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HELP US PUT AN END TO THE NV BEAR HUNT!
Bears are made of the same dust as we, and breathe the same winds and drink of the same waters. A bear’s days are warmed by the same sun, his dwellings are overdomed by the same blue sky, and his life turns and ebbs with heart-pulsings like ours . . . John Muir | <urn:uuid:17979656-4a1e-40e2-a5ad-a46bfb2d2fdf> | 2013-05-27T02:54:51Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Step by step data modeling with Cassandra:
When working with a relational database, the first thing you do is modeling your data. A well defined database model allows you to query its data through SQL queries. Unfortunately, a fully normalized model degrades your performance when joins need to be executed on tables that contain millions of rows. To improve performance, Cassandra advocates a query-first approach, where first you identify your queries and then model your data accordingly. In the next couple of paragraphs, we will gradually explore the Cassandra data structures by developing the mutation data model. Remember, what we are trying to achieve is to be able to quickly calculate mutation frequencies!
Original title and link: Cassandra as a Mutation Datastore (NoSQL database©myNoSQL) | <urn:uuid:f89668d8-7d97-44b7-9d76-70142645bc74> | 2013-05-27T02:56:24Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Exhibit A for why there should be abridgements on some speech: To prevent people like Josh from quoting himself in his own epigraph.
As for the substance of Josh’s arguments, there seem to be three core premises that form the basis of his attack: 1) Government suppression of speech is uniquely coercive and widespread; 2) as a result of its unique ability to coerce, government suppression of speech is categorically bad; 3) certain words in the text of the First Amendment, like “speech” and “abridging,” have no consensus definition, granting certain leeway when it comes to dealing with many issues surrounding the First Amendment.
Let’s start with #1: The effects of government suppression of speech are uniquely coercive and widespread. Josh defends this premise by contrasting government suppression with much more benign forms of “suppression”: “Social norms and reputation matter a lot in affecting what people say and don’t say; the government is just one factor that affects speech, but the difference with the government is that its restrictions’ effects are more widespread.” The other factors that Josh names—social norms and reputations—are hardly elements of “suppression” at all; they basically amount to peer pressure. Of course government regulation is going to appear more coercive and significant than these opponents—it usually is more coercive and significant. Continue reading »
“What he [John S.] says may be irrational, incoherent, unfounded, and foolish, but I defend to the death his right to say it.”
*I have as much claim to this phrase as Voltaire.
This response will proceed in three steps. First, I will respond to misguided presumptions that underlie John’s critique of the First Amendment: 1) that the goal of the First Amendment is not to suppress any speech and 2) that free speech absolutism is the only interpretive option for the First Amendment. Second, I will refute John’s two main claims: 1) The First Amendment is only aimed towards preventing government suppression of speech, but the coercive non-governmental forces and differential access to forums are problems just as serious that the First Amendment promotes or, at least, does nothing to prevent. 2) There is nothing inherent about the First Amendment that promotes the Millian benefits that flow from free speech. Third, I will discuss the Citizens United issue separately since it’s sufficiently distinct from the other issues in this response.
Citing Mill, John fallaciously argues that “the general principles that underlie actual liberty of thought and discussion” are primarily grounded in opposition to the “suppression of opinion, whether it be by government or any entity….” [emphasis added].
Continue reading »
So, Josh exercised his right to free speech by responding to my critique of rights with his own defense of rights. His defense was valiant, yes, but doomed.
Let’s start right at the beginning, with Josh’s attempt to define the ineffable concept of a “right”: “If X has a right to do something, he is legally protected from interference by Y. In other words Y has a correlative duty not to interfere with X’s right. So, if X has a right to speak freely, then Y has a correlative duty not to interfere with X’s speaking freely.” This doesn’t really help us much, does it? A right means that Y—Y, as defined by Josh himself, “being any other individual or the government”—has a duty not to interfere with that entitlement. So, technically, every single time you interrupt someone you have violated someone’s right to free speech, since you’ve interfered with that person’s speaking freely. Apparently, that person now has legal recourse against you. By this standard, public school teachers who force students to raise their hand before speaking have collectively committed the gravest assault on our free speech rights that the U.S. has ever known.
Of course, this is ridiculous because Josh’s standard is ridiculous. A right protects you from any interference? That’s simply not true empirically. Continue reading »
Now that Josh has concluded his eight month-long analysis of the Bill of Rights,* it’s time for we at NPI to finally face facts: The Bill of Rights as a whole is incredibly overrated. The Ninth and Tenth Amendments are glorified addenda, the Seventh is, as Josh said, dull, the Third has been pretty useless, and the Second is essentially gibberish. The entire document is in desperate need of a proofreader (seriously, the grammar in that thing is offensively ambiguous).
*And in depressingly anticlimactic fashion, I might add: Oh, the First Amendment is first and the Second is last? How original! Is he also going to write something about how rainbows are pretty and chocolate tastes good?
And yet the Bill of Rights remains incredibly popular. Demagogic political figures appeal to it for justification of any principle they want to espouse; citizens regard it with a scriptural sanctity even though polls show that most of them don’t know what it says. In other words, the Bill of Rights is basically the secular version of the Bible. And not much of that has to do with its proscription on troop-quartering.
You don’t have to be a constitutional scholar to know that the Bill of Rights’ reputation with the public is largely the result of the First Amendment, specifically the freedoms of speech and the press. And yet it is this part of the Bill of Rights that is the most overrated. Continue reading »
According to President Obama, “I will seek someone who understands that justice isn’t about some abstract legal theory or footnote in a case book. It is also about how our laws affect the daily reality of people’s lives.” While Obama valued legal prowess as a necessity for becoming a Supreme Court justice, “empathy” was a tiebreaker that ultimately led to the nomination of Sonia Sotamayor.
There have been two main lines of thought on empathy since Obama has emphasized it. Dahlia Lithwick of Slate and other liberal commentators maintain that understanding the feelings of other people is frequently beneficial for reaching good legal decisions: “When did the simple act of recognizing that you are not the only one in the room become confused with lawlessness, activism, and social engineering? For a group so vociferously devoted to textualism and plain meaning, conservative critics have an awfully elastic definition of the word empathy.”
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This would make a great teen craft, (or an adult one if you're like me:).
What you will need:
-assortment of buttons (I used 24), same size $1.50 for like a billion/walmart
-Industrial strength thread, or some sort of jewelery string
1. Cut 2 strings to about 15 inches and thread through a button like so...
2. Each additional button should face the opposite direction as the previous button.
3. Push the buttons together as you go.
4. Your bracelet should look layered like this.
5. When you finish, create a loop at one end to hook over the last button on the other end. (Or you could use any sort of jewelery latch to finish it off).
6. VOILA! It's kinda fun...I think I like it :) | <urn:uuid:2bafc859-b866-4c25-88e9-7a897fda8536> | 2013-05-26T09:41:19Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Sometimes the things that give us the most trouble are most obvious. When something is completely self-evident, it can be difficult to wrap your mind around it and think through its implications. Important points can be mistaken for tautologies (and vice versa) and when you try to work through the questions with essays or conversations, you often find yourself feeling pretentious and, for lack of a better word, silly.
Here's an example: neither vectors, random variables nor vectors of random variables are scalars. This statement is obvious to anyone familiar with the basic terms. Equally obvious is the fact that when you try to represent one of these complex, multidimensional creatures as a point on a line, you will invariably lose some information.
The implications of these points, however, are often not obvious at all.
We have to assign scalars to things all the time because, among other reasons, scalars are the only things we can rank. Any time you want to decide what's the best _____ (car, job offer, candidate), you have to start by assigning _____ a scalar. You can do this by finding a proxy that's already a scalar (like the answer to a survey question) or by using a function of the vector. Simple examples include taking the sum or the sum of the squares or the average or the maximum value. (I'm going to limit this to vectors from here on but everything should generalize to random variables and vectors of random variables fairly easily.)
But, though we have to do it all the time, no one has ever found a perfect way of assigning scalars to vectors and no one ever will. This isn't pessimism; it's mathematics. You lose information when you go from a vector to a scalar. That loss means you have to be careful about contextual questions like range of data. Though there may be a few cases where we can derive the scalars from first principles, we generally have to arrive at the assignments through experimentation. We find methods that have produced useful metrics in previous situations. Unfortunately, when you move out of the range of data you encountered in those previous situations or when you otherwise find yourself in a new context, the information you could safely omit before becomes essential and the metric that has done such a good job up till now suddenly becomes worthless.
Here are a couple of examples:
A "rate your experience" question might do a good job comparing the impact of bad beverage service versus that of short delay in take-off but it will probably not do a satisfactory job comparing a forced landing and a seven hour stay on the tarmac on a hot summer day . These events fall outside the range of data the question was developed for.
A weighted average of nutrients might provide a good way of ranking most of the foods you find in the produce aisle. In the context of comparing different fruits and vegetables found in your neighborhood grocery store, you might be able to get by assuming a linear relationship between the amount of certain nutrients and healthiness. If, however, you move to the context of the dietary supplement aisle, making that linear assumption about certain nutrients can be dangerous, even deadly. Having a bottle of iron supplement pills for lunch is an extraordinarily bad idea.
These are relatively simple examples but think about all the unspeakably complicated things like happiness that people routinely discuss as if they were scalars -- "people in group A were 42% happier than people in group B." Worse yet, many researchers insist on pushing these scales to ludicrous extremes, using the same metrics to measure the impact of everything from trivial lifestyle changes to the birth of a first child. (How this affects theories like rational addiction is a subject for another post.)
Perhaps even more important than being context-specific, the scalars we assign to vectors are generally question-specific. Take the example of health. There's no meaningful way to boil this complex, multidimensional concept down to one number, but we can come up with scalars that are useful when answering certain questions. Let's say we have formulas for deriving two metrics, L and Q. L correlates very well with longevity; Q correlates very well with quality of life. For most questions about health policy, you will get similar answers with either metric, but there are cases where the two diverge sharply. Both L and Q are good measures of health, but their usefulness depends on the question you need answered.
Part of the blame for the tendency to take scalars as ideal representations of vectors rests with the "magic of the market" faction of economists and their camp followers. Markets are basically in the scalarizing business and under the proper conditions they do a pretty good job. It's easy to see how researchers grew enamored with markets' ability to set prices in such a way that resources are effectively allocated. It is a remarkable process.
But as impressive as markets are, they still are not exempt from the laws of mathematics and the limitations listed above. Prices are scalars assigned the values of things. They generally provide us with an excellent tool for prioritizing purchases and production but when you start to think of the scalars as actually being the vectors they represent, your thinking becomes sloppy and you open yourself up to dangerous mistakes.
Schlock Mercenary: May 27, 2013
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Mayoral candidate Jeffrey M. Smith said he doesn't want to appear on WATN-AM 1240's noon talk show "Hotline" because his opponent, Mayor Jeffrey E. Graham, is the host of the show when there isn't an election going on.
"The fact is, this is Mr. Graham's show," Mr. Smith said. "He's been doing it for 20 years."
Joseph L. Brosk has been filling in for Mr. Graham since Mr. Graham's mayoral re-election campaign became official.
"Mr. Brosk has donated to his campaign," Mr. Smith said. "It's his coworker, his place of employment. I know that the professionals are going to be as professional as possible, but you can't ignore those facts. It's not really a neutral ground. Why put yourself in that position?"
Mr. Graham has appeared once already on the talk show, and plans to do so again in October. Mr. Graham acknowledged that Mr. Brosk donated to his campaign, and said he believes it was a $5 donation.
“You can't just eighty-six one portion of the media," Mr. Graham told me in a brief interview earlier today, then added, gesturing in no particular direction: "It's like me not talking to you just because one guy doesn't like me.”
Mr. Smith informed WATN of his decision in a letter today. | <urn:uuid:1e978f79-cdd5-45e1-a8f5-731088da1361> | 2013-05-26T09:37:40Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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On Nov. 29, 1998, when Peyton Manning was a 22-year old rookie, he faced the Baltimore Ravens, led by 35-year-old quarterback Jim Harbaugh.
Final score: Ravens 38, Colts 31.
Harbaugh led a 17-point fourth-quarter rally.
On Sept. 26, 1999, Manning, 23, and Harbaugh, 36, were once again opposing starting quarterbacks, as the Colts visited the San Diego Chargers.
Final score: Colts 27, Chargers 19.
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Famke Janssen might be a Hollywood beauty, but the actress isn't afraid of taking a beating on the big screen - and even breaking a rib or two!
The "Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters" star stopped by Access Hollywood Live on Thursday, where she told Billy Bush and Kit Hoover that her latest role had a lasting effect on her ribs.
"I had an accident, I broke my rib... I was lowered in a scene and there was a last little jolt, and that jolt broke my rib," she said of her new movie, where she plays the witch Muriel, who is being hunted by Jeremy Renner (Hansel) and Gemma Arterton (Gretel).
And this wasn't the first time the actress has sustained a rib injury in the name of her craft.
"I broke a rib on 'GoldenEye' too... with Pierce Brosnan," she said of her 1995 James Bond movie.
"Pierce was supposed to throw me [during] a scene in a spa... my character kind of liked pain and is somewhat orgasmic about these incidences. I said to Pierce - and the walls were padded -,'Just really toss me hard against that wall,'... and he goes, 'I can't do that,' and I said, 'Of course you can.'"
After her toss, Famke had trouble breathing.
"That's when I broke another rib. [But,] I'm now evened out," she said, explaining that she's broken a rib on each side. "I'm good, I'm balanced."
"Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters" hits theaters on Friday.
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The son of a schoolteacher and a handyman, Pharrell Williams was born on April 5, 1973 in Virginia Beach, VA. The budding music wiz met Chad Hugo in seventh grade at summer band camp, where Williams played keyboards and drums, while Hugo played tenor saxophone. The duo also performed with the marching band at Princess Anne High School in Virginia Beach. Aside from music, young Williams' other passion was skateboarding; he even received the nickname "Skateboard P," which he frequently mentioned later in his career. In the 1990s, Williams, Hugo, Shay Haley, and Mike Etheridge formed an R&B quartet and began performing at school talent shows. Their local fame quickly caught the attention of music producer Teddy Riley, who had a recording studio located near Williams' high school. After graduating, The Neptunes signed with Riley's record label. Recognizing Williams' talent not only as a performer but also as a songwriter, Riley tapped the young man to write a verse for the Wrecks-n-Effect song "Rump Shaker" (1992), which landed on the Billboard Hot 100 at No. 2.
Even though The Neptunes failed to take off as an R&B group, Williams and Hugo re-branded themselves as a production duo. One of their earliest projects was the track "Tonight's the Night, off the 1994 self-titled album from R&B and New Jack swing quartet Blackstreet (also fronted by Riley). After meeting through a mutual friend, Williams began collaborating with Kelis, which resulted in The Neptunes producing her debut album Kaleidoscope (1999) and the fiery lead single "Caught Out There" that launched the her music career. The Neptunes' steady climb to the top of the charts reached a successful climax in 2001 with the Britney Spears hit "I'm a Slave 4 U," which The Neptunes wrote and produced for her third album Britney. The track's heavy beats - featuring turntables, synthesizers and drum machines - as well as Spears' breathy vocal performance showcased a more mature sound for the pop star and also introduced The Neptunes' uniquely stylized production work to a mainstream audience. Fueled by the success of the Spears' collaboration, Williams, Hugo, and longtime friend Haley released the hip-hop, rock and electronic album In Search Of (2001) as the trio N.E.R.D. (an acronym for No One Ever Really Dies). The group's genre-mashing style, previously heard in The Neptunes' work with Kelis and Spears, received positive reviews from critics at music publications Rolling Stone and Spin. That same year, Williams and Hugo founded their own record label, Star Trak Entertainment that included artists like Kelis and rap duo Clipse on the roster.
The Neptunes' sound dominated radio in 2002 with rapper Nelly's ubiquitous party anthem "Hot in Herre." The song topped the Billboard Hot 100 and was that year's third biggest-selling single. Williams' voice also increasingly became more familiar to music lovers after he provided guest vocals on hits such as Justin Timberlake's "Senorita" and Jay-Z's "Change Clothes," both released in 2003. The music industry recognized Williams' work in 2004 when he and Hugo received a Grammy Award for Producer of the Year. The Neptunes also won a Grammy that year for Best Pop Vocal Album for producing Timberlake's solo debut Justified (2002). Williams' solo venture proved equally successful when he released the album In My Mind, which included duets with Gwen Stefani ("Can I Have It Like That") and Kanye West ("Number One"). Released under his Star Trak label, In My Mind peaked at No. 3 on the U.S. albums chart and established Williams as a credible solo artist.
Like his music, Williams' personal style evolved through the years. When he launched his career as a producer with The Neptunes and front man for N.E.R.D., Williams' signature look consisted of trucker caps, skate shoes, and baggy clothes that complemented his "Skateboard P" persona. As he began exploring new musical territory, likely influenced by his collaborations with Jay-Z and Kanye West, Williams' sartorial taste shifted to include tailored suits and designer labels. Taking his cue from entrepreneurial artists like Jay-Z, Williams launched two retail lines, Billionaire Boys Club and Ice Cream Footwear, and collaborated with luxury brand Louis Vuitton on designing jewelry and eyewear. In 2005, Esquire magazine named Williams "The World's Best-Dressed Man," beating out everyone from George Clooney to former president Bill Clinton. Williams' stylish aesthetic extended beyond music and fashion, and included working on a sculpture with renowned Japanese artist Takashi Murakami and designing avant-garde furniture.
When Madonna announced she was releasing a hip-hop-inspired album in 2008, she called on The Neptunes to work on tracks for her 11th studio album Hard Candy. Williams co-wrote seven of the album's tracks with Madonna, including the drum-and-bass heavy title track and the dance hit "Give It 2 Me," both of which featured his guest vocals. Hard Candy topped not only the U.S. chart, but also went to No. 1 in Australia, Canada, Japan, and the U.K. In 2010, Williams branched out to Hollywood, composing music and original songs for the computer-animated film "Despicable Me." That same year, N.E.R.D. released its fourth album Nothing, which incorporated classic rock sounds from the late 1960s and early 1970s. Williams added a more contemporary feel to the Academy Awards in 2012 when he teamed up with Hans Zimmer to compose and arrange new music for the Oscars telecast.
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Josh Byrnes, General Manager of the San Diego Padres, is trying to outshine Bob Costas when it comes to making stupid comments about firearms. He is now blaming firearms for the cut that one of pitcher Andrew Cashner suffered to his pitching hand while dressing out a deer with a friend. The cut will keep Cashner out of the lineup for up to six months.
"As a GM, I am concerned,'' Byrnes said. "You're dealing with young guys, and obviously, we can control things on the job, but away from it, we hope they make the right decisions.Oh, please!
"I don't know if athletes are predisposed to guns or not, but it's certainly something that concerns you."
Cashner suffered a lacerated tendon in his right thumb in a hunting accident last week, and underwent surgery Tuesday. He won't be able to pitch until May or June, Byrnes said.
Cashner, an avid hunter, was accidentally stabbed in the hand by a friend while the pair were dressing meat, trimming the carcass.
The injury may have been the direct result of a knife wound, but realistically, Byrnes said, it was caused because of a hunting trip with guns.
Has Byrnes never heard of bow hunting?
Or even cutting your hand with a kitchen knife? I doubt that there is anyone of us who hasn't done that one time or another.
Accident happen. To blame firearms for the cut on Cashner's hand is just plain hoplophobic stupidity. | <urn:uuid:85f288c8-6de4-4cab-b019-3fd96e9dc058> | 2013-05-26T09:42:01Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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What are managed lanes?
Highway facilities or a set of lanes where operational strategies are proactively implemented and managed in response to changing conditions.
Transportation agencies are faced with growing challenges of congestion and a limited ability to expand freeway capacity due to construction costs, right-of-way constraints, and environmental and societal impacts. Transportation officials are taking advantage of opportunities to address mobility needs and provide travel options through a combination of limited capacity expansion coupled with operational strategies that seek to manage travel demand and improve transit and other forms of ridesharing. The managed lanes concept is gaining interest around the country as an approach that combines these elements to make the most effective and efficient use of a freeway facility.
The distinction between managed lanes and other traditional forms of freeway lane management is the operating philosophy of "active management." Under this philosophy, the operating agency proactively manages demand and available capacity on the facility by applying new strategies or modifying existing strategies. The agency defines from the outset the operating objectives for the managed lanes and the kinds of actions that will be taken once pre-defined performance thresholds are met.
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Alexei II (Ridiger) of Moscow
Life and ministry
On April 15, 1950, he was ordained a deacon by Metropolitan Gregory (Chukov) of Leningrad, and on April 17, 1950, he was ordained a priest and appointed rector of the Theophany church in city of Johvi, Estonia, in the Tallinn Diocese. On July 15, 1957, Fr. Alexei was appointed Rector of the Cathedral of the Dormition in Tallinn and Dean of the Tartu district. He was elevation to the rank of Archpriest on August 17, 1958, and on March 30, 1959, he was appointed Dean of the united Tartu-Viljandi deanery of the Tallinn diocese. On March 3, 1961, he was tonsured a monk in the Trinity Cathedral of Holy Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra.
From 1986 until his election as Patriarch, he was Metropolitan of Novgorod and Leningrad. After the death of Patriarch Pimen in 1990, Alexei was chosen to become the new Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church. He was chosen on the basis of his administrative experience, and was considered "intelligent, energetic, hardworking, systematic, perceptive, and businesslike." He also "had a reputation as a conciliator, 'a person who could find common ground with various groups in the episcopate.' " Archbishishop Chrysostom (Martyshkin) remarked, "With his peaceful and tolerant disposition Patriarch Aleksi will be able to unite us all." Patriarch Alexei II was "the first patriarch in Soviet history to be chosen without government pressure; candidates were nominated from the floor, and the election was conducted by secret ballot."
Upon taking on the role of Patriarch, Patriarch Alexei became a vocal advocate of the rights of the church, calling for the Soviet government to allow religious education in the state schools and for a "freedom of conscience" law. During the attempted coup in August 1991, he denounced the arrest of Mikhail Gorbachev, and anathematized the plotters. He publicly questioned the junta's legitimacy, called for restraint by the military, and demanded that Gorbachev be allowed to address the people. He issued a second appeal against violence and fratricide, which was amplified over loudspeakers to the troops outside the Russian "White House" half an hour before they attacked. Ultimately, the coup failed, which eventually resulted in the break-up of the Soviet Union.
Under his leadership, the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia who suffered under Communism were glorified, beginning with the Grand Duchess Elizabeth, Metropolitan Vladimir of Kiev, and Metropolitan Benjamin of Petrograd in 1992. In 2000, the All-Russian Council glorified Tsar Nicholas II and his family, as well as many other New Martyrs. More names continue to be added to list of New Martyrs, after the Synodal Canonization Commission completes its investigation of each case.
Despite his age, Patriarch Alexei II is quite healthy and leads an active political life. He is frequently seen on Russian TV, conducting Church services, and meeting with various government officials.
His name (secular 'Алексей, clerical Алексий) is transliterated from the Cyrillic alphabet into English in various forms, including Alexius, Aleksi, Alexis, Alexei, Alexey, and Alexy. When he became a monk, his name was not changed; this departure from custom was common in the Russian Church in Soviet times.
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union there have been accusations that Patriarch Alexei had ties to the KGB, which resulted from documents which allegedly came from the KGB's archives in Estonia, and which refer to Patriarch Alexei with the code name "Drozdov." It should be noted that it was very unusual for any person to be referenced in KGB documents prior to 1980 without a similar code name, regardless of an affiliation with the KGB. Patriarch Alexei has always denied that he was a KGB agent, and the authenticity of the documents in question have been disputed on the basis on the basis that they use anachronistic fonts which did not exist at the time the document ostensibly originated from, and that the Estonian government fabricated the documents in order to discredit the Russian Orthodox Church.
Professor Nathaniel Davis pointed out: "If the bishops wished to defend their people and survive in office, they had to collaborate to some degree with the KGB, with the commissioners of the Council for Religious Affairs, and with other party and governmental authorities."
Patriarch Alexei has, however, acknowledged that compromises were made with the Soviet government by bishops of the Moscow Patriarchate, and publicly repented of these compromises.
- "Defending one thing, it was necessary to give somewhere else. Were there any other organizations, or any other people among those who had to carry responsibility not only for themselves but for thousands of other fates, who in those years in the Soviet Union were not compelled to act likewise? Before those people, however, to whom the compromises, silence, forced passivity or expressions of loyalty permitted by the leaders of the church in those years caused pain, before these people, and not only before God, I ask forgiveness, understanding and prayers."
According to Nathaniel Davis, when asked by the Russian press about claims that he was a "compliant" bishop, "Aleksi defended his record, noting that while he was bishop of Tallinn in 1961, he resisted the communist authorities' efforts to make the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in the city a planetarium (which, in truth, they did do elsewhere in the Baltic states) and to convert the Pyukhtitsa Dormition nunnery to a rest home for miners." Official records show that the Tallinn diocese had a lower number of forced church closings than was typical in the rest of the USSR during Patriarch Alexei's tenure as bishop there. Metropolitan Kallistos (Timothy Ware) notes, "Opinions differ over the past collaboration or otherwise between the Communist authorities, but on the whole he is thought to have shown firmness and independence in his dealings as a diocesan bishop with the Soviet State."
Alexei II (Ridiger) of Moscow
|Metropolitan of Tallinn and Estonia
|Metropolitan of Novgorod and Leningrad
|Patriarch of Moscow
- Biography on the official site of the Moscow Patriarchate
- Listing at the Orthodox Research Institute
- Patriarch Alexius II at Wikipedia
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Alexy II, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, Biographical Note, Biography, on the Moscow Patriarchate's official website.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Encyclopedia Britannica Online, s.v. Alexis II, http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9005644/Alexis-II 1/19/2008
- ↑ Nathaniel Davis, A Long Walk to Church: A Contemporary History of Russian Orthodoxy, 2nd ed. (Oxford: Westview Press, 2003), p. 85.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Nathaniel Davis, A Long Walk to Church: A Contemporary History of Russian Orthodoxy, 2nd ed. (Oxford: Westview Press, 2003), p. 86.
- ↑ Zhurnal Moskovskoi Patriarkhii, No. 10 (October), 1990, p.16, quoted in Nathaniel Davis, A Long Walk to Church: A Contemporary History of Russian Orthodoxy, 2nd ed. (Oxford: Westview Press, 2003), p. 284.
- ↑ Nathaniel Davis, A Long Walk to Church: A Contemporary History of Russian Orthodoxy, 2nd ed. (Oxford: Westview Press, 2003), p. 96.
- ↑ Nathaniel Davis, A Long Walk to Church: A Contemporary History of Russian Orthodoxy, 2nd ed. (Oxford: Westview Press, 2003), p. 97.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Timothy Ware, The Orthodox Church, new ed., (London: Penguin Books, 1997), p. 164.
- ↑ Sophia Kishkovsky, Russian Orthodox Church is set to mend a bitter schism, International Herald Tribune, May 16, 2007; Second day of bishops' council: Nicholas' canonization approved, Communications Service, Department of External Church Relations, Moscow Patriarchate, 14 August 2000.
- ↑ Maxim Massalitin, The New Martyrs Unify Us: Interview with Archpriest Georgy Mitrofanov, participant of the All-Diaspora Pastoral Conference in Nyack (December 8-12, 2003), Pravoslavie.ru, December 13, 2003.
- ↑ See for example, The Wall Street Journal, 'Cold War Lingers At Russian Church In New Jersey' December 28, 2007.
- ↑ "Official spokesman for the Moscow Patriarchy Father Vsevolod Chaplin labeled such reports as 'absolutely unsubstantiated' in a Wednesday interview with Interfax. 'There is no data indicating that Patriarch Alexy II was an associate of the special services, and no classified documents bear his signature,' he said. 'I do not think that direct dialogue between the current patriarch and KGB took place,' Father Vsevolod continued. However, 'all bishops communicated with representatives of the council for religious matters in the Soviet government, which was inevitable, since any issue, even the most insignificant one, had to be resolved through this body. It is quite another matter that the council forwarded all its materials to the KGB,' he said." Moscow Patriarchate Rejects Times Report of Alexy II'S Collaboration with KGB, Sept 20, 2000 (Interfax). "Chaplin, the church spokesman, said in March, 'Nobody has ever seen a single real document that would confirm the patriarch used his contacts with Soviet authorities to make harm to the church or to any people in the church.' " Russia's Well-Connected Patriarch, Washington Post Foreign Service, 23 May 2002; "Father Chaplin said: 'In recent times many anonymous photocopies of all sorts of pieces of paper have been circulated. In none of them is there the slightest evidence that the individuals we are talking about knew that these documents were being drawn up, or gave their consent. So I don't think any reasonably authoritative clerical or secular commission could see these papers as proof of anything.' " Russian Patriarch 'was KGB spy', The Guardian (London), February 12, 1999.
- ↑ Alexey Chumakov Agent Drozdov?, December 28, 2007.
- ↑ Nathaniel Davis, A Long Walk to Church: A Contemporary History of Russian Orthodoxy, (Oxford: Westview Press, 1995), p. 96. Davis quotes one bishop as saying: "Yes, we—I, at least, and I say this first about myself—I worked together with the KGB. I cooperated, I made signed statements, I had regular meetings, I made reports. I was given a pseudonym—a code name as they say there... I knowingly cooperated with them—but in such a way that I undeviatingly tried to maintain the position of my Church, and, yes, also to act as a patriot, insofar as I understood, in collaboration with these organs. I was never a stool pigeon, nor an informer."
- ↑ Has the MP Repented?, December 28, 2007.
- ↑ From an interview of Patriarch Alexei II, given to "Izvestia" No 137, June 10, 1991, entitled "Patriarch Alexei II:—I Take upon Myself Responsibility for All that Happened", English translation from Nathaniel Davis, A Long Walk to Church: A Contemporary History of Russian Orthodoxy, (Oxford: Westview Press, 1995), p. 89. See also History of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, by St. John (Maximovitch) of Shanghai and San Francisco, December 31, 2007.
- ↑ Nathaniel Davis, A Long Walk to Church: A Contemporary History of Russian Orthodoxy, (Oxford: Westview Press, 1995) ,p. 89f.
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So it seems like all these discussions are somewhat tentative, or inversely, pretty far out-there. Maybe I can walk the line here.
I've been eating paleo for maybe 6 months now, no dairy besides butter, no fruit, no nuts besides macadamias. The transition followed a 4 year period of vegetarianism, the end of which (around 1 year ago) brought with it a bought of constipation identical to the kind I'm experiencing now. I was, and am, going seldom, and with little result. Then and now I've taken Miralax, which helps slightly, but obviously I don't want to depend on it forever. Last year, I had to be admitted to the hospital for a couple days so they could do x-rays and what-not, as well as a massive Go Lytely treatment, which worked, with my situation getting progressively better, especially during the summer.
Anyway, jump to the start of school, and my constipation was back. These days, though, I'm eating clean paleo, IFing a lot, and generally doing everything in my power to be healthy, which seems elusive. However, I'm living with my parents, who really question my eating, and think it could be behind my constipation. They also advocate conventional constipation cures (prunes, raisins, fiber). I don't think fiber is an issue. I eat a lot of vegetables/grass fed beef/salmon/butter/EVOO, and that's about it.
