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There comes a day when you know you are ready. When you are tired of playing with the concepts of love, trust and beauty; when you are tired of experimenting with all the different forms of meditation and philosophy. You know it is time to trust, to give, to shine. You are tired of waiting for a sudden flash of inspiration and enlightenment. You are ready to live in joy and peace. Wherever you are, however you feel, whatever your life looks like, you are ready to see the beauty in it and in yourself.
You have tasted freedom before. You have felt moments of peace, of connection, of meaning. You have hoped, dreamed and prayed, and you are ready for more.
Any day can be the day when you decide to be who you really are. Any day can be the birth of your true self. At any moment, you can look around and find beauty, feel peace, know love. Make this moment that moment. Choose to be free. As often as you need to; as often as you want to. Any moment may be the dawn of a new day. Any moment may signal the start of something new, something wonderful. At any moment, you can fall into yourself and find what you have been seeking. | <urn:uuid:839abccf-1fe7-4627-a10d-c1788c544c32> | 2013-05-21T17:15:54Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Louis XV and science: the most beautiful instruments
Authors: Engineer: Claude-Siméon Passemant (1702-1769); Clockmaker: Louis Dauthiau (1730-1809); Sculptors and bronze artists: Jean-Jacques and Philippe Caffiéri (1725-1772)
Date: Presented to the Royal Academy of Science on 23 August 1749, presented to the king in 1750. Mechanism: 1749; bronze: 1753
Characteristics/Origins: Gilt bronze, enamel, steel, copper and glass. Versailles, musée national des châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon © château de Versailles, Christian Milet
The extraordinary astronomical clock was added to the clock cabinet in January 1754. Engineer Claude-Siméon Passemant designed the timepiece, clockmaker Louis Dauthiau crafted the mechanism and sculptors and bronze artists Jacques and Philippe II Caffiéri made the case. It shows the date, real time, average time, phases of the moon and movements of the planets according to Copernicus. A moving sphere crowns the exceptional rocaille work, which measures over two metres tall. A bronze globe features all the countries engraved with the main cities. It is amidst rocks and waterfalls serving as the universal horizon.
The Academy of Science examined and approved the clock in August 1749 before the Duc de Chaulnes presented it to Louis XV at Choisy on 7 September 1750. The king acquired it that year. It was put in the clock cabinet, attesting to Louis XV's interest in the mechanical arts and clocks; the room actually got its name because of the large astronomical clock dials in the wainscoting showing the sunrises and moonrises every day. The king's scientific interests led him to amplify that daily experience by having the Passemant clock installed in this room.
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For one AES is built for three key sizes
128, 192 or 256 bits.
Currently, brute-forcing 128 bits is not even close to feasible. Hypothetically, if an AES Key had 129 bits, it would take twice as long to brute-force a 129 bit key than a 128 bit key. This means larger keys of 192 bits and 256 bits would take much much much longer to attack. It would take so incredibly long to brute-force one of these keys that the sun would stop burning before the key was realized.
That's a big freaking number. That's how many possibly keys there are. Assuming the key is random, if you divide that by 2 then you have how many keys it will take on average to brute-force AES-256
In a sense we do have the really big cipher keys you are talking of. The whole point of a symmetric key is to make it unfeasible to brute-force. In the future, if attacking a 256bit key becomes possible then keysizes will surely increase, but that is quite a ways down the road.
The reason RSA keys are much larger than AES keys is because they are two completely different types of encryption. This means a person would not attack a RSA key the same as they would attack an AES Key.
Attacking symmetric keys is easy.
- Start with a bitstring
- Decrypt ciphertext with that bitstring.
- If you can read it, you succeeded.
- If you cannot read it then increment the bitstring
Attacking an RSA key is different...because RSA encryption/decryption works with big semi-prime numbers...the process is mathy. With RSA, you don't have to try every possible bit string. You try far fewer than
2^2048 bitstrings...but it's still not possible to bruteforce. This is why RSA and AES keys differ in size.
To sum up everything and answer your question in 1 sentence. We don't need ridiculously big symmetric keys because we already have ridiculously big symmetric keys. 256 bit encryption sounds wimpy compared to something like a 2048 bit RSA Key, but the algorithms are different and can't really be compared 'bit to bit' like that. In the future if there is a need to longer keys then there will be new algorithms developed to handle larger keys. And if we ever wanted to go bigger on current hardware, it's simply a time tradeoff. Bigger key means longer decryption time means slower communication. This is especially important for a cipher since your internet browser will establish and then use a symmetric key to send information. | <urn:uuid:066ec567-48e5-40d2-93b0-abe64693ee0d> | 2013-05-21T17:23:27Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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* Like other ex-Soviet dependents, the Caucasus country is trying to navigate a path to closer EU relations and assert its sovereignty to a domineering Russia.
"The more time I spend in Georgia, the more I'm overcome by a feeling of deja vu," a former Estonian prime minister says.
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili recently said that his country's problems with Vladimir Putin's Kremlin will end when "Russia accepts us as we are. The way it accepted Poland and Estonia."
His choice of those two countries is revealing. Both Poland and Estonia very quickly and very successfully navigated their way out of Moscow's orbit and into NATO and the European Union. Neither has been shy about provoking Russia when it suits their needs - even at the risk of causing the occasional Kremlin temper tantrum.
Poland and Estonia have also been extremely generous in sharing their experience and know-how with other former Soviet vassals who are seeking to make similarly successful post-communist transformations. Poland has made advancing Ukraine's NATO and EU bids a cornerstone of its foreign policy. And Estonia is working closely with Tbilisi to bring Georgia into Europe's mainstream. Indeed, former Estonian prime minister Mart Laar is advising Saakashvili's government; and Georgian officials have often cited the tiny Baltic nation's experience as a model for its own development.
"The more time I spend in Georgia, the more I'm overcome by a feeling of deja vu," Laar told Radio Free Europe in June. "A lot of what I see reminds me powerfully of the situation in Estonia round about 1993-1994," he added.
When Estonia was faced with an aggressive campaign from Moscow in the early 1990s to prevent it from embracing the West, Laar and his colleagues in government apparently decided that the best defense was a good offense.
Estonia didn't give an inch, even as Moscow egged on its Russian-speaking minority to stir up trouble. The country's leaders vigorously asserted their sovereignty, continuously demanded that Russian troops leave, and firmly oriented their foreign and economic policy on Europe and the United States.
They also undertook bold economic reforms that raised living standards for the whole society - which took much of the steam out of the grievances Russian speakers initially had.
The approach, which appeared risky at the time, worked better than anybody dared expect. And now Georgia is trying to use the same playbook. Whether or not they can pull it off will help determine what the geopolitical map of the South Caucasus will look like for decades to come.
Under former president Eduard Shevardnadze, relations between Tbilisi and Moscow resembled a predictable high-stakes game of chicken: Georgia would periodically assert its independence; Moscow would turn up the heat politically, economically, and sometimes militarily; and finally, Tbilisi would back down.
Saakashvili has made it clear he is not interested in mimicking his predecessor's pliancy. On the contrary, he seems to relish asserting Georgia's independence regardless of how much it annoys the Kremlin. The arrest, and quick release, of Russian military officers on espionage charges last month - which caused the Kremlin to go berserk - was just the latest example.
"The message to Russia is: 'Enough is enough,' " Saakashvili said recently. "The rules of the game should change. It's no longer the Soviet empire, and we are no longer a rebellious nation that is rebelling against its central government. We are an independent and free nation and should be respected as such."
Saakashvili remained defiant even after Moscow, in retaliation for the arrests, cut off all air, rail, and postal links with his country, recalled its ambassador, evacuated its citizens, and launched a massive crackdown on ethnic Georgians living in Russia. The Black Sea Fleet's recent naval maneuvers off Georgia's coast seemed not to faze him. "I don't think Russia will take such a rash step as to use military force against Georgia," he said.
NOW FOR ECONOMIC REFORMS. Unlike Shevardnadze - who owed his political survival to Moscow after Russian troops saved his regime from an armed rebellion in 1993 - Saakashvili came to power on the back of a promise to lead Georgia into the West. His very legitimacy is tied to severing Tbilisi's patron-client relationship with Russia and getting his country into Europe's mainstream. He could not back down even if he wanted to.
But Vladimir Putin, who clearly views Saakashvili's actions as a personal affront, is also showing no signs of relenting. "To our great sorrow and concern, the situation is developing in the direction of possible bloodshed," Putin menacingly told reporters at a meeting with EU leaders in Finland last week.
For Putin, who is known to carry a grudge, the Georgian president is a turncoat and an American stooge who set loose the virus of "colored revolutions" that have swept through the former Soviet space in recent years.
All of this puts the Russian-Georgian crisis in uncharted territory. With both sides digging in their heels, the slightest conflict - an incident involving Russian "peacekeepers" in Abkhazia or South Ossetia for example - could set off a military confrontation.
And as Laar points out, when Estonia managed to break free of Moscow's orbit a decade ago, Russia was weak and unsure of itself and its foreign policy was in disarray. "Russia has become significantly stronger," Laar said. "Russia's capacity to pursue its intentions is incomparably greater now than with regard to Estonia in 1993-1995."
He added that Georgia needs to do more than play tough with Moscow to preserve its independence - it also must establish a stronger economy that can withstand pressure from its larger neighbor. "Georgia needs to undertake very clear, very committed reforms to improve the investment climate," Laar said. "Without them, things will turn out very badly."
But risky as it is, Saakashvili's brinksmanship - if coupled to committed economic reform - could once and for all establish Georgia's independence from Moscow.
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strkjv@Amos:4:1 @ Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.
strkjv@Amos:4:2 @ The Lord GOD Y@hovih# hath sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks duwgah# .
strkjv@Amos:4:3 @ And ye shall go out at the breaches, every cow at that which is before her; and ye shall cast them into the palace, saith n@#um# the LORD Y@hovah#.
strkjv@Amos:4:4 @ Come to Bethel Beyth-#El#, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning, and your tithes after three years:
strkjv@Amos:4:5 @ And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and proclaim and publish the free offerings: for this liketh you, O ye children of Israel, saith n@#um# the Lord GOD Y@hovih#.
strkjv@Amos:4:6 @ And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith n@#um# the LORD Y@hovah#.
strkjv@Amos:4:7 @ And also I have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered.
strkjv@Amos:4:8 @ So two or three cities wandered unto one city, to drink water; but they were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith n@#um# the LORD Y@hovah#.
strkjv@Amos:4:9 @ I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees t@#en# and your olive trees increased, the palmerworm devoured them: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith n@#um# the LORD Y@hovah#.
strkjv@Amos:4:10 @ I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses; and I have made the stink b@#osh# of your camps to come up unto your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith n@#um# the LORD Y@hovah#.
strkjv@Amos:4:11 @ I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom C@dom# and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith n@#um# the LORD Y@hovah#.
strkjv@Amos:4:12 @ Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: and because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.
strkjv@Amos:4:13 @ For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought, that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, The LORD Y@hovah#, The God of hosts, is his name.
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kjv@Amos:4 > > RandyP : All of this and yet 'ye have not returned to me'. Sure there is the attempt at worship, the attempt at sacrifice, but, this religion is hollow and puffed and idolatrous. Bethel was one of the two temples of the golden calf. Gilgal (there were a couple) was either a religious landmark of the 12 stones by the Jordan or a school of prophets. They are called kine of Bashan (cows from east of the Jordan) and the calf that they worship at supposedly symbolic of Jehovah as a replacement for having to go into Jerusalem. Nothing God has done to this point has worked. They are told to prepare to meet their God.
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Please also include the following useful details: operating system (Windows XP, Vista, or 7), 32-bit or 64-bit system, and the version shown in ICE's Help > About dialog.
- What's the difference between the "New Panorama" and "New Structured Panorama" and "New Video Panorama" options in the "File" menu?
- New Panorama: Use this choice when you want to stitch together photos that were shot by hand. You should also use this choice if you used a tripod, but didn't carefully space the photos in a regular grid of equal angles. ICE will automatically determine the relationships between the photos.
- New Structured Panorama: Use this option if you shot a regular rectangular grid of photos using a robotic panoramic capture device (like the GigaPan devices) or a specially-designed panoramic tripod head. Structured panoramas require that your images can be assigned to the rows or columns of a rectangular grid simply by listing the files in order by name or by date. ICE can take advantage of this regular structure to process very large sets of images (hundreds or thousands of photos), since it doesn't have to look for feature matches between all pairs of images. If your photos weren't shot in a rectangular grid pattern, you should be using "New Panorama" instead.
- New Video Panorama: Use this option (available on Windows 7 only) to stitch a still panorama from a video. Videos work best when the camera is rotated slowly (to avoid blur) in place, either on a tripod or held by hand. If you want to capture moving people or objects, try to keep them centered in the frame. Note that you can select areas in specific frames of the video that you want ICE to include in the final panorama -- this is a great way to get a "motion summary" of an action shot.
- What do each of the "Camera Motion" options mean?
- Rotating Motion: Use this option when you stand in a single position and rotate your camera about a fixed point. This is how you should shoot most panoramic scenes. The other motions are for less common stitching tasks.
- Planar Motion 1: This option computes the best overlap between the images, without peforming any skewing or perspective distortion (allowing only translation, rotation, and scaling of the images). Planar Motion 1 is useful for stitching together multiple overlapping flat-bed scans of a large document. It can also be useful if you want to achieve a panography effect (although ICE doesn't have all of the blend modes that you might want for panography).
- Planar Motion 2: This option is like Planar Motion 1, but allows skew in addition to translation, rotation, and scaling of the images. This setting is probably the least useful, but can be used if Planar Motion 3 gives poor results.
- Planar Motion 3: This option computes the best overlap between images, including perspective distortion in addition to translation, rotation, scaling, and skew. This option is particularly useful for stitching images of a large flat surface, for example a white-board or a gallery wall. As long as the object being photographed is flat you don't need to rotate about a fixed point like most panoramic shots and can move to capture different shots of the flat scene.
- Automatic: This is the default setting. In this mode, ICE will try to automatically detect the camera motion based on the images. Note that for some photographs, especially those taken with a long telephoto lens, ICE will choose Planar Motion 2 or 3, when it should instead choose Rotating Motion. In this case, you may need to manually indicate the camera motion.
- What do I do if Image Composite Editor is filling up my hard disk?
If you notice that your system disk is getting full, you can tell ICE to use another disk for temporary files. Here are the steps to follow:
- Close the active stitching project.
- From the "Tools" menu, select "Options…"
- Click on item number 1 in the list of "Temporary file locations." By default, this list contains just one item that places scratch files on your system disk in "%TEMP%\Image Composite Editor\Cache".
- Click on "Change…" and choose or create a folder on another hard disk. (Note that you cannot change an item that is in use.)
- You can always click "Add…" to include more hard disks, but additional disks will only be used if the first disk fills up.
- What are the command-line options for Image Composite Editor?
Currently the command line is interpreted quite simply:
- If the command line contains a file with the ".spj" extension (an Image Composite Editor project), the specified project is opened.
- If the command line specifies a single video file, Image Composite Editor displays the video panorama dialog (on Windows 7 only).
- Otherwise, the command line is interpreted as a list of source images which are immediately stitched.
Eric Stollnitz, Interactive Visual Media Group, Microsoft Research
- What is the current version of Image Composite Editor? | <urn:uuid:5fae42e9-be18-4a5a-ad9d-413c88428244> | 2013-05-21T17:32:53Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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In the Free Software Movement, we believe computer users should have the freedom to change and redistribute the software that they use. The “free” in free software refers to freedom: it means users have the freedom to run, modify and redistribute the software. Free software contributes to human knowledge, while non-free software does not. Universities should therefore encourage free software for the sake of advancing human knowledge, just as they should encourage scientists and scholars to publish their work.
Alas, many university administrators have a grasping attitude towards software (and towards science); they see programs as opportunities for income, not as opportunities to contribute to human knowledge. Free software developers have been coping with this tendency for almost 20 years.
When I started developing the GNU operating system in 1984, my first step was to quit my job at MIT. I did this specifically so that the MIT licensing office would be unable to interfere with releasing GNU as free software. I had planned an approach for licensing the programs in GNU that ensures that all modified versions must be free software as well, an approach that developed into the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL), and I did not want to have to beg the MIT administration to let me use it.
Over the years, university affiliates have often come to the Free Software Foundation for advice on how to cope with administrators who see software only as something to sell. One good method, applicable even for specifically funded projects, is to base your work on an existing program that was released under the GNU GPL. Then you can tell the administrators, “We’re not allowed to release the modified version except under the GNU GPL—any other way would be copyright infringement.” After the dollar signs fade from their eyes, they will usually consent to releasing it as free software.
You can also ask your funding sponsor for help. When a group at NYU developed the GNU Ada Compiler, with funding from the U.S. Air Force, the contract explicitly called for donating the resulting code to the Free Software Foundation. Work out the arrangement with the sponsor first, then politely show the university administration that it is not open to renegotiation. They would rather have a contract to develop free software than no contract at all, so they will most likely go along.
Whatever you do, raise the issue early—certainly before the program is half finished. At this point, the university still needs you, so you can play hardball: tell the administration you will finish the program, make it usable, if they have agreed in writing to make it free software (and agreed to your choice of free software license). Otherwise you will work on it only enough to write a paper about it, and never make a version good enough to release. When the administrators know their choice is to have a free software package that brings credit to the university or nothing at all, they will usually choose the former.
Not all universities have grasping policies. The University of Texas has a policy that, by default, all software developed there is released as free software under the GNU General Public License. Univates in Brazil, and the Indian Institute of Information Technology in Hyderabad, India, both have policies in favor of releasing software under the GPL. By developing faculty support first, you may be able to institute such a policy at your university. Present the issue as one of principle: does the university have a mission to advance human knowledge, or is its sole purpose to perpetuate itself?
Whatever approach you use, it helps to have determination and adopt an ethical perspective, as we do in the Free Software Movement. To treat the public ethically, the software should be free—as in freedom—for the whole public. Many developers of free software profess narrowly practical reasons for doing so: they advocate allowing others to share and change software as an expedient for making software powerful and reliable. If those values motivate you to develop free software, well and good, and thank you for your contribution. But those values will not give you a good footing to stand firm when university administrators try to tempt you to make the program non-free.
For instance, they may argue that “We could make it even more powerful and reliable with all the money we can get.” This claim may or may not come true in the end, but it is hard to disprove in advance. They may suggest a license to offer copies “free of charge, for academic use only,” which would tell the general public they don’t deserve freedom, and argue that this will obtain the cooperation of academia, which is all (they say) you need.
If you start from “pragmatic” values, it is hard to give a good reason for rejecting these dead-end proposals, but you can do it easily if you base your stand on ethical and political values. What good is it to make a program powerful and reliable at the expense of users’ freedom? Shouldn’t freedom apply outside academia as well as within it? The answers are obvious if freedom and community are among your goals. Free software respects the users’ freedom, while non-free software negates it.
Nothing strengthens your resolve like knowing that the community’s freedom depends, in one instance, on you. | <urn:uuid:f5a56b11-323d-4b37-a825-b8d25e586fc6> | 2013-05-21T17:17:28Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Real Madrid assistant coach Aitor Karanka says Jose Mourinho's troops are ready to "pull through" the disappointment of their Champions League exit by taking another step towards a first Primera Division title in four years at home to Sevilla on Sunday.
Madrid crashed out of Champions League on penalties at the semi-final stage against Bayern Munich in midweek, but have the chance to put their misery behind them this weekend.
Victory over Sevilla at the Bernabeu could even be enough to see them dethrone Barcelona if the Spanish champions - reeling from the news that hugely-successful coach Pep Guardiola is to leave the club at the end of the season - suffer a shock defeat at Rayo Vallecano later in the day.
"This team has pride and is looking forward to playing against Sevilla," said Karanka.
"We are close to achieving something that would makes us very happy and we will fight to the end for it.
"It is a great pleasure and a privilege to fight with this team because it is always ready to pull through and win titles when the going gets tough."
Karanka added: "Tomorrow's will be a complicated match because Sevilla are only two points shy of qualifying for a European competition next year and they've been preparing for the match the last couple of days in Madrid.
"Three important points will be at stake in a race that is coming to an end.
"We're only concerned about winning tomorrow."
Meanwhile, Karanka chose to be sparing in his praise when asked for his views on Guardiola's impending departure from the Nou Camp.
"The Spanish league has existed without Guardiola, Mourinho, Karanka... and it will continue to exist," he said.
Madrid hope to get over Wednesday night's heartache against Bayern by aiming for a record-breaking end to the season.
'Operation 100 points' is said to be the mission for Mourinho's side, who must win all four of their remaining games to become the first La Liga team ever to reach three figures.
Madrid's previous best tally was 96 two years ago, although that was still three points shy of Barca's 99.
Four wins would also see Madrid surpass by one the record of 31 victories in a league season both they and Barca managed in 2009-10.
They have already beaten the competition's goalscoring mark by netting 109 times, with Cristiano Ronaldo smashing his own record from last season by bagging 42.
The Portugal star's next target is the European Golden Boot best of 47 held by Romanian legend Dudu Georgescu.
Madrid looked tired against Bayern following their 'Clasico' exertions and Mourinho may elect to freshen up his side.
Sevilla, meanwhile, will try to take advantage of any Champions League hangover in a bid to keep alive their faint hopes of qualifying for next season's competition.
Michel Gonzalez's men are in ninth place but only six points adrift of fourth spot in a congested table below Real and Barca.
Young defender Juan Cala, who is hoping for his first taste of the Bernabeu, told his club's official website, www.sevillafc.es: "We will have our two or three opportunities and, if we take them, we can win the game." | <urn:uuid:c2da50b8-c903-4bb8-833c-d0296d81e0b4> | 2013-05-21T17:43:54Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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There are six Wheelchair Tennis medal events taking place at the London 2012 Paralympics: Men's and women's singles, Quad singles, men's and women's doubles, and Quad doubles. In the Quad events, male and female athletes will compete together.
Wheelchair Tennis at the Paralympics follows traditional Tennis rules, with one exception; ball is allowed to bounce twice, and only the first bounce must be within the court's boundaries.
All matches are played over the best of three sets.
Quad players will have an impairment that affects three or more limbs | <urn:uuid:4727219a-15bc-4b89-80b0-f8dacf09d222> | 2013-05-21T17:31:52Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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On Conan, Gina Carano Asks ‘Are We Talking About Sex or Fighting?’
What I love about Gina Carano is that she's always herself no matter who she's talking to. Gina was hilarious on "The Conan O'Brien Show".
If you're at work or somewhere people would be offended by the video—have no fear, I've transcribed the best bits below.
Conan O'Brien chatting with Gina Carano
Conan started off by saying, "The fights scenes are so…I'm in love with you now. I'm a repressed Catholic so seeing a woman beat a guy. It's fantastic."
Conan then asked Gina how she got into mixed martial arts (MMA).
Gina: "Well, I was drinking forties (40 oz. malt liquor) with my ex-boyfriend one night…Olde English."
Conan: "No! I don't need to hear anything more. Anything makes sense after that."
After sharing the story of her first visit to a gym, being introduced to the sport and then having her first fight, Gina revealed, "I'm so nervous. I would rather get punched in the face right now."
Conan was surprised by Gina feeling nervous.
Conan: "This is a quote of yours. You likened cage fighting to sex. I wanna know why that's true—in great detail."
Gina: "If you think about it, it's a very real interaction between two human beings. It's like you have an energy—and I have an energy—and it's like an energy that no one else is gonna share."
In a series of bantering back and forth, Conan said, "Yes! Did they tell you I was a perv before you got here? Do you ever find that your partner, when you're fighting, tires more quickly than you do?"
Gina: "Are we talking about men or women, right now? Are we talking about sex or fighting?"
Conan: "I don't care! I really don't care. It's all so amazing to me."
"Haywire" Movie Reviews
"Haywire" is receiving rave reviews and, of course, not-so-great reviews.
This review is from someone I know, Shelley Devine, who saw a preview screening, "Everything a girl could want! It's kinda like a good dose of therapy, where a girl beats up bad boys in realistically crafted fight scenes. Carano is as real as it gets and the audience liked it! But the movie falls short, being far too predictable."
Shelly is a Muay Thai trainer at Sityodtong, Mark DellaGrotte's MMA school.
Source: Facebook interviews
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Cheryl Ragsdale started out boxing and has added kicks and BJJ so she can practice MMA. She trains with Keith Florian and UFC Fighter Kenny Florian at Florian Martial Arts - follow @thatgirlisfunny.
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Ferdinand demands personal hearing in appeal against FA charge over 'choc ice' tweet allegedly aimed at Cole
16:25 GMT, 2 August 2012
Rio Ferdinand has vowed to fight his FA charge over the ‘choc ice’ tweet.
The Manchester United defender has appealed after the FA charged him with making improper comments which included a reference to ethnic origin and/or colour and/or race.
The initial ‘choc ice’ remark about Ashley Cole came two days after the Chelsea defender gave evidence on behalf of team-mate John Terry in his race trial concerning Ferdinand’s brother Anton.
Ferdinand initially responded to a tweet accusing Cole of being a ‘choc ice’ — street slang for being black on the outside and white on the inside.
Charged: Rio Ferdinand is in bother over a comment he responded to on Twitter
Ferdinand tweeted: ‘I hear you fella!
Choc ice is classic. Hahahahahaha!!’ He later deleted the tweet and
claimed on Twitter that it was slang for someone being ‘fake’.
An FA statement read: 'Manchester United’s Rio Ferdinand has today [Thursday 2 August] denied an FA charge of improper conduct in relation to comments posted on Twitter.
'The allegation is that the player acted in a way which was improper and/or brought the game into disrepute by making comments which included a reference to ethnic origin and/or colour and/or race. The player has requested a personal hearing.'
Testimony: Ashley Cole gave evidence at John Terry's trial at the start of July
The Ferdinand charge came on the day
it emerged that the FA’s case against Terry will dog Roy Hodgson’s
preparations for England’s August 15 friendly against Italy.
