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...and what happens to freedom if you don't? It's just a little chalk that will wash away with the first rain. Take a chill pill. If the sidewalks are public places, they are part of the public and are allowed there too.
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A passenger who went into shock on board a commercial flight forced pilots to make an emergency landing at ILM Thursday night. The Air Transit flight from Nova Scotia was bound for Cuba when the passenger went into shock and passed out. According to airport personnel, all flight staff is trained in first aid, capable of dealing with medical situations while on board until it is safe to land. No word yet as to when the 40-year-old passenger plans to fly back, but he remains in stable condition.
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Chicago, IL (Sports Network) - The Chicago Blackhawks made NHL history Friday
night, becoming the first team to record at least one point in 17 straight
games to start a season with a 2-1 win over San Jose at the United Center.
Rookie Brandon Saad scored a shorthanded, go-ahead goal early in the third
period for the Blackhawks, who, at 14-0-3, surpassed the Anaheim Ducks' 16-
game run without a regulation loss at the outset of the 2006-07 campaign.
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Subject: Re: On nil qua false [was: Re: On conditionals] From: Erik Naggum <firstname.lastname@example.org> Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 18:39:13 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Message-ID: <email@example.com> * Bruce Hoult | Here's what I don't get about CL confusing false and the empty list: Please stop thinking of it as a "confusion", and you may get it. | suppose you have a function (foo name) that returns a list of all the | classes being taken by a student. If the function returns NIL, does that | mean that the student is taking no classes at the moment, or does it mean | that the student doesn't exist? Well, read the documentation of the function to find out. What else can there possibly be to say about this? This is a non-existing problem. Since you think SQL's NULL is so great, do you get a NULL if the student whose classes you ask for does not exist? Why would you ask for the classes of a non-existing student? Not to mention, _how_? Is a student somehow magically adressable? In other words, what did you give that function as an argument to identify the student? | It seems to me that using an empty list to represent NULL is just as bad. If you need to distinguish the empty list from NULL (nil) in the same function, your design sucks because you are confused, not the language. /// -- Norway is now run by a priest from the fundamentalist Christian People's Party, the fifth largest party representing one eighth of the electorate. -- Carrying a Swiss Army pocket knife in Oslo, Norway, is a criminal offense. | <urn:uuid:027b5250-2c3a-403b-8b5d-fb28154a58e3> | 2013-05-21T17:45:24Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Imitate is defined as to copy or use something as a model.(verb)
An example of imitate is for a child to copy his older sibling's every move.
See imitate in Webster's New World College Dictionary
Origin: < L imitatus, pp. of imitari, to imitate, akin to aemulus: see emulate
See imitate in American Heritage Dictionary 4
transitive verb im·i·tat·ed, im·i·tat·ing, im·i·tates
Origin: Latin imitārī, imitāt-; see aim- in Indo-European roots.
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West Highland White Terrier Temperament
What's Good About 'Em,
What's Bad About 'Em
West Highland White Terrier Temperament, Personality, Behavior, Traits, and Characteristics, by Michele Welton. Copyright © 2000-2013
The AKC Standard says that the West Highland White Terrier is "possessed with no small amount of self-esteem."
Indeed. Along with the Cairn Terrier ("Toto" in the Wizard of Oz), the West Highland White Terrier is what many people picture when they hear "terrier."
The Westie is everything a terrier was designed to be. Sturdy, spunky, and bold, he needs his daily walks and interactive play sessions. Yet he is easier to handle and friendlier than some other terriers. He can adapt to any home in which he can be a full participant and busybody.
Quick to announce anything amiss, including visitors, the Westie usually proceeds to welcome them inside with a gaily wagging tail. West Highland White Terriers can be bossy with other dogs of the same sex, but otherwise coexist with other dogs and cats more readily than most terriers.
Rabbits and rodents, however, are in for a stressful (and probably short) life, along with wild critters who venture into the Westie's yard. He will pursue with tenacity anything that moves and cannot be let off-leash except in a safe, enclosed area.
Assertive but cheerful, with the typical stubbornness and cleverness of a true terrier, the Westie must be shown that you are in charge, else he may become demanding and testy when he doesn't get his own way. He does respond well to consistent discipline and to obedience training that utilizes food rewards.
West Highland White Terriers can be possessive of their food and toys, and they are determined diggers and barkers.
If you want a dog who...
- Is small, yet sturdy and tough -- not a delicate lapdog
- Has a natural appearance
- Needs only moderate exercise
- Makes a keen watchdog
- Doesn't shed too much
- Is easier to handle, friendlier with strangers, more amenable to training, and more tolerant of other pets than most terriers are
A West Highland White Terrier may be right for you.
If you don't want to deal with...
- The dynamic terrier temperament (see full description below)
- Potential aggression toward other animals -- strong chasing instincts
- Digging holes
- Regular brushing and clipping
- A considerable number of potential health problems
A West Highland White Terrier may not be right for you.
- choosing the RIGHT breeder and the RIGHT puppy
- or choosing an ADULT dog from your animal shelter or rescue group – a dog who has already proven that he doesn't have negative traits
- training your dog to respect you
- avoiding health problems by following my daily care program in 11 Things You Must Do Right To Keep Your Dog Healthy and Happy
More traits and characteristics of the West Highland White Terrier
If I was considering a West Highland White Terrier, I would be most concerned about...
- The dynamic terrier temperament. Most terrier breeds are remarkably similar. The same words are used over and over -- quick to bark, quick to chase, lively, bossy, feisty, scrappy, clever, independent, stubborn, persistent, impulsive, intense. Terriers cannot be trusted off-leash -- they are too likely to "take off", oblivious to your frantic shouts, after anything that runs.
- Possible animal aggression. West Highland White Terriers are often more tolerant toward other dogs and cats than many other terriers are, especially dogs and cats who belong to their own family. However, many Westies are still dominant or aggressive toward strange dogs and have strong instincts to chase and seize small fleeing creatures.
- Barking. Terriers are often too quick to sound the alarm at every new sight and sound. You have to be equally quick to stop them.
- Mind of their own. Though much more amenable to training than other terriers, West Highland White Terriers must still be taught at an early age that they are not the rulers of the world. The toughness that makes them suited to killing vermin can frustrate you when you try to teach them anything. West Highland White Terriers can be stubborn and dominant (they want to be the boss) and will make you prove that you can make them do things. You must show them, through absolute consistency, that you mean what you say.
- Grooming. Without regular brushing, combing, and trimming/clipping, West Highland White Terriers become a matted mess. On the plus side, their shedding is on the low side of average. (They are NOT hypoallergenic or light-shedding, however.)
- Finding a healthy one. West Highland White Terriers can suffer from skin problems, Addison's disease, a serious liver disease (copper toxicosis), cataracts, a degenerative brain disease, joint problems, and more.
My dog buying guide, Dog Quest: Find The Dog Of Your Dreams, will teach you everything you need to know about finding a healthy West Highland White Terrier puppy. Health problems have become so widespread in dogs today that this book is required reading for ANYONE who is thinking of getting a purebred, crossbred, or mixed breed dog.
If you'd like to consult with me personally about whether a West Highland White Terrier might be a good dog breed for your family, I offer a Dog Breed Consulting Service.
Once you have your West Highland White Terrier home, you need to KEEP him healthy -- or if he's having any current health problems, you need to get him back on the road to good health.
My dog health care book, 11 Things You Must Do Right To Keep Your Dog Healthy and Happy is the book you need. Raise your dog the right way and you will be helping him live a longer, healthier life while avoiding health problems and unnecessary veterinary expenses.
I do NOT recommend West Highland White Terriers if you have small children. Many terriers will not tolerate any nonsense from little life forms whom they consider to be below themselves in importance. Many terriers are quick to react to teasing, and even to the normal clumsiness that comes with small children (accidental squeezing of their ears or pulling of whiskers or stepping on their paw). Many terriers are possessive of their food and toys and will defend these from all comers, including children.
To learn more about training West Highland White Terriers to be calm and well-behaved, consider my dog training book,
Teach Your Dog 100 English Words.
It's a unique Vocabulary and Respect Training Program that will make your West Highland White Terrier the smartest, most well-behaved companion you've ever had.
Teaches your dog to listen to you, to pay attention to you, and to do whatever you ask him to do.
Please consider adopting an ADULT West Highland White Terrier...
When you're acquiring a West Highland White Terrier PUPPY, you're acquiring potential -- what he one day will be. So "typical breed characteristics" are very important.
But when you acquire an adult dog, you're acquiring what he already IS and you can decide whether he is the right dog for you based on that reality. There are plenty of adult West Highland White Terriers who have already proven themselves NOT to have negative characteristics that are "typical" for their breed. If you find such an adult dog, don't let "typical breed negatives" worry you. Just be happy that you found an atypical individual -- and enjoy!
Save a life. Adopt a dog.
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What is happiness? If you are thinking of changing your life for the better, one way is start identifying your goals. What version of happiness or well-being are you looking for? This might be any combination of the following:
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-Sense of Freedom
-Purpose in Life
On the flip side, how do you define unhappiness? Do you feel lethargic or depressed, afraid or lonely? If you are dissatisfied with certain areas of your life, how will you decide to change? What are some of the necessary steps to change when you are stuck?
We can begin with identifying what changes and goals you want to make in your life. When YOU decide to change your life, here are some ideas:
1. Explore your feelings. Keep a journal, talk with a trusted friend, and get feedback from family about their perspective.
2. Envision your future. Make a collage, do a guided visualization, create a mind map, research some possibilities.
3. Be open to new ideas and perspectives. Take a class, say “yes” instead of no, and try something different, daring and fun. Doing “one thing different” will help to expand your goal seeking.
4. Look for kindred spirits. Seek out those people who make you blossom, with similar interests, energy and dreams. Avoid those who bring you down.
5. Set goals and targets. Follow through, evaluate your progress, and reward yourself for the achievements that you make.
6. Take one step at a time. Divide your goals into small steps, do one small thing each day. Remind yourself that experience is part of the process, not good or bad.
Here’s an idea on how this might look in your relationship:
Your goal is that you want to improve communications with your partner.
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If you want to demonstrate to your partner that you respect and care about them, try substituting “I” messages instead.
When you start your statement with “I”, you are taking responsibility for the statement. It is less blaming and negative than the “you” message.
Try this formula: Your feelings + Describe the behaviour + Effect on You
Here’s how it would sound… “When I heard that you had to work this weekend, I was angry that you hadn’t asked me first if I wanted to spend time with you”.
It takes some practice at first, but with a little patience and time you will be communicating in a more positive way with your partner, and making a small step towards change! | <urn:uuid:2635e9c2-61c7-42ad-acdb-bc89518723b1> | 2013-05-21T17:34:30Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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In every corner of the world, there's one question that can never be definitively answered, yet stirs up equal parts passion, curiosity, self-reflection and often wild imagination: "What is God?" Filmmaker Peter Rodger explores this profound, age-old query in the provocative non-fiction feature "Oh My God." This visual odyssey travels the globe with a revealing lens examining the idea of God through the minds and eyes of various religions and cultures, everyday people, spiritual leaders and celebrities. His goal: to give the viewer the personal, visceral experience of some kind of reasonable, meaningful definition of one of the most used-some might say overused--words in most every language. Rodger's quest takes him from the United States to Africa, from the Middle East to the Far East, where such fundamental issues as: "Did God create man or did man create God?, "Is there one God for all religions?" and "If God exists, why does he allow so much suffering?" are explored in candid discussions with the various Christians, Catholics, Muslims, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists and even atheists the filmmaker meets along the way.
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The Festival of Falles is held annually by the Valencian community, in honour of Saint Joseph.
During the festival, ninots, which are Valentian puppets, are shown in a parade. At the end of the parade, the ninots are burnt, marking the end of the Falles.
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Choose your player, target and shoot to win!
Choose your player and targets. Shoot to win. You have 6 shots per round. The closer the target is to you when you hit it, the more points you get
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Can Obama Work His Magic on Arabs?
Among many major misconceptions pertaining to Arabs and Muslims is the common belief that they are a weak-willed, irrelevant collective, easily influenced and effortlessly manipulated. This mistaken assumption underscores the very ailment that has afflicted United States foreign policy in the Middle East for generations.
As media pundits and commentators began their drum-rolling in anticipation of US President Barack Obama's speech in Egypt on Thursday, very few paid attention to the fact that Arabs and Muslims are not so naive as to be wooed by mere rhetoric, but that they are significant players in their own affairs, capable of resistance and change.
To begin with, it's underhanded and foolish to speak of one Arab and Muslim polity, as if geography, class, language and politics, among many other factors, are irrelevant attributes which are easily overlooked. Why is there an insistence on addressing Arabs and Muslims as one unified body - that is, the so-called "Muslim world" - that behaves according to specific rationale; predisposed to respond to the same stimuli? True, various groups within the Arab and Muslim collective share common history, language and religion, but even the same groups differ in historic interpretations, dialects and religious sects and frames of reference.
Why the reductionism? Is it true that a struggling North African immigrant in a French slum carries the same values, expectations and outlook on life as an wealthy, SUV-driving Arab in the Gulf? Does a poor Egyptian, grappling for recognition within a political body that has room for only the chosen few, relate to the world the same way as does a Malaysian Muslim with a wide range of opportunities, civic, economic and political?
Even within the same country, among the same people, adhering to the same religion, does the world mean the same, and will Obama's words in Egypt represent the unifying lexicon that will meet every Arab or a Muslim man or woman's aspirations? Can one lump together those who collaborated with those who resisted; those who exploited others and those who were exploited; those who had plenty and those who had none?
As the countdown to Obama's visit nears the highly anticipated day, pundits and polls are pouring in. A recent survey conducted by Shilbey Telhami and Zogby International was carried out in six Arab countries, each representing unique collective experiences that cannot be compared. The poll declared that Obama is popular among Arabs, yet Arabs are still skeptical of the US. It was learned that Iraq matters the most, followed by the Arab-Israeli conflict.
There is no denial that Arabs in various countries have major perceptions and expectations in common. But who is to say that there are not more commonalities between the poor of Egypt and Mexico, than the elites of Egypt and Pakistan? However, such assertion would be irrelevant for one main reason: Arabs and Muslims have been demonized collectively, targeted collectively and at times, victimized collectively. In other words, it's US foreign policy towards various Arab and Muslim collectives that largely explains the constant lumping of all Arabs and all Muslims into one single category.
Arabs and Muslims seem only relevant as a collective whenever the US is interested in carrying out a rhetorical policy shift, a war, a self-serving "democracy" campaign, and so forth. They are available as a collective to be duly demonized as "terrorist" or readily shunned for subscribing to the "wrong" religion.
David Schenker, writing for the Washington Institute for Near East Policy website was honest enough in explaining the significance of Obama's speech in Cairo. He pointed out that Iran is a major issue that Obama and moderate Arabs have in common. His explanation is straightforward: "Tehran's progress toward a nuclear weapon and its provision of material and ideological support for moqawama, or resistance, across the region is of grave concern to Washington and its moderate Arab allies."
According to the poll cited above, only a fraction of Arabs surveyed seem concerned by the Iranian nuclear program. This leaves Iran posing one major "threat", its support of resistance.
It's ironic that resistance, which is a universal right for any oppressed individual or collective, is being dealt with as a "grave concern". This explains, in part, the lingering illusion that continues to mar US foreign policy, and also highlight the common strength that Arab and Muslim masses continue to wield, their ability to resist. Amid the democracy programs that have appeared and disappeared in recent years - George W Bush's Middle East democracy project being one - none was an outcome of genuine and collective movements in Arab and Muslim nations. Such genuine movements, although in existence, are unpopular in Washington, for they seem inconsistent with US interests.
This leaves one last aspect of collective self-expression, again, resistance, in all of its manifestations. It's the root causes of Arab and Muslim resistance that are most deserving of analysis and understanding, as opposed to mere dismissal on the grounds that it's a "grave concern".
If Obama continues to approach Arabs and Muslims as one single collective, ready to be manipulated and wooed with bogus promises, fancy rhetoric and impressive body language, then he will surely be disappointed. Highly politicized, skeptical and, frankly, fed-up societies refuse to be reduced to a mere percentage in some opinion poll that can be swayed this way or that, whenever the US administration determines the time and place.
It's that incessant lack of depth that has caused the US so much grief in the Middle East, and will cost it even more if such imprudence persists.
Ramzy Baroud (www.ramzybaroud.net) is an author and editor of PalestineChronicle.com. His work has been published in many newspapers, journals and anthologies around the world. His latest book is The Second Palestinian Intifada: A Chronicle of a People's Struggle (Pluto Press, London). His forthcoming book is My Father was a Freedom Fighter: Gaza's Untold Story. | <urn:uuid:c0820f5b-05ca-464c-b732-42c845991304> | 2013-05-21T17:45:23Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Landscape and Lace: Cache Valley
By Megan Mitchell. Fences, doors and windows indicate an intersection between inside and outside, public and private. These porous boundaries provide enclosure while also allowing access to an outside world. I am drawn to these divisions in space both as aesthetic and metaphorical objects. They are the point of departure for an exploration of the intersection between real and imagined worlds. 'Landscape and Lace: Cache Valley' juxtaposes the structural framework of a fence with a landscape inspired by Cache Valley. My intention is to provide a sense of both containment and spaciousness. The piece also contains a decorative element which is derived from a sample of lace. I use this pattern to further the dialog between inner and outer spaces. | <urn:uuid:de2ed865-b45f-4d63-8f24-7da25c77d617> | 2013-05-21T17:30:45Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Thank you for your comments on my thoughts about Ockham's razor, democracy,
and reductionism. I have little to add. Mainly, I would note that we
continue to differ on whether or not meanings and purposes are necessary
additions to mechanistic explanations, no doubt because we differ on how we
would complete the phrase, "necessary for which reasons..." As Pascal put
it, "the heart has its reasons that reason cannot know." Some would call
such a statement "irrational," but I prefer the category "nonrational" for
that which is not reducible to reason alone but is not (in my opinion)
nonsense or empty gibberish.
On this one, I'm with someone like Francisco Ayala, who believes that
selection produces our brains, which have survival value for lots of
immediately obvious reasons, but that brains also produce things like
culture and religion, which are not themselves subject to natural selection
(I hope I've stated his argument accurately). When compared with your
views, this seems to me akin to a difference of belief, not of science pure
and simple. I'm content to leave it there. | <urn:uuid:d3204633-c704-4b02-81b0-48a87ba8a29d> | 2013-05-21T17:38:44Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Racial Double Standards in
Uncle Tom's Cabin
By Catherine Mountcastle
When Harriet Beecher Stowe published her novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin in 1852, she gained instant notoriety. Her novel helped spread the reality of the cruelties and injustices of the American slavery system nationwide and eventually across the globe. However, Mrs. Stowe was not without critics. Shortly after the release of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, William Lloyd Garrison, a famous abolitionist and founder of the Liberator published a scathing review of Stowe’s novel arguing that her stance on slavery was a double standard. Stowe’s novel clearly does contain racial double standards; however, this attributed to the novels popularity amid a northern white audience in the mid-nineteenth century.
William Lloyd Garrison was a well known abolitionist. His review of Stowe’s novel may have seemed shocking at the time of its publication since both he and Stowe were abolitionists. However, his accusations of racial double standards throughout Uncle Tom’s Cabin are not far fetched. One of Stowe’s main criticisms throughout Uncle Tom’s Cabin is that slavery is unjust to slaves. She finds slavery to be an evil which should be eliminated form American society. She obligates blacks to end their own enslavement. Her opinion on how blacks should end their enslavement is extremely passive. She advocates that blacks should remain obedient and subservient to their masters while remaining pious and faithful to God. In the end, blacks will gain a greater freedom than the physical world has to offer them. By having faith in God and refusing to act out violently against their masters despite the hardships that they may have to endure, they will eventually be rewarded with eternal salvation. Stowe embodies these ideas in the character of Tom.
Throughout Stowe’s novel, Tom places his faith in the Lord an accepts his fate no matter what happens. An excellent example of Tom’s unrelenting faith in the Lord and his refusal to act out violently against his master is his struggle with Simon Legree. Legree is an evil man and an extremely cruel master. However, no matter what he is threatened with Tom never physically fights back against Legree. This is demonstrated in Uncle Tom’s Cabin prior to Tom’s first beating. Tom says:
Mas’r if you mean to kill me, kill me; but as to raising my hand agin any one here, I shall never,--I’ll die first! No! no! no! my soul an’t yours, Mas’r! Ye can’t buy it! it’s been bought and paid for, by one that is able to keep it;--no matter, no matter, you can’t harm me! (Stowe 508).
These statements by Tom are a clear demonstration of Stowe’s beliefs, which are expressed throughout the novel. Tom is defiant against Legree, but it is for the safety of another individual, another one of God’s creatures. He never raises a hand in opposition to Legree, nor does he resist when Legree sends him to be whipped as punishment for his defiance. Instead, Tom boldly states his faith in the Lord, proclaiming that Legree may physically take his life, but he will never be able to own Tom’s soul because his soul belongs to the Lord.
Garrison views Stowe’s beliefs as a racial double standard. He states his opinion at he very beginning of his review of the novel when he writes, “we are curious to know whether Mrs. Stowe is a believer in the duty of non-resistance for the white man, under all possible outrage and peril as well as for the black man” (Garrison). In other words, if white people were to be enslaved and treated under the same conditions which black people were in the mid-nineteenth century, would Stowe still advocate non-violence and piety as a solution to the problem? He then continues by pointing out that the reason he believes she advocates nonviolence, obedience and piety by slaves are because they are black. I agree with Garrisons accusation. I think Stowe’s beliefs stem primarily from her lack of first hand interaction with southern black slaves. She portrays her characters through the beliefs of a romantic racialist. Stowe writes, “the negro, it must be remembered, is an exotic of the most gorgeous and superb countries of the world, and he has, deep in heart a passion for all that is splendid, rich and fanciful” (Stowe 253). This depiction of “the negro” is a perfect demonstration of Stowe’s use of romantic racialism. She is making a generalization about an entire race. She views black people with the same stereotypes as most mid-nineteenth century white Americans did. What makes a black person different from a white person other than the color of their skin? It is easy to answer that question from a twenty-first century viewpoint. The answer is nothing. There is no difference between a black person and a white person except for the outside skin color. We are all human which means that blacks have the same mental capacity, same emotions same everything. However, in the ante-bellum time period the answer to the above question was much more difficult, because people truly believed that blacks were different from whites not only physically, but that they were inferior in intellect, morals, and maturity. I think that because Stowe was a white northern woman with little one-on-one contact between herself and southern slaves , she subconsciously prescribed to general stereotypes about black people and wrote them into her characters.
Garrison not only highlights that Stowe’s romantic racial beliefs “is everywhere taken for granted, because the VICTIMS ARE BLACK” (Garrison), but he also argues against her religious stance when he asks:
Is there one law of submission and non-resistance for the black man, and another law of rebellion and conflict for the white man? When it is the whites who are trodden in the dust, does Christ justify them in taking up arms to vindicate their rights? And when it is blacks who are thus threatened, does Christ require them to be patient, harmless, long-suffering, and forgiving? And are there two Christs? (Garrison)
Garrison is addressing a main conflict which is present in Uncle Tom’s Cabin. If God/Christ are supposed to be just and fair, how can they make one group of people ”superior” to another? This issue is clearly addressed in Uncle Tom’s Cabin when Marie St. Clare is waiting for Tom to prepare the horses in order attend church. During this scene in the novel, Stowe delves into Mrs. St. Clares thoughts and shares them with her audience. She writes:
perhaps as God chasteneth whom he loveth, he hath chosen poor Africa in the furnace of affection to make her the highest and noblest in that kingdom which he will set up, then every other kingdom has been tried, and failed; for the first shall be the last and the last first (Stowe 275).
Marie is rationalizing the fate of slaves by pondering whether or not God had a greater purpose for them. Religion is a conflicting struggle throughout the novel as certain characters embrace it and other characters reject it. Garrison brings up the issue of religion in Uncle Tom’s Cabin because it seems hypocritical to say that slaves must behave and worship the Lord when in return for their piety they are beaten. However, it is okay for white people to beat a fellow human being, because they are white and the other is black. How can God allow that?
I think it is very interesting how Garrison places religion and violence together in his statement. It is very fitting when you apply it to the American Revolution. It was okay for us as white colonialists to fight against the British monarchy for our independence and for our religious freedom. However, Stowe seems to think that it is not okay for blacks to fight against whites in order to gain their independence and religious freedom. This is extremely hypocritical.
While I do agree with Garrison’s arguments that Uncle Tom’s Cabin is based on racial double standards, I think Stowe was very meticulous in how she presented her concepts to her white northern audience. In order for Stowe to get her message out to people, she had to create a novel that people would want to read. To do this, she had to make the issue of slavery palatable to her readers. Stowe had to prescribe to romantically racial concepts in order to not offend her audience. Stowes use of romantic radicalism worked. Her novel became a success across the world. However, the usage of romantic racialism in turn created racial double standards throughout the novel.
William Lloyd Garrison’s complaint of racial double standards in Uncle Tom’s Cabin is a valid argument. I agree that Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe upholds a different set of morals for white people as compared to black people. However, I believe that this dichotomy of values for blacks versus whites is a result of the author’s desire to appeal to an audience in order to have her opinions voiced to the public and make them aware of the cruelties of slavery.
1.) Elbert, Sarah. Lecture Notes for History 351.
2.) Garrison, William. "Liberator," March 1852.
3.) Stowe, Harriet. Uncle Tom's Cabin or Life Among the Lowly. 1852. USA: Penguin Books, 1986.
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Marcel Bruchez, 31
Cofounded Quantum Dot to market the new imaging tool to biologists and drug developers
Cofounder and principal staff scientist, Quantum Dot
Six years ago, Marcel Bruchez, then a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, showed that quantum dots -- glowing particles just nanometers wide -- could be used to tag proteins inside cells. Within months, Bruchez had cofounded Quantum Dot to market the new imaging tool to biologists and drug developers seeking a more detailed picture of molecular events. It is "one of the first commercial applications of nanotechnology," says Bruchez. | <urn:uuid:fd40342c-3746-4734-ba23-ead9e3fb3abc> | 2013-05-21T17:11:10Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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©Copyright 1996 Rogue Wave Software
If you are accessing this for the first time, please read the licensing statement.
This reference guide is an alphabetical listing of all of the classes, algorithms, and function objects provided by this release of Rogue Wave's Standard C++ Library. The gray band on the first page of each entry indicates the category (e.g., Algorithms, Containers, etc.) that the entry belongs to. The table below lists the contents organized by category.
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Throughout the documentation, there are frequent references to "self," which should be understood to mean "*this".
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The presidential election of 1800 effectively relegated the Federalist party, including Hamilton, to political and popular irrelevance. Jefferson, the "Sage of Monticello," had risen to the nation's highest office and, despite the near-hysterical warnings of Federalists against anarchy and "Jacobinism," went on to preside over an unprecedented era of peace and prosperity. The country had entered a new century and had never seemed on such sure footing. In this climate, Hamilton soon retired from the political sphere to pursue his private New York law practice.
During the election, the Federalists, with Hamilton leading the charge, had contributed to their own downfall by embroiling themselves in ugly internecine disputes (which ultimately would result in Hamilton's duel with Burr). Hamilton made known his low opinion of President Adams, who, against Hamilton's strongest wishes, was pursuing a policy of peace with France. On a personal level, Hamilton considered the president an unstable, jealous, vacilliating man prone to unseemly outbursts of temper. Hamilton's plan for the election was to maneuver Federalist electors into choosing Charles Pinckney, a South Carolina Congressman, and leaving Adams to be content with the Vice-Presidential spot on the ticket. Entering into Hamilton's preference, no doubt, was the fact that Pinckney had demonstrated a greater susceptibility to Hamilton's personal influence than had Adams.
In October, 1800, in response to a charge by Adams that he led a faction of "British partisans," Hamilton distributed to Federalist leaders his Letter from Alexander Hamilton concerning the Public Conduct and Character of John Adams. Here, he presented a variety of dubious evidence purporting to show the President's "disgusting egotism," "ungovernable indiscretion," and so on. Rather than swaying opinion against Adams (the letter, after all, conceded the president's patriotism and talent), Hamilton's move redounded to his own discredit. Moderate Federalists rallied behind Adams, and even Noah Webster, a erstwhile admirer of Hamilton's, was inspired to write, "Your ambition, pride and overbearing temper have destined you to be the evil genius of the country!"
