live on every continent except Antarctica. They range in size from the newly-discovered Jaragua Sphaero, at 0.6 inches, to the saltwater crocodile, at up to 23 feet.
There are four living orders of reptiles:
1. Squamata, which includes lizards, snakes, and amphisbaenids (or “worm-lizards”).
2. Crocodilia, which includes crocodiles, gharials (Figure below), caimans, and alligators.
3. Testudines, which includes turtles and tortoises.
4. Sphenodontia, which includes tuatara (Figure below).
An Indian gharial crocodile (left). A tuatara (right).
Traits of Reptiles
Reptiles are tetrapods (four-legged) and ectothermic, meaning their internal temperature depends on the temperature of their environment. Usually their sense organs, like ears, are well developed, though snakes do not have external ears. All reptiles have advanced eyesight.
Reptiles also have several adaptations for living on land. They have a skin covered in scales to protect them from drying out. All reptiles have lungs to breathe air. Reptiles are also amniotes, which means their embryos are surrounded by a thin membrane. This membrane protects the embryo from the harsh conditions of living on land.
How Do Reptiles Reproduce?
Most reptiles reproduce sexually, meaning there are two parents involved. In some families of lizards and one snake family, however, asexual reproduction is possible. This is when only one parent is involved in creating new life. For example, the gecko females can make tiny clones of themselves without the aid of a male.
All reptiles have a cloaca, a single exit and entrance for sperm, eggs, and waste, located at the base of the tail. Most reptiles lay amniotic eggs covered with leathery or hard shell. However, certain species of squamates can give birth to live young.
Unlike the amphibians, there are no larval stages of development. The young reptiles look like miniature versions of the adult. The young reptiles are generally left to fend for themselves. However, some reptiles provide care for their young. For example, crocodiles and alligators may defend their young from predators.
• amniote: Embryos are surrounded by a thin, protective membrane.
• asexual reproduction: Reproduction involving only one individual.
• cloaca: Internal cavity that serves as the single receptacle for the intestinal, reproductive, and urinary tracts.
• Reptiles are also amniotes, which means their embryos are surrounded by a thin membrane.
• Reptiles typically reproduce sexually and lay eggs.
Use the resources below to answer the questions that follow.
1. What is the purpose of scales?
2. Why can reptiles go for long periods of time without food?
3. How are reptile teeth different than mammal teeth?
4. How does this difference affect the types of food available to the two groups?
5. Can you relate this difference to the metabolic requirements of the two groups? Explain your thinking fully.
1. How does the stance of reptiles compare to the stance of birds? What other animals have stances similar to birds?
2. Where do some birds still have scales?
3. Compare and contrast modern reptiles to modern birds. Include as many characteristics for both groups as you can.
4. Do ancient "reptiles" have all the same characteristics as present day reptiles? Explain your answer fully.
1. Name some examples of reptiles.
2. How do reptiles reproduce?
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CES electronics will stop your heart?
At i-stage, companies vie for CES exhibit
PHOENIX--Guard your pacemaker! The afternoon presentations at i-stage got the heart rate up quiet literally. Okay, only one of them did but it is a doozy.
At CES this year, I will definitely be on the lookout for the KOR-FX. It looks a little like a cross between a vest and headphones for your pecs. It is two plastic pieces that sit on your chest and amplify audio signals into what the company calls accusto-haptic technology. You plug it into a standard audio-out jack and it sends audio signals into your body. It will work with any gadget like an iPod or laptop but it is made for PC gamers, although the imagination runs wild at what will happen when the adult industry gets their hands on it. Also, soccer moms will hate it, particularly the ones that think their kids need to be more immersed in their games like they need a hole in the head.
No pricing was given but Shahriar Afshar, president and CEO of IMMERZ Inc., says that it will be approximately the price of high-end headphones, which is around $300.
Another few devices with promise have to do with monitoring home power usage. First off, the PICOwatt. It is a device that plugs into any home appliances and sends data about that device to the Web using your home Wi-Fi network. You can monitor the power consumption of that appliance, as well as turn it on or off from the Web site. You can also send information about those metrics to your social networks, although I'm not sure why my Twitter followers care about how much power my blow dryer is using.
The PICOwatt will cost $79.99 and launch on April 22, 2010, which not coincidentally is Earth Day.
Alternatively, the Modlet from a company called ThinkEco Inc. looks like an outlet but it plugs into your home outlets and monitors the devices that are plugged into it on the Web. The Web site is elegant and easily competes with Google PowerMeter and Microsoft Hohm. It allows you to label, monitor, and set schedules for any given device. There is also a social element that allows you to compare and compete with your friends to conserve energy, as well as provide tips and tricks for living more greenly. (Is that even a word?)
The final presentation was the CubicVue 3D filter, which is a liquid pixel display that makes any monitor a 3D monitor without the need of the kitschy glasses. The company, CubicVue LLC, hopes to license this to manufacturers to build into their displays. It works with content that is optimized for 3D and supposedly does not disrupt 2D content.
I won't disclose how I voted for these companies but I will disclose the winners:
First place: ReNu from Regen, a line of solar-powered chargers and gadgets. They win $40,000 and a turn-key exhibit at CES 2010 in Las Vegas.
Second place: The eDGe from Entourage Systems, an e-reader/tablet. They win $7,500 and an option to display their product at CES Unveiled in New York or Las Vegas.
Fan favorite: ReNu from Regen, a line of solar-powered chargers and gadgets. They win $2,500 and an option to display their product at CES Unveiled in New York or Las Vegas.
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Q: I am a 34-year-old woman who has been with her husband for 11 years. We have three children. I have always been working, and I have a stressful teaching job.
With all of these factors, I still have been able to have sex at the drop of a hat. Once my husband approached, which was every day, I was easily turned on.
Within the past year, I developed a medical problem. I was unable to have sex and was on medication. I am no longer on meds.
I have been given the all-clear to have sex, but I find it difficult to get turned on. This is frustrating because I still find my husband attractive, and I love him even more for being patient. Why can't I get turned on as before? What can I do?
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A: Since your medical problem prevented you from having sex, there may be a lingering psychological effect. Maybe you just have to start having sex without first feeling the desire and see what happens.
You also could ask your doctor how long the effects of the medication last. Perhaps even though you're not taking it, the effects have remained.
If your doctor says the meds can't be affecting you, I'd suggest that you two go on a short vacation where you can concentrate on each other, and see if that jump-starts your sex life.
If none of these ideas works, make an appointment to see a sex therapist.
Q: My husband and I have been together for several years. Sex has never been a problem. Now he seems to have little or no interest.
I go to bed alone 9 out of 10 times. We made love only three times in the past month. I would like to make love every day but would settle for every other. This has been torture for me.
He says, "I will come to bed in a minute," and ends up sleeping on the couch. I have found many messages with him sexting other women. He says he has never had sex with another woman outside of our marriage. I am having a hard time believing that. What should I door say to change this behavior?
A: Something is going on, though from my vantage point it's impossible to say what. The only advice I can give you is to go to a counselor. Possibly when your husband sees that you are going, he'll go too, and then you'll have a chance to figure out what is wrong and correct it, but I can't guarantee that that will happen.
All I can say is to not just sit idly by, hoping this situation will get better on its own, because my guess is that it won't.
Q: I am bisexual. Why is it that I can get an erection when I am with a man, but when I am with a woman, I cannot get an erection? I want her really badly, but it will not get erect.
A: I guess my question is, are you really bisexual?
Here's what I might advise you to try: Next time you're with a woman and you can't get an erection, which admittedly could be from nerves if it's happened before, try thinking about having sex with a man. If that allows you to have an erection, then perhaps you ought to consult with a psychologist who specializes in sexual identity. Perhaps you are not bisexual, but homosexual.
But it's also possible that you failed to have an erection with a woman one time, for whatever reason, and that worry keeps haunting you so you fail each time you try.
Seeing a professional counselor should help you to clarify matters.
Q: My husband and I have been together for five years. Every time we have sex we both feel as if his penis and my vagina are a perfect fit, and this lasts throughout the entire session until we both climax. It is unlike anything either of us had ever experienced. He's 41, I'm 38, and we both are experienced, so this is amazing for us!
We're curious: How is this possible, and how common is it?
A: A woman's vagina can accommodate pretty much any size penis, though if a man's penis is too big, it can be a problem. And since babies come through the vagina, it certainly proves there's some elasticity. So my guess is that this is more psychological than physical, and I've never heard anybody reporting this.
But if it's true, if he is a perfect fit and that gives both of you pleasure, that's great. Just continue enjoying the opportunity to have sex as often as possible.
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Court: If police ask, you must give your name
The high court rules 5 to 4 that officers can arrest people who won't reveal their identity.
By Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor / June 22, 2004
US citizens do not enjoy a constitutional right to refuse to reveal their identity when requested by police.
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In what may become a major boost to US law enforcement and antiterrorism efforts, the US Supreme Court Monday upheld a Nevada law that makes it a criminal offense for anyone suspected of wrongdoing to refuse to identify himself to police.
Civil libertarians see the decision as a significant setback. And it remains unclear to what extent it may open the door to the issuing of national identification cards or widespread identity operations keyed to terrorist profiling at bus terminals, train stations, sports stadiums, and on city streets.
"It's a green light to explore the bounds of how much personal information can be demanded on pain of arrest," says Timothy Lynch of the Cato Institute in Washington. "It also gives a green light to perhaps the Congress to move with a national law."
Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington, says the decision has clear implications for the war on terror.
"We know identification continues to be one of the key demands of government agencies involved in homeland security," he says. "[This decision] - depending on how broad it is - could open the door to new demands for identification."
The ruling marks the first time the nation's highest court has endorsed a provision compelling citizens to reveal information in a citizen-police encounter that may become a police investigation.
The 5-to-4 decision says that neither the Fourth Amendment's right to privacy nor the Fifth Amendment's guarantee against self-incrimination bars states from passing laws requiring citizens to identify themselves.
In effect, the majority justices say that in most cases it is no significant intrusion for police to request - and a suspect to provide - his name.
"One's identity is, by definition, unique; yet it is, in another sense, a universal characteristic," writes Justice Anthony Kennedy for the majority. "Answering a request to disclose a name is likely to be so insignificant in the scheme of things as to be incriminating only in unusual circumstances."
Justice Kennedy adds that if a case arises in which the furnished identity provides a key link leading to the conviction of the individual for a different crime, the court will revisit the issue.
Joining Justice Kennedy's majority opinion were Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Justices Sandra Day O'Connor, Antonin Scalia, and Clarence Thomas.
In a dissent, Justice John Paul Stevens says the Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination must always shield a criminal suspect who is being questioned by police. Since police may only request the name of someone they find suspicious (under the upheld Nevada statute), that person is by definition a criminal suspect who may not be compelled to make statements that might incriminate him, Justice Stevens says.
"The court reasons that we should not assume the disclosure of petitioner's name would be used to incriminate him," Justice Stevens writes. "But why else would an officer ask for it?"
Stevens adds, "A name can provide the key to a broad array of information about a person particularly in the hands of a police officer with access to a range of law enforcement databases."
The decision stems from the case of Larry Hiibel, who was arrested in May 2000 after he refused a deputy sheriff's repeated demand that he produce some form of identification.
The encounter took place at the side of a road in Humboldt County, Nev. The deputy had received a report of a man striking a woman in a pickup truck. When the deputy arrived at the scene, Mr. Hiibel was standing outside a pickup truck that was parked on the shoulder of the road. His daughter was sitting inside the truck.
The deputy asked Hiibel 11 times to produce identification. Hiibel repeatedly refused, saying he'd done nothing wrong. The deputy placed him under arrest in accord with a Nevada law that permits police to detain criminal suspects for up to 60 minutes to compel them to identify themselves.
Hiibel refused to comply. He was charged and convicted of violating the mandatory identity law, a misdemeanor punishable by up to six months in jail. His conviction was affirmed by a state appeals court and the Nevada Supreme Court.
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TRIPOLI, Libya — Beneath the grassy courtyard of Moammar Gadhafi's private compound, long tunnels connect bunkers, command centers and spiral staircases that lead to a luxurious home filled with Gadhafi family photos. The electric lights are out, and the banks of telephones have gone dead.
When rebels took over the compound Tuesday, they discovered what had long been rumored: an elaborate underground network.
Outsiders had never seen the tunnels beneath the Bab al-Aziziya compound. Many Libyans assume that underground passages connect all of Tripoli — which they say explains Gadhafi's ability to appear for speeches in places where no one saw him arrive.
Some guess he fled the city through one of the tunnels as the rebels swept into Tripoli, although because of damage from NATO bombing, it was not possible to determine whether the tunnels actually extend outside of Bab al-Aziziya.
After overrunning the compound, long seen as the symbolic heart of Gadhafi's rule, the rebels set alight his family home, seized huge numbers of weapons and turned the complex into a staging ground for fighting elsewhere in the capital. They also discovered the underground network beneath it, a web of tunnels whose reach is still unclear.
"There's a Tripoli above ground and a Tripoli underground," said rebel fighter Ismail Dola, 26, exploring the tunnels with friends.
"It's normal that someone like Moammar would do this to protect himself," said rebel Riad Gneidi, walking curiously through the tunnels with an assault rifle over his shoulder. "Any dictator has to have a way to protect himself and to escape in times like these."
The Bab al-Aziziya compound had always been a mystery to most Libyans. Although it is one of the city's largest landmarks, no street signs indicate where it is. Few ever entered, and many Tripoli residents said they wouldn't even walk nearby, fearing security guards would get suspicious and arrest or shoot them.
Four days after the rebels arrived in the capital, Gadhafi's whereabouts remained a mystery. His spokesman, in a phone call to The Associated Press, insisted he still commands resistance to the rebels — a claim that strains credulity, given the breakdown of the regime's communications networks after months of NATO bombings. Gadhafi has released two audio messages urging his followers to fight "until victory or martyrdom."