Terry requested a personal hearing
after being charged under Rule E3 for allegedly making racist remarks
towards Anton Ferdinand at Loftus Road last October. Terry’s legal team
must agree on a mutually acceptable date for the case to be heard.
Hodgson has been told he can continue
to pick the deposed England skipper, but the ongoing case will be a
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Every Reform game is on TV, but it's always cable TV. Some Conservative games are on cable, some on free TV, some not on TV. Orthodox games are broadcast on radio only, the way Mel Allen intended.
In the Orthodox game, "The strike zone is that area over home plate the upper limit of which is a horizontal line at the midpoint between the top of the shoulders and the top of the uniform pants, and the lower level is a line at the hollow beneath the kneecap." In the Conservative game, the strike zone is what the umpire says it is. In the Reform game, the strike zone is what the centerfield camera says it is.
The Orthodox serves only food that is "kosher for ballparks," namely beer, soda, hot dogs, Polish sausages, peanuts and Cracker Jack. Wine is prohibited. The Conservative allows Orthodox food plus pizza, nachos and wine. Reform stadiums offer franchise fast food.
No such sectarian divisiveness afflicts other pro sports: NFL team owners have reconstituted themselves as the College of Cardinals and replaced the commissioner with a pope, and the NBA is governed by 29 mullahs and an ayatollah. | <urn:uuid:c3874da7-6fba-41ba-a115-e0d3cc8ab03b> | 2013-05-21T17:10:47Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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I have code like this to trigger a script in /etc/inittab:
until test -p /tmp/updates.pipe do sleep 0.25 done
Which I want to refactor since the
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inotifywait -e create /tmp
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In one of my corona apps, I've to apply transition to objects with certain id. How can I do this? local ball = display.newImage("ball.png") -- sample, actually there are random no. of balls ...
my code run smooth when I run in main file but when I make write this code in some other lua file and call that file with the help of director.lua, it doesnt recognized ended event phase on touching. ...
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|Henry Midfields||The Fateful Day||
(Pokey)"Ness, can you hear a slight buzzing sound?" (Ness)"Yeah, it seems to come from the crater..." (Pokey)"That's what I thought as well"
|Henry Midfields||Christmas-styled Paula||
A clay-figure of Paula with Christmassy-colored dress of red and white, with pink boots!
|Henry Midfields||Fourside 1900||
A hypothetical question of what if Ness' adventure happened a century ago...
|Henry Midfields||Watercolour Paula||
A portrait of Paula in watercolour...
|Henry Midfields||Summer sketch||
A water colour sketch of the street of Carillion Beach | <urn:uuid:2d285f34-4063-42cc-b163-b36fe545bca2> | 2013-05-21T17:29:46Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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|Chronological and political information|
RonTha was a Meerian who lived on the planet Bandomeer. He was a strict follower of rules and protocol, and believed in doing everything according to regulations. He took Obi-Wan Kenobi on a tour of the Agri-Corps Enrichment Zone building, and was very interested in the growth of the plants there, allowing himself to go on at considerable length about one small seed or the other. After Kenobi had been kidnapped from the Agri-Corps building by Offworld operatives and Xanatos, and taken to the deepsea mines of Bandomeer, RonTha was questioned by Qui-Gon Jinn, as to whether he had observed anything suspicious. At first, he denied being in the Agri-Corps building that night, as it was against rules to be there after hours. But after continued pressure from Jinn, he succumbed, and admitted that he had been in a orchard near the site of Kenobis' kidnapping, as he liked to have fruit from the orchard before bed. He told Jinn that he had seen some men carrying Kenobi away, and had followed in time to see them take him away by boat. He was then persuaded by Jinn to be allowed to take an Agri-Corps boat to rescue young Kenobi.
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—(1) The Attorney-General may request the appropriate authority of a foreign country to make arrangements —
for the enforcement and satisfaction of a Singapore confiscation order; or
where a Singapore confiscation order may be made in criminal proceedings which have been or are to be instituted in Singapore, to restrain dealing in any property against which the order may be enforced or which may be available to satisfy the order,
if the Attorney-General is satisfied that there are reasonable grounds for believing that some or all of the property concerned is located in that country.
(2) Where —
the Singapore confiscation order requires the payment of a specified amount; and
property is recovered in a foreign country pursuant to a request under subsection (1),
that specified amount shall be reduced by the value of property so recovered.
(3) A certificate purporting to be issued by or on behalf of the appropriate authority of a foreign country stating —
that property has been recovered in the foreign country pursuant to a request under subsection (1); or
the value of the property or the date on which it was recovered,
shall, in any judicial proceedings, be admissible as evidence of the matter so stated.
(4) Where the value of property recovered is expressed in a currency other than that of Singapore, the extent to which the amount payable under the Singapore confiscation order is to be reduced under subsection (3) shall be calculated on the basis of the exchange rate prevailing on the date on which the property was recovered in the foreign country concerned.
(5) For the purposes of subsection (4), a certificate purporting to be issued by the Monetary Authority of Singapore and stating the exchange rate prevailing on a specified date shall be admissible in any judicial proceedings as evidence of the matter so stated. | <urn:uuid:587b34ef-ff63-4434-a12e-fb963fab5469> | 2013-05-21T17:17:38Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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—(1) Any police officer or employment inspector may arrest without warrant any person whom he reasonably suspects —
is committing or has committed an offence under section 5(6), (7) or (7A), 10(2), 22(1)(a), (c), (d), (e) or (f), (2), (3) or (4), 22A(2) or 22B(1); or
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(2) An employment inspector making an arrest without warrant shall, without unnecessary delay and subject to subsection (4), take or send the person arrested before a Magistrate’s Court.
(3) No employment inspector shall detain in custody a person arrested without warrant for longer than is reasonable in the circumstances, and such period shall not exceed 48 hours exclusive of the time necessary for the journey from the place of arrest to the Magistrate’s Court.
(4) Any person who has been arrested by an employment inspector may be released on bail, or on his own bond, by an employment inspector. | <urn:uuid:4375a3d6-2832-428b-ab0f-7620b477a984> | 2013-05-21T17:33:41Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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—(1) A bank shall not purchase or acquire any immovable property or any right therein exceeding in the aggregate 40% of that bank’s capital funds except as may be reasonably necessary for the purpose of conducting its business or of housing or providing amenities for its staff.
(2) Subsection (1) shall not prevent a bank —
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Emilia and the Mustard of Christmas
“I want to do the mustard,” Renzo said.
“No,” Emilia said. “You can watch.”
Emilia was helping Nana make Christmas dinner. This dinner wasn't a
turkey with stuffing. It was sandwiches -- a whole table full! Emilia
was in the kitchen in the church basement, making a free Christmas
dinner for homeless people.
First Nana laid rows and rows of bread on the counter. Emilia put
two slices of turkey on each slice of bread. Nana put two slices of
cheese. Emilia squirted mustard. Nana squirted mayonnaise. And
Emilia put another slice of bread on top.
“Please can I do the mustard?” Renzo said.
“You're only four,” Emilia said.
“You're only seven!”
“Why don't you go play with Mark?” Nana said. Renzo stomped away.
They put the sandwiches on a big platter. “I can carry it,” Emilia
“Okay,” Nana said. “Be careful.”
The sandwiches were heavy. Very heavy. Nana went out of the
kitchen, and Emilia followed her. The church hall was packed with
tables and wreaths and strangers.
“Hi, Emilia!” said Father Poppo. He was wide and loud, like Santa
Claus. “You sure you won't drop that mountain of sandwiches?”
Emilia nodded. The sandwiches were so heavy she couldn't talk.
She walked with Nana walked towards a table. Emilia imagined
dropping the sandwiches. Cheese and turkey would go
everywhere. Renzo would dance on the squishy pile and soak his
sneakers with mustard.
At the table, a woman sat alone. She stared at her hands. She
didn't smile or frown. She was like a statue of ice.
Emilia tried to skip her, but Nana nodded at her. Emilia's hands
started to shake. “Don't worry, sweetie,” Nana whispered.
But Emilia knew she was about to drop those sandwiches. She ran
over and slammed the platter on the table.
The mountain of sandwiches collapsed.
Sandwiches slid like an avalanche. They tumbled onto the table. One
skittered right onto the woman's lap. It left a bright trail of
Emilia wished she could turn into a sandwich herself, at the bottom
of the pile. She tried to say, “I'm sorry,” but she just squeaked.
But the woman started to laugh. “It's okay, honey. I'm not going to
eat you. Just what's left of this sandwich.”
Then Nana laughed. And Emilia laughed too, because otherwise she
would start crying.
Nana said, “I hope you like mustard.”
“I look good in mustard,” the woman said. “Everyone always tells
Emilia and Nana piled the sandwiches and took them to other
people. Some thanked Emilia. Others didn't look up. But everyone
got something to eat.
When the platter was empty, they went to the kitchen to make
more. Renzo was waiting. “Nana, can I please, please do the
“Ask Emilia,” Nana said.
Emilia hesitated. Renzo actually waited, and didn't ask again, so
she said, “Sure.”
“Hooray!” Renzo shouted. They laid out some bread, and Renzo
squeezed the mustard.
SQUIRT! Mustard went everywhere.
“Oh no! I made a mess!” He looked at Emilia to see if she was mad.
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Ellen is a 59-year-old medical technician from Massachusetts. She has been managing hypertension for nine years.
What was your first sign that something was wrong? What symptoms did you experience?
I’ve never had any symptoms of high blood pressure. But I’ve always been very prudent about getting regular medical checkups and having my blood pressure checked, because I have a strong family history of high blood pressure and cardiovascular disease. During my late 40s, my blood pressure started to go up a little, so I started to monitor it fairly regular and, indeed, it became what they called “borderline” high blood pressure.
What was the diagnosis experience like?
When I was 50, my primary doctor became concerned about my blood pressure going up. It was never extremely high—the highest reading I remember is 165/90—but because of my family history and because I’m overweight and high-strung, my doctor and I decided I should take medication.
What was your initial and then longer-term reaction to the diagnosis?
I was very afraid, because everyone in my family has had high blood pressure. My parents and grandparents all died of cardiovascular diseases, such as stroke or heart attack, in their 60s and 70s. I was also sad when I found out I had it and realized I would probably have to take medication for the rest of my life. Around the same time, I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism, which also requires lifelong medication.
How do you manage your condition?
I take a medication called Zestril, which I’ve taken for about the last 8 years. It works extremely well at controlling my blood pressure and I don’t have any side effects from it. While on the Zestril, my blood pressure has remained steady at around 130/70.
Did you have to make any lifestyle or dietary changes in response to your illness?
I’m constantly trying to lose weight, because I know that if I wasn’t overweight I might not have to take medication. I exercise and I’m very careful about limiting the sodium in my diet and I never cook with salt. And, on and off over the years, I’ve practiced meditation to try to reduce stress and control my emotions, which have a big impact on my blood pressure.
Did you seek any type of emotional support?
For me it was mostly just a matter of staying educated about my condition and being proactive about treating and managing it. My support comes mostly from within. I don’t really spend a lot of time thinking about it anymore.
Has your condition had any impact on your family?
No. My kids were grown and out of the house by the time I was diagnosed and it doesn’t really have much impact on my husband. He’s a health nut, so eating a low-salt diet doesn’t bother him.
What advice would you give to anyone living with this disease?
I recommend following your doctor’s advice, taking medications as prescribed, eating right, exercising, and minimizing stress. The best advice for people is probably to try to prevent it altogether. It’s possible—I could have escaped this, had I maintained a healthy weight and not let stress affect me as much.
Interviews were conducted in the past and may not reflect current standards and practices in medicine. Talk to your doctor to learn more about how this condition is diagnosed and managed today and what treatment approaches are right for you. | <urn:uuid:22b4a1cb-988b-4240-8faf-e4ffc0159451> | 2013-05-21T17:37:25Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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It's been a while since the last update so I wanted to give some news on how things are going with work towards the next release.
I've spent a lot of time working on getting the HLE audio code working on the Media Engine. I've been making steady progress, but it's been taking longer than I initially expected. Fortunately, I'm very close to getting all of the audio processing moved over to the ME - in fact I believe I have just one significant bug left to fix.
The issue seems to be a very odd synchronisation bug which causes the emulator to lock up when running the audio processing asynchronously. As with many of these types of bugs, it's proving quite hard to track down because as soon as I change the code to debug the problem, the issue goes away. A true Heisenbug :(
What's particularly annoying is that the bug is stopping me from measuring how much of a difference running the audio code on the ME makes. Hopefully I'll be able to fix the bug over the Christmas break and be able to publish some timings over the new year.
As part of this work, I've also been writing a general-purpose 'job manager', which coordinates batches of work between the main CPU and the ME. The idea is to build on top of J.F.'s MediaEngine.prx to provide a simple interface for queing up and dispatching work asynchronously. When a job is added to the queue, a flag indicates whether the job is suitable for running on the ME, or whether it should just be run asynchronously on the main CPU instead.
Initially just the audio processing will run through the job manager on the ME, but eventually it should be possible run other pieces of work asynchronously too. I'm hoping that it will eventually be possible to move parts of the HLE graphics processing to run asynchronously too, but I need to investigate things a bit more first. That's a job for future releases however.
Anyway, that's all for now. I'm off to eat mince pies and watch The Great Escape on tv. Merry Christmas everyone :) | <urn:uuid:fa932c89-7460-4e68-8cc5-209229abb1f5> | 2013-05-21T17:09:39Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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I have two partitions; in one I have Windows 7 Professional, and in the other, I have Windows 7 Home Premium which came with my laptop.
I want to re-install Windows 7 Home Premium again. But when I boot from CD (the recovery CD I got from Dell when I bought my laptop) I am not getting the choice of which Windows to reinstall
Can someone help me what would be the best solution? I don't want to any change of win 7 Professional. | <urn:uuid:c274b33a-fa9c-4a86-9395-10c900bd1127> | 2013-05-21T17:16:40Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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If I run a
free -m, I get this output:
Is there a command that I could use to clear the used memory? I have tried this:
echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
It will ask for
sudo. But even after
sudo, it gives bad command error.
Here is the link where I got to know about drop_caches.
I am just looking for a way on how to clear the cache. | <urn:uuid:4e3477c0-b291-4180-8841-4569e4c248a9> | 2013-05-21T17:37:54Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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I cannot view or save an attachment in Windows Mail.
Windows Mail blocks certain types of file attachments that are commonly used to spread e-mail viruses, such as files with the following file name extensions: .exe, .pif, and .scr files. If Windows Mail blocks an attachment in an e-mail, the Information bar will display a message letting you know that it has done so and list the attachment that has been blocked. Although it's not recommended, you can enable access to blocked attachments. This should only be done by advanced users, and only with an up-to-date virus checker running.
To enable access to blocked attachments: | <urn:uuid:8bebd459-48ff-4ace-9ea6-95ee1429ba8f> | 2013-05-21T17:37:30Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The CAM-Wizard TAPE editor is used to edit the tape code that is normally created by the POST processor. The tape editor is normally run by typing TAPE while running CAM or by selecting it from other programs. This program can also be run directly from the operating system by using the TAPE command.
The TAPE editor uses many special keys. On the right side of the keyboard there are eight special keys, Up Arrow, Down Arrow, Left Arrow, Right Arrow, Home, End, PgUp, and PgDn, that are used for moving the blinking cursor. The Arrow keys are used for moving the cursor around on the screen. The [Home] key is used to move to the beginning of the line. The [ End] key can is used to move to the end of the line. The user can scroll up and down a page at a time with the [PgUp] and [PgDn] keys.
Also on the keypad are the [Ins] and [Del] keys. Pressing the [Ins] key will toggle the insert mode. When in insert mode typing any character will move the part of the line to the right of the cursor to the right and insert the character, otherwise the character will "type over" the existing characters on that line. Pressing [Del] will move the part of the line to the right of the cursor, to the left, deleting the character over the cursor.
Because the editor has been designed to accept anything that is typed into it as pure input to be included in the text file it creates, all functions other than the input of that data must be executed by pressing special function keys. These keys are located on the top row of the keyboard.
The [F1] key is used to insert a line into the text. pressing this key causes the line that the cursor is on to move down one line, creating a blank line to type on. The [F2] key causes the line that the cursor is on to be deleted.
The [F3] key is used for the search function. Pressing [F3] will cause the program to stop and input a character string from the user. The editor will then search from its current position in the program for that string. Entering nothing at the "Find String ?" will cause the last string to be searched for again from the current cursor position on.
The [F4] key is used for the replace function. When this key is pressed, the user is asked what string to search for. After typing in this string and pressing [Enter], the user is asked what string to change it to. All occurrences of the first string will then be highlighted, and the user will be asked "Replace ? (Y/N/G/Esc) ?". Pressing [Y] will replace that occurrence of the search string. Pressing [N] will skip that occurrence. Pressing [G] will replace all remaining occurrences. Pressing [Esc] will abort the replace function.
The [F5] key must be used with care. When [F5] is pressed, the program will ask "Are You Sure ? (Y/N) ?". Pressing [Y] will then ERASE the entire tape; if it has not been saved it will be lost. This key is used to erase everything in order to start new.
The [F6] key is used to exit the editor, save the current text, and run the programs that appear when the key is pressed. The programs available from the editor will be listed on the screen with a single character to the left of each. Pressing the key corresponding to any of those characters will cause the related program to be run. Pressing an invalid key will return operation to the editor as if nothing had happened.
The [F7] key is used to read in a previously stored file from the disk. After pressing this key, the user is asked for a file name. Entering the file name and pressing [Enter] will cause that file to be appended to the text already loaded into the editor. Entering a CAM-Wizard device name will cause the text to be read from that device using the protocol and handshaking defined for that device in IO.CFG.
The [F8] key is used to write a file to a disk or to the printer. Entering a valid MS-DOS file name causes the text to be saved on a disk file and typing the word PRINTER will cause the text to be sent to the printer. Entering a CAM-Wizard device name (such as PUNCH, or a machine name) will cause the tape code to be sent to that device using the protocol and handshaking defined for that device in IO.CFG.
The [F9] key is used for block editing functions. Blocks of text can be copied and deleted using the block edit command. When pressed, the system will prompt you for the function, either mark block start, mark block end, copy block, or delete block. Blocks must be defined before they can be copied or deleted.
The [F10] key is used to renumber a tape. This function will ask the increment to use for renumbering the tape. At this time the user can specify the number to be counted by and the number of digits to use on the tape. For instance if you type 005, then the tape will be numbered by 5 and each N number on the tape will take up 3 digits. ( 005, 010, 015, 020 ... ).
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David Norris wrote:
> Bill Moseley wrote:
> There are tons of things one can do to fight against DoS. Of course,
> you normally don't think of them until something drastic has happened
> > I also limit two letter wildcards, and the total number of wild cards.
> Sounds like a reasonable idea.
> > The other thing I do to reduce a DOS attack is to limit the amount of time
> > for each request, and kill off swish at the timeout.
Old swish-e (1.3.2) has a terrible lack in performance when databases
contains thousands of document and a search returns many results. For
this reason, in phrase version I rewrote the "or" result function to
improve speed and use less memory.
Yesterday, I also rewrote the "and" function because it has the same
problem. When "anding" two lists of results, swish-e is very slow if
there are many occurrences in them. This is the case when wildcard is
used in a search string.
With these changes, I think I have improved search speed notoriously.
I am testing it now in Solaris, Aix and Linux.
Other problems not fixed in the new version:
- As tested by Dave, the new beta version does not work in FreeBSD.
Yesterday I could download FreeBSD (thank you, Dave). Hope to test it
soon. Anybody has tested it in other OS different form Solaris, Linux,
Win32 or FreeBSD?
- Bill's requirement of using wordchars while parsing search string:
Still there but not forgotten.
Have a nice day
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hey! sorry i havent created a set in a thousand years but ive been busy with finals. this set is telling a story of a girl who has a fiance and i having an affair with someone else. she doesnt feel gultiy until one day her fiance asks her "are you in love with me?" the the moment she says " of course i'm in love with you darling" she hears a little voice in her heead that says im lying. | <urn:uuid:63c7761e-bd3e-4a59-95af-223cafa31fe3> | 2013-05-21T17:24:55Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Who should speak first when evaluating a lesson in the post-observation feedback session, the observer or the observed?
This was the subject of an extended and impromptu debate at an external training session I attended last week. The person leading the session stood back in true ‘facilitator’ style while a room of teachers explained to each other why their preferred way is better than the other. I was fascinated and decided to blog some of their points.
Why the observer should speak first
The observer is often (but not always) more experienced and has plenty of good advice for the observed teacher, why not get straight to the point?
If the observed teacher spoke first and evaluated their own lesson inaccurately, they could have their confidence dented when the observer disagreed with what they’d said.
Everyone needs praise, and if the observer goes first they can start by highlighting the good aspects of the observed teacher’s lesson and establish a positive and nurturing atmosphere.
Why the observed teacher should speak first
If they spoke second, they would be influenced by the feedback from the observer, so the observer would not hear a genuine self-evaluation. This means that they will miss an opportunity to develop their ability to judge lesson effectiveness.
If the observed teacher speaks first they are forced into a reflective state of mind in which they’ll be more receptive to advice.
Allowing the observed teacher to speak first makes it clear that the evaluation of the lesson is a shared experience and establishes a more supportive environment.
The observer’s feedback can be targeted more effectively if they hear the observed teacher’s point of view first, for example focusing on an aspect in which they put the most effort.
Teachers are often too hard on themselves, and if the observed teacher starts by criticising aspects of their own lesson it can be a confidence boost when the observer highlights some good aspects.
Lesson observations are subjective, and the observer may have missed something that the teacher didn’t. Speaking second allows them to give better-informed feedback.
If you can’t tell from my completely biased paraphrasing of the points, I prefer letting the observed teacher speak first. Any arguments about the observed teacher getting the evaluation wildly wrong seem flawed to me because without the opportunity to highlight those inaccuracies, they will never learn to adequately evaluate the effectiveness of their own teaching, nor that of others.
Have I missed any arguments either way? Let me know (@teachgr). Thanks to @grevster73, @coope83, @leedonaghy, @bio_joe, @hrogerson and@geekgirl77 who already contributed ideas. | <urn:uuid:81149521-b1bd-41d8-bc41-4567abedf25f> | 2013-05-21T17:30:35Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Google is now legally responsible for every crazy thing on the Internet–at least, in Australia. The Supreme Court of Victoria fined Google $200,000 for not removing defamatory rumors linking music promoter, Milorad Trkulja, to organized crime. The court reasoned that Google is a “publisher” because it displays content and links to offending websites.
“Google’s search results are a reflection of the content and information that is available on the web. The sites in Google’s search results are controlled by those sites’ webmasters, not by Google,” wrote the company, in a diplomatically worded statement in response to the decision.
In October 2009, Trkulja demanded that Google remove the rumors, including images, but the company denied the request and recommended he contact the website owners. The court ruled that Google’s innocence is only justifiable until the point when someone asks them to remove content. The court reasoned:
The plaintiff accepted (correctly in my view) that he had to establish that Google Inc intended to publish the material complained of. While much was made by counsel for Google Inc of the fact that there was no human intervention between the request made to the search engine and the publication of search results, and of the fact that the system was “fully automated”, the plaintiff’s point was that Google Inc intended to publish everything Google’s automated systems (which systems its employees created and allowed to operate) produced. Specifically, the plaintiff contended that Google Inc intended to publish the material complained of because while the systems were automated, those systems were the consequence of computer programs, written by human beings, which programs were doing exactly what Google Inc and its employees intended and required. On this basis, it was contended that each time the material complained of was downloaded and comprehended, there was a publication by Google Inc (the operator and owner of the relevant search engines), as intended by it.
While the moral implications of the court’s decision are certainly up for debate, the logistical fallout of such a decision is, to put it mildly, mind-boggling. There are a lot of crazy, mean, and ill-informed people, and they increasingly have access to the Internet. Verifying whether a rumor of, say, the death of a celebrity is true or not is relatively straightforward.
But, the anti-Islamic video, “The Innocence of Muslims,” which sparked fatally violent protests in the Middle East, is wrapped up in a heated legal debate about whether its author should be culpable for his actions. And in France, for instance, individuals face heavy fines for hate speech.
If Google is legally responsible for all of the Internet’s content, in the same way that authors are responsible, it’s hard to imagine how any search engine could exist. | <urn:uuid:081532a5-bda5-4b09-a322-a177fbc77d9e> | 2013-05-21T17:10:56Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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DPRK denounces U.S.for double standards on rocket launches
PYONGYANG, Feb 02, 2013 (Xinhua via COMTEX) --
The Democratic People's Republic
of Korea (DPRK) on Saturday criticized the United States for
employing double standards on the DPRK's space program and South
Korea's rocket launch.
"The U.S. unconditional criticism of our satellite launch and
its unconditional approval of a satellite launch by the South are
at the height of double standards," an unidentified foreign
ministry spokesperson was quoted by the state-run KCNA news agency
The accusation came three days after South Korea successfully
launched its first space rocket, the Korea Space Launch Vehicle-1,
putting a satellite into orbit.
U.S. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said Thursday
that there was no basis for comparing the rocket programs of the
DPRK and South Korea, given that South Korea "has developed its
Washington and Seoul have long called the DPRK's rocket launch
a cover for a test of Pyongyang's banned ballistic missile
technology, while Pyongyang has insisted that the test was for
peaceful purposes only.
On Jan. 22, the UN Security Council condemned the DPRK's
satellite launch last December, demanding the DPRK not proceed
with any further launches using ballistic missile technology.
The DPRK on Jan. 24 vowed to conduct more rocket launches and a
higher-level nuclear test targeting its "sworn enemy," the United
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said Wednesday that
China opposes any moves that might escalate tensions and are not
conducive to the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.
Beijing also calls on all parties to work together to safeguard
the peace and stability of the peninsula.
