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Release Notes: An encoding error listing comics has been fixed.
Release Notes: Option parsing for -l, --singlelist, and --version has been fixed. The following comic strips have been added: AlphaLuna, AlphaLunaSpanish, BrentalFloss BrentalFlossFit, BrentalFlossGuest, DangerouslyChloe, MagickChicks, MenageA3, Namesake, ShadowGirls, and StickyDillyBuns.
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Release Notes: This release has regexp highlighting and search functionality. It also includes many bugfixes and improvements to existing features, including the ability to rerun existing jobs with new parameters.
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((The Canadian Election draws to a close today, and the Polls have been open since this morning. I shall uphold my civic responsibilities and vote at the Catholic school down the street from my house. Makes me wonder which party Rip and Matt are voting for, if at all.
In the spirit of politics, therefore, here is the second part of my neat little roleplay debate between Leyola Swiftwillow and Wimzig Wintersprug. Part 1 can be found here.))
Krizzlybear: Welcome back to part 2 of our debate between RP alts! We have Leyola Swiftwillow and Wimzig Wintersprug in our presence today to debate the merits of their existence in my stable of active alts. My time is limited, and I need to decide on a hierarchy of playing time between alts, especially with the looming addition of a Frost-specced Death Knight to the ranks.
Wimzig: Speaking of active alts and limited playtime, you seem to be hiding the fact that you've started another alt, Mr. Kriz.
Kriz: *chuckles nervously* Yeah. I'll admit it. I started a Paladin on US Bleeding Hollow.
Leyola: Such blasphemy! Here you are, torn between the two of us, and the only way you could decide is to just abandon us altogether? How could you!? /disgust
Kriz: I'm sorry, Leyola and Wimzig! I've just been active on another server because I am currently spending some time with Breana's guild, just to get a sense of what it's like.
Wimzig: Breana? That Dwarf chick who apparently loves guns? I have nothing against Dwarves. They're quite kind and hospitable. Believe me, I would know! I wouldn't think Ley would take kindly to Dwarves though, or any other race for that matter...
Leyola: You are mistaken, Gnome! Unlike most of the elder Night Elves, I don't harbor any feelings of mistrust to your kind or others. In my journey, I have develloped an understanding and respect for all the different races that I met.
Kriz: So the two of you are okay with the existence of a Dranei Paladin in our stable of alts?
Leyola: No. I still don't forgive you for doing that.
Wimzig: Unlikely. Religion just ain't my thing, buddy!
Kriz: Well, fret not, the two of you. Kryz, the Paladin is merely a placeholder member for Bre's guild. If things keep going along nicely, I will either put the Death Knight in there, or server transfer Leyola and Bashertin, all made possible with allowable PvE to PvP transfers.
Wimzig: I for one welcome our player-killing overlords.
Leyola: If that's what the master wants, then I won't object.
Kriz: Well, I'm glad we settled that matter. But either way, the two of you are still going to compete for playing time. Continuing our little debate, please tell the readers and I what you plan on doing for patch 3.0.
Wimzig: Have you visited Stormwind Harbor yet? My goodness, that place is an architectural wonder! I'm quite sure that there will be people there "looking for contact" who I can talk to.
Kriz: Indeed. There's potential encounters abound wherever new content is added, particularly in regards to capital cities and towns. Leyola?
Leyola: I think I will remain specialized in Restoration spells. I look forward to being able to cast Healing touch while in my Tree of Life state, amongst others. This will definitely be an exciting learning experience.
Kriz: Well, I'm looking forward to both of those things that the two of you mentioned. It certainly makes my decision even more difficult. I could always just split the time between the two of you more evenly.
Wimzig: If you analyze the situation, you can certainly conclude that there is a niche for all of us. If you want to DPS, Bashertin is your guy. If you want to heal, Leyola is the lady for the job. If you want to tank it out, Mr. Gnomish Death Knight will provide his services when the time comes. I'm always good to experience Azeroth through characterized interaction with its numerous denizens.
Leyola: That's a good point, Wimzig. You are actually quite smart for a gnome.
Kriz: Do my eyes deceive me? My toons are actually getting along?
Leyola: Well, at first, it seemed to me that Wimzig was the kind of person who wouldn't interest me. He's a little too different from me for my liking. But I suppose if given certain situations, that sentiment could disappear quickly over time.
Wimzig: As they say, Krizzlybear, opposites do attract! I learned that from observing others. If anything, Ley and I would make quite a team! We could go around solving mysteries and stuff! It would make for an awesome novel!
Leyola & Wimzig: ...what?
Kriz: ...BEST IDEA EVER! HOLY CRAP GUYS! HOW DID I NOT THINK OF THIS BEFORE! THANK YOU SO MUCH!
*Hugs the both of them*
You know what!? Forget about playtime and stuff! You two will be just fine! BUAH HAHAHA! *runs off to plan out his NaNoWriMo*
((LOL! OMG, I just realized what I am going to do for NaNoWriMo! I'm gonna write a story that takes place in the Warcraft universe, and use the two of them as main characters! Seriously, I JUST thought of this as I wrote the post, so I'm actually super excited! I'll see y'all again soon!))
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I came across my old Spore account last week, and contacted EA about if it works on Origin. They asked for me verification and I gave it to them, they verified my Spore account was valid. The support person then simply added Spore onto my Origin account.
Later on, I then launched Spore from Origin and it asked me for my serial key. I looked at Game Info of Spore using Origin, and my key was listed there. But entering it gave me "invalid key" and live chat was unable to solve the issue.
Is Spore still officially supported by EA?
Does Origin officially support Spore?
I just received a response from email support:
I understand that you are not able to play Spore on your computer. As a gamer myself I understand how frustrating this can be. Unfortunately we cannot support the game with this type of error because the game is no longer being updated for current versions of Windows.
They offered a free game instead. But I'm simply looking to get Spore working.
Sigh. So my main question is now "How can I get my legit copy of Spore playable?" | <urn:uuid:7952a310-35b7-4136-829d-122619f50663> | 2013-05-21T10:06:52Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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I noticed that during the first fight when I just held down 'block', I would block attacks and the game would just say
BLOCK. However, at one moment I let go of the block button to do an attack, but I noticed my opponent was attacking as well, so I pressed block again. The game then said
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Counting Americans Overseas as Part of the Census Would Not Be Feasible
GAO-04-1077T, Sep 14, 2004
The U.S. Census Bureau (Bureau) has typically excluded from the census private citizens residing abroad, but included overseas members of the military, federal civilian employees, and their dependents (in the 1990 and 2000 Censuses, these individuals were included in the numbers used for apportioning Congress). The Bureau recently tested the practicality of counting all overseas Americans. GAO was asked to testify on the test's initial results. Our statement is based on our published reports, one of which is being released at today's hearing.
The test results suggest that counting all American citizens overseas as part of the census would require enormous resources, but still not yield data at the level of quality needed for purposes of congressional apportionment. Participation in the test was poor, with just 5,390 questionnaires returned from the three test sites. Moreover, as the Bureau's experience during the 2000 Census shows, securing better participation in a global count might not be practical. The Bureau spent $374 million on a months-long publicity campaign that consisted of television and other advertising that helped produce a 72-percent return rate. Replicating the same level of effort on a worldwide basis would be difficult, and still would not produce a complete count. Further, the low participation levels in the test made the unit cost of each response relatively high at around $1,450. The test results highlighted other obstacles to a cost-effective count including the resources needed to address country-specific problems and the difficulties associated with managing a complex operation from thousands of miles away. The approach used to count the overseas population in the 2004 test--a voluntary survey that largely relies on marketing to secure a complete count, lacks the basic building blocks of a successful census such as a complete and accurate address list and the ability to follow-up with nonrespondents. As the Bureau already faces the near-daunting task of securing a successful stateside count in 2010, having to simultaneously count Americans abroad would only add to the challenges it faces. | <urn:uuid:7f4f6aa0-dd31-4ffb-a642-b80234e2145b> | 2013-05-21T10:20:08Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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"I set out to write a memoir that was a love letter to a man I was deeply in love with, a man who challenged me in myriad ways, a man who changed my life profoundly, a man I respected and honored greatly at the time," Alisa Valdes wrote on her blog on Wednesday. She was talking about her book The Feminist and the Cowboy: An Unlikely Love Story. "[W]hat I actually wrote was a handbook for women on how to fall in love with a manipulative, controlling, abusive narcissist. [...] I feel I owe it to my loyal readers and fans to be truthful now. It is the decent thing to do."
Less than a day later, the post had been taken down.
In it, Valdes had described how the book — "an engrossing memoir about how falling in love with a sexy cowboy turned her feminist beliefs upside down" — depicted not the loving (and marketable, thank to E.L. James and Katie Roiphe) real-life romance between a dominant man and submissive woman, but instead a controlling, abusive relationship that ended (after she'd written her book) with a terrified Valdes leaping from a moving truck to escape her boyfriend's rage, separating her shoulder in the process. After one difficult fight, in which she'd "challenged him," she wrote, he overpowered her, dragged her to the bedroom, and raped her, "telling me as he did so that I must never forget who was in charge, that I must learn to be nicer, that I must learn... to obey." Only in retrospect, she wrote, did she realize the number of red flags she'd missed.
And in the time between the end of the relationship and the books' publication she'd been "essentially shunned by my publisher, one assumes because the reality of my life more than a year after having turned in the final manuscript is different from the ending one might have liked to have seen[.]"
When fans asked what had happened to the post, she tweeted "I was asked to take it down by my publisher, and did." Later, the tweet was taken down, too. Doing a radio interview in Colorado later that day, Valdes didn't mention the abuse. Had her publishers, worried about the sales of a book now clearly lauding an abusive relationship, silenced her? Did she still stand by the blog post? Did she still stand by the book?
I emailed her to find out.
Valdes has a mild reputation online for combativeness and controversy, stemming from a series of incidents in 2009, documented here by David Shankbone, in which she was accused of claiming, and then denying, to be, respectively, bisexual and bipolar (Valdes says that lesbian news site AfterEllen misinterpreted or made up quotes about her bisexuality, and says she's never been diagnosed with bipolar disorder). But when I reached her at her personal email address yesterday she came across as engaging, thoughtful and self-reflective, a smart and articulate writer stuck between a rock and a few different hard places. Over the course of several emails, she tried to explain to me what had happened with her blog post, how she felt about her experiences, and why she didn't see her book as meaningless even after experiencing abuse from Steve Lane, the rancher and part-time actor whom she dated for two years (calls to a Steven Lane of the right age in New Mexico were not returned).
One thing she wanted to be clear about was that her publisher, Gotham, was not silencing her. In the removed post, Valdes had written that she had "tried to be cooperative" with Gotham and had been advised "to just accept this... lack of support as my penance for the crime of being openly broken up with the cowboy when I should have just pretended we were still together long enough to sell books." ("Alisa has her own version of the publication of her book," Gotham's Lisa Johnson told me. "While it makes a good story, it is not accurate." Johnson didn't comment on Valdes' account of abuse, or how it might change the nature or marketing of the book.)
But while the publisher might have, according to Valdes, treated her like she had the plague, Gotham "NEVER asked me to take the post down," and she'd only written the now-removed tweet saying it had after misunderstanding her agent, who suggested she take her blog post down "because it might be seen, in his view, by the publisher as my sabotaging myself."
Indeed, she told me, she still stood by what she had written on her site. "I wrote a post to try to explain to readers why I was no longer in a relationship with the cowboy," she said. "I also felt it was my duty as a writer to be honest about the circumstances of the end of the relationship, in part because a lot of readers seemed to see in my original descriptions of the relationship (in the memoir) some red flags that I had completely missed." This was more or less how she explained it at the time, in the disappeared blog post:
"[I]f there is any hope of redeeming this book and making it meaningful it lies in the full story of my relationship with the cowboy and not just in the candy-coated version that appears in the book. [...] I set out to write a memoir that was a love letter to a man I was deeply in love with, a man who challenged me in myriad ways, a man who changed my life profoundly, a man I respected and honored greatly at the time, what I actually wrote was a handbook for women on how to fall in love with a manipulative, controlling, abusive narcissist."
But over email, Valdes appeared to soften her tone somewhat. She told me doesn't see the sentiments expressed in her book as mutually exclusive of those expressed in her blog post — and certainly isn't claiming that the book requires redemption or new efforts at making it meaningful. She seemed most affronted at the idea that her book was somehow a lie, now that the relationship it lauded was revealed as destructive and abusive:
The book is true. It's that simple. It is as true as a wedding photo is true, a year after the divorce. Were the people in the photo deliriously happy? Yes! Were they in love? Yes! Was there great beauty? Yes! Did they find in one another something important, something they both thought would last? Yes! Are those people in the photo the same people today that they were then? No.
It seemed to me that one reason that Valdes was able to reconcile her book to the events that followed is that she understands it as a memoir first and a polemic second. The Feminist and the Cowboy is aimed at (and successful with) a certain strain of anti-feminist conservative thanks to its message (its original title was Learning to Submit), but Valdes is less concerned about the truth of its politics or understanding of gender than she is about the truth of its narrative and depictions of the relationship and her personal growth:
The truths of the book are simple: He challenged me, most often in productive ways but sometimes in ways that could be perceived as controlling or abusive. The challenge he provided was a CATALYST for some soul searching that I did ON MY OWN about the extreme radical feminism and anti-conservatism I once held to be the absolute truth. The book has always been about THAT journey, the soul searching, the questioning, the awakening in me of new ways of looking at things. I stand by all of that 100 percent.
Still, I asked her, do you think you have a responsibility to your readers to make them aware that the relationship you speak so highly of in the book was, in fact, abusive? "Yes, and the loyal followers of my blog and social media feeds have known for months that the relationship was over," she explained.
"I've never gone back on the lessons I learned from it, though; in fact, I have been very clear to say I truly believe I emerged from that relationship a mellower, kinder, more compassionate and wiser woman, and absolutely a better girlfriend! My new boyfriend even wrote the cowboy a thank-you letter on my Facebook page, after he and I talked about the ways I changed after spending time in a different culture with a very different kind of man."
Valdes understands her responsibility to end there at least in part because she doesn't think that the masculine qualities that she praises in the book are as closely related to the qualities that led to her abuse as some of her critics do. Not that she doesn't see some connection. "I think that it can at times and with some people be a very fine line between masculine confidence and narcissistic controlling," she wrote me. "I think it is a matter of degrees, just like, say, sexiness versus sleaze, or a strong appetite versus gluttony," she said in a later email. "It's a scale. There are numbers on that scale that are safe, and numbers that are dangers. The cowboy inhabited a broad spectrum, as did I, at various times. People are not statues."
She certainly was more than willing to credit Lane with shaping her in positive ways. "How many of us have parents who might have been abusive in some way?" she asked me when I wondered if it was possible to learn positive lessons from an abuser.
"A father who, when he was drunk, beat our mother in front of us, perhaps, but who also, when sober and magnanimous, took us fishing and taught us incredibly valuable life lessons? This is the dirty little secret of abuse that simple Hollywood storytelling has stolen from us all — that good people can do bad things, that bad people can do good things, that sometimes it is really fucking hard to tell the good from the bad, especially when we're deeply in love, that lessons come fast and hard from life's deepest pain."
But she was also intimately familiar with — and clearly cognizant of — the mechanisms of her abuse, and how she'd become a victim of what she described as Lane's cold brutality. "The dance of it all is so complex, and so patient, so gradual — I compared it to a frog being boiled alive by first being placed in a pot of cold water over a low flame," she told me. "By the time I understood what was probably happening, I had already developed a deep love for the man. I don't know if he consciously sought to trick me — probably not."
Valdes no long speaks to Lane, and is dating someone new. And yet, despite having removed herself from him physically, she's still trapped by him. I believe that she still thinks on her time with Lane with some degree of fondness and respect, but it's also true that she can't do anything else if she wants her book to succeed. Having had her book embraced by the anti-feminist wing of American conservatism, she now needs to play by its rules: even if she is more concerned with the book's truth as memoir than its truth as gender politics, people like Christina Hoff Sommers (author of The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism is Harming Our Young Men) care only about the latter, and without a cowboy, there's no The Feminist and the Cowboy.
Valdes laughed off the suggestion — floated in a New York Post review — that she'd written the memoir to stave off bankruptcy. But she acknowledged that writing is "feast and famine, always a hustle... in publishing you are only ever as good as the performance of your most recent book." If there's anything to be salvaged from the remains of her relationship with Lane it's that its given Valdes, who struck me as someone compelled to understand her life in memoiristic terms, more than enough material for a new book — which she's already begun. "I have been working on a sequel about the cowboy and me," she wrote in her original blog post,
"and though I am quite sure my publisher won't want it I will likely self-publish it soon. In it, I plan to detail the ways I was fooled and manipulated, the mistakes I made in choosing to ignore red flags, the many unfortunate ways that I started to subsume and lose myself in order to please an unpleasable and controlling man. I hope that in doing so I will help to make sense of the first book, both for you guys and for myself."
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/Home / Info / Acronyms
Regulatory Acronyms and FpML
The US Dodd-Frank Act (DFA) has introduced a myriad of new players and processes to OTC derivative trading. Here is a quick
guide to some of those acronyms, and how FpML and other standards relate to them. Please mouse over the different acronyms
to see an explanation (IE, Firefox, or Chrome), or scroll down to see a list of all of the explanations (and to find links).
- FpML - Financial Products Markup Language. FpML is the XML e-commerce standard for privately negotiated derivatives. It is maintained by ISDA, the International Swaps and
Derivatives Association. FpML was launched originally by JPMorgan, and Brian Lynn, GEM's founder, helped to establish the
organization for JPM and chaired the FpML Standards Committee while he remained there.
- SD - Swaps Dealer. This is an organization that makes 2-way markets in OTC derivatives. A precise definition is still pending approval. Examples will probably include major broker/dealers such as JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley,
etc., as well as a number of smaller dealers. It may also include some hedge funds or other buy side firms that act as dealers.
- MSP - Major Swaps Participant. This is an organization that actively trades in the swaps market, but generally as a component of an investment or hedging
strategy. A precise definition is still pending approval. Examples will probably inclue major investment managers like PIMCO and Wellington.
- SEF - Swaps Execution Facility. This is a regulated entity that allows OTC derivative market participants to trade with each other. This will probably
include many offerings, including ones from existing swaps trading plaforms like TradeWeb and MarketAxxess, as well as possibly
offerings from exchanges (e.g. CME, ICE), market data vendors (Bloomberg, Reuters), interdealer brokers (e.g. ICAP, Tullett
Prebon), etc., etc.
- DCM - Designated Contract Market. This is a regulated entity that permits trading in certain standardized contracts, typically such as futures and listed
options. Some may also allow trading in OTC derivatives. Examples include offerings from CMEGroup, ICE, etc.
- DCO, DCE - Derivatives Clearing Organization/Entity. This is an organization that minimizes a derivatives market participant's counterparty risk by centralizing and mutualizing
it. Each derivative contract between two counterparties is cleared by replacing it with two contracts, one between party
A and the clearing house, and an equal and offsetting contract betwen the clearing house and party B. Cleared derivatives
are revalued daily and the clearing member is required to post collateral/margin for net out of the money exposure. Examples
are likely to include offerings from firms such as LCH (London Clearing House) and CME Group, ICE, as well as likely others.
- CCP - Central Counterparty. Same as a DCO. So called because of the way that the DCO steps in between the other counterparty and acts as a central
counterparty. See "DCO" for more information.
- SDR - Swaps Data Repository. This is a central industry utility set up to allow swaps dealers and major swap participants to report to regulators in
a single uniform way. The principal SDR will likely at first be the trade repository offering from DTCC, but others may be
developed in the future. See below under "SDR Reporting" for key regulations and standards affecting SDRs.
- UPI - Universal Product Identifier. A (not yet defined) identifier that will describe the characteristics of the type of product that is traded (but not the
transaction specific information). For example, it will include items such as the product structure (e.g. swap/option/forward),
underlying index and currency, but not terms such as the size (notional) and price (fixed rate). ISDA is working on the definition
of this, but it is difficult to introduce to an over the counter market with non-standard trades.
- USI - Universal Swap Identifier. A (not yet defined) identifier that will uniquely identify a specific swap contract. A trade ID that is known across multiple
- LEI - Legal Entity Identifier. An identifier to be allocated by a planned service that will uniquely identify a legal entity that can be involved in a
financial industry transaction, such as a swap. Requirements for the LEI are being defined by several industry associations
led by SIFMA. A consortium of DTCC and SWIFT will likely develop the LEI system.
- CFTC - Commodity Futures Trading Commission. The US regulator charged with monitoring OTC derivatives that are based on commodities or indexes. This includes interest
rate derivatives, index CDS, commodity derivatives, etc.
- SEC - Securities and Exchange Commission. The US regulator charged with monitoring OTC derivatives that are based on securities. This includes single name credit
default swaps, single stock equity derivatives (e.g., total return swaps and OTC equity options on a single security) and
some other products (e.g. OTC bond options.)
- Dealer-CFTC reporting. Swap dealers will be reporting some information directly to regulators like the CFTC. One example is the Part 20 commodity large trader report. GEM's Brian Lynn is chairing the ISDA Commodity Reporting Working Group developing FpML for this report. The key message is the "exposureReport", to be included in FpML 5.3, released in the fall
- DCO interaction. Swap dealers and execution facilities frequently need to interact with central counterparty derivatives clearing organizations
(DCO's or CCP's) to request a trade to be cleared, to grant consent for the trade to be put on, and to obtain status about
trades that have been cleared. FpML is used by a number of the CCPs, including CME and LCH (London Clearing House). The
FpML messages to support this are defined in the FpML Business Process Working Group (BPWG), which is chaired by GEM's Brian Lynn. Key FpML messages include requestClearing, requestConsent, clearingStatus, and clearingConfirmed.
- SDR reporting. Organizations such as Swaps Exchange Facilities (SEFs), Central Counterparties (CCPs), and Swaps Dealers must report trading
activity to Swaps Data Repositories, to meet regulations such as the CFTC's 17 CFR Part 43 and 17 CFR Part 45 and the SEC's 17 CFR Part 240. Key SDRs such as DTCC are using FpML to support this reporting. The FpML messages to support this are defined in the
FpML Regulatory Reporting Working Group (RPTWG), which is chaired by GEM's Brian Lynn. Key FpML messages include the publicExecutionReport and the nonpublicExecutionReport.
|Sept, 2011 -
GEM and Sapient Ally
GEM and Sapient have allied. See Partners for more information.
|Sept, 2011 -
GEM publishes an overview to financial reform acronyms
GEM has published a diagram and description of key acronyms related to financial regulatory reform, and how these relate to
FpML. See Acronyms for more information .
|July, 2011 -
FpML 5.2 WD#2 Includes GEM Contributions
FpML 5.2 focuses on clearing and public price reporting enahancements. GEM's Brian Lynn chairs the FpML Reporting and Business Process
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When millions of viewers tune into the hit drama "Mad Men" each week, one of the first faces they see in the show's iconic, award-winning title sequence is of a top fashion model of the 1950s and 1960s - only for years, she didn't know it was her image.
Gita Hall, 79, says she had no idea she was part of the iconic title sequence for one of TV's most popular and lauded shows, which has aired on AMC since 2007.
"I wished they had had the courtesy to get in touch with me," she told ABC News.
The former model has just filed a law suit with the Los Angeles Superior Court against Lionsgate Entertainment, which distributes the show, claiming her image was ripped off.
"I was surprised because nobody had checked with me about it- they must have thought I was dead," she said.
Hall's attorney Kevin Leichter says that the suit has merit because the company would feel the same way about their product. "If two minutes of 'Mad Men' had been taken for commercial purposes, Lionsgate would be throwing thermonuclear bombs," he said.
Hall, a native of Sweden who appeared in films such as "Wolf Larsen" and the Ernest Hemingway adaptation "The Gun Runners," says she never gave consent for Lionsgate to use her image.
The lawsuit estimates "Mad Men" has earned more than a billion dollars to date, and calls her image the "center piece" of the show's opening - the same opening credits that won an Emmy in 2008 for outstanding title design.
The suit also suggests Hall should be compensated for the value of using her image to "evoke recollections of this now distant time."
"She actually may have a case here, you cannot use someone's likeness without their permission," ABC News Legal Analyst Dana Cole said.
Lionsgate told ABC News it has no comment on the lawsuit.
ABC News' Patrick Doherty contributed to this report.Also Read | <urn:uuid:2197ced9-9bd9-405f-b05d-e125417c47b0> | 2013-05-21T10:36:21Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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A conversation between a Hieromonk and Elder Ephraim of Katounakia on the Priesthood:
Hieromonk: Regarding the tears you spoke about, how can someone have tears like that during the Divine Liturgy?
Elder: Let me tell you, it has been about a year since I stopped [liturgizing], because I cannot see, but all day I pre-prepared for the Divine Liturgy. Do not confine yourself, my child, to the Prayers for Receiving Holy Communion, because these prayers are even read by the laity, the priest, the bishop and the patriarch. But all are not one. The people receive the Gifts ready. But the priest is a butcher. He sacrifices Christ and transmits Him in turn to all the people. There is a big difference; they are not the same. For this reason, my child, if you want to have a situation, do not limit yourself to the Prayers for Receiving Holy Communion, because you are a butcher. You slaughter and sacrifice, while the other person takes the Holy Bread prepared. For this reason supplicate the Panagia all day, whom you have near: “My Panagia, make me worthy to see what I am sacrificing, what function God has given me. Let me feel it.” And the Panagia will give it to you. Yes. If you liturgize and do not tear, you are a little at fault, you are under condemnation.
Hieromonk: I am saddened.
Elder: Yes. But, if you weep during the Liturgy, you will understand that you have liturgized, that you ate spiritual meat, if you will. If, however, you did not weep neither in your prayers, nor during the Liturgy, it is like you ate hot water. But if you weep, you will understand that you ate spiritual meat.
Hieromonk: Elder, no one tries to prepare as much as they can, but they see that the enemy does not sit, that is, he brings thoughts that are sometimes obscene, blasphemous, or foul. Then what should he do, or let us say, how should he deal with them?
Elder: Listen, we are people. We are people, not angels. He brings obscene thoughts, as well as thoughts of pride and thoughts of judgmentalism, everything. We will struggle.
One time someone came here and as we talked we fell into judgmentalism. I then went to liturgize and couldn’t say the prayers. “Man, what did I do?” I said. “Forward! Such and such neighbor came and we condemned some bishops.” During the Liturgy, as I liturgized, I said: “My God, forgive me. Forgive me, my God. I erred, my God. Of whom is the error, my God? It is even a forgiveness prayer for me.” Finally, I pacified and said: “If you want to go through this again, judge!”
It is a major thing, a great evil, to judge. Well, as people we will err, my child. But what? Confession is also a mystery, my child.
I only finished high school, I did not go higher. I wrote down the names of all my classmates, all my professors, my teachers from the first year of grade school until the last year of high school. And when I commemorate them, how much joy I feel! Do you know how much joy I receive because I commemorate those who made me into a good man? Now, since I have one year to attend Liturgy, because I cannot hear, and I want to commemorate those names again, and once again bit by bit I remember them, those people are benefiting. For this reason, my child, do you want to have you soul saved as a gift? As much as you can, commemorate more names.
The stole has great boldness, great boldness. For this reason, my child, do you want to acquire a situation? If you liturgize and do not weep, somewhere you are at fault, somewhere you did something wrong. All day I pre-prepared myself for the time of the Liturgy. And when I entered the Liturgy, I could not stop the tears. Yes! That is, many times I saw on the Holy Altar a dead body, let us say, as if in ecstasy, a dead body!
Hieromonk: Elder, for twenty years I was a simple monk. And it is true, when I became a priest, I struggled. I could not get used to that I was a priest. And from the day after I became a priest, the devil battled against me with thoughts, with anguish, with fear. He fought much against me with these things.
Elder: Well, he’s doing his job. But we will also do our job. To the Panagia, supplicate to the Panagia, my child, because all the saints supplicated the Panagia. A gift is not given to man by God, unless it is through the Panagia. The Panagia distributes the gifts to humanity, the Panagia distributes.
