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Letter: Editorial cartoon's depiction of people as horses unacceptable
June 26, 2013
The editorial cartoon of the "illegal" horses busting out of the barn was unacceptable. The fact that someone compares hardworking humans, regardless of where they are from, to an animal, is sad.
Working in the wine industry the past 12 years, I know what it takes to put a bottle of it in your favorite grocery store for the price you like paying. Then again, that could be said for many things: apples, asparagus, cherries, pears, plums, strawberries, all berries, and let's not forget about your other favorite beverage -- beer. No hops equals no beer, folks.
So start saving your Sunday inserts, Sally, because if the voting public doesn't speak up for the one's who can't, then we will all become crazy coupon clippers.
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Clarke, J.:
This was .an action for divorce. An answer .was interposed' but the defendant did not appear upon the trial at Special Term. The complaint alleged the date of .the. márriáge to be the 30th of June, 1897, and writer alia asked that the plaintiff be awarded the custody of the only child of the marriage, a daughter six years old. The learned,court rendered his decision in writing June 18, 1907. He found the date of the marriage as the 30th day of June, 1897; that the plaintiff was a proper custodianand guardian for the-said child ; that the plaintiff was entitled to an interlocutory judgment of divorce dissolving the marriage and awarding to plaintiff the custody of the child Harriet Evelyn Martin.' The interlocutory decree was. entered on the 18th of June, 1907, and it properly stated the date of the marriage; but; due as is claimed to the, inadvertence of the plaintiff's attorney, it contained no provision awarding the custody of the child to the wife in conformity with the decision. The final decree was entered on the Ytli of October, 1-907. By an obvious mistake the date of the marriage was put as the 30th of June, 1907, instead of 1897. As in the interlocutory decree no provision was made for the custody of the child.
The plaintiff made a motion to amend the final judgment by correcting the date of marriage, and secondly, to amend the interlocutory and the final judgment by awarding the custody of the child to the plaintiff, as demanded in the complaint and provided for in the decision. This motion having been denied, the plaintiff appeals.
The amendment of the judgment to make it conform to the written decision should have been allowed. The power was inherent in the court. In Matter of Henderson (157 N. Y. 423)-the court said:,"All courts, from their very nature and the object of their existence, must possess some inherent power, and the correction of their own records, when affected by some mistake or clerical error would seem to be about as mild an exercise of such'power as can well be imagined. This power is recognized and perhaps regulated by various statutes, but it does not proceed from or rest upon statutes, since it would exist without them."
In Ladd v. Stevenson (112 N. Y. 325) Earl, J., said: " The whole power of the court to relieve from judgments taken through 6 mistake, inadvertence, surprise or excusable neglect ' is not limited by section 724; but in the exercise of its control over its judgments it may open them upon the application of anyone for sufficient "reason in the furtherance of justice. Its power to do so does not depend upon any statute, but is inherent, and it would be quite unfortunate if it did not possess it to the fullest extent."
In Gough v. Mcfall (31 App. Div. 578) the court said : " It was, therefore, competent for the court to order the judgment amended to conform to the only valid decision which the court had made, and when amended it stood as the only judgment in the case and was authorized by the original decision."
After the entry of this judgment section 1771 of the Code of Civil Procedure, providing for the custody and maintenance of children and support of plaintiff, was amended so as to read: " The court may by order, upon the application of either party to the action, after due notice to the other, to be given in such manner as the court shall prescribe, at any time after final judgment, annul, vary or modify such directions, or, in case np. such direction or directions, shall have been made, amend it by inserting such direction or directions as justice requires for the. custody, care, education and maintenance of.'any such child or children in such final judgment or order or'orders." (See Laws of 1908, chap. 297.)
In the case at bar due notice of the application for the, proposed amendment was. The order appealed from, should be reversed and the motion granted, but, as there has been, no opposition, without costs.
Ingraham, P. J., McLaughlin, Scott and Dowling, JJ., concurred.
Order reversed and motion granted, without costs..
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The back walls of Trattoria Contadina are adorned with framed photographs of celebrities and sports heroes. Clearly, this neighborhood restaurant must be pretty special to draw the likes of Neil Sedaka, Patti Page and Joe Montana. And San Francisco Giants Rich Aurilia and J.T. Snow consider it the best restaurant in the city.
Yet it's not an impromptu game of star search that has drawn ordinary folks to this North Beach corner for 20 years. Rather, it's the skilled Italian cooking with its rustic flavors that packs the small dining room.
The place is already so crowded early on a Sunday night that we feel lucky to snag a table, even after the host genially warns us that we have to vacate it in exactly one hour and 15 minutes.
That's fine, though when a bowl of creamy polenta ($7.95) arrives, we do wish time could stand still to prolong the enjoyment. Sweetly demure and creamy, the polenta is a great foil for the rich, wild mushroom-laden stock poured on top. The polenta has enough density to be pleasantly toothsome without being tough or too gooey.
Sliced eggplant baked with mozzarella ($6.95) is a surprisingly sturdy dish.
The rounds hold up, thanks in part to a wide black band of skin encircling each slice. The eggplant isn't cooked to the point of disintegration, either. There's a tart firmness, a quality complemented by a tomato sauce spiked with slivers of fresh basil. It's a spry dish, needing the mellowing softness of the melted mozzarella cheese draped over each slice.
Main dishes can sport some assertiveness. A salmon fillet ($18.95) is grilled until the skin is crusty and the moist flesh flakes easily. The salmon's smoky sweetness is countered by a piquant lemon sauce flecked with minced herbs. The sauce's acidity cuts the fish's oiliness.
Veal saltimbocca ($19.95) is plated so one end is anointed with a light Marsala sauce and the other neatly coated with spoonfuls of tomato sauce. The tender sliced veal sandwiches melted mozzarella with a salty slice of prosciutto. Mashed potatoes and a medley of sliced squash, carrots and asparagus complete the plate.
Fusilli Pavarotti ($12.95) is a graceful dish. The pasta is studded with neatly sliced pieces of sun-dried tomatoes, bits of prosciutto, cubes of chicken and sliced zucchini in a cream sauce. The dish is very mild, allowing each element to give voice to its own flavor.
Dinner is capped with a small selection of desserts. The tiramisu ($5) is a homey square of espresso-soaked cake layered with mascarpone cheese and topped with chocolate sprinkles. More showy but equally fine is a heart-shaped dessert of strawberry gelato ($4) inside a casing of white chocolate. The dessert is served on a dish painted with raspberry puree and a single dollop of whipped cream.
We're in and out of Trattoria Contadina with exactly 10 minutes to spare. Yet the dinner never seems rushed or sloppy, thanks to a crew of servers who are friendly yet professional, swift without seeming hurried.
Eating at Trattoria Contadina makes you feel like part of one big family. It's not just because the tables are so close together. There's a sense of pride, of caring, that comes through nicely in this traditional Italian cooking and makes it possible for you to adhere to the restaurant's motto: "Leave your problems at the door and eat."
Trattoria Contadina
Address: 1800 Mason St. (at Union), San Francisco
Phone:(415) 982-5728
Hours: Dinner 5:30-9:30 p.m. Sunday through Thursday, until 10:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Beer and wine. Credit cards and reservations accepted. Difficult street parking. .
Food: TWO STARS
Service: TWO AND A HALF STARS
Atmosphere: TWO STARS
PRICES: $$$
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Hey Guys: Pretend You're Broke This Christmas
christmas treeBeing broke around the holidays stinks big time. But a story that suggests taking our cues from the oldest profession in the world to afford a gift for your sweetie has left me feeling oddly drawn to acting like we're broke this year.
Instead of a gift wrapped in paper and ribbons, the folks at Good in Bed say we should keep it simple and cheap! Give our bodies in the form of charity sex to the one we love. I couldn't agree more.
Don't get me wrong, their word choice stinks. The idea that I'd be having sex with my husband out of charity even once takes the shine off our entire sex life. I don't have to be charitable; I actually enjoy having sex with this guy! But take away the title, and I'm all for it. Cancel the Christmas tree. Put the stocking in storage. I'll take all the gifted sex he can give this Christmas.
It's not what the men's mags will have on their "what to buy for your wife" lists, I'm sure. 'Tis the season of the world's best known virgin giving birth and all, and the guys feel like they're supposed to go all out with diamonds and gadgets to woo her and make her happy. Sorry guys, that's just another sign you don't know "what women want."
It's not your fault. I put full blame on the Virgin Mary for the most depressing of all myths: that women -- especially Moms -- aren't nearly as sexual as men. Once moms were painted as the Madonna, the mystical mother figure, all bets for getting him into bed were off.
There's an entire group of men I know who literally would not sleep with their own wives once she got pregnant because they, get this, respected her too much now. Respect this, gentlemen: ladies love sex too. About 67 percent of us think about it several times a month; another 19 percent think about it every single day. You can't say the same about a Kindle or a sweater. Or a vacuum cleaner or a coffee of the month club certificate for that matter. We might want them, sure, but we don't crave them.
So why isn't he putting himself under the tree? Guys think about sex constantly -- just ask dad. He should be jumping at the chance, but we've got them thinking they need to blow us out of the water with something big.
It's time to throw money out the window and act like we have none to spend this Christmas (in this economy, let's face it, we won't really be pretending). Get back to when you had to be creative with your gifts, guys. Give her something she'll really enjoy; I give you permission.
Image via Shandi-Lee/Flickr
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Miyazaki Mondays In June
Hayao Miyazaki’s works are characterized by the recurrence of themes such as humanity’s relationship with nature and technology, the wholesomeness of natural and traditional patterns of living, the importance of art and craftsmanship, and the difficulty of maintaining a pacifist ethic in a violent world. The protagonists of his films are often strong girls or young women, and several of his films present morally ambiguous antagonists with redeeming qualities.
The Byrd is excited to bring back Miyazaki Mondays. Check out the schedule below:
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The World of Wine & Spirits from HEMANT SINGH
Beverages are potable drinks which have thirst-quenching, refreshing, stimulating and nourishing qualities. By refreshing, one means the replenishment of fluid loss from the body due to perspiration. Simulation results in increase of the heart beat and blood pressure. This is due to the intake of spirits (alcohol) or tea (thein) and coffee (coffein). Nourishment is provided by the nutrients in the beverages, especially fruit juices. Most of the beverages supply energy in the form of sugar or
alcohol. They also provide other nutrients like mineral salts and vitamins. For example, milk gives calcium and citrus fruits give vitamin C.
Generally, people drink for one or more of six reasons; to quench thirst, to get drunk, to enjoy a social setting (social drinking), to enjoy the taste of the beverage, to feed an addiction (alcoholism), or as part of a religious or traditional ceremony or custom (proposing toast).
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Ice cream from HEMANT SINGH
Ice cream, or iced cream as it was originally called, was once narrowly defined as a luxury dessert made of cream, sugar, and sometimes fruit congealed over ice. But today it is an universally cherished favorite dish. The wide variety of ice creams and their varying cost ranging from low to high has made it delightful dish. Our love affair with ice cream is centuries old. The ancient
Greeks, Romans, and Jews were known to chill wines and juices. This practice evolved into fruit ices and, eventually, frozen milk and cream mixtures. The Italians were especially fond of the frozen
confection that by the sixteenth century was being called ice cream. Because ice was expensive and refrigeration had not yet been invented, ice cream was still considered a treat for the wealthy
or for those in colder climates. Furthermore, the process of making ice cream was cumbersome and time-consuming. A mixture of dairy products, eggs, and flavorings was poured into a pot and beaten
Breakfast from HEMANT SINGH
Breakfast is the first meal of the day, typically eaten in the morning. The word derives from the idea of breaking the involuntary fast due to sleep. Breakfast is considered by many food experts to be a most important meal of the day. Traditionally, breakfast is a large cooked meal eaten before work and designed to carry people through a large part of the day. The erosion of the cooked breakfast has been an ongoing trend in the Western world, since at least the early 20th century, coinciding with late waking times than when most Westerners had agricultural occupations, starting early in the morning.
Breakfast in hotels may be served in the hotel restaurant or dining room, in a breakfast room set aside for this one meal, or in the guest's bedroom or suite. The current trend is that most of the hotels
are offering breakfast as complementary (bed and breakfast tariff).
MENU - Food and Beverage
Menu is the statement of food and beverage items available or provided by food establishments primarily based on consumer demand and designed to achieve organizational objectives. It represents the focal point around which components of food service systems are based. The menu is designed carefully what the outlet wants to cater for, keeping in mind the type of clientele. The main advantage of a well-planned menu is that it leads to consumer satisfaction. It also helps to motivate the employees for a responsible and successful service.
A successful menu depends upon composition-the right combination of foods, prepared perfectly, to the entire satisfaction of the customer. So claimed Antoin Careme, the French
chef who is considered the founder of classical cuisine. Menu is a document that controls and directs an outlet's operations and is considered the prime selling instrument of the restaurant.
In a restaurant, a menu is the list of dishes to be served or available for a diner to select from. The items that are available for the diner to choose from are broken down into various categories,
depending on the time of day or the event. The compilation of a menu is the most important part of a
caterer's work. It is regarded as an art, acquired only through experience and study. The menu is a link between the guest and the establishment, hence it should be carefully planned by the
establishment's professionals, namely the executive chef, the food and beverage manager and the food and beverage controller. The word menu dates back to 1718, but the custom of
making such a list is much older. In earlier times, the escriteau (bill of fare) or menu of ceremonial meals was displayed on the wall loadable with the kitchen staff to follow the order in which the dishes were to be served. It is said that in olden times, menus were like a large dictionary with sections covering a variety of dishes. As time progressed the lengthy single copy menu became smaller but increased in number allowing a number of copies placed in table increased. Depending on the establishment and the occasion, the menu may be plain or artistic in its presentation.
Proost69 Beer launches in Delhi
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The MindMaze
Current MindMaze cover. Cover done by Oceane McAllister, aka OceaneBreeze on Wattpad.
Emily Cooper is captured in a mall and trapped in a magical maze. To her surprise, she is not alone.
She is hunted.
Who are those who are chasing her?
She is trapped.
How did she get here?
Strange, deformed humanity is trapped within also.
What exactly are these creatures, and who are they? Are they friendly?
The maze seems very old…
Who created this maze, and why is it here?
Current Status
First draft being written. Was a past Nanowrimo project; may be 2020’s NNWM project.
The beginning few chapters of this story can be found on Wattpad at:
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This Pot Support lets you place the Kelly Cook Set on top of the Kelly Kettle so you can cook small amounts of food, such as rice, oatmeal or soup, over the chimney of your kettle while your water boils.
The Kelly Kettle works remarkably well even in a storm so the support provides a reliable means of getting hot food while you are stuck in harsh weather conditions.
When you have finished cooking the support can be disassembled (after you have let it cool, of course), packed flat and inserted up the chimney of the kettle for transport. It fits all size Kelly Kettles. | mini_pile | {'original_id': 'fce5ddac2e3a5a902f12f5d357ee0a891f5ea771b47362b0022838c916ebdbdd'} |
The 16 Most Baffling Pieces of Official Merchandise Ever
#8. G.I. Joe Shampoo
Via 9gag
It's a known fact that kids, particularly boys, don't give a shit about how bad they smell at any given point. Which is why G.I. Joe shampoo is kind of genius. The people at Hasbro and Avon who made this 1988 product were fully aware that 10-year-old boys didn't care all that much how feathery soft their hair was, so they cleverly neglected to write the word "shampoo" anywhere on the bottles. Probably so they could trick children into thinking they were buying pure, liquid G.I. Joe characters.
Notice none of the characters endorsing the shampoo even have visible hair, and that when the franchise was rebooted, it was sold in badass "Berry Blast" scent and featured a character missing not only visible hair, but an entire face.
Via Amazon
Of course, he couldn't be a very successful ninja if he went around smelling of delicious berries.
#7. WWE Talking Soap
Via countingthelights
Do you like cleanliness but hate good self esteem? The WWE has the soap for you.
Stone Cold Steve Austin soap included the catchy phrase, "Pick up the soap NOW!" and The Rock soap politely informed customers to "Go wash up, jabroni, because frankly, you stink!" To make matters worse, this was not some audio clip activated by hitting a button; the audio was turned on by the water itself. Which meant that if you actually used this soap in the shower, you would be assaulted with a barrage of insults until you were clean or chucked the soap out of the shower in a stream of tears, whichever came first.
Via wrestlecrap
#6. Jackie Chan Organic Skin Care
Via asianbite
For ladies who care about their skin but only trust products from male Asian action stars, Jackie Chan has literally got you covered. In 2006, Jackie announced the launch of his cleverly named Jackie Chan Organic Skin Care line of skin care products. Not only were the lotions and creams organic, but they were also made out of recyclables, just like Jackie's movie plots -- OOH! BURN, CHAN!
"BURN CHAN" was coincidentally the name for his range of heat massaging products.
#5. Star Trek Marshmallow Dispenser
Via apieceoftheaction
Have you ever found yourself in desperate need of a marshmallow dispenser? One that was needlessly complicated and came with a fork so big you could toss bales of hay with it? Kraft Foods and Star Trek have got your back, THANK GOD.
This product was released in 1989 with Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, a film that includes exactly one reference to marshmallows.
Seen here, if you don't blink and miss it.
That was more than enough for the people at Kraft to roll out this official Star Trek marshmallow dispenser that inexplicably comes with a fork, spoon, belt clip and burdensome plastic container, in case you need to carry exactly four marshmallows but aren't concerned with comfort or convenience.
#4. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Posing as the Starfleet Crew
Via Dork Dimension
For everyone who has fantasized about mashing up different generations of science fiction characters, but not sexually, or logically, there's this.
In 1994, someone got it into his head that not only were the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ripe for a Star Trek crossover, but also that they needed heads full of glorious hair to do it. More importantly, the reptiles didn't just play dress up and pose like Comic-Con pretenders; if this packaging is to be believed, they temporarily became four officers of the Star Trek Enterprise, Starfleet ranks and all.
Via autocosmica
"Dammit, Leonardo, I'm a bodacious dude, not a doctor!"
Which begs the question -- where are our toys of Spock and Kirk dressed in nothing but turtle shells and eating pizza?
#3. Redd Foxx, the Cuddly Children's Doll
Via funkystuffblog
Here's a doll that needs no explanation, other than the one you'll have to give to your kid's therapist.
Redd Foxx was a groundbreaking, incredibly popular comedian in the '70s and '80s, but to be very clear, he was a comedian for adults, as a lot of his material was sexual and his most famous routine was called "You Gotta Wash Your Ass." No one apparently told this to the people at Shindana Toys, who released this official Redd Foxx doll in 1976. Clearly marketed for children, the doll also talked and include some variations of his famous sayings, such as "Please, wash your face before you kiss me" and "You are uuuuuuuuuuuuuuugly," just the kind of self-esteem boosts little girls need to hear when they're growing up.
"I will kill you in your sleeeeeeeep."
#2. The Little Mermaid's Shark Ring
Via Chicology
You'd think that when coming up with a piece of bling that reminded people of Ariel from The Little Mermaid, Disney Couture would have jumped on something iconic, like a fish or seashells.
Instead, Disney Couture went with the next best thing. The jaw of a shark.
"Your bleached skeletons will make an adorable bracelet!"
Though this Shark Jaw Ring is supposedly inspired by the film, the only shark in the whole movie appears for about 58 seconds of screen time near the very beginning and holds no plot significance whatsoever. As a result, they wound up with something that was accidentally pretty badass. Didn't Tony Montana wear a ring like this in Scarface?
#1. Letters to E.T.
Via The Pitch
It's not unusual to see a popular movie or TV show get a book tie-in as a cheap way of continuing the story line, but normally these books have things like "plots" and "an actual author." Not Steven Spielberg's Letters to E.T. This is less of a book and more of a gallery of fan mail telling Spielberg how great he is.
Via retroist
All the letters are supposedly real and completely ridiculous, especially considering that half of the letters aren't addressed to Spielberg at all but are actually written to E.T. himself. Apparently, delusional children and adults around the world yearned to make contact with their favorite movie prop by telling him how great he is ...
Via retroist
... or, in one case, how he caused them great financial distress.
Via retroist
It takes a lot of balls to publish your own fan letters, especially when they include little old ladies trying to bilk money out of you. On the other hand, what is Twitter if not a huge Letters to E.T. of self-published narcissism? Nice job, Spielberg. YOU INVENTED THE FUTURE.
For more unfortunately designed toys, check out 15 Unintentionally Perverted Toys for Children and The 25 Most Baffling Toys From Around the World.
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File Name: 12a0253n.06
No. 10-1017
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FILED
FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT Mar 05, 2012
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ) LEONARD GREEN, Clerk
)
Plaintiff-Appellee, )
)
v. ) ON APPEAL FROM THE UNITED
) STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR
ADARUS MAZIO BLACK, aka Dude, aka ) THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF
Chuck, aka Mark Andrea Gillery, Jr., aka ) MICHIGAN
Shamario Lamont Kidd, aka Shamario L. Carr, )
)
Defendant-Appellant. )
)
)
Before: GRIFFIN and KETHLEDGE, Circuit Judges; THAPAR, District Judge.*
PER CURIAM. Adarus Mazio Black was convicted in separate jury trials of conspiracy to
possess with intent to distribute and to distribute cocaine and marijuana, in violation of 21 U.S.C.
§§ 841 and 846, and escape or attempted escape from federal custody, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §
751. The district court sentenced Black to consecutive prison terms of life on the conspiracy count
and twenty-four months on the escape count. Black raises several challenges to his conviction and
sentence for the drug conspiracy. For the following reasons, we affirm the district court’s judgment.
*
The Honorable Amul R. Thapar, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of
Kentucky, sitting by designation.
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Black first argues that the district court abused its discretion and violated his constitutional
rights by not holding a hearing to determine whether he was competent to stand trial. The district
court must grant a motion by a defendant or the government for a competency hearing “if there is
reasonable cause to believe that the defendant” is mentally incompetent to stand trial. 18 U.S.C.
§ 4241(a). Even absent such a motion, “a court is required to order such a hearing if the statutory
standard of ‘reasonable cause’ is satisfied.” United States v. Denkins, 367 F.3d 537, 545 (6th Cir.
2004) (citation omitted). A defendant is incompetent if he “lack[s] either a ‘sufficient present ability
to consult with his lawyer with a reasonable degree of rational understanding’ or ‘a rational as well
as factual understanding of the proceedings against him.’” United States v. Miller, 531 F.3d 340, 350
(6th Cir. 2008) (quoting Drope v. Missouri, 420 U.S. 162, 172 (1975)).
The district court granted the government’s motion for a competency determination after
Black’s escape attempt. Following a month-long competency evaluation conducted by the Bureau
of Prisons, a psychologist deemed Black competent to stand trial. Although Black’s second attorney,
Paul Curtis, informed the district court that Black had asked him to move for an independent
psychological evaluation to determine his competency, neither Black nor his attorneys ever filed such
a motion, and none of his subsequent attorneys requested a competency hearing. Under these
circumstances, Black abandoned the competency issue. See Denkins, 367 F.3d at 546 (holding that
“the district court was not obligated to press forward” when the defendant did not pursue his
incompetency argument after an evaluation deemed him competent).
Further, there was insufficient evidence of incompetence in the record triggering a due
process right to a competency hearing. See id. at 547-48. As we observed in similar circumstances,
“a defendant is not rendered incompetent to stand trial merely because he cannot get along with his
counsel or disapproves of his attorney’s performance.” Miller, 531 F.3d at 349. None of Black’s
No. 10-1017
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attorneys expressed doubt regarding his competence, the psychologist who examined Black found
that he was competent to stand trial, and the record reflects that Black, although showing signs of
paranoia, understood the proceedings and was able to participate actively in his own defense.
Notably, Black does not identify any actions, aside from his escape attempt, that should have caused
the district court to question his competency; in fact, he suggests that the government’s motion for
a competency evaluation was unwarranted and was designed to delay his trial and obtain access to
confidential information. Accordingly, the district court was not constitutionally obligated to order
sua sponte a competency hearing and committed no error by failing to do so. See id. at 349-50.
Black next argues that the district court abused its discretion and violated his Fifth and Sixth
Amendment rights by denying his newly retained attorney’s motion for a continuance. We review
this ruling for abuse of discretion. See United States v. Warshak, 631 F.3d 266, 298 (6th Cir. 2010).
The denial of a continuance motion “amounts to a constitutional violation only if there is an
unreasoning and arbitrary insistence upon expeditiousness in the face of a justifiable request for
delay.” Id. (citations and internal quotation marks omitted). Additionally, reversal is warranted only
if the defendant shows that the denial resulted in actual prejudice. Id. “Actual prejudice is
established by showing that a continuance would have made relevant witnesses available or added
something to the defense.” United States v. Crossley, 224 F.3d 847, 855 (6th Cir. 2000) (citation
and internal quotation marks omitted).
Black argues that his sixth trial attorney, who he retained approximately eight weeks before
the scheduled trial date, did not have enough time to obtain a complete case file, adequately review
the discovery materials, or interview or subpoena witnesses in preparation for trial. Black also
argues that his attorney needed more time to gather evidence in support of his allegations of
misconduct by the government and his former attorneys. Black fails, however, to identify any
No. 10-1017
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specific witnesses that should have been called at trial or otherwise demonstrate actual prejudice
arising from the denial of his continuance motion. Moreover, at the same time that Black sought to
postpone his trial, he also complained that his right to a speedy trial was being violated. Under these
circumstances, Black has failed to demonstrate that the district court acted arbitrarily by denying his
motion for a continuance or that he suffered actual prejudice as a result. See Warshak, 631 F.3d at
298-99.
Black also argues that the district court abused its discretion by denying his request for an
evidentiary hearing on the allegations of misconduct by the government and his prior attorneys that
were raised in his motions to dismiss the indictment, including his allegations that (1) the
government threatened to prosecute his friends and family members if they assisted in his defense
and filed a false complaint against one of them in order to obtain information to use against him;
(2) his prior attorneys represented government witnesses and improperly shared information with
the government; and (3) the government engaged in other “inappropriate behavior,” such as placing
cooperating individuals in jail with him to obtain incriminating statements, seizing confidential
information from his cell, giving him truth serum, and improperly subjecting him to genetic testing.
Except in rare circumstances, the remedy for prosecutorial misconduct that interferes with
a defendant’s right to the effective assistance of counsel is not dismissal of the indictment, but the
suppression of particular evidence or reversal of the conviction. See, e.g., United States v. Clark,
319 F. App’x 395, 400 (6th Cir. 2009). Absent some showing that the alleged misconduct
“substantially influenced” the grand jury’s decision to indict, pre-trial dismissal of the indictment
is not warranted. Bank of Nova Scotia v. United States, 487 U.S. 250, 256 (1988). Because Black
did not allege remotely plausible facts that would have supported dismissal of the indictment, the
district court did not err by denying his request for an evidentiary hearing. Id.; cf. United States v.
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Simpson, 226 F. App’x 556, 560 (6th Cir. 2007) (holding that, because the defendant did not allege
facts that would warrant dismissal based on vindictive prosecution, the district court was not
required to grant his request for an evidentiary hearing); cf. Williams v. Bagley, 380 F.3d 932, 977
(6th Cir. 2004) (holding that “bald assertions and conclusory allegations do not provide sufficient
ground to warrant . . . an evidentiary hearing”).
Black next argues that there was a prejudicial variance between the single conspiracy charged
in the indictment and the evidence produced at trial, and that the district court erred by denying his
request for a multiple conspiracy jury instruction. “[W]hen the evidence is such that the jury could
within reason find more than one conspiracy, the trial court should give the jury a multiple
conspiracy instruction.” United States v. Kelsor, 665 F.3d 684, 695 (6th Cir. 2011) (quoting United
States v. Warner, 690 F.2d 545, 551 (6th Cir. 1982)). “The danger such an instruction seeks to avoid
. . . ‘is the transference of guilt from defendants involved in one conspiracy to defendants in another
conspiracy, such that a defendant is convicted for a conspiracy for which he was not indicted.’” Id.
(quoting United States v. Caver, 470 F.3d 220, 246 (6th Cir. 2006)). When the evidence
demonstrates multiple conspiracies, the failure to give the instruction is prejudicial “if the error of
trying multiple conspiracies under a single indictment substantially influenced the outcome of the
trial.” Caver, 470 F.3d at 237.
Black cannot demonstrate prejudice from the district court’s failure to give a multiple
conspiracy instruction. Even if it is assumed that multiple drug conspiracies existed, the government
produced sufficient evidence establishing that Black, the sole defendant, played a central role in each
conspiracy. As in Caver, “this [is] not a case where a defendant with a relatively minor role was
forced to endure an extended trial where the bulk of the evidence did not pertain to him.” 470 F.3d
at 237. Under these circumstances, reversal is not warranted. See id.; cf. United States v. Goff, 400
No. 10-1017
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F. App’x 1, 13 (6th Cir. 2010) (holding that the defendant was not prejudiced by the failure to give
a multiple conspiracy instruction because he was the only defendant tried and was an “integral
participant” in each conspiracy, he was not surprised by the introduction of evidence of the different
conspiracies, and “the different conspiracies were clearly delineated chronologically”), cert. denied,
131 S. Ct. 1032 (2011).
Black next challenges the admission of videotaped statements made by a co-conspirator,
Chris Perez, to John Benson, an attorney and drug trafficker who was acting as confidential
informant for the government. Co-conspirator statements are admissible under Federal Rule of
Evidence 801(d)(2)(E) if the government demonstrates that: “(1) the conspiracy existed; (2) the
defendant was a member of the conspiracy; and (3) the co-conspirator made the proffered statements
in furtherance of the conspiracy.” United States v. Warman, 578 F.3d 320, 335 (6th Cir. 2009).
Black argues that the statements in the videotape constituted inadmissible hearsay because
there was no evidence that he was involved in a conspiracy with Benson, neither Benson’s
statements nor Perez’s statement were in furtherance of any conspiracy with which Black was
allegedly involved, and the statements were protected by the attorney-client privilege. But Black
called and spoke with Benson during the meeting, demonstrating that Benson was part of the
conspiracy. Moreover, Perez and Benson did speak “in furtherance” of the conspiracy because Perez
updated Benson on the conspiracy’s status: For example, Perez discussed future cocaine deals and
disclosed that Black killed someone in the drug business. See Warman, 578 F.3d at 338.
Additionally, Black fails to offer any developed argument challenging the district court’s
determination that he did not have standing to invoke the attorney-client privilege on behalf of Perez.
Accordingly, we find no error in the district court’s decision to admit Perez’s statements under Rule
801(d)(2)(E).
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Finally, Black argues that the district court erred by imposing a life sentence based on facts
that were found by the district court by a preponderance of the evidence rather than by the jury
beyond a reasonable doubt. It is well established, however, that the Sixth Amendment is not violated
by the district court’s reliance on judge-found facts to enhance a defendant’s sentence, so long as
those facts are supported by a preponderance of the evidence and the sentence imposed does not
exceed the statutory maximum. See, e.g., United States v. White, 551 F.3d 381, 384 (6th Cir. 2008)
(en banc); United States v. Sexton, 512 F.3d 326, 330 (6th Cir. 2008). Accordingly, this argument
is without merit.
For these reasons, we affirm the district court’s judgment.
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These pants are made for lounging
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Ella has to be the center of attention, as always.
The pants are a bit big but they're very comfy so I'm not going to mess with trying to alter them.
1. They look comfy - and they match your monkey!
2. Very cute! I don't think anyone can ever have too many pairs of comfy pants. Good job!
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The boots of buffalo-leather
A soldier who is afraid of nothing, troubles himself about nothing. One of this kind had received his discharge, and as he had learnt no trade and could earn nothing, he travelled about and begged alms of kind people. He had an old waterproof on his back, and a pair of riding-boots of buffalo-leather which were still left to him. One day he was walking he knew not where, straight out into the open country, and at length came to a forest. He did not know where he was, but saw sitting on the trunk of a tree, which had been cut down, a man who was well dressed and wore a green shooting-coat. The soldier shook hands with him, sat down on the grass by his side, and stretched out his legs. "I see thou hast good boots on, which are well blacked," said he to the huntsman; "but if thou hadst to travel about as I have, they would not last long. Look at mine, they are of buffalo-leather, and have been worn for a long time, but in them I can go through thick and thin." After a while the soldier got up and said, "I can stay no longer, hunger drives me onwards; but, Brother Bright-boots, where does this road lead to?" - "I don't know that myself," answered the huntsman, "I have lost my way in the forest." - "Then thou art in the same plight as I," said the soldier; "birds of a feather flock together, let us remain together, and seek our way." The huntsman smiled a little, and they walked on further and further, until night fell. "We do not get out of the forest," said the soldier, "but there in the distance I see a light shining, which will help us to something to eat." They found a stone house, knocked at the door, and an old woman opened it. "We are looking for quarters for the night," said the soldier, "and some lining for our stomachs, for mine is as empty as an old knapsack." - "You cannot stay here," answered the old woman; "this is a robber's house, and you would do wisely to get away before they come home, or you will be lost." - "It won't be so bad as that," answered the soldier, "I have not had a mouthful for two days, and whether I am murdered here or die of hunger in the forest is all the same to me. I shall go in." The huntsman would not follow, but the soldier drew him in with him by the sleeve. "Come, my dear brother, we shall not come to an end so quickly as that!" The old woman had pity on them and said, "Creep in here behind the stove, and if they leave anything, I will give it to you on the sly when they are asleep." Scarcely were they in the corner before twelve robbers came bursting in, seated themselves at the table which was already laid, and vehemently demanded some food. The old woman brought in some great dishes of roast meat, and the robbers enjoyed that thoroughly. When the smell of the food ascended the nostrils of the soldier, he said to the huntsman, "I cannot hold out any longer, I shall seat myself at the table, and eat with them." thou wilt bring us to destruction," said the huntsman, and held him back by the arm. But the soldier began to cough loudly. When the robbers heard that, they threw away their knives and forks, leapt up, and discovered the two who were behind the stove. "Aha, gentlemen, are you in the corner?" cried they, "What are you doing here? Have you been sent as spies? Wait a while, and you shall learn how to fly on a dry bough." - "But do be civil," said the soldier, "I am hungry, give me something to eat, and then you can do what you like with me." The robbers were astonished, and the captain said, "I see that thou hast no fear; well, thou shalt have some food, but after that thou must die." - "We shall see," said the soldier, and seated himself at the table, and began to cut away valiantly at the roast meat. "Brother Brightboots, come and eat," cried he to the huntsman; "thou must be as hungry as I am, and cannot have better roast meat at home," but the huntsman would not eat. The robbers looked at the soldier in astonishment, and said, "The rascal uses no ceremony." After a while he said, "I have had enough food, now get me something good to drink." The captain was in the mood to humour him in this also, and called to the old woman, "Bring a bottle out of the cellar, and mind it be of the best." The soldier drew the cork out with a loud noise, and then went with the bottle to the huntsman and said, "Pay attention, brother, and thou shalt see something that will surprise thee; I am now going to drink the health of the whole clan." Then he brandished the bottle over the heads of the robbers, and cried, "Long life to you all, but with your mouths open and your right hands lifted up," and then he drank a hearty draught. Scarcely were the words said than they all sat motionless as if made of stone, and their mouths were open and their right hands stretched up in the air. The huntsman said to the soldier, "I see that thou art acquainted with tricks of another kind, but now come and let us go home." - "Oho, my dear brother, but that would be marching away far too soon; we have conquered the enemy, and must first take the booty. Those men there are sitting fast, and are opening their mouths with astonishment, but they will not be allowed to move until I permit them. Come, eat and drink." The old woman had to bring another bottle of the best wine, and the soldier would not stir until he had eaten enough to last for three days. At last when day came, he said, "Now it is time to strike our tents, and that our march may be a short one, the old woman shall show us the nearest way to the town." When they had arrived there, he went to his old comrades, and said, "Out in the forest I have found a nest full of gallows' birds, come with me and we will take it." The soldier led them, and said to the huntsman, "Thou must go back again with me to see how they shake when we seize them by the feet." He placed the men round about the robbers, and then he took the bottle, drank a mouthful, brandished it above them, and cried, "Live again." Instantly they all regained the power of movement, but were thrown down and bound hand and foot with cords. Then the soldier ordered them to be thrown into a cart as if they had been so many sacks, and said, "Now drive them straight to prison." The huntsman, however, took one of the men aside and gave him another commission besides. "Brother Bright-boots," said the soldier, "we have safely routed the enemy and been well fed, now we will quietly walk behind them as if we were stragglers!" When they approached the town, the soldier saw a crowd of people pouring through the gate of the town who were raising loud cries of joy, and waving green boughs in the air. Then he saw that the entire body-guard was coming up. "What can this mean?" said he to the huntsman. "Dost thou not know?" he replied, "that the King has for a long time been absent from his kingdom, and that to-day he is returning, and every one is going to meet him." - "But where is the King?" said the soldier, "I do not see him." - "Here he is," answered the huntsman, "I am the King, and have announced my arrival." Then he opened his hunting-coat, and his royal garments were visible. The soldier was alarmed, and fell on his knees and begged him to forgive him for having in his ignorance treated him as an equal, and spoken to him by such a name. But the King shook hands with him, and said, "Thou art a brave soldier, and hast saved my life. Thou shalt never again be in want, I will take care of thee. And if ever thou wouldst like to eat a piece of roast meat, as good as that in the robber's house, come to the royal kitchen. But if thou wouldst drink a health, thou must first ask my permission."
勇敢的士兵，无所畏惧。 有这样一个退役士兵，他无一技之长，不能营生，只好四处流浪，靠乞讨过活。 他身披一件雨衣，足蹬一双服役时留下的牛皮靴。 一天，他正漫无目的地走着，径直穿过了开阔的田野，走进了一片森林。 他不知自己在哪里，只见一根伐倒的树上坐着个人，他穿得很好，披着件绿色猎衣。 士兵友好地和他握了握手，在他身边的草地坐下，伸直了腿。 "你的靴子做工很精细呀，"他对猎人说，"如果你像我一样到处流浪，它们很快就会磨烂的。瞧我的靴子，牛皮做的，早就穿破了，可穿着它们，我可以克服任何艰难险阻。"过了一会儿，士兵站起来说："我得走了，肚子饿得咕咕叫。靓靴兄弟，你知道这路通向哪儿吗？""我也不知道，"猎人回答说，"我在森林里迷了路。""哦，原来你和我一样遇到麻烦了，"士兵说，"同病相怜嘛！让我们在一起同舟共济，找条出路吧！"猎人笑着答应了。 他们一起往前走啊走，直到夜幕降临。 "我们还没有走出森林，"士兵说，"你看，远处有灯光，也许我们能在那弄到点吃的。"到了那儿，他发现了一个石屋，敲了敲门，一位老妇人打开了门。 "老婆婆，我们能在您这儿住一夜吗？"士兵说，"我们的肚子空如皮囊，能给我们点吃的吗？""你们不能在这儿久留，"老妇人回答说，"这可是个强盗窝，你们要是聪明的话，最好趁他们没回来前离开，不然你们连命都会丢了。""事情不会那么糟的，"士兵说，"我整整两天没吃东西了，在这儿丧命和在森林中活活饿死有什么区别？我要进来。"猎人不肯进去，士兵拽着他的袖子把他拖进了门。 "来吧，好兄弟，我们不会那么快就去见上帝的。"老妇人可怜他们说："你们躲到炉子后面去，如果有他们吃剩下东西，我会趁他们睡觉的时候偷偷拿给你们吃。"士兵和猎人刚刚在角落里坐好，十二个强盗便冲了进来，坐到已摆好的桌子旁，吼着要东西吃。
老妇人端来了大碟大碟的烤肉，强盗们尽情地享受着，大吃特吃。 士兵闻到了肉香时对猎人说："我耐不住了，我要坐到桌子旁和他们一块吃。""你会招来杀生之祸的。"猎人一边说，一边把士兵拉回去，但士兵却开始大声咳嗽。 强盗们听到了声音，扔下手中的刀叉，跳了起来，发现了躲在了炉子后的陌生人，便大叫："哈哈，先生们，你们躲在墙脚下干什么？是谁派你们来当探子的？等着瞧吧，等到了枯枝上看你们怎么飞。""请你说话客气点，"士兵说，"我饿死了，让我吃点东西，到时你们怎样处置我都行。"强盗们个个给愣住了，只听强盗头子说："看来你这小子一点不害怕，那好，就给你点吃的，吃完后你就得死。""等着瞧，'士兵说着就坐到桌子边，毫无惧色地吃起烤肉来。"靓靴兄弟，过来吃呀！ "他对猎人喊道，"你准和我一样饿坏了，快来，没有比这烤肉更好吃的了。 "猎人不肯吃。强盗们都吃惊地望着士兵说："这个无赖真不讲客气。 "过了一会儿，士兵说："我吃饱了，再给我点喝的。 "强盗头子那天心情好，满足了士兵的要求，对老妇人叫道："从地窖里拿瓶酒来，要最好的。 "士兵"砰"地一声打开酒瓶，走到猎人的跟前说："注意，兄弟，你会有意外的发现，来，为大伙的健康干杯。 "然后，他一边把酒瓶子在强盗头上挥舞，一边喊着："祝你们长命百岁！ 张开嘴，举起你们的右手。 "接着，他尽情地喝了一口。话音刚落，强盗们都像石头一样一动不动了，嘴巴张着，右手举在空中。猎人劝士兵说："我知道你还会别的把戏，可我们现在回家吧！ ""哦，亲爱的兄弟，那样我们撤得太早了，既然打了胜战，就要战利品！ 那些家伙坐得很死，张着惊讶的大嘴，没有我的允许他们是不能动的。 来，先吃饱喝足吧！ "老妇人拿来一瓶最好的酒，士兵一直吃了足够三天的东西才动身。天亮了，士兵说："该撤走了，我们问问老婆婆，让她指条到城堡的最近的路。 "
到了城里，士兵跟他的老伙伴们说："在森林里我发现了一窝强盗，跟我来，我们一起去把他们端掉。"士兵叫伙伴们把强盗包围起来，然后拿起了酒瓶，喝了一大口，在他们头上挥舞，喊道："祝你们长命百岁！"眨眼间，他们都重新获得了活动的能力，但都被摔在地上用绳子捆上了手脚。 接着士兵把强盗全像扔麻袋一样扔到了板车上，说："现在把他们押到监牢里去。"猎人把其中的一个士兵叫到一边，给了他另一个任务。
"靓靴兄弟，"士兵说，"我们幸运地抓了敌人，而且也已吃饱，现在我们只要像落伍的士兵一样跟在后面就行。"当他们快到城堡时 ，士兵看到一大群人拥到城门口，欢呼雀跃，还当空挥舞着绿色的枝条。 接着，整个禁卫军向他们走过来。 "这是怎么回事？"他惊讶地问猎人。 "你难道不知道？"猎人回答说，"国王已很长一段时间不在城堡里，他今天要回来，每个人都来迎接他。""但是国王在哪里？"猎人回答说："近在眼前！"然后他解开猎衣，露出了里面的黄袍。 士兵惊恐地跪在地上，乞求国王饶恕自己的无知，把国王当成了和自己一样的贫民百姓，竟敢那样不敬地称呼国王。 可是国王握着士兵的手说："你是名勇士，我会照顾你，如果你什么时候想吃在强盗那儿吃过的烤肉，尽管到我的御膳房来，不过，若要喝祝寿酒，可得证得我的同意。"
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Radar Watches Hawaii Volcano 'Breathing'
Hawaii's Kilauea volcano breathes fire. Day by day, the volcano's surface subtly swells and deflates as magma courses through deep channels and fissures.
At the very top of Kilauea sits Halema'uma'u crater and its churning, steaming lava lake. Since the lava vent burst open in 2008, scientists at the Hawaii Volcano Observatory have closely monitored its oscillations. Their techniques include recording earthquakes, ground deformation and gas emissions, as well as analyzing rocks tossed out of the lake by small explosions.
Now, there's a new weapon in the arsenal. By combining two types of highly detailed radar data, scientists can track surface-elevation changes at Kilauea volcano to less than a half-inch (1 centimeter) resolution, a new study shows. The findings were published online March 1 in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.
The study reveals a link between subsidence, or sinking of the surface, near the lava lake and a collapse of the vent walls. When the wall rocks tumble onto the searing-hot lava, explosions toss rocks and lava out of the vent and create loud roars. The flying rocks are hazardous to scientists working in the area and can damage monitoring equipment, said Nicole Richter, a graduate student at Friedrich-Schiller-University in Germany.
"These eruptions are small, but they are still hazardous to people," she told OurAmazingPlanet.
Looking at subsidence within 328 feet (100 meters) of the lava lake, Richter and her colleagues saw the vent walls collapse more often when the crater was subsiding. The vent walls were more stable when subsidence rates were lower.
The results come from a combination of synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) from Germany's TerraSAR satellite and lidar topography of the volcano. Richter used the data to create interferograms, images that combine two or more pictures of the same place to make precise measurements.
InSAR could let scientists monitor Halema'uma'u crater for future widening and vent collapses, without exposing them to the hazardous, sputtering bursts and poisonous gas emitted from the active lava lake, researchers said.
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One hectare
How many square meters are one hectare?
h = 10000 m2
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Love, Hope & Life
Hope can make you feel good,
How it works you just can't say;
Just be aware that,
It may never go the right way.
Love and life are really unfair,
May show you heaven and the next day hell;
When, the tables turn around,
Is something you can never tell.
People walk in, people walk out,
We cannot control any of it;
Each one chooses their own path,
They decide where they want to fit.
Love is a compromise,
That both need to understand;
Need to stand by each other,
To walk together hand in hand.
Nothing's black or white,
Every thing is a shade of gray;
Things may get better,
Again, they never may.
Addiction kills,
It can be a 'what' or a 'who';
Some people are like a drug,
Without them, you just can't do.
If you don't have what you want,
If you know something you can't get;
Learn to live without it,
Not necessary that you need to forget.
At the end of the day,
Everyone is gonna hurt you;
You just have to find the ones,
Who are worth getting hurt for.
1. i'm pretty sure you have found the people 'Who are worth getting hurt for'.
and as always, nice write!
2. Thanks Sandeep..
I found a few :)
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dingbat (n.)
1838, American English, apparently originally the name of some kind of alcoholic drink, of unknown origin. It has joined that class of words (such as dingus, doohickey, gadget, gizmo, thingumabob) which are conjured up to supply names for items whose proper names are unknown or not recollected. Used at various periods for "money," "a professional tramp," "a muffin," "male genitalia," "a Chinese," "an Italian," "a woman who is neither your sister nor your mother," and "a foolish person in authority." Popularized in sense of "foolish person" by U.S. TV show "All in the Family" (1971-79), though this usage dates from 1905. In typography, by 1912 as a printer's term for ornament used in headline or with illustrations.
About 10:30 o'clock there was a snap of breaking metal, and the machine was stopped. It was discovered that the gilderfluke had come into contact with the dudad which operates the dingus on the diaphason, thereby letting the Johnson bar oscillate as it were between Alpha and Omega, thus preventing the dingbat from percolating the perihelion of the gazabo, and causing the dofunny on the parallelogram to drop into oblivion. [from an Illinois newspaper's account of a production delay caused by a Linotype machine breakdown, in "Inland Printer," Chicago, February, 1903]
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Prop 8: How Mormons See It (Wrong!)
Religion sucks. Mormons suck more than most. And look how they write the date? So European!
7 November 2008
The Church issued the following statement today:
Um, fuck you. Here is a little more...
And fuck them a little more. They don't condone hostility? Riiiight. Why do we allow religious institutions to fund anything public? They should not be allowed. Religion Poisons Everything. I can't wait for Prop 8 to get shot down. And for anyone who thinks marriage should be between a man and a woman, what do you suggest I tell my students with 2 moms or 2 dads? Wait, I know, Fuck You.
Update: I was going back and reflecting on students I have had in my class who come from families with same-sex parents. Just the last 2 years (yes, I have had many students from same-sex families), these kids have been far above--far, far, far above--average in terms of academic ability, social consciousness, and societal awareness. They show empathy, a desire to learn, decorum, consideration, and kindness. They are humble, helpful, and a friend to those who need one. They are also clearly the result, at least in part (in large part, IMHO), of their same-sex parents. They are, in short, our future. The future looks bright, don't it?
Update II: It'll be a good day when I can just type the word parents.
Update III: About the last sentence in the second LDS blockquote--"blah blah constitutional rights of churches"--how long do they think those rights will last? Maybe they better play ball and stay the fuck out of peoples personal lives and the country's elections!
Public School And Special Needs Students
Do you have a child with special needs? If you do, you may want to think about how your child will be served in a public school setting. Here are the caveats:
First, public schools (in California at least) were mandated by law to serve these kids. Not that passing the law was a bad idea, but abiding it is not easy. Remember Prohibition?