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Sunday, July 02, 2006
Hypostasis of the Archons II
The reason I typed “The Hypostasis of the Archons” into my mobile phone to send to my ex was that she had asked me about Dan Brown’s book, The Da Vinci Code.
I’d said that Dan Brown was sort of onto a half-truth in his book. Not that Jesus ever married Mary Magdalene (there’s no indication of that anywhere in the literature) but that the feminine has been systematically exorcised from Christianity over the centuries and that certain forgotten forms of the religion (such as the one given voice in the various texts contained within the suppressed Nag Hammadi library) were much more sympathetic to the notion of a female form in the deity.
This is clear in The Hypostasis of the Archons, where the feminine side of the deity is given a name, as Pistis Sophia.
In my last entry about the Hypostasis of the Archons I said that when I’d first read the text on the internet a kind of shiver of recognition went through my whole body. This happened several times, in fact. Firstly when I read the line in the first paragraph - “our contest is not against flesh and blood; rather, the authorities of the universe and the spirits of wickedness” (which I understood to be a declaration of empathy for the plight of suffering humanity) - and then again when I read the line in the second paragraph - “Their chief is blind; because of his power and his ignorance and his arrogance he said, with his power, ‘It is I who am God; there is none apart from me.’”
I must say, my first thought at this point was, “George W Bush”, and I laughed out loud.
It was the line about power and ignorance and arrogance that made me think that.
What it actually recognises is a relationship of power, which is currently personified in the figure of the so-called Leader of the Free World. At the time of the writing of the book it would have meant the Roman Emperor, who was worshipped as a god.
The Archons are the ruling economic and political elites and also the powers of darkness that they worship. In the modern world we would refer to these as “market-forces”.
I was also simultaneously aware that this figure - the blind chief Samael - represented a corresponding psychological construct, creator of a false world: the ego. Or not the ego as such (which is simply a self-protective and focussed aspect of the mind) but a particular destructive, possessive form of the ego - the ego as property - which claims to own all it sees, and which diminishes the world in the process.
Thus the Hypostasis of the Archons is a psycho-political narrative of immense contemporary significance.
The Roman world - the world that it was born from - is mirrored by our own world.
Many of the things that we would recognise in our own world - bureaucracy, patronage, class, relations of dominance and subjugation, even Big Brother in the form of the gladiatorial games (including the cult of celebrity) - all of this began in those times.
The Romans were much like us.
They were as cynical, as lazy, as inclined to “taking the easy way out”, as morbid, as stupid, and as spiritually confined as we are.
At the same time, they were as sophisticated, as industrious, as committed, as humane, as bright and as potentially free as us.
There was as much relative misery in their world as in ours. There was less misery as a whole - despite slavery - because there were less of them to be made miserable. But the levels of abuse and exploitation were similar. The misery of the slave in Roman times was generally no worse than the misery of the wage-slave in many parts of the world today.
They were also, unlike us, exclusively organic, so there was comparatively less damage being done. For example: they were not burning fossil fuels at anywhere near the level that we do.
Nevertheless, within the limitations of their technology (limitations of scope, but not of kind) the Romans were committing huge, often irreparable, damage.
In a sense, our world represents the triumph of the Roman world over the many other kinds of world that existed at the time... the triumph of Roman consciousness over the many other kinds of consciousness. George Bush inherits the political mantle perhaps - he and his ilk - but the rest of us are burdened (or indoctrinated) by the psychological inheritance.
Samael, the god of the blind, represents the eyes with which we now view our world, that is, blindly, in ignorance.
Karl Marx had a good word for this process. He called it ideology. Samael represents the ideology of the power and ignorance and arrogance of the military-economic machine that dominates our outer world and which we subsequently internalise as self-repression.
Thus he creates a false world. “His thoughts became blind. And, having expelled his power - that is, the blasphemy he had spoken - he pursued it down to chaos and the abyss, his mother, at the instigation of Pistis Sophia. And she established each of his offspring in conformity with its power - after the pattern of the realms that are above, for by starting from the invisible world the visible world was invented.”
The third time I had the shiver of recognition came with the following words: “As incorruptibility looked down into the region of the waters, her image appeared in the waters; and the authorities of the darkness became enamoured of her. But they could not lay hold of that image, which had appeared to them in the waters, because of their weakness - since beings that merely possess a soul cannot lay hold of those that possess a spirit - for they were from below, while it was from above. This is the reason why ‘incorruptibility looked down into the region (etc.)’: so that, by the father's will, she might bring the entirety into union with the light.”
It was the image of the goddess reflected in the waters that caused a resonance in me. The goddess as “incorruptibility”. The idea of the “authorities of the darkness” becoming enamoured of her, but being unable to lay hold of her. They fail to lay hold of her firstly because they are looking in the wrong place. (What they are looking at is merely a reflection.) But secondly, because she is the image of incorruptibility and cannot, therefore be “laid hold of”. She is beyond objectification. She is beyond property. She is beyond measure. She is beyond price.
I could see the image at the time. Indeed, I can see it now. And I could see the blind, false god, jealous of her truth, reaching out to touch her shimmering image in the dark waters.
This image sent a message to me, from a past that is not as long ago as we like to imagine, about the true nature of our world, as a reflection of another world. Sometimes, even, I can sense that other world - not so far away - as a world of immense, intense almost unbearable beauty; as a world of true kindness; as a world of friends, not strangers; as a world where the exploitation of class has never existed; as a world which glows with its own inner light, where the works of art and nature are forever intertwined in an elaborately playful dance of sheer delight. The naturalising of the human. The humanising of nature. Where there is no longer a “them” and “us”, nor a “me” and an “it”. Just you and I, I and thou, the world and its lover. For ever and ever. Amen.
You never knew I was a priest, did you? | <urn:uuid:f8eed3df-5ba2-45a9-8c66-c5d010330b5e> | 2013-05-21T17:25:15Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.
And the four and twenty elders, which sat before God on their seats, fell upon their faces, and worshipped God,
Saying, We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast reigned.
And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.
And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail.
Ain't it wonderful?
We are His temple :o) The veil will be rent and we will see Him as He is and know as we are known!
Rev 21:23 And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.
Behold, we heard of it in Ephrathah, We found it in the field of Jaar.
Let us go into His dwelling place(tabernacle); Let us worship at His footstool.
Arise, O LORD, to Your resting place(tabernacle), You and the ark of Your strength.
Let Your priests be clothed with righteousness, And let Your godly ones sing for joy.
For the sake of David Your servant, Do not turn away the face of Your anointed.
The LORD has sworn to David A truth from which He will not turn back: "Of the fruit of your body I will set upon your throne.
"If your sons will keep My covenant And My testimony which I will teach them, Their sons also shall sit upon your throne forever."
For the LORD has chosen Zion; He has desired it for His habitation.
"This is My resting place forever; Here I will dwell, for I have desired it.
"I will abundantly bless her provision; I will satisfy her needy with bread.
"Her priests also I will clothe with salvation, And her godly ones will sing aloud for joy.
Rev 3:21 'He who overcomes, I will grant to him to sit down with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne.
Rev 21:7 "He who overcomes will inherit these things, and I will be his God and he will be My son.
(Rom 8:14-23)For all who are being led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.
For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out, "Abba! Father!"
The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God,
and if children, heirs also, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified with Him.
For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us.
For the anxious longing of the creation waits eagerly for the revealing of the sons of God.
For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it, in hope
that the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God.
For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now.
And not only this, but also we ourselves, having the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our body.
"There I will cause the horn of David to spring forth; I have prepared a lamp for Mine anointed.
"His enemies I will clothe with shame, But upon himself his crown shall shine."
In the same way God, desiring even more to show to the heirs of the promise the unchangeableness of His purpose, interposed with an oath,
so that by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have taken refuge would have strong encouragement to take hold of the hope set before us.
This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and one which enters within the veil,
where Jesus has entered as a forerunner for us, having become a high priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek. | <urn:uuid:f80c64e6-b6fb-41c5-a9d5-83060847f9e8> | 2013-05-21T17:25:08Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Thanks to Arrested Development, I’ve learned that you can use strippers in different situations. Use them to scare someone by having them pretend to be a gang or cops. Or even better, to pose as your friends. They’re good for just about anything, not just stripping.
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Nineteen-year-old Safi Kachmar of Norwich pleaded guilty today in New London Superior Court to burglarizing three homes and setting fire to a pickup truck in 2011, but balked when a judge asked him to admit he assaulted a homeowner’s dog during one of the break-ins.
Kachmar will be sentenced March 13 to up to five years in prison followed by five years probation for first-degree larceny, three counts of third-degree burglary and conspiracy to commit third-degree arson. He admitted to all of the crimes but denied assaulting a 200-pound bull mastiff during a burglary on Thames View Road in Norwich on Sept. 7, 2011. The homeowner, John Wuorio, told Judge Susan B. Handy he had to euthanize his pet after the burglars struck it with a hatchet, dislocating its hip, and sprayed chlorine bleach in its face.
“It was totally wrong,” said Wuorio, who left the courtroom before hearing Kachmar’s denial of the attack on his dog.
Kachmar and 19-year-old Waylon Verley, who knew a teen-age occupant of the home, stole coins, guns and knives worth more than $40,000 during the burglary, according to the state.
“He denies the dog was injured while he was in the house,” said his attorney, Matthew Sorokin.
“Honestly, it wasn’t,” added Kachmar.
The judge allowed Kachmar to plead guilty to first-degree larceny and third-degree burglary under the Alford Doctrine, which indicates he doesn’t agree with the state’s allegations but does not want to risk conviction at trial, where he would possibly face a harsher sentence.
Kachmar also pleaded guilty to breaking into a shed at a home on Saunders Hollow Road in Old Lyme in November 2011 and then setting it on fire to conceal evidence of the burglary. He pleaded guilty to breaking into a home on Krug Road in Preston on Nov. 15, 2011 and stealing more than $16,500 worth of electronics and jewelry.
Additionally, he pleaded guilty to concocting Molotov cocktails with Verley and placing them under a pickup truck on George Avenue in Croton on Oct. 7, 2011 after the truck’s owner allegedly ripped them off in a marijuana deal.
Verley remains incarcerated while his case is pending. A third teen, Austin Zajac, was allegedly involved in some of the crimes and was given a suspended sentence, according to court records.
Verley told police they were looking for guns because they planned to start robbing banks and armored cars. He said they wanted to make enough money to move out of state and buy a house. | <urn:uuid:8d7bc731-9acc-4941-aaa0-bf2905dbf77f> | 2013-05-21T17:32:17Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The predator, in this case, a Golden Eagle. The prey? A toddler. A human baby.This happened in Montreal, Canada.
Please note that in the end of the video, along with the cheesy Vangelis music, someone has dubbed in the call of a hawk, probably a Red-Tailed Hawk. A Golden Eagle call can be heard here.
Update: The video might be bogus. Thanks to Borepatch and Walt for the heads-up. | <urn:uuid:6dcb9bbf-4fc4-424a-86bb-a7e493d40a40> | 2013-05-21T17:29:48Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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rochcoach replied to your post: UGH can i just look like you please Best reply I’ve ever seen!!! You my beautiful friend is awesome forever! aw, you make me… err, her, blush. Dude, will you be attending Comic Con?
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Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata was born into a clerical Parsi family in Nausari. His father, Nusserwanji Tata, moved to Bombay and started trading. Jamsetji joined the Elphinstone College in Bombay in 1856. He was considered to be a promising enough student to have his fees remitted. Married while still a student, he passed out in 1858, and joined his father's trading firm a year later.
His first venture was to open the Hong Kong branch of his father's firm in December of the same year, in partnership with Premchand Roychand and others. This firm did extremely well during the cotton boom, and Jamsetji was soon involved in many financial deals. However, with the end of the American Civil War, and the subsequent collapse of the Bombay boom in 1864, many of these businesses went into liquidation. He and his father regained their fortunes as suppliers to the British-Indian Army during the Abyssinian War (1867-68).
His reputation as an industrialist was based on the cotton mills he started. In 1871 he began to promote the "Central India Spinning, Weaving and Manufacturing Company, Limited", and built from scratch the Empress Mills in Nagpur. Opened on New Year's day, 1877, this immensely successful cotton mill developed business practises which remained the hallmark of the Tatas for years to come. An astute judge of people, Jamsetji hired his managers with good care. The firm also did developmental work in machinery. New policies towards labour were developed, including training, guaranteed pensions and gratuities, medical care and creches for women employees. His financial genius was evident in the way he took over and turned around the pernially sick Dharamsi Mill in Kurla. He changed its name to the Swadeshi Mill when he purchased it in 1887, and produced cloth that was extensively exported to China, Korea, Japan and the Levant.
He was the first pioneer entrepreneur in the country, and recognised the implications of the industrial revolution for India. Since textile manufacturing had taken root and the country was being linked by railways and the telegraph, he believed that he should concentrate his means and efforts on three key areas-- the iron and steel industry, electrical power generation and technical education.
He was close to the Indian National Congress, and was strongly influenced by Dadabhai Naoroji, Pherozeshah Mehta and Dinshaw Wacha. However, contrary to them, he believed that political independence would be meaningless without economic self-sufficiency. To this end he set in motion plans for scientific education and the industrial development of backward regions of the country.
His goal of political and economic self-sufficiency had the effect that the British did not raise him to the rank of nobility as they did with other Parsi entrepreneurs. In fact, he faced opposition from the government for many of his projects, including the founding of the steel industry and development of housing in the present-day Northern suburbs of Bombay.
Many of his plans remained unfinished on his death in 1904. However, his vision of the Institute of Science in Bangalore, a steel plant in Jamshedpur, Bihar, and a hydroelectric company were brought to fruition by his successors. | <urn:uuid:2774961b-7bac-4a0a-9c68-7ac36808b56f> | 2013-05-21T17:44:21Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Monteverdi's Poppea opens the Boston Early Music Festival, plus the Cantata Singers, the Discovery Ensemble, and Barbara Cook at the Pops
L’INCORONAZIONE DI POPPEA: Gillian Keith was an ideal Poppea, but Marcus Ullmann seemed miscast as Nerone.
Two opera productions overlapping at the Calderwood Pavilion exploit exploitation. In one, contemporary lowlifes parade their darker hang-ups and seek redemption; in the other, the rich and power-hungry of ancient Rome seek only more riches and greater power and couldn't care less about redemption. In one, the characters include cross-dressers, transsexuals, and "poop fetishists"; in the other, women (or castrated men) sing some male roles and vice versa, and an assassin disguises himself as a woman. One juxtaposes high-flown parodies of opera, operetta, and oratorio with foul-mouthed contemporary slang; the other is the first great opera to deal with a historical subject. One tries hard to make a moral statement (quoting Blake's "Everything that lives is holy" as if it were Handel's Hallelujah Chorus); the other shows us amoral characters.
Richard Thomas & Stewart Lee's Jerry Springer: The Opera (2003), as up-to-date as pop culture and reality TV, was uninhibitedly staged by Paul Daigneault for SpeakEasy Stage Company, though with essentially one joke, it might be more effective at half its length. Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea (1642) gets more inspired as it goes along — and alongside our own news stories of greedy, lying, corrupt politicians, Poppea, which is about the accession of Emperor Nero's ambitious mistress to the throne, may have the greater contemporary relevance.
Monteverdi's opera is the centerpiece of this year's Boston Early Music Festival (replacing the originally announced Antiochus und Stratonica of Christoph Graupner, which will have to wait till 2013 and an economic upturn). Opening night it didn't come fully to life, despite some wonderful moments in its three and a half hours. The orchestra sounded inspired, with music directors (and score editors) Paul O'Dette and Stephen Stubbs imbedded in the ensemble playing chitarrone and Baroque guitar. And yet the whole lacked some underlying drive or pulse, something an actual conductor might have had an easier time supplying. Things, of course, could evolve, or vary, with each performance.
What won't change is Gilbert Blin's staging (he's also the set designer, and the 300-page program book for the festival devotes 14 columns to his detailed survey of Baroque theaters), which was mostly static and often not very responsive to the music. Monteverdi sets a tense scene between Poppea and the lover she's just thrown over "for a throne" as a kind of dance. It might have been exciting to see them do the steps and sidesteps of a psychological gavotte. But Blin's stock blocking conveyed no hint of dancing. A scene with three soldiers sent by Nerone to order Seneca's suicide was better because Blin seemed to be captivated by the musical madrigal. But in the ravishing final love duet (possibly written not by Monteverdi but by Benedetto Ferrari), Nerone and Poppea sing about gazing at each other and entwining, yet they're standing apart and doing neither.
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wow. it's like, creepy and scary and wrong, and yet somehow, so right for this certain Harry to seize his chance at power like this.
Very different. My initial reaction was along the lines of, OMGWTF?, but I'm glad I kept reading. It was strangely satisfying.
Also, there are a lot of weird characters in here--you may wish to re-upload. | <urn:uuid:0911c180-9585-45a9-8457-57b69d9fa5e4> | 2013-05-21T17:30:30Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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remainder [ri-meyn-der] Show IPA
|Part of Speech:||noun|
|Synonyms:||bottom of barrel, butt, carry-over, detritus, dregs, excess, fragment, garbage, hangover, heel, junk, leavings, leftover, obverse, oddment, odds and ends, overplus, refuse, relic, remains, remnant, residuum, rest, ruins, salvage, scrap, stump, surplus, trace, vestige, waste, wreck, wreckage|
|Notes:||remainder is a general word for what is left over, while residue (and residuum) is the remains at the end of a process; remnant is a part left after the greater part has been removed|
|Part of Speech:||noun, verb|
at a loose ends, at a stand, at a standstill, at anchor, at leisure, at one's ease, at rest, becalmed, calm, cataleptic, cubatory, deliberate, fixed, hypnagogic, immovable, leisurely, lodged, mawmsey, motionless, moveless, picktooth, quiescent, quiet, recumbent, reposing, restful, semisomnous, silent, sleeping, slow, somnifugous, stagnant, standing still, stationary, still, still as a mouse, still as a post, still as a statue, still as death, stock still, undisturbed, unmoved, unruffled, unstrained, untraveled
|Concept:||[Thing remaining] Remainder.|
|Category:||3. CONJUNCTIVE QUANTITY|
remainder, residue; remains, remanet, remnant, rest, relic; leavings, heeltap, odds and ends, cheeseparings, candle ends, orts; residuum; dregs (dirt); refuse (useless); stubble, result, educt; fag-end; ruins, wreck, skeleton, stump; alluvium., surplus, overplus, excess; balance, complement; superplus, surplusage; superfluity (redundance); survival, survivance.
remain; be left; exceed, survive; leave.
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Pillai, N. Sateesh (1995) Non-dissipative decay of linear quasimodes in a pure electron plasma. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechETD:etd-10122007-090003
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This thesis describes the first experimental observations of linear collisionless damping of perturbations in a pure electron plasma and provides the theoretical proof for collisionless damping in two dimensional inviscid incompressible fluids. Observations in the non-linear regime provide evidence for fluid trapping in the potential well of the perturbation.
The perturbations are in the form of diocotron waves which possess azimuthal symmetries described by the eigen number [...] = 2. The plasma is a cylindrical column of electrons confined in a Penning trap. Diocotron waves are excited by applying azimuthally propagating electric fields to the electrode structures forming the wall of the Penning trap.
Experiment shows that the damping of diocotron waves is not caused by dissipation at the electrode wall, and that the presence of such a dissipation decreases the decay rate of these waves, confirming that the [...] = 2 diocotron wave is a negative energy wave.
A self consistent set of equations for the perturbed potential is derived using the cold two dimensional fluid model. This results in the diocotron equation, which is the cylindrical plasma analog of Rayleigh's equation for shear flow of an inviscid incompressible fluid between parallel sheets. The complex form of the diocotron equation is solved, with homogeneous boundary conditions, for a particularly simple radial density profile showing that the diocotron resonances are quasimodes of the 2-D fluid. The solution reveals a complex eigenvalue which is consistent with the observed collisionless exponential damping of the diocotron wave in the linear regime.
Solution of the diocotron equation with more complicated density profiles is carried out numerically using the Runge-Kutta method on a computer.
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|Division:||Engineering and Applied Science|
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|Defense Date:||12 April 1995|
|Default Usage Policy:||No commercial reproduction, distribution, display or performance rights in this work are provided.|
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Perturbed over Prime Minister Stephen Harper's appearance Tuesday at commemorative vigil for the Armenian genocide of 1915-16, Turkey recalled its ambassador to Canada for 'consultations' in the homeland.
Allegedly Turkey's ambassadors around the world only have one job to do: convince host governments that the thingy with the Armenians wasn't a genocide.
No really. The website of the Embassy of Turkey in Ottawa hosts a section called "Armenian Allegations" whose documents include a 2005 letter from Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to his Armenian counterpart, then-president Robert Kocaryan, triumphing a binational "joint group" of historians to once-and-for-all arrive at the truth of the events of 1915-16 in which a reported 1.5 million Armenians were killed in an ethnic cleansing by Turkish nationalists.
There's also a link to an academic publication, "Revisiting the Armenian Genocide," which casts an appropriately academic shadow of doubt on the citadel of 'truth' (either Armenian or Turkish).
And there's a link to a statement (undated) from Turkey's Grand National Assembly exhorting, among other things, that "Wisdom and logic command Turkey and Armenia not to be afraid of breaking the taboos by working jointly, and to face their history by uncovering all aspects of the human calamity they together experienced."
Turkey has long claimed that the so-called genocide was a rural civil war between rival nationalist factions that resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands on both sides at a time when the grip of ethnocentric identity struggle on the people of the Middle East was as firm as Stephen Harper's hair helmet (pictured).
Armenia claims that, well, a million and a half of its people didn't live to see the birth of the short-lived Democratic Republic of Armenia (the fleeting independent state between Ottoman and Soviet hegemony in the Caucasus after World War I).
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Isabella Swan is played by Kristen Stewart in the Twilight Saga. I really like her stubbornness, well except for the fact that she really is in love with Edward. I kinda like also her clumsiness in the book and in the movie.
Alice Cullen is played by Ashley Greene. I love her so much. I wished i was her but not. In the book, she likes throwing parties like the Graduation Party where half of the town were invited. She treats Bella as her own sister. I like her ability of seeing what will come and what will happen. She is graceful too. But all of the Cullens are graceful just like Bella says.
Edward Cullen is played by Robert Pattinson. Wow! He is so handsome in the book and in reality i mean. hahah.. I can't describe him anymore because he had anything and everything. I love him soo much!
Taylor Lautner played the character of Jacob Black in the Twilight Saga. He is the bestfriend of Bella. They are family friends. Charlie really like him for Bella. hahaha He is not a werewolf but a shape-shifter. | <urn:uuid:7231360a-45ca-4b9e-af77-c5efd138f81a> | 2013-05-21T17:38:39Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Bayer Leverkusen has claimed a shock 2-1 win at Bayern Munich as the Bundesliga leader's record winning streak came to an abrupt end.
Having set a German league record last weekend with its eighth straight win since the start of the season, Bayern was left stunned on Sunday as defender Jerome Boateng scored a late own goal to give Leverkusen the three points.
Despite the defeat, Bayern still enjoys a four-point lead at the top of the table, while Leverkusen is fifth.
The visitor took the lead when Leverkusen captain Simon Rolfes found Andre Schuerrle on the wing, who threaded his pass through the Munich defence for striker Stefan Kiessling to tap in on 42 minutes.
Bayern levelled on 77 minutes thanks to a header from striker Mario Mandzukic, but Leverkusen was not be denied its first win in Munich since October 1989.
Boateng managed to get his head in the way as Leverkusen attacked, but the ball flew into the top left-hand corner and past goalkeeper Manuel Neuer on 86 minutes.
There was also drama in Hanover as Borussia Moenchengladbach came from 2-0 down to score three goals in nine minutes to enjoy a 3-2 win and claim only its third league victory of the season to go ninth with Hanover tenth.
Earlier, VfB Stuttgart striker Vedad Ibisevic headed a late winner to seal his team's 2-1 home victory over Eintracht Frankfurt.
Ex-Germany midfielder Christian Gentner played a big part in Stuttgart's win, which lifts it up to eighth, after he scored the opener in the sixth minute, then provided the final cross for Ibisevic's 84th-minute header.
Frankfurt equalised when captain Alexander Meier curled the ball inside the far post on 67 minutes before Bosnia and Herzegovina's Ibisevic hit his fifth goal of the season to leave Frankfurt third in the league.
On Saturday, defending champion Borussia Dortmund and Schalke had to dig deep as they returned to domestic action still in the glow of their mid-week Champions League triumphs.
After Borussia shocked Real Madrid 2-1 in Dortmund on Wednesday, the same night Schalke enjoyed a 2-0 win at Arsenal, both sides needed second-half goals to win their respective Bundesliga games.
Dortmund beat Freiburg 2-0 in heavy snow as centre-back Neven Subotic got the breakthrough the defending champion needed with a 54th-minute header.
Germany midfielder Mario Goezte slotted home the second on 83 minutes to keep Dortmund fourth.
Schalke also had to labour for its three points in Gelsenkirchen as Peru striker Jefferson Farfan hit the only goal of the game against Nuremberg in the 77th-minute to put the Royal Blues second in the league.
VfL Wolfsburg, which parted company with coach Felix Magath on Thursday, picked up only its second win of the season with a 4-1 victory at 10-man Fortuna Duesseldorf to lift itself off the bottom and up into 16th in the table.
Mainz is up to sixth after Hungary striker Adam Szalai scored a hat-trick against Hoffenheim. Having opened his account in the 21st minute, he doubled his team's tally with a second on 46 and wrapped up his hat-trick with a 64th-minute header to seal the 3-0 victory.
