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Excerpts for Thames : The Biography
The River as Fact
It has a length of 215 miles, and is navigable for 191 miles. It is the longest river in England but not in Britain, where the Severn is longer by approximately 5 miles. Nevertheless it must be the shortest river in the world to acquire such a famous history. The Amazon and the Mississippi cover almost 4,000 miles, and the Yangtze almost 3,500 miles; but none of them has arrested the attention of the world in the manner of the Thames.
It runs along the borders of nine English counties, thus reaffirming its identity as a boundary and as a defence. It divides Wiltshire from Gloucestershire, and Oxfordshire from Berkshire; as it pursues its way it divides Surrey from Middlesex (or Greater London as it is inelegantly known) and Kent from Essex. It is also a border of Buckinghamshire. It guarded these once tribal lands in the distant past, and will preserve them into the imaginable future.
There are 134 bridges along the length of the Thames, and forty-four locks above Teddington. There are approximately twenty major tributaries still flowing into the main river, while others such as the Fleet have now disappeared under the ground. Its "basin," the area from which it derives its water from rain and other natural forces, covers an area of some 5,264 square miles. And then there are the springs, many of them in the woods or close to the streams beside the Thames. There is one in the wood below Sinodun Hills in Oxfordshire, for example, which has been described as an "everlasting spring" always fresh and always renewed.
The average flow of the river at Teddington, chosen because it marks the place where the tidal and non-tidal waters touch, has been calculated at 1,145 millions of gallons (5,205 millions of litres) each day or approximately 2,000 cubic feet (56.6 cubic metres) per second. The current moves at a velocity between 1Ú2 and 23Ú4 miles per hour. The main thrust of the river flow is known to hydrologists as the "thalweg"; it does not move in a straight and forward line but, mingling with the inner flow and the variegated flow of the surface and bottom waters, takes the form of a spiral or helix. More than 95 per cent of the river's energy is lost in turbulence and friction.
The direction of the flow of the Thames is therefore quixotic. It might be assumed that it would move eastwards, but it defies any simple prediction. It flows north-west above Henley and at Teddington, west above Abingdon, south from Cookham and north above Marlow and Kingston. This has to do with the variegated curves of the river. It does not meander like the Euphrates, where according to Herodotus the voyager came upon the same village three times on three separate days, but it is circuitous. It specialises in loops. It will take the riparian traveller two or three times as long to cover the same distance as a companion on the high road. So the Thames teaches you to take time, and to view the world from a different vantage.
The average "fall" or decline of the river from its beginning to its end is approximately 17 to 21 inches (432 to 533 mm) per mile. It follows gravity, and seeks out perpetually the simplest way to the sea. It falls some 600 feet (183 m) from source to sea, with a relatively precipitous decline of 300 feet (91.5 m) in the first 9 miles; it falls 100 (30.4 m) more in the next 11 miles, with a lower average for the rest of its course. Yet averages may not be so important. They mask the changeability and idiosyncrasy of the Thames. The mean width of the river is given as 1,000 feet (305 m), and a mean depth of 30 feet (9 m); but the width varies from 1 or 2 feet (0.3 to 0.6 m) at Trewsbury to 51Ú2 miles at the Nore.
The tide, in the words of Tennyson, is that which "moving seems asleep, too full for sound and foam." On its flood inward it can promise benefit or danger; on its ebb seaward it suggests separation or adventure. It is one general movement but it comprises a thousand different streams and eddies; there are opposing streams, and high water is not necessarily the same thing as high tide. The water will sometimes begin to fall before the tide is over. The average speed of the tide lies between 1 and 3 knots (1.15 and 3.45 miles per hour), but at times of very high flow it can reach 7 knots (8 miles per hour). At London Bridge the flood tide runs for almost six hours, while the ebb tide endures for six hours and thirty minutes. The tides are much higher now than at other times in the history of the Thames. There can now be a difference of some 24 feet (7.3 m) between high and low tides, although the average rise in the area of London Bridge is between 15 and 22 feet (4.5 and 6.7 m). In the period of the Roman occupation, it was a little over 3 feet (0.9 m). The high tide, in other words, has risen greatly over a period of two thousand years.
The reason is simple. The south-east of England is sinking slowly into the water at the rate of approximately 12 inches (305 mm) per century. In 4000 BC the land beside the Thames was 46 feet (14 m) higher than it is now, and in 3000 BC it was some 31 feet (9.4 m) higher. When this is combined with the water issuing from the dissolution of the polar ice-caps, the tides moving up the lower reaches of the Thames are increasing at a rate of 2 feet (0.6 m) per century. That is why the recently erected Thames Barrier will not provide protection enough, and another barrier is being proposed.
The tide of course changes in relation to the alignment of earth, moon and sun. Every two weeks the high "spring" tides reach their maximum two days after a full moon, while the low "neap" tides occur at the time of the half-moon. The highest tides occur at the times of equinox; this is the period of maximum danger for those who live and work by the river. The spring tides of late autumn and early spring are also hazardous. It is no wonder that the earliest people by the Thames venerated and propitiated the river.
The general riverscape of the Thames is varied without being in any sense spectacular, the paraphernalia of life ancient and modern clustering around its banks. It is in large part now a domesticated river, having been tamed and controlled by many generations. It is in that sense a piece of artifice, with some of its landscape deliberately planned to blend with the course of the water. It would be possible to write the history of the Thames as a history of a work of art.
It is a work still in slow progress. The Thames has taken the same course for ten thousand years, after it had been nudged southward by the glaciation of the last ice age. The British and Roman earthworks by the Sinodun Hills still border the river, as they did two thousand years before. Given the destructive power of the moving waters, this is a remarkable fact. Its level has varied over the millennia--there is a sudden and unexpected rise at the time of the Anglo-Saxon settlement, for example--and the discovery of submerged forests testifies to incidents of overwhelming flood. Its appearance has of course also altered, having only recently taken the form of a relatively deep and narrow channel, but its persistence and identity through time are an aspect of its power.
Yet of course every stretch has its own character and atmosphere, and every zone has its own history. Out of oppositions comes energy, out of contrasts beauty. There is the overwhelming difference of water within it, varying from the pure freshwater of the source through the brackish zone of estuarial water to the salty water in proximity to the sea. Given the eddies of the current, in fact, there is rather more salt by the Essex shore than by the Kentish shore. There are manifest differences between the riverine landscapes of Lechlade and of Battersea, of Henley and of Gravesend; the upriver calm is in marked contrast to the turbulence of the long stretches known as River of London and then London River. After New Bridge the river becomes wider and deeper, in anticipation of its change.
The rural landscape itself changes from flat to wooded in rapid succession, and there is a great alteration in the nature of the river from the cultivated fields of Dorchester to the thick woods of Cliveden. From Godstow the river becomes a place of recreation, breezy and jaunty with the skiffs and the punts, the sports in Port Meadow and the picnic parties on the banks by Binsey. But then by some change of light it becomes dark green, surrounded by vegetation like a jungle river; and then the traveller begins to see the dwellings of Oxford, and the river changes again. Oxford is a pivotal point. From there you can look upward and consider the quiet source; or you can look downstream and contemplate the coming immensity of London.
In the reaches before Lechlade the water makes its way through isolated pastures; at Wapping and Rotherhithe the dwellings seem to drop into it, as if overwhelmed by numbers. The elements of rusticity and urbanity are nourished equally by the Thames. That is why parts of the river induce calm and forgetfulness, and others provoke anxiety and despair. It is the river of dreams, but it is also the river of suicide. It has been called liquid history because within itself it dissolves and carries all epochs and generations. They ebb and flow like water.
The River as Metaphor
The river runs through the language, and we speak of its influence in every conceivable context. It is employed to characterise life and death, time and destiny; it is used as a metaphor for continuity and dissolution, for intimacy and transitoriness, for art and history, for poetry itself. In The Principles of Psychology (1890) William James first coined the phrase "stream of consciousness" in which "every definite image of the mind is steeped . . . in the free water that flows around it." Thus "it flows" like the river itself. Yet the river is also a token of the unconscious, with its suggestion of depth and invisible life.
The river is a symbol of eternity, in its unending cycle of movement and change. It is one of the few such symbols that can readily be understood, or appreciated, and in the continuing stream the mind or soul can begin to contemplate its own possible immortality.
In the poetry of John Denham's "Cooper's Hill" (1642), the Thames is a metaphor for human life. How slight its beginning, how confident its continuing course, how ineluctable its destination within the great ocean:
Hasting to pay his tribute to the sea,
Like mortal life to meet eternity.
The poetry of the Thames has always emphasised its affiliations with human purpose and with human realities. So the personality of the river changes in the course of its journey from the purity of its origins to the broad reaches of the commercial world. The river in its infancy is undefiled, innocent and clear. By the time it is closely pent in by the city, it has become dank and foul, defiled by greed and speculation. In this regress it is the paradigm of human life and of human history. Yet the river has one great advantage over its metaphoric companions. It returns to its source, and its corruption can be reversed. That is why baptism was once instinctively associated with the river. The Thames has been an emblem of redemption and of renewal, of the hope of escaping from time itself.
When Wordsworth observed the river at low tide, with the vista of the "mighty heart" of London "lying still," he used the imagery of human circulation. It is the image of the river as blood, pulsing through the veins and arteries of its terrain, without which the life of London would seize up. Sir Walter Raleigh, contemplating the Thames from the walk by his cell in the Tower, remarked that the "blood which disperseth itself by the branches or veins through all the body, may be resembled to these waters which are carried by brooks and rivers overall the earth." He wrote his History of the World (1610) from his prison cell, and was deeply imbued with the current of the Thames as a model of human destiny. It has been used as the symbol for the unfolding of events in time, and carries the burden of past events upon its back. For Raleigh the freight of time grew ever more complex and wearisome as it proceeded from its source; human life had become darker and deeper, less pure and more susceptible to the tides of affairs. There was one difference Raleigh noticed in his history, when he declared that "for this tide of man's life, after it once turneth and declineth, ever runneth with a perpetual ebb and falling stream, but never floweth again."
The Thames has also been understood as a mirror of morality. The bending rushes and the yielding willows afford lessons in humility and forbearance; the humble weeds along its banks have been praised for their lowliness and absence of ostentation. And who has ventured upon the river without learning the value of patience, of endurance, and of vigilance? John Denham makes the Thames the subject of native discourse in a further sense:
Though deep, yet clear; though gentle, yet not dull;
Strong without rage; without o'erflowing, full.
This suggests that the river represents an English measure, an aesthetic harmony to be sought or wished for, but in the same breath Denham seems to be adverting to some emblem of Englishness itself. The Thames is a metaphor for the country through which it runs. It is modest and moderate, calm and resourceful; it is powerful without being fierce. It is not flamboyantly impressive. It is large without being too vast. It eschews extremes. It weaves its own course without artificial diversions or interventions. It is useful for all manner of purposes. It is a practical river.
When Robert Menzies, an erstwhile Australian prime minister, was taken to Runnymede he was moved to comment upon the "secret springs" of the "slow English character." This identification of the land with the people, the characteristics of the earth and water with the temperament of their inhabitants, remains a poignant one. There is an inward and intimate association between the river and those who live beside it, even if that association cannot readily be understood.
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Teach your child the importance of good sportsmanship.Not too long ago, my 10-year-old daughter's indoor soccer team finished their game and lined up to do the traditional end-of-game walk with the other team. If your own child has ever played in a team sport, you likely have seen this walk a hundred times before. Win or lose, each member of the team is expected to essentially tell the other players they did well and good game. This is a classic way to end a game on a positive note and to exhibit good sportsmanship, win or lose.
The opposing team in this case, however, had a unique way of showing their good sportsmanship. They all licked their hands before holding them out for our own girls to "low-five" as they walked down the line. Our girls saw this, and they refused to touch the other girls' slimy, slobbery, germ-ridden hands. You may be wondering if our girls' team beat this other team. The truth is that they beat the other team pretty harshly, but there is no score that would justify the level of poor sportsmanship that the other team exhibited.
As a parent, I can only hope the parents or coach on the other team reprimanded their girls for this unsportsmanlike behavior. This is not the kind of behavior any parent would be proud to see in their own child. However, this is just one of many ways unsportsmanlike behavior is exhibited. From tears on the field to pushing, shoving, "trash talking" and more, there are many different behaviors that are associated with poor sportsmanship.
The fact is that good sportsmanship is a quality that can play a role in your child's ability to react to other situations throughout life. Competition may occur on the field, but it also plays a part in the college admission process, a run for a place on the school board, the job application process and so much more. Teaching your child how to be a good sport now can help him or her to handle wins and losses throughout life with grace. So how can you help your child build a healthy "win-or-lose" attitude?
A Positive Parental Role Model
No parent takes pride in seeing other players, either from their child's own team or on the opposing team, be better than their own child. Parents simply want their child to be the best. However, somewhere between the desire to see your kid to aim for the stars and the truth of reality is the fact that there always will be someone or some team that is better. As a parent, you can talk negatively about these better players or better teams, or you can talk positively about them. You can use these interactions with better competition to point out areas where your own child can improve and to teach your child to respect those with skills and talents that are worthy of respect. This is a great opportunity to teach your child to turn lemons into lemonade.
You Win Some, You Lose Some
Very few children really are the best at what they do. There is always someone who either is better now or who is working hard to be better in the near future. A team that was on top this season may not be the top team the next season. While you want your child to work hard and strive to win, it is unrealistic to expect a child or his or her team to win all of the time. Children will inevitably be disappointed after a loss. This is understandable and justified, especially if he or she has been working hard and did his or her personal best. As a parent, your response to a loss is every bit as important as your response to a win. The fact is that an entire team can play their best, and they may simply be out-matched. Teaching kids that losses do happen, even when they try their hardest, can help them to cope with their defeat. Show them that you are proud of their performance and effort at each game rather than letting the tally mark under the "W" column dictate this.
A Lesson Learned
The fact is that a child or a team simply will not improve very quickly when they are blowing out the competition on a regular basis. To be the best, you have to play the best. You have to be challenged by the best, and sometimes this means a loss will occur. Within each game, whether a win or loss, lies an opportunity for growth, development and improvement. After each game, regardless of the outcome, talk to your child about what he or she did well and what he or she thinks could have been done better. Rather than tell your child what you think, ask your child his or her personal opinion on the matter and what the coach said. Then, remind your child that these are areas that he or she can work on for the next game.
Nobody likes to lose, but challenge and loss are the motivators that make us all better. Whether on the field, in the workplace or any number of other environments, challenge and loss are vital to developing that ever-important trait that true winners in life have. That trait is perseverance.Content by Kim Daugherty . | <urn:uuid:efad95cf-5021-4697-ab61-7e73bd8414e7> | 2013-05-18T05:34:10Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Thoughts on a daily. I've been tinkering around sketching, thinking of the upcoming Chinese New Year - Year of the (Water) Dragon. I'm still roughing out sketches, but wondered if anyone had thoughts on this: A baby dragon, Chinese-style but infantile, with just the beginning of a mane, short 'antlers' and such. He's wearing a tube (possibly with rubber ducky head, but probably not). He's smiling at the departing figure of an elderly rabbit, bearded, wearing a cheongsam or kimono and walking with a gnarled stick. The rabbit is holding up two crossed fingers - Hang dai. All is, of course, cartoon-ish, not realistic. If you can visualize, or at least 'get' the concept/references, I'd appreciate feedback. Meanwhile, I'll try to get some sketches smoothed out enough to post.
/edit: I just realized, if I reference the 'water' dragon, I should probably reference the 'metal' rabbit. Hmmmm. But how? | <urn:uuid:d306bc59-ffa1-4e6d-ab55-ca6c9219b18f> | 2013-05-18T07:16:08Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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I'm not sure what someone means by saying it doesn't pass a journalism litmus test - is there such a thing?
Suffice it to say, after games, I have multiple stories to write, and I need to get comments quickly. Per MLS policy, the locker rooms are open after the official press conference. Since the Crew had beaten the Galaxy shorthanded, player reaction was extremely important, so when the official word was given that the Crew locker room was open, I only stayed outside their door for a few comments from Sigi Schmid before following a couple of other reporters inside.
Once inside, I recognized Chilean defender Marcos Gonzalez. He looked startled to see me, but that's not unusual, especially among Hispanic athletes, who don't see a lot of women covering sports. He had a towel wrapped around him, and that followed the mostly covered up rule, so I started to approach him, thinking it would be good to ask him about Guillermo's addition to the team - from a South American perspective. However, he had the weirdest look on his face as I got closer, so I changed my mind and decided to interview instead. Ned was across the room, so I turned my back on Gonzalez and walked away from him, to where a couple of other reporters were stationed in front of Ned's locker. Incidently, Ned had a towel, too. I placed my recorder in front of Ned and waited my turn to ask a question.
Suddenly I heard Gonzalez calling out, "Miss, miss," in Spanish. Next thing I know is not only had he crossed the room to where I was, but he had taken a hold of my elbow and was trying to steer me out the door. He told me, in Spanish, that he didn't feel comfortable with a woman in the locker room and that I needed to leave right away. None of the other reporters knew Spanish, so they didn't know what he was talking about, because I was trying to ignore him. He raised his voice and pushed my shoulder to get my attention. In Spanish, I told Gonzales that I needed locker room access and that I was there to do my job. It didn't faze him - he countered with an offer for me to interview players outside or to come back in after everyone was dressed.
I shook my head and he began to rant about how unreasonable I was being, how he couldn't get dressed with me in the room, etc. I pulled free and tried to get back to my interview. Gonzales kept yelling at me. No one did anything. In hindsight, I was so shaken up, I didn't process that he was speaking Spanish most of the time, and they could have not realized what was going on. He actually switched to English at one point, saying "Not here, you must go outside, now."
I was extremely uncomfortable, and yet I was only trying to do my job. Finally he went away.
Here's the thing where the "God wants modesty" argument falls flat. Players can easily be modest. In the locker room towels are abundant. Players will often come out of the showers with a towel wrapped around their torso, and just pull both their underwear and their pants on before pulling the towel off. It's not that hard, and no one sees anything that one wouldn't see on a public beach. Some players who might worry that a towel could drop off at this maneuver just come out with the towel wrapped around themselves, grab their pants and underwear and go back around the corner towards the shower (no such thing as shower access to the media) to put that on quickly before returning to the locker room. The visitors locker room has a coaches room off to the side that a player could duck into if he's extremely shy.
But even if all that fails, if the wrong moment absolutely happens and a towel drops just as I'm looking around for someone to interview, I think it's crap to pull out the "I've sinned in the eyes of God excuse" and that justifies trying to force someone from doing their job. Come on, if a friend is visiting and walks into the wrong bathroom at the wrong time, is that anything like cheating? What if all the male reporters in the locker room are gay? Do they get a pass on the assumption that that isn't true?
Think about it. You're at work, trying to do your job and someone comes up to you and starts yelling at you to get out, to go away. You'd be completely calm? You'd think that was fine, acceptable behavior because they don't want God mad at them?
I had a hard time focusing after that, and had trouble even remembering what questions I was going to ask. I left quickly after my last interview, since I still had to get quotes from the Galaxy. I forgot completely that I'd been hoping to talk to Guille about joining MLS and helping the Crew.
"Hola senorita," said a quiet voice as I stalked out of the locker room. I didn't turn around, or respond, because I just wanted to get out of there. Only when I was already out in the hallway did I think, "Hey, that might have been Guille, and I was just kind of rude because I'm so upset. Damn it." | <urn:uuid:e49b4ac5-3acb-4746-93d6-eaf73ac0fd86> | 2013-05-18T08:11:02Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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While the market's booming now, it is likely to stabilize for rest of the year and next year.
The U.S. hotel industry is expected to see modest gains for year-end 2012 and in 2013, according to updated U.S. forecast released by STR.
2012: Industry is expected to record a 2.1-percent increase in occupancy to 61.2 percent, an average-daily-rate gain of 4.4 percent to $106.15 and a revenue-per-available-room increase of 6.5 percent to $65.01. Supply and demand are expected to end the year with increases of 0.5 percent and 2.6 percent, respectively.
2013: STR predicts occupancy to be virtually flat with a 0.3-percent increase to 61.4 percent, ADR to rise 4.6 percent to US$111.01 and RevPAR to grow 4.9 percent to $68.17. Supply and demand are forecast to end 2013 with increases of 0.9 percent and 1.2 percent, respectively. | <urn:uuid:a68044fb-0c76-49ac-aa13-fd73f0665108> | 2013-05-18T08:09:19Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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So fundamentally my argument is that whatever scraps of paper exist that might be described as a constitution in the UK merely say that Parliament can do whatever the hell it wants. You're quibbling about the mere existence of those scraps of paper while ignoring my fundamental argument which is that whether they exist or not they have no value whatsoever.
Ok, douchebag. Maybe that quotation wasn't the best one. Look a bit further up on that same wikipedia page, and you'll find this one:
Parliament means, in the mouth of a lawyer (though the word has often a different sense in conversation) The King, the House of Lords, and the House of Commons: these three bodies acting together may be aptly described as the "King in Parliament", and constitute Parliament. The principle of Parliamentary sovereignty mean neither more nor less than this, namely that Parliament thus defined has, under the English constitution, the right to make or unmake any law whatever: and, further, that no person or body is recognised by the law of England as having a right to override or set aside the legislation of Parliament.
—A.V. Dicey Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution (1885)
That's more evidence than you've supplied to the contrary.
Even the ECHR was merely agreed to via an Act of Parliament. A future Parliament would have no legal encumbrance to repealing it. The UK Parliament is supremely sovereign. There's no law in the UK other than, ultimately, what Parliament passes. And there's no law they can't repeal, should they so choose. Their only restraint is custom and electability.
Uh, no. There isn't one. The UK Parliament is supremely sovereign.
What's the difference between a Sunday and a holiday again?
The UK Parliament is supremely sovereign. That means you can be jailed for anything that they say you can be jailed for.
I just want to use my camera. Like virtually all cameras made in the last 20 years, it qualifies as an electronic device. The last time I flew into Newark, I was treated to breathtaking vistas of the Manhattan skyline, including the Empire State building in full plumage. I can't share those memories because of FAA stupidity.
Don't forget this, btw... The US did not declare war against Germany until Germany made such a declaration first, after the US declared war on Japan. Germany was not bound by the tri-partite pact to honor Japan's "de-facto" declaration of war (to wit, the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor), and it's quite possible that had Hitler not so declared that the US might have gone on to fight a one-front war against Japan only. I (and I don't believe I am alone in this) regard Germany's declaration of war against the US to be Hitler's first major blunder (not counting things before his rise to power, like the Beer Hall Putsch).
So... Microsoft's "research" seems to come from reading competitor's product specifications: my AirPort Extreme has been doing this for my network of macs for ages now - ever since Snow Leopard came out.
This is WoL combined with a proxy. Whenever the target machine is asleep, the proxy continues to respond (in this case) to Bonjour requests. When someone attempts to actually connect to the machine, the proxy sends a WoL packet out and then when the original host wakes up, it will hear from the requesting host and proceed as normal.
The one thing that's a little weird about this is that the AirPort extreme will actually wake the target machine up every few hours to make sure it's still there.
I've been using 6to4 ever since the 6bone shut down, and I've had no problems with it. In fact, it seems to me there are only two possible problems with 6to4 generally:
1. Bastard ISPs could, if they deeply inspect packets, see 6-in-4 packets generally as different or undesirable or whatever and do bad things like they do with bittorrent.
2. The 6to4 anycast default route as a mechanism to get from 6to4 space to the "real" IPv6 space can sometimes send your packets to a non-optimal gateway. The fix for this is simply for more such gateways to be created - preferably one (or more) per ISP - so that the traffic can be routed optimally.
I wanted to opt into Google over IPv6, but when I wrote them they told me to pound sand because I was using 6to4.
This is bullshit. There is always a couple of seconds where your light is red, but the other lights in the intersection are not yet green. Care to guess why it was designed that way?
Because someone was asleep at the switch.
It used to be that the light turned green immediately after the light the other way turned red. Everybody knew this, and gave the yellow light a lot more respect than they do today.
Then some numb-nut thought it would be a good idea to separate the end of the yellow from the beginning of the (opposing) green. And as soon as they did, people adapted and yellow lights lost a measure of the respect they had before.
And now, there's no going back. It would be unsafe to get rid of the buffer because it's expected now.
Of course, if you never start the computation at all then you never get results.
The terminating condition is knowing when Moore's law will fail.... far enough in advance to know when it is optimal to begin computation.
Um, if you wanted to use a circle as a metaphor for the year, then 2 pi radians would be a full circle, so wouldn't it make more sense to make it the day half way through the year (pi radians)?
Um, that's why they're battery operated. | <urn:uuid:ba404a30-1c0a-4b9d-b332-3ab4c0952632> | 2013-05-18T05:34:38Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Graced with a quick, sometimes sung delivery, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony burst out of the Midwest in the mid-'90s with a pair of massive hits ("Thuggish Ruggish Bone" and "Tha Crossroads") along with a great album (E 1999 Eternal) and then quickly unraveled. Eazy-E signed the group — initially comprised of Krayzie Bone, Wish Bone, Flesh-N-Bone, Layzie Bone, and Bizzy Bone — to Ruthless Records and released a debut EP, Creepin on ah Come Up (1994). The EP boasted "Thuggish Ruggish Bone," a conventional G-funk song with an unconventional array of Bone Thug rappers that became an overnight summer anthem, especially throughout the Midwest. Amid the fervor, the Cleveland rap group entered the studio immediately and emerged with a remarkable album, E 1999 Eternal (1995). The album topped the charts and spawned a pair of popular singles, "1st of the Month" and "Tha Crossroads," the latter a Grammy Award recipient. It was all downhill from here for Bone, unfortunately. As was in vogue at the time, the group members pursued respective solo careers and also a Mo Thugs Family spinoff group; none of these ventures was fruitful. At this point, the onetime cohesive group, who specialized in interwoven, harmonious singing as well as rapping, became conflicted and failed to collaborate well, particularly after their ambitious double-disc Art of War (1997) sold poorly. A second round of solo albums sold even more poorly, and Bone became somewhat of a has-been. Occasional reunions such as BTNHResurrection (2000) and Thug World Order (2002) produced occasional moments of glory, but these were brief and few and far between. In 2005 the band reunited again minus Bizzy Bone. In September of that year the Internet-only release Bone 4 Life appeared. Then in 2006, it was announced that Bone had signed to Swizz Beatz's Full Surface Records, which was distributed by Interscope. Their first album for the label, Strength & Loyalty, appeared in the spring of 2007 with guest spots from the Game, Mariah Carey, Akon, Bow Wow, and Twista. | <urn:uuid:07cb7aea-d31d-481c-97bc-df9b8aa92350> | 2013-05-18T08:09:34Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Let and be two differentiable functions. We will say that and are proportional if and only if there exists a constant C such that . Clearly any function is proportional to the zero-function. If the constant C is not important in nature and we are only interested into the proportionality of the two functions, then we would like to come up with an equivalent criteria. The following statements are equivalent:
Therefore, we have the following:
Define the Wronskian of and to be , that is
The following formula is very useful (see reduction of order technique):
Remark: Proportionality of two functions is equivalent to their linear dependence. Following the above discussion, we may use the Wronskian to determine the dependence or independence of two functions. In fact, the above discussion cannot be reproduced as is for more than two functions while the Wronskian does.... | <urn:uuid:b7bc34b8-0f1f-4df8-8e8d-e56fc9c8fec5> | 2013-05-18T08:07:38Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Soccer betting odds
After Schalke slipped to a 2-1 loss to Stuttgart last week, Freiburg know that a fourth straight Bundesliga win at the Mage Solar Stadion will see them pip the Miners to a Champions League spot.
Real Sociedad's next stop in their challenge for Spain's final Champions League place is at the Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán. Can the Basque country side stay ahead of Valencia with victory over Sevilla?
A win for Spurs against Sunderland will ensure fourth place and secure the riches of Champions League football next season - but only if chief rivals Arsenal drop points against Newcastle.
Can Freiburg claim a third straight victory over Schalke?...
Sevilla clash with Sociedad in the race for fourth spot...
Can Tottenham secure a fourth-place finish?...
- Goal Rush Coupon
- Premier League Matches
- Championship Playoff Final
- French Matches
- Spanish Matches
- Scottish Matches
- Italian Matches
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Can No Key request limit to 1000 for a certain amount of time?
Temporarily, May be 1 week or 2 weeks?
I think you should register a Key.
Quoting the Key documentation:
I would also check this question: Is it appropriate to register for a “Dev” app key? | <urn:uuid:70cc8d7c-576e-482a-a1ef-81aaaf4c335f> | 2013-05-18T08:07:26Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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In GHCI prelude> using :t for finding the types of functions:
(.) :: (b -> c) -> (a -> b) -> a -> c (:) :: a -> [a] -> [a] ((.)(:)) :: (a -> b) -> a -> [b] -> [b] -- (what happened here?)
I understand the result of the single functions, but when partially applied I do not.
what is the type of map map ? I found an answer on this page, how to do this algebraically. But I have a problem applying the same method on the
What is the method when you want to know the type of
((.)(:))? Is there a way of thinking that can be used for any partial application of a function?
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I need to loop through all n-bit integers which has at most k bits ON (bits 1), where 0 < n <= 32 and 0 <= k <= n. For example, if n = 4 and k = 2 then these numbers are (in binary digits): 0000, 0001, 0010, 0100, 1000, 0011, 0101, 0110, 1001, 1010, 1100. The order in which these numbers are looped through is not important, but each is visited only once.
