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Obama Promotes Afghanistan Strategy to NATO Allies
President Obama met Friday with NATO allies in France to rally support for his new strategy in Afghanistan. Margaret Warner reports on the two-day summit of 26 leaders from NATO countries.
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JUDY WOODRUFF: Meanwhile, President Obama and other NATO leaders convened a summit today in France. The president also engaged in a kind of goodwill campaign to win over hearts and minds in Europe.
Ray Suarez has our report.
U.S. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: Good afternoon. Bon apres-midi and guten tag.
RAY SUAREZ: The president brought the air of an American political campaign to the banks of the Rhine in eastern France. He and First Lady Michelle Obama arrived to a thunderous reception at a town hall meeting in Strasbourg.
The Alsatian border city is hosting the 60th anniversary meetings of NATO, the transatlantic alliance.
BARACK OBAMA: I've come to Europe this week to renew our partnership.
RAY SUAREZ: The audience -- mostly French and German citizens -- listened as Mr. Obama bluntly assessed Euro-American relations, frayed by the Iraq war and a kind of mutual contempt.
In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world. But in Europe, there is an anti-Americanism that is at once casual, but can also be insidious.
On both sides of the Atlantic, these attitudes have become all too common. So let me say this as clearly as I can: America is changing, but it cannot be America alone that changes.
RAY SUAREZ: The president pressed the crowd to support the American-led war in Afghanistan. That war, now in its eighth year, is a NATO effort. The U.S. is adding another 20,000 troops to the fight this year.
BARACK OBAMA: So I understand that there's doubt about this war in Europe. There's doubt at times even in the United States. But...
... this is a mission that tests whether nations can come together in common purpose on behalf of our common security.
RAY SUAREZ: Amid all the grave talk, there were also moments of levity, as when the president opened the floor to questions.
QUESTIONER: And first of all, I wanted to tell you that your name in Hungarian means "peach," if you...
BARACK OBAMA: Oh, OK. Well, how about that? I did not know that.
Appeal for unity
RAY SUAREZ: But Mr. Obama also used the questions to repeat his appeal for unity, especially in the face of terrorism.
BARACK OBAMA: And I think that it is important for Europe to understand that, even though I'm now president and George Bush is no longer president, al-Qaida is still a threat and that we cannot pretend somehow that, because Barack Hussein Obama got elected as president, suddenly everything's going to be OK.
RAY SUAREZ: Earlier, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife, Carla, received the Obamas at the Palais Rohan in Strasbourg. The president said France has shown its commitment to NATO in Afghanistan.
BARACK OBAMA: I've not had to drag France kicking and screaming into Afghanistan, because France recognizes that having al-Qaida operate safe havens that can be used to launch attacks is a threat not just to the United States, but to Europe.
NICOLAS SARKOZY, president of France (through translator): We totally endorse and support America's new strategy in Afghanistan. We are prepared to do more in terms of police, of the Gendarmes, the military police, in terms of economic aid, in order to train Afghans and Afghanize Afghanistan. We are not waging a war against Afghanistan; we are helping Afghanistan rebuild.
RAY SUAREZ: Sarkozy also said France would take in an Algerian detainee from Guantanamo Bay. The announcement was a response to Mr. Obama's pledge to close the American military prison in Cuba, long an international sore spot.
From France, it was on to Baden-Baden, Germany, in the afternoon, and talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel that included NATO's future.
BARACK OBAMA: I don't come bearing grand designs. I'm here to listen, to share ideas, and to jointly, as one of many NATO allies, to help shape our vision for the future. If NATO becomes everything, then it's nothing.
RAY SUAREZ: As President Sarkozy had done, Chancellor Merkel reaffirmed the German pledge to strengthen Afghanistan, but she also looked to that country's western neighbor, Iran.
ANGELA MERKEL, chancellor, Germany (through translator): We want to shape relations with Iran in such a way that a nuclear rearmament of Iran is simply made not possible, but that at the same time we make it possible for the Iranian people to have a hopeful and prosperous future. We are very gratified to that, that the United States wants to have a fresh beginning, a fresh start in this relationship.
BARACK OBAMA: All right? Thank you, everybody.
ANGELA MERKEL: Danke schoen.
BARACK OBAMA: Danke schoen. My German is not as good as Chancellor Merkel's.
RAY SUAREZ: Tomorrow, the NATO heads of state and government will meet to take stock of the alliance's past, its present, and chart its future. And on Sunday in Prague, the president plans to announce a far-reaching goal: creating a world without nuclear weapons.
Afghanistan strategy
RAY SUAREZ: And Margaret Warner joins us now from Strasbourg, France. Margaret, along with bringing the pitch to European politicians, was President Obama also bringing that strong message on Afghanistan to the European public, as well?
MARGARET WARNER: Yes, Ray. In fact, that was a big part of today, this town hall meeting he held just in the next building over. President Obama's on a campaign to get the Europeans to buy into, to buy back into the Afghan mission, which NATO took on, as you know, after 9/11, under the common defense pact. And an attack on one NATO member is an attack on all.
And since then it as, as he put it, drifted. So today his target audience were these young people, combined French and Germans, a lot of students and young adults. And he really tried to make a generational pitch to them. This was very deliberate on the Obama White House's part.
And he essentially said, you know, every generation has to step up to challenges. And it may be very tempting to sit things out or to withdraw or to just tend to your own life, but we cannot do that. And he made a very strong case that al-Qaida terrorism was a threat, not only to the U.S., but even more to Europe, because Europe is closer.
So he did say, look, we've reshaped our policy. It's no longer just military. It's going to have a big civilian reconstruction, diplomatic component. We want to partner with Europe on all of that. But he said there is a military component, and Europe cannot expect the United States to shoulder that alone.
RAY SUAREZ: You had a chance to talk to members of the audience after that town hall meeting. Did the plea for help on Afghanistan find a receptive audience?
MARGARET WARNER: Well, yes and no. I mean, as it started out, it was really like a campaign manager's dream. In fact, it looks, Ray, like a campaign, like hundreds of rallies he's held in this huge sports arena, the bleacher seats all filled with kids, the whole, you know, floor. When President Obama and Michelle Obama came in, the crowd went wild. All the kids were snapping photos.
And they certainly, as he spoke, they cheered when he talked about things that he's done, like ordering the closing of Guantanamo, declaring that the U.S. won't torture, declaring his commitment to fight climate change.
But the reaction to the Afghanistan message, I would say, is more mixed. And I'll give you a couple of examples.
There are two young men who were French, 19 and 20, students, friends. And they were ecstatic. And they said, "You know, this is so different from the Bush era. We're going to revive the U.S.-European relationship. And, you know, yes, he has a point about terrorism. And I think it's reasonable to ask for more help."
But then another student, also a male student, about the same age, on the one hand, he was totally gaga over Michelle Obama. In fact, he had managed to get in the rope line. She worked the rope line separately from her husband. And, you know, flip around so he got a great photo on his camera of himself and Michelle Obama. And he just said, you know, he was inspired by President Obama.
But then, when I asked him about committing more to Afghanistan, he said, well, he was troubled by the inference from President Obama, when President Obama said, you know, the U.S. can't shoulder militarily alone, the inference that Europe had to do more. And he said, "We have French soldiers there. When one French soldier dies, it is big news here. And we want to help, but not by fighting, but in other ways."
Europeans' views of President Obama
RAY SUAREZ: Has this trip to Europe highlighted an attempt by the Obama administration to distance themselves both in style and in substance from the European relationship of the Bush years?
MARGARET WARNER: Yes, absolutely, Ray. I mean, the policy differences are stark, everything from being willing to talk to Iran to closing Guantanamo. At the G-20 meeting in London, President Obama's willingness to accept at least international regulatory standards for the whole financial sector, all of that is a big departure from the Bush administration.
That said, I would say the difference in tone and approach is even more significant and is more profound here. And that is that he's portraying himself as, in fact, we know he actually is, as consultative. He's not laying down markers and saying, "This is the U.S. position," and challenging the Europeans to match it. He's saying, "We need to evolve a common policy."
Now, there's a reason behind this, which is, as I said, he wants them all to buy in. If they're in on the takeoff, then they're going to be in on the landing.
But it is a big difference. For instance, today he said, "We don't want to be a patron of Europe; we want to be a partner of Europe." At the same time, after he did this litany of things that his administration's changed policy was, he said, "So America is changing, but we can't be the only ones who change."
RAY SUAREZ: As you've watched the reception President Obama has gotten in Europe, has this also been a week where Michelle Obama's been a potent presence in Europe?
MARGARET WARNER: Well, certainly in the newspapers and certainly in the media. I mean, there's huge fascination with her, with her outfits. There have been all kinds of articles, you know, comparing and contrasting her outfits with other people's outfits, and just her youth and sort of vigor and naturalness.
There was a great photo in one of the London papers of -- you know, she went in to meet the queen. And President Obama had said at a press conference we had earlier that morning that, you know, she was giving a lot of thought to this meeting, because meeting the queen is kind of a big deal.
And so -- and she wore -- the papers commented on the fact that she wore a very demur dress in this case, but then they did a back shot and she -- you know, you're never supposed to touch the queen. You're not even supposed to put out your hand to shake hands unless the queen does first.
And Michelle Obama put her arm around the queen, who's about this tall compared to Michelle Obama. But there seems to be, actually, great fascination and kind of affection for her here. And she's obviously been a huge asset for him.
RAY SUAREZ: And quickly, before we go, Margaret, what's on tap for the president this coming weekend?
MARGARET WARNER: Well, tomorrow is the official opening of the NATO summit. They're at a dinner right now talking about some of the ways they're going to try to reshape NATO. So that's tomorrow.
They're going to talk about Afghanistan. They're also going to talk about how to reshape NATO. They're going to talk about trying to resume some sort of relationship, NATO and Russia.
And then he is going to Prague to meet with the E.U. Again, it's part -- on the next day. It's all part of this continuing conversation that he is having with his European allies about a new approach to sharing the responsibilities of the 21st century.
RAY SUAREZ: Margaret Warner in Strasbourg, thanks a lot, Margaret.
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Can you give a few more line examples so we can know what patterns there may be? And just to make sure, you don't want to extract the 4th stretch of characters that contains numbers (0x03bb9d42)?
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by tracer (Initiate) on Jun 27, 2013 at 19:00 UTC
There are a number of lines like the one I have given as an example.
66.411709: TDSCDMA:M tfw_stmr.c:697 | tfw_walltime_isr: WALL 0x0164761a, status=0x00000001
Extract: 66.411709 and 0x0164761a
66.411736: TDSCDMA:L tfw_ce_proc.c:1484 | CE: sfn 955, slot 5 has 1 CE calls scheduled.
Extract: 66.411736 and 1.
66.411737: TDSCDMA:L tfw_ce_event_queue.c:196 | CE: Enqueue pending event 113 (type 12, sfm 955, slot 5, dvga=6)
Extract: 66.411737 and 113.
66.411720: TDSCDMA:L tfw_ulc.c:370 | ULC: Processing (start:end) 0x0164766c : 0x01647683, Subframe: 0x03bb, TS: 0x5
extract: 66.411720, 0x0164766c and 0x01647683
What are your criteria?
IOW, in the first sample, why aren't "697" and "0x00000001" just as much "numerical information" as those values you're seeking to extract?
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The Netiquette of the Internet today traces it's roots back to the Netiquette of USENET and email. Obviously some things have changed, given a lot of the guidelines predate the Web, but most of the "changes" have just been expanding the guidelines. So e.g. for a forum-like site, the old USENET guidelines work very well.
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However, like all solutions, I would make sure that you actually have the problem before implementing a solution that causes your code to become more complex. If you had two Jim Jones, I'd make sure to change it to Jim A. Jones and Jim B. Jones. Remember, you have to relate this back to your own life. So, something like "Jim Jones (college)" and "Jim Jones (work)" can also be used without having to change the code. :-)
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Honey Huan (real name Huan Ching, though it is rarely mentioned, and she is nearly always referred to as "Honey") is a fictional character in the comic strip Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau.
Honey is from China, and first appeared when Uncle Duke became an ambassador there, as his assistant and translator. She had a very odd position in the government; after Chairman Mao suffered a stroke, she was the only interpreter who was (mostly) able to understand his babbling. It has been implied that the entire cultural revolution may have been caused by Honey misunderstanding Mao.
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Over the years Honey has caught on to Duke's true nature, but this hasn't affected her feelings for him at all. Despite his constant verbal abuse of her (and willingness to abandon her at a moment's notice) she truly believes that he loves her.
Originally, Honey was a communist, but has since grown disillusioned with those views (though she still always wears her beloved Mao jacket). Although her politics are not very well defined, she seems to be a believer in the "American Dream". She became a naturalized American Citizen in the early 1990s after she married Duke as part of a plot cooked up by Donald Trump to gain positive publicity for himself when he learned that the Chinese government wanted to execute Honey for (inadvertently) taking part in--and surviving-- the Tiananmen Square Protest. Trump used his fortune to locate and rescue Honey from China, and then arranged her marriage to Duke (who did it in exchange for money from Trump) to make her an American citizen--rescuing her from possible extradition to China and execution. Honey briefly remained married to Duke, but quickly became disillusioned when she found out that it had been arranged as a publicity stunt; she and Duke went to Mexico for a quickie divorce, though they continued to live together with Mike and JJ Doonesbury because they had no place else to go. The pair eventually moved out and went their separate ways after they were arrested (and later acquitted) for crack possession when Mike was mistaken for a crack dealer and his home raided by the DEA.
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ABSTRACT The measurement of the (g−2) value of leptons provides a unique test of theory since it is the only quantity (unlike charge
and mass) calculable in the framework of the Standard Model of elementary particles. The muon (g−2) experiment E821 is currently
in progress at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Four data taking runs for positive muons and one run for negative muons were
successfully accomplished in 1997–2000 and 2001, respectively. Results of the 1997–2000 runs have been published, thus completing
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− is currently in progress. To provide measurement of $a_\mu = \tfrac{1}
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It was Friday night, and the café was hopping. A teenaged couple ate burgers and fries while sitting side by side and holding hands. A sheet of paper could not fit between them, and their excellent hand-mouth coordination made me wonder which one was ambidextrous. Two other couples wrestled with toddlers more interested in ketchup bottles than food. Three middle-aged couples apparently had a night out sans children. Four other single males ate at the counter while watching TV. Then in walked the three amigos.
Definitely not athletes, these college guys were dressed casually. Two were tall and thin with tight fitting jeans and pullover shirts. The third was not quite as tall and quite a bit broader. His jeans were loose, and he wore a t-shirt with an unbuttoned over shirt. They ordered two bacon burgers and a double cheeseburger along with drinks and fries.
As soon as their orders had been placed, three smart phones appeared. The only other words spoken by them for the next 40 minutes were a request to the waitress for an outlet to recharge one phone, and a unison response of "separate" when the waitress asked if their checks were separate or together. Silently, they ate alone together while subjecting themselves to text neck and repetitive thumb trauma. Even when they stood at the cash register, presenting plastic for payment, all three were checking their phones and texting. Only when they exited into the darkness of night did they put their phones away.
I watched through the window as they walked down the street. I wondered about the adventures ahead for them. Would they listen to music and drink alone together? Would they find three dream dates equally entranced by their own smart phones? Would they text while dancing? Would all six of them sit together, silently texting friends not present? Would any of them realize that none of them were present either? Back at my apartment, the aroma of my birthday bouquet greeted me. It was sent by a social networking "friend" I’ve never actually met. Suddenly, the three amigos didn’t seem quite so odd.
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April 8, 2012; Sacramento, CA, USA; Sacramento Kings center DeMarcus Cousins (15) waits for a referee to make a call after the ball went out of bounds against the Houston Rockets in the third quarter at the Power Balance Pavilion. The Rockets defeated the Kings 104-87. Mandatory Credit: Cary Edmondson-US PRESSWIRE
Who has improved and who has taken a step back? Analyzing an uneven 2010 NBA Draft class.
There's a tendency to assume that NBA players make tremendous jumps between their first and second years in the pros. The argument: with a year under their belts, they now understand what it takes to be a pro and how to adjust to the speed of the game.
This is definitely true... in some cases. In others, though, the opposite actually happens. As rookies, players are mysteries to other teams. They don't really know how they play and therefore don't really have any sort of way to properly prepare for their games. There's college game tape, of course, but the NBA is such a different game that much of that information ends up being useless. Rookies therefore often sneak up on teams and excel because nobody really knows how to scout them.
That changes dramatically in players' second year. Teams have a full year of tape to put in their scouting reports. Players have a year of experience they can use to attack their weaknesses. The process of taking what the league has learned and altering your game doesn't happen overnight. Often times, it takes a full season to process how to adjust to the league adjusting to you.
Throw in a lockout over the summer, and you can see why it's been a mixed bag for the 2010 NBA Draft class. Some players have made tremendous improvements, while others have stood still or even taken a step back. Let's take a look at which players have made major improvements and which players have not.
DeMarcus Cousins: Kings fans have to feel comforted by the growth Cousins has shown in his second season. Since Paul Westphal was canned for Keith Smart, Cousins hasn't had an emotional outburst that has proved detrimental to the team, shedding the image of him as a coach-killer. On the court, he's become a much more dominant rebounder and smarter help defender. He's taken 48 charges this season, 12 more than second-place Marcin Gortat. To continue to get better, Cousins will need to improve his conditioning and scoring efficiency, but he can certainly do that in time, given the strides he made on and off the court this season.
Greg Monroe: You could make the case that Monroe was playing at an All-Star level this season and would have been selected if he played somewhere other than Detroit. He's taken over a larger share of Detroit's offense and maintained his sparkling efficiency. He's finally starting to show the playmaking skills that made him so valuable at Georgetown, and he's also developed a decent face-up jumper to keep defenders honest when they guard him one on one. To continue to improve, he must learn how to position himself better defensively, especially since he's the last line of help.
Gordon Hayward: Last year, Hayward focused too much on trying to score and wasn't able to show off his other gifts. This year, he's learned that scoring isn't everything and is starting to impact the game in many more ways. While his shooting efficiency is down a bit, his PER is up to 15.5 because he's improved his passing, cut his turnovers and taken a larger share of the offense. He's been particularly good in transition, scoring an average of 1.34 points per possession on 161 opportunities, according to MySynergySports.com. He must become a better defender, but given his athleticism, that should happen in the future.
Avery Bradley: Bradley's emergence is one of the major reasons the Celtics look as dangerous as ever heading down the stretch of the season. Last year, Bradley couldn't handle the ball without Celtics fans freaking out about him committing a turnover. This year, he's become arguably the strongest perimeter defender in the league, locking down opposing small guards like nobody should be able to do in the no-handcheck era. Playing him off the ball with Rajon Rondo has also allowed the Celtics to take advantage of his ability to cut along the baseline for easy buckets. He must continue to improve his jump shot, but the signs are there.
Kevin Seraphin: A fouling machine that could barely stay on the court last year, Seraphin has made unbelievable strides in his second year. He may well be the most skilled post player in his class, tossing in lefty and righty hook shots over confused defenders. He must improve his rebounding and show he can do this for longer than a two-week stretch, but his emergence means the Wizards have much more ammunition in their frontcourt than anyone expected.
Nikola Pekovic: He's gone from being a complete afterthought to being one of the most efficient post scorers in basketball. He could always score in the post, but he's dramatically cut his turnovers, improved his stamina and learned how to play within a team setting. He's a bit limited as a player, but few youngsters do a better job of playing to their strengths.
Derrick Favors: It's hard to really judge Favors until he gets 30+ minutes and a starting role, something he won't get in Utah as long as Paul Millsap and Al Jefferson man the frontcourt. That said, he's gotten much better at finishing in the lane and is showing flashes of developing a back-to-the-basket game. He'll always be an excellent defensive presence, so it's no surprise that the Jazz are 4.2 points per 100 possessions better defensively with him on the court. He just needs to continue to develop that offensive game so he's not a self-check.
Paul George: I considered putting George in the "major improvement" category, but resisted because it still disappoints me that he doesn't post up more given his size and position. He should be able to punish shooting guards on the block, but only has a total of 55 post-up possessions, according to MySynergySports.com. Perhaps that's a product of his team, but it still bugs me. Nevertheless, George has improved as a spot-up shooter and offensive initiator, and his defense continues to be excellent.
Evan Turner: Turner spent all summer working on his jump shot, and it's made him a more dynamic and confident offensive player. He's been handed more responsibility and has still managed to improve his game. However, his production remains underwhelming given his draft position, and the fundamental problem of him being a point guard in a shooting guard's body remains. He'll have to figure out a way to adjust his game even more, because he'll never be able to play like he did at Ohio State.
Ekpe Udoh: His box-score statistics don't blow you away, but his development as a help defender is worth noting. Udoh's teams (Milwaukee and Golden State) are surrendering 8.3 points fewer per 100 possessions with Udoh on the court. While plus/minus data can be unreliable if used in an overwhelmingly cavalier way, it does confirm what I'm seeing with Udoh's help-side defense. He also continues to improve as an offensive threat, but must become stronger to make significant improvements in that area.
Trevor Booker and Jordan Crawford: The two other Wizards' second-year players have each made subtle improvements. Booker has upped his percentage on 16-23 foot jumpers from 18 to 34 percent, while Crawford has at least become slightly more efficient from the same spot (attempts are down, shooting percentage is up). They are both fundamentally the same players and always will be, but there has been some growth.
John Wall: Many people have opined that Wall has either "not gotten better" or "taken a step back." I think that's a bit unfair. He started off horribly, had a torrid stretch from late January to early March, then fell back again after the trade deadline. Wall's challenge is the very definition of the phenomenon we discussed at the top of this piece. Teams have learned he has no confidence in his jumper and adjusted their defensive schemes to play way off him. Not having a jumper has closed off Wall's driving and passing lanes, and he's struggling to adjust. Not everyone can use space as well as, say, Rajon Rondo, especially in their second year. Wall has also been victimized by poor teammates and having to carry too heavy a scoring and leadership role.
This summer is going to be a critical one for Wall. He must make that jumper passable enough to open driving lanes, and he must improve his defensive intensity. He'll have stretches where he locks players down and supplies incredible help defense, and he'll have stretches where he's victimized by a simple hesitation dribble. Improve those areas, and he'll have the kind of breakout next year that many expected he'd have this year.
Blake Griffin: Griffin's not having a bad year, but he's essentially been the same player as last year. With all the changes on the Clippers' roster, he's had to shoot more jumpers, and that's been a problem. He's shooting 36 percent on 16-23 foot shots, which is bad on its own, but even worse than you'd think because most of those shots are wide open. He's been able to maintain the other elements of his game, but to take the next step, he has to start making the defense pay for leaving him open.
Landry Fields: Fields' rookie year was a tale of two seasons, making it hard to measure his progress. If you judge him based on how he played in the second half of last year, he's gotten better, but he's still not at the level he was at before the Carmelo Anthony trade. Like most Knicks, he's fared better in their new small lineup, giving fans hope he can continue to be a good piece for the future.
Ed Davis: He surprised a lot of teams last year with his touch around the basket, so I think they've added more notes in their scouting reports to slow him down. While he's been a bit better recently, he's playing less minutes and scoring much less efficiently.
Patrick Patterson: An injury really slowed his progress. Last year, he played more inside and put up strong efficiency numbers. This year, he's drifted more out on the perimeter, and that has a way of making you score less efficiently. His injury also affected his lift, as all his shooting percentages around the rim are down. I'm confident he'll be better next year when he's completely healthy.
Al-Farouq Aminu: Going from the Clippers to the Hornets should have allowed Aminu to get more playing time. It hasn't really worked out, though. His minutes are slightly up, but the Hornets have found it difficult to fit his up-tempo game into their slow-down style. He may need another new team to reach his full potential.
Wes Johnson: He's followed up an underwhelming rookie year with an even worse sophomore year. Given that he has no real elite skills and that he's already 24 years old, it seems safe to declare that he's a bust.
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0.030121 | <urn:uuid:e3d3016d-4468-4a53-b8fd-dd3040470090> | en | 0.993183 | Tale of the Black Mushroom A short story by CE Wills copyright 2011 by CE Wills published by CE Wills at Smashwords Inc. 2011 This book is a work of fiction. Any similarities to actual people or events is purely coincidental. This book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be resold. Thanks for respecting the hard work of this author. Deep in the forest a young man was walking. In his pocket was an envelope which contained instructions for a scavenger hunt. A certain young lady had given him a quest. If he were successful the lady would be his girl. If he were not successful, then he would cease his attentions toward her. The young man's name was Jeremy. Sancha, the girl in question, was a bit of a dreamer. She fancied herself as a princess and Jeremy couldn't argue with that. He saw her through the eyes of young love, that great transforming power of youth. Jeremy was walking through a piece of remote, government-owned land in southern Kentucky. Massive hardwoods were all about but there were well-defined game paths to walk on. In the hour that Jeremy had been in the woods he had already spooked a couple of deer and seen a coyote. Then he ran across a little surprise. He heard her before he saw her. Great heart-wrenching sobs that seemed to be coming from the other side of a boulder. When he walked around the great rock, there she was; a little cutie of a girl, all of sixteen years of age. Jeremy's heart went out to her in her grief. He felt like a spy and started away, only to freeze in his tracks. It was as though his feet were anchored to the stone. The girl was seated on a rocky ledge that overlooked a cabin far below. Smoke drifted from a crude stone chimney. It seemed a very poor sort of place. That certainly couldn't be said for the girl. She was a beauty, even with her disheveled appearance. She had black hair, cut short, like a boys, and had a cute little nose and green eyes that were just now red from crying. She wore an old pair of overalls that were too short for her and bore mute testimony of battles with thorns and brush. Jeremy feared that the girl might be distressed enough to throw herself off the cliff. She had stopped her crying and was wiping her runny nose on the sleeve of the ragged flannel shirt which protruded from the overalls. He cleared his throat and she stood in a flash with eyes turned on him that were both fearful and angry. "What are you doing here?" "I'm sorry. I just heard your crying and I was concerned." He glanced toward the cabin in the distance. "I was afraid you might throw yourself off the cliff." She laughed, a little bitterly, Jeremy thought. She looked at him more closely and re-asked the question. "What are doing out here in the sticks? You're too young to be a Park Ranger." He shook his head as though she could never understand. "I'm looking for a black mushroom." She laughed and stuck her thin little hands in the pockets of her overalls. Before she could say anything he told her the whole story of the scavenger hunt and Sancha, the most popular girl in school. He even told her about Sancha's promise to be his girl if the hunt proved successful. She listened raptly and remarked at the end, "Sounds like a fairy tale. Your girl sounds like the prom queen." Jeremy made no reply, slightly embarrassed by the whole thing. He felt more at ease when the girl, who introduced herself as Breeze, offered to help in the search. An offer that Jeremy accepted with alacrity. They set off, with Breeze in the lead. She said that she knew the woods better than anyone, because she walked in them every day. Jeremy stifled a ton of questions that popped into his mind. The girl walked with the easy, swinging stride of the mountaineer and had evidently shaken off the gloom that had overshadowed her. In the sun-dappled glades she was part of a lovely mosaic of wildflowers and green leaves. Her glossy hair, shining with the health of youth and vitality, reflected the sunshine back at his eyes. It seemed he had to wrench his gaze away to pay proper attention to the rough path. As they walked, Breeze pointed out and identified different trees and showed him the tracks of a deer next to a small stream. When she leaped the water, he noticed the ragged old sneakers on her little feet. The entire end was out of one of them and showed the toe of her white sock. His curiosity about the waif began to consume him. It was with difficulty that he minded his manners and refrained from questioning her. They found pink mushrooms, red ones, and one bright green one. They found thin ones and pointed ones and several that were as big and flat as a dinner plate. Then finally, under a shelf of rock, Breeze found it. A massive, rounded mushroom, colored an odd, mottled black. She clapped her hands in delight and danced a little jig. "I told you I could find one, didn't I, Jeremy? Didn't I?" "You certainly did," he said with a smile. He was charmed by her enthusiasm. He broke the mushroom off at ground level and placed it in a plastic baggie that he had brought for that purpose. Then they set out for the cliff where he had found her. The sun was hanging low in the afternoon sky and it was a little cool. He gave her his heavy shirt to wear and they walked side by side where the path was wide enough. When they came to the cliff she indicated a path, almost hidden by a mountain laurel. The path trailed away down the face of the cliff. "This is where you stop, Jeremy." She looked at him with those marvelous green eyes. He saw wistfulness, sadness and some unspoken tragedy. He nodded his head glumly, with an acute sense of loss as she turned away down the path. Then she whirled around and was in his arms, kissing him softly. He felt her strength and suppleness and felt her tears on his cheek. Then she was gone like the breeze she was named for and he stood alone, far above the tiny cabin. He walked back to his car in deep reflection, forgetting the coolness, his lost shirt and the mushroom in his right hand. Forgetful of everything except the slip of a girl he had only just met. The next day at school, Jeremy approached the table in the lunchroom where Sancha sat with her entourage. She looked up at him expectantly. "Hey, Jeremy. Did you find what you were looking for?" He seemed distracted and his mind appeared to be focused on something far away. He tossed a baggie on the table. In it was a huge black mushroom, slightly the worse for wear. Then he looked at her. "Yes, I found what I wanted," he smiled. "It just wasn't a mushroom." The End ? Thanks for reading this free eBook. 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We shouldn't laugh at this, but some coffee did just spurt out of our nose (it was attractive). One Direction are said to be FURIOUS afer their American management are reported to have slapped a shag-ban on them while they're in the states.
They're said to want to keep the focus on music, not muff.
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"[Niall's] raging about it, all the lads are," Niall's mate told The Sun.
"Four of them are single and they've been told to stay that way as it appeals to their American teen fans." Er, four? Surely it's three? Hmmm...
"Niall's fighting off the women with his Irish accent and good looks, so he's having to live like a monk."
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"[Harry's] come out of a relationship and wants to enjoy his freedom. But he's having to behave himself and keep the women at arm's length.
"They are all young lads and they have urges like anyone else their age.
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We'd say Louis and Liam have probably managed to dodge all this as they've both got fairly long term girlfriends, but HAHA to the rest of the boys.
Sorry. It's really not funny.
*collapses in giggles*
One Direction on losing their virginity and crotch issues
Harry Styles: "If I wasn't in One Direction I'd still be a virgin"
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Larry_Reisman writes:
in response to 3rdGenNative:
Mr. Reisman, I ask this question respectfully. Did your research reveal the income level of those you seek that are "qualified to be the CEO of a company"? You know, those college educated 23,000 residents ages 25-65 that have bachelor’s degrees or higher?
Mr. Reisman, you state: QUOTE: "How you can select the best leader and visionary to run one of the largest entities in Martin County when you limit it to county residents -- the vast majority of whom do not even have a college degree -- is beyond me."
My guess is that the group you describe as "qualified" are up in the upper 10-20% of income in Martin County--therefore the pool of "qualified applicants" disqualifies 80-90% of our residents. It is starting to sound like "class warfare." "They" know better than the rest of us. It sounds "elitist."
That is EXACTLY why we need to vote on our PUBLIC leaders. OUR tax money is being spent in the school system--we should ALL have a voice and a chance.
And that is where the "appointed vs. elected" argument goes wrong........this is NOT the private sector.
PS Mr. Reisman, politics is EVERYWHERE.
Why is everyone so focused on Nancy Kline vs. The Board? To me, the issue is appointed vs. not.
The noise and vitriol the superintendent-board relationship has caused the past few years should be embarrassing to all parties involved. Some qualified people have opted not to work in such an environment.
And I’m not placing any blame on any one person or side.
And no disrespect to 3rdGenNative, but you made my point exactly in your 11:36 a.m. post Saturday:
“My guess is that the group you describe as ‘qualified’ are up in the upper 10-20% of income in Martin County -- therefore the pool of "qualified applicants" disqualifies 80-90% of our residents.”
That’s my point: The pool of ‘qualified applicants’ is very limited. Elitist? I think it's reality. Given that so few people are qualified, will we really find the best person? Will we even find a qualified person? We might, but are we willing to take that risk?
Sure, we can find a local person without a degree to run perhaps the most important entity in Martin County. It's possible, but thet "right" person has to step up and run. Or, we can find a person with a degree from Harvard who has NO CLUE how to run an organization like the MCSD.
I would not trust most college graduates –- in fact, most people -- I know to run a business. There are nongraduates I WOULD trust to run a business, but not to run an entity responsible for sending many of its children onto higher education.
The question is not only are they qualified, but can they perform a task that will impact the lives and futures of almost 18,000 students and taxpayers investment of $238 million each year? It’s an organization that will play a key role in diversifying the county’s job base, something we all should relate to.
If you had $238 million to invest and sought financial expertise, would you limit your search to someone in Martin County if you knew someone more qualified and trustworthy elsewhere? Would a patient with a serious illness limit his medical options to Martin County unless he had to?
Maybe some people would take such a risk. Most people I know would not. I wouldn’t. I’d much rather find a local person to do the job, but I would never be closed-minded enough to limit my search.
And, by the way: With an elected superintendent, your choice from an already tiny pool is even further whittled down as there are only a few people willing to run. It almost ensures that you're not getting anywhere near the most qualified people to be superintendent.
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wbladesr#332862 writes:
I find it ironic that someone would blame the Democrats for Obama being in office as opposed to blaming the Republican party governors for putting forth a candidate whose platform was not more embracing of the American majority.
Jon Huntsman (an early Republican presidential candidate) would have probably won the election had he been put forward but he was deemed not to be conservative enough. So Romney was advanced and the American majority ended up voting for Obama.
As bad as MANY believed Obama to be, the opposing candidate should have won easily!
Had Romney simply stated that he was personally opposed to abortion, but he would not do anything to overturn the law that allows it, WE would have won! If Romney would have stated that he was going to maintain ObamaCare but delete one or two of the most expensive benefits until the country can better afford the benefits, WE would have won! If Romney stated that he believed marriage should be between a man and a woman, but he would allow Congress or the Senate to make the decision and not influence the majority wishes, WE would have won! Instead Romney was fed the Republican platform and and he delivered his speeches on cue with to the applause of The Party Elite.
In retrospect, McCain would have won in 2008 if he had been allowed to choose Liberman as his Vice President. Instead, The Party Elite force Palin upon him ... And WE lost!
The Republican voters can not blame the Democrats for having a candidate that appeals to the majority of Americans. The blame falls squarely on the narrow minded party governors controlling the Republican Party! Lord knows the party spent enough money, made more than enough of those TOTALLY ANNOYING Robo Calls and their PACs spewed enough lies and negative ads to make Satin blush.
Nope, you can't blame the Democrats...
Let us all follow Romney's wish that we come together as a nation to solve America's challenges in the future. In four years, hopefully the Republican party can advance candidate with a platform that appeals to the American majority.
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Oh how I hope #52 is right!!!!!
1710 days ago
Mike Botz
Ironic that Kennedy breeds water dogs. He could have used one 40 years ago.
1710 days ago
"For all the BIG-BELLY-ACHING-COMPLAINERS here... just relax.
Obama was elected President, because he was the people's choice.
His term will be up in 4 years, he'll move on, and you can start your BIG-BELLY-ACHING-COMPLAINTS about the next President.