In contrast to such divisive intraparty politics, the Republicans put forth Jefferson and Aaron Burr with relativley little fuss. As the election approached and the Federalists saw the writing on the wall, some of them began to support Burr over Jefferson, whom they still regarded as embodying the worst kind of dreamy, agrarian populism. But Hamilton, partly out of personal dislike for Burr and partly out of a desire to keep his party from forming an alliance with any Republican, swallowed his pride and endorsed Jefferson. If Jefferson won, he reasoned, the Federalists would be able to survive as a party by concentrating their fire on their traditional bete noire, rather than being absorbed into a more sympathetic Burr administration.
As it turned out, his reasoning was off the mark. When Jefferson, in his inaugural address, declared that "We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists," he signalled not only a conciliatory attitude, but the undermining of the Federalists that Hamilton feared. The Jefferson administration effectively appropriated key aspects of the Federalist platform, and left the Federalists little room in which to form a relevant opposition ideology.
Once in office, Jefferson proved to be a pragmatist who could appreciate the benefits of an energetic central government. He also seemed to have matured in his view of the executive office, saying in 1810 that the people were "looking to the executive to give the proper direction to their affairs, with a confidence as auspicious as it is well founded." Even more significantly, since Jefferson recognized the infeasibility of reversing the Hamiltonian financial system, his administration simply began to use it effectively. The Bank of the United States survived and even thrived, the adminisration aided individual banks with government funds, and business went on much as it had before. Politically, Jefferson made the smart decision to repeal the excise tax, depriving the government of some funds, but winning public favor in the process. Hamilton found himself in the unenviable position of supporting the widely unpopular tax.
As the country surged into the new century and as public support for Jefferson steadily mounted, the Federalists were reduced to harping upon increasingly unpersuasive themes: the rise of demagoguery in the form of a Jacobite regime, the dismantling of republican government, the growing threat to virtue and property. The opposition task was a dreary and not very effective one, and many Federalists retired from politics altogether. Hamilton himself, becoming further separated from the mainstream of public opinion and further isolated in his stale critique of Jeffersonianism, returned to his law practice in the fall of 1801.
In an 1802 letter to his friend and political ally James Bayard, a representative from Delaware, Hamilton spelled out some of the reasons he thought underlay the Federalists' decline. The letter suggests that the Republicans' appeals to reason and enlightened sensibility were self-serving appeals to vanity that would also trump the Federalists' sober emphasis on principle. Hamilton wrote:
"Unluckily ... for us, in the competition of the passions of the people, our opponents have great advantages over us; for the plain reason that the vicious are far more active than the good passions; and that, to win the former to our side, we must renounce our principles and our objects, and united in corrupting public opinion till it becomes fit for nothing but mischief. Yet, unless we can contrive to take hold of, and carry along with us some strong feelings of the mind, we shall in vain calculate upon any substantial or durable results."
Hamilton's diagnosis, while biased, was largely correct, but the Federalists were unable to enact a cure. The image of Jefferson remained unassailable during the decades leading up the Civil War. In the election of 1828, for instance, both the National Republicans, under Henry Clay, and the Jacksonian Democrats invoked Jefferson's memory as the banner under which their respective parties marched.
Jackson, in his gruff populism, was a natural heir to the Jeffersonian legacy. The name of Hamilton was on few people's lips as Jackson vetoed the recharter of the Bank of the United States and the Maysville Road Bill, both of which represented the increasingly discredited Hamiltonian centralism.
A number of historians, however, recognized the implications of the country's adoration for Jefferson: while northern abolitionists seized upon the Declaration of Independence for their denunciations of slavery, southerners insisted upon Jefferson's doctrine of states' rights to resist any interference in their "peculiar institution." Thirty-two years after Jackson's election, the country would be plunged into a violent resolution of this conflict.
Hamilton's public image underwent a dramatic revitalization during the decades following the Civil War. Increasingly, historians and political figures came to regard the Civil War as a validation of Hamilton's major philosophical tenets and a repudiation of Jefferson's. It was the Virginian's doctrine of states' rights, the argument went, that provided the South both the encouragement and the rationale to secede, while his lofty language asserting the equality of mankind denied the South moral authority in the eyes of the North -- a double bind that has been called the "Jeffersonian dilemma."
On the other side of the equation, then, stood Hamilton and his visionary assertion of the necessity of a powerful federal government. Where would the union be, post-war historians and nationalists wondered, were it not for the stability and strength of state that Hamilton insisted upon for his entire career? Moreover, Hamiton's opposition to slavery proved itself the ethic associated with the victorious Union forces, while Jefferson's Southern roots and acquiescence to the forces promoting slavery provided, as it were, comfort to the enemy.
Meanwhile, the whole era reverberated with the sounds of industrialization and modernization. Reconstruction had provided significant economic opportunities for both North and South, while westward expansion and new methods of manufacturing and transportation lay the foundation for booming capitalist enterprises. In this climate, the Hamiltonian virtues of laissez-faire and free trade enjoyed an unprecedented ascendancy, while the simple agrarianism of Jefferson seemed badly outdated. As Hamilton had predicted, the United States was establishing itselt as a preeminent industrial force in the world.
Teddy Roosevelt himself admired Hamilton's reputation for dynamism and, in a 1910 letter to Gouverneur Morris, praised Hamilton's "touch of the heroic, the touch of the purple, the touch of the gallant, the dashing, the picturesque." These years also saw the opening of Chicago's Hamilton Club and the raising of Hamilton statues in Paterson, New Jersesy, a town which Hamilton had founded.
Significantly, the restoration of Hamilton's image took place primarily on the plane of academic history. It is important to note that many of the new scholarly histories published during this time were written by New England historians steeped in Federalist tradition, who tended to see Hamilton as vindicated by the course of American history.
The major works included George Bancroft's History of the United States (1834-1874), John Bach McMaster's The History of the United States (1883-1913), and Henry Adams's History of the United States ... 1801-1817. Hamilton's son, John C. Hamilton, also got into the act with a tome entitled History of the Republic of the United States, which argued that the Civil War could have been avoided altogether, if only the country had more closely followed the elder Hamilton's policies.
The language of these books, to a modern reader, can seem shockingly biased. McMaster, for instance, portrayed Jefferson as a man "saturated with democracy in its rankest form" who "remained to the last day of his life a servile worshipper of the people." On the other hand, wrote McMaster, "Of all men who, in the judgement of posterity, are ranked high among the founders of the republic ... by far the most brilliant and versatile was Hamilton."
Beside the histories, a number of biographies and other writings sympathetic to Hamilton also appeared during the post-bellum years and Gilded Age. Gertrude Atherton, in her romantic novel The Conqueror (1902), wrote that Hamilton with his "inherent philosophy," pursued "measures in whose wisdom he implicitly believed, and which, in every instance, time has vindicated." Similarly, Herbert Croly, the future founder of the New Republic, put a distinctly positive spin on Hamiltonianism when he wrote in The Promise of American Life (1909) that it "implied a conscious and indefatigable attempt on the part of the national leaders to promote the national welfare."
The momentum of the Civil War in the resurrection of Hamilton's image lasted, with natural variations of intensity, all the way through the 1920s. In 1923, President Harding and Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon dedicated a statue of Hamilton placed in fron of the Treasury Building, where it stands to this day. The next year saw a successful movement to save Hamilton's Manhattan residence, The Grange, which had been steadily deteriorating. Later in the decade, President Coolidge invoked Hamilton to praise Mellon, who had managed America's financical system with "a genius and success unmatched since Hamilton."
In retrospect, the praise smacks of irony. The year 1929 would see both the crash of the American economy and the corresponding decline in Hamilton's image -- a decline that has never been significantly reversed.
At first glance, one might expect that the Great Depression would have elevated Hamilton's standing in the public consciousness. After all, the New Deal involved the greatest expansion of federal power that the country had seen, and the vast majority of Americans supported its programs. James M. Beck, in a speech to Congress in 1934, declared that the Roosevelt administration "is realizing beyond any dream of Alexander Hamilton his ideas as to the nature of our government and what its desired form should be."
Yet Hamilton's star faded precipitously during the 1930s, and here we return to the proposition that administrative successes matter much less than emotional populism in the realm of public opinion. The economic foresight and efficiency of Hamilton's policies, their direct relevance to the New Deal, did not change the popular conception of him as an aristocrat unsympathetic to the plight of the "little guy."
Franklin Roosevelt, campaigning in 1932, sounded the theme that stirred many Americans' souls during the 1930s, a theme distinctly non-Hamiltonian in character. Invoking the early struggle between Jefferson and Hamilton, Roosevelt referred to a "a new day" in the nation, "the day of the individual against the system, the day in which individualism was made the great watchword of American life." This formula clearly favored Jefferson's rhetorical emphasis on personal liberty and individual virtue over Hamilton's efforts to construct a potent system of governmental control.
Although political groups ranging from the communists to the Republicans continued to employ Jefferson's image, Roosevelt and the Democrats did so most successfully. They presented Roosevelt as a champion of the common man in the true Jeffersonian tradition. Hamilton, on the other hand, was the man who had warned against the potentially dangerous nature of human ambition, and argued that government must be vigilant against the excesses of human nature.
In 1943, a play by Sydney Kingsley pitted caricatures of Jefferson and Hamilton against each other. The fictional Hamilton boasts, "And when you stir up the mobs, remember -- we who really own America are quite prepared to take it back for ourselves, from your great beast, 'The People'." The portrait of Hamilton that Kingsley drew is not entirely deserved, but not entirely off-the-mark, either, and it captured a persistent image of him as a calculating patrician out to protect the interests of wealthy Americans.
Several developments give a sense of how far Hamilton had fallen. The Hamilton Club of Chicago went bankrupt. The anniversary of Hamilton's birth went unobserved, even at the site of his tomb in Manhattan's Trinity Church. Hamilton Grange in Manhattan sunk into decrepitude and obscurity.
Nonetheless, a collection of scholars and conservative Republicans still carried the Hamiltonian torch and argued that his vision was what had provided the ship of state sufficient ballast to carry it through the turmoil of not only the Civil War but of the early twentieth century as well. Broadus Mitchell, a professor of economics at Johns Hopkins, and two Columbia economists, Joseph Dorfman and Rexford Tugwell, all sought to disentangle Hamilton's reputation from a speciously dichotomous relationship with Jefferon's. They sought to do justice to both men's lives. Mitchell, for example, wrote in Heritage from Hamilton that "the Federalists, pitching their case on the need for order and control, were correct at the outset. They were pragmatic and serviceable in the first formative period."
A dispirited Hamiltonian revival occurred in 1957, the bicentennial of his birth, but it consisted mainly of another round of academic biographies. There was no memorial erected. A national bicentennial commission tried to whip up interest in Hamilton by sending out letters to various publications, libraries, radio stations and such, but garnered little more than statements of support from a variety of organizations including the American Bar Association, the American Dental Association and the Loyal Order of the Moose.
A signal of the dispassion that Hamilton aroused came in a 1956 commemorative speech, in which President Eisenhower gave flaccid acknowledgement to Hamilton's "sincere efforts and inspiring leadership in the work of the men who laid the foundations, raised the structure, and built the sustaining traditions of the Government of the United States."
The last two decades of the 20th century appear unlikely to herald any sort of renewal of interest in or respect for Hamilton. A resonant, even dominant theme, of modern political debate was sounded by Ronald Reagan when he vowed to "get the government off the backs of the people." The expansion during the 1960s of liberal programs in the spirit of the 1930s appears to be screeching to a half. Everyone, including the leadership of the Democratic party, agrees on the necessity of "downsizing" government in the 1990s.
If this situation indicates on one hand that the United States realized or even surpassed Hamilton's vision of a strong federal government, it suggests on the other that many Americans now want to move in the opposite direction. The concept of states' rights is heard more and more often. The image of a "bloated federal bureaucracy" represents a bugbear which everyone recognizes. Few people invoke Hamilton's name in praise, if at all. While visual images of Jefferson and Washington have become nearly ubiquitous, most people would be hard pressed to identify without help the portrait of Hamilton that hangs in the Capitol Building. | <urn:uuid:642a3098-62ba-4931-bfab-ccc5b7fc9f03> | 2013-05-21T17:25:05Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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"We express deep concern over increasing incidents of ceasefire violation on LoC. There is need for leadership of both the countries to intervene to end the skirmishes between troops," Jammu CPI-M Secretary Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami said.
Referring to latest exchange of fire in Uri sector in Baramulla in which a residential house was partially damaged, he said the heads of two neighbouring countries must arrest the downslide in the border situation which had sparked fear and panic among people.
"The border skirmishes, whatever be the cause, risk the prosperity and security of two countries that have far more in common than areas of suspicion and discard," Tarigami said.
"Incidents of skirmishes and hostilities derail efforts towards formation of better understanding and amity between the two neighbouring countries," he said.
"It is in the interest of the entire region that the leadership of both the countries must rise to the occasion and ensure cessation of hostilities along the border," Tarigami said.
Jammu: Expressing concern over increasing incidents of ceasefire violation on the Line of Control, the CPI-M on Monday asked the leadership of both India and Pakistan to intervene to end border skirmishes.
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Evan Rachel Wood played as Tobe
Release: May 13, 2005
Tobe is about 16, living with her dad and younger brother in LA's San Fernando Valley. She invites a gas station attendant named Harlan to come to the beach with her and her friends. He's from South Dakota, wears a cowboy hat, talks country, and has been a ranch hand. They have a great time, his simple expressions seem like wisdom, he's attentive and polite, and even though he's more than twice her age, she wants to spend time with him. When her father objects, she rebels. Harlan, meanwhile, thinks she's his soul mate, and he starts making plans to get her away from her father. Worlds are set to collide, but which ones? Watch Movies Online for Free on 10StarMovies. | <urn:uuid:afd03dee-fa0f-4c21-9376-5bc6ee4f00a9> | 2013-05-24T01:44:25Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Lesson 2: The Pieces
Shogi is played with 8 types of pieces. Each player gets 20 pieces, for a total of 40 pieces in the game. Like Xiangqi (Chinese chess), shogi pieces are flat with their names written on them in Chinese characters.
Each player gets the following pieces:
2 Silver Generals
2 Gold Generals
?? (fuhyou) – Foot Soldier
The Pawn moves one square forwards, and captures the same way. It cannot move any other way under any circumstances, and there is no capturing en passant
?? (kyousha) – Incense Chariot
The lance moves any amount of squares forward, and must stop when it reaches the end of the board, a piece of the same player, or when it captures a piece.
?? (keima) – Cassia Horse
The knight can move to the square 2 squares forward and one square to the side, like the chess knight, but it can only move forwards. It can also leap over other pieces.
?? (ginshou) – Silver General
The Silver General can move one square diagonally in any direction and one square forwards.
?? (kinshou) – Gold General
A gold general can move to any adjacent square except diagonally backwards.
?? (kakugyou) – Angle Mover
The bishop can move any amount of squares diagonally until it meets the end of the board, a piece of the same player, or captures a piece.
?? (hisha) – Flying Chariot
The rook can move any amount of squares forwards, backwards, and sideways until it meets the end of the board, a piece of the same player, or captures a piece.
?? (oushou) – King General ?? (gyokushou) – Jewel General
The king can move to any adjacent square. The difference between the King General and the Jewel General is that the superior uses the King General and the inferior player uses the Jewel General. Examples of this are when a title holder plays against the challenger in a professional title match, a higher ranked player plays a lower ranked player in a tournament, a father plays his son, etc. | <urn:uuid:3a990e68-e6e6-47dc-9584-61c765c17dba> | 2013-05-24T01:57:49Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Robert L. Akers, Ion Bica, Elaine Kant, Curt Randall, and Robert L. Young, SciComp Inc.
The SciFinance software synthesis system automates the programming task for financial risk management activities ranging from algorithms research to production pricing to risk control. Introduced commercially in late 1998, the system is currently licensed to a number of major investment banks. SciFinance’s high-level, extensible specification language, ASPEN, enables quantitative analysts to generate code from concise model descriptions that are written in application-specific and mathematical terminology. From these specifications, typically one page or less, the system will produce a C program thousands of lines long. The specification language’s abstractions help analysts focus on their primary tasks---model description, validation, and analysis---rather than on programming details. Compared with manual programming, automating the programming produces codes that are more sophisticated, accurate, and consistent. Analysts can develop modeling codes within a day that previously took weeks or were not even attempted. SciFinance is an extension to a system that generates scientific computing codes in a variety of target languages including Fortran and C. The implementation integrates an object-oriented knowledge base, refinement and optimization rules, computer algebra, and a planning system. The same knowledge base is used by the specification checking, synthesis, and information portal subsystems. | <urn:uuid:b10213e1-8853-4142-9630-ae90466c2f8d> | 2013-05-24T01:31:28Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Professor Simon Baron-Cohen and his associates at Cambridge have found that babies exposed to high levels of testosterone in the womb have autistic traits such as poor social skills, a lack of imagination, a lack of empathy, less eye contact, and slower language development. This finding supports Baron-Cohen's hypothesis of "extreme male brains" in children with autism. (I note excessive body hair in any of the children with autism that I see in my clinic so I am not surprised.) This finding could lead to a prenatal test for autism and ABA could be started at an early age perhaps preventing autism. | <urn:uuid:de0206b4-235a-4f79-bb05-3c599679447a> | 2013-05-24T01:50:51Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Teen charged with trying to blow up Chicago bar
HILLSIDE, Ill. - September 16, 2012 (WPVI) -- The investigation started months ago, when the FBI noticed an email message: A man in the Chicago suburbs was using an account to distribute chatter about violent jihad and the killing of Americans.
Two undercover agents reached out and began to talk to him online. In May, they introduced him to another agent who claimed to be a terrorist living in New York.
The operation ended Friday night, an affidavit describing it says, when the man was arrested and accused of trying to detonate what he believed was a car bomb outside of a Chicago bar. Prosecutors said an undercover agent gave Adel Daoud, a U.S. citizen from the Chicago suburb of Hillside, a phony car bomb and watched him press the trigger.
The U.S. Attorney's Office in Chicago, which announced the arrest Saturday, said the device was harmless and the public was never at risk. Daoud, 18, is due to make an appearance in federal court Monday afternoon on charges of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and attempting to damage and destroy a building with an explosive.
"We don't even know anything. We don't know that much. We know as little as you do," a woman who answered the phone at his home and identified herself as his sister, Hiba, said Saturday. "They're just accusations. ... We'd like to be left alone."
Daoud's father, Ahmed Daoud, declined to comment on Sunday.
"We don't know anything about it," he said when reached by phone.
The FBI often uses similar tactics in counterterrorism investigations, deploying undercover agents to engage suspects in talk of terror plots and then provide fake explosive devices.
In 2010, a Lebanese immigrant took what he thought was a bomb and dropped it into a trash bin near Chicago's Wrigley Field. In a 2009 case, agents provided a Jordanian man with a fake truck bomb that he used to try to blow up a 60-story office tower in Dallas.
This operation unfolded much like the others. After Daoud began talking to the undercover agents, an affidavit says, the third agent and Daoud met six times in the suburb of Villa Park over the summer and exchanged messages. Daoud then set about identifying 29 potential targets, including military recruiting centers, bars, malls and tourist attractions in Chicago, the document said.
After he settled on a downtown bar, he conducted surveillance on it by using Google Street View and visiting the area in person to take photographs, the affidavit said. The document does not identify the bar, but says he told the agent it was also a concert venue by a liquor store.
"It's a bar, it's a liquor store, it's a concert. All in one bundle," the document quotes him as saying. It said he noted the bar would be filled with the "evilest people ... kuffars." Kuffar is the Arabic term for non-believer.
Shortly after 7 p.m. Friday, the affidavit said, Daoud met with the undercover agent in Villa Park and they drove to downtown Chicago, where the restaurants and bars were packed. They entered a parking lot where a Jeep Cherokee containing the phony bomb was parked, the document says.
Daoud drove the vehicle and parked it in front of the bar, then walked a block away and attempted to detonate the device by pressing a triggering mechanism, the affidavit says. He was then arrested.
A neighbor, Harry Pappas, said that a dozen unmarked cars drove up to the family's house on Friday night and several agents went inside. On Saturday, no one answered the door of the family's two-story home, which had a well-kept garden in the yard and a basketball hoop in the driveway. The house faces a Lutheran church; a Greek Orthodox church also is nearby.
Pappas said he was shocked by the arrest, calling Daoud's parents "wonderful" people.
Prosecutors said Daoud was offered several chances to change his mind and walk away from the plot.
The affidavit said Daoud was active in jihadist Internet forums and was accessing articles written by Anwar al-Awlaki, the U.S.-born radical cleric who became a key figure in the Yemen-based al-Qaida offshoot known as al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula.
Al-Awlaki was killed in a U.S. drone strike in Yemen last year.
The FBI says he also was searching online for information on making bombs and reading "Inspire," the English-language online magazine published by Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula.
In his conversations with the undercover agent, Daoud explained his reasons for wanting to launch an attack, saying the United States was at war "with Islam and Muslims," the affidavit said.
According to the document, he said he was trying to recruit others and that he was confronted by leaders of his mosque who warned he should stop talking about jihad. The affidavit said Daoud's father also had been informed that Daoud was debating jihad and told Daoud to stop talking about it.
Daoud also told the agent he wanted an attack that would kill many people, the document said.
"I want something that's gonna make it in the news," he said, according to the affidavit. "I want to get to like, for me I want to get the most evil place, but I want to get a more populated place."
Keyser reported from Chicago.
terrorism, chicago, illinois, national/world
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Question: Will my medication cause problems with my sexual functioning or sleep?
Answer: This is a question that comes up frequently. There is no simple answer because many different kinds of medications are used to treat people with bipolar disorder, and also different medications may be used by the same person at different phases of illness -- when they're going through a depressive phase, for example, versus a manic phase. So it's important to think of each of the medications differently.
Having said that, the general rule is that many of the medications that are used to treat bipolar disorder can actually have sedating properties, it can make people feel more sleepy. Many people will feel this way for example when they take mood-stabilizing medications or anti-psychotic medications -- not everyone. And there's no way to predict this, so it's really a trial and error deciding whether somebody's going to be able to tolerate one medication or if they're not going to be.
Similar thing with sexual function. Some of the medications that are used to treat bipolar disorder can also cause sexual difficulties, but again this is not true for everyone so it becomes a trial and error going on the medication and seeing whether it's causing these kinds of significant problems.
Both for sleep and sedation, and also for sexual difficulties, there are also more modern medications that actually are not associated with these side effects. So, if you are somebody who's experiencing these kinds of conditions, or are concerned about this when you're starting a new medication, the best thing to do is to take the medication and discuss it with your treater, with your psychiatrist. And if you both decide that the medication is not working for you because of the side effects, there's other medications to try.
This is one of the major advances in the modern era and the treatment of bipolar disorder is that there are now many different medication choices. So it's often possible through trial and error to find a combination of medications that help somebody without causing some of these significant side effects. | <urn:uuid:f8189b82-439b-4841-a9f5-32324150ef65> | 2013-05-24T01:47:00Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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I knew your mother and your
father and your grandfather and
uncle too. I knew your aunt
and your cousins. All twelve of them.
I knew your background people
even the area you were born in.
I could go on and on. What
did you say your name was again?
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A History of Innovation, a Path to the Future
March 1994 Visual C++ Strategy
The Microsoft Visual C++ development system family of products meets the need of developers to develop sophisticated Windows-based applications quickly. It also protects existing investments in the Microsoft Foundation Class Library (MFC) and the Windows API and establishes a clear path to developing 32-bit applications for Windows that run on multiple software and hardware platforms.
With the Visual C++ development system family of products, Microsoft’s strategy is to provide the shortest path for developers to access the full power of Windows, the smallest and fastest executables, and the safest investment for the future.
These fundamental principles have guided the development of Visual C++ and will continue to do so in the future. In order to deliver on these promises, we have chosen to focus our development efforts as follows:
C++ is the language we will focus on for the long term. We will implement new features in the language as standards emerge. However, in order to reduce the complexity that C++ brings with its power, we will implement a subset of the language in our class library and minimise the work involved in creating Windows-based applications in C++.
We believe that the greatest gains in productivity can be achieved through the use of a well-written class library. A key element of Visual C++ is the MFC architecture, which not only provides the fundamentals for developing Windows-based applications but also provides significant amounts of reusable code that developers can use in their applications. In addition, we have designed the Visual C++ development environment so that developers can easily exploit the full power of MFC.
Improvements in the development environment and build throughput provide the next level of productivity gains. Visual programming tools, integration and task orientation are the key areas of focus for achieving this objective with Visual C++.
Microsoft continues to lead the industry in C and C++ optimisations to help create the smallest and fastest executables possible. We have tuned MFC so that developers incur very little overhead in developing applications using C++ and MFC compared to using C and the Windows SDK.
Tools are provided for all the platforms supported by the Windows family. MFC and the tool set support all the latest features of the Windows operating system so that developers can take advantage of these features in their applications.
It is essential to preserve customers’ knowledge base and their investments in code into the future. For that reason, the MFC architecture is built around the Windows API to utilise existing knowledge. Existing applications based on C and the Windows API can be migrated to C++ and MFC. Once developers invest in MFC, their investment is completely protected from version to version and platform to platform.
Visual C++1.0:The move to C++
Research into developer needs defined the major design goals of Microsoft Visual C++ 1.0. Research showed that While 70% of developers wanted to move to C++, only 15% were actually using it because of the difficulty in learning and using the language. Furthermore, developers didn’t want to learn an entirely new API or throw away their existing source code. Thus Visual C++ was created to provide the shortest path to C++ programs for Windows.
To ease migration to C++, Microsoft introduced the innovative wizard technology along with a new, more powerful version of MFC. MFC version 2.0 included and application architecture and features that further simplified application development, while providing full backward compatibility with version 1.0. Wizards were added to make it easier to exploit the full power of MFC. Wizards make it possible to generate fully featured applications for Windows without writing thousands of lines of tedious implementation code. An integrated editor, compiler, debugger and source browser make the edit-build-debug cycle as short as possible. An integrated visual resource editor makes it possible to develop user interfaces rapidly. In addition, Visual C++ 1.0 continued to focus on providing the smallest and fastest executables of any commercially available compiler.
Because it combined industry-leading performance with breakthroughs in ease of use, Visual C++ 1.0 became the shortest path to developing C++ applications for Windows.
Microsoft Foundation Classes
MFC 1.0 was first introduced in 1992 with Microsoft + 7.0. MFC 2.0 in Visual C++ 1.0 followed in February 1993. MFC 2.0 built on the Windows-specific foundation established in 1992 by adding sophisticated architectural elements such as document/view architecture, high-level application-specific features such as MDI support, tool bars, status bars, true device-independent output including print preview, and Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) support. In short, designing MFC to handle the standard interface chores and platform issues eliminated much of the tedious details facing C++ application developers. Most importantly, MFC 1.0 was upward-compatible with MFC 2.0. MFC 1.0 programs merely had to be recompiled to gain all of the new benefits of MFC 2.0. Investments in code were preserved without sacrificing innovation.
To ensure compatibility, we implemented MFC 1.0 and MFC 2.0 using a practical subset of C++ that exploited the language’s strengths without relying on unusual or compiler-specific features. As a result, the framework is portable between different vendors’ tools and compilers. MFC was written to solve real application problems of professional developers. It is tuned for both speed and size, to produce professional, industrial-strength C++ code for Windows with copious diagnostic support. MFC has been licensed to other leading C++ tools vendors including Blue Sky, Metaware, Symantic and WATCOM, affirming it as the premier C++ application framework for Windows.
Now, with version 2.5, MFC demonstrates its leadership by adding support for OLE version 2.0 and Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) while maintaining source-code compatibility with MFC 2.0. The MFC library has been available for the Win32 API since August 1993 and later versions will soon support other platforms, further demonstrating its portability.
A year after Visual C++ 1.0 was released, 81% of developers are using C++, with 30% already having completed several C++ projects. Visual C++ and MFC have helped make the move to C++ a reality.
Microsoft Visual C++ 1.0, 32-bit Edition: The Move to 32-Bits
Because developers needed tools to create 32-bit applications for Windows, in August 1993 Microsoft introduced Visual C++, 32-bit edition. This was the first integrated 32-bit development environment for professional C++ programmers for Windows that was hosted on the Windows NT operating system and that targeted both Windows (via the Win32s API) and Windows NT (via Win32). To ease developers’ learning curves, this product has the same tool set and class library as Visual C++ 1.0, but on 32 bits. It is the safest investment in C++ development tools because it provides an easy migration path from previous 16-bit Microsoft C++ products. MFC applications need only be recompiled to become fully functional 32-bit Windows-based applications. Because developers can write applications from a single source-code base that will run on Windows 3.1 and Windows NT, the 32-bit edition increases their productivity and allows them to take advantage of the performance benefits of 32-bit programming on both platforms.