But the rebels are slowly taking control of the country. On Thursday, 1,000 of them laid siege to a cluster of Tripoli buildings not far from the compound, an area believed to be the last stronghold inside the capital of Gadhafi loyalists. The rebels appeared to have won the battle by sundown. | dclm-gs1-013810000 |
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Halloween/Day of the Dead – Grade 4
Created by Estela Soberón
Lesson Summary:
In this lesson, students will compare and contrast Mexico’s Day of the Dead with
the United States’ Halloween. Students will learn the value of appreciating and
understanding other cultures while at the same time preserving their own
traditions and histories.
History and Literature
Four weeks
History of Halloween sheet
History of Day of the Dead sheet
Drawing materials
Computer with access to the Internet
Notebook of work.
NOTE: Meets Mexico Education Standards
Explore the origins of the events Halloween and Day of the Dead.
Find differences and similarities between the events.
Appreciate the richness that cultural diversity brings to our lives.
Learn to appreciate other cultures in order to expand one’s personal world-view,
while at the same time realizing the importance of conserving and valuing one’s
own cultural traditions.
Ask and answer questions about the subject.
Collect, organize and interpret data.
Analyze differences and similarities.
Examine and understand cultural traditions.
Reflect on the importance of conserving one’s own traditions and customs.
Develop the four basic abilities of communication: write, listen, read, and speak.
Focus Activity:
The teacher will write the names of both events on the chalk board: Halloween
and Day of the Dead. The teacher will also write some of the representative
elements of each event, such as Mexico, United States, Flowers, “Jack-O-
lanterns,” witches, small skulls of sugar, altars, trick or treat, Celtics, pre-
Hispanic cultures, Spanish, Ireland, etc. Once the columns have been filled and
the elements discussed, the teacher will ask the students the following question: In
what ways are these two events related? The students will research both the
events in order to answer this question. They should write down all the
information and data gathered in their notebooks.
The students will watch a Day of the Dead video, found on the TIDES website,
and will make a list of the important objects and items they observed on the
ofrendas (altars).
The students will:
• write summaries of both events using data found during the investigation;
• write histories of terror;
• create small skeletons dedicated to their teachers and friends;
• build an ofrenda in the classroom;
• write an essay about how important it is to maintain one’s own culture and
• investigate the historical figure Jose Guadalupe Posada;
• make a Halloween costume that will be entered in a contest.
Final Project:
The students will create a diagram in which they will indicate differences and
similarities between both events. For this activity, they should utilize
biographies, information accessed from the Institute of Alexander Bain, and
Halloween and Day of the Dead are festivals related to the theme of death.
Halloween is celebrated in the United States, while in Mexico the Day of the
Dead has been celebrated for centuries. At the root of both celebrations is the
idea that there is life after death. Both have pagan origins, and are connected to
All Hallow’s Eve, a festival that originated in Christianity. Nevertheless, many
of the rites and the symbols surrounding these events are different, as they arose
in separate historical contexts and thus reflect the beliefs of different cultures.
Every year in North America, on October 31st, children go out into the night dressed as
witches, skeletons, pumpkins, demons, black cats, and ghosts, knocking on doors and
saying, “trick or treat!” The idea is that anyone who refuses to give the children a treat
will have a trick played on them. In Spanish, this phrase would translate as “travesura o
The origins of such a festival are very old and draw on a variety of cultures, including
Celtic, Roman, and Christian. Centuries ago, Celtic towns organized festivals to honor
Samhain, god of the dead. They associated death and bad spirits with the coming of
winter, during which time they made bonfires and used disguises (or costumes) to keep
evil spirits far away. The Celtics also believed that during this night the spirits of their
dead family members and friends could come back to visit their loved ones.
Many celebrations also contained Roman elements, such as festivals that honored the
harvest goddess, Pomona. With the arrival of Christianity the European towns started to
celebrate All Hallow’s Eve. This celebration commemorated people both living and dead,
and formed a part of the Community of Saints.
In the Middle Ages, the Celtic, Roman and Christian traditions fused together, into what
is recognized today as Halloween. The traditional colors of black and orange are said to
have originated from the festivals of Samhain and Pomona respectively, while the Celtic
ideas of the return of the spirits were combined with the Christian beliefs of
communication between the Community of the Saints, and this also gave support and
significance to the festivity.
In the 19th century, the Irish took this tradition to the United States. In spite of its
European origins, the festival is more important in North America than in the old world.
Day of the Dead
In Mexico, the tradition of the Day of the Dead is approximately 3,000 years. Some
native civilizations, like the Aztecs, tended to worship to their dead in an annual festival
that lasted about a month. This celebration was carried out in the 9th month of the Aztec
solar calendar, which would correspond to our month of August today.
When the Spanish arrived in Mexico in the 16th century, the friar’s evangelists tried to
convert the Indians to Christianity. Among the traditions they brought to the New World
were the festivals held on November 1st and 2nd – All Hallow’s Eve and Day of the
Faithful Deceased.
The Spanish started to celebrate Christian festivals, but incorporated elements of the pre-
Hispanic festivals celebrating the dead into them. They raised altars to honor their dead,
a tradition which Mexicans carry on to this day. Some native elements present in the Day
of the Dead celebrations are the resin, the traditional small dishes like the pumpkin in
powdered brown sugar, tamales, tortillas, and the cempazochitl flowers. In turn, the
elements that originated with the Christian and Hispanic culture are the watchman, the
images of saints, or the bread of dead that was incorporated when the Spanish introduced
wheat in America, and which became a substitute for skulls of human beings that were
exhibited in the pre-Hispanic altars.
The most important figure on the altars of the Day of the Dead is The Catrina, a skeleton
dressed as a woman that symbolizes death. This character also arose from crossing
cultures between the pre-Hispanic and the western traditions. During the 14th century, the
numerous wars and the appearance and propagation of the Black Death over all of Europe
originated a new culture towards death. The presence of death became a constant in the
routine of life, and thus human beings started to see it with both familiar and imminent.
This routine contact with death was called the Dance of Death and could be seen in many
paintings. In these illustrations, Death was personified and represented by the figure of a
skeleton, scythe in hand, that came to earth to take all those that got in the way, rich or
poor, noble or working-class.
The friars that came to the New World in the 16th century brought with them this
personage, which mixed with the pre-Hispanic Mictecacihuatl deity, the “Dame of
Death,” to give origin to “Catrina.” In the 19th century, this singular woman was
immortalized in the engravings of the Mexican artist Jose Guadalupe Posada.
The Mexicans followed the tradition of putting alters dedicated to the dead in the living
rooms of their homes to honor loved ones who had passed away. This tribute is raised so
that family, friends and, most importantly, the deceased themselves are honored with
altars when they visit them. It is for these reasons that the altars need to contain items
such as a photograph of the person being remembered, a small dish and other objects that
are enjoyed in life, water to calm their thirst, candles to light their way, flowers from
cempaxochitl, salt, small skulls of sugar, bread of death, some alcoholic drink like
aguardiente or mexcal, resin and incense. Another important tradition of the celebration is
to write festive verses called “little skulls,” which describe in a funny way, how a friend
or a family member will die in the future.
In Mexico, November the 1st and 2nd are the days of festivity in which the Pantheons are
filled with people that wish to remember their loved ones. During the celebration, the
Mexicans visit their loved ones and take them flowers, food, Mariachi music, and those
things that could have made them happy in life. In places like Mixquic, close to the
Mexican city and the Island of Janitzio, in the state of Michoacán, thousands of visitors
come to enjoy a full festival of flavor and color.
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It might be the Devil's doing that history keeps repeating itself. It seems that the less priority is given to history in American schools, the greater the number of young adults who believe that what is coming down on this great, once mighty American empire is something unheard of. The Intercollegiate Studies Institute's National Civic Literacy Board, for instance, puts the number of Americans who would fail a basic history test at 71 percent, while fewer than 4 percent would score a B or above. So, based on these numbers, it is reasonable to presume that what the remaining 96 percent know about the extinct mighty empires of the past is what they learned from simple-minded Hollywood epics. Only a few rare students of historical facts may still realize that it was not the titillating sexual depravity, intrigue and murder inside imperial palaces (that sells movie tickets), but the largely ignored epidemic of entitlement mentality in the streets that had over the centuries put an end to the glory and prosperity of grand empires-an epidemic that had throughout history turned great nations into impoverished hordes groveling on their knees for the coming of a Messiah. But to prove that point, it is not at all that necessary to go as far back as Babylon and the Roman Empire. The last couple of decades alone hold more than enough indications of the current, modern empires' tendency to going down in flames. I only had to pick-perfectly at random-thirteen examples of the volatile foibles of human nature to prove that the mankind's notorious suicidal tendencies have one common denominator: stupidity as the cause, common sense and a truckload of humor as a redemption. "There are tons of novels available, but the ability to write a singularly perfect story is rare. That's why I especially enjoyed Anthony Pour's work because in just a few pages he takes you into the lives of the characters he creates, gives you a sense of where they are, and then, at the end, never fails to surprise you. Pour is equally at home writing about ordinary folk or the rich and famous. It is their human weaknesses that interest him and there are plenty to satisfy his wicked sense of humor that will thoroughly entertain you." -- Alan Caruba, Bookviews
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The federal police force said it provided the robot. Its statement added that 100 federal police, marines and local officers were still guarding the area.
Eibenschutz said a farmer was being checked at a hospital after showing signs of radiation exposure. The man, who lives in the nearby farming town of Hueypoxtla, told authorities that he handled the material after finding it in the field and started feeling sick soon after.
The cobalt-60, which was from obsolete medical equipment used in radiation therapy, was being transported to a waste facility by a truck that was stolen at gunpoint early Dec. 2 when the driver stopped to rest at a gas station in Hidalgo state.
Two days later, authorities found the truck abandoned in neighboring Mexico state. The thieves had removed the cobalt-60 from its protective container and left it nearby in the field about a kilometer (a half a mile) from Hueypoxtla, a town of about 4,000 people. Officials have said the material posed no threat to the town, saying it was dangerous only in close proximity.
On Monday, a federal judge ordered five people held for 40 days under a form of house arrest pending possible charges.
Four of the detainees are suspected in the theft of the truck and the fifth was allegedly a possible buyer of the stolen vehicle, said an official with the Attorney General's Office, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.
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The most important thing we need to do is add technology to allow the FAA to take over the control of any flight over United States airspace if there are indications of problems onboard that would interfere with the safety of the flight. Humans make mistakes. Worse, they do bad things.
Look at what happened on Oct. 31, 1999. EgyptAir Flight 990 was flying from Los Angeles to New York and then on to Cairo, Egypt. At around 01:50 E.T., the plane plummeted into the Atlantic Ocean, about 60 miles (97 kilometers) south of Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, in international waters, killing all of the 217 people onboard. [Note: I had a friend that was onboard this flight and I subsequently raised money for a scholarship in his name at Stanford University].
An FAA investigation concluded that first officer Gameel Al-Batouti was suffering from depression and decided to commit suicide and take the entire flight with him into the ocean. The captain had gone to the restroom, then noticed the problem and tried to re-take command of the plane-but the copilot proved stronger and the flight went into the ocean. The flight deviated from its assigned altitude of 33,000 feet and dived to 16,000 feet for over 44 seconds, then climbed to 24,000 and began a final dive, hitting the Atlantic Ocean in about two and a half minutes.
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Men and nutrition
Men also need healthy, balanced diets
Like everyone else, men need good meals so they are healthy and active.
However, men are usually the better nourished members of the family because:
Appendix 2, Table 4, shows that men’s energy needs are higher than women’s needs, especially if they are doing heavy physical work. But men need less iron than women and girls of reproductive age. So they need less iron-rich food (e.g. meat or liver) than women.
Even so, some men are at risk of undernutrition. The reasons may be that:
Men living alone or who are sole caregivers for children may need advice on how to buy good-value foods (see Topic 2, page 27) and how to make good meals (see Topic 3).They may need recipes that are easy to prepare and advice on food hygiene. Men who are HIV+ need counselling on how to eat well and prevent weight loss (see Topic 10, page 85).
An increasing number of men (and women) need advice on how to prevent obesity or how to lose weight (see Box 19, page 94).
Food and care for old people
Eating well helps old people stay healthy and active longer
Old people who eat healthy, balanced diets are likely to stay healthier and active longer. The energy needs of older people are usually less than those of younger people but they need at least the same amounts of protein and micronutrients (see Appendix 2, Table 4).
Old people may have small appetites, so they need nutrient-rich meals
People tend to eat less as they grow older. It is particularly important that old people choose foods that are nutrient-rich so they can get enough nutrients from a smaller amount of food.
Figure 12. Helping old people to eat well
Some old people do not eat enough and so become thin and anaemic because they:
Some old people are overweight or obese also because they are unable to be active.
Old people may be able to eat better and be better nourished if you:
Before sharing this information with families, you may need to:
1. Find out. What and where men eat. Whether any groups of men are at risk of undernutrition. If so, why and what advice they need. What old people eat. Whether many old people are undernourished. If so, why. What advice is needed by old people and their relatives.
2. Prioritize. Decide which information is most important to share with groups or individual families.
3. Decide whom to reach. For example: men and old people; people who cook and care for men and old people.
4. Choose communication methods. For example: discussions, recipes and cooking demonstrations, at community and farmers’ group meetings and at old people’s homes.
Examples of questions to start a discussion
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Why are most men well fed? Are some men undernourished? If so, why?
What advice do undernourished men or men who are sole caregivers for children need? How can we help them?
Why is it important for old people to eat nutrient-rich foods and have healthy, balanced diets?
Are some of our old people undernourished? If so, why?
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How does it really feel to fly a jetfighter?
Asked by mazingerz88 (17778 points ) June 17th, 2011
I’ve always wondered whenever I see those white streaks in the sky in the morning, how might it feel to pilot and fly one of those supersonic jets. I feel a rush just imagining the thrill since I for one could not bear to ride any rollercoaster. Lol.
