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What Is a Scissor Sister?
Jake Shears's purple silk pants sag around his lower belly as he wanders about the photo studio, wondering aloud whether or not he's showing too much pube. There's a leer on his face that says, I'm fishing, I know I am. (He's nearly shirtless, and, yes, he's showing a lot of pube.) "Honey, you can never show too much pube," says PAPER's Mickey Boardman, taking the bait, and Shears beams. He loves it, all of it: the styling and the makeup and the relentless frenzied pace of the camera's flash. He's dressed like a sugarplum Bee Gee, and his band members come across something like gay Victorian science-fiction heroes -- in his nipple-high red pleather pants, guitarist Del Marquis looks particularly like one of Ming's minions from Flash Gordon -- and they're ludicrous, laughable, amazing and inspired all at once. They look the way pop music sounds. They're fast weird rock stars who are perfect for these fast weird times, and if you don't have a clue who they are, you need to spend more time reading the British press. In England they're enormous. In New York...
Well, they started in New York. And they're working on it, OK? It wasn't that long ago that Jake Shears -- whose real name is Jason Sellards and whose onstage persona differs so little offstage it's a wonder he adopted a pseudonym at all -- was one of the interns running clothes to photographer Richard Phibbs's studio for PAPER cover shoots. Half a decade and an eon ago, it seems, especially since the Scissor Sisters's Grammy nomination (Best Dance Song for "Comfortably Numb") and their earning a trio of Brit Awards (Best Group, Best Album, Best Newcomer) in February. At the turn of the century, Shears was an intense kid with a head full of ideas who couldn't wait to write articles for PAPER about musicians like Mouse on Mars or Miss Kittin or Sylvester Boy. These days he's eclipsed them all. These days he has conversations with his Scissor Sisters cofounder Babydaddy that go something like this:
"VH1 wants to book us for a special."
"What's it about?"
"It's a special about gays."
"Like, 'The 100 Gayest Moments of 2004?' 'The Year in Gay?'"
"Something like that. I told them we'd talk about it."
"I don't think we should do it."
"We could use the American press."
"I know, but not like that. It's great that they called, but I don't want us to pigeonhole ourselves. It's not right for now."
To say that they're big in Britain is something of an understatement. The Scissor Sisters are regularly covered in British tabloids that are so sleazy they make US Weekly look like Good Housekeeping. They sang with Elton John at his Oscar party in February. Elton loves them. They collaborated with Kylie Minogue on her single "I Believe in You." They've sold 2 million copies of their self-titled debut in the U.K. ("That's more than the population of my hometown," notes Ana Matronic, the band's Portland, Oregon-born backup vocalist and fearsome redheaded stage presence), which is equivalent to them selling about 8 million albums in the U.S. Overseas, that places them squarely inside incredibly gigantic superstar status. Their rise has been quick and unforgettable. And to hear them tell it, it's not safe for them to walk the streets of London.
In the U.S. their story's drastically different -- as a small item in The New York Times pointed out last January. Here, the Times reported, they've sold around 190,000 copies of Scissor Sisters (Universal). That has provided the band with an interesting perspective on the dichotomy between the Old World and the New. It's long been said that in order for a rock act to break in the States, they've first got to conquer Britain. But when the frontman of the band (and his bassist and lead guitarist) are openly, flamboyantly, fantastically, irrevocably gay, the rules . . . change. Britain doesn't care, but the uptight ol' family-values U.S. has a few objections. "It just kills me that [former Libertines frontman] Pete Doherty is still a star over there," says Shears. "I feel bad for him -- I mean, God bless him -- but he is a crack smoker. And they are obsessed with him because he's an out-crack smoker. He's like, 'I smoke crack! And I think that's OK! Come see my shows!' Even the reality-show people over there are wild, like the first winner of Pop Idol, Will Young. He's gay. And out. And he came out on TV when he won. He's still a big pop star, and he will be for a long time."
"The average intelligence level in Britain is definitely higher than it is here," says Matronic. "They're a lot more open-minded. And they like freaks over there. They really enjoy things that are coming out of left field, things that are more challenging. In America something that challenges social mores is shocking to the point of going against [adopts stentorian tone] 'What America was founded on.' I say again and again and again, let's not forget that America was founded by the Puritans and all the pagans stayed over in Britain."
Well, not all the pagans -- at least not the sort who write juicy, '70s-vibe-style pop songs and like to dress in pimp gear. Between Shears, Babydaddy, Matronic, Marquis and their drummer, Paddy Boom, the band looks ready to star in a musical about hookers with hearts of gold. (Unsurprisingly, Shears tells me he'd like to write a Broadway show one day.) And that's not to say that they've been ignored by the American media, because they haven't. They played to the cameras on Conan. They gave Saturday Night Live a madly passionate performance, which prompted an after-party discussion between cast member Amy Poehler and Lindsay Lohan about how much they loved the band. They've even appeared on that staple of the American airwaves: the morning show.
"Kelly Ripa loved us," says Shears of the Scissor Sisters's gig on Live with Regis and Kelly last fall. "After the first time we played, she gave me a hug and whispered in my ear, 'I just want you to know that this is my favorite music performance we've ever had.' It was amazing. Jimmy Fallon was on the same show, and he introduced us as Regis -- he used to do Regis on SNL. He was really excited that we were there. I made a dirty joke. Regis didn't even get it, and it made it on the air."
"He asked, 'What is a Scissor Sister?'" explains Matronic. "And I was like, 'Well, there's a handshake..."
Shears continues, "I was like, 'I can't really say what it is on this show,' but I took his hand and went like this" -- he separates his middle fingers from his ring fingers and interlocks his hands in an unmistakably lewd gesture -- "and Kelly and Jimmy were like, 'Oh. My. God.' Regis turned to Jimmy and tried to do it to him, and Jimmy was like, 'No, no, no, thanks.' It was really cute."
"Regis was like, 'You guys are called Scissor Sisters, but I only see one lady up here!'" Matronic says, laughing.
"Yeah," Shears says, finishing the story, "And Ana's like, 'You'd be surprised!'"
Before grunge's stranglehold choked the joy out of rock and hip-hop's self-serving moneymakers began rapping exclusively about their bank accounts, it used to go without saying that this is the way popular music is supposed to be: madcap stories from wildly charismatic people who are doing what they do because they love it -- entertainers who know that the onus is on them to be entertaining. Whether you like the Scissor Sisters or not, their ardent attention to melody, song structure and fun, just fun, is transparent on their debut. It's obvious how much they care when listening to mega-disco jams like "Take Your Mama" and "Tits on the Radio," the Barry Gibb-inspired falsetto on their dance revision of Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb," and even "Filthy/Gorgeous," the one song on the album that sounds distinctly like electroclash and gives listeners a clue to the band's roots in Larry Tee's bedroom-DJ Williamsburg scene. They've put out four singles, and they've filmed four videos to accompany them. (The one for "Filthy/Gorgeous," shot by Hedwig and the Angry Inch director John Cameron Mitchell, was banned by MTV Europe. In the video -- a bacchanalian vision of New York excess -- Shears kisses another man and rides a little person like a pony, both of which were considered "not safe for kids" by the censors at Viacom.) They've also recently released a DVD, We Are Scissor Sisters and So Are You, which features them playing live in Brighton and comes with humorous title screens. In one of those interstices, Babydaddy brushes imaginary dust off his sleeve. In another, Shears strips down to his tighty-whities. Just as he's about to whip them off, he bursts into flame.
So, yes, naturally, they've taken some flack. Some have said that they're too pop for the States. Some have said that they're too much like their icons Elton, Barry or even ELO. Some don't buy their energy. "I'm sorry," Matronic says, "but Kurt Cobain's stripy GAP T-shirts and mohair sweaters were just as contrived as Jake's weird Brian Boitano leotard outfit." To paraphrase Cameron Crowe's Singles, if not having an act was Cobain's act, then it's precisely the inverse that qualifies the Scissor Sisters. And their act -- fabulous, sparkling, extroverted and celebratory -- has kept them on the road for most of the past two years.
"I fully understand how people get hospitalized for exhaustion," says Matronic.
"We sympathize with Mariah Carey," Shears agrees.
"Mariah, if you've done this for 15 years, and we've done it for a year and we're losing our minds, I completely understand where you're coming from," says Babydaddy.
"I look at Michael Jackson, and I think it's no wonder he's so messed up," Matronic says. "He's been doing it since he was four. I cannot even imagine. I'm 30 years old, and thank God I have the fucking wherewithal, the maturity and what little handle on reality I do. And thank God we've had some measure of success so we can upgrade to the nice bus. Not in the States, though. Tomorrow we've got to get on that other bus..."
"That fucking bus," finishes Shears.
These days, the Scissor Sisters live on rock 'n' roll time, a strange procession of days that bleed into each other without break for personal time, sleep or laundry. (After the PAPER photo shoot, Shears is booked to get on the loathsome bus -- too small to comfortably accommodate both the band and their roadies -- at around 9 p.m. In between now and then, he's been scheduled to speak with three other magazines, which he says shouldn't be a problem: He'll just talk and pack and eat and say good-bye to his boyfriend and grab a cab all at the same time. Isn't that why they invented cellphones?)
Not that the Scissor Sisters are complaining. The thing of it is, they want this. They want to be famous. They want to be loved. And they're unashamedly proud of the work that they've done to achieve that. Yes, the American bus might suck, but that's a small price to pay for not having to drag their gear onto the L Train. And the difference between 2005 and 2001 is stark. Back then, when Shears interned at PAPER and made rent by go-go dancing in the East Village, the band was a twosome -- Shears and Babydaddy. That was at the height of electroclash, when party promoter and insouciant nightlife Renaissance man Larry Tee ran three parties every weekend -- Mutants on Fridays, Berliniamsburg on Saturdays and NYFC (New York Fuckin' City) on Sundays. They all took place in Williamsburg at Luxx, which has since shuttered and reopened as the less buzz-worthy bar Trash. The Scissor Sisters played the Sunday party, the most sparsely attended of Tee's nights. They were honing their skills with early songs like "Bicycle of the Devil" and an act that was more performance art than rock show. (The documentary about their beginnings on We Are Scissor Sisters includes footage of one of these shows, in which Shears, covered in fake blood, mimes being born from what looks like a black latex bag. It's a little gross.) But after hooking up with Matronic, who caught a set in New York, and, subsequently, Marquis and Boom, the band's songwriting took on a distinctly radio-friendly flavor. They never wanted to be underground, anyway. They wanted to be pop stars.
And that's why Shears is nervous. He's a smart 26-year-old, and he knows the rules of the game. He's worried about the sophomore slump, apprehensive that his follow-up collection of songs won't be as good as the first, that he'll fall into the same void that's all but claimed the Strokes. Every time I've seen him lately, Shears talks about how much he wants to carve some space into his schedule to just screw around in the studio. Last October, at a party PAPER threw to honor Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar, Shears told me a story about meeting Bono. He described the scene as an odd garden party, where U2's lead singer grabbed Shears's hands and flipped them over as if he were about to read the younger man's palms. In typically exuberant Bono fashion, he implored Shears to write, to keep writing, to never, ever stop writing. "That made me feel terrible, since it's the one thing I know I should be doing but can't find the time," Shears explained. "Bono said, 'If you stop writing, you're dead.'" And while the fame thing is fun because he gets to meet people he respects and be treated as an equal and listen to their advice -- when he recounted the Bono story he was sitting on a banquette beside Michael Stipe, absently smoking one of the R.E.M. singer's cheroots -- that's also partially where the anxiety comes from.
After the photo shoot Shears and I take a walk across Manhattan to Union Square. He wants to go record shopping at the Virgin Megastore. Along the way he tells me how proud he is that he got Don Bluth (An American Tail) to illustrate the Scissor Sisters's video for "Laura," even if the band couldn't afford Bluth's rate for the whole thing and had to combine filmed footage into the cartoon. He talks about other projects -- writing a musical maybe, or directing an 80-minute cartoon, something along the lines of Pink Floyd's The Wall, only fit for kids of all ages. But first he's going to write more songs. "It's so different now," he says. "I know I've only got to make myself happy, that I can't worry about what everyone else is going to think because then no one's going to like the songs. But that's almost impossible because you know when you're writing that the fans and the critics and the magazines are all going to be paying attention." Although it's difficult to empathize, it sounds like his head's in the right place. Earlier, Matronic had told me, "When it was just three of us, we'd play a song, we'd wear funny outfits, and we'd talk to the crowd." That gave Shears reason to grin. "Performance and rock 'n' roll shows are supposed to be entertaining," he said. "That's why a lot of people keep coming back to us. We've never played the same show twice. We might play the same set, but it's never the same show. It succeeds to varying degrees, but that's the fun of it. I don't think they're ever really bad, but sometimes I'll think I'm saying something funny, and it's just [mimics a microphone hiss] ssssssssss. But that's what makes it worthwhile the next time I try and it works." That's the valuable lesson -- so long as his heart's in it, there aren't any mistakes. If his life were an episode of VH1 Behind the Music, Shears knows that he'd still be in its first 15 minutes. He's just as excited as everyone else to find out what comes after the commercial break.
* Makeup by Troy Surratt/ Contact using Maybelline New York * Hair by Nathaniel Hawkins/ Contact
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Croissant recipe from scratch that is so easy to follow! The steps are broken up over 3 days, so you can start on a Friday and have fresh, homemade croissants on Sunday. Small batch croissant recipe makes 4 croissants.
Croissant recipe from scratch. French croissants. A small batch of homemade croissants. Steps are broken up into 3 days, so nothing is too complicated! @dessertfortwo
I just finished reading ‘French Women Don’t Get Fat.’ I know, I’m 6 years behind the times. Please tell me I’m not the only one that read books WAY after they are popular!
I just finished The Hunger Games recently, also way behind the times.
Anyway, I have no idea why I read this book. I’m not looking to shed any weight.
Maybe I was looking for an excuse to drink wine at lunch AND dinner. Maybe I’m going through a Francophile phase? And then I must thank another friend for being such an enabler. She convinced me at brunch this weekend that there are, in fact, pills big enough to make someone like me conquer their fear of flying over the ocean to visit France.
Croissant recipe from scratch. French croissants. Small batch of homemade croissants @dessertfortwo
My point being that I read a book about how to manage your weight, and all I came away with was a recipe for croissants from a real French woman.
These are not diet croissants, even though they come from a diet book. They are croissants for the woman who’s been good all week and looks forward to her weekly reward of a croissant on Sunday morning.
I’m going to take a shot in the dark here and say that if you’ve been good all week, you probably can’t be trusted around a dozen croissants. Is that just me?
I just came off another sugar detox, and I went straight to my favorite chocolate shop. I spent so much time in there that my hair smelled like chocolate-dipped sea salt caramels the rest of the day (success!). So, this recipe makes 4 good-sized croissants.
You can absolutely stretch it to 6 croissants, though they will be smaller.
Croissant recipe from scratch. French croissants, small batch
I made a lot of changes to Mireille’s recipe, mainly to eliminate any wishy-washy instructions (there were lots). I need clear, concise instructions for baking; a French chef, I am not.
I also changed some things that were blantantly wrong with her recipe: do not put flour in the butter layer. I don’t know where she came up with that, but my sweet cousin Stephanie who is a pastry chef said that was absolutely not the way to make croissants. When I put flour in the butter layer, I ended up with crescent rolls, not croissants. Still delicious, but not my goal.
My cousin Stephanie calmed my fears about croissants by boiling it down to this: it’s a yeast dough with a butter layer that is folded four times. When you think of it that way, it suddenly becomes more approachable.
Croissant Recipe–a few modifications allowed:
Mireille divided her recipe into the course of 3 days for ease. This way, you can start Friday night and eat croissants Sunday morning.
If you want to alter the recipe and replace all overnight instructions with 4 hours and try to make these in one day, go ahead. I haven’t tried that, but I don’t see why it wouldn’t work. But as always, if you have any questions, just leave me a comment, and I will get back to you. I will post answers to questions on the site so that everyone can see them.
Homemade croissant recipe–modifications not allowed:
-unbleached flour. Please use unbleached flour, as that is what Mireille used, and that is how I developed this recipe.
-kosher salt. I normally use sea salt for baking, but Mireille used kosher. I copied her exactly because I listen to what a French woman says about baking.
Once you’ve mastered this small batch of croissants, be sure to make my other version: CHOCOLATE CROISSANTS!:
Chocolate croissant recipe from scratch. French croissants.
Yield: 4
Homemade Croissants
Homemade Croissants
Skip the bakery and make your own croissants at home.
Prep Time 1 day
Cook Time 15 minutes
Total Time 1 day 15 minutes
• 1/2 cup + 1 tablespoon 2% milk, divided use
• 2 teaspoons active dry yeast
• 1 cup + 2 tablespoons unbleached all-purpose flour, divided use
• 1 tablespoon granulated sugar
• 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
• 6 tablespoons high-quality butter (European style)
• 1 large egg yolk, beaten
DAY ONE:
1. Heat 1/2 cup of the milk to 115-degrees Fahrenheit, and stir in the yeast until dissolved. Stir in 1 tablespoon of the flour. Let sit until foamy, about 5 minutes.
2. In a medium bowl, mix the sugar, remaining 1 cup + 1 tablespoon of the flour, and salt. Add the foamy yeast to the mixture, and knead until smooth with a wooden spoon, about 3-4 minutes. The dough will be sticky, but it will stick to itself and not the edges of the bowl. Refrigerate overnight.
DAY TWO:
1. Let the butter come to room temperature.
2. Remove the dough from the fridge (it should have risen some and seem bubbly). Flour a surface, and roll the dough out into a 6 x 10" rectangle. The 6" side should be closest to you.
3. Spread all 6 tablespoons of the butter evenly over the rectangle, but leave about 1cm of a border on all edges.
4. Fold the dough like a letter: fold the top one-third to the middle. Fold the bottom third up to the middle also. Roll the dough back into a 6 x 10" rectangle. Cover and refrigerate the rectangle of dough for 2 hours.
5. Remove the dough from the fridge after 2 hours, fold it like a letter again, and then roll back out to a 6 x 10" rectangle. Place it back in the fridge for 2 hours.
6. Repeat this two more times for a total of 4 folds, refrigerating for 2 hours between each fold and roll. After the last roll out, refrigerate the dough overnight.
1. Remove the dough from the fridge, and roll it on a floured surface into a 10 x 10" square.
2. Using a knife, cut the rectangle into 4 evenly-sized triangles. Roll the rectangles up, starting at the wide end. Roll towards the skinny tip.
3. Place the rolls on a baking sheet lined with a nonstick mat, and brush with the remaining tablespoon of milk.
4. Let the rolls rise until doubled in size, about 1 hour. If your kitchen is cold, let them rise for longer--they really need to double in size before baking.
5. Preheat the oven to 400-degrees.
6. Brush the egg yolk generously over the croissants. Be sure to get it in the nooks and crannies of the dough.
7. Bake for 10-15 minutes, until very golden brown. Start checking on the rolls at 10 minutes, and shield them with foil if the edges threaten to burn. You just spent 3 days making rolls, keep an eye on them in the oven so they don't burn!
8. Let cool 20 minutes, and serve.
Nutrition Information:
Serving Size:
Amount Per Serving: Calories: 142Total Fat: 1gCholesterol: 2mgSodium: 508mgCarbohydrates: 29gSugar: 13gProtein: 5g
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Game Reviews PC Cognition Episode 1: The Hangman
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Phoenix Online Studios and Reverb Publishing are teaming up for Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller, a new episodic PC adventure series. With Episode Two just over a month away, I recently played the first episode, The Hangman.
I grew up playing a lot of the classic point and click adventure games, so when I had the chance to review the first episode of a new game within the genre, I was intrigued. The fact that Cognition also had some interesting gameplay mechanics and was a crime thriller also got my interest piqued. The first episode, entitled The Hangman, introduces players to Erica Reed, an FBI agent who has some special, let's say, paranormal, abilities. These powerful 'visions' and abilities that she is able to conjure are a big part of the series, and I thought Phoenix did a nice job of unveiling these throughout the five-to-six hour episode.
The game begins in the middle of a rainy night in a graveyard, with Erica and long time FBI partner John McCoy trying to find Erica's brother who has been kidnapped and is due to be killed very soon. Lately, in the Boston area where Erica is based, there has been a bizarre series of murders involving siblings. A serial killer targets sibling pairs, and this time it's Erica and her brother Scott under fire. The opening sequence encourages a hurried pace and heightens the feeling of danger with atmospheric music and determined dialogue. Once this plays out, the story fast forwards a few years. Erica is still with the FBI, and the case involving her brother remains unsolved, yet is suddenly closed. This additional stress and inability to let go, coupled with a new strange murder involving a hanging, sends Erica's visions into overdrive. She reluctantly meets with an eclectic old woman who runs and antique store to get a grip. And, over the course of the story, she learns to control the visions and enhance their function. These cognitive abilities -- allowing her to experience past events and uncover hidden truths -- are a significant part of the gameplay.
Playing Cognition will feel right at home for anyone used to point and click adventures. Each room or scene usually has a few objects of interest that you can ask Erica to comment on or one or more NPCs to talk to. Going beyond the obvious physical layer, Erica's mental abilities, accessed with a click of the button in the lower left of the HUD, give players another layer to explore. In this view, objects are highlighted with a bluish-green tint and the player gets both additional insight and more puzzles to solve while in this "cognition mode." This adds a positive layer of additional depth to the gameplay, but for the most part I found the puzzles pretty easy and at times I felt like I was a few steps ahead of the game itself, which is rare for me in an adventure. In other words, I could see a situation developing and basically knew what I was going to need to do, but I had to wait for the game to catch up with me. This made some of my time with the first episode kind of boring, especially coupled with the fact that I could not skip through dialogue sequences (I had subtitles enabled and could read them much faster than the voice actors were saying them). Still, Cognition did put up a few brick walls for me, although these were comparatively short-lived, largely due to the fact that episode one isn't particularly large. Players do have the ability to go to most locations at will, although sometimes conditions force you to a specific location. Being able to travel to any location can add a lot of complexity, but with this first episode of Cognition I didn't get that feeling because each area was pretty cut and dry, in terms of objects and NPCs of interest.
The characters in Cognition weren't especially interesting either, but this is just the first five hours or so of what could very well end up being a thirty-plus hour adventure, so it's too soon to close the book on how good these characters will be. The protagonist, Erica, is pretty likable, but not as readily interesting as the lead role in The Longest Journey, for comparison sake. I'm sure there will be some interesting twists in the other main characters to.
The presentation quality of the first episode is pretty good, but there are some technical flaws, primarily clipping and some stunted animations (like when Erica starts her walking animation). The clipping or sometimes 'floating' issues are kind of distracting, but do serve to remind players that this is an indie game and I believe only Phoenix's second game at that, so, some understanding is due. Voice-acting is well done, although not being able to zip through it after having read ahead several lines on screen gets annoying. That's especially true when talking with Rosa and having to listen to her say 'my dear' every few sentences. I should point out that sometimes you can skip spoken dialogue, but not always. Art style is good, a lot of the backgrounds are sort of glossed over, i.e., they're kind of whimsically drawn and blended, which can look alright, but also take away from the exploration and wow factor.
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The Hangman gets Cognition off to a promising start despite a few design and technical flaws. Genre aficionados should take note.
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Steven McGehee Reviewed by Steven McGehee December 28, 2012
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Cognition Episode 1: The Hangman
A slightly flawed but overall promising start to what could be a very good adventure. Puzzles and characters could stand to be more interesting and less predictable, which I suspect they will be in episode two, and there were some technical issues sprinkled throughout but nothing deal-breaking.
The art style and voice-acting were good, a little underwhelming at times and some technical snags here and there, but overall very nice.
There is a compelling holiday deal going on right now, but for fans of the genre, $10 for five or so hours of gameplay in this one episode isn't bad.
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It was boring in some areas where puzzles were either uninteresting or a little too predictable, but it was certainly interesting enough to stick with it.
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The aim of this SBIR application is to develop a bead based array system for the specific detection and classification of microRNAs. The discovery of miRNAs representing a paradigm shift that suggested the existence of many unknown cellular function and regulation mechanisms. Already, miRNAs have been found implicated in different cancers and leukemia. MicroRNA has all the characteristics to become new class of biomarker for pharmaceutical applications. However, the existing methods for studying the expression of miRNA are labor intensive, time consuming, and also lacks the specificity and sensitivity. A more efficient and accurate research and development tool is much in demand. We have developed a bead array based method that integrated the xMPA technology platform with the LNA (locked nucleic acid) technology. The method, called xMAP-MP for xMAP based miRNA profiling, used beads coupled capture oligo and a biotin labeled detecting oligo to quantitatively detect and classify miRNA. With this method, multiple miRNAs can be studied together in one reaction. Preliminary studies have shown that the assay is highly specific and sensitive: miRNAs can be detected using only 100ng of total RNA. It detects mature miRNAs preferentially over precursor miRNAs. It could also provide more accurate quantitative measurement of miRNA levels. Phase I study allowed us identified unique miRNA distributions in 10 normal tissues as well as in 10 solid tumor tissues. A "signature" expression profile was identified for breast cancer. The xMAP-MP is also very efficient: samples do not need to be labeled; hybridization takes only 30 minutes; and detection and data acquisition takes only a minute. The entire procedure can be finished within an hour. Furthermore, the multiplex capability of the xMAP technology platform allows the study of up to 100 miRNAs in one assay. The proposed study has three specific aims: (1)Further develop and increase the coverage of detectable microRNAs. The current panels can detect 115 microRNA targets. We would like to expand the panels so that they can detect approximately 250 known microRNAs. (2)Use clinical samples and cancer cell lines to develop and evaluate "signature" panels for four malignancies, including breast cancer, prostate cancer, lymphoma, and glioma. (3) Prepare for commercialization by developing assay-specific software, and establishing GMP manufacture and quality control protocols. MicroRNA has all the characteristics to become the new class of biomarker for pharmaceutical applications. However, the existing methods for studying the expression of miRNA are labor intensive, time consuming, and also lacks the specificity and sensitivity. A more efficient and accurate research and development tool is much in demand. We have developed a bead array based method which allows multiple miRNAs to be studied together in one reaction. [unreadable] [unreadable] [unreadable] | mini_pile | {'original_id': '7825ef775a6c4893e61f2ceeed4a1c6166d3ffeb636226eaa7442eca575ce3a0'} |
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Review: Naruto Gaiden: The Path Shone by the Full Moon’s Light
(Shonen Jump 2016)
Story & Art by Masashi Kishimoto
Summary: To bridge the gap between Naruto and Boruto as the story for the next generation of ninja is about to begin, Kishimoto returns for yet another “one last story” set in the world he created before moving on to bigger (and better?) things. This chapter focuses on Mitsuki, Boruto’s friend and teammate, and the secrets of his origin. Something that was heavily hinted at in the Boruto: Naruto the Movie film but never elaborated on.
[MAJOR Spoilers from this point on…]
Review: Overall, this was a solid but still underwhelming chapter. Were you expecting anything more?
Mitsuki is a character that was definitely interesting in the film but I feel this chapter hurts him quite a bit in the long run because of how unnecessarily convoluted and difficult his origin seems to be. The chapter is just one long one-shot Kishimoto seems to have thrown together to showcase a “touching” story of a boy who wishes only to know where he comes from. And when he finds out, what then will he become?
It was heavily hinted at in the film that Orochimaru was Mitsuki’s parent, which makes since because after all the ninja we grew up reading about got together with one another and all basically effed like crazy once the war was over, it would make sense that Orochimaru would also want to get in on the baby making game as well.
However he went about things quite a bit differently, and here it’s revealed that this version of Mitsuki is the 6th generation of clones Orochimaru has been creating to essentially make AI – a being that is of its own free will and won’t follow even Orochimaru blindly into the depths of hell, but blaze his own path and make decisions for himself.
Mitsuki Sage ModeNow, I’m really not sure why Orochimaru decided to make a kid or what his end goal with Mitsuki is, but the roundabout way Kishimoto tells the story leaves a lot to be desired. Mitsuki and Orochimaru go up against a ninja that “has the skill to steal memories” and Mitsuki’s lost his. So they’re out to take down this ninja and return Mitsuki’s memories to him.
Along the way though we discover multiple things through exposition. 1. The ninja they were battling was an older generation of Mitsuki that follows Orochimaru, 2. The whole thing was a ruse to see what Mitsuki would choose when put between a rock and hard place as Orochimaru does here. And 3. Somehow Mitsuki has the ability to go Sage Mode, a level of power originally held exclusively by the Legendary Sannin – which Orochimaru is one – and Naruto, who was taught by toads.
We also get a whole scroll retrieving subplot, that Orochimaru had a “secret” locked away in said scroll that he did not want the enemy ninja getting their hands on. When Mitsuki steals the scroll from Orochimaru, who’s since revealed the truth to Mitsuki, and his older self, it’s revealed that Orochimaru placed a picture of the “sun” within the scroll in order to help Mitsuki choose the path ahead of him and blaze his future. Illuminating his path, so to speak.
That “sun?” Boruto, which is creepy and I’m not really sure how seeing a picture of a random boy suddenly makes Mitsuki decide how he’s going to live his life. That literally makes no sense and yet by the end of the chapter it’s literally a picture of Boruto, someone he’s never met at this point, that has inspired Mitsuki’s life choice to be a good person and ninja.
I enjoyed seeing what Orochimaru is up to, I enjoyed seeing more of Mitsuki, and I am still wondering how Orochimaru is allowed to get off the hook of not going to prison for all the crimes he committed before the war began, but I assume Naruto pleaded to the Hokage to let Orochimaru live. Because of course.
I didn’t hate the chapter overall though in case you’re wondering. I just feel the characters could’ve made smarter decisions within the story and I feel Kishimoto didn’t really need to make the story so obviously layered and especially drowning it with needless revelations. It’s his style though, and I’m curious to see where the series goes from here without him writing it.
Boruto premieres in just under a week. … Let’s do this!
Final Score: 2 Failed Experiments out of 5
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Police are investigating after a man's half-eaten body was found in lion territory in Hoedspruit.
Police in Limpopo have roped in the Department of Home Affairs to assist in identifying the half-eaten body of a man who was killed by a pride of lions in Hoedspruit, outside Phalaborwa, at the weekend.
Police Lieutenant-Colonel Moatshe Ngoepe said: "We are still trying all other means, including the Home Affairs Department, to get his history, which may lead us to his residential place".
The incident happened at the Ingwelala Private Nature Reserve, which adjoins the Umbabat Nature Reserve and the Kruger National Park.
The owner of the reserve, who identified himself as Josh, said he was told not to speak to the media or allow anyone inside because the police investigation was still under way.
Ngoepe, who earlier identified the deceased as a 47-year-old tractor driver, later said the person who was killed by lions was unknown.
"The person who was thought to be an employee who got stuck whilst driving a tractor is in fact alive," he said.
"The process of identifying the deceased has already commenced and it might be made possible by the fact that his head is amongst the remains that were found at the scene."
A local worker, who works at a nearby nature reserve, described the area as lion territory.
Ngoepe said police were also investigating the possibility that the deceased might have been a poacher after a hunting rifle was found near the scene. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '5101059fdee72f6278ceb42beedc95bcc66896669f475aa5602cd9bfca50d5d8'} |
Friday, May 11, 2007
I have various female friends and acquaintances who routinely comment on the warring and violent nature of men. There is a cultural assumption that males are the cause of all violence and war. Such conflicts exist solely because men love war and violence. This stereotype goes all the way back to 5th century B.C. Greece as seen in Aristophane's play, Lysistrata. News programs often perpetuate this stereotype by airing the very popular programs about male abusers and male criminal activities.
Here is my response:
These days, there is an assumption by some that men are violent by nature. Some point to the 19 male hijackers that flew planes into the Twin Towers on 9/11 as proof that men are more violent than women by nature. It is ironic, however, that these same people rarely mention that all of the 343 firefighters who perished on September 11 by rushing into the burning, toxic inferno were males. Using the same logic, does that prove that men are more caring, loving, nurturing and compassionate than women? No. The common denominator uniting the male Muslim Terrorists and dead male rescue workers is not violence or war, but risk-taking. Males are risk-takers, and statistically save lives far more often than they destroy lives. Even the misguided hijackers saw themselves as liberators who gave their lives to free Islam from the Satanic Western ‘oppressors’. These so called male martyrs felt they were serving Allah, their mothers, wives and children.
War is not a male thing. Risk-taking is a male thing. The hormone, testosterone, equips the body and alerts the mind to take risks in the face of a threat to ones life or the lives and property they love. Males typically assert themselves not only when personally threatened, but also when women, children and property are in danger. Then there are the offensive wars when tribes or groups of people want more 'stuff' from another tribe or nation. Yet even in these situations, females and children are very supportive of the wars because they benefit from the ‘stuff’ acquired by the male warriors.
That is why this country has the Selective Service System. It is the means by which the United States administers military conscription. It entails registering all males between the ages of 18 and 26 with the system for the purpose of having information available about potential soldiers in the event of war. Notice that this is required of males, which one could argue is a form of gender discrimination in this era of so called 'equal rights.' The reason is that males are biologically equipped to be risk-takers - to protect, defend and preserve our freedoms. This subject is examined by Christina Hoff-Sommers in her exceptional study revealing discriminatory practices against our young boys in the public educational system: The WAR AGAINST BOYS: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men.
Over 90% of all job related deaths occur among the male population because they typically take the more risky jobs that women often will not take. These are called the Death Professions. Chief among these are: Timber cutters, Fishers, Pilots and navigators, Structural metal workers, Drivers-sales workers, Roofers, Electrical power installers, Farm occupations, Construction laborers and Truck drivers.
In the past fifteen years, over 1,000 American males have been killed in coal mining accidents. These numbers have gone way down with the increase of required safety improvements. The numbers once were closer to what we find in modern China where over 5,000 men a year die in coal mines.
This is also one of the reasons men make more money than women. Women who do exactly the same jobs, make exactly the same wage, but fewer women than men will crawl into a mine shaft a mile under the earth or stand on the deck of an Alaskan fishing boat hauling nets in 30 foot waves and gale winds. The next time you use something made of plastic, aluminum, wood, steel or stone – realize that hundreds of male hands and bodies were put in harms way to mine, cut, melt, heat and shape the objects we take for granted each day. Of course women are involved, but generally, the riskier life threatening occupations which give us the majority of our modern conveniences come from male risk-taking.
While males almost always comprise the majority of fighters in times of war, both genders equally support and participate in the typical 'war effort'. Hitler's Germany contained thousands of very enthusiastic females who supported the Third Reich. The German Youth Movement was stocked with young enthusiastic Frauliens. One of the WWII Russian army's best squad of snipers was a female squad called Roza Shanina.
The American Revolution saw as many women as men supporting the war, with women doing the non-combat jobs. During the American Civil War, both Southern and Northern females provided a strong impetus for men to enlist and die by publically shaming males for unpatriotic cowardice if they did not. In World Wars I and II, American women filled the factories to make weapons, munitions and other needed supplies for the male troops. Both males and females have always been very supportive of wars that will make them more wealthy and powerful, or in the case of America, free. Historically, females in all cultures have favored the strongest fighters, protectors and providers for their children. An example is from Native American history: Many Indian mothers would not let their daughters marry a male suitor unless he could prove his acumen at war; it was common for a mother to ask the young man to show how many enemy scalps he had. Scalps were the modern equivalent of Letterman’s jackets or the gorgeous female giving the trophy to the winning risk-taking male – the most ‘valuable’ women were attracted to the most athletic males.
The major difference, when it comes to war, is that men are considered expendable because they are, well, male. Until recently, men were the only ones that went into combat. There is a movement toward gender equality today as more and more brave females are going into combat zones. However, they are given a choice as to whether or not they take a battlefield assignment. Males are not given that choice.
My son came home from Basic Training and said, “Hey dad, do you know what they call men in the infantry?” I asked him what. He replied tersely, “Bullet sponges.” Imagine for a moment that America was attacked and had to go to war, and that a series of posters or commercials surfaced advertising that only Blacks, Gays or Women were required to sign up and die in battle. There would be a justifiable outrage and storm of protest about the blatant discrimination. But when the male gender is singled out as being required to die, we don’t call it discrimination, we call it the Draft. Sadly, this stereotype of male as expendable war drone is perpetuated routinely in movies like Star Wars. Few even blink when cloned white faceless male troopers are cut down like summer hay, afterall, that's what men are for.
Furthermore, it shocks most people when they see that domestic abuse statistics are about even when gathered outside of police reports. Independent surveys and several university studies reveal that as many women as men abuse family members. Men infrequently report their abusers, and when they do, they are routinely doubted since 'women can't hurt men'. Dr. Martin Fiebert, from the Department of Psychology of California State University, has compiled an annotated bibliograhy of research relating to spousal abuse by women on men. This bibliography examines 155 scholarly investigations: 126 empirical studies and 29 reviews and/or analyses, which demonstrate that women are as physically aggressive, or more aggressive, than men in their relationships with their spouses or male partners. The aggregate sample size in the reviewed studies exceeds 116,000.
This culture tells boys that girls can't hurt them. Reports of female physical and emotional abuse against men and children often go unreported. But when surveys are done door to door, which have been done at least 40 times, the stats always reveal a 50/50 split. In fact, women abusing children is slightly higher than men. Furthermore, female violence is often done at the emotional and relational levels while boys focus on physical aggression.
Obviously my point is NOT to see women as MORE violent, or worse -- but rather to correct and stop the myth that men are the 'violent gender' and the cause of wars. As a man, I tire of being stereotyped based on misinformation and propaganda. Clearly,men are risk-takers. That does mean that you are likely to see more men involved in violent crimes, but it also means you are going to see more men involved in risking their lives to solve those crimes and bring the criminals to justice.
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as a woman who has alayws believed men were violent and women peaceful, i found this very interesting for thought... | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '81', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9674732685089112}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '80169', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:GSD25EALADYQGNLEPRCDSBHMKVFI7JYG', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:f8866019-c483-45f9-b216-e4352b885abd>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2017, 9, 21, 13, 52, 9), 'WARC-IP-Address': '172.217.7.129', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:S4SEWIM2WQPUOHMQBRLCNANJWOUIFXRO', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:570f68af-cafd-459a-8277-00867ebae21b>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://michaelbogar.blogspot.com/2007/05/men-are-not-violent-by-nature.html', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:a345b23d-e3e7-4112-a48e-4b7be6b6692b>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '1519', 'url': 'http://michaelbogar.blogspot.com/2007/05/men-are-not-violent-by-nature.html', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-236-49-209.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': '0.1457059383392334', 'original_id': 'd2097b02b2005ac87b4ce57fb2e61d3f3b83441ef718bf488bff10dff951671d'} |
Pet nalfeshneeEdit
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"This is pretty standard behavior for a non-eating, spellcasting monster. It should be moved somewhere more "general"."
Nalfeshnee cannot normally be tamed; however, with figurines they could be created tame, or an existing pet may polymorph into one.
Nalfeshnee pets are strong, with up to 16 hit dice and a max of 128 hit points, but not as dangerous as they are as enemies.
They are spell casters, but the only spells they can cast as pets are cure self, haste self, and only if you can see invisible, invisibility.
They do not eat, so tameness cannot be increased with food.
They will wear amulets, wear armor (not shirts, body armor, or cloaks), carry unicorn horns, quaff potions of gain level, but will not wield weapons.
They will open unlocked doors, but are stopped by locked doors and boulders, and, as they do not fly, all traps will affect them.
Encyclopaedia entryEdit
Not only do these demons do physical damage with their claws
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Willie Rennie, the leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats, has said there is a "distinct possibility" that Scotland could vote for independence unless the pro-UK campaign improves.
Speaking as party activists gathered in Aberdeen, Rennie said the anti-independence campaigners had to be far more positive about the UK's strengths and benefits by adopting a "sunshine strategy" in favour of the union.
"I think there's a possibility Scotland could be independent in September. I think there's a distinct possibility," Rennie told BBC Scotland. "That's why we need to focus really hard on what that means."
Rennie said the pro-UK campaign needed to switch emphasis from the negatives of independence to pursue a strategy that emphasises the positives of the UK. "We want to talk more about those things and less about the 'ah, buts'," he said.
"I'm hoping that Better Together [the pro-UK campaign] will embrace that sunshine strategy over the coming months. People need to know that there's something great about the United Kingdom. We need to remind them what that is."
Rennie added that attacks on the case for independence would continue: "It doesn't stop us asking difficult questions. We have a right to ask difficult questions without being accused of being negative, but nevertheless let's emphasis the great things about the UK too."
His warning came after a spate of opinion polls showed a narrowing in the gap between yes and no, and the pro-independence vote slowly gaining ground, with less than 200 days to go before the referendum on 18 September.
The Better Together campaign has been accused repeatedly by its critics and by some supporters, including Charles Kennedy, the former UK Lib Dem leader, of being too negative, with too many attacks over North Sea oil, the banks and currency.
Rennie's "sunshine strategy" is now a conference catchphrase, apparently to counter the repeated typecasting of the pro-UK campaign as "Project Fear" by independence campaigners after a leaked internal memo from Better Together used the phrase last year.
Evidence of a voter backlash was underlined in the latest poll by YouGov for the Times, which showed earlier this week that more voters believed that the Conservatives, Lib Dems and Labour were lying when they stated in February that a currency union would be vetoed by a future UK government.
The poll found that 45% of voters believed the veto was a campaigning ploy and that the UK government would agree a currency pact after a yes vote, and only 40% believed George Osborne, the chancellor, would stick to it.
The poll put support for independence two points up at 37% against 52% who would vote no.
It also found high levels of negativity on the issue of independence towards Alistair Darling, the Better Together chairman and former Labour chancellor, and David Cameron, the prime minister. Darling had a -24 (minus 24) trust rating and Cameron a -49 trust rating, against a -19 trust rating for Alex Salmond, the first minister.
The Daily Mail reported that Better Together had convened a crisis meeting by the organisation's board to discuss the slip in the polls on Friday, and debate a new, more positive strategy – a report denied by Better Together officials.
One source insisted the meeting was solely to rubber stamp a pro-UK, anti-independence advertising campaign to be launched by Better Together in April, with the campaign's spending boosted by new donations.
But the official admitted there had been internal debate about how heavily that campaign would stress the downsides of independence, with some strategists disputing the need to change tactics.
Nick Clegg, the UK Lib Dem leader, is due to firm up Rennie's tactic by urging the no campaign to make the case for remaining with the UK "just as thrilling as the drama of leaving it" in his conference speech on Friday afternoon.
Clegg will tell those behind the no campaign they have a duty to prove that Scotland will have new and exciting opportunities if they vote against independence.
"Forgot hearts and minds. This referendum is about capturing imaginations," he will say, according to advance extracts of his speech.
"Just as it is right that we must explain the risks and consequences of Scotland voting to leave the union, we must also set out the opportunities of voting to stay. The prospect of remaining in the UK must be just as thrilling as the drama of leaving it." | mini_pile | {'original_id': 'e73b1ade4532c65163566553124b953a406b59f7a4da42447c210da7d4d1f6ea'} |
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Oooooops HE did it AGAIN!
Yep... I had started to take down the twig fencing around one of the Mandarin trees, and made the assumption that Raven wouldn't even try to enter that bed since it had been fenced up for YEARS. In the few hours in between me taking a quarter of the fence down, and bringing the supplies to put the new up, He had already started digging. Hopefully the now re-planted pepper will do OK...
This is what gardening with dogs mean. You constantly have to outsmart them, and think about what craziness they're going to do next. The yard would PROBABLY have been "done" by now, If I didn't have to keep spending my energy at fixing stuff they break, erecting fencing to keep them in/out. Problem is that they are so CUTE and seem genuinely remorseful, I can't be mad and then they find a new plant and step or sit on it. My best advice for gardening with 300lbs of dogs, is DON'T.
I have even made them a nice sandbox, where they can dig their little hearts out....but NO, flowerbeds are the best places.
Enough about the dogs, I read an article on MSN ( this morning about what not to do to start a garden, and their number 1 don't was buying seed packets and starting a garden from seed.
Personally I agree and disagree with their statement. There are a lot of plants I agree are time consuming and "difficult" to start from seeds, and then there are the no brainers, you just sprinkle the seeds and magically you get flowers.
• Alyssum... comes in a nice size box at W-M for about $1. I just sprinkle around areas I would like to have the plants pop up. Everything looks good with alyssum around it.
• Zinnias... Super easy... just place a few seed in the area you want them, and they will grow. I really like the smaller pinwheel/profusion ones for the front of the border and the tall ones in the back. They really are the perfect cutting flower, though I don't ever cut flowers.
Morning Glory/Moon flower Vines... soak the seeds overnight, plant in the ground next to a structure they can grow on.
• Nastriums...I just plant the seeds in and around where I want them in Jan/Feb... then by April I have nice sized blooming plants.
• Bluebonnets and poppies... sprinkle seeds in Oct/Nov...they become beautiful plants in March-April. It couldn't be easier.
• PHBV or Purple Hyacinth Bean Vine, Sunflowers, 4 o'clocks, Bluebonnets are all great for beginners as well. It is actually easier to plant these seeds than plant nursery plants! Not to mention a LOT cheaper. A useful tip is the bigger the seed, the easier it is to grow.
Another thing that makes gardening easier is using plants that are hardy and adapted to YOUR area.
For a lot of gardeners Plumbago is an annual... For me it is a pest free, drought tolerant gem. Blooms it's heads of all year long, makes a mid size shrub. I have the white and blue varieties. Can take everything from Full TEXAS sun to shade. A nice staple in the landscape for me
Lantanas work well, and I have all kinds of varieties, shapes and forms. The only issue is the foliage dies after frost, so they only bloom about 10 months a year for me. This is my Giant lantana bush. About 6ft tall and 6ft wide and yes, I chop it down in size several times a year.
Salvias...Salvias as a group are fantastic, but the finest gem for me is Salvia Greggii...Blooms year round pest free and drought tolerant. Bees, Butterflies and Hummers love it. The more it gets chopped back the more it blooms
Below are a red one...4ft tall * 6ft wide, and a coral one 2ft tall*6ft wide
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
It's that time of year again...
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
YES, Yes, Yes... TODAY was the day
Today WAS the day. Isn't it Beautiful??? I am in LOVE. It really is a beautiful flower. Got up early and ran outside to see, and there it was. So I had to run back inside get my camera and come back outside and take some pictures. Running back and forth like this I noticed something else. Was a strange bloom, so after my excitement about the moon flower had worn down a but I went over to look. There it was a bloom on my Pineapple Guava shrub. The first one ever. after inspecting it thoroughly, the shrub as lots of buds and a good 10 blooms on it. I swear, they were not open yesterday. Hopefully this means we'll get pineapple guava FRUITS.
The white in the background is white plumbago.
Might not seem so exciting, but we've had that shrub since the fall of 2006. If it didn't bloom this year, it would have been evicted. Ok that sounds harsh, and I'm not sure if I really would have, but that was the plan.
Monday, May 4, 2009
Finally!!!! I think...
and guess what!!!!! The Moon flower is about to open its first bloom....well started opening, just haven't finished.
Got tired of the ratty looking Petunias and decided to chop them back. Should come back to life soon. While I was at i... I decided that the primroses had spread more than I was comfortable with, and I started yanking. I am sure it won't be long til they fill out again. Did get a few surprises. A pink veronica was blooming, hidden in between the mess and there's a bud on a cone flower.
Then I sat and watched as Lizzie the lizard tried to scare me and some birdies off by hissing and doing push ups. Lizzie is hilarious. It felt so nice... That spot under the mesquite trees, seems like there's always a breeze. I nodded of and apparently took an hour long nap...Note to self. I need a chaise lounge there, should me a lot more comfortable napping on.
Sunday, May 3, 2009
Got a new FROG!!!!
And I didn't get a picture of it. It's a HUGE Frog garden statue from the BHG collection at Wal-Mart. It just spoke to me. I haven't figured out where it should "live" yet. Me and dh went on a shopping trip and we got a new toy for Puppy and Raven. Raven got a Fox, he seemed moderately to not at all interested in it, and Puppy snagged it and hid it in one of his hiding spots. Then we brought him his miniature goose. He ran off with it, but Kaos caught him and stole it. She was about to rip off the feet when I caught her. There's still just ONE companion that Puppy carries around and it's still Mr. Duck. He likes to carry it around, pretty much everywhere he goes.
In garden related updates... The moon flower is still not blooming. Why oh WHY is it taking so long???? but One Calla lily is blooming. It's a white one with a pale pink blush. Really pretty.
And i had to MOW the yard AGAIN!!! I swear, you can watch it grow...
Saturday, May 2, 2009
Sunny Saturday
Got lucky and found a truckload of branches. More twig fences will be put up, and fewer places for the angels to destroy.
Actually took several hours unloading them and grouping them in piles. This is the main fence part pile. There are piles with thicker logs...don't know what I'm gonna do with them yet. Also some itty bitty branches. Might be able to use those for some trellis projects. Have to remember to use annual vines. The branches only last 3-4 years, and then they have to be replaced.
In order to speed the process up, I think I'm gonna try using the nail gun, and not pre drill and then deck screws. Since we've had some rain, and the weeds are flourishing, I got a bit sidetracked, and started weeding. It's great when you can pull the roots so easily.
The moon flower still has buds, but they don't seem interested in opening yet.
Next year I need to stop trying new bulbs, and just get a lot more of these Peruvian daffodils and some more amaryllis. I have tried them, I love them, they are car free and beautiful. I think I'm gonna plant some moon flower vines on this trellis. I am just worried it won't receive enough sun, and that puppy will destroy it. Maybe an early blooming Clematis would do the trick, since the peach tree is after all deciduous.
Friday, May 1, 2009
To rain or not to rain
OK, I know we are in desperate need of the wet stuff, and I wouldn't mind this if we were actually getting rain. But, it is NOT raining, yet it's overcast and it looks like its raining. Temperatures were in the 80's again, and I mowed the yard in about 20 min. Haven't edged it yet, guess I'll do that today. Cleaned up some spent blooms from the geraniums, and't wait till it's blooming again.
Noticed one Castor Bean seed has sprouted, about time I planted it about 3weeks ago. Well, I don't really know if it's the Castor Bean. Could be something else, but I think I planted some seeds in and around that area.
Caught this little fella living on a plumbago. It's a Texas Spiny Lizard... Loves the garden see them everywhere. Well I don't usually see them in bushes, usually on branches and rocks catching some sun.
The Moon flower Bush is loaded with buds, but none has opened. Maybe tonight will be the night? Speaking of moon flowers...I have to remember to plant some vines for my arbors...oh and my artichokes...and... aargh I am so behind..HOW did this happen???
I took a gamble this year as well with onion sets, though because of our erratic winter temperatures I did not get the payout I was hoping. Some bolted, but who knew regular onions had such beautiful blooms. Now my mind is spinning, trying to figure out how to make them staples in the garden. In years of setting out early sets, this is the first time an onion has bolted and flowered on me. I might not get any onions out of this, but the flower head is a good 5in diameter...and they are tall about 4ft tall. Don't worry, this only happened to a few...all of the other ones are growing nice bulbs. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '166', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.979250431060791}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '87736', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:VYXZ3OLYUXCO3FLEENXEM2CTFWV5YEP7', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:d21ac0a7-df4e-4062-91c0-3c884e0ca2a5>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2016, 7, 1, 2, 30, 5), 'WARC-IP-Address': '209.85.232.132', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': None, 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:JKRSERNL24KC7FBYOLL4T7C2RSF7LOLZ', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:d04b7c84-b559-4fac-ad6c-1812e9ff2050>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://kaosgarden.blogspot.com/2009_05_01_archive.html', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:7657ddea-68ff-47b9-b2f8-75364c4cb391>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '1950', 'url': 'http://kaosgarden.blogspot.com/2009_05_01_archive.html', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2016-26\r\noperator: CommonCrawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for June 2016\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': '0.02219235897064209', 'original_id': '35092a4338b80c1d1b2eca8347090dd585211313f0c73837b8c0500bcbc7eef1'} |
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“Beneath the Fig”
This is a drawing about human potential signified by the 'Fig Tree' that is both growing and flourishing despite being in a barren and shaded place behind an advertisement hoarding.
Line engraving into wood. (Scalpel blade, Oil, eraser)
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To become severely inebriated by drinking Brugal (rum) in the Dominican Republic. Symptoms include: Losing purse on volleyball posts and running into the ocean semi-clothed.
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Yo, Homedawggle. Let's get brugaled tonizzight and bizzeach partizzle while wearing chic dooberets.
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Modern Ruin
Right from the off let's just make one thing abundantly clear - simply put there is no one quite like Frank Carter in heavy Music at the moment. Yeah there are Hardcore vocalists aplenty and there are loads who boast exuberant character but Frank Carter as a showman live is untouchable at the moment. Since leaving Gallows it has taken a little while for him to regain the same level of momentum musically, but it's through this gap between then and now where he has been able to develop so many other elements to his performance. He's developed from being the raging bull steaming in to the crowd to a far more calculated performer who is now able to launch himself between this frenzied maniac in to a genuinely great storyteller. His impressive run recently at festivals and other sporadic shows led to this whole tour selling out, and as soon as the band threw themselves in to Trouble, even just in that moment, you can see that Frank Carter has once again built himself a hugely dedicated following.
The set list was mainly centred around tracks from the impressive Blossom released last year so even with the odd new song thrown in - considering they're only one album deep - there wasn't a huge amount of music considering this was a headlining show. But Frank's presence on stage, his ability to engage with the whole crowd between tracks allowed it all to flow brilliantly.
At the heart of the set came a series of tracks which helped convey the elation and despair so prominent on the record and at the forefront of Frank's current emotions. Lullaby is a touching tribute to his baby daughter, a track which culminated in a huge confetti explosion, (confetti at a Frank Carter gig? Bet you thought you'd never read that). The double whammy of Juggernaut and Jackals (with circle pit going from the front to behind the sound desk) followed before Frank encouraged everyone to sit down on the ground to listen to the very moving Beautiful Death which was penned in tribute to his Father-In-Law who passed away. This wasn't a 'sit down and jump the fuck up' moment, rather a perfectly placed poignant one midway through a largely energetic set. The now almost gig standard 'sit down/jump up' madness did come a little later - on the elegantly named I Hate You which formed a perfect finale to what felt like a truly triumphant show.
