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The strangest thing about "Hats Off To (Roy) Harper" is that in the liner notes, there's no songwriting credit
. It's listed as "Traditional
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"Hats Off To (Roy) Harper" is anything but traditional, and I doubt that folks way back used to sit around and play wacky blues-tinged songs about a guy who didn't exist yet, but would one day sing lead vocals on Pink Floyd's Have A Cigar. | <urn:uuid:99661a3f-8411-4e47-afe6-7c8cf3b76bad> | 2013-05-23T18:40:54Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Left the Swedish league 1990
in spite of being under contract with Djurgådens IF
. He was banned
from the Swedish National Hockey Team
for all future.
When Quebec didn't make it* to the Stanley Cup playoffs in 1991, he was forgiven, since he was then available for the Hockey World Championships where he was badly needed in the Swedish team. He went on to make Sweden Champions of the World with several classic goals, most notably his 2-1 on a breakaway between the legs of Soviet goalkeeper, after feinting Fetisov. It still gives me goosebumps to think of it.
* (Remember that the Quebec franchise was one of the worst teams in the NHL at this time. Only after it was moved to Colorado did they become successful.) | <urn:uuid:08f2642e-9371-4b24-965d-81c1522b2917> | 2013-05-23T18:45:59Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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was born on March 19, 1936 in Bern, Switzerland
to Rolf Andress, a diplomat, and Anna Andress. Andress was discovered by an Italian
film producer while she was vacationing in Rome
. Before doing American films, she appeared in mostly European (Italian
) films like Le Avventure di Giacomo Casanova
(1954) and Un Americano a Roma
She became famous in America as the original Bond girl, in the role of Honey Rider, in the first James Bond film, Dr. No (1962), with Sean Connery. A few of her American Films include: Fun in Acapulco with Elvis Presley (1963), She Who Must Be Obeyed (1965), The Southern Star (1969), Africa Express (1975), Peter the Great (1986) , and Cremaster 5 (1997). Andress won a Golden Globe Award in 1963 as Most Promising Female Newcomer against Tippi Hedren and Elke Sommer. She posed for Playboy in 1963 and since then, has done so twice more.
Andress married John Derek, a director and actor, in 1957 and divorced him in 1966. She lived with Harry Hamlin from 1978 until 1982 and had a son with him in 1980, named Dimitri Alexandre Hamlin. She has lived with Lorenzo Rispoli since 1983. These days, Andress divides her time between her homes in Rome and the United States. | <urn:uuid:17c63501-5d9c-459b-a794-c86ca7c091cd> | 2013-05-23T18:54:32Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Thursday, August 03, 2006
New Beginning 40
The only man the General killed during the course of the battle was one of his own. He rode the man down with his own horse, tucked the man's gold-handled knife into his scabbed breastplate and then fled from the battlefield with the arrows of the enemy shrieking past. He rode east, driving the horse harder than any arrow it feared.
The General's forces had met the enemy in the gray shadows of the morning after marching all night. The General had expected the invaders to still be engaged in taking the fortified town of Brindy. Instead he found them encamped and fortified in the hills to the south of the town. There was a false dawn in the north and a smoldering stench in the air. Brindy was burning.
He tethered his horse, sat on the ground and contemplated the glow before him. His men were gone, mostly by the enemy's hands, he was alone, and his horse was exhausted. He had only two arrows, an empty canteen, some rope and a gold-handled knife. What he had learned studying the campaigns of Napoleon and Alexander, and the writings of Moltke and Sun Tzu was of no use to him now. There was only one legend he could call upon. What would MacGyver do?
Opening: Braun.....Continuation: ril
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C# code is transmitting a large image file, breaking it into chunks, and it also sends the chunk order as a request parameter in each request. I wish to receive the file in a Struts2 action. Most examples I see, use
Apache Commons File Upload to receive uploaded files, but its assumed that the files are transferred using
<http type="file"/> as a multipart request. Even the streaming API assumes that.
Currently, I am thinking of storing each request's chunk in an array at the index received from the chunk orderNumber parameter. When all the chunks are received, I will write the file to the system. But it has some problems. I will have to maintain the state of the array across multiple requests, and action classes are
stateless. Also, how will I find that the particular chunk is the last ? (I can send a request parameter with the last chunk, but if there's any other cleaner way)
Edit - image types can differ, the EOF marker is always a constant query string parameter, the image is always broken into constant-sized chunks (the buffer is 1024 bytes, can be changed) except the last one. The C# program can be altered. The user using the C# code would be already signed in, and there can be concurrent transfer of different files. After-crash-resume is not required.
Actually, the C# program is just a
Silverlight plugin that is there to facilitate drag n drop of files, and send them to the server (only for IE, as IE doesn't support drag n drop of files) | <urn:uuid:71e4283b-e782-4f68-9371-34436aa1ad81> | 2013-05-23T18:45:54Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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A hundred years ago, the issue of travel during pregnancy was probably not even considered. Most people did not go far from home, especially pregnant women. But in today's mobile society, many of us venture a considerable distance from our homes at some point each year. And if you do so when you're pregnant, you'll need to know what's safe, what isn't, and which precautions to take before, during, and after your trip.
There are several factors that will affect your travel during your pregnancy: the trimester of the pregnancy when a trip is planned, whether there have been any complications during the pregnancy, the type of travel being considered, and the distance that the travel will take you from home. Each of these factors will be discussed separately.
Travel during the first and second trimesters is usually considered to be safe, although it may be more fatiguing than usual. The first trimester may pose a few challenges for traveling if you're experiencing nausea or fatigue. And the risk of bleeding or miscarriage is the greatest during these months. The second trimester, the months in your pregnancy when you probably feel the best and have the most energy, is a great time for a trip. In fact, vacationing with your partner during this period might be an ideal chance to spend some fun time alone together before the baby arrives!
Travel in the third trimester may be uncomfortable and can be risky, since you could go into preterm labor many miles away from your own health care providers and hospital. Some airlines will not allow women in their ninth month of pregnancy to fly without a physician's letter of permission, and sometimes that letter must be written within 72 hours of flight time. And most health care providers would probably not be willing to give permission because of these risks. So if you do have business or vacation travel plans, try to complete them in the first six months of your pregnancy and stay closer to home in the last three months.
If your pregnancy has been normal, you can probably feel very confident about traveling. However, if your pregnancy has been labeled high risk because of complications such as preterm contractions, bleeding, pregnancy-induced hypertension (PIH), or gestational diabetes, it would be wise to postpone prolonged travel or travel that's far from home. Short trips within close proximity to home are probably quite safe and can be just as much fun.
Types of Travel
Travel by car is likely to be the most comfortable means of travel during pregnancy. You're better able to control the periods of travel and can stop to rest when fatigued. When driving or riding in a car, stop every hour or two and walk around to stretch your legs -- this will promote good circulation. Be sure to empty your bladder whenever you stop to prevent a urinary tract infection from developing as a result of a too-full bladder. Take a pillow to promote comfort in your seat. Always remember to fasten your seat belt. Place the lap belt portion under your abdomen and position the shoulder harness between your breasts. | <urn:uuid:cda1f38a-2af3-45c9-a7d6-edb817320c5f> | 2013-05-23T19:07:55Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] add (e)ac3float decoders
Mon Mar 7 20:18:59 CET 2011
attached you'll find a patch which adds "ac3float" and "eac3float" decoders.
The only difference to the "ac3" and "eac3" decoders is that the float
decoders output float, obviously (which is the native decoding format)
instead of rounded down 16bit integer samples. This is quite important,
IMHO, because rounding down digital audio/video data is a violation of
processing laws. When bitdepth is reduced, dithering must be used, to avoid
quantization errors, which libav does currently not do. So outputting float
is a better solution for audio quality.
If this patch will be accepted, I plan to create similar patches for DTS and
Best regards, Mathias.
Systemsoftware Mathias Rauen
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Chev smiled at Mya. Mya ran down the hall after that. “She has that Marshall persons eyes,” he says looking at Brandy like hes irritated. You give him a dirty look.
“Oh I didn’t mean it like that,” he said trying to save his ass if you will…You sigh.
“Could you please not mention him. Im tying to forget,” you say sadly, as you get a picture of the last time you saw Marshall in your head, a tear runs down your cheek, you wipe it away before Chev notices.
“How can you forget? Hes your baby’s daddy,” he says.
“Chev!” you yell making him jump. “You’re not helping,” you mutter.
“Look Im sorry!” he yells. “I just hate him,” he admitted.
“Then why do you keep bringing him up?” you ask pissed.
“I don’t know, can we change the subject?” he asks.
“Fine, but don’t yell around my baby ever again,” you grumble.
“You started it,” he says, now hes being childish.
“We’re not in 1st grade,” you remind him. “Don’t act like a child,” you demand.
“Fine. I wanna help you tho,” he reminded you.
“Well if you’re going to help me, we cannot fight, or act like children. That is not going to help anything, when it comes to raising a baby,” you noted.
“Wow you matured,” he said surprised.
“I matured once I got to Detroit, and I wish I was still there,” you sigh. “I hate my stupid brother,” you wine.
“No, you just miss that thing,” he says.
“His name is Marshall and hes not a thing, and its not his fault that I had to come back, its Nick’s,” you say starting to cry. “See what you did,” you say pointing to your eyes. He sighs.
“Im sorry, I wont fight with you or bring him up again,” he says pulling you into a hug. You let him hold you as you cry in his arms. He places his hands on your shoulders and pushes you away. He stares at you then kisses you, surprisingly you kiss him back. You liked it, you never thought you would ever be kissing Chev. You pull away shortly after. You stare at him confused. “Im sorry,” he mutters.
“No, its fine,” you say. “In a strange way… it… made me feel better,” you say confused.
“Really?” he asks.
“Yeah, I don’t know,” you say. He looked down at the ground.
“Does this mean you like me?” he asked.
“I…maybe,” you say.
“Ok, you wanna…” he paused for a second. “you know…” he stated again.
“Go out with you?” you asked.
“Yeah, like be my girlfriend?” he asks.
“I…” you look down at the floor, then at Brandy, then back at Chev.
“Well?” he asks.
“Sure, maybe it could turn into something,” you say. You are kinda just doing this to make yourself to not feel lonely and make Chev happy.
4 YEARS LATER Aug 19th 1992>>>> (Marshall is 19, your 18... Marshalls almost 20.. Ohh Chev is 18 also)
You’ve been dating Chev this whole time. Brandy is now 4, she is very beautiful and into music, like her daddy, unlike her daddy she likes Country music, and she wants to be a singer. Its so cute. You still haven’t told her that Chev is not her dad. You don’t know how, shes only four years old. What are you supposed to do. Oh yeah Brandy, by the way Chev is not your father, your father lives in Detroit, he don’t know you. It makes you sad every time you hear her call him Daddy, knowing that someday you’re going to have to tell her the truth.
So on with what you do… you really got into photo taking, you that photos of things for different magazines. You really love it too. Who knew at 18 you could be doing that, but your mom knows this guy. (lol that sounds bad)
When Brandy was first born you quit school to take care of her, when she was 1 you decided to go back, and you actually graduated early. Which was pretty fucking awesome for you. So you skipped a year and you graduated with your class. Just this year. Yey for you!!.
Right now your out taking photos, for a magazine. You have to take pictures of flowers. Chev comes running up to you and Brandy. “Lily, I need to talk to you, you got a minute?” he asks.
“Yeah I guess,” you say confused.
“Brandy, stay there baby,” Chev says. She looks confused. “We’ll be right over by that tree, I gotta talk to Mommy alone,” Chev says. She sits down by the flowers and smiles. Chev drags you by a nearby tree.
“Babe, what is this about?” you ask.
“Don’t call me babe,” he says irritated. You look at him confused.
“Huh?” you ask.
“Exactly why Im here,” he says. Your confused as fuck right now. “Im going to collage,” he says.
“Yeah and your point?” you ask.
“Its all the way in California,” he says.
“What!?” you yell
“Yeah, so… us.. Not a thing anymore,” he says.
“So after four years of dating, that’s how you’re going to break up with me?” you ask pissed off. Theres no time for crying… not now anyway.
“Yep, see ya!” he says and runs away. You watch him leave the park.
“What a fucking asshole,” you whisper to yourself as tears roll down your eyes, you start bawling your eyes you as you fall to your knees, you put your face in your hands and just cry. How could someone you thought loved you just leave like that, just up and leave. You keep crying. Brandy comes up to you.
“Mommy?” she asks quietly.
“Why are you crying?” she asks.. “Why did Daddy run away?” she asks. You look over at her. You wipe you eyes.
“Its time to go home now,” you say quietly, you take her hand and stand up. You don’t even bother to answer her question just yet, you’re going to tell her once you get home. Your going to just tell her the whole truth, you don’t even care if she wont understand, she will eventually. Once you got home, to your own small house on the other side of town. (you never lived with Chev btw) You take Brandy to the living room. You sit her down on the couch next to you and start spilling out the truth…
You tell her how when you were 12 that you moved to Detroit and met the guy Marshall and that you started to go out soon after then not long after you had to move back to South Dakota. You found out that you were pregnant with Bandy… and then Chev is not her father Marshall is. Of course she didn’t really understand anything you said.
“So.. Daddy’s name is Chev, but hes not my Daddy?” she asked confused.
“Yes, your father’s name is Marshall, but it don’t matter cause I don’t know where he is,” you say. She just gave you a confused look then ran away to her room. You sighed. I knew she wouldn’t understand you think to yourself then lay down on the couch and start to cry again…
A few hours later you get up after falling asleep, you go check on Brandy, she fell asleep. You just leave her where she is in her bed then go from her room and go down the hall to the kitchen. You grab a piece of yellow paper, and a pen. You go to the kitchen table and write a note to Marshall you had to write it about 7 times before you got it right…
First off, I miss you so much right now… Don’t be surprised if theres tear drops on this. Yes Im crying. As expected, I moved on, Im sure you have too. But I still miss you. I got in a relationship about four years ago. Then about four hours ago he just left me, he told me he was going to collage and then he ran away. I just don’t understand. I know you wouldn’t do that to me…. Anyway… I have something I should tell you. I don’t know how to say this, but we have a daughter, her name is Brandy shes four years old. Shes like you in so many ways, she has your eyes, and smile. She also into music like you, she told me wants to be a singer when she grows up. I just told her that you were her father, but she didn’t understand I knew she wouldn’t, but it feels better telling her the truth.
I don’t know why Im writing this, not like you will ever see it. Apparently Im not over you, in fact I still love you. I think of you everyday Marshall. I wish you were here right now. I could really use a hug. I wish I never would have left Detroit, I feel so stupid. I probably could have stopped my parents, but I was stupid. You know every night I sit up and think about you, I think, will I ever see him again? Do I really still love him? Does he still love me? Does he think about me? If we meet again will he remember me? Does he even care? Has he found someone else? Is he alive? Where is he? What is he doing right now? Every question you think of is probably a question I think of every night. I need these questions to be answered. They probably wont be, you probably wont even be able to read this. You’ll probably become famous and forget about me. That’s what happens when people become famous, they forget about everyone else around them.
Well if you are reading this, I hope you decide to see Brandy, and talk to me. Marshall, I still love you, I know I said that already but its true… I hope you still have feelings. I miss you so much, Im still crying, and I wish you were here to hold me. Well… I don’t know what else to say… but… I love you…if you do read this I hope you come into Brandy’s life… she needs her real father… well I guess that’s it… love Lily.
You folded the letter all special then went to your room and placed it in your dresser drawer. You go downstairs and make dinner, you wake up Brandy so she can eat… a few minutes after eating the doorbell rings… | <urn:uuid:6f3ccaea-fe24-4dc7-b234-b0ecb7d29b10> | 2013-05-23T18:39:22Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Frank, Mikey and Gerard go shopping. Mini-frerard.
"Wait," whined 4-year old Mikey, his chubby legs struggling to keep up with the other two boys. Gerard turned to look at Mikey, but Frank kept on pulling him towards the aisle with determination. Eventually, Gerard and Frank arrived at the top of the aisle. Frank attempted to run down it, but 7-year old Gerard held onto his collar while he waited for Mikey to catch up. His mom would confiscate his transformers if he lost his brother again. When Mikey caught up, Gerard patted his little brother on the shoulder and let go of Frank's shirt. Frank took off down the aisle as fast as his short legs could carry him, arms outstretched, giggling like a maniac.
Gerard and Mikey shared a exasperated look before following Frank at a much slower pace. When they arrived at Frank's destination, he was standing in front of a huge tower of skittle packets, staring at them in wonder and delight.
"Frank, your momma said no skittles," Mikey warned, pushing his oversized glasses up his the bridge of his nose. Frank glared at him.
"So? She's not here right now. She doesn't need to know," Frank reasoned, taking a step closer to the skittles. Gerard stepped towards him, holding his arms out to Frank.
"Now, Frankie, don't be stupid. You know better. Plus, your momma will kill me," Gerard pleaded, eyeing the skittles.
"But Geeee, I want the skittles," Frank begged, pouting. Mikey shook his head. Great, now they were going to get into trouble, because there was absolutely no way Gerard could say no to Frank when he made that face. Gerard nodded at Frank and Mikey crossed his arms across his chest and huffed.
"Fine. Just one packet," Gerard told his Frankie, pointing a stern finger at him.
"Yes! I pwomise Gee, just one," Frank beamed up at him. Frank stood on his tiptoes, reaching up as high as he could. He couldn't reach the top, so he decided to go with the middle. He grabbed a random packet, the tower wobbled, and before he knew it, it collapsed. Frank, Gerard and Mikey all stared at the mess of skittles in awe. They were so doomed.
"Oopsie," Frank giggled nervously, looking around at the adults watching them. Gerard stared at Frank for a moment before giggling as well. Mikey shook his head at them and scrunched up his nose in annoyance. His brother and Frank never did anything right. Why didn't they just listen to him? Just because he was little didn't mean he wasn't as smart. In fact, Mikey thought he was smarter than both of them. Idiots.
Frank sidled away from the display, looking around accusingly at the adults, as if they had ruined the tower. Gerard walked to where Frank was, attempting to whistle innocently, but failing miserably, since he didn't exactly know how to.
"Micheal James Way! What did you do?" Mrs. Way's voice broke through the silence that had grown in the store as she stormed down the aisle.
"T'wasn't m-m-me. I didn't do it!" Mikey stuttered, looking up at his mother. She was terrifying when she was mad. Once she even took away Mikey's stuffed unicorn. It was his favourite.
"Then who was it?" Mrs. Way demanded, crossing her arms. Mikey's eyes travelled to Frank, and Mrs. Iero walked down the aisle, looking furious.
"What is going on here? Frank!" Mrs. Iero half-yelled, half-screeched.
"What? I didn't do anything," Frank said indignantly, his nose in the air. Gerard stood there silently, clutching onto Frank's hand.
"Explain. Now," Mrs. Iero commanded, looking like she was about to explode.
"It was... Her!" Frank exclaimed, pointing at an elderly woman who was buying toffees. She looked up as Frank stared at her accusingly, before giving him the evil eye and walking away quickly, or, as quickly as an elderly woman with a walking-stick could.
"Right. Frank, I'm disappointed in you," Mrs. Iero tutted, looking down at her son and shaking her head. Frank's lower lip wobbled.
"I just wanted skittles," he mumbled softly, sniffling and tightening his grip on Gerard's hand. Gerard turned and wrapped Frank in a hug, and Frank clutched the back of Gerard's jacket. Both mothers melted at the scene.
"Aw, it's okay, honey. I'll sort it out. Somehow. And I'll buy you the skittles. You boys go and buy yourselves some ice-cream. Gerard, I'm trusting you with the money, because you're the eldest," Mrs. Iero announced, handing Gerard, who she thought of as the most responsible one, some money.
Frank disentangled himself from Gerard, while Gerard took the money, and grinned his missing-front-tooth grin. Gerard, Frank and Mikey all darted out of the store, Mikey grumbling about how Frank should have gotten into trouble. They took the escalator down to the next floor, and stopped at the ice-cream store.
The three boys stared longingly up at all the flavours, and Frank's tongue hanging out subconsciously. Eventually, Gerard chose Rum & Raisin, trying to impress Frankie with the grown-up flavour, Frank chose double-chocolate-chip with extra chips, and Mikey chose cappuccino flavour.
"I have an idea!" Frank announced after finishing his ice-cream. Mikey groaned. Frank's ideas seemed to always end in trouble.
"We should totally play hide and go seek!" Frank yelled excitedly. "The place is big enough!"
"Sounds fun, Frankie. I'm in," Gerard said, smiling down at his best friend. Mikey sighed. He was always the counter first in this game.
"Mikey, you can count first," Gerard told his brother, ruffling his hair affectionately.
"Fine. But if we get in trouble it isn't my fault," Mikey warned, staring suspiciously at Frank and Gerard. Both boys grinned widely at him and nodded before running off together. Sighing again, Mikey started counting.
"Gee! Lookie! We can hide in there!" Frank whispered to Gerard, pointing at the elevator. Gerard smiled at him.
"Perfect!" Gerard agreed, grabbing Frank's hand and walking into the elevator. Frank stared up at the colourful buttons, practically drooling. He reached up and punched all of them, one by one, and they lit up brightly.
The elevator made a weird cranking-sound, almost like it was angry at Frank for molesting it, the doors closed, and it lurched upwards before stopping suddenly.
Frank sent Gerard a panicked look. This was not supposed to happen. Gerard returned the look, hazel eyes wide.
"Frankie... What did you do?" Gerard whispered, turning his panicked gaze to the closed doors. Frank shrugged.
"I dunno. Don't the buttons look prettier like that?" Frank asked absent-mindedly, smiling slightly at his work of art. Gerard shook his head.
"Frank. We're stuck. In the elevator. And the music playing is creepy," Gerard whined, squeezing Frank's hand.
Frank sighed loudly and sat down heavily on the elevator floor, pulling Gerard down with him. "Don't worry, Gee-kins. Our momma's will get us out of here soon," Frank said confidently.
"How? They don't even know we're here! Mikey's all by himself and our momma's don't know where to look," Gerard yelled, panic rising again.
Frank's lip quivered. He hated it when Gerard shouted. And Gerard had never shouted at him. Frank had messed up big time. Frank looked at his lap and sniffled softly, not wanting Gerard to see him upset.
"Oh, Frankie. I didn't mean to yell. I'm sorry. I'm not mad," Gerard said, attempting to comfort his friend. He wrapped his arms around Frank, and Frank breathed in his familiar scent. Just then, the music stopped, thank goodness, and a static noise replaced it. Looking up curiously, they saw that the sound came from a small black speaker-box.
"Frank? Don't worry, baby, we're gonna get you out!" The sound of Mrs. Iero's hysterical voice came from the box.
"Mom? How are you in the box?" Frank yelled, jumping to his feet and trying to rip the box off of the wall, but he was too short to reach it. Gerard stayed seated on the floor, trying not to giggle.
"No, Frankie. She's not inside the box. The box is like a telephone," Gerard explained patiently.
"Oh. So she's not trapped, then?" Frank asked, sitting down again and staring at the box with distaste.
"No, Frank. She's fine. We're gonna get out soon," Gerard said, grabbing Frank's hand and lacing their fingers.
"We'll get you boys out of there in about ten minutes. Just hang in there," Mrs. Way's voice travelled through the box, sounding more calm than Frank's mom had. She was used to this kind of behaviour.
Frank rested his head on Gerard's shoulder, and in about two minutes he was sleeping, cuddling Gerard like a giant teddy-bear. Eventually Gerard got uncomfortable and shook Frank slightly.
"No, you stay away from my skittles, you pirate! Gerard will eatchoo," Frank mumbled into Gerard's shirt.
"Frankie, wake up. I'm not gonna take your skittles, and I'm not a pirate," Gerard said softly, stroking his hair. Frank opened his eyes sleepily and took in their surroundings.