If anyone could answer any of the following, I would be really indebted. Thanks!
1) Could my constipation be from:
- Stress? (This jumps out at me, as the school year corresponds to the start of my constipation, and schoolwork is pretty demanding for me.)
- Lack of fruit? (Should I eat
prunes/raisins/any other fruit? Is
the conventional wisdom about prunes, specifically, accurate?)
- Intermittent Fasting? (I could be
doing it wrong. I don't eat from 7:30 PM to 3:00 PM every day.)
- Probiotic/Enzyme Stuff? (I'll be
honest, I just spent 2 hours reading about this stuff and I'm still pretty lost. It seems they are more
recommended for diarrhea, or I
- Physical Issues? (Could my gut be physically damaged?)
Once again, anything you could offer will be received gratefully. I hope that, since this is such a long question, others will benefit from it as well. | <urn:uuid:f943fb4d-236e-49f3-8825-83d3ab49544e> | 2013-05-26T09:35:19Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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void PEAR_PackageFileManager::addReplacement (
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This sets an install-time complex search-and-replace function allowing the setting of platform-specific variables in an installed file.
if $type is php-const, then $to must be the name of a PHP Constant. If $type is pear-config, then $to must be the name of a PEAR config variable accessible through a PEAR_Config::get() method. If type is package-info, then $to must be the name of a section from the package.xml file used to install this file.
relative path of file (relative to packagedirectory option)
variable type, either php-const, pear-config or package-info
text to replace in the source file
variable name to use for replacement
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First and foremost, never, EVER look directly at the Sun through your viewfinder. EVER.
Generally speaking, it is not a good idea to point your camera directly at the sun, whether you're looking through the viewfinder or not. This becomes more critical as your lens gets longer - a telephoto lens is essentially a telescope, so you'd be focussing all the light, heat, and UV radiation from the sun directly into your camera, which, to answer your question, will very likely damage it, especially if you actually make an exposure (thus letting the light/radiation hit the sensor).
You can apparently achieve a quick and dirty protection system by stacking a couple of UV and skylight filters together. You can also buy special solar filters as well. However, all the advice I've ever read has always said that you shouldn't even risk that.
The only 'guaranteed' safe way to take a photo of the Sun is in fact to project an image through a telescope onto a piece of card, and take a photo of that. To be honest, without special equipment (e.g. a satellite), photos of the sun tend to be pretty dull anyway. The most you will see are a couple of dark patches (sun spots). The Moon is a much more interesting subject for beginning astrophotography, and it's also much safer. | <urn:uuid:949dd601-dcd5-4e31-966d-36329d559d5f> | 2013-05-26T09:36:35Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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It was reported on June 22 that General Stanley McChrystal had tendered his resignation to President Barack Obama and that the White House was actively discussing a replacement who could be quickly confirmed by the Senate:
The source said that among the names being touted as possible successors are General James Mattis, the outgoing head of the US Joint Forces Command and due to retire after being passed over as US Marine Corps commander, and Lieutenant General William Caldwell, commander of Nato’s Training Mission in Afghanistan.
On June 23, en route to a meeting with Secretary Gates, General McChrystal denied that he had tendered his resignation but indicated that he was prepared to do so. More accurately, General McChrystal probably requested retirement instead of resigning his commission; he is certainly eligible for retirement and, like a resignation, acceptance of his retirement was optional with the president.
Following a thirty minute meeting with President Obama, General McChrystal departed the White House “before Obama convened a regularly scheduled war planning meeting there.” That was a pretty good indication of what was to come. An announcement that General McChrystal had been relieved of his command by President Obama was made later on June 23. General McChrystal is to be replaced by General Petraeus.
After offering to step down, it would have been unseemly for Obama to have fired him. Had General McChrystal not offered to go, he would most likely have been fired — more accurately, his retirement would have been demanded. Otherwise, he would have found it even more difficult than previously to perform his increasingly arduous duties in Afghanistan. Those duties have been all the more difficult due to dissension among others in the White House circle. Politico reports that there are divisions among Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Vice President Biden, Gen. David Petraeus, Richard Holbrooke, and others. According to Mike Brownfield:
Those divisions are of Obama’s own making, stemming from his lack of leadership and failure to make a firm commitment to victory in Afghanistan.
Be that as it may, there is one commander in chief of the United States military, and it is a civilian: the president of the United States. Adore him, tolerate him, or despise him, he is still the commander in chief and. He is entitled to the respect customarily shown to that office by military officers; to be disrespectful or insubordinate is highly inappropriate. Taking issue, publicly, with the commander in chief on war policy is grossly inappropriate for a high ranking serving officer and is no less troublesome than a company commander telling his troops that the battalion commander is an idiot. Both degrade the chain of command and neither leads to the enthusiastic obedience of lawful orders. A retired senior officer for whose views I have great respect has told me that:
Any senior officer I know anything about would never tolerate members of his staff making the kinds of remarks reported, and he certainly wouldn’t have said those kinds of things even among his close staff, much less in front of a reporter. If the report is accurate, the president shouldn’t relieve McChrystal; Gates should do it and do it quickly.
Although General McChrystal has apologized to various and sundry for his remarks, I have seen nothing to suggest that he has retracted them or those of his staff members. The only casualty besides General McChrystal thus far has been that Duncan Boothby, the special [civilian] assistant to McChrystal who organized the Rolling Stone journalist’s access to the commander, has resigned as a result of the article.
Surely, General McChrystal knew better than most people what conduct is expected of very senior officers. Had he wanted to comply with these principles, he should have sought retirement from the Army before giving a reporter for Rolling Stone what appears to have been extended access over a period of two months to himself and to his staff. He is not a callow child and cannot be assumed to have been blissfully ignorant of the form his “profile” would likely take. Earlier, he had been chastised by President Obama for going public with his demand for more troops for Afghanistan. His failure to submit his retirement papers before speaking out demonstrated either an abysmal lack of judgment or a desire to provoke the reaction which followed. I can’t find any sufficient basis for assuming the former and shall, therefore, assume the latter and that he got pretty much what he wanted. Now that he has it, what will he do with it?
Paul Mirengoff, writing in Power Line on June 22, observed:
[T]he airing of military grievances in Rolling Stone seems extraordinary enough to cry out for additional explanation. I assume that the conduct of Gen. McChrystal and his aides reflects deep frustration with the Obama administration over, among other things, (a) its inability for the better part of a year to formulate a plan for waging war in Afghanistan and, far more importantly, (b) the imposition of a July 2011 deadline or target date for beginning our withdrawal, along with (c) the decision to retain an ambassador to Afghanistan who doesn’t see eye-to-eye with McChrystal on key issues.
Add it all up, and it probably looks to McChrystal as if he has been dealt a losing hand. That’s hard to keep silent about, especially nowadays.
* * * *
The main consequence of this flap may be to provide various actors with an excuse for doing what they want to do anyway. President Obama should conclude that he needs to relax the July 2011 deadline that is weighing so heavily on McChrystal and others in the military. But he’s far more likely to conclude that the part of him (the main part, I think) that wants nothing to do with the military or with wars had it right all along. And if McChrystal is booted, President Karzai, who has a good relationship with the General, may find an additional rationale for tilting away from the U.S. and trying to cut some kind of deal.
Things are really screwed up in Afghanistan; they were screwed up before General McChrystal got there and they will be screwed up long after the United States exits. According to retired Army Lt. Col. Allen West, there are horrific problems in command and control as well as in other areas. Col. West’s address was delivered on September 11, 2009, and there appears to be little indication that General McChrystal — who had three months earlier assumed command in Afghanistan — did much to fix them. Indeed, it has been argued persuasively that he imposed unduly restrictive rules of engagement, which got some of our troops killed. I do not know whether he was trying to adhere to policy from above with which he did not agree or did it on his own; I suspect the former. If that was the case, he should have resigned his commission or retired in protest even earlier. | <urn:uuid:9c9f389e-34f5-42fe-a712-52389cbba5e2> | 2013-05-27T02:54:39Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Major Section: PROGRAMMING
An ACL2 ordinal is either a natural number or, for an infinite ordinal, a
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Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) was born in Somersby, Lincolnshire, the third surviving son of a rector whose violent alcoholism blighted the family home. Tennyson went to Cambridge where he met Arthur Henry Hallam whose early death was to prompt Tennyson to write his great elegy of mourning, In Memoriam. Tennyson had begun writing as a child and published some of his best-known poems, including 'Mariana', when he was only twenty. However, success was slow to come and the years between Hallam's death and 1843 when Tennyson began to receive an annual government grant were difficult, financially and emotionally. His situation changed with the publication of In Memoriam which brought him lasting fame and success and for the next forty years he was the dominant figure in English poetry, being made Poet Laureate in 1850 following the death of Wordsworth. Later work such as The Idylls of the King were held in high esteem and sold well. By this time he was married to Emily Sellwood after a prolonged ten-year engagement due to financial difficulties and his fears over his mental state, the 'black blood' of the Tennysons. This darkness informs much of his poetry which tends to focus on loss and mortality: T. S. Eliot called him "the great master . . . of melancholia". He was made a peer in 1884 and died in 1892.
Since his death his critical reputation has had its ups and downs: W. H. Auden described his genius as essentially lyrical and the general consensus has been that the longer narrative poems he spent so much time on are less successful, though this view has begun to be challenged. However, he remains the defining English poet of the Victorian era, nowhere more so than in his famous Archive-featured poem 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' (1854) which commemorates an infamous incident from the Crimean War. In the course of this action, undertaken in error due to misinterpreted orders, the Light Brigade (that is cavalry bearing only light arms) attempted to capture the Russian gun redoubts at Balaclava with disastrous results. Of the six hundred and seventy three men who charged down "The Valley of Death" only a hundred and ninety five survived unwounded. News of the charge and its bloody consequences reached London three weeks later and there was an immediate public outcry. The news affected Tennyson who wrote his poem in commemoration of their courage only a few minutes after reading an account in The Times. It was immediately popular, even reaching the troops back in the Crimea where it was distributed in pamphlet form.
Less well-known is Tennyson's celebration of a more successful action during the same battle, 'The Charge of the Heavy Brigade'. This was written much later in 1882 at the prompting of a friend which is perhaps why it fails to capture the white-hot creative burst of the first poem. The "three hundred" mentioned are the men of the Heavy Brigade and their commander, Sir James Yorke Scarlett, but the poem never caught the public's imagination. Nevertheless, it is of historical interest to hear the two poems side by side which we're able to do thanks to a remarkable recording made in 1890. These poems and eight others were recorded on a set of twenty three soft wax cylinders. Although their age and the primitive technology sometimes renders a word inaudible, Tennyson's voice comes through clearly, intoning the pounding dactylic rhythms of the verse which gives it a breathless momentum. | <urn:uuid:71c8bab0-f87e-4e58-81de-e86a5662ffc4> | 2013-05-26T09:36:05Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Pokemon Black and White 2 (also known as "Pokemon Grey") is coming out soon.
Can you guys wait for it to come out? :o
Also, if it does come out, how much do you think it will cost? I say about $79.
I can't wait for it to come out, and hopefully the Pokemon League will be harder. :L | <urn:uuid:ff7626f2-1043-4c3b-bf4d-77259daa08be> | 2013-05-26T09:36:56Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The purpose of screening is early diagnosis and treatment. Screening tests are usually administered to people without current symptoms, but who may be at high risk for certain diseases or conditions.
Your doctor may give you a test, such as the Berlin Questionnaire or the Epworth sleepiness scale, to gain information about your symptoms. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that children are screened for sleep apnea by asking about snoring.
- Reviewer: Rimas Lukas, MD
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A New York Times story on Iceland provides a good opportunity to discuss the asymmetry in reporting on government budget deficits and national current account deficits. While news of the budget deficit routinely appears prominently on the front pages (in addition to occupying considerable space on editorial and op-ed pages) discussion of the current account deficit is generally relegated to the inner pages of the business section. Since the long-term impact of the two on the economy is comparable, there is little justification for the difference in treatment.
This is another Econ 101 story. A budget deficit is supposed to be bad because it pulls money away from other more productive purposes. Specifically it is supposed to raise interest rates and thereby crowd out private investment. (The deficit hawks have a hard time telling this story at present, with real interest rates in the U.S. at near post-war lows.) The result is slower growth and a poorer country in the long-term. There is also a secondary concern, that when the annual deficit and/or debt grow sufficiently large relative to GDP, lenders could begin to question the government's creditworthiness and then demand very high interest rates. This would have serious consequences for investment and growth.
A current account deficit means that the United States is selling off assets (e.g. stocks, bonds, real estate) to foreigners. As a result, in the future, income from these assets will go to foreigners rather than people in the United States. In other words, the United States will be poorer, just like with a budget deficit. There is also a secondary concern, that when the annual current account deficit and/or foreign debt grow sufficiently large relative to GDP, lenders could begin to question the country's creditworthiness and then demand very high interest rates. This would have serious consequences for investment and growth.
Okay, I shouldn't have used the exact same words to describe the nature of budget crises and current account crises. The latter will typically take the form of a plunging currency, leading to higher inflation (import prices rise when the currency falls, leading to higher prices generally) and higher nominal interest rates. The result is likely to be a recession, with several years of stagnation and high unemployment (e.g. the East Asian financial crisis in the 90s). A budget crisis is likely to be resolved with sharp cuts in spending and/or large tax increases, also likely to lead to a period of stagnation and high unemployment. (The discussion of both deficits must be filled with numerous caveats, which I am leaving out for brevity.)
While there are good grounds for concerns about the U.S. budget deficit, the current account deficit is considerably larger and is growing rapidly. The unified budget deficit for 2006 is projected at 2.6 percent of GDP (4.0 percent of GDP, including the money borrowed from Social Security). By comparison, the current account deficit is 6.2 percent of GDP.
The Iceland story is an occasion to mention the current account deficit because Iceland presents the most extreme case of a rich country with a large current account deficit. Its deficit was almost 15 percent of GDP last year. New Zealand comes in second at 9.0 percent, followed by the United States and Spain, both at just over 6.0 percent. Iceland appears to finally be hitting the wall, its currency fell by 15 percent in the last year according to the article. This is pushing inflation up, with interest rates rising as well.
The same factors that are causing problems for Iceland, most importantly diminished capital outflows from Japan and possibly China, are likely to also cause problems for the other big deficit countries in the not distant future. When this happens, the media will have to explain why it devoted so little attention to the growing current account deficit and the crisis that would almost certainly be implied by its reversal.
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- CXCL16 and oxLDL are induced in the onset of diabetic nephropathy (2009)
- Diabetic nephropathy (DN) is a major cause of end-stage renal failure worldwide. Oxidative stress has been reported to be a major culprit of the disease and increased oxidized low density lipoprotein (oxLDL) immune complexes were found in patients with DN. In this study we present evidence, that CXCL16 is the main receptor in human podocytes mediating the uptake of oxLDL. In contrast, in primary tubular cells CD36 was mainly involved in the uptake of oxLDL. We further demonstrate that oxLDL down-regulated α3-integrin expression and increased the production of fibronectin in human podocytes. In addition, oxLDL uptake induced the production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in human podocytes. Inhibition of oxLDL uptake by CXCL16 blocking antibodies abrogated the fibronectin and ROS production and restored α3 integrin expression in human podocytes. Furthermore we present evidence that hyperglycaemic conditions increased CXCL16 and reduced ADAM10 expression in podocytes. Importantly, in streptozotocin-induced diabetic mice an early induction of CXCL16 was accompanied by higher levels of oxLDL. Finally immunofluorescence analysis in biopsies of patients with DN revealed increased glomerular CXCL16 expression, which was paralleled by high levels of oxLDL. In summary, regulation of CXCL16, ADAM10 and oxLDL expression may be an early event in the onset of DN and therefore all three proteins may represent potential new targets for diagnosis and therapeutic intervention in DN.
- ADAM10 is expressed in human podocytes and found in urinary vesicles of patients with glomerular kidney diseases (2010)
- Background: The importance of the Notch signaling in the development of glomerular diseases has been recently described. Therefore we analyzed in podocytes the expression and activity of ADAM10, one important component of the Notch signaling complex. Methods: By Western blot, immunofluorescence and immunohistochemistry analysis we characterized the expression of ADAM10 in human podocytes, human urine and human renal tissue. Results: We present evidence, that differentiated human podocytes possessed increased amounts of mature ADAM10 and released elevated levels of L1 adhesion molecule, one well known substrate of ADAM10. By using specific siRNA and metalloproteinase inhibitors we demonstrate that ADAM10 is involved in the cleavage of L1 in human podocytes. Injury of podocytes enhanced the ADAM10 mediated cleavage of L1. In addition, we detected ADAM10 in urinary podocytes from patients with kidney diseases and in tissue sections of normal human kidney. Finally, we found elevated levels of ADAM10 in urinary vesicles of patients with glomerular kidney diseases. Conclusions: The activity of ADAM10 in human podocytes may play an important role in the development of glomerular kidney diseases.
- PAX2 regulates ADAM10 expression and mediates anchorage-independent cell growth of melanoma cells (2011)
- PAX transcription factors play an important role during development and carcinogenesis. In this study, we investigated PAX2 protein levels in melanocytes and melanoma cells by Western Blot and immunofluorescence analysis and characterized the role of PAX2 in the pathogenesis of melanoma. In vitro we found weak PAX2 protein expression in keratinocytes and melanocytes. Compared to melanocytes increased PAX2 protein levels were detectable in melanoma cell lines. Interestingly, in tissue sections of melanoma patients nuclear PAX2 expression strongly correlated with nuclear atypia and the degree of prominent nucleoli, indicating an association of PAX2 with a more atypical cellular phenotype. In addition, with chromatin immunoprecipitation assay, PAX2 overexpression and PAX2 siRNA we present compelling evidence that PAX2 can regulate ADAM10 expression, a metalloproteinase known to play important roles in melanoma metastasis. In human tissue samples we found co-expression of PAX2 and ADAM10 in melanocytes of benign nevi and in melanoma cells of patients with malignant melanoma. Importantly, the downregulation of PAX2 by specific siRNA inhibited the anchorage independent cell growth and decreased the migratory and invasive capacity of melanoma cells. Furthermore, the downregulation of PAX2 abrogated the chemoresistance of melanoma cells against cisplatin, indicating that PAX2 expression mediates cell survival and plays important roles during melanoma progression. | <urn:uuid:5f23cb90-6c17-4e3c-ab2e-a1590bd91add> | 2013-05-26T09:43:08Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The Year Of The Rabbit
Today marks the first day of the Chinese New Year. It is the year of the golden rabbit, and the celebration lasts for 15 days.
The Chinese New Year starts with the new moon on the first day of the new year and ends on the full moon 15 days later. The entire Chinese calendar is based around solar and lunar movements.
The Chinese zodiac consists of 12 animal signs, and the rabbit is the forth sign. The rabbit has some of the following characteristics:
- The rabbit is very lucky
- Individuals whose sign is the rabbit are private and introverted, and will avoid confrontation at all costs, but are also very friendly and enjoy good company
- Rabbits are good teachers, communicators and counselors, but tend to need their own space
- Rabbits are wise, keen, fragile, serene, considerate, fashionable and kind
- Being intelligent and quick, like a rabbit, they can often talk themselves out of any situation
- Despite disliking hostility of any kind, rabbits happen to be very strong-willed and strong-minded
- They do things slowly and in a precise manner due to their characteristic of being cautious in all situations
According to Chinese tradition, the Rabbit brings a year in which you can catch your breath and calm your nerves. It is a time for negotiation. Don’t try to force issues, because if you do you will ultimately fail. To gain the greatest benefits from this time, focus on home, family, security, diplomacy, and your relationships with women and children. Make it a goal to create a safe, peaceful lifestyle, so you will be able to calmly deal with any problem that may arise.
The year of the rabbit ends on January 22, 2012, in which the dragon will then take over that following February.
To read more about Chinese zodiac, go here.
To view a video of the new year celebrations, go here. | <urn:uuid:de4df839-bf5e-4179-ab46-407c1ab3e6d9> | 2013-05-26T09:42:14Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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In January the United Kingdom's General Medical Council ruled that physician Andrew Wakefield's 1998 research allegedly linking autism to the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine (MMR) was conducted "dishonestly and irresponsibly." In February, The Lancet medical journal retracted the article based on that unethical research. So those who have following this sorry saga have been waiting to see what sanctions might be levied against Wakefield. Now we know. According to the AP:
Britain's top medical group banned a doctor who was the first to publish peer-reviewed research suggesting a connection between a common vaccine and autism from practicing in the country, finding him guilty Monday of serious professional misconduct.
Dr. Andrew Wakefield's research led to millions of parents worldwide abandoning the shot for measles, mumps and rubella, even though the study was later widely discredited...
The ruling in Britain only applies to his right to practice medicine in the U.K., not in other countries...
At least a dozen British medical associations including the Royal College of Physicians, the Medical Research Council and the Wellcome Trust have issued statements verifying the safety of the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine.
"I hope this ruling will finally persuade the public and some misguided journalists that Dr. Wakefield behaved irresponsibly," said Dr. Jennifer Best, a virologist at King's College University in London. "(The measles) vaccine is a safe vaccine."
So parents the medical message is clear: Get your kids vaccinated. Or you may be responsible for the kind of outbreak that occurred in San Diego in 2008. That outbreak was sparked by an unvaccinated kid who brought back measles from Switzerland and infected 11 other kids, including a baby who was hospitalized for three days with a 106 degree fever. | <urn:uuid:a9ce0968-f05b-4a44-82f0-c9161326e615> | 2013-05-26T09:41:50Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Julia Child's RatatouilleSubmitted by: PMGOHIO
IntroductionStraight from the "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" cookbook. Straight from the "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" cookbook.
1 lb. eggplant
1 lb. zucchini
1 tsp. salt
4-6 Tbsp. olive oil, divided
1/2 lb. (about 1 1/2 cups) thinly sliced yellow onions
2 sliced green peppers (about 1 cup) (I use yellow, orange & red peppers)
2 cloves mashed garlic
Salt & Pepper to taste
1 lb. firm, ripe, red tomatoes, peeled, seeded and juiced (about 1 1/2 cups; could use canned tomatoes)
3 Tbsp. minced parlsey
One layer at a time, saute the eggplant and then the zucchini in 4 Tbsp. hot olive oil in a 10-12" skillet for about a minute on each side to brown very lightly. Remove to a side dish.
In the same skillet, cook the onions and peppers (add an additional 2 Tbsp. of olive oil if needed) for about 10 minutes, until tender but not browned. Stir in the garlic and season with salt & pepper to taste.
Slice tomato pulp into 3/8" strips. Lay them over the onions and peppers. Season with salt & pepper. Cover the skillet and cook over low heat for 5 minutes or until tomatoes have begun to render their juice. Uncover, taste the tomatoes with the juices, raise heat and boil for several minutes until juice has almost entirely evaporated.
Place a third of the tomatoe mixture in the bottom of a 2 1/2 quart casserole (about 2 1/2" deep). Sprinkle 1 Tbsp. fresh, minced parlsey over tomatoes. Arrange half of the eggplant and zucchini on top, then half the remaining tomatoes and parsley. Put in the rest of the eggplant and zucchini and finish with the remaining tomatoes and parsley.
Cover the casserole and simmer over low heat for 10 minutes. Uncover, tip the casserole and baste with the rendered juices. Correct seasoning if necessary. Raise heat slightly and cook uncovered about 15 minutes more, basting several times, until juices have evaporated leaving a spoonful or two of flavored olive oil. Be careful of your heat; do not let the vegetables scorch in the bottom of the casserole!. Serves 6-8.
Number of Servings: 8
Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user PMGOHIO.
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Got a little confused at the end so I baked it instead. It wa great! - 4/11/10
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I made it yesterday; basically used a large skillet and just watched it carefully. I agree, this is so tasty and even better the next day! | <urn:uuid:dffd1eba-5856-4ac1-a89d-88a46c312a1e> | 2013-05-26T09:40:53Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Agricultural co-operation has long been recognised as an important institution in the development of Western Australia’s agricultural sector. Charles Harper (1842 – 1912) has long been considered the founding father of agricultural co-operation in Western Australia. Harper was instrumental in founding the Western Australian Co-operative Producers’ Union in 1902 which, among other things, eventually became Wesfarmers Ltd. Harper was also a long standing member of Parliament, a newspaperman, an explorer, a founder of schools, a philanthropist, and an agricultural experimentalist. He was also able to pass his legacy on to his son Walter who led the co-operative movement after Harper senior’s death in 1912 and saw to its integration into the mainstream of Western Australian political and economic systems. In considering Harper’s contribution to the economic and social development of Western Australia, it is difficult to determine the extent to which his economic thinking in relation to co-operation or other economic questions conformed to such socialistic ideas represented by Owenite Co-operation or Colonial Socialism. Harper was neither a protectionist nor a free trader. Indeed, in this paper, I will discuss Harper’s position in relation to a number of economic questions – tariffs, dumping, fair trade, land alienation - with a view to showing that Harper was a pragmatist focused on economic development and determined to place all resources and apply all leavers, regardless of source and political niceties, toward that end.
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In the last few weeks, as some of you may have noticed, I have written very few blog posts. In part, this is due to the rhythm of the semester. Once the grading begins, one's free time shrinks. Part of it is due to the fact that I am maniacally trying to finish a polished draft of a book on ancient Sparta that I had hoped, before my extended sojourn in the hospital at the National Institutes of Health took place, to finish this summer. In part, however, it was because I had some thinking to do.
As some of you are no doubt acutely aware, the election results came to me as a shock. Given the emergence of the Tea Party Movement in 2009, the Republicans' discovery in the last months of that year that there is such a thing as a backbone, and their magnificent victory in the midterms in 2010, I figured that the Republicans had a real shot in 2012 at repeating what they had achieved against Jimmy Carter in 1980. And when Mitt Romney put Paul Ryan on the ticket, it looked to me as if he was going to fully capitalize on the opportunity that Barack Obama's mismanagement of the economy had afforded the Republicans.
But, of course, the Republicans did not achieve again what they had accomplished in 1980. I have no doubt that they could have won handily, and I believe that they would have done so had Mitt Romney not, in the end, opted to run a largely non-ideological, non-partisan, personal campaign against Barack Obama, eschewing appeals to first principles and intimating by his silence in this regard that Barack Obama is a perfectly decent fellow with perfectly respectable ideas and intentions and that there was nothing more at issue in the election than the unfortunate managerial failings of the President.
Instead of seeking a partisan victory by uniting the candidates of his party on a single, clearly spelled-out platform like Newt Gringrich's Contract with America, Romney orphaned the Republican Senatorial candidates in such a manner as to localize the Senatorial campaigns. This enabled the Democratic nominees in states such as Montana, Missouri, and Indiana to distance themselves from the President, to run as independents of a sort highly critical of Barack Obama, to capitalize on errors made by their opponents, and to win. It also meant that there was no real clash of visions in the national race. When Romney put Paul Ryan on the ticket, I persuaded myself that he was an old dog capable of learning new tricks and that he was going to grasp the bull by the horns and run a principled campaign. But in the end he chose not to do so, and he ran for the Presidency in the manner he had run for the Senate and for the Governorship in Massachusetts: as a man almost ashamed of the party that had nominated him and of the ideological principles that it had embraced. You can never win an argument you do not make, and Romney, by his silence regarding the nature and ends of government, conceded the argument.
Even then, of course, Romney himself might have won the personal victory he sought had the women and men he hired run a competent campaign. But this they did not do. To begin with, in the primaries, especially when challenged by Governor Rick Perry of Texas (where the Republicans have done well with the Hispanic vote) Romney acted in such a manner as to alienate Mexican-Americans. Then, in the general election, he simply conceded the Hispanic vote. I have a colleague who is fluent in Spanish and who regularly watches Univision. He tells me that, in the course of the campaign, he saw not a single television advertisement on Univision touting Mitt Romney.
I am not arguing here that Romney could have persuaded a majority of Mexican-American voters to side with him. That would have been beyond the reach of any Republican this year. I am merely suggesting that he could have done much better and that, in the circumstances, had he done so, it might well have made a real difference.
The other area in which the Romney campaign was simply incompetent had to do with getting out the vote. I live in a battleground state. We were inundated with robocalls for weeks prior to the election. The Romney people clearly had money to burn, and this money they wasted in such a manner as to infuriate potential supporters. Never once was I contacted by a real human being. In Michigan -- at least in the corner of Michigan in which I live -- the Romney campaign had no ground game to speak of.
To this, we can add that his campaign spent considerable sums on software designed to support the ground game that he apparently tried to mount elsewhere, and on election day that software crashed. So much for Mitt Romney's competence as a technocrat!
One of the reasons that I did not see this coming was that I did not pay adequate attention to the campaign as it unfolded. Lacking a television, I missed the advertisements aimed at demonizing Romney, and I did not fully appreciate the significance of Romney's abysmal performance at the Republican National Convention -- where it became clear that he intended to eschew principles and run a personal campaign, inviting people to vote for him solely because he is a nice fellow and an experienced manager.
I did watch the debates (all of the first, and most of the others). I was overly impressed by Romney's magnificent victory in the first debate. I thought that it put him in the lead, and my suspicions were confirmed by the Gallup poll and, some of the time, by Rasmussen. What I did not adequately appreciate in the following weeks was Romney's folly in trying to sit on that lead and run out the clock. When he should have been audacious, he was almost timid; and, especially on Benghazi, he allowed President Obama to get away with outright lies. Instead of going for a decisive victory, Romney aimed at eking out a win -- which is the way a challenger is very much apt to lose. All that it took to tip the balance against him was a hurricane and a Republican governor, in need of help from FEMA, willing to heap effusive praise on the President.
I have no doubt that Mitt Romney was a better candidate than any of those who ran against him for the Republican nomination. He lost a squeaker. The others, apart from Rick Perry, had no business being in the race. Every one of them would have lost by a landslide.
I also have no doubt that we would be much better off now had Romney won. For the time being, Barack Obama has the whip hand; and, in the next few years, he is going to do the country a great deal of harm -- all for the purpose of expanding further the administrative entitlements state. The consequences in foreign affairs could be exceedingly grim -- especially with regard to Iran and China -- and the damage done the economy will hurt Americans grievously for a long time to come.