Windows NT is the host for the 32-bit compiler because it is the most robust development platform choice. In addition, the true 32-bit platform enables the development of powerful 32-bit applications. We exploited its pre-emptive multitasking and multithreading capabilities to enable seamless background compilation and simultaneous multiple project builds. To aid debugging we added in the 32-bit Edition a memory Window on the current contents, support for structured exception-handling to help in locating errors, and support for threads, allowing developers to analyse and view window messages, relationships between windows, processes and threads as well as their details. Books Online technology revolutionised the presentation and usefulness of product documentation.
New optimisations for the I486 and Pentium processors helped ensure the smallest and fastest 32-bit executables. Visual C++, 32-bit Edition is proven technology: Microsoft used it to build Windows NT itself.
Visual C++ 1.5: The Move to OLE 2.0
In April 1993, Microsoft released OLE 2.0 – a breakthrough for component-based software development. OLE 2.0 provides a standard means of defining what an object is and how objects can interact. With OLE 2.0, developers from different companies can write objects that interact with one another without relying on the specifics of how those objects work. With OLE 2.0 developers can use entire applications as components, which makes application integration and combining information from multiple applications easier. Hundreds of companies have announced support for OLE 2.0, and corporations and independent software vendors (ISVS) are already using it to develop sophisticated applications for their end users.
Visual C++ 1.5 Makes OLE 2.0 Easy
Microsoft research shows that although more than 75% of developers would like to develop applications for OLE 2.0, less than 10% of them had started development before Visual C++ 1.5 was available. This was because native OLE 2.0 development can be difficult. However, Visual C++ 1.5 and MFC 2.5 make OLE 2.0 development easy. Using Appwizard, developers can create an OLE 2.0 client, server or container (even with OLE Automation) in seconds. Because AppWizard creates default code to deal with all OLE messages and requests, developers need only write code for the functionality that they want to support, thus significantly reducing the amount of time it takes to get started with OLE 2.0 applications.
AppWizard, C1assWizard and MFC 2.5 support full OLE 2.0 functionality, including toolbar and menu negotiation, visual editing, drag and drop, in-place activation, all structure and storage mechanisms, incremental read/write, component object model, and synchronous function completion. More than 19,000 lines of C++ code are provided in the MFC 2.5 Library to support OLE 2.0 development - code that developers don’t have to write.
Enabling Database Development
Incorporating support for database access in Windows-based applications can be difficult, Yet it is increasingly important. MFC makes it easy. ODBC classes and wizards allow full ODBC support for accessing local or remote databases to be built into Windows-based applications with just a mouse click. ODBC drivers are available today for a diverse set of database formats and implementations.
Plans of Leading Edge Developers for Windows
In order to better understand developers’ needs for the future, we surveyed more than 5,000 developers who attended the Win32 Professional Developer’s Conference in December 1993. We asked developers specifically what their plans were for 1994. The key results are shown in figure 1:
|More than 80% are using MFC|
|More than 50% are targeting Win32-based applications|
|More than 50% are using Win32 as a host platform|
|More than 20% are targeting Win32-based RISC and Macintosh platforms|
|More than 60% are targeting OLE 2.0 More than 90% are using high-performance hardware (Intel 486 20MB RAM, CD-ROM)|
Figure 1 - developer plans for 1994
New Issues for Developers in 1994
The survey indicated a very strong interest in the development community in targeting Win32 and OLE 2.0-based applications using MFC. Developers also want the flexibility to target other software and hardware platforms as they become more popular. They would like to do this through a single source-code base that is developed using a single tools set and class library. Finally, developers have the necessary hardware to host a Win32-based platform such as Windows NT and exploit the advanced capabilities that Windows NT provides.
Key Challenges for Visual C++ Tools
From the perspective of development tools, these goals presented us with four challenges:
Provide tools that developers can use to create leading-edge applications for Windows that exploit the latest systems features, such as OLE 2.0, while enabling them to use their code investment in the future.
Provide a clear and easy migration path to the 32-bit future of Windows through guaranteed upward compatibility.
Provide a consistent tool set and class library that enable developers to easily target multiple platforms through a single code base.
Provide tools that allow developers to exploit advances in host operating system platforms to increase productivity. For example, support background builds on a multitasking operating system such as Windows NT.
Microsoft’s Answer: Visual C++ Everywhere
The Visual C++ 2.0 family of products provides a consistent tool set and class library (MFC) that enables the development of Win32-based applications that target a wide range of platforms including Windows, Windows NT (Inte1- and RISC-based), Microsoft Windows “Chicago” (the next major release of Microsoft Windows), and the Macintosh. The Visual C++ 2.0 family utilises Microsoft’s systems strategy to provide the Win32 API along with key systems features such as OLE 2.0 and ODBC on all these platforms. Developers need only learn one tool set and API (MFC and Win32) to develop and support Win32-based applications that are portable and compatible across a range of leading platforms. Developers will be able to continue maintaining their 16-bit applications for Windows using Visual C++ 1.5. In addition, we will work with developers licensed to provide the Windows API on Unix platforms to make sure that developers can easily port their MFC applications using these platforms as well.
The Visual C++ 2.0 Family
The Visual C++ 2.0 family consists of the following products:
Visual C++ 2.0 Intel Edition.
This product hosts on a Win32- and Intel-based platforms (Windows NT or Windows “Chicago”) and enables developers to target Win32- and Intel-based applications that run on Windows (through Win32s), Windows NT, and Windows “Chicago”.
Visual C++ 2.0 RISC Editions.
These products host on a Win32- and RISC-based platform and target the same platform. The tool set is identical to the Intel-based tool set described above. The first version will be available for the MIPS platform followed by the Digital Alpha AXP and other RISC platforms supported by Windows NT.
Visual C++ 2.0, Cross-development edition for Macintosh.
This product is an add-on to the Visual C++ 2.0, Intel Edition and enables developers to target the Macintosh through a core Win32 code base. When this product is installed on top of the Visual C++ 2.0, Intel Edition, developers will gain new options to target the Maointosh. All development, compilation and linking are performed on the Windows NT-based machine. Debugging is performed across a network or serial connection to a Macintosh using the integrated debugger in the Visual C++ development environment.
The table in figure 2 illustrates the Visual C++ 2.0 product family:
Visual C++ 2.0: Continue the Innovation
In addition to the multiplatform support, Visual C++ will continue to provide the shortest path to developing applications that exploit the full power of the Windows family. Visual C++ 2.0 continues the leadership established by Visual C++ 1.5 by making it easy to develop 32-bit OLE 2.0 and ODBC applications through innovative wizards technology and a 32-bit compatible version of MFC. In addition, all versions of Visual C++ 2.0 exploit the power of Windows NT as the host development environment.
Visual C++ 2.0 provides a completely redesigned and integrated environment (IDE) that makes application development even easier than with previous versions of Visual C++. Everything is truly integrated, so there is no longer a separate App Studio application for resource editing, for example. The IDE includes all the latest innovations found in the latest Microsoft applications such as customisable toolbars and dockable windows.
Powerful project-management capabilities make it possible to manage complex development projects. Developers will also gain a dramatic boost in productivity through a new incremental linker that is aimed at producing 10-second links so developers can get from edit to EXE very quickly. The Browser can now be updated on demand rather than on every build, and it supports navigation of both definitions and references. Finally, C++ templates and exception handling have been added to the C++ compiler, enabling developers to benefit from the latest C++ language features.
We have continued our leadership in C-based optimisations to turn our focus on new C++ optimisation. Our goal with the new optimisation technology, called Opt++, is to eliminate most, if not all, of the additional overhead that comes with using C++ rather than C. This technology along with highly tuned versions of MFC will enable developers to deliver applications built using C+ and MFC that have very little performance overhead compared to that of comparable programs built using C and the SDK.
Maximum Compatibility and Portability
Visual C++ 2.0 once again demonstrates our commitment to preserving developers’ investments in MFC. Visual C++ does this in a number of ways:
Version to version. MFC 3.0 is completely upward compatible with previous versions of MFC. new features provided with MFC 3.0 can easily be incorporated with little additional work.
16- to 32-bit conversion. 16-bit Windows-based applications written using MFC 2.5 included in Visual C++ 1.5 need only be recompiled with MFC 3.0 to convert them to 32-bit applications.
Intel to RISC. Applications written to MFC 3.0 are 100% source-code compatible across all Win32 platforms. They only need to be recompiled with the processor-specific Visual C++ compilers to produce executable files for different target platforms.
Win32 to Macintosh applications. As above, most MFG 3.0 applications can simply be recompiled with the Visual C++ 68K cross-compiler to produce executable files for the Macintosh. Applications written directly to the Win32 API can achieve 80% or greater compatibility, depending on the APIs used by the application.
Visual C++ Portability: RISCbased Multiplatform Editions
RISC editions of Visual C++ are identical to the Intel-based Visual C++ product. They also exploit the fact that Windows NT is the same on all hardware platforms.
This means that developers who use Visual C++ can use the same tools, regardless of which platform they are targeting. Also, features of the Visual C+ language - for example, C++ templates or exception handling - are implemented in the same manner on all platforms.
The same APIs, Win32 and MFC, are implemented identically across all supported platforms. A developer’s knowledge and code base can be used across all RISC platforms.
To provide true targeting for Windows NT, 21 development system must support all Windows NT-compatible hardware platforms.
Microsoft is working closely with all licensees of Windows NT and is already shipping versions of the Microsoft C/C++ development tools for MIPS and Alpha AXP through the Win-32 SDK program.
Microsoft has licensed the compiler to several licensees of Windows NT and is actively integrating the compiler with each chip makers’ back-end optimising code generators.
Visual C++ 2.0 has also been designed to be completely portable across various Win32-based hardware platforms. Microsoft is working with licensees of Windows NT to port the entire Visual C++ development environment, including MFC, to all Windows NT-compatible hardware platforms.
The result is a compatible language implementation, integrated tool set, system API and C++ application framework across the entire family of Windows-compatible hardware. Developers will be able to use their existing source code, makefiles and development experience with Visual C++. They will benefit from the ease of use of the Visual G++ development system and from the high performance of the chip makers’ optimised native-code generators. The application architecture is depicted in figure 3.
|Figure 3 - The application architecture|
Visual C++ Portability: Macintosh Cross-development Edition
The cross-development tool set is an add-on to the Intel-based Visual C++ 2.0 development environment tailored for targeting the 68K-based family of Macintosh computers, and in the future, Power Macintosh versions of the same tools.
The product provides all the tools necessary for developing and debugging native applications for the Macintosh. These include an optimising C/C++ cross-compiler, linker, resource compiler, remote debugger and profiler. The tool set also includes a Macintosh version of MFC 3.0 and a Win32 portability library. These tools are all integrated into the Visual C++ 2.0 development environment.
The architecture of Macintosh applications generated by Visual C++ is shown in figure 4.
|Figure 4 - Macintosh application architecture|
The application source code can be Written in C or C++ and can be from a single source-code base that supports both Windows and the Macintosh. The Win32 portability libraries for the Macintosh simplify the porting of an application written to the Win32 API and/or to the Macintosh Foundation Class Library. These libraries generate appropriate Macintosh System 7 instructions from calls to the Win32 API. As depicted in the figure, developers can also program directly to the System 7 API to take advantage of platform-specific features. The resulting application, however, incorporates the native look and feel of a Macintosh application. Rigorous performance-tuning of the Win32 portability library ensures there will be very little performance penalty for the ported application. In fact, Microsoft uses this technology for its Macintosh application developments, such as Excel and FoxPro for the Macintosh.
OLE Custom Controls
Microsoft recently announced the OLE custom control architecture, which merges the popular Microsoft Visual Basic custom control architecture with the open, standard architecture of OLE. OLE custom controls make component-based development a reality by allowing developers to easily utilise existing bodies of functional code encapsulated as OLE controls. An OLE control is a custom control, implemented as an OLE 2.0 compound document object with visual editing support. An OLE control has additional capabilities beyond those of ordinary OLE objects, such as the ability to fire events. OLE controls will be supported in the future by all Microsoft development tools, including applications through Visual Basic, Applications edition.
Most OLE 2.0 objects require a substantial amount of implementation effort. Fortunately, an OLE Control DeveIoper’s Kit (CDK) - along with Visual C++ - provides most of the required implementation, so developers only have to fill in details that are specific to the OLE control. The CDK includes both 16- and 32-bit MFC extensions to support controls, a Controlwizard for creating an initial custom control project, C1assWizard extensions, a Test Container to verify the OLE control, full online documentation, and sample code.
Microsoft Visual C++ and the OLE CDK make component-based software development a reality.
Visual C++ 2.0 for Intel and MIPS and the cross-development system for the Macintosh 68K are scheduled to be made available in the first half of 1994. A future version of this tool set will target other Windows NT- and RISC-based platforms and the Power Macintosh platform. The OLE CDK will be available in the same time frame as Visual C++ 2.0 for Intel.
The Visual C++ development environment and the Microsoft Foundation Class Library will continue to evolve to support Microsoft Windows operating systems in the years ahead.
Overload Journal #5 - Sep 1994 + Programming Topics
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Mike Shorey has 2 songs which made it to the charts as of week 10/2003. The songs spend a total of 70 weeks on the charts. Can't Let You Go was the first song to hit the charts on week 10/2003, the last song to appear on a chart was Baby on week 15/2005. The most successful song was Can't Let You Go which spend a total of 57 weeks (81%) on the charts. The most successful song by peak position is Can't Let You Go which peaked at number 4. The least successful song is Baby it spend 13 weeks on the charts. Click on any title below to get detailed statistics.
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Pysynphot: A Replacement for STSDAS.SYNPHOT
Victoria G. Laidler (CSC/STScI)
Ivo Busko, Perry Greenfield, Robert Jedrzejewski (STScI)
Pysynphot is a modern-language successor to the IRAF/STSDAS synthetic photometry package SYNPHOT. Written in Python, it is suitable for either library or interactive use. Its object-oriented architecture provides a versatile user interface, allowing the user to construct, combine, manipulate, and plot spectra and bandpasses. It features improved precision arithmetic, improved handling of wavelength sampling, and has no IRAF dependencies. It retains the data-driven philosophy of its predecessor, and will run under PyRAF or vanilla Python. In this session, we will demonstrate the interactive use of Pysynphot to work with bandpasses, spectra, and simulated observations in the usual set of units supported by SYNPHOT, providing functionality similar to the SYNPHOT tasks calcspec, calcband, plspec, plband, showfiles, and countrate. The planned development and release schedule for the project will also be reviewed.
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Phil Parkinson has confirmed that he is interested in discarded MK Dons defender Miguel Angel Llera. Also in the frame are reported to be Norwich City and Doncaster Rovers.
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|Unless you’re planning to make an all-cash purchase (in which case you’ll be a very popular buyer!), you’re going to have to secure a mortgage. Though the process can be complex and daunting, it helps to understand what to expect and to take the time up front to really sit down and know what you want and need from your lender. This section is devoted to helping you reach both those aims.
In exchange for your mortgage, you will pledge your home as security for repayment of your loan. The lender agrees to hold the title to your property until you have paid back your loan plus interest. A mortgage loan is composed of two major components: principal and interest.
Principal is the actual amount of money you borrow. If you borrow $150,000, your mortgage principal is $150,000.
Interest is what you pay for the use of the money you borrow. How much you pay depends on a number of factors, including the interest rate, the type of loan and other factors, which are outlined in this guide. Interest can be deducted from your taxes, making it one of the most attractive practical benefits of home ownership. Your tax advisor will be able to provide more details about the tax savings benefits.
Amortization refers to the way in which the balance of principal versus interest changes over time. During the first few years of your mortgage (typically for the first 2 to 3 years of a 30-year loan) most of your payments will be applied toward interest. During the final years of your loan, your payments will be applied almost exclusively to the remaining principal. This process is called amortization.
How should I choose a lender?
Carefully! Look for financial stability and a reputation for customer satisfaction. Select a company that gives helpful advice and that makes you feel comfortable. It is best to select a lender that has the authority to approve and process your loan locally, so you can more easily monitor the status of your application and ask questions. Plus, it helps when the lender knows about local home values and conditions. Do research -- ask your agent, family and friends for recommendations.
What is the best way to compare loan terms between lenders?
Speak with companies by phone, in person, or search the Internet. In addition to your research, I can provide a variety of proven lender and mortgage options. While competitive rates are important, remember that most lenders get their money from the same sources and therefore essentially have the same rates. As a result, the decision often comes down to other factors.
The Interest Rate
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|Act||Dog Ventriloquist and Comedian|
Todd Oliver was a dog ventriloquist and comedian act from Season 7 of America's Got Talent. He was eliminated in the Quarterfinals, but he returned for the Wild Card Show. He was later eliminated again in the Semifinals.
Todd Oliver, takes ventriloquism to the next level by incorporating his dog, Irving, into his act. A ventriloquist for 35 years, Todd is also an animal lover with seven dogs, five horses, and two cats. After a tornado hit the theater Todd invested in, he lost big. Now, he's hoping to put Irving on the map with his performance on America's Got Talent. 1
Todd Oliver's audition consisted of Todd portraying a talking dog through the use of ventriloquism and a fake mouth attached to a real dog, and then making jokes about dogs. Howard Stern, Sharon Osbourne, and Howie Mandel all voted "Yes," sending the act to the Vegas Round.
Todd Oliver was one of the Judges' Favorites in the Vegas Round. He was sorted into the "Novelty Acts" category. His performance consisted of Todd and Irving being involved in a banter about their roles as owner and dog respectively as well as a fast-paced back-and-forth argument. The act's audition was strong enough for the judges to send it to the Quarterfinals along with Horse.
Todd Oliver's Quarterfinals performance consisted of Irving confessing his mood for love, Lucy doing a duck impression, and the two dogs giving reasons why they do not like each other with Todd as the mediator. He finished in either fourth or fifth place in America's Vote. In the Judge's Choice, Howard Stern and Howie Mandel both decided not to send him to the Semifinals, eliminating him from the competition instead of Edon.
Todd Oliver was brought back by Howard Stern for the Wild Card Show. Todd's performance consisted of a skit of him and his dog Irving talking about Irving running for president. Jokes included voting for either the white guy or the black guy, or Irving (both white and black), fixing a cat, being kicked out of obedience school for talking back, and Joe Biden being Obama's dog's name. Todd received enough votes to be sent to the Semifinals instead of Cristin Sandu and Spencer Horsman.
Todd Oliver's Semifinals performance consisted of a skit of him and his dog Irving in a talk show scenario with Todd as the host interviewing Irving. "Irving" (as a puppet) answered questions sent in by his fans in a comedic manner. Todd received enough votes to be revealed as one of the Top 4 of the first Semifinal round instead of Donovan & Rebecca and Edon. Todd was later revealed to have finished in either third or fourth place in America's Vote. In the Judges' Choice, although Howard Stern voted for him, Sharon Osbourne and Howie Mandel did not, eliminating Todd from the competition instead of Joe Castillo. | <urn:uuid:f168362c-b5b3-4ea9-9ce8-645a690180f2> | 2013-05-24T01:58:14Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Here is an argument for S4. We want metaphysical necessity to be the strongest kind of necessity without arbitrary restrictions. If one responds that conceptual or strictly logical necessity are stronger, the answer is that they are, nonetheless, arbitrarily restricted, being dependent on a particular set of rules of inference and axioms. (The only non-arbitrary way to specify which which axioms are permitted is to say that it is all the fundamental metaphysically necessary propositions that are axioms, and then we presumably get metaphysical necessity.) Now, if L is a necessity operator, then LL is also a necessity operator. If LL is not equivalent to L, then LL is a stronger necessity operator. If LL counts as arbitrarily restricted, then we have reason to think that so does L, since L is even more restricted than LL, and it seems arbitrary to work with L instead of LL or LLL. And if LL doesn't count as arbitrarily restricted, then L is not the strongest non-arbitrarily restricted necessity operator. So if L is metaphysical necessity, L and LL are equivalent.
The dual of this argument is that metaphysical possibility is the most fundamental sort of possibility. But if M is metaphysical possibility, and MM is not equivalent to M, then MM will be a more fundamental possibility. So, if M is metaphysical possibility, M and MM are equivalent. | <urn:uuid:c2883b96-d869-486f-a923-c3897c069c78> | 2013-05-24T01:50:40Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Science Fair Project Encyclopedia
In general, a nun is a female ascetic who chooses to voluntarily leave the world and live her life in prayer and contemplation in a monastery or convent. The term "nun" is applicable to Roman Catholics, Eastern Orthodox Christians, Anglicans, Lutherans, and Buddhists, for example. The male equivalent of a nun is a monk.
In Roman Catholicism a nun is the term for a female monastic regular, equivalent to that of a male monk.
In the Catholic tradition, there are a number of different orders of nuns each with its own charism or special devotion. In general, when a person enters a convent she has a trial period (Noviciate) that lasts a number of years. Upon completion of this period she may take her vows. In the various branches of the Benedictine tradition (Benedictines, Cistercian and Trappists) nuns usually take formal vows of stability (that is, to remain a member of a single monastic community), obedience (to an abbess or prioress), and "conversion of life" (which includes the ideas of poverty and chastity) while in other groups like the "Poor Clares" (a Franciscan order) and cloistered Dominicans the three-fold vows of chastity, poverty and obedience are used.
Nuns observe "papal enclosure" rules and their monasteries typically have walls and grilles separating the nuns from the outside world. The nuns rarely leave, though they may have visitors in specially built parlors that allow them to meet with outsiders. They are usually self-sufficient, earning money by selling jams or candies or baked goods by mail order, or by making liturgical items (vestments, candles, bread for Holy Communion). They sometimes undertake contemplative ministries – that is, a monastery of nuns is often associated with prayer for some particular good: supporting the missions of another order by prayer (the Maryknoll order has both missionary sisters and cloistered nuns; and the sisters of Daughters of Saint Paul are supported in their media ministry by the nuns of Daughters of Divine Wisdom), prayer for a diocese, etc.
Technically, a convent is the home of a community of sisters – or, indeed, of priests and brothers, though this term is rarely used in the U.S. The term "monastery" is usually used by communities within the Benedictine family, and convent (when referring to a cloister) of certain other orders.
A nun who is elected to head her monastery is termed an abbess if the monastery is an abbey, a prioress if it is a priory, or more generically may be referred to as the Mother Superior. The distinction between abbey and priory has to do with the terms used by a particular order or by the level of independence of the monastery.
Roman Catholic Nun or Sister?
"Nun" is not to be confused with "religious sister". Though commonly called nuns in informal conversation, women belonging to orders like the Sisters of Charity, Franciscans or Dominicans are religious sisters, not nuns. Nuns and sisters are distinguished by the type of vows they take (solemn vow vs. simple vow) and the focus of their good works. The type of vow that one must take to become a member of a religious community is decided by the Roman curia upon the approval that community. The religious community of a nun is referred to as a "religious order" while the religious community of a sister is referred to as an "institute" or "congregation". Nun and sister are mutually exclusive religious paths.
To be a nun, one must a) live in a cloistered community or monastery; b) have taken the solemn vows of poverty, chastity and obedience (as opposed to the perpetual simple vows of poverty, chastity and obedience taken by sisters); and c) recite the Liturgy of Hours, Divine Office, or other prayers together with her community.
Nuns are restricted from leaving the cloister, though some may engage in limited teaching or other vocational work depending on the strictness of enforcement. Visitors are not allowed into the monastary to freely associate with nuns. In essence, the work of a nun is within the confines of her monastary, while the work of a sister is in the greater world. Both sisters and nuns are addressed as "Sister."
Eastern Orthodox Christian
In the Eastern Orthodox Church there is no distinction between a monastery for men and a monastery for women. In the Greek language both domiciles are called monasteries and the ascetics who live there are Monastics. In English, however, it is acceptable to use the terms "nun", "convent", and "abbess" simply for clarity and convenience. Orthodox monastics do not have "orders" as in the Catholic Church. Orthodox monks and nuns lead identical spiritual lives. There may be slight differences in the way a monastery functions internally but these are simply style differences (Gr. Typica) dependant on the Abbess or Abbot. The Abbess is the spiritual leader of the convent and her authority is absolute (no priest, bishop, or even patriarch can override an abbess within the walls of her monastery). There has always been fair equality between men and women in the Orthodox Church. Abbots and Abbesses rank in authority equal to bishops in many ways and were included in ecumenical councils. Abbesses hear confessions and dispense blessings on their charges though they still require the services of a presbyter (i.e., a priest) in order to celebrate the Divine Liturgy and other priestly functions. There have been, however, cases where nuns have functioned as deaconesses; though the last one to serve in that position was in the 19th century.
There are a number of different levels that the nun passes through in her profession. When one enters a monastery the first three to five years are spent as a "novice". Novices may or may not dress in the black inner robe (Isorassa), this being dependent on the abbess’ wishes. The isorassa is the first part of the monastic "habit" of which there is only one style for Orthodox monastics (this is true in general, there have been a few slight regional variations over the centuries). Orthodox monastics, in general have little or no contact with the outside world, especially family. The pious family whose child decides to enter the monastic profession understands that their child will become "dead to the world" and therefore be unavailable. If a novice chooses to leave during the novitiate period no penalty is incurred. When the abbess deems the novice ready, the novice is asked to join the monastery. If she accepts she is "tonsured" in a formal service, she is given the outer robe (Exorassa) and veil to wear, and because she is now dead to the world she receives a new name. Nuns consider themselves part of a sisterhood, however, tonsured nuns are usually called "Mother". The next level for monastics takes place some years after the first tonsure when the abbess feels the nun has reached a level of discipline, dedication, and humility. Once again, in a formal service the nun is elevated to the "Schema" which is signified by additions to her "habit" of certain symbolic pieces. In addition, the abbess increases the nun’s prayer rule, she is allowed a more strict personal ascetic practice, and she is given more responsibility. The final stage, called "Megaloschemos" or "Great Schema" is reached by nuns whose Abbess feels they have reached a high level of excellence. In some monastic traditions the Great Schema is only given to monks and nuns on their death bed, while in others they may be elevated after as little as 25 years of service.
Denominations that are directly descended from the Roman Catholic Church, such as the Lutherans, Anglicans, and even Calvinists continue to have small monastic communities. In some Anglican orders, there are nuns who have been ordained as priests.
Nuns also appear in Buddhist traditions. While monks and nuns are celibate, it is not unusual for both to exist within the same monastery. There are many variations to the style of "Habit" worn by these monastics, however, most, male and female, shave their head.
Other uses of the word nun
- In biology, Nun is a genus of the hillstream loach, a type of small freshwater fish.
- In Egyptian mythology, Nun is an alternate spelling for Nu, the name by which ancient Egyptians called both the mysterious underworld from where life was renewed and the primordeal god residing there. The name translates as "Abyss".
- Nun is also the fourteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
- Nun and Nunnery were also Elizabethan era slang for prostitutes and brothels.
- Nun is also the name of the father of Joshua, the right-hand man and successor of Moses.
- A nun buoy is a type of buoy.
- Sister Wendy Beckett
- The Sound of Music
- The Singing Nun
- Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis
- Poor Clare nuns in Rockford, Illinois
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I have a great deal of respect for Roissy, the various contributors at the Chateau, and many of the other theoreticians and practitioners of Game. However, I think the stark division of men into successful alphas and unsuccessful betas is too simplistic and reflects an artificial limitation on the broad applicability of Game beyond the sexual imperative. The inutility of the binary division should be obvious, since even those who subscribe to it tend to subdivide the categories into Greater and Lesser Alphas and High and Low Betas, while some also add the Omega category.
When we examine any conventional human social circle, we reliably observe a broader range of distinctly identifiable social archetypes that go well beyond mere sexual activity. And it is based on these observations that I have expanded the Alpha-Beta division into a hierarchy that covers the broad spectrum of socio-sexuality.
Alpha: The alpha is the tall, good-looking guy who is the center of both male and female attention. The classic star of the football team who is dating the prettiest cheerleader. The successful business executive with the beautiful, stylish, blonde, size zero wife. All the women are attracted to him, while all the men want to be him, or at least be his friend. At a social gathering like a party, he's usually the loud, charismatic guy telling self-flattering stories to a group of attractive women who are listening with interest. However, alphas are only interested in women to the extent that they exist for the alpha's gratification, physical and psychological, they are actually more concerned with their overall group status.
Lifetime sexual partners = 4x average+.
Beta: Betas are the good-looking guys who aren't as uniformly attractive or socially dominant as the Alpha, but are nevertheless confident, attractive to women, and do well with them. At the party, they are the loud guy's friends who showed up with the alcohol and who are flirting with the tier one women and cheerfully pairing up with the tier two women. Betas tend to genuinely like women and view them in a somewhat optimistic manner, but they don't have a lot of illusions about them either. Betas tend to be happy, secure in themselves, and are up for anything their alpha wants to do. When they marry, it is not infrequently to a woman who was one of the alpha's former girlfriends.