"We're not out yet?" He asked exasperatedly, rubbing his eyes.
"No, Frankie. Not yet. But we will be. Soon," Gerard told him.
"See? I told you we'd get out. I'm always right," Frank boasted, patting Gerard on the cheek. Gerard rolled his eyes and stood up, trying to get the feeling into his butt back. They stayed in silence for a couple of minutes before Frank's voice broke it.
"I need to pee. Like, now."
A/N: This happened to me once. The skittle thing; not the elevator thing. >_>' | <urn:uuid:ab8d4945-6f4f-41da-8042-1e34439ea952> | 2013-05-23T18:47:52Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Synopsis of Philippine Mammals
To explore the Synopsis of Philippine Mammals, click here.
To explore the Supplement to the Synopsis of Philippine Mammals, click here.
The mammalian fauna of the Philippine Islands is remarkably diverse and species-rich, comprising what may be the greatest concentration of endemic mammals of any country on earth. Since 1988, the Field Museum of Natural History has been the primary base of operations for the Philippine Mammal Project, a multi-institutional, international collaborative effort to document the number of species that are present, the distributions of those species, their relationships within the tree of life, their ecology, and their conservation status. This website, the Synopsis of Philippine Mammals, is a summary of the information that is currently available.
The website was first implemented in 2002, using information from the 1998 publication by Heaney et al., entitled “A Synopsis of the Mammalian Fauna of the Philippine Islands”. The Synopsis website was extensively revised and expanded in 2010, in order to incorporate extensive new data, include more photographs, and provide detailed maps of the known distribution of each species. To keep the website up to date, as additional species are discovered and formally described, or species of marine mammals are documented in Philippine waters for the first time, we add them to the Supplement, and will eventually merge these into the main site once site maintenance has been completed.
As documented on this website, the terrestrial fauna is now known to include at least 214 native species (plus seven introduced species), in an area of only a bit over 300,000 square kilometers, one of the highest densities of native mammals in the world. Moreover, most of the species are found nowhere else: of the 214 native terrestrial species, 125 (58%) are endemic, and among the 111 non-flying native mammals, 101 (91%) are unique to the Philippines. They constitute an astounding example of adaptive radiation by mammals in an oceanic archipelago, and may justifiably serve as a source of great pride to the Philippine nation.
This website has been developed as a collaborative project with the Protected Areas and Wildlife Bureau of the Philippine Department of Environment and Natural Resources. Primary funding for its development has come from the Negaunee Foundation.
Explore our Philippine mammal project further:
Videos from the Abbott Hall of Conservation-Restoring Earth:
Mammal Discoveries in the Philippines
Why Mossy Forests in the Philippines are important
Island Evolution: Why islands have so many endemic species
Science at FMNH: Mammal Conservation in Island Ecosystems
The Field Revealed: Cloud Rat
(Above photo by LR Heaney. Musseromys gulantang from Quezon Province, Luzon Island, Philippines.) | <urn:uuid:40fbcd6f-183e-48bd-b2d5-be61cf03d9e5> | 2013-05-23T18:44:53Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Battles - The Siege of Kut-al-Amara, 1916
Following the signal (and, to the British at least, unexpected) failure of the Anglo-Indian attack upon Ctesiphon in November 1915 Sir Charles Townshend led his infantry force, the 6th (Poona) Division, on a wearisome retreat back to Kut-al-Amara, arriving in early December.
Aware too that his force was exhausted and unable to retreat further Townshend resolved to stay and hold Kut, a town of key importance to the British presence in the region. In this he was supported by regional Commander-in-Chief Sir John Nixon. The War Office in London however favoured a retreat still further south; however by the time this news reached Townshend he was already under siege.
Consequently the defence of Kut - sited in a loop of the River Tigris - was set in train ahead of the arrival of the besieging Turk force of 10,500 men on 7 December. However Kut's very geographical formation in effect meant that Townshend and his men were effectively bottled up.
Nevertheless the division's cavalry were despatched back to Basra the day before the arrival of the Turkish force (6 December 1915), since they were likely to prove of little use and yet a drain upon scarce resources during siege operations.
Leading the Turks were Nur-Ud-Din and the German commander Baron von der Goltz. Their instructions were straightforward if steep: to force the British entirely from Mesopotamia.
Consequently Nur-Ud-Din and von der Goltz attempted to pierce Kut's defences on three separate occasions in December; all however failed. Thus the Turks set about blockading the town while despatching forces to prevent British relief operations from succeeding in reaching Kut.
In Britain, as in India, the news of Townshend's setback had stunned the government which resolved to immediately send additional forces to the region, diverted from the Western Front. Consideration was given to regard both Palestine and Mesopotamia as a single front.
Townshend was led to expect rapid relief. He himself calculated that there were enough supplies to maintain the garrison for a month (subsequently revised to two months and then to almost five), although this assumed full daily rations.
Informed that a relief operation might take two months to assemble Townshend proposed instead breaking out and retiring further south: Nixon however insisted that he remain at Kut and therefore tie up as many Turkish forces as possible.
In due course the first British expedition to raise the blockade was set underway from Basra in January 1916, led by Sir Fenton Aylmer. Their efforts were repeatedly repulsed however with heavy loss, at Sheikh Sa'ad, the Wadi and Hanna in January 1916 and again two months later in March at Dujaila.
April brought a further relief operation, this time led by the sceptical Sir George Gorringe. Despite meeting von der Goltz and his Turkish Sixth Army, piercing their line some 30km south of Kut, the expedition ran out of steam and was abandoned on 22 April.
With no further hope of relief - a final attempt by the paddle steamer Julnar to reach the town with supplies having failed - Townshend requested and received an armistice pending surrender talks on 26 April.
The Turks agreed to send 10 days of food into the garrison while the six-day armistice was in effect. While the talks were in progress the British took the opportunity of destroying anything of value in the town, aware of its imminent surrender.
An additional 23,000 British casualties have been suffered during the relief efforts; the Turks lost approximately 10,000 men.
Although Khalil Pasha, Baghdad's military governor, proved sympathetic to Townshend's offer of £1 million plus a guarantee that none of his men would be used again in fighting against the Ottoman Empire - effectively buying parole, he was instructed by Minister of War Enver Pasha to require Townshend's unconditional surrender.
This was duly delivered on 29 April 1916, the British having run out of food supplies and wracked with disease of epidemic proportions (and with entirely inadequate medical provisioning to meet it).
It was the greatest humiliation to have befallen the British army in its history. For the Turks - and for Germany - it proved a significant morale booster, and undoubtedly weakened British influence in the Middle East.
Approximately 8,000 Anglo-Indian troops were taken prisoner (many weak through sickness), as was Townshend himself. However whereas he was treated as something of an honoured guest (and ultimately was released to assist with the Ottoman armistice negotiations in October 1918), his men were treated with cruelty and routine brutality, with a significant percentage dying while in captivity.
Baron von der Goltz meanwhile did not live to witness the conclusion of siege operations; he died ten days earlier of Typhus, although rumours persisted (unproven) that he was actually poisoned by a group of Young Turk officers.
Click here to view a map charting operations in Mesopotamia through to 1917.
Battles and Engagements of the Relief Operation
|Battle of Sheikh||Opened 6 January 1916|
|Battle of the Wadi||Opened 13 January 1916|
|Battle of Hanna||Opened 21 January 1916|
|Battle of Dujaila||Opened 8 March 1916|
|First Battle of Kut||Opened 5 April 1916|
Photographs courtesy of Photos of the Great War website
Observation balloons were referred to as 'sausages'.
- Did you know? | <urn:uuid:ce89e444-96c4-4945-801f-5422a93eb727> | 2013-05-23T18:58:38Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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At times, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad looks (and acts) like someone ready for his own show on Cartoon Network (Mahmoud, Mahmoudd & Mahmoudy? The Terrorist Adventures of Little Hitler and the Supreme Leader?). From his goofy appearance to his outlandish pronouncements, Ahmadinejad often resembles something from the storyboards of Danny Antonucci, Maxwell Atoms, or Craig McCracken. But alas, Iran's best-known cartoon figure is very real, and very determined to acquire nuclear weapons. So his rantings can't be totally dismissed.
But they can be quantified and deflated, as require. Consider Ahmadinejad's recent announcement that his army has attained "self-sufficiency," and boasts that recent U.N. sanctions have no affect on the Iranian armed services. As proof of this, the stenographers at the Associated Press obligingly published Ahmadeinjad's claims, and supposed examples of an expanding arms industry:
"Since 1992, it has produced its own tanks, armored personnel carriers, missiles and a fighter plane. It announced in 2005 that it had begun production of torpedoes."
But that doesn't mean the stuff is any good, or that Tehran has actually achieved self-sufficiency in military production. In fact, a closer examination reveals that the Iranian claim is full of holes, but you wouldn't know that by reading the AP dispatch.
We'll begin with that Iranian "fighter plane," nicknamed "Saegheh," the Farsi word for "thunderbolt." As we observed last September, this "new" fighter is nothing more than a re-manufactured U.S. F-5, which has been in the Iranian inventory for more than 30 years. Aside from a second vertical stabilizer (and a slightly expanded nose cone), it appears to have little in the way of new features and capabilities; it is certainly not a match for U.S. F-16s or F-18s, as Tehran boasted last September. Given its modest performance (in comparison to fourth and fifth-generation western jets), we suggested that a better name might be the Farsi term for "target."
Additionally, Iran shows no signs that it will mass-produce the Saegheh. That means that aging, U.S.-built F-4 Phantom IIs and F-14 Tomcats will remain the backbone of Tehran's fighter fleet, at least for the near term. At last count, the Iranian Air Force had only 30 "operational" Phantoms, and only a half-dozen F-14s that were flyable. Making matters worse, there are indications that none of the Tomcats have a functional air-intercept radar (used for tracking and engaging enemy aircraft), and none of their long-range Phoenix missiles work, either. If Iran was truly self-sufficient, you'd think they would have found a way to keep more of their fighters in the air.
And similar problems exist among Tehran's other, foreign-produced aircraft, including the MiG-29 Fulcrum (made in Russia), and the Chinese-manufactured F-7 (a copy of the MiG-21 Fishbed). Mission-capability rates among both jets remain dismally low, despite the supposed availability of Russian and Chinese advisers, spare parts, and good, old-fashioned Iranian "know-how." So much for self-sufficiency, at least in the skies.
Iran's missile program is a cause for greater concern. Thanks largely to North Korea, Tehran has a growing arsenal of short, medium and intermediate-range missiles, along with various models of battlefield rockets. But the accuracy of these systems leaves much to be desired; one reason that Iran is actively pursuing WMD is because its current missiles (and rockets) are incapable of precision strikes with conventional munitions. Tehran's crowning achievement in missile technology (the medium-range Shahab-3) is essentially an extended range SCUD, with a CEP of three kilometers or more at long range. And all of Iran's existing missile systems are vulnerable to intercept by ballistic missile defenses in the region, reducing their potential effectiveness. Iran could probably sustain some semblance of the current program without outside assistance, but improving range and accuracy will still require foreign expertise.
Readers may also recall that Iran's "advanced" high-speed torpedo (also mentioned in the AP article) is largely based on a World War II-era Russian design. If you've watched a classic submarine movie like Run Silent, Run Deep, you've got the idea. For the torpedo to work, you've got to develop a primitive firing "solution," then hope the target doesn't maneuver or dispense counter-measures. Against a modern warship, employing existing ASW measures, the Iranian torpedo is anything but a world-beater.
In the air defense arena, Iran can perform limited maintenance on its I-HAWK system, acquired from the U.S. in the 1970s. But the number of available missiles, launchers and support equipment have declined steadily in recent years, reflecting the problems associated with an aging system--and the Iran's modest ability to keep the system in service. Similar problems exist among Tehran's other "legacy" air defense systems, the Russian-made SA-5 and the Chinese-produced CSA-1. Iran probably has higher in-service rates for its newer SAMs, including the SA-6 and SA-15, the product of Russian contractor support that came with those arms sales. But those missiles are limited in number; the I-HAWK remains the backbone of Tehran's air defense network, and the system is hardly a sterling example of Iranian self-sufficiency.
As for the ground equipment, Iranian-produced main battle tanks (Zulfiqr 1/2/3, Safir 74) are either copies of existing designs (the Safir is a duplicate of the China Type 59 tank, which in turn was copied from the Soviet T-54/55 series), or a blend of older western and Russian designs. The Zulfiqr, for example, blends technology from U.S. M-48 and M-60 tanks (dating from the 1950s and 60s), along with components from the Russian T-72. Hardly a match for the U.S. M-1 Abrams, or Russia's T-80 for that matter.
Still, the Iranians derive some benefit from these claims. From the hardware perspective, these programs provide a starting point--a potential springboard for building better systems somewhere down the road, with continued external assistance. From a propaganda standpoint --Ahmadinejad's real aim--the boast reinforces perceptions of Iran's growing military power, and raises concerns about the potential "cost" of a military conflict with Tehran. And, as we've noted on many occasions, the Iranian president's wild assertions go virtually unchallenged by the western press. So, from his vantage point, it makes perfect sense to continue the propaganda game, offering cartoonish claims about growing military power and self-sufficiency that have only a marginal basis in fact. | <urn:uuid:615ad0af-e6dc-4c3d-95ae-ff3cdc5675d5> | 2013-05-23T18:38:21Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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|I'm having a hard time trying to figure out how tube amp power output relates to solid state power output. I've been looking at the classifieds for tube amps and I see lots of tube amps with 50w or 60w output, but nothing close to the 250w output typical of solid state amps.|
So I have no idea what type of tube amp is required for my set up, right now I'm using totem forests with a required power rating of 150w-200w at 8ohms. The bass is so powerful on these that I have the sub crossover set to 40hz.
My question is, are tube amps so efficient that 50w from a tube sounds like 150w from a solid state? Or will 50w output from a tube severely limit how loud I can play my speakers? If so, are tubes usually meant to be driving super-high efficiency speakers?
I had previously tried a tube pre-amp with a solid state power amp (both musical fidelity) and didn't like the results because the imaging suffered greatly, even though the music sounded nicer from a distance. Now I want to try a solid state pre-amp (bryston) with a tube power amp (no idea which brand to look at), but I don't know how much power output I need or if it will even be possible with my speakers. Does anyone know what I would require? | <urn:uuid:1412f470-a095-467b-8b05-343b1a014288> | 2013-05-23T18:58:34Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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When I first did this a few months ago, the top result NOT related to our game was an article on the Berlin Wall. Google summarized the article with this excerpt:
Google wrote:In his speech, President Reagan mentions this phrase, which was spraypainted on the Berlin Wall: "This wall will fall. Beliefs become reality.
Maybe Dryu should edit that timeline. Looks like the game started earlier than we thought. | <urn:uuid:e9aa4319-5d09-4aad-8600-effa01799f92> | 2013-05-23T18:40:10Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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QUOTE(Labadi @ Aug 17 2005, 10:00 AM)Hi, I like to ask if someone knows if I can put a more powerfull processor in my pc and wich one will fit ? If possible I would like at least a 3000 or 3200 processor
Thanks for ur advice /blink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='blink.gif' /> [right][snapback]482931[/snapback][/right]
That is dependent on the type of motherboard, ram, and power supply you are currently using.
The opinions expressed above do not represent those of Advanced Micro Devices or any of their affiliates.
All "Socket A" Athlon's fit into 462-pin sockets, but that doesn't mean you can automatically run faster CPU's on older boards because the requirements of those CPU's can change.
As AMD808 suggested, it depends on what board and components you have - if you could supply that information it would help greatly /biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /> | <urn:uuid:d737ddbe-3d2f-4472-a110-fd9861a15c99> | 2013-05-23T18:31:46Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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According to Farouk in Uncanny X-Men #265, Storm was promised to him long ago, but since Claremont wrote this in 1990 we've had no concrete evidence with regard to who this might have been.
I'd always wondered "had one of her Rain Queen ancestors promised N’Dare’s child to him?"
Think I've now figured it out!
It very possibly was Storm’s uncle, Shetani (who was established in the UXM Annual in 2006).
It was revealed that the males within the family bloodline did not receive any of the power passed down so he sought a different sort of power to destroy theirs and had been hunting for Ororo for years.
It is very possible that he made a deal with Farouk in exchange for power of some sort in the past… which would give N’Dare, her mother, more reason to flee with her child. | <urn:uuid:9417ff04-c169-4119-ba11-5a74aa87c286> | 2013-05-23T18:34:14Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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I need some advice on a table frame that I am currently planning. The frame will be 19" W X 45" L. The legs will be 4 cabriole legs with 2"x2" post blocks. The frame will be 29 1/2" tall. The apron will be a 4" sculpted apron. There will be one additional support in the center of the frame. The frame will be made of hard maple. The top will be a piece of 3/4" marble that weighs 11 lbs. per square foot. Roughly 70 some odd pounds. My question is can I build this frame out of 3/4" stock and will the 3/4" be strong enough to support the weight of the top, or should I go with perhaps 7/8" stock and would 7/8" be able to support the marble top or should I use some other thickness of stock? I really need advice on this matter. Thank you in advance for your help. | <urn:uuid:d0defcbf-a2ad-4270-8eb9-1e6bd16c573e> | 2013-05-23T19:06:01Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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I'm afraid I haven't played IWD2 (or IWD1) in a long time. I made all the code available if anyone wants to play around with it. I was running into difficult issues with some of the non-generic NPC's (the generic ones were manageable). The mod needs a lot of work to be enjoyable. For example, some of the IWD1 tactics don't work as well in the IWD2 engine.
I think the beta testers had the same experience I did. The mod works up to some point in the first act, and then it's unplayable (the opponents become impossibly difficult). | <urn:uuid:b31216c0-3107-470c-b283-02b6d561d67f> | 2013-05-23T18:51:46Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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I tried installing LMDE from an ISO downloaded last week. Installation went fine, until I tried to install apache2.
Initially, the problem looked like a simple matter of updating the package manager. First attempt to install apache2 showed 404 errors, but after updating package manager the files were installed.
Problem is, it looks like the requirements for the new apache2 included installing a new libssl. That worked right after the installation, but when I shut down my laptop and tried to log in again, the session quit immediately with a message about a problem with virtual box, and a mismatch between OpenSSL versions.
I've tried updating more and more packages, removing openssl packages (from recovery mode command line), and have had to reinstall many times just to get back to a starting point for some functionality.
Is there a sequence of precise steps to start with the LMDE ISO and get apache2 working without making Virtual Box die?
Thanks for help -- would love to switch to Mint, but apache difficulty is a deal-breaker. | <urn:uuid:87089764-5561-410c-8f22-9e67f6c5a6ea> | 2013-05-23T18:39:38Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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06-28-2012 12:56 PM
Is it possible to use SignalExpress to automate the repitition of the following task...
1) Record a voltage for 30 seconds using an NI DAQ
2) Send a digital output immediately following the 30 seconds to open/close an air valve for the next 5 minutes
I would like to be able to repeat the above two steps over the course of a few hours.
06-29-2012 07:59 AM
Yes, provided you don't need really tight timing. If you do, you may still be able to do it by chaining triggers through your acquisition and generation devices. Look at the sequence break step and the digital triggering options for your devices. If you need more info, let us know and give us a bit more information about what devices you are using.
07-06-2012 08:10 AM
The 6210 only has digital output, so you will need an external circuit to switch the 4-20mA control for that valve. This could be as simple as a battery-resistor-transistor or as complex as an off-the-shelf commercial unit (if you are careful, you can use the 5V output of the 6210 as the battery). | <urn:uuid:65b45fe0-5f91-477d-8c87-5d5de56f299a> | 2013-05-23T19:06:16Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Originally Posted by KB1UAM
I dont think we're supposed to list the input frequencies?????
#1. That is Scan New England, not Radio Reference.
#2. If you have an issue with the post, use the "report post to moderator" function (the triangle) at the top of the post. | <urn:uuid:2641e0ec-7c51-4358-8c08-299389c5e834> | 2013-05-23T18:58:09Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Sadly this is what Israel has to put up with.
This kind of story sounds like a joke but I wouldn't be surprised if it were true, not in the least. Someone wise once said, the problem about Israel and the Arabs is simple to see but hard to sort out.
One side just appears to want the other side dead.
Who wants what?
Consider these 2 separate and unlikely events and their likely aftermath:
1. What would happen if Israel laid down all its arms and said, I don't want to fight any one no more? What would its Arab neighbours do?
2. What would happen, conversely, if all of Israel's other adversaries did that instead? What would Israel do?
Who would take advantage of whom?
You only have to think back to 1967, 1973. This is why I have nothing but utmost respect for the state of Israel, its people and their fight and struggle to exist.
(And no, I am not Jewish, I love my bacon too much)
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Question about filenames for Export[...]
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- Subject: [mg99742] Question about filenames for Export[...]
- From: "Lorents" <fdsa at ff.gr>
- Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 05:44:56 -0400 (EDT)
I'm using Mathematica 6.
I'd like to know how to define a file name (to be later used in Export) so
that the file name contains the value of an index variable i.
To exemplify, in Fortran this task would be accomplished by something like:
character(len) :: FileName
write(FileName,'(A,I4.4)') 'MyName', i
These lines would produce filenames which, for i=1,2,... are MyName0001,
Is there any neat way of doing the same with Mathematica?
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Belial wrote: Especially not in the US. We're all white people now, rocking the white privilege.
Check, so subcultures cultures/religions or groups which have been successfully wiped out or subsumed into others are game for caricaturing.
Jessica wrote:Wanting to "play at being native" is extremely privileged.
Or wanting to play as a chinese soldier, never mind that it may be a mishmash of different dynasties and groups never mind the crap the west put china through.
Or wanting to play as a samurai, never mind that the movie samurai never really existed as anything like they were portrayed and the crap the west put japan through.
Or wanting to play as a roman style gladiator never mind the crap the subjugated cultures around rome went through .
Or wanting to play as a soldier in a historical war, never mind the kinds of deprivations that the real soldiers went through and what atrocities were commited in the wars in question.
Or wanting to play as a Scottish highlander never mind inaccuracies and the centuries of oppression by the english.
and so on and so on and so on unto infinity.
broken_escalator wrote:HungryHobo, you don't seem to understand what privilege even is. It's obvious you bristle at its use, so I'm guessing people have used it against you before. Are you even capable of intelligent discourse?
Oh it has a meaning but you like most who use the term use it as nothing more than a magic "I'm right" automatic win argument which has no counterpoints which don't automatically confirm it.
You on the other hand seem utterly ignorant of how many European people and cultures were systematically oppressed or in some cases wiped out entirely.
it is possible to be European and from such cultures and such ignorance on your part does make me bristle.
My ancestors language was almost wiped out,(some would was it was, now it only exists in a corrupted form with it's old alphabet and even original names turned into badly translated versions in another language) millions upon millions dying due to an oppressive neighbours mismanagement and oppression, religion systematically suppressed and people pushed into the least hospitable areas or killed to make way for settlers from the conquering power.
but I'm white(though not American) so I'm automatically privileged. (or at least I am if I in any way disagree with you since that appears to be your only criteria for applying the label)
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This is more of a puzzle game than a puzzle, so if it's not appropriate in this forum I apologize.
The purpose of this game is to find a (real) word that contains a given sequence of three letters.
An (fallacious) example is:
A few more examples are:
1) Must be a real word (preferably from the English language, or a common loan word.) Must not be an abbreviation. Must not be a proper noun.
2) When a word is figured out, the person who figured it out must pose the next set.
3) You must have figured out for the next set of letters before you post. No random zzz posts.
4) Abuse of the rules is encouraged.