Currently I am using this straightforward algorithm:
for x = 0 to (2^n - 1) count number of bits 1 in x if count <= k do something with x end if end for
I think this algorithm is inefficient because it has to loop through too many numbers. For example, if n = 32 and k = 2 then it has to loop through 2^32 numbers to find only 529 numbers (which have <= 2 bits 1).
My question is: is there any more efficient algorithm to do this? | <urn:uuid:4e381653-ef77-4d66-915d-10133a699efb> | 2013-05-18T06:22:17Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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There are several commands that have esoteric options that I don't use often. For example, git has 'check-attr'. I use 'git checkout' very often, however, so I'd like, git ch to complete to git checkout or show a menu without check-attr in it. I can do this with zstyle ... ignored-patterns.
However, I'd still like to complete 'git check-attr' if nothing else matches (if I actually do want to run check-attr).
It seems that the 'hidden' zstyle is for me, but how can I specify a value (not just a tag) in the completion context? I.e. I'd like something like, zstyle ':completion:::git::' hidden-patterns 'check-attr'
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Bayesian Fisher's discriminantThis page describes how to use the so-called Bayesian Fisher Discriminant (BFD) software, which is available for download here. Please note that in the subsequent discussion we will be using these references:
Current release is 0.12
Release 0.12 was used for the experiments presented in . The code was written with flexibility in mind so probably there is room to make improvements in terms of efficiency of computation.
Release 0.11 corresponds to the results presented in .
The BFD software requires some functions, written by Neil D. Lawrence, that have been put together in form of the NDLUTIL toolbox. You may access this toolbox with the username and password you are given when you register for the BFD toolbox. There are many versions of this toolbox but we recommend only a few of them in order to obatin the results of .
To obtain the classification results for benchmark data it will be necessary to download Gunnar Rätsch's data, available at . You will also need the function normal, written by Ian T. Nabney. Note: this function does not belong to the Netlab toolbox, but is rather a worked example.
Please give a read to the readme.txt file that comes in this distribution to have more details about the installation procedure.
The experiments with synthetic data, presented in , can be recreated by using the function
Given the inputs and we have implemented the RBF prior in the following way,
where the parameter vector .
The ARD-composed kernel is defined as
with a vector of parameters given by . This kernel is composed of four parts: RBF-ARD, LINEAR-ARD, BIAS and NOISE parts, thus giving its name of `composed'.
Just run the following commands from Matlab's command prompt
For each dataset (
Classification of synthetic datasets using an RBF kernel. Two classes are shown as pluses and circles. The separating line, in blue, was obtained by projecting test data over a grid. The dotted line indicates points at 1/4 of the distance, as measured in projected space, from the decision boundary to the class mean. The blue line was obtained after training a BFD model by maximising the marginal log-likelihood, L. Left: Spiral data, with bound after training L=658.6107. Right: Overlap data with final bound L=638.5258.
In both problems the parameters were initialised to .
Left: Bumpy data with final bound L=609.0547. Right: Relevance data, with bound L=895.7308.
For both problems the initial parameters were set to .
In order to run experiments with the ARD-composed kernel, it is necessary to use a different value for the variable
The script should produce the plots shown below.
Left: Spiral data, with final L=674.2042. In this experiment we initialised and the rest of parameters
Right: Overlap data, with final L=650.0908. This experiment used as initial parameters .
Left: Bumpy data, with final L=636.8442. Right: Relevance data, with final L=998.9992.
In both problems we used an initial.
Generating ROC curves and computing AUC's
There are several demos included in this distribution and two of them were specifically written to obtain some of the results presented in Table 1 of reference . More specifically, these demos generate ROC curves for either banana or breast-cancer data and then obtain statistics related to the AUC's (area under ROC curves).
The first demo can be run from the command-line as shown below
After execution, a file
The second demo does the analogue process for breast-cancer. Hence it is required to run
Note on ROC curves
During execution of either of the scripts (
Some ROC curves of the test instances of banana. Left: First instance. Right: Second instance.
Some ROC curves of the test instances of breast-cancer. Left: First instance. Right: Second instance.
Additional ROC-AUC demo
An extra script obtains ROC curves (and additional statistics) for the heart dataset; this time according to the results of Table 2 of reference . Again, it is only a matter of running a script.
The result file should look as follows.
Generating histograms of projected data
The histograms presented in Figure 10 of reference can be created by running two scripts. The first script
will display and save on file the histograms of twonorm projected data. All files related the histograms of twonorm will be stored in a directory
Left: Histogram of projected data for training instances of twonorm Right: Histogram of projected data for test instances of twonorm.
The batch of histograms of waveform are obtained by running the script
which generates plots like the following ones.
Left: Histogram of projected data for training instances of waveform Right: Histogram of projected data for test instances of waveform
Other experimentsFurther experiments can be carried out by modifying the scripts previously mentioned of by using the functions
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Who is responsible
Similar issue for test & quality: if test coverage is only limited, bugs are seldomly found during testing, or tests themselves are faulty, then you could finger point to testers and developers. However, it is your job as an architect to deal with quality. Don't try to escape your responsibility in this area. Test First Design makes it very clear that testing requires the different roles to cooperate.
What about business aspects? I know, you got this product manager who is in charge of all business aspects. But software architects are responsible in helping develop the technology roadmap, identifying patents, estimating the business implication of architecture decisions. Even more, architects must base every architectural decision on requirements and business needs.
Hmmh, what about project management? Of course, an architect should not be forced to also act as a project manager. These two rules are very difficult to live at the same time in the same project. But what if project management needs to estimate costs and resources? Here the software architect needs to provide support. What skills do developers need? How many developers and how much time are necessary to develop subsystem A.
I don't claim that architects shuld be jack of all trades but masters of none. Their main focus should be on software architecture. However, they cannot ignore what is happening on the boundaries between software architecture and the rest of the project. They should feel responsible for project success. | <urn:uuid:f3d7a2d3-b4e0-46f1-af2c-1b4fa573da51> | 2013-05-18T08:07:09Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Mercury in the Morning
The planet Mercury -- the planet closest to the Sun -- is just peeking into view in the east at dawn the next few days. It looks like a fairly bright star. It's so low in the sky, though, that you need a clear horizon to spot it, and binoculars wouldn't hurt.
Mercury is a bit of a puzzle. It has a big core that's made mainly of iron, so it's quite dense. Because Mercury is so small, the core long ago should've cooled enough to form a solid ball. Yet the planet generates a weak magnetic field, hinting that the core is still at least partially molten.
The solution to this puzzle may involve an iron "snow" deep within the core.
The iron in the core is probably mixed with sulfur, which has a lower melting temperature than iron. Recent models suggest that the sulfur may have kept the outer part of the core from solidifying -- it's still a hot, thick liquid.
As this mixture cools, though, the iron "freezes" before the sulfur does. Small bits of solid iron fall toward the center of the planet. This creates convection currents -- like a pot of boiling water. The motion is enough to create a "dynamo" effect. Like a generator, it produces electrical currents, which in turn create a magnetic field around the planet.
Observations earlier this year by the Messenger spacecraft seem to support that idea. But Messenger will provide much better readings of what's going on inside Mercury when it enters orbit around the planet in 2011.
Script by Damond Benningfield, Copyright 2008
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- «Galaxy = needs T7 + Jedi // T7 = ready for next mission»
T7-O1, known affectionately as Teeseven or T7, was a T7-series astromech droid active during the Great Galactic War, the Cold War, and the renewed war between the Galactic Republic and the Sith Empire. Manufactured by Duwani Mechanical Products sometime before 3,837 BBY, the astromech droid did not undergo a memory wipe during his entire lifetime, allowing him to develop a strong personality and preserve the memories of the dozen or so partners he worked with throughout the years. Originally a repair and pilot droid, Teeseven began working with the Jedi Order in the years before the Great Galactic War as the partner of Jedi Master Ven Zallow, and he went undercover for the Jedi and the Republic Strategic Information Service on multiple occasions during the conflict. Surviving the Sacking of Coruscant and the fall of the Jedi Temple at the end of the war, Teeseven served as a reconnaissance droid for the Order on their homeworld of Tython for much of the Cold War before teaming up with a young Jedi who was the former apprentice of Jedi Master Orgus Din.
Alongside his friend and the Jedi's apprentice Kira Carsen, Teeseven played a pivotal role in halting the plot of the Sith Lord Darth Angral to assault the Republic using stolen superweapons, and after the Knight received the title of Hero of Tython the droid continued to travel the galaxy with his partners. Teeseven's service with the Hero of Tython eventually culminated in a plan to capture the Sith Emperor himself, and the droid accompanied the Hero of Tython during an assault on the Sith capital of Dromund Kaas. The two managed to gain entry to the Emperor's throne room and defeated the Emperor in a fierce confrontation. Afterwards, Teeseven and the rest of the Hero of Tython's companions were awarded the Cross of Glory for their pivotal role in ending the threat of the Sith Empire.
- "T7! Prep the ion cannons!"
- ―Nico Okarr to T7-O1
A T7-series astromech droid produced by Duwani Mechanical Products, T7-O1 was constructed sometime before 3,837 BBY as a standard factory-spec astromech. Over the next century and a half, Teeseven passed from owner to owner—whom the droid referred to as "partners"—without ever undergoing a memory wipe. This led Teeseven to develop a personality and preserved the droid's memories of all of his former partners. Approximately one hundred years after his creation, Teeseven was assigned as a Senate legislation analyst under Senator Oodora of Manaan. Oodora promoted the astromech after his first year, and Teeseven soon became the Senator's campaign manager and speech writer throughout Oodora's four consecutive terms. When the Senator retired after twenty years of working with Teeseven, the droid began working with a Rodian named Shafu—who, unbeknownst to Teeseven, was a slaver.
Teeseven served Shafu faithfully as a navigator, piloting the Rodian's ship and never entering the cargo hold. However, Shafu was eventually captured by a Jedi named Ven Zallow, who convinced Shafu to turn over a new leaf instead of turning him over to the authorities. At Zallow's request, Shafu became a confidential informant for the Order, and in gratitude the Rodian gave Teeseven to the Jedi. By 3,681 BBY, Zallow had sent Teeseven undercover to work with the smuggler Nico Okarr, and the droid served as the human's mechanic and aide on his XS stock light freighter Redshifter. While attempting to smuggle Sith artifacts off the planet, Okarr and Teeseven were captured by Republic forces over the Sith homeworld of Korriban, and the Republic arrested Okarr and impounded the smuggler's ship with Teeseven aboard the Republic space station in the Horuset system.
However, Okarr's transfer to a holding cell was interrupted by the arrival of the Sith Empire. A massive fleet arrived in-system and launched an offensive against the station, intending to retake their homeworld. As the smuggler's ship was the only one fast enough to escape the Sith fighters, Jedi Knight Satele Shan and her master decided to use it to escape in order to warn the Republic. Teeseven had been on-board the ship performing maintenance as the hangar came under assault by Sith forces, and the smuggler instructed him to prepare the ship's weapons in preparation for their escape. The smuggler and his passengers, including Teeseven, were ultimately able to escape their pursuers and bring word to the Republic of the oncoming Sith threat.
Leaving Okarr's service sometime after Korriban and returning to Master Zallow, Teeseven worked with the Jedi Order throughout much of the Great Galactic War. By that time, he had worked with a total of eleven partners, including Zallow, Oodora, a doctor, mechanic, Shafu, a Senatorial aide, and Okarr. Around 3,663 BBY, Zallow lent Teeseven to the Republic Strategic Information Service for a single mission. The intelligence agency sent the droid undercover to protect a Muun ambassador from the secretive bounty hunter guild known as the GenoHaradan. During the assignment, Teeseven was successfully able to detect the assassin in the crowd and discharged a stun bolt, but the assassin escaped into the crowd. The ambassador retired in fear, leaving Teeseven depressed and believing that he never truly completed his mission.
Service to the OrderEdit
The fall of CoruscantEdit
"You know this astromech?"
"It was Master Zallow's droid."
- ―Aryn Leneer and Zeerid Korr
In 3,653 BBY, Teeseven was present on the Republic's capital planet of Coruscant with Ven Zallow when the Jedi Temple was attacked by a Sith strike force under the leadership of the Sith Lord Darth Malgus. Zallow ordered his astromech companion to stay hidden and record the battle in case of a Jedi defeat, though the droid emerged briefly to warn the Jedi Master of Darth Malgus' approach during the fighting. Teeseven returned to his hiding place and watched as Zallow was slain in battle with Malgus, and he escaped into the tunnels beneath the Temple as the battle turned against the Jedi. Teeseven attempted to return to Zallow's body after the fighting ended and managed to recover his lightsaber, but the Sith planted explosives and the droid was forced to retreat deeper into the lower levels of Coruscant as the Temple was brought down. A damaged Teeseven remained there for quite some time before he encountered Zallow's former apprentice Aryn Leneer and the smuggler Zeerid Korr, who were attempting to find out who had killed Zallow. After explaining what had transpired at the Temple, Teeseven accompanied the pair to the Temple's backup surveillance station, and he was able to restore power to the systems in order to show Leneer recordings of the Temple's fall. He paused and resumed the recording as per Leneer's instructions, allowing her to discover the identity of Zallow's killer, and he copied the recording for Leneer to peruse later when the trio departed.
T7 and the two Humans hid in an abandoned apartment building after leaving the Temple ruins, and he stayed with Leneer while Korr scouted the nearby Liston Spaceport. Leneer departed during the night despite T7's protests, and the droid later followed the Jedi Knight to the Temple with Korr when the smuggler returned. There, the two found Darth Malgus and Leneer embroiled in a fierce duel, but Korr interrupted the fight in fear of her falling to the dark side and helped Leneer escape. Leneer then decided to pursue Malgus' Twi'lek lover, Eleena Daru, in her quest for revenge, and as part of her plan the trio fell from their speeder onto the top of the spaceport. Leneer slowed T7's descent with the Force, and the droid hacked into the spaceport's systems and triggered the facility's fire suppression and safety systems with a false signal that tricked the network's sensors into detecting a fuel gas leak. As a result, evacuation alarms were triggered in Landing Bay 16-B—the hangar used by the shuttles belonging to Daru and her team—and the hangar's launch doors openned, allowing Leneer to enter and attack Daru. At Korr's orders, T7 hacked into the Dragonfly-class dropship Razor in the landing bay, but the droid decided to remain behind with Leneer after she decided not to kill Daru. Teeseven hid in the shadows of the hangar while the Knight confronted Malgus, and the two departed Coruscant aboard Daru's shuttle after Leneer threatened the Twi'lek to ensured her own safety.
The Tython uprisingEdit
While Leneer left the Order and traveled to the planet Dantooine to live with Korr, Teeseven returned to the Order's service, and when the Jedi Order left Coruscant in 3,650 BBY, Teeseven accompanied them to the Order's long-lost homeworld of Tython. Teeseven served as a reconnaissance droid for the Order over the next few years, scouting Tython's wilderness and identifying hazards. In 3,643 BBY, Teeseven was sent out along with nineteen other droids as long-range probes, but he was captured by a group of Flesh Raiders, a violent species native to Tython, near the Flesh Raider-controlled Tythos Ridge region. Locked inside a weapons cache in the Upper Hollows cave system, Teeseven faked deactivation and recorded a meeting between the Dark Jedi Callef and a hooded figure whom Callef called Master.
When the apprentice of Jedi Master Orgus Din raided the weapons cache for the Pilgrims of Kalikori Village, the Padawan freed T7 and removed the restraining bolt that the Flesh Raiders had attached to the droid. In thanks, T7 showed the Jedi the recording it had secretly made while pretending to be deactivated: a hooded figure, giving orders to the Dark Jedi Callef—whom the Padawan had defeated earlier—and the Flesh Raiders. Callef referred to the figure as his master, and the pair seemed determined to destroy the Jedi Order.
Having discovered the source of the Flesh Raiders' sudden increase in violence, the Padawan and the other Jedi set out to stop Bengel Morr and prevent further casualties. T7's later accompanied the Padawan in rescuing Orgus Din after the latter was lured into a trap and captured by Bengel Morr. Morr revealed himself as Orgus Din's former apprentice and was assumed to have been killed during the Sacking of Coruscant, and his rage at his perceived weakness of the Jedi left him seeking vengeance on the Order. Before he could slay Orgus Din, the Padawan and T7 intervened, defeating Morr and saving the Jedi Master. The Padawan was then elevated to the rank of Knight for the Jedi's role in ending the Flesh Raider threat, and T7 looked on as the newly promoted Knight constructed their first lightsaber. When the Knight was then dispatched to the capital of Coruscant to aid Jedi Master Bela Kiwiiks and her Padawan in dealing with a new threat, T7-O1 decided to remain with the Knight as the droid felt they were a formidable team.
Partners and heroesEdit
On Coruscant, T7-O1, the Knight and Orgus Din were brought up to speed on the situation by Master Kiwiiks. They were introduced to Republic scientist Eli Tarnis and General Var Suthra, who informed them that the plans for a Republic superweapon known as the Planet Prison had been stolen, and the Jedi had been called in to help retrieve them. Working with Kira Carsen and Agent Galen of the Republic Strategic Information Service, T7-O1 and the Knight tracked the stolen plans first to a Rodian slicer then to the Black Sun criminial syndicate. The mission then became more complicated as the two learned that Tarnis had been kidnapped by Black Sun. After one failed attempt to rescue Tarnis, T7-O1 and the Knight were informed by General Suthra that the stolen plans had also contained information about every Republic superweapon in development, not just the Planet Prison. Masters Din and Kiwiiks, as well as Agent Galen then departed Coruscant to secure the sites of the compromised superweapons while the Knight and T7-O1 launched an assault on the headquarters of Black Sun in order to rescue Tarnis.
With the aid of the Coruscant Security Force, T7-O1 and the Knight fought their way to the Black Sun command center, where they found the Black Sun leader in a holocall with Tarnis, who revealed himself to be a Sith Lord. After defeating Salarr, T7-O1 and the Knight were told by Carsen that Tarnis had stolen the Planet Prison prototype and intended to use it on Coruscant. The three then pursued the Sith Lord first to the Justicars' Sector, where they found the murdered engineering team behind the Planet Prison, then to the ruins of the Jedi Temple, where they found Tarnis in a call with four Sith Lords, including his father, Darth Angral. Tarnis was slain by the Knight in combat and the activation of the Planet Prison was narrowly averted. Infuriated by his son's death, Angral promised to have vengeance on the Republic and the Knight in particular.
Upon reporting in to General Suthra and Grand Master Satele Shan, the Knight was told that Din, Kiwiiks and Galen had all failed to report in, and General Suthra feared that Angral had already seized control of the superweapons. The general then gave the Knight a Defender-class light corvette for use as their personal starship as well as the location of one of Angral's bases on the planet of Ord Mantell, and asked the Knight to look into it. With Kira Carsen in tow as the Knight's new Padawan, the group then departed Coruscant for Ord Mantell. Upon arriving on Ord Mantell, T7-O1 and the Knight made their way to Angral's hidden base and fought their way into the command center of the facility. With the base's defenders dealt with, T7-O1 accessed the facility's databanks and found files indicating that Angral was planning to combine aspects of several Republic superweapon programs into a single project, which was codenamed the "Desolator." The files additionally contained intelligence indicating that Angral had sent agents to various worlds to where Republic superweapons were under development.
With this information in hand, T7-O1 continued to accompany the Knight as they traveled to the worlds of Taris, Nar Shaddaa, Tatooine and Alderaan in order to chase down Angral's agents and secure the superweapons. As a result of these travels the Knight and his companions rescued Doctor Nasan Godera , a former Republic weapons designer and destroyed the prototypes of the Power Guard Project, the Shock Drum and the Death Mark, each of which was a Republic superweapon seized by Angral's forces, rescuing Agent Galen and Masters Kiwiiks and Din in the process. Unfortunately the Knight and his companions learned from General Var Suthra that Angral had already succeeded in combining the superweapons technology into the Desolator, which he had mounted on his flagship. The Knight and his companions pursued Angral to the Republic agriworld Uphrades but arrived to find that the world had already been devastated by Angral's superweapon.
Personality and programmingEdit
Equipment and descriptionEdit
Behind the scenesEdit
T7-O1 is a companion character for the Jedi Knight class of Star Wars: The Old Republic, a MMORPG released by BioWare on December 20, 2011. He first appeared in the Deceived cinematic trailer for the game, briefly warning Ven Zallow of the approach of Darth Malgus, and also appears in the related novel Star Wars: The Old Republic: Deceived, which is set directly following the trailer. T7 would also appear in the third and final trailer for the game, Return, in the service of Nico Okarr.
Like all other pages on the site, T7-O1's HoloNet page on the official Star Wars: The Old Republic website features three phrases written in Aurebesh. The first, "accidental slaver", refers to T7-O1's work with the slaver Shahtfu before the Rodian's change of heart, and the second, "Flesh Raider collectable", is an allusion to how T7-O1 is captured by Flesh Raiders just before the player encounters him in the mission "High-Tech Savages". The last phrase, "The Exploding Starships Conspiracy", refers to the work of the bounty hunter Terrin Sandafar, who killed Shafu and the Alderaanian noble Eckhorn Baliss by setting their ships to explode at the orders of Senator Verre Sydia's husband.
T7-O1 also appears as a minifigure in a LEGO set; namely 9497 Republic Striker Starfighter, a set composed of a Talon-class Republic starfighter as well as a Republic trooper and Satele Shan as she appears in the Hope cinematic trailer.
- Star Wars: The Old Republic: Deceived
- Deceived (First appearance)
- Star Wars: The Old Republic
- Star Wars: The Old Republic: Rise of the Hutt Cartel
- "Exploring The Old Republic"—Star Wars Insider 121
- The Art and Making of Star Wars: The Old Republic
- The Journal of Master Gnost-Dural
- Star Wars: The Old Republic Encyclopedia
Notes and referencesEdit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Star Wars: The Old Republic Encyclopedia
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Star Wars: The Old Republic: Deceived
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Deceived cinematic trailer
- ↑ Using a cutscene where T7-O1 is next to a Jawa, a species whose average height is 1 meter, a ratio of approximately 1 to 1.15 was found for the heights of the Jawa and the droid. The Jawa is the same height as all other Jawas found in Star Wars: The Old Republic.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 Star Wars: The Old Republic—Jedi Knight Mission: "High-Tech Savages" on Tython
- ↑ Star Wars: The Old Republic—T7-O1 Ability: "Weapons Proficiencies"
- ↑ Star Wars: The Old Republic—T7-O1 Ability: "Frag Grenade"
- ↑ Star Wars: The Old Republic—T7-O1 Ability: "Flameguard"
- ↑ Star Wars: The Old Republic—T7-O1 Ability: "EMP Blast"
- ↑ Star Wars: The Old Republic—T7-O1 Ability: "Deploy Shields"
- ↑ Star Wars: The Old Republic—Jedi Knight Mission: "The Shock Drum" on Tatooine
- ↑ Star Wars: The Old Republic—T7-O1 Ability: "Flare Gun"
- ↑ Star Wars: The Old Republic—T7-O1 Ability: "Intercept"
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 Star Wars: The Old Republic—Conversation with T7-O1: "The Assassination"
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 Star Wars: The Old Republic—Conversation with T7-O1: "Slaver's Redemption"
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 Star Wars: The Old Republic—Conversation with T7-O1: "The Traitor"
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 Return (cinematic trailer)
- ↑ Using comments and information from Star Wars: The Old Republic 8: The Lost Suns, Part 2, The Last Battle of Colonel Jace Malcom, and Star Wars: The Old Republic: Annihilation, it is possible to place the events of the Prologue and Act I for the Jedi Knight, Smuggler, and Trooper classes in Star Wars: The Old Republic in 3,643 BBY, the general events of Act II in 3,642 BBY, and the events of Act III for all classes in 3,641 BBY. Subtracting 20 years from 3,643 BBY results in a date of 3,663 BBY.
- ↑ The Journal of Master Gnost-Dural
- ↑ Using comments and information from Star Wars: The Old Republic 8: The Lost Suns, Part 2, The Last Battle of Colonel Jace Malcom, and Star Wars: The Old Republic: Annihilation, it is possible to place the events of the Prologue and Act I for the Jedi Knight, Smuggler, and Trooper classes in Star Wars: The Old Republic in 3,643 BBY, the general events of Act II in 3,642 BBY, and the events of Act III for all classes in 3,641 BBY.
- ↑ Star Wars: The Old Republic—Jedi Knight Mission: "Attack of the Flesh Raiders" on Tython
- ↑ Star Wars: The Old Republic—Jedi Knight Mission: "The Face of the Enemy" on Tython
- ↑ Star Wars: The Old Republic—Jedi Knight Mission: "The Jedi Envoy" on Coruscant
- ↑ Star Wars: The Old Republic—Jedi Knight Mission: "Stolen Secrets" on Coruscant
- ↑ 26.0 26.1 Star Wars: The Old Republic—Jedi Knight Mission: "Kidnapped!" on Coruscant
- ↑ Star Wars: The Old Republic—Jedi Knight Mission: "Tracking Down the Traitor" on Coruscant
- ↑ Star Wars: The Old Republic—Jedi Knight Mission: "New Intelligence" on Ord Mantell
- ↑ Star Wars: The Old Republic—Jedi Knight Mission: "The Architect of Annihilation" on Taris
- ↑ Star Wars: The Old Republic—Jedi Knight Mission: "The Search for Agent Galen" on Nar Shaddaa
- ↑ Star Wars: The Old Republic—Jedi Knight Mission: "The Shock Drum" on Tatooine
- ↑ Star Wars: The Old Republic—Jedi Knight Mission: "The Death Mark" on Alderaan
- ↑ Star Wars: The Old Republic—Jedi Knight Mission: "Showdown with Lord Sadic" on Nar Shaddaa
- ↑ Star Wars: The Old Republic—Jedi Knight Mission: "The Sand Demon's Lair" on Tatooine
- ↑ Star Wars: The Old Republic—Jedi Knight Mission: "Siege Mentality" on Alderaan
- ↑ Star Wars: The Old Republic—Jedi Knight Mission: "Uphrades" on Uphrades | <urn:uuid:e44a3ff1-9c16-47fb-a745-42e3d1cfdb82> | 2013-05-18T06:53:47Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Paternos: Late coach didn't cover up at Penn State
By GENARO C. ARMAS
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) Former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno didn't cover up for retired defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky when he was accused of molesting boys and didn't act to hinder an investigation of him, Paterno's family said Tuesday.
Paterno's family also called Sandusky, who was convicted last month of sexually abusing 10 boys, some on campus, a "master deceiver" in a lengthy statement released after former FBI director Louis Freeh announced he would unveil the findings of his investigation into the scandal on Thursday.
Freeh was hired to investigate by the Penn State trustees, who ousted Paterno days after Sandusky was arrested in November.
Sandusky is awaiting sentencing after being convicted last month of 45 criminal counts. He maintains his innocence.
Paterno's family said Paterno "did not know that Jerry Sandusky was a pedophile."
"Joe Paterno did not act in any way to prevent a proper investigation of Jerry Sandusky," the family said. "To claim otherwise is a distortion of the truth."
Paterno's family said the Freeh team declined its offer to respond to recent news leaks after the family asked to review the findings.
The Hall of Fame coach supported the trustees' decision to hire Freeh to conduct a thorough investigation, but the recent leaks raised questions about fairness and confidentiality, the family said.
Paterno had issued in December a statement that said he relayed graduate assistant Mike McQueary's report in 2001 of seeing Sandusky with a boy in the team shower to athletic director Tim Curley and "that was the last time the matter was brought to my attention."
CNN reported last week on an excerpted email from Curley in which he indicated he changed his mind about going to child welfare authorities after speaking with Paterno. The report led to renewed public scrutiny on whether the longtime coach took a more active role in the decision than what he described.
The family said the "media spin that this is proof of some sort of cover up is completely false."
"When the facts come out," the family said, "it will be clear that Joe Paterno never gave Tim Curley any instructions to protect Sandusky or limit any investigation of his actions."
Paterno, his family said, never got a chance to present his case to the university before he died in January of lung cancer at age 85.
The coach had described the abuse scandal as one of the great sorrows of his life. Just before his firing, he acknowledged he wished he had done more after hearing about the allegations against Sandusky. His family said he is the only person to publicly acknowledge that sentiment.
Curley and retired Penn State vice president Gary Schultz are awaiting trial on charges they failed to properly report suspected child abuse and lied to a grand jury in the Sandusky case. They deny the allegations against them and have sought to have the charges dismissed.
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wow...and let's all be honest. It's so easy to find someone's info on the net. =(
Why didn't he just take all the stuff himself?
I personally think it's the person who got evicted from the house and they did that for revenge. =\ Actually that's quite obvious, dont wanna sound like some smart ass or something.
^'cos someone stole it.
Those people who even looted the place didn't even think twice. wouldn't it be suspicious if somebody said that they can take anything they want out of their place?
oh well thats life. and on a completely different note. I'm currently dealing with the police because of some dodgy guest who's currently staying here. ugh my peaceful night is ruin. stupid stupid guest >:( (waiting for them to come down, they're currently interviewing everyone in the room) | <urn:uuid:2781a13e-b5fb-4551-8f9e-5541df684434> | 2013-05-18T05:26:39Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Requirements for proficiency in Norwegian
The Norwegian language is the primary language of instruction at Norwegian institutions of higher education. Some foreign students learn Norwegian before they continue with further studies in Norway. Below is an overview of the language requirements for foreign students applying for courses where the language of instruction is Norwegian.