Borussia Dortmund defender Mats Hummels insists the UEFA Champions League final will not be his last game for the club. | <urn:uuid:c78ac9bc-e28e-4a8d-9bee-edbfb23a684d> | 2013-05-21T17:39:40Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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|Francisco Vasquez de Coronado|
The First Thanksgiving in the New World was held at Palo Duro Canyon on Ascension Thursday, May 23, 1541. On that day, Spanish explorer Francisco Vasquez de Coronado and his men held a day of thanksgiving after "Coronado's expedition had left Mexico in search of the Seven Cities of Cibola, but instead of a mythical city of gold, Coronado and his men found the Llano Estacado, where there were no cities, no trees and very little water." (from homepages.vvm.com)The rest of that story can be found here. This series of events has been verified by historians the world over, so this is the first instance of Thanksgiving as we know it in the New World.
On April 21, 1598, another Thanksgiving took place in Texas. That story can be found here. Now we have two "Thanksgivings" quite a few years before the Pilgrims celebrated their own day of thanks at Plymouth Rock.
I know this story may ruffle a few turkey feathers, but history is history. I don't bring this up to in any way diminish the importance of the Thanksgiving at Plymouth Rock in 1621 as it was certainly one of the most historic days of the American story. Three groups of people came to the New World for various reasons and independent of each other by miles and by years, found a reason to celebrate a day of Thanksgiving in what is now the United States of America, long may She live. | <urn:uuid:0cc1c465-63d3-4f8c-8f40-f8034b6c2ef5> | 2013-05-21T17:17:44Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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On this day in 1922, archaeologist Howard Carter and his financer Lord Carnarvon became the first people to enter the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in over 3000 years. Carter had been working in the Valley of the Kings for many years, but on 4th November 1922, Carter’s water carrier found the steps leading to Tutankhamun’s tomb and Carter wired Carnavon to come quickly.
On 26th November, Carter made the famous “tiny breach in the top left hand corner” of the doorway, and was able to peer into the antechamber (see picture) by the light of a candle and see that many of the gold and ebony treasures were still in place. When Carnarvon asked “Can you see anything?”, Carter replied: “Yes, wonderful things.”
In the following months, Carter and his team gained access to the antechamber, and began the excavation of the best preserved and most intact pharaonic tomb ever found. The first item was removed from the tomb on December 27th and on February 16th 1923, the Burial Chamber was oficially opened, where the team found the sarcophagus and the mummified remains of Tutankhamun. | <urn:uuid:51ba427f-80a1-4ebe-b48e-10b237eb219f> | 2013-05-21T17:43:33Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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My wife owns a small fast food restaurant. The current labor laws greatly inhibit hiring high school age workers. First of all they cannot touch some of the food making equipment, others they cannot clean, they cannot wash knives, they cannot operate the cash register, and the hours that they are allowed to work are limited. In addition, the minimum wage here of $8/hour makes hiring them expensive. We manage to hire a few, but have to pass most by. | <urn:uuid:fa2d5f32-2daa-4d23-9db7-3c7a67e8a4db> | 2013-05-21T17:45:33Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Every project that an architect designs does not always come to fruition. This was the case with the Caballeros footbridge. While it was a legitimate design intended to solve a particular problem, it was, however, never built.(Prologue :) The battle had ended, and he was one, if not the only trooper left, of a regiment, part of the horse soldiers, of Troop G, no one knew if he simply escaped from the valley, wondered off before the massacre, or after, or during; no one knew much except his name, rank, and where they found his dead body, so all I can do is tell you the end of the story...as close as I can, and give you as much detail as anyone could, some parts are conjecture, for upon his death bed he moaned them out...! Arts and entertainment in India There's plenty of different lenses that do different purposes, but there's basic general rules you should follow no matter what kind of lens you're using. When it comes to action shots, no lens will perform quite up to par. With coin magic tricks, you can entertain people anywhere - all you need are a couple of coins. Find out about coin magic and how you can learn it. Arts and Entertainment John Steinbeck is one of the great American authors whose work has emerged as representative of the finest of American literature from his time. He was born in 1902 and wrote until 1968, and was a Pulitzer Prize winning writer. If you are a music lover and want to record music without investing a huge amount, then the best alternative is to record music from home. With the developed technical skills and arrival of net, it is possible to learn music recording sitting at home. Card games are something that anyone of any age can play. They are stimulating and they can bring people together. Classic games teach kids about math, matching and many other skills. Teaching kids to play games is something that will stick with them throughout life and give them something to do other than sit in front of the television or the computer.
What is the name of the monster in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein? Answer: He does not have one. Although the monster is often referred to by other characters he is never actually given a proper name. He is only referred to as the creature, the beast or something similar. Have you loved performing magic tricks in front of your friends ever since you were a kid? Can you wow people with your on-target Tarot readings? Tie balloons into wonderful animal shapes? You may have what it takes to be a party entertainer and earn a nice side or even a primary income. This article will describe what it takes to be a party entertainer. Arts and entertainment Below are 25 questions that relate to the stories found within the Bible. Most of them should be fairly easy to answer but can you get them all? Can't wait to get your hands on the Beatles Remastered Box Set? You've got to be excited about all the great tracks that are coming your way - and don't forget the mini-documentaries! Problem is, where you gonna put 'em? Asian Americans in arts and entertainment Can't wait to get your hands on the Beatles Remastered Box Set? You've got to be excited about all the great tracks that are coming your way - and don't forget the mini-documentaries! Problem is, where you gonna put 'em? (Presumed, day one, two and three) "I can't swallow very well; my salivary glands are starting to dry up; I've been under the sweltering sun for hours, unaccountable hour's now. My body is being cooled by the constant cold water tossed over me at pretty many regular intervals. The sound of the smashing waves continually is having its affect on me, sound effects-drumming through my ears, my whole body. The wooden raft I am on is swinging back and forth, like a tugboat in a storm, but there is no storm, similar to a wrestler throwing me everywhichway. There is no way to get dry, no rain to drink. I know I have perhaps five days of life in me. In America, to be a Kennedy is the closest that one can come to being royalty in a country that has no kings. John F. Kennedy Jr. trivia will show that perhaps more than any other Kennedy in the country, he would bear this burden the heaviest as the son and heir to one of the most dynamic and popular presidents that the country had ever had, and one who had been cut down in his prime.
In earlier articles, Norm Doerges explained some of the fundamentals of design programming - the relationship between attendance and capacity, between economics and the guest experience. Now we'll have the chance to hear how these principles worked in actual situations; how they were instrumental in the success of shows and attractions, and what the consequences were for those operations that chose to ignore them. Don't change that dial! Arts and Entertainment (Masta Ace and Edo G album) So I've heard, a bullet, rocket or shell that hits you, you never hear it upon impact. The reason being, all is over, said and done, and if not you are usually unconscious. But I personally-for myself anyhow, somewhat disagree; I heard every rocket that hit our ammo dump, that evening until morning. Each incoming rocket came with a whistling sound, like a siren in low key, that never reached a roar status until it hit something, like our water tank, or five-ton tuck, or simply the guard shack, or dirt-then crash, and a shower of debris, and broken boards along with this and that, and scraps of metal flying all about, hunks of burning metal soaring by my face, I had seen and heard it all, had I been hit, whose to say what then, you're dead, and the dead don't talk, explain, or even question.There are so many modeling resources now a days. You have TV shows like America's Next Top Model, movies, magazines and even websites like talenttrove guiding everyone to become a model. But, one of the most notable themes I see in all of these resources is the photographer. Category:FA-Class biography (arts and entertainment) articles Inspired by the novels of Ian Fleming, a series of British spy films were released in the 60s are still being produced. They are the James Bond movies. They are about the fictional M16 agent by name James Bond, his code name being 007. This is one of the longest running film series in the history of cinema with an ongoing production from 1962 to 2008, with a short hiatus between 1989 and 1995. It was EON Productions that produced 22 films in association with Pinewood Studios and the films have grossed more than $10 billion in box office. There were also two other independent productions and an American television adaptation of the first novel of Ian Fleming.(Presumed, day one, two and three) "I can't swallow very well; my salivary glands are starting to dry up; I've been under the sweltering sun for hours, unaccountable hour's now. My body is being cooled by the constant cold water tossed over me at pretty many regular intervals. The sound of the smashing waves continually is having its affect on me, sound effects-drumming through my ears, my whole body. The wooden raft I am on is swinging back and forth, like a tugboat in a storm, but there is no storm, similar to a wrestler throwing me everywhichway. There is no way to get dry, no rain to drink. I know I have perhaps five days of life in me. Have you run a search for corporate event entertainment on the Internet thinking you were going to have an easy time finding one to fit your company holiday party? Perhaps you were looking for a little unwind time with the team and do some team building after a hectic and grueling work season that never seemed to slow down? Thought you could relax while you picked up the closest agency that sponsored corporate entertainment? Think again. Run a search and you could find thousands of agencies that would love to book your corporate team challenge or social evening out.
The first time James and Jenny met was on a concert. At that time, James was the performer on the stage, and Jenny was one of the audiences below. James showed his passion and talent in front of the crowd, being loved and adored by thousands of hundreds of fans. Arts and entertainment Funny the things you never forget...the moments, the words, the smiles, the laughter...his thoughts took him miles away from the couch he was slumped in. He didn't know how long he had been sitting there, but it felt like a long time. His thoughts took him to the old house he had grown up in. He had been watching the game, and this commercial came on and with that the advertisement had struck a cord of the past. Santiago Calatrava has always thought of a bridge as an artistic endeavor. His initial attempt to construct a single pylon bridge fell through, but he was afforded the opportunity to try again. This time he met with success, his bridge at Alamillo in Seville, Spain has become the forerunner of a series of similar bridges. Arts and entertainment You have started to read this article because you are one among the millions of fans for Stephenie Meyer's legendary Twilight Series. And so I think that it is pointless to explain what the great novel "Twilight" is all about. Since the first release of the novel back in the year 2005, Twilight has gathered countless numbers of fans across the planet.When he saw me coming in through the door, onto the porch of our boarding house (more on the order of a duplex), the ninety-three year old man, thin as a bean, a retired fur tailor looked up and then reached over to greet me, as often he did in those few months I lived there. "Get me a beer," he said. I went upstairs to the refrigerator in the hallway where I kept my one case of beer, where I put several bottles in the refrigerator to cool for when I got home from work... There have been a ton of musicians who flew under the radar during their careers. Most enjoyed cult status, but never mainstream. So, you must think I'm crazy when I say George Harrison was the most underrated musician of all-time.
One of the purposes of a writer is to create, construct, and produce something better (from morning to night), until- somewhere along the line, you say: that's it, I can't do better, or this is my masterpiece, or I'm simple out of steam and can't write anymore or it doesn't pay, or I lost interest in it. I was never cut out to be a writer in the first place ((for such people they have suffered foolishly and gladly, so it would seem... China Arts and Entertainment Group Looking to hire a magician? Not sure where to start? Here are some general tips to make sure you get the perfect match for your eventThe first day at high school starts when I went to appear in an entrance test. By just looking at on outdated building in Lahore Cantonment, I initially declined the idea of joining an armed forces high school, since the vicinity and campus seemed quite moist, hot and damp. Araluen Centre for Arts and Entertainment When Santiago Calatrava first was awarded the competition to build the Milwaukee Art Museum, beating out such luminaries as Arato Isozaki and Fumihiko Maki, the thought of such an exciting building did not exist. There were already sections of the MAM extant, built by Eero Saarinen and David Kahler. But it was evident that by the late 1980s there would need to be some sort of a drastic change if the museum was to provide an effective ongoing service to its patrons and visitors.Danielle Steel was born Danielle Fernandes Schuelein on August 14, 1947 in New York City, New York. Her parents, John Schlein, a descendant from the Lowenbrau Beer founders, and Norma da Camara Stone Reis, the daughter of a Portuguese diplomat. They divorced when Danielle was only seven years old and she was raised mostly by her German born father. Can't wait to get your hands on the Beatles Remastered Box Set? You've got to be excited about all the great tracks that are coming your way - and don't forget the mini-documentaries! Problem is, where you gonna put 'em? | <urn:uuid:5526b1e0-5ec0-4d0e-8053-9289c7740011> | 2013-05-21T17:32:25Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Originally Posted by Ms Nadal
Berdych is average at best. There is nothing about him. He is just dull to look at and his game isn't very interesting either.
I hope you are better than 6th in the world at what you do.
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The original fund was donated by Professor Cole from money presented to him on his retirement, was augmented by contributions from members of the Society, and was later doubled by his son, Charles A Cole.
The present award is $5,000. The prizes were awarded at two different five-year intervals for contributions to algebra and the theory of numbers, but the intervals have been reduced to three years. The award is for a notable research memoir in analysis that has appeared during the past six years in a recognized North American journal and only members of the American Mathematical Society are eligible.
1931 H S Vandiver
... for his several papers on Fermat's last theorem published in the Transactions of the American Mathematical Society and in the Annals of Mathematics during the preceding five years, with special reference to a paper entitled "On Fermat's last theorem".
1941 Claude Chevalley
... for his paper "La théorie du corps de classes".
1946 H B Mann
... for his paper "A proof of the fundamental theorem on the density of sums of sets of positive integers".
1951 Paul Erdös
... for his many papers in the theory of numbers, and in particular for his paper "On a new method in elementary number theory which leads to an elementary proof of the prime number theorem".
1956 John T Tate
... for his paper "The higher dimensional cohomology groups of class field theory".
1962 Kenkichi Iwasawa
... for his paper "Gamma extensions of number fields".
1962 Bernard M Dwork
... for his paper "On the rationality of the zeta function of an algebraic variety".
1967 James B Ax and Simon B Kochen
... for a series of three joint papers "Diophantine problems over local fields. I, II, III".
1972 Wolfgang M. Schmidt
... for the papers "On simultaneous approximation of two algebraic numbers by rationals", "T-numbers do exist", "Simultaneous approximation to algebraic numbers by rationals" and "On Mahler's T-numbers".
1977 Goro Shimura
... for his two papers "Class fields over real quadratic fields and Hecke operators" and "On modular forms of half integral weight".
1982 Robert P Langlands
... for pioneering work on automorphic forms, Eisenstein series and product formulas, particularly for his paper "Base change for GL(2)".
1982 Barry Mazur
... for outstanding work on elliptic curves and Abelian varieties, especially on rational points of finite order, and his paper "Modular curves and the Eisenstein ideal".
1987 Dorian M Goldfeld
... for his paper "Gauss's class number problem for imaginary quadratic fields".
1987 Benedict H Gross and Don B Zagier
... for their paper "Heegner points and derivatives of L-Series".
1992 Karl Rubin
... for his work in the area of elliptic curves and Iwasawa Theory with particular reference to his papers "Tate-Shafarevich groups and L-functions of elliptic curves with complex multiplication" and "The 'main conjectures' of Iwasawa theory for imaginary quadratic fields".
1992 Paul Vojta
... for his work on Diophantine problems with particular reference to his paper "Siegel's theorem in the compact case".
1997 Andrew J Wiles
... for his work on the Shimura-Taniyama conjecture and Fermat's Last Theorem, published in "Modular elliptic curves and Fermat's Last Theorem".
2002 Henryk Iwaniec
... for his fundamental contributions to analytic number theory.
2002 Richard Taylor
... for several outstanding advances in algebraic number theory.
2005 Peter Sarnak
... for his fundamental contributions to number theory and in particular his book "Random Matrices, Frobenius Eigenvalues and Monodromy", written jointly with his Princeton colleague Nicholas Katz.
2008 Manjul Bhargava
... for his revolutionary work on higher composition laws.
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The former loan company boss now sees himself as little better than a mid-rank drug dealer.
"I almost look at the mortgage industry kind of like the drug trade. Wall Street and the investment banks are the Bolivian drug lords," he says. "You look at this and you go: What were we doing? Who doesn't want the feeling of euphoria? Who doesn't like to get money?"
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Newt Gingrich has pledged that on his first day as president he will set up a constitutional showdown by ordering the military to defy a supreme court ruling extending some legal rights to foreign terrorism suspects and captured enemy combatants in US custody.
The Republican contender told a forum of anti-abortion activists ahead of South Carolina's primary election that as president he would ignore supreme court rulings he regards as legally flawed. He implied that would also extend to the 1973 decision, Roe vs Wade, legalising abortion.
"If the court makes a fundamentally wrong decision, the president can in fact ignore it," said Gingrich to cheers.
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Motifs using characters, creatures, and settings from classic Fairy Tales
to represent characters or ideas, for example, a love interest being equated with a Knight in Shining Armor
. Modern day Cinderella stories commonly mine this fairy tale trope as well.
Many of them are, in fact, Dead Unicorn Tropes
. Dragons, unicorns, fairies, and knights are in fact exceedingly rare in fairy tales. For tropes actually found in fairy tales, see Fairy Tale Tropes
Fairytale Motifs are used to add romance to a story, especially one set mainly in the grim and gritty real world. The fact that most people have read the fairy tales means that the symbolism isn't likely to be lost.
Fairytale Motifs differ slightly from Mythological Motifs. While the former features specific fairy tale characters — such as Rapunzel
and Sleeping Beauty
— it also includes general, archetypal examples, usually a "species" rather than one particular person/animal. The latter tends to use specific characters belonging to a recognizable mythology. For example, most people recognize a unicorn when they see one, but the creature itself has a rather vague history and there is no named unicorn who was the "first of its kind." Therefore, it's a Fairytale Motif. Pegasus, the winged horse, on the other hand, is one specific character from Greek myths with a Canon
history , making it a Mythological Motif.
Some fairytale motifs include:
- Dragons: Western dragons can be used to represent very strong or fierce characters, where as eastern dragons are more likely to be wise.
- Fairies: The more popular versions of the fairy are carefree, innocent creatures, usually associated with little girls. May indicate a Cloud Cuckoo Lander, since "away with the fairies" is another way to say "constantly daydreaming" or "slightly crazy." The fairies taken from older traditions, such as Celtic Mythology, aren't quite so cutesy — in fact they're downright malevolent at times. Modern literature increasingly employs this version of the fairy-folk, usually as Tricksters.
- Knights: Often, a very noble character, akin to the Knight In Shining Armor, however, the symbolism linked to a knight could easily be used for a Knight Templar character as well (perhaps due to the association in the trope name).
- Royalty: Generally used to represent power, wealth or prestige. These are often used in High School settings to refer to "the popular kids".
- Princess: Often the Alpha Bitch, however, a wealthy or popular girl of any sort will often be equated to a princess (for an example of this comparison, look no farther than this site). A Queen will often refer to the same stereotype, especially if there is a corresponding?
- King: Generally the leader of a group or organization or the reigning champion of something (i.e. "The King of Table Tennis"). In the aforementioned High School settings, the king will often be a Jerk Jock.
- Unicorn: The mythological "horse with a horn," although many different descriptions of them exist. Usually pure, gentle and noble, although subversions do exist. Being able to draw a unicorn's attention is generally a Virgin Power. Strongly associated with chastity, and often a motif for young girls.
- Wolves: While the wolf's image has been getting better in recent times, increasingly being seen as a "spirit of the wild," people can't quite get over "Little Red Riding Hood". While the wolf is an animal motif at the same time, the wolf as a threat to young girls/ sexual predator seems to have its roots in the fairy tale.
- In Germanic countries, the wolf is (or was historically) the equivalent of the Devil - they even have an expression about them that's interchangable with "Speak of the Devil".
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Anime and Manga
- Revolutionary Girl Utena uses a Fairytale Motif in order to deconstruct the romance fairytale of the Prince as male love interest saving the Princess.
- Skip Beat!! 's Kyouko seems to believes that fairies are real, and very often acts following Cinderella-like Fairy Tales tropes, seeing the (mostly villainous) characters she interprets as princesses under a curse. There is not Wrong Genre Savvyness, just a girl whose life has been so horrible she just prefer to believe she could be rescued and become a Real Princess, even if she knows it isn't. Pity nobody had informed her how The Fair Folk and the Old Fairy Tales truly are...
- Princess Tutu mixes Magical Girl tropes and fairy tale motifs with references to specific stories and ballets. The first season mostly plays the typical fairytale structure straight (outside of the fact that the princess is saving the prince), only to deconstruct it in the second season when the characters rebel against their assigned fairy tale roles as the prince, princess, villain and knight and decide to (literally) rewrite the story.
- Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade draws on (and quotes) the more traditional darker version of "Little Red Riding Hood" for its story of a relationship between a young terrorist girl, and a 'wolf' from the elite Kerberos Panzer police. The anime film makes the point that such relationships are always fated to end badly.
- Monster uses a fairy tale (or several) to foreshadow the antagonist's modus operandi.
- Cowboy Bebop uses the tale of Urashima Taro as a constant recurring motif and theme, with most of the characters having connections to it, most literally Faye.
- Prétear, plain and simple. Although, considering it's based on "Snow White", maybe that's not really surprising.
- Cyber Team In Akihabara invokes many fairy tales motifs, but the main one is the wish of 13 year old protagonist Hibari for meeting and falling in love with a fairy tale prince and live Happily Ever After with him. Her Character Development is essentially to get rid of that mindset, usually via Be Careful What You Wish For.
- AR∀GO: City of London Police's Special Crimes Investigator uses a great many motifs from fairy tales and mythology in general, and it tends to go with the older versions of the stories.
- Gaba Kawa actually follows the theme/basic plot of "The Little Mermaid", becoming more obvious about it in the final two chapters.
- Puella Magi Madoka Magica follows the theme/basic plot of "The Little Mermaid" in Sayaka's arc, to tragic conclusion. The other motif is Faust, but that's most definitely not a fairytale.
- Mawaru-Penguindrum has had allusions to various fairytales involving apples, but so far the most prominent motif seems to be the resemblance of the siblings' lives to an in-universe fairytale about a man named Mary and his three little lambs offending a goddess.
- Alice from Mahou Tsukai No Yoru possesses magic which revolves around fairy tales.
- The manga Akagami No Shirayukihime is based on the tale of "Snow White". (The title literally means "Red-haired Snow White".) The first chapter in particular has a lot of tributes to the original story.
Live Action Television
- Homestuck In SBurb, all players are given a particular class and aspect that determines their powers. The classes are themed around typical High Fantasy character types such as 'prince', 'witch', and 'knight'. Then there's the kingdoms of Derse and Prospit who double up this trope with Chess Motifs, as well as the fact that all Sburb players are considered to be princes or princesses of one or the other. Then there's Terezi loving dragons and Tavros liking fairies (and since god tier trolls possess wings, they're sort of fairies as well) and Feferi being an actual princess. Of course, all the fantasy elements are mixed with a good deal of science fiction and technology as well.
- The "Such Stuff As Dreams Are Made On" arc of Roommates has both general fairy tale motifs and more specifically Swan Lake allusions in it's dream sequences to symbolically communicate information to the main character (Jareth)note . The fair folk don't do simple. | <urn:uuid:729606ca-d8ee-4fa8-9972-424ee7db92b0> | 2013-05-21T17:25:31Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Police: Alleged abduction of 10-year-old girl never happened
Palestine police officials said an alleged child abduction reported this week never happened.
The case was reported Monday by a father and his 10-year-old daughter who alleged the girl was taken from a bus stop by a man with a hand gun, according to a news release from the department. The man allegedly brought her to an abandoned house several blocks away in a van.
After several interviews with neighbors and a second interview with the victim, the department determined the incident never happened, the release states. The house the victim was taken to showed no signs anyone had been there, the release states.
"There was information given at the beginning of the investigation that did not add up," Sgt. James Muniz said in the release. "However these incidents must be fully investigated until such time that there is sufficient information or evidence to prove that the incident did or did not take place. In this case, we have determined that the incident did not take place and that there was no evidence found to support the allegations made during this incident."
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|Character type:||Wolf, Master|
The Wolf is a silver wolf familiar of the magus originally planning to participate in the Holy Grail War. He was created with the purpose of being used catalyst to summon a Servant. The magus believes that he needs to summon a being more ancient than the Origin of Heroes, something that transcends Heroes who were "kings". He wishes to summon an existence Egyptians called "God", but his plan is ruined when the Wolf obtains Command Spells instead of him.
The wolf is a chimera with no more intelligence than an average wolf. His every thought is based on instinct and impulse, and it is not possible for him to have any interest in Command Spells or the Holy Grail War, let alone know his own name. He cannot reason things like the idea of "escape", and as he cannot plan for such a thing, he is only able to move forward without pause to escape the pain. While running for his life, he is not capable of thinking in terms of “I do not want to die.” or “I want to live.”, but rather his most basic instincts allow only for him to think "Survive!"
Lancer is able to communicate with him, allowing his thoughts to be put into words. He feels like they are the words of an old friend, and he is able to put immediate trust in Lancer's actions.
After the Wolf obtains the Command Spells, the magus attempts to slay him by using an ornate pistol that fires bullets infused with magical energy. He escapes into the forest, and manages to run a great deal before being shot again, causing him to stumble to the ground. With silent rage, he tortures the wolf by jamming the hot gun barrel into the fresh wound, complaining to the Wolf about how he has "failed" to live up to his purpose as a catalyst. He thinks the Wolf has denied itself the honor of being a catalyst for summoning a God, and has returned his "kindness" with spite.
The magus continues to torture the Wolf in his anger, saying that he has prepared other substitutes. He plans on extracting the Command Spells, letting him die, putting him back in the furnace, and making new lab rats from his corpse. The Wolf has no way to care about such things, so he can only rely on the instinct boiling inside him. He thinks only of surviving, but it is unlikely he can comprehend the sentence “I do not want to die”. It is not a wish, but something born from his instinct. His dying body screams for survival, bellowing louder and stronger than any creature in the land called Snowfield.
The magus cannot understand the meaning behind it, or that it has completed the ritual. Lancer appears in the world, making the magus back off. Lancer communicates with his Master, asking him the question to complete their contract. The Wolf is able to recognize that Lancer is not an enemy, allowing him to suppress the impulse to flee. Lancer calmly speaks to him in an animal language, and formally completes their contract. The Wolf is able to feel relief, allowing him to relax. The magus is outraged at the sight of the farce before him, and points his gun at the Wolf.
