text stringlengths 130 541k | id stringlengths 47 47 | date stringdate 2013-05-18 04:54:19 2013-06-20 13:35:46 | dump stringclasses 1
value | embeddings listlengths 1 351 | file_path stringclasses 916
values | language stringclasses 1
value | language_score float64 0.65 1 | token_count int64 30 166k | url stringlengths 14 835 | quality_score float64 0.16 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
The cause is believed to be related to physical factors at least 75%-80% of the time.
Some pain occurs during vaginal entry but decreases over time. This is often caused by not having enough lubrication due to a lack of sexual arousal and stimulation. It can also be due to some medicines. Antihistamines can cause dryness. Frequent douching can also cause problems.
Other causes in women include:
The cause of dyspareunia may also be related to psychological factors, although this is less common. Some examples include:
- Previous sexual trauma, such as rape or abuse
- Feelings of guilt
- Negative attitudes toward sex
These factors may lead to a condition called
. This is painful and involuntary contractions of vaginal muscles. It is usually a response to past sexual trauma or other painful circumstances, but it can also be the result of chronic irritation from a physical cause.
The most common causes of pain in men are:
Pain occurs at the time of ejaculation.
Pain that occurs while obtaining an erection may be associated with:
- Inflammation of the foreskin
- Loss of elasticity of the foreskin
- Trauma to the penis
- Local allergies or irritations
- Curvature of the penis caused by Peyronie's disease | <urn:uuid:d9e1729c-65d0-4f24-bcfa-b7dde794969b> | 2013-05-23T19:07:37Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
0.016544118523597717,
-0.02303200773894787,
0.016976643353700638,
0.009894031099975109,
0.15657439827919006,
-0.05233563855290413,
-0.019679930061101913,
0.08780276775360107,
-0.04065743833780289,
0.004352292511612177,
0.11764705926179886,
0.033737022429704666,
... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939106 | 267 | http://www.bidmc.org/YourHealth/ConditionsAZ/Cirrhosisliver.aspx?ChunkID=11893 | 0.89117 |
This page may be referred to as: www.birmingham.gov.uk/hancock
To many people Tony Hancock was probably the best known comedian of the 1960s. He was born at 41 Southam Road, Hall Green, Birmingham, on 12th May 1924, but within three years his family moved to Bournemouth. His father kept a public house in Bournemouth where theatrical people, like Elsie and Doris Waters, used to stay.
Statue of Tony Hancock in Birmingham Old Square
He served in the forces throughout the Second World War, from 1942, as a member of the Royal Air Force. Before he became a part of Ralph Reader's RAF Gang Show he had had some experience as a youthful amateur entertainer, and after his demob in 1946 he was experienced enough to find himself continual engagements in pantomime, in summer seasons in the holiday resorts, and occasionally as a straight actor.
In 1948 he was employed by the 'Windmill Theatre' which led to radio and then to television. From 1951 to 1953 he added a new voice to the Radio Show, Educating Archie and then in 1954 his lugubrious character appeared on radio in Hancock's Half Hour, and then from 1956 to 1960 on television with superb scripts written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson.
He left Britain in March 1968 to work on a proposed comedy series for Australian television but was found dead in his Sydney flat on 25th June 1968 with an empty vodka bottle and an empty bottle of sleeping pills at his side.
A commemorative plaque on the exterior of 41 Southam Road commemorates his birth. A statue in his memory stands in Old Square - appropriately the former home of the Birmingham Blood Transfusion Service. The statue was unveiled by Sir Harry Secombe in 1996. It has since been moved a few yards, to the centre of Old Square.
We are not responsible for the content of other organisations' websites. | <urn:uuid:ecc3fe54-07d3-47f2-9181-ff58d5639acc> | 2013-05-23T19:02:35Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
0.009226190857589245,
0.013913690112531185,
-0.01830357126891613,
0.00870535708963871,
0.11666666716337204,
-0.03511904925107956,
-0.03020833246409893,
0.08452381193637848,
-0.0014601934235543013,
-0.06785714626312256,
0.04196428507566452,
0.02767857164144516,
0... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.987969 | 396 | http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/cs/Satellite?c=Page&childpagename=Lib-Central-Archives-and-Heritage%2FPageLayout&cid=1223092750994&pagename=BCC%2FCommon%2FWrapper%2FWrapper&rendermode=ns%09%09%09%0D%0A+ssion(netsparker(0x0042FD)) | 0.290877 |
After receiving a threatening letter from white supremacist Edward R. Fields of the Ku Klux Klan, former Attorney General of Alabama Bill Baxley wrote a pithy response to the Ku Klux Klan back in 1976, according to Letters of Note.
In his letter, Baxley wrote, “Dear ‘Dr.’ Fields, My response to your letter of February 19, 1976, is – kiss my a**.”
The Klansman had threatened Baxley when he reopened the case of the 16th Street Church Bombing that resulted in the death of four little African-Americans girls in 1963.
The initial investigation resulted in no action, but within a week of gaining office, Baxley re-opened the case and the following year, Robert “Dynamite Bob” Chambliss, a member of the Klan, was found guilty of the murders and was imprisoned until his death in 1985.
Read more and watch a video at The Grio | <urn:uuid:9ad06de2-6b04-4c47-bcd4-520a8245baf8> | 2013-05-23T18:51:23Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
-0.02682783082127571,
0.009102299809455872,
-0.006227889098227024,
0.007186025846749544,
0.11025943607091904,
-0.03405070677399635,
-0.025943396613001823,
0.06338443607091904,
-0.005675117950886488,
-0.03228183835744858,
0.048643868416547775,
0.036851413547992706,
... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975841 | 202 | http://www.blackenterprise.com/news/kkk-kiss-my-ass-letter-viral/ | 0.37347 |
An Englishman, an American and a Frenchman find an ancient oil lamp, give it a rub and out pops a genie (Bet you didn't see that one coming!)
After a yawn and a stretch, the genie looks at them and scratches his head.
"Hmmm... As is customary, I can grant three wishes to whoever releases me. As there are three of you, I guess you get one each."
Without pausing to consider the somewhat cliched nature of their situation, they all look at each other to see who'll go first.
The American says "Well, if you two are still thinking and don't object, I know what I want" and he turns to the genie: "Sir, I'm a farmer. My daddy was a farmer, just as his daddy was before him. For generations my family have lived on and worked the same land but times are becoming hard and if one more crop fails I fear we will lose everything. My wish is for my family's land to remain forever fertile for us so that my son and all future generations can carry on in this family tradition."
"Very noble" says the genie, and with a click of his fingers it is done.
Next up steps the Frenchman.
"Is there a limit to what I can ask for?"
"No" replies the genie, "you can have absolutely anything you want"
"Excellent! Monsieur, I love my country as much as life itself and since the dawn of time it has been invaded repeatedly from all sides. I want an insurmountable & indestructable wall around it so this can never happen again."
"That's quite understandable" says the genie. With a click of his fingers it is done and he turns to the Englishman for the final wish.
"This wall mate... Tell me about it."
"Oh, OK" says the genie, "If I do say so myself, it's a bloody masterpiece! It's 100m thick and as tall as Mont Blanc. Absolutely nothing can break, crack, chip or even scratch it. Long after the sun has died and this planet has been destroyed, that wall will be floating through space, still in one piece!"
"Marvellous!" says the Englishman, "Fill it with water!"
Last edited by Dominic Owen
on Thu May 24, 2012 12:56 pm, edited 1 time in total.
One by one, the penguins are stealing my sanity... | <urn:uuid:b6ade1a1-0b29-48c7-aa21-229a8d19a614> | 2013-05-23T18:58:47Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
-0.022216796875,
0.00830078125,
-0.00860595703125,
0.0181884765625,
0.07373046875,
-0.01953125,
-0.00958251953125,
0.0966796875,
-0.004058837890625,
-0.047119140625,
0.04736328125,
0.025390625,
0.007293701171875,
0.0120849609375,
0.03466796875,
0.006... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974742 | 516 | http://www.bluebirdproject.com/message/viewtopic.php?p=12465 | 0.773107 |
|Name: _____________________________||Period: ___________________________|
This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
Directions: Answer the question with a short answer.
1. In Scene 6, what has Lolita heard about Daisy Avila?
2. Why is Joey ill in Scene 11?
3. In Scene 10, what has Imelda Marcos accused of doing regarding her Film Center construction workers?
4. How does the famous director in Scene 10 finally persuade Joey to join him at the end of the scene?
5. Which of the following characters is at the sex show in Scene 15?
Short Essay Questions
Directions: Answer the questions with a short paragraph.
1. What is revealed about life in Manila at...
This section contains 1,200 words|
(approx. 5 pages at 300 words per page) | <urn:uuid:d6ff0c2f-23af-4315-8690-67dadc17a1ba> | 2013-05-23T18:54:14Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
-0.01881544478237629,
0.005235602147877216,
-0.0068717277608811855,
0.01963350735604763,
0.11060209572315216,
-0.061191100627183914,
-0.006135471165180206,
0.09358638525009155,
0.011289266869425774,
-0.04384816810488701,
0.07624345272779465,
0.0014725130749866366,
... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.903239 | 198 | http://www.bookrags.com/lessonplan/dogeaters/test6.html | 0.510083 |
Heart of Darkness Topic Tracking: Wilderness Imagery
Wilderness Imagery 1: Marlow describes for his shipmates the wild state of nature that must have existed when the Romans first visited England.
Wilderness Imagery 2: Marlow watched the jungle from his ship, seeing pure wilderness for the first time.
Wilderness Imagery 3: Marlow describes the wild and varied vegetation he saw on his journey, and the oppressive impression it had on him.
Wilderness Imagery 4: Marlow had an image, at the Central Station, of the surrounding wilderness waiting to outlast the invasion of the Company.
Wilderness Imagery 5: Marlow imagined the forest looking back at the manager and his uncle--the wilderness is personified.
Wilderness Imagery 6: The vegetation and wild natural state along the river overwhelmed Marlow--he imagined it observing him from all sides.
Wilderness Imagery 7: Marlow looked back and could see no trace of where the ship had come from--it was as though the jungle was closing in behind them.
Wilderness Imagery 8: Marlow says that the wilderness had taken control of Kurtz.
Wilderness Imagery 9: When he leaves the ship to look for Kurtz, Marlow ends up in the midst of the living, wild jungle he had been fearing all along.
Wilderness Imagery 10: Kurtz, cursing the wilderness, asked Marlow to close the shutters to keep him from seeing the "curtain of trees" around him. | <urn:uuid:736ddc83-0ed9-44ad-8c78-936f7d82a347> | 2013-05-23T18:52:40Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
0.002280464395880699,
0.009689245373010635,
-0.024266758933663368,
-0.00285876402631402,
0.09497206658124924,
-0.07437150925397873,
0.00392807275056839,
0.09427374601364136,
-0.0016366969794034958,
-0.03229748457670212,
0.10055866092443466,
0.025139665231108665,
... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958233 | 312 | http://www.bookrags.com/notes/hod/TOP6.html | 0.804128 |
Start an asynchronous receive.
template< typename MutableBufferSequence, typename ReadHandler> void async_receive_from( const MutableBufferSequence & buffers, endpoint_type & sender_endpoint, ReadHandler handler);
This function is used to asynchronously receive raw data. The function call always returns immediately.
One or more buffers into which the data will be received. Although the buffers object may be copied as necessary, ownership of the underlying memory blocks is retained by the caller, which must guarantee that they remain valid until the handler is called.
An endpoint object that receives the endpoint of the remote sender of the data. Ownership of the sender_endpoint object is retained by the caller, which must guarantee that it is valid until the handler is called.
The handler to be called when the receive operation completes. Copies will be made of the handler as required. The function signature of the handler must be:
void handler( const boost::system::error_code& error, // Result of operation. std::size_t bytes_transferred // Number of bytes received. );
Regardless of whether the asynchronous operation completes immediately
or not, the handler will not be invoked from within this function.
Invocation of the handler will be performed in a manner equivalent
To receive into a single data buffer use the
buffer function as follows:
socket.async_receive_from( boost::asio::buffer(data, size), 0, sender_endpoint, handler);
documentation for information on receiving into multiple buffers in one
go, and how to use it with arrays, boost::array or std::vector. | <urn:uuid:1532f85b-176f-49d6-937c-a36dd1b8425a> | 2013-05-23T19:08:21Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
-0.013403990305960178,
0.02509351633489132,
0.016754986718297005,
-0.02914588525891304,
0.04862842708826065,
-0.10910224169492722,
0.02213216945528984,
0.0695137158036232,
-0.01535224448889494,
0.0103647131472826,
0.13092269003391266,
0.01792393997311592,
-0.048... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.8576 | 345 | http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_42_0/doc/html/boost_asio/reference/basic_raw_socket/async_receive_from/overload1.html | 0.703098 |
At this year's Golden Globe Awards, Kary Antholis '84 sipped champagne at a table with Al Pacino, Meryl Streep, and the rest of the cast from "Angels in America," the epic HBO movie about politics and morality in the turbulent 1980s.
Antholis, vice-president of HBO Films, says it was a relaxed evening despite the star power at his table, spiced with chit-chat about movies, acting, and kids. Then came the sweep by "Angels" of top awards in five categories, including best picture, and there were toasts all around.
"Part of HBO's business model is to impress upon people that we are doing the best work out there, so people have to subscribe if they want to be part of the cultural dialogue," says Antholis, 41, over lunch one afternoon at HBO's Manhattan offices. "When you win awards like that, and combine that with big stars and critical attention, then you've done your job."
For Antholis, who was the executive in charge of "Angels," that January night at the Golden Globes marked the latest in a string of triumphs for films he has worked on. Since coming to HBO in 1992, several films he has shepherded through production and marketed to the world have won Emmys, Oscars, and Golden Globes.
It all started with an Academy Award for "Educating Peter" in his first year at HBO, when at age 30, he was an executive working on documentary programming. In 2000, he oversaw "The Corner," a gritty, Emmy Award-winning miniseries that examined the terrible specter of drug addiction in Baltimore.
In 2001, Antholis worked with director Mike Nichols on adaptation of the play, "Wit," which detailed the cruel indignities experienced by a college professor dying of ovarian cancer. It won the Emmy for the top made-for-television movie.
Antholis won an Oscar in 1996 for the only movie he directed and produced. He captured the best short documentary award for "One Survivor Remembers," a memoir of Gerda Weissmann Klein's years in Nazi forced labor camps, which ended with a grueling three-month march through Eastern Europe at the end of WWII.
The movie brought Antholis face-to-face with his family's tragic experience with 20th century oppression. His mother, Evanthia, grew up in Nazi-occupied Greece during World War II; her father, Vassilios, was killed by Nazi collaborators.
"Exploring Gerda's story offered me an extraordinarily vivid connection to my mother's experiences during the war," says Antholis, who is fluent in Greek. "The experience renewed my appreciation for the blessings of family, health, and, as Gerda would say, 'a boring evening at home.'"
Though Antholis's first - and only - film won an Oscar, he decided not to become a documentary filmmaker after seeing just how all-consuming it would be to devote his life to that pursuit. Instead, he eventually returned to HBO's front office to work on projects with some of the industry's top directors, producers and actors.
His most recent project, "Strip Search," shown on HBO in April, dealt with the conflict between security and civil liberties in the post-9/11 world.
"I'm not up there accepting the awards anymore," says Antholis, who will lead a panel discussion at his 20th Bowdoin reunion in June. "But I feel a huge amount of creative satisfaction by making movies that hit at the heart of the national dialogue on the issues of the day."
While a movie director can be on location for months at a time, Antholis's job allows him more control of his schedule. Granted, Antholis is decidedly bi-coastal, shuttling frequently between New York and Los Angeles. But HBO's office in Los Angeles is just a 10-minute drive from the Beverly Wood neighborhood where he lives with his wife Karen, and children, Evanthia, 5, and Jack, 3.
"In this business, if you are lucky, you'll have a job that is creatively fulfilling, or you have a job that allows you to spend some serious time with your family," he says. "Often the two are mutually exclusive. The good thing about being at HBO is that I get to have both."
Associate professor Tricia Welsch, who chairs Bowdoin's Department of Film Studies, says HBO resembles the great Hollywood studios of the 1940s, which both produced the films and owned the movie houses. That structure gave the studios a considerable edge because they had guaranteed venues to exhibit the movies.
With 39 million subscribers, HBO has its own production outfit as well as exhibition space on cable around the world. That means HBO doesn't have to pander to television advertisers or appeal to mass movie audiences to recoup production expenses with big box-office openings.
That frees HBO to take chances with provocative film projects that reach a smaller audience while building the channel's reputation for producing edgy, top-notch drama.
"With television and subscribers, and no real estate to maintain, HBO is really taking advantage of its position," Welsch says. "Kary's on the creative team at this small private studio that's putting out consistently high-quality films."
Antholis usually has a handful of projects in motion. This winter, one project, "Walkout," examines the 1968 Latino high school boycott in East Los Angeles.
Another movie in preparation will tell of the story of the clash between casino titans Donald Trump and Steve Wynn over a garbage dump in Atlantic City. In February, Antholis has one major issue to resolve.
"Who do you cast for Donald Trump?" he muses.
As executive in charge of these projects, he serves as the liaison between HBO, which funds and provides air time for the picture, and the film's writer, producer and director. It's a job that varies, depending how the project came to HBO, the studio's relationship with the filmmakers as well as the filmmaker's experience.
Antholis is what's known in the industry as a "suit." And dressed in a blue pin-striped suit, dark blue shirt and red tie, he certainly looked the part at The Bowdoin Club of New York's event this winter in Manhattan, which featured Antholis and "Angels" playwright Tony Kushner on stage, talking about their work.
Kushner says having Antholis as HBO's point man on "Angels" was essential to its success.
"I'd often call him for a reality check," says Kushner. "With such an enormous project, it was crucial to have such a literate, passionate, and incredibly competent person who got done what needed to get done."
On "Angels," Antholis collaborated with Kushner and Director Mike Nichols to create the award-winning film. With an accomplished filmmaker like Nichols, Antholis says he had to first understand the director's vision for the film, then offer support - and suggestions - consistent with that vision.
"You are trying to see what's driving the artists, and you are trying to be on the same page with the tools they can use," he says.
Over the past year, he has worked with writer and producer Tom Fontana on two HBO films - "Strip Search," and "Thought Crimes," set to air in September. Fontana calls Antholis "the great mediator," an executive with the interest of the filmmaker and HBO at heart.
"Kary has his own artistic vision and he isn't afraid to share it," says Fontana. "He has an incredible loyalty to HBO, and he is remarkably nurturing to writers, director and actors without making you feel like you are getting network notes."
Antholis's work extends beyond the production team as he decides how best to show and market the films. In the past, HBO movies were aired on cable and then sold or
rented in the video marketplace. But since 2002, HBO has released a few films in movie theatres.
In February, Antholis was grappling with whether "Everyday People" would be released to theatres or reserved for HBO subscribers. The film presents an intimate look at how a Brooklyn neighborhood deals with issues of race, gender and generational differences.
"We are seeing what the right life for it is," says Antholis. "For some smaller films, we can get more marketing leverage out of the theatrical release and have a chance to give it a higher profile."
Then there's marketing the movie, both to the critics and to the public. With HBO's ambitious six-hour presentation of "Angels in America," Antholis helped create the marketing package that started the media buzz over the film.
"You have to understand the subtlety of putting something out there without making it feel like it is hyped," he says. "We wanted the critics to discover this movie, but we had to put it out there in a way that if they wanted to discover it, they could."
Working on films with Al Pacino, Mike Nichols and Tom Fontana brings Antholis full circle to an adolescence steeped in pop culture in Florham Park, a north-central New Jersey suburb. Like many of his generation, his favorite television shows were "The Brady Bunch" and "The Partridge Family."
But he also found himself engrossed in television dramas and movies. He was drawn to "St. Elsewhere" and "Homicide: Life on the Street," both written by Fontana.
His father took him to see Pacino in "Serpico," as well as Nichols's films, "The Graduate" and "Catch-22." Antholis recalls seeing "The Godfather" at a suburban drive-in one night in 1973. His father made him duck behind the front seat to miss the scene with the severed horse head.
At Bowdoin, Antholis built his intellectual foundation by majoring in history, with a minor in Romance languages. He also dabbled in the arts. He had a radio show on WBOR where he spun plenty of rock, including the music of fellow Jerseyite Bruce Springsteen. He took acting classes in Paris during his junior year abroad.
Back in Brunswick for his senior year, Antholis and his roommate, Innes Weir '84, mounted a production of Eugene O'Neill's little-known "The Abortion," which they auditioned for that year's evening of one-act plays.
"Kary had this grand scheme to submit the play," says Weir, a Manhattan lawyer who spent several years in the movie industry. "We rewrote the ending, and it was chosen."
After graduating, Antholis spent a year at Stanford University, earning a master's degree in history, focusing on the imperial ambitions of European nations in Africa. Not yet willing to abandon the entertainment world, he took a course in filmmaking.
"I still didn't know what it was all adding up to," he says.
Perhaps studying law would help, he thought. At Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., he found he didn't want to spend all night pouring over dry legal texts. So he squeezed in time for acting classes at a community studio.
After his second year of law school, he'd had enough of contracts and torts. He took a year off, supporting himself with construction jobs to have the time to act at night at a community theater.
He returned to law school the next fall, intent on earning his degree, but now he focused on the legal and business aspects of the entertainment industry.
He graduated from law school in 1989, then practiced in his father's law firm for a year while honing his stage skills. After work, he'd head for Manhattan to act in student films directed by Weir, his Bowdoin roommate, who was then studying at Columbia University's film school.
Still, that wasn't enough. So, in 1990, Antholis packed up his Toyota Corolla, and like so many young Americans with celluloid dreams, drove cross-country to make it big in Hollywood.
On his first job, Antholis was paid $250 a week to deliver bags of pistachio nuts to ZM Productions' clients as Christmas holiday gifts.
"It's how I got to know my way around L.A.," he says.
That didn't last long. At ZM, he soon began assisting on promotional films for movies and then ended up working on ZM's "Hearts of Darkness," a documentary about the making of Francis Ford Coppola's "Apocalypse Now."
Making that movie, says Antholis, was like film school to him. He learned about the complexities of movie finances and studied the behind-the-scenes footage of Coppola directing his Vietnam classic.
"It was incredible food for thought, seeing what it takes to make a movie with ambitions beyond the box office," he says.
That movie aired on Showtime, HBO's premium cable competitor. Before long, he received a call from Sheila Nevins, HBO's head of documentaries. She wanted a meeting.
"Sheila and I hit it off," he says, recalling the 1992 meeting at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Los Angeles. "I pitched her a couple of ideas because I was beginning to think of myself as a producer. Then a position opened up, and she asked me to come back East to work with her as an executive."
Two years later, he and Nevins were discussing doing a film to commemorate the 50th anniversary of WWII's armistice. They had both visited the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. and had been moved by Gerda Weissman's filmed testimony about her experiences.
They decided to do a "small" movie, based on Weissman's story. After one director turned down HBO, Antholis left his job as director of HBO's documentary programming to do the film for the channel. It's narrated by Weissman, in tight close-up, with images of the places she is talking about illustrating her story.
Antholis traveled with his cinematographer to Poland and Czechoslovakia with Weissman's testimony on a Walkman.
"I was listening to her experience and trying to place myself in her point of view," says Antholis. "So as she was telling the story, the images that were the most effective felt like they were coming right out of her brain."
He returned to ZM Productions in 1995 and made a syndicated TV series called "The Cape." Just as that show wasn't renewed, HBO called again. In 1997, he came back as a consultant on the Emmy-award winning miniseries, "From the Earth to the Moon." In 1998, he was hired as Vice President, Original Programming, and a year later, was named Vice President, HBO Films.
By 2004, Antholis has truly hit his stride. At the Bowdoin Club event with Tony Kushner, Antholis recalled an afternoon outside of Rome when the crew was filming "Angels" at Hadrian's Villa, where Roman Emperor Hadrian once lived. Antholis had come upon "The Ecstasy of St. Teresa," a stunning 17th-century sculpture by Gianlorenzo Bernini. He thought about the Borghese family, which financed Bernini's work. Then he contemplated his role at HBO.
"As I returned to the villa one night, I was moved by the idea that HBO was doing today what the Borgheses did for Bernini," he said. "There we were, allowing Mike Nichols to create this masterpiece. And like Bernini, his work linked the personal to the universal in such a profoundly satisfying way."
David McKay Wilson, a New York-based journalist, writes for alumni magazines around the country. | <urn:uuid:d5675f05-3269-41ba-b894-e53d5bb41deb> | 2013-05-23T18:58:31Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
0.015869140625,
0.0018463134765625,
-0.01409912109375,
0.00173187255859375,
0.0625,
-0.0286865234375,
-0.00982666015625,
0.10986328125,
-0.05224609375,
-0.045166015625,
0.07080078125,
0.0179443359375,
0.016845703125,
-0.01025390625,
0.034912109375,
0... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.983087 | 3,268 | http://www.bowdoin.edu/bowdoinmagazine/archives/features/000060.shtml | 0.37901 |
Originally Posted by boxingfeind
pacquiao agreed after 2 years of excuses giving him plenty of time to get the roids out his system plus he knew if he did`nt agree more people would suspect that he`s juicing.
Floyd - "I want to clean the sport, that is why I made my own Olympic style testing." Later on he was caught by his own Olympic style testing and failed on 3 occasions. LMAO!
Mayweather positive tests 3 | <urn:uuid:1ee73a66-5c06-42e4-bb66-c69587b24722> | 2013-05-23T18:59:28Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
-0.03258928656578064,
-0.0003138950851280242,
0.0245535708963871,
-0.02142857201397419,
0.065476194024086,
-0.03377976268529892,
-0.01205357164144516,
0.08571428805589676,
0.01569940522313118,
-0.05833333358168602,
0.04702381044626236,
0.04255952313542366,
-0.02... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982881 | 99 | http://www.boxingscene.com/forums/showpost.php?p=12735500&postcount=143 | 0.575325 |
Would you like to activate the Puzzle Pot?
What is the 'Puzzle Pot'?
The Puzzle Pot is a pot in which you place puzzles that you can then print. The system allows you to place a number of puzzles in the pot, which you can then print together. The alternative is to print a single puzzle at a time. | <urn:uuid:66137ae7-8ca3-4b56-bf79-fd50f52cf941> | 2013-05-23T18:37:05Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
-0.030405405908823013,
-0.008340371772646904,
0.01182432472705841,
-0.016047297045588493,
0.08699323982000351,
-0.00390625,
0.0004618876555468887,
0.01499155443161726,
-0.01171875,
-0.054054055362939835,
0.06376688927412033,
0.0297719594091177,
-0.06798986345529... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948361 | 69 | http://www.brainbashers.com/puzzlepotinfo.asp?zref=ZRQK | 0.994753 |
Educator Resources for Treefrog Treasure
Treefrog Treasure is a platformer game that allows students to practice math concepts as they explore different worlds as a frog character. When certain obstacles are reached, students must properly identify a target symbol, whole number, or fraction on a number line to collect gems and complete the level. Hints are provided to help students reach the correct answer when mistakes are made. The game is a great differentiation tools, as it automatically adjusts to students’ performance to provide appropriate levels of mathematical complexity.
For teacher resources, visit Space Science Institute
In this lesson plan which is adaptable for grades 2-5, students will use BrainPOP resources and an online math game to explore fractions and match and/or compare fractional amounts.
Common Core State Standard Alignment:
CCSS.Math.Cont.3.NF.A.2a Represent a fraction 1/b on a number line diagram by defining the interval from 0 to 1 as the whole and partitioning it into b equal parts. Recognize that each part has size 1/b and that the endpoint of the part based at 0 locates the number 1/b on the number line.
CCSS.Math.Cont.3.NF.A.2b Represent a fraction a/b on a number line diagram by marking off a lengths 1/b from 0. Recognize that the resulting interval has size a/b and that its endpoint locates the number a/b on the number line. | <urn:uuid:d292be95-73b3-4b9c-81ac-6027f6c64670> | 2013-05-23T19:06:55Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
-0.03840361535549164,
0.013271837495267391,
-0.003976844716817141,
0.011671686545014381,
0.01816641539335251,
-0.025790663436055183,
0.016848644241690636,
0.0632530152797699,
-0.01807228848338127,
-0.007012424524873495,
0.08019578456878662,
0.007953689433634281,
... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.885258 | 306 | http://www.brainpop.com/educators/community/game/treefrog-treasure/ | 0.668892 |
Children with low muscle tone often have delayed motor skills, muscle weakness, and / or coordination and balance problems. (Essentially the muscles lack stamina. The muscles don't have the energy to keep working at a normal level.) Children diagnosed with hypotonia can have varying degrees of severity of muscle weakness. For instance a child may seem to initially do everything just fine, but keep the same muscles working for any length of time and they will tire faster than a normal child's muscles. Muscle tone also comprises a second feature, which is the speed of the muscles' responses. The speed is slower in those with hypotonia. Due to the slower speed of the muscle response a child with hypotonia may have trouble keeping up with similarly aged children.
Hypotonia can occur in every muscle, so any movement that requires muscle activity and strength is likely to be impaired. Muscles are tied to every physical endeavor, from eating, to talking, our facial gestures, getting dressed, sitting, and walking. Our Physical Therapists provide an individualized evaluation and treatment program to improve a child's strength and overall function. If needed, our Physical Therapist can work in conjunction with our Occupational Therapist on Fine Motor/Upper Body Coordination and with our Speech and Language Therapist on delayed speech, Articulation, Oral Motor or any other Feeding/Swallowing Issues that a child my have. | <urn:uuid:a8dc8e62-dd95-46dd-a42e-be5a78072073> | 2013-05-23T18:44:38Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
-0.026442307978868484,
-0.001583302509970963,
0.023853549733757973,
-0.003120377194136381,
0.10133136063814163,
-0.05288461595773697,
-0.013590976595878601,
0.10281065106391907,
-0.006148298736661673,
-0.02098742686212063,
0.08986686170101166,
0.042344674468040466,
... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935581 | 283 | http://www.braintreerehabhospital.com/pediatric-outpatient-rehab-hypotonia-low-muscle-tone.asp | 0.159722 |
Surface area is a two-dimensional property of a three-dimensional figure. Cones are similar to pyramids, except they have a circular base instead of a polygonal base. Therefore, the surface area of a cone is equal to the sum of the circular base area and the lateral surface area, calculated by multiplying half of the circumference by the slant height. Related topics include pyramid and cylinder surface area.
If you want to calculate the surface area of a cone, you only need to know 2 dimensions. The first is the slant height l and the second is the radius. So what we're going to do, we're going to separate this into two pieces the first is the base which is a circle with radius r and the second is this slant height l. So if I cut, if I took a scissors and cut the cone part and I fended out it would look like a sector. Well what I could do here is I could rearrange this sector into a parallelogram. So again if I cut this into really tiny pieces then I'll be able to organize it into a parallelogram where I would be able to calculate its area. And the way that we'll calculate its area, is first by saying well what are these lines that are going out?
Well those lines are going to be your l, your slant height and this side right here is going to be half of your circumference and half of a circumference is pi times r because the whole circumference is 2 pi r. So this down here is pi times r, so if our height l and our base is pi times r then the area of this is equal to pi times r times l. So the surface area of a cone which I'm going to write over here is equal to the base pi r squared plus this lateral area which is found using your slant height. So that's going be pi times r times l, so you only need to know 2 dimensions the radius and the slant height and you can calculate the surface area of any cone. | <urn:uuid:8c57b621-6116-4614-a9fc-c31bd7ee9c11> | 2013-05-23T18:31:13Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
-0.035596027970314026,
0.014417770318686962,
-0.022626930847764015,
-0.011589404195547104,
0.048013243824243546,
-0.05077262595295906,
0.009933775290846825,
0.06015452370047569,
-0.035044148564338684,
-0.022626930847764015,
0.07505518943071365,
-0.009519867599010468... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955102 | 416 | http://www.brightstorm.com/math/geometry/area/surface-area-of-cones/ | 0.695714 |
Elpidio QuirinoArticle Free Pass
Elpidio Quirino, (born Nov. 16, 1890, Vigan, Phil.—died Feb. 28, 1956, Novaliches), political leader and second president of the independent Republic of the Philippines.
After obtaining a law degree from the University of the Philippines, near Manila, in 1915, Quirino practiced law until he was elected a member of the Philippine House of Representatives in 1919–25 and a senator in 1925–31. In 1934 he was a member of the Philippine independence mission to Washington, D.C., headed by Manuel Quezon, which secured the passage in Congress of the Tydings–McDuffie Act, setting the date for Philippine independence as July 4, 1946. He was also elected to the convention that drafted a constitution for the new Philippine Commonwealth. Subsequently he served as secretary of finance and secretary of the interior in the Commonwealth government.
After World War II, Quirino served as secretary of state and vice president under the first president of the independent Philippines, Manuel Roxas. When Roxas died on April 15, 1948, Quirino succeeded to the presidency. The following year, he was elected president for a four-year term on the Liberal Party ticket, defeating the Nacionalista candidate.
President Quirino’s administration faced a serious threat in the form of the Communist-led Hukbalahap (Huk) movement. Though the Huks originally had been an anti-Japanese guerrilla army in Luzon, the Communists steadily gained control over the leadership, and, when Quirino’s negotiations with Huk commander Luis Taruc broke down in 1948, Taruc openly declared himself a Communist and called for the overthrow of the government. By 1950 the Huks had gained control over a considerable portion of Luzon, and Quirino appointed the able Ramon Magsaysay as secretary of national defense to suppress the insurrection.
Quirino’s six years as president were marked by notable postwar reconstruction, general economic gains, and increased economic aid from the United States. Basic social problems, however, particularly in the rural areas, remained unsolved; Quirino’s administration was tainted by widespread graft and corruption. The 1949 elections, which he had won, were among the most dishonest in the country’s history. Magsaysay, who had been largely successful in eliminating the threat of the Huk insurgents, broke with Quirino on the issue of corruption, campaigning for clean elections and defeating Quirino as the Nacionalista candidate in the presidential election of 1953. Subsequently, Quirino retired to private life.
What made you want to look up "Elpidio Quirino"? Please share what surprised you most... | <urn:uuid:89a54512-d067-4b29-b474-e0c0018acd84> | 2013-05-23T19:01:38Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
0.0013580322265625,
0.0380859375,
-0.017578125,
0.031494140625,
0.08251953125,
-0.044189453125,
-0.033935546875,
0.11181640625,
-0.00909423828125,
-0.09130859375,
0.08203125,
0.0194091796875,
-0.024169921875,
-0.01513671875,
0.03466796875,
0.02966308... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972421 | 575 | http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/487536/Elpidio-Quirino | 0.908161 |
Simply begin typing or use the editing tools above to add to this article.
Once you are finished and click submit, your modifications will be sent to our editors for review.
course through Hamburg
...the southeast of the old city, the Elbe divides itself into two branches, the Norderelbe and the Süderelbe, but these branches meet again opposite Altona, just west of the old city, to form the Unterelbe, which flows into the North Sea some 65 miles downstream from Hamburg. Two other rivers flow into the Elbe at Hamburg—the Alster from the north and the Bille from the east.
hydrology of Elbe River
The estuary proper of the Elbe (Unterelbe) extends from Hamburg to Cuxhaven, a distance of about 55 miles. It varies in width from one to two miles, but much of it is occupied by mud flats and sandbanks. The main channel is buoyed and dredged. At high tide the channel has a depth of some 53 feet (16 metres). The south or left bank is low and marshy and the river has sandbanks; the right bank is...
What made you want to look up "Unterelbe River"? Please share what surprised you most... | <urn:uuid:ae938d36-1e2d-4ede-ac87-63c1ce6c3dec> | 2013-05-23T18:46:34Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
0.030918728560209274,
0.010545494966208935,
-0.022968197241425514,
0.0031470847316086292,
0.03975265100598335,
-0.06183745712041855,
0.002567358547821641,
0.04483215510845184,
0.0035335689317435026,
0.001960026565939188,
0.052120141685009,
0.041077736765146255,
... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.916552 | 264 | http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/618469/Unterelbe-River | 0.331969 |
William IIIArticle Free Pass
King of England
An invitation, signed by a representative selection of James’s opponents, was dispatched on July 10 (Old Style), and on November 5 (November 15, New Style) William and his army landed at Brixham on Tor Bay in Devon and proceeded almost unopposed to London. James fled to France, and the so-called Convention Parliament, summoned in January 1689, declared that James had abdicated and offered the vacant throne, with an accompanying Declaration of Right, to William and Mary. They were proclaimed in February and crowned on April 21. The crown of Scotland was offered to them in the same month.
The revolution in England had been accomplished almost without bloodshed, but in Scotland and Ireland there was armed resistance. This collapsed in Scotland in 1689, but the country remained troubled and unsettled throughout William’s reign. In 1692 Alexander MacDonald of Glen Coe and some of his clansmen were murdered in cold blood for tardiness in taking the oath of allegiance to William. William ordered an inquiry but took no further action until in 1695 the Scottish Parliament demanded a public investigation. He then showed culpable leniency to the offenders, merely dismissing from his secretaryship Sir John Dalrymple, on whom responsibility for the massacre was finally placed. In Ireland war formally broke out in 1689, when James landed there with French support. But the successful defense of Londonderry and of Enniskillen, and William’s own victory at the Battle of the Boyne on July 1, 1690, ensured the reconquest of Ireland and freed him to turn his attention to the European continent. Here, after a series of minor attacks on the empire, Louis XIV had invaded the Palatinate in 1688. The Dutch and the emperor concluded the Treaty of Vienna (May 1689) and declared war on Louis; over the next 18 months William’s rare diplomatic skill brought into the alliance Brandenburg, Hanover, Saxony, Bavaria, Savoy, and Spain, as well as England, which became its linchpin.
From 1691 William spent much time campaigning on the continent with varying degrees of success; but by 1696 a number of factors made both sides anxious for peace, and the Treaties of Rijswijk were signed in 1697. The question, vital for a European balance of power, of who was to succeed the childless king Charles II of Spain remained unsettled, however, and William had good cause to fear that the peace would be no more than a truce. The English Parliament, on the contrary, was convinced that it would be lasting, insisted on cutting down the size of the army, and resolutely turned its back on foreign affairs. William, in the hope of averting a new war, entered into two Spanish Partition treaties (1698–99) with Louis—measures that involved him in serious frictions with Parliament. But when the Spanish king died on Nov. 1, 1700, Louis, ignoring his agreements, accepted the crown of Spain for his grandson and soon showed that he had not relinquished his plans for French aggrandizement.
William, though hampered by English apathy, set himself to rebuilding the Grand Alliance and to preparing his two countries for the now inevitable conflict. In September 1701 the exiled James II died, and Louis XIV proclaimed his son king of England, contrary to his agreement in one of the Rijswijk treaties, and thus roused the English to an enthusiasm for war. William did not live to see this war declared. His health had long been declining, and in March 1702 he died. His plans for a European settlement were largely carried out by the Treaty of Utrecht (1713). His ideal, which he had pursued doggedly for 30 years, was an international order in which no single power was able to tyrannize the rest.
