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Converging Networks -- Can A Tortoise Catch A Hare?
N. F. Maxemchuk
1. Introduction
Communications - The ability to accumulate, add to, and then share knowledge is what distinguishes man from other beasts -- not the opposing thumb. After all, if one clever man figures out how to use his opposing thumb to make a weapon and kill a woolly mammoth, then there is one less woolly mammoth. If, however, that same man figures out how to tell others the secret, or better still how to record it in cave paintings for future generations, then another species is extinct.
Our methods of communications have continuously become richer and more varied. However, we suddenly seem to be in a time when many methods of communicating are converging on a single, common technique - the Internet.
The sudden collapse of communications diversity may appear to be a new phenomenon, but it isn't. New communications techniques have frequently replaced a class of older techniques:
While convergence appears to reduce communications diversity, new technologies have created new, often unimagined, applications that have eventually spawned a wider variety of more effective communications networks.
During this presentation I will discuss:
2. The Internet
Unlike the earlier technologies that changed communications, the Internet is not a particular invention, but rather a framework for incorporating and using new inventions. The original objective of the Internet was to make it possible for U.S. government sponsored data networks to incorporate new technologies without discarding existing networks. Our data networks became so large, and new technologies evolved so rapidly, that it became too expensive for even the U. S. government to discard old networks as better technologies became available. In effect the Internet is a prescription for avoiding obsolescence by continuously including new technology into the network.
As long as the Internet can successfully execute its strategy it cannot be replaced by a superior technology. If there is a network with a superior technology, the Internet assimilates that technology, and the better network becomes the Internet.
For the last quarter of a century the IP protocol has been used to execute the Internet strategy. At this point I will describe the characteristics of the IP protocol that have made it well suited for the task, but toward the end of this talk I will describe a fatal flaw in the IP protocol and a specific technology that may replace IP.
Considering the changes that the ARPAnet/NSFnet/Internet has undergone, the IP protocol has performed well. In the 1970's the Arpanet had a few tens of nodes connected by links that operated at 50 Kbps. Today the Internet connects 10's of millions of computers with a wide range of link speeds up to 2.4 Gbps. The service that the network provides has evolved from sharing the processing and storage on a few dozen computers among a small community of engineers and scientists, to the variety of data that is exchanged on the world wide web by the general population. It can be argued that in its quarter century battle IP has survived a greater change in communications technology than has occurred in the previous millennium.
IP uses two strategies that have facilitated network changes:
2.1 The IP Hour Glass
The IP layer is a communications barrier. Very little information passes between the services that use the network and the transport medium. Making these two layers independent of one another has allowed each evolve without affecting the other. The result has been a more rapid evolution than would have been possible if changing one layer required changing the other.
In retrospect the separation seems obvious, but at the time that it was done it was revolutionary. Communications facilities were a precious commodity. It was standard procedure to optimize their use in any way possible. Isolating the services and transmission resulted in a more expensive network -- in the short run. In the long run, the ability to take advantage of new technologies without replacing the entire network has resulted in a less expensive solution.
Just because IP separation has worked well in the past does not mean that it will continue to work well in the future. The services that have evolved on the IP network all expected the same thing from the network -- best effort -- therefore, there wasn't much that the service needed to tell the transmission facilities. As we place different types of services on the network, it becomes more useful for each service to request quality guarantees or security levels, without upgrading the network to universally provide the highest levels. Once again we are worried about efficiency. It is questionable whether we are returning to a need to optimize the use of communications facilities, or if this need has just been masked by the similarity of the services that have used the network.
In addition to services becoming more varied and therefore having more to "tell" the transmission facilities, the transmission facilities have become more intelligent. The simple multiplexing schemes that were used in the 1970's were not able to do very much. By contrast ATM can provide a different service for every cell on a transmission link. There is much more reason to communicate with an intelligent transmission facility than a dumb facility.
IP separation was achieved by cutting off communications between the services and transmission facilities. It is time to consider new ways to make services and transmission evolve independently. This will require major changes in IP. Fortunately, the second characteristic that has made IP successful is its ability to change -- gradually.
2.2 Tunneling
IP changes experimentally. A new version of IP is introduced into a set of facilities that form islands in the Internet. The islands are connected together by tunnels. If the new IP is better than the old IP the islands expand until they encompass the entire Internet. If the new version of IP is not useful, the islands disappear.
The current version of IP is IP-v4, version 4. The version that is being actively tested is IP-v6, version 6. Obviously, not all versions of IP succeed.
An IP tunnel is created by encapsulating the IP packet that is used in one region of the network inside an IP packet that can be interpreted in the region of the network that the packet is about to traverse. The tunnel connects two islands that use the same IP protocol. A network device at the entry to the tunnel constructs a new IP packet with a header that can be interpreted by the region that the packet is entering and the original IP packet as the data. The exit of the tunnel is a network device that peels off the header to reveal the original packet and sends it on its way.
Islands and tunnels create a different way of looking at new network services. Network services evolve rather than coming into existence in their final state. Initially new services are only available across the parts of a connection that are on the islands. The resulting service is better than the network can provide without any islands, but not as good as the complete service.
The difference between the Internet strategy and a conventional network strategy is clear if we consider introducing a reservation protocol to provide quality of service for voice connections. In the circuit switched telephone network, capacity is reserved along the entire path to provide an end-to-end guarantee. In the Internet strategy we can make reservations when passing through the islands of routers that support the new protocol, but would have to pass between these islands encapsulated in best effort packets. We can't make end-to-end guarantees. However, the quality will improve as we are able to route more of the path over islands.
3. The Telephone Network
The current digital telephone network and the current IP packet network are both the product of the early 70's. The networks are different not only because of the services that they deliver, but because of the basic constraints on their design. The ARPA net was a pre-competitive technology that was funded by the U. S. government, while the digital telephone network had to deliver universal telephone service at a lower cost than the analog telephone network.
The low cost terminals on the 1970's ARPAnet were $100,000 minicomputers. The plain black telephones on the 1970's telephone network had to cost less than 9 bucks. A four order of magnitude difference!
At a time when J-K flip flops still cost about a buck a bit and nand gates cost about 25 cents apiece, the ARPA net experimented with processing intensive store-and-forward techniques that routed individual data units. At about the same time the telephone network could not justify an A/D converter in each telephone. The A/D converters had to be located in the central office, where they could be shared. 64 kbps coders were adopted, not because they were the best quality or lowest rate coders available, but because they could be implemented economically -- with relatively little processing.
The ARPA net could afford the luxury of drawing a horizontal line in the middle of its protocol stack to isolate services and transmission. The telephone network had to be vertically optimized to squeeze the last penny out of its investment. The entire digital telephone network in the United States is constructed around the magic number 64,000. The transmission rates in the multiplexing hierarchy are all multiples of 64 Kbps. Switching and services were constrained by the number of processing cycles that could be assigned to a connection in the (1/8000)th of a second between samples.
The result of vertical optimization is a least cost network. The result of doing vertical optimization well is a network that is almost impossible to change because all of the components make use of the characteristics of other components. For instance, the 64 kbps coders cannot be changed to 9 kbps without changing virtually every piece of the network.
Five changes have occurred in the last quarter of a century to now force the telephone network to move toward the Internet.
We have already mentioned the first change: The price of processing and memory has been reduced by many orders of magnitude. Processors that are more powerful than the $100,000 ARPA net interface are now used in home appliances. The memory in some of today's PC's would have cost more than the GNP of the United States in 1970. While the processing and memory in the 1970's ARPAnet was extravagant, the processing and memory in today's Internet is definitely a competitive technology.
The second change that has occurred is often overlooked by the technologists who worship Moore's Law: Communicating with computers has changed from batch processing jobs on punched cards to a rich interface that is fun to use. Computer output devices have changed from paper printers to color terminals, with more resolution than our TV sets, and high fidelity sound systems. Input devices have expanded from typewriter keyboards to a variety of click and search menus, joysticks, and voice recognition. The interactive multimedia displays of color, sound and moving pictures can convey more information, in more interesting formats than newspapers, books, TV or radio. If computers were faster and cheaper than in the 70's but still used punched cards, they wouldn't be in our homes.
The third significant change is the WEB. The WEB has provided a uniform interface to the Internet that is less frightening than most VCR's. Before the WEB, in order to retrieve information, we had to know
The WEB made the Internet accessible and drastically reduced the need for the computer jocks who guarded the addresses, passwords and storage systems for data.
The fourth change is a decrease in long distance telephone revenues. In 1984, a 3 minute business call from NY to San Francisco cost $1.75, by 1996 that same call cost $1, and today it can be made for as little as 15 cents. More dramatically, in 1927 a 3 minute call from New York to London cost more than $640, in 1995 dollars, that same call cost less than $3 in 1995, and today can be made for less than a half dollar. Decreasing cost can increase demand. A lot more New Yorkers are willing to call a friend in London for a dollar than for $600. However, once the cost is low enough that most people who want to make calls are making them, further reductions reduce revenues. Revenues for individual companies are also threatened because competition is cutting the pie into smaller pieces. In addition, there will soon be new technology threats, such as IP telephony, that will move telephone calls to other networks.
Fortunately, the same technologies that are decreasing the cost of long distance voice communications are creating a demand and expectation for new types of communications. The total amount that individuals pay for communications - voice, Internet, and cable TV - is increasing. Future services - such as those listed - are likely to result in a faster growth in the communications industry than has ever occurred. The only thing that telephone companies need to do to maintain and grow their revenues is to introduce new services more economically and more quickly than the start-ups.
The Internet is designed to separate services and facilities so that new services can be introduced quickly. Therefore, moving phone systems from a circuit switched network to an IP network provides one means for introducing new services more quickly. Is this solution is preferable to designing a new vertically integrated network?
We can definitely design a vertically integrated network that is optimized for our current technologies and a specific set of services that costs less than the more flexible Internet. However, the fifth change that has occurred in the last quarter of a century is that the rate of change has increased. Whereas the telephone network provided voice service on point-to-point circuits for more than a century, it is very unlikely that our new services will remain unchanged for anywhere near as long. Based upon our experience with the Internet, we can expect that the services we are providing will change significantly before it becomes economical to scrap our next communications network.
We have the option of designing the least cost network for today's services and another least cost network when new services have difficulty using the current network, or designing a more flexible network that can support more generations of services, although none optimally. It is likely that the more flexible network will cost less when integrated over the life of the network. This has been the experience with the Internet. However, competition in telecommunications today is a lot more cutthroat than it was in the government owned and operated network that deployed IP.
If a company designs a flexible network that will cost less than an optimal network when integrated over 15 years, but which costs significantly more for the first 5 years, it is unlikely that company will survive the first five years. In order to compete, flexible networks may have to adopt an evolutionary strategy that more closely approaches local optima. Near the end of this presentation I will discuss a strategy, active networking, that may achieve this goal.
4. Problems to Convergence
Whether we decide to change the telephone network into there are a number of technical problems that must be addressed.
4.1 Evolutionary Strategy
One of the most difficult problems is the evolutionary strategy from the current circuit switched network to a future packet network. Because of the size of the current telephone network, we cannot conceivably duplicate the coverage of the entire network at once. Because the value of a telephone increases as you can talk with more people, the new network cannot be separate from the existing network. Therefore, the new and old networks must co-exist and must interoperate.
We would like an evolutionary strategy from circuits to IP that is similar to the tunneling strategy that is used to gradually introduce new versions of IP. The strategy should allow us to introduce one or more new techniques in trial areas, islands in the telephone network, and, let the islands grow if the techniques are good.
The difference between the telephone network and an IP network is much greater than the difference between two similar versions of IP. These differences make it more difficult to implement a strategy for gradual evolution.
The telephone network continuously transmits bits on a dedicated channel, while the Internet transmits packets of bits only when needed, on a shared channel. Gateways must convert between the continuous signals on the current telephone network and packets that have a variable delay.
The telephone network sets up a path prior to transmitting data and stores information pertaining to the connection in each switch on the path while the Internet is connectionless and each packet contains all of the information that the routers on a path need to know. Connections must be made and the state maintained in the telephone switches on a path, even though the routers along parts of the same path are stateless.
Telephones have little or no processing power. Therefore, services must be implemented in the network. In the Internet services are implemented as applications in the end user's equipment. The devices that are connected to the future telephone network will be more intelligent and will support applications software. However, during the evolution the network must support telephones.
In the Internet it is the user's responsibility to maintain a service. When fewer users are interested in a service, the service becomes less useful and disappears. By contrast, there is no incentive for telephone users to request that services be removed from the network. Regulatory agencies discourage network providers from eliminating tariffed services that even small numbers of customers depend upon.
There are currently between 3000 and 3500 services supported on a number 5 ESS telephone switch. A few services, such as conventional point-to-point connections, 800 numbers, and teleconferencing, are used by a large number of customers. A few special services, such as the extra-reliable air traffic control systems or stock market tickers, are needed by very large customers. And, a few services, such as 911 numbers and political hot lines, are critical. These services must continue to be supported as the network evolves.
There are many other services that exist for historical reasons - for instance, they may have been the best way to perform a specific function with a particular technology - and would not be implemented in the same way today. As the telephone network evolves, it may be necessary to constrain the less used services in the current telephone network to islands of the old network. Alternatively, we may put hooks in the new network so that entrepreneurs can implement and sell services. Since telephone services have both network and application components, the "hooks" must include access to the processing in the network -- perhaps an active network.
Similar to services that exist for historical reasons, there are devices that are owned by a large number of customers, but will not be needed on the future network. Voice band modems should not be used to connect two computers in a digital packet network. It is more economical to place the data directly in packets. Specialized fax machines will not be needed when PC's with printers and scanners become more common. However, there will be customers who are unwilling to discard their working fax machines. There should be a significant, "short term" business for companies with servers that terminate new and old devices and convert between them.
4.2 Quality of Service
A technical problem, that is receiving considerable attention at this and other conferences on networking, involves the methods that are used to provide the quality of service expected by telephony on the Internet. The Internet is designed to support sporadic, best effort traffic. Packets experience a variable delay, dependent upon the other traffic on the network and may be discarded at congested routers. By contrast, bits that are transmitted along a path in the telephone network have a constant delay. The bit rate is guaranteed, and bits are not lost because of short term oversubscription -- except in TASI systems. When voice is packetized and sent through the Internet the quality is very poor in comparison with the telephone network.
A variety of techniques have been proposed to provide quality of service on the Internet. I am not planning on taking part in the debate on which technique is best. Instead, we should acknowledge that all of these techniques have merit.
We are concerned with a network that is evolving. Therefore, at different points in time different combinations of these techniques will be appropriate. For instance, in the current Internet, the only way to maintain voice quality over a long distance may be to aggregate voice packets in a local region then use the current circuit switched network to bypass the long haul part of the Internet. At some point in time we may no longer need to use the telephone network to bypass the Internet.
As we select QoS mechanisms we should make certain that they do not compromise our ability to evolve new mechanisms and that they provide improvement when implemented over partial paths.
5. Where is the Internet going
As our networks are trying to converge on the Internet, the Internet is not a stationary target. Entrepreneurs are expanding the types of service that the Internet provides and the Internet Engineering Task Force, the standards body for the Internet, is continuously upgrading the network protocols. Both of these groups are more likely to cause evolutionary than revolutionary changes in the network,
Disruptive changes are more likely to come from the researchers who are funded to investigate precompetitive technologies. In the United States, most academic research on networking is funded by The National Science Foundation, the NSF, and The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, DARPA. DARPA was responsible for conceiving the original ARPA net, and the NSF was responsible for evolving it into the commercial Internet.
At the time when the Internet was being commercialized, I was on the NSF's advisory board on networking. There was a strong commitment to create a closely aligned experimental network to act as the technology engine for the Internet.
Today there are several experimental networking initiatives. Details on these initiatives can be found on their WEB sites. A primary objective of these networks has been to determine uses for very high transmission rates. However, the commercial success of the Internet has made it very difficult for these experimental networks to stay ahead of the actual Internet. High rate lines are being made available in the Internet before they are available in the experimental networks. At present, the experimental networks are installing OC3 and OC12 links, while the commercial networks are installing OC48 and planning on OC192. The ARPAnet/NSFnet served a useful role in creating the Internet because it developed new technologies before commercial companies were willing to invest in them. The current experimental networks are not being adventurous enough to perform the same task.
The research programs that are being funded by the NSF and DARPA can be seen by visiting the directorate for computer and information sciences (CISE) at the NSF WEB site and the Information technology office at the DARPA WEB site. While the ARPAnet and NSFnet were US-centric, an increasing amount of Internet research is being done outside the US. I do not plan on surveying all of the research that may affect the direction of the Internet. Instead I will go into two topics that I feel are very likely to cause a major change in the Internet, multicast and active networks.
5.1 Multicast
Multicast can introduce entire new classes of service into the Internet. However, multicast has been around for about a dozen years. Most routers that are in the Internet can implement multicast, but many Internet Service Providers (ISP's) don't even bother to enable it. If multicast has been around for so long without having a major effect on the Internet, why should we expect it to have a major impact in the future?
The answer is applications. When I started working in the late 60's people were predicting that the volume of data communications would pass the volume of voice communications. A quarter of a century later, in the early 90's, people stopped believing the prediction. Enter the WEB -- the prediction came true.
Two things are happening on the Internet that may cause a multicast explosion. The first effects the use of multicast for real-time signals and the second for data.
Cable TV companies are starting to provide Internet access with high rate cable modems. At the same time, digital TV is becoming a reality and TV set manufacturers are putting processors in TV sets --- for picture-in-picture, split screens, and other functions. At present, mbone TV is a small, poor quality picture on a PC. It's interesting as a novelty, but it's unlikely to replace our home entertainment system. In the near future we will be able to combine the quality of cable television with the larger number of choices that multicast can make available.
On-line brokers are threatening the established stock markets. It is clear that we will soon have a 24-hour, international stock exchange, with many trading floors. Because of the large amount of data on the identical "ticker tapes" that are distributed to traders, we should use multicast rather than unicast. There are additional technical advantages to using multicast. Some of these advantages are obtained directly from the reliable multicast protocol that Jo Mei Chang and I introduced in 1984. The others by modifications of that protocol. NASA maintains a WEB site for this protocol, and as soon as the patents are filed, I'll describe the additional changes that are needed for this application.
The stock market can be implemented without new technology and is likely to be the first breakthrough for multicast. Internet customers will not allow their ISP's to turn off multicast if they need it to trade their stocks. Once multicast is widely enabled, new applications will be introduced and its use will explode.
5.2 Active Networks
Research on active networks is being funded by DARPA and the NSF. It is clear from the mission statement that active networks are intended to replace IP. It is my opinion that there are the two main reasons why active networks will succeed. The first is that our 25 year old IP philosophy is not able to deal with the current and future generations of services and transport. The second is that the rate of change of technology is now exceeding our ability to create standards, and active networks provide an alternative to standards.
Active networks have intelligent packets, called capsules. The capsules carry instructions as well as data, and the intermediate routers use the instructions to process the capsule. The strategy that an active network uses to allow services and transport to evolve is very different from the evolutionary strategy that IP has used. IP allows services and transport to change independently by not allowing them to communicate. Active networks allow transport and services to evolve independently by encouraging them to communicate in a common language that this generation and all future generations will understand.
When transport was dumb, not giving the services the ability to communicate with the transport layer was not a penalty. When all of the services were similar, not allowing them to describe their particular needs was not a penalty. Now that we are putting services with different requirements on the network, the services should describe the quality that they need. Now that processors are present in transport hardware, the transport can take instructions.
ATM is the first example of an intelligent transport that can not be properly used by IP. IP over ATM essentially turns ATM into an old fashioned bit pipe. It sends packets over the ATM network the same way they would have traversed an FDM or TDM circuit. In the mean while, ATM has the intelligence to treat every IP packet differently and provide the different qualities of service that are needed.
We could make a patch to solve the ATM problem by changing the IP standard to set aside fields in the packet to specify an ATM class of service that should be used. This fix would work for ATM, but a new fix would be needed for the next generation of transport, perhaps self-configuring WDM networks, that has different capabilities. It should be clear that all future transport will be more intelligent than our old fixed bandwidth circuits. After all if we are putting processors in $100 home appliances to improve their use, we'll definitely put processors in multi-million dollar transport systems. Not only is IP unable to make the best use of our latest transport system, it is unlikely to properly use any future transport system.
The general purpose language in an active capsule will tell the transport exactly what the capsule requires. Different transport systems might interpret the instructions differently to meet the requirement to the best of their abilities. Just like the current Internet, a network's ability to provide a new service or a new quality of service will improve as it adds components that can interpret the instructions properly. At any point of time, different network providers may be at different points in the technology transition curve and have different qualities of service for the same request. This provides a way of distinguishing between communications companies by the quality, rather than just the price, of a service.
Network devices communicate using protocols that are resident in the device. If the devices are not using the same protocol, they cannot communicate. Therefore, protocols are standardized so that devices from different vendors can interoperate.
Standardization is a time consuming, political process in which all of the parties that make or use devices that require the protocol come to consensus. Technology is advancing so rapidly that the standardization process is no longer a reasonable model for implementing protocols. For instance:
Most network devices use software to implement protocols. Currently the software resides in the device, however, these devices can be modified to accept the software from capsules. Every capsule can carry different instructions. As long as the instructions implement a correct protocol, the protocol does not have to be a standard.
As an extreme example of the use of active networks to reduce standards: We can use active networks to eliminate the standard for the structure of capsules. Instead of standardizing how the instructions, data, and end of capsule are specified, we can just agree that a capsule starts with instructions. The instructions specify the capsule, and successive capsules on the same link may have different instructions and look very different. For instance one capsule may specify the length of instruction and data areas, and the next capsule may specify that the data ends with a control sequence. The former procedure is adequate for transferring data from memory. The latter procedure may be useful for real-time samples that haven't been even been generated when we start sending the capsule.
A big difference between active networks and the way that protocols are currently implemented, is that software is injected into the network by a user, rather than being tested and installed by the network owner. A malicious user can inject software that damages the network. JAVA is an existence proof that the damage can be contained. Five years ago I would not have allowed anyone I did not know to download and run software on my computer. Today I hardly give it a second thought. Using an interpreter instead of a compiler keeps control away from the Java script. I depend upon the JAVA execution environment to limit the parts of my memory that the JAVA script can access and to guarantee that the script cannot keep control of my processor. The parts of my memory and processing that the Java script can access is the Java sandbox.
The Java execution environment and sandbox can protect the processors in the network the same way that it can protect our PC's, but in an active network we need more. The processor and memory aren't the only resources that the user is given access to. The user also has access to capacity and time -- when we consider quality of service guarantees, once we've given away time, we can't give it away again -- so time is as much a resource as memory. In order for active networks to succeed we need to extend the concepts of interpreters and sandboxes to the entire network. When we give a user the transmission facility to transmit the beginning of a packet, we must be able to wrestle the transmission facility back, even if the user never intends to end the packet.
The concept of a network sandbox is made more difficult, because we need different size sandboxes for different participants. If a buffer overflow procedure is in the code of an individual user, we cannot allow the user to discard the packets from other users, because obviously someone else's packets are less important than your own. However, if the same procedure is in the code supplied by a network provider, that provider can decide that data users can respond to loss better than voice users. There is a paper on my Web site that expands on the layers of sandboxes. The point I would like to make is that defining and implementing these sandboxes is a problem that must be solved before active networks are practical.
The language used in active networks is currently being investigated. The language may be as general as JAVA, or it may only select from a small set of communications options.
The most general active networks are pre-competitive in the same way that the ARPAnet was pre-competitive in the 1970's. We can build terabit routers and processors that can execute JAVA scripts, but we cannot build an economical, terabit router, with sufficient processing to execute a JAVA script for every packet.
The less ambitious active networks are definitely competitive. Communications protocols have options, and protocol headers specify the options. The less ambitious active networks are just protocols with option fields. Therefore, these active networks are as competitive as our current protocols -- but not much more useful.
The range of active network solutions - from competitive to pre-competitive can be used to hasten the move to active networks. If we create an evolutionary strategy from the simplest to the more complex active networks, then we can introduce a competitive active network now, and continuously upgrade it as more advanced techniques become economical. It took a quarter of a century for IP networks to become competitive. We don't need the quarter of a century before active networks start replacing the Internet.
There is a clear evolutionary strategy from IP to active networks. Active networks will appear as islands in the IP network, and active capsules will be encapsulated in IP packets to tunnel across the current infrastructure. There is also a clear evolutionary strategy between active networks. New active networks will appear as islands in old active networks, and one generation of capsule will be encapsulated in another.
The evolutionary strategy from an IP network, to an active network, to the next active network is the same as the evolutionary strategy from one generation of IP to the next. The development of active networks should follow the same experimental path that IP networks originally followed. Promising ideas should be implemented on islands. Successful ideas are those whose islands grow and unsuccessful ideas are those whose islands disappear.
The evolution from one generation of active networks to the next will be the evolution of the active networking language. We need more than a framework to deploy new languages. We also need an evolutionary strategy for a sequence of languages that range from option bits to general purpose. At the very least the sequence should guarantee that a device on a new island obtains the most useful set of services when passing through an older region, and a device in an older region does not lose capabilities when passing over a new island.
It is my opinion that the following research needs to be done before active networks are deployed.
6. Conclusion
When Soviet communism succumbed to western capitalism, and we all appeared to be on the same side, there were those who predicted the end of history. Without the competition generated by opposing ideologies mankind would exist in a stagnant Utopia, forever. It hasn't happened. It isn't in our nature to live peacefully, without change.
As all of our networks succumb to the Internet we are unlikely to enter a period of technological stagnation. While the competition between our major networks is ending, the seeds of the next technological revolution are being sown.
As communications engineers we have two jobs facing us. The first is to enable our networks to converge, so that we can purge our system of antiquated technologies. The second is to set up new technological competitions so that we can continue to spread the gap between us and our fellow beasts. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '1', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9550309777259828}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '44054', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:U4HYQTDJBVEHAM74QCBGCW24FIAPSULW', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:ae7b7901-cb37-4e5d-875a-ee01747d06a9>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2014, 3, 11, 22, 0, 52), 'WARC-IP-Address': '128.59.66.101', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': None, 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:BZ2PQFHDOQOXXU42YBY7Z2C36WYHY3K3', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:3072985b-678c-4f0e-ab7b-8371a3db4a8f>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://www.ee.columbia.edu/~nick/ref.1638.html', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:75205a73-085f-46f1-8469-5fe59ddb2ed2>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '6179', 'url': 'http://www.ee.columbia.edu/~nick/ref.1638.html', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-183-142-35.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2014-10\r\noperator: CommonCrawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web with URLs provided by Blekko for March 2014\r\npublisher: CommonCrawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.07070398330688477', 'original_id': '2cc77670b84a85c66998bb861f3def9271a1dfa0577892b098ea1b675cc9cba0'} |
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Blueberry, medicinal fruit and leaves
When you sit or bend down to the clearing in the summer or in the mountains until the arrival of snow, into various low bushes from knee after podbřiší and get purple stains on your clothes, skin and mouth, so apparently sitting in blueberries and CPET with blueberries, healthiest fruits that remnants of our nature. Zkrmovati you will at least into the first proper patrolling bites mosquito, horsefly, lover, owner, member or pain in the lower back with regard to long-term Lean.
Blueberry, medicinal fruit and leaves
At any kids swarming around the timely Thread purple dress, or even a nevyperete nejreklamním "normal powder". Of course I only blueberry ONU modest young plant acidic and poor soils our forests and not garden related cultivated species of plants sold as Canadian, or other large-Kamchatskaya, just like the fruit, but other plants. He would like to have a few in the garden vlohyni Canadian or honeysuckle Kamchatka - well admit, I can not sell blueberries honest ... i know by the fact that it is cut in black purple and eaten in the stool black.
Blueberry is not only a supplier to delicious delicious as well as extremely physically beneficial fruits, but also an important source of medicinal herb or leaf. Blue dye on the tongue and mouth, which warns us already from afar that someone ingested fruits blueberries, is extremely active on the mucous membranes of the mouth to the anus - from the inside! From the outside it probably never tried it, but even that is unlikely. Infusions of dried fruit can be performed elsewhere washes and especially where there is překrvování mucosa. However, I think it is a shame blueberries, that's exactly what he can do with sage agrimony usually better, cheaper and more efficiently.
Other active substances fetus and its decoction limit the growth of pathogenic microbes and specific fungi in the intestinal microflora causing diarrhea . Herald that there is a trait blueberries, which in the form of fresh fruit, juice, compote or jam has partly be related to the saddle ředivé effects - some high pectin fiber blocking in itself and thus excrement in water, which greatly softens faeces compact , slightly diluted surface and makes it easier to slip the final.
This preferential use especially recommend owners hemorrhoids , cancers of the rectum and bowel fistulas, Crohn's disease and other bottlenecks, such as bowel surgery or in all kinds of polyps and other undesirable výrůstcích commanding omezujícně or bleeding into the intestine. When we include the regeneration of the mucous membrane dyes and the overall positive effect of blueberries, fresh or dried, or just brew, so it is not a mistake, and therefore we use blueberries in other indications. For example, for the regeneration of the mucous membranes with mild anti-inflammatory effect in inflammation in the oral cavity , tonsillitis , paradentózách , coatings on the tongue, etc. When we burn heartburn and stomach acid is also burns the esophagus. But beware, this unobtrusive and important piece of the digestive tube is very difficult fixes, because it is basically inaccessible and its life-threatening unobtrusive and painless bleeding in the stomach and its preventive maintenance even thinking blueberry few. Inflammation of the stomach and pancreas can also moderate among others the fruit of blueberries just for its regenerative and anti-inflammatory properties of light, or of course find more effective anti-inflammatory herbs and bitter funkcestimulující. I recommend this to a mixture of Agrimony.
Dried blueberry has inhibiting properties faeces. In the form of decoctions, infusions, or preferably just chewed and eaten effectively reduces diarrhea immemorial, but, and this is important, and stool of dried blueberries harden.
Children with their significantly shorter casings suffer from diarrhea more frequently, because the normal food is harder for them to digest and decomposes to unreasonably far in the intestines , where it becomes easier feeding of pathogenic microbes, because distant mucosa are intended only for the absorption of excess water. Mucosa, the defending greyish aggressive microflora helpfully spewing irritating to toxic metabolites into the tissue in order to create inflammation, water contrary defensive purposes excludes - so natrávenina full nevstřebaných fermentation gases and water just does not fit into the belly, pushing, hurting and trying to get out sic classical way, but often at considerable expansion kolorických and sound effects, usually considerably accelerated accelerated peristalsis defending irritable bowel. This also applies to testing ADULT diets containing cholera mimicking and performers alike úplavicových pokakaných microbes, such as Salmonella or other, usually from food surpluses in time nevyhozených but thrift saved for a later time with the famous slogan: Whether it be pos ... me, do not throw it!
Although I think that the oak stick and a mixture zeměžlučová can help with the power of the highest, dried fruit like blueberries invited to fight as well. Blueberry his stolicibrzdným action, lining resurgent blue dye and bacteriostatic properties and is highly suitable as a bonus unpleasant stay fired up after small intestinal parasites.
Small children who bacillus found to cough . Mostly. Among other things, have little time for digestion spolykaným filled mucus from the lungs , which does the normal amount of digestive lining protects against its own digestive juices, but in greatly increased production Robátko ukašlaňátka dramatically restrict, to stop the digestion . Diligent mother lovingly placed in baby food in order to increase its forces to fight the disease, but it clogged the baby throws up and then fades away and wither. To completely neuchřadlo, it is best to offer him a tablespoon freshly squeezed blueberry juice or juice from canned and after a while it several times. Do not give more time! Otherwise stomach again backfires and you have tmavomodroflekaté neighborhood.
Eventually vzmátoží digestion and starts working and then slowly stir recommend blueberry compote with grape sugar glukopurem flavored with a pinch of powdered vitamin C (about 2-4%; antioxidant for the liver , a stimulant for the immune system - the excess is oxidized in an hour or just piss ... other acids as citric, malic, tartaric, etc. naleptávají swollen mucosa and acetic překrvuje even according to my observations and kidneys , so it may appear in the urine, blood!) and several zahušťujícími children's biscuits and small portions tablespoons him according to his taste feed.
This porridge is also effective in fevers as friendly energy provider for hicování to weaken the liver and blood transformative own proteins into a combustible sugar followed schváceností předsmrtným and expression. Moreover, this compound is suitable for anyone with a fever, which is needed to supply energy to the liver before fuel is glycogen sugar, which is a life threatening condition, not only for children but surprisingly especially in old people.
Anthocyanins in the fruit blueberries are reportedly similar effect on night blindness and weakening eyesight as war bedside pilots tried carrots and behave as vitamin P. The content of active substances found in blueberries is unusually long, and all have a positive effect on the human figure. Interesting is the high proportion of sugars, while depressants diabetes .
In diabetes it is better to cook tea herb or leaf. Drink mashes after every meal, and I recommend it for long-term, friendly and rather regular drinking blueberry mixture with other herbs similar effects, of which there are many that can be easily mixed. But the effect is greater for diabetes should be massaging the stiff swollen tendons and muscles imitating planning of a mounting stiff sausage spine uskřinujících resigning his swollen nerves from the spinal cord between the shoulder blades and lower - for example, on a special massage a small balloon (Zadbalon) or masseur in love (it does work for long).
Otherwise noticeable diuretic effect of bilberry leaf is a good prevention of kidney stones, especially inflammatory processes in the urological tract, although relatives cranberry and uva are still significantly more effective anti-inflammatory. On rheumatism and gout but blueberry leaf tea from a very good recommendation. Better not turn into blood cleansing blueberry mixture .
Blueberry fruit recommend dry preferably within forty than fifty-five degrees, otherwise it ceases to be deliciously juicy and becomes less effective. The black shriveled fruits are often lost and charred pieces of product marking untrusted sušitele. Then when you chew Krupa resented among or between the teeth and you can grit your teeth or prosthesis failure in over drying or over neseriózností sušitele.
Drying blueberries requires patience and discipline to neujídání křížalek delicious. Insufficient nasušení leads to mold during storage. Dry fruits are infected with parasites per year, mostly worms slepujícími individual fruit fibers and subsequently changing the white murk. Therefore, storage is best nasušených blueberries in the freezer because after many years of their life. Leaves and stems were dried and stored well. In closed containers well nasušená drug also lasts at least three years.
Blueberry is our blue-black and gold is heavy pity him for metallic shimmer ignore their own ignorance and the resulting stupidity. Blueberry is excellent for life, baby just for surviving!
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Doctors often want to expand their careers to the fullest. They realize that the need for qualified medical professionals exists in numerous industries like the over-the-road hauling industry. Doctors who examine OTR haulers and others who work in the transportation field play a significant role in keeping the drivers and the public safe. When you want to lend your own expertise to the transportation industry in this country, you may undergo courses like DOT medical examiner certification training and classes that are taught entirely online.
The courses will teach you how to examine drivers and what symptoms and conditions to look for to determine whether or not these people are okay to drive big rigs. You will learn what conditions commonly affect drivers and what challenges they face, such as an addiction to substances that help keep them awake while on the road. You may already know much of this information from your prior medical training. Nonetheless, the classes that you take on the Internet will remind you of these lessons and also give you a new angle on how these conditions can affect OTR drivers in particular.
You may wonder why you should take your training online instead of enrolling in coursework in your community. As a doctor practicing in a hospital or medical clinic, chances are your time is already booked during your typical workday. You may have little time left over at the end of each day to spend with your friends and family, let alone travel to a campus to take classes. When you study online, however, you can take the classes in your spare time. If you have a few hours’ reprieve time at work, you can study up on your coursework. Likewise, when you have a few days off from work, you can take your classes and listen to lectures. In your downtime, you can also take tests and submit homework as required by your instructor.
Once you finish, you can earn the certification that you will need to become an examiner for the department of transportation in your state or for the federal government. Transport companies rely on safe drivers. They also look to you to determine if drivers are safe to get behind the wheel of a rig. Your expertise will come in handy making sure the drivers stay safe and avoid putting the public at risk. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9639020562171936}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '28161', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:YFD75646JFRQ25RAZUPMIGGYGXZEJR2X', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:1d8e7bd6-2447-463a-b700-d7d1818a2640>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 4, 20, 17, 15, 42), 'WARC-IP-Address': '152.44.44.50', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'application/xhtml+xml', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:WCWGDNF46YIEA54YDGXXTNJDRY25UETU', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:e61885e5-f1d2-4b59-8b5f-0bed3c39c5c3>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.mwaves.org/2015/10', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:bfa50cb8-f396-47b3-a894-588205e5714c>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '408', 'url': 'https://www.mwaves.org/2015/10', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-18\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for April 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-97-181-44.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.15 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.1-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.022031307220458984', 'original_id': 'db0de26abe52971297b3199ed383db04c34ec97630b36e3f1dc6c73e75856211'} |
Q:
What is a script to find lines in a text starting with a particular string and prepend # to those lines?
I am looking for an AppleScript or shell script (or another script) that automates the prepending of # before each line that starts with a date formatted like this one: 2013-09-26 (or any other date)
I keep a log, but want to make headers using Markdown. Doing that manually for each of the notes I have is a bit of a hassle.
A:
Using sed:
sed -r 's/^[0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}/#&/' inputfile
Example:
$ cat in
foo
2012-01-20
bar
$ sed -r 's/^[0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}/#&/' in
foo
#2012-01-20
bar
EDIT: As pointed out by user495470, on MacOS you'd need to use -E instead of -r in order to enable extended regular expressions.
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The agent of defendant in error on January 25, 1895, wrote the following letter to the secretary of plaintiff in error at Houston, Texas:
"LAMPASAS, TEXAS, January 25, 1895.
"B.F. Weems, Secretary Park Company, Houston, Texas:
"DEAR SIR. — The Home Insurance Company of New York is *Page 616
withdrawing from Lampasas, Texas, and you have policy No. 292 for $2000 upon the Park Hotel, signed by me on August 16, 1894, running for one year. Now, I inclose you herewith my draft upon the company in your favor for $45.38, the return premium due you under the policy up to January 22, 1895, which you will please attach to the policy after filling in, signing the cancellation receipt on back of policy for the amount, and forward same to the company for collection direct. I have issued another policy in a different company for $2000, and will hold same till it is approved by the company, and will then send same to you.
"Yours very truly,
"W.R. YOUNG, Agent."
The draft accompanied the letter. There is evidence of the following facts: That Weems was in the insurance business, and received the above letter and draft a day or two after its date. He did not forward the draft for collection, and did not return it or the policy to Young, nor did he make any reply to the letter. He still holds the draft. By the terms of the policy the company had the right to cancel it by giving five days notice of such cancellation, the company retaining the pro rata premium. The policy was of the New York standard form. The fire occurred on February 10, 1895. In Weems' testimony he states that the letter went on to say that the writer had written another policy in lieu of this one, which he would hold until approved by the company and then send it to witness; that this left witness in doubt as to the amount of insurance the company held on the building and the amount necessary for him to procure, and that he, after receiving Young's letter, endeavored through agents at Houston, or possibly elsewhere, to place insurance on the property.
The above testimony we think would warrant the conclusion that Young regarded the policy as canceled. If he did not regard it as canceled, or if he was not satisfied with the form in which the unearned premium was sent him, being an insurance agent himself and presumably aware of what was a proper tender to effect a cancellation, why was it that the letter of Young left him in doubt as to the amount of insurance he held on the property? And why should he go in quest of other insurance after receiving the letter?
We will assume that sending a draft was not such a payment or tender of the unearned premium as the insured was entitled to have made to it; still it should be deemed sufficient when it appears that the insured treated it as having the effect of canceling the policy, which involves the fact that he was content with this mode of payment; and particularly should this be so when the person to whom the payment is tendered is in a position that makes him familiar with what is essential to effect a cancellation. This is supported by the views expressed in Hopkins v. Insurance Company, 43 Northwestern Reporter, 197.
We think that the District Judge may, under the testimony, have properly concluded that Weems was satisfied with such payment and *Page 617
received and treated it as sufficient to accomplish the purpose announced by the insured, and that he in fact treated the policy as at an end by reason of the letter and draft; therefore there was no error in rendering judgment for the defendant.
This conclusion makes it unnecessary for us to consider the other question discussed in the brief of plaintiff in error.
Affirmed.
Writ of error denied..
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A concise guide to AMP6
Published: 10 May, 2018
Since the start of 2016, commercial and residential buildings have consumed over 6.4 million litres of water worldwide. Nick Cowley, integration director and country manager of composite technology specialist MCL Group Industries, explores the benefits that Total Expenditure (Totex) approaches can create for water companies and their customers.
Since the launch of the sixth Asset Management Plan (AMP6), water authorities are adapting their philosophies to decrease wastewater effluents and increase water efficiencies.
A key part of this change is the adoption of Totex as a way of evaluating and planning expenditure, in place of Capital Expenditure (Capex) or Operating Expenditure (Opex). Totex accounts for both operating and capital expenditure, creating a more realistic view of the value of a utilities asset. To make Totex work, it's essential that the asset manager understands the cost and lifecycle of all of the assets contained in the plan and investigates alternatives to reduce expenditure and improve efficiency.
The year 1989 held the fall of the Berlin wall, the public launch of GPS and the debut of the Gameboy. Aside from these iconic moments, 1989 was also the year in which the UK Government created the first Asset Management Plan for regional water systems across the UK. The objective was to ensure the successful maintenance of all water infrastructures by the UK’s water authorities through the privatisation of the industry.
Over the past 28 years, the UK’s water systems have significantly improved from the lead, and sometimes even wooden, pipes installed during the industrial revolution of the 1800s. Britain’s ongoing urbanisation has supported the evolution of its aging water infrastructures thanks to extensive private investment from independent water authorities. Over this time, these companies have standardised on a Capex approach that facilitated the quick replacement of outdated water systems at low costs to make the most of on industry demand.
However, while a Capex approach can provide an instant fix at low costs, it can quickly become a lesson in futility. For the last 28 years, water authorities have accumulated staggering Opex and Totex costs, due to low quality solutions that require constant and costly maintenance that quickly outweighs their low purchase costs.
AMP6 is helping companies to revaluate the efficiencies of their water systems in an effort to decrease the escalating costs that they and their consumers are consequently facing because of increased Opex and Totex charges.
Water authorities are successfully evolving their approach from Capex to Totex by implementing new products built using the latest technologies and designs. Authorities can be confident that they will extend product life and improve water efficiencies, by implementing systems and products are manufactured to withstand degrading over time, such as rust and corrosion, authorities can immediately reduce their Opex costs. For example, chlorination kiosks made of composite materials are a popular innovation, increasingly used by water authorities that are embracing Totex approaches.
While increased product life is an important consideration for water authorities adopting Totex approaches, products that reduce wastage are also a successful way of eliminating escalating Opex costs. Although a small leak in one pipe may not be worrying, extrapolate this onto a national scale and the efficiency and expenditure of the UK’s water system instantly becomes a national problem. Ensuring all systems are free from leaks or faults keeps maintenance and replacement costs to a minimum.
Just as Gameboy’s and GPS technology have been replaced with more advanced versions over the last 28 years, so too has the UK’s water distribution and management systems. By working closely with suppliers that are investing heavily in the latest technologies and techniques, utilities companies can ensure the continued efficiency of the UK’s water systems. By changing their approaches from Capex to Totex, a utility company can reduce expenditure and costs for both themselves and their customers.
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Prolonged Field Care
Ok so you are not deployed to some remote region in Afghanistan or some other part of the world, and 99% of the time evac is not delayed. So why train on prolonged field care? And if we did train how would we do it.
As a 68W in the Army prolonged field care was a skill (art) I trained on regularly. Evac times varied during deployments, they were dependent on the mission, location, weather, enemy, assets etc. So being unprepared was never an option.
Move over to civilian life. As a tactical medic, 99% of the time evac is not delayed. Pew, pew, pew (yes i just said pew, pew, pew) you go in do your initial treatment bring in the Evac (ambulance) team then you load and go. Too easy right. So why add prolonged field care to our training? Why add the countless hours and supplies you will spend training on something that you hardly ever encounter?…
Well i’m glad you asked, anyone who tells you that it’s a waste of time and resources should really re-evaluate their role as a tactical medic. Our job as tactical medics is to save lives, primarily those of our operators, bystanders, and others involved.
First lets start with what is Prolonged Field Care…
The NATO definition of Prolonged Field Care (PFC) is:
Field medical care, applied beyond ‘doctrinal planning time-lines’ by an NSOCM (NATO Special Operations Combat Medic), in order to decrease patient mortality and morbidity. Utilizes limited resources, and is sustained until the patient arrives at the next appropriate level of care. (In short, spending a long time with your patient(s) with limited supplies).
So yes this is a rare occasion stateside, that being said we as tactical medics should always strive to better ourselves, be better prepared for those “rare” instances when we find ourselves with a patient(s) for a prolonged amount of time. Those situations many believe “won’t ever happen here”. You may find yourself placed in a hostage situation caring for a patient or multiple patients during a long and stressful negotiation process, or in some secluded area without communications. The list goes on.
Don’t be “that guy” the one that wasn’t ready for a situation because of the “it could never happen here” mentality, or the “how hard could it be” guy.
So how are we going to train on this? It’s not just a matter of throwing a few simulated patients on the ground and spending all day treating them. Before we get started on things you can do in training there are a few things that need to be done. (Note this is not a substitute for taking a recognized PFC class, SOMA has an excellent program that I believe is the GOLD standard for PFC. This should just serve as information and a small step forward in developing your PFC capabilities).
First we need to change our mindsets, change the way we approach patient care. Think about why we do what we do as far as treatments go, we need to really know what effect those treatments will have on the body, not just giving fluids without worrying about output, or applying tourniquets without understanding how they effect your body after 2 hours.
Mastering the basics is a must. Know your TCCC guidelines, know your treatments and the effects they have on the body. If you are carrying a piece of equipment know it inside and out, know it’s capabilities and limitations, can it be modified? Does it have multiple applications? What else can I use should this fail? And know how to trouble shoot mechanical or electrical equipment. If you carry meds you should know them inside and out, know how it will effect the pt down the road (if you carry them you should know already).
Planning in advance is imperative. Radio Failure protocols are not enough. Have a plan of action in place for patient care in the event of no communication capabilities. Every scenario is different and there is no way of planning for every scenario, go and do some rotations in ICU and CCU so you know what right looks like further on in patient care. Knowing what a patient on the road to recovery looks like. Don’t forget in extreme cases you may be with your patient for days.
Those are just 3 of the things you should start with. Now for training i’m a firm believer in “train as you fight” so if you are going to train in PFC then you better clear your schedule and get a couple training days approved (as in full 24 hour days). Start small maybe start with 2 hour patient care and work your way up to 48 hours.
Now I know not all agencies are created equal as far as budgets, supplies, and training aides. So for the purpose of this training we will go with low budget ie. no fancy mannequins that are computerized.
Training should be formative, meaning the training is a teaching/learning experience. Initial training should be the medic and a critical patient and later evolve to multiple patients and the entire team. Keep in mind PFC is a stressful situation for all involved. The patient feels as “why am I not in a hospital, i’m going to die here”, the medic has the stressors of keeping the patient alive with his/her skill set and limited equipment, and the tactical commander has the stress of the entire situation. So training should be stressful but not to stressful where the participants cant retain the information.
Make sure that a training objective is set and later hopefully met. Scenarios should be scripted well prior to the training. This includes vital signs and treatment goals. Your role players should know how to portray the pre-determined injuries and how to react to initial and later treatments during the different stages. Make sure that the medic only has the equipment they would normally bring with them on a mission. So no boxes of supplies set in the room (that’s cheating) this will help them understand the importance of rationing supplies. Once everything is set up run through scenarios over and over again. After each evolution conduct an After Action Review and learn from them.
This a very condensed version of training for PFC. There are entire books and manuals written on this subject. I just want to give you a sliver of insight on this because I know it’s importance and I also know how overlooked this matter is stateside. Go and run through some scenarios and let me know how they went. If you have any questions let me know.
“Complacency in training, has deadly real world consequences”. Jose Ortiz (Me)
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Arrissoules es un pueblo en el Distrito de Yverdon del Cantón de Vaud, Suiza.
El pueblo era un municipio independiente hasta que fue incorporado a Rovray el 1 de enero de 2005.
El Túnel de Arrissoules de la autopista A1 está localizado cerca del pueblo.
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Kitchen Tips
How to julienne vegetables like carrot, cucumber, and potato
The julienne technique adds a touch of sophistication and style to your dishes, as well as making raw veggies easier to crunch and enjoy!
Julienne is a technique used to cut vegetables or fruit finely into matchstick-sized pieces, and it can take your everyday dinner from drab to fab with little to no extra effort.
Step 1: Peel the carrot and cut into shorter, 5 to 6 cm lengths; for rounded items like the carrot, trim the rounded sides square to stop it from rolling.
Step 2: Cut each piece into thin slices, lengthways. Stack a three or four slices on top of each other and cut into fine strips.
With practice, julienning will become a lot easier, and you’ll soon be slicing your fruits and vegies like a pro, making dishes like these crab and rice paper rolls and these carrot and kimchi lettuce wraps a piece of cake! | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.8976168632507324}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '1049262', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:Q6YU73KAUY525ZG2GRCU76Y3XO33GYNV', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:13e3cfb8-8fd8-4e59-9d8c-8335943b4a50>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 9, 23, 2, 19, 1), 'WARC-IP-Address': '54.230.195.31', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:P27QYONQYE3SLLVBCJGLVAVRV7OC2NZE', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:680b14d9-404a-48c9-bbc9-18edbb49a225>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.womensweeklyfood.com.au/how-to-julienne-1239', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:ca1707ed-1548-4455-a53b-e5f630af89df>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '161', 'url': 'https://www.womensweeklyfood.com.au/how-to-julienne-1239', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-39\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for September 2018\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-47-244-60.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.15 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 0.11-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.04809272289276123', 'original_id': '09a7e7fedc8fed0d01c5f032e73fb632fcc4ea27c77c61686fd648064efafb09'} |
Windows 7 cloud
Windows 7 cloud commericial
Thanks to Microsoft's Windows 7 commercials, the term "cloud" has moved into the mainstream.
Most people understand that "cloud" refers to applications that stream from the Internet. But there's a lot more to it than that.
The word "cloud computing" covers a bunch of technologies, which is why Forrester Research can say that the cloud was a $40.7 billion market in 2011 and will grow to a whopping $241 billion in 2020.
A quarter of a trillion dollar market? Wowzers.
Microsoft says the cloud will create 14 million jobs by 2015, too.
But, truth be told, most folks still don't completely understand what the "cloud" is. So let's fix that ...
What does the term "cloud" mean?
The "cloud" is an umbrella term used for a whole bunch of things, most, but not all, having to do with getting software or computing resources delivered over the Internet as a service. These services are usually paid for on some kind of usage or subscription basis -- a certain dollar amount per resource (like data) consumed, or per month. Stop paying, and service is cut off. This is different from buying a software product and getting to use it forever.
Where did the term come from?
Back in the day, network diagrams used the cloud icon to indicated the public telephone network and later the Internet. At the time, it really meant "out there, out in the messy world, on someone else's systems, out of my control."
So the cloud is really just another term for "Internet" right?
No, not really. It is possible to use the Internet without using cloud services and it is possible to be on a cloud without being on the Internet. For instance, you could use the Internet to download some software from an application developer, send an e-mail, and connect remotely to your files stored on your office service, all without using "cloud" services.
What are the different technologies that are considered cloud?
Ah. Here we get to the techie, wonkie stuff. Essentially there are five buckets of things called cloud.
• Software as a service (SaaS): This is an application delivered over the Internet as a subscription. It is not installed on a company's servers or on a person's PC. is the granddaddy of this category, but other examples include things like Google Apps, Microsoft's Office 365, or the human resources suite Workday. When the term "cloud" is used for consumers, it typically means SaaS such as Dropbox, iCloud, Evernote, and so on.
• Platform as a Service (PaaS): This is the next layer up, where you want to build your own cloud application but you want to rent everything you need including the runtime platform like Java, Ruby or .Net. Examples of PaaS include Google App Engine, Microsoft Azure, and's Heroku.
• Infrastructure as a Service: This is the most basic cloud of them all, where you rent the hardware (server with operating system, storage, and networking) and you upload your own applications. The difference between IaaS and old-school hosting is that you are sharing the hardware with other renters (in geek terms: it's a multitenant environment). You only pay for the computer resources you use. Amazon AWS is the biggest here, but Rackspace is another and Linode is popular for Linux users.