But I also suspect that, had he won election, Mitt Romney would soon have left his party and its supporters demoralized.This, as you may remember, I worried about from the start. Back in May, 2011, I post a piece entitled The Last Man Standing. In it, I restated in brief the conclusion reached in my recent book Soft Despotism, Democracy’s Drift that "there is built into liberal democracy a natural tendency to drift in the direction of the administrative state with its concentration of power in the executive branch of the central government and its entitlement programs," and I added the following:
This propensity can only be successfully resisted if we understand its origins and if we take cognizance of the manner in which the American regime, as envisaged by the Founding generation, was designed to stand in its way. This propensity has been systematically and quite effectively exploited by the Progressives and their heirs now for something like a century. What they understand that we need to understand is that a reversal of the trend is well nigh impossible – well nigh, let me add, but not quite. Well nigh because those in possession of entitlements will scream bloody murder if they are threatened. And not quite because, thanks in part to our unwitting benefactor Barack Obama, we no longer have the resources to support the entitlements state. We can certainly raise taxes, as President Obama and the Democrats intend to do, but that does not mean that in the long run we will take in more revenue – and it is massively increased revenue that the entitlement state needs. The Progressives are banking on the unwillingness of a considerable part of the electorate to give up the subsidies on which they live, and on this they have always to date successfully banked. Right now, however, the fiscal crisis of the welfare state offers us an opening, and I am confident that Mitt Romney will miss it. He is the sort of man who never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
Since 1928, when Calvin Coolidge relinquished the Presidency, the office has been held by a number of Republicans – Herbert Hoover, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Richard M. Nixon, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and George W. Bush. Only one of these has displayed an understanding of the problem we face, and he was, for understandable reasons, too preoccupied with wining the Cold War, to confront that problem with all of his energy. Hoover, Eisenhower, Nixon, Bush père, and Bush fils were all what I call managerial progressives. Their claim over against the liberals was that they could manage the administrative state more efficiently and effectively than their counterparts. Rarely if ever did any of them mention the Founders. Rarely if ever did they appeal to the first principles of our form of government as they are expressed in the Declaration of Independence. Rarely if ever did they appeal to the Constitution in opposition to the jurisprudential drift of the Supreme Court. Limited government was not part of their vocabulary. They were without clue.
The reasons are simple enough. Not one of these men was properly educated in the principles of American government. They had their virtues. They were practical men, can-do sorts with a pretty good understanding of how to get from here to there. In terms of moral understanding, as it is applied to political matters, however, they were bankrupt or pretty nearly so. The ordinary senior at Hillsdale College these days has a better grasp of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the conditions of freedom than did any of these men.
The same is true of nearly all Republicans. They come into Congress, the Senate, and state government from the Chambers of Commerce. Few of them have any sort of political education. Most are businessmen. If they have something more than an undergraduate education, it is reflected by their possessing a law degree or an MBA – which is to say, they have been trained to be managerial progressives. Our law schools and our business schools owe their origins to the Progressives. They were created for the purpose of encouraging what Franklin Delano Roosevelt called “rational administration.”
The reason why I oppose Mitt Romney is simple, He was born to destroy everything that we have accomplished since the Tea-Party Movement emerged in the Spring of 2009. Romney is the very model of a managerial progressive. He has one great virtue. He knows how to run things; he knows how to organize things. He would make a good Secretary of Commerce. He has no understanding of the principles that underpin our government. And, in fact, like most businessmen, he is a man almost devoid of political principles. Give him a problem, and he will make a highly intelligent attempt to solve it. Ask him to identify which problems should be left to ordinary people and what are the proper limits to government’s reach, and he would not understand the question. He is what you might call a social engineer; and, in his estimation, we are little more than the cogs and wheels that need to be engineered. . . .
Romney’s political instincts are disastrous. He will betray the friends of liberty and limited government at the first opportunity. If he is nominated, the people who joined the Tea Party and turned out in 2010 to give the Republicans an historic victory are likely to stay home. If, by some miracle, the progenitor of Romneycare actually defeats the progenitor of Obamacare, he will quickly embrace the entitlement state and present himself as the man who can make it hum, as he did in Massachusetts. He is not better than Hoover, Eisenhower, Nixon, Bush père, and Bush fils. He is cut from the same cloth, and in practice he is apt to be far, far worse. The consequence will be the death in American life or at least the decay of the impulse embodied within the Tea-Party Movement.
What I wrote at that time was harsh, and I came to think -- or, rather, hope -- that I had been unjust. I wanted to believe that time and circumstance had given Romney the education that he did not receive at Stanford, Brigham Young University, Harvard Business School, and Harvard Law School, and I wanted to believe that his choice of Paul Ryan as a running mate was not just a sop thrown to the Tea Party Movement but a sign that Romney himself had outgrown managerial progressivism. Had I spent less time thinking about Sparta this Fall and more time following the Republican campaign, had I read and re-read Romney's acceptance speech at the convention, I would have known better.
I do not now believe that Mitt Romney was ever serious about repealing Obamacare. Had he been serious, he would have run a campaign designed to nationalize the Senatorial elections in every state. What he seemed to want was to be elected President and to have Democratic control in the Senate as an excuse for a failure on his part to keep his campaign promises. It was as if he wanted to win but did not want the ideas he had been forced to espouse in order to get the Republican nomination to be victorious with him. He wanted to win an office, not an argument. In that particular, he was typical of nearly all Republican presidential nominees in the past. He had no desire to change the direction in which we are tending. He merely wanted to manage its progress in that direction more prudently.
That may never have been good enough. It is certainly not good enough now. Let's hope that Mitt Romney turns out to be the last managerial progressive nominated for the Presidency by the Republican Party. What we need is a woman or man intent on radically correcting our course and a party intent on achieving the same end.
The last thing that we need to do is to take the advice proffered to us by Mike Murphy -- tellingly, not in a conservative journal but in the pages of Time Magazine, where such advice is most welcome -- that, to succeed, we must surrender to the Zeitgeist. Why just think how much good Arnold Schwarzenegger did the Republican Party and the people of California! Barry Goldwater was right about one thing long ago. We need to offer Americans a choice, not an echo. We need to do more than re-arrange the deck chairs on our political Titanic. | <urn:uuid:58dc3851-37e4-474f-abee-070e31c5e8de> | 2013-05-26T09:34:37Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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and all the trees of the field shall clap [their] hands.
Give unto the LORD, O ye mighty,
give unto the LORD glory and strength.
2 Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name;
worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness. Ps. 96.7-9
3 The voice of the LORD is upon the waters:
the God of glory thundereth:
the LORD is upon many waters.
4 The voice of the LORD is powerful;
the voice of the LORD is full of majesty.
5 The voice of the LORD breaketh the cedars;
yea, the LORD breaketh the cedars of Lebanon.
6 He maketh them also to skip like a calf;
Lebanon and Sir'i-on like a young unicorn.
7 The voice of the LORD divideth the flames of fire.
8 The voice of the LORD shaketh the wilderness;
the LORD shaketh the wilderness of Kadesh.
9 The voice of the LORD maketh the hinds to calve,
and discovereth the forests:
and in his temple doth every one speak of his glory.
10 The LORD sitteth upon the flood;
yea, the LORD sitteth King for ever.
11 The LORD will give strength unto his people;
the LORD will bless his people with peace.
I only imagine the climate of ancient Palestine, but I imagine storms didn't come with the frequency with which they visit the Texas coastal plains. Lately, though, we have been as dry as I always imagine Palestine, and today it was as hot: 103, surely a record for this early in June. There were rumors of thunderstorms, but we'd given up any hope of it, and when the first thunderclap rolled across the sky, there weren't enough clouds to make us think we weren't imagining things. It was followed by another, and then by rain drops as wet and fat and cold as frogs. And then it passed, as quickly as it came.
And that was it; except it wasn't. The sun came out, the skies cleared, the winds settled; then it began again. This time the wind roared, and the rain came in sheets, even as the sun beamed through the clouds. There were rainbows in the rainfall, right above my driveway. And the trees waved and twisted and clapped their hands. And what could you do but shout: "GLORY!"
My garage had to substitute for a temple; my isolation for all the people.
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I'm Rob Osborne, and I want to conquer the world. Oh, and I produce this blog. It's my gift to you. Please, enjoy.
So a little bit about me. I'm an artist, a writer, a creative thinker, a runner, a husband, a father, and everything else. I draw cartoons, design things, make things go.
Are you interested in art? Living a life of adventure? World domination? Then you may like what's happening here.
The world is yours. Go forth and conquer!
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Recently I read about an Assassin class, and I'm intrigued. I'm not very familiar with it yet, but I'm wondering what weapon best suits an Assassin? I mean, from a roleplaying point of view I would pick the dagger or katar, but from a damage output perspective what is the best weapon for an Assassin?
Because the assassin has access to the Ki focus, enchantment is left to the ki meaning your only selection is in the weapon die and properties you'd like it to have.
Things you should be thinking about
By default as an assassin you get access to
There is a pretty extensive list of weapons here, particularly in the heavy and light blades (rapier, falchion, broadsword, glaive, longsword, greatsword). I'd start with grabbing a couple from this list (definitely rapier/long sword and probably a glaive, maybe a greatsword just to have a nice punchy option). Then grab an item or two off the simple one handed melee list, although most of the options are trumped by heavy blade options, however if you've got a story or feat/power issue that would provide a good reason to take something off the simple one handed-melee list, go for it. | <urn:uuid:b060b583-7d38-4b7f-a775-bf6ce0de1c06> | 2013-05-26T09:41:56Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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"If this business was easy, it would be a sin."
-Hayao Miyazaki, Animerica Magazine. 1993
Animation is the youngest medium of art that mankind has created. Spanning barely over one hundred years, its history is as rich and dramatic as any other. Starting as the simple idea of an illusion of moving art by a couple clever innovators at Edison's film company in the early 1900's, it soon boomed into a mega-corporate commercial venture that employed thousands and captivated millions only decades later. It spread outside of America and took many different forms in many different countries and cultures. Today, the face of animation is very different than it ever was. Computers, corporate chokeholds and the death of the innovators of animation has left a doubtful future for the preservation of animation's defining age.
The 1910's saw the rise of animation as a serious medium and the first studios began to appear in the United States. Winsor McCay, a masterful draftsman and artist, had created two cartoons with ink on rice paper - "Little Nemo" in 1911 and "Gertie The Dinosaur" in 1916, which contained over 10,000 individual drawings. Unlike the largely experimental and detached experiments in animation before them, McCay's cartoon creations had a sense of weight and character to them, and they captivated audiences wherever he showed them. Knowing it was unrealistic for one person to create these on their own time repeatedly, studios began to make their way into the limelight. Fleischer Brothers, Terrytoons, Warner Brothers, MGM, Disney, and Leon Schlesinger to name a few.
For 50 years animation flourished as an art form. It was unhinged and wild, allowing its creators to put to work anything their imaginations were willing. The artists ran the show - it wasn't about the money, it was about the story. The spectrum of animation being produced ranged from the wildly bizarre, akin to Bob Clampett's "Porky In Wackyland" (1938), where the audience takes witness to Porky Pig's oncoming insanity - to silent and stirring social commentaries like "Black & White" (1933), a short music-driven cartoon by Ivan Ivanov-Vano dealing with racism. Their styles differed from the simple, yet smart designs of from Pat Sullivan's 1920's studio with characters like Felix the Cat, to the painstakingly detailed epic worlds of Walt Disney's money-eating venture in films like "Fantasia".
The mid-20th century saw the peak of animation - often referred to as the "Golden Age". Warner Bros. Animation Studio led the way with timeless classics of quality not often found in your average Saturday Morning programming. "[It was the] Golden Age for [Warner Bros. Director] Chuck Jones: A time for fully realized characters in ideally told tales so brief and ingenious in their structure it could take the breath away, and yet so disarmingly simple that even adults could understand them." (Beck, 124). Their success was attributed to their teamwork - a group of artists working together under one roof. "His team had worked so long and well together that they could very nearly finish each other's sentences." (Beck). Many cartoons created during this era are heralded as the best of all time, 1957's Chuck Jones' short "What's Opera, Doc?" being chosen #1 in animation historian Jerry Beck's book "The 50 Greatest Cartoons: As Selected by 1,000 Animation Professionals" in 1994.
To their creators, the drawings in their cartoons were actors, not symbols (Barrier, 539.) They all believed that what they were doing had a purpose void of material gain or profit. Walt Disney, founder of the Walt Disney Company and director of many of the earlier films in their canon said, "I have had a stubborn, blind confidence in the cartoon medium, a determination to show the skeptics that the animated cartoon was deserving of a better place, that it was more than mere 'filler' on the program, more than a novelty, that it could be one of the greatest mediums of fantasy and entertainment." (Solomon). To this affect, cartoons and animation had successfully saturated themselves in the imaginations of millions of Americans. Characters like Mickey Mouse, Felix The Cat and Bugs Bunny became instantaneous household names in an era when mass communication was a luxury. To this end, animation naturally began to spread beyond the borders of the United States.
As early as the 1930's, Russia, Germany and France were creating animations. By the 1960's, animation was flourishing worldwide as well. In March 1956, Japan's first major animation studio Toei is founded on the principal of being the "Disney of the East" (Beck, 181). It still exists today. Even further East, China's Shanghai Film Studio created many award-winning animated classics that were culturally relevant and captured their society's imagination. Many other nations housed successful studios as well, including but not limited to Poland, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Estonia and the United Kingdom. All these studios took their cues from American models and adapted them over time to fit their styles, cultures and methods of storytelling.
However - as with all new media - as animation began to penetrate society and bring about a new way of delivering a message to people, some people felt threatened and intimidated by this sudden wave of information in a format unfamiliar to them. Some also felt threatened by the people responsible for the content. While the 50's and 60's were the Golden Age for animators, it was also the beginning of a dark age.
Post-WWII America brought about the Cold War and the fear of Communism. In the 1950's, the Communist Party of America had reached its peak of 50,000 members. Propaganda and fears of the "nuclear winter" prompted a federal breach in American political freedom as the United States government created the House Representative's Committee on Un-American Activities. Tasked in finding high-profile Communist Party members, the "Hollywood Blacklist" was created in order to weed them out and ruin their careers. Often with little or no evidence, entertainment employees would often disappear from payrolls without notice (Barrier, 539). One studio that suffered from this was United Productions of America. Major UPA writers Phil Eastman, Bill Scott and John Hubley were accused of being Community party supporters and subsequently blacklisted. Hubley was the only one with legitimate party ties. Either way, the actions of the investigation severely damaged the work ethic and spirit of the studio, and UPA stopped producing cartoons in 1959.
Another blow to the animation industry were lobbyist groups to censor and regulate the diverse animation industry. While many cartoons were for children and adults alike, rising animators like Ralph Bakshi were "reminding audiences that cartoons are not just for children", creating the first X-rated animated feature films. By the 1970's, "[the] triumph of various parent groups in their efforts to strip all of the fun from cartoons [had succeeded], essentially removing all slapstick action comic violence, injecting educational and pro-social messages into the narratives." (Beck, 246.) Cartoons had been reduced to a "Saturday morning ghetto" (Beck) with shallow, childish stories.
The drop in production quality was not singularly tied to censorship. The businessman duo gone animation studio Hannah Barbera had begun to mass produce cartoons in a factory-line type process known today as limited animation, a practice in what animator Anne Joliffe described fondly as akin to "bottling pickles". Reused backgrounds, walk cycles and animated sequences saved the studios a lot of money. These major cost-cutting practices were appealing to the ever-growing broadcasting networks that distributed animated material. Studios like Warner Brothers became less enchanted with the higher budgets they used to give their teams, and as the 3D-glasses craze swept film, WB Animation quickly flickered and died. On top of the domestic money saving techniques, outsourcing most of the work overseas to Japanese and Australian studios kept an even tighter budget at the expense of animation jobs. Because of these circumstances, the 1970's had a sharp contrast to the cartoons of the previous decade. Characterized by cheap production values, stiff animation and weak writing at the expense of not offending any audience, most cartoons of this era had little staying power and are long forgotten. As the mid-1990's approached, only Dreamworks and Disney remained from the wake of the oppression of animation, as Richard William's 29-years-in-the-making masterpiece Thief and the Cobbler was seized by Warner Studios and sent off to Korea for a swift video release.
While American animation suffered at the expense of corporate interests, foreign animation continued to thrive - especially Japanese animation. The fundamental difference between American and Japanese studios were the people in charge. While NBC, ABC and the major broadcasting networks left artists at the mercy of corporate changes, Japanese studios kept the artists in charge of the business. Over time, certain directors made their way from television to theatrical releases. One of them was Hayao Miyazaki, arguably Japan's most prominent director in their history. Japan's film industry is dominated by anime, and it shows in box office numbers.
Japan did suffer from the same stereotypes of animation for a time, but Miyazaki's films bridged the gap between general audiences of adults and children. With Miyazaki on the front, anime from comic books to animation exploded in Japan as the most popular medium for storytelling - and something was available for every age group. Rumiko Takahashi, creator of some of Japan's top selling manga such as Ranma ½ and Uresei Yatsura, is the prime market for young girls. Yoshiyoki Tomino, creator of the Gundam series which sparked a mecha/space opera craze, grabbed a large audience of adult males. These are only a few examples of the explosion of modern animation and art culture in Japan, which has only grown in the last 40 years - similar to the growth of American animation at its birth.
Unafraid to express his creativity and not bound by any restrictions, Miyazaki thrived in Japan as Chuck Jones did during the Golden Age of Warner Brothers. "How can we make films which will gain the acceptance of those people who've never seen animation before? We need to get near to that universal appeal of animation when making a movie, or all our efforts will have been for nothing." (Fuiji, 27). Part of his and other's success was also the lack of creativity in the live action film industry. "I never trust the response of industry people. They're too conservative. They've always been behind the times. If industry people knew what they were talking about, the movie business wouldn't be on the decline like it is." (Fuiji).
But as time went on and the American animation industry continued to falter, as did Japans. Animators had fought several battles in the states to get their jobs back, turning a once stable job into a rollercoaster of stunted projects and short contracts from corporations interested in creating a product, not a film. This turned American animators from a few teams of people who worked together into a travelling band of starved talent fighting for quick fixes and a short term creative injection. Like a sick patient dependent on manufactured pharmaceuticals to sustain itself, major American broadcasting networks have made animation teams wholly dependent on their brief inoculations of cartoon projects, stifling the creative process and everything that made the studios of the Golden Age successful (and profitable.)
How this affected Japanese animation is simple - its existence is dependent on its predecessors. Yoshiyoki Tomino of Gundam was inspired by American sci-fi. Rumiko Takahashi of Ranma½, Spiderman. Yukito Kishiro of Battle Angel Alita, Frank Miller's Batman. Like Toei Animation's goal to be the "Disney of the East", Japanese pioneers of anime were first inspired by American counterparts. Since then, they have taken on their own look, and on the flip side American cartoons began to take on their looks as anime crept its way on the airwaves.
Recently, Japan's own Golden Age is beginning to show signs of trouble in a different fashion. While America feels creatively bankrupt, animators in Japan have felt that they are beginning to run out of ideas. Mamoru Oshii, an animation director, said that "animation studios are surviving, animators are getting better paid, but the quality of new works is not improving. On the surface, it's thriving, but in reality, there's very little new happening." (Saito). This issue is perhaps related to the aging group of Japan's flagship of anime pioneers - similar to the plight of American animation pioneers unwillingly succumbing to mega corporations and the conveyor-belt cartoons of the 70's.
Hayao Miyazaki is now nearing 70 years old. Oshii states in the same interview; "From a directors' viewpoint, we cannot expect anything new from Miyazaki. He is like a very old man, almost retired now." Even Miyazaki has expressed his doubt in the generation that precedes him - and not just in Japan. "I don't know how much the people in Hollywood actually believed in [loving film]. Personally, they were probably more concerned with getting a home in Beverly Hills. But at one time, that illusion held sway throughout the world. It's become too difficult to even pretend you believe in that anymore. The goal now is to throw a huge amount of money at a project, do a huge promotion, and mobilize a huge number of viewers."
While Japan's market suffered from more of the same, American studios follow the model Miyazaki explained. A good example was Disney under the reigns of Eisner in from the mid-1990's to the early 2000's. As Eisner saw Disney's toy and product profits soar, films were chosen for production based on their value to toy manufacturers such as Hasbro, instead of their appeal to audiences. As the animation became more about selling a product, Disney began to struggle to captivate its audiences. Roy Disney, upon retiring in 2003, described Eisner's Disney as "soul-less."
After the production of "Brother Bear", Eisner closed Disney's 2D Florida studio and fired nearly every 2D production animator and artist, proudly boasting that "2D is dead." Not soon after, Eisner was pressured to step down as CEO, and did so. However he left in his wake the near destruction of Walt Disney, a company founded on the principle that animation should be treated as a gift, in the name of greed and maximizing profits. To stay afloat, Disney would eventually purchase Pixar studios, whose business model headed by John Lasseter would save the wavering animation giant for the time being.
Although it is not a question of whether if cartoons will survive but how, it's important to see how the industry has come to this point. There are two parts to the cycle of animation - the boom of creativity when artists are free to be artists, and the busts, when money takes the reins and the artists - and their creations - suffer. And while cartoons may seem different from border to border, at their core they are the same stories, the same visions and the same artists, simply wishing to create their visions through the illusion of life through art. When one part of the body is sick and isn't treated, it slowly creeps its way throughout.
American animation being treated as a gimmicky sideshow for advertising and web-based series reminiscent of the "bottled pickles" of the 70's is slowly beginning to cripple cartoons big and small. Those who have innovated before us are starting to see it. And while times have changed, the one thing animators today have to learn from those before them is that the animation business is not easy. If animation is as powerful as its creators believed it were, it can triumph over greed, fear and soulless mass production like it has before.
In animation's young history, there has never been a more urgent time than now for the next generation of animation pioneers to follow in the fearless footsteps of its creators. While some are aware of this urgency, most never consider the dedication of animators and the imaginative worlds they have given to mankind. Their work will never fade, but time marches on, and as they pass on they leave a void. The digital age has made it easy to take for granted the work of animation past, and those times will likely never be re-lived. But if we listen to their words and take their spirit to heart, animation will thrive and live again in a new era.
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What is the European counterpart organization to USA's NIST?
I want to check the European best practices and guidelines on computer security. Does anyone know if this organization exists, and if there are available publications?
I need to check the policy role of some firewall but in general I want to know what is the de-facto standard organization to watch.
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Part 1 –
View an installed PBO station and download position data.
Part 2 –
Learn what the numbers in the spreadsheet mean.
Part 3 –
In a spreadsheet program, make graphs of GPS positions over time.
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Add a linear trendline to the graph and use its equation to find the average daily motion of a GPS station.
Part 5 –
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100 Larkin St.Are you a fiction reader looking for a good book to read? With all of the millions of books out there, how can you find one you will enjoy? Do you prefer short stories to novels? Mystery to science fiction? Whatever your preferences, you can learn how to easily find books that you are sure to love. Among the long list of the library’s online databases, there are several geared to finding fiction books based on your reading interests. | <urn:uuid:f44d5c0c-4b33-4de1-9d71-dde621b8c9bf> | 2013-05-26T09:35:23Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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kjv@Exodus:34:1 @ And the LORD said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest.
bible Exodus:34:1 -
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strkjv@Genesis:16:10 @ And the angel of the LORD Y@hovah# said unto her, I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude.
strkjv@Genesis:16:11 @ And the angel of the LORD Y@hovah# said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael Yishma'e#l#; because the LORD Y@hovah# hath heard thy affliction.
strkjv@Genesis:16:12 @ And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every mans hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
strkjv@Genesis:16:13 @ And she called the name of the LORD Y@hovah# that spake unto her, Thou God seest me: for she said, Have I also here looked after him that seeth me?
strkjv@Genesis:16:14 @ Wherefore the well @#er# was called Beerlahairoi B@#er la-Chay Ro'iy#; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.
strkjv@Genesis:16:15 @ And Hagar bare Abram a son: and Abram called his sons name, which Hagar bare, Ishmael Yishma'e#l#.
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cjoymr wrote:I agree--the Big Bang is clearly a pre-historical event!
No. >.< It's not historical at all. The Big Bang is a theory. In many people's minds, the Big Bang doesn't even exist. In fact, it may not. Information is invalid.
"Riddle me this, riddle me that: who's afraid of the big black bat?" | <urn:uuid:bad69915-0fa8-4ccb-b07d-1ba60a6eddaf> | 2013-05-26T09:37:34Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Since there aren't any ww2 enemy airplanes to shoot at, and since that guy is wearing a hardhat, I'm hoping to see some Korean War paintschemes come out for this. There were some very colorful ones. Would be really appropriate for this model.
"From our orbital vantage point, we observe an earth without borders, full of peace, beauty and magnificence, and we pray that humanity as a whole can imagine a borderless world as we see it, and strive to live as one in peace."
Astronaut William C. McCool RIP, January 29, 2003 - Space Shuttle Columbia | <urn:uuid:c4ca7887-ffe4-466d-bccb-82fb0a9e6056> | 2013-05-27T02:56:38Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Windows NT is a series of Microsoft's Windows operating systems written in the C and C++ programming languages. They were the first to use their new 'NT' (New Technology) core. That meant it had a brand new core to do more things than the MS-DOS-based one that they used in older versions of Windows. Also, it was more secure and crashed less.
Microsoft decided to create a portable operating system, compatible with OS/2 and POSIX and supporting multiprocessing, in October 1988. When development started in November 1989, Windows NT was to be known as OS/2 3.0, the third version of the operating system developed jointly by Microsoft and IBM. To ensure portability, initial development was targeted at the Intel i860XR RISC processor, switching to the MIPS R3000 in late 1989, and then the Intel i386 in 1990.
It is well believed that Dave Cutler intended the initialism 'WNT' as a pun on VMS, incrementing each letter by one. However, the project was named NT OS/2 before receiving the Windows brand. One of the original OS/2 3.0 creators, Mark Lucovsky, claims that the name was taken from the original target processor—the Intel i860, code-named N10 ('N-Ten'). Various Microsoft publications, including a 1998 question-and-answer session with Bill Gates, reveal that the letters were expanded to 'New Technology' for marketing purposes but no longer carry any specific meaning. The letters were dropped from the name of Windows 2000, though Microsoft described the product as 'Built on NT technology.'
Versions of Windows NT are Windows NT 3.1, NT 3.51, NT 4, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7. Windows NT 3.1 was the first release of the Windows NT line. The version number 3.1 was from the fact that it looked very much like Windows 3.1. It was released in 1993. Next was Windows NT 3.5 and then 3.51. 3.5 was released in 1994 and 3.51 just a few months before Windows 95. The version after that was NT 4.0, released in 1996. It was advertised as 'power of Windows NT and look of Windows 95' and included Internet Explorer version 2. It's final releases are currently Windows 2000 (NT 5.0), Windows XP (NT 5.1), Vista (NT 6.0), and the newest version, Windows 7 (NT 6.1).
The NT version number is not now generally used for marketing purposes, but is still used internally, and said to reflect the degree of changes to the core of the operating system.
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STOMPer Dave was annoyed to see this foreigner resting his leg on the grab pole in the train.
Said the STOMPer:
"I was on the train on yesterday (May 21) when I saw this foreigner resting his leg on the MRT pole.
"He did it all the way from Botanic Gardens to Serangoon where he alighted.
"Because of him, many passengers were unable to hold on to the pole because his leg was in the way.
"Yet he continued laughing and talking to his female companion throughout his ride.
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Oscar, better known as Oz, was born and primarily raised in Atlantic City by his mother and his father, a small-time casino owner. After Oz's mother died when he was 15, his father decided to move the family to Las Vegas so he could own a major casino. Initially Oz learned the casino business from his father, but when his father died, two years prior to Oz's arrival in Los Angeles, Oz took over the day to day operations. Unfortunately, the mob in Las Vegas wanted to control Oz's casino like they controlled every other casino. Oz was first seen is Los Angeles calling his uncle, Massimo Marone, from a public phone, asking if he could come over because he needed help. Massimo hung up on him after telling him he was a legitimate businessman and wanted no part of Oz's world. Oz called back, begging him for help. Massimo still refused, and moments later, shots rang out. Oz was taken into the emergency room without identification, and only Massimo's phone number in his pocket.
The first person he really met in L.A. was med student Bridget Forrester. She was there when he woke, and he startled her when he grabbed her and asked where Paolo was. Bridget left the room to get a doctor and Oz tried to find Paolo on his own. Massimo arrived and informed Oz that Paolo was dead as a result of Oz having followed in his father's crooked footsteps. Massimo left just as a hitman arrived finish Oz off. The hitman took Bridget hostage. Oz was in no shape to help but Bridget managed to defend herself. Bridget and Oz began a tentative friendship. Oz was then moved to a new room, due to a bed shortage, which he shared with Amber (it is against hospital policy for men and women to share rooms but it is explained as necessary due to lack of room). Neither of them were thrilled to be sharing a room. The curtain was pulled between them but when he heard Amber talking about her son with a voice he recognized, he started to pay attention and announced himself to Deacon. Years earlier, Oz and his father had kicked Deacon out of Vegas for cheating in the casinos and stealing chips. Amber was overjoyed to hear it and wanted Oz to help her get custody of her son back, but Oz wanted nothing to do with her scheming. Bridget saved him from Amber, but shocked him when she admitted she was married to Deacon. Oscar admitted that at one time he and Deacon were good friends and Oz even got him a job at his father's casino, until Deacon started embezzling funds. He shared with Bridget his dream of owning his own club. He couldn't stop thinking about it after talking to her and decided to do it. He bought The Lair and renamed it Ozzz.
Oz made plans for the grand-opening of Ozzz, which included trying to get Macy Alexander Sharpe to perform. Deacon and Macy agreed after Oz promised he'd pay her upfront and let them know if there were any problems with his criminal past. As Oz was getting ready for the big night, he was confronted by two men from his past: hired killer Scarface, who tried to kill Oz in the hospital, and his boss, Jimmy Walton. The two wanted a piece of the action, but Oz told them to get out of his club. They left but told him he'd regret it. Keeping his promise to Deacon, he called to let them know he needed to talk to Deacon before Macy went on-stage. The club opened to a packed house. Oz was enjoying everything when he happened to glance up to see Scarface sabotaging the chandelier. Ox tried to save Macy before it fell on her but he was too late. She was rushed to the hospital and Deacon blamed Oz.
Oz blamed himself as well. Bridget tried to comfort him at the club, but he was inconsolable. Even though he turned the men in, he felt responsible for what happened to Macy. With Bridget's help, he went to the hospital to offer his apologies to a comatose Macy, barely escaping before Deacon could see him. He returned to the club, determined to close it forever and shut it down, when Amber showed up. Initially she sang for him, but that didn't do any good. She didn't convince Oz to hire her, but did remind him how much the club meant to him.
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Peter Pike, a severe Presbyterian critic of mine, recently wrote in a combox on my site (on 9-24-10):
Dave goes on and on about me being an anti-Catholic. . . . I defy you to produce this cornucopia of anti-Catholic statements I've supposedly uttered. Your readers are all invited to read every single one of my posts no Roman Catholicism here and find anything that supports your claim that I'm an anti-Catholic. The fact is, you won't find it.
Okay; fair enough. Despite all his lying about me recently, I try to do good even to my proclaimed "enemies" (just as our Lord Jesus says we should in the Sermon on the Mount) and so I thought I owed it to Pike to at least check out his writings more carefully, to see if I should modify my opinion of him.
This post was at first a retraction of my contention that Peter Pike was an anti-Catholic, after I looked over a bunch of his posts on Catholicism and didn't find any solid proof there. It was originally entitled: "Retraction: Peter Pike is Not an Anti-Catholic." Hence the picture of the sad-eyed puppy, who is "sorry." I clarified where I thought my reasoning had gone awry, issued an apology as well, and had written:
So how do I proceed now? . . . I shall . . . go over my posts that mention Pike, and remove the designation of anti-Catholic in descriptions of him.