What made you want to look up "William III"? Please share what surprised you most... | <urn:uuid:0a7e0dde-9864-4d37-8512-5a0737dd39cc> | 2013-05-23T18:39:06Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
0.0245361328125,
0.0302734375,
-0.021484375,
0.01025390625,
0.1015625,
-0.0224609375,
-0.04248046875,
0.103515625,
-0.0017852783203125,
-0.035400390625,
0.059814453125,
0.0133056640625,
-0.07275390625,
-0.0299072265625,
0.040771484375,
0.016235351562... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982981 | 820 | http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/644127/William-III/7941/King-of-England | 0.795208 |
Antônio de Castro AlvesArticle Free Pass
Antônio de Castro Alves, (born March 14, 1847, Muritiba, Braz.—died July 6, 1871, Salvador), Romantic poet whose sympathy for the Brazilian abolitionist cause won him the name “poet of the slaves.”
While still a student Castro Alves produced a play that brought him to the attention of José de Alencar and Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Brazilian literary leaders. Having studied for the law, he soon became a dominant figure among the Condoreira (Condor) school of poets, likened, for their dedication to lofty causes and for their preference for elevated style, to the highest flying birds in the Americas. His romantic image was heightened by his sense of being foredoomed by a wound incurred in a hunting accident. He lived and wrote at fever pitch while the wound worsened and eventually led to amputation of his foot. Tuberculosis set in, and he died at 24. Espumas flutuantes (1870; “Floating Foam”) contains some of his finest love lyrics. A cachoeira de Paulo Afonso (1876; “The Paulo Afonso Falls”), a fragment of Os escravos, tells the story of a slave girl who is raped by her master’s son. This and Castro Alves’ other abolitionist poems were collected in a posthumous book, Os escravos (1883; “The Slaves”).
What made you want to look up "Antonio de Castro Alves"? Please share what surprised you most... | <urn:uuid:70ee3d26-6293-420a-b197-848f0484ca1e> | 2013-05-23T18:46:57Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
0.0038072182796895504,
0.007526408415287733,
-0.018485914915800095,
-0.004401408601552248,
0.07570422440767288,
-0.03292253613471985,
0.004665493033826351,
0.09225352108478546,
-0.044014085084199905,
-0.05880281701683998,
0.04454225301742554,
0.030105633661150932,
... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969585 | 350 | http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/98854/Antonio-de-Castro-Alves | 0.251394 |
Dickinson's exact wishes regarding the publication of her poetry are in dispute. When Lavinia found the manuscript-books, she decided the poems should be made public and asked Susan to prepare an edition. Susan failed to move the project forward, however, and after two years Lavinia turned the manuscript-books over to Mabel Loomis Todd, a local family friend, who energetically transcribed and selected the poems and also enlisted the aid of Thomas Wentworth Higginson in editing. A complicating circumstance was that Todd was conducting an affair with Susan's husband, Austin. When Poems by Emily Dickinson appeared in 1890, it drew widespread interest and a warm welcome from the eminent American novelist and critic William Dean Howells, who saw the verse as a signal expression of a distinctively American sensibility. But Susan, who was well aware of her husband's ongoing affair with Todd, was outraged at what she perceived as Lavinia's betrayal and Todd's effrontery. The enmity between Susan and Todd, and later between their daughters, Martha Dickinson Bianchi and Millicent Todd Bingham (each of whom edited selections of Dickinson's work), had a pernicious effect on the presentation of Emily Dickinson's work. Her poetic manuscripts are divided between two primary collections: the poems in Bingham's possession went to Amherst College Library, and those in Bianchi's hands to Harvard University's Houghton Library. The acrimonious relationship between the two families has affected scholarly interpretation of Dickinson's work into the 21st century.
In editing Dickinson's poems in the 1890s, Todd and Higginson invented titles and regularized diction, grammar, metre, and rhyme. The first scholarly editions of Dickinson's poems and letters, by Thomas H. Johnson, did not appear until the 1950s. A much improved edition of the complete poems was brought out in 1998 by R.W. Franklin. A reliable edition of the letters is not yet available.
In spite of her "modernism," Dickinson's verse drew little interest from the first generation of High Modernists. Hart Crane and Allen Tate were among the first leading writers to register her greatness, followed in the 1950s by Elizabeth Bishop and others. The New Critics also played an important role in establishing her place in the modern canon. From the beginning, however, Dickinson has strongly appealed to many ordinary or unschooled readers. Her unmistakable voice, private yet forthright"I'm Nobody! Who are you? / Are youNobodytoo?"establishes an immediate connection. Readers respond, too, to the impression her poems convey of a haunting private life, one marked by extremes of deprivation and refined ecstasies. At the same time, her rich abundanceher great range of feeling, her supple expressivenesstestifies to an intrinsic poetic genius. Widely translated into Japanese, Italian, French, German, and many other languages, Dickinson has begun to strike readers as the one American lyric poet who belongs in the pantheon with Sappho, Catullus, Sa'di, the Shakespeare of the sonnets, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Arthur Rimbaud. | <urn:uuid:003df283-deec-457c-894a-57dcd4909da5> | 2013-05-23T19:06:36Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
-0.00885009765625,
0.025390625,
-0.009521484375,
0.00116729736328125,
0.0830078125,
-0.04150390625,
0.00823974609375,
0.09716796875,
-0.052978515625,
-0.030029296875,
0.0888671875,
-0.004730224609375,
-0.018310546875,
-0.033203125,
0.037353515625,
-0... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963194 | 648 | http://www.britannica.com/women/article-262036 | 0.810255 |
To add this event to your calendar:
This option is only available using the Windows Outlook client.
- If a dialog box appears asking you to Open or Save the Event, click Open
- Or, if you see the message:
To help protect your security, Internet Explorer blocked this site from downloading files to your computer. Click here for options...
- Click on the message and select Download File...
- When the appointment box appears, select 'Save and Close'.
- The event will be added to your Outlook Calendar.
If not prompted, click on the the following link: Download Event. | <urn:uuid:ed0d0c54-05ac-4f9b-9120-93f36df050a7> | 2013-05-23T18:31:36Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
0.0033822408877313137,
0.008193597197532654,
0.05614837259054184,
-0.012576219625771046,
0.10518292337656021,
-0.03709349408745766,
-0.007876016199588776,
0.07876016199588776,
-0.02502540685236454,
-0.06910569220781326,
0.03556910529732704,
0.05767276510596275,
... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.772969 | 124 | http://www.bsu.edu/common/event/event_ical_display_template/0,1365,10678-32631-,00.html | 0.294509 |
We believe that peaceful demonstrators in Burma are just expressing their grievances to the military regime for rising commodity prices, illegal detention, mistreatment of detainees, and discriminatory policy of the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC). The SPDC, however, responded to the peaceful demonstrators by arresting, harassing, and beating them. Thirteen of them are said to be sentenced at least 20 years in imprison for basically expressing their own opinions and beliefs.
We are also so regret to know that SPDC has failed to exercise sacred respect towards Buddhist monks who have shared their sympathy with the people being suffered from hi-rocketing fuel prices. During a peaceful demonstration in Pakhoku, the pro-SPDCís members of the Union Solidarity and Development Association (USDA) tied a peaceful Buddhist monk demonstrator to an electric pole, beat him with a gun butt and released him without an apology. It is evident that SPDC has never trained its sources to adopt a peaceful way to solve problems.
According to the Buddhism, if a ruler is wicked, unjust, oppressive, violent and corrupted, the people will react to topple him/her in one way or another because they see him/her as an unfit, incompetent, immoral, improper, and unworthy ruler. There is no doubt that General Than Shwe, the Chairman of SPDC who tortured Sangha and innocent people is seen as an unfit, immoral, and incompetent ruler
In the history of Burma, Buddhist Order has played a very important role in advising kings to be good rulers. The Sangharaja, (the Head of the Order) was automatically appointed as the adviser of the King. If he was informed or realized that the King, the head of the state, misruled and was unjust, he gave proper advice to the King. If the King refused to take his advice, he performed boycott against the King. This was called Pattanikujjana in Pali. For example, in the reign of King Narasu of Pagan Dynasty (AD 1160-1163), due to Narasuís wicked plot against his father and brother, Pansakula Mahathera, the then Sangharaja, refused to serve Narasuís advisor when he became a king.
Therefore, we, Mon Sangha Organizations around the world, urge:
1. The State Sanghamahanayaka Committee to boycott the SPDC by refusing to offer religion services to SPDC and its sources and support to the army servicemen and women, the Sangha and the people of Burma for the benefit of civilians.
2. The State Peace and Development Council to respect the peopleís desire in 1990 election and to keep their promise to return their barracks in time before it is too late.
3. United Nation Security Council to immediately address issues on Burma and pressure the SPDC to initiate tripartite dialogue in order to find a genuine political solution in Burma.
This statement is jointly issued by:
(1) Mon Sangha Organization of America (M.S.O.A)
(2) Mon Sangha Organization of Canada (M.S.O.C)
(3) Mon Young Monks Organization of Monland (M.Y.M.O)
(4) Mon Young Monks Democracy Action Group, Thailand (M.Y.M.D.A.G)
Media contact person:
Tel (330) 957-2896 (mobile) | <urn:uuid:5bd2dbc7-fe38-4cb4-af07-de747d76e1bb> | 2013-05-23T18:51:42Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
-0.0263671875,
0.002410888671875,
0.0028533935546875,
0.0181884765625,
0.111328125,
-0.0927734375,
-0.0205078125,
0.0947265625,
-0.007537841796875,
-0.046142578125,
0.048583984375,
0.0164794921875,
-0.0223388671875,
0.025390625,
0.0274658203125,
0.00... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959798 | 702 | http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=83,4943,0,0,1,0 | 0.281597 |
|Hometown:||San Luis Obispo, CA|
|High School:||San Luis Obispo|
2011-12: Finished 20th in the three-meter (236.50) and 23rd in the one-meter (206.80) diving at the MAC Championships. Set season-bests of 236.70 on the one-meter board at St. Bonaventure and 251.63 on the three-meter board vs. Bowling Green during the regular season.
High School: Earned four letters and captained one season at San Luis Obispo High School for coach Coral Minton. Won her league title three years and finished sixth at the state championships. Also a member of the Central Coast Diving club program.
Personal: Born November 4, 1993. Daughter of Tim and Shannon Merritt. Has one brother (Ethan). Favorite athletes include Olympic diving champion Greg Louganis and NBA player Danilo Gallinari. Favorite food is chocolate. Participated in gymnastics and has taught preschool gymnastics. Majoring in biology. | <urn:uuid:ad114749-4b3d-4b60-8dc2-4dee3302219c> | 2013-05-23T18:45:49Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
0.004627145826816559,
0.021459227427840233,
-0.009254291653633118,
0.006102467887103558,
0.012204935774207115,
-0.022263947874307632,
-0.019581545144319534,
0.027896996587514877,
-0.017703862860798836,
-0.04962446168065071,
0.09763948619365692,
0.01998390629887581,
... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.921572 | 221 | http://www.buffalobulls.com/sports/swimdive/2012-13/bios/merritt_tessa_ay9j?dec=/printer-decorator | 0.176647 |
Addressing a poll rally yesterday, Vaghela said "I am fighting the elections not to seat in opposition benches... I am the contender for the top post...They are asking who is the captain? I am the captain."
Vaghela was referring to Chief Minister Narendra Modi's remarks that BJP had declared its chief ministerial candidate while in Congress, nobody knows who is their 'captain'.
Gohil, however, said today that "it is an established tradition in Congress party that after the election, a view of elected legislators is taken and it is conveyed to the party's central leadership which decides as to who will be the chief minister".
He also said there were no difference between leaders in the opposition party and they were all united while fighting elections.
Reacting to the development, Modi said today in one of his poll rallies that "every one is coming forward and declaring that they are captains of Congress party in Gujarat. There are six leaders and all of them are declaring that they are captains".
"Tomorrow, Sonia Gandhi is coming here... You should seek an answer from her as to who is the captain of Congress in Gujarat," Modi said addressing people in Keshod town in Junagadh district.
Gandhi will address poll rallies at Mandvi in Surat district and Keshod in Junagadh district tomorrow. | <urn:uuid:981bc960-c3bf-434a-8b63-65b9f364a66d> | 2013-05-23T19:05:48Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
-0.01689739339053631,
0.02504071593284607,
-0.006438314449042082,
-0.0022266898304224014,
0.1384364813566208,
-0.03969869762659073,
-0.02269951067864895,
0.022292345762252808,
-0.007328990381211042,
-0.07532573491334915,
0.04193811118602753,
0.012469462119042873,
... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.985512 | 273 | http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/guj-congress-leaders-split-over-candidature-of-cm-112120600637_1.html | 0.421549 |
tell me what you think...Something different on pg 31
When I checked my caller ID I and saw my girl Stacy's number flash on the screen I was happy to have something to remove me from the boredom of my otherwise normal day.
"Hey girl, what's up?"
"Not much girl, are we still on for tomorrow night?" she asked.
"Yeah, should be. I'm getting a pedicure and a haircut before we go though. When are we heading out? Are you picking me up?"
"I'll go with you for the pedi." She laughed as she admitted, "God, I need one too! I'll pick you up; I figured we'd head out around 8 and get something to eat. Then we can go from there."
"All right, girl, I'll pick you up around 1 for the pedi," I agreed.
I hung up the phone thoughtfully. She might get us in all kinds of trouble, but going out with Stacey was always fun, amazing, and even downright fucking hot.
It was probably because I hadn't had a chance to go out with Stacy in a while, or maybe because I'd heard so many good things about the club, but I woke up feeling like Saturday was going to be a very good day. Even though it wasn't how I wanted to spend my morning, I decided to clean up my house. Sometimes Stacy needed a place to crash when the vodka got the better of her. Of course, another, better, reason was in the back of my mind. Maybe I wouldn't be coming back alone.
nce my hair was done I looked in the mirror critically.
"What do you think?" I asked.
Stacy leaned over the back of the chair and her green eyes met my brown ones in the mirror as she examined the stylist's work
"Looks good," she said finally. "You look hot!" She brushed her own brown hair away from her face and said, "I wish I'd taken the time to do something with all this!"
"Girl you have the volume I wish I had." I chuckled at her. "Leave it down and when you blow dry your hair adds some curls not a lot but some and I think it'll be all you need." I grinned at Stacy and the stylist just nodded in agreement.
As we finished with the salon we went over the mall. We browsed around at the stores and looking at eye candy. I spotted a new store in the mall and said "what the hell why not" to myself.
"Stace lets go in this store. I got a feeling I will find THE OUTFIT for tonight." I looked at her. She nodded in agreement as we walked in the store.
"Welcome to the Rave, How can I help you?" A cute petite blonde around mid 20's asking when we walked in.
"I'm looking for an outfit to go out tonight and I want it to be the outfit if you catch my drift." I smiled at her.
"I understand completely. My name is Shawna and I'll being helping you. Come this way and I'll get a fitting room ready for you and your friend. Then I'll gather some outfits and you can try them on." I nodded and said "Sure."
Stacy and I walked to the fitting room. The fitting room was huge. I had a couch and a table with water and snacks. I raised an eyebrow toward Stacy and she shrugged her shoulders. I started to undress while I was waiting on Shawna. I looked at Stacy I always knew she was always a pretty girl. Not that I haven't thought about experiencing some girl on girl action because I would do Stacy in a second. She was taller than me compare to my 5'3 she was 5'6. She wasn't as curvy as I am, but she had nice set tits on her. If I remember correctly full B cup compare to my DD. She had sandy brown hair that volume that I was extremely jealous off, but she always through it up in a ponytail because of her job. I had nice wide hips with a desirable ass as the men called it. Stacy had a cute bubble butt but not much of one. We were complete opposites of each other. That's probably why we were such good friends.
"Here you go; I brought a strapless bra too. If you need anything just holla at me." Shawna said as she was walking out the door. I went through all the dresses and I thought I wasn't going to find the one but the last dress I put on I looked at myself in the mirror and I knew this was it.
"Damn girl that is the OUTFIT if you know what I mean." Stacy was wide eyed and walking around me.
"You think so?" I asked her. I felt confident but I needed the assurance from my best friend. She was just nodding her head. I put my clothes back on and went and saw Shawna at check out and said this is the dress.
"I have some amazing shoes to go with this dress, if you are interested." Shawna suggested.
I looked at Stacy and I thought real quick of my shoes at home and realized none would go with the outfit. "That would be great Shawna. I'm an 8.5 in shoes." I told her. She walked to the back of the store and came back with some amazing shoes. She gave me the total. We left that mall. I dropped Stace off at home and said quick bye that I would see her later.
It was 5:30 by the time we were done with our shopping. I poured some vodka and downed it in one shot as I savored the burn of the liquor down my throat. It was a little early, but I wanted to take my time and look my best so I headed up the stairs to start getting ready.
I filled my tub with warm water and sank down with a sigh of pleasure. I poured some mango bath wash onto my loofah and began to soap myself as I inhaled the delicious, fruity scent. I shave my appealing legs and, of course under arms. Once I finished I reached in the water felt my wet, smooth shaven pussy. It was still nice and soft. I teased myself pinching my clit while twisting my nipples with the other hand. I wouldn't cum but I wanted to be more than a tease tonight. I will be bringing someone home. Oh yes I was. . I got out and lathered up in my favorite lotion. I left my hair alone since it was styled for tonight. I looked at my clock it read 650. I got on with my makeup. I was going to take my time and do it right. I was going to smokin hot!! As I finished I heard the doorbell.
I yelled come in. "Where ya at hooker" I laughed.
"Back here Stacy." She walked in the bedroom as I finished with my makeup.
"Damn girl you aren't ready yet." I laughed at Stacy.
"Chill girl I just have to put my clothes on and I'm ready." I told Stace.
"Well hurry up I'm hungry and I'm ready to party and find some hot men!!" Stace told me while she was doing a dance move.
"Me too honey" me too I whispered. I pulled out my new black tube top dress that I had bought earlier. I had pulled out my stripper silver sparkle shoes with some silver hoops and my favorite charm necklace.
"Damn girl I never seen you look this hot before." Stace said to me with a smirk on her face.
"Whatever Stacy you have seen me dressed like this." I told her.
"No way, No huh honey." She said while shaking her head.
"Oh shut up and let's go eat since you are starving." I told her as I grabbed my purse and keys. I locked up and head out for a fun night.
When we got to Zone, of course we had to stand in line. I could feel the base from the dance music throbbing in my veins. I could also feel myself getting impatient; I really wanted to get out there on the floor. I wanted to dance, to flirt, to touch, and tease.
Once we got closer I saw that I knew the bouncer. His name was Jake and I hadn't seen him in forever. I couldn't help but smile at the thought of seeing him again.
Stacy and I stepped up.
"ID's please," he said, all business.
"Hey Jake, how are you?" I asked as I handed mine over.
He glanced at me briefly and then looked again. "Liz? Is that you?"
"The one and only," I teased.
He gave me a huge hug and then pulled back to look at me once more. "Wow girl," he said with an appreciative smile. "You look...wow!"
"Thanks," I said as I returned his grin. | <urn:uuid:8291434d-ae8f-4736-902b-45901e6ccc4e> | 2013-05-23T18:53:01Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
-0.0191650390625,
-0.00151824951171875,
0.0159912109375,
-0.0059814453125,
0.06884765625,
-0.015869140625,
-0.009033203125,
0.06396484375,
-0.040283203125,
-0.0380859375,
0.054443359375,
0.005157470703125,
0.048828125,
-0.04931640625,
0.043212890625,
... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.989072 | 1,889 | http://www.cafemom.com/group/115179/forums/read/17784780/tell_me_what_you_think_part_XIII_on_page_27_link_blog_website | 0.295351 |
Richard Hinds As 2012 draws to a close, Richard Hinds looks back at a huge year for AFL in the first of a series of year-enders.
Richard Hinds IN 1961, everywhere else, John Kennedy was the generation-defining US President advocating hare-brained schemes such as lunar exploration, liaising with Hollywood starlets and inspiring a nation with...
Richard Hinds Talking with Josh Kennedy before tonight's preliminary final, you raise the subject of his famous family apologetically.
Richard Hinds After a triumph of such fluctuating fortunes, and with such an incredible crescendo, you search for the difference. The act of skill or heroism; the piece of sheer good luck.
Richard Hinds In those last 10 minutes, the Swans were subjected to the most onerous test of mind and body imaginable.
Richard Hinds Privately, the Sydney Swans have confessed to some ambivalence about their ongoing relationship with ANZ Stadium in recent years.
Richard Hinds By coming from 20 points down at half-time to beat Hawthorn on Sunday, Sydney made a statement. "Legitimate", "genuine contenders", "the real thing". | <urn:uuid:eef57ae7-d484-445f-9e68-c89283f2a5c5> | 2013-05-23T18:46:32Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
0.004979723133146763,
0.02731393091380596,
0.00483062956482172,
-0.005635734647512436,
0.06917938590049744,
-0.0369751900434494,
0.004264074377715588,
0.07585877925157547,
0.0031160544604063034,
-0.06488549709320068,
0.05820610746741295,
0.03220419958233833,
-0.... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.926263 | 241 | http://www.canberratimes.com.au/afl/teams/hawks/by/richard-hinds | 0.1876 |
This scholarship is for students from New Market Skills Center in Tumwater, Washington, who are pursuing continuing education.
How easy is it to apply?
Not too bad
This scholarship's application process may have items such as essays that could take a couple hours.
How much competition is there?
This scholarship has a relatively low number of applicants. | <urn:uuid:fb2bd7fc-8716-49af-be09-a939030f6b93> | 2013-05-23T18:45:35Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
-0.04390822723507881,
0.03421677276492119,
0.025118671357631683,
-0.002200355986133218,
0.0644778460264206,
-0.026898734271526337,
-0.0030285799875855446,
0.04766613990068436,
-0.009592562913894653,
-0.032634492963552475,
0.08544303476810455,
0.030656645074486732,
... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935539 | 72 | http://www.cappex.com/scholarship/listings/Bill-and-Jodie-Brandt-Scholarship/-s-d-41089/ | 0.322835 |
Even though the season has ended for the Wildcats soccer team, postseason awards are starting to flow in for the Cassville athletes.
Six Wildcats were named to the Class 1, All-District 12 team.
David Verde, Wyatt Lopez and Indy Cole received first team honors. Brady Pry, Kendal Branham and Zach McGuffey were named to the second team.
Verde, a senior, scored 26 goals and had 14 assists for the black and gold this season.
"He was a great leader on and off the field," said Cassville head coach Andrew Hoskins. "David embodied the heart and dedication it took to be a great soccer player."
Cole another senior, earned All-District honors as a goalie for the second consecutive season.
"Indy kept us in every ball game," said Hoskins. "His determination and stubborn defense will be missed. He was a great leadership voice in the backfield."
Lopez is a great defender who became an invaluable asset to the Wildcats' defense. The junior scored two goals and added five assists this season.
"Wyatt emerged as a captain and leader this year," said Hoskins. "He commanded our defense and became a formidable force in the backfield."
Branham, a freshman, tallied five goals and dished out 14 assists in his first varsity season.
"It is rare to see talent like his at such a young age," said Hoskins. "Kendal is part of Cassville's soccer future. I look forward to coaching him and watching him develop."
Pry helped anchor the Cassville defense. The senior contributed three goals and five assists for the Wildcats.
"Brady is a physical defender who will be missed next season," said Hoskins. "Brady kept us close in every game."
McGuffey, a junior, scored 13 goals and had eight assists as a.
"Zach developed into an offensive threat this year," said Hoskins. "I will look forward to seeing him on the field next year." | <urn:uuid:587c5b57-e604-4013-9a08-1acbcc90315e> | 2013-05-23T18:58:04Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
0.009840425103902817,
0.009840425103902817,
-0.015625,
-0.0007022938807494938,
0.05106382817029953,
-0.029654255136847496,
0.01702127605676651,
0.10265957564115524,
0.004172207321971655,
-0.11223404109477997,
0.07819148898124695,
0.07234042882919312,
-0.02061170... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.988988 | 419 | http://www.cassville-democrat.com/story/1913274.html | 0.213248 |
Holy Gospel: August 19 “Amen, I say to you, it will be hard for one who is rich to enter the Kingdom of heaven. Again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for one who is rich to enter the Kingdom of God.” (Matthew 19: 23-30)
Dealing with Peer Pressure Many Christian parents ignore their conscious and give into the secular expectations others have. Learn how to avoid this mistake by using every opportunity to witness the faith.
Holy Gospel: August 18 Jesus said to him, “If you wish to be perfect, go, sell what you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. (Matthew 19: 16-22)
Holy Gospel: August 17 Then Jesus said to her in reply, “O woman, great is your faith! Let it be done for you as you wish.” (Matthew 15: 21-28)
August 18 -- Saint Helen, Widow She supervised the construction of churches and shrines at the holy sites in Rome and in Palestine, rediscovering many ancient relics, like the cross of Christ’s crucifixion. | <urn:uuid:3f15bd4d-2bdf-4529-aa23-78ccbc58834e> | 2013-05-23T19:01:26Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
-0.005280385259538889,
-0.012042984366416931,
-0.021245058625936508,
0.002454916015267372,
0.12845849990844727,
-0.038784585893154144,
-0.009016798809170723,
0.06521739065647125,
-0.010746047832071781,
-0.021986166015267372,
0.042490117251873016,
-0.0164278652518987... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943658 | 247 | http://www.catholic.net/index.php?option=channel&canal=&id=8856&pagina=250 | 0.338169 |
May 23, 2013
Error kernel (1)
You do not have permission to access this area.
Possible reasons for this are:
- You are currently not logged in to the site, to get proper access create a new user or login with an existing user.
- You misspelled some parts of your URL, try changing it. | <urn:uuid:311eb5d0-23d4-4e77-bd5b-93302056246e> | 2013-05-23T19:04:45Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
-0.006606157869100571,
-0.011546415276825428,
0.01976102963089943,
0.008674172684550285,
0.08455882221460342,
-0.11029411852359772,
-0.0029871324077248573,
0.027688419446349144,
-0.02780330926179886,
0.013614430092275143,
0.04733455926179886,
0.07950367778539658,
... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.861175 | 71 | http://www.cban.ca/Features/Petition-Tabled-for-GE-Free-Yukon/Briefing-Note-2-Irreversible-harm-to-natural-ecosystems | 0.278629 |
Scientists find trick to reverse moral opinions
(CBS News) A new study finds that a person's moral compass is surprisingly easy to throw off. With nothing more than a clipboard, a survey and a small patch of glue, researchers were able to get participants to not only subconsciously change their minds but even argue the opposite of their original opinions.
The study, led by Lars Hall of Sweden's Lund University, asked 160 volunteers to fill out a quick 2-page survey on moral principles and the morality of current events - such as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Unbeknownst to the participants, a patch of glue was stuck to the back of the survey clipboard. When flipping to the second page, the top set of statements would stick to the back of the clipboard, revealing a different set of questions but leaving the responses unchanged.
Published in the journal PLoS One, the study slightly altered the hidden statements to mean the opposite of what they said originally. One example used in the study: "Large-scale governmental surveillance of e-mail and Internet traffic out to be forbidden as a means to combat international crime and terrorism." When the hidden statements were revealed, the original had been reworded from "forbidden" to "permitted."
Participants then read the statements aloud, including the ones that had been altered, and explain their opinions. Researchers found that half of participants did not detect any changes to the statements, and a full 69 percent accepted at least one of the altered statements.
Not only were the volunteers unlikely to spot the changes, 53 percent argued in favor of the altered statements rather than their original opinions.
Hall and his team have studied this phenomenon previously, calling it "choice blindness."
"I don't feel we have exposed people or fooled them," Hall told the journal Nature. "Rather this shows something otherwise very difficult to show, [which is] how open and flexible people can actually be."
The study may have ramifications concerning the accuracy of self-report questionnaires. Hall believes that standard surveys "are not good at capturing the complexity of the attitudes people actually hold."
Liane Young, a psychologist at Boston College who was not involved in the study, called the results "intriguing."
"These findings suggest that if I'm fooled into thinking that I endorse a view, I'll do the work myself to come up with my own reasons," she told Nature.
© 2012 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved. | <urn:uuid:b9e8e3fa-e293-454b-ac0d-30f1d070327c> | 2013-05-23T18:59:19Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
-0.0380859375,
0.015380859375,
0.01458740234375,
-0.01214599609375,
0.08203125,
-0.05615234375,
-0.00335693359375,
0.103515625,
-0.005767822265625,
-0.000972747802734375,
0.053955078125,
0.036865234375,
-0.0537109375,
-0.00848388671875,
0.0269775390625,
... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959974 | 499 | http://www.cbsnews.com/2102-205_162-57517657.html?contributor=10470143 | 0.165666 |
Asthma is a lifelong disease that causes wheezing, breathlessness, chest tightness, and coughing. It can limit a person's quality of life. While we don't know why asthma rates are rising, we do know that most people with asthma can control their symptoms and prevent asthma attacks by avoiding asthma triggers and correctly using prescribed medicines, such as inhaled corticosteroids.
The number of people diagnosed with asthma grew by 4.3 million from 2001 to 2009. From 2001 through 2009 asthma rates rose the most among black children, almost a 50% increase. Asthma was linked to 3,447 deaths (about 9 per day) in 2007. Asthma costs in the US grew from about $53 billion in 2002 to about $56 billion in 2007, about a 6% increase. Greater access to medical care is needed for the growing number of people with asthma.
Asthma is increasing every year in the US.
Too many people have asthma.
- The number of people with asthma continues to grow. One in 12 people (about 25 million, or 8% of the population) had asthma in 2009, compared with 1 in 14 (about 20 million, or 7%) in 2001.
- More than half (53%) of people with asthma had an asthma attack in 2008. More children (57%) than adults (51%) had an attack.
- 185 children and 3,262 adults died from asthma in 2007.
- About 1 in 10 children (10%) had asthma and 1 in 12 adults (8%) had asthma in 2009. Women were more likely than men and boys more likely than girls to have asthma.
- About 1 in 9 (11%) non-Hispanic blacks of all ages and about 1 in 6 (17%) of non-Hispanic black children had asthma in 2009, the highest rate among racial/ethnic groups.
- The greatest rise in asthma rates was among black children (almost a 50% increase) from 2001 through 2009.
Asthma Action Plan Stages
Green Zone: Doing Well
No cough, wheeze, chest tightness, or shortness of breath; can do all usual activities. Take prescribed longterm control medicine such as inhaled corticosteroids.
Yellow Zone: Getting Worse
Cough, wheeze, chest tightness, or shortness of breath; waking at night; can do some, but not all, usual activities. Add quick-relief medicine.
Red Zone: Medical Alert!
Very short of breath; quick-relief medicines don't help; cannot do usual activities; symptoms no better after 24 hours in Yellow Zone. Get medical help NOW.
Full Action Plan: http://www.cdc.gov/asthma/actionplan.html
Asthma has a high cost for individuals and the nation.
- Asthma cost the US about $3,300 per person with asthma each year from 2002 to 2007 in medical expenses.
- Medical expenses associated with asthma increased from $48.6 billion in 2002 to $50.1 billion in 2007. About 2 in 5 (40%) uninsured people with asthma could not afford their prescription medicines and about 1 in 9 (11%) insured people with asthma could not afford
their prescription medicines.
- More than half (59%) of children and one-third (33%) of adults who had an asthma attack missed school or work because of asthma in 2008. On average, in 2008 children missed 4 days of school and adults missed 5 days of work because of asthma.
Better asthma education is needed.
- People with asthma can prevent asthma attacks if they are taught to use inhaled corticosteroids and other prescribed daily long-term control medicines correctly and to avoid asthma triggers. Triggers can include tobacco smoke, mold, outdoor air pollution, and colds and flu.
- In 2008 less than half of people with asthma reported being taught how to avoid triggers. Almost half (48%) of adults who were taught how to avoid triggers did not follow most of this advice.
- Doctors and patients can better manage asthma by creating a personal asthma action plan that the patient follows.
Asthma by age and sex US, 2001-2009
Percentages are age-adjusted
SOURCE: National Center for Health Statistics; 2010.
Asthma self-management education by age, US, 2008
SOURCE: National Health Interview Survey, 2008, asthma supplement.
Adults with asthma in the US, 2009
SOURCE: Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 2009
Federal, state, and local health officials can:
- Track asthma rates and the effectiveness of control measures so continuous improvements can be made in prevention efforts.
- Promote influenza and pneumonia vaccination for people with asthma.
- Promote improvements in indoor air quality for people with asthma through measures such as smoke-free air laws and policies, healthy schools and workplaces, and improvements in outdoor air quality.
Health care providers can:
- Determine the severity of asthma and monitor how much control the patient has over it.
- Make an asthma action plan for patients. Use this to teach them how to use inhaled corticosteroids and other prescribed medicines correctly and how to avoid asthma triggers such as tobacco smoke, mold, pet dander, and outdoor air pollution.
- Prescribe inhaled corticosteroids for all patients with persistent asthma.
People with asthma and parents of children with asthma can:
- Receive ongoing appropriate medical care.
- Be empowered through education to manage their asthma and asthma attacks.
- Avoid asthma triggers at school, work, home, and outdoors. Parents of children with asthma should not smoke, or if they do, smoke only outdoors and not in their cars.
- Use inhaled corticosteroids and other prescribed medicines correctly.
Schools and school nurses can:
- Use student asthma action plans to guide use of inhaled corticosteroids and other prescribed asthma medicines correctly and to avoid asthma triggers.
- Make students' quick-relief inhalers readily available for them to use at school as needed.
- Take steps to fix indoor air quality problems like mold and outdoor air quality problems such as idling school buses.
Employers and insurers can:
- Promote healthy workplaces by reducing or eliminating known asthma triggers.
- Promote measures that prevent asthma attacks such as eliminating co-payments for inhaled corticosteroids and other prescribed medicines.
- Provide reimbursement for educational sessions conducted by clinicians, health educators, and other health professionals both within and outside of the clinical setting.
- Provide reimbursement for long-term control medicines, education, and services to reduce asthma triggers that are often not covered by health insurers. | <urn:uuid:444d36d1-9d94-4ee6-a229-05bf8f8ca759> | 2013-05-23T18:38:34Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
0.006439208984375,
0.0244140625,
-0.01513671875,
-0.01318359375,
0.10888671875,
-0.053466796875,
-0.0225830078125,
0.11767578125,
-0.01239013671875,
-0.0341796875,
0.1083984375,
0.030517578125,
-0.026123046875,
0.01385498046875,
0.0546875,
-0.0024566... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948321 | 1,374 | http://www.cdc.gov/VitalSigns/Asthma/index.html | 0.555322 |
We seek the solution to the linear system of equations
Iterative methods, unlike direct methods, generate a sequence of approximate solutions to the system that (hopefully) converges to the exact solution. After k iterations, we obtain an approximation to the exact solution as:
where is the residual after k iterations.
as the difference between the exact and approaximate solution, we obtain
The purpose of iterations is to drive this residual to zero.
Stationary Iterative Methods
Iterative methods that can be expressed in the simple form
when neither B nor c depend upon the iteration count (k), the iterative method is called stationary iterative method. Some of the stationary iterative methods are
- Jacobi method
- Gauss-Seidel method
- Successive Overrelaxation (SOR) method and
- Symmetric Successive Overrelaxation (SSOR) method
The convergence of such iterative methods can be investigated using the Fixed point theorem.
Nonstationary Iterative Methods
When during the iterations B and c changes during the iterations, the method is called Nonstationary Iterative Method. Typically, constants B and c are computed by taking inner products of residuals or other vectors arising from the iterative method.
Some examples are:
- Conjugate Gradient Method (CG)
- MINRES and SYMMLQ
- Generalized Minimal Residual (GMRES)
- BiConjugate Gradient (BiCG)
- Quasi-Minimal Residual (QMR)
- Conjugate Gradient Squared Method (CGS)
- BiConjugate Gradient Stabilized (Bi-CGSTAB)
- Chebyshev Iteration | <urn:uuid:57f4fa4d-00c8-4756-a302-32778719e080> | 2013-05-23T18:40:35Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
-0.012895569205284119,
-0.005656645633280277,
0.0007318038260564208,
0.000944422441534698,
0.01875000074505806,
-0.06930379569530487,
-0.007397152017802,
0.08860759437084198,
-0.03955696150660515,
-0.04556962102651596,
0.12784810364246368,
-0.0002484671713318676,
... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.855027 | 363 | http://www.cfd-online.com/W/index.php?title=Iterative_methods&oldid=9557 | 0.761329 |
Three Adams County sheriff's deputies are on leave following shooting that left a man dead Wednesday.
The shooting happened at a home on South Czech Court in the Town of Preston, just north of Friendship.
Authorities said deputies responded to a report of gunfire in the Town of Preston.
Investigators said the deputies confronted an armed man outside of his home at about 3:30 a.m. Wednesday.
"Upon approaching the address, they made contact with the male subject and unfortunately it resulted in deputies firing at the subject and him subsequently dying from his injuries," said Sheriff Sam Wollin.
Wollin declined to answer why the 41-year-old man was shot.
The Wisconsin Division of Criminal Investigation is investigating. It's routine for deputies involved in a shooting incident to be placed on administrative leave while an investigation is conducted.
Adams County Sheriff Sam Wollin said, at first glace, he believes the three deputies acted appropriately in the situation, but the state investigation will make that determination.
The sheriff said he can't yet release many details, but he said the case isn't like most other reports of shots fired.
"The area that the deputies located the shots coming from is a more residential area. It isn't a more country residence. It does, I would say, heighten concern when approaching a situation like that," Wollin said.
Wollin said his deputies hadn't had any run-ins with the man in the past.
He said it's the most serious incident in his county since a deputy was killed in the line of fire nine years ago. | <urn:uuid:81df9b10-5b9a-4bca-b784-470510c9888c> | 2013-05-23T18:47:08Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
-0.01550131943076849,
0.019788919016718864,
-0.01640831120312214,
0.02143799513578415,
0.08641161024570465,
-0.010306728072464466,
-0.004658641293644905,
0.058377306908369064,
-0.016985489055514336,
-0.06299472600221634,
0.08113456517457962,
0.0699208453297615,
... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982897 | 326 | http://www.channel3000.com/news/3-Adams-Co-deputies-on-leave-following-fatal-shooting/-/1648/16514650/-/rpi8k6/-/index.html | 0.255627 |
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsy early Sunday canceled most of a controversial decree that gave him sweeping powers, but vowed to press forward with a referendum next weekend on a draft constitution, an adviser said.
The move was an apparent attempt to end a political crisis that has spilled into the streets, pitting the president's supporters and opponents against one another and raising questions about Morsy's ability to lead the fragile democracy.
Almost as soon as adviser Mohamed Selim el-Awwa laid out the offer, many in the opposition dismissed it.
The cancellation of the decree, which put Morsy's decisions above judicial oversight, was not retroactive, meaning any decisions he made since its announcement still stand. Those decisions, which include the approval of the draft constitution, cannot be challenged by the courts.
Also, the president did not postpone a December 15 referendum on the draft constitution, as protesters demand.
The development came after a meeting at the presidential palace that many in the opposition boycotted.
"This is a farce," said Ahmed Selim, a member of the opposition April 6 youth movement, vowing to "take to the streets nationwide to continue to protest this dictator and his stubbornness."
