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Videos: Why aren’t they using YouTube, Metacafe, Revver or some other online video service to play videos? Not only will videos play much better, they can reach a much larger audience and capture people to visit their blog. Windows Media just isn’t a great way for your audience to watch it.
Header Image: Although I like the image, it seems too generic. They should include a photo montage of the American flag, a picture of an airport (or security screening) and include official branding on it. In addition, linking the header image to the main blog page is apropos as it can function as a part of the navigation, subconsciously.
Blogging Activity: Overall, I appreciate the candid nature of the bloggers there. They seem to be doing a pretty darn good job embracing their diverse audience and have been answering questions from the comments. However, I suggest they break big posts up into chunks and post them with full details on each point. This is mainly because not a lot of people have enough passion to read a full blog entry, they just focus on the finer, important points of it. Aside from that, I hope they keep it up!
Additionally, I think it’s a good move by the government to embrace social media. I believe that other departments of the government could actually benefit from a blog, not just the TSA.
What other functions should the government be blogging about? Share your thoughts (or disagreements) in the comments.
Originally known as the Lyran Commonwealth, House Steiner’s Lyran Alliance is widely recognized as a nation of merchants and industrialists first, and warriors a distant second. Settled and dominated by predominantly Germanic and Scottish cultures, and ruled by the Steiner family through a combination of political intrigue and brute economic force, the Lyran state is united in the pursuit of status and wealth.
Often on the defensive in the Succession Wars, House Steiner’s peace initiatives sparked the creation of the Federated Commonwealth, but when the Clans invaded, the Lyran half of that alliance suffered the bulk of their assault. The strain of this event and others led to the sundering of the Federated Commonwealth, the birth of the Lyran Alliance, and the eruption of the FedCom Civil War. In the wake of that conflict, the battered Alliance hoped to reclaim its lost glories under a new Archon, only to see the start of the Word of Blake Jihad firsthand with a surprise assault on their own capital world of Tharkad.
Like the Federated Suns, the Lyran state enjoys an open market economy that boasts centuries of stability and success, boosted by the presence of some of the Inner Sphere’s most industrialized worlds. Although the reforms of the Federated Commonwealth era improved Lyran martial prowess, the influence of the socalled “social generals” and widespread confidence in “bigger equals better” firepower has returned House Steiner’s realm to a time when it was widely seen as militarily inept. Indeed, the Lyran solution to most problems is typically negotiation, barter, or covert action—but with their resources and wealth, the armies of House Steiner can often field heavier and more numerous forces than their enemies, producing a virtual wall of steel against an enemy advance.
During the long history of House Steiner many interesting and unique individuals have made the Lyran Alliance what it is today. Below are just a few of the movers and shakers who have had an influence on the Alliance’s character.
Not many Inner Sphere rulers can boast that they were once the subject of an animated propaganda vid series, but Adam Steiner is certainly amongst their number. First rising to prominence during the early days of the Clan invasion, Adam hails from a distant branch of the Steiner dynasty and called the far-off world of Somerset home. After his successes in the war, he steadily rose through the ranks until he was appointed General of the Armies just before the outbreak of the Word of Blake Jihad.
Those who would dismiss Melissa Steiner-Davion as nothing more than a political pawn in the alliance between the Commonwealth and the Federated Suns don’t know her very well. Though her marriage to First Prince Hanse Davion began as a political alliance, it quickly became just as much a union of love as dynastic maneuvering. Already beloved by her own Lyran people as the only child of Archon Katrina, Melissa soon endeared herself to the people of the Federated Suns as well and often functioned as a compassionate leavening to her husband’s plans.
Melissa gave birth to five children who would grow up to have major impact on the Inner Sphere: Victor, Katherine, Peter, Arthur and Yvonne. Tragically, Melissa fell victim to her own daughter Katherine’s ambitions and died by an assassin’s hand.