Build a man a fire and warm him for a day,
Set a man on fire and warm him for the rest of his life. | <urn:uuid:29f5e807-4b37-4643-87f8-f758559d9f12> | 2013-05-23T18:44:30Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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This afternoon we had a long meeting. First we heard the report by Mrs Amos on the humanitarian situation in Libya. This afternoon the consultations were mainly about precise questions on the status and the situation, about migrant workers, about people who are trapped in Misurata or elsewhere. It was mainly a technical debate. Afterwards we had some questions on the humanitarian situation in Syria and eventually we had a discussion about our next trip to Africa.
Q: Ambassador Churkin called upon you to distribute the letter by Mr Dodik, President of Republika of Srpska. What will you do?
The rule in the Security Council is that the letters are given to the President of the Security Council by a member State. For the moment no member State has given me the letter by Mr Dodik. So this letter for me as President of the Security Council doesn’t have any legal existence.
Q: Can you talk about the consultations following the briefing today by Mrs Amos. In terms of what you said about the situation there, that civilians have not been protected.
I didn’t say that.
Q: … and in your national capacity of France, what do you think of Syria being on track to become a member of the UN Human Rights Council.
We have publicly considered that it was not the right moment for Syria to become a member of the Human Rights Council.
Q: Did you get any sufficient information from the Syrian…
We didn’t discussed Syria exactly because it was not on the agenda. We discussed the humanitarian situation in Syria, or more precisely the question was raised by OCHA about a humanitarian mission which should have been sent to Deraa. There was an agreement between the UN and the Syrian government to send a humanitarian mission to Deera. This mission should have gone to Deraa yesterday and at the last moment the Syrian authorities cancelled it. So the question was raised and Mrs Amos said that it has been cancelled without explanation and that she was hoping to send the mission in the coming days.
Q: Is Syria considering withdrawing their nomination at the Human Rights Council?
We didn’t discussed the Human Rights Council candidacy. It is not a topic for the Security Council.
I think the humanitarian mission to Deraa is supported by all the members. But there was no political discussion about the situation in Syria whatsoever.
Q: On the trip, has Sudan agreed that the Security Council goes to Abyei ?
Sudan has agreed to the visit to Abyei. There is no problem. We are discussing the technical organisation i.e to which airport we are going. | <urn:uuid:9b128f17-f983-42c7-861a-6bb15a9def64> | 2013-05-23T18:50:44Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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During the Allied 'push' in September 1918 the squadron concentrated on tactical bombing from Clairmarais, making a particularly intense and successful effort on two nights at the end of the month. Then, in driving rain with a cloud base of 1,000 ft (305 m), it bombed the roads in front of the Ypres salient, dropping 12 tons in two nights and firing the nose guns of the 'Fees' at every light seen. Some crews flew up to nine sorties each night.
The squadron then returned to strategic bombing in the Germans' rear until World War 1 was over. It then became part of the Army of Occupation (the only F.E. squadron to do so), remaining at Bickendorf until March 1919. The squadron then moved across to Tallaght in Ireland before disbanding on 1 August 1919.
On 12 April 1937 B Flight of No. 99 Squadron, at Mildenhall, equipped with Handley Page Heyfords, was expanded to squadron strength and given No.149's number plate. This was during the rushed expansion of the RAF to be ready for the war that was clearly imminent. Before World War 2 broke out the squadron had re-equipped with Vickers Wellington Mk Is, and was operational on 4 September 1939, flying a raid on warships at Brunsbuttel. It was soon found that the Wellington was unsuitable for daylight raids, and there was little for No.149 to do for the rest of the 'phoney war' apart from 'Nickel' leaflet raids over Germany at night.
It was when the German offensive in the Low Countries began in May 1940 that the squadron began the bombing offensive against Germany which occupied it for the rest of the war. The Wellington was soon found to be the best of the British bombers, 50 No.149 and the other No.3 Group squadrons were busily involved, at first in tactical bombing to try to halt the German advance on the British troops evacuating from Dunkirk, then against the invasion barges massing at the Channel ports. But the squadron was really meant for strategic bombing and it was this task, principally against the Ruhr, on which No.149 concentrated during the winter of 1940-1. During the long winter nights it was able to fly farther afield, and included Berlin and the industries of northern Italy in its targets. All through 1941 it soldiered on with the Wellington Mk IC, flying whenever required, weather permitting. In November the squadron began to convert to the Short Stirling four-engine bomber without ceasing operations, bringing the Stirling onto operations on 26 November.
Mildenhall and No. 149 had seemed inseparable, but in April 1942 the squadron moved over the fields to Lakenheath, the new satellite airfield still being completed. From here it continued the night offensive for the next two years, using its Stirlings to carry a heavy bombload each night against the Reich. At this time it was the fashion in the four-engine bomber squadrons to have a conversion flight to bring crews from the OTUs up to scratch on the Stirling before going on operations. On 30 May 1942, the squadron participated in the first of the 'thousand bomber' raids, on Cologne, putting up 17 aircraft together with four from its conversion flight, a maximum effort indeed. The long and dangerous routine of night raids against Germany continued all through 1942 with Stirling Mk Is.
On 28 November the target for the squadron was the Fiat works at Turin, which involved a flight over the Alps. Flight-Sergeant R.H. Middleton was flying Stirling BF372 (OJ:H) when, in the low-level attack, he was hit and badly wounded, losing his right eye. Other members of the crew were also wounded. Despite desperate wounds the two pilots flew the aircraft all the way back to the English coast, where Middleton kept the aircraft flying until most of the crew had baled out successfully; Middleton was lost when the aircraft crashed into the sea, but for his bravery he was awarded the VC.
The following year, 1943, was to be similar to 1942. In February more powerful Stirling Mk IIIs began to replace the Mk Is, but the problem with the type was its low ceiling and the squadron was used increasingly on mining sorties as the heavily defended land targets were unhealthy places for low-flying bombers at around 15,000 ft (4572 m).
1944 came and the squadron was still flying operationally with Stirlings, but by the early summer it had moved to Methwold where it soon re-equipped with the Avro Lancaster. This enabled the squadron to put in greater efforts in the final stages of the Battle of Germany, and its aircraft remained on the offensive all through the autumn and winter of 1944-5 and right up to the end of the war in Europe.
The squadron was retained in the peacetime Bomber Command, first at Tuddenham, then at Stradishall and finally back to Mildenhall, where it re-equipped with Avro Lincolns in 1949. These it began to use on 'Sunray' flights to Shallufa in Egypt, where it co-operated with the Canal Zone squadrons in exercises. But the Lincoins lasted with the squadron only until 1 March 1950, when it was disbanded at Mildenhall.
This was for a purpose, however, for on 14 August of that year No.149 reformed at Marham and was given Boeing Washington B.Mk 1s. These it took to Coningsby in October to form part of the second wing of these B-29 bombers, on loan to the RAF. The crews enjoyed the luxury of the internal appointments and the improved bombsight, and flew the type in all Bomber Command's exercises and competitions for the next three years.
Then the squadron re-equipped with English Electric Canberra B.Mk 2s and, having mastered jet bombing, went to Germany in August 1954, the first Canberra squadron based there. It formed the spearhead of RAF Germany's strike force there until 31 August 1956, when No.149 was disbanded at Gutersloh. | <urn:uuid:f3a01c01-df9a-484f-b4fd-26d3b2fb3dc0> | 2013-05-23T19:05:46Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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I. Freedom through Faith and Knowledge
The Black church and other faith assemblies have been at the core of the freedom movement since the mid 1800′s. Church provided opportunities to gather, and congregations throughout Orange County, black and white, have inspired and perpetuated the freedom movement. Schools for African-American children, often connected with churches, also were part of the freedom movement, beginning in the late 1800′s, in the midst of a segregated society. In 1968, Orange County schools became fully integrated. | <urn:uuid:9d69653f-81e0-416b-a503-bb03ed18c155> | 2013-05-23T18:30:24Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Dead Snow (Død snø)
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Bootnecks - free stinkers
Robert Mugabe and his chauffeur were rolling down the highway when suddenly they hit a pig crossing the road. They killed it instantly.Mugabe tells his driver: "Go to da farm over dere and hexplain to da honer of da pig what happen."One hour later, Robert sees his driver coming back from the farm, his clothes all wrinkled, a bottle of wine in one hand and a cigar in the other."What happen to you?" Robert asks."Well, the farmer gave me a bottle of wine, his wife, the cigar and their 19 year old daughter made wild passionate love to me.""My God! What did you tell dem?" asked Mugabe.The driver answered: "Good evening, I am Robert Mugabe's chauffeur and I have just killed the pig."
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SARAH: I’m not leaving until I find him.
CASEY: Neither am I.
[he opens a case filled with guns, they load up]
MORGAN: Wow. It’s like your gun is your soul. Your metaphorical yes to a question she couldn’t possibly bring herself to ask.
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I'm using Leaflet combined with GeoJSON features. Is there a way to label GeoJSON features (in this case - polygons)? It should get labels from feature.properties.name This is my code where I ...
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Amy Winehouse Drank herself to death, according to toxicology reports released by the London coroner’s office.
Coroner Suzanne Greenaway described the findings as "Death by Misadventure."
Though originally the report was delivered to the wrong address, when it finally reached her parents the results were clear: Amy's blood alcohol level of 0.416 was too much for her to survive, and the singer died as a result of alcohol poisoning.
The five-time Grammy winner was found dead in her London apartment on July 23, 2011.
Her family also said that Amy had been drinking steadily for several days prior to the alcohol overdose that finally put an end to the 27-year old’s life.
The family said they were relieved to finally learn the cause of Winehouse's death: “It comes as a relief to finally find out what happened to Amy. We understand there was alcohol in her system when she passed away."
There were no drugs involved, only alcohol.
"It was likely a buildup of alcohol in her system over a number of days,” they said.
Winehouse's controversial public image of was one of critical success versus personal turmoil. Winehouse was lionized, and vilified. Designer Karl Lagerfeld widely trumpeted her as the "new Bardot." Newsweek Magazine called her "a perfect storm of sex kitten, raw talent and poor impulse control."
At only 24, Winehouse had six Grammy nods and five wins. When she died three years later, her ex-husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, was in jail, her parents had, as always, exhibited radically questionable judgment, and the paparazzi tailed the singer relentlessly. It was no wonder the pressure was more than she could bare. | <urn:uuid:df9d4e0e-2113-4665-8803-30b288a9af4c> | 2013-05-23T18:50:55Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The characteristic features of the climate of Malaysia are uniform
temperature, high humidity and copious rainfall and they arise
from the maritime exposure of the country.
Winds are generally
light. Situated at the equatorial doldrum area, it is extremely rare
to have a full day with completely clear sky even in periods of
severe drought. On the other hand, it is also rare to have a stretch
of a few days with completely
no sunshine except during the northeast monsoon seasons.
Wind flow in Malaysia
Though the wind over the country is generally light and variable,
there are, however, some uniform periodic changes in the wind flow
patterns. Based on these changes, four seasons can be distinguished,
namely, the southwest monsoon, northeast monsoon and two shorter
inter monsoon seasons.
The southwest monsoon is usually established in the later half of
May or early June and ends in September. The prevailing wind flow is
generally south westerly and light, below 15 knots.
The northeast monsoon usually commences in early November and ends
in March. During this season, steady easterly or north-easterly
winds of 10 to 20 knots prevail. The more severely affected areas
are the east coast states of Peninsular Malaysia where the wind may
reach 30 knots or more during periods
of intense surges of cold air from the north (cold surges).
The winds during the two inter monsoon seasons are generally light
and variable. During these seasons, the equatorial trough lies over
It is worth mentioning that during the months of April to November,
when typhoons frequently develop over the west Pacific and move
westwards across the Philippines, south-westerly winds over the
northwest coast of Sabah and Sarawak region may strengthen reaching
20 knots or more.
As Malaysia is mainly a maritime country, the effect of land and sea
breezes on the general wind flow pattern is very marked especially
over days with clear skies. On bright sunny afternoons, sea breezes
of 10 to 15 knots very often develop and reach up to several tens of
kilometre inland. On clear nights, the reverse process takes place
and land breezes of weaker strength can also develop over the
The seasonal wind flow patterns coupled with the local topographic
features determine the rainfall distribution patterns over the
country. During the northeast monsoon season, the exposed areas like
the east coast of Peninsular Malaysia, Western Sarawak and the
northeast coast of Sabah experiences heavy rain spells. On the other
hand, inland areas or areas which are sheltered by mountain ranges
are relatively free from its influence. It is best to describe the
rainfall distribution of the country according to seasons.
Seasonal Rainfall Variation in Peninsular Malaysia
The seasonal variation of rainfall in Peninsular Malaysia is of
three main types:
(a) Over the east coast districts, November, December and January
are the months with maximum rainfall, while June and July are the
driest months in most districts.
(b) Over the rest of the Peninsula with the exception of the
southwest coastal area, the monthly rainfall pattern shows two
periods of maximum rainfall separated by two periods of minimum
rainfall. The primary maximum generally occurs in October - November
while the secondary maximum generally occurs in April - May. Over
the north-western region, the primary minimum occurs in January -
February with the secondary minimum in June - July while elsewhere
the primary minimum occurs in June - July with the secondary minimum
(c) The rainfall pattern over the southwest coastal area is much
affected by early morning "Sumatras" from May to August with the
result that the double maxima and minima pattern is no longer
discernible. October and November are the months with maximum
rainfall and February the month with minimum rainfall. The March -
April - May maximum and the June -July minimum are absent or
Seasonal Rainfall Variation in Sabah and Sarawak
The seasonal variation of rainfall in Sabah and Sarawak can be
five main types:
(a) The coastal areas of Sarawak and northeast Sabah experience a
rainfall regime of one maximum and one minimum. While the maximum
occurs during January in both areas, the occurrence of the minimum
differs. In the coastal areas of Sarawak, the minimum occurs in June
or July while in the northeast coastal areas of Sabah, it occurs in
April. Under this regime, much of the rainfall is received during
the northeast monsoon months of December to March. In fact, it
accounts for more than half of the annual rainfall received on the
western part of Sarawak.
(b) Inland areas of Sarawak generally experience quite evenly
distributed annual rainfall. Nevertheless, slightly less rainfall is
received during the period June to August which corresponds to the
occurrence of prevailing south-westerly winds. It must be pointed out
that the highest annual rainfall area in Malaysia may well be found
in the hill slopes of inland Sarawak areas. Long Akah, by virtue of
its location, receives a mean annual rainfall of more than 5000 mm.
(c) The northwest coast of Sabah experiences a rainfall regime of
which two maxima and two minima can be distinctly identified. The
primary maximum occurs in October and the secondary one in June. The
primary minimum occurs in February and the secondary one in August.
While the difference in the rainfall amounts received during the two
months corresponding to the two maxima is small, the amount received
during the month of the primary minimum is substantially less than
that received during the month of the secondary minimum. In some
areas, the difference is as much as four times.
(d) In the central parts of Sabah where the land is hilly and
sheltered by mountain ranges, the rainfall received is relatively
lower than other regions and is evenly distributed. However, two
maxima and two minima can be noticed, though somewhat less distinct.
In general, the two minima occur in February and August while the
two maxima occur in May and October.
(e) Southern Sabah has evenly distributed rainfall. The annual
rainfall total received is comparable to the central part of Sabah.
The period February to April is, however slightly drier than the
rest of the year.
Being an equatorial country, Malaysia has uniform temperature
throughout the year. The annual variation is less than 2°C except
for the east coast areas of Peninsular Malaysia which are often
affected by cold surges originating
from Siberia during the northeast monsoon.
Even there, the annual variation is below 3°C.
The daily range of temperature is large, being from 5°C to 10°C at
the coastal stations and from 8°C to 12°C at the inland stations but
the excessive day temperatures which are found in continental
tropical areas are never experienced. It may be noted that air
temperature of 38°C has very rarely been recorded in Malaysia.
Although the days are frequently hot, the nights are reasonably cool
Although the seasonal and spatial temperature variations are
relatively small, they are nevertheless fairly definite in some
respects and are worthy of mention. Over the whole Peninsula, there
is a definite variation of temperature with the monsoons and this is
accentuated in the east coast districts. April and May are the
months with the highest average monthly temperature in most places
and December and January are the months with the lowest average
monthly temperature. The average daily temperature in most districts
to the east of the Main Range is lower than that of the
corresponding districts west of the Main Range. The differences in
the average values in the east and the west are due almost entirely
to the low day temperatures experienced in the eastern districts
during the northeast monsoon as a result of rain and greater cloud
cover. At Kuala Terengganu, for example, the day temperature rarely
reaches 32°C during the northeast monsoon and often fails to reach
27°C. A number of occasions have been recorded on which the
temperature did not rise above 24°C which is quite frequently the
lowest temperature reached during the night in most districts. Night
temperatures do not vary to the same extent, the average usually
being between21°C to 24°C. Individual values can fall much below
this at nearly all stations, the coolest nights commonly follow some
of the hottest days.
As mentioned earlier, Malaysia has high humidity. The mean monthly
relative humidity falls within 70to 90%, varying from place to place
and from month to month. For any specific area, the range of the
mean monthly relative humidity varies from a minimum of 3% to a
maximum of about 15%. In Peninsular Malaysia, the minimum range of
mean relative humidity varies from a low 84% in February to a high
of only 88% in November. The maximum range is found in the northwest
area of the Peninsula (Alor Setar) where the mean relative humidity
varies from a low of 72% in February to a high of 87%. It is
observed that in Peninsular Malaysia, the minimum relative humidity
is normally found in the months of January and February except for
the east coast states of Kelantan and Terengganu which have the
minimum in March. The maximum is however generally found in the
month of November.
As in the case of temperature, the diurnal variation of relative
humidity is much greater as compared to the annual variation. The
mean daily minimum can be as low as 42% during the dry months and
reaches as high as 70% during the wet months. The mean daily
maximum, however, does not vary much from place to place and is at
no place falls below 94%. It may reach as high as nearly 100%.
Again, the northwest states of Kedah and Perlis have the largest
diurnal variation of relative humidity.
Sunshine and Solar Radiation
Being a maritime country close to the equator, Malaysia naturally
has abundant sunshine and thus solar radiation. However, it is
extremely rare to have a full day with completely clear sky even in
periods of severe drought. The cloud cover cuts off a substantial
amount of sunshine and thus solar radiation. On the average,
Malaysia receives about 6 hours of sunshine per day. There are,
however, seasonal and spatial variations in the amount of sunshine
received. Alor Setar and Kota Bharu receive about 7 hours per day of
sunshine while Kuching receives only 5 hours on the average. On the
extreme, Kuching receives only an average of 3.7 hours per day in
the month of January. On the other end of the scale, Alor Setar
receives a maximum of 8.7 hours per day on the average in the same
Solar radiation is closely related to the sunshine duration. Its
seasonal and spatial variations are thus very much the same as in
the case of sunshine.
Source - Malaysia Meteorological Service
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On Thursday we went to our playgroup, and here's what we did:
Tea Time Books:
1. Surah Al Fatihah
2. Assalamu Alaikum Song
3. Arabic Alphabet Song
4. English Alphabet Song
Pine Cone Bird Seed Feeders! This was super fun :) Thanks Umm Yusuf for preparing this!
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Chris Columbus has written, directed, and produced some of the most successful box-office hits in Hollywood history. He first made his name by writing several original scripts produced
by Steven Spielberg, including the back-to-back hits Gremlins and The Goonies. As a director, Columbus has been at the helm of such iconic projects as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Home Alone, Stepmom, and Mrs. Doubtfire. As a producer, Columbus was also behind the hit films Night at the Museum and The Help. | <urn:uuid:7f924dac-a284-48b1-b437-872373649ab0> | 2013-05-23T18:59:57Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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There was a zoo in Surrey, where the Dursleys took Dudley on his eleventh birthday, along with Piers Polkiss and, against their will, Harry. While at the zoo, they bought ice cream treats, saw a gorilla that reminded Harry of Dudley, ate at the zoo restaurant, and visited the reptile house. At first, Dudley found the place boring because none of the reptiles were moving around much, but when no one was watching Harry discovered that he was able to speak to snakes when he realised a boa constrictor understood what he was saying. When Dudley and Piers realised the snake was moving around, in their rush to the get to the cage Dudley pushed Harry out of the way. In Harry's anger, he made the glass of its cage vanish, unknowingly using Underage magic.
Behind the scenesEdit
- The film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone identifies this zoo as the London Zoo. This is where the scene was filmed. However, this cannot be considered canon as when Hagrid takes Harry from the Dursleys to get his school supplies in the novel, it's stated that Harry had never been to London before.
- In the book, Dudley and Piers jump back when the glass vanishes. In the film, Dudley falls into the tank and is trapped when the glass reappears.
- It is possible that this zoo is meant to be Chessington's World of Adventure, a zoo and adventure park located in real-world Surrey. Chessington's World of Adventure has a reptile house and a family of gorillas, like the zoo featured in J.K. Rowling's book.
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (First appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film)
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film) (Mentioned only)
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An engaging story was shared with me by a colleague that penetrated my soul. He lost the father that he had not seen nor spoken to for thirty years since the age of ten. He was blessed with the opportunity to connect with his father just before the end. The father that didn't bother lay there in the hospital most certainly aware that this was his last glimpse at his extremely successful son who was emotionally unplugged from the man who gave him life. It was understandable that thirty years with no contact could create such a scenario.
Following his father's passing, days after his farewell visit, my friend attended the funeral. At the full military ceremony the oldest son was presented with the tri-folded American flag that had draped his father's coffin. The deceased was a veteran who had fought for his country and returned from war to a more monumental fight - the one in which the people he protected had no idea of how to protect him. It was at that moment as the rifleman's twenty-one gun salute was firing and the flag rested in his lap did my dear friend pledge allegiance. His allegiance is to making a difference, to making a positive impact, to freeing himself from casting judgment, and to choice, otherwise known as the still small voice of his maker.
Where is your allegiance? What flag rest in your lap that you are prepared to proudly fly at full mast? Identify it and use it as a reminder of these actions.
Now is never too late! | <urn:uuid:9c8e9aaa-724b-4aab-981e-719e32c876c5> | 2013-05-23T18:53:19Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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A series of ping tests using the command, ping www.expedient.net -f -l xxxx, where xxxx is the packet size, can be used
to determine the optimal MTU for your connection.
Go to Start and select Run.
Type in cmd (Windows 2000/XP) or command (Windows 98/ME) into the Open: field. Hit the enter key or click OK. The DOS prompt should open.
At the DOS prompt, type in ping www.expedient.net -f -l 1492 and hit the Enter key.
Note the results above indicate that the packet needs to be fragmented. Lower the size the packet in increments of +/-10 (e.g. 1472, 1462, 1440, 1400) until you have a packet size that does not fragment.
Begin increasing the packet size from this number in small increments until you find the largest size that does not fragment. Add 28 to that number (IP/ICMP headers) to get the optimal MTU setting. For example, if the largest packet size from ping tests is 1462, add 28 to 1462 to get a total of 1490 which is the optimal MTU setting.
Change the MTU using DrTCP or editing the registry. See MTU Settings for further information. | <urn:uuid:1d30d4fb-25f7-4305-8032-9e8d2c502ece> | 2013-05-23T18:45:54Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Anorexia is an eating disorder where people starve themselves. Anorexia usually begins in young people around the onset of puberty. Individuals suffering from anorexia have extreme weight loss. Weight loss is usually 15% below the person's normal body weight. People suffering from anorexia are very skinny but are convinced that they are overweight. Weight loss is obtained by many ways. Some of the common techniques used are excessive exercise, intake of laxatives and not eating.
Anorexics have an intense fear of becoming fat. Their dieting habits develop from this fear. Anorexia mainly affects adolescent girls.
People with anorexia continue to think they are overweight even after they become extremely thin, are very ill or near death. Often they will develop strange eating habits such as refusing to eat in front of other people. Sometimes the individuals will prepare big meals for others while refusing to eat any of it.