• Private clouds: Here's where things get tricky. Private clouds don't necessarily use the Internet. This means an enterprise has built its own version of a public cloud to use for itself. When enterprises remodel their IT systems to be like a multitenant environment, they can become more efficient.
What's the big deal about cloud computing?
Because companies share the infrastructure, cloud computing makes it super cheap for anyone to access enormous computational resources. Rather than spending thousands to own your own computer and networks, you can rent all the power you want for however long you want it.
Does everyone love the cloud?
Hardly. Enterprise IT folks are still a little suspicious of the cloud -- and the lack of control it represents. But they are getting over it. They are being won over by the number of cloud products, their low cost, improved security and management controls.
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Wolves Of The Sahara And Their Edo Collaborators!
I want to share to my readers, the experience of a young girl of Edo origin who attempted to cross the Sahara Desert to Europe through Libya in search of greener pasture, as told to NAPTIP officials on her return to Nigeria. The returnee narrates her experience;
“I traveled July 4th last year. My sponsor told me that within one week I would be in Italy. But when I got to Libya it was another story.
These sponsors always convince you and make it look like it is easy, but I have learnt now. I feel the government should arrest them and execute them.
(Weeping). “These sponsors are here in Edo State, and they have their links in Libya too. It is an organized trade, and I have seen it all at this my little age of 20.
When I got to a place they call Ghetto, I was there with one other girl. They sold us to one man so that we can be doing prostitution.
The next day another woman came to the Ghetto and bought me as her slave. She bought me for N1,700, and she asked me to pay her N450, 000, that includes my feeding and the water I will be using to bath.
“I called my dad and explained to him that she said my people should send me the money or I will be prostituting to get the money.
“Then my father sent me N50,000 and pleaded he would sell his land to get me the remaining balance. The husband of my madam is in Nigeria; my father wanted to sell the land to him so that they can help me. But the man said he does not like the location where the land is, so he will not buy. I had no choice than to do what my madam said I should do, and that is prostitution. I was now sleeping with different men. I worked with her for over two months. I was not allowed to go out, and always indoors sleeping with customers.
“I told my dad that I was tired of the situation so he told me he has a friend in Libya that he will contact him to help me. He contacted the man, and the man informed him that he was staying in a different town. The man then told me to ask my madam how he could come to pick me and that he was ready to pay her off. I asked my madam, and she said the man should bring N300,000. But I reminded her that my dad had already sent me N50,000 meaning that it was a balance of N250,000. But the man (my father’s friend) said he had only N200,000 cash to give to the woman.
We pleaded with the woman, and she accepted. The man brought N220,000 including taxi money for me to come over to his place. That was how I left that woman.
“Then when I got to my father’s friend’s house, it was the same job I was doing with the woman, that he said I should be doing. That is prostitution. And my father did not know that his friend had bought me from the woman to do the same kind of sex job. The man said I would pay him N440,000. I had no choice than to work hard and pay.
By December last year I was done with the payment, then started hustling for myself so I could get money to cross the sea for Italy.
So, I made about N400,000 and gave the man N300,000 to keep for me.
“Knowing that I now had some money, I decided to go buy some food stuff that I will use to cross the sea. I met the man to give me back my money, and he said he would not give me. I told him that that was wicked because he was sleeping with me, and then I still paid him for keeping me in his house yet he was not satisfied.
“He started beating me until I fell sick. I called my mum that I want to leave that house. Incidentally, my period was delayed that month, and I told the man that it seemed I was pregnant. He said I should go and do a test but the very day I wanted to go for a test, my period started. Then he started beating me that I had gone to remove the pregnancy but I told him it was not true. He said he would not leave me that I have gone to destroy his baby and threatened to call the bad boys of Libya for me.
I was dying in that house and didn’t know what to do.
“We were eight girls in that house with the man, and we all worked for him. He sleeps with all of us, and we still pay him. So, one of the senior girls in the house advised me on what to do. She told me that any time the man is sleeping with me again and that while he is on top of me, I should ask him when he would free me. She told me that whatever the man says at that moment is what he will do. So when he came to sleep with me, and I asked him when he would free me? He eplied that I should not worry that he will free me the next Wednesday.
“That day he promised me was July 11. So on that day, he called me, gave me a battery to charge my phone and a Nokia phone. That night he told me a taxi would come and pick me up. He said my transport fare is N60,000, that is from there to Tripoli from where we were to leave by sea to Italy. So this man claimed that he has paid about N210, 000 for my transportation including crossing me across the sea to Italy. But I told him that my money is still with him. Then, I got to the camp.
From the camp to Italy is about one hour thirty minutes.
“We were there suffering, no food and no money. I called the man, and he said I should come back to the house.. I said I could not go back to him. He was calling me to come back, but I said rather than go back to him, let me die. But the camp was very hot. Several times we woke up to the sound of gunshots and people will be running. In Libya, they shoot anyhow and kill people like chicken.
“And I want to advice our youths not to try it; it is better you work here in Nigeria even though you are suffering here, endure it and pray to God for better days. I was not patient in life that was why. Nobody should go to Libya; the place is hell on earth. I saw people die like chicken every day and I wonder if I can get out of the trauma.
“Our men are suffering there. They don´t allow them to come back because they use them for slavery, they work for people without pay.
Our government should please go and bring them back.”
This is in addition to the heart rending, gut wrenching CNN report last week that showed our youth being bought and sold for as little as $400 dollars!
NAPTIP, National Orientation Agency, Edo State government, please heed. We have to mount a nationwide sensitisation effort of the dangers involved but we must first round up the sponsors, their agents and their backers! It is our duty to protect the weak, the vulnerable and the dispossessed!
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Population Analysis of Male Urethral Stricture Management and Urethroplasty Success in the United States.
To examine population-based practice patterns and outcomes related to urethroplasty for urethral stricture management. We conducted a retrospective study of adult males with urethral stricture disease treated from January 2001 to June 2015 using the Clinformatics Data Mart Database. Treatment was defined as urethral dilation, direct visualized internal urethrotomy, and urethroplasty. We then examined anterior or posterior urethroplasty outcomes defining failure as any subsequent procedure specific to urethral stricture disease occurring >30 days after urethroplasty. We used multivariable and time-to-event analysis to examine factors associated with failure. We identified 75,666 patients treated for urethral stricture disease, with 420 and 367 undergoing anterior and posterior urethroplasty, respectively. Urethroplasty utilization doubled from 2005 to 2015. One- and 5-year failure rates for anterior and posterior urethroplasty were 25% and 18%, and 40% and 25%, respectively, with median times to failure of 5.1 and 4.1 months. Failures were salvaged primarily with direct visualized internal urethrotomy, with salvage urethroplasty in 19% and 12% of anterior and posterior repairs, respectively. Despite increasing population-based urethroplasty utilization over the past decade in our insured cohort, we found higher rates of salvage treatments than reported by high-volume and expert surgeon reports. Further efforts appear warranted to balance workforce expertise and quality of urethroplasty care to meet increasing urethral stricture population needs. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '4ffe2f2925c7ce1b8f728832e900b31e32825b2c2cd00eef7bea9b6c234488d7'} |
How to get super shiny hair for your wedding day
A good shine makes hair look younger, healthier and helps enhance that bridal glow on your wedding day. We’ve tracked down some industry experts to give you their top tips for achieving super glossy hair.
Beauty comes from within
Like good skin or healthy teeth, shiny hair starts from eating well. “A good diet is the key for super shiny healthy hair,” says hair trichlogist, Iain Sallis. “You need lots of the right types of protein, and iron is also essential for good hair growth.” So, try chowing down on oily fish (such as salmon and mackerel), nuts and, of course, the beloved avocado.
Brush it through
Think brushing equals breakage? Think again. Hair dresser Karine Jackson says a good brush is the best way to keep hair healthy. “I’d recommend switching to a brush with good quality bristles like Mason and Pearson,” she says. “Start by removing any tangles; gently hold the hair and start at the ends, don’t tug all the way through as this causes damage. Once the tangles are gone, this is the stage to brush the hair from root to tip, as this will distribute the hair’s natural oils giving hair a healthy shine.”
Image: Julie Vino
Condition
Invest in a good conditioner and use it every time you shampoo. Before drying or straightening always make sure you protect your hair. “After washing your hair, apply a heat protection product before blow drying,” advises Karine. “This will prevent any breakages and heat damage to the hair, which will damage shine.”
Mask it up
Never seem to have time for a hair mask? You need to make time. A good hair mask can work wonders when it comes to restoring shine and thickness. “When you come into the salon for your colour or a trim, treat yourself to an intensive treatment to keep your hair strong and healthy,” advises Karine. “Invest in a mask to use at home once a week for soft shiny hair.”
Cold showers
It might sound like an old wives’ tale, but it really does work. After washing your hair blast it with cold water (just 30 seconds should do the trick). This will seal the hair cuticle and give your locks more gloss.
Before the big day
“The night before your wedding, sleep with an intensive pre-shampoo conditioner in your hair to hydrate it and close the cuticle,” says trichologist at Philip Kingsley, Anabel Kingsley. “Apply a lightweight shine-enhancing anti-frizz blow-dry spray and serum to towel dried hair before styling or ask your hair stylist to do something similar.”
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Royal Mail Barcode (RMS4CC)
The Royal Mail 4-state Customer Code(RM4SCC) is a height-modulated barcode symbology for use in automated mail sort process. There are 38 valid characters in the entire character set:
• Numeric characters 0-9;
• Upper case letters A-Z;
• Open and close brackets ( and ) or [ and ] (only used as start/stop bars)
Figure 1. Royal Mail Character Set
Royal Mail Character Set
Each RM4SCC character consists of four bars, of which two are ascenders and two descenders. The track element is present in all bars.
Structure of a RM4SCC symbol
A complete RM4SCC is made up by a set of distinct bars and spaces for each character, followed by a checksum character and enclosed by a unique Start bar, Stop bar and a quiet zone. The start bar and stop bars are unique and different; thus enable the symbol to be read in any direction. The quiet zone must be at least 2mm in each direction.
Checksum Character Calculation
The checksum character is printed on the right hand of data characters to provide error protection. To calculate the checksum character, perform the following steps:
• Calculate the upper half and lower half values for each data character. A character splits horizontally into an upper half and a lower half. From the right to the left assign each bar a weight. The rightmost bar has a weight of 0, and the second rightmost 1, and third 2 and the leftmost 4.
• Based on absence of an ascender and descender, assign a multiplier to each bar. For the upper half, if the ascender is present, the multiplier is 1 otherwise is 0.
• Multiply the weight and multiplier for each half. Sum together to produce the combination value for each half. If the combination value equals six the value goes back to zero.
• Sum all the values calculated in step 3 to produce upper half and lower half combination totals. Dive each half total by six to get the remainder.
• Look up the table below, use the combination value of upper half as the row reference, the combination value of lower half as the column reference.
Table 1. RM4SCC Checksum Calculation Table
Note that the checksum algorithm is only performed on the main data characters contained the code. The Start and Stop bar do not participate the checksum calculation.
Barcode Format
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1. Sep 24, 2013
DON'T BUY THIS GAME! You don't play this game. You just follow the script. All the matches are scripted by EA. They decide when you win, when you lose, everything is scripted. And it's just the same thing of FIFA 13, just slower, I don't know why It's sad because I was a FIFA fan since FIFA 98, and this is the end of the line for this series for me. Another title that's a copy of the previous one and full of script.
What I most like in videogaming was the fact that we can decide our destiny, we decide what happens in the screen. EA, since FIFA 12, destroyed this: you don't play a football videogame, you just follow the script the game definied for each match
Run away from this crap
2. Sep 25, 2013
SCRIPTED everything I do is scripted. Even though they have added cool new features to normal gameplay and ultimate team i still think this is scripted.
3. Sep 24, 2013
I don't know what people mean by saying this game is scripted but it sounds believable, FIFA 14 is a lot different than FIFA 13 in all the wrong ways super slow extremely hard to get passes in & for some reason extremely easier to get unrealistic crosses in ronaldo's boot's aren't even accurate this game pisses me off but i'll probably just buy it anyways cause no one will be playing 13
4. Sep 27, 2013
This is definitely the worst FIFA in history. It brings over all problems of FIFA13 and adds more. I'm talking about single player modes, as I'm not interested in multiplayer game at all. My score reflects only a single player experience
I'm not expecting a game to be easy, I like challenge, especially in a football game, but the game has to be enjoyable. And F14 is far from that. It's
one of the most frustrating experiences in a game world ever. If I pick one of the biggest teams on the continent, with players valued millions of euros in real world, I'd like to feel that I'm indeed controlling a really strong team. That I have immediate advantages over a poor opponent. But there's no such feeling in this game. FIFA 'world' seems to be using some kind of level scaling, like Skyrim, because no matter how good team you pick, how close to level 99 your players are and how skiled you are in controlling a pad, you will struggle with likes of Stoke or Almeria or whatever. Your Piques, Ramoses and Luizs will be outrun by poor team's attackers, your Messis, Ronaldos and Robbens will be outrun by poor team's defenders. 60 level team will make pinpoint precision long passes and exchange ball better than Barca in their best years. And watch yourself in the last 15 minutes of the game if you're winning by 1 or 2 goals you will experience pressing like you've never seen on live TV, unless you watch ice hockey match and one team plays with a player advantage.
Reaction your opponent AI presents is unhumanly they can react to your action a fraction of a second after you press the button. At the same time, your defenders AI is utterly stupid. There's barely any move on the pitch except the player you control. AI doesn't move your player towards the ball in the air, doesn't assist you in defence. You would imagine you could position a player manually, but auto switching doesn't work correctly and manual switching when ball is in the air is practically impossible. Your players also won't move towards a loose ball after eg a tackle (it sometimes looks like all players 'wait' until the tackle/collision animation is finished). Passing on assisted and semi modes don't work and at least 1/3 simple short passes (not to mention long through balls) end up bouncing of opponent's legs. Your attackers barely move off the ball. And even if they move and make a nice run, AI defenders will outrun them anyway, as mentioned earlier, or they will be caught offside as most often there's a huge delay between you pressing a button and AI making a pass (again, it has to do with animations)
If that's not enough, imagine referees ending matches during your attacking move in opponent's penalty box. This however should be easily fixable in a patch. As to all other complaints, it seems like a broken engine so it would need a total revamp, which is impossible at this stage.
If I bought the game on Origin, I would definitely apply for a refund. Waste of money. And since PES14, although significantly better than PES13, also suffers from unpolished engine and bugs, there's no football game to enjoy this year
5. Sep 28, 2013
I have never EVER played a football game this bad in my entire life! Passing, shooting it takes ages before you can pass, shoot, turn or whatever. DON'T BUY THIS GAME! IT IS THE WORST FOOTIE EVER!
6. Sep 29, 2013
Imagine the best painting in the world. Now imagine that, to spice things up, the creator decided that every few seconds the painting would release tear gas sending viewing the painting into the agony of inflamed eyeballs. Then as they lay there trying to enjoy the painting with their vision blurred from toxic gas. The painting then starts swinging around the room to make the viewing experience dynamic and exciting. THATS Fifa 10. The best sports game available. However it's marred by horrible design decisions made to make the game "challenging". Everything thats great about it can and will altered to insure that theres another obstacle in your way so the CPU can keep the game "exciting". You will play 4 games overcoming the common problems but on that 5th game the controls will mysteriously turn to mush. It's like a brand new game. It's that last and greatest level of desperate AI cheating. It will destroy your ability to enjoy the game. They take the core mechanics of the game and make it all unresponsive on purpose. Just think about that. And while you're at it, avoid this game. Collapse Expand
7. Sep 24, 2013
I don't know how to rate this game. It's not worthy of the critical acclaim that I suspect EA have paid for (all studios do it to be fair), but it's not a veritable flop deserving of the fires of the internet and red-coloured user scores.
The presentation is excellent. Quite superb. Modeling off the Xbox dashboard was a bold move but it does pay off. The commentary is spot on, the
prematch coverage is top notch and in terms of immersion into the experience, PES can't hold a candle to FIFA. I love the changes to career mode, the global scouting network forces you to construct teams that click together rather than a team full of 85+ players that pace-abuse the opposition.
Unfortunately thats as far as I can be positive. The biggest change is the Precision Movement engine. Players are slower and clunkier than before in an attempt to replicate real physics and real build-up play. I found my teammates making intelligent runs ahead of me and positioning was better. The big problem is that everyone feels the same. Top-rated attacking players felt like they had the same agility, movement and ball control as mid-level centerbacks. It's terrible. Not to mention that one of FIFA 13's biggest draws, dribbling, is now completely broken because of this. A good example is Christian Eriksen, I usually have no problem dribbling (no tricks) past defenders. In FIFA 14, he feels like Charlie Adam.
It could be case of something to get used to. I've only had it 3 days thanks to my sports ticket from EA, of which I played around 20-25 hours. It certainly took a while to adjust to FIFA 13. I'm not against change or one of those people who complains about things changing. I just think that it hasn't worked out as smoothly as EA hoped.
This definitely feels like FIFA is in transition, for the better. Unfortunately so too does the game. It's very nicely packaged product but the core feels like a working beta compared to what EA vision for the game. It's gameplay mechanics haven't been worked out fully and it ruins the experience for me. I don't particularly care for paying $60 for updated kits and rosters, nor do I for an unfinished product.
8. Oct 2, 2013
EA sports are a scam company. FIFA releases since 1993 have been nothing but junk. There is no football logic nor tactics in the gameplay in any series. Ball possession and build up play is useless. The best football player does not win by any means, in fact if you play football like it is played in real life you will end up losing. Too many flaws in this game: headers, highways open on the sides, defense is a joke, game pace is a joke, stamina and fatigue is a joke, full game pressure like monkeys, referee and goalkeepers need alot of tweaking. This game sucks and is very much over priced. Once again for the 21th year in a row, EA Sports deceived us as customers. Expand
9. Oct 1, 2013
Yeah, originally I gave this game a good review. I liked the idea of the game being more thoughtful and stopping the speed spamming that used to go on. But what they didn't realise is that they made the game an unplayable mess. Totally unenjoyable experience and completely scripted. Only on fifa can you have 20 shots on target, hit the bar 7 times, 70 percent possession but you magically lose at the end to a 50 yard long shot. It's so frustrating and a waste of time. The new scouting system on Fifa is also completely horrid. If you want simulation go and play football manager. I honestly can't sign hardly any players. Worst fifa I've ever played. Expand
10. Sep 26, 2013
La verdad creo que arruinaron lo vertiginoso y emocionante que se hacia el fifa 13... Tiene grandes cosas unos menus mejorados el ultimate etc pero no convence.
11. Oct 31, 2013
I had reviewed this game on Sep 30 2013 when EA promised a patch that would fix the issues. I gave a 6 because the game at the time had some promise. There were issues that completely broke the game but they promised to fix them.
Now it is October 31st 2013. And I can only say one thing DO NOT BUY THIS GAME. I spent many many hours playing FUT 13. I only play maybe 1-2 games a week of
FUT 14. Only to remind myself how awful the game is. Then I go back to doing whatever else I was doing.
I will discuss the good and the bad in some detail.
Let's start with the good:
1) Great game modes. FUT is immensely popular and extremely addictive. There are tons of people to play quick online games with. The games are extremely competitive.
2) The licenses EA has make it possible to play with a large array of different teams and players.
3) The game is no longer extremely dependent on the speed of the player. With Fifa 13 everything hinged on how fast a player was. If he was slow everything else was rendered useless by his inability to keep up with anyone on the pitch. Fifa 14 does a better job of balancing passing, dribbling and others.
4) The game can be fun. And they may still fix the issues I just don't understand what is taking so long.
Now on to the BAD:
1) The AI is a monstrosity. Especially when it comes to defense. In all facets of the game you will find yourself absolutely furious at the terrible decisions your players make.
2) When it comes to online play there is an enormous emphasis on heading the ball. Headers are extremely over powered. I mean EXTREMELY OVERPOWERED. People are no longer using players like Aguero and turn to players like Benteke and Carrol instead because they can head the ball. This goes well with #1 the defenders do a PATHETIC job of defending headers. Absolutely pathetic.
3) Corners are extremely unrealistic. You are more likely to concede a goal due to a header then any other build up play short of a penalty kick. Again this goes with #1 and #2. Heading is way overpowered and the AI to defend corners is just criminal.
4) The full press tactic in Ultimate Team and Seasons is again extremely overpowered. Basically you can just sprint after the ball all game long and never get tired. Turns the game into a through ball fest.
5) Lob Passes are grossly overpowered. This is mostly due to the fact that defenders have no idea how to defend against them.
Overall I am being very generous giving this game a 3. It is a very broken game.
What makes matters much worse is that EA has not released a patch in almost a month. This tells me that they blatantly do not care.
DO NOT BUY THIS GAME. Wait until Xbox One comes out. That one should be better.
12. Nov 16, 2013
Shocking game, been playing Fifa since the 95 edition and this is by far the worst of the series...My players are fouled throughout the game with no calls from the ref, I'll have a 5 star player receive the ball and look like someone smacked him over the head with a plank of wood, I'll have a 96 pace player be chased down by a 60 pace defender then have a 80 pace striker blitz past my 70 pace defender. The only way to win in UT is to constantly foul the other team and play balls over the top with the midfield passing being terrible, every second goal I concede is because of the ridiculous auto player switching which leaves me completely stranded....The game has destroyed my faith in EA and this will be the last time I purchase a Fifa, massive opportunity for PES to win my vote. Expand
13. Sep 29, 2013
I love all these people complaining how slow it is. It is a much more realistic game. Those of you complaining about one team being rubbish and the next being spectacular...youre probably playing Ultimate team right? Not every team is the same skill level. Game one may be Pro, game two may be world class, they arent the same.
This is by far the best and most realistic fifa to date.
Solid note to end this generation of consoles on. Expand
14. Sep 30, 2013
FIFA 14 is undeniably the very best football package available on the xbox 360. As a package it could be likened to a pretty large box, neatly wrapped in the finest quality embossed paper, lovingly finished with a luxurious satin bow. Yes, this package is seductive, intriguing and ultimately "flawless" in every way. When unboxing this sweet package however... you'll be in for no small surprise as once again EA have failed to impress on the content. FIFA 14 has all the official licenses, players and fantastic game modes but the actual game is (not unlike its creators) dull, exploitative, lacking in creativity, soulless, technically unimpressive and a complete waste of anybody's money. Any football gamer who honestly enjoys this deserves to be bludgeoned to death with a Nintendo64 console & have a copy of International Superstar Soccer forcibly shoved down their throat! Expand
15. Sep 24, 2013
Stepping Stone
Really this is just a stepping stone for the next gen version coming up wich uses the amazing looking infinity engine so if you bought this like I did hopefully you would have kept your excpectations low because this is really only mad for the updated squads and the pretty sweet ultimate team.
16. Oct 23, 2013
No fun. Horrible 'tactical/contain' defending means online players simply allow the AI to defend for them. Atrocious.
Just a rehash of already poor game (FIFA 13).
Don't put money in EA pockets, complete rip-off merchants. I joined the forum to complain and they Banned me... says it all really. Awful, awful product from a terrible company.
17. Oct 3, 2013
This is the worst FIFA I have played. In Seasons mode, it is more like playing pinball. Defenders are always faster than your wingers and forwards. I am sure they have given all the players arthritis the turning is so bad. Passing is always off as well now, assisted all the way if you want a game which is vaguely playable. The only positive I can think of is the menu system is much better in presentation and speed. Expand
18. Oct 1, 2013
Sluggish player movement has increased realism but sucked the fun out of the game. They are in fact to heavy now, EA have simply taken it too far.
The scripting in previous FIFA games was annoying but not overly intrusive, FIFA 14 is obscene. My fave game has been ruined.
19. Sep 24, 2013
this game has a great difference from fifa 13 the graphics are better fifa ultimate team is awesome better than fifa 13's one i think this game is great but there is lags on online thats why im giving it a 9 out of 10.
20. Oct 1, 2013
Where do i start with Fifa 14? Ive played Fifa for years and where they say and people say this is the best by far are got to be kidding? Online aspect of this game, its completely unbalanced. The game consists of sluggish game play and very slow. The passing on this game isnt realistic at all. Ive had this Since saturday and im already selling up as its a total waste of money and waste of time playing it.
Only decent thing i can say about this game is when you score a goal, to a certain degree, it does feel satisfying but overall this is a bad year for Fifa and EA.
21. Oct 22, 2013
Worst FIFA release of the past 5 years.
EA have amped up the scripting in this game to such levels that you have virtually no control over your players. Want to volley a first time shot? Forget it, the game will decide you need an extra touch...oops now you lost the ball. The game plays at breakneck speed, so there's no way to think and create anything interesting. You can only get rid of
the ball as soon as you get it. Add the freezes and you have an absolute dogs dinner of a game. Avoid at all costs. Expand
22. Oct 21, 2013
If i could have given this game a minus review believe I would. Its fundamentally broken and will never be fixed, EA just take our £40 each year then laugh in our face's. No wonder they were voted worst company in America... TWICE. I will never buy another FIFA title again.
23. Oct 22, 2013
The demo looked quite good. On release it was OK, but had a few problems, such as overpowered crossing, through balls, corners, finesse shots. People abused these bugs. They said they would release a patch to correct these problems. The patch did not do this. IT DESTROYED THE GAME!! It basically became like a cheap version of FIFA 13 with zero gameplay. No fun. All scripted and set up for pace abuse. It is an absolute disgrace they killed the game with these patches. Since then we have had no response from EA. It is shocking they do care about their customers. I will never buy an EA sports product again UNLESS THEY SORT THIS MESS OUT! Expand
24. Nov 2, 2013
worst game ever u ever woke up in the morning and u cant sit down but u dont know why thats how i feel,, fifa14 is scripted i put vid on youtube a screen shot fifa14 scripting momentum ,,match intensity, fed up of havn 10 shot 8 on target ,second half starts opponents 1st shot of half 3rd all game what a surprise he scored, i scoed 2 goals opponet scored 2 golas 90th minute 4 goals in in 90th minute,,if you do the math 1 minute in real lfe is 7.5 fifa minutes so if 4 goals go in 90th minute, 15 to 30 seconds to score each goal anywhere between 1 and 2 minutes whch in fifa time is 7.5 to 15 minutes extra time,,even fergie time didnt last 7.5 minutes never mind 15,,, game of football 90 minutesa fifa game 12 mnutes, 90 divided by 12 =7.5 Expand
25. Nov 15, 2013
Game is scripted to help weaker players, one game you'll be popping in 5 the next you can't hit a barn door. Completely un-enjoyable experience, both losses and wins you don't deserve leave you unsatisfied, next to zero skill involved.
26. Nov 29, 2013
Oh man! I created a Metacritic account just to review this horrid game! I have bought every Fifa title since 2006 and my Fifa playing days go back to around 1996! I'm pretty good at this game and used to play on Legendary in pretty much every title until Fifa 13. I used to have a system for playing defense that was unbeatable until they made tactical defending in last year's version. Fine with me. I'm all for more realistic tackling and ball physics....whatever. I still pretty much crushed in Fifa 13. The pace was awesome and the dribbling was spot on. If you can dribble, which I was good at, last year's version is fantastic. I can almost say that Fifa 13 for me was amazing on almost every level.....except......the career mode! I love the career mode and it's the main reason that I buy the game. Create a player with your own likeness and RPG the out of it. Absolutely love that fantasy. EA Canada just doesn't give a FLYING F*** that this mode is important to a lot of gamers! They just don't care. Last year's career mode was filled with sooo many glitches that it absolutely ruined it for me. Not to mention it fails miserably in comparison to the depth and quality of other career modes or my player modes in other sports titles. For example the NBA2K series' career mode is incredibly deep. It is pretty much what I would like to play for my favorite sport! Fifa 14 career mode is THE EXACT SAME thing as Fifa 13, just that they( for the most part) fixed the glitches that marred the previous installment. I actually don't mind Fifa 14's career mode. It's ok, but wtf is it offering that's cutting edge or even interesting to delve into? NOTHING I'm not interested in Ultimate team and playing online, because you have to PLAY ALL THE TIME to get ranked and it's not feasible for someone that is not a professional gamer. So that's just career mode. Disappointing and not worthwhile half-assed effort from EA Canada. They can give two ****s, I know. Now that's not the most upsetting thing about it, though. The most disappointing thing about FIFA14 is THE F***ING GAMEPLAY! They absolutely killed it. Killed the pace of the game, the dribbling, the passing.....they ruined pretty much everything!!!! When you take control of a player in Fifa14, it's like moving a bus or a tractor trailer. Every dribble move takes longer to pull off and the whole left trigger-to-shield-off-opponent bull**** is exactly that. BULL****! LOL you almost have to play lobbed through balls every time.....don't even try to thread the needle with a hard through will NEVER HAPPEN. Guess what happens when you time that lobbed through ball to perfection and are pretty much clear on goal with only the goalkeeper to beat......the slowest and I mean slowest of defenders will catch up to your striker and almost overtake him EVERY TIME. LOL I played the other day with my friend who plays on a high level just like me....I chipped a through ball to Lewandowski, sprinting on goal with ten yards between him and the last defender. It took I feel like less than a second for the defenders to make up the ground and almost steamroll on top of him like two locomotives lol. HE JUST GOT BOSSED OFF THE BALL IN A FLASH and I barely got a half shot off. I bring Walcott in as a sub in a different game.....his pace makes NO DIFFERENCE in this game. YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO DRIBBLE PAST ANY DEFENDER.....that makes the game almost unplayable....OH OH and how bout the matter if you are there first, or press the button to clear and are holding left trigger to try to hold off your opponent, they will beat you to the ball almost 85% of the time. The auto switching on air balls was bad last year, well this year forget trying to defend against a cross or a it's a crapshoot who will win the header.....Fifa 13 took skill to play, but this utter monstrosity that is called FIFA14 takes that skill and shoves it up your ass lol. Last year I could take a player like Ramsey who is rated 77 and score a Messi goal with him. This year, you'll be lucky to score with Messi bec. he will handle like a supercharged bus, but a bus is still a f***ing bus! EA, I think I am done with this franchise. It truly feels like you are now milking your cash cow and don't care about truly innovating and raising this game to the next level! Shame shame shame. I wasn't sure whether there was anything to the "scripted" gameplay ramblings, but there is some sense in it, bec. the airballs are consistently undefendable and the dribbling and the pace of the game is absolutely on earth can Walcott not be able to make a move and sprint past a tired defender. Even the knock on move that EA created last year they went and ruined lol. This game in my opinion is the absolute worst of the franchise. It might seem polished since they own all the licenses, but they ruined the amazing fluidity of the game! FIFA 14 ABSOLUTE GARBAGE! Money back please Expand
27. Dec 4, 2013
Paid for reviews is the only thing I can imagine has happened here, there is no way in hell that these game reviewers could honestly award it as high as they did.
Let's imagine scripting and momentum isn't anything for this review.
The Defending AI is worse than every, constantly cutting back for a fraction of a second when a through ball in the air is played. Fumbling into each
other, over each other and into your keeper. The AI controlled defenders will ignore your defender choice at times and still mark the same player you are even when you don't call for assistance.
The attacking AI is either rarely making a move or moving so far off side is just disgusting, The game even after numerous patches is still dominated by long lobbed through balls and crosses which just remove any sort of challenge. Player a tall striker like Benteke upfront on ultimate teams and just watch the goals pour in.
First touch is now non existent, players like messi at times have the first touch akin to the fat guy who plays five a side and only got invited because you were seriously desperate for players. One moment you can turn on the ball immediately after receiving and the next if you dare turn within 2 seconds of receiving the ball they WILL lose possession. The sprint button has now become a combination of knock on and sprint making the game a much slower pace unless you're bursting down the wings... but don't really expect much to happen as the game seems to make the defending team 10% quicker as soon as their opponent gains possession. This sort of gameplay makes Emile Heskey look good.
Passing and switching is the worst I've seen in any fifa, the passing is so... well it ignores what you tell it. Want to pass left? How about as soon as I receive the ball I do a quick 180, quicker than you could actually do by choice due to the awful first touch but when I do turn, I'll kick it in the complete opposite direction and then to make it more fun, I will force you to watch your uncontrollable player to chase it down. I mean... don't even consider bringing your keeper out of the box, you might have 2 miles of space but 9/10 the keeper will kick the immediately leaving your goal open straight after. Player switching is Auto by default and the options are Full Auto, Air Balls only AKA Full Auto and Manual which actually surprise surprise... appears to be a combination of Manual, Air Balls Only and Full Auto, I can let go of my controller and see my player switch rather rapidly.
Silly 'bugs' like being unable to receive a throw-in make this game absolutely infuriating, how could EA possibly this up. My player will remain stuck to the ground but as soon as I make the throw-in he will charge towards the ball and either watch it sail over his head, or duck out the way! Sometimes you feel like you get stuck in a perpetual game of piggy in the middle when tackling. It doesn't matter how you approach it the ball will always rebound into the opponent and this can go on for 10+ tackles perfectly landing at their feet each time. Players constantly bump into each other (AI (your team) into your player). This is especially noticeable on kick off, sometimes the AI will literally barge me off the ball within 0.1s of the ball being kicked.
Actual AI gameplay is probably worse than Fifa 12/13, it was never that good to be honest as there were always ways of winning reliably, Fifa 13 was a case of curling the shot from the edge of the box and putting it in that way.
When people think I've given this game a 1/10 review because I'm butthurt, think for a moment. I'm not giving it because I'm butthurt, I'm actually not. I bought the game full price, played a few games online, two full seasons (Manager) and a handful of nights with friends versus. I realised my mistake almost immediately after the game presented me with a dribbling skill challenge, at that point I realised what they had done.
Though the reason why I have given it such a low score and is the absolute fundamental problem, EA have once again somehow managed to copy and paste a game, slightly alter the GUI and along with carrying issues from previous titles have systematically completely ****ed up features that are imperative to a football game, the worst offender being throw-ins immediately putting you at a disadvantage.
Fifa reminds me of the war between Intel and AMD, the only competitor is pretty much always considered as the lesser of the two. Being the dominant game they can do what they want and we'll still accept the crap that gets churned out.
Games like this and Battlefield 4 prove to me, that game review sites are indeed paid for by publishers. Even my girlfriend (who doesn't play any games at all) spotted immediate flaws in Fifa gameplay within mere moments of playing. How a reviewer couldn't spot them? Well, all that delicious 'free' goodies from EA must of got in their way.
28. Oct 4, 2013
well... this game isn't too bad, gameplay is a bit better than last year, skills are worst. season mode is good (the same as last fifa) and career mode is pretty funny. but FIFA ULTIMATE TEAM... OMG what a shame! is completely RIGGED. is just cpu vs cpu and who must win... wins. you are only the momentum's viewer (well isn't only momentum, predetermined games before kick off is better).
FUT (the new gem of EA) is really completely b$hit... AND... i've paid 60$ for an upgrade, because FUT is unplayable.
29. Dec 11, 2013
This is probably the worst game i have ever played. Yes, not only the worst FIFA i have ever played (and i played FIFA since 2005) but also the worst game overall.
- The game is scripted and decides when opposition will score a goal. Especially in 45th and 90th minute.
- You can have 20 shots on target and goalkeeper will save everything. Opposition's team will have one shot on target
and will win. I know it happens in real life but in FIFA its happening too often (i am talking about World Class and Legendary here).
- Even the team with worst passers in the team can play like Barca. Sometimes they definitely keep the ball too long on their own half if they winning (even in first half).
- Strength is overpowered in this game. Not only overpowered but players who are lean and not muscular at all can push your defenders like wind.
- It feels like every goal is the same. Over the time i played. maybe 40% of goals were scored after rebound when keeper saved it in front of him.
+ many,many bugs that were in FIFA 13 are back. I guess this game is fine when you play on low difficulty. On legendary, even if im winning, it dont feel satisfied because of all the bugs im getting pissed about during the match.
All i want from FIFA is to be like World Cup 2010 with updated squads. That was a perfect football game.
30. Nov 13, 2013
For crying out loud, fix the damn graphics. Why do the player names on shirts look so out of proportion?
If I could give this game a minus score I would.
At least Pro Evo tried.
31. Oct 14, 2013
Let me get this out of the way first. My review is solely based on Ultimate Team. With that being said, this year is so insanely infuriating that I'm honestly thinking about selling the game back. Apparently the people who developed this game thought it was incredibly realistic to make the easiest ways to score be either by getting corners or taking finesse shots from midfield that fly past defenders and keepers like the ball is on fire. As far as corner kicks go, they are quite literally IMPOSSIBLE to defend. I can't tell you how many times so far I've held back an opposing teams player while the ball is flying through the air until my player is about to clear it only to have one of the opposing player magically shove my guy out of the way and put the ball into the back of the net with a header that likes of which Alan Shearer would be jealous of. An online game of Ultimate Team consists of cheap corner goals, screaming long distance shots, and spamming overhead through balls. Don't even bother trying to control the tempo of the game or win with good defense/good passing(ya know, like REAL FUTBOL.) You'll just end up getting beat 4-1 by some kid who watched a few Youtube videos about how to basically cheat/exploit this games awful AI. Not to mention there is literally no negative recourse for people who act like complete and utter idiots in this game. I really, REALLY, wish PES would have all the licensing for European leagues. If that were to ever happen I feel like the people who want a true futbol experience would actually be able to play game online and win with realistic futbol skills rather than arcade style non-sense being passed off as a futbol sim.
TL;DR- FIFA 14 Ultimate Team is basically like playing NBA Jam on a futbol pitch.
32. Sep 30, 2013
The people moaning about this game need to put some serious hours into the game and learn how to play it properly. FIFA 14 is definitely a better game than FIFA 13. No longer can you just spam the through ball button and score cheap goals on the counter attack. No longer can you sign the quickest players in Ultimate Team and expect to win by just pace abusing. It requires more thought than just holding the RT button, and that can only be a positive. You have to shield the ball with LT, learn how to pass and move, and be patient if you can't go forwards. I can't really fault the actual gameplay of this game.
The only negative for me is the over reliance on headed goals. I never really conceded from corners in FIFA 13 but I'm doing it regularly in FIFA 14. Not a major problem, but you don't want too many goals being scored from set-pieces or crosses from wide areas.
The presentation is very good, as you would expect from an EA sports game. The menus have been overhauled and look nicer and are a lot easier to navigate. The engine is starting to show its age but i'm hoping the Xbox One version updates the graphics and makes it look a bit sharper. The crowd need some work, too.
Overall, it's a very good game and certainly an upgrade on FIFA 13. Just don't buy this game expecting a major overhaul. It is different, and different in a good way, but the game plays quite similar once you've got used to it. People just don't like how they can't pace abuse anymore. Put some serious hours into it, learn the new mechanics, and you will agree that it's a better game than its predecessor. But there's no doubt that everyone is expecting bigger and better things from the Xbox One version. The graphics need to be better and the Ignite engine needs to really deliver.
33. Sep 30, 2013
There are some improvements in this version UI, some tweaks and new thing in ultimate team which I think are excellent additions. However this has been undermined by the game play. I constant hear and read how Fifa is trying to be realistic yet very little about the game play is realistic.
The new first touch system and turning mechanics are by far the least realistic element of the
game. A top level player can easily shift a ball from left to right and turn their body as appropriate, not in this game You'd have more luck changing the direction of a speeding bullet than to maneuver top level player in this game. Yes expect slow, difficult movements from low level players but Top level really especially when any 9 year old can move and manipulate a ball quicker.
Yes this slows play and stops the end to end basketball type play but realistic it is not.
Players still make hopeless movements, come short when they need to go long, go long when they need to go short. Yes you can control this to some extent but you should have to when it is football 101.
So far full backs have improved and no longer disappear up field for no reason however the importance of pace has been reduce a little but at times players seem to have a random burst of un-catchable pace that will lead to more complaints about scripting etc.
Crosses and headers are ridiculous, Only played 20 or so games and every game has a headed goal and 70-80% of crosses end in goals.
Lobbed through balls seam to have a habit to make the CPU defender run forward under the ball then as a user takes over makes it impossible to turn into the opposite direction and catch the forward.
Goalkeepers have got worse with many of them looking like they play with no hands, leading to 40yrd finesse shots being tipped over the bar or padded down in front of them for rebounds, 1on1s far to easy to score as the GKs just dive over the ball.
Yes we need to learn the new way it works and there will be updates etc it's not realistic and it's not like playing football, it's still adapting to how Fifa plays.
Forget true shot, precision movement etc, just develop true football.
34. Oct 6, 2013
FIFA 14 definitely breaks my record for most smashed controllers lol. I'm a die hard FIFA fan and this FIFA 14 is just garbage. This is not f****** REAL futbal! EA Sports is just terrible at making futbal games. I'm so sick of my teammates running in front of me when I'm trying to score, blocking my shots! I'm so sick of my defenders running away from loose balls! I'm so sick of goalkeepers blocking almost every shot that "should" be a goal in real life! I'm so sick of not having any control of my player chasing after a ball that will end up going out of bounds, while using a lot of stamina. I'm so sick of 1 star team strikers being able to pass 5 star team defenders! EA Sports, get your f****** s*** together! Watch some damn real World class futbal and understand the dynamics of futbal. Expand
35. Oct 24, 2013
Somewhere here, there is a great game struggling to show itself under a fog of over-dominant AI, lack of control and lack of responsiveness. EA have the right idea introducing realistic inertia/momentum, but the execution is terrible in this game. 1) The effects of inertia are too inconsistent. When a player gets the ball, he feels heavier and slower to turn than without it. Even nimble, quick-footed players like Robben and Messi struggle to make 2 quick turns in succession. And remember. These guys are world class players not village players. However, defenders charging in at full speed are capable of producing perfect tackles, regardless of their angle of approach and speed, seemingly immune to momentum or inertia. This makes charging a far more effective tactic than it should be, because the risk attached is so low. Defenders seem to only be affected by inertia if you move them from a standing start, or if you don't point the player accurately enough at the ball carrier and overrun it. Inertia can't be a random variable surely? 2) Pass weight is so slow. Every pass seems under hit and the ball is almost at a virtual stop by the time it reaches the recipient. The game doesn't let you take control of the receiving player until the pass reaches a certain distance from him, so you're left standing waiting. This is just as frustrating for the defending team, because you can see the pass and are within reach of intercepting it, but the game doesn't let you, so you have to watch it roll by. So, combine points 1 and 2 and you get; 3) the ball carrier constantly has 2 or 3 players on top of him. He is within their 'tackling radius' (or 'influence radius') and you lose responsiveness. When trying to pass under pressure, far too often the ball goes magnet-like to the charging player to intercept, who despite running at full pelt and having the ball just knocked off him is capable of controlling and running off with the ball. Give the same player a 5 yard pass to feet however and he'll take 4 touches, or even better still, just stand there as the ball bounces off him. 4) This is magnified yet again, because when you turn your back on the player and use the 'protect the ball' function, it barely works. More often than not, the more aggressive player will grapple the ball carrier off the ball or just run clean into him and knock him off the ball. The shoddy refereeing programming means that you rarely (if ever) receive a foul. 5) The AI is automated to aggressively pressure in groups. A new addition, probably because EA developers saw the success of Bayern & Dortmund and thought their game should replicate this style. FOR ALL TEAMS. AT ALL TIMES. So you protect the ball from the first challenge, only for 3 or 4 other players to hound you down in milliseconds. 6) Acceleration of quick players since patch is non-existent and pretty much every defender can catch up having been skinned, even outperforming their stats when the contain button is held. Mertesacker catching up to Neymar having been beaten, to perform an inch perfect slide tackle, for example. It means the incentive to be careful about your defensive decisions is minimal, because the AI will recover for you. Worse still, if you press shoot to get a shot away before the defender has caught up, the game delays you until they have. The shot is blocked, it looks realistic, but the player who pressed shoot 2 seconds ago is wondering why it took Neymar 2 seconds to shoot! Another manufactured/scripted scenario. The key to being good at this game comes NOT down to making thoughtful football decisions, but being able to aim well and press the right button at the OPTIMUM time. If you get your button presses right in this game, it disables the other player's button press and plays out an animation almost like a micro-cutscene. Anyone good at the game how doesn't agree (I'm in Div 1 having lost only 2 games so far) is in denial. The game is 75% CPU-controlled, if not more. It feels like your decisions are successful when (and only when) the game has decided to allow it. It throws in an AI howler, or opens you a clear path to goal, or sends a rebound to your feet, or directs all of your opponent's tackles bouncing straight back to your feet. There are long spells of reduced control and nerfing that happen in periods of matches where you are "under pressure" whether you like it or not. You know the one, right? Passes won't go where you aim, inertia physics suddenly feel like players are trudging through mud and have the strength and reaction times of a poorly tortoise. Scripted micro-events that EA refuse to acknowledge, but are as obvious as the nose on my face. This is a football game designed to be played with build up play, but with glaring oversights rendering it over-complicated to achieve the simple things, yet very easy to pull off things that would be considered the most difficult skills to achieve in real life. Such a disappointment. Expand
36. Nov 4, 2013
ive noticed the MAtch script on fifa 13 even on online games when they want u to lose u will lose but now the algorithme is exposed too dump that ull feel it from the 1st match...
37. Nov 5, 2013
Worst Fifa ever!! I never felt so angry playing a football game in my life..Fifa is going backwards with this new game..:(.
I bought Fifa 14 two weeks ago and can't play it more than four games without turning it off, never had this problem before... Bad defending, bad player stats, stupid bugs in the game that really get to you when come on EA with the throw ins, whats
with the players chasing the ball all the way up the pitch, then to bring it all the way back down to where he should be taking it, then changing it onto another player to take the throw in..whats the point??. A few hours ago I was playing it and someone crossed the ball into my box, I had two defenders standing right beside each other and the ball was perfect for them to head away, not one of them (DANTE & BOATENG Champions League winning team like..) made any attempt to head it away..My Nanny would of heading this away and imagine what Fifa stats she'd have.. I never post comments about games but I had to with this Fifa, really head another update EA and give us buyers a football game. 0/10 Expand
38. Nov 7, 2013
Instead of moving forwards and improving upon FIFA 13, EA have managed to create one of the worst FIFA's ever made. Despite claiming that the new slower form of play is more realistic, it is most certainly not. It takes far too long to pass/shoot/turn/tackle and it feels as though you are playing with a constant lag. Instead of making the game more realistic it simply causes the midfield the clog up sue to the slow play and makes it appear as though you are watching an U9's game down at the local park where all the players run towards to ball and group together in 10 yard radius. Utter rubbish, and glad that I've only had to play on my mates and didn't actually buy the game myself! Expand
39. Nov 13, 2013
Inconsistent. Frustrating. If you like possession and build up, you will be disappointed. Slowed down gameplay is a great theory. Works offline, but online is a completely different beast. Gamespeed varies wildly. Rewards mindless tactics. The shooting feels more realistic. Feels like your fighting the player switching and passing more often than not. Feels like another EA game that got pushed to meet the deadline. Some matches are completely unplayable. Players stand around. Ball physics closer to a rubber beachball than a soccer ball. Save your Expand
40. Oct 8, 2013
el menu es mas complicado el modo DT es una mierda y varias cosas empeoraron de una secuela de excelentes juegos como lo es desde el principio Fifa 13, Con cada vez mas que hacerle en este año el juego es Fifa 12, 13 exactamente no se, solo espero que en Xbox One y PS4 no sea la tristeza del año
41. Oct 1, 2013
Very disappointed with this game, it looks very nice, has a good windows 8 look going on, but that is all.
The actual game play, which surprise surprise is why I bought the game, is just awful. Everyone has a horrendous touch even the 90+ players and don't even bother trying to shoot, 9/10 times the player takes forever to respond and you will be tackled before you can. World class
players like Messi and Ronaldo just felt like normal players, my defenders refuse to perform a defensive header when I'm marking the player perfectly and pressing the head button. Me and my friend played a match 4-4 and all of the goals were off corners or free kicks... Plus the ai has near perfect control as soon as you go on world class or above, so unless your a pro at skill or have a really good team don't expect to score much. Oh and its not just that I'm terrible at the game, I thoroughly enjoyed fifa 13 and was quite successful on it.
So to sum up imagine what it is like playing with a 2 star team on fifa 13, that team would be more enjoyable to play that a 5 star on this game.
42. Oct 6, 2013
The Fifa franchise I used to like but since 12 it's been the same, Fifa 14 just feels like it's taking gamers like a joke. EA go make a good Fifa next time.
43. Oct 24, 2013
I rate it so low because of ultimate team, which is my absolute favorite thing about the game. Contracts?! have to fight people buying them constantly so the can resell them and spam the market all the time. Everything over priced so to encourage more spending of real money as if 60$ wasnt enough. In game- welcome back to speed abusing and threw balls over and over again oh and the finesse shot from the top of the box that always goes in. ground through balls that always go to the defender instead of playing it to space like it should be. Ultimate team is pure chaos, everyone just sprints around with their head cut off, it is so unrealistic and took all the fun out of the game. I was in division one and won titles no problem last year, this year it is very difficult to put a winning streak together because of the dissapointed as this was one of favorite games, EA you blow and are just money hungry instead of improving the game you made it worse and added just more cheap ways for people to abuse the system Expand
44. Nov 14, 2013
For me the game feels largely unfinished and seems as though EA have put all their time and effort into the Next Gen version. Time will tell I suppose. Personally I didn't enjoy it and I have been playing FIFA since the very first version in 93'
45. Nov 27, 2013
This is quite honestly the biggest tragedy I've ever seen on a TV screen other then grown ups 2. I don't know how you could bring yourself to even convince yourself it's a good game. The passing is god awful, it does the exact opposite of what you want. The dribbling and the first touch of this game takes the cake. Oh my even Messi makes the most disgusting mistakes ever. The player response to controls is terrible (I tried multiple controllers too). You'll find yourself hitting buttons and see your players not responding and you just wonder why. All the FIFA's previous to this were fun ad at least worthy of a 7 but this is the worst soccer game I have ever played. Oh yeah, I already sold it. Expand
46. Dec 21, 2013
Why is there no offline mode??? No one gives a f**k about ultimate team its boring as f**k. DO NOT BUY THIS CRAP!!!!!!!!!!!! You spend more time f***ing around in menus than playing!!! GUTTED JUST GUTTED!!! EA F**ked us again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
47. Oct 16, 2013
By far the WORST FIFA since FIFA 10! The touches are purely pathetic, most players touch the ball as if they're amateurs. The controllers are super frustrating, doesn't listen well to your commands especially when trying to do one touch passing or turn with the ball in a certain direction. Crosses are very much scripted especially with the OP'd players like Ronaldo Messi or Ibrahimovich. The goalkeepers are morons! They come out way too much! And the auto switching when you have it on manual is just purely pathetic! Finally the pathetic online booleans they have for matching players with their connections. Just purely pathetic and very disappointed in EA. Hope next gen version is NOTHING like this Expand
48. Dec 9, 2013
AWFUL, going backwards, even worse & more scripted then FIFA 13. Every year a false hopes that it will be better and only gets worse.. SCRIPTED to worthlessness, it just doesn't let you play against your opponent... ALL PEOPLE WANT, IS TO BE ABLE TO PLAY AGAINST OPPONENTS & LET THE BEST PLAYER WIN, NOT EA DECIDING WHO WINS.. So obvious that the bias engine clearly throws the game in only 1 direction. This is not momentum it's cheating, worse of all is that there is nothing you can do about it... Its like EA thought people wouldn't notice when they dismantled ones ability to control the players.. They also made it where trapping the ball is impossible sometimes, not matter if you push button to trap, strait ignores it (this is for offense, defenders have no trouble trapping anything, including shots) just shameless shameless, this is real people the play and at some point loved this game, for some reason EA has not figured out that people are not going to eat EA $hit. Expand
49. Sep 28, 2013
I don't know where to start with this game, Now before people start judging the player I was a huge fan of fifa games I've played them all and each one has made steps to make the game better for the fans. However this years FIFA has been nothing but a sheer disappointment from the laggy and slow menu screens to a clearly unpolished title. A lot of people would jump straight in to blame EA as we all know they do have a terrible history with it's customers and it's products mainly being that people see them as money grabbers who do not care for their audience.
When I first started hearing about all the new feature in FIFA I was excited to see and find out how it would play, after watching a lot of videos not only by EA but also the FIFA youtubers the excitement got better as they highly praised the game.
When the demo was released I couldn't wait to get my hands on it and start playing and when I did I was shocked to see how awful the players handled on the pitch. Now of course I tried to shake it off as a new game mechanic and figured it would take some time to get use to, However it has added an unnecessary difficulty to the game that will quite simply push people away from the title.
As much as I appreciate EA's decision to try making the game more realistic unfortunately they have missed this opportunity to fine tune what was needed to be done. As what EA forget is that at the end of the day it is still just a game and not the real sport.