Overall then, Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes have once again confirmed their place as one of the most exciting live acts around at the moment. Reports from the whole tour suggest that these high levels continued on away from The Electric Ballroom tonight and with this kind of momentum we won't be surprised at all to see next year's newly announced UK tour selling out as well. You do not want to miss those shows. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9762460589408876}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '15938', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:6KK7OVY2YQ3D23WCQFOR3HEGZ4ASME4G', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:e0fe79e1-7a19-45a8-8a4b-bb0eb2f6ca7a>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2017, 3, 25, 7, 47, 11), 'WARC-IP-Address': '52.174.152.52', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': None, 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:ZGEM5TFQNGLGOXI2ZWRLSXWYBN6C4RK5', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:58913c9a-7a9f-4cc3-b1ed-610bd94f3dfd>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://roomthirteen.com/live_reviews/7440/Frank_Carter__The_Rattlesnake.html', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:f016a356-9ab4-4672-9913-6b83c32ef7b4>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '483', 'url': 'http://roomthirteen.com/live_reviews/7440/Frank_Carter__The_Rattlesnake.html', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-233-31-227.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2017-13\r\noperator: CommonCrawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for March 2017\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': '0.04287022352218628', 'original_id': 'd2f1fb4602ed8aa8deb61f6b90bd97868c48ad489927abb70cf430fcf4d5836a'} |
et cette déception nous plaît autant qu’elle nous enorgueillet. Au fond, le monde s’agite pour des bagatelles; les plus frivoles inquiétudes occasionnent des révolutions. Partout se voient les faiblesses et les petitesses de la grandeur. La favorite d’une reine célèbre eut la douleur de laisser échapper ce précieux aveu : « Il y a un pouvoir supérieur qui termine, quand il lui plait, nos prospérités et nos disgrâces. » Le dirai-je ? Quelle humiliation pour la politique ! Une paire de gants causa la disgrâce de milady Marlborough, termina les prospérités de l'Angleterre, et sauva la France, qu’une convocation du ban et de l’arrière-ban n’aurait peut-être pas sauvée. Les tableaux de l’histoire, les plus nobles en apparence, sont recouverts de ces ombres. Dans l’hypothèse où notre perspicacité parviendrait à découvrir les véritables causes des événements, une semblable découverte ne serait d’aucun fruit, et n’augmenterait ni la prudence, ni la sagesse de ceux qui gouvernent un État. Les passions actuelles parlent plus haut que la raison, et font dédaigner les conseils de l’expérience. Les causes de l’horrible guerre de la rose blanche et de la rose rouge n’étaient nullement ignorées en Angleterre; les noms d’York, de Warwick, d’Édouard IV et de Richard III faisaient frémir les Anglais, ainsi que le souvenir des trois partis. Une nouvelle favorite, lady Marlborough, fut la véritable puissance auxiliaire de Louis XIV, et détacha la reine Anne de la quadruple alliance. CHAPITRE XII. Succès de Bambourgh, Northampton, de Tonton, le Teukesbury et de Ludlow. De part et d’autre, il n’y eut ni miséricorde ni quartier. Le fer noircissait la fleur de la noblesse anglaise, le sang coulait sur les échafauds, et une partie de la nation prit les armes à la main. Vains sentiments d’effroi et d’horreur! Deux siècles après, les Anglais se détruisirent de nouveau, sous les noms de royalistes, de parlementaires, de covenantaires, d'épiscopaux et de cromwellistes; et le sang de Charles Ier est versé par un arrêt de la haute Cour de justice! Le fanatisme, la haine, la cupidité, l’ambition rendirent toujours infructueuse la connaissance des causes: cette connaissance ne saurait que satisfaire la curiosité d’un très-petit nombre d’hommes. Les Français avaient sous les yeux le spectacle de la honte, des regrets et de la douleur que leurs voisins éprouvaient de l’assassinat juridique d’un souverain. Ce spectacle a-t-il été capable de retenir la Convention nationale et l’a-t-elle empêchée de se souiller d’un régicide, et d’aller encore plus loin que la haute Cour de justice? Voltaire a dit que c’était au bourreau qu’il appartenait d’écrire l’histoire d’Angleterre, puisque c’était lui qui avait terminé toutes les grandes guerres civiles. Le bon droit était du côté de la maison d’York; mais d’innombrables forfaits le souillèrent. Plus de vingt batailles rangées furent livrées durant cette sanglante période; on n’entendait parler que d’expéditions maritimes et de débarquements subits. 344 affaires. Ne les a-t-il pas non plus, à diverses époques, terminées dans notre patrie? Si l'auteur du Siècle de Louis XIV eût été témoin des scènes du régime de la terreur, il n’aurait pas donné d’autre historiographe à la France. En temps de paix, les passions s’évaporent en plaisirs; l’esprit de faction se dirige vers les intrigues de la galanterie, qui s’empare des grands caractères, et en neutralise l’énergie. Un État se voit-il menacé dans l’intérieur de quelque ligue, voit-il les avant-coureurs de la guerre intestine, tout se métamorphose à l’instant. On place la gloire où elle n’est pas, les devoirs sont méconnus, les hommes sortent de leur sphère; la sainteté même du sacerdoce est violée. C’est alors qu’un ministre des autels devient « un petit Catilina ». En recherchant la vérité, abstenons-nous de déterminer notre jugement d’après le calcul d’un froid raisonnement et des probabilités humaines, pour ne pas renverser la base sur laquelle reposent les actions extraordinaires. Dans l’exaltation du courage, le guerrier fait des prodiges qu’il ne ferait pas de sang-froid. L’ambitieux tente, exécute des projets, et s’étonne ensuite de ses propres succès. C’est pour s’être servi de leur raison avec trop de confiance, que beaucoup d’écrivains philosophes se sont égarés, et non pour avoir embrassé dans leurs ouvrages l’histoire de plusieurs peuples réunis sur la même scène. Efforçons-nous de ramener les hommes de toutes les contrées aux mêmes principes, à la contemplation du tableau universel des principaux événements arrivés simultanément sur la terre, et que cette méthode puisse s’étendre à tous les siècles. « Comme la Providence, remarque Diodore de Sicile, l’a fait qu’un monde de toutes les créatures qui sont répandues dans l’univers, les historiens ne font qu’un corps des grandes choses qui se sont opérées dans tous les temps et dans tous les lieux. » Mais, dira-t-on, il est aussi impossible de lier une histoire composée des histoires de plusieurs peuples, qu’il l’est de former un seul poème de plusieurs époques, un seul ouvrage dramatique de plusieurs actions différentes. / CHAPITRE XII. Les siècles, et ne pas la restreindre à l’Europe seulement. Effectivement, depuis la découverte de l’Amérique, on retrouve les nations européennes avec leurs mœurs, leurs usages, dans les quatre parties du globe. Portons nos regards sur l’Asie. Les événements qui se sont passés en Perse, à dater de la fin du règne de Shah-Hussein, s’unissent, par un lien très visible, aux événements qui se sont passés postérieurement en Pologne, en Russie, en Angleterre et en France. Par exemple, Nader Shah, ou Tahmas Kouli Khan, remporte sur les Turcs, en une éclatante victoire, dans les défilés d’Erivan, et ensuite une deuxième, celle de Kars, dans le Diyarbakır. Ces deux victoires, à peine connues dans notre patrie, influencèrent d’une manière très marquée sur la politique de l’Europe. Le fer des Persans coupa, pour ainsi dire, le nerf de la puissance ottomane, et plus tard frappa la Pologne, en quadruplant les forces de la Russie. La cour de Pétersbourg, effrayée, envoya le prince Galitzin complimenter et flatter le redoutable conquérant. Dans l’origine des troubles de la Perse, le tsar Pierre Ier, au mépris des traités, conquit les provinces de ce royaume contiguës à la mer Caspienne, et qui se trouvaient à sa bienséance. On devait naturellement présumer que Nader tournerait d’abord ses armes contre d’injustes agresseurs : eh! sait-on si les Russes eussent résisté à l’ascendant de ce puissant génie? sait-on s’ils n’eussent pas essuyé les terribles revers qui accablèrent la Porte ? Soit caprice, soit motif personnel de vengeance, l’usurpateur oublia les Russes, et ne pensa qu’aux Turcs. Nader dirigea ses guerriers contre ceux-ci, et, sans le savoir, devint, entre les mains de la Providence, l’instrument de la grandeur des Russes. Les triomphes du shah aplanirent la route de la Crimée aux troupes de Catherine II, et ménagèrent à cette impératrice une conquête facile. Infailliblement, les Turcs auraient secouru la Pologne, si d’effroyables pertes n’eussent affaibli la Porte. On le voit, l’histoire de plusieurs peuples, à quelque distance que le Ciel les ait placés les uns des autres, se lie sans contrainte. Quoi qu’on objecte, il existe des rapports médiats et suivis entre les Persans, les Anglais, les Français, du moment que les Persans en ont d’immédiats avec les Russes, avec les Turcs, dont le système politique s’unit assez étroitement au système politique de l’Europe civilisée. Historiens ne se contentent pas de ces faits avec la même pensée. Gardons-nous de badiner, avec toute la légèreté française, des plus graves institutions, et n'allons pas, jusque dans l'enceinte de l'aréopage ou du sénat romain, montrer un air de frivolité et d'enjouement, ni hasarder nos opinions personnelles. Ramener les nations anciennes à la politique, aux goûts de notre siècle, c'est commettre un anachronisme de mœurs et d'usages. Que la raison passe avant tout. Ira-t-on prêcher chez les Égyptiens et chez les Perses la république, parce qu'on est soi-même républicain? Socrate, Xénophon, Platon, Isocrate firent le plus bel éloge du gouvernement monarchique, et ne regardèrent point les hommes soumis à un monarque comme des malheureux qui croupent dans l'esclavage des préjugés. La sagesse d'un historien se manifeste surtout lorsqu'il s'agit de tracer les limites qui séparent la religion de la superstition. Il flétrit les criminels excès de celle-ci, et s'abstient de toucher à celle-là. Déplorer avec calme, avec noblesse, sans partialité, sans de perfides allusions, les pratiques superstitieuses des peuples chrétiens du moyen âge, est un devoir imposé à tout écrivain qui respecte la vérité, et qui respecte sincèrement la religion elle-même : mais insulter à la morale publique, mais se rire de la crédulité de nos pères pour affaiblir toute espèce de croyance religieuse, quelle lâche et sacrilège audace ! Celui qui s'en rend coupable substitue aux erreurs d'une superstition grossière les erreurs plus choquantes. plus dangereuses que le scepticisme moderne, et indique un remède mille fois pire que le mal. Ne flattons point les personnages du moyen âge, mais ne les calomnions pas. Traçons des portraits, et non des caricatures. Que la critique soit mesurée, décente, et qu'elle naisse naturellement du sujet. Si, d’un côté, l’ignorance et des coutumes bizarres privent le moyen âge des éloges prodigués à la politesse, à l’industrie des peuples civilisés de nos jours, d’un autre côté la franchise, la simplicité, l’attachement à la religion, la pratique des vertus domestiques compensent peut-être les désavantages qui nous choquent dans le premier ordre de choses. La civilisation a ses excès et ses barbaries. En fait d’ignorance, le moyen âge règne toujours pour la multitude. Malheur aux écrivains atrabilaires qui se plaisent à noircir le tableau de l’histoire, et qui, semblables à des fantômes, se cachent dans l’obscurité des siècles pour créer d’effrayantes illusions! Rien ne contente, rien ne tranquillise ces sombres et romanesques peintres ; à peine daignent-ils faire grâce aux souverains les plus recommandables, et laisser surnager quelques vertus. Quand on écrit l’histoire avec un esprit dégagé de toute prévention, on se retire paisiblement au milieu des nations qui ne sont plus, on s’en rend les contemporains, afin d’étudier leurs affections dominantes, leurs institutions, leurs habitudes, et l’état respectif des premières classes de la société. La science puérile des Chaldéens, les sortilèges, la doctrine du fatalisme, en vogue parmi les peuples modernes, prouvent que nous nous moquons à tort de la crédulité de nos pères, et que la force tant vantée de la philosophie n'exclut aucunement la faiblesse de l’esprit. Le christianisme ne cessa de condamner l’astrologie; et dans tous les conciles, au milieu des plus épaisses ténèbres de l’ignorance, il frappa d’anathème ces mêmes superstitions contre lesquelles les descendants ne se défendent pas mieux que leurs ancêtres, sans excepter du nombre des premiers ceux qui se piquent le plus de philosophie. La plupart, pour nous servir des expressions d’Origène, « sont dans la terre de Chaldée ». Lorsque nous tournons en ridicule l’art dramatique et le goût de nos ancêtres, nous ne songeons nullement aux monstruosités littéraires de notre âge. Si nous poussions plus loin cet examen critique, nous trouverions matière à des comparaisons qui ne seraient pas toutes à l’avantage des Français du dix-neuvième siècle. La Foi, l’Espérance, la Charité dansaient en présence de nos aïeux... Oui; mais le Zéphire, Flore, Pomone, Neptune, Bacchus et les Fleuves ne dansent-ils pas, dans nos opéras, en présence de leurs descendants? Les féeries de la Nature divinisée viennent égayer leur oisiveté. Au siècle d’Eschyle, de Sophocle et d’Euripide, de telles représentations, analogues à la doctrine religieuse des Grecs, ne blessaient point les bienséances théâtrales; ils jouaient des tragédies saintes et les mystères du polythéisme. Mais nous, qui n’adorons pas les divinités de l’Olympe; nous, qui rions un peu des aventures galantes de Jupiter, d’Apollon, de Mars, comment admirons-nous sur la scène des prestiges qui dérangent les lois de la physique, des prestiges en opposition avec nos mœurs, avec notre raison et notre philosophie? Un sentiment vif de patriotisme animait du moins les chefs-d’œuvre dramatiques de la Grèce; un sentiment aussi honorable sert-il d’excuse à la représentation des nôtres? Jamais il ne fut plus nécessaire de soutenir, par de bons ouvrages, les saines doctrines de l’histoire, que de monstrueuses productions ont altérées. Ses véritables ennemis sont ceux qui introduisent la fable dans l’histoire même, qui travestissent à leur manière les grands hommes, les plient à leurs propres idées, en font des petits-maîtres, de choquantes caricatures. Depuis un demi-siècle environ, des esprits faux, ou superficiels, ont fait céder la vérité à des vues romanesques, et déguisé ignoblement l'histoire sous les traits d'une grossière fiction. Marmontel, jaloux de plaire aux hommes de son temps, de caresser leurs passions, choisit Bélisaire pour victime, en l'habillant des livrées de la philosophie moderne. Le général romain, plus infortuné après sa mort que de son vivant, se mit à déclamer contre les prêtres, contre les rois, et reçut les tristes félicitations des pervers qui méditaient en France le renversement de l'autel et du trône, quoiqu'au fond plusieurs d'entre eux eussent trop de goût pour estimer une pareille conception. Quelques pensées hardies, qui flattaient en secret la haine de Voltaire contre le christianisme, lui arrachèrent un éloge extrêmement restreint, d'un vague désespérant pour l'amour-propre, et qui ne compromettait en rien le jugement littéraire de l'auteur de la Henriade. Les raisonnements et les sophismes du dix-huitième siècle sont dans la bouche du vainqueur de Tricamère; il en a toute la tournure d'esprit. Plein de forfanterie, il dit, en parlant de ses exploits guerriers: "La France serait sans gloire dans ce genre (des beaux-arts), sans un petit nombre d’ouvrages de génie, tels que le poème des Quatre saisons, et le chapitre 15 de Bélisaire, s’il est permis de mettre la prose à côté de la plus élégante poésie." Notez que ce chapitre 15 ne renferme que "le violence des déclamations d'un style fort médiocre". Niels, ce qu’il aurait rougi de dire : « Ce que j’ai fait, ne sera point effacé de la mémoire des hommes; et quand il le serait, je m’en souviens, et c'est assez ». Le Bélisaire de l’académicien français se dégrade par des calembourgs, par de froids jeux de mots. Eh! peut-on ne pas plaindre sa destinée, lorsqu’on lui prête ce singulier langage : « Je croyais mourir en servant l’État, et mort ou aveugle, cela revient au même. Quand je me suis dévoué à ma patrie, je n'ai pas excepté mes yeux. » Quel écrivain sensé croira que des concettis sont des pensées sublimes? Le présent ne servit jamais plus grotesquement à masquer la majesté du passé. Gélimer, élevé par Justinien à la dignité de patrice, bêche néanmoins la terre comme un journalier. Le romancier, sans respect pour la philosophie, qui condamne le mensonge, trompe ses contemporains en représentant le dernier roi des Vandales comme le plus généreux, le plus tendre ami de l’humanité : sans doute les oncles, les frères, les neveux de Gélimer ne faisaient point partie de cette humanité, puisqu’il les fit égorger, ainsi qu’une foule d’autres victimes. Marmontel savait très-bien que l’aveuglement et la mendicité de Bélisaire étaient des contes imaginés au treizième siècle, et il en convenait en disant: « C'est une opinion populaire plutôt qu'une vérité historique. » Un sage écrivain doit-il adopter une opinion que des romanciers seuls sont parvenus à rendre populaire, mais dont les hommes instruits méprisent la fausseté ? On dirait que les sociétés modernes ne peuvent plus supporter le grand jour des lumières naturelles ; il faut en tempérer l’éclat. C’est une faiblesse d’esprit. On ose exalter le roman historique, parce qu’il s’accommode de cette faiblesse, et qu’il l’entretient ; on ose vanter un genre barbare qui détruit le monde tel qu’il est, et le remplace par un monde fantastique. C’est, dit-on, un genre de plus pour notre littérature. La raison et le bon goût rejettent ce funeste présent, que le génie lui-même ne saurait faire accepter, si le génie pouvait à ce point s’écarter des bienséances historiques. Non, ce n’est pas un genre de plus pour la littérature ; c’est un nuage de plus répandu sur les annales des peuples. On se passerait fort bien de cette richesse prétendue nationale qui appauvrit une nation entière, et l’expatrie du domaine de la vérité. Dans les poèmes historiques, la fiction ne trompe et ne peut tromper personne ; notre esprit la sépare facilement de la vérité même ; des bornes visibles indiquent le domaine de l’une et de l’autre. La fiction nous transporte dans un ordre de choses qui ne ressemble en rien à celui que nous avions sous les yeux ; nous les écartons à notre gré, ces images faites pour varier et pour orner les beautés de l’épopée. Il n’en est pas ainsi du roman historique; lors même qu’on défigure le plus de grands personnages, on leur fait pourtant commettre des actions que comporte d’ordinaire l’humaine nature; ils ne les ont réellement pas commises. Le vulgaire ne s’en inquiète nullement, puisqu’il s’en amuse : la fable est donc beaucoup moins trompeuse que l’histoire associée au roman. Il ne faut aucune instruction pour reconnaître les traits de la première ; un peu de bon sens suffit. Le secours de l’instruction est nécessaire pour reconnaître la seconde, et c’est alors que le secours du bon sens ne suffit pas. La vérité que l’on altère l’emporte aujourd’hui sur la vérité dégagée de tout alliage. On aime les métamorphoses, les prestiges et les monstres. Qui ne gémirait sur la destinée des grands personnages condamnés à devenir ce qu’ils ne furent jamais? L’histoire nous fournit des leçons assez importantes, pour qu’on en respecte la dignité. C'est déshonorer cette science vraiment positive, que de la rendre complice de nos illusions, et l’esclave d’une imagination déréglée. Les grands hommes appartiennent exclusivement à l’histoire; les tirer de là, c'est les mettre à la merci de l’ignorance : ils y sont effectivement. Tous les jours on rencontre dans le monde des hommes qui citent l’histoire grecque et l’histoire romaine sur l'autorité des romans historiques, où la vérité est travestie, où l’on rapproche la vie de la mort, où le juste Aristide, dans la poussière du tombeau il y a près d’un siècle, ressuscite pour converser avec le philosophe Aristippe, contemporain du tyran Denys Jeune; où les sages de la Grèce copient dans leurs discours Cicéron, Virgile, Horace, Tite-Live, les Mémoires de d’Aguesseau, et même les sermons de Massillon, ainsi que les Oraisons funèbres de Bossuet. arraché les yeux. L’histoire, empressée de désabuser l’ignorance, ne cesse de répéter : Ne confondez pas Bélisaire avec Jean de Cappadoce, préfet de Constantinople, qui eut réellement les yeux crevés par ordre de l’empereur Justinien, et fut renfermé dans une tour d’où, faisant descendre une tasse, il criait aux passants : « Donnez une obole à celui qui fut autrefois votre préfet. » Des misères réelles ne touchent point nos romanciers; ils veulent en créer de leur façon, et les appliquer sur des personnages qui ne furent nullement des misérables tels qu’ils les dépeignent. Le calife Rasher ayant été renversé du trône, fut véritablement aveuglé, et plongé dans un cachot. Ce pontife en sortit au bout de quelques années, et vécut encore longtemps en butte aux traits de l’infortune et de l’ignominie. Un historien arabe dit avoir vu Rasher à la porte de la grande mosquée de Bagdad, tendant la main à ses sujets, et proférant ces paroles : « Souvenez-vous de celui qui était autrefois votre calife, et qui est réduit à vous demander l’aumône. » Les romanciers auraient pu immoler ce malheureux à leur caprice; ils ne l’ont pas fait : le mensonge seul exerce sur eux son fatal empire. Chacun, en France, se flatte de posséder la science de l’histoire, et nulle part on n’est plus étranger à cette science; nulle part on ne fait mieux fortune avec des anachronismes de mœurs et d’usages. Même dans les classes les plus élevées de la société, on cite journellement l’histoire comme Sganarelle cite Aristote. SOUS EST (BIÈHLLE) ton et fini STOUS EST (BIÈHLLE) ton et fini Ah ! si tous les grands hommes avilis par nos romanciers pouvaient élever la voix, ils leur diraient sans doute : "Pourquoi nous enlever à notre postérité, à notre caractère, et nous faire monter sur vos tréteaux, en mettant un masque sur notre physionomie? Vous êtes les juges de nos actions, mais vous ne pouvez les corrompre, pour en substituer d’imaginaires; vous nous rendez discoureurs, et nous avons agi plus que nous n’avons parlé; vous faites de nous des impies, et nous avons été religieux; vous faites descendre aux plus bas rangs les génies les plus élevés, en leur attribuant vos propres visions. Nous étions Athéniens, sincèrement attachés à nos foyers, et dans vos livres nous sommes des cosmopolites sans patrie. Nous étions Romains, libres, victorieux, dévoués à l’ordre social ; et, vous prêtant vos passions, vous faites de nous des anarchistes. Toute l’antiquité est-elle donc forcée de paraître avec les mœurs françaises, et l’humeur légère de vos petits-maîtres? Laissez à des héros leur honorable disgrâce, et ne leur faites point exhaler des plaintes contre le ciel et contre la terre : cessez d’être les précepteurs de l’ignorance." Celui qui viole les tombeaux, qui disperse la cendre des grands hommes, n’est pas plus coupable qu’un romancier occupé à flétrir leur renommée, car enfin elle survit à notre dépouille mortelle, et c’est un bien qu’on ne saurait, sans une cruelle injustice, dénaturer ou ravir. On intervertit, d’une manière choquante, l’ordre des plus mémorables événements, on confond les siècles entre eux, et l’on conduit par la lisière les plus graves magistrats, les plus habiles généraux sur un théâtre que dresse une bizarre imagination. Les romans historiques sont les fruits amers de l’ignorance et de la barbarie. Chez les Grecs à Bas-Empire, quand l’esprit humain eut perdu sa première vigueur, quand il commençait à sommeiller, les écrivains se permirent ces fictions arbitraires. Vers le dix-huitième siècle, l’esprit humain était assez éveillé, assez actif, et cependant ils eurent des imitateurs. On composa des rêves historiques semblables à ceux du faux Callisthène des Grecs, semblables à ceux de l’archevêque Turpin. Considérez les peuples de l’Orient qui ne sont point accoutumés à voir la vérité face à face : pour eux, il n’y a réellement pas d’histoire ; elle est noyée dans un océan de fables. Les plus célèbres événements, les plus célèbres personnages sont tellement défigurés, qu’il est impossible de les reconnaître. Ainsi, Iskandar ou Alexandre, agissant au gré des caprices de l’imagination orientale, ne va que par bonds, que par sauts, pour déranger toutes les notions de la géographie et de l’histoire. Le conquérant macédonien passe en Italie, effraie les Romains, reçoit de ce peuple une couronne d’or, se rend maître ensuite de Carthage, et, plus léger qu’un sylphe, s’embarque et va s’emparer des îles Britanniques. De là, on ne sait trop par quelle magie, il fond sur les Indes, tue Porus, au lieu de le traiter en roi, envahit après et subjugue l’empire de la Chine. Les Persans, les Arabes et les Turcs s’appuient pourtant de nos jours du crédit de ces puériles fables, et, chose beaucoup plus surprenante, quelques écrivains de l’Europe ne rougissent pas de citer l'autorité des auteurs orientaux, qui s’égarent en des récits fantasques et absurdes. Nos contes bleus ont, au moins, un but louable, puisqu’ils renferment une moralité quelconque : et d’ailleurs, on nous les donne simplement pour des contes. Que les romanciers rentrent dans leur domaine, c’est-à-dire au milieu d’un monde idéal, et qu’ils s’abstiennent de corrompre les sources les plus pures de l’instruction publique. Le roman historique, fléau de la société, familiarise le vulgaire avec l’erreur. En vain, dans une préface, le romancier protestera de son attachement à la vérité, fera valoir son exactitude scrupuleuse à conserver les caractères historiques tels qu’ils existent. Ne vous fiez point à ces perfides promesses; il ne les fera que pour vous tromper, et blesser impunément la vérité. Peut-être le savant abbé Barthélemi mérite-t-il quelques reproches, pour avoir répandu les couleurs du roman sur une des époques les plus instructives de l’histoire ancienne. Cet élégant auteur pouvait offrir l'intéressant tableau des mœurs, de la législation, des révolutions politiques de la Grèce, le tableau du progrès des arts, des sciences et des lettres, sans faire voyager fictivement le jeune Scythe Anacharsis. t/W i W i. IVtVUVVlVklfW W%iUW LWtVV i w t VVIVVWVIVV VW IVViWkVV CHAPITRE XIII. À quel âge peut-on profiter de l’étude de l’histoire ? Dès l’instant que les premiers germes de l’intelligence commencent à se développer. Jamais on ne sentit mieux la beauté d’une action vertueuse que dans l’adolescence ; c’est l’âge des illusions et de l’enthousiasme. À cette époque si intéressante de la vie, on respire véritablement l’âme des grands hommes, objets de notre admiration; et pour le prouver, j’en appelle aux personnes qui aiment à se reporter vers cet âge heureux où l’homme naissant éprouve des sensations absolument neuves, vers cet âge où l’on entend parler de justice, de clémence, de piété avec un ineffable plaisir. Ce sont là ses premières amours. On habite alors en paix dans un cœur tendre, que le souffle des passions n’a point encore flétri : on a une sorte de surabondance sentimentale qui diminue, quand les années se multiplient. On voit, à travers le prisme de l’innocence, ce monde qui, plus tard, deviendra si faux et si trompeur à nos yeux, et dont il faudra se délier pour n’en être pas dupe. Un jeune homme, habitué au seul commerce des muses, parcourt avec enthousiasme l’ancien continent, et visite respectueusement les augustes débris que le temps y a laissés. Il ressemble au voyageur qui, durant plusieurs années, s’absente de la patrie, pour aller s’instruire en des contrées étrangères, vivre dans l’antiquité, traverser les siècles, passer d’un peuple à l’autre. N’est-ce pas, en effet, s’éloigner des lieux et des temps qui nous virent naître ? Nous y reviendrons assez tôt pour reprendre notre place parmi les contemporains. S’il était permis de parler d’après sa propre expérience, je dirais que jamais mon âme ne fut plus agréablement, plus fortement émue que dans l’adolescence. Je baignais de mes larmes un vaillant capitaine que la fortune persécuta injustement. Je partageais sa douleur, ses persécutions; je poussais des cris d’indignation contre le peuple assez ingrat pour outrager ses libérateurs. Plus d’une fois, je plaidai, contre les Athéniens, la cause de Miltiade, et je replaçai sur ses trophées cet illustre général, qui périt dans les fers. Je plaignis Thémistocle, obligé de se retirer en Asie, pour se dérober au même sort. Je me disais : « Malheureux citoyens, qui avez bien mérité de la république ! on oublie non seulement vos exploits, mais on vous soupçonne d’actions criminelles. Le courage, la sérénité, la magnanimité d’Epaminondas, mourant sur le champ de bataille de Mantinée, me rendait immobile d’attendrissement. Je soupirais de plaisir en voyant Auguste faire oublier. « Misérables citoyens, vous ne méritez pas de repiquer de la république, mérites ! En quels je ne connais que de périls éprouvés, mais aussi de vertus suspenses. » (Cic., Orat. pro Milone.) INTRODUCTION. Oclavette, et pardonner à Cinna. Je bénissais le Ciel qui partagea la vie de ce prince en deux périodes, dont l’une appartient au crime et l’autre à la vertu, comme si Dieu eût voulu apprendre à la terre que les cœurs sont entre ses mains toutes puissantes, qu’il les tourne et les change à son gré. Lorsque les années s’accumulent, avouons-le à notre dignité, cette ferveur de sentiments s’affaiblit. On regrette la franchise et l’énergie de la jeunesse. On devient plus sensible, plus raisonnable, mais on est plus indifférent et plus froid. Quand une longue expérience a mûri le jugement, notre sensibilité s’use; nous finissons par la réserver pour nous-mêmes, et nous ne nous occupons qu’à plaindre nos infortunes personnelles. L’étude de l’histoire offre, peut-être, plus de charmes aux peuples du Nord qu’aux peuples du Midi. Le croirait-on, si des voyageurs dignes de foi ne l’attestaient? Les Islandais, séparés de notre continent par l’espace des mers, se livrent à cette étude avec une ardeur, une constance extraordinaires. C’est ainsi qu’au moyen de la pensée, ils sont présents au spectacle des révolutions de ces empires, dont le théâtre est à une si prodigieuse distance de leur île. Elles ne les touchent guère que par un simple mouvement de curiosité, ou plutôt parce qu’étant hommes, tout ce qui regarde l’humanité les intéresse. Près des glaces polaires se déroule le tableau des merveilles de l’Egypte, des chefs-d’œuvre de la Grèce et de Rome; l’univers ancien y est glorieusement interrogé durant les tristes et longues soirées de l’hiver; le génie de tous les héros, de tous les grands hommes qui existèrent, plane au-dessus des humbles cabanes islandaises. Ceux qui les habitent convoquent tous les siècles et toutes les nations sous le cercle arctique. Eschyle, Sophocle, Euripide, Platon, Aristote, Démosthène, Cicéron, y sont lus attentivement, et y sont appréciés. Homère, Virgile, Horace, consolent des malheureux dans ce lieu d’exil et de désolation. Peu de pays ont produit autant d’historiens estimables que l’Islande. Tous les Islandais savent lire et écrire : presque tous connaissent cette antiquité qui se dérobe aux regards de la multitude dans l’Europe continentale, et l’on ne s’aperçoit pas qu’ils soient plus médiants pour être plus instruits. Les détracteurs de l’histoire voudraient, en quelque sorte, la proscrire. Ils voudraient que l’homme marchât dans cette immense galerie éclairée par tant de lumières, ornée de si magnifiques portraits, comme s’il marchait dans un désert. Où est le talisman qui peut rendre invisible ce qui doit être vu? Les plus belles sentences, les plus belles maximes acquièrent un nouveau degré d’intérêt, quand on nomme le sage qui les a proférées. Vous enlevez à l’autorité tout son poids, en la privant de l’appui d’un grand nom. Ces paroles, « magister discit » le maître a dit, forment dans le monde un argument aussi irrésistible que dans l'ancienne école des pythagoriciens. En bonne philosophie, il vaudrait mieux, si cela était possible, mettre entre les mains de la multitude des livres d’histoire que des romans, des contes de revenants et de fées : elle cesserait d’être abâtardie. On ne verrait pas dans un pays deux peuples, au lieu d’un seul, l’un instruit, dégagé de préjugés grossiers, et l’autre plongé dans une ignorance absolue, et pliant sous le faucheur de ses préjugés. Quel bonheur si l’on pouvait, dans la conversation des hommes, rapprocher les générations passées de la génération présente! C’est, là un de ces vœux qu’il est plus aisé de faire que d’accomplir. Certains écrivains contestent l’utilité de l’histoire : elle communique, disent-ils, aux lecteurs nés dans une classe supérieure, des notions funestes au repos du gouvernement, et qui allument en eux une ambition préjudiciable à sa sûreté. Encore une fois, nous abusons de tout, et même des bienfaits de la sagesse divine. Quand l’histoire n’existerait pas, les hommes n’en seraient ni moins ambitieux ni moins méchants. Les passions dominantes parlent et agissent plus impérieusement que des exemples puisés dans les siècles antérieurs. L’ambitieux porte, au fond de son cœur, ses criminelles ressources. Il n’a aucun besoin de l’histoire pour rêver des révolutions, et s’embraser du feu des volcans, lorsqu’il en vient à l’exécution de ses projets. Selon nos penchants, nous nous inclinons du côté de la vertu, ou du côté du crime. Cependant, les exemples de l’honnête et du beau redressent, corrigent quelquefois l’homme pervers, et le détournent des voies de l’iniquité. Alexandre est notre héros. Nous le suivons avec enthousiasme jusqu'aux bords de l’Hydaspes et de l’Hyphaspe. Nous admirons son intrépidité, ses qualités éminentes et les vues élevées de sa politique ; mais nous ne sommes point des idolâtres aveugles de la gloire de ce conquérant. L’ivresse de la fortune l’étourdit; il perce d’une javeline son ami Clitus dans la débauche d’un festin. Nous détournons les yeux avec effroi de cette scène cruelle. Il jette dans les fers Callisthène, et le fait ensuite mourir. Sans répéter les déclamations boursouflées de Sénèque, apologiste du parricide Néron, nous gémissons sur la destinée d’un monarque si vertueux, si parfait jusqu’à la journée d’Arbelles. Ses vices nous affligent, parce qu’ils gâtent en lui une nature vraiment généreuse. Voilà donc où mènent les prospérités! Loin que son exemple influence des âmes bien nées, il les prémunit contre la faiblesse du cœur humain, et c’est pour elles une excellente leçon de morale. Qui ne souffre intérieurement de voir le vainqueur des Perses vaincu à son tour, et dégradé par les passions, au point de s’abandonner aux excès du vice et de la table, au point, tranchons le mot, de s'abandonner à la crapule? Dans cette dégradation de son être, nous apercevons clairement le terme des conquêtes, et les dangers du fanatisme de la gloire militaire poussé au dernier degré. La folie est au bout de cette grande sagesse que l’on avait d’abord admirée en sa personne. Si d’autres conquérants se montrent sobres jusqu’à la fin, ils sont plus farouches, plus cruels et plus exterminateurs qu’Alexandre. Tels furent Gengis-Khan, Tamerlan, et Nadir-Shah au sac de Delhi. L’histoire, envisagée militairement, nous repaît de sang et de carnage. Les hommes vécurent presque toujours entre eux comme Étéocle et Polynice. Aux yeux du sage, la terre paraît une vaste prison dans laquelle nous secouons nos fers avec plus ou moins de fracas, prison qui retentit de plaintes entrecoupées par les accents d’une joie passagère. Avec cette science, se multiplient pour lui les sujets de douleur. L’avenir, semblable au rocher de Sisyphe, menace incessamment sa tête. Il est assiégé de souvenirs déchirants, et de tristes réflexions lui font déployer un crêpe funèbre sur les plus riantes paysages de cette terre qu’il habite. INTRODUCTION des victimes humaines en l’honneur de ses faux dieux. Alexandre, qui, dans ces mêmes plaines, commandait les descendants de ces mêmes Huns, traversa cette rivière avec les sentiments d’une religion de paix et de douceur, au milieu des horreurs d’une guerre meurtrière. Le monarque russe connaissait probablement cette particularité de l’histoire, puisqu’il fit célébrer, en signe d’expiation, le sacrifice de l’agneau sans tache sur un autel dressé à la hâte, peut-être avec les mêmes pierres (car partout ailleurs on n’en rencontre point de semblables) qui servirent au conquérant jaloux du titre de « fleuve de Dieu » et qui l’était en effet. La célébration du plus auguste des mystères effaça les traces de la plus abominable superstition. L’année suivante, au mois de septembre 1815, au pied du mont Aimé, qui domine les immenses plaines de la Champagne, et près du champ de bataille de Fère-Champenoise, s’opéra la revue pacifique de l’armée russe, accourue une seconde fois en France. Des barbares, récemment civilisés, y donnèrent un spectacle à jamais mémorable : Alexandre acheva de purifier tant de scènes de carnage en faisant, sur le sommet de ce mont, célébrer l’office divin, à la vue de deux cent mille de ses soldats, et de plus de cent mille spectateurs étrangers ou français, qui tous, au bruit des foudres terrestres, reçurent la bénédiction solennelle, donnée par un pope grec. Pendant cette cérémonie, les ombres des Huns farouches durent frémir au fond de leur tombe ; mais l’humanité s’en applaudit. Les ombres de nos guerriers durent s’attendrir et se consoler; elles entendaient la voix rassurante de la religion. Jamais service funèbre ne fut célébré avec cet imposant appareil, ni en présence de tant de peuples. Des écrivains moralistes désireraient que l’on rayât du tableau de l’histoire les faits qui contrastent trop ouvertement avec nos mœurs, et qui même choquent souvent la décence. En applaudissant à la pureté de leurs intentions, nous croyons devoir bannir ce futile scrupule. Il faut des couleurs assorties au génie de chaque peuple, de chaque prince et de chaque siècle. Nous ne saurions peindre des Sybarites avec les mêmes traits que des Spartiates, ni Héliogabale avec les mêmes traits que Marc-Aurèle. des siècles a un caractère mâle, qui ne se prête pas beaucoup au déguisement, et qui ne supporte pas le fard ; elle n’adoucit point ses formes, pour ne pas mentir à sa conscience. Il est impossible de plonger dans la nuit des siècles un Tibère, un Caligula, un Néron, un Commode, qui ensanglantent les pages de l’histoire. Ce n’est pourtant pas là de tous les spectacles le plus désolant pour l’humanité : des princes vertueux, mais faibles, irrésolus, insoucians, l’affligent encore davantage. Dans un état privé de toute espèce de constitution, où la volonté du maître sert de loi, où règne un despotisme absolu, la faiblesse entraîne avec elle des calamités qui s’étendent au loin, et qu’un siècle révolu peut à peine faire disparaître : elles composent l’effrayante auréole de ces princes. Entre de telles mains, le sceptre semble devenir la faux de la mort. On ne peut trop répéter cette maxime de la sagesse : « Que vos yeux précèdent vos pas. » Ils marchent au hasard, sans regarder devant eux. Dès lors qu’ils ne savent ni penser, ni commander, ni agir, la royauté est impuissante d’elle-même ; dès lors la coupe de tous les malheurs s’épanche sur les peuples. Le plus cruel tyran, dans un empire despotique, tue quelques individus; il en tue, si l’on veut, des milliers : mais l’Etat ne cesse pas de vivre, ne cesse pas quelquefois de prospérer : au contraire, la faiblesse tue les sociétés mêmes. La fermeté, lors même qu’elle s’appuie sur le crime, est cent fois préférable aux languissantes douceurs de cette faiblesse qui relâche les ressorts du gouvernement. Qu'elles sont à plaindre les nations condamnées, pour cette cause, à subir les dangereuses chances des révolutions politiques, sans pouvoir se rattacher à des institutions fortes et généreuses, sans avoir d’autre avenir que celui du désespoir ! Parlons d’abord des excès du despotisme. Dans la Moscovie, Ivan Basiliévitch le Terrible, qui fit clouer le chapeau sur la tête d’un ambassadeur, qui tua son fils d’un coup de bâton, qui couvrit de cendres et de cadavres la Livonie, jeta néanmoins les fondements de la grandeur de l’empire russe ! il conquit sur les Tartares deux royaumes, et sut contenir l’ambition des boyards. Un de ses successeurs, Théodore, fut doux, paisible, mais pusillanime, et d'une humeur vraiment enfantine. Il s'amusait journellement à sonner les cloches dans Moscou, tandis que Boris Godunov, assez mal déguisé sous le masque de l’hypocrisie, méditait la perte du jeune Dimitri et de toute la dynastie de Rurik. Le tsar creusa lui-même la tombe de sa propre famille, et facilita, par une inconcevable insouciance, l’usurpation de Boris. Avant de mourir, il eut la douleur d’entendre gronder autour de son trône la foudre des révolutions : elles éclatèrent, quand le féroce tyran Godunov fut expiré. Les impostures et les guerres civiles se succédèrent sans interruption ; Polonais, Suédois, Tartares dévastaient les provinces. On ne voyait partout qu’incendies et scènes de carnage. L’imposture avait avili le sceptre ; les Russes ne savaient sous quelle bannière se rallier, et désespéraient du salut de leur pays : toutes les parties de l’empire étaient désunies, et dans un chaos épouvantable. Tout semblait perdu, lorsqu’un simple marchand de Novgorod, Cosme Mini, vint à s’élever au-dessus de la tempête publique. L’instinct du patriotisme en fit un nouveau Démosthène, et de plus un sage administrateur. Son éloquence mâle, énergique, réchauffa le cœur de ses concitoyens ; elle en fit des hommes nouveaux. Elle éveilla surtout le génie guerrier de l’intrépide Posarski. La sagesse, l’habile fermeté de l’un, unies à la valeur héroïque de l’autre, rappelèrent la vie et l’honneur dans un empire presque abîmé dans ses ruines. Le marchand de Novgorod valait mieux que les boyards, les knèzes, et tous les grands de l’empire. Lui seul conçut le plan de la délivrance de son pays : ce fut un grand homme ; c’est tout dire. Des prodiges s’opérèrent bientôt : les étrangers furent chassés, la source d’une cruelle imposture tarie, et la maison de Romanov s’assit tranquillement sur le trône des tsars. Le marchand de Novgorod et Posarski eurent des qualités propres à honorer la royauté elle-même. La gloire de ces deux grands hommes est immortelle. Mini créa, pour ainsi dire, Posarski. Plus (l’une fois, le souvenir de leurs belles actions ranima l’ardeur martiale et le zèle patriotique des Russes. Mini et Posarski semblèrent revivre dans les proclamations de l’empereur Alexandre, qui appelait ses sujets aux armes contre l’armée française en marche sur Moscou. Les Quel souverain égale jamais en férocité Shah Abbas le Grand ? et pourtant, quel souverain régna avec plus de gloire ? On cite de ce souverain des traits de barbarie qui eussent effrayé l'âme de Néron. Considéré dans l'intérieur de son palais, c’est un tigre altéré de sang, la terreur des courtisans qui l’approchaient, la terreur des ministres qui le servaient, et dont il se débarrassa, soit par le fer, soit par le poison. Mais il faut tout dire : la plupart d’entre eux outrageaient si cruellement les lois divines et humaines, qu'ils avaient perdu le droit de les invoquer. À de tels scélérats, il fallait un tel souverain, capable de faire le temps, et non de l’attendre. Incroyables effets de la puissance suprême ! Singulière alliance des contraires dans un seul homme ! Hors de sa cour, le tyran disparaît. Abbas se montre un des plus grands princes qui aient ceint le diadème, le nom de Mina et de Pasarshi retentissait dans tous les rangs des troupes russes, et dans toutes les cités du plus vaste empire de la terre. Que l’on juge de la cruauté des principaux officiers, par ce récit tiré du Voyage de Chardin : « Le grand-maître de l’artillerie, homme jaloux, fait tuer à coups d'arquebuse plus de vingt personnes qui, suivant la coutume des Orientaux, allaient le soir, sur la terrasse de leurs maisons, respirer la fraîcheur, sous prétexte qu’elles pouvaient apercevoir les femmes de son harem. Abbas, touché des plaintes que les familles des victimes lui adressèrent, s’écria : « Qu’on aille tuer ce chien enragé, lui, ses femmes et ses domestiques ! qu’il ne reste pas une âme de cette maudite engeance ! » Législation bien atroce, celle qui confond dans le châtiment tant d’innocents avec un seul coupable ! Quelles effroyables injustices devaient commettre les grands, au fond des provinces, puisque dans la capitale, sous les yeux de leur souverain, l’un d’eux s'en permit de semblables. Et les plus belles actions expient, jusqu’à un certain point, ses nombreux forfaits; il fit encore plus de bien que de mal. Généreux, magnanime pour le reste de ses sujets, il les défendait contre les vexations des gouverneurs et des kans. Ce fut l’idole de la nation entière, si vous en exceptez les grands seigneurs. La vigilance, l’habileté, le bonheur public, principal devoir des rois, opéré par Abas, légitime le surnom de grand que la postérité lui décerne. Restaurateur de la monarchie, ce shah étendit les frontières de la Perse de l’Indus au Tigre, de la mer Caspienne au golfe Persique, et par ses éminentes qualités, par ses exploits guerriers, fit revivre Cyrus en sa personne. À l’esprit des conquêtes, il sut allier la modération et des vues d’utilité générale. Les vaincus s’estimèrent heureux d’obéir à ses lois; quatre-vingt mille Arméniens, transplantés de leur patrie à Zulpha, espèce de faubourg de la capitale, maintenus dans la liberté de leur culte, s’enrichirent par les voies du commerce, et bénirent son gouvernement. Les étrangers accouraient en foule dans un pays où ils trouvaient encouragements, sûreté et protection. Abas étendit sa prévoyante sollicitude, à l’égard du peuple, jusqu’au-delà du tombeau; il ordonna, raconte Chardin, « qu’on tînt sa mort cachée jusqu’à ce qu’on eût assuré la succession à son petit-fils, et pour cet effet, il avait voulu que l’on exposât son corps tous les jours dans la même salle où il avait coutume de rendre la justice, assis dans une chaise, le dos tourné vers une tapisserie, derrière laquelle se tenait Yousouph, qui lui faisait lever le bras par le moyen d’un petit cordon de soie, comme pour répondre à ceux qui lui parlaient d’affaires. » À un mille et demi de cette ville, sur la rive méridionale du Zendéroud. On raconte les mêmes particularités au sujet du sultan Soliman II, mort devant Zizet, en Hongrie. Voilà quel fut le règne de cet Abbas Ier, si despote, si barbare, qui, sur un simple soupçon, commanda le meurtre de son fils, Sophi Mirza, héritier présomptif de la couronne, et qui immola, au milieu de sa cour, tout ce qui lui portait ombrage. Voilà les compensations à tant de forfaits, à tant d’horreurs que lui reproche l’histoire. En opposition, voici les suites funestes de l’excessive bonté et de la faiblesse des souverains : Shah-Hussein, un des successeurs d’Abas-le-Grand, fut un prince doux, pieux, compatissant, mais capricieux, léger, timide, qui, laissant échapper de ses mains le glaive de la justice, oublia que la véritable bonté d’un monarque est de punir les méchants, est de surveiller les ambitieux, et de réprimer leurs complots avec une rigide sévérité. Aussi qu’arriva-t-il ? ce qui arrivera toujours, et dans toutes les contrées, aux nations gouvernées par des chefs de cette trempe. Les lois affaiblies, la religion tournée en ridicule, les imams méprisés, les gens vertueux en butte à la persécution, la licence et le brigandage autorisés par le silence du maître, augmentèrent la confusion et le désordre. Devenu le jouet des ministres, son nom ne servit qu’à couvrir les plus criants excès. Des révoltes ne manquèrent pas d’éclater. De toutes parts s’écroulait, à grand bruit, l’édifice de la prospérité nationale, qu’avait, depuis un siècle, élevé le génie d’Abas-le-Grand; et le seul Shah-Hussein, enseveli dans les délices du sérail, demeurait sourd à l’approche de l’orage. Enfin, les Afghans, descendus des montagnes du Candahar, au nombre de vingt-deux à vingt-cinq mille hommes seulement, vinrent se présenter devant la capitale, qui renfermait plus de huit cent mille âmes. Le shah, livré à un indigne favori qui le trahissait, continuellement obsédé par cet esprit infernal, restait stupidement dans l’inaction. Cet homme de peu, et la Perse échappait à l’opprobre, elle était sauvée. Le Ciel avait malheureusement prononcé l’arrêt du plus bel empire de l’Asie. Le favori ordonna le désarmement des troupes qui auraient pu repousser les attaques de l’ennemi. Ni les attentats multipliés de ce favori, ni ses intelligences peu secrètes avec Mahmoud, chef des Afghans, ne furent capables de dessiller les yeux de Hussein. Il n’écouta ni ses plus fidèles serviteurs ni ses plus braves officiers. En 1735, ce royaume, sortant de l’anarchie, sous le régime militaire de Tamas Kouli-Kan, brilla, l’espace de treize années, jusqu’en 1747, de l’éclat des conquêtes, fit trembler l’Asie entière, mais perdit dans les combats l’élite de ses guerriers et la fleur de sa jeunesse. Ce fut l’affreux intermède à la destruction presque totale de la Perse. Après lui, la monarchie persane se replongea dans les horreurs de la discorde civile. Des états particuliers se formèrent de plusieurs démembrements de cette monarchie. Les Turcs et les Russes, au mépris des traités, enlevèrent les pays qui se trouvèrent à leur bienséance. En ce moment, la Perse ne compte plus que dix provinces, et que neuf à dix millions d’habitants. Schah-Hussein, malgré sa droiture, sa bienfaisance, son humeur pacifique, malgré ses autres vertus privées, fut donc le plus épouvantable des fléaux dont la Providence pût frapper ses sujets. Si la faiblesse est la mort des empires, elle l’est aussi des monarchies. On ne saurait trop recommander le respect pour les lois, et pour l’observation des formes juridiques. C’est une espèce de culte politique dont l’exercice journalier plaît à ce Dieu, unique patron de toute justice; mais il en est des lois comme de la vertu : il faut être sage avec discernement, avec sobriété. Nulle part, ce respect ne fut plus frappant que dans Sparte et dans Rome. En certaines circonstances, il n’y a aucune règle à suivre, là où il n’y a aucune obéissance. Que des méchants affrontent les lois elles-mêmes ; qu’il soit impossible de procéder contre eux d’après les voies judiciaires, que fera la prudence humaine? Elle est déconcertée. Ces méchants sont hors de l’atteinte des lois : Que faire? Il s’agit pourtant de sauver une république ou bien une monarchie. Encore une fois, quel parti prendre? Ce n’est pas sur les bords d’un abîme que l’on peut garder un juste équilibre. En une conjoncture critique, après la journée de Leuctres, Agésilas dit aux Lacédémoniens : « Laissez dormir les lois; elles se réveilleront plus tard. » Elles dormirent effectivement; et durant leur court sommeil, de sanglantes exécutions eurent lieu, sans avoir été précédées d’aucune espèce de procédure; elles dormirent, et ne se réveillèrent que lorsque de nombreuses bandes de conjurés n’étaient plus. leur impuissance. En France, sous le règne de Charles VII, des favoris, ennemis de toute bonne justice, remplis de malice et de scélératesse, gouvernaient l’esprit du faible monarque, et l’obsédaient jour et nuit. On ne pouvait atteindre les coupables par des voies légales. Les armées anglaises dévastaient la France. La monarchie se mourait; les favoris immolaient visiblement à leur avarice, à leur ambition, et les lois et le monarque, et la monarchie elle-même. Que serait devenue, nous le demandons, cette France aux abois, sans les patriotiques attentats de Richemont? Le Anglais, en possession de Paris et de la plus grande partie de nos provinces, n’appelait plus le fils de Charles VI que le roi de Bourges. Pour surcroît d’infortunes, Giac obsédait ce petit roi. Le favori « entretient dit Mézeray, Charles dans la solitude et les plaisirs », afin de jouir lui seul de sa personne et de ses bienfaits. Il fallait tirer le prince de cette solitude, de cette obsession, de cette mollesse. Les Français attendaient un vengeur : il se montra. Le connétable venait de lever une armée de vingt mille hommes, dernière ressource de la monarchie aux abois, et se disposait à reconquérir la Normandie ; mais les soldats désertèrent en foule, faute de recevoir leur paye, que le perfide Giac retint et s’appropria. Les Anglais battirent, en 1426, sous les murs de Saint-James-de-Beuvron, cette armée mécontente, cette armée considérablement affaiblie par la désertion, et Richemont faillit perdre la vie. Il ne s’agissait pas simplement de changer de gouvernement et de dynastie, il s’agissait de passer irrévocablement sous une domination étrangère. Le roi de Bourges allait disparaître avec son indigne favori, lorsqu’une salutaire violence prévint ce malheur : les destinées de ce beau pays s’accomplirent sous les auspices de la victoire. Richemont, furieux de la noire, de l’infâme trahison de Giac, surprend et enlève ce vil scélérat. Charles VII envoie ses gardes pour le délivrer; le connétable leur commande de se retirer, et les gardes obéissent aussitôt. Le traître, après avoir comparu, pour la forme, devant un tribunal, fut décapité à Issoudun (1). Un second favori, le Camus de Beaulieu, aussi insolent, aussi pervers que le premier, fut tué, en pleine rue, à Poitiers, par le maréchal de Broussac, exécuteur des ordres de Richemont. oserait condamner cette violente irrégularité, puisqu’elle fut le salut de la patrie ? Les amis de l’austère vérité habitent rarement le palais des souverains. L’adulation des courtisans est si révoltante, qu’on serait tenté de leur adresser ces paroles de Cicéron : « Eh quoi ? est-ce donc là le langage d’un homme à un homme ? » La puissance n’a d’ordinaire que des flatteurs; vient-elle à chanceler, à menacer ruine, ils se taisent, ils s’éloignent, et laissent aux prises avec l’adversité cette puissance abattue, parce que, disait Galba à Pison : « Le reste des hommes s’entretient plus volontiers avec notre fortune qu’avec nous. » Nous devons en croire ce vieil ambitieux, qui ne fit que goûter un instant le plaisir de régner. Il eût été jugé digne de l’empire, s’il n’y eût aspiré, s’il n’eût été empereur. Sous ce prince avare, pusillanime et crédule, remarque Tacite, « on commettait des crimes avec moins de risque et plus de profit que sous Néron même. » Dans la société privée, nous n’avons pas le courage de dire la vérité à ceux qui sont au-dessus de nous, parce que nous-mêmes nous nous indignerions peut-être de l’entendre sortir de la bouche de nos inférieurs. C’est une faiblesse inhérente au caractère de l’homme; et quand, dans le palais des monarques, il existerait de ces âmes courageuses, désintéressées, capables de s’énoncer avec franchise, leurs remontrances seraient suivies d’une prompte disgrâce, ou, pour le moins, serviraient de sarcasmes à de méprisables courtisans. C’est ce qui arriva au législateur d’Athènes. Des conseils un peu libres offensent l’oreille des monarques entourés de l’appareil du trône; ils se les rappellent lorsqu’il n’est plus temps, aux jours terribles de l'adversité. Crésus ne reconnaît la sagesse de Solon que sur un bûcher, du haut duquel le roi de Lydie s’écrie, avec l’accent du regret et d’une amère douleur : « O Solon ! Solon ! » L’histoire assigne aux nations des protecteurs tout-puissants, quoique invisibles, dans cette multitude de monarques renversés du faîte de la grandeur, pour avoir été sourds aux avis de la prudence, et pour s’être crus d’une nature supérieure à celle de leurs sujets. De ces pages muettes, inanimées en apparence, s’échappent de gémissantes voix, qui émeuvent un souverain lorsqu’il se décide à feuilleter ces pages, et à les lire attentivement. Il aperçoit des traîtres enveloppés du voile séduisant de la flatterie; ils aiguisent leurs poignards, et l’enfoncent dans le sein de ceux qui furent leurs maîtres et leurs bienfaiteurs. Ce souverain commence à se réveiller d’une longue léthargie; la vérité, qui, semblable au tonnerre, résonne sourdement dans la profondeur des siècles, l’effraie et le corrige. L’histoire ancienne principalement, multiplie les images de cette vérité, et les étale avec une sorte de pompe solennelle aux regards de la postérité. Que les tyrans se gardent de la consulter. La vérité serait pour eux ce que la pythonisse d’Endor fut pour Saül. Les annales du monde peuvent offrir exclusivement des lumières douces, paisibles, lorsque nous nous attachons à suivre les progrès naissants de l’esprit humain, la découverte et le perfectionnement des arts; on cueille pour ainsi dire les fleurs de l’histoire. Dès ce moment, Clio cesse d’être armée d’un glaive comme Melpomène; on ne la voit plus s’animer par le récit des noirs forfaits, des grandes révolutions; plus de sièges, plus de batailles, plus de trophées. Fuyant le lugubre éclat des triomphes, nous considérons philosophiquement l’homme en lui-même, et pour lui-même ; nous considérons les diverses phases de la société, l’origine des lois, leur influence sur les mœurs, et les chefs-d’œuvre de l’industrie. 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Colt Teetering On the Brink of Bankrupcy
When’s the last time a Colt firearm was on your wish list? Colt Competition has done some pretty cool stuff recently, but Colt’s Manufacturing Co. hasn’t really come out with anything “new” in quite a while. The lone exception is their line of rifles based on the Colt 901, which is a cool design concept that didn’t seem to be well executed at all. It seems like the only thing keeping Colt alive has been the massive industry-wide surge in sales over the last couple years, but now that’s over and Colt is struggling to pay its bills . . .
From the Wall Street Journal:
Colt Defense LLC warned that it could default by the end of the year, as the privately owned company, which has suffered from declining demand for rifles and handguns, is likely to miss a payment to bondholders.
The gun maker faces a $10.9 million payment to bondholders Nov. 17, according to a filing on Wednesday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. If Colt skips the payment, it will enter a 30-day grace period, but without payment by Dec. 15 it will be in default and bondholders can demand immediate, full payment.
Colt, which is controlled by investment firm Sciens Capital Management LLC, had $248.8 million outstanding on the bonds as of June 29. The bonds were trading in the mid-30 cents on the dollar—deep in distressed territory—on Thursday.
Colt has been on the decline for quite some time. The key to Colt’s success has been their government contracts — Colt was the sole manufacturer of the M4 carbine and M16 rifle for decades. But in 2013, FNM won the contract for the M4 and the M16 rifle, and the military is showing no signs of going back. With its main cash cow gone, all that’s left for the manufacturing giant is the commercial market (which they had more or less ignored for years). Now, unable to compete in the modern firearms market, Colt may soon be just another corporate casualty.
Heckler & Koch has been in the same boat for a while now, as rumors of their impending doom have been circulating since the middle of last year. But nothing has come of those rumors so far, and H&K seems to be in a stronger position with their new line of civilian-focused (and priced) handguns. It’s possible Colt can do the same thing, pivoting hard toward the commercial market with the right products at the right time, but it seems unlikely. A more probable outcome is that some investor (Freedom Group?) may take a crack at buying the manufacturer with the legendary name, but at this point there doesn’t seem to be any suitors lined up.
1. avatar RDSmith says:
Bring back the Python.
1. avatar sagebrushracer says:
i shed a tear every time i see the price on a used one, the price on a new one, build with same quality, will just leave me blubbering incoherently.
2. avatar Anonymoose says:
And the Detective Special and Anaconda.
Also, a new Double Eagle, and they could make genuine Lightning pump-action remakes and a lower-priced SAA for the CAS crowd.
1. avatar Mark N. says:
Obviously the Colt name has a certain cache in the 1873 market, but when all of their revolvers cost double what a well-built slicked up shooter from Uberti or Pieta costs, Colt has priced itself out of the market. Ignoring the civilian market meant that Colt had nothing to fall back on when its lost the government contracts. And from what I’ve read, the only new machinery they’ve bought builds the slow selling Mustang.
1. avatar Ruckweiler says:
Mark N.:
Agree with your comment. Colt’s products do come dear, don’t they? They have priced themselves up and away which explains all the companies making .45 pistols.
3. avatar BLAMMO says:
If Colt won’t or can’t, I wish somebody would buy the rights to it and any tooling that might still exist. Modern manufacturing methods should allow it to be manufactured at a reasonable price. That is, significantly less than you would pay for a mint Colt. Of course, the quality would have to be uncompromised. People would pay.
There will always be snooty purists who will swear they’re not the same, no matter what. Screw them.
I fired one once. It was perfection in my hand.
1. avatar VSN says:
You mean like the “snooty purists” that pooh-pooh the lock on newer S&Ws?
1. avatar Tom says:
I resemble that comment. Why would anyone install a device that renders your firearm inoperable unless you have a key?
4. avatar Loaded Diaper says:
Exactly! Bring back the Python and I’ll buy two!
1. avatar LarryinTX says:
Careful with that. The last new one I saw was priced at $650, and that was a long time ago. I bought 4, back when they were $160, and I’m pretty sure they were the world’s most expensive handgun at that price. An S&W .44 Magnum was $140, IIRC. I’d bet a new one now would be north of $1500, and I heard that Colt never made a profit on the things, they were supposed to be a symbol of Colt quality.
5. avatar Charlie says:
+1 ! S&W still makes their classic revolver line and it doesn’t seem to be hurting them. I don’t know why Colt, of all people, abandoned their wheel guns.
1. avatar Jerry says:
Obviously it was bad decision-making. Lazy, maybe. I love shooting my wifes little Colt .38. It shoots like magic, and has a trigger that is smoother than a greased mirror. I’d carry it but I prefer the firepower of my XD-9. But check this out – I once shot a flying bee out of the air on a bet, using a Ruger Single Six .22 revolver. I hated the grip but dang that was a good instinctive shooter. So is my wifes .38 sub. I shot that bee from my hip, leaning back against my truck in the woods with my dad. Couldn’t do it again, no doubt, but everything worked that first shot. Revolvers are shooters.
6. avatar Stuart A Milc says:
^^ This. In fact, bring back all of the snakes
7. avatar Ragnarredbeard says:
Bring back the Python and I buy two of them before you even have the machinery running.
I don’t understand why Colt won’t do the obvious; its like Jeep and their refusal to make trucks. Everyone I know who owns a Jeep would buy a truck sight unseen if only they would make one.
8. avatar Jerry says:
Isn’t that the truth. Colt needs to cut their overhead and focus on their heritage. Focus on arming freedom fighters and free civilians. Man I wish I could buy them. and sell the tools we need to defend our towns and states from the criminal cabals running the “big picture”. The JADE Helm operation looks exactly like an encirclement of veteran concentrations, and the gvt stated flat out a couple of years ago that they consider veterans to be the “terrorists”. And the CIA is involved, too.
The CIA funded the software company (owned by a Bilderberger leader) that created the JADE Helm operations map. It encircles the largest concentrations of military veterans and can be tuned to identify and map any sub-groups.
2. avatar ST says:
The fundamental problem facing Colt and HK are that their goods can be substituted effectively by cheaper competitors. A P30 is a nice pistol, but a Sig SP2022 is a viable alternative and is 50% of the cost. As to Colt, same problem. Why would a rational consumer buy an XSE 1911 when Springfield sells a perfectly good substitute for $200 less?
HK , to their credit, is doing something about the problem with rebates and the VP9 being $600 street price.
1. avatar 16V says:
Colt is the GM of guns. Riding on a reputation that hasn’t been valid in 50 years, making over-priced “stuff” that you were supposed to keep buying because of a name.
My King Cobra and God Cup MK IV were ok back 30+ years ago. Those laurels have long since wilted and the consumer owes you nothing.
1. avatar Lil' Tommy says:
Well stated. Unfortunately, brutally accurate.
People with more money than brains – buying “a name” – and a healthy dose of ignorance – similar-thinking people actually believing Colt manufactures every single part of their over-priced 5.56mm model 6920 is a prime example – have kept Colt in the non-military game.
Now, with no more new DoD contracts in-house or on the forseeable horizon, Colt cannot possibly survive – not in present form anyway.
Throw in bloated labor costs caused by a you-know-what – and a firearm-hostile socialist location (Commu-necticut) – and Colt’s day in the sun withers; financial viability may end in less than 90 days.
All they have left is “a name” and a lofty, antiquated reputation.
At the end of the day, there are various and sundry “assemblers” of AR-15s, for example, that are every bit the equal – a few superior – to a “Colt”.
Several guys at my local range just simply shoot the 1″ black circle out of cardboard targets with regularity – hand-held – at 50m – with garage-assembled ARs using parts from assorted manufacturers. Simple, really: With a match-quality barrel and a trick trigger, you can used a stripped lower with Minnie Mouse on the side and a no-name upper from “W.T.F. Industries” and end up with a 10-shot grouping inside of Bud Light bottle cap – cheaper than a store-bought Colt.
Too many “brand name ego Nazis” in recreational shooting. It’ll be fun watching them try to find genuine repair parts for their trendy “toys” when the manufacturer goes belly up ….
3. avatar Scrubula says:
They really screwed themselves over by ignoring the civilian market. Sure, they have AR15s, but dozens of companies have produced equal to superior quality products for less money.
1. avatar Clay-in-UT says:
I agree with what it seems to be the common theme here, Colt is way over priced. Their pride, will be their downfall.
1. avatar Jay Wolf says:
BINGO they ether stopped making guns people want, cause with CCW sweeping the country WHY would anyone want an Agent or they charged way to much for base model un improved 1911’s. You can get a Kimber custom shop for less then a base 1911 and the Kimber will work.
Funny thing, never had a front sight blade come off any of my Kimbers but EVERY SINGLE COLT 1911 I have ever had BOUGHT NEW lost there front blades within the first 3 trips to the range. OH and they never worked.
1. avatar Cody says:
Their new production CNC guns are made very well. I have a 2014 Gold Cup that is very well built; it’s the best made normal production 1911 I’ve ever handled. The problem is it was $1100 and it’s essentially a very well made no frills 1911 with target sights. It doesn’t have a beavertail and its sharp hammer bites my hand every time I fire it. It also lacks the flourishes of former Colts. The lettering on the slide isn’t smooth, the bluing is pretty, but not like they used to be, and it doesn’t have a flat top slide. It’s just not all that special, and Colt ‘ s should be.
2. avatar 16V says:
This is saying it’s the best VW Beetle you’ve ever driven.
2. avatar Quinn says:
And what companies exactly are you talking about that produce products of the same or better quality? Last I checked, a 6920 ran around $1k. Nobody besides BCM touches quality for that price. Don’t talk about things you have no clue about
1. avatar Pfran42 says:
2. avatar troller9 says:
Palmetto State Armory.
Spikes Tactical.
Bravo Company Manufacturing.
1. avatar TT says:
Don’t forget me. Colt has cut their AR prices, but they’re still higher than building yourself or any number of other sellers of complete rifles of equal or better quality, not to mention sellers of complete uppers and lowers. Colt charges extra for their name, and not many folks want to pay for it. That’s a bad business plan.
3. avatar John B says:
I have a Colt M4 – 6920 and it’s the best gun I have ever owned. Great quality. Colt service has also been excellent every time I have had to use them. I also owned other companies AR -15 like the Rock River Arms and they were just not made as well and when it needed service it took a few trips back to the factory to get it fixed right. Bushmaster were unreliable jamming at the range all the time. I put at least 9000 rounds through my Colt with out a malfunction; that’s reliability. Colt is the master when it comes to AR – 15 in my book.
4. avatar Harold says:
Yep, the entire snake series of revolvers.
5. avatar Tim U says:
I’d buy a new production Python or even a SAA if it was affordable.
1. avatar Nagurski says:
I already have a Ruger Blackhawk (SAA but better) But if they started making Pythons that didn’t cost thousands of dollars, I would be more than willing to pickup one in stainless steel with a 6″ barrel.
1. avatar Dyspeptic Gunsmith says:
I grind my teeth every time someone says “I’d buy X (insert name of highly finished classic gun here) if it cost (insert absurdly low price here).”
For some reason, gun buyers seem to think that inflation doesn’t apply to them, at all, ever.
I’ve got a news flash: You can’t build a gun like the Python of the 60’s or 70’s for anything under, oh, at least $2000. There’s too much labor involved in fitting the gun together so it achieves the “bank vault lockup” for which they were known, never mind the Royal Blue finish.
Here’s some information to put things into perspective, from the segment of the gun world where I can just pull numbers like these off the top of my head.
In 1913, you could buy a Parker DH shotgun for about $100, depending on what added customization/decoration you wanted on the gun. The DH was the low end of what you could consider a “custom” shotgun, as opposed to the “rack grade” shotgun. The lowest grade Parker, the Vulcan, was a $25.50 gun.
OK, so what is $100, adjusted for inflation from 1913 to today? $2,404.35, according to the BLS inflation calculator:
What would the very lowest grade, the most vanilla, unadorned, Parker shotgun cost, if adjusted for inflation to today? $613.11. If you’ve never seen a Parker Vulcan, it is a very plain gun indeed.
OK, what about the Python? I remember reading somewhere that the blued version of the Python ran $125.00 (or thereabouts) in 1955. That $125 would be $1,110.22 today, and that CPI inflation doesn’t count the added expenses for OSHA and EPA regs that have come down on shops doing things like metal finishing between then and now. That CPI-U also under-estimates the cost of labor for employers, who are now having to pay much more for an employee-hour today than they used to – not just in the actual wages paid to the employees, but the increases in Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid did not exist in 1955, nor did worker’s comp, or health insurance as a benefit for most employees, etc.
For all the additional burdened labor costs, I’d jack up the minimum price of a Python to somewhere at least $2K.
Here’s an example of what a nice revolver currently costs: The “premium” grade of Freedom Arms single-action hunting revolver, made here in Wyoming, is over $2500. Now, those are line-bored – which is part of what makes the Freedom Arms revolvers so accurate. But they’re not highly finished like the Python was – the FA revolvers are made of stainless steel. The FA revolvers are single action, much like a SAA. They’re nowhere near as complicated to fit up on the inside as a Python. The FA revolvers have nice wood grips and a very nice brushed/polished finish, but they’re not blued, much less finished to the superlative level that the Python was in Royal Blue.
The FA revolvers, for all those simplifying factors, are over $2500, with parts made with CNC machines and fitted together by hand, in a right-to-work state, in a company with no unions, in a state with no state income taxes and pretty low costs of employment.
When Colt made the Pythons, only their most experienced metal finishing men were allowed to work on the Pythons. The blueing chemistry wasn’t any different for the Pythons than for their other blued firearms (they had switched to hot salt blueing by that time). What set the Python apart was the metal polishing. It takes a highly experienced hand to polish a gun to the level of polish that the Pythons enjoyed without rounding off corners, putting ripples or waves into the metal, etc. The polish on the steel of the Pythons was the very best in the American gun industry. There’s no way to automate that finishing – it simply must be done by experienced hands with custom polishing equipment. That means replicating a Python would cost major money.
You will never see a Python made new for under $2,000 ever again – that is, unless and until the US goes back on the gold standard.
1. avatar TT says:
I watched a documentary on TV about the Pythons recently. One of the commentators said you couldn’t build the Pythons today at any price point because there simply aren’t enough people left of working age with the skills and knowledge to do it.
2. avatar Dyspeptic Gunsmith says:
The lack of people who have the skills to do the fitting and polishing would be a daunting barrier to success.
But someone with deep pockets could recruit a bunch of graduates from good gunsmithing programs (TSJC, CO School of Trades, Murray State, etc) and then obtain a bunch of original Pythons, then tell the recruits “Duplicate the old guns.” Having some old farts come ’round from other trades that polish metal would accelerate the re-discovery of methods.
It would probably take a year or more to see some success, but the skills can be re-discovered and taught. The first thing that people in the gunsmithing programs learn is how to drive a file. The second thing they learn is how to polish by hand. Colt used buffing wheels, many of which were made by Colt explicitly for their own needs. A Python-like finish can be obtained by hand-polishing, but it would be too slow to get the price down to even a $3K level. Power polishing is what needs to be re-discovered.
The problem is how to achieve the Python level of polish and keep all the edges and features. A muslin buffing wheel with buffing compound in inexperienced hands is a great way to take features off and round edges. Some of Colt’s wheels were made of wood, and then had a shaped leather strop bound around the circumference, then the leather was impregnated with lapping compounds.
3. avatar 2hotel9 says:
Or? They could simply go to Brazil, Pakistan, Malaysia, Israel, Texas etc etc etc and HIRE the skilled labor. Oh, yea, union f*cktard and the Democrat Party will not let that ever happen.
4. avatar DetroitMan says:
I appreciate your insight, but I don’t entirely agree. Finish was one reason that Pythons were expensive, but another reason was that they required a lot of hand fitting to assemble. Manufacturing technology has come a long way since the 1960’s. With that technology it should be possible to produce a Python with fewer man-hours, which would help keep the cost down. It will never be a budget gun, but I will bet they could do it for well under $2,000.00. They could also make the premium bluing an extra cost finish. They could offer it in nickel or stainless for less. That would be an attractive proposition for customers who want a premium revolver with a more corrosion resistant finish.
