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I can't believe this trial. The Jacksons' have so much money already. Why can't they leave well enough alone. His debts have been paid and they still have an abundance to live on for years to come. How greedy can some people get?
He was a very talented but troubled entertainer;let him rest in peace!
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Green machine: A salty solution for power generation
We've already tried to generate power from ocean waves and tides. Now engineers are trying to tap energy from another of the sea's abundant resources: salt.
Efforts to generate power from the salinity difference between seawater and fresh water from rivers and lakes are already well advanced in Europe, where two alternative approaches are being tried out.
Last week Redstack, based in Sneek in the Netherlands, was granted permits to build a pilot salt battery at the Afsluitdijk dyke in the north of the country, fuelled by waters from an inland lake and the North Sea. The plant should initially be able to deliver 5 kilowatts, but the company wants to increase this to 50 kilowatts over the next few years if funding is secured, says director Pieter Hack.
The company already has a small pilot plant operating on waste water from a salt mine in the same area.
Red sea power
Its salt battery is based on a process called reverse electrodialysis (RED) and consists of a stack of membranes. Each one is waterproof but allows either positive or negative ions to pass through, with "positive" and "negative" types alternating in the stack.
Salt and fresh water are pumped into chambers in the stack that are sealed off from one another by the membranes. The positive sodium ions in the seawater flow across one membrane to the fresh water, while the negative chloride ions from the seawater flow across a membrane in the other direction. This process generates a potential difference between titanium electrodes coated in a precious metal placed at either end of the cell.
Redstack calculates that there is enough water available at the Afsluitdijk dyke site to support a 200-megawatt plant.
Pressure drop
Meanwhile power company Statkraft in Lilleaker, Norway, is testing a different approach to osmotic power, known as pressure-retarded osmosis (PRO). Last November the company opened a prototype plant on the Oslo fjord at Tofte in southern Norway. Here a water-permeable membrane is used to draw fresh water on one side to salty water on the other. This creates a current that drives a turbine.
Whatever the choice of system, there is theoretically enough energy available across the globe in the estuaries where rivers and seas meet to generate more than 2 terawatts of energy, enough to meet all of the world's electricity needs, claims Bert Hamelers, an environmental engineer at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. Better still, osmotic power plants would provide a continuous source of electricity, whatever the weather – unlike wind, wave and solar energy.
But the technology is expensive. Hack has estimated that a 200-megawatt salinity power plant would cost up to $600 millionMovie Camera to construct. As a result electricity from the plant would cost around $90 per megawatt-hour – almost twice that of fossil fuel-generated electricity at $50 per megawatt-hour.
So Hamelers and colleagues are developing a new type of salt battery that he claims will be able to generate power from a salinity difference much more cheaply.
Saline solution
In Hamelers's design, seawater is fed into a chamber containing a sandwich of two ion-permeable membranes between two electrodes. Like the RED device, the positive sodium ions are drawn through a membrane that allows only positive ions to pass, and are then attracted to the electrode. The negative chloride ions are drawn through a membrane that only allows anions to pass, and are attracted to another electrode on the opposite side.
Electrons from the now negatively charged chloride electrode then begin flowing to the positively charged sodium electrode, generating a current between the two. Once the seawater electrons are exhausted, fresh water is pumped into the chamber, the sodium ions are drawn back through the membrane to the water, and the electrons begin to flow in the opposite direction. By constantly switching between salty and fresh water in this way, the device generates an alternating current (Environmental Science and Technology, DOI: 10.1021/es100852a).
The device should be cheap to produce, as unlike the RED process it needs only inexpensive carbon electrodes, says Hamelers. And unlike the PRO device, it does not need turbines and pressure exchangers to drive the turbine. "You can produce the electrode and membrane materials very easily, because you can produce them on rolls on a large scale, and you can directly use them in a simple set-up to generate electricity," he says.
Hamelers believes the system could be made even simpler, by moving the electrodes between tanks of fresh and salty water, rather than alternately pumping fresh and salty water into a stationary battery.
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We have been very patient, but this is a problem, especially when we travel and he goes to the kennel. We're told he will not drink water there. We've requested that he be "hand-fed" his water, but we're not sure the kennel staff does this. We love him very much and hate to see him so afraid. What can you suggest? --Theresa Schwab, Sayre, Penn.
A: The best thing to do here is to get one of those glass water bottles with a 5/8-inch tip that pet stores sell for puppies and large birds. It comes with a stainless-steel mounting bracket. Secure the bracket to the wall in your kitchen with a couple of screws so the bottle is hanging on your wall with the drinking tip as high as the dog's muzzle. Spread a bit of peanut butter on the tip and walk away and let the dog investigate it on his own. As soon as he starts to lick it, he will realize there is water in it and, most likely, he will cheerfully drink this way from now on.
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If you really want to get him over his fear of a water dish, nearly fill a bowl with marbles and just barely cover the marbles with water. Some dogs like yours will lick the water off the marbles. Gradually, you add more water and take away marbles. However, this is time-consuming. The water bottle is easier and you can bring it along with you when you board the dog.
Q: I am feeding a colony of feral cats that have all been spayed and neutered. They really do not bother my neighbors, and I live in a built-up area where there is no wildlife for them to hurt. I feed them every day, but they do not allow me to touch them. I wonder if there is anything I can put in their food to act as an oral flea control since they will not allow me to put anything on their skin. --Robin Lee, Long Beach
A: There are a few new products available from your vet that will work well for fleas on cats when given orally. (They will not kill ticks.) The issue here is how to give the pills to the cats and ensure the proper dose. The pills will work if you crush them into the cats' food, so the best thing would be to mixed the crushed medicine in with a bit of tasty deli chicken. Then, offer a dose to each cat you are caring for as the opportunity to feed it separately becomes available.
Q: My husband and I have eight cats -- six females and two males. All are rescued strays, and all live indoors. Our issue is with the two male cats, who are both about 4 years old. Faust was a kitten when we found him (four years ago) and Black Thorn was about 2 years old when we found him (two years ago). We suspect they may actually be littermates, as they look alike and were found in the same area.
From the very beginning, Black Thorn tried to establish dominance over the other cats. However, he would focus mostly on Faust, by stalking, staring at, attacking him, etc. Faust would respond by "spraying" in the house, which obviously was not acceptable.
For the past two years we have tried many things to help them get along (i.e. friendly pheromone diffusers, calming collars, calming ointment, calming medication), but have not been successful. Ironically, at times they can be in proximity and not seem to have an issue -- especially if there is food or catnip involved. We recently had our living room and kitchen floors done, and they were both hiding side by side under the bed for hours. However, at least once a day Black Thorn seems to go out of his way to instigate a fight, and things will go downhill from there.
We are at our wits' end at this point. Re-homing either of them is not an option, as they are part of the family. Do you have any suggestions as to how we can remedy this situation? Is it possible for two male cats with this history to ever coexist, if not actually be friends? --Lisa DeFeis, Stony Brook
Then, each day you will keep either Thorn or Faust in it. For instance, on Monday, Thorn is in it and then on Tuesday Thorn is loose in the house and Faust is in it until Wednesday. The fact they are sharing each other's bed, litter box and food dishes without any confrontation gets them so used to each other that when you finally do allow them to interact, they should basically just move on. The key here is that this takes a long time. You have to keep them this way for at least three months for it to work. But cats live a long time and three months spent in this manner to grant you many years of peace is worth it.
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I'm in the market for a nice laptop that will run me no more than 1200 bucks. Currently, I'm looking at a Sager NP2098 with a Radeon 4560HD 512MB GDDR3. Processor is an Intel Core 2 duo P9700 at 2.8Ghz with 6MB of L2 cache. 4G of DDR3 RAM. 500GB SATA II HD at 7200rpm. Intel Turbo Memory 2.0 4GB.
It will be custom built at powernotebooks.com. However, the computer itself is rather ugly and plain. I'm wondering if there are any other sites that will let me build a comparable computer or another laptop that is any better. However, the limit is $1200.
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you're not likely to find a notebook with better specifications within your price limit.
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What was said above. PNB is a very respected company so going to get good honest service. The owner Donald seems very stand up, I think you will be very happy.
But the NP2096 while a little lesser GPU it does have a higher resolution screen?
Do not get Turbo RAM.
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Pro and con on Turbo Ram? Any personal observation in this pp?
cheers ...
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I have never had so that makes personal experience a no. But I read a lot and also have theory as to why it will not work.
In all honesty with all my reading I read those that have saying the bad and disabling it and those who ask about. Almost no praises of it.
Let me throw out my theory of why it is flawed fundamentally.
L1<L2(<L3)<RAM<HDD, correct? See how the size keeps getting larger? Also speed gets slower either actual or in implementation. Why, how come? Most systems with Turbo, L1<L2(<L3)<RAM>=Turbo<HDD
Let me start with CPU cache as this is well documented and easily researchable. I believe those same concepts apply all the way up the chain but that is my own opinion can't find documentation to support.
Once L1 was on die it had a clear speed advantage over off die L2 or L3. Now that doesn't matter since all on die now. So why still keep multiple caches? Because The smaller L1 is faster because of it's smaller size vs L2, L3. L1 is important if the CPU makes a request and that is a hit on L1 that is the fastest. Intel and AMD decide the best size and they design different. Once they set the ideal size of L1. If you doubled the size of the L1 you would not double the the number hits you may only increase by 10%? And slow it down because of increase in size. Well they decide just not worth it. So they make L2 much larger (C2D) in my case L1 is 128KB L2 is 6MB's. Now that is going to give a very good shot at getting a hit if L1 does not but will not slow down L1 on what it would get hits on. Making L1 6MB's is slower real world than the L1/L2 I described. L3 is the exact same idea just a further extension.
So when you go beyond cache to RAM look at the great size increase? Even in the old days PIII say L2 512KB the RAM was easily 128MB/256MB a substantial increase in size. Current I have 6MB and 4GB RAM. That size increase is important as it gives a very good chance as all before if they did not provide a hit a good chance RAM will return a hit? When it doesn't you go to HDD and mine is 320GB and you will get a hit as nothing left to go to. But HDD hits are the slowest because of the HDD speed but also because all that was gone through prior takes time.
Some might say the speed of Cache is so fast how could it matter? It matters because of the incredible quantity of requests any latency has a cumulative affect. Even RAM which is fast suffers the same.
OK so how does any of this apply to Turbo? Because the jump from RAM to Turbo does not offer the increased size which as I tried to say is what gives a reasonable likely hood of getting a hit. That likely hood is what makes it worth going to that step. Turbo does not offer that. In most cases of recent you jumped to Turbo and it was smaller/same/at best double and that is not enough size increase to likely return a hit.
If you put 1GB RAM in and had 4GB Turbo I suspect adding Turbo would help but only because you starved the RAM. If you have 4GB RAM and don't get a hit there is not a beneficial statistical likely hood that what you need is in the next 4GB (Turbo) so wasting time going there and not finding retards performance since when you don't find you must go to HDD any way. If you go to Turbo 10 times and get 1 hit? Likely faster to have never gone there 9 times?
SSD's have further made Turbo theoretically misguided. It is the same technology/speed as Turbo but will get a hit so why have Turbo?
It is just flawed. Not that it started out that way. When first conceived I am sure it made sense. I understand what it might of offered and hope you all understand from my post how I mean that. But things changed and it lost any functional advantage. Intel being the giant they are, are slow to let go and further lose their investment without getting a return. But does not me you or I should underwrite their R&D.
Before someone points out HDD's have cache. Which seems at odds with my ever increasing size argument? It is not for several reasons. First some HDD cache is required for SATA. Second that cache is there to deal with the inner stand alone working of a HDD. It allows it to hold things and manage it operations to increase efficiency not so much that the cache will get the hit. It has also been demonstrated that going from 8MB to 16MB to 32MB cache has minimal impact on HDD performance. In most cases some if not all can be attributed to other improvements such as firmware, data density to name two.
I don't have to stick my hand in the fire to know I will get burned. I feel that way about Turbo.
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I gonna need sometimes to absorb this and digging up some more for myself.
Appreciate the personal informative input pp
cheers ...
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I would recommend looking into Dell
Custom build it and then apply coupons, the coupons change weekly so choose one that fits you!
*** search the net for Dell coupons ****
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If GPU is not the primary and higher screen resolution is desired sure DeLL would be an option. If WXGA is fine and a strong GPU is important DeLL can't beat this. Studio is the closest the regular XPS are still Santa Rosa?
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Russia's Rosneft oil company inked a $55 billion deal to buy out TNK-BP. The acquisition is subject to Russian government approval. But if finalized, it could pump more oil and gas than Exxon Mobil.
Two of the world's biggest oil companies have announced a deal that will slurp up millions of barrels of crude and billions of dollars in earnings, if it works. The move would make Russia's state-owned company Rosneft the biggest publicly traded oil producer in the world - and it would give the British energy giant BP more opportunities in Russia.
NPR's Corey Flintoff reports from Moscow.
COREY FLINTOFF, BYLINE: Here's how the deal works: BP currently owns 50 percent of a joint-venture Russian oil company called TNK-BP. Its partners in that company are four Russian billionaires, and though they've been making plenty of money, they haven't always gotten along that well. So, BP will sell its share in that partnership to Rosneft for $17 billion in cash, plus more than 12 percent of Rosneft stock.
Rosneft will make a separate deal to buy the rest of the company from the Russian billionaires - and when it's all done, Rosneft will be able to pump more oil per day than ExxonMobil.
Analysts say the bad thing about the deal is that it puts yet another privately run oil company under the control of the Russian government. But energy analyst Ildar Davletshin, of the investment bank Renaissance Capital, says BP's involvement could improve Rosneft's efficiency.
ILDAR DAVLETSHIN: There is an opportunity for Rosneft to import best practices and technologies from BP.
FLINTOFF: Analysts say the overall deal will be worth about $61 billion.
Corey Flintoff, NPR News, Moscow.
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Robert Satiacum, a former Indian tribal leader who spent much of his last years as a fugitive from justice, died Monday, apparently of a heart attack, at a Vancouver hospital. He was 62 years old.
Mr. Satiacum died a week after his arrest in Canada on a warrant for child molestation.
As a leader of Washington State's Puyallup Indians, Mr. Satiacum led the campaign for Indian fishing rights in the Pacific Northwest in the 1960's and 70's.
Marlon Brando and Jane Fonda were among the celebrities who appeared at his side in fishing protests on the Puyallup River.
In 1982 Mr. Satiacum fled to Canada while awaiting sentencing in the United States on racketeering charges that involved trafficking in contraband cigarettes, arson and the attempted murder of a rival tribal leader.
He was captured in Canada in 1983 and jailed until 1987, when he won political-refugee status. The decision was later reversed by an appeals court.
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Published: June 25, 1994
In a dramatic, late-night appearance on national television, representatives of one of Mexico's richest businessmen have agreed to pay the ransom sought by his kidnappers and pleaded with them for his prompt release.
Walking onto the set of a live television news program just half an hour before the 11:30 P.M. deadline set for his execution, a lawyer for the 50-year-old businessman, Alfredo Harp Helu, said on Thursday night that his family would pay the undisclosed amount that the kidnappers had demanded.
"Before God, whom Mr. Harp and all of us have invoked each day, and before the public to which the kidnappers have turned, we call upon them now to free Mr. Harp as soon as possible," the lawyer, Jose Aguilera Medrano, said. One of Many Kidnappings
Mr. Harp, the president of the country's largest financial-services conglomerate, Banamex-Accival, is only one of the latest among hundreds of wealthy Mexicans abducted in the past several years. His disappearance, however, has underscored the breakdown of the Government's public security apparatus more powerfully than any of those before.
Coming after the uprising of peasant rebels in the southern state of Chiapas and just before the assassination on March 23 of the governing party's presidential candidate, Luis Donaldo Colosio, his kidnapping has also helped to deepen the country's sense of uncertainty as it prepares to elect a new President on Aug. 21.
The kidnappings have essentially been of two types. In the provinces, particularly in the northern states and along the Pacific coast, bands tied to drug traffickers and local police forces have seized hundreds of businessmen and other local figures. Those victims have usually been held briefly and freed in return for payments their families have been able to make.
Mr. Harp is among a relative handful of more powerful victims who have been seized in the capital and other major cities by more sophisticated criminal gangs. Government officials and private security experts say the gangs appear to be made up largely of current and former police agents, though internal-security officials have not discounted unsubstantiated rumors that some Basque terrorists may also be involved.
In both types of cases, families of the victims have generally tried to avoid publicity and the involvement of the police.
That pattern, however, appears to have helped the gangs to remain in business: Several people familiar with the kidnapping of Mr. Harp said it appeared in many respects to resemble that of another wealthy businessman, Joaquin Vargas Guajardo, who was seized in 1992. After his release, Mr. Vargas told associates that the Government seemed to show little interest in the information he gave them about the circumstances of his abduction.
Speaking on the television news program "24 Hours," with one of Mr. Harp's sons and a Roman Catholic priest sitting beside him, the lawyer, Mr. Aguilera, did not disclose the amount of the ransom, saying only that the family would pay what the kidnappers had specified in a private letter.
People familiar with the case said the kidnappers asked initially for $90 million, but then lowered their demand to just under $60 million, a ransom higher than any ever known to have been paid before.
In a letter sent to newspapers, the kidnappers said they were seeking less than $30 million. Mr. Harp is estimated to have a personal fortune of about $1 billion.
Government officials familiar with the case said they expected Mr. Harp to be released by the weekend. | http://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/25/world/family-of-kidnapped-mexican-financier-agrees-to-ransom.html | dclm-gs1-024290002 | false | false | {
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0.023076 | <urn:uuid:39d52013-7733-4782-aed9-55c06908fce1> | en | 0.957419 | Dream Nears Reality: Ease Up at the F.C.C.
Published: February 02, 2003
MORE than five years after he began his career at the Federal Communications Commission as a lonely dissenter, Michael K. Powell is poised to fulfill a long-held vision by unshackling the nation's largest telephone companies and media giants from decades of regulation.
Mr. Powell, 39, now the agency's chairman, is in the final stages of negotiations with the four other commissioners on a broad overhaul of the byzantine telephone rules. If, as most expect, the commission adopts a version of the latest draft of the revisions at its Feb. 13 meeting, the new rules will favor the regional Bell operating companies and will hurt the small start-up local carriers and the ailing long-distance giants like AT&T and WorldCom.
By spring, Mr. Powell also intends to repeal or relax the ownership rules that have kept the biggest media conglomerates from growing larger.
Mr. Powell and his supporters say the changes will encourage tremendous new investment and promote innovation and competition through a heavier reliance on market forces.
But his detractors, including consumer groups and smaller companies, say the Powell agenda will simply make big companies bigger. By relaxing rules now, they assert, the government will stifle competition, reduce the diversity of media voices and play into the hands of the largest companies, which are trying to shut down their rivals.
Mr. Powell views the changes as imperative to help industries that have moved slowly in making the transformation from analog to digital communications.
''It's ketchup on bad meat,'' he says in describing the way the phone, cable and satellite industries use technologies that are rapidly becoming outdated.
He insists there will still be plenty of rules when he is finished. ''I don't know what anybody is talking about when they say this is deregulation,'' he said. ''We are talking about a paradigm of competition, but in a very regulatory way. This is not an Adam Smith market. This is industrial management.''
But some officials say that he is moving too fast and that his revisions will retard years of slow progress that have barely begun to open uncompetitive markets.
At a recent Senate hearing, Ernest F. Hollings, Democrat of South Carolina, urged the commission not to sweep aside the telephone rules. ''You are supposed to promote competition,'' an exasperated Mr. Hollings said, lecturing Mr. Powell. ''Just at the time that the Telecommunications Act is really beginning to work -- because of the delays of the Bell companies -- now you are going to reward them and expand their monopoly.''
As the debate plays out, Mr. Powell has found himself in an enviable position. This promises to be a seminal year in the agency's oversight of industries that produce one-sixth of the nation's output, and he has the political luxury of strong allies in the Republican-led Congress. In contrast with the Clinton administration, the current White House has played a minimal role in shaping telecom policy, leaving the toughest decisions to the F.C.C.
Siding with the largest telecom conglomerates, federal courts have made a sport out of striking down many regulations written by Mr. Powell's predecessors.
And the meltdown of the telecom market, Mr. Powell says, has demonstrated the falsity of the idea that rigorous regulation leads to robust competition.
Still, for all the political, legal and economic forces in Mr. Powell's favor, the commission is hardly unified and has shown signs of wanting to temper his agenda. Its two Democrats have shown signs of taking a different view on many issues. And one of the panel's two Republicans has expressed reservations about the pace and scope of Mr. Powell's agenda. | http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/02/business/dream-nears-reality-ease-up-at-the-fcc.html?src=pm | dclm-gs1-024310002 | false | false | {
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Published: April 09, 2003
As allied armies capture Iraq's centers of power, the market is anticipating a swift resumption of oil shipments from a country that, even under United Nations restrictions, pumped about two million barrels a day.
But diplomats and industry experts caution that the optimism, which has driven a 20 percent drop in oil prices in the last three weeks, ignores the complicated political and legal issues that are likely to take weeks, if not months, to untangle.
The basic question is simple: when the fighting ends, who will have the legal authority to sell Iraqi oil? An American-backed authority with no international mandate? Or an authority with the blessing of France, Russia, China, Britain and the United States, the permanent members of the Security Council?
''It's not a matter of getting the oil out of the ground,'' said Raad Alkadiri, a director at PFC Energy, a Washington consulting concern and an expert on the Iraqi oil industry. Addressing the legal and political issues, he said, ''is going to take some time, unless the United States is willing to run through this like a bull in a china shop.''
At the moment, the United Nations is effectively the trustee of Iraqi oil assets, including the $2.9 billion in oil money currently in a United Nations-controlled escrow fund and the eight million to nine million barrels of oil filling the storage tanks at Ceyhan, a Turkish port on the Mediterranean.
Iraq's two largest oil fields are Kirkuk in the north and Rumaila in the south. Rumaila, with about 430 wells, is now under coalition control. The Army Corps of Engineers and Kellogg Brown & Root, a unit of Halliburton, are already on the ground shutting down wells in Rumaila to ensure that pressure does not build up in the wells and damage them, according to Platt's Oilgram News, an industry newsletter.
On March 17, two days before the first bombs hit Baghdad, the bureaucracy supporting the United Nations's stewardship of oils sales -- approving prices, authorizing contracts and performing other functions mandated by the Security Council -- left Iraq.
The Iraqi governmental agency that did the buying and selling, SOMO -- the State Oil Marketing Organization -- still exists, but without United Nations approval, sales are illegal. Some oil traders said buyers for the oil could be found, even if its ownership were disputed, if the price was low enough.
But others said traders would be reluctant to buy any Iraqi oil until the United States and the United Nations agree on who has the authority to sell the oil and collect the proceeds.
''Most of us wouldn't want to be involved,'' said an executive with one trading concern. ''We would wonder: 'Is this oil mine? Am I able to get clear ownership of it?' And without that, it's possible that no one would buy it.''
The issue has received close attention in the Security Council in recent weeks. According to one diplomat, the oil currently in storage in Ceyhan represents 5 to 10 percent of outstanding contracts approved by Saddam Hussein's government. ''Even that they cannot lift,'' the diplomat said, ''until they get some green light from somebody legitimate in Baghdad.''
But, the diplomat added, ''If you address the oil problem in context of human needs -- as long as the escrow account is the repository for the oil revenues, I assume there will be some inventive schemes'' to effectively transfer SOMO's authority to another seller approved by both the allied forces and the Security Council.
The Security Council's authority over Iraqi oil dates back to the end of the first Persian Gulf war, when a ban on Iraqi oil sales was put in place as part of the sanctions intended to force Saddam Hussein's government to disarm. | http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/09/world/nation-war-wells-wealth-who-ll-control-iraq-s-oil-tangled-questions-abound.html?src=pm | dclm-gs1-024320002 | false | false | {
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Alabama's Immigration Law: Radical or Within Reason?
A federal judge in Alabama heard arguments Wednesday over whether to block the state's new controversial immigration law from going into effect on Sept. 1. Ray Suarez discusses the nation's toughest state measure on illegal immigration with the Southern Poverty Law Center's Mary Bauer and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach.
RAY SUAREZ: Now, a legal showdown over the nation's toughest state measure to date targeting illegal immigration.
A federal judge in Alabama today heard arguments over whether to block the state's new law from going into effect Sept. 1. The U.S. Department of Justice and a collection of civil rights groups have challenged the law on constitutional grounds.
The measure is similar to an Arizona law currently making its way through the courts, but Alabama goes further. It would authorize local law enforcement officers to arrest and detain anyone they suspect of being in the country illegally, penalize people who knowingly transport, harbor, or rent property to illegal immigrants, require public schools to confirm students' legal status through birth certificates or sworn affidavits, and make it a felony to present false documents or information when applying for a job.
We get two views now, from Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, a constitutional lawyer who helped write the Alabama law, and Mary Bauer, legal director for the Southern Poverty Law Center, one of the groups that filed a lawsuit against the state.
And, Ms. Bauer, the civil rights groups and the U.S. government went first today, so let me ask you, what was the main thrust of their argument before the district court judge?
MARY BAUER, Southern Poverty Law Center: Well, this law, as you said, is an extreme anti-immigrant law. It contains a wide variety of provisions, from the kind of controversial provisions that were widely discussed in Arizona, allowing the arrests and detention of people based only on the suspicion that they're undocumented.
But it has a number of provisions that have not been tested in other courts, including the provisions you cited that make it illegal to contract with people, rent to people, that require schoolchildren to verify their immigration status, the immigration status of their parents.
These are really extreme provisions that are not likely to stand up to -- sort of under our constitutional provisions, which are clearly designed to send a message to immigrants and to foreigners in Alabama that they're not welcome.
The arguments today focused on kind of federal preemption notions, the idea that it's the duty under constitutional system of the federal government to enforce immigration law, to write and craft immigration law, and to decide who to punish. Alabama simply doesn't have the authority to create its own immigration scheme.
RAY SUAREZ: Kris Kobach, that's been the objection in a lot of states that have tried legislation of this kind. How do you answer that argument?
KRIS KOBACH, Kansas secretary of state: Well, the Supreme Court has answered it for me. The Supreme Court of the United States has ruled on this issue of whether states can take steps to stop illegal immigration.
Let's be clear. It's about illegal immigration, not immigration generally. And the Supreme Court ruled once this past May, just a few months ago, and said that Arizona's 2007 law to prevent employers from knowingly hiring unauthorized aliens, they upheld that law, ruled in favor of the state.
And prior to that, it was 1976 the last time the Supreme Court ruled on this issue. There, it was a California law. And the Supreme Court in that case, too, said the states do have the authority to take these steps to discourage illegal immigration.
The question in preemption, which is what this case is all about, to simplify it, is, does the state law conflict with any law that Congress has passed? And the interesting thing in this case is that the civil rights group, like those represented in this case, they can't point to any act of Congress that says states aren't supposed to do this.
On the contrary, Congress has time and again over the past 20 years or so, Congress has invited states to assist in helping to discourage and deter illegal immigration. That's what Alabama's doing. And I'm confident Alabama will prevail at the end of the day.
RAY SUAREZ: Secretary Kobach, a federal court in Arizona blocked parts of SB-1070, the law that their legislature passed, from taking effect.
RAY SUAREZ: When you helped craft the Alabama law, did you take that into account and try to remove some of the things that judge objected to?
KRIS KOBACH: Actually, yes.
There was one provision of the Arizona law that had to do with when a police officer -- if he's making a traffic stop or investigating some crime, under what circumstances a police officer would ask if a person is unlawfully present, would develop reasonable suspicion and then ask the federal government. The federal government has a 24/7 hot line.
And the judge, the district judge in that case misunderstood how the -- how and when that provision of the law would operate. And so we clarified that in the Alabama law. And then of course in the Alabama law, there are some additional provisions where Alabama really wanted to go as far as a state can permissibly go to discourage illegal immigration.
There's plenty of things a state cannot do, but this bill goes to those things that a state can do.
RAY SUAREZ: Mary Bauer, in your opening comments, you made it quite clear that you objected to the thrust of the Alabama law, but isn't the essence of the question at this point whether Alabama can move ahead with measures like this one, of barring children from schools, checking on whether you're renting to people who are legally in the country, and so on?
MARY BAUER: I think that is the question.
And I think there is no doubt that the federal government stands with immigrants in Alabama in saying this is not something a state is permitted to do. And so when Mr. Kobach advises the state of Alabama that this law is permissible and advises them that the Department of Justice will not enter, he -- he got it wrong.
Every court that has looked at the core provisions of a law like this has declared it unconstitutional. Every court that has looked at the detention provisions of this bill has said, this cannot stand. A state is not permitted to do this.
And we have every hope that the outcome will be the same in Alabama, with these incredibly extreme, radical provisions that have not been adopted in other places.
RAY SUAREZ: Secretary Kobach, how about that?
RAY SUAREZ: Haven't the laws, similar laws in Utah, in Georgia and Indiana been blocked in their implementation?
KRIS KOBACH: The -- yes, preliminary injunctions have been issued.
But let's be clear. The standard for a preliminary injunction is very different. And that's what's being argued today in Alabama. The standard for when a judge decides, are we going to preliminarily put this law on ice until I finally decide the case, that's different from a final decision.
And when you look at final judgments, laws like this -- and I have helped cities, states and counties work on laws like this -- do survive in court, like the example of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in May.
And I would caution that whether the U.S. Justice Department sues or not is not a fair indicator of whether something is correct. When I worked at the U.S. Justice Department under Attorney Gen. Ashcroft, we would never have dreamed of suing a state that was trying to assist the government in discouraging illegal immigration. Things have changed at the Obama Justice Department.
And they have brought these suits, which are totally unprecedented and indeed unnecessary. Groups like the SPLC and the ACLU had already launched this lawsuit, so it wasn't necessary for the Justice Department to spend our taxpayer dollars suing Alabama.
So, the notion that this was about whether the Justice Department would sue is incorrect. The question is, does a state have the authority? And under the precedents of the United States, they do. My colleague opposite has made the claim that these are radical measures. Hardly.
In fact, in every one of the 50 states, police officers exercise this authority all the time. They pull someone over for speeding. The federal government has a 24/7 hot line. And if the police officer says, you know, this doesn't look right, there's 10 people crammed into a six-person car, they're acting evasively, and I have reasonable suspicion something's going on here, the federal government allows the officers to discretionarily say, hey, I'm going to make that call.
In Alabama, all they're doing is standardizing the practice and saying...
RAY SUAREZ: Well, let me put that to Mary Bauer.
Is the secretary of state right that the federal government has already been using local law enforcement around the country to assist in detaining and eventually deporting illegal immigrants?
MARY BAUER: Sure, but not in this way, not in a way that allows states to arrest and detain people without real evidence based solely on what they look like, on some reasonable suspicion which is not defined that someone is undocumented, not under circumstances like this.
This law criminalizes the act of churches in transporting immigrants to church. This law creates civil -- a civil cause of action for citizens who simply think that the sheriff is not doing an aggressive enough job in enforcing the law.
It contains provisions that are way beyond anything that has been -- that had been passed anywhere else. And for a state like Alabama, with a tiny immigrant population, and which is desperately poor, it is really about political posturing. It's not about any kind of policy that is needed to fix any kind of problem that exists in the state of Alabama.
It's political posturing by legislators and by people like Mr. Kobach.
RAY SUAREZ: Mary Bauer, Kris Kobach, thank you both.
KRIS KOBACH: Thank you.
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Search for Evidence: Judith Miller Reports
Chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix argued today that an international organization should disarm Iraq. The New York Times' Judith Miller, embedded with the U.S. 75th Exploitation Task Force, reports on the discoveries thus far, including an Iraqi scientist with vast knowledge of Iraq's weapons program.
Search for Evidence: Judith Miller Reports
EDITOR'S NOTE: The New York Times on May 26, 2004, published a critique of its own reporting on Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction, and the editorial board admitted its coverage was flawed and relied too heavily on suspect intelligence sources. (NewsHour report)
RAY SUAREZ: From 1991 until 1998, and again from the end of November last year until just this past March, United Nations weapons inspectors searched Iraq for evidence of weapons of mass destruction. But since the war began, U.S. and British troops have combed the country for signs of nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons. At the United Nations today, chief weapons inspector Hans Blix argued that disarmament in Iraq should be conducted by an international organization. And he said his team is ready to go back in.
HANS BLIX: I said to the council that we are convinced about the objectivity and the determination of the inspectors who are there for the coalition forces. I have not the slightest reason to doubt that. But at the same time, I'm also convinced that the world and the Security Council, which had dealt with this issue for over ten years... that they would like to have inspection and verification which bear the imprint of that independence and of some institution that is authorized by the whole international community.
RAY SUAREZ: Earlier in an interview with BBC Radio, Blix faulted the U.S. and Britain for using what he called "shaky" intelligence before the war to insist to the U.N. that Iraq was hiding illegal weapons. And today, the Bush administration said it can handle the search for those weapons on its own. The U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. John Negroponte:
JOHN NEGROPONTE: The coalition has assumed responsibility for disarming of Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction. Some initial work was done during the phase in which we were conducting active military operations. Now that there is a somewhat more permissive military environment, the coalition effort will be substantially increased.
RAY SUAREZ: So far, despite a number of early leads, the U.S. government has not announced any definitive proof that banned weapons have been found.
RAY SUAREZ: The task of finding that definitive proof falls in part to specialized teams within the U.S. Military. New York times" correspondent Judith Miller is reporting on the search conducted by units of the 75th exploitation task force. And she joins us now by phone south of Baghdad. Judith Miller, welcome back to the program. Has the unit you've been traveling with found any proof of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq?
JUDITH MILLER: Well, I think they found something more than a "smoking gun." What they've found is what is being called here by the members of MET Alpha-- that's Mobile Exploitation Team Alpha-- what they found is a silver bullet in the form of a person, an Iraqi individual, a scientist, as we've called him, who really worked on the programs, who knows them firsthand, and who has led MET Team Alpha people to some pretty startling conclusions that have kind of challenged the American intelligence community's under... previous understanding of, you know, what we thought the Iraqis were doing.
JUDITH MILLER: Yes, it clearly does. I mean, it's become pretty clear to those of us on the ground that the international inspectors, without actually controlling the territory and changing the political environment, would never have been able to get these people to step forward. I mean, you can only do that when you know there is not going to be a secret policeman at your door the next day, and that your family isn't going to suffer because you're talking. And that's what the Bush administration has finally done. They have changed the political environment, and they've enabled people like the scientists that MET Alpha has found to come forth.
Now, what initially the weapons hunters thought they were going to find were stockpiles of kind of chemical and biological agents. That's what they anticipated finding. We now know from the scientist that, in fact, that probably isn't what we're going to find. What they will find, and what they have found so far, are kind of precursors; that is, building blocks of what you would need to put together a chemical or a biological weapon.
But those stockpiles that we've heard about, well, those have either been destroyed by Saddam Hussein, according to the scientists, or they have been shipped to Syria for safekeeping. And what I think the interpretation of the MET Alpha people is, is why he did this. They believe that Saddam Hussein wanted to destroy the evidence of his unconventional weapons programs, and that's what he has done-- not only since 1995, but also in the weeks and months that led up to the war itself. There was mass destruction.
And the scientist who has been cooperating with MET Alpha has actually said that he participated in... he kind of watched, you know, a warehouse being burned that contained potentially incriminating biological equipment. So clearly what Saddam Hussein wanted to do was cover his weapons of mass destruction tracks. And that means that the whole shape of the hunt here on the ground for unconventional weapons is changing.
RAY SUAREZ: When you develop a site through U.S. intelligence or from a source like the scientist you've been telling us about, how long does it take the unit you're traveling with to give it a good going over, figure out whether there's anything there that needs further inspection?
JUDITH MILLER: Well, let me give you an example. MET Alpha and I spent nearly a week at a place called the Karbala Ammunitions Production and Filling Station. This was a vast facility: Over 50 buildings, five square miles worth of ammunition, mortars, shells, and buried containers that were then ripped open by MET Alpha people.
And what they found was kind of dual-use equipment, biological equipment, things that could be used for peaceful or for military purposes. And at the time, because the scientist hadn't come forward, this remained a big mystery. You know, what did the Iraqis intend do with this plant and all the construction at it? What was all this equipment for, because this is supposedly an ammunition storage facility.
Well, now it becomes rather clearer, I think, that what the Iraqis were intending was to kind of distribute dual-use equipment at various ammunition and weapons storage places throughout the country, so that no inspector or even soldier would ever be able to find that smoking gun. You could find a little bit of the program. You would find a program very much, these days, in the research and development stages.
It was really the most calculated form of insurance, I think he thought. And it's just been an amazing process to watch a lot of these bits and pieces kind of suddenly fit together, kind of a collective "a-ha!" on the part of MET Alpha and, you know, the exploitation team as they begin to understand what Saddam Hussein's game was.
RAY SUAREZ: The chief U.N. weapons inspector, Hans Blix, has offered to return to the country. Looking at the work of MET Alpha, do they have the same manpower, the equipment, the tools needed to do this work? Are you seeing an effort that's pretty similar to what the U.N. might mount?
JUDITH MILLER: The MET Alpha effort goes way beyond anything that the U.N. ever did. UNSCOM, the first group of inspectors, was much more aggressive, much more dogged and determined, and had... they were really much more skeptical than UNMOVIC, the people who worked under Hans Blix.
Hans Blix was never able to interview a single scientist in an environment in which he would feel, he or she, would feel free to talk. The feeling on the ground here, both among, you know, the American forces that I'm embedded with, but also Iraqis, is that if they would like somebody to guarantee their safety, they would much prefer it be an American soldier than an international inspector at this time. What's become clear is the extent to which Iraq and this regime was able to pull the wool over the eyes of the international inspectors.
RAY SUAREZ: Judith Miller joining us from Iraq. Thanks a lot.
JUDITH MILLER: Thank you very much.
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My main reaction to this is "I bet you are using Win32" and "This won't happen on Unix". Locking in Win32 can prevent reading and writing of data via other file handles (even within the same process). Locking in Unix only affects other locking (by default) and only those held by a different process [ well, at least for the types of locking that I'm most familiar with, fcntl locks; I won't swear that some flocks won't block a process from itself ].
So you could probably get away with flocking the DATA file handle in a BEGIN block, even on Win32, if Perl defined the DATA file handle inside BEGIN blocks (since it hasn't parsed the __END__ yet, it doesn't yet know whether it is supposed to give you a DATA file handle or not).
Also, I really think Perl could use a patch such that it reports when it gets an error reading the source code. I think you would have been much happier if you'd seen this:
Error reading script source, highlander: Permission denied
(if it also reported $^E and not just $! then you'd even be told "The process cannot access the file because another process has locked a portion of the file" of which the "another process" part might well be a lie, but that is Win32's fault, not Perl's).
- tye
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Anaxandra the daughter of the painter Nealces, was herself a painter about B. C. 228. (Didymus, apud Clem. Alex. Strom. p. 523b., Sylb.) [P.S]
to us to be very strained, and we think Pomponius must have meant to convey, whether rightly or wrongly, first, that before Coruncanius, it was not usual for jurists to take pupils; and, secondly, that the pupils of Coruncanius were not left to gain knowledge merely by seeing business transacted and hearing or reading the opinions given by their master to those who consulted him, but that they received special instruction in the general doctrines of law. The two Coruncanii who were sent B. C. 228 as ambassadors front Rome to Teuta, queen of Illyricum, to complain of the maritime depredations of her subjects, and one of whom at least was put to death by her orders, were probably the sons of the jurist. (Appian, de Rebus Illyr. 7; Plb. 2.8; Plin.H. N. 34.6.) By Polybius they are called Caius and Lucius; by Pliny, P. Junius and Tiberius. Titus for Tiberius, and Coruncanus for Coruncanius, are ordinary corruptions of the jurist's name. (Rutilius, Vitae JCtorum, 100.5; Heineccius, H
i, the son of one C. Flaminius, who is otherwise unknown, was tribune of the people in B. C. 323; and, notwithstanding the most violent opposition of the senate and the optimates, he carried an agrarian law, ordaining that the Ager Gullicus Picenus, which had recently been conquered, should be distributed viritim among all the plebeians. According to Cicero (de Senect. 4) the tribuneship of Flaminius and his agrarian law belong to the consulship of Sp. Carvilius and Q. Fabius Maximus, i.e. B. C. 228, or four years later than the time stated by Polybius. (2.21.) But Cicero's statement is improbable, for we know that in B. C. 227 C. Flaminius was praetor; and the aristocratic party, which he had irreconcilably offended by his agrarian law, would surely never have suffered him to be elected praetor the very year after his tribuneship. Cicero therefore is either mistaken, or we must have recoure to the supposition that Flaminius brought forward his bill in 232, and that it was not carrie
Ma'ximus, Carvi'lius 2. SP. CARVILIUS, SP. F. C. N. MAXIMUS RUGA, son of No. 1, was consul, B. C. 234, with L. Postumius Albinus, and carried on war first against the Corsicans and then against the Sardinians: according to the Fasti Capitolini he obtained a triumph over the latter people. (Zonar. 8.18.) he was consul a second time in B. C. 228 with Q. Fabius Maximus Verrucossus, in which year, according to Cicero (Cato, 4), he did not resist, like his colleague, the agrarian law of the tribune C. Flaminius for the division of the lands in Cisalpine Gaul. Polybius (2.21), however, places the agrarian law of C. Flaminius four years earlier, in the consulship of M. Aemilius Lepidus, B. C. 232. Carvilius is not mentioned again till the year of the fatal battle of Cannae, B. C. 216, when he proposed, in order to fill up the numbers of the senate and to unite the Latin allies more closely to the Romans in this their season of adversity, that the vacancies in the senate should be supplied
Mydon of Soli, a painter of some note, was the disciple of the statuary Pyromachus. He therefore flourished about Ol. 138 or B. C. 228. (Plin. Nat. 35.11. s. 40.42.) [P.S]
Pru'sias I. （*Prousi/as), king of Bithynia, was the son of Zielas, whom he succeeded on the throne, and grandson of NICOMEDES I. The date of his accession is unknown, but it appears that it preceded the death of Antiochus Hierax, and may therefore be placed at least as early as B. C. 228, (Trog. Pomp. Prol. xxvii.; Clinton, F. H. vol. iii. pp. 413, 414; Niebuhr, Kl. Schrift. p. 287.) The first event of his reign, which is recorded to us, is a war with the Byzantines, in which we find him engaging in B. C. 220, in conjunction with the Rhodians. The latter were at first supported by Attalus, king of Pergamus, as well as by Achaeus, who had lately assumed the sovereignty of Asia Minor, and they endeavoured also to set up Tiboetes, the uncle of Prusias, as a competitor for the throne of Bithynia. Their efforts were, however, unsuccessful: Prusias conquered all the possessions of the Byzantines in Asia, while the Thracians pressed them closely on the European side, and they were soon comp
resenting him as the slave of every vice that was contemptible in a snan, or odious in a king. His passion for the chase is attested by the epithet of the "Huntsman" (*Kunhgo/s), by which he is sometimes designated. (Plb. 30.16, 37.2; Diod. xxxii. Exc. Vales. p. 591; Appian. Mithr. 2, 4; Liv. Epit. l.; Athen. 11.496. d.) The chronology of the reigns of the two kings who bore the name of Prusias is very obscure : the earlier writers, such as Reinerus and Sigonius, even confounded the two, and supposed that there was only one king of Bithynia of this name. Valesius (ad Polyb. 37.2) was the first to point out this error : and the subject has since been fully investigated by Mr. Clinton (F. H. vol. iii. pp. 413, 418.) If we adopt the view of the last author, we may assign to the elder Prusias a reign of about 48 years (B. C. 228-180), and of 31 years to the younger (180-149). But of these dates the only one that can be fixed with certainty is that of the death of Prusias II. [E.H.B]
siege to Epidamnus. On the arrival of the Roman fleet, however, Demetrius treacherously surrendered Corcyra into their hands, and lent every assistance to the further operations of the two consuls. These were so rapid and decisive that the greater part of Illyria quickly fell into their hands, and Teuta herself was compelled to fly for refuge to the strong fortress of Rhizon. From hence she made overtures for peace, which she at length obtained from the Roman consul, A. Postumius, in the spring of B. C. 228, on condition of giving up the greater part of her dominions, and restraining her subjects from all voyages beyond the island of Lissus. By this treaty she appears to have retained the nominal sovereignty of a small territory, while her stepson Pinnes obtained the greater part of her kingdom; but we do not again meet with her name, and it is probable that she soon after abdicated this small remnant of power. (Plb. 2.9-12; Dio Cass. Fr. 151; Zonar. 8.19 ; Appian. Illyr. 7.) [E.H.B]
Zeilas （*Zhi+/las), son of Nicomedes, king of Bithynia, and Ditizele. In consequence of the intrigues of his step-mother, Etazeta, Zeilas was compelled to take refuge with the king of Armenia. At his death Nicomedes left his throne to his children by Etazeta, to the exclusion of Zeilas, who immediately endeavored to regain his rights by force. After several battles, fought with various success, he recovered the throne, probably about B. C. 250. He was succeeded by his son Prusias about B. C. 228. (Memnon, ap. Phot. Cod. 224, p. 228, ed. Bekker; Clinton, Fasti Hellen. vol. iii. p. 413.) [C.P. | http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/nebrowser?id=-228&query=Perseus:text:1999.04.0104 | dclm-gs1-024430002 | false | false | {
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HARRY ROSITZKE was an American answer to George Smiley. For a quarter of a century he was in the front line of American intelligence's battle of wits with the KGB, in Washington, New York, Munich and Delhi. He also wrote books, raised cattle in rural Virginia and took a PhD at Harvard in Germanic philology.