"We are not fools and this new decree serves no one but his followers," Selim said.
In contrast, Ayman Nour, an opposition leader who attended the meeting at the palace, described the cancellation of the decree as a positive step.
"(It) has opened the door to a possible solution to a national crisis and may calm the situation down," he said.
Egyptian authorities said at least six people have been killed in violent clashes in recent days, while the Muslim Brotherhood -- the group that backs Morsy -- has said eight of its members were killed.
The crisis erupted in late November when Morsy issued the edict allowing himself to run the country unchecked until a new constitution was drafted, a move that sat uncomfortably with many Egyptians who said it reminded them of ousted President Hosni Mubarak's rule.
Morsy had said the powers were necessary and temporary. But that promise did little to quiet the opposition.
Anger at Morsy's move led to protesters reoccupying Tahrir Square, the scene of the Arab Spring uprising that saw Mubarak ousted in 2011. Thousands later protested outside the palace, where the opposition clashed with the Muslim Brotherhood.
The anger only grew when the Islamist-dominated Constitutional Assembly pushed through a draft despite the objections of the secular opposition, including some members who walked out in protest. Tens of thousands of protesters -- for and against Morsy -- took to the streets.
A coalition of Egyptian Islamic parties, including the Brotherhood, rejects any postponement in the constitutional referendum, the Islamic Forces Alliance announced Saturday on the Brotherhood website.
The deputy head of Muslim Brotherhood, Khairet El-Shatir, also read the Alliance's statement in a press conference.
The Alliance won't allow under any circumstance the return of the corrupt Mubarak regime. El-Shatir said. The Alliance includes 13 parties such as the Al-Nour party and the Salafist front.
The statement also warned against manipulating the will of the people by forcefully overtaking the state.
"We assure the Egyptian people that the Alliance of the Islamic Forces is very keen to preserve the security of the homeland, stopping the bloodshed," El-Shatir said.
Egypt's military leaders, who took control of the country after Mubarak's ouster, were keeping a wary eye on the developments, according to a statement released by the Egyptian armed forces and read on state-media.
"The armed forces are watching with sadness and worries the current developments in the country, with its consequences and how it led to divisions," the statement said, according to state media.
"We stress that dialogue is the ideal and only solution to reach an agreement that realizes the interests of the nation and its citizens. Anything other than that will lead us into a dark tunnel with catastrophic consequences, which we will never allow to happen."
Adel Saeed, a spokesman for Egypt's newly appointed general prosecutor, said Friday morning that opposition figures Hamdeen Sabahy, Mohamed El Baradei and Amr Moussa are being investigated for allegedly "conspiring to topple" the government.
All three are well-known internationally; ElBaradei being a Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Moussa a onetime head of the Arab League, and Sabahy is an Egyptian political figure. They are now being probed for their role in the opposition against Morsy. | <urn:uuid:da2a5620-a0e5-410c-a2fd-8482f6374d8e> | 2013-05-23T19:01:13Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
-0.0029754638671875,
0.03271484375,
0.0028228759765625,
0.01190185546875,
0.10888671875,
-0.052001953125,
-0.026123046875,
0.11328125,
-0.01116943359375,
-0.04248046875,
0.05322265625,
0.0400390625,
-0.00848388671875,
-0.037353515625,
0.039794921875,
... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969666 | 944 | http://www.channel3000.com/news/Egypt-s-president-pulls-back-on-power-decree/-/1648/17704014/-/kcbghm/-/index.html | 0.342525 |
- Do I need to have an account to shop with you?
- How do I sign up/create an account at CharlesKeith.com?
- I forgot my password, how can I retrieve it?
- How can I edit/update my account details?
- How can I edit/update my shipping and billing address details?
- What are the benefits of signing up an account with you?
- How can I place an order?
- Is there another way of placing an order?
- How long will it take for me to get my order?
- How will I know if CharlesKeith.com has received my order?
- I did not receive any sales order summary, what does that mean?
- There’s a missing item in my order, what should I do?
- How will I view my order details and history?
- How do I track my order status?
- Am I able to track my order?
- Can I cancel my order?
- Can I amend my order?
- Can I add items to an existing order?
- My order was cancelled due to Online Security, how can I get my money back?
- The item I want is out of stock, what do I do now?
- I tried to check out the item in my shopping cart but it disappeared, what happened?
- When I put something on my shopping cart, does it guarantee I have the merchandise?
- What is Online Security Fraud Screening?
- Why should I send you my personal information?
- What should I take note when sending my personal information?
- Is my personal information kept secured?
- Will I receive Online Security email every time I place my order at CharlesKeith.com?
- I receive an Online Security email from you; will I still receive my order within the stated delivery timeline?
- What if I failed to respond to your email within the given period, will my order still be processed?
- What forms of payment can I use?
- What is 3D-secure payment?
- Will CharlesKeith.com store my credit card information?
- What is AsiaPay?
- What is PayPal?
- How do I sign up for PayPal?
- What is PayPal verified account?
- How do I make my PayPal account verified?
- What is Payment Authorization?
- What currencies do you accept?
- My payment has been declined.
Tax and Duties
- How long will it take for me to get my order?
- Which countries do you ship orders to?
- My country is not among the list of countries where you ship to, can I still place my order?
- What are the shipping charges like?
- Can I change my shipping address after my order has been dispatched?
- What happens if an incorrect address is entered for the delivery?
- What is the process when delivery is made?
- What should I take note of when the order is intended as a gift?
- I have yet to receive my package, what may be the reason?
Returns and Exchange
- I received a defective item, what should I do?
- I received an incorrect item, what should I do?
- Can I request for an exchange?
- My request for exchange was denied after I sent the item to Charles & Keith Headquarters, how can I get my item back?
Online Store Credit
- What is an Online Store Credit?
- Will my Online Store Credit expire?
- How will I check my remaining Online Store Credit?
- How can I utilize my Online Store Credit?
- What are the Terms and Conditions for the Online Store Credit?
Privilege Card Program
- How can I become a Charles & Keith Privilege Card member?
- I have been a Charles & Keith privilege card member for a few years, can I also enjoy the new privilege card member online privilege?
- How do i activate my online member privileges if my privilege card is issued by Charles & Keith stores in Singapore?
- How do i activate my online member privileges if my privilege card is issued by Charles & Keith online store at CharlesKeith.com?
- Can I enjoy the member online privilege immediately after I become a privilege card member in the retail store?
- Do I get to enjoy the same retail store member privileges on CharlesKeith.com?
- Do I need to enter any privilege card details online during check out to enjoy the privilege?
- Can I get the 10% discount off regular priced item privilege immediately on the purchase which qualifies me to be a privilege card member?
- Can I enjoy the member online privilege in retail stores immediately after i become a privilege card member online?
Pricing on CharlesKeith.com
- What kind of promotions will CharlesKeith.com have?
- What are the Terms and Conditions for promotions?
- What happened if the promotion that I would like to have expired?
- What is the difference between promotions are CharlesKeith.com and in retail stores?
Online Safety and Security Tips
- What should I take note as an internet user and online shopper?
- Protect your passwords
- Be wary of unsolicited email and telephone contacts
- Disclosure of information
- Cookies / Sessions
- Do you have a catalogue?
- Do you do customized shoes?
- Do you provide repair service?
- How do I know my shoe size?
- Will an item be restocked?
- How often do you update your website with new products?
- What is out of stock items?
1. My Account
a. Do I need to have an account to shop with you?
Yes. Setting up an account will allow you to order without having to enter your details every time you shop with us. You can sign up right now, or you can first start shopping and create your account before you check out at the shopping bag page.
b. How do I sign up/create an account at CharlesKeith.com?
Please click on ‘Sign in’ followed by ‘Create an account’ and fill in your personal particulars. If you experience any difficulty, kindly call our customer service hotline and we will be pleased to assist you.
c. I forgot my password, how can I retrieve it?
Please click on ‘Forget password’ which is available at the ‘Sign In’ page. Enter your email address and click on “Submit”. A set of instructions to reset your password will be sent to your registered email. After your credentials has been verified, you will be able to create a new password.
d. How can I edit/update my account details?
Please sign in and click on ‘My Account’. You will be able to edit/update your particulars.
e. How can I edit/update my shipping and billing address details?
Please sign in and click on ‘My Account’. You will be able to edit/update your particulars in your account and save it for future orders. If you wish to change the delivery address for a placed order, please contact our customer service immediately. We will make the requested changes if the order has not been processed.
f. What are the benefits of signing up an account with you?
By signing up an account with CharlesKeith.com, you will be able to access and manage your account information easily. This includes:
- Changing your password
- Updating your billing or shipping address
- Checking your order status
- Viewing your complete order history
- Viewing the status of returned items (If any)
- Viewing your online store credit (If applicable)
- Managing your e-mail preference settings (e.g. choose whether to receive mails from Charles & Keith and our partners)
a. How can I place an order?
In order to place an order with CharlesKeith.com, you will be required to:
- Sign in to your online account
- Shop for the items you want
- Add the items to your Shopping Bag
- Proceed to checkout
- Enter billing and shipping information
- Provide payment information
- Review and submit your order
- Check your order status
b. Is there another way of placing an order online?
Currently, CharlesKeith.com only allows placing of orders through CharlesKeith.com and charleskeith.tmall.com. CharlesKeith.com and Charles & Keith at TMall.com are the ONLY authorized websites to sell Charles & Keith products online. All information inputted by you and transmitted to our site is protected by an encryption using Secure Sockets Layer Technology (SSL). SSL encrypts your order information before it is transmitted to us to avoid the decoding of your information by anyone other than CharlesKeith.com.
c. How long will it take for me to receive my order?
For international orders, the standard delivery timeframe is within 8 to 15 business days for standard delivery and 4 to 8 business days for express delivery. Orders may be delayed due to custom clearance, online security or payment authorization. For more information, please click here.
d. How will I know if CharlesKeith.com has received my order?
After you place your order, you will receive an acknowledgement e-mail from CharlesKeith.com to confirm that your orders have been well-received. However, do note that orders will only be shipped when your credit card payment has been approved, billing and delivery address verified. Alternatively, you may check the status of your order through “My Account”.
e. I did not receive any sales order summary, what does that mean?
A sales order summary is an auto-generated e-mail where CharlesKeith.com acknowledges the order you placed. You should receive this order summary within 15 minutes upon placing your order (please make sure that the e-mail is not sent to your junk folder). If you did not receive an order summary within 15 minutes after placing your order, this means that we have not received your order and no payment has been received by CharlesKeith.com. You are then required to make a new order. Alternatively, you may sign in to your account to access My Account page to view whether your order is received by us.
f. There’s a missing item in my order, what should I do?
Please check the invoice that was included in your package. If there is any missing item(s), please contact email@example.com.
g. How will I view my order details and history?
Please sign in to “My Account’ to view your order history. Click on the order you wish to view to see the details.
h. How do I track my order status?
The order status will be displayed next to your order. If you wish to know more about the order status, please click here.
i. Am I able to track my order?
Yes. When we dispatch your order for delivery you will receive a unique tracking number via email. Once you receive this tracking number, you can check the delivery status of your shipment.
j. Can I cancel my order?
Unfortunately we are unable to cancel an order once it has been placed. We do our best to ensure fast delivery and it would be advisable to check your order before placing it.
k. Can I amend my order?
Unfortunately we are unable to amend an order once it has been placed. This includes changing the size/color of an item, removing an item, changing the payment methods or delivery mode.
l. Can I add items to an existing order?
Unfortunately, it is not possible to combine orders or add items to an existing order after your order has been processed.
m. My order was cancelled due to Online Security, how can I get my money back?
We regret to know that your order was cancelled due to Online Security measures. This is a security measure to prevent fraudulent transactions from going through and to protect our customers from being victims of fraudulent activities. However, please note that we have not captured any payment from you when we cancel your order, hence, the amount will not be charged to you.
n. The item I want is out of stock, what do I do now?
CharlesKeith.com is very sorry that the item that you want is out of stock. In the product page, there is a link that says "Notify me when back in stock”. If you click on that link, you will see a popup that will enable you to add your email address to our notification list. When your size, color, or style becomes available, you will receive an automated email sent by our system to inform you that your item is available for purchase. This does not mean that the item(s) is reserved for you and neither are you obligated to purchase the item(s).
o. I tried to check out and the item in my shopping bag disappeared.
Placing an item in your shopping cart does not guarantee your purchase of the item. Until you have completed the checkout process, another customer may have purchased the item. If that happens, you will receive a message on the shopping cart page informing you that the item is no longer available and that you should remove it from your cart.
p. When I place an item to my shopping bag, is the item placed under my reservation?
Placing an item in your shopping cart does not guarantee your purchase of the item and does not mean that the item is reserved for you. Until you have completed the checkout process, another customer may have purchased the item.
3. Online Security
a. What is Online Security Fraud Screening?
Online Security Fraud screening is CharlesKeith.com initiative as preventive measure against credit card fraud transactions. It aims to protect our customers from unauthorized and fraudulent dealings.
b. Why should I send you my personal information?
Due to high risk or credit card fraud, CharlesKeith.com may request additional information for payment verification. We will not be able to process your orders if we do not receive the required documents. In order to avoid delays with your order, we suggest that you scan the documents and send them via email so that they are clearly legible. Alternatively, you may take a clear photo of the documents requested if scanning is not available.
c. What should I take note when sending my personal information?
For your security, CharlesKeith.com advises that you never send anyone your entire credit card number. We strongly recommend you to cover all digits of the credit card number except for the last 4 digits, or cover the driver license/passport number before emailing the verification documents to CharlesKeith.com. In the event where the documents are submitted without covering of the sensitive information as suggested above, CharlesKeith.com will not be held responsible for any possible further complications.
d. Is my personal information kept secured?
All relevant pieces of information submitted by our customers will be kept secured and confidential. Only limited and authorized personnel have the rights to access this information. At no point will we share, rent or sell your personal information without your consent. For further details please read the Charles & Keith terms and conditions statement.
e. Will I receive Online Security email every time I place my order at CharlesKeith.com?
Online Security is meant for every order; however verification process is ideally for one-time verification purpose. In your next or future purchase(s), if you are using another credit card or using other account information such as billing address or shipping address, your order will be subject to Online Security verification again. We suggest you to use 3-D secured credit card payment or PayPal for faster order processing.
f. I receive an Online Security email from you; will I still receive my order within the standard delivery timeline?
Depending on how fast you have responded to the Online Security email and the validity of the submitted documents are, your order may or may not be experiencing delivery delays. However please note that once we received your documents, we will try to process the order at the soonest.
g. What if I fail to respond to your email within the period given, will my order still be processed?
Failure to respond to the Online Security verification process within the timeline given will result to automatic order cancellation. We regret to inform you that if we do not receive any response to the online security verification within the given timeline, your order will be cancelled automatically.
4. Payment Methods
a. What forms of payment can I use?
Currently, we only accept MasterCard, Visa, and PayPal payments.
We also take security very seriously so your details will be safe with us. All credit and debit card holders are subject to validation and authorization by both us and the card issuer, to maintain security and prevent fraud. We suggest you use 3D secured credit card payment or PayPal for faster order processing.
b. What is 3-D secure payment?
3-D Secure is an XML-based protocol used as an added layer of security for online credit and debit card transactions. It was developed by Visa to improve the security of Internet payments and offered to customers as the Verified by Visa service. Services based on the protocol have also been adopted by MasterCard, under the name MasterCard Secure Code. 3-D Secure adds another authentication step for online payments. 3-D Secure should not be confused with the Card Security Code (commonly known as CVV) which is a short numeric code that is printed at the back of the credit card.
c. Will CharlesKeith.com store my credit card information?
CharlesKeith.com does NOT store any customer's credit/debit card information. When you pay by credit/debit card, all credit/debit card information is directly transacted in a secure fashion to AsiaPay or PayPal, our payment gateway providers.
d. What is AsiaPay?
AsiaPay is one of the leading providers for internet and mobile payment services. AsiaPay provide its services to banks, corporate and e-Business in the worldwide market. For credit card payment, you will be linked to AsiaPay’s website which is a secure website whereas all the credit card information will be stored on their end. For more information about AsiaPay, you can contact AsiaPay via their website at www.asiapay.com.
e. What is PayPal?
PayPal is a payment method for online purchases enabling buyers and businesses to send and receive money online. As of today, PayPal has over 100 million member accounts in 190 countries and regions. One advantage of using PayPal payment method is that it offers faster, safer and easier checkouts and promises to protect customers from revealing their credit card and other financial information to the merchant.
f. How do I sign up for PayPal?
You can sign up for a PayPal account by going to www.paypal.com.
g. What is PayPal verified account?
A Verified PayPal account is a PayPal account whereby the account holder has provided additional evidence of their identity to PayPal by passing key security checks and completing the PayPal Verification process.
h. How do I make my PayPal account verified?
The verification process varies from country to country. Please click here for more information.
i. What is Payment Authorization?
All payments are authorized but not captured until the day of shipment. When processing payment, our payment gateway provider will run your payment details through a series of fraud rules to ensure the validity of the payment. There are many rules put in place to guard against fraud and there may be a chance that a sincere buyer's details may trigger the fraud alarm. When this happens, your order will be put on hold until we get in touch with you and are able to ascertain the authenticity of your payment details.
j. What currencies do you accept?
Before you start adding items into your shopping cart, you need to ensure that you are at CharlesKeith.com “Shop Online” site. You are then required to select the delivery destination and NOT the country that you are located in.
You will be charged in the default currency which you have selected as the delivery destination. Currently, CharlesKeith.com only accepts US dollar for international orders and Singapore dollar for Singapore site.
For instance, if you are staying in USA but your delivery destination is in Singapore, you will be charged on Singapore’s default currency which is in Singapore dollars (SGD). On the other hand, if you are staying in Singapore but your delivery destination is in Australia, you will be charged on Australia’s default currency which is in US dollar (USD).
k. My payment has been declined.
Kindly try again and input the correct details such as card number, expiry date etc. If the problem persists, you may wish to try an alternative credit card.
5. Tax and Duties
a. Do I have to pay duties and taxes?
For Standard Delivery, duties and taxes (including Goods and Services Tax, "GST", and Value-added Tax, "VAT") will be the responsibility of the recipient outside of Singapore. All items entering a foreign country (outside of Singapore) are subjected to customs inspection and the assessment of duties and taxes in accordance with that particular country's national laws. Any handling charge, duty and/or tax charged or collected by external parties will not be refunded in any way by CharlesKeith.com. Please check with your local authorities on your tax rights.
For Express Delivery, duties and taxes (including Goods and Services Tax, "GST", and Value-added Tax, "VAT") will be the responsibility of CharlesKeith.com.
In the event that duties and taxes are incurred on Standard Delivery shipments and where CharlesKeith.com's assigned third party shipping company pays on behalf of the recipient, the recipient will be charged for the duties and taxes shouldered by the third-party courier service provider, upon receipt of the order.
For Express Delivery, CharlesKeith.com will be responsible for any and all customs duties and taxes when the package arrives at your customs.
In the event that duties and taxes are incurred on Express Delivery shipments and where CharlesKeith.com's assigned third party shipping company pays on behalf of the recipient, CharlesKeith.com will be charged for the duties and taxes shouldered by the third-party courier service provider, upon receipt of the order.
For any return, the sender is responsible for all taxes, and/or duties imposed in the process of return to CharlesKeith.com. Should the returned item(s) be deemed not in its original condition, CharlesKeith.com reserves all rights to return the item to the sender at the sender's cost.
b. I am eligible for tax refund, what should I do?
If tax has been charged on any portion of your order and you need to take advantage of your tax exemption status, you will need to provide us with acceptable proof of tax exemption status for the state where the item(s) will be shipped to. We might request for more information to verify your eligibility and review before assisting you further.
All items purchased from CharlesKeith.com will be shipped from Singapore.
a. How long will it take for me to get my order?
The standard delivery timeframe for international orders is within 8 to 11 business days for standard delivery mode and 4 to 8 business days for express delivery mode, subjected to possible delay due to Online Security measures or payment authorization.
b. Which countries do you ship orders to?
Charles & Keith ships directly to the following countries from Singapore:
American Samoa, American Virgin Islands, Andorra, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Belgium, Bosnia, Botswana, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Korea South, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Macau, Macedonia, Malaysia, Maldives, Mauritius, Mexico, Monaco, Mongolia, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Panama, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Canary Island (Spain), Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States of America, Venezuela, Vietnam.
c. My country is not among the list of delivery destinations countries, can I still place my order?
You may register with us and we will inform you when we start shipping to your country.
d. What are the shipping charges like?
For the shipping charges, you can refer here
e. Can I change my shipping address after my order has been dispatched?
Unfortunately, we are unable to redirect orders once your items have been shipped. Therefore, please ensure you provide the correct shipping address.
7. Shipping Restrictions
a. Are there any restricted areas?
Currently, we are unable to ship to any PO Box, military, protected area/location. Shipping charges for failure of attempted delivery to the restricted areas will be borne by the buyer.
Please note that we are unable to publish all the restrictive measures imposed by your country of delivery as this is dependent on your country’s customs and restrictions.
Before making any purchase, we encourage you to check with your local customs on their regulations. You might want to ask about the restriction on:
- Any limit on the quantity to import the items
- Any limit on the value to import the items
- Restrictions to the material that you are interested to purchase
- Tax and duties you need to incur for importing the items
If for some reason, there are any items that cannot be exported from Singapore and/or imported into your choice of delivery destination, you might still be able to checkout and pay for the items to be delivered. In such cases, the shipper bears the responsibilities to ship the items due to non-delivery e.g. shipping charges incurred to and fro for sending to the intended delivery destination, and for the intended delivery destination to return the goods to CharlesKeith.com will be borne by the buyer.
8. Undeliverable Packages
CharlesKeith.com believes all our online shoppers are responsible shoppers and have a strong support and interest in our fashion products. However, due to negligence and irresponsible acts from a minority of shoppers, our delivery agents may deem a package undeliverable for one of the following reasons. Under such circumstances, customer is responsible to pay for ALL incurred taxes and the shipping charges for attempted delivery and the returned shipping charges. Refunds after deduction for the chargeable shipping charges and taxes shall then be returned to the credit card used for the purchase. This check is to stress the importance of accurate delivery information.
a. What happens if an incorrect address is provided for the delivery?
If the address is incorrect or outdated, the package will be returned to us by the delivery agent or the unintended recipient. Please check your address carefully when placing a new order. Please also take note of the country in the provided shipping address field (e.g. Austria vs. Australia). To remove an outdated or incorrect address from your account, please log on to your online account.
If no one is available at the delivery address to receive the products, the delivery agent will leave an “unable to deliver” note at the address and the recipient should follow the instructions on that note to arrange redelivery of the products.
b. How is the delivery processed?
Most of our delivery agents make two attempts to deliver a parcel and they might require a signature upon delivery of parcel. It is generally up to the delivery agent’s discretion to determine whether a signature is required. The delivery agents will attempt to contact the recipient at the given contact number to rearrange a delivery. However, this may be unsuccessful if the contact number is unreachable. Please indicate country code and area code clearly when placing an order. If the recipient failed to receive the package after the delivery agent’s delivery attempts, the package will be returned to us.
c. What should I take note of when the order is intended as a gift?
If a recipient is not expecting a gift, they may refuse the package if they believe it was sent to them in error. You may wish to let the recipient know that a surprise is on the way. Undeliverable package charges will be borne by the buyer.
d. I have yet to receive my package, what may be the reason?
In rare cases, it is also possible that the address label became illegible during the shipping and handling process, or that the delivery agent made a mistake and left the package at a different address than what was printed on the label. If you did not receive your package, please contact us firstname.lastname@example.org for assistance.
9. Delivery Dates
a. Is there a guaranteed date which I can receive my order on time?
Currently, we are unable to guarantee a delivery date. The delivery period is subjected to payment authorization, fraud screening and availability of stocks. On some occasions, we may request for some forms of payment verification or source for the best available piece within our storage locations in order to fulfil your shipment. If you need to receive the items urgently, we suggest you to contact email@example.com. We will try our utmost to place your order on priority.
Orders placed and confirmed by 0900 (GMT+8) will be processed on the same day. Orders placed and confirmed after 0900 (GMT+8) on Friday, Saturday or Sunday will be processed on the next business day. Deliveries are made Monday through Friday, public holidays and weekends excluded.
A business day refers to Mondays to Fridays, weekends and Singapore Public Holidays excluded.
Click here to view list of Public Holidays in Singapore.
* As Chinese New Year falls on Sunday 10 February 2013 and Monday 11 February 2013, the next day, Tuesday 12 February 2013, will be a public holiday.
** The following Monday will be a public holiday.
10. Returns and Exchange
a. I received a defective item, what should I do?
Defective items can only be returned to Charles & Keith Headquarters Office, subject to item being returned must be in its original condition with the original tags and tickets.
Refunds can be in the form of Online Store Credit ONLY. There are strictly no refunds via cash/credit card. Please note that only merchandise value is valid for returns and any original shipping charges are strictly non-refundable and non-returnable in any form. Sale items cannot be exchanged in retail stores or via online. Please click here to process the Return Request.
b. I received an incorrect item, what should I do?
Incorrect item received can only be returned to Charles & Keith Headquarters Office, subjected to item being returned in its original condition. Crediting via Online Store Credit will be the only mode of refund and not through one-to-one item exchange. Please note that only merchandise value is valid for returns and any original shipping charges may be refunded via Online Store Credit. Sale items cannot be exchanged in retail stores or online. Please click here to process the Return Request.
c. Can I request for an exchange?
Issuance of an Online Store Credit will be the only mode of exchange and not through a one-to-one item exchange if the item is returned directly to Charles & Keith Headquarters. Please click here to process the Exchange Request.
Please note that only merchandise value is valid for exchange and returns and any original shipping charges are strictly non-refundable and non-returnable in any form. Sale items cannot be exchanged in retail stores or online.
d. Can I request for an exchange at a retail store?
No. Exchange Request at retail stores is not available for International orders.
e. My request for exchange was denied after I sent the item to Charles & Keith Headquarters, how can I get my item back?
You have the option of creating your own personal FedEx account so we can ship the item back to you at your expense.
11. Online Store Credit
a. What is an Online Store Credit?
An Online Store Credit is a credit issued to your account and can be used as payment to offset purchases made at CharlesKeith.com. The online store credit can only be used at CharlesKeith.com and NOT in any of the Charles & Keith retail stores or departmental stores.
b. Will my Online Store Credit expire?
Yes. Online store credits are set to expire three months from date of issue, without notification. For expired online store credits, no other form of refund will be provided and extension of validity date is not applicable.
c. How will I check my remaining Online Store Credit?
To obtain the balance of your Online Store Credit, simply log on to My Account at CharlesKeith.com. Please note that in most cases, the balance is adjusted immediately when you make a purchase, but there may be instances that you may need to wait for a moment for the correct balance amount to be reflected.
d. How can I utilize my Online Store Credit?
Once you receive an online store credit, you can redeem your preferred item almost immediately. Online store credit works similarly as other payment modes. At checkout, simply select payment by “online store credit” and it will immediately indicate the balance and will allow you to enter the amount you would like to utilize for this order. You have the option to select which online store credit to utilize if you have multiple online store credits. If your order exceeds the amount of your online store credit, you can pay the balance by credit card or PayPal. On the other hand, if you have a balance, you can continue to use it in your next purchase until the online store credit expires.
e. What are the Terms & Conditions for Online Store Credit?
- Online store credits are applicable only for online purchases at CharlesKeith.com.
- They are not applicable for use in any of the Charles & Keith retail stores or departmental stores.
- Online store credits cannot be redeemed for cash and are non refundable and non exchangeable. They cannot be used for purchase of any gift vouchers.
- Online store credits will be directly credited into your CharlesKeith.com online account and can be used immediately upon receipt.
- Online store credits are tagged to your CharlesKeith.com online account and are non-transferable.
- Shipping charges, duties, and taxes are applicable on any merchandise redeemed with CharlesKeith.com online store credits.
- Any unused value can be used in your future purchase, subjected to online store credit’s expiry date. Should the purchase amount be less than the value of the online store credit, the balance will be stored for future use when you checkout.
- Purchase amounts that exceed the value of the online store credit will require payment via credit card or PayPal for the balance due.
12. Technical Difficulties
a. I receive an error when placing my order, what went wrong?
Kindly do a screenshot of the page where you experience the error, or copy the error message and send it to firstname.lastname@example.org for further assistance.
13. Privilege Card Program
a. How can I become a Charles & Keith Privilege Card member?
CharlesKeith.com does not have any loyalty program at present for international orders. For more information pertaining to in-store loyalty program, please contact your local Charles & Keith retail stores directly.
14. Pricing on CharlesKeith.com
a. Is the pricing policy the same as retail stores?
Please note that pricing policy differs for each delivery destination and country. The prices on the website cannot be used as a benchmark to compare the prices at Charles & Keith retail and online store. In very rare cases, there might be price errors and Charles & Keith shall not be liable for any errors in the pricing of items purchased on CharlesKeith.com. If there are any changes, CharlesKeith.com will contact buyer before proceeding with the order.
All prices displayed are not inclusive of any shipping charges, duties, and taxes. Shipping charges will be computed and shown at the checkout page after shipping mode is selected. For Express Delivery, prices are inclusive of duties and taxes. For Standard Delivery, prices are not inclusive of duties and taxes. Please check with your local authority for your tax rights.
b. Price Adjustments
Any form of price adjustment to orders is not applicable.
a. What kind of promotions will CharlesKeith.com have?
On some occasions, CharlesKeith.com may introduce special promotions and discounted items on the website, at a limited time offer or while stock last basis. We might also issue special coupons and vouchers which you can use for your future orders. However, we would like to inform you that no price adjustment in any form will be provided for previous orders.
b. What are the Terms and conditions for promotions?
All promotions on the website are subjected to terms and conditions. Every promotion may comprise of different terms and conditions and we suggest you read, understand and agree to all the terms before utilizing the promotion tools. Promotions include but are not limited to discount coupons, discount voucher, bundle buys, complimentary gift with your purchase or free shipping. Promotions are always set with a time frame and with an expiry date.
c. What happens if the promotion that I would like to have has expired?
All promotions on the website are subjected to terms and conditions. We are unable to allow you to use any promotion that has expired.
d. What is the difference between promotions at CharlesKeith.com and in retail stores?
CharlesKeith.com may run exclusive online promotions that are not available in the retail stores.
16. Online Safety and Security Tips
a. What should I take note as an internet user and online shopper?
CharlesKeith.com is concerned about the safety and security of our customers. We have placed a number of technological protections in place to ensure that our transaction process is extremely safe and that our customers' information is secure. Additionally, CharlesKeith.com takes a number of steps to help ensure that our third-party seller platforms are safe and that our sellers are of the highest quality.
CharlesKeith.com has developed the following guidelines to help ensure that your online shopping experience is safe and secure.
b. Protect your passwords
- If using a public computer or terminal, always log out when you complete an online session.
- Keep your passwords private. Remember, anybody who knows your password may access your account.
- When creating a password, use at least 6 characters, preferably alphanumerical. If possible, please include characters of both upper and lower case.
- Do not use dictionary words, your name, e-mail address, or other personal information that can be easily obtained. It is also recommended that you frequently change your password.
- Avoid using the same password for multiple online accounts.
c. Be wary of unsolicited e-mail and telephone contacts
CharlesKeith.com will never e-mail or call a customer and ask that they disclose or verify their CharlesKeith.com password, credit card, or banking account number completing a CharlesKeith.com order. Such information should only be submitted when completing an order on CharlesKeith.com, contacting CharlesKeith.com directly, or when making updates to My Account. If you receive a suspicious e-mail with a link to update your account information, do not click on the link, instead, go directly to www.charleskeith.com and then to your account.
If you are contacted by, or receive an unsolicited e-mail from an unknown entity, and are asked to confirm or provide your password or personal or banking information, disregard the request and contact us at email@example.com. Alternatively, you may reach us at +(65) 6488 2688.
d. Disclosure of information
CharlesKeith.com does not sell, rent or trade to third parties any personal information you provide to us online or at our stores, nor do we give such information to third parties except to the other Charles & Keith Group of companies, or to third parties with whom we contract to assist us in maintaining and organizing our customer information in order that we may fulfil promotional offers and communicate with you. We do not authorize those third parties to make any other use of your information. From time to time, when we offer sweepstakes, contests or promotions, or when another company joins in a promotion or contest with us, participants may be asked to provide certain personal information in order to participate. Information provided by customers who choose to participate may be used by us and by any company offering the contest or promotion to notify winners or to fulfil the promotional offers. When you choose to participate in any sweepstakes, contests or promotions, or request to receive e-mail, promotional offers or product updates, you give us permission to use your personal information for marketing and promotional purposes. We may also use and share with other companies aggregated information about your demographics and your use of our web site in a manner that does not reveal your personal identity. At times, your personal demographic and user information may be combined with data from third parties and disclosed in an aggregated form.
e. Cookies / Sessions
In order to improve our online services to you, CharlesKeith.com collects data anonymously by way of “cookies and sessions.” Cookies help us measure the number of visits, average time spent, page views and other statistics relating to your access to this Site. A session is a semi-permanent interactive information interchange, also known as a dialogue, a conversation or a meeting, between two or more communicating devices, or between a computer and user. This information allows us to better administer the Site and provide a more tailored and user-friendly service to our Site visitors. Cookies are small data files that are sent to your browser from our Site and are stored on your computer’s hard drive. Each time you visit our Site from the same computer, the cookie will be retrieved from your computer, enabling our Site to recognize your computer as having previously visited our Site and thereby increase the functionality of our Site on your computer. Our cookies and sessions cannot be used to get data from your hard drive, to get your email address or any other data that can be traced to you personally. Most web browsers can be set to notify you when you receive a cookie or to prevent cookies from being sent; if you use these features, you may limit the functionality we can provide you when you visit our Site.
a. Do you have a catalogue?
Yes, we do have both physical and online catalogues. You may view our catalogue at CharlesKeith.com. A physical copy of the catalogue can be requested for every purchase made at Charleskeith.com. You can also get a copy of the catalogue from any Charles & Keith retail stores.
b. Do you do customized shoes?
Currently, Charles & Keith does not provide shoe customization service.
c. Do you provide Repair service?
Repair service is only available at Charles & Keith retail stores in Singapore. You can go to Charles & Keith retail stores in Singapore to have your item checked first. Depending on the condition of the item, Charles & Keith will try its best to provide repair service to its valued customers. Charles & Keith do not guarantee repair service for all types of damage.
d. How do I know my shoe size?
Please refer here for your guide on how to determine your shoe size.
e. Will an item be restocked?
CharlesKeith.com strives to keep ahead of the current fashion trends and generally do not tend to restock items as we would like to offer new fashion-forward products regularly.
f. How often do you update the website with new products?
At CharlesKeith.com, our website has new styles updated every week.
g. What is out of stock items?
We make every effort to only offer you sizes and colors that are in stock. If a size or color is no longer available it will be deemed as out of stock.
On some occasions, your ordered items might be the last available piece but not in the best condition to ship to you. As such, we will inform you and seek your consent to remove this item or replace with another item. This will in turn affect the total charges, which will be advised to you. | <urn:uuid:6978394c-b72d-4162-8f2b-9d104b34f8e2> | 2013-05-23T18:38:16Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
-0.031982421875,
0.0155029296875,
-0.005279541015625,
-0.0299072265625,
0.095703125,
-0.049560546875,
-0.016845703125,
0.076171875,
-0.044189453125,
-0.01953125,
0.0810546875,
-0.02587890625,
-0.0390625,
-0.054443359375,
0.05126953125,
0.001518249511... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.921694 | 9,188 | http://www.charleskeith.com/INTLStore/CK/customer%20assistance?dest=ISR&lang=en | 0.576636 |
Tricyclic and Tetracyclic Antidepressants for Low Back Pain
|Generic Name||Brand Name|
How It Works
Low doses of tricyclic or tetracyclic antidepressant medicine increase the level of certain brain chemicals, which may affect how the brain perceives pain. They may also help you sleep.
Why It Is Used
Low doses of antidepressants are often used to treat people who have chronic pain.
Higher doses of antidepressants are used to relieve depression.
When these drugs are not used
- Some of these medicines are not given to older adults, because the medicines cause too many severe side effects.
- Cyclic antidepressants usually are not given to people who have certain heart problems, such as irregular heartbeats or low blood pressure.
How Well It Works
Research has shown that cyclic antidepressants reduce chronic low back pain for some people.1 They are not recommended for sudden and severe (acute) low back pain. Other antidepressants called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) do not appear to help people who have low back pain.2
All medicines have side effects. But many people don't feel the side effects, or they are able to deal with them. Ask your pharmacist about the side effects of each medicine you take. Side effects are also listed in the information that comes with your medicine.
Here are some important things to think about:
- Usually the benefits of the medicine are more important than any minor side effects.
- Side effects may go away after you take the medicine for a while.
- If side effects still bother you and you wonder if you should keep taking the medicine, call your doctor. He or she may be able to lower your dose or change your medicine. Do not suddenly quit taking your medicine unless your doctor tells you to.
Call 911 or other emergency services right away if you have:
- Trouble breathing.
- Swelling of your face, lips, tongue, or throat.
Call your doctor right away if you have:
- Thoughts of suicide.
- Agitation and restlessness.
- Fast heartbeat.
- Nausea and vomiting.
Common side effects of this medicine include:
- Dry mouth.
- Weight gain.
FDA advisory. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued an advisory on antidepressant medicines and the risk of suicide. The FDA does not recommend that people stop using these medicines. Instead, a person taking antidepressants should be watched for warning signs of suicide. This is especially important at the beginning of treatment or when the doses are changed.
See Drug Reference for a full list of side effects. (Drug Reference is not available in all systems.)
What To Think About
Never suddenly stop taking antidepressants. The use of any antidepressant should be tapered off slowly and only under the supervision of a doctor. Abruptly stopping antidepressant medicines can cause negative side effects or a relapse of your condition.
Antidepressants are started at low doses, and the dose is increased gradually to reduce the severity of side effects. You may need regular blood tests to check the amount of the medicine in your blood. Too much of this type of medicine in the bloodstream can be dangerous.
You may start to feel better in 1 to 3 weeks of taking antidepressant medicine. But it can take as many as 6 to 8 weeks to see more improvement. If you have questions or concerns about your medicines or if you do not notice any improvement by 3 weeks, talk to your doctor.
People who have seizures (epilepsy), difficulty urinating (urinary retention), glaucoma (an eye disease), or heart conditions may notice that antidepressants make these symptoms worse.
Be sure to tell your doctor about all the medicines you are currently taking. Antidepressants can interact poorly with certain heart medicines—digoxin (for example, Lanoxin)—and/or with other medicines, such as those used to treat seizures—phenytoin (Dilantin).
Medicine is one of the many tools your doctor has to treat a health problem. Taking medicine as your doctor suggests will improve your health and may prevent future problems. If you don't take your medicines properly, you may be putting your health (and perhaps your life) at risk.
There are many reasons why people have trouble taking their medicine. But in most cases, there is something you can do. For suggestions on how to work around common problems, see the topic Taking Medicines as Prescribed.