But lo and behold, when I was in the process of doing that I discovered proof from Pike that he was anti-Catholic after all (therefore, that this must have been part of my rationale in the first place). He never has apparently understood the meaning of the word. He seems to think that it is almost a synonym for "bigot" whereas my use has always been, "one who denies that Catholicism as a system is a species of Christianity".
So if he thinks that my classification of him as an anti-Catholic was simply a variant of calling him a bigot, then he was out to sea as to my basic meaning. I agree that I wasn't calling him an anti-Catholic in that sense, because I have never used it with the definition of "bigot" in the first place.
The proof occurs in a Cryablogue thread: "Making the Judaizers Orthodox" (written by anti-Catholic Jason Engwer and dated 9 December 2009): in Pike's combox remarks. Engwer wrote in the post itself:
Evangelicals and Catholics disagree significantly over what "died for our sins" (1 Corinthians 15:3) means. As the book of Galatians illustrates, the adding of works to the gospel nullifies what Paul summarized in 1 Corinthians 15. As he puts it elsewhere in 1 Corinthians itself, the gospel involves the sufficiency of the crucified Christ (1 Corinthians 2:2). . . .
For an explanation of why the Roman Catholic gospel is false and why it should be considered to be under the anathema of Galatians 1, see posts # 94 and # 99 in the thread here.
The gist of the post and ensuing discussion was an analogy between the Judaizers and Catholicism: both supposedly believing in works-salvation, or Pelagianism (and elsewhere I think I have shown that the Judaizers, as the Bible describes them, were actually Christians). In the combox, Jason elaborated:
See the two posts I referenced in the Challies thread above for a further discussion of the degree to which the Judaizers' gospel was wrong and, by implication, the degree to which the Catholic gospel is wrong. . . .
For reasons I've explained already, such as in threads here and in the Challies thread linked above, the possibility that some Catholic and Orthodox signers of the Manhattan Declaration are justified in spite of their group's false gospel isn't sufficient to justify the language of the document about those groups. Individuals who attempt to be justified in a manner contrary to what their group prescribes shouldn't be considered representatives of their group's view of salvation. And the most natural way of reading the Manhattan Declaration, for reasons I've already explained, is that Catholicism and Orthodoxy are orthodox as groups, not just that some individuals within those groups are orthodox. When we judge the Catholic gospel, for example, we judge it in accordance with the assumption that people attempt to be justified through that gospel from the start. We don't assume that they believe the true gospel, then go astray after the Catholic gospel afterward. People who accept the true gospel are sometimes unfaithful to it, as we see with Peter and the Galatians. But we judge a group, like Catholicism, by its gospel alone, without an assumption that another gospel was first or later believed.
Pike made no protest against any of these notions. He responded to Truth Unites . . . and Divides ("TUAD"), who had been asking some penetrating questions, eliciting a query from TAO: "Do you believe that Rome proclaims a false gospel?" Pike then stated:
I think Jason actually addressed your question at the very end of his response when he said:People who accept the true gospel are sometimes unfaithful to it, as we see with Peter and the Galatians. But we judge a group, like Catholicism, by its gospel alone, without an assumption that another gospel was first or later believed.
In other words, if you are to ask on an individual basis, is such-and-so Judaizer saved, then he very well could have been; but when you say "Were Judaizers as a group saved?" the answer is clearly no, as the Scripture Rhology quoted demonstrates.
The gospel of the Judaizers was a false gospel, and it would always be a false gospel even if some of its members believed in the real Gospel too. Those who believed what the Judaizers put forth would not have saving faith, but there are often people who identify themselves with a certain group without holding to all that that group maintains.
But Peter's answer (which I would put in Category D) is what every conservative anti-MD Protestant that I have read says. There are CHRISTIANS in a church/Church which teaches and preaches a false gospel, but they are not damned to Hell. So then it can't be (A) as Rhology asserts. Rather, it must be (D) as Peter argues (in so many words).
Earlier, TUAD had defined his position D as: "(D) Some Judaizers are damned to Hell. Some Judaizers are not damned to Hell. And damned if I know which Judaizer is going where." Pike then replied:
My position would not be your D) because your D) included "And damned if I know which Judaizer is going where." Maybe there are some we don't know the final destination on, but there's plenty of Biblical evidence that gives us the ability to accurately judge most of their states right now. So I can talk to a Catholic, for example, and often tell fairly quickly whether he or she is a Christian in a false church, or lost.
That nails it. That's the ironclad proof. This is classic anti-Catholicism, and is identical to the positions of Luther, Calvin, and James White. In other words, it is the belief that could be expressed as follows:
There are some real Christians in Catholicism, as in most false systems. Some Catholics are saved and will make it to heaven, but if they are, it is despite what their false "church" with its false "gospel" teaches, not because of it. The "Church" itself is a false, non-Christian system.
Hence, when Pike used the description "false church," he proved that he is anti-Catholic. The Catholic Church is a false church; i.e., it is not Christian. Individual Catholics are either "lost" (and Pike -- sadly like so many judgmental, holier-than-thou, Pharisaical anti-Catholics -- seems to think he knows about many folks' final destination, even though John Calvin said we couldn't know this for sure at all), or if they are Christian, it is despite the Catholic Church.
Thus, they are either damned or "a Christian in a false church." That is pure, unbridled anti-Catholicism. Case closed. The "lie" is not in my calling Pike what he is, but in his lying about what the Catholic Church is.
But if Pike has concluded that I am personally no Christian (since I gladly, joyfully, accept all that the Catholic Church teaches, and it is a "false church") and am, in fact, damned to hell, then that would go a long way in explaining his blistering personal attacks, wouldn't it?
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One bottom line question, for example, is to ask, in determining whether a person is an ant-Catholic:
Can a Catholic believe in ALL of the doctrines of the Catholic Church and be saved?
If the answer is yes, the person cannot possibly be an anti-Catholic. If it is no, then the person is anti-Catholic, because he is saying that being a consistent Catholic is inconsistent with salvation; it makes it impossible.
Therefore, if the system precludes the possibility of salvation (assuming it is being totally adhered to) it can't possibly be a Christian system (since it is opposed to the central goal of Christianity: to be saved). Therefore, the view reduces to "Catholicism is not a Christian system," which is precisely the doctrinal definition of anti-Catholicism. And that can be determined, pretty much, by one's answer to this single question. If the system precludes salvation, it is not Christian. Period.
I have run across undeniable evidence showing that Peter Pike would deny that a person can be saved, even abiding by the Catholic soteriological doctrines alone. It occurs in a Debate on Justification with the Catholic apologist Kevin Tierney (December 2002):
Man is saved through justification, . . . In order for justification to be biblically consistent, it must conform to the ideas that we saw above. Neither the Roman Catholic system, nor the system of belief of many mainstream Evangelicals today, is harmonic with the Scripture already presented. . . .
There was a time when people felt secure enough to proclaim this truth: what you believe about justification is what you believe about the Gospel! Now, in an effort to offend as few people as possible, any such statements are delegated to the roles of the theological madmen. I am such a madman, however; and let me loudly say that the Catholic idea of justification (and all the Protestant denominations that essentially agree with the Catholic view) is not a saving Gospel. This is not to say that all Catholics are damned, for I have met some Catholics who understand this issue and actually agree with the Reformed position, although why they remain in the Catholic Church is beyond me.
Any Gospel that does not have God doing all the work and man merely passively receiving salvation is not a Gospel of grace, but is instead one of works. It does not matter if the result is so magnificent compared to such trivial labor as faith-any work done by humans at all destroys grace. . . .
Suffice it to say that the historical Reformed Protestant position is both consistent with itself and consistent with Scripture. While there are a few passages that seem to hint, at first glance, at meanings opposite of the Reformed views, any meaningful exegesis of the text will prove that there are no counter-arguments against the Reformed position on the several positive texts that I can put forth, and there are several interpretations that are at least possible, if not likely, for the "tricky" verses that I can posit. I therefore submit that the Biblical Christian must accept the Reformed doctrine of justification or else abandon the term "Biblical" in his title. (Opening Statement; my bolding) | <urn:uuid:3383f57e-2a2a-4d74-9cf2-eb996e3ba117> | 2013-05-26T09:34:59Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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I'm not a Natural Language Programming student, yet I know it's not trivial strcmp(n1,n2).
Here's what i've learned so far:
- comparing Personal Names can't be solved 100%
- there are ways to achieve certain degree of accuracy.
- the answer will be locale-specific, that's OK.
I'm not looking for spelling alternatives! The assumption is that the input's spelling is correct.
For example, all the names below can refer to the same person:
- Berry Tsakala
- Bernard Tsakala
- Berry J. Tsakala
- Tsakala, Berry
I'm trying to:
- build (or copy) an algorithm which grades the relationship 2 input names
- find an indexing method (for names in my database, for hash tables, etc.)
note: My task isn't about finding names in text, but to compare 2 names. e.g.
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"He was of an active, restless, indefatigable Genius even almost to the last, and always slept little to his death, seldom going to sleep till two three, or four a Clock in the Morning, and seldomer to Bed, often continuing his Studies all Night, and taking a nap in the day. His temper was Melancholy...."
These words were intended to describe Robert Hooke, but have been said to equally describe Isaac Newton. Both men played vital roles in the development of science in the seventeenth century, though at first glance Newton appears to outshine and outclass Robert Hooke. When Hooke is mentioned to this day, we usually speak of Newton as well, but not the other way around. They influenced one another far more than either would ever admit and, though each deserves his own separate identity, Hooke has rarely been granted his. This is largely because, though Newton and Hooke had much in common, they were bitter enemies, and Newton was able to exert far more influence over the Royal Society and, thereby, over the entire scientific community of his day. Robert Hooke's genius is hidden in shadows created partly by Hooke himself, but largely by Isaac Newton, a man who could not speak without contempt for Hooke, even long after Hooke's death, and who may well have taken steps to obliterate much of Hooke's contributions to science. Hooke's reputation is riddled by exaggerated accusations and misconceptions.
Robert Hooke was a significant influence in the advancement of science as well as Newton. An established physicist and astronomer, Hooke was with the Royal Society from its inception, and served it tirelessly and loyally for over forty years; it was he who had worded the society's credo "To improve the knowledge of natural things, and all useful Arts, Manufactures, Mechanic practices, Engines and Inventions by Experiments (not meddling with divinity, Metaphysics, Morals, Politics, Grammar, Rhetoric or Logic)." But the rancor between Newton and Hooke did much to tarnish Hooke's reputation.
Hooke was born on the Isle of Wight, July 18, 1635. As a child he survived smallpox, but was scarred physically and emotionally for life. When Hooke was thirteen years old, his father, John Hooke, a clergyman hanged himself. Young Robert had much emotional pain in his youth. Receiving a 100 pound inheritance from his father, Robert Hooke became an orphan of sorts, being sent off to London. In London was the painter Sir Peter Lely, and there, Hooke was to develop his artistic skills.
As a boy, Robert Hooke had shown considerable interest and skill in mechanical things, and this, along with Hooke's intelligence, did not escape the notice of Richard Busby, the most feared man of Westminster School. Busby had a reputation for "flogging sense into them," but there was no threat here for Robert Hooke. Busby saw great genius in Hooke, and got involved to the extent of taking the boy into his own home.
Hooke moved through Westminster, to Oxford University, working his way through as a servant as had Newton in Cambridge. At Oxford, Hooke met Physicist Robert Boyle, becoming his paid assistant. During his time with Boyle, their greatest accomplish-ment was the construction of the air pump. Hooke stayed with Boyle until 1662 when Boyle helped Hooke secure the job as Curator of Experiments for the Royal Society.
No job could have suited Robert Hooke more, and most other scientists less, than the job of Curator of Experiments. His task, three to four major experiments each week to be reported on and/or demonstrated to the Royal Society. The experiments varied in topic greatly, some of chemical nature, some of astronomy, some of biology, all were considered Natural Philosophy. All had to be understood. It was not a menial task, but Hooke performed it excellently for forty one years until his death.
Testimony to Hooke's stamina, and ability to handle a tremendous workload lay in the endeavors of the next few years of his life after being appointed curator. In 1663, Hooke was elected a Fellow of the Society. In 1665, he was appointed Professor of Geometry at Gresham College. The same year he published his Micrographia, a book with elaborate drawings of various things under the microscope.
And while it is Flamsteed, Cassinni and Halley who usually get the credit for getting Newton involved with comets, a great deal of interest was sparked in Newton by a book entitled "Cometa," published around 1666, the author, Robert Hooke. Newton had made mention of the book in his notes, and later mentioned it in his correspondences. Hooke had taken close observations of the comets of 1664 and 1665, as well as collecting data from other astronomers. The only thing Hooke could not decide on was what type of motion the comet would take, straight line, circular orbit, or ellipse. By 1666, Hooke had put it aside for the time, apparently because of the necessity of pursuing other matters. In 1666, after the Great Fire of London, Hooke was appointed surveyor of London, designing many buildings including Montague House, the Royal College of Physicians, Bedlam and Bethlehem Hospital. Hooke was indeed a very busy man.
In 1677, after Henry Oldenburg's death, Hooke succeeded him to the post of Secretary of the Royal Society while still maintaining his responsibilities as Curator. Hooke continued in this capacity until 1683 when the post of secretary was filled by Richard Waller who would eventually write Hooke's biography.
Hooke continued as curator and with his interest in architecture, an interest he shared with Christopher Wren, though Wren practiced it far more diligently as an occupation. The two conversed often about the subject of architecture. While Wren was constructing St. Paul's Cathedral, his greatest work, Hooke assisted in modifying the great arches of the structure. And when the Royal Observatory was under construction, references appear about Hooke's connection with that, though precisely to what degree is not known.
While Hooke never married, there was only one instance where he seemed to be in love, that was with his niece, Jane Hooke, who took over the duties of housekeeper at Gresham. But though he became obsessed with her, she would not be faithful to him. Hooke was ever a lonely person.
Though Hooke outwardly may have seemed arrogant and self assured, underlying this seemed to be a great deal of insecurity. Perhaps his physical condition had much to do with it. While physical deformities and scars were far more common in those days, Hooke seems to have been an extreme case. Descriptions of him such as "scarred to the point of ugliness" and his condition of "twistedness, which grew worse with age" and references to a great deal of pain, seem to imply a tortured person. Certainly there were those who avoided him because of his condition, some even mocked him, Newton once made a reference to a "dwarf" that was most certainly a barb directed at Hooke.
Hooke devoted a great deal of time to the universe and its mysteries. The search for parallax was on in the seventeenth century, and Hooke made an attempt to find it using a zenith telescope. The idea of using zenith telescopes was based on atmospheric distortion being at a minimum directly overhead, and therefore making for the most accurate measurements. Hooke used the star Gamma Draconis, but the telescope was too crude to reach any definite conclusions.
Hooke anticipated some of the most important discoveries and inventions of his time. Among Hooke's contributions are the correct formulation of the theory of elasticity, the kinetic hypothesis of gases and the nature of combustion. He was the first to use the balance spring for the regulation of watches and devised improvements in pendulum clocks and invented a machine for cutting the teeth of watch wheels. An expert micro-scopist, his microstudies of the composition of cork led him to suggest the use of the word cell (meaning a tiny bare room, like a monk's cell), and the word survived as the name for living cells. The publication of his Micrographia in 1665, published in English, with its engraved magnifications of minute bodies, was a major milestone of English science.
Hooke was the first to report the Great Red Spot of Jupiter and the first to establish the rotation of the giant planet. He formulated the theory of planetary motion as a problem in mechanics, and pioneered the scientific trail that led Newton to his goal in the formulation of the law of gravitation. As a scientist, Hooke made useful contributions to the wave theory of light. His interests ranged from these matters to pre-Daltonian atomic studies, astronomy, earthquakes and the physics of spring mechanisms. He set the thermo-metrical zero at the freezing point of water and studied the relationship of barometrical readings to changes in the weather; he invented a land carriage, a diving bell, a method of telegraphy and he and ascertained the number of vibrations corresponding to musical notes.
The first confrontation between Hooke and Newton came in 1672. Newton had written a paper on his demonstration of white light being a composite of other colours. It was presented to the Royal Society just prior to Newton's reception as a Fellow of the Society. Newton thought a great deal of his demonstration, referring to it as "the oddest if not the most considerable detection wch hath hitherto beene made in the operations of Nature."1 But Newton was met with a strong rebuff by Hooke. Hooke had his own wave theory of light, he had gone into some detail about it in the Micrographia, and he still believed in it strongly. He claimed Newton had not proven his idea clearly, and needed more detail.
Newton had the equivalent of a temper tantrum. The situation was made worse for Newton because Hooke was not the only one attacking Newton's theory, he had been joined by Christian Huygens, Ignace Pardies and the Jesuits of Liege. Newton had since childhood, reacted strongly to criticism. He constantly challenged authority, and to rebuff him, was to become an enemy. Newton demonstrated this over and over during his lifetime; his response was often either complete withdrawal, or open battle. On this occasion, Newton chose withdrawal (though usually for Newton withdrawal was some form of manipulation in battle plans.) In March 1673, Newton wrote to Henry Oldenburg, the current secretary of the Royal Society. Newton requested to withdraw from the Society. It took much gushing of admiration, respect, etc. on Oldenburg's part, as well as an offer to wave dues to the Society to get Newton to change his mind. Oldenburg also offered an apology for the behavior of an "unnamed member." The stage was set. Newton had successfully established his place in the Society, and had scored a victory, of sorts, over Hooke.
In many ways, the problems between Hooke and Newton could be attributed to the traits they had in common, rather than to their differences of opinion on scientific matters. Both were short tempered. Both were quick to make someone an enemy. Newton once threw a colleague out of his office and refused to speak with him for years because the man had made a joke about a nun. And Newton refused to speak with Flamsteed for years because Flamsteed refused to surrender raw data on comet observations. (Actually it made both Newton and Halley mad, they needed the data for their studies and did not want to wait for "finished data," but while Newton ranted and raved, Halley took matters into his own hands, literally; he stole the data!) Hooke became enemies of Henry Oldenburg, secretary of the Royal Society, in 1658 because Oldenburg had taken Christian Huygens side of an argument over a claim to the invention of spring balanced watches.
Both Newton and Hooke were suspicious of other people's motives, (especially each other's), to the point of paranoia. Newton seems to have always been that way. But Hooke seems have developed this trait later in life. Richard Waller, who knew Hooke quite well, and was with him until his death wrote this of Hooke: "He was in the beginning of his being made known to the Learned, very communicative of his Philosophical Discoveries and Inventions, till some Accidents made him to a Crime close and reserv'd. He laid the cause upon some Persons, challenging his Discoveries for their own, taking occasion from his Hints to perfect what he had not; which made him say he would suggest nothing until he had time to perfect it himself, which has been the Reason that many things are lost, which he affirm'd he knew."2
In other ways Hooke and Newton were opposite, almost as if they had all the wrong things in common. While Newton was a recluse, seldom dining out, Hooke was gregarious and loved nothing better than the coffee house. He often dined there and stayed until one or two in the morning, drinking some, and smoking and talking to friends. When it came to experiments and work, they were opposite also. Newton would work on one project relentlessly until he had defeated it. Hooke, and it must be said this attribute would be required of him if he was to do a proper job as curator of Experiments, flitted from one topic to another. He was, similar to Halley, curious to a fault about everything. It was quite probably the demands of his job as Curator of Experiments that kept Hooke from concentrating adequate time on any one subject. The very job at which he had worked so diligently and so faithfully would be the cause of later accusations of Hooke's work being "broken" and "disjointed."
The next major confrontation between Hooke and Newton surfaced openly in 1684. It concerned Newton's Principia, and the involvement Hooke had in it. Newton claimed Hooke had none, and quite a few historians have agreed; but a closer look at the events prior to the Principia's publication, leave little doubt that Hooke was indeed involved.
The idea of gravity and its force of attraction was a common topic of interest in those days. Newton, Halley, Wren and Hooke all played with the concept. In 1679, there were several letters exchanged between Hooke and Newton. Both had made a slight attempt to work out their differences. Hooke had suggested it was other people (namely Oldenburg) who had made problems, and they should correspond with each other in order to avoid misunder-standings. Newton seemed agreeable. The topic of the first letters between them was the old trajectory problem. What path would an object follow falling to the Earth. Newton had suggested an experiment to prove it. But Newton made a mistake, suggesting that the trajectory would be a spiral. Hooke grabbed this and ran with it. He announced to the Society that Newton was wrong.
Newton was incensed, he felt Hooke had no right to take their correspondence to the Society, and that the major issue was one of a conduct problem on the part of Hooke. Hooke had no right to announce Newton wrong to the Society. It is entirely possible that Hooke was making the most of it, but one can hardly blame him when one considers the godlike esteem in which many people held Newton. Newton may have been the "giver of laws" but he often upstaged the others of his time, and was not inclined to give credit to anyone else.
Newton refused to correspond with Hooke any further, Hooke had written a third letter to Newton, that Newton refused to answer. And it is this third letter that is of particular interest. This letter was written January 6, 1680, and in it, Hooke spoke of his theory of gravity. Hooke wrote; "But my supposition is that the Attraction always is in a duplicate proportion to the Distance from the Center Reciprocal, and Consequently that the Velocity will be in a subduplicate proportion to the Attraction and Consequently as Kepler supposes Reciprocal to the Distance." This was the main letter Hooke used as evidence when he claimed Newton had robbed him of his theory, but Hooke had no answer from Newton acknowledging Hooke's theory.
Hooke first appealed to Halley saying that Newton had taken all credit for the theory of gravity, when in fact, he, Hooke, had given the idea to Newton. This put Halley in a difficult situation. Halley was himself paying for the Principia to be published, and the last thing he needed was for Newton to get temperamental. However, Halley had to know first hand, because of previous communication with Hooke, that Hooke was not unreasonable in his claims. Halley and Hooke had long before discussed the idea that the force of gravitation must diminish by the square of the distance across which it is propagated and agreed that the inverse square law could explain Kepler's discovery that the planets move in elliptical orbits, each sweeping out an equal area within its orbit in equal time. Halley wrote Newton and told him, "He sais you had the notion from him, though he owns the Demonstration of the Curves generated thereby to be wholly your own: how much of this is so you know best, as likewise what you have to do in this matter, only Mr. Hooke seems to expect you should make some mention of him in the preface, which, it is possible, you may see reason to prefix."3
Newton vehemently denied any such accusation to Halley. A second letter to Newton from Halley pointed out that Hooke had not made a formal complaint of the matter, and that he felt that others had made Hooke's conduct seem worse than it was. Halley further pointed out again that Hooke was not trying to lay claim to the entire theory. It must have been a terribly uncomfortable situation for the easy going Halley.
Newton had another temper tantrum and told Halley he would not write the third book of the Principia. Halley thought this an incredible loss to mankind, and he had already invested much of his own resources in the publication of the first two books; he stopped at nothing to appease Newton. This incident only served to further harm Hooke's reputation. Newton still maintained Hooke was wrong; Newton would share his credit with no one, most certainly not with Hooke, and refused to do anything for him. The Principia was formally presented to the Royal Society in 1687 with no mention of Hooke in the preface; clearly, Newton had scored another victory over Hooke.
The year 1687 was indeed a dark year for Robert Hooke. The Principia was published, without recognition to Hooke. As if that was not enough, Hooke's niece also died that year. She was the niece who had captured the heart of the aging scientist. After the Principia publication and the death of Hooke's niece, his health declined at a greater rate. It is possible, judging by some descriptions, that Hooke was inflicted with Scoliosis, a crippling degenerative disease that causes an unnatural curvature of the spine and would account for his "incurvature" and stooping posture. But he stayed active until the last year of his life when he possibly had a stroke and was confined to bed. But Waller reported that his mind stayed clear until his death, though he became increasingly melancholy and disagreeable.
Hooke died on March 3, 1703, having been blind and bedridden the last year of his life. There had been little justice for Hooke during his life, and there would be little to follow after his death. His grave location is not even known. Moreover, Richard Waller published some of Hooke's works in 1705, dedicated to none other than Isaac Newton. This posthumous insult did little for Hooke and it is quite doubtful Newton appreciated it anyway. What remained of Hooke's works then passed to the Reverend William Derham, who was an old friend of Newton's and took until 1725 to publish any more of Hooke's works.
What part Newton played in the events that took place in the moving of the Royal Society from Gresham is unknown for sure. However it was during the move, that Hooke's portrait, the only one known, disappeared, as did most of Hooke's instruments, papers and scientific contrivances which Hooke had fashioned with his own hands. Derham commented that even twenty years after Hooke's death, Newton could still not speak of him and remain calm. There may be no evidence to prove Newton was responsible, but the motive is damning.
It was also probably due to Newton's spite that one of Hooke's gifts to the Society fell through. Hooke had spent little of his money, keeping it locked away in an iron chest. When he was a dying man he told Waller he wanted to give his money after his death, to the Society, so that new quarters, meeting rooms, laboratories, and a library might be constructed. But Hooke had unfortunately not made a will, or at least one was never found. It seems logical that, had Newton wanted to assert the Society's right to the money, based on Waller's testimony, he undoubtedly would have gotten it. Newton, who after becoming president of The Royal Society in 1703 had severed all ties that bound the Society to Hooke, wanted nothing of him.
Those who charge Robert Hooke with, habitually and without justification, accusing others of stealing his work need only consider that Wren's name had been attached to the architecture of the Royal College of Physicians, Willen Church in Buckingham-shire. Perhaps the only justice Hooke ever received, albeit posthumously, is that Robert Hooke was eventually recognized as the true architect.
Newton once wrote Halley and referring to his (Newton's) works, said they were a garden, and that Hooke had pilfered from it. Sometimes we need to take a look at the facts rather than to judge someone by a reputation his enemies helped create in order to grasp the true picture. Robert Hooke may have had his faults, and he may have been too quick to make assertions, but he most certainly does not deserve his fate or lack of recognition. Newton's actions in severing all ties between Hooke and the Society did nothing to further the knowledge of science and its development and denied the rest of us of the opportunity to know all the contributions to the advancement of science Hooke really made. Newton once said, "If I have seen further, it is by standing on ye sholders of giants." There can be little doubt that one of those giants was Robert Hooke. It seems that it would apparently be more appropriate to consider Hooke as the sower of many of the seeds in Newton's garden.
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12. The Attack by Fire
Rather more than half the chapter (SS. 1-13) is devoted to the subject of fire, after which the author branches off into other topics.
Sun Tzu said: There are five ways of attacking with fire. The first is to burn soldiers in their camp; #
So Tu Mu. Li Ch`uan says: "Set fire to the camp, and kill the soldiers" (when they try to escape from the flames). Pan Ch`ao, sent on a diplomatic mission to the King of Shan-shan [see XI. ss. 51, note], found himself placed in extreme peril by the unexpected arrival of an envoy from the Hsiung-nu [the mortal enemies of the Chinese]. In consultation with his officers, he exclaimed: "Never venture, never win![1="Unless you enter the tiger's lair, you cannot get hold of the tiger's cubs."] The only course open to us now is to make an assault by fire on the barbarians under cover of night, when they will not be able to discern our numbers. Profiting by their panic, we shall exterminate them completely; this will cool the King's courage and cover us with glory, besides ensuring the success of our mission.' the officers all replied that it would be necessary to discuss the matter first with the Intendant. Pan Ch`ao then fell into a passion: 'It is today,' he cried, 'that our fortunes must be decided! The Intendant is only a humdrum civilian, who on hearing of our project will certainly be afraid, and everything will be brought to light. An inglorious death is no worthy fate for valiant warriors.' All then agreed to do as he wished. Accordingly, as soon as night came on, he and his little band quickly made their way to the barbarian camp. A strong gale was blowing at the time. Pan Ch`ao ordered ten of the party to take drums and hide behind the enemy's barracks, it being arranged that when they saw flames shoot up, they should begin drumming and yelling with all their might. The rest of his men, armed with bows and crossbows, he posted in ambuscade at the gate of the camp. He then set fire to the place from the windward side, whereupon a deafening noise of drums and shouting arose on the front and rear of the Hsiung-nu, who rushed out pell-mell in frantic disorder. Pan Ch`ao slew three of them with his own hand, while his companions cut off the heads of the envoy and thirty of his suite. The remainder, more than a hundred in all, perished in the flames. On the following day, Pan Ch`ao, divining his thoughts, said with uplifted hand: 'Although you did not go with us last night, I should not think, Sir, of taking sole credit for our exploit.' This satisfied Kuo Hsun, and Pan Ch`ao, having sent for Kuang, King of Shan-shan, showed him the head of the barbarian envoy. The whole kingdom was seized with fear and trembling, which Pan Ch`ao took steps to allay by issuing a public proclamation. Then, taking the king's sons as hostage, he returned to make his report to Tou Ku." HOU HAN SHU, ch. 47, ff. 1, 2.]
the second is to burn stores; #
Tu Mu says: "Provisions, fuel and fodder." In order to subdue the rebellious population of Kiangnan, Kao Keng recommended Wen Ti of the Sui dynasty to make periodical raids and burn their stores of grain, a policy which in the long run proved entirely successful.
the third is to burn baggage trains; #
An example given is the destruction of Yuan Shao`s wagons and impedimenta by Ts`ao Ts`ao in 200 A.D.
the fourth is to burn arsenals and magazines; #
Tu Mu says that the things contained in "arsenals" and "magazines" are the same. He specifies weapons and other implements, bullion and clothing. Cf. VII. ss. 11.
the fifth is to hurl dropping fire amongst the enemy. #
Tu Yu says in the T`UNG TIEN: "To drop fire into the enemy's camp. The method by which this may be done is to set the tips of arrows alight by dipping them into a brazier, and then shoot them from powerful crossbows into the enemy's lines."
In order to carry out an attack, we must have means available. #
T`sao Kung thinks that "traitors in the enemy's camp" are referred to. But Ch`en Hao is more likely to be right in saying: "We must have favorable circumstances in general, not merely traitors to help us." Chia Lin says: "We must avail ourselves of wind and dry weather."
the material for raising fire should always be kept in readiness. #
Tu Mu suggests as material for making fire: "dry vegetable matter, reeds, brushwood, straw, grease, oil, etc." Here we have the material cause. Chang Yu says: "vessels for hoarding fire, stuff for lighting fires."
There is a proper season for making attacks with fire, and special days for starting a conflagration. #
The proper season is when the weather is very dry; the special days are those when the moon is in the constellations of the Sieve, the Wall, the Wing or the Cross-bar; #
These are, respectively, the 7th, 14th, 27th, and 28th of the Twenty-eight Stellar Mansions, corresponding roughly to Sagittarius, Pegasus, Crater and Corvus.
for these four are all days of rising wind. #
In attacking with fire, one should be prepared to meet five possible developments: #
(1) When fire breaks out inside to enemy's camp, respond at once with an attack from without. #
(2) If there is an outbreak of fire, but the enemy's soldiers remain quiet, bide your time and do not attack. #
The prime object of attacking with fire is to throw the enemy into confusion. If this effect is not produced, it means that the enemy is ready to receive us. Hence the necessity for caution.