Player movement comes across as very clunky and slow the passing and first touch system differs belief considering FIFA 13 had it's issues with the first touch system, It seems that this years version is a lot more difficult to handle from the ball bouncing off players to just down right stupidity from the players.
It's hard to believe that the players you're using are suppose to be professional footballers unfortunately the game makes you feel as if you're dealing with amateurs who have barely played the sport.
For me personally what I don't understand is that FIFA games have always been about fun it's always been about the competition and the feeling it gives you when you can out smart your opponent and score great goals.
This years attempt at FIFA 14 has only left me feeling frustrated and let down by EA as the game is riddled with problems, A lot of mechanics that don't make sense for example are a lot of people claim that "Strength" is the way to go in this years FIFA you're now allowed to use slower defenders simply because you can out muscle the attackers. However this has yet again got it's own problems as people have already figured out a way to avoid this and this is to simply run down the wing and cross the ball in in which 9/10 crosses will succeed in a goal.
A lot of people will read this review and just think it's another rage kid just throwing out frustration at EA for the sake of just doing it, But I person have always enjoyed FIFA games as they've had their own flaws but this years game has been nothing short of a flop in my eyes. I'm sure for many other players the game is great and has given them the experience they've always wanted but when it comes to just enjoying the game EA have almost stripped the fun aspect of the game straight out of it.
With a lack of contact from EA in the forums I can only figure that they are avoiding all responsibility of the games problems and have chosen to ignore it's fans for another year running.
Now I'm going to be generous when I rate this game and will only go out of my way to give it a 5 simply because of how the game feels it's hard for all the wrong reasons and has lost it's fun edge, EA have clearly tried to make the title a more serious game but sadly not everyone was looking for a serious experience.
50. Sep 25, 2013
Gráficas: las mismas que fifa 12,13 no varían,
Jugabilidad: a mi parecer mejoro un poco el accionar del balón, es mas difícil hacer un buen pase, la ia de los defensas ya no es tan idiota, aun así los desmarques sin balón no funcionan como debería
si eres fan de esa saga seguro que ya lo tienes, si quieres darle una oportunidad adelante solo que no esperes algo fuera de lo normal.
51. Sep 28, 2013
I feel that people need to adapt to the new fifa casue, there are a couple of gameplay tweaks which have made a difference.
I like the change.
Those, who are annoyed should probably play skill games to improve and to adapt to fifa 14
cheers and thank you
52. Oct 1, 2013
I bought this game expecting great gameplay etc, I played it for 2 days and took it back to the shop. It is awful game play, awful goalkeeping where they always punch the ball out, so the other team just taps it in the net, Bad defending, you will select a player you would want but it will go onto a totally different player on the field. The most disappointing moment was the skill challenges. I enjoyed doing the penalty challenge on Fifa 13 and it took a lot of effort, I went on Fifa 14 penalty legendary skill challenge to find out the maximum points were 20,000 not 50,000. Overall a very disappointing football game and I will be going back to Fifa 13 or getting PES 2014. I reckon if ultimate team wasn't on this game it wouldn't do as well in the sales as it does. Collapse
53. Oct 5, 2013
the game sucks seriously reality increased but the game horrible how am I supposed to dribble the game requires extreme specifications and the price isn't worth paying for
54. Oct 6, 2013
They could not have created a worse game. The first touch system is awful, as is the on ball control of players, and the sprinting in the game is atrocious. I find myself wondering very often what the hell just happened. If you are planning on buying this game don't. I'm serious it is my biggest regret in the history of buying games and I have bought some stinkers. Just buy the FIFA 13 version and update the rosters yourself because that game was the It is a way way way better option than spending 60 dollars on this crap. I feel so strongly about this that I went out of my way to create this account to let you know how horrible this game is. DO NOT BUY THIS PIECE OF POOP GAME. Expand
55. Oct 6, 2013
Spotless presentation? PLEASE WHAT?
Cruel ball handling
Cruel movements
AI extremely stupid
CPU defense behavior ridiculous
monotonous career
cruel commentators
Players often sloppy models models to a few loyal players detail
Input was
To long loading times
Graphic from the last millennium
WOW super suck balls FIFA 14.
56. Oct 7, 2013
Never been so disappointed with a FIFA game. Game forces you to play one way and punishes you if you try to play differently. Player ratings are absurd. Marketing and game reviews cover the fiasco this game really is. Don´t waste your money this year on FIFA 14. If you do, you will find yourself feeling frustrated instead of having fun. I always loved FIFA and this is my honest opinion on this game. If you don´t believe me check the FIFA forums and see what everyone else who owns the game is saying about it. Expand
57. Oct 9, 2013
Following the recent line of flops from the franchise, Fifa 14 continues to define the word "recycle". There is no reason to spend 60$ on something that releases every year with no improvements other than the main menu.
58. Oct 10, 2013
I only opened an account to write a review on this game! Previously a die hard fifa fan! Loved almost all the series, eventhough they had their flaws they were fun to play! This time the flaws are ever so present and the funness has gone. This game has tried to be so realistic that it succeeds in being as realistic as amateur 14 year olds playing in the park. It takes forever to get the ball out of a players feet either to pass or shoot! Skills are now not even worth attempting, turning... forget it! Defenders always find their way to the ball first regardless of who the attacker is a defender will be able to outmuscle any attacker.
To add to this EA horrible customer service on the phone, they are as helpful as a bag of rotten potatoes!
All in all my game is on Ebay as i type hoping to cut my loses and I might revisit FIFA in a few years after they lose out on lots of gamers and then they will have to change this horrible formula!
WORST GAME I HAVE PLAYED... in a looong time, also its very funny how the reviewers have it as 84 and the actual gamers at 4.5... goes to show how reliable reviewers actually are, and the conspiracy of them being payed of to review in favour of certain games seems to be a reality....
59. Oct 18, 2013
So after being happy with FIFA 13 ironing out some little problem 12 had, I was hoping for an even cleaner game in 14... Nope! It seems like EA have fallen back into the same problems which 11 had! It's far too easy to put a lobbed through ball onto goal you hardly ever see that in real life, so not very realistic, hmmm? Apparently pace abuse has been sorted by players such as Mertesacker and Toure having been given an extra boost to assist with even gameplay... Nope. It's far to easy to run past a player as the turning and first touch control are awful!!! 90% of goals I've conceded are because of some ridiculous ball play by my players which you'd only expect from Titus Bramble. Again not realistic. The advanced player interaction is a nice addition, but other than that I'm failing to see where 14 excels, it's just frustrating. What a waste of my hard earned money. I hate you EA. Expand
60. Oct 20, 2013
FIFA 14 In some respect could be seen as a slight innovation to the Football series.With the pace mechanics shifted from the last entry FIFA 13.The menus often feel laggy and unresponsive and other components to the game(apart from Ultimate Team) feel unchanged.Career mode feels repetitive.Co-op seasons is amazing.The enjoyment is great when you and your friend score after team work. 7/10 Good
61. Oct 22, 2013
A game that you could not describe as "Fifa 13.5" It's vastly different and some of it for the better.
Dribbling and ball control can be a little frustrating with people Involuntarily going into the "Precision dribbling" mode when you haven't pressed the button to do so and players just flat out forgetting to trap the ball and letting it roll by them. Besides that
dribbling is more realistic, unlike it's predecessor you can't run at full pelt and retain such a high level of control and it's a welcomed feature although I feel that even when you're not sprinting even a player with good control will make a uncharacteristic bad touch and that can be frustrating especially when you're in a good attacking area.
In it's entirety is a lot better and feels a lot realistic and you can easily distinguish a good shooter from a bad one but there is moments where you look and say to yourself "How did that go in?" with shots where a players body position is facing a corner flag yet can strike a ball sweetly enough to make it swerve inside the far corner, heading post and pre patch is probably the most consistent method of goalscoring, Mandzukic, Klose among other strikers proving rather infamous and they can single handedly put you ahead of your opponents (See what I did there? heh)
AI and other miscellaneous Gameplay thoughts
On the whole it's probably better than 13 but there is moments where you simply facepalm and leaves you looking for some thing to impale with your controller, switching can be a frustrating ordeal with heading being a rather popular method of acquiring goals and players not bothering to contest a shot can leave you feeling hard done by.
Goalkeepers are considered by stereotype to be "Crazy" and it seems Fifa are sticking to that with some flat out insane moments where by coming out to punch the ball away seemingly miss the ball and end up breaking the strikers lower jaw or so you think as he gets up with out much as a scratch. There also appears to be a delay between a shot aiming for goal and the keeper actually diving to save it and It can lead to some really tame shots trickling into the bottom corner which can frustrate even the calmest of gamers.
Whilst I think the game is a improvement, the main problem I feel is that you never feel like you have lost genuinely to a player who has bested you this time around due to some irrational action the AI has done instead of what you wanted to do. I think as gamers we want a fair game where as we can play a game and win based on our skills and abilities rather than on something that is beyond our control although I know we cannot control every player on the pitch at the same time but surely it's not a taxing request to have the AI competent enough to not do irrational actions right?
Should anyone at EA read this I want to say this. You are letting your ego and monopoly corrode a famous franchise. We don't expect a perfect game where everything is peachy but we at least expect a game where we as players can win on ability and not on things out of control effect the game as much as it does. We don't like what EA has become and not before long EA could very well be playing catch up to PES and I sincerely hope it does because then we might see EA look to do things right.
62. Oct 23, 2013
The whole game is pretty much broken and the graphics are the same and awful of course. As I said everything is broken and no I'm not just saying that.
63. Sep 27, 2013
First off, it is extremely unlikely that the game is scripted. Even if it was, the people writing the ridiculous zero scores at the moment could not have possibly played the game long enough to actually judge whether it is or not.
As such, it's hard to take any of the negative scores that refer to it seriously. After playing the game myself, I can safely say that FIFA 14 is a "good"
game. It's a marginally re-skinned, slower paced, more technical version of FIFA 13.
But is it a revolutionary FIFA experience? No, not at all. There's nothing here that suggests EA pushed the boat out to improve gameplay or the overall game dramatically. Everything about the title suggests that it had a more limited development cycle before it was finished up to concentrate on the next generation consoles.
There are several key improvements to mention however. Career Mode has made fantastic steps forward with a completely overhauled transfer system that more closely reflects the reality of footballing business. Ultimate Team continues to be a central focus for the game and has grown in stature and polish for this years title, but fortunately the offline and other multiplayer modes haven't been completely overshadowed by it, so it's still a well-rounded title with a lot of playing options.
Licencing and stadium usage has been expanded, with previously inaccessible kits, stadia and photo-captured player likenesses available in this title. This may be a small thing and one that you come to expect from the FIFA franchise, but it's still good to see it in the last of this generations FIFA games.
As stated above, gameplay is notably slower. It's not "bad" as such, and there aren't any game breaking bugs or laughable physics abnormalities that previous titles have had, but it does feel like a chess match rather than a game of football at times. That said, I still prefer this ahead of the arcadey, on-rails feel of the past.
Whilst FIFA 14 is worth buying, I still feel I'm waiting for the definitive FIFA experience. Hopefully, FIFA 15 will make a dramatic step forward in gameplay that is sorely needed, as the franchise is beginning to feel stale after few real discernible changes since the 2012 (or arguably 2011) incarnation.
64. Dec 6, 2013
I've invested a lot of time into Fifa 14 and I have to say that I have yet to have anything like what could be described as fun playing it. There's a slower pace to the game, you can play with manual passing which forces you to pick your passes very carefully but the lifeless A.I. means that your teammates never move for the ball. What's more, first touch is
non-existent in this game which is unforgivable in any football game. Football is all about touch and passing and Fifa can't really do either.
The two thumb sticks could have been put to real use but instead the right stick is designated for skill moves which look nice in videos but simply don't knit with the gameplay. Fifa is chained to some slick animations that actually detract from play. Compare to NHL where the gameplay is beautifully intuitive, the right stick moves the hockey stick, the left stick skates. If only the same principles were brought to Fifa.
Stop buying Fifa, it's a horrible engine, a horrible game It's the least fun you can have without actually playing any football.
65. Sep 27, 2013
66. Oct 1, 2013
There's always a fine line between making a game realistic, and making it enjoyable. Fifa 14 is definitely closer to real life in terms of player movements, touches and ball physics. However, I agree that games aren't flowing very well which makes it less enjoyable for me personally. So i'd give it a 7 because despite it's issues, i'm still going to play it for the next year anyway. If you've given it less than three then that's an exaggeration. Less than 5 are the kind of games you want to throw away. Fifa 14 isn't the best but its definitely not THAT bad. Expand
67. Oct 22, 2013
I simply had to write a review as I found myself laughing at the 0's and 1's that people have put. This game is wonderful, really really ramping up the realism another notch. If you want an arcade game that plays like an arcade game, then get PES. The main issue that EVERY SINGLE ONE of these bad reviewers have is that they had learned how to beat everybody in previous FIFAs and in this new one this methods no longer work and they have spat their dummies out. I think that expression is particularly relevant here as a huge portion of the reviewers are not old enough to remember FIFA on a console prior to the Playstation 3 or Original XBOX.
I had FIFA Soccer on the Sega Megadrive and have watched this game go from strength to strength.. There have always been the occasional banana skin from EA (FIFA 09 with the stats nerfer aka the attitude/mentality simulator from going up or down goals anyone?) but this year it has been a real breath of fresh air.
I found myself disliking this iteration in the first week of play too, because it was worse? no, because I couldn't use the tactics that I had relied on over the last 3 years to win anymore. I went from 10-0 victories in FIFA13 to 3-0 losses in 14. This years FIFA has made me relearn the beutiful game.
In addition to this, this years game has made me exclaim 'Wow! That is so much like something I saw on MOTD last night' or 'Oh my god, that was a CLASSIC Vertonghen tackle'. It now plays like real football. you have to think about how to advance. Gone has being able to pass the ball to a quick defender and sprint from one end of the pitch to another and score a laces goal from just inside the box.. It rarely happens in real life and so why should it happen in FIFA?
I am delighted with the new FIFA and have relished the challenge of re-learning the new mechanics. I have not seen a single bug with keepers letting in crosses or offsides being wrong... but hell, if I DO see it? I will be delighted that the referee or keeper has made a mistake once in a while.. because guess what? That's football. 10/10 for me.
68. Nov 8, 2013
Problems with this games well... lots, I understand that the game is meant to be more realistic so they made the physics, behaviors more realistic but it made the game play to slow. The new user interface was horrible to use stick to the old one, as I used to think that was the best menu et-up you can get on the game. They made it too much like for a tablet because of the new gen so when you go on you can swipe through the menu, I don't like that. Expand
69. Nov 9, 2013
I dislike it when unrealistic transfers take place every transfer window.
The teams wear the same gear every year.
Players retire at an early age.
Players slide and fall around on a wet fields and walk off as if they came out of a washing machine. Every time a through ball is given to 2 attackers, 1 offside, 1 onside, the ref blows assuming the ball was for the offside attacker!.
Whilst running with the ball close to one of my team mates on my way to score, he dispossesses me! and sometimes they are offside too and the ref blows.
What is the point of skill games? It has no effect on the career Pro, manager nor FUT, fun and challenging yes but useless. The way skill games can be useful is if it can be training which affects your pro's ability.
The crowd is fine as is, I don't care about how the fans look unless they start running onto the field, hugging players and stopping the game play.
I like the stadiums, they shouldn't remove just add more. The stadiums that are added has to be ones that are familiar to the world of FIFA you know, like those used for the previous World Cups.
They say Fifa 14 is alive" then why don't players and referees deliberately do things? make mistakes? like real "alive" people do.
I see online that there is the idea of "dynamic weather" that is as real as it gets! why is this an idea only now, it should have been in the game a long time ago.
The GTN is such a good idea gone terribly wrong, again, there is no point to it. If I want to scout a player I use the old method, get them young and let them grow to be the best. I think it would be so much more effective if the two methods were combined in to one.
Players and managers earn salaries in the game, why? I understand the concept but this salary cannot be used and this renders the idea, useless.
The graphics are fine, you know who has the ball without hearing the commentator nor looking at the name bar.
The precision movement is a great addition but needs to be refined, game play is sluggish.
Ball physics is my favorite, the best goals ever seen is on FIFA14!.
On FUT I made a substitution and the view didn't change, I was impressed with that, fluidity was maintained.
The HUD is very good, the way it displays online and offline info and the pictures displayed, its nice.
Like the message inbox, which still pops up after a match though but bearable.
Commentary has been improved, still too much repetitiveness.
Overall, more real,challenging and professional than 13 but so much less fun to play.
70. Dec 10, 2013
All right read this carefully as I am not going to torture myself by saying one more word about this game ever again in my entire life. DO NOT LISTEN TO THE CRITICS, they have no F***ing idea how S*** this game is. I live and breathe football, withoubt a doubt the biggest and most beautifal game on Earth. But F***ing FIFA 14 for F*** sake, it F***s up the entire F***ing sport. I know this review will be F***ing gigantic but I am just reviewing it like it should be reviewed. So bear with me.
I am not going to sugar coat it like the F***ing fat ass critics that suck EA's D*** so they will get paid, oh no no no. This game is F***ing terrible the critics blab on about, ahh this game is wildy realistic and is a replica of real life football well I find that very insulting. Clearly none of the C***s have ever watched or played football and then they play this and their like woah this is good. Well in comparison to a free internet game made when google first came out then I guess you can say it isn't totally horrrible. Look to give you an idea of how "Wildly Realistic" this game is listen, wait sorry no, read this.
So I have a BPL team in ultimate team with 100 cem. My gk is Cech with the cat chemistry style card which improves diving and reflexes etc, bear in mind he is the best BPL gk with 85 overall. So, I was playing some guy who had a similar rated team. He is on the attack and running down the left flank and I had a defender on the goal side of him. He reached a point where he was 12 yards away from the goal on a 20 or so degree angle. He had nowhere to go so he decided to chip shot, the ball went passed my defender and headed for the goal and was about 1 metre above the ground. The ball is coming straight to cech atthe front post when he decides to F***ing drop to the ground like he was on F***ing fire or some S*** and the ball went in.
Yeah that happened, this game is F***ing S*** and is a F***ing waste of money and time. If any people have fifa 98 on the ps1 or something and are thinking about getting this on your new console. Don't do it, it is absolute horse no matter how good you or you're players are EA's brand new scripting engine will find some way to F*** things up. For example I was playing aginst stoke as liverpool and I had 23 out of 25 shots on target and they had 2 out of 2 and I lost 2-1. How the F*** is that realistic how the F*** does stoke cities benchwarmer striker score 2 from 2 and F***ing sturridge and suares combined kick 1 from 25.
Anyone who has any respect for football take the time out of your life like I did to review this game and talk about your experiences and how you think it is. Trust me you are not wasting your time reviewing this because everyone reviewing it has already wasted time and money on this absolutley S*** F***ing game.
Please save yourselves and don't touch this game don't even pick it up and look at the case when you are browsing in your local games store. Just don't do it, unless you are a BOXER and need something to rev you up before a match want to really beat the out of anything, FIFA 14 will certainly help in that case.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, It feels good to get that out of my system. Thankyou for reading if you made it this far and bear in mind that I could literally and I mean that "LITERALLY" go on for days about how F***ing S*** this stupid F***ing game is.
Goodbye fellow footballers and EA haters.
71. Dec 13, 2013
I've always bought every FIFA game and played this game nonstop now I feel conned into getting this crap, if you think 13 was bad this is by beyond bad horrible game. The only thing you might be able to play career other than that seasons, pro clubs etc is horrible, the whole system gameplay is bad the first touch is worse, AI is more stupid now I don't want to rant anymore just don't get this POS. Expand
72. Dec 25, 2013
why would you connect me to someone with a poor signal and experience lags, gameplay is odd, looks worse than 2013. no wonder they dropped the price to 40$ what a disaster! Easports reputation is going down the toilet, this is a very very bad designed game! what a shame
73. Dec 30, 2013
This game is almost like a step back, it more suited for people who don't know how to play the game of football. Absolute rubbish, glitches in this game far exceed what was expected. The offside Trap feature sucks the movement is slow individual runs are slow as hell.
74. Dec 31, 2013
I played FIFA 13 for an crazy amount of hours because it was fun. I play 14 every 3-4 weeks for half an hour but just because I don't want it to be true....but it is...
This game captures football more realisticly but only the boring part of the real game. Let's be honest, a fifa game is about 10-15 minutes which is as along as the highlights of a real football game. The HIGHLIGHTS!
Thats why it has been a idea by ea to pack the boredom of a real game into 90% of the experience. Because what players want more or less is to play the highlights of football game with of course a little boredom but just because of the immersion. Anyway I play with Bayern Munich and ea's idea of what that should look/feel like is nothing more but alarming in almost every concern. Individual player performances are ridiculous compared to reality. Team "tactics"...come on...and on top of that what everyone calls scripting. I call it inability of coding a sophisticated football ai....In the year 2013 with ea's amount of ressources...I win all of my games in legendary mode like the years before but this time it is absolutely no fun. It is me getting used to how ea thinks it should work. And again this has nothing to do with what real football looks like. At least not the enjoyable part of it. Try it: Watch a FCB game on saturday and remember all the actions of ribery, robben, thiago, götze etc. The play 14 and compare what you can come up with in 15 min...this is a joke. Some people it is a good thing that you are not able to abuse...that is bs. watch the 15 min highlights of a FCB game and you will notice this team is succeasful because individual players ABUSE their skills to be superior! Expand
75. Jan 3, 2014
DO NOT BUY! I have never considered writing a review for a FIFA game until this year. Obviously we wouldn't be writing these reviews unless it was either a great game or a terrible game, but it seems this years was especially bad.
The speed is almost correct, but speedsters need to get off the mark quicker. Granted; some defenders can make up ground well, but the fast attackers need to
be able to outrun defenders. Left and right backs are an exception as well as the occasional speedy central defender.
The user needs to be able to change the player that is being controlled while the ball is in the air and for 50/50 balls. The computer consistently selects the incorrect player to make a challenge on balls in the air as well as retreating defensive situations. The computer also selects the incorrect player for passes, especially through balls, and certainly chip-through balls. THE USER CANNOT CHANGE THE PLAYER IT CONTROLS WHILE THE BALL IS EN-ROUTE (massive glitch; if i want to change the player I am controlling and I press the button to change players, I HAD BLOODY WELL GET A DIFFERENT PLAYER TO CONTROL. ESPECIALLY IF I AM NOT ON THE BALL.) I have had perfect passes to the runner I expect the ball to go to, have the ball hit the player in the foot, and the player will not pick up the ball or recognize the pass was to him because he is designed to believe the pass was to the player behind him, since the bar was completely charged. THE BALL HIT HIM IN HIS FOOT. If another player is within the line of he path of the ball, and the ball and the player intersect on this line, the player needs to accept the pass if the ball is not traveling very fast. Either this, or ALLOW THE USER TO CHANGE THE PLAYER IT CONTROLS WHEN THE BALL IS PLAYED.
These are just the large problems, for me. I could write a book about how poorly made this game was and how progressively worse it has gotten over the years. I buy it for the updated rosters. If I could buy an updated roster pack or something, I'd still have Fifa '06. It is almost criminal how much money they are making off us, but we keep buying these products so...they are lucky football is addicting and people love to control their favorite players on a digital pitch.
Career mode isn't scripted but the momentum feature gets a little out of hand. Every player on the team does't their pants just because one player makes the wrong pass or the other team hits the crossbar. Momentum builds over several minutes; it may be two minutes but it doesn't change after one misplaced pass in the opposing half.
I get the distinct feeling that the one that makes this game, don't actually watch it, let alone play the beautiful game, which means "the little things" are overlooked. Bad Game, but worse are the quality team for letting everything slip. I will not be buying FIFA again.
76. Feb 12, 2014
This game is **** stupid. Just cause someone picks brazil means they win every header, never get called for fouls and never get beat on defense. This game would be realistic if they didn't have the coach suck the reffs dicks before the game to win. Make this **** for both ways.
77. Nov 17, 2013
It seems that quite a lot of reviews of FIFA 14 have been made by people yet to be completely accustomed to the new style. A frustrating game at first, FIFA 14 will infuriate with its loose control and cause broken controllers with its "players turn like milk" policy, but eventually the creases can be ironed out with a change in style of play.
Focusing specifically on possession-based
football, EA have gone from making a game all about skill and pace to making a game that isn't impacted on by either. However, the effort you have to put in makes winning all the more rewarding.
Having said that, the inconsistency between each game is what spoils the overall experience. Stoke can pass like Barcelona and beat you 3-0, but Arsenal can't string a pass together and you can waltz to victory.
Enjoyable? Perhaps not. The worst game of the year? Hell no.
78. Nov 12, 2013
This game dishes out pain and pleasure in unequal measure, unequal as that is how unbalanced Fifa 14 is. For example its normally Ultimate Team were noobs have a fighting chance but with seasons mode, where skill and tactics used to be key, noobs got smashed to bits. Unfortunately now its the other way round, because in seasons every noob runs to Real Madrid, so unless you are either Barcelona or Manchester City you have virtually no chance with Bale, CR7 and co running at your defense. With the game new mechanics players with pace and height (CR7, Bale, Ibarbo, etc) will tear the likes of Thaigo Silva apart. I like the new mechanics and the slowed down gameplay, but having such an over-powered team unbalances the game. UT mode has vastly improved, with the ability to change formations at will now and the ability to enhance player stats with boost cards. It's far more a tactical battle there, but it shouldn't be this way. Overall better this year in some parts, far far worse in others. Expand
79. Oct 30, 2013
Just like the recent current-gen sports titles, like NHL 14, NBA 2k14, and Madden NFL 25, FIFA 14 brings nothing new to current-gen consoles and is just a re-skin of FIFA 13 with a roster update. FIFA looks great for next-gen, but FIFA 14 is a complete bust for the Xbox 360. Pure-shot brings nothing dramatically new to the table and other than that, this is the same damn game. Do not buy this generations edition of FIFA! You'll regret it if you did! Expand
80. Oct 17, 2013
I'm perplexed by the number of bad reviews Fifa 14 has on Metacritic. It's an improvement on Fifa 13 in every way.
1. The gameplay is better. Players are more agile and shift their weight when defending and shooting. The AI is WAY better they attack and defend creatively. It's true that goals tend to happen closer to the end of the first and second half there's definitely a 'morale'
system that has been implemented behind the scenes to make it more dramatic. That being said, there are a lot of things that are implemented in games without being overt, so it's not necessarily a problem (it happens to everyone, so how could that be unfair)?
2. The format is better. Fifa 13 had pretty ugly presentation, and had lots of popups and menus that weren't necessary. Fifa 14 looks much better in this sense.
3. Game modes are better. FUT is more complex, Career and Pro modes are slight improvements.
My only complaint is that the graphics are only marginally better, namely the weather conditions and stadiums. It will feel pretty clunky compared to the Xbox One/ PS4 versions.
I don't understand all the people whining about everything. If you don't like incremental improvements in games, don't buy games that come out once a year!
81. Sep 30, 2013
It's a great football game, but that doesn't mean it's all good and all gold. The game represents an actual football game a whole lot better than FIFA 13: It's not just mindless running from end to end, you have to work the midfield instead. But you have to relearn some basic skills like passing (even in assisted mode you have to be more careful with your aim) and you can't just rely on through balls. The much hyped new AI actually seems to be no better than before with the defenders not closing in on lonely attackers and teammates not going for loose balls after succesful tackles. And the reduced speed of the game, while it's a good thing, has probably gone a bit too far with the speedsters like Walcott not being able to outrun huge lumbering centre backs.
It's far from perfect, but it's a solid performance. You won't miss much, though, if you don't upgrade from FIFA 13.
82. Feb 13, 2014
I really likes the fame but for me fifa 13 is better than 14. And man the Ea server is tottaly with bugs and many times we lost a match because the server is with many bugs . They may release a patch for the game because we cant play ut like this
83. Nov 5, 2013
This game was good except for FUT. In the tutorial they teach you about chemistry and they make it look really easy but when you get your team its so hard to build the chemistry. Then your team sucks and you can't win. I just play it for the manager career which if you pick a good team then this game is really fun.
84. Feb 17, 2014
Another miniscule update for another 60 bucks
Screw EA and their sucky games. Its not even worth it to buy a new version each year even if the new one is better, this time around the new one isnt even better. Im staying with FIFA 13 until a revolutionairy new FIFA is released. So that means no new FIFA till 2050 or until EA goes bankrupt, make it happen people!
85. Oct 11, 2013
A game trying to find it roots but struggling to match promise with actual quality.
FIFA 13 was an abomination of football,; very arcade like and tremendously based around pace and auto-defending however FIFA 14 hasn't strayed too far away from this model and offers a glitch riddled game that dictates how you should play.
In recent years FIFA has favoured the casual gamer and created
a few do-it-all game actions, one of these was the long ball, which destroyed the enjoyment of playing single and online modes and the other was team mate press.
To rectify these problems in 14 they have closed the gap between pace which means 90 pace isn't a million miles an hour faster than 69 pace. This is great as it resembles real life but in their wisdom to make the game more realistic they have handed the problem to another button.
This button is the team mate press and jockey combination, for example whereas in real life a 6foot+ giant has little physical trouble against a 5 foot 5 midget in FIFA the seasoned player can decimate all large targets simply by using an auto-tackle built into the jockey button. This destroys the enjoyment of online for the many and for the seasoned sorts makes the game very tense and enjoyment free. This is a real sad step in the series because combined with the continued use of auto-tackle, in both jockey and team mate press form, the online experience is ruined and made into a chore.
Defending successfully is about using the computer to do the work for you, and this is further exemplified by the single player mode where on very high levels contain defending is the only way to break down play (making a tackle button fairly pointless), it's a real shame EA and FIFA's developers hadn't thought about defending as a two schools of thought, contain and tackling. The problems with the jostle button are further exemplified on high levels where the CPU will continually push you off the ball making games very challenging.
This is actually great as FIFA13 was extremely easy, but the learning curve is too high, and unless you use the AI to tackle for you makes for games of chance and not ability.
Further on the gameplay side FIFA is slower, nicer to play (though first touch is not perfect as it was) and with better passing options but it lacks a lot of finesse and is riddled with flaws that the gaming community exploit fans are almost dead in this particular game. (FPS players love a camper right?!)
Career modes are good as usual, which means single player is fun (unless playing on a high setting) and Ultimate Team actually feels like it is back to supporting players and not traders.
Some issues remain; coin selling websites, long ball and pace well matched allies, it's hard to earn coins and prices for players are high however due to the passing game being mostly supported an average player can use the less favourable cards with decent success.
FIFA 14 is a step in the right direction but if you're looking to recreate the beautiful game you're best waiting till FIFA 15 or looking at Pro Evolution soccer; FIFA 14 gameplay simply hasn't matched the heights of their marketing and licenses and this is a real shame for us purists.
FIFA 14, the gamers game; you are FIFA and FIFA is not football.
86. Feb 7, 2014
Rubbish game. EA needs to stop copying and pasting from previous games and build a new fifa.
Online, this game is so bad. I've never seen a Fifa game this bad before. Seriously you might be selling the game EA this year, but i will not be buying Fifa 15, forget it.
87. Nov 11, 2013
i think FIFA14 was very better than PES14 i played both of them. In PES14 you can not see the ground. it is full of writings and other things and i really prefer to play FIFA14.
88. Nov 4, 2013
worst fifa, play areal game like call of duty ghosts, it is the best game ever made! The best FPS and better thna bf4, COD is beautiful, sooo gooood! good on ya infinity ward
89. Oct 24, 2013
Having been lucky to experience this on the next gen at Eurogamer; going back to FIFA 14 on the 360 just shows how stretched the series has become in recent years. EA certainly have plenty of ideas taking the game forward on the PS4 and ONE but the current systems are really showing their age with only a few improvements once again. EA have essentially taken FIFA as far as they can on the current generation but do leave a few neat additions as we look forward to the future.
I felt 13 was far too pacey with the better teams but this years outing is considerably slower; too slow if anything and exhaustively uninspiring with weaker teams. If they kept to a similar pacing like FIFA 12; this game would be finely balanced. Some may argue it is more realistic but even the most avid football fans want more of a flow as this is a game after all and not a 90 minute simulation.
Defending is much easier but attacking is now trickier to master which results in many matches being orchestrated around the midfield. Matches now are tighter than ever particularly on the more challenging difficulty settings.
The presentation is much improved in the menus but the textures in game are still lacking compared to the likes of NBA, Madden and the superb MLB The Show. EA have pushed it to the limit visually and it is still lacking with some poor textures and shoddy stadiums. The cardboard crowd is also back as EA fail to represent football with a convincing matchday feel. Thankfully we see more animations this time around in-game which improves the way players look when they pass and shoot and move around with the ball. The general shooting is much improved and the gameplay feels less scripted but it still is not a giant leap we were hoping for.
Thankfully the next gen version is highly polished with a full 3D crowd, 10x more animations and with vastly improved free-flowing matches; this version will be a huge basis for EA to work from well into the future. The presentation is absolutely superb along with the pace. Overall; FIFA 14 on the 360 and PS3 is an acceptable game which has slight differences but I'd wait for the next gen to really kick off this game for the coming months.
90. Dec 28, 2013
I have played different fifa's but this part appealed to me.Seriously this is the best part of fifa Realistic ball realistic moves great soundtrack and great desing. I dont understand persons who gaves 0.I played PES too but i think FIFA is better.
91. Jan 12, 2014
DO NOT BUY THIS **** GAME. worst soccer game ever. i cant even believe that the people who "tested" this stupid game even allowed it to be released.
1.) goals are small making it impossible to score
2.) your keeper blows theirs is a brick wall
3.) your own players that arent under control wander around mindlessly and wont help you or make a run
4.) u cannot make a pass to save your
5.) your own players will get in your way when you try to dribble/shoot
6.) other teams defenders block every shot
7.) players (on both teams) will run offsides 99% of the time and the ref will call a offside if your 1/10000000 of a millimeter offside
8.) if your player gets fouled ref wont call it for you
9.) ref calls everything against the players team
10.) the difficulty setting will change whenever it wants making the opponents impossible to score on
11.) you cannot dribble the ball worth a ****
12.) you cannot shoot the ball worth a ****
list goes on and on
92. Nov 30, 2013
I like the game and all but I get very irritated about the first touch because they take the first touch to big. This irritates me very much because Fifa 12 is way better dribbling then Fifa 14.
93. Dec 11, 2013
Fifa 14, a mixed bag overall. Admittedly whilst the new features make for a more realistic football game, i found that a lot of the time they made for a less enjoyable game. If i take the global transfer network, for example, it does seem like a more professional way of searching for players however the lack of the ability to search for players by overall rating really hinders the transfer system in the game. Also just whilst on the subject of transfers i feel, in my experience, that some clubs asked for unrealistic and just plain over the top amounts to sign players. This made it difficult to sign good players without paying through the teeth to get them.
The actual in match football for this game has been slowed down considerably, with more emphasis being put on pressing, controlling the midfield and generally more strategic football. This makes for a more challenging game in my opinion but at the cost of making a love it or hate it play style that will alienate many fifa regulars. The footballing gameplay is more streamlined and realistic, but will make some of the same mistakes previous games would. Some of these include your defenders being caught in no man's land by a single long ball over the top or by the sluggishness of the AI players reacting to loose balls. The most severe of these mistakes in my opinion the fact that your players will constantly be caught offside through a combination of their ineptitude and by the most unrealistic part of the game, good linesmen. These guys could catch you offside if you breathed past the last defender, which although annoying does cut out some of the through ball syndrome previous fifa games had.
The rest of the game i found satisfactory, with menus not necessarily made simpler but organised in a way that allows for quicker navigation when you get used to the system and the usual high amount of fifa customization throughout the rest of the game.
Final verdict: Not a bad way to initiate your fifa experience if new to the franchise, but i wouldn't recommend fifa 13 owners to 'upgrade' unless really into this style of strategic football.
94. Dec 11, 2013
The game play side is ok not really a step up from 13 but what they have done on career mode is a joke. The transfer system on 13 was good, it let you search players based on skill level, age etc.The new system is over elaborate, I do not play online much so can not comment there. Really felt I wasted my money here, if you are thinking of purchasing this and already have 13 then do not
95. Dec 13, 2013
Fifa 14 is probably the worst way to follow up the overly-attaching and fun Fifa 13. This game tried to be the perfect Fifa to keep up with Next Gen, and it failed. The game feels much more realistic in that the in game play isn't so focused on the player's speed, which provides more of a fair balance during the gameplay experience. One of the main problems in my opinion about Fifa 14 is the (what seems like) lack of effort put into this Current Gen title. When I first went onto the game I immediately looked at the squads and there it was. Mesut Ozil was at Real Madrid and Gareth Bale was at Spurs. Bear in mind that these two players transferred from these clubs over three weeks before the game was released. It speaks volumes.
Fifa 14 provides a perfect balance in general gameplay but feels like a major let down following on from the fantastic Fifa 13.
96. Dec 13, 2013
SAVE YOUR MONEY, BUY FIFA 13 (360) INSTEAD FIFA 14 (360) is riddled with bugs. For example: • Rage quits often crash the game. • Multiplayer opponents don't appear in Xbox Live recently met list (so you can't mute, message, or avoid 'em). • You can't choose what to do after a match is tied at the end of 90'. FIFA 14 (360) still lacks basic features. For example, you still can't filter possible multiplayer opponents on the basis of connection quality.
You may as well buy FIFA 13 (360) instead.
• The above-mentioned bugs don't exist.
• Most of the graphics (gameplay, UI) in FIFA 14 are identical with FIFA 13.
• EA spent as little on development as possible on FIFA 14 (360). Perhaps this was to maximize resources on the next gen SKUs, and the upcoming World Cup 2014 title.
• Microsoft knowingly allowed this turd to ship. Perhaps this was in exchange for the assurances that EA would promptly ship FIFA for Xbox One.
• Any pro reviewer giving FIFA 14 (360) a high score is dishonest.
PS Don't blame the QA testers. They invariably find these bugs. It's management who over-rules them, deeming bugs as "shippable".
97. Dec 14, 2013
This game had so much potential. Yes, they did improve a lot of things such as ball physics, and more realistic player movement, but seriously, the stuff going on 'behind the scenes" in this game is a joke. EA has practically taken the idea of user input and made some sort of practical joke out of it. Players rarely do what they are intended to do. Such a shame.
98. Dec 16, 2013
Pound for pound the worst football game ever. Didnt buy last years as I dont think EA do anywhere near enough each year to warrant £40. However this years is different, while its still the same scripted rubbish that punishes the better football brain, and nothing more then a test of how well you can exploit the games many flaws- this year has a great new gimmick: absolutely no entertainment what so ever. All goals come from headers and corners. It is impossible to play attractive football. long shots hit the woodwork sometimes but dont go in: tactical defending is still the most uncomfortable bag of crap in the world. The great idea from EA has been to manipulate the game so as to lower the scoreline hence creating a really realistic "soccer" experience- without the goal fests that used to happen when the game was intended to be fun to play. What the Canadian morons fail to see is that the only way this is realistic is as a Sunday league simulator. I cannot express how much I would advise no one to buy this game, I spent £45 on it which in itself makes me consider suicide. EA are a greedy disgrace of a company and from now on I will play PES or nothing. DO NOT BUY THIS CRAP Expand
99. Dec 27, 2013
Diabolical is the only way to describe this game which has been written by people who haven't seen a game if footy in their lives. Spamming long balls all game seems to be the only way to play this joke of a game.
100. Dec 23, 2013
I really enjoy the newest Fifa. The tempo of the game is more realistic than on previous Fifas i've played. It's more fun to play career mode than before, because it really requires some tactical thinking sometimes to break the AI-defence. Also it seems that AI is wiser and better than before.
Anyways, i'm not giving 10 because sometimes it feels that all the goals are identical. Just
All in all, great game with lots of nice singleplayer and multiplayer modes to choose from. FUT is awesome.
PES 13 was great, but this is even better.
101. Oct 1, 2013
Generally favorable reviews - based on 41 Critics
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1. Positive: 36 out of 41
2. Negative: 0 out of 41
1. Dec 12, 2013
In this year's installment FIFA doesn’t take any larger leaps forward. It is still a polished football game for the dedicated fan base. And for the player who doesn’t want to play alone Ultimate Team is probably better than ever. But it is still too bad that EA hasn’t worked more on improving the core mechanics of the game.
2. Oct 30, 2013
FIFA 14 pushes the franchise forward in baby steps without providing any major surprises or new “wow” features, yet is still streets ahead of the competition and a must for any footie fan.
