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B. Hussein Obama owes it to the American people to give a direct and honest answer to the following question: if states begin withdrawing from the union in order to avoid Obamatax, is he prepared to use troops to resist that departure?
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The Return to Northrend
Conflict: Legacy of the Damned
Place: Shores of Northrend
Outcome: Scourge victory
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Chapter 4 of the Undead Campaign, Act III "Legacy of the Damned" in Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne.
Arrival Edit
Upon Arthas' arrival to Northrend to save the Lich King, he encounters some Blood Elf scouts and finds out about Illidan's plans. Arthas then encounters Anub'arak, a crypt lord who was sent by the Lich King to aid Arthas on his journey to the Icecrown Citadel. Anub'arak tells Arthas about a "shortcut" to Icecrown, the ancient, underground kingdom of Azjol-Nerub. But before the kingdom can be accessed, the blood elf resistance must be destroyed.
Passage to Azjol-Nerub Edit
After Arthas and Anub'arak manage to banish the blood elves from the nearby shore, they will also encounter Illidan's naga and their leader, Lady Vashj. Arthas finds out about the allegiance of Vashj's naga and Kael'thas' blood elves to Illidan Stormrage. Both races have established bases near the passage of Azjol-Nerub, and with the help of Anub'arak Arthas and his Scourge manage to destroy the both bases and continue their journey to the spider kingdom.
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I spend most of my time trying to find a job. I would really prefer if we spent this social time discussing something else.
the future
I decided to major in English because I thoroughly enjoy discussing fine literature with gay men and old people, and because really, what could be better than explaining why "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" is about a brothel as a homework assignment? Nothing. Nothing is better.
I'm only having nightmares pretty much every night and stockpiling ramen like I'm planning for the apocalypse. That's all.
There was no amount of hard work or strategizing that could end my situation. I just had to go through it like millions of other people who were silently enduring being crushed by nothingness.
I accepted my diploma, packed up my parents’ car, and went right on back to my childhood home.
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Lancashire WE and Mattoon JR (1979) Genetics of oxidative phosphorylation: mitochondrial loci determining ossamycin-, venturicidin- and oligomycin-resistance in yeast. Mol Gen Genet 176(2):255-64
Abstract: With a view towards identifying new ATPase loci on the mitochondrial genome a large number of oligomycin-, ossamycin- and venturicidin-resistant mutants were isolated after MnCl2 mutagenesis. The mutants were subjected to mass-screens which divided them into different cross-resistance phenotype-classes and also distinguished the common OLI1 mutations from the mutations at all other loci. Allelism tests between examples of the different classes of phenotype indicated that the majority of mutations in the population mapped at the previously known loci OLI1, OLI2, OLI3, and OLI4. Mutations conferring specific ossamycin resistance defined two new loci, namely OSS1 and OSS2 which are linked to the OLI2 and OLI1 loci respectively. A few rare mutations comprise a new locus OLI5 which is linked to the OLI1 locus (12.6% total recombination). In conclusion we can now say that that there are two unlinked segments of the mitochondrial genome, each of which is composed of several distinct, genetically-linked loci. One segment contains the OLI1, OLI3, OLI5 and OSS2 loci and the other the OLI2, OLI4 and OSS1 loci. The phenotypically-distinguishable mutations described herein should facilitate fine-structure mapping of these two segments.
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• And the Lemmings can't get enough of them.
Another P.T. Barnum product.
• Apple is..
... great and marketing and knows what to deliver to its target. Microsoft is so behind and terrible and marketing - and that is why you see this massive difference.
• Or just maybe
Windows customers are more knowledgeable consumers. I can't blame Apple though for gouging as much as they can though.
• Maybe, but this latest offering could be considered a bit hypocritical.
After all, it's no more than a re-incarnation of the "I am rich" app. The difference being it comes as a handset. So, Apple forbade that app but rolled the concept into this new product. It's a very nice instrument but hardly worth the expense unless there's a need for that much performance and a set of software tools to do the work. Will there really be an $800 value in watching movies and posting to facebook?
• No complaints here about marketing.