Hieromonk: It left me in amazement. I said to myself, the devil does not even fear the Divine Liturgy, with his thoughts, with his obscenities, with one thing and another?
Elder: Those things aren’t missing, my child, they are not missing.
Hieromonk: Contempt is needed.
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I have an illustrator file, and I need to resize the bounding box of all the components, without changing the size of the text. Is there an easy way to do this, or do I have to go and rewrite all of it in newly sized boxes? Thanks beforehand.
There is more information that is required before you question can be answered accurately. However, you may not fully understand the difference between the Type objects that Illustrator creates.
Depending on how you use the Type tool, 3 different basic type objects will be created:
It is important to note that if you select multiple "Type in Area" objects, a resize transform will resize the bounding boxes and re-flow the text inside. However, if you select a Type in Area object and a "Type on Path" or "Type on Anchor" object, the transformation will be applied to the text and not just the bounding box.
Hopefully that gives you the ammo to resize your text areas appropriately...
ctrl + shift + B this sets the bounding box so when you resize it leaves the text alone and only resizes the text box not the text. | <urn:uuid:61b0d9eb-7cb1-4456-a490-34ca3406a43f> | 2013-05-21T10:27:32Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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This definition applies to any payments which are made as the result of an international social security agreement (1.1.A.120).
A host country agreement is a type of international social security agreement, as distinct from a shared responsibility agreement (1.1.S.140), under which each country agrees to take social security responsibility for individuals from the other country who settle in their territory. This type of agreement does NOT provide for grant of one country's pensions in the territory of the other nor does it provide for the long term portability (1.1.P.310) of the payments it covers.
Example: Australia had host-country agreements with New Zealand (the 1995 Agreement) and the UK. The former agreement was replaced from July 2002 by a shared-responsibility agreement, although some people are still paid in Australia under the 1995 Agreement. The latter agreement was terminated with effect from 1 March 2001 but some people in Australia are still paid under it and under related protection provisions.
Act reference: SS(IntAgree)Act Schedule 1 United Kingdom, Agreement on social security between the Government of Australia and the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Schedule 3 Agreement with New Zealand
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Do ingredients in Tissue Rejuvenator come from shellfish sources?
Glucosamine sulfate is usually derived from shellfish; the overwhelming number of joint health supplements containing glucosamine - including Tissue Rejuvenator - use shellfish-derived glucosamine sulfate. However, since glucosamine is derived from the shells of these animals while the allergen is within the flesh of the animals, it may be safe (key word "may") to use Tissue Rejuvenator even for those with a shellfish allergy. Still, we adamantly recommend that anyone with a shellfish allergy consult their physician before taking Tissue Rejuvenator or any glucosamine sulfate-containing supplements.
The chondroitin sulfate used in Tissue Rejuvenator is derived from shark cartilage. | <urn:uuid:6f93d00d-b9ec-4154-80eb-dee7c89b7cd9> | 2013-05-21T10:19:59Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Since July 1979 in the Greater London area 19 new courtrooms have been completed for we by the Crown court. A further 15 are planned to come526W into use during 1981., and 14 more by the end of 1982. The programme of new court building will continue throughout the decade. In addition, in recent months six new courtrooms in the vicinity of the Royal Courts of Justice have been made available for use by the Supreme Court, and plans are being formulated for providing further permanent accommodation for the court by the mid-1980s. Other possibilities are being explored. | <urn:uuid:0cd6a6b1-f473-46fc-a856-83e4bc15aa44> | 2013-05-21T09:59:36Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Turn on the spot
Magically transports the caster
- "Harry felt Dumbledore's arm twist away from him and re-doubled his grip: the next thing he knew everything went black; he was pressed very hard from all directions; he could not breathe, there were iron bands tightening around his chest; his eyeballs were being forced back into his head; his ear-drums were being pushed deeper into his skull."
- —Harry Potter's first experience with Apparition.[src]
Apparition is a magical method of transportation and is basically the magical action of travelling by having the user focus on a desired location in their mind, then disappear from their current location and instantly reappear at the desired location; in short, it is a form of teleportation. It is by far the fastest way to get to one's desired destination, but is tricky to pull off correctly and disastrous if botched up.
Apparition is a very popular method of travel in the wizarding world, though brooms, Floo Powder or portkeys may be preferred as the feeling of Apparition can be unpleasant to some. Albus Dumbledore once noted that most people vomit the first time they successfully Apparate, and according to Harry Potter Apparition feels like being "forced through a very tight rubber tube."
According to Wilkie Twycross, Ministry of Magic official and Apparition Instructor, one has but to recall The Three D's: Destination, Determination and Deliberation. One must be completely determined to reach one's destination, and move without haste, but with deliberation.
Apparition can cause an audible noise ranging from a small faint pop to a loud crack that may sound to Muggles like a car backfiring. House-elves may also Apparate but without some of the restrictions that wizards have. For example, they can Apparate inside of Hogwarts. Also, when they Apparate, the sound is mostly a loud crack.
Apparition is called Disapparition from the point of view of someone at the place being left, and Apparition from the point of view of someone at the destination, much like the words "disappear" and "appear".
A variant of Apparition used to transport two or more individuals at once is called Side-Along Apparition. This method may be used by adults seeking to transport underage wizards, or in some cases a licensed individual may use this method to transport an injured party. To perform this version of Apparition, the more able party Apparates with the other party holding onto their arm. This method is recommended by the Ministry of Magic for parents with underage children to escape from danger quickly. House-elves can also do Side-Along Apparition.
Side-Along Apparition can also be forced, as when Death Eater Yaxley grabbed onto Hermione Granger's arm when she, Harry Potter, and Ron Weasley escaped from the Ministry of Magic in 1997. He was transported with her when she Disapparated to 12 Grimmauld Place and she was only able to escape by shaking his grip with a Revulsion Jinx and Disapparating again.
It is unknown whether Side-Along Apparition is possible when the "passenger" is without a wand. However, since Hermione was able to Apparate with Harry from Bathilda Bagshot's home after his wand was broken during their violent encounter with Nagini, it would seem that it is.
House elves can also Apparate, and are able to even in places in which wizards are prevented from doing so, such as Hogwarts and 12 Grimmauld Place. In 1998, when Harry, Ron, Luna, Dean, Griphook and Ollivander were imprisoned in the Malfoy Manor cellar while Hermione was being tortured by Bellatrix Lestrange, Dobby arrived to rescue them. He first took Luna, Dean and Ollivander to safety by Disapparating to Shell Cottage with them, then returned to help the others.
Licence to Apparate
- "Oh, she was perfect, obviously. Perfect deliberation, divination, and desperation or whatever the hell it is — we all went for a quick drink in the Three Broomsticks after and you should’ve heard Twycross going on about her — I’ll be surprised if he doesn’t pop the question soon —"
- —Ron Weasley on Hermione Granger’s Appariting abilities[src]
A Licence to Apparate is required to practise Apparition legally. One must be at least seventeen (17) years old to obtain such a licence. Lessons in Apparition are available, for an additional charge, to students who are or will be of legal age when the next test is administered. This is similar to Muggle schools where road instruction for driving licences is available, but at an additional charge.
While it is physically possible to Apparate without a licence, it is not advisable, because injury could result. Splinching can occur when one has insufficient determination to reach one's goal, causing certain body parts to fail to arrive at the destination with the wizard. For example, Susan Bones leg when she accidentally Splinched herself during an Apparition lesson, although it was successfully reattached, she was left shaken by the incident. Splinching also occurred in 1997 to Ron Weasley after Disapparating from 12 Grimmauld Place. Ron Weasley also failed his first Apparition test because his examiner saw he had lost half of his eyebrow at the last minute. In cases of unlicenced Apparition, when injury results, the Accidental Magic Reversal Squad can level heavy fines. However, Harry Potter successfully Apparated multiple times without a licence between June 1997 when he brought Albus Dumbledore back to Hogsmeade village by Side-Along Apparition and the end of the Second Wizarding War.
At Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, students in their sixth year can sign up for Ministry of Magic Apparition lessons. Those who turn seventeen before the first Apparition Test date have the opportunity to take additional practice sessions in Hogsmeade.
Apparition may have a certain range. In 1998, Lord Voldemort was seen by Harry Potter as flying towards Malfoy Manor, thinking to himself that he would soon be near enough to Apparate. This could explain Voldemort's need to fly to locations to check on his Horcruxes, as he may have been out of his range to Apparate. However it is more likely that there are anti-Apparition spells protecting those area, such as Nurmengard, which would have these spells because it is a prison.
Apparition becomes increasingly difficult with the distance to be travelled. Inter-continental Apparition should only be attempted by the most highly skilled of wizards.
An Anti-Disapparition Jinx can be used to prevent a wizard from Disapparating from a location. Hogwarts has an Anti-Disapparition Jinx cast upon it for most occasions, and when Harry, Ron, and Hermione Apparated into Hogsmeade shortly before the Battle of Hogwarts, an Anti-Disapparition Jinx was placed on the wizarding village by the Death Eaters to keep the trio trapped there.
There is a method of teleportation used by house-elves which is not influenced by the jinx, as they are bound by more powerful magic requiring them to appear whenever their master calls. However, it may be the case that all known Anti-Disapparition Jinxes work only on humans, for it has been bypassed by creatures such as house-elves and phoenixes. Portkeys can also be used to access or depart from locations bound by an Anti-Disapparition Jinx.
- Albus Dumbledore
- Elphias Doge
- Fred Weasley
- George Weasley
- Arthur Weasley
- Molly Weasley
- Nymphadora Tonks
- Bellatrix Lestrange
- Fenrir Greyback
- Narcissa Malfoy
- Pansy Parkinson
- Lord Voldemort
- Avery Jr.
- Walden Macnair
- Lucius Malfoy
- Severus Snape
- Draco Malfoy
- Ron Weasley
- Hermione Granger
- Wilkie Twycross
- Harry Potter
- Mundungus Fletcher
- Kingsley Shacklebolt
- Susan Bones (Splinched herself)
- Percy Weasley
- Bill Weasley
- Charlie Weasley
- Garrick Ollivander
- Graham Montague
- Bob Ogden
- Sirius Black III
- Remus Lupin
- Barty Crouch Sr.
- Amos Diggory
- Ludo Bagman
Apparition is derived from the word "Appareo" which is Latin for "appear" or "I become visible".
Behind the scenes
- Charles Weasley took his Apparition test twice, having Apparated on top of an old lady doing her shopping five miles south of his intended destination the first time.
- Ron Weasley failed his first Apparition Licence Exam when he splinched half his eyebrow off.
- Albus Dumbledore took Harry Potter to Horace Slughorn's hideout by means of Side-Along Apparition. Harry later returned the favour by Apparating to escape a seaside cave with an injured Dumbledore on his arm.
- Harry technically broke the law during Deathly Hallows since he had not taken the test. However the nature of the situation means he likely would not have faced charges. At the same time, he was the most wanted wizard in Britain after the Ministry of Magic fell to Voldemort and his Death Eaters, so if he had been caught Apparating, it wouldn't have been the worst of his troubles.
- In the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 game, Harry is given the ability to Apparate, yet he never passed his tests. But, as explained above, given the events of him being the most wanted wizard, it would not be the worst of his troubles.
- In some translations The Three Ds have been translated to non-canonical words (meaning it's not the correct translation), e.g. 'Deliberation' has been translated to 'Dimention' for the Danish version, despite meaning a whole other thing. This is done to keep The Three Ds.
- The ability of Yaxley in Deathly Hallows being able to force Side-Along Apparition by merely holding Hermione's arm, suggests that Apparition may use the same form of magic utilised in Portkeys, as the only requirement for travel via a Portkey is to touch the Key itself. This may be incorrect however, as Portkeys are not affected by Anti-Apparition Jinxes, though this could be because the jinx is set to only work on the specific spell used when Apparating, and is not attuned to the Portus spell.
- In the film adaptation of Half-Blood Prince, Harry and Dumbledore Apparated at the Astronomy Tower, seemingly contradicting the fact that no one can Apparate or Disapparate within Hogwarts. Harry mentioned it to Dumbledore, to which Dumbledore replied, "Well, being me has its privileges". The original script explains this further, having Dumbledore perform a spell upon re-arrival at Hogwarts, explaining to Harry that he is "closing the window" that allowed them to Apparate. Furthermore it is also said that the Headmaster was able to lift and put back the Anti-Apparition Charm and the Anti-Disapparition Jinx.
- Although it is seen, the term "Apparition" is not mentioned in the films until the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
- According to W.O.M.B.A.T., it is possible that Inter-country Apparition has been outlawed due to extreme Splinching.
- It may be possible there are different variations of Apparition, like flying or randomly appearing out of nowhere.
- The instance of some variations of Apparition appearing to effectively be flying (Death Eaters and Order of the Phoenix members), contradicts the magical law that a wizard cannot fly without a charmed vehicle such as a Broomstick.
- In the films, it appears Death Eaters have a black smoke trail around them as they Apparate, and Order members having white instead. This may mean dark wizards have black trails instead of white.
- In the final film, Voldemort can Apparate during the Battle of Hogwarts but it can be explained showing the fact that he broke all the protections, because Harry, Ron and Hermione couldn't Apparate into the castle.
- Draco Malfoy appeared to have been able to apparate inside of Hogwarts as well, as he apparently apparated in one of the corridors, grabbed Gregory Goyle and Blaise Zabini, then Disapparated again.
In the films
In the film adaptations of the series, Apparition differs greatly in deployment from the book series. The appearance of Apparition is also inconsistent between characters and uses.
- Death Eaters are shown physically collapsing into thick black plumes of smoke, shooting off into the sky, and reforming at their desired location.
- Order members do the same, only in the form of shining white clouds of mist.
- Fred and George Weasley, near the beginning of the Order of the Phoenix film, show Apparition as it is shown in the books, by merely appearing out of thin air with a loud noise, usually startling the people around them.
- Albus Dumbledore Apparates to the Astronomy Tower with Harry Potter in the Half-Blood Prince movie by being sucked in by a silvery grey blob which then spits them out at the Tower.
- In the Battle of the Department of Mysteries, several members of the Order and Death Eaters were seen, with the same appearance as Apparating (as white and black gas, respectively), but flying while battling. It is very clear in the books that doing magic while Apparating is more or less impossible because you are being "ripped" to another location and the sensation is so powerful that you could not focus to aim your wand anyway. This may only be used by extremely powerful and/or skilled wizards and witches.
- In the Chamber of Secrets film, Dobby the house-elf Apparates in the Dursleys' kitchen. There is a loud popping noise, and Dobby seems to fade away like a rush of slow wind.
- In the Goblet of Fire film, Arthur Weasley and other members of the Ministry of Magic Apparate quickly after the disturbance caused by the Death Eaters at the Quidditch World Cup match. There is a faint flash of violet light shown in the place of the Ministry members before they appear.
Somewhat deviating from the books, the way Apparition is portrayed in the films is most likely a stylistic choice made to better suit the visual medium of a film. It could be explained that the style differs by distance. Short range and less intense in the form Death Eaters use, they can fly/Apparate to their destination, long range and more intense the silvery grey blob used by Albus Dumbledore and Harry Potter.
In the games
- In the video games, Apparition appears like it does in most of the films; grey and white clouds of smoke, and people appears like they are flying to their destination.
- In LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 when Dobby Apparates away from Privet Drive neither the pop, the plop, the grey sucking-in, the fading away or the smoke is used. He simply disappears.
- In LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7 Apparition appears like in most of the films and the video games; white and black smoke.
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Possible appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film) (Possible appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (video game)
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film)
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (video game)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (video game)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (video game)
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7
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For instance Here is how my cousin likes to introduce himself.
The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life istough.It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it? A DEATH.What's that, a bonus? I think the life cycle is all backwards. You should die first, get it out of the way. Then you live in an old age home. You getkicked out because your too young, you get a gold watch and you go to work.You work forty years until you're young enough to enjoy your retirement.Youdo drugs, alcohol, you party, you get ready for high school. You go to grade school, you become a kid, you play, you have no responsibilities. Youbecome a little baby, you go back into the womb, Spend your last nine months floating and you finish off as an orgasm.
languages i speak: Navajo, Occitan, Breton, Cherokee, Ibibio, Cree
political view: very right-conservative
humor: campy/cheesy, dry/sarcastic, clever/quick witted, friendly, goofy/slapstick, obscure, raunchy
fashion: alternative, casual, classic, contemporary, designer, minimal, natural, outdoorsy, smart, trendy, urban
pets: i don't like pets
living: alone, with roommate(s), with partner, with pet(s), with kid(s), with parents, friends visit often, party every night
hometown: HomelesS...Care of platforM
hair color: bald
body art: strategically placed tattoo, visible tattoo, pierced ears, pierced tongue, other piercing, navel ring
looks: mirror-cracking material
best feature: not on the list
turn ons: assertiveness, body piercing(s), candlelight, dancing, erotica, flirting, intelligence, long hair, public displays of affection, power, sarcasm, skinny dipping, tattoos, thrills, thunderstorms, wealth
five things i can't live without: air water food clothing shelter
high school: yeah... used to get high in school...
college/university: university college
major: yeah... am 24 !!!
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It’s no secret that negotiations are more fruitful when parties freely share information about their interests and goals. But that requires trust, which may be in short supply at the bargaining table. This appears to be true especially in Asian countries, including India and Japan, and in negotiations involving parties from different cultures.
Having extensively researched cross-cultural negotiations—in Jeanne Brett’s case, for 15 years—we’ve developed guidelines that can help optimize outcomes whatever the level of trust. Negotiators should first assess how much they already trust or distrust the other party, and vice versa, and decide which of three levels best describes the relationship: Trust is likely (Level One), possible (Level Two), or not possible (Level Three).
Negotiators at Level One or Two may have opportunities to increase trust substantially. For instance, if parties at Level Two emphasize overarching goals or a shared vision, they may be able to shift to Level One strategies. But previous research suggests that distrust is generally deep-seated and hard to shake, leaving Level Three negotiators without many options. In those cases, our research suggests, savvy negotiators can follow the Level Three strategies to infer valuable information about their counterparts’ priorities—allowing them to attain satisfactory agreements even as they detour around trust. | <urn:uuid:c7576269-4903-4207-83a1-3f552c8c7a96> | 2013-05-21T10:19:45Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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An osteochondroma is the most common type of benign bone tumor. It arises from cartilage tissue in children and adolescents between the ages of 10 and 20, usually appearing on the long bones (arms and legs) and less often on the pelvic bones and wing bones (scapulae). An osteochondroma ordinarily stops growing when a person reaches full height.
Most tissue in the body can grow beyond normal limits and form a mass, also known as a tumor. Tumors come in two forms: benign and malignant. The malignancies which are referred to as cancer, rarely stop growing. The benign tumors reach a certain size and then stop.
Bones can host at least ten different benign tumors, some of which turn into cancers. Less than 1% of osteochondromas turn into a bone cancer called chondrosarcoma, usually in later years.
The cause of osteochondroma remains unknown. A hereditary form of the disease is presumably related to one or more gene mutations (see below).
The following factors increase your chance of developing osteochondroma. If you have any of these risk factors, tell your doctor:
If you experience any of these symptoms do not assume it is due to osteochondroma. These symptoms may be caused by other, more serious health conditions. If you experience any one of them, see your physician.
Your doctor will ask about your symptoms and medical history, and perform a physical exam. You will very likely be referred to an orthopedic surgeon for further diagnosis and treatment.
Tests may include the following:
Treatment options include the following:
If the lump is not uncomfortable or likely to cause a fracture or other problem, and there is no evidence that it is malignant, it can be left alone. Your doctor may want to retest periodically.
If the lump is large, uncomfortable, in a dangerous location, or suspected of being cancerous, surgical removal is the treatment of choice. This involves a general or regional anesthetic and a few days in the hospital. If the bone is weakened by the surgery, the surgeon may need to rebuild it, and the recovery time may be extended to weeks or months.
Since remnants of the tumor may remain after surgery, your doctor may want to retest you every few years to make sure it doesn’t start to grow again.
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Johns Hopkins University
Canadian Orthopaedic Association
Childhood Cancer Foundation
Patel SR, Benjamin RS. Soft tissue and bone sarcomas and bone metastases. In: Kasper DL, et al, eds. Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine . 16th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill; 2005.
Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, University of Utah Health Sciences Center, University of Utah website. Available at: http://www-medlib.med.utah.edu/WebPath/BONEHTML/BONE050.html . Accessed July 2005.
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Under a pallid sky the dewy meadows lay grey and cold. Fana had been milking her mother's cows, which were grazing in the communal field outside the city gate. She was about to shoulder the yoke that would help her carry the heavy pails back up to her house, when she heard a rider approaching on the road. Soon she discerned the horseman and recognized the reddish braids and good-natured face of Niarl.
"Ho, there," he called and brought his horse to a halt. "Good morning, Fana!"
"Good morning to you, too. You're out early."
"Just for pleasure. I like an early ride sometimes. What about you, you're a bit late with milking. Little brothers have held you up again, eh? Here, let me help you with this."
He dismounted and lifted the yoke over the horse's saddle.
"You're going to spill the milk," said Fana.
"No, I won't," replied Niarl. He walked beside the girl and led the horse by the bridle, using the other hand to steady the yoke. "I'm not in the habit of spilling. I'm a careful kind of man, do you not know that? I've lived for twenty years in this world without mishap or accident."
Fana laughed. "I don't believe it. I'm sure your mother could tell me about plenty of spillages you've been scolded for. Anyway, you shouldn't make it sound as if people are to blame for their accidents."
His face turned serious.
"I know what you're thinking. But injury in battle is not an accident, Fana, and it's not through any merit of mine that I returned unharmed, or through any fault of his that Déoric didn't. Don't tell him I said anything like that."
"There's no danger of that," said Fana with a sigh. "He doesn't talk to me anymore."
"Still? That's too bad. Never mind, let him sulk a while. I haven't seen him much lately. He's been in a huff with me, too, though I have known him since he was born. But I think he will get over all that foolishness soon."
"What do you mean?" She glanced at the pails. The milk was sloshing about with every step the horse took, but right enough nothing was spilled.
"Oh, this whole thing about his leg has been a big shock for him. It will take him a while to come to terms with it. He went out a Rider of Rohan and he came back a cripple on a cart. It's not the kind of fate a man endures gracefully."
"Well, I know that, of course. And I rushed to his house as soon as I heard, but he wouldn't see me. I wanted to soothe him and comfort him, and he just wouldn't let me into the house. Dirlayn was quite distressed. I don't understand it. Of course he would be upset about his leg, but what does that have to do with me?"
Niarl shrugged. "I don't know. Maybe nothing, maybe everything. Coming home to be soothed and comforted by you was certainly not what he had expected when he left for battle. Especially not after all that mountain climbing and suchlike that you two were always up to. Give him time. Now that he's been taken on as a scribe, I'm sure he'll soon feel better. And who knows, it might be the making of him. I've sometimes thought that he wasn't really cut out to be a soldier. Words might suit him much better than weapons."
Fana looked at her shoes while she walked.
"That's not what he's been dreaming of. He always said to me that he wanted to be like his father."
"I knew his father and so did you! He was a good soldier, no doubt, but did you ever hear him tell a story? Of course you did. The man would have made as good a minstrel as any I've ever heard."
"Well, yes. You may be right. And in that case he might be still alive. But I don't think orcs ask if someone would rather sing songs by the fireside."
"Ah, but those times are over! What's left of these foul creatures will soon be routed from the face of Middle-earth. And then it'll be the likes of me that will find themselves at a loose end, while Déoric will be all snug and prosperous in his scribe's alcove. Believe me, Fana, it won't be long before he knows his good fortune, and then he'll stop sulking and all will be well."
"I hope you're right."
"Of course I am. I am always right! Hey, is that a tear that I see on your cheek? Don't be silly, girl, just have a little patience."
He reached out with a wiry hand and wiped the tear off her face.
They had nearly reached the gates. The sun was rising. From the bench outside his house, Déoric watched them, two figures the size of his thumbnail. He sat as long as they remained in sight. Then he grabbed his crutches and made his way up to the Golden Hall.
The great hall was deserted, for it was still early. A servant was only just preparing the fire in the big hearth at the centre of the room. Déoric passed under the banners with the horses that didn't look quite right and along the patterned pillars through the door at the back and into the scribe's room. He opened the shutters to let in the morning light and then slumped down on the chair in front of his desk.
And there it was - the book belonging to King Elessar. Déoric stretched out a finger and touched the edge of the front cover. The leather felt cool and slightly rough and a faint dusty smell emanated from it. He tried to put aside the thoughts about Fana and Niarl and was surprised to find that he could indeed do so, once he began to think of the man who had ridden into Edoras next to Éomer King.
King Elessar. He had seen the king once before, in Gondor, just a glance of a tall, dark man walking past in the Houses of Healing. He hadn't looked like a king then, just like a strong, weary, weather-beaten soldier, but the women had been whispering. Elfstone… banner unfurled… Mithrandir… from the north… sword that was broken … hands of a healer … Later, when he had come into Edoras with all the other noble guests, he had looked different, sterner and yet fairer. He was indeed the king of the ancient realm of Gondor, a country much older than Rohan, with wisdom and crafts that reached back in time to a depth that Déoric could barely imagine. Long before he had seen it with his own eyes from the window of a sick chamber, Himlebed, his uncle, had told him much about the city of Mundburg: A city with fair stone dwellings and skilfully wrought metalwork, with lush gardens and with a house full of books. They wrote books in Gondor, books of poetry and books of the tales of the elder days and they even thought it worthwhile to write a book about their neighbours, who possessed not the skills and the learning for such an endeavour.
And now Éomer King had asked him, Déoric son of Féadred, to copy this book. The full extent of the magnitude and the honour of the undertaking suddenly overwhelmed him and for a while he sat, awestruck, staring at the wondrous artefact. Writing lists and inventories was one thing, but to undertake so fine and splendid a work was another matter altogether. He had neither the skill nor the experience - he had not the confidence to tackle this task. Who was he but a cripple who couldn't ride in the kings' guard and whose girl had deserted him for another?
Déoric bit his knuckle. He was at the point of taking the book back to Éomer and confessing himself unable to fulfil the king's request, when it occurred to him to search his heart for his father's advice. Féadred had ever been a guide to Déoric, giving counsel to him in every predicament from the fullness of his experience. What would his father say to him now?
Never believe your foe cannot be overcome. The moment you relinquish your hope of prevailing, you are a beaten man. Take courage and look sharp!
Did not this apply here, too? Wasn't this the key to accomplishing anything, be it taming a horse or climbing a mountain –
No, better not think of climbing mountains. But, yes, he would be a fool to give up before he even tried. He needed to make himself think that he could do it. Courage, of course, wouldn't be much use here, what he needed was care and method and poise.
At last Déoric picked up a goose feather and cut a quill with all the care and skill he could muster. He pulled a piece of parchment towards himself and looked at it, trying to figure out the best place for putting the title. Then he shook his head, put it aside again and seized his wax tablet and stylus. Before he would submit a single word to parchment, he would have to think of the design of the letters he was going to use. His usual hand, clear and even though it was, would not suffice for this purpose. He began drawing a series of letters on the tablet, considering the tilt of the lines, the angles, the little adornments that would make each one a work of art. All morning and halfway through the afternoon, he employed himself in this manner. At last he was satisfied, and with great care he wrote on the first piece of parchment in inch high letters: The Kings of Rohan. It took him nigh on an hour, meticulously measuring out the spaces and painting each letter evenly and without smudging. When at last the ink was dry, he looked at his work with satisfaction. Then he covered it with a cloth and nodded to himself. This was indeed no minor commission. Give us something to be proud of, the king had said. If he was going to make this book, it was going to be magnificent.
Déoric was in the treasury with Léofred, writing down accounts to the older man's dictation, when Niarl strode in. The king's advisor looked at him, startled, but the young man smiled and quickly said:
"Do not be alarmed, Master Léofred. My name is Niarl, and I am a friend of Déoric's. His name seems to be a password into the Golden Hall these days, for when I mentioned that I wanted to see him, the guards let me in without further question".