3. Oct 28, 2013
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I urge adoption of the bill and thank Mr. Neal for his contributions to it, as well as my Republican colleagues who cooperated in moving the legislation forward. Mr. Speaker, I yield the balance of our time to the gentleman from North Carolina [Mr. Neal] and ask unani- mous consent that he be permitted to allocate the time under the rule. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the gen- tleman from Texas? There was no objection. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from North Carolina [Mr. Neal] for the bal- ance of the time allotted. Mr. NEAL of North Carolina. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. gener.^l leave Mr. NEAL of North Carolina. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members may have 5 legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks on the bill presently under consideration. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the gen- tleman from North Carolina? There was no objection. Mr. NEAL of North Carolina. Mr. Speaker, H.R. 3235 is an important leg- islative step forward in fighting the crime of money laundering. I am pleased to have cosponsored this legislation with the distinguished chairman of the Banking Committee [Mr. Gonzalez], who has played a lead- ing role in addressing the threat that money laundering poses to financial in- stitutions. One of the unique aspects of this leg- islation is that it combats money laun- dering by seeking to eliminate 30 per- cent of the 10 million currency trans- action reports now being filed annu- ally. Elimination of these reports. which law enforcement officials inform us have no value, will also reduce the paperwork burden on financial institu- tions. Eliminating these unnecessary re- ports will enhance law enforcement ef- forts. Reports on legitimate trans- actions are the chaff in which the ker- nels of illegitimate transactions hide. By eliminating those reports, it should be easier for law officials to identify those reports which have a high degree of usefulness in combating money laun- dering. The Banking Committee added an important amendment to the legisla- tion. The amendment, which is con- tained in section II of the bill, clarifies that the offense of structuring trans- actions to evade currency reporting re- quirements does not require the Gov- ernment to prove that a defendant knew that structuring is illegal. This clarification was necessary because of a January Supreme Court decision, Ratzlaf versus United States, in which the Court held, by a 5 to 4 margin, that such a showing is necessary. Justice Blackmun, in his dissent, pointed out that "ignorance of the law * * * is no defense to criminal prosecution" and that Congress intended "that a willful violation of the antistructuring provi- sions requires knowledge of the bank's reporting requirements and an intent to evade them, [not] knowledge of the illegality of structuring." Section 11 makes it completely clear that struc- turing violations require only intent to evade the reporting requirements. Under the amendment, the Govern- ment will not have to prove that the defendant knew structuring was ille- gal. The Government will need only prove that the defendant structured transactions with the intent to evade the reporting requirements. Several other provisions of the bill are also worth noting. Sections 7 and 8 address the role of money transmitters and check cashers in money laundering. As financial in- stitutions have become more efficient in filing currency transactions reports and detecting and reporting money- laundering schemes, money launderers have increasingly turned to nondeposi- tory institutions as a vehicle for money laundering. Section 7 contains a sense of the Con- gress that the States should work to- gether to develop uniform laws regulat- ing money transmitters and check cashers, and should provide for ade- quate enforcement of those laws. As a consumer protection matter, the States are also urged to consider regu- lation of check cashing fees, to prevent abuse of low-income consumers who have little or no other sources of hav- ing checks cashed. Section 8 provides that money trans- mitters must register with the Treas- ury. This will assure that the Treasury is aware of who is engaged in the busi- ness, so that) it can better monitor their compliance with currency trans- action reporting requirements. The leg- islation requires that the Secretary es- tablish a minimum threshold below which registration is not required, so as to eliminate unnecessary burdens on small businesses. At the same time, large money transmitting businesses are required to make the lists of their agents available to law enforcement agencies upon request. This will enable law enforcement officials to check on the status of particular money trans- mitting agents if that becomes nec- essary. Mr. Speaker, this is an important piece of legislation that is supported by both the law enforcement and the fi- nancial institutions communities. I commend the chairman of the Banking Committee, the gentleman from Texas [Mr. Gonzalez], for introducing it and the gentleman from Florida [Mr. McCoLLUM] for working to perfect it. I urge the House to pass it. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time. Mr. LEACH. Mr. Speaker, I yield my- self such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of H.R. 3235. The Money Laundering Suppression Act of 1994, crafted under the leader- ship of Chairman Neal, Chairman Gon- zalez, and the ranking member of the Financial Institutions Subcommittee, Bill McCollum, strikes an appropriate balance between reducing the regu- latory burden on our financial institu- tions and improving detection of money laundering. The Treasury Department has esti- mated that $110 billion is laundered through our financial system each year. Some think the number may be as high as $300 billion. Whatever the figure, it is an extraordinary problem, representing the lifeblood of the drug trade. However, since enactment of the Bank Secrecy Act in 1970. which re- quires that a currency transaction re- port [CTR] be filed for each monetary transaction over $10,000, nearly 54 mil- lion reports have been filed with the Federal Government. Well intended as the 1970 law may be, such a large data base has not proven conducive to effec- tively using many reports. H.R. 3235 represents an attempt to weed out those CTR's that are not of much value in law enforcement, with a goal of allowing more attention to be directed to those with a higher degree of law enforcement usefulness. The legislation will also: centralize the reporting of suspicious trans- actions; subject foreign bank drafts to reporting for the first time; require the banking agencies to improve training for bank examiners to detect money- laundering schemes; and finally, the bill will require all money transmit- ting businesses to register with the Treasury Department. Again, I thank Chairmen Gonzalez and Neal, and urge support for the bill. D 1220 Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time. Mr. NEAL of North Carolina. Mr. Speaker, I yield 5 minutes to the gen- tleman from Nevada [Mr. Bilbray]. Mr. BILBRAY. Mr. Speaker, I rise to express my serious concerns over two sections of H.R. 3235. Let me first commend the chairman for his efforts to combat money laun- dering. The legislation before us today will reduce the number of currency transaction reports banks are required to file, while making the process more effective at identifying suspicious cus- tomer transactions. However, I have serious reservations regarding sections 9 and 10 of the legislation. One effect of sections 9 and 10 will be to eliminate the Treasury Secretary's discretion to provide exemptions from Federal currency transaction reporting regulations, even in cases where exist- ing State law already meet Federal standards. Since the revision of Fed- eral laws in the 1980's, Nevada has had State laws matching or surprising the Federal reporting requirements. The Treasury Department has agreed that this is the case and, as a result, has provided Nevada with an exception from Federal reporting regulations. Eliminating the Treasury Secretary's discretion to grant an exemption will require creation of a new currency transaction reporting system that par- allels the existing State reporting sys- tem in Nevada. This will result in sig- nificant new costs to my State's most important industry. It will not improve currency transaction reporting to the Federal Government. There is no need to force Nevada to change the way it meets the require- ments of title 31 of the Federal code. I am not aware of anyone who claims that Nevada's currency transaction re- ports are less stringent than those compiled under Federal regulations. In fact, forcing Nevada to adopt a new re- porting structure would run contrary to one of the main goals under H.R. 3235. I understand that one of the main purposes of the changes in H.R. 3235 is to reduce the drain on Federal re- sources related to reporting areas of marginal significance when it comes to criminal money laundering, and to focus those resources instead on im- proved enforcement in those areas more likely to experience significant currency transaction violations. Re- quiring a new Federal reporting struc- ture to replace the existing State structure in Nevada will result in re- quiring additional Federal resources to be committed in an area where no sub- stantial problems now exist. Just last week, the Senate passed a companion bill to H.R. 3235 without sections 9 and 10. When we go to con- ference, I urge you to seriously con- sider leaving the Treasury Secretary's discretion to grant exemptions from Federal reporting regulations in place, at least as it applies to existing report- ing systems. It is working well in Ne- vada. Nevada has worked closely with the Treasury Department over the years to ensure that Federal reporting requirements are met, and I am con- fident they will continue to do so. Mr. Speaker, I support the bill, but I urge my colleagues in conference to go along with the Senate and take out sections 9 and 10. Mr. NEAL of North Carolina. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I just want to respond to the comments by the gentleman from Nevada [Mr. Bilbray] and thank him for his concern. He is a very dedi- cated Member of Congress, always looking out for the interest of his State, and I appreciate his thoughts on the subject. Mr. Speaker, a the gentleman said, the other body has passed a similar money laundering bill, but without sec- tion 10. I anticipate that this matter will be resolved in conference in a man- ner which retains the section's author- ity to grant exemptions as appropriate, especially to States which have effec- tive laws and enforcement to combat money laundering. I am a firm believer in Federal-State cooperation and want to assure the gentleman that I will work to resolve the differences between the two bills in a manner that balances the needs of Federal law enforcement with minimizing regulatory burdens. The gentleman from Nevada [Mr. Bilbray] is probably aware that the Treasury Department has not re- quested this change. They think that they have adequate enforcement capa- bility with their discretionary author- ity, so we will certainly keep that in mind as we go to the conference. Mr. BILBRAY. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from North Carolina [Mr. Neal] for that statement. Mr. PICKLE. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of H.R. 3235, the Money Laundenng Suppres- sion Act of 1994. H.R. 3235 will greatly im- prove the Federal Government's ability to deal effectively with money laundering issues. The bill improves the usefulness of currency trans- action reports, addresses the difficulties posed by the recent Supreme Court decision related to the cnme of structuring, and reduces the re- porting burdens placed on legitimate busi- nesses without adversely affecting Federal law enforcement. The bill will also tighten up on the so-called shadow banking system of check cashers and money transmitters. For the first time, we are asking these outfits to help their Government combat money laundering. The Sutx;ommittee on Oversight of the Committee on Ways and Means, which I chair, had continuously reviewed the eflectiveness of Treasury and IRS programs to address money laundering and related tax evasion. I have 5574 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD— HOUSE March 21, 1994 March 21, 1994 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD— HOUSE 5575 shared the findings of the subcommittee with the Committee on Banking. The legislation be- fore the House today effectively deals with a number o( issues initially identified by the sub- committee on Oversight. Specifically, my subcommittee found a back- Mr. NEAL of North Carolina. Mr. Speaker, I. too, yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Montgomery). The question is on the motion offered by the gentleman from log of Bank Secrecy Act [BSA] civil penalty Texas [Mr. Gonzalez] that the House cases at Treasury's Office of Financial En- forcement [GFE], which frustrated the regu- lators, and ultimately resulted in fewer penalty referrals to OPE. This legislation will address the backlog of penalty cases at OFE by dele- gating authority to assess penalties under BSA to IRS and bank examiners who actually conduct the investigations and detect the vio- lations. Also, my subcommittee found that money laundering has shifted to wire-transmit- ters, check cashers, and other non-regulated financial institutions and that the Federal Gov- ernment knows very little about the magnitude of their activities because these operations are largely unregulated at the Federal level. This legislation will require these transmitters, check cashers. and others to register with the Treasury. Further, my subcommittee found that the BSA data base contained incomplete and unnecessary currency transaction report [CTR] data. This legislation will clean up the BSA data base and improve the ability of law- enforcement agencies to access reliable data. H.R. 3235 will also require all casinos and gaming establishments, including Indian gam- ing operations and the Nevada casinos, to comply with the BSA and file CTR's with IRS. We know from our oversight hearings that money laundering is taking place in casinos, and that more effective enforcement is need- ed. H.R. 3235 brings all casinos under the BSA umbrella. This is a sound, smart policy. N/loney-laundering enforcement is more than identifying drug traffickers and confiscating their ill-gotten gains. Money laundering threat- ens the integrity of our voluntary tax system and, as we have learned lately, even our na- tional security. It has been reported in the press that a CIA spy, Aldrich Hazel Ames, made numerous large cash purchases which were reported to IRS as suspicious. I have asked IRS to provide my subcommittee with a report on what actions, if any, the agency has taken in response to the Ameses' spending habits and their deposits of large cash sums. The fight against money laundering and tax evasion is a never-ending battle as drug traf- fickers, tax cheats, and even spies, devise new and ingenious ways to disguise the source of their money. It seems that as soon as we act to close loopholes in our Federal laws and enforcement strategies, money launderers develop new schemes to cir- cumvent the law. Therefore, the Congress, working with law enforcement agencies and the business and financial communities, must continue to be vigilant in this fight and pre- pared to meet new challenges. H.R. 3235 helps meet these challenges. Last, I want to commend Chairmen Gon- zalez and Neal, and the Committee on Bank- ing, for developing a strong, responsible, and important piece of legislation. The art of money laundering is a continual state of change. We need this legislation now to give law enforcement a fighting chance. I urge my colleagues to support H.R. 3235. Mr. LEACH. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time. suspend the rules and pass the bill, H.R. 3235, as amended. The question was taken; and (two- thirds having voted in favor thereof) the rules were suspended, and the bill, as amended, was passed. A motion to reconsider was laid on the table. CONFERENCE REPORT ON S. 1284. DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES ASSISTANCE AND BILL OF RIGHTS ACT AMENDMENTS OF 1994 Mr. WAXMAN submitted the follow- ing conference report and statement on the Senate bill (S. 1284) to amend the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act to expand or modify certain provisions relating to programs for individuals with devel- opmental disabilities, P'ederal assist- ance for priority area activities for in- dividuals with developmental disabil- ities, protection and advocacy of indi- vidual rights, university affiliated pro- grams, and projects of national signifi- cance, and for other purposes: CONFERENCK REPORT (H. REPT. 10^-442) The committee of conference on the dis- agreeing votes of the two Houses on the amendment of the Hou.se to the bill (S. 1284), to amend the Developmental Disabilities As- sistance and Bill of Rights Act to expand or modify certain provisions relatins to pro- S,aams for individuals with developmental disabilities. Federal assistance for priority area activities for individuals with devel- opmental disabilities, protection and advo- cacy of individual rig-hts. university affili- ated programs, and projects of national sig- nificance, and for other purposes, having met, after full and free conference, have agreed to recommend and do recommend to their respective Houses as follows: That the Senate recede from its disagree- ment to the amendment of the House and agree to the same with an amendment as fol- lows; In lieu of the matter proposed to be in- serted by the House amendment, insert the following: SECTION I. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. (a) Short Title.— This Act may be cited as the "Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act Amendments of 1994". (b) Table of Co.vrs.vri'.— r/ie table of con- tents is as follows: Sec. 1. Short title: table of contents. Sec. 2. References. TITLE I— GENERAL PROVISIONS Sec. 101. Headings and short title. Sec. 102. Fitidings and purposes. Sec. 103. Definitions. Sec. 104. Federal share. Sec. 105. Records and audits. Sec. 106. Recovery. Sec. 107. Stale control of operations. Sec. 108. Reports. Sec. 109. Responsibilities of the Secretary. Sec. 209. Sec. 210. Sec. 211. Sec. 212. Sec. 213. Sec. 110. Employment of handicapped individ- uals. Sec. 111. Rights of the developmentally dis- abled. TITLE II— FEDERAL ASSISTANCE FOR PRI- ORITY AREA ACTIVITIES FOR INDIVID- UALS WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABIL- ITIES Sec. 201. Part heading. Sec. 202. Purpose. Sec. 203. State plans. Sec. 204. Habilitation plans. Sec. 205. Councils. Sec. 206. State allotments. Sec. 207. Federal share and non-Federal share. Sec. 208. Payments to the States for planning, administration, and services. Withholding of payments for plan- ning, admini.ttration. and serv- ices. Nonduplicalwn. Appeals by States. Authorization of appropriations. Review, analysis, and report. TITLE HI— PROTECTION AND ADVOCACY OF THE RIGHTS OF INDIVIDUALS WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES Sec. 301. Part heading. Sec. 302. Purpose. Sec. 303. System required. Sec. 304. Authorization of appropriations. TITLE IV— UNIVERSITY AFFILIATED PROGRAMS Sec. 401. Part heading. Sec. 402. Purpose. Sec. 403. Grant authority. Sec. 404. Applications. Sec. 405. Grant awards. Sec. 406. Authorization of appropriations and definition. TITLE V— PROJECTS OF NATIONAL SIGNIFICANCE Sec. 501. Part heading. Sec. 502. Purpose. Sec. 503. Grant authority. Sec. 504. Authorization of appropriations. SEC. 2. REFERENCES. Except as otherwise specifically provided, whenever in this Act an amendment or repeal is expressed in terms of an amendment to. or a re- peal of, a section or other provision, the ref- erence shall be considered to be made to a sec- tion or other provision of the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act (42 U.S.C. 6000 et seq.). TITLE I— GENERAL PROVISIONS SEC. 101. HEADINGS AND SHORT TITLE. (a) Title.— The heading of title I of the Act is amended to read as follows: "TITLE I— PROGRAMS FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABIUTIES". (b) Part. -The heading of part A of title I of the .4ct is amended to read as follows: "PART A— GENERAL PROVISIONS". (c) Short Title.— Section 100 (42 U.S.C. 6000 note) is amended — (1) by striking "SEC. 100": a'ld (2) in the section heading, by striking "iHOftr TITLE" and inserting the following new section heading: -SEC. 100. SHORT TITLE." SEC. 102. FINDINGS AND PURPOSES. Section 101 (42 U.S.C. 6000) is amended to read as follows: "SEC. 101. FINDINGS, PURPOSES, AND POUCY. "(a) Fi.\DL\GS.—The Congress finds that— "(1) in 1993 there are more than 3,000,000 indi- viduals with developmental disabilities in the United States: "(2) disability is a natural part of the human experience that docs not diminish the right of individuals with developmental disabilities to enjoy the opportunity to live independently, enjoy self-determination, make choices, contrib- ute to society, and experience full integration and inclusion in the economic, political, social, cultural, and educational mainstream of Amer- ican society: "(3) individuals with developmental disabil- ities continually encounter various fonns of dis- crimination in critical areas: "(4) there is a lack of public awareness of the capabilities and competencies of individuals with developmental disabilities: "(5) individuals whose disabilities occur dur- ing their developmental period frequently have severe disabilities that are likely to continue in- definitely: "(6) individuals with developmental disabil- ities often require lifelong specialized services and assistance, provided in a coordinated and culturally competent manner by many agencies, professionals, advocates, community representa- tives, and others to eliminate barriers and to meet the needs of such individuals and their families: "(7) a substantial portion of individuals with developmental disabilities and their families do not have access to appropriate support and serv- ices from generic and .'ipecialized service systems and remain unserved or underserved: "(8) family members, friends, and members of the community can play an important role in enhancing the lives of individuals with devel- opmental disabilities, especially when the family and community are provided with the necessary services and supports: "(9) there is a need to ensure that services, supports, and other assistance are provided in a culturally competent manner, that individuals from racial and ethnic minority backgrounds are fully included in all activities under this Act. and that greater efforts are made to recruit individuals from minority backgrounds into the field of developmental disabilities: and "(10) the goals of the Nation properly include the goal of providing individuals with devel- opmental disabilities with the opportunities and support to — "(A) make informed choices and decisions: "(B) live in homes and communities in which such individuals can exercise their full rights and responsibilities as citizens: "(C) pursue meaningful and productive lives: "(D) contribute to their family, community. State, and Nation: "(E) have interdependent friendships and re- lationships with others: and "(F) achieve full integration and inclusion in society, in an individualized manner, consistent with unique strengths, resources, priorities, con- cerns, abilities, and capabilities of each individ- ual. "(b) Purpose.— The purpose of this Act is to assure that individuals with developmental dis- abilities and their families participate in the de- sign of and have access to culturally competent services, supports, and other assistance and op- portunities that promote independence, produc- tivity, and integration and inclusion into the community, through— "(1) support to State Developmental Disabil- ities Councils in each State to promote, through systemic change, capacity building, and advo- cacy activities that are consistent with the pol- icy under subsection (c)(2). a consumer and family-centered, comprehensive system, and a coordinated array of services, supports, and other assistance for individuals with devel- opmental disabilities and their families: "(2) support to protection and advocacy sys- tems in each State to protect the legal and human rights of individuals with developmental disabilities: "(3) support to univer.';ity affiliated programs to provide interdisciplinary preservice prepara- tion of students and fellows, community service activities, and the dissemination of information and research findings: and "(4) support to national initiatives to collect necessary data, provide technical assistance to State Developmental Disabilities Councils, pro- tection and advocacy systems and university af- filiated programs, and support other nationally significant activities. "(c> Policy.— It is the policy of the United States 'that all programs, projects, and activities receiving assistance under this Act shall be car- ried out in a manner consistent with the prin- ciples that— "(I) individuals with developmental disabil- ities, including those with the most severe devel- opmental disabilities, are capable of achieving independence, productivity, and integration and inclusion into the community, and often require the provision of services, supports and other as- sistance to achieve independence, productivity. and integration and inclusion: "(2) individuals with developmental disabil- ities and their families have competencies, capa- bilities and personal goals that should be recog- nized, supported, and encouraged, and any as- sistance to such individuals should be provided in an individualized manner, consistent with the unique strengths, resources, priorities, con- cerns, abilities, and capabilities of the such in- dividuals: "(3) individuals with developmental disabil- ities and their families are the primary decisionmakers regarding the services and sup- ports such individuals and their families receive and play decisionmaking roles in policies and programs that affect the lives of such individ- uals and their families: "(4) services, supports, and other assistance are provided in a manner that demonstrates re- spect for individual dignity, personal pref- erences, and cultural differences: "(5) specific efforts must be rriade to ensure that individuals from racial and ethnic minority backgrounds enjoy effective and meaningful op- portunities for full participation in the devel- opmental disabilities service system: "(6) recruitment efforts within developmental disabilities at the level of preservice training, community training, practice, administration and policymaking must focus on bringing larger numbers of racial and etitnic minorities into the field in order to provide appropriate skills, knowledge, role models, and sufficient man- power to address the growing needs of an in- creasingly diverse population: "(7) with education and support, communities can be responsive to the needs of individuals with developmental disabilities and their fami- lies and are enriched by the full and active par- ticipation and the contributions by individuals with developmental disabilities and their fami- lies: and "(8) individuals with developmental disabil- ities should have access to opportunities and the necessary support to be included in community life, have interdependent relationships, live in homes and communities, and make contributions to their families, community. State, and iVa- tion.". SEC. 103. DEFINITIONS. Section 102 (42 U.S.C. 6001) is amended to read as follows: SEC. 102. DEFINITIONS. "For purposes of this title: "(1) AMERICAN /.VO//i.V COSSORTIUM.—The term 'American Indian Consortium' means any con- federation of two or more recognized American Indian tribes, created through the official action of each participating tribe, that has a combined total resident population of 150,000 enrolled trib- al members and a contiguous territory of Indian lands in two or more States. "(2) Assistive techsology device.— The term 'assistive technology device' means any item, piece of equipment, or product system, whether acquired commercially, modified or cus- tomized, that is used to increase, maintain, or improve functional capabilities of individuals with developmental disabilities. "(3) ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY SERVICE.— The term 'assistive technology service' means any service that directly assists an individual with a developmental disability in the selection acqui- sition, or use. of an assistive technology device. Such term includes — "(A) the evaluation of the needs of an indi- vidual with a developmental disability, includ- ing a functional evaluation of the individual in the individual's custorriary environment: "(B) purchasing, leasing, or otherwise provid- ing for the acquisition of assistive technology devices by an individual with a developmental disability: "(C) selecting, designing, fitting, customizing, adapting, applying, maintaining, repairing or replacing assistive technology devices: "(D) coordinating and using other therapies, interventions, or services with a-ssistive tech- nology devices, such as those associated with existing education and rehabilitation plans and programs: "(E) training or technical assistance for an individual with a developmental disability, or. where appropriate, a family member, guardian, advocate, or authorized representative of an in- dividual with a developmental disability: and "(F) training or technical assistance for pro- fessionals (including individuals providing edu- cation and rehabilitation services), employers, or other indiinduals who provide services to. em- ploy, or are otherwise substantially involved in the major life functions of. an individual with developmental disabilities. "(4) Child development activities— The term 'child development activities' means such priority area activities as will assist in the pre- vention, identification, and alleviation of devel- opmental disabilities in children, including early intervention services. "(5) CO.M.MLNITY LIVI.\G ACTIVITIES.— The term 'community living activities' means such prior- ity area activities as will assist individuals with developmental disabilities to obtain and receive the supports needed to live in their family home or a home of their own with individuals of their choice and to develop supports in the commu- nity. "(6) Community supports.— The term 'com- munity supports' means activities, services, sup- ports, and other assistance designed to — "(A) assist neighborhoods and communities to be more responsive to the needs of individuals with developmental disabilities and their fami- lies: "(B) develop local networks that can provide informal support: and "(C) make communities accessible and enable communities to offer their resources and oppor- tunities to individuals mlh developmental dis- abilities and their families. Such term includes community education, per- sonal assistance services, vehicular and home modifications, support at work, and transpor- tation. "(7) CULTURALLY COMPETENT.— The term 'cul- turally competent' means services, supports or other assistance that are conducted or provided in a manner that is responsive to the beliefs, interpersonal styles, attitudes, language and be- haviors of individuals who are receiving serv- ices, and in a manner that has the greatest like- lihood of ensuring their maximum participation in the program. "(8) Developmental disability.— The term 'developmental disability' means a severe, chronic disability of an individual 5 years of age or older that— "(A) IS attributable to a mental or physical impairment or combination of mental and phys- ical impairments: 5576 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD— HOUSE March 21, 1994 March 21, 1994 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD— HOUSE OOi 4 ■■(B) IS manifested before the individual at- tains age 22: ■•(C) is likely to continue indefinitel-y: ■'(D) results in substantial functional limita- tions in three or more of the following areas of major life activity— "(i) self -care: "(ii) receptive and expressive language: '(Hi) learning: "(iv) mobility: "(v) self-direction: "(vi) capacity for independent living: and "(vii) economic self-sufficiency: and "(E) reflects the individual's need for a com- bination and sequence of special, interdiscipli- nary, or generic services, supports, or other as- sistance that is of lifelong or extended duration and is individually planned and coordinated, except that such term, when applied to infants and young children means individuals from birth to age 5. inclusive, who have substantial developmental delay or specific congenital or ac- quired conditions with a high probability of re- sulting in developmental disabilities if services are not provided. •■(9) Early interve.wtio.^ services.— The term 'early intervention services' means services provided to infants, toddlers, young children, and their families to — "(A) enhance the development of infants, tod- dlers, and young children icith disabilities and to minimise their potential for developmental delay: and "(B) enhance the capacity of families to meet the special needs of their infants, toddlers, and young children. "(10) EMPLOYStEST ACTIVITIES.— The term ■em- ployment activities' means such priority area activities as wilt increase the independence, pro- ductivity, and integration and inclusion into the community of individuals with developmen- tal disabilities m work settings. "(11) Family support service.— The term 'family support service' means services, sup- ports, and other assistance provided to families with members with developmental disabilities that are designed to— "(A) strengthen the family's role as primary caregiver: "(B) prevent inappropriate out-of-the-home placement and maintain family unity: and "(C) reunite families with members who have been placed out of the home, whenever possible. Such term includes respite care, rehabilitation technology, personal assistance services, parent training and counseling, support for elderly parents, vehicular and home modifications, and assistance with extraordinary expenses associ- ated with the needs of individuals with devel- opmental disabilities. "(12) Federal priority areas.— The term 'Federal priority areas' means community living activities, employment activities, child develop- ment activities, and system coordination and community education activities. "(13) INDEPESDENCE.—The term 'independ- ence' means the extent to which individuals with developmental disabilities exert control and choice over their own lives. "(14) Individual supports.— The term 'indi- vidual supports' means services, supports, and other assistance that enable an individual with a developmental disability to be independent, productive, integrated, and included into such individual's community, and that are designed to— "(A) enable such individual to control such individual's environment, permitting the most independent life possible: "(B) prevent placement into a more restrictive living arrangement than is necessary: and "(C) enable such individual to live, learn, work, and enjoy life in the community. Such term includes personal assistance services, rehabilitation technology, vehicular and home modifications, support at work, and transpor- tation. "(15) INTEGRATION AND INCLUSION.— The term 'integration and inclusion', with respect to indi- viduals with developmental disabilities, means— "(A) the use by individuals with developmen- tal disabilities of the same community resources that are used by and available to other citizens: "(B) living in homes close to community re- sources, with regular contact with citizens with- out disabilities in their communities: "(C) the full and active participation by indi- viduals with developmental disabilities in the same community activities and types of employ- ment as citizens without disabilities, and utili- zation of the same community resources as citi- zens without disabilities, living, learning, work- ing, and en)oying life in regular contact with citizens without disabilities: and "(D) having friendships and relationships with individuals and families of their own choosing. "(16) Nonprofit.— The term 'nonprofit' means an agency, institution, or organization that is owned or operated by one or more cor- porations or associations, no part of the net earnings of which inures, or may lawfully inure, to the benefit of any private shareholder or individual. "(17) Other organizations.— The term 'other organizations' means those organizations that are not State agencies or nonprofit agencies, ex- cept such organizations may be consulting firms, independent proprietary businesses and providers, and local community groups not orga- nizationally incorporated, and that are inter- ested in supporting individuals with devel- opmental disabilities. "(18) Personal assistance services.— The term 'personal assistance services' means a range of services, provided by one or more indi- viduals, designed to assist an individual with a disability to perform daily living activities on or off a job that such individual would typically perform if such individual did not have a dis- ability. Such services shall be designed to in- crease such individual's control in life and abil- ity to perform everyday activities on or off such job. "(19) Prevention.— The term 'prevention' means activities that address the causes of de- velopmental disabilities and the exacerbation of functional limitations, such as activities that — "(A) eliminate or reduce the factors that cause or predispose individuals to developmental disabilities or that increase the prevalence of de- velopmental disabilities: "(B) increase the early identification of exist- ing problems to eliminate circumstances that create or increase functional limitations: and "(C) mitigate against the effects of devel- opmental disabilities throughout the individ- ual's lifespan. "(20) Productivity .—The term 'productivity' means — "(A) engagement in income-producing work that is measured by increased income, improved employment status, or job advancement: or "(B) engagement in work that contributes to a household or community. "(21) Protection and advocacy syste.m.— The term 'protection and advocacy system' means a protection and advocacy system estab- lished in accordance with section 142. "(22) Rehabilitation technology.— The term 'rehabilitation technology' means the sys- tematic application of technologies, engineering methodologies, or scientific principles to meet the needs of, and address the barriers con- fronted by, individuals with developmental dis- abilities in areas that include education, reha- bilitation, employment, transportation, inde- pendent living, and recreation. Such term in- cludes rehabilitation engineering, assistive tech- nology devices, and assistive technology serv- ices. "(23) SECRETARY.-The term 'Secretary' means the Secretary of Health and Human Services. "(24) Service coordination activities.— The term 'service coordination activities' (also re- ferred to as 'case management activities') means activities that assist and enable individuals with developmental disabilities and their families to access .iervices. supports and other assistance, and includes— "(A) the provision of information to individ- uals with developmental disabilities and their families about the availability of services, sup- ports, and other assistance: "(B) assistance in obtaining appropriate serv- ices, supports, and other assistance, which may include facilitating and organizing such assist- ance: "(C) coordination and monitoring of services, supports, and other assistance provided singly or m combination to individuals with devel- opmental disabilities and their families to ensure accessibility, continuity, and accountability of such assistance: and "(D) follow-along services that ensure, through a continuing relationship, that the changing needs of individuals with developmen- tal disabilities and their families arc recognized and appropriately met. "(25) State.— The term 'State', except as pro- vided in section 155, includes, in addition to each of the several States of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Republic of Patau (until the Compact of Free Association with Palau takes effect). "(26) State developmental disabilities council.— The term 'State Developmental Dis- abilities Council' means a Council established under section 124. "(27) STATE PRIORITY AREA.— The term 'State priority area' means priority area activities in an area considered essential by the State Devel- opmental Disabilities Council. "(28) SUPPORTED EMPLOYMENT.— The term 'supported employment' means competitive work in integrated work settings for individuals with developmental disabilities— "(A)(i) for whom competitive employment has not traditionally occurred: or "(ii) for whom competitive employment has been interrupted or intermittent as a result of a severe disability: and "(B) who, because of the nature and severity of their disability, need intensive supported em- ployment services or extended services in order to perform such work. "(29) System coordination and community EDUCATION activities.— The term 'system co- ordination and community education actiinties' means activities that— "(A) eliminate barriers to access and eligi- bility for services, supports, and other assist- ance: "(B) enhance systems design, redesign, and integration, including the encouragement of the creation of local service coordination and infor- mation and referral statewide systems: "(C) enhance individual, family, and citizen participation and involvement: and "(D) develop and support coalitions and indi- viduals through training in self -advocacy . edu- cating policymakers, and citizen leadership skills. "(30) UNIVERSITY AFFILI.iTED PROGRAM.— The term 'university affiliated program' means a university affiliated program established under section 152. "(31) Unserved and UNDERSERVED.—The term 'unserved and underserved' includes popu- lations such as individuals from racial and eth- nic minority backgrounds, disadvantaged indi- viduals, individuals with limited-English pro- ficiency, individuals from underserved geo- graphic areas (rural or urban), and specific groups of individuals within the population of individuals with developmental disabilities, in- cluding individuals with developmental disabil- ities attributable to physical impairment, mental impairment, or a combination of physical and mental impairments.". SEC. 104. FEDERAL SHARE. Section 103 (42 U.S.C. 6002) is repealed. SEC. 105. RECORDS AND AUDITS. (a) SECTION HEADING.— Section 104 (42 U.S.C. 6003) is amended — (1) by striking "Sec. 104.": and (2) in the section heading, by striking "RECORDS AND AUDIT" and inserting the follow- ing new section heading: "SEC. 104. RECORDS AND AUDrrS.'. (b) Records and audits.— Section 104 (42 U.S.C. 6003) is amended— (1) in subsection (a) — (A) by striking "Each" and inserting ' 'Records.— Each ' ', (B) by striking "including" and inserting "in- cluding—": (C) by realigning the margins of subpara- graphs (A), (B), and (C) of paragraph (1) so as to align with the margins of subparagraphs (A) and (B) of paragraph (28) of section 102: (D) by realigning the margins of paragraphs (1) and (2) so as to align with the rruirgin of paragraph (30) of section 102: (E) in paragraph (1). by striking "disclose" and inserting "disclose — ",• and (F) by striking the comma each place such ap- pears and inserting a semicolon: and (2) in subsection (b), by striking "The Sec- retary" and inserting "Access.— The Sec- retary". SEC. 106. RECOVERY. Section 105 (42 U.S.C. 6004) is repealed. SEC. 107. STATE CONTROL OF OPERATIONS. Section 106 (42 U.S.C. 6005) is amended— (1) by striking "SEC. 106.": (2) in the section heading, by striking "state control of operations" and inserting the fol- lowing new section heading: "SEC. 106. STATE CONTROL OF OPERATIONS."; and (3) by striking "facility for persons" and in- serting "programs, services, and supports for in- dividuals". SEC. 108. REPORTS. (a) Section Heading.— Section 107 (42 U.S.C. 6006) is amended— (1) by striking "Sec. 107.": and (2) in the section heading, by striking "re- ports" and inserting the following new section heading: "SEC. 107. REPORTS.". (b) Reports.— Section 107 (42 U.S.C. 6006) is amended — (1) in subsection (a) — (A) in the matter preceding paragraph (1)— (i) by striking. "By January" and inserting "Developmental Disabilities Council Re- ports.—By January": (ii) by striking "the State Planning Council of each State" and inserting "each State Devel- opmental Disabilities Council": (Hi) by striking "a report concerning" and in- serting "a report of": and (iv) by striking "such report" and inserting "report": (B) in paragraph (1). by striking "of such ac- tivities" and all that follows through "from such activities" and inserting "of activities and accomplishmen ts"; (C) in paragraph (2) — (i) by striking "such accomplishments" and inserting "accomplishments": and (ii) by striking "by the State": (D) in paragraph (4)— (i) by striking "Planning" and inserting "De- velopmental Disabilities": (ii) by striking "each" each place such term appears; (lii) by striking "report" and inserting "re- ports": (IV) by striking "1902(a)(31)(C)" and inserting "1902(a)(31)": (V) by striking "plan" and inserting "plans": and (vi) by striking ": and" and inserting a semi- colon: (E) by striking paragraph (5): and (F) by adding at the end the following new paragraphs: "(5) a description of— "(A) the trends and progress made in the State concerning systemic change (including policy reform), capacity building, advocacy, and other actions on behalf of individuals with de- velopmental disabilities, with attention to indi- viduals who are traditionally unserved and un- derserved. particularly individuals who are members of ethnic and racial minority groups, and individuals from underserved geographic areas: ■■(B) systemic change, capacity building, and advocacy activities that affect individuals with disabilities other than developmental disabil- ities: and "(C) a summary of actions taken to improve access and services for unserved and under- served groups: "(6) a description of resources leveraged by activities directly attributable to State Devel- opmental Disabilities Council actions: and "(7) a description of the method by which the State Developmental Disabilities Council shall widely disseminate the annual report to affected constituencies as well as the general public and to assure that the report is available in acces- sible formats.": (2) in subsection (b)— (A) by .itriking "By January" and inserting "Protection and advocacy System Re- ports.—By January": and (B) by inserting before the period ", including a description of the system's priorities for such fiscal year, the process used to obtain public input, the nature of such input, and how such input was used": and (3) in subsection (c)— (A) by realigning the margins of subpara- graphs (A) and (B) of paragraph (1) so as to align with the margins of subparagraph (C) of such paragraph: (B) by realigning the margins of paragraphs (1) and (2) so as to align with the margin of paragraph (1) of subsection (a): (C) by striking the subsection designation and inserting "(c) Secretary Reports.—": (D) by striking "(1) By" and inserting the fol- lowing: "(1) In general.— By": (E) in paragraph (1)— (i) in subparagraph (B)— (I) by striking "integration" each place such term appears and inserting "integration and in- clusion": and (II) by striking "persons" and inserting "indi- viduals": (ii) by striking subparagraph (C) and insert- ing the following new subparagraph: "(C)(i) the trends and progress made in the States concerning systemic change (including policy reform), capacity building, advocacy, and other actions on behalf of individuals with de- velopmental disabilities, with attention to indi- viduals who are traditionally unserved and un- derserved. SEC. 109. RESPONSIBIUTIES OF THE SECRETARY. (a) Section Headi.sg. —Section 108 (42 U.S.C. 6007) IS amended— (1) by striking "Sec. 108": and (2) in the section heading, by striking "re- sponsibilities of the secretary" and insert- ing the following new section heading: "SEC. lOa. RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE SEC- RETARY.". (b) Responsibilities— Section 108 (42 U.S.C. 6007) IS amended— (1) in subsection (a), by striking "The Sec- retary" and inserting "Regulations.— The Sec- retary": and (2) in subsection (b) — (A) by striking "Within ninety" and inserting "l.KTERAGENCY COM.MITTEE.— Within 90": and (B) by striking "Administration for Devel- opmental Disabilities" and inserting "Adminis- tration on Developmental Disabilities,". SEC. 110. EMPLOYMENT OF HANDICAPPED INDI- VIDUALS. 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A destination as removed from the wider world as Inle Lake demands a resort where detachment is a priority. Where simplicity is the essence of elegance. Where contemplation, not bustle, reigns supreme. At the Sanctum Inle Resort, arches and cloisters reference the monastic life, opening the doors on a more contemplative experience of travel. With a design that celebrates the fundamentals, that merges the spiritual and the secular, the past and the present, East and West, the hotel is a gateway to one of the Asia’s most fascinating locales. Stay in one of four classes of rooms and suites; eat from menus that span Eurasia; relax in our remarkable pool overlooking the storied lake, and explore the wonders of Inle. Embrace the quietude cultivated by one of Myanmar’s most ambitious new hotels. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.8679507374763489}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '32692', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:7TY3NLL2I4MFNMHCBJFDZVGBBHJ6OU5D', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:e82399e7-cd96-4723-b136-b8fec40cb6bb>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 4, 24, 4, 0, 22), 'WARC-IP-Address': '111.235.138.158', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:HEKLE6EXPPG2ST3X472RRRTDLVICYCQO', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:e18a9f2d-42fe-4536-a9d0-0c691d614491>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://sanctum-inle-resort.com/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:be8c386a-15ab-4c22-b93a-70c7046b7684>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '140', 'url': 'http://sanctum-inle-resort.com/', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-18\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for April 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-109-209-241.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.15 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.1-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.051812589168548584', 'original_id': 'ccdb708fe3ce7dc526fa046467b82d82bd818a91138a2c5427ce03444e440623'} |
April 5, 2010
Calif. Marijuana Debate Reaches Cornell
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John, a junior at UCLA, is worried. For the past three years, he has been earning extra cash at school by dealing marijuana, and if new legislation passes in November, he might have to get a less lucrative job, such as filing books at the library.
“It’s time that the government legalized pot,” John, who declined to give his last name, said. “I probably need to find something else to do, but in terms of pot itself, everyone already does it. there’s no point in keeping it restricted.”
In November, California might become the first state to legalize sales of marijuana. As that date approaches, discussion is sprouting across the nation and at the University on whether or not marijuana should be legalized country-wide.
694,248 signatures, significantly more than the 433,971 needed, were collected to put the legalization of marijuana on this November’s ballot, according to The Los Angeles Times. Richard Lee, a marijuana mogul from Oakland, Calif., who made $1.3 million from his businesses, is the leading advocate for the campaign.
“We’re one step closer to ending cannabis prohibition and the unjust laws that lock people up for cannabis while alcohol is not only sold openly but advertised on television to kids every day,” he told The Times.
Meanwhile, students and faculty at Cornell remained mostly supportive of the legislation.
“There are probably not too many people impatiently waiting for marijuana to become legal so that they can try it for the first time. To the extent that legalization would mean that the person selling you marijuana would no longer necessarily know where you can find heroin, this would be a very good thing,” Prof. Emily Owens, PAM, who teaches a course on the economics of drugs and gangs, said.
“It is hard to say with certainty what will happen if the voter initiative passes,” Owens added. “To the extent that legalization will make people smoke more and drink less, this would on net probably reduce crime,” she added.
Students were even more in favor of the legalization efforts, arguing that the legislation could allow the government to better control the marijuana market.
“It’s impossible to ignore that people in the country are doing pot. I think if the government orders more moderate use then [fewer] people will abuse it,” Christina Bailey ’12 stated.
“It already happens, so why not control it?” said Carolyn Braza ’11. “The only reason why it’s dangerous is when it’s laced with others drugs, people are gonna do it anyways, and if the government can regulate it, it’d be much safer. More people’ll try it [if it was legalized], but in terms of frequent users [I think] the number will stay the same.”
Others noted that although marijuana has traditionally been considered an illegal drug, it is “not a dangerous drug per se,” unless it were to be “abused,” according to Bailey.
Yet some students feared the consequences of legalizing a drug, which still has the potential to harm.
“The reason [marijuana] is so expensive now is because its illegal, and I realize that doesnt deter regular users, but it still does the job,” said Nandini Das ’11, a student from Cupertino, Calif.
Traditionally, the marijuana legalization debate has broken down along clearly defined issues.
On the one hand, opponents contend that although marijuana is not as addictive as cocaine or heroine, it is still a drug that influences behavior and has adverse health effects, and should remain outlawed. Pot farmers are also against the legalization of marijuana, because although the legalization may spark an increase in marijuana demand, it will undoubtedly drive down the price of marijuana and with it their profit margin, reported Reason.com. Others have pointed to studies, such as one conducted by the RAND corporation, which show that smoking marijuana reduces math standardized test scores by 15 percent.
Proponents of the legislation, on the other hand, have pointed to the decrease in costs for housing prison inmates on marijuana charges and an increase in tax revenues that legalization could bring. According to Time magazine, California’s economy would receive a boost of $1.4 billion in tax revenue if a tax of 10 percent is levied on the $14 billion industry.
“I will be interested to see what happens in November,” Owens said. “It looks like both sides are rallying the faithful to raise money and motivate voters.”
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Female orgasm
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“Pure bullshit.”
~ Oscar Wilde on Female Orgasms
To understand the female orgasm, one must first understand female anatomy.
For the religious among us who choose to believe lies, the so-called experts at Wikipedia think they have an article about Female orgasm.
A female orgasm is a magical time for women. If their men sex them right, maybe they can experience one.
Female Orgasms in the Mist(?)
The first credible reports of the independent existence of female orgasms in the wild suggested that they were hiding in the intermediate vicinity of the Cascade Mountain Range. In 1803, the Lewis and Clark expedition set out on foot to videotape a pack of female orgasms in their natural habitat. They obtained what they thought to be a blurry video of the elusive female orgasm walking through a heavily wooded area in Oregon country, but it turned out instead to be Michael Douglas in a fetching string bikini.
Supporters of the theory of the wild female orgasm claim to have been gathering loose hairs and plaster casts of rogue female orgasm tracks for the past 20 years, and they are certain that the truth is out there, somewhere, and they also believe that they are forming an army secret from men to take down their greatest threat, Ryan Seacrest.
Recent Scientific Discoveries
However, recent scientific discoveries (ones that the scientists, both male and female, enjoyed very much discovering — in fact, they have repeatedly tested it billions and billions of times just to be absolutely sure) have determined that only the conventional male orgasm actually exists in the male universe. They have also determined that the only known female orgasm for men on record took place entirely within one of Bill Clinton's surprisingly realistic sexual fantasies. However, it is believed that Chuck Norris is currently testing every female on Earth and Mars to attempt to be the first man ever to give a lady an orgasm. Should he succeed, he will demand control of the planet, and very likely, the Universe too. All women are therefore asked to take a ticket and wait their turn.
What the Scientists Had to Say to the Questioning Public
• Q: Well the cat's out of the bag (no pun intended), we know about the research, what did you come up with?
• A: Well, uh, after much testing...much, much, much testing, we have concluded that regardless of size, mass, and speed it is impossible for a man to get a women to reach climax most probably because they don't enjoy sex with men.
• Q: What methods did you use to determine this?
• A: Uh, haha, thats uh.. classified.
• Q: Well I'm sure your methods were orthodox?
• A: Oh, yes, they were conventional methods, people have been doing 'it' for a very long time.
• Q: So what were the final results?
• A: Our conclusion was that the female orgasm does not, has not, and will not ever exist in the presence of men.
Psychology of the Female "Orgasm"
It is widely believed that today's modern women fake these so-called "orgasms" for guys they like because it makes them feel like they have succeeded at something, when in fact they have done nothing of the sort. At one point during the early 1970's, they had everyone believing that orgasms for guys were real with the whole: "If we weren't capable of having an orgasm, why would we even bother to masturbate?" argument, but we now know that women only masturbate purely for reasons of regularly scheduled maintenance, not of their thoughts on men.
However, women have recently countered this claim, stating that: "Men are just so rubbish at finding our spots and knowing how to love a woman." However, it must be pointed out that women often spend hours in the mirror using beauty products to hide these spots from men and therefore must be trying to hide their shame. It is a well-known Freudian fact that women often wonder what it would be like to have a penis - obviously, there can only be one reason for this, but Freud did not quite get it correctly in his time. The famous insane asylum resident, the psychologist Freud, set this out in one of his quite-popular-but-not-that-well-known articles, which was reviewed by some random lady who works in a chip shop with the line: "I'd find that article funny if I wasn't such a feminist lol." The lady was promptly stomped to death for betraying her feminist roots.
The single, most definite piece of evidence that females have an intense need to claim that they can achieve orgasm and that it's all the fault of men is portrayed in the following quote: "It does actually exist... a guy's never given me one... but I have given myself one... and other girls are adept at giving me one..." So sad. So very, very sad. And quite obviously a cover-up. It is a sad fact that women will go to extreme lengths in order to cover up this inadequacy for men.
The female orgasm leaves the male specimen with one "driving" question: "How can I tell when a woman has an orgasm?" The answer: "You don't even care; why are you even asking me!?"
*Newsflash* Orgasm Discovered?
Yes! It's true ladies and gentleman. A rare breed of woman has been discovered with a strange disorder that allows her to have, not one, but MULTIPLE orgasms. By what means you ask? By ANY means. Self-manipulation, stimulation from her partner/lover, or just walking across the floor in really tight jeans. This rare find is capable of female ejaculation and makes use of the sacred "G-Spot" in ways that could make a grown man cry. How does one come across [pun intended?]someone such as this? Where would a person find someone who can accomplish such feats, bend like Gumby, and not be bound by contract to some porno film company? Look for a woman with sensory integration dysfunction and have an ounce of patience. The pay off is... mind blowing.
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/* global SharedArrayBuffer */
import Flatbush from './index.js';
import test from 'node:test';
import assert from 'node:assert/strict';
const data = [
8, 62, 11, 66, 57, 17, 57, 19, 76, 26, 79, 29, 36, 56, 38, 56, 92, 77, 96, 80, 87, 70, 90, 74,
43, 41, 47, 43, 0, 58, 2, 62, 76, 86, 80, 89, 27, 13, 27, 15, 71, 63, 75, 67, 25, 2, 27, 2, 87,
6, 88, 6, 22, 90, 23, 93, 22, 89, 22, 93, 57, 11, 61, 13, 61, 55, 63, 56, 17, 85, 21, 87, 33,
43, 37, 43, 6, 1, 7, 3, 80, 87, 80, 87, 23, 50, 26, 52, 58, 89, 58, 89, 12, 30, 15, 34, 32, 58,
36, 61, 41, 84, 44, 87, 44, 18, 44, 19, 13, 63, 15, 67, 52, 70, 54, 74, 57, 59, 58, 59, 17, 90,
20, 92, 48, 53, 52, 56, 92, 68, 92, 72, 26, 52, 30, 52, 56, 23, 57, 26, 88, 48, 88, 48, 66, 13,
67, 15, 7, 82, 8, 86, 46, 68, 50, 68, 37, 33, 38, 36, 6, 15, 8, 18, 85, 36, 89, 38, 82, 45, 84,
48, 12, 2, 16, 3, 26, 15, 26, 16, 55, 23, 59, 26, 76, 37, 79, 39, 86, 74, 90, 77, 16, 75, 18,
78, 44, 18, 45, 21, 52, 67, 54, 71, 59, 78, 62, 78, 24, 5, 24, 8, 64, 80, 64, 83, 66, 55, 70,
55, 0, 17, 2, 19, 15, 71, 18, 74, 87, 57, 87, 59, 6, 34, 7, 37, 34, 30, 37, 32, 51, 19, 53, 19,
72, 51, 73, 55, 29, 45, 30, 45, 94, 94, 96, 95, 7, 22, 11, 24, 86, 45, 87, 48, 33, 62, 34, 65,
18, 10, 21, 14, 64, 66, 67, 67, 64, 25, 65, 28, 27, 4, 31, 6, 84, 4, 85, 5, 48, 80, 50, 81, 1,
61, 3, 61, 71, 89, 74, 92, 40, 42, 43, 43, 27, 64, 28, 66, 46, 26, 50, 26, 53, 83, 57, 87, 14,
75, 15, 79, 31, 45, 34, 45, 89, 84, 92, 88, 84, 51, 85, 53, 67, 87, 67, 89, 39, 26, 43, 27, 47,
61, 47, 63, 23, 49, 25, 53, 12, 3, 14, 5, 16, 50, 19, 53, 63, 80, 64, 84, 22, 63, 22, 64, 26,
66, 29, 66, 2, 15, 3, 15, 74, 77, 77, 79, 64, 11, 68, 11, 38, 4, 39, 8, 83, 73, 87, 77, 85, 52,
89, 56, 74, 60, 76, 63, 62, 66, 65, 67
];
function createIndex() {
const index = new Flatbush(data.length / 4);
for (let i = 0; i < data.length; i += 4) {
index.add(data[i], data[i + 1], data[i + 2], data[i + 3]);
}
index.finish();
return index;
}
function createSmallIndex(numItems, nodeSize) {
const index = new Flatbush(numItems, nodeSize);
for (let i = 0; i < 4 * numItems; i += 4) {
index.add(data[i], data[i + 1], data[i + 2], data[i + 3]);
}
index.finish();
return index;
}
function createIndexSharedArrayBuffer() {
const index = new Flatbush(data.length / 4, 16, Float64Array, SharedArrayBuffer);
for (let i = 0; i < data.length; i += 4) {
index.add(data[i], data[i + 1], data[i + 2], data[i + 3]);
}
index.finish();
return index;
}
test('indexes a bunch of rectangles', () => {
const index = createIndex();
const len = index._boxes.length;
assert.equal(index._boxes.length + index._indices.length, 540);
assert.deepEqual(Array.from(index._boxes.subarray(len - 4, len)), [0, 1, 96, 95]);
assert.deepEqual(index._indices[len / 4 - 1], 400);
});
test('skips sorting less than nodeSize number of rectangles', () => {
const numItems = 14;
const nodeSize = 16;
const index = createSmallIndex(numItems, nodeSize);
// compute expected root box extents
let rootXMin = Infinity;
let rootYMin = Infinity;
let rootXMax = -Infinity;
let rootYMax = -Infinity;
for (let i = 0; i < 4 * numItems; i += 4) {
if (data[i] < rootXMin) rootXMin = data[i];
if (data[i + 1] < rootYMin) rootYMin = data[i + 1];
if (data[i + 2] > rootXMax) rootXMax = data[i + 2];
if (data[i + 3] > rootYMax) rootYMax = data[i + 3];
}
// sort should be skipped, ordered progressing indices expected
const expectedIndices = [];
for (let i = 0; i < numItems; ++i) {
expectedIndices.push(i);
}
expectedIndices.push(0);
const len = index._boxes.length;
assert.deepEqual(Array.from(index._indices), expectedIndices);
assert.equal(len, (numItems + 1) * 4);
assert.deepEqual(Array.from(index._boxes.subarray(len - 4, len)), [rootXMin, rootYMin, rootXMax, rootYMax]);
});
test('performs bbox search', () => {
const index = createIndex();
const ids = index.search(40, 40, 60, 60);
const results = [];
for (let i = 0; i < ids.length; i++) {
results.push(data[4 * ids[i]]);
results.push(data[4 * ids[i] + 1]);
results.push(data[4 * ids[i] + 2]);
results.push(data[4 * ids[i] + 3]);
}
assert.deepEqual(results.sort(compare), [57, 59, 58, 59, 48, 53, 52, 56, 40, 42, 43, 43, 43, 41, 47, 43].sort(compare));
});
test('reconstructs an index from array buffer', () => {
const index = createIndex();
const index2 = Flatbush.from(index.data);
assert.deepEqual(index, index2);
});
test('throws an error if added less items than the index size', () => {
assert.throws(() => {
const index = new Flatbush(data.length / 4);
index.finish();
});
});
test('throws an error if searching before indexing', () => {
assert.throws(() => {
const index = new Flatbush(data.length / 4);
index.search(0, 0, 20, 20);
});
});
test('does not freeze on numItems = 0', {timeout: 100}, () => {
assert.throws(() => {
new Flatbush(0); // eslint-disable-line
});
});
test('performs a k-nearest-neighbors query', () => {
const index = createIndex();
const ids = index.neighbors(50, 50, 3);
assert.deepEqual(ids.sort(compare), [31, 6, 75].sort(compare));
});
test('k-nearest-neighbors query accepts maxDistance', () => {
const index = createIndex();
const ids = index.neighbors(50, 50, Infinity, 12);
assert.deepEqual(ids.sort(compare), [6, 29, 31, 75, 85].sort(compare));
});
test('k-nearest-neighbors query accepts filterFn', () => {
const index = createIndex();
const ids = index.neighbors(50, 50, 6, Infinity, i => i % 2 === 0);
assert.deepEqual(ids.sort(compare), [6, 16, 18, 24, 54, 80].sort(compare));
});
test('performs a k-nearest-neighbors query with all items', () => {
const index = createIndex();
const ids = index.neighbors(50, 50);
assert.deepEqual(ids.length, data.length >> 2);
});
test('returns index of newly-added rectangle', () => {
const count = 5;
const index = new Flatbush(count);
const ids = [];
for (let i = 0; i < count; i++) {
const id = index.add(data[i], data[i + 1], data[i + 2], data[i + 3]);
ids.push(id);
}
const expectedSequence = Array.from(Array(count), (v, i) => i);
assert.deepEqual(ids, expectedSequence);
});
test('creates an index using SharedArrayBuffer', () => {
const index = createIndexSharedArrayBuffer();
assert(index.data instanceof SharedArrayBuffer);
});
test('reconstructs an index from SharedArrayBuffer', () => {
const index = createIndexSharedArrayBuffer();
const index2 = Flatbush.from(index.data);
assert.deepEqual(index, index2);
});
function compare(a, b) { return a - b; }
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Yoga Nidra & Chidakasha Dharana CD
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Satyananda Yoga Nidra™: Derived from Nyasa, as described in the tantric scriptures, Yoga Nidra is a powerful technique of pratyahara, providing a systematic method for consciously moving into the deeper realms of personality, removing physical fatigue, emotional imbalances and mental tensions. Chidakasha Dharana: A practice of dharana to focus the internalized senses in chidakasha (the space of consciousness), improving perception of inner mental and psychic phenomena.
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Osteoarthritis: a review of treatment options.
Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common form of arthritis and the leading cause of disability in the United States, especially among older adults. Treatment options have primarily focused on alleviating the pain often associated with this condition. Acetaminophen and nonsteroidal anti inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are often employed for relief of mild-to moderate pain associated with OA. NSAIDs are typically more effective than acetaminophen; however, because of adverse effects associated with long-term use of NSAIDS, acetaminophen is considered first-line therapy. Safety concerns of traditional pharmacotherapeutic agents used in the management of OA, such as NSAIDs and opioids, have led healthcare professionals to seek other options. Trials of disease modulating agents that focus on preventing further damage to the joints have the potential to change how this disease state is managed. This article reviews nonpharmacologic and pharmacologic approaches to management of OA of the knee and hip. | mini_pile | {'original_id': 'd4e0f101addd9784f6e0302bc07a16b869fb5ad6a745747de697e2476958bd8d'} |
Video Tips (1)
I am going to be honest; it drives me crazy when I want to look up how to do something and I have to watch a video in order to find the information I need.
• Videos talk slower than I can read.
• I can not skim a video.
• Too many times I watch a video only to find out it does not answer my question.
• Most videos are boring. Screencasts generally are not designed like a commercial or television show like “Mythbusters.”
• If I go back to the video I just want one piece of information, this is generally hard to find.
• Audio quality can sometimes make it difficult to understand what is being said.
• Videos are not accessible to those with vision impairments.
• Video content is not indexed on a search engine. This makes it harder to locate the instructional video based on keywords.
Provide Text
When creating an instructional video please always provide a transcript. This not only is necessary for those with visual impairments, but helps others to access the information quickly. My suggestion is that video should enhance your content, not be your content. If you are flipping your class please do not rely on video as the sole means of information transfer.
Mix It Up
Use video to quickly demonstrate what you wrote in text. I have a rule of thumb that videos should be 30 seconds. I will make 17 second videos even. It is much easier to make an interesting video where you do not say “um” if you get in and get out.
“I use YouTube to upload videos using Webcam Capture to quickly get in and get out.”
Write text explaining the concept. Use bullet points if you can. Underneath the text include a short video or animated GIF to enhance the text. Alternate text and video. This helps keep your content interesting, easy to access, and easy to refer to.
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Friday, February 14, 2014
How did the polls do in the Ontario by-elections?
Two by-elections were held in the Ontario ridings of Niagara Falls and Thornhill last night. I wrote about how the parties themselves did for The Huffington Post Canada, but let's take a look at how the polls did here.
As is usually the case, Forum Research was the only pollster in the field. The firm was a little less active than it was in the Ontario and federal by-elections of 2013, and conducted its final poll on February 11, rather than on the eve of the vote as Forum has usually done.
Forum and the Toronto Star did seem to be aware of the skepticism that had grown with Forum's by-election polls after the misses in Ottawa South and Brandon-Souris. In their reports, the Star pointed out that Forum uses a proprietary weighting formula that was shown to the Star, and that the raw data of the polls had been deposited at the University of Toronto (if you're a political science student there, take a trek down to the library and take a look at that raw data, please!).
There was no Ottawa South or Brandon-Souris type error last night in the polls. As forecasted, Wayne Gates of the NDP won in Niagara Falls and Gila Martow of the PCs won in Thornhill. The final poll in Thornhill was quite close, with all parties' results falling within the reported margin of error, while the final poll in Niagara Falls over-estimated the support of the NDP. Otherwise, the poll did fine.
A few notes on the charts below. The "With reported MOE" row shows the margin of error ranges for each of the parties when applying the margin of error that was reported (Forum rounds the margin of error off, and calculates it for the entire sample, not just decided voters). The "Actual MOE" row shows what the margin of error for each party actually was, taking into account their level of support (a party with 50% support has a higher margin of error than a party with 5%) and the number of decided voters.
In Niagara Falls, Forum over-estimated the support of the New Democrats by at least five points, and as much as twice of that. So that was a miss, but at least the winner was correctly identified.
The PCs, Liberals, and Greens all did slightly better than the poll expected, though the results were within both the reported and actual margins of error.
The poll conducted by Forum on February 5 would have been much closer. That survey had the NDP at 38% to 36% for the Tories and 19% for the Liberals.
The poll in Thornhill was much better. The results were within three points for the PCs and within 1.8 points for the Liberals, NDP, and Greens. All results fell within the reported and actual margins of error, and comfortably within them (unlike the PCs in Niagara Falls, who fell just within the edge of the margin of error).
This is not the first time Forum has had a good performance in the Toronto area. Its Toronto Centre poll in the November by-elections was the closest of the four, while the polls in Etobicoke-Lakeshore and Scarborough-Guildwood were the best of the five Ontario by-elections of August 2013. Forum has had much less success outside of the GTA. I cannot speculate why that might be.
UPDATE: A reader made an interesting suggestion of why that might be. Forum's by-election record has been generally good in races where voting patterns did not change much (i.e., the GTA) but has been very poor in ridings where those patterns changed significantly. If Forum is making assumptions to model the voting population in its polls, those assumptions may be incorrect when the electorate is shifting so greatly.
This site's By-Election Barometer continues to have a flawless record. Thornhill had been forecast to be a Likely PC win, while Niagara Falls was a Toss-Up that favoured the NDP. This stretches the barometer's record to 29 by-elections without an error.
1. I'm a U of T student. If you tell me where to look, I can probably get it for you.
1. It is apparently at the Political Science Data Library. I'm just curious what was actually deposited there.
2. U of T has a general Data Library, but none for Political Science itself.
3. Interesting how in both seats the Liberals did better than the polls ??
1. In a way the by-elections gave all three parties a reason to want a Spring election.
4. Eric
It is interesting to see you defending the pollsters. This is yet again a complete mathematical failure.
To be off by 8 points basically double the the MOE combined with Forum's past track record is a clear almost overwhelming sign that some thing is wrong with their methodology.
It is not the outlier that happens 1 time in 20 polls ... that outlier would be the NDP getting 43.5 when the poll says they should get 48. That should happen only 1 times in 20.
they are off by 4 standard deviations rather than the 1.96 . To be off even 3 standard deviations is a quite an accomplishment. This should happen in 1 sample out of 1000
The Forum polls need to have a rider added to them that these are just for fun and have no basis on statically accurate projection of the out comes of the actual election.
1. That does not answer how Forum could randomly get one number so wrong but the other nine correct. If the odds are 1000:1 that they'd get that NDP result with a good random sample, what are the odds that they'd get all the others right with a completely unreliable sample? Isn't it more likely that some other factors were also at play and perhaps responsible for more of the error?
In this I mean turnout and vote switching. Forum could not have done anything more than try to guess at what the voting population would look like. At that stage, we're not talking about polling so much anymore and the theories don't apply as strictly.
2. I should point out that we have better reasons to be concerned with their methodology due to the raw samples they compile, rather than a miss on vote results. I have written about that several times on this site. Here's one such post:
3. The big issue in Canada with polling these days is how do you get an accurate random sample of the voting public?
In the past when 80% of people voted and almost everyone could reached by a phone number in the phone book and the one phone in a home allowed you to ask for youngest female voter or oldest male voter etc, the process of using a phone book was a decent representation of a random sample of the voting public.
Getting anything close to a true random sample is almost impossible now which means the margin of error calculation is misleading on any poll.
5. I read your article of May 27.
You provide a pure motive examination of the problems that the pollsters have been having with their limited resources and inability to accurately establish a representative sample.
In Forum's case you have to get the the critical antenna up immediately on hearing that they are normalizing to the Census rather than to any demographics of actual voters.
To assume that under 35 year olds are going to turn out in the same proportion as 55 and older is just a plain bad assumption.
The other thing that is extremely worrisome is the pollsters motivation....... From what I can gather is that political polling is a loss leader that is used to get their name out in the market-place to have recognition for money making work.
Does it hurt Forum to have Rob Ford with a higher approval rating than Obama? I think that is just off the wall crazy but Forum was getting its brand mentioned by all the major US News shows.