He wasn't obvious old school OSS/CIA material, one of those smooth-talking scions of the East Coast establishment who coasted into the top jobs when the Central Intelligence Agency was set up as successor to the wartime Office of Strategic Services. Rositzke was born in Brooklyn, and had a brilliant early academic career, which took him from Harvard to Hamburg in the mid-1930s to study experimental phonetics, and then back to the US to teach at the universities of Harvard, Omaha and Rochester. He dressed in the slightly dishevelled manner of an academic or mild eccentric like Smiley.
In 1981, more than a decade after he retired from the CIA, Rositzke accompanied a reporter to the pavement outside the enemy's operational command centre, the town-house fortress embassy of the Soviet Union in 16th Street, three blocks from the White House. He was wearing, the journalist recorded, a seersucker suit, a scruffy raincoat and desert boots. All the while he chain-smoked L&M cigarettes (though he did not inhale).
But in the next breath he repudiated the analogy with John le Carre's fictional Smiley. "I was just re-reading part of Smiley's People," he told the journalist:
The point is, academic training teaches you to look at the facts, to weigh the facts. But Smiley couldn't exist in a real environment.
Rositzke, by contrast operated in a very real environment - if a world of institutionalised deception and double-cross may be described as real. When he started his Soviet work in 1946, Stalin's Russia was still, nominally, an ally of the US.
His base was a decrepit barracks on the banks of the Potomac river, in an office with no carpet, and just an ancient green desk. His sole colleague was the head of registry, as he recalled, "a bright, dignified, precisedly articulate lady who smoked cigars". Occasionally, he lunched with a then unsuspected foe, Kim Philby, MI6's man at the British Embassy.
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0.021701 | <urn:uuid:22a15648-b1fc-4a8b-940b-aebef5bafb18> | en | 0.970595 | WRAPUP 2-Fonterra under fire over milk scare; more product recalls
Tue Aug 6, 2013 12:07pm EDT
* NZ govt officials despatched to Fonterra premises
* Sri Lanka, Brunei restrict imports, recall products
* No major impact on NZ economy - finance minister
* Fonterra units up 1.3 pct
* Fonterra's GDT price index falls 2.4 pct at fortnightly auction
By Naomi Tajitsu
WELLINGTON, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Fonterra, the world's largest dairy exporter, came under fire from the New Zealand government, farmers and financial regulators for its handling of a food contamination scare that has triggered product recalls and spooked parents from China to Saudi Arabia.
The government sent officials to Fonterra premises to ensure a clearer message and to regain international confidence after New Zealand's biggest company was criticised for dragging its feet in saying it sold whey protein products that contained a bacteria that could cause botulism - a potentially fatal food poisoning.
"We will be conducting an internal review and this will be subject to external scrutiny as well," Gary Romano, Fonterra's managing director of New Zealand Milk Products, told reporters.
There have been no reports of illness resulting from the affected products, but the scare risks tainting New Zealand's "clean and green" image.
Finance Minister Bill English said the economy was likely to escape any significant damage as a result of the Fonterra scare, but there was some longer term risk to the country's reputation.
"The economic impact of the amount of product currently under restrictions is sufficiently small (that) it wouldn't have a discernible impact on our GDP," English said in reply to a question in parliament.
"So far, (there has been) very limited action. But this is likely to change, and it would change in the direction of wider, not narrower," Trade Minister Tim Groser told reporters.
At its fortnightly Global Dairy Trade auction, the world's biggest wholesale marketplace for milk powders and dairy products - most of which originate in New Zealand - prices fell for the first time in 6 weeks, while volumes jumped. Fonterra's GDT Price Index dropped 2.4 percent, following a 5.3 percent rise at the previous sale.
Dairy exports earn about a quarter of New Zealand's NZ$46 billion annual export earnings.
Units in Fonterra's Shareholders Fund, which offer outside investors exposure to the cooperative's farmer shareholder dividends, closed up 1.3 percent on Tuesday at NZ$6.95, erasing most of the previous day's losses.
"If Fonterra gets knocked as far as confidence is concerned then the farmer gets knocked, because at the end of the day Fonterra is the farmer," said William Stolte, a farmer in Masterton on New Zealand's North Island.
"And the farmer has to accept that ... meanwhile, we have to keep milking the cows."
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Once the site of a thriving china clay industry, Cornwall, England is a region in economic decline. With rising costs and competition from the developing world, mining for porcelain clay is now barely economically viable is the area. Fragile Beast, a photo series from Aussie creative Chris Round, documents the environmental scars left behind by the dying industry, portraying more
Melting Greenland: Opportunity and Risk
Retreating ice unveils mineral treasures
In the Arctic, global warming is causing record ice melt and bringing with it massive economic and cultural changes. Reporting from Narsaq, a small town on Greenland's southern tip, NYT environment writer Elizabeth Rosenthal writes that the retreating Arctic ice cap is revealing rich mineral deposits that represent both potential and peril for the community. For a sort-of nation that more
Removing Mountains
Daniel Shea captures the destructive process of mountaintop mining in the Appalachians
Turns out mountains really can be moved. Or rather, removed. Mountaintop removal, as the name implies, involves blasting away the tops of mountains in order to expose the coal seams underneath. The resulting tons of dirt and stone are typically discarded into nearby valleys and streams, with devastating impacts on mountain ecosystems. The process is particularly prevalent in the Appalachians, more
Ken Salazar Opens Up Public Lands to Coal Mining
A major expansion of coal mining is planned for Wyoming's Powder River Basin.
U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar just announced that vast coal reserves on federal land in the Powder River Basin in Wyoming will be put up for auction over the next five months. This will lead to approximately 758 tons of coal being excavated. With the abundance of alternative energy sources available, and the Obama administration's stated commitment to move the country toward a more
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After months of research a debate, an application the largest mountaintop coal removal mining permit in history has been quashed by the EPA. The decision on the 2,300 acre Spruce No. 1 Mine in West Virginia concluded that the mine would have an "unacceptable adverse effect on municipal water supplies, shellfish beds and fishery areas, wildlife, or recreational areas." In the decision, more
Mining For Algae
Researchers in Missouri aim to grow algae for biofuel in abandoned mines.
Based in Brooklyn, Nightwood is a home decor shop specializing in its own brand of reconstructed furniture and textiles. Owner-designers Myriah Scruggs and Nadia Yaron salvage woods and fabrics and reincarnate them as beautifully rustic, original pieces. Last week, the Nightwood pop-up shop at a downtown Brooklyn condo development. If you're in the area, be sure to swing by. For more | http://www.shft.com/search/mining | dclm-gs1-024590002 | false | false | {
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Vernon E. Seibert
Vernon E. Seibert, a former athletic director and coach at Glenelg High School who had been an outstanding football player during the 1940s at College Park, died Saturday of cancer at Union Hospital in Elkton.
The longtime Columbia resident was 88.
"You could write a book about Vernon Seibert. What a character. The stories about him are legend," said Dennis P. Cole, who was head football coach at Glenelg in the 1980s and retired five years ago.
"He was always held in high esteem but was not the kind of buddy-buddy type of football coach when it came to the kids," he said. "He was a little more relaxed with the physical education kids and would clown around with them."
David A. Bruzga was a teacher at Glenelg and later assistant principal during Mr. Seibert's tenure there.
"Vern was always very dedicated to young people. He coached varsity sports and taught driver's education and was a great athlete himself. He was just an incredible person," said Mr. Bruzga, who is now administrative director of Howard County's secondary public schools.
"He was always a lot of fun to be around and had a great sense of humor. He worked hard and played hard," said Mr. Bruzga.
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The son of a boilermaker and a homemaker, Vernon Elliott Seibert was born in Baltimore and raised on Erdman Avenue.
Mr. Seibert began working when he was 12, delivering newspapers and later Western Union telegrams. He loaded freight cars for the Pennsylvania Railroad during summers in high school.
After graduating in 1942 from Patterson Park High School, where he had been a football star, Mr. Seibert enlisted in the Army Air Corps and was trained as a B-25 pilot.
He served with the 38th Bomb Group, 405th Bomb Squadron and flew missions in the South Pacific until 1946 when he was discharged.
Mr. Seibert enrolled at the University of Maryland, College Park, and at 149 pounds, played both offense and defense for legendary football coach James M. "Big Jim" Tatum. He earned a reputation as a standout halfback.
A Baltimore Sun sportswriter in a 1946 article described Mr. Seibert as the "fleetest back on the squad." He played in the 1948 Gator Bowl, which was Maryland's first postseason game. The team tied the University of Georgia, 20-20.
After graduating from Maryland in 1949, Mr. Seibert coached football and lacrosse for a year at what was then Baltimore Junior College, and then returned to College Park as a defensive coach under Mr. Tatum.
The Terps won the Atlantic Coast Conference co-championship, which they shared with Duke in 1953, and were honored as national champions as the only undefeated and untied team in the country that year.
"He recently donated football films to Maryland that dated to the 1940s. They were thrilled because they are the oldest films that they have," said a daughter, Tori Leech of Westminster.
Mr. Seibert left coaching and worked from 1955 to 1963 in public relations and as merchandiser for the Wholesale Bakers of Baltimore.
He returned to coaching in 1964 when he was named athletic director and physical education teacher at Glenelg High School, where his varsity coaching responsibilities eventually included football, basketball, baseball, wrestling and golf.
"Teachers in those days were expected to do a lot, and back then, coaches weren't paid for coaching," said Mr. Cole.
"Back then, Glenelg was just a farm school, and I remember Vernon in the old gym standing under the basketball hoop, coaching wrestling and basketball at the same time," said Mr. Cole. "He'd turn this way and say something to the wrestling team, and then turn the other way, and coach the basketball team." | http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/obituaries/bs-md-ob-vernon-seibert-20130131-16,0,2455870.story | dclm-gs1-024700002 | false | false | {
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in response to scubadrew:
First of all, I'm surprised this couple made it all the way to Stuart without being caught. Kudos to Martin County Deputies and Stuart PD for ending their spree; however there are unanswered questions:
Why did the deputy feel it necessary to blow away the unarmed female with a shotgun when the vehicle was immobilized and their escape unlikely?
What attempt if any was made to deal with the situation before killing someone?
During the robbery, no shots were fired (obviously), no one was hurt, no hostage was taken. Why was deadly force used before trying a less dramatic and final tact?
In reports about previous robberies, there is no mention of the use of a firearm. If they had been apprehended and sent to trial would a death sentence be applied to a conviction?
Don't get me wrong, I have no sympathy for these robbers, am happy it was brought to a conclusion, but wonder aloud about the police actions. I'm certain there must be an investigation into the methods employed by the deputies.
From what I understand the perp's raised a "fake" firearm, whether it was a cell phone, BB Gun or a tube of toothe paste really makes no difference. I suspect suicide by cop...but when an officer is in that situation there is only one solution: pull the trigger.
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Dear Gertrude Walker, I would like to tell you what I find "unusual". I find it unusual that on election day a voting machine is left unattend for hours after the polls close when it should be with all the other machines being tallied. How can you explain that? How is that even possible? The machine in question was in Tradition. It is where I reside and vote. I find it very "suspicious" that all of this happend and that Congressman West ends up losing Disctrit 89(Tradition), when it is overwhelmingly Republican and a large majority supported Congressman West. I believe the machine has been tampered with and demand a full investigation as to why that machine was left unattended until 130AM on election day. That is what i find "unusual" Ms. Walker.
Whomever was responsible for that machine needs to awnser a lot of questions as to why what happend, happend. There is a very fishy smell here and I want to find out what it is!
Large majority? Overwhelming republican? Says who? You? Did you go around and take a poll? Lots of republicans didn't vote for west. They are probably not senile like most west supporters.
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Proofing High hydration dough in couche or banneton
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Proofing High hydration dough in couche or banneton
After I proof my Basilicata-style high-hydration loaves, one of two problems occurs. Either I've floured the couche too sparingly, and the dough bonds to it so that I have to separate it with a knife blade (sometimes with unhappy results), or I've floured too liberally, and the dough carries a thick layer of unincorporated flour that spoils the crust. In the second case, I try to scrape off as much of the extra flour as possible with a blade or a brush, but still the extra flour still prevents portions of the crust from caramelizing, and leaves an unpleasant dusty feel on the tongue when you bite into it. How do you wizards do it?
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Just my speculation. Would proofing using a well floured linen cloth (used for baguettes) solve the problem? Just a thought.
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Try using rice flour instead of regular (wheat) flour to dust the couche. Dough is less likely to stick to the cloth when rice flour is used. Thoroughly rub the rice flour into the couche.
I don't know where you live, but in the USA, rice flour is available in supermarkets that serve a Latino population. It is inexpensive. A one pound bag should be ample.
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I assume Basilicata-like bread dough is not unlike ciabatta dough. When I make ciabatta I turn the bulk fremented dough out onto a board floured only enough to keep the dough from sticking to the board. I don't degas it except very large gas bubbles on its surface. I roughly shape loaves with floured hands and transfer the dough to previously cut and sized parchment paper rectangles. When all the loaves--usually three--are shaped I dust their tops lightly with flour and cover them with a light, linen tea towel. I've never had the towel stick to the loaves, and the parchment paper goes right into the oven with each loaf.
I'm satisfied with the rustic mottled crusts I get. The degree of carmelization is more associated with the presence or absence of gas bubbles just under the surface, than the light dusting of flour, and I consider the slight grittiness from the unincorporated flour part of the breads charm, its personality. I don't get any flour taste.
I buy my specialty and organic flours from a semi-local organic food/health food store. Next time I go, I'm going to buy some rice flour. Reading TFL I've seen it recommended frequently, especially for dusting unlined bannetones.
I've included a picture of my latest ciabatta loaves.
David G.
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before flouring. I know some people would consider this sacriledge, but it works. I have one of those pump oil sprayers (NEVER never use Pam or similar commercial sprays).
I learned this from Breadtopia. As soon as you empty the banneton, rinse it quickly with hot water and dry it near the oven vent on your stove (caution--don't "toast" it!).
works every time for me, even with very slack, wet doughs.
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i use a linen couche. at first i under floured it and slack dough had a tendecy to stick.
not good. ofcourse i over floured the next time (i wasn't going through that again!) and, as you did, found myself with brush in hand removing the excess flour from the dough. it was trial and error to find a balance and as the linen became 'broken in' it was less and less a problem.
rice flour in the bannatons work really well. i don't oil mine or wash them. just knock them out after a proofing and let them air dry, then use a brush to remove whats left.
easy peasy.
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I searched the internet for a Basilicata bread recipe, and, although I learned a lot about southern Italy, and its foods (especially bread soup) I couldn't find a bread recipe. Will you share yours?
David G.
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Sorry about that, David. I'm sure there is no formula labeled "Basilicata" anywhere. Yet I chose the term carefully. I was trying to avoid "Pugliese" or even "Altamura," because many of the loaves (and formulas) so labeled have little to do with the bread I used to eat when I lived in Puglia in the 1980s. (Just like the Anglo-American word "pizza" does not describe what you eat in Naples.) The bread is characterized by a charred crust, a moist, open crumb, a long shelf life, and (most of all) enormous flavor. I've been trying to re-create this bread in my ovens for the last several years, and every so often I come close.
Actually, the loaf is familiar all across southern Italy as "pane casereccio" (hearth bread, I guess), and maybe that would have been a more useful term than "Basilicata," which was only meant to mean "Southern Italian."
Anyhoo, one formula that has yielded a recognizable shadow of the original is:
Durum flour 50%
Bread flour 50%
Instant yeast 0.3%
water 83 %
Biga (or firm starter) 35%
salt 2% plus a pinch
Also, Dan Leader's "Genzano Country Bread" is a pretty good facsimile:
Biga 74
water 80
Bread flour 100
instant yeast 1
salt 3
Leader then has you beat the daylights out of the mass on high for about half an hour, not unlike the famous "Coccodrillo" recipe making the rounds on these pages.
Sorry for the confusion. Best,
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Wow! That is a wet dough. I'll give it a try.
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I final proof my high-hydration breads in parchment paper sprayed with either olive oil of cooking spray, then transfer paper and all to the cooking vessel. It releases nicely when sprayed, but not if don't spray.
Just my 2 cents.
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The rice flour and the parchment solutions are good.
Since you mention Leader's breads, for the pane de Genzano, he recommends dusting the banneton heavily with wheat bran. I found this works well, as long as you have no objection to the bran coating the loaf. | http://www.thefreshloaf.com/node/12248/proofing-high-hydration-dough-couche-or-banneton | dclm-gs1-024790002 | false | false | {
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You can't say Carl Brashear doesn't deserve this solid, old school biopic. With guts and pig headed determination this sharecropper's son signed up for the US Navy in the early '50s, and worked his way through the entrance exam to train as a salvage diver, becoming the first ever black man to qualify. If the institutional racism he has to overcome is hardly a surprise, this occasionally stodgy film offers the striking reminder of the terrifying conditions under which divers worked. Tough enough for any able-bodied man, but even the loss of half a leg in a shipboard accident doesn't deter Brashear from his dedication to duty. Gooding's central performance certainly does the man justice, embodying the strength of will never to take 'no' for an answer. Master Captain Billy Sunday (De Niro), the hard nosed training instructor under pressure to fail Brashear, understands what it means to work your way up, and the growing of respect between these two adversaries lends the proceedings its sturdy narrative fibre. Elsewhere the characterisation is less sure, with Holbrook's racist navy commander a too-obvious loony, and Theron's Mrs Sunday a masochistic puzzle. But when director Tillman takes his camera underwater we too are holding our breath.
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Immigration authorities in the island chain just north of Haiti consulted with officials in Britain and decided the temporary suspension of deportations was no longer warranted, the government said in a statement.
The deportation ban affected only Haitians already in the Turks and Caicos before the January 2010 earthquake, while illegal immigrants who arrived later have been regularly sent home.
Turks and Caicos was among several jurisdictions in the region that suspended deportations after the quake on humanitarian grounds in an effort to help impoverished Haiti recover from the worst natural disaster in its history. The U.S. has extended what's known as temporary protected status for Haitians until Jan. 22, 2013.
In the Turks and Caicos, immigration authorities will focus on illegal immigrants who have committed crimes, are involved in migrant trafficking as facilitators or smugglers or who arrive in the dangerously overloaded boats that are often used to move migrants through the Caribbean.
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3/1/2009 5:05 AM PST BY TMZ STAFF
Apparently there's not a lot of food in the evil cave where Ann Coulter burrows.
Ann Coulter: Click to watch!
Now a full-fledged stick figure, Ann had the audacity to take bragging rights away from Tina Turner in the leg department.
In the meat department, she comes up zero.
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Whose got better legs? Olive Oil or Ann Coulter? I vote OLIVE, OLIVE, OLIVE!!!!!
1754 days ago
nobody has better legs than tina turner!
1754 days ago
Give the "women " a break. It's hard to eat when your mouth is as busy as "hers" spewing evil.
1754 days ago
flaming homo
How much does the ho charge per hour these days? I hope it hasn't went up thast much from back in the days because I wouldn't mind bangin her skinny a s s again...but only if the price is right.
1754 days ago
Some just dont get it. If Ann had her way, there would be no free speech or thought. Anyone who disagreeed would be imprisoned for "treason".
Also, join the military service and you will learn some "liberal" things like equality, zero tolerance for sexual assualt, and diversity. I should know since I work for the DOD, so suck on that money worshippers who use abortion to get sympathy votes, yet coudlnt care less about 'grown babies, they say 'let 'em starve'.
Oh and btw, I dont see Annies new book on the #1 best seller list. And she is a puppet for Corp bigwigs wanting to keep stealing $$$.
1754 days ago
As disgusting as this chick is, what disgusts me even more is the fact that before she was embalmed, I was very attracted to her sexually, and wanted to bang her. -One of those "go figure" deals.
Now, because I can't seem to loath her the way I do Jessica Alba, I just feel sorry for her, because she obviously has some serious emotional issues going on to allow herself to get in that shape.
1754 days ago
Looks like a tranny .. and a deep voice ..I could swear I saw an Adam's apple on her neck.
1754 days ago
Blake Clement
Mann Coulter on the loose
1754 days ago
Why would you try to alienate 50% of the country? Take a look at the ratings trend for the Liberal media such as CNN, MSNBC, NBC, CBS, and ABC. Do you really want to follow their path?
Leave Ann Coulter and politics alone.
1754 days ago
"She seems to appeal to the double-digit IQ crowd who are too lazy to do any serious reading, study or education."
You mean, exactly like most people who voted for Obama? He has never even run a candy store, has no experience whatsoever but because he is black and speaks eloquently he appears smarter than he is. I fail to see the difference.
1754 days ago
Paper or plastic
This lunatic woman says outrageous things for publicity. Can someone please lock this bith up, she just escape from the zoo. Her legs look like two match stick clue with chewing gum.
1754 days ago
At the age of 69 Tina Turna as the legs of a 20 year old Ann GET A WAY STICKS look like they could SNAP at any Time
1753 days ago
Bethany Sweet
Ann Coulter is just a very, very confused person. She thinks getting attention means people like her! Wrong.
1753 days ago
I see, as usual there are like two Ann fans on this site. They are just using diffrent handles if you will.
To defend, this, ummmm, woman? Is a waste of time. She'll bite you in your ass evrerytime when she opens her mouth. She insults EVERYONE!
Gee, Ann how is that Nobel winning new book of yours that is ALREADY off the best sellers list doing these days? Her books continue to tank, the new worse then the old one now!
I wonder why that is? Ann your routine is old now, nobody wants to listen to your VERBAL VOMIT. {you can use that one in your next trashy book, I'll let you} You could use the help.
Besides, she is a liar. Jerry McGuire's book about her lies is very interseting. He did a great job of picking apart all her so called truths. What a happy life she must have. Hated where-ever you go, no man, no kids, probaly not one girlfriend to save her life either.
Gee, I envy you. Now eat something!
1753 days ago
who has the facts? ME
I actually watched Ann on Geraldo's show last night. What a twit. She is very good at talking and interuppting, but horrible at actually answering a question. She uses the same talking points over and over and over again and just her voice and sarcasm are really annoying, but I watch for entertainment and her stupidity is entertaining!!
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Why? Did he lose track of how many women he raped? Loser.
1199 days ago
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you cant drag my name through the mud,famous or not. I AGREE WITH YOU JOHAN!
1199 days ago
Mike D
You are innocent until proven guilty. If the alleged accuser's name is not released, the alleged attackers name should not be released either. Some women lie about being raped. The alleged attacker's name is ruined, if if he is found not guilty. His reputation is shot.
1199 days ago
I agree that either both names should be public or private until a conviction.
That being said if Santana is so concerned about both parties being on a level playing field I assume he is using public counsel and not trying to buy his way out of it.
1199 days ago
Pretty LL
Why the civil lawsuit and not a criminal trial? All she wants is money?
1199 days ago
Mike D
* even if he is found innocent.
1199 days ago
well duh! public persons will be open to public and anonymous non famous people will remain anonymous, ESPECIALLY if they are the VICTIM!(altough anyone who is not famous and still choses to come out in public are nothing but fame ho's)(that, again, proves his accuser really is a real victim who wants to be anonymous, look what happened to the poor girl raped by roman polanski - she want to be left alone so bad she even says she wants to forget the whole thing, just because of the media hunting her, the victim!, leave the victims alone!)
1199 days ago
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As a supporter of victims rights, I agree the victims name should be kept off criminal cases. HOWEVER, if you are filing a civil case without regard to a criminal count then it is all about the MONEY. Hmmm, Rachel Ho-won't-tell's ten million. Just like the woman in the Kobe case. Screw you, if you don't want to follow through with a criminal prosecution I suspect your motives are about money.
1199 days ago
He must have banged a lot of broads if he needs specification.
1199 days ago
1198 days ago
People wake up. You know its all about money! A civil suit instead of criminal? Innocent untill proven guilty, and if he is innocent then she should go to jail for at least 5 years!!!!!
1198 days ago
Squeaky Shoes
The fact that she hides behind a veil of anonymity, and a CIVL suit just proves she's in it for the money. If she was at all emotionally damaged by this "alleged" rape, should have filed a criminal suit.
You don't get raped and take your rapist to court over a financial settlement, you want them to rot in prison for what they've done and so they don't do it to anyone else.
However this lying whore's lawyer should have known that!
1198 days ago
Being a rape victim myself, I can understand her need for privacy. The last thing she needs is to have her name plastered all over the place, so this pig of a man can smear that too! It's so degrading.
1198 days ago
Mrs. Pine
She did file a criminal complaint, but it was thrown out for lack of evidence. Santana also tried to settle this civil lawsuit, but she would not accept what he offered. He has admitted having sex with her on the golf course, but says it was not rape. I don't know all the facts but believe if a criminal prosecution was not possible, she should have taken whatever money he offered and moved on with her life. If she continues to pursue it, she must reveal her identity.
1198 days ago
And people wonder why sexual assault goes unreported in this country...
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BGSU symposium: Warm Arctic could heat up new Cold War
BOWLING GREEN - The gradual warming of the Earth's climate has the potential to bring back Cold War-like tensions between the United States and Russia, as the two countries assert themselves over parts of the Arctic Circle that once were impassable for ships.
Melting ice also will likely cool relations between the United States and Canada, long viewed as the world's friendliest neighbors.
Those and other predictions emerged yesterday during the 21st annual Reddin Symposium at Bowling Green State University, an event sponsored by BGSU's Canadian Studies Center and attended by about 125 people.
"We are on the cusp of a series of disagreements," Rob Huebert, one of the symposium's three speakers, told the audience. "We are heading into some very rocky territory."
Mr. Huebert, a University of Calgary associate political science professor and associate director of that university's Centre for Military and Strategic Studies, said the Arctic will never be dismissed as a frozen wasteland again now that ships have an easier time getting through the northwest passage and the price of oil has hit the $100-a-barrel mark.
Disputes are already erupting over largely undefined - or, at least, unenforced - boundaries.
"The potential is there for an outbreak of tensions we have not seen since the Cold War days," Mr. Huebert said.
All countries that extend into the Arctic Circle - including Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Iceland - have a stake in the fight.
So does Denmark, because Greenland is a self-governing Danish province.
Those most deeply affected could be the Inuit, who will be fighting to keep their native culture intact on limited resources as the region becomes more coveted by outsiders.
Rosemary Cooper, political coordinator of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, Canada's national Inuit advisory organization, said the Arctic Circle "defines who we are."
Inuit face the difficult task of trying to preserve their heritage while coping with widespread drug and alcohol abuse, violent crime, unemployment, and education issues.
Sixty-three percent of Can-
ada's Inuit do not have a high school diploma. Their suicide rate is 11 times that of the rest of Canada, she said.
In June, several British publications and news outlets said Russia was claiming ownership rights to the North Pole. An article in London's Daily Mail said Russian President Vladimir Putin was "making an astonishing bid to grab a vast chunk of the Arctic" to tap its potential for oil, natural gas, and diamonds. The article said his scientists claimed that an underwater ridge near the North Pole is really part of Russia's continental shelf.
"Today, we are scrambling to respond to Russia's planting of the flag at the North Pole," Ms. Cooper said.
Terry Fenge, principal of a Canadian firm called Terry Fenge Consulting Inc., which specializes in aboriginal rights, environmental affairs, and public policy for the Arctic region, said Inuits and others native to that area view Arctic borders as "artificial boundaries."
Melting ice will have a "profound impact on indigenous people" because of their reliance on native wildlife that faces extinction threats, he said.
While many people believe the planet simply needs to adapt to its warming climate, Mr. Fenge said they may be rationalizing adaptation to "cultural annihilation."
"Our histories with indigenous people is not something to marvel at," he said.
The trio of speakers agreed that sovereignty claims to the Arctic Circle will intensify as the region's value rises, whether or not dire predictions pan out.
"Even when you get beyond the Cold War, Canada's security is threatened. We are in the midst of a transformation we don't understand," Mr. Huebert said.
"The stakes are high and are about to get higher."
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I have a Raid 5 array running on Sil3132. 5 1TB Drives and everything seems fine and dandy to create the array. But when it comes time to rebuild the array, it always seems to fail, giving me an error in the logs that reads...(Sense Data 70:00:04:00:80:000000....00 (ScsiError) ) and then goes on to say that a drive drops from the array. It goes through the rebuild process and the dropped drive is then converted to a spare.
I then delete the array and create a new one which takes 2 1/2 days. Once it's up and running it works fine until something causes it to fail again. Originally it was on reboots it would try to rebuild again but I have been able to fix that problem. Lately it has been during the transfer of files to the array, a drive will drop and the rebuild process will start and never be able to complete. Always ending in a Sense Data ..... (ScsiError). I've tried switching cables as well as PCIe slots. This only seems to be a temporary fix until the next time something happens and it tries to rebuild.
Any suggestions/recommendations?
Also, any alternatives to storing mass amounts of data and a way to protect it from drives failing? I got a lot of stuff I want to protect and since every drive dies at some point, I would like a way to keep it without having to use backup tapes.
If it is the same member of the array having the error, would it be logical to try plugging in a new drive to replace the one that keeps having the error and seeing if that helps?
maybe you hit the limit of a raid size on that controller.
Are you tring to do a single partition with all the drives?
Just for a test, try to do a raid 5 with only 3 disk instead of 5.
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Silicon Image is "shitRAID" - do not use it.
Especially the RAID5 support is bad; consider a Silicon Image RAID5 array to be more prone to failures than a single disk without RAID. Heck, i think you would be safer off running Silicon Image RAID0 instead.
But the real solution is to move away from FakeRAID with terrible quality RAID drivers, and move to something sexy and stable.
ZFS comes to mind here, but that would imply a NAS which shares files over the network, and is built in a dedicated computer with lots of memory and multicore CPU. If you're interested in that, i'll give you some nice pointers.
If not, please focus on a backup instead. RAID can never replace a backup, RAID can only provide redundancy. RAID also introduces another layer to your storage chain that can fail, potentially making your storage setup much less reliable due to the RAID.
To do RAID5 properly on windows you would need hardware RAID + TLER/CCTL enterprise RAID disks. On anything else than Windows you can use Software RAID and normal (non-RAID edition) disks.
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I would very much appreciate some advice on ZFS, never heard or messed with it. I've got a tower with Core 2 Quad q6600 and 6 gigs of RAM running the RAID setup now which may be able to do the job. I'd love to put together another rig though.
What's the best way to back up mass amounts of data as it is around 1.65 TB's and growing. Split it up on to 1TB drives and keep the drive in a safe place?
any recommendations on a RAID5 controller that is not crap as another option?
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Oh and i'm working on a web-interface like FreeNAS for FreeBSD; so once installed you could do (mostly) everything using the web-interface. If you don't know FreeNAS look at it as well; its an OS totally dedicated to serving as NAS.
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ZFS is both a filesystem and a RAID engine; ZFS does RAID0, RAID1, RAID5, RAID6, RAID7 (actually, modified versions of these).
ZFS is something special, not for just anyone. It doesn't run on Windows. It runs great on FreeBSD and OpenSolaris; two server operating systems that casual Windows users won't be able to work with.
The idea is that you build a home server, install FreeBSD to it, configure it to act as NAS, then connect with your Windows PC to the FreeBSD machine and you get a drive letter like D: with access to your files.
If you require a DAS (Direct Attached Storage) - then you need something that works with Windows. Generally Windows and RAID5 for the casual user means problems, problems and data-loss. I recommend against it; but ZFS is great.
To learn why ZFS is so great, try this for a start:
As for backups; easiest is to just copy directories yourself. So if your 1.6TB is in directories A B C D E, then you would copy ABC to disk1 and DE to disk2; manual method. Least that can go wrong; no RAID and stuff.
I read the articles and I think I am going to try and switch over. It seems like it's pretty awesome. Do you have any recommended tutorials on how to set this up (as far as details go)? I got the gist of everything through the articles and I have experience with command line interfaces so I'm not worried about that. Just simply a good tutorial to follow as a guideline. I found several through google searches but didn't know if there were any good ones that stood out from the rest. Seems like most are going to say pretty much the same things.
Thanks again for this recommendation, it appears this is going to solve my problems in the long run. (I'm disregarding the future speculations that ZFS will not be well maintained since the buyout. It seems to be quite efficient and reliable as is without too many changes or additions being needed.) Hopefully I can abandon this fakeRAID if I can get ZFS working properly. Going to take some time and some $$ but sounds well worth it. | http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/259101-32-sil3132-raid-rebuild-failures | dclm-gs1-024950002 | false | false | {
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Hey I have an older Cavalry CaumB external HDD with a 1tb Hitachi inside. I recently purchased a new case for it that has usb 3.0. I was wondering if the device will run at or close to usb 3.0 speeds, or if it will still only run at the 2.0 speeds
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If you remove the bare drive from inside the old enclosure and install it into the new enclosure (assuming it's the correct type: i.e., SATA vs IDE) then the drive should run over the USB 3.0 connection. How much of a speed gain you'll get depends on the speed of the drive itself. No hard drive actually runs at full USB 3.0 speed, but you'll almost certainly see an improvement over USB 2.0 speeds. | http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/271667-32-tomshardware | dclm-gs1-024960002 | false | false | {
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Deciated graphics RAM
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What would the differnece be if i have more graphics RAM on a program where as i am making a game?
for example i ussualy use blender to make my character models and simple animations would there be a difference if i went with the NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800 1GB card or the NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800 4GB card? i render with a 8 thread process so i am wondering if the more CUDA cores will means anything? would a ATI card be better? i am looking at the FirePro V8800 2GB card or the FirePro V7500 1GB? how much does the GPU matter when i am creating a animation for a game? how much does that RAM matter? the RAM bandwidth? the number of GPUs? the number of cards used? the amount of RAM? and anything else which i did not think of?
also would these cards be over kill for creating a modern game with modern uses of Direct3D and OpenGL? mainly Direct3D though both will be used
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i am a application developer who is trained in software side not the hardware but i want to make a game so i want to learn about such things.
if i am suppose to already know this stuff before making a game then tell me what book or stack of books will explain this all to me because i am running into the problem of my graphics engines crashing my computer. also developers really do not thing much of what is in our own computer only what is in the end-users computer thus i do not know what i will need to make a game but i do know what is needed to play them which they do play just the software for making them crashes after about the 15th or 16th time i push render on my field. thus i want to know what in a graphics card i should be looking at for making them.
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This is fairly common for most to be only trained in software these days which reflects poorly on the quality of education that is available.
Anyway. A good workstation graphics card is a must for 3d rendering. Or at least a decent gaming.
For rendering you basically need a good overall system, good ram, good cpu and good graphics card.
Amount of RAM on a workstation graphics card is important for large-scale rendering. I would get a Fermi workstation card tbh. Like the Quadro 6000. The number of CUDA cores are very important, amount of memory is important CPU is important since you don't want the CPU bottlenecking the GPU. System memory is important... bandwidth and amount. | http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/299497-33-deciated-graphics | dclm-gs1-024970002 | false | false | {
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How do I log in? Name? Password?
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I would try to use or to get the interface for your router in your browser then use your password if any is used.
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How do I log in? Name? Password?
In future a little more information would be useful - like router brand - model etc...
I am guessing that you have a netgear router - the default username is "admin" the default password is "password"
Here is a link to their manual
If you have connected everything up correctly (refer manual) then entering into your internet browser should take you to the login screen.
use the username/password I gave you.
If it doesn't work - (it's had the username/password changed) then factory reset it (refer the manual.) | http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/879-69-routerlogin | dclm-gs1-024980002 | false | false | {
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For 20 years, Microsoft Corp. has made the software on which hackers feast. Now, after three years of planning and several acquisitions, it's sending shudders through the industry as it prepares to move into the expanding market for security.
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Quagmire (C-3PO): Hey, mind if I turn on the radio?
Announcer: WTAT Tatooine's all-talk radio.
Rush Limbaugh: My good friends, the liberal galactic media is at it again, they never stop. Now they're trying to convince us that Hoth is melting. Well that's crazy, just trying to scare us. Well if that wasn't enough to get you mad, we now have news that Lando Calrissian has been made the chief administrator of the Bespin mining facility. Gee, I wonder how he got that job. Well let me tell you how he got that job, affirmative action strikes again. The time is 8:50.
Chris (Luke): Well, I guess I'll go bulls-eye some womp rats in my T-16.
Quagmire (C-3PO): My god, you shoot small animals for fun? That's the first indicator of a serial killer, ya freak.
Chris (Luke): There's two suns and no women, what the hell am I supposed to do?
Hey, thanks for the sex, early nineties printer.
(Printer prints out a heart slowly)
Quagmire (C-3PO)
Herbert (Obi-Wan): Mos Eisley spaceport, you will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.
Cleveland (R2-D2): My sister Regina-D2 lives here.
Quagmire (C-3PO): Is she single?
Cleveland (R2-D2): She's a lez-bot.
Chris (Luke): R2, what are you doing out here?
Cleveland (R2-D2): Beep boop beep.
Quagmire (C-3PO): He says there are several creatures approaching from the southeast.
Cleveland (R2-D2): That's not what I said. I said there ain't a pack of menthols on this planet.
Ya hear that? It sounds like we're being boarded from the rear, and not the "Hey take a deep breath, let's experiment" kind of boarded from the rear.
</i> Quagmire (C-3PO)
Stormtrooper: The Death Star is getting closer!
Quagmire (C-3PO): And Leia's getting l-a-a-arger! (jiggles Leia's stomach)
Quagmire: It's alright. It's just my wang.
Peter: Husband?
(Lois giggles)
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3 definitions by Over the Hill
Noun. Polispeak is a term used to describe quotes made by politicians, which are usually stupid, funny, confusing, or attract media attention for one reason or another.
"Jack, what did you say to Jill about Bill!?"
"All I did was have 'a short and jocular conversation' with her, it wasn't serious!"
"Nice use of Polispeak"
"Thanks, that Peter Garrett quote attracts attention anywhere nowdays"
Noun. A term used to describe someone's voice which is affected by overuse or excessive alcohol. A person with schoolies voice usually sounds like they have a bad cold or have been shouting too much. During and after Schoolies Week, there is a noticeable increase in the amount of people with bad cases of Schoolies Voice.
"Hi Jack!"
"Hi Jill, you've got schoolies voice as well?"
"Yeah, I had a big night on the town, now I sound like I've eaten sandpaper"
schoolies sick grog alcohol drunk
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A measurement of time determined by the expiry date of milk in your fridge. Used to illustrate how close a particular event is. As the event draws closer, the expiry dates on the milk gradually change until the expiry date is after the date of the event, and is thus within 'milk range'.
Oh man, that final exam is now within milk range. Better study up.
milk time event expire late
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8 definitions by Urban
Turbonator is a cheap supercharger that screws up your car after long term use.
My cheap turbonator sucked its plastic fan in my intake and blew my engine.
by Urban February 10, 2005 add a video add an image
mother fucker P.I.M.P fo lyfe biatch
yo that cat is franksta
by urban August 30, 2003 add a video add an image
When one person of friend is being annoying, or bitchy. Not wanting to do what everyone else wants to do:
<I>Hanging out with a large group of people waiting to get picked up to go to the movies:</I>
<I>"is everyone ready?"</I>
<I>"i don't know, I don't really feel like going anymore.."</I>
<I>"Dude come on, you're being a little fuckboi"</I>
Indian Sweet Dish, Made Out Of Milk
A Guy Is Trying To Hit On A Girl,
{Guy} Hey Baby Is It Me Or You Looking Tasty Like A Ras Maali
{Girl} You What *Slap*
by Urban July 11, 2004 add a video add an image
1. used to express one's satisfaction or a significant amount of amusement
2. used to sarcastically express above emotions
derived from cool
1. "hey, I just bought you that puppy you wanted" "kkool!"