Just relax! "
I so hope you are right!!!!
1710 days ago
Who Cares!
1710 days ago
Jamie Foxx is a racist and a pathetic loser for stooping so low as to attack a little girl,Miley Cyrus,(or anyone) because she's talented and earned her way to Hollywood.Would he have done that to a girl of African descent?I'm about half racist too,something I learned from some African American folks,and could say alot about Jamie Foxx but I'll just say that when I see him on tv,I change the channel within two seconds. Miley is funny,pretty and cool and her gums that Jamie was talking about are a good quality trait adding to her overall pretty and cheerful appearance.I kind of feel sorry for Jamie because he has to have stupid days due to his bitterness.I hope he repents and changes his attitude which will change his language and outlook on life.He's gotta love America though.
1710 days ago
It's a cute dog, how people can get their panties in a wad over a pet is beyond me. And I am not even an Obama fan, I just don't see how you could get mad about a dog that was a gift! Get a grip people.
1710 days ago
Linda Mott
They both have the same initials B. O. and BO. Maybe we will get a conspiracy movie out of this.
1710 days ago
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76. "For all the BIG-BELLY-ACHING-COMPLAINERS here... just relax.
Obama was elected President, because he was the people's choice.
Just relax! "
I don't have to like or respect him. I didn't vote for him. And too bad you don't like the complaining. I had to listen to your stupid - A$$ complain for 8 years. for a person who has the same religion as the people who killed three thousand Americans. Fools! Idiots!
1710 days ago
OK TMZ one story about this-then two stories-now THREE stories about this--Enough already!!!! The first family has a new dog-the end. Can we please get back to CELEBRITY gossip???
1710 days ago
70. I hope that dog eats sh!t. If so, that turd colored president should be scarffed right up!!!!
Posted at 3:46PM on Apr 14th 2009 by obama is a piece of sh*t!!!!
Yeah, black people need to stop whining. It's all in thier heads. No one's racist anymore. We can drink from the same fountains, its all good.
Do any of you idiots who claim to hate Obama b/c of his policies and not his "turd colored skin" even fall into the tax bracket where you'd need to be worried about it? Just like Joe the plummer, probably not. No one can take money from you that YOU DON'T HAVE.
Wake up inbreds, the Repubicans do not care about you unless you have money. And even then they're trying to take it from you through glorious capitolism so they can still have more than you. Keep letting idiots like Rush Limbaugh use you to make 100s of millions of dollars a year while you loose your job and homes as he opts "not to partcipate" in the recession (that's a direct quote from 20/20). They give you the finger and you're too stupid to know it b/c your too busy being racists.
1710 days ago
I think there is too much talk about where the dog came from and all this drama. Who cares where it came from? the President and his family likes the dog and chose it. I know people are suppose to always being talking about what the President does but this is something for him and his family.
1710 days ago
Good Goin'
Well, so basically the dog is paid for from a breeder. Thanks for the lies Obama about saving a life and getting a rescue dog! Shame on you! And hasn't Ted Kennedy already done enough? You know with killing that innocent girl and all. I guess he doesn't care about saving pets either from being killed. Very sad.
1710 days ago
david, I hope you're a teenager, otherwise you sound like a staight up pedophile. and please look up the word racist 'cause you obviously have not clue what it means. If Miley Cyrus want to be off limits then she should keep her gummy-ass off line posing in bras and making slanty eyes. She can't choose what attention she gets.
1710 days ago
Ok, so is this dumb ass dog gunna fix the ECONOMY!?? NO! who cares get ovr this stupid dog already & fix the dam economy, tht sould b the main focus!!!!!
1710 days ago
Not only does this poor dog have to learn a new name, he has to do it while living in his 4th home (the breeder, the first owners, the trainer in Virginia and the Obamas) . He's only six months old! If he has "issues" I hope the Obamas don't dump him too.
1710 days ago
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HOW TYPICAL AND NOT SURPRISED ! But i do forgive her, we all make mistakes !
1527 days ago
Unless she is fined for this , others who have paid fines for the same infraction, should be refunded thier money. In spite of the fact that the law is wrong, maybe then it will bring to the attention of these idiots who impose these intricate laws that they don't need to write into law every definition of a basic law that has been established since the horse and buggy, it's called "careless driving" That covers it all. They need to get to work on more important issues.
1527 days ago
Not surprising considering most celebrities and politicians consider themselves above the law including the ones they publically endorse.
1527 days ago
Of course she can get away with it. She's a Kennedy! Aren't they considered American royalty? A Kennedy is always forgiven in the eyes of Americans.
1527 days ago
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Leave this to the police. I thought USA was theland of the Free - not the land of envy, denunciation and harassing.
1527 days ago
I've met Maria Shriver. She has to walk around with the knobbiest, veiniest old lady knees. They are horrific!
Seriously, that's punishment enough.
1527 days ago
It's bad enough that she's endangering other..but she obviously doesn't care how it make her husband look either.
1527 days ago
Convenient that Arney just signed a bill keeping paps and others from taking pics of celebs that would be considered invasions of privacy. I wonder if his wife being photographed breaking the law will count??
1527 days ago
Ohhhhhh, the Today show just said Arnold is going after TMZ for publishing pictures of his wife ... his new anti-pap law at work. Like CA has the time or resources to go after TMZ ... they can't even collect taxes from the richest celebs in their damn state.. go after them, it's more profitable.
1527 days ago
why can't she get ticketed for the 3 times she has been caught on tape.......they do it for when you run a red light, they send you a picture of your car going thru the light, from cameras placed in the area. she's a moron.
1527 days ago
she thinks that the rules don't apply to her. she has been brought up with so much wealth and -priveledge, ;these kind of people really believe that they don't have to live by societies rules'. And she's right, she won't have to pay for her illegal cell phone use. BUT you can bet that if you're "average Joe", who, these days is probably a laid off from work, in the middle of foreclosure, stressed out from life and depressed person,just barely squeeking by in life, you can BET thhat they will be ticketed for illegal cell phone use and, no excuses, have to pay the fine if he gets caught. Maria Shriver is just a stupid baffoon with a lot of money. period.
1527 days ago
Don't talk about it Maria - be about it.
I'm talking about role modeling. How about rolling with that?
1527 days ago
the law is a joke. I see cops doing it all the time.
1527 days ago
Linda Mott
I got hit 2 times in the last 5 years by teenagers. One was a giggly girl that she pulled out and hit me because she was talking on the phone. Since I getting rid of the car, I gave her a mini talk and told her not to talk on the phone and drive.
The other time was a young boy that was a new driver and I saw just a scrap so I forgave him.
I expect more from MARIA
1527 days ago
I can't stand the bitch. She claims she no longer wanted to be a newscaster because of all the news about Anna Nicole when she passed away. Truth is NBC didn't want her ugly Skeletor face on the news anymore with her holier than thou attitude.
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Annoying Windows 7 instalation problem
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I bought a 1tb Hitachi deskstar internal drive and when I try to fresh install , when it asks me to pick a hard drive it doesn't recognise any of them (even the ones that were working and I was using before I tried to add the new hard drive) I don't think the new hard drive needs drivers but not sure..
So what I really want is to start a fresh 64bit Windows copy and then copy the stuff I wanted from old hard drives ..
Pc been not working now for about a week..I'm sure I'm just missing something small but hope you guys can help
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Ok there's a sata l shaped connector then a longer L shaped connector Guatemala matches the power cables then a small two pin thing on hdd I don't think that's needed..
When I boot without disk it says disk boot failure, insert system disk andd press enter
Check out this pic. The top is an IDE drive, the bottom is SATA. They are pretty easy to tell apart.
Some SATA drives have jumpers on them, to downclock to the SATA 1.5GB speed.
When trying to do a fresh install, you'll be booting off your DVD drive. So make sure that's the first boot device in the BIOS. You should at least be able to boot off that, even if it's not recognizing the hard drive(s).
Ye it is sata..its a new hdd but is there different types of sata? Or newer versions? This is pretty recent...but it brings me through Windows installation fine just when it comes to pick a hard drive nothing show and it gives me an option to load drivers..
And I can't just go back to my old c drive because I screwed up the order of the drives and now the file is missing for that..
Is there any drivers you need for doing a fresh install inn a hdd fresh out of the box?
Go into the BIOS, and verify that your drives are showing there. Also, verify that SATA is enabled in the BIOS.
Go to the motherboard manufacturer's website, and look for a SATA driver.
I thought all versions of W7 had SATA support, but I could be wrong there. What version of W7 are you installing? I trust that it's a legal version?
I suspect that when it's giving an option to load drivers, that may be for a raid configaration. No drivers are required for standard sata instalation.
Check bios to see what mode the sata drives are in, if Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI) then change it to IDE/PATA compatability and try again.
I am in integrated peripherals.. it says
1.chip IDE channel enabled
2.chip sata controller enabled
3. Chip sata type: native IDE ( or options of raid or ahci)
Then it says onchip sata port 4/5 type : IDE
Il post pics now of everything
SATA_2 0 is fine. Either will do, really. They are just multiple ports that run on the SATA 2 speed.
Try changing your On Chip Sata type Native IDE setting.
I been reading things on Google..would it have to to with sata controller? Or would flashing the BIOS to a new version help.. I don't understand why everything stopped working when I plugged in new hdd
An outdated BIOS can cause a number of issues, but I would hope that your current BIOS was capable of recognizing hard drives attached to it's SATA ports.
This may be a dumb question, but have you tried disconnecting that hard drive, to see if your other SATA drives are recognized? You do have more than this 1 SATA device don't you?
Nope it wont recognise anything except the ide dvd drive:? ok i downloaded the newet bios file for my mb and am loading it on to pc now says pass..hope it didnt screw it up :/
I dont think i ever had a jumper on it.. I have usb stick in and it is recognising that in hard disk boot priority ..? but nothing else...this is so strange
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I thought you said there was a jumper on that new SATA drive?
If it has a jumper on it, just remove it. If it's capable of SATA II speeds, your port is as well, so it doesn't need to be down clocked by the jumper.
Did you remove the IDE drive when you installed the new drive? If not by adding the new drive the drive order may have changed.
If the IDE drive contained systems files then changing the drive order would give that error. So if you removed it reconnect it.
If you havn't changed the cables around since you have had this problem, try disconnecting the new drive to see if it boots up.
If it does, go into bios and check the order the drives are in. Then reconnect the new drive and go into bios again and make sure the new drive is set after the other two.
yeah i think i did disconnect the IDE drive because the wires were in the way and im guessing that this is what has screwed it all up..
It just aint recognising any drives except dvd drive and usb flash drive .. Im so confused
Ok get this i Connected the Old ass IDE drive and Windows ME loaded up haha...I dont even know how that is when i formated that hard drive when i connected it to see if there were any old photos on it.
So now it is reading that old hdd but its acting kinda strange all those little coloured square dancing around everywhere..but i wonder could i install windows 7 on this old drive just for the mean while?
Would that bring me closer to getting the sata drives working if i could do that
Try disconnecting all drives except the new drive. Win7 can be a bit picky if it sees other drive(s) in the system that have or had an OS installed on them at one time or another, being XP or Win7.
I also have had the great pleasure with installing a drive that was perfectly fine but at one time it was part of a raid 0 setup and Win7 would not detect the drive when installing. I tried formating the drive and that didn't work. I actually had to low level format that drive to get it to work.
For the most part I think your running into the same issue. Win7 has thrown me a few curve balls that I have never seen but overall it's a great OS. Just picky on install.
Sorry not trying to hijack this thread but I figured I would add this tidbit of information when installing Win7. I recently installed Win7 on a new drive and Win7 installed the MBR on the storage drive and not on the new drive and when I set the new drive as the Priority drive in the bios, Win7 would not boot. New one for me, in the end I forgot to set the new drive in the BIOS as the Priority drive before installing Win7. Lesson learned the hard way. To resolve this I had to create a new MBR on the new drive. Good Times.
I see well i just cant get it to recognise the sata drives in bios but it will read dvds ide drives and usb drives .. What should my bios setings be for sata setup
What are your options/Selections under On Chip SATA Type and under Hard Disk Boot Priority whats the order? I noticed under the Hard Disk Boot Priority that you have it set as:
First Boot Device: Hard Disk
Second Boot Device: Hard Disk
Third Boot Device: CDROM
When installing an OS it should be:
First Boot Device: CDROM
Second Boot Device: Hard Disk
Third Boot Device: Disable
I have Native IDE , RAID or ACHI under chip type
In hard disk boot priority it just says usb stick which is 1 and bootable add-in cards is 2.. no hard drives .. this is driving me crazy :s
Try changing it to ACHI and remove the usb stick, basically brake it down to the basics. One HD(New Drive), CDROM(For Install), CPU, RAM and VID and nothing else.
And at this point it doesn't hurt to start from scratch. Like setting the BIOS to default settings. Even clearing the CMOS.
And PC's can drive you crazy if you let them but in the end it will get resolved by process of elimination and collective knowledge by other users/techs. Just got to keep at it and walk away to take a breather to regroup.
ok i think i have been picking x86 version of windows but trying to load x64 drivers thats why it cant detect no drives from usb stick.. Is x86=64bit? it wont let me boot from cd now i going to reset the bios ust gota figure out sure i can do this just a matter of time
ok il keep that in mind. I cant get it to boot from cd now :/ i took battery out of motherboard , leaving it out for 5-10 mins i read online it resets everything
Windows 7 should have all the drivers to get you going but there's a chance that it doesn't. So it doesn't hurt to install them like aford10 suggested. x86 = 32bit and x64 = 64bit.
Ok i tryed that everything seemed to reset. But now the IDE Channel 0 Master was the dvd drive earlyer but now its none and wont detect it .. What the hell like grrrrr im ready to throw it out the window
Is there a way i can start from scratch again or did i just do that
ok i got it to boot from cd, think ide cable could of been lose that try this load the drivers to the right software this time and see how i go :/ i hope this isnt why it hasnt been picking up the hard drives because i was loading wrong drivers....
ok i think iv found why the drivers were not showing up..i was picking 32bit version when i thought i was picking 64... why do they call it 86 if its really 32? i was thinking the higher number was better version :/
ok i can see the drivers now but theres a box that says hide drivers that are not compatable with th hardware on this computer. So when i click this none stay in the list.. theres like 20 different ones.
How do i know which one to use?
Ok guy try get this sorted today once and for all..
Ok so I downloaded that second driver for 64bit Windows, clicked install on x64 Windows then comes to pick harddrive or load drivers and I get :
Then I click ok on that folder. Then I get two drivers in the list
1. Amd sata controller
2. Amd sata controller (both with the same paths in brackets after them)
Then if I click "hide drivers that are not compatible with hardware on this computer"
They both disappear either of them wouldn't load.
I want 64bit but I'm goin to try 32bit now and see will the 32 drivers load on to that
Edit: 32bit drivers showed up in list but didn't work either
EDIT2*: I went in to BIOS and changed that setting to achi and the one under as type sata then the driver is showing up when the hide box is ticked but when I click next I get:
To continue installation use the load driver option to install 32bit and signed 64bit drivers. Installing an unsigned 64bit device driver is jot supported and might result in an unusable Windows instalation.
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9600GSO with spare parts computer
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Hey community,
So I believe I have enough spare parts lying around to build a computer out of after Black Friday, since I am going to get a new, smaller case for my main computer (NZXT Vulcan). I have a couple of spare parts lying around, including a bran new 9600GSO I bought as a gift and never gifted it. I am going to try to name some of the specs of the computer (I am actually at the Mazda dealership getting my car serviced, so bear with me here.
Asus board out of an old HP, with an AMD Athlon 64 X2 (not sure the model, I think 4400+)
4 gigs of RAM
9600GSO 512MB (G94 chip)
Colermaster extreme series 500W PSU
I guess I'm wondering if the computer would have at least some power to play at least basic games (Civ 4, L4D, LoL, etc). I would like to leave this computer at my father's house so I don't have to cart my rig back and forth. I know the 960GSO is not the most powerful card ever (hey, it was $16), would it at lest run some sort of games?
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Hey Gunner! :)
I'm no expert and someone else may be better qualified to give you a more definitive and knowledgeable answer, but in just glancing over the system requirements for the games you mentioned, I'd say you'd be fine with that setup. You'd meet the recommended specs for both L4D and Civ4 easily, and LOL only makes mention of the 8800, which is a faster card than the 9600GSO if you're talking about the GT 512mb, GTS, or GTX versions, although some sources do chalk up the 9600GSO to a rebranded 8800GS. Even still, you'd be able to run it at very decent quality settings. I'd say you'd be safe running any games with comparable requirements. It also depends on factors such as what resolution you're intending to play at.
Link to a review:
They used a Core 2 Quad, which will make a difference when comparing it to your Athlon 64 x2, but as you can see, they tested COD4 and L4D and recommended 1680 x 1050 with High Settings as optimal for both of these games under those hardware conditions with your particular card in the mix.
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Thanks revone!
I will most likely be playing on some sort of spare monitor, probably not much larger than 1280x1024. The 9600GSO I got was the one from TigerDirect that about a month ago, was $16. The card came with COD4, which I assume if they included the game with the card, that the card would at least be able to play it. I figured if it doesn't work or play what I want to, that the case would be a nice spare parts holder, as I could mount the motherboard in it and the card, as well as everything else. It would be nice to have something I could at least use or sell.
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L3 cache and multitasking
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I'm trying to figure out the impact of L3 cache size for a personal laptop, one that I'll use for software development and lots of other work. I usually multitask a lot -- for example a database server, Photoshop, a scripting language, and 50-60 tabs at once, plus maybe other programs. The tabs in Chrome are actually the biggest drain.
I know a bigger L3 cache can be helpful for heavy duty programs, but none of the programs I run is super heavy duty like video editing or compiling a lot of source. There's just a lot of smallish threads going, especially from all the tabs.
I'm trying to figure out if a higher L3 cache would help with this multitasking. I do a lot of work on my computer so performance is important, but I also don't want to get ripped off.
In this particular case I'm comparing the 2.6GHz i7 (6MB L3 cache) and the 2.7GHz i7 (8MB L3 cache) in the new Macbook Pros, so the difference is modest. The price difference is $250 so I won't do it unless it's likely to help a lot.
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When you use tab a lot to travel thourgh applications not even 8 Gbytes ram can help you the CPU is starting to use the swap file on the disk to free some ram.
The l3 cache is fulled easilly with this IO activity and you can see the system cache ram dissapears fast. Try a full windows defender scan to see it or norton 360 scan whille viewing the memory activity in the the task manager to see it happening.
Sugestion speed up dramaticaly your hard disk using 2 ssd's in raid 0, satta iii ports 6 Gbit/sec is possbile to get close to 1 GBytes/sec speed it helps to bypass all the lagging problems.
the larger L3 cache will slow you down as it will need to be swapped out often and it would take, i dunno, 0.1nanosecond longer to fill the extra 2mb's.
ie - I doubt it would ever be noticable on a user level.
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Wireless network "comes and goes"
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Around a year ago, I purchased a D-Link DIR-632 for my home network. I have a bunch of hard-wired devices, and the 632 has 8 ethernet ports, so it seemed like the perfect option. The wireless is mainly used for laptops and cell phones.
A couple of months ago, my Android phone got its Jellybean OS update, and I noticed shortly after that I could only find our home network around half the time. The other half of the time it said, "not in range". I assumed this was phone-related, so I pursued that route.
This weekend, my wife's laptop has started having the same problem, and when she complains about having lost Internet access, I check my phone to find that it's also lost connection. Now I'm starting to suspect a router problem.
For my wireless settings, I have:
* Always enabled
* 802.11 mixed n, g, and b
* Channel 8
* 20MHz channel width
* Visible SSID
* WPA-Personal
* WPA Only (wife's laptop is too old for WPA2, though I've tried "Auto" for here to no avail)
* TKIP and AES cypher
* 3600s interval
I post these in case one of them is a known culprit, but I can't see how any of these would be an issue since they were all fine for nearly a year. Likewise, I can't see how Wi-Fi would randomly cut on and off. I just don't get any of it, but before going out and buying a new router (and possibly having the same issues), I thought I'd ask in case anyone has been down this road before.
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I've tried a few, but all in the middle of the range. Some years ago I read that routers on "auto" will pick channels toward the end of the range (1, 11) and the middle ones would be less "crowded". Silly I suppose, since I live out in the country and can only see at most 4 other Wi-Fi networks.
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No, not really. I pretty much noticed it when my phone got the JB update. Today it was the same thing again. No wireless all morning, then suddenly I'm connected in the afternoon. It's almost like it's on a timer, but it's set to be always available.
What you can do is go into the routers internal settings and under the settings for leases and such see what the help pages say about it. There can be a setting in there that your not noticing or don't realize what it does and it's got you on some kind of timer.
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Season 1 Episode 19
Injustice For All (2)
• Trivia
• At the end, Ultra-Humanite is watching what is definitely Madame Butterfly. The implication is definitely that he's watching the last scene where the female singer finishes her song and just...stands there. But in the opera, Cio-Cio-San (Butterfly) kills herself and dies in Lt. Pinkerton's arms as he cries her name.
• When Superman interrogates Copperhead, you can see his reflection in the one-way mirror behind him. Superman thrusts his head into Copperhead's face, but his image in the mirror doesn't move.
• At the end of the episode, we see both Copperhead and Cheetah in the paddywagon with the other members of the Injustice Gang, even though Copperhead was already arrested and in jail while Cheetah was presumed dead. Bruce Timm once noted their (the producers') original intent was that Grundy killed Cheetah; but when this mistake was shown to them, they decided that it was easier to say she was never killed in the first place.
• After failing to destroy the Watchtower, Lex throws his chair into the TV screen; but later, when he's reviewing the security tape, the screen is fixed.
• In one shot of Batman tied up in the stasis field you can see him with his utility belt on, even though Lex took it from him earlier.
• It's very considerate of Lex not to gag Batman, but just tells Cheetah to gag him "if he causes any more trouble." He already caused trouble once - why give him a second chance? In fact, Batman gets to later negotiate with the traitor because Lex doesn't gag him - whoops.
• Why do they let Copperhead wear his costume in prison, particularly when we saw Lex and Ultra-Humanite in prison uniforms last week?
• Why on Earth do the Leaguers let "the boy scout" interrogate Copperhead - wouldn't Hawkgirl or Green Lantern have had better luck?
• It takes five Justice Leaguers to go to the prison interrogate Copperhead? Only Flash and Superman actually talk to him. They only have one shuttle, but Green Lantern can fly and Batman must have got off the satellite earlier somehow. And even if they only have one shuttle, why not leave two people on the station? Or three?
• So what was the plan Luthor had for when the Justice League was lured to his headquarters? He says, "If we can lure them here, I have a plan", and Batman brings the JL there, but basically it's just another slugfest which ends up with the Gang defeated. After his treatment Luthor says he has a plan to handle the League but again he never displays any such plan.
• Why doesn't Batman telepathically clue in J'onn on his plans and the fact he's paid off the traitor? The stasis field is still down when J'onn sneaks in so it's not like he was short of time. It could be a ploy to get Luthor to drop his guard (J'onn going off on his own is kinda out-of-character so maybe Batman has set things up but this still isn't really clarified).
• Why doesn't J'onn stay intangible aboard the satellite when he goes to investigate? Instead he stays solid and sure enough gets punched out by Grundy.
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• Notes
• All members of the League appear in this episode.
• We get a clearer shot of the Zan and Jayna statues this episode, right before Hawkgirl gets knocked out.
• Note the scene where Grundy interrupts the Joker and they have a brief conversation. In this scene basically Mark Hamill is talking to himself: he voices both characters.
• This episode along with "The Brave And The Bold, Part 1 and 2" and "Injustice For All, Part 1" was released on DVD as Justice League: The Brave And The Bold.
• Originally the part where Grundy captured and took Cheetah offscreen was supposed to be her last appearance (implying that she died). Due to her appearance at the end, the fact that she died has changed.
• Further echoes of the Rock of Ages storyline from JLA #10-15 (and released in trade paperback), with Batman bribing someone within the Gang to betray them.
• Allusions
• Lex Luthor: Et tu, Humanite?
Lex is paraphrasing one of the most famous lines in history, "et tu, Brute?" which means "You too, Brutus?" which were the words spoken by Julius Caesar when he realized one of the assassins about to kill him was his best friend Brutus.
• The Joker: You're despiccable!
'You're despiccable' is Daffy Duck's famous quote - DD is also a Warner Brothers' production.
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1 definition by Ben aka "the Deuce"
The act of watching TV on the couch while surfing the internet using a laptop.
Are you watching TV? Yes. I'm also looking up useless info on the internet. I'm couch browsing.
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1. Buddy Boner
A Buddy Boner is an erection that a man gets while hanging out with his male friends. It doesn't mean that he's gay; it just means that he's having a good time.
When Bill and Mark played poker together they each developed buddy boners. Man, were they ever having a good time.
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1. Raping Spree
Another more fun way of saying killing spree when you have a really high amount of kills while on a killing spree.
John: Hey check out my killing spree I'm raping these guys.
James: Man that's not a killing spree that's a raping spree.
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1. Taiwan Thumb
The condition when an entire side of your thumb is covered in ink from sliding it to smudge your name off an official deportation document.
Man, I was able to avoid being forced to extradite to Kyosha, though now I suffer Taiwan Thumb
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1. cheesestep
basically any genre or subgenre of dnb or dubstep that is straight up wack. characterized by a serious lack of bass, and an excess amount of cheese.
see brostep
me: what the hell is this shit?
you: fucken cheesestep, yo. let's get the fuck outta here!
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1. jar jar
1. Lacking any common sense
2. Fucking careless
3. See Also: asshat
My roomate can be a real asshat sometimes.
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2. Jar Jar
3. jar-jar
Based on the completely unnecessary and gratuitous CG character Jar Jar Binks in the Star Wars prequel, _Phantom Menace_, it has come to refer to any overly obnoxious or heavy-laden computer-generated movie or character therein.
"This film would've been ok except for the fact they jar-jar'd it with all of those over-the-top effects."
"Did you see Jet Li's _The One_? It was bad and a jar-jar extraordinaire!"
4. jarjar
A person that is greatly annoying and/or extremly stupid as to rate in the same category as Jar-Jar.
(See Star Wars Episode I:The Phantom Menace)
Dang!, What were ya thinkin' there jarjar!
5. jar jars
Common word for the female milk providers - breasts.
"Fuck, man, yesterday I almost got knocked out by this eagleby chicks jar jar's when she turned around."
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6. jar jar
7. jar jar
Hey, that Jar Jar Binks totally pwns that whore Jittery.
by Jar Jar March 02, 2003 add a video add an image
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0.037124 | <urn:uuid:ff3fb92f-d273-4dfb-a25b-08201164efd8> | en | 0.957735 | WikiLeaks website kicked off Amazon's servers
But that move exposed WikiLeaks to legal and political pressure.
Seattle-based would not comment on its relationship with WikiLeaks.
As an organization, WikiLeaks has no firm geographic base, but founder Julian Assange sought to establish residency in Sweden to take advantage of laws protecting those who funnel information to the media. However, authorities rejected his application for a residency permit.
Swedish police are now seeking to arrest Australian-born Assange based on allegations of sexual assault stemming from his stay in the country. Assange has denied the charges.
Swedish police issued an international arrest warrant on Wednesday, though they haven't filed formal charges. Assange's whereabouts are unknown.
The Associated Press
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Driving While Phoning? Or Driving While Black?
According to court documents, in February 2007, four cops were hunting for drug activity in the area of the 1200 block of Raum Street NE. Cruising around in two patrol cars, at about 11:45 p.m., the officers passed Kendrick H. Gaines driving in the opposite direction. Cops say they saw a light near his face and figured it for a cell.
Court papers indicate Gaines immediately pulled over when the police turned around to follow and hit the lights. But when cops approached his vehicle, Gaines flung open his car door and sprinted. A chase ensued. Gaines then allegedly pitched a plastic bag full of cocaine and marijuana into an alley. Cops caught up with him and recovered the ditched contraband. Gaines was later convicted of two counts of possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance.
The cops had purportedly seen someone violating the law and made a stop. That stop ostensibly made a drug dealer panic, and led to his arrest. It might all seem a legitimate bust except for one thing: The cell phone Gaines had allegedly been gabbing on was never found.
"The officers subsequently appellant a traffic ticket for violating the hands-free law," according to court papers, "although they did not recover a cellular telephone from appellant's person or seize or take photos of cellular telephone [the police officer] testified he observed inside appellant's car following the arrest."
On appeal, lawyer Donald Dworsky attacked Gaines' conviction on multiple points, including the fact that, during trial, the defense handn't been given the chance to address the fact that D.C. cops use selective enforcement of the city's hands-free law against black males.
During trial, court papers show, one of the officers testified that he observes "between one and fifteen drivers violating the hands-free during a typical eight-hour shift. He stated, however, that he does not conduct a traffic-stop every time he witnesses a hands-free violation."
The officer gave various reasons for this type of selective enforcement–he may have more important things to deal with, for instance–but the trial court would not allow Gaines' defense lawyer to cross-examine the cops further about their motivations.
In yesterday's decision, Dworksy learned from a panel of three judges that his argument was going nowhere: "We find no reversible error and accordingly affirm appellant's convictions," ruled the court.
Dworsky tells City Desk he is convinced the cops pulled Gaines over under false pretenses. The attorney says there are a number of excuses cops use to make "pretextual stops." "The classic is I smelled marijuana," says Dworsky. The cell phone excuse is the latest. He says the problem with pretextual stops is that a "fascist" or "racist" police officer could use them for ill.
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"Driving While Black", these crooked lawyers will try any kind of BULLSHIT defense. First if you are a drug dealer and in a high drug area, why would you give the police ANY excuse to pull you over and considering that MPD has 87% black officers, this dumb ass Gaines must have shit for brains. It's like Shakepeare said, "Kill All The Lawyers"!
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I'd like to see some stats on that "biased enforcement of the hands-free law." I went through a moment last year where I had lost my home cell phone charger, and only had my car charger to get by on for about a week. Added to the fact that I had a really, really crappy phone, I spent a lot of time making calls from my parked car. Lilly white as I am, twice during that one week span, cops pulled in behind/near my parked, turned off car and waited for over 5 minutes, presumably to see if I was going to drive off while still on the phone.
You know who I see using their phones behind the wheel most often? Cops.
3. #3
Rick, if you ever go/have been to court, did you defend yourself? Did you admit guilt to everything you were accused of? I think even if I was guilty, I'd want a lawyer who would get me off by hook or by crook.
4. #4
Mrs. D check the law, DC law exempt cops for the requirement.
5. #5
'Keith B', I am a law abiding tax paying citizen of DC and I have never been in the criminal court system ever!
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0.018634 | <urn:uuid:23b79b28-1afe-4346-a637-7f1c2296a3c7> | en | 0.963111 | Australian security: the lucky country | ZDNet
Australian security: the lucky country
Summary: Does anyone seriously believe that Australian businesses and government agencies manage security any better than the US or UK?
She will, as we say, be right.
Topics: Security, Hardware, Privacy, Storage
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• Privacy laws without teeth
Hi Liam i could not agree more with you on this. The public really has no idea what a mess we could easily be in. Having worked in IT and Security for 20 years i have seen first hand on a number of occasions how bad some of our leading organisations are when it comes to data privacy. Encryption of backups when still using tapes i find is almost non existent. Another area i have seen where significant threats exists is around development systems. These systems need to use real data but a lot of orgs dont hash / scramble this data. And even worse dont apply significant security to the data once it leaves the production systems.
PCI is another area that is also struggling for acceptance in organisations. Its hard to understand the softly approach to data disclosure by all forms of government in Australia especially since the CASB1386 Bill was so applauded in the US.
Well i am sure laptops are been stolen as we speak from cars, smart phones are been left on taxi seats and DVD's are been lost. All with our personal information on them.
• maintain the rage
Keep the spotlight on this issue Liam, our privacy is inextricably linked to the accountability of the organisations which handle our personal information. "Sunlight is the best disinfectant" (Louis Brandeis).
• ARC-QUT Project: "A New Legal Framework for Identifying and Reporting Australian
This project is investigating data security breaches in Australia. Key issues arising from the operation of the different US legal models for data security breach reporting are being examined, having regard to the legal, social and corporate situation in Australia and the ALRC recommendation.
• Here Here!
Australian Politicians and the ALRC are spineless wimps with their heads deeply entrenched in the sand. Identity theft is the fastest growing crime in the world, and to believe that companies would voluntarily admit to data beaches of their customer data is just silly. Keep up the fight - you're not alone. Only until companies are held directly accountable will they focus any time or money on protecting data that directly affects each and every one of us.
• National Security and Identity Theft
I would not go as far as suggesting that they are spineless wimps.
However I would fully agree that it is the fastest growing crime in the world.
With a the loss of "Billions of Dollars".
It must be rembered that first and foremost it is the government departments that are supposed to play the leading role in the security of the nation and it's people, it is paramount that they are seen playing an active role in securing the identity of the data bases and the access to such data under their control, in order to ensure that national security is not compromised.
It is they who are the keeper of, the keeper of the keys.
As there are over 150,000 dead people, "still active" on the medicare data-base then medicare know who they are, their names etc. so they do have the power to de-comission the data.
If an Australian leaves contry for a fixed-period then that persons Identity should be de-activated until their return.
Producing Substantial Identity to re-enter.
Obviously the system is not infallable. as non is.
There will allways be room for improvement.
• Known unknowns
Great article, Liam.
As to the question - how well our government & businesses manage our private information, there is really only one definitive answer:
"As we know,
There are known knowns.
There are things we know we know.
We also know
There are known unknowns.
That is to say
We know there are some things
We do not know.
But there are also unknown unknowns,
The ones we don't know
We don't know."
-Don Rumsfeld
• Lax internal protocols
Protocols around external (customer) identifty management and subsequent access are quite tight.
Where I see significant challenge and risk is with internal identity management - employees. It is farcial and quite frightenting how lax many organisations are in failing to adequately validate and determine the identity of their employees before issuing passwords and granting access to data.
The issue is not just one of a disgruntled employee or ex employee gaining access but one of employee identity theft and practicies to mitigate that leaves the security door wide open...This will be costly in the future, for us consumers and customers but alt also for the company that is breached..
• I.D. Theft and The Document varification System
The document Veification Service has its flaws like any system as we progress into a deeper world of computer technology there is still the isssue of the paper trail and it's I.T. equal.
In order to greatly reduce the number of cloning identity incidences it is vital to "LINK" data-bases such as, B.M.D. Registries, Medicare, Driving Licence Issue Offices, Passport Control,and Passenger Flight Records, and Misper records Etc...
While this is would initially appear to be an almost impossable task and given the cost
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0.032434 | <urn:uuid:e07d5a00-eec4-47d8-94ea-5fad7ee6686b> | en | 0.965271 | Is UK tech education that bad? Google's chairman thinks so | ZDNet
Is UK tech education that bad? Google's chairman thinks so
Summary: Google chairman Eric Schmidt says that education in the UK holds back the country's success in the digital media economy.
Google chairman Eric Schmidt has heavily criticised the primary and secondary education in the United Kingdom, stating that it will "hold the country back" in the digital media market.