The Talking Heads on the news-casts have no idea that Forum has a major reputation of being wrong.
Did having the Wild Rose party on the verge of kicking out the dynasty Cons in Alberta generate more or less discussion than having the Cons winning again?
In BC the NDP Victory was a far more impact laden story than the Liberals/Con alliance continuing to govern Canada.
In Canada the pollsters having the leader of the tiny third party Trudeau as the next PM with the office being his to lose is certainly more news-worthy than any other permutations of results that might have been delivered.
The incredible thing is that these polls do have an impact..... E.May got a seat at the debate because the polls had incorrectly put the Green support at 10%.
Without this incorrect/fudged poll it and her national exposure at the debate it would have been even more difficult for Ms. May to get elected as a MP.
1. May got a seat at the debate because she had an MP BCVOR.
2. That was one of the arguments but pre-debate Harris-Decima had the Green's consistently polling at 13% -- 4-5 point ahead of the BQ and within 2-3 points of the NDP.
If that were true there she deserved to be at the debate.... Trouble was it wasn't close.
bad polling or using polling to push an agenda or make news?
Or will you present the hypothesis that Ms. May did so bad at the debate that she dropped Green support more than 5 pts?
3. Ryan,
She sort of had a M.P., Blair Wislson resigned from the Liberal whip then sat as an independent. In August of 2008 he announced he had joined the Greens but, before he could take up his seat as the country's first Green M.P. the House was dissolved. To my knowledge he was not recognised by the Speaker as a Green M.P. and so I think it questionable whether he was in fact a Green M.P. All academic of course as the media cabal, whoops consortium, thought he was and allowed May's participation.
4. Yah, a bit debatable.
BVOR - Are you sure those polls were wrong? I think that that was probably the Greens' genuine support, and the more dishonest/strategic number was on election day.
In any event, 2008 was the first time in Canadian history that a party took more than 5% of the vote without winning a seat. The Greens' "true" support was definitely in the range where you would expect them to take seats.
5. Many people say FPTP is exclusionary and doesn't allow for smaller parties but, you're absolutely right with the exception of 2008 every party that has won 5% of the vote or better has elected a M.P. This is no different than Germany where they impose a 5% threshold to enter Parliament.
6. Difference is under the German system you'd have 15 seats with that 5%, not 1. :/
7. Yes, if a party receives 5% in the national vote they would have about 15 seats. From what I can find the threshold is 3 constituency M.P.s or 5% of the national vote to get into Parliament. Presumably once you had 3 M.P.s and 5% you would get the additional MMP seats. I think the caveat though is if you elect two constituency M.P.s but, don't receive 5% they can not sit in Parliament.
8. It should be mentioned that in the German system 5% of the national vote only equals about 2.5% of the seats since half the seats are allotted through constituency voting.
6. Guesses on today's Canada -Finland game. Price to start in nets ?
1. After a really tough game we won in overtime.
Hate the Olympics point system !! Lose a point because you win in overtime ??? Hello ????
2. Makes more sense to me than the NHL system, with some games worth 3 points, and others worth 2....
3. Olympics you win in regular time = 2 points
Win in overtime = 1 point
Makes no sense to me, a win is a win Eric ?
4. No, when you win in regular time in the Olympics you get 3 points. If you win in overtime, you get 2 points and the other team gets 1. It is a better system, since in every game there are just 3 points at stake.
In the NHL, you get 2 points in regular time and 2 points in overtime, but the other team gets 1. That makes it a three point game rather than the usual two point game.
5. Thanks Eric, the person that explained the system to me had it wrong then. Appreciate the correction.
7. Ipsos has a new Ontario poll: PC 34%, Lib 31%, NDP 31%.
Some interesting numbers when it comes to committed voters PC 37%, Lib 27%, NDP 33%.
With these numbers it is difficult to see how Wynne will survive the budget.
1. Probably a dice roll for any of them. 10% is hardly much of a lead when you have Tim Hudak as leader.
2. With the committed voter numbers the Tories would win about 50 seats with the Grits and Dippers winning roughly half that. So if the numbers accurate Hudak is on the cusp of a majority.
The Regular numbers would be very interesting, probably would see a Conservative plurality of a couple seats but, all parties may be within 1-4 seats of one another. Possible tie even.
I think the NDP and Tories have to go unless the next poll alters the numbers. For Hudak this may be as good as it gets and for Horvath she has a chance to displace the Liberals as Official Opposition maybe even secure a government. It is once in a blue moon the NDP federally or provincially polls in the 30's in Ontario delaying an election will only give Wynne time to recover or counter attack.
8. "Forum has had much less success outside of the GTA. I cannot speculate why that might be."
I can think of a few possible reasons.
1. There is more data for the GTA than other regions because there are more people. More past data = better sampling and adjustment procedures.
2. GTA ridings are more uniform and it is easier to get a representative sample. A riding like Niagra, for example, is both small town, suburban and rural. You have to be much more careful here to avoid oversampling an area of the riding.
3. My guess is that Forum polling is organized and designed by people in the GTA. As such, the poll designers understand the local nuances of sampling better than they would for other areas.
9. Eric when will we see seat projections for Ontario based on polls.
10. Forum seems really good at spotting new trends but not in pinning down the numbers.
11. It is interesting that Nanos has basically taken themselves out of the election results polling.
They do not poll anything that actually can be measured against actual results.
Their polls have no practical relevance to the next election rather than generating headlines.
Who are your 2 choices for PM?
So the left of Centre get to pick Mulcair and Trudeau. The right of Centre get to pick Harper and in my case it would be Trudeau or maybe any Green except May.
This has been designed to make Trudeau look so much more popular as a leader.
Before expanding to the 2 votes per person fantasy Harper was always almost twice as popular a leader in the Nano poll. This was reflected in the last elections results.
Nanos might be correct.... If every voter is given 2 votes the Liberals under Trudeau might win.
Given a choice of 1 leader Harper would once again dominate the Field and taking away the people like me that are solid Cons but could appreciate Paul Martin Trudeau would likely fall behind Mulcair and May would fall back down to single digits.
That would take away a headline where Trudeau is the considered the best leader of some make-believe version of Canada.
If Nanos wanted to make bigger headlines (and lose more credibility) they could ask who are your 3 favorite leaders and Ms. May might be more popular than Harper.
1. Nanos only reports the first choice, so your concerns are baseless.
12. Trudeau 54 Harper and Mulcair 50 each and May 32 adds up to 186 %
Who ever is the BQ leader gets 25 of Quebec.
If they can fool you Eric then it makes my concern far greater.
1. Please fully read the methodology. Those are the index scores, meant to each be out of 100.
You were referring to the PM question. Only the first choices are reported: Trudeau 30, Harper 28, Mulcair 19, May 4, Bellavance 1.
13. Did you see the Canada-Latvia game Eric ?? Wow !!
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Can you cook a thawed frozen pie?
Can you cook a thawed frozen pie?
You can also thaw a frozen pie in a low oven. Unwrap the pie, place on a baking sheet, and bake in a 300 degree oven until the center is warm (45 minutes – 1 hour).
Do you thaw a pie before baking?
Is it better to bake a pie frozen or thawed?
It is much better to freeze pumpkin and fruit pies before baking rather than after. The texture of pies suffers substantially if frozen after baking. If you freeze pies after baking them, thaw them at room temperature for about three hours and then crisp them in a 450 degree Fahrenheit oven for about 20 minutes.
Can you eat a defrosted pie?
Just make sure you are happy that it is fully thawed out and safe. You also need to make sure you eat it on the day you defrost it.
How do you bake a frozen unbaked fruit pie?
1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
2. Remove pie from plastic bag.
3. Place frozen unbaked apple pie on center rack of oven. Bake for 15 minutes at 425 degrees.
4. Reduce heat to 375 degrees. Continue baking pie for 35 minutes longer. (
5. Remove pie from oven. Cool on wire rack.
How do you cook a thawed apple pie?
How long does it take to bake a frozen pie?
How do I bake a frozen pie?
How long can an unbaked pie be refrigerated?
How to Store Unbaked Apple Pie: You can keep unbaked apple pies for up to two days in the refrigerator. Cover loosely with aluminum foil or plastic wrap. To freeze, wrap unbaked pie tightly with aluminum foil or plastic freezer wrap, or place in a freezer bag and seal tightly.
How long can you keep a defrosted pie in the fridge?
You can simply follow the thawing instructions and proceed with serving. Be sure to store your pie in the refrigerator if there is any pie remaining after serving. Your pie will remain fresh in the fridge for 5-6 days if covered properly.
How long does a frozen pie take to cook?
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Monday, March 7, 2011
Dinosaur Preschool
Today was my turn to teach preschool. We learned all about Dinosaurs! Adam had the day off school so he joined us. We had a blast!
Making "fossils" with plastic dinosaurs and play dough.
The kids ate like dinosaurs: Dino-nuggets (meat eaters), apples (plant eaters), goldfish (fish eaters).
They also colored pictures of big dinosaurs.
Alex liked to admire our "volcano". It was super cute and easy. I used a soy sauce bottle and put green play dough all around it so it looked like a mountain. Add some dinosaurs at the base and make them extinct with baking soda and vinegar. It was a hit!
I got a blow up dinosaur at the dollar store and some green Easter eggs. I filled the eggs with dinosaur shaped candy and hid them around the room. The kids had to help Momma Dino find her babies. It was really fun and the kids couldn't believe that dinosaurs laid eggs like chickens.
We also read a dinosaur book called "Brontorina" which is about a brontosaurus that wants to be a ballerina but she's too big. After the story I took the kids outside and unwound a 70ft piece of rope so they could see how long brontosauruses where. We have more Dino-fun planned for Friday. I can't wait!
Savannah said...
Wow! You're good at this!!
Judy Walsh said...
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Montessori Baby Week 1 -- 5 Ways to Incorporate Montessori from Birth
It's hard to believe that Augustus has already been home for a whole week. It feels like he was just born and that he has been here forever. Most of our time has been spent settling into a new routine. Lots of sleeping, diapers and nursing. A couple doctor appointments mixed in for good measure.
In the two years since Nora was born, I feel like we have learned so much about Montessori and have incorporated these principals into our home. We are again incorporating Montessori right away. But, it does look a bit different this time. And, its been so lovely.
But, what does Montessori mean for a brand new baby? Here are 5 ways to incorporate Montessori from birth!
Montessori is a lifestyle that can be introduced when a baby is born! Here are 5 ways to incorporate Montessori from birth.
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A topponcino is a small mat that provides a transition between the womb and the world. It's not fluffy but instead a sturdy, but soft little mat -- kind of like a thick quilt bundled up but easier to use. Babies can use them whenever they are awake to hang out on, to be held in, or passed around in. It helps keep their environment a little more stable as they transition to the big world around them.
Augustus LOVES his topponcino. I didn't have one with either of the other kids and I completely regret it. He is immediately more relaxed laying on it and enjoys resting on it. It has also been great for having the kids hold him and provides much more security and support than a blanket would.
Skip the Swaddle
Freedom of Movement is a key tenant to Montessori philosophy. Allowing young children to explore their body and their environment is so key to their development. A swaddle effectively eliminates the chance for a newborn to adjust to their larger environment and to work out the startle reflex.
At the hospital, we did allow Gus to be swaddled. It was just a bit easier to go with the flow of the nursing staff than explain to them our differences. Plus, it was 24 hours. At home, we have avoided a swaddle. During the day, we make sure he is wearing appropriate clothes and have muslin blankets to place around him if it gets too chilly. The topponcino helps a lot with this too.
Our only exception is nighttime. We do use a sleep sack with swaddle to help keep Augustus warm at night. However, we do not strap his hands down and he still has the freedom to move his feet and legs.
Uncover the Hands
Many people insist on using baby mittens with their newborns. However, not so with Montessori babies. It's well known that babies use their hands to comfort themselves before birth. They provide a familiar sense of security, therefore, after the baby is born. By covering them up or swaddling them down, babies lose that connection and that ability to self soothe.
You wont find any baby mittens on Augustus. We keep his hands accessible to him at all times and have since his birth. I've frequently seen him rubbing his face, and sucking his fingers when he needs some extra comfort or just when he is awake.
Simple Awake Time
In a Montessori environment, you won't find a bunch of flashy baby toys or baby holding devices. Instead, you'll find a soothing, peaceful, natural environment. A soothing mat, some high contrast images and maybe a Munari mobile.
Being the third child means that "peaceful" is a relative term around here. But, we do not use baby holding devices -- like a bouncy seat or swing -- and have no electronic toys. In the small amounts of time that Augustus has been awake this week, we're using high contrast images, and a Munari-inspired mobile with him. Both have been captivating!
All the Cuddles
At the very heart of Montessori is a deep and loving respect for children. It's about human connection. About love. Grace. Kindness. Peace. And, what represents any of these qualities better than a newborn?
Above all this week has been about loving on Gus. Getting to know him. Helping us all find our new places in our family. Cuddling that sweet baby that will grow and change faster than I could ever want. We are just cherishing this time as much as we can. Yes, it can be stressful and exhausting, but at the end of the day this time is absolutely the most amazing.
Have you incorporated Montessori from the beginning? What tips would you share with others?
Hi! Your little Gus is just adorable. I have a question I am new to Montessori principles and want to integrate this into my home. We have a two and a half year old and a seven month old. I guess my question is where do I start to set up a Montessori home? I have been reading and researching but it all feels so overwhelming.
I think its important to just start somewhere! If you talking physical space, pick one spot and just dive in. We didnt have any toys that were all that Montessori friendly when we started, we just changed how we had them set up. And just let it snowball from there!
And at the end of the day, Montessori is about how we treat children and that can be done without any changes! Here are a couple posts that might help!
Your little one is beautiful, and kudos for finding the time to be blogging! I love the Montessori philosophy and these ideas are just so lovely. What a blessed little man you have!
Ironfeathers said…
Such a little darling! Congratulations!
I like the freedom of movement idea... my baby hated being swaddled from the time she was about 2 days old, especially her arms.
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In the week since the shooting of 13-year-old Andy Lopez, the Santa Rosa City Council has been conspicuously silent about the tragedy that has sent protesters spilling into city streets.
That's largely because the shooting happened just outside city limits and involved Sonoma County Sheriff's deputies, not local police.
But the other reason is because City Attorney Caroline Fowler and City Manager Kathleen Millison have instructed City Council members to say nothing about it and refer all questions to the Santa Rosa Police Department, which is investigating the shooting.
Mayor Scott Bartley said he and other council members are in a "quandary" because while they recognize the community is suffering, they feel constrained in what they can say about the incident beyond calling it a tragedy.
"It sounds like you're not being responsive, but there isn't anything I can be responsive to," Bartley said. "I'm caught."
He said it has been "very frustrating" to not be able to discuss the shooting to date. He's had numerous media interview requests, including a television news van that parked outside his house.
But he said it would be premature to say anything about the shooting until all the facts are known, which won't happen until the investigation is complete.
"We're not going to have any answers in two days and we're not going to have any answers in a week," Bartley said.
The time will come for a public dialogue about how to prevent such tragedies in the future, but right now "emotions are raw" and the grieving process needs to play out before that process can begin, Bartley said.
On Friday, Fowler emailed the council telling them it was "critical that you not comment on the sheriff incident that is being investigated by the SRPD." She declined to discuss that advice, citing attorney-client privilege.
Millison followed up with an email stressing that "this is an active investigation and any comments or actions you take may represent interference with a police investigation which is a violation of law."
But Councilwoman Julie Combs called such warnings "overly broad" and worried that they have a "chilling effect" on public discourse at a time when it is needed most.
"I think a responsible leader has to make certain statements when we have a tragedy in our community and I think we can do this and follow our legal advice without discussing the case directly," Combs said.
One message she wants to send is that the community's first priority is to care of the Lopez family in their time of need. She also said people have the right to grieve and be angry and to protest, as long as children are kept safe.
She also said it was important to recognize that "there is a feeling of broken trust" and that people need to engage in a dialogue that will lead to action that will "heal this new wound and the old wounds that have been long standing in our community."
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Earnhardt 'trying to be positive' after drop back in points
Confidence is important for any race team and no one knows that more than Dale Earnhardt Jr., driver of the No. 88 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet.
Earnhardt has had an up-and-down season so far, with four second-place finishes, but eight finishes outside the top 10 in the last nine races, which has dropped him from sixth to 12th in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series points.
Friday at Kentucky Speedway, Earnhardt said it's important to keep a good attitude, especially during challenging stretches of the season.
"I hate to get frustrated," said Earnhardt as he prepared for tonight's Quaker State 400. "That doesn't help Greg (Ives, crew chief) and you don't want to show that kind of emotion in front of your guys. That doesn't help them do their job and that doesn't make their job more fun. It actually makes the job less fun, harder to do."
Earnhardt said he wants to set a good example for the team.
"You don't want to be somebody that is hard to be around," he said. "So, trying to be positive and give good reinforcement is something I'm working on, you are always working on."
Certainly, Friday brought its share of frustrations for Earnhardt. Qualifying was rained out, and the morning practice lasted just 23 minutes before the rains fell, keeping the cars off the track for more than four hours.
And given that this is the first race on the newly repaved and reconfigured Kentucky surface, that made everyone's job harder than it would be on a typical weekend.
At one point in practice, Earnhardt was just 32nd on the speed chart of the 40 cars and yelling at Ives about how bad his car was.
The good news is the team kept working on the car and making it better, and by the time the final Happy Hour practice concluded, Earnhardt was a solid fourth on the board behind only Carl Edwards, Martin Truex Jr. and Kyle Larson.
That should bode well for tonight's race.
"We've had a lot of weather and a lot of unique situations week after week that seem to stymie our team's ability to really set our car up and get it ready for the race," Earnhardt said. "So, it's been a bit frustrating every now and then.
"But, I'm still enjoying it. I'm still having fun. And I still believe in the group we've got and love being part of the crew I'm with and I know that we can do it because we've done it before. So, I'm anxious to get back to running how we should and I know I think we'll do that before the end of this season." | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '3', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.984727680683136}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '60011', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:QWW56NQ4ZKOXDS7GUSG2LQODCLNVNHQV', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:0e2d4a28-f0f3-4f51-9719-cec220caf37d>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 4, 24, 8, 31, 54), 'WARC-IP-Address': '23.13.153.20', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:HTIZ4DRZZAGIQHXZNUUXGBQG7S2L3ML3', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:2d580871-4f2a-430c-b903-d6f8de6821f1>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.foxnews.com/sports/earnhardt-trying-to-be-positive-after-drop-back-in-points', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:c93d70e4-6887-4379-8c0e-4f05c8859838>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '446', 'url': 'https://www.foxnews.com/sports/earnhardt-trying-to-be-positive-after-drop-back-in-points', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-18\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for April 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-203-193-188.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.15 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.1-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.03017967939376831', 'original_id': 'c27285cc133d1651a5be66cdce89f1db5731262c3e5acff17b00b65b934bd352'} |
What is the posterior chain anyway?
The posterior chain is a group of muscles consisting predominantly of tendons and ligaments on the posterior of the body. Examples of these muscles include the biceps femoris, gluteus maximus, erector spinae muscle group, trapezius, and posterior deltoids. In simpler words, you can say the back, hamstrings and calves.
This group of muscular structure should work together as a unit to extended and stabilize our spine, hips, knees and ankle as we move.
In this technology and computerized world we live in today where many people do not move enough the back of the body becomes weak and compromised. Even if you do exercise more than the average person many of us do not move through enough range of motion or thru enough different planes of motion.
How do you know if your glutei is weak? How do you know if your hamstrings are short and tight? Does your back hurt when you go take a run?
If you sit a lot…you most likely have a weak/tight posterior chain. Short/tight muscles pull on the bones. When bones get pulled or rotated out of position…muscles have to work out of position and inefficiently. Thus, the cycle begins and continues until there is inflammation, friction, micro tears, spurs, imbalances, joint damage and pain. This leads to having to stop activity, then you start taking medicine, then pain pills and then the cortisone shots. You start to feel better and start moving again, but the symptoms return and the cycle continues.
We all have to start taking care of our body with our own musculature. I know…you thought exercising is a way to take care of our bodies! It is…we just have to exercise in a better more mechanically proper manner. The human body is meant to heal itself…if you give it the proper tools.
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The Rules
4. Each date must be blogged.
05 December 2011
Mr #26 - Halfway Mark (if only his name actually WAS Mark. But it wasn't...)
The preamble:
I've been messaging Mr #26 for bloody months it seems! We're talking well over 80 messages, and would the bugger suggest a date? Would he hell! So I did, and we swapped numbers and that was that. My only reservations about him had been that he was rather vocal about telling me about other dates he'd been on, and could occasionally be a little too cheeky in his messages, but he still piqued my interest, so I met him.
The man:
Profession: IT bod working in a massive bank
Random factoid: He is half-Irish half-Jamaican,
The date:
The date was another 52 First Dates first - the venue? Docklands. Hmm. I have to say I wasn't entirely convinced, but since I'd never been out there, perhaps it would be worth a whirl. I met Mr #26 at the Tube. My first thoughts? He was a little miniature, and probably weighed less than I do. My second thought? What a cracking smile and a delightful set of gnashers. Well done him and his orthodontist. Without a final destination in mind, we wandered off in search of some bar action, and finally we came across an establishment that I thought was the name of a popular strip club about town, and it was as Mr #26 pointed out (and that he'd been there a few times before), but that this particular venue was tit-free. Nice. My first impression of the venue was that it wasn't actually in London at all, it felt rather like we were somewhere like Colchester, and the bar was very much in office party mode. We grabbed some booze and pews and started chatting. Before I continue, so you get a real sense of the mis-en-scene, that my date was sat right in front of a light, so actually I couldn't really see his face, but his perfectly circular cranium cast a spectacular silhouette. My eye was also periodically drawn to the couple sat diagonally behind him, not because they were interesting, but because they had chosen to take a big sack of cat litter with them. The soundtrack to the evening was also nothing short of shocking, with Five, A-Ha, Peter Andre and the Spice Girls being cracked out in rapid succession early on. Amid the aural assault, I was aware of another 52 First Dates first. My date had decided to wear a zip up fleece. A zip up fleece he chose not to remove all night. Hmm again. Fleeces aside, the conversation was some of the best I've had on 52 First Dates yet, it turns out we have loads in common, in music and film terms at least. We covered musical guilty pleasures, top 10 bests and worsts of 2011, the merits of Florence and the Machine, the demise of Hard-Fi, a track by track analysis of Pendulum's Immersion, horror films, the publishing industry, book recommendations, Christmas presents, his obsession with Harry Potter, and how diabolical the guy singing karaoke was (oh yeah, it turned out to be karaoke night - we didn't partake). It also emerged that he's quite a garrulous chap, and could out talk me by about 120 words per minute. He also spent at least 10 minutes telling me the plot (and ruining it) to a book he'd been trying to sell me, and another 20 minutes showing me every picture he had on his phone of his dog. Yes, it's cute, I get that. Stop with the pup shots now. Stop it...Anyway once he'd finally stopped showing me pet pictures and we'd sunk a good few cheeky vodkas, my 5am wake up came back with a vengeance, and I proposed a conclusion to the evening on account of the fact my eyelids getting rapidly more intimate. We moseyed off to the station said our goodbyes with an attempted half-grapple from Mr #26 and a cheeky snog-dodge from me, and went our separate ways.
Memorable Quotes:
'The mens' loos here are awesome - there's some great big wooden trough that you sit on'
'Shakira has been banned on Radio 1'
'Ooh the YMCA, I love this song'
'Jo Whiley is quite frisky, apparently'
Events of note:
A quite spectacular murdering of Alanis Morrisette's 'Ironic'. And not a moment too soon...
The verdict:
Tonight has genuinely been one of the nicest dates I've been on, as we had an inordinate amount of things in common. Yes he's small, yes, he wore a fleece, yes he's a little too obsessed with Harry Potter for a grown man, but you know what, I actually didn't care. Did I fancy him? I'm not sure, but I would definitely meet him again to see, if anything to carry on our systematic review of every horror film ever made. So what a way to mark the halfway point of 52 First Dates...with something positive. Yay, go me!
It has been a week since our date, and I've not heard a word from Mr #26. When I started this challenge, I vowed not to do any chasing, as I have done in my undignified former life, and if someone wanted to see me again, I would leave it up to them to ask. I say I've not heard a word, but this was until an hour ago. On different dating site. The message read 'have we been on a date?'. Er, yes we have. My my, what a fantastic impression I must've made! When I replied saying yes we had gone and done a date, he asked when it was. Jeez, that's some frighteningly short memory you have there sir! Needless to say I told him, and he's since blamed it on the booze. That's a pretty poor excuse when you meet someone stone cold sober sunshine. No second date for you!
1. A fleece? And you'd see him again? Come on CTS, please don't tell me your sky-high standards are slipping? Have a little respect and hope that number 27 has a better choice of wardrobe. Next!
2. He's a bit too into Harry Potter for a grown man???
I fail to see why this is a negative...
I approve. He may be short but so are you (oooo! she went there!)
3. Congrats on making it through to the half-mark line! Bring on no. 27 and a little more height and a little less fleece...
4. Now then Miss Ritzi...a man the sam very diminuitive height as me, but half my weight surely isn't the best for a girl's self esteem, no? CTS x
5. Half way! Amazing. This chap sounds quite promising. Are you thinking of a second date? He might grow on you. Geddit? Haw haw.
6. lol from your intro u sound just like me. Such a brave thing to do, hope u come up trumps! :)
7. Just read your update. Oh my GAD, as the americans would say. I can't actually believe that. How many dates does he go on in a week?! How can you not remember someone you've spent several hours with?!
My conclusion: Some form of alcoholic/amnesia accident/twat.
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\section{Logarithmic Derivative of Riemann Zeta Function}
Tags: Riemann Zeta Function, Zeta Function
\begin{theorem}
Let $\zeta$ be the Riemann zeta function:
:$\ds \forall s \in \C: \map \Re s > 1: \map \zeta s = \sum_{n \mathop \ge 1} n^{-s}$
Then for all $s$ with $\map \Re s > 1$:
:$\ds -\frac {\map {\zeta'} s} {\map \zeta s} = \sum_{n \mathop \ge 1} \map \Lambda n n^{-s}$
where $\Lambda$ is von Mangoldt's function.
\end{theorem}
\begin{proof}
By Sum of Reciprocals of Powers as Euler Product:
:$\ds \map \zeta s = \prod_p \frac 1 {1 - p^{-s} }$
where $p$ ranges over the primes.
From Laws of Logarithms:
:$\ds \ln \map \zeta s = - \sum_p \map \ln {1 - p^{-s} }$
Taking the derivative:
{{begin-eqn}}
{{eqn | l = \frac {\map {\zeta'} s} {\map \zeta s}
| r = -\sum_p \frac {\paren {\ln p} p^{-s} } {1 - p^{-s} }
| c = Logarithmic Derivative of Infinite Product of Analytic Functions and Derivative of Riemann Zeta Function
}}
{{eqn | r = -\sum_p \paren {\ln p} \paren {\frac 1 {1 - p^{-s} } - 1}
| c =
}}
{{eqn | r = -\sum_p \paren {\ln p} \sum_{n \mathop \ge 1} p^{-n s}
| c = Sum of Infinite Geometric Sequence
}}
{{end-eqn}}
Also, by the definition of $\Lambda$:
:$\ds \sum_{n \mathop \ge 1} \map \Lambda n n^{-s} = \sum_p \paren {\ln p} \sum_{n \mathop \ge 1} p^{-n s}$
and the proof is complete.
{{qed}}
Category:Riemann Zeta Function
\end{proof}
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Drastic effects of climate change (Source: https://aboutourism.wordpress.com/2009/12/18/climate-change-tourism-not-whether-but-how-much/)
Drastic effects of climate change
Tourism and climate change – two terms widely used across the world. In conversation, we often talk about these two separately. What we don’t often consider is how one affects the other, and the resulting consequences. Nowadays, it’s hard to bring up one without mentioning the other.
Terms associated with ecotourism (Source: https://ecocukurova.wordpress.com/)
Terms associated with ecotourism
First coined as a term in the early 1980’s, ecotourism is currently defined as “responsible travel to natural areas that conserves the environment, sustains the well-being of the local people, and involves interpretation and education” (The International Ecotourism Society, 2015). By the early 1990’s, ecotourism became the fastest growing sector of the tourism industry worldwide. The main principle of ecotourism is to unite conservation, communities, and sustainable travel. Ecotourism strives to promote initiatives to merge sustainability with travel and tourism.
The Impacts of Climate Change on Ecotourism
Impacts of climate change on tourists' destinations (Source: http://www.climate-change-toolkit.com/tourism--climate-change.html)
Impacts of climate change on tourists’ destinations
One of the most significant aspects of climate change is global warming. Although global warming can influence tourism positively, such as creating longer beach seasons and contributing to the development of seaside tourism, the negative effects form a much bigger threat.
Perhaps one of the biggest effects associated with increasing global temperature is the rise of sea levels. As seawater heats up, it expands and takes up more space, causing the sea level to rise. Eventually, the sea will submerge smaller islands and thin strips of coastal regions that depend on tourism to support their economy. The melting of snow and glaciers also contributes to rising sea levels, by shifting the vacation destinations of tourists, moving them to more tropical locations and away from cooler locations, such as ski resorts.
In addition to the rising seas, a lack of water and desertification also comes as a product of global warming. Desertification is a deterioration of soils brought on by climatic shifts. The word itself literally means “loss of soil fertility.” With the temperature and weather swings associated with global warming, rising surface temperatures and lack of rain can take a toll on the water supply and dry out crops. These conditions make the land less hospitable for both local communities and tourists alike.
Is Climate Change affecting Ecotourism, or Vice Versa?
The discussion here is two fold. Perhaps the issue that comes to mind first is the way in which climate change is affecting tourism. Things like rising sea levels and desertification make it more difficult for tourists to venture to and stay at these remote locations for their vacation getaway. However, another discussion arises if we flip the issue around – we can also look at how tourism can contribute to climate change. Increasing numbers of tourists means increasing pressure on the transportation and accommodation sectors, which contributes to increasing carbon emissions.
These issues are hard to tackle because of the scale on which they exist. Although there are lifestyle changes we can make to alleviate the effects of climate change, we can’t completely stop nature’s path. Just as climate change can’t be stopped, we can’t single out the tourism industry in an attempt to lessen the effects from climate change. Where do we draw the line between saving our environment and supporting the tourism industry that keep small coastal towns alive?
Ways the Tourism Sector Can Adapt to the Effects of Climate Change
The effects of climate change (Source: http://guyanachronicle.com/how-would-climate-change-affect-sids/)
The effects of climate change
Although a difficult task, there are some ways in which tourists can adapt to the pressures of climate change. Diversifying tourist destinations and services associated with those destinations is one option. There are many tourist locations that require very specific climate conditions, such as beach or health-wellness areas and winter sport locations. Branching out and touring alternate locations that are not as climate dependent decreases the pressure brought on by these dramatic climate shifts. Although telling tourists to alter their preferred destinations and relocate to areas less dependent on climate isn’t necessarily completely feasible, this is an option to consider.
Another option is adapting tourist destinations to deal with the effects of climate change. This option is certainly a long-term plan. It involves the creation of new, environmentally friendly technologies, as well as altering the mindsets of both the local communities and the tourists. Instead of attempting to escape the effects of climate change, this option allows us to get to the source.
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Impact of climate change on tourist destinations – http://www.climate-change-toolkit.com/tourism–climate-change.html
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Jain Legend : Jain Dharma ka Maulika Itihasa (4): Udyotana Sūri
Published: 12.08.2016
When the customs of material based traditions were on high tide, the dazzling glare of their pomposity blinded the people. As a result the fundamental pure Jain doctrine went into oblivion with only an insignificant number of monks and followers left. It was during this period that Varddhamāna Sūri was initiated by Udyotana Sūri into the tradition of scripture based Jain Doctrine and code of conduct of Śramaņas. Varddhamāna Sūri made the name of his guru immortal by bringing the original religious order close to the hearts of the people.
Udyotana Sūri gradually taught all the doctrines and scriptures to his newly initiated disciple, Varddhamāna Sūri. Postulating his scholarly disciple as master of scriptures and worthy of the rank, Udyotana Sūri appointed him as ācārya. "Progressive activities of my gaccha, et cetera, will definitely be accomplished by Varddhamāna Sūri - my intellectual and impressive disciple," contemplating thus, he granted permission to Varddhamāna Sūri to way fare in the northern region. Obeying his guru's command, Varddhamāna Sūri reached the northern region and started giving sermons and preaching in villages, towns, cities etc.
After sending his disciple Vardhāmana Sūri to northern region, Udyotana Sūri surrounded by 83 student-monk disciples, who have been sent by the sthaviras of 83 different Śramaņa groups, offered veneration to Vŗşabhadeva. Sthaviras of 83 different Śramaņa groups sent a monk each to Udyotana Sūri for higher studies. After sending Varddhamāna Sūri to wander in the northern region, Udyotana Sūri along with his congregation and 83 student-monk disciples went to Mālawā and paid veneration to the idol of Vŗşabhadeva installed on Śatrunjaya Mountain.
While returning from Śatrunjaya, on the way, Udyotana Sūri rested under the pīpala tree (Siddhavaţa) during night. In the middle of the night he noticed that in the sky, Jupiter (Bŗhaspati) was entering into Rohinī constellation. He spoke aloud, "It is such an auspicious time now that the person on whose head I place my hand will earn name and fame in the entire world".
Listening to this statement the 83 disciples present there pleaded him, "O Noble Lord! You are our teacher and we are your students in quest of knowledge; hence please place your hand on our heads."
Udyotana Sūrisaid, "Get me vāsacūrņa (sandalwood powder)".
So the 83 students collected some dry twigs, powdered them and handed it over to Udyotana Sūri, who consecrated it by chanting mantras and put the powder on the heads of the 83 student-monks one after the other.
In the morning, comprehending that he was left with only a few days, Udyotana Sūri observed the path of pious death (Samādhi) by undertaking fasting.
All the 83 student-disciples (of different traditions) became ācāryas of their respective Śramaņa groups. They wandered through different places and established 83 gacchas. By then Udyotana Sūri had already made his disciple Varddhamāna Sūri the ācārya of his own gaccha. All these 84 gacchas gained popularity and became famous. Thus the 84 gacchas came into existence.
From the articles of Gurvāvalī of Kharatara gaccha we can infer the fact that Udyotana Sūri was an eminent scholar-ācārya who preached and practiced pure code of conduct during the period when Temple dweller tradition was enjoying a predominant position and influence in the society.
From a number of records of Tapā gaccha Paţţāvalī, the historical literature of Tapā gaccha, it appears that Ācārya Vimala Sūri, the 35th ācārya of Jain order appointed his pontiff disciple Sarvadeva Sūri as the 36th ācārya, 35th Ācārya Udyotana Sūri, the guru of Ācārya Sarvadeva Sūri and the founder of Vŗhad gaccha is different from Ācārya Udyotana Sūri, the preceptor of Vardhāmana Sūri and founder of Kharatara gaccha.
They undoubtedly are two different ācāryas belonging to different times having identical names.
(Beginning of the decay of Temple dweller tradition)
The period starting from the first phase of 11th century V.N. up to 8th or 9th decade of 16th century V.N. in a broad sense is considered as the period when the glory of Temple dweller tradition reached its pinnacle. Its influence extended over the entire Gurjara region in the northern India and all the far-flung places surrounding it.
Not many monks of Suvihita tradition remained and those few who existed were scattered in different far-off places, receiving scant attention from the people. This pathetic situation of the original monks was perhaps the cause for Varddhāmana Sūri (the disciple of Ācārya Jinacandra, Temple dweller of Abhohara village) to quit the Temple dweller tradition. He felt motivated to search for a worthy, virtuous scholarly preceptor of Suvihita tradition to study the scriptures and to take initiation from him. In his quest for a worthy preceptor he received information about Udyotana Sūri, who was carrying out religious wanderings at that time, around Delhi. In fact, Jinacandra Sūri, the guru of Varddhamāna Sūri even tried to retain him in his tradition by luring him with ācārya post; but by then the inner eye of Varddhamāna ācārya had already opened. Hence he took initiation from forest dweller Ācārya Udyotana Sūri into Suvihita tradition, studied scriptures and started his religious campaign.
Title: Jain Legend: Jain Dharma ka Maulika Itihasa (4)
Acharya Hasti Mala
Shugan C. Jain
Publisher: Samyakjnana Pracaraka Mandala, Jaipur
Edition: 2011
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Adam Leverson, lead engineer for the i.Con Smart Condom, said: “It’s here and it’s beautiful. We wanted the i.Con to look refined, non-intrusive and lightweight – the finished article is nothing short of any of those things.
“There’s a lot of tech packed into the i.Con and for us to be able to deliver it in such a way that there is absolutely no hindrance to the user was our main goal – and I think we have gone above and beyond with the i.Con to make sure of this.
“I’m just so happy that we can now share the i.Con with the world!”
The smart condom is a small band which fits around the bottom of a man’s joystick, which means wearers will still need to strap on a normal condom to get full protection.
It is waterproof and features a band that’s “extraordinarily flexible to ensure maximum comfort for all sizes.”
Bizarrely, it even lights up to provide illumination for both partners’ private parts.
John Simmons, a spokesperson for British Condoms, added: “We’re extremely excited to share with the world the first glimpse of the i.Con Smart Condom Ring due to go on sale in the UK in January 2018.
“It’s truly the next step in wearable tech and we believe we have pioneered a product that will not only bring an extra element of fun into the bedroom, but will also help indicate potential STI’s present as well as prevent condom slippage, a leading cause of unplanned pregnancy in the UK.”
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The Simplest Solution
Directed by:Sam Mantini
Film School:Confederation College
The film is about a grandmother who is forced to make the difficult decision of putting her husband, Harry, in a home. As his Alzheimer’s continues to get worse, she is left with no other choice. Their granddaughter, Lucy, doesn’t understand what is happening but she comes up with a way to help her grandfather remember.
Sam Mantini
Sam graduated with honors from the Film Production Program at Confederation College in 2011. Since then he has shot, directed and edited more then 30 short comedic films in partnership with Vincenzo Giovannini. He also works in the Canadian Film and Television industry in various departments such as, Camera, Grip, Electric and Production.
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Video: Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer’s Sources Say Obama was in the Situation Room Watching Benghazi Attack – He Could Have Ordered an Intervention
Tony Shaffer is a U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel who gained notoriety for his claims about mishandled intelligence before the 9/11/01 attacks and for the censoring of his book, Operation Dark Heart.
He told Fox’s Judge Jeanine Pirro that his sources say Obama was one of the people in the room watching the Benghazi attack go down and it would have taken an order by the president to intervene.
“Do we know if the President watched this?” Pirro asked him.
Shaffer answered, “According to my sources – yes – he was one of those in the White House Situation room in real time, watching this. And the question becomes, what did the President do or not do in the moments he saw this unveiling….He and only he could issue a directive for Sec of Defense, Panetta to do something.”
Once again, Obama voted “present”.
It is known that Obama met with the Biden and Panetta in the White House at 5:00. Col. Hunt says help was only 20 minutes away by jet and a couple of hours away by AC-130 gunships and special forces. He and Shaffer concluded that the decision not to intervene was political.
So no “gutsy call” to save these heroic Americans’ lives would be forthcoming because of political considerations?….
Pirro asked, “what is Ty Woods thinking as he’s calling for help and he has his laser on the mortars?”
Shaffer’s answer was heartbreaking. “He’s probably thinking about the fact that he’s given every last ounce of his strength toward his country and is calling in the cavalry and his last thoughts were, ‘I thought they’d come.'”
Pirro made sure to stress that the CIA operatives in Benghazi were denied help – but were not denied help from the military.
Enough with the phoney “investigation” and “it wasn’t us, “it wasn’t us”, “it wasn’t us” – gosh, who could it be – guessing game. No “investigation” is necessary. The MSM could get to the bottom of this by simply asking the President a few pertinent questions.
Reporters are only granted a few minutes with the president, and one way Obama controls uncomfortable interviews is to launch into absurdly long answers that run out the clock.
And “run out the clock” over these next 10 days regarding the Libyan scandal is exactly what Obama and his media allies are up to.
The White House itself is also being careful about not making news. This is why no statement was released denying the Fox News report. If the Administration issues a denial, the CorruptMedia will be forced to cover the denial, which in turn will call attention to the story.
You bet it’s a big, fat naked conspiracy between the Obama campaign and the media. This is nothing more than a replay of the John Edwards scandal, where the media ignored an extra-marital affair until Edwards’ chances at being elected president disappeared.
I could be wrong about one thing, though; my speculation that this is an “unspoken” conspiracy. After Fox News’s Jennifer Griffin dropped her bombshell, it’s not hard to imagine David Axelrod burning up a Bat Phone that connects directly to the JournOlist Hotline and denying the story completely — off the record, of course — you know, so that the denial won’t…make news.
This is what the American people are not allowed to know until after the election: Obama knew what was happening in Benghazi. He was watching it in real time in the Situation Room. When the calls came in for assistance, he said, “nope – too politically risky” and went to bed. He had a big fundraiser to go to the next day.
Meanwhile Ty Woods was giving every last ounce of his strength toward his country, and in his last unimaginably horrifying moments he despaired, ‘I thought they’d come.’
Knowing this, on a scale of 1-10, how galling will the slobbering media’s rapturous swoon over the Gutsy Call movie(coming to TV just two days before the election!), be for you? Keep in mind, Obama had the same risk aversion mindset for that operation, which he cancelled on three separate occasions at the urging of Valerie Jarrett. By Obama’s own admission, he never makes a big decision without first consulting with Jarrett. Doesn’t this episode fit the pattern?
I do hope those Special Op Super PACs (who are on Obama’s Enemies List) have something fun planned to coincide with that movie debut.
UPDATE:
Pat Caddell appearing with Ann Coulter in the next segment was apoplectic – barely able to contain his emotions as he described the media malpractice on this story. “None of them have any honor”, he said – the President, Vice President, Sec of State and especially the media.
UPDATE II:
Via Jake Tapper, on Friday, it should be noted that the White House denied that the WH Situation room was streaming video of the attack in real time:
Delta Force could have rigged in-flight for a jump into the nearest DZ that would have gotten them into the fight to be followed by heavier forces from Italy. AFRICOM SOF assets on the Horn Of Africa could have planned on the helo flight there, Fighter Jets, land or carrier based, could have been there early on and established a presence and put human eyes on what was happening.
So Mr. President, when you say that you didn’t deny aid to those brave men in Benghazi, but that members of the US Military decided not to send aid to your personal representative under attack all on their own and you had no influence over that decision, then you are either derelict, incompetent, or a liar.
Either way, that means to me (and hopefuly soon, a whole mess of registered voters) you don’t deserve to be Commander in Chief.
Information on the Benghazi disaster has been dripping out. The CIA released a statement yesterday – which I assume was under the direction of CIA Director General Petraeus – which is far too cleverly worded.
We can say with confidence that the Agency reacted quickly to aid our colleagues during that terrible evening in Benghazi. Moreover, no one at any level in the CIA told anybody not to help those in need; claims to the contrary are simply inaccurate. In fact, it is important to remember how many lives were saved by courageous Americans who put their own safety at risk that night-and that some of those selfless Americans gave their lives in the effort to rescue their comrades.
Ponder this sentence: “no one at any level in the CIA told anybody not to help those in need…” Which of course begs the question, who exactly did deny those three pleas for help, leading to the death of Ambassador Stevens?
A U.S. Ambassador is the equivalent of a four-star general. Our embassies are considered U.S. soil. This happened on 9-11. Who denied these requests? Everyone suspects that it was Obama. After all, Presidential permission would have been required to send a strike team into a sovereign nation.
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Update via Instapundit.It’s just a comment on a forum, but has the ring of truth to me – I’ve seen this sort of thing play out before.Interesting Rumor Concerning General Carter Ham and Stand Down Order (Posted on 10/26/12 at 9:45 p.m.) I heard a story today from someone inside the military that I trust entirely. The story was in reference to General Ham that Panetta referenced in the quote below.
Read the whole thing. I’ve been thinking the same thing about Petraeus. And someone needs to find that General Ham and grill him.
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CIA and Tripoli embassy resources (Doherty plus seven other US personnel AND 16 Libyan security forces) were sent from Tripoli to Benghazi in answer for the call for help. They arrived after the rescue team mounted by Woods had returned to the Annex and then helped fight off the terrorist attacking there. These people were likely under orders from Tripoli or Petraeus directly.
Panetta claims Gen Ham was in agreement that no troops should be sent in due to lack of real time information. Then, Gen. Ham is relieved of his duty. Connect the dots and it can be reasonably assumed that Ham was not in agreement to abandon the people in Benghazi.
Responsibility all falls on Obama and the political hack Sec. of Defense Panetta. Even Clinton will eventually be cleared primarily for having ordered more security weeks before – an order blocked by Obama.
Top military personnel aware of what really happened should all resign then step forward to tell the truth of what transpired. For most that would be the only way they could speak against the Commander in Chief.
I saw a interview with Rep Jason Chaffetz who has been all over this nightmare from the beginning. He stated in that interview that he spent time and had a discussion with General Ham, Commander of AFRICOM and the General told him that he was never instructed to send in any resources. He said that Troops were pre positioned but there was never a order to send them in. Panetta and General Dress Blues held a joint news conference and claimed that he [General Ham] was part of the decision NOT to send in a Rescue Mission. According to Chaffetz and Ham, he wasn’t a part of it.
We know that the President had a scheduled meeting with the VPOTUS and Leon Panetta at the White House exactly when the crap was hitting the fan. It’s also be safe to assume that some of POTUS advisers were present or within earshot or by phone, especially during a crisis. EVERYBODY who is SOMEBODY would’ve been advised of, or watching the entire nightmare unfolding.
Here is my opinion how it unfolded: between VPOTUS, Panetta, General Dress Blues, Clapper, Jarrett, Brennan, Donilon, AxelRoid and perhaps a couple of others . . . . POTUS was given advice NOT to send Troops in, that it was too risky especially right before a election. They eventually all sat there and watched it unfold, except POTUS of course he turned in and shut the ringer off on the 3 am phone.
Some of the very same people who advised POTUS not to go in after bin laden with solid intelligence. The “Guts” on this mission, [as it was on the bin laden mission] was on the ground in Libya only this time they were being slaughtered. | mini_pile | {'original_id': 'e79c867a858db58280e126dfea9374d069593a4d4bd40886826a1c211cdbbfce'} |
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What is inspiration? It is that thought or feeling that nudges or pushes to be better than we are today. What are some things, thoughts, ideas or people who inspire you? Better yet, who or what do you inspire?
What do you need to be inspired to do?
Where do you look for inspiration?
To inspire is incredible
Photo Inspiration
Here is a random collection of photos that represent thing, thoughts or people who inspire me. The Lincoln Memorial for Abraham Lincoln. A man from simple beginnings. Mr. Lincoln became President of the United States during one of our countries most turbulent times. The Washington Monument represents the ideals upon which our country was founded. There is hope that we will return to those ideals. World War II Veterans give me inspiration. I can only imagine what they faced and then returned home to take up business as usual. Nature in all its awesome beauty both large and small encourages and relaxes me.
Simple things like men working and doing things the old-fashioned way give me strength when I am tired. Hand-woven and dyed cloth amazes me and sparks my imagination with the intricate threading and designs. Civilizations, both old and new bring inspiration in how people live together in closeness.
Grandma always inspired me by how she was able to amazing things with a needle and thread. Even though she had severe arthritis, she was still able to sew, knit and crochet. Yarn or thread would go in one side and these really beautiful items would come out the other. Never a word of complaint passed her lips about the knots on her hands and fingers. Anytime I work on something and feet like quitting, I always remember Grandma.
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where specific gravity at 60/60°F (16/16°C) means that both oil and water are at 60°F (16°C).
Given this relationship, heavier liquid fuels are denoted by lower API gravity values. The specific gravity is lowest for Grade No. 1 and increases with increasing grade number. Conversely, the Degree API gravity is highest for Grade No. 1 and decreases with increasing grade number. The gross heating value in Btu/lbm (kJ/kg) is generally highest for Grade No. 1 and decreases with increasing grade number. However, since the density, in lbm/gallon (kg/liter), increases significantly with increasing grade number, so does the heat value per gallon (liter).
There are several ASTM standards for determining the heating values of liquid fuels, depending on the precision of results desired. When the heating value is determined by calorimetry, the procedure most frequently used is described in the ASTM D 240, Standard Test Method for Heat of Combustion of Liquid Hydrocarbon Fuels by Bomb Calorimeter.
For fuel oils, the gross heat of combustion is reported in preference to the net, which is the quantity required in practical engineering applications. Since high accuracy requirements for energy density determination are rarely a high priority for these fuels, the procedures described in ASTM D 4868, Standard Test Method for Estimation of Net and Gross Heat of Combustion of Burner and Diesel Fuels, suffice in most instances. Calculations are based on density, sulfur content, water content, and ash content (the method is not applicable to pure hydrocarbons).
Table 5-5 includes the HHV and LHV, in English system units, of some commonly used liquid fuels. Table 5-6 lists approximate heat content of various petroleum products in million Btu per barrel, as adopted by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) per the Bureau of Mines. Table 5-7 lists the chemical elements and compounds found in commonly used fuels for combustion.
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12 Desserts By the World's Best Pastry Chef That You Can Only Find in Tokyo
Step one: Go to Japan. Step two: Get in line for these desserts.
Dominique Ansel, who was just named the world's best pastry chef, recently opened a new bakery in Tokyo's Ginza district that offers a host of brand-new pastries that you can only find in Japan.
Good luck trying to find the Zero Gravity Chiffon Cake at the original New York City location. Exclusive to the new bakery located at Mitsukoshi Ginza, this cake is so light it can be floated inside a balloon. To eat it, you have to pop the balloon and get sprinkled with confetti first, which is how I want to eat all cake from here on out.
Just watch this magic:
The new Ginza location is also the only place in the world where you can find the Square Watermelon Cake, a riff on Japan's wildly-expensive square watermelons, that's filled with pistachio and raspberry mousse, watermelon lime gelée, pistachio biscuit and pistachio feuilletine.
And that's not it. The Pull Apart Flower Cookie, Roasted Hot Dog Bun and a gorgeous marble cake filled with cherry jam, kirsch vanilla cream and dark chocolate are exclusive to the Ginza location as well.
They also serve a matcha-flavored babka there too. Drool.
Jealous, yet? Those aren't the only Dominique Ansel creations you can only find in Japan either. The bakery's other Tokyo location, which opened in 2015, serves special limited-edition Cronut flavors like violet lychee, sakura rooibos tea and rose guava.
You can also find other Japan-only treats at the original Tokyo location like the Paris-Tokyo choux pastry filled with matcha ganache and passion fruit curd and religieuse inspired by Japanese mythological creatures.
So who's flying to Tokyo soon?
(h/t Bravo)
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Q:
Jinja templating for Ansible
I have a template that does the following to sudoers:
{% for a in cde_admins %}
User_Alias CDEADMIN = {{ a }}
{% endfor %}
And I have the variables defined:
cde_admins:
- foo
- bar
I am looking for a way that I can iterate through the loop and add a , after foo. So it basically would look like this when i run Ansible:
User_Alias CDEADMIN = foo, bar
I've tried a few things like adding a join(",") to the Jinja2 syntax but all that does is:
User_Alias CDEADMIN = f,o,o
User_Alias CDEADMIN = b,a,r
Can someone point in the right direction to make it so it just adds a comma to the end of foo?
A:
You should use join filter, but on the original list, not on the items:
User_Alias CDEADMIN = {{ cde_admins|join(', ') }}
Only the above line, without the for-loop.
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Time for the “What NOT to say to a pregnant lady”. Ahh the holidays, the time of year where you meet up with extended family. During my first pregnancy one of my relatives had no idea I was pregnant, took a look at my belly and said, “WHOOOA you are HUUUGE! Are you pregnant?”
My brother in law said, “If you weren’t pregnant, he would have learned a very HARD lesson.”
I can say I followed my husband before he even really knew me. I worked in the same division as him but different departments. When I saw him the first time, I said to myself, “He’s cute”. I would pass him in the hallway while I head to the lounge to get some tea. I knew if I didn’t say anything, I would never know the opportunity that can pass me by.
Oneday I said a big, “Good morning” to him. Ha. I was a really shy person but nothing can happen if you’re both shy.
I think I surprised him with my good morning. He told me later, he doesn’t function when he hasn’t had his morning coffee so I probably remained invisible until he had his coffee.