2. "I like linkin park" "kkool"
by urban December 23, 2003 add a video add an image
yellow curved fruit great with ice cream
I'm ordering the Uber-split.
by Urban December 20, 2003 add a video add an image
someone who is pigeon-toed or waddles like a penguin
what a pengy
by Urban December 12, 2003 add a video add an image
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1. Heinz Doofenshmirtz
A character on Disney's TV show, Phineas and Ferb. He has incredibly illogical plans to take over the tri-state area. He also purchased a certificate that says he is a doctor. In a nutshell, "He gets waaaaay too much alimony".
My name is Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz
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1. small blind
The first forced bet in Texas Hold 'Em poker and other similar poker games. The small blind is generally equal to one-half the minimum bet rounded up to the nearest chippable value (e.g. with 100/500 chips, and big blind equal to 500, the small blind would have to be 300 instead of 250).
The small blind was already half of my chips, so I had to go all in, even though I had the W.H.I.P.
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1. haitian swimming pool
noun: when a man is sitting on the toilet and taking a dumb and a girl comes over and does a reverse cowgirl in mid crap.
Man I had this mexican food last night and I had to take the worst shit, but girl came and gave me a haitian swimming pool.
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1. KF
Abbreviation of Killing Floor, a co-op survival horror game for the PC.
S0M3R4ND0MKFPL4Y3R: Hey dude, wanna play some KF?
AMark336699: Hell yeah! We're gonna rack up mad dosh!
2. kf
stands for king frier, the king of getting high
person 1: dude i got so high last night, like higher then anyone has before
person 2: you're a kf for sure
3. kf
kinda funny, used in the world of text messaging and instant messaging. everyone has found themselves at one point or another saying "lol" when you aren't really "laughing out loud", "kf" fills in the void that seperates the "histerical" from the "not funny". its for those things that are humorous but not enough to cause you to bust out laughing.
Bob: Guess what i saw today...
Sue: What?
Bob: I saw this old guy yelling at a student and fall going up the steps today, then got up and kept talkin as if nothing happened.
Sue:Thats what he get, kf
4. kf
That kf backside 5050 was sick!
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The Edison job quiz
Posted 10/3/04
1. What city in the United States is noted for its laundry-machine making?
2. Who was Leonidas?
3. Who invented logarithms?
4. Where is Magdalena Bay?
5. What is the first line in the Aeneid?
6. What is the weight of air in a room 10 by 20 by 30 feet?
7. Who composed Il Trovatore?
8. What voltage is used on streetcars?
CabinetMakers had to know:
9. Which countries supply the most mahogany?
10. Who was the Roman emperor when Jesus Christ was born?
Masons were asked:
11. How many cubic yards of concrete in a wall 12 by 20 by 2 feet?
12. Who assassinated President Lincoln?
Edison did not demand perfect scores--merely 90 percent, which has been likened to having an IQ of 180. Out of 718 college men Edison tested for jobs, only 10 percent got a "fair" or passing grade. Edison said, "Only 2 percent of the people think, as I gather from my questionnaire." Magazines, which loved running stories on Edison's employment test, gave Edison pop quizzes with similar questions on a variety of subjects. He averaged 95 percent.
ANSWERS: 1. Newton, Iowa 2. Spartan general who died at Thermopylae 3. John Napier 4. Baja California 5. Arma virumque cano, Troiae qui primus ab oris 6. Air at 0.075 pounds per cubic foot x 6,000= 450 pounds 7. Giuseppe Verdi 8. 600 volts, at the time 9. Brazil, Bolivia 10. Augustus 11. 17.78 cubic yards 12. John Wilkes Booth
This story appears in the October 11, 2004 print edition of U.S. News & World Report.
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xrtza - 8:33 pm on Feb 24, 2005 (gmt 0)
The 1969 thingy is possibly related. But it has it's own set of unique problems. That is the UNIX date for a non-existent date. This presents some interesting puzzles. How can you update a cache that doesn't exist? It would require non-logical computing which could cause a computer to puke. This one could have them stumped.
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<I've been watching the mainstream media looking to see is there was much mention, if any, about the WA flap or the DNS fiasco over the weekend and it's been surprisingly very quiet unless they are just slow to catch up.>
Maybe because the matter of GWA is too technical to explain and understand for mainstream media audience.
People understand terms related to privacy and copyright infringement issues. But talking about DNS, IP address, SSL connections and codings to block GWA are complicated issues for the majority of people.
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Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders
What Causes Psychotic Disorders?
The exact cause of psychotic disorders is not known, but researchers believe that many factors may play a role. Some psychotic disorders tend to run in families, suggesting that the tendency, or likelihood, to develop the disorder may be inherited. Environmental factors may also play a role in their development, including stress, drug abuse, and major life changes.
In addition, people with certain psychotic disorders may have an imbalance of certain chemicals in the brain. They may be either very sensitive to or produce too much of a chemical called dopamine. Dopamine is a neurotransmitter, a substance that helps nerve cells in the brain send messages to each other. An imbalance of dopamine affects the way the brain reacts to certain stimuli, such as sounds, smells, and sights, and can lead to hallucinations and delusions.
How Common Are Psychotic Disorders?
About 1% of the population worldwide suffers from psychotic disorders. These disorders most often first appear when a person is in his or her late teens, 20s, or 30s. They tend to affect men and women about equally.
How Are Psychotic Disorders Diagnosed?
If symptoms of a psychotic disorder are present, the doctor will perform a complete medical history and physical exam to determine the cause of the symptoms. Although there are no laboratory tests to specifically diagnose psychotic disorders -- except those that accompany a physical illness, such as a brain tumor -- the doctor may use various tests, such as blood tests and brain imaging (e.g., MRI scans), to rule out physical illness as the cause of the symptoms.
If the doctor finds no physical reason for the symptoms, he or she may refer the person to a psychiatrist or psychologist, mental health professionals who are trained to diagnose and treat mental illnesses. Psychiatrists use specially designed interview and assessment tools to evaluate a person for a psychotic disorder.
How Are Psychotic Disorders Treated?
Most psychotic disorders are treated with a combination of medications and psychotherapy (a type of counseling).
• Medication: The main medications used to treat psychotic disorders are called antipsychotics. These medicines do not cure the illnesses, but are very effective in managing the most troubling symptoms of psychotic disorders, such as delusions, hallucinations, and thinking problems. Antipsychotics include older medications such as Haldol, Thorazine, and Mellaril and newer medications (often called atypicals) such as Abilify, Clozaril, Geodon, Invega, Risperdal, Saphris, Seroquel, and Zyprexa. The newer medications -- sometimes referred to as atypical antipsychotics -- are considered first-line treatments because they have fewer and more tolerable side effects.
• Psychotherapy: Various types of psychotherapy, including individual, group, and family therapy, may be used to help support the person with a psychotic disorder.
Most patients with psychotic disorders are treated as outpatients. However, people with particularly severe symptoms, those in danger of hurting themselves or others, or those unable to care for themselves because of their illness, may require hospitalization to stabilize their condition.
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An Observation
Outside the West you would find truth by referring to a philosopher or a Prophet.
The West took over simply because it found a truth by observation rather than doing like a California Yuppie and finding some quote that sounds Impressive and Wise.
So I observed that brown-skinned countries are poor. Yellow-skinned countries can learn up to the level whites have reached. But the only places that show basic progress are populated by white skins.
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Long before anyone thought of vaccinations, it was well known that girls who milked cows for a living did not get smallpox. No matter how horrible the smallpox got, no one did anything but remark on this.
Now that the Western world is turning brown, we have become accustomed to there being no increase in the standard of living since the 1960s. There had never before been a generation of white Americans, right back to Jamestown, where the standard of living hadn’t progressed.
It is usual for those who live by the established religion to demand how someone “dares say” what everybody can see. We’re back to Semmelweis daring to state, in the teeth of all the Learned Quotes of the Great Doctors, that deaths went where these minor deities refused to wash their hands.
For some reason I do not fathom, there are a lot of people who are desperate to prove that vaccination doesn’t stop smallpox. It seems to come from some fundamentalists, but also from some of the California Cults.
Nonetheless vaccinated people did not get smallpox. Many a girl spent her entire life horribly disfigured because all the Churches condemned vaccination. Or I could say many a girl who let the Church talk her out of vaccination happened to spend her life horribly disfigured.
Not being a preacher or priest, of a God Church or a PC faith, I am responsible for what I do.
We all observe that skin color makes all the difference in a country. The response to that observation is as old as the hills:
“Where is it Written that skin color matters?”
All the priests and the prophets and the intellectuals, for the thousandth time, demand punishment for those who point out a reality they don’t like.
Newton, Western Technology and Modern Medicine: When Nothing Was Defeated
Despite all else, the Western World still considers the final arbiter of truth to be reality.
We all take it for granted that statistical proof MATTERS. In science, no matter who said what, the final authority is evidence.
No other society was ever aware that there was such a thing as statistical proof.
Doctor Ignaz Semmelweis cut childbed fever death, which had killed a major percentage of mothers and babies in that ward, to zero, year after year, but even as late as the mid-nineteenth century, it made no difference. The University Doctors of Medicine would not stoop to washing their hands between dissections and delivering babies.
How did Newton ever convince a world that still looked to translations of Aristotle and the Old Testament for its cosmology to look to gravity instead?
How did we go from Galen and bleeding to real medicine inside the nineteenth century?
Every previous society had built its entire intellectual life on NOTHING.
To be an intellectual you QUOTED: ”It is written …”
Every intellectual stated that men have more teeth than women, because Aristotle had said so. Even if someone had counted teeth endlessly they would have convinced nobody.
What is unique is that the West has, in SOME cases, allowed evidence to actually defeat Nothing..
Oriental Wisdom and the American Indian Wisdom we hear about were Nothing.
Creation Myths were adopted because they sounded good and “It is written.”
Then Isaac Newton came along saying that the whole universe could be explained by using simple GRAVITY!Image Hosted by
Occam’s Razor knocked the whole gigantic structure of Western Confusionism down!
In a century — AFTER the “Renaissance” — all the Ancient Authorities and all the crap about “balancing humors” was destroyed and modern medicine began.
None of these revolutions could have occurred outside the Western world, because there was no way to go gradually from the Flat Earth to Newton, from Galen to medical sanity.
You simply could not show the slightest respect for Galen’s Balance of Humors and move to Modern Medicine.
In order to introduce Occam’s Razor, you had to state flatly that a thousand years of everything that had been “intellectualism” was pure crap!
Exactly the same holds for Mantra Thinking.
There is no room for Respectful Opposition.
All present political debate is a pile of horsehockey, and there is simply no nice way to say that.
Fifteen Years! Whew!
On this date in 1998 WhitakerOnline got started.
On this date in 1861 a lesser event got started at Fort Sumter.
We are not really prepared for any kind of celebration because, as White Rabbit just reminded me, we are each an army of one.
To give the first example that occurs to me, when a BUGSER calls for a Swarm, your job is not to comment on it or moan at how few do. It is simply: a) you hit that site, a minute’s work or, 2) You DON’T.Image Hosted by
Good BUGSERS make lousy Celebrators.
We don’t spend endless time planning for The Days, be it a celebration or a Torchlight Parade.
We don’t listen for plaudits. You will feel that “Well done” from your insides that no Rally can provide.
We also don’t make a fetish out of “I don’t need praise.”
All humans need recognition. But you had better treasure it when I give you a good word, because it is a rare thing.
But for us Aryans, with our natural self-criticism and overactive consciences: If I think you did it wrong, I will spare no words, and I fully expect that when my criticism is unfair, you will tell me in plain language where I can put it.
The next question is do I face another fifteen years dealing with you turkeys or do I jump off the top of this high-rise?
My Profs Died!
One of the two Nobel Prize winners who taught me graduate economics just died at the age of 102.
The good die young, so I sort of expect anyone associated with me to live forever.
Dr. Coase left the University of Virginia just a year before he would have been fired. The new Dean had said repeatedly over the years that when he became Dean he would “clean out that nest of right-wingers in the Economics Department.”
You know all that crap you hear about Academic Freedom? It never even occurred to anybody that a tenured professor with heretical Politically Incorrect views could not be gotten rid of ASAP.
My other prof who later won a Nobel Prize got booted by that Dean. He was James M. Buchanan.
He died this year at the tender age of 93.
The good die young, but these good men’s association with me probably bought them a lot of extra time.
This is the only place you will read about this violation of so-called Academic Freedom, so I thought I’d let you know.
“Pushing Toothpaste Back Into the Tube”
When I first heard that expression I LOVED it. It is such a perfect description of how anti-whites act when we pull the Mantra on them.
In all previous times, all they had to do was remind you were a Southerner or ignorant, or Catholic. All the Fashionable Opinions put you down and ignored you. For respectable conservatives or Southerners who longed for Northern approval — who turned out to the out most provincial of all — that was enough.
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But now we don’t seem to care. In fact, the weapon that used to work perfectly is truly alien to today’s thought. The good old awe of a PhD died from the onset of Google.
So the toothpaste of racial survival, which used to have a solid cap on it driven in by the New York Times, the networks, The Tide of History, is out.
It’s like Pandora’s box.
Those who shout “ignorant” sound hollow, because the ruling superstition towards the New York Times and Mommy Professor has simply sunk away.
The Magic Words that worked so perfectly when I was coming up are shouted reflexively now as they were then. But they are out of date and have no traction.
“Ignorant,” the word they once conjured with, obviously has no relevance in the Google Age.
Ignorant of WHAT?
Ignorant of Fashionable Opinion.
It used to work like magic.
Now the toothpaste is out of the tube and the cap is gone forever.
Supreme Court “Justice”
Judge Roy Bean's CredentialsThe U.S. Constitution NEVER provided a mandate requiring a law degree prior to being appointed “Supreme Court Justice.” The Articles of Confederation, the precursor to the usurpator that is the Constitution, NEVER even outlined a federal or national judiciary. Most state constitutions do NOT require a law degree to be elected as a Judge. Since the beginning of American history, more than 1 in 3 Supreme Court Justices were appointed despite never having obtained a law degree. However:
ONLY lawyers in fancy, black robes will tell you, “One MUST have a law degree in order to Understand & Interpret legislation.”
ONLY lawyers in fancy, black robes will tell you, “Term limits for Justices are unnecessary.”
ONLY neo-Americans and lawyers will sit there and LISTEN to them without laughing.
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Let’s turn it up until 21 December 2012!!!
Fellow BUGSters,
Our Holy mission to end White genocide and turn the anti-White system into dust has seen increasing success. Don Black recently had interviews with two major television stations in which he wielded our message brilliantly. Our verbiage is now widely used across the White-O-Sphere and has also found its way into mainstream news outlets. Fox News’ Bill O’Reily used the term “anti-White” on one of his shows and BUGSters have reported “anti-White” being seen in other mainstream news sites as well. The anti-Whites have been writing about the upcoming seminar in Tennessee with a fear comparable to a long-tailed cat trapped in a room filled with rocking-chairs.
The SWARM continues to grow, as does the skills of our adepts who wield the message. The anti-Whites are in such a panic that they had to change the posting policies at YouTube in the attempt to slow us down. The anti-White organization “Southern Poverty Law Center” (SPLC) can’t even openly admit to our existence. They release “reports” on groups with less than 20 people but haven’t written a word about BUGS or Follow The White Rabbit. Follow The White Rabbit has over 1000 subscribers to its free podcast and the paid subscriber base continues to grow. The idea that the SPLC would have nothing to “report” on BUGS or FTWR (while writing big “reports” on “neo-Nazi” organizations with 20 people) is testament to the fear they have for us. They realize that bringing attention to us is more dangerous for the anti-White system than ignoring us. They understand that our message (especially when wielded by a practiced BUGS adept) is unstoppable. They realize that Light always overwhelms darkness, so they do all they can to keep the Light from leaking into the dark, anti-White world that they defend.
The recent animations created by the White Rabbit and his team have been especially impressive. Although they contain no vulgarity or “racially insensitive material,” they have been taken down repeatedly at YouTube and other sites due to their ability to deprogram people under the influence of the anti-White spell. I personally posted “How Whites Took Over America” and “Diversity comes to Africa” at one of the biggest “conspiracy” websites in the world and they were taken down very quickly. Meanwhile this same site allows articles and discussions regarding the “Learned Elders of Zion.” So here again we see that “racial insensitivity” is not their fear, it’s the effectiveness of the message that causes their heads to hurt and their undergarments to become soiled. Last, I’d like to draw attention to the work that Beefcake has been doing on his very instructive podcast “Beefcake’s Bootcamp,” as well as highly recommend the music of Johnny White Rabbit.
The main purpose of this post is to encourage BUGSters to turn up the intensity of our work over the next 3 1/2 months. If you listen to Follow The White Rabbit, you realize that the world is heating up. War is on the horizon in the Middle East (and beyond?), the Presidential election is coming up, and the world in general is more uncertain than it has been since WWII. The next 3 1/2 months are likely to be very intense.
To change iron into steel, the blacksmith heats iron until it’s vulnerable. After the iron becomes vulnerable, he adds carbon to the iron. After he adds the carbon and works the iron with a hammer, he allows the material to cool into steel. As the world heats up over the next 3 1/2 months, we too must add our message while the world is in its vulnerable, heated state. We must pound our message into the world with the hammer of truth and do our part to help transmute the base, anti-White world into a higher, golden form.
Due to the major events on the horizon, more people will be paying attention to media and the news than ever before. We must do more in this time than we ever have. As a day to shoot for, think of 12/21/2012 as a finish line. Until 12/21/2012 we must pound the message home more than ever. Think of this day as the finish-line of a race. It doesn’t mean there won’t be more races after, but that we’ll focus on 12/21/2012 as the finish line to this particular race (or campaign). The reason for including an end-date is that it helps the mind to endure more stress when it knows an end is in sight. This technique (of training in blocks of time) is used in the training of endurance and strength athletes.
If you post the message, post it more. If you create art that conveys the message, create more of it. If you distribute flyers with the message, distribute more. Whatever you do to spread our message, you need to do more of it until 12/21/2012 (as long as it’s tasteful and legal of course)! We can relax afterwards for the holidays, but starting NOW until 12/21/2012 we must not rest. If you have spare time, you should be doing more. If you don’t have the time, make time. Your fictional reading, video games, golfing, coin collection, nightclubbing, and/or bird watching can wait. If you’ve been lurking on BUGS and just reading, start posting the message. You don’t even have to create a BUGS account. Just do it! Recruit more people to do the same. Just ask them to give us until 12/21/2012. After that, they can go back to discussing black crime stats and Jewish media moguls. I don’t know when this will be posted, but on 09/09/2012 I posted a modified version of this post on Stormfront pleading with non-SWARMers to give us the next 3 1/2 months. I will be posting similar articles on other major pro-White websites in the near future. Even if the world does not erupt into WWIII and the Presidential election ends up being uneventful, let’s just see what happens when we give everything we got for a 3 1/2 month block of time. It may turn out that by increasing our output for this time period, that afterward our output will remain at this level permanently.
When people make history they seldom know they’re doing so. Make no mistake, we are making history. We are ending the largest program of genocide ever attempted. We are freeing the world from a force of darkness that has been causing havoc and destruction on all peoples for hundreds, if not thousands of years. While history is a long, slow process, history books focus on the most critical “points” within this long, slow process which are supposed represent the most important events (or set of events) responsible for creating change within the time period being studied. Let’s make this next 3 1/2 months the critical “point” in ending the program of White genocide.
Let’s give everyhting we got until 21 December 2012.
We will disseminate the mantra until the anti-White system has turned to dust!
We will disseminate the Mantra until the anti-White system has turned to dust!!
Who’s the New Freemason?
They’re right.
Who do the Freemasons of old sound like today?
So who’s the New Freemason?
And is BUGS the new Green Dragon? (1)
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Our enemy is very dumb
This whole situation backfired on them because they lacked foresight.
Now they’re calling for Eastern Europe to Asian itself up.
The treaty of Versailles was MEANT to anger Germans.
If you split a country in half, of course it’s going to make people mad.
If you tell a country where it can or cannot move its army (which hinders its ability to defend itself), of course people will get mad.
If you tell a country how many boats, planes, and officers it can produce, yes, it’s going to make people mad.
Combine all these and you have a big middle finger directed at Germany.
So why would the anti-White elites want to make Germans mad? For the reaction.
When looking at the treaty, French Marshall Ferdinand Foch said: “This is not Peace. It is an armistice for 20 years.”
Marshall Foch knew that Germany would not accept this deal, and it would have to wait for its next generation’s coming of age before it could do anything about it.
Believe what you will about the reaction, but it is pretty clear that anti-White elites wanted the reaction so they could get us to this genocidal system today.
A REAL Insult
When I was on the Hill Massachusetts had a black senator.
He was a black REPUBLICAN.
He had pale blue eyes and a pale complexion.
When I went to the Hill at Union Station subway, I would walk in the Senate side and go across to the House on the trolley.
At that time, security had been tightened by our standards but couldn’t compare with today’s. A civilian without a Hill ID had to have his appointment checked on. Those of us with IDs had to show them and were subject to a briefcase search.
About six one morning only me and Brookes came in at the same time. Capitol Hill Police must recognize all congressman by face, so he just walked in with a greeting to the cop.
The cop, trying to be nice , said, “If you’re with him, we don’t need to check your briefcase.“
It was six a.m. and I had been working most of the night, but I wasn’t rude. I just said “NO” with an emphasis that took the guards a bit aback and put my briefcase on he guard desk pretty hard.
Good God, NO. I was NOT with a Massachusetts mulatto, but most of all, I was NOT with a LIBERAL Republican.
The policeman grinned.
There is a feeling far worse than being accused of racism. That is when someone smiles and says you have NO racist feelings.
Another reason that old respectable denial is so bad is because it is humiliating.
The person is saying that you could not be called by ANY of his definitions a racist.
It is hard for me to think of a more vicious insult than that, even being accused of working for a New England liberal Republican, and that is very, very far out there.
The charge of racist should be met with the exact words no respectable conservative ever dares to ask: “What is a racist?”
Demand Side Economics
You have heard a plenty about supply side economics, based on the fact that when taxation reaches a certain level government revenue from it goes down if it increases. People do not produce when taxes are too high.
On the Nero Wolfe mysteries, which were written from the 1930s into the 1980s, Wolfe would take cases only until he hit the $200,000 income level for a year, and then he would quit for the reminder of the year. I cite this example because it shows how common it was for people to work up until they were in the high brackets and quit.
Joe Louis the heavyweight champion for many years, almost ended up in prison. Since boxers received straight incomes that couldn’t be hidden, almost all of his income went to Internal Revenue.
We knew about supply side economics at the University of Virginia twenty years before Reagan was elected and passed his supply side tax cuts.
Economics also has what I call a demand side.
When I was in Europe, the European middle class, which earned less than half of what Americans did, vacationed in Spain. You could stay in a bedroom with shared bath for ninety cents. Beer was nine cents a bottle in a bar. You could get local wine, which wasn’t bad, for about twenty cents a liter.
In fact, when my British girlfriend came down I wanted to do the American thing, get champagne. I said I wanted the most gorgeous, expensive champagne they had,
It turned out that the most expensive they usually had cost under a dollar. Then after I insisted, the guy went back and got a huge bottle which cost almost three dollars. It had a big pink ribbon on it, but he actually looked guilty for charging that much for one bottle of anything.
When I took my first time off in Spain, I faced a problem. In each town people from one country tended to flock. I found that where Americans went were at American prices and the hotels looked like American hotels. Where the French went was cheap but filthy.
So I followed the Germans. The place I went was where German tourists went. They did not pay a pfennig more than they needed to, but the place was clean.
In other words, I bought German because of German demand. German products were good because Germans would settle for nothing less. The supply in any country lives up to the expectations of the demand, though I haven’t seen any economist discuss that.
Soviet products were famously awful. But it should be remembered that Marx based his whole system on the idea that a product’s worth is not decided by the market, but by the objective amount of labor put into it.
The Soviets in sixty years never produced ONE consumer product they could sell abroad. They could only dump these goods on a captive population behind their borders. It was a special privilege of the upper class in this classless society to go to the places that sold foreign goods.
And, in places like Communist Hungary, they refused to accept Hungarian currency in those shops.
Like the rest of the quality of life, it is the population, not the Wordism in power, that gives products their reputation.
The Reporter Industry
During the Patricia Hearst kidnapping episode, the entire national media was on the lawn of the Hearst Mansion, playing touch football – which was OK since the Kennedys did it, and like activities.
While they gamboled on the Hearst Porch, a reporter from the National Inquirer, I believe it was, went out and found the Symbionese Liberation Army and Patricia and the whole story.
You have often heard of “leaking” a story. This is a very difficult process, because getting the media to even read what you have to say is an art in itself.
Totally contrary to popular belief, reporters do NOT go out and get stories. They have a grind that would put a professional bean counter to sleep.
Speaking as one who put so many stories into the press, I can state expertly that reporters are at the beck and call of whoever is in the establishment. In the 20s it was Henry Ford or some other tycoon. Today it is an approved Politically Correct Person.
About 1970 Bella Abzug, Betty Friedan and some other PC Symbols decided to push the women’s Equal Rights Amendment.
So they picked up the phone an told the media that going to have a press conference announcing that they were now the Women’s Movement and they were going to announce the Agenda for American Women. The press showed up in hundreds and it has been THE Women’s Movement ever since.
The interesting statistical fact here is that, while other national movements had represented minorities, this one declared that it spoke for the majority of Americans. But the agenda they announced was accepted as “the women’s agenda.”
The membership of the Women’s Movement is miniscule. The largest women’s movement opposes it and the leader of that group says that the fact that it is the largest actual women’s movement is the media’s deepest secret.
We are back to the basic question: Why is this information produced? Reporters make their living by producing what their editors can use. Editors make their living by producing information which satisfies those with money.
A critical point is that this is a ruthlessly competitive market. A thousand newsmen are competing for the editor’s job. For every reporter, there are dozens who want his job. Someone who provides words from a Kennedy is on the fast track, and probably the ONLY track, that will finally single him out as the next editor.
The reporter who broke the Patricia Hearst story didn’t get much for it inside the press. He certainly was not accepted into the Big Leagues with the guys playing touch football at the Hearst Mansion.
The Reporter Industry is an Industry, putting out mass produced articles to those who want to keep up with the same things everybody wants to keep up with.
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Mantra Thinking: Screw the Details, Get the CONCEPT Right
About my age Benjamin Franklin began writing his autobiography.
It was, among other things, a farewell. Franklin was about seventy and he had done more different things than any other man we know of from his time.
Franklin had negotiated with the King and with Indians, supplied armies, made his fortune, and he was the only the third American to be a Fellow of the Royal Society. Almost every American knew quotes from him,,
James Watt and Adam Smith were personal buddies of his.
Just his incredible contributions to the science of electricity would have been enough for one man. “Positive” and “negative” and “battery” and a whole list of basic words we use today were his.
So by 1774 Ole Ben was feeling a bit used up. He was looking back on his life.
He never finished the book.
Some events caught up with him of which you may have heard. In fact, most people are not familiar with what he did BEFORE he started saying goodbye.
He had no idea what was about to happen in the troubles with Britain, but he had another historical blind spot.
Ben Franklin was fascinated by knowledge for its own sake. But, as a very, very practical man who had made his own fortune, he knew that electricity was fascinating but totally impractical. He would have laughed out loud at someone who theorized that there might someday be a PRACTICAL use for this barely theoretical force.
Yes, he proved lightening was electricity, but he no more thought of that as a practical discovery than he would of the idea that man is largely made of carbon, and therefore scientists could create a man.
I use to know the details of Franklin’s electricity. But that was back when I was a ham radio operator, and I was using a state of the art Morse Code key.
I remember that a “battery” was named for the way the glass jars looked like a column of men. It took a lot of glass jars being chemicalized and rubbed to put out a spark you could see.
I forgot the details, but since I am a Mantra Thinker, the CONCEPT stayed with me. It caused me to save a lot of science projects that Senator Proxmire was loved by mindless conservatives for attacking.
Proxmire just read the titles of the projects, which the average person would not understand, and denounce the $50,000 or whatever the grantee was spending.
Analog Magazine once made a list of some of the stunning advances these very basic research programs caused.
That was one of the two times I risked my job on principle. John Ashbrook had the NSF Grant list sent to me and asked me to find some projects to make fun of for publicity. I was the only person on his or the Committee’s staff who could understand what the titles meant, so I was the only one who could do it.
I did what a staffer NEVER does: I told him No. I told my boss this stuff was unworthy of him, and I would have no part of it.
No, I don’t remember the details of Ben Franklin and electricity.
But I got the POINT.
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Space Program: Last Gasp?
While we are watching documentaries no one questions why all that detailed research is taking place.
So the space program is considered a natural development of something called “humankind.”
It isn’t.
When I was sitting there on Capitol Hill balancing federal housing programs against space vehicles, the space vehicles were seen as ridiculous.
This is was a real problem, because the actual appropriations for NASA were made by an appropriations subcommittee called HUD-Independent Agencies. The chairman and the ranking member of that subcommittee were an urban liberal Democrat and an urban liberal Republican whose only interest was in HUD.
You could not have searched Capitol Hill and found two congressmen more hostile to sending stuff to the moon.
That was the problem I faced, but like the Mantra, no one was interested when I tried to explain the reality faced by real funding.
Just as every time I try to explain where this stuff comes from and get slapped down by the name of a big name who will make a speech at a convention, any attempt to talk reality about the critical subcommittee was knocked down by a thrilled convention-goer talking about the fact that “General Whatzit Himself is going to deign to address our pro-space rally.”
So when push came to shove, it took Ashbrook alone to hold the Floor for a weekend for a cause having nothing to do with the normal interests of his district in Ohio, to save the program while the Dornans and the beneficiaries of the space program told each other how dedicated they were.
The present situation is not new to me.
I am used to all the shouting and hozannahs and praise going to convention sensations while the conventions serve largely as a distraction from the work that needs doing. In fact it is sometimes hard for me to realize there is merely a change in the words and the goal.
The reason that Ashbrook took on the real work at a crucial time was his own true goals and because of me.
The space program is about to go down for the third time once again.
There is no Ashbrook there, and there is no unique redneck staffer with him.
At this point someone will point out that the space program is going private.
Lots o’ luck, gang.
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Today video is the most interactive way of communication on the internet world. And that is the reason that Youtube has taken second place in search engines after Google. So with the emergence of millions of videos the need for video marketing develops.But to get your videos noticed you've got to know how to make good videos, as this will get you more video views. Read on to find out how to do this.
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Drgon T, et al. (1991) ADP/ATP translocator is essential only for anaerobic growth of yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. FEBS Lett 289(2):159-62
Abstract: All three genes (AAC1, AAC2 and AAC3) encoding the mitochondrial ADP/ATP translocator, were inactivated in a haploid yeast strain by a gene disruption technique. The triple mutant was still able to grow on fermentable carbon sources but only in the presence of oxygen. Under aerobic conditions neither translocator-protein nor carrier-mediated transport was detected in all mutants in which the AAC2 gene was disrupted. It was further shown that a functional AAC genes product is essential only for anaerobic growth of Saccharomyces cerevisiae but not for growth under derepressed conditions. Under anaerobic conditions a non-detectable amount of AAC3 gene product is sufficient to ensure the cell growth and multiplication.
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Telstra's NBN deal a win-win: analysts
Summary: Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has managed a real, tangible win-win outcome with yesterday's deal between Telstra and the National Broadband Network Company (NBN Co), according to telecommunications analysts.
Yesterday, Telstra revealed it had signed a preliminary $11 billion deal with NBN Co that would see the telco migrate its telephone and broadband customers onto the fibre National Broadband Network, with its copper network to be shut down and no more broadband services to be provided over its hybrid-fibre coaxial cable network.
It was a day many thought might not ever come, but did: a day Telstra agreed on a way forward.
What was agreed was non-binding and ultimately up to Telstra's shareholders to approve. Though with a large jump in the company's share price today, analysts say there's hope in securing the votes the company needs when taking the deal to the market early next year.
Analysts also say it's an agreement likely to benefit the telecommunications giant in the long run.
"What a way to retire the copper network; somebody actually [leases] it from them. Unbelievable! How many other carriers around the world have somebody [pay for] a dying asset? That's a big positive for them as well," said Gartner analyst Geoff Johnson.
Johnson said Gartner's take-away from the announcement was that Telstra would now get a "war chest" of cash to go and market its retail service offering.
As for the government's side of the deal, he said it got the political response it wanted.
Apart from the potential $11 billion Telstra could get from the deal, it is also getting more certainty, according to Ovum analyst David Kennedy. The company now knows what compensation it will receive for retiring its copper network and has an idea of its migration strategy to the next-generation fibre network, he said.
"The benefits that Telstra has been able to achieve are considerable," Kennedy said.
The "big achievement" for the Federal Government, Kennedy said, was that "Telstra would not, under this agreement, be a competitor to the NBN Co in the future", which he said was a "very important" achievement.
Had Telstra decided it wanted to compete, Kennedy believed the telco could have "quite effectively" done that for a long time. "And what this means for NBN Co is that they won't have to face that scenario," he said.
As a result, NBN Co would now be able to break even "significantly earlier" if the deal goes through.
IDC analyst David Cannon said the deal would allow Telstra to consolidate its operational back-end. "There'll be huge cost savings and efficiencies from an operational perspective as the [old] networks get decommissioned," Cannon said.
"But at the same time, they've got a great price on what they're agreeing to do and they also get regulatory certainty in a long-term sense as a result as well, which was probably the biggest inhibitor of Telstra's share price."
He believed the deal would be "a great opportunity" for Telstra's share price to "get up to those highs that we saw about 10 years ago", but said this was a long way off yet.
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London: Rodents can mimic and learn complex calls and sounds, scientists have found.
Male mice, who use high-pitched love songs to woo females, also change their tune when there is competition around, the findings suggest.
This ability, known as local learning, had been thought to be limited to people, as well as some birds, dolphins, whales, bats, elephants and seals, the Daily Mail reported Thursday.
The finding could help shed light on autism and other conditions in characterised by problems in communication.
It was already known that male mice whistle or sing when trying to court females but it was assumed that their ultrasonic cries are produced instinctively, with little thought going into the process.
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Thessaloniki: Three brothers, ages 15, 7, and 5, have died in a northern Greek village as a result of a fire that burned down their grandparents' house.
The fire started from a wooden stove and quickly engulfed the house, whose roof collapsed on the two younger children.
The older brother, who tried to rescue his younger siblings, died of smoke inhalation, according to the firefighters who rushed to the scene early today. The children's grandparents and parents, as well as three other siblings, two girls and a boy, escaped. The father suffered slight burns.
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Obama is trying to make those things change -- approximately yesterday. Keying off of President Bush's "World War III" comment, he again blasted Clinton for voting for last month's Iran resolution. "When I am the nominee . . . my opponent won't be able to say that I am being inconsistent for flip-flopping," ABC's Sunlen Miller reports. His opponent "won't be able to say that I agree with using the war in Iraq to justify military action with a war in Iran."
And things could get sharper in the days ahead. Obama is beefing up his war room: John Del Cecato will head up his new "rapid response effort," Jeff Zeleny reports in The New York Times. According to an internal campaign memo sent to staff members, the post is being created "to help push back on attacks from the media and our friends in the rival campaigns."
The Boston Globe's Scott Helman sums up the maneuverings: "The leading Democratic presidential contenders are sharpening their strategies, realigning staff, and refining their messages as they position themselves to emerge as the party's nominee," he writes. This piece of (very wishful) thinking from Edwards adviser Joe Trippi: "We have to make our case that the choice in this race is not between Clinton and Obama, it's between Clinton and Edwards, and make that choice very clear."
With apologies to the good Mr. Trippi, here's a comparison that Obama will take any day: "Proposal by proposal, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama are constructing policy agendas that present their party with mirror-image choices," Ron Brownstein writes in the Los Angeles Times. "On domestic policy, Obama has shown a much greater willingness than Clinton to challenge liberal orthodoxy and the powerful Democratic interest groups that defend it. On national security, though, Clinton has pushed against the party's left-of-center consensus while Obama has embraced it. One candidate offers conformity at home and apostasy abroad; the other, the opposite."
Back on the congressional front, the big S-CHIP vote came and went as expected -- except one particular sound bite that wasn't exactly what House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., had in mind. (Let's guess that Rep. Pete Stark, D-Calif., won't be tapped for the Democratic radio address any time soon.)
Stark created a stir -- and woke up the GOP "rapid response efforts" -- with this remark on the House floor: "You don't have money to fund the war or children. But you're going to spend it to blow up innocent people if we can get enough kids to grow old enough for you to send to Iraq to get their heads blown off for the President's amusement."
It was another distraction in a rough week for Democratic congressional leadership, coming on top of the "genocide" resolution that now appears firmly shelved. Democrats may see some political up-side in having the president discover fiscal conservatism on healthcare for poor children, but the GOP base held for at least one more day.
"Despite a multimillion-dollar advertising campaign and intense lobbying by children's advocates, supporters of the bill were unable to convert a single House Republican who voted against the bill last month," Robert Pear and Sheryl Gay Stolberg report in The New York Times. "For now, the insurance vote stands as the latest example of how Mr. Bush can still get his way on Capitol Hill."