Has anyone have a friend who is or was actually a pilot of any jetfigher aircraft? If you don’t its ok, please share whatever you imagine it would feel like too. Thanks! : )
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lucillelucillelucille's avatar
I used to date a man that did.
He also smoked alot of pot.
He got twice as high for his efforts.;)
Aqua's avatar
It feels a lot like this.
blueiiznh's avatar
geeez, i read that as flying a jellyfighter. nevermind
tedd's avatar
You can get a vaguely similar feeling on a roller coaster. The negative and positive G’s experienced are similar, albeit to a much smaller scale, to what fighter pilots feel. Also keep in mind that fighter pilots wear high tech gear and go through intense training to prepare them for the rigors of flying a jet, and even then they have very limited flight times.
I’m pretty sure if you’ve got some cash behind you, you can get a ride on a jet fighter. The old ones are often bought (disarmed of course) by enthusiasts and former pilots.
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Where is @Bluefreedom when we need him? =) He’s in the USAF
I do have an old high school friend who is a pilot. He’s always talking about what an adrenaline rush it is when he flies. He loves his work.
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I imagine it feels a lot like being shat out of King Kong’s arse flaps!
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Usama bin Laden's (search) chauffeur was formally charged Tuesday at the first U.S. military tribunal to convene since World War II, and the defendant's lawyer quickly challenged the panel over its impartiality and questioned the proceeding's fairness.
Salim Ahmed Hamdan (search), a 34-year-old Yemeni, declined to enter a plea until motions filed by his military-appointed lawyer attacking the legality of the proceeding are decided, probably in November.
The appointing authority, John D. Altenburg Jr., a retired Army general, will decide whether any of the commission members should be removed, but was not clear how soon he might rule.
"It is important that these proceedings not only be fair, but appear fair to the world," Swift said during the hearing, which lasted eight hours.
"This presiding officer would not even be qualified to be a civilian defense counsel," Swift said, pointing to Brownback's return from retirement and his lack of bar association membership.
Swift raised questions on panel member Marine Col. Jack K. Sparks Jr., citing concerns over Sparks' feelings about a reservist under his command who died in the Sept. 11 terror attack on New York's World Trade Center while working as a firefighter. Another panel member armed U.S. planes with Hellfire missiles in Afghanistan.
He also said he was concerned that commission member Marine Col. R. Thomas Bright had said he was in charge of the logistics of moving detainees to Guantanamo; that Air Force Lt. Col. Timothy K. Toomey was an intelligence officer in Afghanistan; and that an alternate, Army Lt. Col. Curt S. Cooper, expressed strong emotions about the 2001 attacks and concern for the safety of himself and his family.
"Clearly the impartiality of these panel members is a concern to us," said Anthony Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union (search) who was one of several rights activists observing the hearing.
Hamdan has said he earned a pittance for his family as bin Laden's driver before the Sept. 11 attacks, but denies involvement in terrorism. U.S. officials allege he served as the Al Qaeda (search) leader's bodyguard and delivered weapons to his operatives.
"It was really a day of mixed emotions," Swift said of Hamdan, who has not been allowed to wear anything but his orange prison garb and has lost more than 50 pounds. "He has wanted a process for a very long time ... But like many people he has concerns."
Brownback gave Swift until Oct. 1 to file other motions and said the prosectuion would have until Oct. 15 to respond.
Tribunal members and prosecutors asked the media not to use the names of the panel members, fearing possible retribution. But their names were previously made public and have been published.
Brownback is the only member of commission to have formal legal training. Asked by Swift whether he thought the proceedings were legal, Brownback said he chose not to answer.
Swift asked panel members if they would be willing to consider the legality of President Bush's order setting up the commissions, which will allow secret evidence and no appeals. They all said yes.
Swift asked other questions of the commission members during a closed session to discuss classified information.
During portions of the hearing, images of Hamdan appeared blurry on closed-circuit TV, and with a five-minute delay. News service reporters chose to watch from outside the courtroom via television so they could send updates quickly.
In a handout issued before the hearing, Swift said he planned to ask that the charges be dismissed.
He said it was wrong for the commission to proceed without a separate ruling on Hamdan's status as an "enemy combatant," a classification that gives fewer legal protections than afforded prisoners of war. That classification was used to justify trying Hamdan and others before military commissions rather than courts martial or U.S. civilian courts.
The pretrial hearings were initially expected to last four days, but the first hearing progressed slowly due to delays for translation. It could be months before the actual trials begin.
Swift says that Hamdan was a pilgrim who took a job at bin Laden's farm on his way to Tajikistan in 1996 or 1997, that he had no knowledge of bin Laden's activities and that he never took up arms against the United States.
The Pentagon alleges Hamdan, who is also known as Saqr al Jaddawi, was bin Laden's driver and bodyguard between February 1996 and Nov. 24, 2001.
The Pentagon also says he transported weapons to Al Qaeda operatives, trained at an Al Qaeda camp and drove in convoys that carried bin Laden. It does not say he took part in any specific acts of violence.
Hamdan's family in Yemen has refused to comment on the charges.
Two others charged with conspiracy are Ali Hamza Ahmad Sulayman al Bahlul, 33, also of Yemen, and Ibrahim Ahmed Mahmoud al Qosi, a Sudanese born in 1960. The fourth, David Hicks, 29, of Australia, faces charges of conspiracy to commit war crimes as well as aiding the enemy, and attempted murder for allegedly firing at U.S. or coalition forces in Afghanistan.
Hicks' family arrived Tuesday.
Breaking down in tears after a short news conference with journalists late Tuesday, Hicks' father, Terry, said he was hopeful ahead of Wednesday's hearing but concerned.
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NY Times reports about a little girl that accidentally found rule 34 video
#51Unknown Nomad(Topic Creator)Posted 5/15/2012 11:38:44 PM
From: Skye Reynolds | #014
Maybe the "graphic video" was the Cupcakes video.
always a possibility
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#52Garp_fistPosted 5/16/2012 12:06:39 AM
I'll leave my personal opinions on the direction some of the fan stuff MLP goes to out of this and just say...yeah, if your kid is on the internet and they're only 6 or 7...you need to supervise them. Internet is home to too much depravity.
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#53Bahamut001Posted 5/16/2012 12:02:49 PM
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What kind of dog is Ammy supposed to be?
#1DarksteelPosted 2/2/2013 1:37:12 PM
Random question. She an Akita?
#2sbn4Posted 2/2/2013 1:37:43 PM
I hear she's actually a wolf.
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#3ice_phoenix_Posted 2/2/2013 1:38:48 PM
Okami can mean both "god" and "wolf" in Japanese, I think
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#4RagingRicansPosted 2/2/2013 1:39:23 PM
She was originally design to be a basset hound....
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#5MaroziPosted 2/2/2013 1:40:28 PM
Amaterasu is a wolf. 'Okami' parses to 'Great-God' (With the o-prefix denoting size or greatness, I am not sure which) while 'Ookami' is just 'Wolf'.
#6askinywhiteguyPosted 2/2/2013 1:45:04 PM
She's a wolf.
As to what specific kind of wolf, some people speculate that she's a White Alpha Wolf due to the manner in which she urinates.
#7RoccoRedPosted 2/2/2013 1:50:06 PM
Wolf. Mainly because Okami is a pun that could mean "god" or "wolf".
Though she acts as the Dog Zodiac which the thirteen brush gods reference.
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#8BreakerDoorManPosted 2/2/2013 1:50:41 PM
'Fraid so, broseph.
#9ZekiraPosted 2/2/2013 11:42:30 PM
#10MK9_ProdigyPosted 2/3/2013 12:15:30 AM
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A question about DLC and Playthroughs
#1714kaosPosted 1/11/2013 9:09:55 AM
I just restarted game on TVHM(Lvl 34) and i kind of want to buy the pirate DLC and play it normal mode at this level for extra gear and xp, then do it again on my second playthrough at level 50.but i have a few questions:
1. the xp is pretty dang good on tvhm, will pirate DLC on normal mode be somewhat close?torque seemed to have much better xp then end of first playthrough.
2. what exactly is pt2.5 . is that just like the dlc or a patch or what? im still confused about that lol.
#2fakesnoop77Posted 1/11/2013 9:16:28 AM
If you want my advice, play through TVHM until you reach lvl 50 and complete the game then do both DLC's.
This way you will get all the unique rewards at lvl 50.
PT2.5 becomes available once you complete TVHM. PT2.5 does not actually appear as a selectable play through from the menu, but once TVHM has been completed you can go back to the game and everything spawns at lvl 50 and higher for bosses (lvl 52).
If you have any outstanding side quests left when you complete TVHM these can be done in 2.5 and they will scale the rewards to lvl 50.
This is why most people will recommend you leave any quest that rewards you with a Blue or higher until PT2.5
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#3714kaos(Topic Creator)Posted 1/11/2013 9:26:28 AM
ok thanks for the advice. i got another querstion now though, i accidently teleported to oasis on TVHM with my lvl 34 >.< i didnt see any enemies or do anything but the video played. did it lock my level already LOL. if it did i might as well play it now.
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What's the best collector's edition out there of all?
#31Rydiafan013Posted 12/4/2012 5:51:09 PM
Another one for the fallout 3 CE
#32plz_dont_recordPosted 12/4/2012 6:39:36 PM
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#33bigybriPosted 12/9/2012 6:01:12 PM
Has a "Catlevania LoS 2" Collector's Edition been announced?
The "Catherine" collector's edition was a little too much for me, boxers, pizza box, is it valuable today?
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My Xbox is having issues. (NEED HELP)
#1Mr_arizonaPosted 7/20/2013 3:11:58 PM
Started up my Xbox and for some reason I can't load or select option or games on the dashboard.
I can move around the main dashboard and can go into the first sub options but I can not brings up game lists, my pins, the guide menu, or even start a game. Anyone got a solution or similar problem?
#2glassghost0Posted 7/20/2013 3:13:04 PM
Are you in the Beta?
No Thanks
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#3Mr_arizona(Topic Creator)Posted 7/20/2013 3:19:29 PM(edited)
glassghost0 posted...
Are you in the Beta?
I'm ****ed aren't I?
#4TheMuffinPosted 7/20/2013 3:28:02 PM
I would highly suggest going to the Xbox beta boards and reporting this. If you're having this issue then there is a higher chance of it happening during full rollout for all users.
#5Mellerker38Posted 7/20/2013 3:37:25 PM
Xbox beta boards isn't supported on the official fourms and I have decided to avoid the xbox 360 until the fall.
#6X8xJokesterx7XPosted 7/20/2013 4:04:04 PM
Yeah you have to jump through loops to find the beta boards on the official forums but its there. Trust me those boards are on fire right now with this problem.....
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#7ty1098Posted 7/20/2013 6:04:24 PM
I feel like MS gave up with the 360. Games for gold is terrible, Fable 3 was the worst in the series and is only like $7, everyone who wanted to play AC2 has played it and that game is $5 IIRC. Defense Grid... Ugh. Halo 3 was $3 last time I saw it about a year ago, and I've heard that's the next game they're rolling out for GfG. Is Mr. Krabs calling the shots? This update doesn't do anything but make our Xbox glitchier. No visual change or anything. The MS points conversion to real money was pointless. Nothing is being done right.
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To support players, do you still buy Sightstone?
#11CrumpledPaperPosted 4/19/2013 9:03:33 AM
if I'm playing a tanky support I rush it at first because dat hp 2 good
Far too often though I'm seeing other supports use it as their sole source of wards which is just silly eheu
#12QuantumMechonisPosted 4/19/2013 9:03:36 AM
From: gaiaslayer | #008
When they take that stupid restriction that makes you place 2 and 3 wards at a time, I'll start buying it again....It hinders me a lot more than it helps...
This pretty much. I'd rather just buy 2 actual GP10 items and buy a stack of 4 or 5 wards at a time each back.
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#13RihawfPosted 4/19/2013 9:10:21 AM
i get it because tankiness and manipulating wards can be useful
Darkyellow327 posted...
Did you really take this down to add the Rihawf option?
Super GP10 item and free wards. Always get it.
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#14Black_AssassinPosted 4/19/2013 9:22:19 AM(edited)
NicoGrimm posted...
Sightstone limits the wards you can place to 4 unless you also carry extra wards with you. I'm honestly not a fan of them.
Did you buy a HoG in season 2 for supports? Some people in this topic don't seem to understand that Sightstone is basically a GP10 item on steroids.
#15NicoGrimmPosted 4/19/2013 9:22:01 AM
I only started playing during Season 3. :(
#16MrFailPosted 4/19/2013 9:28:34 AM
When I saw the original nerfs, I thought I wouldn't be buying it anymore. You can buy around 20 wards for its price after all. But considering that it gives you ~giants belt HP and 3 replenishing wards in one item slot at a reasonable cost, it is hard to pass up. Really, I could see it on the support/invader junglers as well.
#17KajeIPosted 4/19/2013 10:01:46 AM
Unless i'm playing Thresh or Leona i don't get it. I go Philo and Kages, then usually get an Aegis (Unless i'm playing Morg, then i get armgaurd in the notsovain hope that i get enough money over time to get a zhonya) and then i wing it.
I spend most of my money on pinks, so 2 extra greens aren't usually worth it because i'll still get like 3 pinks per back.
#18ExalxPosted 4/19/2013 10:07:13 AM
Best GP 10 ever and gives you health.
It's basically heart of gold.
The limit doesn't really matter either because if you put pinks over Baron and Drag, you have three free wards to put anywhere and your team should be warding anyway so it's never really a problem.
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#19Waluigi1Posted 4/19/2013 10:08:07 AM
What is GP10 item exactly?
PSO is teh best!
#20DartkunPosted 4/19/2013 10:08:37 AM
Waluigi1 posted...
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Question from Shin_Fuma
Asked: 5 years ago
What's the real name of the main character?
