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NetWare Loadable Modules (NLMs) are programs which run on Novell NetWare server. NLMs become part of the NetWare OS. You can load and unload NLMs while the server is running.
"Official" compilers for NLMs are:
(On a side note, NetWare 5 can also load 32bit DLLs, which can be built using Microsoft Visual C++, Borland C++ and other Windows compilers. For more information see http://developer.novell.com/ndk/dllcomp.htm)
This document describes how to get started with NLM development under Linux (and possibly other Unixes). Please note that this project is in very early stages of development, so a lot of things may not work as you'd expect.
This document assumes that you are familiar with Novell NetWare, and that you have at least basic knowledge of writing NLMs. For more information about writing NLMs, see Novell's developer site, http://developer.novell.com/. You should also have experience with Unix and C/C++ programming with GNU CC. You can find a lot of information about this topic at http://www.linuxdoc.org/.
As far as I know, C++ development with gcc is currently impossible, till somebody ports at least the libstdc++ and libgcc libraries from the gcc package.
Other documents that might be useful are:
Copyright (c) 2000 Martin Hinner, < email@example.com>, http://martin.hinner.info.
This HOWTO is Free documentation; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This document is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You can obtain a copy of the GNU General Public License by writing to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
You can contact me at firstname.lastname@example.org. I welcome any suggestions and corrections, but please before you ask a question, try searching the internet first. You should also check my homepage ( http://martin.hinner.info/) for any updates or additional information. Please note that I am very busy with my other projects (like automotive diagnostics, ARM-based microprocessors development tools) and I have a full time job (I am working for SECONS Ltd. and Fintera Ltd.). | <urn:uuid:bee2c5dd-ccd3-4139-8fa0-c5c116a27220> | 2013-05-26T02:48:16Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Chametz: Search and Destroy
Question: Should ten pieces of chametz be hidden throughout the house before
the search for chametz takes place?
Discussion: The poskim differ in their views regarding this practice. There
are four basic approaches:
1. The Rama states that the custom is to hide pieces of chametz
around the house before the search takes place. Since it often happens that
no chametz is found during the course of the search, the blessing over the
bedikah could possibly be a berachah l'vatalah. To avoid this eventuality,
one would be required to hide some chametz before the search begins.
2. Although l'chatchilah pieces of chametz should be hidden, the Rama
himself holds that if they were not, the blessing would nonetheless be
valid, for the mitzvah is to search for chametz, even in the event that one
does not find any.
3. Many poskim hold that one need not be concerned about a berachah
l'vatalah at all and one need not hide any chametz before the search.
4. Some poskim hold that the practice of hiding chametz should be
abandoned. They are concerned that some pieces may be lost or overlooked,
with the result that chametz will remain in the house over Pesach.
The Mishnah Berurah agrees with the poskim who are not concerned about the
possibility of a berachah l'vatalah. He nevertheless states that it is not
proper to discontinue a long-standing Jewish custom. Indeed, the
majority of homes today observe this time-honored practice.
Nowadays, there is an additional reason for maintaining this custom. The
halachah demands that the home be thoroughly searched during bedikas
chametz. Any place into which chametz may have been brought during the year
must be checked. In many homes, unfortunately, the search has become merely
ritualistic, taking but a few minutes with no serious search conducted. One
reason why the bedikah has become perfunctory is that today, homes are
thoroughly cleaned and scrubbed for days or even weeks before the search
takes place. Consequently, most people assume that no chametz will be found
and are satisfied with going through the motions. Although there is a
possible justification (limud zechus) for people who conduct such a
perfunctory bedikah, many other poskim do not agree with this leniency
and require that a proper bedikah be conducted.
In order to satisfy the views of all poskim, it is recommended that one
hide chametz around the house before the bedikah. Since the searcher is
aware that there definitely is some chametz to be found, he will necessarily
have to conduct a proper bedikah. Therefore:
- Unless one has a custom to the contrary, ten pieces of bread
should be hidden in various places around the house before the bedikah begins.
- Care must be taken that the pieces are wrapped well so that no crumbs
will escape. Only hard pieces should be used. The exact location of the
pieces should be recorded and carefully checked. Upon concluding the search
the pieces must be properly discarded.
- Each piece should be smaller than 1 fl. oz.
- The custom has become that the pieces are hidden by household members
who are not going to be searching the house. However, the searcher
himself may also hide the pieces.
Some poskim rule that a person who is leaving home for Pesach and
therefore conducts his bedikah in advance of the 14th of Nissan without a
blessing, need not hide pieces of chametz.
Question: Must one actually burn the remnants of his chametz on erev Pesach,
or can one get rid of the chametz in another way?
Discussion: There are two views in the Mishnah concerning the proper
procedure for fulfilling the mitzvah of tashbisu, the Biblical command to
destroy all chametz before Pesach. The basic halachah is that tashbisu is
accomplished by getting rid of chametz in any of the following ways: burning
it; crumbling it and throwing it to the winds; crumbling it and throwing it
into an ocean or river; flushing it down the toilet. L'chatchilah,
though, it has become customary to follow the view of Rav Yehudah who holds
that burning in fire is the only valid method for getting rid of chametz
(beiur chametz). In addition to the halachic consideration, kabbalistic
and chasidic literature teach that there is a special significance to
actually burning the chametz, as burning symbolizes the destruction of the
evil inclination and the power of tumah.
There is a debate among the latter poskim as to whether the mitzvah of
beiur chametz applies if one does not happen to own any chametz. There are
poskim who contend that one who does not possess any chametz should buy some
so that he can fulfill the mitzvah of beiur chametz. While many authorities
do not agree with this stringency, all agree that it is proper to leave (and
not sell to a non-Jew) at least a k'zayis (about 1 oz.) of chametz in order
to properly fulfill the mitzvah of beiur chametz. Since, as mentioned
earlier, the proper way to fulfill the mitzvah of tashbisu is by burning the
chametz, we shall review the relevant halachos:
Question: How is the chametz burned?
Discussion: The proper time to burn the chametz is during the fifth hour
of the day of erev Pesach. The chametz must be completely burned—to
the degree that even a dog would not be able to eat it —by the time the
fifth hour ends. [Chametz which has turned into charcoal is sufficiently
burned. ] A loaf of bread or a chunk of cake should be thinly sliced so
that the fire will be able to consume it totally.
Several contemporary poskim mention that it is not advisable to pour
gasoline or other combustible materials over the chametz before burning it,
for then the chametz becomes inedible—“destroyed”—by the gasoline, etc.,
rather than by the fire, and as mentioned before, this should be avoided.
Note, however, that if the end of the fifth hour arrives and the chametz is
not yet burned, gasoline etc. should quickly be poured over the remaining
chametz so that it becomes inedible.
One should recite the daytime kol chamira, which nullifies the chametz,
after the burning of the chametz but before the sixth hour of the day
One who forgot or neglected to recite the proper blessing the night before
during the search for chametz may recite the blessing at the time of the
Customs and hiddurim of burning chametz
There is a custom to burn other “mitzvah” items along with the chametz,
e.g., the ten pieces of chametz that were hidden for the bedikah, the
wooden spoon used for the bedikah, hoshanos, lulav, leftover
oil and wicks from the Chanukah candles; fingernails (which, according to
halachah, should be burned).
The chametz should be thrown into the fire with one's right hand.
There is a view that holds that the fire must be started with wood, not
gas, coal or paper.
It is preferable to burn the chametz in one’s own yard or at least in one’s
own vessel37. It is also preferable for one to burn his own chametz and
not to appoint someone else to do it for him.
When burning is not an option
If one has a great deal of chametz left before Pesach and finds it
impractical to burn it all, he should not just deposit it in the garbage.
The garbage is liable to remain on his property (in his garage, on his
tree-lawn, etc.) after the time for beiur chametz, and this could
result in the violation of a Biblical prohibition. Even moving the
garbage into the street does not solve the problem, since technically the
chametz which is in the garbage can or bag is still “his property.”
Contemporary poskim offer several possible solutions:
- Before the deadline arrives, pour a chemical substance over the
chametz which will render it completely inedible.
- Leave the garbage can on the street and renounce possession of it (by
declaring it hefker in the presence of three adult males). The can may still
be used on Pesach.
- Include the garbage can and its chametz contents with the items being
sold to a non-Jew (mechiras chametz). In this case, the garbage can may
not be used on Pesach.
- Many people get rid of all of their actual chametz and assume that
they have nothing to sell to a non-Jew. Even so, it is a good idea for them
to sell their chametz because it is possible that they possess chametz
without realizing it—in deodorants, shaving lotions, or colognes which may
be chametz if they contain denatured ethyl alcohol.
- Parents who have children in yeshivos or seminaries must remember to
specifically include their children’s chametz when selling or nullifying
their own chametz.
- One who owns shares of stock in a chametz food company (or in a
conglomerate which owns such a company) should sell those shares to a
non-Jew together with the rest of his chametz. Such stocks should not
be bought or sold during Chol ha-Moed.
1. O.C. 432:2.
2. Gra, Chayei Adam and Chok Yaakov quoting the Ra’avad.
3. Taz, quoted by Sha’ar ha-Tziyun 432:11.
4. There are also additional reasons, especially according to Kabbalah,
for this ancient custom.
5. Chok Yaakov, Shulchan Aruch ha-Rav, Kitzur Shulchan Aruch and Aruch
ha-Shulchan all note this custom.
6. See Sha’arei Teshuvah, O.C. 433:11 (also quoted by Kaf ha-Chayim) who
says that the masses do not conduct a thorough check since they rely on the
cleaning process done before the bedikah. In his view, this may be relied
upon even if a professional non-Jew did the cleaning. See Chochmas Shelomo
(433:11) and Da'as Torah (433:2) for similar rulings.
7. Ruling of Rav Y.S. Elyashiv (quoted in Seder ha-Aruch, vol. 3, pg.
27-28). See also Chok Yaakov 232:14 and Machazik Berachah 232 who advance a
8. This is the custom, based on the Arizal, quoted by the Mishnah Berurah.
9. Mishnah Berurah 232:13-14.
10. Sha’arei Teshuvah 432:7. Together, though, all the pieces should total
at least one ounce; see Orchos Rabbeinu, Pesach 5 quoting Rav Y.Y. Kanievsky.
11. See Chok Yaakov 232:14.
12. Rav Y.S. Elyashiv (quoted in Seder ha-Aruch, vol. 3, pg. 27-28.). This
was the also the custom of Rav Y.Y. Kanievsky (Orchos Rabbeinu, Pesach 5)
and the Satmar Rebbe (Hagadah Divrei Yoel 108).
13. Minchas Yitzchak 8:35. See Kinyan Torah 2:82 and Koveitz Teshuvos 3:73
14. As ruled in O.C. 436:1.
15. Pesachim 21a.
16. Mishnah Berurah 445:5. Although Chazon Ish (O.C. 118:3) hesitates, he,
too, would agree that flushing it down a modern toilet is similar to
throwing it into the ocean (Kinyan Torah 2:86).
17. Rama, O.C. 445:1. If chametz is found after the sixth hour of erev
Pesach [or during Pesach itself] all agree that burning is the proper
method; see Mishnah Berurah 445:6 and Sha’ar ha-Tziyun 17.
18. See Kaf ha-Chayim 445:11.
19. See the various views in Minchas Chinuch 9; Shulchan Aruch ha-Rav
436:21; Mekor Chayim 431; Chelkas Yo'av, O.C. 20; Maharash Engel 8:196;
Divrei Chayim 1:9; Avnei Nezer, O.C. 318.
20. Mishnah Berurah 445:10 quoting several poskim. See also Kaf ha-Chayim
21. A halachic "hour" is one twelfth of the day. A day (for this purpose)
is from 72 minutes before sunrise till 50 minutes after sunset.
22. A minority view advises not to burn chametz earlier than the fifth
hour (see Hagadah Moadim u'Zemanim), and indeed, that is the custom observed
by many people. But surely if it is difficult or troublesome to wait till
that time, the burning may certainly be done any time on the morning of erev
Pesach. Preferably, the beiur should not be done at night, see Rama 445:1.
23. O.C. 442:2.
24. Mishnah Berurah 445:1.
25. Chazon Ovadyah, pg. 40.
26. Hagadah Moadim u'Zemanim; Be'er Moshe 5:122; Siddur Pesach K'hilchaso,
27. Rama 434:2, otherwise the burning will be done on chametz which is not
his and the mitzvah will not be properly fulfilled.
28. Mishnah Berurah 432:12.
29. Mishnah Berurah 423:4.
30. Arizal (quoted in Kaf ha-Chayim 432:1).
31. Chok l'Yisrael, pg. 38. See Rama 445:3.
32. Mishnah Berurah 445:7.
33. Kaf ha-Chayim 445:16.
34. Custom of the Chazon Ish (quoted in Orchos Rabbeinu, pg. 104).
35. Orchos Chayim 451:1.
36. Rashsash (Shabbos 66a) quoted in Minchas Yitzchak 2:53 (who rules that
one need not be particular about this); Chok l'Yisrael, pg. 40.
37. Teshuvos v'Hanhagos 1:192, based on the view of the Ramban who holds
that the Biblical mitzvah of burning chametz applies only to chametz which
is in one’s own domain. Rav Y. Y. Kanievsky (quoted in Hagadah Arzei
ha-Levanon, pg. 23) holds that this is unnecessary.
38. Kinyan Torah 5:37. See Mishnah Berurah 232:8 and 234:15.
39. Unless it was prearranged that the municipality will collect the
garbage before the deadline arrives.
40. Several poskim hold that this is only a problem if there are large,
clean pieces of chametz in the garbage cans; crumbs or soiled pieces of
chametz are not a real problem, especially once they have been thrown into
the garbage; see Mishnah Berurah 442:33; Minchas Yitzchak 4:56; Kinyan Torah
41. If the cans belong to the city (outside of Israel) then there is no
problem, Minchas Yitzchak 4:56.
42. Minchas Yitzchak 4:56; Shevet ha-Levi 1:137.
43. Chelkas Yaakov 3:165.
44. Teshuvos v’Hanhagos 2:211, quoting Rav Y.Y. Kanievsky.
45. Be’er Moshe 1:41; 3:74.
46. Minchas Yitzchak 3:1; Moadim u’Zemanim 3:269.
Weekly-Halacha, Text Copyright © 2011 by Rabbi Neustadt, Dr. Jeffrey Gross and Torah.org.
Rabbi Neustadt is the Yoshev Rosh of the Vaad Harabbonim of Detroit and the Av Beis Din of the Beis Din Tzedek of Detroit. He could be reached at email@example.com | <urn:uuid:f7fe4961-eed3-4fc3-863d-8a0fc1b989a8> | 2013-05-26T02:41:39Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Use due diligence and common sense when such firms show a ready willingness to make you "an offer." Whatever this model is, it is *not* proprietary trading as practiced by respected firms. If a firm offers solid education for a fee, that may be a wise investment. But don't let (thin) promises of prop trading talk you into tuition payments you wouldn't be making otherwise.
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Kitties, I need some help picking out what furs I should wear to Truffle's Debutante Ball. At least I think I am going....if a certain boy kitty would remember to ask me (hint, hint - Kozmo are you reading this?).
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Originally Posted by 2ndServe
I liked msv hex as a cross. BTW what kevlar do you use? I'm working my way through my ashaway 17g and 18g reels but it seems to get too loose after 1 hour.
I use ashaway, either 17g or 18g too.
One of Kevlar's properties is that it has a 1-hour break-in period, and then it seems to stabilize and play about the same thereafter until it breaks. This is in contrast to poly's, which tend to gradually stretch out and lose tension until they become unplayable. I suspect that the break-in period is less due to the kevlar creeping (because kevlar doesn't seem to creep when a drop weight is hanging from it), and more simply due to the stringbed equalizing as the friction slack is pulled out. I've started using a stringing method where I pull out the friction slack before tie-off, and now the break-in tension loss is much less dramatic than it used to be. I posted a thread on that method.
I usually use a tension for the kevlar where I like it after the break-in period. If it's too loose after the break-in, just string a few pounds tighter.
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|Eliot Weinberger: 'What I heard about Iraq'
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By Eliot Weinberger, London Review Of Books
In 1992, a year after the first Gulf War, I heard Dick Cheney, then secretary of defense, say that the US had been wise not to invade Baghdad and get 'bogged down in the problems of trying to take over and govern Iraq'. I heard him say: 'The question in my mind is how many additional American casualties is Saddam worth? And the answer is: not that damned many.'
In February 2001, I heard Colin Powell say that Saddam Hussein 'has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project conventional power against his neighbours.'
That same month, I heard that a CIA report stated: 'We do not have any direct evidence that Iraq has used the period since Desert Fox to reconstitute its weapons of mass destruction programmes.'
In July 2001, I heard Condoleezza Rice say: 'We are able to keep his arms from him. His military forces have not been rebuilt
On 11 September 2001, six hours after the attacks, I heard that Donald Rumsfeld said that it might be an opportunity to 'hit' Iraq. I heard that he said: 'Go massive. Sweep it all up. Things related and not.'
I heard that Condoleezza Rice asked: 'How do you capitalise on these opportunities?'
I heard that on 17 September the president signed a document marked top secret that directed the Pentagon to begin planning for the invasion and that, some months later, he secretly and illegally diverted $700 million approved by Congress for operations in Afghanistan into preparing for the new battle front.
In February 2002, I heard that an unnamed 'senior military commander' said: 'We are moving military and intelligence personnel and resources out of Afghanistan to get ready for a future war in Iraq.'
I heard the president say that Iraq is 'a threat of unique urgency', and that there is 'no doubt the Iraqi regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised'.
I heard the vice president say: 'Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction.'
I heard the president tell Congress: 'The danger to our country is grave. The danger to our country is growing. The regime is seeking a nuclear bomb, and with fissile material could build one within a year.'
I heard him say: 'The dangers we face will only worsen from month to month and from year to year. To ignore these threats is to encourage them. Each passing day could be the one on which the Iraqi regime gives anthrax or VX nerve gas or, some day, a nuclear weapon to a terrorist ally.'
I heard the president, in the State of the Union address, say that Iraq was hiding materials sufficient to produce 25,000 litres of anthrax, 38,000 litres of botulinum toxin, and 500 tons of sarin, mustard and nerve gas.
I heard the president say that Iraq had attempted to purchase uranium - later specified as 'yellowcake' uranium oxide from Niger - and thousands of aluminium tubes 'suitable for nuclear weapons production'.
I heard the vice president say: 'We know that he's been absolutely devoted to trying to acquire nuclear weapons, and we believe he has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons.'
I heard the president say: 'Imagine those 19 hijackers with other weapons and other plans, this time armed by Saddam Hussein. It would take one vial, one canister, one crate slipped into this country to bring a day of horror like none we have ever known.'
I heard Donald Rumsfeld say: 'Some have argued that the nuclear threat from Iraq is not imminent. I would not be so certain.'
I heard the president say: 'America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof - the smoking gun - that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.'
I heard Condoleezza Rice say: 'We don't want the "smoking gun" to be a mushroom cloud.'
I heard the American ambassador to the European Union tell the Europeans: 'You had Hitler in Europe and no one really did anything about him. The same type of person is in Baghdad.'
I heard Colin Powell at the United Nations say: 'They can produce enough dry biological agent in a single month to kill thousands upon thousands of people. Saddam Hussein has never accounted for vast amounts of chemical weaponry: 550 artillery shells with mustard gas, 30,000 empty munitions, and enough precursors to increase his stockpile to as much as 500 tons of chemical agents. Our conservative estimate is that Iraq today has a stockpile of between 100 and 500 tons of chemical-weapons agent. Even the low end of 100 tons of agent would enable Saddam Hussein to cause mass casualties across more than 100 square miles of territory, an area nearly five times the size of Manhattan.'
I heard him say: 'Every statement I make today is backed up by sources, solid sources. These are not assertions. What we're giving you are facts and conclusions based on solid intelligence.'
I heard the president say: 'Iraq has a growing fleet of manned and unmanned aerial vehicles that could be used to disperse chemical or biological weapons across broad areas.' I heard him say that Iraq 'could launch a biological or chemical attack in as little as 45 minutes after the order is given'.
I heard Tony Blair say: 'We are asked to accept Saddam decided to destroy those weapons. I say that such a claim is palpably absurd.'
I heard the president say: 'We know that Iraq and al-Qaida have had high-level contacts that go back a decade. We've learned that Iraq has trained al-Qaida members in bomb-making and poisons and deadly gases. Alliance with terrorists could allow the Iraq regime to attack America without leaving any fingerprints.'
I heard the vice president say: 'There's overwhelming evidence there was a connection between al-Qaida and the Iraqi government. I am very confident there was an established relationship there.'
I heard Colin Powell say: 'Iraqi officials deny accusations of ties with al-Qaida. These denials are simply not credible.'
I heard Condoleezza Rice say: 'There clearly are contacts between al-Qaida and Saddam Hussein that can be documented.'
I heard the president say: 'You can't distinguish between al-Qaida and Saddam.'
I heard Donald Rumsfeld say: 'Imagine a September 11th with weapons of mass destruction. It's not three thousand - it's tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children.'
I heard Colin Powell tell the Senate that 'a moment of truth is coming': 'This is not just an academic exercise or the United States being in a fit of pique. We're talking about real weapons. We're talking about anthrax. We're talking about botulinum toxin. We're talking about nuclear weapons programmes.'
I heard Donald Rumsfeld say: 'No terrorist state poses a greater or more immediate threat to the security of our people.'
I heard the president, 'bristling with irritation', say: 'This business about more time, how much time do we need to see clearly that he's not disarming? He is delaying. He is deceiving. He is asking for time. He's playing hide-and-seek with inspectors. One thing is for certain: he's not disarming. Surely our friends have learned lessons from the past. This looks like a rerun of a bad movie and I'm not interested in watching it.'
I heard that, a few days before authorising the invasion of Iraq, the Senate was told in a classified briefing by the Pentagon that Iraq could launch anthrax and other biological and chemical weapons against the eastern seaboard of the United States using unmanned aerial 'drones'.
I heard Donald Rumsfeld say he would present no specific evidence of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction because it might jeopardise the military mission by revealing to Baghdad what the United States knows.
I heard the Pentagon spokesman call the military plan 'A-Day', or 'Shock and Awe'. Three or four hundred cruise missiles launched every day, until 'there will not be a safe place in Baghdad,' until 'you have this simultaneous effect, rather like the nuclear weapons at Hiroshima, not taking days or weeks but in minutes.' I heard the spokesman say: 'You're sitting in Baghdad and all of a sudden you're the general and thirty of your division headquarters have been wiped out. You also take the city down. By that I mean you get rid of their power, water. In two, three, four, five days they are physically, emotionally and psychologically exhausted.' I heard him say: 'The sheer size of this has never been seen before, never contemplated.'
I heard Major-General Charles Swannack promise that his troops were going to 'use a sledgehammer to smash a walnut'.
I heard the Pentagon spokesman say: 'This is not going to be your father's Persian Gulf War.'
I heard that Saddam's strategy against the American invasion would be to blow up dams, bridges and oilfields, and to cut off food supplies to the south so that the Americans would suddenly have to feed millions of desperate civilians. I heard that Baghdad would be encircled by two rings of the elite Republican Guard, in fighting positions already stocked with weapons and supplies, and equipped with chemical protective gear against the poison gas or germ weapons they would be using against the American troops.
I heard Vice Admiral Lowell Jacoby tell Congress that Saddam would 'employ a "scorched earth" strategy, destroying food, transportation, energy and other infrastructure, attempting to create a humanitarian disaster', and that he would blame it all on the Americans.
I heard that Iraq would fire its long-range Scud missiles - equipped with chemical or biological warheads - at Israel, to 'portray the war as a battle with an American-Israeli coalition and build support in the Arab world'.
I heard that Saddam had elaborate and labyrinthine underground bunkers for his protection, and that it might be necessary to employ B61 Mod 11 nuclear 'bunker-buster' bombs to destroy them.
I heard the vice president say that the war would be over in 'weeks rather than months'.
I heard Donald Rumsfeld say: 'It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months.'
I heard Donald Rumsfeld say there was 'no question' that American troops would be 'welcomed': 'Go back to Afghanistan, the people were in the streets playing music, cheering, flying kites, and doing all the things that the Taliban and al-Qaida would not let them do.'
I heard the vice president say: 'The Middle East expert Professor Fouad Ajami predicts that after liberation the streets in Basra and Baghdad are "sure to erupt in joy". Extremists in the region would have to rethink their strategy of jihad. Moderates throughout the region would take heart. And our ability to advance the Israeli-Palestinian peace process would be enhanced.'
I heard the vice president say: 'I really do believe we will be greeted as liberators.'
I heard Tariq Aziz, the Iraqi foreign minister, say: 'American soldiers will not be received by flowers. They will be received by bullets.'
I heard that the president said to the television evangelist Pat Robertson: 'Oh, no, we're not going to have any casualties.'
I heard the president say that he had not consulted his father about the coming war: 'You know he is the wrong father to appeal to in terms of strength. There is a higher father that I appeal to.'
I heard the prime minister of the Solomon Islands express surprise that his was one of the nations enlisted in the 'coalition of the willing': 'I was completely unaware of it.'
I heard the president tell the Iraqi people, on the night before the invasion began: 'If we must begin a military campaign, it will be directed against the lawless men who rule your country and not against you. As our coalition takes away their power we will deliver the food and medicine you need. We will tear down the apparatus of terror. And we will help you build a new Iraq that is prosperous and free. In a free Iraq there will be no more wars of aggression against your neighbours, no more poison factories, no more executions of dissidents, no more torture chambers and rape rooms. The tyrant will soon be gone. The day of your liberation is near.'
I heard him tell the Iraqi people: 'We will not relent until your country is free.'
I heard the vice president say: 'By any standard of even the most dazzling charges in military history, the Germans in the Ardennes in the spring of 1940 or Patton's romp in July of 1944, the present race to Baghdad is unprecedented in its speed and daring and in the lightness of casualties.'
I heard Colonel David Hackworth say: 'Hey diddle diddle, it's straight up the middle!'
I heard the Pentagon spokesman say that 95 per cent of the Iraqi casualties were 'military-age males'.
I heard an official from the Red Crescent say: 'On one stretch of highway alone, there were more than fifty civilian cars, each with four or five people incinerated inside, that sat in the sun for ten or fifteen days before they were buried nearby by volunteers. That is what there will be for their relatives to come and find. War is bad, but its remnants are worse.'
I heard the director of a hospital in Baghdad say: 'The whole hospital is an emergency room. The nature of the injuries is so severe - one body without a head, someone else with their abdomen ripped open.'
I heard an American soldier say: 'There's a picture of the World Trade Center hanging up by my bed and I keep one in my Kevlar. Every time I feel sorry for these people I look at that. I think: "They hit us at home and now it's our turn."'
I heard about Hashim, a fat, 'painfully shy' 15-year-old, who liked to sit for hours by the river with his birdcage, and who was shot by the 4th Infantry Division in a raid on his village. Asked about the details of the boy's death, the division commander said: 'That person was probably in the wrong place at the wrong time.'
I heard an American soldier say: 'We get rocks thrown at us by kids. You wanna turn around and shoot one of the little fuckers, but you know you can't do that.'
I heard the Pentagon spokesman say that the US did not count civilian casualties: 'Our efforts focus on destroying the enemy's capabilities, so we never target civilians and have no reason to try to count such unintended deaths.' I heard him say that, in any event, it would be impossible, because the Iraqi paramilitaries were fighting in civilian clothes, the military was using civilian human shields, and many of the civilian deaths were the result of Iraqi 'unaimed anti-aircraft fire falling back to earth'.
I heard an American soldier say: 'The worst thing is to shoot one of them, then go help him,' as regulations require. 'Shit, I didn't help any of them. I wouldn't help the fuckers. There were some you let die. And there were some you double-tapped. Once you'd reached the objective, and once you'd shot them and you're moving through, anything there, you shoot again. You didn't want any prisoners of war.'
I heard Anmar Uday, the doctor who had cared for Private Jessica Lynch, say: 'We heard the helicopters. We were surprised. Why do this? There was no military. There were no soldiers in the hospital. It was like a Hollywood film. They cried "Go, go, go," with guns and flares and the sound of explosions. They made a show: an action movie like Sylvester Stallone or Jackie Chan, with jumping and shouting, breaking down doors. All the time with cameras rolling.'
I heard Private Jessica Lynch say: 'They used me as a way to symbolise all this stuff. It hurt in a way that people would make up stories that they had no truth about.' Of the stories that she had bravely fought off her captors, and suffered bullet and stab wounds, I heard her say: 'I'm not about to take credit for something I didn't do.' Of her dramatic 'rescue', I heard her say: 'I don't think it happened quite like that.'
I heard the Red Cross say that casualties in Baghdad were so high that the hospitals had stopped counting.
I heard an old man say, after 11 members of his family - children and grandchildren - were killed when a tank blew up their minivan: 'Our home is an empty place. We who are left are like wild animals. All we can do is cry out.'
As the riots and looting broke out, I heard a man in the Baghdad market say: 'Saddam Hussein's greatest crime is that he brought the American army to Iraq.'
As the riots and looting broke out, I heard Donald Rumsfeld say: 'It's untidy, and freedom's untidy.'
And when the National Museum was emptied and the National Library burned down, I heard him say: 'The images you are seeing on television you are seeing over, and over, and over, and it's the same picture of some person walking out of some building with a vase, and you see it twenty times, and you think: "My goodness, were there that many vases? Is it possible that there were that many vases in the whole country?"'
I heard that 10,000 Iraqi civilians were dead.
I heard Colin Powell say: 'I'm absolutely sure that there are weapons of mass destruction there and the evidence will be forthcoming. We're just getting it now.'
I heard the president say: 'We'll find them. It'll be a matter of time to do so.'
I heard Donald Rumsfeld say: 'We know where they are. They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad, and east, west, south and north, somewhat.'
I heard the US was building 14 'enduring bases', capable of housing 110,000 soldiers, and I heard Brigadier-General Mark Kimmitt call them 'a blueprint for how we could operate in the Middle East'. I heard that the US was building what would be its largest embassy anywhere in the world.
I heard that it would only be a matter of months before Starbucks and McDonald's opened branches in Baghdad. I heard that HSBC would have cash machines all over the country.
I heard about the trade fairs run by New Bridges Strategies, a consulting firm that promised access to the Iraqi market. I heard one of its partners say: 'Getting the rights to distribute Procter & Gamble would be a gold mine. One well-stocked 7-Eleven could knock out 30 Iraqi stores. A Wal-Mart could take over the country.'
On 1 May 2003, I heard the president, dressed up as a pilot, under a banner that read 'Mission Accomplished', declare that combat operations were over: 'The battle of Iraq is one victory in a war on terror that began on 11 September 2001.' I heard him say: 'The liberation of Iraq is a crucial advance in the campaign against terror. We've removed an ally of al-Qaida, and cut off a source of terrorist funding. And this much is certain: no terrorist network will gain weapons of mass destruction from the Iraqi regime, because the regime is no more. In these 19 months that changed the world, our actions have been focused and deliberate and proportionate to the offence. We have not forgotten the victims of 11 September: the last phone calls, the cold murder of children, the searches in the rubble. With those attacks, the terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States. And war is what they got.'
On 1 May 2003, I heard that 140 American soldiers had died in combat in Iraq.
I heard Richard Perle tell Americans to 'relax and celebrate victory'. I heard him say: 'The predictions of those who opposed this war can be discarded like spent cartridges.'
I heard Lieutenant-General Jay Garner say: 'We ought to look in a mirror and get proud and stick out our chests and suck in our bellies and say: "Damn, we're Americans."'
And later I heard that I could buy a 12-inch 'Elite Force Aviator: George W. Bush' action figure: 'Exacting in detail and fully equipped with authentic gear, this limited-edition action figure is a meticulous 1:6 scale re-creation of the commander-in-chief's appearance during his historic aircraft carrier landing. This fully poseable figure features a realistic head sculpt, fully detailed cloth flight suit, helmet with oxygen mask, survival vest, G-pants, parachute harness and much more.'
I heard that Pentagon planners had predicted that US troop levels would fall to 30,000 by the end of the summer.
I heard that Paul Bremer's first act as director of the Coalition Provisional Authority was to fire all senior members of the Baath Party, including 30,000 civil servants, policemen, teachers and doctors, and to dismiss all 400,000 soldiers of the Iraqi army without pay or pensions. Two million people were dependent on that income. Since America supports private gun ownership, the soldiers were allowed to keep their weapons.
I heard that hundreds were being kidnapped and raped in Baghdad alone; that schools, hospitals, shops and factories were being looted; that it was impossible to restore the electricity because all the copper wire was being stolen from the power plants.
I heard Paul Bremer say, 'Most of the country is, in fact, orderly,' and that all the problems were coming from 'several hundred hard-core terrorists' from al-Qaida and affiliated groups.
As attacks on American troops increased, I heard the generals disagree about who was fighting: Islamic fundamentalists or remnants of the Baath Party or Iraqi mercenaries or foreign mercenaries or ordinary citizens taking revenge for the loss of loved ones. I heard the president and the vice president and the politicians and the television reporters simply call them 'terrorists'.
I heard the president say: 'There are some who feel that conditions are such that they can attack us there. My answer is: bring them on! We have the force necessary to deal with the situation.'
I heard that 25,000 Iraqi civilians were dead.
I heard Arnold Schwarzenegger, then campaigning for governor, in Baghdad for a special showing to the troops of Terminator 3, say: 'It is really wild driving round here, I mean the poverty, and you see there is no money, it is disastrous financially and there is the leadership vacuum, pretty much like California.'
I heard that the army was wrapping entire villages in barbed wire, with signs that read: 'This fence is here for your protection. Do not approach or try to cross, or you will be shot.' In one of those villages, I heard a man named Tariq say: 'I see no difference between us and the Palestinians.'
I heard Captain Todd Brown say: 'You have to understand the Arab mind. The only thing they understand is force - force, pride and saving face.'
I heard that the US, as a gift from the American people to the Iraqi people, had committed $18.4 billion to the reconstruction of basic infrastructure, but that future Iraqi governments would have no say in how the money was spent. I heard that the economy had been opened to foreign ownership, and that this could not be changed. I heard that the Iraqi army would be under the command of the US, and that this could not be changed. I heard, however, that 'full authority' for health and hospitals had been turned over to the Iraqis, and that senior American health advisers had been withdrawn. I heard Tommy Thompson, secretary of health and human services, say that Iraq's hospitals would be fine if the Iraqis 'just washed their hands and cleaned the crap off the walls'.
I heard Colonel Nathan Sassaman say: 'With a heavy dose of fear and violence, and a lot of money for projects, I think we can convince these people that we are here to help them.'
I heard Richard Perle say: 'Next year at about this time, I expect there will be a really thriving trade in the region, and we will see rapid economic development. And a year from now, I'll be very surprised if there is not some grand square in Baghdad named after President Bush.'
I heard about Operation Ivy Cyclone. I heard about Operation Vigilant Resolve. I heard about Operation Plymouth Rock. I heard about Operation Iron Hammer, its name taken from Eisenhammer, the Nazi plan to destroy Soviet generating plants.
I heard that air force regulations require that any airstrike likely to result in the deaths of more than 30 civilians be personally approved by the secretary of defense, and I heard that Donald Rumsfeld approved every proposal.
I heard the marine colonel say: 'We napalmed those bridges. Unfortunately, there were people there. It's no great way to die.' I heard the Pentagon deny they were using napalm, saying their incendiary bombs were made of something called Mark 77, and I heard the experts say that Mark 77 was another name for napalm.
I heard a marine describe 'dead-checking': 'They teach us to do dead-checking when we're clearing rooms. You put two bullets into the guy's chest and one in the brain. But when you enter a room where guys are wounded, you might not know if they're alive or dead. So they teach us to dead-check them by pressing them in the eye with your boot, because generally a person, even if he's faking being dead, will flinch if you poke him there. If he moves, you put a bullet in the brain. You do this to keep the momentum going when you're flowing through a building. You don't want a guy popping up behind you and shooting you.'
I heard the president say: 'We're rolling back the terrorist threat, not on the fringes of its influence but at the heart of its power.'
When the death toll of American soldiers reached 500, I heard Brigadier-General Kimmitt say: 'I don't think the soldiers are looking at arbitrary figures such as casualty counts as the barometer of their morale. They know they have a nation that stands behind them.'