In a speech in Edinburgh, Schmidt criticised how children are taught, in particular to areas such as science, engineering and maths -- highlighting the lack of passion children have for the core curriculum.
(Source: Guardian)
Along with his critique of the education system, Schmidt said: "If I may be so impolite, your [the British] track record isn't great."
"Your IT curriculum focuses on teaching how to use software, but gives no insight into how it's made", Schmidt said.
He added: "That is just throwing away your great computing heritage".
He went on to describe how both photography and the television were both invented in Victorian England, during the 19th century, but is no longer the "world leading" in any of the modern day fields.
I agree completely with him. Had my schooling years been filled with an inspirational model of teaching, perhaps my computer science career may not have been cut short at university.
So how can the British education system catch up?
There is no doubt that the passion seems to have dropped in certain core curriculum subjects; mathematics in particular.
Maths at school was always a difficult one in my view. My experience of maths was so much of a chore; I probably would have opted to clean my cluttered teenage bedroom on a daily basis instead.
Perhaps it falls down to the individual teaching style of my tutor -- which, to be completely honest, was not so good -- but also a lack of enthusiasm from the younger people as a whole.
IT is also a tricky one. No doubt the British model applies around the world, kids are not taught to develop or how to build something with code. I believe that developing and mathematics would be considered vastly the same thing; dull, tedious and boring.
As modern languages seem to fail in the British educational system, software development also requires the same skills as learning another language.
Nobody wants to learn how to build a PowerPoint presentation, or the skills necessary to mail merge. Who still uses mail merge, anyway?
These skills are innate to the younger generations -- and the IT curriculum has yet to catch up with a generation of already switched-on youngsters.
Ultimately, methods of teaching have to be blamed. Giving children the key skills to inspire each other and crucially themselves to build something from nothing is what is missing from the current education system.
Children need to be taught to be inspired, rather than key skills that they do not want to learn. If they are taught to want something, and given the skills to be able to go away and build that particular something, then they are already ahead of most.
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• RE: Is UK tech education that bad? Google's chairman thinks so
Who listens to that idiot from Google??? What credibility has he got?
If Bill Gates or people with similar caliber speaks, people will listen.
Cosidering google's business practices, I don't think anybody with reasonable knowledge will listen to these lunatics
• An open minded response..
To an extent I agree, when I was at this level of schooling (6 years ago or so), we only really did things with spreadsheets and the curriculum was terrible. However, I've just graduated from University where the skills highlighted by the guy from Google were included in the course (BSc Computing) and these skills were new to me.
However, my brother who is half way through an IT A-Level (or it might be a diploma) is being taught how to make mobile apps and programming. A totally different course to the one I took when he was this age.
There are MANY different IT qualifications and perhaps some are teaching kids to suck eggs but from my experience compared to my brothers, I would say things are getting better.
• UK Teachers should endorse Mathematica as an educational resource
The free iPad app, Wolfram, gives access to this math resource. (This app was also listed in a recent ZDNet Blogger top ten app list.)
For this who just have internet access, please refer to the Wolfram website for more info and access to Mathematica work books and articles.
BTW, on the Wolfram website, a TED video post by Conrad Wolfram entitled (Stop Teaching Calculating, Start Teaching Math) is available and highly recommended, IMO.
Just a few thoughts from across the pond.
@kenosha7777 Thanks for the comment -- always very much appreciated. If you get time, also check out another TED talk by Sir Ken Robinson -- I believe there are two of them. The oldest is the best, in my opinion, but the second is just as equally informative as it is hilarious. :)
• Thanks, Zack. I'll check out those TED videos
• YES - its so Microsoft product biased
and not IT biased
• Photography history ?
Apparently, education in the US is not that great either: the photography was not "invented in Victorian England".
Mr Schmidt, try this:
or this
• Mike
I was teaching math and physics in different universities in the uk, germany, the Netherlands and US. And I may say that uk students are far far worse and have neither basic skills nor knowledge. I am quite surprised that the uk is still in the list of developed countries. Not sure it will last long with the present level of basic education. | http://www.zdnet.com/blog/igeneration/is-uk-tech-education-that-bad-googles-chairman-thinks-so/12506 | dclm-gs1-016230002 | false | false | {
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It's neither good or bad. It depends what you are trying to achieve.
If the aim is to reduce drug consumption, then decriminalisation is not really achieving that. There is a fairly large group of drug addicts that simply does not respond to drug rehabilitation programs.
If the aim is reduce crime, the article doesn't provide criminal statistics. So it's hard to judge the impact on crime, although intuitively you would think crime would drop.
The biggest fear was that decriminalisation would lead to higher drug consumption., that hasn't happened
The next controversial step is, should you provide free heroin to hard core drug addicts, the ones who for whatever reasons are not responding to drug rehabilitation programs.
The Swiss are thinking about it, or conducting a trial I think, and that raises some thorny ethical questions about moral hazard and duty of care towards patients.
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Craig's likely opponent if he decides to run for reelection, Democrat Larry LaRocco, also tempered his remarks. LaRocco, a former Congressman who ran against Craig numerous times, endured his own mini-scandal back in 1994, when he lost his Congressional seat after it was disclosed that he essentially misled voters about a sexual harassment incident in 1991.
"There's a lot that has to be sorted out," LaRocco told "Right now, it looks like he will fight this so it's a very personal decision on his part."
Some of Craig's former staffers and allies were loyal to him andsaid they believed the senator's remarks during his press conference.
"The facts are still coming out and we owe it to him to hear the facts and weight the evidence," says former Idaho Republican Party executive director Mike Reynoldson, who added that Craig is a "great American and one way or another, he will work his way through it." Reynoldson said that in all the years he worked with Craig, "there was no indication that he's gay."
Jeff Malmen, chief of staff to Idaho governor Butch Otter, served in the same role for Craig in the early 1990s and he was equally supportive of his former boss. "I'd give great deference to Larry Craig. He's always been straightforward when I've been around him." Asked about Craig's tense relationship with the Idaho Statesman, which the senator accused of launching a witchhunt against him with their aggressive coverage of his sexuality, Malmen said that the paper is accused by both Republicans and Democrats of favoring the other side. "I do know that they've spent an enormous amount of time trying to find something on this issue."
The Associated Press contributed to this article
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0.032699 | <urn:uuid:0ef2d020-e2f6-4030-872f-af19379d3f84> | en | 0.973498 | Miss World pageant moved to London
Posted: Saturday, November 23, 2002
KADUNA, Nigeria - The Miss World pageant was canceled in Nigeria today after about 100 people died in rioting triggered by the contest and a newspaper's reference to the prophet Muhammad. Organizers said the event would be held in London.
The decision followed a third day of battles Friday between Muslims and Christians, leaving mosques and churches smoldering and charred bodies laying in the dusty streets.
Organizers said the pageant would be in London on Dec. 7 "in the overall interests of Nigeria and the contestants." The brief statement did not elaborate further on reasons for the change of venue,
The bloodshed was worst in the northern city of Kaduna, where it started Wednesday, but on Friday it spread to Abuja, the capital, where the beauty contest was to be held.
Red Cross officials said about 100 people had been killed and 500 injured in three days.
Fueling the clashes are long-standing hostilities between the various tribes of Muslims and Christians in Africa's most populous nation, where rioting and fighting between the groups is commonplace. Previous riots in Kaduna have escalated into religious battles that have killed hundreds since civilian government replaced military rule in 1999.
Islamic groups have complained for months that beauty pageant scheduled promotes promiscuity.
Things worsened after ThisDay newspaper in Kaduna published an article Saturday suggesting that Islam's prophet would have approved of the pageant.
After Muslims called it offensive, the newspaper published a brief front-page apology Monday, and a lengthier retraction Thursday that said the passage had run by mistake.
Muslims gathered after prayers outside the national mosque in the usually placid capital 225 miles northeast of here and then stormed through town, burning cars and assaulting bystanders they believed to be Christian outside plush international hotels.
Police firing tear gas restored calm in Abuja within hours. But the melee in Kaduna, a religiously mixed city of several million people, continued in defiance of a round-the-clock police curfew.
Plumes of smoke rose over Kaduna Friday as both sides burned and demolished homes in the segregated ethnic neighborhoods across this bustling market city. In one Christian minority district, an old woman sifted through the smoking ruins of her house to retrieve pots and plans.
Five churches and an undetermined number of mosques had been burned by Friday. Red Cross workers retrieved burned bodies for burial.
Through the violence, the Miss World contestants remained under Nigerian police and army guard in the Nicon Hilton in Abuja, the nation's fanciest hotel. President Olusegun Obasanjo said their security would be tightened.
Muslim opposition had already prompted organizers to postpone the finale until after the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
"The show definitely will go on," said pageant publicist Stella Din. She said she was saddened by the deaths but insisted they were not the pageant's fault.
The U.S. State Department appealed for an end to the violence. "We have welcomed assurances by the government for the safety of the Miss World contestants," state department spokesman Philip Reeker said.
Some Kaduna residents sought protection at police stations and military bases. But others accused police and soldiers of gunning down rioters. Shehu Sani of the Kaduna-based Civil Rights Congress said he was shown the bodies of 10 Muslim men who witnesses said were shot by police near a mosque Friday.
Authorities did not immediately comment.
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that funding, which is thurgood marshal, cesar chavez and downtown high school. between the money we do have from the hetch hetchy and money available from transbay funding we can do more schools. >> in terms of allocations, this is a partnership, we have efficiency or renewal projects with city facilities as well. how do you sort of all -- allocate that scarce money to get us to be less reliable on energy. >> you mean allocated between schools and other city departments? is that the question? >> right. >> that is a matter of prioritizing projects. so on the renewable side we have potential portfolio projects we are looking at on city properties and the schools. we go through a process there where we look at roofs of buildings of a structurally sound electrical system in the building. support the system and so forth. we come up with a list of buildings. then within that framework, then depending on project and depending on funding we select the project to fund. >> is it tied into what people pay i want the system? the school pays for energy, i'm guessing. the city pays for energy. it is bas
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was just given that update. >> whitmore will be our guest and he will let us know about this organization and what they meant by they would soon join their dead relatives in heaven. i will be interviewing him live in moments from now. meantime, after over a year in captivity and a notorious iranian prison, one of three american hikers who lost her way on the iraq-iran border is back in america. she is here in new york will in fact, she just spokey united nations where she maintains her innocence in the uh fair. >> shane and josh do not deserve to be in prison one day longer than i was. we committed no crime, and we are not spies. we in no way intended harm to the government or its people and believe a huge misunderstanding lead to our detention and prolonged imprisonment. >> her fiancee, shane and their friend josh remain in tehran's prison. >>> also in new york city, prap not a coincidence -- perhaps not a coincidence, the iranian president meeting with the secretary general. this week he will be attending meetings at the united nations' general assembly. we go now live to washington wit
, everybody, i'm bill hemmer, welcome to america us newsroom. martha: short weekend for us good to see you here, good morning, i'm martha mcoccasionum. one of the highest researchinging republicans in the house says if it is the only option, he will go along with the president. we're talking, of course, about house minority lead john boehner, he got a lot of attention over the weekend with this one, he says he will go for allowing the bush tax cuts to end just for the middle class if that's all he can get, even though he he and her republicans think it would be bad to raise the taxes on anybody. listen to this: >> if the only option i have is to vote for some of those tax reductions, i'll vote for them. but i've been making the point now for months that we need to extend all the current rates for all americans, if we want to get our economy going again and we want to get jobs in america. >> so you are saying you would vote for the middle class tax cuts if that's all you can get done? >> if that's what we can get done, but i think that's bad policy. i don't think that's going to help our ec
will be in shanksville, pennsylvania is karl rove. >> good morning. >> karl, can you bring us through karl rove's account? everyone wants to know about whe you were in 9/11 and how it unfolded? >> i was standing outside of booker elementary school in floda when my phone rang and my assistant said a plane was had flown in the world trade center and it was not known whether it was private or commercial. the president was shaking hans in the elementary school . related the information. condy rice called with the samema sketchy information and that began the day. that was in a staff hold. the president was meeting with students . the second plane went in the world trade center. a fow moments later, the president came in the room. the roo was full of anxiety and thereere little bit of anxiety in the room. he was pretty naturally calm . he said we are atm war give mhee direct to the f.b.i. and the vice-president. >> you document that in our book, karl. one of the images after 9/11 that the rest of the world and rest of americans remember president obama down in ground zero amidst the firefighters a took the bu
. right now the storm 940 miles east of the leeward islands, british virgin islands, u.s. vrnlgen islands. wind speeds 150 miles per hour. it's going to get up to 155, that's category five. still west at 13, still plenty of warm water and not a lot of wind sheer. then let's watch it progress. it will run into shear, some cooler water. bermuda is a question as we head into the weekend. what could it do and when will it make the turn to the north and to the east? that's what we wait for. wonder and watch. we'll have more in a little while. but a big storm brewing in the atlantic. folks, back to you. >> thanks very much, dave. to the latest on the battle over the bush era tax cuts. should they be extended and who should get them? a top republican in congress seems to be willing to make a deal with president obama who wants to limit the tax breaks, but is the gop really ready to make such a deal? and if so, what will it mean for your wallet? cbs news chief white house correspondent chip reid has the latest. >> reporter: good morning. congress is back from recess at long last. and they are exp
he steal the idea from his harvard classmates. they settled for $65 million, now they'll tell us while they think they deserve more. now they'll tell us while they think they deserve more. monday, july 20, 2010. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> and good morning, everyone. welcome to "today" on a monday morning, i'm matt lauer. >> officials in bermuda are saying that they are still trying to assess the damage from hurricane igor. >> hurricane force winds and driving rain has led to extensive power outages. >> it looks pretty this morning. >>> also ahead, former president jimmy cart is in the house and we'll be speaking toim about a number of topics including the rise of the tea party, those two american hikers still being detained in iran and what he seeses a his own place in history. >>> on a different note, there are new problems for lindsay lohan. could the troubled actress be sent back to jai after she admitted that she failed a court ordered drug test. wel have the latest on that story as well. >>> let's given with the damage caused by hurricane igor in bermu
. megyn: you don't know what to do. you as a california guy can tell us, trace, you think earthquake you don't know what to do, you're supposed to just seek shelter. you're not thinking it's a gas line explosion. >> reporter: you think earthquake because of the proximity to the san francisco airport you think plane crash. the jets take off and go right over san bruno. those are the two things that came to people's minds right away, you don't think gas leak. we also learned that the explosion so powerful that the pipe in question, megyn blew a hundred feet in the air. the section of pipe 25 feet a hundred feet in the air. some houses were clearly burned down. did you see the wonder that -- ones that were incinerated. they blew down because of the strength of it. pg & e lowered the pressure in the populated area because they were pushing 2,000 pounds per square inch through this pipe. they have backed that off about 10% until they figure out exactly what pipes are safe and what pipes aren't. as you look at these pictures i want to run a new sound byte from the national transportation safet
increasingly uncomfortable. >> it is. very uncomfortable. but a lot of us are uncomfortable about some breaking news overnight. the scary and alarming story out of california. 14 people missing who police believe are part of a cult. all that they left behind was a bag holding their cell phones, deeds to their property and letters indicating they were eagerly awaiting the end of the world. police, of course, are taking the matter very seriously and put out an alert fearing they may do harm to themselves. there are special fears for the eight children that are with them. so we'll have more. >> one is 3 years old. >>> the other story we have coming up, you know this being from texas, they love football in texas. it's a way of life down there. now, one town is mourning a star high school quarterback. he had just thrown a touchdown pass when he collapsed and died on friday night. this is just the latest tragedy surrounding high school sports and now there is a new push for mandatory heart screenings before they play sports. we'll get into that debate and tell you what you can do to keep your child s
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east, and protests rage across the arab world. what did the attacks say about the the obama administration's foreign policy. and was mitt romney wrong to criticize the response? plus, as the presidential race kicks into high gear, will the presidential post convention bounce last? rumors of the republican tickets demise premature? welcome to the journal editorial report. i'm paul gigot. anti-american protests spread across the arab world this week over a film in defense of islam and the prophet muhammad following the murder thursday of four american diplomates. including united states ambassador chris stevens in benghazi, libya, in what officials believe was a terrorist attack designed to coincide with the anniversary of september 11th. and joining us dan henninger, mary anastasia o'grady and, with the anti-american protests across the arab world this week, tell us about our standing in that part of the world, and the ferment in arabia? >> well, i think, paul, what's happening here is where essentially we came in when the arab spring began in egy egypt, tunisia and spread to
tuesday in cairo. thank you. >> president obama is dealing not only with new violence aimed at diplomatic outposts but a growing debate about what part if any his policies have played in the up roar. chief white house correspondent ed henry has that part of the story on the cam pape trail tonight from columbus, ohio. >> even as president obama campaigns today in ohio, aides say he is getting regular briefing on violence spreading across the muslim world >> what happened this week underscores we face threats in the world. we can't just pull back. >> the top advisors continue to claim the attack that killed chris siebs and three other americans was not planned out and grew out of protest against anti-muslim film. >> the best information and best assessment we have today, in fact this was not a preplanned, premeditated attack. what happened initially this was a spontaneous reaction to what had transpired in cairo as a consequence of the video. >> that was quickly contradicted by the interim president of libya who said he believes al-qaeda was involved around foreigners entered libya to carry
. president obama, when i interviewed him for the book said they were days away from having $5 billion in the u.s. treasury. that's it. now, that's half a day's federal spending. if you think about it, to let that happen -- not just the president, but the republicans -- could have said -- sent shockwaves through the country, could have done things to the american economy that tim geithner, the treasury secretary said would have been worse than the 1930s depression. >> sean: i mean, it's so dysfunctional. it's far worse than we ever said. here's what really bothers me in all of this. we have 25 million un- and under-employed americans. one in six americans in poverty. 49 million americans on food stamps in this country. we are really -- and nearly $6 trillion at the end of obama's first term in new debt. this is be a game anymore. this is about as serious a crisis as we have faced since the great depression and getting worse. >> and this was last year. they fixed it by postponing everything. >> sean: yeah. >> no cut, no tax increases. no sensible alinement of the federal budget. so we
polled believe that president obama deserves to be reelected. 54% say he does not. when asked if they're satisfied with president obama's handling of the economy, one out of every two people said, no, not satisfied, and with some 52% saying that they feel like the country is in worse overall condition than it was four years ago, these polls help define the challenge for the president and his team here at the democratic national convention. chris stirewalt is our fox news digital politics editor and host of "power play" on foxnews.com live. put these in perspective for us. >> well, look, here's the deal. the president knew all along what you and i have talked about, what your viewers have talked about is this, there are two questions in every re-election effort, and the first question is, does this guy, is this guy the guy you want to keep in the job? and then the second question is, is the other guy worth the risk? is he worthy of this challenge? and the president at this moment with just 63 days left until the election headed to charlotte to try to still rally his base has to admit t
one, barack obama, happens to be our commander in chief at the moment. even as our flag is being burned and "death to america" is being chanted all over the middle east, members in of his security team are trying to argue that the united states is more popular that ever before around the globe. believe it or not. watch this. >> look at this map. there have been protests around the world over the last several days. and president obama pledged to repair america's relationships with the muslim world. why does the u.s. seem so impotent and why is the u.s. even less popular today in some of these muslim and arab countries than it was four years ago? >> jake, we are not impotent and we are not even less popular to challenge that assessment. i don't know on what basis you make that judgment. but let me -- >> it seems the u.s. government is powerless as this erupts. >> it's exactly the opposite. >> on what basis, our embassies are being breached, people are being killed, our flag is being burned and "death to america" is being chanted. ambassador rice has just taken his cues from the pre
. they are even tweeting like us. flattery will get you everywhere with the obama administration. the white house was so charmed that they threw egyptian hosnimubarak, an ally who provided us with intelience and in a region smoulder with american hatred under the bus. we didn't know who would replace them. the muslim brotherhood wear suits and they look pretty good 18 months later, the middle east is on fire. our flag is burning in 20 countries. why do i feel like i had seen this movie before? american embassies on fire and american flags desecrate americans kill chants in 20 nations of death to america? didn't i see this movie during the carter administration? are we that gullible? are we that weak? it wasn't two months ago that hilary clinton talked about obama forgives one billion of the billions that egypt owes us. are we so so weak that the president of egypt who of ared two billion dollars. two billion of our taxpayers dollars and takes him two days to condemn the murder of an american ambassador and three other officials? are we that weak to ignore four assaults in benghazi in the last sev
" columnist go head to head over hate toward president obama. charles will be zero if the republic party is missing anything it's sort of this war on women. >> war on women? sandra fluke? she is 30 for god's sake. just shut up for a second, okay? >> dennis miller man oman over the president. >> go factor, go factor. >> caution, you where to enter the no spin zone from massachusetts. the factor begins right now. ♪ ♪ >> bill: hi, i'm bill o'reilly, reporting tonight from washington, more americans murdered by militant muslims. that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. right off the bat offended the far left. they don't want the facts reported about the islam i islamic jihad the followers of allah who kill in the name of their religion. that's tough. my job is to till the truth. in libya, 52-year-old christopher stevens, the american ambassador to that country was murdered last night along with three other american citizens. fox news has obtained information that those killings were apparently planned. not a spontaneous demonstration. but in egypt the situation was very
of 9/11? paul ryan slamming the obama administration over its response. >> i disagree with the original statements that the embassy put out, that the administration put out in cairo, sympathizing with the people who are storming the embassy. we should stand up for our values values and free speech rights. i think that statement was wrong. >> greta: see much more of our interview with congressman ryan. is president obama more worried about winning the election or fighting off terrorists? here's what rush limbaugh thinks. >> the obama camp, the campaign, the white house and the media all condemned romney before they condemned the attacks. obama thought it more worthwhile to hit romney for what he was doing than the terrorrives for what they did. >> greta: you hear much more from rush limbaugh, straight ahead. but first, you are looking live at the u.s. embass necairo, egypt. it is 4:00 a.m., protesters are back outside, our embassy and the protests are turning violent. all night, we are going to be monitoring the live pictures from cairo and sarah palin, blasting president obama over the
on the big show. would you rather have dinner with president obama or mitt romney? a shocking new poll has the shocking answer that will shock you. plus egyptian easy law mists storm our embassy and tear down our flag because they are angry about a movie. take note, michael bay, enough with the transformers crap. and should the seal who wrote the book about the raid about bin laden face prosecution? some say no, but others say yes, as long as they don't have to be the ones that bring him in. >> will we have a better show tonight? last night was lack luster. gyre last night was -- >> last night was my fault. i ruined the whole thing. i feel bad. i wish you hadn't brought it up and let's move on. lean forward, greg. >> you say that a lot, often in the park. go away. >>> let's welcome our guest. she is hotter than a jalapeno covered with magma and tabasco. she is the director of the law fair project ssments her latest book is called "law fair, the war against free speech." why is she against free speech? we will have to ask her. and fresh off a win at the third annual vanilla ice look alike c
than two months before the presidential election the obama administration approved work permits for the first group of young illegal immigrants looking to avoid deportation. it comes three weeks after president obama's controversial policy went into effect and months ahead of schedule. so far 172,000 illegal immigrants have applied. it will cost the government $585 million to carry out over the first two years. critics say it is a ploy to woe hispanic voters. president obama says the policy is the right thing to do. >> moody is issuing a stark warning to congress act now or they will lose the credit rating. it plans to downgrade the u.s. if a debt can't be reached by year's end. it comes a year after the rival. >> after months of speculation they are expected to announce the iphone 5 today. you are looking at the invite to the event in san francisco. a new four inch sis play. >> a tribute in lights. remembering the terror attacks and the nearly 3,000 people who died. they signify of course the two fallen towers. they will shine until sunrise at 6:34 am eastern time this morning.
for the white house has now begun. governor mitt romney and president obama out on the campaign trail today, and they will be shifting their focus, soon, to the fall debates. those could be pivotal in deciding who will finally win the presidential election. good morning, everyone on this sunday, i'm eric sean. >> jamie: hi, i'm jamie colby, good morning to you. thanks for being here. this is a brand new hour, inside america's election headquarters, lots to talk about, because we are now just over three weeks away from the first presidential debate, and, historically, did you know that the candidate who is ahead in mid september, wins in november, usually? but with the polls showing the candidates are locked in a dead heat could the debates this go-around mean more than ever? charlie hurt is a washington times columnist, joining us this morning. charlie, good morning to you. >> good to be with you, jamie. >> jamie: what do you think? do you think the debates will be pivotal for both president and vice president? >> i think, absolutely, i think that obviously, debates are pivotal in one respe
rush limbaugh thinks. >> the obama camp, the campaign, the white house and the media all condemned romney before they condemned the attacks. obama thought it more worthwhile to hit romney for what he was doing, than the terrorists for what they did. >> hear much more from rush limbaugh, straight ahead. but first, you are looking live at the u.s. ermbass necairo, egypt. it is 4:00 a.m. and protesters are back outside our embasset and protests are turning violent. all night, we're going to be monitoring live pictures from cairo. and former alaska governor sarah palin blasting president obama over the violence. governor sarah palin saying, in part... >> i know that you knew the ambassador, or had met him. but very disturbing news. >> we are in a critical period. these attack, the assassination of our ambassador and three of his colleagues is in muslim brotherhood, in libya and egypt have seen weakness and they have acted on it. and the administration has done nothing today to correct the impression that the weakness in our policy remains. i really think the analogy to tehran in 1979 b
. the news is breaking across the globe this hour as you see president obama at a re-election event in golden, colorado, screen right. screen left, and during his campaign remarks, he is expected to talk about what we're seeing on screen right. live pictures of cairo where angry protesters are staged outside of the american embassy again. they have been throwing bottles, there have been clashes all day, and we will continue to monitor the events there along with the president's comments. we'll have a live report from our chief white house correspondent ed henry on what we can expect from the in just a few minutes. in the meantime, u.s. diplomatic posts are on alert this hour. we have witnessed protests in yemen, iraq, egypt, tunisia, bangladesh and, of course, the attack on a u.s. consulate in libya that left four americans, including the u.s. ambassador, dead on the 11-year anniversary of 9/11. that attack first presumed to be linked somehow to a controversial film made by a private citizen in america that depicts the prophet muhammad in a negative light, but now authorities are investigatin
wish i could get wendy and her job back. barak obama and mitt romney will slug it out and talk about economy and jobs and what they'll do to make things better. i truly believe president obama wishes things were better. but after watching his plans fail for four years, i doubt he will make them better. i do think mitt romney understands if they don't have a job they can't buy a hamburger and if wendy's isn't selling enough hamburgers and the ever-rising food prices they will close people like my special friend wendy won't have a job. i don't expect barak obama or mitt romney to fix it all by themselves. and i know they can't personally keep every windy's open. and so my friend wendy will have a job. i would like bark obama and mitt romney to be able to look wendy in the eyes and convince her and me that they really understand who she is. and she matters as much as any banker or broker on wall street that got balled out of their trouble it is not just jobs, it is people. they don't care about the politics. they just want to feel good again. and investigators are not saying that the at
an effigy of president obama. the chaos forcing businesses and public transportation to shut down in the country's main city. in just north africa and the middle east, protests have already sprung up in some 23 different territories, and with reports of a devastating homicide bombing that killed at least 12 people in afghanistan this morning, thicks do not -- things do not appear to be calming down everywhere. we'll have continuing coverage of the ongoing violence, plus new warnings from al-qaeda that more u.s. diplomats could now be in danger. first, though, another fox news alert on the political fallout from a hidden camera video of governor mitt romney that has been leaked online. a liberal site posting snippets of mr. romney speaking to supporters earlier this year. we're told that we could see more of the video any moment now. they said they would be releasing it early this afternoon. and the material that has been released, governor romney talks about people who would most likely support president obama and not governor romney come november. listen here. >> there are 47% of
. obama has not been able to -- lead. watch this. >> you may not agree with me on every issue. and the american people may not agree with me on every issue. but i don't think i have been called anything besides a strong leader. know how it lead. i will bring america together. i will not divide america. i will bring us together to accomplish great things for our great nation. >> to put the rough week of last and the week before that behind them, they are accelerating the battle on the ground, tonight he goes to colorado. and during the course of all of this, their idea is that it will come down to 6 to 10 states stad in most of the state, mr. romney is in a tie or trailing by a point or two, within the margin. every one of the states that will decide the election were won by barack obama four years ago, so romney knows he has to take them back and put them into the red column. >> it's been sometime since mitt romney has been in colorado, why so long? >> 7 weeks and it's a key battleground state. that's a long time for the principle candidate not to be there. paul ryan has been
throughout the world and reportedly chanting obama, we are here to sacrifice for osama. this is 11 years after 9/11. a second attack occurred in libya. it had been even more spending. u.s. ambassador krista stevens, and sean smith and two other individuals were all murdered. stephen worked tirelessly to help the libyan people against qadhafi. now libyans are worried about the violence spreading elsewhere. we have greg live with more. reporter: we are getting more information about the tragic event as the day goes on. along with the libya ambassador, chris stephens and sean smith, two other americans killed. their identities are yet to be made public. believed to be a security issue, they were killed at or around the u.s. consulate in the eastern part of libya. it was a tumultuous event in libya. we have run into a lot in this region, according to the secretary, secretary clinton, he was committed to american values and interests. it is believed by islamists and others, it started off as a protest. it got a lot of traction in the internet throughout the region. then things got very violen
officials are speaking at the ceremony at new york's ground zero. president obama and the first lady attended a ceremony at the passenger today. the president laying a wreath before making comments. >> the true legacy of 9/11 will not be one of fear or hate or division, it will be a safer world, a stronger nation, and a people more united than ever before. god bless the memories of those we lost. jon: you won't have to watch any attack ads today, both the president and republican presidential nominee governor mitt romney pulled all negative ads in honor of 9/11. today governor romney issued this statement. eleven years ago evil descended upon our country taking thousands of lives in an unspeakable act against innocence. america will never forget those who perished. america will never stop caring for the loved ones they left behind and america will remain ever vigilant against those who would do us harm. eric shawn covered the attacks that morning, with us here at fox, he's live at ground zero now. eric, what is going on? >> jon, you know it has been eleven years but it seems as if no
, another failure that cost brave americans their lives. does president obama take responsibility for this reckless program? of course not. he doesn't want that on his record. instead, again he lies pointing the finger of blame, when all else fails blame george w. bush. >> first of all, i think it's important the fast and furious program was begun under the previous administration. >> sean: that is also a lie. here is reaction to the ongoing cover-up that is going on in benghazi, former speaker of the house of representatives, newt gingrich. mr. speaker, welcome back. >> good to be you. >> sean: the ambassador's body dragged through the streets. this is more infuriating thing to me. this is the anniversary of 9/11. apparently we didn't beef up security and the president had no answer last night. we had these attacks and this is about movie trailer released in july. after two weeks of pressure, it's self-evident it was a terror attack and then the president says it was related to the movie. they can't get it straight. do you think they are lying? >> yes. i think the president of th
of president obama. in bangladesh, they burned a makeshift effigy in protest. in india, authorities taking away protesters and blocking internet access. in nigeria, several thousands taking to the street, crying death to america. can you believe this? in malaysia, u.s. citizens told to avoid areas. in uganda, massive protests outside of the the american embassy. and in denmark, they are gearing up for demonstrations planned. rick leventhal is covering it live. reporter: there was plenty of advance warning that things could get ugly today, prompting a wave of closures, embassies, consulates and several other american and french embassies shut them down and indonesia, nigeria, alicia, and others. the government called for peaceful protest, but injury trust tour flags. demonstrators ransacked and set fire to attend movie theaters and set fire to other buildings. at least 15 people were killed, including a driver for a local tv station. in karachi, it got even worse. an protesters exchanging fire from at least a dozen were killed. nearly 100 injured there. more movie theaters were torched along wit
's counting on. with the economic recovery much more intepid, mr. obama is in a difficult position, people polleded thinks he understands, but think that romney, he says romney has no plan to solve them. his assessment. >> it's obama's fault. and governor romney is the only one who knows the secret to creating jobs and growing the economy. that is the pitch. there was a lot of talk about heart truths and bold choices, but nobody actually bothered to tell you what they were. >> here in charlotte, the democrats are turning to technology to make it convention. the entire convention streamed online with people attending interacting with those watching it and translated into spanish to help the president hold on to substantial lead of spanish voters could help him in the west and florida as well. interest in the convenes down from 2008. governor romney's acceptance speech, 10 million fewer tv viewers than john mccain, and the charlotte in the california stadium, and the democrats may struggle to fill the seats. hasn't drawn that many. >> dave: the clint eastwood, is there a buzz about a surpris
outraged by the death of an american worker in bengazi. obama administration was not to condemn attacks on diplomatic. but sympathize those that wage the attacks. this is a situation we should stand up. what are the egyptians saying. you had a little bit of the time to get out of here. i have no idea in libya they clearly couldn't protect it and overwomened boy the numbers. they didn't troy to stop >> chris: just keep in mind all of this blood shed is over a dumb movie by an idiot in florida, the pastor terry jones who threatened to burn the qu'ran. 92 and eventually did. this is not the only foreign policy issue. president obama trying to find time to meet with prime minister netanyahu in person. but one thing on his schedule is confirmed. don't know if he will meet with the prime minister of israel but will sit down with david letterman. congressman, good morning. >> good morning. >> steve: what do you make of the story that the white house nixed the president meeting with the prime minister. the white house said it is not true. >> it is a snub of netanyahu. it is the priorities of th
. the staggering amount of debt. president obama rolled the dice believing that record government spending in peace time would lead to job creation. no matter what the prop begannists tell you that has not happened. the nation's debt has increased more than $5 trillion and what do we have to show for that? what? if the feds continue spending at this rate, the u.s. dollar will collapse. confidence in our dollar must see evaporate. stop the massive borrowing at $3.5 billion a day, a day. vital issue number 2. muslims. president obama is using a soft power approach with the muslim world and was worth trying. he did everything he could to convince muslims that americans are not their enemy. sadly he has not convinced them. millions of muslims continue to hate the u.s.a. as the recent muslim assaults on america prove. even in the fails of that, the obama administration doesn't want to change course. here is what u.n. ambassador susan rice said about the assassination of the american ambassador to libya. what our assessment is as of the president is in fact what began spontaneously in benghazi as a react
and burning american flags. now, all of this amid growing criticism of the obama administration's handling of this international crisis, a crisis that has now led to the murder of four americans, whiching the u.s. ambassador, libya and two former navy seals. >> the world needs american leadership, the middle-east needs american leader help and i intend to be a president that provides the leadership that america respects. >> would you consider the current egyptian regime an ally of the united states? >> i don't think we would consider them an ally, but we don't consider them an enemy. >> we don't have the mutual defense treat weegypt. what we do have is a very strong defense relationship. we expect that strong defense relationship to continue. >> we have sent a sense of weakness to them and a apologetic and shades of the carter administration >> i don't understand this, why of all people, barack obama wants to emulate jimmy carter. >> what this is about is american weakness and the president's inability to lead. >> i want you to know that we will bring those who killed our fellow americans
of tolerance. >> bill: president obama said that back in 2009 as he tried to convince the muslim world he's a friends. but his soft power policy has not worked. we will prove it to you tonight. anti-measure muslims continue to terrorize american embassies and the situation may be getting even more dangerous. laura ingraham has some thoughts. >> all these guys, just beat ago path to your door. >> bill: the president campaigning in some very questionable precincts. we'll show you his foray into pop radio. >> i'm hoping i can get a little magic from you in this interview. >> bill: caution. you are about to enter the no aspirin zone. "the factor" begins right now. >> bill: hi. i'm bill o'reilly. president obama and the muslim world. that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. at first the president took a soft power approach toward the muslim world hoping that by being sensitive he could convince a majority of muslims that the usa was not their enemy. that in response to the bush administration's hard power approach. on june 4, 2009, mr. obama said this in cairo. >> islam has a
of president obama's handling of foreign policy. that is a significant drop, 12 points, there just last month. -- from just last month. fox news digital politics editor chris stirewalt joins us right now. and so the president is doing well in many of these head-to-head matchups including the nbc poll, and yet when you ask that -- that's the overall number i'm talking about -- but when you ask independent voters how they feel he's doing on foreign policy, it appears the events of the past couple of weeks have had some impact. >> very clearly. and here's the deal, megyn, we talked about this at the time that trying to get a grasp on what the political implications of something this large, this complicated and this far-ranging are very difficult in the moments immediately after the death, the killing of the ambassador. and immediately as these protests were starting. now we have a good poll, a quality poll to measure how the president's doing on foreign policy since then, and the answer is poorly. though the original assessments in the political press and some polls reflected this was that peopl
. and barack obama and mitt romney are going to be slugging it out the next six weeks and talk a lot about the economy and jobs and what they're going to do to make things better. you i truly believe president obama wishes things were better, but after watching his plans fail for four years, i doubt he's going be to be able to make them better. i think that mitt romney understands if people don't have a job they can't buy a hamburger at wendy's, if wendy's isn't selling enough hamburgers for the food and insurance and people will close and special friends like wendy, won't have a be job. and i know they can't personally keep every wendy's open just so my little friend wendy will have a job, but i really would like both barack obama and mitt romney to be able to look wendy in the eyes and convince her and me that they really understand who she is and that she matters as much as any banger or broker on wall street that got bailed out of their trouble. you see, it's not just about jobs, it's about people and a lot of them don't care about the politics. they just want to feel good again. [appl
throughout the arab world and a number of the protesters were chanting, obama, obama, we are all osama in reference to osama bin laden and al-qaeda. and to that, the arabian peninsula issued a communique, urging more attacks on u.s. embassies and to quote, bill more american diplomates. according to local press here, the egyptian media, there was a credible threat against the u.s. embassy earlier this month by a jihady group based in the sinai peninsula here. so far that threat has not materialized, but a step up in the security at the american embassy here, just about 100 yards to my left and the roads down to the embassy and 18 foot high concrete blocks, blocking entire roads on the way down to the embassy and obviously, the other embassies around the middle east, around the arab world, we're now seeing a reenforcement with marines sent in to help secure against possible protests coming in the next few weeks, kelly. back to you. >> and leyland, quickly you mentioned obama, obama, we're all usama. that's alarming for those in the western world. and can you tell us what the egyptian au
challenger are going after each other on two online clips. romney camp is hammering president obama on video on youtube where the president said in 1998 that he supported "the redistribution of some resources at some level." today, governor romney said that in contrast, he wants to help americans create wealth. here are the comments from president obama that turned up. >> the trick is figuring out, how do we structure government systems that pool resources and, hence, facilitate redistribution because i believe in redistribution, at least at a certain level, to make sure that everybody has a shot. >>shepard: president obama has responded to a video that turned up on "mother jones" website showing governor romney telling donors the 47 percent of american whose support president obama "believe they are victims and pay no income tax." the obama camp has released an ad showing people reacting negatively to form's comments. yesterday, president obama told david letterman that as commander in chief he has to represent the entire country, not just part of it. here is some of the video where governo
a recording from president obama's past is also getting some attention. the then state lawmaker in this video talks about spreading the wealth. >> i think the trib is figuring out how do we structure government systems that pool resources and hence facilitate some redistribution because i actually believe in redistribution, at least at a certain level, to make sure that everybody's got a shot. martha: raises a lot of philosophical questions about the differences in this campaign. chief political correspondent carl cameron riding the bus with the romney campaign. and he is live from dallas on the way to the airport this morning. good morning, carl, how is all this playing out? >> reporter: well, for republicans, martha they see this something of a rhetorical gold mine opportunity. when you listen to what the president said back when he was a state senator in illinois in 1998 he said structure government, pool resources and redistribute wealth. that to republicans is proof what they have been alleging since the obama administration started, that in effect, the president is trying to completely
in europe. >> any new economic juice could help president obama over mitt romney ahead of the election. the fed chairman denied any political motive. >> we have been successful to be nonpartisan and apolitical and make decisions based entirely on the state of the economy. and needs of the economy for policy accommodation. >> if the new stimulus goes according to plan, the fed projects unemployment could hit 6.5% by 2015. bret? >> bret: financial junkies out there, this is qe3. >> quantitative easing the third round. yes. >> bret: peter, thank you. wall street reacted very positively to the news today. the dow gained 206-1/2. the seventh biggest gain this year. highest close since december of 2007. the s&p 500 was up 23, the nasdaq finished ahead 41-1/2. applications for jobless benefit rose by 15,000 last week. more than expected. to 382,000. part of that is being attributed to work slowdown caused by hurricane isaac. the september jobs number arrives october 5. two days after the first presidential debate. a sharp rise in gasoline costs, drove up wholesale prices by 1.7% in august. bi
their rivals' words to gain an advantage. [cheers] >> we heard then state senator obama talking about redistribution of wealth. >> mitt romney and i are not running to redistribute the wealth. mitt romney and i are running to help americans create wealth. [cheers] >> and governor romney saying nearly half of americans believe they are victims. >> the president certainly doesn't think that men and women on social security are irresponsible or victims. >> shepard: tonight, how the candidates are trying to capitalize on their opponent's own words. plus, did jesus christ have a wife? tonight, a harvard professor says this ancient scrap of papyrus may help settle the debate. some scholars are skeptical. first from fox this wednesday night, governor mitt romney says he does have plans to help the poor and the middle class the white house says president obama does not want to steal from the rich. but tonight each camp is still trying to use the other guy's words against him. a super pac that supports the president is running a new ad based on this comment from governor romney at a private fu
pressure on obama to take a hard line on iran. >> the world tells israel wait, there is still time. i say wait for what? those in the international community who refuse to put red lines before iran, don't have a moral right to place a red light before israel. i you know, the israeli politician and speaker of the knesset and also the author of israel and the will to prevail and before we talk about that statement. your reaction to the riots in libya that happened on tuesday, egypt, happening again today and tunisia and yemen all against american interest. >> you ask why and what is the reasoning in there is no reasoning in the middle east. you are giving them millions of dollars and look at what is happening today. in writing the book, you should not apply the value of reasoning in the u.s.. we live there. it is a tough neighbor. you cannot appease those people. >> brian: you heard the ambassador saying they need friend and we should be patient. >> enough with the friendly and you tried it. president obama tried from the day he was elected. he went to cairo and went and gave a nice speech.