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of this year and removing the rest of the 33,000 u.s. search wars from afghanistan by the end of the summer in 2012. these reductions are part of an ongoing process of transitioning increasing responsibility for afghanistan security, the afghan security forces, which by 2014 would have leader was on stability for security throughout the country. the chorus which the company says provides a strategy for success in afghanistan. the afghan security forces have increased by almost 100,000 since the president announced the surge in december december 2009.afghan army will expand by another 70,000 security forces by the time all of the u.s. surge forces are brought home by september of 2012. the growing capabilities of the afghan security forces provide the afghan people would want melter of afghan elders have asked eunice and told me that they want the most, which is the ability to secure their own country themselves. having ask you forces in the lead puts the lie to the taliban propaganda that international forces are there to occupy afghanistan. the afghans taken over their own security is the
in afghanistan. the pentagon says funds from a $2.1 billion trucking contract to get supplies to american troops were funneled to the militants. a pentagon spokesman says a new contract will be awarded and applicants will be more thoroughly vetted. >>> we have an update tonight on the u.s. government law enforcement initiative that allowed guns to fall into the hands of mexican criminals. we have an exclusive report on some of the buyers in operation fast and furious. >> it's a lot of guns. that was the first thing that came into mind. >> this attorney represents manuel acosta, the man accused of recruiting 19 straw buyers later indicted for smuggling guns to mexico. >> they walk into a store, fill out a form, they buy a couple of rifles and walk out and give it to the guy. he gives them a few hundred bucks. >> to purchase a gun every buyer fills out this form. it asks, have you ever been indicted for a felony, been charged with a crime that allows for a year in jail? are you subject to a restraining order? the gun stores forwards that to the fbi, which then approves, denies or delays the purcha
the threat of default or downgrade. >> ron insana there. meanwhile, u.s. troops in afghanistan are worried they may not get paid because of this debt showdown in washington. gener good saturday morning to you, atia. so what was this meeting with the troops like? >> reporter: good morning, alex. the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, admiral mullen, made his way down to the southern part of afghanistan, the most volatile part in the country. his number one question from the soldiers, airmen, sailors and marines wasn't necessarily about the military strategy but it was, will we get paid. and his response was, i actually don't know the answer to that question. i have confidence that at some point in time whatever compensation you are owed you will be given. obviously the americans here in afghanistan, very worried about what's going on in washington. many of these men and women haven't seen their families for several months. many won't see them for a full year and they're wondering if those family members are going to be getting those paychecks. they're risking their lives here in afghani
be the most egregious example to date of widespread corruption in afghanistan. american taxpayer money, hundreds of millions of dollars, ending up in the hands of the taliban. a year-long u.s. military task force discovered that the money was siphoned from a $2 billion transportation contract to provide most of the supplies to american troops. a source with knowledge of the investigation has briefed cnn about how it all went down. we are joined now from the afghan capital, kabul. just tell us briefly, how did this happen? >> reporter: this is coming from an internal report, but basically what happened was trucking companies subcontracted out to local entities here, who then in turn subcontracted out to even more local providers. what happened was it turns out that some of those local, more local firms actually had some ties to nefarious elements, including the taliban. what we see here is a bulk of the transportation costs being filtered through some of these trucking companies and part of that money is actually ending up in the hands of the very individuals who are fighting nato force
trillion of cuts savings from leaving afghanistan and iraq is just not credible. we don't know what the obstacles are going to be in afghanistan and possibly iraq. we also don't know what we might have to do in the middle east going forward. afghanistan is not settled, mr. president, and we have to have a certain level of stability on the ground in afghanistan or we will have wasted the billions that we have already spent and the lives of our military personnel in afghanistan because it will go back to the way it was before, a center for terrorism that will comeo our country or can come to our country. it did once already and we have been over there to try to wipe out al qaeda and the taliban, which has been in league with al qaeda. we have been over there losing american lives and spending american taxpayer dollars to protect our country from another 9/11. to say that we're going to c $1 trillion in the future over the next ten years when we aren't placing the emphasis on what are the conditions on the ground is not sound policy and it's certainly not sound national security policy
include the involvement by the norwegian military in actions in afghanistan. there are norwegian soldiers there, there is an al-qaeda official from the northern part of iraq that sought sanctuary in norway and perhaps even more disturbing is the report that just in the past year one of the main newspapers of norway which does have offices in that central area of oslo they, too, printed as other newspapers did in europe these cartoons of the prophet mohamed of the muslim faith, and as we all know, that has been a major bone of contention. this is what we're following right now, bill. bill: all right, greg, thank you. that tangled wreckage of a car might be a precious clue in all of this, and it might be the clue or not. it's not clear what threats were leveled against the government or prime minister, but we're working through all that. it is breaking news in oslo, norway, here on america's "amers newsroom." patti ann: brian terry was gunned down with a weapon the feds were supposed to be tracking, and terry's cousin gave some emotional testimony on capitol hill. now we're gearing up for r
soldiers fighting in afghanistan and war. people seem to forget that so i would not say that any prime minister would think "the sun" is not fighting for the right people n. fact, qu"the sun" continues to fight for the right people. >> how often will any of those prime ministers ask you as either editor or chief executive, how often would they ever ask you not to publish a story? would they sort of ask you to hide the story? would that happen? >> i can't remember an occasion where a prime minister asked us to not run a story. >> that's not a politicians general that would happen? >> no. i would say that i can remember many occasions when a cabinet minister or politician or a prime minister was very unhappy at the stories we were running. not that they pled directly for it not to run. as long as the story was true and accurate or was part of our campaign, are then there's no reason for a prime minister -- i mean, that's exactly why we have a free press. the. >> this is my final question. there's a feeling that in some way that you had a close relationship with the prime minister. the cu
-in-law in afghanistan and my sister works as physical therapist with a young man who just lost his leg last year in iraq. now if a man can give his legs up for this country, why can't the wealthy give up some of the tax loopholes, spread a little bit of this around. it is unbelievable the fact -- we don't even have to raise taxes on anybody. just make them pay their taxes. a lot of republicans and small businesses pay their taxes but the super rich don't. and i don't think people understand the kind of tax loophole that is are in shelters. host: we're moving on to foster in centerville, georgia, on our line for democrats. go ahead. caller: hi. how are you doing? i'm just wondering now, now we actually elected people to go to congress to balance the budget and pay the bills but do they realize instead of making an amendment, do they already have the authority to pay the bills? host: well now have you let your representative or senator know how you feel about this? caller: we certainly have. me and my girlfriend got together and we got up a sheet with all the republicans representatives. we called all the
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students and faculty members who want to improve their education or career. >>> it is the defense's turn now in the misconduct trial of the anne arundel county executive john leopold accused of using his detail to make sexual encounters and keep tabs on his political enemies. today the judge dropped one of the five charges against him because the state did not meet its burden of proof. >>> hundreds of thousands of pro life demonstrators packed onto the national mall on d.c., their goal to get the supreme court to overturn the historic decision in honor of what they call abortion's 55 million victims. >> reporter: undaunted by bitterly cold temperatures and of a snow forecast pro life marchers came to washington as they have for four decades determined to instill a culture of life in a nation that they say has seen 55 million abortions since the landmark decision row v wade was handed down. >> can a nation endure that does not respect the sanctity of life? >> reporter: the question is backed by stunning numbers. the pro choice institute finds four in 10 unintended pregnancies in the u.s
liberal education system as well as a very liberal media in general. my expectation with kids coming out of high school or college this sort of seem to think the government just passed the money and gives it out. if they don't seem to realize until much later in life that they're taking my money and giving it out. so i think it's an educational problem, much deeper than whether a candidate is running in a particular town. thanks for c-span. host: peter, thanks for the call. guest: conservatives have a lot of work to do in the media and in education. the media situation is a lot more balanced than 20 years ago or 30 years ago. a couple of major newspapers and magazines have collapsed. young people can access a ton of points of view and a lot of data and information and that is a healthy thing. people complain about the internet and all of these blogs and what happened to the good old days when you had serious editors manning the phones? i think the current situation is much healthier for a vigorous democracy and there's a lot of good stuff out there. if we have a piece on our website, a w
educate the public of the complexities of the british tax code, and does the public really care about those intricacies? probably not. so, on the one hand, by educating the public, you look defensive. by not educating them, then you're almost encouraging them to think that you are a big, greedy, terrible company trying to exploit your workers. it's a very difficult thing to play. >> big numbers expected later on from starbucks. >> aaron, thank you, thank you. do stay with us. there's much more to come here on "g.m.t." our science correspondent explains why biscuits provide a clue to the link between dogs and their canine ancestors. >> now, to the controversial construction of winter in airland, as they're being built to power homes in the u.k. there are combines the turbines stretching hundreds of feet into the air could damage the irish countryside. our environment correspondent, matt mcgrath, reports now from the irish republic. >> one shining light in ireland's economic gloom is green energy, especially wind, where investment is booming all across the landscape. today's deal is par
is in the planning stage but not approved by pentagon, the white house or niger. chicago educators learne learnee hard way. be absolutely sure about the length you send in e-mail to parents. plus, the tale of two marches and how they were covered or not covered in the media. the grapevine is next. >> bret: fox news alert. senate passed $51 billion relief bill for victims of super storm sandy. the measure passed the house two weeks ago. critics were unhappy there were no off-setting spending cuts. supporters have been pushing relief bill for weeks. the final bill vote 62-36. now -- ♪ ♪ >> bret: after that music, fresh pickings from the political grapevine. zero. that is the amount of time given to coverage of the hundreds of thousands strong marm for life. marking the 40th anniversary of the roe v. wade decision by cbs and abc evening news show friday. stories that did make the cut, hillary clinton's glasses. and the subway foot-long sub that is only 11 inches long. however, both networks did cover the other march in d.c., the pro-gun control event saturday which cbs said numbered close to 1,0
jobs and we want education and we want health care and immigration was number five or number six, but what they sense is that we don't welcome them and we have to be the party that celebrates immigration. every time the president talks about business, there's always a but in the sentence. when you hear some republicans talk about immigration, there is always a but in the sentence. people sense that, they have a gut feel for that. we've got to make people feel welcome. >> so just kind of going around the table. is the problem the messengers? is the problem the message? is the problem policy? >> i think it's a combination. the core principles we have are right and part of the problem is exactly what the secretary is talking about in terms of relevance. part of relevance, not only means how you talk about it, where you're willing to go. for too long too many republican candidates only went to certain parts of america to talk about their message. we have a message for immigrants and message for small business owners and message for college kids just coming out of college. it's about
. >> oh sure. it's laughable. it's absurd. this is an extraordinaryily smart, well-educated man. they lead the nation's largest archdiocese, and these are shrewd people. they think long and hard about clever ways to protect the predators and enup endanger kids. even a teenager, even a high school drop out knows if you suspect a crime you call the police. that's especially true if you know about the crime. it's especially true if the victims are children. it's especially true if the crime is likely to be repeated. cardinal mahony knows this. he's a social worker by training and background, for heaven's sake. there is nothing naive about the men who hid these crimes for decades. >> john: these people who came forward, i won't call them victims but survivors we've seen pay-outs by the church, do you think this deception and secrecy is still a part of the church's culture today? >> i have to say sadly it very much is. i know that's hard for people to understand but it's crucial to remember, john, that this is a monarchy. as much as this scandal has tarnished the hierarchy the men at the top of
five? top three? caller code jobs, education, and for the end of the war. -- caller: jobs, education, for the war to end. host: let's hear the president speaking on the economy, social security, and medicare. caller: we the people -- [video clip] >> many barely make it. we believe that america's prosperity must rest upon the broad shoulders of a rising middle class. we know that america thrives when every person confined independence. on the wages of honest labor, liberating families from the brink of hardship. we are true to our creed, when a little girl born into bleakest poverty has the same chances to succeed as anyone else because she is an american, free and equal, not just in the eyes of god, but in our own eyes. we the people still believe that every citizen deserves a measure of security and dignity. we must make the hard choices to reduce the cost of health care and reduce the size of our deficits. but we reject the belief that america must choose between caring for the generation that built this country and investing in the generation that will build its future. [applause]
and pay higher wages and improving education and job training so that more people can get the skills that businesses are looking for. it means reforming our immigration system and keeping our children safe from the menace of gun violence. and it means bringing down our deficit in a balanced way by making necessary reforms and asking every american to pay their fair share. >> meanwhile, republicans stressing their agenda today as well. cutting spending. >> our nation's total debt is now larger than our entire economy. this means that every man, woman and child owes a $53,000 share of this debt. that level of spending is unsustainable. a major credit rating agency has already downgraded our nation's credit once. and if we don't start making some real progress on spending reforms, more downgrades are likely in the near future. >> about eight minutes past the hour now. live look this is happening in washington, d.c. as we speak. this is happening really across the country. one of the main ones, this is a rally for gun control taking place in washington, d.c. people there are rallying for
they have in common? they fit the demographics of the obama coalition. how did he win? with college-educated women. with younger voters. with nonwhite voters. he's embracing if you will not only the politics but the policy priorities of his coalition. what else do they have in common? they put pressure, like a sharp thumb, on some key points in a republican coalition that this white house, frankly, thinks is ageing, is increasingly white and is fractured. >> and you're saying you think there's no doubt that that is part of this equation? >> without a doubt. if you heard speaker john boehner just the other day after the inaugural address saying the president is trying to annihilate the republican party. that's a strong word. but does this president see an opportunity? i'd be interested in the congresswoman's opinion. you can't find many democrats who think that president obama worries about the democratic party, 10, 15, 20 years down the road. but you will find a lot of democrats who say if you can turn the obama coalition into a democratic coalition, the democrats will have built in on the n
gains ahead of higher federal coxs. even so the budget holds items but increased education spenting. >> fiscal discipline is not the enemy of our good intentions but the basis for realizing them. it is cruel to lead people on by expanding good programs only to cut them back when the funding disappears. this is not progress. it is not even fro greprogressi. it is an illusion. boom and bust serves no one. we're not going back there. >> however, the governor hasn't said how he will pay for medicare expansion under obama care. he has proposed pushing that cost on to counties. >> i'm sure that would be unpopular with some counties. but nonetheless. jane, thank you very much. as the market rides,er with are looking inside several sectors, housing stocks in particular. and you will never guess who wants it buy a boeing 787 dreamlineer. it is a pretty common name. we will get it to you when we come back. ♪ [ male announcer ] some day, your life will flash before your eyes. make it worth watching. introducing the 2013 lexus ls. an entirely new pursuit. nasdaq is the lagger, of course becau
the signs when a woman comes in who has had a history of violence, but in educating women of empowering them. >> pelley: jon, thanks very much. catholic schools all over the country have been closing because of financial problems. the new york archdiocese said yesterday it is closing 22 elementary schools, including this one: blessed sacrament in the bronx, whose alumni include supreme court justice sonia sotomayor. cbs news' "60 minutes" was there when she urged students to shoot for the moon in their careers. from the heavens to the deep blue sea, we learned today that scientists have captured for the very first time images of the mysterious giant squid. have a look at this. marine biologists found it in its natural habitat off the coast of japan. it's 26 feet long. we're going to have more on this discovery on the broadcast tomorrow night. life may be getting a whole lot better for these chimps. we'll tell you why in a minute. we're all having such a great year in the gulf we've decided to put aside our rivalry. 'cause all our states are great. and now is when the gulf gets even better. t
. did you know that? i did. somebody put it in the mail bag. we are all about education. taft will become the fifth president in the nats president race. he will join them tomorrow. tomorrow they will make that announcement official. william h. taft. >> you saw bradley beale block that shot. we should nickname him the publisher. he sends out rejection notices. >> i like that. can i use that next time? >> you >>> need a good laugh? check this out, a florida reporter learning the hard way. do not turn your back on a goat. she's at the county fair working on a story about kids that raise goats. that's when one of the animals decided to send a message. watch it again. she takes the whole thing in stride, laughs it off, and later on, somebody said how is that goat doing? he was delicious. >> she has an attitude right there. >> that's our broadcast. we are going home for the weekend. how about you? >> have an awesome one. we'll see you back here on monday.
at our web site at myfoxdc.com. >> we have one other school closing to pass along. west education campus is closed because of a power outage. all other d.c. schools are open. may i say also, you said a brush with old man winter, we met him one day. you don't want to see him that often. >> i heard he's a little grumpy. >> once was plenty, wasn't it? snow on the way. not going to be a big deal. it will be enough to cause issues for your afternoon commute. morning commute will be fine. cold out there. later this afternoon the snow moves in, probably 2:00, 3:00. 20 at reagan national. it's cold. most of the region in the teens. dulles and bwi marshall, 16 degrees to start your day. winter weather advisory for the areas in purple 2:00 to 9:00 tonight. primary concern is we'll have snow falling in the evening rush hour, and because of that, this winter weather advisory. looking at the radar, another clipper system moving in from the west. you can see that snow in ohio and indiana. it's a quick mover. not a lot of moisture. but everything that falls will fall as snow and will fall into a cold a
for the center of college affordability and productivity shows nearly half of all college-educated workers are in jobs they're overqualified for. for example, one percent of taxi drivers in 1970 had a bachelor's degree. compare that to 15% in 2010. along the same lines, 5% of retail sales clerks had a bachelor's degree. in 2010 that number rose to 25%. the problem of course, there are more than double the amount of college-educated americans than there are jobs that require a college degree. then you have the student debt crisis. lori: there you have our overall labor crisis. melissa: yeah. it was, of course, there was a time when getting a college degree guaranteed you had a great white-collar job, maybe with a pension down the road. that was the key to elevating yourself in society. now it is so easy to get college degree and so many online schools and devalued the degree. lori: another issue how people are trained and whether or not they can be retrained into open jobs. a lot to chew on. melissa: coming up tonight on "money", paul king, corporate director of talent at caesar's entertain
. >> exactly. we need to educate that to the american people because they don't understand. they think that the course of ruling against president obama, the first black president. lou: we're going to have to leave it there. we will continue next week. thank you so much. up next, one of the nastiest flues seasons on record. an update for you on what has turned out to be a deadly outbreak next. coming up next week, former u.s. ambassador to the united nations, john bolton, economist and a best-selling author, former fed vice chairman joins us. and author, radio talk-show host monica crowley among our guests. please be with us next week. we love hearing from you. embarr. [ designer ] enough of just covering up my moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. i decided enough is enough. ♪ [ spa lady ] i started enbrel. it's clinically proven to provide clearer skin. [ rv guy ] enbrel may not work for everyone -- and may not clear you completely, but for many, it gets skin clearer fast, within 2 months, and keeps it clearer through 6 months. [ male announcer ] enbrel may lower your ability to fig
these republican ideas of job creation, reform and higher education and reducing the american debt, we're the ones talking about that, young people, please vote for us. we have got to do a better job with it. >> i think part of the problem is that people sense or they think that if you're a republican, you believe in 15 p different things, but it's like a chinese menu, but all those things you believe in, and it's not true. i know pro-life republicans, i know pro choice republicans. >> let's remember that the gop was started on ending slay ini. when it comes to immigration, we are not doing our job on a federal level. we have created a problem that no one in washington wants to address and they have to address. >> thank you all very much for joining us. >>> up next, the postal service is trying to fix a $25 million a day loss a penny at a time. -oh! -oh! oh! oh! ♪ what do you know? oh! ♪ bacon? -oh! -oh! oh! [ female announcer ] with 40 delicious progresso soups at 100 calories or less, there are plenty of reasons people are saying "progress-oh!" share your story for a chance to win a progres
the generational cycle of poverty is education, that is the golden ticket out of poverty. and some people just renews to have any responsibility. we keep trying to put it all on our schools or put it all on our teachers. we can't do that. jaime: let me let dr. roberts in who has over seen the process of education in two states, not tennessee. what do you think? >> i think first of all the education arena gives us our title one parenting program, and we need to look at programs that are aligning themselves with the curriculum that are being taught. we all want our parents to help their children, it's a cry for every superintendent in this country. but the question is how do we do this? i would say that we need to look at programs that we had a head start program whereby parent participation was required. we need to look at how we going to require these parents to train them to help their children, because if we can train the parents how to help their children we have demonstrated, parents go on to get ged's, they go on to get better, so that i would say to him, look at the program that is being
have not been able to make the proper investment to make sure that the kids are educated for the future. and the private sector drop comes in construction and again we know that need to be building the infrastructure to make america successful for the future and the numbers speak a lot about the weakness in the labor market and especially the weakness in the public sector where we know that we need teachers, we know that we need policemen and we need firefighters. >> correct. it's interesting that you point to the fact that people are out of work and that may be part of the reason you're seeing declining numbers but the professor of the article you're in se should be looking to unions but they're not. so given your point about so many people being out of work, the theory is that they should be looking to unions at a time of insecurity, especially and a lot of places like michigan, for example, and wisconsin, where we know unions believe they've been under attack. >> unions have been under attack and that's part of the difficulty in getting union membership up. but unions have been very
to have you in congress and, captain, thank you for coming on the show and educating us here. we'd love to have you back. >>> up next, senator dianne feinstein introduced a ban on assault weapons today. she did it again. she did it well the first time and succeeded the first time. this is "hardball," the place for politics. what are you doing? nothing. are you stealing our daughter's school supplies and taking them to work? no, i was just looking for my stapler and my... this thing. i save money by using fedex ground and buy my own supplies. that's a great idea. i'm going to go... we got clients in today. [ male announcer ] save on ground shipping at fedex office. >>> battleground texas? that's the goal of democrats who want to turn deep red texas blue. politico is reporting democrats are launching a campaign to make the lone star state more xef tiff politically. texas hasn't voted for a democrat for praf since '76. the one thing they have working in their favor is demographics. texas is 44% white, 38% hispanic, 12% black, and 4% asian. they voted for carter in '76, not hump ri. making
of organizing and even in the white house getting out there almost like a campaign and educating the american people on really telling them what we're trying to do, not talking away the rights of someone to own a gun. this past week we had several hearings, and we had gun owners. we had hunters. we had sportsmen. they agreed we don't need the large magazines -- we don't need the assault weapons, and i think most nra members, the polls show that they believe something has to be done and they stick with us an awful lot. basically we're dealing with the nra that is trying to scare the members of congress. that's been for years. many of them have said to me they would love to vote where me, but they don't want to lose their election with b it. we have to show them the american people will stand behind them, their constituents will stand behind them. >> good luck with the march today. democrats link first in the filibuster fight. the politico briefing next right here on "andrea mitchell reports." twins. i didn't see them coming. i have obligations. cute obligations, but obligations. i need to reth
to $1,000. >> and we're just in your neighborhood trying to educate residents about composting and recycling. >> reporter: teams of workers from the city are knocking on doors of residents who, unbeknownst to them, have had their garbage cans inspected by auditors early in the morning. on the evening we followed along, outreach workers were visiting homes which had put items in the wrong bins. >> we've noticed there's been a lot of confusion about what goes in what bin, and so i'm here to answer any questions. >> i think were good with recycling, but i guess could you give me a rundown on what goes in composting? >> if it was once alive-- soiled food-- it is compostable. >> reporter: so far, only warnings have been given out; no fines have been imposed yet. and city officials say the move toward zero waste is catching on. san francisco's 80-year-old private garbage company, which recently invented a new name for itself-- "recology"-- has been investing in recycling and composting facilities, and trying to change san franciscans' perceptions of their garbage. >> where some see g
. >> it means encouraging businesses to create more jobs and improve education and job training to get skills businesses are looking for. reforming our immigration system and keeping our children safe from the menace of gun violence. and it means bringing down our deficit in a balanced way by making necessary reforms and asking every american to pay their fair share. i'm honored and humbled to continue to serve as your president, and i'm more hopeful than ever that four years from now with your help, this country will be prosperous, more open and more committed to the principles on which we were founded. >> meanwhile, republican governor bob mcdonnell of virginia opposes a gop ideas to replace the state's winner take all method of allocating presidential votes with one that awards votes based on congressional districts. under such a system, president obama would have lost the system to mitt romney, despite winning the popular vote. joining me now, ed o'keefe and amy parmes. >> good morning, alex. >> we heard the president lust a few things he wants to get in the second term. is there time for
mental health experts are testifying before the senate health education, labor and pensions committee. they're looking at ways to identify troubled people and to get them some help they need before there's another shooting. the early intervention is part of the obama administration recommendation to help stop gun violence. meanwhile, california senator dianne feinstein is introducing a bill to ban assault weapons. >> i remain horrified by the mass murder committed at sandy hook elementary school in newtown, connecticut. and particularly grateful that we have both senators here and the house member representing that community. i'm also incensed that our weak gun laws allow these mass killings to be carried out again and again and again in our country. weapons designed originally for the military to kill large numbers of people in close combat. >> the bill would ban the sale of military-style assault weapons including certain rifles, handguns, and shotguns. it would also ban the large capacity ammunition magazines that hold more than ten rounds. >>> today vice president joe biden will a
at the tacoma education campus painted these wonderful paintings, sort of inspired by the jacob lawrence migration series. it's really nice that fifth graders get their art hanging next to monet, georgia o'keefe. how cool is that? >> very thrilling. now a super bowl score card for kids. >> that's right. we take a look at the two teams, the 49ers and the ravens, and there's an interesting story about colin kaepernick, the sensational quarterback for the 49ers. lots of kids are encouraged to specialize in sports early on. he actually played three sports in high school and was probably a better baseball player. so kids don't have to -- they can play a vast array of sports, even as far as high school and still be a star. >> good to hear that. all right. tracy grant, thanks as always. for fun family activities, visit nbcwashington.com or washingtonpost.com. click on kids post. that is kids post on tv this week. >>> and right now it is five minutes until 10:00. arlington drivers, a big heads up for you. the traffic alert that may slow down your commute in the days, weeks, and months to come. >
-- this it isn't zero sum. it's the kind of programs we need in early childhood, in recreation, education, the money has to come from somewhere, it has to come from that investment. >> reporter: the former mayor says the city needs to remain diverse economically and socially. he recounted how he rides the bus every day. >> then i heard one lady on the bus say, well, no, he wouldn't be on the bus with us poor people. and it made me feel great, i am on the bus, you know, and we're all in this city together. >> reporter: in the district, tom sherwood, news 4. >>> right now, the snow's moving out of our area, but the roads out there are still pretty slick in places. here's a look at conditions in landover, maryland, where a light dusting was still falling a few moments ago. now let's go to storm team 4 chief meteorologist doug kammerer. it happened in the time frame you predicted. >> yeah, talking about that 2:00 start time for the last three hours or so. and that's exactly what we're seeing right now. it moving out of the district, right around 6:00, still a couple of snow showers to come th
's presidency. i was listening to one of the speakers. they seem educated. it is imperative that obama touches on more than one issue, rather it is gun control, abortion, etc. in regard to gun control, i live in arizona now. there is not an issue with getting a gun. i do not understand why we are making an attempt to take guns post the newtown issue. if it is a thing of mental health, why are we not addressing that? ronald reagan closed all of the mental health institutions. why aren't we looking into reestablishing them? versus taking one of our basic civil liberties away. guest: absolutely a central aspect to this -- both parties agree in the case of these high- profile shootings that sometimes the problem is with the state of the shooter. we saw that in colorado. in and he, you look back on these instances and it turns out there were warning lines and that the mental health system, the educational system did not have any way of taking these people in and channeling them in some kind of help for themselves. how do you deal with that? how do you fund these programs? all of those are complicat
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dollars for education. it's the same kind of problem. we're not good at figuring out what alternatives are and as a result libya destabilized and a lot of the arms that went into libya, a lot of the forces that were militarized flowed not just into mali and algeria but across a huge chunk of northwest africa. as a result you see a huge destabilization that's affect in turn little tunisia in between algeria and libya, it has affected egypt. there is a whole section of africa that is very vulnerable to jihadist extremists. >> you know, i think that's what important here is that while it may have been unintended that this would empower a wide range of militarized forces, it's not only, quote, jihadists but a lot of people with a lot of guns. but it was not unanticipated. it was talked about widely. it was anticipated that it would happen more inside libya rather than over libya's borders, through algeria into mali but it was certainly anticipated this was exactly what was going to go on. by the time of the intervention, we should not forget inside libya, libya was an ally of the united st
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applauding there, and he will talk about education, affordable scare act and how it affects california. jobs climate change, transportation, and high-speed rail. this your he does not have to talk about the huge budget deficit as in the past but he will talk about the success we have had or he has had in the legislature in cutting that deficit. we will go back do this in just a moment the right new, we will look at the weather. >> mike? >> thank you very much. live doppler 7 hd is showing the system to the south weakening but make a move to the north especially more on saturday, sunday, and monday. sue? >> a couple of incidents. in san jose, an accident in the second lane from the left and westbound 80, an accident in the left lane in the clearing phases. 85, nobody, at fremont avenue an injury accident there. eric? >> thank you very much. back to a live picture of the assembly changer. the speaker perez. and former san francisco mayor. >> the attorney general harris. secretary of state. >> you should know, since we are carrying the governor's state of
. at the same time the school district has the opportunity to encourage and also educate parents on safe keeping of their guns. that's what they are trying to do is raise the consciousness of people and let them know that anyone can be impacted by this at all. the 12-year-old who was killed by another 12-year-old, grandpa left the gun out. >> i understand certainly. it's a tragic situation and we will be following the story to see how far it goes to see if you have the support you need to push it through in your community. the state senator, thank you very much. >> new jersey mayor corey booker has a new project. it's actually a jewelry line and what this is all made of is that's the strange thing about the story. we will explain that, next. i tried weight loss plans... but their shakes aren't always made for people with diabetes. that's why there's glucerna hunger smart shakes. they have carb steady, with carbs that digest slowly to help minimize blood sugar spikes. and they have six grams of sugars. with fifteen grams of protein to help manage hunger... look who's getting smart about her weigh
, health care or education, reducing the deficit or addressing climate change. dennis is respected by leaders across our government. add it all up, and i think he's spent most of the past four years leading interagency meetings, hearing people out, listening to them, forging consensus. and then making sure that our policies are implemented and that everybody's held accountable. and he always holds himself accountable nurse and foremost. -- first and foremost. and it's no easy task. but through it all dennis does it with class and integrity and thoughtfulness for other people's point of views. he's the consummate public servant, he plays it straight, and that's the kind of teamwork that i want in the white house. now, time and again i've relied on dennis to help many our outreach to the american people as well including immigrant and minority communities and faith communities. dennis is a man of deep faith. he understands that in the end our policies and our programs are measured in the concrete differences that they make in the lives of our fellow human beings. and in the values th
that -- since you're on education, can i slip in he proposed the education cuts while signing the louisiana academic freedom act which lets public schoolteachers discuss creationism in science class? >> caller: oh, amen! oh don't even get me started. >> john: he doesn't want the party to be stupid. >> caller: yes sir. we just had on the ballot, we had like seven or eight amendments and on the the ballot was on there to carry a gun anywhere like at my daughter's pta meeting we got people packing in the back. why do you need a gun in a school? explain that to me. >> john: all of the socialism. there is a lot of socialism in public schools. you gotta be careful. it might catch. >> john: all of the churches this week have on their billboards, there were no guns in school when there was prayer in school. i don't know which schools they've been to but every pta meeting we have a prayer. the kids are not allowed to sing pop songs in their choir. a lot of them are hymns. i'm sorry that i'm yelling. i'm worked up. >> john: can i say every time we have a church say when there was god in school, there
benefits and put them toward his education because he didn't need them for food. this is a guy who crawled over other people to get in the lifeboat and is kicking hands off the side. and then when he is called out for -- for the very words he used, he says the president is presenting a strawman argument. then what do we have today? this is the guy. these are the constitutionalists, the deficit hawks, the people who believe it is very important that we deal with the real stories -- the response to the president's inauguration -- on fox where is mention of the deficit, the despair and helplessness. it was mentioned by humor and medgar evers widow and every other person. god forbid the president's speech should be hopeful and point genuinely that america is going to survive and we have reason to be hopeful. >> that's right. >> hal: but in this -- here's paul ryan getting called out. all of these guys on the right saying where's the real -- where is it? so what's the first act of the house that they're going to do today? what's the big bill that's going through? punting the debt ceiling. a vot
193. we will be right back. >> if we had the state's superintendent for the state board of education which approves and as aand list waivers. >> then there is a congress which passes laws such as no doubt left behinchild left behid >> watching today's winners and losers on wall street with our financial expert brought black. taking a look at the state of california the controversy with phil michelson. a lot of states are trying to steal our business. >> we had an off their debate about filled mickelson. >> california state income tax went up on proposition 30. then you add security, a disability, federal taxes. and other payroll taxes. intel has more employes in oregon and california. apple opened up a new campus in texas. these are people that have more to the bay area that are leaving. this will hurt because proposition 13 is stinging people in california. >> i and i was in tell you when i retire i am leaving the state. >> you cannot count sales tax at 10 percent. >> if you live in oregon you did not pay sales tax. i count celotex. >> you have to live in oregon. >> you can live in
an educational system that really works for all children. these are constant themes, entrepreneurship is a very strong value within our hispanic community. >> there are some other things that are not, can i show the poll, because i think you're right, i think the things you've ticked off there's no question but on some other things you might say are core to the gop message, i think you're going to have a challenge, for example, taxes, right, when you poll people, you see 69% say they favor raising the tax rate on people $250,000 and higher and i think that was obviously a big sticking point for people in the gop, also if you take a look at, there was a question reduce government programs for people like you, 48%, nearly half people and more than those who favored it said no, they would oppose reducing government programs and obviously lots of conversations with the gop about the size of government, so does that mean that you take the assessment and then you change policy potentially? >> no, i don't think you change principles but i think you change the conversation. we shouldn't be talking abou
are sure to come up with programs that help people in need, food nutrition, head start, education and the like. that's a good start. we have to reach in to the political system so when people accumulate wealth that lets them accumulate political influence which lets them determine policy in a way that allows them to accumulate more wealth and influence. it is a vicious circle in a snowball effect. >> what you are saying is poor people don't have a voice. >> yeah, it is. citizens united is the example of how to do things correctly but it is a thing where poor people can help shape public policy. that's a long-term solution. now we have earned income tax credits, the tax hike on the wealthiest americans to simply pre-clinton or clinton levels and spending holding the line on those. >> it was a good start and you said you were giddy to hear the president talking about poverty and the poor in country. maybe we will see what happens the next couple of years. love to talk to you down the road. >> thank you. >> close to the top of the hour and a new wide-ranging interview with president
to propose an overhaul of funding for higher education. >>> a water main break is causing road damage and some inconvenience this morning in marin county. it started just after 2 a.m. near sir francis drake in greenbrae. there's been some buckling at an intersection. but so far they are still working on it. 14 homes are without water service until midafternoon as crews work on that broken line. >>> and oakland police have detained two people in connection with a fire at a vacant victorian on harrison street. the two were rescued from the roof of that burning home yesterday. according to the owner, the vacant property is known to house squatters. some 60 firefighters needed three hours to put it out. traffic and weather coming up right after the break. stay right there. [ male announcer ] a price you can definitely count on, for two whole years. from at&t. [ female announcer ] a great price for a great triple-play bundle. [ male announcer ] call now. bundles with u-verse tv, internet and home phone start at $89 a month. now get the same great p
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On The Outside, Looking In
Democrats And Republicans Are Losers Again, In Their Own Ways
November 13, 1988|By Jon Margolis.
That credibility is especially important in the South, where the Democrats won zero electoral votes for the second straight election, something they cannot continue if they are to elect a president.
``You can`t concede the whole South and expect to win,`` said Divall.
Unfortunately for the Democrats, they are likely to spend more of their time in the next few weeks blaming each other for the loss and battling each other over internal-and esoteric-matters than in trying to figure out how to win back the allegiance of Southern voters.
A squabble over the party chairmanship is likely unless Paul Kirk agrees to serve another term. If he does not, there could be a battle between Jesse Jackson, whose one-time campaign manager is already seeking the chairmanship, and the rest of the party. The rest of the party would be certain to win, but the fight could be messy.
Whether or not the confrontation comes over the chairmanship, Jackson remains a Democratic dilemma because he is a hero to blacks, the most faithful Democratic voters, and anathema to almost everyone else because of his policies and his tactics.
The Democrats, because they are Democrats, also will argue over whether they should change their delegate selection rules and schedule, with some party leaders saying the present system discourages some contenders and all but guarantees nomination of a candidate too liberal to win the general election.
The problems of the winning party may be even more troubling than the problems of the losers, though they are certainly more welcome.
Having won the election, the Republicans now have to govern the country, manage the economy and get along with each other.
They have managed that for eight years under Ronald Reagan. But Bush lacks Reagan`s credentials with his party`s right wing, never known for its reticence, and this time a Republican president is not coming to office with a Republican Senate and the aura of having led a party-wide triumph.
If Bush has a successful term, the Republicans might make some progress in other races in 1990.
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New Parents May Be Surprised By Unexpected Costs
July 10, 1997|By Ed Avis. Special to the Tribune.
When Jim and Carol Iott leave their jobs in the Loop, they often take cabs home to Oak Park. At dinner time, they regularly pick up the phone and order in. When they shop, they don't bother with coupons or sales; they just whip through the store grabbing what they need.
Who are these people? Yuppies so rich they can afford to waste money at every turn? No, just busy, two-career parents who want to spend more time with their kids. The money they "waste" by cabbing home, staying out of the kitchen and rushing through stores probably adds up to thousands each year--thousands that few new parents budget when anticipating Baby No. 1.
"It's all the little stuff that adds up," said Carol Iott. The Iotts' son, Nathaniel, will be two in June, and little sister Emily was born in February.
If you're anticipating your first child, you've probably already budgeted the cost of diapers, child care, formula and the other obvious expenses. But if you stopped there, polish up the Visa card, because the first year of the baby's life is just loaded with expensive surprises.
Government statistics tell part of the story. According to a U.S. Department of Agriculture survey of 20,000 households, an urban Midwestern family that makes more than $56,900 spends between $10,670 and $11,980 a year on a child. USDA economist Mark Lino explained that those figures take into account a lot of different expenses--such as housing, transportation and child care--but young families will tell you it's the less obvious expenses that really hit the wallet hard.
These expenses can be lumped into two broad categories: unexpected additional expenses that go with some expected expense, and completely unexpected expenses.
In the first category falls "well-baby" medical expenses. These include the regular doctor checkups your baby will need during its first year, plus immunizations. "One thing people overlook is that most insurance plans don't pay for well-baby care, which is very frustrating for parents," said Bette Perry, a licensed clinical social worker at Children's Memorial Hospital.
Expect to shell out $50 to more than $200 for each of these visits (which come with alarming regularity with a newborn), depending on your doctor and the number of shots your child needs. Fortunately, unlike regular insurance plans, HMOs do generally cover well-baby care.
Related to the well-baby expense is the added transportation and parking expenses you'll rack up taking the baby to the doctor. Even the best HMOs don't cover that.
In fact, transportation tied for second in the USDA list of child-related expenditures the average family encounters. The USDA study took into consideration that many families buy a new car when the first child is born.
"Often when people have a child, they have to trade up in automobiles," Lino said.
Another transportation-related kid expense is the car seat. If you think you got out of that one because you received an infant car seat at a baby shower, think again: Your child will likely outgrow that one and need a toddler seat before the year is out.
Speaking of baby car seats, any parent will tell you that among the early unexpected expenses is the little neck pillow to keep the bambino's head upright, along with a special rear-view mirror to see the baby better (remember, those infant car seats face backward in the back seat) and the little pull-down shade for the back side windows to keep the sun out of Junior's face.
"Who would ever think of the need to buy a neck pillow?" asked Carol Iott. "All those stupid little accessories add up. You could spend $100 on them each time you go to the store."
You'll find a lot of these add-on type expenses around your house. For instance, though you surely budgeted for baby bottles, did you consider the extra nipples you'll need, or the bottle and nipple brushes, or the little drying rack, or the special formula if your baby doesn't tolerate the normal stuff well?
You say you're going to breast-feed so you don't have to worry about it? Then don't forget the nursing bras, nursing pads and breast pump (for the inevitable times that you won't be around when the baby wants to be fed).
"One mother told me that you may think breast feeding will be cheaper from the milk standpoint, but those nursing bras and pads are really expensive," said Jan Heckroth, associate professor of human development and environmental studies at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
Food placed third in the USDA's child-expense list. Interestingly, food expenditures stay about the same for all kids, regardless of the income of the parents. "Middle-income and high-income kids all want to go to McDonald's," Lino speculated.
Now let's consider the completely unexpected expenses.
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The Kansas City Chiefs are officially on the clock with the first selection in the 2013 NFL draft, and there is not a sure-fire pick like the Indianapolis Colts had in quarterback Andrew Luck last year. As a matter of fact, the quarterback class of 2013 is projecting to be a weak group overall compared to years past.
The 2013 NFL draft will be defensively driven, with tons of talent on that side of the football, and NFL teams will be looking for the next J.J. Watt, Aldon Smith or Janoris Jenkins.
Here is a list of the top 25 defensive prospects for the 2013 NFL draft. Also included are some teams that each prospect would help in terms of scheme or need.
No. 25: SS Matt Elam, Florida
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One of the most athletic safeties in the draft, Matt Elam also plays with great vision and instincts. Elam is a solid tackler who can hold his own in the tackle box versus bigger blockers. He will tackle with force and has shown the ability to make solid open-field tackles.
As a pass defender, Elam takes very good angles and uses good anticipation to break on routes. He also has good speed, plays the football well in the air and will get his hands on a lot of passes.
Teams that would be a good fit for Elam: St. Louis Rams, Green Bay Packers, Jacksonville Jaguars
No. 24: FS Tony Jefferson, Oklahoma
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A smart player, Tony Jefferson will climb draft boards after meeting with NFL personnel and coaches. He has a natural feel for the game, is heady in his alignments and assignments and makes a lot of plays by anticipation.
Jefferson has good hip flexion, is a quick reactor in short space, has good closing burst and will hit the ball-carrier with force.
Jefferson goes for the knockout hit too often, though, and needs to become a better pure tackler. However, Jefferson is tough and not afraid to play near the line of scrimmage.
Teams that would be a good fit for Jefferson: Carolina Panthers, Detroit Lions, New England Patriots
No. 23: CB David Amerson, North Carolina State
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With the NFL becoming a pass-happy league, the cornerback position has become a premier position for teams to draft early.
Big cornerbacks are at an even higher premium, and David Amerson has all the tools NFL teams look for at the position.
Amerson has great size and speed for a cornerback, and he is also very good as a press-cover cornerback who has fluid hips and can run the route with the receiver off the ball.
He does not play with a great short burst or true explosion, but Amerson is such a good athlete and is so long that he covers a lot of ground without looking as if he is putting forth any effort.
Amerson can adjust to double moves with his quick feet and good body control, and he has good hands and makes plays on the ball.
However, Amerson is an average tackler who could be more physical with this part of his game. But he does enough to get in the way and will leg tackle.
Teams that would be a good fit for Amerson: Philadelphia Eagles, Green Bay Packers, Minnesota Vikings
No. 22: LB Chase Thomas, Stanford
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Thomas is a smart, tough football player who is the leader of his defense. He is very productive and is around the ball most of the time. He also plays the game with passion and makes plays, because he is prepared and understands the intricacies of the defense.
He has good size for a linebacker, plays under control, and he is a force inside runs when he attacks with a low-pad level, sticks and sheds. However, sometimes he attacks too much with his shoulders, which causes him to get tied up and give up his leverage.
Thomas plays laterally well on outside runs, because he anticipates well and flows quickly, and though he lacks top-end speed, Thomas makes plays with his hustle and effort.
He is a solid zone-coverage linebacker, because he knows where to be and anticipates the routes well. As a man-coverage linebacker, Thomas is average, as he is too stiff in his hips to stay with the receiver for very long.
Thomas is a solid tackler, but he can be shaken in space. However, he does make drag-down tackles downfield. Thomas will get drafted due to his production, leadership, smarts and toughness.
Teams that would be a good fit for Thomas: New Orleans Saints, Cleveland Browns, Miami Dolphins
No. 21: DT Kawann Short, Purdue
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Short plays with relentless effort, initial quickness and varied pass-rush moves. With very long arms, Short uses swim moves to get into the backfield.
Short has good closing speed for his size, and he plays with good leverage and can anchor with his powerful lower body.
Short is a tough guy who gets production with effort, good hand usage and is one of the toughest players in the class to move when double-teamed.
Short has very strong hands to shed blockers, gets good lean into the blocker and can control the offensive linemen.
He is not a pretty player, but rather more of a lunch-pail worker, and while Short may not get the national hype some of the other defensive tackles get, every NFL team covets a player like him.
Short will never be the flashiest or the best athlete, but he understands how to play the game and plays hard.
Teams that would be a good fit for Short: Pittsburgh Steelers, San Diego Chargers, Chicago Bears
No. 20: DE Alex Okafor, Texas
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Okafor looks the part and at times dominates games, but other times, he disappears and is held in check.
Okafor is very good in short areas, is extremely quick off the ball, has a very powerful first step, and if he can gain leverage off the snap, he will rock the offensive lineman and disrupt the play.
He also has strong hands, a powerful punch, quick-shed ability and is active with his hands versus the run inside.
Okafor has the lower-body power and strength to hold the point of attack versus the double-team, and he is quick enough with his lateral quickness to split the double-team block as well.
Okafor has good speed and will make plays down the line of scrimmage. As a pass-rusher, he is all speed, but he needs to develop more pass rush moves. Despite this, Okafor has all the tools to be a solid NFL starter in the right system and with the right coaching.
Teams that would be a good fit for Okafor: New York Jets, Oakland Raiders, Tampa Bay Buccaneers
No. 19: DT Sharrif Floyd, Florida
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Floyd is a powerful player who is a very good pass-rusher. He gets off the ball with a burst and covers a lot of ground with his first step. He is strong with his hands, and he works his arms and hands very well as a pass-rusher. Floyd also plays square to the line of scrimmage and plays off the cut block well.
When he plays with low-pad level, he is hard to move off the line, and he has a good up-and-under pass rush.
Floyd has good speed and explosiveness, good jumping ability and is able to use his long arms to get in the passing lanes to disrupt passes and make the quarterback adjust throws.
Floyd has good flexibility, plays well off the cut block and is a good quick twitch player who has the true quickness to make plays in short areas. Floyd also works hard, gives outstanding effort and makes plays with hustle. As a leader, Floyd plays with a passion and determination.
Teams that would be a good fit for Floyd: St. Louis Rams, Denver Broncos, Indianapolis Colts
No. 18: CB Xavier Rhodes, Florida State
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Rhodes is a huge cornerback. He is an explosive player with a good short burst, has good closing speed and can stick his foot in the ground and get forward quickly in off coverage.
Rhodes also has good hips, but he is just average in his transition. However, Rhodes does have good foot quickness.
Rhodes tries to work the jam at the line of scrimmage and has the upper body strength to be effective, but he does not always play with sound technique and gets sloppy in his coverage responsibilities at the top of the route.
Rhodes is solid in his trail technique, though, and has good ball skills. In tight-man coverage, he can run the route with the wide receiver.
He is also in the right position most of the time but does not make as many plays as he should. In his favor, Rhodes is a solid tackler who uses his size to intimidate the ball-carrier, and most NFL coaches would love to work with Rhodes.