Can anyone tell me?
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From: Fayt127 5 years ago
As mentioned above, there is no "true" name for the MC. If there's ever a manga made about this game, that would be where the name would come from.
Some people suggest calling him Abel, because, for some of the ending routes, you find out that the MC is the reincarnation of the biblical Abel
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There is no true real name for the main character
but it should be considered Abel u'll understand wen u play the game
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It's the name you want it to be for it never hints that the MC's name is anything else than the name you give it.
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The real name for main character is Abel
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I guess he's called abel cause he is a-bel :)
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If you choose the Naoya ending, you will find out that the main character's real name is Abel.
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I named my Hero "Heero Ryuuzo"
But yea, he has no real name, but he's the reincarnation of Abel.
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"A more readable story, but still the same story"
SOUND - 8/10
REPLAY - 8/10
TILT - 6/10
Another Story
After the success of localising the first Swordcraft Story just earlier this year, Atlus does another marvelous job bringing in more 'niche' games to us Non-Jap folk. Here we have the follow-up to the crazy dialogue-filled action-RPG. But is it just more of the same? Has it improved... enough?
A Wonderful World
If you have played through the first (and this review assumes most readers have) then you'll be right at home with Swordcraft Story 2. It is not a direct storyline sequel, but the new characters, locales and plot development are just as good as before. Many of the enemies are recycled, but then there are a lot of new ones too. This time around there is a nice variety of environments to grind your way through, so no more plodding through the same-looking labyrinth that featured in the prequel. Esthetics wise, this is extremely good looking for a GBA RPG which was released in Japan more than a wee while ago.
I, Robot
But, yes but - even though superficially it looks great, the core of the game remains pretty much the same: make your away around uneventful dungeons, defeating randomly encountered enemies along the way; talk to so and so, head to that destination, talk some more, head back, etc. etc. This formula gets very repetitive. It's nice that the encounter rate is not as volatile as the last game, but the amount of text borderlines on overload. Since earlier-encountered enemies are not worth fighting (weak plus negligible experience) you'll be doing a lot of retreating. So essentially the game boils down to initiate key event, (back)track your way to specified area whilst running away from most battles, key event again, rinse and repeat.
The game structure is still too rigid, too linear, with little time left to wander around and explore on your own accord. But then again, there are no 'real' sidequests in the whole game; just a couple of random small jobs in the main town which you'll probably complete by accident anyway. Wait, there is one sidequest where you have to destroy every single bush/crate/whatever... but this must be the lamest excuse for a sidequest ever! On a positive note, the fishing mini-game is a nice deviation for a while, but lacking depth to be something you'll want to go back to often.
Building Blocks of Success
The core pull-in of this series is the weapon construction, and in this respect this sequel deserves a pat on its back. Just like before, you forge your own weapons from raw materials found all over the place. There is a staggering amount of different weapons, all of which can be upgraded multiple times. You may even create special items for equipment or other purposes too. Gamers who revel in seeking out everything will have a long journey ahead; others will appreciate the versatility of the system - each game is truly never the same. So good thing there is a New Game + feature then eh?
All About Fighting
The battles are the usual linear-motion kind, inspired by the Tales games. You control your main chosen character with your chosen Guardian Beast there to support you. Nothing new here really. The AI is still pretty stupid, attacking you and then ignoring you. The beasts have more attacks, but still lack strategy and direction; you can comfortably win most battles (including bosses) by attacking, blocking, attacking, blocking, perhaps throwing in a stat boost or fancy spell to break the tedium. Speaking of boss battles, it's nice how you can save anytime with certain items, but sometimes the encounters sneak up from nowhere. You can't swap magics during battles or dialogue so if you weren't properly prepared, say hello to your last distant save point. This occurs a lot at the start as the difficulty gets easier as your magic quantity use increases.
In the overworld, you trek from point to point as I mentioned before. It's nice to see that your weapons can be used to break/cut/move/activate certain obstacles or items throughout - somewhat reminiscent of Pokemon's HM abilities - but it is vastly underutilised except for the last dungeon. Here's hoping the 3rd game of this trilogy gave more importance to this interactive aspect.
Worth Reading?
If you balled over from the exceptional script in the last game, you'll do the same here. Character interaction is just as witty, and with multiple scenarios depending on chosen characters, the interlude choices etc... there's a lot of great moments. But again, for the most part the story doesn't take itself seriously. So while the text is sharp, there is not enough depth to make you want to keep playing this for long periods. The plot wanders all over the place so sometimes you can be lost as to what your goal really is amongst all the shenanigans. Bad guys will enter the scene and leave just as easily without any resistance. It's all very comical, but I felt the big twist didn't have that much 'oomph' due to the storyline jumping about all over. And why do you even fight Death?!
On a small note, the audio is of very good quality and the tracks themselves are highly memorable. Some bits are ripped from the previous game, but everything fits in all so nicely and sounds so good I really couldn't care less here. You won't get tired of the audio side of things that's for sure. The voiceovers are poor, though infrequent enough so that they won't constrict your nerves any time soon.
Refined, but I wanted more of an overhaul
So is it worth playing? For those who really got into the first game, the answer is a definite yes. For those looking for a new RPG to hack, and have not previously tried this sort of action-rpg, then give this a try as long as you have patience and have somewhat fluent reading skills. That way you'll get more out of the extensive customisation and have a good time with the wonderfully written dialogue. You'll never find another game which has quotes like "In order to get the next Daemon Edge I have to make myself sexier" lol! Well maybe the next game will will go all out... we'll see.
For myself, Swordcraft Story 2 is an improved take on the original's concepts. But the flaws present before are still here, and so even though the good stuff is refined, the overall package doesn't raise itself enough. It's still tedious, with a large dialogue:action ratio, and there's not enough variety bar weapon making (in which collecting parts can be a chore as is). Upon completion there are several bonuses including Boss Rush, playing as a crazy mechanical bunny, and a whole lot more dungeons to run through. Just like the first, there's a lot of bang for your buck, but it really depends on how much you can really take.
If you have to try one of 'em, try no. 2!
Fair Game 6.5/10
Reviewer's Score: 6/10 | Originally Posted: 10/23/06
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Five Great Comic Book Games That Will Never Be Made
Plenty of great comic book characters have had their shot at digital entertainment, but the comic world is filled with an endless stream of great characters and shorelines. Why should gamers only ever get to play as the Batmans and Spider-Mans? We shuffled through our longboxes to uncover some great overlooked comic book gems that would make great games.
Why it would be awesome:
Most secret organizations focus on ensuring national security or fighting global criminal organizations, but Planetary is an almost non-existent institute that tries to catalogue the world's secret history. Planetary’s members aren’t really superheroes, but they do have superhero-like powers. Dubbing themselves “Archaeologists of the Impossible,” this team of researchers often saves the world while preserving its untold past.
Think L.A. Noire meets BioShock: Like L.A. Noire, Planetary would focus on investigations as the field team traveled around the world and uncovered unusual alien relics and suppressed military secrets. Like BioShock, this game should be highly atmospheric and provide gamers with a buffet of cool powers to use once the action actually started. The comic included pop culture references to Superman, Godzilla, John Woo films, and Sherlock Holmes. It seems reasonable that the game could ape our industry in the same way.
J. Jonah Jameson (Spider-Man)
it would be awesome: Jameson has been one of Spider-Man’s longest running supporting cast members for a reason. The guy has real character. He’s a fiery publicist who stands by his convictions and will often do whatever it takes to get what he wants. Sure Jameson likes to criticize costumed heroes as glory-seeking vigilantes who inhibit the rights of the common man, but in his youth, Jameson functioned as a war correspondent and battled to uncover police corruption.
Think Heavy Rain meets Ace Attorney: Capcom’s zany adventure series is a good template for this game. Jameson’s journalist background makes his a good fit for the adventure genre. The game could even be a flashback that shows Jameson during his days as a beat reporter. Like Phoenix Wright, Jameson is also a role model of absurdity. He has hired insane inventors to build giant robots or transform human subjects into mass murdering super villains. His son is even a werewolf astronaut. So there should be plenty of opportunity to introduce humor into the game.
The Saint Of Killers (Preacher)
Why it would be awesome: In 1995, Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon first released Preacher, a five-year series that told the story of an ex-con Preacher who – after becoming possessed by an all-powerful entity – decides to hunt down God. One of the comic’s side characters was the Saint of All Killers, an undead cowboy who was commissioned to be the Lord’s personal mercenary.
Think Red Dead Redemption meets Darksiders: As we see it, this character fits perfectly into the open world mold. Stern and mean as cuss, the Saint acts a bit like Clint Eastwood’s angry, evil clone. In the comics, the cowboy racks up a fairly large body count and we don’t see any reason he couldn’t do the same in the game. He could even level up and acquire new holy hardware or supernatural abilities as the game progresses. We’d also like to see a subtle time traveling element, where the Saint rises from his grave every decade or so to take on a new supernatural assassination.
Why it would be awesome: When the three Bone cousins are run out of Boneville by angry townspeople, they are forced to make a new life for themselves in a fantastical medieval kingdom. The trio evades gigantic, evil rat creatures, makes friends with an eclectic cast of humans and animals, and eventually spearheads a war against a dark entity simply called the Lord of the Locusts. Something of a cross between classic Disney cartoons and The Lord of the Rings, Jeff Smith’s Bone series is one of the most beloved independent comics of all time.
Think Skyrim meets Epic Mickey: Technically, Telltale developed a series of adventure games based around Bone back in 2005, but Bone deserves something bigger. Imagine exploring the vibrant cartoon world of Bone in a manner similar to one of Bethesda’s large, open-world titles. You could seek the help of a variety of animal creatures while on the run from an army of rat creatures or enter the giant hub city of Atheia to barter for new goods and build an army to fight the Lord of the Locusts. Bone’s three main protagonists open up the possibility for a developer to make this a larger co-op experience as well.
Why it would be awesome: When May Porker irradiated herself with the world's first atomic-powered hairdryer (we’re not making this up), in a fit of delirium, she bit her pet spider, Peter, causing him to mutate into the Spectacular Spider-Ham. Part pig, part spider, Spider-Ham has all the powers of a spider with the proportionate limitations of a pig (really not making this up). Marvel first published The Amazing Spider-Ham in 1983 in the hopes that the character would help them break into the plush toy business – which is even more absurd than the character’s bio. Spider-Ham had a short run, but refused to die and has constantly reappeared in various one-shots and mini-series; maybe it’s time he got his own game.
Think The Amazing Spider-Man Meets South Park: If open-world titles are good enough for the Amazing Spider-Man, then The Spectacular Spider-Ham deserves no less. However, to make the Spider-Ham’s game work, it would need a few comedians with some writing chops to pen the script. We’d like to see Spider-Ham do battle with his foes The King-Pig and Ducktor Doom. Hopefully, Captain Americat and the Fantastic Fur could make cameos as well. Who are we kidding? This idea is dumb as s---!
All of these comic properties are somewhat obscure, and will likely never get their own video game. However, properties like Hellboy, Tintin, and Scott Pilgrim might have once seemed obscure enough that they would never receive their own game/movie, so you never know what entertainment oddities the future might bring. Then again, considering how poorly John Constantine transitioned out of comics, maybe we should be careful what we wish for. What comic book properties would you like to see turned into a game?
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Hall of Fame -- Ernest Jones
Ernest Jones was one of a handful of instructors during the 1920s and '30s who earned a worldwide following. Until World War I, Jones was one of Great Britain's leading young players, with aspirations for a successful tournament career. But he lost one of his legs during the war. One week after returning home from the hospital, he shocked the golf world by posting a remarkable 70 at his home club.
His loss turned out to be a gain for golfers everywhere as Jones focused his keen mind on teaching. In 1924, he moved from England to New York, where he taught for more than 40 years. Many of his lessons were given at an indoor studio in Manhattan, where he was based for 20 years. He also was the professional at the Women's National Golf Club on Long Island.
Jones was one of the first instructors to use the available media to disseminate his theories. He was a contributor for many years to the magazine The American Golfer, and he wrote two instruction books.
Jones tutored Virginia Van Wie for many years, including during her stretch of three consecutive U.S. Women's Amateur Championships from 1932-34. He also worked with Glenna Collett Vare, Lawson Little, and other top players of the era.
Jones is best remembered for his central theme: "swing the clubhead."
Swinging into Golf, Nicholson & Watson, London, 1946
Swing the Clubhead and Cut Your Golf Score, Dodd, Mead and Co., New York, 1952
Jones's teachings revolved around his thesis that by swinging the clubhead rather than worrying about what all the body parts were supposed to do would provide the straightest and fastest path to a golfer reaching his or her potential.
"The most amazing thing about the game," said Jones, "is the fact that the poorest players are the ones who try to do the most. I am not speaking of the rank beginner, but rather of the golfer who has been struggling along for years trying remedies suggested by every person with whom he plays... I believe, rather, in simplifying the game by giving the pupil one definite and positive axiom to keep in mind every time he plays a golf shot. That is, 'swing the clubhead.'
"The more you practice trying to sense what you are doing with the clubhead itself, and the less you know about what your muscles are doing, the more pleasure you are going to get out of the game."
He was the first well-known teacher to sell the idea of a pure centrifugal force action. He based his teachings on the "feel" of a true swinging motion in the belief that the correct mechanics will follow. Jones said that the hands control the swing, with the large muscles of the body -- upper arms, shoulders, and legs -- performing as "admirable followers."
Jones (like Boomer) never told his students what they were doing wrong, preferring to repeat what they did right. "I have invariably found," he explained, "that the worst players are those who know almost everything that is wrong, and still want to know more of their faults."
Jones also believed that the most valuable instruction pictures are those that depict the finish of the swing. He said that a careful study of good finishes was bound to result in the sensing of the three fundamentals he held sacred: control, balance, and timing.
The following instruction was delivered in Jones's books and magazine articles written during the 1920s and '30s.