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bush with clinton. he was impeached. yesterday we had the first member of congress to stand up and utter a threat of impeachment against president obama. steve stockman, republican of texas, over the gun issue, said, i will file an impeachment resolution against him. so it really is much the same. there's an oppositional, almost insurgent republican party and democrats who have been sometimes naive about what the opposition really feels, what they're really ready to do, especially the sort of core, hard-core wing of the republican party. >> hey, peter, robert gibbs was just on with us, and it's something you just mentioned. the level of exhaustion within the white house, of the people re-interviewed, that you went back to this year, four years later, how many of them mentioned the exhaustion factors as a component part of what happens to them? >> oh, sure, all of them, basically, i think, suffered it from some way or another. melody barnes, you just had on your program, talked about sleeping with her blackberry and waking up with a start at 3:00 in the morning, suddenly, you kn
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All niceties of brotherhood and necessities of family bonds aside, Dean can't stand Sam.
Dean used to feel guilty. He's been awarded the responsibility to look after his little brother, and to do the job properly, he knows he has to give more than half a damn about him. By now, Dean only feels justified. He sees other families. He's never had the aching desire to conform to normality like Sam has, but that doesn't mean he's not allowed to borrow a dose of uniformity every now and then instead of avoiding it like the plague. He has yet to meet another brother as tolerant as he is of their siblings, and Dean knows better than anyone else that Sam is not low-maintenance. Dean knows that their manner of growing up wasn't the healthiest, nor was it the easiest to cope with, but Sam has started using it as more of an excuse instead of a pule he brings up now and then, and Dean is sick of playing therapist when he has enough analysis to do of his own mind.
He sees the brothers who don't share more physicality than a few tousles over who gets to handle the controller during a video game. He sees brothers who don't walk to school together, let alone even talk in the hallways in between classes. He sees brothers who don't spend every minute of their hour worrying about their sibling when the other isn't home before seven. He sees brothers who aren't each other's best friends, and quite honestly, he wants that more than ever wanting to not deal with lurid sights of headless vampires and werewolves bleeding to death from every orifice.
Dean ruminates over it sometimes, and can't help but wonder if that's how it would have been had his mother remained alive. When he thinks about it, him and Sam aren't amiable material. Sam and Dean gravitate to other sides of the spectrum, and were they only strangers on a street forced to be held hostage in the same cramped location for more than a few hours, he's positive that they both would ultimately be picking locks and breaking windows with their bare elbows just to get out of each other's cumbersome company.
Sam likes raisins in his cereal. Dean doesn't. Sam makes an effort to put conditioner in his hair. Dean doesn't. Sam wants to go to college and break Dean's sanity. Dean doesn't.
Perhaps it's just the way Sam has started to recoil away from it all. Dean wants to blame his teenage hormones for the irrational bipolarity starting to sprout from Sam's behavior, the way his smile is starting to be a rarity even to his brother's eyes, and the way Dean understands that it's him causing his extreme apathy recently. Perhaps it'd be easier to deal with if Dean didn't know that he was the one causing it. He's used to his father being the constant malefactor and summoner of Sam's desolation in the Winchester family, but when the fault lies on his own shoulders, he's unsure of what to do with it. He's not one for apologies, but the way Sam looks at him, as though he's waiting for an apology on Dean's part, isn't something Dean can handle every time he looks at his brother's face, contorted with discontent frowns.
Honestly, Dean hates it.
It's a build-up of things Dean despises. Sam's picked up on all of the habits that grate on Dean's nerves like a chainsaw, small and large, and seemed to grow attached to every single one of them as though they had been in his personality all along.
Sometimes, Dean wonders if Sam's always been this annoying. And then he remembers smaller Sam, innocent Sam, before he had grown a distinguishable personality for Dean to not be fond of. He recalls Sam in his youth very well, round cheeks and incoherent gurgles, fine hair always matted on his forehead and fingers furling around Dean's thumb. He had been so unspeakably delicate back then, nothing but a bundle brimming with unbridled potential. And this is what he's grown into, and Dean, quite frankly, is not impressed.
He regrets to say that he had higher hopes for Sam, and he hates that too.
Sometimes he catches Sam's glance from a few feet away, distant and silent, but still there none the less. Sam might slowly be outgrowing him concerning their height, but Dean is and always will be the older brother, and when Sam looks at him like that, he instantly loses the few years of maturity he's outdoing Sam in by scrapes and scratches. It's absolute condescension, like Dean's something Sam wants to fix, and it doesn't suit Sam's features well. There's rage embedded, straight into the curve of his lips, the poise of his forehead, the grimness of his jaw, and Sam's better off smiling. Dean would tell him just to wipe that goddamn cronyism off his features, but he knows what answer he would get as Sam's reply. That Dean deserves it. He can read faces like they're comic books, and Sam's face very clearly says it's your fault I'm screwed up like this.
And although the feeling is still skin deep, Dean is vindicated. Because for once, they're experiencing the same thing. They both expected better from each other.
And honestly, Dean hates it.
There's something satisfactory about rebelling against John, but there's also something about rebelling against Sam. Sam would be John's favorite if John was looking for a perfect son, but too bad for Sam that John wants someone as tainted as he is, someone willing to do the job, someone willing to sacrifice commonness for the better good, and Dean's proclaimed himself that position partly because he knows Sam won't. Sam doesn't approve of Dean's humanity, mostly because it's started to ebb away, which is why he's shying away from being John's perfect little solider, perfect little hunter as well.
He doesn't approve of Dean's methods of distractions, whether it's blasting music too heavy with guitar strumming to even identify the words in the Impala or turning to willing girls in short skirts and tight shirts when he has something irking him or even just not entertaining him to his par. He doesn't approve the way Dean dismisses his education and throws away his homework. He doesn't approve of the way Dean has started to realize that life is a lot easier when there is never any caring involved. Sometimes, Dean thinks that Sam doesn't approve of his brother in general, and the only reason their personalities are so polarized in the first place is because Sam is doing all in his power to turn into anything but Dean.
Dean doesn't think he's screwed up his life, but Sam does, and he hates him for it.
He doesn't think Sam is anywhere near perfect. Sam wallows in his issues like he's going to die of a brain tumor within twenty-four hours. But for the most part, Sam acts like Dean is his biggest issue.
Dean has spent every year of his life since he's first looked into Sam's half-mast eyelids as they blinked up at his big brother trying to be perfect for Sam, and he hates it. The only thing he's ever achieved is Hell, and Dean is sick of Sam's acceptance, or lack thereof.
Dean has stopped throwing away college response letters before Sam can see them. He used to, early in the morning, get the mail Sam would have requested to be delivered to their motel when they stayed in one town long enough and Sam threw out a few pretend aliases so John wouldn't be enraged by the sight of Sam blatantly applying for college scholarships, and then Dean would stuff them in his pocket until he could find a trash bin he would be certain Sam wouldn't be fishing through. By now, Dean thinks it would be better if Sam would up and leave without a word said as goodbye and head straight for a college dorm where he can live out his dream as a typical boy struggling through school without a gun slipped into his sock. He would much rather have Sam be happy elsewhere than constantly stare at his brooding face, especially when it's his fault. He's starting to grow a prosthetic heart because of all of it.
Dean doesn't consider it self-hate. In the past, he might have viewed it as pity for himself, but he can tell that it's not. He can tell when he watches Sam. When he watches his face.
Honestly, he hates everything about Sam Winchester.
He hates the way his name feels on his tongue. He hates the way his nose twitches when he lies. He hates the way he pours over a math textbook. He hates the way he remains speechless without his own vortex of thoughts when John says something particularly offensive instead of coming to Dean for mollification. He hates the way Sam leaves half of his plate unfinished. He hates the way Sam can't accept blame, or even accept reality. He hates that Sam is so willing to leave Dean in the dust with a pile of dull machetes and never-ending rolls of ammunition, one bullet for every ghost, spirit, demon, and other monsters they run after. He hates the way Sam hates him.
There isn't one single thing Dean likes about his brother. Not a single thing that he's fond of, not a single quirk that makes him smile, not a single joke that makes him laugh, not a single grin that reflects itself onto his own mouth. So when he kisses him tonight before they go to bed, it won't be soft, and it won't be forgiving. It won't even be the impassive connection of lips they've gotten used to lately, like a pair of married elders so used to the feeling of each other's arms around each other it's become routine instead of magic, but instead it'll be rough. Dean wants to use his teeth, straight where Sam's lower lip is soft against his own, rubbing, teasing, bruising until it's bright red. He wants to dig his fingernails into the small of Sam's back and taste Sam's pain, because he's positive that Sam can see his own pain without feeling it.
He almost wants it to hurt, and Dean hates it.
In all candor, all debris of their tedious past aside, all etiquette of sibling love forgotten, all promises and dedication he's sworn to his brother and father alike not considered, Dean knows he would be better off without Sam.
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Many people thought the return of Marc-Andre Fleury and Ryan Whitney would help stabilize the team. That clearly wasn't the case. A 6-1 loss to the Florida Panthers on Jan. 3 sent a message to the hockey world: there are major issues in the Pittsburgh Penguins locker room.
Frustrations boiled over in the game as Sidney Crosby earned 21 penalty minutes when he challenged Panthers' center Brett McLean to a fight. McLean didn't fight back as Crosby shook him and threw him to the ice. Penguins' center Maxime Talbot fought Gregory Campbell two seconds earlier. The Penguins reached their boiling point.
There seem to be two factors that have contributed to the Penguins' lack of success—lack of consistency and a putrid power-play. Where do these two problems stem from?
Power-play coach Mike Yeo should be fired and never allowed back into the league for his 19th ranked power-play which has gone 3-37 in their last 10 games. A power-play unit consisting of Crosby, Malkin, Sykora, Whitney and Letang should be dominate, but the first unit sees a minute or less of ice time to make way for the second unit.
Sergei Gonchar is a huge loss to the power-play, but it's not the sole reason that the power-play has not been efficient. The power-play needs to be simplified to a meat-and-potatoes approach; every team in the league is looking for the back-door play to the right point when the Penguins' power-play hits the ice. It's time to just start throwing pucks to the net.
This team needs consistency—head coach Michel Therrien must need a copy of Webster's Dictionary to learn what it means. Sidney Crosby needs a competent winger to play with him. Juggling Ruslan Fedotenko, Pascal Dupuis and Tyler Kennedy is simply not working. One player gets hot and then cools off as the cycle repeats.
Miroslav Satan had the opportunity to re-ignite his career playing the the 21-year-old Crosby, but can't seem to find his niche. If Satan was played on the wing for more than handful of shifts a game they might be able to establish chemistry. Let's face it, Crosby needs an elite winger; the Penguins need to make a move to get him that elite winger.
Finally—trade Jordan Staal while he still has some value. Staal just signed a four-year extension which bodes well for the Penguins in two regards: if you trade him he's affordable to other teams and he's coming under contract.
Staal's play has been lackluster over the past two seasons and leaving fans wanting more after he notched 29 goals and 42 points in his rookie year. The 20-year-old Thunder Bay, Ont. native is still maturing, but no third line center deserves $4 million contract. Staal packaged together with one of the Penguins' puck-moving defensemen could yield them the scoring winger they need.
General manager Ray Shero knows that at some point they will have to move one or more of their players to comply with the salary cap, why not make that move now and add that spark that this team is looking for.
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0.225231 | <urn:uuid:4f6cbcdb-b9d3-4b4b-89ca-0c8672d9edaa> | en | 0.904913 | Another day, another gold medal for the United States in the pool.
According to the United States Olympic team's official Twitter account, the women stole the show one day after Michael Phelps became the most decorated athlete in Olympic history:
The United States 4x200-meter freestyle relay team comprised of Missy Franklin, Dana Vollmer, Shannon Vreeland and Allison Schmitt broke the Olympic record with a blazing time of seven minutes, 42.92 seconds.
The foursome blew away the field, finishing 1.49 seconds ahead of the silver-medalist Australians and 4.57 seconds before third-place France.
Franklin, the 17-year-old phenom, kept the Americans in the race from the get-go. She touched the wall in third place, less than a half-second behind the leader, Camille Muffat of France.
That sprung 100-meter butterfly gold-medalist Vollmer, who pulled the Americans ahead of the French and into second place behind Australia.
Vreeland kept up the pace, increasing the gap between herself and France's Ophelie-Cyrielle Etienne to ensure that the Schmitt's split would be a two-woman race.
Schmitt dove into the pool needing to make up over a half-second to vault the Americans past Australia and onto the top of the podium.
She did exactly that—and then some—by hunting down Alicia Coutts to complete her team's heart-stopping comeback and bring home the gold medal.
This marks the fourth medal for Schmitt in London, the third for Franklin, the second for Vollmer and the first for Vreeland.
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0.062685 | <urn:uuid:529c8a5a-d8df-4935-b739-8dcfeb3d9172> | en | 0.984899 | The Pittsburgh Pirates are trying to climb back into playoff position and time is running out. As of this article there are only 25 games left in their schedule and they remain a game and a half out of the wild- card spot.
So with this little time remaining, they can not afford to lose many games. But if they must lose a game, last night's 12-2 debacle in PNC against the Cubs was the perfect way to lose.
There is no looking back at last night's game and thinking "Oh man, it was so close."
It is impossible to break down the game and point to one or two places where it could have been won.
It was a complete and utter breakdown on all counts. The pitching was bad, the offense was bad and the defense, with seven errors, was atrocious.
And that is the perfect loss. No one part of the team was let down. Everyone was almost equally terrible.
The bats were shut down by Travis Wood, who let only one hit in six innings. A. J. Burnett only lasted five innings. The defense, starting with first baseman Brock Holt, opened up the flood gates. And left fielder Starling Marte was so bad that it was not obvious that he had played baseball before last night's game.
According to Yahoo Sports, Pirates manager Clint Hurdle called the game their "worst game of the season."
Who could argue with him?
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With time running out, losses can wear down a team, especially ones that got away.
If a team loses 1-0, they can lament that they blew a solid pitching performance and grind their teeth thinking of runners on base.
If a team loses 9-8, it can be agonizing knowing that even mediocre pitching could have secured a win.
If a team blows a lead late, it can have a residual effect into the next day. If a team loses a game on an error or a blown call, it can be devastating.
When a team loses 12-2 to a pitcher who had not won in months and had a defensive day worthy of The Bad News Bears, there is no frustration. No element of the game was wasted. It was a total failure.
As Hurdle said in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, "there's nobody in there that isn't embarrassed to some degree." Well, then that would be a total team effort.
Dust yourselves off, Pirates. The Cardinals lost as well and the wild card is still only a game and a half away.
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0.057948 | <urn:uuid:1fa7598a-2b5e-41f4-a21e-9f5717e91807> | en | 0.967053 | Pros and Cons of Chicago Bulls Building Title Contender Around Derrick Rose
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What are the pros and cons of building a title contender around Derrick Rose? After his prolonged absence, and with his return finally coming this year, the debate resumes.
There are definitely arguments on both sides of the fence, and both sides will argue that the other side lacks objectivity. The truth is, they both do.
There is some danger involved to building a title team around Rose. There is also a lot of potential. Here are both sides of the argument, alternating con and pro, in order of impact.
Con: You Need a Second Star to Win a Title
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One of the most prevalent arguments that opponents of the current Bulls team have is that they, “need a second star.”
The history of the NBA is primarily filled with championship teams that have two, or even three, superstars on the team.
Title tandems and trios include LeBron James, Dwayne Wade and Chris Bosh for the Miami Heat, Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce and Ray Allen for the Boston Celtics, Tim Duncan, Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili for the San Antonio Spurs, Shaquille O’Neal (or Pau Gasol) and Kobe Bryant for the Los Angeles Lakers and Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen for the Chicago Bulls.
Those groups include the basic elements of 17 of the last 22 championship team, which makes for pretty compelling evidence.
The problem is that there’s a bit of a reduction fallacy involved here, as well as some circular reasoning.
Reduction fallacy is when someone takes a complex topic and makes it about a singular thing. It’s also known as a singular-cause fallacy. For example, when people are arguing for or against gun control, and point to a city that does or doesn’t have it, and use crime statistics to “prove” their point, they are committing this fallacy.
Obviously, there is more than one thing that impacts crime. And obviously, there is more than one thing that impacts championships. Defense, offensive systems, coaching, rebounding, role players, bench depth, injuries and a host of other things also play a part.
In each of those cases, you can find equally compelling evidence. For example, since the NBA/ABA merger in 1978, all but five teams who won a title had a top-10 defensive rating. All but eight had a top-10 offensive rating.
Does defense win championships? Does offense? Is it a stars league? The clear answer is yes. Pointing to one reason teams win is shortsighted.
Circular reasoning is when you begin with your conclusion. The circular part of the reasoning here is that some of the “superstars” here could be argued to be stars because they won.
Would Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili be counted as such if they hadn’t won titles? If you move those Spurs teams from the superstar column to the non-superstar column, it evens out some.
Moreover, are there superstar tandems that didn’t win? Chris Paul and Blake Griffin have never won. (But Griffin’s not a superstar! What’s he ever won!?!?!) You see how the fallacy is created.
Some would argue that it’s not about a second star so much as it is a second scorer, but history is filled with teams who only had one player who scored over 20 points per game. Even with Michael Jordan’s Bulls, Pippen only broke the 20 barrier twice in seasons Chicago won a title. Most recently, Dirk Nowtizki’s Dallas Mavericks did so.
Bryant’s Lakers had only one 20-point scorer. The 2008 Boston Celtics had none. The 2007 San Antonio Spurs barely had even one, as Duncan averaged exactly 20.0 points per game. In 2005, they only had one as well. The 2004 Detroit Pistons didn’t have any.
History shows that the need for a “second scorer” is a bit overblown—at least to the point that they need a second guy who can get you 20 points a contest.
Sure, all of those teams have a second player who is hitting around 16-20 points per game, if not three, but the Bulls do have that in Carlos Boozer ad Luol Deng. Jimmy Butler could hit that level, too, as he scored about 15 as a starter.
The bottom line here is that there are many factors that go into winning a title and none of them are universal. While many of the consistencies are found in the Bulls, some are missing. No title team has all of them. While adding a second "star" couldn't hurt, it wouldn't assure a title, nor would not adding one disqualify them.
The Bulls should not, and hopefully won't, entertain offers that don't make them better just to add a star.
Pro: They Already Are a Contender
It’s really a simple fact: The Chicago Bulls have won 85 percent of their games when Derrick Rose, Luol Deng, Carlos Boozer and Joakim Noah have all played. Projected over a full season, that comes out to a 70-win team.
And that’s not even including the breakout of Jimmy Butler.
This is a core that led the league in wins two years in a row. This is a team that still made it to the second round of the playoffs last year without Rose or Deng.
Yet, for some inexplicable reason, people still want to dismiss the success they’ve had as a team, and just reason that if they haven’t won a title, they aren’t a contender for the title. By that logic, neither is Oklahoma City, or any team other than the Miami Heat.
It is actually strange the mental hoops some jump through to deny that Chicago is actually a contender when healthy. Then they argue that pointing to health is “making excuses.” Isn’t denying that health matters making an excuse?
Where was Oklahoma City without Russell Westbrook? Where would Miami be without LeBron James? To dismiss an injury that takes out an elite player as a mere “excuse” is intellectually dishonest. Obviously, who is playing matters.
The bottom line is this: When healthy, the Bulls have shown they can compete with any team in the league, including Miami. They’ve beaten Miami in the “Big Three Era” more than any team in the NBA. Yes, Miami won “when it mattered” in the playoffs, but they were also healthy “when it mattered.”
Arguments that suggest the regular-season games don’t matter to Miami don’t coincide with the way the Heat have conducted themselves for Bulls games before, during and after them. They try just as hard.
The bottom line is that the Bulls have shown over three years that, when healthy, they can go toe to toe with the Heat, and that makes them contenders, period.
Con: Score-First Point Guards Don’t Win Championships
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One argument that holds a little water is that “score-first point guards don’t win championships.” Players such as Steve Francis, Stephon Marberry, Allen Iverson and Gilbert Arenas were able to put up big scoring totals without ever winning an NBA Championship.
And it’s true, they never did, and with the exception of Iverson, none of those three ever had much postseason success at all. Neither did Tiny Archibald until later in his career when he was more of a role player with the Boston Celtics. But when he was scoring 34 points and dishing for 11 dimes in 1973, his team didn’t even make the playoffs.
The problem here is it lumping together a number of very different players, assigning them a common label (which may not even be accurate) then making that label be the “cause” to the “effect” of the team not winning a championship (which brings us back to the reduction fallacy).
Not all of those players are the same, and Rose, just because he scores, is not doomed to championship obscurity nor is he even “like” the others.
For example, in the year that Iverson won the MVP, he averaged 24.2 field-goal attempts per game. When Rose won, he averaged 19.7. That’s 4.5—almost 23 percent—more for Iverson. How are those numbers even remotely comparable? How do they both become “shoot-first” point guards?
And, if a player passes, then the ball comes back to him with four seconds on the clock, and he bails out the team, is that a “shoot-first” point guard, compared to a player who dribbles the ball for the entire shot clock and then fires it off?
Or, if a point guard drives to the rim and dunks instead of passing it to a wing who does the same, are the points counted differently?
“Shoot-first” becomes so nondescript that it becomes meaningless. There are point guards who can score, and there are point guards who can’t. When you look at teams who won championships and had great point guard play, they tended to get both passing and scoring from their point guards.
Teams like the Spurs with Tony Parker, the Pistons with Isiah Thomas first and then Chauncey Billups later, and the Los Angeles Lakers with Magic Johnson all had players whose scoring was a significant part of the formula for their success. Combined, they have 11 championships.
Meanwhile “pass-first” point guards with career scoring averages below 15 points per game, such as John Stockton, Steve Nash, Jason Kidd and Rajon Rondo have either not won titles or done so as role players. Combined, they only have two championships, one of which came on the front-end of Rondo’s career and the other which came on the tail end of Kidd’s.
This notion that so-called “pass-first” point guards are better for winning doesn’t sit well with history. There are point guards who can be relied upon to score, and there are those who cannot be relied upon to score. Those who can’t be have a harder time winning than those who can be.
Where there is some validity to the criticism of Rose is that there are times when he is not a “pass-enough” or “pass-when-he-should” point guard. There are times when he has leaned too much on his scoring ability, forcing shots when he should pass. Of course, he’s still very young, too, and that’s an aspect of maturity.
It’s a weakness Rose has acknowledged and worked on. Before his injury problems started in 2011-12, he was showing progress. Through the first 21 games, he was averaging 23.3 points and 8.2 assists. His attempts were down 18.4 per game. He was assisting on over 40 percent of his teammates' field goals.
This, however, is a very small sample size. Rose needs to show that he can do this over a full season. He also appears to have learned the game better by being injured and merely watching and learning. Again, this sounds nice in theory, but it has yet to be manifested on the court for a full season.
If he can maintain an average of eight or nine assists per game, it should answer the criticisms regarding passing.
Pro: Derrick Rose Is an Extremely Rare and Gifted Player
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Derrick Rose, when healthy, is an extremely rare talent. Some compare Russell Westbrook to him. While Westbrook is a very good player, even he is not Derrick Rose.
This season, Westbrook scored 1,903 points and had 607 assists in 82 games. He is only the sixth player in the modern era to do that, with the others being Michael Jordan, LeBron James, Magic Johnson, Gary Payton and Rose.
Westbrook’s best season falls a 100 points and six assists shy of Rose’s best season. And Westbrook plays on a team which runs a much faster pace and where he has the best catch-and-shoot scorer in the league, Kevin Durant to dish to.
As special as Westbrook is, Rose is even more special.
If you raise that scoring limit to 2,000 points, the players dwindle to James, Jordan and Rose. If you extend the time frame to the entire shot-clock era, John Havlicek, Oscar Robertson and Tiny Archibald are added to the list. Rose and Robertson are the youngest players to ever reach that scoring record, both at 22.
This is not factoring in Rose’s stellar defense either. And yes, it is actually stellar.
In 2012, the only point guard with a lower opponent’s Player Efficiency Rating was Rajon Rondo based on
And lest you believe that is because of the team defense, it’s worth noting that the Bulls were best in the NBA in points given up to opposing point guards in 2011 when Rose was healthy, fifth when he was in and out of the lineup in 2012, and 23rd when he was gone entirely this season.
He also led all starting point guards in points per play against based on data from Synergy, both overall in isolation. So, yes, “stellar” is an apt word to use.
Furthermore, when he was healthy, he was dominating the most elite point guards in the league.
His absence has caused people to forget what a special player he is. When he finally returns, if he can be the same caliber of player, or even better, as some have suggested, (which it seems everyone who has watched him agrees is the case), maybe they will remember.
Maybe he’ll never be himself again. Maybe everyone who is watching him is overstating things. Maybe his jump shot isn’t better. Maybe it’s all just a bunch of hyperbole and public relations. Or maybe, he actually will come back as good as or better than he was.
What I do know is that all those players that make the 2000/600 list won championships in their careers. Players that special end up with rings. Just because he hasn’t won one yet at the ripe old age of 24 doesn’t mean he never will.
Con: Derrick Rose Is Injury-Prone and Doesn’t Have the Heart
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No one can lead a team through the postseason from the bench, but Derrick Rose tried. If you’re injured, you’re not helping. And Derrick Rose should have played instead of cheering this postseason. That is the new favorite criticism of Rose.
He missed five games through his first five seasons. Then he missed 27 games due to an assortment of injuries in 2012 and the entire season in 2013. Is that the start of a troubling trend or just one bad season that turned into two?
2012 had the smell of what is called “compensation injury,” where a payer returns early from injury and keeps getting new injuries due to compensating from the old injury. Eventually, that may have led to him getting the torn ACL in the playoffs.
Whether he could have, or should have, returned earlier is a matter that Bulls fans and non-Bulls fans alike have settled into solid positions on, most without any clue as to what they’re talking about. Really, how many of us actually have a personal or medical relationship with Rose and know what the situation is?
Either way, no one is changing their mind at this point, regardless of what their position is. The cement has set, and there’s not much else to discuss. It won’t matter the second game of next season anyway.
Whether he is “soft” or will play through injuries in the future is something only the future knows. He’s played through injuries in the past, and it’s cost him. Whether he’ll get injured more frequently, whether his knee will hold up to the intense torque he puts on it, and so on—all these things are completely unpredictable things.
The injuries he’s had are acute, not chronic, though. It’s not a singular problem—repeatedly flaring up—such as Joakim Noah’s plantar fasciitis. If his knee becomes a chronic problem, the Bulls are in serious trouble. Spending a max-salary on a player repeatedly in and out of the lineup never goes well.
This season will tell a lot about his health, his future, and correspondingly, the future of the Bulls.
Pro: Tom Thibodeau
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One reason the Chicago Bulls don’t need a second star is that they already have one, but he’s just not a player.
There are two head coaches in the league whose systems are so overwhelmingly successful that they essentially sub as a superstar, Gregg Popovich and Tom Thibodeau.
Thibodeau has a 20-plus-year history of managing the best defenses in the league, season after season. The players change, the teams change, the conference changes, the rules change, the stars change.
What never seems to change is that, every year, whichever defense he’s managing is one of the league’s best. In the last 23 years, he’s coached one of the 10 best defenses 20 times. He’s had one of the leagues six best (top 20 percent) in each of the last 10 years.
Even in a year like this year, where so many of his best defensive players, Rose, Joakim Noah, Luol Deng and Taj Gibson are going down and missing major time, he keeps one of the elite defenses on the court.
He had a team that saw Marco Belinelli and Nate Robinson, two of the worst defensive backcourt players in the league coming into the season, spend more than 1,000 minutes on the court and have above-average defense when they played together.
They gave up 105.8 points, slightly below the league average of 105.9. That’s not great, but it’s better than they were.
Tom Thibodeau could take five slightly overweight, middle-aged men (why are you looking at me?) off the lunch league at the YMCA and have them playing NBA-caliber defense in two months. He’s a difference-maker. He makes players better defenders.
The reason the Bulls made it to the second round this year, even without Rose playing a single minute, is that the team isn’t just built around Rose. It’s built around Rose and Thibodeau’s system.