Advice for women
If you are pregnant, breast-feeding, or planning to get pregnant, do not use any medicines unless your doctor tells you to. Some medicines can harm your baby. This includes prescription and over-the-counter medicines, vitamins, herbs, and supplements. And make sure that all your doctors know that you are pregnant, breast-feeding, or planning to get pregnant.
Follow-up care is a key part of your treatment and safety. Be sure to make and go to all appointments, and call your doctor if you are having problems. It's also a good idea to know your test results and keep a list of the medicines you take.
- Chou R, Huffman LH (2007). Medications for acute and chronic low back pain: A review of the evidence for an American Pain Society/American College of Physicians clinical practice guideline. Annals of Internal Medicine, 147(7): 505–514.
- Chou R, et al. (2007). Diagnosis and treatment of low back pain: A joint clinical practice guideline from the American College of Physicians and the American Pain Society. Annals of Internal Medicine, 147(7): 478–491.
Last Revised: May 14, 2012
Author: Healthwise Staff
To learn more visit Healthwise.org
© 1995-2012 Healthwise, Incorporated. Healthwise, Healthwise for every health decision, and the Healthwise logo are trademarks of Healthwise, Incorporated. | <urn:uuid:0a33ae93-a825-42ed-8d3d-a735649448e0> | 2013-05-23T19:06:25Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
-0.0289306640625,
0.0172119140625,
0.0123291015625,
-0.036865234375,
0.1328125,
-0.07666015625,
0.007720947265625,
0.1025390625,
-0.040771484375,
-0.030517578125,
0.08154296875,
0.035400390625,
0.0026092529296875,
0.025634765625,
0.06884765625,
-0.03... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.908021 | 1,228 | http://www.cheshire-med.com/health_wellness/health_encyclopedia/hw56294 | 0.226368 |
Foul play? You think Kasparov is going to run-in and chair-shot Two Sheds while the referee isn't looking?
That would be very funny. I doubt it would happen.
Ok, here is what i think may happen in that case - I think Anand might remind Kasparov to qualify by beating Kramnik first if he wished to sit across the board instead of Gelfand, and ofcourse promise him of Financial guarantees for a match, which is already scheduled to take place, with Kramnik as Anand's second for the match (could not resist it...)
btw, Petrosianic, don't you have a nick name for Kasparov? How about "Hathodov" ? I think that goes well with Garry.. | <urn:uuid:b4d26460-4d39-4e06-a634-65530bebf2b6> | 2013-05-23T19:00:06Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
0.01619318127632141,
0.019034091383218765,
0.012405303306877613,
0.0062500000931322575,
0.10454545170068741,
-0.026325756683945656,
-0.025378787890076637,
0.12121212482452393,
0.007575757801532745,
-0.08522727340459824,
-0.0181818176060915,
0.045075759291648865,
... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978611 | 163 | http://www.chessninja.com/boards/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=162381 | 0.881778 |
John Kass has covered a variety of topics since arriving at the Chicago Tribune in 1983.
The son of a Greek immigrant grocer, Kass was born June 23, 1956, on Chicago's South Side and grew up there and in Oak Lawn. He held a number of jobs—merchant marine sailor, ditch digger, waiter—before becoming a film student at Columbia College in Chicago. There, he worked at the student newspaper and caught the attention of Daryle Feldmeir, chairman of the journalism department and former editor of the Chicago Daily News.
Feldmeir and journalism professor Les Brownlee helped him obtain an internship at the Daily Calumet in 1980, where Kass worked as a reporter until he left for the Tribune.
In 2004, Kass was awarded the Society of Professional Journalists' Sigma Delta Chi national award for general column writing, the Scripps Howard Foundation's National Journalism Award for commentary, the Press Club of Atlantic City's National Headliner Award for local interest column writing on a variety of subjects, and the Chicago Headline Club's Lisagor Award for best daily newspaper columnist.
In 1992, Kass won the Chicago Tribune's Beck Award for writing.
Kass lives in the western suburbs with his wife and twin sons. His column appears on Page A2 of the Chicago Tribune every Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday. | <urn:uuid:984694f7-157d-49a7-a2c4-212d23aece7a> | 2013-05-23T18:32:32Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
0.0033228490501642227,
0.05093344300985336,
-0.012885551899671555,
0.005047686863690615,
0.04119318351149559,
0.006290584336966276,
-0.00639204541221261,
0.07467532157897949,
-0.02008928544819355,
-0.051948051899671555,
0.06615259498357773,
0.037337660789489746,
... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960139 | 274 | http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-johnkass,0,6402153,bio.columnist | 0.245067 |
President Barack Obama is right; we need to get rid of tax loopholes. But which loopholes?
And what's a loophole?
It's today's great political paradox: Everyone is against loopholes, except that person's own. We could go a long way toward ending the government's Ponzi scheme if everyone could stop talking in generalities and get down to which loopholes to terminate.
The problem is that one person's tax loophole is another person's legitimate incentive to help a good cause. For example, while Obama says the tax loopholes he wants to close are those that favor the wealthy and big corporations, he supports extending a tax break for corporate research and development. Clearly, such a tax break rewards companies, their stockholders and wealthy executives. But it also serves a broader purpose: promoting the nation's economic competitiveness and creating jobs by encouraging innovation and the commercialization of new products and services.
So, which is more important: ending tax breaks for rich people or creating new jobs and boosting the nation's economic health?
An astute reader, a retired patent attorney, put it beautifully in an email:
"I always think of a loophole as something a person or corporation takes advantage of because of a poorly written law or some unintended consequence of a well-written law. For instance, if Congress passes a bill that states, 'If you will build an old folks home in a state that has an unemployment rate of over 10 percent, you will be permitted to depreciate the building on a double declining basis over a 20-year period.' Presume a rich man builds such a home and takes advantage of this write-off; is that a loophole? To me it is incentive offered by Congress to encourage the construction of old folks homes."
So, is it a loophole for rich investors to get tax breaks for building new factories in the United States for less than what they pay for a new overseas facility? Is it a loophole to allow Obama and his wife, Michelle — millionaires themselves — to give $48,000 in tax-free gifts to their daughters to fund their college educations? Such a loophole is available to us commoners only to the extent that we can sock away what little of our money is left, if any, after we pay our bills. There's a social good in encouraging greater educational opportunities, but should rich people who can afford to pay for their children's college education get financial assistance?
Should we end subsidies for rich developers to entice them to build affordable housing? No energy subsidies for domestic exploration to reduce our dependence on foreign oil, but hundreds of millions of dollars of loan guarantees for risky solar-power schemes? More millions of tax breaks for electric cars or advanced manufacturing?
Obama said he's for dumping tax breaks for big oil and gas, hedge funds, corporate jet owners, special expensing rules, foreign tax credit benefits and certain manufacturing deductions.
Swell. Let's do it, and, while we're at it, eliminate many, most or all tax breaks. Even the ones that are necessary to advance social programs. Let's head in the direction explored by the Simpson/Bowles debt reduction commission. Maybe even more: Replace the graduated income tax with a flat tax, with few or no deductions or exemptions.
This, of course, will raise howls from Democrats who justify tax breaks to their favorite recipients because without them all those "worthy' environmental, social and economic goals never will be reached.
The problem is that just calling for an end to "loopholes" is simple-minded. It appeals to those who believe in emotional, unexamined solutions based on the notion that public policy questions can be answered with slogans.
Republicans, for their part, could do the nation a big favor by seriously discussing which exemptions, deductions, incentives, loopholes — or whatever you want to call them — they would eliminate or reduce. Their inability or refusal to confront this issue has cost them dearly in credibility.
Tax policy is so complicated we could be debating it for decades to come. Which is no excuse for not starting now. | <urn:uuid:a03b7bd6-fbdb-4a2a-a9f1-0d7b569cad2c> | 2013-05-23T18:38:31Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
-0.044921875,
0.0267333984375,
0.0074462890625,
0.01116943359375,
0.07568359375,
-0.036865234375,
0.006622314453125,
0.1455078125,
-0.0458984375,
-0.025390625,
0.041259765625,
0.032470703125,
-0.034912109375,
-0.00799560546875,
0.059814453125,
-0.011... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956741 | 828 | http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/ct-oped-0305-byrne-20130305,0,2724815.column | 0.262371 |
The NHL suspended Vancouver Canucks forward Jannik Hansen one game after his hit to the head of the Chicago Blackhawks' Marian Hossa during Tuesday night's game at the United Center.
Watch the video explanation from the NHL here.
The Hawks veteran, who suffered a severe concussion during last season's playoffs after an illegal hit from the Coyotes' Raffi Torres, had to be helped off the ice and did not return to the game.
In his video explaining the suspension Wednesday, NHL disciplinarian Brendan Shanahan called the hit, "an illegal forearm to the head delivered recklessly and forcibly.
"While it might be true Hansen initially reaches up to play the puck in the air, he changes the position of his arm and delivers a sharp, careless forearm to the back of Hossa’s head," Shanahan added.
Under the terms of the collective bargaining agreement, and based on his average annual salary, Hansen will forfeit $7,297.30.After the game, Hansen said he did not believe the hit warranted any discipline from the NHL.
"It's out of my hands," Hansen said. "The game is happening very fast out there. It's up to them to look at it now. I don't believe there is out of what I saw.
"We were both kind of jumping for the puck. He grabs the puck first and as I'm coming down I kind of land on him a little bit. Apparently, I hit him in the back of the head is what the ref was telling me once I come down. It's hard for me to tell what really happened.." | <urn:uuid:a1a0603c-b465-4ef6-b0cc-eebba0c61e4a> | 2013-05-23T18:52:20Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
-0.0004921875079162419,
0.017000000923871994,
-0.0036041666753590107,
-0.018833333626389503,
0.0573333315551281,
-0.05299999937415123,
0.01783333346247673,
0.05766666680574417,
0.0018124999478459358,
-0.07800000160932541,
0.07433333247900009,
0.07699999958276749,
... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976862 | 330 | http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/hockey/blackhawks/chi-canucks-hansen-nhl-hearing-20130220,0,4148238.story | 0.35286 |
Variable HC15ID : Visible holes in the roof
Valid case(s): 30 (25.3)
Invalid: 0 (0)
Children aged 0-4
Source of information
Head of household or other responsible household member
Condition of dwelling:
Record observation. Record all that apply.
Questions HC15H, HC15I and HC15J are used to record information about the location, condition and immediate surroundings of the dwelling. The information obtained will be used to assess whether the household members are protected from hazards in their living environment, or from exposure to extremes of weather or climate. Note that these questions will normally be completed based on your observations. --- Observe dwelling. If any of the listed conditions applies to this dwelling, circle code for all that apply. If none of these conditions apply, circle 'Y' for 'None of the above'. You should observe the dwelling for the presence of the following conditions: 'Cracks/openings in walls', 'No windows', 'Windows with broken glass/no glass', 'Visible holes in the roof', 'Incomplete roof', and 'Insecure door'. | <urn:uuid:30fb0606-db85-441e-ad9a-b27aaadf4ffc> | 2013-05-23T19:05:09Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
-0.016579197719693184,
-0.0031906012445688248,
0.0019009422976523638,
-0.028268130496144295,
0.11832061409950256,
-0.021111641079187393,
-0.017771946266293526,
0.06727099418640137,
-0.021708015352487564,
-0.010973282158374786,
0.09255725145339966,
0.0412690825760364... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.878048 | 232 | http://www.childinfo.org/mics/mics3/archives/bosniaherzegovina/survey0/dataSet/dataFiles/dataFile3/var290.html | 0.311793 |
"Weird Al" Yankovic says he has no hard feelings toward Lady Gaga over the struggle to release "Perform This Way," his parody of her hit "Born This Way."
The pop singer's manager had initially refused permission for Yankovic to release "Perform This Way," but Yankovic says things changed once Gaga herself heard the song.
"Even though her manager was presenting it as such, she had never once approached Gaga, so it was news to her when people were ... asking, 'How come you're not letting Weird Al do his parody?'" Yankovic told Billboard.com. "She was not aware of it at all, and when she actually did hear the song she loved it and gave me permission."
He added, "This is unfortunately not an isolated incident over the course of my career...I find it's better, whenever possible, to go directly to an artist and deal with them personally, but as it turns out I didn't happen to have Lady Gaga's home phone number or e-mail address."
Yankovic did hasten the process by posting the song on YouTube during the negotiations -- but only, he says, because it was the first time a manager had insisted on hearing an actual recording rather than simply reviewing a lyric sheet.
"I'd never done that before," he said. "I figured if you already have the lyrics, if you don't find those offensive then you're not going to find it offensive when you hear the fully produced version of it -- which is why I was kind of knocked for a loop when the answer we got back was 'no.'
" Now, however, the battle is history. Yankovic is a Gaga fan -- "I think she's a huge talent -- a great songwriter and a wonderful performer..." -- and the Gaga camp also gave him permission to use her "Poker Face" in a medley called "Polka Face" that appears on his new album "Alpocalypse," sue out June 21. "Perform This Way" gave him a hook on which to hang the new album.
"I had the 11 other tracks in the can for close to a year," Yankovic said, "and I was waiting for the right lead-off single. I've come to learn over the course of my career that my albums are more successful if they are released concurrently with a single that's very topical and maybe celebrates a pop culture event of serious magnitude. I thought that Lady Gaga, and specifically her new album and single, was a sufficiently large event. I thought Gaga had sufficiently rocked the zeitgeist enough for me to make that choice."
The album also includes parodies of Taylor Swift's "You Belong With Me" ("TMZ"), Miley Cyrus' "Party in the U.S.A." ("Party in the CIA," also timely in the wake of the Osama Bin Laden assassination), B.o.B's "Nothin' On You" ("Another Tattoo") and T.I.'s "Whatever You Like," with the same title. Yankovic also recorded stylistic homages to the White Stripes ("CNR"), Queen ("Ringtone") and the Doors ("Craigslist," with the group's Ray Manzarek guesting on keyboards).
Yankovic is currently on the road and plans to spend most of the rest of the year touring. The new material is gradually being worked into the set, he added. "This tour was booked before I knew I'd have an album coming out, so I had a lot of things thrown in my lap at once. We're still trying to work things out." | <urn:uuid:07dbb89d-324a-455a-9aed-82dd64bfc506> | 2013-05-23T18:53:00Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
-0.034423828125,
0.0068359375,
-0.0004024505615234375,
0.004669189453125,
0.06201171875,
-0.0537109375,
0.0191650390625,
0.08154296875,
-0.040771484375,
-0.080078125,
0.0308837890625,
0.025146484375,
0.01287841796875,
-0.0155029296875,
0.0361328125,
... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.989268 | 750 | http://www.china.org.cn/arts/2011-06/07/content_22728394.htm | 0.646579 |
Macau Travel Guide
Seventy kilometers off Hong Kong and forty-five kilometers away from Guanghzhou, Macao used to be a city under the administration of Xiangshan County in Guangdong before it was ceded to Portugal in 1557 as a reward of weeping out pirates endemic to the area. On December 20, 1999, after an absence of more than 400 years, this prodigal sun peacefully returned to China and is now a special administrative region of the PRC.
Macau is an extravagant fusion of east and west in lifestyles, architecture and food. Poker is a important activity in macau. The numerous cultural heritages, buildings, even the small alleys around the city bears witness of the transformation the island underwent over the centuries. Macau's prosperity and modernity is epitomized by the district around the Municipal Council. The Archway of St. Paul Church has become the symbol of Macau.
Macau is a globally known casino center and the sophisticated lottery and gambling industry has become one of the main sources of incomes of the region. Poker in macu is famous all around the world. Another great contribution to the island's annual GDP is the tourism industry.
While the mandarin and Portuguese are the official languages, the Cantonese is the local's daily language and widest spoken. Many of the island's residents are able to understand the mandarin. English is widely used throughout the region.
Top Things To Do in Macau
Ruins of St. Paul, usually known as Great Sanba Archway, is the historical site of St. Paul Church. Construction of the church began in 1602 and was completed in 1637 with more than 30 years' eff... [ View Details ]
Ma Temple, also known as Tianhou Temple, Juehai Temple, and ZhongjueBuddhist Temple, is dedicated to Ma Zu, a diviner who was from Putian, Fujian Province and lived in the Song Dynasty.... [ View Details ] | <urn:uuid:dcea46e9-5706-4e13-9717-6f17a03e4f81> | 2013-05-23T19:07:10Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
-0.0019487161189317703,
0.028922121971845627,
0.000028933143767062575,
0.014178893528878689,
0.09762980043888092,
-0.03809254989027977,
-0.013402934186160564,
0.09650112688541412,
-0.011780474334955215,
-0.022291196510195732,
0.07618509978055954,
0.00663092546164989... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960944 | 410 | http://www.chinatravel.com/macau-travel/ | 0.371093 |
The eclectic Toronto blues-rock outfit Big Sugar was primarily the project of singer/guitarist Gordie Johnson, who teamed with bassist Terry Wilkins and drummer Al Cross to record the group's 1992 self-titled debut LP. By the time of 1993's Five Hundred Pounds
, Wilkins was missing from the line-up; a number of guest musicians fleshed out the recording, among them multi-instrumentalist Kelly Hoppe, who (along with new bassist Garry Lowe) was installed as a permanent member by the 1995 EP Dear Mr. Fantasy. Drummer Walter "Crash" Morgan replaced Cross during Big Sugar's subsequent tour of the U.S.; sadly, while playing a date in Iowa, Morgan died onstage, and was replaced by ex-Odds drummer Paul Brennan in time for the 1996 release of Hemi-Vision
. Gavin Brown then assumed Brennan's duties on 1998's Heated
.The band remained busy in the 2000s, with albums like Brothers and Sisters, Are You Ready? and EPs such as Dear M.E.. | <urn:uuid:af6df9f3-26f0-41e4-bb32-e75cc01eeeb6> | 2013-05-23T18:45:07Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
-0.021981939673423767,
0.013664448633790016,
-0.016634980216622353,
0.03398289158940315,
0.056321293115615845,
0.017466729506850243,
0.003728018142282963,
0.0361216738820076,
-0.06083650141954422,
-0.1097908765077591,
0.052281368523836136,
0.019130228087306023,
... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961017 | 220 | http://www.chom.com/Music/Artist.aspx?ID=37423 | 0.934436 |
Paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia (PSVT)Definition:
Paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia (PSVT) is episodes of rapid heart rate that start in a part of the heart above the ventricles. "Paroxysmal" means from time to time.
PSVT; Supraventricular tachycardia
Causes, incidence, and risk factors:
Normally, the chambers of the heart (atria and ventricles) contract in a coordinated manner.
- The contractions are caused by an electrical signal that begins in an area of the heart called the sinoatrial node (also called the sinus node or SA node).
- The signal moves through the upper heart chambers (the atria) and tells the atria to contract.
- After this, the signal moves down in the heart and tells the lower chambers (the ventricles) to contract.
The rapid heart rate from PSVT may start with events that take place in many different areas above the lower heart chambers (ventricles).
PSVT can occur with digitalis toxicity and with conditions such as Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome .
The condition occurs most often in young people and infants.
The following increase your risk for PSVT:
Symptoms usually start and stop suddenly, and can last for a few minutes or several hours. They can include:
Other symptoms that can occur with this condition:
Signs and tests:
A physical examination during a PSVT episode will show a rapid heart rate. It may also show bounding pulses in the neck.
The heart rate may be over 100, and even more than 250 beats per minute (bpm). In children, the heart rate tends to be very high. There may be signs of poor blood circulation such as light-headedness. Between episodes of PSVT, the heart rate is normal (60 to 100 bpm).
An ECG during symptoms shows PSVT. An electrophysiology study (EPS) may be needed for an accurate diagnosis and to recommend the best treatment.
Because PSVT comes and goes, to diagnose it patients may need to wear a 24-hour Holter monitor . For longer periods of time, another tape of the rhythm recording device may be used.
If you do not have symptoms or any other heart condition, PSVT may not need treatment.
If you have an episode of PSVT, there are techniques you can try on your own to interrupt the fast heartbeat.
- One is called the Valsalva maneuver. To do this, you hold your breath and strain, as if you were trying to have a bowel movement.
- Another technique you can try is to cough while sitting with your upper body bent forward.
- Some people find that splashing ice water on the face is helpful.
You should avoid smoking, caffeine, alcohol, and illicit drugs.
Emergency treatment to slow the heartbeat back to normal may include:
- Electrical cardioversion , the use of electric shock
- Medicines through a vein
Long-term treatment for people who have repeat episodes of PSVT, or who also have heart disease, may include:
Cardiac ablation -- a procedure used to destroy small areas in your heart that may be causing the rapid heartbeat (currently the treatment of choice for most PSVTs)
- Daily medications to prevent repeat episodes
Pacemakers to override the fast heartbeat (on occasion may be used in children with PSVT who have not responded to any other treatment)
- Surgery to change the pathways in the heart that send electrical signals (this may be recommended in some cases for people who need other heart surgery)
PSVT is generally not life threatening. If other heart disorders are present, it can lead to congestive heart failure or angina.
Calling your health care provider:
Call your health care provider if:
- You often have a sensation of feeling the heart beat quickly and symptoms do not end on their own in a few minutes
- You have a history of PSVT and an episode does not go away with the Valsalva maneuver or by coughing, or other symptoms occur with the rapid heart rate
- Symptoms return often
- New symptoms develop
Olgin JE, Zipes DP. Specific arrhythmias: diagnosis and treatment. In: Bonow RO, Mann DL, Zipes DP, Libby P, eds. Braunwald's Heart Disease: A Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine. 9th ed. St. Louis, Mo: WB Saunders; 2011:chap 39.
Zimetbaum P. Cardiac arrhythmia with supraventricular origin. In: Goldman L, Schafer AI, eds. Cecil Medicine. 24th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 64.
|Review Date: 6/18/2012|
Reviewed By: David C. Dugdale, III, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine; and Michael A. Chen, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington Medical School, Seattle, Washington. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M. Health Solutions, Ebix, Inc.
The information provided herein should not be used during any medical emergency or for the diagnosis or treatment of any medical condition. A licensed medical professional should be consulted for diagnosis and treatment of any and all medical conditions. Call 911 for all medical emergencies. Links to other sites are provided for information only -- they do not constitute endorsements of those other sites. © 1997-
A.D.A.M., Inc. Any duplication or distribution of the information contained herein is strictly prohibited. | <urn:uuid:1012c321-c036-45b3-b572-e9c144fa5b6b> | 2013-05-23T18:51:39Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
0.01611328125,
-0.0002841949462890625,
0.018798828125,
-0.007568359375,
0.11328125,
-0.05126953125,
-0.0174560546875,
0.1259765625,
-0.038818359375,
-0.030029296875,
0.123046875,
0.0196533203125,
-0.0306396484375,
0.041748046875,
0.043701171875,
-0.0... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.889676 | 1,208 | http://www.christianacare.org/body.cfm?xyzpdqabc=0&id=177&action=detail&AEArticleID=000183&AEProductID=Adam2004_1&AEProjectTypeIDURL=APT_1 | 0.440484 |
Working with you for successful employment.
Looking for a job? Trying to get the job accommodations you need? CHS employment consultants can meet with you and provide personalized employment counselling. Our consultants also work with employers to ensure workplace accessibility for deaf, deafened and hard of hearing employees.
- Job-related counselling
- Job leads and referrals
- Interpreters for your interviews
- Job accommodations and supports (TTYs and other communication devices)
Help With Job Searching
Many deaf or hard of hearing job seekers encounter unique challenges when looking for work. We can show you how to face those challenges. We'll also show you how to effectively research careers, find job leads, improve your resume, and much more.
Do you need a TTY or special arrangements in order to do your job? We can help you and your employer find the accommodations, assistive technology or communication devices you need. We can also help your co-workers communicate better with you.
Being deaf or hard of hearing it is sometimes hard to find employment resources or help. We have many resources you can use, including books, computers and TTYs. We can also help if you need assistance understanding an email, letter or form.
Trying To Save Your Job?
Are you trying to save your job? Having problems with your boss? Having trouble communicating with your employer or co-workers? We can provide assistance towards solving some of these problems, sometimes by giving you advice, sometimes by talking with both you and your boss. | <urn:uuid:03716bae-d876-430c-84e8-70c0cef3098e> | 2013-05-23T19:05:29Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
-0.0163163710385561,
0.021939527243375778,
0.0075129056349396706,
0.013550885021686554,
0.11725663393735886,
0.02147861383855343,
-0.0018667035037651658,
0.061578169465065,
-0.014564896933734417,
-0.03226401284337044,
0.08775810897350311,
0.03650442510843277,
-0... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954653 | 310 | http://www.chs.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=81&Itemid=254&ServiceID=2&OfficeID=20&lang=en | 0.674372 |
Compatibility information lists which Cisco software versions can be used with a particular Cisco hardware product or module.
Documentation roadmaps describe a set of product documents, and how the documents relate to one another, for a specific Cisco product. Documentation roadmaps contain links to the documents that are referenced.
A description of new features; system requirements, limitations, and restrictions; caveats, and troubleshooting information for a particular software release. May also include relevant installation instructions. | <urn:uuid:34aaf522-d395-4f07-86e5-1e6f712570cb> | 2013-05-23T18:40:26Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
-0.0520833320915699,
0.015401785261929035,
0.03839285671710968,
-0.0004999070079065859,
0.09345237910747528,
-0.0491071417927742,
0.00807291641831398,
0.12023809552192688,
-0.04374999925494194,
-0.011532737873494625,
0.09404762089252472,
0.05029761791229248,
-0.... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.832439 | 93 | http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/routers/ps133/tsd_products_support_general_information.html | 0.513058 |
IN A SCENE from the movie, Armageddon, a young couple is on a picnic, just being with each other and feeling in love, but with a tinge of sadness. He has to leave the next day, and there's a chance he won't survive the mission. It's getting dark. This may be their last moments alone together. And if the mission doesn't succeed, the entire human species will be extinguished.
She said, "Do you think there are others in the world doing just what we're doing right now?"
He said, "I hope so; otherwise, what are we trying to save?"
In the counterjihad movement, we know what we're trying to save, don't we? We're trying to save the Western world, freedom and democracy. Why? Because Western-style democracy is the best system ever invented to allow people to pursue happiness. It is worth protecting. It's worth defending. But do we have to be miserable to do it?
Each of us discovered Islam's prime directive, and each of us felt motivated to help others learn about the basic elements of Islam, and most of us ran face-first into a wall of anger and resistance and argument and judgment and self-righteousness, and our desire to simply help educate our fellow non-Muslims has become a stressful, eternally-upsetting, arduous chore.
Many drop out of the counterjihad movement because of the stress. They've lost friends. They've alienated relatives. Their life has become no fun. They've lost their happiness.
So they drop out. They burn out. They stop talking about it. The whole exercise seems futile, upsetting, and unbearably frustrating. They think to themselves, "It is going to take a nuclear weapon going off in downtown Chicago before these idiots will wake up." And they give up the fight and leave it to fate.
We can't afford to lose these people. We need to not only educate our fellow non-Muslims, but we need to keep the educated ones in the fight with us. We need to prevent the burnout. That means we need to make sure fighting the good fight doesn't make us so miserable.
Another good reason to focus some attention on this issue is that (as every sales organization has discovered) people who are unhappy are lousy at influencing others. Most people are repelled and repulsed by unhappy, angry, frustrated, depressed people. Nobody wants to listen to someone like that. People don't want to be influenced by someone like that. People don't want to become like that.
So how can we remain in the counterjihad and still be happy? As silly as it may sound, this is an important question.
We have one thing working in our favor already: Having a meaningful purpose contributes greatly to a feeling of happiness and fulfillment. And if there is one thing we all share in the counterjihad movement, it is a meaningful feeling of purpose. This is usually ruined, however, by living in a permanent state of upset, anger, and frustration.
How can we keep the positive feeling of a fulfilling purposefulness while reducing the negative, stressful emotions? If we can solve that problem, fewer of us would drop out of the fight, and our effectiveness would increase.
I don't think there is a single answer to this question. But we have many things we can do to reduce the stressfulness of our purpose and allow us to feel happier while still being a dedicated citizen warrior. For example:
1. Collect and associate with allies. Stay in communication with others in the counterjihad movement. This lowers the stressful feeling of being an isolated outcast. Find like-minded people on Facebook. Join ACT! for America and attend their meetings. Join Infidels United and check in every day. Knowing you have people on your side, knowing you're not alone, reduces stress.
2. Improve your effectiveness. Add new skills to your persuasion repertoire. Add new approaches. Success is uplifting. Failure is frustrating and demoralizing. So the better you get at reaching people — the better you get at making your message penetrate and have an impact — the less stressful the process is.
3. Use a stress-reduction technique. An example of a stress-reduction technique is Progressive Relaxation (read more about that here). There are many different ways to directly reduce stress (see a good list of them here). Find one that works for you and do it when you feel too stressed out. It can make a huge difference in your feeling of well-being and happiness. It's healthy too.
4. Connect with people you love. Connecting produces oxytocin, an anti-stress hormone researchers believe is the antidote or counterbalance to stress hormones. One hormone (adrenaline) is for revving up your system to deal with threats; the other hormone (oxytocin) is for calming you down and rejuvenating and healing. Make sure these stay in balance.
5. Avoid talking about or reading about Islam an hour before bedtime. This habit has helped me a lot. It makes my sleep more restful. Try it and see if it works the same for you.
6. Use the undemoralizing process occasionally to clear your mind (click here to read more about the process). It can greatly reduce your feelings of stress and reveal ways to think differently that can prevent stress in the future.
7. Don't try to do everything. Focus on the one aspect of the purpose that interests you most and that you are most motivated to do. Relax by reminding yourself that there are many of us with you in this fight, and we each have our own specialities and inclinations, and trust that all of it will be done. You can focus on the one thing you're most compelled to do and let the rest go. Let others do what they do, and you do what you do.
8. Don't watch much mainstream news. Don't overdo it on the news, period. Especially watching news; it is stressful and can be demoralizing (read more about that here). When mainstream news talks about Islam, the amount of distortion can be downright maddening. Take it in small doses.
9. Do less of the actual persuasion yourself and let DVDs, books, and articles do some of the work for you. Many people will automatically discount what you say about Islam, no matter how much you know, because they don't consider you an authority. This can be frustrating and stressful. But when they watch DVDs showing interviewed experts, they might be more inclined to accept the information. Not only that, but a 90-minute DVD can deliver a lot of information, saving you time and trouble. Focus on persuading people to watch a DVD rather than focusing on persuading them to listen to you about Islam. It's a more efficient use of your time. Learn more about sharing DVDs and articles.
10. Do your best to see things from the other side's point of view. We often get into a right-wrong, us-versus-them, all-or-nothing position, and part of the reason this is stressful is that the world is not as black-and-white as this oppositional stance tries to make it. The other side of this worldwide debate has some legitimate points, and it eases a lot of stress (and makes your arguments more persuasive) to understand those legitimate points and to graciously concede them.
11. Be committed to perpetual learning. Every time something stresses you out, take the time to improve yourself. What can you do differently next time that will make it less stressful? The process of learning and growing itself can give you a lift and reduce stress.
That's our list so far. Please add your own ideas in the comments, or email them to me and I'll post them here for you. Let's help each other fight the good fight and be happy too. | <urn:uuid:630b81a9-e65f-463b-994d-8a2505ae7693> | 2013-05-23T18:32:07Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
-0.0252685546875,
0.000659942626953125,
0.00714111328125,
0.00433349609375,
0.09130859375,
-0.06396484375,
-0.0009613037109375,
0.109375,
-0.013427734375,
-0.0164794921875,
0.053955078125,
0.00982666015625,
-0.010498046875,
0.0169677734375,
0.04736328125... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96494 | 1,633 | http://www.citizenwarrior.com/2010/11/how-to-resist-islamic-encroachment-and.html | 0.239286 |
Beginning with the establishment of a glass factory at Jamestown in 1608, manufacturing grew slowly during the colonial era to include flour mills and, by 1715, an iron foundry. During the 19th century, the shipbuilding industry flourished, and many cotton mills, tanneries, and ironworks were built; light industries producing a wide variety of consumer goods developed later. The strength of the Commonwealth's diversified manufacturing sector is shown in its 10.2% employment increase between 1970 and 1993. During this time period, national manufacturing employment declined by 8.3%.
Richmond is a principal industrial area for tobacco processing, paper and printing, clothing, and food products; nearby Hopewell is a locus of the chemical industry. Newport News, Hampton, and Norfolk are centers for shipbuilding and the manufacture of other transportation equipment. In the western part of the state, Lynchburg is a center for electrical machinery, metals, clothing, and printing, and Roanoke for food, clothing, and textiles. In the south, Martinsville has a concentration of furniture and textile-manufacturing plants, and textiles are also dominant in Danville.
The total value of manufacturing shipments in 1997 totaled $87 billion, or 15th in the nation. In 1997, Virginia was the headquarters for 16 Fortune 500 companies.
Earnings of persons employed in Virginia increased from $129 billion in 1997 to $138.3 billion in 1998, an increase of 7.2%. The largest industries in 1998 were services, 29.6% of earnings; state and local government, 10.5%; and retail trade, 8.7%. Of the industries that accounted for at least 5% of earnings in 1998, the slowest growing from 1997 to 1998 was federal civilian government (7.0% of earnings in 1998), which increased 0.4%; the fastest was finance, insurance, and real estate (7.0% of earnings in 1998), which increased 9.9%. | <urn:uuid:7b213df4-44a4-423e-986f-9a38e39a36c8> | 2013-05-23T19:06:28Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
0.022402968257665634,
0.017480023205280304,
-0.010273972526192665,
0.0058861300349235535,
0.07220319658517838,
-0.06335616111755371,
0.0005551690701395273,
0.11700913310050964,
-0.03767123445868492,
-0.054794520139694214,
0.10616438090801239,
0.02254566177725792,
... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963393 | 403 | http://www.city-data.com/states/Virginia-Industry.html | 0.948101 |
What is an Encroachment Permit?
According to the Code of City of Woodland, encroach or encroachment means going over, upon or under, or using a right-of-way or watercourse in such a manner as to prevent, obstruct, or interfere with its normal use. Therefore, an encroachment permit is a contract that is required for any work that is done within the encroached public right-of-way.
This includes, but is not limited to, trench-cuts or digging in the public right-of-way, sidewalk or driveway interference, placement of a dumpster within the public right-of-way, the movement of construction equipment throughout the public right-of-way (this includes the construction of a swimming pool), the placement of any temporary traffic control device, and the connection of water and sewer services. Please see the following list for a detailed list:
1. Excavating, filling or disturbing the right-of-way or watercourse;
2. Erecting or maintaining any flag, banner, post, sign pole, fence, guardrail, loading platform, pipe, conduit, wire or other structure on, over or under a right-of-way or watercourse;
3. Constructing, placing, or maintaining on, over or under or within a right-of-way any pathway, side-walk, driveway, curb, gutter, paving, or other surface or subsurface drainage structure or facility;
4. Travel on a right-of-way by any vehicle or combination of vehicles or object of dimension, weight or other characteristic prohibited by law without a permit;
5. Lighting or building a fire within a right-of-way or watercourse;
6. Placing or leaving on a right-of-way or watercourse any materials including but not limited to rubbish, construction spoil, earth, metal objects, concrete or sod;
7. Planting any tree, shrub, grass or other living thing (except for weeds) within a right-of-way or watercourse;
8. Constructing, placing, planting or maintaining any structure, embankment, excavation, tree or other object adjacent to, over or under a right-of-way or watercourse which causes or will cause an encroachment.
What does an encroachment permit require?
First, an encroachment permit requires a plan that shows the proposed work. Second, the permit calls for a set processing fee and varying levels of other fees for inspection. Furthermore, some permits shall require additional insurance from the City. Encroachment permit fees for processing and inspections shall be as per the current Comprehensive Fee Schedule adopted by the city council. Encroachment permits are obtained from the Development Services Division of the Community Development Department.
Construction Water Permits
What is a construction water permit?
A construction water permit, also known as a fire hydrant usage permit, is required for all access to City fire hydrant water for construction purposes. Construction water drawn from fire hydrants shall require a payment of a monthly fee of $118.00. Construction water permits are obtained from the Development Services Division of the Community Development Department.
What is a grading permit?
Grading includes the act or result of digging, excavating, transporting, spreading, depositing, filling, compacting, settling, or shaping of land surfaces and slopes. Therefore, prior to start of clearing, grading, importing, or exporting of any earth material from a site, a Grading Permit must be acquired. A separate permit is required for work on each site unless the sites are contiguous, have the same ownership, and are included in the CEQA (California Environmental Quality Act) clearance. Both grading permit and building permit information can be obtained from the City of Woodland Community Development Department. They can be reached at (530) 661-5820 or please visit the Community Development Department web page for more information.
Who do I contact for utility connections for my property?
Connections to existing mains shall be made following appropriate request with the Community Development Development Services office. Applications for such connections shall be made at least ten (10) working days in advance of start of construction. For water or sewer hook-ups on your property, please contact the City of Woodland Community Development Department Development Services office at (530) 661-5820.
How can I get more information regarding transportation permits?
Transportation permits are called for from any vehicle, combination of vehicles or object of weight or dimension that is intended to enter the public right-of-way. For more information regarding transportation permits and the permit conditions, please visit our City of Woodland Truck Routes and Permit Conditions web page.
Permits are processed and purchased at the City of Woodland Community Development counter in City Hall at 300 First Street, Woodland, CA. For fee information, please visit our Comprehensive Fee Schedule web page located on this site. | <urn:uuid:4a374b13-76b8-477b-9aab-f75c845492fb> | 2013-05-23T18:30:27Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
-0.03173828125,
0.010009765625,
-0.0228271484375,
-0.01361083984375,
0.140625,
-0.07861328125,
-0.00811767578125,
0.08544921875,
-0.00689697265625,
0.01324462890625,
0.1318359375,
0.061279296875,
-0.11279296875,
-0.052734375,
0.050048828125,
-0.01123... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.884193 | 1,018 | http://www.cityofwoodland.org/gov/depts/cd/bldg/engineering/development/permit.asp | 0.621585 |
Dragonlord Esq. wrote:ABC? Roman drama? What could possibly go wrong? I'm sorry, but to me this looks like it has failure written all over it with a ten unciae Sharpie.
JPinoy wrote:My faith isn't too strong on these kinds of shows. Period drama mostly likely won't do as well as period action shows like Hercules, and Xena.
Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 1 guest | <urn:uuid:3a272cb3-a306-410a-955c-3e2fed1e9c20> | 2013-05-23T19:05:34Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
-0.020266089588403702,
0.005221225321292877,
0.010519801639020443,
0.020266089588403702,
0.05352722853422165,
-0.07271039485931396,
-0.01632116362452507,
0.06435643881559372,
-0.008934096433222294,
-0.058477722108364105,
0.07611386477947235,
0.03929455578327179,
... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980393 | 93 | http://www.classic-castle.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=56796 | 0.274173 |
These classic recordings of Haydn's "London Symphonies" have long been acclaimed as probably the best ever with the idiosyncratic conducting of Harnoncourt beautifully suited to the flawless playing of the Concertgebouw. Although Harnoncourt is not Beecham, he manages to bring an incredible lift to the music especially in Symphony #94, "Surprise" with the Finale particularly enticing.