Second, depending on the severity of your child's needs, they are likely to be considered an item in a schedule rather than a child. See, when figuring out how to share resources, schools look at severity. If your child has a physical limitation, they are likely to get an aid, because a physical limitation is easy to see, easy to deal with, and easy to show compliance. But, if your child has a different issue, like, say, mild autism (they can communicate, serve themselves food, be sweet) they will likely be ignored, or passed from one aid to another (not the aid's fault). Resource teachers who coordinate aid schedules are under the gun, short-staffed, and often spread a bit thin. That's no excuse, however, for the shortfalls.
Third, money is scant, and that makes many of the problems intractable.
Fourth, when schools are charged with serving a student with certain issues, paperwork and meetings are mandatory. They are required for compliance. Rarely are the meetings to help the child--they are CYA sessions for the administrators and specialists (often to the specialist's chagrin). Teachers are given short shrift at these meetings, even though WE are the ones who will have 99% of the responsibility for your child, and we will get 99% of the credit, or blame, for any outcome regardless the percentage of responsibility the resource folks SHOULD have.
Now, I am not saying that you should not consider public school for your child with special needs. If you are available to be there to be your child's aid, things should be okay. But, if you are like most parents, and have a job, you won't be able to do that. And considering the shuiffling around of your child from one specialist to another, or from one aid to another, or from one situation with a grownup who doesn't know your child to another, your child will not get what s/he deserves. Okay, maybe I am saying you shouldn't consider public school for your child.
This issue looms very large in society, and again, schools have been given the mandate to deal with it. We can't. It's that simple.
Advocate for your child. Make your demands to the PRINCIPAL, and require the principal follow-up with you. The teacher has little to say about how your child will be served. Most teachers are heartbroken by their special-needs kids because we see them flounder and there is so little we can do for them. We do all we can while not ignoring the other 20 kids in our class.
The next time you have an IEP (or whatever letters your district uses to call these mettings) bring a picture of your child. Lay that picture on the table and remind everyone why you all are there. When they decide to read you their report(s), you know, the one(s) they just gave you a copy of, remind them you can read, and you would rather have gotten the report prior to the meeting so when you were at the meeting you could discuss the report, not have it reported!
Come prepared with questions; who is with my child at lunch; who is with my child on the yard; do these people change willy-nilly, or is there a schedule; who is in charge of documenting progress or lack of it; what are my rights; what is the reality; why isn't the classroom teacher in this meeting; why is the principal talking--she doesn't know my kid; how will this meeting help; who will this meeting help; does my kid eat his lunch; where is he right now; why do you sound like a robot; why is the resource room always empty and the resource teacher on lunch duty; you get the picture.
I hope this was helpful, enlightening, and pisses you off!
Update: An enlightening anecdote here.
All Day Long I'd Bitty-Bitty Bum....
h/t BT
Very Cool Election Maps
Strange Maps has a link to some cool election maps, skewed to show actual prominence by state, county, electoral college, and more. I love this stuff! Here is Obamaland by county:
Education Change?
KDeRosa is dubious about education change under Obama. This is not an uncommon view. It's strange that such hope can be so easily halted just by knowing that the education industry is a complete mess, and not even our dream President-elect can do much about it. I am afraid I agree with the post from D-Ed Reckoning:
Here is my prediction for education:
Rahmbo Is Chief Of Staff
Rahm Emanuel was a soldier in the Israeli army; that's how he lost that fingertip. He is considered one of the toughest and smartest. I think it's the smart that Obama wants. And apparently he has a dirty mouth. Fuckin' A!
Teachers And Time
Eduwonk has an interesting piece up. What happens if you are late to work, or miss work all together? Do 20 children get left alone with no supervision? Well, for a teacher, that's what often happens. This is a problem.
Time Off!
Well, a lot of teachers got Tuesday off as schools are increasingly closing on election day to make it easier to operate as polling places. But, as Ed Week reports here and here, teacher absenteeism is a larger issue than that. I get the idea that different policies can influence consumption of sick leave and so forth and those are issues worth considering. Still, aren’t there larger issue here?
Teachers get very frustrated that they end up spending their Saturdays doing the things that other workers get to do during the week. They can’t take lunches with friends for 9 or 10 months of the year. It’s hard to take a morning, or an afternoon, for personal issue. And even trips to the doctor become a logistical hassle.
Of course, when you’re thinking about schools there is a basic custodial function that matters. At a lot of jobs if you show up late it’s not that big of a deal. If you’re a first-grade teacher, it’s a big deal…
Yet shouldn’t we be having a bigger conversation about how to organize schools so that teachers have more discretionary time both for personal issues but also to collaborate together and so forth around the work? We could address some lifestyle issues that matter while also addressing the larger absenteeism issue through creative use of schedules and other ideas in that vein. Someone has to be with the kids at all times, but we can be a lot more creative about who that person is in a way that makes schools a more attractive place to work for the key members of our labor force — teachers. One school I’m aware of uses a concierge to help teachers with basic life maintenance issues to free up their time. Sounds gratuitous but is actually a really smart way to look after your people and one that is not uncommon in some other fields. Other places are experimenting with schedules.
Coupled with sensible policies on leave seems we need a lot more ideas in that spirit.
My district does not take off election day. But I think it is a great idea. In fact, why not make election day a federal holiday (except for the poll workers, the press, and the other essentials)?
Day One
For rory; the ultimate construction paper project.
Robert Gibbs: Press Secretary-Elect
Remember this guy? He's the one that ripped Sean Hannity a new one in front of everybody. Well, he will be the press secretary for Obama. Yummy!
h/t Sully
Good News For Prop 8 Opponents?
Yes We Did
From slideshow
Proposition 8 passed here in California. It is just horrible.
Obama ascends. When will we?
Here are the only predictions I'm willing to make:
Secretary of Defense: Colin Powell
Secretary of Energy: The Terminator
Secretary of Education: Caroline Kennedy
Chief of Staff: Rahm Emanuel (this one's in the bag; and he's Israeli!)
What are your predictions for these or the rest of the cabinet? I'll check in the morning.
And to all, a very good night.
George Can Now Rest Easy(er)
President -Elect Obama
Congratulations, America.
Update: A couple thoughts from swimming freestyle:
1. If Obama gets above 50.1 percent, it will be the highest percentage for a Democratic nominee since Lyndon Johnson in 1964.
2. If Obama surpasses 53.4 percent nationally, he will post the highest popular vote share for any nonincumbent candidate of either party since 1952 -- and if he can somehow push that figure over 55.2 percent, he will be able to boast the highest share for a nonincumbent president since 1932.
3. Unless he finishes second, or somehow the national turnout dips under 125 million (both campaigns expect at least 130 million, with Obama's team projecting a number still higher than that), Obama will receive more votes for president than any candidate in presidential history.
4. Among winning candidates, and presuming record turnout rates by African-Americans and projected performance rates among and expected growth of the Hispanic vote, Obama should win a higher share of nonwhite votes than any major-party candidate (winner or loser) in history.
Update II: Obama's acceptance speech...
6:53, west coast. It's over. Obama won. Plop plop, fizz fizz, Oh what a relief it is!
I Will Not Blog Until Morning
I'm too busy drinking!
Good Night, And Good Luck
On this historic eve, I go to bed to try to sleep, in California, full of hope, and anxiety. Virginia, Pennsylvania, Florida, make your country proud.
I remember feeling a little like this in 1992. A little. This is so much more important, in so many ways, for so many reasons.
Need I say more?
Andrew Sullivan Endorses Obama-Again
The whole, exhaustive, complete, long, terrifying, brilliant thing here. Snippet:
Sully, I want to thank you for your tireless work this campaign, and the clarity, suspicion, and honesty with which you wrote these past many months. Good show!
Madelyn Dunham (Barack's Toot): R.I.P.
A very sad day for our next (hopefully) President:
Statement from Barack Obama and Maya Soetoro-Ng on the Death of Their Grandmother
Update: Okay, now that I've posted it, and sat with it a couple minutes, I realize just how struck I am. I have known loss. More than my share it seems. I am also a very stoic guy and don't emote so much. I have been surfing and reading all that the blogosphere has to say about this loss, and the woman, and the man she raised. I keep wiping tears from my face. She is owed a debt of gratitude for raising Barack to be the kind of man he is, and the kind of man he will be when he is President.
Thank you Mrs. Dunham. If I believed in ghosts, I would hope that you are able to watch the fruit of your labor ascend, and bring us with him.
Mr. Fish Speaks For Me
Teary-Eyed Ghosts
Prop 8: Terminate It!
Shhhhhhhh! Obama Will Win Big, But Shhhhhhhhh!
Polls by themselves are dubious. The aggregate polls we have all been seeing this election are far less dubious due to the sheer number and consistency. But they seem to be tightening. I say, not really. Here's why:
CELL PHONES. Yes. Cell phones are not included in many polls. Who uses cell phones as their only phone? Young folks. Who are young folks going to be voting for? Obama. None of the polls take this into account (well, some do, and they predict a bigger win for Obama, like I do).
So, when the pollsters call, they are not calling cell phones, they are calling land lines. The polls are simply leaving out a bunch of data. It's not their fault, it's just true.
So, turn off you cell phone, don't answer any pollster's questions, and watch Obama win bigger than you thought, like I predicted a few days ago.
John Dean on Republican Rule: Bad Idea, America!
John "There's a cancer growing on the presidency" Dean is a smart guy. He worked for Nixon, remember (he needed a job)? He says Republican rule hasn't just been bad, it has been, and IS, dangerous.
In this column, I will be more pointed on this subject than I have ever been, while also repeating a few key facts that I have raised earlier - because Election Day 2008 now provides the only clear remedy for the ills of Republican rule.
You can read the whole thing after expansion...
Friday, Oct. 31, 2008
Click here to find out more!
The Republican Approach to Government: Authoritarian Rule
The McCain/Palin Ticket Perfectly Fits the Authoritarian Conservative Mold
* dominating
* opposes equality
* desirous of personal power
* amoral
* intimidating and bullying
* faintly hedonistic
* vengeful
* pitiless
* exploitive
* manipulative
* dishonest
* cheats to win
* highly prejudiced (racist, sexist, homophobic
* mean-spirited
* militant
* nationalistic
* tells others what they want to hear
* takes advantage of "suckers"
* specializes in creating false images to sell self
* may or may not be religious
* usually politically and economically conservative/Republican
Incidentally, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney also can be described by these well-defined and typical traits - which is why a McCain presidency is likely to be nearly identical to a Bush presidency.
* submissive to authority
* aggressive on behalf of authority
* highly conventional in their behavior
* highly religious
* possessing moderate to little education
* trusting of untrustworthy authorities
* mean-spirited
* narrow-minded
* intolerant
* bullying
* zealous
* dogmatic
* uncritical toward chosen authority
* hypocritical
* inconsistent and contradictory
* prone to panic easily
* highly self-righteous
* moralistic
* strict disciplinarians
* severely punitive
* demanding loyalty and returning it
* possessing little self-awareness
* usually politically and economically conservative/Republican
The Problem with Electing Authoritarian Conservatives
Sunday Cartoon Fun
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Film Review: “Ben is Back”
Starring: Lucas Hedges, Julia Roberts and Kathryn Newton
Directed By: Peter Hedges
Rated: R
Running Time: 103 minutes
LD Entertainment
“Ben is Back” starts out well-intentioned enough, but by the end it comes off as a hyper-exploitive freak out. The movie, a day in the life of the Burns’ family, tackles the dire issue of opioids from several different angles. Sometimes it tackles it in very realistic terms, specifically the pain and awkwardness it can create for families in its wake. However, it predominantly tackles it like a daytime soap opera, with the gauche touch of those 80’s drug PSAs.
Ben (Hedges) has unexpectedly returned home on Christmas Eve. His younger siblings, who have no memory of the terrifying nights he put his family through, are happy to see him; His sister and mother not so much. Holly (Roberts), Ben’s mom, immediately goes to work hiding drugs that could trigger her son’s addiction, as well as jewelry and other sellable knick knacks, just in case he’s already relapsed. It’s in these opening moments that the film is emotionally riveting by not holding back on any of its emotional gut punches. Then it starts going off the rails when Holly confronts Ben’s old doctor at the mall and tells him that she hopes he rots in Hell. Merry Christmas from the Burns family!
To dive into the specifics of why “Ben is Back” continues to fall off the wagon, and hard, would be to ruin the film’s second act, which feels more like another movie with the same actors was flipped on in the projector booth. What should have been a harrowing story about addiction, becomes an even more over-the-top “August: Osage County,” involving drugs and crime. There are also several moments where I can just hear Nancy Reagan bemoaning the horrors of addiction and paralyzing viewers with fear that we too can suffer every feasible scenario from just one night of drug use.
It’s not that the things that happen to and around Ben, haven’t happened before or could happen to an addict and their families, but it’s the frequency, severity, and occurrence of which it happens in “Ben is Back” that’s laughable. I half expected Walter White of “Breaking Bad” to pop-up and tell Ben to stay out of his territory. That’s how comically bad it gets. Because of the dire subject matter though, it takes a veteran actor or two to wring out any semblance of seriousness in the script.
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Tuesday, 29 September 2009
How Many Deaths Will Be Too Many...?
The HPV vaccine is being administered to schoolgirls in England right now.
Quite apart from the moral issues involved (though I feel strongly about these too) I think that the vaccination programme has been rushed through.
In the US, the vaccine, called Gardasil, has been associated with some adverse reactions - the Center for Disease Control & Prevention reports a rate of approximately 0.06%.
93% of these adverse reactions were what the CDC terms "non-serious" - that is, anything other than hospitalization, death, permanent disability, and life-threatening illness. Most of the adverse reactions were fainting, pain and swelling at the injection site (the arm), headache, nausea and fever.
There have been 43 reports of death among women receiving Gardasil. This was the official figure in the US up to June 2009. The authorities say that there is no evidence to suggest that these deaths were actually due to the vaccine...
There is no evidence to say that they were not due to the vaccine, either.
And now there has been a death of a schoolgirl in England following her vaccination with Cervarix, the vaccine chosen for use in the UK, though the post-mortem has yet to be carried out, so there isn't any evidence to prove that the vaccine was responsible.
Cervarix isn't licensed for use in the US. I haven't found out why. Speculation as to why the UK chose Cervarix over Gardasil suggests that it was due to financial considerations.
The figures quoted by the BBC (4,657 reported adverse reactions out of 1.4 million doses) suggest that the rate of adverse reactions for Cervarix is higher than that for Gardasil: 0.3%.
How much warped thinking is going on here, and why hasn't more been made of this in the media? They were quick enough to start screaming about swine flu.
Now, I am a scientist. I know that there is no such thing as a treatment without side effects. One has to weigh up the risks against the benefits. But this vaccine is being given because it reduces the risk of cervical cancer: it doesn't eliminate the chance of getting cervical cancer. Gardasil protects against 2 strains of the Human Papilloma Virus which cause around 70% of cervical cancers. The use of the cervical smear screening programme at 3 year intervals, on the other hand, helps to pick up 84% of changes which would, if untreated, lead to cervical cancer.
In addition, giving the vaccine in school is, I think, a big mistake. The girls at my school were been given their injection and sent straight back to class. None of the teachers were given any advice on what sort of adverse reactions to expect: and several girls reported headaches, nausea, soreness in their arms and dizzy spells - more so than would be expected compared to the BCG vaccinations, for example.
No doubt the post-mortem on the schoolgirl in Coventry will show that she had some underlying medical problem which predisposed her to an adverse reaction. I'm sure that is how it will be explained. But no-one in school has been advised of any medical problems which would constitute contra-indications for the vaccine. I'd be very surprised to hear that parents were told of specific risk factors.
In the meantime, I fear that there will be more deaths before anyone takes action.
Lazy Disciple said...
You seem to be criticizing the circumstances, or if you will, the way in which the vaccine is being administered.
If the issues you raise were addressed adequately, how would you feel?
Mac McLernon said...
LD, I said in the post that I had problems with the moral issues underpinning the vaccination programme. However, this post is concentrating on the practicalities, given that one girl has just died here. I have posted before on this issue.
Seraphic Spouse said...
Why, o why, are we assuming that teenage girls are at such a risk for HPV? Why not tell them--HEY! Having underaged sex puts you at a HUGE risk for HPV! You know why there are laws against having underage sex? It's because your body and mind aren't really ready for sex until you're OLDER.
And this is something we need to tell boys, too. HEY, guess what! You see that 16 year old girl? You think she's hot, eh? Did you know that if she starts having sex too young, she could get HPV and even die of cervical cancer? Do you care about that girl at all? You do? Great, don't try to trick her sex into sex with you then.
Why doesn't the government come up with a program to convince teenagers to put off sex until 19? Of course, as Catholic we would prefer it if teenagers put off sex until they were grown-up and married. But if the government wants to do something effective to prevent teen pregnancy, teen STDs and cervical cancer, maybe getting across the idea that the best, most responsible, safest thing is to delay sex until 19. Or 20.
gemoftheocean said...
I think it very wrong for the government to require girls to recieve this by the government.
People should weigh the risks of taking the vaccine against not taking,.
As to why the US chose one over the other -- our FDA approval process tends to be much more stringent than in the UK. For instance there was a perscription given to women in the UK that caused a lot of deformed babies. The FDA hadn't approved it here, nd the woman who'd ended up having deformed babies from it had gotten their drugs overseas. Irritatingly the name of the drug is escaping me now.
However, I really don't see a moral problem, per se, if one choses to take this. Simply because one can't guarantee that one won't be raped, or have a husband that isn't exactly 100% faithful. So simply from that perspective I see no reason why a woman should have to suffer should a husband be alley catting around.
George said...
When our Catholic Secondary School decided to start up this HPV vaccination programme in our school we parents received a letter brought home by our girls which had to be signed and returned 1/ in the event that we did wish our child to be vaccinated with all the usual disclaimers and caveats, and 2/ in the event that we did not want our child vaccinated with reasons why.
Well my wife and I stated that we did NOT want our child vaccinated and attached our reasons in the form of three photocopied articles on the dangers, nasty side effects and deaths caused in the States by the Gardasil vaccine.
No-one could say for sure at the time that the UK use of Cervarix would be any different to the experience of Gardasil in the States - yet they went ahead anyway and vaccinated the first 'batch' of girls (except ours and two others).
Now that a death has occurred in the UK the old 'knee-jerk' reaction comes into play! Too late for that poor girl and her family.
In light of this tragedy our school has stopped the vaccination programme as of immediate effect - the first 'batch' of girls were to be jabbed today!
The pernicious ramifications of our hedonistic culture, our celebration of promiscuity, pornography and all kinds of dysfunctional anti-life and anti-family behaviour, are coming home to roost.
Galatians 6:7 comes to mind - "Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap".
Schools are a forum for teaching and forming our children into the upright young men and women that will contribute to and maintain a good and just society. Schools are not 'laboratories' and our children are not 'lab rats' for Governments and NHS to tinker with and experiment on with their 'latest' pharmaceutical inventions. That's why I've called the vaccinations being given in 'batches', no doubt each batch is marked up and the results are followed closely over the coming years (I've a scientific background too with a degree in biological sciences - that's how we ran our experiments!).
Time to reflect on the fact that we are selling our children cheap. Out with the promiscuous behaviour, sex-ed, condomania and the mad TV and media circus which accompanies and reinforces this deadly behaviour and a voice please for a return to sanity, morality and human dignity.
Elizabeth said...
Now please correct me if I am wrong but I have just been told that you need your child vaccinated against MMR if they are to be accepted by primary schools.
No MMR, the more difficult it will be to get a place????
Is autism a requirement to?.
What are they putting into the vaccines that every child must be jabbed with one thing or another??
Conspiracy theory here I come!!
Elizabeth said...
Did I say conspiracy theory - Hey Mac have a look at this
I know the powers that be will deny it and associate it to crop circles and aliens, but it makes interesting reading and listening.
Hilary Jane Margaret White said...
The answer to the puzzle is money. Huge huge huuuuge amounts of money have been paid out to see that the product gets to the customers.
Simon Platt said...
One aspect of this story which particularly offended me was the alacrity with which those responsible for the vaccination programme declared that this unfortunate girl's death was nothing to do with the vaccine. Something along the lines of "no-one else has died".
There is no possible way they could have known. Young girls do die very suddenly - sometimes. And I don't know what the likelihood would be of a girl dying this way coincidentally within hours of receiving this vaccine, but I'm prepared to stick my neck out and suggest that the likelihood of this happening just once over a period of many years is so small that it is grossly irresponsible and downright dishonest to assume coincidence in this case.
The result: the people responsible lose all credibility in my eyes. They will tell us that the post mortem shows that the death was a coincidence; I will say "I don't believe you. I don't trust you. I will not believe you in the future".
Rita said...
Where I work, I can think of two girls who were opted out of the school vaccination because their fathers (both doctors) had made sure they had the Gardasil jab.
There was a bit of "Oh yea and we won't get genital warts either" from the pair of them.
Yeuch. The whole thing stinks and one feels quite ashamed of being in a profession that is allowing this to happen to our young girls. More enforced sexualisation of young people who really are far more innocent and child like than we can ever imagine.
George said...
And within a couple of days we have this from our medical 'experts' trying desperately to play down and paper over this tragedy:
"A girl who was vaccinated against cervical cancer died from a malignant tumour of the chest and not from a reaction to the jab, it has emerged.
Deputy coroner for Coventry Louise Hunt said the vaccine was not thought to have been a contributing factor.
A pathologist said her undiagnosed condition was "so severe that death could have arisen at any point".
To which I say (using Simon Platt's very apt words) - "I don't believe you. I don't trust you. I will not believe you in the future".
Surely to goodness such a 'severe malignant imminent killer of a chest tumour' would have triggered at least a little bit of pain as it was growing in young Natalie, who would have been whisked off to the GP, followed by tests in the hospital etc... there is simply no way that this alleged tumour would not have been picked up!
There is a real 'smell' in the air. Not content with jabbing our kids with HPV vaccine they are now starting to jab them with Swine Flu vaccine. What's in these vaccines that government wants ALL our kids to be so fully 'immunised'?
Catholic Mom of 10 said...
NONE of my 8 daughters will be having the filthy vaccine! Sorry! Have notified the school & health authority & they've assured me that they won't take the girls requests over mine as mother..not that they want 3 jabs anyway!
George said...
Dear Catholic Mom of 10, isn't it just soooo reassuring to know that the School and Government Health Authority have 'assured you' that they will not violate your rights as Parent and No 1 Educator of your children.
This is such a slimy response by people who want to usurp your rights over your children at any opportunity! I remember the Headmaster of a Catholic Primary School whom we challenged on his insistence to shove explicit sex education in front of our children say that "these are MY children and I do what is best for them!"
Needless to say we were out of there with our children like a shot!
You can't trust anyone out there in the 'system'. If you are parents I would strongly suggest you stay well tuned-in to what's going on in your schools and CHALLENGE the system if you feel things are not as they should be.
If your child is coming home telling you that in RE today they were being taught Islamic chants - TAKE YOUR HEADTEACHER TO THE CLEANERS!!! If they come home telling you that the school nurse was in for a whole lesson and told them all about the fact that you don't need a man to have a baby, you just squirt some 'cream' into your 'body' and can have babies like that! Yes this actually happened to my daughter in Yr 5 Catholic primary school! We challenged the Head who was 'very very sorry that this event happened in the school', Fine apology accepted but damage was done and it took a lot of firefighting to damp down and put out those 'flames from hell'.
Mac there's a whole host of scientifically oriented issues out there affecting our children from 'dodgy unneccessary vaccines' to the very dangerous 'one sided one argument no experimental, rational or reasoned challenge to the government approved rubber stamped politically correct way' that the all important subject of Science is taught these days!
As a Scientist yourself perhaps you can pick up on these issues and give us your view of what's going on and where and whom to challenge? Hope you're feeling better and God Bless.
George said...
More horror on this HPV vaccine issue:
"October 6, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - An 18 year-old U.K. girl has suffered severe brain damage from seizures that began after receiving the vaccination Cervarix.
Stacey Jones, 18, of Bilston in the West Midlands of England, began to have seizures days after receiving the first injection. The fits eventually caused such severe brain injury that she had to be admitted to a rehabilitation unit to relearn simple tasks.
Stacey's mother, Julie Jones, believes that the vaccine Cervarix is unsafe and caused the swelling in the brain that has been diagnosed as the cause of Stacy's neurological problems".
I can just see the Local Health Authority writing up their reponse, something along the lines of 'while we deeply regret this incident and sympathise with the family there is no evidence to suggest that Cervarix vaccine was responsible for this incident, only tests will show'.... and this will be followed by 'there was such a massive tumour in poor Stacey's brain that it could have triggererd this brain damage at any time'.
To which I say "I don't believe you, I don't trust you, I won't believe you in the future".
Mac - you're the Scientist - what the heck is going on. What are they doing to our children and why????
George said...
Oh, this really is a beaut! From the horses mouth so to speak:
"Dr. Diane Harper, who helped develop the drug (Cervarix), has claimed in an interview with the Sunday Express that the drug is being "over marketed" and that there could be serious side effects. The risks of taking the vaccination, according to her, could be worse than the risk of developing the cancer the vaccine helps prevent. She also claimed that the drug would do nothing to lower rates of cervical cancer".
I'm speechless but very angry. Why? Because my young teenage girls are in the firing line and when we as parents object to these vaccinations and sex education classes etc... we are told BY THE TEACHERS AT THE CATHOLIC SCHOOLS that we are 'irresponsible'!
This is deeply upsetting.....
George said...
Oh my Good Lord - a little fishing around on the Internet has come up with the Vaccine Awareness Network (VAN for short).
This is just a small snippet from their incredibly informative but equally scary website:
"WHO Lauches Global Mandatory Swine Flu H1N1 Vaccination Programme
The World Health Organization has issued a binding ‘recommendation’ to all member countries requiring them to institute mandatory vaccination programs. Under an existing multilateral agreement this formally invokes each state’s pandemic plan and puts coordination under control of WHO. For some European states the pandemic plan includes setting aside government as normal and ruling the country by a special council under control of the EU and WHO. France has already announced that it will effect a move to military rule beginning in September.
The global pandemic vaccination program will begin somewhere around the end of September and last about two months. Many countries are in the process of acquiring from Baxter, Novartis, GlaxoSmithKline and other pharmaceutical companies enough doses of vaccine to vaccinate their entire population twice. They remain quiet about mandatory vaccination, simply saying they will make vaccination ‘available’ to all on a priority basis. But Greece and Switzerland have already announced that their programs will be mandatory and enforced by the military. There are unconfirmed reports that Norway and Israel have done the same. The United States is preparing for military ‘assisted’ mandatory vaccination but has not explicitly declared its intentions to the public.
Source: Columbia Valley News, 14 August 2009."
Military Rule????? Police State??? Jailed if you do not have a vaccination?? Are we at war with some One World Government????
I suggest anyone reading this does their own serious searchying and finds out what is going on in their 'back yard'.
PS - remember folks - "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you"!
God Bless.
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Hello Neighbor Review
Amy Morton / 07 Oct 2020
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Hello Neighbor is an extremely strange phenomenon. In the alpha and beta stages, positioning itself as an extremely ambitious cartoon horror, really did everything to make the player scared. But the game itself ended up on the release was this very neighbor to some of the official art - buried himself with his shovel.
Storyline: 3/5
Strange looking neighbor is doing some strange bad things in his house.
Otherwise, the screams wouldn't be heard from behind the door of his house. The main character - let it be a little boy at the beginning of the game now - keeps up with the active events in time and has the luck to notice through a window conveniently located right in front of him the door closed on the key lock in this plot. This is where it all began.
Coincidences are enough - during a walk around the city, the player notices announcements of a missing couple of children, the houses around are suspiciously quiet and empty, and among the active area for some time will be only the player's house and the house of an unfortunate neighbor.
Game Plan: 4/5
It will not be possible to turn off the track - the main character strongly wants to know what is going on in this house. And around this point, one of the weaknesses of Hello Neighbor is revealed. Although, no, it is not even a weakness. This is a white spot of the gameplay, around which the gamer will be forced to drive for hours, trying to find a way to move on the plot and at least somehow to stop the endless chain "caught in the eyes of a neighbor - revived - scoured a piece of the room - caught in the eyes of a neighbor - revived"... And this white spot is the local game logic.
Quizzes Everywhere: 4/5
Only the door in front of the window is successfully located here at the beginning - later, you can forget about convenience. The fact that Hello Neighbor sets the player creative tasks - but in no way says how exactly they should be done.
In words, everything seems to be clear (although there are still questions about why you should do it all for the sake of one door), but in the game itself, it's far from obvious and simple. And all would be good, and these tasks would be a good way to stretch the curves, if the game did not position itself, as horror.
That's what knocks down all the excitement of Hello Neighbor - a game that promises us a smart, self-learning artificial intelligence that reacts to the player's actions, in short, almost like in Alien Isolation.
Conclusion: 4/5
Hello Neighbor revolves around its plot and solving puzzles. That's why it's worth mentioning - if you like unpredictable stories with lots of theories and speculations, it's better to try Hello Neighbor, it has its share of movement and dynamics. Behind a strange game logic, just like a painted screen, hides the rest of the roughness. For example, the fact that once caught by a neighbor, you do not lose a single piece of your passage.
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Focus On The Family: Boyfriend Must Confront Controlling Mom
Q: I have been dating my boyfriend for almost a year, and our relationship is going very well. The issue is with his mom. She is very controlling; itís ďher way or the highway.Ē Weíve talked about getting married in the future, and we donít want her controlling our marriage. How can we confront her in a loving way?
Jim: Youíre absolutely correct. You donít want your mother-in-law controlling your marriage! And while it might be tempting to give her the benefit of the doubt and believe that sheíll back off once you actually tie the knot, based on what youíve described, that doesnít seem likely.
Our counseling team has dealt with this question in the past and suggests that it is your boyfriendís responsibility to take the lead on this issue. If heís afraid to confront her or simply doesnít want to rock the boat, we suggest that you make a date with him and then patiently explain that you can no longer tolerate his momís attempts to control your relationship. Then work on setting some firm boundaries for her.
Once youíre on the same page, the two of you should sit down with his mom and share your concerns. Your boyfriend should take the lead in this conversation. He should make it clear -- as lovingly and gently as possible -- that you are adults and that you expect to be treated as such. Hopefully, she will see the error of her ways and learn to loosen up a bit.
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As a part of this process, you might also want to read ďBoundariesĒ (Zondervan, 2002), an excellent book by Dr. Henry Cloud and Dr. John Townsend. It contains a wealth of helpful material for setting healthy boundaries in a variety of relationships.
Q: My husband left me six months ago. He said he just couldnít be married any longer. I have tried many times to reconcile with him, but he is unwilling to go to counseling or to even try to work on the marriage. I donít want to get a divorce. I am willing to try anything to rebuild our marriage. Do you know of any programs or resources that would help us?
Dr. Greg Smalley, executive director of Marriage and Family Formation: Iím very sorry to learn of the difficult state of your marriage. There are programs that can help, such as intensive couplesí counseling, but your husband needs to be willing to attend. Until heís open to doing so, and until he desires to work on the marriage, your options are limited. If youíve been continuously urging him to attend counseling for the past six months or more, itís time to give him some space. Just a little bit of breathing room may help him make the decision for himself. You canít make it for him.
In the meantime, consider working on your own heart. I donít know the details of your separation, but in general, when a separation or divorce occurs, itís easy to focus on the other personís issues rather than confronting our own.
In other words, your husbandís refusal to take part in counseling shouldnít prevent you from pursuing counseling on your own. You might consider seeking out a support group in your church that could help you grapple with this difficult period in your marriage. Talking one-on-one with a counselor may also be helpful to you as you hope and pray for the day when your husband decides to work on the marriage. Contact Focus on the Family for a referral. God bless you.
Jim Daly is a husband and father, an author, and president of Focus on the Family and host of the Focus on the Family radio program. Catch up with him at www.jimdalyblog.com or at www.facebook.com/DalyFocus.
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\section{Automorphism Group of Cyclic Group is Abelian}
Tags: Automorphism Groups, Cyclic Groups
\begin{theorem}
Let $G$ be a cyclic group.
Let $\Aut G$ denote the automorphism group of $G$.
Then $\Aut G$ is abelian.
\end{theorem}
\begin{proof}
Let $G = \gen g$
Let $\phi, \psi \in \Aut G$.
As $G$ is cyclic:
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{{eqn | q = \exists a \in \Z
| l = \map \phi g
| r = g^a
}}
{{eqn | q = \exists b \in \Z
| l = \map \psi g
| r = g^b
}}
{{end-eqn}}
Thus:
{{begin-eqn}}
{{eqn | l = \map {\phi \circ \psi} g
| r = \paren {g^a}^b
| c =
}}
{{eqn | r = g^{a b}
| c =
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{{eqn | r = g^{b a}
| c =
}}
{{eqn | r = \paren {g^b}^a
| c =
}}
{{eqn | r = \map {\psi \circ \phi} g
| c =
}}
{{end-eqn}}
Thus in particular, $\phi \circ \psi$ and $\psi \circ \phi$ are equal on the generator $g$.
Since $g$ generates $G$, they must be equal as automorphisms.
{{qed}}
\end{proof}
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1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates to the handling of fruits and vegetables during and after field harvesting. With the current trend toward the mechanized harvesting of certain produce, it has become necessary to place special emphasis on preserving its market quality. The picked produce is conventionally collected in pallet boxes which are forklifted out of the field and eventually emptied into bulk bins for storage. With each transfer, additional bruising is incurred, and the overall produce quality is reduced. Other disadvantages of this type of handling system include the difficulty of maneuvering pallet boxes between closely spaced rows, as well as the expenditure of considerable time and energy in shuttling the boxes to and from the field.
2. Description of the Prior Art
A partial solution to the bruising problem of mechanically harvested fruit is taught by Millier et al. in U.S. Pat. No. 3,522,696. The falling fruit is first decelerated by a webbed catch frame and is then conveyed to a water tank until it can be collected and removed by some undisclosed means. A similar arrangement is contemplated by Tennes et al., U.S. Pat. No. 4,064,683, wherein the fruit collected by the catch frames is conveyed upwardly by a series of belts to a flume hopper. The hopper is continuously flushed with water or other liquid medium and the fruit is thereby fed gravitationally into a liquid-filled holding tank. While this system eliminates the pallet boxes, the complexities of the mechanical conveyor unit diminish its acceptability as a convertible attachment for a conventional farm implement. An alternate type of food lift designed for use in a processing plant is taught by Valdespino in U.S. Pat. No. 3,918,116. It operates by aspirating fruit suspended in liquid to a higher level above the liquid surface. However, the excessive size of the aspirator and the large liquid throughput render it impractical for field and many storage handling operations. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '557e241b8b1f67ec0c3c145436af028cad53c8e0989d3d7f89b4b8f91f8f0726'} |
FDR Countered Wall Street's Greed With Mass Prosperity
Mar 22, 2012David B. Woolner
Today's financial giants pursue greater wealth at any cost, but in order to build a sustainable economy, we have to make life richer for all Americans.
The recent publication of an editorial in the New York Times by a top executive at Goldman Sachs has sparked a fierce debate about the culture of greed that has permeated Wall Street in recent years. Critics argue that the author of the article, Greg Smith, is right to point out that Wall Street has lost its moral compass and that firms like Goldman are no longer interested in their clients and couldn't care less about the long-term implications of their investment strategies. Today's Wall Street, they insist, is driven by one motive and one motive only: to make as much money as possible for themselves and for the firms they work for in the shortest possible time, whatever the consequences for the customers the company is supposed to be serving. On the other hand, the defenders of Wall Street insist that the desire to make money is nothing new -- that greed, in fact, has always been a part of the culture of the investment banking community, and that we should not be so surprised or alarmed that the people who work in the financial sector do so out of a desire to become rich.
Given the consequences of the recent financial crisis, the fact that Mr. Smith's article has provoked a debate about the culture of Wall Street seems understandable. With unemployment still over 8 percent nationwide, a good share of the population remains concerned about the possibility that the "toxic atmosphere" Mr. Smith describes on Wall Street might lead to another financial meltdown. Yes, we do have Dodd-Frank, but will this piece of legislation prove adequate to prevent a repeat scenario?
These are all legitimate questions, but given the poor state of our economy and the millions who remain unemployed or underemployed a full four years after the onset of the collapse of the financial sector, the real question that needs to be addressed concerns not just the behavior of Wall Street, but the impact that the singular pursuit of wealth in whatever field has on the nation as a whole.
Seventy-four years ago, on March 23, 1938, Franklin Roosevelt addressed this very question in a speech he made to the people of Gainesville, Georgia. Two years before, Gainesville had been devastated by a violent tornado that left over 200 people dead and destroyed much of its downtown area. But with the help of over $1 million in federal aid from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) and a number of construction projects carried out by the Public Works Administration (PWA) and the Works Progress Administration (WPA), along with the financial support, hard work, and "unselfish cooperation" of the citizens of Gainesville, the city was rebuilt. Moreover, the new Gainesville was better than the old, with less congestion, better housing, and more parks and green space for the people to enjoy.
Taking note of this, FDR observed that the efforts of the people of Gainesville to rebuild their city touched "the interest and life of the whole Nation" because they typified the concept of citizenship "which is latent in the American character." It was true that in the wake of the destruction the city had "great needs," but these needs "were met," he said, "in accordance with the democratic principle that those needs should be filled in proportion to the ability of each individual to help."
Not one to miss a teachable moment, FDR then went on to address the larger question of economic inequality that still plagued the country. Much of this inequality, he insisted, was the result of the selfishness and greed of those at the top end of the income ladder who refused to accept or acknowledge that a society built on such vast disparity of wealth was not only undemocratic, but also economically unsustainable. These individuals, he went on:
FDR then went on to speak about how such attitudes affected the nation as a whole, of the consequences of economic inequality and the critical need to provide work and better wages for the "bottom third" of the U.S. population. He insisted it was vital to improve the "buying power" of the millions of unemployed and other workers "who are so under-employed or so underpaid that the burden of their poverty affects the little business man and the big business man and the millionaire himself." Moreover, he also reminded his listeners that better buying power meant not just greater purchases in hard-hit industries but also "many other...things -- better schools, better health and hospitals, better highways."
In short, FDR insisted that the best way to work our way out of the Great Depression and sustain capitalism was to make sure it worked for all our citizens, rich and poor alike. Happily, the actions of the people of Georgia in the wake of tragedy had convinced him that more and more Americans from workers and farmers to bankers and businessmen were coming to see "that the continuation of the American system calls for the elimination of special privilege, the dissemination of the whole truth, and participation in prosperity by the people at the bottom of the ladder, as well as those in the middle and those at the top."
It is certainly not a bad thing that Mr. Smith's article about the culture of Wall Street has stirred up a debate about the values and motivations of the individuals working in the financial sector. But in a society where the same newspaper has recently reported that the number of poor and near poor in America -- those living "either in poverty or in the fretful zone just above it" -- has now reached approximately 100 million Americans, one wonders why more people are not focused on the "one third of a nation" that, as in FDR's day, sadly finds itself "ill-housed, ill-clad, ill nourished." Would an editorial bemoaning the increasing level of poverty in America have sparked the same amount of interest?
Viewed from this perspective, the culture on Wall Street, with its huge bonuses and drive for ever-increasing wealth no matter what the consequences for the client, becomes all the more disturbing. Not so much for what it says about the financial sector, but rather for what it says about the state of the country as a whole. The pursuit of wealth for wealth's sake is a poor foundation upon which to build a modern economy well-suited for the 21st century. Surely FDR is right when he reminds us that it is better for us to become "our brother's keeper" than to "pass on to the other side."
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It’s certain: The Earth is getting warmer, and human activity is largely to blame
The case for climate action is having a hard time in Washington these days. While public officials acknowledge the climate is changing, they’re not necessarily saying why or what should be done about it.
Let’s clear up a few points.
1.The Earth is heating up.
Scientists have measured global temperatures for over a hundred years and see that the Earth is getting hotter. The trend can be best visualized by comparing each year’s average temperature with the long-term average. This figure shows observations of the world’s annual average temperature made by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). It compares each year’s temperature to the average over the entire century. Blue bars are years that were cooler than average and red bars are years that were warmer than average. In recent decades, the years have always been hotter. If there were no long-term temperature trend, you would expect a mix of red and blue bars throughout the record. That’s not what we see.
2. Human activity is largely responsible for this warming.
Over geologic time, the Earth’s average temperature has changed as a result of the sun’s output, the tilt and position of the Earth in its orbit, and the concentration of greenhouse gases. Scientists have developed a good understanding of the natural variations in these factors by examining different proxies for ancient temperatures. Observations tell us that these natural factors have not been changing over the last hundred years or so in a way that would explain the observed temperature increases.
In contrast, greenhouse gases have been changing in a way that can explain the observed temperature increases. The pre-eminent record of modern atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations is based at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography. Researchers there have been sampling pristine air from a mountaintop in Hawaii every month since 1958 and analyzing its composition. Their observations show that both the concentration and isotopic composition of CO2 is changing, and is consistent with manmade sources, including the carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels.
Moreover, physics tells us how different climate variables will change the temperature of the atmosphere at different heights. For example, changes in solar output will heat the atmosphere uniformly, while changes due to greenhouse gases will warm the surface but cool the higher part of the atmosphere (the stratosphere).
The National Centers for Environmental Information, run by NOAA, conduct monthly observations of atmospheric temperatures at different levels. Its 39-year record shows that the temperature change is not uniform. This is consistent with the effect of greenhouse gases, and inconsistent with other types of natural effects (e.g., changes in the sun’s output).
3. The impacts of climate change are growing, and we need to stop adding to the problem.
The result of this buildup of greenhouse gases is that we’re trapping heat within the climate system. The basic physics behind this has been establish for over 100 years. But climate change isn’t just a matter of the air temperature being a few degrees warmer.
• Higher levels of CO2 in the atmosphere lead to increased acidity in the oceans, which is damaging to shellfish and other marine life.
• Warmer water temperatures and melting of glaciers (due to warmer air temperatures) increase average sea level across the globe.
• Climate change is affecting the frequency and intensity of heat waves, heavy rainfall events, and several other types of extreme weather and disasters.
Some observed climate changes are not bad. For example, growing seasons are lengthening in some parts of the country and costs for winter heating go down when temperatures are mild. But the overall impacts are estimated to be negative and costly.
The good news is that we’re making progress, and that we have many of the tools right now to make a difference, including expanding use of renewable power; zero-carbon nuclear power, carbon capture, use and storage; energy efficiency technologies, and electric vehicles. Many businesses, cities, and states are pursuing clean energy and clean transportation to improve public health, save money, and create jobs.
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50 Cent、Eminem、Adam Levine - My Life
[id:$00000000] [ar:50 cent、adam levine、eminem] [ti:my life] [by:] [hash:d1c2ee638451cf49578495bfd3b275a1] [al:] [sign:] [qq:] [total:240039] [offset:0] [00:00.60]50 Cent、Eminem、Adam Levine - My Life [00:01.60]Written by：Adam Levine/Curtis Jackson/Marshall Mathers [00:17.26]A:My life My life [00:19.57]Makes me wanna run away [00:21.67]But there's no place to go [00:24.33]No place to go [00:27.74]A lot of confusion [00:29.09]It's like illusion [00:30.30]Like a movie [00:32.50]Got nowhere to go [00:34.37]Nowhere to run and hide [00:36.23]No matter how hard I try [00:38.34]50:Yeah [00:38.64]OP I went from back filthy [00:40.25]To filthy rich [00:41.59]Man the emotions change [00:42.44]So I can never trust a b**ch [00:44.14]I tried to help n-ggas get on [00:45.65]They turned around and spit [00:46.85]Right in my face [00:47.70]So Game and Buck [00:48.50]Both can s-ck a d-ck [00:49.35]Now when you hear them [00:50.36]It may sound like it's some other sh*t [00:52.54]Cause I'm ain't writing anymore [00:53.64]They not making hits [00:55.24]I'm far from perfect [00:55.89]There's so many lessons I done learned [00:57.94]If money is evil look at all the evil [00:59.60]I done heard [01:00.70]I'm doing what I'm supposed to [01:01.75]I'm a writer [01:02.25]I'm a fighter [01:02.81]Entrepeneur [01:03.56]Fresh off the sewer [01:04.62]Watch me manouver [01:05.67]What's it to you [01:06.52]The track I laced it [01:07.80]It's better than basic [01:08.96]This is my recovery [01:10.31]My comeback in [01:11.73]A:My life My life [01:14.06]Makes me wanna run away [01:15.89]But there's no place to go [01:19.23]No place to go [01:22.45]A lot of confusion [01:23.67]It's like illusion [01:25.21]Like a movie [01:26.91]Got nowhere to go [01:29.15]Nowhere to run and hide [01:30.75]No matter how hard I try [01:33.62]E:While you were sipping your own kool-aid [01:35.27]Getting your buzz heavy [01:36.53]I was in the f**king sheds sharpening my machete [01:39.14]Sipping some of of that revenge juice [01:40.35]Getting my taste buds ready [01:42.12]To whoop down this spaghetti [01:43.33]Or should I say this spaghett-even [01:45.30]I think you f**k-ng meatballs [01:46.21]Keep on just forgetting [01:47.51]Thought he was finished [01:48.51]M-therf**k-r [01:49.01]It's only the beginning [01:50.22]He's bugging again [01:50.77]He's straight thugging [01:51.52]F**k who he's offending [01:52.48]He'll rip your vocal chords out [01:54.19]And have them b**ches plugged in me [01:55.71]Motherf**king wall with [01:56.52]3000 volts of electricity [01:58.23]Now take the other and dump them [01:59.74]then pluck him [02:00.34]M-therf**k-rs in each [02:01.19]One of your eyesockets cause [02:02.43]I thought you might finally f**king see [02:03.89]That'll teach you to go voicing [02:05.09]your c-cks-cking opinion to me [02:06.60]I done put my blood [02:07.50]My sweat and my tears in this sh*t [02:08.76]F**k letting up [02:09.36]You're gonna end up regretting [02:10.32]You ever betted against me [02:12.12]Feels like I'm snap any minute [02:13.28]Yeah it's happening again [02:14.08]I'm thinking about the same [02:15.09]Motherf**k everybody that's up in this b**ch [02:16.60]But 50! 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All this talk about summer pasta salad recipes over the past couple of weeks has given me the idea to take the pasta salad concept a step further.
Sure, it's great to publish your favorite pasta salads recipes on your blog, but what if I could create a tool that would help my readers create original pasta salads of their own? It would be the equivalent of Choose Your Own Adventure for pasta salads!
That's exactly what I created for today's article. Let me introduce to you the Pasta Salad Permutator. With the Permutator's unpatented six-step process, you can have the basic tools and building blocks to compose your own original pasta salad recipes.
How to Use the Pasta Salad Permutator:
Step 1) First, start with the sauce base, the basic chassis of your pasta salad. Most pasta salads sauces fall into these fundamental categories:
olive oil-based
lemon juice-based
vinegar-based (red wine vinegar, white, cider, balsamic, etc)
mayonnaise-based (shudder)
asian-style or other sauces (tamari, hoisin, soy sauce, oyster sauce, tahini, etc)
Choose any one, or employ a combination of two or more.
Step 2) Then, add your vegetable inputs. Here is a partial list of choices ranging from common to the not-so-common:
peppers (red, green, yellow, orange)
onions (and red onions)
tomatoes (cherry tomatoes, grape tomatoes, green, plum, etc)
snow peas
olives (various kinds)
sundried tomatoes, etc.
You can limit your choices to a few or several of these, depending on various factors. What seems interesting to you on that day? What's in season? What's reasonably priced? Which items might go well together? You get the idea.
Keep in mind, there's no need to constrain choices to veggies here. How about considering some fruits too?
mandarin oranges
various dried fruits
apple or pear chunks, etc.
Step 3) Now, move on to your protein inputs. There are obvious choices, such as:
various types of cheeses
...and so on. But you can also consider less obvious choices, like:
seafood (shrimp, salmon pieces, crabmeat, etc)
various types of nuts
grains (bulgur, cooked wild rice, barley, etc)
very firm tofu
There are no limits here! Choose just one or several, again basing your decision on your budget, your dietary restrictions, or what sounds interesting to you.
Step 4) Next, consider adding some leafy greens to invigorate your recipe!
Fresh parsley, basil, mint, dill, spinach or rosemary are all fragrant, interesting and healthy possibilities. You can also consider more sturdy greens like kale and swiss chard here, but keep in mind that tough leafy greens like these should probably be blanched in boiling water briefly before adding.
Step 5) We're almost done. Next, add your spices. Here's where things can get really fun. Choose from these categories:
Hot spices: Tabasco, cayenne, chipotle, jalapeno
Mild: black pepper, white pepper, oregano, paprika
More exotic: cumin, curry, nutmeg, massala spices
Other/weird: lemon zest, grated orange peel, fennel seeds, cinnamon
Step 6) Finally, choose your pasta shape, being mindful of the nature of your sauce. A thinner sauce might require a pasta with nooks and crannies that will hold more sauce (e.g., shells, rotini, penne rigati). A thicker sauce, like our Thai Pasta Salad, might need a broad pasta with a lot of surface area, like linguine or fettucine. And of course it's always fun to pick cool-looking shapes for visual appeal (wagon wheels, cavatappi, etc).