I heard an American soldier, standing next to his Humvee, say: 'We liberated Iraq. Now the people here don't want us here, and guess what? We don't want to be here either. So why are we still here? Why don't they bring us home?'
I heard Colin Powell say: 'We did not expect it would be quite this intense this long.'
I heard Donald Rumsfeld say: 'We're facing a test of will.'
I heard the president say: 'We found biological laboratories. They're illegal. They're against the United Nations resolutions, and we've so far discovered two. And we'll find more weapons as time goes on. But for those who say we haven't found the banned manufacturing devices or banned weapons, they're wrong, we found them.'
I heard Tony Blair say: 'The remains of 400,000 human beings have been found in mass graves.' And I saw his words repeated in a US government pamphlet, Iraq's Legacy of Terror: Mass Graves, and on a US government website which said this represented 'a crime against humanity surpassed only by the Rwandan genocide of 1994, Pol Pot's Cambodian killing fields in the 1970s and the Nazi Holocaust of World War Two'.
I heard the president say: 'Today, on bended knee, I thank the Good Lord for protecting those of our troops overseas, and our Coalition troops and innocent Iraqis who suffer at the hands of some of these senseless killings by people who are trying to shake our will.'
I heard that this was the first American president in wartime who had never attended a funeral for a dead soldier. I heard that photographs of the flag-draped coffins returning home were banned. I heard that the Pentagon had renamed body bags 'transfer tubes'.
I heard a tearful George Bush Sr, speaking at the annual convention of the National Petrochemical and Refiners Association, say that it was 'deeply offensive and contemptible' the way 'elites and intellectuals' were dismissing 'the sowing of the seeds of basic human freedom in that troubled part of the world'. I heard him say: 'It hurts an awful lot more when it's your son that is being criticised.'
I heard the president's mother say: 'Why should we hear about body bags and deaths? Why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?'
I heard that 7 per cent of all American military deaths in Iraq were suicides, that 10 per cent of the soldiers evacuated to the army hospital in Landstuhl, Germany had been sent for 'psychiatric or behavioural health issues', and that 20 per cent of the military was expected to suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder.
I heard Brigadier-General Kimmitt deny that civilians were being killed: 'We run extremely precise operations focused on people we have intelligence on for crimes of violence against the Coalition and against the Iraqi people.' And later I heard him say that marines were being fired on from crowds containing women and children, and that the marines had fired back only in self-defence.
I heard Donald Rumsfeld say that the fighting was the work of 'thugs, gangs and terrorists'. I heard General Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, say: 'It's not a Shiite uprising. Muqtada al-Sadr has a very small following.' I heard that an unnamed 'intelligence official' had said: 'Hatred of the American occupation has spread rapidly among Shia, and is now so large that Mr Sadr and his forces represent just one element. Destroying his Mehdi Army might be possible only by destroying Sadr City.' Sadr City is the most populated part of Baghdad. I heard that, among the Sunnis, former Baath Party leaders and Saddam loyalists had been joined by Sunni tribal chiefs.
I heard that there were now thirty separate militias in the country. I heard the television news reporters routinely refer to them as 'anti-Iraqi forces'.
I heard that Paul Bremer had closed down a popular newspaper, Al Hawza, because of 'inaccurate reporting'.
As Shias in Sadr City lined up to donate blood for Sunnis in Fallujah, I heard a man say: 'We should thank Paul Bremer. He has finally united Iraq - against him.'
I heard the president say: 'I wouldn't be happy if I were occupied either.'
I heard Tony Blair say: 'Before people crow about the absence of weapons of mass destruction, I suggest they wait a bit.'
I heard General Myers say: 'Given time, given the number of prisoners now that we're interrogating, I'm confident that we're going to find weapons of mass destruction.'
I heard the president say: 'Prisoners are being taken, and intelligence is being gathered. Our decisive actions will continue until these enemies of democracy are dealt with.'
I heard a soldier describe what they called 'bitch in a box': 'That was the normal procedure for them when they wanted to soften up a prisoner: stuff them in the trunk for a while and drive them around. The hoods I can understand, and to have them cuffed with the plastic things - that I could see. But the trunk episode - I thought it was kind of unusual. It was like a sweatbox, let's face it. In Iraq, in August, it's hitting 120 degrees, and you can imagine what it was like in the trunk of a black Mercedes.'
I heard a National Guardsman from Florida say: 'We had a sledgehammer that we would bang against the wall, and that would create an echo that sounds like an explosion that scared the hell out of them. If that didn't work we would load a 9mm pistol, and pretend to be charging it near their head and make them think we were going to shoot them. Once you did that they did whatever you wanted them to do basically. The way we treated these men was hard even for the soldiers, especially after realising that many of these "combatants" were no more than shepherds.'
I heard a marine at Camp Whitehorse say: 'The 50/10 technique was used to break down EPWs and make it easier for the HET member to get information from them.' The 50/10 technique was to make prisoners stand for 50 minutes of the hour for ten hours with a hood over their heads in the heat. EPWs were 'enemy prisoners of war'. HETs were 'human exploitation teams'.
I heard Captain Donald Reese, a prison warden, say: 'It was not uncommon to see people without clothing. I was told the "whole nudity thing" was an interrogation procedure used by military intelligence, and never thought much about it.'
I heard Donald Rumsfeld say: 'I have not seen anything thus far that says that the people abused were abused in the process of interrogating them or for interrogation purposes.'
I heard Private Lynndie England, who was photographed in Abu Ghraib holding a prisoner on a leash, say: 'I was instructed by persons in higher rank to stand there, hold this leash, look at the camera, and they took pictures for PsyOps. I didn't really, I mean, want to be in any pictures. I thought it was kind of weird.'
Detainees 27, 30 and 31 were stripped of their clothing, handcuffed together nude, placed on the ground, and forced to lie on each other and simulate sex while photographs were taken. Detainee 8 had his food thrown in the toilet and was then ordered to eat it. Detainee 7 was ordered to bark like a dog while MPs spat and urinated on him; he was sodomised with a police stick while two female MPs watched. Detainee 3 was sodomised with a broom by a female soldier. Detainee 15 was photographed standing on a box with a hood on his head and simulated electrical wires were attached to his hands and penis. Detainees 1, 16, 17, 18, 23, 24 and 26 were placed in a pile and forced to masturbate while photographs were taken. An unidentified detainee was photographed covered in faeces with a banana inserted in his anus. Detainee 5 watched Civilian 1 rape an unidentified 15-year-old male detainee while a female soldier took photographs. Detainees 5 and 7 were stripped of their clothing and forced to wear women's underwear on their heads. Detainee 28, handcuffed with his hands behind his back in a shower stall, was declared dead when an MP removed the sandbag from his head and checked his pulse.
I heard Donald Rumsfeld say: 'If you are in Washington DC, you can't know what's going on in the midnight shift in one of those many prisons around the world.'
I heard that the Red Cross had to close its offices because it was too dangerous. I heard that General Electric and the Siemens Corporation had to close their offices. I heard that Medecins sans Frontieres had to withdraw, and that journalists rarely left their hotels. I heard that, after their headquarters were bombed, most of the United Nations staff had gone. I heard that the cost of life insurance policies for the few remaining Western businessmen was $10,000 a week.
I heard Tom Foley, director of Iraq Private Sector Development, say: 'The security risks are not as bad as they appear on TV. Western civilians are not the targets themselves. These are acceptable risks.'
I heard the spokesman for Paul Bremer say: 'We have isolated pockets where we are encountering problems.'
I heard that, no longer able to rely on the military for help, private security firms had banded together to form the largest private army in the world, with its own rescue teams and intelligence. I heard that there were 20,000 mercenary soldiers, now called 'private contractors', in Iraq, earning as much as $2000 a day, and not subject to Iraqi or US military law.
I heard that 50,000 Iraqi civilians were dead.
I heard that, on a day when a car bomb killed three Americans, Paul Bremer's last act as director of the Coalition Provisional Authority was to issue laws making it illegal to drive with only one hand on the steering wheel or to honk a horn when there was no emergency.
I heard that the unemployment rate was now 70 per cent, that less than 1 per cent of the workforce was engaged in reconstruction, and that the US had spent only 2 per cent of the $18.4 billion approved by Congress for reconstruction. I heard that an official audit could not account for $8.8 billion of Iraqi oil money given to Iraqi ministries by the Coalition Provisional Authority.
I heard the president say: 'Our Coalition is standing with responsible Iraqi leaders as they establish growing authority in their country.'
I heard that, a few days before he became prime minister, Iyad Allawi visited a Baghdad police station where six suspected insurgents, blindfolded and handcuffed, were lined up against a wall. I heard that, as four Americans and a dozen Iraqi policemen watched, Allawi pulled out a pistol and shot each prisoner in the head. I heard that he said that this is how we must deal with insurgents.
On 28 June 2004, with the establishment of an interim government, I heard the vice president say: 'After decades of rule by a brutal dictator, Iraq has been returned to its rightful owners, the people of Iraq.'
This was the military summary for an ordinary day, 22 July 2004, a day that produced no headlines: 'Two roadside bombs exploded next to a van and a Mercedes in separate areas of Baghdad, killing four civilians. A gunman in a Toyota opened fire on a police checkpoint and escaped. Police wounded three gunmen at a checkpoint and arrested four men suspected of attempted murder. Seven more roadside bombs exploded in Baghdad and gunmen twice attacked US troops. Police dismantled a car bomb in Mosul and gunmen attacked the Western driver of a gravel truck at Tell Afar. There were three roadside bombings and a rocket attack on US troops in Mosul and another gun attack on US forces near Tell Afar. At Taji, a civilian vehicle collided with a US military vehicle, killing six civilians and injuring seven others. At Bayji, a US vehicle hit a landmine. Gunmen murdered a dentist at the Ad Dwar hospital. There were 17 roadside bomb explosions against US forces in Taji, Baquba, Baqua, Jalula, Tikrit, Paliwoda, Balad, Samarra and Duluiyeh, with attacks by gunmen on US troops in Tikrit and Balad. A headless body in an orange jumpsuit was found in the Tigris; believed to be Bulgarian hostage Ivalyo Kepov. Kirkuk air base attacked. Five roadside bombs on US forces in Rutbah, Kalso and Ramadi. Gunmen attacked Americans in Fallujah and Ramadi. The police chief of Najaf was abducted. Two civilian contractors were attacked by gunmen at Haswah. A roadside bomb exploded near Kerbala and Hillah. International forces were attacked by gunmen at al-Qurnah.'
I heard the president say: 'You can embolden an enemy by sending a mixed message. You can dispirit the Iraqi people by sending mixed messages. That's why I will continue to lead with clarity and in a resolute way.'
I heard the president say: 'Today, because the world acted with courage and moral clarity, Iraqi athletes are competing in the Olympic Games.' Iraq had sent teams to the previous Olympics. And when the president ran a campaign advertisement with the flags of Iraq and Afghanistan and the words 'at this Olympics there will be two more free nations - and two fewer terrorist regimes,' I heard the Iraqi coach say: 'Iraq as a team does not want Mr Bush to use us for the presidential campaign. He can find another way to advertise himself.' I heard their star midfielder say that if he weren't playing soccer he'd be fighting for the resistance in Fallujah: 'Bush has committed so many crimes. How will he meet his god having slaughtered so many men and women?'
I heard an unnamed 'senior British army officer' invoke the Nazis to describe what he saw: 'My view and the view of the British chain of command is that the Americans' use of violence is not proportionate and is over-responsive to the threat they are facing. They don't see the Iraqi people the way we see them. They view them as Untermenschen. They are not concerned about the Iraqi loss of life. As far as they are concerned, Iraq is bandit country and everybody is out to kill them. It is trite, but American troops do shoot first and ask questions later.'
I heard Makki al-Nazzal, who was managing a clinic in Fallujah, say, in unaccented English: 'I have been a fool for 47 years. I used to believe in European and American civilisation.'
I heard Donald Rumsfeld say: 'We never believed that we'd just tumble over weapons of mass destruction.'
I heard Condoleezza Rice say: 'We never expected we were going to open garages and find them.'
I heard Donald Rumsfeld say: 'They may have had time to destroy them, and I don't know the answer.'
I heard Richard Perle say: 'We don't know where to look for them and we never did know where to look for them. I hope this will take less than two hundred years.'
I heard the president say: 'I know what I'm doing when it comes to winning this war.'
I heard the president say: 'I'm a war president.'
I heard that 1000 American soldiers were dead and 7000 wounded in combat. I heard that there was now an average of 87 attacks on US troops a day.
I heard Condoleezza Rice say: 'Not everything has gone as we would have liked it to.'
I heard Colin Powell say: 'We did miscalculate the difficulty.'
I heard an unnamed 'senior US diplomat in Baghdad' say: 'We're dealing with a population that hovers between bare tolerance and outright hostility. This idea of a functioning democracy is crazy. We thought there would be a reprieve after sovereignty, but all hell is breaking loose.'
I heard Major Thomas Neemeyer say: 'The only way to stomp out the insurgency of the mind would be to kill the entire population.'
I heard the CNN reporter near the tomb of Ali in Najaf say: 'Everything outside of the mosque seems to be totalled.'
I heard Khudeir Salman, who sold ice from a donkey cart in Najaf, say he was giving up after marine snipers had killed his friend, another ice-seller: 'I found him this morning. The sniper shot his donkey too. Even the ambulance drivers are too scared to get the body.'
I heard the vice president say: 'Such an enemy cannot be deterred, cannot be contained, cannot be appeased, or negotiated with. It can only be destroyed. And that is the business at hand.'
I heard a 'senior American commander' say: 'We need to make a decision on when the cancer of Fallujah needs to be cut out.'
I heard Major-General John Batiste, outside Samarra, say: 'It'll be a quick fight and the enemy is going to die fast. The message for the people of Samarra is: peacefully or not, this is going to be solved.'
I heard Brigadier-General Kimmitt say: 'Our patience is not eternal.'
I heard the president say: 'America will never be run out of Iraq by a bunch of thugs and killers.'
I heard about the wedding party that was attacked by American planes, killing 45 people, and the wedding photographer who videotaped the festivities until he himself was killed. And though the tape was shown on television, I heard Brigadier-General Kimmitt say: 'There was no evidence of a wedding. There may have been some kind of celebration. Bad people have celebrations, too.'
I heard an Iraqi man say: 'I swear I saw dogs eating the body of a woman.'
I heard an Iraqi man say: 'We have at least 700 dead. So many of them are children and women. The stench from the dead bodies in parts of the city is unbearable.'
I heard Donald Rumsfeld say: 'Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.'
On the occasion of Iyad Allawi's visit to the United States, I heard the president say: 'What's important for the American people to hear is reality. And the reality is right here in the form of the prime minister.'
Asked about ethnic tensions, I heard Iyad Allawi say: 'There are no problems between Shia and Sunnis and Kurds and Arabs and Turkmen. Usually we have no problems of an ethnic or religious nature in Iraq.'
I heard him say: 'There is nothing, no problem, except in a small pocket in Fallujah.'
I heard Colonel Jerry Durrant say, after a meeting with Ramadi tribal sheikhs: 'A lot of these guys have read history, and they said to me the government in Baghdad is like the Vichy government in France during World War Two.'
I heard a journalist say: 'I am housebound. I leave when I have a very good reason to and a scheduled interview. I avoid going to people's homes and never walk in the streets. I can't go grocery shopping any more, can't eat in restaurants, can't strike up a conversation with strangers, can't look for stories, can't drive in anything but a full armoured car, can't go to scenes of breaking news stories, can't be stuck in traffic, can't speak English outside, can't take a road trip, can't say "I'm an American," can't linger at checkpoints, can't be curious about what people are saying, doing, feeling.'
I heard Donald Rumsfeld say: 'It's a tough part of the world. We had something like 200 or 300 or 400 people killed in many of the major cities of America last year. What's the difference? We just didn't see each homicide in every major city in the United States on television every night.'
I heard that 80,000 Iraqi civilians were dead. I heard that the war had already cost $225 billion and was continuing at the rate of $40 billion a month. I heard there was now an average of 130 attacks on US troops a day.
I heard Captain John Mountford say: 'I just wonder what would have happened if we had worked a little more with the locals.'
I heard that, in the last year alone, the US had fired 127 tons of depleted uranium (DU) munitions in Iraq, the radioactive equivalent of approximately ten thousand Nagasaki bombs. I heard that the widespread use of DU in the first Gulf War was believed to be the primary cause of the health problems suffered by its 580,400 veterans, of whom 467 were wounded during the war itself. Ten years later, 11,000 were dead and 325,000 on medical disability. DU carried in semen led to high rates of endometriosis in their wives and girlfriends, often requiring hysterectomies. Of soldiers who had healthy babies before the war, 67 per cent of their postwar babies were born with severe defects, including missing legs, arms, organs or eyes.
I heard that 380 tons of HMX (high melting point explosive) and RDX (rapid detonation explosive) were missing from al-Qaqaa, one of Iraq's 'most sensitive military installations', which had not been guarded since the invasion. I heard that one pound of these explosives was enough to blow up a 747 jet, and that this cache could be used to make a million roadside bombs, which were the cause of half the casualties among US troops.
I heard Donald Rumsfeld say, when asked why the troops were being kept in the war much longer than their normal tours of duty: 'Oh, come on. People are fungible. You can have them here or there.'
I heard Colonel Gary Brandl say: 'The enemy has got a face. He's called Satan. He's in Fallujah and we're going to destroy him.'
I heard a marine commander tell his men: 'You will be held accountable for the facts not as they are in hindsight but as they appeared to you at the time. If, in your mind, you fire to protect yourself or your men, you are doing the right thing. It doesn't matter if later on we find out you wiped out a family of unarmed civilians.'
I heard Lieutenant-Colonel Mark Smith say: 'We're going out where the bad guys live, and we're going to slay them in their zip code.'
I heard that 15,000 US troops invaded Fallujah while planes dropped 500-pound bombs on 'insurgent targets'. I heard they destroyed the Nazzal Emergency Hospital in the centre of the city, killing 20 doctors. I heard they occupied Fallujah General Hospital, which the military had called a 'centre of propaganda' for reporting civilian casualties. I heard that they confiscated all mobile phones and refused to allow doctors and ambulances to go out and help the wounded. I heard they bombed the power plant to black out the city, and that the water was shut off. I heard that every house and shop had a large red X spray-painted on the door to indicate that it had been searched.
I heard Donald Rumsfeld say: 'Innocent civilians in that city have all the guidance they need as to how they can avoid getting into trouble. There aren't going to be large numbers of civilians killed and certainly not by US forces.'
I heard that, in a city of 150 mosques, there were no longer any calls to prayer.
I heard Muhammad Abboud tell how, unable to leave his house to go to a hospital, he had watched his nine-year-old son bleed to death, and how, unable to leave his house to go to a cemetery, he had buried his son in the garden.
I heard Sami al-Jumaili, a doctor, say: 'There is not a single surgeon in Fallujah. A 13-year-old child just died in my hands.'
I heard an American soldier say: 'We will win the hearts and minds of Fallujah by ridding the city of insurgents. We're doing that by patrolling the streets and killing the enemy.'
I heard an American soldier, a Bradley gunner, say: 'I was basically looking for any clean walls, you know, without any holes in them. And then we were putting holes in them.'
I heard Farhan Salih say: 'My kids are hysterical with fear. They are traumatised by the sound but there is nowhere to take them.'
I heard that the US troops allowed women and children to leave the city, but that all 'military age males', men from 15 to 60, were required to stay. I heard that no food or medicine was allowed into the city.
I heard the Red Cross say that at least 800 civilians had died. I heard Iyad Allawi say there were no civilian casualties in Fallujah.
I heard a man named Abu Sabah say: 'They used these weird bombs that put up smoke like a mushroom cloud. Then small pieces fall from the air with long tails of smoke behind them.' I heard him say that pieces of these bombs exploded into large fires that burned the skin even when water was thrown on it.
I heard Kassem Muhammad Ahmed say: 'I watched them roll over wounded people in the streets with tanks.'
I heard a man named Khalil say: 'They shot women and old men in the streets. Then they shot anyone who tried to get their bodies.'
I heard Nihida Kadhim, a housewife, say that when she was finally allowed to return to her home, she found a message written with lipstick on her living-room mirror: FUCK IRAQ AND EVERY IRAQI IN IT.
I heard General John Sattler say that the destruction of Fallujah had 'broken the back of the insurgency'.
I heard that three-quarters of Fallujah had been shelled into rubble. I heard an American soldier say: 'It's kind of bad we destroyed everything, but at least we gave them a chance for a new start.'
I heard that only five roads into Fallujah would remain open. The rest would be sealed with 'sand berms', mountains of earth. At the entry points, everyone would be photographed, fingerprinted and have iris scans taken before being issued identification cards. All citizens would be required to wear identification cards in plain sight at all times. No private automobiles would be allowed in the city. All males would be organised into 'work brigades' rebuilding the city. They would be paid, but participation would be compulsory.
I heard Muhammad Kubaissy, a shopkeeper, say: 'I am still searching for what they have been calling democracy.'
I heard a soldier say that he had talked to his priest about killing Iraqis, and that his priest had told him it was all right to kill for his government as long as he did not enjoy it. After he had killed at least four men, I heard the soldier say that he had begun to have doubts: 'Where the fuck did Jesus say it's OK to kill people for your government?'
I heard Donald Rumsfeld say: 'I don't believe anyone that I know in the administration ever said that Iraq had nuclear weapons.'
I heard Donald Rumsfeld say: 'The Coalition did not act in Iraq because we had discovered dramatic new evidence of Iraq's pursuit of weapons of mass destruction. We acted because we saw the evidence in a dramatic new light, through the prism of our experience on 9/11.'
I heard a reporter say to Donald Rumsfeld: 'Before the war in Iraq, you stated the case very eloquently and you said they would welcome us with open arms.' And I heard Rumsfeld interrupt him: 'Never said that. Never did. You may remember it well, but you're thinking of somebody else. You can't find, anywhere, me saying anything like either of those two things you just said I said.'
I heard Ahmed Chalabi, who had supplied most of the information about the weapons of mass destruction, shrug and say: 'We are heroes in error . . . What was said before is not important.'
I heard Paul Wolfowitz say: 'For bureaucratic reasons, we settled on one issue, weapons of mass destruction, as justification for invading Iraq, because it was the one reason everyone could agree on.'
I heard Condoleezza Rice continue to insist: 'It's not as if anybody believes that Saddam Hussein was without weapons of mass destruction.'
I heard that the Niger 'yellowcake' uranium was a hoax legitimised by British intelligence, that the aluminium tubes could not be used for nuclear weapons, that the mobile biological laboratories produced hydrogen for weather balloons, that the fleet of unmanned aerial drones was a single broken-down oversized model airplane, that Saddam had no elaborate underground bunkers, that Colin Powell's primary source, his 'solid information' for the evidence he presented at the United Nations, was a paper written ten years before by a graduate student. I heard that, of the 400,000 bodies buried in mass graves, only 5000 had been found.
I heard Lieutenant-General James Conway say: 'It was a surprise to me then, and it remains a surprise to me now, that we have not uncovered weapons. It's not from lack of trying.'
I heard a reporter ask Donald Rumsfeld: 'If they did not have WMDs, why did they pose an immediate threat to this country?' I heard Rumsfeld answer: 'You and a few other critics are the only people I've heard use the phrase "immediate threat". It's become a kind of folklore that that's what happened. If you have any citations, I'd like to see them.' And I heard the reporter read: 'No terrorist state poses a greater or more immediate threat to the security of our people.' Rumsfeld replied: 'It - my view of - of the situation was that he - he had - we - we believe, the best intelligence that we had and other countries had and that - that we believed and we still do not know - we will know.'
I heard Saadoon al-Zubaydi, an interpreter who lived in the presidential palace, say: 'For at least three years Saddam Hussein had been tired of the day-to-day management of his regime. He could not stand it any more: meetings, commissions, dispatches, telephone calls. So he withdrew . . . Alone, isolated, out of it. He preferred shutting himself up in his office, writing novels.'
I heard the president say that Iraq is a 'catastrophic success'.
I heard Donald Rumsfeld say: 'They haven't won a single battle the entire time since the end of major combat operations.'
I heard that hundreds of schools had been completely destroyed and thousands looted, and that most people thought it too dangerous to send their children to school. I heard there was no system of banks. I heard that in the cities there were only ten hours of electricity a day and that only 60 per cent of the population had access to drinkable water. I heard that the malnutrition of children was now far worse than in Uganda or Haiti. I heard that none of the 270,000 babies born after the start of the war had received immunisations.
I heard that 5 per cent of eligible voters had registered for the coming elections.
I heard General John Abizaid say: 'I don't think Iraq will have a perfect election. And, if I recall, looking back at our own election four years ago, it wasn't perfect either.'
I heard Donald Rumsfeld say: 'Let's say you tried to have an election and you could have it in three-quarters or four-fifths of the country. But some places you couldn't because the violence is too great. Well, so be it. Nothing's perfect in life.'
I heard an Iraqi engineer say: 'Go and vote and risk being blown to pieces or followed by insurgents and murdered for co-operating with the Americans? For what? To practise democracy? Are you joking?'
I heard General Muhammad Abdullah Shahwani, the chief of Iraqi intelligence, say that there were now 200,000 active fighters in the insurgency.
I heard Donald Rumsfeld say: 'I don't believe it's our job to reconstruct that country. The Iraqi people are going to have to reconstruct that country over a period of time.' I heard him say that, in any event, 'the infrastructure of that country was not terribly damaged by the war at all.'
I heard that the American ambassador, John Negroponte, had requested that $3.37 billion intended for water, sewage and electricity projects be transferred to security and oil output.
I heard that the reporters from the al-Jazeera network were indefinitely banned. I heard Donald Rumsfeld say: 'What al-Jazeera is doing is vicious, inaccurate and inexcusable.'
I heard that Spain left the 'coalition of the willing'. Hungary left; the Dominican Republic left; Nicaragua left; Honduras left. I heard that the Philippines had left early, after a Filipino truck driver was kidnapped and executed. Norway left. Poland and the Netherlands said they were leaving. Thailand said it was leaving. Bulgaria was reducing its few hundred troops. Moldova cut its force from 42 to 12.
I heard that the president had once said: 'Two years from now, only the Brits may be with us. At some point, we may be the only ones left. That's OK with me. We are America.'
I heard a reporter ask Lieutenant-General Jay Garner how long the troops would remain in Iraq, and I heard him reply: 'I hope they're there a long time.'
I heard General Tommy Franks say: 'One has to think about the numbers. I think we will be engaged with our military in Iraq for perhaps three, five, perhaps ten years.'
I heard that the Pentagon was now exploring what it called the 'Salvador option', modelled on the death squads in El Salvador in the 1980s, when John Negroponte was ambassador to Honduras and when Elliott Abrams, now White House adviser on the Middle East, called the massacre at El Mozote 'nothing but Communist propaganda'. Under the plan, the US would advise, train and support paramilitaries in assassination and kidnapping, including secret raids across the Syrian border. In the vice presidential debate, I heard the vice president say: 'Twenty years ago we had a similar situation in El Salvador. We had a guerrilla insurgency that controlled roughly a third of the country . . . And today El Salvador is a whale of a lot better.'
I heard that 100,000 Iraqi civilians were dead. I heard that there was now an average of 150 attacks on US troops a day. I heard that in Baghdad 700 people were being killed every month in 'non-war-related' criminal activities. I heard that 1400 American soldiers had been killed and that the true casualty figure was approximately 25,000.
I heard that Donald Rumsfeld had a machine sign his letters of condolence to the families of soldiers who had been killed. When this caused a small scandal, I heard him say: 'I have directed that in the future I sign each letter.'
I heard the president say: 'The credibility of this country is based upon our strong desire to make the world more peaceful, and the world is now more peaceful.'
I heard the president say: 'I want to be the peace president. The next four years will be peaceful years.'
I heard Attorney General John Ashcroft say, on the day of his resignation: 'The objective of securing the safety of Americans from crime and terror has been achieved.'
I heard the president say: 'For a while we were marching to war. Now we're marching to peace.'
I heard that the US military had purchased 1,500,000,000 bullets for use in the coming year. That is 58 bullets for every Iraqi adult and child.
I heard that Saddam Hussein, in solitary confinement, was spending his time writing poetry, reading the Koran, eating cookies and muffins, and taking care of some bushes and shrubs. I heard that he had placed a circle of white stones around a small plum tree.
Eliot Weinberger's 9/12 is published by Prickly Paradigm. He lives in New York.
Reprinted from The London Review Of Books:
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"With high expectations, human beings leave Earth to begin a new life in space colonies. However, the United Earth Sphere Alliance gains great military power, and soon seizes control of one colony after another in the name of 'Justice and Peace'. The year is After Colony 195."
Shin Kidou Senki Gundam Wing (lit. "New Mobile Report Gundam Wing") is one of the more famous (or infamous, if you prefer) of the GundamAlternate Universes. Aired in Japan in 1995, it was brought to the United States (and eventually worldwide) in 2000 on Toonami, pushing Gundam into the Western mainstream.In the year After Colony 195, the United Earth Sphere Alliance rules the Earth Sphere (the Earth, Moon, and associated space colonies) with an iron fist, with the help of Humongous Mecha known as Mobile Suits. Rebellious elements within the Space Colonies decide to fight back, sending five powerful Mobile Suits - Gundams - down to Earth to wreak havoc on the military forces.RelenaDarlian, the daughter of an important colonial diplomat, accidentally discovers the identity of the pilot of one of the Gundams: a boy named Heero Yuy. Because she can positively identify him, Heero tracks Relena down and swears to kill her (something he is never quite able to get around to doing).Gundam Wing is known for its political twists, as the Gundam pilots find themselves having to blast their way through the various groups in power behind the UESA, and eventually their own force, while Relena fights in her own way to bring peace to the world.It was followed up by a three-part OVA, Mobile Suit Gundam Wing Endless Waltz, where the remnants behind the rebellion try one more time for World Domination. The OVA was then followed up by an extended movie version, adding about 20 minutes in between various scenes and an almost completely overhauled Where Are They Now ending which resulted in a more fully realized story.Aside from a number of prequel and sequel mangas, an official sequel, the novel New Mobile Report Gundam Wing: Frozen Teardrop was published in August of 2010. Frozen Teardrop takes place on Mars (and uses the Mars Century calendar to keep track of the orbital differences) about 20-30 years after the events of Endless Waltz. The children of various characters end up getting embroiled in battles and political intrigue right alongside their parents and mentors. The story also fleshes out the backstories for Heero Yuy and Treize Kushrenada.The series was brought to Western shores via Toonami in 2000 and was a smash hit. Two versions of the show were aired during its initial run: a slightly-Bowdlerised version that omitted some violence and dialogue, and the uncut version shown during the "Midnight Run" (which was likely the inspiration for the [adult swim] programming block introduced just a year later). In fact, the combined success of both this series and Dragon Ball Z (the two ran back-to-back for most of their runs) can be tracked as the source of the major Anime boom in the 2000's.With a cast full of attractive male characters and the Gundams themselves mixing practical military designs with aesthetic appeal, Gundam Wing is often credited (read: blamed) for introducing female fans to the genre of Mecha Shows.Character Sheets are found here.
Abusive Parents: If a character's grandparents are shown in Frozen Teardrop's Flashbacks, they're guaranteed to be revealed at leastJerkasses. Treize's dragged their daughter away from her husband and forced her into a political marriage, while Relena's forced one of their daughters to live locked away in a single room with her cat as her only companion (and, to a lesser extent, made the other live with the Darlian family regardless of whether she wanted or not).
Adaptation Expansion: Glory of Losers can best be described as the TV series rewritten with full knowledge of all the After Colony stories. In Chapter 2 alone, we get Duo's Endless Waltz flashback, scenes from Episode Zero, and Heero referring to Zechs' Leo as a Gryph, a pre-series mecha from Frozen Teardrop.
Animation Bump: The Gundams are very complex, detailed machines...except usually they're not drawn that way because it would send the budget for fight sequences through the roof. While you can make out every scratch, joint, and piece of weaponry on the Gundams in the opening sequences, in the show proper their designs are heavily simplified whenever they're moving...and then when they're standing still for extended periods, they're all detailed again. However, a few important plot-altering battles (especially the grand finale) treat us to fully detailed, animated Gundams in all their glory.
On the other hand, the movie gives us consistently detailed Gundams throughout, and actually redesigns them so they're even MORE complex.
The animation quality of the Endless Waltz OVA series/movie is far and away much better than that of the series.
Apocalypse How: Zechs and the White Fang attempt to cause either a Class 5 or Class 6.
Subverted with the Peacecraft Royal Family, and a rare few others like Marquis Weridge.
Armor-Piercing Question: In the final encounter between Wufei and Treize, Wufei breaks Treize's speech about the loss of civility and pomp in Mobile Doll warfare by asking him if he knows how many people have died for him. Treize deflects this trope beautifully by giving Wufei an exact figure.
Armor-Piercing Slap (Noin, on a fresh OZ recruit. Lady Une, on Noin herself (She tries it twice, actually, but the second time Noin stopped her). Relena, on Mariemeia.)
Artificial Stupidity: This is taken advantage of in the fullest when Heero and Duo fight Taurus mobile dolls. The Taurus's AI automatically sets hostile objects as targets, so Heero and Duo launch a Space Leo in a scramble maneuver, then fire at a Taurus while wearing an astro suit. Unfortunately for the OZ forces, all of them are using Space Leos and wearing astro suits, so the Tauruses automatically turn on them and wipe out the OZ forces.
After blowing up Field Marshall Noventa and his assistents, Heero Yuy travels around the world looking for Noventa's family to atone for his sins. He gives each of them the opportunity to shoot him. Sylvia in particular, refuses to do it on the grounds that he's trying to take the easy way out by having her kill him.
Awesome Anachronistic Apparel: The upper ranks of OZ and Romefeller dress like military leaders from the 18th Century and give themselves old aristocratic titles—Duke Dermail, Count Zechs, et cetera.
Awesome, but Impractical: Wing Gundam's Buster Rifle is incredibly powerful but it can only fire three shots, or as many cells as the Buster Rifle is capable of carrying. Katoki's version has these 'gliders' that attach to Wing's arms during bird mode, these gliders carry extra cells for the Buster rifle. Wing Zero's Twin Buster rifle does not seem to have this limitation, however.
Awesome Personnel Carrier: Unlike other Gundam series, Wing eschews full-on warships and carriers in favor of vehicles that serve as rapid troop transports. Presumably this is because the main opposition to the Alliance are small resistance groups, so warships would be expensive and inefficient.
Badass: Pick a character. Any character. Trowa deserves a special mention as he doesn't need any high-tech beam weapons to fight, and can jump 9 meters in the air to boot!
Badass Army: The Maganac Corps, whose teamwork and ability make them an awesome force. OZ as well.
Badass Bookworm: Wufei is more of a scholar than a fighter, according to his Episode Zero chapter. His wife Meiran actually chastises him for refusing to fight her, believing he's a weakling; Wufei takes off his reading glasses, fights back and wins.
Ballroom Blitz: The episode entitiled Party Night, of course. One wonders if any of the enemy pilots Heero wasted are named Steve, Mick & Andy...
Beam Me Up, Scotty!: For some reason, the video games love to do this... but Heero never pulls apart the Twin Buster Rifles, fires, and starts spinning. Yes, it would be a wave of devastation, but by the time he gets Wing Zero he actually gives a damn about civilian casualties, and the Buster Rifles sure as HELL don't discriminate.
To clarify, that scene actually happens in the series, but Heero wasn't the one in the mecha at the time. In fact, all other 6 of the 7 people who pilot the Wing Zero execute this little trick, the odd one out of course being Heero.
Possibly a justified usage. In the video games, there is no risk of civilian casualties to speak of; it's giant robots only. And it is quite the powerful attack, so there's no reason for him NOT to do it. Just because his progression through the anime makes him more...Heeroic...it doesn't mean he wouldn't use the attack if he could get away with the whole "no innocents" thing.
Furthermore splitting the rifle and going to town simply isn't Heero's combat style, notably enough he only seems to fire the rifle when it counts.
Well, Wing Gundam (and the other four) were basically created as weapons of terror and indiscriminate destruction, following the so-called Operation Meteor. However, since the engineers who created the Gundams (and the pilots themselves) didn't feel right about it, they decided to screw the plan, and carried out a more specifically targeted campaign (also, the Buster Rifles are shown as being able to fire smaller blasts as well as the Wave Motion Gun).