Who cares if M$ sells its o/s for only $150 whatever. I don't want them jacking up the price. The humorous topic today is Apple's markup. For sure Apple's fine products are not the only ones with big margins. Look at the 'durable laptop' industry. The biggest money difference is a water resistant membrane built into the keyboard ($5 more) and a real metal casing ($20) and suddenly the $700 laptop is $2500. if the few highest incremental feature options vs. retail price for various top end goods were plotted, it would be a hyperbolic curve approaching the amusing hyperbole in all the posts on this topic.
• You sound dumb
Somebody said Apple I ripping you off by 400% and you're talking about Microsoft?!
• And the Lemmings can't get enough of them
20 million Lemmings can't be wrong !!
• Ok....
Go back and drink your Apple flavored Koolaid. Just love how you put the blame on another company. Face iut. You can't handle criticism of you beloved Apple. Wait until lawsuits fly over the drop of Apple stock price.
• Less of Lemmings comparing to Samsung buyers, which buy bendy plastic ...
... junk for as much with the same premiums for bigger flash memory.
Apple at least has high build quality. Even iPhone 5C is much sturdier than SGS4/SGN3 as it has proper internal metal structure.
• I feel the need to point out that lemmings are followers
And Samsung doesn't put out products that are trendy as hard as they try to. Talk as much crap as you want about them, but at least use a valid complaint.
• I feel the need to point out that lemmings are followers
I feel the need to point out that lemmings are gullible followers very much like religion.
• Re: bendy plastic ... ... junk
*Cough* Iphone 5C *cough*
• Apple gouging
I was a lemming, but no more. Even their peripherals and accessories are way over priced. They will not be adding my 2 cents to their bottom line anymore.
• real life build quality for lemmings
I personally know two people one with an iPhone and one with a note 2. The note two survived a 60 mph head on collision (Honda motor cycle v vs golf) in my sons pocket. He nearly died the note 2 was unscathed. My nieces husband sat down with an iPhone in his pocket and broke the screen... Hmmmm
• And it costs Samsung even less.
16gb iPhone 5S, $699
16gb Galaxy S4, $749, and thats with Samsung not paying a middleman like Apple does for parts because Samsung makes their own parts, But hey, Its Android, free and open, allowed to charge what ever they want and the, but the minions don't care.
• Similar costs for other devices, such as the Galaxy S4
Good for Apple, Samsung, and any other other manufacturer. People are willing to pay. Also, people tend to forget that there are also other costs associated with products, such as engineering, customer support, retail space, etc. It takes more than just the cost of production to turn a profit.
• Correct
Just imagine now if Apple didn't spend billions on marketing 2 products (iPhone/iPad). Apple would have significantly higher margins, but I don't really think the demand would last. Also, R&D costs aren't as bad as it could be for Apple given they use virtually the same case for two generations in a row.
• R&D Costs
You are joking right ikissfutebol? Because Apple may use a similar case the costs for R&D aren't as high? The real cost of R&D goes into the RF design, squeezing in as efficient a baseband power supply and the development of a protocol software for the wireless technologies incorporated into the phone. Case design? Really.....
Android already has a baseline protocol software and API that Samsung and other vendors can incorporate into their phones. Apple develops their own, as does Microsoft.
• Apples R&D consists of...
scouring for existing technologies somebody else invented and either reverse engineering it or stealing it, changing a little and getting a patent.
"We have been Shameless about Stealing Great ideas" S. Jobs.
• Extra storage
That's all well & good but doesn't really justify charging $200 for 20$. I dont know how many people buy a 64..most I know have 16 for cost. Its frustrating which is why so many android users crave cheap SD cards (& are worrying that more devices like Nexus are dropping them).. Everyone says it doesn't matter cuz of the cloud buy that requires a data connection & most people still dont have unlimited data. I still use an iPod classic because I want tohhave all my music available. | http://www.zdnet.com/a-849-64gb-iphone-5s-only-costs-apple-218-to-build-7000021175/ | dclm-gs1-041580002 | false | false | {
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Ross McCormack's second-half goal was the difference between the two teams, but O'Driscoll saw enough of his new charges to give him hope that rock-bottom City can avoid the drop.
And O'Driscoll made a point of keeping his side on the pitch at the end of the match to congratulate them on a battling performance.
"I've had three days with them and I thought they deserved a 'well done'," he said.
"They are an honest bunch and I will just give them some direction.