Congratulations! Now that you've seen each of the six steps, I'll walk you through a specific example of how I might use the Permutator to create my own original pasta salad recipe:
1) I'll start with hoisin sauce with olive oil for an Asian-style pasta salad.
2) Then add garlic (maybe I'll simmer the garlic in the olive oil for a few minutes, then add in the hoisin sauce) and hmmmm... how about mandarin oranges and dried apricots?
3) Then fresh spinach, and basil for greens.
4) Let's have this salad be meatless, so I'll skip this step.
5) Cayenne or red pepper flakes for spiciness.
6) And for the pasta, let's try rotini.
Presto, I've just created a delicious original Asian pasta salad! I hereby name it: Spicy Singaporean Pasta Salad with Mandarin Oranges and Dried Apricots. How easy was that?
As you can see, this isn't rocket science. Almost all pasta salads have the same six building blocks in common. The Permutator is just a simple tool to help you create some really interesting combinations. Roll some ideas around in your brain while you walk through the six steps and see what original recipes you can invent.
You can make your choice from the specific list of ingredients I have above, or add additional ingredients of your own choosing in each category. Let your mind really go and come up with some crazy, exotic ideas--you might surprise yourself with something truly unique and delicious!
Before I set you free to devise your own pasta salads, I'll take you through one more example:
1) Lemon juice and vinegar as the base.
2) Cucumbers, celery, feta cheese, sundried tomatoes and olives (we're going a bit Greek here)
3) Some chickpeas for protein.
4) Fresh parsley and mint (now leaning more towards Turkey)
2a) Let's back up for another pass at step 2) and add something interesting: pineapple chunks.
5) And now let's get truly interesting with spices: a few dashes of ground cinnamon (to taste) and then add Tabasco (to taste).
Voila: Sweet and Spicy Middle Eastern Salad with Pineapple Chunks. Also--did you notice something unusual about this "pasta" salad? Yep, it doesn't even contain pasta. Don't create a box for yourself and think that any rules have to constrain you. Sometimes the best and most creative recipes manifest when you truly throw out the entire rulebook.
Try out my Permutator and I guarantee you'll come up with some creative and original pasta salads of your own. In fact, I'd love to hear reader submissions of their own pasta salad creations--leave yours in the comments section below! I'll come up with a suitable prize for the best sounding recipe. And heck, just for some extra fun I'll give out a prize for the most revolting recipe too (here's a sample title: Spicy, Curried Wagon Wheels with Mayonnaise, Fennel Seeds and Cilantro).
Let's get going dreaming up those recipes!
Related Posts:
Thai Pasta Salad
Fattoush! A Middle Eastern Salad Recipe
Chickpeas, Pasta and Tomato Salad
1 comment:
Anonymous said...
Here's my idea:
1) tahini-mayonnaise sauce, with
2) grape tomatoes,
3) beef cubes and tofu,
4) cilantro,
5) and spiced with nutmeg and cumin, on
6) lasagna noodles
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Friday, March 12, 2010
Go'al Yisra'el Quandary
A special 4-part series (combined) from Cantor Sherwood Goffin:
MUSICAL NOTE by Cantor Sherwood Goffin
It is common to hear a Shliach Tsibbur ending the bracha of Go’al Yisrael in a whisper. Yet, as your Chazzan, I do not do so. What is the rule and why are there different ways to recite this? The practice of whispering is a relatively recent innovation. Prior to modern times, every chazzan would always recite the entire Bracha of Go’al Yisrael out loud. In fact, there is NO valid custom of not audibly finishing a bracha. Where did this custom originate and why?
In the next few Notes paragraphs we will examine this phenomenon.
To begin with: In the Talmud (Brachot 42a) and reinforced in the Shulchan Aruch, there is a concept of “Semichat Geulah L’Tefillah.” That is, to link “redemption/Geulah” to tefillah/Amida – and to not interrupt the connection of the blessing of Go’al Yisrael to the Amida. The Talmud seems to treat this as simply a “nice thing” to do.
Rashi and Rabbeinu Yonah give varied philosophical reasons. I prefer the explanation of Rabbi Yechiel Yaakov Weinberg (1884-1966) of Montreux, the “Seridei Aish,” who explains that Go’al Yisrael relates to the past, and that the Amidah is a prayer for the future Redemption. He further states that “a future that is not rooted in the past is unsustainable.” Linking the two, however, seems to present a quandary, since we are required to answer Amen to every blessing that we hear, and saying Amen would constitute a problematic interruption. What are we to do?
[Two] The Mechaber of the Shulchan Aruch (Sfardic minhag) says, based on the Zohar, that one should NOT answer Amen to the blessing of Go’al Yisroel. At that point, the Rama (Ashkenazic minhag) states that Amen is part of the tefilla and MUST be recited. It is therefore apparent that in their day (early 16th century) the Chazzan always said the bracha out loud. Rabbi Ari Zivitofsky, who thoroughly researched this topic, could not find ANY early authorities who suggest that it is to be said silently, or in a whisper.
To further complicate matters, the Aruch Hashulchan (1829-1908) says, that while it is PERMISSABLE to answer Amen there, “the common practice is NOT to.” In Hungary and the Ukraine in the early 1800s, leading rabbis first began to write that the bracha should be said silently. In our times, the great American Lower East Side posek, Rabbi Yosef Henkin (d.1973), strongly condemned “this new custom” of reciting it silently.
Rabbi S. Neuberger, Menahel of Yeshivat Ner Israel, told me that Rav Henkin wrote in the journal “Pardes” that, if the chazzan neglects to say the beginning and end of EVERY bracha in the Birchot Kriat Shma, “he has failed to fulfill Tefillat Hatsibbur (The obligation of communal prayer).” The quandary remains: There those who still recite it softly, and others – such as your Chazzan - who recite it out loud. Which is correct?
[Three] Many contemporary poskim, such as Rav Aharon Lichtenstein and Rav Wosner have written in favor of saying it out loud, saying that even if the bracha is said inaudibly, one must answer amen. Rav Wosner opposes ending it silently because "it is a slight against the honor of the bracha." Some famous recent halachic giants all insisted on saying the bracha out loud. These include Rav Joseph Soloveitchik, the Satmar Rebbe, Rav Yaakov Weinberg and Rabbi Dushinsky of Jerusalem. Other authorities have defended the practice of saying it silently - a practice "standard in the Lithuanian Yeshiva world."
Rabbi Ari Zivitofsky, writing in Jewish Action says, "All of these opinions indicate that throughout most of Jewish History, the chazzan recited the entire bracha of Go'al Yisroel aloud. Apparently, at some point in recent years, the practice of ... concluding Go'al Yisroel in a whisper came about. This practice appeals to many because it allows one to satisfy most halachic opinions." [Next], dear readers, I will give you the final opinion concerning this issue.
[Four] [At least half a dozen recent Ashkenazic authorities thus] insisted that the bracha of Go'al Yisroel be said out loud. It is also true that some Lithuanian authorities have defended the practice of saying it silently - a practice "standard in the Lithuanian Yeshiva world." It comes down to this: Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach writes (Halichot Shlomo) that the practice in the Gra Shul in Jerusalem was to end the bracha out loud. Since it is the minhag of Lincoln Square Synagogue generally to follow the customs of the Gra (The Vilna Gaon), it therefore appears to be very clear that this should be our LSS custom.
The only thing that we have to deal with is the opinion of the Rama - whose opinion we follow - that one should say "Amein" after hearing the bracha. Since that still seems to be controversial, let me make the following suggestion, if I may: The chazzan should say the last paragraph somewhat slower than the rest of the davening, so that the congregants can 1) catch up to him and say the bracha of Go'al Yisroel with him, or 2) start the Amida a bit ahead of his finishing the bracha. In both cases it would obviate saying "Amein," and thereby accommodate all opinions. However, if one is elsewhere in the prayers, and hears the bracha, if he is able to, he should answer "Amein," softly. This should please all viewpoints, and give LSS one custom to follow. Try it - and see how it works for you!
(c) Sherwood Goffin and Lincoln Square Synagogue, 2010
Part Three was dedicated "in loving memory of [Cantor Goffin's] student, Jonathan Spanbock."
Some paragraph transitions adjusted with square brackets.
micha said...
WADR to the Seridei Eish, I would think it's more straightforward than that.
Birkhas Ge'ulah, by being about the past, testifies that Hashem is capable. Emunah.
The Amidah, being requests, is an expression of Bitachon. It would make no sense to make requrests unless it was grounded in the belief that the One you're requesting from can actually fulfill that request.
Rather than being poetic about future requiring grounding in the past, it's simple logic -- requests require assuming ability.
Joe in Australia said...
The first two comments are spam. I don't know what the content of the first one is, but they're designed to fool search engines into thinking that the authors are legitimate.
MDJ said...
I have started amida a bit early for many years after hearing this suggestion in the name of the younger R. Henkin. It's never been clear to me how much one needs to say. Is "Hashem" of "Hashem sefasi tiftach" enough? Any idea? I also gather that there is an inyan of starting amida with the tzibur, and someone once chided me on actually starting the bracha for this reason.
Litvak said...
Can someone elaborate on this? Which minhogei HaGR"A do they follow? Can someone provide examples?
micha said...
An uninformed guess... Any minhag haGra discussed by R' Soloveitchik when R' Riskin was in the room.
thanbo said...
That is a bit puzzling.
They don't duchen every day. During duchening, they use the old Ashkenazic bracha she'otcha beyirah naavod, instead of hamachazir shechinato letziyon, the latter being a Gra custom.
Is not saying Baruch hashem leolam at night a Gra custom?
Steg (dos iz nit der šteg) said...
Is not saying Baruch hashem leolam at night a Gra custom?
It is.
At some point in high school, i picked up from some of the Syrians a habit of, when ḥazaning, saying not just "’al yisra’el" out loud, but following it up with the first word of ה' שפתי תפתח out loud as well. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '33', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9385882616043092}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '74669', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:VT2TEGI2SKRJSTNH4GNUTKV7HNI2HXB4', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:bfdc7dc1-6175-463e-9b08-bc5b028a1d02>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 7, 17, 9, 55, 44), 'WARC-IP-Address': '172.217.15.97', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:CUQSDG5DYAOEZ6TUJ5XD2BSIW4IZMEDR', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:dc56fdc0-8e8b-47e6-b2c1-1000209b4dbf>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://thanbook.blogspot.com/2010/03/goal-yisrael-quandary.html', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:82239040-1b60-4d16-9b2d-56ee885a858a>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '1278', 'url': 'http://thanbook.blogspot.com/2010/03/goal-yisrael-quandary.html', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-93-215-215.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-30\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for July 2018\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': '0.0642208456993103', 'original_id': 'a6b429aed6783aa693286ed1378c59fe5a94368bf421b5b7911ba94abf16dc61'} |
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ScienceShot: Cane Toad Carnage
The biggest danger for a cane toad (Rhinella marina) egg isn't a predator of a different species; it's a cane toad tadpole. The tadpoles not only seek out and eat eggs, they also release chemicals into the water that stunt the growth of developing cane toad embryos, new research reveals. It's all part of an intense competition for resources. To study this phenomenon, scientists kept cane toad eggs with tadpoles in tanks and separated them with a mesh divider. When the eggs hatched, the new tadpoles were 11% shorter and 45% lighter than their siblings that developed in eggs that were kept alone. Additionally, the survival rate of the tadpole-exposed eggs was 40% lower, the team reports today in Biology Letters. The researchers haven't isolated the chemical responsible for dwarfing and killing the cane toads, but that's their next step. Such a compound could help control populations of cane toads in Australia, where they are considered an invasive species and threaten the diversity of native reptiles.
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Monday, October 30, 2006
Sigh... Berkeley
This weekend I was reminded why Berkeley is a lovely place to visit, but I'd never want to live there again.
I had to run up to Berkeley Bowl during a party. Back when I lived there, that was a Safeway. Well, first it was a Safeway, and then it was a barren, empty building. After that, the closest grocery store was the Pak N' Save in Emeryville. I can't vouch for it now, but back then, you had to pay a quarter or fifty cents to get a shopping cart, which unlocked it from the station, making it more attractive for the homeless to return the carts rather than stealing them, but made it terribly annoying because you had to remember to bring quarters to the grocery store.
The other option was Trader Joe's in Emeryville, a little bit further away and in the most congested, poorly laid-out parking lot I'd ever dealt with.
Nowadays, Berkeley Bowl has moved into the old Safeway, and Walgreens has moved into the old Rite-Aid spot. Traffic in that area is still an abomination as well since they have about half the parking that those stores usually have. Finding parking usually entails vulturing someone walking out with a cart, because those that have started loading their cars already have someone waiting to take their spot. Anyway, it's no fun, which is too bad, because Berkeley Bowl has good food, but I don't want to have to do battle to shop there.
So this morning I'm browsing the news, and find that a Trader Joe's is hoping to move into Berkeley. As someone who is not a true Berkeley person, I'm astonished to read that the locals are fighting it. It's Trader Joe's - home of the socially responsible grocers! It's fabulous bread and organic food and cage-free eggs and... and... what do you mean you don't want them there?!?!?! That's just crazy talk! It turns out they're worried about increased traffic (gee, at the intersection of two major thoroughfares where there's been commercial space forever? Shocking.) and that Trader Joe's sells inexpensive alcohol that will be a draw to students and the homeless (unlike all those liquor stores already around? Hunh?) and that the associated housing project has smaller units (mostly 1 bedrooms), not intended to accomodate families (because Berkeley isn't the kind of place that carved up houses to make smaller housing locations already? But, wait...). My favorite line in the article is, ""Trader Joe's is a nonunion store owned by a secretive German family that sells specialty food and low-cost alcohol," said Steve Wollmer, who lives 250 feet from the site. "Do we really need this in our neighborhood?"" Um... yes! And how does their German-ness come into anyway? Just one of those days again where I don't quite get Berkeley. There are some things I really like about it, but I can't imagine living there. Some of them locals are just too crazy. I'd love to live in the East Bay again, but I'm pretty sure it'd have to be Alameda.
• Oh, the crazy. It's so cute when the ex-hippies try to get righteous about something.
By Blogger BlackSheep, at 3:27 PM
• Umm. I believe it was a thrifty's across the street from the abandoned safeway.
In 1998, Rite Aid acquired and the 1,000-store west coast chain's owner Thrifty PayLess Holdings re-branded it as Rite Aid, creating a chain with over 3,500 drug stores.
On March 26, 1999 we opened our new location at 2020 Oregon St. Though only a few blocks from our original store, the new site involved some pretty dramatic changes. Under the direction of architect David Trachtenberg a former Safeway was transformed into the 44,000 square foot produce mecca we now call home.
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As some follows of Wire to the Ear know I moved from Berlin, Germany back to New York about three months ago. I bought an apartment in the city that needs a complete renovation. Not only do I have a new apartment to renovate I also bought a two car garage I am turning into what I hope will be an amazing studio. Because the apartment needs a complete gut my wife and I have been staying in the upstairs apartment in my mother’s house in Rockland County. Rockland is a typical New York suburb just about 20 minutes north of the city. It’s actually quite nice and I am very familiar with the area because I grew up here. The photo above is Ma’s house.
When I was in College at Suny Purchase I took a class called Social Sciences in the Arts. I never forgot a lesson the professor thought was important. The basic gist was that no artist made any art without an audience in mind. This ties into my Rockland chat above because I’ve been doodling a lot music wise on my laptop over the past three months and realize I am making tunes for my mother and Doug (her husband). Little diddy’s about the car they own, a song about the fact that my mother is top sales lady at her office and a song about Milo their dog. Milo is incredible cute (see photo below) but without a doubt is the boss here. He has these treats called “Dingos” which he demands often. When I say he demands them I mean it. A few of us will be in the kitchen talking and he will walk in, bark and growl loudly until someone gives him a Dingo. So without further ado here’s the song I did called “Milo the Bad Dog”:
Please keep in mind this is no way an official song or anything that I will ever release for sale. It’s just a fun blip that took about 40 minutes last night. I used the few simple plug-ins I have on my laptop and I sang in the bedroom using the Macbook Pro’s built-in mic. The drums are an Ableton Impluse with D16 Devastor on them. The synths are an old ReFx Vanguard and Fabfilter Twin.
Today when I got back from the gym the birds in the driveway were extra loud so I took a photo of the tree they were all in and recorded 30 seconds of audio for you. I used the Griffin iTalk app on my iPhone. You can hear the birds and cars going by on Route 340. | mini_pile | {'original_id': 'f11cf0df1a9f2376293ed29412e2aa16fed7b65042398aff4f52148ea37b6400'} |
Screenshot: LilSimsie
Sims YouTuber LilSimsie regularly renovates and makes houses for what she calls her Simsie Save, a Sims 4 save file she provides to fans so that they can play with her houses and Sims. This time, she made a notable revision to the bathrooms in the game: they’re now all all gender neutral.
People who participate in The Sims fandom often make “starter” save files to share with other players, who can then make changes to houses and add new Sims. In a video about the updated save file that she has built for her fans, Simsie said that usually she just adds new houses and makes changes to the community lots, which are businesses frequented by all the Sims in a given game. For this update, she also renovated the houses in Del Sol Valley, because she really disliked them all. Making new houses and new Sims en masse is a big enough project, so going through every lot and implementing even more changes made the project even more arduous. Throughout her video announcing her updated Simsie Save, she jokingly referred to it as her “life’s work.”
After Simsie gushed about all the changes to Del Sol Valley and the hundreds of Sims she has made, she made note of a small but important difference that she added. Some of the community lots use gendered bathroom doors. Simsie replaced all of them with gender-neutral doors.
In such a huge project, this may seem like a small change. But, as Simsie said in her video, those bathroom doors had super annoying effects on gameplay. “When you have the walls cut away, you can’t see which one’s which,” she said. “Then you go, ‘Oh, I’m gonna use this toilet,’ and your Sim’s like, “Oh no, I can’t use it!’”
Technically, every bathroom in The Sims 4 is gender neutral by default. There aren’t even any urinals in the game. But the game also provides doors that indicate what gender of Sim is supposed to go into each bathroom, and the Sims are programmed to obey those markings. If you make a room and put a door on it that has a little figure of a man on it, a female Sim won’t go in it, and vice versa.
Simsie had another reason for making the change, she said: “It’s also a really easy way to make something more accessible and to make something more inclusive.” There aren’t a lot of gendered bathrooms in The Sims 4, but after the game has changed some options in Create-A-Sim to allow players to individually select which Sims can get pregnant or pee standing up, as well as allowing all Sims to wear all clothing, it’s a worthy change to make.
Screenshot: LilSImsie
In the process of making the change to her save file, Simsie also noticed something else annoying about those gendered bathroom doors. There’s only one bathroom door design that’s gender neutral, and unfortunately, as Simsie says, it “is ugly.” There are two other gendered bathroom doors that have more color options, but those other color options aren’t available for the gender neutral door. “I just don’t understand why they’re not all the same door,” Simsie says. Sure, every door can be a bathroom door if you believe, but if the game is going to provide specifically gendered doors, why only have one design for a bathroom door that can be used by all Sims?
In New York, where I live, I very rarely encounter gendered bathrooms in public places anymore. It’s not like that across the world, but LilSimsie’s starter save has made the world of The Sims 4 a bit closer to the world as I actually experience it. I’m excited to play her starter file, partially because I love her builds and I want to study them, but also because she made the game just a tiny bit more inclusive, and also way less annoying to play. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9613536596298218}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '715797', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:HBZCF57LSOMNFXSL3TYYUZP5RGUUV6G6', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:f255574c-94a8-4ea0-be43-4bcda2c072c3>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 3, 23, 1, 23, 2), 'WARC-IP-Address': '151.101.194.166', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:F3VSAMKCSROBLPEYYLTOY24IUGBUTOGY', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:8f74b97d-8e83-4c2e-a2bd-6affc96c7e9e>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://kotaku.com/sims-youtuber-makes-all-the-games-bathrooms-gender-neut-1831548277', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:25f32587-8850-4239-8f7f-a0dc9417f2f3>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '652', 'url': 'https://kotaku.com/sims-youtuber-makes-all-the-games-bathrooms-gender-neut-1831548277', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-13\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for March 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-171-229-147.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': '0.04085969924926758', 'original_id': '7503fa55225447f045cf19e36ca675494d4009e567ae73fa924806989fe8b076'} |
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I'd like to put stunnel in front of haproxy 1.4 to handle HTTPS traffic. I also need stunnel to add the X-Forwarded-For header. This can be achieved by the "stunnel-4.xx-xforwarded-for.diff" patches from the haproxy website.
However, the description mentions:
Note that this patch does not work with keep-alive, ...
My question is: What will this mean in practice for me? I'm unsure,
1. if this is about the keep-alive between
• client and stunnel
• stunnel and haproxy
• or haproxy and backend server?
2. what this means for performance: If I have 100 icons on a web page, will the browser have to negotiate 100 full SSL connections, or can it re-use the SSL connection, just creating new TCP connections?
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This is about HTTP keep-alive, which allows for multiple resource requests to come through a single TCP session (and, with SSL, a single SSL session). This is of great importance to the performance of an SSL site, as without keep-alive, an SSL handshake would be needed for each requested resource.
So, the concern here is one big keep-alive session from the client all the way to the backend server. It's an important thing for performance, and taken as a matter of course for modern HTTP servers, but this patch says it doesn't support it. Let's look into why..
A keep-alive session is just more requests one after another - once the server finishes its response to one request, the server doesn't sent a FIN packet to end the TCP session; the client can simply send another batch of headers.
To understand what that patch is doing, here's an example of a keep-alive conversation:
GET / HTTP/1.1
Connection: keep-alive
Host: domain.com
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Apache
Content-Length: 34
.... (other headers)
Here's where a non-keep-alive connection would stop. But, keep-alive allows the client to just fire off another:
GET /images/some/image.on.the.page.jpg HTTP/1.1
Connection: keep-alive
Host: domain.com
For client ID in proxying, some reverse proxies can add in the X-Forwarded-For header in each client request. That tells the upstream server where the request is coming from (instead of every request initiating from the reverse proxy's IP), for sanity in logging and other application needs.
The X-Forwarded-For header needs to be injected into each and every client resource request sent through the keep-alive connection, as the full headers are sent each time; handling of the X-Forwarded-For header and translation into it being the "real" request IP is done on a per-request, not per-TCP-keep-alive-session, basis. And hey, maybe there's some awesome reverse proxy software out there that uses a single keep-alive session to service requests from multiple clients.
This is where this patch fails.
The patch at that site watches the TCP session's buffer for the end of the first set of HTTP headers in the stream, and injects the new header into the stream after the end of that first set of headers. After this is done, it considers the X-Forwarded-For job done, and stops scanning for the end of new sets of headers. This method has no awareness of all of future headers coming in via subsequent requests.
Can't really blame them; stunnel wasn't really built to do handling and translation of the contents of its streams.
The effect that this would have on your system is that the first request of a keep-alive stream will get the X-Forwarded-For header injected properly, and all of the subsequent requests will work just fine - but they won't have the header.
Unless there's another header injection patch out there that can handle multiple client requests per connection (or get this one tweaked with the help of our friends over at Stack Overflow), you may need to look at other options for your SSL termination.
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Excellent answer, thanks. Reminds me, why it's a good idea to ask questions here. – Chris Lercher Aug 15 '11 at 18:17
To allow having keep-alive header injection in stunnel, it would need to be able to speak almost all of HTTP which would be a huge amount of work. That said, you can also use HAproxy's PROXY protocol (which requires a patch for stunnel or alternatively stud) an inject the header in HAproxy. See the docs for more info (from google cache, as the HAproxy site seems to be partially down ATM) – Holger Just Aug 17 '11 at 15:31
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STunnel 4.45 fixes this properly using some new capabilities (proxy protocol) coming with HAProxy 1.15
It also fixes the issues with previous patches and Keep Alive
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Similar to what I posted in another thread, HAProxy does support native SSL on both sides since 1.5-dev12. So having X-Forwarded-For, HTTP keep-alive as well as a header telling the server that the connection was made over SSL is as simple as the following :
listen front
bind :80
bind :443 ssl crt /etc/haproxy/haproxy.pem
mode http
option http-server-close
option forwardfor
reqadd X-Forwarded-Proto:\ https if { is_ssl }
server srv1 check ...
It's much easier than patching stunnel and much better than having to drop keep-alive.
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Extending the excelent answer from Shane, you could use Nginx as SSL terminator in front of HAproxy. It correctly handles keep-alive between client and nginx which is the most latency sensitive side and makes a new connection to backend for each client request, sending the X-FORWARDED-FOR in each one.
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However, if you need websockets then nginx will not work. – w00t Aug 28 '12 at 21:09
Plus, it supports ssl session cache. – 3molo Sep 16 '12 at 10:29
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<tr data-scenario="large-industry-fuel-switching"><td style="background-color:#808080;color:white"><span>Large industry Fuel Switching</span></td><td>0.000</td><td>1817.689</td><td>4026.729</td><td>5787.908</td></tr>
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Photographer Rundown / by monicaday
Okay. In case you don't already know it, I'm a photographer. I get asked lots and lots of questions so today's video is all about answering them. Being a photographer is truly an awesome experience and I'm blessed to be able to do what I love so much. Here are the questions. For answers, watch the video! 1. How'd I get started in photography?
2. How'd I learn photography?
3. How did I get my first client?
4. How do I find new clients?
5. What are some resources to learn photography?
6. What advice would I'd give a new photographer?
7. Who are my favorite photographers?
8. What are the most important things to learn about photography?
9. Can someone realistically make money as a photographer?
Remember that everyone starts somewhere. I started and just wasn't that good but developed my skill over time. Being a photographer is hard work but is definitely rewarding. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.973281979560852}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '51130', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:I5SF5J7QTA6WBKZ2C7SJ4PKVCX2EH43D', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:35641536-41e6-423a-826e-fd9a12a4f8f6>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2017, 9, 22, 22, 29, 16), 'WARC-IP-Address': '198.49.23.145', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:T6NJ6OM47WBAV64XLFAPOXAH3GQ3EXE2', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:752e7a00-2654-4a78-8b1d-84e7fc57b013>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://www.monicaday.co/blog/photographer-rundown', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:e6a8849b-6b92-4e34-afac-e6ac87e0b92d>', 'WARC-Truncated': 'length'}", 'previous_word_count': '156', 'url': 'http://www.monicaday.co/blog/photographer-rundown', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-186-163-226.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2017-39\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for September 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': '0.9991801977157593', 'original_id': '48a0df78f3af1a7cbf2338db1e00261c2105d2b8a2cc9d0c4bc469951856fd93'} |
Disinvestment secretary Neeraj Gupta has rightly pointed to the fact that average realisation through disinvestment annually was a meagre Rs 20,000 crore
Surpassing the disinvestment target to hit the Rs 1,00,000 mark was a big plus for the NDA government in this fiscal. It is a commendable feat for the Narendra Modi government that initially was not very aggressive in selling the family silver. Disinvestment secretary Neeraj Gupta has rightly pointed to the fact that average realisation through disinvestment annually was a meagre Rs 20,000 crore. In the exclusive interview with Financial Chronicle, Gupta had also surmised that on an aggregate, six to seven disinvestments happened on a yearly basis. Exceptions to this trend were witnessed in 2016-17 and 2017-18. It is also a fact that in a decade’s rule of the UPA, there were hardly occasions when the disinvestment targets were met fully.
Exceeding the disinvestment target was a result of valid reasons that provide significant lessons for the future. The protracted bull run in the first four years of NDA rule helped the government maximise value for the stake sale. Meticulous planning and timing the stake sale is yet another feature of disinvestments in the last two years. Given that 46 transactions were simultaneously in progress provides a rare glimpse of the perseverance with which disinvestments were being pursued by the government. In fact, it is the robust disinvestment realisation that allowed finance minister Arun Jaitley to keep the fiscal deficit at 3.5 per cent for this fiscal and target 3.3 per cent in 2018-19.
The turmoil and volatility in stock markets triggered by the US sell-off and long-term capital gains tax may make the going tough for 2018-19. Stability in markets with positive outlook for the near future is an important basis for successful disinvestment in the next financial year. The merger of four state-run non-life insurance companies is a good strategy for realising optimum value for these companies. Valuations derived by several private insurance peers should indicate the way forward for equity sale in state-run companies.
Divestment in 24 PSUs in difficult market conditions could be yet another challenge for the government. Most importantly, pursuing mergers and acquisitions should precede listing and stake sale in several of the government-owned banks.
However, the government should resist the temptation of ONGC-HPCL kind of deals to meet the disinvestment targets next fiscal. The transfer of government equity from one company to another does not tantamount to disinvestment. The ONGC-HPCL deal was not the first of its kind. P.Chidambaram and Vijay Kelkar pursued this strategy with regard to power and oil PSUs ten years back to skirt the market offering. The strategic sale of PSUs and banks, along with management control, could be considered a next step towards government withdrawing from business. Focusing on end use of disinvestment funds is an area on which Jaitley should articulate the government’s views. Protecting jobs of personnel from state-run companies and banks should be a priority of the government while pursuing an aggressive disinvestment strategy. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '5f26dd4644b49c0b13db9908559fa3ca24b26baa0bb4c2911f47825ddbc70eb3'} |
Quit smoking with electronic cigarettes
electronic cigarettes are the best way to quit smoking.
In an article a couple of weeks ago USA Today reported, again, just how good e-cigarettes are in quitting smoking, quoting various vaping related organizations and people.
They give examples from the real-world, for instance, a regular guy who was able to quit smoking with electronic cigarettes. He basically swears by them and talks about how nothing else worked for him. It talks about how a former official at the American Cancer Society, now a consulting professor at Stanford University’s school of medicine, says preliminary trials on electronic cigarettes suggest “they are probably about as good” as other nicotine replacement (NRT) products like gums, patches, etc.
The truth is alive and well. We shall prevail, because vaping does, indeed, save lives. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '3', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9606117010116576}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '27370', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:GWJMMFVFH7MAUSD22GLHZVWZWTPQ2CUC', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:88ccda34-8eb4-4326-afdb-9ef6a4d6bc7e>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 4, 22, 6, 12, 7), 'WARC-IP-Address': '159.8.215.120', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:ETDY5QMRILPBVONIHRTDDHQUY4SIVQJF', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:36d722f6-422f-4268-8a9c-1ddacfdbb97c>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://www.pharmacig.com/blog/13/it-all-points-to-how-good-electronic-cigarettes-are-in-helping-you-quit-smoking', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:cf1aee68-c94b-44a4-a957-9acb289492d5>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '147', 'url': 'http://www.pharmacig.com/blog/13/it-all-points-to-how-good-electronic-cigarettes-are-in-helping-you-quit-smoking', '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-10-144-201-71.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': '0.2841634750366211', 'original_id': '168a975b301958b2be2d466fb6fbb71d0433ae5128fa35c2e6d62438abbb0dcb'} |
Decreases in regional cerebral blood flow with normal aging.
Positron emission tomographic (PET) images of regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) from 30 normal, resting volunteers aged 30 to 85 years were analysed to identify areas where rCBF fell with age. Images were anatomically normalised, and a pixel-by-pixel linear regression was performed to remove differences in global CBF between subjects. Pixels at which rCBF then showed a significant (p less than 0.01) negative correlation with age were identified. They were displayed as a statistical parametric map (SPM) of correlations. We demonstrate an age-related decrease in adjusted rCBF in the cingulate, parahippocampal, superior temporal, medial frontal, and posterior parietal cortices bilaterally, and in the left insular and left posterior prefrontal cortices (omnibus significance, chi 2 = 2,291, p less than 0.0001, df = 1). Decreases in rCBF suggest a regionally specific loss of cerebral function with age. The affected areas were all limbic, or association, cortices. Therefore, these decreases may constitute the cerebral substrate of the cognitive changes that occur during normal aging. | mini_pile | {'original_id': 'd961c846756fee17164fdce53aba1db3986c52501094eb79e6b463ddf0a2ff5c'} |
Conducting client supervision in community health care.
The aim of the present study was to examine registered public health nurses' views and reported actions related to client supervision in community health care. Transcript-based, qualitative and interpretative content analysis was used to analyse the findings from six focus group interviews. The main findings represented the following themes: the components of the assessment basis related to choosing supervision as an intervention strategy, the strategies related to conducting supervision and the meaning of supervision as an intentional act. In conclusion, the registered public health nurses' reported model for conducting supervision seems to correspond with principles in the new strategies for health promotion initiated by the World Health Organization. Further research is needed to explore what the nurses really do when conducting supervision in order to provide extended knowledge about their model. | mini_pile | {'original_id': 'f7d8701182d6e8375db62c7f594b5114c76ab502e852bb275eab73346d64086d'} |
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Second Battle of Saltville
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Second Battle of Saltville
Other Names: Battle of Saltville; Battle of the Saltworks; Battle of Saltville II
Location: Smyth County, Virginia
Date(s): December 20-21, 1864
Forces Engaged: Divisions (US 4,500; CS 2,800)
Estimated Casualties: Unknown
Result(s): Union victory
Summary: After defeating a Confederate force at Marion on December 17-18, 1864, Stoneman’s expedition advanced to Saltville in what would be the fifth and final battle of the Saltworks Campaign, thus eliminating the major supplier of the Confederacy's salt — and in four months the war would end. After determined skirmishing on the part of the outnumbered Confederate defenders, the Virginia Saltworks were overrun and destroyed by Stoneman's cavalry, accomplishing the principal objective of the raid. The Union cavalry was armed with the next generation weapon called the Spencer carbine, which was merely a shorter version of the Spencer repeating rifle. Stoneman, the highest ranking Union prisoner-of-war, had superior numbers compared to the opposing force, so the outcome was quite certain bar a disaster. This was Stoneman's first taste of victory, because he was said to be "worthless" after his atrocious performance at Chancellorsville, which would become known as Stoneman's Raid of 1863. Unknown to Stoneman, the saltworks had sustained only superficial damage, and in just two months, Feb. 1865, the works would be fully operational, but the same could not be said for the trains that were necessary to transport the much needed tonnage to the Confederate war effort. Two months after Saltville boasted of its return to production, in April '65, Lee would surrender to Grant, concluding the four year struggle of Civil War.
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Introduction: Southwestern Virginia was important to the Confederacy though it experienced few battles. The Virginia and Tennessee Railroad ran through the region, connecting the eastern and western theaters of operation. It also hosted salt and lead mines that were vital to the Southern war effort. Located in northwestern Smyth County, Virginia, Saltville, during its peak war year in 1864, manufactured about 4,000,000 bushels — 200,000,000 pounds — an estimated two-thirds of all the salt required by the Confederacy. No wonder, then, that this remote area found itself in the 1860s thrust into the very center of military activity in southwestern Virginia as North and South clashed over these vital salt operations. Salt was necessary for preserving food, for sustaining life itself, and it was an integral part of the leather curing process. An army may march and fight well on a full stomach, but without leather it would have to do it with the poorest quality boots and footwear, and absent leather there would be no saddles and the much needed tack for horses.
At Saltville, the Confederates would put up stiff resistance, but superior numbers and rapid firing carbines would seal the Union victory. Believing the works fully destroyed, Stoneman's troops left Saltville and withdrew from southwestern Virginia. But, incredibly, the saltworks had not been permanently disabled. A report to General Breckinridge a few days after the Saltville engagement said that fewer than two-thirds of the sheds and less than one-third of the kettles had been destroyed, and that some of the sheds and furnaces were left untouched. Several weeks later, the furnaces were going once more and salt was again being furnished to the various states until the end of the war, but due to the immense damage of the railroads in the area, lack of transportation would muzzle the movement of any significant quantity of salt.
Background: As Stoneman's cavalry fought in the Atlanta Campaign under Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman, he was captured by Rebel soldiers outside Macon, at Clinton, on July 31, 1864, becoming the highest ranking Union prisoner-of-war. He was transferred to Charleston, South Carolina, where he remained a prisoner for three months, until October, when he was exchanged by the Confederacy at the personal request of Sherman. After Stoneman was exchanged and released from the Confederate prison, Stanton and Grant both ordered him relieved from duty, but Maj. Gen. John Schofield, commanding Department of Ohio, intervened and persuaded the two to countermand their joint order. Maj. Gen. Stoneman was now commanding cavalry, Department of Ohio, and was leading his troopers from the Union stronghold in East Tennessee, where he would be assigned for the remainder of the Civil War. Immediately after being released from prison, Stoneman sought permission of Schofield to lead a raid against the Virginia & Tennessee Railroad and the saltworks of Saltville, Virginia. "I owe the Southern Confederacy a debt I am anxious to liquidate, and this appears a propitious occasion,” said Stoneman as he reflected on his stint in a Confederate prison.
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While assigned to the Dept. of Ohio and prior to the Saltville raid, Stoneman had oft times conversed with longtime friend and Ohioan John Schofield, who saw what others had not in the tall, confidant cavalryman- a risk taker who never said no to a fight. The Union Army was full of generals who had the ability to fight, but to take risks on the battlefield when opportunities permitted, well, that sort was lacking. It was Schofield who persuaded both Stanton and Grant to dismiss without prejudice the orders to relieve Stoneman, and it was Schofield who granted Stoneman his desire for the assault on the much needed Confederate saltworks in Virginia. Stoneman submitted his plan of battle for Saltville to Schofield, who slightly amended it before granting permission.
Battle: The Second Battle of Saltville, the fifth and final battle of the Saltworks Campaign, was fought during December 20-21, 1864.
During the actions of the Saltworks Campaign, Brig. Gen. Crook was unable to push his large force into or near the salt facilities during the Battle of Cloyd's Mountain, May 9, 1864, and at the Battle of Cove Mountain, May 10, 1864, Brig. Gen. Averell was repulsed by brigadiers John Hunt Morgan and William E. Jones, and while in the First Battle of Saltville, October 2, 1864, Brig. Gen. Burbridge committed a series of blunders, thus causing his rout. The Battle of Marion, December 17-18, 1864, saw Maj. Gen. Stoneman destroy a portion of the lead mines and salt ponds before turning his large force to Saltville, where the final destruction of the Saltworks occurred during December 20-21, 1864.
General George Stoneman led the Union forces consisting of Gen. A.C. Gillem’s men, Gen. Stephen Burbridge’s Kentucky battalions, and the 5th and 6th United States Colored Cavalry (which had been repulsed with heavy losses in the First Battle of Saltville just two month prior) and the 10th Michigan Cavalry on a raid on Saltville on December 20, 1864. The Union army had as many as 5,000 men according to contemporary reports, while more modest accounts place the total closer to 4,500. The Federal objective was rather simple in theory, Stoneman was to accomplish what Burbridge had attempted two months earlier in October, only to limp off the scene with staggering losses. Stoneman was to destroy the salt capitol of the Confederacy.
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Though Stoneman had just thrashed the Confederate garrison at nearby Marion just days prior, the defeated but determined Gen. Breckinridge reformed his patchwork command and was now in pursuit of the Union troops. Gen. John C. Breckinridge, a former Vice President of the United States and the highest U.S. public official to commit treason, ordered one column to take the road to the left into Rye Valley, but this route proved problematic, as the company lost their way several times during the nighttime passage. In the morning, the company continued down the mountain into Rye Valley, and turned up the valley, and marched throughout the day, ending at Mount Airy, on the Wytheville and Marion road.
Two roads led into Saltville: the Glade Spring road lay to the southwest, and the Lyon’s Gap road led from the southeast. Three hills a mile out of Saltville barricaded the convergence of these two roads. On these hills, protecting these roads the Confederates had constructed two forts, Fort Breckinridge (sometimes spelled Breckenridge) to protect Glade Spring and Fort Statham to guard Lyon’s Gap. Colonel Robert Preston was stationed in Saltville with 500 men, charged with protecting these two fortifications. With him was Captain John Barr, who commanded the artillery. With these limited resources, Colonel Preston picketed both roads to try and meet the approaching Union troops.
Gen. Basil Duke with a detachment, who had traveled from Abingdon along the Saltville road, and Captain Tom Barrett with men from the 4th Kentucky mounted rifles were also en route to Saltville to head off the coming raid. By the time Breckinridge’s forces reached Preston mansion at Seven Mile Ford on the outskirts of Saltville on the evening of the 20th of December, Duke and Captain Calvin Morgan were already there, watching Saltville burn.
Gen. Gillem reached Saltville first, attacking Colonel Preston’s pickets on the Glade Spring road. Shortly after, Gen. Burbridge’s men attacked at the Lyon’s Gap road. The Union forces crested both Fort Statham and Fort Breckinridge, and moved down into the town and descended upon the Saltworks. Colonel Preston called the surviving members of his reserves into retreat, and evacuated the town. The Federal soldiers destroyed 1000 of 3000 boiling kettles and burned a number of the evaporating sheds before moving on to rip up sections of the nearby Virginia and Tennessee railroad. They failed however to damage any of the actual salt wells, and the remaining kettles and sheds were sufficient to continue the needed salt production until the end of the war.
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After the raid, Stoneman and Gillem fell back to Tennessee, while Burbridge retreated through Pound Gap and into Kentucky.
Analysis: Salt played a major role during the Civil War. Salt not only preserved food in the days before refrigeration, but was also vital in the curing of leather. Union general William Tecumseh Sherman once said that "salt is eminently contraband," as an army that has salt can adequately feed its men.
The most important saltworks for the Confederacy were nestled at Saltville, Virginia. In late 1864, the Union army twice advanced to capture and lay waste of the works, as it was the last prominent source of salt for the eastern Confederate states. In October 1864, during the First Battle of Saltville, the Confederate army easily repulsed the Union assault, but merely two months later in December, during the Second Battle of Saltville, Union forces under George Stoneman managed to destroy the vital saltworks — at least temporarily. But in actuality, many of the crucial components of the works went unscathed. Two months after Stoneman had trekked and trashed the saltworks, they were operational and partially meeting the demands of the Confederacy, but the destroyed railroad system around the area hampered its distribution.
On Oct. 2, 1864, Union Gen. Burbridge was repulsed during an ill-fated attempt to sack the saltworks, but Gen. George Stoneman would accomplish the objective just a few months later in December.
While engaging the much larger Union army, the defending Confederates were at a great disadvantage for another reason during the two day fight, because armed with the single-shot, muzzle-loading Springfield rifle-musket, each soldier, though a veteran of many bloody battles, needed to steady his hands to complete the lengthy reloading process of the musket. While the Southerner would reload, take aim, fire, and repeat the cumbersome process, his rate of fire was 3 or at best 4 rounds per minute. Facing Johnny Reb at the works was Billy Yank, who was now sporting the next generation Spencer carbine, which enabled Stoneman's veteran cavalrymen a rate of fire of 21 rounds per minute. The carbine, also with a tube holding 7 cartridges, was similar to the Spencer repeating rifle but had a shorter barrel for easier handling while on horseback. Not the luck of the Irish, but greater numbers and superior weapons won the battle of Saltville for the veteran horsemen. (See also Civil War Weapons, Small Arms, Firearms, and Edged Weapons and Civil War Weapons, Firearms, and Small Arms,)
Although Maj. Gen. George Stoneman was enjoying the success of his first victory after 3 years and 9 months of grueling Civil War, and only 3 months and 3 weeks prior to Lee surrendering to Grant, he had recently been ranked among the Union's who's who of worst performing commanders to date. A rather disparaging title that made the 6'4" cavalry commander the joke among Washington's elite. But Stoneman, never refusing battlefield risks and never crawfishing from an opportunity to fight ole Johnny Reb, had said only a few months prior to the Saltville battle, that "if given the change he was going to lick the Rebel command under Breckinridge!"
But the New Yorker Stoneman was pronounced a loathsome commander and was considered one of the most worthless soldiers in the Union service, according to Secretary of War Stanton. Gen. Hooker had said that Stoneman's horrid performance was primarily to blame for the Federal loss at Chancellorsville in May of 1863. Gen. U.S. Grant had even co-sponsored, with Stanton, the orders relieving Stoneman not only of his command but forever of the Union blue after he became a prisoner-of-war causing quite a stir in Northern papers as well as much embarrassment to his superiors who were already sorely displeased with the cavalry commander's performance.
Battle of Saltville History
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Saltville Defenses during the Civil War
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“I might as well have had a wet shirt in command of my cavalry,” Hooker had said about Stoneman at Chancellorsville. “I think him one of the most worthless officers in the service and who has failed in everything entrusted to him,” said Stanton. If the already disconcerting monikers assigned to Stoneman weren't rife enough, the next move would secure himself a record that would forever be etched in the annals of Civil War history.
"I would like to try it and am willing to run any risk," said Stoneman to Gen. Sherman prior to his ride toward Andersonville prison in "an attempt to free the men there." But instead Stoneman soon found himself in a Confederate prison in Charleston, S.C., and would now be known as the highest ranking Union officer to become a prisoner-of-war. His plan was just another of many failed actions by the beleaguered Northerner. But Sherman negotiated with Confederate authorities and secured the release of Stoneman after he served three months in the Palmetto prison, and Schofield during this time persuaded Grant and Stanton to countermand their orders relieving Stoneman of military service.
While Stoneman's military career had been a foregone conclusion, someone merely forgot to inform the major general because upon release from the Confederate prison, Gen. John Schofield intervened on Stoneman's behalf and had him assigned as his cavalry commander for the Army of Ohio. There is little doubt that Stoneman felt that he had a debt to repay to Schofield for his continuing friendship and interventions during the war. He was determined to show his appreciation to his dear friend by initially destroying the saltworks of Saltville, but Stoneman had another excursion in mind, one that would make western North Carolina and southwestern Virginia howl. Today, Stoneman is known largely for his punishing raid of several Southern states in 1865, in addition to the destruction of the saltworks.
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Do you keep up on the latest proceedings of the IACR CRYPTO conference? No? Then chances are whenever you have tried to use a cryptographic library you made some sort of catastrophic mistake which would lead to a complete loss of confidentiality of the data you’re trying to keep secret.
The most important question is: are you using an authenticated encryption mode? If you don’t know what authenticated encryption is, then you’ve probably already made a mistake. Here’s a hint: authenticated encryption has nothing to do with authenticating users into a webapp. It has everything to do with ensuring the integrity of your data hasn’t been compromised, i.e. no one has tampered with the message.
Why is authenticated encryption so poorly known despite being so important? I don’t know. Perhaps it’s because the need for it wasn’t formally proven until the year 2000. And chances are you’ve never heard of authenticated encryption at all, because despite the best efforts of the cryptographic community it remains a relatively poorly-known concept.
Most of the cryptographic APIs you’ve ever encountered have probably made you run a gambit of choices for how you want to encrypt data. You might think AES-256 is the way to go, but by default your crypto API might select ECB mode, which is so bad and terribly insecure it isn’t even worth talking about. Perhaps you select CBC or CTR mode, but your crypto API doesn’t make you specify a random IV and will always encrypt everything with an IV of all zeroes, which if you ever reuse the same key will compromise the confidentiality of your data.
Let’s say you’ve gotten through all of that and are now using something like AES-CTR mode with a random IV per message. Great. Do you think you’re secure now? Probably not. A sophisticated attacker might attempt a man-in-the-middle attack, which gives him the ability to execute “chosen ciphertext” attacks (CCAs). To defend against these you must also ensure the integrity of your data, or otherwise confidentiality might be lost.
You may have learned you need to use a MAC to do this (and if you didn’t you’re most likely insecure!). You may have selected HMAC for this purpose. But you’re still left with three options here! Do you compute the MAC of the plaintext or the ciphertext. If you compute the MAC of the plaintext, do you encrypt it along with the plaintext, or do you append it to the end of the ciphertext? Or to spell it out more precisely, which of the following do you do?
Encrypt and MAC : encrypt the plaintext, compute the MAC of the plaintext, and append the MAC of the plaintext to the ciphertext
: encrypt the plaintext, compute the MAC of the plaintext, and append the MAC of the plaintext to the ciphertext Encrypt then MAC : encrypt the plaintext, compute the MAC of the ciphertext, and append the MAC of the ciphertext to the ciphertext
: encrypt the plaintext, compute the MAC of the ciphertext, and append the MAC of the ciphertext to the ciphertext MAC then Encrypt: MAC the plaintext, append the MAC to the plaintext, then encrypt the plaintext and the MAC
Edit: (this is important enough I feel the need to edit it retroactively)
If you have answered any of the above questions incorrectly (the correct answer to the above question is “encrypt then MAC”) you’ve quite likely created an insecure cryptographic scheme. Unless you really know what you’re doing and can answer all these questions correctly (and even then!), you probably shouldn’t be trying to build your own cipher/MAC constructions and should defer to cryptographic experts who specialize in that sort of thing. These cipher/MAC constructions are called authenticated encryption modes.