Lifetime sexual partners = 2-3x average.
Delta: The normal guy. Deltas are the great majority of men. They can't attract the most attractive women, so they usually aim for the second-tier women with very limited success, and stubbornly resist paying attention to all of the third-tier women who are comfortably in their league. This is ironic, because deltas would almost always be happier with their closest female equivalents. When a delta does manage to land a second-tier woman, he is constantly afraid that she will lose interest in him and will, not infrequently, drive her into the very loss of interest he fears by his non-stop dancing of attendance upon her. In a social setting, the deltas are the men clustered together in groups, each of them making an occasional foray towards various small gaggles of women before beating a hasty retreat when direct eye contact and engaged responses are not forthcoming. Deltas tend to put the female sex on pedestals and have overly optimistic expectations of them; if a man rhapsodizes about his better half or is an inveterate White Knight, he is almost certainly a delta. Deltas like women, but find them mysterious, confusing, and are sometimes secretly a little afraid of them.
Lifetime sexual partners = 1-1.5x average
Gamma: The introspective, the unusual, the unattractive, and all too often the bitter. Gammas are often intelligent, usually unsuccessful with women, and not uncommonly all but invisible to them, the gamma alternates between placing women on pedestals and hating the entire sex. This mostly depends upon whether an attractive woman happened to notice his existence or not that day. Too introspective for their own good, gammas are the men who obsess over individual women for extended periods of time and supply the ranks of stalkers, psycho-jealous ex-boyfriends, and the authors of excruciatingly romantic rhyming doggerel. In the unlikely event they are at the party, they are probably in the corner muttering darkly about the behavior of everyone else there... sometimes to themselves. Gammas tend to have have a worship/hate relationship with women, the current direction of which is directly tied to their present situation. However, they are sexual rejects, not social rejects.
Lifetime voluntary sexual partners = .5x average
Omega: The truly unfortunate. Omegas are the social losers who were never in the game. Sometimes creepy, sometimes damaged, often clueless, and always undesirable. They're not at the party. It would never have crossed anyone's mind to invite them in the first place. Omegas are either totally indifferent to women or hate them with a borderline homicidal fury.
Lifetime sexual partners < 2
Sigma: The outsider who doesn't play the social game and manage to win at it anyhow. The sigma is hated by alphas because sigmas are the only men who don't accept or at least acknowledge, however grudgingly, their social dominance. (NB: Alphas absolutely hate to be laughed at and a sigma can often enrage an alpha by doing nothing more than smiling at him.) Everyone else is vaguely confused by them. In a social situation, the sigma is the man who stops in briefly to say hello to a few friends accompanied by a Tier 1 girl that no one has ever seen before. Sigmas like women, but tend to be contemptuous of them. They are usually considered to be strange. Gammas often like to think they are sigmas, failing to understand that sigmas are not social rejects, they are at the top of the social hierarchy despite their refusal to play by its rules.
Lifetime sexual partners = 4x average+.
Lambda: Those men who have quite literally no interest in conventional male-female sexual relations. They clearly have their own hierarchy of sorts, but I can't say that I know much about it other than it appears to somehow involve youth, free weights, and mustaches.
Lifetime sexual partners = 10x average+
Now, it is important to keep in mind that it serves absolutely no purpose to identify yourself in some manner that you think is "better" or higher up the hierarchy. No one cares what you think you are and your opinion about your place in the social hierarchy is probably the opinion that matters least. There is no good or bad here, there is only what happens to be observable in social interaction. Consider: alphas seemingly rule the roost and yet they live in a world of constant conflict and status testing. Sigmas usually acquired their outsider status the hard way; one seldom becomes immune to the social hierarchy by virtue of mass popularity in one's childhood. Betas... okay, betas actually have it pretty good. But the important thing to keep in mind is that you can't improve your chances of success in the social game if you begin by attempting to deceive yourself as to where you stand vis-a-vis everyone else around you. | <urn:uuid:e83cfdc7-4b8b-4f0c-beda-d8ddc4041252> | 2013-05-24T02:05:27Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Work, play, fashion, economic class, religious faith, even politics—all these aspects of American life and more are woven into clothing. The Museum cares for one of the nation's foremost collections of men's, women's, and children's garments and accessories—from wedding gowns and military uniforms to Halloween costumes and bathing suits.
The collections include work uniforms, academic gowns, clothing of presidents and first ladies, T-shirts bearing protest slogans, and a clean-room "bunny suit" from a manufacturer of computer microchips. Beyond garments, the collections encompass jewelry, handbags, hair dryers, dress forms, hatboxes, suitcases, salesmen's samples, and thousands of fashion prints, photographs, and original illustrations. The more than 30,000 artifacts here represent the changing appearance of Americans from the 1700s to the present day. | <urn:uuid:73757327-c5c6-404a-b531-06e6595fabc0> | 2013-05-24T01:32:37Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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I have a degree in Geography. I took an intro GIS class in college and enjoyed it. We used the ArcGis software package from ESRI in the class. I am now thinking of getting a Masters or a Certificate in GIS but I noticed that many colleges require computer programming classes. I am only a geographer and have no experience with programming so I am worried. Also virtually every job posting that I have seen requires programming experience. Any advice?
Im graduating in 2011 with my BS in planning and was wondering what jobs are out there in the private sector? where are places that i can work with this degree? basically where can i get a job with this degree?
I know ArcGIS,Mapinfo,Autocad.I want to go in GIS development or GIS programmer.Which s/w programming is best?VB or Java?or anyother?Which one is easy?
If I specialize in the economic field, what will I be doing and who will I be working for? What would be my annual salary?
Would it make any difference if I specialize in the cultural field?
I am very interested in the subjects of history and geography, and I was just wondering, what are some careers that involve them, besides a history teacher?
What are some good types of jobs for Geography majors that are NOT in the Cartography/ GIS fields?
By the end of the year I plan on relocating from Florida to Denver, Colorado.That's a huge transition! But in order for me to do that, I have to have everything situated before I go. I need to know about the transportation, jobs,if they have any type of disabled advocate program (I'm visually impaired/legally blind), churches,etc...Everything!
Thank you for your help!
I have always been interested in computer programming, and I like the idea of "being my own boss."
Can you good money doing this? Is it hard to find work?
Also, do you have to go to university, or could you just learn C/C++ and other languages on your own by reading the manuals?
Or would people only hire freelancers with university degrees?
Hi Guys, I'm considering a Master's program, but am mostly curious what a Bachelor's in Human Geography might could get? Thanks for any help everyone!
I love physical geography! Especially tectonic plates, earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis... What jobs could involves something like this? And what qualifications, a-levels, GCSEs would I need for that? Thanks.
I am trying for a software testing job.My percentage is less ie 50?ence I want to try in a small company.Please give me some small scale companies in which I can try
Im really interested in geography and i would like to know what kind of jobs you can do in geography. if it helps i also like english and photography.
I wouldn't mind if i had to do some traveling.. especially abroad!
I'm doing B.A. and I've Geography one of my subjects. I like geography and want to make my career in this field. Can anybody tell me what I can do after Graduation. Please give ideas in details.
if u have any other material so u can e-mail me. the answer will be appriciate.
my yahoo id is email@example.com
please help me......
I need a career ASAP, because my family is struggling and I cannot afford to stay at my minimum wage job, I'm enrolling in classes and on the roster of available classes i saw Computer programing as well as IT training for building/Fixing computers, After I graduate and and intern and get certified what careers are available and where can I find them?
Im going to be graduating in the spring with a degree in studio art. im not necessarily looking for something in the arts either. so i was just wondering what jobs other people have gotten after graduating college?
Other than a teacher.
GIS = Geographical Information Systems
I have been married for over a year. We have been living together for 2 and half years. He has never had a job even though I have gotten him interviews and job offers in the fields that he said are his dream jobs, i.e. video game developer and pyrotechnic apprentice. His excuse if that he is going to school. He is taking 3 college classes a semester and is getting paid $1200/mo from the GI bill (our rent is $1250). I pay all bills even though he gets paid. He plays his Xbox360 for over 40hrs/wk including all Friday and Saturday nights. He sees nothing wrong with this and oh, I am in the middle of medical school. What do you think?
I just graduate from BCIT, Canada. I am looking for a job as GIS Developer/Analyst to develop my career in GIS. However, I less network/connections to explore the hidden market in North America since I migrated to Canada from Asia.
Before I moved to Canada, I worked as a GIS developer in Singapore. Highlights of my skills and abilities include:
•Databases: Oracle 8i/9i Spatial, SQL Server 2000/2005, PostgreSQL, Access
•Languages: Visual Basic/C#.NET, C/C++, ASP.NET, PHP, JavaScrpt
•Software: ArcGIS 9.2, ArcObjects and ArcSDE, FME, PostGIS, PCI Geomatics, Intergraph Geomedia, etc.
•Strong interpersonal and problem solving skills
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I've got a subscription service with a free tier. Initially, the free tier was far too generous. We've since significantly lowered what that free tier provides. However, we had grandfathered in people already on the free tier.
What are some strategies for moving people from a free to a paid tier, when the two tiers are nearly identical for these users?
I'm looking for some more creative solutions than simply ending the grandfathering of the original free tier (which I imagine we'll have to do eventually). | <urn:uuid:c64d3159-42f6-4443-b34f-89dd560e557d> | 2013-05-24T01:45:03Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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This is a discussion on avatars within the Help / Status anti misandry forums, part of the AM Site Help category; A lot of the avatars have now been reinstalled. They can be accessed by clicking your "User CP" (top left) ...
A lot of the avatars have now been reinstalled.
They can be accessed by clicking your "User CP" (top left) and then clicking "Edit Avatar". There is a pull-down menu with the various groups of available avatars.
Also, personal (unique etc) avatars can be used, as described just below the images.
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The most offensive thing you can do to a feminist is treat her with FULL equality.Wife : "I dreamt they were auctioning off dicks. The big ones went for ten dollars and the thick ones went for twenty dollars."
Husband : "How about the ones like mine?"
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How can I get the smart mailbox to filter email correctly? I have the following set:
Contains messages that match ANY:
Subject Contains criteria one
Entire Message Contains criteria two
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Criteria for establishing permanent parenting plan.
(1) DISPUTE RESOLUTION PROCESS. The court shall not order a dispute resolution process, except court action, when it finds that any limiting factor under RCW 26.09.191 applies, or when it finds that either parent is unable to afford the cost of the proposed dispute resolution process. If a dispute resolution process is not precluded or limited, then in designating such a process the court shall consider all relevant factors, including:
(a) Differences between the parents that would substantially inhibit their effective participation in any designated process;
(b) The parents' wishes or agreements and, if the parents have entered into agreements, whether the agreements were made knowingly and voluntarily; and
(c) Differences in the parents' financial circumstances that may affect their ability to participate fully in a given dispute resolution process.
(2) ALLOCATION OF DECISION-MAKING AUTHORITY.
(a) AGREEMENTS BETWEEN THE PARTIES. The court shall approve agreements of the parties allocating decision-making authority, or specifying rules in the areas listed in RCW 26.09.184(5)(a), when it finds that:
(i) The agreement is consistent with any limitations on a parent's decision-making authority mandated by RCW 26.09.191; and
(ii) The agreement is knowing and voluntary.
(b) SOLE DECISION-MAKING AUTHORITY. The court shall order sole decision-making to one parent when it finds that:
(i) A limitation on the other parent's decision-making authority is mandated by RCW 26.09.191;
(ii) Both parents are opposed to mutual decision making;
(iii) One parent is opposed to mutual decision making, and such opposition is reasonable based on the criteria in (c) of this subsection.
(c) MUTUAL DECISION-MAKING AUTHORITY. Except as provided in (a) and (b) of this subsection, the court shall consider the following criteria in allocating decision-making authority:
(i) The existence of a limitation under RCW 26.09.191;
(ii) The history of participation of each parent in decision making in each of the areas in RCW 26.09.184(5)(a);
(iii) Whether the parents have a demonstrated ability and desire to cooperate with one another in decision making in each of the areas in RCW 26.09.184(5)(a); and
(iv) The parents' geographic proximity to one another, to the extent that it affects their ability to make timely mutual decisions.
(3) RESIDENTIAL PROVISIONS.
(a) The court shall make residential provisions for each child which encourage each parent to maintain a loving, stable, and nurturing relationship with the child, consistent with the child's developmental level and the family's social and economic circumstances. The child's residential schedule shall be consistent with RCW 26.09.191. Where the limitations of RCW 26.09.191 are not dispositive of the child's residential schedule, the court shall consider the following factors:
(i) The relative strength, nature, and stability of the child's relationship with each parent;
(ii) The agreements of the parties, provided they were entered into knowingly and voluntarily;
(iii) Each parent's past and potential for future performance of parenting functions as defined in *RCW 26.09.004(3), including whether a parent has taken greater responsibility for performing parenting functions relating to the daily needs of the child;
(iv) The emotional needs and developmental level of the child;
(v) The child's relationship with siblings and with other significant adults, as well as the child's involvement with his or her physical surroundings, school, or other significant activities;
(vi) The wishes of the parents and the wishes of a child who is sufficiently mature to express reasoned and independent preferences as to his or her residential schedule; and
(vii) Each parent's employment schedule, and shall make accommodations consistent with those schedules.
Factor (i) shall be given the greatest weight.
(b) Where the limitations of RCW 26.09.191 are not dispositive, the court may order that a child frequently alternate his or her residence between the households of the parents for brief and substantially equal intervals of time if such provision is in the best interests of the child. In determining whether such an arrangement is in the best interests of the child, the court may consider the parties geographic proximity to the extent necessary to ensure the ability to share performance of the parenting functions.
(c) For any child, residential provisions may contain any reasonable terms or conditions that facilitate the orderly and meaningful exercise of residential time by a parent, including but not limited to requirements of reasonable notice when residential time will not occur.
[2007 c 496 § 603; 1989 c 375 § 10; 1987 c 460 § 9.]
| *Reviser's note: RCW 26.09.004 was alphabetized pursuant to RCW 1.08.015(2)(k), changing subsection (3) to subsection (2).|
Part headings not law -- 2007 c 496: See note following RCW 26.09.002.
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He had lived in the City of Domes all of his life and had never once questioned what was beyond its walls. As far as he was concerned, the world beyond was a toxic wasteland, destroyed centuries before in a war to end all wars. Nothing could survive out there; the water was poisonous, the plants deadly, and the soil radioactive.
So why did so many run in the belief that there was Sanctuary beyond the City walls?
Why did Logan run?
He gazed down at the small crystal embedded into his palm, seeing the green color that denoted his twenty-second year of existence. Eventually, the crystal would turn black, indicating his thirtieth year, and then he would be able to join others of the same age in Carousel, floating away from this world to a higher plane of existence.
He smiled, recalling the vision of seeing others stretching their arms upwards, some swimming quickly towards their new life while others reveled in the sensation of floating high above the crowd. Cheers would rise with them, reaching a crescendo as each figure was momentarily surrounded by a halo of light before disappearing from this world to begin life anew in the next.
It was a joyous occasion, and a moment to aspire to. It was the culmination of a lifetime of pleasure in the City of Domes with a promise of far more to come.
So why would anyone willingly give up Carousel and run to the outside world where death would come swiftly with no promise of attaining a higher existence? And if the world beyond was truly as deadly as the teachings made out then why bother to give chase to those who wished to escape Lastday? After all, the Sandmen who chased the runners outside the city perished too and hence, they also were denied entry to the next life that was offered through Carousel.
David sighed softly. Logan once told him that this was the price they paid for being Sandmen, and the reason why they were held in such high esteem. They placed their eternal life on the line to ensure that even those of faint-heart were brought back to join in Carousel, knowing they would be thanked when they joined with them in the next life.
That had made sense to David at the time, as it had been his deep-seated belief in Carousel, and his dedication towards ensuring all were given the opportunity to take part in Lastday, which had led him into becoming a Sandman. He took his duty seriously, bringing to justice those responsible for denying another the chance to reach Lastday. Yet, perversely, those found guilty of murder were sentenced to Carousel, though they did not journey to the next life accompanied by the cheers of those left behind. It was said that they journeyed alone, and that they would walk in darkness between this world and the next until they had repented their crime.
Did the murdered ones reach the next life? Was there some dispensation dealt out to those who were denied Carousel through no fault of their own?
Although he had been involved in several chases, only once had he caught a runner. Malcolm 3 had failed to attend his Carousel and the hunt had begun. They had chased the man through the thoroughfares of the city, pushing through the crowded pleasure areas and finally, David had caught up with Malcolm as he attempted to gain access to the underground vents. He had shot the runner in the leg, slowing him down, and then David and another Sandman had brought Malcolm back to the main arena, supporting him between them, and assisting him into his Lastday attire.
"You will thank me in the next life. Be at peace," he had said to Malcolm and then watched as the anti-gravity pulled Malcolm away. He floated upwards quickly, with his fear and resignation-filled eyes focused on David's as if drawing strength from him. David still recalled his intense pleasure at seeing Malcolm enveloped in the white light, his corporeal form glowing brightly for a moment in time before he disappeared, beginning the journey to the next life amid the jubilant cries of those bearing witness. At the time it seemed to David that he had done something of momentous importance, considering Malcolm to be one of the many fortunate ones, for though it was rare for someone to make it beyond the walls of the Domes, those runners were never recovered.
Neither were the Sandmen who had been sent to follow them, giving greater credence to the teachings that nothing could survive outside; something he had believed -- until today.
David pushed a lock of hair back from his face; his eyes riveted on Francis's back as they strode through unfamiliar corridors. He had been guarding one of the main escape routes used by runners, poised in readiness should anyone attempt to break the seal and leave the city, and had been shocked when someone came through from the other side instead.
A bundle had been thrust into David's arms, and he staggered under the unexpected weight of it, only then seeing the exhaustion in Francis's eyes. The request required no spoken word, and David followed on behind as Francis turned away, glancing down at the heavy tome that had been revealed as the tattered cloth fell aside.
David had recognized Francis immediately, even though it had been almost a full year since he had left the City of Domes in the chase of Logan and Jessica, though there had been a rumor that Francis had been seen in the city from time to time. David had put that down to fanciful thinking, but now he had his doubts.
As they paced along the corridor, David remembered that the last time he had seen Francis; recalling his initial awe at Francis's dedication to his duty, knowing that he had denied himself his chance of attaining renewed life through Carousel in the vain hope of bringing his friend back. Francis and Logan would have gone to Carousel together if Logan had not run -- and that event should have taken place many months ago.
Instead the months had passed and most everyone had believed him dead -- along with Logan, Jessica and the Sandmen that Francis had taken with him on that chase.
David shifted his grip on the heavy package uneasily and thought of Logan. It had come as a great shock to him when Logan became the first Sandman ever to run, especially as Logan had always been the most dedicated among them. He had been responsible for saving many runners in the past -- bringing them back to Carousel, and saving their eternal souls. Even stranger was that, only a few days before, David had overheard him planning Lastday with Francis, wanting to celebrate their imminent rebirth. He had seen the joy in Logan's eyes as he talked of Carousel, and he had seen the pleasure there too as Logan cheered on all those who went to Carousel before him.
So what had changed him?
Most believed Logan 5 had not run at all but had been following his duty to recapture the runner, Jessica. However, David had been watching the monitors in the control center that day and he had seen Logan assisting Jessica rather than chasing her. He had witnessed Logan's attack on the other Sandmen and then he had seen him disappear into the forbidden areas below the City of Domes. Afterwards, he had witnessed Francis's rage as he, in turn, gave chase. Yet, when David went to replay the recording on the following day -- just to confirm what he had seen -- he discovered that the recording had been irretrievably erased from the computer system.
Someone had not wanted anyone to know that Logan 5 had become a runner.
David's attempt to trace the origin of the erasure met with failure as he came up against a security code far higher than his code. He brought the information to the attention of another supervisor, and that was the last he heard of the incident, but now he wished he had pursued it further.
Francis had not spoken since stepping back into the city, and David could feel more questions bubbling up inside him as they walked along in silence. His eyes dropped to the palm of Francis's hand automatically, and he took a sharp breath as he noticed that the crystal was clear whereas it should have been black. He glanced sideways at the Sandman who had stepped up to stride beside him on Francis's order, sharing the burden of the heavy package, but Geoffrey had never been one to question anything and would find a plausible excuse for even this. Yet David could not help but wonder at all the inconsistencies he faced.
If the crystal of life turned black on the thirtieth year then why was Francis's crystal clear? And if the world beyond the City of Domes was a toxic wasteland where none could survive, then how had Francis managed to live outside of the Domes for the past year? Also, if he was no longer giving chase then where was Logan? Why had Francis returned without him? And what was in this heavy book that he carried? And where had it come from?
None of it made any sense.
Francis looked directly at Geoffrey. "You wait here." Then his eyes moved to hold David's. "You follow me."
Francis's tone brooked no argument and David glanced once more at Geoffrey, noticing how his fellow Sandman took up position beside the doorway without a murmur of dissent having shifted the weight of the heavy tome back onto David. Only then did David realize that Francis had led them towards one of the forbidden areas of the city. Francis stepped through into the forbidden area, and after a moment's hesitation, David stepped in after him, trailing him through unfamiliar corridors until they reached a dead end. He saw Francis place his palm against one of the strange, engraved patterns on the wall, the clear crystal on his palm fitting into one of the indentations. The wall seemed to part before him, revealing a previously concealed entrance.
With relief, David allowed Francis to take the book from his arms.
The words had been unnecessary for David froze as Francis stepped forward alone, his eyes catching sight of something terrifying that stood in the chamber beyond. It looked like a man but its skin hung in folds down its face, and its wispy thin hair was pure white. Gnarled hands rose in welcome to Francis, and then the door sealed, thankfully hiding the hideous apparition from David's view.
He had a horrifying thought. Perhaps this was where they brought runners or Sandmen who had reached the outside world and then returned. Perhaps contact with the radioactive wasteland had severely disfigured and sickened them so they could not be allowed to rejoin the beautiful people. Maybe they were forced to live here in isolation until their time came to join in Carousel.
It occurred to David that Francis might have remained unchanged because he had never been outside the City of Domes. Logan could have returned upon realizing that there was no Sanctuary, only a slow, agonizing death beyond the City. With his body damaged by radiation sickness, Francis could have brought him here.
He gasped slightly. Perhaps that hideous creature *was* Logan 5.
That last thought sickened David as he remembered the handsome, dark-haired, clean-limbed man with joy-filled eyes who had taken him under his wing when he had first joined the Sandmen. Logan had been his supervisor and David had hero-worshiped him, wanting to be just like him. He had tried to emulate Logan, wanting to be as strong and brave, and wanting to make a difference in the lives of others.
Instead, he had seen his hero defile all that they stood for when he not only aided but also joined a runner in her escape from the City.
He had spent this past year trying to come to terms with Logan's betrayal. Yet, just as he had managed to put the past behind him, Francis had returned, dragging all his questions back into the open and adding even more to the list.
David closed his eyes. It cannot be Logan, he thought, knowing Logan would have joined Carousel immediately upon his return, for his crystal had been flickering to black on the day Logan made his run. And Francis would have joined him in Carousel.
But if it was not Logan then who -- or what -- was it? And why did it greet Francis with such familiarity? And why had Francis taken the book to it?
He felt the beginning of a headache and tried to push the questions aside, wanting his mind to go blank. However, the questions refused to leave him, and try as he might, he could not believe in the trite answers that his mind tried to supply.
Twenty minutes later, the door opened again and Francis stepped back into the corridor. David fell into step behind him, following him back along the corridor to where Geoffrey waited and, eventually, back into the familiar surroundings of the City. They passed through crowded galleries, and across parkland covered by perfectly manicured grass and well tended shrubs until they reached the control center.
Only Sandmen were allowed into the center, but as they crossed the threshold, Francis turned to them.
"Return to your duty stations."
He made no reference to the journey they had taken into the forbidden area of the City or to what David had seen within. It was almost as if he had forgotten that they had been with him -- or didn't care.
Geoffrey turned away immediately but David hesitated, watching Francis disappear inside the center. He raised his hand, palm upwards, and stared at the green crystal, then he looked at the perfect features of the happy people walking past, his eyes dropping to their palms and catching a glint of color from white to red.
No one -- not even a new life -- should have a clear crystal, he thought.
Aware that he was starting to gather concerned looks, David raised his head high and strode back through the crowds, the grey and black of his Sandman uniform contrasting strongly against the lighter pastel almost translucent material preferred by the normal populace. They moved out of his way out of deference to his position within their society, and soon he found he was striding alone through the corridors back to his guard station.
The last hour of his duty shift passed by slowly, with his mind full of the questions he had tried to exorcise earlier. Eventually, he saw his relief approaching, and he greeted his fellow Sandman curtly, unwilling to linger in small talk as he would normally.
It was his routine to go to the pleasure dome to relax after his duty shift, taking his pick of the beautiful women who offered their bodies willingly. However, their bright smiles and eager fingers did little to push away the dark thoughts crowding through him. Instead he wandered along the thoroughfares, refusing offers that would have tempted him at any other time, and eventually he returned to his apartment.
He fell asleep instantly, but visions of Logan as the hideous form he had seen in the shadows filled his dreams, and he awoke covered in a fine sheen of sweat, with his body trembling in fear.
David had to know. He had to know if that apparition was Logan or something else entirely. He had to know why it was hiding in the forbidden area, and what it had to do with Francis.
Swiftly, he cleansed away the fear-induced sweat and climbed into a fresh uniform. David stole through the darkened corridors and across the silent parkways, retracing his steps until he reached the seeming dead-end that concealed the hidden doorway.
He placed his palm against the engraved pattern on the wall, feeling the crystal fill the slight indentation that would have passed unnoticed if he had not been aware of its existence. The door slid open revealing a darkened interior, and David stepped across the threshold, his muscles bunching in fear as the door closed just as silently behind him.
The soft glow of crystal wall light provided the only illumination but it was enough to produce a deep shadow indicating a doorway opposite. David approached it cautiously, his footsteps echoing too loudly in the empty room. He paused on the threshold and saw that the doorway led into a corridor lit by the same soft glow. Swallowing hard, he stepped out and followed the corridor to its end, eyes trying to pierce the deepened shadows collecting in doorways leading to other darkened chambers.
The wall at the end held the same engraved design as the one he had passed through earlier, so David raised his hand and placed his palm against it. He pulled back, cursing his jumpiness, as the wall slid apart silently, revealing a brightly-lit chamber lying beyond.
David froze, staring at the hunched back of the creature he had seen earlier with its wispy white hair trailing down past its shoulders. It turned slowly, revealing the folds of skin that lay like heavy drapes upon its pallid flesh, and its pale blue eyes captured David's.
"Francis?" Its voice was feeble and yet it held an edge of authority.
David took a shaky breath, aware that the apparition had trouble making out his features, and saw a frown deepen the seamed lines on the wizened face.
"No. You are not Francis. So who are you, boy?"
"I'm..." He cleared his throat. "I'm David 12."
"Then take a seat, David 12. It hurts my neck to look up at you."
David sank into the seat opposite the creature, now fully aware that this was a man and yet unable to take his eyes off the seamed flesh.
"Did radiation do this to you?"
The man blinked in confusion and then his eyes widened and he laughed loudly. "No. This is not radiation sickness."
"I thought... perhaps... that you were one of the Sandmen who had gone outside of the City."
"No. These are the ravages of time, my boy." His eyes held sharp intelligence that speared into David. "I am preparing to die, and Francis will be my successor."
David's eyes dropped to the thin, liver-spotted arm, then down to the hand resting on the yellowed pages of the heavy tome David had carried for Francis. The hand turned over, and opened like a bony flower to reveal a clear crystal.
"I don't understand."
The old man leaned forward. "Understand this... by rights I should have you killed for entering this forbidden area. I should have you killed so you cannot reveal what you have seen." He leaned back, with weariness dragging at his features and dulling his eyes. "But I am an old man -- a dying man -- and I feel the weight of lies heavily upon these frail shoulders."
He took a shallow breath.
"The world outside has long since healed, supporting life again. The air is breathable, the vegetation edible and radioactivity is well within tolerance... but the foolish Council of Elders do not want to see the end of the City of Domes. They do not want to see the pure blood of the Dome dwellers mingle with those who endured the centuries outside in the once-radioactive wasteland."
He sighed, then his seamed lips pursed in contemplation.
"Everything you have been taught is a lie. Carousel is a lie."