If applying for a course taught in Norwegian, or for general acceptance into an institution, applicants outside of the Nordic countries must meet one of the following requirements:
- Successfully passed 'Norwegian as a second language' from upper secondary school.
- Sucessfully passed Level 3 in Norwegian at a university.
- Successfully passed one-year study in Norwegian language and society for foreign students from a university college.
- Successfully passed test in Norwegian at higher level, 'Bergenstesten', with a minimum score of 450.
In certain cases, institutions may accept other types of documentation. Please contact the institutions directly for details. | <urn:uuid:de1e1761-77e7-432f-856b-39b8c69b3443> | 2013-05-18T08:01:47Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Numbers stations are mysterious shortwave radio channels of indiscernible origin that exist in countries all across the world and have been reported since World War 1. They are identifiable by the unusual contents of their broadcasts: seemingly random sequences of numbers, words, letters, tunes, and Morse code, usually spoken by artificially generated voices of women and children.
The most common theory regarding the purpose of these bizarre stations is that they’re used by governments the world over to secretly transmit encrypted commands and messages to spies. That said, even though numbers stations have been discovered all over the globe and in any number of different languages, no government has ever officially acknowledged their existence. While the espionage theory is a logical one, with no official confirmation of their purpose the jury is still out.
One particularly odd station, UVB-76, has existed since the late 1970s and has broadcast a simple, repetitive buzzing tone 24 hours a day ever since. On very rare occasions, however, listeners have reported a Russian voice interrupting the buzz to read out sequences of numbers and words, always in a consistent format — this happened once in 1997, once in 2002, once in 2006, 56 times in 2010, and 14 in 2011. As with all numbers stations, its true purpose is and will probably remain unknown, but the increase in frequency of whatever it’s doing is certainly odd.
You can listen to well over 100 recordings of numbers stations for free on archive.org but be forewarned that they’re all kind of, well, eerie. They feel like something you shouldn’t be listening to, which stands to reason since apparently you’re not supposed to know they exist. | <urn:uuid:5c2d1ee3-6d88-4bbd-9082-db49f9935cee> | 2013-05-18T08:11:33Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The public holidays always bring with them their share of tragedies as people do whatever they have to for fun. In this case, a Polish tourist appears to have been having a photo taken by friends. A witness reported that he was on, or very near to the cliff edge and holding on to a tuft of grass for support as the photo was being taken. The grass was uprooted by the tourist's weight and he fell 300 feet (90m) to his death. The time given is approximately the time that the emergency services were called. The man was already dead when the call was placed as is shown in the chart.
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|Special Guest:||Brian Stepanek as Arwin Hochauser, Milos (dual role)|
John Kapelos as Elias
Adam Bay as Adonis
|Originally Aired:||November 7, 2008|
"It's All Greek to Me" is the 7th episode of the first season of The Suite Life on Deck. When the S.S. Tipton docks in Athens, Greece, the twins meet Arwin's cousin, Milos. But when he accidentally switches a replica and a real artifact, they have to recover the fake before they're found out. Meanwhile, London Tipton struggles to write a speech to present at the museum about the artifact, but finally writes it with some inspiration from a dream about Aphrodite.
The twins arrive in Athens, Greece and meet Arwin's cousin, Milos, a janitor in the Museum of Greek Antiquities. When Milos shows Zack and Cody the museum, he shows them the Amulet of Aphrodite. But after Cody arrives back on the ship and gives the amulet to Bailey, they discover that he's actually given her the real amulet. With time against them, they must hurry and replace the amulet in its rightful place before the museum's curator finds out.
Meanwhile, London has to think of a speech to say at the museum. She thinks that writing a speech is boring, but when she falls asleep and has a dream about Aphrodite, London says something inspirational to the people who are listening.
- London: Ladies and quentlemen...
- Mr. Moseby: (to Ms. Tutweiller) Get ready to flee the country quickly.
- Cody: Look, by mistake, I gave you the real Amulet of Aphrodite.
- Bailey: You mean this is the actual priceless artifact? I wore it in the hot tub!
- Zack: Huh? Oh, great. So we'll be returning it clean.
- Aphrodite (London): Wow, I look great! No wonder why I'm the God of the Beauty.
- Hermes (Mr. Moseby): Good morning, Aphrodite.
- Aphrodite: Hi, Herman.
- Hermes: It's Hermes, messenger of the gods.
- Aphrodite: Whatever.
- Hermes: I bring you a message from your father Zeus.
- Aphrodite: Don't tell me he's marrying Medusa! Her hair is terrible.
- Ms. Tutweiller: Mr. Moseby? Do the faces on those statues look familiar to you?
- Mr. Moseby: How old do you think I am?
- Milos: Why have I not seen any wedding pictures yet?
- Arwin: They're...still in my camera?
- Milos: It's been four years!
- Bailey: I'm Bailey. I don't suppose the boys have mentioned me.
- Arwin: Are you kidding? Cody sent me a nine-page e-mail just about your hair.
- Milos is a Greek island where the famous statue Venus de Milo (translation: "The Aphrodite of Milos") was found.
- Adonis was the lover of Aphrodite, until Persphone fell for his beauty. The same happened with Bailey and London, who both liked him.
- Cody, Zack, and Bailey are seen using an Apple Macbook. Also Milos is using a Macbook. For legal reasons, the word "Macbook" and the Apple logo were covered up by stickers.
- London says that gentlemen is spelt with a silent "q", but actually says it with "q" ("quentlemen").
- In this episode, London says she's been speaking since she was nine, but in the episode "A London Carol", during a flashback, she is seen speaking at the age of seven.
|The Suite Life on Deck (Season 1)|
|The Suite Life Sets Sail • Parrot Island • Broke 'N' Yo-Yo • The Kidney of the Sea • Showgirls • International Dateline • It's All Greek to Me • Sea Monster Mash • Flowers and Chocolate • Boo You • seaHarmony • The Mommy and the Swami • Maddie on Deck • When in Rome... • Shipnotized • Mom and Dad on Deck • The Wrong Stuff • Splash & Trash • Mulch Ado About Nothing • Cruisin' for a Bruisin' • Double-Crossed| | <urn:uuid:bd881da8-caa7-4ac6-9f93-40127cd38f87> | 2013-05-18T06:42:31Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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I wonder if there is a way to make Firefox to continue saving forms (like mail and nickname fields), but stop it from saving search history in the search field next to the address bar?
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iPod shuffle (3rd and 4th generations): Compatibility of third-party headphone remote controls
To control your iPod shuffle (3rd or 4th generation) with the remote on your third-party headphones, the headphones must be compatible with Apple's Headphone Remote and Mic system. Current third-party headphones that Apple has approved to carry the "Made for iPod" logo are compatible.
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Monitor drivers vs. video adapter drivers: How are they different and which do I need?
Monitor drivers are specific to the monitor. They are usually text files that tell the operating system what the monitor is and what it is capable of. They are not required for the monitor to function.
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Your video adapter lets your computer communicate with a monitor by sending images, text, graphics, and other information. Better video adapters provide higher-quality images on your screen, but the quality of your monitor plays a large role as well. For example, a monochrome monitor cannot display colors no matter how powerful the video adapter is.
A video driver is a file that allows your operating system to work with your video adapter. Each video adapter requires a specific video driver. When you update your video adapter, your operating system will provide a list and let you pick the appropriate video driver for it. If you do not see the video driver for your adapter in the list, contact the manufacturer of your video adapter to get the necessary video driver. | <urn:uuid:73cae941-2fef-484a-8887-1a20cde01d2f> | 2013-05-18T05:34:40Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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All topics in the Visual FoxPro documentation contain such a link. This submission method will send your bug report or suggestion directly to our documentation team.
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Richards v. Wisconsin - 520 U.S. 385 (1997)
OCTOBER TERM, 1996
RICHARDS v. WISCONSIN
CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF WISCONSIN No. 96-5955. Argued March 24, 1997-Decided April 28, 1997
In Wilson v. Arkansas, 514 U. S. 927, this Court held that the Fourth Amendment incorporates the common-law requirement that police knock on a dwelling's door and announce their identity and purpose before attempting forcible entry, recognized that the flexible reasonableness requirement should not be read to mandate a rigid announcement rule that ignores countervailing law enforcement interests, id., at 934, and left it to the lower courts to determine the circumstances under which an unannounced entry is reasonable. Id., at 936. Officers in Madison, Wisconsin, obtained a warrant to search petitioner Richards' motel room for drugs and related paraphernalia, but the Magistrate refused to give advance authorization for a "no-knock" entry. The officer who knocked on Richards' door was dressed, and identified himself, as a maintenance man. Upon opening the door, Richards also saw a uniformed officer and quickly closed the door. The officers kicked down the door, caught Richards trying to escape, and found cash and cocaine in the bathroom. In denying Richards' motion to suppress the evidence on the ground that the officers did not knock and announce their presence before forcing entry, the trial court found that they could gather from Richards' strange behavior that he might try to destroy evidence or escape and that the drugs' disposable nature further justified their decision not to knock and announce. The State Supreme Court affirmed, concluding that Wilson did not preclude the court's pre-Wilson per se rule that police officers are never required to knock and announce when executing a search warrant in a felony drug investigation because of the special circumstances of today's drug culture.
1. The Fourth Amendment does not permit a blanket exception to the knock-and-announce requirement for felony drug investigations. While the requirement can give way under circumstances presenting a threat of physical violence or where officers believe that evidence would be destroyed if advance notice were given, 514 U. S., at 936, the fact that felony drug investigations may frequently present such circumstances cannot remove from the neutral scrutiny of a reviewing court the reasonableness of the police decision not to knock and announce in a particular case. Creating exceptions to the requirement based on the culture surrounding a general category of criminal behavior presents at
least two serious concerns. First, the exception contains considerable overgeneralization that would impermissibly insulate from judicial review cases in which a drug investigation does not pose special risks. Second, creating an exception in one category can, relatively easily, be applied to others. If a per se exception were allowed for each criminal activity category that included a considerable risk of danger to officers or destruction of evidence, the knock-and-announce requirement would be meaningless. The court confronted with the question in each case has a duty to determine whether the facts and circumstances of the particular entry justified dispensing with the requirement. A "noknock" entry is justified when the police have a reasonable suspicion that knocking and announcing their presence, under the particular circumstances, would be dangerous or futile, or that it would inhibit the effective investigation of the crime. This standard strikes the appropriate balance between the legitimate law enforcement concerns at issue in the execution of search warrants and the individual privacy interests affected by no-knock entries. Cf. Maryland v. Buie, 494 U. S. 325, 337. Pp.391-395.
2. Because the evidence in this case establishes that the decision not to knock and announce was a reasonable one under the circumstances, the officers' entry into the motel room did not violate the Fourth Amendment. That the Magistrate had originally refused to issue a noknock warrant means only that at the time the warrant was requested there was insufficient evidence for a no-knock entry. However, the officers' decision to enter the room must be evaluated as of the time of entry. Pp. 395-396.
201 Wis. 2d 845, 549 N. W. 2d 218, affirmed.
STEVENS, J., delivered the opinion for a unanimous Court.
David R. Karpe, by appointment of the Court, 519 U. S. 1106, argued the cause for petitioner. With him on the briefs were John Wesley Hall, Jr., Henry R. Schultz, and Jack E. Schairer.
James E. Doyle, Attorney General of Wisconsin, argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief was Stephen W Kleinmaier, Assistant Attorney General.
Miguel A. Estrada argued the cause for the United States as amicus curiae urging affirmance. On the brief were Acting Solicitor General Dellinger, Acting Assistant Attorney | <urn:uuid:b400e5d2-ee09-4d8c-9b1f-bc1b519dc579> | 2013-05-18T06:51:28Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Pariṇāma tāpa saṁskāra duḥkaiḥ guṇavṛtti virodhṛāt ca duḥkham eva sarvaḥṁ vivekinaḥ (II.15). The happiness that we pursue should be unmixed, if it is genuine. It should not be contaminated by other features, as that would go to prove that there is some defect in the way in which happiness is being pursued. It will be observed that every passing phase of pleasure or joy in life is accompanied by another character altogether which precedes it, comes with it, and also follows it – namely, a kind of sorrow. An immediate consequence that follows the experience of contacting a pleasure is a feeling of having lost it, because it has not continuously become a part of one’s experience. There is no such thing as a continuous, unbroken experience of happiness, because the happiness was caused by certain efforts and certain conditions. When the efforts cease or the conditions disperse, the effect also must vanish; therefore, there is the consequence of an unhappiness of having lost the happiness that was once there. This peculiar character of unhappiness following a temporary experience of happiness will continue in spite of our pursuing it again and again.
Moreover, the repetition of an enjoyment increases the thirst for it due to a memory which is retained on account of that pleasure. Memory of unhappiness becomes an urge, a goad to drive the mind onward once again towards continuing the same process which it followed earlier. The fact that there was no satiation in an earlier experience of a similar character should show that there was some defect in the procedure adopted. Nevertheless, the same procedure is adopted again, and there is no improvement whatsoever in the modus operandi. The result is, once again, a recurring feature: there is unhappiness; there is thirst. The quenching of a thirst does not end the matter – it creates further thirst – so the attempt at quenching the thirst is only a new effort that we are putting forth at creating a new thirst and a greater longing for the experience that passed away. How is it possible that a quenching of a thirst can create more thirst? The attempt is for one thing, and what happens is something else.
A desire, when it is fulfilled, should not create a greater desire. If that is the case, the very purpose of the fulfilment of the desire is defeated. What is the intention of our efforts at fulfilling desires? It is so that they do not, once again, come and trouble us. The satisfaction should be there. That is the purpose of the attempt of the mind to gain pleasure of any kind. But, the satisfaction does not come. What comes is a greater desire. How is it possible that the flames of desire get fanned more and more rather than extinguished in a large measure, in spite of hard effort? Whatever be the effort, whatever be the manner adopted, whatever be the kind of object one contacts – we may move earth and heaven – yet, the result is the same.
There is a parinama, or a consequence of unhappiness, that follows happiness. This is something very strange. How can unhappiness follow happiness? How is it possible that something contrary to the nature of the cause can follow as the effect? If the cause is happiness, how can the effect be unhappiness? But, the effect is unhappiness. This shows that the cause was not happiness. There was something very mysterious about that experience which appeared as happiness. It was really unhappiness. It was not happiness – otherwise, how could it produce unhappiness? There was a mix-up of values and a confusion of mind, on account of which a peculiar passing phase of tension called unhappiness looked like happiness, for different reasons altogether.
In the sutra we are told that the consequence of happiness is unhappiness. Therefore, it should be concluded that the happiness was unhappiness only. There was no happiness. Also, there is an anxiety that follows the experience of pleasure – that having lost it, it should be pursued and attempted once again. There is an anguish in the heart on account of having been dispossessed of the enjoyment, and this anguish will continue for any length of time. The attempt at happiness is repeated. Whatever be the number of times we attempt to contact the mind with objects for pleasure, so many times we will be unhappy.
Hence, this anguish of the heart cannot subside. There is anxiety even at the time of the enjoyment of a pleasure. It is very strange that even at the time of enjoying the pleasure, there is an anxiety that it is going to be lost and there is unhappiness. Further, the imagination that it will end in itself becomes an eviscerating factor, even at the current moment. This is the tapa that follows, the agony that is inherent in the very process of enjoyment of the pleasure. Earlier there was anguish because it was not there, and now when it comes, there is anguish that it is going to be lost. And when it is actually lost – well, the heart burns with great sorrow. Thus, in the beginning, in the middle and in the end it is all a kind of tension, though it looks as if a great satisfaction has come. This is the thing for which one is working.
A third difficulty is that this experience of pleasure produces an impression in the mind; it creates a groove. A vasana is produced, and these vasanas, these grooves formed in the mind, will remain there latent for all time to come. They are permanent copperplates produced in the mind, and we can manufacture any number of gramophone records so that there is an urge for repetition of these experiences, manifest or unmanifest. If the conditions are favourable, they will manifest immediately. If conditions are not favourable, they will keep quiet, and when conditions become favourable – even after years, even after births – they will again motivate the mind towards that enjoyment. Thus, the samskaras produced by a particular experience of pleasure are going to be sorrows in the future.
There is another danger about this: if the samskaras are very strong, if the impressions or grooves formed are very marked, then what will happen is that they may take effect even in future lives. And, when these impressions take effect in a future life and direct the mind towards the very same type of objects with which they are connected, as it happened in an earlier life at the originating time, the desire of the mind might have changed. So, when we come in contact with a particular condition on account of the motivation of these impressions, we do not want that experience any more. Then it comes as a pain, and we wonder why we experience pain. What has happened to us? Why is nature punishing us? Nature is not punishing us; it is only giving what we asked for. But, unfortunately, time has elapsed to such an extent that we have completely forgotten that we wanted those things, and now when those things are given to us, they are not the wanted ones. The needs of the mind change according to the vehicle which it enlivens – the body-mind complex. The body which the mind enters in a new birth is constituted in a fashion which conforms to the type of desires which are going to be fulfilled in that particular life according to the prarabdha karma. So, naturally, it does not mean that the desires of this life will be the same as the desires of the next life. They will be changing in their form and shape.
The impressions formed by experiences in this life will produce effects of a similar character at a time when they come as pain rather than as pleasure. Thus, pains and pleasures are both things which we have asked for. They have not been thrust upon us by anybody. When our individual constitution is in harmony with those external conditions, objects, etc. which come in contact with us or with which we come in contact, we call that experience a pleasure. But if that relationship between ourselves and the external circumstances is disharmonious for any reason whatsoever, then that experience becomes unhappiness. Well, this is a very strange thing which the mind at the present moment cannot understand. It is sowing the seeds of its future sorrow now, by pursuing pleasures of sense which it thinks are desirable at present, but later on they will come like pricking thorns. This is the sorrow of samskaras.
Also, the gunas of prakriti are the cause of all experience:guṇavṛtti virodhāt ca duḥkham eva sarvaṁ vivekinaḥ (II.15). These gunas are called sattva, rajas and tamas. It is the rajas that is present in the mind which creates desire. The purpose or function of rajas is distraction, externalisation, or driving the mind towards objects; so as long as rajas functions, there must be unhappiness. The reason is that when the mind is urged against its own self and towards the objects of sense, it is in a state of tension. Therefore, there is unhappiness until the moment of the enjoyment of pleasure, which is all caused by rajas. The cessation of this function of rajas at the time of the contact one has with an object is the cause of pleasure. Sattva is the cause of pleasure; rajas is the cause of pain.
The temporary manifestation of sattva at the time of the cessation of the activity of rajas, on account of the contact of the senses with objects, is what we call pleasure. But, inasmuch as the gunas of prakriti oppose each other and react upon one another, there is no stability of the three gunas. They always rotate like a wheel that is moving, and we cannot say that we can be in any given particular experience of one quality or property of prakriti. One may predominate at this point in time; at another time, another may be predominant, and according to the predominance of the intensity of the manifestation of a particular property of prakriti, there is a particular corresponding experience. Therefore, on account of the movement of the gunas, it is not possible that we can choose only one quality. On account of the opposition among the gunas, or the rotation of the wheel of the gunas of prakriti, it is not possible to have permanent happiness. For all these reasons, it is all duḥkham eva sarvaṁ vivekinaḥ. This is the meaning of this sutra: pariṇāma tāpa saṁskāra duḥkaiḥ guṇavṛtti virodhāt ca duḥkham eva sarvaḥṁ vivekinaḥ (II.15).
Thus, it has been pointed out that the klesas – avidya, asmita, raga, dvesa, abhinivesa – are sources of unending trouble. They are made up of trouble itself. There is nothing else of which they are made; and, unfortunately, everyone and everything is made up of these complexes called the klesas. They have also motivated another peculiar law, which is called the law of karma – all of which is a different way of describing the manner in which desires function and the reactions that are produced by the desires. The one mistake that has been committed in the form of error of perception – namely, affirmation of the individuality, asmita – has caused us so much trouble.
These conditions cannot be overcome merely by an action in an ordinary sense. There should be an overall transformation brought about for the purpose of dealing with these vrittis, because any one-sided approach to it will not succeed. If we touch any one aspect of these vrittis, other aspects will revolt. They will support, in affiliation, the particular vritti that has been encountered for the purpose of control. When we attack the vrittis or try to control them, they have to be taken in a group and not individually, because they are connected, one with the other. What we call these kleshas, or vrittis of the mind, are a group. They are intertwined in a bundle, one inside the other; and so when any aspect of it is faced and suppressed with the force of will, the other aspects gain strength – the very same strength which we have withdrawn from the particular aspect which we have suppressed.
Thus, it is not wisdom on the part of any seeker to look at only a single side of this issue, or even at a few aspects of this issue. We should take the total issue in one stroke. This means to say that we have to have a proper understanding of the nature of our mind in its comprehensiveness. We should not study ourselves only as we appear to ourselves today. “What am I today? This is not what I am really, because what I look like today is only one phase of my real nature, and what I am is much more than what I appear today. Every day my mood changes, the desires change, the way of the thinking of my mind changes, and so on and so forth, on account of a certain predominance of the vrittis in the mind.”
If we take an average, for instance, of the various experiences that we passed through for the last one year, we will have a fair idea of what we are made of. We may take an average of even three years, if we like. What sort of attitudes did we develop continuously, for days and days, for the last three years, for instance? This is a difficult thing to remember, but a cautious student will keep a note of all these things. Many of the things can be remembered; we cannot forget them. What are the moods through which we passed? What are the desires that appeared in our mind? What are the things that attracted our attention? What are those things that repelled us? What are the things that annoyed us? What are the things that distressed us? – and so on. Taking an average of all these conditions through which we passed during the last few years will give a fair idea, though not a complete idea, of the stuff of which we are made.
Now, this is an indication of what is to be done. We have suffered from various diseases for the last ten years. What are the kinds of disease that attacked us? We can find out the predominance of these illnesses and the peculiar characters of the diseases to which we are susceptible – the major problems of our life as illness. Likewise, the major or predominant character of the vrittis of the mind can be discovered by a careful analysis of an average taken in this manner. Everyone has desires; everyone has vrittis; everyone has distresses, anguishes, etc., but they vary in tones of expression.
The way in which one reacts to the external conditions of life, normally speaking, is the nature of one’s person – and it is this that has to be subdued. This is the essence of yogaḥ cittavṛtti nirodhaḥ (I.2). It is not one vritti that we are subduing; it is the entire tendency of the mind to manifest as vrittis. It may manifest itself as many vrittis, many types of vrittis, but whatever be the types or the ways in which it manifests itself, it has a general character. The general character is the indication of the difficulties that are likely to be faced by us in the future. The past will give an indication of the kind of future that we have to face. Though details may vary, the general features may be the same. We have lived for so many years in this world and we can understand what sort of experiences we had. Similar types of experience are likely to be repeated.
This general feature of the mind, the total character of the vrittis, should be taken into consideration at one stroke at the time of the practice of meditation in yoga. This cannot easily be done by a casual look at the mind or a desultory analysis of the ways in which our mind manifests itself. Many a time we forget various aspects of the mind and take into consideration only certain aspects. Also, it is unlikely that we may agree that the vrittis of the mind are all defects of the mind. Many of us will be under the impression that they are certain justifiable moods that the mind manifests for certain benefits. But it is not so. Every vritti is a defect. It cannot be regarded as a benefit in any manner whatsoever because a vritti – whatever be the nature of that vritti – is an urge within to drive us away from ourselves to a condition which is external.
What is yoga except the prevention of this tendency of the mind and an attempt of a counteracting nature, enabling it to rest in its own self? The vrittis of the mind, to which reference has been made in the sutra, yogaḥ cittavṛtti nirodhaḥ (I.2), are summed up in the single word ‘citta’. What is to be suppressed or eliminated is not any one vritti, but the citta-stuff. Citta is not merely the conscious mind or the mentation process, but the stuff of the mind. “The modification of the mind-stuff” are the words used. The stuff of the mind is the substance out of which the entire internal organ is constituted – what we call thinking, feeling, willing, memory or remembrance, etc. Various functions are there, including even ego.
These functions all put together are the citta, the stuff of the mind. This stuff it is that reveals itself as various functions, though it is true that the stuff itself cannot be discovered and we can know its nature only from the functions that it performs. Nevertheless, we can know something about this stuff by the nature of this function. As I mentioned, we should take an average of the types of functions which the citta has been performing for the last several years, and we can know what stuff it is made of and what is it that is in store, inside it. When the task on hand is taken up, as it was mentioned, we have to strike the iron while it is hot, as they say. The total mind has to rise up to the occasion in a comprehensiveness that would be necessary to deal with the problem, just as when there is a national war, the whole nation girds up its loins. It is not only a few people that start thinking about it; the forces constituting the entire nation get stirred up into a single energy of action for the purpose that is on hand. Likewise, the energy of the total system is to be harnessed for the purpose of encountering this total situation that is called the citta.
When we get into trouble, we will find that we get trouble from every side; it will not be only from one side. When people start disliking us, everyone will start disliking us, and not one will like us afterwards. So is the nature of the mind. When it likes a particular thing, the whole of the mind will pounce upon that object which it likes and the entire resources of the mind will be there to back it up in the execution of this deed; and when it dislikes a thing, there will be a wholesale dislike. This is the peculiar way in which the mind works. In yoga we have to note this feature of the mind and act on it in the manner in which it acts in respect of objects. A wholesale view has to be taken. It is the total man that rises to the occasion for the purpose of subduing the total mind. It is not a partial aspect of ours that is functioning in yoga. It is a movement of the whole, towards the whole. So, we have to keep a cautious eye on every direction – externally, as well as internally.
The circumstances which may aggravate the desires of the mind should be avoided, though the aggravation has not taken place. It is not that the mind is always thinking of an object of sense, but it is likely that it can fix itself upon an object when conditions become favourable for it. Therefore, knowing that such and such conditions may aggravate a particular desire of the mind in respect of a particular object, it should be wisdom on the part of a seeker not to place oneself under those circumstances which are likely to aggravate the desires of the mind even in the future. This is because even a single desire, when it takes action, will be difficult to control since other desires which are there will also back it up. Wisdom consists in knowing what can happen in the future, though it has not taken place. We should not try to understand a situation only when it has taken place, because then it has gone out of hand. We should try to read the indications of the future by the present conditions, using a process of logical deduction.
Therefore, conditions which are likely to stir up the activity of desire should be avoided now itself. Anyone with a little bit of understanding will know what are those conditions, inasmuch as we know what are the predominant desires in our mind. So, avoid the conditions – external first, and internal afterwards. This is called vairagya, really speaking: an avoidance of all those factors and conditions which are likely to stimulate the mind towards enjoyment of sense. And, simultaneously, there should be practice; this is abhyasa, which we mentioned earlier. Together with this withdrawal of the mind from conditions which are likely to aggravate it in respect of fulfilment of desire, there should be practice of meditation on the ideal that has been chosen – namely, salvation of the soul.
The practice of yoga is an attempt of the mind to direct itself to the salvation of the soul, ultimately – the moksha, or the ultimate freedom which it is aiming at – so that it is doubly guarded in the practice. On one side, it has wrenched itself away from all those aggravating conditions, and on the other side, it has fortified itself further by an intensified concentration of itself on the great, glorious, magnificent goal which is going to be its destination. | <urn:uuid:7298994e-d2a3-4ede-a3f6-8c276c2d57eb> | 2013-05-18T07:13:23Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Dunja Lavrova (Violin)
James Barralet ('Cello)
Konstantin Lapshin (Piano)
Ensemble Metamusika began its life at the Royal College of Music, where its founding members Dunja Lavrova and Konstantin Lapshin were awarded the highest prizes for their achievements upon their graduation as Masters of Music.
Ensemble Metamusika has now become something close to a "fellowship" of well-established musicians united by a passion for music, and a way of bringing their musical ideas to life in order to achieve something truly unique.
Notable performances for the ensemble have included playing to HRH Prince Charles, a broadcast on French national television, and an invitation to the highly-acclaimed International Festival of La Baule.
Most recently, in anticipation of the 140th anniversary of Sergey Rachmaninoff, the Ensemble has been joined by the cellist James Barralet to perform composer's works as a piano trio.
P. I. Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio in A minor, Op. 50 (approximately 44mins):
I. Pezzo elegiaco (Moderato assai - Allegro giusto)
II.(A) Tema con variazioni: Andante con moto - (B) Variazione Finale e coda
S. Rachmaninov: Trio élégiaque in D minor, Op. 9 (approximately 52mins):
II. Quasi variazione
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Jeff Jarvis responds to ABC’s recent story on U.S. Olympic uniforms being made overseas:
I want a “Made in America” audit of ABC News. This is a serious request. ABC News, please tell us:
Where are your studio and field cameras made? In America?
Where are your monitors made? In America?