(3) When the force of the flames has reached its height, follow it up with an attack, if that is practicable; if not, stay where you are. #
Ts`ao Kung says: "If you see a possible way, advance; but if you find the difficulties too great, retire."
(4) If it is possible to make an assault with fire from without, do not wait for it to break out within, but deliver your attack at a favorable moment. #
Tu Mu says that the previous paragraphs had reference to the fire breaking out (either accidentally, we may suppose, or by the agency of incendiaries) inside the enemy's camp. "But," he continues, "if the enemy is settled in a waste place littered with quantities of grass, or if he has pitched his camp in a position which can be burnt out, we must carry our fire against him at any seasonable opportunity, and not await on in hopes of an outbreak occurring within, for fear our opponents should themselves burn up the surrounding vegetation, and thus render our own attempts fruitless." The famous Li Ling once baffled the leader of the Hsiung-nu in this way. The latter, taking advantage of a favorable wind, tried to set fire to the Chinese general's camp, but found that every scrap of combustible vegetation in the neighborhood had already been burnt down. On the other hand, Po-ts`ai, a general of the Yellow Turban rebels, was badly defeated in 184 A.D. through his neglect of this simple precaution. "At the head of a large army he was besieging Ch`ang-she, which was held by Huang-fu Sung. The garrison was very small, and a general feeling of nervousness pervaded the ranks; so Huang-fu Sung called his officers together and said: "In war, there are various indirect methods of attack, and numbers do not count for everything. [The commentator here quotes Sun Tzu, V. SS. 5, 6 and 10.] Now the rebels have pitched their camp in the midst of thick grass which will easily burn when the wind blows. If we set fire to it at night, they will be thrown into a panic, and we can make a sortie and attack them on all sides at once, thus emulating the achievement of T`ien Tan.' [See p. 90.] That same evening, a strong breeze sprang up; so Huang-fu Sung instructed his soldiers to bind reeds together into torches and mount guard on the city walls, after which he sent out a band of daring men, who stealthily made their way through the lines and started the fire with loud shouts and yells. Simultaneously, a glare of light shot up from the city walls, and Huang-fu Sung, sounding his drums, led a rapid charge, which threw the rebels into confusion and put them to headlong flight." [HOU HAN SHU, ch. 71.]
(5) When you start a fire, be to windward of it. Do not attack from the leeward. #
Chang Yu, following Tu Yu, says: "When you make a fire, the enemy will retreat away from it; if you oppose his retreat and attack him then, he will fight desperately, which will not conduce to your success." A rather more obvious explanation is given by Tu Mu: "If the wind is in the east, begin burning to the east of the enemy, and follow up the attack yourself from that side. If you start the fire on the east side, and then attack from the west, you will suffer in the same way as your enemy."
A wind that rises in the daytime lasts long, but a night breeze soon falls. #
Cf. Lao Tzu's saying: "A violent wind does not last the space of a morning." (TAO TE CHING, chap. 23.) Mei Yao-ch`en and Wang Hsi say: "A day breeze dies down at nightfall, and a night breeze at daybreak. This is what happens as a general rule." The phenomenon observed may be correct enough, but how this sense is to be obtained is not apparent.
In every army, the five developments connected with fire must be known, the movements of the stars calculated, and a watch kept for the proper days. #
Tu Mu says: "We must make calculations as to the paths of the stars, and watch for the days on which wind will rise, before making our attack with fire." Chang Yu seems to interpret the text differently: "We must not only know how to assail our opponents with fire, but also be on our guard against similar attacks from them."
Hence those who use fire as an aid to the attack show intelligence; those who use water as an aid to the attack gain an accession of strength. #
By means of water, an enemy may be intercepted, but not robbed of all his belongings. #
Ts`ao Kung's note is: "We can merely obstruct the enemy's road or divide his army, but not sweep away all his accumulated stores." Water can do useful service, but it lacks the terrible destructive power of fire. This is the reason, Chang Yu concludes, why the former is dismissed in a couple of sentences, whereas the attack by fire is discussed in detail. Wu Tzu (ch. 4) speaks thus of the two elements: "If an army is encamped on low-lying marshy ground, from which the water cannot run off, and where the rainfall is heavy, it may be submerged by a flood. If an army is encamped in wild marsh lands thickly overgrown with weeds and brambles, and visited by frequent gales, it may be exterminated by fire."
Unhappy is the fate of one who tries to win his battles and succeed in his attacks without cultivating the spirit of enterprise; for the result is waste of time and general stagnation. #
This is one of the most perplexing passages in Sun Tzu. Ts`ao Kung says: "Rewards for good service should not be deferred a single day." And Tu Mu: "If you do not take opportunity to advance and reward the deserving, your subordinates will not carry out your commands, and disaster will ensue." For several reasons, however, and in spite of the formidable array of scholars on the other side, I prefer the interpretation suggested by Mei Yao-ch`en alone, whose words I will quote: "Those who want to make sure of succeeding in their battles and assaults must seize the favorable moments when they come and not shrink on occasion from heroic measures: that is to say, they must resort to such means of attack of fire, water and the like. What they must not do, and what will prove fatal, is to sit still and simply hold to the advantages they have got."
Hence the saying: The enlightened ruler lays his plans well ahead; the good general cultivates his resources. #
Tu Mu quotes the following from the SAN LUEH, ch. 2: "The warlike prince controls his soldiers by his authority, kits them together by good faith, and by rewards makes them serviceable. If faith decays, there will be disruption; if rewards are deficient, commands will not be respected."
Move not unless you see an advantage; use not your troops unless there is something to be gained; fight not unless the position is critical. #
Sun Tzu may at times appear to be over-cautious, but he never goes so far in that direction as the remarkable passage in the TAO TE CHING, ch. 69. "I dare not take the initiative, but prefer to act on the defensive; I dare not advance an inch, but prefer to retreat a foot."
No ruler should put troops into the field merely to gratify his own spleen; no general should fight a battle simply out of pique. #
If it is to your advantage, make a forward move; if not, stay where you are. #
This is repeated from XI. ss. 17. Here I feel convinced that it is an interpolation, for it is evident that ss. 20 ought to follow immediately on ss. 18.
Anger may in time change to gladness; vexation may be succeeded by content. #
But a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; #
The Wu State was destined to be a melancholy example of this saying.
nor can the dead ever be brought back to life. #
Hence the enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution. This is the way to keep a country at peace and an army intact. #blog comments powered by Disqus | <urn:uuid:b3bd3c12-a732-4493-95e0-047246efa836> | 2013-05-27T02:55:13Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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This article describes how to use the BitLocker Repair Tool. You can use this tool to help access encrypted data if the hard disk has been severely damaged. This tool can reconstruct critical parts of the drive and salvage recoverable data. A recovery password or recovery key is required to decrypt the data.
Use this command-line tool if the following conditions are true:
- You have encrypted the volume by using BitLocker Drive Encryption.
- Windows Vista does not start, or you cannot start the BitLocker recovery console.
- You do not have a copy of the data that is contained on the encrypted volume.
The BitLocker Repair Tool package contains the following files:
- Software License Terms.rtf
How to obtain the BitLocker Repair Tool
Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 for x86-based systems (KB928201)
If you are using Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008 for x86-based systems, visit the following
Microsoft Web site to obtain this tool:
Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 for x64-based systems (KB928201)
If you are using Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008 for x64-based systems, visit the following
Microsoft Web site to obtain this tool:
You may experience a problem that damages an area of a hard disk on which BitLocker stores critical information. This kind of problem may be caused by a hard disk failure or if Windows Vista exits unexpectedly.
Windows Vista can no longer start
If a drive is damaged, Windows Vista may no longer start. In this situation, you may be prompted to repair the computer. Some computers are configured to enter a recovery environment automatically in this situation. However, if the computer is not configured to enter a recovery environment automatically, you receive the following error message:
Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause. To fix the problem:
1. Insert your Windows installation disc and restart your computer.
2. Choose your language settings, and then click "Next."
3. Click "Repair your computer."
If you do not have this disc, contact your system administrator or computer manufacturer for assistance.
Info: The selected entry could not be loaded because the application is missing or corrupt.
Windows Vista can no longer read the drive
Damage may occur on a drive that is not used to start Windows Vista. In this situation, you cannot unlock the damaged drive even when you use the correct recovery password or recovery key. Therefore, you cannot use another computer or another copy of Windows Vista to access the encrypted contents of the drive. In this scenario, the damaged drive may not appear in the BitLocker Drive Encryption Control Panel.Note
Damage to the volume may not be related to BitLocker. Therefore, we recommend that you try other tools to help diagnose and resolve the problem with the volume before you use the BitLocker Repair Tool. The Windows Vista DVD includes the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) together with an option to repair the computer. For more information about how to troubleshoot Windows Vista startup problems, visit the following Microsoft Web site:
To use the BitLocker Repair Tool
To use the BitLocker Repair Tool, follow these steps.
Step 1: Gather required materials
Obtain the following items to help you recover encrypted data from the affected volume:
- The drive on which the damaged volume is located. This is the drive that contains the encrypted volume that you want to repair.
- The recovery password or the recovery key for the encrypted volume. This is the recovery information that you saved when you enabled BitLocker.
- An external hard disk. Use this drive to store the recovered data. This drive must be at least as large as the drive from which you want to recover the data.
Caution All the data on the external drive will be removed when you perform the recovery operation.
- A USB flash drive. Use this storage device to store the BitLocker Repair Tool files. You can also store recovery information on this drive.
- The Windows Vista DVD. This enables you to start a command prompt.
The edition of Vista on the DVD and the installation of Vista on the computer must be the same.
Step 2: Download and install the BitLocker Repair Tool
Download and install the Bitlocker Repair Tool that is appropriate for the recovery DVD that you plan to use. When prompted, click Accept
to accept the license terms.
Step 3: Copy the BitLocker Repair Tool files to a removable device
After installation, copy the following files to the root of the removable device, such as a USB flash drive that will be used for the recovery:
Also, create a folder named en-US in the root of the USB flash drive, and copy the following file to it:
Step 4: Open a Command Prompt window
- Use the Windows Vista DVD to start the computer.
- Select the appropriate language settings, and then click Next.
- At the bottom of the Install Windows page, click Repair your computer.
- Follow the steps until you receive the option to click Choose a recovery tool, and then click Command Prompt.
Step 5: Determine which drives are present
- Verify that all the appropriate drives are connected to the computer. These connections include the external drive to which you want to copy the recovered data and the USB flash drive on which the BitLocker Repair Tools files are located.
- At the command prompt, type diskpart, and then press ENTER.
- At the diskpart prompt, type list volume, and then press ENTER.
Use the output that is generated to establish the identification of the drive letters that are assigned to the following items:
- The damaged volume
- The external hard disk
- The USB flash drive
In Windows Vista, the encrypted volume will show as "RAW." For a BitLocker volume, this means that the volume is locked.
The following example output illustrates some of the information that may be generated when you run the diskpart list volume
DISKPART> list volume
Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- -----
Volume 0 E LR1CFRE_EN_ UDF DVD-ROM 2584 MB Healthy
Volume 1 F Flash-1 FAT Removable 243 MB Healthy
Volume 2 C SYSTEM NTFS Partition 1500 MB Healthy
Volume 3 D RAW Partition 73 GB Healthy
Volume 4 G EMPTY VOL NTFS Removable 149 GB Healthy
In this example, the output refers to the following items:
- Drive D is the damaged volume.
- Drive G is the external hard disk.
- Drive F is the USB flash drive.
To exit the diskpart prompt, type exit
, and then press ENTER.
Step 6: Locate the BitLocker Repair Tool files
At the command prompt, change directory to the drive on which the BitLocker Repair Tool files are located. For example, change to drive F.
Step 7: Use the BitLocker Repair Tool to decrypt the data
To decrypt the encrypted data, type the following command, and then press ENTER:
repair-bde InputVolume OutputVolume -RecoveryPassword NumericalPassword
In this command, replace the placeholders with the following drive letters and password:
- Replace InputVolume with the drive letter of the damaged volume.
- Replace OutputVolume with the drive letter of the external hard disk.
- Replace NumericalPassword with the recovery password for the encrypted volume.
Note For more information about how to use a recovery password that is stored on a USB flash drive, see the "References" section.
For example, type the following command, and then press ENTER:
repair-bde D: G: -RecoveryPassword 111111-111111-111111-111111-111111-111111-111111-111111
Step 8: Verify and then examine the decrypted data
When the data decryption operation is complete, follow the instructions to run the chkdsk
command. After the chkdsk tool examines the hard disk for errors, you can then connect the external hard disk to another computer to view the data.
BitLocker Repair Tool recovery options
Sometimes, you cannot recover the data from the damaged volume by using the steps in the "To use the BitLocker Repair Tool" section. Sometimes, the data may be unrecoverable, regardless of the recovery effort. Therefore, we recommend that you perform regular backups of all the data on the hard disk.
To use the BitLocker Repair Tool without a Windows Vista DVD
You can use a Windows Vista DVD to provide a command prompt to run the BitLocker Repair Tool. You can also use other ways to start a command prompt. But the command prompt that you use must be running in a Windows Vista-based environment. Command prompts that you start from Microsoft Windows XP or from other environments that are not running Windows Vista are not supported. If another computer that is running Windows Vista is available, you can remove the damaged drive from the original computer and attach it to the Windows Vista-based computer to perform repairs.
To use the BitLocker Repair Tool without an external hard disk
We recommend that you use an external hard disk as the destination location for the data that you recover from a damaged encrypted volume. The steps described in the "To use the BitLocker Repair Tool" section enhance the ability to recover the data. This is because the steps in the "To use the BitLocker Repair Tool" section do not modify the damaged encrypted volume.
You can also use the BitLocker Repair Tool without using an external hard disk. This kind of repair may be successful if the damage is limited to the drive locations that are used to start Windows. However, there is an increased risk of data loss if you use this kind of repair operation on a volume that is extensively damaged. To perform this kind of repair, use the -NoOutputVolume
option when you run the repair-bde
command. For more information about how to use this option, see the "References" section.
To use the BitLocker Repair Tool together with a key package
Sometimes, if you use a key package, this gives you another opportunity to recover data from a damaged volume. In this scenario, you receive the following error message when you run the repair-bde
command to perform a standard repair operation:
ERROR: The input volume has suffered damages to critical information related to the decryption key.
Please try the -KeyPackage option to specify a key package. The volume may not be recoverable.
To better understand the role of the key package, it may help to understand how the BitLocker Repair Tool works without the -KeyPackage
BitLocker helps protect against unexpected damage by scattering multiple copies of critical information on the volume. To decrypt data, the BitLocker Repair Tool scans the volume to locate a usable copy of this critical information. If all the copies of the critical information are lost, the only way for the BitLocker Repair Tool to continue the recovery operation is to use a copy of this critical information that has been exported as a key package.
If you already save BitLocker recovery information to Active Directory Domain Services, the key package is stored in the same location in Active Directory Domain Services. Also, any user who has local Administrator rights can save the key package by running a script on the functioning encrypted drive.
To use the -KeyPackage
option, you must verify that the key package is available. Then you must provide this key package as a file to the BitLocker Repair Tool.
To use the BitLocker Repair Tool on a partially-encrypted volume
You can use the BitLocker Repair Tool on a partially-encrypted volume. This situation can result when the BitLocker encryption operation was not completed successfully. To do this, follow the same procedure that is described in the "To use the BitLocker Repair Tool" section. Note
When you specify the -KeyPackage
option to recover data from a partially-encrypted volume, the BitLocker Repair Tool considers all the data on the volume as encrypted data that must be recovered. Therefore, the BitLocker Repair Tool tries to decrypt all the data from the volume. If you do not specify the -KeyPackage
option, the BitLocker Repair Tool differentiates between the encrypted data on the volume and the data on the volume that is not encrypted.
BitLocker Repair Tool troubleshooting help
Error message 1
The system cannot execute the specified program.
You receive this error message if you are running the BitLocker Repair Tool in an unsupported environment. For example, you receive the error message if you are running the 32-bit version of the BitLocker Repair Tool in a 64-bit environment. The BitLocker Repair Tool must run in a supported Windows Vista environment.
Error message 2
Failed to open Drive_letter (0x80310000).
You receive this error message if the BitLocker Repair Tool cannot perform operations on a volume. In some cases, the -Force
option can help gain access to the volume. Also, make sure that you are running the tool in a supported Windows Vista environment.
Error message 3
The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable.
You might receive this error message if the volume information that catalogs files and folders is damaged or is missing. For example, formatting a volume destroys the catalog information. However, recoverable file contents might remain when the catalog is damaged. You can use the BitLocker Repair Tool to decrypt any file contents that remain on the volume. However, because the corresponding volume catalog information is not available, individual files and folders will not be easily available from the output volume. Check additional resources to determine whether the now-decrypted volume can fully be recovered. | <urn:uuid:f5f6906d-96ec-473c-bc1f-b2ae07a321a8> | 2013-05-26T09:42:50Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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What is plugin-container
Some pluginsPlugins are loaded separately from Firefox, allowing the main Firefox process to stay open if a plugin crashes. This article explains what plugin-container is for.
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What is a plugin?
A plugin is a piece of software that displays Internet content that Firefox is not designed to display. These usually include video, audio, online games and presentations that are made in proprietary formats. Plugins are created and distributed by the companies that make those proprietary formats. Some common plugins are Adobe Flash, Quicktime, and Silverlight. For more information on plugins, see Use plugins to play audio, video, games and more.
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Each plugin are loaded separately from Firefox in a plugin-container.exe process, allowing the main Firefox process (firefox.exe) to stay open if a plugin crashes. There are as many plugin-container.exe processes as plugins launched since the Firefox session startup. For more information on plugin crashes, see Send plugin crash reports to help Mozilla improve Firefox.
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I know, I know. You're probably thinking that maybe my book just isn't that good.
That's what I'd think if someone told me that she or he had written a book that kept getting rejected.
I don't think that’s it, though. Maybe mine is a book with an unusual premise. A book that won't appeal to everyone. A book that won't top any bestseller list. But in my time, I've written a whole lot of this and that, and I believe that I'm able to distinguish between my more mediocre writing and the real thing.
If only there were some way to
establish that a literary work has merit—kind of like a polygraph test. Not scientific enough for its results to be admissible in a court of law, but still somehow compelling.
I was thinking maybe this could be another use of apple cider vinegar. It’s one of those be-all, do-all substances—a swallow can cure a belly ache; a smear of it on the skin can test a friend’s loyalty. Would I gulp some down then read through the whole book? Or should I dribble a small amount on the first sentence of each chapter and wait for the wet spot to turn red? I’d hate to experiment, though, and ruin all those pages. One photocopy of a novel manuscript costs about twenty bucks.
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Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema, p.248-252 by David Bordwell, 1988
This chapter of David Bordwell's Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema describes how the details of Ozu's Degigokoro (“Passing Fancy”) unify the film's disjointed narrative. The narrative itself, which Bordwell contends is divided into two main stories, is loosely structured and driven mostly by Ozu's characterization of the two main characters, Kihachi and his son Tomio. The relationship between Kihachi, an irresponsible, simpleminded adult, and Tomio, a mature, intelligent child, is the primary story. The second storyline involves Kihachi's hopeless attempts to woo a girl while his son deals with criticisms of his father by his classmates. Bordwell notes that the film's other characters are fairly stereotypical and undeveloped; this simultaneous depiction of character depth and superficiality is a sign of Ozu's ability to combine unlike conventions in the overarching structure of the film. Bordwell then discusses the playful use of gestural motifs—scratching, swatting, poking—to characterize the different characters and their attitudes towards one another throughout the film. This sort of attention to detail, he contends, marks Passing Fancy a particularly realistic Ozu film. He goes on to argue, however, that the unrealistic, often misleading use of intertitles, spatial patterns, and unusual transitions for comedic effect prevent the audience from even greater immersion in the otherwise quite realistic film.
This analysis of Passing Fancy is important because it emphasizes the versatility of Ozu's techniques and rejects allegations that Ozu was overly repetitive. Ozu was not constrained to a mere realistic approach: his attention to details evoked realism, but he used other techniques that shattered the illusion of realism, often for comedic effect. He did not adhere very closely to particular patterns, and his film thus displays a sense of playfulness throughout a narrative that, in the words of Bordwell, “plays by its own rules, even if it changes them at will.” | <urn:uuid:e0eff97a-5301-4b24-acce-985d8d54326e> | 2013-05-27T02:54:53Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Harperdog writes "Scott Kemp writes about the similarities between the nuclear arms race and the use of cyberweaponry for offensive purposes. As the article points out, offensive cyberwarfare leaves a nation's own citizenry vulnerable to attack as government agencies seek to keep weaknesses in operating systems (such as Windows) secret. Quoting: 'In the world of armaments, cyber weapons may require the fewest national resources to build. That is not to say that highly developed nations are not without their advantages during early stages. Countries like Israel and the United States may have more money and more talented hackers. Their software engineers may be more skilled and exhibit more creativity and critical thinking owing to better training and education. However, each new cyberattack becomes a template for other nations — or sub-national actors — looking for ideas.'" | <urn:uuid:d1607fa1-1fca-4ef6-9e47-f79964c99b82> | 2013-05-27T02:54:23Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Teen Ink on Twitter
What the title said. ^ This is mainly a question for the Christians on here... based on your interpretation of the Bible, does God permit us to use alcohol, caffeine, drugs, or cigars? In excess? In moderation? In your dreams? (Haha.)
Also, what are Muslim and Mormon standards for the use of the aforementioned items?
I just thought this would be an interesting topic... I'm a Calvinist, and here's what I think:
Alcohol- is a gift from God. He gave it to us for enjoyment, but just like any other gift, we shouldn't take advantage of it. Wine= not a sin. Drunkenness= a sin. Jesus drank wine, and gave it to others, so why can't I?
Caffeine- well... I don't see any problem with coffee. True, it's not very good for you. True, you're better off without it. But I don't think it's a sin to have caffeine.
Drugs- When you're sick, and a doctor prescribes them, then they're fine. But don't abuse your body, which is the temple of God.
Cigars- Same as caffeine. I don't think it's a sin, but it might not be wise to overindulge. Tobacco smells really good though... *takes a big sniff of her dad's field coat, which smells like pipe smoke*
Alcohol -- not acceptable above a certain (low) percentage, and it is recommended to avoid that. e.g. in perfumes
Caffeine -- acceptable, but not as a drug :P Like, you can drink coffee...
Drugs -- technically alcohol is a drug. Anyways, not acceptable.
Cigars -- scholars generally agree that these are not permissible, but since they don't put you into an inebriated state, scholars sometimes differ. Anyways, generally not considered halal. Definitely 'looked down upon', but not as taboo in Islamic societies as alcohol or drugs.
Based on our interpretation of the Bible (and our other scriptures), the rule is simple: No.
:) None of those are allowed. Mormons do not drink coffee or alcohol, smoke, or use drugs. Our bodies are gifts from God and must be treated accordingly. Using those substances may be enjoyable, but not everything that is enjoyable comes from God.
Yes, I know it's very strict, but at least we can eat pork. :) And I don't think a cup of coffee will make you lose your soul- it's just not good for you.
(Oh, and when I say 'drugs', I mean illegal stuff with no purpose other than making you high- herion, meth, cocaine, etc. Perscription medication is fine- life-saving, even- unless you abuse it.)
Destinee: Caffeine is a drug. So it's always being used as a drug. Do you mean, it's not something that should be taken excessively, like in tablet form? Or it's okay as long as you don't consume it purely for the drug effects? So, if you like coffee for the taste that's okay, but if you use it to wake yourself up that's not?
What is not permitted in Islam are not what are called drugs in scientific terms, but drugs that cause one to be inebriated and lose one's intellect (temporarily) or self-control. Caffeine is considered a mild stimulant. Levels that inebriate a person are not allowed. That's why cigarettes' permissibility is disputed on. :)
And when I say "lose" your intellect I mean "cloud" it. So euphoric drugs for instance. In case that wasn't clear. :)
Oh, okay. Thanks for the info! I wasn't aware of the specifics of Islamic beliefs on this topic, so thought I'd ask someone who does know :) | <urn:uuid:4e6c53da-9615-498e-9324-0b0f89e533c7> | 2013-05-26T09:41:15Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The Common Ills
Sunday, November 02, 2008
Isaiah's The World Today Just Nuts "Ms. Troll"
The World Today Just Nuts
"Ms. Troll." Robin Morgan hides under a bridge wearing a t-shirt that reads: "Troll? Ms. Troll." Robin declares, "I, Robin Morgan, decide who crosses. I'm scary!" For more on Robin's latest unhinged attack on Palin, feminists and just about every woman, see "
Easy Fudge in the Kitchen
Robin Morgan embarrasing herself in public again
" and "
Robin Morgan: Troll (Ava and C.I.)
the world today just nuts
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When Eric Mangini still roamed the halls, the Jets, concerned about Chad Pennington’s health, tried desperately to pry then back-up Matt Schaub from the Atlanta Falcons who, like a stubborn mule, refused. The deal would have been John Abraham for Schaub straight up.
You mean to tell me there would have been no Clemens, Favre or Sanchez? Maybe even no Rex? Only in the National Football League. | <urn:uuid:5f68cd7d-9327-473c-8a77-0ba0a8e2cdac> | 2013-05-26T09:42:32Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Iran says ready to fill vacuum in Iraq left by U.S.By Edmund Blair
TEHRAN (Reuters) - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday the power of the United States was rapidly collapsing in Iraq and that Iran was ready to step in to help fill the vacuum, in comments likely to irritate Washington.
"The political power of the occupiers (of Iraq) is being destroyed rapidly and very soon we will be witnessing a great power vacuum in the region," Ahmadinejad told a news conference broadcast live on state television.
Ahmadinejad also rejected reports that Iran had slowed sensitive nuclear work which the West fears is aimed at making atom bombs, and said it would respond if the United States branded the elite Revolutionary Guards a terrorist force.
With Shi'ite Muslims now in power in Baghdad, ties have strengthened between Iran and Iraq since 2003, when U.S.-led forces toppled Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, a Sunni Arab who waged an eight-year war against Iran in the 1980s.
But the U.S. military accuses the Islamic Republic of arming and training militias that are behind some of the violence ravaging Iraq. Iran rejects the charge and blames the presence of U.S. forces, numbering about 162,000, for the violence.
"They are trapped in the swamp of their own crimes and have no choice but to accept the failure and accept the independence and rights of the Iraqi nation," Ahmadinejad said.
"If you stay in Iraq for another 50 years nothing will improve, it will just worsen."
Earlier this month, Washington's envoy to Iraq warned Americans that pulling out U.S. troops could open the door to a "major Iranian advance" that would threaten U.S. interests in the region.
Opinion polls suggest most Americans have turned against the four-year-old war and Democrats in Congress want President George W. Bush to start pulling out U.S. troops as soon as possible. Bush has resisted the calls.
During a two-hour press conference, Ahmadinejad denied reports that Iran's progress was slowing in its nuclear programme. "These (reports) are not true," he said.
Diplomats in Vienna have said Iran's atomic work seems to have slowed in pace this summer and Tehran appeared to have fewer than the 3,000 centrifuges, used in enriching uranium, that it planned to have working by the end of July.
Enriched uranium can be used to power nuclear plants or, if refined to a high enough degree, provides the basis for bombs.
Ahmadinejad, voicing continued defiance in the face of Western demands that it suspend uranium enrichment, said Iran was now a nuclear country and was mastering the complete nuclear fuel cycle.
"I want to officially announce to you that from our viewpoint the issue of Iran's nuclear case has been closed. Today Iran is a nuclear Iran, meaning that it has the complete cycle for fuel production," he said.
Iran says its atomic work is aimed solely at generating electricity so that it can export more of its gas and oil.
U.S. officials said this month Washington may soon name the Revolutionary Guards as a foreign terrorist group, a move that would enable the United States to target the force's finances.
Ahmadinejad, himself a former Guards commander, said he believed it was "highly unlikely that the American government will take such an illogical approach ... it would be a joke I guess".
But he added: "They know that any action against the Iranian nation would be met with a proper response."
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I wouldn't mind meet a man like him myself. Why? We all dream about meeting Mr. Right; stop and think, we all want a guy who is good looking, smart, rich and a little bit bad boy added in fun. We also want the one guy who will sweep us off our feet, who would do anything for you, a knight in shining armor. Unfortunately, life does not always work out that way. That is the great thing about falling in love with a fictional character, they can never hurt you and they will always be perfect in our minds. I don't think there is anything wrong with having a crush on a character from a book, as long as you remember the difference between fact (that he does not exist) and fiction (it is a wonderful dream).
its true..thanks for reminding me that i am still "human" that wishes to be a vampire.h aha..in my dreams..but i sure do love..day dreaming a bout Edward Cullen:D haha.. as long as i don't drool! aaaWW..that's really embarrassing..anyways..thanks for clearing my mind! :D | <urn:uuid:1cf5c420-267c-4b6b-8963-f009c86d4223> | 2013-05-27T02:54:37Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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|This quest was marked obsolete by Blizzard and cannot be obtained or completed.
Find Advisor Belgrum and give him his note.
<name>, run and find Advisor Belgrum as quickly as you can. Tell him what you've witnessed and ask him how he wants us to proceed. This note will explain more to him.
In the meantime, I will take the time to speak to Hammertoe's spirit. Maybe he knows something that will help us put a stop to those Shadowforge cretins' activities in the Badlands. We can only pray.
Hmm? Yes, <class>.
Ah, word from Historian Karnik. Excellent.
I always have time for his business.
<Advisor Belgrum opens the note and begins to read.>
Upon completion of this quest you will gain:
Simply browse for your screenshot using the form below.
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The Wowhead Client is a little application we use to keep our database up to date, and to provide you with some nifty extra functionality on the website!
It serves 2 main purposes:
It maintains a WoW addon called the Wowhead Looter, which collects data as you play the game!
It uploads the collected data to Wowhead in order to keep the database up-to-date!
You can also use it to keep track of your completed quests, recipes, mounts, companion pets, and titles!
So, what are you waiting for? Download the client and get started. | <urn:uuid:656c2438-dea3-4ae9-939a-eefb383ba676> | 2013-05-26T09:42:31Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Leila Keene and Pat Kirke 3 August 1943
- Subject: Tolkien discusses runes, the Common Speech, and the adoption by the Dwarves of Erebor of the language of the Men of Dale.
- Publication: The letter was first reproduced in Sotheby's Illustrated Books, Children's Books, Ephemera, Performing Arts & Related Drawings 4 May 1995. Christopher Tolkien included a description and excerpts from the letter in The Peoples of Middle-earth.
"... It was a sort of lingua-franca, made up of all sorts of languages, but the Elvish language (of the North West) for the most part. It was called the Western language or Common Speech; and in Bilbo's time had already passed eastward over the Misty Mountains and reached Lake Town, and Beorn, and even Smaug (dragons were ready linguists in all ages). ..."