"Optimism in football is a dangerous emotion. You have to be realistic and we are in a dangerous position, but if we can maintain the level we set today and add a couple of players there is no reason why we can't give ourselves a chance of retaining Championship status." | http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11688/8413580/ | dclm-gs1-041590002 | false | false | {
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are very high you heard israel's prime minister binyamin netanyahu at u.n. a month ago and israel did a strike against arms manufacturing in sudan. the fact they would come out this aggressively is bad about how bad how quickly it can get violent. >>shepard: to have done it if it is in their airspace is one thing but this is international airspace. >>guest: it is but you get in tit for tat. we can say one thing, believe one thing but that doesn't mean in domestic consumption for iran we believe that. we get into issues about whether it is 12 nautical miles some say it exists beyond that and some say rocks a mile off their coast are part their property. so there are issues on that. but from an iranian domestic consumption point of view it is a huge win for the iranian government to do this showing in the face of strong sanctions they are still able to put fighters in the air and they are not going to be pushed around by the west. >>shepard: i guess as you try to unite your people who do not have enough gas or food it is a valuable weapon. >>guest: exactly. that is a reason it is such a
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0.076405 | <urn:uuid:549e6673-d632-4d08-8dec-26ac7c721297> | en | 0.958527 | Ask MetaFilter questions tagged with Philosophy and christianity Questions tagged with 'Philosophy' and 'christianity' at Ask MetaFilter. Tue, 03 Apr 2012 09:07:36 -0800 Tue, 03 Apr 2012 09:07:36 -0800 en-us 60 Christian apologetics book recommendations that accept the fact of evolution Looking for recommendations for books on Christian apologetics that take seriously the reality of evolution rather than denying it in favor of the argument from design. A little background: I was raised as a <a href="">Young-Earth Creationist</a> so, naturally, I denied the fact of evolution and the old age of the earth in favor of believing that God made the whole earth and all life as they appear today ~10,000 years ago. Lots of the Christian <a href="">apologetics</a> books I read growing up were written from this perspective and many of their core arguments depended on evolution being false. The <a href="">argument from design</a> was trotted out to prove God's existence, the reasoning being that life and the universe look designed…therefore there's a designer (exhibit A: <a href="">Intelligent Design</a>). A lot of the anti-evolution content was written in response to the "new" atheists like Richard Dawkins who argue that evolution makes belief in God unnecessary. These books also explained away the existence of pain, suffering, and death by saying that God originally made a perfect world, but since humans have free will, we rejected God, brought in death, and royally screwed things up.<br> <br> I was intellectually satisfied with this way of thinking until I went to college and realized the mountain of evidence in favor of evolution and a really stinkin' old universe. However, despite this change, I still call myself a follower of Jesus because I realized that a literal interpretation (rather, application) of <em>how</em> the Bible describes creation is unnecessary. (See, for example, John Walton's book <a href="">The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate</a>.) One can believe that God is creator without having to believe he created everything in 144 hours ca. 4004 BCE.<br> <br> I now reject the <a href="">conflict thesis</a> that says religion and science are incompatible with each other. Both the fundamentalist creationists and atheists virulently push this idea that you can't follow Jesus and believe evolution is true. Instead, I take the middle route popularized by theistic evolutionists like the <a href="">BioLogos Foundation</a> that says you <em>can</em> be a Christian and accept the findings of evolutionary biology, paleoanthropology, geology, etc.<br> <br> SO, I'm looking for apologetics or philosophical literature written by Christians who accept evolution as the method by which God created life, who don't use the argument from design to "prove" God exists, and who explore the implications that the theory of evolution has in thinking about death and suffering (an evolutionary <a href="">theodicy</a>?). I'm not looking for theology/biblical studies per se (e.g., Peter Enn's <a href="">The Evolution of Adam</a> offers a more nuanced interpretation of Genesis in light of evolutionary theory) but rather studies that go about "defending the faith" without attacking evolution or falling back on Intelligent Design.<br> <br> Would works by <a href="">Alister McGrath</a> and <a href="">Alvin Plantinga</a> fit the order? I just don't know what's out there having grown up on the stuff by <a href="">Lee Strobel</a> and <a href="">Norman Geisler</a>.