"Let us ask ourselves a few pertinent questions relative to the swinging of a golf club:
"First of all, what force causes the ball to swing away in its flight? We must inevitably come to the conclusion that it is the force applied by the clubhead itself -- and that force alone.
"What type of force, then, can the clubhead develop? Careful thought will lead us to the discovery that centrifugal force answers our question. Centrifugal force can be developed only by swinging a weight through an arc or circle.
"What parts of the body affect the speed of the clubhead? The hands -- and the hands alone. They are the only parts of the body which touch the club, and hence it is their action which determines the speed of the head as it comes into contact with the ball.
"All other motion of the body is related to the action of the clubhead only in the sense that it facilitates the work of the hands. Remember this the next time someone tells you to keep your left arm straight, to employ a lateral hip slide, to pivot fully. All these things may take place as responsive motions, but they are not primary actions.
"You will get a good deal further if you think only of swinging the clubhead with your hands."
"Hitting a golf ball is not very different from driving a nail into a plank insofar as both involve the control of a swinging implement. Watch a carpenter as he swings his hammer so that the head acquires its maximum speed at the moment of impact with the nail. You can be perfectly sure that his mind is not cluttered up with thoughts of wrist cocking, pausing at the top of the swing, correct hand action, and the hundred-and-one other individual motions that make up the complete action of driving a nail into a board.
"If it were, the chances are that he would seldom, if ever, hit it at all. He has one thought in mind: Hitting the nail by swinging the head of the hammer in the most efficient manner possible. The rest takes care of itself."
"Of course you have to hit, and hit as hard as ever you can. An expert axeman has to hit, but he has to learn to swing the axe to hit with. First you must know what the movement of the tool is. If you are trying to get the maximum force in the head of it, it must be a swinging motion, and, as I have explained, that can only be done through the medium of the hands and fingers.
"Next, get as much power into the motion, without overpowering the motion, of swinging, then get as much weight into that power, without overcoming the power you are trying to use.
"A blow must be in that order: motion, power behind the motion, and weight behind the power."
"Swinging in a golfing sense means moving the clubhead in a rhythmic manner under control through the sense of feeling in the hands. Learning to swing means learning to sense this control, so that you are able to know from the sense of feel whether the movement is a swing."
"Where do we get control to swing the club? Obviously once more it is possible to feel what we are doing with the clubhead only through the points of contact between ourselves and the club, that is the hands and fingers. If we have control, it means we can feel what we are doing with it. Mostly control is intuitive.
"For instance, in writing, we feel control of the point of the pen on paper, or in tossing a ball, we feel control to throw with the thumb and fingers. Thus we have to feel that we have the sense of moving the club in a pendulum motion, through or by means of the hands and fingers."
SWING THE CLUBHEAD As indicated earlier, Jones's central theme was "swing the clubhead." He explained that using the swing's centrifugal force built control, balance, and timing. He believed most players fought centrifugal force by pulling the club down instead of letting the clubhead swing. He taught swinging the clubhead with the hands, letting the body follow their lead.
Jones employed a pocketknife tied to a handkerchief to explain the feel of the proper action. Swing the hands and the knife follows. But try to apply what Jones called "leverage," fighting centrifugal force, and the knife remains still and is then "pulled" into motion.
Try Jones's experiment and swing a suspended object with your hands. This will give you the feeling of a pure swinging action, which you can repeat later when holding a club.
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Will farmers carry the burden of GMO contamination? | Greenpeace International
Will farmers carry the burden of GMO contamination?
Strong legislation needed to ensure the survival of GMO-free farming
Feature story - March 4, 2003
Genetically engineered (GE) crops, as any other living organism, grow and reproduce. That's why genetic contamination is a problem with the potential to multiply. A proposal in the EU aims to put the burden of controlling contamination onto farmers seeking to keep their fields GE-free.
Once GE crops are planted on a commercial scale, the measures to avoid contamination can substantially increase the final cost of conventional and organic products. The EU Joint Research Centre has calculated an increase of costs as high as 41 percent for oilseed rape seed production, and 9 percent for conventional maize production in Europe.
One would think that politicians would see it as their responsibility to prevent genetic contamination from happening. However, this doesn't seem to be the case in the European Union (EU). An unpublished "Communication on Co-existence," which Agriculture Commissioner Franz Fischler will soon present, takes the view that legislative action at European Community level should be avoided.
Instead, the Commission's Agriculture Services considers an approach where preventative action would be limited to coordinating and advisory functions. They also assume that Co-existence measures should be strictly limited to the economic aspects of genetic contamination and propose that seeds contaminated below certain threshold (0.3 - 0.7 percent depending on the crop) should not even need to be labelled as genetically modified.
Only comprehensive legislation can save the purity of seeds, ensure the survival of uncontaminated conventional and organic farming in Europe and ensure the right of consumers and farmers to say "no" to GE products. Clear liability regulations following the "polluter pays" principle must ensure that extra costs are borne by the producers and growers of GE crops responsible for the contamination.
Instead, the leaked Communication argues that the burden of Co-existence measures "should fall on the economic operators (farmers, seed suppliers, etc.) who intend to gain a benefit from the specific cultivation model they have chosen." According to this view, farmers who have an economic interest in ensuring that their products remain GE-free, would have to pay to avoid contamination instead of those responsible for the contamination.
We call on decision-makers in the EU to adopt clear and effective legislation to protect the agricultural assets of Europe and prevent genetic contamination. Failure to do so could have severe consequences: environmental damage to farmland and biodiversity, economic loss for conventional and organic farmers, and higher prices for
the overwhelming majority of consumers who want to buy and eat non-GE food.
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Chapter 9 : Hogwarts is Fighting Back
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Lupin returned home to find both Teddy and Tonks asleep. He was also a little surprised to see that Teddy’s hair was now bright yellow. He just had to laugh at the sight.
The wind continued to howl outside, as he got ready for bed. It seemed like he had only just gotten asleep when he was awake again. Teddy was crying. Lupin drew his wand, remembering the nightmare he’d had a few weeks ago. He looked around the room but there was no dark figure lurking in the corner.
“Remus,” said Tonks sleepily.
“Don’t worry, I’ll look after him,” said Lupin, he was of course more than happy to do this, any excuse to hold his son again.
“Do you reckon he’s hungry?” Lupin asked realising that he knew nothing about the feeding habits of newborn babies.
“I don’t think so,” said Tonks, who was still groggy, “I had just fed him before you came back.”
Tonks got up out of bed and went over to the crib.
“Perhaps the wind frightened him,” suggested Lupin.
Teddy seemed happy once more, lying there in his father’s arms. Tonks cast a spell on the windows which muffled the sound of the raging wind outside and sure enough within moments Teddy had gone back to sleep.
The next day Andromeda filled them in on the routine for nighttime feedings and how to approach looking after Teddy, which proved to be very helpful indeed.
Both Lupin and Tonks would sit there for hours watching Teddy sleep or watching him bat his tiny fists at the air above him.
Teddy had now accumulated a great many toys, his favourite of which was a stuffed animal that resembled a wolf. Lupin found this to be extremely odd where as Tonks thought it was simply cute that wolves seemed to be Teddy’s favourite animal.
Nothing made Lupin happier than to simply see his son’s face break into a smile when he saw him. That scared feeling he had about his son being ashamed of him went away completely. Lupin couldn’t love his little boy more. He was so proud of him.
Teddy had now taken to changing his hair colour daily but his favourite appeared to be turquoise. He had also gotten very excited when the camera was produced. He seemed intrigued by it and he would always reach up and try and to touch the lens.
Teddy’s birth seemed to have taken them all out of themselves. They no longer felt the chill from the dark world around them. They had each other and that was all they needed.
Lupin sent photos of Teddy to Molly and Arthur and to Bill and Fleur. Molly said that she might pop in for a visit but Lupin didn’t think that was a good idea. It was not safe for any of the Weasleys to be outside their stronghold. They should only come in a real emergency.
He awoke late one morning, as he had been awake half the night with Teddy. Something had made him restless and no matter what Lupin did he couldn’t get him to settle down. He also had no idea what had what had gotten him so upset. He simply grabbed hold of his father and cried. He had been fed and changed. Lupin had played with him and he had even tried singing to him, all with no effect.
He walked into the kitchen and the headline on the Daily Prophet made him drop his cup of coffee.
It has just been confirmed by a spokes goblin for Gringotts Wizard Bank that early this morning, Harry Potter along with two accomplices broke into the bank. Potter infiltrated one of the oldest and most top security vaults. It is also believed that he stole a very valuable artefact from within the vault. The Gringotts’s Goblins made an attempt to apprehend Potter but he and his accomplices escaped and are still at large. It is believed that only an extremely powerful wizard with a deep knowledge of the Dark Arts could have broken into the bank. The wizarding world is reminded that Potter is still wanted for questioning about the death of Albus Dumbledore. If anyone has any information about his whereabouts we strongly urge you to contact the Auror Office immediately.
Lupin put the paper down. Harry, Ron and Hermione had broken into Gringotts to get something from one of the vaults and from what the article had said they had gotten what they were looking for. Lupin had no idea what treasures were hidden in the top security vaults. He knew that they must be really valuable or really dangerous.
So Harry, Ron and Hermione had broken into the Ministry and now Gringotts. On both occasions they had taken huge risks so they must have known what they were looking for was there. This was all part of the mission Dumbledore had left them with, the mission that had to be completed or Voldemort couldn’t be killed. Were they looking for a powerful weapon? Something that could beat Avada Kadvera? Something that would beat death itself? But he knew of no such thing, outside fairytales that is.
“Wotcher Remus,” said Tonks as she walking into the kitchen with Teddy in her arms. Lupin quickly hid the paper under the table so she wouldn’t see.
“Hi Dora,” he said smiling. “And how’s my little boy doing?” he asked Teddy as he patted him on the head. Teddy just gurgled happily back at him.
Tonks looked exhausted, clearly she had been looking after Teddy so he could have a rest. He decided he would return the favour.
“Why don’t you go and lie down? I’ll take care of him.”
“I think a few hours sleep would do me some good. I’m so tired,” yawned Tonks.
So she handed Teddy to her husband and went upstairs nearly tripping as she did so. Andromeda seemed to have gone out. Maybe she had gone shopping. Lupin hoped she would return soon, it was not a good idea for her to be out alone.
Lupin looked down at Teddy and his hair was now bubble gum pink.
“You know,” said Lupin, “you are getting more and more like your mother everyday.”
Teddy just looked up at him. His blue eyes fixed on Lupin’s brown ones. He then smiled up at the familiar face of his father. Lupin put Teddy down for a nap and Andromeda came back in the evening, her arms full of shopping.
“How’s my grandson doing?” she asked pleasantly.
“Oh, he’s fine. Had a bit of a restless night but he’s asleep now,” replied Lupin.
Tonks came down later that evening with Teddy. She looked a lot better after she had gotten some sleep. Lupin was beginning to feel a little tired himself. After feeding Teddy Tonks began to play with him and Lupin watched happily. Then he took over when Tonks went to get something to eat.
He placed Teddy on a blanket in the sitting room, took out the toy wolf that he loved so much and began to play peek-a-boo. Soon the house was filled with Teddy’s playful laughs. He then took the wolf from his father’s hand and began to chew on its ear. Teddy was getting good at holding things now.
Suddenly there was a knock on the door. It was far too late for any visitors. Tonks came in and snatched up her son and held him tightly in her arms as she brought him into the kitchen. Lupin took out his wand and pointed it at the door.
“Who is it?”
“Remus! It’s me, George Weasley,” said the supposed George. He sounded terrified and oddly enough excited at the same time. Lupin however did not open the door.
“Prove it.”
“I’m George Weasley, founder of the Weasley Wizard Wheezes along with my twin brother Fred but I’m the better looking twin of course! You, Remus John Lupin, saved
me when the slimy git, Severus Snape cursed my ear off the night we went to rescue Harry from his Aunt and Uncle’s. Remember how I felt holey after the experience?”
Lupin opened the door, it was indeed the real George Weasley. He stepped foreword into the house and glanced behind himself before he shut the door.
Tonks, Teddy and Andromeda had come into the hall to see what had happened. It was strange to see George without Fred. They were always together and George seemed somewhat incomplete without his twin. He was pale and yet his eyes were buzzing with excitement.
“Harry needs us! Hogwarts is fighting back!”
Lupin apparated into the Hog’s Head where Aberforth’s scowling face greeted him.
“What’s happening?” asked Lupin.
“The Potter boy is up at the school. He is finishing off some mission my dear brother left him with.”
Lupin looked around the room. Instantly on top of the mantle piece a large portrait swung open revealing a long tunnel. Lupin didn’t know there were other secret passageways into Hogwarts. He thought the marauders had discovered them all but here was one they had missed, the one that connected the Hog’s Head to Hogwarts.
There were smooth stone steps leading up the passageway. It was definitely the most comfortable of the Hogwarts passageways to move through. Brass lamps hung from the walls and the earthy floor was worn and smooth as if it had been used for many years.
Lupin ran through the passage in silence, his own footsteps echoing in the stillness. Saying goodbye to Teddy and Tonks had been the hardest thing he ever had to do. He couldn’t explain it but he some how knew that he would never see them again. He was the last marauder and he had been left behind to help Harry fight in the final battle. He just wished he had more time, time to see his son grow up and see the man he would become.
The stone steps began to rise now and ahead of him Lupin saw a door. He pushed it open. He did not recognise what room he was in but it was packed with people. He saw Hogwarts students and members of the Order. There were even past pupils like Oliver Wood and Angelina Johnson.
The room was enormous. It looked like a tree house or a garden shed. Different coloured hammocks hung from the ceiling. There were no windows at all and only one door at the other end of the room. Lupin wasn’t even sure he was in Hogwarts until he saw the three tapestries hanging on the walls. There was the black and yellow
Hufflepuff badger and the bronze and blue Raven of Ravenclaw and finally the gold and scarlet Gryffindor lion and as Lupin saw it a rush of school pride came back to him.