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At a press conference in Chesterfield, the deeply conservative politician told reporters: "We are going to be here through the November election, and we are going to be here to win."
The defiant message comes despite senior members of his own party – including presidential contender Mitt Romney – calling on him to quit following his claim that "legitimate rape" rarely leads to pregnancy.
Reaffirming his refusal to acquiesce to party demands, Akin added: "I may not be the favourite candidate of some people within the Republican establishment, but the voters made a decision."
Polls have shown that the Missouri congressman's chances of being elevated to the Senate have slumped since his ham-fisted attempt to justify a no exception policy on abortion during an interview on Sunday.
Almost two-thirds of voters now view him unfavourably. Meanwhile he trails by a full 10 points to his Democrat opponent Claire McCaskill. A poll this week put her ahead on 48% to Akin's 38%.
It is marked turnaround in the race for a Missouri Senate seat, which many people were tipping Akin to take comfortably. A week ago, one survey put the Republican candidate ahead by as much as nine points
That was until Sunday's interview with KTVI-TV, in which he attempted to explain why he was against abortion, even in the case of pregnancy resulting from rape.
He told the local station that "from what I understand from doctors, that is really rare", adding: "If it is legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try and shut that whole thing down".
The comments sparked outrage, with prominent members of both political
parties condemning the remarks.
Akin later said he "misspoke" but the clarification did little to halt the tide of criticism.
President Barack Obama said the comments were "offensive". In a rare attendance at a regular White House briefing to the press, he added:
"Rape is rape". He later went on to ridicule Akin for being a member of the House's science and technology committee who appears to have "missed science class".
Romney was also quick to distance himself from the Missouri candidate, stating that the comments were "inexcusable" and calling on Akin to step aside for another Republican candidate.
But the Senate candidate has defied party bigwigs, and repeatedly refused to step away from the Senate race.
"This is an election, not a selection," he said on Friday, in an apparent swipe at those within the GOP higher echelon who have been demanding that he go.
His refusal to bend to party demands will likely act as an irritant to Romney as he heads to the Republican convention in Tampa, which starts on Monday.
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Here are some possible methods of arriving at a body count:
- Everyone mentioned except Enoch and Elijah, as per Bob Jones's note
- Only those mentioned of meeting an untimely end
- Those mentioned as meeting an untimely end, plus reasonable assumptions about casualties on all sides in battles, famines or other events mentioned
Since the OT is not history in the modern sense, the count would only be a rough estimate and the margin of error would be inestimable. From a scholarly viewpoint, the number would not be useful, as there is no other number with which to compare it. It's not like asking "how many people were killed in WWII", an historical event for which we have some reliable records.
We would then have to ask what the purpose of arriving at this number is. Here are some possibilities:
- Proof that the OT outlook on life is essentially violent and retributive
- Proof that despite the violent surroundings, the OT produced prophecy of high moral vision
- Proof that the OT is inferior (or superior) to some other body of scripture or literature
- Elucidate the similarities or differences with other collections of literature, such as Greek or Hindu epic literature, and arrive at some conclusion
- Support speculation regarding the spiritual or moral meaning of the number or the fate of the people involved
Only the fourth purpose could be called hermeneutic.
In any event, the wars and plagues mentioned on the OT were in no way unusual for the ancient world. There is a good summary of ancient warfare on Wikipedia. It looks like the major players in our area of interest were the Egyptians, Assyrians and later the Persian and Greeks. The People of the Book were minor actors on this stage, along with the Edomites, Amelikites and Philistines.
It was indeed a nasty period of human history, but was to get much worse with technological improvements and population growth after the end of the OT. The Roman conquests, Islamic conquests, crusades, and well, you know the Vikings weren't known for their merciful acts.
Yet out of this global mayhem there arose a culture of prophecy that held that men should hammer swords into plows, spears into pruning hooks, stop conspiring to war, look out for widows, orphans and the displaced, forgive bad debts, and see themselves as stewards of the land rather than its owners. The record of that culture is found on the OT. | <urn:uuid:dc786ec1-ee4b-4834-9296-10936c7dd6cf> | 2013-05-23T18:51:46Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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In 2 Kings 19 king Hezekiah faces a great threat to Jerusalem from the Assyrian king. He delivers a message to Isiah with the following words:
This day is a day of distress and rebuke and disgrace, as when children come to the moment of birth and there is no strength to deliver them...
(2 Kings 19:3)
I have a really hard time understanding the picture of a child birth in this context. What is it that I'm missing?
Who are the children that not yet are born? Is it the peoples "salvation" from the Assyrian king?
And it seems to be near, the children had come to the moment of birth. But it's something missing. What's that? | <urn:uuid:720e8a05-fe5e-4b43-9160-5ebc389c6bec> | 2013-05-23T18:37:56Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Heather Carlton is a hearty succulent. Although she thrives in partial shade as well as compleat darkness, she is native to arid valleys and coastal climates. She can be identified by her seasonal colour-changing blossoms and round bulbous stem. Unlike her cacti relatives, she is devoid of thorny spines. If ingested contact poison control immediately. | <urn:uuid:d830f576-082d-4079-8a65-586cbfb86449> | 2013-05-23T18:51:23Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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19th Century Subdivision Map of Planned Bartow Village
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During the mid to late 19th century, there was an area in the Town of Pelham known as Bartow. The hamlet of Bartow was a quaint and small collection of residences located on the mainland near City Island. The entire area -- as well as City Island -- was annexed by New York City, effective in 1896. Before then, however, the little area known variously as Bartow, Bartow-on-the-Sound, Bartow Station and Bartow Village became an important part of Pelham and its history.
Detail of 1895 Map by Julius Bien & Co.
Showing Bartow, Northwest of City Island.
All that remains today of the little hamlet of Bartow are the remnants of a once beautiful stone train station designed by famed architect Cass Gilbert and built in 1908 to replace the little wooden station built on the branch line in the 1870s. The station was known as Bartow station. Today the stone station is a collapsed and decrepit shell covered with vandals' graffiti.
in Pelham Bay Park
I have published to the Historic Pelham Blog a number of postings about the hamlet of Bartow and the remnants of its train station. See:
Thu. March 24, 2005: The Bartow Area of Pelham in the 19th Century: Where Was It?
Thu. July 21, 2005: Today's Remnants of the Bartow Station on the Branch Line Near City Island?
This "Map of Bartow Village" shows a planned subdivision thwarted by New York City's acquisition and annexation of the lands as part of its development of Pelham Bay Park during the late 19th century. The map offers an interesting insight into the area. The railroad tracks cross the map from left to right in its very center. The small black rectangle at the center of the map represents the Bartow Station. A photograph of the remnants of that station appears above.
Today's pathway leading to the remnants of the station appears to lie approximately where "Third Street" was planned in the little Village. On the Long Island Sound side of the railroad tracks, there were a number of streets planned to lead from today's Shore Road toward the railroad tracks: First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Streets. Third Street was the only such street planned to cross the railroad tracks. Bishop Avenue was planned for construction parallel to the railroad tracks on the Sound side immediately in front of the Railroad Depot.
On the side of the railroad tracks away from the Long Island Sound (opposite the Railroad Depot) two streets were planned for construction parallel to the railroad tracks: Oak Avenue and Chestnut Avenue.
Interestingly, the map seems to reflect that a number of the properties near the Railroad Depot were reserved by the Bartow Estate involved in the development of the subdivision -- presumably because the properties likely were among the most commercially valuable. A few others appear to have been reserved for -- or owned by -- others including J.H. Byron.
Today the area sits near the Pelham Bit Stables in Pelham Bay Park. Rarely do those who pass even realize that a residential village once was planned where today there is little more than trees, brambles and a lovely bridle trail. | <urn:uuid:7272c139-0602-4758-b3c9-98199219e168> | 2013-05-23T19:04:46Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Police Log: Stolen Car, Man in Wandering Woods With 'Psychological Issues'
The following information was supplied by the Holliston police department. Where arrests or charges are mentioned, it does not indicate a conviction.
12:50 a.m.: A resident walked into the station to report a friend who was waking in the woods "experiencing psychological issues." The missing party came to the police station at 9:30 a.m. and was transported to Milford Hospital by an ambulance.
9:20 a.m.: A Bullard Street caller reported seeing a car run over a group of ducks. Police located the driver, who said he was unaware he had done so.
4:22 p.m.: A resident called police reporting his vehicle had been stolen and put on a tow truck. The stolen vehicle bulletin was later canceled after the incident was discovered to be a civil matter.
10:13 p.m.: Police responded to a single car crash and transported the driver to Milford Hospital. | <urn:uuid:47c21746-52d6-4412-b6bb-7a5473388f86> | 2013-05-23T18:44:01Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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So I did some digging on this...
It turns out GUI.depth only works when called from different scripts. It doesn't work when called from a single OnGUI.
Now it may look like GUI actions are called from different scripts, but under the hood PlayMakerGUI combines all GUI actions into a single OnGUI call. Most of the time this is a VERY good thing, resulting in huge performance gains, but in this case it's not so good since it breaks GUI.depth
This optimization was introduced in an update, so Set GUI Depth used to work, but now it doesn't do anything (as far as I can tell - Unity GUI seems to be a bit quirky).
I'll see if there's a way to fix GUI.depth, but in the meantime, you could:
- Draw the textures in the same state.
- Use GUITextures instead. These are easily layered with the Z coordinate.
- Or use some combination. E.g. GUITextures for the background and GUI actions for the foreground. | <urn:uuid:4769a921-a256-4043-893e-7d3567fc6a11> | 2013-05-23T18:38:00Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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From: Tokyo (Toyoda)
September 24, 1941
Henceforth, we would like to have you make reports concerning vessels along the following lines insofar as possible:
1. The waters (of Pearl Harbor) are to be divided roughly into five sub-areas. (We have no objections to your abbreviating as much as you like.)
Area A. Waters between Ford Island and the Arsenal.
Area B. Waters adjacent to the Island south and west of Ford Island. (This area is on the opposite side of the Island from Area A.)
Area C. East Loch.
Area D. Middle Loch.
Area E. West Loch and the communicating water routes.
2. With regard to warships and aircraft carriers, we would like to have you report on those at anchor, (these are not so important) tied up at wharves, buoys and in locks. (Designate types and classes briefly. If possible we would like to have you make mention of the fact when there are two or more vessels along side the same wharf.)
ARMY 23260 Trans. 10/9/41 (S)
(EXHIBITS OF JOINT COMMITTEE , EXHIBIT NO. 2 JAPANESE MESSAGES CONCERNING MILITARY
INSTALLATIONS, SHIP MOVEMENTS, ETC.) | <urn:uuid:194e24eb-7950-4742-adec-4e8aafeb2f8c> | 2013-05-23T18:58:48Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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London: 'Lord of the Rings' star Ian McKellen says returning to New Zealand to shoot 'The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey' felt like he was going home.
The 73-year-old actor, who is battling prostate cancer for seven years, reprised his role as Gandalf the wizard from Peter Jackson's award-winning 'Lord of the Rings' trilogy in the prequel film, reported Femalefirst.
"It was like going back home, really. It was more of the same, which is what was required, but it wasn't boring. I mean, a whole new set of circumstances and a new Bilbo (Baggins) to play with in Martin Freeman, and all those 13 dwarves, and a new aspect of the story," he said.
The 73-year-old actor reprised his role as Gandalf the wizard from Peter Jackson\'s \'Lord of the Rings\'.
The film had a royal premiere yesterday and was attended by Prince William. | <urn:uuid:06a8f628-7afc-4021-b141-b45ea92d789f> | 2013-05-23T18:53:03Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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TCP Vegas is analyzed and modified in the congestion avoidance phase by using optimization theory. The optimization approach is to maximize the aggregate utility of all sources subject to the capacity constraints of the network's resources. The congestion avoidance mechanism of sources and the active queue management in bottleneck routers can be interpreted as finding a solution of the optimization problem with constraints by using the first order method. In this method, we discuss several modifications of congestion avoidance in sources and queue management in routers with respect to 1) what the objective function of TCP Vegas should be, 2) how the active queue management should be designed in the framework of the optimization approach.
SICE 2003 Annual Conference (Volume:3 )
Date of Conference: 4-6 Aug. 2003 | <urn:uuid:1c7846b7-acb4-46ca-ac11-ed088ee745b2> | 2013-05-23T18:53:11Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The authors have a hypothesis that metacognition is effective in finding the meaning and value to people themselves when they encounter something new. This hypothesis means that the promotion of new value creation requires the trial-and-error verbalization of how the surrounding environment and given knowledge relate to their own body and mind and what meaning they have, which is herein called ldquometacognitionrdquo. This paper will reconsider metacognition in terms of value creation in everyday life, verify this hypothesis, and discuss the potential of metacognition as an elemental technology for value creation.
Date of Conference: 12-15 Oct. 2008 | <urn:uuid:20d6c0df-8037-439f-9440-14f8c8347fe4> | 2013-05-23T18:41:06Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Interviewer: If you were a superhero, what would be your super power and superhero name?
Frank: If I revealed my secret identity, the world would go to sh*t.
Gerard: I'd rather just be Wolverine, if that's ok.
Mikey: Sweet Little Dude. My powers involve being svelte and invisible.
chinablu asked: nice background.. haha
Hot Knives is a song.. uhm, sort of about a woman that kind of discovers that...– Conor Oberst (via connyxoberst)
you've all heard of the alot, right?
justacleverruse: Allie Brosh’s magnificent creature, spawned from a common spelling error? well, I think the alot needs a friend. based on an equally irritating error. and thus: and: and: ^^^
He called me five seconds after he left my house, hasn’t even left my...– Zacky Vengeance. [About The Rev, the day before he passed away.] (via maxiemadness) | <urn:uuid:c1ecc186-afc3-41ba-b50d-4e2611cfe3d6> | 2013-05-23T18:50:59Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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BREAKING NEWS: Rapper Waka Flocka Flame Shot Twice During Robbery Attempt! Someone Tried To Take Waka's Chain!
Published on January 19, 2010
Gucci Mane's right hand man Waka Flocka Flame was shot today during a robbery attempt.
So Icy Entertainment's own Waka Flocka was shot in Atlanta. Waka Flocka was reportedly injured in a shooting earlier today. While stopping at a gas station off Old National Highway in Atlanta, Flocka was approached by unknown men at gunpoint and was told to hand over his chain. After refusing to give up his jewelry, the suspects fired shots in the direction of Waka Flocka hitting him twice. Waka was not shot in the chest (as is widely rumored), and is not in critical condition. Insiders are citing arm/shoulder wounds and say that the young "O, Let's Do It" rapper will be ok. | <urn:uuid:ac39b5da-5359-487a-a5fa-3f946a1683e4> | 2013-05-23T19:05:21Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Scene Recognition System
The passion of developers who transcend the barriers of the workplace and debate from every possible angle in pursuit of an even better technology
The Scene Recognition System is a completely new technology. We have heard that the development process was fraught with various difficulties.
“To achieve an ‘even better technology’ was a challenge the Scene Recognition System absolutely had to overcome. There were plenty of difficulties just to do that. First of all, since the development process required us to undertake simulations showing how certain types of image data we photographed could produce certain types of output, we had to start by taking huge volumes of sample photos to be used in the simulations. To do that, we made a special camera that could use a 1,005-pixel RGB sensor to read the photo data. We connected the camera to a computer and took photos of lots of scenes we supposed would also be taken outdoors, although it looked a little strange to passers-by.”
This technology could have never come about if you weren't persistent, right? How did the data processing, one of the primary focuses of development, work out?
“A huge number of calculations is necessary to perform Scene Recognition, and the data processing inside the camera was extremely busy. The same information from the 1,005-pixel RGB sensor required different calculation processes depending on whether it was being analyzed for AE or AF. It took considerable effort to put together the required algorithms or to give the microprocessor enough memory to operate efficiently.”
Do the various calculations have to take place instantly?
“Yes. Even a single action requires extremely complex, high-speed calculations. Continuous shots in particular represent the hallmark of a successful camera. The camera has to work at maximum capacity when this is being done in AF. When the mirror is down, light is read by the sensor, and the instant the mirror goes up, calculation results are fed back, and when the shutter is pressed, the camera has to finish all the work. To repeat these operations instantaneously, calculations for various types of information to be passed on need to occur in an instant.”
I see. So, calculations are necessary for every movement of the camera?
“Exactly. It's extremely difficult to get the hardware and the data obtained in simulations to work together. We don't have much difficulty making simulations on the computer, but we had a very hard time getting the actual mechanism to work based on the simulation data. In 3D-Tracking, for instance, subject tracking information and AF need to link up and work together, but it didn't work at all at the beginning. We thought we had debugged the program and got the calculations perfect, too, but there were so many unknowns in this pioneering technology, it took a long while for us to make it work. We tested various possibilities in this process of trial and error, and once we finally got it to work in the camera, everyone involved in development and engineering felt a sense of achievement.”
You have been involved mainly in the development of metering technologies since you joined Nikon, so in the development of the Scene Recognition System, you had to expand into other fields such as AF, didn't you. I'm very interested in how you approached those challenges.
“Everyone in the development team came from completely different jobs, but our departments were nearby and we were in an environment where we could talk to each other quite easily. When talk of this development project came up, we had lots of discussions between departments. Especially when the idea was first proposed, it came under criticism from people wondering whether there was any sense in even attempting such a high hurdle. Once we put our heads together and talked openly about how we felt, I think we created an ideal environment for making something better.”
You knew it would be difficult, but you didn't say it was impossible. It is an admirable testimony to the interest and passion all the developers had for this new technology.
“I think it really was thanks to the efforts of so many people that we were able to do this. In the process of turning this new technology into a viable product, there really was a tremendous amount of ambiguity from the original idea to the final specifications we decided on. There were so many things we couldn't know just through experiments on the desk. In this area we had some members in the company who were in charge of making test photos and giving us constant advice. They were just like test drivers for new cars. We received lots of ideas from the hands-on experience of these people. Real ideas from the field are indeed very different from theoretical ideas, and they were indispensable to our development efforts.”
The harder the road we travel, the greater is our joy at the end. Just to hear someone say they were able to take a photo they could never take before.
How long did it take your team to develop the Scene Recognition System?
- Speaking of his future endeavors, Mr. Takeuch enthusiastically says: I want to explore applications to various camera models by considering their specifications and target users.
“About three years including time for the original idea.”
The D3 and D300 equipped with the Scene Recognition System have been released. Looking back on the development process, where did you get the energy to overcome all those difficulties?
“It was really our strong desire to succeed in creating this system. The difficulty in developing the system was the scale of the expectations people had for this technology. This provided the support we need to overcome obstacles in the development process. Of course, we have considerable satisfaction in having developed the technology, but more than that we look forward to the reaction of users. Though we developed these cameras with high-end, professional users in mind, professionals have the ability to make do with cameras with few functions. So if professionals use these cameras and say they are really useful, that would be a mark of success for us. The aim of the Scene Recognition System really has been to enable people to take photos they could never take before.”
We also look forward to future applications of the Scene Recognition System, which has a lot of potential.
“As a core technology, we would like to adapt it to future camera models, considering their specifications and target users. We want to start looking into various applications that will meet those needs.” | <urn:uuid:d8a5b7ce-34d6-4bac-9478-72a0b68ec2f8> | 2013-05-23T18:37:18Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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London, November 19 (ANI): Daniel Craig is being paid over 31million pounds to play James Bond in two more 007 films, it has been revealed.
The deal makes the 44-year-old actor, the best-paid Bond to date, the Daily Mail reported.
Craig, who features in the latest film 'Skyfall', will star as the world's most famous secret agent in a film that could be ready for release by 2014.
It is said that the latest Bond movie's huge box office success and critical acclaim has led to his large increase in pay.
The payments to Bond stars have risen massively over the past half-century.
Craig was paid 1.9million pounds in 'Casino Royale' in 2006, and received 4.4million pounds for 'Quantum of Solace' in 2008.
He earned 10.7 million pounds for 'Skyfall', which is more than the 7.5million pounds paid to his predecessor Pierce Brosnan for 'The World Is Not Enough' in 1999 and the 10.3million pounds for 'Die Another Day' in 2002.
The financial deal will see him placed near the top of Hollywood's leading men - vying for position just below Tom Cruise and Leonardo DiCaprio.
Craig, who is married to English actress Rachel Weisz, is widely judged the best 007 since Sean Connery and purists believe his portrayal of the literary character is the closest since Timothy Dalton in the 1980s. (ANI) | <urn:uuid:c901d310-bb87-4c5d-aa96-c89b62384b8e> | 2013-05-23T18:59:46Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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When I was a small child, I would lie in the hallway with Jinx, my white-and-black English cocker spaniel. I would rest my hand on his stomach and my head close to his snout and try to mimic his breathing. His breath was always faster and shallower than mine.
Steady and Rythmic Does It
Sunday, July 8, 2012
For as long as I can remember, I have had an intense awareness of breath. At 8 years old, I was learning how to ride Excalibur, my horse, bareback. I noticed that if I held my breath and gripped her tight with my legs, it would not be long until I would either be grasping for Cali’s mane for balance or I would be sliding down her torso to the ground. If I breathed steadily and rhythmically, I would be able to balance effortlessly in a trot, canter, and while jumping over fences. When I realized this secret, I quickly became a better rider.
As a teenager I was obsessed with the writings of Edgar Allen Poe and Stephen King, and I also often saw spirits in the old houses of my friends. I loved to the adrenaline rush of being scared. I realized when I was scared my breath would move faster in my body. The quicker my breath, the more my thoughts were panicked and irrational. In sports, I found I would sometimes hold my thoughts in concentration, but then I found that if I held my breath, my concentration on the task at hand would waiver and I would be stuck on images of failure.
Later in life, I realized I could calm and focus aggressive and frightened animals by being conscious of my breathing. Scared animals would relax in my arms, and aggressive dogs would await my next command. They too would start to breathe more rhythmically and in turn naturally begin to do their body-language calming signals of licking and yawning. I also realized that if I allowed my breath to be fast, or if I held my breath, the animals’ fear and aggression would escalate. They too would then hold their breath and panic.
I ask my animals now, “What do you understand about breath?”
Here are their answers:
Makia, my all-white cat, says, “When I concentrate on my breath, I have less anger toward others that annoy me. I also feel more connected to the flow of the universe. I make better decisions.”
Serafina, my gray cat, says, “If I concentrate on breathing when I have pain, I feel better. I also sleep better if I breathe well.”
Stormy, my Aussie dog, says, “When I breathe softly, I feel like I have greater insight into my life and the lives of others. I also feel healthier.”
Luca, my poodle, says, “If I breathe rhythmically, I can find my ball faster. If I hold my breath, it could be right in front of me, and I don’t see it or smell it. I think now about barking and breathing. Barking is not breathing steady. When I bark, my breathing changes, and I often forget why I am barking.”
Bean, my bunny, says, “The faster I breathe the more fear I have, and it is easier to panic and make bad decisions. I breathe perfectly when I am eating parsley. Chewing, breathing, and thinking about my good life is when I am the happiest.”
Joey, my cat in heaven, says, “There is breath here in heaven. It is what creates the tides and the rise and fall of the sun and moon. The more beings that breathe well on earth, the healthier the earth is. Breath is that powerful. Breathing creates consciousness. Consciousness creates right action. Right action creates a healthier space for all.”
Maia, my wolf dog in heaven, says, “It is up to every individual to take advantage of the power of breath. It can change your life for the better. Breath is what threads all positivity together. It is a great simple truth.” | <urn:uuid:1e64f209-a20f-4ecf-b6c3-d328749fbfca> | 2013-05-23T19:07:55Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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One of the most important aspects of Muster my Monsters is the animation system. Muster my Monsters is a semi-interactive game in the sense that you do not control directly the characters in the game but chose the actions they will execute. In some sense, it is like choosing the cinematic sequences that will be played in a while.