Where are Diane Sawyer’s outfits made? Where are her shoes made? Where is her makeup made? In America? | <urn:uuid:560f1d3f-75d4-4912-886d-d5e1c6eddeea> | 2013-05-18T07:21:06Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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In this essay, Frederick examines the question of whether computer-mediated communication is truly a democratic utopia where feminist values can flourish. By studying data from 2 newsgroups, alt.feminism and soc.feminism, she demonstrates that discrimination and exclusion/hostility can continue to occur, even in a supposedly inclusive and politically feminist context. She concentrates on the ethos of the newsgroups as the basis for constructing either a welcoming or distancing communication arena. My interest in this article stems from this notion of ethos because I think that it a highly influencing factor which combines with inherent linguistic features of women's speech to produce a speech community. I believe that any future discussions of the social structure of online communication must address ethos as well as linguistic differences in order to prevent factionalization or balkanization of men and women online, much as one might approach a dialog about multiculturalism and the internet. | <urn:uuid:5ed6525a-b0e2-4cfb-8534-094b8d99de6f> | 2013-05-18T04:56:35Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Jai loses his sleep because of Nayanthara
It is understood that ‘Subramaniapuram’ Jai has lost his sleep because of Nayanthara. For the first time Jai is going to pair with Nayanthara. Though Arya is donning the lead role, Jai’s role is also equivalent to that of the hero. There is duet and romantic sequences for Jai with Nayanthara.
So Jai is very much confused that how he can romance with Nayan. The senior actors have advised him that there will be no problem in acting with Nayanthara. Since Arya is busy with Erandam Ulagam, it has been decided to shoot the sequences pertaining to Jai and Nayanthara during the month of October. | <urn:uuid:1de84f4a-87b9-48d8-aafa-d0710b3c1090> | 2013-05-18T08:01:39Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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New submitter h2okies writes "CNET's News.com reports that the IEEE will start today to form the new standards for Ethernet and data transfer. 'The standard, to be produced by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, will likely reach data-transfer speeds between 400 gigabits per second and 1 terabit per second. For comparison, that latter speed would be enough to copy 20 full-length Blu-ray movies in a second.' The IEEE also reports on how the speed needs of the internet continue to double every year. Of what consequence will this new standard be if the last mile is still stuck on beep & creep?" | <urn:uuid:65a93335-e66a-42b1-a508-f2f644310780> | 2013-05-18T05:17:56Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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SA wrote:If they are large enough that they are taking a noticeable amount of time, then I am certain that you will find a way to parallelize them
Dude, when you say things like that we have to wonder if you even understand what the word "parallelize" means. Not every problem is parallelizable. The classic analogy is that bearing a child takes 9 months, no matter how many women you have. It is not impossible, or even all that unlikely, to have a bunch of dependent calculations. Thus not every problem can be split up and run concurrently.
SA wrote:Google Chromium is an excellent example of this, where putting each page into its own separate process parallelized webpages rendering in a tabbed web browser, which was slow with the single renderer thread approach Firefox took.
That's a "problem" that's obviously parallelizable because it is composed of indepedent tasks. Each webpage doesn't have any dependency on any other webpage. That's not finding concurrency within a problem, that's just having a bunch of different problems to begin with.
And if it was strictly a performance question they would have just threaded it, the primary reason behind the process per window/tab concept was the security model that comes with processes.
SA wrote: I doubt that everything you run is one massive problem that cannot be broken into separate threads and if it can, you can likely put it into a SIMD programming model.
the one speaking in absurd absolutes here, not us. NO ONE has claimed that everything isn't parallelizable. They are just claiming that some things aren't, and they can't handwave that away.
SA wrote:Regardless, everyone, everywhere agrees that the single threaded programming model is a dead-end in terms of performance.
The performance increases have slowed down, this is true, but single-thread performance still matters and will continue to matter. If it DIDN'T matter, you'd see ICs with 16 in-order cores taking the world by storm. I don't see that, do you?
This ridiculous faith you have in the notion that every problem can be parallelized is just, well, absurd. It plainly isn't true. It's also more complicated than that, because even if most
of your problem is parallelizable, there is still a hard limit to how much performance you can gain by throwing parallel execution at it. Guess what the limit is? Oh, right, the amount of time your program takes in the parts that aren't parallelizable. You are only asymptotically approaching it by adding more and more parallel execution! In other words, even in a world with "free" parallelization hardware(instantaneously fast Tesla's for everyone!), singlethreaded performance will always matter. In fact, such a world would make single-threaded performance the DETERMINING factor! It will still matter!
It will always matter!
What I am referring to is known as Amdahl's law. Ubergerbil wrote a great
post about this some years back.viewtopic.php?f=2&t=44090&hilit=amdahl
SA wrote: Any business that cannot parallelize its critical software applications will be killed by those that can, in which case, the strength of a single processing unit does not matter so long as you have a sufficiently large number of them.
That maybe true if performance is extremely important to your product and you're leaving possible concurrency on the table that your competitors are picking up, but it's not true if you product is designed to deal with problems that inherently cannot be parallelized well.
And, again, if the strength of a single "processing unit" didn't matter, why don't we see ICs with umpteen in-order cores dominating the market?
SA wrote:I think you are ignoring the point being that if I can make a decent argument for them being unnecessary, then their actual performance is not really something that should be a concern for people.
If anyone is "ignoring" your point, that's because your "point" is a fantasy. You're not making a decent argument that they're unnecessary, you're just waving your hand and saying
It's like starting a mathematical proof with a priori definition for the division of zero and then "proving" a whole host of mathematical concepts. Yes, you can do some pretty groundbreaking things once you do that (1 can now equal 2, AWESOME!). It's just that, well, you know, we're not really impressed. Saying we should just ignore your first statemnt and concentrate on your later work because it's so incredible is missing the point.
SA wrote:In computer hardware, floating point units are logical units that take data inputs and a input and produce a data output according to those inputs, with a mapping from inputs to outputs that corresponds to the IEEE754 standard.
Not that I fully understand what the heck you even mean, but the IEEE754 is a bit more than just "how do I perform operations on floats of like precision." There are subtle, but incredibly important matters like "how do I do operations between floats of differing precisions" and "how do I handle exceptions." There are rounding modes, FMAs, subnormals, lions, tigers and bears! Not-so-incidentally, those kinds of things are actually the complex parts of the standard that take up the majority of its text.
SA wrote:If your statements are correct in saying that GPUs are floating point units, then block diagrams of GPUs contradict your statements by failing to adhere to the definition of a floating point unit. Here is a block diagram for a recent GPU:
Here's what Scott prefaced that diagram with:
Scott Wasson wrote: Images like the one below may not mean much divorced from context
He's only more right when they are used in the WRONG context.
SA wrote:Since what you say contradicts the definition of a floating point unit, what do you consider a floating point unit to be?
Logic that is intended to deal with Floats?
SA wrote:By the way, as a side note, page 106 of Nvidia's CUDA programming guide states that integer types are supported, which means that you can do integer operations on Nvidia's GPUs:
Do all of them handle them natively through, or just Fermi? Because the fact that a programming framework
can use them doesn't exactly mean a whole lot by itself, you know?
And, in respect to Fermi, it's perhaps more of a vector processor than a straight FPU, which JBI covered by saying "specialized" and "highly parallel." So, what do you think you are showing?
SA wrote:Emulation is usually used in reference to simulating a full machine.
News to me. When people are talking about FPUs and embedded processors, they're usually talking about software emulation, kernel emulation or how the processor can emulate having a FPU through microcode that just uses its ALU. In all cases, you're not simulating the "full machine" and in software emulation, you're not even simulating instructions at all.
SA wrote:When I realized your misuse of terminology, I edited my post to compensate for it.
Just because he uses a word in a context you're unfamiliar with doesn't mean he's
wrong. It's just your raging absolutism leading you into silliness again.
Just because you think you have really cool, nicely defined and easily understood box doesn't mean you can suddenly stuff the entire world into it. And your box sucks anyway. Stop telling us what you *think* you've learned in class and actually pay more attention. This isn't just real world versus the academy because you regularly
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Krynn72 wrote:So you can do a full install with the Upgrade version, as long as you enter the key from the win8 system builder copy during install? I know you explained it, but I'm not sure I follow.
Captain Ned wrote:Ryu Connor wrote:We toast a beer to your brave adventure early adopter.
How do you tell the pioneers?
They're the ones with arrows in their backs.
drfish wrote:I'll just use my OEM key on another system.
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I've been criticised for having "become very conservative". But I'm not sure that's what I am, for many views I'd share with "the left", aka liberals (in the American sense). So I thought I'd do a list of those things which determine one's politics.
For every Yes count zero. For every Don't Know count One. For every No count Two. The lower the number, the more liberal you are.
Based on US criteria, where "liberal" = left-wing and/or Democrat.
"Don't know" also includes "Don't fully agree with". Eg, "Globalism is not a good thing"; you might think that there are aspects which are beneficial, but also aspects which are troublesome, hence a count of One.
A score of Zero will be an out and out liberal, tending to "hard left". A score of 64 will be an out and out conservative, tending to "hard right". A score of 32 will be a willy-wishy wonka. My own score is.... hmmm, let me see know, got it... 37. So I guess that does make me to the right of centre, though not at the hard right end...
Are you in favour of (or do you agree with the statement) --
1. Gun control.
2. Abortion rights.
3. Iraq war was wrong (of having invaded Iraq in the first place; you may now think that since we are in there now, best make as good a job of it as possible).
4. Afghanistan: ditto per Iraq
5. The theory of Natural Selection
6. Stronger focus on education provided by the state
7. Islam: as a "Religion of Peace". i.e. don't criticize it, for all religions have their crazies. IOW, you think the phenomenon of "Islamophobia" exists and ought to be fought and resisted.
8. Sarah Palin is an ignorant nutter
9. The Tea Party is a bunch of ignorant nutters
10. Glen Beck is an ignorant nutter
11. Keith Olbermann is great, speaks truth to power and whips it up to ignorant nutters
12. Palestinians are the underdog. They are being persecuted by the Israelis/Jews
13. Zionism is the same as racism
14. Israel pursues a policy of apartheid
15. The US is to blame, at least partly, for the attacks on it of 911
16. Today's terrorism has more to do with poverty and grievances (eg, Palestine, US foreign policy), than with any religious motivation.
17. All religions are basically the same (for better or worse).
18. All cultures are basically the same and deserving of respect.
19. The Danish cartoons of 2005 were simply an unnecessary provocation and not a freedom of speech issue.
20. Geert Wilders, the Dutch anti-Islam politician, is a right-wing bigot/racist (aka "an ignorant nutter")
21. Mark Steyn is an ignorant nutter.
22. Man made climate change is real and a huge threat to the world.
23. Unions are a force for good in the economy. Governments should legislate to increase their bargaining power.
24. Bosses should not have complete freedom to hire and fire at will.
25. Globalism is not a good thing.
26. Capitalism is not a good thing.
27. We should strive for a more egalitarian society, such through Market Socialism.
28. The rich should be taxed more
29. The Stimulus package of 08-09 was necessary; more stimulus is needed.
30. Don't ask, don't tell was a bad policy and its repeal was a good thing.
31. I believe in Gay Rights
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To assist Main Street, Reich proposes the following:
Congress and the Obama administration should give homeowners the right to go to a bankruptcy judge and have their mortgages modified.I would also like to see a real program that targets lending for small businesses during this crisis. Goldman has set "up a crudely conceived $500 million PR program to help Main Street." But a "PR program" is hardly one that will be most beneficial to small businesses, although I'm sure likely recipients would not turn it down. Small businesses are really hurting.
And while they're at it, resurrect the Glass-Steagall Act that used to separate investment from commercial banking, so Wall Street can't continue to use other people's money to gamble.
Finally, before Goldman hands out $17 billion in bonuses, claw back the $13 billion Goldman took from AIG and the rest of us and add it to the pool of money going for mortgage relief.
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CAMERON DADDO TO HOST "PIRATE MASTER," THE NEW REALITY-BASED SERIES CREATED BY EMMY AWARD-WINNING PRODUCER MARK BURNETT, PREMIERING THURSDAY, MAY 31, ON CBS
Australian actor Cameron Daddo will host PIRATE MASTER, the new reality-based series created by Emmy Award-winning producer Mark Burnett, premiering Thursday, May 31 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.
PIRATE MASTER will send 16 modern-day pirates on a high seas adventure where they will live as buccaneers and travel around the Caribbean island of Dominica in search of hidden treasure that will total $1 million. Over the course of 33 days, these pirates will live aboard a massive 179 foot, square-rigged barque which carries 12,500 square feet of sail.
Each week, the pirates will embark on extraordinary expeditions where they will decipher clues along the way in search of missing treasure. Gold coins -- real money which the pirates may take with them beyond the show -- will be awarded after each expedition, but only to some. The gold will play a key role as pirates strike deals with each other or plead for long-term security. In addition to claiming the lion's share of the week's riches, one pirate will become the captain of the ship and will assign roles and chores to the remaining crew members, setting the tone for either law and order or betrayal and sabotage, which could lead to mutiny by the crew.
Each episode will conclude on the ship at Pirate's Court, a lively gathering of public speaking and judgment where one individual will be eliminated and "cut adrift." In the end, one will be the first to find the largest booty, worth $500,000, and claim the title of "Pirate Master."
In each episode, Daddo will distribute clues at the start of the expeditions and preside over the Pirate's Court.
Daddo's Australian television credits include "Perfect Match," "The Heroes," "Witch Hunt," "Bony," "Golden Fiddles," and "Tracks Of Glory." His U.S. television credits include "Between Love And Hate," "The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles," "Models, Inc.," "FX: The Series," "Hope Island" and guest-starring roles in CBS's CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and CSI: MIAMI, along with "West Wing," "Boston Legal" and "Monk." He also appeared in the television movies "The Incredible Mrs. Ritchie" and "Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story."
Among his feature film credits, Daddo appeared in "Big Mamas House 2," "Anthrax," "Zebra Lounge," "Drive Time Murders" and "Inland Empire." His latest film projects include "Hacia La Oscuridad ("Towards Darkness"), which will be featured at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival, and the upcoming films "Drifter" and "Passengers."
Daddo is also a musician. He played in the bands The Nearly Smooth Guys and Baby James. His solo debut album, "A Long Goodbye," was released in 1992 and featured Keith Urban on back-up vocals and guitars. His latest music project is titled daddo, as well as his original one man musical/play, "House Devil, Street Angel."
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On CBC's The House, Evan Solomon asked Reform Party matriarch Deborah Grey about Harper. Harper used to be her legislative assistant so we can probably safely assume she has some insight into the way he thinks. While she waxed on about how wonderful Harper is and how he's a Conservative and therefore the neatest thing since the invention of peanut butter, she slipped from referring to "conservatives", in a general sense to "Reformers", specifically. Solomon latched on:
Solomon: Is he still a Reformer?
Solomon: Is Stephen Harper still a Reformer?
Grey: Oh, I'd say so.
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View topic - The particle "to"
Watashi wa eigo to nihongo o hanashimasu.
I speak English and Japanese.
However I have a question on its placement. If I want to say -
I have english and Japanese class today.
Watashi wa eigo no kurasu to nihongo no kurasu ga arimasu.
Watashi wa eigo to nihongo no kurasu ga arimasu.
I know that the first sentence is correct, but is the second? I'm not sure how to use the particle in conjunction with the particle "no" I guess.
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When you link adjectives together in sentences, you have a couple rules for those, and there's a site that explains it better than I can:
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watashi wa eigokurasu to nihongokurasu arimasu.
I have a english class and a japanese class.
FYI: nihongo (and like) are nouns, not adjectives.
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Also, either of the sentences you've used are okay. 日本語 and 英語 in this context are not adjectives - this is why you have to use の to connect the two nouns in the first place. の always indicates a possessive, and in this case, it is "English's class" and "Japanese's class." Very odd in English, but perfectly okay in Japanese.
So, don't worry about all the rules of adjectival connection in this sentence.
are both fine just as they are.
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日本語のクラス and 英語のクラス are correct.
の always indicates a possessive, and in this case, it is "English's class" and "Japanese's class." Very odd in English, but perfectly okay in Japanese.
Being Italian, this wouldn't have been a problem for me as in Italy we say exatcly as in Japan (e.g. "corso di Giapponese", where di is the italian equivalent for no particle).
The real problem for us Italians is the inversion of the order, as we don't have a genitive form like 's in English (so we actually can only say something like "class of Japanese" which is radically different from "Japanese no class").
So, amusingly enough, the best way for me to remember the correct order of the words around no in Japanese is through English genitive 's, which I'm already used to... LOL!
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Okay, everyone! *clap! clap!* Look here!
I need some serious help.
It's about the Curious Incidents of The New Girl in the Night.
Our night routine goes something like this:
Around 6:30 we start getting ready for bed. (I moved it up from 7pm.) She starts to get cranky, quickly gets over-tired and goes from 0-60 in minutes, screaming hysterically as we prepare and then I nurse her down. She falls asleep, normally in minutes and then I attempt to leave the room.
Usually she wakes up crying anywhere from 2-15 minutes later.
I go back in and nurse her (comfort sucking, really) or bounce her back to sleep on the ball. Usually nurse. She goes back to sleep in minutes and then I attempt to leave.
Usually she wakes up crying anywhere from 2-15 minutes later.
Repeat, repeat, repeat.
I eventually just go to bed with her and whip out a boob every time she wakes and cries throughout the night. Usually she sleeps for a MAX of 1.5 hours at a time. Meanwhile, I'm responding to the lightness of her sleep which comes with her wiggling up to me, flipping, flopping and whining. Some (most) nights I see every hour on the clock at least once.
It's making me fucking mental.
I don't know why she doesn't stay asleep but it's killing me. So, here's my question. Is it time to try CIO? Is she still too young? Do I really want to do that?
So, I'm looking to lean on you friends. This is what I need, dear ones (besides some Xanax and my own apartment), I need to know how CIO went for you. What was your experience with it? What was the process like and what was the result for you?
Here are some basic things to know about me and my thought process to help guide you:
1) I bought the *extinction method book* and have also read a lot of the *attachment/family bed method.* There are aspects of each of these methods that I find very helpful and pertinent (moving up the bedtime and baby-wearing, respectively) but my problem with each of these books is the same as my problem with most self-helpy kinds of books. It's the 'Do it this way exactly or you're going to ruin everything forever and ever. Amen.' You know what I mean? Marc Wessblahblah seems to believe that everything--even global warming, maybe--is due to sleep deprivation and parents who are too spineless to let their kids 'learn to go to sleep alone.' Dr. Searious seems to believe that you should carry and bounce that baby every minute of the day and night (night-time parenting) and that if you don't respond to cries pronto you are creating abandonment issues, possibly.
**Any die-hard disciples, please understand that I know I'm over-simplifying. It's just my opinion and general impression. With lots of love in my heart let me say this: don't nit-pick.
2) I do not believe that the actual crying at night when she's by herself is going to permanently damage her or her fundamental trust, her psyche or her sense of who she is in the world. I know it won't be at all pleasant for any of us but I don't think it's harming, per se.
3) I'm not necessarily convinced that this method works for 100% of kids and I wonder about The Littlest New Girl's tenacity and whether or not she will frankly outlast me.
4) As you know, I am no stranger to hearing her cry for hours at a time and so although I am sure it will totally suck to hear her cry, I'm no novice. And to re-iterate, sometimes she cries like that even if I'm there.
5) I do like waking up with her (she's usually smiley and very cute in the morning) and I'm sure that I'll miss that and other parts of being in there with her.
6) I would like to rejoin The Man in our own bed as I've been sleeping in the guest room since the bionic nose phase of pregnancy. I want some grown up *hem* play time.
7) I ultimately would like for her to sleep in her own bed peacefully, sooner rather than later because I SUCK without sleep and have I mentioned that I'm GETTING NO SLEEP??
8) I'm still exclusively breast feeding and so I expect that I will have to go in there during the night to feed her at some point, right?
9) I'm sort of a 'rip the band-aid off all at once' kind of girl. I don't have the stamina and/or the consistency needed for a gradual backing away, I don't think. Going in to pat the butt for a week and then just going in and standing there for a week, all that. I'm pretty spent, already. That might send me around the bend.
So, I'm asking you what it was like if you have the time and inclination to help a mama out. How long did it take? Did you want to die? Was it like magic or did it seem like a full time job? Did you feel like you were wrecking your child? How did you handle the feeding times?
Let me just thoughtfully and gently add this:
I believe that this, for whatever reason, is a parenting issue about which people tend to *opine* freely and with crap-loads of judgment. I get that and it's cool. But I'm not out to whip up a shit-storm. And since this is my blog post about my own position on my own rope (AKA near the tail end, there) I'm looking for a particular kind of discourse.
Namely the personal experience kind.
Instead of mere opinion, belief and conjecture, I am looking for those with experience (no matter how may degrees removed) with CIO. Those who have at least tried it or have some experience with it. I don't care whether it worked or not, as I'm exploring various options and I want to know the whole story. I don't even care if it's your sister's story, as long as she's tried it and you are willing to relate how she did it and the outcome, see? I am particularly interested in stories featuring a little one with a *challenging temperament*. Does it work for them?
If you've already blogged about it and don't want to write it all out again, would you just link it in the comments so I can come by and read it?
Otherwise, dear readers, please let your CIO stories flow forth like a beautiful tide that rolls in to save me. Or perhaps drown me and put me out of my misery.
I really, really appreciate it.
Thank you, thank you, thank you, my internet wonderfuls. I am very grateful for all of your stories as well as your non-judgment and your well wishes. The Man and I are steeling ourselves, getting in shape and strong for the upcoming *extinction.* I'll keep you posted. Because I know that the tedious, painful experience of letting your OWN kids cry it out just wasn't enough for you. Thanks again. | <urn:uuid:93dd4088-d4eb-47ac-b791-969d0c0c8e4a> | 2013-05-18T05:07:04Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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She may have missed out on an Oscar nomination, but Beyonce Knowles is the No. 1 fantasy girlfriend, according to AskMen.com's Top 99 Most Desirable Women of 2007.SOURCE: Fox News
The 25-year-old singer-actress tops the Web site's list ranking the "most alluring" female celebrities as determined by its readers and staff. Voters were asked to consider qualities beyond sex appeal and beauty, such as "intelligence, humor, charisma and ambition," according to the site. More than 8.5 million votes were cast, the Web site says.
Knowles, currently co-starring in "Dreamgirls," was followed by screen sirens Scarlett Johansson and Jessica Alba, supermodel Adriana Lima and actress Jessica Biel.
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It's absolutely amazing how Raeanna has developed and grown over the last year! We went to the adoption clinic for our 1 year checkup last week. The doctor just looked and smiled and said, "It's amazing what love will do for you!" They measured her and weighed her, and like us, marveled at her. This doctor really thought she was 2 years old one year ago. The bone scan even said she was. Now, the doctor is convinced she is at least 4 or 4 and a half, maybe even a little older. We' ve decided to move her birthdate back 1 year, which will make her 4 and a half. At the rate she is developing physically and mentally, I believe she will be ready for kindergarten next year.
I think often of her birth mother and father on the other side of the world. I pray that they will know the Lord and be saved, so that one day, they will meet their little girl in Heaven, and know that she was loved, well-taken care of, and happy on this earth. I know this sounds absurd, but I feel certain that they abandoned her because they loved her, and it was the only way they could save her life. You see, Raeanna was a very, very sick baby girl when she was found. She had an intestinal obstruction due to her special need, and she was severely malnourished. She wasn't a newborn, so it's likely that they tried to keep her. It's my theory that she was a second child or third, and because of China's One Child Policy, she would've had no health insurance, because children born after the first one don't have the rights of citizens. In order for her to get the help she needed to live, her parents would have to abandon her so that she would be found and brought to a hospital. I can't imagine the pain they felt then when they left her, and now, not knowing where she is and if she survived. I pray they somehow know that she is safe and healthy in America with her family who loves her so very much, and that they have peace.
When I hear the song, "Amazing Grace," and the verse that says, "Through many dangers, toils, and snares, I have already come. But grace has brought me safe thus far, and grace will lead me home," I think that it describes Raeanna's life so well. The Lord was definately with her. She suffered, not only in sickness, but in living in an orphanage for so long, but He brought her through and brought us together, and now she has a home with us, and ultimately, her home will be with Him. He has plans for her. Jeremiah 29:11 says, "For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." I am so happy to be a part of the Lord's plans for her, and I feel extremely blessed to be the one He chose to be her Mommy and to get to teach her about Him. I feel very grateful for the blessing of this child, who blesses everyone she meets, and I feel grateful to her birthparents for giving her life and that beautiful smile!
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Washington, Feb 18: Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has slammed First Lady Michelle Obama after the latter promoted breast-feeding as part of her campaign against childhood obesity.
Palin followed in Rep. Michele Bachmann's footsteps and took a swipe at Mrs. Obama, mocking her efforts to get mothers to breast-feed their children.
"No wonder Michelle Obama is telling everybody, `You'd better breast-feed your baby," The Politico quoted her as saying at a Long Island appearance, after slamming President Barack Obama for rising gas prices and other items - like milk - since he took office.
"Yeah, you'd better, because the price of milk is so high right now."
The comments come two days after Bachmann accused the first lady of trying to implement a "nanny state."
"To think that government has to go out and buy my breast pump for my babies? You wanna talk about the nanny state, I think you just got a new definition." (ANI) | <urn:uuid:89ea9ac1-45a1-434d-8219-a200ca2997e7> | 2013-05-18T08:09:30Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Sophia Mounds & Jeremy in My Friends Hot Mom
Synopsis: To get the attention of his friend's mom Sophia Mounds, Jeremy sets a fire and tells her some kids set it, letting her think he saved the day by putting it out. What's a lady to do to thank her hero but fuck him and let him cum on her tits? Mmmm, that Jeremy loves those milfs ... they're milf-a-riffic!!
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On January 16, 1863, Walt Whitman wrote a pained letter to his brother, Thomas Jefferson Whitman, in which he bemoaned the Union’s recent defeat at Fredericksburg as the most “complete piece of mismanagement perhaps ever yet known in the earth's wars.”
While Whitman today is celebrated as one of America’s greatest poets, works like Leaves of Grass, penned in the 1850s, were seen as scandalous by an American reading public unready for Whitman’s unconventional lifestyle. An opponent of slavery, Whitman supported the Union with the poem Beat! Beat! Drums and volunteered as a nurse in army hospitals.
After Lincoln’s assassination in 1865, Whitman penned Oh Captain, My Captain, eulogizing the President for having navigated the ship of state through the storm of war, only to meet a violent end. | <urn:uuid:1c1ea546-62ba-4fed-b94c-3c8787377d6e> | 2013-05-18T06:50:34Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The Neighbor Squirrel
These busy fluffballs have lost their fear of most predators - and they help plant pecan trees.
By Sheryl Smith-Rodgers
Have you ever watched an eastern fox squirrel (Sciurus niger) bury an acorn or pecan? A nuzzle here, another there, then he hurriedly pushes the leaves and grass over the site before scampering up the closest tree. Minutes later, he's back with another nut. Over the course of three months, that industrious squirrel can bury several thousand pecans. Come winter, when food's scarce, he'll find them again with his excellent sense of smell. Some will escape his appetite, though, and sprout into saplings, which is how many native nut trees get planted.
Eastern fox squirrels - the state's most common and wide-ranging squirrel and a popular game animal, too - occur in forests and riparian habitats. They also easily adapt to cities and neighborhoods, where they've lost most of their fear of natural predators.
"Playing the call of a red-tailed hawk didn't phase squirrels on campus," reports Bob McCleery, a wildlife lecturer at Texas A&M University, who has studied urban squirrels in College Station. "When we played a coyote call in the Navasota river bottom, a squirrel immediately flattened itself in the crotch of a tree for a good five minutes."
When agitated, fox squirrels - whose fur closely resembles that of a gray fox - bark and jerk their long, bushy tails, which they use for balance when scampering on utility lines and other high places. Tails provide warmth and protection, too. "In the summer, I've seen them lying down with their tails over their heads to block the sun," McCleery says. | <urn:uuid:3cb858ec-4357-48a5-9912-c7929ec225af> | 2013-05-18T05:11:59Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Ticket #333 (closed defect: invalid)
display:none breaks Xinha in Firefox
|Reported by:||Alex||Owned by:||gogo|
|Severity:||major||Keywords:||Firefox display none|
If the Xinha editor is enclosed within a div, hiding and then displaying the div will break the editor - for example when using display: none and display:block to implement tabs.
The easy solution is not to use tabs, or not to set the display to none, but sometimes that's not an option.
1 - write a page with a Xinha editor enclosed within a DIV called showhide
2 - add some links underneath the editor:
3 - load up the page in Firefox, and press the Hide link, followed by the Show link.
In IE this'll work fine, but Firefox has trouble with it. An error is thrown by Firefox: NS_ERROR_NOT_INITIALISED.
I've made some screenshots of the error, except I can't attach them here it seems.
I think this is probably a problem with Firefox, and not Xinha, and I think the best workaround would be a re-initialise function that could be called when the div's display is set to block again.