- ↑ Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull (2006), The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide: I. Chronology, p. 261
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Peoples of Middle-earth, "The Appendix on Languages", pp. 72-73
- ↑ "Sotheby's 1995 catalogue?" , Tolkien Collector's Guide (accessed 08 July 2012) | <urn:uuid:79d0f3ca-67b1-473d-980a-a297e4964240> | 2013-05-26T09:35:49Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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London, June 14 (IANS) India's Somdev Devvarman and Prakash Amritraj Monday stormed into the second round of the Wimbledon men's singles qualifiers. Read more »
New Delhi, May 19 : US-born Indian Prakash Amritraj put up a spirited fight against Brazil's 17th-seeded Joao Souza before losing 6-4, 2-6, 6-8 in the first round of the French Open qualifiers in Paris. Read more »
Belgrade (Serbia), Feb 19 : India's Prakash Amritraj and American James Cerretani went down fighting in the semifinals of 10,65,000 euros Challenger tennis. Read more »
Belgrade (Serbia), Feb 18 : India's Prakash Amritraj and American James Cerretani sailed into the doubles semifinals of 10,65,000 euros Challenger tennis. Read more »
Bergamo (Italy), Feb 10 : India's Prakash Amritraj and his American partner Brendan Evans advanced but compatriot Harsh Mankad and Jamaican Dustin Brown faltered in the doubles first round of the 4,25,000 euros Challenger tennis. Read more »
Bergamo (Italy), Feb 9 : US-based Indian crashed out of the first round of the 425,000 euros Challenger tennis here. Read more »
Melbourne, Jan 14 : Prakash Amritraj bowed out of the Australian Open qualifiers, losing in straight sets to Edouard Roger-Vasselin of France here Thursday.
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Ticket #845 (closed bug: fixed)
Problem with large attribute tables
I tried to open the database table of a very large shape file.
dbf -> 770 MB shp -> 384 MB shx -> 7 MB
Loading and visualizing the file works fine, although it takes some minutes, but opening the attribute table fails.
The error message is:
QIconvCodec::convertToUnicode: using ASCII for conversion, iconv_open failed terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc' what(): std::bad_alloc Abgebrochen (core dumped)
When I generate a stacktrace, all it says is:
#0 0xffffe410 in ?? () Cannot access memory at address 0xbf8e8520
# Comment by Marco Hugentober:
The problem is that you run out of virtual memory (RAM and swap partition are full) and so the bad_alloc exception is thrown.In the short run we should add a try/catch block and in the long run not read all the rows into memory. | <urn:uuid:4c5b09f5-6b39-477b-a523-fe15b3e01c72> | 2013-05-26T09:36:15Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Aaron James talks to Steve Paulson about his book, "Assholes: A Theory."
Listen to yourselves ! Being an a@#hole is being a smug, self righteous , self important seemingly entitled people as well-- look in the mirror. Beach, please!
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Jessica Chastain could very well win an Academy Award for Best Actress at the Oscars in Los Angeles this Sunday. One day earlier and nearly 400 miles away in Sacramento, however, the Zero Dark Thirty actress' late biological father, Michael Monasterio, was remembered at a memorial service -- and Chastain did not attend.
"He is not on Jessica's birth certificate. There are no photos of Jessica and Michael together. Given all of the facts, there are no plans to attend ," a source close to Chastain, 35, explained to the Daily News before the service.
Monasterio died unexpectedly on Feb. 5 of bronchitis, the paper reports. A rock musician, Monasterio was just 20 when the future Oscar nominee was born in 1977; the young couple (Chastain's mother, vegan chef Jerri Chastain, was just 16 when she gave birth) welcomed a second daughter, Juliet, one year later.
Chastain has never discussed her relationship with Michael in the press, and reportedly considers her stepfather, fireman Michael Hastey, to be her true father.
"He never paid child support," a Chastain source told the Daily News. of their lifelong estrangement. "He chose not to have contact with Jessica and her family."
Tracy Monasterio, married to Micheal's brother, also told the News that the family never reached out to the Mama star for financial support following her Hollywood success. “We don't need Jessica; we don't need her money. . . no one has asked her for money. No one expects her to give money," she said.
This article originally appeared on Usmagazine.com: Jessica Chastain's Estranged Father Dies, Actress Doesn't Attend Memorial: Report | <urn:uuid:bd764c34-ea55-43f4-bc98-b791906dc0d4> | 2013-05-27T02:55:54Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Note: To read Valerie’s blog about her internship experience, click here. Updates will be added throughout the Fall semester.
What is your major? Anthropology
What is your academic status (junior, senior?) Senior
What will you be doing during your internship? I will be working in the Death and Homicide Unit at NCIS filling in their database and solving cases.
What was the application process? I filled out an application with The Washington Center and turned it in to Dr. Sherwin. I was then chosen by UALR to go as a representative to Washington, D.C.
Why did you apply? I applied for this program because I haven’t had any luck finding internships on my own. I knew that my chances of getting a good internship would increase if I was selected for this program.Â
What do you hope to learn as a result of your internship with NCIS? Oh, there are so many things I hope to accomplish from my internship with NCIS. I want to learn what it takes to be excellent in the field of forensics. I want to learn if this field is really for me. I think it would be best to find out now if this is what I want than to wait until I’ve graduated and have nothing to fall back on. I hope this internship experience is one that is memorable and enjoyable. | <urn:uuid:56a04735-9e8c-4cf1-9968-8c0bf0a3c37c> | 2013-05-26T09:41:25Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Editor's note: Richard Lucas was diagnosed with panic disorder, a type of anxiety disorder, about five years ago. He now lives in Virginia and manages his condition with drugs and therapy. He first shared his story on CNN iReport.
(CNN) -- It was a morning like any other. I woke up and went through my daily routine, slopped on some hair gel and a few sprays of cologne, and made my way to work. I picked up breakfast, then headed outside for my traditional post-meal smoke.
There I was, sitting outside on a cool San Francisco Tuesday, when, suddenly and inexplicably, pain covered my chest. Squeezing pain, as if someone had picked me up from behind and given me a bear hug of massive proportions. I stood up, stretched and rubbed my chest, hoping for the pain to disperse. But it got worse.
I went back inside and sat down. My boss noticed my visible discomfort and asked if I was all right, so I described my symptoms. Then he asked a question that changed the course of my life forever: "Do you need to go to the hospital?"
I was a 25-year-old healthy man who'd never broken a bone or had anything more serious than an ingrown toenail. But that morning when I heard the word "hospital," I was certain that I was about to die.
"Yes" I mumbled. "I need you to get me to the ER; I think I'm having a heart attack."
I arrived at the emergency room and flew through the doors as a person in a life-threatening emergency would. "I'm having a heart attack," I dramatically proclaimed. The nurse rushed me to the back as I heard the call go out over the radio: "Possible MI, male, room two." (MI stands for myocardial infarction, i.e., a heart attack.)
The doctors entered and looked puzzled. I was pretty young to be experiencing chest pain. They confirmed I was the correct patient, then diligently ran a battery of tests. After several hours of being prodded and poked, they determined that there was nothing wrong with me, but that this was the product of stress.
I was utterly dumbfounded by the idea that I, always fearless and never really worried about anything, could have been reduced to a blubbering victim of stress. It made no sense. But hey, I thought. I wasn't dying. I had that going for me, and to hear I was medically sound made me feel pretty good about myself. I'd been checked out and now it was over, right?
Wrong. On a business trip a few weeks later, it hit me again, so bad this time that I was racing down the shoulder of the interstate trying to get to the ER. Once again, the doctors said it was stress.
At their recommendation, I sought a regular primary care physician. I assume that he had never felt the feelings that I was having. He referred me for a full cardio workup, just to ease my concern, scratched off a prescription for Xanax and sent me on my way.
By this point, my occasional outbursts of despair -- panic attacks -- had forged a constant fear that another one was on its way. I checked my pulse constantly to make sure my heart was still beating, I lay in bed with my hand on my chest to feel my heart, and I went into panic mode daily.
Five years, 25 emergency room visits and upwards of 30 doctors' appointments later, I have finally found some resolution in my battle with anxiety. For those of you who also suffer, or have someone in their life who suffers, I wanted to share what I've learned.
To those with a friend or loved one who has anxiety disorder:
I know that you don't understand this apparent madness, and I hope for your sake that you never do, but please be supportive.
Do not, under any circumstances, disregard or downplay the victim's feelings. For someone who has never suffered from anxiety, the idea of such an absurd and irrational thought process is difficult, if not impossible, to understand. But for those of us who have felt this way, it is very real and extremely scary.
We're a fragile bunch, and telling us mid-panic attack there's nothing wrong with us is the equivalent of kicking someone in the shin and then telling them the pain is all in their head. You may know for a fact that there is nothing wrong -- and rationally, we often know it too -- but the anxiety is very real and disregarding it just intensifies it.
Do remind us that we are going to be OK. That validates our feelings, helps us focus on how the situation will end and takes us out of the panicked moment.
To my fellow jittery friends:
My biggest piece of advice is to find a compassionate doctor who will give you the support and attention that you need. I finally found one after going through half a dozen or so, and she is amazing. So amazing that she even came to therapy with me, twice! Talk with your doctor and agree upon a medication or other course of therapy that will help you.
Find someone that you can talk to, someone who understands. You may find comfort in a support group, either online or in person. They're full of people just like us who are there to vent and be supportive of one another. No matter what kind of anxiety you experience, there is someone else who knows exactly how you feel.
Here's one for the moment when you decide that you are actually dying and are in need of immediate emergency care: Think about how it ends. Think about how it ends with you walking out of the hospital, carrying your discharge papers. This time, it will end the same.
Am I completely cured? No, and I never will be. But I have learned to manage much better. I'm proud to say that I haven't visited an emergency room in about nine months, a huge feat for a guy who was getting to know the staff by name. I have a network of very supportive people in my life, including my doctor, without whom I'd probably be doing my routine of pulling into a gas station and yelling for an ambulance, rather than writing this article.
I used to be a SCUBA diving instructor, fearlessly navigating the deep, coming face to face with sharks while keeping my students safe and alive. The last two times I dove, I was struck with panic and had to abort, but in a few months I will return to the depths of the ocean and I will conquer my fear.
I will conquer because I will not allow anxiety and panic to kill another day of my life. It's my life, and anxiety can't have it anymore. | <urn:uuid:dc12cbf6-c193-4ccd-9d0a-ca198799746b> | 2013-05-26T09:35:00Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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A footballing legend on and off the pitch, Icons Legend of the Week #8 is Arsenal goalkeeping great Bob Wilson.
Between 1963 and 1974, Wilson amassed over 300 appearances between the sticks for Arsenal and won two caps for Scotland. Despite taking an early retirement at the age of 32, a long career in coaching, broadcasting and charity work has seen him become one of Britain's most popular and respected football personalities.
Born in Chesterfield, Derbyshire in 1941, Wilson was a late starter in professional football. Until Arsenal came knocking in 1963, he was in teacher training at Loughborough College while turning out as an amateur for Wolverhampton Wanderers Reserves. When he was signed by Billy Wright's Arsenal for £6,500, Wilson became the first amateur to move clubs for a transfer fee.
He arrived at Highbury as understudy to Jim Furnell, and despite making his debut in October 1963, he had to wait over four years to become the Gunners' first-choice. Manager Billy Wright was replaced by Bertie Mee, and Wilson duly won his first trophy with Arsenal during the 1969/70 campaign, when Arsenal overcame Belgians Anderlecht to claim the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup. It was the Gunners' first piece of silverware since their 1952/53 Division One title.
Wilson was an unmovable figure in Arsenal's famous League and FA Cup double-winning 1970/71 season, during which he played every single first-team league and cup match and was named their player of the year.
1971 was also the year of Wilson's international call-up to the Scotland side. Eligibility rules had changed in 1970, allowing players to turn out for their parents' countries of origin. Wilson appeared for Scotland under Tommy Doherty against Portugal and Holland, but when Willie Ormerod took over as manager, he reverted to a Scottish-born number one, Bobby Clarke of Aberdeen, and Wilson was frozen out.
Wilson continued as Arsenal's number one until his retirement in May 1974. His involvement at the North London club was far from over, however, and after hanging up his boots he took on a coaching role. Wilson was the Gunners' goalkeeping coach for 28 years, working closely with fellow Arsenal greats Pat Jennings and David Seaman.
Wilson juggled coaching at Arsenal with a football broadcasting career, and after appearing as a pundit during the 1970 World Cup, he worked as a presenter with the BBC from 1974 to 1994 before moving to ITV. He has also devoted much of his time to charity work, and in 1999 he set up the Willow Foundation, to help people aged between 16 and 40 diagnosed with life-threatening illnesses. In April 2011, Wilson, approaching 70-years-old, embarked on an incredible 500 mile 'Soccer Cycle' around every Premier League club in England. With the help of the likes of Lee Dixon, David Seaman and Les Ferdinand, the sponsored cycle raised more than £300,000 for the Willow Foundation.
A brave and supremely talented goalkeeper in his pomp, the Arsenal legend received an OBE in 2007, and remains a great authority and hugely respected commenter on the game today.
Likeable, passionate and devoted; modern football could use a few more characters like Bob Wilson.
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ack is the replacement I wrote for grep, aimed at large trees of heterogeneous code.
Using it will change your life, but why? Here's my top 10 list:
Note that ack's --perl also checks the shebang lines of files without suffixes, which the find command will not.
To install it, install the Perl module App::Ack. Your coding life will never be the same.
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I come across modal dialogs everyday and I see different implementations all the time.
Most modal dialogs have a [X] in the upper right hand corner of the dialog along with a Cancel/Close button.
There are so many options, what is the best practice for closing modal dialogs? Also, are there any studies to reference showing what is preferred?
Implementations I have seen:
Cancel/Close button with [X] in the corner(top right/left, bottom right/left?)
Click anywhere on the modal to close
Just an [X] in the corner(top right/left, bottom right/left?)
Just a Cancel/Close button
Click anywhere outside the modal
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Obama or an Obama-Impersonator? Ros-Lehtinen Flubs the Call
By Anne E. Kornblut
Twice on Wednesday, President-elect Barack Obama tried to reach across the partisan divide with a phone call to Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a Republican from Florida.
And twice, according to her office, she hung up on him.
She "thought it was a hoax," an aide to the congresswoman said.
In a series of hang-up and follow-up calls that appears to have taken up much of the afternoon, Ros-Lehtinen first received a call on her cell phone, from a Chicago phone number, and was informed by the caller that Obama wished to speak with her. When a man sounding like Obama got on the line, Ros-Lehtinen cut him off, saying, "I'm sorry, but I think this is a joke from one of the South Florida radio stations known for these pranks." She then hung up, according to a statement issued by her office.
A little while later, Chief of Staff-designate Rahm Emanuel called the congresswoman back.
"Ileana, I cannot believe that you hung up on the president-elect," Emanuel said, according to the congresswoman's office.
"Ros-Lehtinen told Rahm that she didn't believe the call was legitimate and hung up on Emanuel," her statement said.
A third party then sought to intervene. Rep. Howard Berman, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and someone Ros-Lehtinen knows well, called and told her he "needed to speak with her urgently." She got on the line -- but demanded that Berman recount a story "only both of them would know," which the congressman did.
He then told her what had just happened -- "that she had, indeed, hung up on the president-elect," according to her office statement.
Finally, when Obama called a third time, she took the call.
"He told her 'It is very funny that you have twice hung up on me,' to which she responded that South Florida radio stations are notorious for these jokes," her statement said. "Obama told her that in Chicago they also have prank calls. Ileana told Obama that 'you are either very gracious to reach out in such a bipartisan manner or had run out of folks to call if you are truly calling me and Saturday Night Live could use a good Obama impersonator like you.'"
She went on to congratulate him for his victory, and urged him to work with allies on Cuba and Israel, two of her top issues.
If only Sarah Palin had been so careful.
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Written By Danny Nicolas
I am a Capricorn. I'm not sure what that means, as I've never really invested much into horoscopes or astrology. Robert Schawartzman, the lead singer of the band Rooney, released an album last year titled Double Capricorn. It's worth listening to. The single "Second Chances" is especially grand. | <urn:uuid:62c76dde-07cf-4737-a91b-0b80cdb88516> | 2013-05-26T09:42:29Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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(Reuters) - Former high jump world record holder and two-time Olympic medalist John Thomas, known for his Cold War rivalry with Soviet jumper Valeriy Brumel, has died at age 71, the Boston Athletic Association (BAA) said on Thursday.
The BAA, which said Thomas died on Tuesday, did not disclose the cause of death.
Thomas first broke the world high jump record in 1960 by clearing 2.17 meters and improved on the record three more times within the next two months before Brumel took over the record with a leap of 2.23 in 1961.
Competing all over the world, the rivalry between Brumel and Thomas, at the peak of the Cold War, was considered one of the most dramatic rivalries in track and field.
Thomas, who as a Boston University freshman became the first athlete to clear seven feet indoors, cleared that mark or higher 191 times, losing only eight competitions, according to the USA Track and Field Hall of Fame, who enshrined him in 1985.
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This invention presents the design of a robotic device for patching pipeline leaks. A stretchable curing patch is designed for the pipe which ensures that it fits perfectly within the pipe. The patch is driven by a robotic device which carries a camera and can be controlled wirelessly. The curing patch can be designed to fit both circular and non-circular pipe geometry.
US Patent Application 61/479523 filed on April 27, 2011
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Geodatabases and ArcSDE
An overview of the Geodatabase
The geodatabase is a "container" used to hold a collection of datasets. There are three types:
- File Geodatabases—Stored as folders in a file system. Each dataset is held as a file that can scale up to 1 TB in size. This option is recommended over personal geodatabases.
- Personal Geodatabases—All datasets are stored within a Microsoft Access data file, which is limited in size to 2 GB.
- ArcSDE Geodatabases—Stored in a relational database using Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, IBM DB2, or IBM Informix. These multiuser geodatabases require the use of ArcSDE and can be unlimited in size and numbers of users.
Comparing the three types of Geodatabases
Learn about creating geodatabases
File geodatabases and personal geodatabases
||A collection of various types of GIS datasets held as tables in a relational database
This is the recommended native data format for ArcGIS stored and managed in a relational database.
|A collection of various types of GIS datasets held in a file system folder
This is the recommended native data format for ArcGIS stored and managed in a file system folder.
|Original data format for ArcGIS geodatabases stored and managed in Microsoft Access data files
This is limited in size and tied to the Windows operating system.
|Number of Users
Many readers and many writers
ArcSDE can be licensed for use at three levels:
- Personal ArcSDE
- Workgroup ArcSDE
- Enterprise ArcSDE
|Single user and small workgroups
Some readers and one writer per feature dataset, standalone feature class or table.
Concurrent use of any specific file eventually degrades for large numbers of readers.
|Single user and small workgroups with smaller datasets
Some readers and one writer.
Concurrent use eventually degrades for large numbers of readers.
- Microsoft SQL Server
- IBM DB2
- IBM Informix
|Each dataset is a separate file on disk
A file geodatabase is a file folder that holds its dataset files.
|All the contents in each personal geodatabase are held in a single Microsoft Access file (.mdb).
|Up to DBMS limits
||One TB for each dataset. Each file geodatabase can hold many datasets
Each feature class can scale up to hundreds of millions of vector features per dataset.
|Two GB per Access database
Effective limit before performance degrades is typically between 250 and 500 MB per Access database file.
||Fully supported across all DBMSs; includes cross-database replication and updates
||Windows, Unix, Linux, and direct connections to DBMSs that can potentially run on any platform on the user's local network
|Security and Permissions
||Provided by DBMS
|Operating file system security
|Windows file system security
|Database Administration Tools
||Full DBMS functions for backup, recovery, replication, SQL support, security, and so on
|File system management
||Windows file system management
|Requires the use of ArcSDE
|Allows you to optionally store data in a read-only compressed format to reduce storage requirements
|Often used as an attribute table manager (via Microsoft Access). Users like the string handling for text attributes.
File and personal geodatabases, which are freely available to all ArcGIS users (i.e., users of ArcView, ArcEditor, and ArcInfo), are designed to support the full information model of the geodatabase. This includes topologies, raster catalogs, network datasets, terrain datasets, address locators, and so on. File and personal geodatabases are designed to be edited by a single user and do not support geodatabase versioning. With a file geodatabase, it is possible to have more than one editor at the same time providing they are editing in different feature datasets, standalone feature classes or tables.
The file geodatabase is a new geodatabase type released in version 9.2. Its goals are to
- Provide a widely available, simple, and scalable geodatabase solution for all users.
- Provide a portable geodatabase that works across operating systems.
- Scale up to handle very large datasets.
- Provide excellent performance and scalability, for example, to support individual datasets containing well over 300 million features and datasets that can scale beyond 500 GB per file with very fast performance.
- Use an efficient data structure that is optimized for performance and storage. File geodatabases use about one third of the feature geometry storage required by shapefiles and personal geodatabases. File geodatabases also allow users to compress vector data to a read-only format to reduce storage requirements even further.
- Out perform shapefiles for operations involving attributes and scale the data size limits way beyond shapefile limits.
Personal geodatabases have been used in ArcGIS since their initial release in Version 8.0 and have used the Microsoft Access data file structure (the .mdb file). They support geodatabases that are limited in size to 2 GB or less. However, the effective database size is smaller, somewhere between 250 and 500 MB before the database performance starts to slow down. Personal geodatabases are also only supported on the Microsoft Windows operating system. Users like the table operations they can perform using Microsoft Access on personal geodatabases. Many users really like the text handling capabilities in Microsoft Access for working with attribute values.
ArcGIS will continue to support personal geodatabases for numerous purposes. However, it is also highly recommended to use the file geodatabase. It is ideal for working with file-based datasets for GIS projects, for personal use, and for use in small workgroups. It has strong performance and scales well to hold extremely large data volumes without requiring the use of a DBMS. Plus, it is portable across operating systems.
Typically, users will employ multiple file or personal geodatabases for their data collections and access these simultaneously for their GIS work.
When you need a large multiuser geodatabase that can be edited and used simultaneously by many users, the ArcSDE geodatabase provides a good solution. It adds the ability to manage a shared, multiuser geodatabase as well as a number of critical version-based GIS workflows. The ability to leverage your organization's enterprise relational databases is a key advantage of the ArcSDE geodatabase.
ArcSDE geodatabases work with a variety of DBMS storage models (IBM DB2, Informix, Oracle, and SQL Server). ArcSDE geodatabases are primarily used in a wide range of workgroups, departments, and enterprise settings. They take full advantage of their underlying DBMS architectures to support
- Extremely large, continuous GIS databases
- Many simultaneous users
- Long transactions and versioned workflows
- Relational database support for GIS data management (providing the benefits of a relational database for scalability, reliability, security, backup, integrity, etc.)
- SQL Types for Spatial when the DBMS supports this capability (i.e., Oracle, Informix, and DB2).
Through many large geodatabase implementations, it has been found that DBMSs are efficient at moving in and out of tables the type of large binary objects required for GIS data. In addition, GIS database sizes and the number of supported users can be much larger than with GIS file bases.
For information about the ArcSDE geodatabase architecture and how ArcSDE geodatabases leverage relational database technology, see Architecture of the geodatabase
There are three levels for accessing and using ArcSDE in ArcGIS
ArcSDE geodatabases readily scale from personal, single-user geodatabases through workgroup geodatabases, and on up to extremely large enterprise geodatabases. ArcSDE geodatabase capabilities are available in the following ESRI software products:
Personal ArcSDE included with ArcEditor and ArcInfo: Beginning at Version 9.2, ArcEditor and ArcInfo include the Microsoft SQL Server Express database free of charge. These desktops also include ArcSDE capabilities to support "personal ArcSDE" geodatabases for three simultaneous users—one of whom can edit data.
SQL Server Express is limited to run on one CPU (or Core within a Socket) and utilize 1 GB RAM. The maximum database size for SQL Server Express is limited to 4 GB.
Personal ArcSDE provides the ability to fully administer and manage ArcSDE geodatabases using SQL Server Express within ArcEditor and ArcInfo. This provides full ArcSDE geodatabase capabilities for a few users and one editor at a time. You set up and manage these ArcSDE geodatabases within ArcCatalog. No extra software or database administration expertise is required.
Workgroup ArcSDE included with ArcGIS Server for Workgroups: ArcGIS Server for Workgroups includes ArcSDE support for SQL Server Express. With this level of ArcSDE, you can use SQL Server Express for up to 10 simultaneous Windows desktop users and editors (for example, users of ArcView, ArcEditor, ArcInfo, a custom ArcGIS Engine application, AutoCAD, MicroStation, and so on) plus any number of additional server connections from Web applications. (Consult your license agreement for specific information on the number of connections for your implementation.)
SQL Server Express is limited to running on one CPU or Core with a maximum of 1 GB RAM. Database sizes are limited to a maximum of 4 GB.
As with personal ArcSDE, you use ArcEditor or ArcInfo to create, administer, and manage workgroup ArcSDE geodatabases. You set up and manage these workgroup ArcSDE geodatabases using SQL Server Express within ArcCatalog. No extra database administration expertise is required.
In this context, you can think of ArcGIS Server for Workgroups as being an extension for ArcEditor or ArcInfo to help you manage and serve workgroup ArcSDE geodatabases. Of course, ArcGIS Server can perform many more functions and tasks. See An overview of GIS services
Enterprise ArcSDE included with ArcGIS Server for Enterprises: This is the traditional ArcSDE technology that runs on Oracle, SQL Server, IBM DB2, and IBM Informix and can scale to databases of any size and number of users, running on computers of any size and configuration. Users provide their own DBMS license for this level of ArcSDE use. The DBMS is typically administered and managed by a database administrator (DBA).
To learn more about ArcGIS Server, see An overview of GIS services
|You do not need to monitor and manage the use of your memory and cpu's for SQL Server Express. The SQL Server Express software will automatically limit computer use to 1 GB RAM on a single cpu and to a database size of 4GB.
|Personal ArcSDE is included free as a part of ArcEditor and ArcInfo. If you choose to install SQL Server Express, you can administer SQL Server Express databases using ArcCatalog.
|When you install the ArcGIS Server for Workgroups, you can install and use SQL Server Express and ArcSDE. After installing SQL Server Express, you can use ArcCatalog to administer SQL Server Express databases on your computer.
|These various levels enable users to take full advantage of ArcSDE geodatabases for any number of users, large or small. It allows organizations to have one scalable data architecture that works across their single user systems up into their large enterprise systems.
ArcSDE provides long and short transaction management on the DBMS transaction framework
The ArcSDE geodatabase includes advanced support for managing edits and updates to a multiuser geodatabase. As GIS increasingly adds users and the requirement to manage data from an array of sensor networks, the need for transaction management becomes more critical. In GIS, long transactions are needed along with the more common, short database transactions that are orchestrated on the DBMS's short transaction framework.
Often, GIS users have specialized transactional requirements, one of which is the need for some transactions to span long periods of time (sometimes hours, even days and months, not just seconds or minutes).
Additionally, a single editing session in a GIS can involve changes to multiple rows in multiple tables. Users need to be able to undo and redo changes. Users want to treat each edit session as a single transaction when they commit their changes. Furthermore, the edits must often be performed in a system that is disconnected from the central, shared database.
During these specialized GIS data flow processes, the GIS database must remain continuously available for daily operations, where each user might have a personal view or state of the shared GIS database.
In a multiuser database, the GIS transactions must be orchestrated on the DBMS's short transaction framework. ArcSDE plays a key role during these operations by managing the high-level, complex GIS transactions on the simple DBMS transaction framework.
ArcSDE does this by storing change information as delta records in the database; isolating multiple edit sessions using versions; and supporting complex transactions, automatic archive, and historical queries.
See An overview of editing and maintaining data
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The honeymoon is over
As you'll see in my story today, the Baltimore Teachers Union contract impasse is getting nasty. After the school board meeting last night, where teachers and their supporters booed him and called for his ouster, Andres Alonso pointed to the editorial he wrote for The Sun the day before the new academic year started. "If I'm still in a honeymoon two months from now, I've yet to begin doing my job," his piece concluded.
It's a month and a half later, and the honeymoon is definitely over. Alonso says it's because he's doing his job. Union leaders say it's because he's not.
Where do you stand? And how do you think this dispute can end? Each side is urging the other to come to a resolution quickly, but neither side seems willing to give in. | <urn:uuid:6d10c382-82d3-43f4-a35d-b39889ec3600> | 2013-05-27T02:55:22Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Queen Min was the last empress of Korea, assassinated in 1895. No photos of her have been identified beyond a doubt, so her image remains elusive. Accordingly, a single dragon is etched into the underside of this stone. Depending on which way you hold the ring, the reflection appears or disappears on the opposite side. The setting is shaped like a pagoda.
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Okay, we all live in "Frugal" West Michigan, and I came across this video, so the question is really quite simple, is it bad to have a coupon on a first date? I personally think it's a little tacky.
Forget a date -- what if it were business? If a manager took you out to dinner, and used a coupon, would that bother you? If it were a job interview, would that tell you something about the manager? Can you think of another situation where it's better to leave the coupon book at home? Do coupons really a bad thing or just a sign of the time? | <urn:uuid:c91e4b9e-7be6-408b-a66d-d7dd66616789> | 2013-05-26T09:35:40Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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From Zimbra :: Wiki
|This article applies to the following ZCS versions.|
One of the coolest things about working with ZCS is that it exposes you to many technologies such as Java, Postfix, OpenLDAP, and MySQL. An administrator of a ZCS system should have a working knowledge of these technologies, in order to monitor the system and solve performance problems.
The ZCS server collects many performance-related statistics. The data is stored in the following CSV files in /opt/zimbra/zmstat:
- cpu.csv: CPU utilization
- fd.csv: file descriptor count
- mailboxd.csv: ZCS server and JVM statistics
- mtaqueue.csv: Postfix queue
- proc.csv: disk utilization
- soap.csv: SOAP request processing time
- threads.csv: JVM thread counts
- vm.csv: Linux VM statistics (from the vmstat command)
These files are in a standard CSV format that can be loaded into Excel for viewing and charting. They are archived to subdirectories of /opt/zimbra/zmstat every day at midnight.
The zmstat-chart Utility
Zimbra provides a command-line utility called zmstat-chart that is used to generate charts from the CSV data. The following command:
$ zmstat-chart -s /opt/zimbra/zmstat/2008-04-03 -d ~/zmstat/2008-04-03/charts
will read data from CSV files in /opt/zimbra/2008-04-03/ and write HTML and PNG files to the ~/zmstat/2008-04-03charts/ directory (which would be /opt/zimbra/zmstat/2008-04-03/charts/ if run as the zimbra user). Default chart parameters are specified in /opt/zimbra/conf/zmstat-chart.xml. If you'd like to skip certain charts or add charts that aren't generated by default, you can specify an alternate chart conf file with the -c option.
The zmstat-chart configuration file may need generated prior to running zmstat-chart. To generate, run:
$ zmstat-chart-config > /opt/zimbra/conf/zmstat-chart.xml
CPU utilization is tracked both at the server level and the process level. Here's a sample process CPU graph:
This chart shows that server CPU increases in the morning as users come to work, followed by a spike at 9:00AM. To further investigate the problem, you could look at other charts or the server logs to determine the cause of the spike.