Lancer calmly tells him that his Master wishes no harm to the magus even after all he has done. He holds no malice against the magus, so Lancer tries to leave with him while the magus pleas for Lancer to seek the Holy Grail with him instead. Lancer returns the offer with a crushing, malice-filled look of rejection, causing him to flee. Lancer then searches for a river to treat his Master's wounds, and after administrating minimal treatment, the wolf falls asleep on a field of grass. Lancer speaks to his sleeping Master, and then senses his old friend, Archer.
The Wolf was given Magic Circuits, and the magus expanded them to the limit in order to make him a more proper catalyst, but he has no special abilities. He obtains the magus' Command Spells for unknown reason, and while he cannot speak a summoning chant, his bellow for survival that none other could mimic acts as both his magecraft and summoning spell to summon Lancer. Due to the nature of the False Grail, the definition of Summoning Ritual is rather vague. | <urn:uuid:49408ced-c156-424a-8b70-b3f199d55b47> | 2013-05-21T17:45:23Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Ava Maria Meaning?
A Bible question: What is the song meaning of Ava Maria? What language is the song written in?
I've heard the song in Italian and English, does anyone know which country the song originated in? It's a beautiful song and it's even better when performed by a choir.
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Goal markers are set up at each end of the playing area. The object of the game is to pass the frisbee past the goal line to another teammate.
No player may hold his frisbee for more than four seconds, without losing possession.
Three steps may be taken before the frisbee is passed. If offensive and defensive players catch a pass at the same time, defensive players take possession.
Offensive players are allowed only 5 seconds at a time in the defensive red zone (15 yards from the red zone) | <urn:uuid:5875268e-00f5-43b5-a42c-e325ddfe2024> | 2013-05-21T17:24:36Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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About Johnny G
My life-long love affair with the bike began when I took my first ride as a child in South Africa. Over the years and over thousands of miles, I encountered innumerable physical, mental and emotional challenges. In the process, I developed self-awareness and discovered a sense of spiritual balance. As my gruelling physical training and philosophical approach came together, I found inspiration.
That inspiration manifested itself in 1987 when I created the first Spinning® bike. Initially, I'd envisioned a piece of equipment that I could use to train for ultra-distance races. As I began to develop the accompanying Spinning programme, however, I realised that its application would transcend a simple exercise machine; it could foster balance, consciousness, and harmony for people of all fitness levels.
Within a few short years, the global impact of Spinning had exceeded all of my expectations. My innovation was being used around the world, and people were training in a way they'd never experienced or imagined - and I was training right along with them.
In 2004, a virus severely damaged my heart, and my ability to ride a bike was stripped away from me. It was during this unlikely time, while fighting to heal my body, that a memory from the recent past entered my mind and with it, another inspiration.
In 2002, while attending a cycling event for physically challenged athletes, I had the opportunity to try a participant's homemade hand-cycle. I never imagined that using my arms alone to power a cycle could be so much fun or so physically demanding. This memory became my inspiration: if such a bike were re-engineered properly and integrated with a training system steeped in mind-body philosophies the potential would be vast
... and the Krankcycle® was born.
Johnny G & Matrix
The synergy to change the fitness industry
With his latest innovation, the Krankcycle®, Johnny was determined to team with an equipment manufacturer capable of sharing his vision. He found it in Matrix Fitness Systems, one of the fastest-growing fitness companies in the world. By combining Kranking's philosophically-inspired approach to education and training with Matrix's ability to manufacture and market a durable, high-quality product, the Krankcycle® is truly state-of-the-art, and will profoundly change the fitness industry. | <urn:uuid:f1bdbc5e-4c54-4be8-82cd-cf1f5cab9e28> | 2013-05-21T17:44:38Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Simon beats Stepanek and waits on Federer-Murray
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - World number nine Gilles Simon dismissed Radek Stepanek 6-1 6-4 to win his final group encounter at the Masters Cup but will have to wait for Friday's second match to see whether he progresses to the last four.
The 23-year-old, who won his ticket to the season finale when world number one Rafael Nadal withdrew injured, finished with a 2-1 record in the round robin but his fate hangs on the outcome of Roger Federer's match against Andy Murray.
"It is not an easy situation since my qualification does not depend on my match," Simon, who would be the first Frenchman in the knockout stage since Sebastien Grosjean in 2001 if he goes through, told Canal Plus TV.
"I still have to wait a bit, it's frustrating but I'll reach at least a career-high seventh place in the ATP rankings.
"It's weird because in a couple of hours, I will either prepare for a semi-final match or just pack my things."
Czech world number 27 Stepanek came in at the last moment as a replacement for injured American Andy Roddick Wednesday and, with nothing to play for, struggled to contain the dynamic young Frenchman.
Simon claimed the first set when the Czech netted after just 25 minutes and encountered only marginally more resistance in the second.
"For me it was just an honour to be here, it was a great experience and a great motivation for next year," said Stepanek, who will be 30 later this month.
"Gilles played a great match ... I tried to play my best tennis here this week."
Swiss defending champion Federer, who lost his opener to Simon Monday, will win the group and claim a place in the semi-finals alongside Murray if he beats the in-form Briton.
(Additional reporting by Julien Pretot; Editing by Sonia Oxley)
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Spanish bank crisis crushes southern Europe's property deals
LONDON (Reuters) - Spain's banking crisis shattered confidence in southern Europe's property market last quarter, pushing the value of transactions to below half that seen in the aftermath of the collapse of Lehman Brothers, property consultant CBRE said on Wednesday.
A total of 725 million euros (566 million pounds) of deals for shops, offices and warehouses was done in Italy, Portugal and Spain in the three months to June, compared with 1.6 billion in the first quarter of 2009 when world markets were still reeling from the collapse of the U.S. bank in October 2008.
It was the lowest figure since CBRE began tracking deals on a quarterly basis in 2006. Spain's banking problems were seen impeding deals within its own borders and increasing the wider malaise in the euro zone to turn real estate investors further off southern Europe.
Spanish deals accounted for 355 million euros, well below the quarterly average of 1.18 billion from 2007. A negligible level of "investment grade" deals were done in Greece, CBRE said.
"The (Spanish bank) problems made it even harder to get debt as a buyer of real estate in Spain," said Michael Haddock, a director at CBRE. Meanwhile, mounting uncertainty over the future of the euro zone was putting international investors off southern Europe, he said.
"Added to that, the Spanish banks are so focussed on their residential property exposure they tend not to be dealing with offloading commercial real estate," he said.
After seeking a bank bailout worth up to 100 billion euros last month, Spain is scrambling to avoid a full-blown sovereign rescue like Portugal or Ireland. It is fighting to prop up an ailing banking sector that was badly damaged by profligate real estate lending in the run up to the global crash.
Risk-averse investors continued buying in the more stable markets of the UK and France.
A total of 9.2 billion euros of commercial property deals was done in Britain over the quarter, up 20 percent from the same period last year, while the figure in France rose 37 percent to 3.8 billion euros.
Bigger deals included an office block in London's financial district called Plantation Place, bought by a Brazilian investor for 470 million pounds ($732 million), and a building on Paris' Champs-Elysees that the Qatar Investment Authority bought for 500 million euros.
The figures do not include the sale of London's landmark Battersea Power Station, which a Malaysian consortium paid 400 million pounds for this month.
"Far East investors including sovereign wealth funds are interested in large lot sizes and liquid markets," said Haddock. "In Europe, that essentially means just London and Paris."
(Reporting by Tom Bill. Editing by Jeremy Gaunt.)
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TRAINING: MMA training during day time - MMA three times a week, wrestling one time a week and jiu-jitsu one time a week. Physical and Cardio training in the evening.
When and why did you start training for fighting? I wrestled in high school and college, and started to train MMA after I graduated.
What ranks and titles have you held? DEEP 4th Middleweight Champion (current title holder)
Do you have any heroes? Riki Choshu (legendary pro wrestler in Japan)
What does it mean for you to fight in the UFC? It’s a great chance to have more success in my MMA career.
Did you go to college and if so what degree did you earn? Graduated Yamanashi Gakuin University, B.A in Law.
What was your job before you started fighting? Bouncer
Specific accomplishments in amateur competition? 2000 All Japan College Wrestling, Greco-Roman style 3rd. 2001 All Japan College - East, Greco-Roman style 2nd, Freestyle 3rd. 2002 All Japan College Wrestling, Freestyle 3rd. 2004 Amateur Shooto Champion (91Kg)
Favorite grappling technique: Takedown and positioning
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These recommendations came at the fourth session of UNCTAD's Multi-year Expert Meeting on International Cooperation: South-South Cooperation and Regional Integration. The 24-25 October session focused on the topic of "Trade financing and the role of regional financial institutions in promoting South-South trade and investment".
Participants emphasized the importance of regional monetary and financial cooperation, and the role of regional banks as a source of both short-run trade finance and long-run development finance. They said that such an approach was perhaps the best way to cope with the severity of the recent global financial crisis. They noted that the downturn had raised serious questions about the effectiveness of the international financial system, including its ability to provide a stable environment for international trade - a situation of particular importance for developing countries.
Solidarity was urged among regions of the South, and among banking institutions based in developing countries, in order to keep short-term financing and much-needed investment available so that growth opportunities in poor countries would not be wasted because of unstable international conditions or a shortage of liquidity.
Experts at the meeting also encouraged the mobilization of the public sector to counteract the reduction of private-sector finance. In addition, they stated that steps should be taken to ease the creation of specialized and well-resourced financial institutions in the South, along with rating agencies based in the South. This would mitigate disparities in the cost of financing that still existed between developed- and developing-county firms.
The experts agreed that a part of the vast foreign exchange reserves accumulated by developing countries over the past decade could be usefully allocated to capitalize South-South regional development banks or, more ambitiously, a single Bank of the South able to lend across the developing world. Such banks should provide "countercyclical" lending - that is, lending to stimulate developing-country economies when the recession had dried up private-sector lending - while at the same time financing development projects. They also urged that such funding be used to foster export diversification and South-South economic integration.
Experts discussed sources of financing that would upgrade the portions of transnational value chains that occured in developing countries. They noted that developing countries needed to focus not merely on how to attract foreign direct investment, but also on using it to diversify the products made domestically and to increase their technological content. This would enable developing countries to retain more of the profits from goods produced as part of international value chains. Furthermore, they proposed a more intensive use of South-South cooperation to scale up value chains in developing economies.
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So David. When you go and apply for a loan, are you "black" or do you let them believe that you are "white"?
^ It's called "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." ;^D
So in daily life you function as a white man?I guess that's the difference between you and I. Given my particular phenotype I can't go "undercover".Maybe that is what gives us a difference in perspective:You can escape this bullshit. I can't."I don't want to be David Mills, the Negro Loan Applicant".Understandable.Though here's my question:If there is no systemic white racism that affects your quality of life, you ability to function freely, why not tell the loan officer you are black?
^ What on earth would my blackness have to do with my need to borrow money?
Mills..."What on earth would my blackness have to do with my need to borrow money?"Don't know. But what do you think your functioning as a white man in front of that loan officer has to do with your ability to borrow money?
That never gets old, LOL. However, as one of a handful of Black greeting card writers I take offense at Murphy studying greeting card--do you know how many years of 'M*A*S*H,''Seinfeld' and 'Friends" I had to watch to get my job?! ;-D
Anybody remember True Identity, the Lenny Henry movie that was essentially a feature-length version of this sketch? As I recall, director Charles Lane said he had big problems with early drafts of the script where the main character really enjoyed the advantages of being white, and so he took out all of that material -- in the final movie, the closest we get to that note is when he's embarrassed that he can get a cab when an undisguised black guy can't -- and it completely sucked all the laughs out of the film. I can understand being offended by the premise of a movie, but in that case, maybe you shouldn't agree to direct it, no?
^Don't remember that one, but I do remember "Watermelon Man." I liked it a lot when I first saw it; not sure how I would react today.
I would actually love for Watermelon Man to be a television series reality show. Except the white people have to stay Black!
Watermelon Man is fucking hilarious. Criminally underrated. Cambridge does a pitch perfect caricature of white entitlement in the opening minutes.
Alan, I saw "True Identity" when it came out... but can remember nothing about it. Which is saying something, given its premise. (C. Thomas Howell in "Soul Man" left a more lasting impression.)Nipped Lenny Henry's Hollywood career in the bud... poor bloke...
UMB - "Don't Ask, Don't Tell."Damn, UMB really is undercover. So passing is cool when the price is right, and the price could be as low as just needing a loan.Uh,uh,uh. Now where would we be today if Turner, Douglas, King, Marshall, Powell, decided to just pass when being Black didn't suit their needs.Sounds like UMB may be a part-time sellout?TriRacialBro
^ It's "UBM," my dyslexic friend.
^damn! My bad, and no pun intended UBM.TriRacialBro
triracialbro, passing is just another black survival strategy. If only the ultimate one. If something was wrong with it then the black community would not have traditionally protected it's passers by keeping mum. There problem kicks in when a passer denies the reason they passed in the first place: racism/white supremacy
^fisher, I hear ya but...You go to the bank, you pass and survive. But you leave any potential fight for the next guy to dodge or stand up to. In this case it's not so much the reason for passing, it's more the case of willfully taking a "no risk" position with regard to the "potentiality" of possibly having to confront motherfuckers that will deny you equality!Dude, we need to expose the shit and knock it out with haymakers pow!UBM is still my man though because he does do some good with his blogging!Peace.
UBM, can you shoot me the link on YouTube, if it's available? The video isn't available outside the States. After reading the comments, I'm curious. Thanks.Triracialbro, I was really offended by your comment to UBM! I'm a very light black woman and not easily "readable." What am I supposed to do every time I walk into a store, a bank, or a job interview? Stand on top of a chair and announce to the world that I'm black?I'm not living undercover. I'm not passing. It's not a survival technique. I'm just living my life!!!!If somebody asks me what I am, which happens all the time, and black folks are especially curious, I tell them point blank, "I'm black!" and go about my business. I'm not hiding a doggone thing.You really hit a nerve with me. I've been told my whole life that I could pass. Why in the hell would I want to pass? I don't want to be white! You may think that being light gets me advantages in life, but I've spent an entire lifetime being taunted, teased, and asked stupid questions like:"Which one of your parents is white?" Neither one, nor are my grandparents. Why are you so curious about my family tree?"Why are you so light?" Ask the slave owner who raped my great-great grandmother."Where'd you get that good hair?" It grew from my head."Are you a member of the club?" Yes, indeedy. Why are you asking?"You're American? You don't look it." What's an American look like!?! (Europeans are baffled by me.)I know that these indignities can't compare to what most black folks deal with, but they raise my stress level nonetheless. I help the brother trying to get a loan by paying mine on time.Now people, there are more important issues to deal with than whether or not UBM tells his loan officer that he's a member of the club. The last time I looked, there was no check box for it on the loan application.
genevagirl..."there are more important issues to deal with than whether or not UBM tells his loan officer that he's a member of the club. The last time I looked, there was no check box for it on the loan application."I'm sorry genevagirl, that isn't the issue at all. The issue is why is it that every black person that can not pass automatically, just by their very presence, has to check that box in the loan officer's mind.Black folks who pass, don't have to check that box in that loan officer's head.Now there sis nothing intrinsically wrong with that. But when black folks who are so "privileged" deny the existence of the very System of Racism/White Supremacy that causes them to pursue "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" in their daily life, then we've got a problem. That problem being the confusion of other non-white people as to the reasons of their predicament.I've gotten to know and like David, the most crucial aspect of his personality being that he is willing to ask and confront questions that are anathema in the black community, such as the question of the possible inheritability among black folks of low IQ. We need this type of inquiry. However, I am disappointed when David appears to stop using logic in his inquiries. That application of logic will inevitably reveal the true nature of the behavioral system we live in.And I am not sure what it is that keeps David from pursuing the logic to it's very conclusion."What am I supposed to do every time I walk into a store, a bank, or a job interview? Stand on top of a chair and announce to the world that I'm black?"Interestingly enough, throughout the late 1960s and the 1970s plenty of light-skinned black folks did exactly that. Not necessarily verbally, but by adopting certain dress, language, and mannerism.
^Fisher, my man, snap-fizzle!^GenevaGirl, UBM, please accept my appology. I should not have called anyone a sellout, I guess I just went with the flow and threw that out there. ...pardon.Now, I didn't mean to say that we should always vigorously shout out or exclaim to the world that we are Black. What I was trying to say is that we should be careful not to make choices that lead to leaving others to fight battles where we ultimately benefit from the spoils. You don't have to shout it out but you should not deny or evade being Black as a survival strategy in these times, ...unless of course you are facing an immediate threat of severe bodily harm or death, and then thats a judgement call.Also, I'm just as light as UBM and I can easily pass for something other than Black but it's never crossed my mind, and I have survived.Peace
Triracialbro, apology accepted. I am a bit touchy about this whole subject, as you saw. I didn't realize how much so until I started writing the comment. My apologies to all for the rant. (And to my poor husband who has been listening to me bitch all evening.)Michael, in the early 70's I desperately wanted an afro. I got an afro pick and started working on my hair. The results were comical. At the age of 12, I just gave up and learned to embrace what I looked like. BTW, the real issue is the loan officer's mindset that needs to be changed. Don't blame the victim.
I can understand certain people getting touchy about it given their personal experiences. I just didn't see my road dog as "blaming the victim." It seemed that he was saying you can't have it both ways: take advantages of "passing" but then criticizing the system. I don't necessarily agree with that premise. I think what this series points out is that so-called passing is a convenience and a tool to escape the perils of racism/white supremacy. Conversely, you don't see anyone white trying to pass for nonwhite, unless it's to make a joke.If there is a God, I would love if It made folks who believe there's no such as racism/white supremacy nonwhite for a long period of time, if not permanent, a la Watermelon Man.Reminds me of story I read in the Washington Post in the mid-90s. White student from Maryland disguised himself as a Black person in such an experiment. He was supposed to go through it for thirty days. He didn't make a week before he cried himself to sleep and opted out of the experiment.Now, raise your hand, white people, if you're down to do the same? On the other hand, I can see why someone would "pass" if they had to. I ain't at them. I'm mad at the system that caused that decision.
People,This is a nice blog thread ya got going here.Some key theorems: - ability to get a bank loan is inversely proportional to your perceived Blackness, such that $$$=X/apparent Blackness) where X = loan amount>0.^there is a proof.- quantity of Black self-pride, while being Black in America, is directly proportional to courage, such that (Black self-pride) = X * 1/A, where X = amount of courage and A = degree of Black pride in oneself with A<=1.^there is a proof for this as well but it's a bit abstract....interesting postulates.fishesalot
deangelo...I just didn't see my road dog as "blaming the victim." It seemed that he was saying you can't have it both ways: take advantages of "passing" but then criticizing the system."No, that's not what I meant. What I meant to say is that you shouldn't take advantages of "passing" but then deny the existence of the system.
^My bad, road dog. I actually understood your point but didn't articulate it correctly.
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Monday, February 23, 2009
Sociologie de Paris?
What might be involved in creating a new sociology of Paris? Paris is a particularly good subject for a new urban sociology. It is a gritty, diverse, and dynamic city, and a city displaying unceasing chaotic surges and currents of social life. It is a global city, both in Saskia Sassen's sense (strong networked interconnection with other global cities) and in the sense of being a magnet for immigrants from every part of the world. It is an intellectual city, a conflictual city, a city with continuous poverty and deprivation, as well as conspicuous wealth, and a city with high unemployment and aggressive policing. And it is a city with ubiquitous transit (dozens of lines serving hundreds of stations), implying thorough urban mobility; but also invisible boundaries marking the edges of the social circuits of various social and ethnic groups.
If we were beginning anew, we might start with the racial and ethnic diversity the city contains and the circuits of social life that these many groups traverse. Ride the RER from Chatelet to Charles de Gaulle and you may get an impression of a great salad spinner of humanity -- everyone all mixed up on one long subway carriage. But this impression is probably mistaken -- Didier Lapeyronnie's analysis of the French ghetto puts stop to that thought (post) and highlights the very sharp separations that exist between immigrant neighborhoods and the rest of French cities. So a sociology of Paris needs to uncover the distinct social worlds it encompasses.
And we would want to map the terrain of poverty and deprivation in Paris. Who are the poor? How is poverty caused and reproduced in Paris? What groups are most likely to be homeless and hungry (SDF -- sans domicile fixe)? And how large a factor does immigration play in this question? Recall the deadly fires several years ago in Paris -- these were temporary housing facilities for homeless immigrants (story). A recent collaboration among sociologists and journalists picks up this thread in La France invisible. The creators of the project have undertaken to give voice to the many categories of poor and disempowered people in France: accidentés au travail, banlieusards, délocalisés, discriminés, disparus, dissimulés, drogués, ... These short pieces provide thumbnail descriptions of the circumstances of life of the people involved in these categories, often incorporating an interview or two. The hope here is to give a visceral glimpse to the reader of the life difficulties involved in these (alphabetically organized) categories.
A related subject for a new descriptive sociology of Paris has to do with the patterns of public health that the city embodies. What sorts of health disparities exist across different social groups? How are these differentials patterned socially across the city itself? Here is a very brief discussion of the issue of health disparities in France, presented at the "Congrès national des Observatoires régionaux de la santé 2008 - Les inégalités de santé" in Marseille, 16-17 octobre 2008. But this report is very brief and is not city- or region-specific. By contrast, a central focus of public health research in the U.S. is on the patterns of health disparities that can be found in cities such as Detroit, Chicago, or New York, often accompanied by detailed social mapping of the results.
And what about employment and education? What are the mechanisms through which education, social position, age, race, and ethnicity play out across social groups to create the specific patterns of employment opportunity that Paris presents? Jobs and education are highly volatile issues everywhere in France today -- witness the current waves of strikes and demonstrations about unemployment and education reform. What are the social mechanisms underlying these systems? (Pierre Bourdieu and Jean-Claude Passeron addressed the social class aspects of the French educational system in Les héritiers (1964).) To what extent do the concrete institutions of training, education, and job recruitment work to reproduce significant inequalities across social groups?
Social mapping analysis would help in each of these areas. GIS maps of the city demonstrating the spatial distribution of poverty, crime, bad schools, police brutality, and 2-1-1 calls would tell us a lot about the social geography of the city. It would be enormously interesting to be able to have access to an interactive map of the city, combining many social variables of interest. In fact, that social map would help make sense of the long RER ride mentioned above. As you pass through neighborhoods ranging from affluent to graffiti-inscribed banlieue, you would be able to make the connection to some of the social realities that underlie these glimpses. Surprisingly, though, these sorts of spatial analyses and maps don't seem to exist yet for Paris or other French cities -- or at least, they are not easily located on the web. Is this a specific feature of the French sociological discourse -- with French researchers perhaps more attuned to discursive theory and less to spatial analysis and empirical study?
One might paraphrase the point here as saying that Paris deserves what Chicago received in the 1920s through 1940s in the form of the "Chicago School of Sociology" -- a focused, empirically rigorous, analytically astute series of efforts to come to grips with the complex social realities of the city, and to provide a better diagnosis of the social problems of the city in a way that supports more effective social policy. It's possible that this type of approach already exists within some of the social science research institutes of French universities. If so, I hope that readers will point us in the right direction.
(Michel Pinçon and Monique Pinçon-Charlot have a recent book on the sociology of Paris. Here is an interview with Michel Pinçon in LeJournalduNet on the subject of the wealthy class in France and an interview on the "bourgeoisification" of Paris. And Céline Béraud and Baptiste Coulmont offer a very good account of the recent development of French sociology in Les courants contemporains de la sociologie. Baptiste Coulmont maintains an interesting academic website and blog here.) | <urn:uuid:290a8c93-332e-4f9a-96d4-269636f47ffa> | 2013-05-21T17:11:14Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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WALLA WALLA -- One of two defendants accused of a home invasion robbery on Southeast Fourth Street in College Place this spring pleaded guilty Tuesday to reduced charges in exchange for his cooperation in the case.
Antonio S. Contreras, 24, entered the guilty pleas in Superior Court to third-degree assault and second-degree theft.
Because of his extensive criminal history, Contreras, of 922 W. Alder St. in Walla Walla, faces a standard-range prison term of about four to five years when he's sentenced later. But the prosecution is recommending an exceptionally short sentence of 11 months in the County Jail because Contreras came forward, cooperated and agreed to testify against his co-defendant, Adam A. Hermanns, at Hermanns' trial scheduled to begin July 13.
Judge Donald W. Schacht -- who accepted Contreras' guilty pleas at Tuesday's hearing -- will pronounce sentence after Hermanns' trial, at which Schacht will preside.
Contreras' guilty pleas negate the need for his trial, which was scheduled for the fall. He initially was charged with first-degree robbery, first-degree burglary and first-degree kidnapping -- the same charges Hermanns faces -- which if convicted would have netted him decades in prison.
Prosecuting Attorney Jim Nagle acknowledged in an interview the plea agreement with Contreras resulted in a significant reduction in charges and a lenient sentencing recommendation, but said it was an inducement for his guilty pleas and cooperation. Nagle said Contreras is a vital witness against Hermanns, 23, who also is charged with first-degree burglary and second-degree assault for allegedly entering another occupied residence in College Place.
"We need (Contreras' information) in order to make our case," Nagle said.
He added that state law allows such a plea agreement and the victims understand why it was necessary.
Also, Nagle pointed out that Schacht made it abundantly clear at Contreras' plea hearing Tuesday that he isn't bound by anyone's sentencing recommendation. Schacht could hand Contreras five years or longer because of his vast criminal record.
"(Schacht) will have ample opportunity at (Hermanns') trial to determine whether Mr. Contreras' assistance and cooperation is of any value," Nagle said.
In pleading guilty Tuesday, Contreras formally admitted involvement in the home invasion April 3 at 204 S.E. Fourth St. College Place police said he and Hermanns -- wearing masks over their faces -- entered the apartment of Dorothy Schneider about 10:55 p.m. while she was asleep on the couch and confronted her. Her daughter, Cally Schneider, also was in the home and Contreras told her to sit down and not move or he would kill her, according to a police report filed in court.