"They are very neglectful then," said Léofred with a frown, "and I shall have to speak to them." He cast a questioning look at Déoric.
"Niarl has newly been assigned to the éored of Éomer King, Master Léofred," said the scribe. "He has been my friend since we were children." If there was a touch of coldness in his voice, Léofred took no notice of it, for he turned again to Niarl and said more kindly: "And on what errand have you come to see Déoric? Should you not be getting ready to ride out east with the king to his campaign with King Elessar?"
"Indeed, we mean to ride this very hour. I have come to say farewell," replied Niarl. "Please do not reprimand those guards. I was speaking in jest. I came through the door beside the king, who has given me leave to see my friend."
Léofred's face softened. "Well, Déoric," he said, "go with him then and see him off."
"But we haven't finished the accounts yet," said Déoric.
"The accounts can wait till this afternoon."
Déoric looked down at his parchments and bit his knuckle.
"I am giving you half the day off, Déoric," said Léofred. "Away with you, before I change my mind."
He handed Déoric the crutches and ushered him out the door. Niarl smiled at the king's advisor.
"Thank you, Master Léofred!" he boomed and put an arm around Déoric's shoulders.
"I can't walk with you holding on to me," said Déoric.
Out in the stable yard Déoric saw the familiar bustle of men getting ready to ride. There were horses everywhere, their hooves were clattering on the stone slabs and the smell of them hung over the place thick as fog. Déoric sat down on the edge of a feeding trough and leaned his crutches against the wall. He knew many of the men, some had been friends of his father, but they were all too busy to give him more than a friendly nod. After a while Niarl came through the stable doors leading his fallow horse. Déoric watched him adjusting the stirrups and straightening the bridle. Then Niarl left the animal tethered to an iron ring in the wall and came over to where Déoric was sitting.
"I'm not too keen on this adventure," he said and sat down beside Déoric. "Routing orcs I don't mind, but we are likely to deal with Easterlings on the other side of the Great River. I don't savour killing other men."
"You should be glad that you can ride," said Déoric.
"Oh, is that what the glum face is all about?" He placed his hand on Déoric's knee. "Listen, my friend, you've been lucky."
"Lucky! How can you call this luck?" cried Déoric and pointed to the sad stump that ended just two hand-widths below the hip.
"Yes, lucky," replied Niarl. "Has anyone in Rohan ever survived such a wound before? You were lucky that you were in the presence of healers with skills far superior to ours. And you were lucky that there was enough left of you for the healers to work on. Think of Halol! Isn't your mother glad to have you back? And now you can sit snugly in your room with your quills and parchments and not a worry in the world. You don't have to ride out to meet some savage enemies and risk life and limb in battle."
"That's because I've already done that," replied Déoric bitterly.
"Ah, but the thing is, you don't have to do it again."
"And what makes you think that should please me?"
"Déoric!" Niarl looked at him earnestly. "Déoric, do you really crave the danger? Is it the sweat and the pain that you want? Which would you rather, to be killed or to come home to tell my parents that I have fallen?" There was a hint of reproach in his voice.
"Don't talk to me about pain!" snapped Déoric.
"I know you've got it rough, Déoric. I'm only trying to tell you that you are making it worse in your mind than it really is. What you're missing out on is not as great as you would like to believe, and you've gained something I don't think you quite appreciate."
"Well, I hope you appreciate what you have gained," snarled Déoric.
"I don't understand what you mean."
"No, you don't, do you?" He had stretched out a hand and touched her face...
At this moment the marshal appeared and gave the command to get ready. Niarl rose and went over to his horse.
"Just remember," he called to Déoric as he mounted, "that I am your friend, no matter what. Wish me luck!"
Déoric made no reply. Five minutes later the yard was deserted save for the stable hands. Wulfhere came over to him, a pitchfork in his left hand.
"How are things with you, Déoric? I hear you've been taken on as a scribe. Do you enjoy it?"
"It's not bad," replied Déoric and got up. "I'm sorry, Wulfhere, but I'm not in the mood to talk."
He hastened away in case the stable master made a sudden appearance. Back in his room he rested his arms and head on the desk. He felt the smooth wooden surface against his cheek and breathed in the smell of the parchments.
"I wish him to return unharmed," he firmly said to himself. "I do wish he will return unscathed."
It was the best he could do. Yet for all his bitterness he could not deny his good fortune when he thought of the three friends who had ridden out together. He walked on crutches, yes, but he still walked under the sun and under the open skies. In spite of the pain and the shame of the missing leg, in spite of the betrayal of his friend and his beloved, life tasted too sweet to wish himself dead. He envied Niarl with every fibre of his body, but he could no longer envy the fallen.
October was nearing its end and down by the river the leaves on the willow trees faded to yellow. One after another they drifted down into the languid waters and were carried away like a fleet of so many tiny boats.
It was early evening when Déoric came down from the city into the fields at the foot of the hill. He found a suitable knoll of grass and managed to seat himself comfortably. The stump itched and he tried to keep himself from scratching by occupying his hands. He grasped the damp grass and let it glide through his fingers. A faint smell of beginning decay wafted up to his nose. The air was clammy and a massive grey wall of cloud across the western sky hid the sun.
It was a good day for wallowing in misery and for seeking out the spot where he had first kissed her. This was the very tree where they had sat. Of course it had been summer then and very hot, so they had taken off their shoes and amused themselves by trying to pick up pebbles with their toes. They had laughed and Fana had leaned her head against his shoulder and suddenly kissing her had been the only right thing to do. He had kissed her again since, though by no means whenever they met. It had never been fully clear whether they were friends or lovers, for Déoric couldn't be sure if the stable master would ever approve of him as a husband for his daughter.
But that was all in the past and there was no sense in dwelling on it. He wouldn't kiss her again - ever. Instead the image rose in his mind of her kissing Niarl, but he knew he mustn't contemplate such a thing or else he would begin to wish ill on his friend, and that would be unforgivable. So he sighed and dragged his mind back to the scene in front of his eyes.
A flock of pigeons took to the air. They cruised leisurely, rising and circling like one body. As they swooped and turned, the setting sun sank below the cloudbank. It caught the underside of their wings and reflected a white light. Another curve in their flight made the light wink out and showed dark bodies against the evening sky.
Déoric looked across the river to the horses that were grazing on the bank, two brown and a dappled grey. They moved easily, in quiet contentment and at one with the world. Ever since his return he had stayed away from horses as much as he could, for seeing them made him ache for a ride and resent every man who still had two feet to put into the stirrups. When he had watched Niarl mount his horse the previous day, he had been close to tears. Yet for some reason these three horses munching peacefully on the fading grass made him feel calm and almost happy. Their heads swayed gently while their jaws worked in a steady grinding motion. Every now and then one of them pawed the ground or gave a lazy swish with the tail.
And then, suddenly, he saw it. There in the twilight it became clear to him with a thrilling transparency like something he had known all along and yet never understood. He looked beyond the colour and texture of the fur and there were the shapes, the circles and ovals and curves that made up the outlines of the animals' bodies. They were so simple, so natural, so right, and then he understood, too, why those horses on the banners in the great hall did not look real, could not look real.
He watched with apprehension, fearing that this vision might fade, but it was as if a veil had been drawn away from his eyes and the clarity of his new discovery did not diminish. Then images began to fill his mind of other horses, horses prancing or rearing or galloping, and there, too, he saw the simple shapes that formed their silhouettes. If one could but capture that in a picture!
In this reverie he sat for a long while. At last, when then chill had soaked his clothes and the light was all but gone, he rose and braced himself for the way home.
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Second life for wounded trumpeter swan
Martha Jordan, a wildlife biologist, releases a rehabilitated trumpeter swan Wednesday into Lake Terrell near Ferndale. The swan was found shot Nov. 8 in south Everett and was nursed back to health at the Sarvey Wildlife Center in Arlington.
Jan Viney Paul DeBruyn, a biologist with the state Department of Fish and Wildlife, and wildlife biologist Martha Jordan prepare Wednesday to release a rehabilitated trumpeter swan into the wild near Ferndale. The swan was found shot Nov. 8 and was nursed back to health at the Sarvey Wildlife Center in Arlington.
Jan Viney A rehabilitated trumpeter swan flies across Lake Terrell near Ferndale after being released Wednesday.
The female swan, believed to be at least 15 years old, was nursed back to health at the Sarvey Wildlife Center in Arlington after being rescued Nov. 8.
The bird was released Wednesday at Lake Terrell near Ferndale by wildlife biologist Martha Jordan and state wildlife officials.
"She now has a chance to survive," said Jordan, a swan expert who lives in Everett.
The bird was found wandering through the parking lot of the Silver Lake Fred Meyer store. The swan was bloody and was later found to have at least three pieces of birdshot embedded in its chest muscles.
Shooting a trumpeter swan is illegal in the state. No arrests have been made for the shooting, Jordan said. It's not known exactly when or where the swan was shot, she said.
The swan was taken to Sarvey for treatment. It recovered well, to the point of getting antsy, Jordan said.
"She just had to get released because she really wanted to fly," she said.
The swan was found with a tracking collar dated Dec. 16, 2001. Records showed the swan was the very first one of about 245 tagged as part of a state study of lead poisoning of swans, according to Jordan.
Swans eat small pebbles to help them digest their food, and sometimes mistake lead birdshot on the ground for stones, she said. They eat them and die from the lead.
"We were losing several hundred trumpeter swans every year to the ingestion of lead shot," Jordan said.
In tests at Sarvey, this bird was found not to have any lead poisoning, she said.
Records showed the swan was determined to be at least 4 years old when tagged, which makes it at least 15. Swans live 20 to 30 years in the wild.
The bird was seen with a mate in a pond near the Fred Meyer store before it was found injured, and the mate was seen nearby when the female was in distress in the parking lot, Jordan said.
The mate is believed to have flown away, but the swan will likely find a new one at its new home, she said.
Lake Terrell has a large game refuge, reducing the chances of the bird ingesting stray birdshot.
"It has a big area that's closed to hunting," Jordan said. "There's a lot of food up there, and lot of swans come to the lake every night to roost."
When the bird took off, it looked strong, Jordan said.
"It was not a short flight; it was amazing to watch her go," she said.
Herald reporter Rikki King contributed to this story.
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- Born ca. 1721
- Revolutionary leader
- Cousin of Thomas Jefferson
- Attorney General of Virginia Colony
- Chaired first and second Continental Congress
- Died 1775
First to be called “Father of country”
Peyton Randolph was on the black list of patriots the British proposed to arrest and hang after he presided over the Continental Congress in 1775. Upon his return to Williamsburg, the volunteer company of militia of the city offered him its protection in an address that concluded:
"May heaven grant you long to live the father of your country –
and the friend to freedom and humanity!"
If his friend George Washington succeeded him as America’s patriarch, Randolph nevertheless did as much as any Virginian to bring the new nation into the world. He presided over every important Virginia assembly in the years leading to the Revolution, was among the first of the colony's great men to oppose the Stamp Act, chaired the first meeting of the delegates of 13 colonies at Philadelphia in 1774, and chaired the second in 1775.
Randolph was born 54 years before the Second Continental Congress – probably in Williamsburg in 1721 – the second son of Sir John and Lady Susannah Randolph. His first name was his maternal grandmother's maiden name, just as his older brother Beverley's was their mother's. The surname Randolph identified him as a scion of 18th-century Virginia's most powerful clan.
When Peyton Randolph was three or four years old, the family moved into the imposing wooden home on Market Square now known as the Peyton Randolph House. His father, among Virginia's most distinguished attorneys, Speaker of the House of Burgesses, and a wealthy man, died when Peyton was 16, leaving the house and other property for him in trust with his mother. The will also gave Peyton his father's extensive library in the hope he would "betake himself to the study of law." By then, he had a brother John and a sister Mary.
Study of law
Attentive to his father's wishes, Peyton Randolph attended the College of William & Mary, then learned the law in London's Inns of Court. He entered the Middle Temple on October 13, 1739, and took a place at the bar February 10, 1743. Returning to Williamsburg, he was appointed the colony's attorney general by Governor William Gooch on May 7, 1744. His father had filled the office before him, and his brother would assume the role after.
At the age of 24, Randolph was eligible for his inheritance. On March 8, 1746, he married Betty Harrison, and on July 21 (more than two years after his return from London), he qualified himself for the private practice of law in York County.
His cousin Thomas Jefferson may have shed some light on the delay in a character sketch he wrote of Randolph years later. "He was indeed a most excellent man," Jefferson said, but "heavy and inert in body, he was rather too indolent and careless for business."
He was, as well, occupied with myriad public duties. In 1747, he became a vestryman of Bruton Parish Church, and in 1748, he became Williamsburg's representative in the House of Burgesses, and in 1749, a justice of the peace.
Randolph returned to the house in 1752 as the burgess for the college of William & Mary and on December 15, 1753, the house hired him as its special agent for some “ticklish business” in London.
Soon after he arrived in Virginia in 1751, Governor Robert Dinwiddie had begun to exercise a right no governor before him had tried: the imposition of a fee for certifying land patents. For his signature, Dinwiddie demanded a pistole, a Spanish coin worth about 20 shillings. Regarding the fee as an unauthorized tax, Virginians objected, though to no avail.
Peyton Randolph was dispatched to England as the house's agent, with directions to go over the governor's head. But as attorney general, it was his duty to represent the interests of the Crown, of which Dinwiddie was the principal representative in Virginia. Randolph was attacking the right of the governor he was appointed to defend!
The governor refused to give Peyton Randolph permission to leave the colony, but he left anyway. In London, he had to answer for his action, and he was ousted from the attorney general's office. Dinwiddie had already named George Wythe as acting attorney general in Randolph's place.
Nevertheless, the London officials pointedly suggested that Dinwiddie reconsider his fee and said that they would have no objection to Peyton Randolph's reinstatement if he apologized. So he did, and subsequently resumed office soon after his return to Williamsburg.
French and Indian War
Reelected burgess for the College of William & Mary in 1755, he involved himself the next year in a somewhat ludicrous, though harmless, attempt to promote morale during the French and Indian War. With other prominent men, he formed the Associators, a group to raise and pay bounties for private troops to join the regular force at Winchester. George Washington, in charge of the fort there, wasn't sure what he would do with the untrained men if they arrived. Not enough came, however, to cause any inconvenience.
In 1757, Randolph joined the college's board, and he served as a rector for one year. He was reelected burgess for Williamsburg in 1761, and thus entered the phase of his life that thrust him into a leadership role in the Revolution.
Word of Parliament's intended Stamp Act brought Virginians and their burgesses into conflict with the Crown itself in 1764. Peyton Randolph was appointed chairman of a committee to draft protests to the king, the House of Lords, and the House of Commons maintaining the colony's exclusive right of self-taxation.
Disagreement with Patrick Henry
This responsibility put Peyton Randolph at odds with Patrick Henry, the Virginian most noted for opposition to the tax. At the end of the legislative session in 1765, Henry, a freshman, introduced seven resolutions against the act. Peyton Randolph, George Wythe, and others thought that Henry's resolutions added nothing to the colony's case and that their consideration was improper until the colony had a reply to its earlier protests.
In the final days of the session, after many opponents had left the city, Patrick Henry introduced his measures and made the famous speech in which he said “Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the First had his Cromwell, and George the Third . . .” prompting cries of treason from the remaining burgesses present. Peyton Randolph, though not yet Speaker, was presiding. When Speaker John Robinson resumed the chair the following day (May 30), Henry carried five of his resolves by a single ballot. A tie would have allowed Robinson to cast the deciding "nay." Jefferson, standing at the chamber door, said Peyton Randolph emerged saying, "By God, I would have given one hundred guineas for a single vote."
Patrick Henry left town, and the next day his fifth (and most radical) resolution was expunged by the burgesses who remained. Nevertheless, it was reprinted with the others in newspapers across the colonies as if it stood.
Speaker of the House of Burgesses
Peyton Randolph was elected Speaker on November 6, 1766, succeeding the deceased Robinson and defeating Richard Henry Lee. Peyton's brother John succeeded him as attorney general the following June. By now the brothers had begun to disagree politically; John's conservatism would take him to England in 1775 while Peyton joined the rebellion.
Leads rebel meeting at Raleigh Tavern
Another set of Patrick Henry's resolves, against the Townshend Duties, came before the House in May 1769. This time Peyton Randolph approved their passage, but Governor Botetourt did not. He dissolved the assembly. The "former representatives of the people," as they called themselves, met the next day at the Raleigh Tavern with Speaker Peyton Randolph in the chair. They adopted a compact drafted by George Mason and introduced by George Washington against the importation of British goods. Speaker Randolph was the first to sign.
When the new legislature met in the winter, the governor was pleased to announce the repeal of all of the Townshend Duties, except the small one on tea. Legislative attention turned to other, calmer affairs. The next summer Peyton Randolph became chairman of the building committee for the Public Hospital.
Closing of Boston Harbor troubles Virginia burgesses
Tempers flared again in 1773, when Great Britain proposed to transport a band of Rhode Island smugglers to England for trial. The implications for Virginia were troublesome, and the burgesses appointed a standing Committee of Correspondence and Inquiry with Speaker Peyton Randolph as chairman. The following May brought word of the closing of the port of Boston in retaliation for its Tea Party.
On May 24, 1774, Robert Carter Nicholas introduced a resolution drafted by Thomas Jefferson that read:
"This House, being deeply impressed with apprehension of the great dangers, to be derived to British America, from the hostile Invasion of the City of Boston, in our Sister Colony of Massachusetts bay, whose commerce and harbour are, on the first Day of June next, to be stopped by an Armed force, deem it highly necessary that the said first day of June be set apart, by the Members of this House, as a day of Fasting, Humiliation and Prayer, devoutly to implore the divine interposition for averting the heavy Calamity which threatens destruction to our Civil Rights, and the Evils of civil War; to give us one heart and one Mind to firmly oppose, by all just and proper means, every injury to American Rights; and that the Minds of his Majesty and his parliament, may be inspired from above with Wisdom, Moderation, and Justice, to remove from the loyal People of America, all cause of danger, from a continued pursuit of Measure, pregnant with their ruin."
The resolution was adopted.
House of Burgesses dissolved
Governor Dunmore summoned the house on May 26, 1774 and told Peyton Randolph: "Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the House of Burgesses, I have in my hand a paper published by order of your House, conceived in such terms as reflect highly upon His Majesty and the Parliament of Great Britain, which makes it necessary for me to dissolve you; and you are accordingly dissolved."
Continental Congress proposed
On May 27, 1774, a group of 89 burgesses gathered again at the Raleigh Tavern to form another “non-importation association,” and the following day the Committee of Correspondence proposed a Continental Congress. Twenty-five burgesses met at Peyton Randolph's house on May 30 and scheduled a state convention to be held on August 1 to consider a proposal from Boston for a ban on exports to England.
Peyton Randolph led the community to Bruton Parish Church on June 1 to pray for Boston, and soon he was organizing a Williamsburg drive to send provisions and cash for its relief. The First Virginia Convention approved the export ban and elected as delegates to the Congress Peyton Randolph, Richard Henry Lee, George Washington, Patrick Henry, Richard Bland, Benjamin Harrison, and Edmund Pendleton.
Signs will before departure for the First Continental Congress
Before he left Williamsburg on August 18, 1774, Peyton Randolph wrote his will, leaving his property to the use of his wife for life. They had no children. The property was to be auctioned after her death and the proceeds divided among Randolph's heirs.
Unanimously elected chairman of Continental Congress
When Congress convened in Philadelphia on September 5, Thomas Lynch of South Carolina nominated Peyton Randolph to be chairman. He was elected by unanimous vote. Delegate Silas Deane wrote his wife, "Designed by nature for the business, of an affable, open and majestic deportment, large in size, though not out of proportion, he commands respect and esteem by his very aspect, independent of the high character he sustains."
500 merchants sign trade ban against England
In October 1774, Peyton Randolph returned to Williamsburg to preside at an impending meeting of the house. Repeatedly postponed, it did not meet until the following June. Nonetheless, on November 9 Peyton Randolph accepted a copy of the Continental Association banning trade with England signed by nearly 500 merchants gathered in Williamsburg.
Disperses angry crowd gathered at courthouse in Williamsburg
Peyton Randolph was in the chair again at the Second Virginia Convention in Richmond on March 23 when Patrick Henry rose and made his "Liberty or Death" speech in favor of the formation of a statewide militia. In reaction, Governor Dunmore removed the gunpowder from Williamsburg's Magazine on April 21. Alerted to the theft, a mob gathered at the courthouse. Peyton Randolph was one of the leaders who persuaded the crowd to disperse and averted violence.
British put Randolph on rebel execution list
Peyton Randolph led the Virginia delegation to the Second Continental Congress in May 1775, and he again took the chair. General Thomas Gage, commander of British forces in America, had been issued blank warrants for the execution of rebel leaders and a list of names with which to fill them. Peyton Randolph's name was on the list. He returned to Williamsburg under guard, and the town bells pealed to announce his safe arrival. The militia escorted him to his house and pledged to guarantee his safety.
The Third Virginia Convention reelected its speaker to Congress in July 1775, and Randolph left for Philadelphia in late August or early September. By this time, John Hancock had succeeded him to its chair.
Died before Independence
About 8 p.m. on Sunday, October 23, Peyton Randolph began to choke, a side of his face contorted, and he died of an "apoplectic stroke." He was buried that Tuesday at Christ's Church in Philadelphia. His nephew, Edmund Randolph, brought his remains to Williamsburg in 1776, and he was interred in the family crypt in the Chapel at the College of William and Mary on November 26.
Peyton Randolph's estate was auctioned on February 19, 1783, following the death of his widow Betty Randolph. Thomas Jefferson bought his books. Among them were bound records dating to Virginia's earliest days that still are consulted by historians. Added to the collection at Monticello that Jefferson sold to the federal government years later, they became part of the core of the Library of Congress.
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What does the term "Flawed Democracy" actually mean?
Why are some of the world's successful democracies like France, Israel and India rated "Flawed Democracies" by the Economist Intelligence Unit?
First off the wikipedia page that you cite to is based on the Economist Intelligence Unit's Democracy Index ("EIUDI") which is not an academic source. The methodology used to assemble the report is not known, but that doesn't mean that it is not useful.
With that in mind from the EIUDI 2011 Report:
The EIUDI report uses five criteria to measure a country's democracy:
The countries that you are interested in scored as follows for these five categories:
France: France scores relatively low on "Functioning of government," "Political participation," and "Political culture."
Israel: Israel scores pretty bad on "Civil liberties," and sort of mediocre on everything else.
India: India scores bad on both "Political participation," and "Political culture."
So these countries have good governments, but there are certain issues typically related to the political culture that bring their overall score down and make them flawed democracies according to the index.
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Democracy, in this index in particular, mostly refers to participation in the governments system of elections. Not electioneering, laws or even policies that could inherently discriminate. It is a weak index and is only useful for investors looking for a predictable government to trade with, or to entrench a western cultural world view. Its virtually guaranteed that foreign exchange controls and this index are highly correlated.
Besides the methodology of collecting information being scientifically unsound, this is not an indicator of human rights, discrimination in the public space, respect for international law or even outright racist laws and policies. These can all be violated "democratically". But then again, this is the Economist, which has proven repeatedly to present a highly neo-liberal bias in it's political commentary (white-male-westerners will likely disagree).
Not a good index, not representative of the reality of the world.
Civil rights: The most important thing in a democracy is human and civil rights, as well as the rule of the law (ie not arbitrary decisions). With the Indefinite Detention Act voted in the USA, plus Guantanamo, non respect for international laws, drones strikes, the enforced role of the military in the civilian sector, police brutality... and so much more, the USA is way down in the rank of democracies.
Political culture: This is set upside down, a ridiculous way of evaluation. France gives exposure to all presidential as well as house representatives candidates: equal time to speak on TV, equal exposure in all aspects during the weeks before the elections. And that's how you can promote knowledge and awareness, which is culture. It is not at all this way in America. On the contrary, the US people are stuck with their two political parties system that represents the rich and powerful elite only, those capable of paying to be heard and known by the public. "Culture" in the US is only available on given topics, the point of views of the rich and interests of big business only. This only promotes ignorance. Actually, the USA is not democracy, it's plutocracy. It does not deserve a high rank. It has one of the lowest and most backwards political culture and system in the Western world, belonging to the beginning of the 20th century, no longer to the 21rst.
Corruption should be a major criterion to include in the index. There, France ranks very low. So does the USA.
Freedom of press is an aspect, but the actual representation of a greater diversity of points of views from all sides should be the criterion to include in the index. That's the means and obstructions to freedom of expression. It is huge in the USA with over 85% of all news coming out of 5 corporations linked to the CIA, defense conglomerate and corporate interests in general.
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If you are in reasonably good health, preferably over age 18, and have the necessary time and energy, you can run a marathon.
Things You’ll Need:
- Establish a solid fitness base. From a recommended 15 to 20 miles a week, gradually build to a peak mileage range of 30 to 40 miles.
- Minimize the stress on your body by doing other sports, such as swimming or biking, especially after a long or hard run.
- Practice the hard/easy principle. Intersperse stress and rest by taking days off to recover and adapt to marathon training.
- Increase gradually. Up your training mileage by no more than 10 percent a week.
- Run at least three long runs, from 18 to 20 miles.
- Stick with 20 miles. Most experts say there is no reason to go beyond this amount in training, and the risk of injury increases with longer runs.
- Consider speed work. Faster running isn’t necessary for first-timers, but it can be useful. Make sure to consult an expert, such as a coach.
- Practice racing. Use shorter events to practice pacing and drinking, and to test running gear.
Tips & Warnings
- Find a friend or training group. Consider a training partner and/or a group to help get you through the long runs.
- Practice mentally as well as physically. The marathon can take enormous concentration. Visualize yourself successfully running it in training.
- Remember to stretch. This is important to maintain flexibility and prevent injuries. Stretching before training is a bonus, but it’s especially important after running.
- Study the distance. Read books and articles, and talk to experienced marathoners.
- If you have any condition that would impair or limit your ability to engage in physical activity, please consult a physician before attempting this activity. This information is not intended as a
substitue for professional medical advice or treatment.
How to Train for Your First Marathon, | <urn:uuid:a59f8096-8b98-4e99-87c1-ca46ea4e3afa> | 2013-05-21T09:58:41Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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About the Project
When Bell University Laboratories at the University of Toronto wanted to design a multi-purpose point of care patient system, they recruited Healthcare Human Factors to ensure that the bedside terminal would meet the communication, information and entertainment needs of patients.
There are numerous potential advantages to providing technology at the bedside, including improved operational and clinical efficiencies, enhanced patient hospital stay experience, and reduction of adverse events by provision of educational content. Providing technology at the patient bedside may also allow for documentation of clinical information, increasing patient/clinician interaction, and consequently improving the quality of care delivered.
The team conducted a heuristic evaluation and usability study on the Bell bedside terminal prototype for patients, with a focus on the screen-flow and layout. Ten test participants interacted with the terminal in a simulated hospital room. The team provided recommendations based on the issues that were identified.
Wireframes were developed to improve and simplify screen designs
Original Subscription Screen Layout
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No recursive axiomatization of arithmetic is complete.
[...] Now one day while Joshu and another monk were standing together in the monastery, a dog wandered by. The monk asked Joshu, “Does a dog have Buddha-nature, or not?”
Whatever that is. So tell me—what did Joshu reply?
‘MU’? What is this ‘MU’? What about the dog? What about Buddha-nature? [...]
Mumon Has the Last Word
Has a dog Buddha-nature?
This is the most serious question of all.
If you say yes or no,
You lose your own Buddha-nature.