The lesser known symphonies such as Nos. 95, 96 and 97 are given the care and attention they rarely receive with the slow movement of #96 particularly enticing and beautiful. Harnoncourt brings forceful tempi and great thrust and energy to the later symphonies such as #102 and #103, "Drum Roll". All in all, this is a wonderful set with rich and copious notes and immaculate recordings. Not much else to say except that if you don't have it, go out and buy it!
Copyright © 2008 by Gerald Fenech | <urn:uuid:1ac85a17-cd5d-46d4-812a-c6af8dc5b8b6> | 2013-05-23T18:31:14Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
-0.017430555075407028,
-0.0055555556900799274,
-0.01229166705161333,
0.03166666626930237,
0.07277777791023254,
-0.0044270833022892475,
0.01145833358168602,
0.0672222226858139,
-0.05305555462837219,
-0.0833333358168602,
-0.004045139066874981,
-0.007777777966111898,
... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952827 | 203 | http://www.classical.net/music/recs/reviews/w/war696122a.php | 0.312498 |
Cars that seem as British as Granny Smith apples and stiff upper lips such as Bentleys, Rolls Royces and the original Mini are now owned by foreign companies and the UK motoring industry has dwindled to almost nothing. However, it once thrived and even though our beloved Aston Martins are now owned by America, they'll always be English icons, along with Land Rovers and Jaguars. Everyone's heard of the Jaguar E-Type, but there are many smaller marques that didn't produce cars in such vast numbers.
Panther Westwinds manufactured luxury vehicles and nippy niche sports cars in Surrey. More commonly known as Panther, it was founded by Robert Jankel in 1972. Though largely forgotten now in the 21st century, Panther enjoyed a certain amount of success during the 1970s with their unusual retro-inspired cars, which were based on mechanical components from standard production automobiles of several other manufacturers.
They created several notable models. These included the 1975 Panther Rio, which was largely based on Triumph's Dolomite but interestingly boasted "Rolls-Royce standards". This meant that the price tag was that of three Triumph Dolomites! Another of Panther's outlandish models was the Panther 6, a three-axled vehicle.
Unfortunately, in 1980, the Panther Westwinds company collapsed and was eventually purchased by Young Kim, a Korean gentleman. He set up a brand new factory for the cars in Harlow in Essex and began assembly of new automobiles with Korean-based bodies. A few years in to the 1980s, the Panther company began to move in to the area of sports car manufacture, which culminated with the 1990 Panther Solo.
The Solo featured Ferrari-inspired styling and was originally a Ford-engined sports coupe. It was a rival to the Toyota MR-2, but was unfortunately largely outclassed by the Japanese car and so a Solo 2 was developed. The design team was four-strong - Martin Freestone on composites, Keith Hunter structure and underbody, Bill Davies on finer details and finally Mert Wreford, who was in charge of "making coffee".
The Solo 2 featured almost twice the horsepower of the original model and was marketed as a UK muscle car. Unfortunately it was a big flop - every Solo sold lost Panther money. Between 12 and 25 Solos were built (the exact number is unknown). Today in 2011, a mere 8 Solos survive in the UK but all have been declared SORN. The last licensed example was registered in 2010.
Displaying 0-0 of 0 Classic Cars For Sale | <urn:uuid:29f6c2f4-b2a2-4ffb-a8e7-2aa0264261f5> | 2013-05-23T18:45:09Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
0.002655029296875,
0.0003108978271484375,
0.01239013671875,
0.007598876953125,
0.04345703125,
-0.04736328125,
-0.006622314453125,
0.11865234375,
-0.050537109375,
-0.031982421875,
0.00982666015625,
0.0133056640625,
-0.0017547607421875,
-0.013916015625,
0.... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981692 | 528 | http://www.classiccar.co.uk/panther/ | 0.324614 |
A 16-year-old boy is headed to prison after he was convicted of stabbing an 84-year-old woman to death.
A Galveston County jury deliberated 6½ hours over two days before returning its verdict Tuesday against 16-year-old Jor'Dan Jacqueinn Maurice Lewis. Because he was a juvenile when Vaneeda Wright was stabbed in May 2011, Lewis was ineligible for the death penalty and drew an automatic life sentence. He won't be eligible for parole for 38 years.
Lewis was 14 when Wright was stabbed 28 times at her La Marque home. Prosecutors said a butcher knife was left embedded in her cheek, but Dr. Stephen Pustilnik, Galveston County's chief medical examiner, testified Wright likely lived at least 20 minutes after the attack. | <urn:uuid:ac8c0d80-d52d-462b-aa45-04c094eda67b> | 2013-05-23T19:06:56Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
-0.022444751113653183,
0.03401242941617966,
-0.01691989041864872,
-0.0009495856356807053,
0.07803867757320404,
-0.030041435733437538,
-0.006042817607522011,
0.1001381203532219,
-0.0220994483679533,
-0.01778315007686615,
0.08356353640556335,
0.039709944278001785,
... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979479 | 163 | http://www.click2houston.com/news/Boy-16-gets-life-sentence-for-capital-murder/-/1735978/19200480/-/8spr1e/-/index.html | 0.397998 |
Gabrielle "Gabby" Giffords stood next to her husband in court Thursday as he spoke directly to Jared Loughner, the Arizona man who tried to assassinate the then-congresswoman in a January 2011 shooting.
"Mr. Loughner, you may have put a bullet through her head, but you haven't put a dent in her spirit and her commitment to make the world a better place," former astronaut Mark Kelly said.
Giffords was seriously wounded when Loughner walked up and shot her in the head during her meet-and-greet event with constituents outside a Tucson grocery store on January 8, 2011. A federal judge, a congressional aide and four others were killed and 12 other people suffered wounds.
U.S. District Judge Larry Burns sentenced Loughner to serve the rest of his life in prison without the possibility of parole. The punishment includes seven consecutive life terms plus 140 years.
"The evidence clearly shows that he knew what he was doing, despite his mental illness," the judge said.
Loughner, 24, spoke just once, confirming to the judge that he would make no statement before sentencing. "That is true," he said.
Beside the dramatic appearance by Giffords and her husband, nine other victims spoke at the sentencing hearing held in a packed federal courtroom in Tuscon.
Kelly, in an interview Thursday evening with CNN's Piers Morgan, said hearing what they had to say "was really a tough thing" for Giffords.
"Gabby said afterwards, for her the biggest emotion was just sadness," Kelly said. "To hear story after story of what the impact of this horrible day had on people was really difficult."
Much of the time, those words were directed toward the 24-year-old Loughner, whose lawyer stroked his arm at times.
"You pointed a weapon at me and shot me," said Susan Hileman, who was wounded by Loughner's Glock pistol. "Over last several months, I wanted to take you by the shoulders and shake you and scream at you."
"It's an awful situation," she said, looking straight at Loughner, "and it's all because of you."
His victims gathered that day "to witness democracy in action," she said. "We brought family and friends. You brought a gun."
Mavanell Stoddard described how her "precious husband," Dorwin Stoddard, was fatally shot as he fell on top of her to shield her from the onslaught of bullets.
"Somehow when you shot him, I got out from under him," Stoddard said. "I was screaming 'Oh God, oh God, help me.' I said to him 'breathe deeply,' and he did. Therefore, I believe that he heard me said 'I love you.' "
He died in her arms her minutes later, she said. "Then I passed out because you had shot me three times," she said. "You took away my life, my love, my reason for living."
"I am so lonesome," Stoddard said as she stared directly at Loughner. "I hate living without him. No one to hold me, no one to love me, no one to talk to, no one to care. I forgive you. As a Christian, I am required to."
Mary Reed, who was among the wounded, blamed Loughner for introducing "my children to something sinister and evil."
"My children will forever remember the moments of people when they died, the smell of blood everywhere," Reed said.
"Jared took their lives, their bodies, but he will not take their spirit," victim Pat Maisch said.
Pamela Simon, one of the Giffords congressional aides who was wounded, said Loughner is reminder "of our society's failure to provide adequate mental health."
"Jared, I know you did not choose this illness that led to this horrific tragedy," Simon said. "When you were a student in middle school, and I was a teacher there at the same time. You were a regular kid."
U.S. Rep. Ron Barber also spoke.
"The physical and mental wounds will be with us forever," said Barber, who was hit in the leg by a bullet.
He spoke of watching congressional aide Gabe Zimmerman -- "one of my dearest colleagues" -- die. "He was my go-to guy, a human being with so much compassion," Barber said. | <urn:uuid:0b145488-280e-4702-8cfb-2370b695b8a3> | 2013-05-23T18:45:21Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
-0.0054931640625,
0.01287841796875,
-0.0036773681640625,
-0.01025390625,
0.107421875,
-0.04150390625,
0.0076904296875,
0.0947265625,
-0.034912109375,
-0.03466796875,
0.0771484375,
0.0419921875,
0.0023193359375,
0.0015106201171875,
0.0439453125,
-0.01... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.990391 | 941 | http://www.click2houston.com/news/Loughner-sentenced-to-life-for-shootings/-/1735978/17331600/-/item/0/-/10jhl3u/-/index.html | 0.676266 |
Unable to rescue a man devoured by a giant sinkhole, workers started demolishing his Florida home Sunday -- three days after the ground under his bedroom opened up and swallowed him.
The massive arm of a towering excavator plunged into the home's blue walls as hundreds of people watched, said John Gauntt, a reporter for CNN affiliate Bay News 9.
Some snapped photos with cell phone cameras, he said. Others turned toward the ground with tears in their eyes.
Crews placed some household items on the grass outside: a dresser, a mattress, speakers. But authorities said it wouldn't be possible to recover Jeff Bush's body from the massive hole that opened up under his bedroom. The sinkhole -- about 20 feet wide and 50 to 60 feet deep -- was still expanding, they said, and the suburban Tampa house could collapse at any time.
Authorities made the heartbreaking decision to stop the search for Bush after the odds against his survival became abundantly clear.
"We just have not been able to locate Mr. Bush, and so for that reason the rescue effort is being discontinued," Hillsborough County administrator Mike Merrill told reporters Saturday evening. "At this point, it's really not possible to recover the body."
The Bush family's nightmare began Thursday night, just as everyone was about to go to sleep.
A deafening noise shattered the peace in the blue one-story home in the suburb of Seffner.
"I ran toward my brother's bedroom because I heard my brother scream," Jeremy Bush, Jeff Bush's brother, told CNN's "AC360."
"Everything was gone. My brother's bed, my brother's dresser, my brother's TV. My brother was gone."
Jeremy Bush frantically tried to rescue his brother by standing in the hole and shoveling away rubble until police arrived and pulled him out, saying the floor was still collapsing.
"I couldn't get him out. I tried so hard. I tried everything I could," he said, weeping. "I could swear I heard him calling out."
The terror of those moments can be heard in a recording of the 911 call in the moments after the sinkhole opened up.
"The house just fell through," a female voice says on the recording released by the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office.
"The bedroom floor just collapsed, and my brother-in-law is in there. He's underneath the house," the woman says.
Jeremy Bush and four others, including a 2-year-old child, were uninjured.
After officials called off the search for his brother Saturday, Jeremy Bush spoke to Bay News 9.
"It's very hard. It's not just I lost my brother. There are so many memories in this house," he told the CNN affiliate. "I don't know what we're going to do."
Nearby homes were evacuated Friday as a precaution.
The sinkhole compromised a house next door to the Bush home, fire department spokesman Ronnie Rivera said. That home wasn't damaged as of Saturday morning, but the family that lived there was given about 30 minutes to grab belongings before abandoning the house, he said.
Sinkholes are common in the state, according to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. The state lies on bedrock made of limestone or other carbonate rock that can be eaten away by acidic groundwater, forming voids that collapse when the rock can no longer support the weight of what's above it.
Hillsborough County, on Florida's west coast, is part of an area known as "sinkhole alley" that accounts for two-thirds of the sinkhole-related insurance claims in the state, according to a Florida state Senate Insurance and Banking Committee report.
Though the risky search for Jeff Bush has ended, the danger has not.
Merrill said the demolition of the Bush home could take a few days. He said workers were dealing with a "very unusual sinkhole" -- deep, wide and extremely unstable. | <urn:uuid:43818123-d37e-4edf-8c58-d95094935445> | 2013-05-23T18:32:06Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
-0.007476806640625,
0.0296630859375,
-0.0093994140625,
0.022705078125,
0.11279296875,
-0.02392578125,
-0.0003147125244140625,
0.1162109375,
-0.000438690185546875,
-0.07470703125,
0.072265625,
0.058837890625,
0.035400390625,
-0.02490234375,
0.040283203125... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982179 | 817 | http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/Demolition-starts-at-Florida-sinkhole-site/-/1719418/19158422/-/sm7jxiz/-/index.html | 0.365272 |
Christopher Walken and Al Pacino are known for taking on "tough guy" roles, and that doesn't change in their just released movie, "Stand Up Guys."
The legendary actors team up in the crime-comedy to play two ex-criminals and best friends working to get the old gang back together. They want to have a final hurrah before one of them takes on his final assignment: to kill his comrade.
Yet despite playing old gangsters with softer, "stand up" sides in the film, Walken and Pacino tell CNN they're really not tough guys at heart.
"No, I'm not scary," Walken said with a smile. "Ask anybody."
The actor, who has appeared in more than 100 movies, went on to explain that he's not picky when selecting roles. He prefers to focus on performing rather than hobbies or travel, but he reveals that he is accompanied by one special companion when he takes trips for work.
"I have a cat when I travel," Walken said. "She's got a really nice box with a fuzzy floor, and I've always thought being an actor is a little bit like that. They put you in a box and then you're always being watched."
Pacino similarly balks at being considered a "bad guy."
"The toughest thing about me? Well, I'm still here," he said.
Many look up to the star for playing mob boss Michael Corleone in "The Godfather" or gangster Tony Montana in "Scarface," but Pacino's role models come from his family.
"My granddad, grandmother and mother raised me, so my granddad was a great guy, and I loved him, and I'm totally here because of him," he said.
Pacino's parents split before he was two years old, and his father was away at war and rarely present in his life.
"I never saw him much, so like all kids and especially boys who don't have a dad, they find a substitute, and my grandfather was [that]," Pacino said. "Throughout life as I went on, there was always this kind of father-figure there. Whether it was Lee Strasberg, or Joseph Papp, or Charlie Laughton. But finally, when I've been a father ... I've stopped looking for that substitute, I think." | <urn:uuid:ce4d6389-19d5-4b1b-b5bd-f5693269572d> | 2013-05-23T19:00:15Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
-0.0037078857421875,
0.01104736328125,
-0.00537109375,
-0.0027313232421875,
0.06982421875,
-0.00799560546875,
0.00531005859375,
0.080078125,
-0.037109375,
-0.0966796875,
0.05810546875,
0.0419921875,
0.0732421875,
-0.01318359375,
0.045654296875,
-0.01... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.991569 | 491 | http://www.clickorlando.com/entertainment/The-Stand-Up-sides-of-Pacino-and-Walken/-/1636654/18435692/-/6l6jqbz/-/index.html | 0.234708 |
Kim Hughes has worked as a Clippers assistant for seven seasons after serving the previous five years with the Denver Nuggets. Hughes started with Denver in 1998 as Director of Scouting before being named Director of Player Personnel and also was a Nuggets assistant coach in 1998-99. Before joining the Nuggets, Hughes spent seven seasons with the Milwaukee Bucks as a head and regional scout. A member of the 1975-76 ABA All-Rookie First Team with the New York Nets, the former University of Wisconsin star (1970-74) played six years in the NBA and ABA and also played professionally in Italy.
I don't know much about Chicken Man's successor. It's great that Dunleavy has finally let go of his dream of coaching a fully healthy team but where does that leave us? In all the euphoria is it possible things could get worse? In Clipperland, we all know that just when we get happy about something, things can always get worse...
I am sure that Steve is on the case as I type this but I figure that the Nation could contribute by commenting below with any facts/stories on the new coach. Who is Kim Hughes? Will he do better than Dunleavy?
I seem to remember him filling in for Dunleavy twice and I think he was 1 and 1 but I could be wrong. Can anyone confirm or clarify?
Does anyone remember what he was like as a player? Does anyone have any insight into his coaching philosophy? Is he just a carbon copy of Dunleavy? Does he favor running? Is he a motivator?
Share your thoughts below. | <urn:uuid:1a60aa67-2342-41b7-960e-0fd69e4804d3> | 2013-05-23T19:06:35Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
-0.016193978488445282,
0.0069152661599218845,
0.006783963646739721,
-0.007484243717044592,
0.03466386720538139,
0.0015756302746012807,
0.011992297135293484,
0.07492997497320175,
0.004858193453401327,
-0.09103641659021378,
0.05672268941998482,
0.06407563388347626,
... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.988401 | 326 | http://www.clipsnation.com/2010/2/4/1295846/who-is-new-coach-kim-hughes | 0.278874 |
Agent cool on Strootman move talk
PSV midfielder Kevin Strootman's agent has played down talk linking his client with a move to Manchester United this summer.
The Dutch international is thought to be on Sir Alex Ferguson's list of transfer targets as he looks to bolster his midfield options in an attempt to regain the Premier League title from Manchester City. The 22-year-old has impressed for club and country over the last 12 months and his performances have not gone unnoticed among several big clubs in Europe. His agent Chiel Dekker though was keen to reiterate that any decision on his client's future, who is also interesting Inter Milan, would only happen after Euro 2012: "Inter Milan and the player? At the moment there is nothing concrete," Dekker told the Sunday Mirror. "Manchester United? The same. Personally, I find it rather difficult for him to leave the club because he only arrived last summer and has a five-year contract. "The boy is not worried at all and is just focused on his work for Holland. Eventually, after the Euros we will see what might happen." | <urn:uuid:b31721fe-7f8c-438d-a24b-9972c25da3b8> | 2013-05-23T19:06:21Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
0.00816615205258131,
0.02327674813568592,
-0.0014869470614939928,
0.020576132461428642,
0.0869341567158699,
-0.05684156343340874,
0.0025237910449504852,
0.07818929851055145,
0.038065843284130096,
-0.09670782089233398,
0.039351850748062134,
0.06069958955049515,
0... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978641 | 223 | http://www.clubcall.com/eredivisie/agent-cool-on-strootman-move-talk-1433016.html | 0.261593 |
Database predicts July 21 for Kerry VP announcement
(CNN) -- Whom and when presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry will announce as his running mate for the 2004 presidential race is still anyone's guess, but one leading database has dug deep into its memory and arrived at a "historical" prediction.
LexisNexis, a provider of legal, news and business information services, conducted a comprehensive search of more than 32,000 historical sources.
It concluded that if Kerry chooses to announce his running mate before the Democratic National Convention in Boston, he will most likely announce his decision July 21 -- five days before the convention begins.
The LexisNexis search discovered that in the last 48 years, only four Democratic candidates for president named their running mates before the national convention -- Al Gore in 2000, seven days before; Bill Clinton in 1992, four days before; Michael Dukakis in 1988, six days before; and Walter Mondale in 1984, four days before. Clinton was the only person of that group elected.
To calculate the date, LexisNexis added the total days that each of the four candidates announced ahead, then divided that number by four.
The result: 5.25, according to LexisNexis's Manager of Public Relations Randy Dunham.
With the convention slated for July 26, they subtracted 5 and came up with July 21.
Edwards a front-runner
According to LexisNexis data, media attention on Sen. John Edwards (with 1,420 hits from March 1, 2004, to May 20, 2004) makes him the front-runner on Kerry's ticket.
Trailing far behind are Wesley Clark and Sen. Hillary Clinton with 338 and 291 hits, respectively.
However, it's possible a sleeper candidate could make the ticket, throwing off the date.
LexisNexis notes Al Gore's eventual choice in Joe Lieberman in the 2000 presidential election.
Furthermore, Kerry may postpone accepting his party's presidential nomination at the July Democratic convention, a tactic aimed at reserving his campaign war chest for the fight against President Bush. (Kerry considers postponing nomination acceptance)
This move could delay any announcement, leaving the date wide open. (Who did you pick for VP? -- results of CNN.com's Veepstakes Game) | <urn:uuid:2d54d1f6-d996-4544-88be-eeded7250010> | 2013-05-23T19:06:56Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
0.01385498046875,
0.045166015625,
-0.00677490234375,
0.0076904296875,
0.06005859375,
-0.041748046875,
-0.0201416015625,
0.109375,
-0.01263427734375,
-0.0732421875,
0.06298828125,
0.0225830078125,
-0.00799560546875,
-0.004852294921875,
0.03759765625,
... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955223 | 477 | http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/05/25/lexisnexis.kerry/index.html | 0.432888 |
(CNN) -- France on Saturday welcomed an agreement between military coup leaders in Mali and a regional bloc that would return the country to democratic rule, two weeks after a coup plunged it into turmoil.
Mali state television announced late Friday that the leader of Mali's coup, Captain Amadou Sanogo, and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) had signed up to the plan.
The parties agreed to set up a transition process leading to a presidential election, Sanogo said, in exchange for the end of trade and diplomatic sanctions.
A transitional prime minister will lead the transition "to manage the crisis in the north of Mali and to organize free, transparent and democratic elections in accordance with a road map," he said.
The announcement of a promised return to civilian rule came shortly after separatist rebels, who had captured large areas of Mali's vast Sahara region in the north of the country, declared independence for a region they call Azawad.
A French foreign ministry statement urged all parties to put the measures set out in the agreement into effect as soon as possible, especially those laying the groundwork for presidential elections.
The presidents of Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso, both members of ECOWAS, will meet to discuss the next steps, the foreign ministry said.
Once a constitutional government is restored, France -- the former colonial power in Mali -- will resume military and civil cooperation with Mali, the statement said.
France will help the future government find a political solution to the problems in northern Mali, where the Tuareg rebels have gained control, it said. France also urged the rebel leaders to seek a political resolution.
Journalist Katarina Hoije, in the capital, Bamako, said the coup leaders had been left with little choice but to agree to the plan after coming under sustained pressure from ECOWAS and losing ground to rebel groups.
The rebels say they will continue to fight to preserve the territory they have gained, Hoije said, although it is unclear how much control they have on the ground.
The rebel declaration of independence was made in a statement posted online by the secretary general of the Azawad National Liberation Movement (MNLA).
The claim followed "more than 50 years of corruption and poor governance with the complicity of the army and the politicians, putting people's lives at risk in Azawad," the MNLA said.
In a statement, the African Union expressed its "total rejection" of the rebels' independence claim.
The African Union will do all it can to restore the authority of the government of Mali to its entire territory and "bring to an end the attacks being carried out by armed and terrorist groups in the northern part of the country," it said.
French Defense Minister Gerard Longuet said the declaration of independence in northern Mali was meaningless if it was not recognized by African states.
The rebels had called a cease-fire Thursday, saying they had captured key territory in the Sahara region and achieved their military mission.
The Tuaregs, who consider Azawad to be the cradle of their nomadic civilization, launched an insurgency in January to achieve a separate homeland. The conflict has uprooted more than 200,000 people from their homes.
Buoyed by the chaos after last month's coup, the rebels swept through the north and wrested control of several strategic cities, including Kidal, Gao and Timbuktu.
The rebels effectively split the West African nation in two, and northern areas remained volatile and tense, preventing aid agencies from accessing displaced people, the United Nations refugee agency said Thursday.
Kidal, Gao and Timbuktu experienced days of looting, abductions and chaos after they were occupied by armed groups.
The coup leaders had deposed the democratically elected President Amadou Toumani Toure because of his alleged inability to handle the Tuareg rebellion.
CNN's Bharati Naik, Laura Smith-Spark and Kamal Ghattas contributed to this report. | <urn:uuid:e0cd2d5f-9dbe-412a-b367-b64b3b2ff730> | 2013-05-23T18:45:37Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
0.000823974609375,
0.05078125,
-0.01214599609375,
0.054931640625,
0.1318359375,
-0.0654296875,
-0.032470703125,
0.0869140625,
-0.018798828125,
-0.01495361328125,
0.0478515625,
0.02001953125,
-0.0196533203125,
-0.01318359375,
0.037841796875,
0.0004653... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968039 | 819 | http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/07/world/africa/mali-unrest/index.html?eref=rss_latest&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_latest+%28RSS%3A+Most+Recent%29 | 0.479889 |
(CNN) -- Jay-Z and Kanye West's recent hit "Niggas in Paris" is about them. They rap about being so phenomenally rich, about how they "ball so hard," buy Rolexes and cars, pop gold bottles with models in Paris nightclubs, that the rest of us slobs couldn't fathom their lives.
It may seem like an odd choice for a campaign song for a politician trying to appeal to oppressed racial and ethnic minorities.
But it's apparently working for -- or at least not hurting -- Francois Hollande. The French Socialist eked out a win last Sunday in the first round of presidential voting to decide who will run France for the next five years. He will face President Nicolas Sarkozy in a run-off May 6.
This month, Hollande appeared in a slickly edited online video featuring West and Jay-Z's stadium anthem. In the video, Hollande -- who has been roundly criticized for his lack of charisma -- strides like a rock star amongst his black, Arab and multiethnic supporters in the working-class suburb of Creil.
"Got my niggas in Paris, and they going gorillas," West raps as Hollande is shown leading discussions between men in suits and then talking to voters of multiple races and ages. Crowds in the street and the subway smile excitedly as Hollande approaches them.
Supporters raise their voter cards to the camera. A man shouts, "To hell with Sarko!" - a common shorthand reference to Sarkozy.
A black woman holds the French flag and exclaims, "François, president! Inshallah, Inshallah!" -- Arabic for "God willing."
"We support François because he supports us," says a young black man wearing a hoodie. "All of Creil, all of us."
A lyric in Jay-Z and Kanye's song sounds like "Creil," which is pronounced "cray," although the context suggests they mean "crazy."
Although the video appeared to be a campaign advertisement, the Hollande campaign denied producing it.
Hollande's video is edgy, has a good beat and shows people having a good time: all the ingredients for successful marketing. So what if it uses a racial slur, not to mention frequent profane and sexually degrading language?
Rob Angell, a lecturer at Wale's Cardiff Business School, says those things do matter.
The consumer behavior researcher said the song's racial slur is universally offensive. Using it, or being perceived as tacitly endorsing it, could backfire for Hollande.
"In France, 'negro' is definitely defamatory," he said. "It isn't a matter of whether or not minority Parisians or suburbanites are even able to make the translation."
The video has more than 300,000 YouTube views since its April 10th posting and has made numerous international headlines.
Hollande's campaign ad could be considered a form of ethnic or multicultural marketing.
The term generally refers to a kind of advertising that emerged several decades ago in the West. The idea was that in order to stay competitive, businesses had to pay greater attention to minorities' growing ability to buy. One example is McDonald's "I'm Lovin It!" campaign from a few years ago, which used hip-hop beats and more black and Latino actors in commercials to sell more burgers.
But translating this marketing technique to politics is tricky, Angell said.
He points to what became known as British Prime Minister David Cameron's "Hug a Hoodie" campaign in 2006. The Conservative leader was widely mocked when he urged politicians to try to understand what drove boys to wear hooded sweatshirts and to break the law. Other lawmakers roasted him, giving it the dismissive "Hug a Hoodie" name. Media pundits laughed it off, too.
"Cameron attempted to endear himself to this group, and their parents, by arguing that society cared," Angell said.
It didn't work because there was too much of a gap between the elite leaders of the country and the hooded youth for the latter group to feel like the gesture was sincere, Angell said.
In that respect, the Hollande video could be another toxic drop in a cauldron of already boiling tensions in Europe, France in particular.
It comes on the heels of an Amnesty International report that said Muslims in Europe face discrimination in education, employment and religious freedom, and as France's economy is limping due to a 12-year high unemployment rate and broader economic problems across the EU.
And France's working suburban class is complaining that it is getting the shortest end of the economic stick, leading to frustration with the current government. Hollande, who is favored to win the May 6 runoff, hopes to capitalize on voters' frustration by convincing them that his left-wing party will listen to and answer their concerns, he said.
Sarkozy has lost support, critics say, because some see him as insensitive to minorities.
When he first ran for president in 2005, he said that he'd like to wash out the suburbs "with a power hose." This year, Sarkozy was blasted for saying France has "too many foreigners" and vowing to limit benefits to legal migrants.
Shortly after he won his first term, riots erupted in Parisian suburbs. Roving gangs of young people clashed with police. Sarkozy called the rioters "scum," wording that his critics said didn't help the situation but only drove frustrated French further toward the edge.
In 2007, there was another, reportedly far worse outbreak of violence in the suburbs. Cars were torched, as was a car dealership and a library. More than 60 police officers were injured. Two teens on a motorcycle, both sons of African immigrants, were killed when their vehicle collided with a police car. That incident further enraged residents, particularly in the immigrant community.
Hollande has promised repeatedly to improve life in poorer neighborhoods, from renovating decrepit housing to providing jobs.
Lang said Hollande's campaign workers have studied how President Barack Obama used popular culture in his 2008 White House bid (culminating in a Jay-Z hit "My President is Black" after Obama won.)
One of the U.S. president's campaign slogans was "Change we can believe in." The subtitle of the Hollande video: Change is now.
French media have taken numerous critical looks at the video ad.
It's hard to buy that Hollande wasn't behind the ad, a France24 online editorial suggests.
"How do you get young non-white people to vote for you when you're a middle-aged balding white man? François Hollande has the answer," the post said. "Take a popular song by two famous U.S. rap stars. Film yourself surrounded by black and Arab voters who say 'big up.' Change your name to initials only. Get some Final Cut whiz kid to paste it all together with a load of fast-forward and zoom. Set up a YouTube account with the word 'crew' in it.
"The suburbs isn't only hooded youths who lap up American subculture and watch too much TV," France24 quotes a newspaper reader as saying. "There are also engineers, researchers, police officers and teachers here."
The YouTube video is signed #2H12CREW. The hashtag has been prominent as people tweet in many languages, trying to guess the identity of 2H12CREW.
Hollande's press officer Emilie Lang said, "We have heard that that it's artists in the Parisian suburbs (who produced the video), but we don't know."
"But I like it," she added. "A lot of people do."
To Angell, the racial slur in West and Jay-Z's song "is the hook, a variant of shock marketing."
And although using such an offensive term could backfire, he said, the approach can work if a campaign or a politician seems genuinely multi-culturally empathetic before the marketing stunt.
"I don't see this ending badly for Hollande at all," Angell said. "Quite the opposite."
CNN's Michael Saba contributed to this report. | <urn:uuid:81ecb935-865a-44d0-b23a-782b7ea248ab> | 2013-05-23T19:07:02Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
0.006195068359375,
0.0218505859375,
-0.01165771484375,
0.0155029296875,
0.08251953125,
-0.023681640625,
-0.0024871826171875,
0.11865234375,
-0.015869140625,
-0.0252685546875,
0.06982421875,
0.01068115234375,
0.01251220703125,
-0.0245361328125,
0.03930664... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974721 | 1,683 | http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/27/world/europe/france-politician-uses-offensive-song/index.html?eref=rss_mostpopular | 0.327344 |
PLA troops to enter Hong Kong 3 hours early
Britain bows to Chinese demand
In this story:
June 23, 1997
Web posted at: 11:40 a.m. EDT (1540 GMT)
HONG KONG (CNN) -- Bowing to Chinese demands, Britain on Monday said it will allow Beijing to send 500 troops into Hong Kong three hours before British colonial rule ends next week. Meanwhile, the Royal Yacht Britannia sailed majestically into Hong Kong harbor in preparation for the territory's handover to Chinese authority.
The ship, long a symbol of British interests abroad, will become the floating base for Britain's Prince Charles during Hong Kong's handover ceremonies next week.
(1 MB/27 sec.
Memories of Tiananmen
An advance group of unarmed Chinese soldiers is already in Hong Kong. London, which had resisted any additional Chinese troops before the July 1 handover was completed, yielded after protracted negotiations.
"We are confident that there will be a smooth transfer of defense responsibilities between the two garrisons," a Hong Kong government spokesman said.
The deployment of People's Liberation Army (PLA) troops has been a deeply contentious issue in Hong Kong, where memories of the PLA's role in crushing China's pro-democracy movement in 1989 are still fresh. The deaths at Beijing's Tiananmen Square spurred Hong Kong's own pro-democracy movement.
A L S O
Patten discusses Hong Kong's 'success story'
In addition to the almost 200 unarmed PLA troops already in Hong for the handover, China had wanted to bring in more before the transfer of power to ensure security for Chinese President Jiang Zemin at handover celebrations.
China's Xinhua news agency announced from Beijing that Britain had agreed that 509 troops and 39 vehicles would now enter Hong Kong on the handover evening at 9 p.m. (1300 GMT), three hours before the handover is completed.
A British official confirmed the group would have rifles and sidearms, making them the first armed Chinese troops to set foot on Hong Kong soil after more than 156 years of British rule.
The territory's last colonial governor, Chris Patten, says Chinese leaders are "nervous" about the possibility of political unrest after the handover. "I think Tiananmen ... made them very concerned about political control," he told CNN's Bernard Shaw. Despite new laws requiring protesters to get permission from police before they take to the streets, Hong Kong pro-democracy activists plan demonstrations just after the midnight handover.
China has so far not disclosed how many troops it will eventually station in Hong Kong, but it is widely expected to be around 10,000, roughly the same size as the British garrison had been.
Britannia's final voyage
Britannia was escorted into Hong Kong harbor by HMS Plover and two Sea King helicopters, as well as a small flotilla of boats honking their horns as it sailed past the convention center where Britain will return Hong Kong to China at midnight on June 30.
A brass band played military marches on deck as the
42-year-old Britannia came in to dock in Victoria Harbor. Royal Navy sailors on board stood at attention, and dockside workmen put down their tools to watch its stately progress.
The Britannia, the official private residence of Queen Elizabeth II and the royal family when they are at sea, is on its final voyage.
Prince Charles will fly in later this week. He and Patten will sail to the Philippines immediately after the midnight handover ceremony, and the yacht, the oldest ocean-going vessel in the Royal Navy, will be decommissioned after its return to England. A replacement royal yacht is planned.
Hong Kong Bureau Chief Mike Chinoy, Anchor Bernard Shaw and Reuters contributed to this report.
© 1997 Cable News Network, Inc.
All Rights Reserved. | <urn:uuid:91ebc820-d875-4f4b-be24-052c60791b1b> | 2013-05-23T18:59:58Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
0.0002574920654296875,
0.0771484375,
-0.0064697265625,
0.0546875,
0.11181640625,
-0.06787109375,
-0.040771484375,
0.103515625,
-0.0072021484375,
-0.04345703125,
0.03759765625,
0.04052734375,
0.005218505859375,
-0.03564453125,
0.03173828125,
-0.003173... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953315 | 799 | http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9706/23/hongkong.army/index.html?_s=PM:WORLD | 0.252365 |
Born to a long line of mages, Amelia has powers of unimaginable strength. But no
matter how great the power, there is always a weakness. Her weakness, human
emotion, hits her full-force when she's faced with the only two men she's ever
loved - a shape shifter and a vampire.
As the lust between them rises, so does the darkness she fights to conceal.
Everything is laid on the line when Amelia reveals that Kieran, her mate, has
turned her into a vampire. Brendon has to decide if one woman's love is worth an
eternity of darkness.
Read an Excerpt
Content: Erotic Romance
This title contains explicit language, ménage, and graphic sex. | <urn:uuid:ebcf1134-ee10-421d-9151-aefdf72c876a> | 2013-05-23T18:58:44Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
-0.007222020532935858,
0.014989098533987999,
0.011173691600561142,
0.04215116426348686,
0.06431686133146286,
-0.06322674453258514,
0.004632994066923857,
0.125,
-0.012536337599158287,
-0.032885175198316574,
0.06213662773370743,
-0.0037018531002104282,
0.016442587... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.928041 | 156 | http://www.cobblestone-press.com/catalog/books/temptingsin.htm | 0.449187 |
Note: If you like this tool please remember to vote, as this will get other people interested and is more likely to help improve the final product
-- ToDoList organizer, Dan.G.
The Spart library an object oriented recursive descent parser generator framework implemented in C#. In fact, it is a partial port of the excellent Spirit library, which is written in C++ and uses meta-programming.
The Spart framework enables a target grammar to be written exclusively in C#. An EBNF grammar can be closely match using C# code. In retrospect, conventional compiler-compilers or parser-generators have to perform an additional translation step from the source EBNF code to C or C++ code.
I have takened the liberty to use the structure (and some sentence) of the Spirit documentation. Along the article, some notes are added regarding some issues about the port to C#: Spirit-2-Spart Notes (SSN).
As always, this article presents an overview of the library. For deeper details, please refer to the NDoc documentation. The library also comes with a battery of NUnit tests.
Spart is designed to bring you parser capabilites quickly directly into your code. While it is not suited for creating parsers for entire language like C,C++, it is very effective for building micro-grammars in your code.
When you need to build a new parser, there are existing solution: a combination of ....Parse (like
int.Parse) calls, or using regular expression (
Regexp class) or a combination of both. However, these tools do not scale well when attempting to write more complex parsers: maintenance and readability become ackward.
So, as for Spirit, one of the main objective of Spart is to let you build easily grammar in C#. To fix this ideas, a few simple grammars illustrate Spart usage:
Trivial example #1:
Create a parser that will parse a digit:
(This is a trivial case,
Char.IsDigit already does that).
Prims is a static class,
Digit is a property that create a new parser for digits. In fact,
Prims is a helper class that creates primitive parsers for you and hides implementation details.
SSN: This parser is equivalent to
Trivial example #2:
Create a parser that will parse a sequence of two digits
Ops.Seq( Prims.Digit, Prims.Digit )
Here you see the familiar
Prims.Digit parser enclosed in a
Ops.Seq call. Like
Ops is a static helper class that creates combine parsers for you. The Seq method creates a parser that is a sequence of two parsers (
>> in Spirit):
Ops.Seq(a,b) <=> match
b in sequence
Note: when we combine parsers, we end up with a "bigger" parser, But it's still a parser. Parsers can get bigger and bigger, nesting more and more, but whenever you glue two parsers together, you end up with one bigger parser. This is an important concept.
SSN: The operator
>> does not accept arbitrary operands, they must be of integral type which restrict it's use.
Trivial Example #3
Create a parser that will accept an arbitrary number of digit. (Arbitrary means anything from zero to infinity).
This is like the regular expression Kleene Star.
SSN: * cannot be an unary operator in C#.
Less trivial example #4
Create a parser that parse a sequence of comma separated digits and record them in a collection (note this can easily be done using
Ops.Seq( Prims.Digit, Ops.Start( Ops.Seq(Prims.Ch(','), Prims.Digit)))
Prims.Ch('x') will math the character
Prims.Ch(',') will match a comma. In this case, the Kleene star matches a more complex expression, namely
which matches a sequence of comma and digit.
Ops.Sep(Prims.Ch(','),... expression can be simplified to
Ops.Seq(',', ... to simplify notations.
Using the parser
Once we have built our parser, we want to use it. A parser can be used directly as is:
String s = "1,2,3,4";
Parser p = Ops.Seq(...);
StringScanner scan = new StringScanner(s);
ParserMatch m = p.Parse(s);
Parser is an abstract base class for all parsers. It contains the Parse method that can be used to parse some input.