"Is a means of population control, otherwise the City of Domes would have become overcrowded within a few generations." The man moved with surprising speed, clutching at David's arm. "A necessary evil at the time, but now it is simply murder. No one needs to die when they reach their thirtieth year."
David looked upon the old man in shock. He wanted to scream out that it was all a lie, that Carousel was the path to enlightenment and rebirth, but the old man's words had opened a floodgate in his mind, supplying answers to his questions that he had dared not consider until this moment.
With terrible clarity, David knew the man spoke the truth.
"Why are you telling me this?" He stammered.
"Because the one chosen to replace me does not wish to see the end of the power of the Elders over the lives of the Dome dwellers." His rheumy blue eyes took on a pitying expression. "You cannot change from within for they will silence you, swiftly... but I have given you the knowledge. So run, boy. Run. Find Logan and find a way to help other runners join you. Start a new way of life beyond the City of Domes."
The old man's eyes flicked towards a monitor. "Francis is coming. Hide in the ante-room until he is gone, then run... and live."
David pushed to his feet, still shocked by the words uttered by the old man. He backed away into the shadows, out of sight and waited, with his heart lurching as he heard Francis confirm all he had learned this day.
He waited a long time after Francis left before re-entering the chamber. The old man still sat where he had last seen him, poring over the crumbling yellowed pages of the book, but he reached into a box and withdrew a small metal object that David recognized as the symbol for Sanctuary. The old man pressed the symbol into David's hand.
"It is a key. You know the way out of the City of Domes. Find Logan, for your path lies with him now."
David nodded, his fingers tightening around the key he had been given, his heart hammering in his chest as he creeped along the darkened corridors, terrified that someone might be lying in wait for him. He took a shuddering breath as the doorway to the forbidden area closed behind him, sinking back against the wall.
Had it been like this for Logan? Had Logan discovered the truth about Carousel, giving him no option but to run for his life?
David paused, aware that he could not simply run like a thief in the night. The old man had said he could not change the way things were from within. Perhaps that was true in most respects, but he could sow a seed of doubt, and leave it behind to grow.
No one questioned him as he entered the Control Center and accessed the computer, quickly recording a message and leaving it behind to be triggered at the next Carousel.
Swiftly, David strode through the empty corridors, pausing only when he drew close to the hidden entrance that he had guarded earlier that day. He recognized the Sandman on guard, but David knew what he had to do. He approached Graham 9 with a confidence that belied his inner fear, knowing that only a few seconds remained before he become only the second Sandman ever to run.
David smiled, starting small talk to hide his intention, and then he struck, sending Graham into unconsciousness and pressing the key against the hidden lock. As the doorway closed behind him, David fancied that he could hear the shout raised in Control, his heart beating frantically with the knowledge that he was now, officially, a runner.
The small fire did little to ease the chill from his bones and he drew the blanket firmer around his thin, stooped shoulders. His blond hair had long since turned to silver then white, with his firm flesh thinning and becoming mottled with age.
Strangely, the memories of the distant past seemed closer these days as he recalled the people and places he had once known, remembering the hard journey he had embarked upon that day. Hardship had followed doggedly in his footsteps, bringing grief and pain, but also immeasurable joy.
Eventually he had found Logan, though it had taken several years and, by then, he no longer traveled the path alone. Although Logan had been the first of the Sandmen to run, his flight had been cleverly concealed by the Council of Elders, but David had ensured that no one would doubt that he had run.
One of the first of the runners to come after him had told him of his success, of how the first Carousel following his escape had triggered the message that stated it was all a lie, and that the world beyond was safe. The Council of Elders had reacted swiftly to negate his words but the seed had been sown, and over the years the trickle of runners became a deluge that none could stop.
"Grandfather? Are you ready?"
He nodded once and allowed his grandson to assist him to his feet. He paused and looked deep into soft green eyes that reminded him so much of his own, seeing himself as he had once been; tall and strong-limbed.
As he looked into the bright eyes of his eldest grandchild, he knew that this was a sight he would never have been granted had he remained in the City of Domes. He smiled, treasuring this moment as further proof that he had made the right decision all those years ago. Had he stayed then he would never have known his children, let alone his grandchildren. He would never have shared the grief and joy of watching them grow, seeing them make their own lives and bring laughter and tears into his world.
Only now did he truly realize how superficial his life had been inside the city, where the computer decided parentage with the child produced within a test tube. Machines nurtured the children until they were old enough to fend for themselves and then sent them to the underground city where they lived as half-savages until they reached the age where they could be reprogrammed and slotted into society. They never knew their parents and they never knew their offspring. They never shared their history with the next generation or learned from the previous, and only an uncaring machine noted the passing of their lives, ticking off the time to Lastday and Carousel on the crystals embedded in their palms.
David stepped outside the makeshift tent and stared across the stony desert to where the City of Domes rose majestically towards the sky. Fifty-three years ago he had fled the city, never expecting to see it again, and leaving behind a seed of hope that others would follow and find Sanctuary.
It had taken several years of searching with Logan before he realized that Sanctuary was any place beyond the influence of the City of Domes. It was any place where a man or woman could grow old and die as nature decreed, rather than be led to Carousel before they had even begun to live -- like lambs to a ritualized slaughter.
By then their numbers had swelled as more runners sought them, and eventually, they had settled in a fertile valley far from the city, raising crops and families.
Logan had died only a few months earlier, and though no halo of light surrounded his body as he gave his last breath, no one doubted that he had found his way into the next world. Silently, David wished Logan had lived a few more months -- long enough to make this journey back to the place of their birth.
The cart swayed as it carried David towards the city, drawn by a single horse. It drew to a halt barely fifty feet from the city, and then they waited.
"Grandfather... someone's coming." Jonathan spoke excitedly, his hand reaching back to clasp David's as the outer seal opened wide, revealing the interior.
Though time had ravaged his features, David recognized the old man who stepped from the recently unsealed entrance to the city. He smiled, no longer feeling any animosity towards the man who had hunted Logan -- and then him also -- for so many years before finally giving up and allowing them to live in peace.
"Francis," he replied in acknowledgment, watching as two assistants set two chairs upon the stony ground. Francis took one seat, and David settled into the other, relieved to take the weight off his tired legs.
"He lived a full life... and is now gone."
With hesitant steps, a Sandman came from the Dome, carrying a tray upon which sat a bottle and two glasses. The tray unfolded to form a small table that the Sandman set down before Francis, and then he stepped back, his eyes flickering around as if taking in the immensity of the world beyond the dome for the first time. Francis poured a measure of the pale blue liquor into the glasses and offered one to David, then he raised his glass in a silent toast that set a frown upon David's face in bewilderment.
David straightened, glass forgotten in his hand at the movement behind Francis. His eyes opened wide, lips parting in shock as several young people began to take hesitant steps beyond the City of Domes. David stood up, grateful for Jonathan's strong arm supporting him as the few young people turned into a dozen, into fifty, a hundred and then many more. All of them looked about with eyes wide as saucers, caught between the unfamiliar sight of two old men and the amazing vista set before them.
"Carousel is no more... and from this moment onwards, the City is open for all to come and go as they please."
"And to grow old as they please?"
The sounds of young voices rising in amazement around them answered David's question. They stared at their hands, and David could see that, for every one of them, the crystal of life had lost all color, no longer holding them to a Lastday decreed by a machine.
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The data upon which this presentation is based consist of continuing and protracted observation of 111 patients with Tay-Sachs' disease and Niemann-Pick's disease (Table 1). Twenty-eight of these patients were hospitalized at this institution for extended terms, and of these, 23 have died and 21 have been autopsied.
The studies herein summarized arose from initial observations four years ago, on a single patient with Tay-Sachs' disease. After 15 months of institutionalization, there suddenly began a progressive cranial enlargement. This seemed contrary to the anticipated evolution of a disease which is generally characterized by arrest of development. On the basis of this observation additional children were admitted, and again a comparable head enlargement was noted. This paradoxical increase in head circumference did not occur early in the disorder but appeared during the later stages of the disease.1
Since the initial observations, a total of 28 children afflicted with Tay-Sachs' disease | <urn:uuid:bc30d11b-74b7-4a40-ad01-6bad70d3eecb> | 2013-05-24T01:57:51Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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In Hungary, the 1926 romantic operetta "Countess Maritza" by Hungarian composer Emmerich Kalman is a source of national pride. It's performed at least once every season in theaters across the country.
So when Evanston-based Light Opera Works decided to open its 21st season with this Kalman classic about a Hungarian countess who pretends to be engaged in order to escape fortune-hunting suitors, it commissioned a Hungarian director to capture the heart of a work rooted in that nation's czardas and Gypsy revelry.
Hegyi Arpad Jutocsa, artistic director of the National Theater Miskolc (the second largest in Hungary), will direct "Countess Maritza" with an eye and ear for cultural authenticity. He shared his vision for LOW's production, which runs through June 10 at Evanston's Cahn Auditorium (847-869-6300).
Q. You have directed "Countess Maritza" in Hungary. What draws you to "Countess Maritza," and why is it considered a breakthrough work in the operetta genre?
A. I think it is the best operetta of Kalman. The music is sweet and dramatically unified. It includes Viennese waltzes, Hungarian czardas and jazz elements.
The 20-minute finale is like its own opera in one act. But, most importantly, Kalman has created complex characters who undergo many transformations. We don't often see this in operetta. For example, the bon vivant is not a simple character. He must pretend to be someone else, and he really struggles with his [deception.] The prima donna is required to tackle a [wide gamut] of emotions. Kalman likes to turn around our expectations. The tenor must dance; the prima donna must, at times, be a comic character.
Q. Why is "Countess Maritza" so beloved in Hungary?
A. First, I want to say that operetta is the genre that Hungary gave to the world. And operetta is like the soul of the Hungarian people because it is passionate, playful and colorful. It contains music, drama, comedy and dances. And the dances in "Countess Maritza" are so important. The characters dance to release tension and to cleanse themselves of their worries. In Hungary, we dance when we are happy and unhappy. Our dancing and music can be at once deep, sorrowful and cheerful.
Q. Will the Hungarian dances will be authentic in this production?
A. Lara Teeter [LOW's artistic director] is the choreographer, and he is working with Istvan Majoros, a choreographer from the National Theater of Miskolc, who serves as a consultant on bringing out the passion and playfulness of the Hungarian czardas.
Q. You have staged over 70 plays, musicals and operettas around the world, yet operetta remains your favorite art form. Why?
A. Operetta encompasses all the elements of live performance, from comedic and dramatic situations to various musical styles.
If you start with operetta, you can direct classical dramas, contemporary plays, comedies, tragedies, operas, musicals -- from Gershwin to Shakespeare; from Mozart to Harold Pinter. | <urn:uuid:7731c2ce-089c-4695-bfc5-710ee50dd716> | 2013-05-24T02:06:39Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Wilmette — I was impressed with the courage and cleverness that columnist Carol Marin showed in questioning the Bush policy on the war in Iraq (Commentary, July 23). She and Merle Haggard both proved that you can have doubts about the war and still be a patriot.
Something really bothers me though.
We celebrated the political assassinations of Saddam Hussein's sons. I thought even war criminals deserved a fair trial.
How did the United States become judge, jury and executioner, no matter how heinous the crime? | <urn:uuid:d2b178e3-83d4-481d-b4ae-b614c9db4da1> | 2013-05-24T01:52:53Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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A helicopter dumped almost two tons of garbage at a Nepali airport Monday as part of an unprecedented drive to clean up Mt. Everest, the world's highest mountain. The helicopter unloaded 78 sacks weighing 3,910 pounds, organizers said. The refuse was collected last month by 15 Nepali climbers and flown to Kathmandu from a spot near the peak's base camp, about 310 miles to the east. Empty tins, batteries, ropes, tents, poles, broken crampons and used oxygen and gas cylinders spilled onto the runway. | <urn:uuid:35eb7014-4e43-476c-baab-d5688481f622> | 2013-05-24T01:58:36Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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WASHINGTON: A record number of Indian Americans - at least 12 - are in the fray for the November 2012 polls vying for a place in the House of Representative, reflecting the serious effort of this fastest growing ethnic community in the US to politically empower itself.
Cutting across party lines, these Indian-American candidates are spread all over the country - with two each from California and Michigan.
Congressman Hansen Clare, who is half Indian, is seeking re-election from Michigan, while another candidate Tulsi Gabbard, a Hindu, is receiving massive support from Indian- Americans.
The motivation and inspiration for these Indian-American candidates numbering at least a dozen comes from the phenomenal success of two rising stars of the Republican party, Nikki Haley (Governor of South Carolina) and Bobby Jindal (Governor of Louisiana).
However, majority of the Indian-American candidates are running for the Congress on a Democratic Party ticket.
Indian-Americans have been traditional supporter of the Democratic party, an indication of which comes from a recent survey according to which as many as 85 per cent of the Indian Americans favour re-election of President Barack Obama.
Among the Indian-American candidates seeking election for the US House of Representatives on a Democratic Party ticket are Upendra Chivukula from New Jersey, Raja Krishnamoorthi from Illinois, K P George from Texas, Ami Bera from California, Manan Trivedi from Pennsylvania, Syed Taj from Michigan and Vipin Verma from Florida.
Darshan Rauniyar from Washington, though from Nepal, is considered Indian-American by many.
Hansen Clarke and Tulsi Gabbard are also from the Democratic Party. | <urn:uuid:dfff488c-a497-492f-8f69-20da64106b03> | 2013-05-24T01:30:22Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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SPRINGFIELD, Mo.-- A West Plains woman says she was wrongly and rudely de-planed from a flight departing from Springfield. Laurie Reeves Goss is still shocked she was removed by Allegiant. She thought it was a misunderstanding about her disability, but an Allegiant report gives a completely different reason.
She was California bound for her daughter's birthday. "And see my grandchildren, which I hadn't got to see in two years it took me to save up for this trip," Laurie says.
But Laurie can't actually "see" her grandchildren. "They said, when people are talking to you, look toward their voice," Laurie says. It's how she was trained after going blind.
Using her cane, just as she has for more than 15 years, and boarding the Allegiant flight to Los Angeles, Laurie asked a flight attendant to guide her to the restroom. "She said, you need to put that away! And I said, I will after I am seated, but I'm going to the bathroom and I've got to get back to my seat," Laurie says.
Laurie says she also questioned a flight attendant about her window seat, and then asked a fellow passenger if she'd like to trade. "I said, I'm impaired visually, and it's a waste of a view," says Laurie.
Laurie says they traded seats and settled in, and that's when a crew member approached. "Miss Reeves, do you have your cane? And I said, yes, I do. It's right here in my sheath. And he says, can you unbuckle your seat belt and come with me?" Laurie says.
To her surprise, Laurie says she was led off the plane and placed in a wheel chair. Laurie says she was told the crew felt she was a threat to others, but she wasn't told why.
"I was in shock. I was scared, and I was devastated. I didn't want to be in a wheel chair, because it was demeaning to me to begin with," says Laurie.
Laurie says she was pushed outside to wait two hours for her ride back home. Allegiant filed a report about the incident. | <urn:uuid:222dce09-6a38-441a-91c1-5b1279331fb8> | 2013-05-24T01:44:43Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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VAN NUYS — The trial of a Reseda dentist charged with sexually assaulting two women in his office opened Thursday with defense attorneys attacking the credibility of the doctor's accusers.
James E. Blatt, an attorney representing Dr. Kamal Matian, called one of the alleged victims "a perjurer and a liar" as well as a convicted felon.
Blatt claimed that the 37-year-old woman told at least one other person that she was assaulted by a Canoga Park dentist--but never followed up--and she did not level accusations against Matian until 11 months after the alleged incident.
He also said the woman was a convicted robber and therefore not a credible witness.
Matian, 46, is charged with rape with a foreign object--in this case a finger--two counts of sexual battery and two counts of false imprisonment. If he is convicted on all charges, he would face nearly 20 years in state prison.
The prosecution in the case, being tried in Van Nuys Superior Court, rests on the testimony of the two women, as well as several witnesses who saw the second alleged victim run out of Matian's office in a hysterical state.
Deputy Dist. Atty. Renee F. Urman maintained that Matian groped both women, and used his finger to rape one.
According to prosecutors, the 37-year-old went to Matian in February, 1992, complaining of a toothache. Once seated in an examination chair, she told prosecutors that Matian held her down and put his hand down her shirt. She said she was able to push him off and run away.
The other accuser, who alleged that Matian attacked her Sept. 11, 1992, testified Thursday that she had worked for the doctor for about four months as an office assistant when he approached her in a lunchroom in the office complex where Matian's offices are located.
The woman, a 19-year-old college student, gave tearful testimony about reading a women's magazine when Matian entered the room and smoked a cigarette. After first massaging her shoulder, he then placed his left hand under her shirt and rubbed one of her breasts, she testified.
The woman said that Matian then placed one hand under her stretch pants and fondled her. The woman said she was too scared to move, resist or complain to Matian.
Later, the woman ran screaming from the offices after Matian followed her, insisting that nothing had happened and that he "loved her like a sister," according to the testimony.
Earlier in the day, a Los Angeles police officer described finding the woman running down Sherman Way in a hysterical condition.
"As I approached, she was shaking, mumbling, her eyes were watering," and she was so upset she couldn't talk for nearly 10 minutes, said Officer James Kemerling.
In his opening statement, defense attorney Blatt said the office assistant was reading an article about sexual fantasies in the workplace when Matian entered the room.
Blatt said the woman has given four different versions of the story, with each one getting more brutal, since the time she told Kemerling that Matian merely "grabbed me."
Blatt claimed that the woman ran from the office after an argument over money. In addition to wanting a raise, Blatt said the woman wanted the doctor to pay for part of her upcoming wedding because Matian had been given the honorary title of godfather at the event.
Blatt said his client will explain that the doctor in fact went after the woman in the belief that she was holding the keys to his office.
The California Board of Dental Examiners has initiated administrative action against Matian, but the review of his license to practice medicine has been put on hold pending the results of his criminal trial. | <urn:uuid:62b6a9fe-55f1-4341-a86a-d2a9c39b2c8a> | 2013-05-24T01:31:15Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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CHENNAI: France has no plans to send troops to Iraq under the present circumstances, the French ambassador Dominique Girard said here on Wednesday.
"We still maintain that the US military intervention in Iraq was a mistake" he told reporters here adding that legitimacy in Iraq would happen only when there is UN authorisation for what is taking place in that country.
Maintaining that backing of the international community as represented by UN was most necessary to restore legitimacy and democracy in Iraq, Girard said that UN was best equipped to handle the situation and the best instrument to be in charge of the transition in Iraq.
Pointing out that the stand of both France and India continued to be the same on the Iraq issue, he said that his country had explicitly expressed its view that the war was a mistake.
"France and US are strong allies, but there is no meaning of friendship unless you tell your friend what the truth is", he said adding that even the most benevolent super power was vulnerable to mistakes unless there was a proper understanding of the ground realities.
The need of the hour in Iraq was to restore confidence of the people of Iraq, alleviate their sufferings and give back the sovereignty to the people. This could be possible only when UN was in charge of the affairs. | <urn:uuid:10e1ffb8-fd8d-4874-a648-58c971d65c90> | 2013-05-24T02:05:21Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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CHENNAI: Why is the autorickshaw sector in the city so unregulated? Pose this question to any resident and the response would be: "Most of the autos are owned by policemen and politicians. Why would they take action?"
To clear away such presumptions and ensure that autos run in the interest of the people, the transport department will soon start taking steps to "streamline the system". In a meeting on Thursday, senior transport department officials instructed regional transport officers (RTOs) to identify owners with more than one permit. "Permits are given to help auto drivers gain self-employment and one person having more than one permit defeats the purpose," said an official.
There are two types of permits. One is the owner-cum-driver permit and the other is meant for those who just own an auto, giving them the freedom to rent it to others. "The first type gets misused as there are certain subsidies that come with it," said an official. The owner-cum-driver gets a subsidy of 2,000 to install a LPG cylinder. "The permit also gives special financing options for drivers to own an auto. Often, this permit is bought by those who do not drive," said the official.
RTO officials, however, say the 'streamlining' is not going to be easy. "It will be difficult to identify the owners. But if we have conclusive proof, we will cancel their permits," said the official. In 2008, the state government made it mandatory for all new autorickshaws in Chennai to run on LPG. To see how many actually did, the transport department recently did a check and found that 41,700 of the 66,679 autorickshaws ran on LPG.
Officials claim that the days of policemen owning autorickshaws ended after Tamil Nadu adopted an 'open permit' system. "In the 1990s, permits were limited and were auctioned off by many, including policemen. But in 2007, the government opened up the system and more people began owning autorickshaws," said an official.
Members of auto driver unions agree. "Banks started giving loans and made it easier for one to purchase an autorickshaw. I feel that about 60% of the autos now are owned by the drivers themselves," said M S Rajendran, president of CITU-affiliated auto drivers union. | <urn:uuid:ebad128a-652c-4c3a-a66f-b4eae881cd65> | 2013-05-24T01:52:31Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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stry_cat writes "My company has bought into the FUD and is going 100% Microsoft. Rather than work in this environment and be continuously at odds with upper management, I have decided to seek employment elsewhere. Where do I look for an open source job? I've started with the local paper's Sunday classifieds. I've looked on dice.com and monster.com. However almost all are Microsoft related. The few that aren't are some sort of dinky contract or temp job. So is there a place to find a job in an open source environment?" | <urn:uuid:d984c90d-8f85-410d-b01f-37513da7de81> | 2013-05-24T01:45:00Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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I just created a swap partition out of my useless USB drive (4GB). I'm successfully using it, it shows in the top command and I also edited the etc/fstab to automatically mount it at startup. My ...
In windows it is possible to use usb flash drive as a virtual ram. I wonder if it is possible to do so in ubuntu? If it is, how could one do it? [Edit]: I mean Ready boost equivallent for ubuntu. I ...
The question I have is a little complicated, I'll try to walk you through the problem: Basically, I installed Ubuntu 11.10 onto a USB thumb drive that I formatted as an ext2 partition. I didn't want ...
I am currently running Ubuntu 11.10 off of a SanDisk 16GB USB. I installed it using a Live USB with the following partition configuration: 6GB Primary /dos FAT32 5GB Logical / ext4 5GB Logical ... | <urn:uuid:7a017f20-8643-460f-b425-7cde7b9e9f3f> | 2013-05-24T01:44:48Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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I know, it's shocking. YouTube apologists lie. A lot. The one calling himself Shockofgod has been getting a lot of attention lately, because he claims that he called The Atheist Experience and that his question "terrified" the hosts. Here, take a look:
What's immediately obvious to anyone who's ever watched or listened to an episode of The Atheist Experience is that this isn't us. Of course, that doesn't stop Shockofgod, whose real name is Rich Allen, by the way. Rich, who is known for his YouTube videos in which he mounts a camera to his helmet and rides his motorcycle in traffic while spouting bad apologetics, truly knows no shame. He not only posted the clip above, he posted the following on Yahoo! Answers:
Note the answer he chose as the best answer, and the fact that he totally misrepresented what Michael was saying to him. He dismisses all the other gods, because no one has presented sufficient evidence to support their existence. Likewise, we dismiss his god for the same reason.
Now, you could argue that maybe Rich is just so dumb that he didn't realize what Michael was saying. I'd think that too if he hadn't chosen this answer after I posted the following response to him:
So now that Rich has so thoughtfully provided written evidence of his dishonesty, feel free to call him on it whenever you can. Of course, you can't do that on the video above. He's disabled comments. So now which one of us is terrified again?
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The Italian ski resort of Claviere, where 13-year-old Poonam Bhattal died after falling from a ski lift
Tributes have been paid to Poonam Bhattal, who died after falling from a ski lift during a school trip to the Italian Alps.
The 13-year-old girl is believed to have fallen 16ft on to the piste in the resort of Claviere.
Bhattal was having ski lessons with classmates from the Guru Nanak Sikh Academy in Hayes, Middlesex, when she got on the chairlift on the morning of Friday 22 February.
Although the schoolgirl from Slough initially survived the fall, she died en route to a hospital 25 miles away in Susa.
Skibound, which organised the trip, said Bhattal was pronounced dead at 08:30 GMT on Friday, on the way to hospital.
Local police commissioner Francesco Destro told Sky News: "The ski lift was moving very fast and rising fast when she fell." He said he could not recall a similar accident.
Destro added that the girl was initially conscious and answered questions when officers came to her aid but "did not make it".
Police have launched an investigation and are due to question the teenager's classmates, who boarded the lift with her.
The school's principal, Rajinder Singh Sandhu, broke the news of the teenager's death to her family.
In a statement, he said the half-term excursion was led by the deputy head of the school with the help of two assistant head teachers and "a massively experienced team of eight staff.
"The leader of this trip and everyone associated with it is devastated by the death of an absolutely lovely student."
The school said the vice-principal leading the trip had "vast experience", was "obsessive about safety" and had led 28 trips throughout his career.
"Our thoughts are with the family and all others in the community affected by this tragedy."
A full investigation by the Italian authorities has begun.
While the exact circumstances are not yet clear, the local prosecutor Raffaele Guariniello said he had opened a manslaughter investigation to determine why the safety bar that usually keeps skiers in place had not prevented the fall.
The school party had been on a seven-day trip and remains in Italy.
Friends of Bhattal posted tributes to her on Twitter.
One user, @jaskiretxo, said: "Poonam Bhattal a beautiful girl who we were all so lucky to have known, may our thoughts be with Amreeta and her family. RIP beautiful xox".
Another, @TharanVirdi, posted a photo of a girl wearing black-rimmed glasses, and said: "Poonam, You will be dearly missed, thoughts and prayers go out to your family. Waheguru #gonetoosoon #RipPoonam x".
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Liverpool winger Stewart Downing believes Luis Suarez can reach the 30-goal mark in the Premier League this season after his hat-trick helped beat Wigan Athletic at the weekend.
Suarez is now the division's top marksman having netted 21 goals, and with 10 games remaining will be aiming to become the sixth player in the league's history to net 30 in a season.
The Uruguayan is also among the contenders for the PFA Players' Player of the Year award, and Downing says Suarez could scoop a myriad of close season individual awards.
"Luis is on fire at the minute," Downing said. "He's scoring all different types of goals and if you have a striker like that you've always got a chance of winning games
"To get 21 goals in 27 games in this league is frightening. We've still got 10 games to play so he could easily get 30-odd goals.
"He must have a big chance for the Player of the Year awards. Van Persie, Gareth Bale and him have all had great seasons. It's a hard choice but it should be judged just on performances on the field.
"You can't fault Luis for that. Stuff has gone on in the past but he gets on with it. He does his job brilliantly."
Andy Cole became the first player to reach the 30-goal mark in 1993/94, which is widely considered to be the gold standard in terms of domestic goal scoring, but during an era where the Premier League contained 22 teams, with Alan Shearer completing the feat a season later.
Three players have reached the 30-goal target in the 38-game era of the Premier League, Kevin Phillips of Sunderland in the 1999/00 season and more recently Cristiano Ronaldo while at Manchester United in the 2007/09 campaign and Robin van Persie last season at Arsenal.
Suarez's form has been a significant factor in Liverpool's season, a campaign dominated by inconsistency, with the club seventh with 10 games left.
But victory at Wigan was The Reds' third win on the bounce and Downing admits the club's form is coming together at just the right time.
"It think it's coming together. We've got 10 games to go and we've got to keep winning games," Downing said.
"There's no point saying we want to finish fourth, fifth or sixth. Anything could happen if teams slip up.
"We need to keep chipping away and focus on Spurs. They have some good offensive players but we played them off the park at White Hart Lane earlier in the season and how we lost I just don't know. The way we're playing at the moment I'm confident we can get a win."
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The father of a 14-year-old autistic boy who went missing in dense bush for 28 hours has thanked those involved in his son's rescue.
With his son standing by his side, Peter Dear said his family were very grateful to all Dennis' rescuers.
"I'd like to thank everyone who was involved in finding Dennis. This includes the State Emergency Service, the Salvation Army, the police and the other quad bike riders staying out nearby who joined in immediately and tried to locate Dennis," he said.
Dennis and his father were on a quad biking trip in Flint, 80km south-east of Perth, when they lost each other on Sunday.
With no food or water, Dennis used survival tactics learnt in Scouts and from Aboriginal elders, including using dirt to prevent sunburn and getting water from balga trees.
A footprint spotted by Wagin SES volunteers 16km from where he went missing led them to the dehydrated teen.
Dennis has been recovering in Princess Margaret Hospital and Mr Dear said his son was slowly returning to his usual self."He's feeling well and we eagerly anticipate being able to bring him home in the near future," he said.