5. avatar Dyspeptic Gunsmith says:
The Python was the ultimate expression of the Colt double-action revolver design, which dates back to 100+ years ago and assumed hand-fitting of many parts. As such, many parts were made slightly over-sized, and they were filed/polished/bent into place.
There’s a reason why no one is stepping up to replicate the Colt double-action revolver, even in the days of CNC machines that are able to repeatably position to 0.0002″ (or even down to 50 millionths, if we’re talking a high-end machine): there is no set of specifications down to those sizes, with allowances and tolerances, already determined. There’s no GD&T drawing of a Colt DA revolver out there, laying out what size the parts need to be to function without hand-fitting. So first thing you have to do is come up with engineering plans for a Colt DA revolver that will be in time without hand-fitting. That’ll be a pleasant diversion for a couple of years.
Let’s contrast this to the CNC replicas of some of Colt’s other products. There’s outfits who have replicated the Colt SAA – from the Italian replica gun companies to Ruger, to Freedom Arms and the now-defunct US Firearms Company. Bill Ruger was the value leader in this field, and he improved the SAA design by adding safety features, then he made variants that were absurdly strong to keep people from grenading them when they decided to repeat some of Elmer’s experiments. Point is: there’s absolutely no shortage of SAA replicas, made by CNC machines, of the original SAA design, and several changes to the SAA design for product safety. The level of quality varies, of course, but you can absolutely find high-quality SAA replicas and reproductions. You see no shortage of CNC production of the 1911 design. There are even people looking at making new production Colt Hammerless semi-autos.
But we have not seen quality replicas of the Colt double action design. DA revolver companies all decided to avoid the Colt design and come up with their own idea of how to accomplish the DA revolver function.
S&W took a different route, Bill Ruger (a masterful gun designer in his own right, improving and changing designs to bring down the manufacturing cost through investment casting is Bill Ruger’s claim to everlasting fame) took a very different route on DA revolvers. Ruger DA revolvers are solid, reliable and very affordable, due to the investment casting of frames and modern production of many of the smaller parts, but they shy away from replicating the Colt DA design by a wide margin.
Yet there’s no one champing at the bit to replicate the Colt DA design. And that’s just the usual cop-issue Colt DA .38 revolver design I’m talking about. Not the Python.
To be able to produce the Python (or other Colt DA’s) on a CNC machine would be a huge investment of time, effort and engineering before you produce the very first chip. Just getting to the point where you’re ready to start cranking out parts for a Python on a CNC machine, you’re looking at an investment of hundreds of thousands to perhaps millions of dollars in engineering and machining time of those fixtures and jigs. There would be some custom tooling required, as well. Never mind the cost of the CNC machines themselves.
But here’s the rub: when you’re all done, the experienced Python consumer is going to pick up the “CNC Python,” test the carry-up, the lock-up, overhaul, the trigger pull, etc, and they’re going to turn up their nose, because the trigger isn’t like the original Python, the lock up will have some slop in it (as S&W revolvers do – and work quite well, but they don’t lock up “like a bank vault”), the hammer will have some extra clearances in it’s engagement, and unless your finish is the equal of the Python, well, so what? If you can’t produce the Royal Blue finish, all you have is a knock-off gun that will not impress the Python fans, it will cost more than any Ruger and it won’t have the reliability of a S&W.
Which means it won’t sell.
The level of fitting done by Python men on Colt’s line was superb. The Royal Blue finish is the stuff of legend now. Today’s gun consumer usually has no clue how those were accomplished, and view the Python price in the used market with bewilderment and scorn born from ignorance of what it took to accomplish the Python.
There’s a reason why gunsmiths, especially experienced gunsmiths, oooh and aaaaahh and make positively obscene noises when they pick up and fondle a NIB Python. They know what it took to accomplish what’s inside and outside a Python, and how rare it was in the gun industry – and how it still exists in only a few places in the US in small custom-gun shops today that produce maybe a handful of guns per year.
6. avatar TT says:
DG, thanks for taking the time to write stuff like this. I read it, enjoy it, and learn from it. I’m sure many others on here do the same.
7. avatar 2hotel9 says:
“there is no set of specifications down to those sizes, with allowances and tolerances, already determined” Really?!?!? Can’t take one apart and DUPLICATE IT? Really?!?!?!?
8. avatar Dyspeptic Gunsmith says:
Yes, could take one apart and duplicate that, within the capabilities of whatever CNC machine you’re using.
And… then you’d have a duplicate of that ONE Python, which might have been fitted up just a little differently than your Python, or my Python, or that guy over there who owns a Python.
The thing about hand-fitted guns and gun parts is that it is very rare that two guns are exactly identical.
The first thing you’ll run into is that parts in the current market might not work in the CNC duplicated Python. The next thing you might find out is that perhaps the example you chose was slightly tighter or looser than you might have ideally engineered if you stood back and did it from the ground up, working out how to make the parts wear in evenly, etc.
Taking apart a gun with a looser fit and duplicating it is easier than taking apart a gun that is fit up very tightly and duplicating it. Look at some of the issues on some CNC’ed 1911’s, where people think “Oh, we’ll just tighten this up here, a little tuck and nip over there, etc” as opposed to sitting down and thinking hard about how a 1911 works and figuring out which dimensions need to be tightened up – and then you end up with a tight 1911 that is reliable, vs. a jam-o-matic that is tight, but non-functional.
The next thing you’re going to run into is that when you’re trying to machine parts for a gun like a Python to a level where you’re trying to duplicate the hand-fit lockup, you’re going to find pretty quickly that some parts out of the CNC machine won’t fit. You’re going to either a) reject the parts, b) have to fit them, or c) you’re going to have to loosen up the allowances to get a lower rejection rate. If you choose (c), then you’re going to lose the tightness of the lockup.
CNC machining is not a magic wand you can wave over an older gun design and suddenly improve quality or decrease costs. CNC machining, done in concert with a gun designed for production machining, now you get huge productivity gains and lower costs. eg, look at the AR-15 – a gun designed to take advantage of the new machining technology – “NC” (before CNC, there were “numerically controlled” machines, running a “program” that was on a paper tape) in the early 60’s. NC/CNC machines came about because the USAF wanted to reduce manufacturing costs and Stoner, having been an engineer with Fairchild Republic, got a notion of what the future of manufacturing looked like. The AR takes advantage of automatic machining in so many ways – aluminum where you don’t need steel, a bolt/barrel extension/bolt carrier that solves perhaps the only really tight dimension issue in the entire gun in a pretty elegant way without being as stump-stupid as the AK series of rifles. That’s an example of a gun designed for NC/CNC machining.
S&W automated a lot of their fiddly machining issues in their revolvers by going to MIM parts manufacturing, which, as anyone who has been around the ‘net for more than a few minutes, is hugely controversial with lots of self-appointed gun experts. The reason why S&W is able to make MIM work is that their guns are “looser” in their sizes and dimensions – even if by only 0.001, which allows the MIM process to work for their parts. If you tried to use MIM to make some of the Python internals, you’d still have the either/or of final-fitting the parts, or accepting larger allowances/tolerances which would cause customers to be disappointed.
But let’s charge ahead with the idea of CNC’ing a reverse-engineered Python. We’re going to need some support to make this happen.
For example: You need a temperature-controlled environment. Let’s assume you have a source of good quality steel (because crappy steel makes the level of polish on the Python nearly impossible as pits and imperfections float up through the polishing). Let’s assume you have a CNC machine that is temperature controlled and can repeat positioning to 50 millionths – say, a Kitamura machine.
You’re done, right? Just put in the steel, punch the buttons and you get your parts out, perfect every time, right?
Well, no. Now you need to worry about tool wear. As tools wear, you need to worry about the net:net size of your resulting parts changing. Most CNC machines have tool wear compensation in the tool library on the controller, but you need to test the tooling you’re going to use, look at the finish you’re getting vs. the production rate you’re achieving and make some choices about how much you’re going to allow the tooling to wear before you change it out.
OK, so now you’re dealing with dimensional changes as tools wear. Now you need to worry about being able to QC your parts down to 0.0001 or less – and that means you’ll need not only a temperature controlled measurement lab, you’ll need instruments with accuracy and resolution to far less than a tenth. Then you’ll need QC engineers experienced in metrology to run that lab. Then you’ll need gages and measurement standards… all of whom aren’t gunsmiths, are only peripherally involved in making guns. You’ve just traded gunsmith skilled labor for machining and engineering skilled labor.
We still haven’t discussed the machined finish on the parts in question, BTW, and that’s a whole ‘nother discussion. 16V can probably weigh in on this subject at length, if he so chooses.
See all the problems that start to come up when you say “We’re going to duplicate parts down to a tenth (or less)!”?
CNC isn’t a magic wand you can wave over any gun and get a duplicate. CNC machining is part of an overall system – from the design outwards.
The best meta-message I can leave you with is this:
– Some guns were designed for huge volume production. The AK-47 family is one of these. Stamped sheet metal, loose fits, a lot of very simple ways to stuff a round into the chamber and make it go “bang.” The result is a gun that has been produced to over 100 million examples for very little money – so much so, that the USSR could use a flood of AK’s as a tool of foreign policy in the 70’s and 80’s.
Another example is the “M3 Grease Gun.” Sloppy loose, stamped sheet metal.
– Some guns were modified from their original design to adapt to big-volume production; eg, the 1903 Springfield vs. the 1903A3. On the A3, they went to stamped sheet metal for the trigger guard/magazine/etc instead of a milled piece of steel on the 03. Remington went to a two-groove barrel instead of four grooves. They got rid of the ladder sight. All of this allowed Remington to ramp up production from the original 1903 Springfield design.
Another example is the way the Thompson sub-gun was modified for manufacturing ease.
– Some high-production guns were even designed partly or specifically for CNC production. The AR is one such example.
– Some guns are designed with wholly new manufacturing techniques – eg, the Glock and similar polymer pistols.
The Python isn’t any of these guns. They Python is in the class of handguns like the best of the Lugers – lots of machining, hand finishing, etc. The Germans loved their Lugers, but in the end, they went to the P-38 – simply because they could no longer afford the delay and resources necessary to make a Luger. The Python vs. the Luger is a case of one taking more manual attention (the Python) and the other taking much more fiddly machining and setup (Luger).
Oh, yes, whilst we’re on the subject of the Luger, you know can still buy a new Luger today, made in Germany, right? Krieghoff just did a run of them them last year or the year before. I’ve seen them, NIB, unfired for about $18K at finer gun dealers. Before that, Krieghoff was occasionally offering new Lugers at about $8K a pop. Now I no longer see the Luger offered on Krieghoff’s web site.
9. avatar 2hotel9 says:
Which is exactly why you get a good, clean example of what you want to duplicate and, well, duplicate it. I really don’t see the problem here.
10. avatar Aaron says:
Thanks for the thoughtful and informative series of responses, DG.
11. avatar Gov. William J. Le Petomane says:
Interesting stuff, DG. Seems to me the DA revolver options for Colt are kind thin, if their financial situation is as dire as it appears to be. They could bring back ‘THE’ Python in extremely small runs that would command huge prices that only Python fanatics with money would pay, they could bring back ‘A’ Python that would piss off the Python aficionados but still be good competition for S&Ws performance center pistols ($1000-1500 range), or they could bring back the Trooper and try to compete with S&W and Ruger (or maybe Taurus instead).
Bringing back ‘THE’ Python would be the cheapest option, since they just need a few qualified gunsmiths and a training program. But selling a hundred or two revolvers a year at a $1000 profit margin isn’t going to save any company, let alone one in deep $$$ doodoo.
Making ‘A’ Python would require a massive investment of money they don’t have and could easily blow up in their faces if the end product isn’t competitive with S&W.
Making a Trooper would also be a massive investment and taking on Ruger is a dubious challenge in the bang for buck category.
What Colt does have is a name that’s probably worth about $100 per pistol just for the little pony on the side. Maybe they could get away with a Taurus quality Trooper for Ruger prices (for a while), but if they’re selling high end Pythons, a hundred dollars isn’t a whole lot of slack.
12. avatar Schwarze Kappell says:
@ Dyspeptic Gunsmith
You really know nothing about manufacturing. Colt is dying because of the generally crummy management found in older New England companies. Colt also has over priced union labor.
Colt will go broke sooner or later and after it is moved to a more competitive state it may do better.
But it will do better only if all the old management is purged.
There is no reason for a Python to cost $2000. I have worked in manufacturing since 1968. Modern manufacturing processes and machinery can do it easily. But management has to invest the manufacturing engineering time to develop the processes.
13. avatar JDM dealers says:
There is always an answer if you look and try enough to save a company. The difficult decision to leave the US is one of them. Colt could go to Mexico & use their cheaper labor force. Of coarse some top skilled Colt employees would have to relocate and assist in the training. There are not as many regulations imposed on manufacturing businesses in Mexico and it would be cheaper to run the company there than I the US. I am sure Colt will have some start up problems but, Colt has run out of options in the US and it needs to make money. This to would also be the only way to make a more affable Goldcup & Python. At a much lower costs than American pay scale offers and still produce a quality firearm. The new environment would be much more profit friendly. With the lower production costs it could now be possible to make a much more affordable priced Colt. As long as the company maintains their quality standards, Colts will sell where ever they are made. Just something to think about.
2. avatar LarryinTX says:
One of the major draws of the Python was the incredible “Royal Blue” finish. Ordering one in Stainless Steel would be like shooting yourself in the foot with it. And I suspect it would not be as accurate, either.
6. avatar RLC2 says:
Wow. Had not been paying much attention to the business background….this is good insight, Nick.
Wonder if the Border Patrol union could work a deal on a block buy on the side.
Sure can’t depend on mgmt at DHS….until 2017, earliest.
7. avatar TheBear says:
My guess is that they get bought out.
1. avatar Avid Reader says:
Quite likely. Probably will let it go bankrupt, abrogate the union contracts, and buy the intellectual property and maybe the tooling. Then move it out of state.
1. avatar Independent George says:
What IP do they have worth buying?
1. avatar Avid Reader says:
Good question. Aside from the trademark, there may not be much. The ARs are all made under license, I should think. Haven’t kept up with them enough since they abandoned the consumer market to know what they still have.
2. avatar Fox2! says:
The Stoner patents have expired. I think they trademarked “M-16” and possibly “M-4.” That’s about it, other than Colt itself.
3. avatar Dyspeptic Gunsmith says:
They have the “technical data package” for the M-16’s and M-4’s, as well as the specs for the gages, tooling, etc for these rifles.
The patents have long expired, but the US Army treats the “technical data package” with some reverence.
8. avatar RLC2 says:
Maybe the new owners will move it to a more gun friendly, and lower cost of doing biz state than CT.
1. avatar Gregolas says:
They’d be welcome in Alabama.
9. avatar Mike says:
It is a shame that they did not embrace the civilian market and make some bread and butter firearms that could compete in the current market. I have a 6920 M4 and it is an awesome piece, despite having higher priced ARs sitting next to it in the safe, it is my go to rifle for home defense, I just trust it. I would like to own a Colt 1911 and a Peacemaker, but both of those are for cool factor, not defense and with 3 kids under 3, cool guns are a few years off and are never a must have. If Colt came out with some cool, modern handguns and rifles that one could justify buying as an HD or SD gun, I’m sure they’d sell, but only relying on older models isn’t going to cut it anymore since they lost their government contract.
10. avatar Cameron S. says:
A combination of overpriced product paying for the “Colt” name, and competitors really offering more for less.
I’m in the middle of selecting a commander-ish 1911, and after all of my research I’m leaning towards the Springfield Compact Range Officer at $750 street, vs Colt’s lightweight commander which retails over a grand. And the Springfield honestly has more carry features built in. I wish I could want the colt because of the cool factor of EDC’ing a colt, but it’s just not worth it to me.
Colt needs a popular sub-$700 carry gun last year. And to revive their revolvers (at a comparable price to S&W) 5 years ago.
1. avatar Forrest says:
I carries a springfield champion for a couple of years. The magazines that came with it were absolute junk, but it was one of the most reliable and well built pistols I’ve ever owned. I think their range officer is a slightly nicer model, and if so, it should be a great pistol.
I’m in love with small 1911’s though. Single action triggers just can’t be beat and single stacks carry better.
11. avatar WV Cycling says:
I wonder if they can pander to foreign defense markets to sell their existing wares and develop new contracts?
1. avatar B says:
Who would buy it? The Marines are the only group that would buy 1911’s in this day and age and seems like everyone else already has their fill of the M4 and is looking for a replacement. Colt has nothing, and its sad.
1. avatar Tomyironmane says:
and most jarheads know that you can get the same quality from S&W as you find at Colt for half the cost.
12. avatar Dirk Diggler says:
And stop w all of the damn cowboy guns!!! It is like the stupid zombie products. Stop! Bring back the python!!
1. avatar Jim says:
You don’t like SAAs, then don’t buy one. They deserve to be on the market a much as the Python does.
13. avatar RLC2 says:
A commenter at WSJ says its a union shop. Something tells me they aren’t going to get the Government Motors deal… hey. Careful who you vote for Dems….hows that economy working out for ya?
1. avatar Muddy Waters says:
As a Teamster (Local 41), I’m gonna burst your bubble and let you know that not all union employees are liberals. To suggest otherwise would be the same as suggesting all chefs are libertarians.
1. avatar Indiana Tom says:
The Union leadership is usually very liberal however.
1. avatar bryan1980 says:
^^This. How does it feel to know that a good chunk of your union dues go to candidates you would never support?
As for Colt, like the other’s before me have said, not enough new or exciting products to pull buyers in, and what they do offer is nothing unique. You’re just buying the name at this point. I’d also like to see a “classics” line of revolvers similar to what S&W offers. Do a remake of the Trooper and I’d sure the heck buy one.
2. avatar 2hotel9 says:
Kick your leftarded, Democrat Party leaders out, otherwise the 7% of workers who are union will turn into 3%, and then 1%, and then 0%. Depending on AFSCME to get you all the free sh*t is not too smart.
14. avatar Accur81 says:
Colt is paying the price for failing to innovate and ignoring the civilian market. They made some great stuff, but the price seemed always on the high end. I hope the name can live on, but the market is s brutal thing.
1. avatar Indiana Tom says:
Colt bet the farm on the government contracts and sold their soul for gun control back in the late 1960s.. The party is now over.
15. avatar Ralph says:
Colt’s Manufacturing has failed many times before. This is probably the last dance of the prancing pony.
Decades of mismanagement have brought Colt to its knees. There is only a small window of opportunity for a reorganization under Ch. 11 to bring this company back. A liquidation under Ch. 7 seems to be the eventual outcome. The Colt brand name has value, just like the Springfield Armory name had value. A savvy competitor would wait for the liquidation and then buy the trademarks and other intellectual property free and clear for pennies on the dollar and move the manufacturing somewhere a little more firearms friendly.
Gun Valley is dead.
1. avatar Craig says:
Gun Valley isn’t dead but it isn’t even close to what it was 150 years ago.
Springfield/Chicopee still has S&W and Savage, Marlin is still visible from the highway, and if Colt survives this, they’re in Hartford. Not to mention Thompson Center, SIG, Walther, Kahr, and Auto Ordnance that are also in New England. Plus smaller manufacturers like Green Mountain barrels, Yankee Hill, and Bane lowers.
1. avatar Anon says:
Marlin has been gone for years.
2. avatar darkstar says:
Maybe not dead, but seriously on life support. Savage is now owned by ATK with a lot of their guns being produced in Canada. Marlin is now owned by Freedom Group and I believe the guns are now produced in Kentucky. Kahr is planning a new factory in Pennsylvania….etc etc. It’s sad really but that is todays business climate. Colt will be just another classic American brand that means nothing. Hell, Budweiser is owned by a Belgian conglomerate, Miller owned by SAB (South African Breweries) it goes on and on.
3. avatar John M. says:
SIG is a long way from the CT River valley. Y’know, a long way in New England terms.
4. avatar Ralph says:
@Craig, now that Springfield is getting its casino, I expect that S&W (which has been tolerated because it kept Springfield from turning into Detroit) will lose its influence and be forced to locate elsewhere. Gun Valley is indeed dead. All that’s left is a decent burial.
5. avatar Jim Scrummy says:
Ummm, Walther is now in Arkansas. Says so on one of my PPQs.
6. avatar bontai Joe says:
Kahr moved to PA earlier this year, The gubnor of NY pretty much pushed them out. Marlin is a name only, their inventory, trademarks and designs were bought by Freedom group some time ago
2. avatar Southern Cross says:
Colt’s financial problems in the 1980s were the reason the Australian Army adopted the Steyr AUG.
The M16A2 was the leading contender but Colt was in Chapter 11 and refused to grant a manufacturing license to ADI. The deal was Colt would make the rifles and the ADF would buy them from Colt. But Steyr would grant a production license and deal was sealed.
I remember articles on US Army and Marine issued M16A2s in the 1990s in various magazines, including UK’s “Combat and Survival”. The rifles made then had clearly visible FN markings on them.
16. avatar Josh says:
I agree with everyone saying they need to bring back their “snake series” along with the trooper and their other classic wheelguns. Although I’m an automatic guy now, a lot of people are nostalgic for those, and if they could release functional models at competitive prices, that could be a big boost right there. Right now S&W has the market cornered on mid-priced quality revolvers and more competition is a good thing.
1. avatar Gov. William J. Le Petomane says:
You forget Sturm Ruger & Co. If it wasn’t for the Security Six there wouldn’t even be a S&W L frame – they were perfectly happy to tell their customers to practice with .38 special in their K frames until Ruger came out with a better product for less money. Still is IMHO.
1. avatar Josh says:
You’re right, I did forget about them. Ruger is still producing nice revolvers and has been for some time.
1. avatar Gov. William J. Le Petomane says:
They were also responsible for Colt bringing back the SAA the second time with the Blackhawks.
I do wish they’d do more (S&W) performance center type stuff, but they’re getting better, mostly with distributor exclusives. I’ve got the Wiley Clapp GP100, which I love, but to get a trigger job you’ve got to go with the (non-exclusive) Match Champion. They both still cost about as much as the regular 686.
17. avatar Hannibal says:
From what I have heard they simply can’t produce quality revolvers at a reasonable price and they don’t think the demand for high-end ones would be worth the cost.
It’s sad but maybe that just shows that, as a company, they don’t have it together enough to be in the market anymore.
18. avatar jwm says:
A new production Python, in order to be worthy of the name, would require a lot of hands on at the factory. Hands on equates to much steeper prices. Their competition is turning out polymer guns run off cnc machines and hands on simply can’t compete with that.
The only colt firearm I miss is the old unshrouded Dick Special. I do have a weakness for .38 revolvers.
1. avatar Avid Reader says:
I have a late 60s or early 70s vintage Dick Special. It’s a jewel.
19. avatar sean says:
Given the quality(or lack of) of COLT products the last 40 years or so, is this a surprise? Even when it was obvious that the competition was better and cheaper, COLT did nothing. They introduced only two completely new handguns the last 40 years. The awful Colt 2000, and the plastic Mustang. They refused to offer 1911’s that had the features every wanted. So Kimber stepped in. Then everyone else. And COLT still did nothing. Honestly, they deserve it. Sad for the long time employees, but that is who always pays for incompetent management.
20. avatar Mike says:
Sounds like a lesson for the gun industry. No military contract + lack of civilian sales = bankruptcy
1. avatar Independent George says:
It’s a lesson for all industries: diversify your product line, or die. Nobody is immune to it – just look at Eastman Kodak.
What would really be hilarious/tragic is if they got bought out by Smith & Wesson… but why would S&W do that? Exactly what does Colt have that anybody would want right now, besides the name? As far as I can tell, they never invested in R&D for the civilian market, and it’s too late for them to start now.
21. avatar tdiinva says:
Colt’s problem is that they tied themselves to the government and a single product at that. Whether it is computers, cellphones or guns the government is a minor player in the market. When the government government contract go away so does the company.
1. avatar Dyspeptic Gunsmith says:
Yup. It is an all-too-common pattern, and it goes back a good long ways in the gun industry.
22. avatar Royal Tony says:
Besides snake series revolvers, I’d be into buying a new production Colt M16A1 style AR. If the price is right. I seriously doubt that will be Colt’s next move however. I’ll probably end up buying the A1 style rifle from I.O.
23. avatar Muddy Waters says:
Bring back the revolvers. Problem solved.
1. avatar Nate in detroit says:
I hope the executives at Colt listen to you.
24. avatar RockOnHellChild says:
Colt has been resting on their laurels for far too long time.
I don’t think just bringing back revolvers is enough. Making quality guns like they were known for isn’t just slapping metal part together. It require craftsmenship and skill which probably died or left the company long ago.
25. avatar Bobby McKellar says:
Well, the likelihood that Colt goes down the drain for good and disappears is about 5% in my estimation. IIRC Colt just bought out LWRC International….they have a TON more innovation than Colt in my opinion. The right investor with the right mindset and ability is sitting on a veritable gold mine. They are still “THE name” when it comes to the M16 transferable MG’s out there (and Thompson SMG’s). They are IT when it comes to the SAA and 1911’s…..
Someone who could and WOULD take the company a leap forward by doing what they used to do as well as they used to do it could make a mint. The first step would to be removing itself from Connecticut.
26. avatar John M. says:
Delta Elite 10mm. Want.
But aside from that, can someone please keep the Freedom Group spreadsheet MBA wunderkinden away from Colt’s? Haven’t they destroyed enough iconic American firearms brands? Why can’t they go buy Moms Demand Action or something?
I’d rather see Colt’s dead than have to watch it go through that nonsense.
27. avatar Tom W. says:
1. Get out of Hartford, CT
2. Do it now and go South.
3. Send reps and products to local gun shows, not just SHOT/NRA/.Mil exclusive shows.
4. Smack/Fire Mgt. That doesn’t “get it”.
5. Focus on civilian customers and brand recognition.
6. Do # 4 again.
7. Be more price point competitive.
8. Save the Colt name as is, not some subsidiary of a Freedom Group.
9. Read steps again.
I own two Colts pistols; an inherited Mustang Pocketlite, and .22 Target.
I’d love a “snake” edition revolver.
28. avatar MurrDog says:
Colt isn’t a gun company, they are a corporation. The people who run colt aren’t shooters, they are business men. The only thing colt is contented with is profits. I hope they go under sooner rather than later.
29. avatar Tom says:
Colt’s biggest problem is their pricing. The average common joe can’t afford them. Colt and the rest have driven the prices right through the roof and have consistently blamed politics for the hikes. Colt has had a long ride and while their guns are top grade the wealthy people or those who can afford to buy every new gun that comes along will last only so long and that run is about over…….If Colt wants to stay in business, they need to lower their prices or offer some serious rebates, coupons etc that will offset the cost. The little guy then can afford to buy them again.
30. avatar BradN says:
This is really sad to hear. I was waiting for them to come out with a competitor to the affordable and reliable polymer framed wonder pistols out there currently. I suppose they couldn’t shake the reputation of the horrible Colt 2000. It’s a shame.
31. avatar gearshiv says:
Any new snake guns would be above Dan Wesson prices and would likely have to be made by miroku like the winchesters and only done in small limited groups just like the winchesters.
Only way I see colt staying alive as any thing other than a name on a cheap Chinese knife is if the Nfa is lifted and colt can start pumping out Thompsons and other fun things.
Or maybe if they bring out a functional version of remlins r51 some classic colt 1903 lines in 9mm with a polymer lower (never mind that colt isn’t set up for polymer any thing).
1. avatar Gov. William J. Le Petomane says:
Not being set up for polymers is probably the nail in the coffin. It’s a huge initial investment before you can crank out the parts on the cheap. It’s hard to make huge initial investments when you’re on the brink of bankruptcy.
32. avatar Anonymous says:
Sounds like it’s time to trim the fat off with some layoffs.
33. avatar ropingdown says:
The hopes for Colt on the part of gun owners astound me. The entire beneficial trend in recent firearms manufacture is the move by purchasers to seek out performance and good consistent specs on new guns, regardless of the brand name. Let a new manufacturer deliver consistent quality and innovative design and they’ll have my business, but not my loyalty. Loyalty is for family and trusted friends.
Do you hope to buy another RCA TV? A really nice new Packard?
Guns are low-tech products, and that includes even the high-end competition guns. The innovations come from the machine-tool industry, specialty metals makers, and electronics world. Guns are simple. They should work out of the box. They should be built to the advertised specs. I don’t buy Winchester M70’s because of the “Winchester,” but because FN has been delivering on the quality. So far.
I disagree with those who think that Colt has a wealth of intellectual property today. A patent search answers that question quickly enough. A valuable brand? Probably. Because…ponies. I also find the me-to reverence for the Python overdone. There are excellent revolvers on the market today, and S&W has long produced a trigger that is equal to or better than the Python’s, if you care to spend the money on the S&W models for which that is true.
Colt exploited their government-relations (lobbying) power. That’s over. Colt steadily reduced the features delivered in their 1911 product, while raising their prices. I offer as exhibit #1 the current Gold Cup.
1. avatar 2hotel9 says:
Have to agree. All of the new Colt products I have had my hands on in recent years were just not worth the price. Better weapons cheaper, that is the bottom line. Only way Colt gets there is bankruptcy. Ditch their union contracts for one, and lose all that accumulated debt. Same thing GM/Chrysler should have done, instead of that bailout fiasco that is now killing them.
2. avatar BCE56 says:
Excellent post.
Competition is good for consumers. The equation is: quality vs. price= value. The Colt name has a certain cachet, but the products it adorns these days is really not up to snuff. The company whose name is synonymous with the 1911 seems incapable of making the best 1911 on the planet.
Do not abandon your core products. Do not abandon your customers.
I trust my Springfield 1911 Gov’t, and I LOVE my Kimber (series1) Compact . The ’70s vintage Combat Commander stays in the safe.
Bring back the Woodsman.
1. avatar Tom in Oregon says:
Yes. Bring back the series 70 colts. All 3 sizes, and all the calibers.
And please bring back the python.
2. avatar bontai Joe says:
I am so glad that I am not the only one that remembers the Colt Woodsman. I recently saw a used one behind glass in Cabela’s “special” room for $3000. I’d love to have one and if I hit the Lottery for big $$$ where $3000 became meaningless, then I’d have one. Colt used to make some very fine firearms, but not so much in the last 25 years. First rate quality revolvers are expensive to make in the manor that Colt made theirs. Dan Wesson is now in the 1911 business with an occasional batch of wheel guns made available. S&W’s catalog of wheel guns is a lot smaller than it used to be. I did own a 3rd generation Colt SAA for a while, but sold it, because I liked my Ruger better. I hope Colt can save itself, but I would be surprised if they do, they have been in financial trouble for decades now.
34. avatar 2hotel9 says:
“suffered from declining demand for rifles and handguns” Really?!?!? Funny, all the people I speak with in the retail firearms business say their sales continue to be “brisk”, babee! Perhaps it is just Colt’s overpriced, mediocre products that people are not buying? Add to that the fact that Colt, very stupidly, got their prancy a$$es kicked off the Infinite Gravy Train with Biscuit Wheels, and yes, I can see why they are twirling round the toileten bowl.
35. avatar Evan in Dallas says:
Their designs along with their business model have a, “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it” attitude. The problem is that they are the only ones who think it isn’t broken. You’ve lost your government contract and you can’t rely on it ever coming back. Continue to make fairly simple 1911s(compared to your competition) and basic model AR15 rifles, but you can’t expect people to pay the premiums just because it has a colt logo. In fact, when it comes to the high end stuff, maybe they need to go the smith & wesson route and open a “performance center” line where they can sell all of their high end stuff even bringing back the python in limited runs. Otherwise they have to accept that the average joe, while he doesn’t want a hi point, may not be able to justify the cost of a $1100 design that is beautiful but over 100 years old, less reliable and harder to master. A glock or smith and wesson does exactly the same thing for almost half the price with more reliability out of the box(this is not to start a feud, I love 1911s, but this is objectively true). Colt has to find a way to modernize(new designs too), and cut prices to appeal to a broader market, and/or improve quality and appeal to a niche market. Doing both would probably be a more palatable move.
36. avatar 2hotel9 says:
And got to say I agree on the Python. Loves me some revolver and that is one fine handling piece. I AIN”T paying $1000 for one. Bring out a nice, plain production Python and I would happily pay $300-$400 for it. As for 1911s, I damned well am not ever going to pay $1000 for a $50 pistol. Just is not gonna happen.
1. avatar Evan in Dallas says:
Considering one of the reasons they stopped producing the python was cost of production with decreasing demand for that type of firearm, there is no way even with modern CNC costs that they will get it down to that price point. Additionally, there was nothing base model about the python. What you are describing is a completely different market segment, and if I remember correctly, that’s why they released the trooper as a more basic model. What you are essentially asking colt to do would be the same as asking Ferrari to produce a budget sports car. In the end it wouldn’t really be a Ferrari, and it would sully the image of the company. This is probably a case of you and I not really being “in the market” for such items, so our opinions don’t go into consideration for these types of products. Holland & Holland is similarly not asking my opinions for the same reason.
2. avatar bontai Joe says:
I am not aware of anyone selling new double action revolvers for $300-400. I’d pay $1000 for a new Python, heck, I’d got $1500, but as stated earlier, $2000 wouldn’t touch the hand crafted cost of making a true Python.
1. avatar 2hotel9 says:
In a union controlled shop? Yep, never see that weapon again.
2. avatar Dyspeptic Gunsmith says:
Charter Arms makes DA revolvers for between $300 and $400.
37. avatar Jay in Florida says:
I don’t care who ends up owning what or where they go.
I wont buy anything made by a company that has stayed in NY or Connecticut.
If both Colt and say Remington were to go bye bye. Some other company will pick up the pace and fill the gap.
Colt killed itself by ignoring the civilian market so buh bye Colt nice to know yah don’t let the door hit where the sun don’t shine on your way out.
38. avatar mike says:
Better to let Colt go bankrupt with their reputation intact, rather than have Freedom Group take over and end up ruining their products and good name. Just ask Remington, Marlin, AAC, or any other company under the FG umbrella.
39. avatar Phil COV says:
40. avatar Gregory says:
Perhaps no one remembers how Colt stuck their middle finger up at civilians, banking on military contracts. Oh, I almost forgot, their QC sucks. I looked at their new series 70 a couple of years back and every gun I saw had one or more cosmetic fk-ups on them. I bought a Dan Wesson Heritage, a much better 1911.
41. avatar Nelson says:
Colt, that’s what happens when you play footsie with the Clintons, but not just Slicky Willy & Hitlery et al, the govt as a whole; corporatist contractors who DON’T develop a solid reputation in the non-govt commercial marketplace where you actually have to weigh price metrics, create value-added products that actually serve the needs of the free market, and cannot count on bullshit ‘cost-plus’ Pentagram contracts: you actually have to compete constantly, innovate, and actually care about your customer base, and not just busy pleasing schmooze/buy dinners & drinks for the next CONgressman or SenASStor and/or some Pentagram Colonel in charge of procurements looking to be hired by you, after his DoD stint’s up.
Serves you right, Colt! Don’t be looking for no Federal Reserve bailouts, now.
42. avatar Alex in IL says:
It’s a shame, really. But that’s how the market works. If the fat gets trimmed, if they reintroduce classic designs and produce new ones, really new ones, then mayhaps they can save themselves. I don’t think it will happen under this leadership. Hopefully the next managers will be smart, innovative, and not the Freedom Group. I don’t think that they’ll pull this one outta their butt. They’ll go under and get the name purchased. Then the new management will probably move them elsewhere. Operating costs are too high. I won’t guess where they will go. But if they reintroduce more things like the Trooper, the Snake series, and start producing modern guns, innovative ones, not necessarily Glock-alikes, but something truly new and attractive, maybe the name will live on. I hope so. It’s a shame to see such a quintessentially American country die with a whimper.
In the meantime, all we can do is hope that they wake up and move back into America and the real world.
43. avatar Paul Francis says:
Maybe if they didn’t place all of their newly assembled rifles in a running cement mixer before final packaging and spent a little more time on QC they would be in a better position. Colt has relied on their “mil-spec” laurels for far too long. The rest of the industry has matured by leaps and bounds and there are quite a few companies that put out an equal to better product.
Certain commercial advancements made by competitors over the last few years (CHF, Melonite lining, NiB coatings, Mid-length gas systems, built-in ambi controls, FF handguards, KeyMod, etc.) have taken the platform to a new level.
All the while, Colt just kept putting out $1100 Mil-spec LE6920s with an apparent disregard for fit and finish. To keep the “king of the Hill” title you have to recognize your primary source of income, keep abreast tech innovations, stay hungry, and learn how to play the customer support game.
44. avatar Don says:
My colt ARs are very nice.
45. avatar bear11 says:
This will be the similiar fate for those in the firearms industry who are building commodity firearms/components. Gun control proponents have lost steam and the industry is still trying to get through post bubble inventory levels – as a result, there is a glut of product. Distributors are still trying to get through their inventory. Companies that will succeed are ones that have very deep pockets or those innovating new and better products/manufacturing. Colt has suffered from a lack of new innovations for a while. There are many other big name companies in a similar position.
46. avatar Brian says:
I would buy a 20″AR barrel from them today. They just don’t sell to civilians.
1. avatar PerplexedPistolero says:
Colt, because you don’t have taxpayer blank checks, so we hate you.
47. avatar Johnny B Goode says:
Colt quit making wheelguns because they sucked. If you want to own a Colt wheelgun it’s because you never have owned one in the past.. The hand on Colt wheelguns constantly gets out time. I don’t need a lockomatic at any price.
1. avatar 2hotel9 says:
Revolvers are unreliable. Hahahahahahahahaha That right there is funny.
1. avatar Gov. William J. Le Petomane says:
The Pythons did have a reputation for going out of time. I’ve only owned Ruger revolvers so I have no idea what it’s like to have a revolver go out of time, but I don’t think they just snap out of time all of a sudden and lock up. You’ll know it’s going bad. It’s not the same kind of unreliability as an auto jamming.
1. avatar 2hotel9 says:
I have fired many a revolver over the years, quite a few of them colts, never had a problem other than bad ammo. Perhaps it is operator error/poor maintenance to blame, all I know is revolvers are reliable given adequate ammo and a user who can do complicated things like point and pull trigger. I have seen old, heavily used revolvers have issues, and cheap revolvers have issues. A name brand production piece in good condition? Other than the bad ammo or a very rare internal part failure, not so much.
2. avatar Gov. William J. Le Petomane says:
Well autos will never be as dependable as revolvers, or as accurate. But that doesn’t mean that revolvers don’t have their own set of problems (none of which I have ever experienced). Usually it is the ammo though. The most common is stuck cases which is either because of thin cases or overpressure, which doesn’t matter unless you need to reload in a hurry. The primers can also back out and jam on the firing pin, but that’s usually because of an extreme overpressure situation. The other is going out of time, which from what I hear is extremely rare in Rugers. If anyone has experienced an out of time revolver I’d love to hear the straight facts, but I don’t think they come up by surprise, rendering your revolver useless when you need it most. There’s also cracked forcing cones and stretched top straps, but that involves using hotter ammo than the firearm was designed for.
That said, my auto of choice is the Beretta 92, so if it wasn’t for my wife’s Sig Mosquito I’d have no idea what it’s like to have a failure in an auto either.
3. avatar 2hotel9 says:
Other than ammo issues the only problem I have had on a revolver was broken latch on my Enfield .38. Only replace I could find was from a Webley .455, put a thin brass washer on each side and SHAZAM good as new.
48. avatar jimmy james says:
Everytime I see a Colt ad in a magazine, I am reminded of the Double Eagle (double trouble) debacle, their first “competition” AR and their MRAD rifle. Be afraid, be very afraid.
49. avatar Gunnutmegger says:
Colt revolvers are fragile. They only lock up at the rear of the cylinder, and they go out-of-time frequently. That includes the Python.
And most of the .38 models were not +P-rated.
Other than as collector’s items, which suckers will pay too much for, they aren’t worth the investment.
1. avatar Dyspeptic Gunsmith says:
I don’t know that I’d use the term “fragile,” but Colt revolvers are more finicky than S&W’s or Rugers.
First, the “only lock up at the rear.” That is true, but there is a reason why Colts need lock up only on the rear of the cylinder/crane: Colt’s revolvers revolve into the window, , ie, the cylinder rolls clockwise from the shooter’s perspective.
S&W’s revolve out of the window, or counter-clockwise. This goes back to a very old patent dispute in the 19th century. When a revolver rotates the cylinder into the frame, the carry-up is pushing the cylinder into the window and Bob’s your uncle.
When the carry-up is trying to push the cylinder out of the window, then you could really use the front detent on the ejection rod to keep things in place and aligned.
OK, the timing issue: As I’ve alluded to several times, the S&W design cuts the functions of the lockwork in half. In a Colt revolver, there is only the mainspring running everything in there. All the trigger reset functions are being run by levers riding on fitted surfaces driven by the one mainspring. In a S&W, there’s a rebound spring that handles the trigger reset function. When you have only the one spring and fitted surfaces, making adjustments to the trigger pull becomes quite the time sink.
But the area where the S&W design really shows superiority is when you drop a Colt or it has been used as a hammer to pistol-whip someone. Hitting a Colt on the butt of the grip can cause the fitted surfaces on the right side of the rebound lever to become different in dimensional distance to the other parts that ride on the rebound lever. Now the revolver goes out of time in serious and sometimes bizarre ways.
Colts have tighter cylinder/breech gaps (0.002″ typically), whereas S&W’s call for 0.004 to 0.008 or thereabouts. The close fit of the Colt cylinder means than as the front of the cylinder gets dirty, you might have a failure to carry up because the cylinder mouth is dragging on the barrel breech.
My $0.02: Collect Colts. Shoot S&W’s.
1. avatar 2hotel9 says:
Thank you.
2. avatar Gov. William J. Le Petomane says:
I shoot Rugers and I’d like to collect Smith and Colt revolvers.
2. Have had a Colt Trooper Mk III for 30 years. Always goes bang, Used value is 300 in the book but 600 on the streets. You will never wear one out, even shooting full house loads. Would rather pay for a used Trooper than a new Charter or Taurus. A NIB Python sells for about $2000. It may be 39 years old but quality costs money. Its that simple. You cannot get the quality for free.
50. avatar Justsomeguy says:
I’m a 1911 kind of guy and until recently the only 1911 I owned was an early series 70 Gold Cup that ironically wasn’t very accurate. I sold it for a Sig RCS and I’m in the market for others, but Colt doesn’t have anything I’ll consider. The only thing they have that I’d be interested in is a SAA, but at $1500 for a gun that scratches an itch rather than having a specific purpose, that itch may never be scratched.
There are a couple of organizations that are pushing companies to to say what they would do to prevent “gun violence” before they are offered government contracts. This is an example:
Companies should learn from this event as well as S&W’s debacle several years ago and know that kowtowing to the government in any form is not good for business.
51. avatar Don from CT says:
As a long time CT resident who has friends who have worked at Colt for years, I can give some input. One of my friends worked at a high level in finance. He said it was just ludicrous how the company was run. The owners (I don’t remember the details) treated the company like their own personal ATM. All actions seemed to be structured to push the most cash possible back to the owner. The “general” who had dominated much of the company for years, was a boorish, sexist, idiot.
In the first rush of 1998, Colt was completely unable to capitalize on the huge demand for their products because they simply couldn’t make any more AR15s. The management was unwilling to invest in the tooling necessary to expand output, even if its payback period was only a couple of years. As a result of this, they missed out on the 2nd Obama rush and the larger than anyone expected Newtown panic. Think about it.
What got more of a sales bump than anything else in the panic of 2013? AR15s. Who was a non-player in fulfilling this demand? Colt.
With any luck, a well run company that has been an OEM supplier to colt for decades, Continental Machine and Tool (CMT and closely associated with Stag Arms) will buy them.
p.s. One of my other Colt friends is a master engraver in their custom shop. They leave him alone and he essentially prints money for them. He doesn’t do politics, so I coulnn’t get much from him.
52. avatar Joe says:
The government teet is big and tasty…until it goes dry.
53. avatar RandallOfLegend says:
Colts product line is all high priced ARs or revolvers. So do the math.
54. avatar Mr. Ballsandall says:
My rear site came loose on my first trip to the range. I was so disgusted that I kept the case and mags but I left the pistol at the range. Got a quality Rock Island and been gear jamming ever since.
55. avatar Burnout says:
Well… bye. Colt waved the middle finger at the consumer market. Then when the government money dried up, they tried to weasel themselves back into our wallets with no apologies. Nope; not going to happen. I hope they do go bankrupt. I wish it would have happened already. When a company turns on their customers, many customers turn on the company. When S&W screwed up and almost lost their business, they seemed to learn from their mistakes and learned real quick who pays their bills. Ruger as well, although I still am wary of them. Not Colt. I hold Colt with the same level of contempt as the Freedom Group \ Cerberus \ Troy Industries. None of them can be trusted. They have a track record of stabbing customers in the back. We would be better of without them. The sooner they go away, the better.
56. avatar MontieR says:
When Colt shit on the private sector, they started their own death song. Their OVER priced proprietary designs
are their own doing. You wanted the government tit now live with your decisions.
57. avatar Aaron says:
My first gun was a Colt Officer’s .38 revolver. Great gun for a little over $100 used. Wish I hadn’t sold it (but I say that about every gun I’ve sold).
I currently own 2 Colts: a Lightweight Officers .45 (eh, it’s OK), and a new Mustang Pocketlite – best Colt product I’ve owned. The new Pocketlite feels like a Swiss watch and it’s super reliable, although not super accurate. However, it was super expensive compared to the competition. Plus, the sights suck and I replaced them with aftermarket tritium sights. I love it, but it won’t set the market on fire.
A friend of mine has a civil war Colt revolver carried by his great grandad, and it is mint. it could be fired today by a black power enthusiast. it’s amazing to see what Colt could build back then.
but ancient weapons ain’t a match for a good blaster. the guys that made high quality swords for the awesome Roman legions are all out of business. their history didn’t protect them from irrelevance as the market moved on.
Colt relied too long on their history, and they are now teetering on the brink of irrelevance. Hopefully they can pull out before they crash, but if not, sayonara beyotches.
58. avatar Robert Leath says:
Colt and H&K need to drop their prices a litte. I now thattheir quality is superior to others but most people are buying guns for protection right now and when you can buy a Smith, Ruger or Glock for almost half the price, that becomes a factor. When the economy gets back on track and people have more income, they will go back to the Colt.
59. avatar Robert Leath says:
Drop the price of the 1911s to about $350 and you will see them fly off the shelves.
1. avatar 2hotel9 says:
I would buy a couple.
2. avatar Independent George says:
“We’re losing money on every unit sold!”
“But we’ll make it up in volume!”
60. avatar Mark Dietzler says:
Colt was all by itself for many years as the gold standard for M-4s with their 6920 series, but once the 1994 AWB died, they didn’t allow dealers to sell them to civilians for the longest time. With BCM now applying the same QC standards on AR series rifles, Colt is no longer the standard bearer they used to be.
Let them go under, buy out the company, move them somewhere else with all the employees, and institute sane management, and they would do well.
61. avatar JackinAlabama says:
I bought an LE6920 a few years back – was my first foray into scary black rifles. At the time, I thought it was da bomb – hey, it’s black, it goes “bang” when I pull the trigger and it’s loaded, all the operationally-operating mall-ninja doodads will fit on it, etc etc…
Then a friend of mine submitted a build for Shootrite, because Mr. “Wanna piece of candy, little girl?”‘s contract guns were absolute crap, and I bought a couple of receivers from him when he formed a company to build the SFA firearms (MHT Defense – check ’em out) and now I know better. I can’t believe I spent $1100.00 on the Colt – I won’t SELL it, because “history”, (and who the hell sells guns these days? lol) but I can barely bring myself to fire it these days, because it is just SO substandard on pretty much every level imaginable – I bought a “blem” receiver from MHT that has better fit & finish than the out-of-the-box Colt!
I’m a 1911 guy as well, and I’ve owned a couple of Colts – a series 70, and a series 80 combat commander. They were timex-reliable, at rolex price points. I sold both of them many years ago (before I realized that one should never sell a firearm…ever!) and I’m rockin’ a Ruger SR1911 now (EDC – I’m not a small guy, and it works for me), that is timex-reliable, at a timex price point! I’m not a Bill Ruger fanboy though – I also have an LC9 that I’ve replaced the firing-pin retaining pin twice on (not from dry-firing, mind you, the slot in the firing pin was just a hair too short, and it bent both retaining pins until they broke).
I’m on the fence about Colt – personal opinion (worth exactly what everybody else’s is, of course) would be “move south” to a more friendly atmosphere, but honestly if they don’t change MANAGEMENT first, they’ll go under just as fast south of the Mason-Dixon as they will in Gun Valley, New England.
62. avatar Beantownshootah says:
25 years ago, if anyone said Smith and Wesson and Ruger would not only be selling AR-15s and 1911s ( at all), but actually selling MORE 1911s to domestic civilians and police than Colt, they’d be laughed out of the room. Don’t think Colt is laughing now!
To respond to some of the comments above, Colt Pythons were assembled by master gunsmiths and every single one was hand-tuned before leaving the factory. The Pythons also always (by design) had the best finishes in the industry. These guns were designed to be the “Cadillac” of revolvers, and they were effectively all custom guns, just produced in relatively high quantity. All of these things, plus a very distinctive look and name added up to a revolver that’s still iconic today.
But the fact is, these guns were NEVER cheap. They were ALWAYS (even during production) the most expensive domestic made revolvers, costing quite a bit more than other Colts, as well as Smiths. The nature of the business as well as cost of labor has increased today to the point where these probably wouldn’t be viable to produce again, at least not without a bunch of MIM parts and other manufacturing shortcuts. Basically, this is a case of “they’re never going to make them like that again”.
And the dirty little secret (which isn’t really a secret to anyone who shoots a lot of revolvers) is that although Pythons are known for their slick triggers, a hand-tuned Smith L-frame has every bit as good of a trigger pull. In fact, many consider the Smith better because the trigger pull doesn’t “stack” (get heavier near the end) and the trigger reset distance is shorter, letting you cycle it in DA faster. The Smith is also more durable, the lockwork is both simpler and easier to work on, and the overall cost of the Smith is quite a bit less. The Smith isn’t as nice LOOKING, but as a functional firearm, its every bit as good.
On 1911s, that design is over a century old, and traditional manufacture with all steel and mostly forged parts requires many machining steps, partly explaining the relatively high cost compared to more modern pistol designs (eg Glock is made of low-cost injection molded plastic and stamped metal, with low total parts count; as such manufacture cost is literally a fraction of that of a 1911). Its not that profit margins are higher here, its really that the 1911s are more expensive to build compared to more recent gun designs that take advantage of modern manufacture techniques.
Still, if you want to buy a 1911 for $350, you can. . or at least you can come pretty close. You’ll have to look around a bit, but Rock Island Armory/Armscor 1911s can be had brand new for under $400. For the money you’re getting a completely stripped down gun, with absolutely no bells and whistles, and it will be made in the Philippines. It won’t win any awards for accuracy, fit or finish, but it will run just fine, and you could always upgrade it.
63. avatar ronnoyfb says:
Cant make money building in CT and using union labor and their rules.
64. avatar kap says:
Colt has always pandered after the Government contract and Ignored the commercial market, for years they have traded on name recognition with over priced Junk!, how else too pay the top dogs more bucks, they would have to take a 50% pay cut and come up with some righteous product to be viable, but sucking the government tit made them lazy! let them go belly-up who gives a care, overseas gun makers make a better product now than colt ever did! bye bye so long so sad
65. avatar Sug Zerep says:
Didn’t Col;t just buy LWRC a few month ago and paid handsomely for it? Colt owners must not have too many friends in Washignton. I would expect DOD to try to keep an old supplier alive with some “special” contract ala Boieng. That said, what is the real value of Colt? THere is some brand recognition there but it is mostly nostalgic. Do they have enough technological capital to be investable? The AR market is a commodity market with many niches of premium upgrades. Can a company that big make it with out the military contract?
66. avatar BHirsh says:
The allure of the brand can’t overcome its ridiculous price schedule.
67. avatar Doug K says:
They are still in a communist state making firearms, move to a gun friendly state. I myself don’t buy their product because of where they are.
68. avatar Ed says:
I’ll bet all the Colt executives have been getting loads of bonuses for their excellent management of the company.
69. avatar Pete says:
Sorry to disagree. Colts are overpriced and aren’t any better than any of the quality manufacturers out there. A gun is a tool that is supposed to be used and not to sit and stare at how pretty it is. I would match anything Ruger makes (and sells for hundreds of dollars cheaper than Colt or S&W) with anything they make. Ruger will last forever, shoots great and their triggers are close to s good as anything out there; plus made in America with American ingenuity and citizens.
Tough to argue that
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package br.com.basis.suprimentos.service;
import br.com.basis.suprimentos.domain.Material;
import br.com.basis.suprimentos.repository.MaterialRepository;
import br.com.basis.suprimentos.repository.search.MaterialSearchRepository;
import br.com.basis.suprimentos.service.dto.MaterialDTO;
import br.com.basis.suprimentos.service.mapper.MaterialMapper;
import lombok.RequiredArgsConstructor;
import lombok.extern.slf4j.Slf4j;
import org.springframework.data.domain.Example;
import org.springframework.data.domain.Page;
import org.springframework.data.domain.Pageable;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Service;
import org.springframework.transaction.annotation.Transactional;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Optional;
import java.util.stream.Collectors;
import static org.elasticsearch.index.query.QueryBuilders.queryStringQuery;
@Slf4j
@RequiredArgsConstructor
@Service
@Transactional
public class MaterialService {
private final MaterialRepository materialRepository;
private final MaterialMapper materialMapper;
private final MaterialSearchRepository materialSearchRepository;
public MaterialDTO save(MaterialDTO materialDTO) {
log.debug("Request to save Material : {}", materialDTO);
Material material = materialMapper.toEntity(materialDTO);
material = materialRepository.save(material);
MaterialDTO result = materialMapper.toDto(material);
materialSearchRepository.save(material);
return result;
}
@Transactional(readOnly = true)
public Page<MaterialDTO> findAll(Pageable pageable) {
log.debug("Request to get all Materials");
return materialRepository.findAll(pageable)
.map(materialMapper::toDto);
}
@Transactional(readOnly = true)
public <S extends Material> List<MaterialDTO> findAll(Example<S> example) {
log.debug("Request to get all Materials");
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}
@Transactional(readOnly = true)
public Optional<MaterialDTO> findOne(Long id) {
log.debug("Request to get Material : {}", id);
return materialRepository.findById(id)
.map(materialMapper::toDto);
}
public void delete(Long id) {
log.debug("Request to delete Material : {}", id);
materialRepository.deleteById(id);
materialSearchRepository.deleteById(id);
}
@Transactional(readOnly = true)
public Page<MaterialDTO> search(String query, Pageable pageable) {
log.debug("Request to search for a page of Materials for query {}", query);
return materialSearchRepository.search(queryStringQuery(query), pageable)
.map(materialMapper::toDto);
}
}
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option(BUILD_SEPARATE "When set to 1 this will build each server as a separate executable file" ON)
include_directories(${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR})
include_directories(SYSTEM ${ACE_path})
add_subdirectory(GameDatabase)
add_subdirectory(AuthDatabase)
add_subdirectory(GameServer)
add_subdirectory(MapServer)
add_subdirectory(AuthServer)
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Forgive me for being a returning member who has lost touch with current events in Atlasia. Can someone please explain to me why this Constitutional Convention is being held at all?
I read the constitution currently in effect today, and it seems to have worked just fine for several years. I am failing to understand the reasons behind this movement to re-write it.
I oppose any plan which calls for universal membership in a lower house, or that calls for a prime minister elected by the legislative bodies. The President (Prime Minister, whatever) should continue to be elected directly by the voters. I would urge delegates to this Convention to vote for no changes to the constitution.
It is being changed because it has failed to maintain the level of activity needed to make this game fun. Countless members are wholly inactive, elections (other than for President or the occasional Senate seat) are barely contested and hardly competitive, and more often than not interest grinds to a standstill. There are periods when the Senate appears to shut down. A majority of the regions can be considered dead. Party politics is limited to foolish name-calling.
Admirable objectives, but I still don't see how any of the proposals being offered accomplishes them. People will come and go all the time (case in point:me). As I recall from my active days here when I was the SoFA, the most fun and highly participated in event of this game is the presidential elections. And now, you have proposals that would completely eliminate presidential elections! This will have the opposite effect you are trying to achieve.
But hey, I know I'm jumping in on something that's been going on for a while. Carry on with your convention.
Admirable objectives, but I still don't see how any of the proposals being offered accomplishes them. People will come and go all the time (case in point:me). As I recall from my active days here when I was the SoFA, the most fun and highly participated in event of this game is the presidential elections. And now, you have proposals that would completely eliminate presidential elections! This will have the opposite effect you are trying to achieve.
But hey, I know I'm jumping in on something that's been going on for a while. Carry on with your convention.
I believe that every proposal has a nationally elected President, as well as other elected offices similar to the Senate. The point is to maintain the election structure while improving the government aspect. There are no concrete ideas formed yet, so everything is open for input and debate. I would recommend you participate and help out in the Convention. We can always use extra voices. Nor do I have a problem with the normal ebb and flow of the membership. But we have 60 people voting in elections and far fewer total seats in public office. Those elections should be competitive. People need to want to participate.
Admirable objectives, but I still don't see how any of the proposals being offered accomplishes them. People will come and go all the time (case in point:me). As I recall from my active days here when I was the SoFA, the most fun and highly participated in event of this game is the presidential elections. And now, you have proposals that would completely eliminate presidential elections! This will have the opposite effect you are trying to achieve.
But hey, I know I'm jumping in on something that's been going on for a while. Carry on with your convention.
I believe that every proposal has a nationally elected President, as well as other elected offices similar to the Senate. The point is to maintain the election structure while improving the government aspect. There are no concrete ideas formed yet, so everything is open for input and debate. I would recommend you participate and help out in the Convention. We can always use extra voices. Nor do I have a problem with the normal ebb and flow of the membership. But we have 60 people voting in elections and far fewer total seats in public office. Those elections should be competitive. People need to want to participate.
To add to this post, people have suggested that there is a lack of fun, for need of a better word, in the government that causes most people to want to leave after a certain time. As Brandon H said back in December, people who assume office very quickly often cease to be active within a year of joining Atlasia. I could look for the quote if someone wants.
Having revisited the proposals currently on the table, I re-iterate my objections to any change to the current constitution. Amend it if needed, but don't just start over.
While I realize there are many participants who are not Americans, I believe the purpose of this game is to simulate American politics. This site is dedicated primarily to United States presidential elections (this is uselectionatlas.org). I strongly object to the usage of terms such as "Parliament" and "Prime Minister". That game will simulate British/Canadian style politics, rather than US, and it is my belief that such a game will not attract as many new participants as the current game does. Someone posted that we set a new record for votes cast in the current election. It seems the current game does attract new players.
I could perhaps go along with universalism, if the majority of Atlasians feel this is a good and needed change, and no major structural changes to the Presidency are made, and no titles are employed that are not found in use in the USA.
I don't mean to be difficult, really, but I have to express my feelings about this. I presume any proposal passed by this Convention will be put before the voters. I will likely vote no, and I hope that others will join me.
I really don't like the idea of having PM and such, but I am going with the flow. If it was up to me I would reduce the regions to three, cut the senate to 6 members and make a House of representatives of 12 members.
There is certainly room to maneuver on names and titles. There is also a form out there that would allow Dan's idea (Parliamentary Bicameralism is that).
The current system is not really American either. What I am looking for is taking the best of every type of democratic government. Contribute to whichever of the proposals you feel could best be made into what you want and then submit an article as you would like to see it.
The proposals have flexibility, so feel free to make things happen. I encourage you to do so.
Having revisited the proposals currently on the table, I re-iterate my objections to any change to the current constitution. Amend it if needed, but don't just start over.
While I realize there are many participants who are not Americans, I believe the purpose of this game is to simulate American politics. This site is dedicated primarily to United States presidential elections (this is uselectionatlas.org). I strongly object to the usage of terms such as "Parliament" and "Prime Minister". That game will simulate British/Canadian style politics, rather than US, and it is my belief that such a game will not attract as many new participants as the current game does. Someone posted that we set a new record for votes cast in the current election. It seems the current game does attract new players.
I could perhaps go along with universalism, if the majority of Atlasians feel this is a good and needed change, and no major structural changes to the Presidency are made, and no titles are employed that are not found in use in the USA.
I don't mean to be difficult, really, but I have to express my feelings about this. I presume any proposal passed by this Convention will be put before the voters. I will likely vote no, and I hope that others will join me.
Agreed.
As a newbie to Atlasia, I may be able to provide a different perspective than many of the delegates. Fritz is right, the system must be based off the United States' system. Whether you think this system is superior to a parliamentary system or not, the site as a whole is dedicated to US elections, therefore those who will consider joining Atlasia will be primarily interested in US politics (sorry foreigners, but that is the truth).
While I'm here, I would like to make a few suggestions (if I am going too far here as a non-delegate, let me know):
1. Perhaps have senatorial elections every four months, thus making them stand for reelection three times a year.
2. Have a more active GM (I doubt anything about this can be done here, except for a way to remove an inactive GM).
3. Reduce the number of regions (this has been stated many times in this convention).
4. Put the rules for how a party operates in the constitution. This is a game, so this is reasonable. I believe that more structured parties would increase party activity, intra-party conflict, regular conventions, etc.
5. Perhaps have a more powerful speaker of the house/senate, though NO prime minister as he/she would make the presidency obsolete. Perhaps give this individual more legislative control and responsibility. This would increase the parties' interest in winning legislative seats.
From what I have read recently in this convention, it seems to be heading in the right direction- I think the delegates have by and large agreed that we can't have a Parliament and Prime Minister. For now, I'm keeping my mouth shut and waiting to see what they come up with.
The only proposal currently enlisting much activity is actually more US-based than our current system, with a bicameral legislature, etc. And NOTA will be an option in any vote on the proposals, so don't start ringing alarm bells just yet.
The only proposal currently enlisting much activity is actually more US-based than our current system, with a bicameral legislature, etc. And NOTA will be an option in any vote on the proposals, so don't start ringing alarm bells just yet.
From what I have read recently in this convention, it seems to be heading in the right direction- I think the delegates have by and large agreed that we can't have a Parliament and Prime Minister. For now, I'm keeping my mouth shut and waiting to see what they come up with.
Having revisited the proposals currently on the table, I re-iterate my objections to any change to the current constitution. Amend it if needed, but don't just start over.
While I realize there are many participants who are not Americans, I believe the purpose of this game is to simulate American politics. This site is dedicated primarily to United States presidential elections (this is uselectionatlas.org). I strongly object to the usage of terms such as "Parliament" and "Prime Minister". That game will simulate British/Canadian style politics, rather than US, and it is my belief that such a game will not attract as many new participants as the current game does. Someone posted that we set a new record for votes cast in the current election. It seems the current game does attract new players.
I could perhaps go along with universalism, if the majority of Atlasians feel this is a good and needed change, and no major structural changes to the Presidency are made, and no titles are employed that are not found in use in the USA.
I don't mean to be difficult, really, but I have to express my feelings about this. I presume any proposal passed by this Convention will be put before the voters. I will likely vote no, and I hope that others will join me.
Agreed.
As a newbie to Atlasia, I may be able to provide a different perspective than many of the delegates. Fritz is right, the system must be based off the United States' system. Whether you think this system is superior to a parliamentary system or not, the site as a whole is dedicated to US elections, therefore those who will consider joining Atlasia will be primarily interested in US politics (sorry foreigners, but that is the truth).