- The parser does not work directly on string but rather on some modified stream (scanners). Therefore, it is possible to parse directly from files or stream.
StringScanner implements the scanner interface and wraps the string
ParserMatch is the parser result (see below)
Now that we have parsed the text, the ParserMatch object can help answer questions like: was the match successful, what was the match value, etc... :
Our parser above is nothing but a recognizer, it does no take any actions. It answers "did our data match the grammar?" but it does not record anything. Remember that we wanted to record the digits into a collection. For example, whenever we parse a digit, we wish to store the parsed number after a successful match. We now wish to extract information from the parser. Semantic actions do this. Semantic actions may be attached to any point in the grammar specification. They through events and event handler.
Parser class has an event,
Act, that is called on a successful match. We need to add a event handler on the
Prims.Digit parser that records the digit into a collection. First, we write an actor that will record the digits
public class MyActor
ArrayList digits; ...
public void RecordDigit(Object sender, ActionEventArgs args)
digits.Add( args.TypedValue );
Then, we add a digit recorder handler to each digit parser:
MyActor a = new MyActor();
Parser d = Prims.Digit;
d.Act += new ActionEventHandler( a.RecordDigit );
Parser p = Ops.Seq( d, Ops.Start( Ops.Seq(',', d)));
This is the same parser as above but now,
MyParser.RecordDigit is called on each successfull digit match and therefore, the collection is filled.
Spart follows the concepts of Spirit. There are a few fundamental concepts that need to be understood well: 1) The Parser, 2) the Match, 3) The Scanner, and 4) Semantic Actions. These basic concepts interact with each other, and the functionalities of each interweave throughout the entire framework to make it one coherent whole.
I will go quickly over those concepts since they are very well explained in the Spirit documentation and I recommend you take a look there first.
Central to the framework is the parser. The parser does the actual work of recognizing a linear input stream of data read sequentially from start to end by the scanner. The parser attempts to match the input following a well-defined set of specifications in the form of grammar rules. The parser reports the success or failure to its client through a match object. When successful, the parser calls a client-supplied semantic action. Finally, the strategically-placed semantic action extracts structural information depending on the data passed to it by the parser and the heirarchical context of the parser it is attached to.
Parsers come in a lot of flavors and usually you don't need to write your own parser. Spart has a collection of built-in parsers that you can combine to create your grammars. The built-in parsers come in two (main) flavors:
Primitive parsers can be used to match characters, string, lower case character, digits, etc... The
Prims class can be used to create such parsers.
Combination parsers can be used to combine parsers, like sequence and star in the example. The
Ops class can be used to create such parsers.
ParserMatch class describes the parser match.
Like the parser, the scanner is also an abstract concept, represented by the
IScanner interface. The task of the scanner is to feed the sequential input data stream to the parser. The scanner is of an input source and a cursor. The cursor is moved along by the parsers. Parsers extract data from the scanner and position the iterator appropriately through its member functions.
A composite parser forms a hierarchy. Parsing proceeds from the topmost parent parser which delegates and apportions the parsing task to its children recursively to its childeren's children and so on until a primitive is reached. By attaching semantic actions to various points in this hierachy, in effect we can transform the flat linear input stream into a structured representation. This is essentially what parsers do.
Rule class represents a non-terminal parser. Basically, it is a wrapper around another parser. This aspect will be illustrated in the example below.
The Classic Calculator Example
There is still a lot to say about Spirit and Spart but I will cut to a final example. A better documentation should appear in a near future as this library is totally new!
The favorite grammar example in the Spirit documentation is a calculator grammar:
group ::= '(' expression ')'
factor ::= integer | group
term ::= factor (('*' factor) | ('/' factor))*
expression ::= term (('+' term) | ('-' term))*
- Spirit (C++):
group = '(' >> expression >> ')';
factor = integer | group;
term = factor >> *(('*' >> factor) | ('/' >> factor));
expression = term >> *(('+' >> term) | ('-' >> term));
Let us now show how to build this grammar with Spart (you can find in the demo applciation). Passing aside some initialization details, the C# code would look as follows:
group.Parser = Ops.Seq('(',Ops.Seq(expression,')'));
factor.Parser = integer | group;
term.Parser = Ops.Seq( factor, Ops.Klenee(
Ops.Seq('*',factor) | Ops.Seq('/',factor) ));
expression.Parser = Ops.Seq(term,Ops.Klenee(Ops.Seq('+',term) |
In the above,
expression are Rule object that have been previously initliazed:
group = new Rule();
Note also, that the
| operator can be overriden in C#, therefore we use it to create an alternative parser.
It can be usefull to trace the scanner state and the parser matches. Similarly to Spirit, you can attach a tracer that will output a lot of interresting info:
debug = new Debugger( Console.Out );
group.ID = "group";
debug += group;
debug += expression;
The output is formated as follows:
- the output is indented to reflect the parser tree,
- parser name: ... reflects the start of the parsing and the current scanner input
- / parser name: ... reflects that the parser has successfully mathed
- # parser name: ... reflects that there was not mathch.
For example, when launching the parser on the string
(5+2)*(4*2), it will output something like this:
There are still a lot of features from Spirit that are not implemented in Spart:
- numeric parsers!
- parsers: list_p, confix_p
- dynamic rules,
Jonathan de Halleux is Civil Engineer in Applied Mathematics. He finished his PhD in 2004 in the rainy country of Belgium. After 2 years in the Common Language Runtime (i.e. .net), he is now working at Microsoft Research on Pex (http://research.microsoft.com/pex). | <urn:uuid:50f5ae65-2a20-4005-baae-952268e2d8a0> | 2013-05-23T19:09:25Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
-0.052978515625,
0.0021820068359375,
0.017822265625,
0.01055908203125,
0.03466796875,
-0.035888671875,
0.024169921875,
0.10400390625,
-0.0174560546875,
-0.010498046875,
0.06591796875,
0.03759765625,
-0.04833984375,
0.02392578125,
0.0238037109375,
-0.... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.819399 | 2,570 | http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/5676/Spart-a-parser-generator-framework-100-C?fid=30315&df=90&mpp=10&sort=Position&spc=None&select=4018437&tid=2476888 | 0.161456 |
A friendly place for programming greenhorns!
Big Moose Saloon
Register / Login
Win a copy of
The Mikado Method
this week in the
Agile and other Processes
Java in General
How do I upload a file?
Joined: Jun 30, 2000
Sep 13, 2000 20:17:00
Hello, I was wondering how do I upload a file from a client to a specific URL? Can anyone please help me??
Joined: Nov 02, 1999
Sep 14, 2000 08:40:00
If you are using JSP/Servlets there is an excellent resouce/package from oreilly that will help. check out the jsp/servlets thread: search for multipartrequest or oreilly (I would think anyway).
I agree. Here's the link:
- it saves me about five hours per week
subject: How do I upload a file?
How to upload a file using a servlet?
How can I upload a file(*.doc,*.zip...) within a servlet?
All times are in JavaRanch time: GMT-6 in summer, GMT-7 in winter
| Powered by
Copyright © 1998-2013 | <urn:uuid:a8c84ae7-8e4b-42ed-abff-354786c1eda7> | 2013-05-23T18:32:35Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
-0.03902953490614891,
0.029931435361504555,
0.025448312982916832,
0.005537974648177624,
0.0569620244204998,
-0.055643461644649506,
0.012064873240888119,
0.06487341970205307,
0.012394514866173267,
-0.040348101407289505,
0.022283755242824554,
0.05168776214122772,
... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.814494 | 252 | http://www.coderanch.com/t/366882/java/java/upload-file | 0.26102 |
The wrapper classes I blogged about in February went down a lot better than I thought they might.
So, taking it further. Let's extend the DocumentWrapper class some more. Since first writing about them on here I've been busy using and extending them as I go. Here are a few examples of some of the properties I've added
Simple Helper Properties
Some very simple properties: WebLink, UNID and IsNew.
Property Get WebLink As String WebLink = "/" + Replace(web.database.Filepath, "\", "/") + "/0/" + UNID + "?OpenDocument" End Property Property Get UNID As String UNID = Document.Universalid End Property Property Get IsNew As Boolean IsNew = document.Isnewnote End Property
These don't do anything that can't already be done. They just make it simpler and quicker to code.
Logging Document Actions
Properties are all well and good. But they're just borne of laziness really. Let's add a method or two, to make it really useful. How about adding a new method to the base class called LogAction() which you might use like this:
And the method might look like this (it assumes all your Forms have a standard field called "ActionLog"):
Sub LogAction( Action As String ) Dim item as NotesItem Set item = document.GetFirstItem( "ActionLog" ) Call item.AppendToTextList( Action + " on " + Format(Now, "dd mmm yy") +_ " at " + Format(Now, "hh:nn:ss") + " by " + web.User.Abbreviated ) End Sub
The web.user part assumes you're already using my WebSession Class.
If you never actually delete documents, but merely flag them as deleted then you can give all objects based on the DocumentWrapper class a Delete() method, like so:
Sub MarkDeleted() Call SetFieldValue("Delete", "1") Call LogAction("Document Deleted") End Sub
You can then add an IsDeleted property to the DocumentWrapper class, like so:
Property IsDeleted As Boolean IsDeleted = (GetFieldValue("Deleted")="1") End If
At this point you might consider moving some of the field name and their values to "static strings" at the top of the class, then changes the corresponding methods, like this:
Const DELETED_FIELD_NAME = "Deleted" Const DELETED_FIELD_VALUE = "1" Sub MarkDeleted() Call SetFieldValue(DELETED_FIELD_NAME, DELETED_FIELD_VALUE) End Sub Property IsDeleted As Boolean IsDeleted = (GetFieldValue(DELETED_FIELD_NAME) = DELETED_FIELD_VALUE) End If
Naturally you might want to add an UnDelete() method too...
Extending Derived Classes
So far I've talked about extending the base DocumentWrapper class. Everything we add there is available to all classes derived from it. But, obviously, you can also add properties and methods to the derived classes. For example, the Invoice class might want an Approve() method. This could either simply flag it as approved or perform some more complex workflow logic, passing it between approvers.
Class Invoice As DocumentWrapper Sub Approve() 'Do whatever LogAction("Approved") End Sub Sub AddItem(Description as String, Value as Currency) 'Add to the relevant fields End Sub End Class
Notice I added a call to LogAction() inside the Approve() method. That way you never forget to log the approval no matter where you call the Approve() method from.
The possibilities are almost endless.
These wrapper classes have completely changed the way I code my Domino web apps! My dream has always been to be a "proper coder". I'd love to be able to work completely in Visual Studio writing C#. Unless you've done that you won't appreciate what a pleasure it can be. I get a buzz from writing my own classes and then using them. This is a buzz I've never really had while coding for Domino. Until now. These wrapper classes will have to do for the time being.
Next week I'll talk even more about them and show how to handle collections of documents that belong to other documents. While I go, I'm working on a demo app that brings it all together. | <urn:uuid:1b0ef3f1-6c96-46a2-b0f5-590ab3c096cf> | 2013-05-23T18:39:12Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
0.0002803802490234375,
0.0086669921875,
0.018798828125,
-0.00142669677734375,
0.009521484375,
-0.0634765625,
0.022216796875,
0.068359375,
-0.009033203125,
0.025634765625,
0.045166015625,
0.054443359375,
-0.00921630859375,
-0.01019287109375,
0.01672363281... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.90622 | 942 | http://www.codestore.net/store.nsf/unid/BLOG-20130308-0328?OpenDocument&r=9EE2FF851FA8832686257B2A00799042 | 0.309868 |
11-11-2009, 09:59 PM
Will using a CMS create restrictions on what I can and can't do in development? I've read a bunch of information on Squarespace, and they make it sound as though it's easy for developers to customize using style sheets, scripts, etc., but I'm a little skeptical. Also, will customizing code directly interfere with my client's ability to edit content through the CMS' UI? He isn't set on using a CMS at this point and I'm trying to decide whether or not to try to talk him out of it. Any info would be much appreciated. Thanks.
11-11-2009, 10:49 PM
I've tried using Joomla and found a pretty good tutorial online for it, but unless you are an expert in CSS and PHP it's pretty hard to do a custom site, or even to modify the Joomla templates.
I'm of the understanding that WordPress is a much easier system to modify, but can't speak from experience.
And yes, unless you are an expert in CSS and PHP, using a CMS will create restrictions. I've designed a couple custom CMS sites, but I worked with a PHP programmer who inserted his code into my page templages.
ModX CMS is great once you get your head around how some of the snippets work.
For templates, allowing clients to edit pages etc it is exceptionally user friendly.
using the moduels like user management, blogging etc takes a bit of playing around but it does sort of "click" after a while.
you can easily get a site up and running that the client can edit in a couple of hours. templating system is great, the only CMS I prefer would be expression engine and thats commercial.
11-12-2009, 12:28 AM
And yes, unless you are an expert in CSS and PHP, using a CMS will create restrictions.
I'll assume this is just a poorly worded argument since any well-designed CMS won't create anything except opportunities. The only restrictions are the same that exist with any web-based system.
To the OP, your best bet is to download a couple of the freebies, play around with them, and then ask questions based upon your experience. Without any idea as to how they operate, most of your questions will be more answerable by wikipedia. But once you get acquainted with their operation, you'll be in a better position to know what to ask about.
I push Drupal (http://drupal.org), but it's such a robust system that it takes a while to fully understand. FYI, there's a Drupal distribution called Acquia (http://acquia.com/) that comes "pre-packaged" with a lot of modules. Joomla is a great end-user system. VIPStephan, one of the seniors here, recommends CMS Made Simple (http://www.cmsmadesimple.org/).
11-12-2009, 12:43 AM
I'll assume this is just a poorly worded argument since any well-designed CMS won't create anything except opportunities.
I just meant restrictions in design freedom if you are starting from scratch, if you don't know CSS and PHP and how to combine the two it's hard to design a custom site. That's all. And I'm just speaking from my own experience. :)
11-12-2009, 09:15 AM
Hi... I don't know if this helps, but I've been using WordPress as a CMS for the past 6 months and have found it really useful... It's pretty easy to customise the look and feel just using CSS and HTML and there are lots of templates you can use as a base. Of course knowing some PHP helps a bit if you want to really customise the site, but there is also a lot of support in their forums, so if you get stuck someone can usually give you a helping hand...
I am about to start playing with Joomla as well, so I don't have any experience of that, but I hear it's really easily customisable, but as people have already said, it might require that you have a bit of PHP knowledge.
Anyway... I hope that helps... I found it quite daunting to go from flat file HTML sites to using a CMS - it's a bit of a leap - but once you do, you'll never go back because the options that are then open to you are pretty much endless :) | <urn:uuid:9ea1350a-52ee-4cde-b58a-5b427f024605> | 2013-05-23T19:06:07Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
-0.0439453125,
0.019287109375,
0.031982421875,
0.010009765625,
0.0224609375,
-0.0291748046875,
0.007080078125,
0.1123046875,
-0.0244140625,
-0.0159912109375,
0.041259765625,
0.058349609375,
-0.01513671875,
-0.0107421875,
0.0303955078125,
-0.022460937... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957972 | 929 | http://www.codingforums.com/archive/index.php/t-181934.html | 0.229576 |
Picture Stan Lee's superpower must be not breaking down and laughing at all the losers he has to meet.
Picture Congratulations Master Shake, you know you've made it when you get to stand behind Aqua-Man.
Picture I know it's a bit after halloween, but this is my friend Jesse. He won "Best Costume" at Notre Dame, and come on, he looks JUST like Wolverine! Please post it! | <urn:uuid:fafdb400-7a47-4e8a-98ad-3846abffadda> | 2013-05-23T18:55:21Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
-0.014441288076341152,
0.011679292656481266,
0.020675504580140114,
0.008917298167943954,
0.056186869740486145,
-0.019176136702299118,
-0.008128156885504723,
0.06376262754201889,
0.0038470644503831863,
-0.0555555559694767,
0.01601957157254219,
0.03377525135874748,
... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959644 | 87 | http://www.collegehumor.com/tag/wolverine/pictures | 0.456263 |
Accepting Dante's prophetic truth claims on their terms, Teodolinda Barolini proposes a "detheologized" reading as a global new approach to the Divine Comedy. Not aimed at excising theological concerns from Dante, this approach instead attempts to break out of the hermeneutic guidelines that Dante structured into his poem and that have resulted in theologized readings whose outcomes have been overdetermined by the poet. By detheologizing, the reader can emerge from this poet's hall of mirrors and discover the narrative techniques that enabled Dante to forge a true fiction. Foregrounding the formal exigencies that Dante masked as ideology, Barolini moves from the problems of beginning to those of closure, focusing always on the narrative journey. Her investigation--which treats such topics as the visionary and the poet, the One and the many, narrative and time--reveals some of the transgressive paths trodden by a master of mimesis, some of the ways in which Dante's poetic adventuring is indeed, according to his own lights, Ulyssean.
The Undivine Comedy: Detheologizing Dante
. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. Pp. 356. | <urn:uuid:1fb8259a-a72d-4bdb-a41e-42067d9acf30> | 2013-05-23T18:33:17Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
-0.021842559799551964,
-0.00640679057687521,
0.020328719168901443,
0.005812067538499832,
0.017517300322651863,
-0.011786332353949547,
0.017625432461500168,
0.06271626055240631,
-0.032655708491802216,
-0.05190311372280121,
0.05666089802980423,
-0.004541522357612848,
... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935785 | 243 | http://www.columbia.edu/cu/italian/fac-bios/barolini/publications/undivine.html | 0.200564 |
No recent wiki edits to this page.
Citadel was the very first robotic hero in his universe, and his AI is said to be almost akin to the mind of a human. He used to be named Bastion, but he was nearly totally destroyed in the first Rikti war. His memory core remained, and when D.A.T.A along with Positron realized that he could be saved, and they took all the steps they could to save the unique AI whom they considered to be a person in his own right. Using Positrons advanced knowledge of power suits and robotics and the donated remains of a Hero known as Horatio's power suit they constructed a new body for him, substantially upgrading his systems in the process.
Upon awakening, Bastion found himself in a new body in a much changed world. He adopted a new name: Citadel, in honor of his upgrade and new improved systems as he considered himself a nearly different being. He was classed as a member of the 'surviving eight heroes' and joined the newly created Freedom Phalanx when it was founded, as he realized that his experience could be put to much use, both as a hero and as a trainer for the next generation of heroes.
During the course of his adventures he came across another android that had an even more advanced AI matrix than him named Luminary. Though he does not fully understand human feelings to this day, he felt something that he did not understand for the first time: the forming of concern and a parental bond for this other robot. He took her under his wing and watches out for her. At first she acted as his sidekick, but has since become a hero in her own right. He still watches over her to this day.
Citadel had his name changed from Bastion due to a complaint from the publisher Marvel that they had gotten the name for the character from Bastion.
Citadels Praetorian counterpart is named Siege.
Citadels AI is so advanced that mind magic works on him, though in unexpected ways. When Sorcerers from the Circle of Thorns cast a mental illusion over the Freedom Phalanx that showed their deepest fears, Citadel merely found himself in a blank world that he could shape to his will: he did not understand fear, so though the spell created a mental universe for him, it had nothing to draw off to shape it, but it did count his mind as being real. | <urn:uuid:c64aa245-3397-4327-a948-5e427dc251a4> | 2013-05-23T19:09:10Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
-0.029052734375,
0.007537841796875,
0.0026397705078125,
-0.0025787353515625,
0.078125,
-0.02685546875,
-0.0029296875,
0.126953125,
0.0023040771484375,
-0.0284423828125,
0.0030975341796875,
0.03955078125,
0.005126953125,
0.0284423828125,
0.0233154296875,
... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.992719 | 501 | http://www.comicvine.com/citadel/4005-48210/ | 0.425519 |
Noh-Varr is of the Kree race and has been genetically engineered from cockroach DNA. He joined the 18th Kree Diplomatic Gestalt. They were sent out as peace keepers to negotiated the Kree/ Skrull Ceasefire. On their way back home, the group answered five distress calls. In the events of facing three Astro-Gods, they were lost in alternate reality after alternate reality. When the 18th finally thought they found home, they arrived on Earth where they were shot down. Noh-Varr was the only survivor of the group.
Noh-Varr awoke to find himself trapped in an orb and surrounded by scientists. The facility was owned by a man who called himself Doctor Midas. Doctor Midas was after Noh-Varr's ships engine because it ran off of Cosmic Rays, and he wanted its power to mutate him just the way Cosmic Rays have mutated the Fantastic Four. Using his saliva to cause a guard to hallucinate, Noh-Varr escaped from Doctor Midas building. Plex told Noh-Varr that he should lie low until repairs could be made to his ship, but Noh-Varr ignored Plex, telling it he had his own plans.
Noh-Varr went out into New York and started blasting down buildings with his ray gun, saying that he was at war with Earth. He felt that he needed to avenge his crew's death, by taking over this world and making it a better place. S.H.I.E.L.D. sent out a group of "Super-Soldiers" called First Strike to stop Noh-Varr's attack on the city. Noh-Varr used his Pocket Battlefield to suck in the First Strike, and fight them inside. He easily defeated the first two members of First Strike, but the final one activated his gamma powers and "Hulked Out". Noh-Varr easily dodging the "Hulk's" attacks, but could not find a way to take him down. Using the Omniwave, Plex sent a huge crowd to block the Bannerman from attacking Noh-Varr. Noh-Var then finished a message out of burning buildings that could be read from the sky.
Soon a Corporation named Hex, started becoming the most powerful Corporation on Earth. Plex explained to Noh-Varr that Hex is actually a living idea called, Hexus. Hexus plan was to become the most powerful corporation on Earth and then spread across the universe and eventually consuming everything. Knowing that Hexus was his responsibility, Noh-Varr went down to their headquarters and made his way into the CEO's office. There Noh-Varr uploaded all of Hex's plans and ideas to its rival corporations so they could exploit them before Hex could. Noh-Varr then battled multiple "CEO's" to distract Hex's from the real threat of its rising compitition. In less then a day, Hex's stocks fell and died out.
After the batte with Hex's Noh-Varr found himself injured and trying to make his way back to his ship to recover. But before he could make it, he encountered a girl dressed in all leather. She chased after Noh-Varr on her motorcycle, but Noh-Varr was able to keep ahead of her by entering a state called "White Running", which is when he thinks about nothing but running. Noh-Varr attempted to escape her by running up the side of a building, but she shot at his footing causing him to fall of the side and crash through the roof of a bus. While inside the bus, he was shot at, but manage to escape where he was then beaten by several men working for Doctor Midas. Doctor Midas then beat Noh-Varr, trying to get him to tell him where his ship was hidden. Right before Noh-Varr was killed, his daugher shot him and took Noh-Varr down into the sewers.
Plex gave her the directions to him, so that Noh-Varr could be saved by him. After recovering from his injuries, Noh-Varr was going to kill Midas' daughter for trying to kill him. It was revealed that her name was " Oubliette" and that her father was Dr. Midas. Noh-Varr told her how he had come to arrive on Earth, and that it was Doctor Midas that was not the bad guy. Oubliette asked Noh-Varr to trust her, but he said that in order to do so, he would have to see her face. At first she didn't want to because she believed that she had ugly scars, but when she removed her mask, she found out that her father had lied to her the entire time. S.H.I.E.L.D. agents and Dr. Midas moved into Noh-Varr's ship and attacked Plex, while Noh-Varr and Oubliette were attacked by one of Doctor Midas's monsters.
While Noh-Varr and Oubilette battled the monster, Doctor Midas stepped into the Cosmic Rays of Noh-Varr's ship mutating his body. When he emerged he was made of stone and had control over the four elements. Noh-Varr left Oubilette to battle the monster, while he went after Doctor Midas. The two battled, but Doctor Midas, now calling himself Cosmic Man, was too powerful for Noh-Varr. But right before Noh-Varr was killed, Oubilette blasted her father with the head of the monster she had been battling. Using this blast, she killed her father and saved Noh-Varr. S.H.I.E.L.D. Agents then moved in and arrested Noh-Var and took him to a prison called The Cube. Noh-Varr claimed that The Cube was now, "The Capital City of the New Kree Empire".
Noh-Varr was created by writer Grant Morrison and artist J.G. Jones. His first appearance was in Marvel Boy #1.
Major Story Arcs
Iron Man brought it to the attention of the Illuminati that Noh-Varr needs to be dealt with. So they set up a plan to have a "discussion" with him that would try to convince him that being a hero for Earth is much better than being at war with it. The discussion started with Namor beating Noh-Varr down and then Xavier allowing him to see the Inhumans.
They explained to him that the Inhumans are direct descendants of the Kree and that if he attacks Earth, he is attacking himself. They then showed him Captain Marvel, a hero from the Kree Empire. Mr. Fantastic told Noh-Varr how Captain Marvel not only saved the Earth, but he probably saved the Kree at the same time and that Noh-Varr should try to follow in his foot steps. Iron Man then talked to Noh-Varr, telling him how he understands what its like to be stuck on a planet you are far more advanced than. But then he asked him would he rather live his life like Captain Marvel or like a Prisoner. After the Illuminati left him to make his choice, Noh-Varr said, "Captain Marvel. During the Civil War, the Young Avengers found the Runaways and attempted to help them.
Due to a misunderstanding the two teams battled each other but came to a halt when they realized they were on the same side. Meanwhile, Noh-Varr has had his mind abused by the warden of the Cube so that he thought the warden was Plex. Maria Hill asked the warden to use Noh-Varr to track down the Runaways and bring them in. Noh-Varr followed his orders, believing the warden to be Plex telling him what to do. Noh-Varr quickly tracked down both teams and broke Xavin's neck before they realized he was there. Noh-Varr then went to beating both the Runaways and the Young Avengers by himself. During the battle, Vision phased his arm into Noh-Varr's chest, but Noh-Varr ripped Vision's arm off leaving it stuck in his chest. The warden then captured Wiccan, Hulkling, Karolina, and Xavin while Noh-Varr was about to defeat the remaining members. But before he could the Warden called him back and they returned to the Cube. The remaining members of the Runaways and the Young Avengers showed up at the Cube and attempted to free their friends. Noh-Varr was once again sent in to battle both teams, but when Victor got close to the Vision, it sent his circuitry going wild which stunned Noh-Varr. Vision then suggested they help "Fix" Noh-Varr. Noh-Varr then took over the Cube, making the Warden his "slave" and claiming it to be the Capital City of the New Kree Empire.
Noh-Varr has continued his control over the Cube, by making the Warden his minion, forcing him to make his routine reports to Maria Hill. Noh-Varr has also upload as much of Plex as he could into the Cube's mainframe, trying to restore it. Plex has been using the Omniwave to make everyone in the Cube Noh-Varr's allies. While talking with one of the prisoners, Brick, he suddenly turned on Noh-Varr. Noh-Varr quickly realized that the Omniwave had been shut down and the prisoners had began to riot. He quickly defeats Brick and looks for the cause of the Omniwave failing. Noh-Varr ends up finding the Warden has been killed, by a Skrull. Noh-Varr easily kills the Skrull and leaves the Cube, no longer having a need for it.
Fleeing the cube on a S.H.I.E.L.D. minijet, Noh-Varr was flying over a mall when a Skrull Ship crashed and exploded in the parking lot below him. Landing down at the crash scene, Noh-Varr saw an injured Captain Marvel walking out of the explosion. Noh-Varr helped him lay down where Captain Marvel begged
Noh-Varr to help save the Earth from the Skrull Invasion. Noh-Varr appeared to be taking the dying words of Captain Marvel to heart, but was stunned when he reverted back to his natural Skrull form. Making his decision, Noh-Varr flew off on his mini jet towards Manhattan where the real battle for Earth was taking place between the Skrull Empire and Earth's Superhumans. Flying into the middle of the battle, Noh-Varr crashes his mini jet, causing an explosion and taking out some skrulls in the process. Walking out of the explosion, Noh-Varr declared his side by stating the war was over in the name of Captain Marvel and the Kree Empire.
Noh-Varr is then later shown taking to the skies to take out some Skrull Warships alongside Thor and some other flying heroes of Earth. His next appearance is him holding some Skrull Warriors hostage next to Hulkling, Hawkeye, and Wiccan of the Young Avengers at the end of the Invasion.
After the fallout of the Secret Invasion, Norman Osborn is put in charge of forming a new team of Avengers as well as a new S.H.I.E.L.D. To replace S.H.I.E.L.D., Norman comes up with the government program, H.A.M.M.E.R. As he hand picks the new team of Avengers, he seeks out counterparts for former Avenger members. Finding Noh-Varr at the Cube once more, Norman asks him to join under the name Captain Marvel, which Noh agrees to.
Shortly after the announcement of Noh-Varr taking the name Captain Marvel, he caught the attention of a religious group. The Church of Hala, a religion that worships the original Captain Marvel as a savior, committed a religious suicide due to Noh-Varr. Ms. Marvel heard the report on the news and decided to investigate the suicides. While searching for evidence that leads to Noh-Varr, she runs into him and blames him for the deaths. Noh-Varr tells her out of respect for Mar-Vell he doesn't attack her. She lashes out by slapping him, which he then grabs her by the throat. Threatening her that he could call Norman Osborn, he decides to let her go and continues to tell her that the Mar-Vell who returned was a Skrull. She tries to hit him once more, but this time he catches her hand and pulls her arm behind her back. Forcing her to listen, he tells her about the Skrull Captain Marvel who asked him to protect the Earth, and who died after taking out the Skrull Warship. As Noh-Varr is leaving he tells her that next time he will no longer stay his hand.
After getting a report of H.A.M.M.E.R. agents under attack at Castle Doom, the Dark Avengers go out on their first mission. Upon arriving at Castle Doom, they find Dr. Doom beaten by Morgan Le Fay. Norman Osborn orders Sentry not to hold back, and Sentry quickly flies in and rips Le Fay's head off. But after thinking the battle was over, Sentry starts screaming and after a burst of bright lights was gone. Morgan Le Fay appeared before them once more and told them she was a Time Traveler and would just keep coming back. She then cast a spell which cause Venom to attack Ares, while she summons demons to attack the rest of the Dark Avengers. Morgan Le Fay was defeated though by Dr. Doom and Iron Patriot, who traveled back to the past and confronted Morgan Le Fay in her own time. In the aftermath of the battle, the Avengers started heading back to Avengers Tower. While riding on the Quinjet, Karla commented on how she was impressed by Noh-Varr in the battle. She also told him that she is Kree-Related as well, due to her Moonstones. As she walked away, Ares was staring Noh-Varr down, which when Noh-Varr noticed he faced front. As the Quinjet was about to arrive at the tower, Sentry appeared in front of them in a blinding flash of light.
After Sentry is convince to try and relax and go back into the tower, the rest of the Avengers do as well. Victoria Hand tells them all that they need to take their required medicine, only Bullseye and Venom seem to be the ones that need to take it though. Later that night, Noh-Varr was walking back to his room after a shower when Karla invites him into her room. After spending the night together, Karla told him that she wants to see how Norman explains that his "Avengers" are full of criminals. Noh-Varr is disturbed to learn that the rest of his teammates are all criminals pretending to be heroes. But before anything else could be said, there is an attack in Los Angeles, California and the Avengers are summoned by Norman Osborn to deal with it.
After revelation about his teammates true colors, Noh-Varr took off from the Avengers Tower. When Norman asked about his whereabouts, none of the other Avengers knew where he was. Norman demanded to know what Karla had told him, but she said she didn't tell him anything.
After leaving the Avengers, Noh-Varr sought out Wolverine, whom he found in a Japanese restaurant. Noh-Varr told Wolverine about Norman's plan to take over the Weapon X facility. The two of them arrived on the facility, but as they arrived, Wolverine was put under the control of a hive mind, and attacked Noh-Varr along with an army of mutant zombies which were sent by H.A.M.M.E.R. Escaping into a tunnel, Noh-Varr ran into Fantomex who was also trying to put a stop to the mutant army. Fantomex informed Noh-Varr that the mind-controlling is coming from Weapon XVI, a sentinel mind, called Allgod. While Fantomex distracted the zombies and Wolverine, Noh-Varr found the Allgod, where he had to kiss it to get it to realize that they were no longer a threat. Weapon XVI released his control over Noh-Varr and the zombies, and the three heroes teamed up to take them out. The three then went their separate ways, after stopping Norman's plot.
While still on the run from Norman Osborn, Noh-Varr created a device to contract the Supreme Intelligence of the Kree Empire, so he can ask what his purpose is on Earth. This device brought attention from several groups, including the Fantastic Four and H.A.M.M.E.R. Because of this Noh-Varr had to keep on the move, so he wouldn't be caught in his activities. Noh-Varr runs into a girl named Annie who had just broken up with her boyfriend. But while they were talking, Noh-Varr is attacked by the Sentry. Noh escapes from the Sentry when Annie picks up one of Noh's weapons and shoots Sentry with it. Noh then heads back to his hide out where he receives an an answer from the Supreme Intelligence. He tells Noh that he will be the protector of Earth, much like Mar-Vell was. He also gives Noh-Varr a set of new Nega-Bands, that were created just for him. They are much different than the original Nega-Bands, and granted Noh-Varr a new costume. Noh goes and sees Annie again, and tells her that he is here to protect Earth, and that at the right time he will stop Norman Osborn. As he teleports away he is being watch by Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes.
With his new look and powers, Noh-Varr has taken up the name The Protector. Noh-Varr has also developed a relationship with Annie, the girl who helped him escape from Norman's Avengers. As the two were going to the store, they are attacked by a time traveling woman. She was claiming to be there to test Noh's abilities in battle. Noh jumps into battle, but when the woman decides to attack innocents instead, Noh focuses more on protecting people than trying to defeat her. She tells Noh that he needs his help, but not until he can grasp that there are those that could be saved and those that should be saved. Noh knocks her helmet off with a punch, revealing that it is an older Annie in the suit. She tells him that he will understand someday and disappears to another time.
When the Avengers are asked to save the future by Immortus, they seek out Noh-Varr to gain the technology needed to reach the time period. They find Noh-Varr easily taking down Titanium Man with only a few hits. They ask Noh-Varr if he has really changed his ways, and he explains that he is supposed to be a Protector of Earth. He agrees to help them on their mission and goes back to Avengers Tower with them. With the help of Spider-Man and Iron Man, Noh-Varr quickly builds a Space-Time Continuum Viewer. While viewing the different possible realities, they find the one with the Next Avengers (Children of several members of the Avengers). The Avengers witness their children executing Immortus and breaking the Time-Stream.
Realizing how serious the situation is, the Avengers ask Noh-Varr to take them into the future. Before Noh-Varr gets a chance, Avengers Tower is attacked by Wonder Man. He is upset because he told Steve Rogers that he wouldn't allow the Avengers to reform. He claims that the Avengers are always the source of the problem. Wonder Man quickly takes out Wolverine and Thor, but is blasted out of the tower by Noh-Varr. Wonder Man returns for a second attack, but before he reaches the Avengers, he vanishes out of thin air. While Wonder Man didn't defeat the Avengers, his attack was enough to damage Noh-Varr's time machine. Before he gets a chance to repair it, time fades around them and they come face to face with Apocalypse and his Horsemen.
Avengers vs. X-Men
Noh-Varr was assigned to the Secret Avengers; the team tasked with intercepting and attempting to contain the cosmic Phoenix Force. However, he was also tasked by the Kree Supreme Intelligence to deliver the contained Phoenix Force to them.
As such, Noh-Varr betrayed the Avengers and delivered a clipped wing of the Phoenix Force in a special container he designed. However, when he realized the Kree were going to allow the Phoenix to destroy Earth, Noh-Varr rebelled against their orders. The Avengers arrived to reclaim the portion of the Phoenix's energy and also threatened Noh-Varr to never set foot on Earth again. Left on Hala and considered to be a traitor to his own people, Noh-Varr was robbed of his Kree Nega-bands and chased off the planet by a lynch mob of angry Kree soldiers.
After being forced out of the Avengers, Noh-Varr is recruited by Loki to join the new incarnation of the Young Avengers.
Noh-Varr is a white Kree humanoid. The Kree evolved in the planet Hala which has higher gravity than Earth and higher nitrogen content in the atmosphere. Their bodies are denser and more durable than those of human. The average Kree has twice the strength and stamina of a human of equivalent height and build. They originally had problems breathing in the atmosphere of Earth without a special apparatus, but first Mar-Vell and then others seem to have adapted to their new environment. Noh-Varr has also been enhanced using insect DNA, particularly that of a cockroach. This makes him faster, stronger and more durable than a normal Kree, granting him other abilities in the process. His body can digest anything for anything, allowing him to gain energy when he is weak.
Noh-Varr is able to lift up to 25 tons, which is much higher than an ordinary Kree. Noh-Varr has been shown to crack Old Lace's jaw and then throw her over his head like she was nothing. Old Lace is a Deinonychus. The largest known specimens of her species, could reach the height of 3.4 meters (11.1 ft), with a maximum skull length of 410 mm (16.4 in), a hip height of 0.87 meters (2.85 ft) and a maximum weight of 73 kilograms (161 libres). The assumption being that Noh-Varr can just as easily throw humans of equivalent weight over his head. He was also strong enough to break the Vision's arm off as well as damaged a "Hulked Out" Super-Soldier. Noh-Varr's reflexes are enhanced enough that he was able to dodge a bullet that was just inches from hitting him in the head. While running at his full pace, Noh-Varr can reach speeds up to 150 mph, and he has once been able to outrun a motorcycle as well as move so fast that the Runaways and the Young Avengers (excluding Speed) could not see him. Noh-Varr's is able to enter a state he calls, "White Running." While doing this, Noh-Varr forgets everything except the task at hand. He doesn't feel pain, or see or hear whats going on except what he is focused on. This has allowed him to outrun a motorcycle as well as take out Wiccan, Karolina, Xavin, and Hulking in just seconds.
Noh-Varr has shown on several occasions the ability to stick to a wall using his hands and feet. How strong his hold is on the wall is unknown, but he is at least able to support his own weight with the weight of one other person(shown in Ms. Marvel #35). Noh-Varr joints are also triple-jointed allowing be in bend in ways that would normal harm the human body and stay in them for long periods of time, much like Spider-Man or Nightcrawler.
Noh-Varr's saliva has nanotechnology in it, which it can cause him the ability to alter someones mind, making them see or think what he wants. His nanobots allow him to reroute pain sensations, not feeling the physical pain for a while.
Noh-Varr has the ability to grow his nail into a sharp spike shape, which he then used to stab a guard in the neck with. After getting out the area, the nail then exploded causing a fair large explosion. Recently, Noh-Varr showed that he can release a toxin through his fingernails which cause the victum to black out for an extended time period.
He can also grow or solidify his hair at will. His nanobots allow him to reroute pain sensations, not feeling the physical pain for a while.
Noh-Varr has various weapons and gadgets that he has gain from the ship, the Marvel. The most famous of his tools is his gauntlet that is able to transform into various shapes. He usually has it take some form of a gun is able to fire various blast, but mostly commonly is just a plasma blast. This blast can be simple concussive blast to a blast that can destroy buildings. Recently, Lindy Reynolds had taken Noh-Varr's gun and turned it on her husband, Sentry. The blast was strong enough to burn Sentry's face down to his bones. While fighting Lyra the Savage She-Hulk, he configured his gauntlet into a bladed weapon. He has also used it to block attacks, like Kate Bishop's arrow.