<br> <br> P.S.: This question doesn't seek to start a discussion on whether or not God exists, whether or not evolution is true, whether or not Jesus is the way, etc. I'm looking for apologetics books that fit a theistic evolution point of view. Thank you for being civil and for your help!,2012:site.212056 Tue, 03 Apr 2012 09:07:36 -0800 apologetics books christianity creationism doubt evolution faith god intelligentdesign philosophy religion resolved huxham Science vs. Religion A lively discussion has come to a screeching halt, but I don't want it to. Help me continue the debate! I have been discussing various science vs christianity topics on my website with a close family member. We were both (I assume) enjoying the debate until he suddenly decided to stop posting. I took the scientific viewpoint, he the christian. I'm looking for help with two things: <br> <br> First, I was greatly enjoying the challenge of debating my beliefs, and I would like to continue. How can I entice him to continue the discussion?<br> <br> Secondly, I would like some 3rd party input from the intelligentsia on the green. Are my arguments actually logical? Am I missing anything? The point of the debate is not to convince him of my beliefs (though that would be awesome), but to keep both of us thinking about the reasons for our views, and to open our minds to new ways of thinking.,2010:site.145120 Fri, 05 Feb 2010 08:12:17 -0800 athiesm christianity logic philosophy religion science skepticism tdreyer Apologetics & Debate Mp3s burnable to disc? I am looking for Christian apologetics/debates (christian/atheist etc) in mp3 downloadable form to burn to disc in Itunes (My ipod broke so no podcasts) :( ...Can you recommend any sites where I can get free mp3s for this? Thanks.,2009:site.120119 Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:37:13 -0800 apologetics atheism christianity philosophy snap_dragon You aren't until you are, and then you will be. In order to be saved, you must accept Jesus's salvation. Huh? Explain? Okay, so I'm going to confine my question because there are a million directions to go on the topic of salvation. But there's the essential part:<br> <br> One Christian doctrine posits the following:<br> <br> 1. Jesus's salvation is given freely to all<br> <br> 2. It is the job of the individual to accept that salvation, that they need to <i>believe they are saved</i>.<br> <br> 3. And then the individual will be saved.<br> <br> However,<br> <br> 1. If one needs to accept Jesus's salvation in order to be saved, then (by a pretty simple logical induction) if they do not accept Jesus's salvation, they will not be saved.<br> <br> 2. This means that, before someone accepts his/His salvation (in other words, before they believe they are saved), they are not.<br> <br> 3. Therefore, in order to be saved, one must willfully believe in something that is (by one's own belief system) false? Possibly, in some way I don't understand, it becomes true simultaneously with your belief in its truth?<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Okay, so that's the essential part of it. I'm asking because it's such a simple and obvious objection to this particular doctrine of salvation that I really doubt it can stand up to real critical thinking - but I haven't heard anyone counter it or explain it away to any reasonable degree.<br> <br> And this, of course, is excluding from the argument systems which have a strong focus on other sources of salvation (good deeds, cooperation with the will of Christ, etc.) And it is, of course, dealing primarily with Christian traditions. And please no bashing, generally.<br> <br> Thanks for any help, it's been floating around in my mind for a while and I'd like to get some bearings on this theory.,2007:site.70687 Mon, 03 Sep 2007 12:08:55 -0800 christianity grace logic philosophy power salvation saving tmcw Is God Perfect? Is God perfect? Most, if not all, major bible-based religions (christianity, judeism, islam) believe that their scriptures are the unerring words of God. That, in some sense, the Quran, Bible and Talmud are 100% perfect and true because they are the words of God, who is infallible.<br> <br> I'm looking for scriptural references that specifically state that God is infallible. There are plenty stating that he is omniscient or omnipresent. Those don't count. Being all-seeing and all-knowing doesn't prevent one from making mistakes. Ideally, the statement would come from somebody speaking in the name of God, such as a prophet. I don't recall ever reading a passage that specifically states God's infallibility. Does it exist?,2006:site.40893 Sun, 25 Jun 2006 18:02:31 -0800 bible christianity god infallible islam judeism philosophy quran religion talmud fatbobsmith How do I decipher my religion? I am searching for my spirituality. I suppose I never lost it, but I yearn to pinpoint what it is I actually believe... I have, since the end of high school (I am currently almost finished graduate school), proclaimed myself an agnostic. In some sense, I suppose I am. I believe in God, but I am unsure how to reconcile all my beliefs, if even possible. I will provide some background for context. (Forgive me, this is going to be long, but I urge you to read on if you feel you might have some contribution.)