Contreras, who displayed a knife, took Dorothy Schneider's purse from a bedroom, officials said. Hermanns is suspected of going into the bathroom and stealing prescription medication.
The robbers then fled.
Law enforcement officials later interviewed Contreras as a possible suspect and he admitted committing the home invasion with Hermanns. Contreras reportedly told authorities it was Hermanns' plan and that Hermanns was carrying a handgun in his waistband when the robbery occurred.
Contreras also said Hermanns had admitted to him he burglarized an apartment on Puff Lane a few days earlier.
In that crime, Hermanns is suspected of donning a black ski mask, arming himself with a knife and entering the residence of Andy Porter at 1027 Puff Lane, Apt. H, about 9:45 p.m. March 29.
The burglar held the knife pointing down as he approached Porter at his dining room table, police said. Porter grabbed for the burglar's hand and suffered wounds to his own hand in the process. The burglar walked out of the apartment after Porter drew a revolver from his right pants pocket and pointed it at the intruder's chest.
Porter is a reporter for the Union-Bulletin.
Hermanns and Contreras are incarcerated in the County Jail. Hermanns -- whose criminal history includes burglary and possessing stolen property convictions -- also is facing additional charges in unrelated cases.
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The Chateauesque is based on the monumental 16th century chateaus of France. The style combines Gothic elements with the 16th century’s fashionable move to Renaissance detailing. In the United States, the style was popularized by Richard Morris Hunt, the first American architect to study at France’s prestigious École des Beaux-Arts. Due to the Chateauesque style’s requirement of massive masonry construction and elaborate detailing, the style was unsuitable for vernacular adaptation and remained a rare and architect-designed fashion.
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|Desde :||Clichy France|
|Estatura:||5' 6" ( 167 cm )|
|Peso:||155 Libras ( 70 kg )|
PRIDE Bushido 12ago 27, 2006
Ways To Watch
When and why did you start training for fighting? I started with judo when I was 9 years-old and Boxe Francaise (Savate) when I was 16. I later made the move towards MMA because it's the most complete and most realistic style.
What ranks and titles have you held? Shooto European champion
Do you have any heroes? No
What does it mean for you to fight in the UFC? Recognition among the top fighters.
Did you go to college and if so what degree did you earn? No, I have a high school diploma
What was your job before you started fighting? My job was, and still is, as a firefighter.
Specific accomplishments in pro competition? DREAM and Pride veteran, Shooto European champion.
Ranks in any martial arts styles: Judo black belt
Favorite grappling technique: triangle choke
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Marathon, Greece, 1963. Eleventh Jamboree. More than 12000 participants. Greek Crown Prince and Chief Scout opens the Jamboree. "Higher and Wider". Classical history comes to life: the marathon runner. The Labours de Hercules, the triathlon. Tragedy strikes: the Philippine contingent perishes in air crash. Jamboree flags are lowered. Scouts from 88 contingents march past and the Marathon torch is handed to an American Scout to be rekindled at the opening of the XII World Jamboree, somewhere in America.
The Eleventh World Jamboree.
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Greg Winslow has had success at the collegiate and club levels.
June 26, 2007
SALT LAKE CITY - Greg Winslow has been named as the new head swimming and diving coach at the University of Utah, Associate Athletic Director Pete Oliszczak announced on Tuesday, June 26.
"We are excited to have the opportunity to hire someone with Greg's experience as our swimming and diving coach," Oliszczak said. "We had an excellent pool of candidates for the position."
Winslow comes to Utah after four years as an assistant at Arizona State University. He coached 12 All-Americans during his tenure, which began in 2003. Six of his swimmers qualified for the 2004 U.S. Olympic trials, while other swimmers represented Great Britain and Hungary in the 2004 Olympics. Winslow helped lead the 2005 women's squad to a 12th place finish at the NCAA Championships, while the men's squad finished in 14th in 2006. He also served as the head coach of the Sparky Swim Camp.
"I'm excited about the opportunity to be part of the University of Utah athletic program," Winslow said. "I was really impressed by athletic department's desire to win, and I'm really looking forward to the challenges that high expectations bring."
In August 2005, Winslow became the head coach of the Sun Devil Aquatics swim club, overseeing a staff of 12 coaches. The Aquatics placed third at the 2007 USA Swimming National Championships. He also coached the team to the 2006 Western Sectional Championship and the 2006 Junior National Women's Championship. Five swimmers qualified for the Olympic trials, including five national and eight junior national qualifiers. Winslow's athletes broke 22 Arizona state records, while his girls team set national 13-14 age group records in the 200 free relay and the 400 long and short course relays. Sun Devil Aquatics was named USA Swimming's No. 1 Silver Medal Club in 2007.
Winslow served as the CEO and head coach at Air Force Academy Falfins swim club from 1999-2003. While with the Falfins, Winslow increased the number of swimmers in the program from 53 to 140, added five assistant coaches and started programs at two new facilities. He developed seven national qualifiers and his athletes set 28 Colorado state records. Winslow was named the 2001 Colorado Coach of the Year. He served as the USA Swimming Colorado coaches representative from 2002-03 and worked as an assistant coach at Air Force from 2001-03.
Winslow began his coaching career with the Valley Swim Team in Colorado Springs, Colo., in 1996. He led Valley to its first city championship in 1997 and the seasonal state championship in 1998. Valley won the State Spirit award both years and Winslow was named the 1997 Colorado Seasonal Coach of the Year. His first collegiate coaching job was as an assistant at Saint Cloud State University in St. Cloud, Minn., from 1998-99, where he helped guide the Huskies to their highest NCAA Division II finish in school history.
Winslow swam for the University of North Dakota for four years, where he earned All-America status in 1996. He played a key role in leading the men's team to four conference titles, serving as team captain in his final two years.
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|Jade Dumps Beck|
|Season 1, Episode 5|
|First Aired||May 2nd 2010|
|Viewed By:||3.3 million|
"The Birthweek Song"
"Tori the Zombie"
Jade Dumps Beck is the 5th episode of Season 1 of Victorious. It aired May 2nd, 2010.
At the beginning of the episode, it is revealed that Beck has been hanging out with Alyssa Vaughn, the beautiful daughter of a local billionaire. A photo of the two appears online, and Tori briefly mentions it to Beck, telling him that Jade won't like it. Beck however, assures Tori that they are just friends.
Soon after, Jade is arguing with Beck. Jade was telling Beck that she didn't want him hanging out with other pretty girls, and she is upset because Alyssa had texted him so much. The couple then drags Tori into their argument, each one asking her different questions. After the argument gets intense, Jade decides to break up with Beck.
Throughout the week, Beck continues to hang out with Alyssa Vaughn. Jade becomes jealous which she attempts to hide, which doesn't turn out to work. Finally, Jade goes to Tori for help. She comes to her house crying, comparing a broken kite to her relationship and begging Tori to talk to Beck. At first, Tori goes to talk to Beck, trying to convince him to get back together with Jade. Beck says that Jade has never done anything nice to him, and Tori, attempting to prove him wrong, asks what Jade got him for his birthday the past year. Beck says she got him a can of lemonade, which at first, Tori doesn't believe. When she finds out that Beck wasn't kidding, she talks to Jade and tells her that you have to be more understanding and civil toward your boyfriend. Jade drags Tori into the janitor's closet and cries. Jade takes Tori's advice, and with her help, gets Beck a rottweiler, one of his dream pets.
The girls attempt to sneak the rottweiler into Beck's RV, hoping that the dog will lick Beck's face and cheer him up, making him realize that Jade really misses him. It turns out that Beck's father is the one in the RV, and the rottweiler attacks him. Mr. Oliver gets taken away by an ambulance. Jade frantically apologizes to Beck and then tries to explain that she didn't think the dog would go insane. Before she can finish her sentence, Beck kisses her and tells her he never stopped loving her, re-forming their relationship.
Trina starts a one-woman show, and Robbie has to be her reviewer. Robbie sees a preview of the production, which turns out to be bad much to his previous assumption. Even though Robbie is a journalist, and took a pledge to write true reviews, he is forced to write an excellent review of Trina's show. When Robbie doesn't post the review, Trina goes insane, by shoving his face in a bowl of cream-of-mushroom soup. Robbie tries to get advice from André, and he tells Robbie to review the show as if it were a comedy. When Robbie takes André's advice, which drives Trina even more insane, by throwing Robbie's desk and Rex across the classroom. Finally, fed up with Trina's insanity, Robbie writes positive feedback, portraying the show as a funny comedy. Trina performs to a full house, and the audience perceives her show as hilariously funny.
- Absent: Ariana Grande as Cat Valentine
- This is the first time Beck and Jade have broken up (the second being in The Worst Couple).
- Many of the lines in Trina's one-woman show are almost exactly the same lines as said by failed actor Brian Atene in his unsuccessful audition video for Stanley Kubrick's film Full Metal Jacket.
- Before Jade visits Tori, in the same scene, Tori and Trina are playing tennis on a Nintendo Wii, probably Wii Sports. When it shifts to the screen they are playing on, you can see the DanWarp logo, and when Trina accidentally knocks Tori to the ground, you can hear Dan Schneider's voice say "Fifteen, love." (the score of their game).
- Trina's one-woman stage show is apparently reminiscent of TV-Specials performed by Barbara Streisand during the 1960's and early 1970's.
- Alyssa Vaughn's car is a 2005 Lamborghini Gallardo.
- At Hollywood Arts, when Jade and Tori are talking, if you look closely into Tori's open locker, you can see Katy Perry stickers are in it.
- This is the only episode so far to feature Jade's name in the title that does not feature a song.
- Jerry Trainor (Spencer from iCarly) can be seen in the audience briefly during Trina's show during the opening. There are several close ups of him, and TheSlap trivia confirms that this was, in fact, Spencer.
- This episode reveals Tori and Trina's grandmother is deceased; Jade learns this when she cries on the pillow that was made by Tori's grandmother.
- In the pillow scene, the pillow moves from behind Jade, to the left of Jade, to the right of Jade, behind Jade, and then to the left of Jade again.
- Dan Schneider plays (or at least voices) Beck's dad, his first role in a series he works on since Zoey 101.
- When Trina talks to Robbie at his locker, if you look closely you can see that Robbie has a picture of a cat in his locker.
- This episode marks the first time a couple (Beck and Jade) has expressed their love (verbally) on the show.
- In the scene where Tori goes inside Beck's RV, if you look closely at the board behind Tori it says; "Beck's Rules" and below that it says "Wear pants often". Dan Schneider apparently added this right before they began filming.
- When André is filming Robbie talking, in the background, Rex moves his head, but doesn't show up on André's screen, then Rex's head moves on the screen, but not in the background.
- When Beck, Jade and Tori are all talking, Jade is carrying a Gears of War bag.
- In Beck's profile, he asked his dad what he wanted for Father's Day and his dad told him to break up with Jade. He's still mad about the whole dog attack thing.
- This is the second episode with a main plot not centered around Tori, although Tori is still prominent in it. The first was the previous episode, The Birthweek Song, which was centered around Trina.
- This is the first episode where a character cried, which is Jade.
- This is the first time Jade feels bad for something she did to Tori; she got make-up on Tori's late grandmother's handmade pillow, and after Tori said this, Jade looked sorrowful.
- André's sweatshirt says "I got 99 problems, but my kicks ain't one". This is a reference to the song 99 Problems by Jay-Z.
- This is the first time we see the inside of Beck's RV; it will be featured several times in later episodes.
- Dan Schneider wrote fun facts for this episode.
- Los Angeles is paid each time the "Hollywood" sign is shown on Victorious like in the opening shot of this episode.
- The red Mini Cooper with a white top in the parking lot belongs to Harry, the production designer for Victorious (and iCarly, and previously Zoey 101).
- It was not scripted for Jade to crumple up Trina's flyer and stuff it down her shirt, Dan added this in on stage.
- Notice the table when Andre sits down with Beck. You'll see the very SHORT bottles of ketchup and mustard.When they were filming the first 2 or 3 episodes of Victorious, they had a problem with the ketchup and mustard bottles (in some shots) blocking the actors' faces, and they had to keep adjusting their positions. Eventually, they had the props department shorten them.
- A new website is mentioned for the first time: BuzzFinger.com. This is a parody of TMZ.
- Dan Schneider wrote the song Trina sings.
- When Tori sits down, she says "You look a little like a lady who could use some lunch buddies." It was originally this shorter version: "You look like a lady who could use some lunch buddies." Victoria was having a hard time saying it, so she asked the writers to rewrite the line to make it easier to say. They joked around decided to make the line MORE difficult to say by adding the words "a little" to it.
- No less that 70 people in our cast, staff, and crew asked if they could drive the car that Alyssa drives. They were told: "No."
- When Liz ("Jade") dropped her burrito, it ACCIDENTALLY splattered both Victoria and Leon. You'll see some burrito goo lands in Vic's hair, and some on Leon's jacket. But they both stayed in character and played it
- Ending Tag-line: "Say cheese, fathead." - André
- No one planned for Robbie's glasses to fall off in this scene. But when they did, and they ended up in his soup bowl, sticking up, Dan thought it was so funny he left it in the show.
- Victoria did her own stunt in this scene (when Trina whacks her in the head, knocking her down). As they had to do several stunts, she hit the floor at least 5 times.
- Tori's line, "Okay, maybe you should... wait, are we friends? We're not even friends!", Jade's crying line "Do it soon" (said into the pillow) and Tori petting Jade's head when she's crying was not scripted. Dan added this on stage while they were filming the scene.
- Beck's RV is called "The Silver Streak". This is a reference to a movie of the same name.
- The first section of this scene is shot outside, when Tori arrives at Beck's RV and rings the bell. The second section of this scene happens inside the RV. These two sections were shot over a month apart.
- Mounted on the wall of Beck's RV, you'll see a red dashboard from an old car. It's from a 1966 Mustang (or, it could be from a 1965 Mustang, if it was the GT version).
- Avan took bites of over 17 apples as they redid that part again and again.
- Trina's line "Don't look at my shirt!" was not in the script. Dan added that line on stage while they were filming this scene.
- Notice that Robbie's shirt says Dyn-O-Mite. That was a popular catch phrase from a 1970's TV sitcom, Good Times. JJ was famous for saying this line.
- Dan Schneider says the line "Trina's one woman show will now begin".
- Some of Trina's lines in her play come from S.E. Hinton's novel, the Outsiders. The original line was: "The Doctor says I'll never be able to walk again, not even on crutches. And you know what Ponyboy, I'm scared stiff." -Johnny.
- When André was recording Robbie with Rex, Rex's head turned in the video but not in person.
- Beck says he doesn't drink water from mountain streams, but when he was in Alyssa's car he can be seen drinking out of a Crystal Waters water bottle, the same brand that Andre offered him earlier, maybe because Jade doesn't drink from mountain streams.
- When Jade is squeezing her burrito she tosses some beans on her arm, in the next scene her arm is clean again.
- When Jade sits on Tori's couch you can see one pillow changing places during the scene.
- When Robbie is standing at his locker, the locker that later becomes Jade's is still vacant.
André: Say cheese, fathead!
Rob: I'm still working on the last chapter of puberty!
Rex: And he is a slow reader
Tori: (referring to Jade's makeup on her pillow) It's okay. I'll just get my grandmother to make me a new one. (beat) If she ever comes back to life.
Jade: I want Beck back!
Beck: What is going on?
(Tori and Jade turn around to see Beck)
Tori: How can you be out here?
Jade: You're in there being mauled by a dog! (Gestures to RV).
Jade: Tori told me to get you the dog.
Jade: OK, it was kind of my idea, but I-I didn't think the dog would bug out like that. I just wanted to get you a dog because you've talked about getting one ever since I met you and I thought that maybe- (Beck silences her with a kiss) You love me again.
Beck: Who said I stopped?
Tori: Awwwww...(Beck and Jade both look at Tori) I ruined the moment.
Tori: Hey. Um, it's getting kind of late, so I was wondering if you could drive me home.
Jade: It's not that far of a walk.
(Tori walks away but briefly turns back as Jade and Beck continue to make out)
Tori: Try not to swallow each other!
Jade: No! No, Beck's always saying how he wants a dog. Um, a Rottenhimer!
Tori: A Rottweiler?
Jade: Yes! That's what he wants. Okay, what's our next move?
Cranky Janitor: (he's in the corner) Just get the boy a dog!
Tori & Jade: Go, go, go. Out, out, out.
Tori: (Referring to Jade) Your birthday, she didn't get anything for your birthday?
Beck: She bought me a can of lemonade.
Jade: (Refferring to Beck) Cause he likes lemonade!
Tori: Yeah, but out of a can?!
Jade: He drank it.
Jade: You know what?
Tori: No, no don't tell him what.
Jade: (To Beck) We are done.
Beck: So you're breaking up with me?
Tori: No, she's not!
Jade: Yeah I am. (Walks away).
Tori: Oh, she is...
Beck: You're being ridiculous!
Jade: Why do you care?! I'm not you're girlfriend anymore!
Tori: Alyssa Vaughn is famous!
André: And hot!
Tori: Her father's a billionaire.
André: And HOT! I didn't mean her father-- I drank fish pee.
Tori: Guys don't just care about how cool or hot you are. Beck said you haven't done one nice thing to him in two years.
Jade: [still crying] That is so NOT true, we've only dated a year and 11 months!
(in front of Beck's RV)
Jade: Okay, Beck's asleep. Give me the dog.
Tori: Wait, he has a runny nose. (to the dog) Blow.
Jade: Dogs don't know how to blow their nose. (the dog blows his nose)
Jade: Why would Beck not want me back? I'm so cool and hot, I've got it all!
- Chicago by Trina Vega
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Last year, the Minnesota Vikings gambled that either they could buy Chester Taylor at the twelfth hour at a discount or that they no longer would need someone like Taylor behind a gradually evolving Adrian Peterson. That gambled failed, as the Vikings increasingly relied on Taylor in clutch situations and Peterson plateaued.
The Vikings subsequently lost Taylor to a $12.5 million, four-year deal, with $7 million guaranteed, with division rival Chicago. While it is understandable that the Vikings did not want to sign a back-up running back at starter's money, losing Taylor offers an alarming trend for the Vikings' front office over the past two years--that of being penny wise and pound foolish.
Since the end of the 2008-2009 NFL season, the Vikings have lost three significant players to free-agency--Taylor, Matt Birk, and Darren Sharper. There certainly were arguments for letting each of the three players test the free-agency market, but there were also opportunities for the Vikings to sign each of the three at a discount, early in the process. The Vikings passed on all three opportunities.
The loss of Sharper and Birk was noticeable in 2009-2010 as the Vikings struggled to gain cohesion along the offensive line and failed miserably at the safety position. Those difficulties were not solely the result of the losses of Sharper and Birk, but Birk's and/or Sharper's presence would have mitigated the issues. Vikings' fans are left hoping that a similar scenario does not play out owing to the loss of Taylor. If it does, the Vikings surely will ponder whether it would have been wiser to franchise Taylor than to fill the void that he left behind.
With Taylor out of the picture, the Vikings find themselves in need of a back-up running back that they can use as a starter if Peterson either becomes injured or begins fumbling the ball. Taylor's signing left three running backs on the free-agent board with just such a pedigree at some point in their respective careers, but only one who can make such a claim today, Thomas Jones.
On Tuesday, Jones inked a two-year, $5 million deal with Kansas City that pairs the former Bear and Jet with Jamaal Charles. Jones almost certainly would have accepted a comparable offer to team with Peterson on a contending team, had the Vikings made such an offer.
By eschewing Jones, the Vikings arguably have made increasingly suspect decisions regarding their back-up running back position. For a team with Super Bowl aspirations to franchise Taylor at approximately $6 million in an uncapped season when that team is well below last season's salary cap, is not only not an unreasonable financial move, but arguably a wise one. To pass on the opportunity to replace Taylor with a player arguably better than Taylor at less money over two seasons than Taylor would have cost at one is encroaching upon highly suspect.
Passing on Thomas Jones leaves the Vikings with two meaningful free-agent options, short of wading into the pool of restricted free agents. Those two options are Brian Westbrook and LaDanian Tomlinson. Both should be cheaper than Jones, but neither offers the certainty that both Taylor and Jones do.
Westbrook is injury-prone in the best of times, and, perhaps, finished as an NFL player in spite of his free-agency bid, due to recurring concussion symptoms. Tomlinson, two years removed from being one of the best running backs ever to play in the NFL, looked broken down last year and an unlikely candidate ever to start in the NFL again for a serious contender.
The winnowing of options, attributable to the Vikings' waiting game, has left the Vikings with only one real option at back-up running back. That option clearly is Tomlinson, a player whom the Vikings could sign as early as Wednesday. Tomlinson should be able to provide the pass-blocking that the Vikings need from the position and some push, however reduced from what he provided at the pinnacle of his career, in the screen-pass and short-yardage game.
What Tomlinson likely cannot give the Vikings is a running back that can step into Peterson's shoes if Peterson falters or is injured. Taylor could have done that for a stretch, as could have Jones. The Vikings will be left to hope that the issue never poses itself, however, and that Tomlinson can do what back-up running backs with blocking and pass-catching skills generally are asked to do.
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The Budapest you'll see today is the result of many years of rich history, with traces of inhabitation dating back as far as the second millennium BC. Hungarian tribes arrived at the end of the ninth century and the Hungarian Kingdom was established in 1000. The city as we know it today was formed through the joining of Buda, Pest and Old Buda, back in 1873. Follow the Budapest History time line below to see the many events leading up to the city's formation.
Archaeological finds indicate that the first settlement in the location of present-day Budapest was built by Celts. The Romans occupied this town in the first century BC.
1st century BC to 5th century AD – Western Hungary is part of the Roman Empire. Aquincum is founded and quickly becomes the largest town and one of the capitals of Pannonia.
5th century to 9th century – The Roman era ends in the 5th century and the age of Huns begins. Attila, King of the Huns, builds a city for himself here according to later chronicles. Following the Huns several tribes (Lombards, Avars and Slavs) pass through Hungary until the arrival of Magyars.
Arrival of the Magyars:
The Hungarian tribes arrived to the Carpathian Basin in 896. Árpád, leader of the Magyars, settled on Csepel sziget, an island in the southern part of Budapest.
1000 – St. Stephen is crowned; he becomes the first king of Hungary. Hungary converts to Christianity and becomes an independent kingdom.
1046 – Bishop Gellért dies at the hands of pagans on present-day Gellért Hill in the fight against Christianity.
12th century – The development of Buda and Pest starts thanks to the French, Walloon and German settlers who migrate here and work and trade along the banks of the Danube.
1241-42 – The Mongolian invasion destroys both cities.
1248 – King Béla IV builds the first royal castle on Castle Hill in Buda and city walls surround Pest.
14th century – The Angevin kings from France established Buda as a royal seat, building probably the largest Gothic palace.
1458 – The noblemen of Hungary elect Matthias Corvinus as king. Under his reign, Buda becomes a main hub of European Renaissance. It is truly an age of prosperity. He dies in 1490, after capturing Vienna in 1485.
1541 – The beginning of the Turkish occupation. Multiple mosques and baths are built in Buda; churches (such as Matthias Church) are converted. The Turkish occupation lasted almost 150 years.
1686 – Buda and Pest are re-conquered from the Turks with Habsburg leadership. The Habsburg rule begins. Both towns are destroyed completely in the battles.
1773 – Election of the first Mayor of Pest.
1777 – Maria Theresa of Austria moves the first University to Castle Hill.
1783 – Joseph II places the acting government to the city of Buda.
1825 – Pest becomes the cultural and economic centre of the country. The first National Theatre is built, along with the Hungarian National Museum and the Széchenyi Chain Bridge (Lánchíd).
1838 – The year of the biggest flood in recent memory. The entire Pest side is under water.
1848-49 – Revolution and War of Independence. Pest replaces Bratislava as the new capital of Hungary and it becomes the seat of the first prime minister, its government and the Parliament.
1849 – The Austrians occupy the city and the Habsburg army captures the two towns. Lajos Batthyány, the first Hungarian Prime Minister is executed on the present-day Szabadság tér.
1867 – The Austro-Hungarian Compromise, beginning of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, followed by unprecedented civic development, resulting in the style of present day Budapest.
1873 – The former cities Pest, Buda and Óbuda are united, and with that the Hungarian capital is established with the name of Budapest.
1896 – Year of the Millennium, celebrations are held all over the city. The Millennium Underground is inaugurated, and the Franz Josef Bridge (today's Liberty Bridge) is opened.
1910 – According to census the population of Budapest is 880,000
1918 – World War I ends the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the development of Budapest is slowed down by political upheavals.
Budapest in the 20th Century:
1918-19 – Revolution in Budapest and the 133 days of the Hungarian Soviet Republic. This was the first Communist government to be formed in Europe after the October Revolution in Russia.
1919-44 – Status quo was restored by a charismatic leader in the person of Admiral Horthy a self-appointed regent for the exiled King Karl IV. Hungary was a kingdom without a king.
1920 – The Trianon Treaty re-sized Hungary. Three-fifth of the country was assigned to surrounding successor states.
1924 – the Hungarian National Bank is founded.
1941 – Entry into World War II as an ally of Germany.
1944 – Budapest is occupied by the Germans. At the time of the occupation, there were around 200,000 Jews in the city. Fewer than half of them survived the following 11 months.
Dec. 1944 - Feb. 1945 – Soviet and Romanian troops besiege Budapest. The retreating Germans destroy all Danube bridges. The Buda castle falls. World War II took the lives of close to 200,000 Budapest residents and caused widespread damage to the buildings in the city.
1945-48 – Hungary is declared a republic, practicing a multi party parliamentary democracy.
1948 – A Soviet friendly Communist government takes over and Hungary is declared a People's Republic.