Disk utilization is tracked for each disk partition:
This chart shows that disk activity also goes up along with the increased CPU utilization. It also shows that the sda partition is experiencing more load than the others. When laying out disk partitions for a ZCS installation, it's a good idea to put different system components (/opt/zimbra/store, /opt/zimbra/db, /opt/zimbra/index) on separate partitions. This makes it much easier to determine which system component is performing more I/O.
JVM Garbage Collection
ZCS tracks the percentage of time that the Java Virtual Machine spends on garbage collection:
If the JVM is spending more than a few percent of its time on garbage collection, consider increasing the amount of memory allocated to the server Java process.
InnoDB Buffer Pool Hit Rate
This chart tracks the buffer pool hit rate for the InnoDB storage engine in MySQL:
Higher numbers indicate that MySQL is able to get data from memory instead of going to disk. If your hit rate is below 990, MySQL is hitting the disk harder than it should. Investigate the following issues:
- Consider increasing the buffer pool size in my.cnf.
- Run EXPLAIN on some of the SQL statements in /opt/zimbra/log/myslow.log to see if they are causing InnoDB to read a large amount of data into memory.
This article describes just a few of the statistics tracked and charted by ZCS. For more details, spend some time looking at your server's performance data either in the zmstat-chart output or Excel.
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Difference between revisions of "Rocky Mountain National Park"
Revision as of 04:07, 5 August 2010
Rocky Mountain National Park is a United States National Park that is located in the Front Range region of the state of Colorado. The park's borders lie within three counties, Larimer, Boulder, and Grand and it is surrounded by Roosevelt, Arapaho, and Routt National Forests. The Continental Divide cuts almost directly through the center of the park, creating two areas with very different landscapes - a drier and heavily glaciated eastern side, and a wetter, more forested western side. Both areas offer excellent spots for high altitude alpine hiking, backpacking and rock climbing as well as ample opportunity for spotting wildlife. The park is dominated by Longs Peak one of Colorado's 54 "Fourteeners" at 14,259 feet, and dubbed the "Monarch of the Front Range."
Evidence of Native American peoples visiting the park date back almost 10,000 years, mainly from the Ute and Arapaho communities. Several expeditions visited the area in the early to mid 19th century, including one by Joel Estes in 1859 after which he and his family established a homestead that would soon become Estes Park, the resort town that currently sits on the east side of the park. After a small mining rush on the western side of the park in the early 1880s, a 14 year old boy by the name of Enos Mills moved to the area and began to extensively document the region's geography and ecology through essays and books. He began to lobby Congress to establish a national park in the area surrounding Longs Peak, a mountain he had climbed over 40 times by himself. On January 26, 1915, President Woodrow Wilson signed a bill that established the creation of Rocky Mountain National Park. The 1930s brought a building boom to the park during the Great Depression, during which time the Trail Ridge Road was constructed through the park, which remains today the highest continuous stretch of highway in the United States.
Rocky Mountain National Park sits on the Continental Divide, separating the park into two distinct regions. The eastern and more developed side of the park is dominated by striking valleys and cirques that were formed through heavy glaciation and is a good starting point for first-time visitors. The western side of the park is wetter, is heavily forested and is less developed, but still contains excellent trekking and backcountry opportunities. Most areas of the park sit well above 9,000 feet with mountains along the Continental Divide topping off at above 12,000 feet. The 13,000 foot Mummy Range rests on the northern side of Rocky Mountain National Park with two roads skirting long it's southern edges; a one-way, dirt road that winds up the Fall River called the Old Fall River Road; and a section of Highway 34 famously known as the Trail Ridge Road. The Never Summer Mountains sit on the western side of the park and consist of 10 distinct peaks, all rising well over 12,000 feet, and contain the headwaters for the Colorado River. One of the most dominating features in the southeast area of the park is Longs Peak at 14,259 feet, which is surrounded on all sides by several peaks well about 13,000 feet, including Mt. Meeker, Mount Lady Washington, and Storm Peak.
Flora and fauna
For wildlife seekers, Rocky Mountain National Park offers some fantastic opportunities to view the variety of animals that live inside its borders. Elk, deer, chipmunks, ground squirrels, beavers, porcupines, foxes, and coyotes are all commonly seen in meadows and in and around lakes and streams. Marmots seem to be ubiquitous above the tree line, especially on well-hiked trails around Longs Peak. Hawks and eagles are often seen soaring above the glacier gorges in search of critters that hide among the rocks and colorful tree birds such as blue jays and cardinals fly in the lower altitudes. Hummingbirds have a tendency to close to where people - and their food - are sitting. Less common animal sightings include black bears and the rare mountain lions, although the former will manage to hang out if human food is accessible. Moose mainly stay on the western side of the park and Bighorn Sheep - a rare but exciting find - stay above the tree line and can sometimes be seen off the Trail Ridge Road.
Wildflowers seem to be everywhere throughout the park, including the popular Indian Paintbrush and Columbine, Colorado's state flower. One of the most spectacular sights in the mid to late fall is to walk through a grove of Aspen trees as their leaves change from green to gold. Ponderosa and Lodgepole pines are the dominate conifer trees in the area, although they have been recently dying in large numbers due to an outbreak of pine beetle infestation.
Considering the park's high altitude, the weather trends closer toward moderate four-season climate than edging on the extremes. Winters bring heavy snowfall, and although there is rarely a deep-freeze the park gets significantly less visitors. Summer are the high season with warm temperatures ranging in from mid 70s-80°F during the day, but dropping into the low 40s°F to near freezing. Thunderstorms are constantly looming in the early to mid afternoon during the summer, but clear off quickly by evening, bringing crisp and cool weather.
Highway 34 connects Grand Lake and Estes Park across the Continental Divide, giving you awesome views of the western and eastern sides of the park. A great stopping point along the road is the Alpine Visitor Center at the Fall River Pass, which sits at almost 11,800 feet. Colorado Route 7 runs from Estes Park to the south, passing by several trailheads, including those for Lily Mountain, the Twin Sisters, the Longs Peak Ranger Station and the Wild Basin. Many visitors use Bear Lake or Glacier Gorge as their starting point into the park, both of which can be accessed via the Bear Lake Road. The Beaver Meadows and Moraine Park visitor centers are popular destinations for getting oriented with the park's layout, the former having been designed by students of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
From the east: The Beaver Meadows Visitor Center is three miles from downtown Estes Park near the terminus of US-36 and can be reached via several roads. SR-7 runs from Boulder via Lyons and Allenspark along the east side of the park, passing the Longs Peak Ranger Station and intersects US-36 in Estes Park. SR-66/US-36 run from Denver through Longmont up the Big Thompson River canyon. US-34 also intersects US-36 in Estes Park via Loveland and continues on into the park toward the Fall River Visitor Center.
Rental cars are available at the Denver International Airport. If you aren't driving, the Estes Park Shuttle offers reasonable one-way and round-trip rates from DEN to downtown Estes Park.
NOTE: While the park is open year-round, the Trail Ridge Road closes in the winter and may not open until the late spring or early summer, depending on the snowpack.
The nearest major airport is Denver International Airport (IATA: DEN) located about 1 hour and 45 minutes away from the park, with connecting service to most major US cities. A smaller option is Eagle County Regional Airport (IATA: EGE) located near the skiing resorts of Vail and Beaver Creek; however, service to this airport is usually seasonal and confined to the winter months.
Entrance fees are $20 per private vehicle or $10 for individuals on foot or on bicycle, valid for seven days. Holders of the National Park Pass ($80, allows entry to all national park areas for one year) do not need to pay an entrance fee. In addition, there is a $40 pass available that allows entry into Rocky Mountain National Park for one year.
If you drive in early in the morning or late at night the fee booth will probably be unmanned. It is rumored that local Larimer County and Grand County residents can pass through the park without paying a fee if they mention that intention to the entrance guards.
Most of the major trailheads in the park are accessible by car and have parking lots depending on the popularity of the route. While parking is relatively ample in the early mornings, many lots are full by mid-morning during the peak summer months. The Trail Ridge Road and Old Fall River Roads are closed during the winter and usually don't reopen till late spring at the earliest. Access to Moraine Park and Bear Lake via the Bear Lake Road are open year-round and plowed.
There are several entrances to the park which do not have fees on the east side of the park:
Starting around Memorial Day Weekend and going through the end of September, Rocky Mountain National Park operates a free shuttle bus service which enables you to access many destination and loop hikes along Bear Lake Road, including Sprague Lake and Glacier Gorge to cut down on traffic congestion and limited parking. Shuttle buses run between many trailheads, Moraine Park Visitor Center, and Moraine Park and Glacier Basin Campgrounds.
There are two routes: The Bear Lake Route and the Moraine Park Route. Both routes are based at the Park & Ride shuttle bus parking area across from the Glacier Basin Campground. The first bus departs from Park & Ride at 7PM. and the last bus leaves at 7PM. The last bus of the day leaves Bear Lake and Fern Lake Trailheads at 7:30PM. The Bear Lake Route shuttle makes the round trip between the Park & Ride and Bear Lake. These buses run every 10 to 15 minutes. The Moraine Park Route shuttle makes the round trip between the Park & Ride and the Fern Lake Trailhead bus stop. These buses run every 30 minutes.
To experience the true beauty of Rocky Mountain National Park means getting out onto some of the 355 miles of trail that wind in, around and over the Continental Divide, Wild Basin, Mummy Range, and more.
Cycling through the park offers riders a chance to take in some of the scenery and striking vistas at a casual pace; however, some may be daunted by the high altitudes and steep climbs on the main roads. Elevations range from 8,000 feet to 12,183 feet (2,400 to 3,700 m). There are 60 miles (97 km) of hard-surfaced road with a five to seven percent grade. Most of the roads in the park have little to no shoulder, with the added challenge of dealing with heavy summer traffic. Early mornings or late evening rides may minimize conflict with other vehicles. Be vigilant for thunderstorms in the early to late afternoons, where lightning can create a serious hazard.
Winter cyclists will have access to Upper Beaver Meadows Road, Moraine Park Campground, Endovalley Road, Aspenglen Campground and High Drive. For a unique cycling experience, check with the park information office for specifics on the Old Fall River Road (gravel surface) and Trail Ridge Road (paved), which are open to bicycles early in the summer season, before they open to vehicles.
Off-road mountain biking is prohibited inside the park.
The park offers 359 miles of trail to hikers, backpackers and horseback riders. Difficulty levels range from the half mile wheelchair accessable jaunt around Bear Lake to the backbreaking 'Mummy Kill', recommended only for those with years of mountaineering experience or a death wish. A few of the most memorable hikes are listed below. Many of the trails in the Eastern Part of the Park can be reached via shuttle buses. Note that snow conditions should be considered before hiking as higher elevations will be snow-covered later into the year.
Most of the visitor centers offer books and other items for purchase, and there is a gift shop located next door to the Fall River Visitor Center.
Snacks are available for purchase at the Alpine Visitor Center, and there is a snack shop located next door to the Fall River Visitor Center. There are no sit-down restaurants inside of the park, but the neighboring towns of Estes Park and Grand Lake have numerous options.
There is no wine or alcohol for sale anywhere in the park. Beverages may be purchased at the snack bar next to the Fall River Visitor Center or at the Alpine Visitor Center. Water is available at the entrance station and visitor centers, and during summer months at the campgrounds.
There are five drive-in campgrounds and two group camping areas in the park (one group campground is winter only, one is summer only). Three campgrounds, Moraine Park, Glacier Basin, and Aspenglen, take reservations, as does the group-camping area at Glacier Basin. Other park campgrounds are first-come, first-served, and fill on most summer days. There are no electric, water or sewer hookups at any campsites. The water is turned off in the winter at all year-round campgrounds but drinking water is available at entrance stations and open visitor centers.
You must have a backcountry/wilderness permit to camp overnight in the park's backcountry/wilderness. You can pick one up at the Headquarters Backcountry Office or at the Kawuneeche Visitor Center. To minimize impacts on the park's resources, the number of permits issued is limited. You may obtain day-of-trip permits in person year round. You may make reservations by mail or in person anytime after March 1 for a permit for that calendar year. You may make reservations by phone from March 1 to May 15 and anytime after October 1 for a permit for that calendar year.
Backcountry/Wilderness Permits Rocky Mountain National Park Estes Park, CO 80517
You can also call the backcountry office at (970) 586-1242 to reserve a permit. For all reservations:
During the busy summer months, if you have a permit reservation, you must pick up the permit by 10 AM on the first day of your planned backcountry/wilderness stay, otherwise, the permit will be cancelled in its entirety, and given to other backpackers. If you know you will not be using your permit, please cancel your reservation as soon as possible.
The greatest danger to most park visitors is due to altitude. The entire park is above 7,500 feet and ranges as high as 14,259 feet, so it is important to take time to acclimate before undertaking strenuous activities. Even driving at high elevation can affect sensitive individuals. Altitude sickness symptoms include shortness of breath, fatigue, dizziness, nausea, rapid heartbeat and insomnia. Also note that high elevation increases the chance of dehydration, severe sunburn, and the aggravation of pre-existing medical conditions. Drink several quarts of water per day to ward off dehydration. Wear and reapply sunscreen often. If you begin to feel sick or experience any physical problems descend to lower elevations.
In addition, be aware of the weather. A bright, sunny day can turn windy and wet within a matter of minutes with high winds and driving rain or snow. Be prepared for changing conditions by dressing in layers and always carrying gear appropriate for both cold, wet weather and bright, sunny conditions. If caught in a lightning storm above treeline get away from summits and isolated trees and rocks and find shelter (but avoid small cave entrances and overhangs) and crouch down on your heels.
Other park dangers include wildlife - never feed wild animals, and always give them their space. Animals are unpredictable, particularly if they feel threatened, and even a deer is capable of killing a human. To protect against larger predators like bears and mountain lions make noise while hiking to avoid startling an animal, and use bear-proof containers to store anything with a scent; this includes food, toothpaste, deodorant, empty food wrappers, or anything else that might attract a bear's interest.
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By Seltem Iyigun and Nick Tattersall
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A member of a Turkish leftist group that accuses Washington of using Turkey as its "slave" carried out a suicide bomb attack on the U.S. embassy, the Ankara governor's office cited DNA tests as showing on Saturday.
Ecevit Sanli, a member of the leftist Revolutionary People's Liberation Army-Front (DHKP-C), blew himself up in a perimeter gatehouse on Friday as he tried to enter the embassy, also killing a Turkish security guard.
The DHKP-C, virulently anti-American and listed as a terrorist organization by the United States and Turkey, claimed responsibility in a statement on the internet in which it said Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan was a U.S. "puppet".
"Murderer America! You will not run away from people's rage," the statement on "The People's Cry" website said, next to a picture of Sanli wearing a black beret and military-style clothes and with an explosives belt around his waist.
It warned Erdogan that he too was a target.
Turkey is an important U.S. ally in the Middle East with common interests ranging from energy security to counter-terrorism. Leftist groups including the DHKP-C strongly oppose what they see as imperialist U.S. influence over their nation.
DNA tests confirmed that Sanli was the bomber, the Ankara governor's office said. It said he had fled Turkey a decade ago and was wanted by the authorities.
Born in 1973 in the Black Sea port city of Ordu, Sanli was jailed in 1997 for attacks on a police station and a military staff college in Istanbul, but his sentence was deferred after he fell sick during a hunger strike. He was never re-jailed.
Condemned to life in prison in 2002, he fled the country a year later, officials said. Interior Minister Muammer Guler said he had re-entered Turkey using false documents.
Erdogan, who said hours after the attack that the DHKP-C were responsible, met his interior and foreign ministers as well as the head of the army and state security service in Istanbul on Saturday to discuss the bombing.
Three people were detained in Istanbul and Ankara in connection with the attack, state broadcaster TRT said.
The White House condemned the bombing as an "act of terror", while the U.N. Security Council described it as a heinous act. U.S. officials said on Friday the DHKP-C were the main suspects but did not exclude other possibilities.
Islamist radicals, extreme left-wing groups, ultra-nationalists and Kurdish militants have all carried out attacks in Turkey in the past.
The DHKP-C statement called on Washington to remove Patriot missiles, due to go operational on Monday as part of a NATO defense system, from Turkish soil.
The missiles are being deployed alongside systems from Germany and the Netherlands to guard Turkey, a NATO member, against a spillover of the war in neighboring Syria.
"Our action is for the independence of our country, which has become a new slave of America," the statement said.
Turkey has been one of the leading advocates of foreign intervention to end the civil war in Syria and has become one of President Bashar al-Assad's harshest critics, a stance groups such as the DHKP-C view as submission to an imperialist agenda.
"Organizations of the sectarian sort like the DHKP-C have been gaining ground as a result of circumstances surrounding the Syrian civil war," security analyst Nihat Ali Ozcan wrote in a column in Turkey's Daily News.
The Ankara attack was the second on a U.S. mission in four months. On September 11, 2012, U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three American personnel were killed in an Islamist militant attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
The DHKP-C was responsible for the assassination of two U.S. military contractors in the early 1990s in protest against the first Gulf War, and it fired rockets at the U.S. consulate in Istanbul in 1992, according to the U.S. State Department.
It has been blamed for previous suicide attacks, including one in 2001 that killed two police officers and a tourist in Istanbul's central Taksim Square. It has carried out a series of deadly attacks on police stations in the last six months.
Friday's attack may have come in retaliation for an operation against the DHKP-C last month in which Turkish police detained 85 people. A court subsequently remanded 38 of them in custody over links to the group.
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Estimate the Induction Time Distribution for a Disease
A group of 258 patients with AIDS had been exposed to HIV through blood transfusion on a known date. Patients who had not developed AIDS before the end of the study are not included (right truncation).
Create a kernel density estimate of the AIDS induction time distribution and compute its mean.
The probability a person will survive more than six years without developing AIDS.
The expected induction time, given AIDS has not developed by six years. | <urn:uuid:ead1ef13-c437-4176-ad3b-2e0e9bf5f88b> | 2013-05-27T02:54:42Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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While for many games the proper form of the gameid is all upper-case, for some, such as LotRO, it is not.
This template is intended to be called by other templates, and will normalize the gameid, or return a default, or EQ2.
Although this template still functions exactly as described, an internal function, #gameid:, has been created to replace this function. See #gameid:
- (REQUIRED) An Allakhazam game id, such as eq2, eq, ffxi, wow, etc. The gameid is case-insensitive!
- (OPTIONAL) If gameid is blank, default will be returned. If default is ALSO blank, EQ2 will be returned. If gameid is not blank, but is not in the list of supported gameid's, the UPPER CASE of the gameid is returned.
- If name= is not blank or undefined, this template will return the full proper name of the game, rather than gameid. This should be the same as the top-level category for the game.
- If siteid= is not blank or undefined, this template will return the domain prefix for the game, rather than gameid. If the game does not have a domain prefix, we return www
- A FEW games need the name split to 2 lines for the displayed text for the game tag. IF this is one of them and name= is not blank, this flag tells it to use the 2-line version
- returns: Warhammer Online
Need help understanding Bludwyng's documentation style? See Bludwyng's Guide to Using Templates!
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CHARLESTON — A Kanawha County woman and her husband are suing Charleston Area Medical Center after they claim it was negligent in caring for her.
Dr. G. Stephen Dawson also was named as a defendant in the suit.
On July 22, 2010, Traci McClanahan was negligently cared for by the defendants, according to a complaint filed Aug. 3 in Kanawha Circuit Court.
McClanahan claims Dawson failed to properly perform excision of the left posterior triangle cervical lymph node and/or caused significant and permanent damage to the spinal accessory nerve.
Dawson also failed to recognized and timely diagnose the spinal nerve injury, which denied McClanahan the opportunity for primary nerve repair, according to the suit.
McClanahan claims CAMC failed to properly and timely refer her “to the appropriate specialist for evaluation and reparative surgery” and was otherwise negligent in the care and treatment provided to her.
The defendants’ negligence, carelessness and recklessness caused McClanahan to suffer severe permanent and irreversible deficit and damage to the spinal accessory nerve, according to the suit.
McClanahan and her husband, Charles McClanahan, are seeking compensatory and punitive damages with pre- and post-judgment interest. They are being represented by Richard D. Lindsay and Matthew C. Lindsay.
The case has been assigned to Circuit Judge Jennifer Bailey.
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There's something lurking around distant and icy dwarf planet Pluto: a fifth moon.
A team of scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope said Wednesday they have discovered the tiniest moon yet around Pluto. That brings the number of known moons to five.
The mini-moon is estimated to be 6 to 15 miles across, smaller than the one that scientists spotted last year, which is 8 to 21 miles wide. Pluto's largest moon, Charon, is about 650 miles across.
Until the newly found moon gets a name, it will be known as P5.
A NASA spacecraft named New Horizons is speeding toward Pluto where it will arrive in 2015. When New Horizons launched in 2006, Pluto was a full-fledged planet, but astronomers have since demoted it to dwarf planet. | <urn:uuid:4f462d2b-0af4-4e66-a9e2-9e938fdbaf99> | 2013-05-27T02:54:30Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Jagdish, a captain in the Indian army, is currently returning home to Bombay to get married according to his parents wish, to a girl of their choice, Nisha. After seeing the woman at the bride-viewing ceremony. Jagdish says no, citing reasons that she's too old fashioned and homely for him. But, quite contrary to her image at home, Nisha is a spoiled brat on the outside. Jagdish happens to see her other side at a boxing match and instantaneously falls head over heels for her. Meanwhile, during one of the local commutes in a city bus, Jagdish happens to miss death by a whisker. He sees the bus in which he would have been blown to pieces a few minutes back. But, fortunately Jagdish nabs the guy who planted the bomb and soon finds out he's a sleeper cell. With just few days left, Jagdish should find out what's the next target of several other sleeper cells in the city. Will Jagdish stop what's about to unfold forms the rest of the story. | <urn:uuid:cc3f88d4-7baf-40fe-9de7-332399f55789> | 2013-05-26T09:42:07Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Employers who are informed of an employee's misconduct that takes place outside of work can generally choose to react in three ways. They can choose to keep the employee, especially if the allegations are minor, suspend the person without pay until all charges are resolved, or terminate the worker. Before any decision is made, responsible employers should first determine if the employee's off-the-job misconduct is affecting job performance. If the case isn't so, employers should normally respect the privacy rights of its employees and not pursue the matter. On the other hand, if job performance is shown to be adversely affected by off-duty misconduct, employers should then conduct a complete investigation to obtain all the facts and allow the employee a chance to tell his or her side of the story. Generally, the disciplinary actions that employers take should reflect the severity of the misconduct. Situations where allegations prove to be of a serious nature, such as a felony-related incident, may leave an employer with no choice but to terminate the employee. However, before firing the employee, companies should be certain of the facts surrounding the misconduct and be absolutely clear about whether or not the misconduct affects work performance. Failure to do so on both ends can result in a wrongful termination or defamation lawsuit, especially if the charges turn out to be unfounded or the accounts of the misconduct untrue. Employers may also be exposed to an unemployment compensation claim, as off-duty misconduct can sometimes prove to be insufficient evidence in disqualifying a discharged employee from receiving unemployment benefits. | <urn:uuid:ef4e10e9-2a16-4764-8dc5-0870b184fd9d> | 2013-05-27T02:54:53Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Jin Yinan: Russia’s development of offensive weapons to destroy the United States to build capacity
Chart: US-Russian strategic arms reduction treaty on Xinhua News Agency issued
U.S. anti-missile missile system being tested.
中广网 Beijing on January 7 news (reporter Li Yan) Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said recently that Russia needs to develop offensive weapons systems, in order to maintain and develop anti-missile system is the strategic balance between the United States. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said recently that nuclear weapons have the ability to protect Russia’s national interests, Russia will continue to research and development, including delivery vehicles, including new weapons systems, this issue, “a South Military Forum”, Professor Jin on the Putin said Russia needed to develop offensive weapons systems in order to maintain the strategic balance with the United States issued a unique insight.
worried that the U.S. anti-missile system Russia will break the strategic balance between the two countries
Reporter: Some analysts believe that Russia, U.S. will soon resume the reduction of offensive The new strategic arms treaty negotiations, Russia intends to continue to press the United States forced the United States in the final stages of negotiations to make concessions on this issue how did you see?
Jin Yinan: Russia, its large-scale offensive weapons development never stop, this is not a new problem. Of course, Putin moved today to new ideas where? He is new is that: The United States strongly enhance ballistic missile defense system in Europe, in such circumstances, Russia made a very strong representation. Russia’s meaning is: I must keep my nuclear deterrent, your anti-missile system is actually intended to reduce my nuclear deterrence, nuclear deterrence, then, after my lower bound on the formation of a unilateral deterrence, deterrence to me you can, I deter you ineffective, or effectiveness greatly reduced.
then in such circumstances, Russia should develop offensive weapons. I think Putin would have to add a footnote, that offensive weapons are not generally offensive weapons, is able to complete penetration, can break the missile defense system the United States offensive weapons.
Russia’s arsenal have a lot of offensive weapons, Russia has no shortage of offensive weapons, but he lacks what? Can effectively break the U.S. ballistic missile defense system that offensive weapons, referring to Putin and Medvedev are mainly of such weapons. Like Russia, the recent development of the Topol missile systems and submarine-launched Bulava system are such systems. Not only can carry multiple warheads, decoys and multiple warheads can be released, and multiple warheads to orbit maneuver, he used this method to complete penetration. Russia, thereby maintaining the United States, the European nuclear deterrent.
From this point of view, I think Russia’s so-called offensive weapons, that he is in the 21st century under the conditions of offensive weapons, the U.S. strategic missile defense system even if the establishment is good, even to complete basic case, Russia’s offensive weapons, that does not put your defense seriously, I was able to completely penetrate completely sure to protect Russia’s strategic deterrence, the relative balance between the two sides reached capacity.
this problem may be more confusing, the United States in the establishment of a defensive system, the Russian offensive in the establishment of the system. Seems to be anti-American, Russia is attacking. I think at this point there must be around a bend. Past the two sides are balanced, you can destroy me, I can destroy me. Now the U.S. is still able to destroy Russia, and Russia to destroy the United States have a big problem, because the United States now is to establish a relatively perfect system, ballistic missile defense system, the establishment of its shield.
just like a person, both the original sword, both sides are able to kill each other. Now the party is holding the shield, sword, shield the other is not only a sword. On this side say, I must be able to forge a sword piercing the shield of your sword, it is to enhance mutual deterrence. Russia’s surface is aggressive, in fact, what is? It is a deterrent to keep their system is not destroyed, he said, I can cut to be able to forge a broken shield your sword, this is what. The two sides finally reached to maintain such a balance, you do not dared to touch me, I do not dare to touch you.
Russia, U.S. reach a reduction of offensive strategic arms treaty is the inevitable choice, but it will not weaken the two sides have maintained mutual destruction of the motives and the will
Reporter: Do you think Russia, U.S. reach a reduction of strategic offensive arms treaty’s prospects how?
Jin Yinan: I think the next step the two sides within certain limits, to some extent to achieve this Treaty, from the interests of both parties is also essential, is an inevitable choice.
too many warheads the two sides, both sides of the vehicles too much, to both sides created a great burden. Warheads to be updated to update the means of delivery, to both sides of the economy, both in military spending have caused a great burden. The two sides be able to destroy each other many times there is no need, once is enough to destroy, destroy and destroy one hundred times the effect is the same. The two sides have burdens, it is the needs of both sides, so that under certain conditions, the two sides reach an agreement, both sides to reduce the number of warheads to reduce the number of vehicles is possible. But the two sides should maintain a complete deterrent to destroy each other, which is in the affirmative. Will not be reached because the strategic arms limitation treaty reduced to a few articles on the two sides have maintained mutual destruction of the motive and will. | <urn:uuid:20480873-71a3-47bb-9aff-9f2630b45857> | 2013-05-27T02:54:36Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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En español | Q. I'm turning 66 on July 1. I want to find out how much I can earn in the first six months of this year without losing any of my Social Security benefits.
A. Your question tells me you're worried about the impact the Social Security earnings limitation may have on your benefits in the final months before your important birthday. Well, there's some good news for you and some not-so-good news.
The good news is that on July 1, when you reach age 66, you'll no longer have to worry about the earnings limitation. It will disappear and thereafter you'll be able to earn as much as you want without any loss of benefits. The not-so-good news is that if you earn more than $40,080 in the first six months of this year, you'll lose some or even all of your benefits — but only temporarily.
As you may know, there are two parts to the earnings limitation, which applies to people who are between age 62 and full retirement age and receive Social Security benefits while continuing to work. Under the first part, which applies from age 62 until the end of the year before you reach full retirement age, Social Security will withhold $1 in benefits for every $2 you earn above an annual limit, $15,120 for 2013.
The second part of the earnings limitation comes into play for the year in which you reach full retirement age, applying to the months before the month of your birthday. In 2013, you'll be able to earn up to $40,080 in those months without penalty. But if you earn more than that, Social Security will withhold $1 in benefits for every $3 you go over the limit. Generally speaking, if your earnings in those months are likely to exceed the limit, you'll have given Social Security an estimate of the figure the year before. Based on that estimate, Social Security will pare your benefit in those final months.
Perhaps the best news is that after you reach full retirement age, Social Security will recalculate your benefits and give you credit for any benefits that were withheld because you earned more than the limit. Thus, your monthly payments will increase, generally starting in the year after you reach full retirement age.
It should be noted that Social Security has its own definition of the word "earnings" when it calculates benefit reductions. If you're self-employed, the agency will count only your net earnings from that self-employment. If you work for someone else, only your wages are counted. Equally important are things Social Security does not count as earnings. These include other government benefits, pensions, annuities and investment earnings.
For more information, see "How Work Affects Your Benefits."
Stan Hinden, a former columnist for The Washington Post, wrote How to Retire Happy: The 12 Most Important Decisions You Must Make Before You Retire. Have a question for the Social Security Mailbox? Check out the archive. If you don't find your answer there, send a query. | <urn:uuid:c6350159-599d-4202-bcbd-56c26235f748> | 2013-05-26T09:42:29Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Haneef's visa cancelled
Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews has announced that Indian doctor Mohammed Haneef has had his visa cancelled and will be taken into immigration detention.
Haneef was granted bail in the Brisbane Magistrates Court this morning after being charged on Saturday with recklessly providing resources to a terrorist organisation.
Mr Andrews says he has used his powers under the Migration Act to cancel Haneef's visa because he has failed the character test.
"In particular, a person fails the character test if - and I quote - 'the person has or has had an association with someone else or with a group or organisation whom the Minister reasonably suspects has been involved has been or is involved in criminal conduct'," he said.
Mr Andrews says Haneef will remain in immigration detention while the legal proceedings against him continue.
"In turning my mind to the information and advice provided to me by the Australian Federal Police, I have come to the conclusion, I reasonably suspect, that Doctor Haneef has or has had an association with persons involved in criminal conduct," he said.
"Dr Haneef will be detained by immigration authorities and relocated to the Villawood immigration detention centre as soon as arrangements can be made. In the meantime, he'll be held in immigration detention in Brisbane.
"The AFP will issue a criminal justice certificate the effect of which is that Dr Haneef will remain in immigration detention whilst the legal proceedings are on foot."