Seizing the throne from her unpopular uncle Alessandro, Katrina Steiner set out to strengthen the Lyran nation by any means necessary. Her 3022 Peace Proposal set the stage for the marriage of her daughter Melissa and the Federated Suns’ Hanse Davion, which in turn led to the Fourth Succession War. As a result of this war, her economically powerful realm became joined to the military might of the Davions and the Federated Commonwealth reshaped the map.
Katrina never remarried after the death of her beloved husband in 3010 and, tired of war and suffering from cancer, she retired just before the 3039 conflict with the Draconis Combine to spend time with her grandchildren. She died peacefully in her sleep a year later, one of the most beloved Archons to ever reign over the Lyran people.
Archon Viola inherited the throne from her mother Tracial just in time to sign the Star League Accords and bring her nation into the new alliance. Though she had enjoyed a promising career in the LCAF, Viola found herself initially opposed to war on the Periphery States, only gradually coming around to see the benefits of the conflict. Once the war began, she took direct command of her troops and personally led them against Rim Worlds Republic forces. Unfortunately, her long absences from Tharkad led to political instability in her realm and her heavy-handed methods of dealing with the issue caused much resentment among the people and her own family. Viola died in the field on the Republic capital world of Apollo, exposing herself to the same risks she asked of every one of her soldiers.
The strength of a nation can be measured in the quality of its military and the men and women of the Lyran Alliance Armed Forces are one of House Steiner’s most important assets. Below are just a few of the iconic units that have defended the Alliance from its enemies for centuries.
The Lyran Guards are the heart of the Steiner military. The best of the best were handselected for this elite group of units, and only the best commanders were allowed to take them to battle. Only those loyal to the state could hope to find a place in their ranks. Unfortunately for the Alliance, the Guards have seen more battles than they could take.
The Donegal Guards, like no other arm of the Steiner military, stand for loyalty to the Archon. So when the FedCom Civil War began, they all sided with Katherine Steiner- Davion—and paid dearly. The Jihad began before they were able to finish rebuilding efforts, and the Donegal Guards found themselves in the middle of war again.
The Seventh Donegal took part in the very successful attack on Coventry to liberate the world from the Word of Blake. The campaign ended in only four days, and the Guards took minor casualties. Since that time, they have guarded the world in anticipation of further attacks by the Word.
The Arcturan Guards have a proud history, and they are as old as the Lyran Commonwealth itself. Founded when Arcturus was still was the capital of the Lyran Commonwealth, the Guards fought in almost every major campaign in which the Commonwealth was ever involved.
The Twentieth Arcturan was heavily involved in the offensive that finally liberated Tharkad. The campaign was successful, Tharkad was free again, and the Twentieth sent to Atocongo to rest and regenerate. Unfortunately for them, the Word of Blake was out for revenge and sent a Shadow Division after them. When the Fiftieth Shadow retreated, the Twentieth were all but wiped out, with more than seventy-five percent losses in equipment and more than half of the men dead.
To support its policies and goals, the Lyran Alliance relies on a network of corporations to manufacture everything from consumer goods to computer equipment to military hardware. Below are just a few of the industrial leaders that create the infrastructure of Lyran society.
Defiance finds itself in a situation it has never had to deal with: rebuilding. Attacks on Hesperus II have damaged parts of the massive complex of factories there, even shutting down entire lines, but never has it been under enemy control. The liberation of Hesperus resulted in immense damage, and spoiler attacks by the fleeing Blakist forces only exacerbated the situation, levying an economic toll. The biggest question about Defiance’s long-term prospects is a question of ownership. While the Brewers will undoubtedly be in charge, the fluctuation in stock prices might change the makeup of the board and the various alliances that keep Defiance going.