The pair made it to the Eastern Conference Finals in their one semi-healthy run. (Rose did have a grade-2 ankle sprain after all). How about giving them at least a second chance before calling this experiment a failure?
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0.018665 | <urn:uuid:b06051d1-d807-4644-bfdf-50f79bb69ea5> | en | 0.970865 | Soon after leaving Sanford Stadium, I began to ponder one of the most exciting games I've witnessed "Between the Hedges" (and I've been to a lot of games).
If you had told me that the final score would be 41-37, and that the Dawgs would need a goal line pass batted down from none other than Rennie Curran to win the game, I would have sooner believed that Oklahoma State would lose to Houston.
Unfortunately, it is never much fun to watch a future ESPN classic when it's your team's record on the line. And before I focus on the negative aspects of this game, I'd like to point out that our Bulldogs made clutch plays when it mattered, Joe Cox proved the doubters wrong (like I said he would), and Blair Walsh can boot the ball out of the endzone!
Oh yeah, and where did Brandon Boykin come from?! I think the Bulldog nation is going to grow to love this kid!
In addition, the Bulldogs had three turnovers that resulted in seventeen points for the Gamecocks. Therefore, if the Bulldogs avoid those turnovers, the score is 41-20 (a much more respectable result).
When we started this season, we knew we were in for some heart-pounding games, and we knew that sometimes they wouldn't go our way. Last night was an example of that, and after only our first two games, the Georgia Bulldogs looked about as different as night and day when comparing the game against OSU to the game against USC.
Against Oklahoma State, the Bulldog offense only generated 257 yards, only had 58 penalty yards and Joe Cox only completed 50 percent of his passes. The defense held the explosive Cowboy offense to 307 total yards.
Against South Carolina, the Bulldog offense had 308 yards of total offense, had 108 penalty yards (although officiating was downright horrible), Joe Cox completed 70 percent of his passes with two touchdowns. While the defense allowed 427 yards of total offense, 313 of which were passing yards.
So, the question is: What Bulldog team will show up each week?
Will it be the offense that is efficient and makes great great plays, or the offense that is stagnant and can't get the ball into the hands of their playmakers?
Will it be the defense that plays lights-out, or the porous defense of 2008 that can't stop some of the worst offenses in college football?
I expect many more nail-biters as the season progresses, which can't be good for the Bulldog Nation's health. The Dawgs may be 1-2 when they play Arizona State on the 26th.
However, on a more optimistic note, we're first in the SEC East!
What do the Bulldogs need to work on before heading to Arkansas?
If the Bulldogs are going to compete period, the secondary must improve drastically. Other than one interception, the safeties and cornerbacks looked pitiful. That's got to change. I also wouldn't mind seeing Richard Samuel get more carries as well.
Game-changing play:
After fumbling a kick return that gave the Gamecocks a 17-7 lead, Branden Smith redeemed himself on a reverse that went for 61 yards in the beginning of the second quarter. This play sent the crowd into a frenzy, and gave the Bulldogs a 21-17 lead. Georgia would not trail the rest of the game.
Offensive Player of the Game: A.J. Green
Green had 86 yards on six receptions and a touchdown. He became the big-time target for Joe Cox that everyone knew he would be. Starting off the season with 138 yards, not bad.
Defensive Player of the Game: Rennie Curran
15 tackles and the game-winning pass deflection. Curran is a player that never fails to get your adrenaline pumping
Special Teams Player of the Game: Brandon Boykin
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0.019626 | <urn:uuid:aba9ae6d-33bd-40a8-ad0b-8322283875e8> | en | 0.974941 | No, that headline is not a joke. The Pittsburgh Steelers face off against the Baltimore Ravens this week after a dominant display against the New England Patriots. That victory against the Patriots came at a heavy cost, however, as LaMarr Woodley became the third linebacker that the Steelers have lost to injury.
Overcoming the loss of James Farrior wasn't a major issue, and neither was the loss of Harrison because of Lawrence Timmons' versatility. However, no 3-4 team could deal with losing their top three outside linebackers.
Jason Worilds, the team's first choice backup—outside of Timmons—at the position, is also suffering, and his status is unclear.
Needless to say, the Steelers have very limited options heading into what is a must win game, at least for the fans, against a divisional rival. However, it gets worse.
Stevenson Sylvester played very little against the Patriots; whether by design or due to a lack of production, it is a worrying sign. Sylvester will definitely see the field this weekend and likely play every snap that isn't an obvious passing situation.
Some will call for the Steelers to use Polamalu in that position, much like they did to the Patriots with great success.
Unfortunately, the Steelers' hands are tied there also.
Polamalu was able to stay in the middle of the field after Woodley's injury because rookie Chris Carter entered the game. Carter at least is not injured. By all means, I have no reason not to believe he is fully healthy.
Carter cannot start in this game either, though.
The ex-Fresno State standout had a solid showing against the Patriots despite making little real impact as a rusher. Carter wasn't ever really at fault for anything, and the defense didn't miss a beat without him in the team, even if the pass rush had to come from elsewhere.
Without a dominant rushing game or huge offensive linemen, Carter's size and strength weren't exposed. Carter is not a big player for his position. Sebastien Vollmer, who LaMarr Woodley had dominated physically throughout the game, was able to easily lock onto Carter during the Patriots game.
Of course, it is unfair to compare him to arguably the strongest outside linebacker in the league, but nonetheless, Carter's presence in the defense would give the Ravens a major advantage.
Unlike the Patriots, the Ravens will run the ball on this defense...a lot!
Outside of Carter, there are no other natural outside linebackers to play the position. The best player suited for the job is the Steelers All-Pro star safety.
For some, the idea of moving the team's star player away from his natural position is simply idiotic, but that is a short sighted view. If Troy Polamalu is moved to outside linebacker, I have no doubt that he will be able to play the position to a greater effect than Carter.
Of course, this isn't a computer game; you can't just move him and have a slight ratings drop. It will be difficult and Polamalu won't be anything like LaMarr Woodley, but he at least would allow the Steelers to have 11 strong defenders on the field.
Ryan Mundy has somewhat been slowly emerging in his backup role over the past year or two.
Mundy filled in for Polamalu effectively in two starts last season and played extensively, to great effect, last week. Mundy is not a young player anymore; he has the experience and physical talents to be a starter in this league.
He is also a player that will fit the Steelers game plan. Mundy is a natural free safety with good range and size.
The Baltimore Ravens will play a completely different type of football game to the New England Patriots, provided that Cam Cameron has learned from the last few weeks. Joe Flacco showed last week that he is not a dink and dunk quarterback, Flacco will be looking to throw the ball down the field and work off of play action from a strong running game.
With two natural free safeties, Ryan Clark and Mundy, at the back of the defense, it will be easier to keep guys like Anquan Boldin and Torrey Smith in front of the defense. The Ravens will not beat you with underneath and intermediate throws.
A huge loss for the Ravens is Lee Evans, who hasn't featured in recent weeks. Evans was a guy I singled out before the season that would seriously hurt the Steelers secondary by forcing Ike Taylor to cover him.
That was a major reason why the Steelers defense struggled in Week 1.
Taylor was dominant last week against Wes Welker and has been very consistent this year as a whole. Without Evans on the field, the Steelers will be able to move Taylor back to Anquan Boldin. With Keenan Lewis also excelling and William Gay potentially winning over some of his doubters, the Steelers secondary would be in fine shape without Polamalu for a short period.
The Pittsburgh Steelers have a tough decision to make this weekend without three of their starting linebackers and one crucial backup. After Dick LeBeau's performance last week, there is no doubt that he will make the best decision for his football team.
In my mind, the best decision is to prevent any passengers from starting on the defense. Look at how well that worked without Farrior last week.
The Baltimore Ravens may not be the best offense in the league, but if you give them an easy target to play through, they will take advantage of it in a matchup such as this.
Troy Polamalu's versatility and discipline may be under a huge amount of scrutiny this weekend, I, for one, believe that Polamalu's commitment to his team doesn't prevent him from moving positions.
At the very least, we know that Polamalu will have no problem trying. This is the same guy that once asked Bill Cowher if he could go in at running back in a playoff game.
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Eastside Story: The Way We Were
There are those out there who love the “new” Eastside, and then there are those that love the old, or should it be “olde”? Eastside. The pre 80′s Eastside before Microsoft and some other business interests arrived and the landscape and inhabitants would change the face of Bellevue forever.
The Eastside Heritage Center has put this You Tube offering together and you can veiw it online at Eastside Business.
Can you see any places you remember? What is there now?
For more Eastside history check out
Anyone of you remember being able to park right smack dab in front of Nordstroms?
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• RLozano
Ms. Kutch, on the surface, your article brings to light a very sad situation, compounded by the screaming desperation of protesters, however, when you dig deeper, this story has a lot more to say about the supposed love for humanity. I can only assume that this couple waited three weeks to abort their child because they were being guided by someone they trusted, unfortunately, that person misguided a couple in their time of need and manipulated the situation into a day of murder. Yes, it’s murder. This child was in a time of physical and spiritual need. He needed an advocate and couldn’t even count on his own parents to advocate for him. Why was it better for the parents to pay an abortionist to rip this child from his mother’s womb instead of allowing the mother and child their dignity until God decided that it was time for this child to return to HIM? These parents were torn because they were being asked to murder this child because they would eventually have to suffer at the sight of his imperfections. If, as you say, this child was doomed to an early death, why was it important to kill him ahead of his time? Now, I don’t agree with the yelling and name calling that some protesters engage in, but these people were that child’s only advocate. They were desperately trying to help the mother react to her situation and realize that she was about to murder her own child!! In their desperation of knowing the horrors of abortion clinics and the history of many abortionists, they – the protesters – were desperately trying to save this baby from being murdered at the hands of his own parents; not to mention, trying to keep them from making a decision that would haunt them for the rest of their lives and it will. Ms. Kutch, take away the emotion and start writing about the facts. The fact is that these parents were tricked into thinking that murdering their child was in the best interest of their family. The fact is that 50 million+ children have been murdered in the U.S. through abortion since 1973. The fact is that women, children, men and families are suffering incredible trauma and loss because of these decisions and, although misguided, the protesters were doing their best to try to save the situation. THAT doesn’t make them any less Christian than the parents who, although misguided, murdered their own child in the name of comfort.
• http://blogcritics.org/writers/irene-athena irene athena
There’s not too much to add here, except that I have met people who are happy that someone spoke to their moms, gently and helpfully, the way you described Jesus would, Caitlyn, as the moms were going INTO the abortion clinics, and not on their way out.
As far as the “hard cases” go, there are few issues that cause the exchange of more vitriol and false information (from BOTH sides), so I’ll stay out of it. I think you, Caitlyn, and you RLozano, have discussed the issue graciously, politely, and rationally, but I would have gone a little more lightly on the use of scare quotes around the word Christian, and the use of the word “murder.”
• Brian aka Guppusmaximus
Well, when such important things in life are left up to translation from a book, does it really appall you?! Especially when you have zealous people, like commenter #1, who think it’s better for someone to go through twice the pain & misery because they fear their own mortality due to some fairytale.
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Breaking the Vicious Cycle of Meaningless Evaluations
In this editorial, Collin Hitt of the Illinois Policy Institute argues that strong teacher tenure protections create a vicious cycle in teacher evaluation:
In a nutshell: Today, teacher evaluations are not used to inform personnel decisions. Therefore, on balance, they are not conducted with earnest (sic). Therefore, they lack accurate information. Therefore, as poor meters of quality, they have no business being used to inform school-level policy. Therefore, they cannot be used to inform personnel decisions.
In other words, principals are smart enough to know that the evaluation process itself is an ineffective way to get rid of a bad teacher. So what do practical-minded principals do? The editorial quotes Dr. Timothy Knowles of the University of Chicago:
In interviews with 40 principals, 37 admitted to using some type of harassing supervision—cajoling, pressuring or threatening—to get teachers to leave in order to circumvent the byzantine removal process mandated by the union contract... This pathological status quo feeds upon itself: The more difficult it is for principals to address underperformance, the more likely they are to use informal methods to do so. This fuels labor's argument that management is capricious, strengthening their case for increased employment protection.
It's understandable why principals do this, but as Knowles points out, this undermines their credibility as evaluators. If we want our judgments as professionals to be taken seriously, we must craft them with great seriousness. It seems to me that there is only one way out of this cycle: principals must take the lead in conducting meaningful evaluations, even if it takes a few years for policymakers to create a stronger link between evaluations and dismissal.
Imagine how powerful it would be if lawmakers could see how difficult it is to dismiss an unsatisfactory teacher. If Chicago Public Schools principals turned in five hundred or a thousand unsatisfactory ratings next year instead of just a handful, what kind of attention would that garner? Imagine if lawmakers could see the litigation costs districts face in dismissal proceedings—would they not immediately intervene? Right now, though, all they see is a giant stack of "satisfactory" ratings, with no way to tell which teachers deserve them and which don't. As a result, efforts to reform teacher evaluation (such as using formulas that incorporate student test scores) seem increasingly to be designed to work around principals rather than through them.
This is our work as principals, and we need to take it seriously in order to break the cycle of meaningless, useful evaluations.
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There are lots of troubleshooting articles about how to diagnose connectivity problems when setting up database mirroring, especially errors such as these:
Msg 1418, Level 16, State 1, Line 2
The server network address "tcp://" can not be reached or does not exist. Check the network address name and that the ports for the local and remote endpoints are operational.
Msg 1456, Level 16, State 3, Line 1
but here's something a little different.
Imagine that you have a server which is not connected to a domain. It might just be a standalone machine, it could be a virtual machine that you've just built. I've done this a few times in virtual environments to do demos on laptops and the like. It's a not a production scenario that you'd come across really, but it works really well in test.
The questions that usually come up are how can I configure the partners (and endpoints) without having a FQDN, since I'm not connected to a domain, I'm just in "WORKGROUP". SQL Server still wants you to use FQDN formatting for the partner addresses. When you're trying to configure it, you might have even encountered an error like this when trying to start mirroring (depending on exactly how you did the setup)
There is no compatible authentication protocol. State 21
What you need to do to be able to set this up is as follows:
1. adding "local" as the primary DNS suffix as in detailed this article here (ok it's about exchange server but it works the same)
(remember to reboot)
2. You can now specify FQDN formatted names for the local machine in the format:
For the principal:
For the mirror
(Or other port numbers of your choice, but remember that they'll need to be different)
3. You'll need these ports as exceptions in Windows Firewall if you're running it (I was even though it was a local machine!)
4. My endpoints are setup like this (but I just did them through the GUI) there's nothing exceptional here:
You can now run some cool tests and demos without ever being connected to a network.
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Democratic insiders want U.S. Rep. Ed Markey to run for Senate against, most likely, our own new Hamlet, Scott Brown.
I’m betting on South Boston’s Steve Lynch instead.
Yesterday I saw Lynch’s barn coat, ready for action, hanging in the front hall of his G Street home.
“It’s canvas,” said his wife, Margaret. “Carhartt.”
He bought it for “48 bucks at Sears,” Lynch himself recently told some Plymouth Democrats, adding that Brown’s suede barn coat “cost about 1,600 bucks at Saks.”
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Madge, your irrational hatrid of Scott Brown is amusing, But rember this Steve Lynch will now have to run a statewide campaign, he will NOT have the luxury of a Gerrymandered district to back him up . Also being a union lap dog in Southie is not exactly a big plus outside of Rt 128
+4 -2
Just a second Marge, does Lynch have an "R" or a "D" beside his name?? If it is a "D" and Markey has a "D" and Taxachusetts voters get confused, then what??
+3 -1
What do they call a state/country where one party rules with impunity? Germany had it in 1940. So did Italy. China has it today. So does North Korea. And of course, Massachusetts. Only we are such liberal minded fools that we still believe our votes make a difference. Waste and fraud the Massachusetts Democrat way. That's what you love Margey.
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Can the Irish Catholic man from Southie carry the working class vote state wide, south of 128, is that where Stephen Lynch will find Mr. Markey or are you suggesting the debate take place in Maryland ?
+2 -1
Being male, Catholic and from Europe is a de facto hate crime. The primary should be a blast, which insider can become a bigger victim. The victim vote will win out. I bet Lynch wins, but only until the party establishment can find a female of color to fly in from Chicago and back with overwhelming money and organization.. Then perhaps the denizen of Southie and it's South Shore ex-pats will know their day has passed.
+2 -1
Marge and the rest of the libs spent 50 years voting in the degenerate Ted Kennedy the furthest thing from a work boot wearing regular guy.
+3 -2
Marge, you're an idiot... Haven't you been paying attention to the corrupt political process in this state the last 6 years? It won't be lynch or markey, it will be the black, baraq hussein obozo approved harvard professor (the name escapes me) who like the last obozo approved harvard proffessor isn't qualified or even from here but unlike liawatha, IS an actual minority. And just like last year, those who run will be forced out, have their campaign debt paid off or just ignored by the state democratic committee. . . . . . . Now go back to Maine and listen to potential zumba jurors describe their kinkiest fetishes, It's more to your liking and appeals to your prurient interests.
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Well there you have it from Moonbat Madge. Because the left-wing loon lynch bought a $48 coat from Sears, he's obviously the most well-qualified candidate for the senate. It's amazing Moonbat Madge can write such drivel and actually get paid for it. What a country. | http://bostonherald.com/comments/1062317166 | dclm-gs1-016580002 | false | true | {
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Arthur Zimmermann.
Arthur Zimmermann (October 5, 1864 – June 6, 1940) was State Secretary for Foreign Affairs of the German Empire from November 22, 1916, until his resignation on August 6, 1917. His name is associated with the Zimmermann Telegram during World War I. However, he was also closely involved in plans to support an Irish rebellion, an Indian rebellion, and to help the Communists undermine Tsarist Russia. He has been called "arguably the most destructive person of the twentieth century."[1]
He was born in Marggrabowa, East Prussia, then in the Kingdom of Prussia (present-day Olecko, Mazury, Poland), and died of pneumonia in Berlin. He studied law from 1884 to 1887 in Königsberg, East Prussia, and Leipzig. A period as a junior lawyer followed and later he received his doctorate of law. In 1893, he took up a career in diplomacy and entered the consular service in Berlin. He arrived in China in 1896 (Canton in 1898), and rose to the rank of consul in 1900. While stationed in the Far East, he witnessed the Boxer Rebellion in China.
Later he was called to the Foreign Office, became Under Secretary of State in 1911, and on November 24, 1916, he accepted his confirmation as Secretary of State, succeeding Gottlieb von Jagow in this position. Actually, he had assumed a large share of his superior's negotiations with foreign envoys for several years prior to his appointment because of von Jagow's reservedness in office. He was the first non-aristocrat to serve as foreign secretary.
As acting secretary he had also taken part in the so-called Kronrat, the deliberations in 1914, with Kaiser Wilhelm II and Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg, in which the decision was taken to support Austria-Hungary after the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria at Sarajevo, which ultimately was to lead to the outbreak of war. He later disavowed the name Kronrat since it was the Kaiser's opinion that was decisive in the discussion, but with which Bethmann Hollweg and Zimmermann concurred.
Irish rebellion[edit]
In late 1914 Zimmermann was visited by Roger Casement, the Irish revolutionary. A plan was laid to land 25,000 soldiers in the west of Ireland with 75,000 rifles. However, the German general staff did not agree. In April 1916 Casement returned to Ireland in a U-boat and was captured and executed. A German ship (the Libau) renamed the Aud, flying Norwegian colours, shipped 20,000 rifles to the south Irish coast, but it failed to link up with the rebels and was scuttled. Planning on this support, a minority of the Irish volunteers launched the Easter Rising in Dublin. Though the Rising failed, its political effect led on to the Anglo-Irish war in 1919–1922 and the formation of the Irish Free State.
Zimmermann telegram and resignation[edit]
On August 6, 1917, he resigned as foreign secretary and was succeeded by Richard von Kühlmann.
One of the causes of his resignation was the famous Zimmerman Telegram he sent on January 16, 1917. Two-and a half years into World War I, the United States had maintained a status of neutrality while the Allied armies had been fighting those of the Central Powers in the trenches of northern France and Belgium. Although President Woodrow Wilson had been re-elected – winning the election on the slogan, "He kept us out of the war" – it became increasingly difficult to maintain that position.
After the Royal Navy had been engaged in a successful naval blockade against all German shipping for some time, the German Supreme High Command concluded that only a total submarine offensive would break the stranglehold. Although the decision was made on January 9, 1917, the Americans were not informed of the operation until January 31. The Germans abrogated their Sussex pledge (not to sink merchant ships without due warning and to save human lives wherever possible) and began an unrestricted U-boat campaign on February 1, 1917. Since it was obvious that US shipping would also come under attack in the course of this operation, it became just a matter of time before the USA was drawn into the conflict. The US was very angered by this and was surprised that Germany would plan such an attack on them.
On 16 January 1917 Foreign Secretary Zimmermann sent the telegram to the German ambassador in Washington, Johann von Bernstorff, who in his turn forwarded it secretly to the German ambassador in Mexico, Heinrich von Eckardt.
British intelligence intercepted it on 17 January, but were unable to decipher it at that stage as it had been sent in a new code which neither the British cryptographers nor the German embassy in Mexico possessed. It was only when it had been transcribed for von Eckardt into the old code, which too was duly intercepted, that the British were able to compare the two codes and so were able to read the latest code and learn the contents of the message.
It was at this stage that British intelligence realized that to transmit the telegram without delay to President Wilson would indicate to the Germans that Britain was able to decipher their codes, a fact which would jeopardize British intelligence operations. A British agent then obtained a copy of the Mexican version of the cable, with slight variations in the text, and thus rendered it plausible how Britain knew of the telegram.
On February 24, the telegram was finally delivered to the US ambassador in Britain, Walter Hines Page, who two days later retransmitted it to President Wilson. On March 1, the United States Government passed the text of the telegram to the press.
At first, some sectors of the US papers, especially those of the Hearst press empire, questioned whether the telegram was a forgery made by British intelligence in an attempt to persuade the US government to enter the war on Britain's side. This opinion was reinforced by German and Mexican diplomats, as well as pro-German and pacifist opinion-formers in the United States. However, on March 29, 1917, Arthur Zimmermann gave a speech confirming the text of the telegram and so put an end to all speculation as to its authenticity.
By that time a number of US ships had been torpedoed with heavy loss of life, and on April 2, President Wilson asked Congress to agree to declare war on Germany, and on April 6 Congress complied. The United States had entered World War I on the Allied side.
Arthur Zimmermann's speech[edit]
Thinking that the USA would remain neutral while their ships were being attacked does indicate extreme naivety on Arthur Zimmermann's part. However, it is possible he was hoping (in an equally naïve way) the world would see the desperate situation Germany had found itself in during the blockade of German shipping, and it would bring some understanding to that situation.
There was honesty in his speech since he would have had occasion to reflect on the impact of the telegram and its aftereffects in the meantime, yet still was prepared to present its original ideas. However, it also revealed he was seriously misinformed about the real strength of the United States vis-à-vis its southern neighbour, but that was the fault of the German intelligence services.
Mexico's reply[edit]
The fact-finding mission of Nuncio Pacelli[edit]
Peace in the East[edit]
1. ^ Marr, Andrew (2012). History of the World. London: Macmillan. ISBN 9780230764309.
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François Luambo Makiadi
Birth name Franco Luambo Luanzo Makiadi
Also known as Franco
Born (1938-07-06)July 6, 1938
Genres Rumba
Occupations Singer, songwriter, guitarist
Instruments Guitar
Years active 1950-1980s
Associated acts OK Jazz, TPOK Jazz
Formative years[edit]
The 1980s[edit]
In 1987 rumors began to circulate that Franco was very ill. The only solo composition he released that year was "Attention Na SIDA" ("Beware of AIDS"), a warning to avoid catching the disease, leading to unconfirmed speculation that he had contracted HIV. He began to withdraw his energies from OK Jazz, causing the band to begin to disintegrate under internal tensions, and reconverted from Islam to Roman Catholicism. On 12 October 1989 Franco died while in a Belgian clinic. His body was flown back to Zaire where his coffin was transported on a flag-draped hearse with police escort through streets packed with thousands of grieving fans. The government declared four days of national mourning during which state radio played nothing but Franco's songs. On 17 October he was buried.
Band members[edit]
Franco, Vicky Longomba and De La Lune Lubelo with...
the band included:
the band included:
In the 1980s, the key vocalists included Madilu Bailu, Josky Kiambukuta, Aime Kiwakana, Lola Checain, Ya Ntesa Dalienst, Malage de Lugendo, Djo Mpoyi, Diatho Lukoki, Wuta Mayi, Michel Boyibanda, Ndombe Opetum, Lassa Calyto and Lokombe Ntal. Many times OK Jazz invited other artists to be part of the huge but immensely important vocal section.
See also[edit]
2. ^ "Franco: biography". allmusic. Rovi. Retrieved 29 September 2012.
3. ^ Brief Biography
Further reading[edit]
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0.118919 | <urn:uuid:412b9ad3-f369-4d59-a502-c55368526699> | en | 0.957959 | New podKast: Lakers-Heat, trades and money
March, 3, 2012
Kamenetzky By Andy Kamenetzky
It's not often we do game specific podcasts, given how this truncated schedules affords them so little shelf life. However, certain games are big enough to make an exception, and a date with LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh would qualify as such. We break down the implications of Sunday's marquee matchup, whether on the court or moving forward this season. Clock on the module to hear the entire show, and below is a breakdown of talking points:
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- (3:01): After paying tribute to our wives' mutual love of "The Golden Girls" (those sassy blue hairs lived in Miami, after all), we talk about break down the implications with Sunday's game against the Heat. For starters, Broken-Nose-And-Concussion-Gate. Wade has insisted his foul on Kobe Bryant during the All-Star Game wasn't delivered with an intent to injure. Kobe himself has insisted it wasn't delivered with an intent to injure. But Laker fans certainly don't believe Flash and more importantly, Matt Barnes views the incident as another example of why he and Metta World Peace may have to adopt the role of enforcer and enforcer sidekick. (MWP would be the head honcho, which I only imagine is a source of comfort for everyone involved.)
Will the incident in Orlando lead to excessive chippiness in L.A. come Sunday? And if so, does that play into the Lakers' favor?
- (10:45): How are the Lakers gonna put up points against the Heat? Last season, the Lakers couldn't score against them while Miami was still in the "getting to know each other" stages. This season, the Lakers are the ones lacking continuity, and the Heat have only gotten better defensively.
- (12:00): How would a win on Sunday affect our perception of the Lakers? At the very least, I could maintain a more open mind towards the potential for this team moving forward. Wholeheartedly buying in, no questions asked, as the result of one victory feels like a premature reaction, but there's no question this would represent a very strong win. A loss, however, would mark the fourth in as many tries in Miami's James-Wade-Bosh era, and naturally prompts skepticism about how much they're really improving against legitimate competition.
- (17:30): More important than how Brian or I will react to the results against the Heat, how will the front office?
- (19:40): How much will money be a factor for the Lakers moving forward? And even if they are willing to pony up whatever it takes to secure a young superstar, the opportunities may be few and far between? We go through the list of the league elites under 30, and the overwhelming majority are locked up.
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Zombies and Consciousness
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Zombies would be physically and behaviorally just like us, but not conscious--a strange idea which is currently highly influential in the philosophy of mind. In this clear, readable, and entertaining book Robert Kirk argues that the zombie idea reflects a fundamentally mistaken way of thinking about consciousness. He sets out both to show why there couldn't be zombies, and to present a strikingly original new argument about the true nature of conscious experience. | http://global.oup.com/academic/product/zombies-and-consciousness-9780199229802?cc=us&lang=en | dclm-gs1-016900002 | false | false | {
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Although most cases of tonsilitis are caused by a virus and cannot be treated with antibiotics, it is important that your child with a sore throat visit the doctor to make sure that if the tonsilitis is caused by the bacteria called Streptococcus, he/she gets treated properly. Untreated tonsilitis caused by this bacteria can lead to serious complications like rheumatic fever, rheumatic heart disease, or inflammation of the kidneys.
Both children and adults with tonsilitis need rest to recover. A child with tonsilitis needs to drink lots of fluids, even if drinking hurts. Do not worry if your child has not eaten much for a few days, as long as she is drinking. Offer cold drinks or ice cubes to suck on. Jelly and ice cream may be given, contrary to popular belief to avoid sweet treats. Children should be brought to the doctor if they have not managed to drink anything for about 15 hours.
Tonsilitis is one of the infections that cause intense pain and very high fever. Giving over-the-counter painkillers or anti-fever medications, such as paracetamol or ibuprofen, can help make your child comfortable.
A gargle every few hours with warm salt water (one tablespoon salt to one cup water) can relieve sore throat, remove secretions, and promote healing.
Some people who have frequent bouts of tonsilitis will require an operation to remove the tonsils. Ask your doctor if she thinks that a tonsillectomy is in order.
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Epistemology Is Actually Fun
“It is the mark of an educated person to look for precision in each class of things as far as the nature of the subject admits.” Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book I, section iii, 1094b.
If you spend anytime reading popular presentations on persuasion (Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers) one of the most obvious attributes you observe are assertions of impact most often accompanied by percentages and exclamation points.
Plump profits 63%!
Slash band-aid usage 82%!
Swell satisfaction 33%!
Sure, you learn to accept gracefully the exaggerations of the marketing department, but you still buzz with good vibrations. “It won’t be 63%, but, Golly, it might just work!”
But Are You Sure?
When you achieve good outcomes, you don’t look for rival explanations or carefully controlled conditions. Hey, it worked, so who cares? And, when it fails, IT fails, not you. So, you buy the latest Persuasion Plays for Professionals! and execute ProPlay44! as described and diagrammed on page 44. And, shoot fire, something good happens. Must be the book, right?
An old guy like me recalls that great sneaker campaign with Michael Jordan and Spike Lee when they both were All That. Go to YouTube and search up some of those Nike ads. Jordan as Jordan soared in a compelling demonstration of grace, power, and skill while Lee as Mars Blackmon shouted, “It’s the shoes! It’s the shoes!” Today they’d shoot it with LeBron James and next it will be some kid named Wang Tao, but you can see it in your head.
Its the Shoes
Now, really . . . the shoes?
In your head, you know that there’s something special about Michael, LeBron, or Wang Tao that you don’t have and that’s the difference, but in your heart you might feel that just maybe if you got those shoes . . . the same thing happens with persuasion advice.
Hey, focus. Both skill and science drive persuasion knowledge. You should see a clear and compelling proofs for all the principles expressed and exemplified in this Primer. It’s just that persuadin’ ain’t that easy and it takes more than percentages and exclamation points to prove it.
What we need to do is to test the shoes.
Persuasion Science . . . Really
I’ve had the opportunity to advise and consult with a wide variety of organizations that in some way use persuasion to be successful. The first thing that struck me was how incredibly certain many folks were of some communication tactic, campaign, or intervention. They would describe to me the New Thing they were using to get more customers or make larger sales or obtain more compliance and my first thought was, “You’ve got to be kidding. If you’re really doing that, you’ll get killed.” Rather than blurt out that blunt disconfirmation I’d restrain myself and ask, “How do you know it works? What are your metrics?”
“Metrics” is a good word to use with people who are not academics or scientists. It can mean exactly the same thing as Research and Quantitative Methods 101, but without all the jargon and math. Fundamentally it means, show me the money.
Someone would then briefly describe how “sales over 12 months” improved or “customer traffic volume momentum” increased or complaint calls to 800 numbers dropped. In other words, metrics.
I would then note that simply because some metrics went up or down at roughly the same time they were using the New Thing, that doesn’t mean it was the shoes, baby. Average daily temperatures might have also gone up at the same time. Would anyone argue the New Thing caused that?
At that point somebody would make a joke about Global Warming then shift the topic to something else.
Part of the disconnect can be explained in the simple dichotomy between a scientific approach versus a Darwinian approach. As a scientist, I think it is possible to generate new ideas, test them scientifically, and then implement them successfully. The opening quote from Aristotle captures this point of view (and a lot more). Recall:
This suggests at least two things. First, if you think well, you should be able to figure it out before you act. Second, you’ve got to accept a margin of error dependent upon the thing you’re trying to figure out. If the problem is mathematical, then your margin of error is in the decimal places, but if the problem is human behavior, then your margin of error is quite a bit wider. So simply because a problem will not allow the precision found in the thousandths column doesn’t mean that a person can’t find a scientific solution.
A Darwinian approach would instead come up with the next Big Idea, then fling it into the world and let the survival of the fittest rules apply. Thus, if you survive, it must be the New Thing you’re using, right? My problem with a Darwinian approach to understanding effectiveness is that most people and their business haven’t been around for the millions of years a Darwinian argument requires. Thus, if you think your New Thing works because you’re still alive and in business you are using a metaphor to understand your success and not reality. (And there are some scientists who would argue that evolution is pretty lame science because it does not allow for serious experimentation and replication much like weather and climate science and the current hoopla over Global Warming. Kinda difficult to randomly assign different species to different environments or different climates to different planets. I’m not saying there is no science in evolution or climate studies, just that the science is not so great because it is impossible to experiment. Notice this compelling advantage: You can do experiments in persuasion on a meaningful basis where you can’t with species or climates, so in my book persuasion is a stronger science. Take that, Real Science! Back to the opera.)
Darwinian persuaders, therefore, look at their survival and argue back to past behavior concluding, “It’s the shoes, baby, it’s the shoes.” While it is possible for the shoes to do some magic, isn’t it also possible that there’s Something Else going on? Maybe there’s some skulking third variable we’re overlooking like the superb physical talent and grinding work ethic of an outstanding athlete when we claim, “It’s the shoes!” A Darwinian approach cannot easily tease out these possibilities. A scientific approach, however, can.
Two Questions To Ask While Testing the Shoes
Whenever you want to know if something “works” you are asking two questions.
Did the shoes really cause the performance or might there be rival explanations?
If it appears the shoes did cause the performance in this case, will it generalize to other conditions?
Side bar: In scientific parlance the first question is about internal validity and the second is about external validity. I was trained in this terminology, have taught and used it for many years, and I still don’t understand why the terms “internal” and “external” are used. We’ll see this a lot. Scientists are simply awful at naming things, but hey, they invented the heat pump, remote control, and the Internet, so let’s cut them a break.
Both questions are important and one without the other leaves you hanging. If the shoes do work, but only for LeBron or Michael – in other words, the effect doesn’t generalize past these two guys – then who wants the shoes besides two of the greatest athletes of all time? By contrast, if the shoes don’t work, who cares if they don’t work anywhere anytime anyplace for anyone? Scientists care a lot because such failures are good for theory development, future research, and applications for new government grants, but for the rest of us, failure is just failure.
How do we find the effect, rule out rival causes, and determine generalizability?
The Four Forces Of Science
Science typically employs four forces to answer these questions: chance, comparison, control, and counting. We use these forces to understand the difference between the Old Thing and the New Thing. The Old Thing is all that stuff your Dad taught you and now that you’ve arrived on the scene, you’re ready to demonstrate how much smarter you are than Dad and you’ve got the New Thing. Now, Prove It!