If more information is needed, don't hesitate to contact me at alexATmetacubecms.com | <urn:uuid:5315233f-73f6-41ce-a2d7-0d1cd36ef9e6> | 2013-05-18T05:48:56Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Today's linguistics issue (I wish I was William Safire sometimes) is the difference between astonish and astound. Is there a difference other than personal preference? I do not know. It will be my goal to uncover the mystery. Report back on Monday.... What do you think? | <urn:uuid:35d56225-4593-4882-9d2d-4a342686d2c5> | 2013-05-18T07:12:53Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Johannsen: In a 2005, you discussed the corporatizing of education in a televised interview with Allan Gregg, and at the beginning of that talk he mentioned that you left the U.S. you began to discuss how the University was taking on a more managerial style. Moreover, you mentioned Penn State, and its shift to a corporate model. For instance, there were more part-time faculty positions being added eliminating tenure-track openings. You were witnessing this at Penn State, and suggested a pattern was being set that is now widespread in universities and colleges across the U.S. I am, curious about your departure from the U.S.. It seems clear that you left the U.S. for professional reasons, but did you also leave the U.S. for political reasons?
Henry A. Giroux: Yes, it was for political and academic reasons. I was particularly upset over Bush being elected in 2004, and especially under circumstances that suggested that the election was stolen from Al Gore. Both the election and the growing suppression of dissent in the university, not to mention the attack on public education by corporate interests, suggested that democracy in the United States, however fragile, was being radically undermined.
It was also a period of galloping anti-intellectualism, and that anti-intellectualism was coming from various levels—in the popular media, among elements of the dominant press, the increasing commodification of everyday life, the rise of celebrity culture, and the widespread emergence of the ethos of privatization.
Moreover, the press and other elements of the dominant media by 2004 had become even more complicitous with the forces of political conformity and were reinforcing a form of intellectual banality, commodification, and privatization that both undermined political culture and reinforced a market driven embrace of selfishness and materialism that was sabotaging every vestige of public life. Education as it was deployed by the larger culture was becoming a powerful force for both political illiteracy and for exercising a depoliticizing influence on young people and the larger polity.
Cynicism, disillusionment, and a dispiriting sense of purposeless has cast a shadow over American society seriously draining it of any language or vision that might imagine a different sort of society from the dysfunctional, militarizing, and deeply unequal social order that marked the current historical period.
The propensity to avoid moral considerations was producing not simply a politically illiterate and authoritarian society, but one that was increasingly saturated in violence and a culture of cruelty. Needless to say, all of these forces intensified the increasing militarization and corporatization of higher education, along with the privatizing of everyday life.
I was also disturbed by the increasing political insularity of the academy and the growing refusal of many faculty to connect their work with larger social issues. Many faculty retreated into academic specializations and an arcane language that made them irrelevant to the task of defending the university as a public good, except for in some cases a very small audience. This has become more and more clear in the last few years as academics have become so insular, often unwilling or unable to defend the university as a public good, in spite of the widespread attacks on academic freedom, the role of the university as a democratic public sphere, and the increasing reduction of knowledge to a saleable commodity, and students to customers.
Of course, there are also faculty who are discouraged from speaking critically about social issues because of the increasing assumption in American society that any form of critique which calls official power into question is somehow un-American. This absurd attempt to define any critique of official power as unpatriotic has a chilling effect on faculty, especially when such views and the names of the people to whom they are ascribed are widely disseminated in right-wing and dominant media outlets. Witness the shameless firing of scholars such as Ward Churchill and Norman Finkelstein, among others in the last few years.
In all fairness, there are faculty who speak out against injustices, but there are too few, and when they do they often pay a price for it. One recent example centers around conservative groups in Wisconsin and Michigan using the Freedom of Information Act to request e-mails by a number of professors who have written about and are sympathetic to organized labor. All of these academics, including the renowned historian, Professor William Cronon--who wrote critically on his blog Scholar as Citizen about a conservative organization that was drafting radical bills for right-wing Republican politicians such as Scott Walker--were asked to provide any emails mentioning words such as “Scott Walker,” “Rachel Madow,” “Madison,” and "Wisconsin". This is more than a cheap and transparent act of intimidation, it is also a strategy to shut down, constrain and neutralize any notion of dissent that emerges in the university. Clearly, this is symptomatic of a long historical tradition in the United States to undermine the university as a place to think, speak, and act critically, one that has been highly intensified since the events of 9/11.
I also left the U.S. in 2004 because of the dean I worked under at Penn State University could not imagine schooling as having anything to do with the public good. He did not support my work on this matter [that the university is there for the public good], and he was entirely delighted to see me leave. He was fully immersed in an instrumental culture and had no wider vision of either the role of education or the public role of the university. His world was largely one dominated by mathematical utility and a narrow instrumentalist vision. My wife was also a professor at Penn State and was highly dissatisfied with her position. All of this was resolved after we received wonderful job offers from McMaster University in Canada and so we decided to relocate. Our experience at Penn State reinforced our present conviction that too many administrators in higher education in the United States have assumed the values and politics of a business culture that ironically produced the recession of 2008 with its labyrinth of corruption, greed, unbridled power, and indifference to either the public good or human life.
Johannsen: How is it teaching in Canada for the two of you?
Giroux: My work is supported and honored, whereas at Penn State, my work wasn't appreciated at all. And the same is true for Susan’s work at McMaster. I have an endowed chair professorship and Susan has tenure and is strongly supported by the department and the university. We have terrific colleagues in the Department of English and Cultural Studies almost all of whom are rigorous scholars doing important work connecting the university to broader social issues.
The environment in Canada is much more conducive to doing critical work, though Canada has its own set of problems, but nothing like those emerging in the United States. Unlike Penn State which was a huge recipient of Pentagon funds, and was hostile to any criticism of its connection to the military and intelligence services, McMaster is a very open university that takes its commitment to a quality education and function as a democratic sphere very seriously. We have a wonderful Provost and President who live in the world of ideas, are rigorous scholars, and are heavily invested in connecting the university to major social considerations and important intellectual traditions.
What is distinctive about the U.S. is that higher education is under attack not because it is failing but because it is public. It is now considered dangerous because it has the potential to function as a site where a culture of questioning can operate, the imagination can blossom, and difficult questions can be openly debated and critically engaged. Hence, many conservatives see higher education as a threat to their reactionary and corporate oriented interests and would like to defund higher education, privatize it, eliminate tenure, and define the working conditions of faculty to something resembling the labor practices of Walmart workers. While the universities are increasingly corporatized and militarized, their governing structures are becoming more authoritarian, faculty are being devalued as public intellectuals, students are viewed as clients, academic fields are treated as economic domains for providing credentials, and work place skills, and academic freedom is under assault.
Johannsen: I recently wrote a piece about the privatization of public universities in the U.S., particularly UW-Madison. That flagship school is moving to privatize, and it seems the president of the Madison campus has been able to justify such a move because of what happened with Governor Walker recently and his budget cuts. I realize that this move to privatize public universities is nothing new.
Giroux: Yes, you're right. It isn't new, but it is more expansive, and it's happening everywhere. With the corporatization and privatization of higher education, it is increasingly more difficult for colleges and universities to expand and deepen democratic public life, produce engaged critical citizens, and operate as democratic public spheres. Moreover, higher educating is defaulting on its obligations to offer young people a quality and broad-based education. This is true in part because the liberal arts and humanities have fallen out of favor in a culture that equates education with training. But the demise of higher education as a public good is also evident in light of the election of a number of right-wing politicians who are cutting funds for state universities and doing everything they can to turn them in training centers to fill the needs of corporations. This new and intense attack on both the social state and higher education completely undermines the public nature of what education is all about.
Many university presidents now assume the language and behavior of CEOs and in doing so they are completely reneging on the public mission of the universities. The state is radically defunding public universities and university presidents, for the most part, rather than defending higher education as a public good, are trying to privatize their institutions in order to remove them from the political control of state governments. This is not a worthy or productive strategy. They should be loud and forceful in defending the university as a social good, essential to the democratic culture and economy of a nation. They should be criticizing the prioritizing of funds for military and prison expenditures over funds for higher education. And this argument should be made as a defense of education, as a crucial public good, and it should be taken seriously. But they aren't making these arguments.
You have a situation in which the U.S. is fighting three unjust wars and wasting trillions of dollars in public funds, all the while draining money from important social services and public and higher education. If the government were to invest that money in higher education and public services, these would be far better investments. But administrators and academics in the U.S. for the most part don't make these arguments; instead they have retreated from defending the university as a citadel of public values and in doing so have abdicated any sense of social responsibility to the idea of the university as a site of inspired by the search for truth, justice, freedom, and dignity.
Of course, there are a few courageous university presidents who refuse to reduce higher education to an adjunct of corporate power and needs. Harvard university president Drew Gilpin Faust has both criticized the growing economic justification for higher education and the reduction of pedagogy to producing knowledge and social relations whose value ultimately resides in how closely they are aligned with measurable skills. More recently, Biddy Martin, the university chancellor at the University of Wisconsin in response to the conservative demand for the e-mails of dissenting professors not only bravely defended her faculty’s right to privacy but insisted that they
Continue to ask difficult questions, explore unpopular lines of thought and exercise your academic freedom, regardless of your point of view. As always, we will take our cue from the bronze plaque on the walls of Bascom Hall. It calls for the ‘continual and fearless sifting and winnowing’ of ideas. It is our tradition, our defining value, and the way to a better society.
These are the kind of administrators who both provide a sense of hope for higher education and simultaneously reveal how disengaged ethically and politically so many administrators have become as they define themselves within the gated and closed boundaries of a corporate managerial culture.
Johannsen: I am an advocate for student loan debtors. The fact that students are saddled with so much debt is another part of the problem.
Giroux: You are making an important point. War at home is matched by a war on youth. I wrote about this recently. Young people graduate with an average of $23,000 in student loan debt, and they are the ones saddled with it. Youth have become indentured servants and that turns them away from public service. The loan crisis and the increasing slashing of funds for students, coupled with the astronomical rise in tuition, represent an unparalleled attack on the social state. The hidden agenda here is that when students graduate with such high debts, they rarely choose a career in public service; instead, they are forced to go into the corporate sector, and I see these conditions, in some ways, as being very calculated and as part of a larger political strategy to disempower students.
Johannsen: I have written about the fact that many young people are unable to take part in public service. Moreover, I call us the indentured educated class. Did you know that by June of 2012, outstanding student loan debt will reach $1 trillion in the U.S.?
Giroux: That's unbelievable! And it does not bode well for future generations of young people. But what must be stated is that this financial crisis has to be understood within a broader set of political and economic concerns. The current right-wing of the Republican Party will do anything to dismantle any social protections provided by the social state, and students are the most powerless when it comes to protecting themselves from such legislation. They are bearing the brunt of these attacks.
Of course, we also see evidence of such attacks in many states that are abrogating the bargaining rights of unions, cutting back on student grants and loans, eliminating child labor laws (Maine), and cutting back on taxes for the rich and corporations. Of course, in the Middle East and Europe, young people are protesting in massive numbers against this form of economic Darwinism, but rather than simply protesting against high tuition rates, they see the current attack on education as part of an attack on the public good. Moreover, faculty and students are protesting somewhat in the U.S. in the same way but on a much smaller scale. This looming gigantic debt that students are forced to carry is also indicative of the degree to which young people are no longer viewed as a positive symbol of the future and how society has defaulted on both its social, political, and economic obligations to youth and the conditions that would enable they to enter into a future that is better than they ones to which previous generations had access. All that young people are promised today are the rewards of a shallow materialism and a degree that is defined primarily as a job credential, one that ironically does not even live up to its own claims of guaranteeing either decent employment or a better way of life.
Johannsen: Absolutely. That is why the humanities are so important. They train people to think critically about things, and they allow us to be engaged citizens. That, however, as you have argued, is being eviscerated in this country. That sounds quite grim. Your work is clearly post-structuralist, and I see the influence of the Frankfurt School. I see the traditions upon which you rely, and it is clear that you want to demonstrate the way historical conditions inform the outcome of things. History does not 'repeat itself.' That assertion, allows people to marginalize the discipline. There are obviously historical conditions that have allowed for this new and frightening form of neoliberalism to emerge at this particular moment. I think, however, it is wrong to assume that your work is negative. I think the sense that there is hope and agency is clearest in an article you recently wrote entitled, "Left Behind? American Youth and the Global Fight for Democracy."
Giroux: I am certainly influenced by certain post-structuralist traditions but also a number of other theoretical archives as well–including the brilliant work of Paulo Freire, Zygmunt Bauman, Loic Wacquant, Nancy Fraser, Tony Judt, and others. I am glad you have raised the question about critique and how it is often dismissed as negative. First, critique is far from negative. In fact, at its root is an affirmation of the noble democratic principle that people can hold ideas, social relations, institutions, and values accountable, and that individuals have distinct obligations to connect criticism with the ability to both think otherwise and act otherwise in a democracy that is never finished or complete. As John Dewey and many others have pointed out in a democracy, our first obligation is to question and our second obligation is our willingness to care for others. These obligations are not disconnected and mutually inform the other. Critique is a powerful resource against what Zygmunt Bauman calls “ethical tranquillization,” which now provides “a relief from responsibility.”
Like C. Wright Mills, I believe in modes of analysis that are historical, biographical, and political. But I also believe that a discourse of critique demands more than criticism, it also needs to employ a discourse of possibility, one rooted in real opportunities to see that change is possible on an individual and collective level. Hence, my strong belief in the power of education as the practice of freedom and pedagogy as a crucial practice for the melding of reason and freedom. For instance, people are constantly struggling in the Middle East and Europe, and there is a new understanding among young people who want to be heard and given the power and rights they deserve. Critique is a resource that enables them to narrate their dismay, fears, and hopes for the future. Critique is a way of translating hope into a pressing reality. Young people in many parts of the world want to be treated differently from how they have been treated in the past.
Similar modes of protests exist in the U. S. but on a much smaller scale. The nature of the issues facing U.S. students is a bit more complicated in the U.S. because the assault on the social state, until recently, has been more incremental [i.e. the stripping of public services and so forth], whereas in Britain with the rise of the conservative-liberal government, it was immediate and bold in its assault on the social state and higher education. It has been difficult for [young people in the U.S.] to connect the dots between rising tuition costs and other assaults on their dignity with the ongoing assault on public life and its myriad democratic institutions. Today’s generation faces an enormous battle in turning back the current assaults on the social state, higher education, and the social good. That generation really has to fight for a new political language, social movements, and alliances with students from other countries. They have to convince labor, parents, and the general public that the fight over higher education is a fight that benefits everyone in a sustainable democracy and not just faculty and students. The future doesn't have to mimic the worst parts of the present. There are new ways of sharing information, and as long as they don't give up on the importance of politics, the future is certainly open.
Johannsen: I am glad you mentioned that a discourse of critique must include a discourse of possibility. It reminds me of your work on Benjamin's Angel of History. The Angel of History illustrates that alternative pasts means there is the potential for alternative futures. You've already hinted at agency, but I think that this understanding of possibility is critical. Please expand more on your idea of agency and how it fits into your comments about a discourse of critique/discourse of possibility.
Giroux: All too often the worst thing that can happen to the young is to depoliticize them. When that happens, not only are young people told that they do not count – your agency is worthless, your experiences are worthless, and your voice should remain silent – but they are also told that there is no alternative to current state of affairs. Hence, problems become privatized and removed from larger social issues. This is one task, connecting the personal problems to larger social issues that progressive leftist intellectuals have failed to take on as a major political and educational project. That is why conversations like this, with you, are so important. It is hard to witness how irrelevant academics have become in fending off the current assaults on higher education and democracy.
Clearly, one does not have to give up being an academic, retreat from rigorous research, or renounce the importance of specialization in order to address major social issues. I don't think you give up theoretical rigor by writing in a way that addresses major social concerns and is at the same time accessible to wider informed general audiences. Academics such as Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, Stanley Aronowitz, etc. have done that. The academic world needs to be more responsible in communicating with a larger society. Journalists such as Chris Hedges, Bill Moyers, Laura Flanders, Amy Goodman, Dean Baker, Glenn Greenwald and others should be interacting with academics in order to form alliances and social movements dedicated to creating new public spheres, rebuking the conservative assaults on some of our most precious institutions and policies. Journalists, educators, labor, students, and various social movements need to find new ways to expose the individuals, power relations, ideologies, and modes of politics and economics that are gutting the welfare system, generating massive levels of poverty and inequality, promoting a poisonous cult of privatization, and generating a new and more powerful military-industrial complex that looks more and more like a punishing state. We need to communicate with one another more, and imagine a world in which it becomes possible to think and act otherwise.
Johannsen: What are your greatest concerns about higher education being under attack? How can we fight back?
Giroux: First, we need to figure how to defend higher education as a public good. If we can't do that, we're in trouble.
Secondly, we need to address what the optimum conditions are for educators to perform their work in an autonomous and critical fashion. In other words, we need to think through the conditions that make academic labor fruitful, engaging, and relevant.
Third, we need to get rid of the growing army of temporary workers now filling the ranks of academy. This is scandalous; it weakens both the power of the faculty and exploits these workers.
Fourth, we need to educate students to be critical agents, to learn how to take risks, engage in thoughtful dialogue, and taking on the crucial issue what it means to be socially responsible. Pedagogy is not about training, it is about critically educating people to be self reflective, capable of critically address their relationship with others and with the larger world. Pedagogy in this sense provides not only important critical and intellectual competencies; it also enables people to intervene critically in the world.
Fifth, we need to educate young people to deal with new modes of education that are emerging with the new electronic technologies and we need to educate them to not only learn how to critically read this ubiquitous screen culture but also how to be cultural producers. With the rise of new technologies, media, and other cultural apparatuses as powerful forms of public pedagogy, students need to understand and address how these pedagogical cultural apparatuses work to diffuse learning from any vestige of critical thought. This is a form of public pedagogy that needs to be addressed both for how it deforms and for how it can create important new spaces for emancipatory forms of pedagogy.
Students need to learn how to unlearn those elements of a market driven society that deform their sense of agency, reducing them to simply consumers or even worse to elements of a disposable population. So we need to understand who controls the means of public education and the larger forms of what Raymond Williams called the cultural apparatuses of permanent education both in terms of the dangers they pose and the possibilities they harbor.
We need to take on the new media, and in terms of power and public pedagogy, we need to organize a whole range of people outside of the academy. Finally, but far from conclusive, is that we need a new political language with broader narratives. Such a language has to unravel the pervasive ideological, pedagogical, and economic dynamics of a form of economic Darwinism that now governs much of the world. This system must be demystified, politicized, and recognized for the ways in which it has come to pose a dire threat to democracy. We also need to find a language capable of defending government as an element of the common good, one that does not define itself as both a punishing and corporate state. This is not merely a matter of redefining sovereignty, but also rethinking what is distinctive about the social state, social responsibility, and the common good.
But we need more than a broader understanding of what is a good society or a moral and political critique of the existing market fundamentalism engulfing American society, we also need to create new forms of solidarity, new and broad based social movements that move beyond the isolated and fractured politics of the current historical moment. I am not against identity politics or single based issues; at the same time, we need to find ways to connect these singular modes of politics to broader political narratives about democracy so we can recognize their strengths and limitations in building broad-based social movements. In short, we need to find new ways to connect education to the struggle for democracy that is under assault in ways that were unimaginable forty years ago.
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Jacob: I kissed bella.....and she broke her hand....punching my face
Jacob and Bella's kiss on the mountaintop.
The Introducing of Seth!
The tale Bree tells Edward (mentally)
When Bella told Alice she could organize her and Edward's wedding!!!
When Charlie tried to give Bella "The Talk"
When Edward asks Bella if Jacob owns a T-shirt
Feel free to keep the list going!
Alice fighting with Jasper!!!!!!!!!!!!
Seth dragging Riley away as he screams for Victoria
Practising fighting scenes
Leah shown as a Werewolf
Victoria and Riley kissing (though Victoria is just playing him)
Bella talking to Jacob in his wolf form.
The Cullens and Wolfpack vs. The Newborns.
The Graduation-Mainly Jessica's speech XD
"I kissed Bella......and she broke her hand.....punching my face..... total misunderstanding"
Victoria lying on the ground dead, all smashed like glass!
The Scene where the Cullens chased Victoria (Ravine scene)
Jasper teaches the Cullens to fight
Jasper in his confederate army suit
When the Cullens and the Wolves chased Victoria! SO EPIC!
The begining, when Edward ask and ask Bella to married him
Riley and Bree TOGETHER!!!!!!
The bedroom scene with Edward and Bella when she finally says "yes", she will marry him
When Bella is petting Jacob in his wolf form
Edward/Seth VS Victoria/Riley
the end in bella and edward's medow talking 'bout telling charlie they are engaged! <3
When Edward Proposes To Bella And She Says Yes Awwwwwwwww
Jacob: Take your hands of me Edward: Take your hands off her
Bella's dream about Jasper
When Edward bit off Victoria's head (it was acctually quite funny!)
When Jasper says: One more thing, Never turn your back to your enemy
When Edward threatens Jacob. That's entertaining!
When Jacob says at least we can kill SOME vampires!
When the Cullens and the werewolfs team up
The newborn army fight scene
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i don't wear pants? o.O
sorry? xD i'm talking, what's up?
You're welcome. I held off on making the edit for a little bit hoping you'd see it, then I decided you probably weren't and rollbacked the edit, lol. Yeah, I've seen it a few times before; never knew why though. It probably does have something to do with the Rich Text editor. LuckyTimothy 02:45, July 25, 2011 (UTC)
Hey, technically I never left. I come on everyday I just dont edit like I used to. Things are going really good. Email me for details!!! (talk) 19:39, August 27, 2011 (UTC)
hey wats up do you know a david
ya on wiki sorry
In the past week or two, I've done a non-trivial reorganization of the let's call them "family" categories, for want of a better term, lumping a number of frankly useless splits together: "Parents", "Grandparents", "Siblings", etc..
I admit that "Imprinters/imprintees" is awkward, but there's little support for a separation of 'em in the new tree. I'm more than ready to modify the category, since for the moment Pam and I haven't been able to come up with anything better, but I'll want something more substantial than a revert and a short comment.
MinorStoop 03:05, February 17, 2012 (UTC)
P.S. Ah, before I forget - the "official" categories are "Males" and "Females". Given the number of pages under them and no way to rename categories, it's going to be a pain to recategorize all said pages.
- That's quite allright, but you'll understand if I disagree with the throwback of *one* page among ten - the category certainly limps, but Kim alone would stand out. Furthermore, with so few edits of yours in the past year I have no way to know how up to date you are, sorry.
- The problem is that probably there is no single english word encompassing the concept that a couple consist of an imprinter bound to an imprintee, with the variability shown in the saga. On the other side, I'm loath to split the category again - see one of the last messages of Pam on my talk page - index item 32 "Re: Relationships". MinorStoop 08:32, February 17, 2012 (UTC)
Jackson Rathbone's colorblindedness
Re: Roar :D!
Page name changes
Feel free to revert everything back; I am just less than keen to do it myself - I don't know how much effort I've put in this wiki, as stupid as the original books are. (I know, I know, the effort does not make me necessarily right, but I can sulk as the next guy.)
Say, I've changed a number of abilities' names (I don't think there is anything stupider than "aura of happiness"), must not be too far off the mark, since nobody "official name"d me before. Still think that all the various gifts' pages should be merged in one, since they're all actually various application of "telepathy", but I'll wait for a green light, if it comes, to do so.
As for the badly religious username, I haven't got a clue about what's wrong in it (since I'm agnostic, on these matters I tend to live and let live). But, I hope you don't mind, now I'd like to understand this detail - I'm as interested in keeping the peace as anybody else.
Thanks! MinorStoop 19:40, April 15, 2012 (UTC)
- P.S. A couple of details, just to clear up the loose ends.
- "Astral projection" had been classified as "special ability", that's why I added "Werewolves". Since it's not I've removed the page from the category - it will have to be reclassified. Though probably Pam will let us know what she thinks, suggestions?
- As per policy, page names should be uncapitalized unless they're proper names - therefore it's "Tactile telepathy" instead of "Tactile Telepathy". A redirect is now in the way, and should be deleted to make space for the move. Thanks! MinorStoop 19:49, April 15, 2012 (UTC)
- It does not so much look like is a formal policy of the wiki as a quirk of Pam's; since I happen not to like excessive capitalization, I went for it; we'll have to agree to disagre. :)
- As for the religious hating, it was not difficult to guess - can only plead english not being my mothertongue; sometimes this lands me in an awkward position. MinorStoop 06:52, April 16, 2012 (UTC)
- Italian. Got some practice with english - avid reader and all that. The funny thing is that the language overhaul of this wiki was mine; under another username of course. MinorStoop 03:27, April 17, 2012 (UTC)
Really, you can't edit it now? I didn't really lock it, all I did was go to the edit screen and unchecked the comments option. What is it saying when you try to edit? LuckyTimothy 04:47, April 19, 2012 (UTC)
- Thought admins were immune from each other's weapons... MinorStoop 12:06, April 19, 2012 (UTC)
By the look of the user rights page, "Chat moderation" is part of an admin's right. So you know, at least. MinorStoop 13:19, April 20, 2012 (UTC)
I'm there now. You're not hurt or anything, are you? TeamTaycob 02:32, May 15, 2012 (UTC)
On the verge of passing out.
Chat with me, I'm dying.
~If you have to take a while to know who this is, I'm disowning you.
I'll forgive you for abandoning me...
...but that's only because I finally saw Snow White and the Huntsman and I am going to MARRY that movie. TeamTaycob 04:42, June 3, 2012 (UTC)
Long time, no chat.
- Whoa, China is a big fricking deal. Have fun! And summer homework? Daaaaaamn. That sucks. Well, you being gone has made me go nearly insane. Have fun doing what you do. TeamTaycob 14:48, July 6, 2012 (UTC)
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[Twisted-Python] A Python metaclass for Twisted allowing __init__ to return a Deferred
terry at jon.es
Sun Nov 2 19:16:50 EST 2008
> I usually solve this kind of problem like this:
> d = aFuncReturningADeferred()
See? I knew there'd be a 3-line solution somewhere :-)
That's very cute, I'd never have thought of that... Python is so nice.
My (weak?) response is that your solution isn't quite so general. What if I
want __init__ to generate the deferred based on its args, or on the result
of other functions called based on its args? Yes, I can do all that work
before using your lovely d.addCallback(MyClass), but then the logic of what
the class does is starting to leak out into the code that should be calling
the class. And you can't encapsulate THAT code into another class, because
its __init__ would in turn have to return a deferred.
BTW, I sometimes have the feeling that Deferreds are like how M$
characterizes the GPL. Viral. Once you call anything creating a Deferred,
you're hooked - whatcha gonna do with that Deferred boy? Take one sip of
the Deferred Kool Aid and the next thing you know you're on a drip.
> I'll not try to claim anything about the level of elegance, though. :)
History will smile on you JP.
> For less surprisiness, I'd suggest that you at least restrict the result
> of the Deferred returned from __init__ to firing with None or self and
> make the argument to the first callback on the Deferred returned by
> MyClass() just be the new instance.
Hmmm. OK. I think you're right. The caller has no business knowing what the
Deferred returned in any case. And if the class itself wants the result it
can add a callback and stick it on self. That's good, I had been hoping to
return just the instance, but then it occurred to me to send back the
BTW, I started out trying to think of a way to just say
x = MyClass(...)
and have that result in the instance. But the only ways I could think of
doing that were disgusting and broken (e.g., make a *function* called
MyClass and use inlineCallbacks and some other class the metaclass would
build). So the __instantiate__ call seemed like a big win, even though I
don't like it much either.
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Family members said the girl, taken to a Dallas hospital, suffered intestinal tears, five broken ribs, a bruised spleen, a ruptured aorta artery and bruises to her entire body, including what the family described as a fist print on her forehead.
“One nurse told us it looked like someone stomped on her with their foot,” said Ruby Bowling, the child's grandmother.
Rathbun said the investigation was ongoing. He said the child was savagely beaten.
Rathbun said his department was working with Child Protective Services in the case, and they are looking at recent injuries, including a concussion the child suffered in August.
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Lindale Independent School District students collectively exceeded the new state testing averages for the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) standardized test.
Lindale student averages in third through eighth grade were higher than the state averages in each of the testing categories of reading, math, writing, science and social studies, the release states.
“I am proud to say that our students performed at a very high level,” Superintendent Stan Surratt said in the release. “Lindale ISD has the reputation of having an exemplary academic standard and the performance level of our students certainly supports this reputation.
In reading, 89 percent of Lindale third-graders passed the test compared to 76 percent for the state, the release states.
Ninety percent of the district’s fourth-graders passed compared to 77 percent for the state.
Eighty-seven percent of fifth-graders passed versus the state’s 77 percent.
The school’s sixth-graders had a passing percentage of 91, higher than the state’s 75 percent.
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Only Texas fourth and seventh grade students took the writing test, according to release states.
Seventy-four percent of Lindale fourth-graders passed compared to the state’s 71 percent and 88 percent of seventh-graders passed versus the state’s 71 percent.
Seventy-nine percent of Lindale fifth-graders passed as well as 87 percent of eighth-graders.
Eighth-graders were the only students to take the social studies test and the state passing average was 59 percent, the release states.
Lindale’s eighth-grade passing percentage was 79 percent.
In math, the district’s students passed at a percentage of 83 up to 98 percent.
The states averages were between 68 and 77 percent.
The eighth-graders had the highest passing percentage at 98 percent.
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"In this corner of the universe, a prizefighter named Bolie Jackson, one hundred and eighty-three pounds and an hour and a half away from a comeback at St. Nick's Arena. Mr. Bolie Jackson, who by the standards of his profession is an aging, over-the-hill relic of what was, and who now sees a reflection of a man who has left too many pieces of his youth in too many stadiums for too many years before too many screaming people. Mr. Bolie Jackson, who might do well to look for some gentle magic in the hard-surfaced glass that stares back at him."