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"Alex's Interconnects are fantastic. The Wywires XLRs completely transformed my Bel Canto rig, kicking the Cardas made Bel Canto XLRs to the curbside. The RCAs did a similar number to my Audioquest King Cobra cables in my PrimaLuna rig. What then of the Wywires digital cables? Bits are bits and all that jazz... Digital cables can't make that much of a difference, right? WRONG! In every one of my rigs, the Litespd made a profound and significant difference. In my headphone rig, it replaced a cheap Audioquest spdif cable. In my Bel Canto rig, it replaced a Luminous audio Synchestra spdif cable. In the PrimaLuna rig, it replaced an AudioQuest VDM5 BNC-BNC cable and in my Marantz rig it replaced a Blue Jeans BNC-RCA cable. I used test material from Cesaria Evora, Patricia Barber Pink Floyd, Miles Davis and John Coltrane. What struck me instantly was the smoothness and the air around the instruments. Any trace of congestion in the midrange was instantly removed. The music flowed effortlessly and it appeared as if the frequency range had been stretched at both ends. Instead of the music congealing around the midrange (yes, I do mean congeal), the frequency response was extended in both directions, along with vastly improved sound-staging. Vocals and instruments seemed to float holographically in the center of the soundstage. The difference in most cases bordered on stunning. The difference between the AQ VDM5 with solid silver conductors was smaller, but still significant and definitely audible. Honestly, I was shocked at how much better the Litespd was than the other cables I was using. Yes, the Litespds are significantly more expensive, but in my opinion, completely worth it. So what gives with these cables? Were the other cables not true 75 ohm cables? The lack of shielding of the WyWires should allow RFI and EMI to wreak havoc on the signal, right? Not so! Maybe Alex can opine to why these cables sound so good. Seriously guys, I put my money where my mouth is....and bought 3. This, despite needing to be on a budget. They really are that good!" This was posted a few minutes ago on Audio Circle. | <urn:uuid:fb4c2420-0b95-4651-9725-a53e57e0a2f6> | 2013-05-24T01:52:11Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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One of the many, many things that I foreswore ever doing as a parent, before becoming a parent, was giving my child a pacifier. I didn't really have any good reason, other than disliking the look of them, but still, I'd decided: my child would not have some silicone dummy stuck to her face.
That noble intention was revised about 24 hours after Wonderbaby arrived. I wish that I could say that it was because the lactation consultant told us that it would help with her sucking reflex or because the nurse said that soothers were understood to reduce the risk of SIDS - and they did indeed say these things, which I later dutifully repeated to anyone who looked at me twice when I popped a soother in Wonderbaby's mouth - but that wouldn't, strictly speaking, be true. Those statements provided good justifications for the soother, but really? I padded down the hallway of the maternity ward to the tuck shop on the second day of Wonderbaby's life and bought six soothers to stop the screaming that was becoming the hallmark of any efforts to get her to sleep. To put a cork in it, as it were.
And it worked, brilliantly. For months thereafter Her Bad Father and I would, when rallying our resources to get Wonderbaby to nap or settle down for the night, casually remind each other to cork her. And, thus corked (and soothed and swaddled), she would settle down, and even if she wasn't so reliable with staying down for those daytime naps, she would always happily suck away for at least six hours of sleep at night. (I, of course, would lay awake all night, reassured by the happy sucking noises, but nonetheless on alert for the moment that a) the sucking stopped, or b) the sucking was replaced by a hungry cry.)
That she loved what came to be called her Soovy was clear early on. Once she was able to crawl, and later walk, she would advance upon unsuspecting children and snatch their pacifiers for herself (she usually imposed a swap - I would say negotiate, but Wonderbaby doesn't negotiate - grabbing theirs and offering hers in return. Occasionally, if she was lacking a Soovy, she would simply appropriate one from another child, which was cause for much embarassment, but she would always return it when asked and when offered another in its stead. I did, needless to say, keep a stock of soovies with me at all times.) So it was that we were vigilant against the development of too extreme an attachment. We tried to reserve the Soovy for bedtime and naptime (such as it was) and emergencies, and at earliest opportunity we began suggesting to Wonderbaby that Soovy (along with Toadstool, nee Phallic Lovey) be left in bed in the morning and after naps and for a time she was entirely co-operative.
Then she started part-time daycare, and all was lost. It's a long story, and one that I'm not up to writing about, but Wonderbaby didn't immediately take to daycare. We went through gut-wrenching morning after gut-wrenching morning of child abandonment as we waited for her to adapt and, as we struggled through that process, it seemed to me too cruel to demand that she - abandoned by her sorry excuse for a mother - should be bereft of her loveys. So she was permitted to keep Soovy and Toadstool with her every morning.
And she has not let go of them since.
They're like crack to her now, in a way that they never were before. Deprived of them for any amount of time, she will demand to know where they are (Where Toadstool? Where Soovy? SOOVYTOADSTOOL!!!) If we leave them at home, to, say, venture into public without our child clutching an oversized stuffed phallus and chomping on a soother, she will invariably cry and demand that we return home to fetch them (Home. HOME. SOOVYTOADSTOOLHOME!) (we do not, as a matter of course, give in to her demands. But grocery shopping has suddenly become very, very difficult.)
I'm not sure whether to be concerned about this or not. She's not yet 22 months old, and is, I think, entitled to childish attachments. I don't want to impose my prejudices and aesthetic judgments on her - I don't like the look of the Soovy, I don't like that she's so attached to it, and I would prefer that she not drag a giant stuffed phallus around with her, but aren't those my problems? (Problems, not incidentally, that I created myself. I didn't disdain the Soovy when it helped her suckling reflex and facilitated sleep. And I thought that the phallus - sorry, Toadstool - was funny at first.) There's plenty of time in our shared future for me to insist that she lose this or that offensive accessory, that she not dare walk our front door with whatever thing attached to her face, that she follow my rules under my roof, etc, etc. She's not even two years old. Shouldn't I cut her some slack?
So it is that I've decided (unilaterally; Her Bad Father still wants to fight the good fight against all things Soovy) to let it go. She can have her Soovy, for now.
But goddamn if I'm not going to have fun with it:
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DETROIT -- This isn't Bruce Bochy's first World Series experience against the Tigers. In 1984, he was the backup catcher when the Padres played the Tigers, losing in five games -- the last three at old Tiger Stadium.Bochy had one at-bat in the Series, a pinch-hit appearance for center fielder Bobby Brown in the ninth inning of Game 5, when the Padres were already losing, 8-4, and on their way to defeat. Bochy hit a single to left and manager Dick Williams quickly replaced the slow-footed Bochy on the basepaths with Ron Roenicke, now the manager of the Brewers. "Can you imagine Dick replacing me with a pinch-runner?" Bochy said with a grin. "The nerve of the guy." In the at-bat against Willie Hernandez -- the reliever who was the MVP and the winner of the Cy Young Award in the American League that season -- Bochy hit a long drive down the line that landed in the upper deck in the venerable stadium that once stood nearby on the corner of Michigan and Trumbell. "In my mind it still counts," Bochy said about the foul homer. "I went 2-for-1." Bochy hasn't forgotten about how that Series ended, either. As it became apparent in the final innings that the Tigers were about to wrap up their first (and last) World Series victory since 1968, fans rioted around the outskirts of Tiger Stadium, torching cars, among other things. "Our families were moved out of the stadium in the seventh inning and sent to the airport before the rest of the team," Bochy recalled. After the game, the Padres went out to their team buses, which were almost overrun by rowdy fans. "They surrounded the bus and started shaking it," Bochy said. "A police car was burning. You'd think they'd be happy we lost." Finally a group of mounted riot police ushered the buses slowly away from the ballpark toward the freeway. It was clear sailing from there to the hotel. It was Bochy's only appearance in the World Series as a player. Subsequently, he managed the Padres in their sweep at the hands of the Yankees in the 1998 World Series and was at the helm when the Giants defeated the Rangers in five games two years ago. "It was a big thing for me," Bochy said about that brief appearance in the 1984 Fall Classic. "I'm 1-for-1, and nobody can ever take that away from me."
Theriot scores winning run in second straight title
DETROIT -- When Ryan Theriot found himself on second base with two outs on Sunday, representing the go-ahead run in the top of the 10th inning in Game 4 of the World Series, Hunter Pence figured destiny was kind of on the Giants' side.
"It was just a moment that you really couldn't have written up much better," the Giants' right fielder said. "When Theriot was on second, we were yelling in the dugout, 'Theriot scored the game-winning run in the College World Series!' And you had [Marco] Scutaro up. We just had a good feeling about the moment."
Those feelings were solidified when Scutaro's flare fell into shallow center field, bringing Theriot around to give the Giants a 4-3 lead and eventually seal a stunning World Series sweep of the Tigers at Comerica Park.
Last year, Theriot was an important member of that Cardinals team that miraculously won it all, starting six of their 18 playoff games -- including Game 7 of the World Series. And 12 years ago, while playing for Louisiana State University in the 2000 College World Series, Theriot scored the game-winning run to give the Tigers a national championship.
"It was a single by Brad Cresse to left field," Theriot recalled. "I'll never forget it."
Now, Theriot has won back-to-back championships with two different organizations and has scored two championship-sealing runs.
Not many players can say that.
"Crazy, huh?" said Theriot, the backup infielder who served as the designated hitter on Sunday, leading off the 10th with a single and advancing to second on Brandon Crawford's sacrifice bunt before coming home with the winning run.
"It's a blessing, man. Being on a championship team is really rare. To be on two is unreal."
Giants' pitchers smothering Tigers' big bats
DETROIT -- The story of the World Series through three games has been the Giants' ability to contain the Tigers' offense, notably slumbering sluggers Miguel Cabrera and Prince Fielder.
Calling the pitches and catching every one, Giants catcher Buster Posey has relied on his instincts and the input of the pitching staff, which has the option of shaking him off. It doesn't appear to happen very often.
In Game 3, a 2-0 Giants victory, Ryan Vogelsong retired Cabrera on a popup with the bases loaded and two down in the fifth inning. It turned out to be the Tigers' last gasp.
"I go with my gut," Posey said, referring to pitch selection. "I know Vogey goes with his a lot, too. If I put something down he's not convicted about, he lets me know."
Vogelsong went with an 0-1 fastball up and in that tied up Cabrera, who hasn't been able to get his powerful arms extended in the Series to launch his familiar drives deep to the gaps.
"With Cabrera, he executed two pitches," Posey said, "and got the best hitter in the game out."
Cabrera (2-for-9, both singles, one RBI) and Fielder (1-for-10, a single) have been held in check by a dominant Giants staff that has kept Detroit to three runs in three games and a .165 batting average. The Tigers have a .248 slugging percentage and .220 on-base percentage entering Game 4 Sunday night against Giants ace Matt Cain, who faces Max Scherzer.
"Our pitchers are kind of feeding off each other," Posey said. "They've got to be confident and trust in their stuff. They're doing a nice job of moving the ball around and not letting [hitters] get comfortable. It all comes down to executing pitches, and that's what our guys have been doing."
Pitching coach Dave Righetti referred to the staff's work overall as "grade A, so to speak," but resisted drawing comparisons to the 2010 champions.
"When the stretch ends," he said, "I'll let you know. We've got to pitch to win."
Quick scoring helps propel Giants to 3-0 Series lead
DETROIT -- Long, long ago, the Giants trailed in a game.
The scene was Busch Stadium in St. Louis, circa Oct. 18. The Cardinals closed out Game 4 of the National League Championship Series with an 8-3 victory to claim a 3-1 series lead. Ten days and 54 innings have since elapsed, and the Giants have yet to face another deficit.
A binge of quick scoring has staked San Francisco to a string of early leads, which have proven to be plenty of backing for the club's stout pitching. The Giants have scored in the first or second inning in four of their last six contests.
"That's a recipe that [gives] you a good shot," said Giants pitching coach Dave Righetti. "As you watched our team over the year, the way this team is built, we've been able to come from behind better than we've ever done before, too. I think we're just a dangerous club either way."
Righetti hesitated to contextualize the Giants' recent mastery on the mound, in fear of jinxing the staff. San Francisco has yielded just five runs during its six-game winning streak.
"We have to pitch to win," Righetti said. "That's what you always have to do. The guys understand that."
Giants skipper Bruce Bochy said Sunday that when he joined the organization in 2007, he and general manager Brian Sabean discussed transforming the team from one that boasted a powerful lineup to one predicated on pitching. The adjustment has paid its dividends.
"When you're playing the clubs that you play in [the] postseason, you have to execute," Bochy said. "You have to make your pitches. And these guys have been consistent doing it."
Giants winning despite striking out 'quite a bit'
DETROIT -- As Sunday's Game 4 approached, one of Giants manager Bruce Bochy's biggest concerns was the club's offense.The Giants needed shutout pitching to win Games 2 and 3 of the World Series, because they scored only two runs each night. They also struck out 18 times, including 12 in Saturday's Game 3. These were the same Giants who finished with the National League's second-fewest strikeouts. "We're striking out quite a bit lately, and I think we can do a little better job of trying to put the ball in play than what's happened here recently," Bochy said. "That's what's made us a better club, particularly in the second half." The Giants batted a Major League-high .296 with runners in scoring position after the All-Star break. Before the break, they posted a .225 average in such situations, next to last in the National League.
Sleepless Bochy ready for possible clinch
DETROIT -- Bruce Bochy will have to wait until the offseason to catch up on his sleep.The Giants manager said Sunday that he remained mostly restless through the night as he pondered Game 4 and his ballclub. "You don't sleep well at this time of year," Bochy said. "The wheels are turning. It goes with the territory." It certainly does. Two years ago, after the Giants forged ahead of the Texas Rangers 3-1 in the World Series, Bochy revealed after San Francisco's clinching Game 5 triumph that he had endured a fitful night.
Chris Haft is a reporter for MLB.com. Alden Gonzalez is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Gonzo and "The Show", and follow him on Twitter @Alden_Gonzalez. Barry M. Bloom is national reporter for MLB.com and writes an MLBlog, Boomskie on Baseball. Follow@boomskie on Twitter. Zack Meisel is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @zackmeisel. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs. | <urn:uuid:2def2856-bff7-40bc-82f5-5c61df4882f5> | 2013-05-24T02:06:15Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Last Tuesday, during General Conference Book Club, we discussed Elder Holland's talk "We Are All Enlisted".
In his simple, yet powerful way, Elder Holland declared that we are at war--a war between good and evil. He said that in this "war" the Lord needs people who will "take as their weapons 'every word that proceedeth forth from the mouth of God.'"
He then quotes Elder Packer when he says that Satan's "effort to stop the work will be reasonably well served if he can just bind the tongue of the faithful."
I too believe that we are living in the middle of a struggle between good and evil. I do what I can each day to prevent my friends from becoming casualties of that war and to bring them to a safe place where they can enjoy the peace and love of the Savior.
So, let's review:
Our weapon: "every word that proceedeth forth from the mouth of God."
Satan's weapon: "to bind the tongue of the faithful"
Sounds pretty straight-forward, right? I wondered, "How can we unbind our tongues here in Central PA?"
Later in the week, I was given an opportunity to "unbind my tongue".
After reading 8 different articles in mainstream media that day suggesting that many people are not sure what Mormons believe, I decided to let my friends on Facebook know that I would gladly answer any questions they might have about the Mormon faith.
Sixty-nine comments later, we had ourselves a pretty good discussion. Among other things, my friends learned that, yes, Mormons like tacos, celebrate birthdays, worship God in the name of Christ, perform baptisms for our loved ones, and wear garments as a sign of temple covenants. It was a good exercise in answering questions about our faith.
And I realized how easy it can be to "voluntarily bind our own tongues," if we do not seize every opportunity to "sign on and speak up." What will you do this week to voluntarily UN-bind your tongue and to take as your weapon "every word that proceedeth forth from the mouth of God?"
PS - If you'd like to read the entire discussion, you can access it on my personal FB page. | <urn:uuid:e69ad970-f857-4329-9813-18a2f7ab5ab8> | 2013-05-24T01:45:09Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Several years ago an eastern paper reported this story: One evening a woman was driving home when she noticed a huge truck behind her that was driving uncomfortably close. She stepped on the gas to gain some distance from the truck, but when she sped up, the truck did too. The faster she drive, the faster the truck did. Now scared, she exited the freeway. But the truck stayed with her. The woman then turned up a main street, hoping to lose her pursuer in traffic. But the truck ran a red light and continued the chase. Reaching the point of panic, the woman whipped her car into a service station and bolted out of her auto screaming for help.
The truck driver sprang from his truck and ran toward her car. Yanking the back door open, the driver pulled out a man hidden in the back seat. The woman was running from the wrong person.
From his high vantage point, the truck driver had spotted a would-be rapist in the womans car. The chase was not his effort to harm her but to save her even at the cost of his own safety.
Likewise, many people run from God, fearing what he might do to them. But His plans are for good not evilto rescue us from the hidden sins that endanger our lives. - Michael J. Petri | <urn:uuid:cd0806db-cfa0-4b69-aff4-e3449343659d> | 2013-05-24T02:02:00Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Let's not miss this conversation from John 18 below:
33 Therefore Pilate entered again into the Praetorium, and summoned Jesus and said to Him, “Are You the King of the Jews?”
34 Jesus answered, “Are you saying this on your own initiative, or did others tell you about Me?”
35 Pilate answered, “I am not a Jew, am I? Your own nation and the chief priests delivered You to me; what have You done?”
36 Jesus answered, “My kingdom is
Well, perhaps it is time finally to explain what I mean when I indicate that Rev. 20:4-6 are VISION verses:
4And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ
What follows now is a fairly complete review of Paul's points in I Cor. 15--along with some additional related observations and so on.
And so, here is the first portion of the text:
I Cor. 15
1Now I make known to you, brethren, the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received, in which also you stand,
2by which also you are saved, if you hold fast the word which I preached to you, unless you believed in vain.
It seems that without the physical bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ, our faith is vain.
And it seems also that the Christian faith is absolutely dependent upon it.
And so, let's have Paul tell it:
12 Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?
Now, this verse indicates that Christ was preached that He rose
Let's look again at the "tares and wheat" parable and its interpretation:
24a Jesus presented another parable to them, saying, “The kingdom of heaven may be compared . . .
Stop right there.
Is not Jesus speaking about what the kingdom of heaven can be compared to?
Indeed, he is describing the kingdom of heaven in the parable itself.
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The curious combo is the work of Dr. Frank Sellke, the chief of cardiothoracic surgery at Rhode Island Hospital and his colleagues.
"Well actually I'm a pig farmer from way back. I grew up in Indiana on a pig farm, so I've always had a liking of pigs," Sellke said.
The linking led to the rare research taking a look at the effects of wine and vodka on pigs with high cholesterol.
"So we actually had three groups. One got a high fat diet, one got a high fat diet with red wine and the other group got the high fat died with vodka, which is essentially pure alcohol," Sellke said.
After seven weeks, the findings showed the pigs who were given wine and vodka had greater blood flow to the heart.
Sellke said red wine actually added another benefit.
"Red wine had some antioxidant effects, so not only are you seeing improvement in blood flow, but you're improving heart health," he said.
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Officer Joeris was dispatched to a suspicious subject call in the 1300 block of Sewell. According to residents, a 45 year old white male was looking in windows. When Officer Joeris contacted the subject, the man initially gave a wrong name. The suspect's true identity was confirmed and he was found to have two warrants for his arrest. The suspect was arrested for Failure To Identify and for the warrants.
Finally, Officer Gates was dispatched to a disturbance call in the 2200 block of Clinton. Officer Gates stopped a vehicle leaving the scene of the disturbance. During the investigation, a police K-9 alerted on the vehicle. The suspect, a 30 year old white female, was found to be in possession of marijuana and was arrested. | <urn:uuid:932e32ee-322f-4344-85de-62d4540b8586> | 2013-05-24T01:47:49Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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2000 Regular Session
By: Representative Clark
House Concurrent Resolution 140
(As Adopted by House and Senate)
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION COMMENDING MRS. ANN WHITE UPON BEING NAMED 1999-2000 YAZOO COUNTY TEACHER OF THE YEAR.
WHEREAS, Mrs. Ann White was recently named 1999-2000 Yazoo County Teacher of the Year and represented her district in a statewide contest; and
WHEREAS, Mrs. White, a resident of Flora, Mississippi, furthered her education at institutions of higher learning such as Hinds Community College, University of Mississippi and Holmes Community College; and
WHEREAS, Mrs. White earned a Bachelor's Degree in Education from Belhaven College, a Master's Degree in Education from Mississippi College and completed the World Class Teacher Program at the University of Southern Mississippi; and
WHEREAS, in the Fall of 1992, Mrs. White began teaching second grade at Madison Avenue Elementary School, and in 1994, she taught at East Flora Elementary; and
WHEREAS, currently, Mrs. White teaches third grade at Bentonia Gibbs Elementary School, where she teaches all subjects including reading, math, language, science and social studies; and
WHEREAS, Mrs. White is an active member of many professional organizations including the National Board of Professional Teachers, Mississippi Professional Educators, National Reading Association, Mississippi Reading Association, Phi Delta Kappa International and Phi Theta Kappa; and
WHEREAS, Mrs. White has received numerous awards and achievements such as Outstanding Educator in Madison County, Sweetest Teacher at East Flora Elementary School and Teacher of the Year at East Flora Elementary School; and
WHEREAS, Mrs. White has been lovingly supported in all her endeavors by her late husband Odie White, Jr., and two children, Jim and Lee Ann; and
WHEREAS, this Legislature finds it most appropriate to recognize and commend outstanding educators such as Mrs. Ann White, a teacher dedicated to guiding the young people of this state, who are its future:
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI, THE SENATE CONCURRING THEREIN, That we do hereby commend and congratulate Mrs. Ann White upon being named the 1999-2000 Yazoo County Teacher of the Year and express our deepest appreciation for her services as an elementary school teacher in the State of Mississippi.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That copies of this resolution be furnished to Mrs. Ann White and to members of the Capitol Press Corps. | <urn:uuid:c111d940-9dd9-4e82-a1c9-2a3b972ac610> | 2013-05-24T02:06:54Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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CAMBRIDGE, JOHN, land agent and businessman; b. 13 Dec. 1748 in England; m. 16 Jan. 1775 Mary Winchester, and they had ten children, only four of whom reached maturity; d. 26 Dec. 1831 in Bristol, England.
Before his arrival on St John’s (Prince Edward) Island in 1784, John Cambridge remains a shadowy figure in historical records. A Privy Council report of 1791 identifies him as being “formerly an obscure chairmaker in St. Martin’s Lane” but there are indications that as early as 1777 he was associated with a group of merchants who planned to trade with and promote settlement on St John’s Island. One of this group was the Quaker colonizer Robert Clark* and it may have been the religious link that brought the two men together. Cambridge was known on the Island as a Quaker, and he refused to take oaths in court on religious principles. Nevertheless, he was not connected with the Society of Friends. Indeed, he wrote in 1793 that although “in full belief of Friends principles” he was not “united to the Society.” It is probable that he became a member after returning to England, for he was buried a Quaker.
Cambridge was named Clark’s agent in 1783 and took up the appointment the following spring when he came out with his family to the Island. He was called upon in 1786 to defend his employer’s interests against the Island establishment following an attempt to confirm Governor Walter Patterson*’s seizure in 1781 of part of Clark’s property for non-payment of quitrents. In doing so Cambridge alienated some Island officials; the alienation was later to develop into bitterness and litigation.
John Cambridge was not content to act simply as Clark’s agent. In 1785, with the backing of merchants in London, including his brother-in-law William Winchester, he began commercial activities of his own. He acquired property in the Murray Harbour district in the southeast part of the Island and four years later was able to report that he had built two large brigs, both of which were on trading voyages, one to the West Indies and the other to Portugal. The shipping registers indicate that he was also the owner of a number of smaller vessels. These craft, mostly schooners, kept up a trade with Newfoundland. He built a large sawmill at Murray Harbour and had houses there and in Charlottetown.
By 1788 Cambridge had formed a partnership with William Bowley, another Island resident. Bowley had purchased debts owed by Clark, and Cambridge in turn had a large bill for his wages and expenses as Clark’s agent. Together they sued Clark and the court case, begun in 1789, developed into protracted litigation, with countersuits and appeals dragging the matter out until the end of the century. Even before the conclusion of the court battle Cambridge was able to gain control of Clark’s assets and land, establishing himself as a substantial merchant.
His relations with members of the colonial administration were not good, however. He had supported Lieutenant Governor Edmund Fanning* against the doomed Patterson faction on Fanning’s arrival in 1786 but this support, predicated on a quick resolution of the problem caused by Patterson’s illegal expropriations, did not last long. Of lesser officials Cambridge became excessively intolerant. He was a strong-willed individual who, when he considered himself slighted, took full measures to obtain what he considered justice. In 1787 he carried a complaint against Isaac Swan, a petty Patterson supporter, to the governor and Council; in another incident two years later he was able to persuade that body to dismiss high sheriff Walter Berry for irregularities. He was less successful when he brought charges against the attorney general, Joseph Aplin* – a poor move, since Aplin was usually successful in the courts whatever the law. As a sharp merchant Cambridge was especially conscious of any apparent favour extended to his competitors and, when he learned that collector of customs William Townshend* was allowing use of the Îles de la Madeleine for the evasion of customs duties, he was quick to publicize the fact. In doing so he precipitated a struggle because Townshend retaliated by seizing several of Cambridge and Bowley’s vessels for smuggling. The latter case dragged on for three years with Cambridge complaining that he could not obtain justice in the Island courts. It was not until 1791 that the case was settled, but by then Cambridge’s complaints had been broadened to include almost the entire government of the colony.
In concert with John Hill*, another Island merchant, Cambridge and Bowley in 1791 brought charges of malfeasance before the Privy Council in London against Townshend, Fanning, Aplin, and Chief Justice Peter Stewart*. Cambridge carried the complaints to England in a petition that he persuaded a number of the Island’s absentee proprietors to sign. The general charge was that the officials had formed an illegal combination to rule the Island and oppress all who opposed them. A collection of lesser grievances, some going back to Patterson’s time, included partiality in the courts, election irregularities, and petty harassment. Hill later stated that in presenting the charges Cambridge spent time on the politics of the colony and none on the facts of the case. Much of Cambridge’s difficulty arose because 12 of the 18 signatories, including Bowley, withdrew their names before the charges were presented. Cambridge and Hill were the only resident proprietors whose names appeared on the document and both seemed prosperous in spite of their lack of favour with the officials. The shaky presentation was rebutted by Fanning’s personal emissary, Robert Gray, and the case was dismissed the following year.
By October 1792 word of the outcome had reached the Island and Cambridge’s troubles began in earnest. The notice from London was made public and his support and credibility sank. He was summoned before the House of Assembly to explain allegations he had made concerning members of that body, and after an investigation the house ordered that “the false and malicious words . . . be burnt under the gallows by the sergeant-at-arms.” The same year suits totalling £55,000 were launched against him and Bowley by the four officials on charges of malicious prosecution. Cambridge attempted to have the suits tried in Nova Scotia owing to the partiality of the Island courts. He received the lieutenant governor’s permission to do so, but he was unable to raise the necessary securities in case the decision should go against him. The trials were therefore held on the Island before judges who had a financial interest in the outcome. After verdicts were found for Aplin and Townshend in 1793, Cambridge agreed to settle out of court for Fanning’s and Stewart’s expenses. Total damages recovered amounted to £2,480, and Cambridge later reported that with his own expenses the complaints to London had cost him more that £10,000. He was forced to spend a short time in jail before he could convince the four officials of his ability to pay.
Because making the settlement would quickly exhaust Cambridge’s assets, the officials, who were more interested in payment than in revenge, agreed to assist him in recovering funds from Hill and Bowley. The latter were each asked to contribute one-third of the settlement, and when they refused legal action was brought against them. In 1793 suits prepared by Aplin were successful and resulted in executions against their property on the Island. Within days the property of Hill, who was absent from the Island, and the valuable Greenwich estate, belonging to Bowley and his children, were sold at auction by the sheriff and passed into Cambridge’s hands; Bowley himself was forced to flee under cover of darkness to avoid imprisonment. Attempts at appeal were refused by the courts and the governor in council in 1794, and Bowley was forced to appeal to the king in council in 1796 to have the case reopened on the Island. Hill, too, had to bring an action in London against his former associate and was successful, but before he could move against Cambridge the latter’s assets were placed in the hands of a trustee. Hill appears to have given up at this point but Bowley’s action was not settled for almost 50 years. In length and complexity the case Bowley v. Cambridge rivalled the celebrated Jarndyce case in Charles Dickens’s novel Bleak house, which was ended only when the total assets of the estate were swallowed up in legal fees.