Actually it seems like every major battle in this universe is filled with 90% casualty rates, even those that do not have Gundams in them. This is probably due to the alarming tendency of mobile suits to immediately explode after any significant damage.
BFS: Epyon's beam sword, powered by a direct connection to its fusion reactor, can grow to battleship-cleaving proportions.
Big Ol' Eyebrows: Dorothy Catalonia, whose brows actually have tufts. Also Treize, but not to that extreme. Incidentally, they're related.
Bishōnen: Kinda opened the floodgates on this one.
"Blind Idiot" Translation: One glaring instance in the dub: when the Wing's buster rifle is airlifted to Heero in one episode, Quatre (and the subtitles) refers to it as the "beam Gatling". Guess the translators confused Wing with Heavyarms that day.
Zechs' famous "No machinegun for him!" line (just before a machinegun is used to try to shoot the guy down) from the first episode: what the Japanese script said was "No point in firing a warning shot. Shoot him down!" which really makes a lot more sense.
The Blank: OZ's production mobile suits almost all feature a square, featureless monoeye (the Aries being a slight exception), which matches their rather utilitarian aesthetic even when compared to other Gundam series' production weapons.
Bloodier and Gorier: Not the show itself, which is one of the least gory Gundam shows ever, but the new manga adaptation Endless Waltz: The Glory of Losers.
Bodyguard Crush: Heero and Relena (yes, he said he wanted to kill her at first, but...)
Bright Slap: Executed by Noin in episode 4 on a cadet at Victoria Base.
Broad Strokes: Endless Waltz featured completely redesigned Gundams even in flashbacks. There have been some manga and novels that attempted to explain the change, usually just settling for an upgrade that happened after the end of the series even if the flashbacks say otherwise. In any case all of the major story events of the series are events of the past in the OAV/Movie.
Broken Bird: What Dorothy Catalonia is revealed to truly be, under her Rich Bitch facade. Like Treize, she believes that the world needs a BIG war to see how fighting sucks... especially after her grandfather, Duke Dermail, is killed.
Captain Ersatz: Quatre seems to be a younger version of Lawrence of Arabia. A pretty, white haired, sensitive warrior poet; reluctantly leading an Arab army in a guerrilla war. Not to mention their Beware The Nice Ones scenes. Or the Ho Yay.
Quatre also has elements of Char's alter-ego Quattro Bajeena, due to his name, blond hair and blue eyes, and Amuro due to his Newtype-esque "Space Heart" abilities.
Captain Obvious: "Lieutenant Colonel Lady Une! Gundam still attacking on the ship!"
Cast Full of Pretty Boys: How it managed to be called this despite the fact that it literally assigned one female character to each male is weird
Slightly justified in the case of Trowa and Quatre, since Catherine "Cathy" Bloom can be easily seen as Trowa's Cool Big Sis and Dorothy not only is introduced quite later, but shows more "interest" in people like Relena, Treize and/or Zechs, rather than Quatre himself. Though Quatre and Dorothy do seem to have some sort of bizarre telepathic link in the final battle... which almost everyone has, to some degree.
Also, Dorothy does try to kill him.
In the Episode Zero manga, Trowa is implied to be Cathy's long lost brother Triton, so...
When Catherine finds Trowa after he loses his memories, she doesn't say she's his girlfriend or even a close acquaintance - she tells him she's his sister. If she'd wanted a romantic relationship... after that, she'd have some explaining to do.
Caught The Heart On Her Sleeve: In the Blind Target manga side story (whose story is written by series scenario/scriptwriter Akemi Omode) this happens. Relena tells Heero that though she knows he's a strong person, she wishes he'd let her worry for him more and turns to leave. Cue Heero grabbing her sleeve and pulling her in for what is implied to be an offscreen kiss.
Child Soldiers: All of the Gundam pilots, but Trowa (raised by mercenaries after being orphaned and separated from his sister in the war) and Heero (raised by Odin Lowe, who actually killed the real Heero Yuy) take the cake. Read the Episode Zero manga for more details.
Conservation of Ninjutsu: Naturally, the main characters tear through dozens of enemy units. Subverted in one of the last episodes where Zechs uses a new control system on the Mobile Dolls to wear the Gundams down.
Days of Future Past: The Earth of AC 195/6 is at times reminiscent of the early and mid-20th Century. The fashions, preserved towns and World War I-esque uniforms don't help. The colonies meanwhile tend to look more modern.
Death Seeker: After being tricked into killing a plane full of Alliance leaders leaning towards peace, Heero seeks out every single family member and loved one with pistol... and offers them the chance to shoot him. They all refuse and forgive him.
Deflector Shields: The "Planet Defensers" in the Mercurius mobile suit, and the Virgo and Virgo II mobile dolls, as well as Deathscythe Hell's Active Beam Deflection Cloak wings.
Department of Redundancy Department: Throughout the show, characters refer to OZ as "The OZ Organization". OZ stands for "Organization of Zodiac", so they are almost always calling it "The Organization of Zodiac Organization".
Detect Evil: In early drafts, Wu Fei was a Newtype with the ability to sense evildoers.
Determinator: When it comes to completing missions, Heero definitely is this. He actually snaps his broken leg back into place and keeps working once, prompting wincing from Duo.
Distressed Damsel: Relena Peacecraft gets captured a few times, in the most polite manner possible.
Do Not Adjust Your Set: Happens a few times throughout the series. The ones who did this include Quinze and White Fang (twice, with the second time done with Zechs), Lady Une (on the final episode), and in Endless Waltz, Mariemaia and Relena.
Don't Sneak Up on Me Like That!: This happens if a pilot loses control of the zero system: maddened by the visions, he tries to clear his head by getting rid of all possible threats, and the system obediently keeps finding him new targets. There was at least one case where the pilot's allies had to abandon the attempts of calming him down and quickly vacate the area.
Dragon-in-Chief: Treize. At first he's the Dragon to Dermail, but after leaving Romefeller he proves how influential he was when the troops loyal to him break away to form the Treize Faction. Romefeller is divided until he returns and becomes their leader.
There's another egg hidden in the Wing's schematics seen when Heero's in the hospital. It names the Gundam's composition as "Gundarium theta".
Sandrock's OS apparently makes use of the Alice System, another nod to the original Gundam.
Elites Are More Glamorous: The Specials/OZ, whose characters play important roles, and feature more in battle than the Alliance military in the first episodes.
Elite Army/Elite Mooks: The Specials (who received better equipment and training) was this to the regular Alliance. This caused a bit of friction between the two groups. Despite this, OZ barely stood a chance against the Gundams. Eventually, OZ does develop more advanced mecha that prove to be more of a match.
Empathic Weapon: Several of the Gundams show signs of intelligence over the course of the series. Sandrock acts on its own when Quatre triggers its self-detonation device, urging him to get out of the cockpit. Heero also often addresses Wing Zero as though it were intelligent and capable of holding a conversation. Overlaps into Evil Weapon whenever the ZERO System gets involved, especially with Epyon.
Empathy Doll Shot: The teddy bear shows up in these instances: In the first opening, where Relena is brushing away snow from a teddy bear at an attack site (which was revealed to be the scene in which the boy who would become Heero Yuy destroyed a military base in Endless Waltz), in episode 36, when the Sanc Kingdom is under attack, and in the final episode, where Heero gives Relena a teddy bear for her birthday.
The first between the United Earth Sphere Alliance and OZ. OZ ultimately ends up winning and either forcing them to surrender, or destroying the last remnants of any holding out.
Later within OZ itself between the Treize Faction and Romefeller, which occurred largely because Treize was against Romefeller's use of unmanned combat drones that minimized the sacrifices that human soldiers made in war.
Mr. Fanservice: Particularly Heero, Duo and Zechs, but the other boys have their own strong following as well. This show singlehandedly brought thousands of female fans not only into the Gundam franchise, but anime in general. Rumor has it they purposefully made the pilots more appealing to broaden their demographic and garner female interest; it worked. The massive amount of yaoi fangirlism this show has spawned is staggering.
In episode 13, Zechs and two OZ troopers are attacking a holdout Alliance base. After a brief skirmish, he orders them to surrender, and they initially agree, but the other two OZ troops continue to open fire on the surrendering soldiers. The Alliance then launches a last ditch attack, which kills one of the OZ soldiers, and the other one turns on Zechs for not being ruthless enough against their enemies by slaughtering them all. Zechs, partly due because he has to defend himself, and also because he's appalled at the two trooper's lack of decency towards surrendering soldiers, destroys the second mobile suit himself.
When the mobile doll technology on the verge of mass production, Treize protests this decision by the Romefeller Foundation, and resigns his position, because he feels taking humans out of the battle diminishes the sacrifices and the roles they play in those conflicts. Consequently, many OZ troops believe in this as well, and split off to form the Treize Faction.
Everyone Is Related: Frozen Teardrop is shaping things up to be this way, revealing Treize as the grand nephew of the original Heero Yuy and Heero as the biological son of Odin Lowe and the step-nephew of Trant Clark of all people, among many other throw-away references. And that's just as of Chapter 3.
Everyone Went To School Together: Frozen Teardrop shows that the real Heero Yuy, Doctor J, and Quinze's brother were classmates in college, and that Heero introduced J to Relena's future mother and aunt. Not to mention J developing the first ZERO System back then and using data from the Peacecraft sisters in its development.
Evil Laugh: Heero does a particularly memorable one in the first episode (especially in English). And Quatre gets one of the creepiest ones period in episode 21, courtesy of Brad Swaile.
Expy: Aside from Zechs beingACHAR, Relena is Sayla Mass, Mariemaia is Mineva Lao Zabi, and both the original Heero Yuy and King Peacecraft were based on Zeon Zum Deikun.
And Heero Yuy is meant to be evocative of Amuro Ray, to round things off.
Frozen Teardrop gets a bit absurd with this, combining it with Generation Xerox to have a story set 30 years later but with effectively the same cast as the TV series. Except for Heero and Relena, who were cryo-frozen the whole time.
Foreshadowing: The title card in the series' first opening, "Just Communication". Look familiar?◊ It should. It's the colony from the last episode where Une's speech on war is given, where the colony representatives are.
In one scene in the second episode of the series, Quatre is looking out at the landscape and wondering if "They" know how beautiful the Earth really is. It sounds like sentimentality, but fast forward to Endless Waltz where we learn what Operation Meteor orignally involved, and the line becomes a lot more chilling.
Friend to All Living Things: Despite being a terrorist, Trowa seems to get along with the animals of his circus very well. One of his first episodes has him fearlessly reaching for a caged lion, which acts like a kitty towards him after some seconds as he explains that it's all about showing fear.
One often ignored scene has Heero playing fetch with a pair of dogs while smiling, and encouraging Quatre to do the same.
Relena is also implied to have this trope in the ending where she's around various animals. Including rhinos.
Gambit Roulette: Treize and Zechs engineer the war between the Earth Nation and White Fang as part of their Well-Intentioned Extremist plan. The manga version is a lot more explicit on this point, with Zechs confessing the truth to Heero, but the anime strongly implies the same. The thing is, it just gets hard to follow exactly what they are doing.
Gatling Good: Gundam Heavyarms is almost the personification of this trope. Never mind the Heavyarms Custom in Endless Waltz, which uses four gatling guns simultaneously. Plus four more of them hidden in its chest.
Gender Equal Ensemble: Has a primary cast of seven men (Heero, Duo, Trowa, Quatre, Wu Fei, Zechs, and Treize), and seven women (Relena, Hilde, Catherine, Dorothy, Sally, Noin, and Lady Une).
Gender Is No Object: Played straight for the most part. Gender differences and double standards are brought up a few times, but men and women serve together in the various military groups, fight together in the battles, and there are both male and female high ranking military and political leaders.
Generation Xerox: Frozen Teardrop takes this to the point of absurdity. Sally's daughter Kathy, Duo's son Duo (Jr?), Quatre's sister Katherine, and even Trowa's seemingly unrelated protegee Trowa Phobos all look and act pretty much identically to their counterparts from the anime.
The real Heero Yuy as a young man; not only did he look exactly like Heero the Gundam Pilot (someone completely unrelated to him), but he had a romance with Katrina Peacecraft (who had a twin sister, Sabrina Peacecraft), who looks exactly like her future granddaughter Relena. This is of course not even mentioning Relena's mother, another Katrina Peacecraft, who also looks just like her daughter, but at the very least that was teased at in one episode by Marquise Weridge's comments to Relena. (He's strongly implied to be one of her relatives, or a family friend.)
Duke Dermail and his granddaughter, Dorothy.
Relena also looked very similar to Darlian's wife Maureen, which is partly why Relena refused to believe they weren't her real parents at first.
In episode 34, when Zechs steals the Wing Zero from OZ before they got a chance to destroy it.
When the rebel faction, White Fang, captured OZ's Lunar Base, which, at the time of the raid, was developing the Virgo II mobile dolls. They also captured OZ's battleship, Libra, which became their base of operations.
After stealing critical data on Libra, Hilde did a Taurusjack and escaped the battleship, before she was attacked by the mobile doll versions of Mercurius and Vayete, which were programmed with Heero and Trowa's combat data, respectively. She was saved by Duo.
In episode 47, when Zechs was about to fire Libra's main cannon at Treize, Lady Une wakes up from her coma and steals the Wing Gundam. Une then knocks Treize out of the way and takes the blast for him. Only the lower body was destroyed, and she survived.
In Endless Waltz, the modified Operation Meteor became this once the true nature of the original Operation Meteor was revealed.
Also, in Endless Waltz, after arriving on Colony X-18999, Heero and Duo stole two Leos and engaged in battle with Wufei (piloting Altron) and Trowa (piloting Serpent), respectively.
Gundam Vs Series: Wing Zero (Assist Character: Vayeate) and Heavyarms Kai (Assist: Mercurius) show up in Gundam vs Gundam; Deathscythe Hell (Assist: Sandrock Kai), Tallgeese (Assist: Noin's Aries), and Epyon (Assist: Virgo II) join the fun in the sequel, and the movie versions of Wing Zero (Assist: Deathscythe Hell EW) and Altron (Assist: Trowa's Serpent) are PSP-exclusives. Next's opening calls the hypothetical Wing-themed Vs. game White Fang vs. OZ.
Gundam Extreme Vs has Wing Zero EW, Heavyarms Kai EW (Assist: Sandrock Kai EW), and Tallgeese III (Assist: Noin's Taurus), with Deathscythe Hell EW (Assist: Altron EW) and Relena (as a navigator).
Handshake Refusal: when future rivals Heero and Zechs meet face-to-face for the first time, Zechs offers his hand. After a pause, Heero accepts the gesture while remarking that he's never shaken hands with anybody before. This could be because Zechs has shown himself to be very honest and honorable, especially for a member of OZ.
Heel Face Revolving Door: Throughout the series Zechs, Treize, and the Gundam pilots can't seem to decide if they're supposed to be allies or enemies.
Hero with Bad Publicity: Once the Gundam pilots return to space, they've found that OZ has made peace with the colonies and turned them against them.
Heroic Bystander: From Endless Waltz: the soldier who shoots Dekim Barton and the people who stand up to the Barton troops. The novelization does at least give him a name.
Heroic Sacrifice: Heero attempts one in episode 10 when OZ threatens to shoot down the largely peaceful space colonies. Dr. J then intervenes, calls Lady Une out on her bluff, tells him that he was fighting them on his own, and wouldn't hand over the gundam to them. Cue Heero blowing up his gundam to follow Dr. J's orders. Even Zechs and Treize were appalled by what Une threatened to do.
Further supported by the fact that the manga hints that a young Zechs went to live with Treize's family after the fall of Sanc. So they've probably been living together since they were young teenagers, at least.
Due to the normally socially implacable Heero, his surprisingly close friendship with Duo was all the stranger.
Quatre and Heero understand each other and get along surprisingly well in the second half of the series for such little interaction in the first.
Hidden Depths: When Treize isn't waxing poetical about the state of warfare, he's actually a very competent Mobile Suit designer, having designed Tallgeese II, Tallgeese III, Epyon and the Serpents.
Hitman with a Heart: Heero, so much. According to Episode Zero, he takes it after his father, Odin Lowe.
Honor Before Reason: Wufei had a perfectly good opportunity to kill Treize with his Gundam, but chose to accept a challenge to a sword duel instead. Treize wins the duel and had a perfectly good opportunity to capture or kill a Gundam pilot and take his ultra-advanced suit, but chose to let him leave. Wufei then could've gotten back in his Gundam and blown away Treize where he stood, but chose to simply leave.
To be fair, both men have a strong sense of honor. Treize let him go because Wufei accepted his sword duel challenge, and then lost fair and square, when he could have easily smashed Treize's cabin just moments earlier. In Wufei's case, he likely wouldn't be able to live with himself had he of killed Treize in such a cowardly way after having been beaten in a fair fight, further evidenced by his Heroic BSOD in episode 12.
Played almost stupidly with Zech's personality. He won't defeat an opponent if it isn't a fair fight. This translates to, he can disarm them in mid-combat, then spare them because he was no longer armed with a weapon. His need to be honorable certainly seems to cloud any sense of priority, as he will give his rival a Gundam, just so they can have a fair duel, while in the middle of a war.
Human Popsicle: In Frozen Teardrop, we learn that Doctor J designed a cryogenic stasis pod, which has the side effect of damaging the subject's memory. Heero and Relena were both frozen, hence the title.
Icon of Rebellion: The Gundams become a symbol of colonial resistance. White Fang tries to convince Duo to join, but he tells them to Leave Me Alone; they're much more successful with Zechs.
If You Can Read This: In one early episode, the computer screens with Heero's medical data show text from the readme file for Photoshop's TWAIN plugin.
Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: Most Egregious in a scene where a squad of Leos have two Gundams surrounded, while being a fairly short distance away. They all open fire at once...and completely fail to hit anything. The two pilots even have a short exchange of dialogue while their enemies fire enthusiastically in a circle around their feet.
Improbable Age: The Gundam Pilots are all 15. Some of them were doing this kind of thing even earlier than that. Possibly even more improbable is that Zechs, Lucrezia, and Une are only 19 and Treize is 24, despite them all acting and looking like they're in their late 20s to early 30s.
Double so for Mariemaia in Endless Waltz. If Episode Zero is to be taken as canon, she's 8 years old. Her voice actor sounds a little too old, but the complexity of her lines, and the rather haughty delivery in the dub, feels way beyond her years. (Even if she is the child of Magnificent Bastard Treize Khushrenada. Then again, Mariemeia was very much manipulated by her grandfather, Smug Snake Dekim Barton.
She's an expy of Mineva Zabi from Zeta and Double Zeta Gundam. The difference is that Haman Khan was using borderline mind control on Mineva to make her give her complex speeches, while, Newtype powers not existing in Wing, Mariemaia just has to be a "really" fast learner.
Frozen Teardrop acknowledges the very young age of most of the characters, and attempts an explanation: since medical technology had increased the human lifespan, the world's leaders had no reason to give any authority to their children, and indeed fought and "oppressed" that generation so they could keep their power. By the time they were ready to retire, their grandchildren were just starting to come of age, and the 2nd generation was too stagnant and unused to wielding power that they thought it would be better to hand power to the bright young minds of the 3rd generation.
Ineffectual Death Threats: Heero is pretty much the patron saint of this trope; if he threatens someone with death, you can bet top dollar he won't go through with it.
Maybe justified... if you really intended to kill someone, why would you warn them?
This is pretty much the reason no one really believes it's going to happen in Frozen Teardrop, despite him saying it again.
If anything, Heero's death threats seem to be either a warning for people to stay the hell away from him (Relena in episode 1) or an attempt to convince himself that killing people he's come to care about (see: Relena, Duo, Quatre) is the only option; the fact that it always fails shows that he's got a heart.
Invisible Backup Band: Trowa's and Quatre's duet ("Hearth throbbing Melody") from "The Victoria Nightmare."
They're so awesome at their respective instruments that Quatre's violin keeps playing after he stops, and Trowa's flute starts playing long before he does.
Ironic Echo: In the first episode, after Relena gives Heero an invitation to her birthday party, he tears it and threatens to kill her. In the final episode, Heero (disguised as a mechanic) leaves Relena a birthday card, and she tears it, telling him, "Next time, hand it to me in person!"
It Runs in the Family: Noin describes both Relena and Zechs as "reckless" and "very difficult to control".
Kill Me Now or Forever Stay Your Hand: After killing the Alliance peacemakers, Heero goes around to their families, apologizing and offering them the opportunity to kill him in Revenge. Sylvia Noventa calls him a coward for this...
Forgiveness: ...But her grandmother (Field Marshall Noventa's widow) forgives him, writing a letter that says (paraphrased): "You shouldn't beat yourself up for your mistake; it's unfortunate but that sort of thing happens in war. My husband died trying to create a world where young people like you could live in peace, so please try to make his dream a reality."
Leave The Two Love Birds Alone: Something to this effect happens towards the finale of the series. Heero goes to rescue Relena from the Libra and Duo wonders if he'll be alright on his own. Cue Quatre telling him he'd just "be in the way" while smiling in a way that suggests a Shipper on Deck.
Leitmotif: Each of the Gundam Pilots has one, but Heero and Relena are special cases as the core elements of their songs ("The Wings of a Boy Who Killed Adolescence" and "As Relena Peacecraft" respectively) appear in a few others ("Heero's Time of Decision" and "The Pain That Should Be Thrown Away Long Ago" for him, "Soft Hair, Clear Eyes" and "To Beauty, To Elegance, And To Noble-Mindedness" for her}.
Lighter and Softer: Compared to other Gundam shows, with fewer major deaths and horrific disasters and war crimes in this one, complete with a happy ending.
Light Is Not Good: The angelic, brightly-coloured Wing Zero, a terrifying engine of destruction that is responsible for some of the worst massacres in the series, and has a nasty habit of mind-raping its pilots.
On the other hand, then, the demonic-coloured Deathscythe series is Dark Is Not Evil, being piloted by one of the series's nicer and more idealistic pilots.
Lost in Translation: The infamous "No machinegun for him!"; more egregious but lesser known is "Prince of the Stars".
The English dub show is actually riddled with all sorts of weird translation mistakes and lines that just don't seem to make sense the way they're said. And in a plot this complicated... God help you if you want to understand it through the first viewing.
The 'machinegun' line is actually more a case of Small Reference Pools. 'Machineguns' is, in military terms, giving a warning shot. Zechs was ordering NOT to give Heero a warning shot and to shoot him down immediately, since he knew of the incoming Operation Meteor. Naturally, anyone that doesn't know that slang would be confused by this. In addition to that, the "Prince of the Stars" line is a reference to Zechs and Relena's Episode Zero chapter, so that's more a case of All There in the Manual than Lost in Translation.
It's still Lost in Translation: "Prince of the Stars" is the Japanese title for The Little Prince, which actually is an apt comparison since from Relena's perspective, Heero is a boy from space who rode a "shooting star" (his Gundam) to come to Earth. "Prince of the Stars" just makes her sound kind of ditzy.
In some newer versions, the "Prince of the Stars" has been changed to "Is he a 'Little Prince'?" which clears at least that particular issue up.
Luke, I Am Your Father: Odin Lowe is Heero's biological father. Sadly, it seems Heero was never made aware of this.
Macross Missile Massacre: Heavyarms. Not used quite as extensively compared to its More Dakka functionality, but it's definitely there when someeverything needs to get blown up right away.
Made of Explodium: If any mobile suit takes any sort of damage (other than those piloted by protagonists and central villains) the suit will explode immediately.
The Man Behind the Man: Duke Dermail to Treize. First played straight when it's revealed that Treize and Oz are serving the Romefeller Foundation. However, after Treize steps down it's inverted with Treize proving just how influential he was when the Oz soldiers still loyal to him break away from Romefeller resulting in Treize becoming Dragon-in-Chief when he returns to Romefeller.
Market-Based Title: The original Japanese title is Shin Kidou Senki Gundam Wing, the first part translated as "New Mobile Report", "New Mobile History", or "New Mobile War Chronicle" in various sourcebooks. The decision to use "Mobile Suit" may have been to avoid the headache of all these conflicting translations, or to tie it closer with the older serie*
Duo Maxwell, named for the two biggest influences on his young life: Solo, the leader of his group of street urchins and his childhood best friend, and the Maxwell Church (and Father Maxwell), which was his home after the urchins were caught and put up for adoption.
Meanwhile, in Frozen Teardrop, Duo names himself Father Maxwell while an "orphan" from Sister Hilde's orphanage who looks exactly like the original Duo, probably Duo's kid with Hilde is also named Duo Maxwell.
Except that when she WEARS the glasses she's a cold hearted bitch. With them OFF shes got a sweeter and kinder attitude which is what comes with Meganekko.
Micro Monarchy: While Sanc Kingdom is probably the size of Sweden, compared to the other states in the setting, which not only extend over the entire Earth but also into space, it's pretty tiny.
Mid-Season Upgrade: Most notably Wing Gundam to Wing Zero, Deathscythe to Deathscythe Hell and Shenlong to Altron. Zechs eventually ends up with the Epyon but this was long after he no longer piloted the Talgeese.
Well, before Epyon Zechs had been using the Wing Zero, while Heero had been using Epyon (gifted to him by Treize) after the Wing Gundam was disabled. Also, Heavyarms was upgraded with two heavy gatlings instead of one like the first model, and Sandrock was upgraded with longer and more powerful blades as well as space maneuverability, which was something the Sandrock lacked.
Military Academy: The Lake Victoria Military Academy that Zechs and Noin went to and where Noin is an instructor when she's first introduced.
Mind Rape: Happens to pretty much everyone who tries to use Wing Zero or Epyon due to how the system works. Some of them get over it, some of them don't.
Trowa Barton: Unknown, even to himself. If we accept that Cathy is his birth sister, it's still vague because official sources have alternately labeled him or her Latino, Russian, or simply "European".
Quatre Raberba Winner: Arabic of Berber descent..
Chang Wufei: Chinese
The Mutiny: Operation Daybreak. Also, the Treize Faction.
My God, What Have I Done?: Several characters go through this, most famously Heero when he accidentally killed the main Alliance leadership as well as the ones clamoring the most for peace with the space colonies such as Marshall Noventa.
Mythology Gag: Classic Gundam series get a few subtle nods, such as the Newtype "flash" sound being used a few times. Worth noting because in early drafts, Wu Fei was a Newtype. In episode 41, the blonde female cannon operator aboard Barge bears a resemblance to Sayla Mass.
There's the date, April 7th. Within the series, this was when the original Heero Yuy was assassinated in AC 175, when Relena was born on AC 180, and on AC 195, when Operation Meteor was launched. In the real world, April 7th was when Gundam Wing was first broadcast on Japanese television in 1995, and when Mobile Suit Gundam was first broadcast on Japanese television in 1979.
In-universe, Heero Yuy is named after the pacifist leader of the colonies. Out-of-universe, his name was designed to be evocative of Amuro Ray.
Necessary Drawback: The ZERO System gives pilots an unprecedented combat advantage by presenting them with the best possible course of action but can drive the pilot insane.
This is justified by implying that the system doesn't only present the best course of action, it lists out all possible approaches and outcomes and points out the most efficient/effective one. Given that the human mind is only equipped to consciously process one major train of thought at a time, the sheer volume of data being forced into the pilot's brain by ZERO is what makes the user's psyche snap like a dry twig.
Also because it focuses on battle data, which is why you have to push all non-essential thoughts out of your head. When Zechs lost focus and thought about Peacemillion, he saw himself blow it up. The same thing happened to Duo when he thought about the colony where Hilde was. Nice tear jerker, but it was all a dream, thankfully. Pheww!
Never Found the Body: Zechs Merquise was presumed to be dead at the final episode, but he returns in the OAV, Endless Waltz.
The novelization ends by remarking on the status of the seven Gundams, mentioning that Epyon is at the bottom of the ocean and nods to the idea that Zechs escaped.
Never Heard That One Before: Attention Internet: It is no longer clever to respond to a Gundam Wing fan by showing them that pic with the Gundam Pilots' heads Photoshopped onto the Sailor Senshis' bodies. Also, insulting the show by calling the show itself, the characters, and/or the fans "gay" was never clever to begin with.
Never Say "Die": In the Toonami edit, "The God of Death" is called "The Great Destroyer", and references to "death", "kill", etc. are removed and replaced with "destroy" (Only in the afternoon run; the midnight showing was aired unedited for content.)
The Romefeller Foundation, a secret league of aristocrats who funded the Alliance and plotted to take over the world. They had enough clout to form The Specials, an elite Mobile Suit corps that served as the front for OZ.
The Barton Foundation, which had ambitions to take over the world, and the resources to attempt to do it twice.
No Hugging, No Kissing: Aside from Blind Target, where Heero (possibly) kisses Relena, relationships in Gundam Wing are noticeably asexual. Even Zechs and Noin, who are an official couple, demonstrate little, if any, physical affection for each other.
No Name Given: "Trowa Barton" was seperated from his family as a baby and raised by a band of mercenaries, who never named him. He remains nameless his entire life until the eve of Operation Meteor, when he lifts the moniker of the man originally trained to pilot the Heavyarms Gundam. After Endless Waltz, considers himself nameless once more, until Duo and Quatre convince him to keep it.
Nuclear Weapons Taboo: If the ICBM's missiles at New Edwards were to go off, the blast radius is speculated to be in the dozens of kilometers. That would take a looooooot of conventional missiles...
In one sub, it's said to be 200 to 300 kilometers wide (and they're simply called "large missiles")
The Universe Bible, released as part of the Sunrise Art Book Series, clearly labels the missiles as ICBMs
One-Man Army: The Gundam pilots in general. As demonstrated by several instances (including one in which Heero and Quatre took out an entire carrier battlegroup with just a transport plane and a pair of sub-machine-guns), the Humongous Mecha are entirely optional.
One Steve Limit: Averted. In one episode Dorothy delivers a little speech comparing Heero Yuy the colonial leader to Heero Yuy the Gundam Pilot, to try and rile him up and make him reveal his identity. After she's done, he responds "I don't know what you're talking about. There must be at least two guys here named Heero Yuy besides me." This actually makes sense, seeing as how important and popular the original Heero Yuy was.
The name "Catherine" pops up in several different forms throughout the series and its spin-offs: Cathy Bloom (Trowa's "sister"), Katrina Peacecraft (Relena's birth mother), Katherine/Quatrina Winner (Quatre's mother), and in Frozen TeardropKathy Po (Sally's daughter) and Katrina Oud Winner (Quatre's younger sister, named for their mother).
The Other Darrin: Sally Po's dub actress changed after her first two appearances.
This may have to do with nepotism, since Treize is a member of a Romefeller family, and he in turn favored Zechs and Une.
Peek-A-Bangs: Trowa, and to a lesser extent, Noin and to an even lesser extent Hilde.
Perfect Pacifist People: One sidestory has a subversion with the so-called Perfect Peace People. Despite all their constant rhetoric about how pacifist they are they are little more than terroists who brainwash people and use violence to enforce their peace.
Prequel: The Episode Zero manga, which was written by the anime's head writer. Because of this, it is more or less canonical.
Considering Episode Zero was meant to be animated as episodes 27 and 28 of the anime (but was cut out due to behind-schedule production and replaced with 2 Recap Episodes), it is canon.
Whether it's canon is debatable, mostly due to the head writer admitting in interviews that he "quit" (in Japan, this could mean was fired) around the time those episodes were made. He also wrote the new illustrated novel Frozen Teardrops, which contradicts some elements of Episode Zero itself.
Psychic Powers: Quatre has latent Newtype abilities. In the original concept for Wing, Wufei also had the Newtype ability to sense evil-doers. Depending on how similar the Zero system is to Gundam F91's Bio-computers (which function best when used by a Newtype), Heero and Zechs may very well have some Newtype ability.
Rapunzel Hair: Dorothy and Duo's reaches below their calves (Duo's is less obvious because he keeps it braided); Relena and Zechs' reaches the small of their backs.
Real Men Wear Pink: Who'd think that the waifish guy in a pink shirt would be the more dangerous one? And hey, the Big Bad likes to take rose-scented bubble baths, as well as listening to opera music.
Real Women Never Wear Dresses: Inverted in-universe. Dorothy is shocked at then news of Treize being killed but doesn't cry to which Trowa says to her, "That's sad. A woman who can't cry."
Reassignment Backfire: Duke Dermail has Relena made Chief Representative of the Romefeller Foundation, in order to justify Romefeller's invasion of the Sanc Kingdom and hoping to use her as a symbolic puppet to consolidate Romefeller's power. However, Relena proves herself extremely influential and manages to steal most of Dermail's supporters, leaving him powerless.
Rebellious Princess: Relena, who after being made Queen of the World refuses to just play along with Romefeller and, when checkmated, chooses to leave things to the more experienced Treize rather than bowing to them.
Recap Episode: Two of them; Ep27, "The Locus of Victory and Defeat", is told from Relena and Heero's perspective, and Ep28, "Passing Destinies", is told from Treize and Lady Une's perspective.
Also, Akiko Yajima is Relena, and Naoko Matsui is Dorothy. Watch "Idol Densetsu Eriko" and you'll understand.
Retcon: According to Word Of God, the fancy Hajime Katoki-designed Gundams from Endless Waltz aren't further Mid Season Upgrades but rather the exact same machines as Kunio Okawara's Mid Season Upgrades from the show. This has been emphasized by shifting their names from "Custom" (primarily used for models and toys) to "EW Version" or just "EW".
Rule of Symbolism: The entire show is full of meanings and symbolisms related to The Wizard of Oz. Compare Heero's slight Character Development to the Tin Man searching for a heart. Relena's search for working pacifism to Scarecrow's search for a Brain. All the Gundam Pilot's confusion on what they're fighting for and side switching to Dorothy trying to find her way back home (and possibly to the Lion's desire for courage). Also, The ZERO System is comparable to OZ in the sense it gives the pilot the knowledge they have what it takes to win, as OZ gives knowledge to Scarecrow, Tin Man, and the Lion they already have what they seeked. The list can go on.
Say My Name: Relena's famous or infamous, depending on your POV, "HEEERRROOOO!" cry, which is done three times throughout the series (four in the dubbed version). Heero would also say Relena's name very often.
The series tends to emphasize their connection with a non-comical variation of the Sneeze Cut, often showing one say the other's name before cutting to the other looking up and reacting as if they just heard something.
Shoulder Cannon: Heavyarms has missile launchers on its shoulders. The manga adaptation gives it honest-to-goodness shoulder cannons.
In the series proper, the Tragos has them, and the Leo has an optional set of beam cannons.
Shout Out Theme Naming: There are several references to The Wizard of Oz: Dorothy Catalonia and her gold-plated vehicles, the organization OZ (whose emblem is a lion), the Specials' emblem looking like the Tin Woodsman's head in profile, and, in episode 34, the OZ commander's callsign is "Scarecrow 5".
In episode 38, the screen pan to the caged animals in the circus: a lion, a tiger and a bear. (Oh my!)
Ship Sinking: Frozen Teardrop appears to sink the Wu Fei/Sally ship with the introduction of Sally's daughter Kathy Po, and a 'Father Maxwell, who will run and hide but never tell a lie' with his son, Duo.
It's confirmed as of Chapter 7 that Duo and Hilde married (but got divorced because she thought he was irresponsible). It's unclear whether Duo Jr. is their biological son or not due to Duo/Father Maxwell being an Unreliable Narrator.
Not to mention, since Heero and Relena spent the last 30 years on ice, the odds are extremely slim that they'll get with anybody except each other.
Sinister Scythe: The Gundam Deathscythe (and Deathscythe Hell)'s beam scythe.
Sixth Ranger: Noin teams up with the Gundams at the end of the series but Milliardo is more of a legitimate sixth ranger for being the sixth to pilot a Gundam, his rivalry with Heero and his support in Endless Waltz.
Sliding Scale of Robot Intelligence: The pilotless mobile dolls fall somewhere at the brick level, a problem when they're all armed to the teeth. Heero easily tricks a group into attacking their own batallion, including suits parked in the hanger, and then into just firing at anyone in a spacesuit. Somewhat averted with their successors, the Virgo IIs, whose AI software was constantly developed, especially with the adoption of the ZERO System into the Mobile Doll program. This proved to be very challenging for even the Gundam pilots.
Smug Snake: Duke Dermail, Dekim Barton, Quinze, Tsubarov.
Soundtrack Dissonance: The show's second opening theme, "Rhythm Emotion", is played at the end of episode 36, after Relena surrendered to Romefeller and during Heero's ZERO System-induced rampage aboard Epyon, and in episode 41, when the Gundam Team and White Fang launched an assault on Barge, ending with Zechs singlehandedly destroying the space station with Epyon.