I was very persisitent to know him. I tried to find out through friends if he was single and how old he is. I also had wingmen to help me try to strike more conversation with him. Ha. I think he still didn’t even know I existed. Then when I almost gave up, there was a work-halloween party. I was playing a video game and there was an empty chair beside me. He asked if he can join me. After the party I said, I want to ask him to a movie. However, he left for home earlier than expected. So I decided to ask him out after the weekend. He said he will get back to me later with an answer. I was super sad and I said, “I don’t know why I bothered. I will just have to move on after that.” Then he got back to me and said he will come to a movie with me.
From that point on we went on our first date, then a second one, then more dates after that.He told me later he was afraid of the work relationships affecting a job he enjoys and that is why he took a while to get back to me with a response. So we kept it professional and no one knew we were even a couple until we went to a work party as a couple, etc. Then more people found out about us when they found out from other people that we were engaged.
Now we are married. I always bug him and say, “Aren’t you glad I followed you?” He would always laugh and say, “Yes, I am very glad you did.” People would always ask him, “How did you meet your wife?”
He said, “She followed me, and asked me out, etc” They always get surprised.
I would always bug him and say, “You’re welcome. I saved you the trouble and asked you out. You’re lucky cause you are a nerd and you got a nerdy girl who followed you. ” It took a couple tries to get to know him or know I even existed. I just say he just didn’t see me because I wasn’t at his eye level. He’s 6 foot 3 ish and I’m 5 foot 1 ish. So persistence is the key to my “Stalky-ness”.
So any nerds out there who think they will never find another nerdy person to love, don’t give up. They do exist and they might just be hiding near by waiting for the chance to stalk you. If you are a tall nerd, just try to look below eye level. You just might notice them staring at you right in the face.
I can say I followed my husband before he even really knew me. I worked in the same division as him but different departments. When I saw him the first time, I said to myself, “He’s cute”. I would pass him in the hallway while I head to the lounge to get some tea. I knew if I didn’t say anything, I would never know the opportunity that can pass me by.
Oneday I said a big, “Good morning” to him. Ha. I was a really shy person but nothing can happen if you’re both shy.
I think I surprised him with my good morning. He told me later, he doesn’t function when he hasn’t had his morning coffee so I probably remained invisible until he had his coffee.
I was very persisitent to know him. I tried to find out through friends if he was single and how old he is. I also had wingmen to help me try to strike more conversation with him. Ha. I think he still didn’t even know I existed. Then when I almost gave up, there was a work-halloween party. I was playing a video game and there was an empty chair beside me. He asked if he can join me. After the party I said, I want to ask him to a movie. However, he left for home earlier than expected. So I decided to ask him out after the weekend. He said he will get back to me later with an answer. I was super sad and I said, “I don’t know why I bothered. I will just have to move on after that.” Then he got back to me and said he will come to a movie with me.
From that point on we went on our first date, then a second one, then more dates after that.He told me later he was afraid of the work relationships affecting a job he enjoys and that is why he took a while to get back to me with a response. So we kept it professional and no one knew we were even a couple until we went to a work party as a couple, etc. Then more people found out about us when they found out from other people that we were engaged.
Now we are married. I always bug him and say, “Aren’t you glad I followed you?” He would always laugh and say, “Yes, I am very glad you did.” People would always ask him, “How did you meet your wife?”
He said, “She followed me, and asked me out, etc” They always get surprised.
I would always bug him and say, “You’re welcome. I saved you the trouble and asked you out. You’re lucky cause you are a nerd and you got a nerdy girl who followed you. ” It took a couple tries to get to know him or know I even existed. I just say he just didn’t see me because I wasn’t at his eye level. He’s 6 foot 3 ish and I’m 5 foot 1 ish. So persistence is the key to my “Stalky-ness”.
So any nerds out there who think they will never find another nerdy person to love, don’t give up. They do exist and they might just be hiding near by waiting for the chance to stalk you. If you are a tall nerd, just try to look below eye level. You just might notice them staring at you right in the face. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '1e7987fb0477848ea1b127ba9f03efbc4be68e73a9bb7b4c3c71240974053a0e'} |
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User avatar #208 - appleboom (09/06/2012) [-]
Name one country that teaches diplomacy in the schools, and then forces you into the military? I'd actually like to know.
#219 to #208 - kingpongthedon ONLINE (09/06/2012) [-]
According to Wikipedia (which you should use whenever you have a question), there are close to 30 countries with compulsory service, including many developed countries. Even Switzerland has compulsory service.
User avatar #227 to #219 - appleboom (09/06/2012) [-]
Thank you for the information!
#211 to #208 - txikaze (09/06/2012) [-]
America up until the draft was removed...
User avatar #216 to #211 - appleboom (09/06/2012) [-]
That was about 50 years ago, though. If America were the same as 50 years ago, blacks would still be getting lynched and we'd have a thriving middle class.
Also, no video games!
User avatar #247 to #216 - sirdaddysir (09/06/2012) [-]
A more comprehensive version of 'the draft' was enacted this year, to include personal property, and food and water resources, along with conscript slaves and soldiers. “National Defense Resources Preparedness” Executive Order (which means Congress didn't vote on it, and it can't be judged unconstitutional by the Supreme Court like other laws).
Just for clarity on the draft discussion.
User avatar #250 to #247 - appleboom (09/06/2012) [-]
User avatar #254 to #250 - sirdaddysir (09/06/2012) [-]
A more comprehensive version of the draft was enacted this year, building from a version that has been around since the 70s, which does all things I mentioned and can even be activated in peacetime.
User avatar #270 to #254 - appleboom (09/07/2012) [-]
We also have the patriot act and Obama just signed a bill into law last December that lets the Government imprison American citizens indefinitely without trial.
Hopefully nothing comes of all this.
#221 to #216 - txikaze (09/06/2012) [-]
Dafuq you talking about? Hate crimes still happen lol. Just because the media doesn't cover it all the time doesn't mean it doesn't happen. You can't just say "well because the draft ended 50 years ago, I'm only going to focus on that period of time." You have to look back when we had a draft and sent our soldiers fresh from school to the worst war this planet has ever seen.
User avatar #225 to #221 - appleboom (09/06/2012) [-]
My point wasn't that hate crimes don't happen, it's that civil rights were a lot worse.
And Vietnam is the worst war in history? Look up what happened in WWI, or Vlad the Impaler, or what the British Empire used to do to insurrections it won against.
#235 to #225 - txikaze (09/06/2012) [-]
I didn't mean the worst war in the sense of the "extremes" in the way people were killed but by the numbers. Going from the education system that's taught you pacifism and to help your fellow race straight into a war surrounding genocide where over 100,000 American troops alone were killed (and think of how short our time was in the war compared to other countries)
User avatar #242 to #235 - appleboom (09/06/2012) [-]
Well if you want to go by the numbers, WW2 beats out Vietnam.
And I don't exactly understand the second sentence.
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Tangy Braised Collard Greens with White Beans and Lime
© Roland Persson
Tangy Braised Collard Greens with White Beans and Lime
• ACTIVE: 30 MIN
• SERVINGS: 12
For this Brazilian side dish, Daniel Boulud gives braised collards and silky white beans an unusual accent of fresh lime juice.
1. 1 pound small dried white beans, such as French navy beans, picked over
2. 3 medium onions, 2 thinly sliced
3. 1 small carrot
4. 1 thyme sprig
5. 1 rosemary sprig
6. 1 bay leaf
7. 1 quart chicken stock or low-sodium broth
8. Salt and freshly ground pepper
9. 3 tablespoons unsalted butter
10. 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
11. 5 garlic cloves, thinly sliced
12. 5 pounds tender collard greens—stems and inner ribs removed, leaves cut into 1-inch ribbons
13. 1 teaspoon finely grated lime zest
14. 1/4 cup fresh lime juice
1. In a large pot, cover the beans with 2 inches of water and bring to a boil. Remove from the heat, cover and let stand for 1 hour.
2. Drain the beans and return them to the pot. Add the whole onion, carrot, thyme, rosemary and bay leaf. Add the stock and 2 cups of water and bring to a boil. Simmer over low heat until the beans are nearly tender, about 30 minutes. Season with salt and pepper. Drain the beans and reserve the cooking liquid. Discard all of the other solids.
3. In a very large pot, melt the butter in the olive oil. Add the sliced onions and garlic and season with salt and pepper. Cook over moderately high heat, stirring occasionally, until softened, about 6 minutes. Add the collards and cook, tossing, until wilted slightly. Add half of the reserved bean cooking liquid, cover and cook over low heat, stirring occasionally, until the collards are tender, about 1 hour.
4. Add the beans and the remaining bean cooking liquid to the pot and cook until the beans are tender, about 30 minutes. Stir in the lime zest and juice, season with salt and pepper and serve.
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Gatorade melts teeth earlier than Coca-Cola?
Experiments actually conducted at the University of Iowa in the United States say that Gatorade is the cornerstone of teeth among Coca Cola, Diet Cork, Gatorade, Red Bull and 100% apple juice.
Gatorade is famous as a sports drink with the world's largest share, but what does this mean?
Details are as follows. & College Football Recruiting News >> Gatorade Destroys Your Teeth Faster than Coke
According to this article, tested tubes filled with coca cola, diet coke, Gatorade, Red Bull and 100% apple juice, respectively, were prepared with covered tooth with manicure enamel, exposed bare tooth root part I tried to soak the beverage for 25 hours while changing beverages every 5 hours and found that different results were obtained depending on the beverage.
First, in the case of the exposed part of the tooth, all the drinks resulted in corrosion of the teeth, whereas in the case of the part covered with enamel it was called Gatorade, Red Bull and Coca Cola, diet coke and 100% apple juice It seems that we corroded teeth in order.
And when comparing at the tooth root part, corrosion was seen in the order of Gatorade, Red Bull, 100% apple juice, Coca Cola, Diet Coke.
By the way, in Gatorade and Coca-Cola, Gatorade contains 6% sugar and Coke seems to contain 10% sugar, but why is Gatorade with less sugar melting teeth as a result It is not mentioned.
The researcher Michael Ignelzi who is researching children's teeth at the University of Michigan said that there is no evidence that sports drinks are not better than other drinks.
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Back Pain
Morphine Pump for Chronic Back Pain
Get rid of that chronic back pain instantly by surgically implanting
Morphine Pump
under the skin of your abdomen. You have tried all types of medications but in vain. Even strong painkillers have functioned for a while and gradually began to lose command on pain. What will you do then? Well, the only option available, also suggested by doctors as a last resort to uncontrollable pain is getting one of these pumps implanted.
What is a
Morphine Pump
Before getting an answer to this question, one needs to understand about spinal cord and its surroundings. Spinal cord is surrounded by a fluid filled space known as intrathecal space which at is always filled with cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). This fluid protects brain and spinal cord acting as a shock absorber.
Since spinal cord is the major organ affected in chronic back pain, the drugs entering the body directly into it have a solid impact when compared to the ones taken orally.
This is when
Morphine Pump
comes into picture.
It is also known as intrathecal drug pump, as it delivers the medicine directly into the CSF. The process is called intrathecal drug delivery.
The pump is a circular metal device, which is surgically placed under the abdominal skin just below the ribcage. Pump has a space inside it called reservoir which acts as a vessel into which the medicine is filled. A small tube known as catheter is connected the pump and placed in the CSF filled intrathecal space.
The device once implanted, can be programmed to deliver required amount of medicine, usually a special narcotic such as morphine, which in this case is preservative-free, directly into CSF and spinal cord. Depending on the changing needs, the pump can be reprogrammed to release different amounts of medication at different times of the day. As a matter of fact,
only 1/300th part of the medicine taken orally is sufficient to ease the pain when given through pump.
The reservoir can be refilled with the medicine, by doctor or nurse, using a needle, once it is emptied. Moreover, the pump rate can also be controlled by an external telemetry device.
Morphine Pump
has been implanted into several back pain victims and the results so far have been positive in most of them.
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Really cheesy backglasses
When it comes to cheesy backglasses, Skateball has it all.
Why has the skateboard dude got a Charles Bronson moustache.
Why is he wearing rubber dish-washing gloves?
What’s with the A-team van?
Why in God’s name has that woman not got a bra on?
How did this ever get approval? Surely the most hideous and cheesy backglass ever…
We love it.
If you know of a cheesier backglass, please let us know.
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1. Tommy Skinner // 30th May 2014 at 6:35 pm // Reply
Spring Break by Gottlieb has a cheesier backglass.
2. In the same vein as Skateball, was Future Spa. I think the two were released close together. Cheezy!
3. Roller coaster tycoon depicts a steel looping roller coaster without side friction and/or up-stop wheels on the train. This has always driven me insane! Ultra-cheeseball!
4. Could a Bally Heavy Metal Meltdown possibly be a more obvious unlicensed Van Halen rip-off? Haha.
5. Virtually every Gottlieb machine that used photography, instead of original artwork…to say the least.
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I think I can answer a few of these questions without elucidation by Mr. Moore. In the first place, question one, "This Man Jesus: Who Is He?" the answer is 0, since like all mortals, the legendary Jesus (probably a rabbi named Yeshua; Eng. transl. "Joshua") included, come from this big Zero. From nothing we came, for that is lack of consciousness, and to Nothing we shall return, with cessation of consciousness. Chance lets us all loose upon the world, thrown off Zero from the Universal Cosmic Giant Wheel of Fortune: our DNA (my "God"). That and that alone determine exactly who and what we are or will be. Simply put, there is no historical evidence for anyone called Jesus Christ (and don't give me that Josephus bit, as that writer has been completely discredited).
The next talk is probably designed to sign you up for a tour of the Unholy Land, where the Rapture will start, a phenomenon that creepy religionists like Rev. John Hagee of Texas do all they can to set Jews and Arabs against each other because the Buy Bull tells us that the Second Coming will not begin until the Jews occupy the area. Those who believe in such things are demonstrably deluded, but why twist the fate of the freethinker by working towards an end we really don't want and don't deserve. If I may paraphrase another non-believer, Woody Allen, I don't their belief in a "Nucular" conflagration, I just don't want to be there when they bring it off.
I am not going to bother addressing the other topics in this week-long visiting sermonizing except to say that the answer to the question, "Did Jesus Really Rise From The Dead?" is easy. Yes, he did, because that was the only way Saul-Paul of Tarsus could convince centuries of dumb followers who also happen to believe in talking serpents, dinosaurs sharing the planet at the same time as homo sapiens, prophets causing planets to stand still and parting seas, and all the other physically impossible phenomena. Cafeteria Christians like Hagee gloss over the countless moral ambivalences of their scripture, such as the scene of Lot escaping Sodom (and thus the gays) only to impregnate his own daughters. As everyone knows, it is perfectly consistent to condemn homosexuality and ratify almost universally abhorrent parent-child incest. Why is the "good book" silent as to whether the children of Lot's union with his own daughters had any mental defects or physical abnormalities. Heaven help us that we should blame God for those! But that is the ultimate refutation of belief: a good, all-powerful God would not allow the children of this abhorrent act to be in any way abnormal. And if he did, he would appear a capricious jackass and not worth belief.
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Urinary tract disorders. Clinical comparison of flavoxate and phenazopyridine.
In nine separate clinical trials, 382 patients having symptoms of either prostatitis, acute cystitis, urethritis, and/or trigonitis were randomly assigned to treatment with flavoxate or phenazopyridine. Over-all response was evaluated in 384 patients after five days of therapy. In patients having prostatitis, response was satisfactory in 66 per cent treated with flavoxate and 31 per cent treated with phenazopyridine. In all other patients, satisfactory responses were reported in 80 per cent on flavoxate compared with 56 per cent on phenazopyridine. Similarly, symptom-severity evaluations at two and five days of therapy showed most symptoms improved in more of the patients on flavoxate therapy than on phenazopyridine therapy. Although more adverse effects were reported in patients treated with phenazopyridine than with flavoxate, the difference between medications was not statistically significant. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '8a146e56262a0ecef243ab5d869cd8dbdec621580060ecbf59bf19d52e14c35a'} |
Origins of psychology
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The success of natural sciences had a significant influence on the emergence of psychology particularly because the scientific methods used by sciences such as biology and chemistry were regarded as the only reliable methods for discovering reliable knowledge about the world.
Therefore, in order to be accepted and to flourish as a subject in its own right, psychology had to adopt the methods of the natural sciences.
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Wilhelm Wundt
The first ever lab dedicated to psychological reasearch was opened by Wilhelm Wundt in Germany 1879.
His objective was to document the nature of human consciousness and this method came to be known as introspection.
Introspection - The process by which a person gains knowledge about his or her own mental and emotional states as a result of the examination or observation of their conscious thoughts and feelings.
The methods used to investigate the mind would be recognised as scientific as all introspections were recorded under strictly controlled conditions.
The same standardised intructions were given to each participant and therefore the procedures could be replicated.
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Early behaviorists
The behaviourist John B. Watson's main problem with introspection was that it produced data that was subjective and varied from person to person. This made it difficult to establish general principles.
Watson was also highly critical of introspections focus on private mental processes and proposed that a truly scientific psychology should restict itself to only studying phenonema that could be observed and measured.
Therefore from this the behavourist approach was born and with it the emergence of psychology as a science.
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Scientific approach
Watson and later Skinner brought the language, rigour and methods of the natural sciences into psychology.
Many modern psychologists still rely on the experimental method as part of their research and practices.
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| mini_pile | {'original_id': '3a4b9f036b98fc843a49ee458b426242a11c72106dd1f22b778d1230d03ceb37'} |
Sunday, March 23, 2014
Positions of Iran, World Powers on Enrichment ‘Far Apart’
Iran’s semi-official Fars News Agency today quoted Russian Deputy Foreign Minister and nuclear negotiator Sergei Ryabkov as saying that, “The positions of Iran and the six world powers are far apart on the issue of uranium enrichment.” (Fars News Agency, 23 March)
Fars also added that Ryabkov’s comments were in contrast to Iran’s own foreign minister’s assessment of the talks.
“(Ryabkov’s) remarks came after Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif expressed pleasure in the recent nuclear talks with the world powers, and said major progress has been made in the negotiations,” said Fars
Fars reprinted a quote from IRNA’s interview with him on Thursday:
“Another successful outcome of Vienna II has been the fact that the position of all sides on the four major issues -- enrichment, sanctions, international peaceful nuclear cooperation and the Arak reactor -- has been clarified, according to Zarif.”
Fars, believed to generally represent the country’s hard right, has been cautious, and at times uncomfortable, with reported success at nuclear negotiations, which aim to reach final comprehensive accord on the country’s nuclear program.
Anonymous said...
Thank God. If these mullahs are able to strike a deal then their rule over Iran will continue indefinitely.
Anonymous said...
I belive you didnot undersatood iranian
the relkation Shah and west was very good and his reign was very short , like your memory
Anonymous said...
How many years , likes of u, promise that this is the last year? regardless of nuclear talks Mullas are here to stay.
Anonymous said...
Yes let's wish to God the situation finally spirals out of control and cedes its place to a full-blown, catastrophic total regional war with the US for the latter to turn Iran's infrastructure and industry 100 back in time, just like they did to Iraq. So much better outcome than hoping for the situation to settle diplomatically and provide future opportunities for the people to topple the dictators like in Tunisia or Egypt (or Iran itself way before any Arab Srping in 1979) without foreign military intervention turning their country to ashes and render it strife with sectarian conflict in the process.
Anonymous said...
I have always believed that these "talks" will never succeed as long as the Zionist mutt yanks the chain in DC. With US and Russian relationship deteriorating by the minute, it is highly doubtful that these cosmetic talks will get anywhere. If the Iranian mullahs were not so idiotic, they would be taking advantage of the changing geo-political situation. A Rouhani trip to Moscow would be a good signal to Putin, who is about to sign the biggest energy deal with China in a bi-lateral currency sway that will further diminish the dollar. Iran should be sighing similar deals with Russia and China to undermine the eroding sanctions regime.
My prediction from day one has been, THESE TALKS ARE GOING NOWHERE.
Anonymous said...
They {mullahs') will certainely outlive you.....
Mark Pyruz said...
It must be conceded, however, that FARS promptly published the Joint Plan of Action in its entirety, something Western mainstream media outlets were not immediately provided with and did not publish in its entirety.
Anonymous said...
"turn Iran's infrastructure and industry 100 back in time, just like they did to Iraq. "
What the hell are you talking about? Iraq's economy is booming and rapidly advancing, and I would much much rather live and do business there than in Iran (excluding the parts of Iraq experiencing sectarian strife of course).
In ten years Iraq will be another UAE.
Anonymous said...
here's some basic research for you.
Iraq is thriving and growing like never before in its history
B.M.A said...
iraq economy thriving!-
and then you will have to appreciate that ,the main players there are Iranians!!.
Anonymous said...
"Iraq is thriving and growing like never before in its history" ==> the greatness amount of one-liner bullshit I have ever heard in 15 years on this subject, no hyperbole here. Next thing you know you're going to choose Afghanistan over Iran any day by pointing out to rising foreign investment and thriving posh areas of Kaboul.
Yes Iraq is "thriving" with world record numbers of unknown birth defects in some of its cities, record levels of poverty (I'm talking about its PEOPLE, not some few pro-US bourgeoisie elite that happen to sit at the top of their oil like the Shah did in his time and the Mullahs are doing right now), constant and never-seen-before risk of all-out civil war due to sectarian conflict, and something wiki forgot to mention : several thousand dead via terrorist acts ever 2 or 3 month, greater than the occupation period of 2008. Multiple Al-Qaida strongholds around the capital that happen to establish themselves over the army every once in a while whenever they please, an ailing healthcare system and massive power shortages to this day. You are right pack it up and fly over there already, do it as fast as you can, taste what it's like to live like kings, compared to Iran's trash and come back with your tales of success. Oh I forgot to add : a severely oil-dependent economy (even more than Iran's) that is simply profiteering from regularly skyrocketing oil prices to sustain state finances. Just because their GDP seems big on wiki doesn't make it the heaven you're trying to sell us so shamelessly.
So by your rationale we should wish the talks to fail, get the country almost flattened then occupied and pillaged by the US and other "coalition forces" and wait for some positive the fallout in ten years and one million dead to become the New Great Thriving Iran with its big retrieved GDP. That's brilliant, just brilliant, keep talking.
Oh and since you love basing yourself upon Wiki to support your fantastic thesis and conjectures : here's for you , qutoed from another page, about 70s Iraq : "After the nationalisation of the IPC, Iraq's oil revenue increased from 219 million ID in 1972 to 1.7 billion ID in 1974, 3.7 billion ID in 1978 and 8.9 billion ID in 1980: by over 40 times in less than a decade." ==> and this, without having to lose thousands of its people to car bombings and Salafi hostile takeovers every month.
"From 1970 to 1980, Iraq's economy grew by 11.7 percent" ==> I thought Iraq used to be backwards before going through the privilege of getting bombed to smithereens by Alpha Strikes and Tomahawk attacks to get its economy resurrected to unseen levels ever ?
"The National Development Plan (1976–1980) ended with an 11-percent increase in GNP." The Iran–Iraq War would halt Iraq's economic development and lead to the economic stagnation seen during Hussein's later rule. ==> only Saddam's stupid and foolish war kept it from rising even further ahead. In contrast your Iraqi golden age of the 2010s seems fade considering the damage and loss of population over the preceding decade, and a country almost completely dependent on foreign will for every dimension of its existence now, with no scientific community left to properly speak of as of today.
"What the hell I am talking about". Well, just all of the above. Sources ? same as yours, different page :'athist_Iraq#Economic_growth
Anonymous said...
Iraq currently has 10% unemployment and a close to $10,000 per capita gdp and enough contracts and deals with western countries (and lol at backwards Iran driving Iraq's economy, Iraq's top trading partners are all advanced countries not Iran).Iraq has already surpassed Iran and will turn into the uae in 10 maybe 5 years.
But keep copying and pasting paragraphs on Saddam you self deluded Iranian fool.
Lies are like an Iranian's oxygen!
Anonymous said...
"Lies are like an Iranian's oxygen!" ==> and this, coming from a guy adhering to the 10% unemployment figure as the sole needed emblem to portray perfection. The US counts 1 out of 6 people flirting with the UN's line of poverty while its official unemployment figures are half of that, congratulations on your find, I'm really puzzled as to how one can possibly react now, seems you cornered us all here.
As said above, get your flight tickets in order, that was a good advice since a paradise on Earth seems to be waiting there. But before your board the plane, remember that it also happens to be the unique scene of several thousand of violent deaths per quarter through dozens of terrorist bombings that happen almost daily to this very day, to rampant Al-Qaida linked fundamentalist paramilitary groups regularly taking control of entire neighborhoods and towns with national security forces unable to push them out for weeks and often compelled to negotiate, so don't forget to bring your flack jacket and a heavily armored division of PMC staff with you on your trip, we never know. Oh, and a portable generator too, since constant daily power shortages keep costing 40 billion dollars each year to the country, except on the Vatican-sized US embassy, there you won't feel the heat. Such issue probably comes bundled as a decoration to Modern Iraqi Greatness.
Seriously, you're the only pathetic fool that one can properly speak of here with all your flawed assertions backed by nothing else than a couple figures supposedly proving a "never seen before" kind of prosperity while another poster showed through its own figures on pre-war Saddam's era that Iraq fared even better than that and with no wars or massive instability and sectarian trouble when oil prices soared in the 70s after nationalization of its oil company, so you keep on dreaming on your delusions of a future rich and ideal Iraqi sheikhdom enjoying the benefits of 10 years of occupation, anywhere between 600,000 to 1 million death, and systematic destruction of their infrastructure and poisoning of their soil, rather than reminding ours. I for one am indeed fine with my perception of reality.
About sources and propaganda accusation : so far everyone made copy pastes from different pages of documented Wiki paragraphs, verifiable by all. So by your hilariously broken logic it's basically ok when Wiki says something in favor or your childish rationale of Iraq being THE place to be rather than stable and at least semi-industrialized Iran, but it becomes cheap regime propaganda when somebody happens to counter it bluntly just by browsing another page. Man you made my day. Now
you were quick to bring up figures, other brought up theirs that are at least as valid as yours, nullifying your core argument in the process with astonishing ease.
Now how about telling us more about the Afghan miracle now that the Iraqi chapter is closed and that we self-deluded Iranian fools all contemplate with profound envy ? After all they are going through the same kind of noble "chemotherapy" at the moment, no ?
But I wouldn't want to hold you for too long, you got a plane to catch, get in there already and give us some peace, Iraq is the New Vegas, truly.
Anonymous said...
AnonymousMarch 24, 2014 at 8:43 AM,
about the beauty of living in Iraq, a good read, dated mid-2013, barely a year ago :
From the article :
"Central power is another issue, with the system sometimes on for as little as two hours a day."
Other facts that you'll probably call propaganda :
"Iraq’s poverty and unemployment is increasing every year despite the Government’s efforts to implement programs to lower it. The United Nations and other International Organizations have published that more than 23% of Iraq’s population lives below the poverty line.
While 23% is the official figure, the real number exceeds 35% (12 million). The Iraqi people have endured a lot of hardship and suffering during the last four decades of war, in addition to crippling sanctions. The devastating living conditions have resulted in the brain drain of the intellectual workforce."
Anonymous said...
Anon 8:43,
see you in 5 years then, but in the meantime spare us your self-inflating aberrations of a rationale. Iraq is a broken country currently on the verge of civil war based along sectarian lines, dozens of people die almost every day with relentless terrorist attacks from both Shiite and Sunnis groups, the economy actually deteriorates rather than improves with time because of a still shattered infrastructure with little to no clear policies to put them back in order, to name only this. The national fabric is truly torn apart in this ultra-polarized state, and putting it together again will be no easy task, assuming it is still possible within the current generation. Abduction and organ trafficking explode nowadays, forcing young women and girls to remain at home and not even go to school. Add to that a massive brain drain phenomenon plus assassination campaigns dating back to the occupation period that have deprived the country from a once brilliant academic base.
Honestly, not a thriving business place in any way other than for governments sealing lucrative deals on their broken back... GDP are oil revenues are not all, you gotta look beyond that, proof posted here are plenty to illustrate the paradoxes of the situation on the ground despite nice statistics for those two specific parameters.
Anonymous said...
Iraq is advancing so rapidly that Sirius from 2010 are now woefully obsolete.
If you Iranians whose country is such a Hell that you are afraid to live in it need to pile the "Iraq's economy is bad" lie on top of your other lies then that's just more sad evidence of Iran's culture but the truth is:
An Iraqi can wire money in an out of Iraqi bank account to any country with ease at stable rates.
Iraq is building a trade surplus of about 50 billion a year.
Iraq has so many deals with so many western companies it would make your head spin. The advancements you see now are a drop in the bucket
Iraqis have far more freedom that do Iranians (which is why you liars fled that Hell hole you try to defend)
Iraqis have every reason to be OPTIMISTIC about their future, unlike Iranians living in an isolated ostracized and oppressed Hell
In five years Iraq went from being a wasteland to being better than Iran economically. In the next give or ten out well be in uae territory.
Anonymous said...
If only the economy was the only thing broken in Iraq today, as shown and documented above from 2013 and 2014 sources. Plus, sadly for them we don't even need to "pile" on anything, daily reality reported by worldwide media outlets including American ones are enough of a reminder of the Al-Qaeda hellhole most of its cities have become and force the central government to make weeks long bombing runs to barely contain them while they slaughter on every time they decide to. Technically there is ongoing WAR in this country killing by the THOUSANDS and so EVERY MONTH and you call it an example to follow, my goodness you're insane !!!! So all you blind madman do here is to basically loop around your hatred towards everything Iranian backed by the same ludicrous and unsupported claims with proven flawness by every other poster making documented counterclaims that you have been utterly unable to adress even once. So there is no need for any sane individual to list any further the number of erroneous speclative pseudo "arguments" you made this time.
Sweet dreams in your sugary Iraqi citadel home to such (lethal) perfect life.
Give us a break kid.
Nader Uskowi said...
Thank you all for posting your comments on Iraq. But this is not a blog on Iraq, and although I do understand strong feelings on all sides of the Iraqi debate, please limit your comments to the subject of this post: Positions of Iran, World Powers on Enrichment 'Far Apart.' Are they far apart as said by the Russian chief negotiator, or close enough that a comprehensive agreement could be reached by July, as Zarif says?
Anonymous said...
The difference is that in Iraq, a few tiny enclaves are run by terrorists, and the rest of the country is free, prospering, flooded with western businessmen and booming. In Iran, the entire country is run by terrorists.
AGAIN, YOU CAN'T EVEN WIRE MONEY TO OR FROM AN IRANIAN BANK. lol. The country is an ostracized hell hole that no one would touch with a ten foot pole. Forget inviting foreign companies in for business, and forget doing any kind of business in that hell.
Ironically, Iraq is benefiting handsomely from the sanctions on Iran. It's run by a pro-western government and western businessmen are all over the country, competing with asians for business, staying at five star hotels and enjoying life in an optimistic country. Meanwhile, you fled that hellhole you're from and you're scared to go back, live and work (as if there are any jobs) in that toilet run by imbeciles.
Anonymous said...
Yes and all they had to do was suffer bombing,sanctions,more bombing,an invasion,an occupation,a near civil war and the deaths of millions or at least "only" hundreds of thousands[depending on who you ask] and the destruction of much of the country,what a small price to pay,according to you,for a country that will soon be another uae [LOL].I think you should hurry off to find your iraqi dream as quickly as possible.I never ceased to be amazed by the malcontents who denigrate iran while trumpeting the virtues of iraq or afghanistan,I`m sure that even if saddam or the taliban were still in power you`d still be trying to say things there would be better than in iran
Anonymous said...
"The difference is that in Iraq, a few tiny enclaves are run by terrorists, and the rest of the country is free", so basically you live surrounded by terrorists who run whatever they want, you can be among the 30 or 40 people who get blown to pieces on their way to work every day (assuming you have a work) or going shopping in a street market every day but you're even more scared in Iran. I think we're done here. Dude Iran controls a major part of the political parties here and does a copious amount of trade with them. They are winning the war in Syria thanks to Iraq's complicity and Mr. Kerry was unable to prevent weapon transfer via their airports despite repeated attempts and even threats of sanctions, ain't that enough of a hint to who is in charge of the situation ?
"The country is an ostracized hell hole that no one would touch with a ten foot pole" ==> a terrorist-filled country with its dozens of people dying daily including in its capital is a sweet paradise everyone dreams of visiting any day, and a deteriorating economy. Can you tell me about tourism figures nowadays ?
But you keep on talking about the beauty of an ATM and the marvels of moving money around in a devastated country.
Anonymous said...
Anon 7:42
"A few tiny enclaves" LOL and you call that a country. 20 to 40 people die every single day in Baghdad itself and its marketplaces, security is still merely assured by armed vigilantes rather than a scared and non-existent police, a kidnapping rate bigger than the worst favellas of Latin America, falling education standards and litteracy rates specially for women (whats their diploma per capita rate compared to Iran btw ?) but the country is otherwise prosperous (lol) , free (re-lol) and pro-western (mega-lol ahahah).
You think there aren't five star luxury hotels hosting European, Russian and Chinese repesentatives nowadays all over Iran ? Plus what's with the pride of providing such high class services to foreigners from countries that were still bombing Iraqi homes 3 years ago and now benefitting handsomely from the country's catastrophically weak standing, while little to no ordinary Iraqis can even dream of enjoying such level of life with their 2 hours electricity per day, absence of sewage system still not rebuilt since the occupation, and this when they happen to have a roof above their heads and survived the latest car bombing on their way to work or to the shop on their day off, or Al Qaida takeover of their town. But they can WIRE MONEY ahahahah !!!
Go settle in that "hell of a paradise" man.
Anonymous said...
I never knew Iranians were so jealous of how Iraq has advanced, in the exact years that sanctions have crushed Iran. You won't like the next five years I'm afraid.
Anonymous said...
lol. They keep detailed statistics on who trades with Iraq. Why would Iraqis want to buy Iranian products when they can buy from anywhere in the world?! Come on please.
Anonymous said...
"I never knew Iranians were so jealous of how Iraq has advanced"
Oh man you're right. I never knew Iraq had a homegrown space, nuclear, and military arms industry while undergoing total technological embargo and full-blown economic sanctions in effect. Oh yeeees, they are all pieces of reverse engineered junk, my bad. Well, what about Iraq's reverse engineered junk and made-in-Iraq derivations of high quality products ?
"lol. They keep detailed statistics on who trades with Iraq"
Well maybe you should actually look into it then ! Since they happen to amount to close to 7 billions dollars in the past fiscal year, go check figures from wherever you please. They even sell them electricity to compensate with their shortages. All sources from the US to middle eastern ones predict doubling of that level within the coming decade. And the US repeatedly tried to curb such exchanges between the two since the very inception of friendly ties after Saddam's ouster and warming of relations with Tehran. And because they happen to be neighbors sharing thousands of miles of common borders. That's called commerce without intermediaries hence expensive taxes you idiot. This and because of Iran's political clout over the Maliki-led government, hate it or like, personally I don't care since I have no love for either governments really, I just can't stand lying malcontents such as yourself posing as the voice of truth spitting their hilarious bullshit for anyone stupid enough not to look into it before buying it. Not a month ago Baghad was about to ink a couple hundred million dollar military deal to purchase weapons, night vision equipment and heavy ordnance from Iran's DIO because of their dissatisfaction over US reluctance to provide them with direly needed hardware to fight Al-Qaida forces in towns they overrun, in this superb citadel of progress of yours. They could have gone anywhere but they knocked on Iran's door, funny ain't it. And since when Iraq's economy and standards of life are improving, I mean come on even their own dedicated business websites point to the contrary with alarming reports, who are you trying to kid exactly here ? only one thing is rising : their oil output and the natural rise in oil revenues it provides, with full dependency on a myriad of foreign actors to handle their still ailing infrastructure as pointed above plenty.
Anonymous said...
AnonymousMarch 25, 2014 at 3:36 PM
No, YOU will hate the coming years my friend, rest assured, your perception of the current tide of events are so flawed and wrong by every regard it's painful to watch.
Anonymous said...
"homegrown space, nuclear, and military arms industry"
lol. You mean that 1950s technology rockets, russian built nuclear power plant that Iraq had in 1981 and will have again in time, or the "azaraksh?"
You think Iraq imports $7 billion a year from Iran? In 2012, which is ages away in light of how fast the Iraqi economy is improving, Iraq imported like $50 to $60 billion total, from:
Why do you think Iraq would pay a penny for anything from Iran, when no one else in the world wants anything from that country? Iranians don't even want any of that junk made in Iran. This is so sad. Lying and delusion are really a problem with Iranians.
Oh, and here's another revelation for you, if you think the sanctions on Iran, and Iraq's economic boom were "coincidental" and not planned by the U.S. to boost their ally at the expense of their enemy then you're not being very realistic.
lolol. please. this is pathetic.
Anonymous said...
P.S. you should try to sell Iraq your "azaraksh" jets. I'm sure they'll prefer those to F16s. lmao.
Anonymous said...
Anon 8:37,
Iran defense industries are barely 25 years old, and the CEP of their missiles is less than 300m over 2000km ranges and 50-100m over 300km and hypersonic speeds, using optical guidance for terminal phase targeting and laser gyroscopes for the inertial flight phase to reach target zone (ask Uzi Rubin from Israel's Arrow system or Leon Panetta from the Pentagon for that, I have a tendency to give them more credit than i'll ever give an amateur propagandist such as yours when it comes to rising lethality of Iranian missile arsenal) , yeah sure they had both that in the 1950s, rockets were renowned for such speed and precision right after WWII, man I can't stop laughing, keep going with such typical and weak comparisons.
And how about the fact that those same rockets have deterred any enemy of Iran to attack it so far including the all-mighty and brave IDF despite saying it is going to do so in anger for what , 10 years ? 15 years ?
Unlucky for you I anticipated your pathetically predictable attempt to belittle every single one of their achievements I quoted by saying that Iraq in terms of self-sufficiency in those fields is light years away from Iran as we speak, they have no homegrown capacity in ANY industrial field, that is below anything Iran can manage, same for your "'81 Russian power plant", since FYI Iran makes its own new generation centrifuges now, the US is negotiating hard to keep their production low or put new ones in service, the Russian have nothing to do with such capacity since they are an active party to nuclear non-proliferation towards the country despite their existing agreement on completing Bushehr. Good luck to the Iraqi to be able to pull that kind of stunt in the near future.
Keep on joking on the Azaraskh which is a test bed for aircraft sub-elements and ultimately supposed to be used a training jet, they acknowledge it themselves short of some initial PR by that idiot Ahmadinejad, sorry you have to read more. In that regard they didn't even bother giving that custom twin-tailed F-5 derivative a military camo theme, that says volumes to their interest in making it a real jet-fighter. Any person with a slight degree of general culture on the subject can tell you Iran's defense doctrine and priority budget is based on missiles, and with reason, for now.
But, still yeah you're right, Al-Qaida filled Iraq with its 7000 deaths by bombing last trimester will be able to buy them as training jet for its pilots any day they feel the need, like when they asked us for night vision equipment, tank and artillery shells, light weapons and so on, of course you rather deflect and ignore it and tell me about exchange figures and again, ignored the one I posted about the 7 billion TRADE VOLUME with Iran. And certainly not oil since none of them needs it. Your stance is painfully weak to begin and your "arguments" are basically a couple nice figures taken out of context, you gotta do better than that to impress anyone.
"Oh, and here's another revelation for you[...]"
Seriously ? oh what a painful revelation, you mean the same one telling me that Al-Qaeda was originally created, funded, and trained by the CIA and then did 9/11 and then embroiled their armed forces in catastrophically expensive occupation conflict plaguing their economy and international standing to this day while rising in influence after 10 years of war ? well I guess that rising trade volume and the fact that anything Shiite within their parliamentary spectrum being pro-Iran and helping them critically change the tide of the Syrian war by allowing constant large shipments of weapons with Kerry totally helpless to stop them was also part of their grand plan ? do you have other such "revelations" for me ?
Your case is a lost cause, reality is stronger every time you try to sell us bullshit, so get over it already and pack your things, for the Iraqi Paradise and its nice GDP.
Anonymous said...
AnonymousMarch 25, 2014 at 8:37 PM,
Other will respond as they please, but I would personnaly say this, taken straight from the Financial Times, a renowned propaganda channel for the Islamic Republic of Iran right :D
From the article :
"[...]In terms of numbers of scientific papers published in peer-reviewed journals, Iran is the world’s fastest-growing country. The total leap from 736 in 1996 to 13,238 in 2008.
Tehran is committed to a “comprehensive plan for science”, including boosting research and development spending to 4 per cent of gross domestic product by 2030. It stood at 0.59 per cent of GDP in 2006. (The European Union, by comparison, invests about 1.8 per cent of GDP in R&D.)
Despite tensions over its nuclear programme, Iran is far from being regarded internationally as a scientific pariah. The number of research papers resulting from US-Iranian collaboration has risen from about 300 to 1,600 over the past 12 years[...].
"Both Iran and Israel are playing a role in the Sesame project to build a synchrotron light source in Jordan that will be used by researchers all over the Middle East."
And ironically, two of the Iranian scientists supposed to work on the project were killed by your Israeli friends in Mossad shortly after being shortlisted in 2010. How noble a participation of them, truly lovely to see how much they can contribute to collaborative work free of political considerations, no wonder people like you hold them and Iraq so dear to their heart.
Anyway, just wait until those negotiations come to a final agreement so that Iran's potential can again express itself to its full extent, and your current quite amusing pride of what you mistakenly perceive as Iran's failure to progress will fall with double the prejudice, and the only thing you will have left by then will be your eyes to cry in anger ;-)
Oh yes an also your "prosperous, free & fair" Iraq (rofl) !!!
Anonymous said...
an Iranian paper is often plagiarized or low quality bullshit. Iranians can't do a thing on their own as sanctions have shown. All of their academics consists of theft lies and scams much like the country's other characteristics. A few Iranians living out of that Hell have produced a few things but nothing out of Iran is worth two cents.
Even that piece of garbage azaraksh jet is a plagiarized version of the 1960s tech f5 as is all of Iran's backwards military orifices. Of course you would not expect Iran's culture, being probably the most dishonest on the planet, of worrying about advanced social concepts like intellectual property theft. That would be like a tribe of apes worrying about ape rights.
And dream on about a deal and get ready to be the next Cuba or north Korea with Iraq being the next south Korea. You Iranians are about to learn a good lesson.
Anonymous said...
Well then the world's scientific community seems to be in quite a big disagreement with your jokes of an assertion regarding its prowess and progress it seems.
Anyway both their civilian and military aerospace industries actually grew during the past decade and specially during sanctions since they became to priority budget of the Majlis (to the detriment of the population that obviously could care less about such technological achievements when their stomach is empty, fully granted, I for one have no love for the regime's internal policies but that's another matter, unrelated to the subject of your unacceptable racism towards a whole people and certainly not limited to criticizing a government)
Even Obama himself in every of his speeches repeatedly praises achievements emanating from the Iranian diaspora in his own country, notably in NASA, but you stick to your reactionary bullshit since it obviously appears to be the best your inept neurons can pull within the scope of any serious discussion.
Hey you know what ? the whole of Iran's several-thousand year old culture is a millenia-long story of charlatanism if you will, whatever you say, pathetic and ignorant racist retard, what else do you have in store for us next time you reiterate your stain of a participation on this blog, I'm curious !
Honesty man, your last comment breaks your own very characteristic record in intellectual and ideological indecency, it is a disgrace to anything intelligent or even critical of a given entity. Are you really that incapable of making intelligent and documented remarks rather than simply spitting out your petty intolerance and contempt for the Iranian kind in general ? it that really too much to ask ?
Anonymous said...
"A few Iranians living out of that Hell have produced a few things" ahahah a few things he says. Actually their contribution were also made from inside Iran, through collaborative projects. But that's good for the garbage bin right.
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Did you know business consultant Martha Londagin is leaving the Arkansas Small Business and Technology Development Center at the University of Arkansas? Her last day at the ASBTDC is Oct. 11, and the following day she’ll join the commercial lending team at Springdale-based Legacy National Bank.
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But in Uganda, refugee life is different. One of the oldest refugee camps in Africa is remarkable not just for its stone houses instead of plastic tarps. The camp is also full of markets and traders, selling everything from imported fabric to smartphones.
Mohammed Osman Ali, a Somali refugee, runs an arcade at the camp. He rents out time on a PlayStation to other refugees from Eritrea, Ethiopia, or fellow Somalis.
Ali has faced problems running his arcade. For instance, his game controllers break as quickly as he can buy them. Ali figured out the problem. Refugees like him had witnessed war and seen family members killed. And they were unloading their stress — smashing their thumbs into the buttons of the controllers.
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And Betts found that when refugee businesses hire other people, nearly half of those employees are Ugandan nationals. So refugees in Uganda may take jobs, but they also make new ones.
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Osman Faiz, another refugee at the camp, says he gets regularly harassed and overcharged in Ugandan shops.
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Let's say I have an idea for my own tabletop roleplaying game.
Where can I go to learn more about how to design and publish my RPG?
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• How can I find advice and resources to help me get started on the path to making my own game?
• What are the biggest or most successful established communities of RPG designers online?
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The goal of this question is to satisfy a need identified in this chat discussion: guidance for how newbie designers can find more information, especially for problems that maybe aren't a good fit for RPG SE itself. – Alex P Jan 12 '14 at 8:50
While not a full answer alone, John Wick has a great YouTube channel and a seminar on game design (ep 1). Which is a great place to start. – Inbar Rose Jan 12 '14 at 10:10
The only established design communities AFAIK are OSR and storygames-leaning. Is that limitation OK? – SevenSidedDie Jan 12 '14 at 13:25
I'll add in, check out the programs of any local Scifi-Fantasy conventions. They often have panels/workshops on this kinda thing. – Oxinabox May 6 '14 at 13:48
Vincent Baker's blog "Anyway" has a ton of valuable information, including both theory and sales/publishing information. In any given post, there's a lot of smart discussion as well. A good theory/idea listing is right here. Vincent is a GREAT resource and you should ask questions! (I think he also has a good following on Google Plus, so there may be more discussions happening there, these days.)
The old Forge forums, no longer active, had quite a bit of useful information, though at this point, it's digging in archives. The Articles section (particularly on publishing) has some really good, and still valid ideas which have become a lot more accepted (electronic only game publishing, etc.) I've written a good summary of the big publishing ideas out of the Forge on my blog.
A fair number of folks who used to be on the Forge are now at, though due to the way the site is set up, it is a lot less focused and you will have to pick more carefully between "valuable and true information" vs. "everyone is really excited about this thing but doesn't actually know" kind of information.
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Try You can find or create a group to design/play with. If you're near Boston, check out the game-makers guild:
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Netbanking user? Don’t lose money in Phishing attack, know how to be safe
Digital banking has changed the lives of people by providing most facilities online. Now, if you use net banking, you don’t need to visit your bank to send money to someone or issue a new cheque book or change your ATM pin. You can do these as well as many other things on your mobile, laptop or computer, sitting comfortably at home or even if you are on the way. Since most net banking users have their email ID linked to the bank, they get transaction and other related information on the mail as well as on the mobile number. Hackers are also well aware of this fact and use Emails to con people. A method using which a fraudster tries to steal your personal and financial information through legitimate-looking emails is called Phishing.
How does bank Phishing work?
The Phishing mail contains a link to a fraudulent web page similar to your bank’s website and logo and could request you for details such as passwords, PIN, OTP, CVV, etc. They may use the email to give you some lucrative offers provoking you to enter your details on the fraud website. Fraudsters often pose as bank officials and send emails to customers from fake email IDs similar to those of the bank. These IDs have very minute differences from the original bank IDs. Scammers may use the name of the person’s bank, or some other fake email id using a trusted name to send the mail.
The mail informs the consumer that his/her account has been blocked or has some customised offer. These mails will request the clients to send in their personal information such as credit card information, PIN numbers, and bank account information. Scammers also ask the bank customers to click and follow a link that leads to another website, wherein, they can enter their information and resolve the issue. A note of urgency is prevalent in the tone of the fraudulent email.
Once a customer falls in this trap and provides sensitive information, he/she lose their hard earned money.
How to be safe from a Phishing attack?
To be safe from a Phishing attack, you need to be alert and identify a few signs visible in the mail. Keep in mind these points to stay safe:
* A fake website and email may be riddled with grammatical errors and fake branding.
* Try to memorise your bank’s website URL like is the official website of State Bank of India for its netbanking users. On the other hand, a fake website’s URL may be like or
* Always check whether the website URL starts with ‘https’.
* Do remember that your bank or even income tax department never ask for confidential information like PIN and passwords.
* You should not click on any suspicious links received on your email.
* Do not click on any unexpected or suspicious emails and messages.
* Do not access your account or use your Credit card or Debit card from computers in public places.
Also, if you have accidentally shared your confidential data with anyone, you must get your net banking passwords changed immediately. If you have lost money, immediately inform your bank and registered an FIR.
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12 Things You Might Have Missed This Week
This week has been so busy for our Shadowhunters cast. They've been posting pictures non stop! We don't want you to miss anything so we've brought all the best bits right here in this article for you!
1. Alan and Maxim did a play about beans.
2. McG snapped us some photos of our favorite Shadowhunter siblings.
3. Bear hug anyone?
4. Magnus Bane did some err... light reading.
5. Meliorn pondered his beard...
6. Oh, hi Hodge.
7. What a fantastically blue, magical Warlock Potion!
8. Katherine McNamara practiced her back flipping.
9. Alberto and David got all dolled up.
10. Harry and Isaiah went on a food trip...
11. The Lightwood Brothers hung out and smiled a lot.
12. And Luke gave Max some much needed advice on life. (Maybe.)
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Why are Oppositions in Astrology said to be challenging aspects?
Why are Oppositions in Astrology said to be challenging aspects when both planets are in compatible elements, such as Venus in Gemini opposing Neptune in Sagittarius? (air and fire)
Is it really true that opposing planets in astrology are like a “See saw” and you have to “balance” them ..i guess similar to the idea of the north node and south node..OR ..are the energies (especially since they are in compatible elements) “fused” or merged into one line of energy..and how well this energy is used depends on how else the two planets are aspected? by .^.
Like everything else relating to an individual natal horoscope it depends on a number of other factors also present in the chart. Taken alone “very strong oppositions” would likely suggest that person’s “life will be very difficult.” But “very difficult” as compared to what? For example, a person born with missing limbs no doubt will have a more difficult/challenging life than one born with normal limbs. Ever heard the old saying: “I complained about having no shoes until I saw a person with no feet.” “Difficult” aspects can present challenges but should never serve as an excuse for not trying to make the most of life. That is a primary reason why an in-depth understanding of the “tools” one is born with is so important to realizing a fuller and more productive life — which is a primary reason for getting one’s horoscope read as early in life as practical by a competent professional astrologer.
Answered over 3 years ago
Robert Hand says, “The symbolism of the opposition aspect is very much what one would expect: polarity, strife, conflict, and so on, but also partnership and cooperation, as well as consciousness itself.
… Whatever energies are linked by the opposition, they are combined in such a way that they produce instability and change through conflict.
If one examines the conflict, it is seen to arise between an aspect of oneself that has been projected outward and an aspect of oneself that is experienced inwardly. Put more concretely, the opposition signifies a conflict between an external factor and an internal one, and the external factor is the result of an inward energy that one does not as yet understand to be within the self… .
It should be clear, especially in the case of the individual who finds others disruptive, that the disruptive person, entity, or situation is being used by the individual’s subconscious as a mirror to confront an aspect of himself which he then tries to make conscious. Thus the opposition aspect has, through such confrontation, the potential to increase the level of consciousness… .
The goal is a state of perfect equilibrium between the two energies involved in the opposition: it represents the aspect’s partnership and cooperation side."
Answered almost 3 years ago
owly 3857
from United States
The opposition has traditionally been interpreted as symbolizing the need for compromise in the house and sign polarity in which the opposition is located. Oppositional problems are resolved through compromise between the individual and another individual or other external factors. Such problems are interpersonal in nature. If the individual does not reach a successful compromise, the problems may manifest in the physical symptoms of disease. A third-ninth house opposition, for example, indicates that the individual should listen to what others have to say (ninth house) and also express himself through communication (third house). It takes two to make a conversation. A person who will not listen to others, or who is afraid to communicate his thoughts and feelings to others, may express this frustration physically as a disease. To be loved by others (eleventh house) requires that one love in return (fifth house). An opposition in this polarity may symbolize some problem in the free exchange of love, and when a successful compromise is not attained, again we may find a physical manifestation in disease.