If you find yourself reaching for any form of encryption that isn’t an authenticated encryption mode, you’re probably doing it wrong. You shouldn’t ever be choosing between CBC or CFB or CTR (or god forbid ECB). Unless you’re a cryptographer, these should be considered dangerous low-level primitives not for the consumption of mere mortals.
That said, what should you be using?
NIST-approved AEAD block ciphers : AEAD stands for Authenticated Encryption with Associated Data, and represent ciphers that simultaneously provide confidentiality and integrity of data. Examples of these ciphers include EAX , GCM , and CCM modes. (Edit: some cryptographers have suggested I probably shouldn’t even recommend using this directly as there are still a number of attacks you will probably be susceptible unless you know what you’re doing, especially if you have a service accessible to an active attacker)
djb’s authenticated encryption modes in NaCl : there are two authenticated encryption modes available in the Networking and Cryptography library by Daniel J. Bernstein: crypto_secretbox and crypto_box , which respectively provide symmetric and pubkey modes of encryption and integrity checking.
(Edit: adding this retroactively) Google Keyczar also provides a high-level cryptographic toolkit with authenticated encryption modes.
(Edit: also adding this retroactively) GPG is one of the easiest cryptographic tools to use that provides high-level functionality intended for cases where you would like authenticated encryption.
EAX is one of the recommended modes and is relatively easy to understand: it’s a combination of AES-CTR mode and CMAC (a.k.a. OMAC1) which is a MAC derived from a block cipher (in this case AES). While EAX mode is relatively simple to understand and you may be tempted to implement it yourself it if it’s unavailable in your language environment, you probably shouldn’t, as there are a number of potential pitfalls that await you and unless you know what you’re doing (and even then!) you’re likely to get it wrong.
If I’ve scared you enough by now, you my be googling around to discover if there’s an implementation of any of the above modes in your respective programming language environment, and sadly in many language environments you may turn up empty. In these cases, there’s not much you can do except petition your language maintainers who specialize in cryptography to expose APIs to authenticated encryption modes.
Authenticated encryption is something you should use as a complete package, implemented as a single unit by a well-reputed open source cryptographic library and not assembled piecemeal by people who do not specialize in cryptography.
Bottom line: unless you’re using authenticated encryption, you are opening yourself up to all sorts of attacks you can’t even anticipate, and shouldn’t consider the data you’re storing confidential.
Edit: several people have asked about more information on everything I’ve described here, most notably why various MACing schemes are secure or insecure. If you are really interested in this topic, I strongly recommend you take the Stanford Crypto class on Coursera which is what inspired me to write this blog post to begin with.
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Monday, February 29, 2016
Dying Light: The Following (Xbox One) Review
I played some Dying Light a few months ago with two friends, and enjoyed my time with the game. I wasn't able to put much time into it, having to review games and all, so I was happy to get a review code for the Dying Light expansion called The Following. Trouble is, they recommend that you be at least survival level 12 to "have the most enjoyment" out of it, so I first tried to get myself to that point so I could dive into what sounds like a big expansion for the game.
However, I couldn't resist jumping into it. Or I was nudged for taking too long to get to it. Either way, I dove in, hopefully not woefully under-prepared. I can't really say one way or the other, since it felt just as hard as the base game, with all the things that irked me there. Getting to the first camp wasn't too bad once I was able to see the way, but a lot of the other stuff was hard. First off you have to infiltrate a camp and steal a car. Thankfully, you don't have to kill anyone, but can just steal the car and leave. I was able to do that after only a few deaths.
So I jumped back to the base game to buy a gun. That put me on equal footing to the bandits, and I was able to go back and finish them off. It works really well for fighting them and making any zombie in your visual range run up to fight you. Thankfully, the game allows you to jump back and forth between the two saves with the same character. Admittedly, the grappling hook should make a lot of things easier, so if you can, have that before jumping into The Following (hence the survival level 12 thing). If there was no death penalty, I would have had it by the time I played it.
Still, I had difficulties with the game. Enemies tend to travel in large groups, spawn nearby or behind you while you deal with their friends, and generally be a nuisance whenever you are trying to do something. There's even quests to destroy Volatile hives. It's safer to get there during the day, but then the hive itself has more enemies and is harder. It's very possible that I'm bad at the game, since combat tends to be hard for me. Even so, I imagine it's also better to have a friend of three when tackling quests.
The map for The Following is really big, as befitting for an expansion. The main story structure reminds me of Gat Out of Hell, where there are only a few missions, but you must raise your reputation by doing other things, like sidequests or delivering air drops. There are a lot of side quests and other things to do in the area, which will take a long time to complete. I could easily see people spending 20 hours to do everything, and even longer if you are by yourself or under-leveled. The main quest is pretty open, allowing you to kind of pick what you want to further your reputation with the locals. While the base game was in a city, the expansion has a lot more open space because of the best addition to the game...the vehicle.
Early on you gain access to a buggy that you can upgrade and drive around the map. It has a few different parts that you can equip to it and have to repair. While a bit strange from an outside perspective, it fits in the game very well. It's kind of like the weapons, although they don't wear out nearly as fast. There is also a skill tree for driving, and abilities you can use in the car, like a mine dropper, nitro boost and a flamethrower! Honestly, I just prefer to drive into all the enemies, but a lot of the other things had their uses.
Trouble is, I feel like they kind of went out of their way to suck some of the fun out of the vehicle. Many places you drive have some kind of obstruction to your view, such as high grass, trees or other similar things. This in turn makes it easy to run into things, which is easy enough with how unwieldy the buggy can be. The part that really annoys me is the parkour virals. They were annoying enough before, but now they can jump on your buggy and hang on. Or, just punch it which makes it lurch to the side or slide around when you try to turn. I somehow don't think they should be strong enough to punch a car and make it move, but clearly the developers think otherwise.
If you liked Dying Light, The Following is a great reason to jump back in. It gives you a huge area to play around in, with lots of new quests, and the car to mow down infected. Even if I'm terrible at combat, I would recommend playing with friends to make it the most fun and smooth experience it can be. I got annoyed at various points, but I'd say it was worth the price of admission, as you get a lot of extra content. Plus it is really fun and cathartic to run over lots of zombies.
Tuesday, February 23, 2016
Arslan: The Warriors of Legend (Xbox One) Review
The latest Koei Tecmo hack and slash game is another anime/manga adaptation, this time Arslan. Arslan: The Warriors of Legend follows the story of Arslan as he gathers followers new and old to retake his (father's) kingdom.
This isn't necessarily a spoiler, since I won't go into specifics, but the game just kind of ends at a certain point. I beat a level that had some importance to it, but there was no ultimate resolution. Then there were credits playing. I was actually confused, since it certainly wasn't the end of the story. So I decided to look into it some more.
Near as I can figure, this game is based off the new tv show that is airing in Japan. They have only finished the first season so far, and the game is basically that. It doesn't sound like the novels are done either, and they have been going since 1986! There was a manga series years ago that had its own ending after catching up to the books. An OAV was also made, but not finished. So maybe it is very fitting that the game isn't the whole story, since apparently nothing of the Arslan series is complete.
Despite that, the story is really well presented. A few scenes use the in-game engine, but many look just like anime. They also transition between them almost seamlessly. The anime scenes aren't very animated, but it took me awhile to even notice, since they just look so good and at first I thought they were actual animated cut scenes.
Also in a small but wonderful addition, the cut scenes list the controls on the bottom of the screen. You can thankfully pause the scenes and skip them, instead of just skipping them if you push a button. Pausing them is really nice since the achievement pop-ups love to cover up the subtitles. Usually I'll just pause the scene when an achievement pops so I can read the story. All of the spoken dialogue is in Japanese, so the subtitles do matter. Unfortunately, it won't pause dialogue in battle, so I missed big chunks of in-battle dialogue because I was either using a Special Move (Musou attack) or concentrating on the fight.
Even though I like the story presentation, it needs some more pronounced stopping points. Ending cut scenes for one level flow immediately into the opening for the next stage. It's nice to have a very fluid story with next to no loading, but I would really like a break in between each stage so it is easier to know when to take a break. It might not bother everyone, but since the story mode runs around 10-12 hours, I don't want to do it all in one sitting. The lack of loading is really nice for extended sessions, though.
Battles are very much like those of the Warriors games. You have a normal attack and a power attack that will change depending on when in the combo you use it. Plus, characters will eventually unlock a few different weapons that you can switch between with the d-pad. Using each weapon will level up the weapon arts for it. The weapon arts will change the elements and several of the attacks in it, which is really cool. It gives each character a lot of variations, even if it feels like most people end up with a bow and a sword as two of their weapons. I really like the multiple weapons per character.
Having multiple weapons also gives access to weapon chains. When you do a power attack at the end of your combo, you can press the Unique Skill button (RB in my case) to then switch to your next weapon and get another attack or two. I didn't feel it was really necessary to do it all the times I used it, but it kills more bad guys so there isn't much reason not to use it. All characters also possess a Unique Skill, which costs some of the Special meter. I rarely used them and instead used the meter for the Special attacks, since those are good at clearing out enemies or doing some good damage to a boss or their shield.
Here is a nice battle shot of Farangis because...reasons.
Another new addition is the Mardan Rush, which is activated by using a Rush Zone. You will then gather troops to you and attack just by moving around. It is possible to get huge chain combos doing this, and if you reach a special area, will break down a barricade or a group of shield troops. Pressing the attack button will give you either a charge (mounted rush) or a shockwave attack (phalanx). There is also an archer variant, where the cursor aims the arrows that are constantly shooting, and the attack button will shoot fire arrows. Besides being used to open up other parts of the stage, they are pretty fun because of the massive combo you can get. If you mess up getting to the end zone (which I did more frequently than I would like to admit), the Rush Zone will appear again.
When all is said and done, there are two problems I have with the fighting in the game. The first is the boss shields. Powerful enemies have shields that must be broken down before you can damage them. After they are down for a few seconds, they come back up. It does make certain enemies harder, and that is probably the point, but to me it's more annoying than interesting. The other thing I'm not fond of is the ranking. All missions and stages will rate you upon completion. It doesn't seem to affect much other than the card rewards, but I'm don't really like constantly being rating on every part of a game.
The skill system in Arslan is unique in that skills are granted from cards that you equip. There are ranks of cards, from C to S and some special limited cards. The limited cards can only be obtained on the harder difficulties after performing certain tasks on certain stages. Each rank costs a number of points to equip. The spread is pretty wide, with C cards being dirt cheap and S cards being expensive. A character's card point max is determined by their level, so as you level up you can equip more powerful card combinations, although the max number of cards is always three. The cards can be sold for some gold, or recycled in groups to get another card. There are even special sets that grant bonuses.
Besides the Story mode, there is also the requisite Free mode, which allows you to play any unlocked stage with any unlocked character. This is good for level grinding or just using a character that you like without being restricted by stage. The best part is the Extra stages that are basically side stories to the main plot that help flesh out some off-screen stuff. You can also find recipes that cost money and give stat boosts for any Free Mode stage. An online mode rounds out the game, but I wasn't able to find any matches to try it out. The split-screen co-op works very much like all other Warriors games: fairly well, but I still wish both players shared the map rather than each have their own. It really reduces screen clutter.
As mentioned earlier, the story takes about 10-12 hours for its 26 stages. Other than that, there are some extra stages to do in Free mode. Sadly, that's about it for the game. You can obviously still play it after that, to max out the weapons or character levels. The achievements and trophies for the game will also take a lot of grinding to do, as you have to max all character's weapons, find all the cards and recipe books, plus beat all the stages on the hardest setting. Even so, it doesn't seem to have as much content as other similar titles.
While I had heard of the Heroic Legend of Arslan, I had not seen it. Arslan: The Warriors of Legend does a good job in telling the story to someone who hasn't experienced it before. So don't worry if you have never heard of it or seen anything on it, as that won't hinder your enjoyment of the title. The seamless presentation is really well done, but I would have liked better breaks between the stages. While the game is fun and has several unique mechanics, it seems a bit on the low side of content for Koei Tecmo hack and slash title. Plus the way the story ended just felt off. I would still recommend fans of the Warriors games and hack and slash games play Arslan: The Warriors of Legend, though, as it is a fun game.
(Review code for Arslan: The Warriors of Legend was provided by the publisher.)
Saturday, February 20, 2016
Rainbow Moon (PS4) Quick Review
Over 2 years ago, Rainbow Moon released on the Vita. Like several other games this generation, it has now come to the Playstation 4. It also offers return players a discount if they want to purchase the newest version. While the game is not cross-buy, thankfully it is cross-save, so you can continue your file from either the Vita or PS3 version (which I did). Just make sure you download the DLC you may have so the save file will load.
I'll recap the game a bit here for anyone new, but you can always read the original Vita review here if you want some more in-depth coverage. Rainbow Moon is an RPG, but battles take place on a grid, so that aspect is much more like a strategy RPG. You can have up to three characters per battle, but the enemy can have much more. Some of the map enemy fights seem crazy with the odds stacked against you (I've seen a battle with 29 opponents), but aren't unwinnable. Each turn you can do one action (move a panel, attack, defend, etc.), but you can gain more sub-turns to do more actions as you level up. These sub-turns really let the battles loose and make the game more unique.
Some enemies are placed on the world map, and you encounter them by touching them. They must be defeated for them to disappear for awhile. There are also random encounters as you walk around, but these can be skipped if you want, which is really helpful. I would love it if more RPGs had that in place for random encounters. The game is fun but feels kind of grind heavy at times. You'll need to level up and get a fair amount of money for everything, so you end up doing a lot of extra battles. After I reviewed the game last time, I purchased a few pieces of the DLC (on sale of course) to help with that (double xp ring and pearls/money for everyone). These aren't necessary, but they do speed the game up.
A good battle shot from the PS3 version.
So on to the PS4 version of the game. It ran perfectly fine on the system, and I had no trouble resuming my Vita save file after the DLC was downloaded. The game also loads really quickly, which is always a plus. One thing the developers mentioned was that the game had some reworked dialogue. I'm not sure where it all is, and someone like me would need to see the shots back to back, but I see no reason to doubt it. Either way, the PS4 version looks and runs the best out of the three versions.
If you are a fan of RPGs, Rainbow Moon is pretty fun and a solid game. It offers a lot of gameplay, even more so for its price. If it sounds interesting and you haven't picked it up, now is a pretty good time to do so, since long time Playstation Plus users may be able to get the discount on the PS4 version. Personally, I would recommend getting a few pieces of the DLC to save you a lot of time. Again, it isn't necessary, but it cuts down a lot of the grinding. Fans of RPGs and SRPGs should try out Rainbow Moon.
Tuesday, February 16, 2016
Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth (PS4) Review
As mentioned early in the year, I was really looking forward to playing Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth. I've been a fan of Digimon for many years, spanning back to when I saw the first season of the show. I've watched several seasons and enjoyed several of the Digimon World games. I even own a toy Digivice (or two) and have several of the transforming toys. Besides providing more proof that I'm a nerd, I wanted to let you know where I'm coming from for this review.
I'm really liking Cyber Sleuth. I have a lot more fun making and digivolving my collection, but the story is pretty good too. It's not that typical a Digimon story, as your main character jumps between the online world and real world to solve crimes while trying to figure out how to get back into your real body. After playing for a bit, I think the target demographic is people who watched Digimon when it was first on TV. It looks fine enough on the surface, but there are a few questionable elements, such as language, that skew this title away from children. It's kind of a shame, because my son is really enjoying the game, and I think other kids would too. Note the game is rated T.
Battles are up to 3 on 3 turn-based fights. The turn order is dictated by a Digimon's speed. On your turn you can attack, use a skill or item, defend, or swap some of your party. Skills can either be physical or magical based, and take MP to use. When you swap your Digimon, it's nice that you can replace up to all three with one turn. Overall, the battles are pretty standard, but I find them fun. They aren't overly hard, either, save a few of the boss fights.
Your party can have a maximum of 11 Digimon, which is really high. However, you are also limited by your party memory. Each Digimon has a certain memory cost, and higher ranks (ultimate, mega, etc.) have higher costs. There are several items that will increase this limit, so it is somewhat balanced in keeping you from filling your whole party with ultimates and running roughshod over the enemies. Plus, for most of the game your party will have mixes of the different ranks, so it isn't a huge problem.
An early on boss battle where you have a Mega-sized guest.
From the Digi-Lab, it is nice enough to show you the requirements for each Digivolution. However, you likely won't be about to change into all of the forms right off the bat. Each Digimon has an ability stat (abbreviated ABI) that helps determine their max level and max amount of bonus stats. To increase this, you will have to Digivolve and De-Digivolve a few times while making your way to the Mega rank or even to the final form you want for a Digimon.
Once you learn the system, it works pretty well. Just be aware that you will be moving backwards and forwards through each Digivolution line in your quest to get mega rank Digimon. Unlike the Digimon World games, each Digimon's stats are set based on what Digimon it is. For example, all level 10 Greymon will have the same base stats. Higher ABI stats will give a higher max level, which might help you get a stat high enough to make it one of the more powerful Digimon. So each route is much more open than in previous games, but it can be more work to get a Digimon through its "true" path.
There's also a farm that can be used to level up your spare Digimon. You will also get notices when one or more reaches maximum level so you don't have to keep track of everyone. Plus, when on the farm you can have them develop items, find more side investigations for you or train their bonus stats. These are all really important for late game leveling, but the whole system isn't very obvious. However, given how the stats work, it's actually pretty easy to swap around your party, and actually useful to do so, so you can give bonus stats to the Digimon you use when you leave them on the farms. You can also store a fair amount of them in the bank, which I use frequently. I can't resist tying to have each one at least once!
There are 20 chapters in the game, and it can take several hours to finish one. The chapters have some self contained elements, but also further the overarching narrative. It really depends on how many side investigations you do. Since I'm a crazy completionist, I spent way too much time doing them while going through the main game. Besides side investigations that appear throughout the game, there are ones that can be gained from Digimon on the farms. While you could go through the game in around 35 hours or so, completionists like myself will take much longer. It would be nice if the game was better about telling/reminding you what is the next step of the investigation, just in case you take some time off and come back to the game later.
I was looking forward to playing Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth, since it has been too long since the US last had a Digimon RPG. The wait was worth it, since I really like the game. It is a lot of fun to get them all, but some of the systems in the game aren't really clear. Battles are fairly standard for the genre, but everything works well. I would easily recommend the game to any Digimon fans, or people looking for a fun monster-collecting turn-based RPG game.
Friday, February 12, 2016
Deadpool (Xbox One) Review
The Deadpool game has a kind of strange history. It was released and had low sales, then was eventually de-listed from the digital marketplaces after Activision's Marvel license ran out. It then was re-released for the current consoles, likely because of the movie in February.
The premise and tone of the game are cool and unmistakenly modern Deadpool. He wants to make his own video game, and High Moon studios agrees to it...after some "convincing". After being sent the script, Deadpool decides on some re-writes before doing much reading, and sets out to make the game (as a nice touch, they do list him in the credits a few times). There are plenty of fourth wall breaks and humor to the game. I liked many of the jokes, but some were complete misses. I can easily see each joke polarizing the audience for or against it. There is a lot of swearing, innuendo and other things, and a near constant barrage of humor, whether you like it or not.
Deadpool is an action game, but splits its time between hack and slash and third person shooter. Those two elements come together pretty well all things considered, but it could have been a bit more polished. The melee attacks have three different weapons and a few different combos, and it was pretty fun to slash and smash up the enemies. Deadpool also gets a counter move, similar to Ninja Gaiden or the Batman Arkham games. The counter window is a little generous, but it doesn't seem open for as long as the button is displayed on the screen. The same button also teleports Deadpool to avoid damage. This is kind of nice, but I would probably prefer them to be different buttons. The teleport could work better as well. If you teleport through an attack, you can avoid all the damage from it, but you usually have to teleport through the enemy to the other side. If you teleport backwards or to the side, still outside of the attack's range, you will likely still get hit. It doesn't make much sense.
The shooting didn't feel as good as the melee to me. Aiming itself was smooth enough, but the enemies tended to move very quickly, making actually keeping the aim on them frustrating. There is a lock-on mechanic, but it is very fickle in actually starting and staying on the target. It was the easiest way to shoot enemies, but it still left much to be desired. You do get four different gun types, but some (SMGs) just felt better than others (shotgun). It also felt like the guns would do inconsistent damage, and not just because of headshots. The first pistol round would do almost 50%, then the next would do 25% or so. Considering the aiming and shooting in the Cybertron games (which the studio also did) was so much better, I have no idea what happened in Deadpool.
The game's difficulty level also doesn't feel very balanced. Enemies will get stronger as the game progresses, so at least that part works. They will also get stronger, which is fine...except you can only get 1 increase to your max health. Plus, throughout the game, enemies with rapid fire weapons (either machine guns or the whirlwind enemies that have rapid blasts) just eat through your health. There's no block and you can't counter it. The teleport might let you get away, but it can be really spotty in doing so. Plus, shots like that don't make Deadpool react, so you might be down 50% in two seconds and not even realize your were being hit. Also, I was unashamedly playing on the easiest setting, and the rapid fire still cut through him in seconds. That's not balanced and I would dread playing this on the hardest setting, even with all the upgrades.
Besides action, there are many times you are jumping around from ledge to ledge, platform to platform. Deadpool's jumping is pretty good, if a bit hard to precisely control at times. He does have a double jump ("physics be damned!"), which I always like to have. His teleport doesn't really do anything for these sections, save for a few bits later in the game where you can directly go to another ledge. Having that as a mechanic throughout the game might have made these parts better. The character model does a great job of getting caught on the level's geometry, though. This affects moving, fighting, and platforming. The jumping in and of itself is fine, but sometimes you hit the edge of the platform or something else goes wrong and you just...miss. Here it will prompt you for the teleport, which puts you back at an earlier platform. It's still annoying though.
However, the biggest problem the game has to be its very frequent hang-ups. Every 30 seconds or so, the game will lock up for a second or two. This is very detrimental to gameplay in all areas. It will de-sync the audio when it happens during a cut-scene. While jumping or fighting, it doesn't stop you from being able to react, but it does throw off your timing since you won't know exactly how long it will be stuck. There is a solution, and it is to disconnect your system from the internet while playing. I did that and the game started working just fine. Even so, it really shouldn't be an issue in a released game. It just smacks of shoddy work, and it is present on both Xbox One and PS4.
The game is pretty short, too, clocking in at about 7 hours. That's probably on the higher end of it, depending on your skill at the game, and how many parts you have to do over. There are some challenge levels unlocked by going through the game to give you a little more to do, but a bulk of the replay and extended play is going for the achievements and trophies. The game does get much harder by the end, especially the last stage. This is mostly because it is an extended platforming part that then culminates with several waves of many enemies and two boss fights against multiple people.
Deadpool has some great moments, like Cable's introduction song and some of the jokes, but the action is a bit of a letdown. There's not much unique about it and it feels unbalanced and unpolished in a lot of ways. If you like the character of Deadpool, the game is definitely worth a rental. Since it is so short with not much replay value, you can finish it in a day or two easy (I did). I would not recommend a purchase, but it might be worth a try for comic book fans.
(Deadpool game used for review was rented from Redbox.)
Friday, February 5, 2016
Saturday Morning RPG (PS4) Review
When I first heard about Saturday Morning RPG, it sounded like the game I would make. Take lots of references to 80s and 90s culture, sprinkle in some video game stuff, and pour it all over an RPG frame. While that recipe doesn't always turn out, in Saturday Morning RPG, it is delicious.
The characters and enemies in the game are all cool sprites that, besides invoking the feeling of great 90s gaming, also look cool. The backgrounds are in 3D, but they blend together really well. The sprites are simpler on the map, and become much better during battles. The music is also really catchy and fits the game. I really dig how the game looks and sounds.
Before any battle starts, you can scratch your stickers and get some nice effects for that battle. These vary wildly, from a specific stat buff, to an enemy debuff, to more money, or even ones that don't seem to do anything. Even though you are doing it every time, I tended to forget that I had to scratch when a battle started. Each sticker has a different rarity and scratch difficulty, so there is some tactical thought you can put into your choices. It's a fun thing to make battles more unique. However, it's only one of several things that will wear our your hand...or controller...while playing.
Battles are turn based. The current order is shown at the top of the screen and it is determined by your speed stat and the speed of what you are doing. There is a normal attack, that has a sliding bar mini-game to give critical damage. However, this attack is rarely used for damage as it restores MP. MP isn't used for abilities, like just about every other RPG, but for the unique charge mechanic in the game.
There are three charge abilities to increase the damage multiplier on your next attack. There is a quick one that will take some MP to add an amount of charge of around 2x. The second is a timing mini-game where you try to stop the meter closer to the end as it speeds up. The third is mashing the button to gain the bonus. The third was easily the most powerful, but it really wears out your arm (and maybe the controller). The second didn't seem much more powerful than the first, so I rarely used it. For longer play sessions, I stuck with the quick charge, mostly to save my poor mashing muscles. A turbo controller would absolutely be a great option to use, though.
You can also get some MP and extra charge multipliers from guarding attacks. If you press the button when an attack is going to hit you, you can reduce its damage. Early on the difference is negligible, but it becomes more significant later on, especially in boss and mid-boss fights. Thankfully it isn't too hard to at least get some damage reduction, but the timing for the best guard is tricky for some attacks. The only small issue I had with the guarding is a few attacks (notably the flamethrower) would cover up my character and block rating so I couldn't tell how close I was, since the text isn't readable through some effects.
Your special attacks are the items that you equip. Each one has a set number of uses per battle. Some require no additional imputs, but many require either mashing the button or a timing mini-game of some sort. It's pretty cool and there are a lot of great references in the numerous equips you can find. The only problem is the use count. For most fights it is fine, but any lengthy ones it can be very easy to run out. If you do, you are stuck with the weak normal attack and trying to get enough MP to charge it to do something resembling decent damage. This also makes the Endless fights really hard as you press through them.
Plus, attacks seem to miss more than I would think they should. Even with extra accuracy and a weapon skill that has high accuracy, I've missed too much. With limited uses, this really is a bummer. Even more so if you sank some MP to charge it, which is then also wasted. I'm not sure what the hard numbers are on accuracy, but I felt like I missed too many attacks. Granted, I'm a huge accuracy nut in RPGs, so anything more than a rare miss bothers me.
Another great reference to 80s/90s kids is the menu. Your menu is one of those old trapper keeper folders. The front shows the battle stickers that you are currently using. These can be replaced anytime you aren't in battle. The cover of the folder also can grant stat bonuses to help in battle. Inside you set your abilities and can check your quests. Just about everything in the game is a nod to something, and I think it works really well.
Right now the game has five episodes. You can do them in any order, especially if you use the settings to scale the enemies. However, the game makes the most sense if you go in the proper order. It took me almost 10 hours to go through all of them. Since many of the quests have alternate solutions, there is a good reason to replay the chapters if you so choose. Plus, you keep your stats and items, so it is also an excuse to get them all. The episodic format also works really well for Saturday Morning RPG. It feels more legit, like an old cartoon show (that is the point), plus gives easy ways to add more to the game.
If you like RPGs, you should try Saturday Morning RPG. If you are in your late 20s or older and like RPGs, you should absolutely get this game. It's not perfect, but it is very fun and should give you a great nostalgia kick. I "marked out" several times in the game. Even if it is short, the playtime seems perfect for the cost. I really enjoyed the game and would recommend it, just be careful not to wear out your controller or yourself.
Tuesday, February 2, 2016
Shooting Stars! (PC) Review
What happens when you mix shmup gameplay with pixel art and the internet? Shooting Stars!
No, really. Shooting Stars! is a shoot-em-up (or shmup for short) game where you and your laser-eyed cat take on memes, celebrities, and internet personalities of all sorts. I think just about everything in the game is a pop culture reference to something. Enemies, attacks, name it.
As a shmup, you move your character around and shoot...everything. You start off with a basic laser (from your cat) that can upgrade when you pick up food items. These items are randomly given during the game when an enemy is killed. Being just food items, it isn't readily apparent what each upgrade will do, and some are either very specific (the clone super move will copy your powerups) or not very useful. So try to remember at least which ones you don't want to pickup. The only one I really avoid outright is the really big hamburger, since it upgrades your shot to include missiles. While this does up your damage, each missile explosion will shake the screen. When you are trying to delicately dodge around a lot of small shots, shaking the screen is a huge detriment.
Besides your normal shot, you can also have one type of super move equipped. These are also randomly dropped from slain enemies. Like the food power-ups, each super varies in usefulness and effect. Most are big attacks that can clear out multiple enemies, but there is also one that gives you temporary clones on the side to widen your attacks, and a shield that makes you invincible for a set amount of time. Thankfully, these super moves are on a cooldown timer instead of a use count, so fire away! You can only have one on at a time, so you have to hover over another for a few seconds to pick it up. That is super useful so you don't accidentally pick one up that you don't want. Also like the fruit, each might not be so obvious as to what it does, so try to remember the ones you like and skip the rest after you have tried them all.
Once you start the game, there are six stages, the first five of which are random. There are many different bosses, and each one has a different stage that must be completed before you fight them. They also each have unique attacks and shot patterns, which I honestly didn't expect. It's also nice that the order is pretty random, leading to a different experience each time you go through the game. The sixth stage is set, and will always be the final boss. After besting him, you then continue through the game again, each run getting harder and harder, until you die.
There are three ways to control the game. You can use a keyboard, mouse or controller. For me, the keyboard was easily the weakest of the three, and mostly because moving isn't as precise with the arrow keys. The mouse offered really quick and precise movements, but you have to hold the shoot button to move, meaning you are constantly shooting. This isn't a huge problem, but you will just constantly hear the laser noises. Plus, it tends to cramp my hand after 10 minutes or so. The controller was the most comfortable to me. Moving isn't quite as fast, but it was much more comfortable and natural. Either way, they all worked, but I would recommend using a controller or just the mouse.
It only takes about 10-15 minutes to get through each cycle. However, because the goal of the game really is getting a high score, you are meant to replay it a lot. The random nature of the bosses and powerups makes this much more palatable than some other shmups. Your high score will also get posted to the leaderboards. Bosses sometimes drop cards to collect, adding another element to extend playtime if you desire. The game itself isn't too hard. You get several hits before you die, but only one life. Occasionally there are drops to restore health or armor, so there is some leniency.
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Can you give me question paper for MCA 3rd semester examination of Punjab technical university ??
I. K. Gujral Punjab Technical University (IKGPTU) is a State university located at Kapurthala highway, Jalandhar, India. It was established by an act of State Legislature on 16 January 199
PTU MCA 3rd Semester question paper
Operating System -
Time: Three hours Maximum: 100 marks
Answer ALL questions. (8 x 5 = 40 marks)
1. (a) Write short note on early operating system. List the differences between Multiprogramming and
Time-sharing systems. Or
(b) Explain the architecture of an operating system.
2. (a) List out the various process states and briefly explain with a state diagram. Or
(b) What do you mean by processor scheduling? Explain the various levels of scheduling.
3. (a) Explain the methods of dead lock prevention and avoidance. Or
(b) Write briefly on fragmentation and swapping.
4. (a) Why disk scheduling is necessary? Explain the different seek optimization techniques.
(b) Describe the different mechanisms used to protect a file.
5. (a) Explain the design principles of Unix
(b) Write a short note on Unix file system
6. (a) Write short notes on Demand Page Memory management. Or
(b) What is segmentation? State it usages.
7. (a) Explain the concepts involved in maintaining the file system security. Or
(b) Write short notes on double - buffering.
8. (a) List the various merits of treating directories and devices as file in Unix. Or
(b) Write short notes on I/O systems on Unix.
Answer ALL questions. (5 x 12 = 60 marks)
9. (a) Explain the various functions of an operating system from a system programmer's view.
(b) What is s'emaphore? Explain the application of semaphore.
10. (a) Compare preemptive and non-preemptive algorithm. Or
(b) Explain the Banker's algorithm for dead -lock avoidance.
PTU MCA 3rd Semester question paper
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Here I am giving you question paper for MCA 3rd semester examination of Punjab technical university ..
Part A
(a) Which are the writing tools in compiler?
(b) A compiler is described as a translator? Could any of its phases be described as interprators? Which
ones and why?
(c) What is Bootstrapping in Compiler?
(d) Differentiate local optimization and loop optimization.
(e) What are regular set and regular expressions?
(f) What are the duties of book keeping and error handler?
(g) Write storage allocation strategies.
(h) Write the regular expression notations?
(i) What are the properties of regular set?
(j) Write a grammer whose sentences are the regular expressions over the alphabet(a,b)
(k) What are the dynamic storage allocation techniques?
(l) What are the assignment statements?
(m) Write the applications of DAG?
(n) Write problems in code generation phase.
(o) Justify loop optimization technique.
Section B 5x9=45
2. Draw and explain a parse tree for the following IF-Statement IF A>B & A<=2* B-5 THAN A;+A=B
3. Write about following: Parser generator , automatic code generator and syntax directed translation
4. Determine and describe the large scale structure and intermediate code of a compiler in use in your
computing environment. What section of compiler are optionally executed under user control?
5. Write about the following: Scanner generator, automatic code generator and data flow engine
6. Draw the flow chart of pass –I compiler.
7. Let R be some relation on a set A. Explain all the three properties of the relation.
8. Translate the arithemetic expression a*-(b+c) into
(a) A syntax tree (b) Postfix notation
(c) Three- address code
9. Construct a finite automata that will accept string of zeros and ones tha5t contain even numbers of
zeros and odd numbers of ones.
10. How we do minimization and optimization of a DFA.
11. Compare recursive – descent parsing and non recursive predictive parsing.
12. Write the algorithm for code- generation
13. Cosider the grammer S-> (L)|aL->L,S|S
(a) What are the terminals, non terminals and start symbol?
(b) What language does this grammer generate?
PART A Answer ALL questions. (8 x 5 = 40 marks)
1. (a) Use the Secant method to determine the root of the equation x4 - x -10 = 0 .
(b) Apply Newton - Raphson's method to determine a root of the equation x - e -x = 0 .
2. (a) Find 2 iterations with the Muller method for the following equation X3 –1/2 =0with X0 = 0.
(b) Find two iterations with the Chebyshev method for finding root of the equation
x = 1/2 + sin x with Xo = 1.
3. (a) Solve by Gauss elimination method for the following
2x- y+3z= 16
(b) Solve by Triangularization method
2x+ y+ 3z= 13
3x+ y+4z=17.
4. (a) Solve the following system of equation by using Gauss - Seidel method
8x-3y+2z= 20
4x+lly-z = 33
6x+3y+12z= 35.
(b) Find the inverse of A = using partition method.
5. (a) Using Lagrange's formula, fit a polynomial to the data.
(b) Prove that = 1/2 2 + 1+ 2/4
6. (a) Using Newton's divided difference formula find f( from the following data:
(b) Find the approximate value of f' (2.0) and f"(2.0) using the methods based on linear
7. (a) Compute r(0.6) from the following table using the formula Richardson extrapolation.
x: 0.2 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 1.0
f(x): 1.42 1.88 2.13 2.39 2.66 2.94 3.56
With h=0.2.
3 -1 1
3 -1 1
5 -2 2
X : 0 1 3 4
Y : -12 0 6 12
X : 4 5 7 10 11 13
F(x): 48 100 294 900 1210 2028
X : 2.0 2.2 2.6
Y : 0.6932 0.7885 0.9555
(b) Solve the equation dy = 1- y given y(0)= 0
using Euler method for the solutions at x = 0.1, 0.2, 0.3
8. (a) Solve the initial value problem y' = y = (2x/y) y(0) = 1 for x=01 ,0.2
using backward Euler method
(b) Using mid-point method find y(0.1), y(0.2)
given (dy/dx) = X2 + y2 , y(0)=1.
PART B Answer ALL questions. (5 x 12 = 60 marks)
9. (a) Using Bairstow's method to obtain the quadratic factor of the equation
X4 - 3X3 + 20X2 + 44x + 54=0 with (p,q) = (2,2) (perform three iterations).
(b) Using Graeffe's root squaring method to find the roots of X4 - X3 + 3X2 +X-4 =0.
10. (a) Find the largest eigen value of
and the corresponding eigen vector.
(b) Find all the eigen values of the matrix.
11. (a) Obtain a linear polynomial approximation
to the function f(x)= X3 on the interval [0,1] using the least square approximation.
(b) Find the least squares approximation of second degree for the data.
12. (a) Calculate
(1 + sin x/ x) dx correct to four decimal places.
5 5
(b) Evaluate dx dy / (x2 + y2) 1/2 using the trapezoidal rule.
13. (a) Given the initial value problem u' = t2 + u2,u(O)= 0 find the Taylor series for u(t) and
hence obtain u(0.5)
(b) Solve the initial value problem u'= -2tu2, u(O)=1 with h = 0.1 for x=0.l, 0.2. Use the
fourth order classical Runge -Kutta method
Section – A Marks : (2x15)
a. Convert the following logic function into minterm
b. Define the terms microprogramming & multiprogramming.
c. Give the layered view of a computer system.
d. What is the role of Decoder in digital computers?
e. Perform the subtraction with the following unsigned binary number by taking the 2’s compliment of
the subtrahend
f. Explain the meaning of the menmory-reference ubstryctuib AND to AC
g. What is the difference between hardwired control and micro programmed control?
h. Give two examples of Data transfer instructions.
i. How Cache Memory is useful in memory hierarchy?
j. What do you mean by isolated I/O?
k. How the RISC Architecture is different from CISC Architecture.
l. Explain the Characteristics table of SR flip-flop.
m. What is the role of memory stack in CPU?
n. Why we need virtual memory?
o. What do you mean by Interrupt-Initiated I/O?
Section –B (5X9)
Q2. A computer employs RAM chips of 256x8 and ROM chips of 1024x8. The computer system needs
2K bytes of RAM, 4K bytes of ROM, and four interface units, each with four registers. A memorymapped
I/O configuration is used. The two highest-order bits of the address bus are assigned 00 for
RAM, 01 for ROM, and 10 for interface registers. How many RAM and ROM chips are needed?
Q3. Explain the Relative addressing mode using suitable example?
Q4. How many characters per second can be transmittesd over a 1200-baud line in each of the
following modes considering a character code of 8 bits. Synchronous serial transmission
Asynchronous serial transmission with 1 stop bit
Q5. Explain in detail the working of Set-Associative Mapping with the help of a suitable example.
Q6. What is the difference between a direct and indirect instruction? How many references to memory
are needed for each type of instruction to bring an operand into a processor register?
Q7. Convert the following arithmetic expressions from Reverse Polish Notation to infix notation.
a. A B C D E +*-/ (2)
b. A B C*/D-EF/+ (3)
Q8. Explain the design and working of a Octal-to-Binary Encoder.
Q9. Write a short note on 4-bit synchronous binary counter.
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Shitty Freestyle (Last Dayz)
Tyler, The Creator
Featuring Hodgy Beats
Shitty Freestyle (Last Dayz) Lyrics
[Hodgy Beats]
Yeah, OF on the lettermen we all better then
Any haters wanna beef we gonn' sever them
Cut 'em in half, I'm a fuckin' cow so I'm cuttin' these (I fucked up)
Litter fuckin' life, and I hit bitches and they fuckin' wife
Chris brown a real nigga, sock that bitch up in her mouth
Do I give a fuck? No, but if I gave a fuck
Do you think I'd tell you? Fuck no!
Kinda like my dad
When he came home and told me he wanted to get my ass wet
Goddamn that's gay but I'm not so fuck it I won't stop
I keep sayin' this gay shit
But if you got a problem nigga, you don't gotta play it
I need my damn inhaler cause I'm barely fuckin' breathing
Jackin' off semen everywhere up on the chair
I put my jeans but fuck it I'll just go to Diamond and get another pair
And if they got a problem, fuck it, go to 'preme and get a box logo fuckin' tee
And motherfuckin' panties just to match, so when I can pee
I can pull them fuckin' down and sit down
and look at E
Fuckin' rectangles on my fuckin' G-string
That's fuckin' gay I know, goddamn that shit is tight but yo
Shout out to all my niggas doing hardcore drugs
And sockin' bitches out and shootin' up the Key clubs
Goddamn I fucked up, I've gone blah blah, a blacker nigga tad of sagga a dagga lagga
[Hodgy Beats]
I feel like I'm brown
But I'mma go up, watch the flow come down
Errybody wanna be like us
But I don't give a fuck, ridin' on my trucks
Skateboard that is
, I hate whores that is
And fat kids that eat donuts and act like sluts, fuck y'all little bitch ass niggas
I don't know I'm bored, so I'mma rap about shit
That don't need to be rapped about shit
I get bitches and I'm I wrap 'em in shit like plastic wrap and shit
And then there at the bottom of my freezer
with the carrots and
, ain't no fuckin' stopping me
I'm hotter then the dandazies
On my fuckin' penis when Raquel was on her fuckin' knees
But she don't like to talk to me
She fuckin' up cause in about a week we gon' have like 30 G's
Coulda bought her, a fuckin', Gucci purse
(You know what I was gonna say first)
I don't care I got bitch lickin' my balls
And I'mma take all my homies and roll through the mall
Buy every fuckin' thing and listen to Tina
While we buy everything and listen to Tina
While we buy everything and listen to Tina
While we listen to Tina, I'mma buy everything
And give way to fuckin' bums..
My lungs ain't got no fuckin' air
So if I fuckin' stop here, there
I don't care if you do but if you do I don't care
That's not makin' sense, I'm a fuckin' ithiet
And I'm so fuckin' intimate
With a fuckin' pastor tryna fuck me in his class
While there's cum up on my ass
So when I slide I can just motherfuckin', um, move faster
Goddamn that's nasty
Oh shit, jackin' off then I watch Degrassi
And watch a bunch of pedophiles come on and pass me
My fuckin' beard is growin' in so they are losing interest
So let me shave it, so they can try and get into this
Damn that's gay as fuck
[Hodgy Beats]
The infamous nigga is wilding, whole fuckin' crew is dieting
So we go to Trae and goons and get some rice pudding
For all these bitches that don't want the beef
Be cool so we keep pushing and uh, niggas know we flowing
If we ain't, then we ain't flowing
About “Shitty Freestyle (Last Dayz)”
This is a song Hodgy Beats and Tyler the Creator made when they were bord,it has a pretty nice beat
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\section{Functionally Incomplete Logical Connectives/Conjunction and Disjunction}
Tags: Functional Completeness
\begin{theorem}
The set of logical connectives:
:$\set {\land, \lor}$: And and Or
is not functionally complete.
\end{theorem}
\begin{proof}
Let $v_T$ be the boolean interpretation that assigns $T$ to each propositional symbol.
Then it follows by the nature of the truth functions for $\land$ and $\lor$ that:
:$\map {v_T} {\mathbf A} = T$
for each WFF $\mathbf A$ comprising only $\land$ and $\lor$.
On the other hand:
:$\map {v_T} {\neg p} = F$
Therefore, $\neg p$ cannot be expressed in terms of $\land$ and $\lor$.
Hence, $\set {\land, \lor}$ is not functionally complete.
{{qed}}
\end{proof}
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Saturday, May 15, 2010
"Recon" Revisited
Starting today and going through to May 25, I'll be working from home, trying to make a dent in my Finding Lost: Season 6 guide (now available for pre-order!!) So over the next week, either the blog will be really quiet, or, more likely, I'll be procrastinating so much I'll be putting up new posts every 3 minutes.
Today I was watching some of the episodes again and making my extensive notes. I'm just watching "Recon" now and I've come to the scene where Smokey is on the beach talking to Kate. And in light of "Across the Sea," I found his comments to her even more intriguing now than I did then. Here is what he said:
“You referred to me as a dead man. I am not a dead man. I know what you’re feeling, I know what you’re going through. Because my mother was crazy. Long time ago, before I looked like this, I had a mother just like everyone, she was a very disturbed woman, and as a result of that, I had some growing pains. Problems that I’m still tyring to work my way through. Problems that could have been avoided, had things been different.”
When Kate asks Smokey why he's telling her all of this, he says, "Because now, Aaron? He has a crazy mother, too."
We now know that yes, he had a mother who was disturbed enough, in his mind, to kill his real mother, to raise two boys under a supernatural influence, to deny him a name, and to thwart every effort he made to allow him to leave the island. We saw how torn up he was when he killed his mother, and by killing her he suffered the consequences at the hand of Jacob.
But he clearly states he's not dead. We saw the Man in Black's body, and when Jacob laid it in the caves it looked quite dead, but Smokey doesn't think so. I've commented before that Smokey definitely has a lot of John's personality. And on the beach in "The Incident," he has the brother's personality. So the question is, did the Man in Black actually die? Or is his soul alive in the smoke monster, and if his soul is still alive, can he truly be dead? Is John Locke still alive?
Week after week, we flip flop on who is good, who is evil. But neither one of them is truly good or truly evil. They're both. They're like all of us -- we might have a lot of good in us, but we also make mistakes. We love people, we hurt people. Inadvertently or on purpose. Smokey has killed and he's vengeful, a much larger and more powerful version of Sawyer, but he's also hurting. He lives with the guilt of having killed his mother, and the knowledge of what his brother did to him. He feels hurt and betrayed, and here he says he wishes things had been different.
What do you make of this scene in light of what we find out in "Across the Sea"?
Daniel said...
I always go back to Locke's comment to Jack in the airport (flash sideways) where Jack was getting the bad news that his father's body was missing. Locke tried to cheer him up by distinguishing the difference between Christian's body and Christian the man/spirit, hinting that it lived on. Certainly, if any of us were to be able to live past the destruction of our physical bodies, we would be loathe to call ourselves dead. But, it seems that whenever the smoke takes on the appearance of another, it absorbs that life essence as well, including their memories. I think one of the reasons that aspects of Locke's personality are bursting through the persona of the Man in Black is because of the amount of time MIBs been using it. I think MIB is alive (in spirit) with aspects of Yemi, Alex, and whomever else but especially Locke.
Marebabe said...
It’s confusing, all right. We know that dead is dead, and yet we see evidence to the contrary. There’s a lot I don’t know, obviously, but I can at least answer two questions that you posed here.
“Did the Man is Black actually die?” Yes, his physical body died. We know this because we’ve seen his skeletal remains in the cave lying alongside the skeleton of his Island Mother.
“Is John Locke still alive?” No. At least, not the John Locke we first got to know in the earlier seasons of LOST. We saw his lifeless body hanging in that hotel room, and later saw his embalmed corpse decked out in a funeral casket. The same with Christian Shephard. We saw him zipped up in a body bag in an Australian morgue.
So, without a doubt, these men DIED. Ice cold, grave-yard dead. Yet somehow we see them alive again, doubles, imposters, out to confound and mystify all who come into contact with them. And that includes us. We’re still waiting for an explanation. We won’t have to wait much longer. How odd that this realization fills us with both eager anticipation and dread!
SenexMacdonald said...
I have to agree with what both @Daniel and @Marebabe have said. MIB is as dead as John Locke.
There is some speculation out there that he was in fact alive when Jacob pushed him into the river's water. I strongly doubt that being face down in the water and unconscious would not, in fact, drown you at that point. You cannot hold your breath in that state. No, you would be dead!
I believe that the personality/essence/soul (or whatever you want to call it) of these people, beginning with MIB, exist in this 'thing' we now call Flocke/Smokey. It talks like him/them and has looked like both. Obviously Jacob knew it was not his brother - even if he actively interacted with him.
Whatever it may look like now - the reality of the situation is it wants something really badly, will do anything to get it and is willing to ensure that people die in order for it to happen.
I have begun thinking of the title for the finale - "The End". Might be everyone and everything we know (including or excluding the Sideways world) or it could be the end for this creature bound to the Island. What would that end mean to our survivors - remaining or otherwise? What would that end mean to the Sideways world? What would that end mean to the Island and the Light?
I think these questions are becoming more important as we reach ... the end.
ninja raiden said...
I'm thinking maybe the Sideways world resides in the Source and that, for whatever reason, the Castaways need to be aware that they are all dead and passed on to the Source. Maybe Smokey is a carrier of the dead souls he/she/it posseses.
Remember all the screaming that resided in the smoke when it passed over Claire and Kate in "Sundown".
Maybe the dead surivivors need to wake up one more time from death (in particular, Jack) to pull the "corrupted" souls residing in Smokey to pull him back to the Source. Live together, die alone by the way of Jack and Locke being Constants.
And maybe Desmond is the only one to pull the dead castawys out to "save" Smokey, a.k.a "Cerebus" a.k.a "Anubus".
Farley said...
Nikki, have you read up on the Gnostic beliefs and their myth of Sophia and Demiurge? If you haven't, you should because it seems to closely parallel the story we've seen in "Across The Sea". Although maybe you've all discussed this already and I missed it.... :)
redeem147 said...
The Smoke Monster may think that he was MIB and is alive. Or he may be lying.
I think he's as much them as if he were a copy of them, downloaded like a computer or an android.
I could give an example from a recent film, but that would be spoilery.
I guess one analogy would be a cylon. Yes, Smokey is a cylon.
ninja raiden said...