Excerpt from Douglas R. Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach - an Eternal Golden Braid (20th anniversary edition), Penguin Books, 2000, p233, p272 | <urn:uuid:40e9911a-04de-44a6-8861-ba4a40d88e46> | 2013-05-21T10:13:35Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Modders just love to give and receive comments about their creations. This is the best way to learn from others and improve one's modding. If you don't like the comments you are getting, you can remove the comments and also ban selected users from commenting your work. Also, if you want your mod to be ranked, you can activate the polling on selected images. Can you make it top of the Top Lists?! | <urn:uuid:fcf7c377-7293-49b8-bf7a-cb661573886c> | 2013-05-21T10:06:16Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Harare: Bangladesh's middle order carried them to a comfortable six-wicket win over Zimbabwe to end the host's surprise winning start in the Twenty20 tri-series on Thursday.
Nasir Hossain and Mahmudullah shared an unbeaten half-century partnership to take Bangladesh to 153 for 4 at Harare Sports Club, overhauling Zimbabwe's 149 for 8 with more than two overs to spare.
Mashrafe Mortaza took 2 for 28 as the Zimbabweans posted a below-par total after beating Bangladesh and South Africa in their opening two games in the three-team tournament.
Bangladesh\'s middle order carried them to a comfortable six-wicket win over Zimbabwe in the T20 unofficial series.
Opener Hamilton Masakadza (56) made his third half-century in three games for the Zimbabweans but had little support.
Hossain (41 not out) and Mahmudullah (29 not out) saw Bangladesh home with an unbroken 54-run stand after it was 99-4 in the 14th over with Mushfiqur Rahim's run out. | <urn:uuid:9a01d1cb-fe48-401c-a58a-80e8025723e2> | 2013-05-21T10:28:29Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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For future cellular communication systems, we have developed a code-division-multiplexing (CDM) transmission scheme based on cyclic shifted-and-extended (CSE) codes generated from a basic code with superior autocorrelation characteristics in order to realize seamless communication in a high-speed mobile environment. In this paper, an almost perfect autocorrelation sequence is used as the basic code and its autocorrelation values are zero except at zero and middle shifts. Moreover, we propose an elimination technique for interference caused by the correlation value at the middle shift. The proposed technique can realize perfect correlation characteristics within the cyclical shifted chips by adding a simple calculation at a receiver. The proposed scheme is evaluated by computer simulations in terms of the bit-error-rate performance for various code lengths of the basic code.
Vehicular Technology Conference, 2004. VTC2004-Fall. 2004 IEEE 60th (Volume:7 )
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Living the life that most can only dream of, Paris Hilton
enjoyed an afternoon in Sydney Harbour today (April 1).
After kicking off her day in a green maxi dress, the 31-year-old celebutante slipped into a sexy black and white printed monokini as she joined some friends for an end-of-the-day cruise aboard a luxury yacht.
During her day out, she tweeted: "Life becomes so much better when you decide not to care. Just live for the moment ... | <urn:uuid:edf15864-82dc-4255-8916-310ad3289b63> | 2013-05-21T10:36:09Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Biological species emerge and disappear in the natural course of evolution. There have been times in the Earth’s past when mass extinctions have occurred, causing a large number of species to disappear in a short time. This is generally believed to have happened due to external pressures on ecosystems, or sudden shocks and catastrophic events. We are currently going through such a period due primarily to the impact humans have had on the environment, and on plant and animal habitats. Some scientists believe that 50% of existing species may become extinct in the next 100 years.
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Formation – 2-4 players
Equipment – A bag of marbles and the appropriate number of shooters (large marbles), string or chalk if outdoors.
Game: Use the string (or if outdoors use the chalk), to make a circle large enough to hold the smaller marbles in it. Each girl then takes turns shooting into the ring to try to knock out the smaller marbles with their ‘shooter’. They must knock both the smaller marbles and their ‘shooter’ out of the ring to claim the marbles. The one with the most marbles when the circle is empty wins. You can let younger girls claim the small marbles knocked out of the ring even if their ‘shooter’ does not exit the ring, if you feel it is necessary. | <urn:uuid:8f1518c8-0295-4dd5-8ad7-bbeac20aec46> | 2013-05-21T10:28:56Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The scene is a bridge where a very depressed reporter is about to jump off (the end of the stage or a platform could be the end of the bridge). The reporter says that he has had it, can't get a big story, all washed up and wants to end it all. He calls out, one, two, swinging his arms when another person shows up and asks what is going on. He tells him his sad story which encourages him to tell him his; they both get depressed and decide to jump. They call out, one, two, and another person shows up. They each tell this person their sad story and he decides to jump to. Once more they call out One, ... Two, ... Three ! All the people jump except for the reporter who runs off saying; "I've got a great story, two people jump off the bridge. Wait until the boss sees this." A building could be used as well as a bridge. | <urn:uuid:0446efb2-8c3c-4827-8baf-29aed40e7bbc> | 2013-05-21T10:28:12Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Natacha DielsAlumni, Class of 2009
Natacha is a nomadic individual, finding solace and home in whatever physical environment she finds herself in. Born in LA (CA) (1981) and raised in Texas and New Mexico, she now lives in upper Manhattan, and has lived in New York longer than anywhere else in her life. Natacha embarks regularly on adventures of all sorts, but prefers those involving strange sounds and interesting people. She composes music, does contact improv with musicians and dancers whom she likes (and like her back), and works closely with other composers to ensure that they continue to write spectacular music for her. Natacha is especially fond of electroacoustic chamber music, and fulfills this love through work with Ensemble Pamplemousse. Pamplemousse is a group of uniquely talented, lovable, and creative musicians, whose primary goals are to break artistic borders and produce great music. Natacha also performs with Red Light, Tall Brown Boots, and On Structure, and sometimes attends the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU. She makes money by doing integration work (wiring studios), but hopes to one day be money-free, living on a self-sufficient artist's colony in upstate New York. | <urn:uuid:1bba1791-c7c4-4109-82ec-17bb1f73beac> | 2013-05-21T09:59:12Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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A Jacksonville man was jailed and charged with aggravated battery Saturday after witnesses told police he hit a woman in his car and then crashed through the concrete block wall of an apartment building.
When police arrived at Villas at Cedar Creek, 5821 San Juan Ave., about 11:30 a.m., they found the 34-year-old woman lying on the ground. The victim told police that Lawrence Dudley, 26, had tried to run her over.
She said that Dudley spotted her outside the apartment, pulled his vehicle into the complex where he does not live and confronted her. She said at first they had begun to argue and she felt threatened by him, so she pulled out a pair of scissors and threatened him back.
Dudley then left, but witnesses said that he soon returned, turning sharply back into the complex and toward the woman. They said he hit her and continued through a wall of one of the buildings.
After crashing, he simply backed out and fled, witnesses said.
The woman was taken to Orange Park Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries, which included a large cut on her forearm. Police later tracked Dudley down at his sister’s house on Jammes Road where he was arrested. | <urn:uuid:1baa5569-bd27-4a19-9710-292fc7e2073b> | 2013-05-21T10:21:09Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The Enola Gay in History and Memory
by Christine Girardin
With the 60th anniversary of the atomic bombings fast approaching, commemorative events and symposia are being planned across the globe in places as diverse, yet symbolically significant, as Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Tinian, London, Tokyo, Washington, and Los Alamos. While forthcoming books by historians Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, Gerard DeGroot, and Martin Sherwin and Kai Bird will advance the scholarly criticism of the bombings and show that viable alternatives for quickly ending the war without a U.S. invasion of the Japanese homeland existed, the bombs' defenders, including Gen. Paul Tibbets, the pilot of the Enola Gay, will also be out in force. Tibbets, echoing a refrain made popular by President Harry Truman, insists that he never lost sleep over that decision. Interestingly, the 1952 Hollywood film, Above and Beyond, on which Tibbets consulted, shows him unable to sleep on the night before the bombing of Hiroshima as he grappled with the profound consequences of what he was about to do. As historian Peter Kuznick explains, those consequences included not only the wanton slaughter of over 200,000 people in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the condemning of additional scores of thousands to a life of torment, but the inauguration of the nuclear era in a fashion that Truman and others understood could ultimately end life on the planet. The major mobilization this May around strengthening the Non- Proliferation Treaty during the review meetings at the United Nations is designed to reverse the spread of nuclear weapons and the further increase in nuclear weapons states to make sure that that dire prospect is never realized. Japan Focus introduction.
TITUSVILLE -- There were 12 men onboard the B-29 that dropped the world's first atomic bomb in war, annihilating 70,000 people that day in Hiroshima, Japan, and killing about 130,000 more in the aftermath. Historians still disagree about whether the bombing was necessary to prevent the loss of more lives in battle, but the man who flew the aircraft on Aug. 6, 1945, remains proud of his role in the closing days of World War II.
Col. Paul Tibbets with the Enola Gay on Tinian prior to takeoff for Hiroshima
"I regretted it was necessary, but to me it was necessary to do it. I tell everybody I never lost a night's sleep over it," said retired Gen. Paul W. Tibbets, who is telling tales of those heady days and meeting fans this weekend at the 28th annual Tico Airshow in Titusville.
Col. Paul W. Tibbets stands next to the B-29 Superfortress "Enola Gay" which he piloted over Hiroshima, Japan, Aug. 6 1945, to drop the world's first atomic bomb in combat.
Tibbets, 90, makes about a dozen appearances a year, promoting his book and talking about his place in military history. But the Enola Gay, and it's payload, Little Boy, weren't always something he talked about.
For the first 10 or 12 years after the war, nobody wanted to revisit the Manhattan Project and the two atomic bombs it produced -- at least not publicly. Everyone was just so tired of killing that talking about it was shunned, Tibbets said.
It was when the tide of public and scholarly opinion began to turn against the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that Tibbets went on the offensive. Ever since, he's talked about the special B-29 developed under his supervision to carry Little Boy, and details about the bombing run into Japanese skies.
That bombing has been ranked as the most important news event of the 20th century, and one that changed humankind forever, said Peter Kuznick, director of the Nuclear Studies Institute at American University in Washington, D.C.
As a scholar who believes it probably wasn't necessary to drop the atomic bomb to end WWII, Kuznick said the ultimate lesson about the event is that once such terribly effective weapons are developed, they are extremely likely to be used.
Moral debates and a scientific awareness of potential long-term problems won't be enough to prevent their use, just as they weren't enough to stop President Harry S. Truman from giving the order to drop the bomb.
"He knew it wasn't just another bomb. He knew it wasn't just a bigger, more terrible bomb. He knew that he was beginning a process that could ultimately mean the annihilation of the human species," Kuznick said.
Proof of the bomb's destructive power is displayed in old photographs on the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum's Web site. Survivors closest to the blast, a little more than half a mile from the explosion's center, suffered severe burns. One woman is shown with the pattern of her kimono burned into her back. A Japanese child later wrote that the bomb turned people instantly into ghosts.
Despite the atomic bomb's aftermath, Tibbets said humankind may again witness nuclear destruction. But this time, it's difficult to know who's the enemy.
"There's gonna be some people who play with it. They're doing it now," he said.
Christine Girardin wrote this story for the News Journal, Daytona Beach, Florida, March 10, 2005. | <urn:uuid:74581009-3a2a-42a8-aa5e-39304863da08> | 2013-05-21T10:20:08Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Jewish World Review Feb. 6, 2001 / 24 Shevat, 5762
Speaking of Iraq, Iran and North Korea, the president said: "States like these, and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world." To respond to this threat with "indifference," said Bush, "would be catastrophic." And then he added: "And all nations should know America will do what is necessary to ensure our nation's security. . . . I will not stand by as peril draws closer and closer. The United States of America will not permit the world's most dangerous regimes to threaten us with the world's most destructive weapons."
What these words would seem to mean is that Bush intends to engage the United States in a war of considerable length, with large aims, rooted in a fundamentally new understanding of American policy. Bush's War of Sept. 11 may be compared, in type if not in magnitude, with the Cold War. In that half-century conflict, the United States understood that communist regimes under the control of Moscow or Beijing were inherently threatening to America and to the liberal, democratic, free-market world that America wished to lead. The Cold War was not a war against one regime or another; it was a war against a whole class of regimes -- importantly: regimes, not nations or peoples. And it was a war, ultimately, not against the actions of such regimes but against the very existence of them.
This is the import of Bush's statements, taken at face value. They are an announcement that the president has concluded that the United States, after Sept. 11, can no longer accept the existence of rogue regimes that are hostile to America (and hostile, as were communist regimes, not in tactics or politics but in fundamental values: they are "evil," hostile to freedom itself); that are actively seeking, with increasing success, weapons of mass destruction; and that support terrorist movements eager to inflict destruction on America. If necessary, the United States will act to destroy such regimes. By naming the three most offending regimes that fit this description, Bush intended to indicate deadly seriousness.
Foreign affairs sophisticates were quick to assure that Bush had merely been striking a pose. "What we heard in the 'Axis of Evil' speech was a bargaining chip," soothed a British correspondent, Martin Walker. "By appearing to threaten three targets, Bush can appear to make a reasonable compromise with his allies by conceding to settle for one."
The sophisticated response is, as is remarkably often the case, wrong. Bush meant what he said on Jan. 29. His speechwriters wrote the "axis of evil" line -- but he approved of it, and he still approves of it. In the aftermath of the speech, some senior administration officials backed away from the phrase; Bush was quick to express his displeasure at this, and to stop it. On Monday, speaking to troops at Elgin Air Force Base in Florida, Bush made a point of repeating and reinforcing the "axis of evil" concept: "Terrorist states and terrorist allies are an axis of evil, seeking weapons of mass destruction. But I've put them on notice."
George Bush's predecessor accepted a foreign policy modus vivendi that tolerated the existence of regimes and groups actively inimical to America on the grounds that they posed no vital danger. It was not so much a case of live and let live as live and let them kill a few of our Marines.
Bill Clinton met Saddam Hussein's refusal to verifiably destroy his weapons of mass destruction by accepting Hussein's expulsion from Iraq of U.N. weapons inspectors. He met murderous attacks by al Qaeda on two U.S. embassies in Africa and an American warship with the most token efforts at reprisal and capture. He shrugged at Iran's nuclear program and dealt with North Korea's nuclear and missile programs by agreeing to deals that remain uncompleted and unverified. In Clinton's last month in office, his secretary of defense, William Cohen, reported that "at least 25" nations had developed, or were trying to develop, weapons of mass destruction and delivery systems for such weapons.
The proliferation president left behind a vastly more dangerous world for America -- one in which the old modus vivendi could no longer be accepted. It is certainly possible that Bush, like Clinton, might have failed to grasp this new reality. But then there was Sept. 11, and Bush understood.
The most telling words in Bush's State of the Union speech were not "axis of evil." They were these: "This campaign may not be finished on our watch, yet it must be and it will be waged on our watch." Those are the words of a man who sees himself as a wartime president in a war of historic proportions, and they were not spoken for | <urn:uuid:60cdcfd8-3061-4468-965a-e60ca881fb50> | 2013-05-21T10:14:14Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Matrix-Variate Dirichlet Process Mixture Models
Zhihua Zhang, Guang Dai, Michael Jordan ; JMLR W&CP 9:980-987, 2010.
We are concerned with a multivariate response regression problem where the interest is in considering correlations both across response variates and across response samples. In this paper we develop a new Bayesian nonparametric model for such a setting based on Dirichlet process priors. Building on an additive kernel model, we allow each sample to have its own regression matrix. Although this overcomplete representation could in principle suffer from severe overfitting problems, we are able to provide effective control over the model via a matrix-variate Dirichlet process prior on the regression matrices. Our model is able to share statistical strength among regression matrices due to the clustering property of the Dirichlet process. We make use of a Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm for inference and prediction. Compared with other Bayesian kernel models, our model has advantages in both computational and statistical efficiency. | <urn:uuid:d459f136-c864-4eb7-a831-92ae8b4a11da> | 2013-05-21T09:58:49Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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This past summer, I read a New York Times wedding announcement that made my eyes pop...
A couple named Annie Ma and Jacob Weaver were BOTH changing their last names to Ma-Weaver. What a cool idea!
Honestly, when Alex and I got married, it didn't even occur to me to change my name. Alex's last name is Williams, but I kept Goddard. My name is part of my identity, and because we got married when I was 30, my last name was already part of my career. When we have parties or send letters, we call ourselves the "Goddard-Williams household." My one concern was whether our future children would have a different name from mine, but when Toby came along, we just gave him a hyphenated last name.
My sister changed her name to Kalanithi when she got married. She and her husband sometimes sign cards "Team Kalanithi," which I think is really cute.
Have you seen The Last Name Project? Men and women write short posts explaining their decisions to change, keep or combine their names. (This one was especially fascinating!)
So, I'm curious: Will (or did) you change your last name after getting married? Or hyphenate or combine them? (If you are going to change your name, the site Hitch Switch helps you do it easily.) What's the last name you were born with? Do you like the way your partner's name sounds with yours? What about your future kids' last names? I'd LOVE to hear your thoughts...
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To become rich and famous, you need good looks, taste, fashion sense, style and/or talent...right?
Do your clothes need to fit?
Standards may have changed in the last half century.
Here is who we look up to today. Are they more interesting than your neighbors?
Alfred E. Neuman grew up.
I'm including crappy drawings to show that some people are so ugly that it's hard to make them weirder looking than God already made them.
This guy looks like a Segar character - except without the charm.
If you were rich, would you dress like the homeless Vietnam vet that waits on the freeway exits?
If this isn't the fault of the hippies, then what is your theory of how standards changed? | <urn:uuid:edc18e1f-c5ca-43ab-916b-74f13f1c8333> | 2013-05-21T10:19:52Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Introduction / History
Jews represent the oldest monotheistic religion of modern times. Because of the uniqueness of their history and culture, all Jews have a strong sense of identity. Persecution of and discrimination against the Jews have been the historical reasons for their migrations and settlements around the world.
The Jews of Europe arrived on the continent at least 2,000 years ago during the early days of the Roman empire. Since then, they have been a significant influence in the history and culture of Europe. Much of what is considered "Jewish" today finds its roots among the European Jews.
One of the unique features among European Jews is the distinction between the Ashkenazic Jews and the Sephardic Jews. The word Ashkenaz is derived from a Biblical word for the larger Germanic region of Europe. Therefore, Ashkenazim Jews are those whose ancestry is linked to that area. This group traditionally speaks the Yiddish language, which is a German dialect that has Hebrew and Slavic elements. The word Sephard was the name used by Jews in medieval times for the Iberian peninsula. Sephardim Jews, then, are the descendants of the Jews who lived in Spain or Portugal prior to expulsion in 1492 by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella. Sephardim also have a distinctive language called Ladino, or Judeo-Spanish. This is a dialect of Castilian Spanish with Hebrew and Turkish elements.
What are their lives like?
During the last few centuries, Eastern Europe had the largest Jewish population in the world. National attitudes toward the Jews were ambivalent, depending on the usefulness of the Jewish inhabitants to the nations' rulers. Anti-Semitism was prevalent and frequently led to either persecution or expulsion. The Holocaust of World War II was the climax of Jewish persecution in Europe, leading to the extermination of six million Jews. Many Eastern European countries lost the majority of their Jewish population in this tragedy.
As a result of the Holocaust, thousands of Jewish survivors and their descendants have emigrated from Eastern Europe to Israel, the United States, or Western Europe. The recent memories of the Holocaust as well as the centuries of discrimination and persecution play a strong part in modern Jewish identity. European Jews are strong supporters of "Zionism," a revival of Jewish culture and support of Israel as a national, secure, Jewish homeland.
Since the dissolution of the Soviet empire, former Soviet Jews no longer live under oppressive government rule. Anti-Semitism is still a concern, but Jewish life has been revitalized in recreated countries like the Ukraine. Synagogues are functioning and kosher (traditional, acceptable) food is once again available.
The Jewish emigration from Eastern Europe is cause for concern among the remaining aged Jewish population. As the older Jews die, the Jewish community dwindles. Many of the younger Jews are unlearned in their Jewish identity. They are either non-observant or have assimilated into the prevailing culture. However, strong efforts are being made to maintain a Jewish presence and clarify their identity. Jewish schools are being opened and Judaic studies are being promoted in universities. Jewish hospitals and retirement homes are being built. Community centers also promote cultural events such as the Israeli dance, theater, Yiddish and Hebrew lessons, and sports.
Western Europe now has the largest concentration of European Jewish residents. The Netherlands received a large influx of Sephardic Jews from Portugal in the late 1500's, and another contingent of Ashkenazic Jews after World War II. They have been very influential in the development of Dutch commerce. England's Jews are concentrated in the Greater London area and have been politically active for over 100 years. They have been avid supporters of Zionism and solidly committed to the settlement of Diaspora Jews in Israel. A large percentage of England's Jews are affiliated with the traditional Orthodox synagogues. Italy's Jewish population is primarily Sephardic due to its absorption of Spanish Jews in the 1500's. France's Ashkenazic community received 300,000 Sephardic Jews from North Africa in recent decades.
What are their beliefs?
For religious Jews, God is the Supreme Being, the Creator of the universe, and the ultimate Judge of human affairs. Beyond this, the religious beliefs of the Jewish communities vary greatly. European Jews are extremely diverse in religious practice. The Ashkenazic Jews are the most prevalent, representing the Orthodox, ultra-Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform movements. The unusual and adamantly traditional Hasidic movement was born in Poland and has gained a strong following in the United States and Israel. The Sephardic denomination is similar to the Orthodox Ashkenazic, but is more permissive on dietary rules and some religious practices. Each Jewish denomination maintains synagogues and celebrates the traditional Jewish holiday calendar. While most European Jews are religiously affiliated, there is a significant minority which is not religious.
What are their needs?
The Jews have a wonderful understanding of their connection with the Abrahamic covenant. However, they also have a history of rejecting Jesus Christ as Messiah, the one who has fulfilled that covenant. Pray that as the Gospel is shared, it will not be viewed as anti-Semitic, but rather as the fulfillment of what God promised through Abraham centuries ago.
Prayer PointsView Jew, Eastern Yiddish-Speaking in all countries.
* Ask the Lord of the harvest to send forth loving Christians to work among the Jewish communities.
* Ask the Holy Spirit to grant wisdom and favor to the missions agencies that are focusing on the European Jews.
* Pray that the Jewish people will understand that Jesus is the long-awaited Messiah.
* Ask the Lord to soften the hearts of the Jews towards Christians so that they might hear and receive the message of salvation.
* Pray that the Lord Jesus will reveal Himself to the Jews through dreams and visions.
* Pray that God will grant Jewish believers favor as they share their faith in Christ with their own people.
* Pray that strong local churches will be raised up in each Jewish community.
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Recent births at Bartlett Regional Hospital:
On July 16, 2010, a daughter, Heidi Elizabeth Mesdag, weighing 7 lbs. 1 oz., to Mandy and David Mesdag.
On Aug. 5, 2010, a daughter, Izabel Falene Nelson, weighing 7 lbs. 9 oz., to Falen Ashley Mills and Keith Joseph Nelson of Kake.
On Aug. 9, 2010, a daughter, Petunia Sue Logan, weighing 7 lbs. 11 oz., to Alisa Amber Tripp and William Hart B. Logan.
On Aug. 9, 2010, a son, Logan Michael Womack, weighing 8 lbs. 7 oz., to Nancy Ruth Womack and Tyler G. Womack.
On Aug. 10, 2010, a son, Carter Vance Howell, weighing 7 lbs. 11 oz., to Denise Kay Vance and Nicholas Ray Howell of Wrangell.
On Aug. 12, 2010, a son, Skylar Lee Hayes, weighing 9 lbs. 7 oz., to Traci Joy Ferguson Hayes and Saffron Wylder Hayes.
On Aug. 14, 2010, a daughter, Alaina Linda Joy Friedrichs, weighing 8 lbs. 1 oz., to Samantha Joy Derr and Michael David Friedrichs.
On Aug. 15, 2010, a daughter, Violet Claire Riley Young, weighing 7 lbs. 8 oz., to Brook Lynn Riley and Jesse Steven Young.
On Aug. 16, 2010, a daughter, Hannah Ellen Mesdag, weighing 8 lbs. 4 oz., to Julia Mary Mesdag and Mark Aaron Mesdag.
On Aug. 17, 2010, a daughter, Kyla Bliss Belcourt, weighing 7 lbs., to Jenny Lea Trucano and Levi Jacob Belcourt.
Recent births at the Juneau Family Health and Birth Center:
On Aug. 15, 2010, a daughter, Zara Verona Ritter, weighing 8 lbs. 10 oz. to Jake and Katy Ritter.
Recent births at the Alaska Native Medical Center:
On August 1, 2010, a son, Trevyn Reese-Mytchel Wheaton, weighing 5 lbs. 5.6 oz., to Christina Wheaton.
Recent home births with Inside Passage Midwifery:
On Aug. 1, 2010, a daughter, Sadie Frances Curtis, weighing 7 lbs. and 3 oz., to Linda and Charles Bud Curtis.
FYI birth and wedding announcements may be e-mailed to firstname.lastname@example.org. Parents whose baby was adopted or born outside Juneau should send in the full name of the baby and parents, sex of the baby, birth date (if known) or arrival date home, city of birth, weight (pounds and ounces) and the parents' city of residence.
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A testosterone test measures the blood level of the male sex hormone testosterone. Testosterone, which plays an important role in sexual development, is produced mainly by the testes in boys and in much smaller amounts by the ovaries in girls. Testosterone is also produced by the adrenal glands in both girls and boys.
In young boys, testosterone levels are normally low. As puberty approaches — usually between the ages of 10 and 14 — the pituitary gland (a pea-sized gland near the base of the brain) secretes two hormones (luteinizing hormone, or LH; and follicle-stimulating hormone, or FSH) that work together to stimulate the testes to make testosterone.
Increased testosterone production is what causes boys to develop deeper voices, bigger muscles, and body and facial hair. It also helps the testes produce sperm, and it plays a role in speeding a boy's growth in height during puberty.
Two separate assessments may be performed as part of a testosterone test:
total testosterone, which measures the entire amount of testosterone in the body, including both the amount bound to proteins that help transport the hormone through the bloodstream and free testosterone
free testosterone, which measures only the testosterone that's not attached to proteins
The doctor may order one or both tests. However, because sexual development involves many other hormones, a more complete picture can often be obtained by performing other tests at the same time, including an LH or FSH test. For example, low levels of testosterone can be due to a problem with the testes' production of testosterone or to the pituitary gland not making enough of the hormones that stimulate the testes to produce testosterone.
Why It's Done
Doctors may order a testosterone blood test if a boy appears to be entering puberty earlier or later than expected. High levels are associated with precocious (early) puberty, while low levels may indicate a delay in sexual development. In girls, high levels can be associated with the appearance of masculine characteristics, such as facial hair.
The test may also be used in either boys or girls to check for damage or disease of the testes, ovaries, adrenal glands, or pituitary gland, or to check for steroid use.
In teens and adults, testosterone levels can help doctors evaluate fertility or menstrual problems and sexual function.
No special preparations are needed for this test. The doctor may want to perform the test in the morning, when testosterone levels usually are highest.
On the day of the test, it may help to have your child wear a short-sleeve shirt to allow easier access for the technician who will be drawing the blood.
A health professional will clean the skin surface with antiseptic, and place an elastic band (tourniquet) around the upper arm to apply pressure and cause the veins to swell with blood. Then a needle is inserted into a vein (usually in the arm inside of the elbow or on the back of the hand) and blood is withdrawn and collected in a vial or syringe.
After the procedure, the elastic band is removed. Once the blood has been collected, the needle is removed and the area is covered with cotton or a bandage to stop the bleeding. Collecting blood for this test will only take a few minutes.
What to Expect
Collecting a sample of blood is only temporarily uncomfortable and can feel like a quick pinprick. Afterward, there may be some mild bruising, which should go away in a few days.
The blood sample will be processed by a machine and the results are commonly available after a few days.
The testosterone test is considered a safe procedure. However, as with many medical tests, some problems can occur with having blood drawn:
fainting or feeling lightheaded
hematoma (blood accumulating under the skin causing a lump or bruise)
pain associated with multiple punctures to locate a vein
Helping Your Child
Having a blood test is relatively painless. Still, many children are afraid of needles. Explaining the test in terms your child can understand might help ease some of the fear.