Teams that would be a good fit for Rhodes: Houston Texans, Indianapolis Colts, Kansas City Chiefs
No. 17: CB Jordan Poyer, Oregon State
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Poyer is a special cornerback who has outstanding speed and quickness. He is a good man-coverage player who wants to be physical at the line of scrimmage, plays with a competitive nature and does not back down from a challenge.
Poyer has decent instincts in coverage and good route awareness. He also has the foot quickness and hip flexibility to handle double moves and still stay in the receiver’s hip pocket.
However, Poyer does get lazy at times and plays off routes almost as if he is baiting the quarterback to throw to his man.
Poyer closes with a burst on short throws in front of him if he has a chance for a big hit or a pass break, and he has good ability to anticipate the throw and good ability at closing with a burst.
Poyer has average strength as a press cornerback to keep the receiver from getting a free release, but he is a short stepper in back pedal.
On the plus side, Poyer is quick to flip his hips and mirror the receiver and gives good hustle to make tackles from the backside.
Overall, Poyer has very good ball skills and is a playmaker when he is challenged.
Teams that would be a good fit for Poyer: New York Giants, Detroit Lions, Tennessee Titans
No. 16: LB Alec Ogletree, Georgia
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Ogletree is a fast linebacker who has the skills to be a starter in any NFL defense. He is quick, fast, smart, and he is a tough, competitive player who makes plays all over the field.
Ogletree is productive enough to warrant a high draft grade and a long look from NFL personnel. He is smart as a read and react player and finds the ball quickly. Ogletree also plays under control and can redirect with ease.
Overall, he is a smooth athlete who covers a lot of ground in a hurry and gets to top speed in a flash.
He has decent play strength, but sometimes gets tied up by long-armed blockers inside. When he attacks, separates, sheds and gets to the ball, Ogletree is a beast. However, he is at his best flowing laterally and making plays sideline-to-sideline.
Ogletree is a powerful tackler who will explode on the ball-carrier, is quick in his pursuit and will make plays laterally through trash. When he pulls the trigger, he makes the play.
Ogletree has above-average ability as a pass-rusher and closes on the quarterback quickly. In coverage, he has the ability to cover receivers, but he gets lazy in coverage and loses his responsibility by trying to do too much.
Jarvis Jones gets a lot of the credit on the Georgia defense, but Ogletree is a darn good player in his own right.
Teams that would be a good fit for Ogletree: Oakland Raiders, Jacksonville Jaguars, Buffalo Bills
No. 15: FS Eric Reid, LSU
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Reid has outstanding size, speed, production, good tackling ability and can make the sure tackle in space. He plays straight ahead better than laterally and does have some stiffness in his hips, but he is very explosive and has a short burst to close on the ball.
Reid is an outstanding run-support player, takes good angles to the ball, plays with urgency and is explosive on the tackle.
Reid is a big hitter and stuns the runner on contact. In the passing game, he has good range. Reid has good man-coverage skills versus tight ends and running backs, but he lacks the flexibility to handle receivers from the slot.
In zone coverage, Reid lines up closer to line of scrimmage than deep, but he has the speed to make plays downfield. Reid is a productive, aggressive football player and will be a solid safety in the NFL for a long time.
Teams that would be a good fit for Reid: Detroit Lions, St. Louis Rams, New England Patriots
No. 14: DT Sheldon Richardson, Missouri
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Richardson is a powerful and agile starting defensive tackle prospect. He is athletic enough to play five-technique in 4-3 schemes, is often the first player off the snap and will challenge the hand-and-foot quickness of guards inside.
When choosing to rush the ball, Richardson has the ability to get under the blockers' pads and churn his legs to push him backwards.
Richardson is a wrap-up tackler on the ball-carriers who come into his path, has quick feet, and he has short-area speed that helps spin off blocks inside.
Richardson flashes the arm-over move to penetrate into the backfield and takes some plays off, but when his motor is running hot, he is a tough blocking assignment for most interior offensive linemen.
Teams that would be a good fit for Richardson: Seattle Seahawks, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Minnesota Vikings
No. 13: DT John Jenkins, Georgia
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Jenkins is a mountain of a man who commands a double-team block on every play. While Jenkins may not be a dominant pass-rusher, he has the power and leverage to disrupt the pocket.
Jenkins has long arms, and when he locks them out, he can control his blocker with ease. He plays with a powerful base and can hold the point of attack with just his size alone.
Jenkins would be best suited to play nose tackle in a 3-4 defensive scheme, but he will be a starter for any scheme and team who drafts him.
He is a very good wrap-up tackler who is agile on his feet for a man his size, and he plays with passion and wants to be great. If Jenkins can stay healthy, he could have a career like Casey Hampton of the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Teams that would be a good fit for Jenkins: Pittsburgh Steelers, Washington Redskins, Atlanta Falcons
No. 12: LB Arthur Brown, Kansas State
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Brown is a fast, productive player who is always around the football. He is above-average in his read and reaction ability, and once he sees the play unfold, Brown is quick to run and flows very well laterally.
Brown plays through traffic very well, but he runs around blocks more than he runs through them. Brown is aggressive taking on blocks, but he lacks the bulk and strength to shed and get free all the time. Once locked up, he can be ridden out of the play.
Brown rarely takes poor angles and makes a lot of plays by diagnosing the play quickly. He is a tough player who has the speed to make plays to the outside, but he has some stiffness in his movements and looks deliberate in his drops.
However, Brown has good lateral quickness and has good speed for the position. He also has a good closing burst and is competitive. He is very good in pursuit and is a strong tackler, even though he is a tad undersized. However, he has the ability to follow in the steps of Buccaneers rookie linebacker Lavonte David who has had an outstanding season.
Teams that would be a good fit for Brown: New York Giants, Dallas Cowboys, Denver Broncos
No. 11: DT Johnathan Hankins, Ohio State
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Hankins is a very good football player who can be dominant at times. He has the versatility to play defensive end or defensive tackle, and he is a very good pass-rusher from inside.
Hankins comes off the ball with explosiveness and uses his hands and arms very well as a pass-rusher, is relentless, and even when he is not getting the sack, he is constricting the pocket and allowing his teammates to make the play.
Hankins is above-average as a run defender. When he fires off the ball low and with level pads, he can rock the blocker and drive him into the backfield. But Hankins stands up off the ball and exposes his chest to the blocker.
However, he has the hand strength and lower-body power to hold the point of attack when he plays with leverage. Hankins is a big man who moves like he is about 250 pounds and has extremely quick feet and good play speed.
He also gives outstanding effort and is a tough player. Hankins has the ideal size to be a 4-3 defensive tackle in the NFL.
Teams that would be a good fit for Hankins: Miami Dolphins, Philadelphia Eagles, Carolina Panthers
No. 10: FS Kenny Vaccaro, Texas
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Vaccaro is a versatile player who will make a very good NFL safety. He can play free or strong safety at the next level and is extremely physical as a player in both the run and passing game.
Vaccaro is able to battle bigger tight ends all over the field, as he is very strong and can hold up or reroute the receiver with his physicality.
Vaccaro has some stiffness in his hips and can lose the receiver out of his transition, but he has enough speed and talent to make up ground and get back in the hip pocket of the receiver.
Vaccaro is an explosive downhill player in zone who closes on the ball quickly and has good ball skills and reactions.
Vaccaro plays with urgency and a sense of purpose, and he has good range and makes plays all over the field.
Vaccaro is the type of player coaches and scouts fell in love with during his All-Star game week due to his competitiveness, toughness and versatility.
Teams that would be a good fit for Vaccaro: Arizona Cardinals, Cincinnati Bengals, Baltimore Ravens
No. 9: LB Manti Te’o, Notre Dame
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Te’o is a smart, heady player who is very productive. He plays with good football intelligence and is very instinctive.
He reads and reacts very well and has a great understanding for how the game is played. He is a force inside the run, will attack the line of scrimmage, and he pursues quickly and works through traffic well. Te’o is also a willing hitter as a tackler, and he plays with good smarts and movement in zone coverage.
Te’o uses his hands effectively and will not allow blockers to stay with his body very long. But even though he plays with true strength, he needs to shed quicker.
Te’o is a solid athlete, but he will not impress as much with his long speed as he does his short-area quickness.
Te’o has good hands and makes a lot of plays with the football in the air, and if he plays with the same passion he displayed this season for the Fighting Irish, he will be a fixture in the NFL.
Teams that would be a good fit for Te’o: New York Giants, Oakland Raiders, Baltimore Ravens
No. 8: DE Dion Jordan, Oregon
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Jordan is a freak of an athlete and will tear up the NFL. He is still raw in a couple areas of his game, but he has the potential to be one of the best defensive ends in the NFL.
Jordan has great length, speed, quickness and flexibility. He also has an innate ability to find gaps in the blocking scheme, and by using his flexibility and quickness, he penetrates those gaps to make plays.
Jordan has an extremely explosive first step, and when his only job is to pin his ears back and rush the quarterback, he is at his best.
He can dip his shoulder off the ball and barely gives the blocker and space to punch. Jordan has a great closing burst and works to knock the ball out on contact. He also plays with strong hands as a pass-rusher and in the run game.
Jordan needs to improve strength to hold the double-team run-blocking, but when he comes off the ball low, he can control the blocker, shed with force and make a tackle on the ball-carrier.
He is very good in space and covers a lot of ground in very little time. Jordan has good jumping ability and alters a lot of throws with his length. He plays with passion and makes a lot of big plays. The NFL covets pass-rushers, and Jordan should be an instant hit his rookie season.
Teams that would be a good fit for Jordan: San Diego Chargers, Indianapolis Colts, Minnesota Vikings
No. 7: DT Jesse Williams, Alabama
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Williams is a very productive player in one of the top conferences in the country. He is tough, smart and understands angles.
Williams has extremely strong hands and works to keep the hands of the blocker off him, and he rarely stays blocked and does a very good job of playing through traffic and staying vertical.
Williams also has good lower-body strength and snap. With his strength, Williams can stun the blocker with his hand usage.
However, Williams has shorter arms, and this lack of length shows up quite a bit, especially as a pass-rusher.
When double-teamed, Williams becomes more of a space-eater, but as a tackler, he is powerful and violent. Williams may not make a lot of plays outside the tackle box, but with his strength, power and toughness, NFL teams will need him to play.
Teams that would be a good fit for Williams: Denver Broncos, Seattle Seahawks, Washington Redskins
No. 6: CB Johnthan Banks, Mississippi State
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Banks is a quick player with top-end speed and great ball skills. He has the natural tools of a solid cornerback: speed, foot quickness, fluid hips and explosive short-area burst.
His lack of weight is his only big concern. At times, Banks gets out-muscled off the ball and more often than not, gets his arms knocked away and left at the line of scrimmage. While he is competitive and plays tough, he still needs to get stronger.
Banks makes plays in zone coverage where he can sort out the routes and close on the ball going downhill. He also has the speed to stay with receivers deep and has good jumping ability.
Banks makes a lot of plays on the ball and is a ball hawk who is always looking for interceptions.
Banks is a solid tackler who will throw his body at the legs of the ball-carrier, and he has the skills to be a starter in the right spot in the NFL.
Teams that would be a good fit for Banks: New York Giants, San Diego Chargers, Detroit Lions
No. 5: CB Dee Milliner, Alabama
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Milliner is a smooth athlete who is fluid in his hips. He has good speed and quickness to play the position and can flip his hips and stay in tight coverage with no wasted movements.
Milliner is at his best when he can line up tight to the receiver off the line of scrimmage and play man-to-man.
He is difficult to reroute and has very good flexibility to bend and slide laterally to hold the receiver from getting a free release. He also plays with confidence and can run the route for the receiver.
At times, he gets greedy in zone coverage and will try to bait the quarterback only to lose his coverage responsibility, but Milliner does have good football instincts.
Milliner has a different gear with the ball in the air and has a natural feel of when to get his head around and make a play on the ball.
Milliner is a cover corner who plays with the attitude of victory. Milliner has a swagger to his game, and with his size and speed ratio, he is ranked as one of the best prospects for the 2013 NFL Draft.
Teams that would be a good fit for Milliner: Kansas City Chiefs, Houston Texans, Baltimore Ravens
No. 4: DE Damontre Moore, Texas A&M
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Moore is a very productive player in the SEC, and his NFL value is not in question due to his length, effort and toughness.
He is the epitome of a football player and does an exceptional job of anticipating the snap and timing up his start.
He jumps off the ball and has an explosive first step. Moore can dip his shoulder and close the gap to the quarterback in a hurry, and he has top-end speed and quickness. Moore also plays with good flexibility and balance.
Moore has excellent change-of-direction ability and is a player who can retrace his steps and make the play without losing speed, either forward or laterally.
Moore has good hips, is violent with his hands in the run and passing game, and he is quick to shed the blocker and close on the ball-carrier.
Moore is a good tackler who will work to strip the football, fits any defensive scheme in the NFL and will be a very high draft selection in 2013.
Teams that would be a good fit for Moore: Miami Dolphins, Houston Texans, Oakland Raiders
No. 3: OLB Jarvis Jones, Georgia
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Jones has football intangibles: He is an explosive athlete who makes plays all over the football field, is very tough, is productive and makes a lot of his plays off hustle and will.
Jones is also a natural pass-rusher and uses his hands exceptionally well. He is able to find the ball quickly and never stops moving his hands or feet, making plays on sheer effort.
He makes plays from the backside or down the line of scrimmage with pure hustle, and he is strong tackler. He uses leverage to his advantage and can control the blocker by simply playing lower than the man across from him.
Jones is simply a great football player.
Teams that would be a good fit for Jones: Pittsburgh Steelers, Baltimore Ravens, Arizona Cardinals
No. 2: DT Star Lotulelei, Utah
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Lotulelei has the versatility to play nose tackle or defensive tackle. He is a very good pass-rusher from inside at defensive tackle, and he comes off the ball with explosiveness.
Lotulelei goes hard on every play and makes the players around him better. He is not the type of player to win with speed, but instead with power and quickness.
Lotulelei is very good as a run defender when he plays with leverage, and when he fires off the ball low and with level pads, he can stun the offensive linemen and drive them into the backfield.
Lotulelei gives NFL teams a ton of flexibility, as he can play in all phases of defense and can be a 50-60 snap-a-game player.
Lotulelei will end up being a Top Five selection in the 2013 NFL Draft and is the type of player a team would trade up to get.
Teams that would be a good fit for Lotulelei: Kansas City Chiefs, Jacksonville Jaguars, Tennessee Titans
No. 1: DE Bjoern Werner, Florida State
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Werner is the best defensive player in the 2013 NFL Draft. He has long arms, large hands and uses his length well to keep blockers away from his body.
For a player who just started playing football five years ago, Werner has a great knowledge of the game and has the uncanny ability to read blocks and quickly locate the ball. He shows solid football instincts and is able to locate the ball through trash.
Werner plays with very good leverage and keeps the blocker away from his body. As a pass-rusher, Werner does not have blazing speed, but he is slippery with his moves and sets up the blocker well.
Werner goes hard every play and never takes a snap off. He also plays with good lateral quickness, is light on his feet and has good change-of-direction skills.
Since his motor never stops, he is around the football quite a bit. Werner is a physical tackler who can bend, roll his hips and drive through the ball-carrier.
Werner will do enough at the NFL Combine to win a team over, and his draft stock will blow through the roof.
Teams that would be a good fit for Werner: Buffalo Bills, Cincinnati Bengals, Chicago Bears
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Every MMA fan can rattle off a number of guys who instantly draw them to an event. But what about the guys who go unnoticed that help support the foundations of each promotion with their work inside and out of the cage?
The "blue collar" type of fighters if you will.
Some of these fighters bust their chops each night to bring you the best they have inside the cage and make sure you leave feeling like you wisely spent your hard earned money. Others meanwhile can conjure up a media storm like no other with their actions out of the cage and perhaps will be most missed when the microphone goes away.
Most of these fighters won't be superstars during their careers (a few are or have been) but that's okay, because they can end their careers knowing that MMA fans will miss them as they miss all superstars.
Anderson Silva
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Anderson Silva may be one of the superstars on this list but he's also underappreciated by many in the MMA world.
Part of it stems from his bizarre performances against Thales Leites and Demian Maia, while part of it is due to the way Silva's manager, Ed Soares, comes off in the media.
"The Spider" is a once in a lifetime type of talent that fans are rarely able to appreciate while they're competing. Once Silva steps away from the game, I suspect fans will begin to view the UFC champion in a more positive light as we will truly be able to grasp just how great of a fighter he is.
Jon Jones
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Jon Jones has become an incredibly polarizing figure in MMA. On one hand, he's one of the fastest rising superstars on this list and even sponsored by the UFC itself. On the other, he is constantly judged, berated and just overall viewed in a negative light no matter what he does.
Even if Jones donated a million dollars to a charity, his critics would say he could donate a million plus one dollar just to try and take him down a peg or two.
The bottom line is that Jones is a very unique athlete that the sport hasn't been seen much, if it all, in the Octagon. Jones' family is all involved in other team sports and had MMA not been as popular as it is now, Jones may have been catching passes on Sundays instead of delivering elbows on Saturday nights.
Jones will go down as one of the most disliked champions in UFC history unless he can perform a PR miracle, but his raw athleticism and talent will definitely be missed.
Dan Hardy
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Dan Hardy was an afterthought coming into 2012 after going through a four-fight losing streak that seemed to indicate he was on the chopping block.
Yet, Dana White held on to Hardy and it seems to have paid off as "The Outlaw" has now won back-to-back fights.
Hardy's terrible 2010-2011 made him a human punch line due to his inability to evolve as a fighter but if there's one thing you'll be able to say about him, it's that he comes to fight each time. Even if he doesn't have the grappling skills to match up with his opponent, Hardy is always looking to attack.
Also, when you add in Hardy is one of the few marketable stars from England, it becomes clear the UFC (along with fans) will certainly miss his drawing power on any future cards across the pond.
Frank Mir
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Frank Mir may get a bad rap for some of his performances and some quirky comments, but there are a few reasons both fans and the UFC will miss him once he steps away.
For one, Mir is one of the best grapplers to enter MMA and at one time was one of its hottest prospects. The motorcycle crash took quite a few years off his career but he's still accomplished a lot in the sport, including being the first person to ever TKO Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira (and the only person to submit him) along with a few UFC heavyweight titles to his credit.
His skills outside the Octagon are just as good as Mir is one of the premier hype men in the business. Even if everyone knows Mir is going to be punched into hamburger meat (see Brock/JDS), Mir still does a good job of selling the fight to fans.
When you look up Mir's resume it's actually one of the best in UFC heavyweight history and the company will definitely miss his drawing power upon his retirement. Fans luckily won't have to miss him for too long as I expect Mir to jump right into an analyst role after leaving the Octagon.
Nate Diaz
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If Nate Diaz can ever truly step out of the shadow cast by his brother, he should enjoy a lengthy UFC career.
Diaz catches a bad rap mainly due to his brother's actions in a trickle down effect. Still, Diaz sports an 11-6 record in the Octagon and has recently seen his stock jump in the lightweight division despite losing in his title bid last December.
He's a talented fighter who will always be a draw due to his personality (and his last name). It's just a matter of putting together all the skills necessary to win at the higher levels, because we've seen he's more than capable of dispatching mid-tier guys at this point in his career.
Fans and the UFC will miss Diaz due to the interest he can generate along with his aggressive fighting style that could become even more rare if the UFC keeps up with its roster cuts.
Joe Lauzon/Jim Miller
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Both Joe Lauzon and Jim Miller made themselves household names with their performance at UFC 155, but they're still two names that are routinely forgotten about when discussing the lightweight division.
Both guys have been in the UFC for quite some time and sport respectable records in the Octagon. However, every time either man gets close to a title shot they seem to fall short and are sent back to the world of gatekeepers.
That's not a bad thing for fans as it tends to get Lauzon and Miller on free TV more often, which always makes for an exciting fight.
Lauzon and Miller are two of the more exciting lightweights and are always up for a fight even if they can't seem to get over the hump into title contention.
Chael Sonnen
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Chael Sonnen's rise to fame is parallel to that of the dislike fans have of the former middleweight title contender. Effectively building himself up through trash talk that became extremely insensitive at times, Sonnen had perhaps one of the greatest rivalries in MMA history with Anderson Silva.
Outside of Sonnen's trash talking/promoting abilities, which may be the best MMA has ever seen, Sonnen is a very skilled fighter as well.
His submission defense (or lack thereof) has always held him back from rising up the rankings. However, that doesn't mean Sonnen won't make things exciting even if it may end up with him tapping to a triangle or arm bar.
It's clear the UFC and fans will miss Sonnen's ability to promote a fight given how much interest he generates, but the UFC will also miss one of the few guys who willingly backs up the "I will fight anyone, anytime" kind of attitude.
Rich Franklin
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Rich Franklin became a forgotten man once Anderson Silva took over at 185 pounds, but the ultimate company man has continued to compete whenever and wherever the UFC has needed him.
Franklin has fought a who's-who in the UFC and has done very admirably against most of them. Outside of the Silva losses, only his losses to Vitor Belfort and Cung Le looked terrible. It's hard to figure out why Franklin is so forgotten by fans despite racking up a 22-1-1 record pre-Silva and a 29-7-1 overall record, but he still manages to fly under the radar for many MMA fans.
Fans will miss Franklin due to his ability to always put on a good show, while the UFC will certainly miss having the ultimate company guy to call up in case of an emergency.
Demetrious Johnson
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Perhaps the least talked about UFC champion, Demetrious Johnson could end up being one of the most dominant champions in Octagon history by the time his career is done.
Johnson was a formidable bantamweight but has looked fantastic at 125 pounds. The UFC flyweight champ even endured getting clipped by John Dodson in his last fight but still came out on top with the belt around his waist.
"Mighty Mouse" doesn't receive nearly as much press as one would expect a UFC champion gets, but that will change if he can continue to rule over the flyweight division with relative ease.
Considering how good Johnson has looked at flyweight and how well he performed at bantamweight, Johnson retiring with the UFC flyweight title around his waist doesn't seem like a crazy proposition.
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"The Big Unit"
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I know what you're thinking. There is no way that you can possibly make a list of all of the best nicknames in sports without forgetting a couple.
Truth is, I have many more than 100, but I think you might nod off after 150.
So I've decided to use my best judgment in selecting 100 of what I consider the greatest nicknames, mostly in American sports.
I'm a fairly recent fan of futbol, or American soccer for those of you who consider it blasphemy to associate our nation's unofficial pastime with a sport that...is actually played with feet. But I digress.
Order is not important, but I will try to leave the best for last. Honestly, I love the idea of attributing nicknames to our most beloved athletes and I will attempt to do them justice in the following slides. Accompanying each name will be a video and it's my goal to find the most ridiculous clip of each player.
Even after combing my memory, I'm sure there are some that I couldn't remember, so be sure to make me aware in the comments. I shall gladly make a list of the "100 Forgotten Nicknames."
100. The Babe
One of the most iconic nicknames in all of sports, "Babe"—otherwise known as the "King of Swing" or the "Sultan of Swat" (thank you, The Sandlot)—is a man of many names.
Ruth was also apparently a comedian, from what I can tell. This video is one of the most telling depictions of the difference in gender roles back in the day.
I'd say people were a lot less sensitive back then.
So here's to "Babe," the most iconic and well-known nickname in the U.S.A.
99. Crime Dog
Maybe this is a reach, but doesn't everyone remember this catchy tune from when you were growing up or had kids growing up?
YouTube tends to agree, because as soon as I typed in "Scruff McGruff", "Chicago, Illinois 60652" filled itself into the search box. I guess others have this embedded into their subconscious like I do.
With no research whatsoever, I've concluded that Fred McGriff got the nickname "Crime Dog" because his name sounds very similar to McGruff. Seems logical.
That, and ol' McGruff took "a bite out of crime" while McGriff took a couple bites out of various baseballs during a career that involved 500-plus home runs.
98. King James
Alright, everybody just relax. LeBron James is not No. 1 on this list because I honestly don't think his name is iconic...yet.
"The King" is certainly a fitting nickname on the morning after a game in which he crowned himself the champion of the league.
Don't remind Akron. So just for all you Ohio natives, here is LeBreezy losing his "throne," if you will, to some dude in Venice Beach.
I first came across this on some message boards and dismissed it as something I didn't understand.
Then I saw a game on the MLB Network and the announcers proved everything I had heard as correct.
Homer Bailey looks like freaking Batman! Well, Christian Bale...which makes him Batman! Now you know why he notched a perfect game last season. But on the negative side, now Bane, Two-Face and Mr. Freeze know where to find him.
96. The Iceman
I didn't realize so many people have used this nickname, including some psychotic mafia hitman.
I immediately think of Chuck Liddell, but apparently this ageless wonder has been given to George Gervin, Adam Vinatieri and Val Kilmer.
Go figure.
I'm not sure how you feel about it, but I reserve "The Iceman" for Chuck Liddell because, when he's randomly with you and you're drinking Miller Light, he can allegedly get you front-row tickets.
95. Silverback
I've heard this before, and to be honest, it's a little dicey if you think of our current state of culture. Truth be told, it's a nickname James Harrison has embraced. So that being said, let's watch the "Silverback" lay people out.
OK, scratch that, this song is freakin' terrible! I just wanted proof that someone else out there mentions him as the "Silverback."
Colt McCoy is still laying on the turf somewhere.
94. JET
Jason "JET" Terry was officially grounded recently. This might be a nickname that will fade away, but it's kind of funny to see him act like an airplane running down the court after he hits a three-pointer.
I want to say that NBA talking head and Kenny Smith was also "The Jet," but Jason Terry lives up to it.
93. Johnny Football
"Johnny Football." What an awesome nickname for such a talented kid.
But I'm confused, because it would seem as if these other guys in the video are the best ever at making ridiculous shots.
That, and I feel like I'm at a nightclub at 2 a.m. while I watch it.
"Johnny Football" Manziel is a myth right now in the college football world. In the next slide, we will look at the person who, in my humble opinion, paved the way for this nickname.
Note: OK, there is no way the shots in this video are real. That's impossible, right?
92. Teddy Ballgame
"Teddy Ballgame," one of my personal favorites for a nickname, was coined after Ted Williams, who is the shining example of what a baseball player embodies.
But let's get to the real story. The man with the golden voice....his name is Ted Williams. Therefore, apparently he is "Teddy Ballgame" as well.
Awesome, but beware of going on a YouTube spree whereby you keep clicking suggested videos. Turns out he got famous and went right back to rehab. Tragic.
91. Chipper
Am I the only one that loves baseball commercials?
Two things happened to me while watching this commercial. First, now I know that the video with "Johnny Football" was ridiculously fake. Second, I feel very gullible.
Anyway, "Chipper" Jones, otherwise known as Larry Wayne Jones Jr., is an icon around the Atlanta and surrounding Georgia areas.
But we only know him as "Chipper."
90. The Reign Man
His shoes were hideous, but who am I kidding? I owned at least a couple different versions.
Shawn Kemp, better known as "The Reign Man", was an absolute beast for the Seattle SuperSonics. He was overshadowed by several players during his years, but with Jordan in the mix, it's kind of hard to be noticed like you should.
89. Air Jordan
The "Jumpman," "MJ," "The G.O.A.T."
He's known around the world from the name on his jersey, to the emblem on his clothing line. If another player shows brilliance, he is eventually the ultimate comparison.
Other than Magic Johnson, I think Michael Jordan is one of the few to ever retire, come back and be just as good, if not better.
"Air Jordan" makes the list because that is what everyone reffered to his shoes as. Eventually, it stuck once he dunked from the free-throw line.
88. The Mailman
Stockton to Malone, something that marked some of the first memories of my basketball-watching life.
Karl Malone was known for delivering in the post, but I found some evidence that he also delivered elbows—in this case to Jordan's nose.
I have a nickname for Jeff Hornacek also, but it's probably only something a middle schooler would think is funny.
87. Dr. J
Legend has it that his original nickname, which was coined before he went to UMASS to play college ball, was somewhat as a joke. Him and his friend, "the professor", started it off as a joke and it transformed into one of the most recognizable nicknames of all time.
Soon after "Dr. J" was born, so too was a new style of play that a lot of current NBA players can credit Julius Erving for starting.
86. The Rifleman
Chuck Person was known for his three-point shot, hence some referring to him as "The Rifleman."
In his interview, he explains that he took the three-pointer because he didn't want to go to overtime. It's all or nothing for Chuck.
85. Boomer
Norman Julius Esiason. Bet you didn't know that was his real name. Similar to "Chipper" Jones, we've adopted his new tag of "Boomer," which has become entrenched in the sporting world thanks in part to his Super Bowl runs.
Now he does color commentary for the NFL. He's been around the game since 1984.
84. Big Ben
"Big Ben" Roethlisberger, who is seen with Shaq in this video, is known for his goofiness, among other less-perfect things.
I actually saw him play golf at a celebrity tournament and he's surprisingly good.
83. Tom Terrific
"Golden Boy," "California Cool," "Lord Brady." Tom Brady has a plethora of nicknames among his Patriot faithful, but all that really matters is that he will go down in history as one of the best quarterbacks of all time.
And with wife Gisele Bundchen by his side, it would appear that his life is pretty terrible.
82. Revis Island
Darrelle Revis was a hot commodity this offseason and it will be interesting to see if he can relocate "Revis Island" down to Florida, where he will be relied upon to add to Tampa Bay's winning ways.
81. CP3
So, if Chris Paul gets traded again and someone doesn't want to give up their No. 3 jersey, "CP3" will be fishing for a new nickname.
Maybe "Cliff" will emerge as the front-runner in such a situation.
80. Boom Dizzle
I'm not making this up, as I'm sure some of you are thinking. Baron Davis was also known as "B-Diddy" to those of us that grew up in the Bay Area.
I will forever remember his dunk on "AK-47" (Andrei Kirilenko, who didn't make the list because I was planning on mentioning him in this slide).
79. Money
The definition of polarizing. Floyd "Money" Mayweather makes sure he gets his point across, whether it's to a sports commentator or his opponent.
78. The Golden Boy
Since we are on a boxing note, we can't leave out "The Golden Boy" himself, Oscar De La Hoya. However, he's not the only person to grace himself with that nickname.
77. The Cuban Missle
The former winner of this nickname was Alexei Ramirez, but with his disappearance and relatively short stay, it's time to pass the torch.
Of the options remaining, I believe it's between Aroldis Chapman of the Cincinnati Reds and Yoenis Cespedes of the Oakland Athletics.
One hits like a missile, while the other slings 100 mph missiles. Both are worthy, but for the sake of me being an Oakland homer, I'm going to side with hitting homers as the determining factor in who is known as "The Cuban Missile."
76. T-Sizzle
Terrell Suggs has had his share of arguments with ESPN's Skip Bayless and this is one of those moments. Overall, he's a pretty scary guy on the field, so "T-Sizzle" can call himself whatever the heck he wants.
Ball So Hard University is excepting applications.
75. T-Plush
If you have a moment and you've never heard the comedic stylings of "Tony Plush," then you should probably go on a nice little YouTube spree.
Just the way he talks is funny enough and I wish we had more of him in the league today. Nyjer Morgan is currently playing over in Japan.
74. The Big Ticket
In my opinion, "The Big Ticket" is famous for two things in his career.
First, he blocks every shot after the whistle in every game that I've seen. He literally never takes a timeout off.
Second, he will forever be remembered for his post-NBA Finals interview during which he screamed "Anything is possible!!"
Kevin Garnett went from good to legendary because of that.
73. The Truth
Do you sense a pattern? I tend to go on runs with teammates, sports and overall relevance of one person to another.
"The Big Ticket" has a counterpart in "The Truth", Paul Pierce.
72. Sid the Kid
When something rhymes with your name and describes something that is relevant, it is what I like to call an instant classic.
Sidney Crosby will be a kid forever.
71. The Admiral
David Robinson got his nickname from serving in the US Navy.
He and Tim Duncan combined were known as "The Twin Towers" and they propelled the Spurs to the playoffs just about every single year they were together.
70. The Rocket
I decided to attach a historical moment to Roger Clemens' slide because we all know about the other stuff.
To me, the most memorable moment in his career was when he launched pieces of a broken bat at Mike Piazza as he lined out.
69. Cro Cop
Wait, that's not his name? Turns out it's Mirko Filipovic.
I literally didn't know that until I looked it up, but it makes sense. "Cro Cop" would be a weird name indeed.
68. My Bironas
Coined by Chris Berman—to the best of my knowledge—"My Bironas" is not quite a nickname as much as a parody of a song that is for some reason hilarious.
This guy behind this video took it pretty seriously.
Rob Bironas has been winning fantasy football weeks at breakneck speed.
67. The Real Deal
No surprise here, as boxers and MMA fighters almost always have a nickname—or 20.
Evander "Real Deal" Holyfield is one that will go down in history.
66. Saint Patrick
I've only heard this once or twice, so I don't know how credible this is, but Patrick Roy is one of the best goalies of all time and I will give some credence to rumors of his nickname being "Saint Patrick."
65. The Law Firm
BenJarvus Green-Ellis just sounds like a law firm.
These guys in the video seem to think they provide pretty bad customer service.
64. The Matrix
Shawn Marion gets an awesome nickname as a guy that can pretty much do it all.
63. Big Papi
"Big Papi" is so fitting for David Ortiz. It's almost too perfect.
62. White Chocolate
Jason Williams, where do I start?
Helping white kids across the country break out of their shell and start throwing passes between their legs, off their elbows and the infamous fake-behind-the-back layup.
A lot of what he did was taken out of the pages of Dr. J, but it was unexpected to see him be such a brilliant player from the start.
I enjoyed watching him play growing up and I'm sure Sacramento remembers the days of "White Chocolate."
61. The Grandy-Man
John Sterling could probably choose from a list of nicknames for Curtis Granderson that would blow this one out of the water, but he was up to his normal antics with this nickname as well.
60. The Flying Tomato
Red hair, flies through the air.
Yep, "The Flying Tomato" works just fine for Shaun White.
59. The Freak
"The Freak", "The Franchise," "Big Time Timmy Jim," these are all aliases of Tim Lincecum, who hit the scene hard as a rookie.
It would seem that hitters are finally catching on to his stuff, as he's been knocked around pretty good.
Regardless, he's still "The Freak."
58. Rampage
Terribly awkward video to watch, but I think we've all seen the one where he destroys a door, so I went with the one you might not have seen.
Quinton "Rampage" Jackson is yet another MMA fighter with the necessary nickname. It fits him quite well.
57. Big Mac
Chicks dig the long ball, that's for sure.
In one of the more iconic commercials in baseball history, you can't forget that it's Mark "Big Mac" McGwire making them look bad.
The unofficial record-breaking career is overlooked because of steroid use, but his pairing with Jose Canseco on those A's teams of the '80s was a sight to see.
56. El Duque
Possibly one of the best commercials ever.
Just when you thought you forgot about Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez, you realize that David Cone used to be relevant and on the Yankees.
"El Duque" mania swept across the country because of the high leg kick, similar to the weird delivery of Hideo Nomo that attracted attention.
55. Junior
One of my favorite players, Ken Griffey Jr. was known simply as "Junior."
I wonder how many hundreds of times I've imitated his batting stance and the way he shook his bat before a pitch.
54. Pistol Pete
You can definitely make the argument that Pete Maravich was the lighter-skinned version of Dr. J and the inspiration for Jason "White Chocolate" Williams years later.
53. Ovie
Throughout the scouring process, I tried to leave off nicknames that consist of shortening the last name or just using the first initial and portions of the last name, such as "K-Rod" or "D-Will."
However, in some instances, I felt as if they are so well-known that they must be included.
A good example of this is "Ovie" and a better example of why Alexander Ovechkin belongs on this list is the sheer genius of his commercial spot.
52. The Praying Mantis
OK, this is totally made-up, but doesn't Lil Wayne kind of look like a praying mantis?
Thought so. Now let's watch him berate the Miami Heat and Chris Bosh's wife.
51. Gronk
"Yo soy fiesta."
Followed by that laugh? Instant classic courtesy of Rob Gronkowski.
50. Cutch
One of the few shortened names that I think deserves to be on this list is that of Andrew McCutchen, especially because "Cutch" and "Gronk" are rarer than most of the others.
49. Panda
"Panda," or "Kung Fu Panda," is known for being a goofy guy.
Here, Pablo Sandoval is channeling his inner Pedro Cerrano from Major League.
48. Birdman
Not a huge fan of Chris Andersen, but since his re-emergence in the NBA playoffs, we have to give his nickname some credit.
It's stuck for quite some time and people seem to love it.
47 .Mr. October
Not just a great Yankee moment, this man provided us with one of the best moments in sports history when he belted three bombs in Game 6 of the World Series.
Reggie Jackson will always be "Mr. October."
46. Joey Bats
"Joey Bats," Jose Bautista's nickname, does sound like it belongs to a mobster.
45. Ochocinco
I considered putting his altered nickname, "Oucho-Stinko."
However, Chad Johnson's nickname got a lot of attention. It always bothered me that it's not even the correct way to say "85" in Spanish. I'm pretty sure it's "ochenta y cinco."
44. Chuck
Without Charles "The Round Mound of Rebound" Barkley on the panel, I'm not sure anyone would watch NBA on TNT's halftime show.
43. Mad Dog
Can we all just take a moment and watch the greatest rally speech after a victorious NBA Finals campaign?
Mark Madsen nailed it. Probably should have consulted with "Mad Dog" about your Spanish, Ochocinco.
42. My Giant
I feel kind of bad putting this in here because I don't think it was ever actually a real nickname, but most people remember George Muresan for his role in the blockbuster, My Giant, with Billy Crystal.
41. Joe Pa
Marred with controversy, Joe Paterno will still go down as one of the best of all time.
In this specific clip, I think what they are saying is that...well, you get the idea.
40. Eck
An icon in the Bay Area, Dennis "Eck" Eckersley is known for his shaggy appearance and unique name.
39. The Yankee Clipper
In tribute to Joe DiMaggio, this is probably one of the best songs about a player of all time!
38. The Polish Rifle
Let's all take a moment and remember the XFL.
OK, that was quick.
The San Francisco Demons had a guy named Mike Pawlawski and he was "The Polish Rifle." I honestly just wanted to bring up the XFL because ESPN analyst Ron Jaworski, or "Jaws," is also known by this nickname.
Apparently there's more than one Polish rifle!
37. He Hate Me
Rod Smart went on to be pretty good in the NFL.
A lot of his publicity came from his nickname, "He Hate Me." Not the greatest sentence grammar-wise, but maybe that's why it stuck.
36. Sam I Am
Sam Cassell took his famous dance from Major League's Pedro Cerrano. I am aware that is the second time we are referencing a Charlie Sheen movie.
"Sam I Am" was created early in his career and has stuck ever since.
35. All Day
This ESPN commercial explains why Adrian Peterson goes by "All Day."
Be careful, you'll probably end up watching the entire montage.
34. The Tasmanian Devil
I've heard of this nickname a couple of times and I think it fits Troy Polamalu perfectly.
33. The Glove
"The Glove" was coined because of Gary Payton's lockdown defense.
32. Dr. Dunkenstein
Darrell Griffith's nickname, "Dr. Dunkenstein," got a lot of play in the media, as it was quite the indication of what kind of player you were about to see.
31. MJD
Some people just sound cooler when their initials flow together like those of "MJD." Probably because we are conditioned to attribute "MJ" with greatness.
30. Linsanity
"Linsanity" swept the nation in its madness. It's not just a nickname, it's something that created such a buzz that Jeremy Lin was forced into an alter ego.
29. The Human Torch
It's possible that many of you may not recognize this one, but I assure you that local coverage often refers to Stephen Curry as "The Human Torch."
He and Klay Thompson are also known as the "Splash Brothers"—like the "Bash Brothers" in Oakland.
28. The Human Highlight Reel
"The Human Highlight Reel" and "The Human Highlight Film" refer to the slammer-jammer himself, Mr. Dominique Wilkins.
27. Shaq Diesel
Shaquille O'Neal has so many nicknames that it's not even worth listing them all, but one that I've always liked is "Shaq Diesel."
Apparently, he made this song after Kobe lost in the NBA Finals and there were rumors that Bryant played a part in Shaq's divorce.
26.The Big Fundamental
Oh, the irony!
Tim Duncan, the bank shot legend, wasn't very fundamental on this trip up the court.
25. Run DMC
Just another one of those nicknames where it's a play on words in three ways.
Darren McFadden is a running back, his initials are DMC and when you put it all together, it's a legendary rap group. Perfect.
24. The Kandi Man
Remember Michael Olowokandi? This was probably the most notable thing he did in his short NBA career.
23. Tiger
You can't really have a better nickname than "Tiger." It's completely entrenched in the golf world and isn't going anywhere because it's basically replaced his first name, Eldrick.
22. Matty Ice
Something tells me Matt Ryan got his nickname from a frat house.
21. Megatron
Welp, Calvin Johnson looks like a freakin' transformer and he's gigantic, so I see no reason for "Megatron" not to be a perfect fit.
20. Black Mamba
One of the deadliest snakes on the planet, Kobe Bryant got his nickname with several buzzer-beater shots over his illustrious career.
19. Broadway Joe
Ladies and gentlemen, Joe Namath. Wasted on live television.
18. The Big Hurt
I remember this one vividly, but only upon looking through some videos did I remember that he was twice an MVP.
Pretty impressive for Frank Thomas.
17. Bash Brothers
The "Bash Brothers" consisted of Jose Canseco and "Big Mac."
But it was far more entertaining in The Mighty Ducks, especially when they reunited.
16. A-Roid
I honestly had my thoughts on whether we should put Alex Rodriguez's altered nickname on here, but once the reporter said it on the air, it became media gold.
15. Refrigerator Perry
Not often do you get a nickname from something that you're as big as. Not only was William Perry bigger than the fridge, he probably could clean it out in no time.
14. The Bus
Wearing yellow, running dull speed, with some black pants...yeah, that pretty much looks like a bus.
It's fun to watch Jerome Bettis get all cheesy in this Super Bowl ad.
13. Charlie Hustle
Dang, Pete Rose went off!
If it happened today, I can only imagine the type of fines and punishment handed out. It's also ironic that "Charlie Hustle" got busted for gambling.
12. The Toddfather
Whether you're attributing the nickname to Todd Frazier or Todd Helton, it's still an awesome nickname.
11. Magic
Similar to "Tiger," "Magic" completely manifested itself as Earvin Johnson's first name.