Answered almost 2 years ago
steve 584
from unknown
Stephan Arroyo wrote that “The opposition, particularly since it usually involves planets in harmonious elements, indicates a degree of over-stimulation in the person’s energy field which often manifest as a feeling of being caught in the middle of completely opposite tendencies.”
Answered over 1 year ago
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Hibbs on 10/4 releases
Well, the original plan was that yesterday, Thursday, I was going to belatedly take care of last week's reviews. Not only was Sue on vacation, so I had an extra 3 hours of riding the register, but it was the first rainy day in SF all year -- first rainy days historically totally killing business as people adjust to the new weather (it did, we were off by 1/3), as who wants to buy paper when water is coming from the sky? There's no way I wasn't going to have MORE than enough time to get caught up on both reading and reviewing. And then Michael Lieberman walked in the door. For long-time CE customers, you'll remember Michael as "Little Mike", the store's original "Munchkin" -- a young kid who gets you lunch, does some scut work, etc. Michael is Munchkin no more, having been now to law school, just come back from a summer internship (I think) at the Hague (!), and about to start a new job in Washington DC at a law firm where, in his first year, will be making a greater salary than either my Mom (president of marketing), or my Stepmom (runs a 10 acre complex for the elderly) are after being high in their fields for 20 years.
Frickin' lawyers!
Michael is also Ben's Godfather, because I'm not an idiot, and I wanted to be sure that if Tzipora and I died in a fiery cash accident or something, that Ben would have someone both young AND capable of taking care of him.
Michael showed up around 1:30, and before I realized it, it was suddenly quarter-to-six and we had jawed the whole afternoon away, talking about supply-side economics, political ethics, morality & money, and a dozen other light subjects. Chris Carter (no, the other one) also hung out for like an hour and gave us some interesting primers on how globalization is affecting animation.
So, no, I didn't write any reviews yesterday.
Wednesday was Ben's 3rd birthday, and a wonderful time was had by all -- a small party at his preschool, dinner with the 3 American grandparents (mm, Pauline's Pizza!), and the beginning of the presents. Tzipora got him a super-realistic 1/6 scale garbage truck (Ben has the odd fixation with garbage men and their trucks), which, for like the first time ever got Ben to play 100% all by himself for like 90 minutes at a time. Usually, he's too interested in his parents to play alone -- he wants us to do all the playing with him -- but finally, FINALLY he's got a toy which utterly absorbs him.
Me, I started the decade-long project of doling out *my* action figures to the boy -- gave him my "Super Powers" Superman, Batman and Robin figures, with the cloth capes and all.
He liked the garbage truck better, at least on day one!
Sunday, we have his birthday party with all of his friends. We've got a jump house, and there's a hot tub at my parents house. And tons of screaming little children. Should be awesome.
Finally, I'll be eating that bug for ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN #100 today (I think). I've decided on crickets, since the pet store carries those, and I was wowed by the packaging (?!?) of live crickets. They're in a box in which they'll live "a week or two", that has marketing copy like "The classic cricket experience -- crunchy on the outside, chewy on the inside!" Um, wow. I was just expecting a clear plastic bag, really.
(I was also offered mealworms to buy, but they don't look enough like a "bug" to me, although the clerk assured me they were reasonably tasty) (?!?!?!)
I just lost too much time last week to do the bug eating, but it should be today, as long as I remember to bring the camera to work this afternoon. Hopefully sometime middle of next week for pix, depending on Jeff's schedule to resize and post them.
Like a said above, I was originally going to do last week's books yesterday (then this week's books early next week), but since I missed that window, I'm just going to skip ahead and handle THIS week's books, much earlier in the cycle than you are used to.
However, here's a quick run at last week's comics: my PICK OF THE WEEK was STAN LEE MEETS SPIDER-MAN. Not because it was any good, but because it was the strangest god-damn thing I've ever read in my life. Not only do you have Stan psycho-analyzing Spidey, and giving him... dodgy advice ("You've got to keep doing it, son – think of all the people depending on you with toys and movies and underoos!"), but then it had a Joss Whedon story that ends up with, and I swear I am not making this up, Stan going off to PornWorld. Ah, Marvel comics! We're not just for kids any more! Oddly, STAN LEE MEETS SPIDER-MAN was also my PICK OF THE WEAK, since, wholly fuck, can you BELIEVE that content?!?!?! My BOOK/TP OF THE WEEK: SHENZHEN A TRAVELOGUE FROM CHINA HC. I thought last year's PYONGYANG was one of the best books of 2005, and I was really looking forward to this. It isn't at all the same as PYONGYANG, which really gave me "deep" insight into a culture I'll likely never experience on my own -- instead SHENZEN (and this has to be an earlier work, no?) is much more about how Desisle personally feels while traveling in China, with all of the boredom and banality that being a stranger in a strange culture can bring. But, I didn't feel like I learned anything much about China or Shenzhen itself, that I didn't already know. Despite that, this was still, easily, my pick of last week's stuff.
As far as THIS week goes....
52 WEEK #22: We're rapidly reaching the halfway point (4 to go), though it doesn't at all feel to me like we're halfway into the plots. The back half is going to need to be pretty dense, I think, to handle all of the threads they've opened up (like, gosh, hasn't it been forever since we've seen Vic and Renee?). Still and all, I'm pretty much enjoying the run. My only real problem this week : "Going Themyscira" doesn't real sound that likely to me as a (what would you call it?) catchphrase -- there's 4 syllables in that second word! "Doin' a Diana" or "Going Wondy" would both parse better, I think (though the former probably wouldn't translate that well without a footnote, as I tend to think the average reader would probably first flash to the real English one). This is spectacularly OK work, all around, which for a weekly comic is like the gold standard.
ALL NEW ATOM #4: Byrne's gone, and the book suffers from it a bit. I thought #3 was one of the best things Simone had ever written, but that spark doesn't follow through for this reader into #4. Probably because of Mr. Info Dump guy that lays out the Ivy Town weirdness in a very tell-not-show way. I'm also already getting pretty sick of the funny-talking aliens. The art is fine -- just a little too, oh, "DC House Style" for me, I guess. You can say a lot about Byrne, but at least there was always dynamism in his art, even (especially?) in scenes where its just people standing around talking. Merely OK.
AMERICAN SPLENDOR #2: This is much more what I was expecting from a Vertigo AmSplen -- Richard Corben AND Eddie Campbell? Cool! AmSplen's historical problem has always been the art -- I LIKE Gary Dumm's art just fine, but it makes Pekar's mundane tales that much more mundane, and having a Campbell or a Corben makes the mundane seem much more dynamic. Comics NEED dynamism, I believe. On the other hand, I kept expecting an ax murderer or something to show up in the Corben piece because, y'know, Corben. Still, I'll go with GOOD.
BOYS #3: Momentum builds here. Each issue has been better than the one before, which is great because I thought #1 was pretty darn weak. Here, finally, I'm getting a handle on the characters and their world. I'll go with a solid, if unspectacular GOOD.
CRIMINAL #1: Very dense, very strong, very pretty. Top notch stuff from two guys who have really strongly found their legs, and, clearly, work well together. I was going to go with an "Excellent", but I think I'm going to be a petty bitch and knock it down to a VERY GOOD because of the thin cover and the lack of "Good hand" when you pick the comic up. (But, it is actually really Excellent)
CROSS BRONX #2: There was that one SPECTACULAR page in issue #1 where the ghost lady rises up and causes the car crash, and there's nothing here that matches that astounding visual. But it is still GOOD.
DETECTIVE COMICS #824: There's something just a little tiny bit off here, and I'm not sure what it is -- maybe that there aren't any villains on display, or not any real detectiving going on, or maybe it's just the stupid Paris Hilton stand-in (which seems out of place even for foppish Bruce Wayne). Its certainly not bad, but it was pretty much just OK.
DOCTOR STRANGE OATH #1: Oooh, pretty. Plus it had some great bits of business (that Iron Fist opening), and some adept craft (excellent job fitting the origin into the issue without seeming forced -- that kind of natural info dumping is a hard trick to pull off, really), and, so, hard to not call it VERY GOOD from me.
FANTASTIC FOUR #540 CW: What I would have said, had I reviewed last weeks comics, is that, regardless of what you think of CIVIL WAR itself, they're doing some fairly amazing tie-in tricks; for the most part, every tie-in comic has seemed to be relevant and expansive, and you can see why they HAD to hold the crossovers for the main book, because core plot points are involved. That's REALLY rare in line-wide crossovers, especially doing them so well integrated. Which makes this FF even that much odder -- the only thing it seems integrated TO is last weeks AMAZING SPIDER-MAN, not CIVIL WAR itself. I mean, that's NOT how Sue left, is it? Now, I like this version better (Just like I liked FRONTLINE's Death of Giant Man better than the "real" one), but it is a real false note here. I also am really looking for a legitimate justification of Reed's actions, and I'm just not getting it at all. A big EH from me.
GIANT SIZE WOLVERINE #1: The front story was alright (if a bit MARVEL COMICS PRESENTS), but WTF is up with the reprint story as the back up? That kind of incoherent, ugly nonsense is exactly the kind of story that Marvel should be trying to forget, not mis-match pairing with a more "arty" Wolvie story. Brings the whole package down to an AWFUL.
IRREDEEMABLE ANT-MAN #1: Decent and dense read, but it doesn't really hold up. SHIELD is comprised of these kinds of agents? So, then, like the only reason Hydra hasn't taken over, is because they have bigger boobs working for them, then? "The world's most unlikable character" is, perhaps, not exactly accurate (THE FLASH's Griffen takes the 2006 prize, so far, I think), but that's not exactly a sustainable pitch for an ongoing hero book, I think. Hard time Savage Critic Scaling this one, since I think the faults in premise and setup are large, but the skill of execution is decent, so let's be wishy-washy and say OK.
JONAH HEX #12: I had a few problems with pacing, and who-shows-up-where-when, but it's all minor, and this is one of those books that almost certainly deserves a bigger audience than it is getting. I never EVER thought I'd like a Jonah Hex comic book, yet I really do, so I'm going with GOOD.
KNIGHTS OF THE DINNER TABLE #119: Just one of those periodic reminders that this crudely drawn comic, with all of the annoying (since I'm not playing, and have zero use for it) gamer material in the back, is still pretty much the funniest monthly comic on the stands. No, it IS the funniest monthly comic on the stands. There's nothing special about THIS issue, and, really, everything is mid-story so maybe not the best jumping in point (last issue, #118, is probably better for that), but every once in a while I feel the need to remind you this is VERY GOOD.
MYSTERY IN SPACE #2: Bored now. I used to have a "Zzzzzz" rating, so consider it brought back for this.
NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET #1: Nope, they're not really getting the appeal of Freddy here, are they? If this is what we're going to get from Wildstorm horror titles (especially where, I assume?, they're paying licensing fees too), then lets abort the line now, since this is just AWFUL.
NIGHTWING #125: So, first off, thank god Bruce Jones is gone. Wolfman and Jurgens are... well, they're kind of the equivalent of comfort food, as a creative team, aren't they? Not particularly good or anything, but filling enough, and evoking nostalgia. There's no way I could cal this better than OK, but, compared to what came directly before, this is a home run of a comic.
OTHER SIDE #1: Wow, that was a punch to the gut. Strong strong characterization, and a solid look at both sides of the Vietnam war. Loverly artwork. A solid home run, and one you should snap right up, because, let's face it, Vertigo is really really spotty about collecting mini-series into TP. VERY GOOD
X-MEN PHOENIX WARSONG #2: So, uh, wait, this book has nothing to do with Phoenix afterall? Now, that's a dead-brilliant move! Really AWFUL.
As for the Books/TPs, there were three major releases this week... all aimed at the bookstores, at that (though I'm going to sell a ton of each):
BEST AMERICAN COMICS 2006 is a really nice package of work, with a superb presentation, but I have to admit it felt a little too close to MCSWEENEYS #13. Still, I expect to sell a shedload. On the other hand, I want to kill Elizabeth Moore for that fucking introduction ("Please please please take comics seriously. We're all adult and stuff! Plllllllllllllleeeeeeeeeaaassssseeeee") -- we're in a really sad place if we need the validation of someone else to bless the medium. I was also a little ... amused maybe that Pekar's introduction goes on an on about how comics are not just superheroes, and the VERY FIRST STORY presented in the book is a SUPERHERO STORY. Sure it's got a "he shouldn't have been a superhero" punchline, but that doesn't make it any less of a punchline. These kind of collections/surveys tend to be pretty snobby, high brow, and otherwise elitist in their presentation of "Comics are Art, damn it! Plllllease believe us!" (and they have been since since Fantagraphics did the BEST COMICS OF THE DECADE (1980s) sixteen or so years ago -- and I keep thinking there was at least one other even before that), but, let's face it, this IS a collection of really fantastic stories. I'm not all the way through it yet, but I haven't read one story that was anything less than "VERY GOOD" so far. Next year, turn down the desperate rhetoric, and I'd have nothing but good things to say. Up to the point I've read, I'm calling it EXCELLENT.
CANCER VIXEN: Its breezy, its focuses on what I think is a largely superficial and vapid segment of American (and specifically New York) culture, but I find it hard to really review autobio, especially when it's about something really fucked up like breast cancer? (or domestic abuse, in the case of DRAGONSLIPPERS by Rosalind Penfold; or abuse and Multiple Personality Disorder in Madison Clell's CUCKOO) Actually, I think those two are also good comparisons, because from a comics-as-craft sense, none of these are especially "good" -- Marisa Acocella Marchetto's cartooning isn't really strong enough to carry the parts of the story that have weight here, but it's breezy enough to make the fashonista stuff clever and fun -- but they're all affecting works if only for the raw sheer bravery on display. I'd put this in the hand of someone who has, or knows a woman with, breast cancer, most certainly, because "Yes, you can survive" is a really important thing. I'd also recommend it to people who are interested in comics-as-a-form because there are relatively few works that try to tackle subjects like these (I'd add PEDRO & ME, and MOM'S CANCER, and I know there are 2 or 3 more, but I'm blanking at the moment), and because of the "it"-driven nature of the book, I think this might ultimately be seen as a historical book in the widespread awareness of comics. If I have to give it a Savage Critic rating (and I do), it's not really much more than an OK, though. That might just be me, however -- if you read VOGUE and watch fashion on E! then you'd probably like it much more than me.
CHICKEN WITH PLUMS HC: I haven't had the time yet this week to read it! I suck! On a flip through, it looks instantly better than EMBRODERIES, so I am heartened and eager to get to it, but I haven't been able to yet. But the reason I am even typing a thing is because I CANNOT believe they went for the cut-out dustcover. God, those things are a nightmare. Virtually every copy of EPILEPTIC that we received ended up damaged, if not from distribution or transport, then from rack damages. The cutout is "safer here, being in the middle of the book, but my god, if you're going to do a dustjacket that *in any way* can be mishandled (Also this week, Gaiman's FRAGILE THINGS falls into the same category), shrinkwrap the son of a bitch. Trust me, WE can open the ONE copy for display.
So, uh, PICK OF THE WEEK: Aw, CRIMINAL #1 by far.
PICK OF THE WEAK: it is either X-MEN PHOENIX WARSONG #2, or NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET #1, and I gotta go with the latter. Freddy should have FOUNTAINS OF BLOOD, man
GN/TP OF THE WEEK: No contest, screwed up introduction or not -- BEST AMERICAN COMICS 2006.
ASSHAT OF THE WEEK: It really really bugs me when publishers ship the HC and SC version of a book at the same time. That, almost always, means the SC is DOA. So, give it up for both WALLYS WORLD and LIFE OF POPE JOHN PAUL II IN COMICS. Eedjits!
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Six LDS Writers and A Frog
Monday, May 15, 2006
On Moms
Okay, so Mother’s day was yesterday, and once again, I was surprised by how many women actively do not like Mother’s Day. The common complaint seems to be that mothers are placed on an impossibly tall pedestal and most women come home from church feeling like they can never measure up. Especially among writers, moms worry they are spending too much time writing and not enough time cleaning, or cooking, or crafting, or whatever.
These are my thoughts on the subject, as someone who has never been a mom and never will be unless science changes dramatically in the next five years. Nah, not even then.
First of all, who came up with the crazy idea that scriptural mothers were perfect? Take the prodigal son for instance. He takes the money and runs to live a riotous life. Now, I’m sure Mom missed him and hoped he would turn his life around. But in the mean time I’ll bet she converted his bedroom into a very nice sewing room. Then he comes home and just expects to go back to mooching off his parents. Dad says, “Kill the fatted calf, put a ring on his finger, give him a fine cloak.” Who has to search through the couch cushions for another ring? Who has to cook the fatted calf, and clean up the fat? Does Dad think there are clean cloaks just hanging around the closet pressed and ready to wear? Of course Mom welcomed him back, but a little notice would have been nice.
Then there are the stripling warriors. Yes their mothers taught them faith. But does that mean their moms were perfect? How do you think these young men got so good at sword fighting when their parents had buried all the weapons? The kids were running around the house smacking each other with tree branches and butter knives all day, while mom was working on a particular plot twist. And they hadn’t even cleaned under their finger nails or scrubbed behind their ears when they showed up at Helaman’s house.
And who can anyone really blame Nephi’s mother for complaining when Dad sent the boys back to Jerusalem? Fathers always think their boys need to be toughened up. But sometimes moms just want their babies to be safe. She loved her boys and she was worried about them. Why couldn’t Lehi have sent a courier?
As a son, I can tell all you Moms that your children will not remember whether the toilets were always clean or whether you wore make-up to the grocery store. They won’t remember whether you served two helping of vegetables with every meal or dusted the top of the book shelf. They won’t care if you didn’t make holiday doilies at Enrichment Night or whether or not you could toll paint or arrange dried flowers.
What they will remember is how much you told them you loved them. How many times you kissed them in front of their friends (embarrassing the crap out of them but secretly pleasing them anyway.) They will remember the times you listened when they got turned down by the girl they asked to the prom. They will remember the time you tried to play baseball with them and accidentally broke the sliding glass door. They will remember how you sat on the side of their bed at the end of a really lousy day for them and just listened.
And most of all they will remember if you were happy. Because when Mom is happy, home is a happy place to be. So to paraphrase the song little, stop worrying about not being the perfect mom and be a happy mom.
At 5/16/2006 12:49 AM, Blogger Mean Aunt said...
I now have this image of the stripling warriors as stripling (what does that mean?) boys whacking each other with sticks while their mothers are telling them to knock it off.
At 5/16/2006 10:14 PM, Blogger Sweebler said...
Thanks for the Striping Warrior imagery. It undoubtedly happened that way!
At 5/17/2006 11:55 AM, Blogger Darvell Hunt said...
Just to let you guys know, my Mom passed this morning just after six o'clock. I mentioned her on this blog before so I thought I would follow up. She lasted four weeks after coming home from the hospital with cancer, when the doctors gave her only five days. It's comforting to know that it wasn't unexpected and that she was able to make to mother's day and say goodbye to everyone she loved.
Thanks for listening.
At 5/17/2006 6:02 PM, Blogger Stephanie Black said...
Darvell, I'm so sorry to hear about your mother's passing.
At 5/18/2006 11:23 PM, Blogger Darvell Hunt said...
Thanks, Stephanie. Funeral services will be next Wednesday. You can find her obituary (which I wrote, by the way, and which also has a few problems in it that I'd fix if I could, but it's already in print--D'oh) at:
You can also sign the guestbook and leave comments there.
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My OmniFocus 2 Perspectives - Updated
Well I've got the bug - that's the truth and I have been working on my OmniFocus perspectives a lot now. I love the Perspectives in OmniFocus. It's a handy way of grouping together associated tasks dependant on where you are, what mood you are in, how much time you have to hand, who you are currently meeting with - any context you like really and it's a very handy tool to have to hand and I live by it.
I've pretty much narrowed my Perspective list down to the following. You can follow them, you can think they are ridiculous - it's completely down to you. I don't think anybody will have two perspective lists that are exactly the same because they have to suit your method of working, your personality and your nature and no two people are the same, so how can these views be?
So, as well as the built-in Perspective Views, I have the following (some of these copy yesterday's post which I apologise for kind of.
I'm Whacked
There are times when my energy levels are so low you have to dig for them. This doesn't mean that I still don't want to accomplish things and achieve, however - therefore I have a Perspective that covers all tasks I have given a context of Low Energy or Brain Dead. It looks like this...
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Quick Wins
Sometimes, you may have a ten or fifteen minute gap where you are able to get something done quick, however it can take you ten minutes to find a suitable task if you don't have them organised properly! Hence my Quick Wins perspective. All tasks are under 15 minutes in this view.
This Perspective is essentially a quick view of all my Routines, things that need to be done on a regular basis. Essentially, this is good at the weekend when there are tasks I can do around the house.
Sometimes I will have a day where I fly through tasks in my OmniFocus lists, checking them off like mad, but not necessarily spending the time to work out what the next tasks I need to assign is. These are in the Stalled Perspective
Aaah, the Today perspective. Every serious OmniFocus users best friend. I need to know what is due today as well as high priority tasks that may not necessarily be due today, but if I clear todays scheduled tasks I want to start on them. This Perspective ensures that Flagged actions are in view as well as Due ones.
I'm fortunate enough to be in a position where I am able to delegate tasks to others. However I am in an unfortunate position whereby I need to follow up on them frequently! Therefore a quick view of the actions I have assigned to others is handy, and the Waiting perspective provides just that.
So there we are, that's where we at the moment with mine however I'll be reviewing them as I study the software more. If you want to look at more ideas for perspectives, be sure to check out the blog by my guru, David Sparks here, Brett Kelly, the Evernote master and Sven at Simplicity Bliss, the go-to man for productivity advice. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9662915468215942}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '62677', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:OOAMKCICJU7X63VFEHWCWCKBBL4ES4ZL', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:212b4a48-fce4-406b-95f1-57fa8f3e3a53>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2017, 5, 23, 6, 56, 10), 'WARC-IP-Address': '198.185.159.145', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:YPIJBIFZGFMMRIHXFBDSCYUVCBSOVATF', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:a8c21c76-c9de-4ee0-8a44-c32fa51f3aae>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://www.myproductivemac.com/blog/my-omnifocus-2-perspectives-updated1962014', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:55377782-4166-4702-9926-0015aeab3a24>', 'WARC-Truncated': 'length'}", 'previous_word_count': '547', 'url': 'http://www.myproductivemac.com/blog/my-omnifocus-2-perspectives-updated1962014', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-185-224-210.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2017-22\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for May 2017\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.020657002925872803', 'original_id': 'be4364c23601c86c0480f088f173000d3ab457c217a55d1067838eb5a79ce780'} |
Employment Law
Do you need an employment lawyer?
The laws governing employer-employee relations in Canada are quite complex and often difficult to navigate. The purpose of this page is to provide a brief summary of the core principles of employment law in Ontario. If you suspect that your employer is mistreating you or has wrongfully terminated your employment, you should consult a lawyer immediately to ensure that your employment law rights are protected.
Employees frequently fail to consult an employment lawyer after their dismissals. An employee ends up signing a release and accepting an offer that is too low. You must consult an employment lawyer to learn what your rights are. A cursory review of online sources on employment law is not enough. You should not act without getting legal advice.
Employee duties in employment law
Furthermore, as an employee who has been dismissed you have certain obligations and duties after you have been dismissed. For example, you cannot misuse and of your employer’s private information or attempt to cause financial harm to your employer as an act of retribution. You also have a duty to mitigate your losses. This means that even if you have been wrongfully dismissed, you must look for work. Employment law principles dictate that even if you are successful in a wrongful dismissal action, the damages you may be entitled to may be reduced if you did not make reasonable efforts to find and secure alternative employment.
Even if you are upset about your dismissal, you must take positive steps to decrease your losses. Even if you have a strong wrongful dismissal case, you still must mitigate your losses. Your failure to mitigate can lead to a reduction in your compensation. An employment lawyer can explain the relationship between your wrongful dismissal and the duty to mitigate. Obtaining legal advice will will ensure that you understand your responsibilities after your dismissal.
Employment law and resignation
An employment lawyer can also assist you if you have resigned in anger as a result of being put in a situation by your employer where you believed you had no other choice but to resign. An employee resignation must be voluntary. In other words, if your employer has engaged in conduct that forced you to resign, that resignation may be invalid.
There are many instances when the employer may directly ask the employee to resign. If your employer asks you to resign, you must speak with an employment law lawyer. You should not attempt to deal with your employer without legal representation.
What can an employment lawyer do for you?
Employers often attempt to shortchange employees. The employees often do not realize this is happening. A search on the internet may be misleading and may cause you to make significant errors which impact your rights. Although it may seem like the employer has just cause to dismiss you, often that is not the case. There are many instances when an employee should have been first been warned or disciplined instead of being dismissed. You may be the victim of a termination without cause. An employment lawyer can provide guidance as you attempt to make sense of employment law principles while trying to arrange your financial affairs.
Furthermore, your employer may make you an offer in a termination letter that is slightly more generous than the Employment Standards Act minimum but the offer may still be much less than what you may be entitled to at common law. Employment law principles govern entitlement to termination and/or severance pay. These principles can be difficult to understand. An employment lawyer can help you with your case.
It is therefore very important to seek legal advice before making any decisions regarding your dismissal. The wrong decision may have significant financial consequences as you may end up harming your ability to recover significantly higher compensation.
Employer duties
Employers and companies must also be very careful when thinking of dismissing or modifying the duties of their employees. Although you may believe that you are acting in accordance with employment law principles when dismissing employees or re-organizing, it is possible that you are leaving your business exposed to wrongful dismissal or constructive dismissal litigation. Furthermore, Ontario Courts recognize the power imbalance between employers and employees when applying employment law principles. In most cases, employees have no choice but to work and avoid confrontation even if the actions of the employer are disagreeable.
There are many instances when an employer may have done something amounting to a fundamental breach of the employment contract without even knowing the underlying employment law concept. The violation may only become known to the employee after consulting with an employment lawyer. Employers must therefore be cautious when modifying the employment relationship in order to avoid litigation at a later date.
Employment law issues
Below are some common employment law issues. The information is not legal advice. It is only for informative purposes. Speaking with an employment lawyer is your best option if you are uncertain about employment law in Ontario.
1. Employment Lawyer
2. Employment Contracts
3. Employee Rights
4. Wrongful Dismissal
5. Constructive Dismissal
6. Duty to Mitigate
7. Compensation
8. Workplace Discrimination
9. Dismissal With Cause
10. Long Term Disability
Whatever employment law issue you may have, it is important to seek legal advice from an experienced employment lawyer. Professional legal help is necessary when dealing with employment law matters. You should consult an employment lawyer to protect your rights as an employee. This will allow you to protect your rights and to know what your duties and responsibilities are.
Finally, as an employer, obtaining advice from an employment law lawyer is crucial. The employer must assess all risks when making personnel decisions.
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BTC/USD
BTC/USD is being traded at $3,909 and continues to be traded as part of a correctional flat. The last month of the current year has begun. Crypto world expects events from it compared to similar periods of the past. However, the situation is completely different this time. The past years, Bitcoin ended on a wave of interest and a surge in volatility. The year 2019 will begin against the background of the Great Depression and reflections on the utopian idea of the massive use of crypto actives. The exit from the boundaries of the global corridor will show how exactly events will develop in the last weeks of 2018. Unless of course, the coin wants to stay in its cosy flat. Its upper level is $5,500. The lower limit is a local bottom at $3,600. Despite the fact that these boundaries are quite wide, any event in the cryptocurrency world can knock out the price for these boundaries in just 1-3 days. A confident breakdown of any of these boundaries is a serious bid for the future.
As part of the forecast for December 4, we can expect a continuation of the correction within the boundaries of the trading range of $4,500 – $3,600. The signal area has expanded a little but continues to remain fairly narrow, $4,105 – $4,070. This is a dynamic zone of the “balance” of the asset price for the next day. Departing from it higher or lower, the price will tend to return to this value. For now, it is lower and it is likely that the price will test it, and then go to the lower area of the trading range $3,800 – $3,600. It is also worth noting that in the area of $4,037 – $4,025 a large accumulation of limit sell orders has appeared. This is slightly below the technical “balance” zone. The zone is dynamic. Therefore, most likely, if there is a return to the price to it, the zone will be adjusted to the area where limit orders are now located. Such a coincidence may give the price additional acceleration. It can quickly go to $3,000.
An alternative would be to continue the development of a full upward correction. To start with, the price will need to break through $4,500 and go to the first goal of $4,740. Further, we can expect growth in the resistance zone of $5,500- $5,000.
ETH/USD
ETH/USD is being traded at $108.08 and continues to be traded as part of a correctional flat. This coin is in the top three main outsiders on the basis of trading results for November 2018. Undoubtedly, all cryptocurrencies survived one of the worst months in history. To emphasize how bearish the market was last month, it can be noted that there are only 9 digital currencies left with a market capitalization in excess of $ 1B. At the end of October 2018, there were 14. But among the general downward dynamics, there are three outsiders, whose losses were higher than the rest. Ethereum takes the “honourable” third place with a rate of 42.7% negative. Only Bitcoin Cash (59.6%) and EOS (44.8%) concede the coin. At current levels, Ethereum has a market capitalization of around $12.1B. This makes the coin the third largest cryptocurrency in the world. However, one should not forget that since the beginning of the year Ethereum has lost a whopping 85.4%. The statistics are extremely depressing. Now Ethereum continues to record a long-term price reduction, although there were no specific reasons for a sale. The strong dependence of the coin on the general negative sentiment in the market will most likely continue to move it down.
As part of the forecast for December 4, we can expect the continuation of the correction within the limits of the trading range of $130.00 – $100.00. The signal area has expanded a bit but continues to remain fairly narrow. $115.40 – $114.20. This is a dynamic zone of the “balance” of the asset price for the next day. Departing from it higher or lower, the price will tend to return to this value. Currently, it is lower and it is likely that the price will test it, and then go to the lower area of the shopping range $105.00 – $100.00.
An alternative would be to continue the development of a full upward correction. To start with, the price will need to break through $130.00 and gain a foothold above. Then we can expect growth in the resistance zone of $150.00 – $155.00.
XRP/USD
XRP/USD is being traded at $0.35060 and continues to be traded as part of a correctional flat. After breaking through the first range of $0.38650 – $0.35500 down, the quotes made it clear that now there is no place for bulls on the market. This applies even to the previously formed short-term upward movement. The coin is completely unprepared for growth. It will take more time to change investor risk attitudes. At the moment, the dynamics of the coin continues to be tied to general market trends. We look forward to the development of the “domino” effect and a breakthrough the following, broader savings $0.40770 – $0.34590 and $0.43000 – $0.32890. After that, the boundaries of the upcoming flat may be formed. At the moment, its time frame is $0.43000 – $0.33000.
As part of the forecast for December 4, we can expect the continuation of the correction within the trading range of $0.40500 – $0.33000. The signal area has expanded slightly but continues to remain fairly narrow. $0.36820 – $0.36460. This is a dynamic zone of the “balance” of the asset price for the next day. Departing from it higher or lower, the price will tend to return to this value. Currently, it is lower and it is likely that the price will test it, and then go to the lower area of the trading range $0.34000 – $0.33000.
An alternative would be to continue the development of a full upward correction. To start with, the price will need to break through $0.40500 and go to the first goal of $0.43000. Further, we can expect growth in the resistance zone of $0.50000 – $0.45000.
XMR/USD
XMR/USD is being traded at $54.133 and continues to be traded as part of a corrective flat. At the end of November 2018, this coin left the list of cryptocurrencies with a market capitalization that exceeds $1B. Monero did it with 4 more coins – TRON, IOTA, Dash and NEM. An annoying fact, but not critical. Still, Monero is No. 1 coin in its rather narrow class of complete anonymity. Therefore, it will not be surprising at all that it will perfectly survive all general market excitements, depressions and falls.
As part of the forecast for December 4, we can expect the continuation of the correction within the range of $65.000 – $50.000. The signal area has expanded a bit but continues to remain fairly narrow. $58.900 – $58.150. This is a dynamic zone of the “balance” of the asset price for the next day. Departing from it higher or lower, the price will tend to return to this value. Currently, it is lower and it is likely that the price will test it, and then go to the lower area of the $54.000 – $53.000 trading range. Since now the price is very close to the minimum of the whole fall, it is likely that it will be updated soon. The estimated fall target is $46.000 support. Perhaps after this, a wider trading range of $72.000 – $46.000 will be formed.
An alternative would be to continue the development of a full upward correction. To start with, the price will need to break through $65.000 and go to the first goal of $72.000. Then we can expect growth in the resistance zone of $86.000 – $78.000. | mini_pile | {'original_id': 'a36689c3efc59e374b5aedf204e190a795dc6d7e95f552cd0f8e6e9bcc482105'} |
<?php
namespace Tests\Unit\Domains\Store\Jobs;
use Tests\TestCase;
use App\Domains\Store\Jobs\UpdateStoreJob;
class UpdateStoreJobTest extends TestCase
{
public function test_update_store_job()
{
$this->markTestIncomplete();
}
}
| common_corpus | {'identifier': 'https://github.com/jcxnet/supermarket/blob/master/tests/Unit/Domains/Store/Jobs/UpdateStoreJobTest.php', 'collection': 'Github Open Source', 'open_type': 'Open Source', 'license': 'MIT', 'date': '', 'title': 'supermarket', 'creator': 'jcxnet', 'language': 'PHP', 'language_type': 'Code', 'word_count': '19', 'token_count': '84', '__index_level_0__': '42139', 'original_id': '266968e6128db8c8d8cf3cb00d39966a4fb7fadc43e23c58fa2dbca82b1c8fc6'} |
package com.android.internal.telephony;
import android.os.Parcel;
import android.os.Parcelable;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
public class CellNetworkScanResult implements Parcelable {
public static final Parcelable.Creator<CellNetworkScanResult> CREATOR = new Parcelable.Creator<CellNetworkScanResult>() {
/* class com.android.internal.telephony.CellNetworkScanResult.AnonymousClass1 */
@Override // android.os.Parcelable.Creator
public CellNetworkScanResult createFromParcel(Parcel in) {
return new CellNetworkScanResult(in);
}
@Override // android.os.Parcelable.Creator
public CellNetworkScanResult[] newArray(int size) {
return new CellNetworkScanResult[size];
}
};
public static final int STATUS_RADIO_GENERIC_FAILURE = 3;
public static final int STATUS_RADIO_NOT_AVAILABLE = 2;
public static final int STATUS_SUCCESS = 1;
public static final int STATUS_UNKNOWN_ERROR = 4;
private final List<OperatorInfo> mOperators;
private final int mStatus;
public CellNetworkScanResult(int status, List<OperatorInfo> operators) {
this.mStatus = status;
this.mOperators = operators;
}
private CellNetworkScanResult(Parcel in) {
this.mStatus = in.readInt();
int len = in.readInt();
if (len > 0) {
this.mOperators = new ArrayList();
for (int i = 0; i < len; i++) {
this.mOperators.add(OperatorInfo.CREATOR.createFromParcel(in));
}
return;
}
this.mOperators = null;
}
public int getStatus() {
return this.mStatus;
}
public List<OperatorInfo> getOperators() {
return this.mOperators;
}
@Override // android.os.Parcelable
public int describeContents() {
return 0;
}
@Override // android.os.Parcelable
public void writeToParcel(Parcel out, int flags) {
out.writeInt(this.mStatus);
List<OperatorInfo> list = this.mOperators;
if (list == null || list.size() <= 0) {
out.writeInt(0);
return;
}
out.writeInt(this.mOperators.size());
for (OperatorInfo network : this.mOperators) {
network.writeToParcel(out, flags);
}
}
public String toString() {
StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
sb.append("CellNetworkScanResult: {");
sb.append(" status:");
sb.append(this.mStatus);
List<OperatorInfo> list = this.mOperators;
if (list != null) {
for (OperatorInfo network : list) {
sb.append(" network:");
sb.append(network);
}
}
sb.append("}");
return sb.toString();
}
}
| mini_pile | {'original_id': '46dd4f38533be803dd125bbd423c033d1ba4890e137f39202588bb9769ca8f06'} |
[10/09/08 - 12:26 AM]
The Futon's First Look: "Testees" (FX)
By Brian Ford Sullivan (TFC)
(Thursdays at 10:30/9:30c beginning tonight)
What did they leave out? Lots and lots of bodily fluids are involved. Lots.
The plot in a nutshell: When the change in their couch cushions won't cover their rent, slackers Ron (Jeff Kassel) and Peter (Steve Markle) find themselves back at TESTICO - despite the fact they swore they'd never go back. And so after some groveling - in the form of literally licking the chief doctor's (Marvin Ishmael) shoes - they're back to doing what they do best, serving as human guinea pigs for outrageous products. First up - a mysterious suppository which causes Peter to appear pregnant - complete with swollen abdomen, bizarre food cravings and um, lactation - while Ron doesn't get any symptoms as he's once again snagged the placebo. Terrified he's going to be a dad/mom, Peter grabs the nearest coat hanger and goes to town on his sphincter (no, I'm not kidding). Ron however manages to talk him down and it's not long before they're practicing changing diapers on their next door neighbor (Pat Thornton) and holding their own Lamaze class. Along the way we meet fellow "testee" Larry (Kenny Hotz), who's hit the gold mine in the form of an experimental penis enlargement spray; TESTICO's Amy (Shauna MacDonald), who can't help but be drawn to these lovable losers; and Kate (Kim Schraner), a local bartender. In the end, Ron and Peter find themselves on the run after TESTICO asks to see their "baby" - only to discover Peter's "pregnancy" is the last thing they ever expected.
What works: To its credit, the show seems more than willing to do anything to get a laugh - such as Larry singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" while trying to achieve an erection with his massive penis. It's just a shame that...
What doesn't: ...those laughs are few and far between. First and foremost, the show's general low key tone seems at odds with its highly outrageous content. Part of the fun of "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" is its manic energy - as the characters overreact to their various predicaments, the show gets more outrageous and in turn, you buy the silliness that ensues. Here there's such a blase matter-of-factness to the proceedings it starts to become a little creepy. Even worse, it makes gags that swing for the fences - like Peter taking a coat hanger to himself to get rid of his "pregnancy" - border on tasteless while your typical gross out moments - like Peter milking himself or urinating on Ron when he gives him a pregnancy test - feel like bad Farrelly brothers movie outtakes. That's not to say there isn't some fun to be had - Hotz's Larry definitely livens things up while a misdirection involving Peter and Ron trying to get away from TESTICO is actually quite clever - it's just, like I said, the laughs are few and far between.
The bottom line: If anything, "Testees" further reinforces the genius of "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia."
[october 2008]
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Masasa Beach, Tingloy Batangas: DIY Budget Trip
Baler, Aurora: Travel Guide and Sample Itinerary
Waves are calling
Personality over Physical Appearance
Why do people instantly like someone with a beautiful face? What are the chances you’ll attract people even if you’re not really attractive? How does it feel like having people hover over you without putting too much effort? *thanks to your pretty face* Maybe you ask the same questions as me because: 1. I have [...]
Waiting Game
She was sitting on the farthest side of the classroom beside the window. The professor was late as always. Everyone is talking. She wonder how can people talk so much. She’s bored and her thoughts are drifting. She’s sleepy as always. The noise is draining her energy. “Hey”, he said. “You’re flying again”, he flashes [...]
Finding Clarity
For the past few months, I’ve been reading a lot of books and articles about HAPPINESS. At my age and state, I usually ask myself “Why can’t I be a happy person?” I started feeling depressed. Not because I’m broke or failed my relationships. Most of the time I try to display a strong and [...] | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '85', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9532159566879272}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '76294', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:PHNK46J5D5MJN5YEDISOV67JSOOMSKZF', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:fe98b2b1-ca84-480a-b8f0-67129c4e86b8>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 5, 19, 20, 17, 1), 'WARC-IP-Address': '192.0.78.24', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:ZTOHLJUJHWMVAQEHANCVMHB6BSA22562', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:adf0e5bb-d67b-4c5c-950f-7a398870fd27>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://belleofdblvd.com/author/belleofdblvd/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:e8fd270a-08d9-4e37-ada2-f41c8f1be8ac>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '238', 'url': 'https://belleofdblvd.com/author/belleofdblvd/', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-22\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for May 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-47-182-244.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.15 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.1-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.794974148273468', 'original_id': '37aeb96e7456af60a3d646a83be2124a480e2404dfd943039e36a276df457d60'} |
Approach to discriminate subgroups in multiple sclerosis with cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) basic inflammation indices and TNF-alpha, IL-1beta, IL-6, IL-8.
Lumbar CSF and serum pairs of untreated multiple sclerosis patients (MS; n=47) were analyzed on admission. On average, higher CSF leukocyte (lymphocyte and monocyte) counts, IgG index, CSF IgG contents, but not of TNF-alpha, IL-1beta, IL-6, IL-8 in CSF and serum, were revealed in all MS or patients with long disease course (LO-MS) compared with controls. In primary progressive MS (PP-MS) cell counts were low, but IgG contents were high, when compared to relapsing-remitting MS (RR-MS). In clinically probable MS (CP-MS) both contents were low, in clinically definite MS (CD-MS) high. Spearman's correlation with the four monokines and the basic indices in CSF revealed activation patterns known for microglia/macrophages in the four MS subgroups, for astrocytes in CP-MS and RR-MS, for CSF lymphocytes in CP-MS and PP-MS, for cells of blood-brain barrier (BBB) in CP-MS, for intrathecal IgG synthesis in PP-MS and for lymphocyte transfer in CD-MS. Correlations between CSF and serum parameters indicated CNS disease processes to be associated with systemic processes of inflammation (acute, chronic) in CD-MS, RR-MS, and PP-MS in different ways. CSF IgG content, IgG index and systemic markers of inflammation correlated with overall disability scores in LO-MS; increasing levels may indicate a bad outcome. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '1d1617c867ab71064c7b8a380fcc0382d74362c8741465990dd2a5e88d730684'} |
What Does 'Sustainable' Fashion Mean?
Firstly, what does sustainability mean?
The Collins dictionary defines ‘Sustainability’ as ‘Avoidance of the depletion of natural resources in order to maintain an ecological balance.’
In other words, not using more natural resources than the planet can naturally replace, and not producing anything that the planet can’t naturally reabsorb.
The linear model currently employed by the fashion industry of ‘take, make, dispose’, is at odds with this concept of sustainably.
What is ‘Sustainable’ fashion?
'Sustainable' fashion refers to garments that have been made in a way that is mindful of the many environmental issues the fashion industry touches upon.
The main four issues to consider when it comes to sustainability and fashion:
See my post 'What are our shopping habits really doing to our planet? Now we know' for more insight into the environmental aspects of fashion.
Why is fashion key to the discussion around sustainability?
clothing supply chain process
The word ‘Sustainability’ in the context of fashion most prominently refers to the environmental impacts of making (raw material creation, processing and manufacture), wearing and caring for (use) and the disposal of clothing (end of use).
We take resources and use water and chemicals along the way, to create a garment. You buy and wear the garment and then throw it away (or donate it) when you’re done…. But then what happens? Generally it goes to landfill or is incinerated.
Today, only 20% of all clothing is recycled.
In order for the fashion industry to really become more sustainable, brands need to work towards developing circular systems whereby garments become fully recyclable after use, reducing the need to create virgin fibres.
And while big industry players are pursuing this, it will take time.
In the meantime, addressing our individual consumption rates, by reducing the volume of clothing we buy, as well as dispose of, can help.
10 brands that are good to buy from:
Ecoalf, Patagonia, Finisterre, Kowtow, Eileen Fisher, Henri, Kings of Indigo, Freitag, Everlane and Tengri
women's white shirt cotton mandarin collar oversized
Made in small batches in London: women's shirt in organic cotton £120, Henri
Want to know more about sustainability and fashion?
Good videos to watch and podcasts to listen to, to further understand sustainability and fashion:
Material world: What on earth are you wearing? (selfridges.com, Jan 17)
Lady boss alert: I talked about sustainable fashion with Maxine Bedat… (ecocult.com, Oct 16)
'You are what you wear' by Christina Dean (youtube.com, Ted Talk apr 2014)
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Q:
Recursively search Properties in class decorated by attribute
I would like to get all properties decorated by attribute AggregateAuthorizeIdentifier. It is core functionallity, so should be as fast as posible.
I can search recurvicvely via all properties but I would check all System and 3rd parties libs. But it isn't optimal solution.
Have you met with such a problem?
public class ReadOrderHistoryQuery
{
public List<string> Ordering { get; set; }
public Criteria Criteria { get; set; }
public class Criteria
{
[AggregateAuthorizeIdentifier]
public int UserId { get; set; }
public string InvoiceId { get; set; }
}
}
my solution:
static IEnumerable<PropertyWithAttribute> GetAuthorizeIdentifierAttribute(object command)
{
var attributedProperties = GetAuthorizeIdentifierAttribute(command.GetType());
return attributedProperties;
}
static IEnumerable<PropertyWithAttribute> GetAuthorizeIdentifierAttribute(Type type)
{
//check current property
var result = type.GetProperties()
.Where(prop => Attribute.IsDefined(prop, typeof(AggregateAuthorizeIdentifierAttribute)))
.Select(p => new PropertyWithAttribute()
{
Property = p,
Attribute = p.GetCustomAttribute<AggregateAuthorizeIdentifierAttribute>(true)
})
.ToList();
//deeper check all properties
result.AddRange(type.GetProperties()
.SelectMany(p => GetAuthorizeIdentifierAttribute(p.PropertyType)));
return result;
}
A:
Finnaly I achived it with additional type selector (by string).
const string PropertyTypeStartWithSelector = "Diabdis.";
static IEnumerable<PropertyWithAttribute> GetAuthorizeIdentifierAttribute(Type type, string propertyPathPrefix)
{
var properties = type.GetProperties(BindingFlags.Public | BindingFlags.Instance);
//check current property
var result = properties
.Where(prop => Attribute.IsDefined(prop, typeof(AggregateAuthorizeIdentifierAttribute)))
.Select(p => new PropertyWithAttribute()
{
PropertyPath = propertyPathPrefix == null ? p.Name : $"{propertyPathPrefix}{PropertyPathSeparator}{p.Name}",
Attribute = p.GetCustomAttribute<AggregateAuthorizeIdentifierAttribute>(true)
})
.ToList();
//check deeper properties, BUT just selector classes
result.AddRange(properties
.Where(p => p.DeclaringType.FullName.StartsWith(PropertyTypeStartWithSelector))
.SelectMany(p => GetAuthorizeIdentifierAttribute(p.PropertyType, propertyPathPrefix == null ? p.Name : $"{propertyPathPrefix}{PropertyPathSeparator}{p.Name}")));
return result;
}
| mini_pile | {'original_id': '887395ee1c4d1ba166338600257fc2a7bc4efc1e343d897e48d040d07a1daefb'} |
The Gary Johnson factor
Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson’s chances of becoming president haven’t changed much over the course of the 2012 cycle, during which he ran for the Republican presidential nomination, participated in two national debates, dropped out of the primaries and reentered the race as the Libertarian Party nominee.
Throughout, his odds of national victory have held steady around zero.
Story Continued Below
But as the presidential race heads into the summer, with President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney locked in a tight contest and voters’ distaste for both major-party candidates running high, political operatives have started pondering a different question: Could Johnson matter, even on the election’s margins?
Poll after poll shows lackluster enthusiasm for Obama and Romney, along with continuing voter disgust with Washington and most national institutions. That probably isn’t enough to push even a single electoral vote into Johnson’s camp. It could, however, put just enough ballots in Johnson’s column — in a kind of disaffected,“throw-the-bums- out” way — to affect the outcome in a handful of states.
Early polling has shown Johnson taking more from Romney, although pollsters say he’s peeling off votes from Obama as well. Johnson has said he expects to be on the ballot in all 50 states.
If there’s an opportunity for Johnson to make a difference anywhere, it’s likely in Mountain states such as his native New Mexico, and Colorado and Nevada, where he could shave votes from the major-party candidates. In a close race that neither side thinks will be an electoral landslide, Johnson could make a real difference — especially with Ron Paul’s libertarian-leaning backers now up for grabs.
“The people who are saying they’re going vote for Johnson right now generally are people who dislike both Obama and Romney,” said Tom Jensen, of the Democratic firm Public Policy Polling, which has found Johnson polling between 5 percent and 10 percent in some states.
Those numbers will eventually fall back to earth, Jensen predicted: “I’m just relying on history on that front — unless a third-party candidate’s really well-funded and getting visibility similar to the others that they’re facing [they fade]. Most of these people who are saying they’re voting for Gary Johnson right now will end up voting for Romney.”
Johnson doesn’t see himself as a receptacle for protest votes.
“I’d like to think it’s because of what I’m saying,” the former governor told POLITICO in an interview, referring to polls showing him getting well above 5 percent in some swing states.
“It’s not so much the discontent, although that may be a factor,” he added, invoking Paul’s own declaration when the Texas congressman ended his active campaigning that he still had a following who embraces his small government, libertarian message.
Nearly every cycle, there’s speculation that a third-party candidate could catch fire, or simply gain enough traction to affect the top-line results. Nearly always, that candidate fades before the general election takes place. The most famous third-party candidate in recent presidential history is Ross Perot, who was polling at 39 percent in the summer of 1992, ultimately collecting just short of 19 percent of the national vote and getting no electoral college votes. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '5c58996161b21b042247f506dd8fd4f93991c7b47ed1252a191af6a51c719af6'} |
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The Project
Block Trade Desk is a digital asset management platform of a new kind. Unlike traditional platforms focusing on the exchange of speculative assets, Block Trade Desk aims to build upon Decentralized Applications’ potential to extend the power of blockchain technology outside the realm of cryptocurrencies into the realm of any form of information value exchange. Block Trade Desk will empower users to aggregate and safely manage all their smart contracts on a single platform with a simple and intuitive user experience. Rather than being a digital currency wallet, Block Trade Desk aims to be a general digital information wallet.
Erdos Technologies is in charge of conceiving, architecting, and developing the project and product. Our product development team began by translating the investors’ vision into a concrete user experience before carefully planning every phase of the project in terms of time and resource allocation. Our software engineering team concurrently prepared the Systems Requirements Specifications, which acts as a programming and DevOps blueprint and responds to the unusual architecture challenges involved with leveraging the nascent blockchain or decentralized database technology. Our project managers are tasked with ensuring proper coordination and reporting of all technical and financial aspects during the project’s lifecycle. Furthermore, Erdos Technologies took part in raising and managing capital to ensure the project’ success. Block Trade Desk is on schedule and its platform is set to launch in 2019. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9092593789100648}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '10580', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:U3A3IMGS5UKOFL77SQX36O6XEJEWBG6U', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:21c1d9c3-b0e3-4b7c-ba49-cbf08681b3d0>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2020, 3, 30, 1, 14, 23), 'WARC-IP-Address': '18.207.115.91', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:GCPCNJ4REE4HOSFAX2Y2DBIURN7KSC3I', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:add95418-d9b8-4553-a888-50f504367375>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://erdostechnologies.com/detail/work/blocktrade-desk/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:aee60b8f-ab43-46ef-9f97-a969aee9c79f>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '236', 'url': 'https://erdostechnologies.com/detail/work/blocktrade-desk/', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2020-16\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for March/April 2020\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-20.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.16 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.1-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.03861004114151001', 'original_id': '18b484b51a149006ccc56baab9cf41cff0ce1e38d145e97813d97479a0bf4d07'} |
If you like Grenache from Australia, why not try these?
Shown in order of relevance
Food matches for Grenache from Australia:
Shown in alphabetical order
At a glance:
Fuller and more alcoholic than examples from France's southern Rhône, though for earlier drinking.
Food pairing guide:
Specific matches shown on the right
Meat and vegetable dishes and light game.
Serving guide:
Cool room temperature. 14ºC/57ºF
• Grenache
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Thursday, September 11, 2014
9/11 Goodell Quickie
Obviously, it's hard to ever write about things as inessential as sports (or anything, really) in the shadow of the anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001. Thinking of everyone who lost someone or was impacted in other ways.
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Roger Goodell: Hoo boy. A couple points I'm paying closest attention to:
*The NFL is all-in on "incompetence" over "malfeasance." That's not a great look, but latter would be/have been a much bigger problem. (Dan Wetzel has a clear-eyed take on that.) The release of the AP story was the first time I allowed myself to even contemplate Goodell might not make it through this. That's not saying he won't -- but that I could even remotely envision it now? Yikes.
*This "independent" investigation is a necessary PR move but not necessarily sufficient. It's hard to say "independent" when the investigator is being overseen by two owners, one of whom (Mara) is on the record supporting Goodell and the other (Rooney) owning a team without an exemplary record as it relates to their star players' run-ins with violence against women. This committee will face much more scrutiny than your typical whitewash.