Even though Jackson breaks his hand prior to the fight, he wins because Henry - a boy who adores the fighter and believes in magic - made the "big, tall wish." After the fight the boxer refuses to believe in magic. Henry tells him if he doesn't believe, it won't be true. Jackson just can't believe. Suddenly, Jackson is back in the ring, and counted out."Mr. Bolie Jackson, one hundred eighty-three pounds, who left a second chance lying in a heap on a rosin-spattered canvas at St. Nick's arena. Mr. Bolie Jackson, who shares the most common ailment of all men, the strange and perverse disinclination to believe in a miracle, the kind of miracle to come from a little boy, perhaps only to be found in the Twilight Zone." | <urn:uuid:60aa9eae-462f-445e-9f2f-26ce7860e09f> | 2013-05-18T08:11:14Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Welcome to Jane Addams Hull-House museum
The Jane Addams Hull-House Museum serves as a dynamic memorial to social reformer Jane Addams, the first American woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, and her colleagues whose work changed the lives of their immigrant neighbors as well as national and international public policy. The Museum preserves and develops the original Hull-House site for the interpretation and continuation of the historic settlement house vision, linking research, education, and social engagement
The Museum is located in two of the original settlement house buildings- the Hull Home, a National Historic Landmark, and the Residents' Dining Hall, a beautiful Arts and Crafts building that has welcomed some of the world's most important thinkers, artists and activists.
The Museum and its many vibrant programs make connections between the work of Hull-House residents and important contemporary social issues.
Founded in 1889 as a social settlement, Hull-House played a vital role in redefining American democracy in the modern age. Addams and the residents of Hull-House helped pass critical legislation and influenced public policy on public health and education, free speech, fair labor practices, immigrants’ rights, recreation and public space, arts, and philanthropy. Hull-House has long been a center of Chicago’s political and cultural life, establishing Chicago’s first public playground and public art gallery, helping to desegregate the Chicago Public Schools, and influencing philanthropy and culture. | <urn:uuid:f01a8af6-2422-47f6-a2f8-477c864a7d08> | 2013-05-18T06:30:48Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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All About Skarwolf
I have issues with the entire plot of Mass Effect 3. While entertaining I seriously doubt any military commander would sacrifice his entire army for something they don't know how to use. Its completely ridiculous, any military commander with half a brain would've did something similar to Battlestar Gallactica. Evacuate and flee hoping to find somewhere else to live.
This is my suggestion on an entirely different plot;
1. The story begins much the same as current. John Shepard flees earth hoping to gather friendly forces in the hopes they together might stand a chance of fighting the Reapers instead of being picked off one at a time.
2. Priority : Deep Space Recon Station
Your intel reports indicate Cerberus is looking for a relatively secret Space Station that was intended to probe dark space. When you arrive you find Cerberus forces but for the most part the station is empty. When you arrive at the final room you find some intel which indicates a ship arrived recently from Dark Space and this is what Cerberus is after.
3. You begin to hear the illusive man speaking & appearing to you in dreams. You learn from Kelly Chambers that Cerberus did indeed have a control ship implanted but she doesn't think they'll ever use it. You begin to get very suspicious about these visions and dreams. Also your team begins to grow suspicious of your odd behaviour and they all act distant.
4. Priority : Alliance Base
Intel reports indicate the vessel from Dark Space which appears Reaper in origin has landed at an Alliance Base. Cerberus has launched a small fleet to try and capture the vessel & anything of use. You arrive with your team and begin to work through whats left of the base. You come across dead Cerberus & Alliance troops.
After a certain point you start to confront Alliance & Cerberus fighting. Strangely the Alliance troops are attacking you but the Cerberus are not.
You can attack whomever you wish at this point to reach your objective. The command center.
Once you arrive the doors open & standing before you is John Shepard.
Suddenly the illusive mans voice starts to command you to kill him. You fall down and try to fight it but end up reaching for your gun. Suddenly you're knocked down from behind... by your own team member.
The other John Shepard walks up and tells the illusive man to show himself.
He appears and says that what he did was for the best. That you were just a clone of Shepard. The real shepard never died they merely made it look that way. For his last deed the Illusive man activates a control which makes the clone of Shepard dissolve.
The real shepard explains to his team what happened.
That he went on a covert mission to Dark Space to investigate the Reapers point of origin. To learn anything of use to help in the war. Shepard concludes by saying his mission was a success.
To be cont.
Go play Skyrim, make notes and take into account what that game offers.
Now, look at your current project. If it doesn't at the very least equate to Skyrim. Stop what you're doing right now and don't bother.
Skyrim is the benchmark now for what all other RPG's should strive to at least emulate or succeed. Otherwise quite frankly they're not worth the money. I've purchased two games since finishing skyrim. Well not really finishing I still have plenty to do I just kinda got bored so I picked up two other games. I found myself saying... skyrim is way better repeateldy and turned them off.
When I'm about to checkout some new product or game the webpages usually make you select what country you're from. In mose cases they list U.S.A. (english) & UK (english) and everyone else. Thing is I'm neither of those two and will not click them anymore. I want representation for my country, CANADA.
As a result they don't get my business.
My Recent Reviews
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Now that we’ve said a lot about individual operators on vector spaces, I want to go back and consider some other sorts of structures we can put on the space itself. Foremost among these is the idea of a bilinear form. This is really nothing but a bilinear function to the base field: . Of course, this means that it’s equivalent to a linear function from the tensor square: .
Instead of writing this as a function, we will often use a slightly different notation. We write a bracket , or sometimes , if we need to specify which of multiple different inner products under consideration.
Another viewpoint comes from recognizing that we’ve got a duality for vector spaces. This lets us rewrite our bilinear form as a linear transformation . We can view this as saying that once we pick one of the vectors , the bilinear form reduces to a linear functional , which is a vector in the dual space . Or we could focus on the other slot and define .
We know that the dual space of a finite-dimensional vector space has the same dimension as the space itself, which raises the possibility that or is an isomorphism from to . If either one is, then both are, and we say that the bilinear form is nondegenerate.
We can also note that there is a symmetry on the category of vector spaces. That is, we have a linear transformation defined by . This makes it natural to ask what effect this has on our form. Two obvious possibilities are that and that . In the first case we’ll call the bilinear form “symmetric”, and in the second we’ll call it “antisymmetric”. In terms of the maps and , we see that composing with the symmetry swaps the roles of these two functions. For symmetric bilinear forms, , while for antisymmetric bilinear forms we have .
This leads us to consider nondegenerate bilinear forms a little more. If is an isomorphism it has an inverse . Then we can form the composite . If is symmetric then this composition is the identity transformation on . On the other hand, if is antisymmetric then this composition is the negative of the identity transformation. Thus, the composite transformation measures how much the bilinear transformation diverges from symmetry. Accordingly, we call it the asymmetry of the form .
Finally, if we’re working over a finite-dimensional vector space we can pick a basis for , and get a matrix for . We define the matrix entry . Then if we have vectors and we can calculate
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|Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception|
|Publisher(s)||Sony Computer Entertainment|
|Release date(s)||NA November 1, 2011|
EU November 2, 2011
JP November 2, 2011
|Genre(s)||Action-adventure, third-person shooter|
|Mode(s)||Single-player, online multiplayer, online splitscreen, offline splitscreen|
Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception is an action-adventure third-person shooter game and the sequel to Uncharted 2: Among Thieves. The game is the third installment in the Uncharted series. It was released on November 1st for North America, November 2nd for Europe and Japan, and November 3rd for Australia. The game is the first in the series to support high-resolution Stereoscopic 3D. It also received the "Best PS3 Game" award at the 2011 Spike TV Video Game Awards. The main plot of the game involves Nathan "Nate" Drake and Victor "Sully" Sullivan trying to find the legendary Atlantis of the Sands.
The story begins with a phrase read by Nathan "Nate" Drake (Nolan North) by T.E Lawrence. The scene then changes to Nate and Victor "Sully" Sullivan (Richard McGonagle) entering a pub in London to meet with a man named Talbot, who is interested in purchasing Nate's ring. During the meeting, Nate and Sully accuse Talbot of offering them counterfeit banknotes, and a fight ensues. After fighting their way past Talbot's whores, Nate and Sully emerge in an alleyway, where they are surrounded and subdued by Charlie Cutter (Graham McTavish), Talbot's cohort. They are then approached by Talbot's client, Katherine Marlowe (Rosalind Ayres), who steals Drake's ring. Nate attempts to go after her, but Cutter guns him and Sully down, seemingly killing them.
The story flashes back to 20 years earlier. A teenage Nathan Drake (Billy Unger) explores a museum in Cartagena, Colombia, in search of Sir Francis' ring, but is thrown out after guards suspect him of being a thief. Intrigued by the actions of Victor Sullivan, who he does not know at this point, Nate follows Sully to a keymaker and pickpockets him. Nate anticipates that he has succeeded until he unintentionally comes across Sully. Sully states that Nate's moves were telegraphed the entire time and threatens Nate to give back his wallet or he'll call the police. Nate then threatens Sully that he'll do the same knowing that it would not look good if middle aged men were following young boys. Sully considers this but still asks for his wallet back. Nate returns it to him before leaving. The scene then changes to Nate on the roof holding the key saying 'Telegraphing my moves, huh,' before returning to the museum. He steals the ring, but before he can leave he is caught by Marlowe, her henchmen, and Sully, who was working for her. Sully tells Nate calmly to give them the ring but Nate refuses. Marlowe attempt to grab the ring by grabbing Nate's closed fist. Nate then opens his fist, with no ring, asking 'What ring?" Marlowe laughs with no humour then slaps him. She makes a second attempt in slapping him but Sully grabs her arm to stop her, appauled by her behaviour. Nate makes a run for it, jumping on roofs, on walls and even someone's apartment! The henchmen attempt to shoot him but Sully either tackles them or shoots them himself. Nate finally comes to a dead end and one henchmen is about to shoot him. Nate grabs a nearby gun but collapses to the ground and shivers violently. A gunshot is fired and it came from Sully's gun. Sully then takes him to a sort of cafe and, with Nate still unsure if he could trust him, says that it was just a job and he doesn't ask his clients questions as well claiming that he's pretty sure he's fired. Sully asks to examine the ring but Nate is still unsure then Sully convinces him that if he wanted to steal the ring he would have taken it from Nate by now. Nate gives him the ring explaining that Francis Drake's motto was 'Greatness from Small Beginnings'. Nate then explains Drake had sailed for six months but he was a professional sailor so it would have taken him a month. Nate says that Drake was hiding something and at that point Sully offers to mentor him. From there they become friends.
Returning to the present day, it is revealed that the meeting was an elaborate set-up by Nate and Sully to get closer to Marlowe, with Cutter being an old friend of theirs. Avoiding the police, the threesome sneak back to the van where Chloe Frazer (Claudia Black) awaits. Chloe spyed on Marlowes car to see where they could get the thing that Nate has been wanting for twenty years. After discovering a sort of passage way mechanism, they travel underground to Marlowe's hidden library. They find Marlowe and Talbot discussing the ring then Marlowe enters the ring in the mechanism, only to discover that the ring was a fake. Talbot then realises that Cutter was a traitor. Marlowe sends mercenaries to find them, therefore leaving the library. As well as discovering T.E. Lawrence's notebook , Nate, Sully and Cutter discover the code on the mechanism, Lond Hidden, then Nate discovers that it's an anagram. The answer was Golden Hind where they find hung on the wall. Nate climbs to retrieve it just when the henchmen come in. Nate falls with the Golden Hind, breaking it, and finds a map showing Francis Drake's secret voyage where he was commissioned by Queen Elizabeth I to search for the lost city of Ubar which is only mentioned in the Quran. The three quickly get out of the underground trainstation where Chloe saves them in time by arriving with the van. Using the items they retrieved, Nate works out that clues to the city's location lie in Crusader crypts in a French chateau and a Syrian citadel. Nate decides that he and Sully will go to the France chateau and Chloe and Cutter will go to the Syrian citadel. Nate and Sully head to eastern France and locate the long-abandoned chateau in a dense forest. The first clue of finding something weird, after being ambushed by Talbot's men, is finding one of Talbot's dead men dried out and green on the ground even though they only arrived moments earlier. After setting a mechanism, Nate and Sully enter a passage way where they find a lab. Pushing the table, they find another passage and set of another mechanism. They find one half of an amulet inside the crypt, but the two are ambushed by Talbot. Talbot sends 'Harriss' to get the half of the amulet. Nate attempts to grab the gun, only getting shot on the side of his shoulder for his reward. Suddenly, these scarabs suddenly ambush everyone, only fearing light which is the only thing protecting them, apart from Harriss who wasn't in the light. Talbot abandons them and Nate and Sully quickly get out. They then find Talbot's men setting the whole place on fire and Nate and Sully make a quick exit. Sully questions Nate about the situation but Nate just says he's not going to abandon it but then he suddenly realises that Chloe and Cutter are in trouble because they may have been followed aswell.
In Syria, Nate and Sully's suspicions are confirmed once they find that the chain is cut and once Nate discovers mercenaries, whom he kills. After fighting a few more henchmen in the old well, Nate and Sully meet up with Chloe and Cutter. After Nate claims that they were 'rescuing them' the old plan off sneaking in then out is abandoned once Cutter shares valuable information about Marlowe being in an order that dates back four centuries.The order seeks to gain power by exploiting the fears of their enemies. The group realise that they need to go on the highest vantage point to search for a particular symbol to locate the crypt. After fighting more mercenaries, getting thrown out of towers, they reach the vantage point. Nate and Cutter locate the symbol and the door but they are suddenly shot by several RPGs. Nate and Cutter are split up from Chloe and Sully but continue to reach the door. To their disappointment, it is only storage but then they locate the symbol on the ground again and find pillars to be their entrance. The group reunite and try to find an entrance to the pillars. Nate, Sully and Chloe go around a corner but the Cutter, being on the other side, is shot by a dart containing hallucinogens by Talbot. Under his influence, Cutter gives Talbot the journal and his gun and Talbot whispers in Cutter's ear to not trust Drake. The rest of the group return to find Talbot holding Cutter. Sully chases Talbot into a corner but Talbot had disappeared. The group find the dart inserted in Cutter's neck, with Cutter repeatedly saying 'Don't Touch Me'. With Cutter struggling, the rest try to figure out the entrance. Chloe then figures it out, it being the middle pillar, and they all enter. Drake volunteers to look after Cutter as they go through a tight space. When they are in the open, Cutter begins to fight Nate. At the end of the fight, Cutter is choking Nate and Sully and Chloe return just in time. Chloe tells Sully, as he was willing to shoot Cutter to save Nate, not to shoot and convinces Cutter that he is killing Nate. Cutter let's go leaving Nate spluttering and coughing on the ground. Cutter is back to his normal self also asking Sully if he really was going to shoot him with Sully replying "Like a Rabid Dog" After operating a mechanism, the group find the crypt where they find second half off the amulet. Nate then reveals that Talbot has the first half of the amulet. Suddenly, they hear Talbot's henchmen and they quickly get out of the place by pushing a loose wall, crushing one henchman in the process. They are ambushed by Talbot himself then suddenly Cutter seemingly reacts to the drug again, pointing it at Nate. Nate, Sully and Chloe are forced to drop there guns but Talbot still gives the command to shoot them. Cutter replies 'My Pleasure' and insteads shoot Talbot and his henchmen. The group flee but when the three of them, Nate, Sully and Chloe cross a bridge it collapses leaving Cutter trapped. He is then approached by Marlowe and amazingly Talbot who was supposedly shot down yet no wound and they set the place on fire as well as grabbing the amulet half. Cutter is forced to jump of but he breaks his leg in the process. Nate and Chloe shoot down the men while they make their way out as Sully supports Cutter. They exit the Citadel and hijack a bus. Chloe says to Nate that it was too close and it's not worth it, therefore backing out. Cutter is forced to back out but tells Nate not to let them win. Because of this Nate and Sully are to travel to Yemen on their own yet Sully knows where to get help.
Drake reluctantly follows Sully's advice to meet with his wife Elena Fisher (Emily Rose), recently enstraged. Though the two argue over the fact that Elena is still wearing her wedding ring, and how Nate seems to be obsessed with his quest, Elena still helps Nate and Sully, giving them a tour of the city. They eventually locate the underground tomb where they discover the location of the lost city, as well as evidence that Sir Francis Drake had also found the tomb, and that what he learned there caused him to abandon his mission. Back above ground, Nate is shot with a dart containing hallucinogens. After stumbling away alone, Nate wakes up outside a café with Marlowe and Talbot. Here, Marlowe comments on his past and his relationship with Sully, and even threatens Elena if he does not cooperate. When Talbot gets news of Sully's location, Nate breaks free and gives chase to Talbot throughout the city; however, Nate is then knocked out by Rameses, a pirate working with Marlowe. Rameses interrogates Nate for information about Iram of the Pillars. When Nate refuses to cooperate, Rameses claims to have captured Sully. Nate manages to escape captivity and eventually reach the cruise ship where Sully is captured.
Nate discover Sullivan sitting on a chair in the cargo hold with a fabric bag on his head, but discovers it is a dummy. Rameses and his men appear, and reveal that Rameses never had Sullivan. Rameses stumbles to safety after being shot by Nate. Nate then throws a grenade in the ensuing battle, which results in a large explosion rupturing the ships hull. Eventually the excess water causes the whole vessel to roll 90 degrees and begin sinking. After navigating through the capsized ship, Nate finds himself in the over-turned ballroom. A mortally wounded Rameses re-appears and shoots the glass roof, resulting in water rapidly flooding in, killing himself in the process. Nate escapes the overturned ship and washes back onto the shore.
He is reunited with Elena, but she informs him that Sully was captured by Marlowe's men and was taken on a convoy into the Rub 'al Khali desert; but they may be able to rescue him if they stow away on a cargo plane due to deliver supplies to Marlowe's convoy. At dawn, the two of them infiltrate the airstrip, where they eventually reach a high wall. Nate gets to the other side but refuses to help Elena up, and claims he doesn't want to risk losing Elena again. She understands and accepts this, and eventually leaves using a nearby jeep. Nate tries to reach the plane as it begins its take-off run, but ultimately fails. Elena re-appears in the jeep and picks him up, allowing him to enter the plane through one of the landing-gear bay doors just as the plane lifts off. Nate is soon discovered by Marlowe's men on board, and a shoot-out ensues, resulting in a massive decompression, which tears the plane apart and sucks Nate out. Falling through the sky, Nate collides with a falling supply crate and deploys the crate's unused parachute; he is able to land safely on the desert floor. Nate finds a weapon in the wreckage and starts to journey through the desert.
After wandering the desert, suffering from heat exhaustion, severe thirst and experiencing hallucinations and mirages, Nate arrives at a ghost town in the desert where he is attacked by Marlowe's men. A troop of men on horseback, led by Salim (TJ Ramini), appear and ride to Nate's rescue. At the horsemen's encampment, Salim tells Nate that the city of Ubar was doomed thousands of years ago by King Solomon when he imprisoned evil Djinn within a brass vessel and cast it into the heart of the city. He agrees to help Nate and leads him to the convoy spotted by his scouts. Nate and Salim destroy the convoy and rescue Sully. Salim then instructs Nate and Sully to follow him into a nearby sandstorm, but the pair lose him amidst the dust and they realise that they have arrived at the gates of Ubar.
Upon entering Ubar, Nate and Sully come across a sophisticated water fountain that Nate drinks from. Suddenly Talbot appears and shoots Sully, apparently killing him. Overcome by rage over Sully's death, Nate gives chase and has to fight more of Marlowe's men, who seem to have been possessed by the Djinn, engulfing themselves in flames as well as showing the ability to teleport. Nate eventually comes to his senses and finds Sully alive. The true mystery of what happened to the people of Ubar thousands of years ago becomes apparent: when King Solomon cast the brass vessel into the depths of the city, it fell into the water and began to taint the water with a powerful hallucinogenic agent. The people were subsequently driven mad, and civilization within the city collapsed. Nate realises that the vessel is what Queen Elizabeth had sent Francis Drake to find, but after learning the consequences of his quest, Drake abandons his mission and returns to England. Nate and Sully search the city and locate Marlowe, who is using a winch to pull the brass talisman from the water. Nate and Sully destroy the winch and the explosion sets off a chain reaction throughout the entire city, causing it to collapse. Nate and Sully attempt to escape the crumbling city, and encounter Marlowe and Talbot shortly before the floor collapses, throwing Marlowe into a pit of quicksand. Nate tries to save her but is unable to pull her out, and Marlowe is submerged in the sand, taking Drake's ring with her.
After desperately trying to reach the edge of the giant sinkhole that the city has now become, Nate and Sully are intercepted by Talbot, close to the exit. An enraged Talbot attempts to kill Nate and Sully, but after a brutal fight, he is shot by Nate and falls out of sight. At the city gates, Salim rides in on his horse and leads Nate and Sully to safety as the city is engulfed by the desert sands. Nate and Sully return to the airport in Yemen, where Sully explains why he took such an interest in the young Nate. He then gives back Nate's wedding ring, which he secretly kept safe when Drake and Elena separated. Nate turns to see Elena joining them. The two embrace each other, and the three fly back home on Sully's new sea plane.
Voice Actors/Characters Edit
Main article: Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception characters.
- Nolan North - Nathan Drake
- Richard McGonagle - Victor Sullivan
- Emily Rose - Elena Fisher
- Claudia Black - Chloe Frazer
- Graham McTavish - Cutter
- Rosalind Ayres - Katherine Marlowe
Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception upgraded the features from previous installments, but included new elements, such as an advanced melee combat system that allows Drake to face multiple opponents at once. Players are able to make use of Drake's surroundings to take down foes, such as smashing a bottle into an opponent's face, pulling the pin on a grenade attached to an enemy's waist. The aim reticule seems to have increased its size, there is also a hit marker when Drake shoots an enemy. Naughty Dog has added automatic pick up for any weapon the player is holding.
Uncharted 3's multiplayer will expand on Uncharted 2 in both cooperative and competitive play. New weapons and gametypes have been revealed, as well as both weapon and character customization. Naughty Dog confirmed the maps will be more dynamic and interesting. Co-op has again been split into three modes, Hunter, Adventure and Arena. Medal kickbacks and power plays are both new features for the Uncharted franchise.
Sony ran a competition to find a new character for the multiplayer game. Combining 6 finalists from America with 10 finalists from Europe, Amy Hennig, Justin Richmond, Emily Rose and Nolan North mad up the judging panel that auditioned the finalists at Sony Studios on 28th March 2012.
The special editions of the game were revealed on June 2, 2011.
Collectors Edition Edit
The collectors edition will cost $99.99 and will contain:
- A Sideshow Collectibles Nate statue
- A replica of Nate's belt buckle
- A replica of Francis Drake's ring and necklace strap
- A "Steelbook" game case
- A "travelling case" for storage
Special Edition Edit
The game box is designed like Nate's diary and will contain illustrated pages and artworks. Inside is a PSN voucher which gives access to the following:
- Multiplayer skin and weapon - "Suited Drake and Pirate AK-47"
- Multiplayer Upper Cut Taunt
- Cash Multiplier
- Special Edition Decals Pack
Explorer Edition Edit
A hybrid of the "Collectors" and "Special" editions, featuring the "Special Edition" as described above, and the "Collectors Edition" as described above, excluding the "Travelling Case." A case is being designed for this edition, although it is unknown if it is the same case that will be used for the "Collectors Edition."
Collector's Pack Edit
According to EB Games Australia if you pre-order the special editions in Australia you will have an exclusive "Collector's Pack" that includes the following:
- PS3 Console Decal
- The "Creepy Crawler Kickback" Multiplayer DLC
- "Callout Mod" for the AK-47
- A Nathan Drake Replica Ring with Necklace Strap
Limited Edition DualShock 3 EditOn November 2, the same release date for the game releasing in Japan, a limited edition DualShock 3 was also released, but the controller is only available in Japan.
Game of the Year Edition Edit
On April 24th, 2012, Sony announced the Game of the Year edition of Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception, but no release date. When released, the Game of the Year edition include the full game as well as all downloadable content released for it as a free add-on. A full list of the 14 DLC packs can be found at the link above.
Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception received universal critical acclaim, receiving numerous "Game of the Year" and "Best Visuals" awards. The game holds 91.76% on GameRankings, based on 70 reviews, and 92/100 from MetaCritic, based on over 90 reviews.
The first review of Uncharted 3 came from the Spanish magazine Playmania, who awarded it 9.9/10, the highest review score they have ever awarded to a game. Greg Miller from IGN awarded the game a perfect 10/10 in all aspects, earning the title: "Masterpiece". Official PlayStation Magazine UK gave Uncharted 3 10/10 and a gold award , stating "Welcome to the new platinum standard". The Guardian magazine gave the game a perfect score of 5/5, stating "Uncharted 3, perhaps for the first time, represents what we all hoped games would eventually evolve into. Its production values are sky-high, and it puts you at the centre of a gloriously rich and irresistible world, controlling a character who is heroic, but also convincingly human. It's also mildly didactic, and feels less dumbed-down than any mainstream movie we've come across in years." Destructoid gave the game 10/10, stating "Uncharted 3 jumps from one extraordinary set piece to the next, pushing the way a videogame narrative can be presented. Equal parts exhilarating and emotional, I can't say I have ever played a more perfectly paced game." GamePro gave a 10/10 too, stating "Overall, the combination of a robust multiplayer, a surprisingly compelling co-op adventure, and a thrilling ten-hour single-player campaign add up to a title that is, quite simply, a must-own."
Edge magazine gave the game a 9/10, stating "The present console cycle is expected to last nearly a decade, and there will inevitably be developers advocating the need for more sophisticated tools. But just like Machu Picchu, the Pyramids and every other engineering marvel of antiquity, Uncharted 3 will stand as a reminder to future generations of gamers that enough problem-solving imagination can turn any old trowel into a magic wand." Eurogamer gave the game a much lower score of 8/10, stating "As a slice of one-view entertainment, Uncharted 3 is peerless... As an expression of all that a video game could be, however, Uncharted 3 is narrow, focused and ultimately shallow."
- Eliza Dushku announced Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception and Uncharted 2: Among Thieves at the Spike VGA's in their respective years.
- In an interview on August 17th 2011, Arne Meyer of Naughty Dog revealed that Uncharted 3 was currently over 50Gb in size, above the maximum capacity of a blu-ray disc and more than twice the size of Uncharted 2.
- The teaser premiered on the Entertainment Weekly's Popwatch exclusive reveal of Uncharted 3, however that version is ten seconds longer than the Spike VGA trailer with an updated Naughty Dog logo introduction.
- In an October entry to the PlayStation Blog, it was revealed that all retail copies of Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception will include a voucher code to access the Starhawk multiplayer beta early. The Starhawk beta will be released sometime in early 2012.
- This is the first and so far only game in the series not to feature extra singleplayer bonuses such as an in-game store, or medal tracker. (Although they could possibly be added later.) It does, however, still retain the treasure list and bonus features. (The movie cutscene viewer, however, was added as part of Update ver. 1.02 on November 28)
- Everyone in the game has a more movie-like appearance than in any other game.
- Many old weapons have a shorter role, such the AK-47 and the Wes-44, it also occur to some new weapons, such as the new M9.
- Some weapons from the previous games have been replaced with different weapons such the M4 replaced with the M9 or the Desert-5 replaced with the Mag-5.
- Unlike the first two games, this is the only Uncharted game where it cannot change the single-player character appearance.
Released Content Edit
- A dynamic theme, a static theme and two avatars have been released. The Dynamic Theme and Drake Avatar are available on the PSN store, while the static theme and Uncharted 3 avatar are available through a code which is received when you sign up for updates at the game's official site.
- In December, shortly after the announcement of Uncharted 3, Naughty Dog released part one of a behind the scenes video. Part two has not yet been released.
- On March 8th 2011 Naughty Dog released a cutscene which introduced Uncharted 3's Villain, Katherine Marlowe.
- On April 18th,a multiplayer trailer was released as well as an interview showing off some of the new features that will be available in the Uncharted 3 multiplayer.
- During E3 a new trailer was released, showing us Elena and Chloe's return.
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- ↑ http://www.thesixthaxis.com/2011/07/08/uncharted-3-uk-release-date-pushed-forward/
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I have destroyed a bunch of non-essential files and I don't know why. I have been executing commands like:
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Another command that erased a full text file
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'Energy and ambition' attract young Americans
Updated: 2011-08-22 08:40
By He Wei (China Daily)
SHANGHAI - China has captivated the imagination of Hunter Levan for as long as he can remember.
Levan, 29, came to China in 2009, but the US citizen has been interested in the country since his childhood, when he was a fan of kungfu movies and started to practice martial arts.
Driven by a desire to learn Chinese, Levan quit his job as a government clerk in Washington and moved to Suzhou in East China to spend a year studying the language.
"I realized if I ever wanted to learn Chinese, I would have to move here and 'do as the Romans do'," he said.
After overcoming the language barrier, Levan turned his attention to finding a practical use for his new skill.
"I sent out e-mails and resumes in Chinese, and got feedback in less than five days," said Levan, who now works as a consultant for Spring Airlines in Shanghai.
Unlike Levan, Alison Watts, 28, knew little about China before coming to the country.