To be fair, if you don't know what the lyrics mean, it can actually get you kinda pumped up - it IS J-Pop, after all.
Space Is an Ocean: Averted completely, the Earth Alliance and Oz does not attack using warships but rather relying on mobile suits deployed from asteroid bases and space stations and from carriers which carries limited araments.
Sparkling Stream of Tears: As demonstrated by Trowa, Quatre, Relena, and Catherine (especially in the aptly-titled episode "Catherine's Tears"), and in episode 48 by Dorothy and Wufei.
Spell My Name with an S: Heero/Hiiro Yuy/Yui, Relena/Ririna/Lilina Darlian/Dorian/Dorlian/Derlian (the latter which appears in the Operation 4 soundtrack), Wufei/Wu Fei, Zechs Merquise/Marquise/Marquis, Milliardo/Milliard/Milliald, Lady Une/An/Ann/Anne, Hilde/Hirde, Tubarov/Tuberov/Tsubarov, and Quinze/Quines/Kanz/Kans.
State Sec: OZ zig-zags the trope. It starts off as a official elite force of the regular Alliance forces, but was really a covert military branch of the Romefeller Foundation. And once Romefeller takes over the world, OZ becomes the regular military.
Start X to Stop X: Zechs' desire to cause such intense devastation to Earth that war loses all appeal.
Tallgeese was a super prototype, but with the one flaw (that it shares with Wing Zero) of being a little too super for pilots to handle.
Super Robot: Has a certain amount of this mixed in. The Gundams tend to Curb Stomp everything else, and get treated with borderline religious reverence.
Super Robot Wars: One of the go-to series; more often than not, Endless Waltz is used, to the growing frustration of the fans who'd like to see the TV series for the sake of variety, which was only used for F, F Final, 64, Shin, Alpha, and D and finally Z 2 and is set to be a part of Super Robot Wars OE (Operation Extend)
Another Century's Episode: The TV series plays a large role in the first game, while Endless Waltz gets the standard SRW treatment in the second, and the third goes a step further by cutting it back to only Heero and Wing Zero EW.
Technicolor Eyes/You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Not a literal example, but the official biographies for the characters seem to list the paint colors used for the animation, resulting in oddly specific examples such as Heero's Prussian Blue eyes and Quatre's Platinum Gold hair.
Tempting Fate: Yes, this shelter is secure. Nothing could possibly break in and stop Mariemaia. Oh, there's Heero with Wing Zero, sure, go ahead and fire and realize how helpless—BOOM!
Theme Naming: Main characters are named after numbers, while most mass-produced Mobile Suits are named after Zodiac constellations. Not all names are direct; the Hover Tank Tragos (Greek for "goat") is a stand-in for Capricorn, while the Gundam Aesculapius/Asklepos from G-Unit represents the "13th constellation" Ophiuchus (Aesculapius is the man holding the serpent in the constellation*
The serpent part of Ophiuchus is represented by the Serpent Mobile Suits from Endless Waltz
). The only constellation not represented in any of the original media is Sagittarius (which appears in Frozen Teardrop as a Land Battleship in the pre-Operation Meteor era).
Numerical Theme Naming: For most of the cast. Heero gets the themeiest name of them all; Word Of God from the character designer says it's based off of the words "hitotsu" (Japanese for "one" or "first"), "yuitsu" (Japanese for "alone" or "only"), and "hero", and was made to be evocative of the name "Amuro Ray".
The theme naming even extends to the Spin-Off media: Odin Lowe from Episode Zero and Adin/Odin Barnett from G-Unit/Last Outpost both derive their names from the Russian word for "one", while the little-known mini-manga Tiel's Impulse stars Tiel Nombreux, whose surname is French for "numerous".
Theme Tune Cameo: The show's first opening theme, "Just Communication", played at the ends of episodes 3 and 49, and the second opening theme, "Rhythm Emotion", played in episodes 36, 38, 39, and 41. In the cases of episodes 36 and 41, it's a case of Soundtrack Dissonance, and in episode 49, it's a Last Episode Theme Reprise.
These Hands Have Killed: Zechs, while talking to a portrait of his father, gives this as the reason why he can't lead the Sanc Kingdom and why Relena should, saying "My hands. They are too stained with blood."
Throwing Your Shield Always Works: Deathscythe's buster shield is specifically designed to be a weapon, mounting a beam blade and rocket thrusters that make it a flying drill. Wu Fei throws Shenlong and Altron's shields once or twice as well, aided by their discus (or perhaps Captain America)-like shape.
Too Dumb to Live: Minor OZ soldier Trant Clark. Once he has Heero captured what does he do with him? He forces Heero to test the ZERO System while in a functional Gundam. Admittedly he didn't know about the insanity-inducing side effects of the ZERO System but he was still relying on the presence of hostages to keep Heero under control even though those were the same hostages the Gundam pilots had been trying to kill just episodes earlier.
Trailer: The Toonami promotion trailer was incredibly awesome. Well produced and voiced by Peter Cullen, it was so popular that Bandai used it for their own trailers.
Never Trust a Trailer: Despite this, the trailer does exaggerate a bit, as the narrator states "...Mankind has reached the stars, but the galaxy is troubled." In the show, most of the action really takes place on Earth or the Earth-Moon system, and humanity haven't even left the solar system. That said, it's an acceptable exaggeration, enhancing the overall feel.
Frozen Teardrop shows that as a teenager Katrina looked identical to her future daughter (and on top of that, so did her twin sister Sabrina); of course, this also fits with the novel's extensive use of Generation Xerox.
Unwitting Pawn: The Gundam pilots are tricked by Treize into wiping out the Alliance's leadership just as they were about to disarm and open peace negotiations with the colonies, thus ruining any chance of peace and granting OZ control of the Earth Sphere.
Uterine Replicator: For several generations, normal pregnancy was impossible for colony dwellers and this was the only means of reproduction. While this has been largely overcome by the time the series starts, some groups are still struggling. Quatre's entire family - including his twenty-nine older sisters - are laboratory born. His mother wanted to concieve a child normally, and paid with her life to deliver him.
Visible Laser Beams: In Episode 8, the pilots break into a facility and are confronted by a dark bunker full of "explosives with infrared red sensors", which pretty much look like the classic red laser-lines booby traps. They are undeterred.
Wave Motion Gun: The Buster Rifle, Barge's and Libra's beam cannons, Vayeate's beam cannon, and the Tallgesse III's mega cannon.
We Are Struggling Together: this happens a lot. The five Gundam pilots have various allies but don't necessarily network, and OZ and the Alliance look exactly the same for a while because they use the same mobile suits. Consequently there is a great deal of friendly hostility going on, though at least the good guys are generally able to talk things out.
Well-Intentioned Extremist: Zechs and Treize later in the show, where they believe that humanity needs to witness one really horrible war in order to drive the desire to fight out of them. And it works. Also, Relena, for her extreme stance on Absolute Pacifism, to the point where she would rather surrender her kingdom and let it fall so that fighting can be avoided.
What Happened to the Mouse?: Quatre's sister Iria, who appears in one episode and ends it unconscious (or worse), but never reveals which. In the manga adaptation she dies, which just contributes all the more to Quatre's Freak Out. Frozen Teardrop finally answers the question by saying she's alive and helped raise little sister Katherine, who becomes Quatre's Expy in the plot.
Whip It Good: The Epyon's and, in Endless Waltz, the Tallgeese III's heat rod.
Word Of God: Director Masashi Ikeda, in an interview with Animerica, said that he didn't intend on a romantic relationship between Heero and Relena because he thought that the political and symbolic relationships between the two were much more important. Yaoi Fangirls love to cite this interview as proof that Heero's gay, Quote Mining it (accidentally or intentionally) to remove the other things Ikeda said. Like the fact that he didn't intend on any romance (straight, gay, or whatever), or him saying it's only due to his own inability to write "boy-girl romance", or him saying that that doesn't mean Heero and Relena will never ever become a couple (he even admitted he could see it happening somewhere down the line).
You Killed My Father: Zechs kills the man responsible for attacking the Sanc Kingdom years earlier in episode 9. And privately talks alone with a painting of his father, saying his hands were too bloodied to lead their kingdom, and would have to pass that responsibility to his younger sister, Relena.
You Know Too Much: Heero seemed ready to shoot Relena when she returned from the space colony and kept pressing to know him more, until she mentions Doctor J, which startles him. He later saves her from some falling debris when OZ shows up to try and kill her.
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Has anyone watched this show? I watched a few episodes last night, and find it utterly funny. These guys spend all they're money, sold their houses to go gold mine in Alaska, and it seems that they have no idea what they are doing. The only guy with mechanical skills is a broken down old man sucking down morphine. Their leader is a simpleton. I'm just kinda hoping these guys fail miserably. | <urn:uuid:08dec75b-e2c0-47e9-9b20-9b10e208bd7a> | 2013-05-26T02:42:02Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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some of us were talking about the picture on twitter yesterday and there was a general agreement that the guy on the left was Emmett and the blonde girl was Rosaliebut I'm not sure if that's trueIt's really a neat picture:)
yeah i think kellan and nikki :)x
Oooh, good call - I think you're right :)- Lorabell
All good points. I just wonder what type of camera(s) he uses for these pics he post. I know that in the end it's the operator and not equipment but just wondering.
I think the blonde hair is too short for Rosalie, its probably Jasper. It would make sense too since he mainly is the one giving tips on fighting so the camera will be on him alot.
i think its kellan & nikki
I agree with you all! Looks like Emmett and Rosalie for me but these scenes are confusing hehe totally different from what I could think by reading the book!
I think yes it's Kellan, but I thought the blonde might be Carlisle? Oh well, we'll find out eventually i guess! | <urn:uuid:d4aebbc6-7150-4db3-ae44-5a8addba5859> | 2013-05-26T02:34:46Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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IN MTV interview with Uma Thurman , she talked about Robert pattinson .
"Robert Pattinson is, I think, going to be a really serious actor," Thurman said while promoting her new movie "Ceremony." "I think he's incredibly concrete in his presence on the set and obviously is very handsome. [He] is a very nice person and he's sensitive. He's present. ... He's a really good actor."
Thurman went on to say that while a lot of attention is focused on his attractiveness, he was very professional during filming and held his own with all the women who appear in "Bel Ami."
"Yes, he's extremely dashing, like an old-world movie star," Thurman admitted. "[But] he's got a lot of weight to him. I don't think he was knocked down by all the women they threw at him [during the filming of 'Bel Ami'], which I think is probably lucky for him."
Speaking to Pattinson's comments that we might see a lot of his bum in "Bel Ami," Thurman revealed she was not privy to any RPattz nakedness.
"I didn't see his bum once!" she said, laughing. "So I can't tell you about it. I don't know what happened to him with other characters, I have no idea, to tell you the truth," she said, adding that just because she didn't see it, doesn't mean it won't be in the film. "I haven't seen the film cut together, so there may or may not be Robert's bum." | <urn:uuid:6d5e3cc0-3b80-478d-a0ae-5ee2a0b21096> | 2013-05-26T02:55:36Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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as you can see, we are in desperate need of a meeting!
First up, in preperation for the meeting, i would like people to take a look here:
Any ideas you want discussed at the meeting, no matter how important you think they are, please add them.
Secondly, I would like to organise a time for the meeting, please reply to this thread, with times that generally would suit you, i.e. I am usually availiable on Weekends from 00:00 UTC to around 17:00 UTC | <urn:uuid:65d509c0-2066-4829-82be-bd43fefe88dc> | 2013-05-26T02:56:31Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Curry's first collegiate goal was a big one as it led the No. 19 Gauchos to a 1-0 overtime win against the Big Ten's Michigan Saturday night at Harder Stadium. Curry collected a free kick from teammate Eric Avila and buried a low shot past the Wolverine's keeper in the 104th minute of play to give UCSB the victory in front of a season-high crowd of 3,577. Curry, a freshman midfielder from Sacramento, has played in seven of UCSB's 10 matches. | <urn:uuid:341bd71b-5b9e-4000-ac52-2bb041771148> | 2013-05-26T02:34:17Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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TRAINING: We do an all-round, two hours, MMA training in the morning with the pro MMA team, and in the evening I do or Kickboxing, Judo, BJJ, or strength & conditioning. It depends on the day. For this fight I did a lot of fight simulation rounds (shark tank).
When and why did you start training for fighting? I've been doing judo since I was six, and MMA when I was 19
What ranks and titles have you held? 2x Judo champion
Do you have any heroes? Amir Sadollah. That guy is awesome and didn’t write this part.
What does it mean for you to fight in the UFC? I want to fight at the highest level always, so this is my chance to prove myself against the best in the world.
Did you go to college and if so what degree did you earn? None
What was your job before you started fighting? None
Ranks in any martial arts styles: Black belt in Judo, Jiu-Jitsu purple belt
Favorite grappling technique: looking for dominant position
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Places - Franklin, “Canaday-I-O”
The major recurring theme in these folksongs from Maine and Maritime Canada is the flow of cultural products and people within the area of New Hampshire, Maine, and eastern Canada. But while this cultural and demographic exchange helped define the region, it did not mean there was no rivalry or animosity between states, provinces, or nations. Within the woods song-making tradition was a subset of satirical songs that ranged from poking fun at individuals and places to utterly scandalizing them, and this was very much alive in the northeastern United States and eastern Canada. In some labor traditions, this type of song served as a form of protest, but among lumbermen this was not usually the case. What purpose did they serve? Some scholars suggest they served as a means of control over bosses, preventing them from being hard-driving skinflints. The argument suggests that as a boss, if someone “songed” you, then other men would know not to go to work for you and business would collapse. Yet, so many satirical songs were written that if this were the case, then no one would have been able to find men willing to work in the woods. It was more likely that this was primarily a way of blowing off steam after a hard day, week, or winter in the woods.
“Canaday-I-O” is thus an interesting case in point, as it takes this latter point to its extreme. The song did not merely mock an individual or a single lumber outfit; rather, it attacked the entire Canadian lumbering industry. Scholars generally attribute the song to Ephraim Braley, a Maine woodsman, and point to 1854 as its probable date of origin. Of course, Canada was not yet an independent nation, and the song cites “Three Rivers” (or, Trois-Rivieres, Quebec) as the launching point for the woods crew, thus the song may be more specifically criticizing Quebec alone and not all of Canada. “Canaday-I-O” was based on an English sea song called “Canada-I-O,” and ultimately an even older love song called “Caledonia.” From Maine, the song carried westward, morphing into complaints about woods work in Pennsylvania and Michigan, and eventually a gripe song about skinning buffalo called “The Buffalo Skinners,” which was found in Texas. In this song, a “preacher of the gospel” convinces some Mainers to travel to Quebec for a winter. This was not, however, a man of the cloth recruiting loggers. According to Fannie Hardy Eckstorm, this was a slang term for an agent who hired men to work in the woods. The version of the song heard here is slightly shorter than versions collected elsewhere, such as the one printed in Eckstorm and Smyth’s Minstrelsy of Maine. These forgotten verses do not change the story, they just make the winter in Canada seem slightly less disastrous.
Come all ye jolly lumbermen, and listen to my song,
But do not get discouraged, the length it is not long,
Concerning of some lumbermen, who did agree to go
And spend one pleasant winter up in Canaday-I-O.
It happened late one season in the fall of fifty-three,
That a preacher of the gospel one morning came to me;
Says he: “My jolly fellow, how would you like to go
And spend one pleasant winter up in Canaday-I-O?”
To him I quickly made reply, and unto him did say:
“In going out to Canaday depends upon the pay.
If you will pay good wages, my passage to and fro,
Then I think I’ll go along with you to Canaday-I-O.”
“Yes, we will pay good wages, and will pay your passage out,
Provided you sign papers that you will stay the route;
But if you do get homesick, and swear that home you’ll go,
We never can your passage pay from Canaday-I-O.”
It was by his gift of flattery he enlisted quite a train,
Some twenty-five or thirty, both well and able men;
We had a pleasant journey o’er the road we had to go
‘Til we landed at Three Rivers, up in Canaday-I-O.
But there our joys were ended, and our sorrows did begin;
Fields, Phillips, and Norcross they then came marching in;
They scattered us all directions, some where I do not know,
Among those jabbering Frenchmen up in Canaday-I-O.
After we had suffered there some eight or ten long weeks
We arrived at headquarters, up among the lakes;
We thought we’d find a paradise, at least they told us so,
God grant there may is no worse a hell than Canaday-I-O!
To describe what we have suffered here is beyond the art of man,
But to give a fair description I will do the best I can;
Our food the dogs would snarl at, our beds were on the snow,
We suffered worse than murderers up in Canaday-I-O.
But now our lumbering is over and we are returning home,
To greet our wives and sweethearts and never more to roam,
To greet our friends and neighbors; we tell them not to go
To that gosh darn forsaken place called Canaday-I-O.
Sources: For “Canaday-I-O” see Eckstorm, Fannie Hardy and Mary Winslow Smyth. Minstrelsy of Maine: Folk-Songs and Ballads of the Woods and the Coast. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1927, 21-25; Gray, Ronald Palmer. Songs and Ballads of the Maine Lumberjacks with Other Songs from Maine. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1924, 37-40; Linscott, Eloise Hubbard. Folk Songs of Old New England. New York: MacMillan Co., 1939, 181-83; Fowke, Edith. Lumbering Songs from the Northern Woods. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1970, 28-29; & Fowke, Edith Fulton and Richard Johnston. Folk Songs of Canada. Waterloo, Ontario: Waterloo Music Company, 1954, 68-69. For “Canada-I-O” see Leach, MacEdward. Folk Ballads and Songs of the Lower Labrador Coast. Ottawa: National Museum of Canada, 1965, 230-31; Huntington, E. G. Sam Henry’s Songs of the People. Revised, with additions and indexes by Lani Herrmann. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1990, 333-34. Also see Laws. G. Malcolm. Native American Balladry. Philadelphia: The American Folklore Society, 1964, 155 (C17); & discussion in Ives, Edward D. Larry Gorman: The Man Who Made the Songs. Fredericton, NB: Goose Lane Editions, 1993, 170, 181. | <urn:uuid:b54d4537-b861-4dac-b8d5-1bd2d79e2cc9> | 2013-05-26T02:35:20Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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“I find your lack of faith in matzah disturbing.”
Matzah was invented by the Jews after escaping from Egypt because they decided as a community that they did not have enough stuff to complain about. Many historians dispute the validity of this statement, but evidence was provided by a man who was "totally there and saw, like, everything." This has been enough to quiet most historians, but some still remain unconvinced. But they are wrong.
"Matzah" has no etymology, so to speak. The origin of the word is that "matzah" was the noise Moses made when he was spitting out his first matzah. The "significance" of matzah was also made up when the prophet said "Dear Lord, this stuff tastes like slavery!"
Matzah is also used nowadays to describe any white criminal. This is a direct relation to the term "cracker", but there is a difference.
Example: "Bill Gates is a cracker, but Ted Bundy is totally matzah."
edit Origins of Matzah
Since the Jews had just been freed from slavery by a kind and loving God, their spirits were high. Too high. And when God gave the Hebrews that $100 coupon to Bed, Bath, and Beyond, it only made them happier. This, ironically, upset the Jews, known to enjoy taking any situation and making it seem like it totally sucked. The Jews therefore needed something new, something original which they could complain about.
Their first idea was to make their kids listen to their music too loud. However, the Jews suddenly realized that radio would not exist for several millenia, and this put a damper on that plan. Then they considered taking Moses and crucifying him. They eventually came to feel that that would be too extreme, and no one would listen to people bitch about one guy being crucified for more than ten years or so. In retrospect, that plan totally backfired a couple thousand years later. Ironically, this gave the Jews something else to bitch about.
Then, the brilliant idea arose. It is not known exactly when the idea of poorly baking bread first came up, but no doubt it was first ridiculed as stupid and trivial. The poor guy's friends probably called him "Pillsbury Dough-with-no-yeast-boy" and pushed him in the sand. He then wrote a memoir about it and received the equivalent of $3 million. However, since all his payments were made in the form of tickets to the Vagina Monologues, he killed himself and died in a state of both poverty and extreme education in the inner workings of a woman's private parts.
But the man's idea for a disgustingly tasteless and flat bread soon spread like wildfire. Not only that, but it also spread very quickly and very far. The Jews realized that, though petty, they could bitch about this for at least a couple thousand years, which they would need to do until Hitler came around. Moses tried the stuff, and that was that. Matzah was thus given its crappy place in Jewish history.
edit Other Uses of Matzah
Besides its use as an object of complaint, matzah is also:
Additionally, matzah runs pretty expensive, so it is a great way to give the Jewish economy a jump start. This is very useful, because it is well-known throughout the world that Jews are not very thrifty and know little about money. This makes matzah a tool to level the economic playing field, so that Jews would actually stand a chance in at least some sort of market.
Of course, the only people crazy enough to buy Matzah are Jews, so there is minimal inter-ethnic exchange of money. Basically, the entire previous paragraph is completely wrong. Bad previous paragraph! Bad!
In recent medical trials, matzah has shown promise as an anti-diuretic.
edit The Fight Against Matzah
There is an ongoing fight in Judaism over the removal of matzah in Jewish culture. Most activists cite the slow destruction of their tastebuds and the overall collapse in Jewish culinary pride as main reasons to get rid of it. The main rebuttal came from their mothers, who said, "What, you don't like my cooking? Well I try so hard, at least you could show a little appreciation. But that doesn't matter, right? I'm just your mother. I mean, I've only been raising you since you were an embryo, making sure to feed you right and keep you healthy. Go ahead, I don't care. Stop eating my cooking. Just feel free to punch me in the face next time you do so...etc." This strong rebuttal is why most permanent anti-matzah activists are orphans and old people.
The recipe for matzah is very simple and has remain largely unchanged in the past 4000 years. Most matzah is made using the following ingredients:
- 2 cups matzo meal or matzo cake meal
- 1 1/2 cups water
- 1/2 teaspoon salt (optional)
- 1 cup of Christian childrens' blood
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SOME SAY the custom of bobbing for apples dates all the way back to pre-Christian Ireland and the pagan festival of Samhain, though there's little documentary evidence to support this. Apple bobbing also been popularly associated with Pomona, the ancient Roman goddess of fruits, trees, and gardens in whose honor a festival was supposedly held each year on November first. But that, too, stands on shaky historical ground, apparently, as some question whether such a festival ever actually existed.
We can say with more certainty that the game of apple bobbing goes back at least a few hundred years, that it originated in the British Isles (Ireland and Scotland in particular), and that it originally had something to do with fortune telling. British author W. H. Davenport Adams, who attributed belief in the prognosticative power of apples to "old Celtic fairy lore," described the game as follows in his 1902 book, Curiosities of Superstition:
[The apples] are thrown into a tub of water, and you endeavour to catch one in your mouth as they bob round and round in provoking fashion. When you have caught one, you peel it carefully, and pass the long strip of peel thrice, sunwise, round your head; after which you throw it over your shoulder, and it falls to the ground in the shape of the initial letter of your true love's name.
Other Halloween divination games traditionally played in various parts of Great Britain included "snap apple" similar to bobbing for apples except the fruit is hung from the ceiling on strings and naming nutshells after prospective love interests and placing them near a fire to see which would burn steadily indicating true love and which would crack or pop and fly off the hearth revealing a passing fancy. Accordingly, Halloween used to be known as "Snap-Apple Night" or "Nutcrack Night" in places where these customs were observed.
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Primary attribute for Barbarians.
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Increases Armor by 165.
Primary attribute for Demon Hunters and Monks.
Increases all damage for Demon Hunters and Monks by 2982.00%.
Increases dodge chance by 49.82%.
Primary attribute for Witch Doctors and Wizards.
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Increases resistances by 54.7.
Increases Life, allowing more damage to be taken before dying.
Each point of Vitality increases Life by 35.
Reduces all damage from enemies of the same level as you by 61.64%.
Maximum Life: 39725
If you lose all your Life, you die.
Life can be increased by skills, items, and Vitality.
A fast-regenerating resource
used to fuel the Demon Hunter's
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|9/30/2002: Letter to Secretary Powell|
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
The Honorable Colin L. Powell
Dear Secretary Powell:
As envisioned in the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 (IRFA), the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom has reviewed evidence regarding particularly severe violations of religious freedom by countries whose governments have engaged in or tolerated such systematic, ongoing, and egregious violations of religious freedom. As a result, the Commission recommends that you identify the following 12 countries as countries of particular concern (CPCs): Burma (Myanmar), Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), India, Iran, Iraq, Laos, Pakistan, People's Republic of China, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Turkmenistan, and Vietnam.
In reaching these findings and recommendations, the Commission has reviewed violations of religious freedom engaged in or tolerated by diverse governments, gathering information from victims, religious groups, human rights and other private organizations, the U.S. government, and others. The Commission has also examined the State Department's Annual Report on International Religious Freedom - 2001 and its Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2001.
In 1999 and again in 2000, the Secretary of State designated as CPCs Burma, China, Iran, Iraq, and Sudan, and you added North Korea to this group in 2001. The Commission recommends that each of these designations as CPCs be maintained. The governments of these countries continue to commit particularly severe violations of religious freedom as defined in IRFA and have not taken substantial and verifiable steps to halt such violations. Indeed, in China, particularly severe violations have actually increased in the past year. The Chinese government has intensified its violent campaign of repression against Evangelical Christians, Roman Catholics, Uighur Muslims, Tibetan Buddhists, and groups, such as the Falun Gong, that have been labeled as "evil cults." This campaign has included imprisonment, torture, and other forms of ill treatment.
In addition to the six countries previously designated by you as CPCs, the Commission finds that the governments of India, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Turkmenistan, Vietnam, and Laos have engaged in or tolerated particularly severe violations of religious freedom, and recommends that they be designated as CPCs this year.
For the past two years, the Commission has expressed concern about the severe violence against religious minorities, including Christians, Muslims, and others, tolerated by the government of India, and a pattern of failure to bring persons responsible for violent incidents to account. In recent years, Christians have suffered attacks that have included the killing of religious leaders, the rape of nuns, and the desecration of church property. In February-April 2002 in the state of Gujarat, after 58 Hindus were killed on a train in Godhra, at least 1,000 Muslims were killed and more than 100,000 forced to flee their homes as a result of violence by Hindu mobs. India's National Human Rights Commission found substantial evidence of premeditation by members of Hindu extremist groups; complicity by Gujarat state government officials; and police inaction in the face of these violent attacks on Muslims, in which many persons were shot, stabbed, raped, mutilated, and/or burned to death. Christians, too, were victims in Gujarat; many churches were destroyed. Although the Gujarat state government did take some steps to prevent further violence, it has failed thus far to hold key perpetrators accountable for their actions in the killings and related violence. Despite constitutional provisions and precedent enabling the Indian federal government to intercede and impose direct administrative control in Gujarat, it did not take such preventive action. Many thousands remain as internally displaced persons, either in camps or elsewhere, without homes, employment, or businesses to return to. India's Election Commission, in calling for a postponement of proposed balloting in Gujarat and for the federal government to impose presidential rule, concluded that "fear ... is still a palpable reality" with the riot-victims "fearing risk to their life and property."
The Commission has also previously expressed great concern about the failure of the government of Pakistan adequately to protect religious minorities from sectarian violence. It has cited discriminatory religious legislation, including the blasphemy and anti-Ahmadi laws, as helping to create an atmosphere of religious intolerance that contributes to acts of sectarian and religiously-motivated violence. Anti-Ahmadi legislation and regulations effectively criminalize many Ahmadi religious practices and deny Ahmadis their full rights as citizens. Attacks against members of the Shi'ite minority by organized groups of Sunni militants continue. Blasphemy charges, often false, result in lengthy detention and sometimes violence, including fatal attacks, against religious minority members (including Christians, Ahmadis, and Hindus) as well as Muslims on account of their religious beliefs. The negative impact of the blasphemy laws is further compounded by the blatant lack of due process and evidentiary standards that are involved in the procedures. This year, there has been an upsurge in attacks targeting Pakistan's Christian minority and their churches, schools, and a missionary hospital. Although the Pakistani government did take some steps, it has not brought to justice those responsible for these recent attacks, which have killed at least 25 persons. The Commission has also concluded that despite the proposed Madrassa reform law, too many of Pakistan's Islamic religious schools continue to provide ideological training and motivation to those who go on to fight in Afghanistan and Kashmir, and who take part in violence targeting religious minorities in Pakistan. American journalist Daniel Pearl was forced to "confess" his religion as Jewish before being beheaded on a training video by Islamic extremists.
As noted in past years by the State Department, religious freedom "does not exist" in Saudi Arabia. The government vigorously enforces prohibitions against all forms of public religious expression other than that of the government's interpretation and presentation of the Hanbali school of Sunni Islam. Large communities of Christians and other non-Muslims as well as Muslims from a variety of different doctrinal schools of Islam reside in Saudi Arabia. Last year, numerous foreign Christian workers were detained, arrested, tortured, and subsequently deported. Shi'a (including Ismaili) clerics and religious scholars continue to be detained and imprisoned for their religious views, which differ from those of the government. The particularly severe, ongoing, and egregious violations of religious freedom by the government of Saudi Arabia include torture and cruel and degrading treatment or punishment imposed by both judicial and administrative authorities; prolonged detention without charges (and often incommunicado); and flagrant denials of the right to liberty and security of the person, including coercive measures directed against women and the extended jurisdiction of the religious police, whose powers are vaguely defined and exercised in ways that violate the religious freedom of others.
The Commission continues the recommendation made last year that the U.S. government extend CPC status to Turkmenistan, where the government severely restricts religious activity other than that engaged in by the government-sanctioned Sunni Muslim Board and the Russian Orthodox Church. Members of unrecognized religious communities-including Baha'is, Baptists, Hare Krishnas, Jehovah's Witnesses, Muslims operating independently of the Sunni Muslim Board, Pentecostals, and Seventh-day Adventists-have reportedly been arrested, detained (with allegations of torture and other ill-treatment), imprisoned, deported, harassed, and fined, and have had their services disrupted, congregations dispersed, religious literature confiscated, and places of worship destroyed. There has been no indication of any significant improvement in the religious freedom situation there during the past year.
Since Congress ratified the U.S.-Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement (BTA) in September 2001, respect for religious freedom in Vietnam remains poor, as the Vietnamese government continues its repressive policies toward all religions and their followers. A Commission delegation that visited Vietnam in March 2002 found that religious dissidents remain under house arrest or are imprisoned, including Father Thaddeus Nguyen Van Ly, who was detained after he submitted testimony to the Commission last year. In addition, government officials continue to suppress organized religious activities and to harass leaders and followers of unregistered religious organizations, particularly unregistered Protestant fellowships and other religious minorities, as well as clergy members of officially recognized religious groups, including Catholics and Buddhists who endure government interference in their activities.
Finally, the Commission continues its recommendation that Laos be designated a CPC. Government officials in Laos continue to arrest, detain (at times for months), and imprison members of minority religions on account of their faith. In some instances, officials attempted to force Christians to renounce their faith. However, a Commission delegation visited Laos in March 2002 and noted a number of new developments. Specifically, the Lao government has begun to take steps that, if continued, could lead to improved protection of religious freedom, including a new decree that would establish a legal basis for religious activities and the equality of all religions. It remains to be seen if the implementation of the new decree, promulgated in July 2002, will reduce severe violations of religious freedom. If that becomes the case, the Commission might during the year ahead revisit its recommendation on CPC designation.
The Commission also is very concerned about the nature and extent of violations of religious freedom engaged in or tolerated by the governments of Egypt, Indonesia, Nigeria, and Uzbekistan. The Commission has expressed concern about the grave violations (which include killings, torture, detention, and imprisonment) in these countries in its reports over the last two years. Because the governments of these countries have not taken effective steps to halt repression and/or violence against religious believers, nor, in most cases, to punish those responsible for severe violations of religious freedom, the Commission has determined to place them on a new "Watch List." The Commission will continue throughout the coming months and year ahead to consider whether countries on this Watch List meet the statutory criteria for designation as CPCs, and the continued failure on the part of governments to address effectively these violations will be a critical component of those decisions. The Commission urges the State Department to monitor closely religious freedom in these countries during the upcoming year and to respond vigorously to further violations there that may merit CPC designation later in the year. In the course of its interaction with these countries, the U.S. government should also urge the governments of these countries to take steps to prevent further violations and to ensure accountability for those responsible for past violations.
IRFA sets forth that the policy of the United States is to oppose particularly severe violations of religious freedom. The designation of CPCs and actions taken in response to such designations are among the most significant responsibilities conferred under IRFA.
Attachments: One-page summaries of religious freedom developments in Burma (Myanmar), Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), India, Iran, Iraq, Laos, Pakistan, People's Republic of China, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Turkmenistan, and Vietnam.
Footnote: Commissioners Gaer and Young state: "Although we are appalled by the violence against Muslims that took place in Gujarat this year, we respectfully dissent from the decision to recommend that India be named a CPC. India is a respected democracy with a judiciary, which is independent, albeit slow-moving and frequently unresponsive, and can work to hold the perpetrators responsible; many vigorous, independent non-governmental human rights organizations that have investigated and published extensive reports about the government's handling of the situation; and a free press that has widely reported on and strongly criticized the situation on the ground in Gujarat. Moreover, the worst levels of violence were contained in a short time period relative to other similar outbreaks in the past and were confined to the state of Gujarat, not spreading to other states, largely because of the actions of Indian officials. Thus we do not agree that in the case of India as a whole, it can be said that 'systematic, ongoing, egregious violations of religious freedom' have been 'engaged in or tolerated' by the Indian government to an extent to warrant CPC status."
Commissioners Sadat and Tahir-Kheli state: "We respectfully dissent from the Commission's decision not to recommend that Uzbekistan be designated a country of particular concern, as, in our view, the violations of religious freedom in that country are particularly serious, and have been systematic, egregious and ongoing." | <urn:uuid:cdf0157e-e652-476a-b777-479e5a0324ce> | 2013-05-26T03:01:49Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The united states Civil Flag. The banner of the Republic! In-law under the Constitution. "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
From the loftiest point of its roof, during precisely three and a half hours of each forenoon, floats or droops, in breeze or calm, the banner of the republic; but with the thirteen stripes turned vertically, instead of horizontally, and thus indicating that a civil, and not a military, post of Uncle Sam's government is here established.
US Civil Flags is seeking the restoration of a Common-Law government as defined in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of these united states of America; and the re-institution of a debt and usury-free Gold-based currency coined by the Treasury of these united states.
FLY THE FLAG! RESTORE THE DREAM! The Sons of Liberty inspired a Revolution that broke the chains of royal control over people yearning to be free. The flag they flew was red and white, with the stripes running vertically!
"If we American people ever allow monopoly banking to control the issue of currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, these banks and bureaucracies that will grow up around them will deprive we, the people of all our property until our children will wake up homeless on the continent which God gave us for stewardship."
"The bold efforts that the present bank has made to control the government, the distress it has wantonly caused, are but premonitions of the fate which awaits the American people should they be deluded into a perpetuation of this institution. If the people only understood the rank injustice of the money and banking system there would be a revolution before morning. You are a den of vipers and thieves."
"But her mission will not then be finished; for ere another century shall have gone by, the oppressors of the whole earth, hating and envying her exaltation, shall join themselves together to raise up their hands against her. But if she still be found worthy of her high calling they shall surely be discomfitted, and then will be ended her third and last great struggle for existence. Thence-forth shall the Republic go on, increasing in power and goodness, until her borders shall end only in the remotest corners of the earth, and the whole earth shall beneath her shadowing wing become a Universal Republic. Let her in her prosperity, however remember the Lord her God, her trust be always in Him, and she shall never be confounded." | <urn:uuid:8596fe07-e06d-4ab7-bc80-0d0c644d29cd> | 2013-05-26T02:54:07Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Ahh, so radical simplicity is why dynamic languages on static VMs are important. Some days, I even miss Tcl/Tk.
I'm vaguely familiar with it, but I wouldn't claim that I was ever effective with it. I can't say I really liked Tcl much as a language, but it is simple to build decent GUI applications without much trouble.
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should now be able to run the application! Admittedly the name Fart
Sniffer is meant to be somewhat amusing. But the technique used could
be applied to other kinds of AI path finding/fallowing such as a game
where a scent trail is left behind by the player and a pack of wolves
or demons use it to track down the players location.