*What are owners telling the most tapped-in NFL reporters (like Peter King) about Goodell. What is the language? Is it unequivocating or are there cracks? Because cracks are the things that ultimately undo a seemingly untouchable commissioner. The "independent" investigation probably buys Goodell some time with owners -- unless the AP story yesterday turns into something bigger.
*The owners are loyal to Goodell, but they are even more loyal to their business interests. His future rests on the owners' evaluation of whether Goodell can still maximize their investment or whether he has been diminished enough that keeping him around devalues their league even slightly. Because it's a lot easier to find a new commissioner with 100% maximization potential than hope that Goodell can recover whatever he has lost.
*That Goodell is indelibly tarnished is a given here -- he has also overseen the tarnishing of his beloved "Shield." He obviously can live with that, because he loves his job more than he loves the league itself. At a minimum, the Rice story has shown that his monarchical consolidation of power has not been in the best interests of the league.
Upshot: Goodell's entire role rests on unquestioned authority. The questions are there now.
-- D.S.
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For those of us who don’t believe in love at first sight, or at least haven’t had it happen to us yet, let’s talk about the slow burn of attraction.
If you feel this way on the date, you can just give up on him.
In my new dating life, a problem I'm dealing with a lot is the disappointment I feel when I don't get that sparky feeling with a guy. Which is basically always. The way I see it, on a formal first date (by which I mean with a person you don’t know well yet, like an online date or a setup), there are three possible outcomes:
1. You know immediately he’s not for you. Next!
2. You hit it off right away and can’t wait to see him again (please please let him feel the same).
3. You enjoy his company but you’re just not sure you’re feeling the spark.
For me--a love at first sight non-believer--number 3 is the most frequent scenario. I’ve rarely experienced numbers 1 or 2 (luckily and sadly, respectively). I think in most cases, it’s pretty rare to know whether or not you have real dating potential with someone after only a few hours. My question is, how long of a chance do you think you have to give the spark to develop? You don't want to miss out on something that could end up being great, but you don't want to get too tangled up in something if there's no chemistry, right?
This is a loose set of rules I live by when it comes to letting love try to grow:
You can’t call it quits after a decent first date. Nerves can make people act and feel unnatural. If you really enjoyed chatting with him but just aren't sure it felt romantic, go out with him again. You're not going to regret spending some more time with a decent guy, even if sparks don't develop. But if they do, squee!
You absolutely can call it quits after a miserable first date (or even before it). If you've been single for a long time and/or heard the old "You're just too picky" advice (blech), you may feel pressured to keep an open mind. An open mind is good, but you know how people who hit it off right away are like, "When you know, you know" and you're like, "Shut up you lucky brat"? Well, you can know something isn't right too. Don't go out with someone you just know it isn't going to happen with. It's not worth your time or his. That also applies to guys you haven't even met yet (like the dude who emailed me via OKCupid but used the dreaded C word to refer to women in his profile. See ya never!)
Three dates is a good rule of thumb. This isn't a hard and fast rule, but let's say you spend two to three hours together on each date, with some emailing, texting, or phone time in between. That's a pretty fair amount of time together. If you're not feeling any sense of chemistry or attachment, it's OK to give up. If you want to keep trying, go for it, but make sure to be careful of his feelings too.
Eventually, you're gonna need the Urge To Kiss. My friend inspired this one today by making that announcement to me about a lunch date she has. Basically, if she still feels no urge to kiss him, which she hasn't on previous dates, she’s going to tell him they should stick to being friends. If he's sweet but you're just not physically into it, let him go find someone who is, and then you can find someone you can barely keep your hands off of.
What are your rules? Do you need a spark on the first date or it's over? If not, how long will you give it?
Spark it up:
*Let's Talk Chemistry: Are Sparks Necessary?
*The Fastest Way to Create Sparks with Your Boyfriend
*Why guys need to feel a spark
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Auto Insurer Refuses to Pay For Pedestrian’s Head Injury; Confidential Settlement
A motorist, after passing a flashing amber light and a yellow warning sign indicating a pedestrian crossing ahead, ran down a college student who was crossing in the marked crosswalk. The force of the impact sent the young woman cartwheeling on the pavement, fracturing her skull. READ MORE
Pedestrian Prevails Against Insurance Company for Underinsured Motorist Benefits
A pedestrian who was crossing the street in a marked crosswalk with the right of way was struck by a negligent underinsured driver. She suffered a traumatic brain injury, a fractured foot, and a labral tear in her hip that caused a permanent limp. The driver was cited at the scene for failing to yield to a pedestrian in a crosswalk. We settled with the underinsured driver for the full policy limits, but it was insufficient to compensate the pedestrian for the harm she suffered. The pedestrian’s own insurance company initially refused to pay the underinsured motorist insurance benefits to her. We filed the case and eventually settled the case at a judicial settlement conference.
When Multiple Drivers Cause Pedestrian Death
Collisions between automobiles and pedestrians may involve more than one negligent driver. For example, a pedestrian crossing the street could be hit by multiple vehicles in rapid succession, making it difficult to determine the injuries caused by each. Oregon law provides that each negligent driver is liable when his or her conduct was a substantial factor in causing the injuries, even when there are multiple negligent parties. We used this rule recently when we represented the estate of a woman who was crossing in a marked crosswalk when she was hit by two automobiles in succession. The woman was killed, and both drivers fled the scene. It also turned out that both drivers were driving other people’s vehicles at the time. Ultimately, we were able to secure policy limits settlements with both of the at-fault drivers.
Wrongful Death: Pickup Truck Runs Over Child in Pedestrian Safety Refuge
In a tragic wrongful death case, a seven-year-old child was run over by a full-size pickup truck while he was in a raised safety refuge for pedestrians in a grocery store parking lot. READ MORE
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Bicycle-Car Collision: How Ryan Fought Back
This segment of The Law and You features Eugene, Oregon personal injury trial lawyer Don Corson speaking about a case where he helped a man involved in a bicycle-car collision fight back against an insurance company who accused him of wrongdoing. PLAY PODCAST
A Driver’s Guide to Crosswalk Laws
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Carnegie Math Pathways 2015-2016 Impact Report: A Five-Year Review
College math is a gateway course that has become a constraining gatekeeper for tens of thousands of students annually. Every year, over 500,000 students fail developmental mathematics, preventing them from achieving their college and career goals. The Carnegie Math Pathways initiative offers students an alternative. It comprises two Pathways courses, Statway® and Quantway®, that provide post-secondary students with an accelerated method to complete developmental mathematics sequences and attain college-level math credit. Since its launch in classrooms at 29 colleges in 2011, Statway and Quantway have served over 20,000 students. In 2015-2016, the Pathways had achieved remarkable results even while serving over four times as many students as in its initial year. Student success rates in Statway, Quantway 1, and Quantway 2 reached 50%, 64%, and 67% respectively. New impact studies also show that Pathways students have higher completion rates, subsequent math enrollment and success, credit accumulation rates, and transfer rates from two-year to four-year colleges.
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Silent signs of the future
As technology develops in healthcare and new innovations are gaining ground, how can we know about future megatrends? The best way to keep track of silent signs is in technologies that are developing the fastest. What are these and what future vision can they create?
I happened to read the GE Healthcare press release of the end of 2015 from the world’s largest medical equipment manufacturer.…
GE Healthcare CEO John Flannery expects the amount of data generated by medical devices to grow fifty times by 2020. It is a huge addition to the amount of data and also causes problems with blocked nodes in hospitals. What is this data then? It is video and especially video data. On the consumer side, Netflix and Youtube-type cloud-based video services have exponentially increased the amount of mobile data online and the growth continues. The same is also the case in hospitals. Namely, GE intends to connect 500,000 imaging equipment to the cloud, open the cloud to third parties and provide development tools. And what GE does first, the others will surely follow suit as it can save $ 30 billion annually.
From what type of data exactly does the cloud services consist of? It is a variety of different patient systems, data output from robotics, 3D-images produced by medical devices, and models of information produced by devices, but above all, high quality video. One must be able to use it in such a way that the processed data remains as high-quality and real-time as possible. I can say that surgeons and X-ray doctors look at the utmost high-quality picture and video material in hospitals. 3G-SDI, 12G-SDI and 4K. For example, older technology still in use with 3G-SDI is with nearly 3 Gbit/s speeds in image transfer and the future standard 12G-SDI already offers a 24 Gbit/s speed. They are way too high speeds on the grid.
The issue in the hospital world is the image and signal quality. The more you see, the better you can analyze, treat and cure the patient. The patient is cramped full of very small details, for example blood vessels and their different colors. Small color differences in tissues reveal inflammation, cancer cells, etc. The image quality does not have an upper limit; the better the quality, the better a treatment outcome can be achieved. When a material is stored, it can be used by other professionals. For more information on the quality of the image and how to use it, see the document found here:
What about this in combination with telemedicine? The market will grow to $ 34 billion by 2020. Telemedicine brings significant cost savings.
How do we know that this is all true? Dicom (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) is a standard for processing, saving, printing and sending video and video material. It allows integration between medical image and video devices such as scanners, servers, workstations, network devices and PACS systems. Dicom already supports the HEVC main 10 video encoding and decoding technology. So, it is already preparing to support video recording and fast forwarding. From the link below more of what HEVC Main 10 is and what it requires….
Writen by Juha Alasaari, 10.3.2017
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More about HEVC MAIN10
The Main 10 profile allows for a bit depth of 8-bits to 10-bits per sample with 4:2:0 chroma sampling. HEVC decoders that conform to the Main 10 profile must be capable of decoding bitstreams made with the following profiles: Main and Main 10.[7] A higher bit depth allows for a greater number of colors. 8-bits per sample allows for 256 shades per primary color (a total of 16.78 million colors) while 10-bits per sample allows for 1024 shades per primary color (a total of 1.07 billion colors). A higher bit depth allows for a smoother transition of color which resolves the problem known as color banding.[118][119]
The Main 10 profile allows for improved video quality since it can support video with a higher bit depth than what is supported by the Main profile.[120] Additionally, in the Main 10 profile 8-bit video can be coded with a higher bit depth of 10-bits, which allows improved coding efficiency compared to the Main profile.[121][122][123][124]
Ericsson has stated that the Main 10 profile will bring the benefits of 10-bits per sample video to consumer TV. They also state that for higher resolutions there is no bit rate penalty for encoding video at 10-bits per sample.[118] Imagination Technologies states that 10-bits per sample video will allow for larger color spaces and is required for the Rec. 2020 color space that will be used by UHDTV. They also state that the Rec. 2020 color space will drive the widespread adoption of 10-bits per sample video.[119][125]
In a PSNR based performance comparison released in April 2013 the Main 10 profile was compared to the Main profile using a set of 3840×2160 10-bit video sequences. The 10-bit video sequences were converted to 8-bits for the Main profile and remained at 10-bits for the Main 10 profile. The reference PSNR was based on the original 10-bit video sequences. In the performance comparison the Main 10 profile provided a 5% bit rate reduction for inter frame video coding compared to the Main profile. The performance comparison states that for the tested video sequences the Main 10 profile outperformed the Main profile.[121] The Main 10 profile was added at the October 2012 HEVC meeting based on proposal JCTVC-K0109 which proposed that a 10-bit profile be added to HEVC for consumer applications. The proposal stated that this was to allow for improved video quality and to support the Rec. 2020 color space that has become widely used in UHDTV systems and to be able to deliver higher dynamic range and color fidelity avoiding the banding artifacts. A variety of companies supported the proposal which included ATEME, BBC, BSkyB, CISCO, DirecTV, Ericsson, Motorola Mobility, NGCodec, NHK, RAI, ST, SVT, Thomson Video Networks, Technicolor, and ViXS Systems.[120]
Kaby Lake vs Skylake – The most significant difference between Intel’s two newest generations
In the PC world, the growth of processors’ power is no longer in line with Moore’s law. Processor power, however, is growing but only a few percent and at the same time the power consumption decreases. Processor intelligence, however, increases in considerably bigger steps.
The difference in Intel’s 7th generation Kaby Lake’s and 6th generation and Skylake’s CPU performance is quite small. The latest technologies of Intel architecture are in use in both generations. The most significant improvement is in the handling of video graphics, where Skylake is behind Kabyle significantly. In healthcare this is important because the amount of data produced by medical devices increases by fifteen times, which is explained by the enormous growth in the number of video data.
Kaby Lake supports the latest video encoding and decoding technologies at the hardware level. Skylake has no support at all or it is a hybrid model of hardware and software. This is reflected as a deficient reproduction of high quality video. You can watch the difference from the YouTube video below.
The Medical-PC is a passive cooled system, thus places heat management in a particularly large role. Continuous high CPU power boosts the Medical-PC’s temperature. When playing HEVC Main 10 levels of video, Kaby Lake is 20 times more energy efficient and uses 6 times less CPU and graphics performance. This is also relevant for multitasking. The Medical-PC is required to run several different programs simultaneously contunuously, which also require CPU performance. The following link contains Intel test results:…
As Skylake was released in August 2015, it does not support the latest video encoding and decoding methods that have evolved considerably. During this time, Intel has noticed that the development of video film services is the biggest step forward for consumers in the coming years. The same is true of healthcare due to the enormous increase in cloud data and telemedicine. As such, in the consumer world HEVC Main 10 support can be fixed by using a separate graphics card. In a Medical-PC, however, it is impossible for EMC tests to pass the tests with a separate graphics card. The life cycle of Kaby Lake (7700T) ends in 2024/Q4. Support for Intel processors for graphics in the link below:…
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Friday, June 30, 2006
Queensryche-Operation Mindcrime 2, 2006
Thursday, June 29, 2006
The drive
I am not a car person for the most part. I mean that I want my car to run, but I am not crazy about cars or driving. It's just a matter of transportation to me and that's about it except for listening to music in the car. Listening to music while driving has always generally always been a great experience to me. There is nothing quite like the feeling of driving while listening to something you really enjoy. I remember when I used to have to put tapes in and now I can listen to CD's. unfortunately I have about 30-40 CD's sitting on my passenger side seat of my car. Driving in the rain while listening to music is the best to me as long as it's normal rain and not a downpour. I recently switched jobs to have a shorter commute because of my kids and I love my new job and my shorter commute. Today I have to go back to my old workplace for a workshop. I am not looking forward to the traffic or the hour long drive home, but I am looking forward to having that much time to listen to music in my car.
Wednesday, June 28, 2006
The stack
I remember now or at least I remembered that I have yet to listen to Operation Mindcrime 2 despite the fact that I promised to review it. So I need to get cracking and sit down and listen to it. I have other cd's that I have bought or checked out from the library that I have yet to listen to as well. I think I should listen to them, but I tend to reach for something more familiar and play that instead. Do you have a stack of cd's sitting at your house that you have yet to listen to?
Prong-Cleansing, 1993
Pantera, White Zombie, Tool and Helmet. Do you know those bands? I would wager that many people know all of them or at least all except maybe Helmet. Those bands are different from each other in a lot of ways, but in general in the early 90's they had a heavy, stripped down sound. All of those bands met success ranging from decent (Helmet) to stellar (Pantera). Yet to me the band that was doing the stripped down heavy sound better than anyone was else was New York three piece Prong. They had a few release in the mid to late 1990's, but their real breakthrough came in 1990 with "Beg to differ" which exemplified a simple yet direct sound that really hit. In 1991 they released "Prove you wrong" which had a bit more industrial flare to it, but still retained a nice sharp heaviness. By 1993 they hit what I think was their peak with "Cleansing" which hits with all the subtlety of a jackhammer, but the band still manages to control the pace and squeeze everything they can out of each song. On "Cleansing" they mix things up a bit as well mixing traditional metal styling with more modern beats and styles. To me Prong were one of the most important metal bands of the 1990's due to their ability to maintain a solid heaviness reminiscent of 80's metal yet they still managed to stand fresh when compared to other 90's bands. This album still rattle my spine thirteen years after it's release so they must have done something right. In 1996 they would release "Rude Awakening" which was very good as well, but the band quickly broke up. Founder/vocalist/guitarist re-formed the band a few years ago and released an album, but it's like a different band as most of the magic seems to have been lost.
Tuesday, June 27, 2006
It came from the pages of Hit Parader
I have in front of me a copy of the May, 1985 issue of Hit Parader. Judas Priest and Iron Maiden are on the cover, but if you turn it over there is a rather odd ad on the back cover. It tries to make you think that it is another cover of Hit Parader, but really it's just an ad from RCA records. They try to plug all of their hard rock/metal bands such as Grim Reaper, Wrathchild, Shy, White Wolf and Boss. Oh, and the biggest name of all gets the picture on the ad and that band is Autograph. Right now if you are around 30 or under then you are saying who? However if you were of a certain age in late 84-early 85 then you remember these guys as a one hit wonder and that hit was "Turn up the radio". It got a lot of airplay and it was on Autograph's debut "Sign in please". The album is overall just okay and I bought it on cd a few years back for a dollar figuring it was worth that. Unfortunately for Autograph they never had another hit. Their second album the 1985 release "That's the stuff"got mainly poor reviews. In 1987 they returned with "Loud and clear" which I remember as being their best album, but it didn't catch on. I think they drifted away after that although they did release a rarities album in the 90's. Yet for a short period of time there a lot of people knew who Autograph were due to that one song and that's more than a lot of bands from that era can say.
Monday, June 26, 2006
Last time
A few simple questions.
1)What was the last song you listened to?
2)What was the last band shirt you wore?
3)What was the last album you listened to from start to finish?
4)What was the last album cover you looked at for longer than a minute?
5)What was the last song you listened to twice in a row?
6)What was the last website you looked at?
7)What was the last blog you looked at before this one?
My answers:
1)Going to California by Led Zeppelin
2)Dokken. I am wearing it now.
3)Witchkiller-Day of the Saxons
5)Dog eat dog by AC/DC
6)I was at retrospectrecords
, but I didn't buy anything.
7)I looked at Its-jim
How about you?
Sunday, June 25, 2006
Battle of the bands
Here is another edition of battle of the bands. It's easy, you just pick which band you prefer and state why. This time it's:
Aerosmith vs. Alice Cooper
It's a close one, but ultimately I chose Alice. Both bands had several great albums in the 70's and both bands had down periods. Alice's down period may have been worse than Aerosmith's. Yet I think he is a bit more original and overall more important. Aerosmith were a good blues rock band, but Alice was glam and invented a large part of shock rock. I think overall he made a larger contribution to the hard rock/metal scene.
Who do you pick?
Saturday, June 24, 2006
What's coming up?
This week I hope to have these topics out:
Queensryche-Operation Mindcrime 2 review (this means that I actually have to sit down and listen to the cd first)
Prong-Cleansing review
It came from the pages of Hit Parader
Battle of the bands
There may be another topic or two as well.
Here is a question for you. Are there any songs that you don't like anymore because you have heard them to many times or they have been played on the radio too much?
I would have to say Deep Purple's Smoke on the water, Hendrix' Foxy Lady and AC/DC's You shook me all night long all fall in this category for me.
Manowar-Fighting the world, 1987
Venom's frontman Cronos once said "Manowar want you to believe that they come to your town riding on a fire breathing dragon". Actually Manowar were formed in New York by former Dictator's member Ross "the boss". The band sang about battles, dragons, warriors and similar topics. The early were rough at times for these guys. They landed an opening for Ted Nugent on their first, but were quickly kicked off as the Nuge thought that they were just too different. By 1987 the band was set to release it's fifth album and they were on their fifth record label. That doesn't sound like a good thing except that they were now on a major label. In late 1985 Manowar recorded a two song demo with songs that would eventually end up on this album and they began shopping the demo around looking for a new label. Eventually Atlantic affiliate Atco took a chance and signed them on. This album came out in early 1987 and although the lyrics were the same as always, it was the change in music that cause this band to catch on. The album has nine tracks, but two of them are under two minutes a piece and serve more as intros for other songs. Largely most of their songs are anthems about metal or some kind of stuff about riding into some kind of battle. No one will accuse these guys of being lyrical geniuses,yet the music and vocals are strong enough, straight forward and above all else fairly memorable. Some fans of the band's early stuff point to this as a sellout. I say it's the point where they got their act together and realized that you have to play something a bit more cohesive than some of their earlier stuff. The band got some good press for this album, the video for "Blow your speakers" got some regular play on Headbanger's ball and the band's popularity grew in the underground. The album is a little short at under 40 minutes and not all of the songs are great, but it was their best album at this point and a decent offering for the most part. My favorite tracks are the title track, Blow your speakers, Holy War and Carry on.
Friday, June 23, 2006
Almost Famous
Empire Records
High Fidelity
School of rock
Wayne's World 2
Thursday, June 22, 2006
My music history
A while back I was going through the archives over at fredcharles blog and he had a post about what bands he had been into at different times. So I decided to do one to let you know my musicial background. So here are the years and the bands I was most into during those times.
Early 80's to 1985-Hard rock, metal
AC/DC, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Van Halen, KISS, WASP, Motley Crue, Ratt, Scorpions and Twisted Sister.
1986-1988-Speed Metal and Punk rock
Metal: Metallica, Anthrax, Slayer, Megadeth, Overkill, Kreator, Destruction, Motorhead, Venom, Celtic Frost, Dark Angel and Testament.
Punk:Misfits, Exploited, GBH, Discharge, COC, DRI, Angry Samoans and Broken Bones.
1989-Classic hard rock and early glam
Rainbow, Led Zeppelin, Rush, Hendrix, Thin Lizzy, Alice Cooper, Aerosmith, New York Dolls and Sweet
1990-1993-Glam, commercial metal
Hanoi Rocks, Faster Pussycat, Bang Tango, Cinderella, Skid Row, White Lion, Tigertailz and Extreme.
By 1994 the amount of new metal coming out had died down or changed. From that point on I was listening to all of the above bands and very few new bands.
The only things that have changed much since 1994 as far as music are these categories that I now like:
Guitar gods: Steve Vai, Eric Johnson, Stevie Ray Vaughn
Surf: Ventures, Surfaris, Dick Dale, Bomboras and Satan's Pilgrims
Obscure early metal:Pentagram, Bang, Cactus, Captain Beyond and Sir Lord Baltimore
Stoner:Sleep, Electric Wizard, Fu Manchu, Witchcraft and Acid King
That pretty much brings me up to where I am today.
Wednesday, June 21, 2006
One Year
Tuesday, June 20, 2006
Good and bad in metal in 1986
Overall 1986 was a very good year for metal. Once a month I write a twenty year old album review and in December I will do my top twenty albums of 1986. Today I decided to list five good and five bad things that happened in metal during the year. I tried to refrain from just listing an album as being good or bad and concentrate on other things. Here they are, feel free to add your own.
The Bad
-Death of former Thin Lizzy singer/bass player/founder Phil Lynott. A great player who was just getting started on life after Thin Lizzy.
-Death of Metallica bass player Cliff Burton. He was a real talent who died way too young.
-Warner Brothers and Tony Iommi decide to release The Seventh Star album under the Black Sabbath name despite the fact that it is really a Tony Iommi solo project.
-Vivian Campbell leaves Dio. Life would go on for Dio and Campbell would have success with Whitesnake and Def Leppard, but he was my favorite Dio guitarist.
-Mark Free leaves King Kobra. I am probably the only one that cared about this, but he was a very good singer with this band.
The Good
+Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne give Metallica the opening slot on their tour. A huge boost for both bands.
+Motorhead come back with their first studio lp in three years. Metal needed Motorhead.
+Alice Cooper puts on the make-up again and goes heavy metal after numerous years of playing pop. His album is just okay, but his tour is huge and a new generation of hard rock fans embrace Alice.
+Def Leppard make a comeback of sorts by playing at the Monsters of rock festival.
+David Lee Roth wastes no time assembling a super group of sorts and releasing an album just a year after breaking up with Van Halen.
***Wednesday is my blogaversary so be there or be uh, read about it in the archives.***
Monday, June 19, 2006
Current playlist
I have been listening to these:
AC/DC-Let there be rock, Highway to hell and Ballbreaker
The best of the Ventures
Accept-Metal Heart and Balls to the wall
The Sword-Age of winters
Kik Tracee-Field Trip
Halloween-Don't metal with evil
Death Angel-Art of dying
What are you listening to?
AC/DC-Let there be rock, 1977
For many people there was one band that was the first band that you really got into. For a lot of people around my age it was Kiss. For me it was AC/DC for sure. They were the first band I really got into so they can either be thanked or blamed for that. I like some of the Brian Johnson material, but it's like a different world from the Bon Scott material. Bon Scott was a solid singer, a good showman and a fantastic writer who could effortlessly blend humor in with catchy lyrics. There was only one Bon Scott. This is not my favorite album of theirs, but it's likely my third favorite from their long career. However I think it was a real transition album for them. The previous albums showed some sparks, but they lacked some energy at times as well. However "Let there be rock" doesn't pretend to be anything but a solid rock album plain and simple. The riffs are simple yet straight ahead, the vocals are rough but fit in perfectly and even the production has a good raw sound to it. The band sounds excited on this album and perhaps that's what they needed at this point so that remained hungry. The next two albums "Powerage" and "Highway to hell" were their best in my opinion. Yet I feel it was this album that really began to pave the way for those later releases. Just listen to "Dog eat dog" and you can hear Angus pulling everything out of the simplest chords, Bon Scott uses the lyrics to their fullest, the backing vocals are rough like they should and the rest of the band is giving their awe. There is a difference between playing the music and milking it for all it's worth. In their prime this band could do the latter choice as well as anyone in the business. AC/DC had some weak albums later in their career and their energy was scattered at best later on, but there is no doubt that were on fire in the 70's. Other favorite tracks include the title track, Whole lotta Rosie and Overdose.
The revolving door
Sunday, June 18, 2006
Father's Day
My father who I call "Paw" is a very patient and kind person. He has probably had to be to have put up with me when I was teenager. Yet he has been supportive and always been there to answer questions. My father is 72 and we live next to my parents so now I see him almost every day and he loves to see his grandchildren. My father quit school when he was 14 to help his father keep up the farm. He didn't get married until he was almost 30. They had a son a year later and me six years after that. I didn't get see my dad as much as I would have liked growing up because he worked second shift at his job. Still he played ball with us, took us fishing and did things with us when he could. Yet I really didn't get to know my dad that well until I graduated from high school. I didn't decide to go to college until I was 22 so for a few years I worked second shift at the same warehouse my father did, but in a different department. So we drove together and talked a lot and I learned more about my father during those few years than I had in the previous 18. I have learned from him to work hard, try to be patient (I'm still trying) and many other lessons. I am grateful to have a father like him, I certainly love and respect him very much.
I always wanted kids, but there was a time when I wondered if we would get to have children. It was a stressful time and it took a while, but eventually I became a father in March of 2004. We both thought it would be a boy for some reason, but I was thrilled when Metalgirl came into the world screaming. Earlier this year Metalboy was born, he came almost four weeks early and he came on my father's birthday. I try to be a good father, but sometimes it's trying and tiring. Being flexible is part of the job as so is learning as you go so that's what I am doing. I am not perfect, but I am trying to do well. I do thank the Lord for blessing us with two great children.
My wife wrote about Father's Day on her blog as well.
Have a great Father's Day!
Saturday, June 17, 2006
What's coming up?
My blogaversary is this coming week, I will have been blogging for one year on Wednesday the 21st. So I will have some kind of post about that on Wednesday. I thought about re-posting some old stuff to celebrate the event, but I think that I have already re-posted the three decent posts I wrote from last year. Maybe I can scrounge up one more decent old post though. Here are some other topics coming up this week.
AC/DC-Let there be rock review
Manowar-Fighting the world
Five good/five bad things that happened in metal in 1986.
Maybe something about Father's Day on Sunday.
Have a good week!
Friday, June 16, 2006
Kiss-Destroyer, 1976
Thursday, June 15, 2006
Operation:Mindless Crime?
I just heard about this, but it happened a couple of days ago so things may have cleared up since then. It seems that Queensryche were arrested at the Amsterdam airport for carrying illegal firearms. Geoff Tate's wife is saying that her husband uses a prop gun in the band's stageshow. The original article is here from Knac.
Freaks and Geeks
This was a great show that unfortunately only lasted one year. It was on NBC during the 1999-2000 TV season. It was set in Michigan during the 1980-1981 school year. It mainly focused on a brother and sister. The brother was a freshmen and one of the geeks. His older sister was a smart kid starting to hang out with the freaks. The freaks were slackers who talked about sex, drugs and hard rock/metal. The show plays a lot of music from the late 70's-early 80's. There are references of songs played by Rush, Van Halen, Ted Nugent and a number of other bands. The reason was it so good was that the kids acted like real high school kids. Kids were awkward, kids could be mean and and it wasn't always easy, but the show is also funny as hell. Unfortunately NBC had the show off for a while during the World Series and they changed nights on it. They also refused to show an episode they found to be to rough despite having advertised it the week before. Fortunately the entire series came out on DVD two years ago and I have played every episode several times.
Wednesday, June 14, 2006
Defining the decade
Van Halen-1984
Metallica-Master of puppets
Guns and Roses-Appetite for destruction
Slayer-Reign in blood
Motorhead-Ace of spades
Iron Maiden-Powerslave
Judas Priest-Screaming for vengeance
Ozzy-Blizzard of Ozz
Def Leppard-Pyromania
Dio-Holy Diver
Anyone else want to have a go at it?
Tuesday, June 13, 2006
Skid Row, 1989
As 1989 began it seemed as though most of the commercial hard rock bands that were hitting it big were coming out that huge LA scene that had thriving for most of the decade. Yet a New Jersey band known for their raw energy and great live shows were signed to Atlantic records. The fact that Dave "Snake" Sabo was friends with one Jon Bon Jovi didn't hurt matter either. Skid Row has also recently brought in former Madam-X singer Sebastian Bach. I remember this album just kind of showing up without a lot of build-up and it had a simple cover with the band picture in black and white and the ragged red band logo smeared on the top portion of the cover as well. It didn't take long for the band to get radio airplay, get played on MTV and they locked up spots opening for Bon Jovi and Motley Crue. I liked the album a lot then and I think 1989 was a fairly good year for commercial hard rock ecspecially compared to 1988 which was a bit of a lame year for that style of music. Skid Row's debut divided it's time between solid rockers like "Youth gone wild", "Sweet little sister" and slower songs like "I remember you" and "18 and life". The band manages to do well at both kinds of songs. They certainly broke no new ground musicly, but they brought a lot of attitude and Sebastian Bach was a very good frontman. The bottle throwing incident only helped to strengthen their reputation and get them more attention. I think their image helped them a lot, other than Bach they were an ugly scruffy bunch who dressed more like fans than like performers . If they had come out of LA and had sparkly outfits and poofy hair then I am sure they would have made as great an impact despite the music being good. I think audiences were ready for and east coast band like this. I think it's not as sharp as I remember it being back then, but still good fun. Surprisingly enough this is my favorite album fo theirs. I say surprisingly because the next two lp's went in a heavier direction. Normally that would appeal to me, but I think Skid Row became more oridinary as they became heavier. This album still holds a certain appeal for me today and I was glad to find it in the bargain bin a few months ago as my tape had worn out.
Monday, June 12, 2006
Urine the jungle, baby!
Guns and Roses had bottles of urine thrown at them at the Download festival the other day. you can read more about it at Metal Sludge here.
I guess the good news if you are G-n-R is:
-Your odds of getting hit are less than if you were in a normal band that only had 4-5 members.
-They reportedly do numerous costume changes as it is so they have extra clothes in case the clothes get covered in pee.
-It couldn't get much worse. Unless of course they start flinging poo like monkeys in the zoo.
Honestly if you promise something (like an album) and don't deliver then you shouldn't expect to be welcomed with open arms. They didn't deserve this, but it is kind of funny.
The record store
In 1984 there were two record stores that I got to go to on occasion. Both were Sound Waves which was a fairly big chain around here then. One was 20 minutes away in a shopping center and the other was 30 minutes away in a mall. Then in spring of 1985 I couldn't believe it when an independent record store opened just 10 minutes from where I lived. The guy who owned was there most of the time and he was a real fan of the music. Unfortunately I think he was more a music fan than he was a businessman. Going into that store between 85 and 87 was a great time as the owner was a metal fan and he tried to cater to that audience. You could go there and buy indie metal albums, band shirts, buttons, black light posters or those big tapestries. I spent a lot of time and money there as a teenager. You would walk in and they would have incense burning, something like Grim Reaper or Accept would be playing on the stereo and the owner would tell you about what new releases were cool. You wouldn't get that at Sound Waves that's for sure. You go to Sound Waves and if you looked for too long then a snooty college age kid would come and ask if you needed help. Really I think this meant "You look too young to have a job so please don't try to steal any albums or I will call the cops".Unfortunately around the fall of 87 the owner of the indie record store moved his store into part of his father's gas station because he was having problems paying the rent. The new mall had opened in Spring of 87 and it was not far away and they had a Record World and a Tape World. The feel just wasn't the same in the new place because it was kind of crammed and they didn't play the stereo or burn incense any more. A year later the owner of the record store opened a biker clothing shop in another location. His father tried running the record store by himself for maybe another year and a half before giving up on it. It was a shame to see it go, but I got some good albums there and I remember it very well.
Sunday, June 11, 2006
What's coming up?
It seems like a lot of people have disappeared lately, but perhaps they will return. This week I hope to have the following out.
Kiss-Destroyer review
Skidrow review
Something on a record store I went to a lot as a teenager.
Something about top frontmen in metal, it may be done as a top ten.
Probably some other stuff as well, but I don't know what yet. Have a good week.
Saturday, June 10, 2006
Metal Church-The dark, 1986
To close out Underrated band week here is my review of Metal Church's The dark.
Background-Metal Church started up in Seattle in the early 80's. They eventually released their debut in 1984, but they quickly signed by Elektra and the debut was re-released in 1985. The Dark was their second album and it came out in 1986.
First Impression-I bought this on cassette in the fall of 1986 and it was the first release I had heard by them. I bought it just based on reviews and I wasn't dissapointed. I thought it was heavy and very direct, but very organized. I listened to this a lot throughout the rest of the 80's, but got away from it through most of the 90's. I did rediscover it again maybe three years ago.
I am putting in the cd to see if this album still holds up or not.
Ton of bricks- Nothing like a good intro to build up interest in a song. We have a simple, but solid drum beat and the guitar sounds like it's warming up. Then they tear into the song and it hits well, like the like song title. Nice opener that sets the tone.
Start the fire- Not one of my favorites 20 years ago, but now it sounds fresher. It's a good example of the band's ability to control the pace and get the most out of a simple song.
Method to the madness- A little bit different for them. David Wayne trying to sing more than growl and it works overall. Not great, but perhaps a good change of pace at this point in the album
Watch the children pray-Their big hit, well not exactly yet the video did get played during the day occasionaly as well as being a Headbanger's Ball staple in 86-87. David Wayne at his best, pulling and addding life to a strong, plodding song.
Over my dead body- A fairly fast track to compensate for the slow song that came before it I guess. I enjoyed it, but not all that memorable compared to the majority of the other songs on the album.
The dark- Wow, even better than I remember it being. Very crunchy and heavy and there is one part after a chorus where everything comes to a head and you just know you have to bang your head.
Psycho- This to me was always one of the best one, two punches I can remember from 1986 with the title track being one and this song being two. I have never seen them live, but can just imagine that it would have been to play this after The dark. Much faster than the previous song, but a similar heavy feel. Really aggressive for this band.
Line of death- Another fast song, but unlike
Over my dead body this one has quite a bit more force behind it. They really plow into it and don't let up. Well done.
Burial at sea- Another slow, heavy song but it has mixed results. It's heavy, but a little too slow as I feel like I am having to force myself to pay attention at times. Not bad, but could have been a little tighter.
Western Alliance-
The last track comes on fairly fast, but it's perhaps a little lighter in tone than some of the other fast songs on this album. I like it and it works, but more good than great.
Overall I think this album holds up very well after 20 years. I think that Metal Church played solid metal with no gimmicks and it worked. There are a few spots with the production is a little too smooth and that may give this album a slightly lighter feel than the debut. However, that's really a minor point. In 1986 I think this didn't quite make my top ten list and I not sure it will make the list when I re-do at the end of this year. Yet I think it's closer to making the list now than it was 20 years ago which says something about how this album has held up.
I think even today people are not exactly sure how to categorize Metal Church. In 85-86 they were often lumped in with speed metal because of their look and the type of bands they toured with. I don't think that's entirely accurate just because they didn't have enough fast songs to really be seen as speed metal. Power Metal was not a label that was used much back then and some people use it to describe Metal Church, but largely it's used more for European bands like Helloween and Hammerfall which are different than Metal Church. I almost feel like they are more like a classic metal sound. Although they are heavier than say Maiden and Priest, I think they are a little closer to that sound than some other sub-genre. No matter what the label that you slao on them is, they are heavy and solid. I used the label thing also to show that perhaps this is part of the reason as to why they slipped through the cracks to some extent and ended up being a little underrated.
Next month's 20 year old album review will be Cinderella's Night Songs.
Friday, June 09, 2006
Looking for help
Originally this was going to be my 20 year old album review of Metal Church's the dark, but blogger was out most of the day and I didn't get enough time to work on that. I will have it out on Saturday though. Instead I just wanted to put out a call and see if anyone might be interested in writing a guest post on my blog in early August. I am likely going on vacation for two days so I would need two volunteers to write a post each. It could be a review, a story or just some topic related to hard rock or metal. I know two days isn't much, but around the beginning of the year I decided to make this blog be updated almost daily so I would like to keep up the pace. I guess my blog doesn't get much traffic but maybe some of you would be interested. Just put in the comments if you are interested and I will contact you closer to the date.
Thursday, June 08, 2006
668-The beast that came late
I was surprised at the number of posts on Tuesday about it being 666. I guess I was just caught up in work and Underrated band week and didn't get around to writing anything concerning it. So better late than never. I want to tie this into Underrated band week so I was just going to mention that Detroit's Halloween released their first new album in 15 years on Tuesday. I have yet to hear it, but may get it some time. I actually just heard their 1984 debut "Don't metal with evil". It has a bit of a cult following and it's pretty good. I will wait until October to give it a proper review though. There was a local indie record store that popped up in my area in 1985. I remember being there and the owner was telling me about this band Halloween and he showed me the tape he had behind the counter and he was saying how great they were. I asked if he had another copy and he said no so I never got to hear them back then. That's a good example of how not to run a good record store. The object behind a record store is to sell the records not hoard them. Anyway sorry I am two days too late for the occasion. I will make sure to celebrate today. So if you are driving in central Maryland today and you see a bald thirty something guy blasting Maiden or Slayer out of his car and giving the devil horn salute then that would be me.
How does one become underrated?
I guess it depends on the individual band. It could be a matter of lack of label support or lack of promotion, those have certainly happened before. Failure to land a good touring spot might be a factor as well. The wrong time could be a reason as a band could release a great metal album, but their style might not be in so they go unnoticed. The wrong place might be a factor as well because a band from a less prominent scene may not get as much of a push or attention as a band from a hot scene.
Any ideas?
Wednesday, June 07, 2006
Tora Tora-Wild America, 1992
Tuesday, June 06, 2006
Play DJ
What album do you pick?
Four underrated bands
The year 1986 was a pretty good one for metal, quite likely the second best year in the 1980's for metal (1984 was the golden year). A lot of really good albums from veterans like Iron Maiden and Motorhead plus breakout albums for bands like Metallica, Slayer and Megadeth. Yet down below the cover story bands were the others. I wanted to talk briefly about four bands who had really good debuts in 1986, but you may not have heard of any of these bands.
At War- These guys were from Virginia Beach, Virginia and their debut was "Ordered to kill". It was a straight forward speed metal effort, a little like Motorhead, but faster and edgier. They were on tiny New Renaissance records so they didn't receive a lot of notice. This is available on cd.
Cyclone-These guys were from Belgium and the debut was "Brutal Destruction". Think Exodus "Bonded by blood" with stronger vocals and perhaps even better hooks. They received some press, but they never toured much and they seemed to disappear. Not available on cd.
Executioner-Boston three piece released their debut "In the name of metal". The production on all three of their albums was poor, but that doesn't matter because their raw enthusiasm and NWOBHM meets early speed metal sound shines through. Another New Renaissance band and they toured with At War in 1986. Not available on cd although there has been some mention from New Renaissance that it may someday get released.
Whiplash-More than likely the most known of these four bands, but more for their connections to other bands. This New Jersey based band's debut was called "Power and pain" and they had a fairly original thrash sound. Very heavy with some cool underlying riffs and some very angry vocals. Drummer Tony Scaglioni left the band to take a three month stint in Slayer in late 1986 while Dave Lombardo took some time off. These guys were on Roadrunner and did three albums in the 80's before breaking up. They did reform in the mid-90's and put out a few more albums. This is available on cd.
Monday, June 05, 2006
I am interrupting Underrated band week for a brief post making fun of Axl Rose. Here you go.
From unknown to known
I am doing underrated band week here at my blog. So I attempting to shout out praise about bands that I think are underrated. I remember being in tenth grade and buying albums by bands that I had never heard before like King Kobra, Loudness and Grim Reaper. I took chances on these bands because I wanted to hear something new. I had a friend at the time who would say these bands were "nobody" because they were not big yet. I never understood that mentality because almost everyone starts at the bottom before they become "somebody" or get known. I had a friend in college who listened to maybe a dozen bands and refused to listen to anyone he didn't already know of. He waited for the radio and Mtv to find new music. Word of mouth and tape trading was a great way for bands who weren't getting a lot of radio play to get known back in the 80's. Of course you have to want to hear new music and be a little open for this to work. I have heard a lot of bands over the last twenty some years. I have heard good, bad and in between, but I am certainly glad that I went out of my to give new bands a chance rather than waiting for the radio, Mtv or some other media source to tell me what I should listen to.
Pentagram-First daze here, 2002
Here's a band from Northern Virginia that has gone through numerous line-ups, but still managed to release material in each of the last four decades. Vocalist Bobby Liebling is the only member who has been with every version of the band. They are also a huge influence on doom metal and stoner rock yet a lot of people may not know who they are. This is probably largely due to the fact that all of their releases have been on small labels. They formed around 1970, but their first lp wasn't released until 1985. They only released a few singles in the 1970's, but this album is a collection of some of their best songs from that decade. Most commonly compared to Black Sabbath due to the slow, often sluggish riffs, but the band always maintained that Blue Cheer was their biggest inspiration. Pentagram's guitarist claimed that they recorded whole or parts of over 100 songs between 1970 and 1976, but some were done on perhaps not the greatest equipment so not all of the songs have lasted over the years. The band has also re-recorded a lot of their songs over the years as they have done seven studio albums between 1985 and 2004 and each album contains at least a couple of their songs that were originally done in the 1970's. The dozen tracks here are some of the very the best that they have done in their career. The subtlety of their sound that really works well as it's oftentimes blended with some heavy riffs and off the cuff solos. At times there is almost a dreamy quality to the music as well. While listening to these songs it is difficult for me to believe that hese guys didn't get signed back then. Although they were apparently close to getting signed by Colombia records in 1975, but it fell through. Their songwriting is strong and the playing ability is definitely there as well. I highly recommend this release as a starting point for anyone wanting to familiarize yourself with this great band.
Sunday, June 04, 2006
Underrated band week
This week I will be tackling a theme that may only appeal to me and this is underrated bands. I listen to a lot of bands and with some of them I realize that most people just have not heard them, but other there are some bands where I just wonder why they were not bigger than they were. A band could be underrated because of lack of promotion by their label or maybe their style just didn't appeal to a wider audience. Yet whatever the reason there are bands that maybe didn't get the credit they deserve. This is up the opinion of the individual as well. I might think a band is underrated and you might they think they did as well as they could for what they are doing. Whatever the case, this week I will focus on bands that I think were or are underrated.
Topics for the week will include:
Pentagram-First daze here review
Metal Church-The dark(20 year old album review)
Tora Tora-Wild America review
Also I will have something about what makes a band underrated, maybe something about underrated albums and perhaps one more topic
. If anyone says any of my posts stink this week then I will just claim that they were underrated.
Saturday, June 03, 2006
Scorpions-Blackout, 1982
Consistent is a word that perhaps best defines the career of this long time band has had. They have changed sounds a little here and there, but have had a general sound that they have maintained over the years . I think the Scorpions real prime was the period in from 1979 until 1984. This included Lovedrive, Animal Magnetism, Love at first sting and this album Blackout. Most fans of this band agree that one of their major strengths is their ability to do heavy rock songs like the title track to this album, "Now" and "Dynamite" and be able to turn right around and produce ballads like "No one like you". I think a lot of their material always had a great flow to it. It's not clunky or choppy, most of the songs come on and they just go. I don't if that came natural and they were just that strong at writing or if it really took a lot of practice to perfect that sound. I would have to think that they made a producer's job fairly easy because it just seems like he wouldn't have to touch up much on their music to make is sound good. "Blackout" is probably my favorite album as it was the first album of theirs that I really got into. I think it alternates well between rockers and ballads and manages to keep things interesting all through the album. I was fortunate enough to see the Scorpions in 1988 at Van Halen's Monsters of rock. I mainly went to see Metallica who were good, but the Scorpions played fourth of five bands and they were unreal. I will never forget how they came running onto the stage in 85 degree heat and tore into "Blackout" and they never let up for 90 minutes. Van Halen had no chance of competing with that and you could even see it in the crowd. The Scorpions ruled that day and they are still going strong over thirty years after they began.
Friday, June 02, 2006
Top ten favorite bands
You could look at my profile and see what bands I like, but I decided to jot down my current top ten. I say current because it changes from time to time. The top seven are probably just about always the same, but the others might change from time to time. So here is my top ten favorite bands in order.
1)Black Sabbath
2)Iron Maiden
5)Van Halen
6)Judas priest
7)Led Zeppelin
Other bands that have been in my top ten for a time in recent years include Overkill, Slayer, AC/DC, Alice Cooper and Kiss.
Do you have a top ten?
Slayer song
I just read a brief article over at about a song off of Slayer's upcoming album. The song is called "Jihad" and talks about 9-11 from the point of view of the terrorists. So this article is saying that the idea behind the song is creating some controversy and it may very well create even more of a stir once the album is actually released. Hard to really judge without having heard the song or knowing the lyrics, but my feeling is Slayer are examining the motivation rather making any kind of judgment because that is the way they have always been. They have done some dark topics in the past and their darkest topics have about been real events. It will be interesting to hear this song and I am looking forward to their new album despite the fact that for me it has been a long time since they have had a great album. Slayer and controversy have certainly walked hand in hand over the years.
Thursday, June 01, 2006
I had dreaded Summer in recent years because it was the busiest time at my work, but now I don't dread it as much. I might get to go on a vacation this year for the first time since we had kids as I believe late 2003 was the last time my wife and I went on vacation. Gardening and running are two of my favorite things to do so I get to do both of those a lot in the Summer. We are finally starting to plant some flowers out back. We have been here for three years, but are just recently getting around to adding some color to the lawn. I like gardening a lot, but until recently my mentality had always been "If I can't eat it then why grow it?". I am slowly getting away from that and trying to see the point of planting flowers. We are starting to think about doing a deck or patio. So on my off days this Summer I will put on best AC/DC shirt, wrinkled shorts and worn shoes and get out there and enjoy the sun while I can.
Kreator-Coma of souls, 1990
Kreator were a very active band between 1985 and 1990 as they cranked out five lp's and two ep's during that period. They also went from being a bunch of kid playing noise to being the leaders of the German speed metal scene. In 1987 their Terrible Certainty album was a huge surprise to me as it was leaps and bounds above their previous efforts. Then in 1989 they released Extreme Aggression which was certainly good, but almost came across as a slightly watered down version of Terrible Certainly. By late 1990 the future for speed metal was probably a little sketchy as only a few bands like Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax had truly made it at least fairly big. I wondered what Kreator would do and I was overall pleased with the direction they took. Coma of souls is somewhat more varied in style than any of their previous albums. It contains some truly blistering tracks like "When the sun burns red" and "World Beyond" that show aggression and heaviness that I wasn't sure they were capable of. It also has tracks like "People of the lie" and "Terror Zone" that show the bands ability to be heavy, but vary the pace a bit. This is easily the band's second best album. My only real complaint is with the production or rather how it sounds on some songs on the album. The production is a little thin at times and perhaps this takes away from some of the power that I think could have been there. Still a really good speed metal album that holds up well today. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '2099', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9886609315872192}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '181570', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:AQT3V7EVQZRID3LQIB4HGOEHWULZQOD5', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:e4b47c7d-d06e-4749-88b8-314cdaa0cc9a>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2022, 9, 29, 20, 28, 45), 'WARC-IP-Address': '142.251.16.132', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'application/xhtml+xml', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:5O2KV54LMDXZ3DOJ3JG5GKNLPZRKYF72', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:e2777695-7eac-4ccb-ae5a-7e72fd513ea9>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://metalmark.blogspot.com/2006/06/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:8996f50b-f97c-4300-b241-04500116d807>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '10344', 'url': 'https://metalmark.blogspot.com/2006/06/', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2022-40\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for September/October 2022\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-28\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.19 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.4-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: https://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.04307365417480469', 'original_id': '7905719d9c2b73849349a25c9c05552e15d6f52aae6bd4a34ed34975c3993c1a'} |
Cosmetic Dentistry
Tooth Whitening
Tooth whitening (or bleaching) is a simple, non-invasive dental treatment used to change the color of natural tooth enamel and is an ideal way to enhance the beauty of your smile.Hydrogen peroxide, the active ingredient in the gel, is broken down releasing oxygen. The oxygen then enters the enamel and dentin and bleaches the colored components. Only the tooth color is made lighter, while the structure of the tooth itself is not changed.
Reasons for tooth whitening:
• Fluorosis (excessive fluoridation during tooth development).
• Normal wear of outer tooth layer.
• Yellow, brown stained teeth.
What does tooth whitening involve?
XTRA BOOST..........This whitening procedure has the same final results of the take home system just mentioned, but is done in the office in ONE visit. This is especially appropriate for the businessman always on the run or the busy housewife. Since the results are immediate, this procedure is ideal for the patient who needs whiter teeth by YESTERDAY (a formal affair next weekend.
Basically your teeth are isolated and the active agent is placed on them. In the following 60 minutes ,under close supervision of the doctor or his assistant, your teeth are rapidly whitened.
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Secrets of Mighty Squeeze
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Where to buy
Find our Mighty Squeeze pouches in Ocado and Planet Organic stores.
Extra wow ingredients (in Mighty Squeeze pouches)
Pomegranate: The pomegranate fruit has been used for thousands of years for its health benefits. Vitamin-rich pomegranate juice contains higher levels of antioxidants than most other fruit juices, it also has three times more antioxidants than green tea OR red wine 🙂
Pomegranates are eaten in winter and are thought to increase luck and prosperity in parts of the Mediterranean.
There are a few ways to remove the seeds from the pith of pomegranates. My favourite way is either to rip open over a bowl, or cut in half and smack with a rolling pin over a bowl to split further, then just peel the seeds from the pith.
Acerola cherries: These little red cherries provide more vitamin C than all other foods.
They ferment quickly and become unusable within 3 to 5 days, which is why you won’t find them on your supermarket shelves, because as soon as they are picked in our farms, we turn them into a vitamin-packed juice.
Turmeric: Turmeric is the spice that gives curry its yellow colour and has been used in India for thousands of years as a spice and medicinal herb. The compounds in turmeric are called curcuminoids, with curcumin being the most active with anti-inflammatory effects. It is thought to be better absorbed with fat, so why not add a dash of dried turmeric when frying off vegetables in a little fat, or add with a little coconut oil if making a mild curry for your baby.
Avocado: this unique fruit contains mostly fat rather than carbohydrate – but it is the good monounsaturated fats they contain, which are so good for developing babies, who need a good fat in their diet. Packed with over 20 minerals and vitamins, this fruit is a great part of anyone’s diet.
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ION7550/7650 digital input: Internal Excitation DC Source Power Rating
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integrated digital inputs (S1-S8) internal excitation DC source's power rating for the PowerLogic ION7550 and ION7650 meter. This data is not found in the meter's datasheet.
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A customer may require the internal excitation DC source power rating of the ION7550 and ION7650 meter to be incorporated into technical design data.
As there are 8 digital inputs within the ION7650 meter, they will draw an approximate maximum of 32.72 mW.
The internal voltage source is isolated from everything else, so it can only be used to switch the 8 digital inputs. The DC power source cannot physically power any other components. As the digital inputs each incorporate a high impedance (220k ohm), the maximum power draw on the internal source will only be about 4mW per input or 32mW total. That said, the DC source component is rated at 1W.
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