"But all my friends who have been here said it was incredibly fantastic, so I decided to take the big step forward," she said.
Watts' experiences of journalism in New York helped her land her current job, in which she hosts a show for an English-language television channel in Shanghai.
"Living and working here is like an adventure, where amazing opportunities keep popping up," she said.
"Some of the emerging sectors such as advertising, media, architecture, public relations, etc, are quickly gaining momentum," said Watts. The "energy and ambition" in China is like "the pioneering spirit in a bygone age of the United States", she added.
Levan echoed this sentiment, saying that it was very "exciting" to work in China's rapidly growing aviation sector.
Compared with these newcomers, Ted Hornbein, a US businessman, has a deeper understanding of how things have changed in China.
When he first celebrated US Independence Day in China in the early 1990s, he was one of a handful of people invited to the party at the US embassy in Beijing.
But this year, as a board member of the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai, he and his colleagues organized an Independence Day celebration for around 2,000 guests.
"Today you have local and Western restaurants and your whole family here with you for the important holiday. I have seen a 180-degree shift from my first July 4 party in China," Hornbein said.
According to Watts, China-related news coverage in the US has surged only in the past two years. "I think that indicates how much attention the US has attached to this relationship."
Levan said that one thing he has learned in China is that you should never use one standard and apply it everywhere.
"We should learn more and understand more about each other," Levan said.
And that is why he smiled after learning that US Vice-President Joe Biden had tipped in a restaurant in Beijing during his current visit to the country.
"If you live in China, you'd know we don't do tipping here."
US Vice-President Joe Biden visits China August 17-22.
Li Xing, China Daily's assistant editor-in-chief and veteran columnist, died of a cerebral hemorrhage on Aug 7 in Washington DC, US.
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The 'big four' concerns of Chinese
Updated: 2012-09-25 08:09
By Robert Lawrence Kuhn (China Daily)
An ancient Chinese philosopher described the perfect society as "living in harmony, treating others as family... there is love and caring for the elderly ... nourishment and education for children ... kindness and compassion for widows, orphans, the disabled and the sick".
Historically, such harmony is the standard of happiness.
But now, after vast economic development, are the Chinese people happy?
What I hear are the "big four" social concerns: education, healthcare, housing and retirement.
These challenges are what China's new leaders face.
For over two decades, I've witnessed the astonishing growth of China's economy. At the same time, I've watched burgeoning economic disparity and social inequality between rich and poor, urban and rural, become China's most severe and alarming problem. I've wondered, could equality in education be a partial solution?
If I'm a poor migrant worker, but if my child has an equal opportunity for a good education, and thus has an equal opportunity for a good life, I'd be more willing to endure my own hardships.
How to provide equality in education? I visit the Jin Ding elementary school in Shanghai, where all the students are children of migrant workers. Sure, they're better off here than they'd be in their rural hometowns, but how will they feel when they realize that they're not like the children of Shanghai residents?
There are more than 200 million migrant workers in China. In Shanghai alone, there are about half a million children of migrant workers. Over 40 percent of students in Beijing and Shanghai are non-residents. At best they are second-class citizens.
Migrant workers built these cities, and through education they expect to change their children's fate. But even for successful migrant families, their children cannot overcome structural barriers. They may dream of going to college, but they cannot. According to current policy, migrant workers' children receive compulsory education from elementary through middle school, but if they do not return to their hometowns when they reach 9th grade, they can apply only to vocational schools. This means their careers will be similar to that of their parents' - construction workers, hotel attendants, maids, cooks. And if they do return, the education is so inferior they will not pass the rigorous college entrance exams.
Worse are the "left-behind children", the multitudes of rural kids, 60 million of them, who have not moved with their parents to the big cities. Their parents return home generally only once a year, and then only for a short visit. "Left-behind children" are a national heartbreak.
Disparities in education cripple the capacity of education to make opportunities equal, to level the playing fields of life and career. For many, the "Chinese Dream" can never come true.
In 2012, Premier Wen Jiabao promised that educational funding would grow to 4 percent of China's GDP, a major commitment to China's future.
Healthcare affects everyone and China's system suffered in the transition from a planned to a market economy. No one is satisfied, not patients, not doctors, not society.
At 7:30 am I arrive at Ren Ji Hospital, one of Shanghai's best. The lobby is packed with people, many already waiting for hours. Ren Ji was built to treat 2,000 patients a day; it now handles 8,500. Something has to give : care, costs, service, time. The system is overburdened: hospitals are besieged and doctors overwhelmed.
So an underground economy, insidious and illegal, has spawned. Scalpers exploit the vulnerabilities of patients frustrated by long waiting times. They arrive at a top, in-demand hospital early, register, and then resell their short-wait positions to desperate, real patients who arrive later. Scalpers charge up to 500 yuan. Another odious practice is hong bao, the "red envelopes" stuffed with cash that patients must all too often use to bribe doctors.
Imagine a system in which you must wait for hours, your doctors are overworked and underpaid, you may have to pay scalpers or offer bribes, and you only get five minutes of care. Moreover, healthcare in China is wildly uneven. In some rural areas, medical services are dangerously scarce, and when available, decades behind.
In 2009, China launched healthcare system reform. In three years, basic medical insurance covered 1.3 billion people, about 95 percent of China's population. And a rural cooperative medical service system provides basic medical care.
When I ask young adults in China's big cities, "What's your biggest problem?", they do not hesitate. "Housing," they often exclaim, "Housing prices."
Those who move to Beijing are called "Beijing Dream Pursuers" - to own a home in Beijing is the ultimate goal. But "the sandwich class" are people caught between having too much money to qualify for public housing and not enough to buy private housing - at least not in the areas they'd like.
The housing price problem is severe, and the din of complaints, especially among young adults, is intense. This gives the government a major housing headache: How to control housing prices, but without harming the real estate market? Because while escalating housing prices aggravates urban buyers, China's entire economy is rooted in real estate.
China's leaders tell me that they need to stimulate the domestic economy by increasing consumption. But the Chinese people resist spending. They prefer to save. Why? They worry about retirement.
Chinese society has become an aging society; each year the elderly population increases by 8 million. In Shanghai, people aged 60 and above constitute about 25 percent of the population.
In downtown Shanghai, it's now hard to find a nursing home vacancy. In response, the municipality proposed that 90 percent of the elderly stay at home and only 10 percent go to nursing homes. But with one-child families and careers demanding more work and travel, if the elderly stay at home, who can care for them? (In traditional Chinese society when large families lived together caring for seniors was shared.)
Responding to the aging society, Shanghai is the first city in China to extend the retirement age. The new "flexible retirement policy" enables some males to retire at age 65 and females at age 60. To provide income for retirement, Shanghai will test the first "personal, tax-deferred pension insurance system".
China's overarching goal is to become a "moderately well-off society". To achieve this, China must solve the "big four" social problems - education, healthcare, housing, retirement. China's leaders recognize it. China's people demand it.
A personal note. Commentating about China invites critique, and one of the criticisms leveled against me has been that much of my work focuses on State leaders, not common people. China's Challenges brings me to China's grassroots. To know China, one needs to know both leaders and people.
The author is an international corporate strategist and investment banker. He is the author of The Man Who Changed China: The Life and Legacy of Jiang Zemin and How China's Leaders Think.
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By Richard Wolf and Richard Willing, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON A new intelligence estimate that reverses previous U.S. claims that Iran is developing nuclear weapons will not change the Bush administration's policy of tough sanctions and diplomacy.
"That was our policy … and that's our policy going forward," said Stephen Hadley, the president's national security adviser. "We have the right strategy."
REPORT SUMMARY: Read the NIE assessment
PHOTOS PLAY ROLE: Pictures contributed to reassessment
Iran ceased its secret nuclear weapons program in 2003 and has not resumed work toward building nuclear arms, a National Intelligence Estimate released Monday says. The estimate reverses claims the intelligence community made two years ago that Iran appeared "determined to develop" a nuclear weapons program.
The new estimate did not explain why the intelligence community did not know Iran had stopped its weapons program before the 2005 estimate was released.
The estimate, reflecting the collective judgment of the nation's 16 intelligence agencies, also concludes that Tehran probably is "keeping open the option to develop nuclear weapons" by continuing to build missiles and pursue a civilian nuclear power program.
Iran, intelligence analysts concluded, halted weapons development in response to international scrutiny and the threat of increased sanctions.
U.S. officials are still trying to enlist more nations to bring sanctions against Iran. On Monday, Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns said he met with Chinese officials to agree on key issues involved in imposing a third set of United Nations sanctions on Iran for continuing a nuclear weapons program.
Shortly after Burns' comments in Singapore, the intelligence community released its estimate saying Iran had stopped its nuclear weapons program in 2003.
Despite the differences from the 2005 analysis, intelligence officials thought it was important to set the record straight by making public that "our understanding of Iran's capabilities have changed," said Donald Kerr, deputy director of national intelligence.
Monday's estimate was a double "good news story," said Sen. Kit Bond of Missouri, the ranking Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee.
"The intelligence community was willing to reconsider an important intelligence judgment," Bond said. "Iran doesn't appear to be currently working on a bomb."
Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., who chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said the estimate undercuts the administration's "obsession with regime change and irresponsible talk of World War III." Last month, President Bush said the U.S. policy toward Iran was aimed at avoiding "World War III."
"The NIE makes clear that the right combination of pressure and positive incentives could prompt Tehran to extend the current halt to its nuclear weapons program," said Biden, a Democratic candidate for president.
Mordechai Kedar, who served in Israel's military intelligence for 25 years and is a researcher at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies in Tel Aviv, said Israel's intelligence community disagrees with the latest estimate.
"This is a matter of interpretation of data. I do believe that the U.S. and Israel share the same data, but the dispute is about interpreting the data. … Only a blind man cannot see their efforts to put a hand on a nuclear weapon. They are threatening the world."
Contributing: Charles Levinson
Conversation guidelines: USA TODAY welcomes your thoughts, stories and information related to this article. Please stay on topic and be respectful of others. Keep the conversation appropriate for interested readers across the map. | <urn:uuid:35335fcf-4913-4170-92f4-cfcb41fba1be> | 2013-05-18T06:20:08Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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SHIRLEY, N.Y. -- A tractor-trailer hauling debris from superstorm Sandy triggered a deadly 35-vehicle pileup on the Long Island Expressway in New York on Wednesday afternoon, police said.
The truck struck several cars near exit 68 in the town of Shirley, which is located about 70 miles east of New York City.
The collision set off a chain-reaction crash that left the tractor-trailer and two additional vehicles ablaze. A 68-year-old woman driving a Toyota Camry was killed, police said. An additional 33 people were injured, including a 57-year-old man who is in serious condition.
A car involved in the initial collision with the tractor-trailer was incinerated beyond recognition, with its tires punctured and paint burned off its body. Some SUVs and cars suffered extensive damage while others appeared to have barely a scratch; all were haphazardly stopped across the highway, which is up to six lanes in parts.
'It sounded like thunder'
One driver described the crash unfolding next to him while he was on the freeway.
"All we heard was crashing behind us, it sounded like thunder," said Jimmy Batjley. "Looking back, all I saw was glass and metal, and they went right past us, at least 40 miles per hour."
"If you can imagine all the cars were lined up, and [the tractor-trailer] just came right in and just pushed that entire line," said Batjley. He said the tractor-trailer driver was pulled out before the truck burst into flames.
Aerial footage provided by News12 Long Island showed the trailer partly incinerated at dusk, alongside at least two cars that appeared to be blackened and burned. Multiple other vehicles, including a box truck, were scattered nearby, apparently having collided into one another or the guardrail.
The tractor-trailer was driven by 42-year-old Raymond Simoneau of Rockingham, Vt. Police told The Associated Press that Simoneau wasn't injured.
The tractor-trailer and several of the vehicles involved in the crash were impounded for safety checks.
Five fire departments responded to the scene as well as 19 Emergency Medical Services agencies, police said.
The weather was clear at the time of the crash, according to Reuters.
"Anybody rolling up on this scene you would think there would be definitely more than just one fatality," said John Mirando, chief of the Ridge Fire Department. "It's just lucky that it's only one, but it could have been a lot worse."
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"This was meant to be a game against intolerance and against the one-way Islamophobic satire of the Danish Muhammad cartoons," Molleindustria said in an e-mail message. "So if a respectable organization didn't understand the irony and the message, we failed." Islamic law generally opposes physical depictions of the prophet.
Although the game has been around for some time, the controversy kicked up over a recent newspaper article. The authors of the game offer a censor option which blocked out the face of Muhammad but that didn't fly. Other games designed by Molleindustria include Operation: Pedopriest, Queer Power and Oiligarchy, satirizing the Catholic Church, sexual orientation and the oil industry. /Ack. Since the big take down, Faith Fighter 2 has replaced the original Faith Fighter. This new non-violent game is said to be an educational title that teaches universal values of tolerance and respect. I can only wonder what these same groups would think of South Park! | <urn:uuid:d5b6c765-a548-4f79-9f14-9a82a3a51e5c> | 2013-05-18T06:22:23Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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ALBANY, N.Y. — New York Senator Thomas Duane says he intends to introduce legislation calling for a statewide ban on use of furosemide for
any horse participating in a state-sanctioned horse race.
Duane made the statement on Sept. 21, the opening day of the fall season at Belmont Park. At presstime, the senator had not
yet made good on his promise to introduce the legislation.
The diuretic furosemide was found to prevent bleeding in horses in the early 1970s and has since been used in racehorses to
prevent nosebleeds or blood in the lungs. Critics of the use of furosemide in competition argue that the drug has weakened
the racing breed and "causes irreparable harm to horses, which in turn has hurt the industry with horses burning out before
they can enter major races," he says.
New York banned the drug for nearly two decades. In 1995, the New York State Racing and Wagering Board lifted the ban. In
2010, the New York Racing Association (NYRA) began its own in-house drug testing program for illegal performance-enhancing
drugs, and in January 2011 NYRA began the practice of having its veterinarians be the only ones permitted to administer furosemide
on race day. NYRA said at the time that this practice would eliminate the need for private veterinarians to enter a horse's
stall on race day.
New York already bans other performance-enhancing drugs in racehorses. Duane contends that those actions are still not enough.
"We ban all other athletes in every other sport from taking performance-enhancing drugs both for their safety and to maintain
the integrity of their sports," Duane says. "Yet we embrace the idea of dispensing Lasix to horses so they won't have a nosebleed
or develop blood in their lungs during a big race. This is unacceptable."
Duane says his legislation will be based on a federal model currently pending in the U.S. Senate. It would require the New
York State Racing and Wagering Board to establish regulations and enforcement for the ban, and prohibit all performance-enhancing
drugs, except those used to treat infection, on any horse entering a race in New York.
An accredited third-party testing laboratory would be responsible for random testing of all competing horses. And it would
require mandatory testing for any horse finishing first in a race.
Under the legislation, anyone who provides a horse with performance-enhancing drugs will be subject to a fine of $5,000 and
a 180-event suspension for a first offense, a $20,000 fine and one-year suspension for a second offense, and fines of $50,000
and permanent banishment from New York horse-racing activities for third offenses.
Horses given performance-enhancing drugs or racing in violation of the law would result in a 180-event suspension from racing
in New York for a first offense, a one-year suspension for a second offense, and a two-year ban for subsequent offenses.
Partial owners and horse-racing staff who know about performance-enhancing drug use and make "good faith efforts" to try to
stop it will be given legal protections under the law, if passed.
"New York has been the gold standard in horse racing for close to 150 years. It was not until 1995 that we allowed the shameful
practice of pumping horses with these drugs, and for very little gain. New York can do better than this, and I am confident
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The "Channel Mixer" command lets you adjust an image by re-mixing its color channels. To use it efficiently, bear in mind the three sets of complementary colors: "Cyan - Red", "Magenta - Green", and "Yellow - Blue".
- In the Effects palette, double-click the "Channel Mixer" thumbnail.
Tip. If the Shortcuts+ set is loaded, you can call the "Channel Mixer" dialog by pressing [Shift+Ctrl+M] keys.
- In the dialog box, choose the proper color channel from the "Output Channel" menu. For example, to alter the blue-to-yellow ratio, you select the "Blue" channel.
- Try to adjust color with the "Source Channels" sliders, keeping your eye on "Total" percentage. For example, to fix a blue cast, you reduce this value; to remove yellow, you push it over 100%.
- In the Layers palette, select the front (uppermost) layer.
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Robin of Locksley returns home from the Holy Land to find a changed Nottingham. The Sheriff is now in charge, crippling the poor with taxes and severely punishing them. Robin and his manservant Much are determined to fight for the good of these people. Aided by a gang of outlaws including Will Scarlett, the ingenious engineer; Little John, the man-mountain who can destroy all; and Jack, master of trickery and disguise. Will they succeed in thwarting injustice to relieve the people of Locksley? | <urn:uuid:88c1d6a1-6359-48b2-8f07-253f7761f04e> | 2013-05-18T05:32:26Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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On August 9, 2011, the Canadian Ice Service (CIS) reported that the Petermann Ice Island-A (PII-A) appeared to be grounded off the east coast of Newfoundland, east of the city of St. Anthony.
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this natural-color image of the ice island and its surroundings on August 14, 2011. Clouds hide much of the region, and white lines delineate coasts and borders.
PII-A appears as an irregularly shaped white body east of St. Anthony. What look like small fragments of ice appear immediately west and north of the ice island. The CIS had reported for weeks that the ice island was losing mass due to melting and calving, so a continued loss of ice is consistent with CIS reports.
PII-A is a remnant of a much larger ice island that calved off the Petermann Glacier in northwestern Greenland on August 5, 2010. Over the course of the following year, that ice island fragmented into smaller pieces, which continued drifting. Other fragments of the original ice island were in Baffin Bay and Lancaster Sound as of August 9, according to the CIS.
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Guns & Terrorism
America's lax gun laws allow foreign and domestic terrorists as well as extremists easy access to all types of weaponry. Just one example is the increasingly popular 50 caliber sniper rifle. Originally designed for military use, and currently used by U.S. and other military personnel around the world, these anti-armor rifles can penetrate the armor plating of armored vehicles, turn commercial jetliners into bombs on the ground, knock helicopters out of the air, and ignite railcars and stationary tank farms containing extremely hazardous, volatile, and explosive chemicals. Violence Policy Center research revealed that Al Qaeda acquired 25 of these rifles soon after they became available on the U.S. civilian market.
In addition to the 50 caliber sniper rifle, all stripes of extremists have access to a plethora of assault weapons, high-capacity ammunition magazines, loosely regulated black and smokeless powder explosive materials, body armor, explosive devices lacking the powder charge, and other materiel. In short, virtually everything needed to arm and equip a small army is available legally in the United States because of our lax laws. | <urn:uuid:aacf15ae-e812-4089-a8bf-b7275c62be43> | 2013-05-18T08:01:40Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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It is a gorgeous day, and I spent a lovely time at a festival in Mt Vic, and ate something that gave me a spell of feeling like death. I'm on the mend now, but eek, moments like that make me determined to stay healthy forever, because illness is AWFUL.
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Home Sweet Home (Win)
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Home Sweet Home (Win) is designed as a useful tool which can help you to move into a new house and you have visions of how you want every room, except for one. Sure, there are some items you know you need in that room but, other than that, it's a blank canvas. Who do you call? How about the 'Home Sweet Home' team?Learn about your clients to ensure you are designing the perfect room for their tastes. Next, choose the furniture, choose the colors and patterns, and place items around the room until the design is perfect. Then direct your build team of workers to assemble it all in front of your eyes!
With simple controls, a fun graphical style and an easy to use interface, Home Sweet Home allows the player to nurture their creative gaming experience. Remember - a house is not a home until it's 'Home Sweet Home'!This version is for Windows 2000/XP/Vista.
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BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — A prominent Colombian guerrilla will remain in prison in the United States, a U.S. official said Monday, dismissing rebel appeals for the man to be freed for peace talks in Cuba.
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, recently appealed to President Barack Obama to release Ricardo Palmera, who is better known by the nom de guerre Simon Trinidad.
Ricardo Zuniga, a special assistant to Obama and the lead official for Latin America policy on the National Security Council, noted that the U.S. government isn't part of the negotiations in Havana.
"This person is in prison for very serious crimes and is going to remain imprisoned," Zuniga told The Associated Press in a phone interview. He first made similar remarks to the Colombian newspaper El Tiempo an interview published Monday.
Zuniga declined to discuss whether the U.S. government would be willing to consider changing its posture under certain circumstances.
The FARC had said the rebel's presence at the talks with the Colombian government in Havana would help the negotiations.
The rebels named Palmera to their negotiating team in September, even though the 62-year-old is held at a maximum-security prison in Florence, Colorado. The rebels recently brought a life-sized cardboard cutout of him to a negotiating session.
But American officials have previously said it's unlikely any FARC rebels imprisoned in the US would be freed.
Palmera was captured in 2004 while trying to negotiate freedom for imprisoned rebels in exchange for three American contractors held hostage in jungle gulags by the FARC. The Americans were rescued four years later, along with former Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt.
Palmera was extradited to the U.S., then a jury in Washington convicted him and he was sentenced to the maximum of 60 years in prison for hostage-taking conspiracy.
The formal peace talks in Havana began last week. On Sunday, the Colombian government and the leftist rebels announced that as part their dialogue they will hold a forum in Bogota in December to discuss agrarian development, which has been an issue in the class-based conflict.
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Don - just to clarify. An elite 77kg lifter would be squatting about 260 kg if I am currently doing 60% (this being 160kg)
Yes I am currently making gains on this programme but it is an old programme and there may have been advances in programme design.
I would also like to know what you consider a good weight for a 77kg lifter to do for a maximum single rep in back squat. I like to know roughly where I stand as it makes me train harder!
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They were not for specific films as I understand, just general tests. Welles complete lack of interest in Hollywood prior to the generous R.K.O. offer would probably be one of those "myths" we've been talking about. The fact that he was interested in film from an early age suggests he must have toyed with the idea of being a movie actor or director. I suspect he was invited to Hollywood by Warner Brothers sometime after the success of "Julius Caesar" (or perhaps "Dr. Faustus") which would have demonstrated his serious acting ability in addition to his production work. The tests probably didn't amount to much at the time, so he didn't care to draw attention to them. I recall reading that after "War Of The Worlds" broke, Welles spent more time courting Hollywood, but felt he could hold out for something more remarkable than a leading role or supporting part in someone else's project. He would have been quite interested in a Hollywood career, but only one that would be a continuation of the standards he had set on stage and radio (which, of course, is why he picked "Heart Of Darkness" as his first film, then stumbled for a while when that project proved too expensive). | <urn:uuid:ff8d3da6-81af-4a13-a090-c4985bd51c6b> | 2013-05-18T06:50:47Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Archaeological Site of Rehman Dheri
Department of Archaeology and Museums
Property names are listed in the language in which they have been submitted by the State Party.
The archaeological site of Rehman Dheri consists of a rectangular shaped mound covering some twenty two hectares and standing 4.5 metres above the surrounding field. The final occupational phase of the site is clearly visible on the surface of the mound by eye and also through air photographs. It consisted of a large walled rectangular area with a grid iron network of streets and lanes dividing the settlement into regular blocks. Walls delineating individual buildings and street frontages are clearly visible in the early morning dew or after rain and it is also possible to identify the location of a number of small-scale industrial areas within the site marked, as they are, by eroding kilns and scatters of slag. The surface of the mound is littered with thousands of shreds and artefacts, slowly eroding out of room fills.
The archaeological sequence at the site of Rehman Dheri is over 4.5 metres deep, and covers a sequence of over 1,400 years beginning at c.3,300 BC. The site represents following periods:
I c.3300-3850 BC
II c.2850-2500 BC
III c.2500-1900 BC
It is generally accept that the settlement received its formal plan in its earliest phases and that subsequent phases replicated the plan over time. Although its excavators have cut a number of deep trenches or soundings into the lower levels, the areas exposed have been too limited to undertake a study of change in layout and the spatial distribution of craft activities. It was abandoned at the beginning of the mature Indus phase by the middle of the third millennium BC and subsequent activities, greatly reduced, are only recorded on the neighbouring archaeological mound, Hisam Dheri. The plan of the Early Harappan settlement is therefore undisturbed by later developments and, as such, represents the most exceptionally preserved example of the beginning of urbanisation in South Asia. | <urn:uuid:113e3986-b949-4542-97da-d6842557b2f6> | 2013-05-18T07:14:54Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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- weak drug regulatory control and enforcement;
- scarcity and/or erratic supply of basic medicines;
- unregulated markets and distribution chains;
- high drug prices and/or
- significant price differentials.
At national level, governments, law enforcement agencies, heath professionals, the pharmaceutical industry, importers, distributors, and consumer organizations should adopt a shared responsibility in the fight against counterfeit drugs. Cooperation between countries, especially trading partners is very useful for combating counterfeiting. Cooperation should include the timely and appropriate exchange of information and the harmonization of measures to prevent the spread of counterfeit medicines.
The World Health Organization has developed and published guidelines, Guidelines for the development of measures to combat counterfeit medicines. These guidelines provide advice on measures that should be taken by the various stakeholders and interested parties to combat counterfeiting of medicines. Governments and all stakeholders are encouraged to adapt or adopt these guidelines in their fight against counterfeiting of medicines.
- Guidelines for the development of measures to combat counterfeit medicines
- Rapid Alert System for counterfeit medicines
Communication and advocacy - creating public awareness
Patients and consumers are the primary victims of counterfeit medicines. In order to protect them from the harmful effects of counterfeit medicines it is necessary to provide them with appropriate information and education on the consequences of counterfeit medicines.
Patients and consumers expect to get advice from national authorities, health-care providers, health professionals and others from where they should buy or get their medicines; what measures they should take in case they come across such medicines or are affected by the use of such medicines.
Ministries of health, national medicines regulators, health professional associations, nongovernmental organizations and other stakeholders have the responsibility to participate in campaign activities targeting patients and consumers to promote awareness of the problem of counterfeit medicines. Posters, brochures, radio and television programmes are useful means for disseminating messages and advice. | <urn:uuid:3ffdac17-ada1-42bf-b987-66bc26ca97f6> | 2013-05-18T07:20:16Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Dutch statisticians have found that when Friday falls on the 13th of a month, it is actually a little safer than a regular Friday.
Perhaps this is because many people treat the day with suspicion and tread more carefully.
The chef at a hotel in Switzerland lost a finger in a meat-cutting machine and, after a little shopping around, submitted a claim to his insurance company. The company expecting negligence sent out one of its men to have a look for himself. He tried the machine and he also lost a finger. The chef’s claim was approved. | <urn:uuid:13b6e7b1-5e57-42e2-af49-281c504508e1> | 2013-05-18T06:25:44Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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- Fight in legendary vehicles of WWII, as well as prototypes that never made it onto the battlefield.
- Battle it out with players from all over the world on dozens of original maps.
- Fight side by side with your platoon mates and crush your enemies.
- Join a clan and get involved in Ultimate Conquest on the Global Map.
- View full battle statistics for your account.
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I'm fairly sure Far Cry 3 is specifically designed to grab your attention in a vise-like grip and then mess with your sanity. We put hands on Ubisoft's upcoming sequel, and we were able to discern some facts about the game. There seems to be a heavier emphasis on pacing and outright violence this time around, with dashes of nudity and lunacy peppering the demo. Hell, the demo starts off with a topless woman grinding on top of you, and it ends with you being unsure of who you are. You're also reluctantly holding a gun against a man who is egging you on to kill him.
Perhaps it's a bit easier to explain the gameplay. Starting off in the demo, we found ourselves sufficiently well armed with a box and an assault rifle, and we had to infiltrate a camp filled with enemies in the pursuit of a man called Vaas. We first had to dive into a picturesque lake before performing a stealth takedown from the water against a hapless enemy on the dock, stabbing him and dragging him down to let his blood permeate the crystal-clear waters. Once on dry land, we bumbled our way through the forest; it pissed off a couple of guards, so we shot one and dispatched the other in melee combat. Every weapon has a unique melee attack, and in this case, instead of stringing an arrow, we used it to stab the poor guy. Had we not been so careless, we could have snuck into the camp to silently take down the guards, and we're told that it's entirely possible to make your way through an area without killing anyone.
It was good practice for the area ahead, though. As we crested a small ridge, we saw the camp, which was a collection of small shacks with a large structure just behind them. Displaying our continued disregard for stealth, we equipped an explosive arrow and launched it at a truck, causing both to explode and take out a few nearby enemies. We then used a zip line to keep up the pace of the carnage, landing in the camp to engage the enemy with our assault rifle. As we made our way into the large building, it was clear that Vaas was screwing with us, leaving psychotic messages scrawled in paint and recordings of himself playing on stacks of televisions. As we made our way to the end, the player entered some sort of hallucinogenic state, showing the player's reflection shifting between two or three different people before finally ending with the player character holding his pistol against a clearly psychotic Vaas.
We didn't get to check out much more of the game, but it was pretty clear that a lot of the issues with the combat in Far Cry 2 have been worked out. It's unclear how the rest of the game will pan out, but the gameplay of the demo felt solid and kept things moving along. The potential insanity of the player's character is certainly intriguing, and it would seem that Ubisoft is not afraid to push the envelope with Far Cry 3 in more than a few ways. Hopefully, we'll be able to cut through the madness soon, as the game is coming out later this year.