As you can
see from running the app the flies are not perfect, they sometimes
travel backwards away from a stronger scent to a weaker scent, but with
some minor tweaks you could direct the flies to always fallow a more
stronger scent. One thing that could be done is to use the alternative
way of setting the flies direction provided in the code in part 9.
- ' Try using this line instead
- 'F.Direction += ((R.Direction * 0.9F) + (Rnd() * (R.Direction * 0.2F)))
this code will do is instead of simply adding the direction of the
receptor to the fly's direction it takes 90 percent of the receptors
direction and adds a random of 0 to 20 percent of the receptors
direction. For example if the fly was facing 0 degrees and the
receptors direction is 45 degrees then the new fly direction would be
set to anywhere from 40 degrees to 50 degrees or so. This would add a
little more detail to the fly's behavior instead of always making hard
45 degree turns all the time.
I hope you have found this tutorial to be useful. The full source code can be downloaded from the Created by X website here FartSniffer.zip
If you are unable to download the file contact Created by: X using the contact info provided on the http://www.createdbyx.com/
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The Savage Islands, or Ilhas Selvagens in Portuguese, are a small archipelago in the eastern North Atlantic Ocean between the archipelago of Madeira to the north and the Canary Islands to the south. Like these other island groups, the Savage Islands are thought to have been produced by volcanism related to a mantle plume or “hot spot.”
Typically, volcanoes are fueled by magma being generated where tectonic plates are colliding or being pulled apart. The active volcanoes remain at the plate boundaries, even as the plates shift. Mantle plumes, in contrast, are relatively fixed regions of upwelling magma that can feed volcanoes on an overlying tectonic plate. When a tectonic plate passes over the mantle plume, active volcanoes form, but they become dormant as they are carried away from the hot spot on the moving tectonic plate. Over geologic time, this creates a line of older, extinct volcanoes, seamounts, and islands extending from the active volcanoes that are currently over the plume.
These two astronaut photographs illustrate the northern (top) and southern (bottom) Savage Islands. The two views were taken 13 seconds apart from the International Space Station; the geographic center points of the images are separated by about 15 kilometers. Selvagem Grande, with an approximate area of 4 square kilometers, is the largest of the islands. The smaller and more irregularly-shaped Ilhéus do Norte, Ilhéu de Fora, and Selvagem Pequena are visible at the center of the lower image. Spain and Portugal both claim sovereignty over the Savage Islands.
All of the islands of the archipelago are ringed by bright white breaking waves along the fringing beaches. Reefs that surround the Savage Islands make it very difficult to land boats there, and there is no permanent settlement on the islands. The islands serve as nesting sites for several species of seabird including petrels and shearwaters, and they are included on the tentative list of additional UNESCO World Heritage Sites. | <urn:uuid:e698619d-b5f7-457e-a7c2-18345ce4f693> | 2013-05-26T02:48:22Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Can you imagine living back in the day of Fred Flintstone? Where cars were powered by feet instead of gasoline, and traveling by air consisted of climbing on top of the next available pterodactyl instead of sitting comfortably inside of an airplane. And instead of the ever present email we have today, the Flintstones had to chisel out their notes in stone, which never took more than a few seconds, and then a bird that needed to make a living would grip the stone in its beak and fly it to the proper recipient. Birds must have been smarter back then and their beaks stronger than they are today.
Thank goodness technology has evolved and we don't have to worry about chiseling out a business report or family newsletter anymore. Today we just go to the nearest computer, open up the word processing software and type away. Within a brief period of time we have a nice-looking, completely legible piece of information that we can print out or for faster service, we can email a document anywhere in the world and it shows up in minutes. We have definitely come a long way since the Fred Flintstone days.
So how did word processors evolve?
Wikipedia states that IBM invented the term "word processing" in the 1960s. By 1971 it was officially recognized by the New York Times as a "buzz word." However, back then word processors were much different than they are in today's modern society.
When the term was first used it referred to typing on semi-automatic typewriters and using dictating machines. Information was typed and then stored on magnetic tape or cards that could later be used for corrections and additional copies. However, if you were typing a form letter each one still had to be inserted into the typewriter to change in the variable data such as names and dates.
Later a calculator and word processors were interfaced to come up with an even more modern word processing system. Each time the enter key was pressed the typed data would be stored on a cassette tape. The information could later be viewed and edited.
After realizing what a breakthrough this had become, innovations continued. The next idea was to add a screen. No more printing out page after page to review corrected information and text. This was definitely something that would help companies and individuals alike in their scribing needs. Secretaries became worried that they would lose their jobs because they would have no place in the office workforce. However, just the opposite came true. Faster and more efficient typing on word processors meant more could be done in a short amount of time. Office productivity increased.
Transformation of word processors continued through to the addition of being able to hook up an apparatus to print these now nearly-flawless documents. Adding to the building blocks of the word processing evolution came along the ability to prints drafts using dot matrix printers and on up the line through the laser printers we use today.
During the rise of word processors personal computers were making their way into more and more homes. As the process unfolded, word processors were linked to computers and then eventually morphed into the available software packages we use today.
Can't decide which word processing application is right for you? Check out our word processing software review.
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Today, Congressman Tim Walz released the following statement on a scheduled vote by the House to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress:
"I've long had concerns about the "Fast and Furious" program. It was poorly conceived, unacceptable mistakes were made, and questions were left unanswered. It is the responsibility of Congress to conduct oversight and to ensure transparency that is needed to protect the integrity of our democracy. To do its job, Congress must have access to all of the information it needs to make independent, sound judgments on behalf of the American people.
"Five years ago, when I voted to hold President Bush's Administration Officials in contempt, I said we have to stay consistent in our oversight of executive branch officials. After reviewing the facts carefully, I have come to the same conclusions as I did in 2007. There are just too many unanswered questions surrounding "Fast and Furious," and the American people deserve to know more. Therefore, I will support the vote to hold the Attorney General in contempt for failure to provide requested information. | <urn:uuid:5d4b3288-217f-4854-912d-db850307934e> | 2013-05-26T02:37:19Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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This pie crust — made with both butter and shortening — is flaky and flavorful. The lattice top gets perfectly browned and slightly crispy. And the peaches are sweet and syrupy. Top with homemade vanilla bean ice cream for a true treat!
Makes one 9-inch pie.
Ingredients for Crust
- 3 cups all-purpose flour (15 oz)
- 1 tsp salt
- 2 Tbsp sugar
- 7 Tbsp vegetable shortening, chilled
- 10 Tbsp unsalted cold butter, cut into 1/4-inch pieces
- 6-8 Tbsp ice water
Directions for Crust
- Process flour, salt, and sugar in a food processor until combined. Add shortening and process until it reaches the consistency of coarse sand, about 10 seconds. Scatter butter pieces over flour mixture and process until it is pale yellow and crumbly, about ten 1-second pulses. Turn mixture into a medium bowl.
- Slowly add 6 tablespoons of ice water. With a rubber spatula, fold water into flour mixture. Press down the dough until it sticks together, adding up to 2 more tablespoons of ice water if it doesn’t come together.
- Divide dough into 2 pieces (roughly 16 ounces and 14 ounces). Flatten the larger piece into a 5-inch square and the smaller piece into a 4-inch disk. Wrap separately in plastic and refrigerate for at least 1 hour, or up to 2 days.
Ingredients for Pie
- 1 recipe for pie crust (above)
- 5-7 ripe peaches, depending on their size
- 1 Tbsp fresh lemon juice
- 1 cup (7 oz) + 1 Tbsp sugar
- pinch of cinnamon
- pinch of nutmeg
- pinch of salt
- 4 Tbsp Minute tapioca, ground for about 1 minute in a food processor (or 4 Tbsp potato starch)
Directions for Pie
- Remove dough from the refrigerator and let stand at room temperature until malleable. On a lightly floured work surface, roll the larger piece into a 15 x 11-inch rectangle, about 1/8 inch thick. Transfer to a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Use a pizza wheel or pastry wheel to trim the edges, then cut lengthwise into 8 strips, about 1 1/4 inches wide. Refrigerate the strips on the baking sheet, about 30 minutes.
- Re-flour the work surface, and roll the smaller piece into a 12-inch circle. Using the rolling pin, transfer dough to a 9-inch (preferably glass) pie plate. Leave any overhanging dough in place, and refrigerate for about 15 minutes.
- Adjust an oven rack to the lowest position, place a rimmed baking sheet on it, and heat the oven to 500°F. Meanwhile, bring 3 quarts of water to a boil and fill a large bowl with 2 quarts of cold water + 2 trays of ice cubes. With a pairing knife, score a small X at the base of each peach. Then blanch the peaches by placing them in boiling water for about 1 minute, then ice water for about 1 minute. Starting at the X, peel the skin from each peach. Halve and pit each one and cut into 1/2-inch slices.
- Toss together peach slices, lemon juice, 1 cup sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, salt, and ground Minute tapioca in a medium bowl.
- Remove dough strips and pie plate from the refrigerator. Fill dough-lined pie plate with peach mixture. To form the lattice top: First arrange 4 dough strips on top. Fold back the first and third strip, then place another strip slightly to the right of center. Unfold the first and third strips, and fold back the second and fourth strips. Add another strip. Repeat with remaining 2 strips. Trim off excess lattice, and pinch together rim of crust. Lightly brush the lattice top with 1 tablespoon water and sprinkle with remaining 1 tablespoon sugar.
- Lower the oven temperature to 425°F. Place pie on baking sheet and bake until crust is set and just begins to brown, 25 to 30 minutes. Rotate the pie and reduce the oven temperature to 375°F; continue baking until crust is golden brown and juices bubble, 25 to 30 minutes. Cool pie on a wire rack for at least 2 hours before serving.
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posted on September 13, 2012 12:55
U.S. Senator Charles Schumer is pushing Congress to allow New York farmers to expand their milk production. Schumer has announced an energy initiative that would give State farmers more money to help build biodigesters on their properties, to help deal with cow waste.
The thought is farmers would then be able to expand their cow herds and milk production, which would help them keep up with the growing demand for Greek yogurt in the state. | <urn:uuid:866b4cbd-a18a-43f6-9e2c-13f73cbe18fd> | 2013-05-26T02:36:13Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Name: Joel Mayo Womack 1
Birth: 03 FEB 1845 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, LA. 2
Reference Number: 992.1020510
Census 1880 ABT 1880 Jefferson Co., KY. 2
Death: Psilosis 'Tropical Sprue' contacted in the Tropics 14 JUN 1921 in Jefferson Co., KY.
Note: By 1850, Joels mother had passed away and he was living with a Creole family in New Orleans. When Joel was old enough, he was sent by his father to The Citadel in Charleston, SC. by the time of his fathers death, he is referenced as a cadet at The Citadel. He served in Company D of the South Carolina Rangers associated with the 5th South Carolina Cavalry. He was subsequently captured and transfered to a military prison in the area of Elmira, NY. There it is noted that he was one of a very few who were able to make an escape. It is reported that he borrowed a piece of paper from a Union soldier to use as a book mark. The paper turned out to be a leave pass for the Union soldier, that John then utilized to leave the prison. Joel is referenced as having attained the military rank of Major in the Confederate Army. After his escape, Joe made his way back to the area of South Carolina. By the time of the 1870 Census, Joel had made his way to Kentucky. There he was hired as a clerk in the office of the State Attorney General at Frankfort, KY. He subsequently is referenced as a commissioner for the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission. Another souce indicates that his middle name may have been spelled 'Maya'. by 1880, Joel was resident in Jefferson Co., KY.|
Father: John B. Womack b: ABT 1804 in VA. or SC.
Mother: Mary Mayo b: in VA.
Nannie Gibson O'Bannon b: 23 SEP 1846 in Shelby Co., KY.
30 APR 1872
- Margaret O'Bannon Womack b: 12 JAN 1875 in KY.
- Elsie Peay Womack b: 10 DEC 1882 in KY.
- Title: Kentucky State Records
Page: Filson Club: Louisville, Kentucky
- Title: Electronic Internet (unverified)
Source Medium: Electronic
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- Henry, Rachel March 31, 1997
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rather common species throughout Belgium.
larva lives on different species of Salix and
Populus. Hibernates as a pupa in a loose cocoon underground.
adults fly in two difficult to separate generations a year; from late
April till well into August. They come to light.
Namur, Wavreille, 26 April 2007.
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I'd like to create a sitemap to plan a future site, and I'm looking for a tool to do it.
I'd like to create a list of all articles first.
Then a hierachy.
Then I'd like to put the articles on several places in the hierachy. I should be able to put one article at different places.
I'd like to have the ability to mark the articles in different colors whether they should come into the first version of the website or later. | <urn:uuid:bc9b618a-052c-4b2b-abce-9db76c392e62> | 2013-05-26T02:55:59Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Court Strikes Down Illinois' Concealed-Carry Ban
An appeals court has decided Illinois' ban on carrying a weapon in public is unconstitutional.
A U.S. appeals court has ruled Illinois' ban on carrying a weapon in public is unconstitutional, according to the Chicago Tribune.
Under the 2-1 ruling, the state would have to allow residents to carry weapons. But the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has given lawmakers 180 days to "craft a new gun law that will impose reasonable limitations, consistent with the public safety and the Second Amendment as interpreted in this opinion, on the carrying of guns in public," according to the Chicago Tribune.
Illinois is the only state to not have some form of conceal carry, according to the Chicago Tribune.
Here are some excerpts from the court's opinion:
"We are disinclined to engage in another round of historical analysis to determine whether eighteenth-century America understood the Second Amendment to include a right to bear guns outside the home.
The Supreme Court has decided that the amendment confers a right to bear arms for self-defense, which is as important outside the home as inside...
Illinois had to provide us with more than merely a rational basis for believing that its uniquely sweeping ban is justified by an increase in public safety. It has failed to meet this burden."
The Tribune lauded the decision as a major victory for the National Rifle Association. | <urn:uuid:e45d5870-79ff-4bd6-b968-5e98d790722c> | 2013-05-26T02:48:51Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Prosecutors added 63 more charges Tuesday against a German national suspected in a four-night arson spree in Hollywood, West Hollywood, Los Angeles and the San Fernando Valley, bringing to 100 the total number of counts against him.
was initially charged Jan. 4 with 37 counts -- including 28 counts of arson of property and nine of arson of an inhabited structure -- in connection with a dozen fires.
Prosecutors added 47 new counts of arson of property, along with 10 additional counts of arson of an inhabited structure and two counts each of arson of an uninhabited structure, attempt to burn and possession of flammable material.
In all, the charges involve 49 fires that caused millions of dollars in property damage, according to the District Attorney's Office.
Burkhart is set to appear this afternoon in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom.
Prosecutors are expected to ask that Burkhart's bail -- currently set at $2.85 million -- be raised in light of the new charges.
He is accused of between Dec. 30 and Jan. 2 in Hollywood, West Hollywood, Sherman Oaks and Los Angeles. The criminal complaint includes an allegation that an accelerant was used.
Investigators believe Burkhart acted out of rage against Americans after his Russian-born mother was threatened with deportation. An obscenity-laced outburst he let loose at an on Dec. 29 helped lead to his capture early Jan. 2.
When images of "" were released in connection with the arson fires, a federal law enforcement officer who had witnessed the outburst recognized Burkhart and gave local authorities his name, according to the District Attorney's Office.
According to a court declaration prepared by a Sheriff's Department investigator, Burkhart became enraged during his mother's hearing, shouting things such as "(expletive) all Americans." He was escorted out of the courtroom by U.S. marshals.
Prosecutors have said Burkhart became a "more proficient and more efficient" arsonist as the New Year's weekend wore on, with most of the fires set between the early morning hours of 1 a.m. and 5 a.m.
He was arrested at Sunset Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue by a who spotted his minivan. Police said fire-starting materials were found inside the vehicle.
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FAQs: Japan nuclear concerns
What is the current risk of radiation-related health problems in Japan for those residing near the reactor in comparison to those in other parts of Japan?
- During the early phase of the nuclear emergency radiation-related health were dependant on exposure, which is turn were due to several things, including: the amount and type of radiation released from the reactor; weather conditions, such as wind and rain; a person’s proximity to the plant; and the amount of time spent in irradiated areas.
- The Government of Japan’s early actions in response to events at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant were in line with the existing recommendations for radiation exposure. The Government has evacuated individuals who were living within a 20-kilometre radius around the Fukushima Daiichi plant. Those living between 20 km and 30 km from the plant were asked to evacuate voluntarily. In general, people living farther away of the site of the event are at lower risk than those who live nearby.
- In light of evolving new information on levels of environmental radioactivity in the 20-30 km zone and some surrounding areas beyond the 30km zone, the Government of Japan established new planned evacuation zones from which residents were relocated to temporary housing based on the estimated cumulative doses they may receive in the 1 year following the accident.
- In addition, an emergency evacuation preparedness zone was also identified in which residents were asked to prepare their affairs in case they were asked to evacuate. These zones also follow administrative boundaries and extend beyond the 30 km radius.
Is there a risk of radioactive exposure from food contamination?
- Yes, there is a risk of exposure as a result of contamination in food.
- However, contaminated food would have to be consumed over prolonged periods to represent a risk to human health.
- The radioactive iodine and caesium in concentrations above the Japanese regulatory limits have been detected in some food commodities as a result of food monitoring
- Japanese authorities have advised residents to avoid these food and have implemented measures to prevent their sale and distribution.
Are there health risks to people living outside of Japan from radiation emitted into the atmosphere from damaged Japanese nuclear power plants?
Thus far, there are no health risks to people living in other countries from radioactive material released into the atmosphere from the Japanese nuclear power plants. Radiation levels measured to date in other countries are far below the level of background radiation that most people are exposed to in every day circumstances.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's Qantas Airways
Qantas has reached an agreement with the engineers' union and would present the deal to the labor umpire, the report said, adding separate disputes with baggage handlers, caterers and pilots would go to arbitration next year.
The stand-off with the unions led to Qantas management grounding the entire fleet in October in an attempt to force a resolution. The strikes and grounding cost Qantas A$194 million ($193.82 million) and forced the labor umpire to intervene.
The deal would give engineers annual pay rises of three percent and allow Qantas to bring in new work practices, including a new licence category, another report on the ninemsn web site said.
The engineers union has also backed away from its demand for a hangar to be built to allow heavy maintenance on Airbus A380 double-decker jumbos to be performed in Australia, instead of in Asia, reports said.
Neither Qantas nor the engineers' union could immediately be reached for comment.
The labor umpire, Fair Work Australia, is expected to ratify the deal by the end of December or early in the new year, the reports said.
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Categories are an important feature on wikis. Creating a category is easy: you just have to write a category name onto the page and you are done. MoinMoin even simplifies this by letting you choose from a list of available categories while you are editing the page.
On the page of the category, you can give a brief description of the category's contents. If you want to get a list of all pages in that particular category, either click the title of the category or insert a suitable macro which lists the pages:
<<FullSearch(category:CategorySamples)>> lists all pages in the category CategorySamples (alternative you can use <<FullSearchCached(@PAGE@)>>) (FullSearchCached caches the search results and therefore displays a category page quicker and also produces less load for the wiki server, for more information please read HelpOnMacros)
<<FullSearch(category:CategoryRecipes -category:CategoryCake)>> lists every recipe if it is not about a cake
See HelpOnSearching for further information about the syntax.
Normally, categories have to be named like CategorySomething. If you want to allow other patterns like CatégorieGaffeur (that is French by the way), then the administrator needs to change the configuration option page_category_regex according to the users' language, see HelpOnConfiguration. | <urn:uuid:f0ee7771-6697-4dce-9643-084fdef0aece> | 2013-05-26T02:58:24Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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A world in which tigers and other wild species are safe from harm and humans are encouraged to live in climate-harmony with natural ecosystems.
To help protect India’s biodiversity and threatened wildernesses by supporting and motivating forest departments, non-government organisations and individuals. To highlight the value of ecosystem services and to educate the public on the relationship between biodiversity and climate change.
The primary objective of WCT is to preserve, protect and conserve wildlife and natural ecosystems, terrestrial and aquatic. WCT intends to achieve this by:
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- Creating awareness amongst masses regarding the relationship between forests, biodiversity, water, climate change and human beings.
- Providing support for government and/or private institutions to strengthen conservation action for species and habitats.
- Providing for social welfare including medical and educational/vocational support to communities residing around protected areas.
- Providing financial support to scientific institutions and non-governmental organisations working towards conservation of nature and wildlife and also towards the mitigation of climate change.
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The Euro: Implications for the European Economy and the U.S.
A breakfast meeting with Pedro Solbes, European Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs sponsored by the West European Studies Program, the Project on America and the Global Economy, and EUROPE magazine
Referring to the successful launch of the Euro curre ncy on January 1, 2002, Commissioner Pedro Solbes spoke of the physical, economic, and psychological effects of the transition to the common currency in the 12 EU member nations that currently compose the "Euro zone." The euro already existed as a unit of account, but Solbes saw the move to a physical euro as having a daily impact on the thinking as well as the economic behavior of Europeans in the "Euro zone." He saw the euro as facilitating trade, empowering consumers, and attracting investment within the "Euro zone."
Preparations for the integration of the Euro into public circulation have been underway for some time -- including the distribution of coins in the form of Euro kits in the months before its formal introduction as legal tender in January. After January 1, cash machines also played a huge part in distribution in the first days of the Euro. Solbes remarked that the effectiveness of cash changeover process serves to further strengthen the euro region's ability to coordinate economic policy and stabilize exchange rates and prices. That region wide capacity for coordination has helped the European Union respond to external shocks, such as the events of September 11th, and the world economic slowdown.
With the changeover from national currency to euro nearly complete, Solbes turned to the future role of the new currency. Solbes stressed that the euro was not created to compete with the dollar but it was widely expected to become the world's second most important currency, emerging as something considerably stronger than the twelve national currencies that preceded it. Solbes noted that the euro has already become a major factor in the international bond markets. It is also used as a key currency peg for third party countries in Eastern and Southeastern Europe, many African nations with a former tie to France, and African states that had used the Portuguese escudo.
In addressing the outlook of the European economy as a whole, Solbes acknowledged that the euro region was not able to escape the effects of a sour global economy. Lagging investment and a fall in net exports had resulted in stagnant growth. Solbes saw a brighter 2002. He saw the recent pick up in personal consumption, relatively low unemployment and inflation, and other key economic indicators signaling a "gain in momentum (for the Euro) in the year to come."
Finally, Solbes touched on some of the positive implications of the euro for Europeans and for Americans. Solbes saw the euro simplifying travel and business throughout the European Union. By creating easily compared prices across Europe, the euro will serve consumers and help fight inflation. The same ease and transparency will also make it easier for American tourists traveling in Europe and for American businesses operating in Europe. | <urn:uuid:d0d17740-b321-4077-a10f-aba9bd5c9085> | 2013-05-26T02:37:20Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Kate Middleton may have gotten a bit of press for her pancake-flipping skills, but she finally hit the jackpot: her very own funny Tumblr.
Kate Middleton for the Win posts photos of the future royal with hysterical commentary, such as one of the pretty Brit looking shocked that's accompanied by the caption “Goodness! Prince Andrew is bringing who to the wedding?”
The site's author, Anne Clark, was intrigued by Middleton, whom she thinks is such a perfect fit for a royal "it's almost eerie." With no shortage of paparazzi photos, creating a Tumblr seemed like the next logical step.
"I'm hugely fascinated by the monarchy," Clark told The Windsor Knot. "Like, do they use Facebook? Do they have bank accounts? Do they make their own sandwiches, ever?"
If Clark had a chance to meet the future royal, however, she'd be offering more praise than ridicule. In fact, if she could manage to say anything, it'd be directed at her style: "It would probably be 'I love your coats.' She's alway wearing the most gorgeous coats!" | <urn:uuid:2eed474d-f77a-4724-b92e-d29195ab778b> | 2013-05-26T03:02:13Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The Big Bang Theory star endured a difficult 2012 - she separated from her husband of nine years, Michael Stone, and sustained severe injuries in a car crash in August (12).
Bialik, who is still recovering from the accident, has started to focus her energy on getting physically fit, and she hopes to test her endurance with a climb in the coming months.
She tells People.com, ""I'm planning on climbing a large mountain with a close friend of mine who is a professional climber. It's something I've wanted to do. I took up jogging right around the time (we) announced our divorce. I've been really putting myself out there physically. When you've had a 2012 like me, things can only get better. That's the glass half-full.""
The former Blossom star also credited Judaism with pulling her through, adding, ""I'm a person of deep religious faith. I really believe that things will be right in the universe. Things are hard, but I've really been taught in my tradition that the harder things are, the greater the potential reward. I really believe that.
""I don't want to say everything happens for a reason, but every day is lined up right next to the other one for a reason. The best you can do is do each day well with kindness and as a good person.""
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Ajani Goldmane is a planeswalker who wields white magic. His specialty is magic of the purification of body and soul: spells that heal and strengthen his allies, and spells that evoke the inner, spiritual essence of others.
Ajani Goldmane is torn between his leonin ferocity and his sense of justice. He was born as an outcast within his own family, an albino leonin never accepted by the rest of his pride. The only person who cared about him was his brother Jazal, the leader of their pride and Ajani's inspiration. Ajani had always shown potential as a mage and healer, but had assumed his main calling was to be a warrior in Jazal's service. The day that Ajani's brother was assassinated by unknown forces was the day that Ajani's planeswalker spark ignited, and everything changed.
No longer could Ajani worry about his tiny problems of social acceptance. His quest to discover his brother's killer has led him into a tangle of intrigue woven by mysterious forces, forcing him to broaden his skills as a warrior and to unlock new potential within himself. Ajani teeters on the edge between principled justice and bloody revenge as everything he once knew crumbles around him.
Ajani Goldmane is a planeswalker who wields both white and red magic. His new focus is magic of vengeance: spells that punish wrongdoers and lay waste to his enemies.
Ajani’s rage has been unleashed. Tempted to shed the pretense of principle and justice, Ajani now thrashes his way through secret after secret in pursuit of the identity of his brother’s killer. His pride, bereft of their leader and shocked by the violence surrounding Jazal’s death, has been scattered all over Naya.
Ajani’s abilities as a planeswalker blossomed during a trip to Jund, during which he encountered the shaman and dragon worshiper Sarkhan Vol. Sarkhan helped Ajani turn his sense of vengeance into a fiery new power, unlocking a torrent of red magic in a volcanic ritual.
Ajani now returns to a Naya that seems alien to him. His family rejects him utterly and the mystery of Jazal’s murderer still eludes him, but even darker threats will soon make themselves known. | <urn:uuid:8f76d717-394a-4fe6-80c1-234a34d249b7> | 2013-05-26T03:11:07Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Mon July 30, 2012
Fresh Air Remembers Actress Lupe Ontiveros
Originally published on Mon July 30, 2012 12:31 pm
Actress Lupe Ontiveros died Thursday of cancer at the age of 69. She was most famous for her role in the 1997 film Selena, but Ontiveros also acted with Jack Nicholson in As Good As It Gets, played a strict mother in the independent film Real Women Have Curves and had a recurring role in the television series Desperate Housewives.
Ontiveros was born in El Paso, Texas, and worked as a social worker for many years until, one day, she responded to a newspaper ad looking for movie extras. She went on to work in Hollywood for more than 30 years, playing maids in many of the films she was cast in.
In a 2002 interview, Ontiveros told Fresh Air's Terry Gross that she always played the role of the maid with pride: "Those people that come to bring you the service to your table ... that watch your kids, I think I owe them to give their characters life and love and soul and humor."
TERRY GROSS, HOST:
Actress Lupe Ontiveros died last Thursday from liver cancer. She was 69. You may know her from her role on "Desperate Housewives" as Eva Longoria's mother-in-law, or in the Indie film "Real Women Have Curves" as the strict, traditional-minded mother. She co-starred in the Jack Nicholson film, "As Good As It Gets," and she played the murderer in the biopic about the pop star "Selena."
Ontiveros was Mexican-American born in El Paso, Texas. Before becoming an actress she was a social worker. On a personal dare, she responded to a newspaper ad looking for movie extras. She went on to work in Hollywood for more than 35 years and in many of her films she played a maid.
Now, you estimate that you've played maids in about 150 movies and TV shows. I want you to run through just a list of some of the maids you've played.
LUPE ONTIVEROS: Maids, oh my goodness. Maids for everything. Look at what's his name - Nicholson, Jack Nicholson in "As Good As It Gets."
ONTIVEROS: That kind of a maid, where she's a religious kind of very warm human being. And then there's the maid in what do you call it - what did I do recently with Todd Solondz? "Storytelling."
ONTIVEROS: Now, that was a creature to be reckoned with, one of these wretched human beings, you know.
GROSS: You set the house on fire at the end, you're so resentful.
ONTIVEROS: Oh, that was the best part.
ONTIVEROS: I didn't know that I was going to do that until we were on the set. He says, you know you're going to blow up the house and I said oh, boy. Boy, have I wanted to do this for a long time. And let's see, maids. Beverly Hills maids, office maids. What can I tell you? It's always somebody else's maid, you know. I'm always doing a service for someone else.
But I'll tell you this much; that I've done it very proudly because as I said before to folks, I said, those folks, those hands, those people that come to bring you the service to your table, to bring - that pick your grapes and bring you the grapes to your table through a glass of wine, the people that wash your latrine, that watch your kids, you know, that bring them peace, bring children peace at night when their parents aren't there, I think that I owe them to give their characters life and love and soul and humor.
So it's really been a pleasure to do them.
GROSS: You were telling us you grew up in El Paso. Your parents owned a tortilla factory and they owned restaurants as well. Do I have that right?
ONTIVEROS: Yes. They had two restaurants. And properties and such. And they were non-educated people. I was born and raised in Texas in El Paso, Texas. It's a border town and my parents had businesses. They had factories and restaurants and the folks that would cross the border from Mexico, Ciudad Juarez, Mexico to El Paso, Texas, were the people that worked at my mother's factories.
And that was my greatest resource. That's where my hard drive went into action, storing all of those adventures and all those conversations I used to hear, all the dirty jokes I used to hear that I learned, and, you know, behaviors and what have you.
GROSS: You were a social worker for years. I mean, even when you started acting you had a day job...
ONTIVEROS: Yes. Yes.
GROSS: ...as a social worker. What kind of social work did you do?
ONTIVEROS: Well, I worked in various facets of it. I was working with the developmentally disabled. I worked for Immigration. I worked for Head Start. I worked with the seniors program evaluating their services, what have you.
GROSS: How did you start acting?
ONTIVEROS: It was really a joke. It was on a dare to myself. I was, you know, in transition from one job to the other and I came across an article in the paper that was looking for extras. And I kind of was talking out loud and I said to my husband, what do you think? You think I should - I was trying to decide should I go back and get a nursing degree? Should I do this? Should I do that?
And there was that job opening there and he said do whatever the heck you want. I mean, now he says he's sorry he said that. 'Cause I took - I do have a tendency to run with the ball, take the bull by the horns, and go with it.
GROSS: So when you're walking through the streets and people recognize you, who do they often most recognize you as? What are the roles you're best known for?
ONTIVEROS: Oh, I'm the killer of Selena.
GROSS: The killer of Selena.
ONTIVEROS: I'm the killer of Selena. And so far, so good. I haven't had anybody chase me down the street.
ONTIVEROS: Oh, there was a very interesting - what happened one day, I was going into the ladies restroom and I was going into the stall and this lady just stood in front of me and grabbed me and pulled me out again. And she said you are her, aren't you? I have a bet with my friend that you are she. And I said excuse me? I knew where she was going. She said you killed Selena, didn't you?
And I said let me go do my business. I'll come up, and then I'll tell you. So she let go of me.
GROSS: Yeah. So "Selena" is the movie...
ONTIVEROS: And it's the working class that recognizes me and I'm very happy. You know what the greatest, graceful thing that happens to me, you know, by my people? Is that they give me their blessing. Nobody has to give anybody else a blessing. You know what I'm saying?
ONTIVEROS: And they come up and they say you make me so proud. Your work makes me feel so proud to be a Latina.
GROSS: Lupe Ontiveros recorded in 2002. She died Thursday of liver cancer at the age of 69. You can download podcasts of our show on our website, freshair.npr.org. I'm Terry Gross. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright National Public Radio. | <urn:uuid:607e2771-8b62-452e-a48c-937fd67771fd> | 2013-05-26T02:37:29Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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- S: (v) compel, oblige, obligate (force somebody to do something) "We compel all students to fill out this form"
- direct troponym / full troponym
- S: (v) force, thrust (impose urgently, importunately, or inexorably) "She forced her diet fads on him"
- S: (v) stick, sting (saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous) "They stuck me with the dinner bill"; "I was stung with a huge tax bill"
- S: (v) walk (make walk) "He walks the horse up the mountain"; "Walk the dog twice a day"
- S: (v) parade, exhibit, march (walk ostentatiously) "She parades her new husband around town"
- S: (v) march (cause to march or go at a marching pace) "They marched the mules into the desert"
- S: (v) coerce, hale, squeeze, pressure, force (to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means) "She forced him to take a job in the city"; "He squeezed her for information"
- S: (v) turn up the heat, turn up the pressure (apply great or increased pressure) "The Democrats turned up the heat on their candidate to concede the election"
- S: (v) drive (to compel or force or urge relentlessly or exert coercive pressure on, or motivate strongly) "She is driven by her passion"
- S: (v) bludgeon (overcome or coerce as if by using a heavy club) "The teacher bludgeoned the students into learning the math formulas"
- S: (v) steamroller, steamroll (bring to a specified state by overwhelming force or pressure) "The Senator steamrollered the bill to defeat"
- S: (v) squeeze for (squeeze someone for money, information, etc.)
- S: (v) dragoon, sandbag, railroad (compel by coercion, threats, or crude means) "They sandbagged him to make dinner for everyone"
- S: (v) terrorize, terrorise (coerce by violence or with threats)
- S: (v) bring oneself (cause to undertake a certain action, usually used in the negative) "He could not bring himself to call his parents"
- S: (v) clamor (compel someone to do something by insistent clamoring) "They clamored the mayor into building a new park"
- S: (v) condemn (compel or force into a particular state or activity) "His devotion to his sick wife condemned him to a lonely existence"
- S: (v) shame (compel through a sense of shame) "She shamed him into making amends"
- S: (v) enforce, implement, apply (ensure observance of laws and rules) "Apply the rules to everyone"
- S: (v) run, execute (carry out a process or program, as on a computer or a machine) "Run the dishwasher"; "run a new program on the Mac"; "the computer executed the instruction"
- S: (v) execute (carry out the legalities of) "execute a will or a deed"
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- S: (v) enforce, impose, constrain (compel to behave in a certain way) "Social relations impose courtesy"; "duty constrains one to act often contrary to one's desires or inclinations"
- direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
- S: (v) induce, stimulate, cause, have, get, make (cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner) "The ads induced me to buy a VCR"; "My children finally got me to buy a computer"; "My wife made me buy a new sofa"
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Singer Charlotte Church, center, arrives with her legal team at the High Court in London in a phone hacking claim against Rupert Murdoch's News International on Monday. Church received a 600,000 pounds ($951,000) settlement from News International after testifying that she was hounded by the company's journalists when she was a teen singing sensation.
LONDON -- Journalists at Britain's Sun newspaper paid large sums of cash to corrupt public officials, aware the practice was criminal, an inquiry into press ethics heard on Monday, revelations that could prove damaging to Rupert Murdoch's media empire.
The Metropolitan Police's Deputy Assistant Commissioner Sue Akers told Britain's media ethics inquiry that the newspaper openly referred to paying its sources and that such payments were authorized at a senior level.
"The current assessment is that it reveals a network of corrupted officials," Akers said.
The disclosures could damage Murdoch's News Corp if it gives ammunition to the FBI and other American government agencies that have stepped up their hunt for signs of illegality at the U.S.-based company.
"There appears to have been a culture at the Sun of illegal payments, and systems have been created to facilitate those payments whilst hiding the identity of officials receiving the money," said Akers, who is in charge of the investigation into phone hacking and police bribery.
A senior British police officer told Britain's media ethics inquiry Rupert Murdoch's News International had a culture of making illegal payments to corrupt public officials and used bullying, blackmail and hacking to get stories. ITN's Keir Simmons reports.
She said one of the journalists who had been arrested has "over several years received over 150,000 pounds ($238,000) in cash to pay his sources, a number of whom were public officials." She said payments to public officials went far beyond acceptable practices like buying contacts a meal or a drink.