Muster my Monsters is a social/party game featuring terribly horrible and ridiculously weird fighting-monsters.
So, the quality of those cinematic sequences is critical. They need to be very visually appealing and, most important, they need to communicate the state of the game precisely to the player.
Muster my Monsters’ basic rules are similar to the rock-paper-scissors game, but in MmM we have ruder actions: Attack wins Mock, Mock wins Dodge and Dodge wins Attack. And this is called “balance”.
In the following video you have the first animations we prototyped:
Quite good! Isn’t it? These animations were visually appealing. The characters were very big and the movements were realistic and balanced. However, there were a few problems with them:
- The most important one was that people testing the game were repeatedly complaining about the fact that they didn’t understand what’s going on. “What happened?!” “Who won this round?” were common questions. And you can imagine that this was a critical problem…
- Performance. This animations were sprite sheet based. With such big characters and smooth animations the resulting sprite sheets were huge and, therefore, unfeasible. In this article you have more details about this problem and the adopted solution.
- They were too static. They needed more movement! :p
Importing procedural animations from Flash
The first problem we needed to address was the technical one. We needed to manage to improve drastically the animations performance. And there was one only solution: go from sprite sheet based animations to procedural animations.
Therefore, we spent about 3 weeks developing a tool that allowed us to export Flash animations in a custom XML format (actually is a plist file). And on the game side, we implemented a Procedural Animation Engine in cocos2d that was capable of reading the XML files and creating cocos2d Actions.
In the following video you can see the tool in action:
With this new animations system the sprite sheet weight was reduced from 100 to 1! Mission complete!
The new Animations Model
Ok, with the Procedural Animations Engine, the performance problem was successfully addressed. However, there was still a very important problem with the original animations: people didn’t understand what’s going on.
So, we needed to re-design the animations model from scratch. The original animations were too static. We needed more movement. The characters needed to move around the screen punching and dodging.
The nice thing was that the new Procedural Animations System was perfect for doing that. Now, moving the characters around the screen is (almost) cost-free and we can do it using Flash. We don’t need to move the characters around programmatically, with a trial-and-error methodology. So we decided to design an animations model that would exploit these great features of the new Muster my Monsters’ animations engine.
These are the fundamental characteristics of the new Animations Model:
- Wide movements
- Extreme keyframe positions with exaggerated revolves, spins and twists.
- “Hand-crafted” slow motion on dramatic moments (such as punches)
- Simple, without details
- Simple facial expressions to emphazise some special moments of the action
- Synchronization with camera zooming effects
- Try to avoid 3D rotation (no perspective animation)
- No legs :p (because of the previous bullet)
However, although the Animations Engine of Muster my Monsters is absolutely capable of playing animations that keep closely attached to the model, creating this kind of animations with Flash was not so easy. The main problem is the second bullet of the list: “Extreme keyframe positions with exaggerated revolves, spins and twists”.
It is very annoying for the animator to keep the structural integrity of the character during rotations and twists. Actually, he needs to create the animations frame by frame in some edge cases. The following picture illustrates the problem:
The red path in the picture is what you get from regular “tweens” in Flash. As you can see, the elbow position is inconsistent in some frames in-between the key frames. You can solve this problem adding more keyframes. But this is annoying, time-consuming and, most important, is not perfect. Adding more key frames you can only warrant that in every key-frame the structural integrity of the character is kept. But you can’t warrant for sure that the structural integrity is kept along the time. In other words, you can’t warrant that the distance from the elbow to the wrist is always exactly the same.
This is an important subtlety because our eyes and brains are well-trained to detect this kind of inconsistency.
So, that’s why we use Flash bones feature to animate the characters Bones allow us to keep the structural integrity both for each key frame and along time. To be honest, the bones tool from Flash has some issues, however, we managed to find out workarounds for all of them.
Finally, the demo video
Yes, we have THAT video Following you can see the game in the current state, with the new animations and the camera zooming effects.
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Could the “C” in HPC stand for Cloud? When a virtualized infrastructure is a viable solution for HPC
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Hi, I used to have friends from Sri Lanka and when |I moved away from the area we lost contact (15 years ago). My friend used to make a fantastic spicy `mix` to put on rice, curries etc. I think it was made from chillies, onion ,garlic-(and other ingredients) and fried until golden and nearly `dry`. I kept it in a jar in the fridge and it made even plain rice really good.
Can anyone tell me what this may have been called ? Also how to make it, please
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A serious crisis is shaking the English SWP, one of the largest parties of the Left in England, which claims to be Trotskyist. It is a moral crisis and the IWL cannot remain on the sidelines because firstly, the serious events that occur in this Left party are used by the bourgeoisie to destroy the image of the Left as a whole, as if all parties were a single organisation. Secondly, because it is through the actions of all organisations that claim to be revolutionary that the Left builds its place among the world’s proletariat.
Synthesis of what happened
A member of the party accused a member of the central committee of raping her. The Dispute Committee (called the Moral Commission in the IWL) investigated the case for four days and concluded that there was insufficient evidence against the accused.
A report of this investigation and its conclusion was presented to the conference in January. Delegates protested that the member who accused the leader had not been invited to the conference. Meanwhile, another member of the party made allegations that the same leader had sexually molested her.
In this climate of discontent the discussion was led in a bureaucratic way by strictly limiting the time for contributions, which prevented a broad discussion.
All these facts cast suspicion on the committee’s work and report, so that the conference was split almost in half, with231 votes in favour of the report, 209 against and 18 abstentions.
An unprecedented crisis followed with members breaking from the party and even intellectuals who had always worked with the SWP refused further cooperation with them.
Why no full freedom of discussion?
In our opinion, these are serious issues and require deep reflection. A complaint of rape from within the ranks of a party that claims to be revolutionary must be regarded with the utmost seriousness by all members, particularly by the leadership.
Rape is a type of violence against women that leaves scars for life. A woman who has suffered rape feels permanently threatened and afraid that this will happen again. It is a physical and psychological aggression that is difficult to overcome.
Therefore a complaint should be investigated thoroughly, and the leadership of the party has to be the most determined to ensure this; to prevent this from being repeated within the party. They should be the first to ensure complete freedom of discussion, encouraging all members to speak, especially the very member who made the complaint, without any embarrassment.
But that is not what happened. The member who made the complaint was not invited to the conference.
This is extremely serious because if the SWP leadership were sincerely interested in clarifying the complaint and establishing the truth, they would have given her presence fundamental importance. Moreover, the report of the conference shows that instead of ensuring the broadest possible freedom of discussion of the report, the Disputes Committee sought at all costs to avoid clarification of all the facts adding to the climate of distrust among the delegates.
An important question put by the delegates was why had the Disputes Committee not taken into account the second complaint by another member, in order to review their decision to acquit the leader or, at least, to raise doubts about the initial decision.
Thereafter, the Disputes Committee itself was questioned on suspicion of having acted to protect the leader. This is because two of DC members were appointed by the CC and another three were former members of the CC. It is much more democratic if all DC members are appointed by the Congress delegates, not just some, otherwise the composition favours the ruling group in the party.
A question of revolutionary morality
In the Transitional Program, Trotsky says that, “In a society based upon exploitation, the highest moral is that of the social revolution. All methods are good which raise the class consciousness of the workers, their trust in their own forces, their readiness for self-sacrifice in the struggle. The impermissible methods are those which implant fear and submissiveness in the oppressed before their oppressors in a society based on exploitation, the supreme moral is the moral of the socialist revolution. Good are the methods that raise the class consciousness of the workers…”
Trotsky is saying that the struggle against the oppression of women is part of the defence of revolutionary morality in our organisations and these issues cannot be treated solely in a formal way.
What happened in the SWP was just the opposite. They used methods that undermined the confidence of militants and created uncertainty and fear before the oppressors.
No political organisation is exempt from the possibility of moral revolutionary deviations. The question that arises is how these deviations are treated within the organisation.
The IWL (International Workers League – Fourth International) has also suffered such problems. Some of them were so severe that they came to threaten the very existence of the IWL.
What was the approach of the IWL? Firstly, we did not hide the facts, but clearly investigated them and punished those involved by expulsion from our ranks.
We even reached the point of losing an entire section of our International.
A companion of the main leader of the Bolivian section of the IWL accused him of beating her violently and repeatedly. The case was thoroughly investigated by our Moral Commission, which eventually proved the charges.
This leader had been in the IWL for many years but he was expelled from our ranks, which led to the remainder of the members of the Bolivian section to abandon the ranks of the IWL in solidarity with him. Thus, the IWL preferred to lose an entire section rather than keep in their ranks a militant who was proven to have serious moral problems.
The question of revolutionary morality is widely discussed among all the members, and the IX World Congress (2008) of the IWL agreed a document “In Defence of Revolutionary Morals”, which shows that our daily activity is an essential part of our construction.
What this showed us is that the question of revolutionary morality is not just an issue, but a key question for a leftist organisation that wants to build in order to destroy capitalism and bourgeois society.
It was a tough battle, but we are sure that the IWL has been strengthened by it. However we are aware that the threat remains, because the bourgeoisie will always seek to impose its morals on us and we are under constant pressure from bourgeois society and its moral degeneracy. We must stand firmly against this and not allow it to penetrate our ranks and destroy our organisations.
The IWL position is based on the teachings of Trotsky. We opened this discussion in our ranks to confront the problems by battling for a communist morality in our sections, in order to prevent the growing pressures that could eventually destroy us.
That is why we are concerned about what is happening in the SWP. We want our experience to help all revolutionary militants in different countries to understand its importance, with an awareness that this is a constant battle if we want to build a real organisation to serve for the revolutionary struggle of the proletariat.
With each passing day we are more and more convinced that there will not be a solid construction of a national revolutionary party, nor an International, if we do not maintain with courage our determination to fight anyone who damages revolutionary morality in our ranks.
The working class needs its own morals in the struggle against the bourgeoisie, which involves specific questions for the labour movement for the mutual protection of persecuted workers; never abandoning a worker who is fighting an employer or the police and always maintaining fair and honest relations between labour organisations.
But the revolutionary party has a specific morality.
The reason is that the more advanced fight is to overthrow the bourgeoisie and fight for the dictatorship of the proletariat. For that revolutionaries must have an iron discipline and morals that are superior even to proletarian morality, from which it comes.
It is essential that there is a high level of trust between everyone, a “brotherhood of the persecuted” as it is historically called in Latin America, because those who want to overthrow capitalism are persecuted and may pay the price with their lives. Therefore, it is necessary to maintain a higher moral strength in this organisation in order to withstand the pressures that the bourgeoisie impose.
For the party, collective organisation is everything, as opposed to the outlook of capitalist ideaology where individualism and selfishness prevail.
We need to strengthen the confidence of each comrade in their own strength, and develop trust between all militants, because in the most serious moments of our struggle we must trust our comrades.
To develop this, we want and we help each other to develop politically. Our party must be an organisation against the state and that requires complete trust between comrades whether men or women.
Confidence in women
There is a gap in society between men and women – it is harder for women to become militants. They are less able to be active, they experience a lesser position, historically have been slower to enter political life, and they continue to carry the burden of double oppression – so women have to make more effort.
At home, at work, at school, in all spheres of society, the woman is at a disadvantage and suffers all kinds of oppression, prejudice and sexual abuse.
The party has to be the opposite. In it women should find an environment of respect and interest in their political development. There is revolutionary respect for a woman who enters the party and is willing to give her life for the revolution because upon entering the party she will have to overcome greater obstacles than those faced by a man.
Within the party, if a party leader sexually oppresses a comrade, then he is committing a grave error because this is not what you would expect from any militant willing to dedicate their life to the socialist revolution.
Socialism is incompatible with such an attitude. Within the party, a conscious woman and militant revolutionary, does not expect to find the same that they find every day in society. Within the party they rely on their comrades, they lower their guard against them, and expect in return trust and a relationship of respect and camaraderie.
The denunciation of what happened in the SWP has not been made only to draw attention to the gravity of what happened. A revolutionary party that does not incorporate into its daily activity a struggle against the oppression of the oppressed sections, in this case women, can not be victorious in the struggle for liberation of the class.
You must fight all moral deviations, and along with it, be consistent with the program of liberation for the whole class, men and women.
We who fight against the oppression of women, know how important it is for a woman to become politically conscious and above all, to enter the party. So if incidents of sexism in society as a whole are serious, they are doubly pernicious within our ranks, because they will be destroying a militant and also our ultimate goal that is, the construction of the party – the instrument that we are building daily to win a socialist society, and with it, the total emancipation of women.
A constant battle
Inserted in bourgeois society there is a need for the party to fight to educate their members in revolutionary morality – theoretically and programmatically. This has to be a daily task. If when moral deviations occur and it is clear that this task has not been taken seriously, or, is addressed only in a formal way.,then the party remains more exposed to attacks by the bourgeois press and conservative forces, who will take advantage of these deviations to make attacks on all leftist organisations.
Why is it so important make every possible effort to establish the facts? It is to show to the working class and society as a whole that our parties are distinct from the bourgeois parties, where corruption, slander and deception reigns. To show that revolutionary politicians are different from the bourgeois politicians, who use politics to promote themselves and rob from the public coffers. To show that we have distinct morals and that our struggle against the oppression of women is a sincere struggle, not just something to mention in our documents, but is part of our everyday life. Only in this way can we win working men and women to our ranks.
The comrades of the SWP have an example in Britain of the kind of moral deviation that can destroy an organisation however strong it may be. The Healyite WRP was an organisation that had a long history in the English Left, but in the 1985 the catalyst for its destruction were the moral deviations of the leadership.
The leader of the party, Healy betrayed the trust of activists, especially women. Several of the women were sexually abused by him, and when they found the courage to report it, most of the leadership tried to smother it and dismiss the charges in order to protect the leader. The result of this approach was quickly followed by the total destruction of the organisation.
We need to learn from those mistakes to avoid repetition and destruction. The oppression of women and sexist deviations within our organizations must be fought relentlessly. Revolutionary morality requires us to exercise constant vigilance, which implies not only frequent discussion with our members through debates, lectures and courses, and with a thorough investigation and verification of any deviations.
Coming from our daily experience, which is often painful, the biggest lesson for all members is that men and women who today are part of revolutionary organisations throughout the world have to combat bourgeois morality, which is grounded in selfishness and privilege over others and in the hateful oppression of women.
For further reading on the IWL’s struggle see the congress documents and documents from our history Morals ; including a document by Nahuel Moreno from 1957 and In Defence of Revolutionary Morals from IWL IX Congress 2008.
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Providing automated spreading of product onto bread, the Spreadmatic range has been designed to cater for every level of sandwich production from the smallest to the largest manufacturer.
The Retail (1000 slices per hour) and the Commercial (3000 slices per hour) Spreadmatics are the ideal introduction to automated sandwich production. Both models offer the sandwich manufacturer the opportunity to cut spreading costs by up to 80%, while the Commercial Spreadmatic also has the additional benefit of accommodating both sliced breads and soft rolls.
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EFI v. Coyle on declaratory judgment actions (DJs)
The dismissal of a declaratory judgment action is reviewed for abuse of discretion (eg, Minn Mining v Norton, 929 F2d 670)
EFI argued that the relevant uncertainty was created by Coyle's persistent and forceful threats of patent litigation. The CAFC agreed with EFI that the uncertainty and delay regarding legal rights caused by the actions of Coyle were cognizable under the DJ Act, citing Goodyear, 824 F2d 953. The CAFC cited text in Arrowhead, 846 F2d 731, about "scare the customer and run tactics." The fact that EFI was "certain" it would prevail was not the relevant consideration.
EFI also criticized the district court's characterization of EFIs DJ action as a race to the court house, and the CAFC agreed, citing Genentech 998 F2d at 938.
The district court's dismissal of EFI's DJ action was reversed and remanded. | <urn:uuid:121e0b86-643a-45b0-a92c-3cdd4c1499ac> | 2013-05-23T18:44:05Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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This iReport is part of an assignment:
Gun control debate: Background checks
Hypocricy of the Fascist State
The Department of Homeland Security is seeking to acquire 7,000 5.56x45mm NATO “personal defense weapons” (PDW) — also known as “assault weapons” when owned by civilians. The solicitation, originally posted on June 7, 2012, comes to light as the Obama administration is calling for a ban on semi-automatic rifles and high capacity magazines.
So, when the government wants to purchase these weapons, they are referred to as "personal defense weapons". But when they want to attack our individual liberty and steal our second amendment right, they are referred to as "assault weapons".
Yeah, that makes sense.
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Development of the Eye (2nd of 3) Beginning of 4th week (4 mm, lens placode appears)
Early in the 4th week optic vesicles extend from the 3rd ventricle and wall of the forebrain (diencephalon). As the vesicle reaches the surface ectoderm it flattens (a) and progressively invaginates (b) to form the optic cup, which remains attached to the forebrain by the optic stalk (precursor of the optic nerve). The asymmetric invagination leaves a groove, the choroid fissure, in the stalk. The adjacent ectoderm thickens to form the lens placode (a & b) which invaginates and (eventually) separates (c) from the ectoderm to form the lens vesicle.
The primary optic vesicle (a) becomes a double-walled optic cup (c). With continued invagination the original lumen of the optic vesicle is reduced to a slit between the 1) inner neural layer and 2) outer pigment layer of the optic cup (c).
Mesenchyme around the optic vesicle will contribute to the fibrous coats of the eye (sclera/cornea) externally and the choroid layer adjacent to the pigment layer. It also forms the hyaloid vessels (c) which pass in the choroid fissure, across the vitreous chamber, to supply the lens. | <urn:uuid:b108a673-9cbf-4c8d-9bb3-a20f7ee93408> | 2013-05-23T18:44:14Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Hugh Pickens writes writes "CNN reports that Google has pulled 21 free apps from the Android Market that, according to the company, are aimed at gaining root access to the user's device, gathering a wide range of available data, and downloading more code without the user's knowledge. Unfortunately although Google has moved swiftly to remove the apps, they have already been downloaded by at least 50,000 Android users. The apps are all pirated versions of popular games and utilities which once downloaded, root the user's device using a method like rageagainstthecage, then use an Android executable file (APK) to nab user and device data, such as your mobile provider and user ID, and finally act as a wide-open backdoor for your device to quietly download more malicious code. 'If you've downloaded one of these apps, it might be best to take your device to your carrier and exchange it for a new one, since you can't be sure that your device and user information is truly secure,' writes Jolie O'Dell. 'Considering how much we do on our phones — shopping and mobile banking included — it's better to take precautions.'" | <urn:uuid:f032ef38-e1e6-4774-923d-8dadff1a5d3d> | 2013-05-23T18:58:39Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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We are looking to get better.
It's really that simple. We're not trying to trade certain players, and we're certainly not looking to move players just to move them. As with any off-season or trading deadline, we're assessing the market value for our players to see whether or not that value surpasses their value to the Padres. If you have something you value at one million dollars, it would be foolish to refuse to consider selling it for twenty million dollars. On the flip side, it would also be foolish to sell it for anything less than one million. The thing that makes the market work is that each player has a different value to virtually every Club.
Furthermore, no one player makes a great team. This has been proven time and time again in baseball. We don't need to look any further than the 2008 Padres that went 63-99 with Jake Peavy, but I will.
There have been a number of occasions in recent memory where teams have traded or lost one of their best players only to be as good or better... immediately:
- The 2008 Indians were 37-51 when they traded CC Sabathia, and then went 43-30.
- The 2007 Twins finished 79-83, traded Johan Santana and let Torii Hunter leave in free agency, and then went 88-75 in 2008.
- The 2003 Rangers finished 71-91, traded Alex Rodriguez, and then went 89-73 in 2004.
- The 1996 Giants finished 68-94, traded Matt Williams, and then went 90-72 in 1997.
There are many, many more, but here is my favorite string:
- The 1998 Mariners traded Randy Johnson in the middle of a 76-85 season.
- In 1999 the Mariners finished 79-83 without the Big Unit.
- After 1999, the Mariners traded Ken Griffey, Jr and then went 91-71 in 2000.
- After 2000, the Mariners lost Alex Rodriguez to free agency and went 116-46 in 2001.
That's three Hall-of-Famers in three successive seasons, and the Mariners improved each time. Baseball is a crazy game.This, of course, doesn't mean that trading a star player ensures success. What it does show, however, is that trading a star player can buoy a team. That is what we're exploring.
As far as Jake's particular situation, we have him under contract for the next four years with an option for a fifth year. Our task, then, is to determine whether what we would receive in exchange for him would outweigh the benefits of having him for those five years (presumably some player(s) we would get in return could be of service for more than five years, so that needs to be factored in as well). Make no mistake, however - we place tremendous value on Jake's presence here. That is why any offers for him in past years and every day up until this writing have been rejected.
Come to think of it, though, it's really not about Jake's particular situation at all. There was a very good comment in my last post asking about our process as it pertains to Brian Giles. Why would we be unwilling to trade him before the deadline, possibly willing to after the deadline, and then plan on picking up his option? The answer is rather straightforward - it all depends on the return. The return wasn't sufficient in any deal before the deadline, but was sufficient in the proposed deal after the dealine.
In short, we are charged with fielding the best possible team in both the short and long terms. Believe me, we wish we could put together a dynamic team comprised of players who would remain as Padres for the duration of their careers. On a personal level, we don't enjoy trading players. I don't know any executive who does. However, that just isn't the reality of today's game. Because of that fact, the best organizations out there can't really believe in the concept of "untouchable", because one can lose great opportunities with such blinders.
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Raina KumraAlumni, Class of 2002
Born in the summer of 1977, Raina moved to Boston in 1995 to pursue a degree in film. In 1999 she moved to New York City and started at NYU. While completing her degrees she finished 2 documentaries, one on the underground rock scene across the states, and one on Hinduism in India and South America. New York provided a fertile ground for practicing video art as well as producing work for global ad agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty and Newsweek.com. In 2004 she returned to New England to attend Harvard Design School and MIT Media Lab furthering her research in urban studies and architecture as it relates to media. She worked with Paola Antonelli and Rem Koolhaas on many interesting research projects which are being published. She is currently freelancing as an interaction designer at R/GA, video editing, doing broadcast design, taking on speaking engagements and independent consulting for various projects in New York City, Los Angeles, Moscow, London, Amsterdam and New Delhi. She is based in New York (for now). | <urn:uuid:d2726115-b4b8-4f85-b444-5389b5c55c5c> | 2013-05-23T18:32:17Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The epidemiology of hepatitis A infection in Palestine: a universal vaccination programme is not yet needed
In Palestine, there has been an increase in the reported incidence of acute hepatitis A virus (HAV) infection since 1995. Since overt clinical disease occurs only among adults, questions were raised whether or not a shift in the epidemiology of HAV has occurred. This is generally characterized by a decrease in the overall incidence rate and a shifting in the mean age of infection towards adolescence and early adulthood. The need for a vaccination programme is being discussed. To resolve this issue, we examined the prevalence of anti-HAV in a representative sample of 396 school children in the Gaza Strip. The prevalence of anti-HAV was 93·7% (95% CI: 91·3, 96·1%). Stratifying the prevalence by age showed that 87·8% (95% CI: 78·6, 97%) were HAV antibody positive by the age of 6. By the age of 14, almost 98% (95% CI: 92·7, 100%) were HAV antibody positive. This means that the majority of HAV infection is still taking place in early childhood, when it is usually asymptomatic and of little clinical significance. The results refuted the shifting epidemiology theory and we recommend that a vaccination programme against HAV infection is not yet needed. Alternative explanations for the increase in reported cases are discussed.(Accepted April 17 2001)
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JPG Member Interview: Judit Horvath
Posted by David Ozanich — 17 Mar 2011
This week for the JPG Member interview we're chatting with Judit Horvath.