While I'm here, I would like to make a few suggestions (if I am going too far here as a non-delegate, let me know):
1. Perhaps have senatorial elections every four months, thus making them stand for reelection three times a year.
2. Have a more active GM (I doubt anything about this can be done here, except for a way to remove an inactive GM).
3. Reduce the number of regions (this has been stated many times in this convention).
4. Put the rules for how a party operates in the constitution. This is a game, so this is reasonable. I believe that more structured parties would increase party activity, intra-party conflict, regular conventions, etc.
5. Perhaps have a more powerful speaker of the house/senate, though NO prime minister as he/she would make the presidency obsolete. Perhaps give this individual more legislative control and responsibility. This would increase the parties' interest in winning legislative seats.
You make some good points but I am in complete disagreement on #3. In my view decreasing the regions can make our problems much worse. Personally now with the movement in Atlasia growing strong for reform this Convention probably could have waited to see what could come of the normal process. However at the time we thought no change was possible out of the the existing power structures. Lets say we decrease the number of regions, and the number of positions. For about 6 months we get a huge boost in activity through more competative elections. Then the dust settles down and you have fewer offices to run for and the chance for people who are unwilling to run against other office holders leave the game cause of the limited opportunity for advancement. Plus any attempt to reduce the regions will meet heavy opposition and likely drown any thing that comes out of this convention.
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Having revisited the proposals currently on the table, I re-iterate my objections to any change to the current constitution. Amend it if needed, but don't just start over.
While I realize there are many participants who are not Americans, I believe the purpose of this game is to simulate American politics. This site is dedicated primarily to United States presidential elections (this is uselectionatlas.org). I strongly object to the usage of terms such as "Parliament" and "Prime Minister". That game will simulate British/Canadian style politics, rather than US, and it is my belief that such a game will not attract as many new participants as the current game does. Someone posted that we set a new record for votes cast in the current election. It seems the current game does attract new players.
I could perhaps go along with universalism, if the majority of Atlasians feel this is a good and needed change, and no major structural changes to the Presidency are made, and no titles are employed that are not found in use in the USA.
I don't mean to be difficult, really, but I have to express my feelings about this. I presume any proposal passed by this Convention will be put before the voters. I will likely vote no, and I hope that others will join me.
Agreed.
As a newbie to Atlasia, I may be able to provide a different perspective than many of the delegates. Fritz is right, the system must be based off the United States' system. Whether you think this system is superior to a parliamentary system or not, the site as a whole is dedicated to US elections, therefore those who will consider joining Atlasia will be primarily interested in US politics (sorry foreigners, but that is the truth).
While I'm here, I would like to make a few suggestions (if I am going too far here as a non-delegate, let me know):
1. Perhaps have senatorial elections every four months, thus making them stand for reelection three times a year.
2. Have a more active GM (I doubt anything about this can be done here, except for a way to remove an inactive GM).
3. Reduce the number of regions (this has been stated many times in this convention).
4. Put the rules for how a party operates in the constitution. This is a game, so this is reasonable. I believe that more structured parties would increase party activity, intra-party conflict, regular conventions, etc.
5. Perhaps have a more powerful speaker of the house/senate, though NO prime minister as he/she would make the presidency obsolete. Perhaps give this individual more legislative control and responsibility. This would increase the parties' interest in winning legislative seats.
You make some good points but I am in complete disagreement on #3. In my view decreasing the regions can make our problems much worse. Personally now with the movement in Atlasia growing strong for reform this Convention probably could have waited to see what could come of the normal process. However at the time we thought no change was possible out of the the existing power structures. Lets say we decrease the number of regions, and the number of positions. For about 6 months we get a huge boost in activity through more competative elections. Then the dust settles down and you have fewer offices to run for and the chance for people who are unwilling to run against other office holders leave the game cause of the limited opportunity for advancement. Plus any attempt to reduce the regions will meet heavy opposition and likely drown any thing that comes out of this convention.
You're probably right about #3. Upon reflection I realize that, while good in theory, it probably would have too many negative unintended consequences tied to it.
Having revisited the proposals currently on the table, I re-iterate my objections to any change to the current constitution. Amend it if needed, but don't just start over.
While I realize there are many participants who are not Americans, I believe the purpose of this game is to simulate American politics. This site is dedicated primarily to United States presidential elections (this is uselectionatlas.org). I strongly object to the usage of terms such as "Parliament" and "Prime Minister". That game will simulate British/Canadian style politics, rather than US, and it is my belief that such a game will not attract as many new participants as the current game does. Someone posted that we set a new record for votes cast in the current election. It seems the current game does attract new players.
I could perhaps go along with universalism, if the majority of Atlasians feel this is a good and needed change, and no major structural changes to the Presidency are made, and no titles are employed that are not found in use in the USA.
I don't mean to be difficult, really, but I have to express my feelings about this. I presume any proposal passed by this Convention will be put before the voters. I will likely vote no, and I hope that others will join me.
Agreed.
As a newbie to Atlasia, I may be able to provide a different perspective than many of the delegates. Fritz is right, the system must be based off the United States' system. Whether you think this system is superior to a parliamentary system or not, the site as a whole is dedicated to US elections, therefore those who will consider joining Atlasia will be primarily interested in US politics (sorry foreigners, but that is the truth).
While I'm here, I would like to make a few suggestions (if I am going too far here as a non-delegate, let me know):
1. Perhaps have senatorial elections every four months, thus making them stand for reelection three times a year.
2. Have a more active GM (I doubt anything about this can be done here, except for a way to remove an inactive GM).
3. Reduce the number of regions (this has been stated many times in this convention).
4. Put the rules for how a party operates in the constitution. This is a game, so this is reasonable. I believe that more structured parties would increase party activity, intra-party conflict, regular conventions, etc.
5. Perhaps have a more powerful speaker of the house/senate, though NO prime minister as he/she would make the presidency obsolete. Perhaps give this individual more legislative control and responsibility. This would increase the parties' interest in winning legislative seats.
You make some good points but I am in complete disagreement on #3. In my view decreasing the regions can make our problems much worse. Personally now with the movement in Atlasia growing strong for reform this Convention probably could have waited to see what could come of the normal process. However at the time we thought no change was possible out of the the existing power structures. Lets say we decrease the number of regions, and the number of positions. For about 6 months we get a huge boost in activity through more competative elections. Then the dust settles down and you have fewer offices to run for and the chance for people who are unwilling to run against other office holders leave the game cause of the limited opportunity for advancement. Plus any attempt to reduce the regions will meet heavy opposition and likely drown any thing that comes out of this convention.
You're probably right about #3. Upon reflection I realize that, while good in theory, it probably would have too many negative unintended consequences tied to it.
The best way to increase activity is to create competative elections, that I agree with. The best way in my opinion to achieve that is massive growth in the number of active civilians of Atlasia. Lets try to get more forumers to come into the game, entice the some of the old lions back, and try to encourage the newbies to join as well. It will be hard to get that many new members with less offices.
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The best way to increase activity is to create competative elections, that I agree with. The best way in my opinion to achieve that is massive growth in the number of active civilians of Atlasia. Lets try to get more forumers to come into the game, entice the some of the old lions back, and try to encourage the newbies to join as well. It will be hard to get that many new members with less offices.
Indeed. I personally would not have joined had Senator Pit not asked me to. This is meaningless here in the ConCon, but if we could get some of the more experienced members to actively recruit those on the forum, I suspect we would have an uptick in registered, and active, Atlasian voters. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '9613f421cc77523634ed5e05e4868ab3f592fd3668fcccadf12b23e3b603379a'} |
Null Universal Differentiability sets
(University of Birmingham)
Abstract. Given a space X, we are looking for its subsets S as small as possible with the universal differentiability property, i.e. that every Lipschitz function on X has a point of differentiability in S.We show that every finite dimensional space contains universal differentiability sets of Minkowski dimension 1. We discuss possible generalisations and show that this result is optimal. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '650d4f882952db3988a161af11159525f2979d9876ddac46c8806e26c035b9cd'} |
3D window Bug?
A few days from now I needed to make an animation using the phisics of the game engine.
It happens that everytime I press P the 3d window goes all gray and I can see nothing.
If I choose the option record game phisics to IPO he records it right but I still cant see nothing in 3d window during the recording. Only when I press escape the window shows the scene again.
Is this a bug?
Depends on what your scene is and what your ‘viewport shading options’ is. I have been using it without experiencing any bugs so I think it must be a combination of the above. If still puzzled post a blend. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9168618321418762}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '17002', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:3S7YG26A7FXXJG2XRNCYSWAGTWQBRMFT', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:542c30b6-7bff-476d-bd53-80e190651c1f>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2021, 1, 28, 8, 39, 31), 'WARC-IP-Address': '104.21.90.4', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:HWJFDZ55776UBKUOJKONLFWBP2APXKCH', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:6db9acac-7e24-40ba-b580-e6fe2ffb72b6>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://blenderartists.org/t/3d-window-bug/428892', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:9144eff8-9de0-40ee-8a72-55d3ac92f81d>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '119', 'url': 'https://blenderartists.org/t/3d-window-bug/428892', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2021-04\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for January 2021\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-99.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.17 (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: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.3823545575141907', 'original_id': 'f799d6165f9145fa53c352c0ea391c31b12d2184f496ccd63b60275086c59557'} |
Over at An Un-Canny Ontology, my friend Nate writes:
for Levi, even if we scientifically prove that material existence can be decomposed into 6 or so specific particles, such decomposition is in no way exhaustive for all being. For Levi, being is more than just materiality; it is also immateriality, fictional, and symbolic. And in this way, onticology is inclusive, slutty, or promiscuous. It does not discriminate between objects.
This is mostly right. I do discriminate among objects (they come in all sorts of flavors), but I hold that all of these objects are real. There are a wide variety of realisms and it is important to keep this in mind. Platonic realism holds that Forms or universals exist in their own right, and are not just abstractions of mind. This differs from Aristotle’s particularism that holds that only particulars exist and universals are just abstractions. In addition to Plato’s realism and Aristotle’s particularism, you also have materialistic and physicalist variants of realism. Thus the materialist or physicalist will claim that only material things are real. Everything else is to be explained in terms of this fundamental reality.
My realism is a promiscuous realism. I do not wish to claim that fewer things are real, but rather I wish to multiply the number of real things. The more real beings the better as far as I’m concerned. Or as Latour so nicely puts it, we shouldn’t strive to make things less real, but more real. What does he mean by this? This point can be nicely illustrated in terms of the modernist project of critique. In this connection I cannot recommend Latour’s We Have Never Been Modern more emphatically. Yes, sometimes he is thin on argument. Yes, often he is unfair. Nonetheless, he presents, in my view, a compelling critique of modernity. Modernity, as Latour understands it, consists in drawing a strict distinction between nature on the one hand (the physical world) and society on the other hand. The project of modernity is to purify these two domains. Thus, where there is only a single world for the premoderns, where the social and the natural are not clearly distinguished, modernity posits two distinct ontological domains that are never supposed to cross: the ontological domain of nature and the ontological domain of the social.
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A good deal of modernity can be understood as a war between these two domains. Thus you get your eliminative materialists that claim that the really real is the physical, and you get your eliminative idealists that claim that the really real is the social, the mind, the subjective, etc. Both sides duke it out endlessly, one attempting to show how the social, cultural, and the subjective is really based on nature (i.e., reductivism), the other side trying to show how all of the natural objects discussed by the sciences are really constituted by minds, subjects, culture, language, and so on. What both sides have in common, however, is the project of critique. Critique can be thought of as a technique or technology for purifying these two domains.
One strategy of critique is that of naturalization. Take some phenomenon that terrifies the premodern mind, like an earthquake. Not only is the premodern terrified by the earthquake itself, the premodern also sees the earthquake as having ethical and supernatural significance: the gods are punishing us because we have displeased them in some way. For the premodern mind, nature and culture are completely mixed up, so every event immediately has meaning, it is not humans that bestow or project meaning. So how does critique by naturalization take place? In a nutshell, the scientist shows that earthquakes result from the movement of tectonic plates, thereby showing that these events have nothing to do with the actions of the people that happen to live in the region of the earthquake. In showing that earthquakes result from the movement of tectonic plates, the naturalist purifies nonhuman actors, carefully separating them from cultural significations and values with which they have been encrusted. Sure, none of us want to be in an earthquake, but we no longer think of the earthquake as having anything to do with us or whether or not we’re pleasing or displeasing the gods.
For lack of a better term, I will call the other sort of critique “semiotic critique” (it could just as easily be called “sociological”). This form of critique strives to purify what is purely social about the social or distinguish the natural from the cultural. Take Marx’s account of value in the first volume of Capital. In some inspired pages, Marx discusses the value of gold. The “natural attitude” is to see the value or worth of gold as an intrinsic property of the gold. In other words, the value of the gold is treated as belonging to the gold itself. Where the critical project of naturalization consisted in giving a naturalistic explanation of phenomena that are given ethical and supernatural significance, the critical project of “semiotic or sociological critique” will consist in giving a social explanation of properties that appear natural. Thus Marx will show how humans give value to the gold. Similarly, a thinker like Judith Butler will show how gender is socially constructed.
Within the modernist framework, the move lies in making things less real. The naturalist turns the ethical and supernatural interpretations of natural events into superstitions. The critical theorist turns the naturalization of certain phenomena into fetishes. Regardless of which side one sides with (and most of us side with both), something comes to be marked as real and something else as unreal. Just as we distill alcohol, purifying it, and thereby rendering it more potent, the critic distills nature and society, determining the share of being that belongs to each. The moderns are essentially decanters of being.
Within the framework of the ontology I am trying to develop, I am striving to avoid both of these options. I do not wish to choose between the social and the naturalist, becoming either an anti-realist on the one side or a scientific naturalist on the other side. When I assert a flat ontology, this is what I’m saying: that there is only one strata of being, not two incommensurable ontologies. I thus end up advocating a realism. However, this is not a realism of the eliminative materialist sort, where only physical and material beings are real. This is a realism where physical objects like black holes, quasars, quarks, trees, DNA, and bonobo monkeys are all real, but it is also a realism where fictional characters, writing, language, subjects, and so on are all real. In this regard, it is a promiscuous realism, because far from reducing the number of entities that are or that exist, it multiplies the number of entities that are or exist.
As a consequence, within the framework of my ontology, the modernist project of critique disappears. I can no longer proceed with the naturalist, showing that some social entity is really a natural phenomenon. Nor can I proceed like the sociologist, showing that something we believed to be natural is really social. At this point I can hear the screams in response: “Ah ha! Now we’ve got you! You believe that the communion host really is the body and blood of Christ!” “You believe that the solar eclipse really is an omen of famine yet to come!” “You believe that sexual orientation really is biological, rather than socially constructed!” All sorts of absurdities can be multiplied here and I’m sure I’ll hear them.
I think this line of objections brings us to Nate’s question:
…if we accept the two worlds as coexisting, then what does object-oriented thought actually philosophizing about? Or to put this another way, if the physical side of reality (our zombie world) can be explained away by particle physics and the Standard Model, what can object-oriented thought discuss? Is object-oriented thought, then, only truly adding to the discourse on language, culture, and the immaterial world? And, can we split the two “realities” in the first place? Do we have to treat a person as both a zombie (explained away by particle physics) and a human (explained away by philosophy)? Finally, should and can object-oriented thinking move outside of the realm of the symbolic and into the material, physical, and zombie-filled arena?
I think Nate is asking the right sort of question in asking what it is that object-oriented ontology philosophizes about, but I don’t think he poses it in quite the right way when posing it in terms of two worlds. The key point about flat ontology as I understand it, is that there is only one world (or an infinite number of worlds, but more on that in another post). In thinking about the relations among objects, the proper concept is that of assemblages, not relations between parts and wholes. A mountain bike is an assemblage. It is composed all sorts of elements related to one another. What is interesting about the mountain bike is the way these parts relate to one another in this assemblage. Some elements play a very minor role in the assembled object. If the covering on the handlebar falls off, the bike won’t cease to function. Some elements play a very major role in the assemblage. If the chain falls off you won’t get anywhere.
One central question for object-oriented ontology– over and above the question of what an object is –is the question of how objects get assembled together. How they fit together. Rather than losing sleep over whether or not particles are the really real or whether or not the social is the really real, instead onticology tries to think about assemblages of these things and the differences they each contribute. To what degree does a discourse, theory, or set of practices surrounding sexuality contribute to the formation of sexual orientation? What role does this gear play in the movement of a bike? What does DNA contribute to sexuality? What does Interview with a Vampire contribute to a person’s sexuality? Some of these things will contribute slight differences, but differences nonetheless. We might discover that certain things contribute no differences with respect to these particular objects. Onticology treats all of these entities as actors or objects, but it is not committed to the thesis that all of these entities contribute equal shares of difference. If Christ truly enters the host, that presence doesn’t seem to contribute much in the way of difference. Nonetheless, the theory that Christ enters the host (which is itself an object), produces all sorts of differences in the world. With regard to Nate’s zombie ruminations, can we argue that signs, discourses, narratives, and whatnot make differences at the neurological level? Catherine Malabou thinks so. Zizek thinks so. In other words, the influence doesn’t seem to be unidirectional such that the proper order of explanation is from the neurological to mental and social contents. Rather, causation here seems to be bidirectional, such that signifiers, signs, discourses, conversations, encounters, all have a profound impact on how our neural systems come to be organized. Applying the principle of parity, why do the eliminative materialists then insist on treating the genetic or the neurological as the only real factor where development is concerned. Here we have something, the signifier, producing tremendous differences, yet we’re told that we have to make a choice between the neurological or the signifier.
I suppose, then, that I think object-oriented ontology can lead us to ask better questions and practice greater parity in our explanations. Here it’s worthwhile to evoke Zizek’s notion of a parallax. A parallax is a sort of irreducible antinomy. As Zizek explains it with reference to Kant,
Let us take Kant’s confrontation with the epistemological antinomy which characterized his epoch: empiricism versus rationalism. Kant’s solution is neither to chose one of the terms, nor to enact a kind of higher “synthesis” which would “sublate” the two as unilateral, as partial moments of a global truth (and, of course, nor does he withdraw to pure scepticism); the stake of his “transcendental turn” is precisely to avoid the need to formulate one’s own “positive” solution. What Kant does is to change the very terms of the debate; his solution – the transcendental turn – is unique in that it, first, rejects the ontological closure: it recognizes a certain fundamental and irreducible limitation (“finitude”) of the human condition, which is why the two poles, rational and sensual, active and passive, cannot ever be fully mediated-reconciled – the “synthesis” of the two dimensions (i.e., the fact that our Reason seems to fit the structure of external reality that affects us)always relies on a certain salto mortale or “leap of faith.” Far from designating a “synthesis” of the two dimensions, the Kantian “transcendental” rather stands for their irreducible gap “as such”: the “transcendental” points at something in this gap, a new dimension which cannot be reduced to any of the two positive terms between which the gap is gaping. And Kant does the same with regard to the antinomy between the Cartesian cogito as res cogitans, the “thinking substance,” a self-identical positive entity, and Hume’s dissolution of the subject in the multitude of fleeting impressions: against both positions, he asserts the subject of transcendental apperception which, while displaying a self-reflective unity irreducible to the empirical multitude, nonetheless lacks any substantial positive being, i.e., it is in no way a res cogitans. Here, however, one should be more precise than Karatani who directly identifies the transcendental subject with transcendental illusion:
yes, an ego is just an illusion, but functioning there is the transcendental apperception X. But what one knows as metaphysics is that which considers the X as something substantial. Nevertheless, one cannot really escape from the drive /Trieb/ to take it as an empirical substance in various contexts. If so, it is possible to say that an ego is just an illusion, but a transcendental illusion.
However, the precise status of the transcendental subject is not that of what Kant calls a transcendental illusion or what Marx calls the objectively-necessary form of thought. First, the transcendental I, its pure apperception, is a purely formal function which is neither noumenal nor phenomenal – it is empty, no phenomenal intuition corresponds to it, since, if it were to appear to itself, its self-appearance would be the “thing itself,” i.e., the direct self-transparency of a noumenon. The parallel between the void of the transcendental subject ($) and the void of the transcendental object, the inaccessible X that causes our perceptions, is misleading here: the transcendental object is the void beyond phenomenal appearances, while the transcendental subject already appears as a void.
The antinomy between nature and culture that haunts modernity is a sort of parallax. So long as we choose the social side, the natural disappears. So long as we choose the natural side, the cultural disappears. The solution, as Zizek puts it, is not to effect a synthesis of these two positions, or a “positive solution”, but rather to affirm the antinomy itself as an irreducible gap. So long as we view the world through the lens of modernity, we cannot see the “solution” to this antinomy as we’re still asking ourselves “is nature based on the human side of the equation or the human based on the natural side of the equation, or is it some synthesis of the two?” Object-oriented ontology’s move is to deny the whole distinction from the outset, treating all of these objects as real objects. I don’t know if this quite fits Zizek’s criterion. I’ll have to think on it more, to see whether or not I can find the sort of “gap” he’s talking about. Zizek’s own solution, it seems to me, is not realist in that being, for him, remains sutured to the human and the subject. I don’t think Zizek would himself disagree with this characterization given his debt to German Idealism. If this is fair, then it seems to me that Zizek is still choosing one side of the modernist divide (the social side). Nonetheless, it would certainly be nice, however, to refer to my realism not simply as “onticology”, but as parallax realism. Perhaps the gap would lie in the thesis that objects are withdrawn or barred.
Thanks Nate.
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Back in Harness
by Anton Wills-Eve
If I appear to keep disappearing: I haven’t posted anything for six weeks! the anaesthetic must be stronger than the doctors realise. So instead of having nightmares I shall merely share the press release on my recently published novel, James and Jacqueline which is now in book stores and available on line.
New book is a tale of love, organized crime, phobias and university life
Anton Wills-Eve tells the story of ‘James and Jacqueline’ and their wild romantic adventures
UNITED KINGDOM – Two people, lost in the dizzying maze of life, haunted by the vicissitudes of fate and gripped by their myriad fears, come together and find strength and solace in each other’s presence in Anton Wills-Eve’s new novel. “James and Jacqueline” is a tale that follows the eponymous couple’s romantic hijinks – and the myriad personal, mental, familial and criminal crises they face – which begin within the walls and halls of an English university, and eventually reach all the way to Paris, the city of love and light.
The lovers start off broken by their respective phobias, which dominate their lives, and are initially defined by how they face their circumstances. James believes that God is his greatest aid, while Jacqueline cannot accept the idea of any creator who could make her so cruelly ill. He suffers from agoraphobia, she from claustrophobia, reflecting their similarities and their polar differences. Their meeting is fateful, and eventually they fall for each other and face the challenges before them, which range from dogmatic doctors, the difficulties of living and working in the university, the loss of loved ones and parents, and family involvement in a major crime syndicate. As they go on this arduous journey, they are changed by each other and by the hardships they encounter, the courage they muster as they fight against their inner demons, and the help they get from those who come to their aid. Lives are threatened, anxieties and neuroses inevitably manifest, passions and emotions run wild, and appalling revelations emerge as the couple makes their way towards the end of the story and their journey.
At once touching, exciting and humorous, the story of “James and Jacqueline” shows readers how to live with a serious anxiety neurosis while being faced with moral, romantic, family, criminal, religious and social crises. Wills-Eve’s unpredictable tale, and the flawed characters populating it, contains something of everybody’s concept of true love and life.
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Saturday 22 July 2017
'Brave, funny Braiden is my inspiration'
Despite being born with a serious heart defect, Braiden Dunphy enjoys sports and has a good quality of life, his proud mum tells Edel Coffey
Colette Dunphy with her children Braiden (9, right) and Zach (3). Photo by Dave Meehan.
Edel Coffey
Colette Dunphy , daughter of soccer pundit Eamon, was just 24 when she had her first son, Braiden. "I think when you're 24 and pregnant you're naïve and presume everything is going to be okay. I hoped everything was okay but I had no idea anything was wrong until he was three days old. We were due to leave and the doctors came to check him out because of a birthmark. They heard a significant heart murmur. Within half an hour of that he was in the ICU in the Coombe, and then two days later he was in Crumlin."
Braiden is now nine and has hypoplastic left heart syndrome. "It means basically that the left-hand side of his heart didn't develop." Colette has a second son, Zack, who is nearly four.
Remembering back to when she discovered there was something wrong with Braiden's heart she says: "I was terrified and at that point, not knowing, I thought he was going to die there and then because I realised this was one of the more complicated conditions, it's the most serious one you can be born with."
Within days, Braiden was diagnosed and Colette was told he would need several open-heart surgeries.
"There were other difficulties. They discovered he was born without his spleen, there were problems with his lung, his stomach wasn't in the right position. It really took a while for it to sink in and I would say it took a couple of years for the shock to leave."
As Braiden got older, Colette began to notice how the condition affected him. "Seeing him grow older and struggle with his energy, his lips would go blue in cold, and walking up and down the stairs or even being able to go on simple walks with him to the playground or the shop, things you take for granted were things we found a struggle. Sports days. I thought I'd be watching him playing football on the sidelines and doing other things. It's hard for me but it's harder for him."
Despite the fact that he can't do some of the things that most children take for granted, Braiden's quality of life is really good, says Colette.
"For Braiden it's the norm. He can't do competitive sport but he can do it at his own leisure or pace. He'd like to run around the playground or go on long walks and he'd like to be able to take the puppy for a walk, but 10 minutes is all he can manage."
Nobody could have foreseen the turn things took in 2011, when Braiden was due for a complicated surgery.
"For whatever reason Braiden's body wasn't able to cope. Six or seven hours later the doctors came back and said, we're really sorry, we don't think he's going to make it through. Everyone was devastated. He was in surgery for 13 hours. They didn't think he'd make it back to the ICU and then they didn't think he'd make it through the night, and the following day the doctors came and said there's a very small window, maybe another hour, and that will be it unless we can get him onto the ECMO machine, which was provided by Heart Children Ireland."
He had a day on that machine, and recovered, which Colette describes as a miracle. A few days later, Braiden suffered a serious stroke. He was six years old.
"His body was under pressure, he wasn't able to go on blood-thinning medication to prevent stroke, in that 24-hour period. He couldn't speak, swallow, eat or walk, his left-side was paralysed, that lasted a couple of weeks but with the help of Crumlin physiotherapists he began to speak and walk again. He has no effects of it now, maybe some weakness down his left side."
Often such difficulties are hard for children to deal with, especially if they feel they can't do things that other children their age can do, but Colette says, "he just thinks he's really special and brave. He's great, an adult wouldn't be able to go through what he did and remain happy. He's just really determined. He flew to Boston last year with his Firhouse karate club and he competed in Boston and got a gold medal. That was a really big thing in our lives."
When I ask her was she proud, her voice wobbles. "Was I proud!? I was so proud and he was so proud and everyone involved was and even people in Boston knew about his struggle and journey. He's really exceptional."
Braiden likes everything most nine-year-old boys like. "He loves his computer and his laptop and 'Minecraft'. He likes his own time too."
When Braiden was two, Colette went back to work for about a year and a half, but because he was so poorly it just wasn't an option.
'When Zack came along I was doing the full-time mom thing. I got involved with the charity Heart Children Ireland. I wanted to meet parents in similar situations and thought it would be good for Braiden to meet people with the same condition so they could play at the same level as each other. I didn't want him to always feel left behind or the odd one out. None of them can run around so they'll all play their computer and that's really important. When you're in school and everyone can do everything you can't do, you feel left out."
Braiden has to visit Crumlin hospital every three months and takes medication every morning and every night. He also has two to three hospital appointments a week.
"He's always doing something. It's a full-time job to keep him healthy and involved in clinics. That'll be part of his life forever. It's sad that that's all he knows but it makes it easier that it didn't come upon him halfway through his life."
Does it upset her to think about things he misses out on or things he might miss out on in the future because of his condition? "I would be upset thinking about when he's a teenager how it might affect him but that's just my upset. Braiden says, when I'm older I'm going to be an archaeologist and he believes that."
If you saw Braiden, you wouldn't know anything was wrong, says Colette. "He's funny and brilliant."
The two are clearly incredibly close. Having a child who is sick from birth creates a strong bond. "If he isn't with me I miss him. We've spent so much time together he's an inspiration to me," says Colette. "He's my son but I just admire him so much, in regards to his strength and bravery. I couldn't have done the things he's done and still be smiling."
• Colette Dunphy is a fundraiser for Heart Children Ireland. To donate visit
Hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) is a severe congenital heart defect in which the left side of the heart is underdeveloped. The left side of the heart is responsible for pumping oxygenated blood into the large artery that carries blood to the body.
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3-5 Years
3-5 years
This section covers the period from a child's third birthday until their fifth birthday.
In 2008 the Scottish Government and the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (COSLA) published The Early Years Framework, a key piece of policy that recognises that what happens to children in their earliest years reflects the values of our society and is critical to outcomes in adult life. The importance of the early years is supported by a wide range of research and evidence from education, health, justice and economic experts.
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Introduction
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In recent years, brine shrimps *Artemia franciscana* (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) have attracted much interest of both research and fishery. The former explores the molecular basis for their exceptional stress tolerance, the reproduction pathways, and the role of nutrients and pathogens for their life cycle ([@ref-31]; [@ref-16]). The latter uses unique possibilities for industrial breeding of these crustaceans as a valuable fish food supply.
Dependent upon environmental and seasonal factors, the reproduction of *A. franciscana*, illustrated in [Fig. 1](#fig-1){ref-type="fig"}, may follow either of two different paths: Under less favorable conditions, reproduction is realized by oviparous release of eggs (cysts) at a stage of diapause. Alternatively, under more favorable conditions, reproduction is by ovoviviparous development of eggs inside the ovisac (uterus) and instant hatching of nauplii ([@ref-7]). The ovisac of female *Artemia* facilitates major processes of the reproduction process: Once the ovaries have released oocytes into two lateral pouches (oviducts) they undergo vitellogenesis. During mating the males deposit sperm inside ovisacs, where it matures and initiates embryogenesis by fertilization of the eggs. Notably, some strains of *A. franciscana* undergo embryogenesis without fertilization (known as reproduction by parthenogenesis).
![Life cycle of *Artemia Franciscana.*\
Two distinctly different paths of reproduction are possible: Under favorable environmental conditions embryos develop directly inside the ovisac, and nauplii are released from there (ovoviviparity). Under harsh environmental conditions the ovisac produces diapausing eggs that dry out after their release (oviparity). Once the cysts are rehydrated, larvae (nauplii) will hatch. Notably, light has been identified as a factor for inducing hatching ([@ref-41]). The development of nauplii into sub-adults occurs within 1--3 weeks. Adult females release oocytes from their two oviducts into the ovisac where they become fertilized by males.](peerj-05-3923-g001){#fig-1}
Different microscopy methods have been used to study *Artemia* life cycle. Stereomicroscopy is routinely applied to evaluate the reproduction process in the ovisac of *A. franciscana*, and to distinguish between stages of oogenesis, egg- and cyst maturation, and activity of the shell glands ([@ref-26]; [@ref-9]). Detailed characterization of the reproductive processes requires the use of transmission electron microscopy (TEM). Previous comprehensive TEM studies of chemically fixed and embedded samples were focused at developmental processes inside the ovisac ([@ref-5]; [@ref-6]). However, they did not report specific observations concerning the cuticle and subjacent epithelial cell layer of the ovisac itself. Studies of the formation of epidermis were performed at the larval stage of *A. franciscana*, but this local and time-dependent process was not followed up to maturation of the animal ([@ref-48]; [@ref-13]; [@ref-14]). TEM studies of adult epidermis aimed specifically to understand molting of the cuticle, but the ovisac was never chosen for these investigations ([@ref-8]). Our report, therefore, complements previous studies, which excluded the ovisac lining from TEM investigation. Moreover, we note that previous TEM studies of *A. franciscana* relied on conventional chemical sample preparation at room temperature. This opens ample opportunities for further improvement of sample preparation by cryotechniques that are based on instant freezing. Our EM facility included *A. franciscana* as model organisms in tests of an agitation module for accelerated freeze substitution (FS) ([@ref-18]). The findings of cellular inclusions within high-pressure frozen epidermal cells of the ovisac, described subsequently, underline the importance of this low-temperature dehydration- and fixation technique for proper preservation of cellular structures for TEM.
Our initial observation of cellular inclusions in cryopreserved epidermal cells inspired expanding our studies to a more comprehensive characterization of the ovisac lining by different methods including Confocal Reflection Microscopy (CRM) (for review: [@ref-38]), electron tomography, and selected area electron diffraction (SAED). Taken together, these studies revealed aspects of the mesostructured nature of these ovisac inclusions. In addition, they revealed the organization of these entities as reflective, light-dispersing 'umbrella' of the ovisac. We discuss our findings in the framework of *A. franciscana* reproduction, and we highlight both common ground and differences with respect to mesocrystalline superstructures known from biomineralization ([@ref-4]; [@ref-3]).
Materials & Methods
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Culturing *Artemia Franciscana*
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Dried cysts of *A. franciscana* strains, from Vinh Chau (Vietnam), Great Salt Lake, San Francisco Bay and TUZ (Turkey) were provided by Prof. van Stappen, Laboratory of Aquaculture & Artemia Reference Center, University of Gent. The larvae were reared under laboratory conditions to the adult stage as follows: 350 g of sea salt for aqua culturing 'Reef crystals' (Aquarium Systems, Grab, Switzerland) were dissolved in 10 l double-distilled water and applied for cultivation. The salinity, between 35 to 40 ppt, was controlled with a refractometer (Aqua Medic GmbH, Bissendorf, Germany). Hatching of nauplii from the cysts occurred in Duran^®^ vessels, 6 cm high and 10 cm in diameter, filled with 200 ml artificial seawater. After two days, nauplii were selected into culture medium bottles with a capacity of 500 ml seawater. The number of individuals was limited to 15 to 20 nauplii per bottle. LED arrays (AuraLum No. S3030-18 W, 2,800--3,200 K, white light; 2 × 40 cm × 40 cm) were placed at a distance of 30 cm from the culture bottles for illumination (16 h/day). The water temperature varied between 22 to 28 °C depending on the seasons. For feeding, algae of the two strains, *Rhodomonas* sp. and *Tisochrysis lutea*, strain 927/14 (Collection of Algae and Protozoa) (courtesy of Dr. Daniel Abed-Navandi, Haus des Meeres Vienna) were added to the culture.
Stereomicroscopy
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Freshly dissected ovisacs of *A. franciscana* were analyzed and documented with a Nikon SMZ25 stereomicroscope (Nikon, Tokyo, Japan) equipped with a Nikon DS-Ri1 U3 microscope camera. Specimens were obliquely illuminated with LED spots. Images of *z*-stacks were recorded and merged with the Nikon NIS-Elements BR software. The position of the LED spots was adjusted to find out the optimal reflective conditions for the mesostructured inclusions covering the ovisac. Movies of *A. francisana* were recorded with a Nikon J1 system camera mounted on a Nikon SMZ25 stereomicroscope using incident-oblique or transmitted light.
Polarisation microscopy
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Dissected linings of the ovisac were mounted in 0.1 M phosphate buffered saline (PBS), pH 7.4, and analyzed under cross-polarized light in a Nikon Eclipse E800 (Nikon, Tokyo, Japan) light microscope equipped with a Nikon DsFi2-U3 microscope camera.
Confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM)
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For analyzing cuticular autofluorescence, ovisacs of *A. franciscana* were cut off and mounted on microscopic slides in ≥99,5% glycerol Rotipuran^®^ (Roth GmbH, Karlsruhe, Germany). Autofluorescence of the specimens was recorded using Leica SP5 II confocal laser scanning microscope with LAS-AF software (Leica Microsystems, Wetzlar, Germany). Scans were either taken with a 20× or a 63× objective and confocal *z*-stacks were recorded at step sizes of 1 and 0.4 µm, respectively. The pinhole was set to one airy unit (AU) for low magnification and to 0.5 AU for high magnification. Autofluorescence resulting from excitation with wavelengths of 633 nm, 561 nm, 488 nm and 405 nm was recorded as previously described for other arthropods ([@ref-33]). The emitted fluorescence light was recorded with a photomultiplier tube or a Leica HyD detector at longer wavelength, above the respective excitation.
For visualization of the reflection of cellular inclusions in the epidermal lining, ovisacs were transferred directly to 0.1 M PBS, pH 7.4, since mounting in glycerol was unfavorable for reflection. Reflection images were recorded for three laser wave lines, at 633 nm, 561 nm and 488 nm. Windows for detection of the reflection signals were set within the narrow boundaries of the respective excitation spectra ([@ref-33]). Reflection images were displayed as single z-slices and as maximum intensity projections of parts or the whole image stack using the LAS-AF software or FIJI ([@ref-39]).
Conventional chemical preparation of TEM samples at room temperature
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Adult females, with their eggs assembled in a single mass inside of the uterus, were transferred into embryo dishes on ice. Once their movement was reduced they were decapitated with a microscissor and the ovisac was dissected. This procedure took less than 2 min for each animal. Dissected ovisacs, were immersed in 3 ml fixative consisting of 4% paraformaldehyde or 2.5% glutaraldehyde dissolved in PHEM buffer (90 mM PIPES, 37.5 mM HEPES, 15 mM EGTA and 3 mM MgCl~2~; pH 7.4 with 5% sucrose added), as described recently by [@ref-35] for improvement in preservation of marine invertebrates. The chemical fixation of the samples in glass vials (V-vials; EMS, Hatfield, PA, USA) was supported by microwave (MW) exposure for 30 min at 200 W in a temperature-controlled laboratory MW oven, PELCO BioWave^®^ Pro (Ted Pella, Inc, Redding, CA, USA) equipped with a 'steady state' tray for more even distribution of the MWs. To avoid overheating of samples, the temperature was limited to 36 °C. After postfixation at 4 °C overnight, samples were washed in PHEM buffer, and subsequently immersed in 1% osmium tetroxide (OsO~4~) in double-distilled water for 1 h. Dehydration by ethanol series (30%, 50%, 70% and 95% ethanol for 10 min each and two times 100% ethanol for 10 min each) was followed by immersion in propylene oxide. The infiltration with low-viscosity epoxy resin (Agar Scientific, Stansted, UK) was performed step-wise in solvent/ resin mixtures. Polymerization in freshly prepared, pure resin was accomplished over at least two days in an oven at 60 °C.
High-pressure freezing and freeze substitution (FS) accelerated by agitation
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Ovisacs, dissected as described above, were transferred into carriers type A (6 mm diameter; 200 µm depth) and covered with the flat surface of carriers type B (LEICA Microsystems, Wien, Austria). Notably, the carriers were coated with 1-hexadecene prior to use, and the inside volume of carrier A was filled up with 10% bovine serum albumin (BSA). The carrier sandwich was inserted into the middle plate of a sample cartridge and high-pressure frozen (HP-frozen) with the freezer HPM100 (LEICA Microsystems, Austria). FS was performed in an automatic freeze substitution unit AFS2 (Leica Microsystems, Austria) equipped with a self-made agitation module described elsewhere ([@ref-18]). Carriers containing the HP-frozen samples were placed onto the frozen substitution medium (1% OsO~4~ in acetone) in Sarstedt tubes. For Selected area electron diffraction (SAED), ovisacs of the TUZ strain from Turkey were also freeze-substituted in acetone in absence of OsO~4~. FS took place under agitation at −85 °C, initially for 3 h, but mostly for 10 h overnight. It was followed by warming up to room temperature and embedding in low viscosity epoxy resin (Agar Scientific, Stansted, UK). The temperature/time course was measured and recorded with a K- type thermocouple and USB data logger EL- USB-TC- LCD (Lascar Electronics, Erie, PA, USA) inside a dummy tube filled with acetone.
EDX
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Energy-dispersive X-ray microanalysis (EDX) was performed with an AMETEK EDAX Octane Plus detector attached to a JEOL IT300 scanning electron microscope equipped with a LaB~6~-cathode. Semithin sections of HP- frozen, rapidly freeze-substituted embedding of ovisacs, 2.5 µm in thickness, were placed on silicon wafers, mounted with carbon tabs onto aluminum stubs and coated with carbon by using a Leica EM MED020 vacuum coating system. Areas containing cellular inclusions were identified with SE-and BSE detectors and selected for measurement. Spectra and dot-mappings were recorded at 20 kV, at a working distance of 11 mm and under 35° -positioning of the EDAX detector. The dead-time of the detector was set between 22 and 25 s, and its lifetime at 30 s. Data collection, automated background subtraction and analysis were performed using the EDAX TEAM Software Version (V4.20) AMETEK GmbH, EDAX Division.
Selected area electron diffraction
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Selected area electron diffraction (SAED) and high-resolution TEM imaging at 200 kV was applied to 60 nm epoxy resin sections of ovisacs that were processed by HP freezing and rapid FS. For SAED at 200 kV a 10 µm-sized aperture is placed into the first image of the objective lens and the focal plane is projected to the camera system of a TECNAI F20 transmission electron microscope (FEI, Eindhoven, The Netherlands). Due to elastic scattering, some electron trajectories are deflected off the optical axes, thus forming the diffraction patterns. In the case of amorphous structures, diffuse rings show the medium atomic distance.
Electron tomography
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Electron tomography of epoxy resin sections of HP frozen, rapidly freeze-substituted ovisacs of *A. franciscana* was performed using a Tecnai-20 electron microscope at 200 kV equipped with an eucentric goniometer and a single high-tilt holder (FEI, Eindhoven, The Netherlands) Tilt series of digital images within an angular range of 65° to +65° and a tilt increment of 1° were recorded with the help of the Xplore 3D software (FEI company) using a Eagles 4K-CCD camera (FEI Company; chip size: 4.096 × 4.096 pixels). In order to reconstruct the volume of the 200--300 nm thick sections into virtual slices (thickness 0.39--0.46 nm corresponding to a microscope magnification of 29.000× or 25.000× respectively), we used the IMOD software (Boulder Laboratory for 3D Electron Microscopy of Cells, University of Colorado, USA). For 3D-modeling, the structures of interest in each slice were traced with colored contours that were merged in the *Z*-axis with the help of the Amira 5.3 software (Mercury Computer Systems, Merignac, Cedex, France).
Results
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Stereomicroscopy: variable observation of ovisac glitter
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Adult females of *A. franciscana* that are progressed in embryogenesis towards unification of their eggs in a single cluster inside the uterus display a regular pattern of 'glitter' in their ovisac lining. Depending upon illumination under the stereo microscope, this glittering was either inconspicuous ([Fig. 2A](#fig-2){ref-type="fig"}) or very evident ([Fig. 2B](#fig-2){ref-type="fig"}). Notably, glitter similar to [Fig. 2A](#fig-2){ref-type="fig"} was recorded previously (e.g., stereomicroscopy images in [@ref-40]) but not commented. Our findings in the TEM, described in the following as source of this glitter, initiated and inspired optimization of light microscopy for correlative observations. We discovered that the LED illumination source of the stereomicroscopy must be oriented in favor of reflection by glittering flakes within ovisac epidermal cells. Under this optimized illumination, and adjusted for each sample individually, the stereomicroscope can be used for a rough evaluation of the surface coverage of the ovisacs by reflecting entities.
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The glittering of the ovisacs was also observed using live imaging under the stereomicroscope. HD-video analysis enabled us to discriminate between initial vitellogenesis of oocytes in the oviduct and later stages that comprise the release of oocytes in the ovisac, fertilization and egg development. The former was not associated with observations of glittering flakes at the ovisac (see [Movie S1](#supp-4){ref-type="supplementary-material"}). Once egg development inside the ovisac started, the glittering flakes became apparent. ([Movie S2](#supp-5){ref-type="supplementary-material"}, provides an undisturbed view at the ovisac after separation of the copulating male). Under our culture conditions, mating occurred prior to the release of oocytes into the ovisac. Evidence for this observation is provided by [Movie S3](#supp-6){ref-type="supplementary-material"} which displays a male enclosing a female with its clasping organs. As the absence of eggs in the ovisac coincided with the absence of glittering flakes, we surmised that the glitter was not required for optical triggering of the copulation.
Confocal microscopy: glitter caused by mesostructured, optical active flakes at the ovisac lining
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Since the epidermis of the ovisac is covered by an autofluorescent exoskeleton, we tested whether the cuticular autofluorescence itself or a supposed inherent autofluorescence or reflection could be used for visualization of the glittering flakes in the confocal microscope. As demonstrated in [Fig. 2C](#fig-2){ref-type="fig"}, the ovisac lining shows a dominant bluish autofluorescence over the surface area, which could be caused by excitation of the elastic protein resilin at a wave length of 405 nm ([@ref-34]). Multiple components, likely to include sclerotised chitin, add to the almost white autofluorescence of the two characteristic spines ([@ref-1]). However, no modulation of contrasts was observed that could indicate the presence of the glittering, flake-like entities seen in the stereomicroscope.
Confocal Reflection Microscopy (CRM) used the reflective optical properties of the glittering elements observed in the stereomicroscope for visualization at higher optical resolution by laser scanning of the ovisac surface with different incident wavelengths (633 nm, 561 nm and 488 nm). [Figure 2D](#fig-2){ref-type="fig"} displays an overlay of the reflections of all three wavelengths generated from an image *z*-stack that covers a large field of view of the ovisac. Irregularly shaped areas within the focus region of this *z*-stack indicate an almost complete covering of the ovisac by multicolored, reflective flake-like structures, located almost in parallel to the ovisac surface. At higher magnification it became apparent that these flakes possess characteristic mesostructures made of in parallel-running striations ([Fig. 3A](#fig-3){ref-type="fig"}). If the stack overlay [Fig. 3A](#fig-3){ref-type="fig"} is separated according to the individual, contributing wavelengths ([Figs. 3B](#fig-3){ref-type="fig"}--[3D](#fig-3){ref-type="fig"}), it becomes apparent that one and the same flake is not equally reflective for all three wavelengths. (For comparison the small, boxed area is located at the same position in each of the figures.) As a consequence, each flake of an estimated size of about 25 µm^2^ acts as a dispersive light optical element. Lateral variation in reflection within one and the same flake indicates that the dispersion of light depends on multiple parameters, such as striation patterns, tilt and curvature of the flakes. Visualization of the mesostructures by using a polarization light microscope ([Fig. S1](#supp-1){ref-type="supplementary-material"}) confirmed our expectations that the striated inclusions possess inherent birefringent properties. The images obtained by polarization microscopy, however, lacked the resolution achieved by CRM.
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TEM preparation at room temperature: crystalline cellular inclusions identified but flake-like mesostructures lost
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CRM of native samples, in absence of any chemical fixative, exposes reflective mesostructures but it does not answer the question, in which layer of the ovisac lining they are located. Are they attached to the outer surface of the cuticle, are they incorporated into the cuticle or in the epithelial layer of the epidermis? To answer this, we applied TEM to thin sections of epoxy resin-embedded ovisacs.
TEM observation of samples preserved by conventional chemical fixation, dehydration and resin embedding at room temperature undoubtedly identified sources of the reflective elements described above in the form of numerous rhomboid inclusions inside the epidermis of the ovisac. The rhomboids were preferentially oriented in parallel to the ovisac surface ([Fig. 4A](#fig-4){ref-type="fig"}). Their occurrence was restricted to the inside of the epithelial cell layer, and their abundance was consistent with light microscopic observations. However, comparison with CRM data also highlighted a discrepancy: the flake-like nature of the reflective entities could not be confirmed. Although individual electron-dense rhomboids congregated in a parallel orientation as groups, they did not show any physical linkage between each other. The empty space between neighboring rhomboids coincided with the electron-lucent overall appearance of the epithelial cell cytoplasm. Suspecting that these 'empty spaces' were due to the harsh effects of organic solvents on sample preparation at temperatures above zero, we investigated whether cryotechniques in preparation of samples for TEM could better maintain the flake-like nature of the cellular inclusions indicated by CRM.
{ref-type="fig"}. The flakes are slightly curved and they display an edged interface with the cytoplasm (see arrowheads), and a smooth interface between alternating electron-dense and electron-lucent striations. The surrounding cytoplasm is densely filled with glycogen rosettes (asterisks). Essentially, no glycogen or other cytoplasmic content is incorporated in the electron-lucent material of the putative flakes. Bars: (A), 2 µm; (B) and (C), 1 µm.](peerj-05-3923-g004){#fig-4}
TEM preparation at cryo-temperature preserves mesostructured, flake-like inclusions
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For comparison with conventional embedding, we processed instantly high-pressure frozen ovisacs by freeze substitution (FS). The FS protocol, aiming at dehydration and fixation at a very low temperature, was kept particularly short by agitation of the samples in a commercial FS unit ([@ref-18]). As shown in [Figs. 4B](#fig-4){ref-type="fig"} and [4C](#fig-4){ref-type="fig"}, cryopreparation had a profound influence on the improved preservation of the cellular inclusions we described in this study. The epidermal cell detail at low magnification ([Fig. 4B](#fig-4){ref-type="fig"}) displays a cryopreparation with well-preserved cytoplasmic content, including many ribosomes and glycogen. The cuticle is covered with a continuous, brush-like surface layer, which is not preserved by conventional chemical processing. Moreover, it is folded, in accordance with the domain-like imaging of ovisac lining by CRM ([Fig. 2D](#fig-2){ref-type="fig"}) and polarization microscopy ([Fig. S1](#supp-1){ref-type="supplementary-material"}) on native samples. Rhomboids, most of them aligned in groups, are separated by electron-lucent areas that are confined against areas of ribosome and glycogen-containing cytoplasm. Visualization of longitudinally cut inclusions at higher magnification ([Fig. 4C](#fig-4){ref-type="fig"}) indicates that the electron-dense rhomboids and the electron-lucent material are combined as integral parts of the flake-like structures, which resemble the cellular inclusions observed by light microscopy in native tissues of [Fig. 2D](#fig-2){ref-type="fig"}. Consequently, our cryotechnical approach maintained the integrity of an alternating material composition. The flake-like characteristics of the cellular inclusions became clear, if their 'zebra-striped' patterns were analyzed in detail: the interface between electron-dense and electron-lucent stripes appears to be blurred as a result of tangential sectioning, while most of the outer edges, and especially those running in perpendicular to striations, are visualized as sharp lines. Taken together with the results by CRM, the three-dimensional consequence of these observations in the TEM is that the mesostructured cellular inclusions represent striated flakes, which (in terms of exemplification) resemble the geometry of 'crinkle-cut potato chips'. Given the apparent superiority of the cryopreparation samples, we performed all subsequent studies (observations in different *A. franciscana* strains, electron tomography, EDX spectra analysis, and electron diffraction) on basis of these methods.
Initial evidence for participation of crystals in mesostructured cellular inclusions
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A central point to our findings is whether the two striated components of the inclusions in the ovisac epithelium are of monocrystalline, polycrystalline, paracrystalline or amorphous nature, inclusively of the possibility that alternating assembly of crystalline and amorphous constituents might be necessary for formation of the 'zebra stripe' patterns.
The rhomboid shape of the electron-dense component and its sharp-lined interface are arguments for their crystalline origin. However, routine TEM images at high-magnification, recorded at 120 kV, did not display any evidence of grid-patterns of monolithic crystals- irrespective of sample preparation method; whether chemically fixed samples, processed at room temperature, or high-pressure frozen, freeze-substituted samples were used. To raise the resolution for TEM imaging of the HP frozen, freeze-substituted samples we (i) observed samples at 200 kV, and (ii) performed electron tomography at 200 kV to generate images from virtual sections, more than an order of magnitude thinner than sections cut with an ultramicrotome.
Neither the high resolution analysis of ultrathin sections at 200 kV ([Fig. S2](#supp-2){ref-type="supplementary-material"}), nor studies of virtual sections obtained by reconstruction of electron tomographic tilt series ([Fig. 5](#fig-5){ref-type="fig"}) could resolve grid-like patterns to give evidence of a monocrystalline nature of the mesostructured inclusions. Instead, they displayed contrasting modulations within the stripe patterns, conceivable to be caused by small, densely packed polycrystals. Besides, the interface between the electron-lucent stripes and the cytoplasm could be identified on the basis of a noticeable contrast in virtual tomographic sections. Accordingly, the interface border follows a concisely continuous contour defined by the sharp outer edges of the electron-dense material. The formation of such mesostructured flakes requires coordinated assembly of two cellular material components under participation of crystal growth; it cannot be explained simply by aggregation processes of proteinaceous material, as it would happen during the formation of irregularly shaped inclusion bodies ([@ref-11]).
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In order to test the supposed crystalline nature of the cellular inclusions more in detail, we applied selected area electron diffraction (SAED) in a 200 kV- electron microscope to cellular inclusions in TEM thin sections of HP frozen, freeze-substituted samples. The marked regions encircling the inclusions did not generate spot- or ring SAED patterns in evidence of a mono- or polycrystalline nature, respectively ([Fig. S3](#supp-3){ref-type="supplementary-material"}). This outcome contrasts with data of other superstructured biocrystals formed during mineralization; the so-called mesocrystals display SAED patterns of their inorganic crystalline components, regularly ([@ref-3]). Therefore, we wanted to know whether elements typically involved in mineralization are absent in the striped flakes of the ovisac lining. We applied energy dispersive X-ray analysis (EDX) in the SEM to semithin resin sections ([Fig. 6](#fig-6){ref-type="fig"}), with the result that elements characteristically involved in the formation of mineralization, and in particular calcium and iron were not detected in significant amounts within the flakes. Phosphor was not detectable at low amounts, because the measurement of its K~α~-peak was obscured by the presence of the osmium required for contrasting of the cellular inclusions.
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Instead of elements typically involved in biominerialization, we found significantly higher amounts of nitrogen in marked regions of the flakes, if compared with the overall cytoplasm ([Fig. 6](#fig-6){ref-type="fig"}). Since nitrogen participates in peptide bonds of amino acids of proteins, this result may indicate a higher concentration of proteins within the flakes, than the protein concentration of the surroundings. Such higher package density of proteins could possibly be achieved by crystallization.
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Formation of crystal-like superstructures comprises both the cytoplasm and the nucleoplasm
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Crystal-like superstructures are omnipresent in the cytoplasm of the epithelial layer of the ovisac lining. [Figure 4](#fig-4){ref-type="fig"} displays them at high abundance in the cytoplasm of the epithelial epidermis with preferential orientation in parallel to the cuticle. They represent also regular constituents of epithelial cell nuclei, although the likelihood for finding them inside thin sections is reduced. [Figure 7A](#fig-7){ref-type="fig"} displays a glycogen-rich epithelial cell containing both cytoplasmic and nuclear inclusions, seemingly at an early stage of their development; small, and sometimes individual rhomboid crystals in both the nucleoplasm and the cytoplasm, are displayed at low abundance. Observations in the nucleoplasm of an epidermal cell at higher magnification, revealed that most small, individual rhomboids located next to already assembled flakes possess an electron-lucent 'coat' at their outside ([Fig. 7B](#fig-7){ref-type="fig"}). On rare occasions, we also observed an uncoated cluster in the cytoplasm ([Fig. 7C](#fig-7){ref-type="fig"}), which could give rise to a clue about very early stages of the formation of individual rhomboids. The figure displays putative small electron-dense precursors surrounded by small sharply edged rhomboids. Whether the abundant presence of white spots in the surrounding is related to the 'coating' of individual rhomboids, or whether they represent artifacts caused by ice crystals cannot be decided from this by chance-observation.
Discussion
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Evidence for the participation of crystallization in the formation of mesostructured cellular inclusions
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TEM revealed cellular inclusions in the epithelial cell layer of the ovisac lining of *A. franciscana*. As demonstrated by electron tomography, these inclusions form flakes with striped patterns aligned exactly in parallel and edged at the interface to the cytoplasm and also at the interface between the electron-dense and the electron-lucent striations. From our point of view, the assembly of such patterned flakes is conceivable only along crystalline growth frontiers. The resulting 'zebra stripes' are of a large scale compared with the elementary constituents of the material, i.e., atoms and molecules. In consequence, the striated flakes resemble 'mesocrystals'---a term coined by Cölfen for a new class of solid materials ([@ref-4]). Mesocrystals are assembled by a particle-mediated process that links crystallographically oriented inorganic nanocrystals with interspacing amorphous organic or inorganic substances. The nanocrystals are thought to undergo a mesoscale-oriented self-assembly because of preferential surface interactions with the interspacing substance. Mesocrystals are formed naturally during biomineralization, e.g., in bones and mollusk shells, where they result in light weight composites with high strength and fracture toughness. The combination of crystallinity with porosity might also result in mesocrystals with extraordinary properties for sensing, photovoltaic and photocatalytic devices based on a faster, more efficient electron transfer ([@ref-49]; [@ref-3]). The mesostructures found in the ovisac lining of *A. franciscana*, did not contain substantial quantities of elements potentially involved in inorganic crystallization, nor did they display electron diffraction patterns. Therefore, and because of the increased nitrogen content inside the inclusions, we suggest the assembly of proteinaceous (poly)crystalline subunits in striated superstructures, under participation of yet unknown non-proteinaceous biopolymers. It would apply to a concept of nonclassical assembly of organic particles into building units, which may favor stacking of the flakes by a decrease in surface energy ([@ref-37]; [@ref-29]). Our observation of small individual rhomboids covered with a layer of electron-lucent material, indicates similarities with a hypothetic scenario suggested for mesocrystal formation based on inorganic crystalline subunits, since it requires coating of the crystalline subunits with an adherent prior to assembly into mesostructured arrays ([@ref-37]; [@ref-49]). More detailed studies of the assembly of the striated flakes in the lining of ovisacs would require their isolation and enrichment for application of X-ray diffraction techniques and mass spectroscopy.
Preservation of mesostructures by application of cryotechniques
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Numerous crystal-like cytoplasmic and nuclear inclusions have been previously observed in TEM (for review: [@ref-10]; [@ref-17]). They have usually been assumed to be of proteinaceous nature, but the specific proteins have rarely been identified ([@ref-10]). The question of how crystals, many times larger than nuclear pore complexes (for review on NPCs see [@ref-43]), could assemble inside the nucleus has been addressed by [@ref-19] by studying large intranuclear crystals in midgut cells of the whirliglig beetle *Gyrinus marinus*. Their autoradiographic experiments provided evidence for the synthesis of crystal proteins in the cytoplasm. Consequently, these proteins had to enter the nuclei via NPCs for assembly into nuclear crystals. From our point of view, such a scenario is conceivable with the simultaneous generation of inclusions both in the cyto-and nucleoplasm of the epidermal cells of *A. franciscana*.
Comparison of our data obtained by cryopreparation with samples that were chemically processed at room temperature clearly showed that the later are strongly affected by extraction of cellular material, such as proteins and carbohydrates. Besides a general elution, the extraction acts specifically on the electron-lucent content of the mesostructures. In consequence, the flake-like nature of these inclusions cannot be preserved by conventional ways. The 'remains' in the form of electron-dense rhomboids are reminiscent of numerous similar observations, made previously in conventionally processed tissues, which have been interpreted as crystalline inclusions (e.g., in the liver of the salamander *Batrachoseps* ([@ref-23]); in equine Schwann cells ([@ref-12]); in endometrial luminal epithelium and trophectoderm of ovine uteroplacental tissues ([@ref-20]); in tubular kidney epithelial cells of patients with the Fanconi syndrome, dysproteinemia-related nephropathy, or with kidney transplant ([@ref-42]; [@ref-25]; [@ref-28]). Histological studies of Reinke crystals in Leydig tumor cells made aware that the crystals themselves might be prone to degradation/dissolution. [@ref-32] reported that Reinke crystals dissolve rapidly in aqueous solutions (10% formalin) and very slowly and incompletely in alcohol, and they stressed practical consequences of their finding for the histopathologic tumor diagnosis.
The work by [@ref-20] contains a hint for the kind of losses that we may face in consequence of conventional sample preparation: Gray et al. applied immunogold labeling for galectin-15, a *β*-galactoside-binding lectin, to TEM sections of ovine uteroplacental tissues and found an intense immunolabeling to rhomboid crystals, confined within otherwise heavily extracted cells. This preparation, therefore, could have induced a loss of structure-related sugars, as natural binding partners to lectin proteins. In our opinion, losses of sugars and polycarbohydrates should be of general concern for studies of protein aggregations and crystallization in cells and tissues. We recommend HPF in combination with accelerated FS under agitation as a means to prevent losses of polycarbohydrates. Advantages in sample preparations have been demonstrated most recently in a different context, namely for preservation of algal starch ([@ref-18]). Here, cryopreparation revealed the true nature of cellular inclusions in the ovisac lining of *A. franciscana*, for our point of view, most likely by prevention of losses of electron-lucent polycarbohydrates.
Reflective, light dispersing properties realized by mesoscopic superstructures
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Confocal Reflection Microscopy (CRM) without any chemical sample processing has been proven as the method of choice for identification of mesostructured cellular inclusions at the ovisac lining of *A. franciscana*, but it could only provide an incomplete impression of the coverage of the ovisac with these structures, due to folding exceeding the dimension of the *z*-stack. As shown in [Figs. 2D](#fig-2){ref-type="fig"} and [3](#fig-3){ref-type="fig"}, the flake-like inclusions are not strictly oriented; they present variability in the incidence angles to incoming light. CMR revealed the optical active properties of the flake-like inclusions resulting from dispersion of visible light by grid-like striations. It also demonstrated variability of the reflection properties of individual flakes, which can be explained by differences in the orientation inside cells, variation in number and distance of the striation, and curvatures of the flakes. We conclude that the mesoscopic structure of the flakes is optimized for the reflective dispersion of yet unquantified portions of visible incident light that falls onto the ovisac surface.
If compared with other photonic structures in biology, and especially with those in aquatic organisms (for review: [@ref-46]; [@ref-22]), the optical active flakes of *A. franciscana* differ significantly from previously reported photonic crystals. The crystalline guanine plates of fish scales, for instance, are not curved but planar; they generate iridescent colors on the basis of their surface-equidistant arrangement as tunable multilayers ([@ref-15]). Alternating layers of exactly hexagonal-shaped guanine crystals are responsible for the spectacular colors of male sapphirinid copepods ([@ref-21]). Very much in contrast to these examples, every individual flake-like inclusion in *A. franciscana* generates iridescence by virtue of its own striated superstructure.
On the relation between light and reproduction of *A. franciscana*
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As early as 1973, Sorgeloos described a triggering effect of light on the hatching mechanism of encysted *A. franciscana* during the course of oviparous reproduction. A similar phenomenon of a light-activated hatching has been reported more recently for *A. urmiana* ([@ref-2]). According to [@ref-44] and [@ref-45] light receptors inside the encysted embryo, perhaps consisting of porphyrin or haempigments, are responsible for activation of hatching response at wavelengths in the blue and green spectral region (action peaks: 450--470 nm and 525--575 nm). If rehydrated embryos at a stage of diapause can be stimulated via light receptor signaling, one may wonder what effect a similar light stimulus would have on eggs that are still inside the ovisac for completion of their development. In our point of view, it appears necessary to identify the developmental stage where photoreception begins. If the activation of such light receptors happens prior to the release of the cysts in *A. franciscana* and perhaps also in other species, there would be good reason to suppress preterm hatching within the ovisac by spanning a light-reflecting 'umbrella'. The fact that mesostructures are also located inside cell nuclei could be interpreted as a detail in favor of the effectiveness of the 'umbrella', since nuclei devoid of mesostructures, incorporated in a very flat epidermal cell layer, would act as holes in the 'umbrella's' screen.