Akers, who made her accusations a day after Murdoch launched The Sun's Sunday edition, said journalists paid not only police officers but also police, military, health and government officials. One official received a total of 80,000 pounds ($126,912) over several years, she said, adding that police also are investigating if public officials were placed on retainers by newspapers.
Undeterred by arrests and criminal investigations of his staff, media tycoon Rupert Murdoch launched the publication of a new tabloid, the Sunday Sun, He hopes to fill the gap left by the paper he had to close because of a phone hacking scandal. Annabel Roberts reports.
Police and News Corp. lawyers are combing through millions of emails for evidence of wrongdoing at The Sun as well as the News of the World. Dozens have been arrested or pushed to resign because of the scandal, including two of Britain's top police officers who were accused of not doing enough to get to grips with the tabloid's wrongdoing.
More arrests are possible.
'Sickened and disgusted'
On Monday, Charlotte Church, a former teen singing sensation, received 600,000 pounds ($951,000) from News International, a News Corp. division, in a settlement resolving her claim that 33 News of the World articles were the product of journalists illegally hacking into her family's voice mails.
Despite her legal victory, Church sharply criticized Murdoch's empire, saying years of tabloid intrusions followed by legal battles had horrified her.
"What I have discovered as the litigation has gone on has sickened and disgusted me. Nothing was deemed off limits by those who pursued me and my family, just to make money for a multinational news corporation," she said outside London's High Court, where the settlement was agreed.
Murdoch, meanwhile, has said practices at The Sun have changed.
In an emailed statement he said: "As I've made very clear, we have vowed to do everything we can to get to the bottom of prior wrongdoings in order to set us on the right path for the future. That process is well under way. The practices Sue Akers described at the Leveson inquiry are ones of the past, and no longer exist at The Sun. We have already emerged a stronger company."
Akers was giving evidence at the Leveson inquiry set up by Prime Minister David Cameron in the wake of the phone hacking scandal.
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Jan. 13, 2004
A Little Health
Poem: ""A Little Health," by anonymous poet, from The Diary of Francis Kilvert (1840-1879).
A Little Health
A little health,
A little wealth,
A little house and freedom,
And at the end
A little friend
And little cause to need him.
Literary and Historical Notes:
It's the birthday of Jay McInerney, born in Hartford, Connecticut (1955). His first novel, Bright Lights, Big City (1984) was a huge success.
It's the birthday of Edmund White, born in Cincinnati, Ohio (1940). He worked as an editor at Horizon and The Saturday Review, and wrote A Boy's Own Story (1982).
It's the birthday of Carolyn Heilbrun, born in East Orange, New Jersey (1926). She's written a number of books of literary criticism, and, under the pseudonym Amanda Cross, 14 murder mysteries starring the detective Kate Fansler, including Honest Doubt (2000), and The Edge of Doom (2002). She started teaching English at Columbia University in 1960, but she worried that the university wouldn't give her tenure, and she wanted to have something to fall back on. She made the hero of her mystery books a rich, thin English professor who spent as much time talking about university politics as she did running down criminals.
It's the birthday of A(lfred) B(ertram) Guthrie, born in Bedford, Indiana (1901). He wrote The Big Sky (1946), and won a Pulitzer Prize for The Way West (1949). He said, "Fiction is love and hate and agreement and conflict and common adventure, not lonely musing of have-beens and might-have-beens."
It's the birthday of Horatio Alger, Jr., born in Chelsea, Massachusetts (1832). His career as a minister ended when he was accused of molesting two boys in his parish. He left New England, vowed to redeem himself by helping the poor, and set about writing novels about the homeless children who lived in the streets of New York City. His first novel, Ragged Dick; or Street Life in New York with the Boot Blacks, was serialized in a magazine, where it picked up more readers with every issue. When it was published in book form in 1867, it became an instant bestseller. Groucho Marx once said, "Horatio Alger's books conveyed a powerful message to me and many of my young friends—that if you worked hard at your trade, the big chance would eventually come. As a child I didn't regard it as a myth, and as an old man I think of it as the story of my life."
On this day in 1864, the songwriter Stephen Foster, died in New York City. He was 37 years old. His wife had left him, and he was slowly drinking himself to death. Sick in bed with a high fever, he got up to call the chambermaid, fell against the washstand and cut his neck. He lay there for hours before someone could take him to the hospital, and he died a couple of days later. When his wife went through his belongings after his death, she found 38 cents and a note in his handwriting that read, "Dear friends and gentle hearts . . ."
It is also the anniversary of the death of James Joyce, in Zurich in 1941. He died of a stomach ulcer. He wrote Dubliners (1914), A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), and Ulysses (1922). His last book was Finnegans Wake, which remained a work in progress for 16 years until it was finally published in 1939. The novel is about the family of a publican named Mr. Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker, who lives in Chapelizod, just outside of Dublin. The first sentence of the book is the end of the unfinished last sentence. The book ends, "A way a lone a last a loved along the," and begins, "riverrun, past Eve and Adam's from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodious vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs."
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MISR Views Delaware Bay, Chesapeake Bay, and the Appalachian Mountains
Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) images of Delaware Bay, Chesapeake Bay, and the Appalachian Mountains acquired on March 24, 2000 during Terra orbit 1417. The large image on the right was taken by the MISR camera viewing straight down (nadir). The series of smaller images, from top to bottom, respectively, were taken by cameras viewing 70.5 degrees forward, 45.6 degrees forward, 45.6 degrees aftward, and 70.5 degrees aftward of nadir. These images cover the environs of Newark, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, and Richmond. Differences in brightness, color, and contrast as a function of view angle are visible over both land and water. Scientists are using MISR data to monitor changes in clouds, Earth's surface, and pollution particles in the air, and to assess their impact on climate.
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Rochester, N.Y./Washington - Two Monroe County canine teams are serving in Washington for President Obama's inauguration.
Deputy Robert Day and his highly trained "Sabi" along with Deputy Russ Reynolds and "Robby" will work with security teams in the nation's capital.
They will patrol several early events, as well as being on duty at today's inauguration ceremony.
The teams are usually found working at the Rochester airport. They are trained to detect explosives. | <urn:uuid:19ed478a-06da-4ee5-8c10-bc67fa58076f> | 2013-05-26T03:10:53Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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App DescriptionDownload this application and watch all episodes of Ramanand Sagar's Mahabharata (hindi) with english subtitles. This is a series of TV shows that have left an incredible impression in hearts and minds of viewers world wide.
The Mahabharata is The longest Sanskrit epic ever written, Mahabharata has a collection of more than 74,000 verses, divided into 18 books. The Mahabharata story is much revered in India and basically among the Hindus. The Mahabharata contains the Bhagawad Gita, the famous gospel of duty that was taught to the great warrior, Arjuna by Lord Krishna. The Mahabharata dwells on the aspect of the important goals of a human being in his mortal life. The epic aims at making people realize the relation between the individual and the society and how they both are inter dependent on each other. Read on further a summary of Mahabharata, the greatest epic ever. The epic revolves around the struggle for the throne of the kingdom of Hastinapura. The struggle is between two branches of the same family, the Kauravas and Pandavas. The Kauravas were collectively the hundred sons of the blind king Dhritarashtra and the Pandavas were the five sons of Pandu, who died of a curse. The five brothers named Yudhisthira (eldest son), Arjuna, Bheema, Nakula and Sahdeva were always obedient and dutiful, which made them the most loved in the kingdom. Each of the Pandavas had a special virtue in them that made them stand apart from the rest of the world. This made the Kauravas hate them and they planned many devious ways to get rid of them. As time went by, the Pandavas got married and shared a common wife named Draupadi. The Kauravas got even more enraged and challenged the Pandavas to a game of gamble. The Pandavas lost and were banished from the kingdom for an exile of 12 years. There was a condition that if they were recognized by the end of 12 years, they would have to begin from scratch. One of the most important and dramatic character in this epic is Lord Krishna. He was the sole advisor, guide and true friend of the Pandavas and helped them in each and every difficulty in their exile. He is said to be the incarnation of God, who came to earth in human form to relieve the world of evil people and restore faith in his devotees. During the great battle of Kurukshetra fought between the Kauravas and the Pandavas, Lord Krishna took upon himself the duty of driving Arjuna's chariot. He imparted the valuable and practical lessons of the Bhagawad Gita, a text of the conversation between Lord Krishna and Arjuna, where Lord Krishna shows Arjuna a glimpse of his majestic divine form. The Pandavas won the battle and ruled over Hastinapura for a number of years. It is said that Dhritarashtra and his wife retired into the forest to lead a stress-free life of an ascetic and Krishna left after around thirty six years after the battle took place. When the Pandavas realized that it was time to leave this earth, they all set out on a journey towards the North on foot. It is said that the gates of heaven opened on the northern horizon. One by one they dropped dead, until Yudhisthira finally reached the gates of heaven to be united once again with his brothers and wife.
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Alternate Names : Sexual Abuse, Sexual Assault
Rape is the physical act of attacking another person and forcing that person to have sex. It is the illegal sexual penetration of any body opening. Rape can happen to men, women, and children. It is often violent, although sometimes the threat is only implied. Rape can also occur without the victim knowing about it. This can happen if the victim is unconscious, intoxicated, or high on drugs.
Male rapists usually have an extreme hatred for women. They may feel inadequate and have problems with sexual performance. At least half the time, the rapist knows the victim and works or lives near the victim. Most rapes are planned ahead of time by the attacker. More than half of sexual assaults involve a weapon.
What is the information for this topic?
Following are some safety measures to help prevent rape when you are at home or in your car:
Don't let a stranger into the house without proper identification.
Don't list a first name on a mailbox or in a phone book.
Have the key ready before reaching the door of a car or house.
Keep a light on at all entrances.
Keep doors and windows locked.
Look in the car before entering.
Make arrangements with a neighbor for assistance in emergency situations.
Set the house lights to go on and off with a timer.
Other safety measures you can take to help prevent rape are as follows:
Appear strong and confident.
Avoid isolated and secluded areas.
Don't walk or jog alone at night.
Look for unusual behavior in those around you.
Scream loudly if attacked.
Sit in lighted areas and near other people such as the driver when using public transportation.
When someone has been raped, the rape should immediately be reported to the police. The victim should be taken to a medical facility and examined. The person should not bathe before this examination, as evidence might be destroyed. Additionally, clothing or samples of clothing might be collected by the police as evidence.
During this exam, a healthcare provider will take the following steps:
check for bruises, bite marks, and other trauma
remove pubic hair samples
take swabs from the anus and mouth
take swabs from the vaginal area if the victim is a female
test for pregnancy if the victim is a female, and provide emergency contraception as needed
test for sexually transmitted diseases and provide treatment as needed
The provider will treat all cuts and wounds. But often the emotional wounds are more severe than the physical wounds. It is very important that the victim get counseling and therapy. A local rape crisis center can help the victim through this trauma.
Recovery from rape varies from person to person. Usually the physical wounds heal quickly. Mental wounds can last for many years after the attack. A rape victim may be viewed as suffering a posttraumatic stress disorder. This usually has an acute phase, lasting a few days to a few weeks, which is followed by a long-term process of recovery. Many rape victims suffer from the following:
If the person doesn't receive effective treatment, he or she may experience these difficulties:
inability to establish long-term relationships
problems with sex
Rape victims can go on to lead normal lives. But it's very important to their mental health that they get proper counseling. Healthcare providers can help the victim work through many of the problems that result from rape. They help monitor the victim's healing, both physically and mentally. | <urn:uuid:e6437144-d5c4-4976-ae15-419bda125a5c> | 2013-05-26T02:41:46Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Vincent is a well-respected cop, as well as a devoted husband and father. But below the surface of his idyllic life, Vincent is involved with a very dangerous group of gangsters and drug dealers. When Vincent and his partner are caught stealing a massive quantity of cocaine from a powerful drug lord, the darker side of Vincent's life threatens to destroy his family and career. In a race against the clock, Vincent must return the drugs in order to save his son's life. This proves to be easier said than done, as the world around him seems to conspire to keep Vincent from doing what is necessary to protect his son. | <urn:uuid:3c963828-f1a9-4a64-9072-b71964261b5e> | 2013-05-26T02:48:22Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Hung Bui, Mabry Tyson, Neil Yorke-Smith
The Simple Temporal Network (STN) is a widely used framework for reasoning about quantitative temporal constraints over variables with continuous or discrete domains. Determining consistency and deriving the minimal network are traditionally achieved by graph algorithms (e.g., Floyd-Warshall, Johnson) or by iteration of narrowing operators (e.g., $\triangle$STP). However, none of these existing methods exploit effectively the tree-decomposition structure of the constraint graph of an STN. Methods based on variable elimination (e.g., adaptive consistency) can exploit this structure, but have not been applied to STNs, in part because it is unclear how to efficiently pass the `messages' over a set of continuous domains. We first show that for an STN, these messages can be represented compactly as sub-STNs. We then present an efficient message passing scheme for computing the minimal constraints of an STN. Analysis of the new algorithm, Prop-STP, brings formal explanation of the performance of the existing STN solvers $\triangle$STP and SR-PC. Preliminary empirical results validate the efficiency of Prop-STP in cases where the constraint network is known to have small tree-width, such as those that arise in Hierarchical Task Network planning problems.
Subjects: 3.6 Temporal Reasoning; 15.2 Constraint Satisfaction
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Wegener's Granulomatosis: Sclerokeratitis
The sclera and marginal cornea become progressively ulcerated, presumably because of ischemia.
The of Wegener's granulomatosis is usually diffuse and chronic with minimalif anydischarge.
OrbititisAny of the orbital soft tissuesmuscles, glands, fatcan become swollen, tender, and painful. There may be proptosis and reduced eye movements, and visual loss if the optic nerve is compressed or inflamed.
Retinal and optic nerve vaso-occlusive disease
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Cowie, Daniel B.
The following data is extracted from A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans.
Daniel B. Cowie. In an article on other pages of this publication will be found some account of the salt industry in Kansas and some mention of the more prominent mines and companies. One of the most striking figures in the development of the salt industry in Kansas was the late James Cowie, Sr., and the above named is a son of that salt pioneer and is now general superintendent of the Independent Salt Company at Kanopolis.
The Cowie family are Scotch people, and in Scotland they were also identified with mining. The grandfather of Daniel was George Cowie, who spent his life in Scotland and was a successful coal contractor. James Cowie, Sr., was born in Stirlingshire, Scotland, in 1839. He grew up and married there and from an early age was a coal miner. Prior to his coming to America he was general manager for one of the largest coal companies in Scotland, having supervision over ten diffierent coal properties. On coming to the United States in 1884 he entered the employ of the H. C. Frick Coal Company at Connellsville, Pennsylvania.
James Cowie, Sr., came to Kanopolis, Kansas, in 1889. The credit is given him for originating the salt mining industry of Kansas and he was known in the press and to the general public as the "salt king." As manager of the Royal Salt Company he put in the first salt mine in Kansas just east of the city limits of Kanopolis. He managed that company until 1905 and then organized the Crystal Salt Company, of which he was manager and part owner. He bought from the Kanopolis townsite the salt rights underneath the town. The Crystal mine is just outside the limits of Kanopolis but its tunnels and underground work are partly beneath the town itself. At the time of his death James Cowie, Sr., was managing director of the Crystal Salt Company and also owned between 5,000 and 6,000 town lots in Kanopolis. Previously he was owner of about forty buildings in the town but had sold this part of his real estate. As an American citizen James Cowie, Sr., was a republican, was an active Presbyterian, and served a number of terms as mayor of Kanopolis and well justified the honors bestowed upon him by efficient service in the administration of municipal affairs.
James Cowie, Sr., married Elizabeth Barrowman. She was born in Scotland in 1842 and died at Kanopolis in 1915, while her husband passed away there in 1911. Her father, George Barrowman, was a prominent coal contractor in Scotland, where he died. James Cowie and wife had five children. George, the oldest, is manager of the Standard Salt Company at Little River, Kansas. James Cowie, Jr., is president of the Exchange State Bank of Kanopolis and is also mine foreman under his brother Daniel. Daniel is the third in the family. Janette married Samuel Hogsett, a loan and real estate man at Kansas City, Missouri. Elizabeth, the youngest child, is the wife of George P. Kelly, of Kansas City, Missouri. Mr. Kelly is president of the American Salt and Coal Company of Lyons, Kansas, and at this writing is installing one of the largest combination rock salt and evaporation salt plants in the United States. The evaporation works are already in operation and the rock salt mines will be completed and in a producing state within six months.
Daniel B. Cowie, son of James Cowie, Sr., was born at Kylswith, Stirlingshire, Scotland, March 20, 1869, and was fifteen years of age when the family came to the United States. He received his education in the public schools of Stirlingshire and for two years taught school in Scotland. At the age of eighteen he began working as a miner, and had an intimate experience with that industry in every capacity from tapper boy to general superintendent.
Under his father he became expert in all branches of salt mining and manufacture. He was general superintendent of the Kingman Salt Company at Kingman, Kansas, until the plant was burned in 1903, after which he returned to Kanopolis and was general superintendent of the Crystal Salt Company and since 1913 had been superintendent of the Independent Salt Company. For 3½ years prior to 1915 Mr. Cowie was at Detroit, Michigan, his services being employed to straighten out the tangled affairs of the rock salt plant, wherein was involved an investment of over $1,000,000. The plant was in the hands of a receiver and the expert ability of Mr. Cowie was called into service, and he not only put the plant on its feet but developed it so that now it is one of the best salt mine propositions in the United States.
Mr. Cowie lives close to the Independent Salt Company's plant and in the superintendent's house furnished by the company. He owned six dwelling houses in Kanopolis, a farm of eighty acres near the city, and is a stockholder and director in the Exchange State Bank.
His fellow citizens have honored him with the office of mayor two terms and with that of city clerk two terms. For fifteen consecutive years he was a member of the school board and since 1913 had again been on the board and is now treasurer. He is a republican, an elder in the Presbyterian Church, is past master of Kingman Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, a member of the Royal Arch Chapter and the Knights Templar Commandery at Kingman, is past noble grand of Kingman Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, past master workman of Kingman Lodge, Ancient Order of United Workmen, and charter member of Kanopolis Camp of the Modern Woodmen of America.
Mr. Cowie enjoys an ideal home life and had a large and happy family. He first married at Uniontown, Pennsylvania, in 1891, Miss Allie Matthews. She died in 1897, leaving two daughters: Elizabeth, now the wife of William McVittie, a member of the city fire department of Detroit, Michigan; and Janette, living at home. In 1900, at Emporia, Kansas, Mr. Cowie married Miss Ruth A. Haley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Haley. Her mother is deceased and her father still lives on a farm near Emporia. Mr. and Mrs. Cowie have seven children: Anna, born in 1901; Daniel, Jr., born in 1903; Margaret, born in 1905; Jane, born in 1907; Dorothy, born in 1909; Evelyn, born in 1911; and James, born in 1914.
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The following data is extracted from Reminiscent History Of The Ozark Region, pub. Goodspeed Brothers, Publishers, Chicago 1894.
JOHN ANGLE. This shrewd, practical and successful business man is a member of the well-known mercantile firm of Cantrell & Angle, of Bruno, Arkansas, and since 1852 has been a resident of Marion County, coming thither from middle Tennessee in 1850, and for two years was a resident of Van Buren County. He owes his nativity to Tennessee, where he first saw the light February 5, 1841, being one of a good old-fashioned family of fourteen children born to James and Elizabeth (Ward) Angle, the former of whom was a native of Hickman County, Tennessee, and a son of John Angle, a North Carolinian by birth, but one of the early pioneers of Tennessee. The great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch came from Ireland and settled in North Carolina, and made a substantial citizen. The grandparents came to Marion County, Arkansas, about 1853, and here both passed from life in 1863. They reared four children: William, who lived and died in Sebastian County; James; John, who died in Tennessee, and Benjamin, who also died in Tennessee. James Angle and wife became residents of Marion County in 1852, purchased a farm on Clear Creek, which the father was successfully engaged in tilling until he was killed during the war, his wife's death occurring in 1863. They were both members of the Baptist Church. Their children were named as follows: Martha A., wife of Mr. Jones, of Texas; William was wounded and died at the battle of Pea Ridge, Arkansas; Eli is a farmer of Johnson County, Tex., and was soldier in the Confederate Army; Mary J. (Casey) is living in Marion Count) Arkansas; John; Elizabeth (Potter) is living in Texas; James died in Little Rock during the war, a soldier of the Confederacy; Lucinda (Richardson ) of Texas; Levi is a farmer of Texas; Temple died in Texas; David also died there; Kizzie lives in Texas; Sarah (Casey) lives in Marion County, Arkansas; and Nancy (Casey) is deceased. John Angle was a lad of ten years when he came to this county. He obtained a common-school education, and when the Civil War came up he enlisted in Company B, Fourteenth Arkansas Infantry, Confederate States Army, and was a participant in the engagement at Pea Ridge, Iuka, Corinth, the siege of Port Hudson, and was with Price on his raid through Missouri. At the termination of hostilities he returned to Marion County, and for the following eight or ten years he tilled the soil on the old homestead, being also engaged in handling stock. In 1874 he pur-chased a farm near Bruno of 300 acres, on which he is living, but he also owns other valuable farming land in the county. He has been successful in every-thing he has undertaken. At the present time he is giving much attention to his mercantile operations, which are proving successful. He is a Demo-crat, is very public spirited, and is a deacon in the Baptist Church, of which his wife is also a member. He was married in 1866 to Miss Clementine Gar-rett, a daughter of Temple Garrett, an early settler of the county. She was born in Tennessee and has borne her husband the following children: Will-iam, who is living on a farm three miles from Bruno; Julia A.; Samantha, wife of Frank Burns, of this county; Marian, Wilson, Thomas, Ethel, Laura, Bertha, Maud, and Wesley, who died at the age of eight years.
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Starting Position: Set up six cones in a hexagon, making each segment of the hexagon about 2 feet long. Each cone should be about 2-3 feet from the center point inside the hexagon to allow enough room for you to take a large step. Stand in the middle of the hexagon in line with a cone. This will be your starting point. Stand with your feet hip-width apart, toes pointing forward and arms by your sides. Engage your abdominal muscles ("brace") to stabilize your spine. Pull shoulder blades down toward your hips without arching your low back. Keep your chest lifted and chin parallel to the floor. Shift your weight over your heels.
Ready Position: Keeping the abdominals engaged, bend the knees and hinge the hips back, bringing the torso forward. Allow the arms to bend at the elbow and remain close to your sides. Shift your weight to the balls of your feet.
Action: Take a large step forward toward the cone with the left leg, coming into a lunge position. At the same time drive and extend the right arm forward and down (palms facing in), to lightly touch the top of the cone. Drive your left elbow backwards. The left leg should land on the heel first, slowly shifting your body weight into the left foot, placing it firmly on the floor. As you transfer your body weight onto the lead leg/foot, avoid the tendency to tilt or sway the upper body and try not to move the forward foot. As you step forward into the lunge, focus on a downward movement of your hips toward the floor. Avoid driving your hips forward. This will help control the forward movement of your shinbone over your foot. Immediately push off your left foot and bring it back to center.
Moving counter clockwise (left) to the next cone, rotate to the left. Pivot off your right foot and lunge with your left leg. Align your feet and hips in the direction you are stepping (toward the cone). Follow the same technique as listed in step 3. Immediately push off your left foot and bring it back to center.
Continue counter clock-wise until you reach your starting point. Repeat the drill lunging forward with your right foot and moving clock-wise.
Exercise Variations: (1) Perform this drill extending the same side arm toward the cone. In this case, the opposite elbow would drive back behind the body. (2) Once you become comfortable with the oblique angle lunges, you can focus more on exploding to the cone. To increase the amount of explosion, widen the hexagon allowing you to take a couple of steps forward then lunge to touch each cone. Placing a cone in the middle will provide a reference point.
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Visualizing Your Dreams
Visualizing your dreams is the only way you can achieve your dreams.
Visualization comes before belief.
It doesn't matter how much you want to achieve life abundance and all that comes with it.
It's a self fulfilling prophecy.
If you believe in your life the way it is today, then expect nothing more.
Treat your life as if it already includes all that you desire, and all that you desire will manifest itself.
Visualizing your dreams fulfills your dreams. Nothing could be simpler.
Also, nothing could be harder because most people's minds aren't "hardwired" to think this way.
Therefore, you need to train yourself in the art of visualization.
the creative power of Realization."
- AL Linall, Jr.
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Your Dream Board
One way to do this is to create a dream board.
Sit down and think about everything you want to see manifested in your life...
Where do you want to live? What kind of house? How big? How many rooms? How much square feet? How many acres? What type of neighborhood?
Is it near shopping and entertainment or out in the middle of nowhere? Does it sit on a lake or river? How many bathrooms? What type of rooms - den, family room, office(s), etc? How many spaces in your garage?
The garage then leads us to your car(s). Go through a detailed list regarding your dream car.
I'm only giving you a few suggestions. Expand the house details to 100 or more details. The same with your car, career or business, relationships, etc.
Sound impossible? Only you can define what's impossible or possible in your life. Remember, visualizing your dreams is what determines how you'll turn your dreams into your reality.
The more detail you bring out now, the more detailed your success will be.
Now, get magazines or print off the Internet pictures of your dreams. Then, put them onto a big poster board and put it up on your wall.
Every day, you'll now be visualizing your dreams as you look at your Dream Board.
Write It All Out
Next, if you want to really cement your dreams into your subconscious mind, you'll want to write out in detail why your dreams are important to you.
For every dream or goal on your board, sit down and write five to ten pages about why that goal is important. Write out when you'll achieve each dream.
Write out what it is that you'll become inside because of each dream.
This part of visualizing your dreams will take some time. Many people won't do this, which is why they still struggle with achieving life abundance.
Take time to write out your dreams. This process gets you beyond the "earthly" reasons you think you want to achieve goals.
You may find that you can't write even a few paragraphs about a picture you have on your dream board. This is telling you that maybe a huge house isn't as important to your soul as you thought (maybe that's why you don't have it!).
The writing process of visualizing your dreams will help you get closer to your true life purpose.
If you can't write out five to ten pages on a so-called "dream", consider the possibility that you're pursuing someone else's version of success.
Now's the time to get to the heart of what really moves and motivates you.
you can set out for them. Hold them in your mind until
they become second nature."
- Les Brown
Change your life,
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Iglesia Evangélica Luterana Boliviana (Bolivian Evangelical Lutheran Church) (IELB)
The Bolivian Evangelical Lutheran Church grew out of the work of the World Mission Prayer League from the USA, among Aymara Indians. In 1972, the American missionaries left the country, as the local people claimed greater participation in the decision-making bodies of the church. The Bolivian Evangelical Lutheran Church was constituted that same year. The church is composed entirely of indigenous people. It is the largest Amerindian Lutheran church on the continent.
The IELB's main priority is to promote a holistic approach to evangelism and service. The church is involved in a variety of projects: alternative agriculture, animal husbandry, provision of drinking water, educational campaigns to prevent cholera, formal education (elementary school), vocational training, and communication. | <urn:uuid:050c520c-584b-4e1c-b10b-51fdb323581d> | 2013-05-26T02:55:19Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Atypical pneumonia refers to pneumonia caused by certain bacteria, including Legionella pneumophila, Mycoplasma pneumoniae, and Chlamydophila pneumoniae. It is called “atypical” because the symptoms differ from those of pneumonia due to other common bacteria.
Mycoplasma pneumonia is a type of atypical pneumonia. It is caused by the bacteria M. pneumoniae. It typically affects people younger than age 40. For more information on this type of pneumonia, see: Mycoplasma pneumonia
Pneumonia due to chlamydia-related bacteria occurs year round and accounts for 5 - 15% of all pneumonias. It is usually mild.
Pneumonia due to Legionella is seen more often in middle-aged and older adults, smokers, and those with chronic illnesses or a weak immune system. It can be more severe.
Pneumonia due to mycoplasma and chlamydophila bacteria is usually mild.
Pneumonia due to Legionella pneumophila gets worse during the first 4 - 6 days, and then improves over 4 - 5 days.
Even though symptoms will improve, it may take a while for them to go away completely.
The most common symptoms of pneumonia are:
Cough (with Legionella pneumonia, you may cough up bloody mucus)
Fever, which may be mild or high
Shortness of breath (may only occur when you climb stairs)
Other symptoms include:
Chest pain that gets worse when you breathe deeply or cough
Confusion, especially in older people or those with Legionella pneumonia
Loss of appetite, low energy, and fatigue
Muscle aches and joint stiffness
Sweating and clammy skin
Less common symptoms include:
Diarrhea (especially with Legionella pneumonia)
Ear pain (with mycoplasma pneumonia)
Eye pain or soreness (with mycoplasma pneumonia)
Neck lump (with mycoplasma pneumonia)
Rash (with mycoplasma pneumonia)
Sore throat (with mycoplasma pneumonia)
Signs and tests
Persons with suspected pneumonia should have a complete medical evaluation. It may be hard for your health care provider to tell whether you have pneumonia or bronchitis, so you may need a chest x-ray. Depending on the severity of the illness, other tests may be done, including:
Control your fever with aspirin, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs, such as ibuprofen or naproxen), or acetaminophen. DO NOT give aspirin to children.
Do not take cough medicines without first talking to your doctor. Cough medicines may make it harder for your body to cough up the extra sputum.
Drink plenty of fluids to help loosen secretions and bring up phlegm.
Get a lot of rest. Have someone else do household chores.
Antibiotics are used to treat atypical pneumonia.
You may be able to take antibiotics by mouth at home.
If you have severe atypical pneumonia, you will likely be admitted to a hospital, where you will be given antibiotics through a vein (intravenously), as well as oxygen.
Antibiotics are used for 2 weeks or more
Antibiotics used to treat atypical pneumonia include:
Fluoroquinolones (such as levofloxacin)
Tetracyclines (such as tetracycline or doxycycline)
Most patients with pneumonia due to mycoplasma or chlamydophila do well with the right antibiotics. Legionella pneumonia can be severe, leading to problems in patients with kidney failure, diabetes, COPD, and a weak immune system. It can lead to death.
Mandell LA, Wunderink RG, Anzueto A, et al. InfectiousD iseases Society of America/American Thoracic Society consensus guidelines on the management of community-acquired pneumonia in adults. Clin Infect Dis. 2007;44:S27-S72.
Torres A, Menendez R, Wunderink R. Pyogenic bacterial pneumonia and lung abscess. In: Mason RJ, VC Broaddus, Martin TR, et al, eds. Murray and Nadel’s Textbook of Respiratory Medicine. 5th ed. Philadelphia, Pa:Saunders Elsevier; 2010:chap 32.
David C. Dugdale, III, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine. Denis Hadjiliadis, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M. Health Solutions, Ebix, Inc. | <urn:uuid:b30d2796-03a4-4cea-b50f-9ff144be4941> | 2013-05-26T02:55:42Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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I don't know if this story is true or not, but I heard it somewhere and it makes a point, so here we go.
A maker of cake mixes was investigating two cake mix designs. One, their traditional recipe, included powdered egg in the mix, and a new one required the end users to add their own eggs. Chemically, the result was about the same, but a competitor's "add your own eggs" mix was starting to gain market share over their existing all-in-one product. They decided to do some market research to find out why.
They conducted a taste test in a statistically valid fashion, with double blinds, etc. Presented with two cakes side by side, tasters on average had no particular preference for one mix or the other; they tasted the same.
This was very nice, but didn't explain the problem: why would the new market entrant be getting so popular, then? They had less advertising, no name brand, and you had to add your own eggs!
They had an idea and decided to run another test: this time, the tasters had to also bake the cake themselves, and they obviously knew which cake was made from which recipe (but were hidden from the brand name, packaging, etc). In this test, the tasters clearly preferred the cake where they had to add their own eggs.
They had more of an emotional investment in the egg-added cake; it contained "fresh ingredients" that they had to buy and add themselves. It took a tiny bit more work. They didn't feel like they were cheating as much when they made a mix that didn't have all the ingredients built in.
Ironically, we tend to believe that people buy cake mixes to save time and effort (ie. they're lazy); this makes the "add eggs" mix seem inferior. But what the researchers discovered was that people buy cake mixes not just to save time, but because they don't feel competent to add all the ingredients themselves (ie. they're scared). Making the end user do slightly more work makes them feel more productive and gives them more emotional involvement in the end product, without scaring them away with complexity. That's the first lesson.
The second lesson is about unit testing; the cake mix engineers were looking in the product specifications for why it wasn't selling, and constructed a perfect unit test to identify and help correct their assumed problem (if the eggs-included recipe had measured worse, they could have improved the recipe). But the test, while scientifically and statistically valid, included some hidden assumptions that also needed to be tested: that taste affects the desirability of the product; that less end-user effort is an improvement. The proper test to find the problem was closer to an "end-to-end" test: it included much more of the "cake mix consumption" process in the test, not just the part where you eat the cake.
And the third lesson is about the Zen of cake mixes and how capitalism has helped us get closer to it. Years ago, under adult supervision, I remember using cake mixes that didn't require you to add your own eggs; they were just fine. But how many mixes can you find nowadays that don't require eggs? | <urn:uuid:0a0e8dac-0036-4b24-a94d-aac401caa2ac> | 2013-05-26T03:01:57Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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That should give everyone a base line from which to work something out for themselves.
Or, if they
don't know which end of a wrench is which
don't feel confident
doing the work themselves, they can send their forks to you I bet... and for a reasonable fee, you'll hook them up yes?
Don't forget them | <urn:uuid:b514ecd9-1d53-4f6a-9245-0375577d9e42> | 2013-05-26T03:02:45Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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"There was no swan, there never is these days . . . ."
Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times
No, there is no swan for the Knight of the Swan in Los Angeles Opera's new production of Lohengrin. There is very little in the way of emotional, historical, or practical logic in it, either. It sounds—with some qualifications—marvelous, and it is not the full-blown "turkey" that it was declared to be in Mark Swed's review linked above. It is entirely possible to enjoy this Lohengrin and to derive ample satisfaction from it so long as you, figuratively at least, pay no attention to what is going on when there's no curtain in front of it.
First, a synopsis of the opera* Wagner actually wrote:
The German states have been at war with Hungary, until a 9-year truce was agreed. King Heinrich of the Germans has used the time to rebuild and fortify his realms, and is now traveling about gathering armies to march on Hungary when the truce comes to its end. This brings him to the Duchy of Brabant, where all is not well. The Duke of Brabant has died. His heir, young Gottfried, has gone missing and the Regent—Friedrich von Telramund, who would not object to becoming Duke of Brabant himself—accuses Gottfried's sister Elsa of having murdered her brother. Elsa protests her innocence, in all things. The King declares a trial by combat, Telramund to face whoever will champion Elsa. Elsa has had a vision of an unknown champion and, just when all hope seems lost for her, he appears. A shining knight arrives riding upon, or in a vessel drawn by, a great swan. He will champion Elsa, and more, on condition that he must never be asked to reveal his name, his birth or his origins. Elsa promises. The knight promptly defeats Telramund, casts him out to meditate on his bad deeds, becomes engaged to wed Elsa and declares himself Protector of Brabant, ready to march with King Heinrich to inevitable victory over the Hungarians.
Of course, it ends in tears. Telramund's wife, the pagan sorceress Ortrud, successfully plants the seeds of doubt in Elsa's mind. What can warrant all this secrecy, wheedles Ortrud, but some Dark and Horrible Secret in the knight's past? Elsa succumbs: on her wedding night she demands to know her husband's name, birth and origins. Telramund chooses this moment to attempt to slay Elsa's knight, but is himself slain. The knight summons the people and answers, as he must, Elsa's questions: He is a knight of the Holy Grail, sent by the Grail to defend Elsa's innocence. His father is Parsifal, who rules in the Grail castle in far Monsalvat. He, as we have known all along, is Lohengrin—and having answered these questions he is obliged to leave, to rejoin the service of the Grail in the earthly paradise of Monsalvat. The great swan returns and Lohengrin makes to depart. Ortrud, having lost a husband but otherwise gained the upper hand, exults. Just to show her, Lohengrin produces the missing heir Gottfried, who was not killed but transformed by Ortrud's sorcery into, yes, a swan. Elsa, from grief over her error and loss, falls lifeless. Fin.
Some Thoughts on Directorial Choices
So, Lohengrin is a cautionary Holy Fairy Tale, built on the classic device of the Question That Must Not Be Asked or its variant, the Door That Must Not Be Opened. ("What a woman does is open doors," as Joanna Newsom would have it in her Bluebeard song, "Go Long".) With that as a given, how does one go about staging it? Count, if you will, the ways:
- Even today in our jaundiced and knowing age, it is possible if you are an opera director to stage a fairy tale as such, and to take the magical and mystical elements at face value. It happens all the time with, say, Magic Flute. [Afterthought: As an even better example, it also happens all the time in productions of Tristan und Isolde.]