Can't really get much cooler than that.
10. Big Baby
"Living up to that nickname," said SportsCentre's Dan O'Toole in reference to Glen Davis.
9. Shoeless Joe
Maybe "Shoeless Joe" Jackson is Denard Robinson's hero.
8. Muscle Hamster
He secretly hates this nickname, but Doug Martin is a very powerful running back.
Here he is appealing to ESPN's SportsNation for a new sobriquet.
7. Iron Mike
"Iron Mike," one of the most classic nicknames of all time. Kind of like how Mike Tyson Punch-Out!! was one of the best video games of all time.
6. Honey Badger
The video itself gets a lot of credit, but the man that embodies the nickname was on the path for success until some run-ins with the law and the team code got him into some trouble.
5. The Great One
It's weird because the first thing I think about when seeing this nickname is The Rock.
However, Wayne Gretzky is indeed "The Great One."
4. The Glide
I love this nickname and Clyde Drexler was one hell of a player.
3. The Answer
Now, if only someone would adopt the nickname "The Question." In my opinion, "The Answer" is one of the best nicknames in sports.
2. The Nigerian Nightmare
What is not to love about Christian Okoye and his cultural nickname?
"The Nigerian Nightmare" pretty much explains everything in one little phrase.
1. The Big Unit
"The Big Unit," aka Randy Johnson.
Best. Nickname. Ever.
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“They Seemed Everywhere Victorious” – Union Route at Chickamauga
September 20, 1863 (Sunday)
Rosecrans: Run to the hills! Run for your lives!
Rosecrans: Run to the hills! Run for your lives!
William Rosecrans, commander of the Union Army of the Cumberland, knew he could not attack. The previous day’s fighting along the Chickamauga had left his army wounded, and now only five brigades remained fresh. For him, reinforcements could not possibly come quickly enough, and they most certainly would not come on this day. He believed himself to be facing perhaps as many as 120,000 Rebels. The true number was about half that. Retreat, as well, seemed impossible. He knew the fate that had befallen other officers before him who had beat hastily towards the north. No, his army would stay and they would receive the enemy’s attacks, and if fortune was with them, the Federals would withstand the strike.
Through the cold night, Braxton Bragg’s Army of Tennessee heard the axes of the enemy felling trees, while the spades dug rifle pits. The only thing that was certain across those dark spaces was that the Federals were not retreating. Everything else was in flux and confusion. Late the previous evening, Bragg had completely reorganized his army, placing half under the newly-arrived James Longstreet, and half under Leonidas Polk. This effectively demoted several high ranking generals, of whom D.H. Hill was the highest.
General Hill commanded a corps, answering to no one but Bragg. Now, he was under Polk, yet was not informed of the change. Bragg had passed it off upon Polk, who, in turn, passed it off upon a courier, who, after searching for some amount of time, could not find Hill and returned to his own camp.
This courier carried with him not only news of Hill’s new and lesser rank, but written orders of the roll he was to play in the morning’s battle. Hill’s Corps, with General John Breckenridge’s Division in the lead, was to begin the attack against the Federal left flank. Though the courier bears some of the blame, most was held by General Bragg himself as Breckenridge had spent a good deal of time in his company the night before.
And so when dawn finally broke, General Hill was still missing. It was only then that Polk took command, sending orders to Hill’s divisional commanders to attack at once. When this message was delivered, however, the courier found Hill in a meeting with his commanders. Hill refused to go into action right away. It was the first he had heard of the plan, he claimed, and wouldn’t be able to move “for an hour or more.”
HUGE map of the morning action.
HUGE map of the morning action.
By this time, Bragg was personally on the scene and berated both Polk and Hill. The main complaint lodged by Hill was that the lines had not been reconnoitered, and for that, he could not be blamed. His corps had been on the Confederate left the previous evening as per orders issued before the reorganization and had just arrived on the right. There was no cavalry on his flanks and nobody seemed to know anything.
General Rosecrans’ line was in two main segments. George Thomas commanded the left, while Alexander McCook held the right. Believing that Bragg’s main goal was to retake Chattanooga, he was determined to hold Thomas’ line, which blocked the roads leading into the city. Knowing this, Thomas called upon Rosecrans for reinforcements.
Rosecrans was not deaf to Thomas’ call, and pulled brigades from his right to strengthen his left. This became a farcical debacle. General James Negley commanded one of Thomas’ Divisions. He had been too far to the right to take much part in the initial struggle. Seeing this, Rosecrans ordered Thomas Wood’s Division from Thomas Crittenden’s Corps to fill the gap left by Negley. Wood apparently misunderstood the orders and moved his division to support Negley, not replace him. This put him a third of a mile behind the actual line.
When Rosecrans noticed, he let loose his rage upon General Wood, who finally moved into his proper position, replacing Negley’s Division. What nobody seemed to notice until now was that Negley’s Division was made up of three brigades, while Wood’s had only two. If Wood were left on his own, he would open up a brigade-size gap in the Federal line. Without orders, Negley left one of his brigades behind.
HUGE map of the afternoon action.
HUGE map of the afternoon action.
Finally, at 9:30am, the Confederate attack began. Breckenridge’s Division stepped off, followed en echelon by Patrick Cleburne on his left. Nathan Bedford Forrest’s troopers also joined in, greatly impressing General Hill. They came screaming with violence, hurling themselves against breastworks constructed by four different divisions. But it was futile. Even without the reserves called for by General Thomas, the Federals beat back the storming Rebels, whose wave crested and receded through the mid morning, leaving thousands of wounded and dead behind.
Through the morning attacks, the Union center, held by Joseph Reynolds’ Division, had been lightly hit. When word came for yet more reinforcements to be shifted to the left, Rosecrans turned to General John Brannan, commanding the division on Reynolds’ right. Though Reynolds told Brannan that he could probably hold his own if Thomas really needed him, it was Thomas that canceled the order. Thomas, however, neglected to tell anyone but Brannan about it.
To fill the gap that would have been made if Brannan had left, Rosecrans ordered General Wood, who was on Brannan’s right, to shift to the left. Wood followed the orders to the letter, even though his own skirmishers were engaged and Brannan was still in position. This created a division-size gap in the Federal line, one that General Jefferson C. Davis, whose division was in reserve, was rushing to fill when James Longstreet launched the second Confederate assault.
When John Bell Hood’s Rebels smashed into the Federal line, it was already in confusion and crumbled easily. So quickly it came, and unexpected, that General Rosecrans himself was forced to flee as thousands of Confederates broke through and captured his headquarters.
“All became confusion,” remembered General Gates Thruston, who witnessed the route. “No order could be heard above the tempest of battle. With a wild yell the Confederates swept on the far to their left. They seemed everywhere victorious.” General Rosecrans did not stop until he reached Chattanooga.
HUGE map of the late afternoon action.
HUGE map of the late afternoon action.
And yet, there was still Thomas. The Federal right had collapsed, but the reinforced left had remained. An excited General Longstreet wanted to follow the retreating Yankees, battering them all the way back to Chattanooga. General Bragg, however, was in a foul mood. The battle might have been going in their direction, but it was not moving according to his machinations. He had dreamed of rolling up the Federal left with Polk’s wing, not routing the Federal right with Longstreet’s.
Longstreet was completely taken aback, and immediately assumed that Bragg somehow believed that the battle had been lost. With nothing left to do, Longstreet rode back to his line, which was now facing a new Federal defensive position created by Thomas, whose troops now seemed to be in a U-shape, clinging as they were to the aptly-named Horseshoe Ridge. As Longstreet scouted the line, he could not see that Thomas’ line was disjointed. The two sides of the “U” did not meet, and left a half-mile gap between them.
The Rebels under James Longstreet had attacked, but it was mostly in a piecemeal fashion until his entire line was ablaze. Charge after charge they threw upon the southern-facing line of Horseshoe Ridge, but with each they were hurled back. Longstreet unleashed his artillery upon the eastern-facing portion, hoping to aide General Polk in a full assault that would certainly come quickly. While waiting, he sent troops from Simon Buckner’s Corps into the hastily-filled gap between Thomas’ two lines. They were slow to gain ground, but when they finally broke through, they bagged three entire regiments and ultimately doomed Thomas’ position.
Longstreet: I'm not going to take the blame of any of this, okay?
Longstreet: I’m not going to take the blame of any of this, okay?
While Polk had ordered D.H. Hill to attack well before Longstreet got into position, Hill was again slow. Around the time that Buckner gained his ground, Hill attacked in earnest. This was all too much, and Thomas was forced into a full retreat with the westering sun. They fled through McFarland’s Gap and did not stop their flight until they landed in Rossville on the outskirts of Chattanooga.
It was a complete Confederate victory, but all sense was lost in the dark. The men were scattered and low on ammunition, and though there was an enemy to pursue, neither Longstreet nor Bragg knew where they had gone. Perhaps by the light of day, all would be revealed.
For now, anyway, the fighting along the Chickamauga was at an end. Both armies paid dearly for their toils, with a combined roll of 30,000. Rosecrans lost 1,657 killed, 9,756 wounded, and 4,757 captured or missing. Bragg, the attacker, faired much worse, suffering 2,312 killed, 14,674 wounded, 1,468 missing.1
1. Sources: Braxton Bragg and Confederate Defeat, Vol. 2 by Judith Lee Hallock; The Army of Tennessee by Stanley Horn; Six Armies in Tennessee by Steven E. Woodworth; Autumn of Glory by Thomas Lawrence Connelly; Days of Glory by Larry J. Daniel; This Terrible Sound by Peter Cozzens. []
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Or, equivalently, in terms of the wave's angular frequency ω, which specifies the number of oscillations per unit of time, and wavenumber k, which specifies the number of oscillations per unit of space, by
the amplitude becomes a sinusoid with phase speed of vg = Δωk. It is this modulation that represents the signal content. Since each amplitude envelope contains a group of internal waves, this speed is usually called the group velocity.[2] In reality, the vp = ω/k and vg = dω/dk ratios are determined by the media. The relation between phase speed, vp, and speed of light, c, is known as refractive index, n = c/vp = ck/ω. Taking the derivative of ω = ck/n, we get the group speed,
Noting that c/n = vp, this shows that group speed is equal to phase speed only when the refractive index is a constant: dn/dk = 0.[2] Otherwise, when the phase velocity varies with frequency, velocities differ and the medium is called dispersive and the function, \omega(k), from which the group velocity is derived is known as a dispersion relation. The group velocity of electromagnetic radiation may – under certain circumstances (for example anomalous dispersion) – exceed the speed of light in a vacuum, but this does not indicate any superluminal information or energy transfer. It was theoretically described by physicists such as Arnold Sommerfeld and Léon Brillouin. See dispersion for a full discussion of wave velocities.
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1. ^ Nemirovsky, Jonathan; Rechtsman, Mikael C and Segev, Mordechai (9). "Negative radiation pressure and negative effective refractive index via dielectric birefringence". Optics Express 20 (8): 8907–8914. doi:10.1364/OE.20.008907.
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If I issued a payment to a company, and I wanted them to notify me when receiving the payment, could I say 'please acknowledge the payment when receiving it?' Is the word 'acknowledge' alright to be used here?
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The business language to be used is:
Please acknowledge receipt of payment.
It is short and sweet, and to the point.
You do not have to say "when you receive payment" or any sort of auxiliary instruction. The phrase is understood by anyone who has run a business professionally, and that a "receipt" is to be issued to the payer.
It is like writing "RSVP", where you do not need to tell the person invited "please ...blah ... when you receive this invitation." Writing "RSVP" simply says, "Please respond" (in French).
Saying "... when you receive ..." is redundant.
However, I notice that when "professional businesses" write to mom & pop stores, they frequently write (in a style similar to),
Please issue receipt to {business name and address} upon receiving this payment.
Alternatively, they go a step further
Enclosed with this payment is a form to indicate receipt of our payment. Please acknowledge the payment by signing the form and mailing it back to us in the stamped and self-addressed envelope provided.
BTW, "self-addressed envelope"? Can an envelope address itself? Seems illogical to me.
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Yes, but I would say "when you have received", not "when receiving"
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I'd say "upon receipt". I regard "when you have received" as verbose and ambiguous (it refers to all time after receipt). – jwpat7 Apr 24 '12 at 2:47
agreed, but I was mainly correcting the verb tense on "receive" – JeffSahol Apr 24 '12 at 16:56
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Is there a name for this characteristic of the human body (see the arrows in the picture below)? They seem as 'holes' on the back.
I'm not able to imagine one
picture of feature
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These holes/depressions are called dimples of venus. Also called back dimples or butt dimples.
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Hmmm... Venus with that picture. Me thinks someone is just jonesing for points with a pretty picture... – Affable Geek Jun 6 '12 at 20:10
@AffableGeek See, the picture isn't pretty anymore. – user20934 Jun 7 '12 at 6:44
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The single-word you are requesting is "dimples."
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In Saints Row the Third, Is it possible to complete the survival challenges after all the territories have been taken over?
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Yes, it's possible to do this after taking all territories and/or completing the story. I had to finish up quite a few of them after everything else since they can take some time to pop up.
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Rammstein sings "Sie kommen zu euch in der Nacht" in "Mein herz brennt" song, but to my knowledge "Nacht" is of female gender and it's supposed to be "die Nacht". So what am I missing?
And also http://www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/Nacht says it's die Nacht.
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It's "die Nacht" in the standard nominative case, but Rammstein's line is using it in the dative case, which is "der" for feminine nouns.
Remember that there are 4 cases for nouns, and that the article and adjective declinations change depending on what case you are using.
See here for all the different cases for Nacht.
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Die Torte, die Torte, es ist Zucker in der Torte! – user unknown Jan 19 '12 at 22:21
The more interesting question would be: Why can you say des Nachts? – chirlu Jul 16 at 18:59
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As StrixVaria said, "in der Nacht" is dativ. Here are the general cases:
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Nominativ/Accusativ/Genitiv/Dativ Nominativ/Accusativ/Genitiv/Dativ
der den dem des die die den der (+n)
die die der der die die den der
das das dem des (+s) die die den der (+n)
So for example, school is female, "die Schule", but you must say: "in der Schule".
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Thanx for details! – Denys S. Jan 20 '12 at 10:03
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passive switch is basically a stand by switch, if i m not wrong……..
active passive or managed unmanaged?
when you say active/passive only active is the one working while passive is just a back-up.
when you say managed, further configuration is needed for the switch to work properly, an unmanaged switch is just a plug and play switch, no configurations needed.
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I'm not sure what you mean by Active and Passive. If you mean Managed and Unmanaged, a Managed switch is a switch which you can configure. This allows you to control what network or vLAN each port is on, as it allows you to monitor each port for bandwidth usage, etc. An unmanaged switch simply routes data between the ports.
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Active Switching – input signals are sent through active electronic circuitry to buffer the signal. Can be used to compensate for low levels of H & V signals and bring them up to appropriate levels. Some signal processors can actively switch between signal types such as RGBs to RGBHV
Passive Switching – means no electronic changes made to the signal. Also bidirectional, it can be a switcher and/or an RGB video router
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Chris Zakes moondrgn at earthlink.net
Sat Nov 19 08:21:01 PST 2005
At 09:22 AM 11/19/2005, you wrote:
>Ok, however, let's say that they make concerted efforts (thru various
>means and people) to impose their views and idea of the SCA (a personal
>party club) on rest of the group, despite efforts to negotiate "peace and
>Add to this issue the fact that there are more of them than the folks that
>travel and wish to participate in the "true" SCA, not the SCA that is
>practiced in someones living room.
>Keep in mind that the attitude of the ones being dealt with do not deal in
>logic and trying to "educate them in the SCA" results only in
>confrontation, laughter (ridicule) and no results.
One possibility would be to try to get the group to sponser a kingdom-level
event--I know the seneschal is frequently looking for bids for Crown,
Queen's Champion, Coronation, etc. This would pretty much ensure that
there's a lot of exposure of that group to "kingdom level culture" and how
things are really done.
If the isolationists still insist on playing things their way, and if
they're in the majority for that group, then there's not much the other
folks can do, except spend most of their time at out of town events. (On
the bright side, if all they're doing is "playing SCA in their living
room," it's unlikely that they are going to ever be noticed by the rest of
the kingdom--no AoAs, Thistles, or higher awards.
-Tivar Moondragon
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Re: ITP: Slash, Sourceforge (fwd)
On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Craig Sanders wrote:
> slash is perl, so if it uses DBI i'd suggest hacking it to use DBD::Pg
> rather than DBD::mysql. that shouldn't be a huge amount of work. a
> different script to create the tables and minor alterations to the SQL
> commands.
Yes it does use DBI so actual changes to the code should be minimal
but I only have MySQL installed and don't know much about the differences
between SQL in the two versions so initially my package will be for MySQL
only and will go into contrib.
> otherwise, hack it to use postgres directly and submit the changes back
> upstream (don't you love it when someone volunteers you for hard work :)
However if some sends me a patch for postgres support, I will gladly
incorporate it. (Right back at ya Craig :-)
I hope to have an initial package by the end of the day.
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Pi as the Sum of Rational Numbers
Date: 02/20/2003 at 00:24:53
From: Huang Tang (Joy)
Subject: Pi as a sum of rational numbers
I managed to come up with this equation:
pi/4 = 1 - 1/3 + 1/5 - 1/7 + ... + 1/(4n+1) - 1/(4n+3) + ...
Is is right? If so, since pi is the sum of rational numbers, doesn't
it have to be rational also?
Date: 02/20/2003 at 02:21:41
From: Doctor Jacques
Subject: Re: Pi as a sum of rational numbers
Hi Joy,
It is true that
However, this does not imply that Pi is rational. What we have here
is not a sum, but the limit of an infinite series, i.e. the limit of
the sequence of partial sums:
1 - 1/3
1 - 1/3 + 1/5
Although each such partial sum is rational, the limit of these sums is
There are other examples. Consider, for example, the square root of 2:
sqrt(2) = 1.414213562373...
We can write this as an infinite series:
1 + 4/10 + 1/100 + 4/1000 .....
In this case, all the terms are rational. However, it is well known
(since Archimedes) that sqrt(2) is irrational.
By the way, you could also have used that argument on Pi itself (or
any irrational number):
Pi = 3.1415926...
Pi = 3 + 1/10 + 4/100 + 1/1000 ...
Does this clarify the issue?
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You can use fixed-point vertex data to increase the transforming and lighting speeds of 3D graphics drivers that do not implement transforming and lighting in hardware. Some drivers are capable of working faster on fixed-point data. You can determine if your driver uses floating-point math operations by examining the NativeFloat property of a DeviceCaps structure. If the property value is false, then using data in a fixed-point format is preferable for the device. All Windows Mobile Direct3D drivers are required to support both fixed-point and floating-point data.
Fixed-point vertex buffers are used in the same way that floating-point vertex buffers are used. The only differences are the format of the data they contain and the flexible vertex format specified when the vertex buffer is created.
If the data is not originally in a fixed-point format, you can construct a Mesh object that contains floating-point data and then convert it to fixed-point data with a call to the Clone method of the Mesh object.
The following table lists the VertexFormats enumeration values used to specify various flexible formats for floating-point and fixed-point data. This list is not comprehensive of the possibilities, but it does provide examples of how a fixed-point flexible vertex format differs from a floating-point flexible vertex format.
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Position and normal
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VertexFormats.PositionFixed | VertexFormats.Diffuse
Position and one 2D texture coordinate
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VertexFormats.PositionFixed | VertexFormats.Texture1 | VertexTextureCoordinate.Fixed(0)
Position, normal, specular color, diffuse color, a 1D texture coordinate, and a 2D texture coordinate
VertexFormats.Position | VertexFormats.Normal | VertexFormats.Diffuse | VertexFormats.Texture2 | VertexTextureCoordinate.Size1(0)
VertexFormats.PositionFixed | VertexFormats.NormalFixed | VertexFormats.Diffuse | VertexFormats.Texture2 | VertexTextureCoordinate.Size1(0) | VertexTextureCoordinate.Fixed(0) | VertexTextureCoordinate.Fixed(1)
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1. HLA-DR Specific Monoclonal Antibodies Block Lymphoproliferative Response to Measles Vaccine in vitro: a pilot study
Vaccine 2012;30(47):6628-6631.
Humoral and cell-mediated immune responses are important in protection against measles. Non-response to vaccination has been associated with specific HLA-DR and HLA-DQ alleles; however, little is known about the relative importance of these alleles in the cellular immune response induced by measles virus vaccine. To investigate the role of HLA-DR/DQ class II restriction, a small pilot study was conducted. Lymphoproliferation assays using class II DR and DQ-specific monoclonal antibodies (MoAb) were performed at one week and two weeks post immunization with MMRII vaccine. The mean stimulation index (SI) was 4.4 and 5.3 at one and two weeks with reductions in SI of 47.6% and 70.2%, respectively, following the addition of DR-specific MoAb (p<0.001). These results clearly show that a significant proportion of the cell-mediated immune response to measles virus vaccine, as measured by SI, is HLA-DR restricted.
PMCID: PMC3473139 PMID: 22944627
Cell-mediated immunity (CMI); Vaccine; HLA-restriction; Measles Virus; Immunity; Monoclonal Antibody; Immune memory
2. Soft truncation thresholding for gene set analysis of RNA-seq data: Application to a vaccine study
Scientific Reports 2013;3:2898.
Gene set analysis (GSA) has been used for analysis of microarray data to aid the interpretation and to increase statistical power. With the advent of next-generation sequencing, the use of GSA is even more relevant, as studies are often conducted on a small number of samples. We propose the use of soft truncation thresholding and the Gamma Method (GM) to determine significant gene set (GS), where a generalized linear model is used to assess per-gene significance. The approach was compared to other methods using an extensive simulation study and RNA-seq data from smallpox vaccine study. The GM was found to outperform other proposed methods. Application of the GM to the smallpox vaccine study found the GSs to be moderately associated with response, including focal adhesion (p = 0.04) and extracellular matrix receptor interaction (p = 0.05). The application of GSA to RNA-seq data will provide new insights into the genomic basis of complex traits.
PMCID: PMC3793215 PMID: 24104466
3. Response surface methodology to determine optimal measles-specific cytokine responses in human peripheral blood mononuclear cells
Journal of Immunological Methods 2012;382(1-2):220-223.
Limitations of assay variability, labor costs, and availability of cells can affect the conduct of large population-based studies. The ability to determine optimal conditions for laboratory assessment of immune outcomes, including measurement of cytokines, can reduce the number of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) needed, reduce the labor costs involved, and the variability in secreted cytokine response by pooling cytokines from the same cell culture supernatant. Previously, we used response surface methodology to predict optimal conditions for vaccinia virus-stimulated cytokine responses in recipients of smallpox vaccine. Here we apply the same approach for a measles vaccine study.
PBMCs were collected from vaccinated subjects, and seven cytokines (IFN-γ, IL-2, TNF-α, IL-10, IFN-α, IFN-λ1, and IL-6) involved in measles virus-specific cytokine immune responses were examined. PBMCs were stimulated with differing multiplicity of infection (MOI) and days in culture (incubation time). Response surface methodology was used to select the optimal MOI and incubation time for each secreted cytokine.
Our results demonstrate that each cytokine’s optimal conditions (MOI and incubation time) differ for each virus (measles vs. vaccinia) and each cytokine’s optimal conditions for each virus can be predicted using response surface methodology. These conditions allow for cytokines with overlapping optimal conditions to be pooled from the same supernatant in culture to reduce the number of PBMCs used, the costs involved, and assay variability. Therefore, response surface methodology is an effective technique that can be used to optimize antigen-specific secreted cytokines prior to population-based studies.
PMCID: PMC3399242 PMID: 22705088
Response surface methodology; measles virus; vaccinia virus; cytokine; ELISA
Vaccine 2012;30(32):4778-4784.
PMCID: PMC3387748 PMID: 22658931
5. Genome-Wide Association Study of Antibody Response to Smallpox Vaccine
Vaccine 2012;30(28):4182-4189.
We performed a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of antibody levels in a multi-ethnic group of 1,071 healthy smallpox vaccine recipients. In Caucasians, the most prominent association was found with promoter SNP rs10489759 in the LOC647132 pseudogene on chromosome 1 (p=7.77 × 10-8). In African-Americans, we identified eight genetic loci at p< 5 × 10-7. The SNP association with the lowest p-value (rs10508727, p=1.05 × 10-10) was in the Mohawk homeobox (MKX) gene on chromosome 10. Other candidate genes included LOC388460, GPR158, ZHX2, SPIRE1, GREM2, CSMD1, and RUNX1. In Hispanics, the top six associations between genetic variants and antibody levels had p-values less than 5 × 10-7, with p=1.78 × 10-10 for the strongest statistical association (promoter SNP rs12256830 in the PCDH15 gene). In addition, SNP rs4748153 in the immune response gene PRKCQ (protein kinase C, theta) was significantly associated with neutralizing antibody levels (p=2.51 × 10-8). Additional SNP associations in Hispanics (p ≤3.40 × 10-7) were mapped to the KIF6/LOC100131899, CYP2C9, and ANKLE2/GOLGA3 genes. This study has identified candidate SNPs that may be important in regulating humoral immunity to smallpox vaccination. Replication studies, as well as studies elucidating the functional consequences of contributing genes and polymorphisms, are underway.
PMCID: PMC3367131 PMID: 22542470
GWAS; Smallpox Vaccine; Vaccinia Virus; Humoral Immunity; Immunogenetics; SNPs
6. Measles, Mumps, and Rubella
Measles, mumps, and rubella are viral diseases that may adversely affect non-immune pregnant women and their fetuses/neonates. Prevention of these diseases and their complications can be achieved through measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccination prior to pregnancy. The vaccine is contraindicated during pregnancy because it contains live, attenuated viruses that pose a theoretical risk to the fetus. However, accidental receipt of MMR vaccination is not known to cause maternal/fetal complications. MMR immunization is recommended to non-immune obstetric patients upon completion or termination of pregnancy.
PMCID: PMC3334858 PMID: 22510638
Measles-Mumps-Rubella Vaccine; Measles; Mumps; Rubella; Congenital Rubella Syndrome; Obstetrics
7. Replication of Associations between Cytokine and Cytokine Receptor Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms and Measles-Specific Adaptive Immunophenotypic Extremes
Human Immunology 2012;73(6):636-640.
Our objective was to replicate previously reported associations between cytokine and cytokine receptor SNPs and humoral and CMI (cell-mediated immune) responses to measles vaccine. All subjects (n=758) received two doses of MMR (measles/mumps/rubella) vaccine. From these subjects, candidate cytokine and cytokine receptor SNPs were genotyped and analyzed in 29–30 subjects falling into one of four “extreme” humoral (Abhigh/low) and CMI (CMIhigh/low) response quadrants. Associations between seven SNPs (out of 11 in the discovery study) and measles-specific neutralizing antibody levels and IFN-γ ELISPOT responses were evaluated using chi-square tests. We found one replicated association for SNP rs372889 in the IL12RB1 gene (P=0.03 for AbhighCMIhigh versus AblowCMIlow). Our findings demonstrate the importance of replicating genotypic-phenotypic associations, which can be achieved using immunophenotypic extremes and smaller sample sizes. We speculate that IL12RB1 polymorphisms may affect IL-12 and IL-23 binding and downstream effects, which are critical cytokines in the CMI response to measles vaccine.
PMCID: PMC3368081 PMID: 22504412
Measles immunity; SNP; Cytokine Receptor; IL12RB1; Replication Study
Expert review of vaccines 2012;11(8):985-994.
Annual vaccination against seasonal influenza is recommended to decrease disease-related mortality and morbidity. However, one population that responds suboptimally to influenza vaccine is adults over the age of 65 years. The natural aging process is associated with a complex deterioration of multiple components of the host immune system. Research into this phenomenon, known as immunosenescence, has shown that aging alters both the innate and adaptive branches of the immune system. The intricate mechanisms involved in immune response to influenza vaccine, and how these responses are altered with age, have led us to adopt a more encompassing systems biology approach to understand exactly why the response to vaccination diminishes with age. Here, the authors review what changes occur with immunosenescence, and some immunogenetic factors that influence response, and outline the systems biology approach to understand the immune response to seasonal influenza vaccination in older adults.
PMCID: PMC3514506 PMID: 23002979
bioinformatics; immunogenetics; immunosenescence; influenza; seasonal influenza vaccine; systems biology; vaccinomics; vaccine-induced immunity
9. Independence of Measles-Specific Humoral and Cellular Immune Responses to Vaccination
Human Immunology 2012;73(5):474-479.
With a larger, independent cohort and more sophisticated measures, we sought to confirm our work that indicated independence of humoral and cellular immunity following measles vaccination. We recruited an age-stratified random cohort of 764 healthy subjects from all socio-economic strata, all with medical-record documentation of two age-appropriate doses of measles-containing vaccine. We quantified measles-specific neutralizing antibody levels and assayed the IFN-γ ELISPOT response to measles virus. We also measured secreted cytokines from the PBMCs in response to measles virus by performing enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays as secondary measures of cellular immune status. The median antibody level and median IFN-γ ELISPOT response were 844 mIU/mL (IQR: 418 to 1,752) and 36 (IQR: 13.00 to 69.00) spot-forming cells (per 2×105 PBMCs), respectively. We found only a very weak and negative correlation [Spearman’s rs or rho of −0.090 (95 percent confidence interval −0.162 to −0.018)]. We found a similar lack of quantitatively important correlations between the neutralizing antibody level and any of the secondary measures. Our data confirm the independence of humoral and cellular immune responses after the second dose of measles vaccination. As researchers pursue novel measles vaccine and measles vaccine delivery systems, they must not infer that humoral responses predict cellular responses.
PMCID: PMC3338862 PMID: 22406060
Measles Vaccine; Immunity, Humoral; Immunity, Cellular; Antibody Formation; Cytokines
10. Multigenic Control of Measles Vaccine Immunity Mediated by Polymorphisms in Measles Receptor, Innate Pathway, and Cytokine Genes
Vaccine 2012;30(12):2159-2167.
Measles infection and vaccine response are complex biological processes that involve both viral and host genetic factors. We have previously investigated the influence of genetic polymorphisms on vaccine immune response, including measles vaccines, and have shown that polymorphisms in HLA, cytokine, cytokine receptor, and innate immune response genes are associated with variation in vaccine response but do not account for all of the inter-individual variance seen in vaccinated populations. In the current study we report the findings of a multigenic analysis of measles vaccine immunity, indicating a role for the measles virus receptor CD46, innate pattern-recognition receptors (DDX58, TLR2, 4, 5,7 and 8) and intracellular signaling intermediates (MAP3K7, NFKBIA), and key antiviral molecules (VISA, OAS2, MX1, PKR) as well as cytokines (IFNA1, IL4, IL6, IL8, IL12B) and cytokine receptor genes (IL2RB, IL6R, IL8RA) in the genetic control of both humoral and cellular immune responses. This multivariate approach provided additional insights into the genetic control of measles vaccine responses over and above the information gained by our previous univariate SNP association analyses.
PMCID: PMC3288471 PMID: 22265947
measles vaccine; immunogenetics; vaccine response; multigenic SNP association; interferon response; cytokines; Toll-like receptors
11. Consistency of HLA Associations between Two Independent Measles Vaccine Cohorts: A Replication Study
Vaccine 2012;30(12):2146-2152.
Associations between HLA genotypes and measles vaccine humoral and cellular immune responses were examined to better understand immunogenetic drivers of vaccine response. Two independent study cohorts of healthy schoolchildren were examined: cohort one, 346 children between 12–18 years of age; and cohort two, 388 children between 11–19 years of age. All received two age-appropriate doses of measles-containing vaccine. The purpose of this study was to identify and replicate associations between HLA genes and immune responses following measles vaccination found in our first cohort. Associations of comparable magnitudes and with similar p-values were observed between B*3503 (1st cohort p=0.01; 2nd cohort p=0.07), DQA1*0201 (1st cohort p=0.03; 2nd cohort p=0.03), DQB1*0303 (1st cohort p=0.10; 2nd cohort p=0.02), DQB1*0602 (1st cohort p=0.07; 2nd cohort p=0.10), and DRB1*0701 (1st cohort p=0.03; 2nd cohort p=0.07) alleles and measles-specific antibody levels. Suggestive, yet consistent, associations were observed between the B7(1 st cohort p=0.01; 2nd cohort p=0.08) supertype and higher measles antibody levels in both cohorts. Also, in both cohorts, the B*0801 and DRB1*0301 alleles, C*0802 and DPA1*0202 alleles, and DRB1*1303 alleles displayed consistent associations with variations in IFN-γ, IL-2 and IL-10 secretion, respectively. This study emphasizes the importance of replicating HLA associations with measles vaccine-induced humoral and cellular immune responses and increases confidence in the results. These data will inform strategies for functional studies and novel vaccine development, including epitope-based measles vaccines. This is the first HLA association replication study with measles vaccine-specific immune responses to date.
PMCID: PMC3288791 PMID: 22285888
Measles vaccine; HLA genotypes; Haplotypes; Antibodies; Cytokines; Replication study
12. Associations Between Demographic Variables and Multiple Measles-Specific Innate and Cell-Mediated Immune Responses After Measles Vaccination
Viral Immunology 2012;25(1):29-36.
Measles remains a public health concern due to a lack of vaccine use and vaccine failure. A better understanding of the factors that influence variations in immune responses, including innate/inflammatory and adaptive cellular immune responses, following measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccination could increase our knowledge of measles vaccine-induced immunity and potentially lead to better vaccines. Measles-specific innate/inflammatory and adaptive cell-mediated immune (CMI) responses were characterized using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays to quantify the levels of secreted IL-2, IL-6, IL-10, IFN-α, IFN-γ, IFN-λ1, and TNF-α in PBMC cultures following in vitro stimulation with measles virus (MV) in a cohort of 764 school-aged children. IFN-γ ELISPOT assays were performed to ascertain the number of measles-specific IFN-γ-secreting cells. Cytokine responses were then tested for associations with self-declared demographic data, including gender, race, and ethnicity. Females secreted significantly more TNF-α, IL-6, and IFN-α (p<0.001, p<0.002, p<0.04, respectively) compared to males. Caucasians secreted significantly more IFN-λ1, IL-10, IL-2, TNF-α, IL-6, and IFN-α (p<0.001, p<0.001, p<0.001, p<0.003, p<0.01, and p<0.02, respectively) compared to the other racial groups combined. Additionally, Caucasians had a greater number of IFN-γ-secreting cells compared to other racial groups (p<0.001). Ethnicity was not significantly correlated with variations in measles-specific CMI measures. Our data suggest that innate/inflammatory and CMI cytokine responses to measles vaccine vary significantly by gender and race. These data further advance our understanding regarding inter-individual and subgroup variations in immune responses to measles vaccination.
PMCID: PMC3271368 PMID: 22239234
13. Effects of Vitamin A and D Receptor Gene Polymorphisms/Haplotypes on Immune Responses to Measles Vaccine
Pharmacogenetics and genomics 2012;22(1):20-31.
Vitamin A and D, and their receptors, are important regulators of the immune system, including vaccine immune response. We assessed the association between polymorphisms in the vitamin A (RARA, RARB and RARG) and vitamin D receptor (VDR)/RXRA genes and inter-individual variations in immune responses after two doses of measles vaccine in 745 subjects.
Using a tagSNP approach, we genotyped 745 healthy children for the 391 polymorphisms in vitamin A and D receptor genes.
The RARB haplotype (rs6800566/rs6550976/rs9834818) was significantly associated with variations in both measles antibody (global p=0.013) and cytokine secretion levels, such as IL-10 (global p=0.006), IFN-α (global p=0.008), and TNF-α (global p=0.039) in the Caucasian subgroup. Specifically, the RARB haplotype AAC was associated with higher (t-statistic 3.27, p=0.001) measles antibody levels. At the other end of the spectrum, haplotype GG for rs6550978/rs6777544 was associated with lower antibody levels (t-statistic −2.32, p=0.020) in the Caucasian subgroup. In a sensitivity analysis, the RARB haplotype CTGGGCAA remained marginally significant (p<0.02) when the single SNP rs12630816 was included in the model for IL-10 secretion levels. A significant association was found between lower measles-specific IFN-γ Elispot responses and haplotypes rs11102986/rs11103473/rs11103482/rs10776909/rs12004589/rs35780541/rs2266677/rs875444 (global p=0.004) and rs6537944/rs3118571 (global p<0.001) in the RXRA gene for Caucasians. We also found associations between multiple RARB, VDR and RXRA SNPs/haplotypes and measles-specific IL-2, IL-6, IL-10, IFN-α, IFN-γ, IFNλ-1, and TNF-α cytokine secretion.
Our results suggest that specific allelic variations and haplotypes in the vitamin A and D receptor genes may influence adaptive immune responses to measles vaccine.
PMCID: PMC3237827 PMID: 22082653
Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms; Measles Vaccine Immunity; Vitamin A Receptor; Vitamin D Receptor; Genes; Immunogenetics
14. Ontology-based time information representation of vaccine adverse events in VAERS for temporal analysis
PMCID: PMC3554604 PMID: 23256916
15. The Association of CD46, SLAM and CD209 Cellular Receptor Gene SNPs with Variations in Measles Vaccine-Induced Immune Responses: A Replication Study and Examination of Novel Polymorphisms
Human Heredity 2011;72(3):206-223.
The measles virus (MV) interacts with two known cellular receptors: CD46 and SLAM. The transmembrane receptor CD209 interacts with MV and augments dendritic cell infection.
764 subjects previously immunized with measles-mumps-rubella vaccine were genotyped for 66 candidate SNPs in the CD46, SLAM and CD209 genes as part of a larger study.
A previously detected association of the CD46 SNP rs2724384 with measles-specific antibodies was successfully replicated in this study. Increased representation of the minor allele G for an intronic CD46 SNP was associated with an allele dose-related decrease (978 vs. 522 mIU/ml, p = 0.0007) in antibody levels. This polymorphism rs2724384 also demonstrated associations with IL-6 (p = 0.02), IFN-α (p = 0.007) and TNF-α (p = 0.0007) responses. Two polymorphisms (coding rs164288 and intronic rs11265452) in the SLAM gene that were associated with measles antibody levels in our previous study were associated with IFN-γ Elispot (p = 0.04) and IL-10 responses (p = 0.0008), respectively, in this study. We found associations between haplotypes, AACGGAATGGAAAG (p = 0.009) and GGCCGAGAGGAGAG (p < 0.001), in the CD46 gene and TNF-α secretion.
Understanding the functional and mechanistic consequences of these genetic polymorphisms on immune response variations could assist in directing new measles and potentially other viral vaccine design, and in better understanding measles immunogenetics.
PMCID: PMC3242703 PMID: 22086389
Measles virus receptors; Single nucleotide polymorphisms; Measles vaccine immunity; SNP; CD46; SLAM; CD209; Replication study
16. Human Leukocyte Antigen Associations with Humoral and Cellular Immunity Following a Second Dose of Measles-Containing Vaccine: Persistence, Dampening, and Extinction of Associations Found After a First Dose
Vaccine 2011;29(45):7982-7991.
Previously we found Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) associations with humoral immunity following a single dose of measles-containing vaccine. In this study, we sought to determine if HLA associations exist with humoral and cellular immunity following a second dose of measles-containing vaccine and if the associations we found with humoral immunity after the first dose persist following a second dose.
We recruited a population-based sample of 346 schoolchildren, all who previously received two doses of a measles-containing vaccine. Molecular HLA class I and II typing as well as humoral and cellular immune assays (measles-specific IgG antibody levels and lymphoproliferative response) were performed in these subjects.
We found significant associations with class I HLA-B (p=0.05) as well as class II HLA-DPB1 (p=0.01) and -DPA1 (p=0.03) genes for measles vaccine-induced antibody levels after the second dose. Similarly, we found significant associations with class II HLA-DQB1 (p=0.05) and -DRB1 (p=0.01) genes for measles-specific lymphoproliferation after the second dose.
While we found HLA associations after the second dose that we previously found after the first dose of measles containing vaccine, fewer alleles had statistically significant associations, suggesting that the second dose had a dampening or extinguishing effect on the HLA associations. It appears that the second dose overcomes HLA restriction through an as yet unknown mechanism. Future studies of HLA associations should consider both the effect of dose and the role that subsequent doses might play on genetic associations found with the response to a first dose.
PMCID: PMC3319093 PMID: 21872631
Antibody Formation; Histocompatibility Antigens Class I; Histocompatibility Antigens Class II; Immunogenetics; Lymphocyte Activation; Measles Antibody; Measles Vaccine; Measles-Mumps-Rubella Vaccine
17. Associations between Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms and Haplotypes in Cytokine and Cytokine Receptor Genes and Immunity to Measles Vaccination
Vaccine 2011;29(45):7883-7895.
Identification of host genetic determinants of measles vaccine-induced immunity can be used to design better vaccines and ultimately predict immune responses to vaccination. We performed a comprehensive candidate gene association study across 801 genetic markers in 56 cytokine/cytokine receptor genes, in a racially diverse cohort of 745 schoolchildren after two doses of MMR vaccine. Using linear regression methodologies we examined associations between SNPs/haplotypes and measles virus-specific immunity.
Forty-eight significant SNP associations with variations in neutralizing antibodies and measles-specific IFNγ Elispot responses were identified (p<0.05). Our study replicated an important previously found association of a functional IL12B genetic variant rs3212227 with variations in measles-specific humoral immunity (p=0.037). Similarly, two previously reported promoter IL10 and IL2 polymorphisms (rs1800890 and rs2069762) demonstrated associations with measles-specific cellular immunity in Caucasians (p≤0.034). Multiple IL7R polymorphisms, including a non-synonymous functional SNP (rs6897932/Thr244Ile), were associated with humoral (p≤0.024) and/or cellular (IFNγ Elispot, p≤0.023) measles-specific immune responses in Caucasians, but not African-Americans. Haplotype level analysis confirmed the association of IL7R genetic variants with measles vaccine-induced immunity in the Caucasian group (global p-value=0.003). Our results validate previous findings and identify new plausible genetic determinants, including IL7R polymorphisms, regulating measles vaccine-induced immunity in a race-specific manner.
PMCID: PMC3191314 PMID: 21875636
Measles vaccine; Immunity; Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms; Haplotypes; Cytokine; Cytokine receptor
18. Correlations Between Vaccinia-Specific Immune Responses Within a Cohort of Armed Forces Members
Viral Immunology 2011;24(5):415-420.