There were other objects in the room too, there were hundred of books crammed into the over flowing bookcases, there were broomsticks and Sneakoscopes and not to mention a large wireless in the corner. Lupin would bet anything that they were using it to listen to Potterwatch.
Lupin found Kingsley at the foot of the steps leading up to the main door. He didn’t have any idea what was going on either only that Harry needed them all because they were fighting back against Voldemort and his Death Eaters.
Then suddenly the door burst open and Luna and Harry appeared, both breathless as if they had been chased. Lupin met Harry at the foot of the stairs and asked him what was going on. Harry explained how Voldemort was coming, intent on attacking the school; and how Snape had fled
Harry then stared around, hardly believing his eyes that they were all there. Fred had explained how they had sent messages around to the Order and the DA, and they had passed the word around.
Harry then told him all that Professor McGonagall and the other teachers were evacuating the young students, and drawing up a battle plan in the Great Hall. No one seemed to want to miss the action, so there was a great rush as everyone headed up the stairs and past Harry. All were ready to fight, to claim Hogwarts back and to end the tyrannous hold Severus Snape had on the school. Soon the only ones remaining were himself, Harry and the Weasleys.
Ginny was having an argument with her mother. She wanted to stay and fight for those she loved, but her mother would not let her, reminding her over and over that she was underage and therefore had to go home with the rest of the younger students.
Lupin felt sorry for Ginny. She wanted to fight for the ones she loved. She wanted to fight for Harry and fight for a better world. Tonks had been the same way. But Molly was right she was sixteen, still a child and brave though she was the battlefield was no place for a child.
Then the last thing any of them expected to happen happened, Percy appeared, desperate to know if he hadn't missed the fight to reclaim Hogswarts from the rule of the Death Eaters. He stopped, however, when he spotted the rest of his family and a silent awkwardness descended upon them all. It was the painful silence which seemed to last forever.
Just to break the icy tension that had gripped the room, Fleur turned to Lupin and asked very loudly how Teddy was.
“I – oh yes – he’s fine!” shouted Lupin trying to drown out the silence with his own voice. “Yes, Tonks is with him – at her mother’s!” *1
There was still silence and Percy stood rooted to the spot staring at his family. Nobody was moving. Lupin showed both Harry and Fleur a photograph he had in his brest pocket, just to show them what Teddy looked like, and also to give them something to look at, so they didn't have to look at the Weasleys. Both Harry and Fleur lept at the sight of the photograph, as if it was a life-line. They smiled as they stared down at little Teddy waving his tiny fat fists at the camera.
Lupin nearly dropped his photograph as the silence was finally broken. Percy's resolve finally broke, and he appologised to his family for the way he had been acting since he left school.
Lupin stared down at the photo of his son, trying to block out what was being said. This was awkward enough for the Weasleys without him standing there listening to it all. Harry looked at the photograph too. They watched Teddy smile up at the two of them waving his arms in the air. Lupin wished he could hold him just one more time.
Ginny, under cover of her brother's reappearance tried to sneak out of the room, her mother, however, spotted this, and made her come back.
“Why doesn’t Ginny stay here, then at least she’ll be on the scene and know what’s going on, but she won’t be in the middle of the fighting?” *2 Lupin said. He had thought that a compromise would work the best. He heart went out to Ginny, he understood why she wanted to fight. Then again he was now a parent himself and he completely agreed with the side Molly was taking. No parent wants to see their child get hurt.
Molly agreed to this and Ginny did so too but begrudgingly. Then he, Molly and Arthur left Harry to do what he needed to and headed straight for the Great Hall.
They joined McGonagall, the other teachers and the rest of the Order on the raised platform in the Great Hall. Everyone was panicking and scared. Students were running around in their dressing gowns with petrified looks on their faces. McGonagall seized command of the situation and began the evacuations.
A great cheer erupted from the students upon being told that Snape had done a bunk. McGonagall tried to explain the procedure for getting the younger students out when she was cut off by a cold clear voice that filled the room. The voice sent a chill right through Lupin. Students screamed and clutched each other. The voice seemed to be right beside them, like some horrible monster rearing to attack. Voldemort was speaking to them, taunting them all, he did not want to spill magical blood.
Silence had descended on the hall now. It was too quiet, too silent. All that could be heard was Voldemort’s voice. Fear gripped everyone now, they became consumed by it as only the words from that evil voice pounded inside their brains.
Lupin thought Voldemort's words were empty. Voldemort didn’t have respect for the teachers, he’d no respect for anyone. As for not spilling magical blood and not wanting to kill anyone, a huge lust for vengeance ran through Lupin now, Sirius had died, Dumbledore had died and Mad-Eye and Ted too. Voldemort didn’t care about spilling their blood. Voldemort didn’t care about their lives, Voldemort cared about no one, not another living soul, except himself.
Voldemort's speech continued, demanding that they hand over Harry and all would be well. Rage poured through Lupin at this point. He grasped his wand tightly in his hand. How dare Voldemort ask for such of thing? How could he even believe that they would hand Harry over to him? If anyone even attempted such a thing Lupin was ready, ready to fight them, he would take on all of them if he had to. He would not let anyone, no matter who they were, lay a hand on Harry.
But as he looked around Lupin realised that he was not the only one feeling this way. Hundreds of students from Gyffindor, Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw surrounded Harry, all with their wands pointed at the Slytherins. No one was going to lay so much as a finger on Harry, let alone take him to Voldemort.
McGonagall restored order in the Great Hall and Kinsley prepped them with the battle plan. Lupin would be leading a group of fighters out into the grounds along with Arthur and Kingsley.
Harry was still standing there in the Great Hall. He wasn’t doing anything. He seemed momentarily lost and perhaps a little frightened about what would happen to all the friends that had come here to fight for him.
Lupin looked down at Harry as he left the hall in search of whatever object Dumbledore had told him to find. Somehow, Lupin knew this would be the last time he would ever see him. He knew he shouldn’t be thinking thoughts like that but he couldn’t stop them coming into his mind. He just had this feeling that he was not going to make it out of here alive.
He watched Harry for a moment that seemed to last a lot longer than it should. He then instantly saw James in him with the jet-black messy hair and the round glasses. He saw Lily too, she was there in those bright green eyes just as she always had been. Then Lupin saw Harry himself, the brave boy that he had met at the age of thirteen, the boy that no matter what the world through at him he never gave up, he kept on fighting even when all hope seemed to be lost, even when it seemed to be the end.
“Remus!” shouted Arthur as a large group assembled to his left with Kingsley amongst them. “Come on! We have to go into the grounds and fight off the Death Eaters!”
Lupin then tore his eyes from Harry and then headed down to group of fighters. He let them out of the Great Hall, away from the floating candles and the enchanted ceiling. He then pushed open the great oak front doors and everyone stopped.
They saw hundreds of Death Eaters approach them and they had brought with them several large towering giants that cast long dark shadows around anyone that stood within twenty feet of them. Then creeping out of the forest were large shadows with many long hairy legs.
Lupin stared forth at the battle ahead of him as his heart pounded against his ribs. He placed his hand over his heart where the photo of Teddy lay in his pocket. He, just like James, would give up his life to protect his son. He would gladly die for Teddy and for Tonks and for Harry. He would gladly lay down his life for a world in which all of them would live a happier life. He now knew why he was the last marauder, he was the last one so he could fight in this final battle and fight for Harry, Teddy and Tonks and fight for the end of Voldemort and for the triumph of good and for the power of innocence.
He then raised his wand and the others followed him and with Kingsley and Arthur either side of him and with James and Sirius with him in spirit he sped off into the night and into the final battle.
Quotes taken from the UK versions of the books. Copyright JK Rowling.
*1 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Chapter 30 The sacking of Severus Snape pg 485
*2 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Chapter 30 The sacking of Severus Snape pg 486
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[xmonad] Proposal: Advanced Scratchpad-Features
Dominik Bruhn dominik at dbruhn.de
Thu Feb 28 09:41:50 EST 2008
I recently found the Scratchpad on the Mailinglist (thanks, Braden for this).
But, im missing two features:
1. Is it possible to hide the scratchpad (not close, only hide) with the same
hotkey? So if I press the Hotkey once the scratchpad apears and another hit it
disapears and I can recall it with the same hotkey.
2. Can the scratchpad made visible on all workspaces? So if I switch my
workspace it stays visilbe and I can recall (with 1.) the same scratchpad
The reason for this is: I want to start a musicplayer (mocp or something like
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Everything Everything
First, boy, I think you should know
If you try hard then you might get a part as a
Doe-eyed impressionist mime
Bare as the lives of the footballers' wives that
Surround you, their diamonds aloft
A system of pistons arachnid and blistered
A billboard, a murder of crows
While princes fly drones that can see through your bones, and the
Wind stops, the temperature drops
And harpies melt through you like horses to glue
I believe you, but not what you say
To close it around til you're scorched and undrowned, they
Devour you in tottering heels
And who wants the Falklands and who wants the Balkans
I love you, just like a bank
There's so much to talk about that we don't talk about
Trust in me
I feel
She said it fills me with dread
The people in Parliament don't know the half of it
Please, son, it's only a sport
The fate of a ball don't enthrall me at all
So relax, son, go through it again
Who have you seen what's with all your means
I fell down, down
And I saw a billionaire
With all of his innards nailed
To the walls, to the walls, to the west
Don't fear it now
But don't stop asking
Hey, man, you're probably right
It's not a galaxy made for a guy like me
Badness, the edge of the world
The edge of my memory, some kind of energy
Burned up and frittered away
Pound in the dirt as ?
But I'm awful, I kept my head down
I turned a blind eye and I played my cards right
I'm in debt, ma, I've waited too long
Bought all the records I've bought all the records
I'm lonely, I don't know myself
I thought there was something I waited for something
Oh girl don't, don't leave
Don't leave
Don't leave
Don't leave
(To the walls, to the walls, to the west)
Don't leave
Don't, don't!
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Ergonomic tools ease the strain of outdoor work
The New York TimesJuly 26, 2013
As we planted, a neighbor strolled by, grinning. "Growing some deer food?"
It was farmageddon. Or armagardden. Or hell.
In recent years, though, I heard enough about the virtues of ergonomic gardening tools that I thought it might be worth another shot. But first, I talked to a trio of gardening specialists: Barbara Pleasant, a gardening author and contributing editor to Mother Earth News; Pam Ruch, who managed the test gardens for Organic Gardening magazine; and Bruce Butterfield, research director for the National Gardening Association.
My question: Is the buzz surrounding ergonomic gardening tools just noise, or have there been legitimate innovations? Their answers could put some fresh veggies on my family's table this summer (if the deer don't get to my new garden first).
"When I started gardening 30 years ago," Pleasant said, "hand tools had wooden handles that rotted and splintered, and the only hoes we had were designed to chop cotton. Are today's lightweight tools with easy-to-grip handles better? Yes, they are."
The first such tool that bears mentioning is the only one that all three panelists went out of their way to rave about: the Cobrahead weeder and cultivator, manufactured in Cambridge, Wis. The business end of the tool looks like a longshoreman's hook but with a flare resembling a cobra's hood. It comes in two versions, for close work and for standing work.
Pleasant said she's "gotten kind of dependent on it."
Butterfield said it's the most efficient tool for taking out weeds, "and it's built like a Russian dump truck, so it won't break."
Ruch acknowledged that the conventional handle doesn't exactly scream "ergonomic" in the era of molded, rubber-coated instruments. "But it's the best all-around tool for the garden, because you don't use a twisting motion," she said. "You're kind of punching it into the soil, so you're using your arm muscles rather than your wrist, which is a real area of vulnerability."
Ruch favors bypass pruners, as opposed to anvil pruners, for their ease of use. "And everybody loves Felco pruners," she said. "You can buy spare parts for them, which is great. But Bahco pruners seem to stay sharper longer, and I've never lost a part on them. I may be switching my allegiance."
Bahco and Fiskars sell pruners with front handles that rotate toward you when you squeeze them, further reducing hand and wrist strain. (I tried Bahco's Professional PXR-M2 and the Fiskars PowerGear pruner.) Fiskars last year added a gel pad to the PowerGear pruner for additional comfort, and it still weighs less than the Bahco PXR-M2.
The Corona ComfortGel 3/4-inch bypass pruner, meant for smaller jobs than the Fiskars and Bahco models I tested, felt lighter than both, and although its ComfortGel handle didn't rotate, it was quite nice to hold.
Pleasant and Ruch recommended the Transplanter Pro by Radius. It's akin to a shovel and features a circular handle and a narrower blade. Radius also builds a line of hand tools for the garden, including a scooper, weeder, transplanter, cultivator and trowel, each with a curved handle.
Perhaps no tool epitomizes the old one-size-fits-all approach to gardening tools as much as the shovel. Ruch said she had heard good things about, but had not tested, the HERShovel designed for women.
The shovel weighs about 4 pounds and comes in three sizes. I'm 6-foot-2, and the large version worked fine for me; I liked the handle as much as the one on the Transplanter Pro, and both were considerably better than my old dinosaur shovel.
After hauling two huge tarps filled with forsythia branches and a wheelbarrow filled with about 75 pounds of roots, I assembled the stand-up garden (from Gardener's Supply) in about 30 minutes.
A Gardener's Supply representative said to avoid using soil in the stand-up garden because it tended to compress too much. The company instead recommends coir, which is made from the discarded husks of coconuts and lasts three or four harvests.
If you choose a stand-up garden for ergonomic reasons, bear in mind that coir comes in bricks that must be soaked and broken up before using. In my case, that meant soaking roughly 35 bricks, weighing 1.4 pounds each. That's before you add the weight of the water (about 7 pounds a brick). So for my stand-up garden, I moved about 280 pounds of material, in multiple batches, over a two-hour span.