So you live in Budapest. Did you grow up there?
No, I was born in the eastern part of Hungary, we moved to the western part, that is where I was a child, I went to secondary school by the Lake Balaton and I went to university in Budapest.
How did you become interested in photography? Do you work professionally?
Photography came to me when I was 18 or 19. I had my little lab in the bathroom and I would be lost for days in there. Digital is much cheaper now and I like how I can modify a picture to look like not what it looked like but what it felt like. I do not work as a professional.
You photograph a wide range of subjects from landscapes to raindrops. What subjects captivate you most?
I can't really explain it because it is not a rational thing. I think I have had this urge since I was a small child to capture my environment in a certain way. I used to draw a lot back then. The subject can be just about anything. I look at something and the next thing I know is I reach for the camera.
There is a sense of intimacy in your work? How do you achieve that?
I am not sure, it is absolutely not intentional, I shoot from my guts. It might come from my personality. I am tranquil and pretty much a loner - I mean I feel very comfortable on my own. I reckon most people do not.
Do you have any favorite equipment or processes that you use for your photos?
My equipment is what I can afford - a Canon 550D with some lenses. I post process my images on the computer but I do not like overdone photos. I would love to try some insanely expensive cameras and lenses, too.
Just for the curious traveler, what's the best place to get a cocktail in Budapest?
Well, I am not very much into cocktails, but we have some unique places downtown, mainly in and around the VIIth district, called romkocsma that translates literally as "ruin-pub". These are pubs operating in the inner courtyards of abandoned old houses and are very popular. Find some of them here: ruinpubs.com | <urn:uuid:40478deb-b8e1-482a-87c8-cf0eb901614f> | 2013-05-23T18:32:50Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Pettitte feels for his friend Clemens
Yanks lefty has hard time watching ex-teammate during ordeal
TAMPA, Fla. -- Andy Pettitte said that he has trouble watching Roger Clemens' ordeal, but is not surprised to see perjury charges being considered against his friend and former teammate.
"I don't like anything that's going on," Pettitte said Thursday. "I cannot stand it. I've told y'all how I feel about [Clemens]. It's like a part of my family that's having to go through this."
As doubts circulate regarding the truthfulness of Clemens' testimony at a Feb. 13 Congressional hearing, the Justice Department has been asked to investigate the seven-time Cy Young Award winner's repeated insistence that he never used anabolic steroids or human growth hormone.
Those claims are contradicted by Pettitte's testimony provided for Congress, in which he said that Clemens admitted in 1999 or 2000 that he had taken human growth hormone. Clemens claimed at the hearing that Pettitte "misremembered" the alleged conversation.
At Spring Training with the Yankees, Pettitte said that he knew further charges against Clemens would be possible.
"To tell you the truth, as far in my mind, I was prepared it might happen," Pettitte said. "I hate it and there's nothing else I need to say. I think everyone realizes how I feel about this whole situation.
"I've got one concern right now and that's trying to help this team. That's what I'm trying to get my mind on."
Pettitte's testimony was not the only evidence against Clemens raising eyebrows on Capitol Hill. Former Yankees teammate Chuck Knoblauch also discredited Clemens, as did as medical records from the teams for whom Clemens has played.
The 35-year-old Pettitte has admitted to using human growth hormone on three occasions during his playing career -- twice in 2002 and once more in 2004.
Pettitte said he has not spoken with his lawyers about the possibility that he may be called again to testify. He believes that the Justice Department's investigation will be a lengthy process, which could spare him from having to leave the Yankees during the season.
"Until somebody tells me to go somewhere, I can't do anything," Pettitte said.
Teammate Mike Mussina said on Wednesday that Pettitte will have trouble avoiding the controversy even if he is not called away from the club.
"Every city we go to, it's going to be asked again," Mussina said. "I'm sure if they start doing an in-depth investigation, they're going to come up with more and more things and more questions. I'm just hoping he can deal with it and still do what he wants to do on the mound."
Yankees manager Joe Girardi said Wednesday that he hopes the Justice Department will schedule any potential appearance around the baseball schedule.
"It's unfortunate," Girardi said. "My hope is it will [happen] in the offseason and he'll be able to concentrate on his work. I know, obviously, we consider baseball extremely important and we would just hope that they'd do it in the offseason if he's going to be subpoenaed and testify."
Pettitte, who signed a one-year, $16 million contract with the Yankees shortly before the release of the Mitchell Report, said he is not concerned about how he will be received following his testimony.
"I don't feel like I'm some kind of hero in this thing at all," Pettitte said. "I've made mistakes and I've admitted to them. However people want to handle that, that's how they'll handle it.
"I can't change what they're going to think of me and how they're going to feel about me. I've been honest with everything, and whatever repercussions that brings me as far as fans or whatever, I'll have to deal with that. I know I feel better that it's all over and that I told the truth."
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The bone marrow is the principal source of the many different types of cells that circulate in your blood stream. The term “myelodysplasia“ describes certain abnormalities in the production of these blood cells. “Myelodysplastic syndrome” (MDS) refer to at least five different entities, all of which interfere with the growth of blood cells in the bone marrow. The differences among them are found in the appearance of the cells under the microscope and are helpful primarily in determining prognosis.
MDS frequently progresses to a form of acute leukemia. Leukemia is a cancer of the blood cells. But in the case of leukemia, there is an overproduction of immature cells (blasts) circulating in the blood and an underproduction of healthy cells. In MDS, there is usually, but not always, only an underproduction of healthy cells. The progression to acute leukemia is so common that MDS used to be known as “preleukemia.”
The bone marrow contains stem cells, which have the capacity to become any of the cell types that circulate in the blood stream. These stem cells normally undergo a maturation process that results in mature cells with fixed functions:
- Red blood cells carry oxygen.
- Three types of granulocytes (a type of white blood cell) carry out immune functions.
- Two types of lymphocytes (a type of white blood cell) carry out immune functions.
- Macrophages and monocytes help us fight infection.
- Platelets provide a defense against bleeding and bruising.
Once cells have matured in the bone marrow, they are released into the blood circulation. MDS interrupts the normal maturation process of blood cells.
Who Is Affected?
Roughly 3,000 new cases of MDS occur yearly in the United States. A similar rate of 1 to 10 per 100,000 people occurs in the rest of the developed nations. Cases without a known cause are most frequently found in older males, usually between 70 and 80 years of age; among this group, the rate rises to 25 per 100,000 people.
The incidence of MDS among younger populations is rising. This is partially due to the success of chemotherapy and radiation in treating and eradicating other forms of cancer since these therapies increase the risk of developing MDS.
Causes and Complications
The exact cause of MDS is unclear, but certain factors are believed to increase risk. These include radiation for the treatment of cancer, certain drugs and chemicals, genetic factors, and some birth defects.
MDS may lead to a number of complications related to blood cells:
Bleeding —If blood clotting elements (like platelets) become depleted, bleeding may become uncontrollable.
Infection —If immune cells (white blood cells) are depleted, even small infections can be serious.
Anemia —When the number of red blood cells decreases, anemia may develop. A lack of red blood cells reduces the oxygen-carrying capacity of the blood and may cause fatigue, shortness of breath, palpitations.
Leukemia —MDS commonly leads to acute leukemia .
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Boks to face Samoa at RWC
19 Jul 2009
Samoa have qualified for the 2011 World Cup and will face the Springboks in Pool D.
Samoa beat Papua New Guinea 73-12 to clinch a 188-19 win on aggregate over their Oceania rivals and qualify for the global tournament in New Zealand.
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Sugar, spice, and everything nice.
These were the ingredients chosen to create the perfect drag queens.
But Professor RuRu accidentally added an extra ingredient to the concoction!
Thus the Powerpuff Queens were born!
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Toxic shock syndrome can happen to anyone — men, women, and children. Although it can be serious, it's a very rare illness. If you're concerned about toxic shock syndrome, the smartest thing you can do is to read and learn about it, then take some precautions.
What Is Toxic Shock Syndrome?
If you're a girl who's had her period, you may have heard frightening stories about toxic shock syndrome (TSS), a serious illness originally linked to the use of tampons. But TSS isn't strictly related to tampons. The contraceptive sponge and the diaphragm, two types of birth control methods, have been linked to TSS. And, sometimes, the infection has occurred as a result of wounds or surgery, where the skin has been broken, allowing bacteria to enter.
TSS is a systemic illness, which means that it affects the whole body. It can be caused by one of two different types of bacteria, Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus pyogenes — although toxic shock that is caused by the Streptococcus bacteria is rarer. These bacteria can produce . In some people whose bodies can't fight these toxins, the immune system reacts. This reaction causes the symptoms associated with TSS.
When people think of TSS, they often think of tampon use. That's because the earliest cases of the illness, back in the late 1970s, were related to superabsorbent tampons. Research led to better tampons and better habits for using them — such as changing tampons more often. The number of TSS cases dropped dramatically. Today about half of all TSS cases are linked to menstruation.
Aside from tampon use, TSS has been linked to skin infections that are typically minor and can be associated with the chickenpox rash. TSS has also been reported following surgical procedures, giving birth, and prolonged use of nasal packing for nosebleeds — although all of these are rare.
What Are the Signs and Symptoms?
Symptoms of TSS occur suddenly. Because it's an illness that is caused by a toxin, many of the body's organ systems are affected.
The signs and symptoms of TSS include:
high fever (greater than 102° F [38.8° C])
rapid drop in blood pressure (with lightheadedness or fainting)
sunburn-like rash that can be anywhere on the body, including the palms of the hands and soles of the feet
vomiting or diarrhea
severe muscle aches or weakness
bright red coloring of the eyes, mouth, throat, and vagina
headache, confusion, disorientation, or seizures
kidney and other organ failure
The average time before symptoms appear for TSS is 2 to 3 days after an infection with Staphylococcus or Streptococcus, although this can vary depending on the infection.
Your risk of getting TSS is already low. But you can reduce it still further by simply following some common-sense precautions:
Clean and bandage any skin wounds.
Change bandages regularly, rather than keeping them on for several days.
Check wounds for signs of infection. If a wound gets red, swollen, painful, or tender, or if you develop a fever, call your doctor right away.
If you're a girl whose period has started, the best way to avoid TSS is to use pads instead of tampons.
For girls who prefer to use tampons, select the ones with the lowest absorbency that can handle your menstrual flow and change them frequently. You can also alternate the use of tampons with sanitary napkins. If your flow is light, use a pad instead of a tampon.
If you've already had an episode of TSS or have been infected with S. aureus, don't use tampons or contraceptive devices that have been associated with TSS (such as diaphragms and contraceptive sponges).
What Do Doctors Do?
TSS is a medical emergency. If you think you or someone you know may have TSS, call a doctor right away. Depending on the symptoms, a doctor may see you in the office or refer you to a hospital emergency department for immediate evaluation and testing.
If doctors suspect TSS, they will probably start intravenous (IV) fluids and antibiotics as soon as possible. They may take a sample from the suspected site of the infection, such as the skin, nose, or vagina, to check it for TSS. They may also take a blood sample. Other blood tests can help monitor how various organs like the kidneys are working and check for other diseases that may be causing the symptoms.
Medical staff will remove tampons, contraceptive devices, or wound packing; clean any wounds; and, if there is a pocket of infection (called an abscess), a doctor may need to drain pus from the infected area.
People with TSS typically need to stay in the hospital, often in the intensive care unit (ICU), for several days to closely monitor blood pressure, respiratory status, and to look for signs of other problems, such as organ damage.
TSS is a very rare illness. Although it can be fatal, if recognized and treated promptly it is usually curable. | <urn:uuid:3e3f78a5-c077-44c3-8616-7592006713f7> | 2013-05-23T18:51:30Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Operating on a baby before birth may seem like science fiction, but prenatal surgery is becoming more and more common in special pediatric programs throughout the United States.
Since prenatal surgery was first pioneered in the 1980s, it's become an important way to correct certain birth defects that could be severe (and in some cases fatal) if babies were born with them unrepaired.
Prenatal surgery (also called fetal surgery or fetal intervention) most often is done to correct serious problems that can't wait to be fixed, like certain heart defects, urinary blockages, bowel obstructions, and airway malformations.
Some of the greatest successes have come from correcting spina bifida (an often disabling spinal abnormality in which the two sides of the spine fail to join together, leaving an open area). A recent landmark study reports that kids with spina bifida who received fetal surgery typically are more likely to walk, less likely to have serious neurological problems, and less likely to need a shunt to drain brain fluid.
So how does prenatal surgery work? The most common types are:
Open fetal surgery: In this type of procedure, the mother is given anesthesia, then the surgeon makes an incision in the lower abdomen to access the uterus (as would be done during a Cesarean section). The uterus is opened with a special stapling device that prevents bleeding, the fetus is either partially or completely taken out of the womb, surgery is done, then the baby is returned to the uterus, and the incision is closed. Open fetal surgery is performed for problems like spina bifida and certain other serious conditions. The mother will be in the hospital for 3-7 days and will need a C-section to give birth to the baby (and any future children).
Fetoscopic surgery: This minimally invasive type of procedure, often called Fetendo fetal surgery, is more common than open fetal surgery. Small incisions are made and the fetus is not removed from the uterus. The surgeon uses a very small telescope (called an endoscope) designed just for this kind of surgery and other special instruments to enter the uterus and correct the problem. Fetendo is most useful for problems with the placenta, such as twin-twin transfusion syndrome in which one identical twin grows at the expense of the other because of abnormal blood vessel connections in the placenta they share.
Fetal image-guided surgery: Some fetal surgery is done without an incision to the uterus or use of an endoscope. Doctors use ultrasound to guide them as they perform "fetal manipulations," such as placing a catheter in the bladder, abdomen, or chest. The least-invasive form of fetal surgery, it's not used for serious conditions that require open surgery.
The benefits of prenatal surgery don't come without risks, though. Chief among them are premature births and problems with the incision site. Moms who have fetal intervention are closely monitored for preterm labor and receive medications to control it. Still, for many parents and their babies, fetal surgery is a true medical miracle. | <urn:uuid:d12c4f1e-6454-4abb-85ba-494f39405b14> | 2013-05-23T19:06:48Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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How does a doctor test to see if you have STDs? - Perry*
There are different tests for different STDs. The kind of test someone gets depends on the type of STD, symptoms (like sores, discharge, or pain), and the person's medical and sexual history.
STD testing starts with a physical exam. A doctor or will ask questions about health, including sex, then examine the person's genitals. For girls, this may include a pelvic exam.
Based on what's learned from the interview and exam, the doctor or NP may take one or more of these samples:
a blood sample (from either a blood draw or a finger prick)
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a swab of the inside of the mouth
a swab from the genitals, such as the urethra in guys or the cervix in girls
a swab of any discharge or sores
Sometimes, the sample can be tested right there in the health provider's office. Other times, the sample is sent to a lab and the results come later. It depends on the office and the type of infection doctors are testing for.
STDs can be sneaky. Often there are no signs that a person has one. That's not necessarily a good thing. These "hidden" STDs can still put people at risk for health problems. Anyone who is having sex (or has had sex in the past) needs to get tested. | <urn:uuid:b49545f9-60fa-4ec2-8150-6b0e0725575d> | 2013-05-23T18:53:05Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Early this year, Noah’s mother noticed that Noah’s lymph nodes were swollen. She took him to the doctor, who put him on antibiotics. These didn’t work and so Noah was sent to a specialist who performed various tests and found out that Noah was suffering from a cancer of the blood called pre-T cell acute lymphocytic leukemia. However, before his doctors could begin to try and treat the cancer, they had to reduce the swelling in Noah’s lymph nodes, which were causing up to 90% blockage of his air passage. Once the swelling was reduced, Noah underwent a surgery to implant a port in his chest so that he could receive chemotherapy and radiation treatment. He has since undergone several chemo treatments, but still needs the radiation. Noah has also suffered through several blood and platelet transfusions. Because of his condition, Noah is currently out of school and will be in treatment for the next two to three years.
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Boris Gelfand is an Israeli Grandmaster born 1968. He won the Supertournaments of Biel and Wijk an Zee twice (1992,1994).
He recently won the 2011 Canidate Tournament and will play Viswanathan Anand in the 2012 World Championship.
Kiril Georgiev is a Bulgarian Grandmaster born in 1965. He won 3 Bulgarian Chess Championship and is considered the strongest Bulgarian player at the moment. He holds the record for most simultan games played with 360 games in 2009. He scored 280 wins, 6 loses and 74 draws.
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Arriving at the Scene
Killtown: Were you one of the Ground Zero rescuers on 9/11?
Patricia Ondrovic: Yes.
KT: What was your position and who did you work for?
PO: I was an emergency medical technician [EMT] with the Fire Department of New York.
KT: How did your day start off on Sept. 11 and when did you get called to the scene at the WTC?
PO: It started off like any other. I had dropped a patient off at Bellevue and one of the Doc's asked if I was going to respond to the WTC. I told him it was out of my area. I asked "why, what's going on?" He told me they were getting reports that "a helicopter" had crashed into one of the towers. I responded after both planes had hit. I was on scene approx 45 min before the first tower fell.
KT: Was the WTC area part of your regular route?
PO: No, I worked in the Times Square area. The WTC was far downtown from where I was.
KT: What did you immediately do once you arrived at the scene and do you remember where exactly you arrived at?
PO: I reported to a staging officer who told me to park the ambulance along Vesey Street. I ended up parking along the street in front of the 6 World Trade with several other ambulances. We were going to get any injured people who were brought out of the burning buildings to transport to the hospital. I don't remember where we entered from as I was not so familiar with the area.
Another Airplane Warning
KT: Did you basically stay around that area before the South Tower collapsed at 9:59 am?
PO: Yes, we were staged waiting for the triage teams to bring us patients when an officer in a white shirt and blue pants (don't know from what agency) said that there was a radio transmission that stated, "Another plane was headed towards us!" We were told to get to our vehicles and get ready to move fast, but it wasn't fast enough. All of a sudden there was a lot of activity within the several agencies there and everyone started to scramble to ready their respective vehicles.
KT: When you were told another aircraft was approaching, was this right before the South Tower collapsed?
PO: Maybe 3 to 5 minutes prior. I don't know if that estimation is correct, but I remember we all had time to take a minute and look into the skies all around to see if we could see anything.
KT: Did you see any planes in the sky?
PO: No, there was nothing in the skies at that time.
KT: Did you happen to see any helicopters, military or non-military, flying around?
PO: I didn't see any helicopters at the time either.
KT: Where did they want you to move your vehicles to, any particular spot, or just "away" from the WTC?
PO: "Just get ready to move fast" is the phrase I remember.
KT: Did they want you to move away from the area right away, or just get ready to move if another plane was coming in?
PO: I don't know, they just told us to get our equipment, put it back in the vehicles and "get ready to move...fast". At that point, they seemed to realize it just wasn't a safe place to be.
KT: In retrospect, did it seem a little too coincidental that they told all of the rescuers to get ready to move out of the area minutes before the Tower collapsed?
PO: It was a bit eerie at the time as well. In that job, when someone tells you to "just move fast" there's nothing to question, you just move. We had been on scene for a while before just setting up and waiting for patients and all of a sudden there was so much activity. It did seem odd that after being there for some time all of a sudden everyone had to get ready to get out. I personally never expected the buildings to come down.
KT: Did you receive any direct warnings or hear any rumors that any of the towers might be coming down?
PO: We were not told the building was possibly going to collapse. I did not hear any rumors about a building collapse. I never heard anyone say anything to the effect that any of the buildings in the area were not stable at the time. We were simply told to get to our vehicles and get ready to move.
KT: Was Vesey Street blocked off between Church St and West St?
PO: Yes, I think all that were there were fire, police, EMS, and OEM [Office Emergency Management].
KT: Did you ever see any videos or cameras being confiscated from anyone that day?
KT: Did you see any newscasters or any other media people on or near Vesey taking any footage?
PO: No, none that I could see.
Cars Blowing Up
KT: What did you do when the South Tower started coming down?
PO: I didn't know what was happening, but there was a loud "roar" -- lots of crashing sounds. I was attempting to put my stretcher back into the vehicle. The ground was shaking and I saw a sea of people, mostly the various agencies on scene, Fire, Police, EMS, all running towards me. I had no idea what they were running from, but I decided I'd be ahead of them and just started running west towards the river. As I was running, parked cars were blowing up and some were on fire, the street was cracking a bit as well. Very shortly after I started running, everything became one big black cloud. I was near the West Side Highway and I couldn't see around me anymore.
KT: Before you heard the loud rumbling which was the South Tower coming down, do you remember hearing any strange noises like gunfire or crackling sounds?
KT: You talked about the cars blowing up in your WTC Task Force interview, correct?
KT: Can you estimate how many vehicles blew up around you?
PO: At least three and some were on fire as I was running by. I was still on the south side of Vesey running west. The burning cars were between my ambulance and about the middle of the 6 World Trade where the lobby doors were at.
KT: Where you running on the street, or up the sidewalk?
PO: Up the sidewalk.
KT: When these vehicles blew up, was it kind of like what you would see in the movies where the vehicle pops up in the air when it explodes with a fireball coming out?
PO: I remember parts flying off -- I think I got hit with a car door. I remember they were also on fire, but I don't specifically recall the movie type fireball, but there was a loud bang as the door flew off the one car I was running past.
KT: Do you have any idea what was causing these vehicles to catch on fire and/or explode? Was the air temperature really hot as you were running by these cars?
PO: I don't know what was causing them to blow up. I didn't know at the time that I was trying to outrun a skyscraper falling on me, but after I found out what I ran from. I figured it was the impact of the building falling and residual effect. I am not an engineer, so I can only guess at a probable cause. I don't remember feeling any extreme heat.
KT: Could you tell if the vehicles blowing up on the street were only parked next to the WTC 6?
PO: I was only paying attention to my immediate surroundings, if there were any vehicles not near me blowing up, I wasn't aware of them, just the ones closest to me.
KT: What type of vehicles were they (cars, SUVs, trucks -- civilian, non-civilian) that were on fire or had blown up?
PO: They were unmarked cars, most likely privately owned. I didn't see any SUVs, trucks or any "official" vehicles on fire.
KT: Were these cars all parked next to each other?
PO: They were parallel parked. There was no discernable order to what was on fire. It was all very chaotic.
Explosions Inside WTC 6 Lobby
KT: You mentioned you were running west on Vesey Street, what happened after that?
PO: I just kept running. I was aware there were other people running as well. After passing the cars on fire, I was trying to find someplace safe. I tried to run into the lobby of 6 World Trade, but there were federal police -- maybe 4 to 6 of them -- standing in the open doorways. As I tried to run in, they wouldn't let me, waving me out, telling me "you can't come in here, keep running." As I turned to start running west again, I saw a series of flashes around the ceiling of the lobby all going off one-by-one like the X-mass lights that "chase" in pattern. I think I started running faster at that point.
KT: Did you hear any "popping" sounds when each of these flashes in the WTC 6 lobby were going off?
PO: Yes, that part was like a movie. The pops were at the same time as the flashes.
KT: Can you estimate either how many flashes you saw or how many of these "pops" you heard inside this lobby?
PO: At least 6 before I was turned away.
KT: Could you still hear any of these explosions when you turned to run back out, or was the noise outside too loud?
PO: I don't recall hearing any more when I resumed running. It was very chaotic.
KT: Now to be clear, were you inside the Lobby of the WTC 6, or were you outside the building when you witnessed these what appeared to be explosions?
PO: I was in the doorway, but not inside the lobby. I remember being able to breathe the somewhat cleaner air coming from inside the building. They stopped me as I was trying to get past the threshold.
KT: Were the explosions going off as you were entering the lobby area, or did they seem to start going off after the police tried to turn you away?
PO: It all happened at the same time. As I got to the doorway, I was told not to come in. As the officer was telling me I couldn't get in the building the flashes starting going off.