Chance or Roll the Dice
Chance, or “randomization” in research parlance, is easy in the lab and difficult in the real world. Randomization is the selection of objects such that each object has an equal chance of being selected and that the selection of one object has no effect on the selection of another. If you have a classic two group experiment with a treatment group (the New Thing) and a control group (the Old Thing), when you randomize everyone has the same chance of getting in the treatment group or the control group. Say, for example, you’re working in a group developing new sneakers and if the Boss’s niece is in charge of the new “shoes” you might be tempted to look at your study volunteers and say, “hey, all you tall athletic people come over here and you old, fat, and sick people go over there.” Then you give the athletes the “shoes” and the infirm get the competitor shoes. Guess which group does better? Sure, the Boss’s niece is proud and happy and has a glowing report about your job fitness, but is it the “shoes” or something else?
Randomization helps solve intentional and unintentional bias. You might assign each volunteer a number from the Table of Random Numbers then have the “evens” get your shoes and the “odds” get the competitor shoes.
The rule is easy: Randomize everything.
To the extent that you can and do randomize everything, you are at least neutralizing all the rival explanations, leaving only the “shoes” versus something else. While one proper test never proves it conclusively, it sure goes a long way to ruling out other causes.
Randomization sounds like a fairly simple minded approach and one wonders how it could have any practical impact. Unfortunately, you can see the value of randomization or more properly the pain and confusion when randomization is not used. Consider, for example, some of the raging questions in society today about climate change, crime, and health.
Some people ardently believe that human activity has changed global climate, perhaps irrevocably, while others acknowledge that the weather has changed, but think human activity has nothing to do with it. And, worse still, the science seems to support both positions, plus many stops in between. One huge stumbling block in our scientific understanding drops in our path because we cannot randomize anything in our studies of climate. That is, we cannot randomly select samples of planets just like Earth, then randomly assign different patterns of human activity, and then sit back, measure what happens and draw some pretty good inferences. Everything in climate studies is based on a sample size of 1 (our lovely planet, Earth) and simply observes what naturally occurs rather than using the powers of randomization. No one would argue that climate study is not scientific, but because we can’t use randomization effectively, the scientific method of study is weak and leads to contradictory information.
Consider now, crime. If you look at crime statistics, particularly the murder rate, over the past 50 years, you see a clear rise from the 1950s into the 1960s that continues through the 1980s, then begins to level off, then falls quite rapidly through the 1990s with the decrease still occurring in the new millenium. There’s some spotty evidence now (2006) with some crimes in some cities that this decrease may have bottomed out and we’ll now see an upturn. (Hey, it’s now 2011 and we’re still waiting for the big reversal.) What caused this big increase from the “Leave It to Beaver” 1950s into the “Age of Aquarius” 1960s? Then, what caused the huge decreases that began with the first President Bush and continued through the second President Bush and now President Obama?
If you read the expert literature on this, you get many answers. Some argue that the crime rate follows the demographic bulge of the Baby Boomers. When they were young, they were good little kids, then they went through that adolescent rage period followed by the inevitable domestication process (graduation, steady job, marriage, mortgage, kids) and the even more inevitable aging process (don’t even ask me about the degradation of my body). Others will point to the rise and fall of the American drug culture and the wars over that profitable underground economy. Some will look at police policy, particularly the “broken windows” theory that suggests if you crack down on petty crime (like breaking windows), you’ll head off bigger crimes before they can start. Who’s right? Hard to say, again, in part, because we cannot use randomization effectively. The good experiment would be to randomly assign people to communities and communities to different treatments like drug use and police policies, let this cook for 50 years, then see what we’ve got.
If you think about it, in most cases, it is easier to use randomization with almost anything related to persuasion. Whether your work is in a lab in a highly controlled environment or in the field with lots of noise and uncontrollable outside forces or in a practical real world situation where you’re trying to compete in a real world, you can use randomization effectively, especially compared to a lot of natural and physical science.
So, you say that the PowerPersuasionPlay increased sales by 43%!
Compared to what? Sales from a year ago? Sales since Friday? Sales from some other number you pulled out of your hip pocket? The concern here is the outcome comparison.
And your PowerPersuasionPlay compared to what alternative? “Want fries with that?” Dumb silence? A wink and a smile? The concern here is alternative explanation comparison.
There’s always a temptation to test your “shoes” against some silly alternative or some silly outcome. Lets have our treatment group get the newest version of the shoes while the control group will . . . run barefoot . . . wear sandals . . . original 1955 Chuck Taylor high tops . . . or worse still, no control group, no alternative comparison. Or there’s a tendency to cherry pick the outcomes we look at to measure our impact. Without naming any names, I’ve consulted with several different and very large concerns who invested a lot of time, money, and personnel on some very bad projects that were made to look better because they cherry picked the outcomes. Hey, didja know that since we’ve added our new “New Thing,” sales of napkins have increased 34%. Hubba-hubba.
Good science always looks for the toughest comparisons to test your New Thing. Get hard headed. Compare your “shoes” to the best competition you can find. Measure the outcomes that are truly critical to your success whether it is measured with sales or souls. Typically the best way to find a tough comparison is to ask someone who competes with you to devise the “other” option. Competitors love our weaknesses and will diligently seek the alternatives that makes us look bad.
The whole point of science is to find what works and why to the best standard our puny minds can devise. The point is not to reassure yourself or the boss or anyone else that things are just fine and there’s no need to think about what we’re doing, just keeping driving toward that light at the end of the tunnel. It has been my experience that doing science typically makes you feel uneasy, uncertain, and uncanny even when all the news is good. Science almost always gives you bad news, surprising news, unexpected news. If you are sitting around a table looking at any kind of evaluation study of something your team is doing and everyone is happy and smiling, you’re probably missing something important. And the easiest way to delude yourself is to make bad comparisons.
If you order two hamburgers at Mickey Ds and one tastes great and the other doesn’t, you’ve found a control problem. Anytime there’s variation in a process you’ve got a potential control problem. Control is a really big deal in science. It means ensuring each research participant gets the same Thing, whether it’s the Old Thing or the New Thing, every time without variation. If the test varies from person to person, you’ve lost control.
A great illustration of the control problem arises in the “lifestyle” factors in mortality and morbidity. Right now, we’re trying to understand the role that lifestyle behaviors like diet and exercise play in our health. There’s some pretty good evidence that people who eat a “better” diet or get “more” exercise will live longer and feel healthier. But, when you look more carefully at the evidence you see a lot of studies with virtually no control or very poor control over these factors. The biggest hassle here is getting an accurate and reliable measurement of something like “diet” or “exercise.” Typically, we use self reports from people and ask them to describe or estimate what they eat or how they exercise. Even if people know the truth and can report the truth accurately, we still have no control over what “treatment” group they are in. This is called selection bias and it simply means that when you don’t control the New Thing, other forces are operating. We might see that people who report “more” of any “exercise” live longer, but since we didn’t assign the activity or the amount, we’re stuck in a chicken or egg dilemma. Do healthy people exercise more and live longer or do people who exercise more live longer and healthier? When we can’t control the application of the New Thing, we’ve always got that problem.
Another good illustration of the control problem shows in the current raging arguments over global warming. We’ve already looked at the randomization problem with understanding global warming and human causes in it. You can’t randomly assign planets to climates or even randomly assign different human activities to different climates and planets. We’ve only got this one case, Earth, so randomization is logically difficult. Well, not only do we have the randomization problem, we’ve got a control problem. The hypothesized human activates that cause global warming have occurred without any scientific manipulation. Lots of people operating in loose groups have done a lot of different things over the past one hundred years. None of that activity was “controlled” in anything remotely approaching a “scientific” sense of the term.
Okay, so does this mean that there is no science with diet and exercise or global warming? Of course not. That’s not the point. It’s just that the science isn’t great, but rather has a lot of holes in it because we lack control over the New Thing. This lack of control doesn’t mean that eating more fruits and vegetables has no value or that getting more exercise has no value or that human activity has no impact on global climate. It just means we need to be a lot more tentative in our conclusions.
Quick review here: Control addresses how the Things get made, assigned, and used. When the researcher controls who gets the New Thing, how much, and how often, typically using randomization, then we’ve got good control in our experiment and we can feel pretty confident about drawing conclusions from the data. However, as we lose control over the application of the New Thing, we need to become more thoughtful, more wary, and more provisional. It doesn’t matter whether the New Thing is a new persuasion tactic, a new diet plan, or just a new shoe. When you have control of the test, the data are better.
If you think you change something then you can count it. If you believe you can do something that makes the world better or even worse, you should be able to quantify that outcome, that result, that change on a simple counting scale. If you can’t count it, it doesn’t count.
Consider the opposite of this claim. You want to defend instead this proposition: I’ve got a New Thing that I know beyond reasonable doubt produces a desired change in other people at my command; but, I can’t quantify any of this. I can’t even divide the “change” into two groups of “Did Change” or Did Not Change” much less have shades in between.
That’s crazy. If you can do something that changes other people, you should be able to count it, even if only with that “Did or Did Not” category system.
If you can count something that means you can explain it to someone else and they can count it and get the same number you get or at least close to it. If you can’t count it that means you’re probably operating in a universe of private meaning where, hey man, it’s something that’s just gots to be true, but I can’t explain it to you. That’s fine on the street or in a bar, but if you’ve got time, money, and people riding on the proposition, you need to grow up and learn to count.
Now, usually when numbers appear on the battlefield some people throw their hands up in the air in surrender as if the enemy has brought up the heavy artillery and rather than face annihilation by quantification, just wave the white flag right now. If you don’t like numbers, you can still use quantification to understand persuasion or global warming or anything that makes claims about change in reality. I’m not kidding. Even if you can’t count past ten without taking off your shoes, you can still use quantification to assess the science of claims. Here’s how.
First, we’ve got to get in the WayBack Machine and time travel back to a smarter and simpler time. We’re going to use an approach first described by Professor Robert Rosenthal in the 1970s. He called his method the Binomial Effect Size Display (BESD) demonstrating once again the facile skill scientists possess when it comes to naming things. (Can you imagine the words we’d be using today if Adam had been a scientist rather than just a guy?) I call it the Windowpane Display which is at least transparent. Think about a window. Imagine that it is divided into four equal panes. Easy to visualize, right?
Now, let’s put some labels on our window.
We’re doing an experiment and we’ve got two groups. The treatment group will get the New Thing while the control group will get something else, the Old Thing. We’ll randomly assign our participants to only one condition. To make the math tidy, we’ll do this experiment with 200 people, so we put 100 in each group. Now, after we give each person their Sauce, we then observe them to see if they changed the way we thought they should. We’ll make the answer to this question easy with only two possibilities: Yes, they changed or No they didn’t change. Here’s a crude, but not vulgar, graphic of the Windowpane.
Pretty simple so far. We’re testing the New Thing against the Old Thing. We have 100 people randomly assigned to each group. We then see how the people change either into Yes or No. Now, let’s fill in each of the four little windowpanes to demonstrate different scenarios. We’ll start, as we often do in science, with failure. Assume that the experiment blows up and that our New Thing produces nothing better or worse than the Old Thing. We’ll call this the No Effect condition, because, the treatment had, well, no impact, influence, no effect. It looks like this.
We see here that we’ve got 50 people in each little windowpane. Let’s read each row. We started with 100 people in the treatment condition who got the New Thing and when we observed them we found that 50 of the 100 changed and 50 of the 100 didn’t change. We also started with 100 people in the control condition who got the Old Thing and when we observed them we found 50 of the 100 changed and 50 didn’t. No effect. Nada. Zip. The New Thing is not different from the Old Thing.
Quick detail: I’ve deliberately set up the failure, also known as the null, condition to be 50/50. If you’re thinking ahead you realize that failure would also occur if both groups were 10/90 or 30/70 or even 90/10 just so long as both groups have the same percentage. I’m calibrating the No Effect example to be 50/50 because it will make other scenarios a lot easier to grasp quickly and will require fewer mental gymnastics to get. If you’re a propeller head stats maven you know that this is an incredibly simpleminded demonstration and that things are just a little bit more complex, tut, tut. Good for you. Now go off to a corner by yourself and invert a matrix using pencil and paper and leave the rest of us sitting on the floor taking off our shoes. Again, the 50/50 No Effect helps with the learning. Back to counting our toes.
Now, let’s create an example where we start to get differences. Let’s assume that Something Happens when people get the New Thing and it looks like this.
We now see on the rows and the columns, a 45/55 effect, a 10 point difference. In social science parlance, this 10 point difference is called a “small” effect as popularized by Jacob Cohen in his work on power analysis and effect sizes. Make sure that you “see” the impact of the treatment. Notice in this example that more people who get the New Thing showed the desired change (read the row) compared to people who got the Old Thing (read their row).
A small difference of 10% doesn’t sound like much, but consider the practical effect. If you compare the batting averages between “poor” Major League Baseball players and “great” MLB players, the statistical difference works out to a “small” effect size. Here’s a forced example that scales the comparison for 1,000 at bats. (Yes, I know that nobody gets 1,000 Abs in a season, but you don’t want to do the math for seasonal data, and it doesn’t matter. Why would I lie about this or be wrong in print?)
If you read down each column, you should spot that .100 (10%) difference between hitting skill level. If you compute the proper crosstab statistic, a phi, the value is .113, which is another way of saying “small effect.” Thus, while a .320 average is an All-Star difference compared to a .220 average, statistically this is small.
Now, our row values are 35 and 65. A medium effect is a 30 point difference. That sounds somewhat impressive, a 30 percentage point difference. Think about this medium effect another way. Notice that 65 is almost twice as large as 35 (okay it is 186% larger and not exactly 200% – you’ll never invert a matrix by hand if you keep interrupting me). Expressed another way, a medium effect means that you’re getting almost twice as much change in the treatment group compared to the control group. A medium effect is getting to be pretty obvious. Think how obvious a “large” effect must be. It looks like this.
The row values here are 25 and 75, a 50 point difference. Now the rate of difference is three times with the Treatment producing a 300% increase over the Control. That’s big. That’s obvious. Take a quick scan now and review the four Windowpanes, No Effect, Small Effect, Medium Effect, and Large Effect. See the numbers change.
[Sidebar: Check out the Windowpane chapter for a Visual Example of Effect Sizes. Scroll down until you see an orange and a blue jar!]
The point of this demonstration is to show that you can think with numbers in a practical and efficient way without having a statistician in the room. Anyone can handle the windowpane approach with numbers. Just have a clear definition of Changed? (Yes or No) and a clear definition of the Group (Treatment or Control). Then just count and look for percentage differences. A 10% difference is small, 30% is moderate, and 50% is large. And, realize that while “small” may be hard to detect, it can definitely make big practical effect (you often don’t have to outrun the bear, just one other guy).
Does Science Always Do Science?
Afraid not. Scientists are sometimes prime offenders of the basic forces. Right now the Western World is on a scientific health kick and just about anyone with a lab coat, a pill, and a bar chart can save the world and make a lot of money. You might have picked up the paper or pointed your browser at a news aggregator and read the very disappointing headlines about increased breast cancer in women who took Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT). HRT was supposed to be the New Thing for women entering menopause. If you’re an older girl or knew one well during that time you understood the benefits of that pill. What a delight. A pill that reduced those annoying menopausal symptoms and had no side effects!
Except that the health and medical community hadn’t done a very good job testing HRT. In fact, if you read the old research on it, you might come away wondering just whose niece or nephew was in charge because there was precious little randomization, very poor comparison, and lousy control in most of the testing. Nonetheless, what followed was millions of women taking the pill like good little girls until somebody finally did a pretty good randomized controlled trial and boy did they get a shock. Where all the experts were convinced that not only would HRT help with the annoying symptoms, it would also have a protective effect on other health outcomes. Well, we found out that HRT did have an effect on other health outcomes, but it wasn’t as expected. We found that women taking HRT were more likely to get breast cancer. Surprise! Nowadays, doctors don’t hand out HRT pills like Wrigley’s Spearmint gum any more and instead everyone involved does a careful and thoughtful individual analysis.
Someone else can write the book on scientific failures and then when that book is completed they can write the book on all the failures in business or government policy or defense armament development or in educational systems or any other area of human effort where the folks in charge acted like the idiot niece. A little bit of randomization, control, and comparison would have gone a long way to finding rival explanations before the Big Wipeout hit.
So, science is not some automatic guarantee of truth detecting. In fact, science is a lot like Winston Churchill’s famous observation about democracy, “It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.” Science can be the worst form of truth finding except all the others that have been tried. Like democracy, it’s just hard to do well.
Doing Science Well Or Prove It!
Whenever you encounter any claim about persuasion you can test that claim against any standard, test, or value you like, but you might want to include the two questions and the four forces of science as part of the drill.
Ask first, did the New Thing really cause the performance or might there be rival explanations?
Then ask, if it appears the New Thing did cause the performance in this case, will it generalize to other conditions?
To answer these questions look for chance, comparison, control, and counting. If the source of the claim is silent, evasive, or nervous about the questions and the forces, you’ve got good reason to look a little more closely at the claim. Throughout the Primer, I am careful to present information about persuasion that has done the best job at answering the two questions with a lot of the four forces. Also note that while I am an academic scientist and have published peer review research on persuasion, I never cite my own work as the sole example of evidence for or against some persuasion claim. I’m not featuring this point because I’m nervous about the credibility of the Primer – with the quality of information out on the Web and the effectiveness of search engines, you can easily and quickly test virtually every statement in the Primer online yourself immediately. I am alerting you on this point because I want you on your toes, actively thinking about and questioning the concepts in the Primer. Look for flaws, errors, stupidities, and foolishness. Just keep in mind Aristotle’s admonition:
Limits Of Science
In this chapter I’ve presented the basic principles of a scientific approach to the problem of Prove It! I’ve also argued that you can’t expect the same kind of science to operate on all kinds of situations noting, for example, that one can apply more of the principles of scientific research methods to persuasion than to the study of evolution or climate change. Yet, very few people, especially scientists, would consider persuasion to be a more “scientific” field than evolutionary biology or climatology.
Even when the principles of science are appropriately applied, I’d still caution against too much confidence. While the practical benefits of science are fabulous and no one would argue against the wise application of science, I think it is going wildly too far to trust science as the sole or primary means of understanding the world and human nature. It has been my unfortunate life experience to work with people who place entirely too much faith in their intelligence and scientific skill. And, I’ve observed the same defect in myself. Appeals to intelligence and especially today, science, can be a siren song for vanity, pride, and arrogance. Once again Aristotle seemed to get it right when he observed: “Thus a master of any art avoids excess and deficit, but seeks the intermediate and chooses this.” (Nicomachean Ethics, Book II, section vi.)
References And Recommended Readings
Campbell, D. & Stanley, J. (2005). Experimental and quasi-experimental designs for research. Houghton & Mifflin.
Cohen, J. (1977). Power analysis for the behavioral sciences. Revised Edition. Orlando, FL: Academic Press.
Kerlinger, F. & Lee, H. (1999). Foundations of behavioral research, 4 th ed. Wadsworth Publishing.
Everyone has their favorites in any field. Each of these books is quite old which in my opinion makes them more valuable because they have stood the test of time. Cohen got his work on power analysis and effect sizes started in 1962. The Campbell and Stanley monograph appeared first in 1963. The first edition of Kerlinger was 1964. The Kerlinger book is actually quite a bit of fun especially considering that in its hardback version the book could be classified as a deadly weapon if someone struck you with it. Professor Kerlinger clearly has a sense of humor and expresses it even in something as dry and parched as research methods. His work is also among the best examples of technical writing I’ve ever read and I have a great weariness of knowledge, my little pretties. If you don’t get Cohen, Kerlinger, or Campbell and Stanley, you don’t get science. That’s okay. I don’t get socialism, veganism, or celibacy. It’s a big world and there are many paths to perfection. | http://healthyinfluence.com/wordpress/steves-primer-of-practical-persuasion-3-0/intro/4-cs/ | dclm-gs1-016930002 | false | false | {
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Imagine Casting
The Imaginography
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Text of Obama's speech: Now is the season for action
Democrat president Barack Obama speech to a joint session of Congress
President Obama's prepared remarks to Joint Session of Congress, as provided by the White House
Others are self-employed, and can’t afford it, since buying insurance on your own costs you three....
The plan I’m announcing tonight would meet three basic goals:
It’s a plan that asks everyone to take responsibility for meeting this challenge – not just government and insurance companies, but employers and individuals. And it’s a plan that incorporates ideas from senators and Congressmen; from Democrats and Republicans – and yes, from some of my opponents in both the primary and general election.
But we cannot have large businesses and individuals who can afford coverage game the system by avoiding responsibility to themselves or their employees. Improving our healthcare system only works if everybody does their part.
My healthcare proposal has also been attacked by some who oppose reform as a “government takeover” of the entire healthcare system. As proof, critics point to a provision in our plan that allows the uninsured and small businesses to choose a publicly-sponsored insurance option, administered by the government just like Medicaid or Medicare.
Part of the reason I faced a trillion-dollar deficit when I walked in the door of the White House is because too many initiatives over the last decade were not paid for – from the Iraq war to tax breaks for the wealthy. I will not make that same mistake with healthcare.
Finally, many in this chamber – particularly on the Republican side of the aisle – have long insisted that reforming our medical malpractice laws can help bring down the cost of healthcare. I don't believe malpractice reform is a silver bullet, but I have talked to enough doctors to know that defensive medicine may be contributing to unnecessary costs.
Most of these costs will be paid for with money already being spent – but spent badly – in the existing healthcare system. The plan will not add to our deficit. The middle-class will realize greater security, not higher taxes. And if we are able to slow the growth of health care costs by just one-tenth of 1.0% each year, it will actually reduce the deficit by $4 trillion over the long term.
In it, he spoke about what a happy time his last months were, thanks to the love and support of family and friends, his wife, Vicki, and his children, who are here tonight . And he expressed confidence that this would be the year that healthcare reform – “that great unfinished business of our society,” he called it – would finally pass.
But those of us who knew Teddy and worked with him here – people of both parties – know that what drove him was something more. His friend, Orrin Hatch, knows that. They worked together to provide children with health insurance. His friend John McCain knows that. hey worked together on a Patient’s Bill of Rights. His friend Chuck Grassley knows that. They worked together to provide healthcare to children with disabilities.
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Is this Obama talking or Castro????
Is this the longest speech ever???? He is loosing me ....
Should we call him Ocastro?
So any specific comment on something in his speech? Other than how you long you think it s?
Finally, a grown-up in the House. Let's give him credit for his determination to get something done, and his willingness to listen to other proposals. He made it pretty clear, however, that he won't "countenance" a bunch of noise that doesn't result in a clear plan (hello, Repubs, are you listening?)
Dear Frieda,
It says you have to be over 13 to post a comment. If that speech was "the longest speech ever" to you and "lost" you, then I'm assuming you can't be someone with an adult attention span. Since when is the length of someone's speech equal to the content? If that is the case, then it goes without saying that the length of someone's attention span is equal to their ability to listen and grasp intelligent thoughts. Oops, my post has gone past "Tweet" length. I must have lost you already.
The President gave a wonderful speech tonight! The only disappoiting moment was when joe wilson r from SC called the President a liar. He should resign! The best part was when he said he is going to call out the liar's himself. Thank You President Obama!
Obama made a big mistake letting Congress and the Democratic party leadership quarterback the drive. Pelosi and Reid fumbled on the kickoff, and all of a sudden it's fourth-down and 25 yards to a first down. A healthcare touchdown seems like it will take a razzle-dazzle play. I doubt if this speech will do the job. Too much damage has been done by the big money (insurance and drug industry) spin masters. It's ironic the dumb, ignorant pro-capitalism (actually capitalism doesn't exist anymore, our economy has become a class system in the feudal vein, regressing) crowd, who would benefit the most from his plan, will be the ones to shoot it down. Obama needs to remove loopholes that allow illegal aliens to receive free healthcare. People in the crowd didn't yell out "liar" without good reason.
To Frieda and all other opponents of healthcare reform and health care for Americans I say this, there is nothing remotely socialist or impacting on your ability to retain your present insurance. This plan will reduce the uninsured citizens reliance on overwhelmed emergency rooms. The emergency room problem is much closer to socialism. Conservatives often extoll the virtues of a free market economy. This principle will now be applied to healthcare under this plan. Quality healthcare and access to real coverage is the right of all Americans and not a privilige for the very wealthy or healthy.
"Premiums!" Obama said little or nothing about the future cost of insurance premiums, except that we somehow had to restrain their current astronomical rate of increase.
But, if you were a near-monopoly health insurance conglomerate that was forced to insure people with pre-existing conditions, set no financial cap on life-time benefits, and never rescind policies of the costly and critically ill, what would your response be -- despite potentially gaining millions of subsidized new policy holders? Obviously, raise premiums -- across the board!
And how are we to prevent such massive, profit-driven increases -- especially since insurance companies currently are largely exempt from federal anti-trust regulation -- without a very robust and extremely cost-competitive public insurance option that is OPEN TO ALL? How, that is, without resorting to mandating strict government price-controls and instituting (heaven forbid) "real socialism?"
The so-called "public option" (an very bad name from a PR standpoint to begin with) is hardly secondary or peripheral but, rather, PRIMARY to any real reform! Otherwise, we're just going to subsidize the bastards with tax increases on what's left of the declining middle class, to pay for health insurance for the poor and call it "victory."
That's why Obama and progressive Democrats should have started out vigorously supporting a single payer plan. Then they could have scared everybody to their right into supporting a decent public insurance option for everyone and made real progress.
Joel Gayman
Do-it-Yourself IT ®
Los Angeles, CA
Obama called out two failing government medical programs Medicare and Medicaid, why should we want the governments hands in any of this?
" Reducing the waste and inefficiency in Medicare and Medicaid will pay for most of this plan. - Obama
This is an honest & just person. It was impressive to hear how passionate our President is to the cause of improving healthcare for the US. Middle class people who have lost their jobs need a healthcare option that is affordable. Cobra coverage is 3x what I paid while employed. Medicaid won't help you if you own your own home. I welcome a government healthcare plan. I don't have any other group who cares if my family & I are covered.
We need to give President Obama a chance. We have nothing to lose. Insurance companies are not being fair and people who profit from that don't want change. Let us be UNITED and change what we can.
@Frieda, Please don't post comment when you are under 13 years of age. Your comment show me that your are incapable to understand the content of speech, and please a little respect to Obama, after all he is the current President of Unites States of America. Calling him "Ocastro" is rather demeaning.
Isn't everyone focusing on those people who are "ill" without insurance and forgetting about those who are not ill without insurance. Obviously not all insured or uninsured Americans are ill. Insurance should be something that everyone secures. Life without medical insurance is like playing Russian Roulette with a gun. We never know when an emergency or illness will strike.
Their are those who are concerned with the removal of caps for illnesses. The additional money required to provide quality healthcare without caps can be paid with the additional premiums and revenue generated by all of those who secure health care from the insurance companies or those who rarely use it. For all of the people who currently are insured and thankfully do not have a serious illness that requires a significant outlay of dollars by the insurance companies, the insurance companies are making a fortune on our premiums. They pay incentives to their stockholders, huge salaries to their executives and large commissions to the brokers who sell their products.
It would certainly seem to me that healthcare expenses would decrease if everyone was insured. Hospitals would not be used to treat those who should be visiting a doctor because they have no insurance or to provide charity to those who have no coverage. Hospitals would have no need to charge exorbitant prices for care because they would not be writing off millions of dollars in care for those with no coverage.
Healthcare is broken and we must find an option to provide affordable health care to everyone. I am not in favor of a government run healthcare but I believe we can find options that will allow those who are uninsured to secure coverage. We need to support the efforts of our legislators to find an equitable solution to this crisis and put party politics aside.
To steve rodriquez:
The waste and inefficiencies of corporate healthcare (including the built-in inefficiencies of profit-taking and corporate salaries) are multiples greater than the government programs. Why should we want corporate hands in all (or any) of our healthcare? The primary legal obligation of for-profit health insurance is to provide profits to their stockholders, not to provide us with healthcare. (They call the latter a "loss" on their balance sheets.)
To Steve: Keep the government out of health care, they are the worst of all evils!
A democratically elected government, "of the people, by the people, for the people," is the worst of all evils? Oh, OK, you've thought these issues through really well. I'll admit defeat.
The republicans have submitted many ideas that have been shot down by the democrats. Of course the MSM ignores all that. Thus the average person is led to believe that the republicans have no ideas at all. (Note what some of those have posted on here.) They even had a provision that would expressly ban illegals from benefiting from the "plan". Though details of this so-called plan are still sketchy. These provisions were also shot down by the democrats (Ways and Means Committee). This is what led Joe Wilson to call out the president for what he is. Yes, it was a breach of decorum. Yes it was an improper forum to voice such dissent. But as usual, the democrats forget the horrible way they treated the former president and go after the style rather than the substance of what was said. The democrats seem to think we have a bottomless money pit to draw from. (It's called "China" and it won't put up with this for long.) The "Greater Depression" is on its way with these people in charge. Without name-calling, we ought to be able to come to some agreements on health care. for instanc, limiting malpractice lawsuits would drive costs down. I doubt if the democrats would touch their trial lawyer friends. In 1000+ pages, the bill doesn't even mention that.
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Re: accessible PDFs?
From: Chris Kreussling <CHRIS.KREUSSLING@ny.frb.org>
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 13:17:01 -0500
To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Cc: rerlands@ece.eng.wayne.edu
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>>> <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org> (Kristine Bradow) 12/23 12:52 PM >>>
plug-in like Acrobat create?
"Accessible PDF" is an oxymoron. (See also "military intelligence" and "creation science" [g].)
If it would present a problem, can any of
you offer an alternative? Converting the gross amount of literature that
not all just text.
Would need to know more about the originating format(s) of the literature. Word-processing documents? What is the nature of the non-text contents? It sounds like you have a large volume to convert. If so, then it's going to be more worthwhile to purchase, customize or develop tools which can convert your document set to HTML while accurately preserving its contents.
If you're wanting to publish to the Web, then HTML is going to be the most accessible format. Your concern about a "formatting nightmare" makes it sounds like you want to preserve the layout, the visual presentation, of the documents, rather than the information they contain. If that's a concern, then why are you wanting to publish to the Web?
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Thursday, November 14, 2013
Gender As Performance
You much check out this fabulous piece of art.!/entry/photographer-catalogs-transition-from-masculine-to-feminine-persona,52850f0e025312186c874373
The photographer shows just how gender is a performance. Every man, woman, trans person has the ability to ebb and flow in their choice of masculinity and femininity. For those who do not understand what gender is, it is the performance one puts on which is falsely thought of as an equivalent of "sex."
I cannot express how much I hate when people mess up gender and sex. Especially on surveys!
Anywho, now I am just rambling. I hope that this art does justice to explaining that gender is simply a performance!
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
A little heart
Once upon a time, there were these adorable little Hispanic children that arrived at my work. You're not supposed to have favorites but let's be real, they were my favorites. I guess that's what I get for having favorites- a sad heart.
These little munchkins are precious - adorable - kind - well mannered - sweet - silly - smart - huggable
Everything that you could want your own kid to be.
I was selfish, thinking that it would be okay if they stayed in my care for forever!!! But alas, their relative was approved and my happy little ladies went on their way. They gave me hugs and didn't blink an eye about leaving and I was on the verge of tears. They will grow up and probably forget me yet I will always remember them. It's strange how children can impact your lives... I hope the best for them
Saturday, October 19, 2013
Sex Trafficking- Connected to a Deeper Societal Problem
I recently attended a sex trafficiking training hosted by "Unchained"
It was nicely done, and I continued to think about why the youth I work for are so vulnerable to these types of horrific events.
Men are the ones (mostly) manipulating younger females who have been taught that relationships and self-worth are based on sex, sexiness, and being taken care of by a man.
Independence is difficult to have when you are a young woman. So many times have I heard that a person is worth something becaue of their relationship to men and others:
She is a daughter.
She is a sister.
She is a wife.
She is a girlfriend.
She is a friend.
She is a mother.
How about we try saying that she is a PERSON and because she is a human being she is worth saving. I am sick of presenting to others that women are worth saving from sex trafficking or from domestic violence because of their relationships to others. Yes the relationships are important, but that is not why we are saving them. We are saving them because they are human, even if nobody loves them, even if they are not a wife, or a mother, or a friend to anyone.
When speaking about this topic, we must give autonomy back to the women. We must de-sexualize their image, de-criminalize their part of the act because they were forced into it, and refer to the women who came out of the trade as being survivors rather than victims. It is so simple to rephrase how we see people in order to give them autonomy.
On top of that, the sexualization of girls in our culture takes away from the idea that they are humans. They are seen as sex objects that are for the purpose of objectification and male desire. Voyeurism combined with female youthfulness is always applauded. Models get younger, actresses become sexualized much younger, it is like a feeding ground once an attractive girl turns 18- they can pose nude, they can have sex with adults, they can be coerced into making bad decisions and the one who is doing the coercing is not held responsible, they can do porn and still pose as a teen. This overt fetishism of girls is what confuses our society about understanding that girls and women are people, that they have autonomy.
I want to see all women, all girls, even survivors, even beings who have not experience trauma be given the chance to have autonomy, because... after all, we are all human, which means we all have a responsibilty to treat eachother as so.
Friday, October 4, 2013
Realizations while Returning "Home"
As I am traveling back "home" to the midwest, I have ran across some strange realizations...
I had a mini panic attack when I had to leave our dog with a friend while traveling back home. Even though he will be in safe hands I still feel incomplete. Who is going to wake me up in the morning with slobberly licks and toenails scratching my neck? I am actually going to be able to sleep in (maybe)! Now I know why my mom is such a baby about leaving her dog to come visit.... sorry mom!
My muffin snuggling on Sam's pillow
I have had my Zune for 9 years... and probably haven't updated the music in at least 2 years; however the songs are still pretty fantastic. I listened to the band Cleopatra, which was my favorite band in 1998. I was 10 years old.. and in 5th grade (I think). I can still recite the lyrics to their songs even though it has been quite some time since Amber, Nikki, Baylee and I were performing "Cleopatra Coming Atcha" for the 5th grade talent show.
Speaking of friends, it is strange to think that I live 1500 miles from some of my best friends. Jaclyn is getting married and Amber is still living in paradise, yet every time we talk it seems like we pick up just where we left off.
I also realized that I never use my personal cell phone anymore and I questioned whether I need it or not? I really dont... the only thing I am holding on to is memories and nostalgia. Let's be real, I won't ever need some of those high school or college phone numbers again... yet I still find it hard to get rid of my phone and the number I have had since like..umm... 7th grade.
I am going back home to visit with my boyfriend's family and I am weirdly very excited about it. I am ok with splitting my time between my family and his- which I think is a good sign. My brother, who used to tell me to die and made me ride in the back of his car when he dropped me off at school, is letting us stay at his apartment and made kind of a tiff when I said that we were leaving by noon to meet up with the BF's brother. It's nice to know that maybe deep on the inside he really is happy to see me.
It will be very different seeing my grandmother this time around because she has developed dymensia. My mother struggles to care for her and it may be quite soon that Grandma will need to have some sort of assisted living program put in place. This is weird to me because my grandma has always been "active" and involved and crafty and independent. Now she is in a place where she cannot take care of herself. I continue to want to deny it and do so by ignoring it. Which I know is completely wrong because I should talk to her every day while I still have the chance.