- If that sort of literalism doesn't set well, you can adopt a contemporizing approach that will still build on and work with the themes and ideas that are actually there.
- You can even get fairly radical about that sort of thing while still maintaining high respect for the material, as I contend Achim Freyer did in his tremendous Los Angeles Opera Ring cycle.
- If you don't particularly care about the material, or if you have some Point of Your Own that you really want to make using the opera at hand as a mere excuse to make it, or if you have no higher calling than offending and annoying the audience, you can as an opera director perfectly well do that as well.
Or you can set Lohengrin in a field hospital constructed in a bombed-out cathedral at the end of World War I, with a hero sporting an unexplained silver-armored right leg and an overall look that crosses M*A*S*H with Les Miz. . . .
. . . as director Lydia Steier has done in Los Angeles.
It is not an offensive production. It is not an abusive production. It is not a production in which the director has Something to Say and is Gonna Say It. It is a production, I fear, without an idea in its head other than "Let's set Lohengrin in the First World War."
That and other directorial choices lead to an evening of head scratching. In the text, King Heinrich emphasizes how powerful and ready the German people now are after nine years' preparation to take on the pesky Hungarians, and boasts of all the fortifications he has constructed in that time. Why are we performing surgery in a ruin after nine years of peace? Were there no earmarks for the reconstruction of Brabant? Why, for that matter, are the Brabantian citizens so darned fond of King Heinrich, and so happy to march off in his support, when his troops—including his noble Herald—delight in raping and beating the populace every time the King's back is turned?
What's up with the armored leg anyway? Where did the homeless population of Brabant find the materials to weave colorful banners, half of them adopting the leg as their symbol and the other half adopting the (otherwise unseen) swan? Where do they attach that impressive chandelier, given that snow has been falling on everyone throughout because the cathedral has no roof?
Heinrich's army seems to carry only swords: where did Lohengrin find the gun with which he kills Telramund? Is that what the leg is really for?
And wait: these are all Germans. In World War I. Aren't the Germans generally counted as the Bad Guys in that war? And weren't they allied with the Austro-Hungarian Empire? One could go on and on.
Basic blocking and stage business often gets muddled. I have it on excellent authority that a patient dies in a tent during the Prelude to Act I following the amputation of his leg, suggesting that Lohengrin may have manifested by occupying the dead man's remains. At least on the night I was there, the incident was so subtly performed, and so underlit, that I am certain most of the audience missed it completely. Not a positive, if indeed it was meant to set up the entire premise of the production.
There are some vitrues to the physical production. The ruined church looks very good, for a ruin, and the use of an enormous turntable to expose different angles is particularly effective when Ortrud and Telramund plot their revenge in Act II.
Ah! The Music!
The redeeming features—which are sufficiently redeeming that I would recommend seeing one of the remaining performances on December 9 or 12—are all musical. The Los Angeles Opera Orchestra under James Conlon is simply tremendous in this performance. Maestro Conlon is a huge enthusiast for Wagner's music, deeply knowledgeable of how it works, and he and the orchestra provide full measure of satisfaction.
Among the principal singers, this production belongs entirely to the women. Elsa is something of a one-dimensional character—she's pure and innocent, don't you know—but she has been given some purely gorgeous music while she is about it. Soile Isokoski sings that music with warmth, point and precision, and is a joy to hear. As Elsa's nemesis Ortrud, Dolora Zajick carries all the conniving, dissembling, menacing force one could wish. Other than Maestro Conlon, it was Zajick who received the most enthusiastic response come the curtain call. Lohengrin was the last work Wagner structured around a large chorus, and both men and women shone.
Ben Heppner's Lohengrin is problematic at this time, despite being his signature role for the past two decades. I am given to understand that last night's performance was perhaps his best of this run, and there were stretches of real strength and impact, but one never knew when a note would suddenly be not quite there, or not quite the note that was intended. It was not an outright bad performance, by any means, but it carried a sad air of disappointment about it.
Proposal for a New Production of Lohengrin
I will close with my own production concept, which came to me during Act II last night. Make of it what you will.
In my konzept, Elsa is an allegorical figure representative of the Great and Good American Public. Her unknown knight, bearing with him the promise of hope and perhaps even change, is eventually revealed to be Barack Obama. Telramund and Ortrud are, of course, John McCain and Sarah Palin. By their carping, scheming and innuendo, they persuade the saintly Elsa to demand The Birth Certificate. His secret revealed, the nation's potential savior must instead return to the ether from whence he came, leaving us chastened and bereft.
Crazy? Yes, but it just might work. This is Opera, after all.
* Wagnerian purists distinguish between Wagner's "operas" and the later/greater "music dramas." Lohengrin is the last of the operas, opening the door to the music dramas to follow. Wagner was already contemplating the Ring cycle as he worked to complete Lohengrin, and hints of the musical advances to come gleam through, particularly in Act II.
Top Illustration: Stage machinery for a proper Lohengrin swan of the old school, from "Behind the Scenes of an Opera House" by Gustav Kobbé, Scribner's Magazine, volume 4, Issue 4 (1888), via The Wagner Library. In 1888, Lohengrin (1850) was a more recent and contemporary work than the songs of the Beatles or Jesus Christ Superstar are today.
Photos: by Robert Millard, courtesy Los Angeles Opera.
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AfriGeneas Health and Wellness Forum
Obesity and African Americans
Statistics from the Office of Minority Health:
- African American women have the highest rates of being overweight or obese compared to other groups in the U.S. About four out of five African American women are overweight or obese.1
- In 2005, African Americans were 1.4 times as likely to be obese as Non- Hispanic Whites.
- From 2001-2004, African American women were 70% more likely to be obese than Non-Hispanic White women.
- In 2003-2004, African American children between ages 6 -17 were 1.3 times as likely to be overweight than Non-Hispanic Whites.
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TAU Researchers Part of Team of International Scientists to Uncover the "God Particle" Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Higgs boson particle crucial for explaining how the universe was built
Tel Aviv University's Prof. Yaron Oz, dean of TAU's Faculty of Exact Sciences, and Prof. Aharon Levy of TAU's School of Physics and Astronomy were among the theoretical and experimental physicists who made the groundbreaking discovery of a particle known as the Higgs boson or "God particle," a key to understanding how the universe was built. The discovery was made at Geneva's European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN) and announced in early July.
First proposed in 1964 by a team of six physicists, including University of Edinburgh Professor Peter Higgs, the particle is said to explain the existence of mass. In particle physics, bosons are one of the two fundamental classes of subatomic particles. The Higgs boson is the final building block, missing until now from the "Standard Model," which describes the structure of matter in the universe. The model is to physicists what the theory of evolution is to biologists.
Prof. Yaron Oz
Albert Einstein would have been "very happy" at the discovery, Prof. Oz noted.
The term "God particle" originated with Prof. Max Lederman, an American experimental physicist who won the Nobel Prize in physics for his work with neutrinos. Prof. Lederman wrote a book using the term, "by which he meant the mysterious particle that's part of everything," Prof. Levy says. "Particle physics aims at understanding what conditions created the Big Bang that created the Universe, to look backwards as much as possible at that event."
Prof. Oz congratulated the group of researchers not only on their scientific achievement but also on their ability to put political considerations aside and work together for the good of humanity. Calling the huge CERN facility "what the UN should be," he said that "everybody is devoted to making the discovery as a team, without any politics or vested interests. I even worked with Iranians there, and there was never a harsh word between us. We all just want to understand. It was has already been proven that the nationals of the world can function together harmoniously for joint targets." | <urn:uuid:3395d913-9a54-4e42-8af6-a4b4a5198506> | 2013-05-26T03:03:42Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Bigo747 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Posted (10 years 9 months 2 days 21 hours ago) and read 912 times:
Latest from Taiwan today reporting that China Airlines is currently a major hike of the insurance costs. China Airlines' insurance company has calculated that China Airlines have to pay USD$120million insurance cost for it's whole fleet between Oct 1, 2002 to Sep 30, 2003.
China Airlines' insurance cost for 2001-2002 is USD$60million. The insurance company has also asked China Airlines to pay a tougher "guarantee fee".
If China Airlines unable to lower the price, it'll replace Korean Air as the #1 airline in the world to pay the most expensive insurance cost.
The reason why CI have to pay such price is mainly due to the September 11 terrorist attacks, and the crashed of B747-200 on May 25.
According to a statistic, every airline paid around USD$1 billion for annual insurance. In Recent years, Korean Air and China Airlines' insurance costs is 16% of the worldwide insurance costs. Korean Air paid USD$110million, and China Airlines paid USD$45million.
China Airlines currently have 41 pax jet and 13 Freighter, while Korean Air have 100 pax jet, and 19 Freighter.
China Airlines asked it's insurance company to lower the price. CI raised 2 points:
1. China Airlines will announce new orders in the near future, which will lower the average fleet age.
2. CI611 crash investigation is still going on, and the crash of the 742 didn't show it's a human error.
Meanwhile, CI have to pay a special "guarantee fee" like they did in 1998. CI paid USD$10million for the guarantee fee in 1998 in order to continue it's operations.
If China Airlines unable to reached a deal with the insurance company, effective October 1, 2002, China Airlines will be forced to shut down.
However, China Airlines' CEO says that the insurance cost is under USD$100million. | <urn:uuid:399125f9-1b54-49fc-9db4-c91e3543c6fa> | 2013-05-26T02:50:50Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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I cooked up a batch of these right before we headed off to a BBQ. Still have more left to eat for tomorrow morning.
Buttermilk Belgian Waffles
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon salt
4 teaspoons baking powder
2 tablespoons white sugar
1 1/2 cups buttermilk
1/3 cup butter, melted
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
In a large bowl, mix together flour, salt, baking powder and sugar; set aside. Preheat waffle iron
to desired temperature.
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Israel's ambassador to Sweden has become the latest public figure to be targeted by a shoe-throwing protester as he gave a speech at Stockholm University on the upcoming Israeli election, a spokeswoman for the school said Thursday.
Stockholm University officials said someone attending a student gathering called this week to hear Israeli Ambassador Benny Dagan explain Israel's forthcoming election hurled a shoe at him.
"A student organization had invited ambassador Benny Dagan to come talk about the Israeli election. It was during this talk Wednesday that some members of the audience threw a shoe and some other items at him," spokeswoman Maria Sandqvist said.
Sandqvist was not able to say whether Dagan was hit by the objects, but Swedish news agency TT said one of the objects hit him.
Police told TT a 35-year-old man and a 25-year-old woman were arrested for assault and public disorder.
Last December, an Iraqi journalist hurled both shoes at former U.S. President George W. Bush when he was on a farewell visit to Iraq in December.
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Palestinians to ask UN General Assembly destruction of Israeli wall
Following their victory in the U.N.'s highest court, the Palestinians will ask the General Assembly next week to demand that Israel destroy the wall it is building to seal off the West Bank.
On Friday, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled that Israel's West Bank wall is illegal and should be dismantled. The court also ordered Israel to pay reparations to Palestinians harmed by the barrier and return land seized to construct the wall.
The ICJ, the UN's highest legal body, said it has jurisdiction to rule on the legality of the barrier, which Israel is building.
In his opening words, the president of the ICJ, Judge Shi Jiuyong of China, said the court had the jurisdiction to give an advisory opinion requested by the UN General Assembly.
"The Court cannot accept the view..that it has no jurisdiction because of the 'political' character of the question posed..." he said. "The court accordingly has jurisdiction to give the advisory opinion."
By this, the court dismissed Israeli objections that the U.N. General Assembly acted irregularly in asking the court for an advisory opinion. It also rebuffed Israel's argument - supported by the United States and several European countries - that the court should refrain from interfering because the issue was political, not legal, and could disrupt peace efforts.
The court said that the wall could become tantamount to annexation of Palestinian land if it is completed and that it impeded the Palestinians' right to self-rule.
"The Court considers that the construction of the wall and its associate regime creates a 'fait accompli' on the ground that could well become permanent, in which case, and notwithstanding the formal characterization by Israel, it would be tantamount to de facto annexation," the court said.
"That construction, along with measures previously taken, thus severely impeded the exercise by the Palestinian people of its right to self-determination."
"The court accordingly finds that the construction of the wall, and its associated regime, are contrary to international laws."
"The court is of the view that the United Nations, and especially the General Assembly and the Security Council, should consider what further action is required to bring to an end the illegal situation resulting from the construction of the wall."
The judges were united in backing the decisions, with a vote of 14 to 1 for most paragraphs. Only an American judge dissented.
Palestinians called Friday's decision "historic." "The international high court decided clearly today that this racist wall is illegal to the root and Israel should stop building it and take down what has already been built of this wall. We welcome this decision," Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei said.
He praised the ruling bysaying "This is an historic day and a historic decision."
"The court has said to the world, to Israel and to the United States that the wall is illegal as it is built on other people's land, on occupied territory."
"Israel is in violation of international law, of international legitimacy, and the General Assembly now will be called upon to look into this matter," said Ambassador Yahya Mahmassani, the Arab League's U.N. representative.
On its part, Israel said the court ruling has totally ignored "Palestinian terorism," which was the main factor behind the wall's construction, an Israeli government statement said.
"If there was no terrorism, there would have been no fence," said the statement, which said that the court did "not have the competence to debate the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.
"This criminal terrorism has left over the last three and a half years nearly 1,000 (Israeli) people dead and tens of thousands wounded in more than 20,000 attacks.
"No country would have acted differently in the face of such a criminal campaign. "Since the erection of the barrier, the number of victims has fallen substantially. The barrier is working."
White House spokesman Scott McClellan denounced the decision, saying the United States believed the dispute should be resolved politically. "We've always said that is not the appropriate form to resolve what is a political issue," he said. (albawaba.com)
© 2004 Al Bawaba (www.albawaba.com)
- UK opposes review of Israel's West Bank Wall at the international court of justice in The Hague
- PA: Israel refusal to defend ''separation wall'' in the Hague - '\'admission of guilt'\'
- Annan: Israel should respect ICJ ruling on wall
- U.N. General Assembly vote on West Bank wall: Palestinians hail, Israel ignores
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This is the fallback content for users who cannot see the Google Map.
The Rheinwaldhorn is the highest point in the Swiss canton of Ticino at 3402m. It lies on the border between the cantons of Graubünden and Ticino, in the Adula massif, part of the St. Gotthard massif of the Lepontine Alps in southern Switzerland.
The mountain is known under different names, Rheinwaldhorn, Adula or Piz Valrhein. The group of the snowy peaks lying between the two principal branches of the Rhine were knonw in the Middle Ages by the names Mons Aquila or Mons Avium. From the Romansh form of the first comes the name Adula, which is used to designate the north-eastern portion of the Lepontine Alps. | <urn:uuid:3673499d-7116-4388-ac2c-8070d8e28efd> | 2013-05-26T02:41:12Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The Sign on Rosie's Door
This is the humorous story of how Rosie and the neighbourhood children find fun and wonderful ways to fill their days:One day there is a sign on ... Show synopsis This is the humorous story of how Rosie and the neighbourhood children find fun and wonderful ways to fill their days:One day there is a sign on Rosie's door that reads, 'If you want to know a secret, knock three times.' Rosie's secret is that today she is not Rosie, today she is Alinda, the lovely lady singer and together with her friend Kathy, alias Cha-Charoo the Arabian dancing girl, they put on a great musical show for Dolly, Pudgy and Sal. Until, that is, they are interrupted by Lenny who today is a fireman and they all dash off to help him put out fires. Soon there is another sign on Rosie's door which leads the gang to her front steps where they all sit quietly waiting for the Magic Man, who is coming to tell them what to do. When he finally arrives he tells them all to be firecrackers , so they Boom and Whizz and Fizz until it is time to go home for tea. | <urn:uuid:386550ca-069e-4970-9947-8cb8528448b4> | 2013-05-26T02:54:47Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Spain's Dani Pedrosa surged past Jorge Lorenzo in the final turn at the Czech MotoGP on Sunday, winning a dramatic finish in Brno to narrow his compatriot's lead in the riders' championship.
Pedrosa, fresh off victory last weekend at Indianapolis, overtook Lorenzo midway through the race but needed to pass the championship leader at the end after losing his lead in the middle of the last lap.
The Honda rider finished in a time of 42:51.570, just 0.178 seconds ahead of Lorenzo on his Yamaha.
Britain's Cal Crutchlow finished third to claim his first podium spot of the season, easily ahead of Yamaha teammate Andrea Dovizioso of Italy in fourth place.
The Spanish rivals led the pack from the start of the race, and Pedrosa said he knew he still had enough to get past Lorenzo even after trailing before the final two turns.
"We were head to head into the (final) corner, but I was able to get my line and win this race," Pedrosa said.
"It was amazing, and I am just so happy to win the race."
Closing the gap
It was the third victory of the season for Pedrosa, who has never finished better than second overall since moving to MotoGP in 2006. He is now on 232 points, 13 points behind Lorenzo in the standings with six races remaining.
Honda rider Casey Stoner, the 2011 champion who was ruled out this weekend because he needs surgery on his damaged left ankle, is third overall and 59 points behind.
Lorenzo had started from pole after setting a lap record on the 5.4 km Brno track in qualifying on Saturday.
The 2010 champion and last year's runner-up controlled the first half of the race, which was run on a slightly wet track after heavy overnight rain. But Lorenzo took a wider line than he wanted to in the second-to-last turn.
"We were head to head into the (final) corner, but I was able to get my line and win this race"
"My line was so wide, so I released a little space for him to overtake me," he said.
"I wanted to pass him in the last corner, which was impossible. He was in a faster line."
Italy's Valentino Rossi, a nine-times world champion across the classes but enduring a second tough season for Ducati, had held the previous lap record in Brno.
He finished seventh on Sunday behind Honda riders Stefan Bradl of Germany and Alvaro Bautista of Spain.
Ducati rider Karel Abraham had his best result on his home track, finishing ninth. Lorenzo's teammate, the American Ben Spies, crashed out with 14 laps remaining, while Spain's Ivan Silva also failed to finish.
Ducati's Nicky Hayden missed Sunday's race after suffering a hand injury last weekend.
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The war in Colombia has been ongoing for over 60 years. There have been several failed attempts for peace between the government and FARC.
Now there appears to be another chance, as FARC and the government have supposedly agreed to the termination of the armed conflict. Never before has FARC spoken about laying down their weapons, and many hope it is a sign that dialogue will prevail this time.
Al Jazeera's Teresa Bo reports from Bogota. | <urn:uuid:9d8e21a3-b64e-41eb-a180-9a0e114eefb3> | 2013-05-26T03:03:58Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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If you want to add your voice and contribute to this existing news event, use the event code
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Population Guide: Dairy
How Many Is Too Many?
An effective control program keeps horn fly levels to fewer than 50 per animal. This at-a-glance-guide will help you easily evaluate the effect that horn flies currently have on your herd. Keep these other assessment tips in mind, too.
- The horn fly is charcoal gray and approximately five millimeters long (half the size of a typical house fly).
- Adult horn flies are located on the backs of cattle, often clustering on the midline and spreading down the sides. Sometimes, they settle around the base of cattle horns. When the weather is hot, they may move onto the animals' undersides.
- It's easiest to make the most accurate estimate in the morning, when horn flies are on the upper sides of the cows.
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The second trailer for the much-anticipated The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is now out. You can view the trailer below. The film, which hits theaters December 14, is the prequel to the famous Lord Of The Rings trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien. Peter Jackson, who directed all three of the Lord Of The Rings movies, will also direct The Hobbit. | <urn:uuid:0a317e96-5160-4bf6-866b-0d34ce4ccd1e> | 2013-05-26T02:54:38Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Restrictions of freedom
It gives me great pleasure to present the Dementia in Europe Yearbook 2011.
In addition to the Annual Report of Alzheimer Europe for 2010, it contains our work on the legal provisions relating to the restriction of the freedom of move- ment of people with dementia. The main topics addressed are involuntary internment, the use of coercive measures and restrictions relating to driving licences.
Involuntary internment is the term used to describe the situation whereby a person is obliged by law to reside in some form of institution. Usually, the grounds for this restriction of liberty are that the person has a mental disor- der and is considered as a danger to him/herself or others. National laws are often ill-suited to the needs of people with dementia. In some countries, it only concerns internment in a psychiatric institution or ward which is not the ideal place to provide appropriate care and support for people with dementia.
The term “coercive measures” denotes methods that are used to restrain a person which involve restraint, force or threat. Examples would include bed rails, chair and bed belts, threatening behaviour or words, various electronic devices and the use of tranquilis- ers. Sometimes, coercive measures can be quite subtle such as forcing people to wear sleeping attire thereby making many people feel unable to leave the building. The use of coercive measures can sometimes be justified (e.g. to prevent a person from harm- ing him/herself or others, or to enable medical staff to administer necessary medication or treatment).
However, these measures infringe on people’s personal liberty which is a fundamental human right. Consequently, their use must be closely monitored. In the case of people with dementia, many of whom are older and frail, many forms of coercion are increasingly considered as abusive and to be avoided if at all possible. There is even evidence that the use of certain forms of restraint can increase the likelihood of falls or harm.
The withdrawal of one’s driving licence (or limitations on its use) is also perceived as a restriction of freedom of movement by many people with dementia. No longer having the opportunity to drive often entails a gradual restriction of one’s activities and social contacts. In the sections on driving, we look at the legal regulations and processes gov- erning the renewal and withdrawal of driving licences.
Dedicated lawyers and legal experts throughout Europe contributed their expertise and time to the drafting of a separate report for each country. This made it possible to pub- lish a report on the legal issues relating to the restriction of liberty of people with dementia in 32 different countries. We would like to thank all the lawyers and legal experts for their work and for making this possible. You will find a list of all those who helped in this way and to whom we are deeply grateful at the end of this report in section 3. I would also like to thank Dianne Gove, Information Officer of Alzheimer Europe, for having prepared the reports for the countries in which we had no legal expert and for organising the compilation of this year’s Lawnet report.
W have made every possible effort to ensure that the information in this report is accurate. However, amendments and new laws are continuously been passed and existing laws repealed. We would therefore be pleased to be informed of any relevant developments in the period following publication of this report.
We hope that this publication will be of interest to policy makers, researchers, people with dementia and anyone with an interest in the legal protection and rights of people with dementia. An overview and comparison of the legal provisions in different countries may be helpful in highlighting areas where the rights and protection of people with dementia are lacking or inadequate, or on the contrary, countries in which the legal provisions provide an appropriate response to the protection and rights of people with dementia.
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Restrictions of freedom
According to article 434 of the Penal Code, anybody who unlawfully arrests or detains another person without authorisation is guilty of an offence and liable to a prison sentence (please see sub-section on coercive measures for more details).
However, the Law of 10 December 2009 on the placement of people suffering from mental disorders provides the legal justification to detain people with dementia in the psychiatric departments of hospitals or in specialized psychiatric establishments. It does apply to placement or the deprivation of liberty in day care centres or other establishments.
The conditions for involuntary internment
The procedure for involuntary internment involves two stages. First, there is a procedure to detain a person for the purposes of observation and second, there is a procedure for the involuntary placement of the person in question.
Article 3 states that a person who is suffering from a mental disorder should be treated in the locality in which s/he lives to the extent that this is possible. The person can be interned in a closed psychiatric establishment or department according to the provisions of this law only if s/he:
- is suffering from a mental disorder and
- this makes him/her a danger to him/herself or other people.
A diminution of mental faculties due to ageing is not, in itself, sufficient grounds for a placement.
The procedure for involuntary internment
The following people can request internment: the curator or tutor of an incapable adult, a member of the family or another interested person. If a person represents a threat to public order or safety, the request may be made by the mayor of the commune, the deputy mayor, the chief of the police brigade or station or his/her replacement appointed by the mayor or the State Prosecutor.
The person making the request must explain his/her reasons and provide a medical certificate (not more than three days old) from a doctor who has examined the patient on the day it was written. The doctor cannot be the person's spouse, a relative or a future inheritor. Neither can s/he belong to the establishment where the person would be interned. In cases of urgency, the medical certificate is not demanded at the time of the patient's placement, but must be produced within 24 hours.
The director of the establishment then receives the person and must notify the State Prosecutor and Chairman of the Supervisory Commission within 48 hours. The patient is placed under observation for a period of 15 days, during which the doctor observes the patient and carries out the relevant examinations in order to determine whether or not s/he should remain in care and in order to make the diagnosis. After this period, the doctor decides whether the patient should be kept in hospital or released and informs the State Prosecutor and the Chairman of the Supervisory Commission. S/he informs the patient of the decision, as well as the person who made the request for internment.
The right to appeal and review process
After one year has passed since the decision to intern the patient was made, a commission composed of a judicial magistrate, a doctor specialised in psychiatry or neurology and a community health worker or health visitor (not attached to the establishment) consult with the treating doctor and gather the necessary information in order to decide whether the patient's detention remains justified. If it is decided to maintain the patient in hospital, the committee meets again in two years' time and then every two years.
The patient may at any time apply to the court of the district in which the establishment is located in order to request that s/he be discharged. Any other interested party may also make such a request. However, once an appeal has been rejected, it is necessary to wait a year until making another appeal, as otherwise it will not be considered.
Confinement at home
An alternative to internment in a psychiatric establishment is the possibility to sequestrate a person who is suffering from a mental disorder at home. The person who proposes this must obtain a medical certificate and make the request to the tutelary judge. The judge then arranges for a medical examination of the person to be guarded by a specialist in psychiatry or neurology. Authorisation can only be given if both doctors agree on the necessity of this protective measure and that the person can be cared for at home. If this is the case, the judge fixes the conditions and informs the State Prosecutor of the decision.
The two magistrates can then visit the person whenever they see fit, although the judge must make a visit whenever the designated doctor considers it necessary and at least once every three months. The doctor must inform the judge if at any time s/he considers it necessary for the person to be interned due to a deterioration of the latter's condition or if the person responsible for care and lodging has not observed the conditions previously agreed upon.
According to article 30 of the Law of 26th May 1998 on the placement of people suffering from mental disorders in closed psychiatric establishments or departments, the Ministry of Health designates a civil servant in each establishment who is responsible for informing patients of their rights, notably in connection with the said law. This civil servant can also advise them in legal or general matters which concern them.
Deprivation of freedom
The illegal deprivation of a person’s liberty carries a prison sentence of between 3 months and 2 years and a fine of between EUR 251 and EUR 2,000 for the person responsible for such act (art.434 of the Penal Code). The duration of imprisonment and the amount of the fine are considerably higher if the duration of illegal and arbitrary deprivation of liberty was over 10 days or 1 month (articles 435 and 436 of the Penal Code) i.e. up to a maximum of EUR 5,000 and of 5 years’ imprisonment.
According to article 398 of the Penal Code, whoever voluntarily injures or strikes another person will be punished with a prison sentence and a fine or just one of these punishments. If the act was carried out with premeditation, the sentences can be increased to a maximum of one year’s imprisonment and a fine of EUR 2,000.
A person who voluntarily injures or hits another person may be fined between EUR 251 and EUR 5,000 and receive a prison sentence of between 6 months and 5 years if that person is, for example, his/her partner, parent, sibling or someone who is particularly vulnerable due to their age, an illness, a physical or mental deficiency of which the perpetrator is aware (article 409 of the Penal Code). If the violence is carried out by a person who lives with the victim, the former may be ordered to maintain a certain distance from the home and from the victim and to refrain from contacting the victim.
Article 77 of the Road Traffic Regulations with amendments up to 6 May 2010 (Arrêté grand-ducal du 23 novembre 1955 portant règlement de la circulation sur toutes les voies publiques)stipulates that in order to obtain or renew a driving licence, a person must have a medical test to ensure that s/he is not suffering from an infirmity or disorder liable to affect his/her ability or capacity to drive. A person who is already in possession of a valid driving licence may be requested at any time by the Ministry of Transport to have a medical examination if there is a doubt concerning his/her ability and capacity to drive. One of the aims of the medical examination is to determine whether or not the person is suffering from a mental disorder. Concerning mental disorder, subsection 6 of article 77 states:
"If the interested party is affected by mental disorder due t o illness, trauma or an operation on the central nervous system or obvious mental retardation, or if s/he is suffering from a serious psychotic disorder, the driving licence is only issued or renewed on the advice of the Medical Commission. The same applies to candidates presenting serious behavioural disorders due to ageing or a major disorder in the capacity of judgement, behaviour or adaptation linked to the personality."
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In 1621, the Plymouth colonists and Wampanoag Indians shared an autumn harvest feast that is acknowledged today as one of the first Thanksgiving celebrations in the colonies. For more than two centuries, days of thanksgiving were celebrated by individual colonies and states.
It wasn't until October 1777 that all 13 colonies celebrated day of Thanksgiving.
The very first national day of Thanksgiving was held in 1789, when President George Washington proclaimed Thursday, Nov. 26, to be "a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness."
Though a national day of Thanksgiving was declared in 1789, Thanksgiving was not an annual celebration.
We owe the modern concept of Thanksgiving to poet and editor, Sarah Josepha Hale. Hale wrote the famous nursery rhyme, "Mary Had a Little Lamb," and was editor of "Godey's Lady's Book." She spent 40 years advocating for a national, annual Thanksgiving holiday.
In the years leading up to the Civil War, she saw the holiday as a way to infuse hope and belief in the nation and the constitution. So, when the United States was torn in half during the Civil War and President Abraham Lincoln was searching for a way to bring the nation together, he discussed the matter with Hale.
On Oct. 3, 1863, Lincoln issued a Thanksgiving Proclamation that declared the last Thursday in November (based on Washington's date) to be a day of "thanksgiving and praise."
For the first time, Thanksgiving became a national, annual holiday with a specific date.
For 75 years after Lincoln issued his Thanksgiving Proclamation, succeeding presidents honored the tradition and annually issued their own Thanksgiving Proclamation, declaring the last Thursday in November as the day of Thanksgiving.
However, in 1939, during the Great Depression, the date of Thanksgiving was scheduled to be Nov. 30.
Retailers complained to President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) that this only left 24 shopping days to Christmas and begged him to push Thanksgiving just one week earlier. It was determined that most people do their Christmas shopping after Thanksgiving and retailers hope that with an extra week of shopping, people would buy more.
When FDR announced his Thanksgiving Proclamation in 1939, he declared the date of Thanksgiving to be Thursday, Nov. 23, the second-to-last Thursday of the month.
The new date for Thanksgiving caused a lot of confusion. Calendars were now incorrect. Schools who had planned vacations and tests now had to reschedule. Thanksgiving had been a big day for football games, as it is today, so the game schedule had to be examined.
Before 1939, governors followed the president in officially proclaiming the same day as Thanksgiving for their state. In 1939, many governors did not agree with FDR's decision to change the date and refused to follow him. The country became split on which Thanksgiving they should observe.
Twenty-three states followed FDR's change. Twenty-three other states disagreed with FDR and kept the traditional date for Thanksgiving. Two states, Colorado and Texas, decided to honor both dates.
This idea of two Thanksgiving days split some families because not everyone had the same day off work.
Did it work?
The answer was no. Businesses reported that the spending was approximately the same but the distribution of the shopping was changed.
For those states who celebrated the earlier Thanksgiving date, the shopping was evenly distributed throughout the season. For those states that kept the traditional date, businesses experienced a bulk of shopping in the last week before Christmas.
In 1940, FDR again announced Thanksgiving to be the second-to-last Thursday of the month. This time, 31 states followed him with the earlier date and 17 kept the traditional date. Confusion over two Thanksgivings continued.
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Three things combine to make this a worthwhile recording. First there is the sound. The sound in RCA's Living Stereo series of recordings is superb. I have a few and intend to purchase more.
The second is the orchestra, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Fritz Reiner was noted as an accomplished orchestra-builder and the Chicago Symphony is regarded as his greatest achievement. Igor Stravinsky is said to have described it as the most accurate and flexible orchestra in the world. It plays here with refinement, beauty and power.
The third element is the conductor. Fritz Reiner was born in Hungary but his greatest achievements were in America. He was not a showman on the podium. He conducted with a minimum of extravagance and show. But he achieved wonderful results, as we find here.
If you buy this recording you will have music that will give you great delight in both symphonies. Is it a great recording? It possibly just misses that accolade. He has some very strong competition in both these symphonies. Listen to Kubelik and Klemperer. Klemperer is more measured in his approach, but there is a tension in it I find missing in Reiner's playing.
Having said that, I recommend this CD wholeheartedly as well worth buying. I think you will enjoy it and return to it often . | <urn:uuid:d1f6c30e-0e51-4cb4-bb94-1e8c9364e910> | 2013-05-26T03:09:59Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Every generation has to reinvent the practice of computer programming. In the 1950s the key innovations were programming languages such as Fortran and Lisp. The 1960s and '70s saw a crusade to root out "spaghetti code" and replace it with "structured programming." Since the 1980s software development has been dominated by a methodology known as object-oriented programming, or OOP. Now there are signs that OOP may be running out of oomph, and discontented programmers are once again casting about for the next big idea. It's time to look at what might await us in the post-OOP era (apart from an unfortunate acronym).
The Tar Pit
The architects of the earliest computer systems gave little thought to software. (The very word was still a decade in the future.) Building the machine itself was the serious intellectual challenge; converting mathematical formulas into program statements looked like a routine clerical task. The awful truth came out soon enough. Maurice V. Wilkes, who wrote what may have been the first working computer program, had his personal epiphany in 1949, when "the realization came over me with full force that a good part of the remainder of my life was going to be spent in finding errors in my own programs." Half a century later, we're still debugging.
The very first programs were written in pure binary notation: Both data and instructions had to be encoded in long, featureless strings of 1s and 0s. Moreover, it was up to the programmer to keep track of where everything was stored in the machine's memory. Before you could call a subroutine, you had to calculate its address.
The technology that lifted these burdens from the programmer was assembly language, in which raw binary codes were replaced by symbols such as load, store, add, sub. The symbols were translated into binary by a program called an assembler, which also calculated addresses. This was the first of many instances in which the computer was recruited to help with its own programming.
Assembly language was a crucial early advance, but still the programmer had to keep in mind all the minutiae in the instruction set of a specific computer. Evaluating a short mathematical expression such as x2+y2 might require dozens of assembly-language instructions. Higher-level languages freed the programmer to think in terms of variables and equations rather than registers and addresses. In Fortran, for example, x2+y2 would be written simply as X**2+Y**2. Expressions of this kind are translated into binary form by a program called a compiler.
With Fortran and the languages that followed, programmers finally had the tools they needed to get into really serious trouble. By the 1960s large software projects were notorious for being late, overbudget and buggy; soon came the appalling news that the cost of software was overtaking that of hardware. Frederick P. Brooks, Jr., who managed the OS/360 software program at IBM, called large-system programming a "tar pit" and remarked, "Everyone seems to have been surprised by the stickiness of the problem."
One response to this crisis was structured programming, a reform movement whose manifesto was Edsger W. Dijkstra's brief letter to the editor titled "Go to statement considered harmful." Structured programs were to be built out of subunits that have a single entrance point and a single exit (eschewing the goto command, which allows jumps into or out of the middle of a routine). Three such constructs were recommended: sequencing (do A, then B, then C), alternation (either do A or do B) and iteration (repeat A until some condition is satisfied). Corrado Böhm and Giuseppe Jacopini proved that these three idioms are sufficient to express essentially all programs.
Structured programming came packaged with a number of related principles and imperatives. Top-down design and stepwise refinement urged the programmer to set forth the broad outlines of a procedure first and only later fill in the details. Modularity called for self-contained units with simple interfaces between them. Encapsulation, or data hiding, required that the internal workings of a module be kept private, so that later changes to the module would not affect other areas of the program. All of these ideas have proved their worth and remain a part of software practice today. But they did not rescue programmers from the tar pit.
Nouns and Verbs
The true history of software development is not a straight line but a meandering river with dozens of branches. Some of the tributaries—functional programming, declarative programming, methods based on formal proofs of correctness—are no less interesting than the mainstream, but here I have room to explore only one channel: object-
Consider a program for manipulating simple geometric figures. In a non-OOP environment, you might begin by writing a series of procedures with names such as rotate, scale, reflect, calculate-area, calculate-perimeter. Each of these verblike procedures could be applied to triangles, squares, circles and many other shapes; the figures themselves are nounlike entities embodied in data structures separate from the procedures. For example, a triangle might by represented by an array of three vertices, where each vertex is a pair of x and y coordinates. Applying the rotate procedure to this data structure would alter the coordinates and thereby turn the triangle.