I thought of something else. If you suscribe to the theory that Jacob's mother was another version of the Smoke monster, than it could be that Jacob and "Adam" were the original Candidates.
However, "Mother" used friction to divide responsibility between the two, which Jacob clearly didn't like.
What if Jacob is using the casatways as a whole to balance the equation to become protector(in some way I haven't figured yet)in opposition to to "Mother's" divisionary tactics.
Touching all those specific Castaways (including Locke) makes them all Constants (Live together, die alone) therefore proving to MIB/Cerebus/Anubis that humans can rise above "the negative cycle of corrupt, kill, destroy".
Could the fact of Locke's essence trapped away in Smokey be Jacob's ace in the hole due to the Constant factor?
The Question Mark said...
The beauty of LOST is how the writers can make us see things from virtually everybody's point of view. Everybody disliked Sawyer & Shannon in Season 1 for the way they acted towards the other survivors, but we grew to love them both because we got their sides of the story.
Jacob & MIB are both mysterious, eerie characters, and we don't trust them outright (even more so because they don't appear to be 100% human). But after "Across the Sea", we can totally feel for both these guys, because now we DO know for sure that, hey, even though he can turn into a 50 foot tall pillar of smoke, he IS human in there somewhere. And he doesn't wanna leave the Island to spread evil. He wants to leave the Island because he wants to go home, just like all the survivors do.
Anonymous said...
I think what happened in the cave was basically a separation of the MIB's body and soul. Since their mom made it so that they couldn't kill each other, his soul survived as the smoke monster even though his body died. And that's why all Smokey wants is to get off the island, which as we've seen in 'Across The Sea' is the exact same thing the MIB wanted most. John on the other hand wanted nothing more than to stay on the island forever so I don't think some part of him is still alive. I think his likeness was simply a template for Smokey's latest form. The similarities, if any, could simply stem from the fact that Smokey had access to John's memories.
That's what I think but I guess we'll all know soon enough!
Fred said...
If we conclude each body has a soul which can be separated from it, then what the MiB says to Kate supports the idea that his soul exists in the form of Smokie. But do souls have "transmission lines" between bodies in different dimensions? Thinking of each body as having an indestructable soul in the Christian sense works well when you have only one universe to contend with. But if you have 2 universes, it opens up real problems.
To be devil's advocate: imagine in universe 1, Michael is a SOB and his soul is condemned to the island. Suppose in universe 2, Michael is the nicest guy, charitable and a saint. Does this second Michael share in the fate of Michael 1? Do we invoke each has a unique soul? Do we claim they share consciousnesses, but have indivdual souls?
One solution is simply to avoid the whole notion of souls, and just work with what the show gives us: "Dead is dead." We have some clues MiB may have died (I think he did) before he went into the cave/light and down the water funnel.
(1) Jack responded to Hurley that if someone is unconscious they can't hold their breath (this was when Sayid was in the pool being reborn and Hurley shouted that Dogen's men were drowning Sayid). Of course, Sayid came back, but as many fans believed Sayid was more the walking dead than the old Sayid.
Counter: MiB wasn't in the water face down long enough to have drown.
(2) We've seen many of the traits of John Locke come out in the reformed MiB, such as Locke's patent phrase, "Don't tell me what I can't do!" However, there never was any indication on the part of the writers that MiB inhabited John's body to assume his form. In fact, they went out of their way to show that John was dead as the proverbial parrot John Cleese was trying to return. Viewers were supposed to take from this some idea of how Smokie assumes the forms of the dead, a process of not only shape shifting but assuming memories and personality traits. Of late those John Locke-like traits have begun to disappear, as fans have noticed John eye scar begin to vanish on MiB. Can we then believe that MiB assumes the memories of the dead and their form, so that if Jacob's brother was dead then Smokie is merely a copy of him?
Counter: Despite the Locke personality coming through initially, MiB's own soul wins out in the end, and the Lockean traits die off.
(3) Miles Straume told us how his gift works, that he is able to "read" the last thoughts of those who have died. Since Miles' gift originated through his being born on the island, then it is not much of a leap to suspect Smokie operates in a similar fashion, that is able to read people's minds. However, Smokie is more sophisticated than Miles, and is able as we've seen to approach people and "download" their memories. This is one way he is able to acquire the information needed to shape shift. Reading both the living and the dead, Smokie could turn into Yemi and Christian. Hence, when Smokie was formed, it merely downloaded the memroies and personality traits of MiB when he was flushed down the cave's toilet into the light.
Counter: Miles is actually not just reading the last remnants of thought, but is given them from ghosts, as when he visited the house of the old lady to rid her of her grandson's ghost. Hence, MiB's soul or ghost may be the basis of forming the Smoke monster, and is not downloaded memories.
Fred said...
(4) Was the Smokie monster a byproduct of Mib's soul and the energy of the light? Let's briefly consider the ghost of Claudia which appeared to MiB. Depending on how you interpret her appearance, you could either say she is (a) a real ghost, or (b) a manifestation of Smokie. If you choose (b), then you have to postulate Smokie pre-existed everything underground (caught and trapped there below the surface) but able to manifest shapes above ground. There might be some argument for this as Claudia appears in a golden light (remember the cave has a golden light), much as Isabella did in the Black Rock (which no fans regard as a manfestation of Smokie). So if you assume Claudia was a projection from Smokie, who was living already below the earth, then his escape occured through his having acquired a human body.
Counter: Smokie did not preexist everything, but is totally formed form the fusion of the power of the light and MiB's soul, much as most super heroes are byproducts of some accidental energy pulse and their body.
(5) This may be incidental, but Smokie as MiB comments a number of times about being trapped on the island. He is very emphatic about noting that Richard is out of his chains. We've assumed given the back story of MiB and Mother, that this refers to Jacob's brother wanting to get off the island. But as with most things in LOST, this may be a misdirection. In fact, Smokie had been trapped below ground, and now he is trapped above ground but unable to leave the island as he cannot cross water in his black smoke form.
Counter: Smokie is MiB, and his desire to leave is still the same as it was when he had human form.
(6) Smokie is definetly connected with the golden light in the cave. He is not just a reformed MiB whose soul keeps living in the Smoke monster. Recall that when Smokie left, the light in the cave dimmed, and in fact it seems different. Later Daniel Faraday will comment on how the light falls on the plants around him, and says its not right. Somehow, the creation or escape of Smokie from the underground cave has also taken/altered the light that was originally there.
Counter: Since MiB is only one ingredient needed to form Smokie, the light, which is of a limited amount, was also drawn on to form Smokie.
(7) When Jacob laid out his mother and brother in the caves, his final words to his brother seemed to indicate his acceptance that his brother had died. I accept by this point that the torch (I can't believe it really did happen that way) was passed from Mother the Jacob. When Jacob drank from the cup, he may have acquired a knowledge of the island, much as when Richard drank from the cup his wish to never die was granted him. did this new knowledge allow Jacob to see that MiB really was dead, and that Smokie was a mere copy?
Counter: Jacob was merely saying goodbye to the physical form of his brother, or Jacob is naive and has no idea his brother's soul resides in Smokie.
(8) When Smokie approached Sawyer in the Dharma barracks, Sawyer noted that this wasn't Locke, because Locke was always scared. From the little we've seen in "Across the Sea" can we identify traits Jacob's brother had which are absent from Smokie? If so, we may be able to say as Sawyer did, this is not MiB.
Counter: Everything we've seen MiB as Smokie do accords with the traits of Jacob's brother.
Ambivalentman said...
Hope you don't mind, Nikki, but as we're spending all this time looking back on the show, I've been posting one Top 10 LOST-themed list per day since May 13th at my blog. Ten days of Top 10 LOST lists...I'd love for all the commenters out there to celebrate LOST and leave their lists. So far, I've shared my favorite quotes, sets and scenes. You can find my blog at
As for Locke's comments to Kate, I too think he is considering himself spiritually alive. As I rewatched the scene of his physical death in "Across the Sea," I flashed back to this moment, too, and felt that Man-in-Black really wasn't dead in a spiritual sense. For me, this was a plan devised by Mother to keep him on the Island. She knew he wouldn't die when Jacob sent him into the Source. She somehow knew that his spirit would be claimed by the black smoke and he would be trapped. How she knew? We'll never find out, I'm sure, which is fine by me.
Fred said...
Just to confuse matters somewhat, here are some reasons countering the previous ones. Here I argue MiB's soul is in Smokie.
(1) The hieroglyphic in the Temple that Ben saw shows Smokie being prayed to by an Egyptian figure. Since we've assumed the Egyptians were there before Claudia arrived, Smokie pre-existed Jacob's brother. In the Egyptian mythology, Smokie may be a judgement figure who swallows the souls of those unworthy to pass through the land of the dead. We would have to surmise MiB's soul is swallowed into Smokie, and when we see Smokie as MiB, it's the soul of Jacob's brother that appears. (This also suggests many other souls would co-exist with MiB in Smokie). This may have something to do with all the talk about "claiming".
Counter: Richard is told by MiB to tell Locke he must die. It seems a limitation of Smokie is he can only assume bodies of the dead (i.e. those without a soul). Thus, he cannot appear as anyone unless that person is dead. However, he can "claim" someone who is still alive, which is akin to being a zombie.
(2) Smokie is called Cerberus, the three headed dog. Reading this as a sort of negative Trinity, we would have father, son and Spirit. The father is the male spirit in Smokie that was known by Mother (if she could call Smokie, as Ben did, perhaps she was also able to control him and get him to do things, like kill off the Roman people on the island and re-bury the well). The son would obviously be MiB. Who the Spirit is, I don't know, unless we imagine it's Vincent.
Counter: We would need to have some information on how Smokie can separate into 3 enteties rather than remain as one. All three seem close in proximity to one another, and there has been no indication of three individuals appearing at the same time (unless one counts Vincent as being part of Smokie).
(3) Jacob's body was burned, but Hurley has seen his soul wandering round the island. If MiB had been dead before Smokie took over his form, we would have expected to see MiB's soul wandering round the island. Because we have not seen him, we can assume his soul is in Smokie.
Counter: Explaining what souls/ghosts are on this island is difficult at best. Not everyone's soul has appeared, and the same may apply to Jacob's brother. Further as Jacob does not see ghosts, he has never had any opportunity to see his lost brother.
(3) The theme of LOST has been the salvation of souls, and Hell may just be the inability of a soul to let go of this world, something Christian tells Jack. Jacob's brother simply could not let go of his desire to leave the island, and with his indifference to humanity and seeing all mankind as corrupt, he is transformed by the light into a living Hell. In other words his soul, his living being , IS Hell.
Counter: This is just too complicated for most of the audience.
It's late now.
TM Lawrence said...
John Locke, the little boy lost in our hateful little world that dared to drag him down, our little boy courageous who chose his words from mouths of babes, got lost. He passed through carstruck precipitous maternity yet arose the miracle baby. He passed through nonchalant fosterings and orphanages, and locker incarceration yet arose an academic powerhouse beginning to deny his inner strength. He was caught in an elaborate and cruel mousetrap of bioparental organ stealing, and emerged cosmically angry but erect and still an honorable man who yearned to bring Helen home, to unite the family on the farm, and to spare the broader world from his father's charismatic charades.
What tear-stained shock of the world broke him? He broke ineffably before passing through highrise glass and saw his fractured self reflected in his father's eyes. He broke structurally on impact with terra firma, and should have been blessed by his soul's shearing from his corrupted coil in that moment, except that he was tagged by Jacob's healing touch into a new round of the same game of Mousetrap. He broke mentally and finally in walkabout rejection. On island, amid the flames and plane carnage, he arose a dead man walking, already not Locke: arrogant, faithful, deceitful, a hunter. Locke lost in the woods.
We sainted the inverse of Locke early in the show, and caught only glimpses of questioning, hobbled true Locke in his crises of faith and resolve. Our sympathy locked on pre-crash John, while island John spiraled out of control.
Twin cuckoo fosterlings separated by two millenia may certainly be melding. Both had crazy mothers, but is Flocke referencing Emily or Mother here? My guess--both. There is perhaps only one solid clue in the dialogue. John Locke, the cradle-maker and protective spirit from the beach days would think more kindly of Claire. MIB in Flocke clothing, responsible for Claire's insanity and baby abandonment, would speak this way.
In my opinion, Locke has never been truly alive on the island. The Locke whose redemption I hope to witness is still wheelchair bound in LA. I hope the show does not end without saying
saying goodbye...
Fred said...
When Ben, MiB (as Locke) and Jacob meet in the broken Tarewet statue, MiB says, "You don't know what I've gone through to get here."
Listen to the line as if Jacob's brother's soul is in Smokie, and you get the idea of a player in a large game set up by Jacob.
Hear the line as if it were only Smokie (no soul of Jacob's brother in Smokie), and you get a spirit that had been planning all of this even before he emerged from the cave. The ultimate longest con!
The second version is more dramatic, and since LOST is going for the dramatic, I'd book that Jacob's brother's soul is not present in Smokie.
Fred said...
Oh, and don't omit in your book some readings of the mythology being based on Gnostic mythologies. The reference by Ben to the Apostle Thomas, may also be a reference to the Book of Thomas, an apocryphal book.
The light is the divine light, existent in all of us, according to Gnostic mythology. And the Demiurge may equate with the smoke monster, while Mother is Sophia. Lots on Wikipedia.
ninja raiden said...
I don't know if this means anything but I just remember in "The Man in Tallahassee' that Locke came from the submarine wet just as it was about to explode.
But in "The Candidate", Jack knocs "Locke" into the water and he comes out wet near the sub. Is this observation pointless or meaningful?
Kevie said...
I like Ambivalentman's idea that the transformation of Brother into Smokey was Mother's plan all along. It makes me think of Danielle's description of the Smoke Monster way back when: "a security system".
What if Mother maneuvered Brother into being killed by Jacob and thus taking on the mantle of Smokey? What if Smokey is the true guardian of the island?
The two brothers seem to be representative of duality. The simple read is that Jacob is good and Brother is bad. But I'm starting to sense a more complex thing going on: The simple white and black represents how Jacob sees things, while MiB's outlook is more... complicated.
Jacob represents dualism--the tendency to classify phenomena into "good" and "bad". Exemplified by the frantic impulse in monotheistic religions to categorize everything in the world either as holy/good/Godlike, and unholy/evil/Demonic. MiB represents non-dualism, the idea found more often in Eastern religions that everything in the world exists on an axis between the sacred and the profane, but all originating from the same source.
MiB sees everything in shades of grey. He chooses to be with his Roman people, but he's not blind to the flaws in their character. He believes his "mother" to be hopelessly insane, but when she's right, she's right. Mother appreciates the mix of light and dark that burns so strong in MiB; it makes him special. It makes him the ideal candidate to stand astride this twilight realm between heaven and hell, taking on the souls of those who can't let go of this life, adding them to his strength to protect the source of all life.
Jacob--poor, simple Jacob--played his part because accepted and continues to accept his mother's cover story. He sees himself as the good one and MiB as the bad one because he is incapable of seeing complexity. I guess he plays his part still in some way, as he endlessly scours the human race for "good" candidates. Meanwhile MiB rages helplessly, just fucking stop it. He's enraged at Jacob and enraged at himself for having unwittingly played into his mother's scheme.
Think of what Flocke told Jack about John Locke: "He was stupid enough to believe that he'd been brought here for a reason. He pursued that belief until it got him killed." MiB isn't only talking about John Locke here. He's talking about himself.
NanX said...
MIB sure did not look dead to me and he did not go inside the cave by his choice - his free will. That's why he can blame Jacob for taking his humanity. He said he was once a man. What he had in his heart was anger and hate and vengeance. To me it seemed the light spit him out in the darkness that he was. The life as he knew it was gone in the shell that was left behind but MIB went on, alive.
It seems logical from what we have seen and why the Temple episodes were so needed is to show us how to kill Smokey. When he is in his human form and using the knife we saw Dogen give Sayid and you must plunge the knife into him before he speaks. That is exactly how MIB killed his fake Mother.
She spoke with knowledge when she warned Jacob never to go into the cave. Did she manipulate both boys/men? Yes indeed. She took as much advantage of Jacob's love for her as she did MIB's eventual hate for her.
I don't think it was MIB's real mothers ghost that appeared to him. I think it was fake mother who was also a smokie. She wanted and needed MIB to hate her to the point of killing her and she nourished that hate.
Jacob was not trying to kill his brother; he was sending him to a fate worse than death.
Think back to The Incident and their conversation, "Do you know how much I want to kill you?"
This is not another entity who has packed on souls, this is Jacob's brother. And he wants what he always wanted, to leave the island.
Kevie said...
@NanX: Oh yeah, I forgot about that loophole that you can kill smokey as long as he doesn't talk to you. Now it makes perfect sense that Mother was one too, hence the massacre of the Romans. And of course MiB couldn't have survived it unless she allowed him to.
@TM Lawrence: Beautifully written.
Fred said...
Or MiB is warning or informing each of his listeners to nudge them into the right position or frame of mind.
He told Ben, that Locke was devoted to the island apart from all the rest of the survivors. Was this to nudge Ben into re-believing in the power of the island, and perhaps his place there?
He told Kate, that Aaron now has a crazy mother. Was this to re-instill Kate's emotional attachment once more concerning Aaron's welfare?
He told Jack, that Locke was a sucker and his belief got him killed. Was this a warning on Jack's own belief in the island (Jack being a thorn in MiB's plan)?
If we listen to what MiB says to everyone (Sawyer, Richard, Sayid, Claire, Widmore), it seems he is playing on their fears, hopes and desires. Is what MiB says really insight into his soul, or is it just (as Sawyer would say) what people want to hear, so MiB can nudge them in the "right" direction?
However, you interpret these conversations goes a long way to how you interpret MiB's motives, or even whether Jacob's brother is there in Smokie.
Fred said...
@keavie: Now it makes perfect sense that Mother was one too, hence the massacre of the Romans.
Quite possible, or Mother could control the original Smokie. We've seen Ben pull the plug in the water to summon Smokie. We've also seen the hieroglyph in the Temple with a Priest praying before Smokie. Smokie may have existed independently before, and Mother may have had the knowledge to summon and command its presence and power. So was Mother a Smokie? It's really either way.
When she was stabbed by Jacob's brother she was thankful as this released her from the servitude she had endured for millenia. Before this she had literally passed the torch and the cup to Jacob to protect the island. Thus, her role was finished, and she needed a convenient exit.
Kiki said...
I'm in the camp that Smokey is MiB. To me it just doesn't make a whole lot of sense for him NOT to be. I think they are going for classic themes of good vs. evil (even though there is both in all of us, well maybe except Mother Theresa)and brother vs. brother. For Smokey not to be Jacob's brother would be a huge disconnect for me.
I think Across the Sea helped to challenge our sense of black (evil) vs. white (good.) Like others have said here, we have now entered into shades of gray. So is anyone really dead? Do spirits/souls live on?
Kiki said...
SenexMacdonald talked about The End and raised several questions (posted at May @ 9:06).
That started me thinking about Revelations and the end of the world according to the Bible. An Apocalypse. Since I am not a Biblical scholar, here is what I found quickly on Wikipedia:
Most of the interpretations fall into one or more of the following categories: the Historicist, which sees in Revelation a broad view of history; the Preterist, in which Revelation mostly refers to the events of the apostolic era (first century); the Futurist, which believes that Revelation describes future events; and the Idealist, or Symbolic, which holds that Revelation is purely symbolic, an allegory of the spiritual path and the ongoing struggle between good and evil. These approaches are by no means mutually exclusive, and can be (and usually are) used in combination with each other.
Could there be some clues in Revelation for us? Does anyone have more/better information on the Book of Revelations?
Kiki said...
ninja raiden said...
Oh! I like this idea. The smoke is the collector of souls. Hmm, just the bad ones, or good ones too?
Kiki said...
Could it be thta MiB just uses what he can in order to get people to follow him? In this case, he is trying to get the Losties to trust him and what better way to do that than take on a form that they already have a relationship with. I think any Locke-like traits are used to help Smokey manipulate the Losties. He could have appeared to this group as Christian but didn't because Locke would be a more powerful connection with them.
TM Lawrence said...
You are ever so right. OT Christian is DEAD--massive coronary induced by ethanol binge, organs removed en bloc at Australian morgue, coffined, and never playing tennis again regardless of his footwear, DEAD. And OT Locke is DEAD, internally, externally, infernally (see my post) DEAD. And MIB is DEAD, his essence ripped from his dying body in the golden cave of the guf, lying in state, decomposed, DEAD.
@ninja raiden:
Jewish mysticism holds that there is a source for all souls and that souls are recycled through it, the Guf, and that the eschatological conditions will be brought about when the Guf is empty. Rather than thinking about the Sideways world as residing in the Source, I am inclined to equate the Source with the hall of souls. There are no aboriginal inhabitants of the island, all have been immigrants, brought there to prot
ect the island because ALL timelines emanate from the source, and when that spring eternal runs dry, time and existence comes to "The End."
@ Keavie:
Wholeheartedly agree with almost all within your several posts. But dualism and greyscale are still a little tough on the island as it is in our real world. Nice and Mean are opposites but Nice is not necessarily Good, and sometimes Bad is not Evil, and sometimes Evil wears White, but Evil is always Bad even if some Good comes from it. We all contain a divine spark from which both good and bad deeds emanate, and must use our free will to subjugate the bad within us to the good. Does evil emanate from man's actions or does it precede and corrupt man? The Universalist answer which is the only one we can expect from Lost, is, "Yes." Pre-flush, MiB exhibits the complex thinking you ascribe, though as Smokey, if I had to pick two defining characteristics, he is judgmental and wrathful. Both seem to have changed over time. Still, one gives bombs and the other gives ankhs as departing gifts. Surely therein lies some form of good/evil absolutism?
JS said...
Idea 1: I think the MiB's soul was separated from his body, and since the body cannot live without a soul, his body is dead. Since two souls cannot (usually) inhabit the same body, the Smoke-Monster-infested-MiB-soul can inhabit unused bodies on the island, as long as they are not buried or otherwise unavailable (burned to ashes, exploded...). SM/MiB began using John Locke's identity when his body was brought back to the island. Though many believe he became stuck when Jacob was killed, I think he became stuck when Locke's body was buried.
JS said...
Idea 2 - I agree with Mr. Ninja on several counts - SMother was a Smoke Monster manifestation. Her soul was previously merged with the smoke monster and when the body she was using was killed (without a word from her) she was killed, her soul was released.
wf - fiblater - a confabulating fibber, constitutionally incapable of telling the truth.
Kevie said...
@TM Lawrence: What about all the people the Others killed in the name of Jacob?
Teebore said...
I dunno...I'm still thinking that Smokey=MiB, and that MiB wasn't killed by Smokey but rather was transformed into Smokey, and his body is just a shell he no longer needs (like a butterfly discarding its cocoon).
As compelling as the arguments for Smokey being a separate, previously-existing entity operating with MiB's form and memories are, it just seems like "MiB became Smokey" is the simplest explanation at a time when the show should be simplifying things instead of complicating them.
TM Lawrence said...
Kevie said...
This is a question of the unreliable narrator and misattribution. We know that Ben had never met Jacob but claimed His authority in commanding the Others to carry out His will. We also have seen Richard use Jacob's name to justify certain misdeeds, but there is no reason to believe they were actually attributable to Jacob's will. Our world is too replete with man's usurping of divine justification for atrocity against some particular segment of humanity to enumerate.
Fred said...
It seems the simplest, but then this is LOST, whose writers introduced new characters in the final season, and then bumped them off without so much as a dramatic fulfillment to their activities on the island. Simplify things at this point! True to form I've never expected the writers to simplify things. Of course, there is always a first time.
Going back to the gnostic view, there is a being called the Swallower of souls. This fits ninja raiden's observation of screams being heard when Smokie plowed through the Temple.
So Teebore, while I've suggested arguments for either side in this MiB's soul equals or doesn't equal Smokie, I'm also of the opinion ther writers of the show are not going to resolve the mysteries into simple solutions. Some of these mysteries, such as this one, may not be resolved by show's end. (However, I do have some hope for a resolution, if only from the last scene in Eko's life where we saw a young Eko and Yemi going off from playing soccer--might we something like this for Jacob and his brother, as two young boys running around the island, freed from their obligations?) I am just waiting in anticipation for the next twist in the plot/mysteries.
ninja raiden said...
@TM Lawerence: Jacob cradling his brother reminded me of when Eko cradled Yemi. I really think we should be treating "Across the Sea" as the ultimate Lost Monomyth.
All of the characters have had parental issues and you can see reverberations of pretty much every characters' realationship with parents, faith, science, and community within the tale of Jacob and "Adam".
Maybe Jacob and "Adam" will redeem their parental issues through the Castaways by proxy. Macro being influenced by the micro, so to speak.
Teebore said...
Fair point.
My arguments for the simplest explanation being the best one at this point stem from a sense of "what makes the most universal narrative sense?" but it's become very clear of late that Darlton have never been very concerned with following basic narrative conventions, what with their introducing of mysteries they never intended to answer, new characters killed off without any resolution and the general sense of narrative deconstruction that has always permeated the show.
Oh, I wholeheartedly agree that the question of whether Jacob released Smokey, who then took the form of MiB, or Jacob created Smokey by tossing his brother into the cave will most likely not be resolved, a premise that is both exciting and maddening at the same time.
ninja raiden said...
I never got the "every new character have to have a purpose' perspective. Like life, not everything has a payoff or grand pronouncements of theme. You have to have main characters interact with different people to keep things fresh. Lost has the kind of narrative that becomes richer with hindsight.
Which is why I don't understand why people have a problem with the placement with "Across the Sea". Non linear storytelling and stop-start pacing have always been Lost's modus operandi. Time is relative to a show like this. If we wanted traditional storytelling, we could watch the other 98% straightfoward narrative structure oriented television.
Teebore said...
@ninja raiden: Which is why I don't understand why people have a problem with the placement with "Across the Sea"
The only problem I have with the placement of "Across the Sea" in the grand narrative of Lost is the fact that Darlton explicitly said that one of the goals of "The Candidate" was to establish, once and for all, that FLocke is out-and-out EVIL.
Then they follow that episode with an episode which muddies that conclusion.
Maybe he's not so much evil as a product of his upbringing. Maybe he has a point. Maybe all the people he's killed would still be alive if Mother had just let him leave. Etc.
Now, those are interpretive questions that we all can spend years sussing out and debating, but if the ENTIRE STATED POINT of one episode is to show one thing, don't follow that episode up with something that completely undercuts it.
It's be like having an episode where Darlton says "what we wanted to do here was show, once and for all, that Jack has become a man of faith, Locke's successor as Island Believer" and then in the next episode, there's a bunch of business in which Jack is shown to still be a man of science who doesn't share Locke's faith.
It just seems me. Hence, out of place.
ninja raiden said...
@Teebore Yeah,that's a fair point. I guess it would have been better if they used the word "antagonist" instead of evil. Or maybe they were saying he was evil in relation to the castaways.
I'm not completely defending Darlton with what I'm about to say but they are in a damned if you do, damned if you don't sitch (thanks for the word, Faith).
They are reknowned for keeping in touch with their fans in a way not even Joss Whedon does. But like every human sometimes they don't articulate their artistic statements well enough.
Unfortunately, they also have to "sell" the show to a fickle audience using reductive statements to give the illusion of "definitive" answers.
Like in "whatever Happened, Happened", they said Cassidy was speaking the truth to Kate about her needing Aaron because of Sawyer. I personally thought that she was lonely in general and she wanted a child(see "I Do")
I think that's the danger of authors speaking too much about their works, it takes away from the viewer's analysis. That's why I enjoy their personalities, as they are, and don't let their words impede my analysis of the show.
Which is the reason why I loved "Across the Sea". The mythical/biblical parable/fairy tale-esque quality let you make your own interpretation of the themes of Lost.
Is Mother the smoke monster?
Is Jacob responsible for the Purge like his "Mother"?
Do the Others unknowingly serve Smokey (who uses the concept of Jacob of a false god to be worshipped-thanks Eko-in place of his namelessness)with Jacob only influencing them through Richard?
Is the amalgamation of influences that Jacob and Smokey impose on the castaways,others, hostiles,Dharma,military and freighties simliar to the disparate influences "Mother" had on the both of them both negative and positive?(Every body has a "black rock", "white rock" in them, even the Brothers)
If your a "Man of Science", you can deduce "Mother's" explanation of the "Light" to be nothing more than a place of concentrated electomagnetism surrounded by water. In other words, she's just teling "Santa Claus" stories.
If you're a "Man of Faith", then you take Mother at her word.
If you are impartial, than you believe its a little bit of both or the truth is somewhere inbetween.
Whetever your disposition, it's up to your interpretation, just like real life.
Fred said...
@Teebore & Benny: We seem to be having the same conversation ebtween this thread and the thread for the episode "Across the Seas," namely what does plot mean to Cuse and Lindelhof. Is there something we can all agree on as plot, as Benny noted we should be able to agree that Macbeth killed Duncan, or three ghosts appeared to Scrooge. These things should not be undecidable--they should be as firm and solid as the clues Sherlock Holmes follows to find out the solution to the mystery.
The question I raise is do Cuse and Lindelhof believe in the decidability of plots? If plot proves unstable, then on what can we hang any understanding of what has transpired? It would be as if we had just watched The Usual Suspects but walked out at different moments in the film. Walk out too early, and everything makes sense according to the "plot" narrated by Verbal Kint. Walk out a little later, and everything is up in the air--Kint's narration is indeterminant. Walk out at the end, and the indeterminancy is resolved into an alternative reading. LOST belongs to this genre of what David Bordwell calls "puzzle films."
Now it is my belief that Cuse and Lindelhof are steeped in Barthes S/Z codes. In particular, the proairetic (code of actions) and the hermenutic (code of enigmas and answers). Peter Brooks in chapter 11 of Reading for the Plot gives a nice summary of how these two codes operate in Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!--and I contend, operate also in LOST.
How are we to take the placement of "Across the Sea" in the sequnece of episodes. Its position interputs the logical flow of actions from the previous episode, things do not progress in an orderly fashion. Brooks writes: "It is as if the characters in the novel [read LOST] often turned to the interogation of a proairetic sequence for its revelatory meaning before we, as reader [viewers], have been allowed to see how the sequence runs." In many ways I believe we can see that the show's writers have been toying with the very structure of plot, and it may come about that some elements of it may be undecidable.
There is yet another possibility of how LOST uses plot, and that is found in Borges' The Garden of Forking Paths, which represents not a single plot, but all possible plots; Locke can both be dead and alive, the narrative of one ends, while the narrative of the other continues. How much of a metafiction is LOST and how much of a traditional fiction it is remains to be seen in the final episode. I am ready to believe in the incoherence of plotlines if examined too closely, but I am also accepting that aduiences are wishing for a satisfying resolution to the show, and that means a well plotted show. Certainly resolving the question of Smokie one way or the other with regard to Jacob's brother would go a long way in this. So will we be satisifed in the end? Or will we be watching LOST in film studies while reading Robbe-Grillet?
Teebore said...
@ninja raiden: I think that's the danger of authors speaking too much about their works, it takes away from the viewer's analysis.
It's funny that you mention this because I have a friend and fellow blogmate, a very well read and intelligent person, who is also a Lost fan, and he staunchly believes that leaving a story "open to interpretation" is just lazy writing.
He believes the job of a storyteller is to tell a story completely, making it clear to the audience what happened, how the characters felt about it, what it all meant to the author, etc. He doesn't care what you or I or even himself thinks the story means; he's just interested in what the author intended for the story to mean.
Now, I certainly don't prescribe to his outlook (I've often joked that I would have loved to have him in some of my English classes in college, just to be in the proper forum to argue that kind of stuff with him) but we do agree when it comes to the clarity and definition of plot in stories.
For me, of all the question you listed, two standout to me as being questions of plot and not theme/motivation/meaning:
Is Jacob responsible for the Purge like his "Mother"?
Do the Others unknowingly serve Smokey
The Purge and the Others played such a significant role in shaping the show's plot and the characters that I feel like they can't be left dangling for interpretation.
I mean, for several seasons, the actions of the Others drove the plot of the show, and the characters along with it. Whether intentionally or not, the basic format of narrative fiction implied that the motivations of the Others for the actions they performed would be
A. Important to the overall narrative of the show.
B. Made clear at some point.
As the end draws near, it seems both A and B were untrue. And after hearing for years from Darlton that "we have a plan" and "we know where we're going" and "it'll be explained" they are now trying to tell us that explanations matter less than interpretations, and we were wrong to ever assume the plot would be made clear.
And that kinda rubs me the wrong way.
Teebore said...
That's the big question, isn't it? And I suppose we'll get something on an answer in less than a week.
I would argue that, up until the beginning of season six at the earliest and their latest round of post-Across the Sea interviews at the latest, Darlton gave no indication they DIDN'T believe in the decidability of plot.
Even putting aside that decidability of plot is the default form for narrative fiction (certainly, modern American network television fiction) and that, if a show were to break from that form, some direct indication thereof would be warranted, most of Darlton's statements and interviews previous to season six would suggest they did believe in the decidability of plot.
As I mentioned above in my response to ninja raiden, they oftened touted "having a plan", the implication therein being that plot elements we were watching unfold had a conclusion known to and important to the writers. Only now, as the show draws to a close with numerous plot-related question unanswered/unclear, do we begin to question Darlton's philosophy regarding the decidability of plot.
Here's an example. During last summer's San Diego Comicon, Darlton was asked about the Dharma food drops from season two, and said that would be addressed before the show ended. Obviously, it has not been (and that's fine; it's really not a big deal, plot-wise. I'm just using it as an example).
If they were asked that same question today, their answer would likely be something along the lines of "that question doesn't matter because the characters no longer care about it" or "the show speaks for itself".
Well, if that's true, then why not give that answer last summer? If Darlton doesn't believe in the decidability of plot, why, so late in the game, continue to make the audience think they do?
(Obviously, Fred, I don't expect you or anyone else to answer that; I'm just trying to make a point about plot).
Fred said...
When LOST is over, anyone writing a book on the show will have to address this question. It might never be answered as Darlton would remain silent. However, if (un)decidability of plot is an issue in this show, then it has to be addressed in some way. Otherwise any such books on LOST will only focus on meaning.
We have less than a week to wait to find out.
Your firend sounds like a disciple of E.D. Hirsch. A literary work may mean different things to different people at different times, but this is its "significance". The intention of awork is absolute, and is what the author intended. The author wills the work to mean X.
@ninja raidan & Teebore:Is Jacob responsible for the Purge like his "Mother"?
The answer is, Yes. Rewind and watch when MiB meets with his Mother in the well. MiB tells her about his quest to find the light, and how the people helped him.
Mother: "The people with you, they saw this, too?" (her head turns away in a mournful look)
MiB: "Yes, they have some interesting ideas about what to do with it."
Already when MiB told Mother that the people had seen the light, her turning head indicates they are doomed. MiB's further comment only confirms for her the need to exterminate (or purge) the Romans on the island. Before Mother learnt about this, she had allowed the Romans to live on the island for 13 years, unmolested. For Mother, it was the realization that the Romans had seen the light that led her to purge them from the island.
We know Dharma had been drilling down in the island for some time, and had for the most part gone unmolested. But the last straw was the building of the Orchid and the Swan. Especially, the Orchid allowed them direct access to the wheel and hence the light. Jacob may have delayed in his actions, but he would have known what his Mother did to the Romans, and that this was the only recourse.
@ninja raidan & Teebore:Do the Others unknowingly serve Smokey
I can only guess that the Others have been manipulated from time to time between Jacob and MiB. Before Richard arrived, MiB probably manipulated the hell out of the castaways Jacob brought to the island. But once Richard was there, the chances were less so, for two reasons:
(1) Mib when he emerged from the statue said he was very disappointed in them (the Others). This disappointment suggests they had not been following him (MiB) but Jacob.
(2) When Ben said he was taking Locke to see Jacob, Richard was at first perturbed. But as it became clear they went to the shack, Richard was not bothered by it. In fact he went out of his way to help Locke. This suggests some oversight by Richard as to where Ben or any leader was getting their knowledge from.
Now on the whole this doesn't serve as an airtight argument, but in the scheme of things LOST, it ain't bad.
Teebore said...
Your firend sounds like a disciple of E.D. Hirsch.
You know, I hadn't made the connection before, but you're right; his approach to fiction is very Hirschian.
Regarding Jacob and the Purge, I definitely drew a line from Mother killing MiB's people to the Dharma purge after this last episode. My hangup was simply in the timing of it: the Incident, in which Dharma got too close to the island's energy (aka it's golden light source) would have seemed like the ideal time for a "they've gone too far, now even the relatively benevolent Jacob has to order their deaths" moment, yet the Purge doesn't occur for at least a decade after the Incident, if not longer.
I feel like there needs to be another catalyst. Maybe your suggestion of the FDW is the answer. Maybe, after the Incident, it took Dharma another 10+ years to complete the Orchid and start up their experiements there, at which point Jacob said "enough is enough."
Bottom line, even if Across the Sea established a precedent that accounts for Jacob's actions, I wouldn't have minded if the show had told us explicitly what triggered Jacob's decision to wipe them out.
As far as the Others and Smokey go, I'd just like more concrete info on the Others in general, though that's just a personal preference. There's definitely enough fodder to reach some nearly-definitive conclusions about their relationship with Jacob and Smokey. I just wouldn't mind if the show clarified some of that, again, telling us what the answer is for DARLTON, not just us.
ninja raiden said...
@Teebore Those were another round of well thought out points. But to me , before I get into the specifics of the Purge, "the Lack of Clarity" is an important theme to Lost on both the narrative and meta-narrative level.
Whether the writers consciously intended to promote this theme or not(I'm a folloewer of the Reader-Response style of analysis) is irrelevant to me, to qualify my perception of Lost. The idea that people follow ideas, beliefs, and ideologies without substantive understanding of why they follow these concepts are consistant within Lost.
John Locke, Benjamin Linus, Richard Alpert, and even Jacob are all charcters who follow their respective paths without fully understanding what it is that they are doing or even what the endgame is (MAYBE Jacob does, to some extent).
In the same way for six years, we have been doing the same thing, following a plotline that we have no idea where its going and what the endgame is. Even now, none of us have any real clue how its gonna end(I have a burgeoning theory that because we are mostly used to telegraphing in storytelling, people are especially antsy in the "Lost Miasma").
We/Jacob and Smokey are following an unreliable but well meaning storyteller Darlton/Mother who mixes truth with lies in order to reach a specific endgame.
As far as what is considered clarity on Lost, to use a cliche, your miliage may vary. For me, with the clues presented to me(after all this is a mystery show among other things)Jacob is primarily hands off except for Richard and ,more recently, the castaways. And it is stated onscreen, in Ab Aeterno, that he is containing Smokey/the Source on the Island. Smokey needs technology to get off the Island, so Jacob, like Mother has to shut down attempts at Smokey getting off and has to "purge" the attempt at escape.
There is a gamme of checkmate going down, but it seems to me that Jacob is pulling the ultimate Long Con to make this battle irrelevant(It only ends once).
But we do have three hours left.
As much FUN as it is to type thoughts out, I wish we all could conversate and have a richer and more fluid conversation about Lost, but to you Teebore and the rest, this is on of the things I'll miss when Lost is over...
JS said...
I have been thinking lately about whether or not the Others have been under the influence of Smokey all this time, instead of Jacob, and glad to see this question come up here.
As I've written elsewhere, if we are to believe Jacob's hand's off policy, then we can believe that only way Jacob has interacted with the others has been to provide lists to Richard. It doesn't seem he has given them any directives, at all. He was not given a choice about his protector role, and has made the rule that people need to do things because they chose to, not because he told them to. Even with Dogen and Richard, he gave them choices. We could argue about the quality of the choices, but he made deals with them, and lets them decide what they want to do. It seems the only two people he interacted with on the island were the two he made deals with – Richard and Dogen, both protectors of the light.
Did Jacob order the purge? I find it hard to believe that he would not give any directions about anything, then tell the others to purge the Dharma folks. That sound more like something Dogen or Richard would decide, because they thought it was in keeping with their jobs.
Off-island, Jacob has interacted with the candidates. He hasn’t made any deals with them, or given them any directions. The closest he comes is suggesting Hurley go back to the island, and made sure to emphasize he had a choice. But there was no deal, just a request. Now, the remaining question for me is if did he influenced the Lostie’s? He may have hand picked them, watched them their entire lives, brought them to the island without actually interfering with their free will, but has he actually done anything to make them chose one way or another? That would be violating his own rules. Unless he changed them.
Teebore said...
@ninja raiden: Great points on lack of clarity working on a meta-fictional level, and the relationship between island believers and the audience. Those sort of connections are what I love about Lost.
Though never as devoutly as my aforementioned friend, I've always been more of an Authorial Intent guy; I lack the self-confidence to truly embrace Reader Response. :)
Here is where our mileage varies. I agree with, and am satisfied by, everything you mapped out there.
What I want, and what I find Lost lacking as it comes to a close, are the details of the plot, the little things glossed over by those broad strokes.
Jacob is containing Smokey/the Source: ARE Smokey and the source one and the same? Is Jacob keeping people away from the Source while also keeping Smokey on the island? Or did his job change once Smokey emerged, and now it's just one of containment?
If the Purge was a move by Jacob to cut Smokey off from Dharma's resources, further keeping him on the island, why did Jacob wait almost 20 years to purge them?
If it's so important that Smokey stay on the island, why does Jacob keep bringing people to the island, people that could help Smokey escape? To prove his point that people aren't all that bad? Is proving a point worth the risk of Smokey getting out and destroying existence? If so, why is it worth the risk? If not, why is Jacob so cavalier about it?
Granted, these ARE relatively minor points, and otherwise covered by the broad strokes you outlined, and I can certainly come to some conclusions myself based on the material we've been given.
But again, varied mileage and all, I KNOW my conclusions; now I want to know the SHOW'S conclusions.
Most definitely agreed on both counts, though I think in the end Lost will give us plenty to think and talk about for quite some time.
JS said...
@ninja raiden - ditto on the conversing. It seems I was typing while you were posting similar thoughts
ninja raiden said...
@Teebore: Thanks. I do take my analysis with the caveat that there are three hours left and that there is more info to consume. That being said for me I have faith that Darlton will wrap up the story with the resoluion that is reqired with a healthy amount of speculation. After all, their careers and reputation are on the line with the finale. I find it hard to believe that they are not taking this seriously.
@JS: The deal with Dogan and the knife are what makes me believe that he was making a deal with Smokey not realizing that it wasn't Jacob. Even Ben,the leader of the Others, has never seen Jacob. And like you said, other than Richard(his start to his Long Con(note the realization on Jacob's face before he asks Richard to be his avatar).
I think he's fooling Smokey into thinking he's got the advantage and has a ace in his sleeves. Just like when they were playing games as kids, "Adam" thinks he knows the rules (or even thinks he's found a loophole )while Jacob lulls him into a sense of surety and blindsides him(my theory:see KATE),
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JS said...
@Ninja Raiden - I thought Dogen's deal must have been made with Smokey as well, except, 1. The deal was made off island (I think), and 2. Dogen kept Smokey out of the temple. The idea that Jacob made this deal has never sat right with me - it is an outlier, but it would have been difficult for Smokey to have made it. Though, if Jacob had made it, what did he do, bring Dogen back with him in a boat? This I think will have to be part of an explanation as well.
Jessica said...
I have to say, that I haven't been able to get on here much lately (wedding planning ugh! 33 days to go!) But as I have been reading through the comments on "Across the Sea" and this post from you Nikki, I'm confused!
Until I read others' comments, stating/guessing that Brother is truly dead and that Smokey was an entity prior to his death in the Light, I never thought of it! Upon initial viewing and a review of the episode, I totally came away from it believing that the soul/life essence of Brother was transformed into the smoke monster! When Nutty Mummy stated that the result of going into the Light was worse than death, it seems to me that she is talking to/about a person... as in "what will happen to YOU will be worse than death" It did not seem to me that she was referring to what the world would suffer from the release of an evil smoke monster. I also wanted to comment on the questions that have popped up over whether or not Jacob was truly not allowed to kill his Brother. Some comments have made it seem like Jacob really did KILL Brother. IMHO it seems like Jacob knocked out his Brother and the stream carried his unconscious body into the Light...
Am I totally off base here? Did I miss something?
alltim7 said...
Unrelated to the topic, I just want to say that LOST message boards are the best on the internet. This one is, of course, the best of the best. These posts, like the show itself, are thoughtful and well written. Well done, folks. I will miss these discussions almost as much as the show.
Teebore said...
@Jessica: Am I totally off base here? Did I miss something?
Nah, you're not missing anything. My "reading" of the events of the episode was very similar to yours. Other people saw the same events, with no additional information, and came to different conclusions.
No one's missing anything, they're just interpreting the events as presented in different ways.
That's Lost! ;)
Jessica said...
@Teebore...Nah, you're not missing anything.
Thanks pal! I'm sooo mad at missing all of the back and forth due to work, wedding planning, life in general... so I took Monday off so I can spend the day with you awesome folks! We'll laugh, we'll cry, we'll hypothesize, we'll cry... you get the point! | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '409', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9804658889770508}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '255688', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:PQQ7LZM5SILXOP5JY7VQ4AIAH53L4P46', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:fe64a604-b428-43e8-8461-62db45f07238>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 4, 19, 11, 55, 27), 'WARC-IP-Address': '172.217.5.225', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'application/xhtml+xml', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:SMRVWL4M6QEBK5NDMWWJHHG3USPWX5HO', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:836d0d3d-98db-416e-af35-f33a7990f6d3>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://nikkistafford.blogspot.com/2010/05/recon-revisited.html', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:7a20c8cb-fbff-4b05-b4e3-e0403c65ff85>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '11639', 'url': 'http://nikkistafford.blogspot.com/2010/05/recon-revisited.html', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-228-146-195.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-17\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for April 2018\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': '0.11838221549987793', 'original_id': '7b6c3d2b55adf17e55c7204e113364fe8f479dc2f52e6b7198443c05746e32ae'} |
French President Emmanuel Macron visits the devastated site of the explosion at the port of Beirut.
French President Emmanuel Macron visited shell-shocked Beirut, pledging support and urging change after a massive explosion devastated the Lebanese capital.
"Lebanon is not alone," he tweeted on arrival before pledging Paris would coordinate international relief efforts after the colossal blast killed at least 137 people, wounded thousands and caused billions of dollars in damage.
But Macron also warned that Lebanon — already mired in a deep economic crisis, in desperate need of a bailout and hit by political turmoil — would "continue to sink" unless it implements urgent reforms.
Public anger is simmering over the blast, caused by a massive pile of ammonium nitrate that had for years lain in a ramshackle portside warehouse — proof to many Lebanese of the deep rot at the core of their state system.
Macron visited Beirut's harbourside blast zone, now a wasteland of blackened ruins, rubble and charred debris where a 140-metre-wide crater has filled with seawater.
As Macron inspected a devastated pharmacy, angry crowds outside vented their fury at their "terrorist" leadership, shouting "revolution" and "the people want an end to the regime!"
"Come rule us!" one man yelled at the president.
Macron told them he would urge Lebanon's leaders to accept "a new political deal" and "to change the system, to stop the division of Lebanon, to fight against corruption".
Macron's visit to the small Mediterranean country, France's Middle East protege and former colonial-era protectorate, was the first by a foreign head of state since Tuesday's unprecedented tragedy. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '2', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9419628381729126}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '190149', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:AZ6EYZWVCL246VJ24WHR3DWPEHZFN6OI', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:5a59e3b8-399d-4c39-897d-4314bae87085>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2021, 4, 21, 1, 20, 13), 'WARC-IP-Address': '151.101.250.133', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:TZN2RMJ7PACINDYC5LY34ZSQDSPOVSRH', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:cf060cbb-4e36-4077-bd0b-928f569b0986>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.euronews.com/2020/08/06/macron-visits-beirut-in-aftermath-of-devastating-blast', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:400c432c-ff28-42d2-893e-27d50a42bac5>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '255', 'url': 'https://www.euronews.com/2020/08/06/macron-visits-beirut-in-aftermath-of-devastating-blast', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2021-17\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for April 2021\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-253.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.18 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.2-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': '0.02502143383026123', 'original_id': '1d6f8b865d3a617fca8ea8076ea4fc4a0c7e50b76bf25c1040d8ee8e4fca47d9'} |
IgProf, The Ignominous Profiler
Welcome to IgProf, the Ignominous Profiler. IgProf is a simple nice tool for measuring and analysing application memory and performance characteristics. IgProf requires no changes to the application or the build process. It currently works on Linux (ia32, x86_64). Eons ago it worked also on Mac OS X (PPC).
IgProf is fast, light weight and correctly handles dynamically loaded shared libraries, threads and sub-processes started by the application. We have used it routinely with large C++ applications consisting of many hundreds of shared libraries and thousands of symbols from millions of source lines of code. It requires no special privileges to run. The performance reports provide full navigable call stacks and can be customised by applying filters. Results from any number of profiling runs can be included. This means you can both dig into the details and see the big picture from combined workloads.