I have to choose wisely who I go visit when I am home because I want to see the people that truly matter. It would be very nice to visit all my old high school and college friends and reminisce but now that I get to go back for 2 days, I feel like it's only enough time to see family and one best friend. It really makes me sad being so far away, but at the same time, I love my job and my people in AZ. I don't know why it feels so far away but they really so seem like separate worlds.
I own a house now... which means that I am worried about leaving it! But it also means that I can bring back lots of stuff that I never had room for before :D
Overall, I think this trip is just what I need to be reconnected and to remind myself that life continues to happen even when I'm not there... and maybe I need to start making more phone calls so I don't feel as disconnected.
Thursday, September 19, 2013
I am so thankful for the people I work with and the munchkins I work for. They make me remember that the life I live is precious, that the life I live is worth serving those that need support
I think my favorite part of the day is when I hear a person's story. Whether it be happy, sad, upsetting, or full of silliness, I think their stories make them special. Many of the people I connect with have stories that indeed have made them very strong despite their age.
Sadly, I am no longer shocked by some of the things I hear anymore. Stories of incest, physical abuse, gang rape, growing up dealing drugs, being a prostitute to make ends meet, being forced into arranged marriages, being pimped out by your father while you watch your step-sister being molested by him, having parents know about sexual abuse and never reporting it, meeting up with 28 year old men and "dating"-becoming pregnant-and being left to raise the child as a 16 year-old single parent, trafficking, stealing and being caught, being left behind by a parent because you are too much of a burden to raise.
This is my normalcy. It makes me weep on the inside. It makes me want to make a difference in how our societies function. I want people to hear these stories, these experiences, so they don't forget how privileged they are. I want people to remember that they should be thankful their bodies haven't been violated, that they haven't had to steal to eat, that they haven't had to resort to selling drugs or their bodies to survive, that they haven't been beaten senseless by the one you thought you loved.
Sometimes people tell me their stories, and I think, wow... this person has grown miraculously despite their history... so miraculously, that you wouldn't even know there was trauma there. Grown women who have chosen careers caring for children in the foster care system when they themselves grew up in group homes.... Grown women who have experienced abuse by their parents or partners.... Grown women who were delinquents in their youth.... Grown women who were products of rape and who's father brought them back to their abusive husband time and time again. These women are fighters, and not just for themselves. These women are fighters because they keep re-traumatizing themselves by hearing the stories of our youth yet they keep advocating for them. They form that bond. A real relationships which is supportive, loving, structured, and whole-hearted. I believe their dedication is unmatched by any person out there, simply because they know what it is like to have their heart hurt.
Sometimes I think that people would see me differently if they knew the amount of trauma that I have experienced. Only one person knows all that trauma despite me. She helped me understand that I may as well be on a similar level as some of these kids. I am a person, who despite my trauma, has been able to succeed. The trauma has actually made me more dedicated, more willing, and more determined to rise above and give resources to those who our society has forgotten about or who they have deemed unredeemable.
I can only hope that you pass along these thoughts - that you share your story in order to make others stronger. Because, after all,
Sunday, September 15, 2013
#TotallyOver the #AbortionDebate
Recently, I read a debate through comments on a Pinterest picture.
The debate began something along the lines of, "You can always form a family by allowing your child to be adopted like I have." Then women went along saying, "You should never need an abortion because you can always plan a pregnancy." Blah, Blah, Blah.
I feel as if these women have blinders on.
Of course, that made me upset because the reality of adoption and fostering kids is not always happy and pretty like one would wish. Human adoption, first of all, is nothing like animal adoption. I adopted my lovely Schapso, Giles, and he loves me like no other. He may have peed a little at first and tends to lick a little too often, but he is gloriously happy in his "forever home." Now, with Human Adoption, there is a lot of trauma that needs to be addressed. Like a child being removed from their home and loved ones. Like if there was any neglect that happened. You know, these are usually things that happen with adoption and foster care. Babies still feel the effects of neglect and show the signs in behavioral patterns later in life. Therapy may be needed, there may be a "honeymoon" stage with the kids and adoptive parents, they may try to run away. The only time these effects may not happen is if the child is swooped up and adopted right out of the mother's womb and has had proper prenatal care. The commenter was drawing from her very own experience, which happened to be this very (narrow-minded) idea.
Now, I wanted to bring light on the . So here was my response:
"I feel as if one very important concept was not brought up in this debate on pinterest- Privilege.
The women that are saying abortion is murder, I was able to give my child up for adoption to families who can't have children, blah blah blah... are obviously privileged. First, the debate requires internet access to log into pinterest. Second, to have a child be adopted right at birth is something that usually only happens to white babies. Third, she was probably able to easily access healthcare or might have had someone pay for it if the child is being adopted from the womb. Fourth, it sounds like someone gave her resources to set up this adoption process.
I think we need to remember that there are many women out there that don't have this privilege, this education, that can help them plan pregnancies. Many people don't use the correct form of contraception. Many women don't understand just how much time and energy it takes to raise a child. I work with children in the foster care system. It makes me cry to see parents who don't love them and people who aren't willing to adopt them. The majority are children of color. I have seen some women be so thankful to give their child up to the state because it was a hardship to raise them and they simply can't afford it, even with WIC or Food Stamps.
Our systems are skewed, flawed. White, religious, privileged women are fighting for pro-"life," but what happens when they are faced with the fact that these babies that they want to save aren't necessarily white. Are they going to adopt them? Are they going to be willing to send over their taxes for governmental programs like medicaid. They don't even know how much it costs to keep a kid in foster or group care and how much emotional hardship it is on the children. Are they willing to devote their lives to making the unwanted children feel wanted. To give them resources. To hear them cry at night. To hug them and know they wish it was their mother instead. To send them to a foster home and see them come back into the system because they had an "undesirable" trait. To fight for their life after birth. Because right now, I don't see that.
I would never want any of the children I take care of to be unborn. But I think some people who make that choice of abortion are not selfish. I think they have genuinely looked at options and chosen what is best for them and what is best for our youth's futures."
Perspective: Did I bring a little to the table? I hope so, because I would like to see some of these "pro-lifer's" work towards glamorizing some of these children's lives like how they think "adoption really works." HAHAHAHA! These anti-abortion people are so mis-informed on how adoption and after-birth care really works. Do these children just automatically get placed in loving homes? NOPE. Many live in group homes, some get placed in abusive foster placements. Super cool! SO maybe if the conservatives took time to educate themselves how the actual processes and systems worked, they would have a more understanding viewpoint on why some people choose not to have a child they can't take care of.
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Is dynamic range compression destroying music?
Dynamic range compression isn't new, it's been used by recording, mixing, and mastering engineers for many decades. A little bit of compression is fine, but over-compression can sound downright ugly. Most of today's music, whether it's on LP, CD, the radio or iTunes is over-compressed. Most remastered CDs are over-compressed.
Before we go any further, I'm not referring to the lossy compression used in MP3s, or lossless compression used in Apple Lossless. They've got their own set of problems, but dynamic range compression is a very different predicament.
To the casual listener compression can sound "good," mostly because it makes the music seem louder and punchier, and once music's natural soft-loud dynamic shifts are squashed flat music is easier to hear in noisy environments like cars or over iPods. Compression reduces the need to adjust playback volume--because it's always nearly the same volume--loud.
Engineers worry that if they don't compress their recordings the music would seem too soft and low. That is, if a music listener went from really loud, compressed music to quieter, uncompressed music they probably wouldn't like uncompressed music--unless they turned it up! That way they would hear the music's natural soft-loud dynamics.
Unfortunately, that's not an acceptable scenario to most engineers or record labels. They're addicted to over-compression, it's a hard habit to break.
But the unnatural onslaught of compressed sound obliterates musical nuance, delicacy and emotional power. Compression's loud-all-the-time nature sucks the life out of music.
Here's a great video that demonstrates the evils of compression.… Read more
Slow Browsing with Safari? Recent odd behavior?
Apple's Safari web browser is one of the fastest available, with advanced Javascript handling and fast HTML rendering, which along with it's simple and straightforward interface makes it quite appealing. Sometimes, however, people are finding the browser (and web browsing in general) to be quite slow on their Macs.
There are a variety of reasons why web browsing can be slow and as such, if this happens you can do several things to help combat it… Read more
The worst home theater in a box, ever
The worst-sounding speaker ever
A couple of days ago I blogged about possibly (hopefully) the world's most expensive speaker, Transmission Audio's Ultimate ($1,000,000 each), so I guess it makes sense to write up a dirt cheap speaker, Kikkerland's Woodchuck iPod/computer speakers.
Thing is, Kikkerland's Web site doesn't list the Woodchuck, but I see it's on Amazon going for $13.99 a pair. So I guess I can't complain too much, but the sound is so weak, bassless, trebleless, and dynamically compressed the Woodchuck is without doubt the lamest sounding speaker I've ever heard. Kinda sounds like the speaker in my Panasonic answering machine.… Read more
Hat detects Wi-Fi, repels chance of getting any action
The headline on this Dvice post about Think Geek's Wi-Fi-detecting hat says the cap will make you "king of the geeks." And maybe it will. But you can have that title, my liege; I'd rather get dates.
Not to say your crown isn't cool, technically it is. I mean, it has a fully functional Wi-Fi detector built in. So while you may never know if you've found decent coverage (unless you're staring into a mirror), at least all the girls around you will know. But since they won't be talking to you, … Read more
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Disney, Asus bring Netpal Netbooks to kids
Disney and Asus have teamed up to do something others have been doing wrong for a long time: they've developed an affordable and functional portable kids' PC, according to USA Today. It comes in the form of a Netbook with an Intel Atom processor; a small, 8.9-inch screen; parental control options; and desktops with customizable themes that revolve around the likes of Cars, Toy Story, WALL-E, and Hannah Montana.
The Netpal Netbooks will have an unknown clock speed (our guess would be 1.6GHz-2GHz) and will have a 16GB SSD or 160GB HD based on parental preference. They'… Read more
Nice TV, too bad it sounds like hell
I get letters about this all the time.
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By Berry Tramel Modified: April 21, 2011 at 12:00 pm • Published: April 21, 2011
On the state's allegiance to college football and whether an NBA title from the Thunder would surpass an OU football national title in prestige:
There are more OU fans than Thunder fans in the state right now. So obviously a college football national title is huge. But if the Thunder beats Denver, San Antone and, let's say, the Lakers. If the Thunder reaches the NBA Finals? The bandwagon would fill quickly, because what you said is right. Everyone in the state would jump on board. Here's the other thing. The NBA Finals are in June. The Thunder would be a runaway national story. The whole danged state would be going crazy.
On whether the Thunder will sweep the Nuggets and win the next two games in Denver:
No. I don't think it'll be a sweep. I think it's going to be OKC in five. Now, if the Thunder wins Game 3 Saturday night, I think the Thunder wins Game 4. Hard for a team to keep its chin up when it's down 3-0.
On Oklahoma City playing Kevin Durant, James Harden and Daequan Cook together in Game 2:
I thought that was interesting, too. It was really an offensive lineup. Ibaka, Durant, Cook, Westbrook and Harden, I think. When Denver goes small, Brooks can use that lineup if he wants to. Then in the final minutes, Thabo came in. But Cook played the whole fourth quarter. Which makes up for Cook not playing at all in the fourth quarter of Game 1. Chat Recap: Berry Tramel Thunder Bandwagon
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Police: Levittown Bank Robber Still At Large
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LEVITTOWN, N.Y. (CBSNewYork)Nassau County police are asking for the public’s help in locating a suspected bank robber.
According to detectives, the suspect approached a teller at the Citizens Bank inside the Stop and Shop at 3750 Hempstead Turnpike and fled on foot after receiving an undisclosed amount of money.
Police say the robbery happened around 12:15 p.m. Tuesday.
Police describe the suspect as a white man between 40 and 50-years-old, standing at 5’7″ and last seen wearing a black jacket, sunglasses and dark shorts.
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IBM (IBM) is a remarkable value creator and enjoys a sustainable competitive advantage in enterprise software, services, and hardware. However, IBM is not alone in the information technology sector. Its close competitors, Oracle (ORCL), Cisco Systems (CSCO), EMC (EMC) and Accenture (ACN) are also value creators. The following analysis will show you that the future continue to be bright for IBM.
The Companies
International Business Machines Corp.
Accenture PLC
Accenture is engaged in providing management consulting, technology and outsourcing services. The Company's business is structured around five operating groups, which together consists of 19 industry groups serving clients in industries globally. The Company's segment includes Communications, Media & Technology, Financial Services, Health & Public Service, Products and Resources. Sales, Nov.2012: 29.9 billion$.
Oracle Corporation
EMC Corporation
EMC Corporation and its subsidiaries develops, delivers and supports the information technology [IT] industry's range of information infrastructure and virtual infrastructure technologies, solutions and services. EMC manages its business in two categories: EMC Information Infrastructure and VMware Virtual Infrastructure. EMC's Information Infrastructure business provides a foundation for organizations to store, manage, protect, analyze and secure information, within traditional data centers, virtual data centers and cloud-based IT infrastructures. Its EMC Information Infrastructure business consists of three segments: Information Storage, Information Intelligence and RSA Information Security. EMC's VMware Virtual Infrastructure business is engaged in virtualization-based cloud infrastructure solutions utilized by businesses. Sales, Dec.2012: 21.7 billion$.
Cisco Systems Inc.
Cisco Systems designs, manufactures, and sells Internet protocol [IP]-based networking and other products related to the communications and information technology industry and provide services associated with these products and their use. It provides a line of products for transporting data, voice, and video within buildings, across campuses, and around the world. Its products are designed to transform how people connect, communicate, and collaborate. It has five segments: United States and Canada, European Markets, Emerging Markets, Asia Pacific, and Japan. The Emerging Markets consists of Eastern Europe, Latin America and Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States. Sales, Jan.2013: 47.3 billion$.
Creating Value
Creating value takes more than acceptance of value maximization as the organizational objective. All companies affirm to do this but that is not true. The choice of value maximization as the corporate objective must be complemented by a corporate vision, strategy and tactics that unite participants in the organization in its struggle for dominance in its competitive arena. That is the case of our five competitors.
How does an investor determine if a company is creating value or not? The creation or destruction of value is measured by calculating the change in market value added over the past periods. Market value added will increase if value expands by more than the amount of new capital committed to the business, and vice versa.
This behavior should give you assurance that the alpha you expect to obtain in investing in a particular stock will persist.
Market Value Added (as of March 14, 2013) (in Millions$)
Market Value of Total capital310,667.3155,214.34195,145.7060,113.70138,343.82
Invested Capital111,499.2611,571.7980,002.9836,215.1689,762.25
Market Value Added199,168.0543,642.55115,142.7223,898.5448,581.56
Companies that are leaders in value creation, like the five fierce competitors above, bring a different mindset and take a different approach to strategy development. They strive not just to be different from their competitors (which is necessary yet insufficient), but also to be both different from and more profitable than their competitors, like IBM does. They realize that others will seek to copy their success; therefore, they strive to develop capabilities and strategic assets that are hard to match. Creating such distinctive strategies is a difficult challenge, and only a few companies in any given industry, like the ones above, are likely to be successful at implementing and sustaining them. From where the market value added comes from and how do you know that the company will continue to add market value in the future? Simply by looking at the performance spreads over time.
Sustainable Competitive Advantage
Performance Spread (Trailing 36 months)
Close competitors
It is impressive to see that they all have positive performance spreads [PS]. For Accenture, having, although slightly decreasing, a PS greater than 20 percentage points is remarkable. Oracle has also a noteworthy PS, but it has lost 4 percentage points in the last five years. EMC and Cisco have also noticeable competitive advantages but they are far from the size of IBM, Accenture or Oracle. But the most prominent and stupendous fact in the above table is that with its substantial size, IBM is able to increase year over year its performance spread. It has gained 5 percentage points. Why the IBM case is outstanding?
As a long term value investor, you know that, over time, market value and intrinsic value converge. A company with a positive performance spread [PS], that is a return on its capital greater than its cost of capital, a necessary condition for market value creation, will see it decreases to zero, if it is not able to embark on a new strategic value increasing trajectory. That is not the case for IBM. It means that IBM has a rock-solid position in enterprise software, services, and hardware. The grouping of these services and products provides IBM with an unsurpassed solution creation and delivery ability that is the key to its positive and increasing performance spread.
Intrinsic Values
Equipped with the above information on performance spreads and the fact that we are in the presence of competitors that are also value creators, it follows that a breakthrough in value creation is not expected. In this competitive landscape, we have estimated the intrinsic value of those five stocks using. They are presented in the following table. The comparison of the intrinsic value with the recent market price shows that IBM, Accenture and Oracle are exchanged at a price that is lower than their intrinsic values. The opposite situation prevails for EMC and Cisco. A superficial knowledge of how prices are established in the capital markets and an over confidence on a point estimate of the intrinsic values would cause some analysts to declare that IBM, Accenture and Oracle are undervalued and EMC and Cisco, undervalued. We are not going that far and take these results as simply supporting our overall analysis. What confidence do we have in our estimations presented so far?
Intrinsic or Fundamental Risk
To answer the question, we need to recall that the value of any company (i.e., the market value of total capital) is composed of two parts: the value of assets in place, [Va] or, the value of the current operations (i.e. the discounted value of the current net operating profits), plus the value of the future growth opportunities [Vg]. In the simplify approach that we use here, this second part is just the result of subtracting the first part, (i.e. the value of assets in place) from the market value of total capital [VT]. As you can see in the table below, [Va] plus [Vg] is equal to [VT] or 100%. The explanation is simple: The greater the market value of the total capital of the corporation is composed of the value of the current operations [Va], the less significant is the value of the most uncertain part of the total value, i.e. the future growth opportunities [Vg]. For IBM, most of the market value comes from current operations, the most confident part of its value. It is also the case, although to a lesser extent, for Oracle. For Accenture, EMC and Cisco you need to put more reliance on the future, and most unpredictable part of your estimation, to arrive at the current market value of total capital.
Intrinsic Value, Value of Assets in Place, Value of Growth Opportunities
Intrinsic Value
Recent PriceTotal [VT][Va][Vg]
Close competitors
Actionable advices: First and foremost, invest or stay invested in IBM. This stock is a rock-solid choice for the very risk-averse investor.
Second, why not take the opportunity to diversify the IT part of your portfolio in investing in the above five value creators. The IT part of your global portfolio will leave you sleep at night.
Source: IBM: No Limits To Growth
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The IMF Country Report for Canada published Friday offers some unique perspectives on the reasons for the stability of Canada’s financial system since the credit crunch began. There have no been no failures of financial institutions, no large scale bailout of banks and the financial system did not undergo severe systemic pressures like it did in the U.S. and UK. In this post, let's review some of the key points from this report.
1. Sound Supervision and Regulation: Regulators follow some of the best practices with respect to supervision of institutions including the new Basel principles for banking supervision. As a result writedowns by Canadian banks have been much smaller when compared to major-peer countries as shown in the chart below.
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2. Strict Capital Requirements: Canadian banks’ Tier 1 Capital Ratio exceeds 7% which is higher than the 4% that required by the Basel Accord.
As of February, 2009 the Tier Ratios of the six large banks are as follows:
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3. Leverage ratio: This is limited to just 5% of total capital or up to 20% maximum. U.S. banks on the other hand are allowed up to 33% based on their strength and sophistication.
4. Conservative lending policies: Canadian banks like their customers exhibit low risk tolerance and have very conservative lending policies. Also their domestic retail market is profitable and stable unlike in the US.
5.Conservative Residential Mortgage Markets: In the US, 25% of all mortgages are non-prime and 60% of mortgages are securitized. In Canada these numbers are just 5% and 25% respectively. In addition most of the mortgages in Canada have Loan-To-Value [LTV] ratios of below 80%.
6. Periodic Regulatory Reviews: Since the financial sector is ever-changing with innovations and globalization, the federal authorities in Canada review the financial regulations every 5 years. It is not clear if a similar process exists in the U.S.
7. Cooperation among regulatory agencies: Officials of the various government agencies such as the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions [OSFI], Finance
Canada, Bank of Canada [BoC], Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation [CDIC], and the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada meet regularly as part of the Financial Institutions Supervisory Committee [FISC] to discuss and exchange regulatory information. In the U.S., agencies such as the Office of Thrift Supervision [OTS], FDIC, Federal Reserve, etc. usually operate independently of one another. Inter-agency cooperation is non-existent for the most part.
8. Proactive response to financial strains: Federal authorities are proactive when it comes to dealing with financial strains to the system. The 2009 budget contains many provisions to support stability in the financial system.
As a result of the above reasons, all the top five Canadian banks have become strong and powerful among the banks in North America.
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For example, the above table shows that Royal Bank of Canada (RY) had a market cap larger than Bank of America (BAC) on April 1, 2009. And all five banks were well ahead of Citibank (C). Citibank used to have a market above $200B only a few years ago. Now if not for the government bailout, the bank would have failed. Some experts like Mark Patterson have said that many large U.S. financial giants are technically insolvent.
Overall despite being very close to the U.S. in terms of financial and economic linkages, Canadian banks have so far shown remarkable resilience during this crisis.
Source: Canada: 2009 Article IV Consultation—Staff Report; Staff Statement; and Public Information Notice on the Executive Board Discussion, May 2009, IMF
Disclosure: Long all five Canadian Banks listed in the US markets
Source: Canada's Financial System: How Is It Still Stable in This Crisis?
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The mining industry finds itself back on the jury docket this week after the Fraser Institute published its findings on the controversial “Resource Curse”. The article, entitled Economic Freedom and the “Resource Curse”: An Empirical Analysis, explores whether mineral resource wealth is an economic blessing or a curse, particularly for developing nations where growth and reduction of poverty are vital.
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“Sound economic institutions and the opportunity for people and nations to benefit from resource wealth are inextricably connected,” said Fred McMahon, Fraser Institute director of the Centre for Trade and Globalization studies.
Until recently, few questioned that resources would bring wealth to nations. Since the industrial revolution, resources have played a vital role in the distribution of wealth as countries around the world learned to harness resources on a far greater scale than ever before.
Faith in resources as a driver of economic growth was shaken in 1995 when authors Jeffrey Sachs and Andrew Warner argued that resource abundance leads to negative economic growth, or what has been called a “resource curse.”
In their 1995 paper, Sachs and Warner summarized a number of theoretical arguments to explain the negative association between resource abundance and economic growth, such as the Dutch disease.
The phrase “Dutch disease” was coined by The Economist in 1977 to explain the decline of the manufacturing sector in the Netherlands after the discovery of a large natural gas field. Revenues from natural gas were said to cannibalize the Netherlands’ manufacturing sector by increasing the exchange rate and making the manufacturing sector less competitive.
The Fraser Institute’s new paper calls this argument to task. It argues that Sachs and Warner were correct in observing that some countries with an abundance of resources experience a resource curse. They also found that metals and ores in particular bring a stronger resource curse than natural resources in general. Gold, silver and diamonds are all too often exploited by despotic rulers who have little interest or understanding of sound economic policy.
However, the Fraser Institute report argues that the resource curse is a post hoc, or false cause argument. The proof, they say, is that the curse is turned into an economic blessing with relatively low levels of institutional development. That is to say, countries rich in metals and ores see economic growth as long as their governments exhibit some level of economic freedom.
McMahon said:
The good news is that even relatively low levels of economic freedom allow nations to benefit from resources, but the higher the level, the greater the benefit.
The peer-reviewed Fraser Institute report offers an empirical analysis weighing countries’ resource abundances against the Economic Freedom of the World index to determine the impact of institutions on economic growth and how institutions interact with natural resources. Of the four categories of natural resources-fuel, food, agricultural raw materials, and ores and metals, only ores and metals were found to have a significant effect on economic growth.
The study suggests that for countries lacking sound economic institutions, natural resource dependence can weaken economic growth.
Fortunately, the level of economic freedom on a worldwide basis has risen consistently for the last quarter century, so more and more countries are benefiting from their resource wealth.
McMahon points out that the resource curse has always been a moot point.
He said:
Many nations such as Canada, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand have historically built prosperity and reduced poverty by resource development. Today, many nations benefit from both strong institutions and resource wealth, nations like Chile, Brazil, Thailand, and the Philippines.
Now if only Robert Mugabe and Victor Chavez would get on board.
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With recent mention of Argentina promoting the idea of an OPEC-like cartel to control the supply and pricing of lithium this week, what exactly would that mean?
Rodolfo Tecchi, director of technology and science promotion of the Argentine Ministry Science and Technology recently quoted that “In the near future and with our production at such a high level, Bolivia, Argentina, and Chile will control the lithium market”. He added “They could do it with a sort of OPEC-like arrangement”.
Forbes recently ran an article describing these 3 countries are considered the “Saudi Arabia of lithium” with the major benefit of controlling mechanisms for the sale of lithium carbonate and avoiding the lower prices that may come with overproduction. In fact, Bolivia has about 50 percent of the global reserves, Chile controls about 25 percent, and Argentina having approximately 10 percent in its possession.
It’s true that these three countries in particular if ever combined as a cartel would have an enormous amount control on who to sell to, how it’s distributed, and at what price. Three important aspects when a near monopoly is created. But what exactly is the motivation behind this talk?
For one, It’s definitely to further generate interest and investment in the area of South America for business in these countries. Governments in the area recognize their own domestic resources and have a mission to further grow their key industries and need for lithium to allow their businesses and more importantly, their community, and GDP to grow long term.
With greater eyes and ears drawn to this sector, you can bet that more funding towards mining operations and related investments would be among its main intentions. However, the more important matter is the drive to centralize and develop a known market pricing structure for lithium from a global supply and demand viewpoint. Similar to how oil, uranium, and other commodities have a global market price, this would essentially drive the price per tonne and develop a better structure of higher margins for those already in the mining business. Existing producers are also very much in favor of this, as it would increase their profit margins.
It is definitely a realistic future possibility as these countries and their deposits are known to be rich in lithium and are close proximity to each other, just like OPEC is closely aligned in the middle east. However, at this point in time when both, the lithium mining companies and battery manufacturing companies are still trying to develop its core business to a respective level, some are still relying on its loans and funding. Investments still need to be made and materialized as demand for lithium continues to grow worldwide.
But one should question if such a cartel could control the supply of lithium in the long term as more junior companies ramp up and go into commercial production, especially in the second half of this decade. TRU group earlier in the year warned of a possible oversupply of lithium by 2017 especially as many juniors try to accelerate into commercial production. End users who do not want to be controlled by paying higher prices for lithium could also turn to partnerships with mining companies through joint ventures.
By witnessing in recent history how America relies on imported foreign oil, and how China similarly controls the amount of exports of rare earth elements that are critical to many applications to the rest of the, these actions can have their fair share of risks. U.S. President Obama also recently expressed no interest in transitioning from importing oil from the OPEC cartel in the middle east and trading it to only answer to another new cartel in South America for lithium.
However, the main reason for talk about a possible cartel is known to benefit all parties involved in the business, as higher prices typically translate to higher profit margins, contribution to local communities and governments.
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Mango Rice Arugula SaladI have ventured into the world of wild rice, and don't think I'll be turning back anytime soon. I was at a fancy organic market the other day and looking through the already made deli section and came across a wild rice salad. I pulled my number and waited my turn to order my obnoxiously expensive small container of salad. As I dug my fork in I realized the salad was bit on the bland side and needed some pizzazz, but I did like the slight bite the wild rice gave the salad. I thought, "I'll never buy this salad again, I'll just go home and make something extraordinary that my family will love." My mom was over that day, so I add mangos and arugula to please her palate. It was a win-win and gone in minutes!
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Ingredients for Wild Rice Mango Arugula Salad:
1 - cup black wild rice
2 1/3 - cups chicken broth
1 - cup cucumber (chopped into cubes)
1 - cup panela cheese (chopped into cubes)
6 - basil leaves (chopped into strips)
20 - cherry tomatoes (cut in half)
1/4 - cup pine nuts
1/2 - cup dried cranberries
1/2 - cup diced pear
1 - cup arugula
1 - large avocado (diced)
1/2 - cup red onion (chopped)
1 - cup mango (diced)
For the dressing:
1/4 - cup olive oil (I use Roland Foods)
1 - teaspoon salt
pepper to taste
1. In a pot over a medium high flame add chicken broth and bring to a boil.
2. Add in rice and return to a boil. Once boiling place a lid on the pot and lower flame to simmer. Simmer for 45 minutes.
3. Remove pot from heat and let rice rest in pot for 10 minutes.
4. Place rice in a strainer and rinse under cold water. Let drain completely.
5. In a large bowl add cucumber, panela cheese, basil, cherry tomatoes, pine nuts, dried cranberries, pear, arugula, avocado, and red onion. Mix well to combine.
6. Pour drained black rice into veggies. Mix well.
7. Then add in the mango and give it another mix.
8. In a small bowl or cup mix all ingredients for dressing and pour over the salad.
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Comment: Re:Dear Users... (Score 1) 285
by drinkypoo (#45732111) Attached to: Apple Pushes Developers To iOS 7
Sure, mock me or call me an MS shill if you want, but it's the only tablet out there that's 10 inch, has expandable storage, and I can be reasonably assured that I'll get software updates on a regular basis.
Doesn't Asus have Transformers with 10" and expandable storage? ... yep, memo pad, transformer, slate... As for your last point, MS is completely willing to drop a platform that turns out to be more trouble than it's worth. We'll see.
Comment: Re:The Wealthy? (Score 1) 202
by drinkypoo (#45732063) Attached to: Tesla Gets $34 Million Tax Break, Adds Capacity For 35,000 More Cars
How cute. People actually needing their truck for the job. That's the vast minority.
The F-450 is sufficiently ungainly to where most people will not drive one for vanity. I do know of one F-450 pickup truck conversion, which has a shortened frame and a custom bed, but even it is regularly used for towing.
Comment: Re:Thanks, California taxpayers! (Score 1) 202
by drinkypoo (#45732033) Attached to: Tesla Gets $34 Million Tax Break, Adds Capacity For 35,000 More Cars
You can get a Leaf for about 22k after tax breaks, which means you don't break even on fuel costs for well after the life of the car (12 years),
I'd imagine that the range will be somewhat decreased, but if most Leafs which haven't been piloted into a tree (etc) aren't still operating in 12 years, I will be shocked. Hopefully not literally.
Comment: Re:Firmware (Score 1) 242
by drinkypoo (#45731999) Attached to: How a MacBook Camera Can Spy Without Lighting Up
If you are willing to escalate privilege, you can pretty much do what you want to any USB devices firmware, assuming it's not in ROM and not hardware fused to make it non-updateable.
I believe the assumption here is that it's not difficult for TPTB to get their firmware onto your computer. In an enterprise it's slightly tricky to do it without risk of being caught. Where individual users are concerned there is little risk in leaning on the OS vendor to deliver to you and you alone an additional payload right in a signed patch package.
Comment: civil disobedience (Score 1) 471
by PopeRatzo (#45730491) Attached to: Police Pull Over More Drivers For DNA Tests
I know there are a lot of social and economic problems that may come to the top of peoples' minds before privacy, but in the absence of an expectation of privacy, those other problems can never really get better.
Everybody across the political spectrum has to fight this stuff. It really bothers me when political division prevent agreement on this issue. If a liberal comes out against spying then some conservatives feel they have to support it and vice versa.
This is an easy one. Everybody needs to be outraged about government collecting all this information using invasive means like DNA tests and road blocks and wiretapping and hacking.
I think to some extent, the government (and the private corporations who are doing a great deal of the actual spying and data collection) are counting on us being too divided over other issues to put up any resistance. We absolutely must prove them wrong.
Comment: Re:Kids these days... (Score 1) 513
by drinkypoo (#45727427) Attached to: Harvard Bomb Hoax Perpetrator Caught Despite Tor Use
These cameras are well hidden. When the news of the arrest were announced, it was quite a surprise (... and some outrage...) that these existed at all.
What kind of asshole would assume that in the age of fifty dollar tablets, there's not a security camera on a thousand-plus-dollar payphone?
And if they had known, a well-placed blob of chewing gum would have achieved the same goal much more easily...
But then you have to be sneaky when approaching the phone. Better to be disguised before you ever approach it.
Comment: New definition (Score 1) 307
by PopeRatzo (#45725911) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Can Digital Music Replace Most Instrumental Musicians?
Music is what happens when creative people make sounds. There doesn't have to be only one monolithic "music market". Just because TV is using "digital musicians" has nothing to do with the four guys who play improvised music every Monday at Jerry's on Division Street, or the dubstep cats working their butts off to create prodigious amounts of recorded, disposable music or the guy who plays contrabass for the North Shore Symphony Orchestra.
So fucking what if the music on television is done using samples? And what the hell is "television" anyway? Isn't that what they used to call that big screen in the living room that I use to watch Netflix and streamed torrents?
Let's not panic. I've made a portion of my living with music since about 1980. Technology has changed since then. People still make music. In fact, I bet more people make music now than back then because the technology has democratized the production of music and made it easier to learn to play than ever.
If you're still looking to start a band and sign a deal with a major record label and..profit!, then you really need to do everyone a favor and sell your instruments and use the money to buy lottery tickets. If you're looking to have a career as a musician and pay the bills then the best approach is the same as it ever was...practice. There's nothing to indicate it's any harder today than it was when record labels and musicians' unions were king. That doesn't mean there's no need for record labels and musicians' unions, but if you don't panic and adapt everyone will be OK and there will still be music in the air and lots of lovin' everywhere so give me the night. Ooh oooh.
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I'd like to view the last few lines of a file, but I want the columns aligned. Basically, I want to disable wordwrap.
This is straightforward with:
tail $FILE | cut -c -80
But I'm trying to generalize my script for other users, and I'd like to cut to the actual terminal width, which I can get with:
stty size | cut -d" " -f2
So I would imagine that I could just
tail $FILE | cut -c -`stty size | cut -d" " -f2`
but it doesn't work:
stty: standard input: Invalid argument
cut: invalid range with no endpoint: -
Try `cut --help' for more information.
(Same results with the 'new' $() expansion.)
Now, if I echo it, it seems fine:
echo cut -c -`stty size | cut -d" " -f2`
cut -c -103
Am I just missing an escape char? Or is this somehow just not possible?
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The reason that it doesn't work is because stty is executed within a pipe. Therefore it doesn't "see" the underlying terminal. In your script you could store the terminal width in a variable like
size=`stty size | cut -d" " -f2`
and then use that next:
tail $FILE | cut -c -$size
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Thanks! I knew is was something simple! – Joe Fruchey Jun 24 at 14:13
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Bash maintains the screen width in the COLUMNS variable, which you can use in a pipeline:
tail $FILE | cut -c -$COLUMNS
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I heard of a new app that recently came out by EXAI Website Creator that's supposed to turn your Facebook page into a website and I'm wondering how it works exactly. What information does it grab and how does it lay it out in the website? Does it update new information on your Facebook page automatically?
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Once you install the app, you choose the fan page you want to convert and at the end of a short process you get a website (not bad at all actually) the info taken from you fan page - the app doesn’t affect the fan page, only uses the info like contact, photos, address etc.