Allow your child to ask the technician any questions he or she might have. Tell your child to try to relax and stay still during the procedure, as tensing muscles and moving can make it harder and more painful to draw blood. It also may help if your child looks away when the needle is being inserted into the skin.
If You Have Questions
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What Other Parents Are Reading
Financial Planning for Kids With Special Needs
As friends worry out loud about how they'll pay for their kids' college education, the parents of children with special needs have worries that extend beyond the few years it takes to get a college degree:
- How will we pay for the special therapies our child needs now?
- Who will pay our child's expenses once he or she becomes an adult?
- Where will our child live and who will oversee his or her care after we're gone?
These daunting questions and fears stop many parents in their tracks. But creating a plan can ease anxiety, say financial planners. Some of the issues you need to confront are financial: How do you set aside money for your child without affecting his or her government benefits? And some are emotional: Who would understand your child's needs if something were to happen to you right now?
Here are 10 steps to planning your child's financial future. Some are simple, some are challenging; some cost nothing and some require paying legal fees. Get started on some of these now, so you'll have peace of mind down the road.
1. Create a Special Needs Trust
A special needs trust is the most important part of your child's long-term financial plan. This is where you can put money that you save, that others give your child as gifts, or that you receive from an insurance settlement without worrying that these funds will interfere with your child's eligibility for federal benefits like Medicaid and Supplemental Security Income (SSI).
Even if you're unable to pay into a trust right now, set one up anyway. This way, you can make the trust the beneficiary of your life insurance policy and your estate, ensuring that those assets don't get passed to your child when you die. Why wouldn't you want your child to be the beneficiary of your estate? Because showing more than $2,000 in assets could make your child ineligible for federal benefits such as SSI.
2. Write a Will
A will specifies what will be done with your assets after your death. By writing a will, you make sure that your assets are left to the special needs trust and not to your child. Without a will, a probate court judge could name your child as a beneficiary, which could make your child ineligible for federal benefits (see above). The will is also where you can specify a guardian who will take care of your child.
When you have a child with special needs, a will should not be a do-it-yourself endeavor. Hire a lawyer who works specifically for people with special needs and is aware of your state's disability laws. Once the documents are drafted, have your lawyer keep one and then give copies to any executors or guardians named in the will.
Costs for this legal paperwork, including the will, trust, and powers of attorney, start at $1,500 and go higher depending on where you live. Contact the Academy of Special Needs Planners or the Special Needs Alliance for a referral to an attorney in your state.
3. Name a Guardian
A guardian is the person who will care for your child if you were to die before he or she becomes an adult. In choosing this person, consider how much time you now spend tending to your child's needs. Who can handle that type of commitment? Who has bonded with your child? Who has the patience, understanding, and other personality traits necessary to deal with the day-to-day responsibilities of raising your child?
Once you pick someone, ask the person if he or she can and will accept that responsibility (even though you hope it will never be necessary). And talk about how this commitment will likely stretch beyond when your child turns 18.
4. Name a Trustee
A trustee is the person who will be responsible for managing the special needs trust after your death. It can be a family member, a friend, or even a bank or lawyer. The trustee ensures that the money in the trust is spent only on your child with special needs and only on services that you've specified or that are appropriate to your child's needs. The trustee also supervises how the money in the trust is invested. The person who is caring for your son or daughter (the guardian) cannot spend any money in the trust without the trustee's approval.
And a word on trustees and guardians: They often are not the same person, and some financial advisors recommend that they never be the same person. By separating these roles, you ensure a "checks and balances" system for your child's future needs.
5. Build Your Savings
Parents of children with special needs quickly learn that just because a child needs a certain treatment or therapy doesn't mean that your school system will offer it or insurance will cover it. This is where personal savings become so important. Start putting aside whatever you can each month — no amount is too small — to cover these extra expenses. Just make sure you never put this money in your child's name.
Savings also can help pay for a special needs advocate, an expert in special education who can help you navigate the paperwork, programs, and laws that affect what services your child qualifies for. Special needs advocates can save parents money in the long run by using their expertise to ensure that kids get all the services they're entitled to from their local school district.
To find an advocate in your area, contact your local school district, organizations focused on your child's disability, or local colleges with special needs programs for a referral.
6. Write a Letter of Intent
Preparing for your child's financial future is important. But hand-in-hand with that is making sure that your child's everyday needs will be met should anything happen to you. That's where a Letter of Intent comes in. Is your child's daily routine very important? Write it down and be as detailed as possible. The same goes for your child's daily, weekly, and monthly schedules.
Create a list of contact information for your child's physicians, therapists, and other medical support people as well as current medications and their dosages and schedules. Are there people you don't want around your child or activities to be avoided? Write that down too.
And then once a year, update the letter. This is not a formal legal document, so you can draft it yourself. Keep a copy wherever you have copies of your will. And make sure that your child's appointed guardian has a copy too.
7. Plan for Your Child's Independence
When your child is about 16, start thinking about where he or she will live as an adult. In most states, people with special needs are 21 or 22 years old when they become ineligible for education services through the local public school system.
So start thinking: Will your child remain living with you? If so, will support personnel be needed during the day when he or she used to be at school? Are day programs for adults with special needs available in your area? If independent living is the goal, start investigating options in your community such as shared living, group homes, or apartments. Once you find a place you like, get on the waiting list if there is one.
8. Apply for Guardianship or Power of Attorney
Once children turn 18, they're considered adults in the eyes of the law. This gives your child the right to make medical and financial decisions. If he or she is not capable of this or needs your guidance, consider assuming legal guardianship or the less-restrictive power of attorney and health care proxy for his or her financial, legal, and health care affairs. This way you maintain the same supervision and control you had over these as you did when your daughter or son was younger.
Experts advise parents to hire an attorney to help with this process. This will ensure that you have all the powers you would need to assume control of your adult child's health care in the event of an emergency. If your child cannot or won't consent to you assuming power of attorney, the matter will likely be decided before a probate court judge.
9. Educate Family Members
Grandparents, aunts, uncles, and other loved ones might want to help out with expenses. But explain to them the importance of not putting anything in your child's name. Have a family meeting and explain why grandpa can't leave anything to your child in his will or name your child beneficiary on his life insurance policy. The same goes for gifts of savings bonds, stocks, or cash: nothing should ever be in your child's name.
And if your son or daughter will not attend college, there is no need for a 529 savings plan. Those funds can only be used for post-secondary education, not private schools, tutoring, or therapies needed before age 18.
If loved ones want to leave something to your child, they can. But tell them to name the special needs trust as the beneficiary to ensure that your child holds no assets of his or her own.
10. Need Help? Find an Advisor
If all of this is too overwhelming, a certified financial planner or special needs financial planner can help. Ask your human resources department if your company offers this service as part of your benefits package. Or check the Academy of Special Needs Planners or Special Needs Alliance websites for a referral to a professional in your area.
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Retinal hemorrhage occurs when the blood vessels in the retina get damaged or ruptured, leading to abnormal bleeding. The retina, which is composed of rods and cones is the region of the eye responsible for sensitivity to light, and vision. The retinal vein and artery, along with a dense network of capillaries, are responsible for transmitting the blood supply to the retina. When these blood vessels are damaged, due to any reason, this affects the blood supply to the retina, which in turn leads to a decrease in visual acuity. Diabetic retinopathy is the leading cause of blindness in people aged between 20 and 65.
The dense network of cells in the retina is extremely sensitive, and can be damaged with even a slight trauma.
The causes due to which this damage might occur include:
- High blood pressure
- Forceful blows in the head region
- Child abuse in infants
- Improper development of blood vessels in infants born prematurely
- Blurred vision
- Spotted vision
- Lines in the field of vision
- Blind spots
- Distorted vision
- Progressive vision loss
- The disease is diagnosed by an ophthalmologist, who uses an opthalmoscope to examine the internal structure of the eye.
- Another method that is commonly used to detect the abnormalities in the blood vessels is a fluorescein angiography test, in which a fluorescent dye is injected into the patient’s bloodstream, after which photographs are clicked to view the blood vessels.
- In some cases, the physician might also order for a blood test to be performed.
- The disorder is self-limiting in most patients, with more than 85% cases healing on their own.
- The most common treatment for retinal hemorrhages is laser treatment, in which a laser beam is used to remove the affected blood vessels.
- If the disease is caused by some underlying medical condition like diabetes or hypertension, the treatment focuses on eliminating that disorder.
- Injection of anti-VEGF drugs like Avestin has been found to be effective in the treatment of hemorrhages associated with the growth of new vessels.
- The administration of various nutritional and herbal supplements like antioxidants, omega-3-rich foods, antioxidant vitamins, zinc, lutein, pine bark extract, grape seed extract, etc. has also been found to be effective in improving the symptoms of the disease.
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A Dovahbear walks into a bar in Skyrim for some honey mead. Stop me if you've heard this one. It ends in a round of bear versus dragon, and I don't think there's a battle I want to see more than that.
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The term "Cool Japan" first appeared in 2002, and it was a localized take on the UK's "Cool Britannia" idea of the 1990s, when the country's art and music were making splashes internationally. The idea of "Cool Japan" was centered on the country's position as a rising soft power superpower. Soft power is the culture influence countries have, while hard power is the influence from political, military, or economic power.
Sometimes Japan seems utterly oblivious to the fact that the outside world is interested in its culture—both pop and traditional. "Cool Japan" is the government realizing that and trying to make it profitable.
In the Newsweek piece, it's apparently argued that the "Cool Japan" idea—that Japan can export its pop culture—has not quite panned out as planned. Japan isn't exporting as much of its own culture, whether that be comics or cartoons, as, say, America is. The piece also asks if "the world's Japan boom" is over. This is an odd question because, as I mention below, "the world's Japan boom" that's been going on for a very long time.
The reaction online in Japan has ranged from, eh, whatever, to trashing one of the piece's authors, Dan Grunebaum.
But wait. Saying "Cool Japan" is over isn't new. Japan scholar and writer Roland Kelts said as much last year.
The real issue here is the concept of "Cool Japan" itself. The term is vague. What's cool? Who decides what's cool? Is old stuff cool? Or just new stuff? Isn't cool subjective?
The notion also seems to imply that before Cool Japan, Japan wasn't cool. It's to imply that the country was kind of dorky—that the entire country was one big middle-aged salaryman in a navy suit. It wasn't. It never was. That was the Western stereotype. Japan didn't change. The stereotype did.
Subjective or not, Japan was cool well before 2002, and it's had international soft power for a very long time—whether that's Nintendo games in the 1980s or Japanese art in the 1880s. To view Japan as an emerging soft culture power is to completely ignore the impact Japan has had on the West for many, many years.
Growing up, like so many kids in the 1980s, I played Japanese video games and watched Japanese cartoons. Ninjas (née ninja) weren't things that only existed in Japan, but in the popular imagination. And it wasn't just the kids of the 1980s who grew up with a steady diet of Japanese pop culture. The generations before were exposed to Japanese culture through martial arts, monster movies, cartoons, and samurai flicks. The world did take notice.
(Obviously, Japan's culture influence was muted during World War II. However, in the early 20th and late 19th centuries, Japanese art and fashion influenced Europe.)
But by simply focusing on the soft power of anime, manga, and video games, you can overlook the influence that, for example, the Japanese approach to manufacturing has had over the decades—namely, how super reliable Japanese cars have directly increased the quality of automobiles around the world. This was a revolution that made high quality cars affordable to the masses. This was a very powerful way of thinking. It was also cultural.
Dubbing Japan "cool" in the early 2000s is missing the point: Japan has been cool for long before that. Japanese soft power and influence has been so dominant for so long that people don't look at, for example, Nintendo and immediately think Japan. Yet, Nintendo is a very Japanese company. Nintendo, like other Japanese brands, have become global. So when people say the Japanese game industry is totally screwed, they need to either leave out Nintendo or overlook it entirely.
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Spunky housewife Jung Hwa (Uhm Jung Hwa) was a dance club legend back in the day, but that's all in the past. She's now a mother and married to Jung Min (Hwang Jung Min), an unsuccessful lawyer who suddenly turns into the toast of the town after he rescues someone. Jung Hwa gets the chance to relive her dreams when she's selected to join a sexy girl group, which she does without telling her family. Jung Min, meanwhile, runs for mayor and becomes the hot favorite. But how will he - and the public - react when Jung Hwa's secret occupation is revealed?
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By Zorianna Kit
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki and his Studio Ghibli have, under their belt, some of Japan's biggest global anime movie successes, including "Princess Mononoke" and "Spirited Away," which won an Academy Award in 2003.
Far less known, until now, was Miyazaki's son Goro, who worked as a landscaper for years so as not to compete with his famous father, but later designed the Ghibli Museum in Tokyo and debuted as a director in 2006 with "Tales from Earthsea."
Now, for the first time, the pair has teamed up on a film, with Hayao, 72, as co-writer and 46-year-old Goro as director, overcoming a contentious relationship stretching back years.
"From Up on Poppy Hill," opening in U.S. movie theaters on Friday, is set in Japan in 1963 and focuses on a high school romance threatened by a secret.
Goro Miyazaki talked to Reuters recently, via a translator, about working with his father, a man he was once estranged from.
Q: Umi, the female protagonist in "Poppy Hill," has been raising flags for a decade for her deceased father. While yours is very much alive and well, did Umi's longing for her dad stir up anything for you when it comes to your own famous father?
A: The common thread between myself and the character is that the dad was always out working and was never really around. I'd be lying to you if I didn't say that there were times when I thought that maybe my dad should have died a little earlier, just as the character did. I feel like I can really empathize with a child's longing for an absent father.
Q: Now that you're working together, how closely was your father involved in the making of "Poppy Hill?"
A: He said, "I will take care of the planning and the screenplay and everything else is your responsibility." That was the agreement on the roles. But once we began work, he would come around, wander into the room and instead of talking to me directly, he would start looking at the artwork on the walls and mutter suggestions on how to do things a little bit this way, a little bit that way. He never came and talked to me directly.
Q: Did you have to accept his suggestions?
A: More often than not, his advice really hit the mark. So begrudgingly, I often had to take it.
Q: You seem like reluctant working partners. How long does this date back to?
A: Shortly after I started making my first film, I had a huge fight with my father. For a long time we didn't talk. He was opposed to the idea of me directing a film. He felt that it would be ridiculous for somebody with no experience to, all of a sudden, go into directing. He would tell me about how much he had to struggle in his days to get to that place where he could have the opportunity.
Q: What helped you reconcile?
A: Having my (now four-year old) son - his grandson - allowed us to start talking again.
Q: Has your last name been a help or hindrance in your career?
A: Both. The opportunity I received to make this film obviously had something to do with the family name. But once you make the film and it goes out into the world, that name becomes a heavy burden.
Q: Because you're judged by the standards set by your father's work?
A: I think that is true. But it all comes down to how I deal with it. Until recently, I was very jaded about that whole thing, but now (I've turned the corner) and the reason for that actually ties in to my next project, which unfortunately I can't disclose at the moment.
Q: How similar are you and your father?
A: We're both short-tempered and also a little bit dark when it comes down to it, way down deep.
Q: How are you not alike?
A: This may be partly due to the different worlds that we were born into and the different generations, but Hayao Miyazaki is an idealist. He thinks in terms of how people should be, how the world should be.
Q: Where does that stem from?
A: That comes from the fact that he grew up in this post-war period where things were changing and people had this strong ideal about how society should behave. Those of us who were born during a time when that society was much more structured already, we can't share that same sentiment.
Q: This post-war period is exactly the time period "Poppy Hill" is set in. Why do you think he wrote it for you to direct?
A: It was a time that most Japanese look fondly upon as the one time things were just right. It's after the war and the ravages. It's that point in history where Japan was able to enjoy a brief moment of peace.
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Backers of same-sex marriage in Oregon say they'll likely put the issue on the ballot in 2014. Basic Rights Oregon
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by Tom Hanlon
Is your application distributed ? How have you chosen to deal with the implications of this distribution? In this session we will introduce and explore zookeeper. Originally developed at Yahoo and used by hbase, zookeeper is a wonderful tool. Zookeeper is straightforward and provides an interface allowing for easy configuration and use.
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Search of Calabasas landfill fails to find gun used in teen’s slaying
After two days of searching a landfill, Los Angeles police and community volunteers have abandoned efforts to find the gun used in the slaying of a well-liked 17-year-old El Camino Real High School soccer player, officials said.
Francisco Rodriguez was gunned down in Winnetka as he stepped into his frontyard after a girl knocked at his door.
Two suspects have been arrested: Elizabeth Ibarra, 19, who police believe lured the victim outside, and Jason Schumann, 24, who allegedly fired the shots from a vehicle.
Schumann has been charged with murder and is being held on $2-million bail. Ibarra has not been charged but remains in jail on a probation violation. She had recently served a jail sentence for forgery.
Officers and volunteers scoured the Calabasas Landfill, examining hundreds of tons of garbage but did not find the handgun that investigators believe Schumann tossed in the trash after the Jan.11. shooting.
The killing shocked students at the high school and members of the tight-knit soccer team, which played a game hours before the slaying. Police said a romantic conflict may have sparked the shooting.
Sources say Ibarra had met Rodriguez at a party and came to know him while Schumann was serving a jail sentence last summer.
-- Richard Winton
Photo: Police and volunteers sift through rubbish Wednesday looking for the gun used in the slaying of Francisco Rodriguez.
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On this page, you can read short excerpted stories from people who have been affected by the Asian tsunami disaster. Some of them had little chance to be published, by having them on this site we want to help them to be heard by public.
Drowned in Train
As most of you know, my homeland of Sri Lanka was hit by a devastating tsunami yesterday, December 26th. What you may not know, is that it was my mother's home town of Galle was one of the hardest hit towns. As of now, I have personally lost an uncle, aunt, and cousin.
They were all on a train bound to Galle from the capital city of Colombo, where they had gone for a weekend getaway. The train was swept out to sea when the tsunami hit. My oldest cousin, Padmal, who was also on the train, managed to swim to safety, however, my uncle, aunt, other cousin, and thousands more that were on that train, were not so lucky. They have already found the body of my cousin, Taja...she was only 17 years old and a budding artist. They have yet to find the bodies of my uncle and aunt...and many more Sri Lankan that have been either washed out to sea or buried under rubble of destroyed buildings.
The man who saved his village
Victor Desosa, headman of the village of Galbokka, a man who likely saved thousands of lives narrates the story. He said that he had been a merchant marine sailor for 23 years, until 1987.
"In the summer of 1982, our ship was outside the harbor of Valparaiso, Chile, and most of the crew had gone into town," he said. "While I was sitting there, the ship began to shake. I ran to the deck, looked at the city and saw the buildings swaying."
"I prayed to God! What will happen to the crew? Of course, what was happening was the earthquake that killed so many people, but none of the crew. This terrible thing made a great impression on me."
"On December 26, I was down by the ocean, talking to a friend, and I saw that the water was shaking. I thought, there is some problem in the middle of the sea." Then, Desosa said, the water level began to rise.
"I did not know exactly what was happening, but the feelings I had in Chile were back and I knew we had to get out of our village. I began to hoot and shout to people to run inland, to run up on the hills."
And as the people closest to the shouting headman ran, they spread the word. Soon the entire village and surrounding populous were scrambling uphill. It was a blessing they did, for hard on their heels, the 20-foot wall of water that claimed so many others smashed into their village.
"We got to the high ground, and I thanked God," Desosa said. "I am so grateful I was able to use my experience gained so long ago to such good purpose now." | <urn:uuid:4458db11-ffc1-4fa5-91eb-01549bb11b49> | 2013-05-21T10:27:45Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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To introduce a new generalized paradigm or approach of looking at global issues and events.
Everyone needs a paradigm or a generalized map to look at the world we are living in. With the end of the Cold War, the old paradigm of looking at the world in terms of ideologies and alliances no longer work, and following that, it has been very hard for people to look at the world in generalized terms.
Our educational website is targeted mainly at teenagers and adults who have Internet access and are aware of contemporary global affairs and conflicts. These people should have Internet access to be fully updated on the recent happenings in the global scene as well as being able to consolidate the myriad of different opinions that are being posted on the Net. Equipped with these, they are able to come up with their own perspectives on various issues.
Since a conflict or event usually has multiple paradigms that converge upon it, the Internet is an appropriate medium for the target audience to broaden their perspectives on a single issue. Our target audience is also preferably literate and fluent in the English Language as it is the principal language of our website. | <urn:uuid:c8d68425-204e-40d8-b01e-ad0287c8e797> | 2013-05-21T10:13:19Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The Polska Ekstraliga w hokeju na lodzie is the top hockey league in Poland. At the moment there are seven clubs, all of them in the southern part of the country, most of them clustered in Upper Silesia. There have been Polish hockey championships since 1927.
Normally the league has eight clubs, and each team plays a 42-game season. The top four enter the playoffs. Two best-of-seven semifinals and a best-of-seven final determine the playoff champion. There is also a best-of-seven series for bronze. The lower four clubs engage in best-of-seven playdowns to determine which one will be relegated to the Polish second-tier, called 1 Liga. Last year Podhale Nowy Targ, historically the winningest club in Polish hockey, was relegated.
This year, with the withdrawl of one club partway through the schedule, the system has been revised. Come playoff time, the top club will receive a bye to the semifinals. The other six clubs will compete in three quarterfinals. I presume this means there will be no relegation and the top 1 Liga club at the end of the season (probably Podhale) will become the eighth Ekstraliga club next year.
There is also the Polish Cup (Puchar Polski), which involves the Ekstraliga and select 1 Liga clubs. Competition begins in September, and goes through a group stage, quarter finals, semifinals, and ends with the final game in late December. The present competition began in 2001. Sanok won last year.
The Ekstraliga clubs are:
KS Cracovia. Founded in 1923. Nine-time Polish champions. The gap between their 1949 and 2006 championships beats the NY Rangers' 54 years. Their rink, the Sztuczne lodowisko im. Adama "Rocha" Kowalskiego holds 2,514 fans. Colours: white, red and black.
JKH GKS Jastrzębie. Orange, black and white. Founded 1963. They play at the Jastor, with seating for 1,986. Jastrzębie-Zdrój was formerly a spa town before coal mining took over, and was the site of pro-Solidarity demonstrations in 1980.
GKS Katowice. Six-time Polish champions, mainly in the 1960s. Yellow, green and black. They play at the Spodek or Satelita, which is shaped like a UFO and can hold 11,500.
TH Unia Oświęcim. Founded 1946. Eight-time Polish champions, including a run of seven years, from 1998 to 2004. Blue and white. The Hala Lodowa MOSiR can hold 3,500.
KH Sanok. Last year's league champion. They wear red, white and blue, plus a lot of black. Arena Sanok seats 3,000. Sanok is in the southeast corner of Poland. [Wojtek Wolski of the Washington Capitals has signed with Sanok.]
KH Zagłębie Sosnowiec. Five-time Polish champions. Green, red and white. They play at Stadion Zimowy (capacity 4,000) in Sosnowiec.
GKS Tychy. Founded in 1971, they were 2005 league champs. Krzysztof Oliwa and Mariusz Czerkawski started out with Tychy. Stadion Zimowy w Tychach holds 2,700. Colours: green, black and red. Tychy is in Upper Silesia.
KS Toruń HSA started the season but withdrew in October. | <urn:uuid:7a29a123-a549-46db-a745-051db8bf4a30> | 2013-05-21T10:26:46Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The Fedora 11 release showcases a feature set that shows the strength and diversity of Fedora contributors' interests in the evolution of open source.This new version contains several of the major features on the foundations established in previous releases, showing that the open source development model can provide a compelling mixture of steady advancement and rapid innovation.
The Fedora Project aims to release a new complete, general-purpose, no-cost operating system approximately every six months. The development cycle is purposely restricted to six months to encourage rapid innovation and collaboration between thousands of Fedora project contributors worldwide. Fedora now has almost 29,000 project members.
Fedora 11 's feature set includes substantial improvements in virtualization, including an upgraded interactive console, a redesigned virtual machine guest creation wizard and better security with SELinux support for guests. There are also numerous desktop improvements such as automatic font and content handler installation using PackageKit, better fingerprint reader support, and an updated input method system for supporting international language users.
The foundational work for Fedora 11's kernel mode setting feature was completed as part of Fedora 10, which supported a small subset of ATI Radeon-based video cards. The feature is designed to shorten boot times and present a cleaner interface to users by letting the kernel do the work of initially displaying a graphical screen during the startup process. Additionally, the release supports a much broader selection of ATI cards, as well as many Intel and Nvidia cards. Similarly, the PackageKit feature for font installation builds directly on a design that premiered in Fedora 9 and was refined further in Fedora 10. Fedora 11 also includes many brand-new features, such as the ext4 file system and the MinGW cross compilation system.
The following are major features for Fedora 11:
Automatic font and mime-type installation - PackageKit was introduced in Fedora 9 as a cross-distro software management application for users. The capabilities it offers thanks to integration with the desktop became more visible in Fedora 10, where it provided automatic codec installation. Now in Fedora 11, PackageKit extends this functionality with the ability to automatically install fonts where needed for viewing and editing documents. It also includes the capability to install handlers for specific content types as needed. Some work is still being completed to provide automatic installation of applications.
Volume Control - Currently, people using Fedora have to go through many levels of mixers in different applications to properly set up sound sources. These are all exposed in the volume control on the desktop, making for a very confusing user experience. PulseAudio allows us to unify the volume controls in one interface that makes setting up sound easier and more pain-free.
Intel, ATI and Nvidia kernel modsetting - Fedora 10 provided the first steps by a major distribution into using the kernel modesetting (KMS) feature to speed up graphical boot. We indicated at the time that we would be adding greater support for additional video cards as time went on. KMS originally was featured only on some ATI cards. In Fedora 11, this work is extended to include many more video cards, including Intel and Nvidia, and additional ATI as well. Although not fully complete, we have increased enormously the video card coverage of the KMS feature, with more to come.
Fingerprint - Extensive work has been done to make fingerprint readers easy to use as an authentication mechanism. Currently, using fingerprint readers is a bit of a pain, and installing/using fprint and its pam module take more time than should ever be necessary. The goal of this feature is to make it painless by providing all the required pieces in Fedora, together with nicely integrated configuration. To enable this functionality the user will register their fingerprints on the system as part of user account creation. After doing so, they will easily be able to log in and authenticate seamlessly using a simple finger swipe. This greatly simplifies one element of identity management and is a great step in the evolution of the linux desktop.
IBus input method system - ibus has been rewritten in C and is the new default input method for Asian languages. It allows input methods to be added and removed dynamically during a desktop session. It supports Chinese (pinyin, libchewing, tables), Indic (m17n), Japanese (anthy), Korean (libhangul), and more. There are still some features missing compared to scim so testing is strongly encouraged and reports of problems and suggestions for improvements welcome.
Presto - Normally when you update a package in Fedora, you download an entire replacement package. Most of the time (especially for the larger packages), most of the actual data in the updated package is the same as the original package, but you still end up downloading the full package. Presto allows you to download the difference (called the delta) between the package you have installed and the one you want to update to. This can reduce the download size of updates by 60% – 80%. It is not enabled by default for this release. To make use of this feature you must install the yum-presto plugin with yum install yum-presto.
Ext4 filesystem - The ext3 file system has remained the mature standard in Linux for a long time. The ext4 file system is a major update that has an improved design, even better performance and reliability, support for much larger storage, and very fast file system checks and file deletions. It is now the default filesystem for new installations.
Virt Improved Console - In Fedora 10 and earlier the virtual guest console is limited to a screen resolution of 800x600. In Fedora 11 the goal is to have the screen default to at least 1024x768 resolution out of the box. New installations of F11 provide the ability to use other interface devices in the virtual guest, such as a USB tablet, which the guest will automatically detect and configure. Among the results is a mouse pointer that tracks the local client pointer one-for-one, and providing expanded capabilities.