KT: Where the police just right at the lobby door, or were some also way inside the building?
PO: There were probably 4-5 officers in the doorway. I could see a few others back in the lobby area.
KT: You said you saw "federal police." What exactly do you mean and did you find it strange they were in there and that they wouldn't let you in?
PO: Well, they were in light brown uniforms and "Smokey the bear" hats. I assumed they were federal police because NYC police don't look like that and I knew there was a lot of federal offices in the WTC as well as the surrounding area, so it wasn't strange to me to see them there, but I did find it very odd that they wouldn't let me in to get cover. But like I say, in that profession, someone tells you to go an opposite way you are going, you don't ask, you just go. I remember hoping they got out as I was watching whatever the small explosions were, because they stayed in the building. They weren't locking it up after evacuating or anything like that.
KT: Did you know which government agencies were in the WTC?
PO: I knew there were a lot of federal agencies in the WTC complex, but I don't know which ones specifically.
KT: Did these policemen run out of the WTC 6 lobby after these explosions occurred, or could you tell?
PO: It didn't look like they did. It looked like they were there making sure no one ran in like I tried to do. I remember seeing them in the doorway, but don't know what happened to them after that.
KT: Did you happen to notice if they were wearing any earplugs or any other uncommon protective gear?
PO: There was nothing that I could see. They appeared to be dressed to simply do lobby detail. No flack wear, no overcoats, no helmets. To this day, I still wonder if they got out.
KT: Did you think these explosions in the lobby were maybe lights popping out as in an electrical surge, or did they seem more like explosives going off in a timed manner?
PO: I immediately got the impression they were timed explosives. I have never thought they were anything else, not then, not now.
KT: Have you ever seen a building being demolished with explosives on TV and was the flashes and pops similar to that?
PO: It did remind me of just that. I had seen something on a Las Vegas casino being demolished and that's what it reminded me of.
Aerial view of the WTC 6 after 9/11. (Photo source: noaa.gov)
KT: Can you try to describe what these "pops" you heard sounded like?
PO: They sounded like light bulbs popping, but there were no light fixtures where the explosions were coming from. The sound was not all that loud.
KT: Do you think these explosions you witnessed were loud enough to be heard on the street?
PO: Because of everything going on, I don't think these "pops" could have been heard from the street. It was definitely louder outside as a whole.
KT: At the time, who did you think planted these explosives in there?
PO: I didn't have any notions of where to put blame per se, but I remember thinking that it was possibly the same organization who tried to blow up the building back in 1993. I figured they came back to finish the job. At the time I was running, I remember thinking that "they" wired the whole area. At the time I wasn't aware that what made the towers catch fire were passenger jets crashing. I thought the buildings had bombs planted to go off that day. The idea of not only one passenger jet, but two took me a while to comprehend -- not to mention the pentagon as well.
KT: Can you estimate how long after you heard the loud rumbling, which was the South Tower coming down, to when you witnessed these explosives going off in the WTC 6?
PO: Well, remember this was all on the same street I was parked. It is very difficult for me to estimate time with so much happening at once, but I want to say maybe 2 to 3 minutes from the rumbling and the ground, and the cars, and the fires, that I tried to run into 6 WTC for cover, which is when I saw those explosions.
KT: Did anybody else besides you and the police witness these explosions in the WTC 6 lobby?
PO: I imagine there must have been others to see, I wasn't the only one running up the street. I can't imagine being the only person to try to run for cover. I didn't see any "civilians" in the lobby of the 6, just the brown uniformed officers.
Motorola Radio Troubles
KT: After you witnessed the explosions in the lobby of the WTC 6, you started running in which direction and then what happened?
PO: I kept running west on Vesey. I got hit with the cloud shortly after being turned away from 6 WTC. I was probably at the corner of Vesey/West Street at that point running. I ran towards the West Side Highway -- there is a park area there. I remember running across grass and there was now lots of grey and black smoke. I was just trying to get to the water because nothing was exploding, or on fire from what I could see. There were lots and lots of people also running that way at this point.
KT: When were you able to escape the dust cloud and what happened after that?
PO: I was now at the water's edge. There were no boats I could see, so I started to run north along the side of the West Side Highway. I was about 9 or 10 blocks north of Vesey on the West Side Highway. I found the first FDNY EMS vehicle and knew the crew as they were also from my station. I remember not being able to breathe so well -- felt like someone was standing on my chest. When I looked back, I could see people coming out of the black cloud and continuing to run and walk north on the West Side Highway as well.
KT: Did you notice any firefighters or other rescuers having technical problems with their Motorola radios or any other equipment?
PO: Oh yeah, at one point there was a loud "buzzing" sound and none of the EMS radios worked for maybe 30 seconds? We all used Motorola radios and I believe our repeaters were on top of the towers, so when the tower came down our radios failed. I tried to use my cellphone, but that too did not work.
KT: Do you know if anybody's cellphone worked and were able to get through to anybody?
PO: A few of my co workers had Nextel phones. Theirs worked, but they couldn't talk to anyone who didn't have a Nextel because all the other services were out at the time.
KT: When did you get to leave the area to go home?
PO: I left by ambulance. A FDNY EMS supervisor came up to myself and my colleagues and told us to "go back in." I still wasn't aware of what I had come out of and I told him anyone who didn't get out isn't getting out and it's not safe to go back in. He yelled at me, demanding all 3 of us "go back in." I told him I was having chest pain and trouble breathing and my colleagues took me to St. Vincent's Hospital. I was on the stretcher with an oxygen mask on looking out the back windows as we were driving off and saw the other tower collapse. It didn't occur to me at the time that the other one was already gone and that's what I came out of. I don't remember when I got home. I had to walk over the Queensboro Bridge and it was dark out. I walked home from my station at Bellevue. I lived in Astoria, Queens at the time. All I wanted to do was get home and see my cats.
Bag & Tag at Ground Zero
KT: In the days after, did you have to go back at Ground Zero?
PO: Yes, I think my first day back was maybe 3 days later.
KT: What were your duties when you had to go back?
PO: We all took turns doing morgue detail, standby for anyone who got hurt going through the rubble. I did morgue detail a few times.
KT: Is this what is referred to as "bag & tag"?
PO: Yes, when you have to log any body parts, or personal effects in morgue work. It was important to try to document any remains we found.
KT: Now despite this being probably the most chaotic incident you had to work at, did you find any strange things when you're recovering evidence there?
PO: Well, I remember cataloging findings in the morgue log -- a tooth, an arm and such. Never catalogued watches, wallets or jewelry.
KT: You never found any jewelry on any of the victim's parts?
PO: I didn't, no. But I do recall at some point either in Brooklyn or Staten Island they had a facility where debris was trucked to and the contents sifted by hand for any evidence. That was some time after 9/11, maybe a few weeks after they started that.
KT: Did you find any personal belongings on the ground or buried under any debris?
PO: I didn't.
KT: What about things like office furniture, computers, and pictures -- things that would be in a normal office building?
PO: Everything was this sort of grey/black debris. I personally never saw anything definable like a chair, desk, or phone, but I never went into what was the base of the building itself, there could have been there. I remember everything being layered in grey soot and ashes everywhere and just debris. One thing I remember distinctly was on a corner adjacent to the towers a bike messenger's bicycle still chained to the lamppost covered in soot.
KT: Have you ever worked a recover detail where you didn't find any recognizable personal belongings or objects like interior furniture, say from the aftermath of a fire?
PO: I never worked a recovery detail before that. It wasn't customary for EMS to work recovery. From time to time we would have to transport a body to the morgue after an investigation was completed if the deceased was in public view. I worked in midtown. In the 12 years I was with EMS, I never responded to anything like that.
KT: A year after the attacks, a victim's family received an ATM card that belonged to their son who was supposedly on Flight 11 that crashed into the North Tower and was supposedly found in relative pristine condition by rescue crews at Ground Zero. Did you ever come across anything even remotely close to someone's personal item like this in any condition?
PO: I never came across any personal effects. The things I did find were charred, burnt, rubble covered in soot. I guess that's the needle in the haystack [the ATM card].
KT: So is it fair to say that you think something like this plastic ATM could not only not survive at Ground Zero, but not survive so well intact?
PO: I'd say it was a miracle.
KT: Did you ever see any aircraft wreckage lying around on or after 9/11 at Ground Zero.
PO: Not on 9/11, but a bit after one day I was doing standby and there was a long flatbed truck bringing out a long piece of silver and charred metal, probably the length of 2 passenger cars, that one of the police officers doing standby detail with us brought to my attention and he said it was a piece of the plane.
KT: Could you at all tell what part of the plane this piece of debris you saw on this truck came from and could you see any windows or other discernable markings?
PO: No, it had to be brought to my attention what it was. In fact, I forgot I saw that until you asked the question. It would have stuck in my memory if it was a wing, or seats or anything like that. It was a somewhat long and curved at the edges piece of what looked like fuselage. I didn't see any company markings on it either.
KT: You mentioned this piece was silver in color. Did any part of that piece of silver debris you saw have any of the "shiny silver" you would see on your average American Airlines plane?
PO: Not when I saw it. The entire piece was dull and charred silver, but it definitely looked like part of a plane.
KT: Did anybody you know of who was at the WTC on 9/11 or at Ground Zero afterwards see or find any airplane debris?
PO: Not that I'm aware of. No one mentioned anything like that to me.
WTC Task Force Interview
KT: You were interviewed by the WTC task force afterwards. Did anybody else interview you about your experience at ground zero?
PO: The WTC Task Force was the only group that ever interviewed or debriefed me. They asked me to detail the events that day as well as mark on a map where I was parked and which way I ran.
KT: Who were the people at the WTC Task Force that interviewed you?
PO: I was told one was from the F.B.I., one was from D.O.I. [Dept. of Investigations], one was P.D. I recall there were 4 to 5 people involved. They were writing as well as voice recording.
KT: Do you know why some of the lines on pages 9, 12, 13 of your Task Force interview were blacked out?
PO: No, I never received a copy of my interview and I never read it. All I did was the one interview with them.
KT: When these officials were debriefing you, was this a normal routine after an incident?
PO: I had been on other calls that I was debriefed after (not many) and usually it was an EMS supervisor with P.D. if it was a crime scene, or if I had witnessed a crime, or incident in progress.
KT: Was your interview with the WTC Task Force more of a normal debriefing, or did you feel like you were being interrogated?
PO: I felt as if they were trying to pick apart every minute detail from every possible angle.
KT: Did you find that odd, especially having to trace your movements on a map?
PO: It was a crime scene, so much was lost. I figured they still had to recover equipment and needed to document. I think I was still a bit shell shocked to really consider it. There were so many things that were odd then, nothing was normal.
KT: Did you mention the flashes and explosions going off in the lobby of the WTC 6 to them?
PO: Yes, I did. I remember describing what looked like depth charges going off in the building I tried to run into, but I don't see it in the transcript of my interview.
KT: Did they ask you any follow-up questions about these explosions?
PO: No, they asked me to describe the events as I have described them to you here. I don't recall them asking any follow up questions. They simply took notes all the way through. The only specific questions I remember being asked was in regards to mapping out where my vehicle was and which way I ran.
WTC 5 Blowing Up
KT: On the Task Force interview, you said "I was still on Vesey, cause the building that blew up on me was on Vesey." Which building were you refereeing to?
PO: I don't know, but that is all WTC property. I'm not sure if that was 6 or just a part of the WTC complex.
KT: When you said the building "blew up" on you, are you talking about the explosions you saw in the WTC 6 lobby?
PO: No, this was directly behind my vehicle as I was trying to put the stretcher back in. I don't know if that was part of 6 though. I ran from what was blowing up and that's when I tried to run into the lobby of 6. The vehicles were parked backed up to the curb, not parallel parked, so the back doors of the ambulance were facing the building [WTC 6] on the south side of Vesey.
KT: Do you feel that it was either the WTC 5 or 6 that was blowing up?
KT: Was this before the cars started catching on fire and blowing up, or about at the same time?
PO: All at the same time. Everything happened very quickly. I couldn't say which came first.
KT: You mentioned in that interview that you thought one of the lobbies of the building behind you is what blew out. Was this the lobby of WTC 5 or 6?
PO: I'm not sure, but it was probably 5 because 6 was west of me and that's the lobby I tried to run into.
KT: Can you describe more about how the building blew up on you? Did you feel the shock wave from the explosion and/or debris falling down near you?
PO: Well, one second I was trying to put my stretcher into the ambulance, the next thing I know I am thrown to the ground as the ground was shaking. Debris was flying at me from where the building I was parked in front of. There was a continual loud rumbling, there was just debris flying from every direction and then everything being covered in the black and gray smoke.
KT: Let's recap real quickly; your ambulance was parked backed up against the WTC 6, near the 6's corner by the alleyway between the WTC 5 and 6. When you were trying to put your stretcher back in, you were knocked down to the ground by an explosion that you thought came from the lobby of WTC 5. When you got back up, you started running west up the sidewalk on Vesey St towards West Side Hwy and then these cars parked along the street started blowing up as you ran by and that's when you tried to duck into the WTC 6 lobby for cover, but these policemen inside where preventing you from coming in and that's when you saw the explosions inside the lobby of WTC 6?
KT: Did anybody else you know concur with you that either the WTC 5 or 6 was blowing up at the same time you heard the rumbling of the South Tower collapsing?
PO: No, it never came up in discussion.
KT: After the attacks when things were starting to settle down for you and after the government and media was telling us what had all happened, did you ever look back and think what were all those explosions from the WTC 5 and 6 you witnessed were all about and why there was never any official mention of them?
PO: No, I didn't watch the news. I was a bit shell shocked to say the least. In fact the very first time I have revisited that day was when I found your site.
KT: You mentioned you left the WTC area before the North Tower collapsed. When did you hear about the WTC 7 collapsing, in which you were parked across the street from on 9/11?
PO: When I stumbled onto your site 3 weeks ago.
KT: Did that surprise you that you never heard about the WTC 7 collapsing afterwards?
PO: Actually, it did. It confused me somewhat because I don't remember seeing anything on the news about it, or even knowing it was in any type of unstable condition.
KT: So you weren't aware that another building had collapse (which was WTC 7) when you returned to Ground Zero for morgue detail?
PO: No I wasn't. There was so much debris and wreckage I couldn't tell what was what anymore.
KT: When you were on the scene on Vesey St that whole time, did you happen to notice any commotion, or anything strange going on near the WTC 7?
KT: Were you ever invited to the 9/11 Commission hearings?
KT: Were you ever gagged by anybody from talking about anything related to 9/11?
PO: No, I wasn't.
KT: Are you concerned that you might loose your job by speaking out on these issues?
PO: No, not at this time.
KT: Have you suffered any health effects from working down at Ground Zero?
PO: I broke a couple of ribs, but didn't realize it till 3 days later. I had, like most of my colleagues, the "WTC cough" for several months. It was an extremely annoying dry hack that didn't produce anything, but acted more like "spasms" rather than a cough. You'd get woken up in the middle of the night with this cough that sometimes would have you near passing out and unable to catch your breath. Over time it has dissipated, thanks gods.
KT: Did you lose any colleagues at Ground Zero?
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Since we've talked a lot about the program in class already, i'll not give you any further details, but just the order to program the Koch Snowflake RECURSIVELY using the code given below as a base. The code covers all the geometry you need, look at it and you will understand. Just add some lines of code to create the snowflake.
The program version that generated the output above added 11 lines of code to the source you get. Hence, after understanding what's recursion, this should make clear that recursion makes your life easier. Btw.: the stopping criterion for the output above was 'segment length < 5'.
good luck !
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Maru: Touch Eun-Gi again one more time, if you really want to see how far Kang Maru can go.
Jae-Hee: Let’s convene the board and reveal everything about Seo Eun-Gi.
Maru: It’s all my fault you’re suffering. If your memories of me are causing you so much pain, stop punishing yourself and stab me.
Jae-Hee: Let’s go after Kang Maru. I want him. I want all of him.
Maru: It’s only when you can stand on your feet that I can disappear from your sight.
So far are you liking the drama? | <urn:uuid:9e339e81-8be3-46a0-b00d-fbd9ab12aaba> | 2013-05-23T18:39:17Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The pleura are two thin, moist membranes around the lungs. The inner layer is attached to the lungs. The outer layer is attached to the ribs. Pleural effusion is the buildup of excess fluid in the space between the pleura. The fluid can prevent the lungs from fully opening. This can make it difficult to catch your breath.
Pleural effusion may be transudative or exudative based on the cause. Treatment of pleural effusion depends on the condition causing the effusion.
Effusion is usually caused by disease or injury.
Transudative effusion may be caused by:
Exudative effusion may be caused by:
Factors that increase your chance of getting pleural effusion include:
- Having conditions or diseases listed above
- Certain medications such as:
- Nitrofurantoin (Macrodantin, Furadantin, Macrobid)
- Methysergide (Sansert)
- Bromocriptine (Parlodel)
- Procarbazine (Matulane)
- Amiodarone (Cordarone)
- Chest injury or trauma
- Radiation therapy
Surgery, especially involving:
- Organ transplantation
Some types of pleural effusion do not cause symptoms. Others cause a variety of symptoms, including:
- Shortness of breath
- Chest pain
- Stomach discomfort
- Coughing up blood
- Shallow breathing
- Rapid pulse or breathing rate
- Weight loss
- Fever, chills, or sweating
These symptoms may be caused by many other conditions. Let your doctor know if you have any of these symptoms.
The doctor will ask about your symptoms and medical history. A physical exam will be done. This may include listening to or tapping on your chest. Lung function tests will test your ability to move air in and out of your lungs.
Images of your lungs may be taken with:
Your doctor may take samples of the fluid or pleura tissue for testing. This may be done with:
Treatment is usually aimed at treating the underlying cause. This may include medications or surgery.
Your doctor may take a "watchful waiting" approach if your symptoms are minor. You will be monitored until the effusion is gone.
To Support Breathing
If you are having trouble breathing, your doctor may recommend:
- Breathing treatments—inhaling medication directly to lungs
- Oxygen therapy
Drain the Pleural Effusion
The pleural effusion may be drained by:
- Therapeutic thoracentesis —a needle is inserted into the area to withdraw excess fluid.
- Tube thoracostomy—a tube is placed in the side of your chest to allow fluid to drain. It will be left in place for several days.
Seal the Pleural Layers
The doctor may recommend chemical pleurodesis. During this procedure, talc powder or an irritating chemical is injected into the pleural space. This will permanently seal the two layers of the pleura together. The seal may help prevent further fluid buildup.
Radiation therapy may also be used to seal the pleura.
In severe cases, surgery may be needed. Some of the pleura will be removed during surgery. Suregery options may include:
- Thoracotomy—traditional, open chest procedure
- Video-assisted thorascopic surgery (VATS)—minimally-invasive surgery that only requires small keyhole size incisions
Prompt treatment for any condition that may lead to effusion is the best way to prevent pleural effusion.
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Drummer Paul Motian dies at 80
The cause was complications of myelodysplastic syndrome, a bone-marrow disorder, his friend Carole d’Inverno Frisell told the New York Times.
First rising to prominence as a member of Bill Evans' trio on landmark recordings such as "Waltz for Debby" and "Sunday at the Village Vanguard," Motian also enjoyed long partnerships with Keith Jarrett, Bill Frisell and Charlie Haden on top of a long, rich career as a bandleader that began with "Conception Vessel" in 1972.
In recent years, Motian showed little signs of slowing down, with 2011 yielding albums with saxophonist Bill McHenry and a recording from a generation-spanning 2009 show with Brad Mehldau, Haden and Lee Konitz, "Live at Birdland."
Needless to say, there are a wealth of recordings available online to remember Motian. After the jump, a video of the drumming great performing at a festival date in 1995 with Konitz, Joe Lovano, Frisell and Marc Johnson. | <urn:uuid:eef8228f-7c5c-4529-999d-ee2dab23ec16> | 2013-05-23T18:44:43Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Sugar comes in many forms. One type of sugar, lactose, occurs primarily in milk. Nature gives young children the ability to digest lactose, because they need to do so when they nurse. However, as people grow up, they often lose the lactose-digesting enzyme, known as lactase . The result is a condition called lactose intolerance. Symptoms include intestinal cramps, gas, and diarrhea following consumption of lactose-containing foods.
Principal Proposed Natural Treatments
Lactose intolerance is most prevalent in people of Hispanic, African, Asian, Middle Eastern, or Native American descent, although Caucasians can develop it as well. Treatment consists primarily of avoiding foods containing lactose, such as milk and ice cream. Use of lactase supplements may help people who are lactose intolerant handle more lactose than otherwise. Also, special milk products are available from which the lactose has been removed (often through the use of lactase).
Other Proposed Natural Treatments
Many people confuse milk allergy with lactose intolerance. The two conditions are not related. Milk allergy involves an allergic reaction to the protein component of milk, and lactase supplements will not help. For more information on natural approaches to food allergies, see the food allergy article.
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The Network of Struggles in Italy
**This summary omits the detailed discussion of Italy, concentrating on the concepts deployed. The order of composition has not been re-arranged.[Html editor's note: this summary of Alquati was prepared by a member of the Orford Road Group in England in the early 1970s for those unable to read the original Italian. The Group was at that time in the midst of studying and interrelating both the class struggle in England and recent theoretical developments in Italian Marxism. The formatting below follows the orginal as closely as the html editor allows.]
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Premise: movements of working class struggles comprise a NETWORK, not just regionally or nationally but even on the international level.
NETWORK: unity of struggles in both their vertical and Horizontal articulations
Vertical articulation = point within capitalist circuit of production/reproduction
Horizontal articulation = spatial distribution & linkage
This combined vertical-horizontal articulation of struggles pivots around decisive points of interconnection: NODAL POINTS
Points of connection within the NETWORK These may be strategically hierarchized, including INTERNATIONALLY. These will represent the points of advanced mass struggles of the working class!
But N.B. No simple ('mechanical') correspondence on the Vertical plane alone; that is, direct equivalence of the level of capitalist production and the avant garde of mass struggles of the class.
Thus, 1968 cycle of struggles itself transformed the network of struggles, both vertically & horizontally; thereby "recomposing the class".
Dynamic development of the 'class' through struggle in given/changing conditions of capitalist deployment of labour-power:
"The phenomenon of class recomposition must be seen in terms of the level of the general movements of collective struggle and thus -
a) it is not and cannot be a mechanical reflection of the (now) capitalist articulation of labor-power. Even if this recomposition makes political use of the objective articulation, it dynamically transcends the static and objective differences between the technological levels and the levels of exploitation - distinct, differentiated - of living labor, i.e., of the 'working class;'
b) it is not a matter of consciousness, understood as the level of understanding or political judgment of a given worker considered as an individual belonging to one or other stratification of labor-power, or to one or another horizontal kernel of production."
NETWORK OF STRUGGLES
May now be conceptualized as the dynamic process of circulation (communication) of struggles, their homogenization within the broad zones of capitalist production of given types of labor-power (e.g., 'European zone')
** The present phase is one of INTERNATIONAL RECOMPOSITION (both vertically and horizontally) of the 'working class.'
THE INTERNATIONAL NETWORK OF STRUGGLES & STRATEGIC HIERARCHY
Hierarchy of notes of struggle as follows:-
Apex: "The Greatest concentration of FACTORY WORKERS in direct contact with their bosses, in as much as these are centers of power and command of international capital. Around them in direct relation to them, the masses of auxiliary and 'tertiary' labor-power, massified in the service of these capitalist centers of power."