IgProf can be run in one of three modes: as a performance profiler, as a memory profiler, or in instrumentation mode. When used as a performance profiler it provides statistical sampling based performance profiles of the application. When used as a memory profiler information about both memory leaks and the total dynamic memory allocations are available. It can also be used to obtain a profile the live memory allocations in the heap at any given instant during the application run, although this requires a small code modification to signal from within your application the appropriate time to obtain the profile. For both profiling modes, one can produce either simple ASCII flat file or web-navigable reports. A complete performance and memory use picture can be obtained by running your application twice, once in each profiling mode. When run in instrumentation mode igprof can be used to precisely measure the time spent in a given function with the precision of a few ns.
The performance profiling adds negligibly to application run time and typically adds less than 50MB to the memory usage. The memory profiling overhead depends heavily on the application’s memory allocation patterns: the smaller allocations and the higher the rate, the more overhead. A fairly typical example from our own applications, running on 64-bit Scientific Linux 5, loading some 600 shared libraries, using 1 GB memory and allocating at roughly a million allocations per second rate (averaged over an hour or so), the run time overhead is ~250% and the memory use increased by ~1 GB. On 32-bit Linux the overhead is much less, about ~50% increase in run time, in some cases as little as 15%. Usually IgProf is considerably faster than valgrind or callgrind for the job.
Other profilers
Profiling is a craft art, and profilers are just tools. The best undestanding of your application is usually achieved by correlating a number of profiling result coming from different profilers and QA tools. If developing on a Mac OS X is an option, even if you otherwise develop on Linux, consider using Instruments. For very precise but much more expensive profiling you can use callgrind and valgrind. If you want to get more down-to-the-metal information OProfile, Linux perfctr, PAPI or perfmon2 are other statistical profilers that use CPU performance counters; they however require system privileges and kernel instrumentation. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9062529802322388}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '6774', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:V3QUPAWCWZ7PZGOXLUX3YEBZQWM7PTOU', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:7e919454-91dc-4d26-9c29-3dd7b793cc00>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2015, 2, 28, 19, 14, 34), 'WARC-IP-Address': '192.30.252.153', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': None, 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:IJ5Y54IG2W36D5DQTOLH7RWHH2S32YUP', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:7e33b087-2890-43be-8e76-b0a8e96b0ac8>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://igprof.org/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:8c1ab035-316f-4667-b4af-629f4eab4469>', 'WARC-Truncated': 'length'}", 'previous_word_count': '531', 'url': 'http://igprof.org/', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-28-5-156.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2015-11\r\noperator: CommonCrawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web with URLs provided by Blekko for February 2015\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': '0.06279516220092773', 'original_id': 'f517def55defb66f9ae7d3b68e9db812ebbbeafeffcecb4fa4fea8a7203b8899'} |
October 5th, 2011
I'm still driving away, and I'm sorry every day
I think Tottsu (the new[ish] ipod) was trying to cheer me up or at least show support this morning, because this morning Tottsu woke me up with Jimmy Eat World's "The Middle," followed immediately by w-inds.' "Trial", which aside from its applicable lyrics is the PV i looped roughly 1000 times the day after I failed my comprehensives in grad school, and then with Arashi's "We Can Make It." Cute, Tottsu. 頑張ります and all that.
Before LJ went down I had half an entry about dept meeting but i doubt anybody else cares and I don't really want to think about it anymore. it's over, at any rate.
My parents are leaving for a long weekend tomorrow so my father apparently spent all afternoon leaving me voicemail messages, and my punishment for me leaving my phone in my bag for a couple hours is that my family once again went to Friendly's without me. Not faiiiir. I'm also going to end up dog-sitting at least one, if not two, nights depending on what 3B does tomorrow. Damn you, Columbus, your holiday weekend sucks.
i really am sick of being sleepy on the couch and then going to bed and not being able to sleep at all. also I want Friendly's D:
• Current Mood
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from base import *
class Test (TestBase):
def __init__ (self):
TestBase.__init__ (self, __file__)
self.name = "Host header with port"
self.expected_error = 200
self.request = "GET / HTTP/1.1\r\n" +\
"Connection: Close\r\n" + \
"Host: www.cherokee-project.com:80\r\n"
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Neverwinter Nights Interview
Eschalon: Book II
Developer:BioWare Corp.
Release Date:2002-06-18
• Role-Playing
Platforms: Theme: Perspective:
• Isometric
Buy this Game: Amazon ebay
Only a couple of weeks ago, BioWare announced that they had come to terms with Interplay and that Infogrames would be publishing the eagerly-awaited Neverwinter Nights. Very good news, indeed. Not only did this dispel the fear that NWN may never be released, but it also meant that the game would be able to continue using the D&D license (not to mention I can finally sleep at night). Even with all of the spotlight and the many changes BioWare is going through with a new publisher, we managed to get an interview with Greg Zeschuk, Joint CEO of Bioware and Co-Executive Producer of Neverwinter Nights. Our questions and his answers below:
GB: How is development coming along with Neverwinter Nights? What areas of the game are currently being worked on, and what areas are still left before the game is finished?
Greg: Development on Neverwinter Nights is moving along extremely smoothly. We're working on a number of fronts: fine-tuning the story and dialogue, working on code optimization for speed, building in scalability of the graphics engine, and most importantly going through a full pass on the interface to make sure the game is fun to play.
GB: How many hours of gameplay will the single player version offer? Additionally, will it offer enough side quests and other (extras) (like BG2 did) that a person could conceivably replay it several times?
Greg: We're aiming for sixty (60) hours of gameplay. One of the most powerful things about the Neverwinter Nights scripting system is that we can be much more specific about letting NPCs recognize characters of different race, class and even attribute (like Intelligence) - this allows us to make many more specific quests targeted only to specific players. One of our goals in Neverwinter Nights, as always, is to have a lot for the player to do in terms of non-story related events.
GB: During the Interplay lawsuit, there was some talk that NWN may have to switch from using a D&D license to a D20 license (depending on the outcome). Now that things are finalized, and Infogrames will be publishing the game, will the game mechanics or rules have to be changed in any respect? Do you foresee the game being delayed whatsoever because of these recent changes?
Greg: We have made no changes to the rules or game mechanics based on the events of the last few months. We've still got a pretty big chunk of work to do, but we don't believe there will be any significant delays in our final completion path.
GB: There are three popular RPGs currently in development that will include an editor allowing players to modify many aspects of the game: Dungeon Siege, Morrowind, and Neverwinter Nights. How do you feel NWN's ability to create modules will stand up to the customization of the other two games?
Greg: We can't really comment on the tool sets of Dungeon Siege or of Morrowind as we've never used them - we make a point of not speculating. Saying that the Neverwinter Nights tool set is really easy and fun to use certainly isn't speculation though as I've had the pleasure of using it quite a bit. One of the most exciting things about what we're doing with the tools is making them accessible to anyone - people with very limited technical experience should be able to make a module and then play it. As far as I know no other game to date has reached that goal. We are very confident that the Neverwinter Nights tools will unlock incredible creative potential in the community because of its ease of use.
GB: Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor was the first game released that incorporated many of the 3rd edition rules, but some people were disappointed at its lack of character customization due to the fact that you couldn't select your feats and skills (among other things). Can you tell us what you've done to make sure players feel like their character is (unique) in NWN? Will there be any notable aspects of the 3rd edition rules left out?
Greg: We are allowing players to select individual skills and feats both at character creation, and when characters level up. For people that don't want to totally customize their character we will have a couple options. One option is the ability for the game to make recommendations for the player in choosing skills and feats, and the other is the ability to choose among various '˜packages' of skills and feats (e.g. we make presets of brute fighter, dual-wielding swordsman, etc.). We understand the importance of allowing players to customize their characters if they wish.
GB: Can you give us any idea of how many magic items will be available in the single-player version of the game? Assuming that some of the more famous weapons from 3rd edition D&D will be available (Flame Tongue, Nine Lives Stealer, Sun Blade, etc), will any of these possess graphical effects, such as the blade of Flame Tongue actually projecting a flame?
Greg: The answer to this is easy - hundreds! The last time I used the tools and saw the number of items in the game I was flabbergasted! There are literally dozens of items of every imaginable type. Even more impressive is that you will be able to build new items in the tool set and use them in the campaign if you wish.
With regard to graphical effects on items, we actually attach the visual effect to the designed effect - if you choose the flaming attribute the sword will have a flame effect. The same goes if you choose a frost effect - it's all automatic so the player doesn't have to worry about it. Thus the player focuses only on design of a module, and not the art details.
GB: Would it be possible to get a lengthy description of how a character's death will be handled? How much experience will he lose, and could this loss result in the loss of a level? If so, could a person change the class he chose to level in initially when he regains the lost level?
Greg: We're still working out the details of how player death will be handled. When the final design is determined we will make it public. Unfortunately I can't do so now.
GB: Is there any new information on how the Official Vault will be maintained? With your recent publisher changes, do you still intend to make the official servers free of charge?
Greg: We've been spending a significant amount of time in the last few weeks planning out how our community site is going to work. In short, it's going to be very impressive. We are creating a location that all players of Neverwinter Nights will gather and exchange information. We'll have more information on this as it develops.
GB: Jay Watamaniuk's recent Q&A on the official Bioware forums states that DMs will not be able to take control of player characters. What options will a DM have if a character is doing whatever he can to make the game miserable for the rest of the party? Can a DM simply boot him from the game at any time?
Greg: One fairly safe rule to follow in game development is that it always sucks to lose control of your character - we agree with this. The host of the server (who incidentally doesn't have to be the DM) will have the ultimate power over who can play on the server. We still evaluating a system in which DMs will also be granted this power - we'll discuss this when it is resolved.
GB: Over a year ago, it was stated that NWN will offer over 200 spells. Has this number changed at all since then? How much variety will there be in high-level spells, and will some monsters be immune to them, such as the more powerful creatures in Throne of Bhaal?
Greg: I asked someone to count how many spells there are in the game and they refused, complaining there are too many. There are a lot of spells - around the 200 we originally discussed - we haven't specifically changed the goals with spells in any way. There are quite a few higher level spells (with really amazing effects) and we'll be following the game rules with regard to monster spell immunities - monsters will be immune if they're supposed to be, according to the rules.
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Whatever it takes
What are the odds that today's health care reform summit will end with President Obama and the Republicans locking arms and singing "Kumbaya?" I'd sooner take odds that Lady Gaga will morph into Greta Garbo and become a recluse.
A bipartisan miracle will occur only if the Republicans say, "Hey, guess what, folks. We want to shelve all our philosophical objections to the Democratic plan, and we also think it'd be a great idea to hand the Democrats a political victory that will inspire their liberal base to turn out en masse in the November congressional elections." And the miracle will occur only if Obama and the Democrats say, "We won in 2008, decisively so, after campaigning for health care reform - but so what? We're now prepared to betray our voters and accept Republican ideas that will leave most uninsured Americans out in the cold. We want our voters to stay home in November."
But the summit - or, to be more precise, the "summit" - is not really designed to yield anything fruitful. Obama isn't really trying to find common ground with the Republicans. At this point, why bother? No, Obama's prime task is to stiffen the spines of the tremulous congressional Democrats whose support is essential if health care reform is to be shoved into the end zone on fourth and goal.
Indeed, the Democrats have floated a possible game plan to score on health reform without any Republican assistance at all, a plan that would circumvent the usual Republican roadblocks. (Obama clearly hopes to use today's event to put the Republican naysaying on national display.) The key feature of this plan is the Senate parliamentary tactic known as "reconciliation," which, if employed successfully, would allow the Democrats to do an end run around the usual Republican filibuster threat, and pass a final House-Senate health reform bill with only 51 Senate votes.
Reconciliation can be used to pass bills that have a budgetary impact. Health reform has a budgetary impact. Democrats have already passed health reform bills in both chambers; reconciliation can be used to resolve the differences, which are mainly fiscal in nature. In a reconciliation showdown vote, Senate Democrats can lose as many as nine of their caucus members, and still get the magic 51 if Joe Biden is called upon to cast the tie-breaker.
The reconciliation tactic has long been available, of course, but Senate Democratic leaders have been averse to using it - in part because, being typical Democrats, they were afraid that if they did use it, somebody somewhere might get mad. With the clock running out on health reform, however, they now seem to understand that there are times when it's important to do whatever it takes to win. (This is a credo that Republicans implicitly understand. More on that in a moment.) So we now have people like Evan Bayh, the lame-duck Indiana Democratic senator, grudgingly conceding that reconciliation at this point is the only way to go; in his words this week, "Obviously, if the minority is just frustrating the process, that argues for taking steps to get the public's business done."
What's priceless, of course, are the Republican complaints about how this "unprecedented" reconciliation strategy would destroy the Senate forever and ever. Former Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson calls the potential Democratic game plan an "insult," and warns that "the minority would not only be defeated on health reform, but its rights would be permanently diminished." Senator Lindsey Graham says that using reconciliation to pass health reform would trigger "the end of the minority rights in the Senate as we know it...the loss of the United States Senate as a real viable institution." Senator Lamar Alexander calls reconciliation "the ultimate trick," and he claimed at the summit this morning that if reconciliation was used to pass health care reform ("jamming it through in a partisan way"), that would constitute "the tyranny of the majority."
OK, I'm just wondering: How come the Republicans consider this tactic to be such an outrage when Democrats contemplate using it...yet they thought this tactic was just dandy in the past when they used it? In fact, they used it repeatedly when they controlled the Senate. On all kinds of major legislation. Including health care.
On 22 occasions since 1974 (when the Senate tactic was first used), reconciliation bills have passed the chamber. Senate GOP majorities authored 16 of them. That puts the Republican slugging percentage at .727. They used reconciliation to pass George W. Bush's tax cuts, for instance. Senator Charles Grassley defended that move as necessary, given Democratic opposition in the chamber; in his words, the reconciliation tactic was "the way it will have to be done in order to get it done at all." That's also how the Senate Republicans passed Ronald Reagan's tax cuts in 1981. The ruling Senate Republicans also used the tactic to pass welfare reform in 1996. They tried using the tactic in 2003, when they sought to open the Alaskan Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling (failing only because they couldn't muster the necessary 51 votes for passage.)
But, most germane to the current debate, the Republicans used the tactic during the '80s to open Medicare to the HMOs. They used it to create the COBRA program, which allows laid-off Americans to keep their health coverage. They used it to overhaul the doctor payment system for Medicare, and to increase the oversight of nursing homes that take Medicare and Medicaid patients.
That's just a sampling. All told, as Washington health policy expert Sara Rosenbaum told NPR the other day, "the way in which virtually all of health reform, with very, very limited exceptions, has happened over the past 30 years has been the reconciliation process...We've changed access to health care all across the United States all as a result of reconciliation." She should know, because she helped write some of those health provisions.
So why are the Republicans whining now? Because they know the tactic is legit, and they know that it works. They just don't like having it used against them. If the Democrats can use reconciliation to actually help most of the roughly 40 million uninsured, that messes with the GOP game plan.
But Republicans need not necessarily despair. There's no guarantee that swing-district House Democratic congressmen will cast final Yes votes in that chamber, nor that the Senate Democrats will muster even the bare majority. And at the summit this morning, we had Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid saying this: "No one has talked about reconciliation." Huh? What?
Bottom line: I think I speak for most Americans when I say that, at this point, after a long year of speeches and summits and confabs and hearings and votes on health care reform, regardless of which side wins or loses...Just. Wrap. It. Up.
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3. In a fresh blow to RJD, Lalu Prasad’s son Tej Pratap Yadav drops resignation bomb
By Saima Siddiqui
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Bihar: Tej Pratap Yadav, the elder son of RJD president Lalu Prasad, declared his decision to “resign” on Monday, causing more humiliation for the party established by his father and now run by his younger brother Tejashwi.
Also Read :- Asaduddin Owaisi suffers a major setback as four AIMIM MLAs join RJD in Bihar
Tej Pratap announced the news on his official Twitter account, tagging his father and younger brother, as well as his mother Rabri Devi and sister Misa Bharti, and Haryana Congress MLA Chiranjeev Rao, who is married to his younger sister Anushka Yadav.
The mercurial politician, who represents the state’s Hassanpur assembly segment, tweeted that he will hand in his resignation to his father, who is now doing time in prison for a number of fodder fraud charges.
He did not, however, say if he intended to resign from the party or the state assembly or both.
The news came only hours after the maverick leader was accused of assault by a junior party official, an allegation to which the RJD has so far remained silent. Tej Pratap has also been silent on the subject.
Also Read :- Lalu Yadav granted bail by J'khand HC in Rs 139.35 cr Doranda treasury case
Ramraj Yadav, the city unit leader of the Yuva RJD, claimed that Tej Pratap stripped him naked, beaten him up, and abused him inside the house of the former Chief Minister’s mother Rabri Devi on Friday, when the former Chief Minister’s house was teeming with visitors at an Iftar party she had hosted.
“He used expletives, not just against me, but (younger brother) Tejashwi Yadav and even (father) Lalu Prasad”, accused Ramraj, who claimed to have informed Tejashwi and state unit chief Jagadanand Singh about the situation.
Tej Pratap, who is known for his violent nature, formed a rival party ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections because several of his buddies were not considered for an RJD seat.
He, on the other hand, stayed with the party, dispelling rumours of a split. After one of his close aides was expelled from the RJD’s student body last year, he floated a new students’ organisation, the Chhatra Janshakti Parishad.
He was recently accused of being a loose cannon, claiming to have had a “private talk” with Nitish Kumar and boasting of a great “khela” (game) in Bihar politics, in which Tejashwi will establish his own government. His assertion had been disavowed by the RJD.
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Q:
Subclass __init__ is not called if superclass __new__ is defined
See the following ipython session:
$ ipython --no-banner
In [1]: class foo(object):
...: def __new__(self, *args, **kwargs):
...: print 'in superclass __new__'
...: return self
...:
...: class bar(foo):
...: def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
...: print 'in subclass __init__'
...: self.val = 42
...:
In [2]: b = bar()
in superclass __new__
In [3]: b.val
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
AttributeError Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-4-c55d38c9d4d9> in <module>()
----> 1 b.val
AttributeError: type object 'bar' has no attribute 'val'
What is going on here? Why does defining __new__ in foo prevent the __init__ from running in bar?
A:
You are returning an invalid value from __new__. Quoting the documentation:
If __new__() returns an instance of cls, then the new instance’s __init__() method will be invoked ... If __new__() does not return an instance of cls, then the new instance’s __init__() method will not be invoked.
Note that the first argument to __new__ is a class, not an object. __new__'s job is to allocate the object, often by calling super().__new__.
Try this:
class foo(object):
def __new__(cls, *args, **kwargs):
print 'in superclass __new__'
return super(foo, cls).__new__(cls, *args, **kwargs)
class bar(foo):
def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
print 'in subclass __init__'
self.val = 42
b = bar()
print b
A:
From the datamodel documentation:
If __new__() does not return an instance of cls, then the new instance’s __init__() method will not be invoked.
So, try again like this:
class foo(object):
def __new__(cls, *args, **kwargs):
print 'in superclass __new__'
return super(foo, cls).__new__(cls, *args, **kwargs)
class bar(foo):
def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
print 'in subclass __init__'
self.val = 42
A:
Your __new__ function signature implies you don't quite understand what is going on. The first argument to __new__ will be the class, calling it self which is conventionally used for the instance should be a warning: __new__ is a constructor, the instance doesn't exist yet. So what happens is you are returning an object that isn't the same type as the class, (it is the class in fact, so it is of type type) thus, __init__ is skipped! You want something like this:
In [4]: class Foo(object):
...: def __new__(cls, *args, **kwargs):
...: print 'in superclass __new__'
...: return super(Foo, cls).__new__(cls, *args, **kwargs)
...:
...: class Bar(Foo):
...: def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
...: print 'in subclass __init__'
...: self.val = 42
...:
In [5]: b = Bar()
in superclass __new__
in subclass __init__
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How can I capture screenshots in VR?
While in VR, press the System button and the trigger at the same time. You'll see a notification when the screenshot is saved.
To find the screenshot in your computer, navigate to the following path:
\Steam\userdata\[Steam user number]\760\remote\250820\screenshots
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var FollowTesterScene = function (game) {
this.game = game ;
this.name = 'CurveTester' ;
this.r = 0 ;
this.r2 = 0 ;
this.r3 = 0 ;
this.pauseTime = 0 ;
this.quat = new SmokingMirror.Quaternion() ;
this.modelGraphics = new PIXI.Graphics() ;
} ;
FollowTesterScene.prototype = {
setup: function () {
/*
this.player = new Player (this.game.assetManager.getAsset ('models.player'), this.game.wireframeRender) ;
this.player.update(0) ;
this.r = 127 ;
*/
this.game.addRenderChild (this.modelGraphics) ;
var modelDef = SmokingMirror.ThreeD.Loader.parseWavefront (this.game.assetManager.getAsset ('models.player')) ;
this.model = new SmokingMirror.ThreeD.Model(modelDef, this.game.wireframeRender) ;
this.model.materials.Flame.color = 0xFF4212 ;
this.model.materials.Flame.alpha = 0.7 ;
this.model.materials.Base.color = 0xE0FFFC ;
this.model.materials.Cockpit.color = 0x318fdf ;//0xd6ecff ;
//this.model.materials.Cockpit.alpha = 0.4 ;
this.model.materials.Detail.color = 0x333333 ;
this.model.scale = new SmokingMirror.Vector3 (0.1, 0.1, 0.1) ;
var curve = new SmokingMirror.ThreeD.Curve(this.game.wireframeRender) ;
curve.setPoints ([
0, 0, 0,
1, 0, 0,
1, 1, 0,
0, 1, 0,
0, 1, 1,
]) ;
var scene = this ;
var CurveSettings = function () {
this.show = true ;
this.showPoints = true ;
this.tension = 0.5 ;
this.segments = 8 ;
this.closed = true ;
this.lobes = 6 ;
this.circle = 0 ;
this.zoffset = 1 ;
} ;
var FollowerSettings = function () {
this.snapToStart = true ;
this.followerIsChild = true ;
this.speed = 0.5 ;
this.rotSpeed = 1.5 ;
this.rotLookahead = 4 ;
this.rotate = true ;
this.restart = function() { scene.curvefollower.startFollow() ; };
this.banking = true ;
} ;
var curvesettings = new CurveSettings() ;
var followersettings = new FollowerSettings() ;
this.curvesettings = curvesettings ;
this.followersettings = followersettings ;
var updateCurve = function() {
curve.tension = curvesettings.tension ;
curve.segments = curvesettings.segments ;
curve.closed = curvesettings.closed ;
curve.dirtyPoints = true ;
} ;
var updateFollower = function() {
scene.curvefollower.snapToStart = followersettings.snapToStart ;
scene.curvefollower.followerIsChild = followersettings.followerIsChild ;
scene.curvefollower.speed = followersettings.speed ;
scene.curvefollower.rotSpeed = followersettings.rotSpeed ;
scene.curvefollower.rotLookahead = followersettings.rotLookahead ;
scene.curvefollower.rotate = followersettings.rotate ;
} ;
var followerRotateOverride = function (quat, up) {
var spinQ = new SmokingMirror.Quaternion () ;
spinQ.setFromAxisAngle (new SmokingMirror.Vector3(0, 0, 1), scene.r3) ;
quat.multiply (spinQ) ;
return quat ;
} ;
var folder = this.game.dgui.addFolder ("Curve Params") ;
folder.add(curvesettings, 'show', false, true).onFinishChange (function(value) {
updateCurve() ;
}) ;
folder.add(curvesettings, 'showPoints', false, true).onFinishChange (function(value) {
updateCurve() ;
}) ;
folder.add(curvesettings, 'tension', -1.0, 1).onFinishChange (function(value) {
updateCurve() ;
}) ;
folder.add(curvesettings, 'segments', 1, 16).step(1).onFinishChange (function(value) {
updateCurve() ;
}) ;
folder.add(curvesettings, 'closed', false, true).onFinishChange (function(value) {
updateCurve() ;
}) ;
folder.add(curvesettings, 'lobes', 3, 16).step(1).onFinishChange (function(value) {
updateCurve() ;
}) ;
folder.add(curvesettings, 'circle', 0, 1).onFinishChange (function(value) {
updateCurve() ;
}) ;
folder.add(curvesettings, 'zoffset', 0, 1).onFinishChange (function(value) {
updateCurve() ;
}) ;
var folderFollower = this.game.dgui.addFolder ("Follower Params") ;
folderFollower.add (followersettings, 'snapToStart').onFinishChange(function(){
updateFollower() ;
}) ;
folderFollower.add (followersettings, 'followerIsChild', false, true).onFinishChange(function(v){
if (v) {
scene.model.parent = scene.curve ;
scene.model.scale = new SmokingMirror.Vector3 (0.1, 0.1, 0.1) ;
scene.model.position = new SmokingMirror.Vector3 (0, 0, 0) ;
scene.model.applyTransforms() ;
} else {
scene.model.parent = null ;
scene.model.scale = new SmokingMirror.Vector3 (1, 1, 1) ;
scene.model.position = new SmokingMirror.Vector3 (0, 0, 0) ;
scene.model.applyTransforms() ;
}
updateFollower() ;
}) ;
folderFollower.add (followersettings, 'speed', 0.1, 15).onFinishChange(function(){
updateFollower() ;
}) ;
folderFollower.add (followersettings, 'rotate', false, true).onFinishChange(function(){
updateFollower() ;
}) ;
folderFollower.add (followersettings, 'rotSpeed', 0.1, 15).onFinishChange(function(){
updateFollower() ;
}) ;
folderFollower.add (followersettings, 'rotLookahead', 1, 10).step(1).onFinishChange(function(){
updateFollower() ;
}) ;
folderFollower.add (followersettings, 'banking', false, true).onFinishChange(function(v){
scene.curvefollower.followerRotateOverride = v ? followerRotateOverride : null ;
}) ;
folderFollower.add (followersettings, 'restart') ;
this.curve = curve ;
curve.scale = new SmokingMirror.Vector3 (20, 20, 20) ;
updateCurve() ;
this.generateCurve() ;
this.curvefollower = new SmokingMirror.ThreeD.CurveFollower () ;
this.curvefollower.follower = this.model ;
this.curvefollower.curve = this.curve ;
this.curvefollower.strict = true ;
this.curvefollower.child = true ;
this.curvefollower.setupFollower() ;
this.curvefollower.followerRotateOverride = followerRotateOverride ;
},
generateCurve: function() {
var pts = [] ;
var amt = this.curvesettings.lobes ;
for (var i = 0; i < amt; i++) {
var a = (360 / amt) * i ;
var d = i % 2 === 0 ? 1 + (1 * this.curvesettings.circle) : 2 ;
var x = Math.sin (a * SmokingMirror.Math.DTR) * d ;
var y = Math.cos (a * SmokingMirror.Math.DTR) * d ;
//var z = i % 2 === 0 ? Math.cos (this.r3) * 1.2 : -Math.cos (this.r3) * 0.2 ;
var z = i % 2 === 0 ? this.curvesettings.zoffset / 2 : -this.curvesettings.zoffset / 2 ;
//var z = 0 ;
pts.push (x, y, z) ;
}
this.curve.setPoints (pts) ;
},
destroy: function() {
this.model = null ;
this.curve = null ;
this.curvefollower = null ;
this.game.dgui.removeFolder ('Curve Params') ;
this.game.dgui.removeFolder ('Follower Params') ;
this.game.removeRenderChild (this.modelGraphics) ;
},
update: function(dt) {
this.r += dt * 30 ;
this.r2 += dt * 5 ;
this.r3 += dt * 1 ;
this.curve.rotation.y = this.r * SmokingMirror.Math.DTR * 0.5 ;
//this.curve.rotation.x = this.r * math.DTR * 0.5 ;
//this.curve.scale.x = Math.sin (this.r3) ;
//this.curve.scale.y = Math.sin (this.r3) ;
//this.curve.scale.z = Math.sin (this.r3) ;
this.generateCurve() ;
this.curve.update(dt) ;
this.curvefollower.update(dt) ;
/*var quat = new math.Quaternion() ;
quat.setFromEuler (new math.Vector3 (this.r * math.DTR, 0, 0)) ;
//quat.setFromEuler (new math.Vector3 (0, this.r * math.DTR, 0)) ;
//quat.setFromEuler (new math.Vector3 (0, 0, this.r * math.DTR)) ;
//quat.setFromAxisAngle (new math.Vector3(1, 0, 0), this.r * math.DTR) ;
this.model.rotation.setFromQuat (quat) ;*/
this.model.update (dt) ;
},
render: function() {
//this.player.render(this.game.modelGraphics) ;
this.modelGraphics.clear() ;
if (this.curvesettings.show) {
this.curve.render(this.modelGraphics) ;
}
this.model.render(this.modelGraphics) ;
if (this.curvesettings.showPoints) {
var verts = this.curve.generatedVerts ;
for (var i = 0; i < verts.length; i += 3) {
// now extract generated points
var point = new SmokingMirror.Vector3 (verts[i], verts[i+1], verts[i+2]);
point.applyMatrix4 (this.curve.getWorldMatrix()) ;
this.modelGraphics.lineStyle (4, 0xFF00FF, 1) ;
SmokingMirror.ThreeD.Helpers.renderPoint (this.game.wireframeRender, this.modelGraphics, point, 0.1) ;
}
}
}
};
module.exports = FollowTesterScene ;
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How to Help Your Patients Afford EpiPens
As anyone who follows the news knows, the price of the EpiPen, an epinephrine autoinjector used for the treatment of anaphylaxis, has soared, increasing from $100 to $600.
However, there are measures pharmacists can take to help their patients obtain the EpiPens after the price hike.
One pharmacist, for example, helps patients obtain a coupon online from the manufacturer to reduce the copay for the EpiPen, which can run as much as $100 or more depending on insurance.
The coupon can reduce the price by about $100, so someone with a $150 copay would then only have to pay $50.
Without insurance, a person would have to pay the full price of $600 for the EpiPen, but even with insurance, the copay can be prohibitive, prompting many people to simply not get the device.
One in 50 people have an anaphylactic reaction, and for them, having an EpiPen can be the difference between life and death. In addition to obtaining the coupon from the manufacturer to reduce the copay, there are other things pharmacists can do to help patients get the EpiPens.
If the patient is uninsured, the pharmacist can help them enroll in a patient assistance program that provides EpiPens free of charge. One such program is sponsored by the EpiPen manufacturer Mylan. To enroll in the program, the patient needs to fill out the patient assistance program form with their physician. To qualify, the patient needs to meet certain eligibility criteria. These include being a U.S. citizen or legal resident, having a gross yearly household income below 400 percent of the current Federal Poverty Guidelines and not having prescription drug coverage through Medicaid, Medicare Part D or TriCare, among other guidelines.
There are also generic products available. Prescriptions need to specify epinephrine autoinjector, not EpiPen.
One such generic is the Impax epinephrine injection, USP autoinjector. It contains the same active ingredient as the medicine in the EpiPen and is FDA approved.
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Q:
Python custom list building optimization
I'm programming a genetic algorithm in Python, however, my operator (MMX) takes too long (10 seconds) to execute for individuals with 3 million weights (each individual is a list of 3.000.000 elements).
This is the code for the operator:
def calc_gen(maxel, minel, rec1, rec2, phiC):
g = maxel - minel
phi = 0
if g > phiC:
# Recta 2
phi = rec2[0] * g + rec2[1]
elif g < phiC:
# Recta 1
phi = rec1[0] * g + rec1[1]
#Hay que asegurarse que no nos salimos del rango:
maxv = min(1, maxel - phi)
minv = max(0, minel + phi)
gen1 = random.uniform(minv, maxv) # Guardar el gen del primer hijo
# Si C es el centro y A el elemento que ya tenemos y B el simétrico de A: C - A + C = B -> 2C - A = B
# C = (maxv + minv) / 2; 2C - A = B -> maxv + minv - A = B
# center = (maxv + minv) / 2
gen2 = maxv + minv - gen1
return gen1, gen2
#return gen1, maxv + minv - gen1
def cxMMX(poblacion, rec1, rec2, phiC):
start = timer()
# Calcular el maximo y el minimo de cada gen en toda la población
max_genes = numpy.amax(poblacion, axis=0).tolist()
min_genes = numpy.amin(poblacion, axis=0).tolist()
gis = timer()
hijo1 = Individual()
hijo2 = Individual()
# Iterar dos listas a la vez (zip) con su indice (enumerate). Así crearemos los hijos simultáneamente en un loop
for i, (maxel, minel) in enumerate(zip(max_genes, min_genes)):
gen1, gen2 = calc_gen(maxel, minel, rec1, rec2, phiC)
hijo1.append(gen1)
hijo2.append(gen2)
end = timer()
#print("Tiempo Gi: %f Tiempo init: %f Tiempo calc gen: %f Tiempo mate total: %f" % (gis-start, init-gis, end-init, end-start))
return [hijo1, hijo2]
rec1, rec2 and phiC are parameters that determine how the crossover is done, you shouldn't bother about them. They have the same value all across the algorithm.
poblacion is a list of lists, lets say it's shape is [7,3000000].
Individual() is a custom class. It is basically inheriting "list" and adding some attributes to store the fitness value.
Doing numpy.amax and numpy.amin separately seems like doing extra work. Also, there's probably a more pythonic way to do the "calc_gen()" loop.
PD: "gen1" depends on "gen2": gen1 obtained randomly within a range, and then gen2 is obtained looking for the symmetrical point.
PD2: A more detailed explanation on MMX operator can be found on the original paper, however, you can assume the code is okay and does what it has to do. The doi is https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44522-6_73
PD: the enumerate() and the i are there from the old code, forgot to remove them!
EDIT: reduced 20% time with Dillon Davis's solution. It's a pretty clean solution which will work with any custom list building function, provided you obtain each value of the list by executing one function:
def calc_gen_v2(maxel,minel, rec1m, rec1b, rec2m, rec2b, phiC):
g = maxel - minel
phi = 0
if g > phiC:
# Recta 2
phi = rec2m * g + rec2b
elif g < phiC:
# Recta 1
phi = rec1m * g + rec1b
#Hay que asegurarse que no nos salimos del rango:
maxv = min(1, maxel - phi)
minv = max(0, minel + phi)
gen1 = random.uniform(minv, maxv) # Guardar el gen del primer hijo
# Si C es el centro y A el elemento que ya tenemos y B el simétrico de A: C - A + C = B -> 2C - A = B
# C = (maxv + minv) / 2; 2C - A = B -> maxv + minv - A = B
# center = (maxv + minv) / 2
gen2 = maxv + minv - gen1
return gen1, gen2
def cxMMX_v3(poblacion, rec1, rec2, phiC):
start = timer()
# Calcular el maximo y el minimo de cada gen en toda la población
max_genes = numpy.amax(poblacion, axis=0)
min_genes = numpy.amin(poblacion, axis=0)
gis = timer()
hijo1, hijo2 = map(Individual, numpy.vectorize(calc_gen_v2)(max_genes, min_genes, rec1[0], rec1[1], rec2[0], rec2[1], phiC))
end = timer()
#print("Tiempo Gi: %f Tiempo init: %f Tiempo calc gen: %f Tiempo mate total: %f" % (gis-start, init-gis, end-init, end-start))
return [hijo1, hijo2]
EDIT 2: as Dillon Davis suggested I implemented it in pure numpy, reducing the time to 3,5 seconds! (65% time save)
def cxMMX_numpy(poblacion, rec1, rec2, phiC):
# Calculate max and min for every gen in the population
max_genes = numpy.amax(poblacion, axis=0)
min_genes = numpy.amin(poblacion, axis=0)
g_pop = numpy.subtract(max_genes, min_genes)
phi_pop = numpy.where(g_pop < phiC, numpy.multiply(g_pop, rec1[0]) + rec1[1], numpy.where(g_pop > phiC, numpy.multiply(g_pop, rec2[0]) + rec2[1], 0))
maxv = numpy.minimum(numpy.subtract(max_genes, phi_pop), 1)
minv = numpy.maximum(numpy.sum([min_genes, phi_pop], axis=0), 0)
hijo1 = numpy.random.uniform(low=minv, high=maxv, size=minv.size)
hijo2 = numpy.subtract(numpy.sum([maxv, minv], axis=0), hijo1)
return [Individual(hijo1), Individual(hijo2)]
NOTE: In case you want to reuse, Individual inherits from list
NOTE: if g=phiC then rec1[0] * g_pop + rec1[1]=0, always, rec1[0] and rec1[1] guarantee that! so maybe it is better to do the math instead of a triple option?
A:
Try replacing your for loop in cxMMX() with something like:
hijo1, hijo2 = map(Individual, numpy.vectorize(calc_gen)(max_genes, min_genes, rec1, rec2, phiC))
and drop the .tolist() from your numpy.amin() and numpy.amax().
This will vectorize your your calc_gen function, avoid a zip and the function overhead from several .append() calls, and should overall be quite a bit faster.
Edit:
Also consider converting calc_gen() to work directly on the numpy arrays. Replace calls to random.uniform() with numpy.random.uniform(), min() or max() with numpy.minimum() or numpy.maximum(), and then eliminate the for loop / map + vectorize completely. This would ultimately be the fastest option.
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Mary’s Gone Quackers for Polit Farms, California Rice & the Pacific Flyway
California Rice is The Environmental Crop You don’t have to be a duck to appreciate California ricelands, or even a waterfowl. You could just be a fan of the locally sourced 100% organic rice that Mary’s uses to bake crackers. Our partnership with Polit Farms is another example of how the benefits of sustainable agriculture radiate outwards.
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How To Diagnose What Is Wrong With Your Stream
There are several tools that are useful try to figure out why you can not connect to your WRWN stream, or why it is buffering.
1- Perform a ping to the host .. EXAMPLE:
• Go to a command prompt > START > RUN > CMD
• Issue the following command: ping (or the address of your broadcast server)
• You should see no time outs and the time should be reasonable 300msec or less .. 100msec or less is best
2- Perform a Trace Route
• Go to a command prompt > START > RUN > CMD
• Issue the following command: tracert (or the address of your broadcast server)
• Look at each hop to make sure there aren't timeouts
3- Do a WinMTR test
• Down the following free software, WinMTR, from . . WinMTR
• Install the software
• Easy to run .. doing 1000 iterations is best
• Save the info in a text file and post it to the ticket, if requested
• This is similar to the Trace Route, but with more information
• Look to see if there are any trouble hops along the way
Somtimes the problem isn't with the Web Radio World's server, but communications along the way.
If the very 1st hop is having problems, check your NIC and / or your RJ-45 patch cable to the router / hub / switch.
If all else fails, put in a support ticket.
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Assessment of myeloid and monocytic dysplasia by flow cytometry in de novo AML helps define an AML with myelodysplasia-related changes category.
In recent years, multiparameter flow cytometry has been increasingly recognised as an important tool in diagnosis of myelodysplastic syndrome and acute myeloid leukaemia (AML). Assessment of myeloid and monocytic 'immunophenotypic' dysplasia by flow cytometry in de novo AML has not been evaluated. 97 cases of de novo AML cases were identified and reviewed by three hematopathologists. 'Immunophenotypic' dysplasia was assessed on blasts, monocytes and granulocytes by mean fluorescence intensity. Using the 2008 WHO classification criteria, there were 53 AML-not otherwise specified (NOS) (55%) and 28 AML with myelodysplasia-related changes (AML-MRC) (29%), while 16 cases were ambiguous as to AML-MRC status due to limited maturing cells for morphologic but adequate events number for immunophenotypic evaluation (AML-not evaluable, 16%). Compared with AML-NOS, granulocytic cells in AML-MRC had higher CD33 expression but lower CD45, CD11b and CD15. Monocytes in AML-MRC had lower expression of CD14, CD56 and CD45. Morphologic dysplasia was associated with significantly lower granulocytic forward scatter, side scatter and CD10 but higher CD33 expression. Our results suggest that the workup of AML cases should include flow cytometric assessment of granulocytes and monocytes. This analysis can aid a morphologic impression of multilineage dysplasia in distinguishing AML-MRC from AML-NOS, especially in cases with limited maturing myeloid cells. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '423af70ce98da4af58bb19984068013c1781da0cc22bd464450ec436d0b41c2f'} |
Cast of Community
Friday, December 23, 2011
Merry Changmas! http://bit.ly/sKxh78
If you don't want to read the details on our zombie war, please scroll down 6 paragraphs until you see bold text and TL;DR. Also, congratulations to Donald Glover/Childish Gambino for his many accomplishments!
Zombie War Update: We ran a tight race against the zombie hordes (http://t.co/Qlu8DHRp). I talked smack at @TeamReedus and also absolutely confused him by saying, "Your mother was a hamster and your father smells like elderberries! I taunt you, sir! BRAINS! BRAAAAAINS!" I then sent my own confused tweet to Nielsen and BBDO; we can't run a tight race against Walking Dead fans if there aren't any of us. Many thanks to Curt Wagner at the Chicago Tribune (@showpatrol) for giving us a zombie war for Christmas!
Tonight's news (12/28): we're tossing around the idea of a Guinness world record blanket fort at Univeral Orlando theme park in Florida, to coincide with National Blanket Fort Day (thank you @SpinolaG). Because there are a lot of us, don't worry; we'll raise the money to RENT a place to do this if we have to!
Also, this: http://twitpic.com/7zz3xo
In other news, there is an LA Flashmob: LA Flashmob FB page and Craigslist page
Thurs, 1/19/12, 4:30pm, Universal Citywalk, singing Baby Boomer Santa. I didn't know about it, but I fully support it. Also, I don't need to be a spokesperson. Anyone who loves the show can speak for all of us. Just try to stay positive and not slam NBC, other networks, or other shows, OK? Go West Coast! You're up next! This is so cool! :)
I learn a LOT of things from the Chuck campaign. They used to run flashmobs; one was Zachary Levi running a mob of London fans to a Subway. You would have to clear it with the store, but how about running a mob into a grocery store, buying Yoplait and General Mills products (Cheerios, Progresso, Muir Glen, et al): www.generalmills.com/brands. Like I said, some stores are funny with this, so you might end up juggling yogurts in the parking lot or somewhere else. I give a lot of love and respect to the Chuck community. They ran a good campaign and got a couple of extra years for a beautiful show. I love them.
Quick note: I want NBC, Sony, Yoplait, and General Mills ALL to be #1! Mainly NBC! Also, we're buying shiz like crazy, so please don't overtly compare us to the Occupy movement, OK? We love those guys, and DON'T want to get on their bad side!
Buy @GeneralMills and @YoplaitYogurt, either a little or a lot, for donation or for yourself, OR do a flashmob based on their products (scroll back 4 paragraphs for more); tweet/FB/mail. www.generalmills.com/brands
There's a lot of information to cover here. First, though, I'd like to give a shout out to the two lovely ladies who traveled all the way from Vancouver for the flash mob! I didn't get to hug you goodbye because of interviews and it makes me sick to my stomach; please tweet me at @violincatherine and I'll give you a virtual hug, okay! Oh Canada, indeed! You guys also get the prize for the longest commute. Everyone who participated, especially @sararoseex3, cocreator @EvilTroyAndAbed, and all the participants online with the #OChristmasTroy hashtag and on Facebook, you did good. Real good! Thank you so much!
TV Guide is a rockstar; where can I buy extra Community cover issues of the magazine?
Sony filmed the ENTIRE THING. I've been asking everyone to see Hugo in 3D by @SonyPictures, and now I'm going to see it again. They interviewed all of us, and followed us as we went into the NBC Store and giggled over NBC Community merchandise. Guys, they're listening to us. Tweet them your thanks, show them love, buy Sony stuff, go see Hugo, ALL OF IT. They may have the power to save the show, and (if you have any spare cash left after buying some Yoplait/General Mills food), it might be nice to show some Community love!
Glenn, the manager at the NBC Store at 30 Rock, was SO nice to us. He filmed the flashmob and put it on the NBC Store FB page, so please comment on the page and share it everyone; we can help NBC with their new media too: http://www.facebook.com/NBCUniversalStore
More about Glenn: he gave everyone a Human Being keychain and magnet. I actually gave him my tree and goatee while Sony was filming me. How's that for an alternate timeline, y'all? If you're not getting chills, you aren't a Human Being! My Troy and Abed mug and #AnniesMove shirt actually made me cry happy tears when I woke up today. So, Glenn also runs the online store. He REALLY appreciates us. We keep buying up all the merchandise; they've sold out of Troy and Abed mugs now 3 times. I'm telling you, NBC had to approve this, so I see it as a BIG WIN. Keep up like the Bieber Army and buy ALL THEIR STUFF, ok? http://www.nbcuniversalstore.com/?v=nbc_community
Re: Britta Bot and other figurines. Don't take any of this as sarcasm, I want NBC to be #1 and I want to help them. Pure fan demand in the NBC Store led them to bring figurines in the 30 Rock store for the 1st time. Note: this is during a hiatus, and we are so crazy that we're forcing them to put merch where it wasn't before. They also keep selling out online. They can barely keep up!
I wore my @YoplaitYogurt shirt with pride yesterday. I told everyone who would listen about them, and the initiative to buy @YoplaitYogurt or donate food purchased from @GeneralMills brands.
I made a $60 donation to http://www.serenityhousenj.org/ the other day of @GeneralMills food, and GENERAL MILLS TWEETED ME for Christmas! Is it sad to admit that I cried more happy tears when that happened? OK, maybe it's sad, but it's true. Go General Mills!
If we're going to get a corporate sponsorship, we really need to back it up with revenue. So the @GeneralMills tweet adds ALL their food to the campaign. Here are the many brands of General Mills, and I would highly suggest adding their cereals/soups/yogurt (also Muir Glen and Cascadian Farms) to your weekly shopping list: www.generalmills.com/brands. Donations are higher dollar amounts and good karma, but even a carton of Yoplait helps right now. @nannysox suggested we all pick one day a week to do this; any votes for Yoplait/General Mills love? I have weird hours as a musician, so I buy food on weird days and hours. But that's still a great idea, so please let me know! Take pictures, tweet them, send letters to: General Mills mailing address/phone: 3007 Stephens Boulevard Joplin, MO 64804-3368, (417) 782-0300 (can address to Yoplait Yogurt, c/o General Mills, also)
Community fans are the best in the world, period. Everyone who showed up yesterday was so bright, cheerful, happy, and willing to help out in any way. That brings me to:
EVERYONE is down with a blanket fort. I'd like to do it in a month (which means indoors). My #1 dream, because I want NBC to be #1 again and I WANT to give them all this free PR, is an attempt at a Guinness World Record for blanket forts at NBC Headquarters. PJs and pillow fights would be required. I would hope for Leno/Fallon bits, but just the fort itself and the fans would be enough.
Glenn at @nbcstore gives me hope that NBC is listening to us. They deserve to be #1 again; they have SO MANY great shows that we can't afford to lose.
If NBC is not receptive, I told the Sony crew that we would be happy to take over an empty backlot somewhere. A Florida fan, @r3g1t0dd, suggested Universal Orlando. Can you imagine a World Record blanket fort and overnight pillow fight plus pajama party at Universal? Road trip, baby!
If NBC and Sony don't bite, we can try General Mills headquarters.
If General Mills doesn't bite, we'll do it ourselves! I was suggesting a dairy farm in upstate NY (yes, cliche), but if it's January, Momma Bear Yours Truly ain't signing up for outside. We'd have to find a huge indoor structure that would have the permits (and fire regulations) in place for extensive use of blankets and smashed pillows.
Because we want to include EVERYONE, we have another blanket fort initiative running. The beautiful Spanish @be_cooky is creating a collage of blanket forts from across the world. Build one wherever you are, take a picture of it, and post it on FB at http://www.facebook.com/events/178705898894815/ or tweet @be_cooky. If you can take a video, send that too!
Also, the beautiful TV Guide support comes from us voting Community onto their magazine cover as fan favorite. Keep voting in all active polls, and WIN ALL THE THINGS (shout out to @TweetingKerry)! The more things we win, the more press and the more leverage our show has, so:
I've LITERALLY been up until 4 or 7 in the morning, every night, since the hiatus was called. I've got to stop procrastinating. Christmas is here, so I have to do a bunch of Christmas things with my family, and then I'm off on vacation. I'm trying to get this blog post in before I go off radar for a while. Keep up the good work, y'all! They are listening, they are talking about it, and we have their attention, so keep the momentum rolling with General Mills, Yoplait, Sony, the NBC Store, and finding ways on FB and twitter to promote the blanket fort idea. I'm behind y'all one hundred percent.
I know I'm a wordy girl. There are more ideas on earlier blog posts; if you see something you want to reinstate as an idea, please let me know. If there's something that you want to see up here, please tweet me and I'll put it up too, OK? This blog is for YOU, the fans. Speaking of which:
@GuillaumeElleb from Belgium (OMG I love Belgium) has a great idea for a GreendaleCC page on FB, done as if it were a real college. We could give ourselves IDs, make up new crazy faculty, trade studying tips, stalk the Dean and Jeff, and follow Abed as Batman/Cougartown extra, trade Jeff and Annie googly eyes reports. I could spend an hour making up Dean Pelton behind the scenes stories. Anyone want to do join us if he sets this up? I absolutely love it! It gives us yet another productive and funny thing to do, too!