No other major corporation in the Alliance has as many questions as Coventry Metal Works. Formerly the number two producer of BattleMechs in the Alliance, they felt sure they would emerge from the shadow of Defiance Industries when the Blakists conquered Hesperus II . However, perhaps their advertising campaign celebrating their new status as “Number One” should have been rethought, as karma brought them to the reality of the Jihad when Blakist forces invaded Coventry. While other companies limped along, CMW saw their headquarters turn into a Blakist staging area, their lines producing ’Mechs for an enemy that occupied their facility, while their cash reserves evaporated since they had no other facilities to provide cash flow.
Ask a Lyran soldier what the biggest company in the Lyran Alliance is and he’d probably guess Defiance. He’d be wrong, by a long shot. Nashan is to Defiance what the Lyran Alliance is to the Marian Hegemony. With a multitude of divisions, this conglomerate has their fingers in almost every industry. The recent occupation of Lyran planets by foreign armies has impacted their sales somewhat, as has cutting off certain markets, but Nashan has managed to ride out the troubled times better than most other companies. CEO Margaret Doons has moved resources around and pumped cash into other ventures, and her company’s stock price has actually increased.
What happens to the Peter McNulty Cup? I hope it is not "abandoned". He would deserve better than that.
Heard Laois Under 20s beat a Dublin team on Saturday. Anybody know anything about it?
Heard wrong, both teams beaten well. Both teams meaning the team in first half and the different team in the second half.
Comerfords are sticking with hurling. Leaving cert is affecting panel too. Saunders is a huge loss.
I'm not sure what thread to post this in but commiserations to Knockbeg College today.
Wonderful year and well done to all involved.
Similarly, congratulations to Scoil Chriost Ri for winning the All Ireland A Final today. Serious achievement!
Pat Critchley is some man.
Under 20s playing a challenge game tomorrow night.
Who are they playing Pro? Wheres it on?
Offaly in Crettyard. Don't know time.
This blonde beauty certainly knows how to be her number one seller! They have already been seen at numerous fashion events like the Givenchy show in New York, where they mingled with Vogue editor-in-chief (and possible wedding guest? But this blonde bride-to-be is no stranger to being paired with successful men.
It’s in the details of 100,000 moments.
What made you happy in the past 24 hours?
Researchers asked 10,000 people this question. More specifically, the collaboration between the University of Tokyo, MIT, and Recruit Institute of Technology asked participants on Mechanical Turk to list 10 happy moments. This generated a corpus of 100,000 happy moments called HappyDB.
With how things are these days, I was happy to read over and analyze such a happy dataset.
Using (basic) natural language processing, I parsed out the main subject, verb, and object of each happy moment. My parser isn’t perfect. Only individual words are categorized rather than phrases, it only uses the first sentence in multi-sentence statements, and it tended to have difficulties with incomplete sentences.
Nevertheless, it seemed to do enough to extract patterns in all these moments. I started with a straightforward look at the most used subjects, verbs, and objects.
Read over the separate parts, and you get a rough idea of what these happy moments are about. As you might expect, the main subject was I in most — a bit over half — of the moments. This covers things like “I bought a new car” and “I had a good dinner”. The remaining half uses subjects that are people or things.
The separated verbs and objects provide a similarly rough idea of what makes people happy. Verbs like got, bought, and ate are easy to associate with happy times, as are objects like time, dinner, and money.
In addition to the happy moments, the dataset also provides a predicted category for each. The researchers note that the estimates are rough, but in my scans, they appear to be a decent baseline and are interesting enough to look at more closely.
With sentences parsed into subject, verb, and object, along with predicted categories as a supplement, I explored the most common types of happy moments for different subjects. After all, moments with the self must be different from moments with a significant other or a stranger. Right?
In the charts below, I break it down for the most common subjects, such as I, we, and friend. Follow the path for the most common verbs for a subject. Then take another step for the most common objects.
I randomly selected examples for each subject-verb-object path, which are really the best part of all of this.
Happy moments with the subject I span the widest range of verbs and objects. The category distribution looks a lot like the overall percentages. In the most used verbs, there appears to be a focus on achievement such as getting a new job, finishing a project, or making a delicious dinner.