Oct. 1956 – The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 breaks out, ending in the invasion of a large Soviet force, killing civilians and damaging buildings in Budapest (traces of the gunfire can still be seen on the façades of several buildings).
1956-58 – Revenge and forceful restoration of Soviet power.
1960s – Conditions normalize; reforms create a so called 'Goulash Communism' in Hungary, a Communism with elements of free market and improved human rights. Wartime damages are largely repaired; the Elizabeth Bridge is finished in 1965.
1970-72 – Construction of the East-Western Subway line (M2) begins.
1982 – Construction of the North-Southern Subway line (M3) begins.
1987 – Buda Castle Hill and the banks of the Danube are added to the UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
1989-1990 – The 'changes', transition to free elections and a democratic government. Hungary's changeover to a Western-style democracy was one of the smoothest among the former Soviet bloc.
1990 – According to census the city is home to 2,000,000 residents.
Present day Budapest:
2002 – Andrássy Avenue is added to the World Heritage Sites, along with the Millennium Underground Railway, Heroes' Square and City Park.
2002 – Inauguration of the new National Theatre.
2004 – Hungary joins the European Union.
2008 – According census, Budapest is home to 1,700,000 residents.
2010 – Inauguration of Budapest’s ‘Mainstreet’ (a Belváros Főutcája), a project that re-shapes a 1.7-km stretch of downtown Pest from Kálvin tér to Szabadság tér.
2011 – Margaret Bridge reopens after extensive renovations.
Present – Construction of the fourth subway line (M4) is underway.
Finally, if you like infographics, you can find out some quirky facts about Hungary, our language, history and more here: Let’s talk a bit about Hungary | <urn:uuid:f08e5ba3-31aa-4556-83f9-ff7b58f3c793> | 2013-05-21T17:16:19Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Detecting Fraud in America’s Gilded Age
Abstract: This paper extends recent developments in election forensics to test for electoral fraud during a period of American history widely suspected to be ripe with fraud. It uses the second-digit Benford’s Law test in an effort to identify possible instances of election fraud during the Gilded Age—an era of highly competitive party politics. The study focuses on presidential and gubernatorial elections in Southern US states during the period from 1872 to 1896. The empirical results corroborate some of the extant historical anecdotes of electoral fraud during this period. | <urn:uuid:64b5d7f4-d817-443d-a303-9542be9077f6> | 2013-05-21T17:30:29Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Jean de Court, Marguerite de France as Minerva painted enamel, Limoges, 1555 (IIIF253)
In this remarkable portrait, Marguerite de France (1523-1574), daughter of François 1 (d. 1547) and sister of Henri II (d. 1559), is depicted as Pallas/Minerva, classical goddess of war and wisdom.
This alludes to her role as protectress of contemporary French culture against ‘le vilain monster Ignorance’, the mantle bestowed upon her after she defended Pierre Ronsard’s poetry against attack in 1549. Poets referred to Henri II’s court as the ‘Nouvel Olympe’ and to Marguerite as ‘la nouvelle Pallas’.
Limoges was the principal centre producing painted enamels in the 16th century. The bust of Henri d’Albret (no.24) is typical of mid-century portraits. D’Albret was married to Marguerite’s aunt, the authoress Marguerite d’Angoulême. Marguerite’s head is after a drawing attributed to François Clouet, now at Chantilly, which may have been the official image of the princess. Portraits in enamel were often modelled on drawings attributed to Clouet’s workshop and may have been incorporated into panelling. Marguerite’s costume and attributes as Pallas/Minerva are derived from a print by René Boyvin after Luca Penni. The armillary globe alludes to Marguerite’s fame and to her motto, ‘Wisdom, guardian of the world’. As goddess of war, she wears a breastplate, holds a spear and her shield decorated with the head of the Gorgon Medusa, and has a plumed helmet at her feet. As goddess of wisdom, Marguerite’s foot rests on some books surmounted by an owl. Dramatised portraits were an established form of selfpropaganda, but examples in enamel are rare.
The portrait is painted in opaque and translucent enamel colours on a copper base. Silver foil below translucent blue enriches Marguerite’s costume. The image was built up in successive kiln firings at diminishing temperatures. For the first firing, both sides of the metal were coated with enamel. Enamelling the back equalises the stress between the metal and the enamel on cooling, minimising distortion. Firing fuses the enamels to the base and produces their vivid colours and glossy surface. The gold, fusing at the lowest temperature, is applied last. This is the only fully signed and dated enamel by Jean de Court, about whom little is known. Art historians have long speculated as to whether he might have had some involvement with a workshop or workshops inscribing enamels ‘I C’ and ‘I D C’ (nos. 12, 13, 14 and 15). | <urn:uuid:a795ac75-806d-4894-9754-fe9f0ddc7a38> | 2013-05-21T17:08:52Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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I love seeing excellence rewarded, which is why I loved watching this year's Academy Awards show.
That doesn't always happen. Until last Sunday, I hadn't watched an Academy Awards show since 2006, when the honors for the films made in 2005 were handed out.
The best song for that year, according to those geniuses that are members of the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences?
"It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp," a fourth-rate rap song made by a third-rate rap group called Three 6 Mafia. (The song itself came from the film "Hustle and Flow.")
How could something as dreadful as "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp" win an Oscar? I figure academy members were trying to prove how hip and with it they were by choosing a rap song as the best of the year.
Actually, they ended up proving how clueless they were. Rapper 50 Cent -- whose drug-dealing mama at least had the good sense to name him Curtis Jackson before she died -- starred in a 2005 film called "Get Rich or Die Tryin'." Jackson had at least nine songs in that film, any one of which was better than "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp."
So I stopped watching the Academy Awards ceremonies. Academy members, by giving an Oscar to "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp," clearly didn't take their awards ceremony seriously. And if they didn't, I couldn't.
But this year I watched, for no other reason than to see if director/screenwriter Quentin Tarantino would cop the best original screenplay award for "Django Unchained."
He did. So, for me, all was right again with the world. Justice, at least fleetingly, had prevailed.
I only needed to listen to 15 minutes of dialogue from "Django Unchained" to realize what a superb, exquisite and original script Tarantino had written. He deserved an Oscar for it, but I figured that Hollywood types being who they are, political correctness might trump excellence.
Academy members could have gone one of two ways: either vote for "Django Unchained" if they indeed truly felt it was the best original screenplay, or vote for another screenplay as a protest of the number of times the N-word appeared in "Django Unchained."
Unlike the pundits who went to see "Django Unchained" and actually sat in the theater counting the number of times the N-word was used, academy members used some common sense and just went with what they felt was the best original screenplay.
In so doing, academy members proved they have something the pundit types apparently didn't have.
It's called "normal conduct." Really, who sits in a theater and counts the number of times any one word is used in it?
And when it comes to that particular N-word, the pundit types have a problem with consistency.
Did they count the number of times the N-word was used in Mel Brooks' 1974 film "Blazing Saddles," a hilarious satire that lampoons racism and bigots?
Funny thing about "Blazing Saddles" and the N-word: If that word isn't used, and used as often as it is, then the movie really doesn't work as comedy, satire or much of anything else.
Did the pundit types count the number of times the N-word was used in 1993's "Menace II Society," directed by African-American brothers Albert and Allen Hughes? If they didn't, then they really need to.
The pundit types were clearly subjecting Tarantino to a double standard, of the "bust the white guy's hump" variety. What they should have been counting was how many black actors, actresses and extras -- in other words, employed black folks -- were there in "Django Unchained"?
Examiner Columnist Gregory Kane is a Pulitzer-nominated news and opinion journalist who has covered people and politics from Baltimore to the Sudan. | <urn:uuid:70c959c6-d51d-4059-bff5-81c62ffdc2a2> | 2013-05-21T17:30:42Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The game is set in the middle of the 21st century, following a nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union. Parts of Earth have been turned into a "wasteland" where survival is the paramount objective. Players control a party of Desert Rangers, a paramilitary group based in the deserts of the Southwestern U.S. that survived the nuclear holocaust and are assigned to investigate a series of disturbances in the desert.
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Remember Wasteland? Interplay's original 1988 post-apocalyptic game is about to get a new, official sequel, created by Brian Fargo, Alan Pavlish and Michael A. Stackpole, three of its original creators, and funded via Kickstarter.
According to Fargo's Twitter, inXile is filming a presentation for the Wasteland Kickstarter this week, and the Kickstarter should be ready within 2 weeks or so. The game is going to be a traditional, top-down, party-based cRPG, which should please oldschool fans of Wasteland and Fallout alike. Stay tuned for more Wasteland news soon! | <urn:uuid:c2fe8510-f73a-4ff3-a22a-9ad1c78ba910> | 2013-05-21T17:17:04Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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"...and that's the story of how I saved the Rail Nomad camp with nothing but an old VISA card and a geiger counter."
The rangers all laughed. They all knew Mike was full of it, but at least he copped to it. And, well, his imagination seemed to be limited only by the contents of his glass, which was currently sitting half-full on the table. They were all in high spirits after finally having tracked down the leader of the thugs that had been staging raids against the outlying settlements. He was sacking villages in the afterlife now, and the rangers had all deserved some time off after those grueling weeks in the desert.
Jessica, the group's self-appointed expert on all things explosive, lowered her voice and nodded towards the bar. "So, Mike, sergeant, sir," she started, her voice slightly slurred. "If you're in a story-tellin' mood, sir, mind tellin' us 'bout the big guy? And why he's not drinkin' with us?"
The "big guy" was, of course, the band's latest recruit, who was currently sitting alone at the bar, nursing a cup of what could potentially pass for beer. He hadn't said much at all during their recent excursion and when he did speak, it was with an accent foreign to the rest of the team.
Private Campbell, specialist wiseass, snickered and leaned backwards in his chair. "Whazzamatter, Jess? Gotta lil' crush on our mysterious stranger? 'm I not special 'nuff for ya anymore?"
Jessica bristled, but Mike quickly interjected. "Stow it, Campbell. Look, I don't know how much there's to say, he's a bit of a mystery to me too. He showed up at Ranger Center a couple months ago, signed up, and here he is. If brass asked him about his background, they didn't really inform me."
"What 'bout his accent? He's not from 'round here, and he doesn't sound like a russkie," Jessica mused, already having forgotten about Campbell's indiscretion.
"Scandinavian, I think," Mike offered. "Norway or Sweden, maybe. Tried talking to him about it a week ago, he wasn't very forthcoming."
"Sweden?" Campbell asked, frowning. "Don't think I ever known no Swede before. Weren't they s'posed to be all neutral in the big war? Think they caught any nukes?"
"Dunno, private. Way he deflected my questions, don't think he's very happy to talk about what's going on back home. If it's not nukes, it's something else - otherwise why would he be here?" the sergeant stated, his question rhetorical. "Besides, he handled himself out there. If he doesn't want to talk about where he came from, that's up to him."
"Right," Jessica mumbled, obviously unhappy to leave it at that. "I'm just sayin', I'd be happier at least knowin', like, his name or whatever. Doesn't feel right just knowing him by his callsign.
Besides, doesn't 'Warder, Desert Ranger' sound kinda... lame?"
She's beautiful, and she glows.
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Vol. 2, Issue 26, June 29, 2004
NATO Headaches ensue When Bush Visits Turkmenistan Instead of Turkey
An apparent piloting error has diverted President Bush from his scheduled visit to a two-day NATO summit in Turkey to a former Soviet republic, causing an awkward situation with worldwide ramifications.
"It happens, from time to time, that the President likes to take a turn at the wheel of Air Force One, since he is a former pilot," admitted White House spokesman Scott McClellan. "It does appear, in this instance, that a slight navigational error may have ensued as a result."
Turkey is a NATO member and a major military ally. Turkmenistan, however, is a former Soviet republic with an authoritarian ex-Communist regime in power and a tribally based social structure. President Saparmurat Niyazov has retained absolute control over the country since its independence in 1991 and opposition of any sort is not tolerated.
"As a dictatorship whose primary economic activity is assisting in exporting narcotics from Afghanistan to Russia, Turkmenistan has not been high on our list of most favored nations," admits McClellan.
It was understandable, then, that Niyazov expressed surprise and delight when Bush informed him that his country was "once again in good standing."
"The problem appears to be that Bush failed to realize his mistake for several hours after landing in Turkmenistan," NATO secretary general Jaap de Hoop Scheffer told the other 25 assembled NATO members in Istanbul. "Consequently he presented Niyazanov with some security related materials which we would not ordinarily share with a regime such as this."
Reportedly, Bush handed over documents with updated information on American forces throughout Europe and the Middle East, a list of frequencies and security codes to access the new NATO "Bowman" surveillance satellite system launched earlier this year, $75 million in gold bullion, and a pie. He also reaffirmed America's friendship and support for "this fine Turkish nation" and signed a document hastily drafted proffered by Niyazanov to "make it official." The contents of this document are not yet known.
"We are really looking forward to our new partnership with the United States," a visibly jubilant Niyazanov said on state-run television last night. "I do not even know where to begin with this windfall. But I'll think of something!"
Turkey's government and its powerful military establishment had been anxiously waiting for a resounding endorsement from the U.S. after more than a year of strained relations between the two old allies. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan expressed regret, but not surprise, that Bush had inadvertently given his blessing, along with major NATO security resources, to a nearby country with a similar sounding name.
"Well, I was looking forward to the pie," said Erdogan. "But at least this will be one NATO meeting where no one asks how many E's there are in NATO." | <urn:uuid:a3efc899-7d6f-4f14-9662-531b256b6337> | 2013-05-21T17:31:48Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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A7. Go to the Advanced Settings - Groups and IDs - Modify screen. Here you can highlight a group at a time, and enter e-mail address(es) of the person(s) who should receive reports that are run on that group. Do this in the text box below the group selection. Click Submit at the bottom of the page after each change to save the setting. Now, when you run a report and select the "e-mail report to group's recipients" option, it will send the report to the person(s) you specified here. You can also schedule reports to be run and sent via e-mail to these individuals. Note: To enter more than one e-mail address per group, use a semicolon delimiter.
Q8. How do you get an accurate accounting of the actual time users spent on the Internet?
A8. HTTP requests are not like phone calls where you connect to another caller and the call ends when you hang up the phone. That type of connection could easily be calculated. An HTTP browser request simply asks for the Web page and gets the response, and all communication stops there. Now, what is happening on the browser end is anybody's guess. Is the user looking at the page, or is the user doing e-mail with the page minimized in his browser? Did he go to a meeting or out to lunch? Because of these variables, the default time for a Web page "visit" in reports has been set to 3 seconds. This is the approximate minimum amount of time it takes to load a Web page. Read more about the importance of reliable metrics when using Web-use monitoring software.
Q9. Is there any way to exclude users from showing in reports?
A9. Yes. Move users that you do not wish to see in reports to the VIP group. Their activity will not appear in any Cyfin Proxy reports if they are a member of this group. Note: If you import users into the product from Active Directory, make sure that on the Advanced Settings - Groups and IDs - Import - Setup screen, you have "Inside the Product" selected in order to use the VIP group.
Q10. I want some people to be able to run reports on their departments, but I don't want them to be able to change product settings I have made. Is this possible?
A10. Yes. Create "Operator" accounts for them by going to the Administration - Access Accounts - Create screen. When they log on, they will see report screens but not menus that involve product administration. | <urn:uuid:2ecab9e9-0164-488b-adae-2b0f39305bc9> | 2013-05-21T17:29:40Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Mon October 8, 2012
Chavez Wins Another Term As Venezuela's President
Originally published on Mon October 8, 2012 9:00 am
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has beaten his most serious political challenge in years. He defeated a young former governor handily in Sunday's presidential election. With this victory, Chavez has another six years to consolidate his socialist system in the country with the world's largest oil reserves.
It was the toughest challenge to his rule that he'd received in years — a young, vigorous candidate whose election would have ended Chavez's self-proclaimed revolution.
But when the votes were counted Sunday night, Chavez had won with 54.4 percent of the vote to 44.9 percent for Henrique Capriles.
Shortly before midnight, Chavez led the throngs outside the presidential palace in singing the national anthem. He told them this was the beginning of his next term, which goes through 2018.
And the crowd responded with their signature chant: "Hey-Ho, Chavez won't go."
Speaking from a balcony, Chavez described his victory as the perfect battle: "We've shown comrades that our democracy is one of the world's best."
Henrique Capriles, 40, conceded soon after the voting results were issued. "I want to congratulate the president, send him our compliments," Capriles said.
The campaign, though, heavily favored Chavez. The president controls much of the televised airwaves in Venezuela, receiving ample positive coverage. He also controls billions in oil profits that were used for giveaways like new apartments and appliances.
What Capriles had going for him was his energy and his message — that the country was suffering from many problems that Chavez had not resolved since his rule began in 1999.
People were clearly excited about voting — and even applauded as polling stations opened, like this one in a leafy Caracas neighborhood.
"It has been 14 years of economical crisis, violence, crime, destruction of private industry, and I believe and I have complete certainty that if Capriles wins there is a way to reconstruct my country," said Fabiana Hernandez, who had come out to vote for Capriles.
It's true that polls showed that people across all economic classes are worried about high crime. And that blackouts and food shortages are also concerns.
But in the end, the results showed that Chavez retained enough of a loyal base – more than half of all voters. Those supporters are also willing to overlook that Chavez, 58, has been ill — recovering from a cancerous tumor the president says was removed earlier in the year.
Residents of poorer neighborhoods, like truck driver Javier Pinango, believe Chavez will deliver a better life for them.
"He's been doing it for 14 years," Pinango said. "There's no other option. There's no other candidate who can measure up." | <urn:uuid:3cd2da1c-f925-4fae-b1b7-64bb3346ef12> | 2013-05-21T17:13:42Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Meter is the organization of speech rhythms (verbal stresses) into regular patterns, in terms of both the arrangement of stresses and their frequency of repetition per line of verse.
Poetry is organized by the division of each line of verse into "feet," metric units which each consist of a particular arrangement of strong and weak stresses. The most common metric unit is the iambic foot, in which an unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed one (as in the words "revrse" and "compse").
Here is a table of meters and their names.
Meter is also determined by the number of feet in a line. A line with five feet is called pentameter; thus, a line of five iambs is known as "iambic pentameter" (the most common metrical form in English poetry).
The most common line lengths are:
trimeter: three feet
tetrameter: four feet
pentameter: five feet
hexameter: six feet (an "Alexandrine" when iambic)
heptameter: seven feet (a "fourteener" when iambic)
Naturally, there is a degree of variation from line to line, as a rigid adherence to the meter results in unnatural or monotonous language. A skillful poet manipulates breaks in the prevailing rhythm of a poem for particular effects. John Donne, for example, rarely held to the meter of his lines for more than a few feet at a time. These lines from his Holy Sonnet 14 (1633) are written in iambic pentameter, but the stress patterns vary a great deal:
That I may rise and stand, o'erthrow me, and bend
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I've heard of many people complaining about the speed that YouTube streams videos lately. Even low quality videos go extremely slow on my system sometimes whereas they seem to be fast in other systems. I do not think that there is any problem with the internet connection I have, as it handles other websites and downloads very well. Are there certain settings I could check to fix this issue or is it a problem with YouTube's distribution servers itself?
- I am in the United States using Time Warner's Road Runner cable.
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Susana(1951) Director: Luis Bunuel;
Susana has a spellbinding quality that draws one into the film from the very beginning. It could be the picturesque Mexican settings or the music that matches the actions so well, but more than that, the story is exceptional. The story has enough drama and melodrama to compete with Greek classics. The story is also captivating because Susana is seemingly innocent and even meek, but in reality she is a crafty and a sinister woman. Her skill is employing temptation to manipulate others, however chaos also ensues from her work.
The story begins when Susana is trown into a cell in a reformatory (which looks like a prison). In a moment of fear, she pleads to God for a way out, which she soon finds. She excapes her imprisionment on that rainy and stormy night and finds her way onto a ranch. There, she plays coy at times and does all she can to make another fall for her the rest of the time. But she doesn't limit herself to one target - one of the chief ranch workers, the owner of the ranch and even the owner's son are all her targets.
Luis Bunuel had an amazing skill as a director and watching Susana will make one appreciate his talent. As we try to figure out what Susana will try next, while we wonder who she really is, it is hard not to be taken in by this story with timeless appeal. Although the plot is simple enough for everyone to appreciate, there is also symbolism and surrealism present, if one looks for them. Susana is a great film and one that I would recommend to all audiences.
The Brute (El Bruto)(1953) Director: Luis Bunuel;
"El Bruto" is a drama filled with moral dilemmas and irony. The story starts with a wealthy man named Andrés (Andres Soler) and his much younger wife named Paloma (Katy Jurado) having the problem of having tenants not wanting to leave their apartment complex. They want to sell the land, but some of the tenants are quite fixed on the idea of not leaving. At his wife's suggestion, Andres gets the idea to ask Pedro (Pedro Armendariz) to help him out. Pedro is known as the Brute because he is big and is as strong as an ox, but he is a little dimwitted too.
Andres invites Pedro to live in his house, which complicates things as Peloma starts to secretly like Pedro. When Pedro intimidates one of the tenants with a strong punch, the Brute begins to have troubles. The old man he punched ends up dying a couple days later and the Brute has blood on his hands now. To further make matters worse, Pedro ends up meeting Meche (Rosa Arenas), the daughter of the man he killed, and likes her a lot. Pedro/Bruto isn't entirely dumb, as he is crafty enough to seduce this innocent girl. While the story may sound like a soap opera, it doesn't feel like one.
Throughout the story there is an underlining feeling of seduction. Between Peloma trying to seduce Pedro and Pedro trying to seduce Meche, there is a lot of tension. Although much of the action takes place off camera, we know that there is quite a bit going on between them.
Luis Bunuel's "El Bruto" looks beautiful in black and white, with great music that perfectly matches it. The story is quite interesting as it shows the strange justice karma brings with past actions affecting the future events. The story isn't at all romantic in the sense of everything coming together with a happy ending, but rather a string of tragedies that take us deeper into a mess that seems trickier to unentangle with the passage of time. | <urn:uuid:8597779c-4d5b-4d7c-a017-6fad386b6497> | 2013-05-21T17:37:19Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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|<< Revelation 10 >>|
Wesley's Notes on the Bible
1 And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:
10:1 And I saw another mighty angel - Another from that mighty angel, mentioned, Rev 5:2; yet he was a created angel; for he did not swear by himself, verse 6. Rev 5:6 Clothed with a cloud - In token of his high dignity. And a rainbow upon his head - A lovely token of the divine favour. And yet it is not too glorious for a creature: the woman, Rev 12:1, is described more glorious still. And his face as the sun - Nor is this too much for a creature: for all the righteous shall shine forth as the sun, Matt 13:43. And his feet as pillars of fire - Bright as flame.
2 And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth,
10:2 And he had in his hand - His left hand: he swore with his right. He stood with his right foot on the sea, toward the west; his left, on the land, toward the east: so that he looked southward. And so St. John (as Patmos lies near Asia) could conveniently take the book out of his left hand. This sealed book was first in the right hand of him that sat on the throne: thence the Lamb took it, and opened the seals. And now this little book, containing the remainder of the other, is given opened, as it was, to St. John. From this place the Revelation speaks more clearly and less figuratively than before. And he set his right foot upon the sea - Out of which the first beast was to come. And his left foot upon the earth - Out of which was to come the second. The sea may betoken Europe; the earth, Asia; the chief theatres of these great things.
3 And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices.
10:3 And he cried - Uttering the words set down, verse 6. Rev 10:6 And while he cried, or was crying - At the same instant. Seven thunders uttered their voices - In distinct words, each after the other. Those who spoke these words were glorious, heavenly powers, whose voice was as the loudest thunder.
4 And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not.
10:4 And I heard a voice from heaven - Doubtless from him who had at first commanded him to write, and who presently commands him to take the book; namely, Jesus Christ. Seal up those things which the seven thunders have uttered, and write them not - These are the only things of all which he heard that he is commanded to keep secret: so something peculiarly secret was revealed to the beloved John, besides all the secrets that are written in this book. At the same time we are prevented from inquiring what it was which these thunders uttered: suffice that we may know all the contents of the opened book, and of the oath of the angel.
5 And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven,
10:5 And the angel - This manifestation of things to come under the trumpet of the seventh angel hath a twofold introduction: first, the angel speaks for God, verse 7; Rev 10:7 then Christ speaks for himself, Rev 11:3. The angel appeals to the prophets of former times; Christ, to his own two witnesses. Whom I saw standing upon the earth and upon the sea, lifted up his right hand toward heaven - As yet the dragon was in heaven. When he is cast thence he brings the third and most dreadful woe on the earth and sea: so that it seems as if there would be no end of calamities. Therefore the angel comprises, in his posture and in his oath, both heaven, sea, and earth, and makes on the part of the eternal God and almighty Creator, a solemn protestation, that he will assert his kingly authority against all his enemies. He lifted up his right hand toward heaven - The angel in Daniel, Dan 12:7, (not improbably the same angel,) lifted up both his hands.
6 And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer:
10:6 And sware - The six preceding trumpets pass without any such solemnity. It is the trumpet of the seventh angel alone which is confirmed by so high an oath. By him that liveth for ever and ever - Before whom a thousand years are but a day. Who created the heaven, the earth, the sea, and the things that are therein - And, consequently, has the sovereign power over all: therefore, all his enemies, though they rage a while in heaven, on the sea, and on the earth, yet must give place to him. That there shall be no more a time - But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, the mystery of God shall be fulfilled: that is, a time, a chronos, shall not expire before that mystery is fulfilled. A chronos (1111 years) will nearly pass before then, but not quite. The period, then, which we may term a non - chronos (not a whole time) must be a little, and not much, shorter than this. The non - chronos here mentioned seems to begin in the year 800, (when Charles the Great instituted in the west a new line of emperors, or of many kings,) to end in the year 1836; and to contain, among other things, the short time of the third woe, the three times and a half of the woman in the wilderness, and the duration of the beast.