What's the matter with this scheme? One likely source of trouble is that the procedures and the data structures are separate but interdependent. If you change your mind about the implementation of triangles—perhaps using a linked list of points instead of an array—you must remember to change all the procedures that might ever be applied to a triangle. Also, choosing different representations for some of the figures becomes awkward. If you describe a circle in terms of a center and a radius rather than a set of vertices, all the procedures have to treat circles as a special case. Yet another pitfall is that the data structures are public property, and the procedures that share them may not always play nicely together. A figure altered by one procedure might no longer be valid input for another.
Object-oriented programming addresses these issues by packing both data and procedures—both nouns and verbs—into a single object. An object named triangle would have inside it some data structure representing a three-sided shape, but it would also include the procedures (called methods in this context) for acting on the data. To rotate a triangle, you send a message to the triangle object, telling it to rotate itself. Sending and receiving messages is the only way objects communicate with one another; outsiders are not allowed direct access to the data. Because only the object's own methods know about the internal data structures, it's easier to keep them in sync.
This scheme would not have much appeal if every time you wanted to create a triangle, you had to write out all the necessary data structures and methods—but that's not how it works. You define the class triangle just once; individual triangles are created as instances of the class. A mechanism called inheritance takes this idea a step further. You might define a more-general class polygon, which would have triangle as a subclass, along with other subclasses such as quadrilateral, pentagon and hexagon. Some methods would be common to all polygons; one example is the calculation of perimeter, which can be done by adding the lengths of the sides, no matter how many sides there are. If you define the method calculate-perimeter in the class polygon, all the subclasses inherit this code.
Object-oriented programming traces its heritage back to simula, a programming language devised in the 1960s by Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard. Some object-oriented ideas were also anticipated by David L. Parnas. And the Sketchpad system of Ivan Sutherland was yet another source of inspiration. The various threads came together when Alan Kay and his colleagues created the Smalltalk language at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in the 1970s. Within a decade several more object-oriented languages were in use, most notably Bjarne Stroustrup's C++, and later Java. Object-oriented features have also been retrofitted onto older languages, such as Lisp.
As OOP has transformed the way programs are written, there has also been a major shift in the nature of the programs themselves. In the software-engineering literature of the 1960s and '70s, example programs tend to have a sausage-grinder structure: Inputs enter at one end, and outputs emerge at the other. An example is a compiler, which transforms source code into machine code. Programs written in this style have not disappeared, but they are no longer the center of attention. The emphasis now is on interactive software with a graphical user interface. Programming manuals for object-oriented languages are all about windows and menus and mouse clicks. In other words, OOP is not just a different solution; it also solves a different problem.
Aspects and Objects
Most of the post-OOP initiatives do not aim to supplant object-oriented programming; they seek to refine or improve or reinvigorate it. A case in point is aspect-oriented programming, or AOP.
The classic challenge in writing object-oriented programs is finding the right decomposition into classes and objects. Returning to the example of a program for playing with geometric figures, a typical instance of the class pentagon might look like this: . But this object is also a pentagon: . And so is this: . To accommodate the differences between these figures, you could introduce subclasses of pentagon—perhaps named convex-pentagon, non-convex-pentagon and five-pointed-star. But then you would have to do the same thing for hexagons, heptagons and so forth, which soon becomes tedious. Moreover, this classification would give you no way to write methods that apply, say, to all convex polygons but to no others. An alternative decomposition would divide the polygon class into convex-polygon and non-convex-polygon, then subdivide the latter class into simple-polygon and self-intersecting-polygon. With this choice, however, you lose the ability to address all five-sided figures as a group.
One solution to this quandary is multiple inheritance—allowing a class to have more than one parent. Thus a five-pointed star could be a subclass both of pentagon and of self-intersecting-polygon and could inherit methods from both. The wisdom of this arrangement is a matter of eternal controversy in the OOP community.
Aspect-oriented programming takes another approach to dealing with "crosscutting" issues that cannot easily be arranged in a treelike hierarchy. An example in the geometry program might be the need to update a display window every time a figure is moved or modified. The straightforward OOP solution is to have each method that changes the appearance of a figure (such as rotate or scale) send a message to a display-manager object, telling the display what needs to be redrawn. But hundreds of methods could send such messages. Even apart from the boredom of writing the same code over and over, there is the worry that the interface to the display manager might change someday, requiring many methods to be revised. The AOP answer is to isolate the display-update "aspect" of the program in a module of its own. The programmer writes one instance of the code that calls for a display update, along with a specification of all the occasions on which that code is to be invoked—for example, whenever a rotate method is executed. Then even though the text of the rotate method does not mention display updating, the appropriate message is sent at the appropriate time.
An AOP system called AspectJ, developed by Gregor Kiczales and a group of colleagues at Xerox PARC, works as an extension of the Java language. AOP is particularly attractive for implementing ubiquitous tasks such as error-handling, the logging of events, and synchronizing multiple threads of execution, which might otherwise be scattered throughout a program. But there are dissenting views. Jörg Kienzle and Rachid Guerraoui report on an attempt to build a transaction-
processing system with AspectJ, where the key requirement is that transactions be executed completely or not at all (so that the system cannot debit one account without crediting another). They found it difficult to cleanly isolate this property as an aspect.
Surely the most obvious place to look for help with programming a computer is the computer itself. If Fortran can be compiled into machine code, then why not transform some higher-level description or specification directly into a ready-to-run program? This is an old dream. It lives on under names such as generative programming, metaprogramming and intentional programming.
In general, fully automatic programming remains beyond our reach, but there is one area where the idea has solid theoretical underpinnings as well as a record of practical success: in the building of compilers. Instead of hand-crafting a compiler for a specific programming language, the common practice is to write a grammar for the language and then generate the compiler with a program called a compiler compiler. (The best-known of these programs is Yacc, which stands for "yet another compiler compiler.")
Generative programming would adapt this model to other domains. For example, a program generator for the kind of software that controls printers and other peripheral devices would accept a grammar-like description of the device and produce an appropriately specialized program. Another kind of generator might assemble "protocol stacks" for computer networking.
Krzysztof Czarnecki and Ulrich W. Eisenecker compare a generative-programming system to a factory for manufacturing automobiles. Building the factory is more work than building a single car by hand, but the factory can produce thousands of cars. Moreover, if the factory is designed well, it can turn out many different models just by changing the specifications. Likewise generative programming would create families of programs tailored to diverse circumstances but all assembled from similar components.
The Quality Without a Name
Another new programming methodology draws its inspiration from an unexpected quarter. Although the term "computer architecture" goes back to the dawn of the industry, it was nonetheless a surprise when a band of software designers became disciples of a bricks-and-steel architect, Christopher Alexander. Even Alexander was surprised.
Alexander is known for the enigmatic thesis that well-designed buildings and towns must have "the quality without a name." He explains: "The fact that this quality cannot be named does not mean that it is vague or imprecise. It is impossible to name because it is unerringly precise." Does that answer your question?
Even if the quality had a name, it's not clear how one would turn it into a prescription for building good houses—or good software. Fortunately, Alexander is more explicit elsewhere in his writings. He urges architects to exploit recurrent patterns observed in both problems and solutions. For the pattern of events labeled "watching the world go by," a good solution is probably going to look something like a front porch. Taken over into the world of software, this approach leads to a catalogue of design patterns for solving specific, recurring problems in object-oriented programming. For example, a pattern named Bridge deals with the problem of setting up communications between two objects that may not know of each other's existence at the time a program is written. A pattern named Composite handles the situation where a single object and a collection of multiple objects have to be given the same status, as is often the case with files and directories of files.
Over the past 10 years a sizable community has grown up around the pattern idea. There are dozens of books, web sites and an annual conference called Pattern Languages of Programming, or PLoP. Compared with earlier reform movements in computing, the pattern community sounds a little unfocused and New Age. Whereas structured programming was founded on a proof that three specific structures suffice to express all algorithms, there is nothing resembling such a proof to justify the selection of ideas included in catalogues of design patterns. As a matter of fact, the whole idea of proofs seems to be out of favor in the pattern community.
Software Jeremiahs usually preach that programming should be an engineering profession, guided by standards analogous to building codes, or else it should be a branch of applied mathematics, with programs constructed like mathematical proofs. The pattern movement rejects both of these ideals and suggests instead that programmers are like carpenters or stonemasons—stewards of a body of knowledge gained by experience and passed along by tradition and apprenticeship. This is a movement of practitioners, not academics. Pattern advocates express particular contempt for the notion that programming might someday be taken over entirely by the computer. Automating a craft, they argue, is not only infeasible but also undesirable.
The rhetoric of the pattern movement may sound like the ranting of a fringe group, but pattern methods have been adopted in several large organizations producing large—and successful—software systems. (When you make a phone call, you may well be relying on the work of programmers seeking out the quality without a name.) Moreover, beyond the rhetoric, the writings of the software-patterns community can be quite down-to-earth and pragmatic.
If the pattern community is on the radical fringe, how far out is extreme programming (or, as it is sometimes spelled, eXtreme programming)? For the leaders of this movement, the issue is not so much the nature of the software itself but the way programming projects are organized and managed. They want to peel away layers of bureaucracy and jettison most of the stages of analysis, planning, testing, review and documentation that slow down software development. Just let programmers program! The recommended protocol is to work in pairs, two programmers huddling over a single keyboard, checking their own work as they go along. Is it a fad? A cult? Although the name may evoke a culture of body piercing and bungee jumping, extreme programming seems to have gained a foothold among the pinstriped suits. The first major project completed under the method was a payroll system for a transnational automobile manufacturer.
Ask Me About My OOP Diet
Frederick Brooks, who wrote of the tar pit in the 1960s, followed up in 1987 with an essay on the futility of seeking a "silver bullet," a single magical remedy for all of software's ills. Techniques such as object-oriented programming might alleviate "accidental difficulties" of software development, he said, but the essential complexity cannot be wished away. This pronouncement that the disease is incurable made everyone feel better. But it deterred no one from proposing remedies.
After several weeks' immersion in the how-to-program literature, I am reminded of the shelves upon shelves of diet books in the self-help department of my local bookstore. In saying this I mean no disrespect to either genre. Most diet books, somewhere deep inside, offer sound advice: Eat less, exercise more. Most programming manuals also give wise counsel: Modularize, encapsulate. But surveying the hundreds of titles in both categories leaves me with a nagging doubt: The very multiplicity of answers undermines them all. Isn't it likely that we'd all be thinner, and we'd all have better software, if there were just one true diet, and one true programming methodology?
Maybe that day will come. In the meantime, I'm going on a spaghetti-code diet.
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Touch the screen here and shake your phone to play. By changing speed and angle of your shaking movement you can change phrases or switch to Tsugaru Shamisen phrases.
Warning: Be sure to grasp your phone firmly while playing!
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DescripciónGrab your six shooter and aim for the sky. Shoot targets as they are flipped into the air in this wild west shooter.
Classic - Shoot each target as it's thrown into the air. Miss five and the game ends.
Timed - Shoot as many targets as you can before time runs out.
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Each month there is a special South Carolina token or medal that is highlighted as the Token or Medal of the Month. This month we will showcase an interesting early 20th century trade token from the city of Charleston.
The city of Charleston has always played a significant role in the history of the state of South Carolina. From its beginnings in 1670 as a small colonial settlement at the confluence of the Ashley and Cooper Rivers, through its growing importance as a seaport for the fledgling nation, to its part as the incendiary flashpoint in the sectional conflict which became the Civil War, the city has enjoyed a prominence that seemingly lifted it above similar communities in the state. It is no small wonder then, that some of its citizens thought the city to occupy a pedestal raised above its South Carolina neighbors.
It was this feeling of superiority that occasionally led some Charlestonians to consider themselves immune from the laws and social mores governing the rest of the state. And this sentiment, in turn, gave rise to the issuance of this month's token, which so publicly flaunted Charleston's opposition to the state dispensary law and the temperance movement behind it.
On its surface, the 29mm aluminum token shown above does not appear to carry any hint of its true nature. The innocuous inscription on the obverse reads GOOD FOR 5¢ IN TRADE AT CHICCO'S CAFE. The pictorial of the blindfolded tiger on the reverse, however, is a blatant advertisement for the "supposedly" clandestine saloon which Vincent Chicco operated in conjunction with his cafe. And, as such, the token speaks volumes on Charleston's open opposition to the state legislature's attempts to outlaw saloons and the sale of liquor by the drink in the late 1890s and early 1900s.
During the aforementioned time period hundreds of "blind tigers," as they were commonly called, sprung up in Charleston and other cities in South Carolina. The illegal drinking establishments were a logical response to Governor Ben Tillman's attempt to legislate the drinking habits of a populace which liked its liquor. Tillman had much difficulty in controlling the "blind tigers" across the state, but especially so in the city of Charleston. Several times during his tenure in office he had to send out state constables to arrest any proprietors they could catch selling alcohol illegally. Vincent Chicco was one of the first people arrested after the enactment of Tillman's dispensary bill. A scant two weeks after the bill became law, Chicco was arrested and brought before a judge for illegal liquor sales. The details of his arrest and subsequent legal proceedings were covered prominently in the Charleston newspapers and Chicco's case became infamous. Despite his brush with the law, he continued to sell alcohol to his customers in open defiance of the dispensary law and was subsequently arrested at least three times, in 1901, 1902, and 1903.
Chicco apparently operated more than one clandestine saloon, and became known as the "King of the Blind Tigers." His main base of operations was at 83 Market Street, where he and his growing family lived in an apartment above the premises. At times Chicco's business was listed in the city directories as a grocery, a delicatessen, a cafe, and a restaurant. Prior to July 1893, when the dispensary act came into effect, Chicco was listed as a saloonkeeper. In 1894 and beyond, his business was never again described as a saloon, but his advertisements in the city directories certainly made it known that he sold wines and liquors.
Chicco parlayed his notoriety for opposing the dispensary law into his election to the Charleston City Council as alderman for his ward. He was elected to five consecutive terms and for his earnestness in representing the members of his district he gained the unofficial epithet "Mayor of Ward 3." Chicco died in 1928 at the age of 78. His obituary in the Charleston newspaper characterized him as "possessing a forceful personality" and a "raconteur of ability." The newspaper mentioned his emigration to this country from Italy as a teenager after a short stint as a merchant seaman. Chicco then worked on one of the local railroads for a short period, after which he was employed as a policeman for the city of Charleston. He started his saloon business in 1892. He married Miss Mary Ann Burke of Charleston and had four children, Joseph, Vincent, Jr., Natalie, and an unidentified daughter.
Incidentally, the term "blind tiger" as a synonym for an illegal drinking establishment can be traced back to the 1850s. A sister term "blind pig" dates from the 1870s. The terms derive from clandestine establishments that would advertise exotic animals on their window blinds, charging admission to see the said animals, which of course were not inside. Once admitted, patrons were then served with the illegal refreshment of their choice. The following limerick summarizes the ruse:
On the store, though behind it you'd find
Neither bengal nor cat,
Just a liquor-filled vat
And the patrons who paid didn't mind.
Copyright 2006 by Tony Chibbaro.
The South Carolina Dispensary & Embossed S.C. Whiskey Bottles & Jugs, 1865-1915 by Harvey S. Teal and Rita Foster Wallace, Midlands Printing Company, Camden, S.C., 2005.
South Carolina Postcards, Volume I, Charleston, Berkeley, and Dorchester Counties by Howard Woody and Thomas L. Johnson, Arcadia Publishing Company, Charleston, S.C., 1997.
The Red Tape Cocktail: Charleston's Reaction to the South Carolina Dispensary System by Helen Glenn Smith, published in Chrestomathy: Annual Review of Undergraduate Research, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, College of Charleston, Volume 4, 2005: pp 195-217, College of Charleston, 2005.
Chicco Funeral This Afternoon in News & Courier, October 26, 1928.
OEDILF: The Omnificent English Dictionary in Limerick Form online at http://www.oedilf.com.
If you collect or have a casual interest in South Carolina tokens or tokens issued by cotton mills, lumber companies, or other types of businesses, you may want to purchase my book, South Carolina Tokens and its three supplements. To read a description of these standard references, please click on this link: Books.
Token or Medal of the Month Main Page
A Short History of Token Use in South Carolina
South Carolina Trade Tokens for Sale - Page 1
South Carolina Trade Tokens for Sale - Page 2
Other South Carolina Exonumia for Sale
Trade Tokens from Other States for Sale
eBay Auction Listings
South Carolina Stereoviews
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Well, what you could do is use CoolEdit to cut a track/song into determined lengths, and place them in FruityLoops and sample them again. I don't know why you'd want to do that, but you can. Personally, i use CoolEdit for everything. The only thing I use FruityLoops for is to create my own music. I also use NoteWorthy Composer, but that's MIDI.
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At least from how I understand that, it looks like if I'm going to see a difference in gamma between the Japanese and US releases, it's more than likely going to be that same 10% deal. So it looks like the K-ON!! situation is identical - the number to give to YLevels was 0.900 which made the resultant image match the Japanese release almost exactly. The result of comparing the histogram shift between JP and US screenshots also resulted in a result that'd be close to 0.900, give or take some hundredths or thousandths.
Taking the FMA screenshot used to illustrate it for that release, the math produced something like 0.914, all things considered about the possible inaccuracies of having to find similar structures in a histogram to measure the shift (the result isn't as close as the K-ON!! example either; even using 0.900, the flower things in the background have still have a fairly big difference, even if everything else seems to be a lot closer to the JP screenshot).
Agreed that it's really really stupid to do that nowadays, but at least it seems to be more predictable than what I feared the case might be. I was almost expecting the issue to be worse and the shift to be variable.
It'd still be nice to have a running list of releases that have this issue, unless it's so ridiculously common that it should just be automatically assumed. | <urn:uuid:eac89dcb-6d49-43a9-afe1-d83bdd1300f9> | 2013-05-26T03:04:47Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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stadium wrote:Now i want know, How to check port 80? and turnoff services are run port:80?
One possibility would be the command line command netstat, as already posted by JJ_Tagy.
- Open your windows command line
- type in a command like this
- Code: Select all
netstat -aon|find ":80"|find "LISTENING"
(LISTENING is the english expression of the status. If you don't have an english version of windows, this keyword can be different)
- check the second column for entrys using port 80 and remind it's process ID (PID) in the last column
- In your windows task manager search for the process with the same PID
Second possibility would be to download and install the latest version of the new control panel v3
, which comes with a more user friendly Netstat tool.
Third possibility are tools like the Sysinternals Process Explorer
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Types of Arthritis
There are over 100 types of arthritis, and these diseases affect more than 46 million individuals in the U.S. alone. This figure is expected to breach the 60 million mark before 2030. Various types of arthritis are unique and distinct from each other and each type has its own treatment approach. This highlights the necessity and importance of accurate tests and diagnostic procedures in determining the specific type of arthritis that a person is suffering from.
Once you are able to isolate the triggers of the pain and inflammation associated with the disease, then you will be able to undertake the necessary steps in finding relief from the effects of the disease and maintain a relatively normal daily routine.
Diversity of the Types of Arthritis
If you live long enough, there is a strong likelihood that you will experience a touch of at least one of the more than 100 types of arthritis. This chronic medical condition can take the form of a mild tendinitis and bursitis or a debilitating systemic disease like rheumatoid arthritis. There are also some forms of arthritis and arthritis-related conditions such as fibromyalgia and systemic lupus erythematosus that are widespread and affect different parts of the body.
Arthritis is not a medical condition of the old. There are certain types of the disease that specifically affect infants and children, and these include juvenile rheumatoid arthritis and septic arthritis. There are also a significant number of men and women who are suffering from this disease at the prime of their lives. A common denominator for these types of arthritis is the presence of musculoskeletal and joint pain, and this is the primary reason why these conditions are collectively referred to as arthritis.
Major types of arthritis include:
This type of arthritis is a degenerative disease and is also referred to as arthrosis, degenerative joint disease or degenerative arthritis. Osteoarthritis is the most common type of arthritis. It is a medical condition that is characterized by low-grade inflammation which triggers persistent pain in the affected joints. This condition is the result of the progressive deterioration of the cartilage, and its deteriorated condition affects its capacity to protect and act as cushion of the joints.
Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic autoimmune disorder that primarily affects the joints. It is a painful and debilitating inflammatory condition and can lead to substantial impairment of normal mobility as a result of the persistent pain and damage to the affected joint. Rheumatoid is also a systemic condition and can affect the extra-articular tissues in various parts of the body. These include the muscles, lungs, hearts, blood vessels and the skin. The highest incidence of the disease is observed in men and women within the 30-60 years age range.
Gout is characterized by the sudden and severe episodes which usually affect the big toe, although any joint is prone to these gout attacks. This type of arthritis is a metabolic problem brought about by the accumulation of uric acid in the bloodstream. The precursor of the condition is the buildup of harmful crystals in the joints and other parts of the body. Specific medications and proper diet are essential in the control and management of gout.
Ankylosing spondylitis is a chronic inflammatory disorder that affects the spine. In its advanced stage, the condition is characterized by the stiffness of the spine and fusion of the vertebrae. In most cases, it is more difficult to detect and diagnose the disease in women than in men. The persistent pain and discomfort are the results of the inflammation in the vertebrae or spinal joints. Aside from the fusion of the vertebrae, the abnormal bone growth can lead to immobility and forward-stooped posture.
Ankylosing spondylitis can also lead to stiffness, pain and inflammation on the other parts of the body, including the joints of the hands and feet, heels, ribs, hips and shoulders. There are also some rare cases where the disease can affect the eyes, a condition known as Uveitis or Iritis, as well as the heart and lungs.
Juvenile arthritis, or simply JA, is a chronic disease that is associated with the inflammation of one or several joints. This disease affects individuals below the age of 16. The inflammation is the common denominator of the various forms of juvenile arthritis, although such forms of the disease have distinct nuances and require different treatment modes.
Psoriatic arthritis is the type of arthritis that is common in patients who are suffering from a chronic skin disorder known as psoriasis. It has some similarities with rheumatoid arthritis, although most patients who have psoriatic arthritis exhibit mild to moderate symptoms. This chronic disorder affects both men and women, and it can lead to further complications and serious health problems when left untreated. The progress of the disease is generally slow and affects specific joints.
Septic arthritis is brought about by haematogenous spread of infection, although there are instances where the condition is triggered by the introduction of infecting agents from adjacent infection, as in the case of osteomyelitis, or through a penetrating wound. The condition is common in children and premature neonates, although it can also affect the elderly and individuals who are immune suppressed.
There is no cure for arthritis, but there are several treatment modes that we can use to alleviate or mitigate the effects of the disease. Among your options are several natural arthritis treatment options that have been proven to be effective and safe when used in the management of the disease. | <urn:uuid:8cfeb7cb-f6cd-417c-8b2b-c1e7ff990823> | 2013-05-26T02:42:24Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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July Rendezvous with Vesta
"We often refer to Vesta as the smallest terrestrial planet," said Christopher T. Russell, a UCLA professor of geophysics and space physics and the mission's principal investigator. "It has planetary features and basically the same structure as Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars. But because it is so small, it does not have enough gravity to retain an atmosphere, or at least not to retain an atmosphere for very long.
"There are many mysteries about Vesta," Russell said. "One of them is why Vesta is so bright. The Earth reflects a lot of sunlight — about 40 percent — because it has clouds and snow on the surface, while the moon reflects only about 10 percent of the light from the Sun back. Vesta is more like the Earth. Why? What on its surface is causing all that sunlight to be reflected? We'll find out."
Dawn will map Vesta's surface, which Russell says may be similar to the moon's. He says he expects that the body's interior is layered, with a crust, a mantle and an iron core. He is eager to learn about this interior and how large the iron core is.
Named for the ancient Roman goddess of the hearth, Vesta has been bombarded by meteorites for 4.5 billion years.
"We expect to see a lot of craters," Russell said. "We know there is an enormous crater at the south pole that we can see with the Hubble Space Telescope. That crater, some 280 miles across, has released material into the asteroid belt. Small bits of Vesta are floating around and make their way all the way to the orbit of the Earth and fall in our atmosphere. About one in every 20 meteorites that falls on the surface of the Earth comes from Vesta. That has enabled us to learn a lot about Vesta before we even get there."
Dawn will arrive at Vesta in July. Beginning in September, the spacecraft will orbit Vesta some 400 miles from its surface. It will then move closer, to about 125 miles from the surface, starting in November. By January of 2012, Russell expects high-resolution images and other data about surface composition. Dawn is arriving ahead of schedule and is expected to orbit Vesta for a year.
Vesta, which orbits the Sun every 3.6 terrestrial years, has an oval, pumpkin-like shape and an average diameter of approximately 330 miles. Studies of meteorites found on Earth that are believed to have come from Vesta suggest that Vesta formed from galactic dust during the Solar System's first 3 million to 10 million years.
Dawn's cameras should be able to see individual lava flows and craters tens of feet across on Vesta's surface.
"We will scurry around when the data come in, trying to make maps of the surface and learning its exact shape and size," Russell said.
Dawn has a high-quality camera, along with a back-up; a visible and near-infrared spectrometer that will identify minerals on the surface; and a gamma ray and neutron spectrometer that will reveal the abundance of elements such as iron and hydrogen, possibly from water, in the soil. Dawn will also probe Vesta's gravity with radio signals.
The study of Vesta, however, is only half of Dawn's mission. The spacecraft will also conduct a detailed study of the structure and composition of the "dwarf planet" Ceres. Vesta and Ceres are the most massive objects in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Dawn's goals include determining the shape, size, composition, internal structure, and the tectonic and thermal evolution of both objects, and the mission is expected to reveal the conditions under which each of them formed.
Dawn, only the second scientific mission to be powered by an advanced NASA technology known as ion propulsion, is also the first NASA mission to orbit two major objects.
"Twice the bang for the buck on this mission," said Russell, who added that without ion propulsion, Dawn would have cost three times as much.
UCLA graduate and postdoctoral students work with Russell on the mission. Now is an excellent opportunity for graduate students to join the project and help analyze the data, said Russell, who teaches planetary science to UCLA undergraduates and solar and space physics to undergraduates and graduate students.
After orbiting Vesta, Dawn will leave for its three-year journey to Ceres, which could harbor substantial water or ice beneath its rock crust — and possibly life. On the way to Ceres, Dawn may visit another object. The spacecraft will rendezvous with Ceres and begin orbiting in 2015, conducting studies and observations for at least five months.
Russell believes that Ceres and Vesta, formed almost 4.6 billion years ago, have preserved their early record, which was frozen into their ancient surfaces.
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Why does this galaxy have so many big black holes?
No one is sure.
What is sure is that
NGC 922 is a ring galaxy created by the collision of a large and small galaxy about
300 million years ago.
Like a rock thrown into a pond, the
ancient collision sent ripples of
high density gas out from the impact point near the center that partly condensed into stars.
Pictured above is NGC 922 with its beautifully complex ring along the left side, as imaged recently by the
Hubble Space Telescope.
Observations of NGC 922 with the
Chandra X-ray Observatory, however, show several glowing X-ray knots that are likely large black holes.
The high number of massive black holes was
somewhat surprising as the gas composition in
NGC 922 -- rich in heavy elements -- should have discouraged almost anything so massive from forming.
Research is sure to continue.
spans about 75,000 light years, lies about 150 million light years away, and can be seen with a small telescope toward the constellation of the furnace (Fornax).
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As technology has developed so has the sophistication of the con artist. The telephone, fax machines and computers have become "tools of the trade" for fraudulent telemarketers who scam consumers and businesses out of $40 billion annually.
Legitimate businesses also use the same "tools" to sell their products, so consumers need to recognize the warning signs associated with fraudulent telemarketers. The links above and on the left side of this page provide more detailed information on how to avoid becoming a victim of telemarketing fraud, and what to do if you are a victim. You can also refer to information about the National Do Not Call Registry.
Fraudulent telemarketers attempt many of the same old schemes over and over again. For example, some will try to convince you that you have just won a prize or a contest. Some may want you to give to a charity. Others want you to buy a wide range of products such as magazine subscriptions, vitamins, vacations, lottery tickets, office supplies, club memberships and promotional items.
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If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, the best advice is, HANG UP!
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Consumers who wish to decrease the amount of unsolicited telemarketing calls they receive should register with the Federal Trade Commission's National Do Not Call Registry at www.donotcall.gov or by phone 1-888-382-1222.
Telephone marketers and their service providers must honor the requests of consumers who have placed their telephone numbers on the Federal Trade Commission's national Do Not Call (DNC) Registry.
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Already Fallen Victim to a Telemarketing Scam?
The good news is, you may be able to undo the damage. Unsolicited telemarketing sales are not final until you've received written confirmation of the sale. Under state law, you have three days after you receive your written confirmation to cancel an unsolicited telemarketing sale.
Cancellation notices must be sent by certified mail to the telemarketer's address. If the address is unknown, cancellation must be sent to the Department of Licensing, P.O. Box 9034 Olympia, Washington 98057. Cancellation notices should include your name, address and telephone number.
If you paid with a credit card, do not pay for that item on your credit card bill until you've received, examined and are satisfied with your product or prize. You must write your credit card company within 60 days of receiving the bill to officially dispute the charges.
Here are some things you can do:
- REPORT IT! Call the Attorney General's Office at 1-800-551-4636. Explain what's happened and ask for advice on what to do. File a complaint.
- Call the National Fraud Information Center at 1-800-876-7060. They're building a national database on telemarketing fraud.
- Add your phone number to the National Do Not Call Registry. This will reduce the chance that you will be contacted again and again as your name is sold to other scam artists.
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Hey. Thanks for the welcome. The people in my town and my own family can be extremely hostile and almost like a pack of wild dogs jumping on a rabbit when it comes to their religion. I've challenged some of the things they have said, but I've never "outted" myself. It's so strange, everyone just assumes that everyone in this town in a christian. Because of this, they say the most outrageous things.
Hi! Thanks for the welcome. Being an ex-Apo is a lot of stinging regret mixed with bitter disappointment with myself. But that's a lot better than actually BEING Pentecostal. Then you're stuck with self-righteousness with a side of God staring over your shoulder waiting to set you on fire for something you're not aware is a sin yet.
I take it from your comments that my offer to "walk you through" is not appreciated? Do you think you already know everything I would say? Or that I'm so obviously wrong and it would be so easy to dismiss my comments that the effort would bore you?
That's cool - not sure you're going to like me much.
I'm sorry, in the light of what Huxley explained about his philosophy your link is absurd. If you like I will walk you through the various quotes, but not tonight it's late. If you don't think that Atheism (my comments we not intended to reflect all atheist) doesn't speak in terms of certainties, on subjects like, life after death, I think we should try a poll and see what others think.
Regarding Einstein, I've been at this for 30+ years, I don't think you have anything I haven't seen - I know of quotes where Einstein says he is Agnostic, where he is NOT Atheist, where he mocks Atheist but I would like to see where he supports Atheist.
Your statement "If someone asks you if you believe in a god, and you can't say, "Yes," then you're an atheist." Is why Einstein said he believed in the God of Spinoza, Again if you want me to walk you through that, I'm willing. That shit gets deep!
Hey, thanks for the link and suggestions. Much appreciated. I hadn't thought to search "secular" for some reason. I kept searching atheist and finding things that say atheists can't recover. Ugh. Religious people do not get it. It's so crazy how so many people can be so delirious with finding god that rational thought is completely out of reach. I'm really glad I joined Atheist Nexus, now, if for no other reason than having you see my new profile and reach out. Thanks, man.
Hey, you asked about the IV addiction...heroin and cocaine. Which I am terribly naive...and everything I'm finding for NA/AA/12 Step stuff is...all god based. There's a chapter in the big AA book called We the Agnostics and I thought, 'Oh, good. Sounds promising.' It's not helpful. It basically says you have to agree to accept a higher power or you're doomed to never recover. Tha fuck? Anyway, if you have some insight...
And I am so sorry for my extremely long delay! This semester has started crazy.
Yes, the situation is similar, that’s why I told it, a sympathetic reaction from across the World is nice. Of course we have a firm constitution, and we have some articles whose alteration isn’t possible by law, related to secularism and indivisibility of the country. They mentioned the possibilty to change even them, of course it wasn’t well received so they just let it go. We have a prime minister who has the leading role in legislation and a president who isn’t subject to any of the parties and considered impartial and he is the one for the final say in case of any alteration, but he has no say during the process, just the final. However the present president was a member of the religious political party currently dominating the assembly. They still have kind of invisible ties, turning the situation into a more complicated one.
Also, trashing the economy here too is one thing, which they can easily deny as it is going hilarious for large companies (but small and medium scale enterprises are suffering and unemployement is increasing), they also messed it up with the neighbours so the electric and gas bills have become impossible to pay for most people, I personally prefer to sleep at home in order to not use the gas. Above all they stabbed the judicial system in the heart with an amendment package and now it is biased. The ridicilous thing is that, as an answer to the negative responses, they held a referendum for a whole amendment package, and their partisan voters gave yes just out of love.
I totally get what you’re saying about the Republicans. I just cannot come to terms with the fact that the most genious strategy politicians can come up with is bullying.
I haven’t considered myself a politics nut even once in my life. Turkey is a young country, so I guess we are a little obsessed with what’s going on. This is like breakfast talk here. My Messenger address is email@example.com. But it probably won’t work to chat bc of the time difference, maybe e-mailing.
Turkey is not a Muslim theocracy in fact. The system is secular but, it doesn't work secularly lately. Last government was a hung parliament, however with the rising support (more than 47%) for the conservative party, now we are in the third! four-year term of the parliament with the predominance of the conservatives. And they can play with legislation as they like because of the numbers. The 10% election treshold makes it difficult for other parties to have deputies in the parliament, too.
And now, to prolong its kind of kingdom, the coservative party wants to change the system, they're just trying to figure out what it could be and to get feedback from the opposition, intellectuals and public by speculating things.
Sorry, commented on my own wall as a reply! Thanks for the welcome!
(In fact, Islam is the one religion coming to mind along with Turkey, Joseph. And, there are just two sects of it. Also, believe me or not, the fight and the subjects fighted over are aaalll the same. But interestingly enough, even the dialogue between nontheists in Turkey or Turkish platforms is always a fight. The air is never clean. Discussing is something. Fighting is something else. I get a headache even just reading the conversations.
Yes Joseph, "country" is a very mild way of describing the many towns that fall into the same characteristics. A very kind way, well one of the nicest ways I know to further describe places as these is closed mined. And no I do not dare say the whole town, I am sure there is the minute few that are exceptions. | <urn:uuid:9c0e414a-2267-4d9d-8685-14df21c7084d> | 2013-05-26T02:45:10Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Communication is a fact of life. You are forced to communicate with other people every day whether you want to or not. You communicate with your words. You communicate with your voice. You communicate with your posture. You communicate with your attitude. Being able to effectively express your thoughts and feelings is essential to successful business and personal relationships. Not being able to communicate effectively in any situation can cause miscommunications between you and another person which can give way to arguments. Like communication, arguments are a fact of life. Learning how to handle yourself in an argument is the key to learning how to successfully win an argument without offending anyone or hurting anyone's feelings.
When one thinks of arguments, one mostly thinks of emotional confrontations where both arguers only see their side with no regard to the other's side. The arguers are inflexible and fail to give support for their point of view, arguing entirely on emotions. Eventually, the arguers reach a point where there is no way they can reach a peaceful resolution and walk away; instead they are full of anger and resentment. Arguing this way only ensures that the same argument will repeat itself again somewhere down the road because there has been no resolution that has benefited either party.
With the right preparation and skills, arguments can be peaceful disagreements between two people's polar opposite points of view with a mutually beneficial resolution. For such an argument to happen, you must rise above and take control of the situation, steering the argument toward a positive ending that is agreeable to both parties. Anyone can do this. All you need is the right skills.
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It really didn't give me any insight I couldn't have gotten in a high school freshman debate class. Maybe it would be a good book to read if it's your first time on a high school debate team.
The performance was fine. It was the material that was disappointing
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The man responsible for the upstate New York shooting spree has been killed in a shootout with police, The Associated Press reports. The motive behind Kurt Myers' rampage, which killed four and injured at least two others, is still unknown. Police say Myers set fire to his apartment in the village of Mohawk before shooting victims at two different locations in nearby Herkimer.
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