Cambridge’s legal problems were exacerbated by business reverses. In 1794 he lost the support of his backers in England and his few remaining assets were seized by creditors. His schooner Endeavour was taken that year by the French on a voyage to the West Indies and he was left with no capital to rebuild his business. The loss of his London backers was the low point of his career. Faced with a report that even William Winchester, his brother-in-law, had joined the creditors, he considered leaving the colony and going to the United States. However, on learning that Winchester had stood by him and that it had been the other partners who had taken the action, he and his wife resolved to stay on the Island. The lieutenant governor and principal officers gave him encouragement. In a letter to Alexander Ellice*, a Montreal merchant for whom Cambridge was agent, he reported that “the People in the Island in General are much attached to us, and lament our failure, and hope we shall get into business again.” That he was able to do so was the result of a fortunate precaution. It appears that Cambridge had placed his affairs in the hands of a trustee “as the property of a bankrupt,” but he may not have declared bankruptcy. At any rate the move was sufficient to relieve the pressure on his finances and he was able to begin again. He kept the secure base at Murray Harbour and returned to the shipping of lumber and livestock to Newfoundland.
The key factor in Cambridge’s ability to rebuild lay in the fact that he retained control of several large parcels of property, much of which he had obtained through lawsuits. He seems to have made an effort to bring settlers to his lands and thereby avoid the attacks of those who would escheat for non-payment of quitrents. With this base he was able to continue efforts at settlement and the lumber trade. His mills processed timber from his own land which he then sent to Newfoundland in his own ships. By 1801 he had won back the contract to supply the garrison with fuel and had a new vessel on the ways, the first in ten years. It was launched the following year and Cambridge wrote to his wife that the ship, after proceeding to Liverpool with a timber cargo, was to sail to Ireland for a load of Irish Protestants “in order to preserve our lands from forfeiture.” Perhaps it was the renewed threat of escheat that prompted him in 1805 to sign with Charles Worrell* and William Townshend a memorial to Lieutenant Governor Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres citing the efforts of himself and other proprietors, including John MacDonald* of Glenaladale and Lord Selkirk [Douglas*], in settling people on their lands and contributing to the Island’s prosperity. In 1806 Cambridge was commended by the assembly for his efforts in this regard.
It was the timber trade that brought Cambridge fortune, and this prosperity he shared with the rest of the colony. Initially the trade was part of the Gulf of St Lawrence commerce and most cargoes went to Newfoundland. Shipping to Britain was too expensive and there was often a long search for a return cargo. From 1803 until 1807 only about two cargoes a year went across the Atlantic from the Island as a whole. The situation began to change in 1807 when the Napoleonic blockade of ports on the Baltic Sea opened the British North American timber trade. The Island was well suited to fill the demand: because it had many small harbours where trees grew close to the water’s edge, timber could be easily moved and loaded. In 1808, 41 vessels left the Island with shipments for Britain and the following year the number swelled to 78 despite what Cambridge termed “an uncommon bad season” with timber left behind because of deep snow. The trade brought manpower shortages to the colony and high prices. Oxen, usually raised for food, were employed in the woods and the provisioning of ships left food scarce. Sales to Newfoundland fell off dramatically.
Ships were a necessary element of the Cambridge operation and John lost no time building and acquiring them. From 1808 there was rarely a year when a new Cambridge vessel did not appear on the register and often there were several. When the timber trade stabilized after 1817 Cambridge remained successful by entering a new form of commerce, later followed by James Yeo*, which combined the exporting of timber with the building and marketing of vessels. In 1824 four ships were registered and twice that number in the following year. Many of these vessels were large, fully rigged ships in excess of 300 tons; the Cambridge (536 tons), launched in 1826, was one of the largest built on the Island. In his will, made in 1829, Cambridge instructed his sons that he had “found the most effectual way of getting my debts remitted . . . to be by building a ship annually and by loading her with timber” and disposing of both in the United Kingdom. Family correspondence reveals that in spite of prosperity the firm was never far from a financial crisis as dependence on credit was a necessary part of long-distance trade.
Other operations of the Cambridge firm also seemed to do well. In 1808 he boasted that his mill at Murray Harbour was perhaps the first in North America equipped with an 18-unit gang saw cutting 7,000 feet of deals a day. A new venture was the construction of a brewery at the Bird Island (Wrights) Creek mills near Charlottetown. Unfortunately it was not a success, in part because food shortages had raised the price of barley on the Island.
In 1808 Cambridge, whose family figured in all his business affairs, formed a partnership with his son Lemuel and his son-in-law George Wright*, son of Thomas Wright*, the surveyor general. Wright did not have the business sense of other members of the Cambridge family and the partnership was dissolved in 1813 when John took his other son, Artemas, into the company, now termed Cambridge and Sons. In the next few years control of the firm passed more and more to the sons, who were described by Lieutenant Governor Charles Douglass Smith* as “very fine young men & of the very best reputation.”
With some stability in business and his sons in charge of the Island operation, Cambridge, at the urging of his wife, who had run the business whenever her husband was in England, decided to conduct the British end of the firm’s transatlantic commerce. He apparently moved to Bristol in 1814 and did not return to the Island in his later years. By the time of his departure he seems to have made his peace with the colonial administration. He was nominated high sheriff in 1809 but declined, citing his Quaker beliefs, and his son Lemuel served instead. By 1813 he was noted as being an intimate friend of Chief Justice Cæsar Colclough.
When he died in 1831 at age 83 Cambridge held 102,000 acres on the Island, almost one-tenth of the total. In addition he and his family owned extensive mills, shipbuilding facilities, and stores, and the Cambridge estate was the home of at least 5,000 people, many of whom were tenants. There is no doubt that Cambridge was the greatest Island landowner of his day but his empire, like many others, was built on credit. The lands had been heavily mortgaged to provide capital for shipbuilding and expansion. Seven years after Cambridge’s death Samuel Cunard* and others purchased the mortgage for £12,000 sterling and in 1841 gained possession of the entire estate. In the same year the Island’s Court of Chancery finally decided Bowley v. Cambridge. After twice reaching the king in council, and following the death of both litigants, the case was resolved when the court divided Bowley’s estate equally between the claimants.
John Cambridge was hardly a typical merchant of his time. His religious beliefs in great measure governed his actions even in commercial dealings. After losing the case brought by the four government officials he wrote in 1793, “It has been my diligent study to keep a Continual Void of offence towards God first and to give no just grounds of offence towards my fellow men.” Yet he was a sharp merchant who used the courts as a weapon against all who dared oppose him, including attorneys who failed to win his cases. He exhibited tenacity in the face of odds that caused others to give up and return to England. The reports we have of him are mostly assessments made by his enemies and they exhibit a bitterness coming from close and protracted conflict. However, when his own letters and his actions are examined, Cambridge emerges as a man of principle in a society which had little regard for that quality.
[John Cambridge is the author of A description of the Island of St. John, in the Gulf of St. Laurence, North America . . . by a person many years resident there (London, [1798?]) (see PRO, T 1/4144: 17–26); a copy of a subsequent edition, A description of Prince Edward Island . . . by a person many years resident there (London, 1805), is available at PANS.
Few of Cambridge’s business papers survive, but those that do throw valuable light on business operations in the early nineteenth century. The PAPEI possesses two letter-books covering the period 1793–1801 and 1808–9, at Acc. 2984/4 and RG 6, Supreme Court, case papers, 1808–9, respectively. The former provides details of Cambridge’s struggle with the colonial officers and the ensuing court battles; the latter is extremely useful for details of the timber trade on Prince Edward Island. A letter-book of Cambridge’s wife, Mary, covering the period 1811–12 is found on pp.17–114 of a collection of Charles Wright papers owned by Mrs J. T. McIntyre of Calgary; photocopies are available at PAC, MG 24, B133. Additional letters from Cambridge to Alexander Ellice are found in the Ellice papers at the NLS, Dept. of mss, mss 15113–26, available on microfilm at the PAC, MG 24, A2.
Cambridge’s affairs appear frequently in Colonial Office correspondence, with the following references being most useful: PRO, CO 226/9: 176; 226/10: 29, 135–37, 234, 238, 252–93; 226/11: 17; 226/12: 12, 27; 226/13: 21–45, 207, 218–19, 280–82, 377–78; 226/14; 226/15: 172; 226/16: 186 et seq., 248; 226/17: 107–48; 226/18: 162–206; 226/19: 72–74, 204 et seq., 233, 347, 352; 226/20: 106–8, 142; 226/21: 110; 226/23: 65–74; 226/27: 78–83; 226/28: 53, 220–22; 226/29: 67–71, 115; 226/30: 177–80; 226/34: 391–99; 226/39: 49–54, 260, 416–22; 226/42: 132; 226/47: 166. Minutes of the Island’s Executive Council, found in PAPEI, RG 5, have references to Cambridge on the following dates: 12 April 1787; 15 Dec. 1788; 12, 16, 19–20, 23–24 March, 6, 27 April, 5 May 1789; 26 April, 17 July 1790; 7, 30 Oct. 1792; 23 Feb. 1793; 25 Oct. 1796; 6 Aug. 1799.
Details of ship ownership by members of the Cambridge family are found in PAC, RG 42, E1, 1658; PAPEI, RG 9, 2; and the Prince Edward Island Register, 3 Jan. 1826, 16 Jan. 1827, 29 Jan. 1828, 13 Jan. 1829, and 9 Feb. 1830. A significant amount of information concerning Cambridge is found in the Prince Edward Island court records (PAPEI, RG 6), which were examined for the entire period. This source is especially detailed for Bowley v. Cambridge, 1793–1841 (RG 6, Court of Chancery papers, box 1). Material regarding the Privy Council appeals in the case is at PRO, PC 1/64/B.30; 1/65/B.33, 35, and 38; and 1/66/B.40. These collections shed much light on Cambridge’s litigious nature. Information concerning his land holdings is scattered throughout PAPEI, RG 16, land registry records. Cambridge’s will is located in the Estates Division of the Supreme Court of P.E.I. (Charlottetown), liber 2: f.198.
Secondary sources which proved useful include: Canada’s smallest prov. (Bolger), pp.37–94; Warburton, Hist. of P.E.I., 255–65; and W. S. MacNutt, “Fanning’s regime on Prince Edward Island,” Acadiensis (Fredericton), 1 (1971–72), no.1: 37–53. h.t.h.]
PAPEI, Acc. 2984/4, Cambridge to [Flowden?], 28 Sept. 1793; Cambridge to B [William Winchester], [c. 1793]; Cambridge to Alexander Ellice, 26 Nov. 1794; RG 3, journals, 18 Dec. 1806; RG 6, Supreme Court, case papers, 1789, Cambridge, Bowley & Co. v. Clark; 1790, Townshend v. the Adventure; 1790, Townshend v. the Elizabeth; minutes; RG 16, land registry records, conveyance reg., liber 8: f.94; liber 49: f.203. Private arch., George Wright (Charlottetown), Cambridge family Bible. Bristol Gazette, and Public Advertiser (Bristol, Eng.), 29 Dec. 1831. Bristol Mirror, 31 Dec. 1831. Felix Farley’s Bristol Journal, 31 Dec. 1831. Royal Gazette (Charlottetown), 28 Feb. 1832. | <urn:uuid:e2cda49a-f74e-4c73-9650-0df271c0f1c5> | 2013-05-24T01:44:19Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Usually adult organisms are more sophisticated than corresponding larva, i. e. frogs, mosquitoes, fish. Are there species where the opposite is true?
First let me agree with the commenters that your question doesn't really make sense. Nonetheless here's an example that you may find interesting. Arachnocampa are insects that spend almost their entire lives as larva. These larva spin silk trap lines which capture and poison prey. They can only live in windless places (wind will mix up the lines) so to lure insects into caves they glow. By contrast their imago forms are short-lived poor fliers which are unable to eat. | <urn:uuid:40691af3-e12d-43ec-b7db-1211f9822178> | 2013-05-24T01:30:10Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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|Community-Scale Biomass Energy: The Facts|
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When community-scale biomass energy systems are well-designed, well-run, and sustainably supplied, it is a positive, proven, renewable energy option that can be practical and safe, can strengthen our economy and security, and can help ease the urgent strain on our planet’s ecosystem. And, in regions throughout the United States with abundant forest resources, it is available now.
Community-scale biomass energy systems burn biological material—most often wood from low-quality trees—in highly efficient, high-temperature combustion systems to produce heat. Sometimes, these systems also produce a certain amount of electric power (this is called CHP, combined heat and power). But the most efficient use of biomass for energy is to provide space heating and domestic hot water. Community-scale systems typically provide this to single buildings, such as schools and hospitals, or to groups of buildings such as college campuses, industrial parks, or whole towns or cities through “district heating” systems.
Community-scale biomass systems that produce heat or CHP are different from electric power plants, which are generally much larger and mainly produce electricity for broad distribution. Biomass-fueled technology is only about 20-25 percent efficient at producing electric power; at producing heat, it is 70-90 percent efficient. Power plants sometimes (though this is rare) sell the excess heat they generate, where it is economically feasible and if there is an appropriate user nearby; this is only 40-45 percent efficient. Technology is also being developed that can use biomass to produce liquid biofuels. Community-scale thermal applications are the most efficient biomass energy technologies—they do the best job of turning biomass fuel into energy, with the least waste.
Systems of this type have been in use since the early 1980s, and have built a track record of safety and reliability. Today, a growing number of community-scale systems, most fueled with woodchips and some with wood pellets, are delivering heat and hot water to schools, businesses, colleges, hospitals, city centers, and whole communities across the northern United States, Canada, and north and central Europe.
Biomass fuel can be used in a wide range of technologies, from home woodstoves to power plants. Because community-scale thermal systems combine high-efficiency combustion with sophisticated emission controls, this technology meets and exceeds all emission-safety standards, while providing heat energy at relatively stable fuel prices from a local fuel source.
When wood fuel is harvested responsibly from well-managed forests, community-scale biomass energy is a sustainable whole system. It keeps energy dollars circulating in the local and regional economy, by using a renewable fuel that is harvested nearby—and its carbon emissions are re-captured as the forests that supply the fuel continue to grow. In contrast, fossil-fuel systems extract carbon that is buried underground in geological deposits, then add it to the atmosphere over time.
Finally, by developing a reliable, local market for low-quality wood, biomass energy can create a new financial incentive for forestland owners to manage their forests for long-term productive health, lessening the pressure to “high-grade” (cut only the most valuable trees and leave the rest). The revenue stream for biomass fuel can help landowners make ends meet, also relieving the pressure to sell woodland for development.
Benefits of Using Biomass at the Community Scale
Modern Community-Scale Biomass Energy Systems Use Sophisticated Emission Controls
Biomass energy systems emit 1/6 of the sulfur oxides, which contribute to acid rain, than do oil-fired systems. Nitrogen oxide emissions are about the same as oil.
When Their Fuel Is Harvested Responsibly from Sustainably Managed Forests, Biomass Systems Can Be Low-Carbon, or Carbon Neutral Over Time
Good forest management is essential to realizing the carbon benefits of biomass energy. Key factors include: where trees are harvested, how they are harvested, how this plays out over the landscape and over time, and whether management practices support long-term forest health. It is also important that biomass energy systems be well-designed and efficiently run. When these positive factors are in place, converting from oil- or gas-fired energy to biomass can reduce net CO2 emissions by 75-90 percent.
A Well-Managed Biomass Fuel Industry, Coupled with Sustainable Growth in Demand, Creates New Incentives to Protect and Preserve the Working Forest Landscape
Image Captions (from top to bottom)
A typical below-grade woodchip storage bin at a public school.
Woodchips being conveyed from the storage bin to to the boiler room.
The 2010 installation of Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont exemplifies a community-scale biomass application.
Woodchips burning inside the combustion chamber of a biomass boiler.
The chipping of low-grade wood from harvesting operations in the forest. | <urn:uuid:a906d319-cb20-4de8-b92e-cdac6c1b9921> | 2013-05-24T01:50:39Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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- Occurred at 10:48AM(4/16) –
Beacon St/ Winchester St
During a routine traffic stop officers found that the operator was driving after their license had been revoked. The operator was arrested.
Breaking and Entering of a Motor Vehicle
- Occurred between 8:00PM(4/15) and 7:25AM(4/16) – 21 Sgt Crossway
Victim reports that upon returning to their vehicle the rear window was smashed and the purse that was left on the front seat had been taken. The purse and its contents were found by a neighbor. Police are processing the scene. Probable suspect was arrested at 4:00AM this morning after being seen in the area acting suspicious.
- Occurred between 6:30PM(4/15) and 8:10AM(4/16) –
130 Warren St
Victims report that upon returning to their vehicles items had been taken. In one vehicle the purse which was left on the front seat was taken. The other vehicle an iPod had been taken. Police are following up on these cases. Probable suspect was arrested at 4:00AM this morning after being seen in the area acting suspicious. | <urn:uuid:d75a0da4-9ea9-4ad5-8ca5-93619c808a00> | 2013-05-24T02:04:41Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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A Quote by Lewis Carroll on sight, semantics, and nobody
'I see nobody on the road,' said Alice.
'I only wish I had such eyes,' the King remarked in a fretful tone. 'To be able to see Nobody! And at that distance, too! Why, it's as much as I can do to see real people, by this light!'
Source: Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, Pages: Chapter 7
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Jean (Gad Elmaleh), a shy young bartender, is mistaken for a millionaire by a beautiful seductress named Irene (Audrey Tautou). When Irene discovers his true identity, she abandons him, only to find that a love-struck Jean has no intention of letting her get away. Jean’s comical attempts to gain her affections gradually evolve into setting himself up as a gigolo at a luxury hotel, until Irene finally starts to warm to her persistent, persuasive suitor. Against the wildly atmospheric backdrop of the south of France, Pierre Salvadori (APRES VOUS) directs this sexy and thoroughly charming romantic comedy, which is a fresh re-imagining of the cinema classic, BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S. (Source)
Find more trailers and clips on our homepage. | <urn:uuid:711902f2-d1f6-40f5-a778-e0744250f51e> | 2013-05-24T01:51:32Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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What philosophy do you follow?
You scored as Existentialism. Your life is guided by the concept of Existentialism: You choose the meaning and purpose of your life.
“Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.”
“It is man’s natural sickness to believe that he possesses the Truth.”
More info at Arocoun’s Wikipedia User Page… | <urn:uuid:25907a22-4201-4ab6-bd10-864c9f15d830> | 2013-05-24T01:59:16Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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David Walker's RSS Creator
"A system that leverages SFX and Metalib to create RSS feeds for any journal or newspaper indexed and abstracted in a library's subscription databases.
flash RSS Creator 0.1"
That pretty much sums it up. The system is password protected (htaccess), which won't work in Bloglines but will work in a variety of desktop tools. I hope more libraries integrate similar RSS services into their online services. | <urn:uuid:6858dfaa-10cd-4b62-a189-4614a1c658a3> | 2013-05-24T02:07:18Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Let's Blog: Passivity vs. Activity
So I had this question that I forgot to ask last week and it has been grating on my mind ever since. On page xvi of Hal Foster's "Compulsive Beauty", there is a quote by Pierre Naville, and a subsequent discussion about it. And although this may be a topic for later discussion, I was really wondering if anyone had greater perspective on how the Surrealists viewed the concepts of Passivity vs. Activity.
The passages point towards the fact that photography was a more "surrealist" art form than was painting. And although I get that the photograph is a representation of the "event" or the "situation" (not sure if I get this either), I view it as decidedly passive ( the ça a été nature of the photograph).
I don't know whether the "conformist" art of the time (wasn't this around the time of cubism?) seemed to premeditated to Naville or what, but he seems to reject painting as unimaginative (or does he say that they cannot possibly represent the feelings of fantasy and dream, and that is why they are not-surrealist)? | <urn:uuid:fa0c5fbe-1191-41b9-acf9-9e474604c53f> | 2013-05-24T02:00:26Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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There seems to be a lot of confusion out there as to the best sources of
omega-3 fatty acids. This article will break down the major sources of omega-3’s
and give you the information you need to make educated choices.
First, there are three main types of omega-3 fatty acids: DHA, EPA and ALA.
DHA (docosahexaenoic acid) and EPA (Eicosapentaenoic acid) are found in fish and
ALA (alpha-linolenic acid ) is found in plants like flaxseed. When you choose an
omega-3 source, we suggest that you select a healthy balance of all fatty acids,
but make sure you are getting enough EPA and DHA, as these fatty acids are
responsible for the majority of the health benefits of omega-3’s.
This is important to remember: if a food or supplement states it is high in
omega-3, it does not necessarily mean it is high in EPA and DHA. For example,
although flaxseed oil is six times richer than most fish oils in omega-3’s,
flaxseed oil contains mainly ALA, not DHA and EPA. Unfortunately, our bodies can
only convert ALA into DHA and EPA in very small amounts. Scientific studies have
revealed that fatty acids from fish or fish oil, but not flaxseed oil, benefited
patients with cardiovascular disease and ADHD. More... | <urn:uuid:82b38e36-bd38-498b-91e2-62814b756eda> | 2013-05-24T01:57:37Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The estranged father of singer Charice Pempengco of the hit TV show "Glee" was stabbed to death in her hometown in the Philippines, leading the teen star Tuesday to pull out of a concert in Singapore.
The singer apologized to her fans for having to skip the show scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday so she could travel home to the Philippines.
"I am not going to be there to be part of David Foster and Friends concert," she said in a post Tuesday on Twitter. "I have to go back to the Philippines as soon as possible to be with my family."
Her father, 40-year-old construction worker Ricky Pempengco, had been at a small grocery store in San Pedro township south of Manila late Monday when he brushed against a drunk man who became angry and stabbed him with an ice pick in the chest and back, according to the Laguna province police chief, Senior Supt. Gilbert Cruz.
A manhunt has been launched for the suspect, with a 20,000 pesos ($470) award for information leading to his arrest. Cruz said the killing appeared random and there was no indication the suspect and victim had any prior grudges.
Charice had long been estranged from her father. Local media reported that Charice's mother left him when Charice and her younger brother were small children.
In another Twitter post Tuesday, Charice said she once had a "really great relationship" with her father before their family troubles began.
"I loved him and I will still love him," she wrote. "He's still my Dad after all."
The 19-year-old songstress, born Charmaine Clarice Relucio Pempengco, is widely known throughout Asia from concerts and TV talent shows in the Philippines and South Korea.
She has said she would borrow bus fare to travel to amateur singing contests, and eventually broke into the American market when she was invited at age 15 to appear on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" after the show had seen a fan video of her on YouTube that went viral.
She also appeared on the "Oprah Winfrey Show" and has had a recurring role on "Glee" as the character Sunshine Corazon. | <urn:uuid:2b404d01-0ee0-4f08-b8af-4cffc3abbb18> | 2013-05-24T01:51:34Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Thu December 20, 2012
Former Official Sentenced To 35 Years For Role In Rwanda's Genocide
An international criminal court has found a former Rwandan government official guilty of genocide and other crimes, sentencing him to 35 years in prison for his role in the Hutu-led government's murder of ethnic Tutsis on an epic scale. The trial is the last stemming from events 18 years ago.
As Gregory Warner reports for NPR's Newscast unit:
"Augustin Ngirabatware was the planning minister in the militant Hutu-led government that ruled in 1994. Charged with distributing weapons at checkpoints for Hutus to kill ethnic Tutsis, he was found guilty today of genocide, incitement to commit genocide, and rape as a crime against humanity. He was sentenced to 35 years in prison by the United Nations tribunal based in Arusha, Tanzania.
"Ngirabataware was captured in Germany in 2007 and was the last defendant to be tried by the tribunal first set up in 1994."
He was found guilty for his role in a genocide that killed up to 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus in a period of about 100 days.
As the court wrote in its judgment, "A number of Prosecution witnesses described Ngirabatware as being tantamount to 'a god' in the region."
Ngirabataware "is the son-in-law of Felicien Kabuga, Rwanda's most wanted man, according to court documents," says the BBC, which adds, "Mr Kabuga, who has a $5m (£3m) bounty on his head from the US, is one of nine people indicted by the [International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda] who remain at large."
While the U.N.'s international tribunal based in Arusha, Tanzania, is set to be dismantled in 2014, any future cases will be heard by either Rwandan or other international courts.
As Frank Langfitt reported back in September, Rwanda's economy has become an unlikely success story, with regulatory improvements and a recent average GDP growth rate that tops 7 percent.
Rwanda's President Paul Kagame has been credited with ushering in a new era for his country, bringing innovative changes to its agricultural systems and the wider economy. | <urn:uuid:79d2cc40-50ba-4a97-831b-74a4b4a1fcc2> | 2013-05-24T01:58:10Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Number 2 (in Notre Dame and perhaps college football history): Frank Leahy
His .864 winning percentage (87-11-9) is bested only by Knute Rockne. His innovative "T-formation" offense changed the game of football forever. A former tackle on Rockne's teams of the late 20s, Leahy was an ambassador of the grand Notre Dame tradition in the finest sense, capturing four national championships, an incredible six undefeated seasons (four with a tie), and went on a ridiculous 39-game unbeaten streak in the late 40s (that included two ties).
In addition, he coached four Heisman Trophy Winners and took part in one of the greatest games in college football history, the 1946 0-0 tie against a then-powerhouse Army squad; a battle that gave the Irish a national championship. A solid argument could be made that Leahy is the greatest coach in college football history (especially when considering the "era" factor), but on this list Coach Leahy comes in at Number 2, not surprisingly because of:
Number 1: Knute Rockne
Let's put the statistics aside for a second. Rockne is a figure of culturally historic proportions. A figurehead of the Roaring Twenties on a level with Babe Ruth and Charles Lindbergh, Knute played a major role in shaping the national entity that college football is today. Barnstorming his squad around the country, including to the West Coast to play teams like Southern California, Knute was a marketing genius, transforming college football into a sport with nationwide appeal and recognition and Notre Dame into its most recognizable brand.
Without Knute, the sport's growth would have been greatly stunted — struggling to break free from its largely midwestern confines — and the small Catholic school in the small Indiana town of South Bend would never have become home of the most storied football team in the history of the game.
On the sidelines, Rockne was peerless in his success. In his 13 years as head coach of his alma mater Rockne posted an all-time best 105-12-5 record (that's winning 88.1% of his games, folks) and collected six national championships and five undefeated seasons with teams that included George Gipp, the Four Horsemen, and Frank Leahy. | <urn:uuid:206dc936-5d0d-4f3d-b6a5-60510bcf4b26> | 2013-05-24T01:58:27Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Petition for Review of Removal Order Denied
In Valadez-Munoz v. Holder, No. 06-72510, a petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' (BIA) dismissal of petitioner's appeal from the Immigration Judge's (IJ) order of removal, the court denied the petition where 1) the BIA did not improperly determine that petitioner had "falsely represented himself . . . to be a citizen of the United States" under 8 U.S.C. section 1182(a)(6)(C)(ii)(I); and 2) the BIA did not err when it determined that petitioner could not take advantage of the timely recantation doctrine.
As the court wrote: "Jose Valadez-Munoz, a native and citizen of Mexico, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' (BIA) dismissal of his appeal from the Immigration Judge's (IJ) order of removal. Specifically, he asserts that the BIA erred when it determined that he was removable because he had made a false claim of United States citizenship, he was not entitled to cancellation of removal due to a break in his continuous physical presence in the United States. We deny the petition."
- Read the Ninth Circuit's Decision in Valadez-Munoz v. Holder, No. 06-72510 | <urn:uuid:d6423792-3974-4a27-9f85-da1e46d9637e> | 2013-05-24T01:51:06Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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With the latest release of Test::Class::Most, I added the is_abstract feature. With this, you can declare a test class like this:
package TestsFor::TV::Episode::Broadcast; use Test::Class::Most parent => 'TestsFor::TV::Episode', is_abstract => 1;
is_abstract is a non-inherited property of a test class which says "I'm abstract" (no surprise there) and you can check it with:
The reason for that is simple. Imagine you have a TV::Episode class, but it's an abstract base class which should never be instantiated. You actually have a TV::Episode::Broadcast and TV::Episode::OnDemand classes which are the concrete implementations. You can make tests work in your test classes very cleanly with this. | <urn:uuid:7a44b292-605b-404c-9c07-aa17037d39a8> | 2013-05-24T01:37:00Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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July 18, 2012
Since the Industrial Revolution, ocean acidity has risen by 30 percent as a direct result of fossil-fuel burning and deforestation. And within the last 50 years, human industry has caused the world’s oceans to experience a sharp increase in acidity that rivals levels seen when ancient carbon cycles triggered mass extinctions, which took out more than 90 percent of the oceans’ species and more than 75 percent of terrestrial species.