7 But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.
10:7 But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel - Who sounded not only at the beginning of those days, but from the beginning to the end. The mystery of God shall be fulfilled - It is said, Rev 17:17, The word of God shall be fulfilled. The word of God is fulfilled by the destruction of the beast; the mystery, by the removal of the dragon. But these great events are so near together, that they are here mentioned as one. The beginning of them is in heaven, as soon as the seventh trumpet sounds; the end is on the earth and the sea. So long as the third woe remains on the earth and the sea, the mystery of God is not fulfilled. And the angel's swearing is peculiarly for the comfort of holy men, who are afflicted under that woe. Indeed the wrath of God must be first fulfilled, by the pouring out of the phials: and then comes the joyful fulfilling of the mystery of God. As he hath declared to his servants the prophets - The accomplishment exactly answering the prediction. The ancient prophecies relate partly to that grand period, from the birth of Christ to the destruction of Jerusalem; partly to the time of the seventh angel, wherein they will be fully accomplished. To the seventh trumpet belongs all that occurs from Rev 11:15 - Rev 22:5. And the third woe, which takes place under the same, properly stands, Rev 12:12, 13:1 - 18.
8 And the voice which I heard from heaven spake unto me again, and said, Go and take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel which standeth upon the sea and upon the earth.
10:8 And - what follows from this verse to chap. xi. 13, Rev 11:13 runs parallel with the oath of the angel, and with the fulfilling of the mystery of God, as it follows under the trumpet of the seventh angel; what is said, verse 11, Rev 11:11 concerning St. John's prophesying again, is unfolded immediately after; what is said, verse 7, Rev 11:7 concerning the fulfilling the mystery of God, is unfolded, Rev. xi. 15 - 19, Rev 11:15 - 19 and in the following chapter s.
9 And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey.
10:9 Eat it up - The like was commanded to Ezekiel. This was an emblem of thoroughly considering and digesting it. And it will make thy belly bitter, but it will be sweet as honey in thy mouth - The sweetness betokens the many good things which follow, Rev 11:1,15, and c.; the bitterness, the evils which succeed under the third woe.
10 And I took the little book out of the angel's hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter.
11 And he said unto me, Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings.
10:11 Thou must prophesy again - Of the mystery of God; of which the ancient prophets had prophesied before. And he did prophesy, by measuring the temple, Rev 11:1; as a prophecy may be delivered either by words or actions. Concerning people, and nations, and tongues, and many kings - The people, nations, and tongues are contemporary; but the kings, being many, succeed one another. These kings are not mentioned for their own sake, but with a view to the holy city, Rev 11:2. Here is a reference to the great kingdoms in Spain, England, Italy, and c., which arose from the eighth century; or at least underwent a considerable change, as France and Germany in particular; to the Christian, afterward Turkish, empire in the east; and especially to the various potentates, who have successively reigned at or over Jerusalem, and do now, at least titularly, reign over it. | <urn:uuid:1e64b140-622c-4994-91af-06e3a9078801> | 2013-05-21T17:30:51Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Failure-to-thrive is when a child is not growing as expected. It does not include children who are small for their age. The exact definition is not completely agreed upon.
Children grow quickly in the first few years of life. A child with failure-to-thrive will have a height and weight that is well below other children of their age. Your child may have also had a normal growth pattern that began to slow down. Initially the child has similar height and weight than their peers but at follow-up appointments the child's height and weight does not keep up with their peers.
In general, failure-to-thrive means that a child:
- Is at or below the 3rd to 5th percentile for height and weight. T
- Has failed to grow as expected. This is shown by dropping two growth percentiles. For example, the child goes from the 75th percentile to below the 25th percentile.
Failure-to-thrive is split into several types according to the cause. Types include:
- Organic failure-to-thrive—caused by some other medical condition
- Nonorganic failure-to-thrive—occurs in children with no known medical condition
- Mixed failure-to-thrive—occurs when the child has features of both organic and nonorganic failure-to-thrive
Gastrointestinal disease may make it difficult for your child to eat or absorb food. This may include:
- Reflux —stomach acid backs up into the throat. This can make it uncomfortable to swallow.
- Pyloric stenosis —valve on the stomach can not close properly, this can lead to reflux.
- Cleft lip and/or palate —birth defects of the lip and roof of the mouth, this condition can make it difficult to eat solid foods.
- Hirschsprung's disease —a condition that can cause a blockage in the intestines
- Hepatitis —liver disease that can cause general fatigue and ill feeling
- Cirrhosis —liver disease that can cause general fatigue and ill feeling
- Pancreatic insufficiency—pancrease helps digestion of fats, if there is a problem, food may not be properly absorbed into the body
- Malabsorption—general problem in the intestines ability to absorb food
- Milk protein intolerance—inability for the baby to digest proteins found in milk, even if the baby is taking in enough milk it is not getting to the body
Kidney disease—can decrease your child's appetite and impair growth
- Urinary tract infection
- Kidney failure
- Diabetes insipidus
Heart and lung disease—can decrease your child's appetite and impair growth
Mucus Blockage in Lungs and Pancreas Due to Cystic Fibrosis-Contributes to Failure to ThriveCopyright © Nucleus Medical Media, Inc.
Endocrine disease—can decrease your child's appetite or how the body processes food
- Thyroid problems
- Pituitary disease
- Growth hormone deficiency
- Infectious disease—can decrease your child's appetite and impair growth
- Breastfeeding difficulties including insufficient milk supply syndrome
- Chromosomal birth defects
- Fetal alcohol syndrome
- Lead poisoning
- Child abuse or negligence
- Parental ignorance
Factors that may increase your child's risk of failure-to-thrive include:
- Untreated medical conditions
- Poverty, including lack of available food
- Poor parenting skills
- Depression in the parent
- Severe family stress
- Slowed growth in a young child, including height and weight
- Slowed development, including late rolling, sitting, crawling, standing, walking, and talking
- Small muscles
- Weakness, low energy
- Hair loss
- Loose folds of skin
- Other symptoms related to an underlying medical condition
Failure-to-thrive is diagnosed based on following a child's growth. The doctor will plot your child's weight, height, and head circumference on standard growth charts. If the child falls below a certain weight range or drops two percentiles on the growth chart, the doctor will evaluate the child further.
If a medical condition may be the cause, the doctor will order further tests. The type of tests will depend on the condition.
Sometimes, a child must be hospitalized for a period of time to find the cause of failure-to-thrive. During this time the doctor will:
- Monitor the relationship between parent and child, paying particular attention to their behavior around feeding
- Set up a feeding schedule with an adequate amount of calories
- Make sure that an appropriate feeding technique is used
If the child can gain weight under these circumstances, this supports the diagnosis of nonorganic failure-to-thrive.
Treatment may include:
Treating a Medical Condition
Treating the underlying medical condition may correct failure-to-thrive.
Providing Extra Calories
Children who are malnourished may need liquid supplements. They can help to boost their weight and nutrition.
When a child is hospitalized for diagnosis, the hospital staff can also provide treatment. Nurses can teach parents appropriate feeding techniques. They may also show how to best interact with their child. If the child isn't hospitalized, parents can still have training sessions with a nutritionist or a nurse.
Parents and children who are having difficulty with their relationship may benefit from counseling.
To help prevent failure to thrive:
- Take your children to the doctor regularly to have their growth checked. This helps detect and treat failure-to-thrive before it becomes severe.
- Develop a good relationship with your child's doctor.
- Ask the doctor about proper parenting and nutrition for early in a baby's life.
- Your doctor may recommend parent-training sessions.
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Talent Management: The New Business Imperative
Studies and statistics suggest that, because of demographic trends, companies will soon face a shortage of talent. In response, many companies have begun adopting processes and tools to more effectively recruit, retain, and develop talent. At the top of the list are human capital management (HCM) and talent management systems. Find out how these new technologies can help your company survive the coming talent crunch. | <urn:uuid:f7f4c58d-0b1f-42b1-8d9b-e72c4cc4d59f> | 2013-05-21T17:30:32Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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posted last year in Dev Platform category by Dongsun Choi
There are various techniques to improve the performance of your Java application. In this article I will talk about Statement Pooling Configuration and its effect on Garbage Collection process.
Statement Pooling allows to improve the performance of an application by caching SQL statements that are used repeatedly. Such caching mechanism allows to prepare frequently used statements only once and reuse them multiple times, thus reducing the overall number of times the database server has to parse, plan, and optimize these queries. A well-configured number of statements (maxStatements) to be cached can be as good as tuning the Garbage Collection. Now let's see how Statement Pooling can affect the Garbage Collection.
Why Check the Number of Statement in the Pool?
Often the size of the JDBC statement pool is set to the default value. Using the default value, of course does not usually lead to any special issue. But a well-configured maxStatements value can be as effective as GC tuning. If you are using the default maxStatements value and would like to optimize the use of memory, let's think about the correct statement pool value before attempting GC tuning.
As was discussed in Understanding Java Garbage Collection, a weak generational hypothesis (most objects quickly become unreachable and a reference from an old object to a new object is rare) was used as the precondition when creating garbage collector in Java. For the majority of NHN web services there should be a response within 300ms at the latest, unless it is a special case. Therefore, NHN web services are more applicable to the above situations than the general stand-alone type applications.
The GC Process between HTTP Request and Response
When developing a web service using web containers like Tomcat and other frameworks, the lifespan of objects created by a developer tend to be either very short or very long. Web developers usually write codes like Interceptor, Action, BO, or DAO (BO and DAO are generated and used as singletons from applicationContex in Spring, and are not the target of GC). The objects generated from these codes stay alive for a very brief time that exists between the time HTTP is requested and the time it has responded. For this reason, such objects are usually collected during Young GC.
There are also objects, such as singleton objects, that stay alive long enough to exist for the lifecycle of Tomcat. Such objects will be promoted to the old area soon after Tomcat starts running. Yet, when continuously monitoring web applications through jstat and the like, there are always some objects promoted to the old area during Young GC. These objects are usually used after being stored in the cache used for improving the performance of frameworks in most of the containers and projects. Whether the cached objects become the target of GC or not is determined by their cache hit ratio, not their age, so unless the hit ratio is 100%, they cannot avoid being promoted to the old area, even when the Young GC cycle is set to be long.
Among these caches, statement pooling affects the memory usage the most. If you are using iBatis, as iBatis processes all SQLs as preparedStatment, you will be using statement pooling. If the size of statement pooling is smaller than the number of SQLs being used, the cache hit ratio will decrease and result in cache maintenance cost. Objects that are reachable in the old area become the target of GC and will be retrieved, then will be regenerated during the HTTP request process, only to be cached and promoted to the old area. The full GC cycles are affected by this process.
Size of the Statement Objects
It would be safe to say that the size of a single statement object is proportional to the length of the SQL code processed by the same statement. Even for a long and complex SQL, the size of the object should be around 500 bytes. The object's small size would seem to have little effect on the full GC cycles, but such an assumption would be incorrect.
When you look at the JDBC specifications, each connection has its own statement pool (maxStatementsPerConnection), as described in Figure 1 below. So, although a statement object is as small as 500 bytes, if there are many connections, the statements cache may occupy the proportional amount of the heap.
Figure 1: Relationship between the Connection and the Statement.
(Though the statement has the ResultSet, it should be clarified that ResultSet is not an object for caching. ResultSet is allocated as null when rs.close() is called by iBatis, then retrieved in the young area during young GC.)
The Effect of Statement Pool's Cache Hit Ratio on the Full GC
A simple test program was created to assess the effect of cache hit ratio on the full GC. One cache hit ratio was set to 100% while the other was set to 50%. When the same amount of load was applied, the results presented in Table 1 and 2 were obtained.
In both cases, the occurrences of young GC were very similar but the results for the full GC was different. When the cache hit ratio was 100%, full GC occurred only once, because the number of objects promoted to the old area during young GC was small. When the ratio was 50%, full GC occurred 4 times because the number of statement objects promoted to the old area during young GC was high, as the objects were cached in the statement pool, then removed from the pool in LRU way, then cached again at the next request.
Table 1. Cache hit ratio = 100%.
Table 2. Cache hit ratio = 50%.
I would like to add one more thing. When the cache hit ratio is 50%, it violates the 2nd category of weak generational hypothesis I introduced previously. When low cache hit ratio causes frequent pool registration and subsequent removal, it means the statement object generated in the young area is being referenced in the pool from the old area, which leads to additional strain during GC because the card marking technique is used to manage the references separately.
In Lucy (NHN's internal Java Framework), the maxStatements value for statement pooling in Oracle and MySQL is 500. In most cases, 500 should be enough. However, when more SQL is being used, increasing the default value to meet such demand would be a way to improve the system efficiency (when using $(String replacement) for query on iBatis for the reason of table partitioning and the like, the number of queries must be multiplied by the number of partitioned tables).
However, when the default value is higher than necessary, this leads to a different problem. A higher value means more memory usage and higher likelihood of an Out Of Memory (OOME) occurrence.
In a situation where the number of SQLs are 10,000 and the number of connections are 50, then the total size of statement objects is about 250 MB. (500 byte * 50 * 10,000 = 250 MB). It should be easy to determine the likelihood of OOME occurrence by checking the Xmx configuration for the service in use.
What strategy do you follow to determine the correct number of statements to be pooled? Share your experience in the comments below.
By Dongsun Choi, Senior Engineer at Game Service Solution Team, NHN Corporation. | <urn:uuid:58e286fd-915a-44e4-a97d-e39ff2786f38> | 2013-05-21T17:23:39Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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207. Yugoslavia Faces the Millennium: Conflict and Continuity
A decade after the fall of Communism, there remains little discussion within the public sphere of the fundamental differences that separate the states and societies of Western and Eastern Europe. This oversight is regrettable not only because it limits our ability to resolve problems in the Balkans, but also because that region is far more representative of the world at large than is Western Europe.
A case in point is the region's multiethnic demography, for which there are many historical and current parallels the world over. The uncritical, century-long rush to adopt the West European nation-state model has resulted in a steady succession of secessions, civil wars, and partitions not only in Central Europe, but throughout the former Soviet Union, as well as in East Timor, Eritrea, and Palestine. Today, many statesmen, journalists and scholars advocate ethnic separation as the only solution, even though it would involve population exchanges. Will "peace through partition" become the final solution to ethnic conflict in Afghanistan, Chechnya, Chiapas, Cyprus, Kurdestan, Macedonia, the Philippines, Rwanda, Sri Lanka, Sudan, and western Sumatra?
For the most part, granting autonomy has acted as a "safety valve" in retarding centrifugal forces among concentrated ethnic minorities. The examples of Kosovo, Northern Ireland, Quebec, Republika Srpska, Slovakia, and the six republics of Tito=s Yugoslavia however, suggest that such a solution is never truly "permanent" since it simultaneously perpetuates separate identities and offers career opportunities to those politicians who choose to exploit nationalism as a populist tool for coming to power.
In seeking entry into the European Union, the Yugoslav and other Central European successor states need to accept not only multiethnicity in their own countries, but recognize its reemergence in Western Europe and the rest of the "post-industrial" world. The past century offers numerous examples of the triumph of ethnic coexistence, especially in places like the Bukovina, Srem, Vojvodina, and prewar Bosnia, where a balance of power between ethnic groups simultaneously allayed minority paranoia while encouraging all groups to cooperate with one another. Where no such balance exists, interethnic stability depends heavily on the perception of protection afforded minorities by the rule of law, supplemented by the majority group's willingness to be deferential toward their search for security and reassurance.
The east-west dichotomy is also evident in distinctive manifestations of nationalism and liberalism. Whereas western media and statesmen routinely attribute Serb atrocities to a carefully nurtured "persecution complex," few observers recognize the pervasive sense of a deprived manifest destiny that weighs on the historical consciousness of all of the successor nations of the former multiethnic Habsburg, Ottoman and Tsarist/Soviet empires. One consequence is a militant and intolerant brand of nationalism that has justified discrimination and, sometimes, violence against neighboring ethnic groups. Another consequence is the inclusion of a purely nationalist agenda in the basket of borrowed western Enlightenment ideas, adopted by East Europeans without the necessary region-specific modifications.
The unfortunate result has been the simplistic equation of democracy with majority rule, shorn of such indispensable attributes as the rule of law, freedom of thought and expression, individual rights and toleration, and the obligations of civic responsibility. Admittedly, the combined Ottoman and Communist heritage partly explains the political immaturity of Balkan liberalism. But foreign critics who scoff at what Robert Hayden terms "constitutional nationalism" and the inevitable tyrannies of the majority that it creates forget that Western Europe (and its North American progeny) never experienced a prolonged period of foreign oppression. This distinction suggests that much of the Yugoslav successor states and Eastern Europe's other newly independent states will need a prolonged period of national independence before they can purge the demons of their subjugation by foreign multiethnic empires. These states could perhaps obviate or minimize the need for this evolutionary step by demythologizing their own history, redefining nationality to include all citizens regardless of ethnicity, and enriching the public perception of "democracy" with those attributes and obligations that protect the rights of all citizens.
Mass Media and Visual Imagery
It takes considerable optimism to advocate remolding a society's mentality, in this case to conform with Western models of nationalism and liberalism; to force an entire region to do so requires equally heavy doses of ethnocentrism and arrogance. Yet, if Central Europe is keen on integrating with the West, then it is incumbent on the region's elites to go beyond their uncritical appropriation of the nation-state model to embrace those patently universal Enlightenment values that make nationhood and popular sovereignty palatable for ethnic minorities. Established elites and media have played a crucial role in fashioning modern mass culture over the past two centuries. Moreover, over the past decade, most regional leaders have striven to adopt requisite institutional standards for membership in the European Union and NATO. The leverage therefore, already exists; it remains only that Western policy planners fully realize and encourage the implementation of these international standards and modern mass culture through a combination of school instruction and visual public media.
Visual media has been proven the most effective means of transmitting information and molding people's minds; in head-to-head competition it consistently trumps both print media and radio, both because of its easier accessibility and the didactic power of visual imagery. To their credit, democratic leaders in Serbia and the rest of Central Europe have identified access to visual media as an indispensable element for creating a Western-style civil society. Unfortunately, their realization stems from first-hand experience with the effectiveness of the government-controlled visual media in an authoritarian regime, where the country's silent majority relies primarily - and usually exclusively - on what it sees on television.
Western policymakers however, have consistently dragged their feet in responding to appeals for a visual component to the existing radio "ring around Serbia." Thus, Yugoslavia's Crown Prince Alexander bemoans intermittent encounters with Tony Blair, in which the British Prime Minister reassures him that "We're working on it!" Another example is the misperception of the State Department earlier this year of the effectiveness of Voice of America's television broadcasts into Serbia; the Department was sublimely unaware that the Milosevic regime had long-since eliminated their access to every relay transmitter in the country. Even a high-ranking VOA staffer expressed surprise upon learning that its television broadcasts reached only a few miles into Serbia, courtesy of a single transmission tower in Bijeljina.
The Omnicompetent State
The struggle for control of mass media highlights a third structural reality to which world policymakers have been slow to adapt, namely the ability of modern authoritarian regimes to culturally manipulate and criminally assault their own people. The emergence of what Gale Stokes has termed the "omnicompetent state" represents only the latest stage in the centuries- long, state-building process. Nor is it the first time its evolution has challenged the conscience of the international community. During early modern times the aggressive behavior of the first "great powers" promoted systemic paranoia and almost continuous international conflict. To address this problem, over the past century, the international community has contemplated applying universal standards of behavior inside sovereign countries. Notwithstanding isolated cases of unilateral, third-party intervention in Uganda and Cambodia, NATO's air offensive against rump Yugoslavia in 1999 represents a watershed in the enforcement of internationally recognized norms of conduct (as prescribed by the UN charter) within the frontiers of a sovereign state.
Journalist Seymour Hirsch is doubtless correct in attributing the resulting "Clinton Doctrine" to the worldwide mediation of CNN and other global agents of visual media. Yet another factor has been "U.S. leadership" that combines contrived appeals to national self- interest with a very real sense of moral outrage. Whatever the motivations, policy planners should certainly contemplate and, hopefully reinforce, the prospect of appending the body of international law to facilitate such humanitarian interventions in order to meet this latest, twentieth-century challenge posed by the state-building process.
The pivotal role that the U.S. has played in Yugoslavia over the past five years underscores a fourth development that demands constant attention, especially by its own policymakers. The dissolution of the Soviet Union marked two potential watersheds in the history of international relations: an abrupt halt to the five-century-long European arms race that began with France's invasion of Italy in 1494, and the usurpation of the balance of power by U.S. hegemony. Whether these developments will become fixed structures or merely temporary "conjunctures" will depend on how the U.S. handles itself on the international stage, especially in matters that challenge the pretensions and perceived interests of countries like France, Russia, or China. In the past, competing states have capitalized on the arrogant unilateralism of momentary hegemons such as Charles V, Louis XIV, revolutionary France and Wilhelmine Germany to reestablish a new balance comprising a coalition of major powers. So far, the U.S. has defied this dynamic by sustaining an ostensibly multilateral foreign policy in the Kuwait, Bosnia and Kosovo conflicts, as well as in less strategically significant humanitarian interventions around the world. Forestalling the re-assembly of a new bi-polar balance of power however, will take constant vigilance so long as stress remains between the U.S. self-interest and that of other great powers. The fateful faux pas of past hegemons suggests that the U.S. should limit overtly self-seeking initiatives (such as contravening the ABM treaty), while helping to construct a universal legal framework to promote an international status quo that seals U.S. hegemony.
If international law is the first resort of the strong, it is also the last refuge of the weak. Hence the tremendous advantages that such a framework offers to the states and societies of the former Yugoslavia. Once the U.S. and its allies have established the requisite parameters for collaboration, they can leave it to each of the newly former Yugoslav republics to set its own pace for aid and integration with the New Europe.
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What are the risks of connecting to a hidden network?
A hidden network is a wireless network that is set to not broadcast its name (or service set identifier (SSID)). Normally, wireless networks broadcast their name, and your computer “listens” for the name of the network that it wants to connect to. Since a hidden network doesn’t broadcast, your computer can't find it, so the network has to find your computer. For this to happen, your computer must broadcast both the name of the network it's looking for and its own name. In this situation, other computers “listening” for networks will know the name of your computer as well as the network you’re connected to, which increases the risk of your computer being attacked.
Whenever possible, always connect to wireless networks that are set to broadcast and have some form of security. For more information, see How do I know if a wireless network is secure?. | <urn:uuid:d56bf7ba-d264-4ced-a244-eed9f6cbb552> | 2013-05-21T17:11:26Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Here's a really nice video showing a musical artist bringing a new song to life using Windows. There's precious little to complain about there, it's just a nice video. But I do have to wonder: Why wasn't he using OneNote (instead of a sharpie) to write the lyrics? :)
Thanks to Craig C. for the link.
And speaking of nice videos, I've been amused to see how this video, also from Microsoft, has been received by the Apple-friendly media. That is, it's been received exactly as you'd expect: With derision. Despite the fact that the video humorously portrays a real limitation of the Mac (and an advantage for Windows; i.e. Blu-Ray disc playback), virtually all the coverage I've seen has been negative. For example: Microsoft Makes Fun of Apple and Microsoft Mocks Apple.
So is it true? Is Microsoft making fun of, or mocking, Apple? And did these same clowns come ripping after Apple during several years of acerbic and innacurate "I'm a Mac, I'm a PC" ads? In all cases, no. Just watch the actual video for crying out loud. There's nothing wrong with it at all. (In fact, if anything, it's too nice.) But there is absolutely something wrong with the tech media.
In a bid to promote the Xbox 360's digital media capabilities, Microsoft is now claiming that the console is used for games only 60 percent of the time. But that's because the other 40 percent of the time, the console is in Mesquite, Texas getting fixed. :)
Microsoft today announced a casual games hub for its MSN, Bing, and Windows Live Messenger services. | <urn:uuid:34381044-a060-45e8-bc40-cf9656fc29ef> | 2013-05-21T17:46:20Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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2 entries found for shout.
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Main Entry: 1shout
Function: verb 1: to utter a sudden loud cry <shouted for joy> 2: to utter in a loud voice <shouted out the answers> - shout·ernoun synonymsSHOUT, SHRIEK, SCREECH mean to utter a loud cry. SHOUT suggests any kind of loud cry that is meant to be heard either far away or above other noise <we shouted to them across the street>. SHRIEK suggests a high-pitched, shrill cry that is a sign of strong feeling <the children shrieked with excitement>. SCREECH suggests a drawn-out shriek that is usually without words and is very harsh and unpleasant <the cats fought and screeched>. | <urn:uuid:bf9b340a-81b4-47db-960d-c263cd0ab461> | 2013-05-21T17:09:37Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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- S: (n) bear (an investor with a pessimistic market outlook; an investor who expects prices to fall and so sells now in order to buy later at a lower price)
- S: (v) bear (have) "bear a resemblance"; "bear a signature"
- S: (v) give birth, deliver, bear, birth, have (cause to be born) "My wife had twins yesterday!"
- S: (v) digest, endure, stick out, stomach, bear, stand, tolerate, support, brook, abide, suffer, put up (put up with something or somebody unpleasant) "I cannot bear his constant criticism"; "The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks"; "he learned to tolerate the heat"; "She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage"
- S: (v) bear (move while holding up or supporting) "Bear gifts"; "bear a heavy load"; "bear news"; "bearing orders"
- S: (v) bear, turn out (bring forth) "The apple tree bore delicious apples this year"; "The unidentified plant bore gorgeous flowers"
- S: (v) bear, take over, accept, assume (take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person) "I'll accept the charges"; "She agreed to bear the responsibility"
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- S: (v) yield, pay, bear (bring in) "interest-bearing accounts"; "How much does this savings certificate pay annually?"
- S: (v) wear, bear (have on one's person) "He wore a red ribbon"; "bear a scar"
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- S: (v) bear, hold (have rightfully; of rights, titles, and offices) "She bears the title of Duchess"; "He held the governorship for almost a decade"
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