Then: "... the national and regional networks." At the lowest level, the mass struggles of the PROLETARIAT in zones still struggling to attain the introduction of specifically capitalist forms of production and accumulation
International NODES constitute points of maximum accumulation of information concerning struggles, and centers of distribution of 'operational' information:
"They are generally the points of maximum massification and greatest direct combination of different moments of the anti-capitalist struggle. This generally occurs in the points of greatest physical concentration of different MASSIFIED MASSES of labor-power. But no less important is the utilization (strategic importance for the working class) of the integration of the capitalist circuit so that this accumulation of information is very dense within the international network of the large intentional capitalist groups."
**At these points of concentration/massification, capable of 'utilizing' capitalist integration of circuit, will be found PROPELLING FORCES of working class struggles.
UTILIZATION OF CAPITALIST INTEGRATION OF CIRCUITS
= strategy taking account of "technical decentration and export of capital" on one hand; "economic-financial concentration and centralization" (counterpart) on the other.
Next follows a detailed analysis of Italy in terms of the above concepts - major thesis being that the specific international/national/regional network of struggles located notes of most advanced working class struggle in Italy (1968/69). One or two general and methodological points are extracted from this discussion:
- Important distinctions between forces of international insertion
a) local COMMAND/CENTER from which capital-export, but profit & policy centralized (cf. FIAT)
b) Externally-based COMMAND, capital-import, external concentration of profit (cf. petrochemicals, pharmaceuticals)
In 1968, first noticeable initiatives to coordinate strategy vis-a-vis these differing international circuits of capital (which of course extend outside PLANT or FACTORY to OFFICES, SERVICES, TRANSPORTS, etc.) Viz. CISL/CGIL: PCI/PCF on FIAT/CITROEN deal.
- Again, attack on mechanical 'equivalence' of most advanced nodes (or 'poles') of struggles (nationally or internationally) with highest organic composition of capital - which in Italy might be tyres & metallurgy:
"Concentration, massification are 'conditions', certainly, but do not themselves explain everything: historically, and from the standpoint of the working class, it is they themselves which have to be explained. That is, concentration, massification, integration must be seen as outcomes of the class struggle, which is then itself conducted, unified, homogenized precisely by these sectors."
Discussion now shifts to locate the 'leading forces' of struggles.
THE 'PROPELLING FORCES'
** Thesis: the 'secret' of the new dynamic antagonism in Factory, Plant, Sector, Pole and Region = 'YOUNG LABOR-POWER'
a) no objective unity/homogeneity - e.g., highly differentiated qualifications (although generally corresponding to advanced capitalist-'professional' selection/formation of type of labor-power)
b) BUT subjective unity of refusal at the global ('SOCIAL') level:
"the refusal has motivations which go back to the unity of the cycle of exploitation of the class"
How is this possible?
- as a type of labor-power (professionally adequated in terms of the most recent capitalist development of labor power), it enjoys a necessary DISPERSAL throughout the vertical and horizontal structure of Capital.
-Hence, possibility of unification of struggles;
-Changing relations of Younger/Older Workers:
Difficult dialectic of RECOMPOSITION (in sense of homogenization of young and old struggles) is advancing despite
objective obstacles (professional qualifications, job definition) subjective obstacles (ideology, militancy, experience of historical organizations, cultural/behavioral orientations, vis a vis work, class etc)
Importance in this process of INFORMAL ORGANIZATION - young workers reject Gramscian 'party', low rate of unionization; YET real re-structuring of relation with older workers in struggles articulated via INFORMAL ORGANIZATION (see 'passivity', below)
CAPITAL & YOUNG LABOR-POWER
"Why does European capital -i.e., the circuit of accumulation of capital at its present level of global technical composition - need young labor-power?"
a) Level of automation of direct production
--scale of European production --vis. commodity and technological characteristics of dominant sectors in terms of general level of application of science to the exchange (substitution) of living labor with dead labor
producing predominance of new form of 'job', vis. parcelized, assembly-line & series labor process controlled via decomposition and simplification of labor, extending to administration & services (Circulation)
'Young labor-power' itself a 'qualification' from capital's standpoint: * "Une heure de force-de-travail jeune produit un marge de plus-value plus eleves qu'une heure moyenne normale."
b) Job also itself being directly transformed via automatic audio-visual controls of labor-process. Here also greater productivity of young labor-power.
NB: Concomitant disqualification & redeployment of older labor-power: 'MOBILITY'
Constant intensification of exploitation = MORE LABOR
Only demand possible given their position within labor ("sur la base de leur rapport de travail") = more lolly!
Bosses not always able to concede even this!
THEREFORE position vis-a-vis Unions
This new complex first visible around 1960/61 in FIAT, OLIVETTI, MONTECATINI, ITALSIDER, MICHELLIN. Subsequently spread, even into agriculture:
c) "New Technicians"
"The workers termed 'technicians' are for us, above all else, the mass of new professionals demanded by the new levels of automation and mechanization of the productive circuit: these are the new professions attaching to auxiliary functions, especially to overall programming, to applied research, etc...."
(i) Impossible to separate 'technical-objective' functions of auxiliary labor form 'political' functions of overseeing and control, as 'control' itself increasingly transformed into 'technical-objective' forms. 'Programming' just as concerned with raising 'productive consumption' of labor power as time and work study.
(ii) Problem of 'directly' vis a vis 'indirectly' productive labor - which cannot be posed solely as a matter of the individual qualification/formation of labor-power (e.g., at school or college)
--an element of this 'qualification' always derives from the social character of labor as productive force;
--the indirectly productive labor, necessary to capital, must be analyzed in relation to:
DIRECTLY PRODUCTIVE LIVING LABOR INSTRUMENTS & OBJECTS OF THIS LIVING LABOR SCIENCE APPLIED TO MECHANIZATION OF LABOR & AUGMENTATIONS OF ITS PRODUCTIVITY
NB However proportionally to its growing importance within reproduction process, Capital seeks to 'rationalize' even this 'indirectly' productive living labor, via electronics, chronometry, rhythmic control & parcellization etc. So illusory 'grades' (hierarchy) and 'status' are eroded by capital's own necessary reorganization of this form of living labor (indirect); and it is assimilated to the line/flow organization of directly productive labor.
THUS The struggles of this branch of living labor converge with those of line-workers
* Strategically, the crucial aspect of this assimilation of different types of living labor (viz directly & indirectly productive) in struggles (in which 'technical' labor-power might, under certain condition, assume avant-garde role) is that massified labor must move first autonomously:
"nothing is more dangerous than the sophistical theories of those who posit a mechanical relation between the zone of comprehension of the circuit and the role of vanguard of the mass in struggles; in reality the contrary occurs. It is not the consciousness of the individual worker, the level of his understanding of the labor-process as a whole or of the function of consumption etc, etc. which confers the level of a movement of struggle and gives it a 'propulsive' place vis-a-vis the overall class struggle."
(iii) Location of young workers within sphere of circulation & services - similarly marked by increasing intensity of exploitation (even when the 'constant capital' substituted for living labor --changing organic composition-- is comprised of work procedures, method, paper)
similar homogenization; recomposition of struggles
"For us the 'working class' today also comprises the technicians (this was already clear for Marx...), and also even includes different sections of the 'non-productive' labor: we would place here the student movement."
* However, there is a frequent identification of 'working class' with that portion of 'direct productive' labor that Marx and Lenin termed 'factory workers'
(NB. The 'Factory' for Marx referred to the specific social relation of production organized around fixed plant/machines as its material base.)
This section of the class was the historical protagonist of the struggles around W.W.I and after:
"If Taylorism and scientific organization of labor had political objectives, it was to put in crisis the level of political organization achieved by these specific workers, the factor workers."
BUT We now confront a post-Taylor, post-rationalization situation - vis , Italy in 1960s
a) augmentation of Factory workers - concentration & massification. This includes auxiliary processes.
b) capitalist rationalization of 'indirectly productive,' tertiary & circulation phases of labor process.
c) dominance of massified young labor-power: subjective break with skilled conciliar 'factory workers' of f1917-1920
PRODUCTIVE SECTORS & RECOMPOSITION
Leading sectors of class recomposition in terms of production/reproduction of capital =
AUTOMOBILE (node of metallurgical circuit, rubber, glass, etc) PETROCHEMICALS
* The present reorganization/recomposition of sectors (aerospace, research, automation of services, containers, etc) corresponds to a new POLITICAL initiative by the collective capitalist patron to outflank the working-class internationally and for a fairly considerable length of time:
"This initiative is POLITICAL in that it aims to alter politically the composition and political terms of class relation, and so extricate itself from the crisis situation in which it has been placed by the class movements of struggle vis-a-vis wages in the preceding cycle of struggles."
THUS, these are strategic sectors of anti-capitalist struggle in the present phase.
Given this, they represent politically decisive terrain: but it is to be expected that the Factory Workers will demonstrate an increasingly PROPULSIVE role in struggles at the SOCIAL level.
UNDERGROUND STRUGGLE/OVERT STRUGGLES
Homogenization proceeds despite/through technological differentiation -
Recomposition -= this dialectical unification of the class in struggle against Capital, that is the specific determined level and form of accumulation.
**The class 'adequates to' and 'uses' this given level/form of capital accumulation (including 'technological differentiation' in its anti-capitalist struggle:
"The working class utilizes in its struggle against capital its own function (global, structured, unified) as class productive of capital."
Key Thesis: Working class utilization of given level & form (circuits) of capital.
Underground & Passive Struggle
-- in post-Taylor/Ford/Keynes epoch, 'waste' and 'going slow' must be collectively organized (cannot be primitive individual 'refusal')
--Given continuous capitalist reorganization/recomposition of the interdependence of elements of a 'collective' labor-process (via time and motion work study, substitution of dead for living labor, programming of circuits), resistance itself must also be continually re-posed in ever-more collective fashion.
= constant cause/effect 'revolutionizing' of mode of production of capitalist labor-process specifically
--This ongoing ORGANIZATION must be informal, condition of flexibility and renovation.
HEREBY RAISING THE WHOLE PROBLEM OF POLITICAL ORGANIZATION IN THE FACTORY
Cf. British Leyland's attack on piecework overthrows formal articulation of working-class struggles via shop stewards (historic organization) - necessitating adequate informal/collective reorganization on part of class.
INFORMAL and COLLECTIVE seen as reciprocally necessary conditions
--However, 'overt' struggle need not 'abolish' but 'continue' or 're-stimulate' underground struggle (cf. Alfa Romeo, where strikes finally abandoned by union merely intensified level of informally organized struggle.
** "The passive, underground struggle ALWAYS persists; working class organization of the struggle always exists." | <urn:uuid:2cae0d8e-9080-4ead-b24e-51717717a896> | 2013-05-23T18:44:48Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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libpdfdoc is a library to access PDF (Portable Document Format). It provides classes and functions for reading and writing to PDF files.
libpdfdoc is release under GPL v2. In short, it is Free Software. I am not responsible for any damage it may make. You can change it, sell it, distribute it. As libpdfdoc contains some code borrow from GPL project, the license is GPL v2 as a whole. As it is NOT LGPL, it is not legal to use it in proprietary projects.
Note that it is not "GPL v2 or later". The GPL v3 does not apply to this library.
libpdfdoc can be downloaded in from sourceforge. The latest snapshot is also available in the git repository hosted in sourceforge. To access the repository, configure you git clients to clone from git://libpdfxx.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/libpdfxx. See here for more details.
libpdfdoc depends on the following libraries:
These are available for all major Linux distributions. For Win32 platforms, most of the libraries (zlib, Freetype, libpng) can be downloaded from the GNU Win32 project. For Boost, BoostPro Computing provides pre-built libraries with a nice installer for Win32.
libpdfdoc is available at sourceforge.
libpdfdoc uses the cmake build system to produce makefiles for different development platforms. The cmake build system will automatically detect the location of the dependency libraries and adjust the include and library path of the project. In most unix-like environment, the command:
cmake -G 'Unix Makefiles' /path/to/libpdfdoc/
should be enough to generate the makefiles to build the project. It is also possible to use cmake to generate project files of other build environments, e.g. MS Visual Studio or eclipse, depending on your platform. Afterwards, just type
make to build. cmake by default will not show the actual command line of the compiler. To see it, type this command:
This will show the full command line of the compiler. It is useful for troubleshooting compiler issues.
cmake also supports Microsoft Visual Studio. Just use a different makefile generator for the version of VS. For example, for VS 2005:
cmake -G 'Visual Studio 8 2005' c:\path\to\libpdfdoc\
You may have to add
-DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=c:\path\to\libraries to the cmake command line to make sure it can find the library dependencies. You can also use
-DBOOST_ROOT=c:\path\to\boost\library to specify the path to the boost library.
cmake recommends separating the source code directory and the build directory. Suppose the libpdfdoc source code is located at
c:\code\libpdfdoc, and you want to create the VS project files at
c:\build\libpdfdoc, you may want to run the following commands:
C:\build\libpdfdoc>cmake -G "Visual Studio 8 2005" \ -DBOOST_ROOT=c:\path\to\boost\library \ -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=c:\path\to\other\libraries \ -DCPPUNIT_PREFIX=c:\path\to\cppunit \ c:\code\libpdfdoc
See the Getting Started page for a simple tutorial for using the library. | <urn:uuid:dd1faeb1-cdf3-42f9-a2db-0d42de97af25> | 2013-05-23T18:37:12Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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If you wont to go boating you need a boat and water to boat. Here are some things seed boating, canoeing, fishing in a boating.
on. Here is some things that should need when boating a lifejacket, lights on your boat, license. The best place to go canoeing, you should go in a stream. A lot of people like to go seed boating, and it is fun. You should go in lakes and oceans. There is big boats and littler boats. | <urn:uuid:c99f62d6-2510-4f41-a440-1905c04777fe> | 2013-05-23T18:51:24Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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I was wondering if anyone here has been experiencing massive pyshical, emotional and mental changes for the past 3 years or so. I have a random K awakening out of the blue, I only came to this conclusion after I got a full MRI done and my eyes checked out to see if I had retinal deattachment. Well it seems like others on the internet ( I have corresponded with some over the email) and some on youtube seem to have had spontanoues spiritual awakening out of the blue as 2012 draws near. I also want to talk about crop circles, these crop circles also talk about solar storms, earth changes, mayan themes (2012), ancient south american themes etc. They also seem to point to these energies impacting Earth in a certain way, I believe that these energies are impacting people here. I know all crop circles are not paranormal but defiantly some are, there is scientific evidence that certain crop circles have anamolies. How do you explain complex crop circles with complex mathematical formulies that only some with a phd is mathmatics would know? I do believe that something is going to happen in 2012 but what? Some people talk about the earth shifting into another dimension, people disappearing, what are your thoughts? I don't know what will happen. But I do think that these complex crop circles formations that are being made overnight within a few hours, containing mayan themes, solar storms, Earth changes etc s something to look at. | <urn:uuid:26d6eb97-b11e-43a3-bc8d-ccf9f033f69a> | 2013-05-23T18:53:06Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Drew M.: I am actually storing the results with the query.store() call, and after all, I
am not using another query object, and I am not sending another query to execute. Only
one query is to be executed.
Warren Young: I have caught the exception. The exceptions what() returns the same error as
Commands out of sync; you can't run this command now.
"If it's not an exception, it may be that you're mixing a library built
with one build setup with an executable built another way. That's a
pretty good way to crash a program."Yes. I actually am mixing another library. Its
WxWidgets, but I have checked and I'm using the right build setups (If you mean
release/debug). Apart from that, WxWidgets is compiled in UNICODE. Maybe that could have
something to do with it.
Ive updated the code to make it a bit clearer:
mysqlpp::Query query = con.query();
query.execute("SELECT * FROM eqdkp_news");
ofin << "Query wasn't succesfull: " << query.error() << std::endl;
res = query.store();
catch (mysqlpp::Exception &e)
ofin << "exception" << e.what() << " end\n\n";
while (row = res.fetch_row())
// Probably need to use utf8trans but irrelevant for now.
ofin << row["news_headline"];
ofin << row["news_message"];
ofin << row["news_id"];
ofin << row["news_date"];
ofin << row["user_id"];
ofin << "else: " << query.error() << std::endl; | <urn:uuid:7cad7961-c970-4364-bd93-a60ab29b4a19> | 2013-05-23T19:05:49Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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[rabbitmq-discuss] fastest way to process messages?
jon at jbrisbin.com
Fri Jul 9 21:43:20 BST 2010
I pushed a rough draft/alpha version of the asynchronous distributed cache I blogged about last week to GitHub. It works pretty well for a rough draft. I am noticing some pretty large variances in my metrics from one run to another, though. I'm throwing 25 messages at a time at an object with 25 workers waiting for those objects (so there's no waiting for objects to be processed). I'm seeing run times as fast as 10ms and as slow as 150-200ms. It really varies from one run to the next.
I'm sure there are bottlenecks in my code. I'm starting to investigate that right now. But I was wondering if there was some consensus on maximizing throughput (using the Java client). Since this is a cache, I'm wanting to keep load times to an absolute minimum (duh). In several runs, I've gotten down to 10-15 ms but I can't get it to do that consistently.
Will I be able to process more messages if each of my workers has its own queue, but binds to the exchange using a common key--or should I do what I'm currently doing, which is to use the QueueingConsumer and simply use multiple workers to pull messages off the single BlockingQueue? Which has the potential for higher throughput while not increasing the likelihood I'll end up with duplicate messages?
Is there a better way to process messages if performance is the primary consideration than using the QueueingConsumer? I've haven't looked at the code to see what it's doing, but I would think fewer method calls between delivery of the message and calling the callback provided by the application code would give me greater throughput and shorter run times.
I should probably also investigate alternative languages. I started this as a Java object cache, so naturally I used Java. But I'm wondering if I could get better performance by skipping the serialize/deserialize step in the cache provider (I'm storing actual objects in memory rather than the byte array, which I considered doing at first).
Have a good weekend!
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Greece / International Court of Justice: Judgment on Blocking Entry of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia into NATO
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(Feb 06, 2012) On December 5, 2011, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), in The Hague, Netherlands, issued its judgment in a case concerning Greece's actions to block the entry of the Republic of Macedonia (hereafter referred to by its UN-recorded name of FYROM) into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). (ICJ, Judgment of 5 December 2011, Application of the Interim Accord of 13 September 1995 (The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia v. Greece).)
The ICJ, based on evidence that Greece during the NATO Summit in Bucharest in 2008, objected to the FYROM's entry into NATO, held that Greece violated the Interim Accord of September 1995, which was agreed to by Greece and the FYROM. (Interim Accord, signed at New York, Sept. 13, 1995, 4 UNTS 1995). Under this Accord, Greece undertook the obligation not to block the FYROM's entry into NATO while the dispute over the use of the name Macedonia by the FYROM is still unresolved. (Id.) Greece challenged the jurisdiction of the ICJ over this issue on the grounds that the dispute was related to opposing views over the name Macedonia, and that the issue concerned NATO and its members and therefore fell outside the ICJ's jurisdiction. The ICJ rejected these arguments. Nor did it accept Greece's claim that Greece's objection to the FYROM's use of the name Macedonia fell under the exception provided in article 11 of the Interim Accord that permitted Greece to object to the FYROM's admission to organizations if the FYROM applied to them using any other name than FYROM. (Id.)
Background of the Dispute
The FYROM emerged as a new state after the break-up of the former Yugoslavia in January 1991, when the Socialist Republic of Macedonia, one of the former Yugoslavia's six constituent republics, declared independence. In June 1991, under a new name of the Republic of Macedonia, it sought membership in the United Nations. Greece objected to the FYROM's membership in that body based on its use of the name Macedonia, because that name refers to a geographic region in southeastern Europe, part of which is a region of Greece that bears the same name. (Id.)
On November 17, 2008, the FYROM initiated proceedings against Greece before the ICJ, after its unsuccessful bid to join NATO during the April 2008 NATO Summit. The FYROM argued that Greece objected to its admission into NATO because of the existing dispute over the name Macedonia, in direct violation of the 1995 Interim Accord. Among the Accord's key provisions is Greece's obligation not to object to the FYROM's application for admission in any international or regional organization of which Greece is a member. However, Greece reserved the right under the Accord to object to such admission if and to the extent that the applicant would be referred to in those organizations by a name different from that referred to in United Nations Security Council Resolution 817 of 1993 (S/RES/817/ (1993) (wherein the name FYROM is used)). (ICJ, supra.)
Greece's Response to the ICJ Ruling
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Greece affirmed that the ICJ's ruling does not have a bearing on the name dispute and that such a dispute, as the ICJ suggested, should be resolved within the framework of the U.N. Security Council resolutions and through negotiations under the auspices of the U.N. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs interprets the suggestion from the ICJ as meaning that the FYROM should express good will and move towards finding a mutually acceptable solution to the name dispute. The Ministry also stated that the ICJ's ruling does not have any impact on NATO's decision-making process and membership requirements. (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Hellenic Republic, Announcement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Regarding the Judgment of the International Court of Justice (Dec. 5, 2011).)
The FYROM's Response to the ICJ Ruling
Nicola Poposki, the Foreign Minister of FYROM, welcomed the judgment of the ICJ and stated that it prevents Greece from "continuing its efforts to block my country from joining NATO and the European Union." (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Macedonia, ICJ Rules Greece Violated Interim Accord, FYROM Ministry of Foreign Affairs website (Dec. 5, 2011).)
While acknowledging that the dispute before the ICJ was not about the name issue, the Foreign Minister affirmed that "the Republic of Macedonia remains strongly committed to finding a lasting, mutually acceptable solution to the difference with Greece over the name …" and that it remains firmly committed to the rule of law and to acceding [to] NATO and EU membership. The decision of the Court marks a further step down the road to membership. Again, I look forward to Greece allowing our membership in NATO, in accordance with its obligations under international law, and with the support of the other NATO members. (Id.)
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My name is Maria and I'am a blogger. I'm from Poland and my hometown is Poznań. Currently I live in Manchester.
For about a year I got really into fashion and looking through different magazines and fashion blogs is very interesting to me and gives me a lot of fun.
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The names of the Norse dwarves, or dvergar, are listed in the Völuspá, and Tolkien used these names in The Hobbit: Dwalin, Bombur, Fili, Kili and so on. Gandalf (literally translated as "magic-elf") is also the name of one of the dvergar - although Gandalf himself is modeled after the god Odin.
The final battle prophesied at the end of the legendarium is Dagor Dagorath (Final Battle) and bears many resemblances to Ragnarök (literally "fate of the Gods"), the battle which destroys the Norse world. Both battles result in a near-complete destruction of the world, from which a new world is created and the old worlds inaditants live in after it..
The legendarium describes the creation and subsequent history of Middle-earth, which is named for the Old Norse miðgarðr. In the story of Welund Smith, the three swan-maidens flew south over Mirkwood to the place where they met Welund and his brothers. | <urn:uuid:2fbe59c4-1062-4896-9d73-af83726bd073> | 2013-05-23T18:30:21Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The argument convinced the family members who had marched into his room to wish long life to the newborn, a nice girl. The next day, when the head of the family heard the news, he drove Hawa Diallo at the center of reference of the Commune V in one of his cars. She received treatment at the hands of specialists. Return Ali Oueleguem obtained from his wives to let Hawa rest time it took to recover. The mother was asked to do nothing until after the baptism scheduled a week later..
On the night of August 28 to 29, a young male member of the family was returning from a late night walk. He heard the child of the woman screaming loudly. He paid no attention to the baby crying and went to bed. Some time later, the family found itself on foot. Hawa Diallo screamed and tore his hair. The questions were coming from everywhere, she explained that her oldest daughter had her needs. After cleaning, she went into the washroom to throw the waste water. Upon her return, she discovered that her newborn was stolen. There was excitement in the family. Everyone began to look and search every corner of the house and its surroundings. Ali armed himself with a flashlight and wanted to visit the toilet. Hawa Diallo dissuaded him, explaining that she had ever looked on this side. | <urn:uuid:5721408b-fc71-45a5-b938-75070ad96d18> | 2013-05-23T18:31:07Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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