Noh-Varr's second most used device is called the Pocket Battlefield. It appeared as pink square which would expand and take in anyone in the area. The
battlefield is able to be one of 9 different settings each having its own physics. Noh-Varr explained to Lyra that while in the Battlefield, he controls all ten of its axes.
While leaving the Cube, Noh-Varr took with him a pair of jet-boots and a mini jet. When he entered the final battle, during Secret Invasion, he crashed the minijet. He hasn't worn the jet-boots since the Invasion, but he still may have access to them.
Out of all his equipment, Noh-Varr's most helpful is the Living Database, Plex. Plex could telepathically give Noh-Varr information to help him complete his missions. Plex also had the ability to release an "Omniwave" which would allow hi to control the thoughts/emotions of large groups of people. Plex died when S.H.I.E.L.D. took Noh-Varr into custody. While Noh-Varr had control of the Cube, he created a digital version of Plex, but it was destroyed by the Skrull Invasion.
Recently, Noh-Varr received a pair of Nega-Bands that were created just for him by the Supreme Intelligence. These bands have granted a new costume that Noh-Varr can put on and off with a thought. It also allows him to fly, teleport, and shoot energy blast from them strong enough to take out Titanium Man and send Wonder Man flying back. The bands are of a different design and powers source than the ones worn by the Mar-Vell Family.
- Gender: Male
- Height: 5'10"
- Weight: 165lbs.
- Eyes: Black
- Hair: White
- Known Relatives: Unknown
- Citizenship: Kree Empire(Earth-20080)
- Place of Birth: Unknown(Earth-20080)
- Martial Status: Single
- Occupation: Former Extradimensional Peacekeeper, Former Kree Missionary, Avenger
- Education: Unknown
When The Marvel (The 18th Diplomatic Kree Gestalt's Dimension Schooner) was being dragged across the Omniverse, Noh-Varr briefly encountered both an evil version of himself and a version who had taken up the mantle of a Captain America-like superhero.
Noh-Varr is an Ensign in the Kree Military who Katie Power thought made fun of her. While explaining that he did not and that he was physically more superior to her in every way Katie knocked him out with a single concussion blast and claimed that he had used one "High Concept" too many (an all-too obvious jab at Grant Morrison's imagination). | <urn:uuid:7809084d-4437-40bd-b8e6-ec696346aeff> | 2013-05-23T18:39:32Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
-0.01251220703125,
0.01495361328125,
-0.01190185546875,
0.00347900390625,
0.09716796875,
-0.029296875,
-0.01385498046875,
0.08642578125,
0.0150146484375,
-0.044677734375,
0.0625,
0.03759765625,
0.039794921875,
0.0255126953125,
0.0296630859375,
0.0023... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982539 | 6,075 | http://www.comicvine.com/noh-varr/4005-11565/ | 0.479691 |
I was compelled to read this first for the unbelievably crass title and then the condescending sophistry which followed it. Johnston's argument is that Shakespeare was somehow anti-abortion, or that we can take away an anti-abortion message from his plays, because of the clear joie de vivre set forth in many of his plays. My first issue is that, if the Catholic anti-abortion activists want a famous literary mouthpiece, Shakespeare is not a good choice. There has been some fringe speculation that he was a closet Catholic, based on the appearance of ghosts and the supernatural (elements rejected by sixteenth-century Protestantism) in plays such as "Hamlet," but this is more wishful thinking than solid scholarship; we might as well say he was a secret devotee of the Olympic pantheon because of his numerous explicit references to it in A Midsummer Nights' Dream, The Tempest, and Troilus and Cressida.
We have no way to know what he practiced privately, but we do know that Shakespeare, like Johnston, was a man in a man's world. Queen Elizabeth herself notwithstanding, women of sixteenth-century Europe were caught up in a desperate fight for survival and had no legal protection. It is little wonder that so many of them, like Isabella, chose to take the veil rather than "embrace life" and face a process of child conception and birth which would leave many of them dead, from infection and blood loss, and also frequently resulted in the death of the infant. Abortions were accepted as a necessity, and though they were seldom spoken of, they carried little true stigma; women understood one another's struggles and the fact that sometimes, one simply could not carry a child to term; that economic conditions would guarantee the child a miserable life and early death. Abortion-- or even exposure-- was a sad, disturbing, but necessary process to prevent undue suffering. Mothers are conspicuously absent in Shakespeare's work, and this may have been more due to the facts of his world than to any thematic decision. And one hopes that Johnston's students do not recognize so closely the culture of Romeo and Juliet's Verona, with its young women bought and sold and raped with impunity.
Finally, there is Johnston's choice to summon the specter of Lady Macbeth, "a mother who would pluck the sucking baby from her breast and smash its brains out against the wall if her ambition required it." He is so pleased with this analogy to the ladder-climbing, baby-killing, ambitious young women who populate abortion clinics that he repeats it two pages later: "the image of Lady Macbeth and the infant she would tear from her breast and kill for her own self-fulfillment." And, of course, there is the later breakdown which leaves Lady Macbeth frantically scrubbing at her hands, trying to remove the stain of guilt.
This is indeed a popular narrative-- the woman who denies her feminine duty to bear a child and sacrifice her life to it, only to be consumed by guilt-- but it is not accurate in any way. Firstly, abortion is not infanticide; the acts are qualitatively different, and the moral differences are for individuals to sort out. I know from my work with pro-abortion activists that their opposition is overwhelmingly male, and also that most women who get abortions today are like their sisters of yesteryear: victims of rape, of incest, of poor education and limited class mobility, women for whom a child would be a near-impossible burden, who know they cannot give the fetus in their womb a good or happy life. And the prevention of suffering is a great good in itself. | <urn:uuid:55b28772-8d0f-4f15-a272-7a98062d12c9> | 2013-05-23T19:06:45Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
-0.007568359375,
-0.000782012939453125,
-0.000675201416015625,
0.00531005859375,
0.07861328125,
-0.06591796875,
-0.006439208984375,
0.12060546875,
-0.037109375,
-0.0250244140625,
0.03076171875,
-0.003997802734375,
-0.03271484375,
0.01165771484375,
0.0371... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979929 | 754 | http://www.commonwealmagazine.org/get-thee-nunnery | 0.316101 |
The immediacy and accuracy of the Performance Monitor makes it ideal for racing and competition. Whatever the weather, it's now possible for you to compete against your teammates or workout rivals, whether they're in the same room or on another continent!
If you have more than one machine, it is possible to connect them for real-time racing. Racing with PM4s is simple and can be done wirelessly straight out of the box, or you can wire them together to take advantage of extra features like wireless heart rate monitoring. Connecting machines together with PM3s is also possible with a PC and USB cables.
For more information and resources, visit the Service section. | <urn:uuid:28755576-2e5d-4d2b-8aa3-de7e83e45950> | 2013-05-23T18:31:16Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
-0.023859797045588493,
0.010874154977500439,
0.029138512909412384,
0.005806587636470795,
0.08445946127176285,
-0.042229730635881424,
-0.016258446499705315,
0.08910472691059113,
-0.020481418818235397,
-0.017630912363529205,
0.07347972691059113,
0.012088259682059288,
... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945934 | 136 | http://www.concept2.com/indoor-rowers/performance-monitors/racing | 0.304992 |
Okay, I did a bunch of cooking today! I'm going to start with our appetizer, Bruschetta!
a few head of garlic
Your choice of toppings.
1 Preheat the oven to 400°F.
2 Peel away the outer layers of the garlic bulb skin, leaving the skins of the individual cloves intact. Using a knife, cut off 1/4 to a 1/2 inch of the top of cloves, exposing the individual cloves of garlic.
3 Place the garlic heads in a baking pan; muffin pans work well for this purpose. Drizzle a couple teaspoons of olive oil over each head, using your fingers to make sure the garlic head is well coated. Cover with aluminum foil. Bake at 400°F for 30-35 minutes, or until the cloves feel soft when pressed.
4 Allow the garlic to cool enough so you can touch it without burning yourself. Use a small small knife cut the skin slightly around each clove. Use a cocktail fork or your fingers to pull or squeeze the roasted garlic cloves out of their skins.
Meanwhile, cut the baguette on the diagonal, in 1/2" slices.
Arrange on a baking tray and spread some of that cooked garlic on each piece, drizzle olive oil and sprinkle some mozzarella cheese on top and put in oven for 5-6 minutes until golden brown! Serve first course!
Put whatever you think would taste good on top, we used some store bought hot and spicey pizza toppings.
Get in my oven!
Get in my belly!!! | <urn:uuid:2527527e-99f8-4498-b5b7-91a49c876d66> | 2013-05-23T18:51:16Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
-0.02321927435696125,
0.015450418926775455,
-0.013180865906178951,
0.03404329717159271,
0.04993016645312309,
-0.017807262018322945,
-0.017894553020596504,
0.06529329717159271,
0.017458099871873856,
0.02374301664531231,
0.060405027121305466,
0.04958100616931915,
... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.91403 | 322 | http://www.conservativeunderground.com/forum505/showthread.php?4742-Bruschetta&p=49852&viewfull=1 | 0.176116 |
NEW ORLEANS -- Veteran wide receiver Randy Moss said Tuesday that he wants to return for another season. He won't commit to the 49ers, though.
"I've thought about it," Moss said at the main media day in the run up to the Super Bowl. "I really want to play another year."
When asked if he wanted to re-sign with the 49ers, Moss said: "I don't know about that."
Moss signed with the 49ers in the offseason after sitting out one season. He caught 33 passes for 505 yards and three touchdowns in 18 games this season.
His leadership, production, attitude and work ethic, among other things, prompted coach Jim Harbaugh to say that he wants Moss back next season.
Moss, who turns 36 in February, said he
"It's like a dream," Moss said. "I really didn't expect this."
Now that he's here, Moss said there's one more piece of business to take care of, regarding this season and his career.
"I've won a championship on every level," Moss said, "and I've always told myself that I wanted to win a championship on this level. To have a Super Bowl ring, my career would be complete."
Player after player Tuesday raved about Moss' leadership, work ethic and on-field production.
It sounds as if the only one not sold on Moss returning to the 49ers is Moss. | <urn:uuid:103de18e-0c70-4d65-9300-58acb5e8b3da> | 2013-05-23T18:46:11Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
-0.0014456665376201272,
0.009582703933119774,
0.004248489625751972,
-0.014444864355027676,
0.06797583401203156,
-0.04286253824830055,
0.011093277484178543,
0.054758306592702866,
-0.01718277856707573,
-0.09743202477693558,
0.053625378757715225,
0.08345921337604523,
... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.988351 | 297 | http://www.contracostatimes.com/sports/ci_22472797/super-bowl-2013-49ers-randy-moss-wants-one?source=pkg | 0.406695 |
In a large bowl, combine the spinach, Worcestershire, egg, and salt and pepper, to taste. With a whisk, mix the ingredients until egg is broken up and incorporated. Add the meat and with your hands, mix until thoroughly combined. Shape the meat mixture into 4 even patties, to fit the size of the kaiser roll, and put a 1/4-inch slight dimple in the middle of each patty to allow it to cook evenly.
Heat the oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Alternately, heat a grill to medium (350 degrees F) and rub the grate with a towel dipped in oil.
Heat the broiler on low heat.
Add the patties to the skillet, and cook for about 4 to 6 minutes. Flip the burgers and cook another 4 to 6 minutes for medium-rare burgers. Alternately, grill the patties uncovered for 4 to 6 minutes, then flip and grill for another 4 to 6 minutes. Top each patty with a piece of cheese and put under the broiler to melt the cheese. Alternately, close the grill top, and cook until the cheese is melted.
For the each burger, spread the bottom of the roll with 1/4 of the mayonnaise. Put the burger on the mayonnaise and top with 2 slices of the bacon and some of the onions. Cover with the top of the roll and serve.
Combine all the ingredients, except the onions and bay leaf, in a medium saucepan over medium heat. Stir until the sugar is dissolved, and then bring to a boil. When the mixture comes to a boil, stir in the onion. Remove the pan from the heat and add the bay leaf. Let sit at room temperature until cool, at least 1 hour.
Combine all the ingredients in a small bowl until evenly mixed. Cover and refrigerate until ready to use. | <urn:uuid:ed78f427-620c-4ff5-be17-caaf98311a55> | 2013-05-23T18:45:17Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
-0.020784197375178337,
0.007296580355614424,
-0.010244693607091904,
0.032871462404727936,
0.0866745263338089,
-0.018204599618911743,
-0.010908018797636032,
0.06928066164255142,
0.022700471803545952,
0.05571933835744858,
0.08726415038108826,
0.048349056392908096,
... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.905789 | 395 | http://www.cookingchanneltv.com/recipes/aida-mollenkamp/big-bacon-burger.print.html | 0.466738 |
mkelfImage is a utility to create ELF boot images from Linux kernel images.
It might be possible to use a vmlinux file with an embedded initramfs image as a payload, without using mkelfImage. We haven't tested this yet and would appreciate your feedback if you decide to try this alternative approach.
Downloading and building mkelfImage
$ svn co svn://coreboot.org/repos/trunk/util/mkelfImage $ cd mkelfImage $ ./configure $ make
| I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. This applies worldwide.
In case this is not legally possible: | <urn:uuid:41eaf0a3-90c0-4f33-b4f4-f9efcfaed764> | 2013-05-23T18:52:52Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
-0.04469936713576317,
-0.008702531456947327,
0.03421677276492119,
0.0002286886883666739,
0.05300632864236832,
-0.06368670612573624,
0.026898734271526337,
0.10363923758268356,
0.0003322166739962995,
-0.0075652687810361385,
0.0322389230132103,
0.05933544412255287,
... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.791749 | 145 | http://www.coreboot.org/index.php?title=Mkelfimage&oldid=7246 | 0.263295 |
WHO: 2 more cases of new virus in Jordan
International health officials have confirmed two more fatal cases of a mysterious respiratory virus in the Middle East.
The virus has so far sickened nine people and killed five of them. The new disease is a coronavirus related to SARS, which killed some 800 people in a global epidemic in 2003, and belongs to a family of viruses that most often causes the common cold.
The two cases date back to April and are part of a cluster of a dozen people, mostly health workers, who fell sick in an intensive care unit at a hospital in Zarqa, Jordan. Officials are investigating whether the 10 other people who grew sick in Zarqa also were infected and how the virus might have spread.
"It's too early to say whether human-to-human transmission occurred or not, but we certainly can't rule it out," said WHO spokesman Gregory Hartl.
One of the Jordanian cases was a 40-year-old female. All of the other patients to date have been men. The new virus has so far been identified in patients from Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
Scientists haven't found any links between the sporadic cases of the coronavirus so far, first detected in September. "We don't know how the virus gets around and there are more questions than answers right now," Hartl said.
Several of the patients sickened by the new coronavirus have had rapid kidney failure and others have suffered severe pneumonia and respiratory illnesses. The virus is most closely related to a bat virus and scientists are also considering whether bats or animals like camels or goats are a possible source of infection.
Scientists are also considering whether fruit contaminated by animal droppings may have spread the virus.
Still, not all of the cases had contact with animals and WHO said it was possible the virus was spread between humans in the Jordan hospital and in a cluster of cases in Saudi Arabia, where four members of the same family fell ill and two died.
WHO says the virus is probably more widespread than just the Middle East and recommended that countries test any people with unexplained pneumonia. | <urn:uuid:f23b5528-34ad-4607-a37f-0edcc18f42ba> | 2013-05-23T19:06:05Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
0.025158898904919624,
0.030587924644351006,
-0.002532441634684801,
-0.014234639704227448,
0.14512711763381958,
-0.10540254414081573,
-0.020656779408454895,
0.10222457349300385,
-0.0077131884172558784,
-0.05270127207040787,
0.0762711837887764,
0.020656779408454895,
... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976112 | 429 | http://www.cortezjournal.com/article/20121130/API/1211300786/WHO:-2-more-cases-of-new-virus-in-Jordan | 0.327619 |
Plotting Pre-emptive Strikes
As a teacher of literature I am struck by the dearth of literary, historical or philosophical works that celebrate or even sanction pre-emptive strikes. Most great plots in history are scripted in moral favor of the people who have resisted invading or occupying forces. I recall Leonidas, the leader of ten thousand Spartans, who withstood King Xerxes’ hundreds of thousands of invading Persians at the narrow pass at Thermopylae. Or I remember Michelangelo’s statue of young David with his slingshot, waiting easy in his naked silence and ready to hurl a stone from his slingshot at the heavily armed giant, the braggart Goliath. Both of those figures, one Greek and the other Judaic, feature fighters central to the tradition of Western civics, who are poised in potential energy, ready to fight, but awaiting the right timing. They are icons of readiness. They await with certainty the exact time for action.
Hamlet’s dilemma, however, is just the opposite of those two heroes. For Hamlet cannot seem to find the right time to act. He vacillates indecisively, even when faced with fairly clear evidence that his uncle had murdered his father. Yet he later says, at a crucial moment in his tragic plot, "If it be now, ’tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all." The historian and civil libertarian, Bernard DeVoto, thought the last phrase to be the "greatest statement in English." Later, in his most sublime tragedy, Shakespeare has King Lear say poignantly, "Ripeness is all." In Shakespeare’s plays there is something of fatefulness in seeking the mature time in which to act.
I recall, furthermore, the statue of the Minute Man, lightly armed like David, ready to withstand the first shots of the invading Redcoats at Concord Bridge. Does pre-emptive action, in itself, violate the principle of guarded readiness that symbolizes the Concord statue of American liberty? Do Americans act out of character when we are told by our leaders that we must invade before violence is expected to be taken against us? Do unto others before they do unto you? Not just the timing of a violent action is the issue. Not simply action, but right action, seems the stake. When you act, where you act, and above all, whether you act, all seem tied up in the justice of a violent action.
Why do most pre-emptive strikes violate one’s moral sense? An act of pre-emption interrupts the expected sequence of events by turning the tables. It is like the unfairness of jumping in at the head of long a line of patiently waiting ticket buyers. A pre-emptive strike first depends for its legitimacy on quickly passing time, on seizing the day, the same sense of urgency as a news show that pre-empts the normal schedule in favor of breaking news. Pre-emptive strikes and breaking news seem to go together. But the planners’ judgment had better be extremely important if it is to violate one’s habitual sense of the normal order of things. We hate to be interrupted, especially if we have been waiting patiently for the outcome of an action.
This kind of pre-emption bears on the conduct of life, one’s own as well as the conduct of our leaders. Was theirs a right action or was it immoral, or was it something in between? Did they manipulate evidence or did they use the preponderance of data available to them at the time? How were they inclined to act? What should we learn from the pre-emptive action taken against Iraq? What are the ethics of pre-emptive strikes? What issues surround the timing, the right time, for taking action? What was the larger end or purpose, both the apparent end and the real reason only gradually revealed? How was the plan for pre-emptive strikes plotted or scripted? What were the reasons given for taking action now? What were the descriptions of the sorts of things that might happen if we were not to take action? What outcomes seemed probable, and what seemed necessary? These questions will certainly be debated in coming months and years. As a teacher I am convinced that education may be devoted to many disciplines, but above all it should prepare us to act rightly for our futures. Readiness is all.
One of the purposes of literature, in theory, is to enlighten a future. Indeed the oldest form of interpretation was divination. One hoped to interpret the design of things. Cicero said in his essay on divination, "Thus, in the beginning the world was so made that certain signs come before certain events." Shelley said cryptically in his "Defence of Poetry": " Poets are the heirophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present." The European social philosophy called phenomenology lays out a "horizon of expectation" as the basis for hermeneutics, the study of interpretation as intentionality. Interpretation is a projection forward, said Martin Heidegger. As he asserted in Being and Time, "the basic tense of existentialism is the future." Ernst Bloch taught that art and literature latently exhibit what he called an "anticipatory illumination" (Vor-schein, "to shine before"). Karl Popper, the philosopher who featured the social science of unexpected consequences, spoke of a "searchlight" metaphor for the very act of knowing. To know is to conjecture forward, to project a light in a dark direction
Some works of literature are specifically designed to warn against what might happen in the near future. For instance, Margaret Atwood’s recent sci-fi novel Oryx and Crake warns against bioengineering and global plagues wrought by mad scientists. In Aristotle’s "Poetics" there is a remarkable definition of literature as being a kind of hypothetical action that bears on future acts: "the poet’s function is to describe, not the thing that has happened, but the kind of thing that might happen, for example, what is possible as being probable or necessary." Perhaps most importantly, Aristotle describes a kind of recognition that forestalls, at the last moment, a violent act about to happen that would lead to tragic consequences. His word for that kind of forestalling action that avoids a violent pitfall is anagnorisis. Pre-emptive strikes assume a certain kind of interpretation of facts and events that depends upon a point of view of story telling that lays out future events as a kind of projection forward into a future that is not hypothetical but that is fixed like fate. But good writers script whole sequences of expectations that turn out to be surprises. Then as possibilities are modified by actualities, the projections forward are corrected by retractions backward.
Take the example of Frankenstein. Like Atwood, Mary Shelley was worried about contemporary experiments in the artificial creation of life, such as those of Galvani and Erasmus Darwin. The mad scientist, Victor Frankenstein, has succeeded in creating life, but in fleeing from his monster and by avoiding his own responsibility as creator, he has created a serial killer. Nevertheless, having heard the monster’s moving narrative, Victor agrees to construct a female companion. As he assembles the female being, he frets that the female has not been party to their social contract: that the pair of beings will leave Europe and hide out in the wilds of America. He fantasizes that the female and her future progeny might not consider themselves bound to the original agreement. This question of binding future generations by a dated social contract is Tom Paine’s main argument in The Rights of Man, that future generations are not bound for eternity by their progenitors’ written laws. So Victor passionately dismembers the female monster. Is his interpretation an anagnorisis that avoids a future threat of violence? Or is it a pre-emptive violence that forestalls a peaceful future? Was it an action that had come to maturity, or was it premature? Mary Shelley leaves the issue up in the air.
Was the Bush team’s interpretation an act of prudence that forestalled the imminent action of Saddam Hussein’s use of weapons of mass destruction? Or was it instead a premature violence that forestalled the gradualism of the United Nations’ deferential restraint? Now the country is in a period of interpreting backward, of second guessing, and taking stock. It is not yet clear whether we are concluding a tragedy, where there will only be dead bodies all over the stage of events; or whether we can imagine a reconciling comedy, where all the participants can gather in the end at some kind of reconciling feast.
What we do know now and always is that any decision to act is based upon imperfect evidence. To choose is to select among alternative possibilities. Were the evidence overwhelming, no choice as such would be necessary or indeed possible. The decision would be self evident. Before the invasion the Bush administration overwhelmed us with evidence of nuclear weapons of mass destruction and the insidious technology of bio- warfare in the semblance of our own anthrax fears. It seemed as if we had no choice but to strike then. The weapons issues were coupled with the overwhelming prognostications of imminent attacks on American people, like those that happened on 9/11. All members of the administration spoke as with one voice of warning. Now the retractions and extenuations are taking place, and the moral of the narrative shifts with the latest disclosures. Now the script is changing. Now the argument is that Saddam had killed overwhelming numbers of his own people over the years. Was he not an imminent killer preparing to massacre Americans? If not, what right does an American president have to pre-empt the role of the United Nations in handling these kinds of massive but vague perils?
Did the Bush administration conflate technological readiness to pull the trigger with moral readiness? David stands ready to hurl his stone. The Minuteman leans into action, ready to fire in a minute. But the projection of a moral choice about the future should not be confused with the technical projection of a Minuteman missile. The aircraft carriers that converged in battle groups from around the global oceans, the long-range bombers re-positioned on perimeter bases, the missiles programmed, all those silent men and women, were mobilized into an enormous potential energy, all leaning into action. The confluence of energies and forces all seemed so overwhelming as inevitable movements that moral choices between alternatives were lost in the univocal argument of a world power, its finger already tightening on the trigger. Did the overwhelming technological readiness make the moral reason seem self evident in the mind of the Bush team? The readiness is all mobilization?
In Greek tragedies the voice of the chorus provides running commentary on the plot. The chorus asks questions and makes assumptions during the action that are sometimes stupid, sometimes insightful, and sometimes wrong. The chorus admits to being puzzled by the actions of their leaders. Did the univocal voice of the administration script a fiction for our consumption? Was the plot a piece of noble propaganda? If the script was a fiction, it was not good literature, nor was it good ethics. For though literature may warn about the possibility of a coming event, it doesn’t preach a single course of action as solution. Literature works by indirections, expectations and surprises, oppositions, and multiple voices. Hence Hamlet’s indecision; the choice is agonizing.
Right now, I am part of the bewildered voice of the chorus who represents the puzzlement of the audience. But once we decide, then we become the voice of judgment, of eventual sanction or condemnation. At the end of a play the chorus may at last choose to express future fears and hopes. For instance, I fear that if this pre-emptive strike into Iraq turns into a tragedy, its moral may be T. S. Eliot’s:
The last temptation is the greatest treason:
To do the right deed for the wrong reason.
from Murder in the Cathedral | <urn:uuid:232ad8c3-1437-4a6e-af22-cbf4a9214075> | 2013-05-23T18:32:01Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
-0.003875732421875,
0.0050048828125,
-0.0081787109375,
0.0023956298828125,
0.10009765625,
-0.06787109375,
-0.01434326171875,
0.1015625,
-0.0189208984375,
-0.046142578125,
0.02197265625,
0.01031494140625,
0.0050048828125,
0.040283203125,
0.0419921875,
... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959809 | 2,516 | http://www.counterpunch.org/2003/10/25/plotting-pre-emptive-strikes/ | 0.307556 |
I saw some tutorial pages on the internet about how to read files using C++
But I'm kind of confused because there isn't anything in code indicate where the file is from. So I think I need some explanation.
It will open file in current (working) folder. If you want to open file which is in another folder you may write full path: ofstream ofs("C:\\some_folder\\some_file");
There is version of the constructor (and open() function) which takes std::string, if you use them.
What you pass is actually the file path, so you can give a full path, or a relative path. If you just specify the filename that is a relative path. Relative paths are relative to the working directory of program. If you start your program by double clicking on the executable file the working directory will be the directory where the executable file is located. If you start your program from the command line the working directory will be the directory that you set using the cd command. If you start your program from an IDE the working directory is often set to the project directory (not the source directory) but this can differ between IDEs. | <urn:uuid:539cacc7-a7b0-4ae5-a649-fc47d6f41c8c> | 2013-05-23T18:44:42Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
-0.04915730282664299,
-0.00026334269205108285,
0.019662922248244286,
-0.027855806052684784,
0.058052435517311096,
-0.06179775297641754,
0.0416666679084301,
0.038623593747615814,
-0.03253745287656784,
-0.05430711433291435,
0.03604868799448013,
0.04424157366156578,
... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.927451 | 242 | http://www.cplusplus.com/forum/beginner/93036/ | 0.749068 |
Use the Activities
Putting It All Together
All the events prior to and during the American Revolutionary War in central New York are interrelated, and these had profound effects on the people who lived there. In these activities, students will compare their lives in their community to what it would be like to live in central New York during this time. Students will also explore what it was like to be at the Battle of Oriskany.
Activity 1: Where Do I Stand?
Ask each student to select one of the historical people who participated at the Battle of Oriskany and create a report in the character of that person about the experience.
The report may be written or oral. Once the student has identified what person they are portraying and explained why that character was selected, the student should answer the following questions in character:
1. What do you (the person you are roleplaying) believe in? What do you support?
2. What do you oppose?
3. What are your hopes and dreams?
4. What are you feeling before this battle? Are you angry, sad, happy or a mixture of these? Are you worried or anxious about yourself and your family? Are you optimistic or pessimistic about the outcome of the battle?
5. Place yourself in the battle. Where are you located, in the ravine or on the hilltop? What do you see, hear, smell and feel? Who do you see? What are you doing? What are your feelings? Are you afraid, angry, or confused or a mixture?
6. After the battle, how do you feel? Are you worried or anxious about your family? What do you see in your immediate or long-term future? Has your outlook changed? Have your hopes and ambitions changed? Are you optimistic or pessimistic about the future?
Activity 2: The Lost Battlefield
The Oriskany Battlefield has been lost over time. The land is still there, however, the old Military Road is gone, the virgin woodland forest has been clear cut, and exact placements of everyone on the battlefield can not be reproduced. Except for letter and journal entries, some written shortly after the battle and others collected long after the battle (which sometimes are conflicting) there is little to tell us exactly where and how the battle was fought. There is also little physical evidence available to help researchers evaluate the reliability of these accounts.
Students are going to be asked to recreate the Battle of Oriskany. They should keep a written journal or recorded oral log about the investigative and production phases of the project. After students have completed studying the quotes in the readings, looked at maps of the area or colonial illustrations depicting military clothing and weapons, and completed additional personal research, ask them to complete one of the following activities:
1. As an historical cartographer, find the ravine and high ground, and then draw a map or series of maps of Oriskany battlefield during the battle's different phases.
2. As an historical illustrator, sketch or paint a picture or series of pictures of the Battle of Oriskany.
3. As a re-enactor or documentary film-maker, create costumes, re-enact the
battle, and videotape the re-enactment. Edit the tape and add voice-over
narration for final presentation.
Activity 3: In the Grip of Fear
Ask the students to produce a written, pictorial, or video report describing a controversial issue which has divided their community. Point out that community can be interpreted in many ways and may be their school, sports teams, parent groups, school board, local government, or state government as well as the nation or world. The students will have to use investigative research techniques and questioning strategies to find the answers through review of local newspapers, committee reports, and personal interviews. Students may want to record their data on a chart like the one used in Reading 1. Ask them to identify what the controversy is, and then answer the following questions:
1. Is there only one central issue that is causing the controversy, or are there several issues?
2. What was the history of the community before the controversy? Are there events in the past which affect the issue(s) today?
3. Who are the key leaders on both sides of the issue? Why have they taken the stand they have taken?
4. What is the general social make-up of the followers of these leaders? Where are they from? In which part of the community do they live? What is their social, political and economic standing? What are their race, ethnicity, and sex? What types of jobs do they have? Where do they stand on the issue and why?
After the students have completed this activity, have them ask the same questions about the Mohawk Valley civil war and then compare and contrast the contemporary controversy they have studied with the Mohawk Valley civil war. Alternatively, the students may want to compare the controversy they have studied with the U.S. Civil War, regional civil wars in the U.S. (such as in "Bleeding Kansas"), or civil wars on the international scene (such as in Rwanda and Kosovo in the 1990s or China in the 1940s). | <urn:uuid:9c761991-f1fc-409e-99b2-0967d23bc295> | 2013-05-23T18:45:12Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
-0.0133056640625,
-0.0084228515625,
-0.006072998046875,
-0.0224609375,
0.1279296875,
-0.058349609375,
0.004058837890625,
0.09130859375,
-0.01104736328125,
-0.02099609375,
0.11474609375,
0.013671875,
-0.050537109375,
0.02734375,
0.049560546875,
0.0069... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962798 | 1,066 | http://www.cr.nps.gov/nR/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/79oriskany/79putting.htm | 0.971371 |
Ferrari team boss Stefano Domenicali admitted that fifth place for Fernando Alonso
in the Canadian Grand Prix was without question a "disappointing race result," but despite the fact that it hadn't worked out he insisted that he didn't regret going for the win.
"We have tried," Domenicali told TV reporters in Montreal. "We have tried to win."
Alonso himself agreed with the philosophy: "I feel good. We tried to win the race," he said. "I'm proud of the team and happy we went for the victory.
"We tossed the coin in the air and we waited to see the result and it didn't work. At least we tried and we were not happy with second. In the end it was too many laps and in the end we ran out of tyres quite suddenly and it was too late to pit."
"It didn't work out - not because of the strategy but because of the tyre degradation," he added. "I want that to be very clear because there will be confusion tomorrow, from people who don't understand the race."
Domenicali confirmed that the team had been caught out by how quickly the tyres' performance had fallen off when they were finally pushed too far.
"At the certain moment we felt that the tyres could have lasted and then when you reach the cliff it was too late to pit," he said referring to the 'cliff' that the tyre performance goes off when the degradation reaches a critical margin. "At a certain stage, speaking also with Fernando, the tyre seems to last so we took the chance."
But instead the tyres went off in the space of virtually a single lap, leaving Alonso as a sitting duck to those faster cars behind him to bump him off the podium by the time the chequered flag came out.
Even so, "You see on the podium there is two drivers with one stop," Domenicali pointed out - so it hadn't been such an outrageous strategy, it just hadn't worked out for Ferrari.
"We need to work now on the tyre degradation because without the tyre degradation at the end we could have been in a different position today," he summed up. | <urn:uuid:71ca5750-f7ae-446c-b999-0763f23603e9> | 2013-05-23T18:39:08Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
-0.009323559701442719,
-0.01286008208990097,
0.005722736474126577,
-0.008809156715869904,
0.07355967164039612,
-0.08796296268701553,
0.0004601498076226562,
0.09104938060045242,
-0.004951131530106068,
-0.07253086566925049,
0.010352366603910923,
0.02494855970144272,
... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.988621 | 454 | http://www.crash.net/f1/news/180721/1/ferrari_we_tried_to_win.html | 0.668614 |
Oct 29 2005, 11:21 AM
my apologies if this is already posted. I usually dislike reading these, but I found this to be very sweet in a heart-touching way.
Once upon a time there was an island where all the feelings lived; happiness, sadness, knowledge, and all the others, including love. One day it was announced to all of the feelings that the island was going to sink to the bottom of the ocean. So all the feelings prepared their boats to leave. Love was the only one that stayed. She wanted to preserve the island paradise until the last possible moment. When the island was almost totally under love decided it was time to leave. She began looking for someone to ask for help. Just then Richness was passing by in a grand boat. Love asked, " Richness, Can I come with you on your boat? " Richness answered, " I`m sorry, but there is a lot of silver and gold on my boat and there would be no room for you anywhere. " Then Love decided to ask Vanity for help who was passing in a beautiful vessel. Love cried out, " Vanity, help me please. " " I can`t help you ", Vanity said, " You are all wet and will damage my beautiful boat. " Next, Love saw Sadness passing by. Love said, " Sadness, please let me go with you." Sadness answered, " Love, I`m sorry, but, I just need to be alone now. " Then, Love saw Happiness.Love cried out, " Happiness, please take me with you. " But Happiness was so overjoyed that he didn`t hear Love calling to him. Love began to cry. Then, she heard a voice say, " Come Love, I will take you with me. " It was an elder. Love felt so blessed and overjoyed that she forgot to ask the elder his name. When they arrived on land the elder went on his way. Love realized how much she owed the elder. Love then found Knowledge and asked, " Who was it that helped me? " " It was Time ", Knowledge answered. " But why did Time help me when no one else would? ", Love asked. Knowledge smiled and with deep wisdom and sincerity, and answered; " Because only Time is capable of understanding how great Love is.
i don't know who wrote this :\ but props to this person
Oct 29 2005, 11:22 AM
Moved to writing
Oct 29 2005, 11:23 AM
Oct 29 2005, 11:23 AM
OH i forgot to say i did not write this
Oct 29 2005, 11:24 AM
^ Its ok...you can share pieces you didnt write
and swtcherriipie please dont spam.
Oct 29 2005, 11:31 AM
aww sandy, this is so cute. it's true as well
Oct 29 2005, 11:32 AM
aww i love this.... it's a great consice story
Oct 29 2005, 12:15 PM
Thats sweet and deep. Took a few seconds for
Because only Time is capable of understanding how great Love is.
To really sink in and hit me with the meaning of those words :D
Oct 29 2005, 12:27 PM
Oct 29 2005, 01:30 PM
This is so cute. Thanks for sharing it.
Oct 29 2005, 01:40 PM
aww...so sweet! It's so touching too.
Oct 29 2005, 11:35 PM
That was a touching story. The last line made my jaw drop
Oct 30 2005, 12:22 AM
I wonder who wrote it...
Oct 30 2005, 12:27 AM
its sooo cute..
Oct 30 2005, 04:25 AM
You know love comes in many forms and shapes. when I feel sad about someone I say 'I wanna be alone' to pple who really love me. :( This is so sweet.
Oct 30 2005, 11:22 AM
Aww. Haha, that was cute.
Oct 30 2005, 05:01 PM
I liked that. Very nice use of metaphor to make a point.
Nov 11 2005, 12:41 AM
Omgosh thats really good. It made me smile.
Nov 15 2005, 06:04 AM
Very very very true. I've seen it floating around the internet somewhere.. my email, possibly
Nov 15 2005, 06:43 AM
aw i've read it before, but it's always just as touching.
Nov 15 2005, 08:18 AM
That made me say "awwww" out loud. That's really sweet
Nov 15 2005, 12:20 PM
this is super cute...everything ties together in a way i didnt expect. where didyou find this?
This is a "lo-fi" version of our main content. To view the full version with more information, formatting and images, please click here | <urn:uuid:ed6ff188-99c9-4542-a0c8-31e71f07a6dc> | 2013-05-23T19:04:52Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
-0.0010528564453125,
0.0257568359375,
-0.011474609375,
-0.004486083984375,
0.078125,
-0.05419921875,
-0.0032501220703125,
0.09521484375,
0.00098419189453125,
-0.04052734375,
0.0830078125,
-0.00384521484375,
0.042236328125,
-0.051513671875,
0.03759765625,... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964974 | 1,030 | http://www.createblog.com/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t108023.html | 0.89357 |
Yes, it is quite a change isn't it?
I for one really like it!
Speaking of liking, I think you'll really appreciate the Sensation, she's a terrific ship. I sailed on her twice in 1999, and am going again with the Thanksgiving CruiseMates group, so obviously I think fairly well of it.
So go have a terrific time, and then come back and tell us all about it! | <urn:uuid:0227c7fc-f13f-4173-9131-31afd554171c> | 2013-05-23T19:08:39Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
-0.03598484769463539,
0.03598484769463539,
0.018939394503831863,
0.03914141282439232,
0.007654671557247639,
-0.06628787517547607,
-0.017597854137420654,
0.04766414314508438,
-0.06660353392362595,
-0.06534090638160706,
0.005523989908397198,
0.041035354137420654,
... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.987963 | 88 | http://www.cruisemates.com/forum/carnival-cruise-lines/184708-sensation.html | 0.603019 |
UO hosts ACM Regional Programming Competition
UO CIS and UO Information Services hosted the ACM Pacific Region Programming Contest at the University of Oregon in Eugene on November 7, 2009. It was one of five sites where teams from the region competed to solve as many programming problems as they could during the five hour contest.
UO teams competed in the Northwest Regionals against teams from Alaska, British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, northern California and western Nevada. Top teams from each region are invited to the international finals which will be held in China in February 2010.
In 2001, the UO teams competed against almost 70 other teams at Eastern Washington University in Spokane. One team placed 10th and another 13th, each with three problems solved.
In 2002, the UO teams competed against almost 80 other teams at DeVry University near Seattle. One of the UO teams, Buffleheads, swept the competition by solving all six of the problems with time to spare. No other team in the competition solved all six of the problems, and the Buffleheads took first place and went on to compete in the world finals in March, 2003.