MinGW (Windows cross compiler) - Fedora 11 provides MinGW, a development environment for Fedora users who wish to cross-compile their programs to run on Windows without having to use Windows. In the past developers have had to port and compile all of the libraries and tools they have needed, and this huge effort has happened independently many times over. MinGW eliminates duplication of work for application developers by providing a range of libraries and development tools already ported to the cross-compiler environment. Developers don't have to recompile the application stack themselves, but can concentrate just on the changes needed to their own application. | <urn:uuid:8d2165b2-a606-41d6-bbcf-30fa608e1142> | 2013-05-21T10:08:36Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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meaningful and confidential subject lines in messages using pgp
Mon, 14 Feb 2000 11:25:35 +0900
thanks for the feedback.
johanw> Isn't it much easier in this case to choose a fixed subject
johanw> line like above and add anotrher header like
johanw> X-Encrypted-Subject: with contains the subject, encrypted with
johanw> RSA or El Gamal? A mail reader can then ask for the password
johanw> once (or more if more secret keys are used), decrypt all these
johanw> subject lines and do it completely transparant.
here are some of my current thoughts about this idea:
-assuming this were implemented, where does the information about
which algorithm is used to encrypt the field value of
X-Encrypted-Subject go? it could be part of the field value, but then
you'd have to define and parse the field value. i hope you would agree
that deciding on a fixed algorithm for the purpose of protecting subject
contents is not desirable.
-if you want to sign the contents of the meaningful subject, where does
the signing information go and what is the signature algorithm and
format? i think this is essentially the same problem mentioned above.
placing a meaningful subject field value in the headers of a mime
entity which is then (optionally signed and) encrypted seems like a
good way to protect the contents as well as make use of the encryption
and signature framework which openpgp defines. (as to exactly what
field name should be used, this is still something i am wondering
what do you think?
p.s. btw, nice page on sci-fi and physics ;-) | <urn:uuid:45877892-0bb6-4c00-aea4-11ee80fce0da> | 2013-05-21T10:27:18Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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[IronPython] Unit testing, IDEs and release dates
giles.thomas at resolversystems.com
Fri Dec 9 04:00:48 PST 2005
Thanks to everyone for their thoughts on unit testing. There is indeed
a PyUnit, it's part of the standard Python distribution (under the
package name unittest). However, it uses three packages that haven't
been implemented in IronPython yet - traceback, os and types - and
modifying it to remove these dependencies looks like more work than
writing a new (simpler) test framework.
Thanks also to everyone for the thoughts on IDEs.
A question for the development team - I appreciate that it's much too
early for anything precise, but when do you expect to be able to get a
1.0 release - in the sense of, will it be years or months from now?
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At 10:36 AM 6/25/2006, Santiago del Castillo wrote:
>Hi, thanks for answering!
>I am using MyISAM tables.
>So, based in your answer i assume that is usual to have a lot of HD
>Writing, isn't it?
Only if your application is writing to the database. If you have no
application running, then MySQL should have no activity. So you must have
some sort of application writing or reading from the database.
What does "Show ProcessList" display? (Run MySQL.Exe and run this command.)
This will tell you which user is connected to the database and what sql
command is executing. Post the results here so we can look at it.
>>At 06:55 PM 6/24/2006, Santiago del Castillo wrote:
>>>Hi, is usual to have a lot of HD writing on a MySQL server where (according
>>>to mytop) there are between 800 and 1200 queries per second? my MRTG is
>>>showing a lot of HD Writing and i wanted to know if it's usual. The database
>>>is growing about 11 MB every 3 minutes.
>>>FYI, I don't have any log-type (binlog, queries log or slow queries log)
>>Well, if this keeps up, you better run out and buy more hard drives.<g>
>>Are you using InnoDb or MyISAM tables?
>>You can run "Show ProcessList" to see what task is currently executing on
>>the MySQL server.
>MySQL General Mailing List
>For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql
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Your Toddler 18 - 36 Months
- Your 18-24 month old: Your toddler learns new things every day! He or she may carry books around and pretend to read, recognize favorite books, and develop a routine with a caregiver that involves reading.
- By the age of 2, children have a constantly growing vocabulary of between 1,000 and 2,000 words. He or she may use words in simple combinations such as "all done" or "pick up."
- Your 24-36 month old: Your toddler will be speaking in sentences, and will ask and answer simple questions. He or she will imitate sounds, actions, and words in books, as well as label parts of illustrations. Your toddler will enjoy hearing his or her favorite stories read aloud repeatedly and will enjoy reading being a part of daily routines.
- By age 3, children often demonstrate obvious enjoyment of reading, and will label items in illustrations. Toddlers at this age may also begin creating scribbles that resemble printing.
Tips for reading with your toddler:
- Discuss the books that you read with your child. Ask who, what, where, when, why, and how questions.
- Your child will enjoy the chance to answer questions like "what is this animal?" or "what do you think will happen next?" Be sure to give your child enough time to answer questions before telling them the answer or moving on. Counting to ten silently in your head will help you to wait long enough for a response. This will show your child that you have respect for their developing thinking and speaking skills.
- Choose books that show characters doing things that your toddler does too (eating, playing, going to bed).
- Keep books on low shelves so that your toddler has easy access to them.
- Choose non-fiction books about colors, shapes, animals, families, etc.
- Teach your toddler how to handle books correctly and carefully.
- Share stories with repetitive text and encourage your child to repeat familiar parts along with you.
- Recite rhymes and sing songs during daily routines.
Books for Toddlers:
- Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin
- Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault
- Freight Train by Donald Crews
- From Head to Toe by Eric Carle
- Gingerbread Baby by Jan Brett
- My Car by Byron Barton
- Planes by Byron Barton
- The Little Red Hen by Bryon Barton
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
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|Art Form||Oil on canvas|
|Keywords||Body Self-Image, Human Worth, Narrative as Method, Obsession, Religion, Sexuality, Time|
|Summary||A naked young Tahitian woman standing in a lagoon tries to cover her genitals with a kerchief as she becomes uncomfortably aware of the presence of an ominous-looking clothed spirit figure kneeling behind her. The lush exotic landscape punctuated with phosphorescent foliage, fauna, looming tree, serpentine forms, and the outline of a barely discernible thin hand representing the artist adds to an atmosphere of mystery and malevolence. Below the artist's signature and date in black on the canvas is inscribed in orange the title, "Parau na te Varua ino."|
Gauguin's trademark style of applying a wide selection of unconventional colors to produce lush scenes of life in exotic Tahiti is on display in this painting. The bright reds and pinks indicating the lagoon contrast with the deep blues and blacks that depict the depth and texture of the tropical forest. This paradise and woman strongly suggest Eve in the Garden of Eden and the associated themes of innocence, evil, judgment, sin, and human vulnerability. Contrast Dürer's humanist conception of Eve's body and more traditional Western representation in the engraving, The Fall of Man (Adam and Eve).
The trance-like posture of the kneeling figure in "Words of the Devil" is reminiscent of the black-hooded spirit of the underworld in Gauguin's Spirit of the Dead Watching (Manao tupapau). The resemblance of the models, use of phosporescence, questions of shame, modesty, anxiety, and especially whether this entire scenario is meant to exist in imagination or actuality are also applicable to both paintings.Indeed, according to this painting, what are the words of the devil? Munch's Puberty makes yet another especially provocative juxtaposition. All of the paintings cited here invite discussion of the stories they evoke. All are annotated in this database, with links to their on-line images.
|Location of Original||National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.|
|Alternate Source||The Art of Paul Gauguin (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1988)|
|Miscellaneous||This painting was done in 1892.|
|Annotated by||Bertman, Sandra L.|
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As of the censusGR2 of 2000, there were 1,707 people, 521 households, and 365 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 205.3/km² (532.3/mi²). There were 594 housing units at an average density of 71.4/km² (185.2/mi²).
There were 521 households out of which 28.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 50.5% were married couples living together, 15.5% had a female householder with no husband present, and 29.9% were non-families. 25.3% of all households were made up of individuals and 12.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.50 and the average family size was 2.98.
In the CDP the population was spread out with 18.5% under the age of 18, 8.7% from 18 to 24, 36.7% from 25 to 44, 21.8% from 45 to 64, and 14.3% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 38 years. For every 100 females there were 158.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 175.6 males.
The median income for a household in the CDP was $37,857, and the median income for a family was $46,071. Males had a median income of $31,507 versus $26,250 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $18,478. About 12.6% of families and 17.4% of the population were below the poverty line, including 41.4% of those under age 18 and 12.8% of those age 65 or over. | <urn:uuid:8e6a852f-6b73-4129-8433-668be4f80476> | 2013-05-21T10:27:59Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The 2012 Open Doors Report on International Educational Exchange, released today, finds that the number of international students at colleges and universities in the United States increased by six percent to a record high of 764,495 in the 2011-12 academic year, while U.S. students studying abroad increased by one percent, according to an Institute of International Education news release.
Here are some interesting finds from the report, per the release:
- This year, international exchanges in all 50 states contributed $22.7 billion to the U.S. economy.
- There were increases in the number of students from 12 of the top 25 places of origin, including Brazil, China, France, Indonesia, Iran, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Spain, the United Kingdom, Venezuela and Vietnam.
- Numbers declined from several major sending countries, including India (down four percent), South Korea, (down one percent), and Japan (down six percent).
- In the 2010-11 academic year, 273,996 American students studied abroad for academic credit, an increase of one percent—an all-time high.
- Five percent more students studied in China and 12 percent more students studied in India than in the prior year.
- The United Kingdom remains the leading destination for American students, followed by Italy, Spain, France and China—which remained the fifth largest host destination for the fifth year.
- Study abroad by American students has more than tripled over the past two decades.
About the report: The Open Doors Report is published by the Institute of International Education, the leading not-for-profit educational and cultural exchange organization in the United States. IIE has conducted an annual statistical survey of the international students in the United States since 1919, in partnership with the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs since 1972. | <urn:uuid:e0758a69-a7a4-4a24-a78c-d55e7da6f5e5> | 2013-05-21T10:10:47Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Name Change ^^
Could an admin/mod hook me up with a new name please?
Since you did take away the point system, I can't change it myself and I really wanted to change it ;-;
If you could, I would like it to be Dark Mercenary.
(Period included please)
"We all Have to Die Someday, I'm just lucky I got to say my goodbyes before my term was up."-Randy Darke (R.I.P) | <urn:uuid:6d896bd8-3cce-4c62-b9d3-fe5193765fd3> | 2013-05-21T10:21:20Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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I wonder how hard it would be to eliminate setuid (including POSIX capabilities) entirely?
[ find -perm 4000 ... ]
Looks like most setuid binaries could be replaced by services (e.g. over D-BUS), running in an environment that is known and trusted. e.g. chsh, ping, mount (for cases where setuid is used), passwd, at.
su and sudo could be replaced by ssh (or telnet) localhost.
I'm not quite sure why chromium-browser-sandbox needs to be setuid, but presumably a slightly improved seccomp mode would fix that. | <urn:uuid:73662c3c-a499-4c51-b666-7b950a6da53b> | 2013-05-21T10:06:12Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Couple held after baby’s kidnapping
Johannesburg - A six-month-old baby boy kidnapped from his parents' home in Bezuidenhout Valley, Johannesburg, was found safe on Thursday, Gauteng police said.
The child was “found in good health in Fordsburg”, Lt-Col Lungelo Dlamini said.
Police arrested the Pakistani couple who allegedly kidnapped him and allegedly tried to slit his nanny's throat on Tuesday. The couple had rented a room in the family's house.
Dlamini said the couple would face charges of kidnapping and attempted murder when they appeared in the Johannesburg Magistrate's Court within 48 hours.
E-News Channel Africa named the child as Revelation Jones and reported that police found the couple following a tip-off from the public. The nanny was recovering in hospital.
Earlier on Thursday, Dlamini said: “The father received an sms late yesterday (Wednesday) saying that they (the kidnappers) were demanding R100 000 for the baby”.
The couple had three children of their own, and were apparently expecting a fourth.
According to a report in The Star on Thursday, the father, Ifeanyi Jones, pleaded with the couple to return his child.
“Please bring my son back. You say you are Christian, and this baby has done nothing to you.”
Jones claimed the couple had tried to poison their food.
“I think now that their motive was to come and do harm.” - Sapa | <urn:uuid:c6d75ac1-ce41-4762-aad1-680d85f7a0b9> | 2013-05-21T10:14:27Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Socket communication problem
sandy.dunlop at gmail.com
Wed Oct 24 21:42:49 CEST 2007
I'm new here, and fairly new to Python. I have been playing around with
Python and started having a look at socket IO. I have written a script
that communicates over a network to a server which is written in C.
While trying to get this working, I have been running into a problem
where the Python client appears to hang when it should be receiving data
back from the server.
After a few successful exchanges of data, the server sends 3605 bytes to
the client, which the client receives. The server then sends 2 bytes to
the client, and the client doesn't get them. A client program written in
C# does not have this problem.
I have narrowed the problem down as far as I can, and have two small
scripts, client and server, and a data file they read from to know what
they should be sending and receiving. The problem can be replicated
using them within a few milliseconds of running them.
At first, I thought this may be caused by Nagel's algorithm, so I
disabled it explicitly using:
s.setsockopt(socket.SOL_TCP, socket.TCP_NODELAY, 1)
This made no difference.
Can anyone point out what I'm doing wrong here?
You can get the scripts and the 7K data file here:
Or all together in a zip file here:
Thanks in advance,
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Math is all about problem solving. One of the best ways to help children learn math is to present them with a problem in which they have to devise their own strategies to find the solution(s). There is usually more than 1 way to solve math problems and children need the opportunity to discover shortcuts and their own algorithms to determine the appropriate solution, they should also justify their solution(s).
The following math word problems are specific for children in the sixth grade and are divided into the main math cagegories: Number Concepts, Patterns and Algebra, Geometry and Measurement, Data Management and Probability. Children should be involved in problem solving activities every day. Problems for second grade students should be read to them. Students should also be able to describe why their solutions work or how they know it's the right solution. My favorite question to children is 'how do you know'. When they have to explain how they arrived at their answer, you immediately know the learning that has taken place.
Patterns and Algebra
Kelly's classroom organized an e-Pal club. 11 people joined the club. Each of of them sent an email to each of the members of the club. How many emails were actually sent? How do you know? Ticket sales for the bake sale were underway. Four people bought tickets on the first day of sales, twice as many people bought tickets on the second day and each day afterwards twice as many people bought tickets. How many tickets were sold after 16 days?
Data Management and Probability
Pet Parade: Mr. James has 14 cats, dogs and guinea pigs. What are all the combinations he could have?
How many different types of pizza can you make with the following toppings: pepperoni, tomatoes, bacon, onions and green peppers? Show your answer.
Sam bought 8 ball caps, one for each of her eight friends, for $8.95 each. The cashier charged her an additional $12.07 in sales tax. She left the store with a measely $6.28. How much money did Sam start with?
Geometry and Measurement.
Watch your favorite television show from beginning to end. Time each of the commercials and determine the percentage of commercial time for the entire show. Now determine the percentage of time the actual show is. What is the fraction of commercials?
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Last time I did any maths was A-Level (some time ago!).
This is a programming/layout problem where I need to display 7 items across a page, with 6 gaps between them. I have a fixed width, but need to determine values of x and y that are integers where x > y.
This 'feels' like something I could plot on a graph, hence solve with calculus but I need a pointer in the right direction. Ideally I'd like to solve it programatically but I need an understanding of how to solve it first. Further down the line, I'd like to be able to vary the number of items to get different values. | <urn:uuid:56c79652-fc22-4e2e-9d28-352ef7bc7342> | 2013-05-21T10:00:29Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Playing with Equations to Solve Problems
Date: 09/16/2003 at 10:48:13 From: Mara Subject: To state the geometric property of an equation I need to give the geometric property common to all lines in the family x - ky = 1 I know that the answer is that all lines in this family have an x-intercept at x=1 but I am totally clueless about showing why this is the case. At first I thought that using the double-intercept equation (x/a) + (y/b) = 1 would work but I couldn't get it in the correct form. Then I tried to solve for x and y and got x = 1 + ky and y = (-1/k) + (-x/k) but now I do not know what to do with this. So I was wondering if you knew how to go about solving this?
Date: 09/16/2003 at 12:28:52 From: Doctor Peterson Subject: Re: To state the geometric property of an equation Hi, Mara. I don't think there is any method you can use to solve this sort of problem without a lot of thinking and testing. Let's see how I personally would approach it (as well as I can construct it, considering that I know the answer already!). Then I'll look at some alternative approaches you might take. We have x - ky = 1 and we want to know what property all these lines have in common. Probably, since this is an open-ended question and I don't expect it to be straightforward, I would start by just "playing" with the equation, getting a feel for how it works by trying a few special cases. I might take k = 0, 1, and -1 and graph those three lines, x = 1 x - y = 1 x + y = 1 I would find that they all intersect at (1,0), and my answer would be that all the lines seem to contain that point. (In a sense this is a more purely "geometric" property than the x-intercept, since it does not refer to the coordinates.) Then I would want to prove that this is true for ALL k, to make sure I hadn't fooled myself by choosing three cases that happened to intersect. Thinking of this as a point shared by all lines in the family, I would prove it by simply substituting x=1, y=0 in the general equation: x - ky = 1 1 - k*0 = 1 is true for all k so (1,0) is indeed on all the lines, not just the three I tried. Or, I might think of it as a common x-intercept, as you said; then I would do what you suggested and put the equation into two-intercept form x/a + y/b = 1 That's easy; all it takes is to interpret -ky as y divided by -1/k: x/1 + y/(-1/k) = 1 So the x-intercept is 1 for all these lines, and the y-intercept is -1/k. So my approach is to experiment (the more adult word for "play"!) and make a conjecture (the more adult word for "guess"), and then prove that conjecture. Now, is there any other way you might approach this? If you were really smart (and I might possibly have done this if I were faced with the equation afresh), you could just see that the equation looks like the two-intercept form, and gone directly to the proof. If you could do that, fine; but you can't depend on such insight! You might instead just go through each form of the equation, starting probably with slope-intercept, and see whether any important feature (such as the slope or y-intercept) is constant. When that failed, it would be hard to move on to the point-slope or two-point form, because you would have to choose the point(s), and there is no obvious basis for that choice. So you would probably next try the two- intercept form (which many studuents never see, so you're lucky). Your approach came close. When you solved for x, you just had to look and see that the x-intercept (the constant in that form) is always 1. But since that form, the slope-x-intercept form, is little-known, it's not surprising that you did not know what to do with it. But I really think that my approach is the most reasonable hope to find the answer quickly. If you have any further questions, feel free to write back. - Doctor Peterson, The Math Forum http://mathforum.org/dr.math/
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Problem: An oil drilling rig located 14 miles off of a straight coastline is to be connected by a pipeline to a renery 10 miles down the coast from the point directly opposite the drilling rig. Laying pipe under water costs 500,000 dollars per mile. Laying pipe on land costs 300,000 dollars per mile. What combination of underwater and land-based pipe will minimize the total cost of the pipeline?
For now I'd just like help drawing the picture because in my eyes this is very poorly written. So can someone help me out with a picture for this? | <urn:uuid:7821765f-cc32-4d66-bc92-9a0826f8b290> | 2013-05-21T10:08:28Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The Physics Help Forum not working today, at least not from my ISP, so this goes here. It's basically a math deal anyway:
The formula to calculate the force of a point of mass, let's call them planets, that results from its being gravitationally attracted by another point of mass is Newton's:
Where is the force of the planet that results from the gravitational attraction exerted upon it by the other planet, is Newton's gravity constant, and are the respecive masses of the planets, and d is the distance between them.
For simplicity's sake let's say all the planets considered are of the same mass, so we can write instead of .
Now, if I'm not mistaken, the formula for calculating the force of a planet resulting from the gravitational attraction of more than two planets is:
Where is the force on the jth planet resulting from the gravitational attraction of the other planets, and is the distance between the jth planet and the kth planet.
My question is "where is the vector addition?" That is, when considering the force on one planet that results from the gravitational attraction of many other planets, we have to take into account not only the distance of the other planets from planet j but also their position with respect to it (right?).
Take for example the simple case of three planets in the same plane. Planet j is at the origin. Planet k is one unit to the right of j on the x axis, while planet l is one unit up the y axis. If the masses all equal 1, then, by the formula above, the force on planet j would be:
But is a function of both the distance and the position, right? So we must consider not only the Gravitational Forces individually exerted upon j by k and l, but also the angle at which these forces are exerted. That is, we must add the vectors. To add vectors you just plug in the x value and y value sums of the added vectors into pythagoras' formula. The force on planet j should therefore be:
(Where is the angle subtended by a line drawn from planet j to planet x. I.e. and )
So, what am I missing here? I am fully aware that I, and not Newton, am missing something here. Someone please help point this out for me. | <urn:uuid:7d99e7e1-4e2a-4168-989f-9de25f473394> | 2013-05-21T10:14:00Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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OK so i have
I think I should rewrite it as follows then what?
and I need help with
For the sake of clarity, I'd multiply both sides by . This step is not vital and you can easily alter the substitution I'm going to use.
So the equation is going to be:
Now let . This gives
Solve this then back substitute to get x. | <urn:uuid:20a54dc2-1b11-4606-89fa-96b793df21a6> | 2013-05-21T10:00:18Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Can you help me with solving this problem:
Suppose that A is hyperbolic toral automorphism( represented with matrix A) with only one real eigenvalue \lambda >1 with geometric multiplicity 1. Suppose that v is right and w left eigenvector associated with \lambda and that =1. We construct a matrix H in the followig way. On position (i,j) matrix H has v_i w_j. I need to prove that set of homoclinic points to 0 of A is precisely p(Hm) where m belongs to Z^n and where p is a projection from R^n to n-dim torus T^n.
Recall that point is homoclinic to 0 if both positive and negative iterates of A converge to 0. | <urn:uuid:bb69168d-4312-4afb-8a69-6417e6dc5170> | 2013-05-21T10:15:27Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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HONOLULU - U.S. Rep. Mazie Hirono got a surprise endorsement Friday in her Senate campaign against former Hawaii Gov. Linda Lingle: Lingle's opponent in the Republican primary.
Honolulu attorney John Carroll gave Hirono a kiss on the cheek and an endorsement in the general election after losing soundly to Lingle in the Republican primary earlier this month.
Of the idea of voting for Lingle, Carroll said: "It's worse than poor; it's just dangerous."
John Carroll and U.S. Rep Mazie Hirono appear at Hirono’s Senate campaign headquarters in Honolulu on Friday.
"(Hirono is) the only option for Senate in my book right now. And that's between her and Lingle," he said. "I'm looking at Lingle's decision-making capability, and I just don't see it as being trustworthy."
Carroll said he's fine with Lingle's character but has no confidence that she knows what she's doing. He said he has no idea how Lingle will vote on any major issues.
Lingle campaign spokesman Lenny Klompus said in a statement that Carroll was never a serious candidate and was trying to put himself in the limelight with an endorsement that isn't serious.
"Most endorsements are special and meaningful, while others don't mean a hill of beans," Klompus said. "John Carroll falls into the latter group."
Despite endorsing Hirono, the Republican who received just under 6 percent of the vote in his primary said he would have been the best pick of all.
"If you add her qualifications with Ed Case and Linda Lingle, they still don't add up to what I brought to the table," Carroll said, Hirono at his side.
Hirono beat Case, a former congressman, in the Democratic primary.
Hirono says the nod is another example of her ability to work with anyone.
"This is why (Alaska U.S. Rep.) Don Young also endorsed me - to do more of this," Hirono said.
The endorsement is the second recent example of Hirono drawing a Republican backer, after Young agreed to back her in the primary and film a campaign commercial with her. The humorous ad was a nod to a 2008 ad that featured Newt Gingrich and Nancy Pelosi together on a couch urging lawmakers to address global warming.
It's not clear what - if any - kind of bump Carroll can offer Hirono. Carroll drew 2,900 votes in the Republican primary, less than 13 times the margin that Hirono beat Case by. Hirono drew nearly 135,000 votes.
Far more people voted in the Democratic primary than the Republican primary. Lingle has said she's not worried about that disparity because the Democrats had a tighter race and Hawaii voters can pick which primary they want to vote in.
Her argument has been that it's better for Hawaii to have its federal delegation split with one Republican and one Democrat, so Hawaii has a say no matter which party is in power in Washington. | <urn:uuid:e1c11422-8226-47c5-902c-4f6bb830a663> | 2013-05-21T10:14:41Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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I've got a 92 Civic (first year with a hydraulic clutch instead of a simple cable) with a slight clutch fluid leak somewhere, and I'm curious if, when it gets bad enough to need fixing, it might be feasible to just replace it with a straight cable. My old (88) Civic had a cable instead of hydraulics for the clutch and the feel/response of the clutch pedal was a lot better. Aside from that, it just seems a lot simpler/cheaper to maintain and a lot better environmentally.
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Renewable energy is energy generated from natural resources—such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, and geothermal heat—which are renewable (naturally replenished). In 2006, about 18% of global final energy consumption came from renewables, with 13% coming from traditional biomass, such as wood-burning. Hydroelectricity was the next largest renewable source, providing 3% of global energy consumption and 15% of global electricity generation.
Wind power is growing at the rate of 30 percent annually, with a worldwide installed capacity of 121,000 megawatts (MW) in 2008, and is widely used in European countries and the United States. The annual manufacturing output of the photovoltaics industry reached 6,900 MW in 2008, and photovoltaic (PV) power stations are popular in Germany and Spain. Solar thermal power stations operate in the USA and Spain, and the largest of these is the 354 MW SEGS power plant in the Mojave Desert. The world's largest geothermal power installation is The Geysers in California, with a rated capacity of 750 MW. Brazil has one of the largest renewable energy programs in the world, involving production of ethanol fuel from sugar cane, and ethanol now provides 18 percent of the country's automotive fuel. Ethanol fuel is also widely available in the USA. While most renewable energy projects and production is large-scale, renewable technologies are also suited to small off-grid applications, sometimes in rural and remote areas, where energy is often crucial in human development. Kenya has the world's highest household solar ownership rate with roughly 30,000 small (20–100 watt) solar power systems sold per year.
Some renewable energy technologies are criticised for being intermittent or unsightly, yet the renewable energy market continues to grow. Climate change concerns coupled with high oil prices, peak oil and increasing government support are driving increasing renewable energy legislation, incentives and commercialization. New government spending, regulation, and policies should help the industry weather the 2009 economic crisis better than many other sectors.
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Event planners and their attendees need to be able to combat harassment in situations involving nonemployees.
By law, every employer must have a harassment policy. In the meetings context, the task is to make sure those policies work in an expanded workplace. Planners and their attendees need to combat harassment away from the traditional office setting and in situations involving a variety of nonemployees, such as vendors and members. The best advice is to have a clear, well-defined policy.
First and foremost, employees should understand their rights and responsibilities and know that their employer will protect them. Take the time to explain the policy; don't just hand it to employees.
With nonemployees, guard against liability by publishing your policy whenever possible. Consider including it in packages to members and conference attendees and even, in a stripped-down form, as part of vendor agreements.
Initiating an Investigation
When an alleged harasser is not an employee, you may feel you have little leverage to gain his or her cooperation. To improve your chances, make your discussions with the complaining person as complete as possible. Emphasize to the alleged harasser that an investigation does not necessarily mean that harassment has occurred or that the findings will be publicized or the result will be termination. By the same token, don't promise that termination or some other drastic measure will not be taken.
If the alleged harasser won't cooperate and is a vendor's employee, enlist the vendor. Given its own liability concerns, your vendor is probably willing to cooperate. Get the vendor's assurance that the information will be handled confidentially.
If the alleged harasser is a member, go through the member's employer. Or refer to your policy and use the person's membership as leverage. If the member refuses to cooperate, consider taking action to terminate the membership. Revenue from a membership usually doesn't outweigh the potential liability of an ignored complaint.
When the alleged harasser is an officer or a director, removing the person from a position of authority can be used as leverage. When dealing with officers and directors, it often is best to approach the person through a respected peer or superior.
The law requires prompt and effective action regardless of a harasser's identity. To start, ask the complaining employee what he or she would like done.