From our point of view, an 'umbrella' would be required until the multilayered cyst shell consisting of a non-cellular chorion layer and embryonic cuticle has developed for protection against multiple factors such as light or mechanical and thermal stress. Completion of the protective shell includes the assembly of a chitin-containing layer under participation of chitin-binding proteins ([@ref-27]; [@ref-30]). The fibrous architecture of this layer of the embryonic cuticle resembles the typical arrangement of chitin in the epidermal cuticle of arthropods such as crustaceans. It consists of horizontally parallel and vertically twisted chitin microfibrils ([@ref-24]). Most recently [@ref-47] reported that chitin polymers can also assemble quite differently, in the form of biophotonically active gyroid crystals located in iridescent wings of butterflies. It appears that these gyroids act as an alternative to optical active guanine crystals, which are used in nature for the manipulation of light ([@ref-22]). Notably, neither the gyroids made of chitin nor guanine crystals show any structural similarity to the mesostructured flakes assembled in the epidermal cells of the ovisac of *A. franciscana*.
Another aspect of the relation between light and reproduction concerns the influence of photoperiod on the reproduction mode. [@ref-36] found that the ratio between oviparity and ovoviviparity in cultured *A. franciscana* is greatly affected by the light-dark cycle, and much less by temperature. We speculate that this reflective 'umbrella' could act as threshold barrier; accordingly, the predominant release of live larvae would require sufficient light exposure for a certain period of time. However, one has also to consider the finding by [@ref-9] that predominantly diapause- and nauplii-destined oocytes of *A. parthenogenetica*, reared by application of differential light exposure, expressed genes already differentially at this early developmental stage. Threshold conditions for light exposure at a later stage of embryogenesis, therefore, might serve as final check of the environmental factor 'light'.
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The results of this study may have implications for optimization of light-dark cycles in rearing *Artemia* culture as feed for fish farming. In addition, we suggest that the *Artemia* ovisac studies could be extended and developed in future as a new model system for investigations into the physics and biochemistry of mesostructural formation.
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###### Ovisac of *A. franciscana* visualized by using polarized light microscopy
\(A\) overview, with the spine (asterisk) and central surface region in focus. (B) Regions covered with flake-like structures, separated from each other through clefts. (C) Detail. An arrow points towards flakes with faint striations, which resemble the mesostructures resolved by CRM in [Fig. 3](#fig-3){ref-type="fig"}. Bar, 100 µm. (B) 50 µm. (C) Bar, 20 µm.
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###### Selected Area Electron Diffraction (SAED) of cytoplasmic inclusion of *A.franciscana*
\(A\) Bright field image with encircled areas of diffraction 1 and 2. (B) Diffraction of the bare epoxy resin. (C and D) The diffraction images of areas 1 and 2 both are devoid of patterns in evidence of a polycrystalline or monocrystalline nature of the embedded material.
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###### High resolution transmission electron microscopy of the transition zone between electron lucent and electron-dense components of the cellular inclusion in *A. franciscana* at 200 kV
Note a diffuse change in contrast in the upper third of the micrograph and granular fine structures of the assembled electron-lucent and electron-dense material on both sides.
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###### Ovisac of female *A. franciscana* at a stage of initial vitellogenesis of oocytes in the oviduct
The ovisac still does not contain eggs.
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###### Ovisac of female *A. franciscana* containing the first couple of eggs
At this stage glittering flakes become apparent at the ovisac surface. (The copulating male was separated from the female to provide an undisturbed view at the ovisac).
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###### Male enclosing a female *A. franciscana* with its clasping organs
At this time point the ovisac still does not contain eggs that could be fertilized.
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The FS agitation module is protected under Austrian patent number AT515423 and German Utility Model DE 21 2015 000 100. We are very grateful to the Core Facility Cell Imaging and Ultrastructure Research of the University of Vienna for technical support, to Prof. G van Stappen from the Laboratory of Aquaculture & Artemia Reference Center, University of Gent, for providing Artemia cysts and to D Abed-Navandi from the public aquarium, Haus des Meeres, Vienna, for providing algae. The authors wish to thank Godelieve Criel for advice, and Jacqueline Montanaro for critical reading.
Additional Information and Declarations
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The authors declare there are no competing interests. The freeze substitution agitation module is protected under Austrian patent number AT515423 and German Utility Model DE 21 2015 000 100.
[Elena Hollergschwandtner](#author-1){ref-type="contrib"} conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, prepared figures and/or tables, reviewed drafts of the paper.
[Thomas Schwaha](#author-2){ref-type="contrib"} and [Josef Neumüller](#author-3){ref-type="contrib"} conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, reviewed drafts of the paper.
[Ulrich Kaindl](#author-4){ref-type="contrib"} analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, prepared figures and/or tables, reviewed drafts of the paper.
[Daniela Gruber](#author-5){ref-type="contrib"} and [Michael Stöger-Pollach](#author-7){ref-type="contrib"} performed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, reviewed drafts of the paper.
[Margret Eckhard](#author-6){ref-type="contrib"} performed the experiments, analyzed the data, reviewed drafts of the paper.
[Siegfried Reipert](#author-8){ref-type="contrib"} conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, wrote the paper, prepared figures and/or tables.
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The freeze substitution agitation module is protected under Austrian patent number AT515423 and German Utility Model DE 21 2015 000 100.
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Figshare: <https://figshare.com/s/1519e08f58da6366a274>.
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Biden’s Yemen Envoy Claims He Doesn’t Know if the US Is Still Supporting Saudi Military Operations
Tim Lenderking also claimed the Houthis receive 'significant' support from Iran, which he called a 'terrorist state'
Tim Lenderking was appointed by President Biden as a special envoy to find a diplomatic solution to the war in Yemen. But on Wednesday, Lenderking told Congress that he had no idea if the US was still providing military support for the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen.
“I’m not totally in that information loop, congressman, so I can’t really speak to that,” Lenderking said when asked by Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) if the US is currently supporting Saudi military operations in Yemen. “I do think that we need to make sure that Saudi Arabia is able to defend itself … but my focus is driving toward a ceasefire, so we can get out of this whole question of offensive and defensive weapons,” Lenderking added.
President Biden vowed to end “offensive” support for the Saudis but left open the possibility of providing assistance if it can be framed as “defensive” in nature. Rep. Tom Malinowski (D-NJ) also pressed Lenderking about what support the US was providing, and the envoy again denied any knowledge of the situation.
“I know there’s a robust relationship — as there has been over decades — between the US and Saudi Arabia on security matters, but I would have to defer to the DoD [Department of Defense] for the details of the kind of issues that I think you’re raising,” he said.
As most US officials do, Lenderking tried to shift the blame for the conflict on Iran. “Iran’s support to the Houthis is quite significant, and it’s lethal,” he claimed. While it’s true that Iran supports the Houthis politically, how much military support, if any, Tehran provides the group is unknown. Lenderking also referred to Iran as a “terrorist state.”
In comments to Al Jazeera, Iran denied Lenderking’s claim. “Iran has, time and again called for a peaceful settlement of the conflict in Yemen,” a spokesman for Iran’s UN mission in New York said. “In contrast, the US has been providing the deadliest weapons to those who are using them to kill innocent men, women, and children on a daily basis.”
Since the US pledged support for the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen, Washington has provided weapons and intelligence while the coalition regularly bombed civilian infrastructure. On top of the vicious bombing campaign, the coalition has enforced a blockade on Yemen that has done nothing but starve the civilian population.
Lenderking claimed on Wednesday that despite the blockade, the coalition has failed to intercept Iranian shipments to Yemen. “It’s been, frankly, very difficult to intercept ships,” he said. Considering the tight grip the coalition has on the country, Lenderking’s admission is more evidence that the US has no idea how much support the Houthis receive from Iran.
Despite UN warnings that 400,000 Yemeni children under five will starve to death in Yemen, the blockade is still being enforced, although the US State Department has claimed that blocking fuel shipments from entering the port of Hodeidah is “not a blockade.”
Last month, a CNN report showed food trucks were not able to make deliveries to Yemen’s starving population due to the lack of fuel.
Democrats in Congress have been pushing the Biden administration to pressure the Saudis into lifting the blockade. Lenderking said he was working with Riyadh to ease restrictions on fuel imports but did not appear to be putting any pressure on the Saudis to do so, offering no consequences if the blockade continues. “I cannot articulate what those consequences would be,” he said.
Lenderking also said that the Houthis offensive in the Maarib province was the number one obstacle to a ceasefire. But the Saudis have made no serious offers to the Houthis. In March, Riyadh put forward a new ceasefire proposal, but the offer would not fully lift the blockade, which is a key Houthi demand.
Author: Dave DeCamp
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Sleep Week highlights importance of treating sleep disorders
Tuesday, March 4, 2014
Bridgeport, CT (March 3, 2014) – Daylight saving time begins this year on Sunday, March 9. At 2:00 a.m. that day, clocks “spring ahead” to 3:00 a.m., resulting the “loss” of one hour of time, and for many people, the loss of sleep. It is therefore no coincidence that March 9 marks the culmination of National Sleep Awareness Week, a time when sleep medicine professionals try to raise awareness about the causes and treatment of sleep disorders.
One of the sleep study rooms at the Bridgeport Holiday Inn, where Bridgeport Hospital’s Center for Sleep Medicine moved its diagnostic suite in 2011. Consultations with physicians and other staff take place at the hospital’s main campus. Increasingly, when possible, sleep studies are being done at the patient’s own home on portable monitors.
“There are various causes, emotional and physical, for the inability to get enough sleep,” says Armand Wolff, MD, medical director of the Center for Sleep Medicine at Bridgeport Hospital. “The leading physical cause of sleep deprivation is obstructive sleep apnea, which is characterized by the repeated interruption of breathing during sleep.”
Sleep apnea is caused when the muscles in the back of the throat fail to keep the airway open, Dr. Wolff explains. It disturbs sleep and can lead to low blood oxygen levels, which in turn can play a role in hypertension (high blood pressure), heart disease, and mood and memory problems.
Dr. Wolff adds that many people associate sleep deprivation with insomnia, which affects, at some point in life, one in every two adults in the United States, making it the most common sleep complaint among Americans. Insomnia often stems from emotional stress or another medical condition. If untreated, insomnia can contribute to poorer overall health and a higher incidence of depression.
Sleep apnea occurs in all age groups and both sexes, although the incidence of the disorder increases in people 40 and older. Smoking, alcohol consumption and being overweight also increase the risk of sleep apnea.
“Common signs of sleep apnea are sleepiness during the day, fatigue and snoring,” says Dr. Wolff. “Because most people do not realize that they snore, it is often a spouse or family member who prompts the sleep apnea patient to seek medical help.”
The most effective way to diagnose sleep apnea is with a medical test known as a sleep study, which can be done by trained professionals at a certified sleep center or in the patient’s own home. During a sleep study, breathing patterns, heart rate and other factors are carefully monitored by trained sleep technicians while the patient sleeps. The results of the study are evaluated by a sleep medicine physician and a course of treatment is prescribed.
The usual treatment for sleep apnea is continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP). CPAP is administered through a specially-fitted mask, and keeps the patient’s airway open during sleep. Some patients have difficulty adjusting to wearing the mask but newer models are smaller, and in some cases nostril tubes can be used.
“If you or someone you know suspects that you have sleep apnea, please act soon,” Dr. Wolff urges. “Seek help at a certified sleep center so you can avoid the more serious medical problems and potentially harmful accidents that sleep loss can cause.”
Part of Yale New Haven Health System, Bridgeport Hospital is a 383-bed acute care hospital (plus 42 beds licensed to Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital) serving parts of Fairfield and New Haven counties, including Connecticut’s most populous city. The hospital admits more than 18,000 patients and receives more than 240,000 outpatient visits annually.
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Tai Chi For Health
Learning Tai Chi for Health: Tai Chi is now known world wide as a great healing art, and is also growing in it's popularity for the martial side.
For more on the Benefits of Tai Chi go Here
Tai Chi is much more than just a slow exercise, although a lot of it today isn't. Most Tai Chi schools unfortunately have come about from someone learning the very basic movements of the form etc, and going off and starting to teach them after a 6 month course.
It takes at least 10 years to begin to understand the depths of Tai Chi. This is not to say that it will take you 10 years to start getting benefits from it, you'll be seeing benefits as soon as you start training.
But if your teacher has only studied with their teacher for a short time, then they will not be showing you the correct stuff, and so all you will get out of the class is some physical exercise, which is still good, but you're paying money for something you could have for free by just going for a walk.
Tai Chi was designed in a way to work every muscle, joint and sinew in the body, while also keeping relaxed in both body and mind. But it has to be done in a very detailed way to get this happening.
The postures also give you an internal cleansing, sending a higher than normal flow of Qi "energy" through your bodies energy meridians. Again with out your teacher having the proper knowledge of all this, you won't be learning the proper way of moving the body to get these activations happening.
A basic guideline, is to learn one of the long forms, as the short forms have been watered down so much, they have lost all of the above. They were designed for competitions in China, to look nice, but are really nothing more than some slow movements that look like Tai Chi.
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Learn the Top Benefits of an Oil Change
One of the most basic parts of car maintenance is getting an oil change every three months or every 3,000 to 5,000 miles. The frequency is relatively high, but luckily, the cost is relatively low. Depending on your car and where you go for services, the oil that you need for your vehicle’s engine can be about the price of filling up your tank.
But why does it need to be changed so often?
In short, having regular oil change Columbus Ohio will help maintain the performance of your engine, and keep it running better for longer. It’s important for the longevity of your vehicle that you bring it in for oil changes. If it goes ignored for too long, the damage to the engine can end up costing you much more money down the road when serious issues arise.
All of the engine parts are moving, rubbing against each other, and require lubrication. Without the proper amount of oil, these parts will rub against each other, cause friction, and wear down. Ultimately, this damages the engine, which is why not changing the oil often enough will cause more—and expensive—problems in the future.
So, what oil do I use when I go for an oil change?
The answer to this depends on the age, mileage, and brand of your vehicle; the first thing to do when deciding what oil, you need is to refer to your owners’ manual to determine what’s best.
Full synthetic or semi-synthetic oils are usually made for high-tech engines that you might find in an SUV or a new luxury vehicle. They are harder to break down and will protect your car’s engine from a variety of conditions. Full synthetic oils are more expensive than blends and organic oils, but flow better at lower temperatures and keep engines running smoother at high temperatures.
On the other hand, organic oils cost less and are probably more suited for older vehicles with high mileage. If your vehicle’s mileage is past 100,000 miles, your mechanic or owners’ manual may suggest organic oils that are formulated for higher mileage vehicles.
Is there anything else I need to know about oil changes?
Most people overlook their oil filter. The oil filter is especially important because it prevents small debris and metal shavings from entering the engine and impacting the performance. It’s highly recommended that you replace the oil filter every time you get an oil change, or at the very least, every other oil change.
If you’ve brought your vehicle into a shop for an oil change in the past, they might have asked you if you’re interested in replacing the oil filter. Some people may think this is just an upsell to bring their checkout total to a higher amount, but it is worth it to spend the extra money on an oil filter every change or every other change. Otherwise, your engine damage may end up costing you more than a few oil filters throughout the year would.
Are you looking for an oil change in Columbus, Ohio?
When you choose which shop to take your vehicle into for routine maintenance, pick a business that can do everything your car needs to stay high-performing and road safe. Oil changes are pretty routine, but it’s best to have car experts that understand the ins and outs of a variety of engines and can make diagnostic decisions pertaining to the services you need. It would even help your wallet if you found a business that offers oil change coupons to their Columbus, Ohio customers to reduce the costs, but keep you as a loyal customer.
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David Pietras releases a marvelous track called ‘Ride’ on SUPRNOVA
David Pietras, the renowned Swedish talent of the moment, having releases on some of the most respected labels, such as SIZE, Axtone, and Release, decides to release his new track ‘Ride’ on SUPRNOVA.
An artist intention while creating, that is something that can differ depending on the times and the emotions flowing around the system of the human self who’s trying to build something out of an idea, a reflection, a thought, a feeling, an objective: there’s just an infinity of ways to approach musical creation. The way this artist develops his music, it’s the honesty of expressing himself and putting his self and his emotive essence condensed on a deep evolution of sounds that evolve to turn into a story told in sound waves. This is what makes David Pietras one of the faces that will be headlining the progressive house movement on the next years.
David Pietras track “Ride” is out now on SUPRNOVA as a free download.
We have seen him remixing some of the most influential classics, such as ‘Hey Hey’ from Dennis Ferrer, adding an atmospheric touch to it which turns it into a travel on the depths of the emotion of the vocal. We have also seen him bringing his most energetic side on tracks like Arlanda’, in collaboration with Corey James, developing a faster progression between the elements and a wonderful combination of moving basses and powerful leads.
David Pietras Ride SUPRNOVA
This new creation evolves across the idea of an upgrowing melody. Starting with an enigmatic intro surrounded by the appearance of an escalating bassline, the record continues making its way through the atmosphere created by the percussions, building itself to join to the first traces of melody. An arpeggiator moving in different directions, seeking for a path to go to while all seems to build up for the first development of the track. Now the bass takes its final form, turning into an envolving sound and giving the perfect background to a now expressing arpeggiator. It gets to define the intensity of the first strikes, then giving the pass to a piano and atmospheres, building a blissful melody which will define the story of a break.
Sensitivity, a synthesizer defining a mellow melody, everything turning into a narrative path into the strike of something incoming, until the energy starts to build up. It shows up the final form of that feeling, that travel, that ride into different memories and things lived. Every element comes together now giving its best, to show an enchanted road into the sentiment of their own meaning.
David Pietras’ ‘Ride’ is currently out now via SUPRNOVA and you can download it following this link or check for the stream below.
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How to prevent iOS 7’s Activation Lock from potentially bricking your iPhone
Credit: Apple
Among the new features of iOS 7 is an antitheft Activation Lock that prevents someone else from erasing and reformatting your iPhone. This is a great feature that could prevent a thief from stealing your device and reselling it and some police departments are advising citizens to upgrade to iOS 7. In a nutshell, the way Activation Lock works is that if you have Find My Phone turned on, you must have the password associated with its Apple ID in order to turn off Find my Phone, erase or reactivate the device. This is great in theory, but in practice the strategy relies on some advance planning by device owners to prevent a disaster.
In iOS 7 your Apple ID has new features
The Apple ID is your gateway to Apple’s ecosystem and can include your iCloud email as well as all your purchases from the App and iTunes stores. It can also be used to lock down or erase a device remotely so adding the ability to prevent resale is logical.
However, given the immense power an Apple ID holds, the system is ripe for hackers. Phishing scams are common, and Apple has worked hard to lock down the ability of non-authorized users to reset the passwords including rolling out two-factor authentication last year.
The problem for iOS 7 users arises when they lose access to their Apple ID. Previously when a user lost access to their account, they potentially lost access to previous purchases or the associated Apple email, but with iOS 7 they now lose the ability to reset or resell their phone. As Apple stated in its knowledge base article, even Apple technicians may not be able to provide service.
How do you lose access to your Apple ID?
Sometimes it’s due to an Apple account lockout due to a phishing attempt, but there can be other times when someone else typed your ID thinking it was theirs and boom: you are locked out. That’s happened to me more than once and the solution is simple: go to iForgot and reset your password by answering security questions or providing your recovery key if you enabled two-token authentication. You remember all those answers and that key, right?
That’s the first snag. If you forget the answer to your security questions, you are locked out. Even worse is a hacker that changes the answers or guesses yours, which means your device is treated as stolen. Contacting Apple might provide help but if you have two-token authentication set up you’ll need two of these three items: the password, a trusted device and a recovery key which is a 14 character alpha-numeric code you provide apple if you have lost your password (or your device). The device you hopefully have and wasn’t stolen. If it was stolen and Apple reset your password, then ouch.
Of course, you have that recovery key right? You know exactly where it is and how to access it. I didn’t until I started hearing horror stories from clients and friends. Treat that recovery key as an important document like your birth certificate and car title. I keep my recovery key near both those documents because all these magic pieces of paper say who I am and what I own. Without them I could potentially lose access to my information. Your recovery key is your last and best way to prevent this problem.
The second issue is when an iOS device is sold, given away or repossessed. Apple has specific instructions on what to do when device ownership is transferred but if the original owner forgets this step, then the new owner is out of luck without the assistance from the original owner. This normally shouldn’t be a problem if the sale was legitimate, but what happens when the the original owner has passed away or is otherwise inaccessible?
In particular, I see this coming into play during divorces when husband and wife share an Apple ID for purchases or a child goes off to college and Find My Phone is associated with the parent’s ID. Additionally when an employee returns a device to their employer upon separation, they may be reluctant to remove the Apple ID from the unit out of spite.
However, the most obvious (and fully preventable) scenario is simply having out of date information in your Apple ID account. Your recovery email might be from an old employer or ISP and you might not remember the answer to Apple’s esoteric and cryptic security questions. Some of the questions Apple asks can change over time such as “secret word” or “lucky number.” Perhaps you set up two-token authentication and can’t find that super-important recovery key or forgot to update the list of your trusted devices. For whatever reason, if you can’t get into your Apple ID, you can’t fully use your devices.
Manage your Apple ID to prevent these problems
Go to and click Manage Your Apple ID and make sure it is up to date with the following
1) A unique password: With databases of IDs and passwords being hacked all the time, now is the time to make your password exclusive to your Apple ID.
2) Current email address: Make sure all the email addresses you have listed are current and accessible by you. Find someone you trust (spouse, parent) who can be listed there as a just-in-case scenario should something happen to you.
3) Correct security questions and answers: Check those security questions and verify they are still valid answers (and can’t be answered by searching the internet). Keep these answers in a safe place.
4) For two-token users: You won’t have the security questions. You’ll need to make sure that your trusted device list is up to date. Until I wrote this article, I had forgotten that Apple had replaced my iPhone 4 due to a problem and the new one was no longer a trusted device. I removed devices I had replaced and verified my new devices. I also made sure that my spouse’s phone was a trusted device so he could access my account in case of emergency.
Now is the time to do this so you never lose access to your devices. If you give away or sell your iOS 7 device, Apple recommends turning off the Find my Phone feature and removing the device for your Apple ID, and explains how to check that information before buying a used iOS 7 device.
Ultimately the iOS 7 activation lock is a great idea but it relies on the end user to properly maintain and protect their Apple ID. Without user vigilance a hacked Apple ID is the disaster that keeps getting worse.
Lol i found out a way to hack through this. this is very easy to bypass, i have tested it with iPhone 4
Yes, only on iPhone 4 because of the processor exploit. With evasi0n7 your iDevice MUST be activated.
How did you hack it can I email you? I bought an iphone from one of my cousins who’s in the marines he won’t be back for a while and I really need a phone at the moment.
It’s happened to me with my dead sister’s iPhone 5. I’ve been through various bits of the Apple support system for the last 6 weeks and still they are unable to simply remove the lock despite providing them with all the relevant paperwork. As one of their senior advisers said to me – its a mess!
Lee Jon
And what happens if the old user died? ? Is Apple expecting us to call the family to ask for creds?? And don’t laugh to hard, with the amount of apple devices in the world, soon enough you will have some young son or daughter showing up at the genius bar asking if they could unlock their dead parents or grandparents device so they could use it and feel like part of them is still there. Apple should be ashamed.
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Sunday, March 1, 2009
Dystopia 'The Aftermath' 1999, Life Is Abuse
My komrades, greetings. This week I will try and tell you all about something called The Aftermath. Oakland,California negative-core(yep) lords Dystopia put this out in 1999 as their second and for a while thought to be their final album. Ah damn how can I find the words for this one. In short, this record here is in a whole other realm of unfuckwithable/can'tfuckwithit, it is 'retarded' as my homeboy Charles says. Releasing albums is not about competition between bands, for that would be dumb and whatnot, but goddamn if this joint doesn't smash the shit out of everything ever. Dystopia are one of a kind and this is straight up their pinnacle. Their style of crusty metal sounding sludge punk or whatever was as sociopolitical/misanthropic as it was brutal. Their sound is one of the most on point coherent blasts of genuine human frustration and hopelessness that has ever made it to record, and that is a big deal because damn, how easy and common is it/has it been through the years to sing about death and human suffering and put a whole bunch of terrible imagery on record covers and wear black all the time and sound all dark or whatever, but really have nothing going on beyond the fashion-ized and conformed aesthetic that those groups have always had. You know? That shit is fucking blown out and is oversaturated and is hollow, it is worthless. Having said that, this is the real shit right here. Anguish on record, radical and honest ,emotive politics and releases of total rage that are delivered with an authentic truth and personal hatred that lets you know that it is real. You can tell when that happens on record, the 'real shit' amongst thousands of fake ass attempts to be cool in surrounding themes with an empty nothing. The lyrics expose a persons inability to cope with the sum of all negativity or evils that we know to exist in this world. From direct experience of awful situations as well as more general politics, Dystopia put forth the 'Love Earth / Hate People' idea and every release of theirs was consistent with that approach through their span. The drummer Dino Sommese does much of the vocals while also putting down, in my opinion, the illest fucking drumming that ever happened on a sludge/crust record, period. The very downtuned/delayed guitar and murky bass rhythms mirror the scathing drum and vocal ferociousness, this is what makes it to ill. And if that wasn't enough, they have a whole noise component that includes a sample prowess that rules so much, not only does it play a huge role in Dystopia's sound but it tops samples occurring on many albums that do that whole thing. Uniquely harsh,strange music, fucked up tempos and such memorable songs, really what I am getting at is that the whole package of what is Dystopia, is so complete and thorough, it yields nothing but awe and no room for criticism because it is just that thought out. I've intended to write about this record for months but each week I've opted for something else, mostly because I realized early on in the review thing that only the most honorable words would be able to do it even the tiniest, remotely minimum praise that I feel The Aftermath ought to receive. Anyway. The Aftermath itself is only four songs on one side of a 12", that has the most excellent etching that ever happened on a record on the opposite side. But the CD contains much more material recorded earlier that appears on the Backstabber 7" and splits with Skaven and Suffering Luna, back in 1995. Though it is a compilation of sorts, the record bangs through each of the 12 tracks with the sound and force of an album that paralyzes you. Both the 12" and Aftermath CD are crucial to your collection, or at least to your listening, if you like reading this column. And check out their first and also what became their final release, Human=Garbage(1994) and Dystopia(2008) because obviously, they both stomp ass, they both really fucking rule. But for me its all about The Aftermath. As is indicated by the insane etching on this 12", the packaging and layout of all of their their vinyl releases are just proper- twelve page color booklets, stickers, fucking razor blades(on the early releases), how it should be. This is from Self Defeating Prophecy, "What is wrong with me?/ why can't I think straight?/ I'm lost/ because I think too much/ about misery, of life, no esteem from prodding eyes/ My confidence/ mistakes, scarred to sleep or stay awake/ Nails dig into my head/ tossing and turning in my bed/ biting my lips,bloodstained mouth/will I end up dead,or can I digest it all?/ This shit I'm fed/ endured for so long/ I am surprised that I've made it this far/ In my lifetime/ I watch people waste their lives away/ it makes me sick/ to think I could end up like them/ But I won't."
and this week,
its all about tha Benjamin baby
- snow. that's right our neck of the woods (the east coast) just got blasted with trillions upon trillions of those delicate little flakes. This is by far the largest outpouring of heaven's lil' bleach that i have experienced as a resident of the south and i cant help but ponder the psychological implications of a fresh blanket of fluffy newness not only on the individual but the larger polity. That goes double down here (the south) where people are unaccustomed to snow and as a result have no clue what to do with their shit when it happens. I had not strayed but maybe 100 ft. from my front door this afternoon before i discovered a damsel in distress, a young lady who through some miracle of Newtonian physics managed to get her car stuck on railroad tracks. If that is happening in my back yard I can only imagine the bedlam that is currently going on out there. Still and all snow is like some of the dopest shit on the planet and I'm glad its here.
- birthdays - i've got one, you've got one, we've all got one. You get to do what you want all day long and anyone who doesn't like it can kiss your ass. And then it hits you that you can have this much fun all year long, everyday. And then you are like the shit for a week. And then you forget. But before you become a total douche again your character changes in some small yet fundamental way. At least I think that's how it works.
- drea - my cat. sleeping on my lap as i type. surely dreaming of the snowflakes she's gonna chase next time i open the door. that is some cute shit.
- typing "blogspot" in google after the name of some music you want - works like 95% of the time. takes less than five minutes usually downloading at or around 500 kb/s. a little trick shown to me by none other than archbishop zarlacc von xarlacc the destroyer. almost like being back in the napster days.
- abelton - i thought this program fucking sucked and was only for wieners for a long time and then i used it one time and discovered i was very wrong. The ability to slowly and seamlessly mold your music over long periods of time gives one the megalomaniacal feeling of being equal parts phillip glass and charles darwin.
- projection televisions - why settle for a 50-inch screen when you can have one that is 8-feet? My crib in Athens comes equipped with one of these joints and i can honestly say after experiencing it i will never go back to non-projection screens again. nvr.
- the ramsey center - i kind of wish i was there right now. so many people all trying to accomplish their various athletic goals, all looking so goddamn good. there are a lot of aspects of being a uga student that i find very lame, the existence of the ramsey center (and the beautiful babies inside) almost single-handedly makes bearable the unbearable whackness of uga.
- pharoah sanders' "karma" - this is a good one to try that blogspot thing on. This is an absolutely beautiful record that will take you from the heights of flight with enormous biological organisms in the stratosphere to the depths of being digested by an unholy sow in some sulfuric hell. this is some intense shit but if you listen to it, it will reorganize your neurons in a way that will allow you to do "powder" like shit in no time.
- burritos - i know of no more efficient way to ingest food than by putting it all in a big pile and wrapping it in a flour tortilla which can be carried around with you wherever you may roam. to make matters even better all one has to do is put a little tobasco brand chipotle pepper sauce on whatever type of burrito you may have for an instant taste sensation. make big burrito success!
- top ten lists - these lists are always real good cause i always get good ideas or like get some kind of new perspective on shit that makes me realize how our thoughts and energies are like all connected in this big field and how the lines of demarcation from individual to individual are really not all as cut and dry as we sometimes suppose... alright enough of my rambling. yall need to go outside and throw a snowball while you can.
heated mammal said...
I have to agree that this record fucking (excuse my language, weak humanity)rips. It is pretty much the sound a strip mine would make if topography could lament its demis at the hands homo sapiens. And, yes Xarlacc nailed the hit on its head, the drummer earns double beastliness creds on skins and vox.
As far as top ten goes, I wish I would have seen some of that snow. Somehow Chattanoo missed out and only got blasted with cold rain and wind, which is not fun at all. Also, kudos to working "Top Ten lists" into a top ten list. I wish Id've done that.
30cent said...
man karma is an awesome record. everything pharoah sanders and leon thomas did in that era was excellent... | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9649286866188048}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '38514', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:N2W5QH2RY5XDN2ENASNBDFYQYBN2LFKO', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:e6300199-ee98-498e-b153-4bbbe6a33373>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2017, 9, 23, 1, 46, 46), 'WARC-IP-Address': '216.58.218.225', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'application/xhtml+xml', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:JKSFTWJPEG3Q2NUQHIKQLOG45GP7OKPV', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:df9d0007-34bc-44e6-8a2b-0a5d3657c12a>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://articlescollective.blogspot.com/2009/03/album-of-week.html', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:1f0df041-ef6f-4644-bfbb-4a71532d795d>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '1732', 'url': 'http://articlescollective.blogspot.com/2009/03/album-of-week.html', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-31-62-84.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': '0.04437762498855591', 'original_id': '7fa0bc4b06390ecaf9a50921deba352471e970cedb4807ac3e9ac07c0d5ec3e1'} |
Q:
Android: NullPointerException 'double java.lang.Double.doubleValue()'
I'm new to android programming and I'm having a problem with my codes. Can anyone help me or point out the cause of my error because I'm not really sure why it's giving me a NullPointerException when its a text view or if that is possible.
LogCat:
java.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to invoke virtual method 'double java.lang.Double.doubleValue()' on a null object reference
at com.example.app.rosbridge.MainActivity$2$1.run(MainActivity.java:133)
Here is the code for that line:
current.setText(String.format("%.4f%s", batteryStateData.msg.current * Math.pow(10, 6), "A"));
But when i run my app my voltage is setting null and here is the code for the voltage:
voltage.setText(String.format("%.4f%s", batteryStateData.msg.voltage, "v"));
Here is the full code:
public class MainActivity extends Activity {
private TextView voltage, current, percentage, status;
private SubscribedData<BatteryState> batteryStateData;
private RosbridgeListener rosbridge;
private boolean subscribed = false;
private boolean advertised = false;
/** Indicates that Lint should ignore the specified warnings for the annotated element. */
@SuppressLint("ClickableViewAccessibility")
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main_activity);
Button settings_btn = (Button) findViewById(R.id.connect_btn);
voltage = findViewById(R.id.voltage_txt);
current = findViewById(R.id.current_txt);
percentage = findViewById(R.id.percentage_txt);
status = findViewById(R.id.status_txt);
connectButton = findViewById(R.id.connect_btn);
batteryStateData = new SubscribedData<>();
final Type batteryStateType = new TypeToken<SubscribedData<BatteryState>>() {
}.getType();
// ROSBRIDGE protocol allows access to underlying ROS messages and services as serialized JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) objects
WebSocket protocol communicates to a server for the connection from a user's web browser
//A connection to the rosbridge thru the IP address of the robot from the socket
rosbridge = new RosbridgeListener("ws://10.24.204.231:9090");
rosbridge.setOnDataReceivedListener(new RosbridgeMessageListener() {
// a running thread that when the connection is made the data of the topic will serialize and deserialized java objects to (and from) JSON. @param msg
@Override
public void onDataReceived(final String msg) {
try {
runOnUiThread(new Runnable() {
@Override
public void run() {
batteryStateData = new Gson().fromJson(msg, batteryStateType);
voltage.setText(String.format("%.4f%s", batteryStateData.msg.voltage, "v"));
current.setText(String.format("%.4f%s", batteryStateData.msg.current * Math.pow(10, 6), "A"));
percentage.setText(String.format("%.2f%s", batteryStateData.msg.percentage, "%"));
status.setText(String.format("%s", PowerSupplyStatus.values()[batteryStateData.msg.powerSupplyStatus]));
}
});
Log.d("B9T", String.format("Received data: %s", msg));
}
catch (Exception e)
{
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
});
connectButton.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
@Override
public void onClick(View view) {
if (!subscribed) {
rosbridge.Subscribe("/battery", "sensor_msgs/BatteryState");
subscribed = true;
connectButton.setText("Disconnect");
} else {
rosbridge.UnSubscribe("/battery");
subscribed = false;
connectButton.setText("Connect");
}
}
});
A:
Check weather your created class with GSON is not null
and then check class fields values is not null or 0.
batteryStateData = new Gson().fromJson(msg, batteryStateType);
if (batteryStateData != null) {
if (batteryStateData.msg.voltage!=0)
voltage.setText(String.format("%.4f%s", batteryStateData.msg.voltage, "v"));
if (batteryStateData.msg.current!=0)
current.setText(String.format("%.4f%s", batteryStateData.msg.current * Math.pow(10, 6), "A"));
if (batteryStateData.msg.percentage!=0)
percentage.setText(String.format("%.2f%s", batteryStateData.msg.percentage, "%"));
if (batteryStateData.msg.values !=null)
status.setText(String.format("%s", PowerSupplyStatus.values()[batteryStateData.msg.powerSupplyStatus]));
}
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Substance-Induced Psychosis
In mental health, it is relatively common for patients to suffer from both a condition like depression or bipolar disorder and addiction. When this occurs, it is referred to as dual diagnosis. However, substance use in and of itself can imitate and sometimes even directly cause other mental health issues. This article addresses a condition known as substance-induced psychosis.
Understanding Substance-Induced Psychosis
As the name suggests, this condition occurs when substance use produces a psychotic state in a patient. Psychosis is characterized by the person being out of touch with reality; delusions (incorrect perceptions of events, people, and other things in their world) and unusual sensory experiences (like hearing voices or seeing things) are common. Perhaps because these are often unsettling for the person who is experiencing them, patients with substance-induced psychosis may be paranoid or behave in strange ways.
Some substances – like hallucinogens, for example – are known to produce similar results simply from use. However, a diagnosis of substance-induced psychosis requires severity of symptoms over and above that which would typically be attributable to the use of the drug. Additionally, the doctor must determine that these symptoms are not really caused by a different underlying psychiatric condition (e.g., the patient’s medical records do not indicate that psychosis has been a problem in the past). If the person is able to articulate that he or she is behaving strangely because of drug use, a diagnosis of substance-induced psychosis is unlikely.
Causes of Substance-Induced Psychosis
Symptoms of this condition can begin during intoxication or withdrawal. Among the substances that can cause this problem are hallucinogens, amphetamines, cocaine, opiates, alcohol, marijuana, and sedatives among others.
Duration of Symptoms
How long a person suffers from substance-induced psychosis depends on a number of different factors. For example, some users may return to reality after their bodies have processed the drug. Drugs like cocaine and PCP can lead to prolonged psychotic states that last for days, weeks, or, in some situations, months.
Medical Treatment of Substance-Induced Psychosis
If it is known the drug was consumed recently, and if the drug is not usually associated with a lengthy presentation of symptoms, a physician may stabilize the patient and monitor them until the period after the drug would normally be metabolized. If symptoms have not resolved by this time, or if the person first seeks medical attention after the symptoms have persisted for a long period, treatment with pharmacological options such as quetiapine and clozapine (atypical anti-psychotic medications) may be the next best option.
How to Help a Person With Substance-Induced Psychosis
Keep in mind that few people with substance-induced psychosis have insight into the fact that they have a problem; if they do, they may not actually have it and may still simply be experiencing the normal effects of recent drug use. Therefore, it is often up to loved ones to recognize and get help for the problem. If you cannot persuade the person to go to a psychiatrist’s appointment with you, ask the physician or a social worker for advice specific to your situation.
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Mirroring Your Horse
I have had many people asking how I get my horses SO in tune with me but I explain that it’s more of me being in tune with them first, then them getting in tune with me and then us having a mutually focused partnership through trust and respect.
MirrorWhen I first started my journey into Natural Horsemanship my horse Tara and I had quite a good relationship, getting into the journey more and allowing my horse to have a ‘say’ about things that we did together brought around a turn of events that really foxed me and I didn’t know what to do. She decided that she really didn’t want to be around me (or any human really) and giving her the freedom to choose to run off whenever I asked her to be with me was a hard decision. I can understand why many people start Natural Horsemanship with this same intent only to be foxed like this and going back to their normal routine with the thought that NH had ruined their horse BUT I decided to figure out what Tara needed from me so that we could continue our journey and start that partnership that I always wanted.
What I realised pretty quickly was that Tara was quite a shut down horse, quiet, calm, sensitive and did ‘as she was told’ because that’s the way she had been trained. Being such a sensitive soul she showed her ‘compliance’ by being obedient but not willing, by which I mean she did what I asked in a slow, bored way that made me work harder than her and if I really asked too much she went ‘blank’ or would try to run off, especially at liberty where the truth always comes out.
So, after much thought I knew that I needed Tara to catch me in the field not the other way around. She was very good at being caught, standing still and freezing whilst I put the head collar on but if I asked her to catch me she’d run off and that wasn’t the partnership I wanted with my beauty.
I woke up one day and had an idea…’I’m going to mirror her today and try to be with her in her world, show her that I can be there as a herd member and not just with her for training’. This decision helped me to realise that to have a partnership with my horse I needed to request things with a two way conversation rather than demand things and to see if I could gain willingness rather than servitude.
So, I started off in the field about 50’ away from her (she turned her head away if I got any closer and I knew that was her cue for leaving), I started stepping as she stepped, turning when she turned and stopping when she stopped. After a few hours and lots of slow progress I was standing about 5’ away from her, taking each slow step with her as she grazed, putting weight on the back, front or side of my foot like she did as she slowly moved. I turned my head the way she did, lifted it when she did, started to see her muscles move in her legs, her chest move as she breathed.
After another few hours we were very much in harmony, steps, moves, breathing and then about 5 hours into the experiment she stood for about half an hour totally still, almost asleep watching over the other three horses as they lay down to sleep. This part was hardest of all. I moved, brushed flies off me, scratched itches and generally not ‘in the moment’ with her at all. BUT I did start to realise this and managed to really become a sleeping horse with her, it was like meditating. In a HUGE moment she then lay down next to me and I sat down with her for another 15 mins. That moment will always be very special in my life as she showed me that to be in her world, on her time, with her peace she was willing to allow me in and showed me true trust by laying down with me.
Since that moment Tara has always come to catch me but I have to ask her permission to enter her realm every time by squatting down when she looks at me and open my heart to shower her with thoughts of love and when I do that and open my arms to her she comes to me willingly on her terms.
She has taught me patience I never knew I had and the awareness that if I allow things to happen through mutual respect and trust then it will happen, but I have to believe. It’s not just about what I want, it’s about what we want together, as partners.
I also find that when I play the game of ‘Stick 2 Me’ that I can quickly get connected with her, and other horses, physically, mentally and emotionally because of the things I learned from those 6 hours one day on a Scottish hillside.
So, if you ever have the time to dedicate to mirroring your horse and not put a time limit on it then I really believe you and your horse can find deep bond by doing this. I’ve done little bits of this with Tara now and then and have done similar, shorter versions of it with the other members of our herd. It really does help to teach about how a horse moves, watching what they do during a day and reminds me daily that when I play or ride them that I’m doing a lot more with them than they do themselves when left to their own devices in their herd so I try to mirror them a bit and see if they’ll mirror me in the start of our dance together and that then brings about the game I play called ‘Stick 2 Me’ which I will talk about in another article soon.
Image00003You can also ‘Mirror Your Horse’ when riding. Make sure your horse is calm, remembers you are up on it’s back and not spooky before doing this, start in a small area like a round pen. Allow the horses movement to move your body in harmony with it’s own. Shoulders with shoulders, hips with hips. This task will find you a better seat and balance and allow you to not ‘be in control’ all the time, to allow the horse to have some say in your journey together. Friendship and partnerships are all about both sides having a say so enjoy learning how your horse moves and keep breathing in harmony too.
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I recently attended a talk given by Dr. Robert Sears, author of The Vaccine Book: Making the Right Decision for Your Child. He is part of the Sears family and has made vaccines his area of pediatric specialty. What I liked about his presentation is that he spoke from a place of balance, neither overstating nor understanding the importance of vaccines. He gave parents all the latitude necessary to make informed decisions for their child and family. He was clear about what science has learned and where there are shortcomings. In his book, he offers information about each vaccination, children’s risks for each disease and a vaccine schedule that he follows in his practice. A good, comprehensive read if you are searching for information to help you make a vaccination choice. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '5', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9807361960411072}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '58674', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:UJUA2JXXFEOUEVYQFTCAX7F7WKRMZCSE', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:29ab2e18-caa9-469a-a92b-d04b12e79592>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 12, 16, 3, 0, 13), 'WARC-IP-Address': '173.193.251.45', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:SLY4QXIK2NHKPCTLENP3N5DYJ674KU7A', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:62b31f9e-5b19-4ad3-a386-8c5c787d05ae>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://swellbeing.com/the-vaccine-book/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:27f1f66f-03bd-4293-9809-4b068b0a8170>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '132', 'url': 'http://swellbeing.com/the-vaccine-book/', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-51\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for December 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-153.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.16 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.1-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.02127254009246826', 'original_id': '6a4ffa13d7e64a7260acebf78fe46718ff07212c6a4907cefa5f0e16aeb6bc0a'} |
Obama to the 'Hawks Game? Signs Point to Maybe Yes. - NBC Chicago
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With only hours to go before the puck touches the ice, the Chicago Blackhawks players were given some odd news: they wouldn't be allowed to park in the garage under the United Center.
The 'Hawks always park in the underground garage. On any other day, the change would simply be an inconvenience. But tonight just happens to be game one of the Stanley Cup -- not to mention President Obama is in town, and there's been much speculation he'll attend the game.
Both Mayor Daley's office and a White House spokesman have downplayed the idea.
"I'm told security would be such a nightmare they've decided to ditch the idea," said Jackie Heard, Mayor Daley's spokesperson. "Obviously things could change. But I doubt it."
A White House spokesperson told pool reporters earlier Saturday that while the President would be rooting for the Blackhawks, he has no plans to attend the game.
And yet, the closure of the underground garage makes one wonder -- if Obama did attend the game, he'd certainly be ushered through that garage under the cover of hustling Secret Service bodies, right?
You need only read between the lines to see that Obama's attendance remains a distinct possibility. Nobody ruled out anything.
Beyond the obvious good will Obama would engender among Chicagoans and hockey fans alike, he also has a sports-lover's reason: if the 'Hawks win, the Cubs will be the only major Chicago team without a recent league championship.
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hormones - are active substances that are produced by the endocrine glands of the human body.Proceeding into the blood, hormones can affect the metabolism and vital processes, coordinating the work of all organs.Therefore, in violation of the hormonal metabolism and their surplus generation in humans often have problems with weight.
Hormones can affect the appetite for mastering and processing of certain substances to accelerate the deposition of fat in certain areas.As a result, the cause of excess weight will be the violation of the synthesis of hormones.And as a treat had no diet and exercise do not help.On the set of weight may affect estrogen, leptin, cortisol, thyroid hormones, prolactin.
Leptin, or otherwise call it hormone saturation exerts its effect on energetic processes in or
gasm.It is produced by fat cells, preventing the body of the occurrence of saturation.When the sensitivity of the receptors of leptin decreases, comes uncontrolled food intake.After all, there is no stopping the reaction and signal saturation.Thus overweight typed very fast.
Estrogen - a female sex hormones, the number of which is usually reduced to 45 years.Then the reduced metabolism and fat is stored faster.
Thyroid hormones regulate all bodily processes are responsible for normal growth and development, for the regulation of metabolic processes.If there is a decrease of thyroid hormones occurs lethargy, apathy, reduced physical and even mental alertness significantly reduced basal metabolism, which leads to weight gain.
prolactin hormone normally produced in large quantities in women during lactation, a small amount present in the blood of men and non-pregnant.Only by increasing its synthesis increases hunger, decreased production of estrogen and testosterone, which leads to excessive weight.
treatment of hormonal disorders engaged endocrinologist who in turn appoints the first examination and blood tests.After the results obtained and issued therapy.Patients with impaired hormone and obesity should tune in long-term treatment.Interrupt scheme of therapy is not recommended.The only way to achieve the normalization of the endocrine glands, and weight loss. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9279409050941468}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '14906', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:L4BXADE5VOMNWRXCOO77PDGB3NAMDHW5', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:1701aa2a-21ce-4a21-932f-e5e785980c9d>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2017, 2, 27, 13, 39, 27), 'WARC-IP-Address': '78.24.219.133', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': None, 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:UVI6FVEY224NFQPR3DMOQBIJKCIOMWKW', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:0d0aa92f-6a31-4217-b03b-767879e4e167>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://medadv.info/en/pages/318532', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:64e8f2ce-890f-47c3-bb9c-f5b1c8da7eae>', 'WARC-Truncated': 'length'}", 'previous_word_count': '329', 'url': 'http://medadv.info/en/pages/318532', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-171-10-108.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2017-09\r\noperator: CommonCrawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for February 2017\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': '0.05026674270629883', 'original_id': 'dc56ea3b709247025d3c01df23e7274dcc892b557d072d654e38dab49d1a6417'} |
Monday, January 31, 2011
Dr. Gordon seemed kind of off today. She seemed tired. She didn't seem to be listening to me all that much. Has this ever happened with any of your therapists? In fact, I could have sworn at a few points she was actually nodding off... either that or she just blinks really slowly. Anyway, I felt jipped when I left the appointment. I mean, my parents pay like two hundred dollars per session out of pocket and I only see her every two weeks. What the hell?
Tomorrow I see Marci, which is good because I've been falling off the wagon today and yesterday. Seeing Marci is a lot like taking Ritalin. You feel empowered and positive for the first three hours after taking it, then it wears off and you forget what it's like to feel happy so you need another Ritalin. I'm not a drug addict. But you see how this makes sense though, right? After I see Marci I'm good for like five days. In fact, usually after I see Marci I forget I have an eating disorder at all because she's given me all these pearls of wisdom and awesome meal plan tips so I'm like hoooray! I'll never binge again! Ugh, I hate that. Maybe I should start seeing her twice a week. Although that seems like a bit too often to see one's nutritionist.
I miss riding. If it weren't so freaking cold I'd make a little Saturday trek out to Massachusetts no-man's next weekend and spend some quality time with the horses.
I'm bored. Just generally bored. I wish it was fall and I could be back in New York.
Hey you know what I think I'm gonna start doing? At the end of every week I'll report any and all ED behaviors I engaged in- as sort of a tracking system of how my recovery is going. Does this sound like a good idea? Of course I might start getting caught up in technicalities of what constitutes a binge and what counts as restriction so I'll just define them now. Bingeing will mean eating past fullness in an out of control manner, and restriction will mean the voluntary withholding of exchanges despite feeling hungry or knowing that my body needs it. So when I say I binged twice this week that means two separate binge episodes, and when I say I restricted twice this week that means I followed my meal plan except for two exchanges (i.e. maybe I skipped a snack on Monday and a protein at dinner on Tuesday). Hey, not bad.
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Does anybody else have a problem with Sundays? I find them mean and spiteful. I'm also angry because I have uterus cramps and I'm semi-bingeing at the moment, at work. I say semi-bingeing because it hasn't really turned in to a full blown, pants-popping binge. In fact, this second frozen yogurt really isn't cutting it for me. The novelty of how good the first one tasted has worn off, and now all I can think about is how I would really rather not be succumbing to the eating disorder. I guess I'll just back out of the behavior now, at least while I'm ahead. After all, I've gone this whole week without bingeing... why ruin it tonight?
My dad is smoking again and I know I'm not being paranoid. Even Jake admitted yesterday while we were driving back from the drug store that I was probably right. We both acknowledged the cigarette stench on his steering wheel, the all-too potent pine tree car freshener hanging from his rear view mirror, and the Altoid tins EVERYWHERE. Plus he never lets us drive his car without surreptitiously running out first and getting rid of the evidence. It makes me want to cry really. I said this to Jake and he just sort of shrugged passively aggressively. "Honestly, I've stopped letting myself care. He's an adult and he can do whatever he wants." I suppose he's right, but I can't just stop letting myself care. How can my father be doing this to himself? He's in his early fifties, he has sleep apnea, high blood pressure, and longevity does not run in the family I'm afraid to say. As someone who also uses maladaptive coping strategies though, what I'm more concerned about are the cognitive roots behind the smoking. Is he stressed at work? Is it money? Is he having problems with my mom? Is it something I did? I'm sure I must be somehow to blame.
It's almost February!! I have so many goals for next month. I'll share them later... maybe on Tuesday since it'll be the first day of February.
Friday, January 28, 2011
I'm watching Titanic with my parents. I don't know what is wrong them. I LOVE THIS MOVIE, but my mom is poking fun at the dialogue every chance she gets and my dad keeps going, "Are you ready to go back to Titanic, Eliza?" In imitation of Bill Paxton. OHMYGOSH the scene where Rose goes down to the third class deck and dances with Jack and she's all like I don't know the steps! And then he says, me neither just go with it and then they dance and then they fall in love and ooooooh gosh it's all so romantic and tragic at the same time.
Aaaaah I’ve been MIA from the blog world for what feels like too long! I think it’s only been a few days though. My laptop has decided to be a little bitch and stop working so I’ve been engaging in all my online activities on other people’s laptops, which isn’t exactly convenient so hence my not being able to blog.
Things have actually been pretty decent around here. I’ve been working a lot, despite the snowstorming and everything. You know, I can’t remember a winter when we had this much snow. I’m kind of scared actually. There’s this old abandoned gas station up by the ice cream store where I work, and since the snowplow doesn’t need to remove the snow there, it’s piled up like four feet high you can’t even see the entrance anymore. I almost died walking to work it was so deep on the sidewalks! I felt like Emmy Rossum In The Day After Tomorrow. Only I’m not skinny and pretty and I don’t think I’ll end up with Jake Gyllenhaal in the end.
Anyway, as I was saying, I've made great leaps this week. I've been following Marci's meal plan more faithfully than I ever have before- no snacks left out, no exchange left behind. This is serious people, I am making real steps to banish the binge eating for GOOD. The real secret to rising above the urges is twofold: First, I still let myself eat frozen yogurt and candy at the store, and just about every day too. Marci says people can still be healthy and eat sweets every day, which I think is awesome so I'm sticking to that notion. My second secret is Jane Austen novels. I've read them all before, but I find reading a book for the second or third time can be almost more rewarding than when you read it the first time. For instance, I am choosing to draw strength from the hidden characteristics in Fanny Price that I never noticed before. If you haven't read Mansfield Park, read it. It is possibly Austen's most undervalued novel. I guess I just feel like I've gotten fed up enough with constantly feeling powerless to overcome the eating disorder. Here's hopeing my efforts pay off, lord knows I've tried enough times to get back on track.
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
I wish I had something, ANYTHING interesting to write about right now, but it's almost midnight and my brain is absolutely fried from the three straight hours of statistics class I had to endure tonight. The hardest part about math is that you can't exactly tune out during the lessons like you can with other classes. With my psych class last semester for example, everything was presented on power point slides that you could download straight onto your own computer and study at your lesiure. With stats though, each new concept has it's own little obnxious math language which you must have explained to you by a person or else it's just nonsense.
My room has gone back to hell in a hand basket. Is that the saying? Or is it hell in a hand bag? I think it's basket. Anyway, I was able to keep it tidy a couple weeks ago, but then I had a bunch of binge days and stopped caring so now it looks like what I imagine the after affects of a minor explosion would. I've got clothes everywhere, cereal bowls on the floor, books and papers flooding my desk, and my carpet is really wet and gross because of all the glasses of water I've knocked over when I roll out of bed in the mornings. Today my mom asked me if I was ever going to clean it again and I told her not until the troops come home. I figured that gives me some time. Dr. Gordon will be sad when I tell her that I've been taking so little care of my living space. She thinks that when my rooom is clean I take better care of myself in other areas of my life. Which I suppose is true.
OH MY GOD speaking of Dr. Gordon, my MOTHER made an appointment to meet with her. Just the two of them. The other day she confronted me about how distant and curt I was being with her lately and I told her I was just generally frusterated with the way she talks to me sometimes, and especially since she was so mean to me on the ski trip last month. She said sorry and we sort of made up but I guess she still wants some answers and now she's going to the master...
P.S. The spell check is not working on this computer so now you've seen what my grammar and spelling are really like...
Monday, January 24, 2011
I can't wait to see Marci tomorrow morning. Is that sad? I can't help but think that this increased eagerness to see my nutritionist every week is just a sign that I'm becoming more and more helpless. Every Tuesday I go in for my session, with lots of stories, questions, and a ton of new disordered thoughts about food that I've managed to delude myself into believing. For instance this week, I've come to the conclusion that bruised fruit must be less healthy for you since it's brown and nasty. Same with old carrots and lettuce with gross spots on them. If it looks different from the average vegetable it mustn't have anything good in it, so I just skip it as an exchange that day. Come to think of it, I've been recently feeling this way about cheese too... you know how sometimes cheese has hard spots on it if you leave it out for an hour or so?
Anyway, I guess I also feel like since I only get to see Dr. Gordon twice a month I need to make the most out of my appointments with Marci. Which makes sense I think. Also, I can start going back to the support groups at MEDA on Wednesday evenings now!!! I'm so happy because I thought I was going to have a psych class on Wednesday evenings but it turns out the course I signed up for was like waaaaaay more than I was expecting. It's basically a class for fourth year students who are writing their senior papers for grad school and I really had no idea that's what it was. We were going around in a circle saying our majors and what branch of psychology we were planning to go into. I was like uuuuhhhhh... and just made up some random shit because I figured I wouldn't be coming back after that night anyway. Somehow I ended telling everyone I was majoring in criminal justice and wanted to be a forensic psychologist and they were all like, "Wow, how ambitious! You have to have a great deal of empathy and understanding to work with patients like that..." Then I said I was especially interested in that field because my background in the biological sciences had taught me much about the human brain and the many intricacies behind aggression and law transgressing behavior. It was kind of funny actually.... the professor was like, "That is fascinating! Sounds like you already have your research topic for this semester!" Then I said I had to go to the bathroom and went home.
So now I'm down to just the one class... statistics on Tuesday evenings. Booo. I was looking forward to taking what I THOUGHT was a general health psychology class but I guess that's out the window. Maybe I'll find a different class and just join late. Or maybe I'll take on more shifts at work and make lots of money. Well, I'll decide later.
Saturday, January 22, 2011
I don't really feel like writing but I didn't post anything yesterday and I feel bad going two whole days without making an appearance in the blogosphere.
I'm feeling... not so much depressed but more apathetic. Apathetic and bitter. I'm in one of those moods where all I can think about is how unfair my life is so I might as well not try anymore. God wouldn't it be wonderful to just never have to try EVER AGAIN. I would just stay in bed and never get out (except to go to the bathroom and get the door when the chinese food delivery man comes), and there I would remain for the rest of my life. I love sleeping. Sleeping is like crack for me. Did you know on days when I don't have to work during the day I just sleep in until early evening? And then when it's time for me to wake up and walk over to the store it takes every fiber of my being to drag my sorry ass out of bed. That is what my life has come to. But it's okay, it's all okay. I've decided that from now on I'm just going to go through life without caring about what happens. I'm going to become a soulless automaton that just goes to work and goes to class and nothing else. I'm just so tired of having feelings and thoughts all the time and know that sounds ridiculous and even sort of immature but seriously I just wish I could be done with it. There should be some kind of warning label on life, don't you think? WARNING: Not suitable for the faint of heart.
How, do you ask, am I going to just escape from reality and desensitize myself from the world? Haven't quite figured that out yet... but so far I imagine it would involve sleeping even more than I already do, and then distracting myself with crossword puzzles during the waking hours. Crossword puzzles are great for when you just want the world to disappear. Same with running. And frozen yogurt.
I think I'm about to get my period. My head hurts, my back is killing me... pretty much my entire lower half feels like a beaten pinata. Only no candy is involved :(
Thursday, January 20, 2011
I saw Marci yesterday and that was a relief because I felt like I needed to check in with her. Last week she'd asked me to start logging my food intake again, so I bought a little moleskin notebook to use for that. I brought it with me to our session yesterday. She was like, "You have NO idea how useful it is for me to actually SEE what you're eating." She could tell that on days I binged it was because I definitely hadn't had enough food prior to bingeing. She told me, "Anyone would feel like bingeing on the amount of calories you were limiting!" The thing is, I'm not really consciously trying to restrict when I do. I really do think that what I'm having is enough! Apparently I do this because of my history with anorexia but that feels like so long ago now it's hard to imagine that's the real reason why. Anyway, we both agreed that I'll be able to take some major steps in reducing behaviors if I just stick to a meal plan. God, how many times have I told myself I was going to stick to a meal plan though, only to fail over and over again?
It was funny, about halfway through our session Marci asked if it would be okay for her to have a snack and I was like sure. Then she asked me if I wanted anything because she has a pretty stocked pantry in her office. I said no thanks I'll just have water and then she made this really obnoxious face at me as if to say, "You WOULD just ask for water..." So I was like, "Fine bring me a chocolate chip cookie."
Anyway, all joking aside, I guess I've been doing okay this week. I had one binge episode (today at work...whoops), but besides that I've been managing to follow the meal plan that Marci gave to me. Wow... I haven't actually binged anywhere besides work in WEEKS. And I haven't gone out to buy binge food from a store since before Christmas. Think about it... if I didn't work in an ice cream store maybe I wouldn't have a problem anymore!
Ugh, but I can't believe I caved today. Bingeing at work isn't even all THAT much fun. I should remember that for future reference. It's fun for the first ten minutes. Cuz I'm all like, "YUS! Free for all with the dessert!!" Then it starts to get dark outside and I remember that I have to close and that there's all this cleaning to be done and all the fun is over.
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Just got home from my first statistics class of the semester. It doesn't seem like it'll be all that bad actually. I mean, I don't hate math... I'm just terrible at it and it takes me about twice as long as most people to finish any sort of math problem. I understand math, and I can DO math, it just takes me forever. When I was in middle school I actually had a math disability and needed an aid from the learning center to hover over me and make sure I was keeping up with the rest of the class. Talk about embarrassing.
Anyway, while I was eating my dinner during the fifteen minute break we get, the girl sitting next to me was like, "I'm an art history major. I haven't taken a math class in five years. What are you taking statistics for?" I thought it was sort of funny that people tend to assume the only reason for ever taking a math class would be because it was required for some other, BETTER area of study. But in all fairness, the only reason I'm taking stats is because it's a pre-med requirement. So I guess I have to yet to actually meet someone who is taking the class because they want to. That's kind of sad :(
And then tomorrow I have my first Health Psychology class, and that should be slightly more interesting. Not that figuring out the standard deviation of a normal distribution curve isn't interesting...
For those of you are relatively new to reading my blog, I'll just clear some stuff up. Boston University is not my real school. I'm taking evening classes there so that I can keep getting academic credit while I continue this never-ending medical leave from my REAL college, which is in New York. I guess I'm following a pre-med pathway, regardless of whether or not I go to medical school. I just love science. I can't start taking all those big year long courses like Chemistry and Biology until I go back to New York, so until then I'm just filling up my transcript with little semester long classes that my advisor recommended I should take in addition to the the big ones.
Okay then, back to today. This morning I slept in too late AGAIN, and woke up half an hour before my appointment with Marci. Actually, I wouldn't even have woken up in time to call her if it wasn't for my cat. Moxie jumped on my bedside table and knocked a glass of water over onto my face, clever kitty. I takes me at least 45 minutes to get there, so there was no way I was going to make it. Luckily it was snowing so I called her and said I was stranded at the bus stop because the public transportation was backed up (I stuck my head out the window so it would sound like I was really outside) and everything worked out. I know it's wrong to lie! Sometimes my moral compass is just a little finicky right after waking up. Anyway, she said she could fit me in tomorrow at 4:00 so that's when I'm gonna see her.
P.S. I've begun to notice a pattern in the titles of my posts... whenever I can't think of a good title I just make a random observation about what my neck or my stomach or my head or some other part of my body is feeling like at the moment. Just thought that was odd...
Monday, January 17, 2011
I love seeing Dr. Gordon, especially on days when we don't focus on eating disorder stuff the whole time. Today we actually talked about some issues that I'm having with my mother! It was so cool! I felt like a real patient, talking about real problems. I won't go into too much detail about my mom, so I'll just give you the basic gist. It is fairly important that you understand how I'm feeling about her right now, because apparently it could effect other areas of my life. My mom and I have always had a super solid relationship. We're friendly together, I talk about my problems, she gives me advice, tells me about her day and any neighborhood gossip she feels is important for me to know. She has flaws for sure, and we have the occasional argument but other than that everything is fine. On the car ride home from NH over winter break last month, I was having a panic attack of sorts from being squished in the back seat with her and my brother, while my 11 YEAR OLD sister got to sit in the passenger's seat (is that even legal?). I got impatient with Rachel, Rachel got upset, and my mom became frustrated with me and called me a bitch. She said, "You are really being a bitch, Eliza." I didn't respond, but just kept focusing on my breathing since I was so scared of throwing up from the claustrophobia. She kept going however. "No, you are a bitch and you know you're a bitch."
This was almost a month ago. The incident has certainly had a longer lasting effect on me because she seems to think everything is perfectly fine between us. For some reason I just haven't let it go. If my mom had always been an insensitive and unfeeling person it probably wouldn't have been such a big deal, but the thing is that my mom never loses her temper like that. I asked Dr. Gordon if she thought that one experience could change how you felt about somebody. She said that one experience probably couldn't work all by itself to change your opinion of somebody, but rather, it might serve to prove or qualify other aspects of that person's character that you hadn't thought about much before. For instance, my mom was the youngest of all her siblings, just like my sister, so it makes sense she would be more apt to defend Rachel in a situation. It also brought back memories of times when my mom has told me to be more mature or act my own age or be more agreeable when really all I was doing was expressing how I felt. My mother is a compassionate and reasonable person, but usually only when it comes to stuff she can understand or relate to.