You can always right-click on a show in itunes and send it as a gift. All you need is an email address! Speaking of which, I have a few copies of Holiday Regional Music (S3E10) left to give out. Tweet/DM me your email address to @violincatherine and I'll send you a copy. There are 10 left! If we all did this, well, we'd have less crud at the top of the itunes list, that's for sure! Who watches some of this other nonsense?
I don't need to be the official spokesperson of the Community movement. (OMG someone said we're older than they thought when they saw the video, but I'm like, dude, I wanna buy an electric car and @artofkuzma hubby has a $6000 printer; BITE ME.) Others have been here longer. On the next go-round, I invite someone else to take the mic, OK? I love all of you guys. The flashmob was the best Christmas present I've ever had, and I'm officially designating it as our Christmas present back to the staff, crew, and actors of NBC Community. Happy Holidays!
(P.S. - It was funny, but NBC Security and the NYPD asked us to move a couple of times. I shook their hands, introduced myself, and said, OK, whatever you want! I wished everyone a Merry Christmas and thanked them for protecting us from pickpockets. Thank you again to all of NBC, the Rockefeller security team, and the NYPD! We love you! The only incident was: I think the Troy and Abed mugs sold out AGAIN! xoxo CB)
(P.PS. - The Daily News hit: Ethan Sacks is a Rockstar
Hollywood Reporter hit: We Love Jethro Nededog
My favorite blog post: We Love Cult is VERY cool
Also, I saw this as I left NYC: Joel McHale's 50 Foot Head
There are others, but I have SO MUCH to do. Check my twitter feed or the #savecommunity hashtag for more. Happy Holidays! -CB)
(P.P.P.S. - When I said I am not a trained person in the video, I really meant that I'm not an actor. I respect the time and training it takes to master acting as a craft. The work the cast does is SEAMLESS and perfect. So, it's better that I sing and hold a Christmas tree, and have 100 beautiful fans show up with me, than make you miserable with my acting in a skit. If anyone ever wants some violin music as part of some film or happening, I HAVE spent my whole life busting my a$$ to learn the violin, and I play any style. I want to keep the focus on the show and on the other fans, so maybe as some background music? I also offer my services as a pillow fighting jedi. xoxo CB)
(PPPPS - Jeez, I really am wordy. The flashmob was one of the 10 best days of my life. Playing with kd Lang/Willie Nelson, some spiritually beautiful days, getting married, having a violin student study for 6 months and play at her daughter's wedding: these all come before. But not by much. I cried when the Milady tweets started coming in. I was in the NBC store, and I started sobbing until the mascara was done-zo. If I haven't thanked you yet for your support and love, it's because I'm emailing the press behind the scenes and haven't had a chance to scroll back. Also, this flashmob was never about me. But the love kept me going. I had to explain to other fans and bystanders that Milord/Milady came from the Jack Black episode when tears were running down my face, and that Milady is the highest honor anyone can bestow. Everyone laughed at me, and tears were running down my face. Outside, someone asked me the name of the Pop Pop character and I said Magnitude without missing a beat. This PS is for all the fans, and it's personal only when it comes to you. Dan Harmon is Justin Bieber, but YOU are BATMAN. I really do love you guys with all my heart. xoxo -CB)
TL;DR, 1) Buy a bunch of @GeneralMills and @YoplaitYogurt food and donate it for the holidays.
2) Buy some Community merch. Mgr Glenn offered a 25% discount; store is by the tree in 30 rock.
Online: http://www.nbcuniversalstore.com/?v=nbc_community
3) Have a 30 second elevator speech about why you love the show, ready to go. That takes priority over singing, right? I hate to sound culty, but conversion and press are our jobs tomorrow.
4) Keep it light, and don't get arrested. Scroll down six paragraphs until you see bold text to move quickly through this stuff, OK? Thanks!
I bought and donated $60 worth of @GeneralMills and @YoplaitYogurt food today, and donated it to www.serenityhousenj.org. They needed cereal, soup, and pasta. I got Cheerios, Yoplait, Progresso Soup, and some milk/other items. Any Community fan, it doesn't matter if you follow this lead or just buy one @YoplaitYogurt for yourself right now; THIS is the actual one-two punch, riding the wave of the flashmob. Please go and do it, tweet it and put it on Facebook. Reasoning: Yoplait is an ad sponsor, and they are VERY responsive to us on twitter and facebook. They're sending swag to us! General Mills is their parent company. If we can show our support to them, they may be convinced to help our show with product placement, or some other fun marketing strategies. It happened to Chuck and Subway! Donations involve a higher dollar amount than other fan "Save the Show" ideas I've seen, get good press for the places to whom we donate food, and are all-around good karma. Let's go!
Also, BUY ALL THE COMMUNITY MERCHANDISE. I will be at the NBC Universal store, 30Rock, entrance by the tree, before and after. Manager Glenn is offering 25% for Community fans. He is very excited about what we are doing! I will be in NYC super early. Tweet me at @violincatherine if you'd like to photobomb the Today show, do a silent disco (see below), or get some snacks, OK? Obviously, any card carrying press member will get a funny sound bite from me too, I promise! My personal goal: to show the world a fun time with one silly stunt. For real!
My best friend just bought me a Duran Duran CD (I actually smacked myself in the head with it 20 times when I unwrapped it), so I'm perfectly happy doing silent disco somewhere with some of you (maybe I'll put my headphones on and rock out to Notorious in the subway).
Also, some people want to sing for 30 minutes, but it would be better to chat with the others and the press maybe, right? I vote to leave them wanting more. BUT, as my friends tell me, it's a mob and I can't control a mob. So I'll exit stage left and go run around. Love you guys. Don't get yourselves arrested, pretty please? We are representing a TV comedy (not Walking Dead or something like that) and need to keep things fun. We have NOTHING to do with the Occupy movement (I mean, we are buying stuff, OK?); all love and respect to them. I'm personally too frail for jail. Let's try to keep our Shawshank experiences to a minimum, like zero.
Have your 30 second spiel about why you love the show, ready to go. There will probably be singers there from all over NYC, and they and any press might ask you about the show. People want to know why we're doing this, why we love the show so much, and if we're doing this to be uppity with NBC. I love NBC. I want them to be the #1 network again, because they take risks with beautifully-written shows. So let NBC ride the happy wave with us, OK? And PLEASE don't badmouth other shows.
Also, don't worry about celebrities joining us or chiming in. WE ARE ENOUGH, and we are good enough. Please don't ask me what Dan Harmon thinks of this. He is my Justin Beiber, but right now THE FANS are saving the show. The fans are Batman!
Two big ideas for this week:
1) Please join us for a Community flashmob on Thursday, 12/22/11, 1pm. Bring a tiny tree or picture of a tree to the BIG tree at 30 Rockefeller Center, and sing "O Christmas Tree" /"O Christmas Troy" with us!
Craigslist posting: http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/eve/2758910778.html
Facebook event page: http://www.facebook.com/events/263523627036650/
Historically, flashmobs are short and sweet. If security/cops ask us to disperse after a couple of minutes, let's go get hot chocolate and plan...
2) The BIG MOTHER OF ALL BLANKET FORTS! Here's the Guinness Book of World Records link to start a new category: http://member.guinnessworldrecords.com/member/is_it_a_record.aspx
I confess: I see us partnering with someone with a dairy farm in Upstate New York. Oh wait... Or hey, make it a worldwide thing, see how many blanket forts can be made within 24 hours across the world! All ideas, please tweet them over to @violincatherine or post on the Facebook page, Evil Troy and Abed, OK?
Last week's pile of ideas. TL;DR, buy a bunch of Yoplait Yogurt, or donate General Mills food to a homeless shelter/food bank. Write handwritten, nice letters to Bob Greenblatt. Buy ALL THE MERCH; be like the Bieber Army. iTunes, DVDs, collectibles, hulu plus subscriptions. You can send itunes copies of episodes and hulu plus subscriptions as gifts to other people, too!
@YoplaitYogurt, aka @YoplaitLove, has been very responsive to us on twitter. With the blessing of @EvilTroyAndAbed and @Greendale_Love, we're starting a two-pronged Save the Show campaign, taking inspiration from Chuck et al.
2) OR: Using the @GeneralMills (Yoplait parent company) brand website (www.generalmills.com/brands), reach out to local homeless shelters/women's shelters/food banks/orphanages, use your imagination, and offer to make a donation of food on behalf of General Mills and the #savecommunity campaign. Get your family/friends/coworkers involved; get other fans in your area to work with you to get higher dollar amounts involved. If you are in South Jersey or Philadelphia, please contact me; I will be happy to work with you, OK? The Chuck campaign had several good donation efforts, which I applaud, and this time of year is especially cold and brutal. Let's do this! General Mills mailing address/phone: 3007 Stephens Boulevard Joplin, MO 64804-3368, (417) 782-0300 (can address to Yoplait Yogurt, c/o General Mills, also)
@SonyPictures, @Wired, and @Vudu recently ran a sweepstakes on behalf of @NBCcommunity. Sony, in particular, maybe has a vested interest in a fourth season for syndication. Any ideas on how to show the love to Sony, Wired, or Vudu are most welcome. I went to see Hugo (Sony Pictures movie in 3D) and would like to encourage everyone to see it. The movie is enchanting, uses 3D in stunning and unique ways, is (ironically) a full-out Marty Scorcese masterpiece, is a must-see for film history buffs, and is suitable for all ages.
I am personally offering 20 (10 Twitter, 10 Facebook) iTunes copies of S3E10 of NBC's Community (Holiday Regional Music, a glorious musical episode) on a first come, first serve basis. You can send me a direct message on twitter at @violincatherine with your email address, or post it on my business FB page (http://on.fb.me/lOtMEZ). All are welcome, but please be honest and don't try to grab more than one copy, OK? This is coming from ME, as my heart-donation to the show and its fans.
If you are dying to see the entire NBC Community series on Hulu plus, you can sign up for a free one-week trial here: http://www.hulu.com/plus?src=topnav. If you've never seen the show and would like a month to view it from the beginning, please contact me and I'll give you a free month. Only one available; first come, first serve!
Legalese, legalese, blah blah blah. I don't know if the offers are good outside the US, but we can try, OK? iTunes shows are worth $1.99 apiece, and the month of Hulu plus is worth $7.99. I'm a big spender, I know! :) I LOVE the Justin Bieber Beliebers, buying out all the CDs in every city and giving them away to charity. Let's buy everything: merchandise, DVDs, itunes, Hulu. We can do this!
Let's send letters to the CEO of NBC (Robert Greenblatt, c/o NBC Universal, 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City CA 91608). Please handwrite them and make them nice. Please try not to whine or to mention other shows, OK? Many are suggesting sending felt goatees with all NBC correspondence. I prefer black construction paper, as it's easier to find/cheaper/easier to mail. Rough visual template of a goatee folded in half vertically: http://twitpic.com/7rr0fu
Please show some love to the advertisers! We're tweeting them, and please find them on Facebook and on the web. This week is a good time to start writing letters (Greenblatt, advertisers, NBC executives).
If anyone feels that another link is good to have here for reference, please tweet it to me at @violincatherine.
Okay, so what do we do now? I had a massive amount of brainstorming last week; please scroll down to the next post if you'd like to see all those ideas.
1) Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas repeats next Thursday, 12/15 on NBC at 8pm. It's a beautiful episode, and I'll spread the word and tweet the advertisers like normal. Parks and Recreation AND Up All Night are getting my full support during the hiatus. I'm also treating Danny Pudi's appearance on Chuck, since it's ABED (but not really, I know), like a Community show.
2) I want NBC and Sony to find other ways to monetize the show:
S3E10 Holiday Regional Music soundtrack on itunes. (@Greendale_Love and @JHeaton416)
Sheet music sent out for paid digital download from S3E10
Dean/Chang/Starburns/Magnitude/Leonard Christmas ornaments.
DVD sales (also, can be used as prize incentive ANYWHERE for data mining).
Greendale comic books.
Sexy v-neck shirts from American Apparel, that my female friends would wear, with Greendale logos.
I would like to read Dean Pelton's novel, or see a Day in the Life as video/story
***tweet me at @violincatherine and I will include your idea on this list***
3) As fans, WE have collective powers. Keep talking about the show with your friends. We only had a couple of weeks to try to get viral awareness of the show. Both with friends and with mass media, we can bring people to the hulu website, show them DVDs, show them the brilliant cast stunts this week (College Humor: http://bit.ly/tA2lBG, #PierceOrChevy: http://bit.ly/rYf1fk), and show them clips on NBC or Hulu.
4) I like the idea of viral videos, crazy stunts, etc (see the next post for ideas). Would any of you like to do a Flash Mob at 30 Rock, crash the Today Show, or try to go ice skating near the tree as a group? Do you have ideas for some crazy stunt? Blanket Fort? Paintball War? If we make it goofy enough and film it, it's REALLY good for the show, too. It's up to us. If any of you can find a way to get the show and cast stunts into high-ranking newspapers, radio, and magazines, please send that email or make that call now.
5) I'm hoping NBC will see the hiatus the way Netflix saw Qwikster: reversible and stupid. If we can organize to help monetize, we can help with NBC's cash flow problem too. If we all donated $10 to a "Save the Show" campaign, we'd have $30-$100 million FAST. We could all get a Troy and Abed in the Morning sticker. I don't care how it's monetized, NBC and Sony. We'll buy whatever you're selling if you say it will save the show! Also, I'm aware that Sony may roll out a 4th season to give a full 88 episodes for syndication. Still, any way I can pitch in to make CERTAIN this happens is better than sitting idly by and worrying.
Friday, December 9, 2011
Let's send letters to the CEO of NBC (Robert Greenblatt, c/o NBC Universal, 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City CA 91608). Please handwrite them and make them nice. Please try not to whine or to mention other shows, OK?
Please show some love to the advertisers! We're tweeting them, and please find them on Facebook and on the web. This week is a good time to start writing letters (Greenblatt, advertisers, NBC executives).
If anyone feels that another link is good to have here for reference, please tweet it to me at @violincatherine.
Okay, so what do we do now? I had a massive amount of brainstorming last week; please scroll down to the next post if you'd like to see all those ideas.
1) Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas repeats next Thursday, 12/15 on NBC at 8pm. It's a beautiful episode, and I'll spread the word and tweet the advertisers like normal. Parks and Recreation AND Up All Night are getting my full support during the hiatus. I'm also treating Danny Pudi's appearance on Chuck, since it's ABED (but not really, I know), like a Community show.
2) I want NBC and Sony to find other ways to monetize the show:
S3E10 Holiday Regional Music soundtrack on itunes. (@Greendale_Love and @JHeaton416)
Sheet music sent out for paid digital download from S3E10
Dean/Chang/Starburns/Magnitude/Leonard Christmas ornaments.
DVD sales (also, can be used as prize incentive ANYWHERE for data mining).
Greendale comic books.
Sexy v-neck shirts from American Apparel, that my female friends would wear, with Greendale logos.
I would like to read Dean Pelton's novel, or see a Day in the Life as video/story
***tweet me at @violincatherine and I will include your idea on this list***
3) As fans, WE have collective powers. Keep talking about the show with your friends. We only had a couple of weeks to try to get viral awareness of the show. Both with friends and with mass media, we can bring people to the hulu website, show them DVDs, show them the brilliant cast stunts this week (College Humor: http://bit.ly/tA2lBG, #PierceOrChevy: http://bit.ly/rYf1fk), and show them clips on NBC or Hulu.
4) I like the idea of viral videos, crazy stunts, etc (see the next post for ideas). Would any of you like to do a Flash Mob at 30 Rock, crash the Today Show, or try to go ice skating near the tree as a group? Do you have ideas for some crazy stunt? Blanket Fort? Paintball War? If we make it goofy enough and film it, it's REALLY good for the show, too. It's up to us. If any of you can find a way to get the show and cast stunts into high-ranking newspapers, radio, and magazines, please send that email or make that call now.
5) I'm hoping NBC will see the hiatus the way Netflix saw Qwikster: reversible and stupid. If we can organize to help monetize, we can help with NBC's cash flow problem too. If we all donated $10 to a "Save the Show" campaign, we'd have $30-$100 million FAST. We could all get a Troy and Abed in the Morning sticker. I don't care how it's monetized, NBC and Sony. We'll buy whatever you're selling if you say it will save the show! Also, I'm aware that Sony may roll out a 4th season to give a full 88 episodes for syndication. Still, any way I can pitch in to make CERTAIN this happens is better than sitting idly by and worrying.
a) Summary of this post for time-challenged fans: 1) Tell EVERYONE about next Thursday's episode, NBC 8pm. 2) Make and post a funny/surreal video. 3) Reach out to magazines/newspapers. 4) @YoplaitYogurt (http://twitpic.com/7omky7) and all ad sponsors are rockstars; show them support right back. 5) @rerorerocandy said: Has your movement considered creating a tumblr intro to Community w/ clips and then real-world posting QR code links to it? (This is Greek to me. I love you, @rerorerocandy, and I don't even understand what you're saying! I have to look into this. Does anyone have an operational version of this already? Thx!)
2) All right, guys, I think viral videos, connection with ad sponsors, and absolutely bat-crazy INSANE numbers of postings to watch the show are the best way to go here. Viral videos are #1 on my list. Here's the deductive reasoning; please note that many of these things are fixed and cannot currently be changed, so it's best to focus on what we CAN do.
First point: if you are an improv troupe, filmmaker, standup comedian, comedy writer, marketing whiz, tumblr whiz, professor, social media maven, or ad sponsor with any ideas for ways to help us get a ratings bump and to try to bring in a 4th season, please send me a tweet at @violincatherine or send me an email at my personal email account. Any of you have a built-in rabid fanbase; if you create a funny film that gains us Nielsen viewers, you will be our hero FOR LIFE. Same goes with the other categories of expertise. I'm not joking here.
OK, you know those donation websites? If you say there are 3 million of us (5 million Nielsen 2 years ago, and I think it's really twice that number now), you could test us out. If we each gave $10 towards a "Save the Show" initiative, that's $30 million. Make it an ad sponsor corporate matching donation program to push it over the top. I don't even care; you can send me a thank you letter with a Troy and Abed in the Morning sticker. Rabid, die-hard fans think alike. Not all of us will want to do this, of course, but I think most of us would jump at the chance to save the show.
Our demographic is strong, and we can extrapolate our potential fanbase by looking at ourselves. Comic Con participation was a brilliant move by NBC. Think of Monty Python/Eddie Izzard fans. Reach out to Ivy League schools, Cal Tech, employees in Silicon Valley. Can the cast be nominees for Harvard's Hasty Pudding awards? I sent tweets to gaming companies. Dan Harmon is a Skyrim player; gaming is HUGE and there is BIG MONEY there. Collaboration w/Skyrim, BBC, Pythons, Izzard? Has Eddie Izzard said anything publicly about Community? We CAN find and recruit fans.
Does anyone know the hard figures or metrics which would save the show: money, viewers, product placement? How much does it cost to run the show per year? I don't mind the product placement when it's saving a good show, personally.
NBC is currently #4 in the ratings. I did not know that until my favorite show, NBC's Community, went on hiatus. It's amazing how you don't know how much you love something until you're in danger of losing it.
25,000 Nielsen boxes, kept in secret on TVs across the country (and supposedly meant to be a true statistical snapshot of the nation), are extrapolated to 119 million households. Sometimes DVR viewing is also counted, but not always. The viewing numbers from these set boxes are what ad agencies use to purchase ads from the networks. Community's ads go from $93-98K. This is a VERY low figure.
I know no one who actually BUYS the ads in the agencies really cares, but there are over a million users on FB and 25K active in Twitter on the #savecommunity hashtag. I offered us up for demographic study, and offered my laptop (where I watch everything) for tracking. My hypothesis is that viewers of this show likely opted out of Nielsen ratings because they are too busy. Being affluent, working late hours, and watching on laptops, that is. Scroll down if you want the demos; I know it doesn't matter. I'll work on viral videos this week and I'll send pleading emails to BBDO/Young Rubicam next week. I don't want to rail against the machine this week when we need eyeballs (Nielsen viewers next Thursday night) NOW.
NBC needs more viewers overall. Period. A professor friend said the quickest way to make an idea go viral is through actual, real life friends. So please mention the holiday show next Thursday, 8pm on NBC, to everyone you know, OK?
Guys, it's hard to see the bigger picture or to be innovative when you're bogged down like this. Can you imagine trying to work at NBC, or on this show? We are new to this problem, so we can bring a fresh set of eyes to it. Please send a polite hand-written letter to the executives at NBC, but realize that anything whiny is like a kid begging for more allowance money when the parent is having problems paying the mortgage.
Last week, I had a HARD time finding the plot synopsis. I personally sent the synopsis to all my favorite online magazines, then tweeted about 350 mainstream newspapers/magazines/organizations across the country on the airdate, near the airtime (papers: http://bit.ly/kbcgL. Magazines: http://bit.ly/14v6Lz; I will repeat this week). Logic: high circulation=more potential Nielsen viewers. Also, there was also a lack of promo from NBC, in addition to numerous bizarre cable outages/delays across the country (hello, where did Pittsburgh go). This week, we have S3E10 advance promo pictures, the TV Guide Fan Favorite magazine cover (it came out on Friday, giving us a week of PR on a high-circulation magazine cover), genuine critical support across the board, and time to work out a viral marketing campaign.
Interesting article on marketing Red Bull to gamers: http://bit.ly/sOAaVp. All this information applies to our current situation, so I'm looking for ways to reverse engineer the ideas and present them back to the agencies.
Given the Nielsen system, 210 people=1 million viewers. We need to treat this like a military campaign. Dead simple. Let's think of a Don Quixote, impossible dream. How about trying for 2 million extra viewers, or 420 extra Nielsen households?
This is where the viral phenomenon is in our favor, OK? On www.youtube.com's home page, the top video of all time (by Bieber, naturally) has 669 million views. This is a crazy number. OK, if we can come up with ideas that are funny enough, tied to the show, we can draw these 420 Nielsen unicorns. It has to be FUNNY. I reached out to an improv troupe today, who specializes in big stunts. For example, my husband and I think it's a funny idea to take a small Christmas tree for a ride on the back of a bicycle, and to talk to it like it's a person. My favorite two viral videos are (both NSFW, so I hesitate to post links) "Acid Can do Some Messed up Things" and "Happy in Paraguay". Please note that the top viral videos GENERALLY involve surreal humor, children, pets, or are from a top current pop star. I'm going to do my best to record some this week. Any ideas to start a flash mob? Should we emulate the Bieber Army and all buy something in unison? I personally switched to Hulu from Netflix today, and told Sony I would buy their products the rest of my life if they would be so kind as to give us Season 4. Is there anything else we can do? Do you guys have any other ideas for viral videos/mass action? What makes sense? Also, straight fan videos are a beautiful thing, so please send them around also. @rerorerocandy mentioned a Rube Goldberg-type video (direct twitter quote: Here are a couple examples http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qybUFnY7Y8whttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2C-PWHpPoI Both use their name in the machine). I'm personally thinking of Diet Coke and Mentos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKoB0MHVBvM. He says this would draw in Big Bang Theory fans. Does anyone know a Community fan at a major engineering school with cool experiments? This would be a chance to promote their work also. Rube Goldberg-type things, really fancy robots, anything like that would be good. I'll post to MIT, Cal Tech, and everywhere else. I think Jacka$$ style stunts would be good, too.
The show is super funny, and please share videos from the show, but what I'm referring to specifically are ways to reach the maximum number of viewers in the shortest time period. So we have to think outside the box, and go into crazy zones.
But, yes, please share the show videos at the same time. My top picks: Levar Burton (http://bit.ly/hiFh7P), La Biblioteca (http://bit.ly/18tjbG), Chang as gonzo Spanish teacher (http://bit.ly/1ilXKu), Jeff playing naked pool (http://bit.ly/dENGcV), the holiday claymation episode S2E11 (http://bit.ly/m5qH35), Season 2 (http://bit.ly/s50pzH) AND DJ Steve Porter (http://bit.ly/107XzJ) remixes, www.greendalecommunitycollege.com. Please feel free to send these links to your email contacts/post them on Facebook, with a personal note to pass the video along and to watch the show to try to save it. Note that I'm including things that are surreal and that don't involve long punch lines. Also, to NBC/Universal/Sony assets department: 3 of these videos are youtubes. They are not full episodes in the back catalog; they are short clips. I will remove the youtube links in one month (i.e., by 1/4/12). I would like to encourage viral growth of your viewership; that is the only purpose in posting these links. Thank you!
I've said this over and over on my twitter feed. Please do a google search for Chuck and Subway (and now Cougartown) to understand the power of fans to save a show w/product placement (example: http://bit.ly/uZPS5u). @YoplaitYogurt has been VERY nice to me on Twitter and Facebook. They asked me to spread the word about www.Greek4Good.com, which gives 25K to a local food bank. Please reach out to them. I am working out a meme with my cat: : "Who ate my Yoplait Yogurt?" with the picture of my cat in a goatee. She may not like the goatee, so it may just be a picture of my cat, looking guilty and mischievous as usual. I'm also buying a ton of Yoplait, every week. If you like the cat/pet/other creature/child/husband ate your yogurt idea, PLEASE use it, OK? Like I said, this is a military campaign now and we have to move FAST. Use ALL my ideas if they make sense to you and if they can help NBC. I've been buying things from every sponsor that I can, though. I got my Christmas shopping done at Old Navy already. We love them all!
My favorite character in Community this week is Leonard (http://bit.ly/vAzD0d). He reviews frozen pizza on youtube as the end tag for S3E9. We can do the same for any of our sponsors, right? We can interact with the product in a silly, goofy way like this. I'm personally thinking to do a pizza review from inside a @PizzaHut this week.
Let's go back to Marketing 101 in our minds. I don't know how NBC got to be #4 - it's weird to me too - but let's pretend we're starting from scratch. What makes our show hip/cool/funny? Why do you enjoy watching it? What does it give you that no other show gives you? Then twist that idea around, flip it, magnify it or make it the opposite, add another twist, make it SUPER funny/surreal and take a video of it.
Straight Marketing: STRONG CAST. Joel McHale (E!s Soup and a hottie), Chevy Chase (the LEGEND, playing against type as a lonely, crabby, racist mess), Ken Jeong (Hangover), Alison Brie (Mad Men), Jim Rash (Groundling who freaking co-wrote The Descendants and will one day OWN us all), Donald Glover (Comedy Central stand-up comedian and rapper aka Childish Gambino), Gillian Jacobs (bright shining Juilliard star, praised by NY Times for legit theater work), Danny Pudi (Second City alum), and Yvette Nicole Brown (Drake & Josh). (If I left anyone out, it's because it's 4:30am; please bring it to my attention, OK?) All members of the cast have great chemistry and work well together. The writing is cutting edge and deserves a chance to breathe and develop. There is NOTHING else like it on TV; the only thing that comes close is Monthy Python crossed with Cheers, but in a community college instead of in a bar. The cast is multiracial, and the characters are portrayed as human beings, not caricatures. A gang of misfits finds a sense of belonging in a Community College. Dan Harmon uses a unique "embryo" writing style, grounded in the work of myth-explainer/mystic Joseph Campbell: http://bit.ly/mT6zVd. In a dorm, we have: paintball/STD fairs/a SPACE BUS/blanket forts. John Goodman plays a power crazy HVAC dean. AMAZING guest stars include: Bette White, Luis Guzman, Dan Harmon (creator), Nick Kroll, Taran Killam, et al.
I LOVE the CBS shows too. Remember, though, this is a military campaign. If one of their shows was in trouble, we'd watch it to help them out if our friends asked us. So ask CBS viewers sweetly, but please ask them to watch NBC for a little while, OK? All's fair in love and war. This is both.
I wrote a bluegrass song last week in support of the show, and I enlisted my husband and cat as actors. It's pretty terrifying to do this, really, and I'm procrastinating on filming because I'm not sure what great actors I and my humble family will be (we are normal people, not hand-picked-for-sexiness-and-talent actors), but I'm aware that we have to do SOMETHING. We can do surreal things, off-the-cuff videos, that a straight TV network can't do. Plus, we are internet-savvy people: young, gutsy, funny, energetic, and bright. Let's reach those 420 unicorns, shall we? Tell the world why our show is funny, and why they need to watch it. Let's go!
Love to all you guys,
Catherine
@violincatherine
(P.S. - Universal, parent company of NBC, also owns Hulu, right? So I'm VERY happy to switch from Netflix to Hulu, personally. I don't care if there are ads; I can watch all the current shows and help my own. Also, my favorite actor is Colin Firth, and Netflix had some mothballed B movies of his on tap. I actually bought the Firth "Pride and Prejudice" because I was DYING. No drama here to switch. Qwikster; raise my fees 100%; whee! -CB)
(P.P.S. - Anyone who is being a jerk on the Internet, trying to tear down our "Save the Show" initiative, is a dill weed trolling for eyeballs. Don't even bother taking the time to reply; we need you to spend your energy writing a silly song/skit about the show and posting in on youtube. Also consider sending emails/tweets to your favorite media/products/ad sponsors/organizations. Since we have a limited time frame until the hiatus, we need to use the time wisely this week. We'll deal with the haters with a proper "Up your nose with a rubber hose" when we get a 4th season. Thank you! xoxo CB)
(P.P.P.S. - I know this is wordy. I do apologize. Also, I'm sure I forgot something tonight, so I'll add it when I've had some sleep. I keep joking, saying I'm like a Twilight girl, or it's like I'm in some kind of mindless cult. Differences: I have no Kool Aid. If I meet the cast, I'll act like a normal person, because I see them as happily employed actors. It's the writers I idolize, but if I ever meet them, I will run and hide and I will NOT scream. (NBC, I ask nothing of you, except please don't lay anybody off, OK? I read that you laid a show writer off today and I'm still in the shock/denial phase. Just don't! Give us this one chance to make a big Don Quixote tilt at the windmills, OK? Gosh!) I will not camp in a tent to see the cast/writers. I LOVE DVD commentary and eat it up like fancy limited-edition holiday chocolate. The writing work is actual quality work. I crunch Nielsen numbers while driving. xoxo CB) | mini_pile | {'original_id': '38761bfbd97fd540866995d928f9c0d8d5d054823a2ec6970155e6451e34841f'} |
You know your BFF better than anyone—from her fitness fashion tribe to her fave healthy cocktail. But how, every year, do you somehow end up scratching your head when the holidays come around? Gift-giving isn’t as easy as it seems—especially if you’re making a list (and checking it twice) for people you don’t spend all your free time with, AKA your family, your co-workers, and, yes, your S.O.’s mom.
Thankfully, you can look to the stars to see which presents will strike gold for everyone—your horoscope does seem to nail it every month, after all.
“Your sun sign [which you know as your sign] shows who you are, and it’s a wonderful filter that can be used to understand what you like, what inspires you, and what gets you excited about life,” says Sandra Sitron, the astrologist behind Strong Eye Astrology. “So it’s a great place to look to discover great gift ideas.” In other words, knowing someone’s astrological aura makes browsing virtual and IRL shelves much easier, because there are certainly gifts that match each element of the zodiac.
And if you want something even more personal, buying based on their moon and Venus signs will score you extra (gluten-free) brownie points. (To figure out someone’s different signs, you can obtain a birth chart here.)
“If you know your gift recipient’s moon or Venus signs, those are excellent places to look for deeper astrological inspiration,” says Sitron. “The moon sign will show you how your recipient feels—use this to pick a gift that will hit close to their heart. The Venus sign shows what the person appreciates, which is my favorite place to look for a great gift idea.”
Consider this your ultimate star-inspired shopping cheat sheet.
Keep reading for some seriously insightful gift ideas, as gleaned from the galaxy.
Aries: New tech gadgets, athleisure, or a gift certificate for an adventure
Aries is one of the signs that loves new things—new technology, new hobbies, new experiences. They aren’t afraid to be an early technology adopter, so go ahead and get them the newest gadget (wireless headphones, anyone?). They’d also love an outfit that matches their favorite sport or workout. Find out if they are considering a new hobby and help them get started with a book or a class. But most of all, Aries wants to experience something fun and exciting—a surprise adventure will never fail (if you’re looking to splurge!).
Taurus: A chunky sweater, a fancy tea, a good bottle of wine, or a natural beauty product
Taurus is the sensualist of the zodiac. They want to feel really good in their skin. The best gifts for them are things that will help them feel cozy, well-fed and soothed—in other words, nesting essentials. Think soft or silky clothing, delicious food, and good music. They’re ruled by Venus, the goddess of beauty, so an earthy natural beauty product will also make her feel special.
Gemini: A phone or phone accessories, a cool magazine/news/movie subscription, or a creative manicure
Gemini loves to be constantly amused and informed. They want to stay up-to-date on everything that’s going on, so news, magazine, and movie subscriptions are perfect gifts. A museum membership will help them stay culturally in-the-know. They are tech lovers and prioritize staying in touch with their large networks of friends, so a phone or phone accessory is always useful. Geminis love to talk, and they talk with their hands—which is why any on-trend nail art is always appreciated.
Cancer: Cookbooks, home decor items, a moon calendar, or opera tickets
Cancer loves to have a cozy home zone. They want to be able to retreat from the stress of the outside world when it strikes their fancy. Their number-one priority is nurturing themselves and their inner circle, so think: cookbooks and home decor to help create that environment. Emotional Cancers are ruled by the moon, so staying in tune with the moon cycles (via a calendar) is key for them. A night out at the opera is an amazing gift, too, as the music helps them connect with their own emotions in a pleasing way.
Leo: Gold, extravagant fashion, hair tools, or theater tickets
Showy Leo loves gold anything: jewelry, makeup, even temporary tattoos. This fire sign is perfectly comfortable stealing the stage fashion-wise, so statement pieces will do the trick. Leo rules the hair (think: lion’s mane), so hair tools and products are always appreciated. And, of course, Leo loves a night out on the town and the theater—take them out!
Virgo: Organizers, turquoise stones or jewelry, or an oil cleanser
Virgo is down to try anything that will help them make their life more efficient. Something useful that might otherwise seem like a boring gift is exceedingly appreciated by them. Think organizer bins, natural cleaning supplies, and candles. Earthy Virgo does like to look fresh and put together, and appreciates an all-natural beauty find like an oil cleanser. If you want to gift them jewelry, the natural healing properties of turquoise keep them balanced and grounded.
Libra: Candles, high-quality soap, or a style upgrade
Libra loves the fluffy, pretty, romantic stuff, like designer candles or beautifully packaged soap. They are fashionable, so go for something on-trend. A membership to a clothing or style rental service is excellent for Libra because they can continue to update their look. Libra is balanced and well-rounded—they’re intellectual and highly cultured. Get them a biography so that they can learn more about famous icons.
Scorpio: Sex toys, lingerie, or a self-development workshop
Sultry Scorpio wants to go deeper—into the mysteries of the body, the world, and the universe. They’ll appreciate sexy gifts, so toys and lingerie (underwear-subscription time!) are great. Crystal sex toys are even better, as they meld Scorpio’s interests in both healing and sex (this amethyst Chakrubs would be perfect). Find out what personal development courses or workshops they are interested in, as these would also help them on their journey to get self-actualized.
Sagittarius: Luggage, philosophical books, or a hot air balloon ride
This sign wants to understand the world. Give any Sag a nice set of luggage and some miles on her favorite airline and she’s off! (Even better if you can go with them.) Or a hot air balloon ride would surprise them into another dimension. Sagittarius has a penchant for learning, so take them on a philosophical journey with a book or collection of writings by a great sage—they love to be inspired.
Capricorn: A day planner, leather goods, an expensive watch, or designer shades
Capricorn is the most practical and productive of all of the signs. That being said, they have two different speeds when it comes to gifts: basic/useful or top-of-the-line. They will be just as happy with a day planner or a designer watch. They love items that can help them get ahead and look chic while doing it. Capricorn typically isn’t a huge fan of surprises, so if you want to take them out, it’s best to plan it out with them first.
Aquarius: A telescope, a Bluetooth tracker for her keys, or an astrology reading
Aquarius is an innovator. They do well when they can get some perspective—a telescope will remind them that the universe is vast. They can also be a little distracted (if we’re being honest), so a Bluetooth tracker for their keys and other essentials is ideal. Aquarius is the sign that rules astrology, so consider a reading (you can book one with Sitron here) or even a super-cute astrology t-shirt. This air sign loves to learn and explore, so gifting an Aquarius tools for a DIY project will get her creative wheels turning.
Pisces: Records, incense, silky pajamas, or a donation in her name
Compassionate Pisces loves to lounge and openly feel all of her feelings. Get her set up with some chill records, delightful incense, and silky PJs. Pisces rules the feet, so a spa pedicure will help her feel on top of the world. Pisces are altruistic, so donation in her name will make her heart sing and help her feel connected.
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Cauliflower Quinoa Cakes
SO, remember how I said I’ve been hanging out with that girl cauliflower lately? Well, we’re still going strong. I decided to introduce her to quinoa last week and it was another success! They were totally digging each other.
I really enjoyed the turnip quinoa cakes I made this summer so I decided to give it a try with cauliflower this time. The weather outside is gray and 30 degrees instead of 80 and sunny and the vegetable was purchased at Whole Foods instead of the beautiful outdoor farmers market, but guess what? They are still completely delicious, what cares what season it is!
Feel free to add your favorites seasonings to the mixture, I just added what I thought would taste great, and guess what? It did.
I served them with Gina’s amazing Roasted Eggplant Dip. The only thing I did different was use hummus instead of Tahini since I didn’t have any on hand. These were SO good!
I’ll be making these again. I’ll probably have to change the vegetable again since I’m incapable of making the same thing twice, but regardless. I’ll make these again (or at least something like it).
Enjoy!
WHAT MAKES ME HAPPY:
Hanging out at my parents house.
Thanks to my family for a great weekend! It’s always so cozy in the winter and it’s so nice to enjoy some true relaxation. I feel refreshed and ready to head into my (4 DAY!!) week :).
Directions
Steam cauliflower in a steaming basket for about 10-15 minutes until soft. Transfer to a bowl and mash well.
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Add all of the remaining ingredients and mix well.
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Heat a plate in a 200 F oven (to hold cakes as you cook them in batches).
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Heat a skillet over medium-high heat and spray with cooking spray. Form small cakes with your hands and add them to the pan a few at a time. Cook each side for 3-5 minutes, carefully flip with a spatula. Transfer to plate in the oven and continue until you have cooked all of the cakes.
i have been making quinoa or couscous or lentil cakes with chickpeas/potatoes/cauliflower and they turned out so delicious. makes such a easy weeknight meals. I have to try this recipe with cottage cheese. sounds delicious and now m heading over to that eggplant dip!
I would actually just leave it out completely, I have made quinoa cakes without the cottage cheese and they were still completely delicious! Maybe you could add a little nutritional yeast to get a little bit of that cheesy flavor in there? Hope you like them!! 🙂
Hi Jaz! The egg just acts as a binding agent so they might just fall apart easier if you make it without them. I’ve heard that you can use 1/4 c. silken tofu and 1T flour (pureed together) as a substitute. I haven’t tried it before but it sounds like it might work. Good luck!!
Hi Caitlin, This recipe will serve about 4 depending on how big you make them and how many people eat but I served my husband and myself one night and then had enough for another 2-3 meals myself. Hope you like them!
This recipie was amazing. I tweeked it a little….I used regular cottage cheese, seasoned whole wheat bread crumbs and coconut oil to cook them. I put the hot sauce on top instead of in it and paired it with baked chicken. Everyone loved it including my 7 year old! | mini_pile | {'original_id': 'aca7f9d2fbb29053293c9cf6b57fca54c8105128cbe6d52b23664dea3655b5ac'} |
Kidney donation kicks off new lease on life for Allentown woman
Allentown, PA - Shawna Knipper is pure motivation. Not just because she can flip over a giant tire, or teach the classes at Full Circle Training.
Her story is motivating, because it's amazing she's able to stand here at all.
She begins to tell her story, "When you first have kidney failure, there are no symptoms."
Shawna says she knew kidney problems ran in the family. First her grandfather, then her dad, and her aunt had kidney failure.
What she doesn't know is why - doctors can't explain it.
Her dad and aunt are both survivors, because they received transplants. (Her father received a kidney from his dialysis nurse, who he later fell in love with and married! Her aunt's husband donated the gift of life to his wife.)
Then Shawna found out, whatever "it" was, she had it too. Continue reading
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Creating an inspiring work environment is a challenge, especially when it comes to new forms of work. Therefore, this category includes the services for planning the sustainable work environment. The equipment should of course avoid negative environmental impacts, use healthy materials and favor energy-efficient devices. Components that promote aspects such as comfort and user satisfaction, such as good acoustics and lighting, are also suitable for maintaining health and increasing performance and productivity. The solutions and concepts can prevail economically if they can be used flexibly and pay off in the long term over their life cycle.
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packet sniffer code for linux in C
hi, i am doing project in packet sniffer as a major project in my final semester.
i am done a bit coding in linux within the C language.
so anyone have code for packet capturing program which contains re-presentable features to be represented as a major project in B.Tech.... and the code must be able to run in linux written in C language.
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Porcelain doll is one of the most popular collectible categories whose nostalgic value can help boost their worth and in many cases, they can be stored away safely for many years. Are you looking to identify the value of your dolls and get a doll appraisal? At the end of this article, we will recommend places to get a doll appraisal
Some values ranging from around $5 up to a thousand dollars. One example is a doll made in 1918 by French sculptor Albert Marque and dressed by the Parisian couture Jeanne Margaine-LaCroix was sold for $300,000 by auction house Theriault’s.
To learn the value of each doll, manufacturer and manufacturing date should be known. Most dolls have a manufacturer’s stamp on them and a marking indicating the year they were made. They also have markers usually on the head, shoulders, or upper back of the doll consists of numbers from their porcelain molds.
The condition also needs to assess. Mint condition porcelain dolls value more than those with poor condition. Needs to check if there are chips or smudges. If it looks clean and bright or worn and tired. Also needs to determine if parts are still original or being replaced or repaired. A doll with its original form is much more valuable than those who had been restored or repaired. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9638761281967164}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '28055', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:RTYZIN3H5FGPBMW74PBBLJVYBI7C4HV6', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:3a360be8-1f57-48b6-ad65-c1ce021e0499>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2021, 5, 12, 5, 34, 29), 'WARC-IP-Address': '185.224.137.217', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:5MYKDDG5C26LVBATFGCBF2GYBESJ4CDW', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:3dac29de-0b8c-4cf9-9418-27110e694337>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://auctionandappraise.com/toys-dolls-and-collectables/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:6714a10d-cf01-42cc-89db-b1fee474650c>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '219', 'url': 'http://auctionandappraise.com/toys-dolls-and-collectables/', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2021-21\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for May 2021\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-16.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.18 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.2-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': '0.3920021057128906', 'original_id': '046b336c192f91a08fdbf237d8ebea434becaa51bfbf0f824a9db60779c17447'} |
Q:
On the basics of writing to & reading from auxiliary files (.aux, .toc, etc.)
Some actions (such as generating the Table of Contents) require two passes of the TeX compiler: during the first pass, some data get written to an auxiliary file, only to be retrieved during the second pass. Here are a few TeX.SE questions that require two-pass solutions:
Highlight referenced equation number
Backreferences for equations
(To be completed... feel free to edit if you come across such a question)
Two-pass stuff has piqued my interest; I have a few questions:
Can I write (append) custom data to an existing auxiliary file (e.g. .aux)? Is that even a good idea? If not, can I generate my own auxiliary file (with a custom extension) to store/retrieve some data?
What are good sources for learning the basics of writing to & reading from auxiliary files?
A:
You can write to the aux file with
\write\@auxout{hello}
or
\immediate\write\@auxout{hello2}
or
\protected@write\@auxout{}{hello3}
Depending on requirements.
\immediate\write writes to the specified file at that point, expanding the supplied tokens (like \edef) so fragile commands will do the wrong thing.
\write does not write at that point it puts a write node into the current vertical or horizontal list and if that list is shipped out to make a page then the write happens. This is needed to get page numbers correct. (If the write is inside a box and that box is never used on the main page then nothing is written to the file.)
\protected@write is a LaTeX-defined macro that uses \write but arranges that \protect works as required in LaTeX to protect fragile commands. The extra argument unused above allows you to locally insert extra definitions to make more commands be safe or have special definition in the write, see for example the definition of \index or \addtocontents.
It is safe to write to the aux file, however you have to be aware that the file will be read back at least at the begin and end of the document, so you need to write lines that are safe in that context.
If you want to write to your own file then you just need to do
\newwrite\myfile
\immediate\openout\myfile=\jobname.foo
in the preamble and then replace \@auxout by \myfile when writing.
Have a look at the way \tableofcontents or \listoftables or \listoffigures work in latex.ltx or documented in source2e. They basically all use
\def\@starttoc#1{%
\begingroup
\makeatletter
\@input{\jobname.#1}%
\if@filesw
\expandafter\newwrite\csname tf@#1\endcsname
\immediate\openout \csname tf@#1\endcsname \jobname.#1\relax
\fi
\@nobreakfalse
\endgroup}
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Sunday, January 14, 2007
MMO cutscenes
I like cutscenes when they're fluidly implemented from normal art assets. Neverwinter Nights merely took control of the camera and scripted events with the usual models. Battle for Middle Earth 2 does it slightly different, fading the usual art into something more like painting...but really not that far from the original models.
I'd like to see this done in an MMORPG. Imagine having just triggered or come into contact with a major story event; the camera swings into first-person view, and you watch (the camera turns and zooms as necessary) as a scripted conversation or other situation unfolds before you... something akin to the cutscenes in the Condemned 360 demo. Maybe the artists even have a way of applying a temporary effect to the scene to make the normal models appear more cinematic.
If the game is capable of making your character's face provide expressions, then maybe the camera will swing around in a 3rd-person view to show your character reacting to, or taking place in, the events. Honestly though, I like cinematic story progression mostly when it doesn't employ my character significantly, because I like as complete control as I can get over my character's actions and personality.
Anyway, I've heard about a couple MMOGs having cinematics before, but it didn't sound like they shared the incorporative style of Neverwinter Nights cutscenes.
I'd be particularly interested in seeing a method like this used to bring the audience (player) into the perspective of his or her antagonists at times. I'm still thinking about how best to do that though.
1. Antagonist? dont you mean protagonist?
2. haha, I don't know what I meant. It's been too long since I wrote that article. :)
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.TH BasiliskII 1 "January, 2002"
.SH NAME
BasiliskII \- a 68k Macintosh emulator
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B BasiliskII
[\-\-display
.IR display-name ]
[\-\-break
.IR offset ]
[\-\-rominfo]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B Basilisk II
is an Open Source 68k Macintosh emulator. That is, it enables you to
run 68k MacOS software on you computer, even if you are using a
different operating system. However, you still need a copy of MacOS
and a Macintosh ROM image to use Basilisk II.
.B Basilisk II
:
.TP
- Emulates either a Mac Classic (which runs MacOS 0.x thru 7.5) or a Mac II series machine (which runs MacOS 7.x, 8.0 and 8.1), depending on the ROM being used
.TP
- Color video display
.TP
- CD quality sound output
.TP
- Floppy disk driver (only 1.44MB disks supported)
.TP
- Driver for HFS partitions and hardfiles
.TP
- CD-ROM driver with basic audio functions
.TP
- Easy file exchange with the host OS via a "Host Directory Tree" icon on the Mac desktop
.TP
- Ethernet driver
.TP
- Serial drivers
.TP
- SCSI Manager (old-style) emulation
.TP
- Emulates extended ADB keyboard and 3-button mouse
.TP
- Uses UAE 68k emulation or (under AmigaOS and NetBSD/m68k) real 68k processor
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.BI "\-\-display " display-name
specifies the display to use; see
.BR X (1)
.TP
.BI "\-\-break " offset
specifies a ROM offset where a breakpoint will be placed (for debugging)
.TP
.B \-\-rominfo
causes Basilisk II to print some information about the ROM being used on
startup (for debugging)
.TP
.B \-\-help
shows a complete list of options
.SH FILES
.TP
.I /usr/share/BasiliskII/keycodes
X server keycodes definitions.
.TP
.I /usr/share/BasiliskII/fbdevices
Framebuffer device specifications.
.TP
.I ~/.basilisk_ii_prefs
User-specific configuration file.
.TP
.I ~/.basilisk_ii_xpram
Contents of Mac non-volatile RAM.
.SH BUGS
Several. See the included "TODO" file.