For hauling, Butterfield suggested the Ames True Temper Total Control wheelbarrow, which has round handles and was introduced in 2010. I was doubtful until I noticed my hands using most of the handle surface while carting and dumping. Then I was sold.
I planted tomatoes, peppers, beets, carrots and lettuce (yes, I know it's late for that) and loved that I barely had to bend to plant, and I'll barely have to bend to harvest.
Come to think of it, neither will the deer.
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DUMPLING PARTY: Vegetable, pork and seafood dumplings along with cheater's scallion pancakes. (Mel Melcon, Los Angeles Times)
Total time: About 2 hours
Servings: 8 to 12 (makes 80 dumplings)
4 cups very finely chopped nappa cabbage (about 1 1/2 pounds)
Kosher salt
10 dried shiitake mushrooms
1 1/2 pounds coarsely ground pork
2 tablespoons dark sesame oil
8 green onions, green and white parts, finely chopped
2 tablespoons chopped garlic or regular chives
3 tablespoons minced ginger
3 tablespoons minced garlic
3 tablespoons tamari or soy sauce
2 tablespoons rice wine or sherry
Fresh black pepper
About 80 round dumpling wrappers
Peanut oil, if frying, or oil for greasing the steamer rack
1. Place the cabbage in a large shallow bowl and sprinkle with 2 teaspoons kosher salt. Toss to mix thoroughly. Let stand 30 minutes, then drain completely and squeeze completely dry. Wipe the bowl clean and return the cabbage to it.
2. While the cabbage is softening, soak the mushrooms in boiling water until soft, about 20 minutes. Lift out of the water and drain well. Remove any stems and cut the caps into a fine dice. Add to the cabbage.
3. Add the pork to the bowl, then the sesame oil, green onions, chives, ginger, garlic, tamari, rice wine and a few grinds of black pepper. Using your hands or a wooden spoon, stir the mixture in one direction until all the ingredients are evenly incorporated. (This will take effort to get an even mix; don't give up too soon.) If you are not filling the dumplings right away, place a sheet of plastic wrap directly on the surface of the filling and refrigerate until needed.
4. To stuff the dumplings, mound about 2 teaspoons of the filling in the center of each wrapper and brush the edges lightly with water. Fold the wrapper in half, into a half-moon shape, then pinch it together at the center of the top edge. Pleat the edges of the wrapper to enclose the filling. Repeat with the remaining dumplings.
5. To pan-fry the dumplings, heat a 10-inch skillet with a lid over medium heat. Add 2 tablespoons oil and swirl the pan. When the oil is hot, place 8 to 10 dumplings in the pan, leaving room between each, and cook until the bottoms just start to brown, about 2 minutes. Add one-third cup water and reduce the heat to medium-low. Cover the pan and cook until the dumplings are soft on top, crisp on the bottom and the filling is firm, 5 to 7 minutes. Repeat with the remaining dumplings.
6. To steam the dumplings, use a steamer of your choice and bring 1 to 2 inches of water to a simmer (make sure the water level does not reach the bottom of the steamer). Lightly oil the steamer rack and place the dumplings on the rack about 1 inch apart (the dumplings will need to be cooked in batches). Place the steamer over the water and cover. Steam the dumplings until the filling is firm and the wrapper is slightly translucent, 10 to 15 minutes. Remove the steamer from the water and gently remove the dumplings to a warm place until all of the dumplings are cooked. Serve warm with a dipping sauce.
Each of 12 servings: 331 calories; 18 grams protein; 37 grams carbohydrates; 2 grams fiber; 12 grams fat; 4 grams saturated fat; 43 mg. cholesterol; 689 mg. sodium. | dclm-gs1-014150000 |
By and bye, Adrian Peterson, others in NFL come tantalizingly close
"Guys really did not want to lose in his first game back and heading into the playoffs," Luck said. "To get a win I think means the world to him."
Pagano certainly wasn't downplaying the emotions of the moment.
"There was a lot of high-fiving, a lot of dancing, a lot of hugging going on and a lot of celebrating," the coach said after emerging from the locker room. "There's a lot to celebrate right now."
Not for everyone, that's for sure. According to multiple reports, Philadelphia fired Andy Reid on Sunday night, cutting ties with the league's longest-tenured coach after 14 seasons. The clock probably has struck midnight for Norv Turner in San Diego, Pat Shurmur in Cleveland, Romeo Crennel in Kansas City and Chan Gailey in Buffalo.
Shurmur, after a 24-10 loss to Pittsburgh, stuck to bottom-line coach-speak when asked about his future: "We really did not win enough games and we're not competing next week. I was never really worried about [next season] and I have no regrets."
Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers called it "tough" to contemplate Turner's not being the team's coach.
"You've played quarterback for a guy for 102 games," Rivers said. "That's a lot of time spent. A lot of fun, a lot of hard work, plenty of disagreements and aggravations. It's hard. Other than my dad, I don't know that there has been a coach that you've had so much respect for and trust for. Six years is a long time."
The Eagles suffered a 42-7 humiliation at the hands of the New York Giants, whose too-little-too-late effort failed to earn them a trip back to the playoffs. That marks the seventh consecutive year the defending Super Bowl champion will not win a first-round playoff game the following season.
"It happens that way," said Giants defensive lineman Justin Tuck, whose team finished 9-7. "I've been 10-6 and not made the playoffs. You've got to win the ones you're supposed to. That's why the division games mean so much. If we'd won the division games, we'd still be in the driver's seat."
Heading into Week 17, all of the AFC playoff participants had been decided. Those finales were all about seeding.
But the NFC picture had yet to come into full focus. So before Dallas and Washington squared off Sunday night for the NFC East crown, the NFC West had to be determined.
San Francisco claimed that division title with a 27-13 win over Arizona. Seattle won at home too, picking up a 20-13 victory over St. Louis.
"It was a lot harder this time around to get it," 49ers safety Donte Whitner said of securing the week off. "We were the target this year and got everybody's best shot. To come out and still win our division and have the opportunity to get a first-round bye is tremendous."
We're No. 1
Kansas City lost Sunday but also won. Sort of.
The Chiefs finished 2-14, assuring themselves of the top pick in April's draft. Unlike last year, when Luck and Robert Griffin III were selected first and second, there isn't a quarterback worthy of the top pick.
The early indications are that teams drafting in the top five will be looking to bail out of those spots to get better value slightly later in the draft.
Jacksonville also finished 2-14 but was edged by Kansas City based on the strength-of-schedule tiebreaker.
Mile High expectations
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Good news! All the algae flown to space on June 21 from Spaceport America survived. Abe Anderson with Sapphire Energy was New Mexico Space Grant's technical advisor on this flight. He completed the initial analysis on the algae cultures. After the flight, the health and growth rate of the cultures that went to space were compared to cultures that remained on the ground. Some of the experiments leaked during flight and the algae were "disadvantaged." But, by July 1, all flown cultures, including the "disadvantaged," were reproducing similarly to the controls on the ground. There were nine experimental cultures. There were two strains of algae tested in two different media, water and modified artificial seawater medium (MASM). The cultures in the MASM grew better than the cultures in water.
Students were asked to propose experiments using algae because NASA is interested in technologies that enable humans to live and work in space. Algae can remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere inside the space station. It can also produce crude oil which can be refined into bio-fuels for aviation, another research area of NASA's. Algae is also non-toxic, inexpensive and can be used by students without much risk to their health. Sapphire donated all the algae we used on this flight.
Bio-fuel research is ongoing at Sapphire Energy. Working with Sapphire helped students and teachers learn how industrial research is conducted. The teams also learned about NASA's research interests. Sapphire hires many NMSU students; Abe has a master's degree from NMSU. The university does research on algae through the Algal Bioenergy Program. It is a centralized effort to coordinate research and economic development opportunities related to fuels made from algae. The teams came up with lots of questions before they designed their experiments. Would algae survive the trip to space? What would be the difference in the survival and reproduction rate of algae in water versus MASM? Since two different strains of algae would be used, would one be heartier?
How would we know if the algae that flew grew differently over time, than algae Sapphire uses every day? The teams will determine if they got answers to their questions and submit their final reports by the end of next week.
Students from Camino Real and La Academia Dolores Huerta middle schools, and Hot Springs High School students designed their own experiments. There were a lot of problems the students had to think about in the design of each experiment. For example, once the rocket leaves the launch pad it spins at a high rate to stay on a straight upward path, like a bullet spins to keep it going straight. Team containers must be sturdy, could not leak and have to operate independently.
There were more complexities as the students found out how experiments are packed for flight. Once built, all experiments are bolted down to a nine inch Plexiglas plate. The plate is attached to the base of a 10-inch tall aluminum can which is screwed shut. All the algae experiments, were shipped to Colorado without water or MASM two months before flight. They would be bolted on to the plates then put into two aluminum nine inch cans. The cans then are spun not only to balance them but also test that experiments are securely fastened to the plate. For our algae experiments, NASA put in dummy weight to account for the water and MASM weight. The experiments are then certified and sealed. They are loaded into the rocket two days before flight.
Four or five experiments go into each aluminum can, inside the rocket. Adding water or MASM had to be done two days before flight to start algae growth. As the teams designed their own containers, each had a different process for adding the water and MASA. Liquids could only be added to the algae from tubes. There is an opening the size of a playing card on the side of the rocket to enable access to the experiments. The tubes had to be accessed through this a little opening in the rocket two days before flight.
A GPS beacon on the payload section of the rocket, and radar tracking, helped the recovery team locate the rocket on White Sands Missile Range. Within three hours from launch, the payload section was back at the spaceport where anxious researchers were waiting. We congratulate all the new space scientists, and thank all our volunteers and sponsors. Next launch is scheduled for Oct. 9.
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Sittin' by myself in the summertime, when the heat is burnin' down
Watchin' the golden crops in the field just growin' without a sound
I was a boy raised in the country and it's still a part of me
And you see no matter where I go it's a beautiful memory
Rise with sun at the break of day, lookin' out my window
It's the same as yesterday
Sittin' under an old oak tree, pickin' my guitar in the shade
That old tree spreadin' over my head is the closest friend I made
Just me and some lonely wooden music, floatin' through air
The grass is rustlin' and the birds are singin' and my heart don't have a care
Still another day finds me in the fields, sweat is soakin' up my ragged clothes
But I'd rather work than steal
Watchin' the sun settle down over open Texas land, looking at the cattle and the horses runnin' wild as they can
Life was different in the old days, you just get a day's work done
When you were finished workin' in the fields, there was chores at home to be done
I was always hearin' music, always wanna play me some
As a full-time friend or the way to ease the end of a woman that swayed me some
Hearin' those tunes always had a way of soothin' out my soul
When times got hard and work got slow it was music that kept me whole
Sun beatin' down through the trees, gets so hot bring a workin' man to his knees
Part of my heart, part of my soul, part of a melody
Hands are clappin' and people swayin' in simple harmony
When you finished workin' in the fields there was chores at home to be done
Late in the evenin' on the front porch when the sun is settin' in the west
Me and the boys pass around the bottle and sing what we like best
Sing about our wives, sing about our children, singin' out the Delta blues
We're simple folks and we like it that way, got nothin' left to lose
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1. Groundfisher
Jul 16, 2004
I quite like Jude Law but in this movie he showcases what might be the most unconvincing American accent ever committed to film. It was painful to listen to. Despite what others say, I thought Leigh was an unconvincing game developer. The end of the movie - the shootout scene - looks as though it was shot in my backyard using christmas tree lights, flares and an 80s disco smoke machine. The strength of this movie is the ideas it is built around. For me, it was good for provoking discussions about some of the topics raised, but not discussion about the movie itself. All in all, a dissatisfying movie. I'd recommend it to irrepressible computer game players, students of Technoculture, and fans of psychedelic drugs. Expand
2. ChadS.
Oct 2, 2004
What David Cronenberg does here is remarkable. "Existenz" forces you to look at William Gibson's "Neuromancer" from another perspective. When Allegra (Jennifer Jason-Leigh) and Ted (Jude Law) "jack" out, they're still in the game. They're still characters. In "Neuromancer", Case jacks out and he's supposedly out of the computer, and back in reality. What "Existenz" does to the reader of Gibson's seminal novel, is make them view everything as a simulation. There doesn't seem to be any representation of normal people in "Neuromancer" (as noted by my professor in class today), which only adds to my belief that the book should be re-read within the context of Cronenberg's film. Because if you were writing characters for a game, why would you bother with boring ones? "The Matrix" is solid sci-fi, but "Existenz" has ideas and visuals that will make you stop and say, "Whoa!" Expand
3. EggsisTense
Feb 6, 2006
One of David Cronenberg's best and most underrated films. It's playful, knowing, funny, sexy and gross-out. What more could you want? Jennifer Jason Leigh is at her sexiest and coolest here - a charming, fey, untrustworthy heroine; and Jude Law is perfectly cast as the nervous, passive bodyguard reluctantly caught up in her dangerous world. Great fun for all Cronenberg fans, and a genuine modern cult classic. Highly recommended. Expand
4. AdamA.
Sep 26, 2007
This movie is one of the best films I've seen. Totally original. Great cast and performances. Killer story and great direction. Totally creepy. So many great scenes.
5. PatC.
Jan 7, 2004
Video games are not political, they are far more important.
6. YoonMinC.
Sep 29, 2003
Cronenberg is far from my favorite director but his films such as Dead Ringers and Naked Lunch deserve respect. An almost clinical stylist using cinematic devices like gadgets which could as easily be torture weapons as medical instruments, Cronenberg pries into our interior and pulls out foreign objects and scutinizes them like specimens in glass jars. Unlike Lynch, Cronenberg never overwhelms us with the irrationality swirling beneath our facades; he studies and experiments with it in the manner of a rogue scientist. eXistenz is one of his best, not to mention one of his most accessible and satisfying. It probes how biology fuses with technology ever more closely with advancement in both. More radically, it shows how even politics becomes subsumed within this new order. Will the world be just a big ongoing videogame, a never ending dream? On a far smaller scale yet endlessly more fascinating than Matrix and Dark City. Expand
7. CharlieW.
Mar 24, 2006
This movie made me scream at the end for its pure weirdness... I don't know whether I like it or not... *twitch* *twitch*
8. BlancoA.
Jan 14, 2003
This is one tripped-out movie, but definitely held my attetion until the end. Check it out on cable....