The we happy moments look similar to the I happy moments. This shouldn’t surprise since the participants are still talking about themselves.
In contrast, happy moments with friend (or the plural), take on a different dynamic, because they’re about others doing something for the participant or sharing in the joy of others.
The husband and wife happy moments are similar to the friend ones, but with the added sprinkle of affection. After the overarching work-related moments, togetherness and one being there for the other lead. The boyfriend and girlfriend moments look similar.
A child’s happiness is a parent’s happiness.
Going into full work mode, the boss enters the picture. Praise and a compliment go a long way.
People love sports, whether it be playing or watching, and they especially enjoy winning. As they say, “Winning cures everything.” This dataset does not cover losing teams.
I really like the someone happy moments. With many of them, it’s about random acts of kindness that are often small and seemingly unnoticed.
The HappyDB corpus comes from Akari Asai, Sara Evensen, Behzad Golshan, Alon Halevy, Vivian Li, Andrei Lopatenko, Daniela Stepanov, Yoshihiko Suhara, Wang-Chiew Tan, Yinzhan Xu. You can find more details on processing on the site and on GitHub.
After some poking, I filtered down to moments from the United States. All the moments are in English, but many foreign moments were difficult to decipher. Some seemed spammy. For example, one moment was a copy and paste of a short story.
I used the Natural Language Toolkit in Python and the Stanford Dependency Parser to identify parts of speech.
I drew the charts in R with one-off scripts.
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ABC Russian: How to say "I'm sorry" in Russian?
How to say "I'm sorry" in Russian?
You can use both in a range of situations, from such light offenses as bumping into someone to something graver, such as spoiling a surprise.
If you are interrupting someone with a question, as when you ask for directions, it is only polite to start with извините.
If you are saying this to a person with whom you would use an informal ты (informal you), you would say прости or извини.
Now, just because the title says 5 days in Rome, that doesn’t mean … this post is in fact just part 2 of day 3. But you weren’t thinking that, of course.
After the Catacombs of St. Callixtus on the Appian Way, we headed out to the Basilica di San Paolo fuori le Mura (St. Paul outside the Walls), one of the major papal basilicas in Rome.
It is also here we would celebrate our second mass on pilgrimage. Msgr. Dreiling was still in the hospital, and the musicians from OLPH in Fresno CA came prepared, under the direction of Ruben Cabatic. They livened up the liturgy indeed.
Notable at St. Paul’s are the mosaic portraits of all 266 bishops of Rome … and says Eleonora our city guide, “There have never been two living popes, so it is more than unusual to have both Papa Francesco and Papa Ratzi up there at the same time.” I didn’t think that was so unusual at all. I think she meant she hadn’t ever seen it in her lifetime.
Then in the evening, dinner at La Vittoria with Lois, Marta & Jim. Here are some of the dishes we enjoyed … unless we enjoyed it first, so I didn’t remember to take a pic.
CLUB NIGHT – Friday 11th July.
This Friday, July 11th , we have as our guest artists the Celtic band The Jimmies – a long established band, polished and talented.
Presenting Irish and Scottish songs – plus you are likely to hear a little bit of country, rock and roll standards from the 60s and 70s and Kiwi songs, old and new.
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Barn and byres adjoining Pinquay's. Dated 1756 with late C18 or early C19 extension. Red sandstone random rubble; sandstone slate roof. Lower 2-storey buildings to right of former farmhouse in U-shape, enclosing farmyard on 3 sides. Top-glazed panelled door in recessed painted stone architrave, nearest house; outer rusticated surround with keyed round arch. 2-pane sash window in painted stone surround to right. Projecting cart entrance to right with plank doors. Right-angle barn/byres has plank doors, one with dated lintel; slit vents and loft entrances above. Further right-angle byre, completing the U-shape, of similar details. Barns to rear are of no interest.
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