Rising ocean acidity is now considered to be just as much of a formidable threat to the health of Earth’s environment as the atmospheric climate changes brought on by pumping out greenhouse gases. Scientists are now trying to understand what that means for the future survival of marine and terrestrial organisms.
In June, ScienceNOW reported that out of the 35 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide released annually through fossil fuel use, one-third of those emissions diffuse into the surface layer of the ocean. The effects those emissions will have on the biosphere is sobering, as rising ocean acidity will completely upset the balance of marine life in the world’s oceans and will subsequently affect humans and animals who benefit from the oceans’ food resources.
The damage to marine life is due in large part to the fact that higher acidity dissolves naturally-occurring calcium carbonate that many marine species–including plankton, sea urchins, shellfish and coral–use to construct their shells and external skeletons. Studies conducted off Arctic regions have shown that the combination of melting sea ice, atmospheric carbon dioxide and subsequently hotter, CO2-saturated surface waters has led to the undersaturation of calcium carbonate in ocean waters. The reduction in the amount of calcium carbonate in the ocean spells out disaster for the organisms that rely on those nutrients to build their protective shells and body structures.
The link between ocean acidity and calcium carbonate is a directly inverse relationship, which allows scientists to use the oceans’ calcium carbonate saturation levels to measure just how acidic the waters are. In a study by the University of Hawaii at Manoa published earlier this year, researchers calculated that the level of calcium carbonate saturation in the world’s oceans has fallen faster in the last 200 years than has been seen in the last 21,000 years–signaling an extraordinary rise in ocean acidity to levels higher than would ever occur naturally.
The authors of the study continued on to say that currently only 50 percent of the world’s ocean waters are saturated with enough calcium carbonate to support coral reef growth and maintenance, but by 2100, that proportion is expected to drop to a mere five percent, putting most of the world’s beautiful and diverse coral reef habitats in danger.
In the face of so much mounting and discouraging evidence that the oceans are on a trajectory toward irreparable marine life damage, a new study offers hope that certain species may be able to adapt quick enough to keep pace with the changing make-up of Earth’s waters.
In a study published last week in the journal Nature Climate Change, researchers from the ARC Center of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies found that baby clownfish (Amphiprion melanopus) are able to cope with increased acidity if their parents also lived in higher acidic water, a remarkable finding after a study conducted last year on another clownfish species (Amphiprion percula) suggested acidic waters reduced the fish’s sense of smell, making it likely for the fish to mistakenly swim toward predators.
But the new study will require further research to determine whether or not the adaptive abilities of the clownfish are also present in more environmentally-sensitive marine species.
While the news that at least some baby fish may be able to adapt to changes provides optimism, there is still much to learn about the process. It is unclear through what mechanism clownfish are able to pass along this trait to their offspring so quickly, evolutionarily speaking. Organisms capable of generation-to-generation adaptations could have an advantage in the coming decades, as anthropogenic emissions push Earth to non-natural extremes and place new stresses on the biosphere.
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Looping a symbol animation when a stop command has been used
I'm trying to make an interactive animation and I have a graphic that is an animation and added to the library as such and this has been placed into the overall timeline. At one point in the overall animation I have stopped everything using the stop command. However I still want this particular piece of animation to play as everything else is paused. What is the best way of going about this.
Any ideas as I've been looking around but don't seem to be getting anywhere. I'm using Flash CS6
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How many units do you use to attack a dead zone territory? Is there a formula or computation that can be used to discover the optimal number of units to attack with?
Consider the Eastern European front with Russia holding Karelia and Germany holding Eastern Europe, with the Ukraine as a dead zone (3 IPC). Presume Karelia has sufficient infantry support to resist a German invasion and vice versa, and that the only sort of attacking that's going on at this stage in the game on this front is the tit for tat taking and retaking of Ukraine.
Now, say it is Russia's turn and that they have, say, 25 infantry in Karelia and 2 fighters and Germany has one infantry in Ukraine. How many troops does Russia attack with given two fighters? What if Germany has two infantry in Ukraine? What if Russia has only one fighter?
I'm curious if there is a general formula for ascertaining the optimal attack ratio. Using a calculator like this one seems a necessity, but what sort of likelihood of winning the attack do you aim for? 60%? 80%? Higher? | <urn:uuid:9605e26b-7bdb-4627-b30b-85c57522f339> | 2013-05-24T02:05:52Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Question about Statistics - Regression Model
A. develop a regression model that could be used to predict the final average
in the course based on the first test grade.
b. predict the final average of a student who made an 83 on the first test.
c. give the values of r and r2 for this model. Interpret the value of r2 in the content of this problem.
A Complete, Neat and Step-by-step Solution is provided in the attached file.
This answer includes:
- Plain text
- Cited sources when necessary
- Attached file(s)
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stubby wrote: my floppy penis gets first dibs on it for tradition's sake, but it doesn't seem likely that he'll want to stick around long enough to play.
Ham701 wrote:You're right, I'm such a disgrace to my country. Obviously, Portugal is the real World Power here, it's strong economy can overcome any foe in the western Iberian peninsula. The Portuguese people can also be remembered for their vast cultural influence on places such maybe Brazil. What's more, Portugal was the defining country in the Allied Efforts on all fronts of World War I. Their President, Anibal Cavaco Silva is a true world leader by which everyone knows his name.
Silverdream wrote:Yo hablo espanol. Es mejor que portugues.
Legofighter wrote:Silverdream wrote:Yo hablo espanol. Es mejor que portugues.
Espanol es mejor que portugues!
Estoy de acuerdo!
*CRAZYHORSE* wrote:Não maldição assim. Você ainda é um menino.
Silverdream wrote:pesgores wrote:*CRAZYHORSE* wrote:Não maldição assim. Você ainda é um menino.
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Like Brussels and Luxembourg, Strasbourg is mainly known as headquarters of the institutions European Union. But this French city has so much more to offer.
Strasbourg has a magnificent old town, which is completely enclosed by water. The most striking building is the Notre-Dame Cathedral. This magnificent Gothic cathedral was mainly built between the 11th and 15th centuries. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It is 103 metres long and has the shape of a Latin cross. The most important attraction in the cathedral is the Astronomic Clock.
A number of European Union institutions are based in Strasbourg. If you follow the “Palais de l’Europe” arrows, you can view the buildings of the European Union from the outside. You can only visit the debating chambers and the hemicycle on the invitation of a Member of the European Parliament. In the vicinity of this complex of EU buildings, there is also a new building devoted to human rights, the Palais des Droits de l’Homme, which is an architectural marvel. | <urn:uuid:10e30345-dc6b-4764-8ee3-03f59a0d5ea5> | 2013-05-24T02:06:34Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Please provide your contact information:
For your security, please do not include any private data in your message, such as date of birth, social security, credit card or driver's license numbers. If your issue involves this kind of data, call 800-922-8228 | <urn:uuid:e6f4cc15-333d-41ac-a9b5-f243314a5b78> | 2013-05-24T01:44:22Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Genetic Variations: Drug Metabolism SNPs
When a person takes medication, many proteins in his or her body interact with the drug as it is transported throughout the body, absorbed into tissues, metabolized into more active forms or toxic byproducts, and excreted. If an individual has SNPs in any one or more of these proteins, they may alter the time the body is exposed to active forms of a drug or to any of its toxic byproducts.
Researchers now have the tools to study how genetic variations can influence an individual person's response to a drug. They can even capture information on metabolism-related genetic variations that occur among different genders or ethnic groups. The data they are collecting should help to explain why certain persons within a population may have different side effects in response to the same drug or some may respond to therapy better or worse than others. | <urn:uuid:a265ad62-d1d6-4980-b52d-7932964807eb> | 2013-05-24T02:05:00Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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I looked at the cuckoo clock hanging from the wall of my shop. Four o’ clock? I smiled.
I had prepared the water in advance. It was still piping hot on the stove. I poured some in my cup and saucer, and walked back over to my table. I carefully steeped the tea, poured the sugar and milk, and just then…
The Cheshire Cat waltzed in.
A half smile curved on my lips. “You’re just in time. I was helping myself to some tea.” I said, politely.
“Ah, I’ll have cream only please.” She said.
“Very well. What brings you here today?” I asked.
She cocked her head to one side. “Brings me here…what…hm. Ah, yes, I saw the White Rabbit last night.” She said as she collected her thoughts. Silly cat.
“Fascinating.” I said, “Was her temper as unruly as it always has been?”
“Quite.” The Cheshire Cat said with a laugh, “But that never deters me from speaking to her.”
I nodded. “I wouldn’t see how anyone could resist talking to you. Much less her.” I said, “Besides, she’s lonely. She’s lucky to have you around.”
“Well the business is this: The White Rabbit has decided to return to Vulgarland.” The Cheshire Cat said.
I spit out my tea in a fine mist before me. “WHAT?!” I asked, nearly choking.
“Oh Mad Hatter…is it really so surprising? She would have had to return eventually.” The Cheshire Cat said, licking the cream in her teacup.
I regained my composure. “Well…I suppose. However, don’t you think it’s a bit soon? After all…there’s a new toy for the Queen’s leisure. To come back would mean her ultimate demise…” I said. I actually liked The White Rabbit very much, I did not wish to see her dead.
The Cheshire Cat grinned. “We’ve already established that. And therefore, she is requesting our aid.”
I nodded. I knew this day would come. I lifted the hat off of my head and rested it on the table. I ran my fingers through my silky strands of orange hair. It was a good thing I was content at the moment…I was quite mad on occasion.
But now I would have to put that madness to use very soon.
“I suggest you call on The Dormouse, The March Hare, The Caterpillar, and perhaps those twins as well…” I said.
The Cheshire Cat pouted. “But that means that I’ll be doing all the work.”
“From the looks of how long your nails are, you barely lift a finger. And I know how much you love The White Rabbit.” I said with a chuckle, “If it’s too much to ask, then I shall pay the Twins and The March Hare a visit myself.”
I finished my tea and got up. I gazed at myself in a full length mirror at my dark green vest, black suit pants, topped off with black combat boots. “Are you even able to see your reflection?” I asked.
“Of course silly.” The Cheshire Cat said, “But let’s not change the subject here. As you know, I do believe that us citizens have grown quite unhappy under the Queen’s rule. Don’t you think we should do something to change that?”
“Ever since that mortal walked into our realm, our fates were already changed.” I said, “So it’s only right that we act now.”
The Cheshire Cat smirked. “Look at us, total rebels. What we speak of…is traitorous.”
“Ay. But if we don’t rid ourselves of this awful Queen, we’ll all be killed eventually. And I in particular, don’t want to have to continue to count the days until it happens. Don’t you agree? There’s no point in living here if we must live in fear and disgust.”
The Cheshire Cat nodded. “That’s precisely the reason why The White Rabbit thought that she would be better off leaving. But I knew better, because she is still as anxious as ever. As long as The Red Queen lives, so will all of our fears.”
“I find it rather endearing that The White Rabbit left so that she could return as a white knight of some sort.” I said with a smile.
“Indeed. I deigned to tell her the way to kill The Red Queen.” The Cheshire Cat blurted.
I whipped my head around from my reflection. “I do believe my ears have mistaken me…did you just say that you KNOW how to kill The Red Queen?” I asked, my voice getting sharp.
The Cheshire Cat lowered her eyes. “I do. But I cannot say. It is not the right time. You of all people should understand that better than anyone…since you drink your tea at precisely four o’ clock, every day.”
“You are right. You must keep that secret hidden well, lest your tongue be cut from your mouth. Then again, you’d probably just make it disappear as soon the Queen would try to retrieve it.” I said with a laugh.
“Have you seen our little ‘Alice’?” The Cat asked, with a suggestive smile.
“I haven’t. I assume that he’s not a particularly good looking lad, from what I’ve heard.” I said.
“Just wait until the Queen fixes him up proper. He’ll be more beautiful than a thousand princes.” The Cat said gleefully. She stroked her tail.
“Hm. Sounds darling. I can’t wait to see just what kind of man she makes out of him.” I said with a wink.
I put on my top hat and grabbed my walking cane. “Well, I had a nice chat with you. But now there is much work to be done. I’ll be on my way now.” I said, opening the door to the shop.
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Fawcett Stadium is named for John A. Fawcett. Mr. Fawcett was a former member of the Canton Board of Education and a well-known athlete. He died of pneumonia at the age of 44, a few years before the stadium was built. Celebrating 75 years of memories in 2013.
Opened in 1950, the 60-year-old Canton Memorial Field House is home to the McKinley basketball and volleyball teams.
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GADTs augment the syntactic category constr-decls thus. The first “concrete example” of a new type is expressed as
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Hi, my name is Beatrix Kiddo! I'm a exquisite, 4 yr old, spayed female black cat. I'm precious and gentle and I like to be petted and cuddled. I'm a little shy around new people. I hope I find a calm, quiet home soon! If you would like to meet me, I'm not at the shelter, I'm at the New Hartford PetSmart Adoption Center!
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To evaluate Boca Junior's talent and brand management strategy, an to consider the risks and opportunities involved. To consider challenges and opportunities in running sports businesses with a global appeal but a relatively small domestic market.
Brand management; Branding; Globalization; Marketing strategy
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- Industry: Soccer
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Outreach Coordinator's Handbook
Jeff E. Brooks-Harris, J. Judd Harbin, Laura W. Doto, Paulette M. Stronczek, & Bert H. Epstein
1. Developing a Philosophy of Outreach
- Why should you provide outreach on your campus? What is your purpose? What are your beliefs about the value of outreach? What is your philosophy of outreach?
- It may be helpful to clarify the reason you are doing a particular workshop. Is the purpose of this workshop to: (a) educate about a particular topic, (b) give people tools to use, (c) help them think in a new way, or (d) advertise the counseling center?
- Two common philosophies of outreach include prevention and development.
- A preventative philosophy of outreach assumes that outreach programs are designed to prevent negative consequences from occurring on campus. More details about three levels of prevention are provided in the next section, Outreach as Prevention.
- A developmental philosophy of outreach assumes that outreach interventions can be used to enhance or accelerate normal development.
- A developmental philosophy is not based on the assumption that there is a problem to prevent but that there is experience to enhance.
- Developmental outreach can help student develop skills, attitudes, or knowledge.
- To learn more about different outreach philosophies, you might want to read some of the Books about Workshop Design. For example...
- Developmental Interventions: Theories, Principles and Practice by Drum & Lawler (1988) describes an developmental philosophy.
- Preparing, Designing, Leading Workshops: A Humanistic Approach by Cooper & Heenan (1980) describes a humanistic philosophy.
- Workshops: Designing and Facilitating Experiential Learning by Brooks-Harris & Stock-Ward (1999) describes an experiential learning philosophy.
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Kanye West wants to move to Paris. The rapper's girlfriend, reality TV star Kim Kardashian, is expecting the couple's first child this summer and the rapper wants to move the whole family to the French capital once the tot is born.
"Kanye has his heart set on it. And when Kanye wants something, Kanye gets it. Period. He's obsessed with moving to Paris," a source said.
However, Kim, 32 - who is famously close to her family - is unhappy about her partner's plans and trying to convince him to spend the first six months of their baby's life in Paris before making Los Angeles - where they recently purchased a huge mansion - their permanent base. The insider added to OK! Magazine ,"Kim's mother Kris Jenner is adamant that it's a terrible idea. She's worried. The baby will be born at Cedars Sinai [hospital in Los Angeles] where her niece and nephew were born. Kim loves Paris but would never give birth to her first child away from her family. She met with doctors in Paris so she could set up for the child's first six months. She has agreed to spend the first six months in Paris with Kanye and their child."
Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries faked their televised marriage proposal.
The former couple - who have been fighting about how to legally end their 72-day marriage since October 2011 - re-shot scenes of the 28-year-old basketball player popping the question to the reality TV star because she didn't like how she looked during his original proposal, according to a deposition given by Russell Jay, who is producer on Keeping Up With The Kardashians, ahead of their divorce trial.
According to a transcript of the deposition - obtained by Life & Style magazine - Kim was "completely surprise"' by Kris' first proposal and asked for the scene to be filmed again because "she didn't like how her face looked in the first take."
Russell also claimed that a scene where Kim confessed to her mother, Kris Jenner, that she was having trouble in her marriage was actually shot after she filed for divorce, and that another scene which saw the then-couple argue after Kris had a hotel party with girls while Kim was supposed to be out of town was also "faked" and that she was actually present the entire time.
Khloe Kardashian's ex-stepmother has branded her a liar.
Ellen Kardashian - who was married to The X Factor host's father Robert before his death from cancer in 2003 - claims the 28-year-old reality TV star, her brother Rob, 25, and her older sisters Kim, 32, and Kourtney, 33, weren't close to their father before his death and dismissed their accusations that she married him on his "deathbed."
"I was with Robert for almost five years total. I dated him for three years, and he proposed to me in 2001. We married two months prior to his passing in 2003 and planned a wedding -- we didn't just run right out and get married. In fact, I met with the girls just the week before to go over all our plans. We had a beautiful wedding with the girls and all of his family at our home. It's sad they choose to lie when they know their father was so happy on that wonderful day. I have nothing to hide. I have not belittled them or chastised them or said shameful things about them. If this was about money, I would have done this nine years ago, because I'm not the one who was left the insurance policy," she said.
Kris Jenner and her husband Bruce are more in love than ever despite recent rumors he wanted a divorce.
The Keeping Up With The Kardashians stars - who have been married for 21 years and share two biological daughters together, Kendall, 17, and Kylie, 15, as well as eight step-children - are reportedly still crazy about one another and Bruce is said to be hugely proud of his wife, who has successfully managed the careers of their entire family including her world famous daughters Kim, Kourtney and Khloe Kardashian.
"Kris and Bruce are doing just fine. Bruce would never, ever leave Kris because he is too much in awe of her," a source said.
Earlier this month the 63-year-old Olympic gold medalist reportedly consulted a lawyer because he was fed up with Kris, 55, flirting with younger men and her increasingly large ego. But a source close to the couple insists that they are not heading for a divorce because they are still madly in love. "Sure she pushes his buttons and p***es him off from time to time, but deep down inside Bruce is crazy about her. She's the boss of the relationship and he knows this," the insider said.
Bruce Jenner is allegedly preparing to file to divorce from Kris Jenner.
The 63-year-old Olympic gold medallist is said to have consulted a lawyer after 21 years of marriage because he is fed up with Kris, 55, - who manages her entire family's careers - flirting with younger men and her increasingly large ego. "Bruce feels that Kris treats him like a doormat, and he's had enough. She constantly belittles his appearance and complains to mutual friends that he's a boring old fart. Then she has the gall to flaunt her relationships with younger guys in his face!" an insider told The National Enquirer.
Bruce shares two biological children with Kris, daughters Kendall, 17, and Kylie, 15, but they both have four other children each from previous relationships, including her world famous daughters Kim, 32, Kourtney, 33, and 28-year-old Khloe Kardashian.
Kris Jenner has warned Kanye West to stop talking about Kim Kardashian's sex tape.
The musician recently rapped about the intimate video his girlfriend made with her ex Ray J in 2003 but after TMZ claimed he used to watch it to get himself in the mood while having sex with his previous lovers, her mother Kris told him off.
"Kris had stern words with Kanye when she saw that he said he would put Kim's sex tape on while romping with other women. She thinks it's a disrespectful claim and told Kanye to stop talking about it at every given opportunity. As far as Kris is concerned, the video with Ray J is history and since then Kim has become a reality TV star, a fashion designer, even a philanthropist - so she's moved on. By bringing up the past, Kanye is making it worse for Kim, but he doesn't see it as that much of a big deal," a source said.
Kris Humphries' legal team hid a subpoena in a delivery box for Kanye West.
Lawyers acting for the basketball star and his estranged wife Kim Kardashian appeared in court today as part of ongoing divorce proceedings and the reality TV star's lawyer Laura Wasser revealed the ploy to the judge.
According to the lawyer, Kris' representatives tried to serve the subpoena to the rapper by putting it into a box from department store Nortstrom and having it sent to his girlfriend Kim's house. Ms. Wasser also complained that her client has already racked up a $250,000 bill in attorney's fees yet it is unclear what Kris - who is seeking an annulment as he claims the couple's 72-day marriage was a fraud - is trying to achieve in dragging out the proceedings.
She added that there was evidence to confirm reports that Kris and his legal team want to put reality TV on trial, noting they had also served Kim's mother and manager Kris Jenner with a subpoena as well as NBC Universal and Bunim/Murray, which produces the Kardashian reality shows.
Kris Jenner is angry at Kanye West's "Perfect B****" tribute to Kim Kardashian.
Kim is said to be flattered by her boyfriend's latest tribute - which tells how he's been with so many girls but now found his ideal woman - but her mother is upset at him referring to her as a b****.
"Kris told Kim to get a grip, saying no woman should be called such a term," a source told The Daily Star.
Kanye, 35, debuted the new song at New York's Dream Downtown club last Friday, where he was partying with Leonardo DiCaprio. He reportedly pulled out a laptop and asked DJ Reach to blast out his new songs. Those who heard it said "Perfect B****" contains numerous references to Kim's famous curvaceous figure and eye-popping butt. The hip-hop star previously rapped about being in love with Kim on "Way Too Cold," which referenced her ex-husband, basketball player Kris Humphries.
"Perfect B****" will be featured on Kanye's upcoming Cruel Summer album.
Kris Jenner orchestrated the release of Kim Kardashian's sex tape, a new source claims.
The showbiz matriarch could have deliberately released her daughter's sex tape in 2007 in order to catapult the Kardashian family to stardom, according to a new source who backs the rumors started by Kim's soon-to-be ex-husband Kris Humphries.
"Kris was totally involved in arranging the sale of Kim's tape. The video already existed, and Kris was there every step of the way as a middleman brought in to market it to an adult entertainment company," said a source, who passed a polygraph test.
Savvy businesswoman Kris now manages her six children and husband Bruce Jenner's careers, and the insider claims she approached Vivid Entertainment to market curvy reality star Kim's sex tape to then boyfriend Ray J. "I saw Kris Jenner's signature on the contract; I believe she got somewhere between $250,000 and $500,000 for the original deal with the middleman," the source added.
Kim Kardashian has reportedly told her mother to stay out of her relationship with Kanye West.
The 31-year-old beauty has been dating the rapper since April and things are going so great between the pair Kim doesn't want her close-knit family and especially her mom Kris Jenner to do or say anything that could jeopardize the romance.
"Kim has been telling her family members, and especially her mom Kris Jenner, to stay out of this relationship. She doesn't want anyone telling her what to do or how to act or what to say publicly about Kanye. Kim has said that she knows how to have a strong relationship and she doesn't want anyone else to try and tell her the right thing to do," a source close to her said.
Kim and Kanye - who were friends for eight years before deciding to embark on a romance - have been virtually inseparable since they started dating, with the reality TV star joining the "Gotta Have It" hitmaker on tour and to Haute Couture Week in Paris, France, earlier this month.
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Travis to get custody?
"I'm getting custody of my kids right now."
Barker filed for divorce last August. In January 2007 they gave their marriage another try, and in April 2007 Barker told People that they were back together. A source close to the couple insists this time, it's for good. Hmmm, we'll see! | <urn:uuid:b40aeb35-e265-40e7-9e4c-5e589e4c5d88> | 2013-05-24T01:30:38Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Cooking at Home: Grilled Italian Sausage, Portobello Mushrooms, Zucchini, Peppers and Onions
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4 Italian sausages (hot or mild)
2 small zucchini, cut into 1/4-1/2 inch thick slices lengthwise
2 peppers, deseeded and quartered
4 medium large or 6 small Portobello mushrooms
1 large onion, peeled and sliced into 1/2-inch thick rounds
salt and pepper to taste
1 heaping Tbs finely minced garlic
1 heaping Tbs finely minced fresh rosemary
1/3-1/2 cup olive oil
8 slices country bread (such as baguette or batard)
jarred marinara sauce as needed for serving (optional)
grated parmesan cheese for garnish
Get the grill going and slice the vegetables. Then use a small mixing bowl to combine one heaping Tbs each of finely chopped fresh rosemary and finely minced garlic with about 1/3-1/2 cup olive oil.
Use a pastry brush to brush that over the top of the sliced vegetables on a baking tray or two and season them with a little salt and pepper to taste.
If you're using it, you'll need to slice the country bread before heading outside to the grill.
Cook these things in batches, starting with the bread, the mushrooms and the peppers and once the bread is off the grill, add the sausages and get those going.
Once you're happy with the mushrooms and peppers, take those off and add the onions and zucchini and cook those until they are somewhat soft. Cook the sausage until it is cooked through but not dried out.
Once you're back inside the house, heat up a little marinara sauce if you're using it, chop the vegetables into bite size pieces and add those to a large mixing bowl and slice the sausages and add those to the bowl and toss everything to combine.
Divide it up onto individual plates, over the top of a little warm marinara sauce with some grilled bread on the side. Finish with grated parmesan cheese.
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Dear Mr Lee. Thank you so much for your recent reply. I was wondering, how do you build up a character?. Apart from analicing the texts in the scripts. Do you search for animal insticts in your parts?. With animal instincts I mean certain ways of moving or a certain look. For example:Marlon Brando had put in napkins in his mouth to have the face of a bulldog to get in to the part. I don't want to insult you in any way I realy don't and I would never dream of it. Many acters search for animal instincts in their parts. My drama teachers has told me about this to. Varm regards Joakim L.
I use my instincts, my imagination and my own powers of invention in
creating a character for the screen. Obviously, I have to be very specific
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The two airlines said in a joint statement Tuesday that if the order is implemented as proposed, they don't expect the deal to go forward.
"Both airlines will review the DOT's proposed rulemaking to determine our next steps," the statement said.
A slot is an interval of time during which an airline can takeoff or land its aircraft at an airport. A pair refers to cities airlines fly between. Slots, especially at peak times of day and in busy corridors like the Northeast, are valuable to airlines.
US Airways agreed in August to transfer 125 operating slot pairs to Delta at LaGuardia Airport in New York. In exchange, Delta agreed to transfer 42 operating slot pairs to US Airways at Reagan National Airport in Washington.
The Transportation Department said Tuesday it has tentatively allowed the transaction to proceed as long as the airlines sell some of their slot interests to carriers with no or limited service at the two airports.
The approval requires the airlines to sell 14 pairs of slot interests at National and 20 pairs at LaGuardia.
The deal could still find some resistance. A final decision won't be issued until after a 30-day public comment period.
Delta's general counsel wrote in a Jan. 29 letter than the airline has been told the Justice Department's antitrust division staff planned to recommend that the division challenge the proposed transaction.
The same week as the Delta-US Airways deal was announced, it was also disclosed that AirTran Airways, based in Orlando, Fla., planned to stop flying to and from Newark, N.J., and give its takeoff and landing slots there to Continental Airlines in exchange for Continental slots at LaGuardia and National airports.
Continental, based in Houston, has a hub at Newark Liberty International Airport, which is used by many travelers heading to or from New York City.
The flurry of slot swap transactions was prompted by the carriers' desire to serve destinations where they believe they can be more profitable than on routes where they have been cutting service.
Through the transactions, the airlines are seeking more bang for the buck in congested areas where slot access is limited and where they face increased competition from Southwest Airlines, which has a knack for bringing lower fares to new markets it serves.
Delta, based in Atlanta, had projected it would operate nearly 30 percent of the total available seat miles from the three main airports serving New York City, if the swap with US Airways went through as the two airlines wanted. Available seat miles measure an airline's capacity for carrying passengers. It equals the number of seats available multiplied by miles flown.
US Airways, based in Tempe, Ariz., wants to expand its service at Washington National, and obtain access from Delta to slots at airports in Tokyo and Sao Paulo, Brazil. The carrier has said it planned to reduce its Express flights at LaGuardia, while mainline and Shuttle flight levels would not be affected.
At LaGuardia, Delta's plan calls for building a connector between the adjacent Delta and US Airways main terminals and rebranding US Airways' existing main terminal gates, ticket counters and lounges to Delta standards. Delta Shuttle operations, currently housed in a separate terminal called the Marine Air Terminal, would be moved to Delta's consolidated main terminal. US Airways' Shuttle operations would move to the Marine Air Terminal. A fourth terminal currently houses gates from other airlines.
The slots DOT is requiring be divested would have to be sold to U.S. or Canadian carriers that have less than 5 percent of the total slot interest holdings at the two airports, do not codeshare on flights to or from the airports with any airline that has 5 percent or more slot interest holdings there, and are not subsidiaries of a company whose combined slot interest holdings are equal to or greater than 5 percent at National or LaGuardia. | <urn:uuid:73f3bd52-5e0b-40f7-a257-4cbf7e30fba9> | 2013-05-24T01:32:38Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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