Widespread vaccination with vaccinia virus (VACV) resulted in the eradication of smallpox; however, the licensed VACV-containing vaccines are associated with adverse events (AEs), making them unsuitable for certain high-risk populations. A better understanding of the host immune response following smallpox vaccination could result in vaccines with similar immunogenicity profiles to pre-eradication vaccines with a lower incidence of AEs. To study the immune response to VACV, we recruited 1,076 armed forces members who had been vaccinated with one dose of Dryvax®. We measured multiple VACV-specific immune responses: neutralizing antibody titer, the level of 12 secreted cytokines in peripheral blood mononuclear cell (PBMC) cultures (IL-1β, IL-2, IL-4, IL-6, IL-10, IL-12p40, IL-12p70, TNF-α, IFN-γ, IFN-α, IFN-β, and IL-18), and the number of IFN-γ- and CD8+ IFN-γ-secreting cells. We analyzed these data to determine correlations between immune response measures. We detected a strong proinflammatory response in concert with a Th-1-like cytokine response pattern at a median time point of 15.3 mo following primary vaccination. We also detected correlations between neutralizing antibody titer and secreted IL-2, as well as secreted IFN-γ (p=0.009 and p=0.0007, respectively). We also detected strong correlations between the proinflammatory cytokines IL-1β, TNF-α, IL-6, and IL-12p40 (p<0.0001). These results further advance our knowledge of vaccinia-specific cellular immune responses. Notably, vaccine-induced proinflammatory responses were not correlated with neutralizing antibody titers, suggesting that further attenuation to reduce inflammatory immune responses may result in decreased AEs without sacrificing VACV immunogenicity and population seropositivity.
PMCID: PMC3236101 PMID: 21958369
19. The Top Five “Game Changers” in Vaccinology: Toward Rational and Directed Vaccine Development
Despite the tremendous success of the classical “isolate, inactivate, and inject” approach to vaccine development, new breakthroughs in vaccine research are increasingly reliant on novel approaches that incorporate cutting edge technology and advances in innate and adaptive immunology, microbiology, virology, pathogen biology, genetics, bioinformatics, and many other disciplines in order to: (1) deepen our understanding of the key biological processes that lead to protective immunity, (2) observe vaccine responses on a global, systems level, and (3) directly apply the new knowledge gained to the development of next-generation vaccines with improved safety profiles, enhanced efficacy, and even targeted utility in select populations. Here we highlight five key components foundational to vaccinomics efforts: applied immunogenomics, next generation sequencing and other cutting-edge “omics” technologies, advanced bioinformatics and analysis techniques, and finally, systems biology applied to immune profiling and vaccine responses. We believe these “game changers” will play a critical role in moving us toward the rational and directed development of new vaccines in the 21st century.
PMCID: PMC3166183 PMID: 21815811
20. Vaccinomics and a New Paradigm for the Development of Preventive Vaccines Against Viral Infections
In this article we define vaccinomics as the integration of immunogenetics and immunogenomics with systems biology and immune profiling. Vaccinomics is based on the use of cutting edge, high-dimensional (so called “omics”) assays and novel bioinformatics approaches to the development of next-generation vaccines and the expansion of our capabilities in individualized medicine. Vaccinomics will allow us to move beyond the empiric “isolate, inactivate, and inject” approach characterizing past vaccine development efforts, and toward a more detailed molecular and systemic understanding of the carefully choreographed series of biological processes involved in developing viral vaccine-induced “immunity.” This enhanced understanding will then be applied to overcome the obstacles to the creation of effective vaccines to protect against pathogens, particularly hypervariable viruses, with the greatest current impact on public health. Here we provide an overview of how vaccinomics will inform vaccine science, the development of new vaccines and/or clinically relevant biomarkers or surrogates of protection, vaccine response heterogeneity, and our understanding of immunosenescence.
PMCID: PMC3166201 PMID: 21732819
21. Common SNPs/Haplotypes in IL18R1 and IL18 Genes Are Associated With Variations in Humoral Immunity to Smallpox Vaccination in Caucasians and African Americans
The Journal of Infectious Diseases 2011;204(3):433-441.
Background. Identifying genetic factors that influence poxvirus immunity across races may assist in the development of better vaccines and approaches for vaccine development.
Methods. We performed an extensive candidate-gene genetic screen (across 32 cytokine and cytokine receptor genes) in a racially diverse cohort of 1056 healthy adults after a single dose of smallpox vaccine. Associations between single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs)/haplotypes and vaccinia virus–specific neutralizing antibodies were assessed using linear regression methodologies.
Results. The combined analysis identified 63 associations between candidate SNPs and antibody levels after smallpox vaccination with P < .05. Thirty-one of these were within the IL18R1 and IL18 genes. Five IL18R1 SNPs, including a coding synonymous polymorphism rs1035130 (Phe251Phe) and 2 promoter SNPs (rs6710885, rs2287037), all in linkage disequilibrium, were associated with significant variations in antibody levels in both Caucasians (P ≤ .016) and African Americans (P ≤ .025). Similarly, associations with 2 intronic IL18 SNPs (rs2043055 and rs5744280) were consistent in the Caucasian (P ≤ .023) and African American samples (P ≤ .014). Haplotype analysis revealed highly significant associations between IL18R1 haplotypes and vaccinia virus–specific antibody levels (P < .001, by combined analysis) that were consistent across races.
Conclusions. Our study provides evidence for IL18 and IL18R1 genes as plausible genes regulating the humoral immune response to smallpox vaccine in both Caucasians and African Americans.
PMCID: PMC3132141 PMID: 21742843
22. Technical and biological variance structure in mRNA-Seq data: life in the real world
BMC Genomics 2012;13:304.
mRNA expression data from next generation sequencing platforms is obtained in the form of counts per gene or exon. Counts have classically been assumed to follow a Poisson distribution in which the variance is equal to the mean. The Negative Binomial distribution which allows for over-dispersion, i.e., for the variance to be greater than the mean, is commonly used to model count data as well.
PMCID: PMC3505161 PMID: 22769017
23. A large observational study to concurrently assess persistence of measles specific B-cell and T-cell immunity in individuals following two doses of MMR vaccine
Vaccine 2011;29(27):4485-4491.
The measurement of measles-specific neutralizing antibodies, directed against the surface measles virus hemagglutinin and fusion proteins, is considered the gold standard in measles serology. We assessed functional measles-specific neutralizing antibody levels in a racially diverse cohort of 763 young healthy adolescents after receipt of two doses of measles-mumps-rubella vaccine, by the use of an automated plaque reduction microneutralization (PRMN) assay, and evaluated their relevance to protective antibody levels, as well as their associations with demographic and clinical variables. We also concurrently assessed measles-specific IFNγ Elispot responses and their relation to the observed antibody concentrations.
The geometric mean titer for our cohort was 832 mIU/mL (95% CIs: 776; 891). Sixty-eight subjects (8.9%) had antibody concentrations of less than the protective threshold of 210 mIU/mL (corresponding to PRMN titer of 120; suggesting protection against symptomatic disease), and 177 subjects (23.2%) demonstrated persisting antibody concentrations above 1,841 mIU/mL (corresponding to PRMN titer of 1,052; suggesting total protection against viral infection), 7.4 years after vaccination, in the absence of wild-type virus boosting. The mean measles-specific IFNγ Elispot response for our cohort was 46 (95% CIs: 43; 49) IFNγ-positive spots per 200,000 cells with no relation of cellular immunity measures to the observed antibody concentrations. No significant associations between antibody titers and demographic and clinical variables, including gender and race, were observed in our study.
In conclusion, in a large observational study of measles immunity, we used an automated high-throughput measles virus-specific neutralization assay to measure humoral immunity, and concurrently determined measles-specific cellular immunity to aid the assessment of potential susceptibility to measles in vaccinated populations.
PMCID: PMC3117252 PMID: 21539880
measles; vaccine; neutralizing antibodies; cellular immunity; plaque reduction microneutralization
24. Vaccinomics: Current Findings, Challenges and Novel Approaches for Vaccine Development
The AAPS Journal 2011;13(3):438-444.
Recent years have witnessed a growing interest in a field of vaccinology that we have named vaccinomics. The overall idea behind vaccinomics is to identify genetic and other mechanisms and pathways that determine immune responses, and thereby provide new candidate vaccine approaches. Considerable data show that host genetic polymorphisms act as important determinants of innate and adaptive immunity to vaccines. This review highlights examples of the role of immunogenetics and immunogenomics in understanding immune responses to vaccination, which are highly variable across the population. The influence of HLA genes, non-HLA, and innate genes in inter-individual variations in immune responses to viral vaccines are examined using population-based gene/SNP association studies. The ability to understand relationships between immune response gene variants and vaccine-specific immunity may assist in designing new vaccines. At the same time, application of state-of-the-art next-generation sequencing technology (and bioinformatics) is desired to provide new genetic information and its relationship to the immune response.
PMCID: PMC3160164 PMID: 21671143
genetic association; HLA; immunogenetics; polymorphisms; SNPs; vaccines; vaccinomics
25. Human Leukocyte Antigen Genotypes in the Genetic Control of Adaptive Immune Responses to Smallpox Vaccine
The Journal of Infectious Diseases 2011;203(11):1546-1555.
Background. The role of human leukocyte antigen (HLA) genes in mediating adaptive immune responses to smallpox vaccine remains unknown.
Methods. We determined genotypes for a group of individuals (n = 1071) who received a single dose of smallpox vaccine (Dryvax, Wyeth Laboratories) and examined associations between HLA alleles and 15 immune outcomes to smallpox vaccine on a per-locus and a per-allele level.
Results. We found significant associations between the HLA-B and HLA - DQB1 loci and vaccinia-induced antibodies (P = .04 for each locus), with the HLA-B*1302 (P = .036), B*3802 (P = .011), DQB1*0302 (P = .015), and DQB1*0604 (P = .017) alleles being associated with higher levels. Significant global associations were identified between vaccinia-specific interferon (IFN)–γ and DQA1 (P = .003), interleukin (IL)–1β and HLA-B (P = .004), tumor necrosis factor (TNF)–α and HLA-B (P = .006), and IL-6 and HLA-B locus (P = .016) for secreted cytokines, as well as between CD8α+ IFN-γ Elispot responses and DQB1 (P = .027). Subjects carrying B*3906 (P = .006) and B*5701 (P < .001) secreted higher levels of IL-1β than did subjects who did not carry these alleles. Subjects carrying the B*5301 (P = .047) and B*5601 (P = .008) alleles secreted less IL-1β, compared with subjects who did not carry these alleles. The B*3502 (P = .009), B*5601 (P = .004), and B*5701 (P < .001) alleles were significantly associated with variations in TNF-α secretion.
Conclusions. These data suggest that variations in antibody and cellular IFN-γ, IL-1β, TNF-α, and IL-6 immune responses after receipt of smallpox vaccine are genetically controlled by HLA genes or genes in close linkage disequilibrium to these alleles.
PMCID: PMC3096794 PMID: 21592983
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1. Effects of calorie restriction on chromosomal stability in rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta)
Age 2006;29(1):15-28.
The basic tenet of several theories on aging is increasing genomic instability resulting from interactions with the environment. Chromosomal aberrations have been used as classic examples of increasing genomic instability since they demonstrate an increase in numerical and structural abnormalities with age in many species including humans. This accumulating damage may augment many aging processes and initiate age-related diseases, such as neoplasias. Calorie restriction (CR) is one of the most robust interventions for reducing the frequency of age-related diseases and for extending life span in many short-lived organisms. However, the mechanisms for the anti-aging effects of CR are not yet well understood. A study of rhesus monkeys was begun in 1987 to determine if CR is also effective in reducing the frequency of age-related diseases and retarding aging in a long-lived mammal. Male monkeys were begun on the diet in 1987, and females were added in 1992 to examine a possible difference in response to CR by sex. The CR monkeys have been maintained for over 10 years on a low-fat nutritional diet that provides a 30% calorie reduction compared to a control (CON) group. Because of the greater similarity of nonhuman primates to humans in life span and environmental responses to diet compared with those of rodents, the rhesus monkey provides an excellent model for the effects of CR in humans. This study examined the effects of CR on chromosomal instability with aging. Significant age effects were found in both CR and CON groups for the number of cells with aneuploidy: old animals had a higher loss and a higher gain than young animals. However, there was no effect of age on chromosomal breakage or structural aberrations in either diet group. Diet had only one significant effect: the CR group had a higher frequency of chromatid gaps than did the CON group. CR, implemented in adult rhesus monkeys, does not have a major effect on the reduction of numerical or structural aberrations related to aging.
PMCID: PMC2267682 PMID: 19424827
aging; calorie restriction; chromosomal stability; diet; rhesus monkeys
2. Lifespan modification by glucose and methionine in Drosophila melanogaster fed a chemically defined diet
Age 2006;29(1):29-39.
Experimentally restricting dietary calories, while maintaining adequate dietary nutrient content, extends lifespan in phylogenetically diverse species; thus suggesting the existence of conserved pathways which can modify lifespan in response to energy intake. However, in some cases the impact on longevity may depend on the quality of the energy source. In Drosophila, restriction of dietary yeast yields considerable lifespan extension whereas isocaloric restriction of dietary sugar yields only modest extension, indicating that other diet-responsive pathways can modify lifespan in this species. In rodents, restricting intake of a single amino acid – methionine – extends lifespan. Here we show that dietary methionine can modify lifespan in adult female, non-virgin Oregon-R strain Drosophila fed a chemically defined media. Compared to a diet containing 0.135% methionine and 15% glucose, high dietary methionine (0.405%) shortened maximum lifespan by 2.33% from 86 to 84 days and mean lifespan by 9.55% from 71.7 to 64.9 days. Further restriction of methionine to 0.045% did not extend maximum lifespan and shortened mean lifespan by 1.95% from 71.1 to 70.3 days. Restricting glucose from 15% to 5% while holding methionine at a concentration of 0.135%, modestly extended maximum lifespan by 5.8% from 86 to 91 days, without extending mean lifespan. All these diet-induced changes were highly significant (log-rank p < 0.0001). Notably, all four diets resulted in considerably longer life spans than those typically reported for flies fed conventional yeast and sugar based diets. Such defined diets can be used to identify lifespan-modifying pathways and specific gene-nutrient interactions in Drosophila.
PMCID: PMC2267680 PMID: 19424828
aging; amino acid; caloric restriction; demography; dietary restriction; Drosophila; longevity; methionine; mortality; nutrition
3. Insights on aging and exceptional longevity from longitudinal data: novel findings from the Framingham Heart Study
Age 2006;28(4):363-374.
Age trajectories of physiological indices contain important information about aging-related changes in the human organism and therefore may help us understand human longevity. The goal of this study is to investigate whether shapes of such trajectories earlier in life affect the residual life span distribution. We used longitudinal limited access data from seven physiological indices and life spans of respective individuals collected in the Framingham Heart Study (FHS). These include: diastolic blood pressure (DBP), pulse pressure (PP), body mass index (BMI), serum cholesterol (SCH), blood glucose (BG), hematocrit (HC), and pulse rate (PR). We developed a method for assigning individuals to groups of potentially long-lived (PLL) and potentially medium-lived (PML) groups using age trajectories of physiological indices at the age interval between 40 and 60 years. The analysis shows that the longevity of individuals who survived to age of 65 depends on the behavior of the physiological indices between 40 and 60 years of age.
PMCID: PMC1994150 PMID: 17895962
Age trajectories; Aging; Exceptional longevity; Longitudinal data; Physiological indices; The Framingham Heart Study
4. Do personality characteristics predict longevity? Findings from the Tokyo Centenarian Study
Age 2006;28(4):353-361.
PMCID: PMC3259156 PMID: 22253501
centenarian; longevity factors; NEO-FFI; personality traits
5. Age editorial
Age 2006;28(4):309-311.
PMCID: PMC3259158 PMID: 22253497
6. Personality and longevity: findings from the Georgia Centenarian Study
Age 2006;28(4):343-352.
Centenarians are thought of as unique and exceptional survivors. This study evaluated specific personality traits and configurations of traits among participants of the Georgia Centenarian Study. Two hundred and eighty five centenarians and their nominated proxies participated in this study. Self ratings and proxy informant ratings were obtained for different traits and facets of the Big-5 personality typology. Results suggested that centenarians overall had low levels of Neuroticism, but high levels of Extraversion, Competence, and Trust. When compared to centenarian self ratings, proxies provided significantly higher ratings for Neuroticism, Hostility, and Vulnerability, but lower ratings for Competence and Trust. Among Centenarians, the personality configuration of low Neuroticism, high Competence, and high Extraversion traits is over-represented relative to chance. The results confirm that centenarians show several unique single traits, but that a special combination of traits (i.e., low levels of Neuroticism, high Competence, and high Extraversion) are also notable in this group of exceptional survivors.
PMCID: PMC3259159 PMID: 22253500
centenarians; longevity; proxy rating; self rating; traits
7. Genetic determinants of exceptional human longevity: insights from the Okinawa Centenarian Study
Age 2006;28(4):313-332.
Centenarians represent a rare phenotype appearing in roughly 10–20 per 100,000 persons in most industrialized countries but as high as 40–50 per 100,000 persons in Okinawa, Japan. Siblings of centenarians in Okinawa have been found to have cumulative survival advantages such that female centenarian siblings have a 2.58-fold likelihood and male siblings a 5.43-fold likelihood (versus their birth cohorts) of reaching the age of 90 years. This is indicative of a strong familial component to longevity. Centenarians may live such extraordinarily long lives in large part due to genetic variations that either affect the rate of aging and/or have genes that result in decreased susceptibility to age-associated diseases. Some of the most promising candidate genes appear to be those involved in regulatory pathways such as insulin signaling, immunoinflammatory response, stress resistance or cardiovascular function. Although gene variants with large beneficial effects have been suggested to exist, only APOE, an important regulator of lipoproteins has been consistently associated with a longer human lifespan across numerous populations. As longevity is a very complex trait, several issues challenge our ability to identify its genetic influences, such as control for environmental confounders across time, the lack of precise phenotypes of aging and longevity, statistical power, study design and availability of appropriate study populations. Genetic studies on the Okinawan population suggest that Okinawans are a genetically distinct group that has several characteristics of a founder population, including less genetic diversity, and clustering of specific gene variants, some of which may be related to longevity. Further work on this population and other genetic isolates would be of significant interest to the genetics of human longevity.
PMCID: PMC3259160 PMID: 22253498
longevity; genetics; centenarians; Okinawa; longevity genes
8. Dietary differences between centenarians residing in communities and in skilled nursing facilities: the Georgia Centenarian Study
Age 2006;28(4):333-341.
The purpose of this study was to examine the dietary habits among centenarians residing in community settings (n=105) and in skilled nursing facilities (n=139). The sample was a population-based multi-ethnic sample of adults aged 98 years and older (N=244) from northern Georgia in the US. Compared to centenarians in skilled nursing facilities, those residing in the community were more than twice as likely to be able to eat without help and to receive most of their nourishment from typical foods, but they had a lower frequency of intake of all of the food groups examined, including dairy, meat, poultry and fish, eggs, green vegetables, orange/yellow vegetables, citrus fruit or juice, non-citrus fruit or juice, and oral liquid supplements. A food summary score was created (the sum of the meeting recommendations for five food groups). In multiple regression analyses, the food summary scores were positively associated with residing in a nursing facility and negatively associated with eating without help and receiving most nourishment from typical foods. These data suggest that centenarians residing in communities may have limited access to foods that are known to provide nutrients essential to health and well-being. Also, centenarians who are able to eat without help and/or who eat mainly typical foods may have inadequate intakes of recommended food groups. Given the essential role of foods and nutrition to health and well-being throughout life, these findings require further exploration through the detailed dietary analyses of centenarians living in various settings.
PMCID: PMC3259161 PMID: 22253499
Dietary habits; centenarian; community-dwelling; nursing home
Age (Dordrecht, Netherlands) 2006;28(4):363-374.
PMCID: PMC1994150 PMID: 17895962
age trajectories; aging; exceptional longevity; longitudinal data; physiological indices; the Framingham Heart Study; BG blood glucose; BMI body mass index; CVD cardiovascular disease; DBP diastolic blood pressure; FHS the Framingham Heart Study; HC hematocrit; LL long-lived; ML medium-lived; PLL potentially long-lived; PML potentially medium-lived; PP pulse pressure; PR pulse rate; SCH serum cholesterol; SL short-lived
10. Age-related disruptions of circadian rhythm and memory in the senescence-accelerated mouse (SAMP8)
Age 2006;28(3):283-296.
Common complaints of the elderly involve impaired cognitive abilities, such as loss of memory and inability to attend. Although much research has been devoted to these cognitive impairments, other factors such as disrupted sleep patterns and increased daytime drowsiness may contribute indirectly to impaired cognitive abilities. Disrupted sleep–wake cycles may be the result of age-related changes to the internal (circadian) clock. In this article, we review recent research on aging and circadian rhythms with a focus on the senescence-accelerated mouse (SAM) as a model of aging. We explore some of the neurobiological mechanisms that appear to be responsible for our aging clock, and consider implications of this work for age-related changes in cognition.
PMCID: PMC3259149 PMID: 22253495
aging; C-Fos; circadian rhythms; mouse; running wheel; SAMP8; suprachiasmatic nucleus
11. Endovascular middle cerebral artery occlusion in rats as a model for studying vascular dementia
Age 2006;28(3):297-307.
PMCID: PMC3259150 PMID: 22253496
12. Individual differences in neurocognitive aging of the medial temporal lobe
Age 2006;28(3):221-233.
A wide spectrum of outcomes in the cognitive effects of aging is routinely observed in studies of the elderly. Individual differences in neurocognitive aging are also a characteristic of other species, such as rodents and non-human primates. In particular, investigations at behavioral, brain systems, cellular and molecular levels of analysis have provided much information on the basis for individual differences in neurocognitive aging among healthy outbred rats. These findings are likely to be relevant to an understanding of the effects of aging on the brain, apart from neurodegenerative conditions, such as Alzheimer’s disease, which do not naturally occur in rodents. Here we review and integrate those findings in a model supporting the concept that certain features of cognitive decline are caused by distributed alterations in the medial temporal lobe, which alter the information processing functions of the hippocampal formation. An additional emerging concept from this research is that preserved abilities at older ages may depend on adaptive changes in the hippocampal system that distinguish successful aging.
PMCID: PMC3259151 PMID: 22253491
spatial memory; hippocampal formation; successful aging; rats; cognitive impairment
13. Rodent models of brain aging and neurodegeneration
Age 2006;28(3):219-220.
PMCID: PMC3259152
14. Relationships among cognitive function, fine motor speed and age in the rhesus monkey
Age 2006;28(3):255-264.
Declines in fine motor skills and cognitive function are well known features of human aging. Yet, the relationship between age-related impairments in motor and cognitive function remains unclear. Rhesus monkeys, like humans, show marked decline in cognitive and fine motor function with age and are excellent models to investigate potential interactions between age-related declines in cognitive and motor functioning. We investigated the relationships among cognition, motor function and age in 30 male and female rhesus monkeys, 5–28 years of age, tested on a battery of cognitive tasks [acquisition of the delayed non-matching-to-sample (DNMS), DNMS-120s, DNMS-600s, acquisition of delayed recognition span test (DRST), spatial-DRST and object-DRST] and a fine motor task (Lifesaver test). Global cognitive ability, as assessed by the cognitive performance index (CPI), was impaired with age in both sexes, while age-related motor slowing was found only in males. After age was controlled for, half the variance in CPI was predicted by motor speed, with better cognitive ability associated with slower motor skills. Analyses at the level of each cognitive task revealed that motor speed and age predicted the rate of acquisition of the DNMS. This relationship was robust in males and absent in females. Motor speed was not a significant predictor of any other cognitive variable. We conclude that the relationship between cognition and motor function (1) may be limited to non-spatial tasks; (2) exists independently of age; (3) may reflect different contributions of the fronto-striatal system; (4) may be particularly evident in males.
PMCID: PMC3259153 PMID: 22253493
aging; learning; macaque; motor skills; memory; sex differences
15. Profiling psychomotor and cognitive aging in four-way cross mice
Age 2006;28(3):265-282.
PMCID: PMC3259154 PMID: 22253494
Age 2006;28(3):235-253.
PMCID: PMC3259155 PMID: 22253492
17. Do long-lived mutant and calorie-restricted mice share common anti-aging mechanisms?—a pathological point of view
Age 2006;28(2):163-171.
Rodent models are an invaluable resource for studying the mechanism of mammalian aging. In recent years, the availability of transgenic and knockout mouse models has facilitated the study of potential mechanisms of aging. Since 1996, aging studies with several long-lived mutant mice have been conducted. Studies with the long-lived mutant mice, Ames and Snell dwarf, and growth hormone receptor/binding protein knockout mice, are currently providing important clues regarding the role of the growth hormone/insulin like growth factor-1 axis in the aging process. Interestingly, these studies demonstrate that these long-lived mutant mice have physiological characteristics that are similar to the effects of calorie restriction, which has been the most effective experimental manipulation capable of extending lifespan in various species. However, a question remains to be answered: do these long-lived mutant and calorie-restricted mice extend their lifespan through a common underlying mechanism?
PMCID: PMC2464730 PMID: 19943137
aging; growth hormone receptor/binding protein; knockout mouse; neoplastic disease
18. The aging brain: is function dependent on growth hormone/insulin-like growth factor-1 signaling?
Age 2006;28(2):173-180.
The role of growth hormone (GH) and insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) in normal brain function is not well understood. Studies looking at cognition in humans with GH deficiency have produced controversial results. Experiments in which GH is administered to rodents have shown an apparent improvement in learning and memory. However, studies in which GH deficient or resistant mice were tested in learning and memory tasks reveal that these animals have normal cognitive performance and that their neural function does not deteriorate with age at the same rate as their normal siblings. Further research into this phenomenon revealed that these animals have elevated GH and IGF-1 expression in the hippocampus compared to normal animals. Additional studies with GH deficient and resistant mice suggested that these mutants experience a delay in age-related decline in locomotor activity and exploratory behavior. Data indicate that GH/IGF-1 deficiency and resistance do not impair neural function and instead may offer some degree of protection that results in delayed cognitive and motor aging.
PMCID: PMC2464729 PMID: 19943138
aging; cognition; delayed aging; dwarfism; growth hormone; learning and memory
19. The age of heterozygosity
Age 2006;28(2):201-208.
Two mutant mouse models of longevity in which the loss of only one copy of the gene leads to a significantly increased lifespan have recently been described: Igf1r+/- and mclk1+/-. Igf1r encodes a transmembrane receptor kinase for the insulin-like growth factor-1, and mclk1 encodes a hydroxylase that is necessary for the biosynthesis of ubiquinone. Interestingly, the motivation for testing the longevity of both of these mutants came from observations in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. IGF-1R protein is homologous to DAF-2 and mCLK1 is the mouse orthologue of the C. elegans enzyme CLK-1. In worms, the homozygous inactivation of both of these longevity genes is viable and no dominant mutations are known. In addition to aging slowly, old mclk1+/- mice were found to undergo loss-of-heterozygosity at the mclk1 locus, which results in clones of mclk1-/- cells in the liver, presumably because mclk1-/- cells can outcompete mclk1+/- cells under certain conditions. We will discuss how these observations suggest novel directions of research, but also call for some caution in the interpretation of past and future results.
PMCID: PMC2464728 PMID: 19943141
aging; evolutionary conservation; loss-of-heterozygosity; mclk1; mouse models of longevity; ubiquinone
20. Introduction
Age 2006;28(2):123-124.
PMCID: PMC2464725 PMID: 19943134
21. Extension of mouse lifespan by overexpression of catalase
Age 2006;28(2):209-218.
The free radical theory of aging was originally proposed 50 years ago, and is arguably the most popular mechanism explaining the aging process. According to this theory, aging results from the progressive decline in organ function due to the damage generated by reactive oxygen species (ROS). These chemical species are a normal part of metabolism, and a group of enzymes exists to protect cells against their toxic effects. One of these species is hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), which can be degraded by catalase. To determine the role of hydrogen peroxide in aging and its importance in different subcellular compartments, transgenic mice were developed with increased catalase activities localized to the peroxisome (PCAT), nucleus (NCAT), or mitochondrion (MCAT). The largest effect on lifespan was found in MCAT animals, with a 20% increase in median lifespan and a 10% increase in the maximum lifespan. A more modest effect was seen in PCAT animals, and no significant change was found in NCAT animals. Upon further examination of the MCAT mice, it was found that H2O2 production and H2O2-induced aconitase inactivation were attenuated, oxidative damage and the development of mitochondrial deletions were reduced, and cardiac pathology and cataract development were delayed. These results are consistent with a role of H2O2 in the development of pathology and in the limitation of mouse lifespan. They also demonstrate the importance of mitochondria as a source, and possible target, of ROS.
PMCID: PMC2464724 PMID: 19943142
aconitase; aging; catalase; hydrogen peroxide; lifespan; mitochondria; mitochondrial DNA; reactive oxygen species; superoxide dismutase
22. Identification of longevity-associated genes in long-lived Snell and Ames dwarf mice
Age 2006;28(2):125-144.
Recent landmark molecular genetic studies have identified an evolutionarily conserved insulin/IGF-1 signal transduction pathway that regulates lifespan. In C. elegans, Drosophila, and rodents, attenuated insulin/IGF-1 signaling appears to regulate lifespan and enhance resistance to environmental stress. The Ames (Prop1df/df) and Snell (Pit1dw/dw) hypopituitary dwarf mice with growth hormone (GH), thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH), and prolactin deficiencies live 40–60% longer than control mice. Both mutants are resistant to multiple forms of environmental stress in vitro. Taken collectively, these genetic models indicate that diminished insulin/IGF-l signaling may play a central role in the determination of mammalian lifespan by conferring resistance to exogenous and endogenous stressors. These pleiotropic endocrine pathways control diverse programs of gene expression that appear to orchestrate the development of a biological phenotype that promotes longevity. With the ability to investigate thousands of genes simultaneously, several microarray surveys have identified potential longevity assurance genes and provided information on the mechanism(s) by which the dwarf genotypes (dw/dw) and (df/df), and caloric restriction may lead to longevity. We propose that a comparison of specific changes in gene expression shared between Snell and Ames dwarf mice may provide a deeper understanding of the transcriptional mechanisms of longevity determination. Furthermore, we propose that a comparison of the physiological consequences of the Pit1dw and Prop1df mutations may reveal transcriptional profiles similar to those reported for the C. elegans and Drosophila mutants. In this study we have identified classes of genes whose expression is similarly affected in both Snell and Ames dwarf mice. Our comparative microarray data suggest that specific detoxification enzymes of the P450 (CYP) family as well as oxidative and steroid metabolism may play a key role in longevity assurance of the Snell and Ames dwarf mouse mutants. We propose that the altered expression of these genes defines a biochemical phenotype which may promote longevity in Snell and Ames dwarf mice.
PMCID: PMC2464723 PMID: 19943135
Aging; Ames Dwarf; Detoxification; Metabolism; P450; PPAR; ROS; Snell Dwarf; Steriod
23. Aging-related characteristics of growth hormone receptor/binding protein gene-disrupted mice
Age 2006;28(2):191-200.
Since generation of the growth hormone receptor/binding protein (GHR/BP) gene-disrupted mouse nearly 10 years ago, use of this mouse model has become widespread in the elucidation of the physiological roles of GH and insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1). In particular, it serves as a useful model to study mechanisms of aging. This review highlights the evidence demonstrating that the loss of GH signaling leads to lifespan extension in mice, and presents the multiple characteristics of this mouse line that suggest the life extension is due to alteration of the aging process.
PMCID: PMC2464722 PMID: 19943140
aging; gene disruption; growth hormone receptor/binding protein; longevity; mice
24. Three layer functional model and energy exchange concept of aging process
Age 2006;28(1):111-121.
Relying on a certain degree of abstraction, we can propose that no particular distinction exists between animate or living matter and inanimate matter. While focusing attention on some specifics, the dividing line between the two can be drawn. The most apparent distinction is in the level of structural and functional organization with the dissimilar streams of ‘energy flow’ between the observed entity and the surrounding environment. In essence, living matter is created from inanimate matter which is organized to contain internal intense energy processes and maintain lower intensity energy exchange processes with the environment. Taking internal and external energy processes into account, we contend in this paper that living matter can be referred to as matter of dissipative structure, with this structure assumed to be a common quality of all living creatures and living matter in general. Interruption of internal energy conversion processes and terminating the controlled energy exchange with the environment leads to degeneration of dissipative structure and reduction of the same to inanimate matter, (gas, liquid and/or solid inanimate substances), and ultimately what can be called ‘death.’ This concept of what we call dissipative nature can be extended from living organisms to social groups of animals, to mankind. An analogy based on the organization of matter provides a basis for a functional model of living entities. The models relies on the parallels among the three central structures of any cell (nucleus, cytoplasm and outer membrane) and the human body (central organs, body fluids along with the connective tissues, and external skin integument). This three-part structural organization may be observed almost universally in nature. It can be observed from the atomic structure to the planetary and intergalactic organizations. This similarity is corroborated by the membrane theory applied to living organisms. According to the energy nature of living matter and the proposed functional model, the decreased integrity of a human body's external envelope membrane is a first cause of the structural degradation and aging of the entire organism. The aging process than progresses externally to internally, as in single cell organisms, suggesting that much of the efforts towards the restoration and maintenance of the mechanisms responsible for structural development should be focused accordingly, on the membrane, i.e., the skin. Numerous reports indicate that all parts of the human body, like: bones, blood with blood vessels, muscles, skin, and so on, have some ability for restoration. Therefore, actual revival of not only aging tissue of the human body's membrane, but the entire human body enclosed within, with all internal organs, might be expected. We assess several aging theories within the context of our model and provide suggestions on how to activate the body's own anti-aging mechanisms and increase longevity. This paper presents some analogies and some distinctions that exist between the living dissipative structure matter and inanimate matter, discusses the aging process and proposes certain aging reversal solutions.
PMCID: PMC2464718 PMID: 23598683
Aging; Bioenergetics; Body; Cell; Death; Degradation; Diseases; Dissipative; Environment; Formation; Fractal; Hierarchy; Hypothesis; Inanimate; Integument; Layer; Life; Living; Longevity; Model; Nourishment; Organism; Oxygen; Radicals; Regeneration; Rejuvenation; System; Skin; Stem; Thermodynamics; Theory; Tissue
25. You don't need a weatherman: famines, evolution, and intervention into aging
Age 2006;28(1):93-109.
Calorie restriction (CR) is the most robust available intervention into biological aging. Efforts are underway to develop pharmaceuticals that would replicate CR's anti-aging effects in humans (“CR mimetics”), on the assumption that the life- and healthspan-extending effects of CR in lower organisms will be proportionally extrapolable to humans (the “proportionality principle” (PP)). A recent argument from evolutionary theory (the “weather hypothesis” (WH)) suggests that CR (or its mimetics) will only provide 2–3 years of extended healthy lifespan in humans. The extension of healthy human lifespan that would be afforded by intervention into aging makes it crucial that resources for therapeutic development be optimally allocated; CR mimetics being the main direction being pursued for interventive biogerontology, this paper evaluates the challenge to the potential efficacy of CR mimetics posed by the WH, on a theoretical level and by reference to the available interspecies data on CR. Rodent data suggest that the anti-aging effects of CR continue to increase in inverse proportion to the degree of energy restriction imposed, well below the level that would be expected to be survivable under the conditions under which the mechanisms of CR evolved and are maintained in the wild. Moreover, the same increase in anti-aging effects continues well below the point at which it interferes with reproductive function. Both of these facts are in accordance with the predictions of evolutionary theory. Granted these facts, the interspecies data—including data available in humans—are consistent with the predictions of PP rather than those of the WH. This suggests that humans will respond to a high degree of CR (or its pharmaceutical simulation) with a proportional deceleration of aging, so that CR mimetics should be as effective in humans as CR itself is in the rodent model. Despite this fact, CR mimetics should not be the focus of biomedical gerontology, as strategies based on the direct targeting of the molecular lesions of aging are likely to lead to more rapidly developable and far more effective anti-aging biomedicines.
PMCID: PMC2464717 PMID: 23598682
aging/drug effects; calorie restriction; evolution; longevity/drug effects; models; biological
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the diversity of genes, species, and ecosystems in a region
genetic diversity
the number of different kinds of genes present in a population or a species
species diversity
the number of different species present in an area
ecosystem diversity
the number of kinds of ecosystems present in an area
all of the trees in a large area are removed
patchwork clear-cutting
smaller areas are clear-cut among patches of un-touched forest
clear-cut sites where natural reseeding or regrowth is slow may need to be replanted with trees, a process called this
selective harvesting
harvest specific individuals - reduces impact on environment
process of converting arid and semi-arid land to desert because of improper use by humans
occurs when humans harvest organisms faster than the organisms are able to reproduce
bush meat
meat from wild animals
endangered species
species with such small numbers that they are in immediate jeopardy of becoming extinct
threatened species
species that could become extinct if a critical factor in their environment were changed
any set of physical features that conceals or protects animals from the elements or enemies
habitat management
the habitat modifications made to enhance the success of a species
migratory birds
present some special management problems - example: waterfowl
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0.022676 | <urn:uuid:151871fe-a603-4208-a557-6a1f9030cd9d> | en | 0.956086 | EXCLUSIVE: Mugshot of Cindy Crawford’s Suspected Extortionist Edis Kayalar
This is the face of Edis Kayalar, the man who tried to extort over $100,000 from Cindy Crawford and Rande Gerber.
FIRST PHOTOS: Mugshots and Modeling Pics Of Edis Kayalar
Read the Official Documents Here
He had initially called the couple under the guise of being a concerned citizen- a ruse which quickly fell apart as he continued to seek more and more money while issuing a threat he would take the picture to the media.
EXCLUSIVE DETAILS: Cindy Crawford Target of Extortion Scheme
He was deported back to Germany shortly after being arrested for immigration violations in September.
The mugshot was taken in September when he was arrested for an immigration violation. He was deported back to Germany shortly after.
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0.028056 | <urn:uuid:374cd1f1-c64c-44fa-93b0-0f8be6a5891d> | en | 0.956373 | Flushed Away review (Game Boy Advance)
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Flushed Away for the GBA is a dull, repetitive side-scroller that deserves to be flushed away.
There's a fine line of distinction between games that are suited for children and games that are merely crummy. The deciding factor tends to be whether or not the game seems fun despite its cute looks and simple gameplay. In the case of Flushed Away for the Game Boy Advance, D3Publisher has produced a simplistic side-scrolling action game that's clearly geared toward younger players, but they've neglected to make the experience seem anything other than dull and repetitive.
Flushed Awayscreenshot
Players can control Roddy or Rita in this horrible side-scroller based on an animated movie.
As the title, character graphics, and dialogue scenes suggest, the game is based on the animated movie of the same name that was produced by Aardman Productions, the same outfit that brought Wallace & Gromit and Chicken Run to the big screen. The main characters and bosses in the game are large and nicely animated, and they closely resemble the clay-sculpted characters from the movie. Furthermore, the dialogue scenes that appear each time you complete a level are put together from a combination of the game's character sprites and image captures taken from the movie. Unfortunately, beyond those few sprites and cutaways, the game looks and sounds like every other hastily concocted side-scroller. Each level's background is an uninteresting collection of boxes, steel beams, and floors that don't resemble much of anything, let alone places from the movie. Within those bland backdrops, the majority of non-boss enemies are generic two-tone bugs, mice, and slugs that mostly just spit goo. Occasionally, an angry mouse will pull out a bazooka. The audio isn't any better. It's just an assortment of fast-paced music and comedic sound effects that, while appropriate, certainly weren't taken from the movie.
Flushed Awayscreenshot
For some reason, the developer thought the best way to interpret the movie was to have you yank a bunch of switches and swat a countless number of pink-and-black insects.
In addition to the weak presentation, the actual gameplay is overly simplistic and repetitive to the extreme. You go through the 12 main levels just swatting countless enemies and flipping an interminable number of switches. The two characters can run, jump, and attack, as well as activate a super attack when their power meters are full. That's it. The enemies generally sit still while you wail on them, but you don't have to worry too much if they do manage to spit out an attack, because they drop health items liberally. Aside from leaping between platforms every once in a while, you mainly spend your time in each level searching high and low for the switches that will unlock the doors standing in your way. The game only breaks out of its doldrums for the boss battles and boat-themed shoot-'em-up stages that occur at the end of some levels. These portions are a little more diverse and put up a bit more challenge, but not so much that they make up for the boring trek leading up to them.
Movie tie-in games on the GBA tend to stick to the generic "run, jump, and punch" formula. The problem with Flushed Away is that it sticks to the formula in the simplest and most matter-of-fact ways. There's no style, there's no flair, and there's definitely no fun. Although the game may have been produced with younger players in mind, it's so dull and tedious that any child with a pulse will give up on it within a few minutes.
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0.023392 | <urn:uuid:86ac6780-e012-4c06-8b71-1b7ab1eea9cd> | en | 0.957144 | Just in: Identiti Persona + fixed skills video
Urban freestyler that's cut from strong cloth...
by Dave Atkinson November 19, 2010
Just arrived at road.cc towers is this vision in orange, the Identiti Persona. Identiti are better known for the 4X and jump bikes that they make for our dirt hungry cousins, but the Persona is a full-on urban fixer with a freestyle bent and some neat touches.
The Persona is a little longer than a track geometry bike, and a gently sloping top tube gives a bit of extra standover height too. It's constructed from a mix of double butted and plain gauge TAF Cromoly steel and looks like it's built to last. The beefy chainstays and gusseted head tube suggest that if you want to hop more than a kerb you're unlikely to bend it, and Identiti-sponsored rider Chris Delia has certainly been giving it the beans on his pretty-much-stock bike, as you can see from this vid:
One particularly neat bit of engineering on the Persona is the dropouts, which use a taperlock system to stop the pull from the chain loosening the transmission. Basically the dropouts have a 1.5° taper from front to rear, and they're mated with a tapered washer to keep the axle straight. Once you tighten everything up the taper prevents the wheel from slipping forward, doing away with the need for chain tugs. It's a simple and elegant system.
Our test bike has come kitted out with Halo Aerotrack wheels running the ever dependable Twin Rail Courier tyres, and most of the other kit is from Gusset, including a very slick one piece bar and stem combo with an internal clamp. The frame comes bare with a sticker kit for you to decorate as you wish; as you can see, test pilot TR has gone for the 'put all the stickers as near to the front as possible' look.