Greens Senator Kerry Nettle says Mr Andrews' decision has damaged Haneef's chance of getting a fair trial.
"It's throwing away the concept of somebody being innocent until proven guilty," she said.
"This decision by the Federal Government is tarnishing the reputation of a man who has not been found to be guilty by the courts."
Meanwhile, Queensland Premier Peter Beattie says there are now moves to suspend Haneef without pay.
Since his arrest two weeks ago, Haneef has been on special paid leave from his Gold Coast hospital job.
"Queensland Health protocol is that an employee charged with criminal offences are suspended without pay," Mr Beattie said.
"I'm advised that the department intends to follow that protocol in the case of Dr Haneef.
"He is to be issued with a notice to show cause as to why he should be suspended without pay." | <urn:uuid:99ec5b3e-34a8-4945-966d-f1cb79c79e5d> | 2013-05-26T09:36:33Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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A brief rundown of the series history between the Green Bay Packers and Minnesota Vikings, limited to Packers home games in Green Bay and Milwaukee.
Well, it's Wednesday again, and you know what that means. It is time for another Packers series history post. Today's post will detail Green Bay's history against the Minnesota Vikings, although I am limiting the scope of this post to Packers home games in Green Bay or Milwaukee. Here is how the other two parts will break down, and I will make these active links once I post them in the last week of the season.
Part 2: Games in Minnesota.
Part 3: General series overview.
At present, the Packers lead the series in Green Bay and Milwaukee by the margin of 28-22-1, but this does not include the only playoff game between the two teams in Green Bay, which was a Vikings victory.
Given that the Vikings entered the NFL in 1961 and did not truly become perennial contenders until the 1968 season, one might expect that the early years of this series were generally dominated by the Packers. To a small degree, this was the case. It did not last long. Although the Packers won the first four home games against the Vikings, as well as five of their first six home games over Minnesota, the 1965 win was extremely close when compared with the Packers blowout of the Vikings in Minnesota at the same time.
Even as the Lombardi years kept going, the Vikings established a winning streak over the Packers in Wisconsin beginning in 1966 (they were one of only two teams to beat the Packers that year). Minnesota won 11 of the next 12 in Green Bay or Milwaukee, turning the series into a Vikings romp both in Wisconsin as well as overall.
Then things got interesting. The 1978 game went into overtime, but no one could score. The game ended in a 10-10 tie, but Minnesota won the division due to their victory over the Packers in the Twin Cities that year.
Following this, the Packers, surprisingly enough, began picking up wins over the Vikings in Wisconsin. The Packers won nine of the next twelve games in Green Bay or Milwaukee, even while they fell into the NFL's basement. Most of these games were close, setting the stage for years of Packers-Vikings grudge matches in years to come.
The Vikings won three straight games in Wisconsin in the early 1990s. This includes Mike Holmgren's first game as Packers coach, a 23-20 home loss to the Vikings in Lambeau Field in overtime. Three games later, Brett Favre began his long streak of NFL starts, but the Vikings won in Milwaukee in 1993 in Favre's first home start against Minnesota.
At this point, the Packers went on a tear over the Vikings in Green Bay. They won eight of the next nine games in Green Bay over Minnesota, including three straight years when they scored 38 points on the Vikings (38-21 in 1995, 38-10 in 1996, and 38-32 in 1997). Offsetting this, however, was the 1998 game when the Vikings went into Lambeau Field and won 37-24, ending a 25-game Packers win streak at Lambeau Field. In 1999, the Packers stunned the Vikings with 11 seconds left and pulled out a 23-20 victory.
However, the 2000 game featured what may have been the most fantastic finish in this stretch. The Vikings consistently drove the ball but turned it over multiple times. Nearing the end of regulation, the teams were tied 20-20, but Minnesota was in field goal range. The snap, however, was bobbled, and the Minnesota holder attempted to throw a pass, which was intercepted, sending the game into overtime. In overtime, Favre launched a deep pass to Antonio Freeman, who fell down as the ball arrived. Chris Dishman appeared to knock the ball down, but it bounced on Freeman's shoulder and then landed in his hand as he lay on the ground. Realizing that the ball was still live, Freeman then grabbed the ball, got up, and raced into the end zone for the winning touchdown, prompting Al Michaels, who was calling the game, to blurt out "He did WHAT?" on the air.
The 2002 game was much closer than expected, and it took a frantic Green Bay comeback to pull out a 26-22 Packers win at Lambeau Field. The Packers' win streak over the Vikings ended with a thud in 2003 when the Vikings won the first game in the newly dedicated and expanded Lambeau Field. The Packers did win the 2004 game on a last-second field goal, but the Vikings did the same in Green Bay the following year. In 2006, the Packers again had to rely on a late field goal to beat Minnesota at Lambeau Field late in the season despite only 50 yards passing from Vikings quarterback Tarvaris Jackson.
In 2007, the Packers registered their first-ever shutout of the Vikings by beating them 34-0 at Lambeau Field. The following season, in Aaron Rodgers' first start as Packers quarterback, he beat the Vikings 24-19 in Green Bay. The Packers' defense, which would later become much-maligned that year, intercepted Jackson as time was running out, sealing the Packers win.
The 2009 and 2010 games had more ferocity to them than any other games between the Packers and Vikings. Former Packers quarterback Brett Favre had gone to Minnesota for the 2009 season, and in that season, he threw four touchdown passes in the game at Green Bay. The Packers fought back valiantly, but a 24-3 deficit early in the third quarter proved too much to overcome and the Vikings won 38-26 in Favre's first return to Green Bay. A year later, the teams traded scores. This time, however, Favre threw three interceptions, one of which was returned for a touchdown. Late in the fourth quarter, the Vikings still had a chance at the victory but Favre's fourth down pass sailed through the end zone and the Packers hung on to win 28-24, for Rodgers' first victory against Favre.
In 2011, the Packers' defense was lights-out, as was the Green Bay offense, and Green Bay steamrolled the Vikings 45-7 at Lambeau Field on a Monday Night game. This was the first of an eleven-day, three-game stretch and it set the tone for the other two games (Packers wins, including the third game which was in Detroit on Thanksgiving).
Unfortunately, for all the Packers' success at home against the Vikings, the only time the teams met in the playoffs, the Vikings went into Lambeau Field and beat the Packers 31-17. Favre did not help matters by throwing four interceptions. Randy Moss also got into trouble during a somewhat controversial touchdown celebration during this game.
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Tell me about your experiences at your high school. Is there a particular experience you had there that stands out?
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What might your teachers say is your greatest strength as a person and as a student, and what are your weaknesses in each area?
What has been the most important person or event in your own self-development?
What magazines and newspapers do you like to read?
What sort of things do you like to do outside of school?
What books or articles have you read in the last year that have had special meaning for you?
What do you want to do in the future?
If you had a time machine and could go back anytime and change history, what time period would you go to and what would you do?
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A lucid account of the Suffolk Bank system which operated in Massachusetts between 1825 and 1858. Dr Trivioli shows that during this period a free enterprise central bank and clearing system operated with great success, bringing stability to a stuation where competing banks issued their own notes.
Synopsis: In tracing the history of the leading ideas of the Social Market Economy in Germany to their various intellectual roots, Konrad Zweig offers some pertinent insights into the fundamentals of German economic thinking and policies, little known in the English–speaking world. In his foreword to this work, Professor Christian Watrin of the University of Cologne comments: "I see great merit in Dr. Konrad Zweig's essay in clarifying and describing the leading ideas of the German position to an English–speaking public. His paper shows a profound knowledge of the historical roots, but at the same time, his aim is to show the compatibility of a competitive market and social protection.
A report looking at the transport problems in the UK, and at one potential solution to it.
Michael Forsyth provides the solutions for the abject failure of public services in the late 1970s and early 1980s:
"Local authorities seeking to make cuts in expenditure and increase benefits to ratepayers must now undertake extensive privatization of their services. The best method is just to do it, to put out services for private contract. The arguments of theory against the success of such action melt away in the practical results gained wherever it is done.
The British people have come to expect that public services will become lower in quality and' more expensive to provide. This need not be so. Privatization has its part to play, therefore, not only in re–servicing Britain, but in helping to restore the country's faith in itself."
A critical analysis of Britain's planning system. Not much has changed positively in the years since 1982 making this report still relevant today. It also outlines solutions that would free up the planning system.
... to the economic and political thought of our time. This book, written by Dr Eamonn Butler, gives an introduction to the great Austrian economist and political philosopher Friedrich A. Hayek. The book covers the themes of Hayek's work, which consists more than 25 books and numerous articles. The topics include Hayek's understanding of the market process; his critique of socialism and the meaningless term of social justice, and Hayek's suggestions for the constitution of the liberal state.
An indepth look at the options available for the process of privatizing Britain's airports. Taking into considersation the present thinking (of the mid 1980s) surrounding privitization Dr Barrett outlines how it could be applied to airports and the benefits that it would bring. He also outlines how it could be improved with a variety of differing policy ideas.
What now appears to be a seminal publication on the road to welfare reform. Ralph Howell examines the welfare system of the mid 1980s, what the Beveridge Report didn't utilise and how the two could be combined to create an incentivized work force and a simplified benefits system. This publication foreshadows many of the summer 2008 announcements. | <urn:uuid:33b53c25-ceed-48ba-ac97-eda399ea609d> | 2013-05-26T09:39:07Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Global revenue in 2011 for residential water heating in high-efficiency homes was just under $1.5 billion, $1.1 billion of which was in the United States.
Advanced water heating for residential or commercial uses includes many options, ranging from more efficient conventional water heaters to those using renewable sources such as solar or biomass. This analysis examines only residential water heating as specifically used in high-efficiency homes, including efficient electric, natural gas, solar, and tankless water heaters. This does not include high-efficiency water heater units installed in residences other than those defined as high-efficiency homes, making this a very conservative view that understates the overall use of high-efficiency water heating in regions outside the United States.
Global revenue in 2011 for this slice of the Water Heating subsegment was just under $1.5 billion, $1.1 billion of which was in the United States. Although retrofits are included in this definition of high-efficiency homes, new construction is a key revenue driver; hence, the overall opportunity has been impacted by the recent housing recession. Despite this, revenue growth between 2011 and 2012 is estimated at just below 6%.
gross domestic product
The Water Heating subsegment contributed $1.2 billion in increased U.S. GDP in 2011.
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Today's homebuyer has more financing options than have ever been available before. From traditional mortgages to adjustable-rate and hybrid loans, there are financing packages designed to meet the needs of virtually anyone.
While the different choices may seem overwhelming at first, the overall goal is really quite simple: you want to find a loan that fits both your current financial situation and your future plans. Though this article discusses some of the more common loan types, you should spend time talking with different lenders before deciding on the right loan for your situation.
General categories of loans
Most loans fall into three major categories: fixed-rate, adjustable-rate, and hybrid loans that combine features of both.
- Fixed-rate mortgages
As the name implies, a fixed-rate mortgage carries the same interest rate for the life of the loan. Traditionally, fixed-rate mortgages have been the most popular choice among homeowners, because the fixed monthly payment is easy to plan and budget for, and can help protect against inflation. Fixed-rate mortgages are most common in 30-year and 15-year terms, but recently more lenders have begun offering 20-year and 40-year loans.
- Adjustable-rate mortgages (ARM)
Adjustable-rate mortgages differ from fixed-rate mortgages in that the interest rate and monthly payment can change over the life of the loan. This is because the interest rate for an ARM is tied to an index (such as Treasury Securities) that may rise or fall over time. In order to protect against dramatic increases in the rate, ARM loans usually have caps that limit the rate from rising above a certain amount between adjustments (i.e. no more than 2 percent a year), as well as a ceiling on how much the rate can go up during the life of the loan (i.e. no more than 6 percent). With these protections and low introductory rates, ARM loans have become the most widely accepted alternative to fixed-rate mortgages.
- Hybrid loans
Hybrid loans combine features of both fixed-rate and adjustable-rate mortgages. Typically, a hybrid loan may start with a fixed-rate for a certain length of time, and then later convert to an adjustable-rate mortgage. However, be sure to check with your lender and find out how much the rate may increase after the conversion, as some hybrid loans do not have interest rate caps for the first adjustment period.
Other hybrid loans may start with a fixed interest rate for several years, and then later change to another (usually higher) fixed interest rate for the remainder of the loan term. Lenders frequently charge a lower introductory interest rate for hybrid loans vs. a traditional fixed-rate mortgage, which makes hybrid loans attractive to homeowners who desire the stability of a fixed-rate, but only plan to stay in their properties for a short time.
A balloon payment refers to a loan that has a large, final payment due at the end of the loan. For example, there are currently fixed-rate loans which allow homeowners to make payments based on a 30-year loan, even though the entire balance of the loan may be due (the balloon payment) after 7 years. As with some hybrid loans, balloon loans may be attractive to homeowners who do not plan to stay in their house more than a short period of time.
Time as a factor in your loan choice
As has been discussed, the length of time you plan to own a property may have a strong influence on the type of loan you choose. For example, if you plan to stay in a home for 10 years or longer, a traditional fixed-rate mortgage may be your best bet. But if you plan on owning a home for a very short period (5 years or less), then the low introductory rate of an adjustable-rate mortgage may make the most financial sense. In general, ARMs have the lowest introductory interest rates, followed by hybrid loans, and then traditional fixed-rate mortgages.
FHA and VA loans
U.S. government loan programs such as those of the Federal Housing Authority (FHA) and Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) are designed to promote home ownership for people who might not otherwise be able to qualify for a conventional loan. Both FHA and VA loans have lower qualifying ratios than conventional loans, and often require smaller or no down payments.
Bear in mind, however, that FHA and VA loans are not issued by the government; rather, the loans are made by private lenders. FHA loans are insured to the actual lender and VA loans are guaranteed in case the borrower defaults. Remember too, that while any U.S. citizen may apply for a FHA loan, VA loans are only available to veterans or their spouses and certain government employees.
A conventional loan is simply a loan offered by a traditional private lender. They may be fixed-rate, adjustable, hybrid or other types. While conventional loans may be harder to qualify for than government-backed loans, they often require less paperwork and typically do not have a maximum allowable amount. | <urn:uuid:35817d08-42f8-49cd-b350-25a6623826cb> | 2013-05-27T02:54:50Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Q. I did a job for someone months ago, but they keep on pushing off writing me a check. What can I do?
A. The most common reader question to the Jewish Ethicist is how to deal with people who just don't pay debts, particularly debts to outside workers (consultants, professionals, etc.) Even so, I never dealt with the question since there is no real ethical dilemma -- everyone knows they are obliged to pay debts. Yet the question comes so many times that I decided I should explain the importance of this obligation.
Putting off paying debts when the ability exists is certainly a serious ethical lacuna. The book of Proverbs (3:28) tells us, "Don't say to your fellow, 'Go away, and come back later; I'll give you tomorrow' if you have with you [the means]." But this verse also applies to any kind of debt. (In fact, the commentators explain that anytime you have the ability to do someone a favor, it's demeaning to put them off needlessly.)
But debts to workers are particularly serious, and the Torah warns us about them in a number of places. "Don't oppress your fellow and don't steal; don't delay the wages of a worker until the morning" (Leviticus 19:13). "Don't withhold the wages of the poor and needy of your brethren or the sojourner in your land in your gates. On his day give his wage, and let not the sun set on it; for he is poor, and he sets his soul on it. Lest he call on you to God and it will be to you a sin" (Deuteronomy 24:14-15).
We see that the Torah even gives the reason for the special status of wages: "For he is poor, and he sets his soul on it." What is the meaning of "setting his soul" on his wages?
The Talmud's first explanation explains that this refers to the fact that many jobs taken by poor people are dangerous, and the workman is literally risking his life. (This reminds me of the scene in Cinderella Man where the promoter warns Braddock that fighting Max Baer is truly dangerous. Braddock points out that the average working stiff also risks his life, on the building scaffold and so on.)
The second explanation is: "Anyone who withholds the wages of a worker, it's as if he takes his soul". (1) Here is one way of understanding this: When a worker provides services in return for agreed-upon recompense there is a free exchange among equals. But when no payment is forthcoming, it as if he has been enslaved. From this point of view, withholding wages is more serious than holding off on other debts just as enslaving someone is a more serious offense than robbing them.
Virtually everyone has been in a position where others owe him money, just as virtually everyone has been in a position where he hasn't managed to pay back all his debts on time. But the Torah views debts for workers' wages as especially serious, and we should give these debts special priority.
SOURCES: (1) Babylonian Talmud Bava Metzia 112a.
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Whether he wins or loses his run for vice president in November 2000, Joe Lieberman has ushered in a new era in American Jewish life.
For years, the conventional wisdom was that to get ahead in secular society, you had to tone down your Jewishness.
But Lieberman has changed all that. As an orthodox Jew, he observes Shabbat, eats kosher, and prays three times a day. He's proven that you can reach the pinnacle of secular society without compromising your Jewishness one bit.
And that's only half the story.
The real eye-opener is that Lieberman's selection was not "in spite" of his Jewish observance. Rather he was chosen precisely because of it.
Al Gore needed an icon of moral stature in order to distance himself from the scandal-ridden Clinton administration.
And the best man for the job was the orthodox Jew.
Lieberman is popularly known as "the moral conscience of the Senate." He was the first Democrat gutsy enough to stand up on the Senate floor and rebuke Clinton for his adulterous affair with Monica Lewinsky.
This type of integrity -- doing the right thing even at personal cost -- is what Jewish observance is supposed to be all about.
Lieberman has the personal conviction to do what's right, regardless of whether it's politically correct.
The first Jew, Abraham, preached monotheism at a time when the entire world was steeped in idolatry. Having endured all types of mockery and persecution, he earned the moniker Avraham Ha-Ivri -- Abraham the Hebrew. Ha-Ivri means "the one who stands on the other side" -- while the entire world stood on one side, Abraham stood firmly on the other.
Lieberman's appeal is that he has the personal conviction to do what's right, regardless of whether it's politically correct. Senate colleagues report of meetings where they pleaded with Lieberman to change his position. Not only did Lieberman stand by what he believed in, colleagues say, but he did so with such conviction and belief that the others felt no anger, only respect.
As Lieberman himself said on "Larry King Live": "Sometimes you've got to speak the truth to your friends, and ask them to draw a line, and say, 'Okay, maybe we can make a few more dollars going over this line, but it's not worth it, because it's not good for our country and for our kids.'"
The novelty of an orthodox Jew holding high public office is not new to history. Daniel was an advisor to Babylonia ruler Nebuchadnezer. Mordechai, of the Purim story, served as Prime Minister to Achashverosh. Maimonides was the royal physician to the Sultan of Egypt. And Don Yitzhak Abravanel, the rabbinic leader of Spanish Jewry prior to the Inquisition, was the finance minister to King Ferdinand.
There is something eminently trustworthy about a man who considers the Almighty -- and not himself -- to be the highest power. This theme is first introduced in the book of Genesis, chapter 41:
- The Egyptian Pharaoh calls for Joseph and says: "I hear that you are able to interpret dreams."
"No," replies Joseph. "I cannot claim any independent ability. All my power comes from God."
Pharaoh demurs: "Because you are a man of God, that's why I am selecting you to be my second-in-command."
There is something trustworthy about a man who considers the Almighty -- and not himself -- to be the highest power.
Lieberman, like his Biblical namesake Joseph, has risen to greatness precisely because he raises God above himself. When he first ran for senator in 1988, he missed his own nominating convention because it was held on Saturday. Lieberman says that non-Jews throughout Connecticut would say to him: "I respect you for putting something above political success... [and that's] why I'm going to vote for you." Lieberman's margin of victory in the general election was less than 1 percent. He says: "Who's to say whether it wasn't the fact that I didn't go to my convention on Shabbat that gave me the margin of victory?!"
Stories like this can also occur in everyday life. A man recently told me the following:
- I had been working for several months trying to put an important business deal together -- a million-dollar service contract for my company. Finally the big day came to sign the papers. The client, my investors, the lawyers, everyone was there. We spent the entire day hammering out the final details.
Then I looked up at the clock. It was one hour until sundown on Friday afternoon. I had no choice. I stood up, and began to assemble my papers into my briefcase. "What are you doing!" everyone shouted. "We're not finished yet!"
"I'm sorry," I replied. "I've got to go home for Shabbat."
The lawyers were livid. I was certain that I'd blown the deal.
I arrived back at work Monday morning at 9 a.m., and the phone rang. It was the client. "We want to come over and sign the papers right now," he said. "I was impressed on Friday with your strength of conviction. That's the type of person I want to do business with."
As the verse says: "All the nations will see the Name of God upon you, and they will be in awe" (Deut. 28:10).
NEW JEWISH DYNAMIC
A century ago, the Jewish philosopher-poet Yehudah Leib Gordon admonished: "Be a Jew in your house, and a regular person outside." In other words, keep your Jewish practice a private affair, and when interacting with the rest of the world, relegate your Jewish identity to the back burner. Or better yet, hide it altogether.
Lieberman's legacy is not to be afraid. He publicly articulates the practical and spiritual benefits of observing mitzvot -- and how that brings foundation, order and purpose to one's life. As he told Larry King: "I can see thousands of households across the fruited plain, spending an uninterrupted weekend day of quality family time, with no phones, television, or internet to distract them."
Lieberman's legacy is that we shouldn’t be afraid and hide our Jewishness.
Today, with assimilation threatening American Jewry, this image of how Torah values and Western success can go hand-in-hand is needed more than ever. The morning his nomination was announced, the media ran a photo of him walking with his family to the synagogue on Shabbat. How refreshing to have a leader who for 24 hours each week is actually thinking about God and not politics. Who is actually fulfilling family values, not just talking about them.
In the end, Judaism is what Jews do best. We may achieve success in science, finance and the arts -- but fulfilling our role as "Light Unto the Nations" is the essential Jewish mission. Sandy Koufax is in the Baseball Hall of Fame because he was a great pitcher. But what he is remembered for most of all is refusing to play on Yom Kippur.
When a Jew stands up and says that "faith in God is the primary value," that creates a Kiddush Hashem, a sanctification of God's name.
Of course Lieberman is not perfect, and we should be wary of putting any human being on a pedestal. There are unanswered questions about some of Lieberman's views which seem to counter the Torah perspective -- on late-term abortion, or his spurious comment on the permissibility of intermarriage.
But regardless of whether or not Lieberman wins the election, and regardless of what shade of Judaism he practices, I think we need to keep our eye on the big picture. And that is: With the publicity surrounding Lieberman, there is an unparalleled window of opportunity during these next few months to instill Jewish pride and to communicate the Jewish message to millions of Jews and non-Jews alike.
When an in-depth article on the laws of Shabbat appears on CNN.com, it underscores the heightened interest in exactly "what is Torah Judaism?" When was the last time a Vice Presidential candidate wore Tefillin? And when Lieberman walks into his Sukkah next month, every Jew in America will get an education about the Sukkah.
Certainly we have every right to question Lieberman's politics. But he is running for Vice-President, not Chief Rabbi, and I think that nit-picking his observance is misdirected energy.
Overall, the fact that Lieberman identifies with the core tenets of Torah law fits him squarely in the camp of those trying to strengthen the Jewish message, not making it worse. So let's keep it positive, with eyes wide open. | <urn:uuid:9b58be97-5593-45dc-8f00-e32789de13ca> | 2013-05-26T09:42:06Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Miss Manners defines casual as "the state of not giving a hoot." In this, as in most other areas, I have to agree with her. Many corporations, having experimented with casual attire, have returned to a more formal style of dress. We just take our work more seriously when we're not wearing T-shirts and cut-offs. I found it very useful to "dress up" for exams in college. My mind was sharper and more focused. Our choice of clothing clearly affects our mood and attitude.
Outside of our workplace or our educational environment, there is somewhere else where "casual" can be destructive, the very place where we (mistakenly) think casual should reign -- our homes.
It is not that the relationship between husband and wife should be treated with excessive formality; rather that it should be treated with excessive dignity and attention. Rabbi Avigdor Miller, zt"l, used to say, "Who should be beautiful if not the Jewish woman?" Who else can sanctify the Almighty's name through her relationship with her husband? Who else does the world turn to for an example of a peaceful and successful home? Who else recognizes that her first responsibility is to her marriage? Who else is focused on and to determined to make her marriage great?
Dressing to look attractive for your husband should be a priority.
Casual has no place in a Jewish home. Casual is not an attitude for a Jewish woman. This applies to women who work outside the home and women who work inside the home. And women who do both. Women with numerous graduate degrees and high school dropouts. Women with many small children and empty-nesters. Dressing to look attractive for your husband should be a priority.
In a recent women's magazine, the editor wrote about how much the staff liked dressing up for each other. It wasn't a fashion magazine so the pronouncement was interesting for a few reasons. These bright, sophisticated women weren't afraid to acknowledge their preoccupation with their clothing. Yet instead of dressing for their spouses, they were dressing for their girlfriends, or their colleagues at work. It's not that they didn't care about their clothing; they weren't in any way casual about it. But they were searching for approval from the wrong source.
This is a well-known, whispered piece of wisdom about women: most women dress for other women. They're the ones that notice the subtle nuances of our style, our clever accessorizing, our trend-setting new look. But it is our husbands to whom we want to appeal. Even if we've worn that outfit three times before and they ask, "Is that new?", it's their appreciation that counts, not their fashion sense.
As anyone who has teenagers knows, their idea of what looks good may differ dramatically from our own. "Why did you give away that outfit we love and keep that awful dress?" moaned my daughters. But they already knew the answer. (No, it wasn't that I just have bad taste.) Their father disliked the outfit and liked the dress. And while I enjoy compliments from my girlfriends (who doesn't?) and looks of approval from my daughters (their rarity makes them an eagerly sought-after commodity!), it is his opinion that matters most.
Yes, it can be burdensome to feel compelled to dress up at home, to look nice when you want to lie around the house. But is that business deal more important than our marriage? Does that client's opinion carry more weight? Can our best friends never see us without make-up and our husbands never see us with it?
My kids might interject that I talk a good show. I've been known to indulge in casual attire at home, not always treating my marriage with the same attention as those long ago exams. But I know it's a mistake. And it doesn't always require a major effort. We don't need to change into "power" suits (my husband says I look like a linebacker in them anyway!) but how about putting on a little lipstick? Changing the shirt with the large stain down the front? Staying out of pajamas until it's actually bedtime? We will be teaching our children an invaluable lesson about the importance of marriage. And although we won't get any public accolades, we'll certainly receive many deeper benefits and pleasures. Because we don't really have a casual attitude towards our marriages. We really do give a hoot. | <urn:uuid:57be3349-7fa0-4eeb-8751-d36ffd0a30a5> | 2013-05-26T09:34:52Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Five years ago, I read in the Toronto Star issue of July 3, 1990 an article titled "Islam is not alone in patriarchal doctrines", by Gwynne Dyer. The article described the furious reactions of the participants of a conference on women and power held in Montreal to the comments of the famous Egyptian feminist Dr. Nawal Saadawi.
Her "politically incorrect" statements included: "the most restrictive elements towards women can be found first in Judaism in the Old Testament then in Christianity and then in the Qur’an"; "all religions are patriarchal because they stem from patriarchal societies"; and "veiling of women is not a specifically Islamic practice but an ancient cultural heritage with analogies in sister religions".
The participants could not bear sitting around while their faiths were being equated with Islam. Thus, Dr. Saadawi received a barrage of criticism. "Dr. Saadawi's comments are unacceptable. Her answers reveal a lack of understanding about other people's faiths," declared Bernice Dubois of the World Movement of Mothers. "I must protest" said panellist Alice Shalvi of Israel women's network, "there is no conception of the veil in Judaism."
The article attributed these furious protests to the strong tendency in the West to scapegoat Islam for practices that are just as much a part of the West's own cultural heritage. "Christian and Jewish feminists were not going to sit around being discussed in the same category as those wicked Muslims," wrote Gwynne Dyer.
I was not surprised that the conference participants had held such a negative view of Islam, especially when women's issues were involved. In the West, Islam is believed to be the symbol of the subordination of women par excellence. In order to understand how firm this belief is, it is enough to mention that the Minister of Education in France, the land of Voltaire, has recently ordered the expulsion of all young Muslim women wearing the veil from French schools!
A young Muslim student wearing a headscarf is denied her right of education in France, while a Catholic student wearing a cross or a Jewish student wearing a skullcap is not. The scene of French policemen preventing young Muslim women wearing headscarves from entering their high school is unforgettable. It inspires the memories of another equally disgraceful scene of Governor George Wallace of Alabama in 1962 standing in front of a school gate trying to block the entrance of black students in order to prevent the desegregation of Alabama's schools.
The difference between the two scenes is that the black students had the sympathy of so many people in the U.S. and in the whole world. President Kennedy sent the U.S. National Guard to force the entry of the black students. The Muslim girls, on the other hand, received no help from any one. Their cause seems to have very little sympathy either inside or outside France. The reason is the widespread misunderstanding and fear of anything Islamic in the world today. What intrigued me the most about the Montreal conference was one question: Were the statements made by Saadawi, or any of her critics, factual?
In other words, do Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have the same conception of women? Are they different in their conceptions? Do Judaism and Christianity, truly, offer women a better treatment than Islam does? What is the Truth?
It is not easy to search for and find answers to these difficult questions. The first difficulty is that one has to be fair and objective or, at least, do one's utmost to be so. This is what Islam teaches. The Qur’an has instructed Muslims to say the truth even if those who are very close to them do not like it:
"Whenever you speak, speak justly, even if a near relative is concerned" (6:152)
"O you who believe stand out firmly for justice, as witnesses to Allah, even as against yourselves, or your parents or your kin, and whether it be (against) rich or poor" (4:135).
The other great difficulty is the overwhelming breadth of the subject. Therefore, during the last few years, I have spent many hours reading the Bible, The Encyclopaedia of Religion, and the Encyclopaedia Judaica searching for answers. I have also read several books discussing the position of women in different religions written by scholars, apologists, and critics. The material presented in the following chapters represents the important findings of this humble research. I don't claim to be absolutely objective.
This is beyond my limited capacity. All I can say is that I have been trying, throughout this research, to approach the Qur’anic ideal of "speaking justly". I would like to emphasize in this introduction that my purpose for this study is not to denigrate Judaism or Christianity. As Muslims, we believe in the divine origins of both. No one can be a Muslim without believing in Moses and Jesus as great prophets of God.
My goal is only to vindicate Islam and pay a tribute, long overdue in the West, to the final truthful Message from God to the human race. I would also like to emphasize that I concerned myself only with Doctrine.
That is, my concern is, mainly, the position of women in the three religions as it appears in their original sources not as practised by their millions of followers in the world today. Therefore, most of the evidence cited comes from the Qur’an, the sayings of Prophet Muhammad (S), the Bible, the Talmud, and the sayings of some of the most influential Church Fathers whose views have contributed immeasurably to defining and shaping Christianity. This interest in the sources relates to the fact that understanding a certain religion from the attitudes and the behaviour of some of its nominal followers is misleading. Many people confuse culture with religion, many others do not know what their religious books are saying, and many others do not even care.
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