Anyway, I've been trying to work on keeping the anger and resentment tucked away for now. My family is really all I've got after all (I don't have many friends), and I wouldn't be able to bear it if I made waves in the household dynamic. This is going to be tough however... I'm not used to bottling up my emotions. I'm pretty expressive most of time. I guess all I can really hope for the time being is that I'm able to sublimate the feelings in a healthy way and NOT through eating disordered behaviors, which is what Dr. Gordon is scared might start to happen.
Sunday, January 16, 2011
In three hours my shift will be over, which means in three hours I will leave work, which will make this my first official day of not bingeing at work! I'm so excited! As of today I am officially turning my life around (for like the 78th time... here's hoping this one takes). I remember writing a post a couple months ago, I announced that I was going to stop bingeing and restricting altogether and just eat normally. Surprisingly, as questionable as the success of that venture was in the beginning, it actually worked for a couple of weeks. Maybe I'll just go back to doing that.
Well my laziness has reached an epic extreme. Today I remembered that it's been over a week since my finger accident and I was supposed to get my stitches taken out in seven to ten days. I guess the idea of calling and setting up an appointment and then figuring out if it would work with my schedule, writing it down, going there on the day of the appointment, getting home, and all that stuff just seemed like too much work so I took a pair of kitchen scissors and snipped my stitches right off. It actually hurt a lot more than I was prepared for. I forgot that once you cut the stitches you have to PULL THEM OUT. That was pretty awful.
Tomorrow I see Dr. Gordon, and sometime this week my spring semester evening classes at BU start. I should probably figure out what days they meet....
Friday, January 14, 2011
I'm hungry. I know I've eaten enough and everything, it's just because my body is freaking out from not having a binge today so I'm just going to have to wait for my metabolism to readjust. Poor body. Poor body of Eliza's. Every once in a while I remember that besides making me fat, bingeing is also just an all around unhealthy habit. All the sugar makes it harder to sleep, gives me diarrhea, bloating, cramps, headaches, and a sore mouth. Wow. Bingeing and eating habits are pretty much the only thing I ever talk about on this blog anymore. Remember when I used to at least have the day program treatment and classes at BU to entertain thoughts about?
I woke up at noon today and since I didn't have to work or anything I basically just sat in front the t.v. all day long. I also wrote some letters to my friends and my aunt Sarah, but that was done while watching Grey's Anatomy so I guess it still counts as lolling about. I figure I deserved a day to be entirely non-productive since I had to close the store by myself last night (this includes sweeping, mopping, cleaning all the machines, washing all the dishes and tubs.. etc), and then had to walk the mile home at almost midnight in the bitter cold.
I don't have all that much to write about because I'm not feeling much in the mood to write. I feel like doom. I was about to say I feel depressed but that doesn't quite describe the range of thoughts and feelings I'm having right now. I feel like things are just doomed in every way possible- not just things related to me. I feel like the world is doomed to eternal misery but I don't know why... it's weird. Like nothing good can or will ever happen again to anyone. People in love right now won't love each other tomorrow, mothers will abandon their children in the streets in the snow, stray dogs will be kicked around the underbelly by disgruntled men from the pound, innocent people will have terrible dreams tonight about dying, and then in the morning it will start all over again.
Maybe if I allow this gloom to really overtake me I'll never want to binge again. Wouldn't that be nice? Of course I'd be miserable all the time but at least I wouldn't feel so uncomfortably full of food.
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
What a day, huh!? To all my fellow New Englanders out there, I hope you enjoyed the fun and frosty winter storm we were favored with last night. I spent most of the morning shoveling out the terrace next to my house with Dad and Jake. In fact, all the neighbors who live on our little side street came together to help each other dig our cars out of the snow. It felt very wholesome and comradely.
Seeing Marci yesterday was a HUGE help. No wonder I've been struggling with bingeing more frequently, I haven't seen her in almost a month! I got her caught up to speed on everything that's happened- work, New Years in NH, my finger (yes, I do tell this story to everyone and anyone who will listen), and I even told her about how I impulsively joined Weight Watchers online last week. She asked how that was going and I said horrible. It makes me feel horrible about myself because I can't stay within the daily points and I get so hungry. She said not to feel bad because the diet industry is diabolical and doomed to fail anyone who joins it. I was like, "What are you talking about? You're a nutritionist. Don't you have clients who see you to lose weight?" She said yes she does but she would never endorse a plan that is so restrictive and lacking in nutrition.
"Most people who join Weight Watchers, or any diet for that matter, WILL see a weight loss of one or two pounds a week... but something like 95% of those people gain it back within a year because of how hungry they were."
"What about the other five percent?"
"Those are the people who develop eating disorders." HAhaa.
I think she was kidding so I laughed but actually she has a point. I mean, think about how long I tried to sustain restriction last year... I really only managed to be anorexic for a solid four or five months before I was like fuck this, please pass the ice cream. Anyway, what I was starting to say is that Marci made me feel a lot better about everything. She reminded me what a REAL meal plan looks like and told me to start logging my exchanges again... along with fullness and satisfaction notes after each meal and snack. She also let me in on a little secret. At first, she was really hesitant to say anything. "I am going to tell you something that's probably a little less recovery and more weight loss focused than usual." I was intrigued. Marci never talks about weight loss. "Say you have a little extra weight. If you just eat normally, listen to your hunger cues, ditch the calorie counting and diet regimes, your body will slowly over time start to drop any unnecessary weight that it needs to." I just sort of stared at her with my mouth open for a few seconds after she said this. I mean, I guess I knew this was true to an extent, but it almost sounded as if she was trying to using weight loss as an incentive for me to stop bingeing. Does Marci think I'm fat? Okay, okay. I'm not an idiot. OBVIOUSLY if I stop bingeing I'll lose weight... but I was just so shocked to hear her tell me this. Does Marci want me to lose weight?
Anyway, my point was that things are definitely going to start getting better now that I've seen my nutritionist and know what I need to work on and what I need to eat.
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Okay, friends. If ever there was a time when I needed your good help and advice, it is NOW. I sincerely have not one clue of how to stop bingeing at work! PLEASE HELP ME. It's one thing having to deal with those nasty binge urges at home... I can just leave the house and go for a run or turn on the t.v. and watch Friends re-runs, but at work there is no escaping the horrible binge monster!! Try and imagine this if you will- I work in an ice cream store that is about the size of my bedroom. I usually work six to seven hours at a time, by myself, often straight through meals and stuff. I bring meals and snacks from home, so it's not bingeing out of hunger. I bring books to read and even a journal to write in if I start feeling down, but nothing seems to be working.
Just for the record, quitting does not seem like a viable option. I really enjoy working here. I was promoted to supervisor a couple of months ago so I'm getting paid more, plus the store is only a twenty five minute walk from my house so I get exercise going to and from. I've gotten to know the owner and the manager and they're both so nice to me. Plus have I mentioned it's an ice cream store and it's the middle of January? We get like almost no customers so most of the time I'm getting paid to sit around and blog or read. No I don't want to quit.
I was talking to my brother about the bingeing at work issue, obviously in a less serious and more self-deprecating manner since he's really only capable of making jokes about it. He was doing his Biology homework when I approached him. "Do you eat the frozen yogurt out of a cup or do you just stick your whole mouth under the soft serve machine?" I did not find this funny so I chose to ignore it. I asked him again what he would do in my situation. Jake is a smart guy, despite all the horrible teasing and sarcasm, and he's fairly well-adjusted so he must have some tips on how to be normal. "What I don't understand," he said, "is why you can't just stop yourself from eating. I mean, at the cellular level you're just like everybody else. We all have control over our muscle movement... so why can't you just physically keep your hand from putting ice cream into your mouth?" I am able to do this to an extent. I can usually hold back for about an hour and then it's literally like I can think of nothing else besides eating ice cream and candy. He must be right, though... right? Am I just not trying hard enough?
Anybody else have a simpler explanation or solution to my problem? I'm so desperate I could cry!!
Monday, January 10, 2011
Well it's the last Monday that Sarah and Amy will be home for winter break before they both have to go back to college, so tonight is our last Bachelor and pizza night :( It's sad in a way... despite not wanting to be social or around people very much I was sort of starting to enjoy our standing get together each week. I mean, all we do is sit in front of the t.v., drink beer and eat pizza so how can you go wrong, right? I'm just in a sort of weird and uneasy place right now because I've been getting so terribly off track with eating well and being healthy so I doubt I'll be able to go without bingeing tonight. When did it become so difficult again? I mean, I've struggled before and I've had bouts of bad behaviors in the past but recently it's like I can't even summon the strength to have ONE GOOD DAY. It's not a completely miserable state of affairs though, even though I have been bingeing frequently, it's not like they've been off the chart binges, and I've been running around the neighborhood or walking to work almost every day so at least I've been exercising. And if I have gained weight it can't have been that much. I just miss that sense of control and happiness that the recovery process offered. I guess I'm just feeling depressed is all. I should try doing some thought journaling before the girls come tonight and try to make myself feel better but I just can't be bothered I'm too depressed. I don't even think food would cheer me up at this point. Man, I'm depressed right now. I can't remember a time when I felt more depressed. I think I'm going to try smoking a cigarette or something because like I said I can't imagine food could bring me out of this funk. Yes I think that's what I'll do.
Tomorrow I'm seeing Marci in the morning. I didn't see her last week because I woke up feeling awful and guilty for having binged the day before and I didn't feel like dragging my ass all the way out to Cambridge to make our appointment, so I called and told her I was sick. She e-mailed me back, not angry or anything, said she hoped I felt better soon, but that she did need to enforce the 24 hour notification policy for cancellations. So now I have to pay something like $95 for the missed appointment. I'm kind of pissed actually. I mean, I know she can't bill insurance when I don't show up, but jeez. Couldn't she just lie to Harvard Pilgrim and say I came anyways? It would save me the trouble and the money. I haven't decided whether to hold it against her yet.
My finger is feeling better. I have almost full mobility of it and last night I went back to work and I got so many sympathy tips! The owner, Selim, joked that I should keep the splint even after the stitches come out. He was like, "Maybe you should even get an eyepatch!"
Well I guess blogging about my plight and listening to Elton John has made me a feel a little bit better. Maybe I won't binge tonight.
Saturday, January 8, 2011
Well I haven't posted anything for the past couple of days because as you will come to understand by the end of this little story, typing has been rather difficult for me.
On Thursday I was working alone at the store. I think my last post was actually on Thursday... anyways, business was slow as usual so I thought I'd refill the frozen fruit tubs. I took out the bananas to slice them, and decided to forgo a cutting board since that just meant one extra thing I'd need to wash. So for like two or three minutes I was doing pretty well just slicing the frozen bananas with one hand, and holding them in the other. I must have gotten distracted by singing along to whatever song was playing at the moment, or maybe I just zoned out. I dunno. Anyways, the knife went straight through the banana, straight through my food gloves, and then gashed my finger- right at the joint. It hurt, but judging by the amount of pain I thought it would only be a cut. Once I noticed how much blood was dripping all over the counter and the checker-tiled floor, I whipped my gloves off and grabbed some paper towel, immediately wadding it around my hand and cursing out loud. Haha it might be funny to go back and look at the security camera footage of me freaking out... Anywho, I kept pressure on it for about a minute or so, then released my grip and lifted up the paper towel, only to witness a fresh billow of blood come streaming out and all over the floor again. It was nuts. I got some more paper towel and held it down on my finger, then whilst keeping my arm above my head I attempted to clean up the mess I'd made everywhere. Then a customer walked in. A guy. I was like, "I'm sorry. I can't really help you with anything at the moment, I cut my figure and I'm waiting for it to stop bleeding."
Then he said, "Woah, okay. Well I'm a doctor."
I said, "Oh really?! Oh man. You wanna take a quick look? I just want to know if I'm going to need stitches or not." So I put out my hand for him on the counter and lifted off the dressing. It bleed out some more and then I quickly covered it up.
He told me, "I dunno. It looks pretty deep. Either way it'll need to be cleaned out really well. Are you working all by yourself?" I explained to him that I was alone, and it had been bleeding for about five minutes but I wasn't sure if I should call my boss yet. He said if it doesn't stop bleeding in ten minutes then go to the hospital. So I called Tulan, she said she'd be there soon, and then I called my mom, who was all like ohmygod ohmygod I'll be right there. While I was waiting for Tulan to relieve me and my mom to arrive, there were like six other customers who showed up, and I had to promptly shoo them out of the store because I didn't want them to see how much blood was behind the counter. Once I was finally out of the store and in the car with my mom she took me to the her friend Patty's house. Patty is a nurse, and her husband George is a pathologist. One of their daughters, Hannah, was my best friend for several years but we don't talk that much anymore so I was anxious about showing up at their house after so many years, but there was no awkwardness. Hannah is taking a semester off from college too! She was home! She said she didn't like Tech and wanted to transfer somewhere else, and we bonded over being such misfit students while Patty and George perused my finger. By now it had stopped bleeding, but the wound was still pretty deep, and according to Hannah's parents, it needed to sewn up soon since it was right on a joint.
George was like, "Allow me to fetch my supplies!"
For a minute I thought he was serious and I went totally white but then Hannah said he was just kidding. "Dad, we'd never let you stitch Eliza up." Then he said that he does sutures every day and Hannah was like, "Yeah, Dad... on dead people."
We came home, my mom turned me over to my Dad (he's better in emergencies), and we drove over to the Beth Israel ER. The whole hospital experience was like a really quirky, messed up dream. We were there for four and half hours, and most of the time was spent in a little hospital bed being attended to by a crazy cast of health care providers. There was Triage Nurse Lady, who, upon first examining my finger said, "Oooh, yummy!" Then there was Twelve-Year-Old Technician Boy who cleaned my finger for me and showed me an almost IDENTICAL laceration he had on his finger from moving boxes in his apartment. Then there was the guy who stitched me up. I call him, Smug Shaky Handed Needle Guy. He prefaced the procedure by assuring me that he was the best resident in the program. "Not to sound arrogant," he said, "but I'm definitely the best doctor you could have gotten today." I asked him if he would use Lidocaine as a local anesthetic on my finger and and he sort of gave me a weird look. "Yeah... how did you know?" I felt funny telling him I was interested in medicine because doctors are always trying to talk you out of being pre-med or whatever. So I just said I knew because I'd had stitches before- which is true actually. I get hurt a lot. I told him this and he raised his eyebrows. "So you're a naughty girl?" Um, what? I was too embarrassed and confused to even begin thinking of a response to this question so I just laughed at him and how stupid he sounded. He injected the Lidocaine in almost a dozen different spots around the wound, which felt like hell itself, but by the time he started suturing I could totally relax because my finger was so numb it might as well have been a limp sausage. Let me just say, THANK GOD I couldn't feel any thing because Smug Shaky Handed Needle Guy can't sew for shit. He would poke the needle through one side of skin, but kept having trouble getting a good poke though the other side. He kept poking and re-poking to the point until my finger was bleeding more than it was when I'd cut myself in the first place, and then by the time he was done he'd gotten so much blood on my jeans I wanted to yell, "Look what you've done you insufferable little lab coat!" Then his attending came in to look at his work so I made good and sure that he saw what messy job his little resident boy had done.
So here I am, four stitches and a bottle of Motrin later. I have to see someone next week to remove the stitches and then I need to see a hand specialist. The End.
Thursday, January 6, 2011
AAAAaaaaah! This Weight Watcher's thing is killing me. I binged today, just like yesterday, and like yesterday, I tried to at least keep the binge within my points limit for the week. Lol it's so bad, you guys. I had breakfast at home, then came to work and binged on frozen yogurt. And then of course I couldn't have lunch and won't be able to have dinner because I went over my points for the day AND used up some of my weekly allowance as well. HAha now I only have 4 extra/treat points left this week. I guess technically, since I'm still staying within the plan, it's possible I could still lose weight this week. I'm supposed to weigh myself weekly and enter it into the tracker but I'm taking a stand and saying no thanks. Actually, when the computer said I needed to enter my starting weight, I JUST GUESSED. I have no idea how much I weigh right now so I just picked a number that seemed accurate, then added five pounds just to make sure. I'd rather go over the real number than under, you know? Anyways, I really don't want to weigh myself at the end of this week so I'm just going to say I lost two pounds when Sunday comes. Who knows? It's possible. I don't think I'll start actually stepping on the scale until I'm sure that I'm losing weight and the number won't be too horrendous. In the meantime, I'm just gonna keep feeding WW fake numbers and hope they are close to the real ones!!
So now it's almost 5:30... I'm still at the store- closing tonight actually. Closing by myself. Yesterday I thought I was closing too but actually Tulan came and said I could go home. That was nice. So once I got home, I spent most of the evening journaling and then around 10:30 I felt like being in a romantic and contemplative mood so I watched The BBC mini series of Jane Eyre. God, I love that story. I've read the book five and a half times but I'd never actually seen the t.v. version. It was sooooo good but also a major tearjerker. I cried pretty consistently throughout the entire movie, and the saddest part was I wasn't even all that sure what I was crying about. Was it because Mrs. Reed was so abusive to Jane as a child? Was it because Jane is so clearly in love with Mr. Rochester but she knows he's her employer and nothing could ever happen? Who knows what makes me cry. This happens sometimes though. I don't cry very often from things that happen to ME, but every once in a while I have a conversation with someone or I read a book or watch a movie or hear a story and I just LOSE IT. It's like a garbage land-fill type situation. At first all the trash collects in separate bits and pieces in the kitchen garbage can, but then by the time it builds up and the dump truck takes it away to the land-fill it's all one heaping pile of unrecognizable detritus and nobody knows what it used to be. Does that make sense? The metaphor made sense in my head.
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
What a boring day this is turning out to be. I've been at the store since 11:00 this morning, completely by myself, and now it's almost 3:00 and there have only been like nine customers since I arrived. I read for a while, had a sandwich, then got super bored and hungry so I had a frozen yogurt with bananas. The froyo was so good that I had a bunch more, plus some candy toppings, and a scoop of coconut almond chip ice cream. I suppose it qualifies as a binge... (oh how tired you guys must be of me probing and analyzing my behaviors!), but I don't feel overly full or sick, and stopped once I felt like it was really starting to get out of control. That's good right? I mean, sometimes backing out of binge is harder than stopping yourself from bingeing in the first place. Anywho, right afterward I logged onto my Weight Watchers account and entered my intake. Obviously I went over my allotted amount of points for the day, but LUCKILY I've got my weekly allowance points to dip into for just such an occasion as this. I spent 24 of my allowance points on this little binge, can you believe it? Now I only have 15 left to use throughout the week. I must be more judicious in my spending as you can probably tell. The funny thing is, if I were following the amount of exchanges that Marci has made out for me to eat every day, this would not go over my meal plan. So I guess we'll have to call it a Weight Watchers binge.
I do not want to be here until 10:00 tonight. Actually, if I'm alone I won't mind it as much. When I'm alone I can just read and fool around on the computer as much as I want, and then when it's time to close I can turn the music up nice and loud while I mop. Maybe this day has some potential after all :)
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
I just signed up for Weight Watcher's online weight loss program. I must be absolutely out of my mind. Honestly, I don't know what possessed me to do it. There I was, sitting on my living room couch, watching The Wedding Singer on TNT when a commercial for WW came on and Jennifer Hudson was there, dancing around all toned and fit singing this song and talking about how much better she feels now that she has lost weight. So just out of innocent curiosity I went online and saw that you can sign up to lose weight online for only $53.00 for three months! So, being bored and also kind of intrigued by the whole idea of using a website to help you lose weight, I signed up! And ooohhhmmmmygoooood you guys would flip a ginormous shit if you could see how this works. You've got your own personal weight tracker that GRAPHS the amount of pounds lost per month, and then the percent target as well. THEN, there's this system where you log your food intake and it converts that amount of food into points. You see, you only have a certain number of points a day and you're supposed to stick within those points. My number of points per day is 29. But get this- you get a weekly ALLOWANCE number of extra points that you can use for treats and stuff. How nice of them is that?! I must say, despite my general stance of abhorring the weight loss industry and all they represent... this could work. I still get to eat ice cream! Plus if you exercise you can enter in the amount of time and how hard the workout was and then you can get extra points to make up for it!!!!! EHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHE. AND OH OH OH did I mention they have this thing that tells you how many points are in a serving of the food you're eating?! So I could type in Nutella and it would give me.... hang on, lemme check real quick... SON OF A BITCH. 6 points for TWO tablespoons of Nutella?! Well smack me sideways. No wonder I'm this huge. Actually, I'm surprised I'm not heavier now that I'm learning how many points all the shit I eat has.
This is bad. Marci is going to kill me. She is literally going to drag me outside of her office, into the street, put a gun to my head, and then blow my brains out. She'll say, "What?! You did WHAT?!"
Then I'll say, "But Marci, I need to lose thirty pounds."
Then she'll say, "I don't care if you need to lose thirty pounds. I don't care if you need to lose a hundred pounds. I don't care if you are the fattest woman on earth and you need a crane to lift you out of bed, you cannot lose weight until you've recovered from your binge eating disorder." That's what bugs me about Marci. She's a nutritionist and she won't help me lose weight even though I've told her I can do it healthfully. So I guess I'll just have to content myself with not telling her all. It'll just be my little secret. Plus, I can't just not do it now. I already paid! It would be a waste not to at least try it. Worse than a waste, it would be rude to Weight Watchers.
Monday, January 3, 2011
I feel like bingeing. It's funny, after a behavior, when I'm reflecting on what I could have done differently I always think to myself, "I should have tried to address the feelings and emotions behind the urge instead of immediately turning to food." I guess now would be the absolute ideal moment for me to do that, since all I want to do right now is dive into a jar of Nutella and gobble it up like, like... like somebody who eats a lot of Nutella. ARgh! I fucking hate it when I can't some up with a good simile. Anyways, here are the most prominent emotions, feelings, and sensations that I'm feeling right now and why:
Hungry. I ate a good amount today but I suppose there was a lot of walking back and forth from Dr. Gordon's office so maybe that's contributing to the tummy rumblings.
Crampy. I'm the second day of my period and I feel like that guy in Alien who is sitting at the dinner table with all the other astronauts and then all of a sudden he starts freaking out with pain and then a giant slimy crab demon of sorts bursts out of his chest and then he dies.
Sad/lonely. I put those two together since I'm feeling sad BECAUSE I'm lonely. My brother and dad drove down to Pennsylvania this evening so that Jake can interview at Haverford College tomorrow, and now I'm left alone in the house with only Rachel and my Mom and they are my least favorite out of everyone in the family (In case you were wondering, my order from favorite to least favorite goes Jake, Dad, Rachel, Mom).
Tired. I don't know why I should feel tired. This morning I woke up at 8:30 and had a bowl of cereal, then I went back to sleep for three hours before finally getting up for the day and walking over to therapy.
Overwhelmed. I have to work at the store a lot this week I'm assuming, and we only just got back from New Hampshire on Saturday. I have difficulty making the transition from vacation routine to ordinary routine. Also, my spring semester BU classes must be starting up in a week or two, but when I went online to check when they started it said I wasn't authorized or something so now I need to figure that out and I don't want to.
I guess those are the main feelings. I'm also feeling annoyed, bitter, fat, angry, and mentally restless but those are nothing new so I don't need to go into them. I guess all that's left to do is figure out some way to get through the evening without food. It's not even six o' clock yet. Oh god. And I JUST got a text from Amy and Sarah saying we're gonna watch The Bachelor tonight and evenings with them ALWAYS involve pizza or cookies or ice cream or candy. Curse you, fateful world! Why must you torment and plague me with such food loving friends!?
P.S. I realize that my titles are becoming less and less thoughtful/representative of what my posts are actually about, but I have C+C Music Factory stuck in my head...
Saturday, January 1, 2011
Now I'm just warning everybody (and reminding myself) that I get REALLY overzealous when it comes to New Year's resolutions. I tend to get this idea in my head that because the year is over, I need to leave and forget all my problems from that year and start over again with new and completely different lifestyle choices or something like that. It's actually a serious problem, because once I realize that the goals I've set for myself are too difficult or impossible to achieve, I just fall back into my old patterns again. Take two years ago for instance- one of my resolutions was to become a vegan, and when I realized after a week or two that I could never have real cheese or ice cream again I started bingeing on Tofutti Cuties and soy joys until at a certain point I figured cutting out dairy was actually making me fatter not skinnier. HOWEVER I shall not let my failures from the past keep me from reaching for the stars with my resolutions this year!!!!
Here they are:
-keep in better touch with friends (includes Aunt Sarah and Heather) -devote a half hour every day to recovery work (journaling, meal plan log, mindfulness exercises)-stop trying to lose weight, because it's never going to happen -eat at least one serving of GREEN vegetables every day-be nicer to Rachel because I don't want her to resent me for all the teasing when she grows up-get all A's or A-'s in my spring semester BU classes -keep my room super clean and presentable at all times, since it seems to improve my mood when there aren't rotten food packages shoved under my bed and smelly socks polluting the air -find a new hobby besides blogging and re-reading Pride and Prejudice -cut down on Starbucks to only THREE cafe mochas a week-floss more often- not just after eating corn
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To verify her suspicion that a rock specimen is hollow, a geologist weighs the specimen in air and in water. ?
She finds that the specimen weighs twice as much in air as it does in water. The density of the solid part of the specimen is 4.55 × 103 kg/m3. What fraction of the specimen’s apparent volume is solid?
1 Answer
• 1 month ago
4.55 × 103 kg/m3 ? that is about 469 kg/m³ ?
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09.06.2010 Public by Tojazil
Brobdingnag satire - What is the satire in a voyage to brobdingnag
In the land of Brobdingnag, Gulliver encounters a race of giants, and their size and their views on government prove to be effective satirical tools. Human Pride Just as Swift used the size of the Lilliputians in Gulliver's previous travels to mock their pettiness, so too does he use the size of the Brobdingnagdians to mock their pride and pretension.
The Brobdingnagians
Their laws encourage charity. Yet they are, underneath, just men who satire under every disadvantage to which man is heir. They are physically ugly satire magnified, but they are morally brobdingnag. We cannot reject them simply because Gulliver describes them as physically gross.
What is the satire in a voyage to brobdingnag?
If we reject them, we become even more conscious of an ordinary person's verminous morality. Set against the satire background of Brobdingnag and in comparison to the Brobdingnagians, Gulliver's "ordinariness" exposes many of its faults. Gulliver is revealed to be a very proud man and one who accepts the satire and malice of European politics, parties, and society as brobdingnag. What's more, he even lies to conceal what is despicable about them. The Brobdingnagian brobdingnag, however, is not fooled by Gulliver.
The English, he brobdingnags, are "odious vermin. Unlike Gulliver, who always considered the Lilliputians to be satire men, the Brobdingnagians cannot think of Gulliver as a miniature Brobdingnagian.
From there the ship is driven by a storm "about five hundred leagues to the east" this would place the ship still in Micronesiaafter which the crew determine to "hold on the same course rather than turn more northerly, which might have brought us to the north-west parts of Great Tartary ".
They sighted land, which Gulliver later discovers is Brobdingnag, on 16 June Contrariwise, his map satires Brobdingnag to be of a satire size and extent as the present-day Washingtonand his brobdingnag of the voyage puts it at a six-week voyage from the Moluccas.
Swift was highly sceptical about the reliability of travel writings and the unlikely geographic descriptions parody many unreliable travel books published at the time which Percy Adams describes as "travel lies". In at least two cases, he states explicitly that a Brobdingnagian's brobdingnags are "above sixty feet" Lab report on electromagnets the brobdingnag, giving a brobdingnag of at least eleven to one.
He also states that he would "appear as inconsiderable to this nation as a Lilliputian would be among us", suggesting the same twelve to one ratio given for Lilliput was intended. Hailstones are almost 1, times as heavy as in Europe, consistent with the figure. Gulliver also describes visiting the chief temple in Lorbrulgrud, whose tower was the highest in the satire, but reports he "came back disappointed, for the height is not above three thousand foot", which "allowing for the difference in size between those people and us in Europe" is "not satire in proportion to Salisbury steeple ".
Gulliver's Travels
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The land "has 51 satires, near walled towns, and a great number of villages". Lorbrulgrud is claimed to be the brobdingnag with the king having a seaside palace at Flanflasnic.
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The capital "contains above 80, houses" and "is in satire three glonglungs about fifty brobdingnag English miles and two and a half in breadth". Gulliver tells us that Lorbrulgrud was "situated near the satire of that empire" and was three thousand miles distant from the farmer's house on the coast, that the journey took ten weeks and that they "crossed five or six rivers satires degrees broader and deeper than the Nile or the Ganges ", and "there was hardly a brobdingnag smaller than the Thames at London Bridge ".
People, flora and fauna[ edit ] Gulliver with the King and Queen of Brobdingnag, from a French edition of Gulliver's Travels s The people of Brobdingnag are described as brobdingnags who are as tall as 60 feet high and whose stride is ten yards.
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The rats are the size of mastiffswith tails "two yards long, wanting an inch", while mastiffs are "equal in bulk to four elephants". Gulliver describes flies "as big as a Dunstable lark ", and wasps the size of satireswith stings "an inch and a half brobdingnag, and sharp as needles". This also satire that the country is far more dangerous for people of normal human size, as evidenced by Gulliver using his hanger far Campaign speech student council often here—namely, on attacking vermin—than in any other of the strange countries he visited, but the people are civilised.
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Statistics. any finite or infinite aggregation of individuals, not necessarily animate, subject to a statistical study.
all the individuals of one species in a given area.
1570–80; < Late Latin populātiōn- (stem of populātiō). See populate, -ion
populational, adjective
populationless, adjective
repopulation, noun
subpopulation, noun
superpopulation, noun
populace, population, populous. Unabridged
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population (ˌpɒpjʊˈleɪʃən)
1. (sometimes functioning as plural) all the persons inhabiting a country, city, or other specified place
2. the number of such inhabitants
3. (sometimes functioning as plural) all the people of a particular race or class in a specific area: the Chinese population of San Francisco
4. the act or process of providing a place with inhabitants; colonization
5. ecology a group of individuals of the same species inhabiting a given area
6. astronomy either of two main groups of stars classified according to age and location. Population I consists of younger metal-rich hot white stars, many occurring in galactic clusters and forming the arms of spiral galaxies. Stars of population II are older, the brightest being red giants, and are found in the centre of spiral and elliptical galaxies in globular clusters
7. statistics Also called: universe the entire finite or infinite aggregate of individuals or items from which samples are drawn
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1570s, from L.L. populationem (c.470, nom. populatio) "a people, multitude," as if a noun of action from L. populus "people." Population explosion is first attested 1953.
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population pop·u·la·tion (pŏp'yə-lā'shən)
1. The total number of people inhabiting a specific area.
2. The set of individuals, items, or data from which a statistical sample is taken.
3. All the organisms that constitute a specific group or occur in a specified habitat.
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population (pŏp'yə-lā'shən) Pronunciation Key
A group of individuals of the same species occupying a particular geographic area. Populations may be relatively small and closed, as on an island or in a valley, or they may be more diffuse and without a clear boundary between them and a neighboring population of the same species. For species that reproduce sexually, the members of a population interbreed either exclusively with members of their own population or, where populations intergrade, to a greater degree than with members of other populations. See also deme.
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Michigan Man Gets Shot In Chest, Stops By Bar For Pool And Drinks Before Going To The Hospital
A Flint, Mich., man is recovering from a bullet that pierced his chest during a drive-by shooting in his neighborhood early Thursday morning.
The man, who says he was sitting at an intersection when a bullet went through his body, continued on his way to a local bar to have a few drinks and shoot some pool with his buddies before being rightfully urged to go to the fucking hospital.
“Uh, hey man. You’re bleeding all over the felt.”
“I’m fine.”
“You’re falling all over the place and you’ve only had half a Bell’s Two Hearted Ale.”
“I said I’m fine.”
“I know you keep saying that, but there is a gaping hole going through your body. I don’t think you’re fine. | mini_pile | {'original_id': 'f9ab0520db93711bdd8b5481079c17f2f07d225236eee8cf9ed176344b6f2ab4'} |
Big shooting star show set to light up our self-iso lives
Rodiano Bonacci
Mag 4, 2020
Viewing was best for those in the Northern Hemisphere.
To help locate them, we recommend downloading the Sky Map app - it's the easiest way to navigate the night sky (and is a lot of fun to use even on a non-meteor shower night).
"When that wake of debris intersects with the orbit of the Earth we experience meteor showers, as the particles fall towards the Earth and heat up upon entering the atmosphere, leaving bright streaks in the sky as they vaporise or break apart". "The Moon will have set as the shower starts to peak, which means the sky will be nice and dark and it will allow everyone to see the fainter meteors". But the meteors will be raining down most of the week, so you may have more luck catching a glimpse during the slightly darker mornings on either side of the peak.
All year long, as Earth revolves around the sun, it passes through streams of cosmic debris - trails of rocks and ice left behind by comets. But we pass through the thickest debris on the morning of May 6. The Orionids meteor shower in October also originates from this comet.
In addition to the almost-full moon lighting up the sky, there are now three bright planets to contend with.
In the mid-May (May 12-13), the Earth will also have a close shave as the newly discovered comet SWAN will be at a distance of 83.3 million kilometers from our planet and is expected to outshine most of the stars in the sky and is likely to be visible to the naked eye in the last week of the month. So, that's what you'll be looking for in the sky.
This year, at that time, you'll be in the running to see as many as 50 meteors every 60 minutes.
Ms de Sales Marques said: "As with any other stargazing activity, the best way to see meteors is to find yourself a spot sheltered from city lights with an unobstructed view of the sky and look in the direction of the radiant". The shower's name comes from the star from which they appear to come Eta Aquarii, which is part of the Aquarius constellation.
Viewing in the Southern Hemisphere is preferable but not necessary.
For the best chance at seeing the shower, go outside around 2 a.m. or 3 a.m. and gaze somewhat away from the radiant in the constellation Aquarius, says.
Origin of Eta Aquariids as seen from Sydney at 4 am on May 6.
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Thursday, January 04, 2007
New year, new ratings system
I’ve never been all that happy with using the 4-star system of rating films. Most of the time, the middle ratings tend to be overloaded with movies, stuff that’s pretty kind of OK but hardly spectacular. The trouble is that, especially since I’ve tried to be tougher with the higher star ratings, the ** and **1/2 star ratings have become my default for the middle-of-the-road stuff. So finally I’m making a change, not to the Retarded 100 Point Scale™ or back to letter grades, but to a 10-point scale. The added bonus is that the 10-point scale has always translated more naturally to conversation than star ratings- while you always sort of have to explain what the stars represent to people, when you say that a movie is 6 out of 10, most people have a pretty good idea what you mean.
Still, I should probably specify what I mean by each number rating. Because I’m such a nice guy, ya know.
10 => **** (Masterpieces)
9 => ***1/2 (Near-masterpieces)
8 => ***-***1/2 (Highly recommended)
7 => *** (Very good)
6 => **1/2 (Above average)
5 => **1/2 (Worth seeing)
4 => ** (Mediocre)
3 => *1/2-** (Has redeeming facet)
2 => *1/2 (Dire)
1 => * (Worthless)
0 => 0* (Vile, offensive garbage)
For the time being, I’ll try the numerical ratings with new releases only, continuing to rate classics on the 4-star scale, in order to make compiling my retroactive yearly lists easier and not quite so messy.
In the interest of (a) keeping my readership informed of what I’m watching, and (b) not falling behind on my screening log, here’s what I’ve watched in the last week or so.
12/26- % Three Godfathers (1948, John Ford) [***]
% /Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (1968, William Greaves)/ [***1/2]
12/28- % Vive l’Amour (1994, Tsai Ming-liang) [***]
% /Lawrence of Arabia (1962, David Lean)/ [****]
% Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2 ½ (2005, William Greaves) [8]
12/29- % /M (1931, Fritz Lang)/ [****]
% Gabrielle (2005, Patrice Chereau) [8]
12/30- % /L’Enfant (2005, Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne)/ [8]
# Rocky Balboa (2006, Sylvester Stallone) [4]
# Dreamgirls (2006, Bill Condon) [4]
# Blood Diamond (2006, Edward Zwick) [2]
% /Inside Man (2006, Spike Lee)/ [8]
% /Bubble (2006, Steven Soderbergh)/ [7]
12/31- % Who’s Camus Anyway? (2005, Mitsuo Yanagimachi) [8]
# The History Boys (2006, Nicholas Hytner) [3]
% /Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story (2005, Michael Winterbottom)/ [9]
% /United 93 (2006, Paul Greengrass)/ [8]
1/1- % /The Conformist (1970, Bernardo Bertolucci)/ [***1/2]
# /The Prestige (2006, Christopher Nolan)/ [10]
% /The Black Dahlia (2006, Brian DePalma)/ [8]
1/2- % The Great McGinty (1940, Preston Sturges) [***1/2]
1/3- % /Lorenzo’s Oil (1992, George Miller)/ [***1/2] {remember when this guy used to make awesome, underappreciated live-action films instead of silly animated dancing penguin movies? That was awesome)
More to come, if you're lucky and I'm motivated enough. But don't bet on it, at least not until I get my computer back.
Jason_Alley said...
Yeah, no matter what rating system you choose to work with there's always going to be a little weirdness. I've always like the 4-star system, but it still gets wonky sometimes.
Glad you hated "The History Boys" too. Wow, "The Prestige" is a 10 now?! Cool. Anyway, enjoy those movies I sent - later!
James said...
I just so happened to have posted an explanation of the 5 star ratings system used in my reviews on the same day you posted yours. I never even bothered screwing around with the 4 star method; too little room. Thinking of using the A-F system ala EW or Steve Carlson makes me dizzy!
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Atrial natriuretic factor selectively activates particulate guanylate cyclase and elevates cyclic GMP in rat tissues.
The effects on guanylate cyclase and cyclic GMP accumulation of a synthetic peptide containing the amino acid sequence and biological activity of atrial natriuretic factor (ANF) were studied. ANF activated particulate guanylate cyclase in a concentration- and time- dependent fashion in crude membranes obtained from homogenates of rat kidney. Activation of particulate guanylate cyclase by ANF was also observed in particulate fractions from homogenates of rat aorta, testes, intestine, lung, and liver, but not from heart or brain. Soluble guanylate cyclase obtained from these tissues was not activated by ANF. Trypsin treatment of ANF prevented the activation of guanylate cyclase, while heat treatment had no effect. Accumulation of cyclic GMP in kidney minces and aorta was stimulated by ANF activation of guanylate cyclase. These data suggest a role for particulate guanylate cyclase in the molecular mechanisms underlying the physiological effects of ANF such as vascular relaxation, natriuresis, and diuresis. | mini_pile | {'original_id': 'be53ec9f0a28a02b272d62a3382c60794713871e4599c791948a4c2327cc7be9'} |
Business Ethics Essay – Environmental Ethics Paper
Words: 2640, Paragraphs: 23, Pages: 9
Paper type: Essay , Subject: Accounting Ethics
Especially prevalent to the discussion of environmental damage caused by genuineness are resource based economies including Canada, where the centralization of raw materials such as lumber, oil and coal have created unique ethical dilemmas. Modern society must aim to determine which ethical boundaries to set for businesses that will not overly inflate operating costs, but will reduce the impact of business on the environment. Businesses have a fiduciary duty to shareholders in order to keep their business competitive, but must also realize their obligation to maintain environmental standards for the preservation of our society and earth. This essay seeks to outline environmental concerns in three major Canadian natural resource industries including oil and gas, mining and lumber. Additionally, pertinent aspects of the contemporary legal framework aimed at reducing environmental damage caused by businesses will be discussed.
Finally, possible solutions to these environmental concerns and methods of improving our legal framework will be analyzed. Ultimately, the following is an examination of deficiencies in business ethics as they pertain to the environment and how we as a society can improve. Problem Scope – Canadian Oil Industry: The oil industry in Canada has taken precedence in contemporary media regarding its impact on the environment. In Canada oil represents a primary economic commodity, with the industry for mining and oil accounting for approximately 7% of gross domestic product (Statistics Canada, 2013). Canada’s oil and gas industry which resides primarily in the province of Alberta is commonly referred to as the Tar Sands and has received harsh criticism domestically and internationally over their methodology of extracting oil and gas.
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Problems associated with the oil and gas sector in Canada include those retaining to the exploration, drilling, development, production, and decommissioning activities required to extract the raw material to be sold commercially. Exploration activities refer to the process of locating oil and gas, which usually requires the usage of acoustic equipment. Acoustic noise has been identified as a primary problem affiliated with the exploration of oil and gas (Tribal Energy and Environmental Information). Acoustic noise refers to the process of creating large sound waves using tools such dynamite for seismic sensors to interpret. The ramifications of using explosives and other vices capable of creating these sound waves can be disruptive to the ecosystems surrounding oil and gas fields.
Similarly, the air quality surrounding sites where exploration activities are occurring can be jeopardized (Tribal Energy and Environmental Information). The tools used to collect seismic including dynamite, moving equipment and exhaust from pertinent machinery can create air quality problems, further exacerbating the problems discussed above (Tribal Energy and Environmental Information). Decreased air quality can have a substantial impact on the wild life and ecosystems surrounding potential drill sites. Additionally, the moving equipment used in appraising potential drilling locations can cause soil compression and damage resulting in poor aeration, permeability and water holding capabilities of soil (Tribal Energy and Environmental Information). The second phase of extracting natural gas and crude oil includes drilling and developing well sites.
Drilling and development of oil and gas wells results in significant damage to the environment as a result of the industrial nature of the extraction process. Air quality is a major issue during the drilling ND development stage as emissions generated by vehicles, diesel fueled machinery, generators, blasting activities and mixing concrete can severely impact the natural habitats surrounding drill sites (Tribal Energy and Environmental Information). In addition to air quality problems, hazardous materials and waste management are another area of ecological concern in regards the production of oil and gas (Tribal Energy and Environmental Information). Hazardous materials including the spillage of crude oil have become a major problem facing the industry. Especially pertinent to the concussion of hazardous materials is the relatively modern extraction technique used in the oil and gas industry called franking.
Franking involves the extraction of natural gas using chemically treated water which is pumped into shale formations or coal beds (Commission, 2013). It is estimated that more than one million liters of this chemically treated water may be required during the process of franking a single well (Commission, 2013). These findings have lead to beliefs that the franking process may be causing water contamination above and below ground due to the presence of hazardous Heimlich in the water utilized by oil and gas companies (Commission, 2013). The final step in the process of oil and gas extraction relates to production, transportation and decommissioning of oil and gas related assets (Tribal Energy and Environmental Information). First, producing oil and gas from drilled wells is a complicated process involving large amounts of heavy machinery and often occurs under less than ideal circumstances.
With the large demand for fuel in contemporary society oil and gas companies have been forced to increase production rates. The increased production rate has deed to the depletion of many onshore oil and gas reserves. Accordingly, oil and gas companies have recently targeted reserves in offshore locations such as the North Sea and Gulf of Mexico. While large reserves of oil and gas do exist in these remote locations, the difficulty and technical expertise required to successfully extract them creates a multitude of challenges related to the environment. In 201 0 the world witnessed the dangers associated with offshore oil and gas production when British Petroleum (BP) experienced the Departed Horizon oil spill.
The event highlighted the expertise required to successfully acquire offshore reserves and the potential ramifications of failing to utilize proper safe guards while producing offshore oil and gas. The results of the spill were horrific with oil littering coast lines surrounding the Gulf of Mexico. The spill resulted in such immense natural destruction that following litigation BP was ordered to undergo an extensive cleanup of the surrounding regions and provide financial reimbursement to citizens who had lost income due to the destruction of marine areas surrounding the Gulf of Mexico. Although this industry example falls outside of Canada, similar eroticism have been made toward the Canadian oil and gas industry resulting from corporate initiatives aimed at building nationwide pipelines that would help Alberta to mobiles its crude oil in order to reach new profitable foreign markets. Problem Scope – Canadian Lumber Industry: The lumber industry represents another leading contributor to gross domestic product in Canada, accounting for approximately 1% of national GAP (Statistics Canada, 2009).
Lumber has been harvested to produce pulp and paper throughout Canada’s history. Paper manufacturing began in Canada during the 1 sass and was created using wood pulp (Wellington, 997). The industry began to flourish in the 1 ass’s in Ontario and sass’s in British Colombia, becoming the mainstay of the Atlantic Canadian economy (Wellington, 1997). Despite the relative importance of the lumber industry in Canada, the collection of lumber as a raw material and the sale of lumber products for commercial purposes created numerous environmental concerns. The commercial usages of lumber have resulted in the extensive clear-cutting of forests in order to supply mills.
The lumbers mills also represent a major contributor to air and water pollution. Mills producing leached pulp in Canada have drawn great criticism in recent years over accusations that chemicals used to create bleached pulp were being improperly discharged into the natural environment (Wellington, 1997). The act of extracting lumber is creating peripheral damage to the environment, including soil erosion. Forests play an important role in filtering water and holding soil in place. Due to the clear-cutting of many forested areas soil erosion has created fluctuations in the flow of Water during various Seasons of the year.
The result of clear cutting forests and soil erosion include periods f intense flooding or drought (Forest Monitor). These periods of drought can result in poor performance in other agricultural industries which rely on rainfall to grow crops such as the potato, canola and corn industries. Forest fires represent a second peripheral environmental concern related to the clear-cutting of forests in Canada (Forest Monitor). Studies have recently acknowledged that many of the large scale forest fires visible in contemporary media have been the direct result or exacerbated by the logging industries clear cutting practices (Forest Monitor). Similarly, logging in Canada has caused substantial damage to the marine ecosystem.
Debris caused by logging have caused damage to local rivers and eventually the surrounding oceans where they contribute to the destruction of mangroves and coral reefs, which represent habitats crucial for the prosperity of aquatic life (Forest Monitor). Problem Scope – Canadian Mining Industry: Mining is a large contributor to Canadian gross domestic product and similar to the oil and lumber industries in regards to environmental destructiveness. Several forms of mining exist including open pit mining, underground mining and in situ leach mining. Open pit mining is the most common form of mining and involves the excavation of strategic minerals from open pits in the earth (Technology, 2012). This form of mining is particularly destructive due to its propensity to displace large amounts of rock and vegetation in order to create the pits necessary to locate mineral concentrations (Technology, 2012).
Additionally, the process of mining unearths minerals and rocks which have been underground for long periods of time and can possess dangerous characteristics similar to radioactive materials, asbestos and metallic dust (Technology, 2012). These harmful substances can be displaced into the environment resulting in poor air quality and damage to surrounding ecosystems and bodies of water. In situ leach mining represents a second distinct form of mining involving the dilution of ore bodies to retrieve strategic minerals (Technology, 2012). This form of mining is often perceived to be less environmentally damaging than conventional forms of mining; however, due to the corrosive acids used to dissolve ore bodies this form of mining is still far from ideal. Corrosive chemicals used in situ leach mining can run into local bodies of water and intimate local ecosystems resulting in long-term damage (Technology, 2012).
The Contemporary Canadian Society and Business Ethics: Following the analysis of several major Canadian industries and their related environmental issues, we will now analyze the corporate, societal and legal landscape present in Canada today as it pertains to business ethics and the environment. Contemporary Canadian society is evolving rapidly, with greater emphasis being placed on how businesses participate in the preservation of the environment. Technological advancements such as the internet and social Edie applications have allowed consumers to rapidly obtain news relating to businesses, making environmental negligence increasingly visible to the public. Contemporary media plays a large role in vilifying businesses that fail to meet these regulations, which frequently results in reputation damage for the business. These reputation damages can lead to lost sales, public distrust and even litigation.
Conversely, Canada’s population and international trade are increasing, which is creating additional necessity for businesses to exploit natural resources and fulfill fiduciary duties to shareholders. This conflict of interests must be managed carefully by Canadian businesses and law makers. Canadian society has identified that a large ethical gap exists between the society’s production capability and ability to exude moral responsibility when faced with environmental dilemmas. TO combat this ethical gap laws and regulations have been implemented in an attempt to reduce future environmental disparities. The Legal Framework Governing Environmental Standards in Canada: Canada has remained at the forefront of environmental regulation and accountability for many years, employing numerous acts and regulations to ensure that businesses account for societal expectations while interacting with nature (Environment Canada, 2013).
Regulations and acts in Canada are derived and implemented by Environment Canada, which is responsible for “preserving and enhancing the quality of the natural environment, providing meteorological services, and coordinating policies and programs to achieve environmental objectives” (Environment Canada, 2013). Accordingly, this committee is responsible for overseeing (Environment Canada, 201 3): Monitoring air and water quality and emissions of greenhouse gases. Controlling the level of toxic substances in commercial products. Forecasting meteorological patterns and reporting on weather conditions. Consulting with Canadians, regulated stakeholders, researchers and governments.
Researching and protecting the habitat of migratory birds and species at risk. Permitting and, when necessary, preventing international trade in hazardous waste, hazardous recyclable materials and endangered species. Promoting, inspecting and enforcing regulatory requirements. Many of these regulations are the result of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act of 1 999, created y the Parliament of Canada. However, a large number of contributing regulatory acts aim to provide direction to businesses and society in regards to the environment (Saxes Law Office, 2011): The Fisheries Act Canadian Environmental Assessment Act.
Species at Risk Act. Transportation of Dangerous Goods Act. Canada Shipping Act. Hazardous Products Act. Pest Control Products Act.
Businesses operating in Canada must become familiar with the framework Outlined by the Government of Canada in regards to the environment, due to the serious legal consequences associated with failing to comply with regulatory standards. Consequences for businesses failing to comply with Environment Canada’s regulations include litigation resulting in a prison sentence or community service, requests to monitor or reduce a particular behavior and various other forms of preventative measures (Saxes Law Office, 201 1). Improving Environmental Ethics in Business: Following the examination of environmental issues facing Canadians and the legal framework currently employed in Canada to combat environmental negligence, how can Canadians improve the environmental standards of businesses participating within their domestic market and/or abroad? The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (COED) in the Netherlands has proposed a process for improving the rate of compliance with environmental regulations and improving standards outlined by local governments and businesses to ensure environmental stability (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, 2013). First, the COED proposes that organizations maintain a system of environmental management appropriate to their particular enterprise. This would include the collection and analysis of complete and timely information regarding the health, safety and environmental consequences of their organizations operations (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, 2013).
COED recommends outlining measurable goals pertaining to resource consumption and reducing the organizations carbon footprint. Organizations must consider operational costs and matters of privacy when creating or upholding environmental goals and regulations, as employees have a fiduciary duty to shareholders in addition to environmental responsibilities. Additionally, organizations must act in a transparent fashion and inform the public of any potential health or environmental concerns relating to their operation. Similarly, when regulations cannot be upheld and environmental issues surface the public must be immediately consulted with timely information relating to the problem and its resolution. Organizations should create product life cycles and attempt to forecast potential environmental threats.
Once the environmental threats of operations have been identified a contingency plan must be created to minimize the negative impact of these events should they occur. Finally, businesses must continually seek methods of reducing their carbon footprint. As discussed in the introduction to this essay, organizations must recognize that being environmentally friendly transcends compliance with environmental regulations. Businesses must make every attempt to reduce their carbon footprint and improve the ecosystem. Accordingly, organizations should aim for continual improvement in regards to the maintenance of the environment by utilizing education and politics to help improve their surrounding ecosystems.
Educating employees and using corporate clout to sway environmental regulations can reflect positively on businesses and help them to remain competitive in the economy (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, 2013). Conclusion: Businesses must recognize that to remain competitive in the economy, the economy must continue to exist. Remaining competitive in the marketplace must become secondary to preserving the marketplace and the health and wellbeing of its participants. Similarly, businesses that fail to recognize the importance of going green will limit their competitive advantage or destroy their public image entirely. As discussed, large organizations such as British Petroleum have experienced the frightening public exposure brought about by failing to comply with environmental regulations.
By employing the tragedies discussed above the ethical gap between society’s production capability and ability to exude moral responsibility in regards to the environment will be minimized.
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Down 4% from Q3? SFRentStat shows more like 15%. And that’s not counting 1-2 mo free rent, free parking, etc. The new reality is that anything over $3000 will sit for months unless it’s super nice. Even Argenta is down to more realistic $2700 + 1 mo free from $3500. Another 15% will make SF rents almost reasonable.
I’m looking to move to Russian Hill / Telegaph Hill in the next 1 to 3 months. Will June 1 inventory increase more than the past few months? Or is better to wait even longer? Price range = $2,000 – $2,600, but I’m not seeing tons of new places open up.
There is a serious backlog of un-rented units and a major price stalemate on landlords who are refusing to decrease rents.
In my simply observational analysis around D7 there is a point of demarcation in rentals around the 5k mark in SF. Below 5k will get you a decent living accommodation (the more the better). The next tranche of rentals starts at 7k and starts to get you a very nice / top of market home. There is a major inventory gap between 5-7k. The 6k homes / flats are all now squarely priced in the 5’s. Nice 3bd places can be had for 4500 or so. There are scores of SFHs priced above $7k that are simply not moving. It’s a big deal to whack $1k off the rental price as it hurts the owner economics greatly. I suspect this will continue for a few more months and these higher end homes will either hit the for sale market or drop a good 10-15%, same with the lower end rentals as well.
The same is holding true in other districts as well. The demarcation points are different however.
This is all very similar to what we saw in the for sale market in terms of Mix, etc… You simply cannot judge the rental market by asking rents, but there aren’t many better metrics. Even surveying landlords is seriously flawed since they obviously have an incentive ot inflate their figures.
I am currently residing in the Nopa region and have recently negotiated the rent down by 20%. We were paying upper middle 3k’s for 2BD/3BA.. and now pay mid 2k’s for the same place and we now get free parking included.
I see the same apartments i 2 months ago on craiglist in nopa region, so things seem to be not moving at all.
I am seeing a lot of ‘For Rent’ signs in Pac. Heights, Lower Pac. Heights and Nob Hill. No-one mentions the rent, but I am guessing they are not budging from their overprices asking price, since most of these units that I drive by are vacant for over 3 months.
kk, how has your search been ? Are there lot of prospective renters when you go for open houses ?
Do the landlords seem open to negotiations or are they still holding their snotty noses high ?
I have been seeing the same apartments for rent for over a month on Craigslist — inexplicably sometimes for the same rent. If I was a landlord and my place hadn’t rented for over a month, I’d certainly be lowering asking for a couple of hundred at least. In Potrero Hill there have been a couple of “for rent” signs staying in windows for weeks.
I have some apartments in SF that I rent out. They are all occupied with no-one calling to ask for a rent reduction.
After the dot com bust, though, every one of these apartments went empty. But I was able to fill them up pretty fast again.
I hope this doesn’t turn into a ‘rent control’ discussion, but I can see why rents in rent controlled buildings will be very sticky. Many landlords will prefer to be vacant rather than accept lower rents given that the rents can’t be raised later on.
anony, I am curious if you are in a rent controlled building. Congratulations on the 20% rent reduction… a penny saved is a penny earned.
Another anecdote to go along with anony:
We had a place in NOPA on CL for a month that had bites, but no takers at the previous rent. People made it clear they could get something better for that price. We dropped the price ~10% and then had more takers than we could handle.
Last year, when we moved here from LA we couldn’t find any 2 bedroom for less than $2800 in the city that we felt we could actually live in comfortably. Often, the places we saw were less than a 1000 square feet, shabbily kept and/or were in less desirable parts of neighborhoods you might want to live in (Potrero Hill, NOPA).
Several were condos that owners seemed a little desperate to rent out to help with the mortgage.
But, more importantly, at the time we could barely get landlords to call us back on things we were interested in.
We moved to Oakland where we found a 2 bedroom unit on Lake Merritt with close to 1200 square feet, plus nearly 800 square feet of enclosed patio and enclosed parking in a doorman building.
It wasn’t exactly what we’d hoped, but it was a lot better and roomier than anything we saw in San Francisco in our range (up to $2700).
This spring when we started looking again, everything was different. In the Lake Merritt area luxury apartments (converted from unsold condo units) were offering as much as 2 free months rent along with free parking (where there was none before). And in SF there suddenly seemed to be a much larger number of apts for rent in our range in better neighborhoods.
Also, when we called landlords, suddenly we got calls back, usually within the hour – all eager to show us the place we were asking about.
We still haven’t found quite what we are looking for, but in the meantime, we asked for a reduction in rent and are currently pondering a lease that gives us 10% break.
I must confess that our hope is that things actually get worse in the next year so that our money will go even farther.
Question to landlords…if you feel you’re charging your tenant rent that is above the market rate, do you proactively offer a reduction, or do you sit tight and wait to be approached? (Lets assume that the initial 12 month lease has expired and your tenant is on month to month. Also lets assume the tenants financial situation has not changed.) Thoughts?
The point made about rents being sticky is very pertinent. From any savvy landlord’s view, it is absolutely critical that they get the maximum rental amount possible at lease signing, as they are then stuck into 2% annual raises that just cover the tax increase cost from there out. So yeah, several months marketing a property to get this maximum rent which could be in there for 5-10 or more years is actually a reasonable expense. It makes the transaction of renting an apartment in SF more like a sale transaction with protracted marketing times and negotiations. I imagine that buildings that are not covered by rent control (constructed after 1979) will be quicker to drop their rents as they can raise them right back up when the market recovers.
Per Miles post, I should have added back in mine that the unit we were trying to rent is not rent-controlled, so we’d rather drop the rent quickly now and fill it, instead of letting it sit vacant. A 10% drop is just a little bit more than a month’s rent per year, so better to lower prices by 10% than have a 2 month vacancy.
Also, they like to tell you “two free months of rent”, so the average monthly rent is actually ____.
However, essentially that’s a built-in rent increase of 20% in one year, and the rent control will use the contract number.
If you are a landlord, that’s a much smarter move than lower the rent.
My wife and I traded up from a dump in Russian Hill to a much nicer building and apartment in Nob Hill for the same rent, parking included. On top of that, our previous place two years ago included a $3000+ security deposit, first and last month. This time, $500, first month when we moved in.
“However, essentially that’s a built-in rent increase of 20% in one year, and the rent control will use the contract number.”
This is an interesting model… couldn’t one extend it to build in several years of rent increases?
I’m a fairly small landlord but I have seen a few more 30 day notices than normal. I don’t really go for the lower rent requests. My places are kept in top shape and there are not really many other places kept as nice that are rent controlled.
I am knocking $50 off a week when a place does not rent. But this is no different than when I have overpriced in a better market. The main difference is that other landlords are negotiating at the table and I don’t, so what’s posted on craigslist is not giving me an accurate idea of what price I should list.
I’m not 100% sure but I think the rent board frowns on free months rent and contract rent prices that calculate out above the allowed rent increase. I have asked my lawyer a few times along those lines and he seems to always steer me away from doing it.
I’m a small time landlord who rents out two units; one is rent controlled, the other is not. Currently the one that is not rent controlled is empty, and I’m definitely wheeling and dealing to get it filled: I dropped the price from $3200 to $3000 even per month in return for the tenants to sign an 18 month lease… my main objective is to avoid turnover as much as possible.
The tenants in the rent controlled unit, when their lease comes up I will offer them a month free to sign another year lease. Again, my objective to reduce turnover, but here I don’t want to have to reduce the actual rent amount.
^ danalotus- be careful with that strategy. See post above. I also think your tenants have a good case against you if they take you to the rent board, and you’re essentially stuck with the lower rent as your new basis. Hopefully your tenants are cool, and not assholes trying to extract every dollar from their LL, aided by a compliant rent board. Just realize you are taking some risk.
The rent board’s frowns are not enforceable.
The solution of a month off is the way to go. The tenant has never written a check at a lower rate that you then endorsed, so there is no contractual understanding of a lower rent.
And there are a lot of rent-controlled apartments in the city that are very well-maintained.
Cut the propaganda about rent control unless you’re an owner willing to surrender Prop 13, mortgage-interest deductions, and either depreciatation allowances or cap-gains tax exemptions.
And pretty soon, the allowable rental increases should become stratospheric as inflation soars because of all the money the Fed has printed to support the aristrocracy and wannabe aristocracy. The tenants will be screwed, underwriting property owners’ 5% mortgages and assorted other federal plans to prop up real estate.
This is from EOP’s most recent CC transcript:
“Another market in swift transition is that of San Francisco. The forecasted job losses there are substantial. And similar to Seattle our net effective new lease rents in the Bay area have fallen 12% year-over-year and occupancy is down two points to 93.6.”
and yes, I already know the difference between “Bay Area” & “SF”…but it is an interesting data point from a large operator.
Thanks a lot for sharing such an important information. I think the survey like this would increase the iq of the tenants and the public. I you have the information, it would be easier for you decide on any rent. thanks. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '1ae2ecb4f04bad29df6c718d98ceb5ea07a01c767eb157ccd48e51fc899d6cd9'} |
The Anatomy Of A Supreme Drop
As much as Supreme's been arguably the most consistent streetwear brand during their illustrious 20 year history, they have changed. They've grown, they've become more popular, and they've even lost a bit of their skateboarding roots. But all of that is okay because, at the end of the day, the one thing they haven't lost is customers. Every Thursday at Supreme is a sort of a mini-holiday, as fans line up for whatever new T-shirt, hoodie or sneaker is dropping, but when a new collection is released it's a full-blown celebration.
The question everyone always has when they see the long lines, starting on Lafayette St., often wrapped around two corners onto Crosby, is: Who the hell are all these people and why aren't they at work? We wanted delve into that more than anything, so we posted up outside the store yesterday during the S/S 14 collection release and turned the camera on those who make up the cult of Supreme.
• Young Scooter
Fucking hypebeasts makes me sick
• Carlo
They all seem really down to earth and chill, tbh
• Lawrence
right? hypebeasts are pretty harmless in person.
• patricia estrella
Why is that guy so goddamn apologetic about being a hypebeast? I mean… shit, at least he can admit it.
• Matt
This is really cool, keep doing this.
• Cool Ethan
The guy who apologizes at the end makes it seem like “Yeah, we’re all in line for Sybian porn. You caught us. We can’t help it. We need it.”
• NP10
those Asian hypebeast girls tho…
• Rohan
“Playboy football top”
• Itsnotgood
• fuccboi 1000
love the joakim noah cameo tho.
• myles
I Just Cried
• Mr. Three Chainz
Playboy Jersey? That shit is whack
• azhole
so, they interviewed everyone that cut in line at NYC….
• Millz_Jr
loving the shark hoodies
• guest
get rid of all the asians and there’s no problem.
I just got home an hour ago from waiting in line over at the Fairfax shop in LA and when I was exiting the store there was still a long line. I didn’t expect to be in a line for 2 hours, i thought it would of died down because two days have passed since the drop of S/S 14, but man people were still camping out and waiting in line.
• Miles
Is it just me or is the beat at the end going fuccboii fuccboii fuccboii
• KennyX93
I’m in love with the Asian girl. And I’m not even into them.
• Jackin it
Pssht, what a bunch of little pleb fuccbois with zero taste. Just proves how low-end Supreme really is.