When the harasser is a vendor's employee, coordinate with the vendor. You can't suspend, warn, or terminate that employee, but the vendor can and often must. Have the vendor prevent contact between its employee and your employee, or relieve your employee of duties during which he or she would be in contact with the harasser (as long as the change does not negatively affect your employee's job or standing within the organization). In some cases, the only alternative may be to change vendors.
When the harasser is an employee of a member organization, require that a different individual represent the organization at functions at which your employee is working. Or excuse the employee from duties involving the member (unless this action negatively effects the employee's job or standing), or revoke membership.
When the harasser is an officer or director, deny access to events at which the employee is working, or suspend or terminate the person's service. Certainly, remove the person from any role in evaluating the employee's performance.
Finally, do not overlook documentation. Maintain a file on every report of harassment. This will help to determine patterns and to address situations in which harassment claims repeatedly arise.
Jed R. Mandel is a partner with the Chicago-based law firm of Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg and the principal writer of this column. This article was prepared by Victoria L. Donati, a partner in NG&E's Employment Law Group. | <urn:uuid:5a45bb76-e7d6-4096-b93c-e1112cc2d73a> | 2013-05-21T10:17:42Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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A machine for turning, that is, for shaping articles of wood, metal, or other material, by causing them to revolve while acted upon by a cutting tool.
Basically, a machine that fashions work by making the work turn on an axis. The cutting is done by a tool that is not rotating. On wood lathes the wood usually turns between the headstock and the tailstock. The turner holds the tool by hand and moves it to cut various shapes on the wood. On metal lathes the work (whatever material is being fashioned) turns and the tool is held rigid whilst the operator moves the tool using hand wheels. Lathes are very versatile, come in a myriad of styles, and many contradict the above definitions. Wood can be cut in any metal lathe and soft metals can usually be cut on wood lathes.
A machine that is used for working metals and plastics by rotating about the horizontal axis against a tool that shapes it.
A machine that spins timber, This makes it unique as all other power tools move whilst the timber remains static.
A lathes is a machine which holds a piece of wood or metal between two centers and turns it so the work can be shaped by hand-held "turning chisels." Foot operated or hand cranked.
A machine designed to center a piece of wood on an axis: as it turns, the woodturner can cut into the wood to create symmetrical objects.
a machine that hold a piece of metal or wood and turns it rapidly against a cutting tool for shaping Finally, he used a lathe to shape the wooden bowl.
A machine on which logs are peeled to yield veneer for plywood.
machine tool for shaping metal or wood; the workpiece turns about a horizontal axis against a fixed tool
a common tool used in machining
a machine for changing the shape of a piece of wood, metal, etc
a machine for use in working metal or wood which holds the material and rotates it against a tool that shapes it
a machine in which a piece of wood is rotated around a fixed axis while being shaped by a fixed tool
a machine that cuts away small amounts of the comm to restore it to a trued state
a machine that holds the wood on a rapidly spinning axis
a machine that rotates a piece of wood to create a uniform circular design when the wood is cut with a chisel
a machine that turns metal , wood, etc
a machine tool for shaping metal or other material
a machine tool, specifically designed to help in the
a machine tool that generates circular sections by rotating the job around an axis and cutting it with a tool
a machine tool that removes unwanted material from a cylindrical work piece by rotating it against a cutting tool
a machine tool used to produce mechanical parts with cylindrical features
a machine used for shaping parts
a machine used for turning wood, metal and other materials by rotating the article against tools which cut it to shape
a machine used to turn rounded objects
a marvelous tool
an ancient tool that was used by the Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, and other ancient and medieval peoples
an object created by revolving a spline curve, which determines the contour of the shape, around an axis
a power tool that spins the wheel around and slowly shapes it until all the sides are the same
a tool for making round things
a tool used to create objects with cylindrical symmetry such as table legs
a VERY easy to make primitive tool
a machine for shaping a piece of wood, metal, etc. by holding and turning it rapidly against the edge of the cutting tool.
A tool, usually free standing, for turning a piece while tools are held against it. Typically several feet long and about a foot wide. Different lathes are used for wood or metal (or glass) pieces. A lathe commonly has a headstock that grips the piece and has gears and a motor drive for turning the piece and a tailstock that guides the other end of long pieces. Most lathes allow working a piece held only at the headstock, as for making bowl shaped pieces. The tailstock is normally mounted on rails (the bed) so it can be moved accurately to different distances while remaining centered on the headstock. A wood lathe will have a tool rest to help guide the handheld tools along the piece while a metal lathe will have a solid tool holder with screw adjustments to withstand the increased force. Glass lathes are used to join medium and large diameter tubing for scientific glass work, keeping two tubes aligned as heat is applied all around the joint. rev.2003-02-27
A lathe is used for turning materials like wood and bone when they are being worked.
A machine tool by which work is rotated on a horizontal axis and shaped or cut by a fixed tool.
A machine which derives its usefulness by rotating stock against which tooling may be brought to bear. Springs are often wound on a lathe.
Power tool, which is used to turn wood or metal objects so that cutting tools may shape it while it, rotates.
Machine for shaping turned parts by the application of cutting edges against the revolving wood.
A lathe is a machine tool which spins a block of material to perform various operations such as cutting, sanding, knurling, drilling, or deformation with tools that are applied to the workpiece to create an object which has symmetry about an axis of rotation.
In 3 D computer graphics, a lathed object is a 3D model whose vertex geometry is produced by rotating the points of a spline or other point set around a fixed axis. The lathing may be partial; the amount of rotation is not necessarily a full 360 degrees. The point set providing the initial source data can be thought of as a cross section through the object.
A metal lathe is generic description for a rigid machine tool designed to remove material from a workpiece, through the action of a cutting tool. They were originally designed to machine metals however with the advent of plastics and other materials, and with their inherent versatility, they are used in a wide range of applications, and a broad range of materials. | <urn:uuid:6bf9ca97-bd47-4fc8-85c3-dcaeffba0555> | 2013-05-21T10:19:40Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Venerated from the early centuries of Christianity, Saint Christopher—whose name means "Christ-bearer"—was honored as the protector of travelers. According to "The Golden Legend," Christopher ferried a small child across a river. As he did so, the child's weight grew increasingly heavy. When Christopher complained that it seemed as if he had carried the weight of the world, the child replied, "Wonder not, Christopher, for not only has thou borne the whole world upon thy shoulders, but Him who created the world. For I am Christ thy King." In this imposing statuette-reliquary, Christopher strides through the water, twisting as he turns to look at the Christ Child, who holds an orb in reference to his dominion. The small leaves sprouting from the top of Christopher's staff are a harbinger of the miracle promised by Christ—that if the saint, upon his return home, planted the staff in the ground, it would bear leaves and fruit in the morning.The hallmarks stamped on the hem of the saint's cloak and on the statue's base indicate that this piece was made by a goldsmith in Toulouse. The reliquary, excellently preserved, reveals a masterful treatment of the material. The soft, rich folds of the saint's cloak belie their metal substance. The ungilded surfaces of the faces are framed by the crisp design of the hair. The engraving of the short curls of the Christ Child, the hair and flowing beard of the saint, and the fish in the turbulent water are accented by the juxtaposition of large areas of silver with bright flashes of gilding. A now-lost relic of the saint was placed in the small box covered with crystal on the statue's base, through which the relic could be seen. | <urn:uuid:55ed2eb8-2776-44f6-ae73-380c74e9b789> | 2013-05-21T10:27:12Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The Gators lost to the Tennessee Volunteers on Sunday for the seventh time in the two teams' last eight meetings.
GAINESVILLE -- Not even the O'Connell Center can save this Florida men's basketball team now.
Florida lost to Tennessee 79-75 on Sunday. GAME STORY HERE. It was Florida's first home loss of the season and a devastating blow to the Gators' hope of receiving an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament. Florida (21-8, 8-6) is now tied with Kentucky (19-10, 8-6) for second place in the Southeastern Conference Eastern Division. Tennessee (18-10, 9-5) is tied with South Carolina (20-7, 9-5) for first place in the East.
The magic number to insure the Gators' at-large bid into the NCAA Tournament still stands at three. (Just my opinion). That means Florida needs to win at Mississippi State (17-12, 7-7) on Wednesday and then defeat Kentucky at the O'Connell Center next Saturday in the regular-season finale. In addition to those two wins, a few victories in the SEC Tournament couldn't hurt. At least one win in Tampa is absolutely necessary.
Of course, if Florida loses to Mississippi State on Wednesday, then everything changes. Florida will more than likely have to make the finals of the SEC Tournament to earn its at-large bid. Can Florida win the SEC Tournament? What are the chances? Anything is possible in the SEC this season, as far as I'm concerned. Florida, playing in its home state, has just as good a chance of winning the SEC Tournament as any other team.
As for Sunday, Florida was no match for Tennessee's combination of athleticism and three-point shooting. The Vols made 10 three pointers, including 9 of 11 in the first half. What is it with Tennessee when it plays Florida? The Vols are shooting just 30.7 percent from behind the three-point line this season, yet when Tennessee plays Florida the Vols shoot the lights out. In Tennessee's home win against Florida on Jan.31, the Vols made a season-high 12 three-pointers.
Nick Calathes led the Gators with 20 points and freshman guard Erving Walker scored 15 of his 16 points in the second half to lead a spirited comeback. UF trailed by as many as 16 in the second half but cut the Vols' lead to three points with a minute left in the game. Walker had four three-pointers in the second half.
Excellent defensive plays by Tennessee guards Scotty Hopson and J.P. Prince shut down the Gators in the final minute. Hopson's rangy arms blocked Walker's game-tying three-point attempt with a minute remaining. Prince altered Calathes' running lay-up attempt with 26 seconds left.
After Kentucky's home loss to Louisiana State on Saturday, many believe the loser of the Wildcats' and Gators' season finale will not make the NCAA Tournament. For the record, I am not one of those people. Both can still play their ways into the Tournament with strong performances in Tampa.
There were a few positives to take away from Florida's loss on Sunday.
1. Freshman forward Ray Shipman scored five points, including a three-pointer.
2. Freshman guard Erving Waker's confidence grows daily. He had played well in the second half and wasn't afraid to take big shots.
TWO MORE POSITIVES
1. The Rowdies were looking good.
2. The Dazzlers wore cowgirl hats.
1. Sophomore center Alex Tyus had a bad game. He made just 2 of 8 from the field and finished with six points. Tyus is playing out of position this season and gets exposed against players like Tennessee centers Wayne Chism and Brian Williams.
2. Senior shooting guard Walter Hodge had four points on 1 of 4 shooting from the field. Not exactly what you want from your senior leader in one of the Gators' biggest games of the season.
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|whew! I realize that I must still be in Louisiana. There's the familiar aluminum bateau. At least those couyans are wearing their LSU hoodies. :) They might be asking themselves, "What's dat lady couyan doin' over dere wit dat camera, Cher ?!"|
|I focused on the upper / center rain droplet and branch. Do you see a jogger or a house or lamp post in the background?|
A second after I took this shot, I snapped the pic below...
|..I focused through the skinny branches and rain droplets to see the lone jogger. |
note: Isn't it amazing how the droplets and branches almost disappear? I am standing in the exact same spot with my camera pointed into the exact same spot with the exact same focal length as the rain droplet picture above. What changed? My focus. With my 70-300mm lens racked out at 300mm, I allowed my focus point to train in on the jogger in the distant background instead of the tree branch or rain drops. When it locked focus on the jogger, the foreground almost blurred away. This creates a mysterious impression because the viewer instinctively knows that they are seeing through something but can not clearly identify.
Do you think that is neat? I do.
It is a great technique. You can try shooting through leaves to get a mystical looking impression of a flower or garden statue. I think if you try it, you will be impressed with yourself! :)
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For the record, Ludwig Wittgenstein had already elucidated this point through logical analysis in Philosophical Investigations (1953).
Yglesias observes that in the view of Hillary Putnam, "The reason you can't rigidly separate positive from normative economics is that you can't rigidly separate claims of fact from claims of value in general. Human language is too laden with thick concepts that mix the two."
Read it at Slate
The Positive/Normative Distinction In Economics Is Nonsense But It Doesn't Really Matter
By Matthew Yglesias
I disagree with Matt that it doesn't really matter. It matters hugely, because obscuring the pervasiveness of the normative and prescriptive in economics and claiming that economic orthodoxy is positive while heterodox economics is not is central to the rhetoric of propaganda designed to justify neoliberalism.
Ravi Batra points out that in eras ruled by acquisitors, intellectuals prostitute themselves for fame, fortune and a share in power by justifying acquisitive behavior to laborers, who make up a vast majority of the population. They do this not through sound reasoning based on true premises and valid logical form, but by obscuring their intent behind a facade of sophistical rhetoric and displays of "expertise" designed to confuse the less-educated.
As Steve Keen artfully shows in Debunking Economics, neoliberalism rests on the "smoke" of sophistical assumptions and "mirrors" of complicated mathematical models that do not represent actual conditions. Thus, the premises are not as represented and the conclusions are also drawn by extending the application of the modeling beyond its scope in order to to convince the rubes that they are getting screwed for "scientific" reasons and there is no alternative other than the boogeyman of "socialism," which "everyone knows" ends in totalitarianism.
Yglesias says, "I think a lot of people who think they disagreement with most mainstream economists about certain things have noticed that most mainstream economists hold a somewhat naive metaphysical position and think that if they can debunk this metaphysical position they've vanquished the beast and now the doors are wide open to a utopia in which economists' critiques of their policy ideas have all been debunked. If mainstream economists are making a mistake in their analysis of the economy, you'll show that by engaging with their analysis of the economy not by engaging with their slipshod freelancing in metaphysics."
I think he is being naive here. The point of much economics is to justify a position that does not work economically, as the only alternative, for example, or the optimal solution.
TINA is often bolstered by the specious claim that every other approach leads to a socially unacceptable conclusion, like "socialism," or "totalitarianism." The focus on supply side is often justified on the basis of that this model of capitalism has generated a global system that has raised many out of poverty and produced the most advanced civilization to date, so let's leave well enough alone. These are specious arguments are successfully deployed to convine the "rabble" to vote against their own economic interests.
A bevy of think tanks have been funded by acquisitors to justify rapacity in the name of science. They are the go-to sources for the media and their manufactured credibility is used to justify propaganda. So, yes, the blending of fact and value, positive and normative, and descriptive and prescriptive is important and significant socially, politically, and economically in convincing the unsuspecting that their leaders are acting on the best scientific knowledge rather than self-serving ideology. | <urn:uuid:facdcf6a-3928-494f-937c-19e9fbf58d5f> | 2013-05-21T09:58:48Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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I write this in January - the month of bargains and sales. In keeping with this spirit I bring you not one but two phrases which are similar in meaning.
If I ever did something a little odd, my Grandma would often remark 'there's nowt so queer as folk'. Clearly it means that people can be very strange.
The origins are unknown but no doubt the phrase comes from Yorkshire or Lancashire if the word 'nowt' (nothing) is anything to do with it. The oldest written reference to the phrase dates from 1905.
There was a British TV series in 1999 called 'Queer as folk' which was set in Manchester and was about three gay men though the original phrase uses 'queer' in its literal meaning as 'odd'. There was also an episode of John Sessions' tall tales called 'There's nowt so queer as folk' which was aired in 1991.
The second phrase is my favourite. I love the humour of it. It is
'All the world's queer save thee and me and even thee's a little queer'.
This time we're in luck as the origin is known to us. It is a quote by Robert Owen (1771-1858) a Welsh social reformer, factory owner and inventor.
Basically he was one of the first entrepreneurs and his greatest success was in the area of infant child care. He was probably motivated in this through the death in infancy of his first child, though he fortunately had seven further children who survived.
He fell out with his partners at one point and this remark was made to one of them, a William Allen in 1828.
If ever a quotation told you reams about the good nature and character of a person this must surely be a fine example. | <urn:uuid:171b48a4-3414-4d64-aa64-0dae96fc21dc> | 2013-05-21T10:27:50Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Lewis Smith, the treasurer of the McDuffie Museum board, has given special attention to relics of the early Wrightsboro community northwest of present-day Thomson. Smith and his wife, JoAnn, are among the volunteers staffing the museum since the recent departure of museum director Jenny Lindsey Clarke.
One relic, a letter dated Feb. 9, 1815, relays news from that Quaker neighborhood in Georgia to a larger Quaker community in South Carolina.
Smith wrote the information below for the 2011 Wrightsboro Homecoming. The letter, also on this page, is edited for space limitations.
"What a lovely, interesting letter! This was the way educated people used to write, at a time when they didn't have TV, radio and the internet to distract them. All the words on my transcript are found in a dictionary. I know; I had to look up about 20 of them. Also, the spelling in the typescript is what is in the letter. I did not change any variations of spelling. They spelled Winsboro with one 'n' back then; we spell it with two today. And there are other differences. Now, let me say a few other things about the letter.
"First, this letter was written Feb. 9, 1815, during the War of 1812. The war ended Feb. 18, 1815, nine days later. To help you with a sense of time: the Battle of New Orleans was fought only a month before the letter, The Star-Spangled Banner was written only five months before, and Dolley Madison saved Gilbert Stuart's portrait of Washington less than six months before. I believe the war date and being on the wild frontier of western Georgia contributed to the 251/2 cents postage, which would normally have been about one penny in an established town.
"Second, the frequent use of the word 'friends' and the fact that this letter was sent from Wrightsboro (a Quaker settlement) to Winnsboro (another Quaker settlement) makes me believe that the writer was a Quaker. The history books tell us that the Quakers left Wrightsboro from 1807-1809, but surely they all didn't leave. Quakers today meet in Aiken, Athens, Columbia and Atlanta. The Aiken meeting is the first and third Sundays of each month. They started their first Sunday meeting today at 10 at a member's house. You can get meeting details, such as the location, from the Internet if you would like to attend a meeting.
"Third, it seems obvious that Mr. Kennon, the writer of the letter, is a physician. He says that 'My partner in the practice accepted a place in the medical department of the army,' and that 'the season was unusually sickly during the fall.' Weren't they then the doctors of the settlement? Was his partner a Quaker? If so, did his sense of patriotism overcome his Quaker beliefs of nonviolence? Or, by serving in the medical department, did he believe that it was his humanitarian duty, and not a military duty, and it was therefore consistent with his Quaker beliefs?
"Fourth, I find it amazing that a letter written in the backwoods of Georgia in 1815 contains a sentence which states in part 'The electric fluid passes not with greater celerity thro its conductors...' Electric fluid, of course, refers to electric current; and celerity means speed, as in acceleration. It was only in 1752 that Franklin flew his kite, and it was in 1800 that Volta invented the electric battery. But it was long after this letter that Ampere in 1820 confirmed the relationship between electricity and magnetism, that Faraday in 1821 invented the electric motor, and that Georg Ohm in 1826 gave us the relationship between power, voltage, current and resistance. And 65 years later, Edison invented a light bulb that would last 40 hours.
"And lastly, I want to commend the writer on his writing skills and his excellent vocabulary. In those days, if you were educated at all, you were well educated, and if you weren't, you probably couldn't read or write. Our author was definitely well educated, and in this letter written in the ordinary course of the day, he shows his love and affection for his fellow Quakers in Carolina. Near the end he says, 'I would much rather live where I could frequently see you.' But he says that won't happen until they're together in Heaven, and then they shall mingle their voices in singing 'Worthy is the lamb that has died,' the song of JoAnn's devotional." | <urn:uuid:5edd93fa-4df0-473b-b34d-07a3107b5b4c> | 2013-05-21T10:13:16Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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From Publishers WeeklyIn this heartfelt if familiar coming-of-age novel set in smalltown Shelby, Iowa, in 1975, Pietrzyk (Pears on a Willow Tree) chronicles a year in the life of 15-year-old Alice Martin after her mother's suicide. "Once you get through this first year, you're fine," the high school principal promises her, reading from a manual. But Alice isn't so sure. Three days after her mother's death, as Alice tries to fill her place by preparing Sunday morning pancakes, her mother speaks to her, providing advice on cooking, makeup and driving, but rarely answering the questions Alice really wants answered: Who is my father? What happened to him? How could you leave me? All Alice and her older brother, Will, know is what their great-aunt Aggy tells them: their mother moved away at age 17 and came back pregnant, with a baby in her arms. Over the course of the year, Alice uncovers secrets, unravels mysteries and finds that nothing and no one are what they seem. Her baseball-star brother runs away to see the Red Sox, Alice herself dallies with the school's bad boy and Pietrzyk allows the reader hints of why Alice's mother might have killed herself. Eccentric mothers and long-suffering daughters are a dime a dozen in recent fiction, but Pietrzyk paints a rich picture of life in rural Iowa, from summer jobs detassling corn to the suffocating force of conformity. As one Shelby housewife advises Alice, "Fitting in is so important. Everything is simpler that way."
This is a wonderful story of a 15 year old girl who loses her mother, and spends a year questioning why, all the while hearing her mother's voice speaking to her, coaching her, teaching her, and telling her things that she did not know when her mother was alive.
Alice Martin is a typical teenager...hanging out with friends, having crushes on boys, and cherishes the times that she spends with her mom. Her mother, however, occasionally falls into deep depressions, and it was during one of these spells, that she kills herself. Alice, her 17 year old brother Will, and her Aunt Aggy struggle to find the answers why Annette Martin decided to do what she did.
Alice knows that nothing will ever be the same again, and wrestles with the fact that her mom is gone forever, and there are a lot of unanswered questions. When she begins hearing her dead mother's voice in her thoughts, she is not afraid. Her mother's voice stays with her for a year and a day, answering many of Alice's questions.
This is moving coming-of-age story with a beautiful ending.
- Paperback: 368 pages
- Publisher: Harper Perennial (March 1, 2005)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0060554665
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Chastain films take top US box office
- From: AAP
- January 21, 2013
JESSICA Chastain easily outmuscled Arnold Schwarzenegger and Mark Wahlberg over the weekend, topping the North American box office with her supernatural horror film Mama and the Oscar-nominated Osama bin Laden hunt thriller Zero Dark Thirty.
Mama opened well above expectations with a box-office topping $US28.1 million ($A26.77 million) for Universal Pictures, according to studio estimates Sunday. Chastain also held the second spot with Zero Dark Thirty, for which she received an Academy Awards nomination for best actress. In its second week of wide release, Zero Dark Thirty took in $US17.6 million.
The films' strong performances had the remarkable effect of making Chastain an unlikely box-office queen out of a chameleon-like actress that even fans of Mama might have trouble picking out of a lineup. Chastain, whose credits range from Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life to The Help (for which she was also Oscar-nominated), even accomplished the rare feat by besting a couple of more traditional box-office stalwarts.
Schwarzenegger's action flick The Last Stand opened with just $US6.3 million for Lionsgate, one of the worst debuts for the brawny 65-year-old star. The film came in 10th.
Though Schwarzenegger co-starred in The Expendables 2, which opened with $US28.6 million in August, The Last Stand is his first proper starring vehicle since exiting the California governor's seat in January 2011.
The Mark Wahlberg, Russell Crowe-led New York crime film Broken City didn't fare much better. The Fox release premiered with $US9.1 million.
Instead, audiences flocked to the PG-13-rated Mama, which bore the imprimatur of the well-respected fantasy-spinner Guillermo Del Toro, a producer.
"Never underestimate the drawing power of a PG-13 horror film," said Paul Dergarabedian, box-office analyst for Hollywood.com.
Nikki Rocco, head of distribution for Universal Pictures, acknowledged the apparently limitless appetite for such a film, if done right: "That's why we did it," she said.
"It's a fun film without a lot of extraordinary violence," said Rocco, who added she would have been "thrilled" with a debut in the mid- to high-teens. "Young people like scary stuff."
With Martin Luther King Jr Day on Monday, Hollywood will get a virtual four-day weekend at the box office. Universal is predicting Mama to finish with $US33.2 million by the end of Monday.
Though horror films generally are a hit with male audiences, Mama appealed strongly to females, who made up 61 per cent of its moviegoers. That was key on a weekend filled with male-driven movies, including Broken City, The Last Stand, Warner Bros.' Gangster Squad and the Weinstein Co.'s Django Unchained.
"It's an incredibly competitive marketplace for testosterone-driven films," said Dergarabedian.
The Weinstein Co.'s Silver Linings Playbook, nominated for eight Academy Awards including best picture, expanded to its largest number of theatres in its 10th week of release. Playing in 2,523 theatres, a jump of 1,713 theatres, the David O Russell film took in $US11.4 million on the weekend - the same in which its star Jennifer Lawrence hosted Saturday Night Live - for a cumulative of $US55.3 million.
Also nominated for best picture, Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained, in its fourth week became the director's biggest box-office hit. It surpassed his previous film, Inglourious Basterds, by adding $US8.2 million for a domestic total of $US138.4 million.
national top stories
Luke Cooper and Steve Lewis LABOR and the Coalition have been accused of "fraud and deception" after a steep hike in the cost of fielding candidates at September's election.
Jessica Marszalek TOM Waterhouse won't have to face a parliamentary inquiry on gambling he has twice snubbed as he won't be summonsed to appear.
By Malcolm Farr, Daniel Piotrowski, Leigh van den Broeke, and Jessica Marszalek FORMER Prime Minister Kevin Rudd - who voted against gay marriage last year - has changed his mind and now backs the idea. | <urn:uuid:45e4eee2-0aba-4185-80cb-df246b6f4b6f> | 2013-05-21T10:14:45Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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There are many people who refuse to even try these machines for a variety of reasons. Maybe they're angry that these self check-outs have replaced actual people who are now out of work. Or perhaps, (and this is a big one) they're just scared of looking stupid or doing something wrong while trying to check out. Another reason that some folks avoid them is that it brings flashbacks of their high school job and they find themselves in a cold sweat, muttering "Paper or plastic" in their sleep just thinking about it. And finally, there are the people who are certain that robots are taking over the earth.
For those of you who insist they'd rather have interaction with an actual living, breathing person while paying for your groceries, I'm here to put things in perspective. The last time I got in a check-out lane with an actual cashier, this is how it went...
CASHIER: bored and talking to his buddy about his plans for the weekend completely ignoring me
Do you have your customer card?
ME: Yep, here you go.
CASHIER: Did you find everything ok?
Why do they ask this? Why??? "No, I didn't find everything I needed. That's why I'm still wandering around the aisles, asking for help. Can't you tell?" Or let's say you really did have trouble finding something. "I couldn't find the molasses. It took me half an hour and 2 employees to discover where it was hidden." What is the cashier going to do about it? Tell a manager? Suggest reorganizing the aisles to his boss? Insist on more employee training so they can better help the customers? Nope. If you tell him you had a hard time finding an item, he'll say something helpful like, "Oh."
What you need to do is either use the self check-out or have a little fun with it. When the cashier at the grocery store asks if you found everything ok, just tell them, "I had a really hard time finding black shoes in a size 7, king size sheets, and tires for my van." When he looks at you blankly and says, "We don't sell those things, ma'am," just reiterate, "See what I mean?! Even you can't find them!"
Then, as the cashier continues to joke around with his buddy, he absently puts the eggs on the bottom of the bag and tosses a big ole can of sweet potatoes on top of them. This is followed by a loaf of bread and finally topped with a half gallon of ice cream.
Plus, the self check-outs come in handy when you're buying something like Gas-X, tampons, condoms, foot fungus cream, and wine (what? I think you'd need wine if you had your period, gas, and crud on your feet!) Those self check-outs are looking better and better, aren't they?
So, here's my advice for those of you contemplating making the jump to the self check-out.
1. If you've never used a self check-out machine, don't give it a try for the first time on a Saturday. Go at midnight when no one else is around
2. If you have 4001 items, skip the self check-out.
3. If you have 23 coupons, skip the self check-out.
4. If you intend to pay for your purchases with 32 pounds of coins, skip it.
5. If you lack
OK, you're ready to proceed. These machines aren't magical. You don't simply wave the package around in front of the machine and voila, the machine magically tells you how much it costs. The machines work by reading a bar code of information located on the package. That means you have to actually put the bar code toward the scanner. See how that works? If you move a can of soup across the scanner 15 times and it doesn't do anything, think about turning the can around so the scanner can read the bar code! Don't laugh. I've been behind this person many times.