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Module Version: 0.89 Source Latest Release: Char-Greek-0.92
Char::Egreek - Run-time routines for Char/
use Char::Egreek;
# "no Char::Egreek;" not supported
This module is a run-time routines of the Char/ Because the Char/ automatically uses this module, you need not use directly.
I have tested and verified this software using the best of my ability. However, a software containing much regular expression is bound to contain some bugs. Thus, if you happen to find a bug that's in Char::Greek software and not your own program, you can try to reduce it to a minimal test case and then report it to the following author's address. If you have an idea that could make this a more useful tool, please let everyone share it.
This Char::Egreek module first appeared in ActivePerl Build 522 Built under MSWin32 Compiled at Nov 2 1999 09:52:28
INABA Hitoshi <>
Split string
@split = Char::Egreek::split(/pattern/,$string,$limit);
@split = Char::Egreek::split(/pattern/,$string);
@split = Char::Egreek::split(/pattern/);
@split = Char::Egreek::split('',$string,$limit);
@split = Char::Egreek::split('',$string);
@split = Char::Egreek::split('');
@split = Char::Egreek::split();
@split = Char::Egreek::split;
This function scans a string given by $string for separators, and splits the
are determined by repeated pattern matching, using the regular expression given
at all, Char::Egreek::split returns the original string as a single substring, If it
If $limit is specified and positive, the function splits into no more than that
is omitted, the function splits the $_ string. If /pattern/ is also omitted or
is the literal space, " ", the function split on whitespace, /\s+/, after
skipping any leading whitespace.
use otherwise.
String of any length can be split:
@chars = Char::Egreek::split(//, $word);
@fields = Char::Egreek::split(/:/, $line);
@words = Char::Egreek::split(" ", $paragraph);
@lines = Char::Egreek::split(/^/, $buffer);
wherever it matches the null string between characters; nonnull matches will
width.) For example:
print join(":" => Char::Egreek::split(/ */, "hi there"));
Char::Egreek::split's pattern is exempt from that wrinkle.)
The $limit parameter splits only part of a string:
my ($login, $passwd, $remainder) = Char::Egreek::split(/:/, $_, 3);
returned. Here's a simple example:
Char::Egreek::split(/([-,])/, "1-10,20");
which produces the list value:
if you say:
Char::Egreek::split(/(-)|(,)/, "1-10,20");
you get the value:
once, use /$variable/o.
splits on whitespace just as Char::Egreek::split with no arguments does. Thus,
Char::Egreek::split(" ") can be used to emulate awk's default behavior. In contrast,
Char::Egreek::split(/ /) will give you as many null initial fields as there are
string and to collapse intervaning stretches of whitespace into a single
$string = join(" ", Char::Egreek::split(" ", $string));
The following example splits an RFC822 message header into a hash containing
%head = ("FRONTSTUFF", Char::Egreek::split(/^(\S*?):\s*/m, $header));
open(PASSWD, "/etc/passwd");
while (<PASSWD>) {
chomp; # remove trailing newline.
word-frequency hash.
while (<>) {
for my $word (Char::Egreek::split()) {
The inverse of Char::Egreek::split is join, except that join can only join with the
fields, use unpack.
$tr = Char::Egreek::tr($variable,$bind_operator,$searchlist,$replacementlist,$modifier);
This is the transliteration (sometimes erroneously called translation) operator,
everybody's humble opinion.
This function scans a Greek string character by character and replaces all
occurrences of the characters found in $searchlist with the corresponding character
If no Greek string is specified via =~ operator, the $_ variable is translated.
$modifier are:
Modifier Meaning
c Complement $searchlist.
d Delete found but unreplaced characters.
s Squash duplicate replaced characters.
r Return transliteration and leave the original string untouched.
print Char::Egreek::tr('bookkeeper','=~','boep','peob','r'); # prints 'peekkoobor'
Chop string
$chop = Char::Egreek::chop(@list);
$chop = Char::Egreek::chop();
$chop = Char::Egreek::chop;
character chopped. The Char::Egreek::chop function is used primary to remove the newline
since Char::Egreek::chop always shortens the string no matter what's there, and chomp
is more selective. If no argument is given, the function chops the $_ variable.
You cannot Char::Egreek::chop a literal, only a variable. If you Char::Egreek::chop a list of
variables, each string in the list is chopped:
@lines = `cat myfile`;
You can Char::Egreek::chop anything that is an lvalue, including an assignment:
Char::Egreek::chop($cwd = `pwd`);
Char::Egreek::chop($answer = <STDIN>);
This is different from:
$answer = Char::Egreek::chop($tmp = <STDIN>); # WRONG
which puts a newline into $answer because Char::Egreek::chop returns the character
intended here is with substr:
But this is more commonly written as:
In the most general case, Char::Egreek::chop can be expressed using substr:
$last_code = Char::Egreek::chop($var);
Char::Egreek::chop more than one character, use substr as an lvalue, assigning a null
substr($caravan, -5) = '';
form of substr, creating something of a quintuple Char::Egreek::chop;
Index string
$byte_pos = Char::Egreek::index($string,$substr,$byte_offset);
$byte_pos = Char::Egreek::index($string,$substr);
This function searches for one string within another. It returns the byte position
based at 0. If the substring is not found, the function returns one less than the
$byte_pos = -1;
while (($byte_pos = Char::Egreek::index($string, $lookfor, $byte_pos)) > -1) {
print "Found at $byte_pos\n";
Reverse index string
$byte_pos = Char::Egreek::rindex($string,$substr,$byte_offset);
$byte_pos = Char::Egreek::rindex($string,$substr);
This function works just like Char::Egreek::index except that it returns the byte
position of the last occurrence of $substring in $string (a reverse Char::Egreek::index).
The function returns -1 if $substring is not found. $byte_offset, if specified,
string backward, say:
$byte_pos = length($string);
while (($byte_pos = Char::Greek::rindex($string, $lookfor, $byte_pos)) >= 0) {
print "Found at $byte_pos\n";
Lower case string
$lc = Char::Egreek::lc($string);
$lc = Char::Egreek::lc_;
This function returns a lowercased version of Greek $string (or $_, if
$string is omitted). This is the internal function implementing the \L escape
in double-quoted strings.
You can use the Char::Egreek::fc function for case-insensitive comparisons via Char::Greek
Lower case first character of string
$lcfirst = Char::Egreek::lcfirst($string);
$lcfirst = Char::Egreek::lcfirst_;
This function returns a version of Greek $string with the first character
implementing the \l escape in double-quoted strings.
Upper case string
$uc = Char::Egreek::uc($string);
$uc = Char::Egreek::uc_;
This function returns an uppercased version of Greek $string (or $_, if
$string is omitted). This is the internal function implementing the \U escape
in interpolated strings. For titlecase, use Char::Egreek::ucfirst instead.
Upper case first character of string
$ucfirst = Char::Egreek::ucfirst($string);
$ucfirst = Char::Egreek::ucfirst_;
mapping instead. This is the internal function implementing the \u escape in
double-quoted strings.
to lowercase, use:
$titlecase = Char::Egreek::ucfirst(substr($word,0,1)) . Char::Egreek::lc(substr($word,1));
$string =~ s/(\w)(\w*)/\u$1\L$2/g;
Do not use:
$do_not_use = Char::Egreek::ucfirst(Char::Egreek::lc($word));
certain characters. The titlecase of something that's been lowercased doesn't
always produce the same thing titlecasing the original produces.
every character in a string.
See also P.287 A Case of Mistaken Identity
in Chapter 6: Unicode
Fold case string
P.860 fc
in Chapter 27: Functions
$fc = Char::Egreek::fc($string);
$fc = Char::Egreek::fc_;
New to Char::Greek software, this function returns the full Unicode-like casefold of
Greek $string (or $_, if omitted). This is the internal function implementing
the \F escape in double-quoted strings.
Char::Egreek::fc($a) eq Char::Egreek::fc($b)
modifier, because Char::Greek software has always used casefolding semantics for
comparisons like this:
sub fc_eq ($$) {
my($a,$b) = @_;
Make ignore case string
@ignorecase = Char::Egreek::ignorecase(@string);
This function is internal use to m/ /i, s/ / /i, split / /i and qr/ /i.
Make capture number
$capturenumber = Char::Egreek::capture($string);
This function is internal use to m/ /, s/ / /, split / / and qr/ /.
Make character
$chr = Char::Egreek::chr($code);
$chr = Char::Egreek::chr_;
This function returns a programmer-visible character, character represented by
that $code in the character set. For example, Char::Egreek::chr(65) is "A" in either
ASCII or Greek, not Unicode. For the reverse of Char::Egreek::chr, use Char::Greek::ord.
Filename expansion (globbing)
@glob = Char::Egreek::glob($string);
@glob = Char::Egreek::glob_;
This function returns the value of $string with filename expansions the way a
function implementing the <*> and glob operator.
This function function when the pathname ends with chr(0x5C) on MSWin32.
of the pattern by perl.
The Char::Egreek::glob function grandfathers the use of whitespace to separate multiple
by an "f", use either of:
@spacies = <"*e f*">;
@spacies = Char::Egreek::glob('"*e f*"');
@spacies = Char::Egreek::glob(q("*e f*"));
@spacies = Char::Egreek::glob("'*${var}e f*'");
@spacies = Char::Egreek::glob(qq("*${var}e f*"));
Another way on MSWin32
# relative path
# absolute path
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0.040237 | <urn:uuid:84acfa9a-b95c-4828-b4e2-2d68a265177d> | en | 0.964407 | Seeking Alpha
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You're right, (AMZN) does not make a smartphone. The closest gadget it creates is a tablet, which has been a huge success. But Amazon created this before the tablet market had so many players. Developing a smart phone is the next logical step, and it has been inching ever closer to all the needed ingredients. Make no mistake, the idea of an Amazon smartphone is alarming to the big players Apple (AAPL), Microsoft (MSFT), and Google (GOOG). It should also strike fear into the already dwindling Nokia (NOK) and Research In Motion (RIMM), but those are largely out of the game at this point.
Two new developments point yet again to the widely rumored Amazon smartphone.
First, it was announced today that Amazon acquired 3D mapping start up UpNext for an undisclosed sum of money. As those of you who follow the industry will immediately note, this news come quickly on the heels of Apple using its own maps for iOS 6 and Microsoft using Nokia Maps for its smartphone. Sure, Amazon could have acquired UpNext for the Kindle Fire, but how many people use Kindle Fires as a GPS?
The financial motives to get in the smartphone game are huge. Smartphone shipments are projected to grow 38% year over year in Q2, adding to the already staggering grow of smartphones. If Amazon wants to remain a power house, it needs to develop a smartphone. Not surprisingly, announcement of this news has pushed Amazon's stock higher, leaving it only $2 below its YTD high and $16 below its 52-week range. I fully expect it the stock to reach a new high in the coming month.
The other major news is the development of an Amazon cloud music player, set to launch in July. Much to the chagrin of Amazon, the four major music labels have reached agreements very similar to those they have with Apple. If we use Apple as an example, Amazon can expect up to 30% margin on this device, which is significantly higher than what it earns by selling tablets. But that is the strategy. Give customers tablets and sell them high margin apps and entertainment. I anticipate it will take a similar strategy with a smartphone.
Financially, there are many positives and negatives with entrance into the smartphone market. The first and perhaps biggest negative is Amazon's P/E ratio, which currently sits around a staggering 188. Compare this to Apple's P/E of about 14, Microsoft's P/E of about 11, or Google's P/E of about 17 and Amazon appears to be shockingly overpriced. The Kindle Fire did not bring Amazon's P/E down, and I am beginning to think a smartphone won't either.
The main positive is the massive size of the smartphone market. Currently pegged at about 110 million users in the United States alone, a 38% increase would bring the size of the market to just over 150 users, or almost 1 in the people in the United States.
I think it is worth noting that on average, analysts are also very bullish on this stock. Taking averages, analysts rate Amazon as an 'overweight' with a $260 target.
As mentioned, every major player in the smartphone market has its own map software, or at least has a partnership that gives it access to map software. Thus, Amazon's acquisition of UpNext will really only hurt Google, which has already decreased the price of its Google Maps API by 88% since being kicked off of iOS 6. Increasingly, Google is being entering into low margin competition with Amazon, and the introduction of map software by Amazon will bring these margins even lower.
Microsoft stands to lose the most by an Amazon smartphone. Currently, Microsoft is set to launch Windows Phone 8, likely this Fall. The just happens to be the predicted launch of an Amazon smartphone. Sure, it is unlikely that these phones will be similar, but many project that Windows Phone will catch on quickly. Another smartphone launch with similar timing would really stifle solid market gains.
But perhaps the biggest threat to an Amazon smartphone is the launch of an iPhone 5. For Apple, this is almost a one-way competition. It will get many customers to purchase iPhones. They are not cheap commodity phones, so those who like them will purchase them. But, with a new exciting phone, it can potentially convert customers who would have gone for a Windows Phone or Amazon phone. With an approximately 32% market share that is rapidly growing, it does not seem like much can get in the way of the iPhone. I don't expect an Amazon phone to hurt iPhone sales but I expect a new iPhone to hurt potential Amazon phone sales. And it has the possibility to hurt badly.
Many signs point to Amazon developing its own smartphone. It will not revolutionize the market but it could really help Amazon's operating margins, currently at about 1.5%. If investors still sit well with its huge P/E of about 188, this stock could skyrocket in value. As mentioned, it has a price target of $260, or roughly a $30 increase. These are not Apple or Google numbers, but they are very promising.
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I'm completely new to wireshark. I have Ubuntu on a Dell with wireless connection. When I go to Wireshark Capture Option, I cannot select any interface since no interface is listed. What is the problem and how can I fix that?
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You probably should check out the article in the wireshark wiki about capture privileges.
If this is a temporary setup you could just start wireshark with sudo. But this isn't really the best approach from a security perspective.
Also see the capturing on un*x section in the FAQ, it has some other things you should be aware of.
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You are so right. Running wireshark as root user give me access to all interfaces. I'm checking capture privileges right now. – Phuong Nguyen Feb 7 '10 at 3:27
I tried to set network privileges for dumpcap and everything is fine nows. Thanks. – Phuong Nguyen Feb 7 '10 at 3:31
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Mistakes when using your coffeemaker
If that homebrewed morning cup of joe isn't quite as satisfying as the one you can buy at the coffee shop down the street, chances are you're not using your coffeemaker properly. But, by avoiding the following blunders, you can say farewell to stale, bitter cups of coffee-and to those long lines and expensive lattés that you may never want again.
1. Using warm water and old grounds
Make sure it's cold and they're fresh. Anything else will make your coffee taste stale.
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2. Not using enough coffee
According to the coffee experts at the Specialty Coffee Association of America, you should be using 2 tablespoons of coffee grinds for every 6 ounces of water.
3. Ignoring your dirty coffeemaker
Be sure to clean all parts of your coffeemaker, especially the ones that come in contact with the grinds. This will eliminate the oily residue that is often left behind and can affect the flavor of your coffee.
Related: The History of At-Home Coffee Drinking
4. Never descaled your coffeemaker
Just like in other appliances, mineral deposits build up and clog the insides. This slows brewing time and changes the taste of your coffee. Descaling your machine every once in a while will clear clogs due to mineral deposits. First, remove the charcoal water filter if you have one. Next, simply fill the water reservoir to capacity with 1/3 white vinegar and 2/3 water and run a cycle.
5. Your water has been sitting in the tank for weeks
If you haven't used your coffee maker in more than a week, run a few cycles to purge the internal tank of any remaining water.
Related: 15 Super Quick Breakfasts That Will Boost Your Energy
6. Brewing coffee pods too long after purchasing
If you're using a single-serve machine, only buy as many coffee pods or capsules as you'll use in a few months. They might be vacuum-sealed, but the taste and aroma of coffee can still degrade.
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0.155946 | <urn:uuid:676698c2-9529-4857-bf2e-7abcc209d792> | en | 0.973671 | Plan Your Marriage—Not Just a Wedding
Why we brides need to discuss marriage just as much as the wedding plans, if not more.Why we brides need to discuss marriage just as much as the wedding plans, if not more.
I'm less than seven months away from being a bride, but lately I've been thinking less about that role and more about the new one I will have to fulfill as a wife. Brides (myself included) can become engrossed in wedding plans, and I feel that we need to remember this journey is about the rest of our lives, not just one day.
Understatement of the year: A lot of work goes into planning a wedding. From picking the centerpieces to booking vendors, there are endless tasks to complete. However, more time and effort goes into a marriage, and frankly, that's more important. Yes, it's easy to get wrapped up in the excitement of planning the biggest day of your lives, and really, I think that's fine! Choosing each detail and checking off to-do's is a fun and memorable experience-but that shouldn't be "it." My fiancé Corey and I often discuss our celebration to great lengths, but what I've found is that we brides don't often discuss what happens after the cake is cut and the dress is packed in your closet. Don't get me wrong, we've had the kids talk and discussed finances thoroughly, but I know marriage is deeper than any single conversation.
When I got engaged, my sister told me, "Well, I can give you advice on how to be happily married… for one year." (She and her husband just celebrated their one-year mark and are still happily married). Her advice touches on an important point: We ALL need to work on our marriages until death do us part. It's not a one-year (or 10, 25, or even 50-year) commitment-it's forever.
I expect marriage to be fulfilling, joyous, comforting and loving, but I'm not naïve enough to believe there won't be difficult days. I think it's important that newlyweds-to-be discuss what is expected in a marriage-what each person hopes for and how they plan to make it work forever. Corey and I make it a point to discuss our plans after marriage, but I think we need to focus on it even more. Couples are really doing a disservice to their lives together if they don't discuss the big issues before they take that final walk down the aisle.
Need to get the conversation going? I've come up with a list of questions to discuss based on a few different online sources:
• How can your partner make you happy on a daily basis?
• Besides love, what is your main reason for marrying your partner?
• What does the word "compromise" mean to you and how will you apply it to your marriage?
• Who will do the majority of the household chores or how will they be divided?
• If you plan to have children, how many would you want and when would you like to start growing your family?
• How much of your income would you like to save?
• Where would you like to eventually live: beach, city, suburbs?
• How do you prefer to spend your free time?
• Are you impulsive or a planner? How do you deal with the unexpected?
• Do you share the same level of religious commitment?
• How will you resolve disputes?
• What's your 5-year plan (both personally and professionally)?
Tell us: How are you preparing for your marriage?
- Nikki Stroud
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Mother cat and kittensA heroic cat proved that there's nothing stronger than the bond between a mother and her children. A mama cat in California was rescued -- with her kittens -- after taking a bullet to save them.
The Del Mar Times reported that the mother and her litter were found abandoned and taken to a local shelter -- where the staff had trouble separating the mama from her from the kittens.
The responding veterinarian Dr. Helen Oba recalled, "Mommy and baby kitties are all doing fine, but it was touch and go when they first arrived. They were all very tiny, malnourished, unvaccinated and very scared. It took a gentle hand to pull that momma away from her babies."
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After taking the mother -- who has since been named Cindy -- for an examination, Dr. Oba discovered the reason for her trepidation: the litter had been shot at with a BB gun, and Cindy had a bullet lodged in her head. She was operated on and is recovering well.
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Comment: Loyalty Programs (Score 3, Insightful) 166
by bostonidealist (#44593205) Attached to: The Next Frontier of Consumer Exploitation By Corporations
Brick and mortar stores are legally barred from overtly providing different pricing for customers based on age or gender. They can't have a price tag on an item that reads:
Women Over 35 - $32.99
Women 35 And Under - $29.99
Men 38 And Over - $28.99
Men Under 38 - $26.99
However, common loyalty programs at stores profile customers by age, gender, purchasing habits, and all sorts of other demographic criteria and selectively issue coupons and promotions that have the same result (e.g., a drug store might print out a coupon for a male customer for lady's perfume to incentivize a purchase before Mother's Day, but wouldn't issue such a coupon to female customer who is inherently more likely to buy the product).
Comment: Re:Extremely speculative and logically unlikely (Score 1) 2
by bostonidealist (#43960057) Attached to: Putting The Pieces Together - Apple WWDC 2013
Thanks for your comment. I certainly agree with your points #1 and #2. However, the opportunity to capture 30% of Adobe's, Microsoft's, Avid's, and others' Mac revenue constitutes a large, not a little, gain.
Just looking at Adobe, it's likely that Apple could make $300 million a year if they could tax all Adobe's Mac sales (admittedly, that wouldn't happen for quite some time). That's a significant chunk of the $1.7 billion Apple is currently on track to make off of App sales in a year, and that's just from taxing one company.
Also, Macs are still a profitable market that's not going away anytime soon. Apple may be making way more money off of iOS than OS X, but they still enjoy great margins and profits from the Macs. Apple's calculation will be that they can make OS X even more profitable if they make it more like iOS.
Finally, the other pieces of the ecosystem, such as roaming user accounts between Macs and iOS devices, are big features that they want to implement. Apple has already forced Mac App Store applications to be sandboxed, while also restricting certain APIs to App Store-distributed applications. They're already on the road to Mac lock-down, it's just a question of how fast they'll get there.
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In October 2005, then Chief Technical Officer Ray Ozzie authored a memo to Microsoft staff titled "The Internet Services Disruption." While overtly attempting to marshal the company to move aggressively towards integration and online services, two key subtexts of Ozzie's memo were:
1. If we don't do this, someone else (probably Google) will.
2. Startups and open source projects are threats, but they can't [yet] scale the way Microsoft can.
Comment: Cloud vs. App Store (Score 3, Interesting) 403
Cloud/Software-As-A-Service/Web Apps are obvious wins for the Googles/Microsofts/Adobes of the world. They
1. 1. eliminate piracy
2. 2. guarantee a steady revenue stream
3. 3. allow vendors to data-mine user behavior
4. 4. avoid App store sales fees
Adobe's move is not just about locking-in customers, it's about ensuring that they don't have to give Apple and Microsoft a cut of all their sales. Gatekeeper on the Mac and Windows RT are harbingers of Apple's and Microsoft's long-term strategies: force everything through the App store and skim off the top. All the major software vendors are fighting a war and the consumers caught in the crossfire.
Comment: Massachusetts Didn't/Couldn't Vote (Score 2) 231
None of the Massachusetts delegation voted on the bill. Here is the roll call.
Why didn't any of the 9 representatives from the state vote? Because the President was in Massachusetts following a terrorist bombing earlier in the week.
The bill has been in Congress in some form since 2011. If the sponsors and supporters of the bill truly believe that this bill is necessary to enable "integrated operational actions to protect, prevent, mitigate, respond to, and recover from" threats to security, wouldn't it make sense to schedule a vote on passage of the bill for a day when at least some representatives of the state most recently victimized by a terrorist attack could vote? Is there any opportunism at work here, given that the entire Massachusetts delegation voted against the bill the last time it was up for passage?
It's worth reading the full text of the bill. It contains statements such as "The Director of National Intelligence shall establish procedures to allow elements of the intelligence community to share cyber threat intelligence with private-sector entities and utilities and to encourage the sharing of such intelligence."
Comment: PBS Party To Suit (Score 1) 64
by bostonidealist (#43438607) Attached to: Court: Aereo TV Rebroadcast Is Still Legal
As a strong financial and moral supporter of PBS, I am simultaneously appreciative of PBS's even-handed coverage of the Aereo story and disappointed by their participation in the suit.
There's much to dislike about Aereo's business model. The company's technical and legal maneuverings allow them to excessively monetize an otherwise low-cost service. Like so many water bottling companies, they provide a small convenience, and they should be allowed to, but there are good philosophical and financial reasons not to buy what they're peddling.
The larger story is that the trajectory for all broadcast media is obvious: consumers will always push for free, accessible content. Aereo's service is just a stopgap and will ultimately fizzle out along with Viacom, News Corporation, and their peers.
That's what makes PBS's position in this all the more troubling. PBS actually has one of the only viable and worthwhile models: viewer-supported broadcasting. Given that PBS survives on the generosity and goodwill of its viewers and that its viewers clearly want accessibility, they should focus on delivering what viewers want - open, free, accessible content - directly to their audience. They've made huge inroads over the past few years with their online services but come on, go for broke and put everything that you can online. That's the best way to cut out the middlemen, outpace the hamstrung big medias, deliver uncompromised programming, and win the hearts, minds, and support of the public.
Comment: Reflective Display For Coding (Score 1) 375
by bostonidealist (#42903687) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Is Your Favorite Monitor For Programming?
I've long wanted a large reflective display for coding. While I typically set a dark background in whatever editor I'm using, staring at a backlit display all day can be harsh. As reflective LCD technology improves, I continue to hold out hope that someone will make a desktop monitor with the technology (it would be a great second display for coders or anyone doing basic text entry, and doesn't need to have especially fast pixel response time, etc.).
Comment: Hackability of new Chromebooks (Score 3, Interesting) 283
Evidently, the new Chromebooks don't have a physical dev mode switch (the old ones used to break a lot), but can be put into dev mode via a firmware switch. The price and combination of expansion ports (USB 3.0, HDMI, etc.), make this a pretty appealing target for hacking, although the ARM architecture means that lots of software will have to be recompiled, as the original post mentions.
Comment: Personal Assistant Features Via Gmail/GCalendar? (Score 1) 96
by bostonidealist (#40925865) Attached to: Google Unveils New Search Features, Including iOS Voice Search
While it seems like the early versions of the iOS App may limit voice input to search, it makes sense that Google's angling to compete with Siri's personal assistant functionality by integrating with Google Calendar, Gmail, etc. Using the Google's iOS Voice App to "book an appointment" on an iPhone configured with Google's ActiveSync/Exchange Gmail and Calendar connector could appear to behave identically to Siri.
Siri would presumably trigger a calendar event creation directly on the phone after receiving data from Apple's server, while Google's Voice App could transmit the appointment creation command to Google's server and add the appointment to the user's Google Calendar. The appointment would immediately be fetched by the iPhone's Calendar App, so the two actions would appear the same to the user.
Comment: Amazon Also Changes Pricing (Score 2) 157
by bostonidealist (#40840685) Attached to: Amazon Matches iTunes Match With New 'Audio Upgrade' Feature
Amazon also reduced pricing for the service yesterday, which may be good for future subscribers, but is really annoying for those who already had subscriptions and just renewed for more money. Anyone who spent several weeks uploading music files one year ago likely didn't want to let their subscription lapse and have to repeat the entire process. Amazon waited a couple of weeks until everyone up for renewal was billed for a new year, then, less than a month later, they fundamentally changed the service's functionality and lowered the pricing.
I completely understand that Amazon's terms and conditions for the service give them the right to do this, and I also expect that early adopters often pay more for goods and services as prices drop. However, it's clear that Amazon was being quite coy here. They also issued an iPhone cloud player app shortly before "unlimited music" subscribers had to decide whether to renew, incentivizing re-subscribing.
It's clear that the new service is great for Amazon, as it allows them to de-duplicate their data and significantly reduces their bandwidth costs. It also may be a good thing for many customers who can get sanitized versions of their music files. As my original post mentioned, however, some users of the service saw the appeal of uploading and unlimited number of their personal music files (e.g., with meticulously edited album artwork, tags, and the exact compression they wanted). Without notice, Amazon is essentially replacing all these files for paid subscribers with different files, which sets a really bad precedent not just for music, but for cloud storage services in general. While I'm sure some users prefer the new functionality, others don't and it would have been better to allow users to opt in/out.
The other big story here is that at least some of the labels seem to have offered Amazon similar terms to Apple, showing that Apple's agreement for Match is not exclusive. In Netflix v. Amazon (video streaming) and Apple v. Amazon (music stores/matching), Big Content seems reluctant to let any one player dominate.
Regarding the press release: yes, it's official, it's linked from Amazon's more recognizable Amazon.com domain; for whatever reason, they post their press releases on a different domain.
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bostonidealist writes "Just after the July 6th 1-year anniversary of the its unlimited music storage promotion (and presumably after early subscribers have all renewed their annual subscriptions), Amazon.com has changed the way its Cloud Player and Cloud Drive services work. Starting today, music uploaded to a Cloud Drive will count against its owner's Cloud Drive quota and will not be accessible through Cloud Player. Further, music files previously uploaded to Cloud Player or Cloud Drive are being automatically converted to 256 Kbps audio whenever Amazon "has the rights to do so" and new audio files uploaded to Cloud Player will automatically be checked against Amazon's music database in iTunes Match-like fashion. One of the appeals of Amazon's Cloud Player service up to this point has been that users could pay a flat fee and store an unlimited number of their own music files (with their own tags, artwork, and audio data intact). Now, Amazon is automatically replacing users' previously uploaded data with its own, without allowing users to opt in/out."
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Comment: Eye tracking could be the killer app (Score 1) 249
by bostonidealist (#39578677) Attached to: Google Glasses Announced
Google has been using eye tracking technology in internal product testing for years. If they included electrooculography (EOG) sensors in the glasses, such as those demonstrated in this prototype from ETH Zürich, they could allow wearers to manipulate real world objects just by staring at them.
Some more thoughts on this (think: virtual telekinesis) here.
+ - Google Eying Vision Tracking For Glasses?
Submitted by bostonidealist
bostonidealist writes "Google has been using eye tracking technology in internal product testing for years. Given the company's plans to release electronic glasses by year's end, is it possible that Google intends to include electrooculography (EOG) sensors in the product, such as those demonstrated in this prototype from ETH Zürich? A refined integration of EOG, machine vision, and wireless technologies could allow wearers to manipulate real world objects just by staring at them."
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bostonidealist writes "Soon, we'll be able to move objects just by staring at them.
Media outlets are reporting that Google is creating some form of consumer electronics glasses, with the ambitious goal of launching a product based on the technology within the year. While many of these reports have included sketchy details on how the glasses might present information to the wearer, the true novelty will be the way the devices empower their owners to interact with real-world objects.
Many traditional interfaces, from steering wheels to touch screens to voice recognition to computer mice, require a relatively high degree of exertion in order to manipulate objects around us. Comparatively, an interface based on tracking the motion of the human eye could be so intuitive that in many cases the interface itself could be barely perceptible.
Let's consider a simple example to see how this might work. Imagine an elevator designed to be controllable by riders wearing gaze-tracking glasses. When a passenger wearing such glasses enters the elevator, she could look at a panel of buttons to select the floor that she wants to visit. The glasses could identify the wearer's focus on a particular button through eye tracking, could "read" the label of the button she was staring at (e.g., "floor 14") and could overlay a user interface element in her visual field. By simply continuing to stare at the elevator button, she could indicate her desired destination, her glasses could wirelessly transmit this information to a receiver installed in the elevator, then the real-world elevator button's light could illuminate, indicating that the floor was selected as her destination.
To an outside observer watching the above scenario unfold, it might appear that the elevator's passenger had some kind of magical, telekinetic ability. However, the interaction described could be implemented via a refined integration of existing technologies, and there are many hints that Google is working to build and deploy exactly this kind of device.
The human eye performs vergence and accommodation movements to focus on objects of interest nearly every waking moment. During typical use of a modern personal computer, the number of motions made by the eyes dwarfs the number of keystrokes made on a keyboard or the movements and clicks of a computer mouse. These many subtle eye movements constitute a rich expression of the viewer's thoughts and intent. For this reason, eye tracking is second only to direct neural activity monitoring in its capacity to immediately reveal a wealth of cognitive data and many media and advertising companies have been using eye tracking technology internally in product studies for years.
Google blogged about its own use of eye tracking for web search usability testing in 2009. Given the strong potential of this technology, it makes sense that Google and other companies are eager to be first-to-market with consumer products.
It's likely that Google is building a device that will implement electrooculography (EOG). EOG uses small electrodes, which can be incorporated into the rims of glasses, to determine the position of the eyes by measuring the electric potential field of the eyes themselves. Eye position can be measured in a broad range of lighting conditions, even in total darkness and when the eyelids are closed. You can watch a video demonstrating prototype EOG glasses from ETH Zürich here.
There are other eye tracking methods which have better accuracy (e.g., special tracking contact lenses) or which don't require users to wear tracking devices on their person (e.g., video vision tracking). However, these methods have several downsides, ranging from requiring more invasive eye tracking equipment to being subject to interference from lighting conditions to requiring lots of computational analysis that's not currently possible in ultra-portable electronics. For all of these reasons, EOG is the best candidate tracking technology at the moment.
Successfully deploying this technology will require the development of powerful, efficient image analysis and eye tracking software coupled with a revolutionary interface designed for sight navigation. While many media outlets are speculating about augmented reality applications for the glasses, and these are surely a possibility, a successful interface would have to remain unobtrusive in order to avoid blocking sight lines or distracting wearers.
In the above elevator scenario, for example, it might be the case that as the passenger stares at the button for the floor she wants to visit, a red stop sign icon could appear in the periphery of her visual field. Looking directly at the stop sign icon would avert her gaze from the target elevator button and cancel any action. Alternatively, if she continued to stare at the button, the icon could change from red stop sign to yellow triangle to green circle, confirming her selection before transmitting her request to the elevator.
From a marketing and sales perspective, the opportunity for Google to integrate the device with its other technologies (Android phones, Chrome OS computers, etc.) and to license the technology for other devices is huge. Users of the glasses could become eager to replace light switches in their homes with ones that they can sight-activate and purchase new robotic vacuum cleaners that can navigate to a dirty spot on the floor that's being stared at. Paraplegics and those with limited mobility could gain new independence.
Given that wireless interfaces for the glasses could be incorporated into so many other electronics, Google's acquisition of Motorola Mobility could be significant beyond enabling first-party manufacturing of Android phones. Imagine Google saying to Sony "You want to make a stereo that can be controlled by Google Glasses? Fine, just buy one of these custom Glasses receivers from us for every unit."
While the expense and immaturity of the technology described may prevent Google from including all the eye tracking features in its first-generation products, considering the difficulty in marketing head-mounted display technology, it's almost guaranteed that Google has vision tracking in mind as a "killer app" that would allow it to overcome the "nerd factor" of trying to pitch people on electronic goggles. Virtual reality and personal display devices have failed commercially in the past because they're perceived as a way of isolating the user and retreating from reality. Alternatively, an eye-tracking system that extends a person's reach and influence in the real world could be celebrated and coveted. That's surely what Google is looking to build."
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Comment: MIT OpenCourseWare (Score 1) 525
I highly recommend the MIT OpenCourseWare course on Python. It is written in a very simple and welcoming manner, and includes a free textbook, labs, lecture materials, and homework assignments. Python is probably the best route regardless, as it makes both an excellent teaching language, and a very useful language to use outside the classroom in the real world. http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-189-a-gentle-introduction-to-programming-using-python-january-iap-2011/ There are also a variety of Karel the Robot style introductory systems, including at least one ported over from the original Pascal dialect to Python. Karel the robot provides a limited subset of a typical programming language, and labs that allow a student to practice ordering a robot around an obstacle course. The pascal-based version was my first intro to programming, and it makes a great way to learn still to this day.
Comment: Smithsonian museums (Score 3, Informative) 363
by bug (#38157408) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Science Sights To See?
If you hit Washington, DC, then you should definitely check out the Smithsonian along the Mall. The National Air and Space Museum is especially good, although crowded in the summer. Make sure to check out the kid's section, which has a bunch of wind tunnels and other fun things that adults will get a kick out of. They also have a really great annex full of cool aircraft next to Dulles airport about an hour west of the city. It would also be a terrible shame if you didn't visit one or more of our national parks while you're in the US. Our varied landscape and remote stretches of wilderness define the character of our nation perhaps more than any other single thing. Just make sure to pack plenty of water and basic survival gear, as some of the parks can be quite remote and wild. Wherever you end up visiting, you'll want to keep a sense of scale in mind. The US is rather large, in ways that many of our visitors aren't really mentally prepared for. Consider limiting yourself to one or two regions, so that you get more time actually seeing things instead of racing from place to place. I hope you enjoy your visit!
Comment: Re:Wikileaks == scapegoat (Score 4, Interesting) 274
by bug (#34947974) Attached to: Espionage In Icelandic Parliament
There's a strong possibility that you're mistaken in your assertions there. There has been some reporting in the press that Wikileaks activists have actively eavesdropped on data by running one or more rogue Tor servers:
There has also been reporting as recently as today that Wikileaks actively gathered data from peer-to-peer file sharing networks:
Comment: Risk vs Reward (Score 1) 473
by bug (#34450680) Attached to: People With University Degree Fear Death Less
Correlation is not causation. One could argue that education does help in some direct ways (e.g., understanding enough about statistics to realize that you're probably not going to die from terrorism). However, there may be other factors at play, too. Compared with staying near home and picking up a job immediately, higher education carries some risk. It frequently involves moving far away from support networks, and taking on a considerable amount of debt, all for the chance of very delayed gratification. It could simply be that the minds of those seeking higher education are more finely tuned to accept a bit of risk in the search for rewards.
Comment: Re:kind of makes you wonder (Score 2, Informative) 141
by bug (#30872146) Attached to: Widespread Attacks Exploit Newly-Patched IE Bug
Security firm eEye used to keep a long list of Internet Explorer vulnerabilities that they had reported to Microsoft, but Microsoft hadn't developed patches for. eEye's list tracked how many months, or even years, Microsoft had known about the vulnerabilities without releasing a patch. A few years ago, under pressure from Microsoft, eEye agreed to take their list down. Microsoft happens to be a big customer of eEye's, and presumably is responsible for a lot of eEye's revenue. This has been fairly typical behavior for security firms that have signed lucrative contracts with Microsoft over the last few years, and one wonders how much of this type of thing is merely hush money.
Comment: Lakely is confused... (Score 1) 944
by bug (#29847729) Attached to: When Libertarians Attack Free Software
Libertarians are generally against government intervention and manipulation of the free market economy. What could be more manipulative than the coercive force of the federal government, providing government-sanctioned monopolies in the forms of patents and copyrights to rent-seeking entrenched industries? Those monopolies arbitrarily increase the costs of goods and services to individuals and other businesses, and they also have the strong potential of interfering with our constitutional rights, such as freedom of speech. Assuming they support "intellectual property" at all, most libertarians would require very high standards of proof of innovativeness before passing out such power, and would limit their scope and duration to the bare minimum "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts," as stated in our Constitution.
Comment: Refugees of ethnic discrimination? (Score 1) 515
by bug (#29590953) Attached to: Scientists Decry "Horrifying" UK Border Test Plan
I would imagine that many of the asylum seekers are probably refugees from ethnic discrimination, or even worse ethnic cleansing. Many are probably forced to flee precisely because they are descendants of foreigners or a minority ethnic group. Wouldn't it be directly counterproductive to refuse refugees on the basis of their lack of ethnic purity?
Comment: Re:Libertarians have too much baggage. (Score 3, Insightful) 785
by bug (#27291139) Attached to: Obama DOJ Sides With RIAA
Actually, I would expect most libertarians to be in favor of only limited intellectual property protections. Copyright, patent, and trademark laws are the very essence of government manipulation of the free market. When the government arbitrarily sanctions monopoly power through intellectual property laws, it creates artificial scarcity where there should be none. This raises the prices of goods and services for all Americans, and limits true innovation. It also puts Americans at a competitive disadvantage, because our competitors don't share our draconian intellectual property laws and therefore can operate at lower cost.
Comment: Re:Arab citizens of Israel (Score 5, Insightful) 1067
by bug (#26320009) Attached to: In the next 12 months, the Middle East will be ...
That would be because the Arab states collectively massacred or purged Jews from their lands around the time of the 1948 establishment of Israel. Unlike the unique position of Palestinian refugees, no right of return or requirement for compensation is recognized for those Jews or their descendants, not that they'd generally want it. Also, Arab Israeli citizens and even Palestinians living in the occupied West Bank have significantly more rights and better living conditions than Palestinians hosted in Arab refugee camps. Many other Arab nations prefer to keep their Palestinian refugees herded into ghettos, and kept as pawns in their ongoing war by proxy with Israel. I'm not much of an Israel apologist, but I suggest you do a bit more research into the issues and history of the region. I think that you'll find that Israel's treatment of its non-Jewish population is generally poor and sometimes unforgivable, but far less evil than their neighbors' treatment of Jews or even Palestinians.
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by Shaunti Feldhahn
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
When I was in graduate school, political correctness was beginning to rear its head. And one of my biggest frustrations was that although my university --- like others --- presented itself as a diverse "marketplace of ideas," only one sort of idea was welcome. Any dissent from the "everything should be tolerated" worldview was suppressed as narrow-minded. Many university students and staff clearly didn't realize the irony of preaching tolerance while being intolerant of those who disagree.
It's only gotten worse. Today's political correctness movement is so aggressive that it threatens our constitutional rights instead of protecting them.
Several Georgia State University students and organizations recently learned that the hard way. Last semester, two students who came to a hip-hop costume party as their favorite artists --- Snoop Dogg and P. Diddy --- were suspended because their getup included blackening their faces. Although they washed up immediately after being told it was offensive, and although the fraternity apologized to the Black Student Alliance the next day, a fracas followed, complaints were lodged and the university pretty much hauled off and suspended everyone in sight. Although the students and organizations were reinstated (or soon will be), it shows just how messy it can get when a university tries to micromanage something that --- whether you agree with it or not --- should be a function of freedom of speech.
Some universities are so politically correct that they trample on constitutional rights as a matter of course. Many public schools today --- the University of Georgia, for one --- require student groups to certify that they will not discriminate in admitting members, including on the basis of creed or religion. Ironically, this policy has itself led to a great deal of discrimination, and there's no legal reason for it.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill recently kicked Christian fraternity Alpha Iota Omega off campus for refusing to certify that it would not discriminate based on religion. Since the only purpose of the group is to train Christian leaders, admitting anyone else --- an avowed atheist, for example --- would destroy the reason for the group. It would also destroy its freedom of association, which was a central victory of the civil rights struggle.
A 1958 Supreme Court ruling on the NAACP said, "Freedom to engage in association for the advancement of beliefs and ideas is an inseparable aspect of [free speech and] liberty."
David French, the president of a watchdog group working on the UNC case, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (, notes: "Many universities have such a convention of belief that discrimination is always wrong, that they'll slap these 'nondiscrimination' codes down without thinking whether they make sense. No law requires such sweeping nondiscrimination statements.
"Enforcing nondiscrimination based on creed or religion is silly --- it would mean an environmental group admitting members who wanted to trash the environment, or a gay-rights group being forced to accept members who wanted to spend every meeting explaining why homosexuality is sinful. It means destroying the group --- a tactic already used by activists against groups on several campuses."
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