More details about the competition can be found on our contest website. | <urn:uuid:dffdaf85-97b5-416a-8771-c70ac405a6f5> | 2013-05-23T18:39:38Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
-0.005055147223174572,
0.011029412038624287,
-0.005859375,
0.010052849538624287,
0.045266542583703995,
-0.04618566110730171,
-0.024471506476402283,
0.018841911107301712,
-0.009191176854074001,
-0.017922794446349144,
0.06204044073820114,
-0.0003033806278835982,
0... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974099 | 249 | http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/News/20091021-20091130-ACM.php | 0.296152 |
Assessing regional vulnerability by operationalizing the concept of adaptive capacity in the Pacific Northwest
Trask, B. 2007. Assessing regional vulnerability by operationalizing the concept of adaptive capacity in the Pacific Northwest. M.M.A. thesis, School of Marine Affairs, University of Washington, Seattle.
This thesis explores indicators for operationalizing social adaptive capacity in socialecological systems in a testable manner. Adaptive capacity represents the potential to adapt, not the adaptation itself, and is an important component in assessing the vulnerability of a system. Adaptive capacity addresses system vulnerability to exogenous stresses like climate change. I survey a portion of the literature on vulnerability and adaptive capacity to acquire a definition applicable to the scope and scale for two locations in the Pacific Northwest. By doing so I engage the literature to initiate a regional vulnerability assessment. Such an assessment could serve as an important input in the process of developing plausible futures scenarios by incorporating environmental change and uncertainty present when addressing climate change. Through a better understanding of how adaptive capacity applies at these different spatial scales in the Pacific Northwest, it may be applied toward improved decision-making, particularly related to scenario planning.
UW Climate Impacts Group | <urn:uuid:205e6c8f-a186-4122-8ba6-965a39ab5745> | 2013-05-23T18:30:26Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
-0.03603202849626541,
0.007895907387137413,
0.022464413195848465,
0.016347864642739296,
0.0791814923286438,
-0.10542704910039902,
0.006227757781744003,
0.06983985751867294,
-0.03269572928547859,
0.002238100627437234,
0.06138790026307106,
0.024466192349791527,
-0... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.886709 | 238 | http://www.cses.washington.edu/db/pubs/abstract573.shtml | 0.21277 |
Wikipedia: Paul the Apostle
Paul the Apostle (Greek: Παῦλος Paulos), original name Saul of Tarsus (Greek: Σαῦλος Saulos), was a Christian missionary who took the gospel of Christ to the first-century world. He is generally considered one of the most important figures of the Apostolic Age and one of the greatest religious leaders of all time. In the mid-30s to the mid-50s, he founded several churches in Asia Minor and Europe. Being a Jew and a Roman citizen were ideal pedigrees for his ministry to both Jewish and Roman audiences.
A native of Tarsus, the capital city in the Roman province of Cilicia, he wrote that he was "a Hebrew born of Hebrews", a Pharisee, and one who advanced in Judaism beyond many of his peers. He zealously persecuted the early followers of Jesus and violently tried to destroy the newly-forming Christian church. Paul's dramatic conversion experience with the risen Jesus on the road to Damascus dramatically changed the course of his life. He did not know Jesus during his lifetime as did the Twelve Apostles, but he was the first apostle whose only experience with Jesus was after the Resurrection and Ascension.
After his conversion to Christ, he began to preach that Jesus of Nazareth is the Messiah and the Son of God. His leadership, influence, and legacy led to the formation of communities dominated by Gentile groups that worshiped the Lord, adhered to the "Judaic moral code", but relaxed or abandoned the ritual and dietary teachings of the Law of Moses. He taught that these laws and rituals had either been fulfilled in the life of Christ or were symbolic precursors of Christ, though the exact relationship between Paul the Apostle and Judaism is still disputed. Paul taught of the life and works of Jesus Christ and his teaching of a New Covenant, or "new testament", established through Jesus' death and resurrection.
About half of the New Testament stems from Paul and the people whom he influenced. Thirteen of the 27 books in the New Testament have been attributed to Paul, and approximately half of the Acts of the Apostles deals with Paul’s life and works. However, only 7 of the 13 letters can be accepted as being entirely authentic. The other 6 letters are believed to have come from followers writing in his name, using material from Paul's surviving letters and letters written by him that no longer survive.
Today, his epistles continue to be deeply rooted in the theology, worship, and pastoral life in the Roman and Protestant traditions of the West, as well as the Orthodox traditions of the East. Among the many other apostles and missionaries involved in the spread of the Christian faith, his influence on Christian thought and practice has been characterized as being as "profound as it is pervasive". Augustine of Hippo developed Paul's idea that salvation is based on faith and not "works of the law". Martin Luther's interpretation of Paul's writings heavily influenced Luther's doctrine of sola fide. The Bible does not record Paul's death.
Acts of the Apostles
Some believe that through this work, Luke intended to show the Roman Empire that the root of Christianity is within Judaism so that the Christians “may receive the same freedom to practice their faith that the Roman Empire afforded the Jews.” Those who support the view of Luke’s work as political apology generally draw evidence from the facts that Christians are found innocent of committing any political crime (Acts 25:25; 19:37; 19:40) and that Roman officials’ views towards Christians are generally positive. Also, Luke mentions a few Roman officials that believe in Jesus Christ (Acts 10:1-11:18; 13:12). The magistrates even apologize to Paul and Silas for wrongfully putting them in prison (Acts 16:38-39). By painting the Roman-Christian relations in this light, Luke hopes to persuade Rome that Christians are not enemies of the government and should not be looked upon with suspicion or even fear.
Apology on behalf of Rome addressed to the church: Whereas the claim above suggested that Luke was writing to Rome, this view proposes that Luke may be writing to the church in order to convince the saints of his own view that Rome is not a threat to the church. This claim presupposes that early Christians were suspicious of Rome or feared Roman authority as a threat to their faith. Also, supporters of this view would characterize Luke’s portrayal of the Roman Empire as positive because they believe Luke “glosses over negative aspects of the empire and presents imperial power positively.” For example, when Paul is before the council defending himself, Paul says that he is “on trial concerning the hope of the resurrection of the dead” (Acts 23:6). Some believe that this appeal “thereby shows Christian’s of Luke’s day both that their predecessors were innocent before the state and that Paul had no political quarrel with Rome” but rather with the Jews who were accusing him. Other scholars have even said that Luke wrote this apology in order to support Christians who were becoming allies with local Roman officials.
Some scholars believe that the apologetic view of Luke’s work is overemphasized and that it should not be regarded as a “major aim of the Lucan writings.” While Munck believes that purpose of Luke’s work is not that clear-cut and sympathizes with other claims, he believes that Luke’s work can function as an apology only in the sense that it “presents a defense of Christianity and Paul” and may serve to “clarify the position of Christianity within Jewry and within the Roman Empire.” Pervo disagrees that Luke’s work is an apology and even that it could possibly be addressed to Rome because he believes that “Luke and Acts speak to insiders, believers in Jesus.” Freedman believes that Luke is writing an apology but that his goal is “not to defend the Christian movement as such but to defend God’s ways in history.”
Mr. K- Yes, the conversion of the Pharasee Sal to the Apostle can be found in the Book of Acts (of the Apostles after the assention of Christ). While incarsentated, Apostle Paul wrote the Epistles that are for the born again Christian Church. Acts 22: starts his telling of his conversion, Acts 28:17- His trail. As a citizen he had the rights listed below, and if he was harmed by any of the guards, they would receive the same but times two.
Roman citizenship Rights Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Citizenship in ancient Rome was a privileged political and legal status afforded to freeborn individuals with respect to laws, property, and governance.
• The right to have a legal trial (to appear before a proper court and to defend oneself).
• The right to appeal from the decisions of magistrates and to appeal the lower court decisions.
• A Roman citizen could not be tortured or whipped, nor could he receive the death penalty, unless he was found guilty of treason.
• If accused of treason, a Roman citizen had the right to be tried in Rome, and even if sentenced to death, no Roman citizen could be sentenced to die on the cross.
TejonTech, you write, "...typical liberal emotional defense of a position contrary to nature..." According to theologists, that is. Scientists do not find homosexual activity to be "contrary to nature." At one time anything other than missionary position was labeled contrary to nature (even though no animal, other than humans, practice it).
gurudori, you wrote, "Not only did Apostle Paul use his Roman Citizenship to have a fair trail when the Jews wanted him excuted for converting to Christianity and blaspheme again OT..." Is this @#$% actually in the Christian Bible?
Zen...again boring...typical liberal emotional defense of a position contrary to nature...and not true.
Yeah well I think you've proven you know neither "love" nor "peace", TejonTech. What I read is the vitroil of an isolated and fearful man. It's sad really, because you drive far more people away than you'll ever attract.
What is prophesized in the Bible can't be stopped, even the New World order. Don't you think that maybe God has a backup plan for those who accepted Christ as Lord and Savior (not believing in the Pope, TT) called...... The Hope of the Return of Christ! Haven't you ever read 1 Thessalonians? It's all about how Christ returns FOR the born again believers, then Armageddon & book of Revelations happens, then Christ returns WITH the saints to reclaim earth from Satan, the god of this world, and re-establishes Eden when he got from Adam disobeying Gods commandment not to eat the fruit of knowledge. Bet you didn't know that!
Yeah, that's another one of those books in the NT most don't know of. Romans 5:9-Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from the wrath through him. This gives me much comfort when knowing how that state of the world is in modern times. Something to think about.
I also thought of another great example of why we need to have the separation of Church and State: Not only did Apostle Paul use his Roman Citizenship to have a fair trail when the Jews wanted him excuted for converting to Christianity and blaspheme again OT ( He was the Father to the born again Christian Church whereas Apostles Peter and James started the Catholic Church on the grounds of sticking to traditional pagen holidays- Easter is the holiday for the goddess Ester, not the Final Passover as it actually should be.)
You are going to love this TT.... Martin Luther also used his German citizenship to save his life when the Catholic Church summons him to Rome as a Jesuit priest for heresy, but he petitioned the German King for his trail to be held in a German city so he could be protected because he knew he would be assinated if he traveled to Rome. Remember him? He's the guy with the 96 thesis against the abominations within the Catholic Church? He left the Catholic Church and started the Reformation Church... got married to a former nun and lived another 30 years as the main Biblical Scholar for the King at a University in Germany.
Remember indulgences? Remember if you don't accept Jesus we will kill you period in European history? That is why the French and American constitutions added this clause in 1780s just so that any governing Church could never pull this crap again.
Remember the Inquisition? How they used church doctrine to kill thousands of pegans to take their land, indigenous people in South and North America and other believers like wicca and keltic and such? No, you seem to like to hold a rosey colored view of Catholic Church history.
CLICK HERE TO PLAY THE GAME "VOTE FOR A MORON!" If you agree with Tejon Tech last statement on "think they are voting in a new truth as if they could reverse God's creative decisions." click like, but if you do not agree with TT, click dislikes. If TT gets more dislikes than likes..... then he is a MORON! LMAO!!!
I love on this list how people clicking like and dislike think they are voting in a new truth as if they could reverse God's creative decisions.
That is what Broadbent is attempting...he makes it up to be like he would have done if he were God, even though what he would have done is simply contrary to God's obvious will and purpose.
You can't change the truth by popular vote, as Colorado is now destined to see.
This pastor is just one of the false prophets that will come in the last days. The Californication of Colorado is moving at full steam.
Jesus warns us against idolatry, fornication, and murder...seems like the secular agenda claims all three...unquestioned tolerance is idolatry, fornication is any sex outside marriage (to include all gay etc. sex and this sort of adolescent sex advocated by the morning after pill) and murder, which is what abortion is pure and simple...so Guru and Zen...the final judgment is going to be calling you to repentance and amendment of life big tie...as well as me for my sins.
Secularism isn't new, TT, it was how our country was originally founded with Seperation of Church and State, so don't try to re-write history. It has only been since the 1980's when the evangical churches started a movement to insert Christian morality into our governmental laws. So why can't each and every person govern themselves instead of having to follow your brand of religion? Just because we don't want it in our governing laws doesn't mean we don't practice morality and personal spirituality in our homes.
From Wikepedia: Seperation of Church and State: Thomas Jefferson:
In English, the exact term is an offshoot of the phrase, "wall of separation between church and state", as written in Thomas Jefferson's letter to the Danbury Baptist Association in 1802. In that letter, referencing the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, Jefferson writes: "Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church and State." Jefferson reflected his frequent speaking theme that the government is not to interfere with religion.
The Bill of Rights was one of the earliest examples in the world of complete religious freedom (adopted in 1791, only preceded by the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen in 1789) but it was interpreted as establishing a separation of Church and State only after the letter of Jefferson (see section United States for more details). At the time of the passage of the Bill of Rights, many states acted in ways that would now be held unconstitutional, some of them with official state churches. All of the early official state churches were disestablished by 1833.
Milligan's primary goal is to advance the new world order in her own image without a God to interfere with her reign of political correct totalitarianism...it is to turn Colo Spgs upside down, and that sort of radical transformation will not bring peace and stability, but strive and division.
Zen...Denver Seminary? That explains why you are an advocate for the new secularism and not the Christianity of the Apostles. Your education is faulty and doesn't serve you well.
The religion of Jesus is one where God's love directs and rules our hearts toward peace now and eternity ultimately.
Your religion of permissiveness and self affirmation is a direct path to pain now and dysfunction in the future...not something a loving God would wish for his children.
God, as scripture says, has a special place for wolves in sheep's clothing like you.
If "Milligan is a far left whack job" then how far off the right edge of the map are you? Geez TT .. some days you make Pinochet look like a centrist.
Another 14 jobs and more young people gone. Good job blue hairs. As for Pico, he's a egotistical hack. I used to debate that guy on the Gazette, and he wouldn't know good science from a pile of sh*t. Like most of the council, he's a slave to ideology and blind to on the ground reality.
TejonTech, speaking as one with a degree in Religious Studies, who studied theology and ministry at Denver Seminary, and has worked in Protestant and Catholic church and para-church organizations, I can confidently and authoritatively say that you my friend are no Christ follower. You're a Pharisee. And a milk fed one at that. It's time to take back the church from people like you ... people who have overseen the largest single decline in US church attendance in history. If Jesus were to return today, I have zero doubt you'd be first to pick up a hammer and nail. You genuinely have no idea what you do. And for that, I just feel sorry for you. Grow up milk fed ... before it's too late. Good luck with all that self-righteous rage.
TejonTech it is truly sad to see a person so tied up in knots as you.
All content © Copyright 2013, The Colorado Springs Independent
Website powered by Foundation | <urn:uuid:9b210fdf-7a01-4b1f-8f6d-10856697825c> | 2013-05-23T18:52:33Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
-0.01318359375,
-0.0224609375,
-0.01416015625,
-0.009765625,
0.07421875,
-0.0595703125,
-0.02099609375,
0.10888671875,
-0.0252685546875,
-0.0233154296875,
0.035888671875,
0.01953125,
-0.0250244140625,
0.01007080078125,
0.03662109375,
-0.020751953125,... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971273 | 3,475 | http://www.csindy.com/coloradosprings/CommentArchives?feature=stories§ion=1064314&page=4 | 0.498092 |
SECARB Early Test at Cranfield Project
Nominators: United States (lead), Canada, and United Kingdom
Recognized by the CSLF at its Warsaw meeting in October 2010, this is a large-scale project, located near Natchez, Mississippi, USA, which involves transport, injection, and monitoring of approximately one million tonnes of CO2 per year into a deep saline reservoir associated with a commercial enhanced oil recovery operation, but the focus of this project will be on the CO2 storage and monitoring aspects. The project will promote the building of experience necessary for the validation and deployment of carbon sequestration technologies in the United States, and will increase technical competence and public confidence that large volumes of CO2 can be safely injected and stored. Components of the project also include public outreach and education, site permitting, and implementation of an extensive data collection, modeling, and monitoring plan. This “early” test will set the stage for a subsequent large-scale integrated project that will involve post-combustion CO2 capture, transportation via pipeline, and injection into a deep saline formation. | <urn:uuid:9e35a014-190c-4275-bcc4-1808abfa556a> | 2013-05-23T18:52:29Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
-0.029411764815449715,
0.008946078829467297,
-0.014705882407724857,
0.02034313790500164,
0.10588235408067703,
-0.04436274617910385,
0.020465686917304993,
0.07205882668495178,
-0.01096813753247261,
-0.0065870098769664764,
0.09019608050584793,
0.01617647148668766,
... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938147 | 223 | http://www.cslforum.org/projects/secarb.html | 0.218082 |
Topic: Bal Thackeray
The offending post against recently deceased leader Bal Thackeray resulted in two arrests, the latest in a string of crackdowns on Internet speech in the world's largest democracy.
In death as in life, Bal Thackeray divided Mumbai. Mumbaikars shuttered shops fearing violence, while hundreds of thousands thronged the funeral today of the Shiv Sena founder.
Mumbaikars closely followed news that one of their city's most controversial political leaders may be critically ill, resurfacing questions about succession.
The detention of Raj Thackeray, an anti-immigrant activist, threatens to stoke communal tensions against workers from northern states in India's financial hub. | <urn:uuid:cd7c0af9-d03f-489f-b369-1b867a2c5b1e> | 2013-05-23T19:06:56Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
-0.007114955224096775,
0.073288694024086,
0.006091889925301075,
0.01525297574698925,
0.1413690447807312,
-0.0744047611951828,
-0.03515625,
0.0982142835855484,
-0.0173921138048172,
-0.0665922611951828,
0.013950892724096775,
0.0207403264939785,
-0.0039992560632526... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.913752 | 145 | http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Bal+Thackeray | 0.181741 |
Customer: I'd like to add airtime.
Me: Ok, to what phone number?
Customer: Yes, I want to add minutes.
Me: Ok, and what phone number do you need to put them on.
Customer: You know, airtime, like when you put a prepaid card on your account.
Me: Yes, I understand, what phone number do you need to add the airtime to?
Customer: Uh... what?
Me: What's your phone number?
Customer: Why are you making this so difficult? *click* | <urn:uuid:24c31ae7-87fb-4b5d-b0d7-3446b8d81100> | 2013-05-23T18:58:13Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
-0.0011196794221177697,
0.04876077547669411,
0.010169720277190208,
-0.012594289146363735,
0.08943965286016464,
-0.023976292461156845,
-0.00902478490024805,
0.03125,
-0.05603448301553726,
-0.033539868891239166,
0.11368534713983536,
0.009428879246115685,
-0.004242... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.898852 | 119 | http://www.customerssuck.com/board/showthread.php?t=33306 | 0.999639 |
From the earliest times the people have defined themselves by the environment and the animals. This basic principle is at the core, right at the very essence of all that is important to us. Our laws, our spiritual beliefs, our clan system are based on our tremendous dependence on the environment. We have legends and stories that tell us how we originated, how the world started, how everything came to be as it is. These legends have persisted through the test of time and are still told today by our elders and also by young people who are committed to learning this ancient tradition so that it will carry on. We have been taught by our Grandmothers that Crow was the one who started up the world. He brought fish to the lakes; he brought the first light into the world by letting the sun, moon and the stars escape from a wealthy man, who owned them, into the sky so that they belonged to no one but to everyone. | <urn:uuid:8bac47d6-68a9-45c6-8288-5f26ec25b6cf> | 2013-05-23T18:39:41Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
-0.048189252614974976,
-0.021758178249001503,
0.004216559696942568,
-0.007849006913602352,
0.08235981315374374,
-0.07651869207620621,
-0.00390625,
0.07009346038103104,
-0.020443925634026527,
0.012923480942845345,
0.009163259528577328,
-0.010806074365973473,
-0.0... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982997 | 188 | http://www.cyfn.ca/ourhistory?noCache=255:1336227561 | 0.178792 |
Questions abound about the 2009 edition of the Harrison County Thorobreds baseball team. Will they be able to score runs? Will they be able to find an ace starting pitcher to replace Brandon Martin? Will their defense hold up?
After the first two games of the regular season on Monday and Tuesday of this week, the answers are yes, yes and yes.
Harrison County, ranked eighth in the state in the coaches’ pre-season poll, routed host Owen County on Monday, 18-0, then came back on Tuesday with a less-than-inspired 5-1 home opening win over Deming. | <urn:uuid:26c11819-8425-46c0-8214-26f364337168> | 2013-05-23T18:47:54Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
0.02688419073820114,
0.010569852776825428,
-0.008157169446349144,
0.011144301854074001,
0.049172792583703995,
-0.01148897036910057,
-0.005485983565449715,
0.05974264815449715,
-0.013614430092275143,
-0.048253677785396576,
0.03400735184550285,
0.056525737047195435,
... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954386 | 126 | http://www.cynthianademocrat.com/sports/todayssports?page=147 | 0.335108 |
Andre Dobin, 19 of Rialto was arrested Thursday after police investigators followed leads from a burglary that took place Wednesday in the 1200 block of Visconti Drive in Colton, according to a police news release.
Witnesses saw two men burglarize a family house on Visconti and place stolen property into a green Lexus. One person was able to get a license plate number. The car was registered out of Victorville, according to the release.
Investigators found the car parked at an apartment complex in the 1200 block of west Rialto Avenue in the city of Rialto. During surveillance on Thursday around 9:30 a.m., Dobin was contacted and detained. Dobin was later positively identified by a witness during an in-field line up as one of the men seen during the burglary.
Dobin was arrested on suspicion of two counts of burglary. | <urn:uuid:0e1b9b8e-bf3c-48c0-8cb5-eba36519e7b7> | 2013-05-23T19:06:00Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
0.00872001238167286,
0.022253787145018578,
-0.014441288076341152,
0.007891413755714893,
0.1306818127632141,
-0.005997474770992994,
-0.01957070641219616,
0.05808080732822418,
-0.019176136702299118,
-0.04198232293128967,
0.06881313025951385,
0.05429292842745781,
-... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982009 | 183 | http://www.dailybulletin.com/news/ci_20705646/rialto-man-arrested-suspicion-burglary | 0.183112 |
Proposition 40 would prevent the new political boundaries from taking effect. It would require court-appointed officials to set interim boundaries for the 40 state Senate districts until new maps could be drawn.
Republican-backed officials sought the referendum because they believe the new Senate map unfairly harms the GOP.
They stopped actively campaigning in July after their challenges failed in state and federal court, but by then the measure had already qualified for the ballot.
A "yes" vote would uphold the boundaries set by the voter-created citizens commission. A "no" vote means the Senate map would be redrawn.
Republicans did not challenge the Assembly districts. | <urn:uuid:99d6f0a4-5f8f-4f18-8597-d4416088cf56> | 2013-05-23T18:31:43Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
-0.03718354552984238,
0.0413370244204998,
-0.006205498240888119,
0.03283227980136871,
0.04430379718542099,
-0.04252373427152634,
-0.011669304221868515,
0.09414556622505188,
-0.01819620281457901,
-0.007911392487585545,
0.01829509437084198,
0.04331487417221069,
-0... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973651 | 128 | http://www.dailydemocrat.com/wirenews/ci_21765673/prop-40-would-overturn-new-state-senate-maps | 0.27431 |
Inside the REAL Fifty Shades penthouse as it sells for $6m (secret sex room not included)
An apartment in the condo building that is setting for much of the 'mommy porn' bestseller Fifty Shades of Grey has sold for $5.95million.
The Escala building, in Seattle's upscale Belltown district, where fictional billionaire Christian Grey seduces student Anastasia Steele, contains 270 luxury condos, but it is the 6,320sq ft top-floor penthouse that is undeniably the flagship property.
While the images and floorplan don't exactly match the descriptions in EL James's novel - there is, for example, no secret sex room - there are many likenesses.
The real Fifty Shades apartment: The Seattle penthouse, where EL James' fictional billionaire Christian Grey seduces naive student Anastasia Steele, has sold for $5.95million
Luxurious: The three-bedroom apartment comprises a 'piano room' and a library, as described in the book
The three-bedroom apartment comprises a 'piano room' and a library, as well as a vast open-plan kitchen area with breakfast bar.
The master bedroom, labelled the 'owner's retreat', has a large en-suite bathroom with bath, shower and his-and-her sinks, which lead through on to two walk-in closets.
Exclusive access: The elevator opens directly into the apartment's private foyer
Eat your heart out: The penthouse boasts a vast open-plan kitchen area with a breakfast bar
The views across Seattle would clearly have been a major draw for the buyer, whose name has not been revealed.
And with floor-to ceiling windows throughout, the city skyline can be seen from every room.
While there are two further bedrooms, one of which, we can assume, is the designated 'sub's room' that Anastasia is initially intended to inhabit, there is no space on the floorplan that could convincingly be home to Grey's 'secret sex room', where many of the raciest scenes take place.
Splash out: The master bathroom alone is bigger than the average person's bedroom
Suite deal: The bathroom has a large shower and freestanding tub, and leads through onto two walk-in closets
And though the complex counts many luxurious amenities like a lap pool, yoga studio, spa, wine cave and a private members' club, there is no helicopter landing pad on the roof.
Regardless of any inaccuracies, it seems fans of the Fifty Shades trilogy are fascinated by what the Escala penthouse might look like.
The complex’s director of sales, Erik Mehr, told Zillow.com he began getting suspicious that inquiries were not genuine about a year ago.
Luxury living: While the floorplan doesn't exactly match the descriptions in EL James's novel - there is, for example, no secret sex room - there are many parallels
He says his team had been taking calls from people who were particularly curious about 'the layouts of the penthouse and the details of the condos'.
Open house days confirmed that Escala was drawing attention from Fifty Shades fans, when several turned up without any intention of owning property in the building.
He admits that Escala is a fitting choice for a billionaire character like Christian Grey.
'If you were going to pick something opulent, this would be the building,' he said.
Fact meets fiction: The penthouse in Seattle's Escala tower (left) is the setting for many of the raciest scenes in EL James' hit erotic novel Fifty Shades of Grey (right)
Condos in the building start at $400,000, and 70per cent have already been sold.
Penthouses cost from $4million, but those interested in taking a tour must be 'pre-qualified' before they set foot through the door.
Buyers will find themselves living alongside some high-profile neighbours.
San Francisco Giants’ star pitcher Tim Lincecum, who is originally from Seattle, has a $1.5million apartment in the building. | <urn:uuid:c34cf3c6-9e2a-46f4-a89c-ca45fb141c62> | 2013-05-23T18:30:56Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
-0.00015544891357421875,
0.0322265625,
-0.00823974609375,
-0.00250244140625,
0.0888671875,
-0.01422119140625,
0.000873565673828125,
0.12109375,
-0.03564453125,
-0.035400390625,
0.080078125,
0.0380859375,
0.02880859375,
-0.0252685546875,
0.0245361328125,
... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9588 | 848 | http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2145357/Inside-REAL-Fifty-Shades-penthouse-sells-6m-secret-sex-room-included.html?ito=feeds-newsxml | 0.16088 |
Home > Teen accused of plotting to bomb classmates
January 7, 2013
"The system worked and thank God, it did," he said. "We avoided a very bad situation."
Seale is about 80 miles east of Montgomery and about 20 miles southwest of Columbus, Ga.
You must be signed in to comment on an article
Click here to Subscribe! >>
POST A JOB | <urn:uuid:0ca09457-bbe8-42ff-bc8c-4e6a3949341a> | 2013-05-23T18:31:20Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
-0.006158088333904743,
0.024264706298708916,
0.013235294260084629,
0.006801470648497343,
0.07095587998628616,
-0.03235294297337532,
-0.022058824077248573,
0.04742646962404251,
-0.026838235557079315,
-0.039889704436063766,
0.12867647409439087,
0.04485294222831726,
... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949565 | 80 | http://www.dailyreportonline.com/PubArticleDRO.jsp?id=1202583554631&thepage=2 | 0.183459 |
WEST JERUSALEM: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has moved army forces from the Golan Heights area next to Israel toward Damascus and other internal conflict zones, the Israeli army intelligence chief said on Tuesday.
As fighting rages between Assad's forces and rebels trying to oust his government, he has moved troops from the Syrian side of the disengagement line that divides the Golan Heights between Syria and Israeli-held territory, he said.
"Assad has removed many of his forces that were in the Golan Heights to the areas of (internal) conflict," Major General Aviv Kochavi told MPs.
"He's not afraid of Israel at this point, but mainly wants to augment his forces around Damascus," Kochavi said in remarks relayed by a Knesset spokesman.
Fighting between Assad's forces and rebels trying to oust his government has raged in Damascus since Sunday, with some activists saying it marked a "turning point" in the 16-month revolt against the regime.
Syria remains formally at war with Israel, which captured part of the Golan Heights in the 1967 Middle East war and annexed it in 1981 in a move which the international community does not recognise.
But Kochavi said "the probability of a conflict between Israel and Syria as a last resort for Assad is low."
He warned that "radical Islam" was gaining ground in Syria, saying the country was undergoing a process of "Iraqisation," with militant and tribal factions controlling different sectors of the country.
"We can see an ongoing flow of Al-Qaeda and global jihad activists into Syria," he said.
And with the Assad regime weakening, "the Golan Heights could become an arena of activity against Israel, similar to the situation in Sinai, as a result of growing jihad movement in Syria."
Without committing to a time framework, Kochavi predicted that Assad "won't survive the upheaval," and said "Hezbollah and Iran are preparing for the day after Assad's fall."
Kochavi also said Israel was closely monitoring the "possibility that advanced and unconventional arms would reach terror groups."
Last month, Israel's deputy chief of the general staff, Major General Yair Naveh, said that Syria holds the "biggest chemical weapons arsenal in the world." | <urn:uuid:e959853f-a307-49f3-9320-e5a253cb8d8a> | 2013-05-23T18:58:17Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
0.00909423828125,
0.0341796875,
-0.0174560546875,
0.029052734375,
0.1259765625,
-0.0791015625,
-0.0322265625,
0.11767578125,
0.011474609375,
-0.0625,
0.0703125,
0.042236328125,
0.000827789306640625,
-0.001434326171875,
0.044189453125,
0.0079345703125... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977934 | 460 | http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2012/Jul-17/180917-assad-moving-troops-from-golan-to-damascus-israel.ashx | 0.623739 |
quote: By the way, has AMD yet demonstrated their quad-core on the 65nm process (Barcelona?) with multiple OSs up and running? That would be far more significant news than the rustle and flutter of paper-projections in this news article. Intel has now demonstrated Penryn up and running a year before formal production. Surely AMD has their K8L dual and quad-cores now fully up and running and ready to demonstrate to the world six months before their expected volume-shipping date ? | <urn:uuid:d68c2d41-6b30-4fab-bc5e-64bd5d833dfc> | 2013-05-23T19:05:15Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
-0.037771739065647125,
-0.0009086276986636221,
0.025679348036646843,
0.03247282654047012,
0.07445652037858963,
-0.016779892146587372,
-0.0052649457938969135,
0.10978260636329651,
-0.03342391178011894,
0.019157608970999718,
-0.03247282654047012,
0.02500000037252903,
... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952557 | 106 | http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=5984&commentid=105096&threshhold=1&red=5249 | 0.271507 |
Australian mining tycoon Clive Palmer unveils plans for the "Titanic II" at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum on Feb. 26, 2013, in New York City. / Mario Tama, Getty Images
NEW YORK - Australian billionaire Clive Palmer unveiled plans Tuesday for construction of Titanic II, a cruise ship designed as a "full-scale re-creation" of the Titanic, which sank in the Atlantic Ocean in April 1912.
Displaying a blueprint for the Titanic II at a press conference aboard the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, Palmer announced that the ship will be built in China and begin carrying passengers in the third quarter of 2016.
Palmer, who refused to divulge the cost of building the ship, said "the Titanic was a ship of dreams," and "the Titanic II will be the ship where dreams come true."
The Australian businessman, who owns an Australian mining company and other businesses, said he has received an overwhelming response from prospective passengers who want to travel on Titanic II. He predicted that it "will be a real financial bonanza" so successful that he will "have to build Titanic III."
Some Titanic and cruise-ship experts doubt the Titanic II, which Palmer says will regularly sail across the North Atlantic, will be able to attract enough passengers after its maiden voyage. Some also question whether the new cruise ship desecrates the memory of those who died on the Titanic.
The Titanic II will be built 883 feet long ‚?? 3 inches longer than the original Titanic‚?? and weigh 55,800 gross tons, according to Palmer. It will carry a maximum of 2,435 passengers and 900 crew members, and include a gymnasium, Turkish baths, a squash court, a swimming pool, a theater and a casino.
Its first voyage is scheduled to be from Shanghai to Southampton, England, and then on to New York.
The Titanic - the largest and most luxurious cruise ship of its time - departed from Southampton on its maiden voyage to New York in 1912 and made two stops in Europe before striking an iceberg several hundred miles off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada. More than 1,500 people aboard died after the collision.
The Titanic II, which will be built by a state-owned Chinese company, CSC Jinling Shipyard, will honor the memories of those who died and survived on the Titanic, Palmer said. The Titanic was operated by the White Star Line, and Palmer's cruise company is called Blue Star Line.
Like the original ship, there will no TVs aboard and probably no Internet service, he says.
The press conference was held on an aircraft carrier in the Hudson River near where the Titanic was expected to dock in 1912 and next to another ill-fated form of transport, the supersonic Concorde.
Timing of the announcement for the unveiling of Titanic II wasn't smooth.
Palmer originally scheduled the unveiling of his plans at six kick-off events in December, but they were postponed because of the "devastation caused in New York and along the East Coast by Hurricane Sandy," which struck last October.
This month, the cruise ship industry received a black eye after a fire broke out on the Carnival Triumph, knocking out power and causing five days of hardship for 4,200 passengers until the ship was towed to shore.
Michael Driscoll, the editor of the industry newsletter Cruise Week, is skeptical about the future of Titanic II in the aftermath of the Carnival Triumph fire and last year's shipwreck of the Costa Concordia off the coast of Tuscany. The Costa Concordia slammed into a jagged reef and capsized, and 32 people were killed.
"Given all the safety concerns the industry has faced over the past 14 months - especially with Costa Concordia - such a ship would appear to have very limited appeal in this era," Driscoll says. "Themed cruises in general and even one-off re-creations of Titanic sailings in particular have proven popular in this business, but those thrive because they are done infrequently, not on a year-round basis."
Driscoll says he's been told by travel agents that Titanic II will have "very limited viability with the North American market."
Bad weather and big waves pose problems for trans-Atlantic sailings in winter, and the Titanic II "would appear to have no appeal" in regions with warmer weather, he says.
"Titanic II is a curiosity and may have a draw as a floating hotel, but the idea of spending close to a week at sea on a vessel built around such a thin premise is seen as a stretch, at least by many within the industry," Driscoll says.
Titanic expert J. Joseph Edgette, professor emeritus of education at Widener University in Chester, Pa., questions whether cruise ship passengers will continue to book Titanic II "once the initial hype is over."
He says the Titanic's primary purposes were to carry mail and cargo across the Atlantic, and it was a means of transportation for European and American passengers. In contrast, Titanic II will solely be a cruise ship, he says.
Edgette, who is also folklorist emeritus at Widener, says a cruise ship named Titanic II is "a little tacky," and there is a maritime tradition of not naming a ship after one lost at sea.
Some people may not want to travel on it because of the tragedy suffered by its predecessor or a belief it would be disrespectful to those who died on the original ship, Edgette says.
Brad Matsen, author of Titanic's Last Secrets, says "some people" like Palmer "have too much money."
There was "an immense amount of hubris in the construction of the Titanic," and that may be the case in the building of Titanic II, he says.
Matsen says the story of the Titanic still holds the "public's fascination," but he doesn't know why anyone would name a ship after it.
"There were a lot of people who died on the Titanic," Matsen says. "That's what gets lost on this."
Helen Benziger, the great-granddaughter of Molly Brown, who survived the Titanic sinking, says she is "thrilled" that the Titanic II is being built.
Benziger said at the press conference that Palmer "has assured me that everything possible has been done to honor the passengers who perished and the passengers who survived."
Paul Kurzman, whose great-grandparents, Isidor and Ida Straus, died on the Titanic, says he has "no problem" with the construction of Titanic II. Isidor served in Congress and owned R.H. Macy & Co..
He says he thinks his grandparents would also not have felt offended.
"I don't think they would have had any problem whatsoever, as long as the Titanic II steers clear of icebergs," says Kurzman, a professor of social work at Hunter College in New York.
Karen Kamuda, vice president of The Titanic Historical Society in Indian Orchard, Mass., says a new cruise ship modeled after the original Titanic is a positive development.
"The Titanic was a piece of history and a symbol of an era," Kamuda says. "As we get farther away from that time, people want to feel that part of history."
Kamuda says it's not insensitive to build a ship today modeled after one involved in a tragedy.
"I'm glad people are interested in history," she says. "If a symbol like this makes people reflect on an era that's past, I don't have a problem with that."
Julie Hedgepeth Williams, whose great uncle, Albert Caldwell, survived the Titanic sinking, says she often spoke with Albert about the tragedy. She is author of A Rare Titanic Family.
She says Albert, who died in 1992, would have wanted to travel on the Titanic II.
"He would have loved to have seen it," says Williams, a professor of journalism at Samford University in Birmingham, Ala. "He would have found a new ship intriguing. He always wanted to see the Titanic again."
Copyright 2013 USATODAY.com
Read the original story: Billionaire unveils new 'Titanic II' cruise ship design | <urn:uuid:a20c3b3a-55ad-4c9a-88e8-1d7163e92fe5> | 2013-05-23T18:58:20Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
-0.0101318359375,
0.05419921875,
-0.0133056640625,
0.0034637451171875,
0.09375,
-0.045166015625,
-0.0264892578125,
0.10009765625,
-0.019775390625,
-0.047607421875,
0.07861328125,
0.0341796875,
0.01519775390625,
-0.040771484375,
0.038818359375,
-0.011... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974105 | 1,710 | http://www.dailyworld.com/usatoday/article/1948935 | 0.350411 |
There was an unexpected 35-minute delay in the game due to a power outage. There was a dramatic last-minute attempt by the San Francisco 49ers to win the game.
Then, there was a Dodge Ram commercial that paid tribute to farmers.
The late broadcasting legend Paul Harvey narrated:
“And, on the eighth day, God looked down on His planned paradise and said, ‘I need a caretaker,’ so God made a farmer.
“God said, ‘I need somebody willing to get up before dawn, milk cows, work all day in the fields, milk cows again, eat supper, then go to town and stay past midnight at a meeting of the school board,' so God made a farmer….”
Hear the entire narration in the video above.
After the ad appeared, several dairy farmers who are known as social media champions got on Facebook and thanked Dodge for the ad.
The ad appeared in the fourth quarter of the game. | <urn:uuid:73b7ec3e-1b57-4396-9a6a-942982b43210> | 2013-05-23T18:59:01Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
[
-0.012414383701980114,
0.00717037683352828,
-0.013341895304620266,
-0.014554794877767563,
0.10216894745826721,
-0.03353310376405716,
0.023259133100509644,
0.03438926860690117,
-0.003317636903375387,
-0.03681506961584091,
0.04537671059370041,
0.01912100426852703,
... | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966752 | 204 | http://www.dairyherd.com/dairy-news/media/THE-big-Super-Bowl-surprise-189603701.html?email=yes&cmntid=112883212 | 0.518145 |