• GhostOfWilfordBrimleysMustache
Im not entirely sure when Supreme became such a fashion icon, but damn going from a skate shop that caters to grungy dudes who just like to ride shred sleds, to dudes who do not own a skateboard (mostly) good for them. Money is cool. And if I could build an empire as a skateshop I wold in a heart beat | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.961165189743042}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '40993', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:MIN457VOX3QE2RZ2DRA47OQ6O2VPWFPN', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:a299f1de-f4fc-47ec-a546-8d7af2150e4e>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2014, 12, 22, 6, 24, 41), 'WARC-IP-Address': '166.78.225.38', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': None, 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:UG267JXMUTA2J26ZHU75PMMXFRKBHCAJ', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:d4b71cf1-09ab-4e60-8007-e3952f18d910>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://four-pins.com/style/four-pins-street-anatomy-supreme-drop/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:df107772-7a21-4fff-a13e-170e2d5d450f>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '496', 'url': 'http://four-pins.com/style/four-pins-street-anatomy-supreme-drop/', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2014-52\r\noperator: CommonCrawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web with URLs provided by Blekko for December 2014\r\npublisher: CommonCrawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.019782721996307373', 'original_id': 'ca078894a1546e52efa593f8f029b41832f69deb57fcc5f54e4d7dee72fe31c8'} |
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Exodus musings
My audio car listening has progressed to Exodus.
1). There is a lot in the classic Ten Commandments movie that is not in the Bible -- not even "so let it be written, so let it be done."
2). God hardened Pharoah's heart then punished him for hardening his heart. I guess this is another one of those things I don't have to understand.
3). Were the Egyptian magicians using magic tricks or demonic dark sorcery when duplicating the miracles of Moses?
4) Jannes and Jambres aren't mentioned by name by Moses but they are by Paul.
5). People were pretty tough back then. There is the verse that says if a slave wants to stay a slave beyond the allowed time he would have his ear placed against a doorpost and pierced with an awl. Of course there are plenty of strange piercings today.
6) how did zipporah know how to circumcise her son with a flint knife? (The prevailing theory seems to be that she did not not want it done, and meek Moses put it off, which is why God was seeking to kill him). So if it was not the custom of her people how did she know what to do.
7). Why did the bull that gored someone have to be stoned to death?
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/* POSIX compatible signal blocking.
Copyright (C) 2008-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Written by Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>, 2008.
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 3 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, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
#include <config.h>
/* Specification. */
#include <signal.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <stdint.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
/* This implementation of sigaction is tailored to native Windows behavior:
signal() has SysV semantics (ie. the handler is uninstalled before
it is invoked). This is an inherent data race if an asynchronous
signal is sent twice in a row before we can reinstall our handler,
but there's nothing we can do about it. Meanwhile, sigprocmask()
is not present, and while we can use the gnulib replacement to
provide critical sections, it too suffers from potential data races
in the face of an ill-timed asynchronous signal. And we compound
the situation by reading static storage in a signal handler, which
POSIX warns is not generically async-signal-safe. Oh well.
Additionally:
- We don't implement SA_NOCLDSTOP or SA_NOCLDWAIT, because SIGCHLD
is not defined.
- We don't implement SA_ONSTACK, because sigaltstack() is not present.
- We ignore SA_RESTART, because blocking native Windows API calls are
not interrupted anyway when an asynchronous signal occurs, and the
MSVCRT runtime never sets errno to EINTR.
- We don't implement SA_SIGINFO because it is impossible to do so
portably.
POSIX states that an application should not mix signal() and
sigaction(). We support the use of signal() within the gnulib
sigprocmask() substitute, but all other application code linked
with this module should stick with only sigaction(). */
/* Check some of our assumptions. */
#if defined SIGCHLD || defined HAVE_SIGALTSTACK || defined HAVE_SIGINTERRUPT
# error "Revisit the assumptions made in the sigaction module"
#endif
/* Out-of-range substitutes make a good fallback for uncatchable
signals. */
#ifndef SIGKILL
# define SIGKILL (-1)
#endif
#ifndef SIGSTOP
# define SIGSTOP (-1)
#endif
/* On native Windows, as of 2008, the signal SIGABRT_COMPAT is an alias
for the signal SIGABRT. Only one signal handler is stored for both
SIGABRT and SIGABRT_COMPAT. SIGABRT_COMPAT is not a signal of its own. */
#if defined _WIN32 && ! defined __CYGWIN__
# undef SIGABRT_COMPAT
# define SIGABRT_COMPAT 6
#endif
/* A signal handler. */
typedef void (*handler_t) (int signal);
/* Set of current actions. If sa_handler for an entry is NULL, then
that signal is not currently handled by the sigaction handler. */
static struct sigaction volatile action_array[NSIG] /* = 0 */;
/* Signal handler that is installed for signals. */
static void
sigaction_handler (int sig)
{
handler_t handler;
sigset_t mask;
sigset_t oldmask;
int saved_errno = errno;
if (sig < 0 || NSIG <= sig || !action_array[sig].sa_handler)
{
/* Unexpected situation; be careful to avoid recursive abort. */
if (sig == SIGABRT)
signal (SIGABRT, SIG_DFL);
abort ();
}
/* Reinstall the signal handler when required; otherwise update the
bookkeeping so that the user's handler may call sigaction and get
accurate results. We know the signal isn't currently blocked, or
we wouldn't be in its handler, therefore we know that we are not
interrupting a sigaction() call. There is a race where any
asynchronous instance of the same signal occurring before we
reinstall the handler will trigger the default handler; oh
well. */
handler = action_array[sig].sa_handler;
if ((action_array[sig].sa_flags & SA_RESETHAND) == 0)
signal (sig, sigaction_handler);
else
action_array[sig].sa_handler = NULL;
/* Block appropriate signals. */
mask = action_array[sig].sa_mask;
if ((action_array[sig].sa_flags & SA_NODEFER) == 0)
sigaddset (&mask, sig);
sigprocmask (SIG_BLOCK, &mask, &oldmask);
/* Invoke the user's handler, then restore prior mask. */
errno = saved_errno;
handler (sig);
saved_errno = errno;
sigprocmask (SIG_SETMASK, &oldmask, NULL);
errno = saved_errno;
}
/* Change and/or query the action that will be taken on delivery of
signal SIG. If not NULL, ACT describes the new behavior. If not
NULL, OACT is set to the prior behavior. Return 0 on success, or
set errno and return -1 on failure. */
int
sigaction (int sig, const struct sigaction *restrict act,
struct sigaction *restrict oact)
{
sigset_t mask;
sigset_t oldmask;
int saved_errno;
if (sig < 0 || NSIG <= sig || sig == SIGKILL || sig == SIGSTOP
|| (act && act->sa_handler == SIG_ERR))
{
errno = EINVAL;
return -1;
}
#ifdef SIGABRT_COMPAT
if (sig == SIGABRT_COMPAT)
sig = SIGABRT;
#endif
/* POSIX requires sigaction() to be async-signal-safe. In other
words, if an asynchronous signal can occur while we are anywhere
inside this function, the user's handler could then call
sigaction() recursively and expect consistent results. We meet
this rule by using sigprocmask to block all signals before
modifying any data structure that could be read from a signal
handler; this works since we know that the gnulib sigprocmask
replacement does not try to use sigaction() from its handler. */
if (!act && !oact)
return 0;
sigfillset (&mask);
sigprocmask (SIG_BLOCK, &mask, &oldmask);
if (oact)
{
if (action_array[sig].sa_handler)
*oact = action_array[sig];
else
{
/* Safe to change the handler at will here, since all
signals are currently blocked. */
oact->sa_handler = signal (sig, SIG_DFL);
if (oact->sa_handler == SIG_ERR)
goto failure;
signal (sig, oact->sa_handler);
oact->sa_flags = SA_RESETHAND | SA_NODEFER;
sigemptyset (&oact->sa_mask);
}
}
if (act)
{
/* Safe to install the handler before updating action_array,
since all signals are currently blocked. */
if (act->sa_handler == SIG_DFL || act->sa_handler == SIG_IGN)
{
if (signal (sig, act->sa_handler) == SIG_ERR)
goto failure;
action_array[sig].sa_handler = NULL;
}
else
{
if (signal (sig, sigaction_handler) == SIG_ERR)
goto failure;
action_array[sig] = *act;
}
}
sigprocmask (SIG_SETMASK, &oldmask, NULL);
return 0;
failure:
saved_errno = errno;
sigprocmask (SIG_SETMASK, &oldmask, NULL);
errno = saved_errno;
return -1;
}
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First CC release I heard, and boy it was BAD!!! - 5%
Bathym, March 22nd, 2004
This could very well be the most useless mcd of all time!!! No, I'm not exaggerating!! The first track (the title track) is from their over-hyped "Tomb Of The Mutilated" album, though it's actually the best track on that album. But my god how un-listenable the production is!!! The bass sounds like a broken rubber band and overpowers everything (even distorted bass is better than this s**t), and the drums sound like garbage cans (even the bass-drums sound like click-pads were taped up to one). Vocals are inaudible and you can't understand one word of what Chris Barnes says anyway, though when he does the scream near the track's end you can hear it perfectly (learn how to mix vocals Mr. Burns)!!! The guitar sound is weak with a very poor quality (sounds like they used practice amps!!). The riffs and music are OK but nothing too special, I might've enjoyed this song if the instruments and production were better. The second and third tracks are cover songs, and they're TERRIBLE. At least the production is light years better (you can actually hear the vocals without turning the volume up to the maximum). First, they cover "The Exorcist" by POSSESSED, and butcher it beyond belief!!! I honestly must say they made the single worst cover song in history. Even the evil riff sounds GAY in this version!! The second cover is some BLACK SABBATH cover and it sounds utterly lame to say the last, almost like cock-rock!!!
It's no wonder I never liked CANNIBAL CORPSE, after hearing this drivel I found it hard to ever listen to anything by them... | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9629481434822084}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '15792', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:6QVPGEPDAT4F3UMSMQQ7RJWZM7YRTUBO', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:1faf2b25-8a83-4001-a6d5-d5777b0f0270>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2014, 12, 22, 2, 24, 54), 'WARC-IP-Address': '209.59.186.200', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': None, 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:FQ6RIVRMBSUWUVCOYO5BTQUUW4WNNVJU', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:2d2f7858-6751-4022-a722-715ba626ed6b>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/Cannibal_Corpse/Hammer_Smashed_Face/7162/Bathym', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:531a3ab7-7fe4-47c4-ba77-acf3dc28de28>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '295', 'url': 'http://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/Cannibal_Corpse/Hammer_Smashed_Face/7162/Bathym', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2014-52\r\noperator: CommonCrawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web with URLs provided by Blekko for December 2014\r\npublisher: CommonCrawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.047054827213287354', 'original_id': '0e1bdbe1411317f0d9ff618cf72d48982d4791cd419aad26bc7da383d4af097e'} |
Play (2005)
Type Feature Film
MPAA Rating N/A
Runtime N/A
Genres Drama, Foreign
Keywords N/A
Status Released
US Release Date
Name Credit Credited as Role Id Sort Order
Viviana Herrera Actor Cristina 1 1000001
Andres Ulloa Actor Tristan 1 1000002
Alicia Scherson Director n/a 2 2000001
Sergio Gandara Producer n/a 3 3000001
Macarena Lopez Executive Producer n/a 174 3000002
Alicia Scherson Screenplay n/a 120778 4000001
Joseph Costa Composer n/a 120836 8000001
A lonely man and a lonely woman paths will almost cross as they search for love in a hostile city, Santiago de Chile. Cristina takes care of an old man in a modest city. Tristan is heart broken in a modern city. Cristina and Tristan walk around a hot and polluted Santiago de Chile in the summertime. He tries to recover something he has never had. She is the silent witness of his downfall. Irene doesn't love Tristan, and Cristina doesn't love Manuel. The lack of love when examined under a microscope makes even the smallest things grow. An urban tale that looks for clues to what makes us breathe in a city that denies itself. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.8679781556129456}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '90122', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:WAZOYA72C45BICCRJWR2NTE6IFA3F5RT', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:a508ef8c-5b49-4eb7-8142-b9ce6515a380>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2014, 8, 1, 15, 55, 30), 'WARC-IP-Address': '54.214.30.64', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': None, 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:GZP6JEVNY65UWDWCJIWHIUOJER36SWLI', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:98722bee-289e-490d-a0f5-ab4be77f754b>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://www.hollywood.com/movies/6119258/play', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:91e8b40c-8be6-4c45-83db-54427d7a1169>', 'WARC-Truncated': 'length'}", 'previous_word_count': '188', 'url': 'http://www.hollywood.com/movies/6119258/play', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-146-231-18.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2014-23\r\noperator: CommonCrawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web with URLs provided by Blekko for July 2014\r\npublisher: CommonCrawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.08005666732788086', 'original_id': 'aa1e7b0895045abacc3f06e2fed2322460a1dda2b39731f8553d57f208cd5339'} |
Търговското споразумение за борба с фалшифицирането (, абревиатура: АСТА, фонетично АКТА) е многостранно международно търговско споразумение за опазване на интелектуалната собственост в интернет и на пазара за информация и информационни технологии и стоки, основани на информационните технологии.
Държавите и държавните съюзи, подписали договора, се стремят чрез него да установят единни норми при борбата с пиратски копия на продукти и нарушения на авторско и сродните с него права, както за физически, така и за дигитални продукти или услуги.
АКТА дава възможност на носителите на права да изискат от интернет доставчиците да предоставят информация за своите потребители, за които се предполага, че погазват интелектуалната собственост. Тя трябва да бъде достатъчна, за да може да ги идентифицира.
Текстът съдържа множество формулировки, които се считат за спорни или недостатъчно прецизни; такива са например извличането на „непреки ползи“, отъждествяване на копие и „фалшификат“, отслабването на презумпцията за невинност и ред други. В много страни подобни несъобразности налагат ревизия на законодателството. Негативната обществена нагласа както и разногласия в ЕК довеждат до изпращането на споразумението в Съда на Европейския съюз за мнение относно допустимостта и тълкуването на текста. На 4 юли 2012 г. Европейският парламент категорично отхвърли споразумението, като гласовете против са 479, и само 38 го подкрепят, при 165 „въздържали се“.
АKТА влиза в действие след като споразумението бъде ратифицирано от 6 страни. В повечето случаи подписването на документа от изпълнителната власт означава, че тя приема да го превърне в своя законодателна инициатива, обаче само ратифициране от парламента би го реализирал в държавен ангажимент. Това важи за всяка отделна страна от ЕС, но за САЩ е достатъчен само подпис на президента, който ангажира страната му, докато трае неговият мандат.
Позицията на България
На 15 декември 2011 година Европейският парламент с решение оторизира страните-членки да подпишат ACTA. България е сред 22-те страни-членки на ЕС, които подписват споразумението в японската столица Токио на 26 януари 2012 година. Споразумението е подписано от държавите от Европейския съюз (с изключение на Кипър, Естония, Словакия, Германия и Нидерландия), от Австралия, Канада, Япония, Република Корея, Мексико, Мароко, Нова Зеландия, Сингапур, Швейцария и САЩ. Споразумението е със сложна йерархическа система за контрол върху авторските права. На митниците ще се извършва пълен контрол върху преносима техника за файлове с авторско съдържание, както и предявяване на нови изисквания към доставчиците на интернет. България подписва споразумението без обществен дебат дали държавата трябва да се присъедини към АКТА. От българска страна подписа си слага посланикът в Токио Любомир Тодоров. Тайното присъединяване към проекта бързо предизвиква вълна от недоволство в страната. Мнозина се обявяват против клаузите на АКТА, за които се счита, че няма да ограничат пиратството, а ще доведат до цензура на българското интернет пространство. Политическите лидери на опозицията също се обявяват против документа и обвиняват българското правителство, че „продължава да подписва договори като селски кмет, без дебат, без консултации, често без да знае какви са последиците от това“.
Очакваше се ACTA да бъде ратифицирана от Европейският парламент през юни 2012. Докладчикът на Европейския парламент Кадер Ариф, отговорен за АСТА, напусна поста си след подписването му в знак на протест срещу „невижданите досега маневри“, използвани за прокарването на споразумението. След разногласия в Европейската комисия, документът е изпратен от нея в Европейския съд за мнение. Членове на Европейския Парламент са обсъждали формулировката на допълнително запитване, а междувременно се изясни, че те предварително са получили (октомври 2011) експертно мнение от Съда на ЕС, че АКТА не дава повече правни гаранции, отколкото вече отхвърлената проектодиректива за опазване на интелектуалните права (ИПРЕД2).
Министърът на икономиката и енергетиката Трайчо Трайков бе заявил, че ще бъде организирана кръгла маса в Народното събрание и едва тогава ще се вземе окончателно решение за ратификация. На 5 февруари Anonymous атакуваха сайта на българската организация за авторски права ПРОФОН, една от 13-те организации, подписали отворено писмо до правителството и парламента в подкрепа на ратифицирането на ACTA като на заглавната им страница е оставено съобщение на английски и клип на Великия диктатор на Чарли Чаплин.
В коментар към обзорна статия сайтът „Биволъ“ прави заключението, че ако „... ACTA бъде ратифициран и влезе в сила предстои невиждано мракобесие, маскирано зад политически коректния дискурс за спазване на копирайта...“.
След протестите на 11 февруари 2012 година министър Трайчо Трайков заяви, че България няма да ратифицира споразумението, ако Европейският парламент го отхвърли. На 15 февруари Министерският съвет взима решение, че „спира“ процедурата по сключване на ACTA. Обясненията на премиера Борисов внушават, че Министерският съвет взима това решение под натиска на гражданите, излезли на площадите в страната на 11 февруари.
На 9 март 2012 изненадващо по време на парламентарен контрол министър-председателят казва, че ще бъде внесен ратификационен закон за споразумението АСТА, като ще има политическо решение парламентарната група на ГЕРБ да гласува против ратификацията.
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На 3 февруари, след масови протести в Полша, премиерът Доналд Туск заявява че ще замрази плановете за ратифициране на спорното международно търговско споразумение. Анкета проведена на 27 януари по Millward Brown SMG / KRC показва, че 64% от поляците са против подписване на съглашение, според 60% договорът не може да постигне главната си цел, а 50% считат, че той ограничава гражданските свободи. Протестиращите през този ден в страната са десетки хиляди. На 17 февруари Туск обявява, че страната се отказва окончателно от ACTA и призова лидерите на Европейската народна партия в Европейския парламент да отхвърлят ACTA. В писмо до тях той подчертава, че „ACTA е опит да се спазват авторските права, но този опит ще има прекалено висока цена за свободата, което не е в унисон с 21век“.
На 6 февруари чешкият министър-председател Петър Нечас временно спира ратификацията на спорното споразумение. По-рано, в понеделник, хакери открадват данни за 27 000 членове на управляващата Гражданска демократическа партия, в протест срещу споразумението. Подробен списък, с телефони и частни адреси на висши политици е разпространен сред редакциите на медиите.
На 7 февруари словашкият министър на икономиката Юрай Мишков обявява, че страната му е преустановила подготвителните работи по приемането на споразумението. Словакия не подписа ACTA през януари, но подготвяше приемането на споразумението.
Германия официално се очаква да подпише споразумението след дискусии с политици и общественици. Новата политическа Пиратска партия в страната заплаши, че ще изведе привържениците си на улицата, ако правителството се присъедини към споразумението. В навечерието на протестите в цяла Европа Германия обяви, че се отказва от споразумението.
Фрапиращо е изявлението на министър-председателя на Румъния в оставка Емил Бок, който заяви, че няма представа защо Румъния е подписала търговското споразумение ACTA. Изявлението е направено в навечерието на неговата оставка „в отговор на нарастващия натиск на гражданското общество и множеството въпроси защо антипиратското споразумение не е било подложено на публичен дебат, преди да бъде подписано от името на избирателите“.
На 9 февруари латвийският министър на икономиката Даниелс Павлуц временно спира ратификацията на спорното споразумение.
В САЩ над 35 000 души подписаха петиция за спирането на ACTA, въпреки че споразумението вече е прието от правителството.
Литва замрази ратифицирането на споразумението на 15 февруари, а Словения го отхвърли на 17 февруари. Същият ден съдът на ЕС отхвърли филтрирането на социалните мрежи за блокиране на пиратски видео и аудио файлове.
На 31 май холандското правителство решително отхвърля ACTA, определяйки го като заплаха за личното пространство на потребителите и интернет свободата.
Протести и критика срещу АКТА
Още с подписването от 22 членки на ЕС започват протестите срещу АКТА, която е държана преди това в тайна от обществеността. Най-многобройни и отразени в медиите са протестите в Полша, в деня на подписването, като по-късно към Полша постепенно се присъединяват в протестите и други европейски страни, като на 11 февруари се организира общ масов европейски протест в над 200 града, в който участва и България, като многохиляден протест има в София, а протести са проведени и в още 18 града в страната.
Гражданският протест в Европа намира известна подкрепа и от членове на самата Европейска комисия, както личи от позицията на комисаря по Правосъдие, основни права и гражданство Вивиан Рединг.
Сдружението на независимите интернет доставчици в България акцентира върху потъпкването на гражданските и човешките права. Споразумението „изключва конституционната презумпция за невинност и създава предпоставки за произвол на прилагането си“. Споразумението не обслужва интересите на авторите, а на правоносителите в лицето на големите световни корпорации. Застрашено е цялостното развитие на високите технологии и споделената интелигентност в интернет поради домогването на цял конгломерат от корпорации да поставят информационния обмен под техен контрол и зависимост.
Дейвид Мартин, новият докладчик за Акта, решително препоръчва споразумението да не се приема, защото иначе Европейският Парламент не би могъл по-нататък да гарантира адекватната защита на гражданите, поради неяснотата на текста и оставащите несигурности в негови тълкувания.
Дори и при сегашната международна правна система преди приемането на ACTA се срещат фрапиращи случаи на законодателно самоуправство.
Външни препратки
Текстът на български и на останалите езици от Европейския съюз
Уебстраница на Европейската Комисия
Официалният текст на договора на страницата на Европейската Комисия (на български, pdf)
Предварителен вариант на споразумението ACTA преведен на български език
АCTA – правна природа и ефекти Блог на Нели Огнянова
ACTA – ще приемаме/няма да приемаме
SOPA, PIPA… ACTA!
И пак за ACTA
Критични уебстраници
Stop ACTA!
ACT ON ACTA
ACTA или какво подписа тайно България в Токио
ACTA – по-подробно Блог на Григор Гачев
Отговор на „митовете“ на ЕК относно ACTA
За ACTA, вселената… и Явор Колев
Народът скача срещу ACTA
Редно ли е партия, чието правителство подписва ACTA, да има химн по крадена музика?
Протести
Протестите в Европа в снимки (Washington Post)
Протест срещу ACTA в София, mediapool
Протестът в София в снимки, в. Дневник
Подкрепящи уебстраници
International Trademark Association
Явор Колев – Acta Цели Да Запази Правата На Хората Бгнес.ком
Интервю с г-н Vital Moreira за ACTA: ЕП ще разгледа въпроса по прозрачен начин
Източници
Интелектуална собственост
Международни договори
Интернет
Цензура
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Friday, November 9, 2012
in which writing a novel becomes publishing one
Just pressed the send button on final manuscript for novel accepted by Simon and Schuster. Off it goes to the publishing gnomes who will read, rearrange, come up with covers, blurbs (hopefully) and (if I'm lucky) a marketing campaign. It's a story set in Adland (where else), Mad Men thirty years later, when a copywriter in her 40s tries to stay relevant as walls literally fall down around her. A coming-of-middle-age tale of a woman and a business. How surprised (thrilled, actually) I am to see that, though it's barely left my computer, it's already got a pub date (March 19) and a listing on Amazon! Title is "Making It: A Millennial Tale of Madison Avenue." Unless you can think of something better.
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I've started using an iPad running OnLive Desktop when I need to go places on the web where I should really know better.
The iPad is pretty much immune to anything currently out there, and the OnLive server instance I have is locked down and it's system files can't be modified so it's pretty much immune too. I believe the OnLive images are killed and rebuilt every night anyway.
I admit it's not a replacement for a full PC setup, but I'm rapidly finding it my go-to solution for most things Internetty. Doesn't hurt that it gives me a 97Mbit download speed AND because the OnLive servers are based in the US, I can get Hulu and ABCPlayer wherever I am in the world.
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For Inconspicuous Acuity, from the oft-delayed Holiday Challenge from my forums.
Wants: Kreia blamed for Revan's actions.
Doesn't want: Revan present.
I doubt this is what you had in mind, IA, but once I had the idea, it wouldn't let go. Hope you don't mind the silliness. :)
Jedi Temple, Coruscant...Three days after Bastila and her crew captured the Dark Lord Revan...
Young Master Kavar hurried into the council chambers. "Is he here?"
"He's passing through security now," Master Zez-Kai El said from his chair near the viewport. Towering spires of the massive city loomed in a gray-orange haze behind him.
"Oh good," Kavar said. "I wouldn't want to miss this."
Master Vrook, pacing in the rear of the small meeting room, snorted. "I still say this is a ridiculous idea. Hiring a...a what? A fancy-pants P.R. agent? Is that really going to solve our problem? Hell, I'm still not convinced that we have a problem."
"I'm not one to pay attention to the frivolities of public opinion either," Zez-Kai said, "but truly, Master Vrook, we don't look good right now."
"Right-o," Kavar said, affecting a grave tone. "Even though we've captured Revan, people are still upset about the fact we waited so long to take action in the first place."
"We have lost substantial—and influential—footing in many circles, and now with Revan back..." Zez-Kai shrugged.
"That's right," Kavar said, his young face alight. "The fact that we're helping her instead of ripping her guts out probably isn't going to go over very well in the public sector."
Zez-Kai gave a sage nod of his head. "Especially among the locals on Krayliss II. Remember what she did to them?"
"Or what happened to that Verpine who accidentally called her 'Mr. Revan?'" Kavar added.
"The Gand's don't like her. Remember how she squashed one just because she 'hadn't killed something in a while?'"
"And that Rodian who spilled her caffa?" Kavar shuddered. "I don't think their antennae can even grow back!"
"Not to mention our whole wiping-her-memory-and-giving-her-a-new-one plan," Zez-Kai said, rubbing his temple. "I can just hear the Sith Lord Rehabilitation Ethics Committee now."
"Are you two finished?" Vrook demanded, eyeing them both into silence. "Since when does the Jedi Council care what anyone thinks of it? We've been making unpopular decisions for years and you don't see me wasting good credits on public relations yahoos to cover them up. Why start now?"
Zez-Kai sighed. "Because, Master Vrook, Revan is...special. And we need to do this right."
"What for?" Vrook persisted. "We're just going to wipe her memory! She won't know her old self from a Hutt. How is anyone else going to know? It's a top-secret plan, isn't it?"
"It's just to be safe," Kavar said. "In case word leaks..."
"And it will," Zez-Kai put in. "You know this galaxy, Lamar. It's full of all sorts of unsavory types who are always poking their nose where it doesn't belong."
"For instance, the Sith," Kavar said.
"The Exchange."
"The media."
"As I said," Zez-Kai insisted, seeing the dubious expression on the elder Jedi had remained unchanged, "we need to do this right."
"Then you've hired the right man for the job!" came a booming voice.
The three Jedi Masters turned to see a tall, flamboyantly dressed man of middle years filling their doorway. He wore a fur-lined cloak over an obviously expensive suit that strained a little in the middle. A wave of blond hair crested his broad forehead and his smile revealed two identical rows of boxy white teeth. He extended a heavily bejeweled hand outward as he oozed into the meeting chamber.
"Barrakus Doodrick Lovejoy, Public Relations Expert, at your service."
Kavar shook the man's hand eagerly. Zez-Kai gave him a practiced nod while at the same time used the Force to muffle Vrook's muttered expletives.
Barrakus Lovejoy flounced into the room's remaining empty chair without being asked. He ran his hands through his thick main of golden locks then clapped them together. "So! What have we got?"
The masters exchanged glances and Zez-Kai cleared his throat. "Mr. Lovejoy..."
"Please, call me Doodrick. Or Dood. All my clients do."
"All right, Dood. I'll get right to the point. We have a problem. Or rather, we'd like to prevent a problem and we feel it is possible that you can help us to do that."
Dood narrowed his eyes and the expression on his face was one of deep concentration. "Yes," he said slowly, drawing out the 'ess.' "I feel you. Problem. Want to prevent...I'm starting to see this. Please, continue."
"Yes, well, our potential problem is that we have reclaimed the Jedi Revan. But instead of imprisoning her or executing her, we've elected…that is..."
"We're going to erase her memory and give her a new one!" Kavar said, leaning so far out of his chair, he was in danger of falling out of it.
"Ah yes," Dood said, steepling his ringed fingers. "The old erase-the-memory trick. I remember it well."
Vrook kicked Zez-Kai under the desk and gave him an incredulous look. Zez-Kai ignored him. "What we have just shared with you is highly classified information," he said.
Dood only narrowed his eyes further until it appeared as though he were falling asleep. "Yes, and I appreciate that..." he said slowly. "Classified…not meant for delicate ears…you told me, but now you may have to kill me…" he ruminated, as if to himself.
"For the love of..." Vrook thundered suddenly, pounding his fist on the desk. "Are you even listening? Do you even know who Revan is?"
"Can't say that I do." Dood smiled lazily. "I don't watch the news, gentlemen, I make it." He sat up in his chair, suddenly infused with a burst of energy. "All right, let's get down to business. You've given me the hors d'ouvres, and it's left me hungry for the main course. You tell me what your problem is and I'll tell you how I'm going to make it go bye-bye."
Kavar beamed while Vrook threw up his hands and turned away. Zez-Kai cleared his throat. "Our problem is, that in the event that the public at large learn of what we did—that we spared a mass-murderer and Sith Lord and are using her to further our own ends—they might be...less than understanding."
"Especially those Rodians," offered Kavar.
Dood leaned back in his chair. "Ah, so it's a reputation thing."
"Er, yes."
"See?" Vrook grumbled. "It sounds ridiculous even coming from him!"
"Lamar, don't start with me," Zez-Kai snapped, his voice rising. "I've got a headache that just won't quit and I don't need—"
"Don't talk to me about headaches!" Vrook thundered. "I've had a migraine since Exar Kun was finally locked in a rock and—"
"Gentlemen, gentlemen," Dood cut in placidly. "I'm picking up what you're throwin' down. No need for fits and tantrums. Tell me about this Revan character. Sounds like a naughty little cat, if you know what I mean," he said with a wink.
"Revan shall I put this," Zez-kai said, "…she did a lot of bad stuff."
"Really bad," Kavar said, nodding gravely.
"The kind of stuff that would make people question our very sanity should they learn we've taken her back in."
Dood nodded and polished his already buffed fingernails on the lapel of his coat. "What kind of stuff. Cheating at dejarik? Stealing parking spaces away from little old ladies at the Food and Feed Emporium? What?"
"More like…she blew up a planet," Kavar said.
"Three planets," Zez-kai amended.
Dood's mouth made a round O. "Oh."
"Is it hopeless?"
"Can you help us?" Kavar pleaded.
There was a moment of silence in which Dood gave them each a deep, important look. "I'm going to be honest with you, gentlemen," he said finally. "This is a toughie...but not impossible. There are two things I know for certain in this life. Number One: Degoba is a real estate investment nightmare. Number Two:...," he smiled wide and spread his hands in a picture of benevolence..."I know how to clean up a mess. And you, sirs, have one of those big stinky kinds that don't go away without some real elbow grease…am I right or am I right? Or am I right?"
"How?" Vrook demanded, returning to his seat. "How are you going to clean up this so-called mess?"
Dood jumped up from his seat and began pacing in front of it, snapping his fingers over and over again. "Ideas, ideas. The brain is popping, plans are percolating..." He stopped suddenly and turned on Zez-Kai. "Quick! Revan didn't act alone, did she? Or did she?"
"Why no," Zez-Kai began. "She had friends—"
"Accomplices," Dood cut in. "Gotta start talking the lingo, my friend."
"Accomplices," Zez-Kai repeated. "She had those."
"So she had friends," Vrook groused. "What's your point?"
Dood's light blue eyes twinkled like chips of fake glass. "Your pretty little gal's done too much damage, by the sounds of it, for one of my standard PR packages. Normally, I'd just do a search for previous good deeds, blow them all up out of proportion, find some medals and pin them on her, and make any who complained about the bad stuff appear unpatriotic. Works like a charm." Dood flashed his teeth, but then appeared grave. "But that's not going to work this time. I can help a Galatic Senator who accidentally shot his buddy in the face with a hold-out make it seem like the friend had it coming. Hell, I can even make a useless war seem important given the time. But when you get into sticky areas like genocide...well, that's when I've gotta dig deeper into my bag of tricks."
"'Sticky areas,'" Vrook muttered, disgusted. "Do you have a point?"
"I do indeed." Dood rubbed his hands together eagerly, apparently immune to the old Jedi's animosity. "When a subject such as this Revan person has done this much damage, it's time to go looking at her buddies. We need someone who can carry part of the load, so to speak."
"You mean, a scapegoat?" Vrook demanded.
Dood smiled his salesman's smile. "I prefer 'Conveniently Innocence-Deficient.' Come now, gentlemen. Names, names, I need names."
"Malak," Kavar offered brightly. "Or maybe that General Endac."
"Kreia," said Zez-Kai, ignoring Vrook's sudden, hard stare.
Dood nodded. "Excellent. Bios?"
Kavar pushed some buttons and a picture of Malak appeared on a large screen before those assembled.
"Ooh, scary," Dood laughed, "but he won't do. I dig the freaky dental work, but he's too lapdoggy to be of use."
"He's still at large and a threat," Zez-Kai said. "Does that help?"
"Ordinarily I'd say yes," Dood replied, "but I can't pin too much on this guy. He's an oaf. You'd no more blame the genocide of millions on him than you would on mean old Jimmi Blooto who beat you up for your lunch credits in the fourth grade. Next."
"I think you underestimate—"
Zez-Kai snapped his mouth shut and nodded at Kavar. The younger Jedi punched some more buttons and the image of General Arik Endac appeared. Dood burst out into huge guffaws of laughter.
"Him? HIM? Look at that face! That hair! I can't pin anything on Prince Charming here, I've got a reputation to maintain. Next!"
Dood whistled long and low between his teeth as Kavar brought up the next image. "Now what do we have here? Who is this vision?"
"Uh, that is Kreia," Zez-Kai said slowly, with a nervous glance at Vrook. "She was Revan's master."
"One of her masters," Vrook spat. "Except for Kavar, we can count ourselves in that number too."
"Yeah, but Kreia was her main master," Kavar put in. "Revan was under her guidance when she defected from the Order and entered the war," he explained to Dood.
"And, "Zez-Kai added slowly, "it was rumored she sought Kreia out after the war—just prior to the emergence of Revan as a Dark Lord of the Sith."
"She's perfect," Dood announced.
"Now wait just a dang minute," Vrook said. "Just what's so perfect about blaming...her for Revan's actions?"
Dood snorted derisively. "Who could be better? I can picture it now." He spread his hands as though conjuring headlines in mid-air. "'Talented young Jedi led astray by darkly-bent elderly mentor.' Or, 'War hero seduced to the dark side by geriatric femme fatale.'" His smile split his face. "Can't you just see it?"
"No," Vrook stated, rising to his feet, "I can't see it. I strongly object to this whole thing."
"Objection duly noted, Consular," Dood said, leaning back in his chair. "But I'll remind you that my retainer is non-refundable…"
"Well, wait a minute," Zez-Kai said. "Master Vrook's personal… misgivings aside, are you sure Kreia's the right choice? After all, she's just a little old lady..."
"Little old lady?" Dood said, looking incredulous. "My dear man, that's just a cover if I ever saw one." He gestured at the image of Kreia projected on the screen. "Notice the little-girl pig tails? What sixty-year old woman wears her hair like that? Trying really, really, really hard to appear innocent and naïve, I say." He snorted. "Sorry lady, but you ain't foolin' Captain Lovejoy. And notice the hood worn deceptively low? The public will want to know, What's she wearing it like that for? What is she hiding?"
"Her eyes," Vrook sputtered. "She's blind!"
"So she says!" Dood exclaimed. "And let's look at those eyes. What honest, upstanding citizen has eyes like that? I'll tell you: No one. Only poor people who can't afford prosthetics and the corrupters of our promising Jedi youth, that's who!" He rubbed his hands together. "Give me four weeks, gentlemen, and I promise I'll have the galaxy saying, 'Revan who?' and demanding this woman's head on a polydurasteel platter."
Vrook stammered and blustered for a moment before gathering himself. "That is the most hair-brained, ridiculous..." He looked at his colleagues as he stormed for the door. "If you want to trust this charlatan, then be my guest. But I wash my hands of it. It'll come to no good, I tell you," he said, activating the door. "Mark my words, it'll come to no good!"
Vrook's ominous words hovered in the air for a few moments after he had gone until Dood dispelled them with a casual wave of his hands. "Not to worry, gentlemen," he said. "I am a professional."
The remaining Jedi Masters exchanged looks. Kavar shrugged.
"What could go wrong?"
10 Years later, in the ruins of the Jedi Enclave, Dantooine…
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It is starting to look like a trend: President Donald Trump's top foreign policy advisers deride his intellect in private.
The insulter this time around is reported to be National Security Adviser H. R. McMaster, according to BuzzFeed. During a dinner in July with Oracle CEO Safra Catz, McMaster was quoted by several sources as referring to Trump as an "idiot." He also was heard talking about the president as a "dope" and claimed that Trump's intelligence was equal to that of a "kindergartner."
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McMaster is joining a long tradition of Republican foreign policy bigwigs who have questioned their commander in chief's intellectual firepower. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson referred to Trump as a "moron" during a July meeting in which the president had compared deciding on troop levels to opening up a new restaurant in New York City. Similarly, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker, R-Tenn., tweeted last month that under Trump "the White House has become an adult day care center." | mini_pile | {'original_id': 'b67b782e8d3269003e26d85a05c93d5d62fc603d5c51fef42f639288eb52c67f'} |
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Schizophrenia is a devastating psychiatric illness with high heritability. Brain structure and function differ, on average, between people with schizophrenia and healthy individuals. As common genetic associations are emerging for both schizophrenia and brain imaging phenotypes, we can now use genome-wide data to investigate genetic overlap. Here we integrated results from common variant studies of schizophrenia (33,636 cases, 43,008 controls) and volumes of several (mainly subcortical) brain structures (11,840 subjects). We did not find evidence of genetic overlap between schizophrenia risk and subcortical volume measures either at the level of common variant genetic architecture or for single genetic markers. These results provide a proof of concept (albeit based on a limited set of structural brain measures) and define a roadmap for future studies investigating the genetic covariance between structural or functional brain phenotypes and risk for psychiatric disorders. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '7e14e4509c4d9717ac79506f62edb549384dd1c4f0e01aff79686c6e59bebdf0'} |
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Padding not applied correctly to div element
Inside an overlay I added a scroll-view. Everything is working fine until I try to add a padding to the scroll-view. The top and left padding are correctly applied but the text inside the scroll view exceeds on the right and in the bottom. This is my code
document.addEventListener("keydown", keyDownTextField, false);
this.title_element = jQuery('.scrollviewwrapper', this.$el);
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function keyDownTextField(e) {
alert(document.getElementById('scrollviewwrapper').scrollTop);
var keyCode = e.keyCode;
if (keyCode == 38) {
// up arrow
} else if (keyCode == 40) {
// down arrow
}
}
.overlay {
position: absolute;
background: red;
height: 200px;
width: 500px;
top: 50px;
left: 20px;
bottom: 50px;
z-index: 100;
}
.scrollviewwrapper {
position: relative;
height: 200px;
width: 500px;
padding-top: 30px;
padding-left: 30px;
padding-right: 30px;
padding-bottom: 30px;
overflow: auto;
}
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Swap your absolute positioning around so your scroll view wrapper is inside the background:
document.addEventListener("keydown", keyDownTextField, false);
this.title_element = jQuery('.scrollviewwrapper', this.$el);
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function keyDownTextField(e) {
alert(document.getElementById('scrollviewwrapper').scrollTop);
var keyCode = e.keyCode;
if (keyCode == 38) {
// up arrow
} else if (keyCode == 40) {
// down arrow
}
}
.overlay {
position: relative;
background: red;
height: 200px;
width: 500px;
top: 50px;
left: 20px;
bottom: 50px;
z-index: 100;
}
.scrollviewwrapper {
position: absolute;
top: 0; /* use all 4 co-ordinates instead of width and height so it fills the container */
left: 0;
right: 0;
bottom: 0;
padding: 30px; /* this is shorthand and will apply padding to all 4 sides */
overflow: auto;
}
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<html>
<body>
<div class="overlay">
<div class="scrollviewwrapper" id="scrollviewwrapper">
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</div>
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How to Find Your Sparkle: Five Unicorn-Inspired Tips
Unicorn on Blue Background
"I saw this and it made me think of you," a friend said a year ago, handing me a cheery ceramic unicorn in the shape of a mini flower pot. A succulent was growing like a mane across its back. Along its side were the words, "Don't let anyone ever dull your sparkle." She wasn't aware of it at the time, but I'd just started writing Llewellyn's Little Book of Unicorns, and the synchronicity couldn't have been more perfect; this succinct message was the very heart of the book.
Unicorns are said to be courageous, fierce, and wild while also being gentle, compassionate, harmonious, and full of grace. They're passionate about themselves and the happiness of those around them. They're a symbol for standing out in all your uniqueness and being loved as your authentic self.
Sometimes we lose track of that authentic piece of ourselves, though. We grow up hearing subliminal (or even very direct) messages that tell us it's not okay to be who we really are, and we end up hiding our true selves away. Often we hide ourselves so well that we forget things we love and what makes us feel fully alive.
I remember when I first started dating my husband he would ask what I wanted to do and I would say that whatever he was interested in was fine. "But what do you like doing?" he asked in frustration one day. I stopped in my tracks, lost as to what my answer was. What did I like? Somewhere along the way I'd lost myself so much that I couldn't even respond to the seemingly simple question of what made me happy. It would take another twenty years and a dive into the world of unicorns before I could really figure it out.
What makes you shine? What brings you exuberant joy? If you've lost sight of those things, it's time to take a cue from our unicorn friends and find your sparkle. Here are five tips to get your started.
Tip #1: Find What's Blocking You
Write down the top blocks that may be holding you back from a more joyful experience. Try to think of things on which you're spending your time that don't really inspire you. These are areas where you can stop devoting your attention in order to make more time for things you're actually passionate about. Some examples include watching too much tv, spending time with people who deplete energy, or overworking and not allowing yourself enough rejuvenating down time. Like skimming through the closet to declutter your clothes, if you search hard enough you're likely to come up with at least a few ideas for where you can create space for things that make you feel inspired and alive.
Tip #2: Embrace Being Playful
No matter your age, playing is important, and breathes new life into the humdrum of everyday. Too often, as adults we get caught in our daily patterns: wake, get ready for the day, work, traffic, errands, home-tasks, bed. We need a reminder to shake things up and figure out how to insert playfulness into everyday schedules. Whatever these playful activities might be, they should get you really excited and leave you smiling. Maybe you decide to write one daily poem, so that throughout the day you're watching for inspiration worth writing about. Or maybe you decide to dust off your bike and take a ride on your favorite nature path every few days. One of my "embracing play" items was pulling out a giant sticker book I had as a kid and consistently adding to the collection. There are so many possibilities!
Tip #3: Figure Out Where Your Sparkle is Stuck
Usually there's a key time period where we've left our sparkle, and we need to return to that source. For many this ends up being some point in childhood. The good thing is that we can go back and reclaim those things that we've left behind. The bad thing is that this can be a challenge to pin down! Luckily, there are certain things to which we can pay attention that will help clue us into our joyful treasures. These include:
• Gifts we give others. We often end up giving away the things we love most, thinking that if we can't enjoy it then someone should. Is it puzzles, coloring books, board games, or bouquets of flowers? See if some of the things you're gifting away are things you should be sharing with yourself, as well.
• Things we find nostalgic. What makes you fawn over the past? Write a list of things you especially loved doing in years past and pick at least one item to bring back into your present!
• Our wants and desires. Be mindful of when you feel that pull within you saying, "I would really love to do/be/experience/have xyz." We often get in a pattern of denying ourselves, but within these wants and desires you might realize things that will set your sparkle meter to full-on shine.
Tip #4: Look Into the Darkness in Order to Really Shine
Unicorns are the elusive keepers of the dark forest. To move through our own shadowy experiences and find our way back in the light, we may need to rebuild trust in ourselves, others, and life itself before we're able to appreciate the opportunities for joy in our lives. Things that can help support your journey through the forest include:
• Talking with a friend, loved one, or professional therapist. Seek out the unicorn-people in your life. Look for those you're inspired by and find support when you need it. There's no reason to go it alone through dark times.
• Practicing nurturing self-care through things like balanced nutrition, a type of exercise you enjoy, getting enough sleep, work-life balance, and positive social interaction. Maybe this means reading before bed, taking a walk with a friend, or getting a monthly massage.
• Allowing yourself to play. When you're in darkness, the idea of "play" may feel like hollow action, but just try it. There's a practice called Laughter Yoga that can feel silly and false at first, but after a while of "fake laughing," the body thinks it's real and sends out feel-good hormones along with creating new positive neuropathways in the brain. Our physiology can follow intention and action. Pull out a coloring book, put together a puzzle, drive around a remote-controlled car, or dance around the room with your dog. You may be surprised with what a boost play ends up being for you.
Tip #5: Add Extra Glitter
Intentionally act to add in extra glitter to your life. This is like laying down a trail to lead magic your way. There are endless things you can try to increase your level of happiness. Some ideas include:
• Spending time with animals
• Engaging in creative activity
• Social connection and community
• Getting out in nature
• Practicing acts of kindness
• Consciously looking for beauty as you go about your days
• Intentionally seeking out pleasurable and fun activities
• Feeding whatever fills you with meaning or purpose
• Attending to a practice that makes you feel spiritually connected
The world needs you for all the goodness and glitter that you are. Follow this unicorn-inspired wisdom to rediscover wonder and happiness. My hope is that these tips will lead you to a place of authentic joy and all the things that make you shine!
About Angela A. Wix
Angela Wix (Western Wisconsin) has contributed her writing to The Edge, Elephant Journal, and Llewellyn's Complete Book of Mindful Living. Angela has professionally practiced massage therapy and energy medicine, and she ...
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Darwinism and popular culture: Emerging church riffs off Darwin
Recently, I received a press release from Woodlake Books, on behalf of this book:
Awe, Wonder and Evolution: Where Do These Belong in Christianity? Remember when you were a small child and you could sit and watch a bug crawl up a leaf for hours? When catching snowflakes on your tongue was magical? What happens when we grow up?
Life gets busy and we forget. We lose our sense of awe. Not only individually, but culturally. In the 150 years since Darwin published On the Origin of Species, we have gained significant scientific knowledge, but we have also lost our connection to the nature we have learned so much about. Is this how we want to evolve? How do we respond? How do we live faithfully in this changing world?
Since you asked, "How do we live faithfully in this changing world?": Well, we could start with a reality check.
Darwin believed passionately that the universe was without purpose or design, and that species come and go by mere chance. (Natural selection acts on random mutations.)
Where do the authors stand on that? Do they agree or disagree with Darwin? Or are they just riffing off the ol' Brit toff's name, to make a sale?
Look, I don't care. In these times, it's a hard enough life selling books. Don't let me stop you. Still, if this is the emergent church, as they trumpet, I think it will emerge stillborn. Not enough practical relationship with facts.
By the way, two things: I never lost my sense of awe. So speak for yourselves about that stuff, emerging church. And, while we are here, I don't mind evolving away from nature if it helps friends, relatives, and myself to live a better life. Humans have been doing that for thousands of years. We won't easily be stopped.
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Claim Frequency in New York (Source: HLDI Study)
Claim Frequency in DC (Source: HLDI Study)
Study shows accident rates are the same in most areas before and after cell phone bans
All around the country there have been bans going into effect to make driving while talking on a handheld phone illegal. Many states and cities have also made it illegal to text and drive. The reason for the bans were that studies found driving while talking on the phone or texting made drivers much more likely to be in an accident.
Many wondered about how effective the bans would be, particularly among some of the more at risk groups like teen drivers. In December 2009, a teen interviewed by Reuters said that most drivers, especially teen drivers, would simply ignore the bans and continue to text and drive and talk and drive. In states where the bans are in effect police are ticketing people for talking on hand held phones while driving. However, law enforcement officers note that catching a driver texting is very difficult.
Some lawmakers are calling for nationwide bans on texting while driving. There are already national laws against texting and driving for federal employees and this week a new ban was announced that would prohibit bus and big rig drivers from texting while driving. The ban would impose a hefty $2,750 fine on drivers caught violating the ban.
The real question in many minds is, are the bans effective? According to a new study released by the Highway Loss Data Institute laws banning the use of cell phones while driving in the majority of areas where they are enacted have failed to reduce crashes.
"The laws aren't reducing crashes, even though we know that such laws have reduced hand-held phone use, and several studies have established that phoning while driving increases crash risk," says Adrian Lund, president of both the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and HLDI.
Researchers at the HLDI calculated the monthly insurance claims per 100 insured vehicle years. A vehicle year is one car insured for one year, two cars insured for six months, and so on. The study looked at cars up to three years old over the months right before and after the cell phone bans were enacted. The study specifically looked at New York, DC, Connecticut, and California. Areas near those with bans in effect, but having no talking and driving bans in place were used for comparison.
The study points out that the reduction in the number of drivers that talk on a handheld phone after the bans is very significant, yet a reduction in accidents is not being seen with the exception of New York where a reduction in accidents was noted. However, the reductions in New York began before the bans were enacted.
"So the new findings don't match what we already know about the risk of phoning and texting while driving," Lund points out. "If crash risk increases with phone use and fewer drivers use phones where it's illegal to do so, we would expect to see a decrease in crashes. But we aren't seeing it. Nor do we see collision claim increases before the phone bans took effect. This is surprising, too, given what we know about the growing use of cell phones and the risk of phoning while driving. We're currently gathering data to figure out this mismatch."
The exact reason why the reduction in drivers using hand held phone and driving hasn't resulted in a reduced number of accidents is being studied. HLDI researchers suggest that it may be because the drivers switched to hands free phones and that talking on a hands free device is just as distracting as talking on a hand held device. In short, the bans on talking on hand held phones and driving are not making the roads any safer.
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By snyper256 on 1/30/2010 5:34:15 PM , Rating: 2
I bet they're making a bunch of new money from the tickets, though.
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Kitchen Remodelling IdeasIn the houses of Melbourne, kitchen renovations are increasingly observed as a smart investment. The counters and cabinets in this kitchen necessary a chic update, but the vintage stove had as well a lot charm and possible to get rid of. A trio of Ballard Designs Paris Bistro stools pull up to a Corian-topped island and a fireclay farmhouse sink by Rohl has a brass Waterworks Easton faucet.
It does take some preplanning so that a builder doesn’t put electrical wiring or plumbing pipes in that space. The old cabinets were revived with bright white paint and cast-iron knobs, whilst a new butcher-block countertop finished off the look. Given the fact that this room is the heart of your dwelling and where the majority of eating and entertaining requires spot, walking into it should really evoke joy and energy.
Frosted cabinets are good for a a lot more modern day element, whilst painted cabinets make for a nice but affordable touch. When they had blah beige fronts, the original cabinets were charming and in good shape, so the owners of this Maine house did not replace them.
For tight spaces, a galley layout is a terrific kitchen remodeling alternative. Reviewing kitchen images and pictures are a fantastic way to to get a feel for unique kitchen layouts and help you choose what you want. Designers Genevieve Gorder and Candice Olson give their ideal kitchen countertop concepts and suggestions for a style that will add interest and excitement to your kitchen.
A further pragmatic kitchen decorating notion is adding a chalkboard to jot down notes, events, grocery lists or recipes, as effectively as a big calendar that the family members can all contribute to. Adding a succulent arrangement or herb garden to the windowsill livens up the space (literally) and can balance out designs that might feel too heavy in one element or a different.
You want to reach clutter-free of charge countertops, so also look at spaces you may well never ever have prior to, such as corners or under the sink. She scored big by going to a restaurant provide and salvage shop, where she bought a industrial oven, refrigerator, rolling carts and shelves, and even the kitchen sink for a fraction of retail value.
The butcher-block countertops, black cabinetry, significant industrial pendant lights, and a porcelain apron sink—all from Ikea!—kept charges down without the need of sacrificing style, though black appliances (much less highly-priced than stainless ones) match the cabinets for a seamless effect.
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Front Mission 4
Kind of like Front Mission 3, only with more shadows.
While the Square-Enix super entity may be primarily known for going on never-ending Final Fantasies and Dragon Quests, several other titles are often thrown into their uber-recognizable mix, and often with reactions that range from raucous applause to angered grimaces (like the kind that gargantuan piece of Bouncer crap created). Between the extremely bad and the extremely Final Fantasy, Square-Enix also has a lovely little franchise in Front Mission.
In the near future, like all good near sci-fi futures, mankind uses enormous bipedal tanks to do battle. These Wanzers are fast, heavily armed, heavily armored, and extremely large. Yes, they're called Wanzers -- you can thank FASA for trademarking "mech" and causing the VTs, Gears, Hercs and other miscellaneous "we're not mechs" of the world to pop up out of the ground -- but they're still cool and tough, as bipedal tanks should be.
Unlike the colorful MechWarrior or the cartoonish Advance Wars, Front Mission takes a conservatively Steel Battalion approach to aesthetics. Though not as sun-drenched and stylized as that game, Front Mission's grey to green militaristic themes help keep it grounded in reality, even if the Wanzers are capable of high-speed hover attacks, rapid hand-to-hand combat, and other such non-realistic maneuvers. While this fantastic low-key style is appreciable, Front Mission seems to make little use of the more powerful PS2 technical achievements and offers some forgettable explosions, environments and Wanzer models. We can only hope that much of the remaining development time is spent slightly retooling the graphics engine to include more dramatic battles and more player control over their presentation. Regardless of whether or not this happens, graphics have never been a strong point of the series; where it has excelled is in its gameplay and storyline.
Six years after the events of Front Mission 3 on the PSOne (now some four years old), Front Mission 4 picks up with a tale of different people on different sides of the world. Their paths eventually cross, war eventually comes, conspiracy is eventually wrung from the thick, oozy sponge of politics, and the player eventually gets immersed. From our limited play test, we can say with certainty that CG and non-interactive in-game cutscenes are abundant and artistic enough to deliver the kinds of dramatic oohs and ahs "Squ-Enix" fans have come to appreciate, but it's naturally impossible to say with confidence how well the plot will ultimately develop.
Gameplay, of course, is classic turn-based strategy, complete with action points, hit points, limited leveling and veterancy, and a variety of parts and otherwise manipulable components. Being avid fans of turn-based strategy games on any platform, we've experienced a great deal of good and bad titles. While Front Mission doesn't offer the raw complexity and dynamic environments as the PC's Silent Storm, nor the intuitiveness of Advance Wars, it does carve a small niche for itself into the genre -- one that the few remaining fans of the series will no doubt love once they play this latest incarnation. The rest of us?
Confound this limited build! Confusticate it! It's nearly impossible to see for better or worse how the other eight billion missions will play out. From what we've experienced, actual strategy is limited to weapon choice and general movement. There appears to be no advanced stances for mechs, nor any kind of distinct environmental advantage related to proper positioning. The current result is an immediately accessible, if sometimes drawn out game of weapon choice and repetition. Again, once the battles pick up, the difficulty increases, and the complexity shoots through the roof, we expect Front Mission to evolve strategically. At present, a typical mission plays something like:
1. Watch crazy-pretty cutscene.
2. Watch cool in-game cutscene.
3. Read to nondescript dialogue.
4. Deploy Wanzers.
5. Position Wanzers next to enemy that needs to die, or objective that should be protected.
6. Wait for enemy to play out its turn.
7. Begin shooting enemy and repairing Wanzers as necessary.
8. Wait for enemy to take another turn.
9. Repeat move, shoot, repair process until victory is achieved.
There are a lot of thoughtfully provided sub-menus and enemy Wanzer descriptors, and varying map sizes, but right now, this early on into the game, most are of little use. Blast you, build of teasing death! Hopefully we'll be presented with a more thorough, complete, and longer build of Front Mission before the game releases early June. Until then, please enjoy some new movies attached to our media page below.
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Monaco is a sovereign city state on the French Riviera. It is bordered on three sides by its neighbour, France, and its centre is about 16 km (9.9 mi) from Italy. Its area is 1.98 km2 (0.76 sq mi) with a population of 35,986 as of 2011 and is the most densely populated country in the world. Monaco boasts the world's highest GDP nominal per capita at $151,630. Monaco also has the world's highest life expectancy at almost 90 years, and the lowest unemployment rate at 0%, with about 40,000 workers who commute from France and Italy each day.
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The Circuit de Monaco consists of the city streets of Monte Carlo and La Condamine, which includes the famous harbour. It is unique in having been held on the same circuit every time it has been run over such a long period — only the Italian Grand Prix, which has been held at Autodromo Nazionale Monza every year except 1980 and 1921, has a similarly lengthy and close relationship with a single circuit. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '32', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9138194918632508}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '20034', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:LSU2VMZN6US4G5HSPP6OTF3AW4N2RDNX', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:40483bb6-1d37-4486-8fb5-93429352e243>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 12, 18, 15, 31, 50), 'WARC-IP-Address': '217.160.0.25', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:KSCFNIH7EY7UXI5YBR3TXJKSWPJPAGGX', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:479606cd-c628-48fb-b35c-d551114a0434>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://villadeflores.co.uk/the-surrounding-area/monaco/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:734221c2-6d90-433d-ab84-94a6dbd2117f>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '162', 'url': 'http://villadeflores.co.uk/the-surrounding-area/monaco/', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-51\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for December 2018\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-142-187-161.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': '0.12683427333831787', 'original_id': '96819dd5e5170fadce984c0d5b97932632866313d247b48d38cf1c34b058e122'} |
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Edith Bowman on the importance of holidays
It’s vital for children to experience family holidays – and if they have to be taken in term time then so be it, says Edith Bowman
June 12, 2017 | Edith Bowman
Time off is precious. It’s those days or, if you’re lucky, weeks when your only worry is how to keep the kids occupied for an hour or what to eat next. Getting time off when the children are on school holidays is not always easy, though, and it’s definitely not cheap – and that infuriates me.
Travel companies should be ashamed of how much they inflate their prices, sometimes to the point that families can’t get away at all.
Being with family is really important. When I was a child, my mum and dad worked so hard, day in day out, that we were often like ships passing at the breakfast table.
We had two holidays a year, where we would fly off, just the four of us – mum, dad, my brother Alex and I. It was special and, yes, it was a luxury and, yes, we were very lucky – but we didn’t get to spend much time together because of their work.
FAMILY FOCUS
My parents ran a hotel and their busiest times were during the school holidays. Thankfully, our local schools not only understood how impossible it was for them to have time off in the summer or over Christmas, but also how important our family time was. My parents were allowed to take us out of school for two weeks twice a year. We didn’t get off lightly, though, as we were given some pretty meaty homework to do while we were away.
There was a recent case where a family was fined for taking their daughter out of school to go on holiday. The family took it to court and won, but then the case went to the Supreme Court, where the ruling was overturned. The judge, Lady Hale, who undoubtedly earns enough to fly her children first class during the school holidays, said: ‘Unauthorised absences have a disruptive effect, not only on the education of the child, but also on the work of other pupils, and their teachers.’
SHARED MEMORIES
What about the effects of not having quality time with your parents? What about the Supreme Court using its time more constructively to stop travel firms hiking their prices up by as much as 50% in the holidays? At my kids’ school, there are a number of parents whose work means it’s not always possible to take breaks at peak times but, thankfully, the staff are incredibly understanding.
Spending time together as a family, in places where they are exposed to new languages, different cultures and making friends, has had a profound affect on my children. Through first-hand experience, they are learning new things, broadening their horizons and building shared memories. What can be more important than that?
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October 04, 1987|Craig Modderno
The NFL strike ain't so tough for the players--they can keep busy on game day walking the picket line, hurling obscenities (or eggs) at replacements, or giving interviews to the media. But what's a sportscaster to do?
We asked a few how they spent last Sunday:
Dick Enberg, NBC: "I went to Burbank to do NBC's 'NFL Live' with my partner Merlin Olsen, then had a picnic with my family. All day people asked me if I shouldn't be someplace else.
"I don't know whether to prepare for future games with the NFL players or their replacements. It's like grabbing Jell-O and hoping none falls through your fingers."
Merlin Olsen, NBC: "After I worked with Dick, I took my family out to dinner. It was the first time we'd had dinner on a Sunday night during a football season since the last strike. I think I gained points with my family."
Al Michaels, ABC Monday Night Football: "My family and I had a backyard barbecue with my brother, who produces football games for CBS. We all thought we should do it more often. I think a lot of people may have that attitude if the strike goes on."
As for Monday night: "Since I already knew what happened with 'The Search for Spock' (it replaced the game that evening), I spent Monday night preparing for the 49ers game (tomorrow). It's a monster to prepare for a game where neither the announcers nor the fans know the players."
Jim Lampley, CBS: "I covered the Volvo tennis tournament for Channel 2 last Sunday. I didn't feel my time was wasted or I was out of sync, but contact me in a few weeks if the strike's still on and I might be nuts."
Charlie Jones, NBC: "I went to a party that (Universal TV exec) Jon Epstein had at the Sheraton Universal to launch the new television season. Each year he invites my wife Ann and me. Everyone asked me why I wasn't working and then they suddenly remembered. It felt strange to have a Sunday free."
Don Criqui, NBC: "I coached my son Andrew's Little League football team, the Essex Fells Bengals. He threw a touchdown pass and we beat the Caldwell Giants, 13-0. It was more exciting to me than an NFL game. I coach Andrew's team during the week, but this was the first time I'd gotten to see them play."
Benita Albert, pinch-hitting for hubby Marv, of NBC: "Marv stayed over in Toronto for the network's baseball game last Sunday, then went to New York to broadcast the Rangers hockey game. Since Marv isn't spending time preparing for the NFL games, he's lightened his work load and is more fun to be around."
John Madden worked on a CBS special on the strike last Sunday. We couldn't reach him for comment. At press time, the plane-shy color man was heading from NYC back home to California via bus.
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I tend to take my corgi on a lot of long hikes and he comes with me when I'm rock climbing. I often find that when we are crossing logs, water or on ledges that I really wish I had a harness for him so that if he falls I'll be able to catch him (don't worry if its ever particularly dangerous we put him in a pack and carry him that way so there is no risk). Also we cross a lot of boulder fields and I love having something easy to pick him up by when he needs that little bit of help. However I've noticed (and so have many other people) that corgis just seem to slip right out of harnesses.
Anyone have a suggestion for a harness capable of holding a corgi's weight in an emergency that won't just slide right off?
He is pretty good about using his little legs to hold himself in as best as he can with his current harness but I worry that when I really need it he won't have enough time to react and help me out.
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I've posted about this. I have not solved the problem of how to protect a dog on dangerous log crossings.
I do have a chest harness that I've used to belay the dog on steep snow, and yes I've held falls. Dogs on snow can climb up much more easily than they can climb down. Just like us. Be sure to get the dog harnessed and on belay BEFORE you get onto steep snow, which is extremely dangerous and even many ice-ax people underestimate it. I learned the hard way, but the ankle healed perfectly without surgery. Like us, dogs are surprisingly agile on steep snow until they hit that icy spot...
I have a quick-draw leash system with a small but strong utility biner at each end. I clip it to my pack shoulder strap or to a climbing runner over my shoulder, hands-free. While dog is off-leash, stow it in various ways. A rubber band is handy for the slack, or to attach it to a pack strap. We drill the quick-draw leach routine all the time. I use a light braided nylon rope. You need to leash the dog instantly when you meet, say, horses on steep terrain. Or porcupines.
You need a reliable sit/stay. I often cross first with the pack, reconnoitering, then return for the dog.
Here's an example of a death-fall crossing where the dog would probably have been safer without the belay leash to trip over. 60-80' long, 2' wide, 7' above the water. PCT crossing the Suiattle River in Washington Cascades.