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I had an article published for 1st rights in a magazine. Can I use an excerpt or all of the article in my own ebook? I now own the copyright and am unsure about the rules of fair use pertaining to my own work.
It doesn't matter that it's your own work or others; if you are the copyright owner, you can re-print the entire article in your book.There is no legal obstacle to do so. If the audience of your book are different from those of the magazine, it can be convenient too. | <urn:uuid:aa6df618-ff98-4efc-bd34-8c60118bbc5d> | 2013-05-18T07:20:15Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Oct. 22, 2011
What she craved
My mother sugared grapefruit;
my father salted it.
My mother sugared cantaloupe;
my father salted it.
My mother put sugar and lemon
on leaf lettuce from her garden;
two heaping teaspoonfuls into
her milky coffee, with cake.
Her teeth rotted out and were
yanked from her bleeding jaws
by a cheap sadist downtown.
Still she craved sweetness.
In a life with too much that
was bitter, tear soaked salty,
sour as unspoken grief,
sugar was her comfort
a little sweetness in the mouth
lingering like an infrequent kiss.;
sugar was the friend kept her clock
ticking through running down days.
Today is the birthday of frontiersman Daniel Boone (1734). His birth date is sometimes given as November 2, because the "new style" Gregorian calendar was adopted during his lifetime. Boone himself considered October 22 to be his birthday. He was born near Reading, Pennsylvania; his father, Squire, was a weaver and a blacksmith, and the family were Quakers. Daniel was the sixth of 11 children. He enjoyed hunting from a young age, employing both European and Native American techniques, and though he did learn to read and write, hunting and outdoor pursuits made up the bulk of his education. He usually took a book or two on his longer expeditions — often the Bible or Gulliver's Travels — and would entertain the other men by reading them stories around the campfire of an evening.
When Daniel was 16, the Boones moved to North Carolina, possibly because the family was shunned after two of the children married non-Quakers; it made an impression on Daniel, because never went back to church, although he still considered himself a Christian, and he had all of his 10 children baptized. It's rather remarkable that he managed to have such a large family, because his hunting and exploring expeditions frequently kept him away from home and his wife, Rebecca, sometimes for up to two years at a stretch. He supported his family by hunting and trapping in the fall and winter, and selling the furs and hides to traders in the spring. Though Boone wasn't the first European to discover Kentucky, he did blaze a trail through the Cumberland Gap and make the first European settlements in the region possible. The Wilderness Road, which ran from eastern Virginia well into the Kentucky territory, became the main route into the west.
Boone became a legend in his own lifetime. He was a taciturn man, but that didn't stop biographers from interviewing him and then embellishing his exploits until they became tall tales. They credited him with implausible pronouncements, like "Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand!" Lord Byron included him in his epic Don Juan (1822) and perpetuated the popular image of Boone as a man who shunned society. Boone, however, complained late in life about "the circulation of absurd stories that I retire as civilization advances."
It's the 200th birthday of Romantic composer and piano virtuoso Franz Liszt (1811). He was born in Raiding, Hungary, and was composing by the age of eight. By the time he was 16, he was exhausted from studying and touring all over Europe, and he expressed a desire to become a priest. He earned his living as a piano teacher after his father died, and when he was 17, he fell in love with one of his pupils. Her father insisted she end the romance, at which point Liszt became so ill that his obituary appeared in a Paris newspaper. He gave up on the idea of the priesthood, but later in life spent many years composing religious music inspired by his interest in Gregorian plainsong; the religious establishment didn't approve of it, and so it wasn't published until many years after his death. In the 1860s, following the death of two of his children, he eventually joined a monastery outside Rome. Though he received the four minor orders of porter, acolyte, exorcist, and lector, he never became a priest.
In many ways, Liszt was ahead of his time, and not just musically. He gained a reputation as a humanitarian, and at the height of his popularity he would give concerts specifically to earn money for disaster relief. By the late 1850s, he was so wealthy that he gave all of his concert fees to charity. Liszt was also charismatic, and his onstage presence inspired what may have been the first example of widespread fan frenzy. It began in Berlin in 1842 and came to be known as "Lisztomania." His admirers would follow him around, snatching up his discarded cigar butts, coffee dregs, and broken piano strings. They fought over his handkerchiefs and gloves, and would scream and faint at his performances. Rather than being considered a harmless and amusing fad, Lisztomania was viewed as a serious, and contagious, medical condition.
Today is the birthday of Hungarian photojournalist Robert Capa (1913). He was born Endre Ernö Friedmann in Budapest. He originally wanted to become a writer, but he happened to get a photography job in Berlin as a young man, and he fell in love with the lens. He took the name "Robert Capa" from his boyhood nickname, Cápa, which means "shark."
He covered five wars in his brief life: the Spanish Civil War, the Second Sino-Japanese War, World War II, the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and the First Indochina War. He famously said, "If your picture isn't good enough, you're not close enough," and he lived up to this maxim on his assignments. On D-Day, he swam ashore with the second assault wave on Omaha Beach, and took more than a hundred photographs; a lab error resulted in the loss of all but eight of them. In 1947, he traveled into the Soviet Union with his friend John Steinbeck, and the two of them produced a book called A Russian Journal (1948).
In 1954, he accepted an assignment from Life to cover the First Indochina War. He began the last day of his life optimistically: "This is going to be a beautiful story," he said. "I will be on my good behavior today. I will not insult my colleagues, and I will not once mention the excellence of my work." Later that day, he left the French regiment with which he was traveling to walk ahead so he could photograph the advance. He went over a hill and out of sight, where he stepped on a landmine and was killed.
It's the 60th birthday of Canadian author Elizabeth Hay (1951) (books by this author), born in Owen Sound, Ontario. Her parents were strict in most things, but they let her read whatever she wanted to. "The public library was almost a second home," she recalled, "a place in which I didn't have to set the table or do the dishes or cope with being teased." When she was 14, the family moved to London — England, not Ontario — for a year, and this was where she learned that she enjoyed writing poems. She eventually gave up poetry in favor of fiction: "I wasn't a very good poet and didn't know how to become a better one. Also, stories drew me. My short stories usually arise from something that's worrying me." Her first collection, Crossing the Snow Line, was published in 1989; since then she's written another story collection, Small Change (1997), and four novels, including Late Nights On Air (2007) and Alone in the Classroom (2011). She's also written several essays and two books of creative nonfiction, The Only Snow in Havana (1992) and Captivity Tales: Canadians in New York (1993).
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I have to admit, for the first time in a long while, I wasn't sure what to focus on for the prompt this week. My hubby had a great idea, though, and I'm really excited to read the responses!
Oh, first, updates. My brother got discharged from the hospital yesterday. He ended up being in the ICU for four nights instead of just one. They might be re-admitting him, however, due to extreme stomach pain. They think he may have started bleeding internally again. Overall, though, he's doing better and is able to walk again. I'm so grateful he's on the mend! To see the story of what happened, check out last week's prompt here.
Next update: pregnancy is going great! I'm completely over morning sickness. And at 32 weeks, it's about time, too! I'm still wearing pre-pregnancy jeans, which is wonderful since replacing a wardrobe with maternity stuff is really, really expensive. I'm loving this band thing that someone invented to hold up clothes. :-)
The baby kicks and moves all the time. I can't wait to see what her personality will be like! If I touch my stomach when she's moving, she stops. This could mean any number of things: She's shy (likely, considering my hubby's personality :-)). She feels comforted by my touch. She's a tease (likely, given my personality...). She's saying, "Leave me alone!" or "Uh-oh, Mom noticed me." :-) Or something else entirely. :-)
That's all for updates today!
Now on to the prompt!
I think everyone has had a Halloween-type moment in life that truly terrified them - whether it be hearing sounds in an empty house late at night, being lost in an unfamiliar neighborhood, or seeing something that scares you to death.
I want you to tell me about these experiences! Choose one story per prompt response (up to three responses max), and let us know the details behind it.
After you've written it, go through and remove weak verbs, replacing them with something stronger that better shows the feeling of the moment. For example:
Sarah paused when she heard something move across the floor behind her.
Sarah paused when something shuffled across the floor behind her.
First: removing the "she heard" allows the reader to hear/experience for themselves without unnecessary translation from the main character.
Rule: Do your very, very best to eliminate any case of "Sarah saw," "Sarah heard," and all other "Sarah experienced" type things. These are extra words that bog down your narrative and prose and aren't needed. In fact, using them weakens what could otherwise be a strong sentence.
Second: "moved" isn't descriptive. In fact, it's very lazy writing. What do I, as the author, mean by it? Can my readers tell what size the thing is? How quickly it went? What to picture?
I replaced "moved" with "shuffled," which, to me, could indicate the thing that moved across the floor behind Sarah partially drags, or has a very slow walk. Could be a zombie, a hurt animal, a psycho reaching for Sarah, or someone playing a practical joke.
Other verbs I could've changed "moved" to:
"Scuttled," or "scampered," etc. Scuttled reminds me of a cockroach, perhaps. And scampered is something a mouse or other small creature would do.
Order in which to respond to the prompt:
1. Write your spooky experience.
2. Go back and remove any "I heard," "I saw," etc.
3. Replace weak verbs with strong ones!
4. Read through for typos and errors!
Then follow the things in my usual "reminder" message below.
You have until Thursday, October 18, 2012 at midnight to write and post, and it can be in any format.
I will read, comment on, and feature your responses a week from today.
* Have your title say FWE or Friday Writing Essential, and have the initials "TLSS" (True-Life Scary Stories) in it.
* Make sure to post to the Writing Essential Group.
* Put FWE or Friday Writing Essentials and the initials "TLSS" in your tags. (I won't find your post without these tags.)
A few thing I've been announcing lately:
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The Politics Of Raising The Minimum Wage
SCOTT SIMON, HOST:
This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Scott Simon. In his State of the Union address, President Obama called for Congress to raise the minimum wage to $9 an hour, up from its current rate of 7.25.
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: Today, a full-time worker making the minimum wage earns $14,500 a year. Even with the tax relief we've put in place, a family with two kids that earns the minimum wage still lives below the poverty line. That's wrong.
SIMON: But does raising the minimum wage help families if it discourages hiring? David Leonhardt is with his. He's the Washington bureau chief of the New York Times. David, thanks for being back with us.
DAVID LEONHARDT: Thanks for having me.
SIMON: What do history and numbers say? Is raising the minimum wage a good way to help low-wage workers?
LEONHARDT: Raising the minimum wage pretty clearly helps low-wage workers. I think sometimes you hear it described as some sort of free lunch and other times you hear it described as an economic calamity, and I don't think it's either of those.
SIMON: Why not?
LEONHARDT: Because what happens when companies have to pay higher wages, the evidence suggests, is that although it may have some modest effect on employment, it doesn't have a big effect on employment. And so what that means is that the companies absorb the higher wages. And they absorb them either through taking a hit to their profit or they raise their prices, which means that essentially it comes out of all of their customers, which is to say the society as a whole. So, you can think of it as moving some income from the middle and the top toward the bottom.
SIMON: Why wouldn't raising the minimum wage hurt small businesses and job growth if they're dependent on minimum-wage employees?
LEONHARDT: It's not that it wouldn't hurt them, but the question is would it hurt society as a whole. When economists have gone and looked at this, the answers are in a pretty clear range, that it doesn't have huge effects on the size of employment. So, for example, they looked at two neighboring states - one of which raised it minimum wage and one of which didn't - and you don't see that because the minimum wage goes up by 10 percent, the employment at businesses that employ low-wage workers go down by 10 percent. It's much smaller than that. In fact, in some cases, it appears to be zero.
SIMON: If the minimum wage is increased and companies in large pass those increased costs onto their consumers by increasing the price by whatever goods or services they're selling, what's that effect on the economy?
LEONHARDT: Well, you can think of that - if that's what happens - you can think of it as potentially being a little bit of a drag initially because you're taking some money out of the pockets of those consumers. But you're putting it right back into the pockets of low-wage workers, and low-wage workers spend a very large percentage of their income - larger than middle-income or upper-income workers. So, if you think about that dynamic, you can see why historically raising the minimum wage has not had some sort of huge macroeconomic effect. It's instead more redistributing wages among different groups. And it's important to say here that low-income workers have done among the worst of any group over the 20 or 30 years.
SIMON: What are some of the political implications of this proposal?
LEONHARDT: Well, I think this proposal's probably unlikely to happen because there is opposition, substantial opposition, from Republicans. But I don't think it's totally out of the question because it tends to poll fairly well. And you could imagine it being included as part of some larger deal. I don't see it passing on its own but maybe as part of a larger deal in which both sides have to make compromises. One of the interesting things is the president didn't just propose raising it; he proposed linking it to inflation the way many other things, like Social Security are, so that over time the minimum wage wouldn't fall absent action by Congress, but it would keep up with the value of goods and services.
SIMON: If you were to peg the minimum wage to the rate of inflation, what are some of the advantages or drawbacks to that?
LEONHARDT: Well, over time, the minimum wage goes up, and I think for a lot of low-wage workers that's a good thing. But I thought there was a good point by Matthew Iglesias on Slate this week. He's generally supportive of raising the minimum wage, but he said that he thinks the best argument against it is a freedom argument. If there's a worker out there who's willing to work for $6 an hour and there's a business that is willing to employ that worker for $6 an hour, maybe there's an argument that other people shouldn't be getting in the way. I don't know if that argument wins out in the end, but if over time you're raising minimum wage with inflation to keep it constant in real terms, as economists say, over time that means there are more people who cannot come to an agreement on their own to work for a wage below the minimum wage.
SIMON: David Leonhardt, Washington bureau chief of the New York Times. He has a new eBook out by the way: "Here's the Deal." David, thanks for being with us.
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ZEMA W. HILL (1891-1970)
Zema W. Hill
was a faithful and devoted minister, a funeral-home owner, and a notable
leader in Afro-American Nashville. He was born in Franklin County, in the
community of Asia near Winchester, Tennessee, on April 2, 1891. He became
a Christian at an early age, joined the Macedonia Primitive Baptist Church
during its revival services, and became an evangelist during his teenage
years. In 1916, Hill moved to Nashville, where he preached and evangelized
in Hightower Hall. His elegance. good looks, and magnetic preaching style
enlarged his South Nashville congregation until the services had to be
moved under a large tent.
In 1919, a house of worship was dedicated at Overton and Division streets.
Elder A. M. Bedford, the moderator of the Cumberland River Association
of the Order of the Primitive Baptist Church, dedicated the building as
"Hill's Tabernacle." Elder Zema Hill faithfully served the congregation
for thirty years.
In the year his church building was dedicated, Hill also established
the Zema W. Hill Funeral Home at Fourth Avenue, South, and Peabody Street.
During this period, no black insurance companies existed in Nashville,
and there were few black funeral homes. The demand for services caused
the Hill funeral business to expand so rapidly that a large facility was
acquired at Fourth Avenue, South, and Franklin Street. Hill not only arranged
the funerals, he also preached and sang at the services. Although he catered
to the black elite, Hill's civic-minded zeal caused him to arrange funerals
for the destitute as well. These were known as his "silver services,"
where the plate was passed to collect money from the audiences.
The Zema W. Hill Funeral Home moved to 1306 South Street and became
one of the first black businesses in the area. He purchased a fleet of
Packard automobiles in the mid1930s, and his business nourished despite
the economic depression. Over the years, Hill bought many other fine automobiles,
including Cadillacs, Chryslers, and Lincolns. He attracted attention to
his business by printing "Zema W. Hill" in gold letters on his
cars' windows and placing two six-and-a-half-feet concrete polar bears
in front of the funeral home.
Elder Hill left his imprint on Afro-American Nashville through his charismatic
evangelism. During the thirties and forties, whites and blacks, political
leaders, and famous persons attended services at Hill's Tabernacle. Even
some of Nashville's underworld figures could be seen at Hill's Sunday night
services. He was renowned for sermons such as "The Resurrection of
the Dead" and "If a Man Should Die, Shall He Live Again."
Elder Hill's ministerial work was highlighted with his selection as a moderator
emeritus of the Cumberland Association of Primitive Baptists and
builder of the Cumberland Tabernacle in 1944.
Zema W. Hill died on February 5, 1970, after 17 years of illness. A
year before his death, Hill's Tabernacle was rebuilt. At his funeral services
on the morning of February 9 at the Cumberland Primitive Baptist Tabernacle,
Elder C. R. Wooten and others lauded the late Elder Hill as ". . .a
faithful and devoted minister, a loving father, neighbor and friend, and
[who] was respected by all who he came in contact with of both races...."
Hill, who was interred in Mount Ararat Cemetery in Nashville, was survived
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Lipman Bers, always known as Lipa, was born into a Jewish family. His parents Isaac Bers and Bertha Weinberg were teachers, his mother being head at an elementary school in Riga where teaching was in Yiddish while his father was head at the Yiddish high school in Riga. Born in 1914, Lipa's early years were much affected by the political and military events taking place in Russia. Latvia had been under Russian imperial rule since the 18th century so World War I meant that there were evacuations from Riga. The Russian Revolution which began in October 1917 caused fighting between the Red Army and the White Army and for the next couple of years various parts of Russia came first under the control of one faction then of the other. Lipa's family went to Petrograd, the name that St Petersburg had been given in 1914 when there was strong anti-German feeling in Russia, but Lipa was too young to understand the difficulties that his parents went through at this time.
At the end of World War I in 1918, Latvia regained its independence although this was to be short-lived. Lipa spent some time back in Riga, but he also spent time in Berlin. His mother took him to Berlin while she was training at the Psychoanalytic Institute. During his schooling mathematics became his favourite subject and he decided that it was the subject he wanted to study at university. He studied at the University of Zurich, then returned to Riga and studied at the university there.
At this time Europe was a place of extreme politics and, in 1934, Latvia became ruled by a dictator. Lipa was a political activist, a social democrat who argued strongly for human rights. He was at this time a soap-box orator putting his views across strongly both in speeches and in writing for an underground newspaper. Strongly opposed to dictators and strongly advocating democracy it was clear that his criticism of the Latvian dictator could not be ignored by the authorities. A warrant was issued for his arrest and, just in time, he escaped to Prague. His girl friend Mary Kagan followed him to Prague where they married on 15 May 1938.
There were a number of reasons why Bers chose to go to Prague at this time. Firstly he had to escape from Latvia, secondly Prague was in a democratic country, and thirdly his aunt lived there so he could obtain permission to study at the Charles University without having to find a job to support himself. One should also not underestimate the fact that by this stage his mathematical preferences were very much in place and Karl Loewner in Prague looked the ideal supervisor.
Indeed Bers did obtain his doctorate which was awarded in 1938 from the Charles University of Prague where he wrote a thesis on potential theory under Karl Loewner's supervision. At the time Bers was rather unhappy with Loewner :-
Lipa spoke of feeling neglected, perhaps even not encouraged, by Loewner and said that only in retrospect did he understand Loewner's teaching method. He gave to each of his students the amount of support needed ... It is obvious that Lipa did not appear too needy to Loewner.
In 1938 Czechoslovakia became an impossible country for someone of Jewish background. Equally dangerous was the fact that Bers had no homeland since he was a wanted man in Latvia, and was a left wing academic. With little choice but to escape again, Bers fled to Paris where his daughter Ruth was born. However, the war followed him and soon the Nazi armies began occupying France. Bers applied for a visa to the USA and, while waiting to obtain permission, he wrote two papers on Green's functions and integral representations. Just days before Paris surrendered to the advancing armies, Bers and his family moved from Paris to a part of France not yet under attack from the advancing German armies. At last he received the news that he was waiting for, the issue of American visas for his family.
In 1940 Bers and his family arrived in the United States and joined his mother who was already in New York. There was of course a flood of well qualified academics arriving in the United States fleeing from the Nazis and there was a great scarcity of posts, even for the most brilliant, so he was unemployed until 1942, living with other unemployed refugees in New York. During this time he continued his mathematical researches. After this he was appointed Research Instructor at Brown University where, as part of work relevant to the war effort, he studied two-dimensional subsonic fluid flow. This was important at that time since aircraft wings were being designed for planes with jet engines capable of high speeds.
Between 1945 and 1949 Bers worked at Syracuse University, first at Assistant Professor, later as Associate Professor. Gelbart wanted to build up the department at Syracuse and attracting both Bers and Loewner was an excellent move. Here Bers began work on the problem of removability of singularities of non-linear elliptic equations. His major results in this area were announced by him at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1950 and his paper Isolated singularities of minimal surfaces was published in the Annals of Mathematics in 1951. Courant writes:-
The nonparametric differential equation of minimal surfaces may be considered the most accessible significant example revealing typical qualities of solutions of non-linear partial differential equations. With a view to such a general objective, [Bers] has studied singularities, branch-points and behaviour in the large of minimal surfaces.
Abikoff writes in that this paper is:-
... a magnificent synthesis of complex analytic techniques which relate the different parameterisations of minimal surfaces to the representations of the potential function for subsonic flow and thereby achieves the extension across the singularity.
Bers then became a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton where he began work on Teichmüller theory, pseudoanalytic functions, quasiconformal mappings and Kleinian groups. He was set in the right direction by an inequality he found in a paper of Lavrentev who attributed the inequality to Ahlfors. In a lecture he gave in 1986 Bers explained what happened next:-
I was in Princeton at the time. Ahlfors came to Princeton and announced a talk on quasiconformal mappings. He spoke at the University so I went there and sure enough, he proved this theorem. So I came up to him after the talk and asked him "Where did you publish it?", and he said "I didn't". "So why did Lavrentev credit you with it?" Ahlfors said "He probably thought I must know it and was too lazy to look it up in the literature".
When Bers met Lavrentev three years later he asked him the same questions and, indeed, Ahlfors had been correct in guessing why Lavrentev had credited him. Bers continued in his 1986 lecture:-
I immediately decided that, first of all, if quasiconformal mappings lead to such powerful and beautiful results and, secondly, if it is done in this gentlemanly spirit - where you don't fight over priority - this is something that I should spend the rest of my life studying.
It is ironic, given Bers strong political views on human rights, that he should find that Teichmüller, a fervent Nazi, had already made stunning contributions. In one of his papers on Teichmüller theory, Bers quotes Plutarch:-
It does not of necessity follow that, if the work delights you with its grace, the one who wrought it is worthy of your esteem.
In 1951 Bers went to the Courant Institute in New York, where he was a full professor, and remained there for 13 years. During this time he wrote a number of important books and surveys on his work. He published Theory of pseudo-analytic functions in 1953 which Protter, in a review, described as follows:-
The theory of pseudo-analytic functions was first announced by [Bers] in two notes. These lecture notes not only contain proofs and extensions of the results previously announced but give a self-contained and comprehensive treatment of the subject.
The author sets as his goal the development of a function theory for solutions of linear, elliptic, second order partial differential equations in two independent variables (or systems of two first-order equations). One of the chief stumbling blocks in such a task is the fact that the notion of derivative is a hereditary property for analytic functions while this is clearly not the case for solutions of general second order elliptic equations.
Another classic text was Mathematical aspects of subsonic and transonic gas dynamics published in 1958:-
It should be said, even though this is taken for granted by everybody in the case of Professor Bers, that the survey is masterly in its elegance and clarity.
In 1958 Bers address the International Congress of Mathematicians in Edinburgh, Scotland, where he lectured on Spaces of Riemann surfaces and announced a new proof of the measurable Riemann mapping theorem. In his talk Bers summarised recent work on the classical problem of moduli for compact Riemann surfaces and sketched a proof of the Teichmüller theorem characterizing extremal quasiconformal mappings. He showed that the Teichmüller space for surfaces of genus g is a (6g-6)-cell, and showed how to construct the natural complex analytic structure for the Teichmüller space.
Bers was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1959-60, and a Fulbright Fellow in the same academic year. From 1959 until he left the Courant Institute in 1964, Bers was Chairman of the Graduate Department of Mathematics.
In 1964 Bers went to Columbia University where he was to remain until he retired in 1984. He was chairman of the department from 1972 to 1975. He was appointed Davies Professor of Mathematics in 1972, becoming Emeritus Davies Professor of Mathematics in 1982. During this period Bers was Visiting Miller Research Professor at the University of California at Berkeley in 1968.
Tilla Weinstein describes in Bers as a lecturer:-
Lipa's courses were irresistible. He laced his lectures with humorous asides and tasty tidbits of mathematical gossip. He presented intricate proofs with impeccable clarity, pausing dramatically at the few most critical steps, giving us a chance to think for ourselves and to worry that he might not know what to do next. Then, just as the silence got uncomfortable, he would describe the single most elegant way to complete the argument.
Jane Gilman describes Bers' character:-
Underneath the force of Bers' personality and vivacity was the force of his mathematics. His mathematics had a clarity and beauty that went beyond the actual results. He had a special gift for conceptualising things and placing them in the larger context.
In Bers life is summed up by Abikoff as follows:-
Lipa possessed a joy of life and an optimism that is difficult to find at this time and that is sorely missed. Those of us who experienced it directly have felt an obligation to pass it on. That, in addition to the beauty of his own work, is Lipa's enduring gift to us.
We have yet to say something about Bers' great passion for human rights. In fact this was anything but a sideline in his life and one could consider that he devoted himself full-time to both his mathematical work and to his work as a social reformer. Perhaps his views are most clearly expressed by quoting from an address he gave in 1984 when awarded an honorary degree by the State University of New York at Stony Brook:-
By becoming a human rights activist ... you do take upon yourself certain difficult obligations. ... I believe that only a truly even-handed approach can lead to an honest, morally convincing, and effective human rights policy. A human rights activist who hates and fears communism must also care about the human rights of Latin American leftists. A human rights activist who sympathises with the revolutionary movement in Latin America must also be concerned about human rights abuses in Cuba and Nicaragua. A devout Muslim must also care about human rights of the Bahai in Iran and of the small Jewish community in Syria, while a Jew devoted to Israel must also worry about the human rights of Palestinian Arabs. And we American citizens must be particularly sensitive to human rights violations for which our government is directly or indirectly responsible, as well as to the human rights violations that occur in our own country, as they do.
Bers received many honours for his contributions in addition to those we have mentioned above. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, to the Finnish Academy of Sciences, and to the American Philosophical Society. He served the American Mathematical Society in several capacities, particularly as Vice-President (1963-65) and as President (1975-77). The American Mathematical Society awarded him their Steele Prize in 1975. He received the New York Mayor's award in Science and Technology in 1985. He was an honorary life member of the New York Academy of Sciences, and of the London Mathematical Society.
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Troops overseas made a Memorial Day tribute to all fallen military members using the words of a Camp Pendleton Marine.
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Sgt. William Stacey's final words are still being spoken and his message is being heard across the world.
On Jan. 31, Stacey was killed by a roadside bomb in Helmand Province in Afghanistan. He wrote a letter before his fifth and final deployment.
On Monday, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, Marine Gen. John Allen, read that letter out loud to a crowd of troops.
"Today, we remember his life and his words, for they speak resoundingly and timelessly for our fallen brothers and sisters in arms," Allen said.
At just 23, Stacey had been on multiple deployments and Kurt Wagner had been by his side since boot camp. Wagner did not know about his friend's letter until he was gone.
"Second Battalion, 4th Marines went to Afghanistan, came back a few months ago and Will didn't come back unfortunately," said Wagner.
Wagner added, "That letter
it says everything. It says everything about what's important and what's at stake."
The letter reads in part, "Perhaps there is still injustice in the world. But there will be a child who will live because men left the security they enjoyed in their home country to come to his." (Read the full letter at The Seattle Times
Wagner has holds the letter dear to his heart and even has it memorized.
"[Stacey] had all the bravery in the world and because he loved America
he was a United States Marine," said Wagner.
Within a week of returning from his first deployment, Stacey volunteered and went right back into battle. He did that following two deployments.
"He had every opportunity in the world, and he was a smart guy," said Wagner. "He could have done anything or gone anywhere."
Stacey gave up his life so someone else would not have to, but it is clear that his legacy lives on.
"If my life buys the safety of a child who will one day change this world, then I know that it was all worth it," the letter said.
When asked if he also thought it was worth it, Wagner said, "I know it was worth it."
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Nkosi Thandiwe (Courtesy Atlanta Police)
ATLANTA -- A 23-year-old man has been sentenced to life without parole plus 65 years in prison for a shooting at a Midtown parking deck.
Nkosi Thandiwe was sentenced Thursday in Fulton County Superior Court.
Thandiwe was found guilty of killing 26-year-old Brittany Watts and shooting two other women in the parking deck of the Proscenium building on July 15, 2011.
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Police said Lauren Garcia and Tiffany Ferenczy were shot as Thandiwe fled the parking deck at 1170 Crescent Avenue. Garcia was paralyzed.
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Chef Lalanne and Josh talk about cooking in pouches, or cooking "en papillote" - from fish, to chicken, to even beef. Healthy, quick and delicious. Josh also gives away another CD, as has become the tradition on Thursday mornings as of late.
Chef Lalanne and Josh talk about cooking items in pouches - usually parchment paper. It's a fast, flavorful and usually very healthy way of cooking different items. A caller also asks Chef Lalanne if she can substitute sour cream for buttermilk in different recipes. Chef's response was, "yes". While a simple substitution would cause whatever dish you're making (especially cakes and breads) to be more dense, it won't change the flavor dramatically. Chef says if you want the consistency of the dish to be the same, simply dilute the sour cream with a bit of milk.
Segment 1 - Chef Lalanne: Click Here
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