I’m not sure about automatic updates you need to check it overall it’s probably the best app that actually turns Facebook pages into a website, hope I helped.
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I uploaded a video 03:06 long size was 9 something? It's showing up on my channel on my mobile youtube app but not on web youtube (mobile or pc) whyy?! someone help asap please?
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How long is it since you uploaded it? Is the video still being processed? You are presumably logged in to both sites/devices? YouTube certainly caches a lot of content so maybe it is just a stale cache issue? – w3d Apr 4 at 18:22
An hour, no it said videos uploaded. I logged onto my pc after it said it was uploaded on my mobile. – April Apr 4 at 18:26
Is it public, unlisted or private? – w3d Apr 4 at 18:28
Its cool i just posted it copying the url! – April Apr 4 at 18:46
So it is there after all? :) – w3d Apr 4 at 18:49
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Vivek Kundra spearheaded an efficiency drive in the US government, lifting it out of the technology dark ages.
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Topics: internet-technology, economic-trends, security-intelligence, hacking, united-states
TICKY FULLERTON, PRESENTER: Former first chief information officer of the United States, Vivek Kundra, is the man who catapulted the US into the cyber-future.
He says the White House was in the technology dark ages when he joined in 2009; even president Obama had to fight to get a Blackberry. He spearheaded an efficiency drive in the US government's IT bureaucracy that had bloated out to 2,000 data centres, and launched it into cloud computing.
I spoke to him earlier from Canberra and he says the sky is the limit.
Vivek Kundra, thank you for joining us.
TICKY FULLERTON: Since you are down in Canberra, I should ask you: there was a Senate inquiry yesterday which revealed that our Government was wrestling with hackers, and the website - the Parliamentary website - now has a filter system that blocks 35 million websites that could be unsuitable.
You are not a big fan of filters, even if it comes to government security?
VIVEK KUNDRA: No. When you think about the world we live in today, of course you need to put in place measures that will advance the cyber security posture of any organisation, whether that is public or private.
TICKY FULLERTON: You are a big fan of the "cloud", I understand, when it comes to solving the problem?
VIVEK KUNDRA: I'm a huge fan of cloud computing, because in my personal experience, working for president Obama, we were spending $80 billion in information technology, yet for too long we had seen wasteful IT projects that did not produce any dividends for the people of the country. By moving to the cloud and adopting a cloud-first policy, we were able to not only save billions of dollars, but were also able to make sure we were moving to a much more secure enterprise, with the most innovative solutions that could serve the American people.
TICKY FULLERTON: You say it is secure. There are a lot of people who worry that because there are many users on a cloud platform, you are only as safe as the service provider of the cloud, aren't you?
VIVEK KUNDRA: If we look at the most recent cyber security breaches - across the world, for that matter - they generally tend to be from social engineering, it generally tends to be people rather than the technology itself.
TICKY FULLERTON: There are still people, even at cloud level, and the people I have spoken to about this seem to shy away from any form of regulation, they prefer self-regulation. I'm just wondering whether things could go horribly wrong on a big level?
VIVEK KUNDRA: If you look at most advanced economies, one of the things that every economy is grappling with is, as more and more business processes move to the digital world, what does systemic risk really mean in that context?
When you think about the health-care sector, the transportation sector, when you think about what's happening with intelligent transportation systems, part of what we need to be able do is to make sure we are hard-wiring security as part of theses digital infrastructures we are deploying. More importantly, that we are creating an ecosystem where the expectation is that these providers will be open, transparent and they're going to share what's happening across their systems.
TICKY FULLERTON: Moving on, talking about hard-wiring, I gather you think quite a lot of our NBN project?
VIVEK KUNDRA: The NBN project, from my perspective, on principle, is absolutely the right direction. When you are thinking about an Asian state that is making a strategic investment to bring broadband to as many people as possible, and innovation and the ability to use information technology to disrupt the status quo is going to be how advanced economies are going to be able to grow.
TICKY FULLERTON: Putting your cost-efficiency hat on, which you did such a great job of with for president Obama, I'm just wondering if you have thought of a public sector project which is either $36 billion or $42 billion, with no independent cost/benefit analysis done, would that raise the red light on your flashing dashboard?
VIVEK KUNDRA: I think it's a question that comes down to: is this a strategic investment in the national interest? And what is happening around the world? If you think about the modern economy, building a core infrastructure that's going to enable millions of people and fundamentally transform the economy - whether it comes to health care, education, public safety, and the ability to connect people that were never connected before - seems to be a worthy goal.
TICKY FULLERTON: Regardless of the price?
VIVEK KUNDRA: No, you have to take that into account in terms of the cost factors. But I would say, from a strategic perspective, it totally makes sense to make these investments.
TICKY FULLERTON: Finally, you believe, I think, that down the track, productivity - which is something we are obsessed with in Australia - productivity won't be the great nirvana benchmark of the future?
VIVEK KUNDRA: In terms of the next decade, the biggest disruption is a world that is now social and is mobile. Obviously, productivity is going to be a critical factor, but I think the next decade is about people connecting and fundamentally transforming the way they conduct - whether it's commerce or how they socialise in this new digital public square.
TICKY FULLERTON: Industrial springs, I can see, everywhere. Vivek Kundra, very interesting, thank you very much for joining us.
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Asthma is mainly treated with medications, but a non-drug treatment is being researched in Canada which involves heating up the airways one by one.
We'll stay above the diaphragm with another condition affecting maybe up to one in five Australians - asthma. The mainstays of asthma treatment are medications. But a non-drug treatment being researched in Canada may help some asthma sufferers. It's called bronchial thermoplasty and involves heating up the airways one by one.
Professor Gerard Cox is Head of Respiratory Medicine at McMaster University in Hamilton Ontario.
Gerard Cox: Radio frequency energy is delivered through a specially designed catheter via the bronchoscope to the airway wall. It's got four electrodes so we can expand. The heat that we generate is only like a cup of coffee, so if you make yourself a cup of coffee put in your milk or cream and then stick your finger in it, that's our target temperature. So it's not enough to cause any visible signs of injury.
Norman Swan: How do you know in asthma which airway to treat?
Gerard Cox: Well asthma is a very generalised disease so we treat all the airways that we can get at.
Norman Swan: Is it just one spot in each airway or do you sort of drag it along and heat up the whole bit?
Gerard Cox: We pick a section of the lung that we are going to treat and then we go into an airway and then we go as far as we can and then we put the catheter out as far as we can see it. We expand the catheter to treat, the treatment period is ten seconds and then we collapse the catheter, pull it back, re-expand it, treat again, it gets a little bit boring after a while because you're just sitting there expanding, treating, collapsing. And we aim to have the treatment sites almost continuous along the airway walls.
Norman Swan: Sounds like it could take hours?
Gerard Cox: It takes about 30 to 45 minutes per session and it takes three sessions to complete in the average human airway. There have been some people in whom we've managed to complete the treatment in just two sessions because they've had fewer airways and fewer branches, or smaller airways than expected. And then on the other side there's been the occasional person who has had so many airways that we've had to come back and do a fourth session.
Norman Swan: It sounds pretty crude, I mean where does the idea come from?
Gerard Cox: The idea for bronchial thermoplasty is acually quite attractive in its simplicity. In asthma we recognise that there's a lot of inflammation that causes trouble but there's also narrowing of the airway wall because the muscles that are in the airway wall contract and because they form a ring around the airway, that airway is narrowed when they contract.
Norman Swan: That is why you get the wheezing?
Gerard Cox: Absolutely, when somebody takes a puff of their reliever medication such as salbutamol, sold as Ventolin.
Norman Swan: Ventolin-like drugs.
Gerard Cox: What that does is it relaxes that muscle and it opens up the airway and relieves the wheeze, chest tightness and sense of difficulty in breathing. When you work with people who have got more severe asthma the inhaler medications don't render that person free of disease and under certain circumstances they may get their asthma problem quite badly.
Norman Swan: Is this a situation where when you do pulmonary function testing if you do it on somebody with early asthma and mild asthma and you test them and you puff in an expander a reliever there's no residual obstruction there, their lungs can return almost to normal. But if somebody has had it for a while or very severe asthma there's kind of a fixed obstruction there and almost you have a permanent reduction in your lung's capacity.
Gerard Cox: We can look at asthma severity as how good can you be made with best medical treatment and if you can't be made perfect then you've got more severe disease than somebody who can be. But another way of looking at asthma severity is to look at the day to day trouble that somebody has. If somebody has problems every hour, well then their illness is more severe than somebody who has trouble once a week even though their best achievable function is still within the normal range. And it's that second categorisation of asthma severity that I'm highlighting because we believe that when somebody can have normal function but has quite impaired breathing capacity under certain situations and they change between those two situations of normal to badly affected quite quickly, then that change is caused by muscles contracting. Whereas the way of looking at severity that you alluded to which is that the person can't ever have a normal breathing capacity, that seems to be due to more fixed narrowing of the airways. And we don't think that that particular form of obstruction is going to be susceptible to bronchial thermoplasty because what we're doing is we're reducing the component that the muscles contribute and the muscles contribute a dynamic component.
Norman Swan: Essentially what you're saying is that heat relaxes the muscle.
Gerard Cox: No actually, that's a very important point.
Norman Swan: So this is not like a hot compress?
Gerard Cox: It's not like a hot compress no and when I go to explain bronchial thermoplasty I realise I end up making this very same point many times and I need to explain it a little bit differently perhaps. We're not interested in relaxing smooth muscle with bronchial thermoplasty, we've got medications that are superb at doing that. What bronchial thermoplasty does is it changes the potential for future bronchial constriction, narrowed airways in various situations. It reduces the amount of muscle that's present in the airway wall.
Norman Swan: How does the heat do that?
Gerard Cox: It's very simple, the heat causes an injury to the airways with muscle and it's important to put the word minor in there because the insult that we cause with the heat is minor but it is enough to injure some of the muscle cells so that after treatment we have fewer cells that have the potential to contract.
Norman Swan: But isn't there a risk that you actually create scarring and could actually make the lung really quite stiff?
Gerard Cox: We have found a temperature that will lead to cell injury but not to extensive destruction and in the work that we have done pre-clinically we have not yet had one example of airway damage due to scarring.
Norman Swan: So tell me about this study that you did?
Gerard Cox: Well the study that we published last year was one year follow- up of 110 patients or so who had been randomised to receive bronchial thermoplasty in half or else just their usual medical therapy in the other half.
Norman Swan: You didn't do sham bronchial thermoplasty?
Gerard Cox: We didn't, we felt it was premature to do a sham control study until we had some substantial evidence that bronchial thermoplasty could in fact be beneficial to patients with asthma. And in fact we have designed and are completing a sham controlled study of bronchial thermoplasty right now, so those results will be available later this year.
Norman Swan: So it's thermoplasty versus the best standard treatment?
Gerard Cox: Yes, or actually it was bronchial thermoplasty in addition to standard medical treatment in the active group and the control group received their usual treatment. And we also stressed the patients a little bit because on three separate occasions we withdrew one of the medications they were on, that was their lung acting bronchodilator and looked to see whether when we withdrew the lung acting bronchodilator did they suffer the same deterioration after bronchial thermoplasty as they had in the base line period. My definition of the asthma that the patients had who entered our trial would be moderate to severe, persistent asthma so these are people who despite being on inhaled corticosteroid at moderate or high dose and a long acting bronchodilator medication still had symptomatic asthma and the potential for either mild or serious deterioration even though they were compliant with that standard medical therapy.
So this is not everybody with asthma, this is certainly people who have got a more substantial burden of disease. There was a three month follow up period and at the end of that we examined whether or not the people who received bronchial thermoplasty had enjoyed any benefit and they had. After three months we then had this two week withdrawal of their lung acting bronchodilator and we repeated the two week withdrawal at 6 and 12 months to see if the benefit was maintained. And during those periods we were able to observe a reduced rate of exacerbation of asthma in people who received bronchial thermoplasty along with an improvement in their symptom-free days and a reduction in the number of times they needed to take a symptom- relieving medication.
The other way that we look at asthma is to use scores from questionnaires and there are two that are commonly used, one is the asthma quality of life questionnaire and there's the asthma control questionnaire and both of those questionnaire scores yielded benefit.
Norman Swan: Were they taking fewer medications after a year?
Gerard Cox: We did another study where we looked at patients with more severe asthma including oral predinasone.
Norman Swan: A steroid medication, so that means you've really got quite severe asthma.
Gerard Cox: That's right. When we studied bronchial thermoplasty in them we also had the capacity to see whether they needed less reliever medication.
Norman Swan: And did they?
Gerard Cox: They did.
Norman Swan: So if I were sitting here and I'm somebody with asthma that is up and down and I have to take a lot of medication, I'm still doing that and I'm occasionally even having to go to the emergency department because it's so severe, what's the kind of informed consent? I mean how many people have got to have thermoplasty for one person with moderate to severe asthma to really be significantly improved?
Gerard Cox: You're coming around to a number needed to treat, that depends very much on what outcome you're anchoring that calculation with. From the point of view of reducing their day to day symptoms, reducing their reliance on rescue medications, enjoying an improvement and quality of life we expect those to be seen in every second or third patient.
Norman Swan: And people would go through it again, people were happy with the result?
Gerard Cox: Yes. We've administered a survey which is you know, did you think the experience was what you expected given the informed consent that you signed? If you were back again would you go through it again? If you had a family member or friend who had the same illness as you would you advise them to consider this? We received largely either enthusiastic or very enthusiastic responses. I'm a little bit uncomfortable though with this aspect of the project, when you do a research trial the people who join the trial are not everybody.
Norman Swan: So this is a selective group, they'd already gone through that thought process before you started?
Gerard Cox: That's it exactly, so if you asked people who come to a rugby match do you enjoy rugby your chances are you're going to get a lot of people who say yes. Whereas if you go to an Australian football game and you ask do you enjoy Australian football chances are they'd say yes, so we've selected people who wanted something else done for their asthma.
Norman Swan: It's not cheap, it takes up a doctor's time and anaesthetist's time, theatre time, have you done a cost benefit analysis?
Gerard Cox: Yes and no. The cost benefit analysis obviously has to be done in your own jurisdiction because the costs in the United States of America are very different to Canada, are very different to Australia. And the second point is that when we do bronchial thermoplasty and we haven't mentioned this up until now and we should, there is an increased rate of airway symptoms in the week after the treatment is done and when we work with people who have got more severe asthma, when they have a worsening of their condition, they frequently need admission to hospital for management. So we have an increased rate of hospitalisation in the week after bronchial thermoplasty is done and we believe we've got a reasonably good idea of how much of a window of safety do we need in somebody because they have to be able to tolerate a temporary deterioration in their condition in the week or so after treatment. The long term benefits of bronchial thermoplasty are at present unknown so how these patients will fare over the next two to three years and whether or not they continue to enjoy the benefits that we've already documented will be very important.
Norman Swan: And apart from hospitalisation are there other risks such as perforating the lung, causing a collapse - that sort of thing?
Gerard Cox: I'm pleased to say that they haven't happened. We are still in the early stages of this technology, we've opened up the possibility that you can achieve a physical solution to a biological problem and you might go looking at other situations in the body where muscle is a bad actor - migraine, coronary artery spasm, spasm of the arteries going to your kidneys, so maybe we should be looking at physical solutions to these problems as opposed to surgical bypasses and things. It's made us rethink disorders where a hollow tube with muscle in the wall is behaving badly.
Norman Swan: Gerald Cox is Professor of Medicine at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.
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Midori Days
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Sawamura Seiji is the most notorious delinquent at his high school -- always getting into fights and causing problems, leaving him single and unlucky with the ladies. After another long day of rejection, Seiji discovers that the love of his life might have finally appeared, but in the unlikeliest of places... his right hand?! Now, in addition to dealing with daily fights and the gossip of his classmates, Seiji must handle a new problem of embarassing proportions: Kasugano Midori, a pretty young girl in place of his hand, who happens to have fallen in love with him!
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Chobits and Midori no Hibi are both hilarious looks at a bumbling boy and a somewhat unusual (and/or, unattainable for certain reasons) love-interest. Off the wall wackiness is prevalent in both, with serious moments as well. Definitely you'd like one if you liked the other.
SImilar plot by which male main character suddenly has female counterpart he cannot make heads or tails of.
In Midori Days and Chobits, a cute girl comes out of nowhere and enters a guy's life. The guy becomes shy and gets himself involved in plenty of humorous situations. Chobits is cuter than Midori no Hibi, but both are funny and cute nonetheless!
The unique style of how the characters meet in Chobits and Midori Days is similar as is the strange love interest between the main characters. They both have a similar plot line dealing with some ecchi, although the relationship as a whole remains relatively innocent.
Chobits is, in my opinion, the better of the two. However, anyone who enjoyed one will probably enjoy the other.
Both involve serious moe factors - robots and hand-girl-thingy. While the male protagonists in these series are seemingly different, they are similar in that they lack experience with girls and then fall for something that's not quite human. Both series also have the love interests living under the same room.
Both shows are about the relationship between the male character with the "not so normal" girl he stumbled upon, and mainly focus on the route towards becomming a "regular" couple. If you liked Midori Days for these points, I think you'll love Chobits even more.
Both series are for the most part about a guy and his rather unordinary female counterpart. In the case of Midori Days it's the girl on his left hand and in Chobits it's a robotic young girl. The story for both are also overall similar in that it mainly focuses on the leads as they try to become something of a regular couple. Both are two cute and funny titles that if you found yourself liking one then you probably end up liking the other as well.
I dont know why... but these animes complement each other perfectly. Such cute charectors... colorfull animation... and fun plots!
both are good cause they make you cheer for the guy to finaly understand that they might think love will never find them but the one they should be in love with is in front of there face the whole time :)
Chobits and Midori Days have a lot in common. Its humour tends to be a mixture of both sexual tension and innocence of the protagonist. This charming combination creates a really touching love story once you relive the anime in the your head. For me personally however, I feel that Chobits had a greater impact towards the ending which signifies a completed anime, Midori Days on the other hand (no pun intended) feels like there was no continuity making the ending feel rushed and had less of an impact. Dont get me wrong, Midori Days is a good slice of life anime but between the two I would hands down, choose Chobits.
Great Teacher Onizuka
Great Teacher Onizuka
With a history of leading a motorcycle gang and getting bad grades in school, why would 22 year old Onizuka ever want to become a teacher? Is it to educate young minds or spread the joy of education? Sure, if it involves being able to look up high school girls' skirts! Watch as this would-be educator uses his own life lessons and unconstituted methods as a means to control a delinquent class of students -- students who certainly aren't as happy to have him as a teacher as he is happy to be teaching...
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I'd like to make this vote due to the similar sort of humor in both series. Facial expressions are a main key of the humor of both series. In Midori no Hibi a romance story stands central, while in GTO it's more a drama comedy, in which there is more comedy than Midori no Hibi. If you've had enough of romance comedies and want something else than a romance story, you should check out GTO, provided you do not mind old and somewhat different art. If you liked the humor in GTO and are looking for a similar sort of humor, combinded with a (thin) romance story, I suggest to check out Midori no Hibi
The humor in GTO and Midori struck me as very similar. Both are about a delinquent who gets into trouble with girls. The mindset of the two main characters is kind of the same too. Midori is just a tad more romantic than GTO.
Everyone loves a screw up. Sometimes the screw up can change the world! GTO seeks that by going back to school and making it better for those who are still growing up, and hopes to prevent them from making his mistakes. In Midori Days, the main character has to change himself and see the world in a new way.
Both of these anime's are about a gang leader who knows nothing but violence.Also, both the main characters have to change their way of living because of something. In midori days, this is the fact that Midori becoms seji's right hand and in GTO it's Onizuka's dream of teaching. There are some identical genres, like comedy and a little bit romance, you can also find some ecchi in these series.
If you like Great Teacher Onizuka or Midori days, I can't stress enough how much you will like the other.
If you ask me in a lot of ways the main character of Midori days Seiji Sawamura and the main character of GTO Eikichi Onizuka are a lot alike, aside from age differences both characters look alike , yet they do not portray so many sissy looking males in anime today. They are both strong and can pretty much kick anyone’s ass; they both have a strong sense for justice (they do not like seeing anyone being bullied) and are often misunderstood. Onizuka and Seiji also have an act for not being so lucky with the ladies (Does not mean someone isn't watching). The difference GTO is a feel good anime about Onizuka solving his student’s problems and helping them into adulthood, while Midori Days is more of a romance where Seiji learns in his own way how to grow up. If you loved one you will love the other!
If you like the strong rebel character of Seiji, with his girl-crazy fantasies, but good guy beneath the surface tendancies, then you will probably enjoy Onizuka in Great Teacher Onizuka. Both shows have on the edge humour. Plus, GTO does not have a simpering Midori character.
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Both series have a thin romance story having a small character as main role, which does the housekeeping. The series contain some fanservice(Hand Maid May having quite a bit more than Midori no Hibi). I found the humor in Midori no Hibi more enjoyable than the humor in Hand Maid May. So if you want a series with more fanservice, at the cost of the humor, check out Hand Maid May. If you are however interested in more humor than Hand Maid May, you should check out Midori no Hibi
A small girl totally in love with the giant guy? Just like Midori no Hibi, Hand maid May got the cute little girl who wants to do everything to make her master happy. But May doesn't sit on the guys hand all the time ;) She actually moves around. This series also contains the love drama that Midori no Hibi got and is just as cute, so be sure to check it out.
Both Midori and Hand Maid May have a romance-based story where comedy gets the upper hand - in addition to a tiny girl that loves a big guy!
Both Hand Maid May and Midori Days include a main female character who is smaller than your average woman. Although the main male characters are very different, the same kind of humor is apparent in both series.
Hand Maid May and Midori Days have one thing in common: both of the main characters start off in the same place in life and both have a boyfriend... sort of.
They have the same sort of atmosphere so I think it's a good match.
Akane-Iro ni Somaru Saka
Akane-Iro ni Somaru Saka
When Junichi 'Gene Killer' Nagase saved the beautiful and wealthy Yuuhi Katagiri from bullies one day, he had no idea that he'd actually assisted his would-be wife! For what Junichi didn't know is that he and Yuuhi's fathers decided they would be wed, and Yuuhi has arrived in his town to decide if her betrothed is good enough for the job. After a humiliating and unwanted first kiss, Yuuhi moves in with Junichi to evaluate his worth; and thus, Junichi's life is changed forever. With embarrassing situations at every turn and a bride-to-be that thinks he's uncivilized and brash, what's a guy to do?
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Midori Days and Akane-Iro ni Somaru Saka both are ecchi/comedy/romance anime. They both have a male lead who is feared by many because of his delinquent image, while he is actually a fair and kind person, despite being a super-strong fighter. Both main characters eventually get to make up their mind about what they're really wishing for in a similar way (a little bit beyond the usual "take a pick" dicision). Also, both series have very similar animation, adding to the feel these shows have. If you liked one, I'm sure you'll enjoy the other as well.
With both anime you hava a rumored male protagonist, who lacks luck in dealing with girls, the difference is that in akane-iro ni somaru saka the boy is still caught within them while midori days is caught but by only one girl.
If you have the hots for some delinquent male leads Midori Days and Akane-Iro ni Somaru Saka are the shows for you. These loveable guys with a bad boy image get captivated by the females around them in a hilarious romp through high school life. While Akane-Iro is much more realistic, Midori Days still maintains the comedic feel.
If you liked one then you'll probably like the other because the male lead in both titles are something of a bad boy and are rather feared by everyone else. As well as the fact that in both series the male lead has a hard time deciding what he really wants.
Aishiteruze Baby
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Both Midori no Hibi and Aishiteruze Baby are about a guy who is looking for that special girl to get rid of his lonely heart, when all of a sudden his whole life is turned upside down; humor ensues! Though as the story develops more, each series becomes more serious.
Both are about boys who are missing something in there life, and are thrown into a tough spot. They suddenly cant be childish anymore and are forced to grow up and deal with the problem at hand.(no pun intended.) Giving them a chance to find what they were missing. Both shows serious and comical at the same time. making them great. | http://www.anime-planet.com/anime/midori-days | dclm-gs1-017880002 | false | false | {
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What is in a name? Contrary to what Juliet Capulet said, the answer can be many things.
Consider the name Pitak Siam _ protecting Siam _ for example. The name of the latest anti-government group, headed by retired general Boonlert Kaewprasit, alone raises many sharp, ironical questions about its whole existence and objective.
What is Siam? What is the group's idea of Siam? If there was such an idea, has it been communicated to members of the public so that those who choose to attend the rally understand clearly what they are doing to achieve what objective?
Let's assume the group made a conscientious choice when it decided to call itself an organisation that is out to protect "Siam".
We know that Siam is the old name of our country but we haven't used that name for at least seven decades. What does it stand for today? A Google search turns out these top entries: Siamsport, Siam University, Siam Phone, Siam Zone and Siam Fishing.
What is the "Siam" that Gen Boonlert's group wants to protect?
Siam was adopted as the name of the country from the early Rattanakosin era. It was changed to Thailand in 1939, under the premiership of Field Marshal Plaek Pibulsongkram.
Considering what Gen Boonlert has articulated in interviews to the press about his group's activities and what his own vision was in rallying the anti-Thaksin and anti-government base, it's possible the group chose the name Pitak Siam to connote a general yearning to return to the kingdom's old days. After all, Gen Boonlert did say he would rather see the country being "frozen" for a few years than to see it progressing in the way that it is.
The general did not specify, however, which aspects of more than a century of Siamese society he would like Thailand to return to. To absolute monarchy? To the time when we still had slaves? To the strict political and social hierarchy that allowed little exchanges and movements among people from different strata which might contribute to the perception of the time being peaceful and harmonious?
More importantly, does Gen Boonlert genuinely believe his wish can be realised? That he could force back time and "freeze" people in today's Thai society, most of them armed with iPhones and WiFi and connected with one another almost at the speed of thought, to stand still, be contented and not strive for more?
After all, who can triumph over progress?
Gen Boonlert's latest move is to call on 1 million people to gather at the Royal Plaza next weekend in an attempt to topple the government. He said if the turnout is less than that, he will stop organising anti-government rallies.
I don't mean to be a square-head but does the general know what he is talking about?
The Royal Plaza covers an area of about 13,000 sq m. If we assume that each square metre can hold three or four people, then the maximum number of people that can show up there would be somewhere between 39,000 and 52,000.
That is a far cry from the million-people mark that Gen Boonlert set for himself, is it not? The question then is: has he purposely set himself up to fail? Or does he have something up his sleeve that will ensure the life of his protest will be prolonged, even if there is no way he will have a date with a million people at the Royal Plaza next Saturday?
How about I leave the scepticism aside, cut Gen Boonlert some slack and say we will not be too strict with the exact number of participants to his second rally. As long as more people turn up in the second round than the first one, we could say it's reason enough for him to carry on. But the question remains about where he would carry on to. What type of "frozen" society will Gen Boonlert lead the Thai public to if he succeeds in toppling the democratically elected government and possibly the whole idea of democracy too?
If the "Siam" which Gen Boonlert wants to protect and pursue means a Siam that lacks progress and freedom, he'd better spell it out now, loud and clear.
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playnicely writes:
If the bodies need to be identified take them back to the border and let Mexico take care of their own citizens. Why should we (Americans) be paying for these illegals who are breaking our laws.
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#1 Posted by TheAcidSkull (14004 posts) - 1 day, 15 hours ago - Show Bio
@sheenlantern said:
@green_skaar: I was under the impression Hulk's mass increased with his rage as well as strength? Isn't that really the only way a footstep could nearly sink a continent?
I was not under that impression...@theacidskull any insight? I'm certainly aware of strength, durability and possibly speed increases with rage, but not mass in particular.
Depends on the writer in all honesty. As for as i Recall, HULK can grow ONLY when he absorbs radiation, or get REALLY angry.
#2 Posted by TheAcidSkull (14004 posts) - 1 day, 23 hours ago - Show Bio
#4 Edited by TheAcidSkull (14004 posts) - 1 day, 23 hours ago - Show Bio
I can't Judge his Red Lanterns because 1. I don't read it 2. I don't know jack about RL. But even if superman/wonder woman sucks as a couple, it's still a fun book. TB is pathetic tho, hope it improves with the point one.
He's better than Fraction tho.
#5 Posted by TheAcidSkull (14004 posts) - 1 day, 23 hours ago - Show Bio
Spider-Man is overpowered...
because he's had sex with Black Cat and I haven't
And Mary Jane.
#6 Edited by TheAcidSkull (14004 posts) - 1 day, 23 hours ago - Show Bio
@lvenger said:
Justice League is poor but at least it doesn't revolve around killing off characters and writing them horrendously out of character after Avengers Academy spent years establishing them. Justice League gets my vote.
#7 Posted by TheAcidSkull (14004 posts) - 1 day, 23 hours ago - Show Bio
No, just...No. Seriously, these movies are becoming pathetically mediocre. I'm all for comedy and fun but no other movie other than Iron Man I and Avengers managed to pull it off, and even thous films had some seriously dark toned moments. Thor the Dark World was absolutely undermined by it's comedic elements, at times they could barely get chuckle out of me. Comedic Elements should be kept but they should KNOW when to use it, otherwise the viewer can't take the movie seriously. Marvel movies aren't comedies, they are cool action packed, serious, and fun tales for specific superheroes.
I'm very excited for captain america, but if it goes down the same path as Iron man 3 and Thor i'll be seriously disappointing. Man of Steel had a dark tone yet somehow managed to make the viewers laugh in specific parts. That how it SHOULD be.
#8 Edited by TheAcidSkull (14004 posts) - 2 days, 4 hours ago - Show Bio
@theacidskull said:
@gambit474 said:
@theacidskull said:
@gambit474: It's not ethnics or race that makes him interesting, it's the fact that robbie is a teenager with a short fuse, lives in a dangerous enviroment, and drives a car.
Which I view as stereotypical/superficial/whatever the word is..There's literally nothing original about the guy now that we know how he is. There's nothing about his personality or attitude that one couldn't already read of characters already in the x-men or wherever else. Yung I wish people like you would quit bringing up the TB bit..I've already mentioned that why should people have to read the TB for ONE character they want to see? It's not like the book's even going to revolve around Blaze. Blaze is back to be in the shadows again just like he was when Alejandra was around..Nothing's changed
Pretty much the logic of those in support is "Well Blaze is still around so it's ok that some new kid gets created whilst ignoring everything that went wrong the last time." The fact that you admit that you aren't aware of the details of why Alejandra failed simply shows that you're talking about giving something a chance when you don't even know fully why the formula failed the last time.
The first issue hasn't come out yet so you can't really judge who this will turn out, and neither can you say that Robbie is different or the same as Alejandra. Why should I stop bringing up the thunderbolts? I'm trying to remind blaze fans that AT least not getting replayed by this new guy, AT LEAST he's still an important character somewhere, sure it's not as good as having you own series, it's still better than nothing. I understand if you don't want to read TB, but that doesn't mean that I can't be excited for something that seems cool.
Marvel is trying again to correct their mistake, it didn't work out the first time, it might work out now. The writer( can't remember his name) seems to know what he is doing from the interview i've read, and you need to consider that the timing is more appropriate considering that new series are coming out right now, meaning that GR is having a proper relaunch. I understand the frustrations, but GR hasn't been able to hold a title for along time,aside from Jason Aaron run he mostly had mini-series and such, nothing more, so why is it so surprising that he's getting some tweaks?
As I've said,and others like you,aren't saying anything that wasn't said already back when they were creating Alejandra and debuted her. Yes I can judge because I have no interest in reading about some rebellious teenager who thinks he's hot shit because he's got a car..Yawn. My TB comment was aimed at Yung,not you but still you aren't proving anything to Blaze fans because it's still Johnny being pushed to the side. Important? Being on teams like the Avengers or X-men would be considered important..but Thunderbolts? Lolz no. It's pretty much saying "Hey if you want Blaze or whatever's left of what we're doing with him then you need to read TB whether you like their book or not." Let's also ignore the fact that Blaze's character has never been one to be a team player..I'm not 100% against him being on a team but it's not the first time since Aaron's left that they've made Blaze be out of character
Actually yes I would rather have nothing instead of watching GR get butchered again..Why are people making it such a big deal that GR fans are entitled,and have plenty of reason to be,to be against this? If they were trying to correct their mistake they should've stuck with Blaze or as I've said on more than one occasion to bring Ketch back who's really received the bad end of the stick since he's been no where to be seen for a long time now. COMMON SENSE would've implied that they should've brought Ketch back and done something with him long before creating a new rider yet again. Ketch still hasn't had his run of redeeming himself after all the stuff he did while working for Zadkiel..They could've gone into so much depth with that if they had bothered too. No duh of course Gr's not been able to hold a title..Making a female GR,having Blaze make jokes and be treated as if he were Deadpool by the other heroes(being considered annoying,never shutting up,etc),and whatever else they've done with him lately. "Timing is appropriate"lol no it isn't..Marvel and DC are both pulling the same crap right now. They're both making all these new characters and all these new "changes" that don't need to happen instead of working out some of their already established and underrated characters like they should have. DC for ex could've done so much with their New 52 with guys like Grifter,Deathstroke,Firestorm,and whoever else yet they canceled them all just to bring in more Superman and Batman. Like I said..There's nothing being said that supporters or those who wanted to give this stuff a chance didn't say back when Alejandra was around
fair points, It doesn't change my excitement, but I can understand your frustration. But again, you say yourself that Blaze was treated like crap, so maybe that's why he's shifted aside? Maybe the writers felt that it was STILL easier to make a new guy instead of correcting their mistakes.
#9 Posted by TheAcidSkull (14004 posts) - 2 days, 4 hours ago - Show Bio
@sog7dc said:
@theacidskull: opinion
It's A preference to like doomsday more, but Hulk is overall a better character. Doomsday is good for action, however, he has no depth.
#10 Posted by TheAcidSkull (14004 posts) - 2 days, 8 hours ago - Show Bio
@wolverine08: @theacidskull: A fairly entertaining action scene at least.
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Duke123 writes:
Grocery stores are businesses for the purpose of making profits. If they determine they would not be able to make enough profits in a certain area to stay in business, they will not bother to build a store in that particular area. I don't think it would be fair to require a business to move to an area when everyone knows that business would just go bankrupt in less than a year.
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EdwardAbbeyfan writes:
I can only think of about 3 people who post on here who will get really mad and post all day about their man crush on Pastner.
C is a fair grade for Pastner. He did an average job, not a poor job, but certainly he was no candidate for coach of the year unless your name is LakelandTiger. Or KingFish.
By this time next year, four years in, we will have enough data for reasonable people, not the aforementioned love drunk Pastner fans, to give JP a final grade.
As in Graduate School, where the big boys play, nothing less than a B will do. I would argue that we don't have to make a big run in the NCAA Tourney, upsets do and can happen in any round.
However, if we continue to languish against top flight competition, play AAU ball, and look confused against disciplined teams like Georgetown or SLU, discerning fans will begin to complain loudly.
Beating UAB, SO. MISS, and Houston and calling it a great season while we cut down the nets celebrating another empty championship from a third rate conference will not do.
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