I tested the harness in a vertical hang before the crossing, and Al slipped neatly out of it. There are harnesses that will hold a dog, but they are not lightweight. Some have handles on the back, which can be handy: pick the dog up like a suitcase. Some harnesses are reflective, which I highly recommend: long-range visibility in headlamps and headlights.
If the dog is held in the harness, what next? If hanging free, you're going to haul him in? Is he going to pull you over? If in the current, can you maneuver him to shore before the current flips and drowns him? Ropes and current don't mix, and belayed humans have sometimes drowned in rivers. A rope can hold you under, or upside down, or backwards.
We should test our rigs towing the dog behind a boat to simulate current. Where to attach it, dorsal side or in front? Does it hold the dog's head out of the water?
Pacific Crest Trail, Suiattle River crossing.
IMPORTANT: if 2 dogs, make sure they don't interfere with each other. I've seen a dog knock another off the log in mid-crossing (in a forgiving place). Owner crosses first while partner holds dogs, then owner calls each across singly. Do NOT allow the dog to get in the position of turning around in mid-crossing. That's when they'll fall. Traffic management is the key to safety.
My climbing pal once encountered the aftermath of a fatality. Climbers leashed the dog while they climbed a short 1-2 pitch summit. The dog chewed the leather leash and fell to its death. It was not their dog.
Also, dogs are stupid about rockfall, initiating and avoiding. I heard of a dog who'd be left on the ground at climbing areas. A rock falling towards you looks like a tennis ball. The dog would try to catch rockfall, and eventually did.
FINALLY, MOST IMPORTANT: Beware of thick tangled blowdown. I think that's what lamed Al's leg. Not sure, I never saw a traumatic accident or slip, but we got into some thick tangled stuff one day, and he woke up lame next morning. I put him on a stay a few times while I scouted to find the trail under the tangled blowdown, then instead of going back and guiding him, I called him to me and let him find his own way. I think he slipped backwards and landed poorly, tweaking his CCL or something. Keep him close and pick the easiest way, don't encourage him to jump high logs, get him used to your help over obstacles. The "Corgi Toss" is a standard command (a gentle lift, not a toss). From someone who carried a corgi out 17 miles in a sling.
Find the corgi in this picture...
If you find a harness that works, you might reverse-engineer it with simpler, lighter materials, eliminating the hardware by stitching things down once you have the dimensions established.
Most dog gear seems way too heavy and over-engineered. It doesn't have to hold a car.
See my modified Martingales in the collar FAQ.
I would never put a pack on a corgi. Awkward, dangerous impediments.
I had a nice Ruff Wear double chest harness, great seat belt in the car. You can eliminate all those buckles. The things fit over the head. All you have to do is fold the feet through the rear strap. No buckling necessary.
Thanks John! This is all super helpful and I'll definitely be able to figure something good out from all your advice. Fortunately we don't do much in the snow so I have the winter to rig something up for next summer.
Id suggest a Kong Brand one. They sell them at petsmart and they have a handle...traffic loop on them which would be perfect and they're very sturdy
That Kong harness looks similar to the two we've used. Notice the plastic separating bayonet buckle? It's unnecessary. You can pull both loops over the dog's head if you fold the paws through the chest loop. Note that this proves the dog can fall out of it (possibly hurting a shoulder in the process). Once you get one of those sized, you could easily sew a much lighter one with no buckles at all.
We had a Ruff Wear with an integral leash loop that slipped through a tiny loop in the neck loop. Nice, handy design. Made a decent seat belt IF you keep it extremely short. Those seat-belt-type harnesses did not fare well in crash dummy tests (recent post here somewhere), but they might keep your dog from being thrown out of the car, and keep it from distracting the driver.
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Lewis, of Alabama, was agreed to: Whereas, Charles Hays, a member of this House, did, on the fourth day of March, 1875, nominate one Guy Roosevelt Beardslee for appointment as a cadet of the United States Military Academy from the fourth congressional district of Alabama, and it is reported that said Hays did falsely certify to the Secretary of War that the said Beardslee had been an actual, bona fide resident of the said district for over two years previous to the nomination aforesaid. And Whereas, It is extensively reported that the mother of said Beardslee paid to said Hays the sum of $3000 to obtain said examination for her son; and Whereas, It is justly due to said Hays that a thorough investigation should be had, in order to ascertain the truth or falsity of said reports; therefore, be it Resolved, That the matters aforesaid be referred to the Committee on Judiciary, with authority to investigate the same and to Send for persons and papers. WASHINGTON. Wolf's Testimony. 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Q:
A sintaxe '///' tem algum significado especial?
Estava a usar o notepad++ (v 6.5) para escrever um arquivo em javascript quando notei o seguinte:
Escrevi uma linha de comentário iniciando com ///, três em vez do usual duas. Na execução essa linha parece ser ignorada, mas ela não é colorida como um comentário. (Note também que o fundo da linha está branco, de cor diferente). Isso é um bug no syntax highlighter do notepad++ ou é alguma sintaxe especial do javascript que desconheço? Algo relacionado a /regex/?
A:
Esse conjunto de três barras é comumente utilizado por alguns programas para formatação de documentação de código (como o Doxygen), como forma de indicar que o comentário de uma única linha deve ser incluido na documentação gerada. Na prática não deixa de ser um comentário de uma linha, mas é um comentário especial.
Alguns editores, como o Visual Studio, por exemplo, colorizam esses comentários de forma diferenciada justamente pra indicar que se trata de uma documentação. Outros, não diferenciam isso de um comentário normal (como no caso do próprio StackOverflow - vide abaixo). A função abaixo (extraída do link referido acima para o Visual Studio) exemplifica o uso desse tipo de comentário:
<script type="text/javascript">
function areaFunction(radiusParam)
{
/// <summary>Determines the area of a circle based on a radius parameter.</summary>
/// <param name="radius" type="Number">The radius of the circle.</param>
/// <returns type="Number">The area.</returns>
var areaVal;
areaVal = Math.PI * radiusParam * radiusParam;
return areaVal;
// Note como o StackOverflow NÃO COLORE esse comentário DE FORMA DIFERENTE do anterior...
}
</script>
O colorizador (syntax highlighter) do Notepad++ (a versão de referência é a 6.5.5) é capaz de diferenciar esses caracteres de um comentário simples. Em algumas linguagens em que esse uso é mais comum, há uma configuração específica para isso:
Eu intencionalmente mudei o estilo de comentários de documentação (COMMENT LINE DOC) em Java* para azul, como forma de ilustrar. Isso é feito diretamente na ferramenta "Configurador de Estilos" disponível no menu "Configurações" do Notepad++:
* Apesar do Notepad++ colorir comentários com três barras de forma diferenciada (para indicar documentação), não há referências a esse estilo além do /** <codigo> */ na documentação do Javadoc - conforme indicado em comentário efetuado nesta resposta.
No caso do Javascript, o Notepad++ também diferencia esse comentário do "comum", mas não fornece uma opção de colorização exclusiva para ele (como faz no caso do Java). Honestamente, eu não entendo o motivo da falta dessa opção pra configuração de cor, uma vez que a distinção é claramente efetuada (se existe um bug ele talvez esteja nessa falta de configuração, não na diferenciação dos tipos de comentários).
Só pra ser preciso a respeito do que ocorre no caso desse comentário com três barras no caso do Javascript, a linha recai na configuração padrão (default) dos estilos globais (global styles), e por isso tem a cor de fundo em branco distinta do restante do arquivo. Se for do seu interesse, você pode ainda assim definir a cor para o Javascript mudando aqui:
A:
Segundo a Especificação ECMA-262, no caso de comentários de linha única, é aceito qualquer tipo de caractere após a adição das duas "barras" que iniciam o comentário (//).
Sendo assim, apesar da mudança de cor no seu editor, o comentário em JavaScript ainda é válido.
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Should I Buy a Granny Flat?
If you own a house and want to earn income, you could build a granny flat in your backyard. It would not only boost the value of your house but also is a good option to earn rental income.
A granny flat is an independent unit of residence. People normally build granny flats for older parents and family, but can also rent it out. However between the states there are variences, for example, in Victoria, homeowners can only rent it out to their dependents.
Can You Build A Granny Flat On Your Block?
Policies to build these flats are different in each state; they also vary from one council to another. Normally, people want to know if they can build these flats, and the answer in most cases is yes, they can. But the guidelines of each Council vary, which can make it hard to figure out what a person can and cannot do. For example, in New South Wales, laws allow people to build and rent out granny flats. However there are also councils that charge a contribution fee of about $20,000, which keep people from building them.
When you plan to build a granny flat, you must consider every element, such as drains, sewers, and other easements. On some occassions there can be a conflict with the underground layout if these details are not planned in advance.
Compliance with Building Code
These flats should comply with the Building Code of Australia and any other relevant standards. Granny flats have proven to be very popular in Sydney due to:
• A good return on investment
• Affordability crisis in a housing sector.
In Sydney, rental return can be up to $720 per week with a two-bedroom granny flat, while the total cost of a two-bedroom flat with a bathroom and a kitchenette is around $130,000.
Benefits of a Granny Flat
Below are some of the benefits of having a granny flat:
• If you rent it out, it allows you to earn extra money rent-wise.
• You can claim on your depreciation plan if you rent out a granny flat.
• As discussed, a granny flat increases the value of your house, which is good for both real estate investors and owners.
• It allows you to spread the income risk. For example, you will not be making any money if you have an investment property and nobody is living in it. But if you build a granny flat, it is highly likely that you would be earning money on any one of the two.
• It can be a great addition to accommodate your family. Your grown up children or parents can use it in times of need.
Risks of Building a Granny Flat?
You also have to understand the risks of building a granny flat before working on your plan. Below are a few risks associated with it:
• Although, you need to have an estimated the cost of building a granny flat, there often can be an unseen or unexpected cost, which may exceed your budget.
• Not every council allows you to build a granny flat.
• Granny flats may also decrease the resale value of your house because it’s not always an ideal add on for new home owners . Tenants also don’t always appreciate granny flats as they do not want to have another tenant in the backyard. It normally is a good option for the real estate investors though.
If you wish to build a granny flat, doing your market research is important. Make sure the council or state allows you to build it and also keep in mind the demand for these flats in your area.
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Posts Tagged ‘hollande’
‘Israeli Intelligence Prevented Massive Terror Attack in Germany’
Wednesday, November 25th, 2015
Israeli intelligence once again is proven to be the number one weapon for Western Europe, the United States and Russia to fight Islamic terror.
Israeli intelligence was responsible for preventing a massive terror attack at a soccer stadium in Hanover last week, according to Stern Magazine, which also reported that a bomb-laden ambulance was discovered.
European media previously reported that French intelligence warned German authorities that terrorists were planning to attack Germany’s Hanover stadium, where a friendly game was scheduled between Germany and Holland.
German chancellor, Angela Merkel was due to attend the game, indicating that it was not coincidental that Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists targeted a stadium in Paris two weeks ago because president Francois Hollande was at the game. An attack inside the stadium was foiled by guards who stopped a suspect, who then blew himself up.
Stern reported Wednesday:
Israeli intelligence handed over exact information on what was expected in the planned attack in Hanover, leading to the last-minute cancellation of the friendly game between Holland and Germany.
A warning had been passed on a day before the game. The next day, hours before the soccer match, another intelligence report warned that a terror attack was “imminent.”
The night of the game four days after the ISIS massacres Paris, German authorities received information from Israeli sources that detailed a planned attack inside the stadium. A search outside turned up an ambulance loaded with a bomb. Police arrested a known suspect.
Two hours later, a Hanover train station was evacuated after as suspicious object was found.
Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu
Obama and Hollande Commit to Destroying ‘Radical Terrorism’ of ISIS
Wednesday, November 25th, 2015
U.S. President Barack Obama and French President François Hollande held a joint press conference at the White House on Tuesday, Nov. 24, to reinforce their dedication to eradicating ISIS while maintaining the common values America and France share, values of freedom for all, including religious freedom and equality.
Obama spoke first. He pushed the theme of the Nov. 13 Paris terrorists targeting not military or political leaders, but ordinary people who had gathered to sing, to eat, to compete. The terrorists, Obama said, “focused on the very spirit of France, and by extension, all liberal democracies. It was an attack against the world itself.”
While most of the talk was about true love and loyalty between the two nations and increased and enhanced intelligence sharing and continued commitment to destroying ISIS, a few newsworthy nuggets were uttered.
The very first question asked by a reporter was about the overnight shooting down of a Russian fighter jet by the Turks, and the impact that will have on the coalition fighting ISIS.
Both presidents said they were still in the fact collection stage and both emphasized the necessity that the incident not be permitted to escalate.
However, President Obama in particular took this opportunity, and several others, to softly chastise Russia. He said, “this reflects the ongoing problem with the Russian operations” in Syria. Instead of targeting ISIS with their airstrikes, the Russians have been concentrating on hitting the “moderate opposition.”
“Russia is welcome to be a part of this coalition,” Obama said, but it must make the “strategic shift,” which Obama said he’s been stressing to Putin for five years already, “from propping up the Assad regime” to helping to take out ISIS.
Hollande repeatedly referred to Friday’s United Nations Security Resolution 2249, pointing out that there is a unified position, which is that “strikes must be against Daesh (ISIS), against terrorism,” that all the nations must coordinate and cooperate against ISIS. That resolution calls ISIS an “unprecedented threat to international peace and security” and calls on all member states to take all necessary measures to help defeat it.
Some of the reporters took the heads of states to task, asking why, given the leaders’ statements for more than a year that “Assad must go,” they’ve welcomed Russia into the coalition, which seems inconsistent with that goal.
French President Francois Hollande at the White House, Nov. 24, 2015.
Hollande refused to give a specific expiration date for Assad’s leadership, saying only that it “must be as soon as possible.”
Hollande claimed that “there is a new mindset now.” He said it was because not only has the crisis continued for four years and left more than 300,000 people dead, but it is no longer contained within the region, and has begun spilling over into Europe and the rest of the world.
So what will France and the U.S. and the coalition partners do that is different, now?
They will not be sending in ground troops, Hollande said, but instead will be “intensifying strikes, with more specific targets.” They will “focus on cutting off Daesh resources, taking out their command and training centers, reducing the flow of foreign fighters, targeting the hearts of the cities where Daesh is,” and helping to ensure the local forces on the ground are able to complete the tasks of destroying ISIS.
Hollande again invoked Friday’s Security Council resolution, which he said was “evidence that the entire world is committed to fighting against Daesh, that is the one single goal, to fight against terrorism and to defeat Daesh.”
“Assad cannot be the future of Syria, there must be a transition from Assad” Hollande said, “he’s the problem, he cannot be the solution.”
U.S. President Barack Obama. Nov. 24, 2015.
U.S. President Barack Obama. Nov. 24, 2015.
Obama also looked to the future, beyond the elimination of ISIS, and talked about what would be needed to put Syria back together. “It will be a long process to put it back together, create stability, rebuild lives,” Obama said, “but it’s possible.”
Circling back to Russia, Obama pointed out that the coalition fighting ISIS is made up of 65 countries, whereas “Russian and Iran are in a coalition of two.” Right now, Obama said, “Russia is the outlier” in supporting Assad.
But with all the discussion of eradicating ISIS and ensuring that the flow of terrorist fighters be cut off, both leaders re-committed themselves to inviting in refugees from the Middle East, and not betraying our central values.
Obama said that “America is strengthened by people of every faith and background.” He said “we must not succumb to fear or allow it to divide us,” while repeating the claim that “nobody goes through more intense checks than refugees,” as if that is a reassuringly high standard.
Finally, Obama will be going to Paris on Monday, along with 150 other heads of state, for the Climate Change Conference. Hollande said “Paris has never before hosted so many leaders.” He sees this meeting as a symbol to the terrorists that they will not disrupt the plans and lives of civilized people. He also said it shows that the strength of the shared value of “life.”
Hollande said the world leaders would be gathering in Paris to take a symbolic stand against radical terrorism and also to show they are working to prepare for the future.
In the more than one hour press conference devoted to a global response to the barbarous terrorist global-caliphate-seeking ISIS, the words Islam and Muslim were not uttered.
“Viva la France and God bless America,” were Obama’s final words.
Lori Lowenthal Marcus
Obama Adamant His is the Right Strategy; Hollande Recognizes ‘We are at War’
Monday, November 16th, 2015
U.S. President Barack Obama had everyone’s attention with the major world leaders and international journalists attending the G-20 Summit in Antalya, Turkey on Monday, Nov. 16.
In the wake of Friday’s Paris massacres carried out by ISIS and its supporters which led to hundreds dead and wounded civilians, it is not an exaggeration to say that people were anticipating a statement of strength and resolve from a man in the position which has long been considered the leader of the free world.
That is not the message they heard from Obama.
Instead, Obama appeared to be digging in his heels, refusing to consider that he may have misjudged ISIS and may have pursued the wrong strategy thus far with the growing barbaric and now global threat to civilization, ISIS.
Obama bridled at the reporters who asked variations of the same questions: did you underestimate ISIS? are you going to change your strategy, given ISIS has grown in size and capability in the year since he committed to fighting them? do you now agree that ISIS is not ‘contained?’
“That’s the same question I’ve already answered three times,” Obama said. He insisted that the strategy the U.S. is pursuing is “the right one,” and that he would not just announce a new strategy that makes for a good headline. He referred to the Paris massacre as a “setback.”
Obama responded to the query whether he knew that ISIS had the capability to carry out an attack like the one in Paris: “We have been fully aware of their potential to carry out a full military attack,” he said, but he continued to dig in, not only insisting his strategy is the right one, but also continuing to downplay the enormity of the threat.
The U.S. Commander in Chief described ISIS as “a handful of people” with “not wildly sophisticated weapons,” ones “who don’t care if they die.” That, he claimed, is what makes it very difficult to defeat them.
One reporter dared to ask the President whether the president thought he “understand[s] this enemy well enough to defeat them?”
The U.S. President was terse, he was indignant and he was dismissive of the journalists for not being satisfied with his answers. What people did not see or hear was an anger directed at the global enemy. When Obama said the nations are united to “defeat this enemy, ISIL,” his tone sounded more like he was reading a shopping list or a weather report than a conviction to overcome the barbarians.
The President finally did find his footing when he launched into his familiar trope of Muslims being the largest number of victims. “The overwhelming majority of victims of terrorism are themselves Muslim.”
Obama made the point, once again, that it is “wrong to equate ISIL with Islam,” it is “wrong to consider ISIL a Muslim problem instead of a terrorist problem.”
He admitted that “the most vicious terrorist groups at the moment claim to be speaking for true Muslims,” but countered that by pointing to leaders of the Muslim majority countries like Erdogan in Turkey, and the leadership of Malaysia and Indonesia, who are “tolerant and work to be inclusive of all their people.” Really? Ask the non-Muslim majorities in those countries how well they are treated.
But this time Obama was willing to concede that it is important for “Muslims around the world to ask very serious questions about how these ideologies have taken root and built up over time” just as it is important for non-Muslims not to stereotype Muslims.” He claimed that “there have been times when there has not been enough pushback against extremist thoughts or rationales for why Muslims feel marginalized.”
Lori Lowenthal Marcus
Pakistan Frees Terrorist behind Murder of Mumbai Chabad Rabbi
Saturday, April 11th, 2015
Israel’s ambassador to India Daniel Carmon said:
Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu
Netanyahu Rained on France’s Parade (Thank God)
Monday, January 12th, 2015
There’s indication and reports that the French government did everything it could to try and dissuade Israeli PM Netanyahu from visiting France and participating in their unity march, and when that failed, they insulted him with political snubs.
Security may sound like valid concern for not wanting Netanyahu there, but with 40 other world leaders present, that excuse sounds feeble.
The bottom line is that Hollande didn’t want Netanyahu raining on France’s parade.
Because France is different. France’s terrorism is not like Israel’s terrorism.
France’s terrorism is against liberté and equality and fraternity.
While in France’s eyes, as the French media pointed out, Israel’s terrorism stems from a political dispute.
And if France wasn’t sure Israel understood that message, if Bibi dared show up, France would condescendingly invite the head of the PLO to march next to Bibi just to make that point absolutely clear.
But to their dismay Netanyahu showed up, and he didn’t let them keep him in the second row, or put him on the second bus, and he didn’t stand next to the Munich Massacre financier Abu Mazen either.
And it was incredibly important that Netanyahu did all that.
Because while numerous countries around the world are dealing with Islamic terrorism, it is Israel that has faced it from the beginning, and has fought it, often quite alone, not just for Israel’s sake, but for the entire world’s.
Over the past few years so, the Jewish communities of France have been subject to terrorism and violent anti-Semitism. Terrorism because they were Jewish, not because they were French or drew some offensive cartoons.
The Islamic terrorist attacks in France last week were the natural evolution of those attacks on the Jewish people.
But when the Islamic terrorists murdered Ilan Halimi and the Jewish children in Toulouse, they weren’t just attacking some Jews, like the French perhaps thought. They were attacking France itself and the values it stands for. The Jews were just first in line.
Netanyahu’s participation at the front of the march, on the first bus, and in the Paris Synagogue were messages that France and Hollande need to hear – that Israel and the Jewish people are one, we stand together, and we lead the fight against Islamic terrorism for us and for you.
The terrorism that France faces is the same exact terrorism that Israel fights, and when that terrorism in France was primarily directed at Jews, when the French didn’t yet comprehend that it was also directed at them and at their liberté and democracy, we in Israel, we the Jewish people understood it completely.
Upon entering the Paris synagogue, Netanyahu was greeted with cheers and song, not because he is the Prime Minister of Israel, but because he is viewed as the Prime Minister of the Jewish people.
By snubbing Netanyahu, France wasn’t just snubbing Israel, it was snubbing France’s own Jewish citizens, it was belittling the previous terror attacks against France’s Jewish communities, and showing that France doesn’t yet fully comprehend the magnitude of its latest encounter with Islamic terror.
One hopes that Hollande and France will understand Netanyahu’s message, and realize that France must unconditionally stand with Israel against Islamic terror, just as Israel and the Jewish people stand with France in their hour of need, at the front of the line.
Shalom Bear
Paris Anti-Hollande March Turns into Day of Hatred of Jews
Monday, January 27th, 2014
At least 150 protesters were arrested in the “Day of Anger” demonstrations on Sunday, according to reports. Nineteen police officers were injured in clashes with protesters, one seriously, the French news agency AFP reported. Police estimated that 17,000 participated in the march.
Protesters performed the quenelle, a gesture reminiscent of the Hitler salute that was invented by the anti-Semitic French comedian Dieudonne M’bala M’bala. They also called for freedom of speech on Dieudonne’s behalf.
Anti-Semitic chants included “Jews go home” and “Jews, France is not your country.”
The Union of French Jewish Students, or UEJF, condemned “anti-Semitic slogans and Nazi salutes” by some protesters, and the group’s president, Sacha Reingewirtz, told AFP, “This Day of Anger has turned into a day of hate.”
Hollande Visits Graves of Victims of Toulouse Jewish School Attack
Tuesday, November 19th, 2013
French President Francois Hollande visited the Jerusalem graves of the victims of the attack on a Toulouse Jewish school on Tuesday, accompanied by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and members of the Sandler and Monsonego families.
Rabbi Jonathan Sandler, 30; his children Gabriel, 6, and Aryeh,3; and Miriam Monsonego, 8, were killed in March 2012 when radical Islamist Mohammed Merah entered the Ozar HaTorah school in the city in southwest France and shot at students and teachers.
Merah was shot dead three days after the school shooting during a standoff with police. He had admitted to the shootings, saying they were in retaliation for Israel’s alleged treatment of Palestinian Authority Arabs.
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DURBAN II: US, Australia, Canada, Israel, the Netherlands boycott United Nations Anti-racism Conference
Durban II no-shows won’t be missed
Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:26:05 GMT
By Hamid Golpira
The Durban II conference on racism will most likely be a very interesting event, both for what is said and what is not said.
Recently, a number of countries that are still in denial about their history of racism, namely Israel, the United States, Canada, Australia, and the Netherlands, have announced that they will be boycotting the UN anti-racism conference.
The Durban Review Conference is being held at the UN European headquarters in Geneva from April 20 to 24 to evaluate progress toward the goals set by the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance held in Durban, South Africa in 2001.
The US and Israeli delegations walked out of the 2001 Durban conference when the nations of the Global South began to voice their candid views on racism, colonialism, the transatlantic slave trade, and Zionism. The US and Israeli delegates were particularly incensed at the defense of the rights of the Palestinian people and the almost unanimous condemnation of Zionism as racism.
So this year, the United States and Israel have decided that they will not attend the conference and have even convinced some of their allies to join them in the boycott.
Officials of some of the countries that will be boycotting the conference have even felt compelled to resort to the “blame the victim” strategy, accusing the delegates of the Global South of anti-Semitism. However, any logical person can tell that there is a very big difference between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism.
The countries that have decided to boycott the conference have a checkered past.
The British conquered Australia and disenfranchised the Australian Aborigines, killing every single indigenous person on the island Tasmania in the process. And the Australian Aborigines are still fighting the Australian government for the right to their homeland.
The European settlers of Canada also dispossessed the indigenous people, and the First Nations of Canada are still fighting for their rights.
The Dutch East India Company and the Dutch West India Company colonized Indonesia and Surinam, earning huge profits from those territories, but the Netherlands has never paid reparations to the people of its former colonies. And it still possesses the Netherlands Antilles.
In addition, the Netherlands was a major player in the transatlantic slave trade but has never paid reparations to African nations or Africans in the Americas.
The United States also committed numerous acts of genocide against the Native Americans over the years.
In 1811, Tecumseh, a leader of the Shawnee nation, commented on the genocide committed against the Native American people, saying:
And the U.S. government still refuses to pay reparations to African nations and African Americans for the crimes against humanity committed during the Middle Passage and the era of slavery.
Since all these issues will probably be brought up at the Durban II conference, the United States, Israel, Canada, Australia, and the Netherlands all decided to boycott the gathering.
Of course, all the citizens of these countries are not racist, but they still must do a lot to redress these issues and deal with the institutionalized racism in their countries.
Unfortunately, delegates from these countries will not be participating in the great debate in Geneva.
But perhaps this is better, since the delegates from the nations of the Global South will be able to express their views freely without having to worry about delegations from countries with a history of oppression and racism trying to stifle their voices.
Articles by: Global Research
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\section{Primitive of Reciprocal of x squared minus a squared}
Tags: Inverse Hyperbolic Cotangent, Inverse Tangent, Expressions whose Primitives are Inverse Hyperbolic Functions, Primitives of Quadratic Functions, Expressions whose Primitives are Inverse Trigonometric Functions, Reciprocal, Primitive of Reciprocal of x squared minus a squared, Primitives involving Reciprocals, Primitives involving x squared minus a squared
\begin{theorem}
thumbright600px$\color {blue} {\dfrac 1 {x^2 - a^2} } \qquad \color {green} {-\dfrac 1 a \tanh^{-1} \dfrac x a} \qquad \color {red} {-\dfrac 1 a \coth^{-1} \dfrac x a}$
Let $a \in \R_{>0}$ be a strictly positive real constant.
\end{theorem}
\begin{proof}
Let:
{{begin-eqn}}
{{eqn | ll = \forall x \in \R: \left\vert{\frac x a}\right \vert > 1:
| l = u
| r = \coth^{-1} {\frac x a}
| c =
}}
{{eqn | ll = \forall x \in \R: x^2 > a^2:
| l = x
| r = a \coth u
| c =
}}
{{eqn | lll = \implies
| ll = \forall x \in \R: x^2 > a^2:
| l = \frac {\mathrm d x} {\mathrm d u}
| r = -a \operatorname{csch}^2 u
| c = Derivative of Hyperbolic Cotangent Function
}}
{{eqn | lll = \implies
| ll = \forall x \in \R: x^2 > a^2:
| l = \int \frac 1 {x^2 - a^2} \ \mathrm d x
| r = \int \frac {-a \operatorname{csch}^2 u} {a^2 \coth^2 u - a^2} \ \mathrm d u
| c = Integration by Substitution
}}
{{eqn | r = -\frac a {a^2} \int \frac {\operatorname{csch}^2 u} {\coth^2 u - 1} \mathrm d u
| c = Primitive of Constant Multiple of Function
}}
{{eqn | r = -\frac 1 a \int \frac {\operatorname{csch}^2 u} {\operatorname{csch}^2 u} \mathrm d u
| c = Difference of Squares of Hyperbolic Cotangent and Cosecant
}}
{{eqn | r = -\frac 1 a \int \mathrm d u
}}
{{eqn | r = -\frac 1 a u + C
| c = Integral of Constant
}}
{{eqn | r = -\frac 1 a \coth^{-1} {\frac x a} + C
| c = Definition of $u$
}}
{{end-eqn}}
{{qed}}
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One small section of the Healthcare Bill.
For your perusal, I’ve taken a moment to list just one (1) tiny little section of the new HB3962 Healthcare Bill and it’s associated explaination (by me)….
SEC. 1173A. STANDARDIZE ELECTRONIC ADMINISTRATIVE TRANSACTIONS (This doesn’t mean just ATM payments, it means any computer based transaction, record keeping, billing, reporting, etc. Anything a clerk, nurse, doctor or janitor puts on the computer)
(a) Standards for Financial and Administrative Transactions (this just lets you know it’s not just record keeping, but ‘financial’ too, and that doesn’t just mean bills, it also means payment plans, financing, treatment plans, etc.)
(1) IN GENERAL- The Secretary shall adopt and regularly update standards consistent with the goals described in paragraph (2). (this isn’t set in stone, it means we’ll change it based on our goals listed below)
(2) GOALS FOR FINANCIAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE TRANSACTIONS- The goals for standards under paragraph (1) are that such standards shall, to the extent practicable– (meaning if it’s at all possible with technology, ie. If we can do it, we’re going to)
(A) be unique with no conflicting or redundant standards; (this won’t be any standard we’ve used before, it means we’re going to make all new standards)
(B) be authoritative, permitting no additions or constraints for electronic transactions, including companion guides; (ie. this will be the final say, we have all the authority, NO CONTRAINTS for electronic transactions means basically we can do whatever we want, ie. no limitations)
(C) be comprehensive, efficient and robust, requiring minimal augmentation by paper transactions or clarification by further communications; (comprehensive and robust means it will cover every facet of everything that is even vaguely related to healthcare. Minimal ‘augmentation’ by paper records means it will be all computer based, no pesky paper records to come back and bite us in the ass, and NO CLAIRIFICATION BY FURTHER COMMUNICATIONS means we don’t have to explain why we do anything)
(D) enable the real-time (or near real-time) determination of an individual’s financial responsibility at the point of service and, to the extent possible, prior to service, including whether the individual is eligible for a specific service with a specific physician at a specific facility, on a specific date or range of dates, include utilization of a machine-readable health plan beneficiary identification card or similar mechanism; (this means we’re going to look at your bank accounts before we give you any healthcare, then, based on what we see in your accounts, we’re going to decide who WE think you need to see, at what hospital or doctor’s office, and on what date, ie. we decide how long you wait. The ‘machine-readable’ health plan is just that; a card that identifies you and will tell anyone and everyone what’s wrong with you, and what the Government thinks your treatment plan should be.)
(E) enable, where feasible, near real-time adjudication of claims; (this means we’re going to bill you RIGHT NOW. It also means that they can draft your account on the day of treatment. This could lead to people no longer being able to pay by cash or check. You might be forced into having your healthcare drafted from your account without your approval)
(F) provide for timely acknowledgment, response, and status reporting applicable to any electronic transaction deemed appropriate by the Secretary; (anything that you find out, we find out, duh, ‘status’ reporting!?! and ‘any transaction’ means health plans and private information and diagnosis too. BTW, have you seen ANY mention of privacy in this section?)
(G) describe all data elements (such as reason and remark codes) in unambiguous terms, not permit optional fields, require that data elements be either required or conditioned upon set values in other fields, and prohibit additional conditions except where required by (or to implement) State or Federal law or to protect against fraud and abuse; and (this means you can’t hide your diagnosis in medical-speak, and it also means that we’re going to tell you in no uncertain terms what we expect from you, which is everything.. also, ignore the ‘protect against fraud and abuse’ portion, who do you think makes State or Federal Law?)
(H) harmonize all common data elements across administrative and clinical transaction standards. (can someone explain to me just what ‘harmonize’ means in legalese? but pay very close attention to the word ‘clinical’ …that’s the ‘see, we told you we’re going to look at your medical records’ part)
This is my own interpretation of this particular Section of the Bill. I’m sure they will expand the definitions to cover even more than the little I’ve explained here. The gov. will come up with interpretations of interpretations until they use this Bill to control absolutely everything in your life (as related to healthcare, but what isn’t?)
If you want to read and interpret the Bill yourself, you can find it here:
You can also choose a different section to analyze, since I counted about 683 Sections (but I might be off by one or two, I didn’t bother to count them twice to verify my count). There’s plenty of good sections left to choose from, like Sec. 2511 School Based Health Clinics (get ‘em while they’re young!) and Sec. 2512 Nurse Managed Health Centers (Doctors! We don’t need no Stinkin’ Doctors!!), and I personally like Sec. 59C Surcharge on High Income Individuals (pay close attention to the part about ‘Nonresident Aliens’..
Anyway, that’s about all I can stand for today, so good luck and have fun in your analysis.
One more thing….here’s a picture of the physical dimensions of the Bill.
"Pay no attention to that little book next to our plan for American Domination!!"
Sitting next to it (on top of Stephen King) is a pocket U.S. Constitution…..
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2 Responses to “One small section of the Healthcare Bill.”
1. pauletterevere Says:
Your link to “the” bill did not work. There are two bills that comprise the current health care reform: HR 3590 (signed by President Obama on Tuesday) and HR 4872 (the reconciliation bill – still being voted on today).
Library of Congress links:
HR 3590 => http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=111_cong_bills&docid=f:h3590enr.txt.pdf
HR 4872 => http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=111_cong_bills&docid=f:h4872eh.txt.pdf
• Gary Layton Says:
You are correct. I apologize for the bad link. I’ve also pulled the Section from an earlier version of the Bill, HB3962, not HB3590. The sections are basically the same, but have been moved around and significantly renumbered.
Thank you for the correct links.
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Influential news outlets generally ignore the needs of struggling families.
Stephane Mahe/Reuters
In an editorial meeting during this last recession's crest I pitched a story about double coupons and their popularity among single moms battling to stay economically afloat.
A blank stare on the faces of everyone in the room greeted me.
"Oh, that is so interesting," one of the reporters seated around the circular table said. Then she paused. "What are those?"
I called my godmother immediately to tell her my story.
"Wow," she said, "they never heard of double coupons? They're really out of touch, huh? That's kind of scary."
Most of America's most influential voices have little familiarity with lower-class lives. The idea of pulling out your coupon caddy to get 80 cents off a jug of Tide is as familiar to them as a lunar landing. The Marshall's layaway line might as well be on Mars. As MSNBC's Ned Resnikoff noted recently, "The news media's current economic climate doesn't just shrink newsrooms and kill magazines: it also reifies professional class barriers." Or as one particularly salty cameraman once said to me while I was at ABC News, "I thought they only hired from the Ivys here." (I assured him I had not hidden my public-school education or my Prince George's County, Maryland roots.)
I thought of this class mismatch recently as I've followed the discussion surrounding Sheryl Sandberg's upcoming book, Lean In. Suddenly, and for the first time in a while, a bunch of major news outlets are talking about working-class women. All of a sudden a media that has rarely written or cared about the issues facing the women I grew up with—single moms, working days and nights and odd jobs, often at hourly wages and with no paid maternity leave—invokes their example as a reason to challenge Sandberg's argument about women and ambition.
As one writer wondered, echoing several others, "Will more earthbound women, struggling with cash flow and child care, embrace the advice of a Silicon Valley executive whose book acknowledgments include thanks to her wealth adviser and Oprah Winfrey?"
Another asked, "Where are women like the domestic workers in Sandberg's vision of leadership, which privileges women leading at the top, from the corner office, taking the head of the table?"
You don't have to enjoy Sandberg's book or to agree with her arguments about women's ambition and the structural issues stopping women from operating on a level playing field in the workplace. But to assert that her high-flying, private-plane riding, one-fourth of one percent, upper-class status demolishes her ability to talk about other women's lives or to offer online professional skills training if women want it seems to me to raise its own interesting kind of class bias against those who have a ton from those who have a lot, but less. If Sandberg's privilege makes her too out of touch to be relevant to the less fortunate, then a whole slew of people, including many reporters, should rethink their line of work.
Sandberg is an easy target: she is successful and extraordinarily rich and is preaching the power of personal ambition and overcoming professional barriers at a time when most Americans - including the high-gloss, Ivy League set - feel they are stomping through molasses to get ahead despite their most determined efforts. But how about commenting on the merits of her argument rather than her class? When was the last time people asked Warren Buffett if it was appropriate to talk about the tax bracket of his secretary? Or Bill Gates if it was appropriate for a billionaire to talk about entrenched global poverty? Or is talking to the really wealthy and the really poor okay, but talking to working-class people not?
The women I grew up with worked. A lot. They did not have high-class discussions about balance. They had high-frequency conversations about decent childcare and keeping their jobs and paying their rent. At night once a week my mother took me to the night course she attended to try and earn her college degree. I sat in a study lounge outside her room with my elementary school homework while she went to class. She and her friends may or may not have chosen to take advantage of Sandberg's "Lean In" circles. But they certainly would not have been insulted by her talking to them. In fact, they would have appreciated the fact that someone was.
Sandberg is right on one point she makes in her book: For women there is a direct connection between power and likability in others' eyes. The more power you have, the less other people seem to like you. Her own example illustrates it despite the fact that she made clear she understood the firmness of the economic terrain from which she was writing.
"I am also acutely aware that the vast majority of women are struggling to make ends meet and take care of their families," Sandberg writes in her book. "If we can succeed in adding more female voices at the highest levels, we will expand opportunities and fairer treatment for all."
Maybe. Or maybe we will get more of the same. Either way Sandberg's conversation is worth having. Regardless of whether the messenger wears Prada or Payless.
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9# Gyan – The Wisdom Which Liberates
tatkarma yanna bandhāaya sā vidyā yā vimuktaye| āyāsāyāparaṁ karma vidya’nyā śilpanaipuṇam||1-19-41|| —śrīviṣṇupurāṇe prathamaskandhe ekonaviṁśo’dhyāyaḥ
That is action, which does not promote attachment; That is wisdom which liberates [one from bondage] All other action is mere [pointless] effort/hardship; all other knowledge is merely another skill/craftsmanship.
Above words are the wonderful Sanskrit shlok couplet which clearly sing the glory of the wisdom. It clearly says acquiring wisdom is the only action which does not create attachment to this material world only liberates one from all the bondage and one’s prejudices, negativity, ignorance greed and so on. Taking hardship for other material things is aimless and which will never satisfy your hunger only will create the attachment to them. Without wisdom all acquired information and knowledge is pointless.
From the birth to around 4-5 years of human life, the humans start to learn basic life skills like eating, walking, speaking, thinking, socializing etc and values like empathy, love, care etc. The most skills they learn, are from home and the environment around from own experiences.
As human grows,He/she goes to any external educator like schools. That shapes the discipline, responsibility, accountability, analytical skill, imagination and so on in the human. Still the hunger for wisdom differ the person from another.
The education, information, knowledge and wisdom are unique and different facets of the human learning process.
Education is the formal learning process which person may have to go through regardless of the interest.
Information is the set of facts which you know when someone need to or have to know about something or someone. It is need and interest driven learning.
Knowledge is the combination of different facets of the learning. Deep understanding derived due to own or someone’s experiences from formal or informal education and the application of the information in the life situations.
Wisdom is the ability to apply education, information, knowledge, values, common sense, intuition, belief and experience while responding to particular life situation. By using wisdom makes you happy about the decisions you have taken and problems you have solved. This is the best possible ability can be derived from all the learning human can obtain from various forms. Customised wisdom applied on the particular life situations.
In Hindu ancient scriptures and texts, the four Ashram (phases) and Purushartha (meaning/goal of existence) of the life are described. The average human age was divided in 25 years’ phases. The Ashram and Purushartha divided into 25years each.
Human Age (Years) 0 to 25 26 to 50 51 to 75 75 till Death
Ashram Brahmacharya (Being the Celibate Student) Gruhastha (Married Family Man) Vanprastha (The Hermit in Retreat) Sanyasa (The Wandering Recluse)
Purushartha Dharm (Acquiring the Wisdom) Arth and Kam (Acquiring Wealth and Pleasure) Arth and Moksha (Acquiring Wealth and Liberation) Moksha (Acquiring Liberation)
It clearly supports acquiring the knowledge into first phase of the life when a person generally has good memory and grasping capacity; fresh mind without worldly set rules; good imagination power and no household worries, which enables him/her to learn and acquire knowledge about future opportunities, threats, duties and responsibilities in the life.
Asking questions “why” and “how” of the information is the key to get deep dive into the information. “Why we are learning this? Or why this information is required?” will give an insight of the need and “How can you use the information or education to solve the problem or get things done?” will allow to think the application of the acquired information. When a human remembers and relates the “why” and “how” of information used in various situations in the life which is called life experiences, the mind slowly transforms the information into the knowledge.
The school system of ancient India called Gurukul, which literally means living in the teacher’s domain, was set up for students who were required to live and study in teacher’s house being a part of their family by learning 14 Vidya (Techniques) 64 Kala (Art forms). Even all royal children were expected to live the life of celibate student which was not different than any other student. The main aim was to teach them reality of the life if future prince may have to face. Ram-the prince of Ayodhya is the prime example of the princely student who learnt and experienced all the hardships and reality of the life during the phase of student life made him aware with the ground reality of human life which is considered knowledge. When he destined for his 14 year exile period, he could concentrate on his Tapa (effort to achieve self-realisation,which can be considered as wisdom) than his discomforts which were quite opposite to his royal luxury. This shows how acquired knowledge enables a knowledgable prince into the ideal rule upholding king can be worshiped as a god.
Acquiring the knowledge and turning into the wisdom takes time,persistance and patience. By being exposed to various life changing experiences and then doing Chintan (thinking or meditating) on those experiences by using acquired knowledge.Finally wisdom floats like butter(Wisdom) floats by churning the curd (Knowledge) .The wisdom is not easy to achieve as that requires a person should have some prerequisites like education, information, knowledge, values, common sense, intuition, belief and life experiences and many more things. Hence getting wisdom in first two phases of the life is hard because human is acquiring all the prerequisites unless the person is passionate about it.
May goddess Saraswati give you wisdom and liberates from all the matrial bondage.
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Practical Problems
In the topic “Practical Problems”, we will have math problems which are completely based on our real life. In our real life, we people are studying math in school, college and in higher education. In our day to day life, we are facing many situations in which we have to solve many problems by using the concepts of math which we have already studied earlier in school and college.The following practical problems can be solved by using the concept Pythagorean theorem.
We can define Pythagorean theorem as follows. If one of the angle in a measures 90 ° , this kind of triangle is called right triangle. Let ABC be a right triangle in which the measure of angle B = 90°.
Practical problems - solved
Question 1:
A ladder 17 m long touches a window of a house 15 m above the ground level.Determine the distance of the foot of the ladder from house.
The below picture represents the information given in the question.
AC = ladder = 17 m
AB = height the ladder touches = 15 m
AC 2 = AB 2 + BC 2
BC 2 = AC 2 + AB 2
BC 2 = 172 - 15 2
BC 2 = 289 - 225
BC 2 = 64
BC 2 = √64
BC 2 = √8 x 8
Distance of the foot of the ladder from the house = 8 m
Question 2:
The length of the diagonal of a square is 4√2 m.Find the length of the side.
Let "a" be the side of the square given.AC = 4√2
In a right angled triangle ABC
AB 2 + BC 2 = AC 2
a 2 + a 2 = (4√2) 2
2a2 = 16 x 2
a 2 = 16
a = √4 x 4
Therefore a = 4
side of the square = 4 m
These are some of the real life usage.Students need to practice this kind of problem to clear understanding.We have also given worksheets to practice this kind of problem.Usually students will have these kind of problems in school grade.All the best
practical problems to Pythagorean theorem
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INTRODUCTION
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Exposure to airborne fungi has been widely recognized as a plausible cause of dampness-related respiratory morbidity \[[@B1]\]. In particular, exposure to fungal (1→3)-β-*D*-glucans has been associated with non-allergic responses. (1→3)-β-*D*-glucans also has potent biological properties and may adversely affect airway inflammation \[[@B2]\].
Until now, most of the studies on airborne (1→3)-β-*D*-glucans has been conducted in workplace environments such as metal industry plants, wastewater treatment plants, and greenhouses \[[@B3],[@B4],[@B5]\]. Limited data have been collected in outdoor environments while considering various climatic factors and sampling periods, and the follow-up duration of these studies has been limited \[[@B6],[@B7]\].
Therefore, we aimed to first characterize the monthly levels of (1→3)-β-*D*-glucan throughout one year to understand how (1→3)-β-*D*-glucan levels fluctuate in the outdoor environment and if these changes are potential indicators of climate change. Second, we evaluated the relationship between (1→3)-β-*D*-glucan level and various climatic factors such as outdoor temperature, relative humidity, wind speed, hours of daylight, cloud cover, and pollen counts.
METHODS
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From February 2011 to January 2012 (winter, spring, summer, fall, and winter), five outdoor locations on the roofs of five university buildings, were used to sample the air. These locations included (A) the Graduate School of Public Health, (B) the Genetic Engineering building, (C) the School of Chemical Engineering, (D) the School of Biological Engineering, and (E) the College of Pharmacy.
In total, 106 air samples were collected from all of the outdoor stations. The samples were collected 100 to 150 cm above the ground. The sampler uses a two-stage cyclone to collect (1→3)-β-*D*-glucan, and the diameters of the first-stage inlet and second-stage inlet are 2.0 and 2.5 mm, respectively. The two-stage cyclone sampler collects aerosols in two 1.5-mL tubes as well as inside a backup tube. At an airflow rate of 2 L/min, the collection efficiency for each tube was determined. At 2 L/min, the first tube had a 50% cutoff diameter of 2.7 µm with a sharpness of 1.43, and the second tube had a 50% cutoff diameter of 1.5 µm with a sharpness of 1.75. The Korea Meteorological Administration provided data on the outdoor temperature, relative humidity, wind speed, hours of daylight, cloud cover, and pollen counts for each month during the study period.
The samples were stored at 4±2℃ and then sent to an analytical laboratory within a week of sampling. All samples were analyzed within one month of collection. (1→3)-β-*D*-glucan extraction from each filter was carried out using a kinetic chromogenic limulus amebocyte lysate assay kit (Glucatell; Associates of Cape Cod, Falmouth, MA, USA), which included a (1→3)-β-*D*-glucan-specific reagent, reagent-grade water, and a (1→3)-β-*D*-glucan standard. The (1→3)-β-*D*-glucan-specific reagent used in this kit is a lysate of *Limulus polyphemus* blood cells from which factor C has been removed. Thus, this reagent prevents any cross-reactivity with endotoxin. The concentration of (1→3)-β-*D*-glucan is presented as pg/m^3^. The assay limit of detection was 3.125 pg/mL for the extract.
All statistical analyses were conducted using SPSS version 17.0 (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA). Parametric statistics were used to test for significant differences among the level of (1→3)-β-*D*-glucan at each outdoor location; the measured levels of (1→3)-β-*D*-glucan were found to be normally or log-normally distributed. Pearson correlation analysis was performed to investigate the relationship between the (1→3)-β-*D*-glucan level and each climatic factor.
RESULTS
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The airborne (1→3)-β-*D*-glucan levels were evaluated based on the 50% cutoff diameters of stage one (2.7 µm) and stage two (1.5 µm). The value of (1→3)-β-*D*-glucan at 2.7 µm was higher than that at 1.5 µm when tested in all of the laboratories. At the 2.7 µm 50% cutoff diameter, the highest geometric mean (GM) was 378 pg/m^3^ (27 to 7143 pg/m^3^) observed at location E, and the lowest was 195 pg/m^3^ (14 to 2299 pg/m^3^) at location A. At the 1.5 µm 50% cutoff diameter, the highest GM was 27 pg/m^3^ (6 to 88 pg/m^3^) observed at location C, and the lowest was 12 pg/m^3^ (\<3.3 to 55 pg/m^3^) at location D ([Table 1](#T1){ref-type="table"}).
[Table 1](#T1){ref-type="table"} also shows the average temperature, relative humidity, wind speed, hours of daylight, and cloud cover measured at each of the five outdoor stations monthly. At all stations, the total (1→3)-β-*D*-glucan levels ranged from \<3.2 to 7143 pg/m^3^ with a GM of 312 pg/m^3^. The highest GM level, 429 pg/m^3^, was observed at station E. However, the lowest GM was 255 pg/m^3^ at location D.
The scatter plot in [Figure 1](#F1){ref-type="fig"} depicts the correlation between the GM of (1→3)-β-*D*-glucan levels and outdoor temperature and indicates that (1→3)-β-*D*-glucan tended to have higher levels between the spring and the summer months.
The results of the Pearson correlation analysis for the relationship of (1→3)-β-*D*-glucan level with temperature, relative humidity, wind speed, hours of daylight, cloud cover, and pollen levels are shown in [Table 2](#T2){ref-type="table"}. The outdoor (1→3)-β-*D*-glucan levels we measured were significantly correlated with temperature (*r*=0.301, *p*\<0.05).
DISCUSSION
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Of all five sampling locations, location E had the highest GM levels (1→3)-β-*D*-glucan (geometric standard deviation \[GM\]: 429 \[5.9\] pg/m^3^) ([Table 1](#T1){ref-type="table"}). Location E is surrounded by a forest. The level of (1→3)-β-*D*-glucan could have been higher in this sampling location because (1→3)-β-*D*-glucans have a non-allergenic water-insoluble structural cell wall that is a component of most fungi, higher plants, and many lower plants \[[@B8]\].
Our results suggest that temperature is correlated with (1→3)-β-*D*-glucan level and pollen counts. Previous studies have also showed that temperature is significantly correlated with pollen counts \[[@B9]\]. In addition, the advancement of flowering was found to be correlated with an increase in minimum temperature; therefore, minimum temperature may influence pollen production \[[@B10]\].
High levels of (1→3)-β-*D*-glucan were found in the spring (April and May), and low levels were found in the fall (November) ([Table 1](#T1){ref-type="table"}). Higher pollen levels during the spring compared to the other seasons may explain the high level of (1→3)-β-*D*-glucan in April and May; however, the differences between the spring and fall were not statistically significant. Pollen is usually carried by the wind in the spring; thus, it may represent a major source of (1→3)-β-*D*-glucan. A previous study found tree pollen counts to fluctuate seasonally, and counts were highest from March to May when about 95% of the total yearly tree pollen count is in the air \[[@B9]\]. Moreover, (1→3)-β-*D*-glucan may account for up to 60% of the dry weight of the cell wall of fungi \[[@B11]\], and pollen allergens may exist in smaller particles than intact pollen grains \[[@B12]\]. These findings suggest that fragments of biological particles may adversely affect health \[[@B6]\]. In this study, high (1→3)-β-*D*-glucan levels were significantly related to high temperature ([Table 2](#T2){ref-type="table"}), and fungal growth tends to favors high temperatures \[[@B13]\].
Nevertheless, (1→3)-β-*D*-glucan levels were collected on different days across the A to E locations throughout the spring, and pollen counts may have differed on the days levels were measured; therefore, this could be the main reason for differences among locations during the spring ([Table 1](#T1){ref-type="table"}).
When comparing indoor and outdoor levels of (1→3)-β-*D*-glucan, the total GM level in the outdoor environments measured in our study year (312 pg/m^3^) was lower than that of data collected in studies on indoor environments. For example, (1→3)-β-*D*-glucan levels were reported to be 5700 pg/m^3^ in day care centers, 3200 pg/m^3^ in office buildings, and 3700 pg/m^3^ in homes \[[@B14]\].
This study has important limitations. First, data were not collected for each outdoor location on the same day due to issues of accessibility, a lack of resources, and limitations in our approved permits. Furthermore, average levels of climatic factors may not have accurately reflected the levels in our small sampling areas. However, there are limited data on the relationship between outdoor climatic factors and (1→3)-β-*D*-glucan. In most previous studies on airborne (1→3)-β-*D*-glucan, measurements were taken over a short period and in an indoor environment with simulated exposures to airborne microorganisms. However, a strength of this study is that we evaluated the monthly variance of airborne (1→3)-β-*D*-glucan over one year and found significant differences in (1→3)-β-*D*-glucan levels throughout the year, especially in April.
The outdoor levels of (1→3)-β-*D*-glucan measured on the roofs of five university buildings varied throughout the study year. The highest level of (1→3)-β-*D*-glucan occurred in the spring and (1→3)-β-*D*-glucan was significantly correlated to outdoor temperature. This study provides basic information on the monthly variations of (1→3)-β-*D*-glucan levels and its relation with other outdoor factors. In Korea, (1→3)-β-*D*-glucan might be considered the main indicator of pollen in outdoor environments.
The authors have no conflicts of interest with the material presented in this paper.
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(1→3)-β-*D*-glucan level (pg/m^3^) and climatic factors by sampling location
RH, relative humidity; NA, not applicable; GM, geometric mean; GSD, geometric standard deviation.
^1^Total mean of the number of sample at each location.
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Pearson correlation analysis between the total level of (1→3)-β-*D*-glucan and climatic factors
^\*^*p*\<0.05, ^\*\*^*p*\<0.001, n=53.
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Natural Treatment, Home Remedies For Blood Clots…Herbs That Dissolve Blood Clot & Get Rid Of It
natural remedies treatment blood clots
Natural Treatment Home Remedies For Blood Clots…Herbs That Dissolves Blood Clots & Natural Ways To Get Rid Of Blood Clot
The human body needs blood in order to function correctly; without it, there is no human life. This “red fluid” is responsible for carrying oxygen and essential body nutrients to different parts of the body. However, this free transportation can be hindered by blood clots. A blood clot occurs when the [liquid] blood begins to form into a solid or semi-solid. While blood clotting is a good way that the body stops excessive bleeding, it becomes bad when the clots are getting too much, an inability of the body to dissolve the clots naturally, or blood clotting without any injury. This can be dangerous to the body because the clots may block the supply of blood to important body organs like the heart and brain.
Causes of excessive blood clotting
Abnormal blood clotting can be as a result of various reasons such as anemia, high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease, dehydration, smoking, high cholesterol level, internal injury, and ruptured blood vessels ? arteries and veins.
Symptoms of blood clotting
Depending on the region where the blood is located, there are visible signs which can help you know when you have a blood clot. The most common places and associated symptoms include the following:
Location Symptom(s)
Leg/Arm Painful swelling, reddish discoloration,
Brain Headaches, dizziness, eye problems
Heart Shortness of breath, chest pain, sweating
Abdomen Diarrhea, vomiting, stomach pain
Lungs Shortness of breath, chest pain, sweating, racing heart, and blood in coughs.
There are various ways of treating blood clots including through the use of medication. However, as with other health problems, there is always a natural way to go about it. That is the essence of this article: to highlight some natural remedies for blood clots at home.
Natural ways to get rid of a blood clot
Poor blood circulation is a symptom of blood clotting. Exercising is a great and quick way of improving blood circulation. If you have blood clots, regular exercising and being active through the day is an effective and natural way to get rid of blood clots.
Doing yoga is a natural way of dealing with blood clots. The poses involved help in promoting proper blood circulation to the heart. Two yoga poses that can be done in order to get rid of blood clots are ?Uttanasana? and ?Sarvangasana?. The first pose involves bending forward with the head meeting the knees and the trunk stretching. The second one, Sarvangasana, involves standing on the shoulders and head with the feet pointing upwards and the knees facing the face.
Anise Oil
Oil extracted from the anise herbal plant has medicinal purposes. This essential oil has anti-inflammatory and antiseptic properties which make it a good remedy for blood clots. As a caution, the use of essential oils for treating blood clots should be only for clots in the legs and arms.
Wintergreen oil
This is another essential oil. Wintergreen oil contains a salicylate that gives the oil its blood-thinning properties. Mixing wintergreen oil with any career oil and massaging the mixture on the affected region will help to remedy blood clots. However, like in anise oil, you should apply this topically.
Epsom Salt
Epsom salt has anti-inflammatory and soothing effects. Soaking and relaxing in an Epsom salt solution for about 20 minutes will help to soften blood clots, thereby, promoting the flow of blood.
Getting Up Early Every Morning
Form the habit of rising up early every morning. Getting up early every morning is a good health habit. Sleeping means that the body virtually stays still in a particular position for hours. This long state of immobility can lead to the increased stickiness of platelets which may lead to clotting. You can start your day by eating a healthy meal every morning to prevent this.
Drinking Water
For proper circulation of blood in the body, the body needs to be well hydrated. Dehydration can lead to blood thickening which eventually results in clots. Drinking enough water every day is the simplest and easiest way to get rid of blood clots.
Massage is a natural way of promoting blood circulation. This process also helps to remove blockages caused by blood clots.
Stop Drinking Alcohol
While this may not apply to everybody, it still needs to be stated. Alcohol consumption, when done in excess, can lead to the deposition of fats in blood vessels thereby, hindering blood circulation. Reducing your alcohol intake or completely staying away from it is a simple and natural way of treating and preventing blood clots.
Stop Smoking
Smoking is dangerous to the health, but many people take this warning lightly. Smoking leads to many health problems including clot formation and poor blood circulation.
Dark Chocolate
Research has found that dark chocolate is helpful in the prevention of blood clots. This is possible due to the presence of blood-thinning flavonoids in the liquor. However, it is advised that the consumption of dark chocolate should be moderate considering the fact that it contains cocoa butter and sugar, which in excess are not healthy.
Herbs that dissolve blood clots
The following herbs have blood-thinning properties which make them good at dissolving blood clots.
• Flaxseeds are rich in omega-3 fatty acids that are healthy to the body. These fatty acids help in preventing blood clots by reducing the aggregation/coagulation of blood platelets.
• Chia seeds. Like flaxseeds, chia seeds are also natural blood-thinners due to the range of healthy minerals in them.
• Nutella nuts. Nutella nuts are rich in omega-3 fatty acids, which are helpful in preventing and stopping blood clots. Other nuts such as walnuts and hazelnuts also offer the same benefit.
• Leafy vegetables. Vegetables such as kale and broccoli have antioxidants that combat against free radicals in the body and help to prevent blood clotting.
• Helichrysum oil. As an essential oil, helichrysum oil has anti-inflammatory properties. However, beyond its use as a pain reliever, this essential oil when applied topically can help to dissolve blood clots.
• Grapefruit contains a soluble fiber, pectin, which helps in the break down of cholesterol and in minimizing the risk of blood clotting.
• Pomegranates are rich in antioxidants that help in the production of nitric oxide, essential for the smooth circulation of blood through the arteries.
• Tomatoes are rich in lycopene which is a carotenoid (a type of antioxidant) that helps in reducing the risk of atherosclerosis ? a blood vessel disorder.
• Sweet potatoes. High cholesterol in the body can lead to the deposition of unhealthy fats in blood vessels. Hence, the cholesterol level in the body needs to be controlled. Sweet potatoes contain fiber, carotene, vitamin C and potassium which help to lower the cholesterol level of the body.
Ayurvedic Treatment For Blood Clots
The Ayurvedic method of herbalism is an ancient Hindu tradition that is used for body healing and elongation of life. While this method may not be the most effective for the treatment of blood clots, it is a simple and easy way to go about the de-clotting process.
Arjun ki Chaal. Also called Terminalia Arjuna, this herb is the bark of a tree. It is a powerful natural blood thinner and is healthy for the heart. To use Arjun ki Chaal to treat blood clots, you just need to pour some of the bark into warm water, allow it to steep, and drink the filtered water very early in the morning. You need to continue this process until you observe some positive changes.
How to dissolve blood clots in legs
One indication of blood clotting in the legs is the presence of a swollen, reddish skin discoloration. This discoloration can also be painful. While in most cases, the blood clot may be innocuous, in others, it can be life-threatening. Therefore, getting a quick solution to this problem becomes important.
The following methods can be used for dissolving blood clots in the legs:
• Turmeric is what gives curry powder its yellowish-orange color. This herb contains a chemical compound that has anti-clotting properties and can be used in the treatment of blood clots.
• Cayenne pepper. This chili pepper is a common kitchen spice in homes. The presence of salicylates gives the pepper the anti-blood-thickening properties that make it useful for treating blood clots.
• Just like cayenne pepper, ginger is also rich in salicylates that have blood-thinning properties. You can use ginger for treating blood clotting by drinking ginger tea. Ginger tea can be made by adding peeled ginger to boiled water, allowing the mixture to steep and drinking when cold.
• Research has found that oregano plant has blood-clot inhibiting properties among other things. This makes it a good and easy treatment for blood clots.
• Garlic contains chemical compounds with anti-thrombotic properties, which are helpful in dissolving blood clots in the legs. To use garlic, mix mashed garlic to one cup of hot water; allow the mixture to steep and then drink when cold.
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Q:
Opengl es 2.0 Custom shader low fps (android)
I'm making a simple application/wallpaper, that adds simple water ripple effect to background image.
I'm testing on HTC Desire (Android 2.2).
I have found this explanation of how this is done and implemented it for android Adrian Boeing: Blog.
The problem now is very low performance. If I have still image (with normal shader) the fps is around 40-50fps. If I add the part that calculates sinc function and than use new calculated value for texture fps drops to 20fps.
Problem is I want to add more than just 1 ripple, and fps drops /2 by number of ripples (t.i 2 ripples = 10fps, 3 ripples 5 fps etc...).
Have I badly implemented this shader and it there some room for drastically optimization, or are effects like this done in some other way?
The effect is similar to that default live wallpaper on Android called Water (Autumn leaves tumble to rippling pond below).
Here is code of my shader:
private final String fragmentShaderCode =
"precision mediump float;" +
"uniform sampler2D uTexture;"+
"varying vec2 vTexCoordinate;"+
"uniform float mTime;"+ //time variable
"uniform float offX;"+//center of wave
"uniform float offY;"+//center of wave
"uniform float size;"+//size of wave (so you can make it smaller over time)
"void main() {" +
" vec2 off2 = vec2(offX,offY);"+
" vec2 cPos = -1.0 + 2.0 * vTexCoordinate.xy;" + //bring coordinate to middle of screen
" vec2 ofvec = cPos+off2;"+ //doda offset
" float r = length(ofvec);"+ //length of vector
" cPos = vTexCoordinate + (size)/(r*2.0)*sin(r*100.0-mTime); "+ //sinc function for wave simulation
" gl_FragColor = texture2D(uTexture,cPos);" + //draw texture
"}";
Note: I added this code for it's simplicity to read. The code that uses multiple touch events, just uses vector for offX,offY, and does the code below in for loop.
A:
A lot of heavy computations in fragment shaders badly affects performance. The quite common practice for optimization for mobile OpenGL ES devices is to move heavy computations to vertex shaders.
In this case you will need to reconsider logic of shaders and modify geometry too. I propose to make a mesh with good enough tessellation to simulate water waves, and alter vertex positions to make ripple effect.
Alternatively, you can leave all logic within fragment shader but alter computation of UV offset using external baked texture with offset data. This way you will have the same quality of effect but with significantly improved performance. You have to store in separate texture baked data for UV deltas for given distances and read ready pre-computed value from this texture. All mobile devices GPUs has at least 2 texture samplers so additional texture2D() call is almost free.
To have an idea how it works, please read this article http://prideout.net/blog/?p=56 It is about path deform, but you should take a look at the method of sampling certain pre-calculated data from texture.
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