After scanning your item, you need to put it in the bag or on the conveyor belt. The bagging area (or the conveyor belt) is a scale. If you ring up a tube of chapstick and put a 5 pound bag of flour in the bag, the machine will flash strobe lights, start smoking, and an alarm will sound, signaling an armed guard to escort you to grocery store prison. Don't be like the idiot who tried to scan a $3.00 bar code for a flat screen TV at Walmart. Not only will it not work, but you'll look like an idiot and may wind up being talked about on my blog.
You also don't want to lean against these scales because umm, they're scales! They'll register your weight leaning on them and yell at you to "remove item from bagging area!" and once again, the armed guard will have to take you away.
How do you ring up fresh produce? I may or may not have been afraid to use the self check-out for this very reason, once upon a time. Not long ago, an old woman in front of me tried to scan her bunch of bananas at least 40,000 times before I
You need to put the produce on the scanner screen (which is also a scale) and key in the code. Most produce will have little stickers with the code. You know those cute little Chiquita stickers on your bananas? They'll have something like #3082 printed on them. Just punch in that number. The machine will weigh the bananas and charge you accordingly. If you have, oh say, an eggplant and it doesn't have a sticker on it, just follow the directions on the screen. You can look it up easily. Most things are listed alphabetically and as long as you have a clue what you're buying, you should be able to look it up with no problems.
There's really no reason to be insecure or embarrassed about using these machines because as long as you can read and follow directions (Yes, I know that eliminates probably 75% of people. Not MY readers, of course; other people!), you'll have no problems. And if you do run into a problem, blame it on the machine! Anyone who has used these, knows they have occasional glitches. Sometimes the sale price doesn't ring up correctly, or the item isn't in the database. Then there are the times the machine yells at you to put the item in the bag even though it's already there and you find yourself arguing with a machine that you're certain is laughing at you. These things happen. All you have to do is wait 45 minutes for someone to come help you. I guess you really need to cut the helper cashier person some slack though because she has to deal with idiots who can't follow instructions all day long and she's probably more than a little afraid of having some disgruntled customer throw canned peas at her head. Now, if only the nice grocery store would mail you a paycheck for all your hard work... | <urn:uuid:6d7a9421-a1f7-4014-b48c-a283e1a5ce5b> | 2013-05-21T10:15:05Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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After the British Pyrrhic (costly) victory at Bunker Hill in 1775, British General William Howe decided a lethal blow needed to be delivered to the Patriot cause. Howe proposed to launch an attack on New York City using tens thousands of troops. He began mobilizing the massive fleet in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Meanwhile, American Commander-in-Chief George Washington had ordered General Charles Lee to prepare for the defense of the city. That June, Howe and 9,000 troops set sail for New York. Howe’s army was to be met in the city by additional regiments of German and British troops. Reinforcements from Halifax led by Howe’s brother would follow them.
Howe’s initial fleet arrived in New York Harbor and began landing troops on Staten Island. On April 27, 1776, British forces engaged the Americans at the Battle of Brooklyn Heights (also called the Battle of Long Island). Howe’s army successfully outflanked Washington’s, eventually causing the Patriots, after some resistance, to withdraw to Manhattan under the cover of darkness, thereby avoiding a potentially costly siege at the hands of the British.
After failed peace negotiations, the British Army next struck at Lower Manhattan, where 12,000 British troops quickly overtook the city. Most of the Continental Army had retreated to defensible positions at Harlem Heights and then to White Plains, well north of the city, but some soldiers remained at Fort Washington in Manhattan. Howe’s army chased Washington and the Continental Army into positions north of White Plains before returning to Manhattan. In Manhattan, Howe set his sights on Fort Washington, the last Patriot stronghold in Manhattan. In the furious, three-pronged attacked, British forces easily took the fort, capturing nearly 3,000 American prisoners and at least 34 cannons in the process. Most of the prisoners were taken to squalid British prison ships where all but 800 or so died of disease or starvation. General Washington, now at Fort Lee, directly across the Hudson River from Fort Washington, witnessed the events that happened. Following the fall of Fort Washington, British forces ferried up the Hudson River in barges toward Fort Lee. Washington ordered the evacuation of the fort’s 2,000 soldiers across the Hackensack River at New Bridge Landing. Washington would lead his army clear across the Delaware River into Pennsylvania.
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Hugo Chávez's resounding victory in well-monitored elections earlier this month shows that the self-styled socialist's controversial leadership and big social spending have genuinely won over Venezuela's poor majority. But Chávez has raised eyebrows by dedicating his victory to the Cuban revolution and declaring the beginning of a “new society.” Is this declaration, as many critics are suggesting, code for the launch of a full-fledged communist state, Cuban-style?
Is Chávez, who hopes to pass constitutional reforms that would do away with the country's three-term presidential limit, taking the slow road to autocracy? Just what does the unorthodox ruler have in store for Venezuela and the region? And, how will Venezuela's shaky relationship with the United States evolve during Chávez's upcoming six-year term?
As expected, Hugo Chávez scored an overwhelming victory in Venezuela's Dec. 3 presidential elections, snagging just under 63% of the electorate, or about 7 million votes, according to the National Election Council.
His only relevant challenger, Manuel Rosales, a free-market advocate and the governor of Zulia state, won 37% of the votes but failed to capture the majority in any of the country's 27 states, even his own Zulia (although he lost there by just 1%).
The election saw the smallest voter abstention in Venezuelan history. Some 75% of eligible voters, or 16 million people, went to the polls.
Few voting irregularities were uncovered by the some 700 international election monitors present at voting centers; including delegations from the Organization of American States, European Union, Mercosur, and the Atlanta-based Carter Center.
“We observed one of the most forward and technologically advanced systems in the world. We would do well to emulate it in Germany,” said Kornelia Moller, the spokesperson for the German monitoring delegation and a member of the German Parliament.
Observers reached a consensus that the elections were “free, transparent, and democratic,” easing doubts about Chávez's support for democratic elections.
Opposition candidate Manuel Rosales had been expected to declare election fraud in the case of his defeat, but when the election was deemed squeaky clean, the candidate tipped his hat—marking the first time the opposition has recognized Chávez as the country's legitimate President.
To sum up, Chávez has emerged from an internationally sanctified election with a strong mandate, a relenting opposition, and a grip on the presidency through 2012. If he's been harboring secret plans to become a dictator or unleash a communist plot, surely now would be the time.
Following the Dec. 6 announcement of his reelection, Hugo Chávez declared the beginning of “a new era” and the “deepening” of his Bolivarian brand of socialism. He also said, rather ambiguously, that come inauguration day next January, the country would enter the “third phase” of the revolution.
There is considerable debate between scholars—and possibly between moderate and extremist factions of Chávez's own party—as to what “new era” and “third phase” really mean.
“Nobody knows what will happen after inauguration day, that's the big question,” said Margarita López, a historian and a professor at the Central University of Caracas.
“He (Chávez) has been very vague, especially during the campaign. The only thing that he has been completely open about, in terms of specific policy, is changing the constitution to end presidential terms limits,” López said. Chávez's controversial proposal to slash all term limits on the presidency would give him a chance at life-long leadership.
But the socialist leader has dulled this apparently autocratic edge by promising to submit any upcoming constitutional changes to a public vote.
In his victory speech, the incumbent repeatedly mentioned democracy, commenting more than once that capitalist societies, unlike socialist ones, are incapable of true democracy.
These comments seem designed show the world that Chávez is not an autocrat, but a moderate who genuinely respects the democratic process. They also stick a finger in the rhetorical eye of Chávez's diplomatic sparring partner, the Bush administration, which has declared itself the worldwide defender and promoter of democracy.
Chávez's pro-democracy comments may have been directed at his campaign opponent who, like many of his critics, suggests that the leader is moving Venezuela toward a Cuban-style communism. During the campaign, opposition leaders often seized on Chávez's words and photo ops with Castro to bolster the impression that the Venezuelan president seeks to convert the country into a communist state.
In his final campaign speech in the oil-rich city of Maracaibo, opposition candidate Manuel Rosales told a crowd supporters, “We're going to choose between two paths: one side that believes in democracy … and the other that wants to establish in Venezuela a Castro-Cuban communist system that strips the people of freedom.”
The Venezuelan president's unabashed admiration of Fidel Castro makes comparisons between the two leaders tempting. Chávez dedicated his election victory to the Cuban revolution and praised Castro's social projects for Cuba's poor. Venezuela has aided the Cuban economy by selling them cheap oil in exchange for billions of dollars in medical services.
Chávez has even positioned himself as heir to Castro's role as the world's leading radical statesman, frequently visiting the ailing leader over the past year and modeling many of his social programs, or missions, on Cuba's own programs.
When taken in this context, accusations that Chávez may go communist appear more plausible. But the comparison wears thin beyond the shared rhetoric and close personal relationship between the two leaders.
While Castro has never faced an electoral process, Chávez has won four elections with an average of 59-60% support. Chávez arranged referendums on the new constitution and National Assembly, and even allowed the opposition to hold a 2004 recall on his rule, which he won overwhelmingly.
While an autocrat might have crushed coup members who ousted him in 2003, Chávez reacted with notable moderation.
“He could have executed all the coup members. In the United States, attempting to depose a head of state is an executionable [sic] offense,” said Larry Birns, director of the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, an independent non-profit research organization based in Washington, DC.
To the contrary, Chávez permits a highly critical media (95% according to Birns) and an organized political opposition, neither of which generally flourish in autocratic states.
However, in his eight years as president, Chávez has curbed some freedoms and centralized power. Insulting the president or another public official is now a crime, and some journalists complain that new laws promote self-censorship. The president's party has a monopoly on the 167-member National Assembly, (the result of the opposition's boycott of National Assembly elections last year), and New York Times writer Juan Forero calls the courts “little more than adornments.” Billions of dollars of the country's vast oil wealth flows directly from the state-run oil company to the executive branch.
Chávez says he respects the right to own private property but has expropriated several privately owned buildings in Caracas and allowed the homeless to live there as part of his Negro Hipolita mission, which provides housing and rehabilitation for substance abusers. He has also expropriated fallow farmlands and handed them over to the poor for cultivation, although his government has paid market prices or better for these properties.
Many of the country's wealthier citizens asserted prior to Dec. 3 that they would flee the country if Chávez were reelected. Four days after Chávez's victory became apparent, Brian Penn, chief spokesman for the U.S embassy in Venezuela, said he had seen no spike in visa applications to the United States over the past weeks, however. Penn added that he could not answer whether the United States would grant emigrating Venezuelans asylum as it did for Cuban refugees fleeing Fidel Castro in the 1950s.
Interestingly, Hugo Chávez may be under internal pressure to advance a communist model.
“One thing the election revealed is that there is a split going between the Chavistas,” said López. On one side are “radicals who are heavily influenced by the Cuban revolution and want a Cuban style system,” the historian said. They advocate starting with the confiscation of private property. According to López, this communist faction is led by the Energy Minister and chief of the state oil company (PDVSA), Rafael Ramirez, and the Mayor of Caracas, Juan Barreto.
On the other side, are a group of moderates who seek “limited socialism and want to keep moving things the way they are presently going,” she said. “This faction includes Vice President Jose Vicente Rangel and Justice Minister Jesse Chacon.”
“They favor expanding the missions and some changes to private property law, but for the most part want to leave capitalism alone. There is an economic boom going on right now and these Chavistas are now buying cars and houses and living on the East side of Caracas like Altamira,” López said.
In her view, Chávez's own position is a mystery. She describes the leader as hanging back, waiting to make his move. But there are some signs that Chávez may be aligned with the moderates.
Earlier this year the mayor of Caracas, Juan Barreto, threatened to seize the city's Country Club golf course, located in Chacao, the richest neighborhood in Caracas. Barreto said the course took up space that could be used for much-needed housing, and entered into a debate with the mayor of Chacao, who refused to allow the course to be confiscated. Differing from his earlier seizures of private property, Chávez stepped in and publicly reprimanded Barreto, insisting he drop his case.
Ironically, many of Chávez's supporters would probably oppose not just a departure from democracy but also a crack down on the free market. The reason for this is that the popularity of Chávez is in some ways connected to the consumer fervor taking hold of the country.
Spurred on by great spikes in oil prices, Venezuela has become Latin America's fastest growing economy. Oil was at $11 a barrel when Chávez first came to power in 1998; it currently stands around $56. This boom has driven gross domestic product up 10.2% in the last quarter alone. Oil accounts for half of all the country's tax revenues and 80% of export revenues, according to Germany's Spiegel Magazine.
Astoundingly, the Central Bank reports that consumption has risen 32% above 2005 levels, and there is seven times more money on the streets than there are goods and services available in the market, according to the country's polling company, Dataanalisis.
In the third quarter of 2006, $8.6 billion worth of imports entered Venezuela, equal to the average annual figure for the last decade, according to the country's retail association.
The Venezuelan economic forecasting firm, Ecoanalytic, predicts a 40% increase in car sales in 2007, a 36% rise in the purchasing of telecommunications goods (internet, cell phones, fixed lines, and computers), a 32% increase in commercial sales, and a 29% increase in construction (already up 32% in 2006).
Increased spending has not just come from the rich. In a country of 27 million, government figures show a drop in the number of Venezuelans living in poverty from 44% in 1998 to 34% this quarter .
Monetary liquidity, according to the Central Bank, stands at 110 trillion bolivares ($52 billion), equivalent to one-third of Venezuela's gross domestic product (GDP). With all this free-flowing cash, how many of Chávez's poor supporters and well-paid government employees would really support an economic lockdown?
Rather than shift toward a communist state, Chávez may be racing against time to create a stable regional trade block in which a capitalist economy can thrive alongside his Bolivarian socialist model. One point in particular indicates this possibility.
Today, the country is singularly dependent on a volatile resource: oil. Traditionally, oil is a cyclical commodity; that's why he is anxious to push forward integration,” said Miami Herald columnist Fred Rosen. “If oil [price] goes down, this may be Chávez's soft underbelly,” he said.
According to Rosen, Chávez's regional integration plan, modeled after the European Union and currently embodied by the Mercosur trade block, is designed not only to support independence from the United States but also to diversify the economy.
“Chávez's idea to lead regional integration will allow South America to diversify its economy to rely not only on oil and natural gas but a diverse set of industries,” Rosen said.
While oil prices may be more stable than in the past, especially considering the voracious energy appetites of growing powers like India and China, price volatility could be motivating Chávez to speed-up regional integration.
Seeking to nurture this integration, the Venezuelan president's first action following the news of his victory was to depart on a continental tour of various regional center-left governments, which now include Cuba, Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Uruguay, Nicaragua, and Ecuador.
Arriving in Brazil the day after his official victory, Chávez told reporters that the main topic on his agenda would be boosting Latin American integration by giving Brazil and the rest of South America easy access to Venezuela's vast oil reserves.
The hallmark of these energy proposals is the estimated $200 billion “oil pipeline of the south” that would travel an 8,000-kilometer distance from Venezuela to Argentina's Rio de la Plata. Chávez and Brazilian President Lula da Silva are also in negotiations to build a $25 billion Venezuelan refinery plant in the Brazilian state of Pernambuco.
Another topic in discussion is the creation of a continental military force for South America. Chávez has said that true Latin American integration cannot be complete until the armed forces of the region are reorganized.
Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro, who accompanied Chávez on his trip, said that Mercosur has entered a new phase in which it will no longer be strictly an economic entity. “Because of the philosophies and backgrounds of the presidents of Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil, and Venezuela, Mercosur will take a new direction that will now encompass social and political issues,” Maduro said.
U.S. spokesman in Venezuela Brian Penn said the United States would be willing to negotiate trade deals with the South American economic union.
The United States purchased some 60 billion liters of oil from Venezuela in 2006, transferring $20 billion to the country. But Chávez may be attempting to push South America closer together as a means of replacing the United States as a principal trading partner in the long-term.
Chávez's recent moves to integrate regionally include helping neighboring nations slough their debts to the International Monetary Fund. Venezuela provided the wherewithal for Argentina's recent repayment of its IMF debt by purchasing more than a billion dollars in Argentine public bonds. With Argentina and Brazil paying off their debt and Bolivia's decision not to sign a new agreement with the multilateral lending institution, Latin American nations have begun to break free from the restrictive IMF conditions that long prevented policies aimed at redistribution of wealth and improving conditions for the poor.
In yet another sign of declining U.S. clout in the region, Mercosur countries rejected the U.S.-sponsored Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA) at the presidential summit of the Americas held in Mar del Plata, Argentina in November 2005. When the United States responded by threatening to revoke long-standing trade preferences to the region, countries like Peru and Colombia jumped, practically begging the United States to approve bilateral deals before preferences expire at the year's end. But talks with Ecuador and Uruguay have stalled, showing that heavy-handed U.S. tactics, while still influential, no longer carry the mandate they once did.
Today, Washington must double paddle to maintain a strong presence in Latin America, although it maintains powerful trade deals with Mexico, Paraguay, Chile, and across Central America.
As Hugo Chávez attempts to lubricate the path toward regional integration with cheap oil for the region, the United States can only be expected to grow more and more testy with the vagabond head of state. However, transparent elections have made it hard for the pro-democracy touting United States to raise a rhetorical hand against Chávez.
U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela William Brownfield has recognized Chávez's victory and expressed hopes about improving relations between the two countries, and U.S. Embassy spokesman Brian Penn said this about the future of bilateral relations with its fourth largest oil supplier: “We realize in the big areas we are fundamentally going to disagree. However we do agree that there are other areas where we can talk and have good relations, like fighting narco-trafficking, making energy deals, and fighting terrorism.”
But Chávez, showing a blatant disregard for diplomacy with the United States, voiced pessimism about the possibility of improving the two countries' abrasive relationship, complaining that the powerhouse would most likely continue to put “conditions” on any potential dialogue. It may be that by integrating with regional states—and establishing trade with Iran, China, and other Asian powers—Chávez hopes to gradually transfer his country's oil sales away from the United States, which currently buys some 60% of Venezuela's annual export.
What seems more certain is that as regional bonds thicken, the rewards will become more visible, providing an increasingly inviting incentive for the rest of Latin America to turn away from the “empire” and toward Simón Bolívar's dream of continental integration.
Niko Kyriakou is a roaming freelance reporter based in Latin America. Martin Markovits is a reporter based in Caracas, Venezuela. Both are contributors to the IRC Americas Program, at www.americaspolicy.org.
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| (孫悟空, Son Gokū)
|Anime||Naruto Shippūden Episode #165|
|Game||Naruto Shippūden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 3|
|Appears in||Anime, Manga and Game|
Son Gokū (孫悟空, Son Gokū), more commonly known as the Four-Tails (四尾, Yonbi), is a tailed beast sealed within Rōshi of Iwagakure. It was captured by Kisame Hoshigaki, then extracted and sealed by Akatsuki. Son was later resealed into a reincarnated Rōshi during the Fourth Shinobi World War.
Son Gokū first came into being in the waning days of the Sage of the Six Paths, who used his Creation of All Things ability to separate the Ten-Tails' chakra from its body and divide it into nine separate constructs in order to ensure that it would never resurface after his death. Some time after being created, the Sage sat down with all the young tailed beasts and told them that they would always be together even when separated, and that one day they would become one entity again with different names as well as forms than they did then when the time came for them to understand what true power is.
Son Gokū eventually fell into the possession of Iwagakure and was sealed into Rōshi over forty years before the Fourth Shinobi World War, who later left Iwagakure in a journey to gain a better understanding and control of the tailed beast.
Son Gokū is a very prideful tailed beast, as it detests being called by the name "Four-Tails" and boasts about its lineage. It uses 'ore' (オレ) when referring to itself.
It also hated humans, due to the fact that humans had enslaved it, and believes that apes are more intelligent than humans. However, when talking about the Sage of the Six Paths, it showed him great respect. It also seems to have taken a liking to Naruto Uzumaki, as it was moved by his actions for truly trying to save it from being controlled by Tobi and even gave him some of its chakra before being sealed away.
Son Gokū is a red-furred and green-skinned monkey, with a body-build of a gorilla. It has eyes with yellow irides and white pupils, spike-like protrusions along the length of its tails, elongated blunt fangs, and two long horns curving upwards on its forehead like a crown (both its fangs and horns are dark-tipped). In its mouth, Son has a big, round opening, from where it spits lava, and it doesn't seem to have a tongue. During the last remaining days of the Sage of the Six Paths, Son was much smaller and had smaller fangs.
See also: Rōshi's Jinchūriki Forms As a tailed beast, Son Gokū possesses an enormous supply of chakra and is able to create the Tailed Beast Ball. Son also has the ability to simultaneously combine its earth and fire natures, to spit lava from its mouth. In addition, it has a great deal of physical strength, being able to lift and toss Gyūki with ease.
Part II Edit
Itachi Pursuit Arc Edit
After an unseen and difficult battle with Kisame, Rōshi was defeated and captured by the Akatsuki member. Son was later extracted and sealed, leading to Rōshi's death.
Shinobi World War Arc Edit
During the Fourth Shinobi World War, Tobi forced Rōshi to fully transform into Son Gokū and attack Killer B and Gyūki, managing to flip the latter over by its tentacles. Later, Son attempted to swallow Naruto. Naruto tried to free himself from between Son's jaws, but failed.
A chained-up Son asked Naruto, now inside the tailed beast, if he had come to steal its power. It lashed out when Naruto referred to it as the "Four-Tails", demanded that Naruto address it by its proper title. As their conversation continued, Son was shocked to discover Naruto to be an open, honest young man. After Son cursed humans for sealing the tailed beasts away and denying their existence, Naruto shared that he was once treated in a similar manner and that he hated to see someone like Tobi controlling the tailed beasts. After initially laughing at the prospect of Naruto, a jinchūriki, wanting to befriend his tailed beast, Son realised that Naruto's ambition was genuine and told him that there might be a way to stop its rampage if the chains that bound it were undone.
In parting, Son bumped fists with Naruto, now eager to know how to undo the chains. Son imparted that in the past he made it second-nature to never trust jinchūriki; it warned Naruto not to expect it to become his ally. Son proceeded to tell him the location of the chakra receiver embedded in its body. Naruto used shadow clones to force Son to vomit him up. A Naruto clone who stayed inside the tailed beast's mouth went into Sage Mode and push the receiver from the inside while he himself pulled it from the outside. Although Naruto succeeded, he quickly realised that Son was still bound. Son explained that the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path still held its chakra and that Naruto had only freed it from Tobi's control. As Naruto argued with the beast over wanting to save it completely and not just free it from Tobi's control, Son in disbelief of the young man's character, offered some of its chakra to Naruto, pleased that he genuinely tried to rescue it. Son was then resealed into the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, leaving Rōshi's body behind.
In Fū's flashback of the time before Son was sealed, it was revealed that Rōshi attempted to make amends with Son, wondering whether or not they could have traversed a path more similar to Naruto and Kurama's. Son told Rōshi that if he wasn't so stubborn and hadn't forgotten its name all those years ago, it might have been possible. As the beast was resealed into the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, it parted on good terms with Rōshi, who told it that he had never forgotten its name, but rather was too proud to address him properly. He then wondered if calling the beast "Son" would be appropriate.
Video Games Edit
Although Son Gokū itself is not playable, Rōshi takes on its form as his awakening in Naruto Shippūden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 3.
- 'Son Gokū' (孫悟空) is a Japanese name for 'Sun Wukong', a legendary character from the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West. Kishimoto was mainly inspired to create Son based on the character with the same name from the manga series Dragon Ball. In addition, its design is based on Goku's Ōzaru form and his inherited dragon ball that has four stars in it. Besides the name, Son is also based on several other references to Sun Wukong, which includes:
- The horns on its forehead are modelled after Sun Wukong's diadem.
- "Handsome Monkey King" (美猿王, Bien'ō) and "Great Sage Equalling Heaven" (斉天大聖, Seiten Taisei) are both titles that Sun Wukong bears.
- The Water Screen Cave (水簾洞, Suirendō) is the cave where Sun Wukong was born on the Mountain of Flowers and Fruit (花果山, Kakazan).
- When Naruto met Son within Rōshi, it was sealed to a giant stone, which reflects the mountain under which Sun Wukong was sealed.
- A Dharma name (法号, hōgō) can be one of two things. It can be the name given to a newly ordained Buddhist monk or nun, or it can be the posthumous name given to deceased people according to the Buddhist faith.
- The fur on its chin and on the top of its back resemble Rōshi's beard and hairstyle.
- (Introducing itself to Naruto) "I am the Handsome Monkey King of the Water Screen Cave; the King of the Sage Monkeys, bestowed with the Dharma name of Son by the Sage of the Six Paths. I am Son Gokū, the Great Sage Equalling Heaven hoohoohooooo!!" (「オレは水簾洞の美猿王 六道仙人より孫の法号を与えられし仙猿の王。孫悟空斉天大聖だウキキィーーー!!」, "Ore wa Suirendō no Bien'ō, Rikudō Sennin yori Son no hōgō o ataerareshi Sen'en no Ō. Son Gokū Seiten Taisei da ukikī~~~!!")
- ↑ Naruto chapter 565, page 1
- ↑ Naruto chapter 467, pages 15-16
- ↑ Naruto chapter 510, pages 11-12
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Naruto chapter 572, pages 10-11
- ↑ Naruto chapter 572, page 8
- ↑ Third Databook, page 183
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Naruto chapter 568, page 11
- ↑ Naruto chapter 567, page 17
- ↑ Naruto chapter 572, page 7
- ↑ Naruto chapter 570, page 5
- ↑ Second Naruto artbook, page 98 | <urn:uuid:a4725d14-4264-4324-8bb3-237f9ec26973> | 2013-05-21T10:22:21Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Bible: Jer. 30:1-17
Introduction to the Book of Consolation
Israel and Judah Will Be Delivered after a Time of Deep Distress
30:4 So here is what the
30:5 Yes, 9 here is what he says:
“You hear cries of panic and of terror;
there is no peace in sight. 10
30:6 Ask yourselves this and consider it carefully: 11
Have you ever seen a man give birth to a baby?
Why then do I see all these strong men
grabbing their stomachs in pain like 12 a woman giving birth?
And why do their faces
turn so deathly pale?
30:7 Alas, what a terrible time of trouble it is! 13
There has never been any like it.
It is a time of trouble for the descendants of Jacob,
but some of them will be rescued out of it. 14
30:8 When the time for them to be rescued comes,” 15
“I will rescue you from foreign subjugation. 17
I will deliver you from captivity. 18
Foreigners will then no longer subjugate them.
30:9 But they will be subject 19 to the
and to the Davidic ruler whom I will raise up as king over them. 20
30:10 So I, the
you descendants of Jacob, my servants. 21
Do not be terrified, people of Israel.
For I will rescue you and your descendants
from a faraway land where you are captives. 22
The descendants of Jacob will return to their land and enjoy peace.
They will be secure and no one will terrify them. 23
30:11 For I, the
I will be with you and will rescue you.
I will completely destroy all the nations where I scattered you.
But I will not completely destroy you.
I will indeed discipline you, but only in due measure.
I will not allow you to go entirely unpunished.” 25
The Lord Will Heal the Wounds of Judah
“Your injuries are incurable;
your wounds are severe. 28
30:13 There is no one to plead your cause.
There are no remedies for your wounds. 29
There is no healing for you.
30:14 All your allies have abandoned you. 30
They no longer have any concern for you.
For I have attacked you like an enemy would.
I have chastened you cruelly.
For your wickedness is so great
and your sin is so much. 31
30:15 Why do you complain about your injuries,
that your pain is incurable?
I have done all this to you
because your wickedness is so great
and your sin is so much.
30:16 But 32 all who destroyed you will be destroyed.
All your enemies will go into exile.
Those who plundered you will be plundered.
I will cause those who pillaged you to be pillaged. 33
30:17 Yes, 34 I will restore you to health.
I will heal your wounds.
For you have been called an outcast,
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