.SH SEE ALSO
http://www.uni-mainz.de/~bauec002/B2Main.html (Basilisk II homepage)
.SH AUTHOR
Christian Bauer <Christian.Bauer@uni-mainz.de>
.SH COPYRIGHT
Copyright \(co 1997-2004 Christian Bauer et al.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
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Melt! 2013: Highs and Lows
XLR8R has been spending a fair amount of time on the European festival circuit this summer, and we continued our jaunt around the continent last weekend with a stop at Germany's vaunted Melt! Festival. Originally launched as an open-air party in 1997, Melt! has spent the past 15 years developing into one of Germany's most notable festivals. Known for its celebration of up-and-coming acts and diverse assortment of forward-thinking sounds, Melt! is one of those festivals that many people make a point to attend each and every year, which is why our expectations were high as we headed toward the festival site on Friday afternoon. Over the course of our three days and nights on site, we did our best to take in as much of the festivities as we could, and spent the weekend documenting the many things we liked... and a few things we didn't. In the interest of keeping things organized, we've compiled a list of the festival's highs and lows, and have hopefully constructed an accurate snapshot of the Melt! 2013 experience in the process.
HIGH: The location
Since 1999, Melt! has taken place at Ferropolis, an absolutely stunning location near Dessau, a city that's about two hours southwest of Berlin. Apart from hosting festivals and other events, Ferropolis—also known as the "City of Iron"—is an open-air museum located on the site of a former strip mine. As such, the place is home to several enormous—and unquestionably impressive—antique industrial excavators. It's difficult to explain the power of these gigantic machines, as their size alone is rather imposing; moreover, they look like real-life manifestations of the menacing industrial monsters that populated science-fiction films like The Matrix, The Terminator, or even Star Wars. On their own, these excavators would have been a sight to behold, but Melt! organizers upped the ante by outfitting them with an array of lights and fire-spewing adornments. Granted, all of this had very little to do with the music, but constantly being surrounded by these daunting creations—festival organizers placed no fewer than seven different stages and music areas in between and around the excavators—made attending Melt! a particularly unique experience.
Apart from the machinery, it's worth noting that the Ferropolis site is located on a narrow peninsula in the middle of a large lake. It's a picturesque setting; walking around Melt!, one is always surrounded by water and a lovely view is consistently just a few steps away. One of the stages—the Modeselektor-curated Melt! Selektor Stage—was even located on the water's edge, allowing festival attendees to frolic in the sand or even take a dip as DJs and live acts performed. It was these kinds of details that made being at Melt! a truly enjoyable experience, whether we were watching an artist perform, relaxing by the water, or just walking around and soaking up the atmosphere. The sun was shining all weekend, and even though the festival was sold out, Melt! organizers smartly capped the tickets at a level—we were told approximately 25,000 people were in attendance—that generally left those in the audience with plenty of room to operate.
Todd Terje and Lindstrøm
HIGH: Todd Terje and Lindstrøm
After being impressed by their joint live show at Sónar 2013, we were rather excited to catch Todd Terje & Lindstrøm on stage together once again at Melt! Performing late Friday night on the Gemini Stage, the Norwegian veterans did not disappoint. Over the course of an hour, they breezed through a live show that featured an array of hits from both of their catalogs, and of course played their collaborative smash "Lanzarote" from earlier this year. At this point, it's easy to think of their melodic, disco-flavored output as a bit cheesy, but these songs—the old ones and the new ones—absolutely shine in a festival setting. Tracks like "I Feel Space" and "Inspector Norse" may be simple, bouncy, fun, and even a little nostalgic, but they are also excellent pieces of dance music that simply happen to have a potent pop current running through them. The tunes certainly worked on the crowd at Melt!, as the dancefloor was full of smiles while Terje and Lindstrøm played into the wee hours of the morning.
LOW: Disclosure
Disclosure performed on Saturday night at the Gemini Stage, and the Melt! crowd absolutely loved the set. The dancefloor was rammed, people enthusiastically sang along, and a genuine sense of elation floated through the air. At the same time, there was something a bit depressing about it all, at least for anyone whose appreciation of electronic music dates back more than a year or two. (Given the preponderance of glitter-streaked girls, shirtless muscleheads, and canoodling couples in the audience, it's safe to say that Disclosure didn't pull a crowd of electronic-music lifers.)
Disclosure's music may contain trace elements of vintage house and UK garage, and the Lawrence brothers do occasionally profess their admiration for certain dance-music luminaries, but all of that is essentially arbitrary at this point. Simply put, Disclosure is a pop band, and no matter how the music and group has been marketed, the outfit is very much a product and a brand, something that has been shaped and sold to the masses by the remnants of the major-label system. In and of itself, this isn't necessarily a bad thing, but it also doesn't make for music that's particularly interesting.
The set was billed as a "live" show, and though Disclosure did bring a large rig on stage, it didn't take a keen observer to see that the boys were merely tapping out a few drum hits or playing the occasional bassline while an Ableton backing track did all of the heavy lifting. The fact that most of the vocal bits were also canned didn't help matters either. There simply wasn't much substance to the performance, even as the brothers moved through the bulk of their catalog over the course of an hour; hearing the songs one after another, the sameness of it all was inescapable—every song sounded like a polished, three-minute radio hit. A diamond-shaped video screen stationed behind the boys did add a bit of pizazz to the proceedings, particularly once an animated version of Disclosure's trademark face illustration popped up, but no amount of visual bells and whistles could prevent the saccharine levels from reaching a dangerous level. The set ended with "Latch," and once its dulcet tones came to a close, we gladly exited and sought solace elsewhere.
Ben UFO is a great DJ. It's been said before, it will surely be said again, and although it's not exactly innovative for us to be singing his praises once more, his set on Saturday night at the Melt! Selektor stage did nothing to change our already high opinion of the man. That being said, the London DJ and Hessle Audio boss did go into his set facing a unique challenge: the cold. As Saturday night bled into Sunday morning, the wind kicked up, the temperatures dropped down, and plenty of unprepared attendees (ourselves included) were left shivering in the open air. Still, the crowd persevered, and not even a 3:30 a.m. start time could dissuade the audience from sticking around the beach to watch Ben UFO do his thing. Coming on after a set of crunchy techno bangers from Modeselektor and Diamond Version—which was rather enjoyable in its own right—Ben UFO went rather hard, weaving together an array of driving, heavily rhythmic tunes that occasionally veered into glitchy and distorted territory. It wasn't necessarily the sound he's known for (although he's often proven quite capable regardless of what genres he's dabbling in), but it was actually more directly in line with Hessle's output than we've come to expect from Ben UFO. More importantly, it was expertly mixed and absolutely engaging. Being cold is rarely fun, but Ben UFO warmed things up just enough to keep us hanging around.
The Knife
HIGH: The first 20 minutes of The Knife's set
LOW: The slow realization that The Knife's set was not actually a proper live show
As one of this year's major headliners, The Knife's performance on Friday night was one of Melt!'s most anticipated sets. The mysterious brother-sister duo always brings something unique with its live shows, and this was our first chance to see the outfit live since the release of the Shaking the Habitual album earlier this year.
Taking to the Mainstage just before 1 a.m., the opening moments of the set were truly wonderful. Clouded in a thick haze of lights and smoke, hooded figures slowly emerged and seemingly began performing the group's twisted brand of pitch-shifted electronic/pop experimentalism. As the music proceeded, it became apparent that an entire ensemble was on stage, many of them banging away on what looked like tribal instruments. The energy level quickly spiked, the various members of the group jumped and ran around the stage, and the set eventually became a fantastic sort of spectacle, something that was engaging to both look at and listen to.
The Knife
But at some point, something changed. About three or four tracks into the set, all of the instruments were swept offstage and only a troupe of glittery dancers was left behind. The music played on, yet it was apparent that nobody was actually playing or singing any of it. (The instruments would eventually return later in the set, but only after a point when it became clear that everyone on stage was pantomiming.) Granted, the dancers were entertaining in their own right—the sheer amount of choreography that went into the show was impressive—but the crowd slowly realized that most, if not all, of the music was prerecorded and that perhaps the actual members of The Knife weren't even taking part in the show. Adding to the confusion was the fact that the various ensemble members would often swap positions and roles from song to song, so it was never quite clear who, if anyone, was the actual "singer." It was also bizarre that different members would occasionally hop on the mic—using their normal voices—and talk to the crowd. Hearing a random person say "you guys are amazing!" during a show from The Knife seemed a bit odd and out of place.
Knowing The Knife's artistic tendencies and stated desire to challenge preconceived notions about gender, sexuality, music, power, and more, perhaps all of this shouldn't have been so surprising. After all, in an era when countless artists "perform" while lip synching or relying heavily on backing tracks, it wasn't all that different for The Knife to seemingly hire a performance-art troupe to mime along and dance with the music. On an intellectual level, the show raised interesting questions about what exactly a concert is, not to mention the current state of the music industry and festivals in general. At the same time, there were a lot of people in the crowd who love The Knife's music and probably would have preferred to see a slightly more "traditional" (for lack of a better word) show. Maybe The Knife doesn't care about that. Perhaps the members of the group were there and were simply acting as part of the performance troupe instead of "playing" as expected. The truth is, we're not sure who was doing what or how they were doing it, and that was likely the idea. Still, we wanted to leave The Knife's set having been amazed. Instead, we left scratching our heads.
HIGH: Jets
Jets is the collaborative project of Jimmy Edgar and Machinedrum, and although the duo has only a single EP to its name, its live show at the Melt! Selektor Stage on Saturday night was an hour of riotous, drum-machine-driven fun. Though it was difficult to tell exactly what the two artists were doing on stage, they appeared to be playing a sort of hybrid live/DJ set and used their hour of stage time to blaze through an energetic session that combined elements of techno, hip-hop, Baltimore club, ghetto house, and more. The music was fast, propulsive, and seemingly fueled by vintage clap sounds. There was definitely a raw—and undeniably American—sensibility to it all, but that was also a big reason why the set was so much fun. Admittedly, the music was a little rough at times (some of it had a definite demo feel) and the frequent transitions in tempo and style occasionally made the show feel a bit scattered, but the crowd response at the beach was enthusiastic nonetheless; Jimmy Edgar and Machinedrum certainly got into the spirit, as the two were bopping around the stage and clearly having a good time. Given how well things went, we couldn't blame them.
James Blake
LOW: James Blake
Judging by the enormous crowd that showed up to watch James Blake at the Mainstage on Friday evening—not to mention the widespread shrieks when he sang his first notes—it was clear that he was one of this year's biggest Melt! draws. At this point, Blake is effectively a crossover act, an artist who's arguably more of a singer/songwriter than an inventive electronic producer. While his fans would likely claim that he's nimbly walking a line between those two roles, his set at Melt! found him struggling to find a balance, and felt a bit uneven as a result.
Part of the problem may have stemmed from the fact that much of Blake's output (especially from his two full-lengths) is rather quiet and introspective. As such, it's not exactly booming festival material. Still, much of his set found Blake—with the assistance of his two-piece backing band, which happens to include fellow R&S artist Airhead—tweaking and/or beefing up the tracks, particularly in terms of low end. The extra blasts of bass may have elicited cheers from the crowd, but they didn't necessarily suit the music, and older tracks, in particular "CMYK," lost some of their potency as a result. In fairness, the audience continued screaming in delight throughout the performance, but it was hard to shake the notion that Blake's live set was a bit stiff, and may require a bit more tinkering to properly shine on the festival circuit.
Mount Kimbie
HIGH: Mount Kimbie
UK duo Mount Kimbie also performed on Friday night, albeit at the Melt! Selektor Stage. As another act that incorporates both electronic and pop elements into its music, the duo has suffered from uneven live shows over the years. However, upon completion of the group's second full-length, Cold Spring Fault Less Youth, Mount Kimbie worked to reimagine its live show—a process detailed in our From Studio to Stage feature from a few months back—and based on the band's set at Melt!, the effort appears to have paid off. Performing with a drummer, the group was confident and its music soared. Listening to the music, it became clear that Mount Kimbie has done its share of adjusting and experimenting with tracks new and old, as many of the songs sported new arrangements or additional elements. The music was still detailed and nuanced—Mount Kimbie still sounded like Mount Kimbie—but the compositions had been thickened up a bit, allowing the music to transition more smoothly to a big stage.
LOW: Big Wheel Stage
From a booking standpoint, it was hard to argue with the Resident Advisor-sponsored Big Wheel stage at Melt! Over the course of the festival, it played host to an almost absurd amount of talent, including the likes of Joy Orbison, Scuba, and Bicep. And those were just the DJs we saw on Friday; the stage also played host to Function, Marcel Dettmann, Ben Klock, Michael Mayer, Eats Everything, James Holden, Solomun, Simian Mobile Disco, Damian Lazarus, Maceo Plex, Jamie Jones, and others over the course of the weekend.
Heading into the festival, we expected to be spending a lot of time at this stage, but that ultimately wasn't the case, and it had nothing to do with the music on offer, which was obviously quite good. The problem was the stage itself. First of all, the soundsystem simply wasn't up to snuff, at least during the first day or two of the festival. Not only was it too quiet, it was also quite muddy, which meant that DJs' sets sometimes came across as an endless loop of slightly fuzzy thuds. In the process, the nuances were lost, as was the vibe of the dancefloor. In fairness, the sound quality did improve as Melt! wore on, but only felt properly dialed in on the festival's final night.
Apart from the sound issues, the set-up of the Big Wheel Stage itself was a problem. Throughout the weekend, we often jokingly referred to the area as the "Bottleneck Stage," as the surrounding zone was a sort of triangle that became more narrow as one moved away from the stage. Furthermore, a major walkway was stationed just to the right of the front of the stage, meaning that attendees exiting the area or simply passing through would frequently walk right through the dancefloor. Melt! rarely felt crowded or uncomfortable, but the Big Wheel stage was the major exception. Whether we were dancing or simply trying to relax and take in the music, being at the Big Wheel required putting up with a constant barrage of party people pushing their way past. Given that, we often kept our distance.
Despite the shortcomings of the Big Wheel Stage, we couldn't stay away when DJ Koze stepped up on Saturday night. The veteran German producer piloted the decks for three hours, and used the opportunity to showcase both his eccentric nature and his mastery of house and techno music. Whether he was unexpectedly donning a wolf mask or dropping music from Jon Hopkins, Koze kept things light, but the music itself never got too silly. Though his mixing was occasionally a bit rough around the edges—the soundsystem may have had something to do with that—Koze's willingness to assume the role of the merry prankster kept the dancefloor moving and prevented anyone from getting too critical.
HIGH: Melt! Selektor Stage
We've already mentioned the Melt! Selektor Stage multiple times, but it worth noting that the stage consistently served up quality dance and electronic music on both Friday and Saturday night. (It was closed on Sunday.) Apart from the acts already mentioned, stage highlights included Benjamin Damage's session of melodic and propulsive techno, Diamond Version's undeniably challenging but oddly compelling set of glitchy, techno-esque sounds, Otto Von Shirach's wildly manic showcase of reggaeton surf-rave, and Bambounou's attack of drum-heavy, highly rhythmic house and bass music. Although Modeselektor has been around for quite some time, the duo clearly still has its ear to the ground and a real knack for curation. Especially in a festival setting, it was refreshing to see that Modeselektor was capable of putting together a stage that was both intellectually stimulating and unabashedly fun.
Benjamin Damage
Flying Lotus
HIGH: Flying Lotus
It's been nearly a year since LA beatmaker Flying Lotus first unveiled his "Layer 3" live show, and although we've managed to catch his audio-visual wizardry a few times before, it once again didn't disappoint. Performing on the Mainstage as the sun went down on Sunday evening, FlyLo churned out glitchy, off-kilter hip-hop beats—and also managed to take a few forays into other stylistic zones—while stationed between two giant screens that displayed a dazzling array of images around him. Despite that fact that only his silhouette was visible during most of the set, Flying Lotus had a real electricity about him, and regularly charmed the audience by hopping on the mic and saying things like, "I know it's not techno, but you can still dance to it." He also frequently grabbed the mic to do a bit of rapping, as at least 20-25% of the set found FlyLo inhabiting his Captain Murphy rap alias and letting his words flow right along with his beats. These songs were also the main instances when he stepped out from behind the screens and engaged the crowd on a more personal level.
During the run-up to this year's Melt!, a sizable chunk of Sunday night's Gemini Stage line-up was marked simply as "TBA." Eventually, it was revealed that the block was being turned over to Riton and Mark Ronson, who would each play individually before spending the last half of the three-hour block performing a special tag-team set as BCK2BCK. This was a bad decision. The notion that two trendy London producers should get together to mostly play radio-friendly American hip-hop and well-worn oldies for a European festival crowd might be intriguing for someone, but the whole thing was incredibly flat, not to mention rather corny. Focusing heavily on commercial rap anthems and rapidly shifting from one track to the next—we heard two Kanye West songs played within 10 minutes of each other—BCK2BCK was more like a hyperactive iPod in shuffle mode at a college rager than it was any sort of serious undertaking. And while Melt!'s party-non-stop contingent was up for BCK2BCK's pandering parade of hits, we found the pair's set rather bland, and quickly escaped to other areas of the festival grounds.
James Murphy
HIGH: James Murphy
After fleeing the party-rocking antics of BCK2BCK, it didn't take long for us to return to the Gemini Stage, as James Murphy was the next act on the bill. As it turned out, he was also the last artist we saw at Melt!, and there truly wasn't a better note to end on. Assuming his place behind the decks at 11 p.m., he quickly demanded that the lights directly on him be turned off, and once the lights went down, he began building a dancefloor while ensconced in darkness. Starting off slowly with an assortment of low-key digger disco, some of it vaguely Balearic while other tunes veered closer to funk or psychedelic rock, Murphy established a pleasantly groovy vibe; the music wasn't over the top, but it was certainly suitable for dancing, and the crowd watching him work gradually swelled. As the set proceeded, Murphy eventually ratcheted up the energy, dropping bouncier fare like the piano-driven John Talabot remix of Teengirl Fantasy's "Cheaters," Todd Terje's summer anthem "Strandbar," and the pumping psychedelic techno epic that is Carl Craig's remix of Delia Gonzalez & Gavin Russom's "Relevee." Things never got out of control, but the music was generally excellent, the crowd was in good spirits, and people were dancing.
On the whole, Murphy's set was a good metaphor for the entire weekend, and a great way for us to wrap up a long weekend. Melt! 2013 may not have been perfect—no festival is—but our few days at Ferropolis certainly included plenty of highlights. Even when the music dipped in quality, simply being at Melt! felt pretty good. The crowd was happy to be there (and generally well behaved), the weather was just about perfect, the views were amazing, and the overall atmosphere was quite pleasant. It was easy to see why Melt! is an event that so many people love, and despite our quibbles with a few of this year's performances and logistical details, it's a safe bet that the festival will soldier on and sell out again next year.
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Sean Connery's original gun from first James Bond movie sells for $256,000 at auction
Don't be shaken or stirred, but a piece of James Bond history just sold for a huge sum of money.
The original gun used by Sean Connery in "Dr. No" sold for $256,000 at auction, according to the New York Post.
The deactivated Walther PP pistol, one of 1962 film's famous props, was sold to an anonymous buyer at the "Icons & Idols Trilogy: Hollywood" sale, hosted by Julien's Auctions, on December 3 in Beverly Hills, California.
While the identity of the new owner has not been revealed, the auction house did note the pistol was purchased by an American who “has seen every James Bond movie with their children.”
The iconic weapon fetched more than the $200,000 that the auction house had originally expected.
"In the cinematic debut of the character of James Bond, Connery uses this hero weapon throughout the film and helped to establish and define the character that has been featured in books, films, and other media for the past nearly six decades," the auction house said in a press release.
On October 31, Connery died at the age of 90 in his sleep, while surrounded by family members.
The Scottish-born actor rocketed to fame as agent 007. He first starred as the titular character in the 1962 film "Dr. No," and appeared in seven films in the franchise.
Martin Nolan, executive director of Julien's Auctions, said his company was "deeply saddened" by the news that the actor had passed.
"The silhouette of 007 holding this gun would go on to become the James Bond franchise's most iconic image and one of the most recognizable pop culture references of all time," he said in the statement. "We are honored to include his Walther PP Pistol as our auction's headlining item along with hundreds of other historical memorabilia from Hollywood's greatest classic films and television series."
In addition to the James Bond gun, the auction also sold a pilot helmet worn by Tom Crusie in "Top Gun" for $108,000 and other items from hit films like "Terminator," "A Few Good Men" and "Pulp Fiction."
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Adenosine triphosphate compartmentation in living hearts: a phosphorus nuclear magnetic resonance saturation transfer study.
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You may have heard claims that some common foods or ingredients are "toxic." Fortunately, most of these claims are not supported by science.
However, there are a few that may be harmful, particularly when consumed in large amounts.
Here is a list of 7 "toxins" in food that are actually concerning.
Refined vegetable- and seed oils include corn, sunflower, safflower, soybean and cottonseed oils.
Years ago, people were urged to replace saturated fats with vegetable oils to reduce their cholesterol levels and help prevent heart disease.
However, a lot of evidence suggests that these oils actually cause harm when consumed in excess (1).
Vegetable oils are highly refined products with no essential nutrients. In that respect, they are "empty" calories.
They're high in polyunsaturated omega-6 fats, which contain multiple double bonds that are prone to damage and rancidity when exposed to light or air.
These oils are particularly high in omega-6 linoleic acid. While you do need some linoleic acid, most people today are eating much more than they need.
On the other hand, most people don't consume enough omega-3 fatty acids to maintain a proper balance between these fats.
In fact, it's estimated that the average person eats up to 16 times as many omega-6 fats as omega-3 fats, although the ideal ratio may be between 1:1 and 3:1 (2).
High intakes of linoleic acid may increase inflammation, which can damage the endothelial cells lining your arteries and increase your risk of heart disease (3, 4, 5).
In addition, animal studies suggest it may promote the spread of cancer from breast cells to other tissues, including the lungs (6, 7).
Observational studies found that women with the highest intakes of omega-6 fats and lowest intakes of omega-3 fats had an 87–92% greater risk of breast cancer than those with more balanced intakes (8, 9).
What's more, cooking with vegetable oils is even worse than using them at room temperature. When they're heated, they release harmful compounds that may further increase the risk of heart disease, cancer and inflammatory diseases (10, 11).
Although the evidence on vegetable oil is mixed, many controlled trials suggest that they are harmful.
Bottom Line: Processed vegetable and seed oils contain omega-6 fats. Most people are eating too much of these fats already, which may lead to several health problems.
Bisphenol-A (BPA) is a chemical found in the plastic containers of many common foods and beverages.
The main food sources are bottled water, packaged foods and canned items, such as fish, chicken, beans and vegetables.
Studies have shown that BPA can leech out of these containers and into the food or beverage (12).
Researchers have reported that food sources make the biggest contribution to BPA levels in the body, which can be determined by measuring BPA in urine (13).
One study found BPA in 63 of 105 samples of food, including fresh turkey and canned infant formula (14).
BPA is believed to mimic estrogen by binding to the receptor sites meant for the hormone. This can disrupt normal function (12).
The recommended daily limit of BPA is 23 mcg/lb (50 mcg/kg) of body weight. However, 40 independent studies have reported that negative effects have occurred at levels below this limit in animals (15).
What's more, while all 11 industry-funded studies found that BPA had no effects, more than 100 independent studies have found it to be harmful (15).
Studies on pregnant animals have shown that BPA exposure leads to problems with reproduction and increases the future breast and prostate cancer risk in a developing fetus (16, 17, 18, 19).
Some observational studies have also found that high BPA levels are associated with infertility, insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes and obesity (20, 21, 22, 23).
Results from one study suggest a connection between high BPA levels and polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS). PCOS is a disorder of insulin resistance characterized by elevated levels of androgens, such as testosterone (24).
Research has also linked high BPA levels to altered thyroid hormone production and function. This is attributed to the chemical binding to thyroid hormone receptors, which is similar to its interaction with estrogen receptors (25, 26).
You can reduce your BPA exposure by looking for BPA-free bottles and containers, as well as by eating mostly whole, unprocessed foods.
In one study, families who replaced packaged foods with fresh foods for 3 days experienced a 66% reduction in BPA levels in their urine, on average (27).
You can read more about BPA here: What is BPA and Why is it Bad for You?
Bottom Line: BPA is a chemical commonly found in plastic and canned items. It may increase the risk of infertility, insulin resistance and disease.
Trans fats are the unhealthiest fats you can eat.
They're created by pumping hydrogen into unsaturated oils in order to turn them into solid fats.
Your body doesn't recognize or process trans fats in the same way as naturally occurring fats.
Not surprisingly, eating them can lead to a number of serious health problems (28).
Animal and observational studies have repeatedly shown that trans fat consumption causes inflammation and negative effects on heart health (29, 30, 31).
Researchers who looked at data from 730 women found that inflammatory markers were highest in those who ate the most trans fats, including 73% higher levels of CRP, which is a strong risk factor for heart disease (31).
Controlled studies in humans have confirmed that trans fats lead to inflammation, which has profoundly negative effects on heart health. This includes impaired ability of arteries to properly dilate and keep blood circulating (32, 33, 34, 35).
In one study looking at the effects of several different fats in healthy men, only trans fats increased a marker known as e-selectin, which is activated by other inflammatory markers and causes damage to the cells lining your blood vessels (35).
In addition to heart disease, chronic inflammation is at the root of many other serious conditions, such as insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes and obesity (36, 37, 38, 39).
The available evidence supports avoiding trans fats as much as possible and using healthier fats instead.
Bottom Line: Many studies have found that trans fats are highly inflammatory and increase the risk of heart disease and other conditions.
Red meat is a great source of protein, iron and several other important nutrients.
However, it can release toxic byproducts called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) during certain cooking methods.
When meat is grilled or smoked at high temperatures, fat drips onto hot cooking surfaces, which produces volatile PAHs that can seep into the meat. Incomplete burning of charcoal can also cause PAHs to form (40).
Researchers have found that PAHs are toxic and capable of causing cancer (41, 42).
PAHs have been linked to an increased risk of breast and prostate cancer in many observational studies, although genes also play a role (43, 44, 45, 46, 47).
Additionally, researchers have reported that high intakes of PAHs from grilled meats may increase the risk of kidney cancer. Again, this appears to be partly dependent on genetics, as well as additional risk factors, such as smoking (48, 49).
The strongest association appears to be between grilled meats and cancers of the digestive tract, especially colon cancer (50, 51).
It's important to note that this connection with colon cancer has only been seen in red meats, such as beef, pork, lamb and veal. Poultry, such as chicken, appear to have either a neutral or protective effect on colon cancer risk (52, 53, 54).
One study found that when calcium was added to diets high in cured meat, markers of cancer-causing compounds decreased in both animal and human feces (55).
Although it's best to use other methods of cooking, you can reduce PAHs by as much as 41–89% when grilling by minimizing smoke and quickly removing drippings (42).
Bottom Line: Grilling or smoking red meat produces PAHs, which have been linked to an increased risk of several cancers, especially colon cancer.
Cinnamon can provide several health benefits, including lower blood sugar and reduced cholesterol levels in people with type 2 diabetes (56).
However, cinnamon also contains a compound called coumarin, which is toxic when consumed in excess.
Two of the most common types of cinnamon are Cassia and Ceylon.
Ceylon cinnamon comes from the inner bark of a tree in Sri Lanka known as Cinnamomum zeylanicum. It is sometimes referred to as "true cinnamon."
Cassia cinnamon comes from the bark of a tree known as Cinnamomum cassia that grows in China. It is less expensive than Ceylon cinnamon and accounts for about 90% of the cinnamon imported into the US and Europe (57).
Cassia cinnamon contains much higher levels of coumarin, which is linked to an increased risk of cancer and liver damage at high doses (57, 58).
The safety limit for coumarin in food is 0.9 mg/lb (2 mg/kg) (59).
However, one investigation found cinnamon baked goods and cereals that contained an average of 4 mg/lb (9 mg/kg) of food, and one type of cinnamon cookies that contained a whopping 40 mg/lb (88 mg/kg) (59).
What's more, it's impossible to know how much coumarin is actually in a given amount of cinnamon without testing it.
German researchers who analyzed 47 different cassia cinnamon powders found that coumarin content varied dramatically among the samples (60).
The tolerable daily intake (TDI) of coumarin has been set at 0.45 mg/lb (1 mg/kg) of body weight and was based on animal studies of liver toxicity.
However, studies on coumarin in humans have found that certain people may be vulnerable to liver damage at even lower dosages (58).
While Ceylon cinnamon contains far less coumarin than cassia cinnamon and can be consumed liberally, it's not as widely available. Most of the cinnamon in supermarkets is the high-coumarin cassia variety.
That being said, most people can safely consume up to 2 grams (0.5-1 teaspoon) of cassia cinnamon per day. In fact, several studies have used three times this amount with no reported negative effects (61).
Bottom Line: Cassia cinnamon contains coumarin, which may increase the risk of liver damage or cancer if consumed in excess.
Sugar and high-fructose corn syrup are often referred to as "empty calories." However, the harmful effects of sugar go way beyond that.
Sugar is high in fructose, and excess fructose intake has been linked to many serious conditions, including obesity, type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome and fatty liver disease (62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67).
Excess sugar is also linked to breast and colon cancer. This may be due to its effect on blood sugar and insulin levels, which can drive tumor growth (68, 69).
One observational study of more than 35,000 women found that those with the highest sugar intakes had double the risk of developing colon cancer as those who consumed diets lower in sugar (70).
While small amounts of sugar are harmless for most people, some individuals are unable to stop after a small amount. In fact, they may be driven to consume sugar in the same way that addicts are compelled to drink alcohol or take drugs.
Some researchers have attributed this to sugar's ability to release dopamine, a neurotransmitter in the brain that stimulates reward pathways (71, 72, 73).
Bottom Line: A high intake of added sugars may increase the risk of several diseases, including obesity, heart disease, type 2 diabetes and cancer.
Most types of fish are extremely healthy.
However, certain varieties contain high levels of mercury, a known toxin.
Seafood consumption is the largest contributor to mercury accumulation in humans.
This is a result of the chemical working its way up the food chain in the sea (74).
Plants that grow in mercury-contaminated waters are consumed by small fish, which are then consumed by larger fish. Over time, mercury accumulates in the bodies of those larger fish, which are eventually eaten by humans.
In the US and Europe, determining how much mercury people get from fish is difficult. This is due to the wide-ranging mercury content of different fish (75).
Mercury is a neurotoxin, meaning it can damage the brain and nerves. Pregnant women are at particularly high risk, since mercury can affect the fetus's developing brain and nervous system (76, 77).
A 2014 analysis found that in several countries, mercury levels in the hair and blood of women and children were significantly higher than the World Health Organization recommends, particularly in coastal communities and near mines (78).
Another study found that the amount of mercury varied widely among different brands and types of canned tuna. It found that 55% of the samples were in excess of the EPA's 0.5 ppm (parts per million) safety limit (79).
Some fish, such as king mackerel and swordfish, are extremely high in mercury and should be avoided. However, eating other types of fish is still advised because they have many health benefits (80).
To limit your mercury exposure, choose seafood from the "lowest mercury" category on this list. Fortunately, the low-mercury category includes most of the fish highest in omega-3 fats, such as salmon, herring, sardines and anchovies.
The benefits of eating these omega-3 rich fish far outweigh the negative effects of small amounts of mercury.
Bottom Line: Certain fish contain high levels of mercury. However, the health benefits of eating low-mercury fish far outweigh the risks.
Many claims about harmful effects of food "toxins" are not supported by science.
However, there are several that may actually be harmful, especially in high amounts.
That being said, minimizing your exposure to these harmful chemicals and ingredients is incredibly easy.
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In the first incident, a 20-year-old man told officers he was standing outside on the 500 block of East Oak Street about 5:30 p.m. Sunday when a suspect unknown to him walked up with a shotgun and shot him. He managed to get back to an apartment where officers found him.
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Wednesday, February 5, 2014
The Baked Brownies
Tak tau angin apa yang melanda, but I am extra rajin these past few days. This brownies is hubby's favourite! Especially the fudgy one. Dia tak suka cakey brownies. In order to get fudgy brownies, aku kena bake for about 45 minutes, temperature 170 degree. Oleh kerana brownies ni fudgy, kalau nak potong kena tunggu betul2 sejuk. If not, the inside will meleleh a bit.
The crust on top is just too beautiful!
Nampak tak the inside is still wet.
Adapted from BrownEyedBaker
1¼ cups all-purpose flour
2 tablespoons Valrhoana cocoa powder
11 ounces dark chocolate, coarsely chopped
1 cup (8 ounces) salted butter, cut into 1-inch pieces
1 teaspoon instant espresso powder
1/2 cup granulated sugar
½ cup packed light brown sugar
5 eggs, at room temperature
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1. Preheat the oven to 170 degrees C. Butter the sides and bottom of an 8x8-inch glass or baking pan. Line the pan with parchment paper.
2. In a medium bowl, whisk the flour and cocoa powder together.
7. Store at room temperature in an airtight container or wrap with plastic wrap for up to 3 days.(Recipe adapted from Baked: New Frontiers in Baking)
1. Salam sis... kat mana nk cari instant espresso powder tu ye?
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Law and Order
Miranda Pond
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Miranda Pond
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Name Miranda Pond
Occupation Attorney
Status Alive
Actor Alex Kingston
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Miranda Pond is a defense attorney appearing on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. She has gone up against A.D.A.s Kim Greylek, Samantha Copeland, Jo Marlowe and Gillian Hardwicke.
Her character is perhaps most remembered for having helped Olivia Benson have judge Hilda Marsden disbarred for breach of judicial duty in sending teenagers to a juvenile detention center where she had personal financial ties. In this episode, Marsden sentences a teenage girl to one year in an Ohio detention center for sexual offenders for having sent sexual messages or "sexts" to her boyfriend, resulting in her having sex with an adult despite Copeland being willing to drop the charges which were just an attempt to force her to tell the truth. As a result, Benson and Pond request documents on Marsden's past rulings (they had hoped the A.D.A. would join them, but, while mortified by the verdict, she feared doing so could ruin her career), are denied these documents and then arrested for contempt of court after being summoned to her chambers - Pond simply for reminding the judge that her initial citation on Benson was illegal. Fortunately, when Copeland hears about the incident, she senses a cover-up and obtains Marsden's records herself, and with Cragen releases the two surprised women, announcing that she now knew exactly why they had been stonewalled: in a year-and-a-half Marsden had sent over 50 teens to the Ohio facility, not one of whom was initially charged with a sex offense. After the clerk who blocked them from viewing the documents is arrested and admits that the judge receives kickbacks (as does he) from the facility, the SVU, aided by Copeland and a friend of the victim, run a sting that catches Marsden in the act and gets her disbarred and sent to prison on state and federal charges. Pond's client's sentence is overturned by another judge and her record is wiped clean so it is like it never happened. Thanks to the group's efforts, a lot of innocent teenagers were released from unfair sentences they didn't deserve.
Known ClientsEdit
SVU Season 10
SVU Season 11
SVU Season 12
• Alex Kingston is well known for her role as River Song in the long-running British Sci-Fi cult classic Doctor Who. Coincidentally, the character's real name is Melody Pond, quite similar to the name of her L&O character.
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Saturday, July 18, 2009
Ah, the Humanities Division
Ah, the Humanities
Northing human is inhumane.
Variation on Terence who
claimed Nothing human is
alien to me.
“Whatever is is good,” said
Pope, foreshadowing Snoop.
Jane Goodall feels the same.
Chimps do no wrong: nothing
a chimp does is behavior ill-
befitting a chimpanzee.
Alien: sure.
All alien to Jane.
How could it be otherwise?
Otherwise, mere anthropologic
no monkey-see monkey-do but
jane-see, jane-do & bad monkeys
galore, inhumane.
No one steps in the same Face
Book twice and no 2 faces the
same. Each an original flow of
its own unique as snowflakes:
now you see us now you don't
& you got to bray to play. We
still play & we play still in the
game: effervescent transit stories.
Our message: The Media, every
move we make, every step we
take: none the same; twice bold
tales all in the family. No thing
human is inhumane, no human
thing is alien to me, says Terence:
it's 9 PM, I just walked my dog
and all is well and all is well
and all manner of things is well. . .
1. No human is inhumane, and yet humans waged WWI, WWII, Vietnam, Irak, we consume and deplete earths resources, and yet we are human, all too human...unique indeed, no one steps into the same facebook twice, but its all the same, face pictures,
contact info, same old same old..
2. How can any thing a monkey do, be
in-monkey? Or a dog? Inhumane is
a word humans use to disassociate
themselves and their humanity from
what they deny about themselves.
"Oh, that is so NOT ME." I might say
excusing myself: "how could I be so
stupid!" War is human. Peace, it would seem, if we're going to use
the word, is "inhumane." But it's
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Mr. Bannon’s reputation is overrated. Yes, he transformed Breitbart from an irreverent blog into the iconoclastic tribune of nation-state populism, the anti-elitist ideology of border walls, travel bans and political incorrectness.
But his career as a political consultant has been short and checkered. As the president has observed, Mr. Bannon did not join Mr. Trump’s campaign until August 2016, by which time Mr. Trump had secured the Republican nomination. Mr. Trump’s general election victory was remarkable. It was also something of a black-swan event. There is a tendency, especially among Mr. Trump’s supporters, to overlook the fact that, had some 79,000 votes in three states gone the other way, the winner of the popular vote would now be in the White House.
Since his inauguration, President Trump’s numbers have steadily declined. He is at 39 percent approval and at 55 percent disapproval in the Real Clear Politics average of polls. The low standing depletes Mr. Trump’s political capital and his leverage over Congress. It endangers Republican control of one or both legislative chambers. Perhaps it is time to take advice from someone else.
Of course, Mr. Trump does not seem inclined to listen to anyone at all. That is even more reason not to exaggerate Mr. Bannon’s influence. Mr. Bannon may have encouraged Mr. Trump to follow his instincts, but that is precisely the point: Mr. Trump’s natural inclinations are in perfect harmony with the voters he refers to in casual conversation as “my people.” Mr. Bannon may have encouraged Mr. Trump not to back down from his positions on the violence in Charlottesville and on the place of statuary memorializing the Confederacy. But the final decision, like all decisions in this White House, was Mr. Trump’s alone.
Mr. Bannon has flitted through an eccentric career in the Navy, on Wall Street, in Hollywood and in the populist faction of the conservative movement. He has a reputation as a well-read autodidact whose syncretic worldview is the result of years of independent and wide-ranging study. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '88096af844bfce2b4b2a97e44cb50e7c3d0f91e477b22cf036751a065d39044e'} |
I wanna get metaphysical
Posts tagged ‘many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics’
You might be a king or a little street sweeper
When I die and they lay me to rest,
Gonna go to the place that’s the best…?
An informal poll amongst a few friends produced the following results.
1. I believe in an afterlife — 2
2. I believe in reincarnation –0
3. When I die, that’s it. The end — 4
4. I will be absorbed into an Overmind/universal soul — 0
5. The self doesn’t really exist, so it can’t die –0
6. The world is a shared dream, death mere awakening — 0
7. Why discuss death when we don’t understand life? — 0
8. Other — 2
Part of me thinks the four who voted “Th-th-that’s all, folks!” are right; however, I have a few caveats that make me think that perhaps the right answer is: “you’re right, but…”
The trouble, of course, is filling in the dots.
However, I do have those caveats, at least on days with an “R” in them. Such as…
We don’t understand the nature of consciousness.
OK, we do understand the “neural correlates” of it – or bits of it – but that doesn’t necessarily touch on what David Chalmers calls the “hard problem”. Of course, people like Daniel Dennett think Chalmers’ view is wishful thinking, as are any religious beliefs. However, as Raymond Smullyan pointed out, thinking we’ve solved the problem of existence may also be wishful thinking! (Indeed, everything may be, when you examine it closely enough…)
The best analysis of consciousness we’ve managed so far is to suggest that it is “merely” a very complex computation. Or as max Tegmark put it, “this is what data feels like when it’s being processed.”
However, this view also leads to a few caveats. To say the least. (If demolishing the entire edifice of materialism and placing consciousness at the centre of our understanding of the universe can be called a caveat…)
It seems quite incredible to me that the view of consciousness as computation is almost a retread of Descartes’ “Cogito ergo sum” – which doesn’t necessarily mean it’s wrong, of course, but it’s a bit surprising that the best we can do is rephrase a 15th century philosopher. Maybe he was onto something after all? Of course, “Cogito ergo sum” goes too far. It should read “I think, therefore thought exists” (“Catapultam est cogitatio” according to Google Translate). However, the mere existence of thought -which is by assumption a form of computation – entails various things. For example…
If true, it also means that the existence of the outside world become a hypothesis, not a fact. Computations can only study their input data. There is nothing in this theory of consciousness that stops us being in the matrix, for example, or as philosophers like Chuang Tzu put it a few millennia earlier, dreaming. Hence I have a leaning towards the “world is a dream” option in the poll I mentioned above, although I’m not 100% convinced (especially when I stub my toe against Samuel Johnson).
Another part of the idea of consciousness as computation is the fact that if this is the case, we can’t know for certain which system we’re running on – in fact, there are an infinite number of such systems, if we happen to live in a multiverse (or even in an infinite universe). This makes something like “quantum immortality” a possibility, and the poll question can be answered “Other” – because not all of the infinite computations can ever die, and we can only experience the ones that don’t.
In fact, to get a bit more mystical (or logical – this is all stuff studied by logicians), since computation obeys the Church-Turing thesis, then if consciousness is computation it is a property of abstract mathematical relations. This means that all that is required in order for us to be able to think is maths! The external world, perishable bodies, and the rest of the human condition become a mere hypothesis, and indeed some logicians have tried to extract quantum theory from the basis that we are abstract computations … and, amazingly, have had some success. Is it possible that they are right, and that everything we experience is a sort of grand illusion?
Alternatively, we might exist outside of time, or in a timestream that is different from the one we seem to experience. Various mystics and drug users (e.g. Aldous Huxley) have suggested this. And, ofcourse, lots of science fiction writers.
So perhaps we should at least consider the views of various contemporary philsophers, that we are really abstract universal machines (Bruno Marchal, Russell Standish etc).
Or perhaps consciousness is an illusion, akin to a user interface, as suggested by Dennett, Hofstadter, etc.
But then, who is the user?
Almost everything we’ve discovered about the true nature of the world came as a surprise – so we shouldn’t be surprised to find ourselves surprised by what science has to say about the nature of being.
People think they’re being realistic, pragmatic, eschewing wishful thinking and so on when they say they “believe what science tells us – that death is the end.” I got the following delightful reply from a friend of mine when I told him some of the above suggestions – I hope he won’t mind being quoted, since he puts the “realist” view so well:
Interesting stuff there Liz, trouble is I’m a cynic at heart. So I find it impossible to believe the secrets of reality are to be found in substance abuse or that a 15th century thinker has a better insight into creation than modern science.
I’m afraid unless anyone can prove (or even supply some reasonable circumstancial evidence) otherwise, I believe we’re merely a blob of atoms with a tiny electrical current running through of brains. One day, through any number of possible reasons, that electrical current will turn off and it’s good night vienna.
Without that proof, anything else is (IMHO of course) science fiction, religious mumbo jumbo or just wishful thinking.
My contention – and it is only a suggestion, which I will attempt to back up as far as I can – is that “modern science” doesn’t actually say what he suggests it does. It appears to be a lot less certain about the nature of ourselves, and even of reality, than we might think. That is to say, the statement above, in my opinion, has more to do with what might be called “folk science” than the real thing.
“Folk science” is the view of reality that science plus common sense appear to tell us. Without a bit of inside knowledge, at least, it’s the view that time doesn’t slow down when you fly around at high speeds, that apples fall to the ground because a force pulls on them, and that objects can’t be in two places at the same time.
However, as anyone acquainted with 20th century discoveries in physics will tell you, all the above is wrong. We’re really living in wonderland. So what can we be sure about? How about the existence of the universe, the place where those atoms and electric currents, and indeed Vienna, are supposed to reside?
The External Reality Hypothesis
Everything we know comes to us via our senses, possible augmented by various instruments – telescopes, Large Hadron Colliders, etc – but ultimately the only knowledge we have of the outside world are sensory signals. The idea that there really is a material universe out there that could get along fine without us, or what Max Tegmark calls the “External Reality Hypothesis,” depends – amongst other things – on the assumption that our senses are reliable. Does science contain any hints that the ERH could be false? Well, actually, there are a few tantalising hints…
There’s the holographic principle, which claims the universe could really be 2 dimensional. If true, that would mean that space itself is an illusion, or at least part of it is! The fact that the amount of information that can be stored in a given volume is proportional to the surface area of that volume (rather than the volume of the volume) is staggeringly counter-intuitive, for me at least. So, that shows up something weird and counter-intuitive, if nothing particularly to do with minds. There are many other examples of reality not being quite as we imagine it, such as the masses of atoms being almost completely due to the energy holding them together (holding what together, exactly? Well, it turns out that fundamental particles are rather like parts of something called the Poincaré group – a mathematical structure.)
Could it be that Plato was right, and that the universe we perceive is only a distorted shadow of an underlying reality of perfect forms? The Poincaré group could be one such form…
Quantum Immortality
The wonderful Raymond Smullyan, 91 years old and hailing from a place called Far Rockaway (I never doubted it for a moment) had a few things to say about this…
I am afraid that the whole problem of survival is intimately bound up with our very notions of time, which – except for purposes of science and practical, everyday living – are none too satisfactory As I said at the beginning of this essay, I suspect that all thinking about these questions is somehow off the track, and I certainly don’t except my own. My hunch is that those who believe in immortality are closer to the truth than those who do not but still miss the real point.
I would like to suggest that science does offer a way in which people’s minds may survive – or rather avoid – their bodily death (not necessarily in a very pleasant manner; some may even prefer oblivion. But then science is never very kind towards our preferences).
This is the theory known as “quantum immortality”.
Since 1957, more and more physicists have accepted that Hugh Everett III’s “Relative State Formulation” of quantum theory (also known as the Many-Worlds Interpretation, or MWI) may well be a correct description of reality. It certainly explains much weirdness without introducing any game-changing stuff like FTL travel or the end of causality as we know it. For example, it explains quantum randomness, how atoms can be in two places at once, Bell’s Inequality, the EPR paradox and lots of other stuff. And it uses no extra assumptions above the basic formulation of quantum mechanics – i.e., it’s the outcome you get if you just apply the equations and make no further assumptions about “collapse of the wave function” or “pilot waves”.
The only “problem” with the MWI is that it requires the existence of lots of parallel worlds, or to be exact, it requires that reality is a lot bigger than it looks – that we are only seeing a tiny slvier of the whole thing, which is usually called the “Multiverse“.
We should be used to this by now, of course! – it isn’t even one measly little century ago that we (or rather Edwin Hubble) first discovered that the universe is bigger than the Milky Way! It’s only about 5 centuries since we discovered that it’s bigger than the solar system, and maybe 10 since we realised it was bigger than the Earth plus a few crystal spheres. So no surprise there, you’d think… especially since, in about 1970, the one big problem with the MWI was solved.
However, the MWI leads to a bit of a stunning problem (or perhaps it isn’t exactly a problem…) – namely, it suggests that, for any given situation, all the outcomes predicted by quantum theory occur. Let me take an example. There is a small chance that all the atoms in an object, say my coffee cup, will spontaneously undergo fusion. This means there is a small change of a nuclear explosion in my study. According to the MWI this is actually happening, in some parts of the multiverse. There are also (very small) regions of it in which unicorns are materialising. Even, somewhere, a TARDIS… 🙂
In fact, anything physically possible is happening somewhere in the multiverse. Your secret fantasy. Your worst nightmare. The contents of every book ever written, assuming they are physically possible, are being acted out somewhere… even Harry Potter, in an infinitesimal sliver of space-time, because any magic spell could just happen to be duplicated by quantum effects.
Some people think this violates Occam’s razor, but of course it doesn’t, because this theory is the simplest one that explains all our observations to date.
Anyway, back on topic: there is always a (perhaps very unlikely) part of the MV in which a given person survives a given event. E.g. when my coffee cup explodes, there is a small chance that the explosion will quantum tunnel around me, and I will remain alive. Since I only continue to exist in the region where I survived, to me it would seem like a miraculous escape.
However, we don’t need to invoke anything as unlikely as that to ensure that my mind survives death. Assuming the mind is “just a computation in the brain” (as hard headed materialist assure us) then, even if my brain is destroyed, it’s inevitable that that computation will continue somewhere else in the multiverse. The theory makes no predictions as to where it will continue, but given that it’s physically possible, it must do. And since it was “supervening” (in the AI jargon) on my brain the instant before I died, that clearly is a physically possible state.
Strange but true. Science’s best theory (and I don’t mean Frank Tipler‘s “Physics of Immortality” theory, by the way, just straight quantum theory) coupled with some minimalist assumptions about the nature of consciousness (that it’s a form of computation) predicts that there is life after death, although not one whose nature we can predict. So it could be unpleasant in some cases, heavenly in others, and just like waking up in a new body in others…
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