9. ChrisP
Feb 12, 2005
This movie was amazing. The ending left you with a spine chilling line. "Guys... Are we still in the game?"
10. JoshC
Nov 20, 2006
Cronenberg's best film since Dead Ringers. This film ends a decade long slump of duds and near misses. This movie returns to his greatnes of the 70's and 80's and stops pandering to smug critics like J. Hoberman. This film is for the fans.
11. Jun 28, 2013
This movie was able to surpass the physical reality of digital computer games by representing them as living objects, then flip common viewpoints we have. "Its just a game" is no longer valid. Like Videodrome, Cronenberg knows there will always be a subversive element to media that extends beyond the screen. This time, our heroes know, but can't resist to plug in. One character believes that the creativity of game design grants them some free will in their own space and widens their identities into a new reality. Allegra Geller, with overconfidence of a game designer, goes on an adventure with the apprehensive Ted Pikul and they both lose perspective of their reality and their identity. Obvious comparisons to the Matrix or Dark City will take place, but this movie went beyond those in many ways. This story recognizes the desires people have to become someone new and how those desires could be exploited. Instead of becoming Neo with help of friends, Ted Pikul is forced into a much murkier game situation. While the stakes aren't as high as the existence of the human race, Ted and Geller's life and sanity are still on the line. This is not just a cheesy VR movie like many 80s 90s movies like Max Headroom, Remote Control, Jonny Mnemonic, Lawnmower Man and even the Matrix became. Now onto other elements of this movie...The musical score is just as good as Eastern Promises and later Cronenberg movies. You might not notice it against the absurdity of many of the scenes, but it is. The acting is quite good and its humor should appeal to a younger audience. The biological movie effects in this are excellent and you might lose your appetite. Perhaps this movie isn't as well liked as it could be because it doesn't involve as much violence and it doesn't have a tidy plot or demonic machine enemies. This movie had a different focus. There are spy elements that were added in but didn't turn the movie into a heightened thriller. The editing of this movie made it sort of like a bizarre reflective journey. You might not enjoy this movie if you think the digital world as fake and your identity as a biological life form is real. This is a great, entertaining movie, while is not perfect is one of my favorites with some re-watch value. Expand
12. Feb 21, 2014
I didn't like the movie much, despite the decent actors the movie is not well made, the visual characters are not that convincing, the killing scenes (and other visual effects) are lame and the whole story is not that good. Another thing I must mention that the movie is rather strange and sometimes disturbing. The only thing that I really liked - it's the way the game elements are shown in the movie - all that awkwardness in the story progression and NPC interaction. Expand
Generally favorable reviews - based on 29 Critics
Critic score distribution:
1. Positive: 21 out of 29
2. Negative: 2 out of 29
1. Reviewed by: Richard Corliss
Like the virtual game he plays on us, the film is weird, it's addictive, and Lord, it's alive!
2. 50
Because of the potential of the idea and Cronenberg's reputation as a film maker, it's a real disappointment to watch eXistenZ fall apart the way it does.
3. Its name, the film's title, is pronounced "eggs is tense" and meant to have a whiff of the philosophical, even if its intellectual ambition seems mostly limited to spelling affectations. | dclm-gs1-014210000 |
Gods And Monsters - I Am Kloot
Generally favorable reviews - based on 15 Critics
Critic score distribution:
1. Positive: 8 out of 15
2. Negative: 0 out of 15
1. This time, [Bramwell] transcends that reference [to Robyn Hitchcock], with angular arrangements and a darkly romantic wit that's all his own. [26 Aug 2005, p.61]
2. 83
Eventually it hits you just how godlike catchy these banalities are. [Aug 2005, p.103]
3. It’s all rather marvellous.
4. 80
Where Kloot's self-titled second had moments of glowing, maximalist production, here the sound is pared back. [May 2005, p.106]
5. Thinking-person's Britpop. [Oct 2005, p.166]
6. Admirers will likely crown Gods and Monsters the band's best yet, while the lilting chorus of the single, Over My Shoulder, might make even the unititiated cock an ear.
7. No BIG message here; I Am Kloot simply made a good, heartfelt rock record and, without sounding like they had to try too hard, pulled it off.
8. Though on the whole, Gods And Monsters is a lesser record than I Am Kloot, what it lacks in great songs, it gains in stylistic advancement.
9. After two albums of post-Britpop mediocrity, Manchester trio I Am Kloot kick things up a notch (or think they do), and suffer from bipolarity and an ambition that outstrips their ability.
10. 60
A charming composite of Damon Gough's homespun insight and Edith Piaf's anguish. [May 2005, p.106]
11. 'Gods And Monsters' isn't a bad album, merely average which is a real shame.
12. This diverse album's eerie ambience and astute songwriting more than compensate for its periodic uneventfulness. [Oct/Nov 2005, p.145]
13. Bramwell strings together fine, grabbing lyrics, but he's become too enamored of his literary bent, trying to pack together poetic devices that head off to nowhere.
14. While the bulk of Johnny Bramwell's songwriting attempts to match the gothic fairground swirl of their new sound, the best tracks... remain the most straightforward and acoustic. [May 2005, p.112]
15. 40
Consider this follow-up one step back. [#69, p.98]
User Score
Generally favorable reviews- based on 9 Ratings
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1. Positive: 2 out of 3
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1. martynp
May 15, 2006
2. matta
Jan 19, 2006
This album is criminally underrated. I really don't get all of the 40 scores from so many reviewers. This album is catchy and poppy but at the same time manages to be very clever and even complex at times. It's not one of the very best albums of 2005, but it's still one of the top 50. Full Review »
3. BenJ
Jun 1, 2005
Whilst this has very good production, song-for-song it doesn't match their earlier albums, and many songs lack strong melodies and John Bramwell's usually more literate lyrics. Quite disappointing overall. Full Review » | dclm-gs1-014220000 |
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Summary: Haruka Nogizaka is the school idol of Hakujo Academy. Because she is rich, intelligent, and attractive, she is called Nuit Etoile and has rejected people of both genders. Unbeknownst to everyone Haruka has a secret that would change how everyone sees her. Yuuto is an average guy who has given up on women. One day, he stumbles on Haruka's secret and finds out she is an otaku, a big fan of anime and manga. Now having promised not to tell anyone her secret, Yuuto finds himself growing closer to Haruka and learning about who she truly is. Additional Genres: Comedy Additional Titles: Secret of Nogizaka HarukaThe Secret of Nogizaka Haruka: PurityNogizaka Haruka no Himitsu: Purezza Themes: High School, Otaku Opening Theme:"Tomadoi Bitter Tune" by Milan Himemiya and Chocolate Rockers (Season 1)Chouhatsu Cherry Heart" by Milan Himemiya and Chocolate Rockers (Season 2) Closing Theme:"Hitosashiyubi Quiet!" by N's: Kana Ueda, Mai Goto, Rina Satou, Kaori Shimizu, Mamiko Noto (Season 1)"Himitsu Suishou! Uruto LOVE" by N's
Network: Tokyo MX TV , Tokyo MX
Genre(s): Comedy, Animation, Fantasy
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hey im waking up at 7 am in the morning on a cold winter day my ear is aching and i have no place to go to my love terra livesin newyork city i live theretoow ith rachels antana finn and i love it there it is a big city my parents livein ohio so doe smy brother i s till live with my parents half of my stuff is there and some of my stuff is in newyork city with me and well im going to end this song now yeah | dclm-gs1-014240000 |
Patriots vs Broncos live score: Fourth quarter real-time stream updates for NFL playoffs
Quarter 4
Denver ball at the 12 yard line.
2nd and 3: Montee Ball went outside and appeared to pick up the first down but Julius Thomas was flagged for holding. That's 10 yards and a repeat of the down.
2nd and 13: Thomas makes up for his penalty on the next play, gained 14 with a hustle play out of the flat.
1st and Goal: Knowshon Moreno came in and ran for a couple but Denver was flagged for holding and another 10 yards.
1st and Goal: Manning found a wide open Wes Welker all the way down to the three for a 17 yard gain.
2nd and Goal: A shovel pass to J. Thomas failed to gain more than a yard.
3rd and Goal: Manning had J. Thomas open and dropped the ball right down into his hands but Thomas dropped it in the end zone. That was just the second incomplete pass in the last 21 attempts for Manning.
4th and Goal: Matt Prater hit a field goal from 21 yards out.
Broncos - 23
Patriots - 3
The ensuing kickoff went out of the end zone for a touchback.
New England ball at their own 20 yard line.
1st and 10: Tom Brady opened with a quick inside pass to the dude with the long name for 18 yards. Denver defensive back Tony Carter was injured during the play.
1st and 10: Brady finds Austin Collie for a quick 20 yard gain.
1st and 10: Julian Edelman caught a quick inside pass and broke a big gainer for another first down. Broncos defensive linemen Sylvester Williams was injured during the play. Or trying to slow down the Patriots offense.
1st and 10: Brady was under pressure threw the ball away.
2nd and 10: Shane Vereen managed to catch a wobbly pass after Brady just got it away while he was being dragged down by a defender. Gain of seven.
3rd and 3: Brady missed Vereen on a throw inside.
4th and 3: The Patriots finally converted here when Brady found Vereen down to the seven yard line.
1st and Goal: Brady's throw was so high he must have been throwing it away. Actually, the receiver was open. Just a really bad pass.
2nd and Goal: Brady makes up for it to Julian Edelman on the next play, finding him for a seven yard score, the first of the day for New England. The extra point was good.
Broncos - 23
Patriots - 10
The ensuing kickoff is a pop up that goes to Trindon Holliday, who takes care of the ball and scoots out of bounds without gaining many yards.
Denver ball at their own 25 yard line.
1st and 10: Manning's pass to D. Thomas was dangerous.
2nd and 10: Manning found J. Thomas on the very next play for a monster gain over the top for 37 yards and Denver is already in New England territory.
1st and 10: Moreno up the gut gets just one yard.
2nd and 9: Moreno tried to go off the left side but ran into trouble quick, gaining only a yard. Not only that, he was injured on the play.
3rd and 8: Manning just overthrew D. Thomas on an out-and-up pattern.
4th and 8: Matt Prater drilled a field goal from 54 yards out.
Broncos - 26
Patriots - 10
The ensuing kickoff sailed out of the end zone for a touchback.
New England ball at their own 20 yard line.
1st and 10: Brady was under pressure and had to throw the ball away.
2nd and 10: Brady found Edelman for an eight yard gain across the middle.
3rd and 2: Edelman got free on the outside for another quick hitter for a first down.
1st and 10: Vereen got the ball on a draw play up the middle for nine yards.
2nd and 1: Brady found Edelman once again, this time up to the Denver 41 yard line. They're now under five minutes left in the game.
1st and 10: Tony Carter very nearly came up with an interception, diving at a ball. He wasn't able to make the play, though.
2nd and 10: Vereen found an opening on a draw play and scooted just past the marker for 11 yards.
1st and 10: Collie ran free across the middle of the field and picked up 18 total, most of that after the catch.
1st and 10: Brady found Edelman down to the five yard line.
2nd and 3: Brady kept it himself when he couldn't find a receiver and ran it into the end zone after breaking a tackle. They'll go for two here.
Two point attempt: A draw to Vereen failed to get in the end zone. That one hurts.
Broncos - 26
Patriots - 16
An onside kick attempt from the Patriots fails, recovered by Eric Decker.
Denver ball at the 50 yard line.
1st and 10: Ball picks up three on a rush to the left side.
2nd and 7: Manning found Jacob Tamme wide open in the flat before he turned up the field and gained a bunch of extra yards, 23 to be exact. That gives Manning 400 for the day. That's a big play with the game clock now under three minutes and New England using timeouts.
1st and 10: Ball up the middle for five yards. Timeout Patriots, and they're out for the rest of the game.
2nd and 5: Another run, this time Ball picking up three. That will take it down to the two minute warning.
3rd and 2: Ball fails to pick up the first down after crashing into the line. That would have ended the game.
4th and 1: Ball gets the handoff and takes it across the right side for the first down. That seals it.
1st and 10: Manning takes a knee. This one is over.
Broncos - 26
Patriots - 16
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Robokill 2: Leviathan Five is a sequel to Robokill: Titan Prime and the player controls a robot in a space station. The game has three episodes and twelve missions in total. The basic gameplay is similar to the first game. The robot needs to make its way through connected rooms and try to clear all of them as they are invaded by robots and creatures. The keyboard is used for moving and the mouse for aiming. There are crates on every room and they contain traps, money and recharge for shields. When an enemy is killed or a chest is discovered, money is provided to use in a shop to upgrade the character with four different types of guns or different battle items. Certain guns require a minimum experience level in order to use them. Looted items can be sold in the shop as well. Some rooms and shops have teleportation and some rooms require a key for passing. The robot can be customized in an inventory screen with different types of weapons and items, selected from a larger pool. When dead, the player can continue, but some rooms will be recovered by the enemy and some cash is lost. There are many types of enemies and the often apply more advanced strategies such as trying to ambush the robot.
Robokill 2: Leviathan Five Browser Start of the first mission in the first episode: shooting some crates
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This mod changes many aspects of the game to give it more movie-like feel, and make the gameplay more intense. Weapons were significantly changed, player classes changed and redefined. New player classes are present, and new music, skins, sounds and characteres are introduced. Most of the sounds come from the movies and AvP Gold, but there are also a few sounds from Soldier of Fortune. For an extensive info see the mod's homepage.
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