<br> <br> My parents were raised Hindu in their home country. They migrated to the United States in their early adult lives where they raised my siblings and me, however, they never completely instilled Hinduism in us. This is not to say my parents were not religious at home (they indeed were, and my mom remains very religious), but our family never went to temple or anything like that. Many of my cousins' families who lived here went to temple and engaged in cultural activities, but my parents, although active themselves, never immersed us in the religion and culture. Although my siblings and I never officially attended any religious churches/temples, we were aware that God existed, first by reference to the Baba (or Guru) whom my parents revered as a saint (they knew the Baba personally in their young lives -- largely common in the Hindu religion). <br> <br> Alongside my "exposure" to Hinduism, I learned about Christianity little by little throughout my early and young adult life -- almost all of my friends were either Catholic or Protestant. Because I identified with my friends, and had no close friends from my culture growing up, I often feel that I became even more familiar with Christianity than Hinduism. Indeed, I still feel comforted by holidays such as Christmas and Easter (which my family avidly celebrated growing up, although more secularly). Further, I feel some strange connection to the Christian church, which I attended from time to time while young with friends. I also at one point belonged to a Christian youth group -- during middle school and high school I felt I needed to identify with some religion, and I felt that Christianity was one with which I felt very comfortable. <br> <br> I never told my parents that I considered converting in high school to Christianity. Actually, I was not even sure I would be "converting," as I never felt Hindu per se. Although, my parents have made it clear to me that one is "born Hindu," so I accepted that I was. But it bears mention that Hindus, contrary to popular belief, are very open to all religions (and also surprising -- Hinduism is a monotheistic faith). My parents indeed attended Catholic school their entire lives growing up, which was common for many able to afford it. As I mentioned earlier, they celebrated Christmas with reverence (a practice to which many Indians adhere). Yet, my parents sometimes teased me as being the "Christian" of the family, so I felt some embarrassment in voicing my beliefs at the time.<br> <br> Finally, once I went away to college, at a diverse, intelligent university, I felt comfortable with the idea that I was Agnostic. This was the first time I found others who could identify with that "lost" feeling of believing in God, but not being able to find some cohesive framework with which to identify. <br> <br> I felt comfortable as an Agnostic for a while, and I suppose, to some extent, I still am. Yet, I also feel that I need something more tangible sense of religion in my life right now (I lead a high-stress life that often overwhelms me). But I cannot reconcile any of my beliefs in a way that makes sense. For instance, I believe in God. I believe that Jesus Christ was a prophet, and, indeed he was even the son of God. Yet, I also believe that there are many prophets who have found their way here to allow God to present Himself to people of all colors, religions (or faiths or whatever), ethnicities, etc. In other words, I believe that God can express Himself in different ways to different people, but there is just one God. <br> <br> Perhaps this is my way of reconciling an upbringing that somewhat conflicts with the religious education (or non-education) I received in life along the way. At any rate, can anyone suggest a religion into which I might fall (other than Agnosticism)? Further, is it possible to believe that Jesus is the son of God and yet believe that there were many other prophets (even ones whom the Christian church might not believe as such)? Sometimes, I feel people are closed-minded to that kind of thing because it is foreign to them. Just because it is foreign, does not make it wrong. Are there any actual religious faiths under which I fall? I really am in search of finding my faith and just being able to attend a religious meeting place where I can express my spirituality.<br> <br> I understand this was long and all over the place, but I am writing as I think, and, as you can tell, am not even sure what I think. Please offer any ideas, comments, questions, suggestions, advice, etc. All contributions are highly appreciated.,2006:site.34167 Sat, 11 Mar 2006 16:19:54 -0800 Christianity Hinduism Philosophy religion spirtuality orangeshoe | http://ask.metafilter.com/tags/Philosophy+christianity/rss | dclm-gs1-041690002 | false | false | {
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I have MythTV connected to flat panel TV by HDMI. The resolution is correct only if the startup sequence is: TV on, then start the MythTV computer. With this sequence the resolution is 1280x720, which is correct, and fills the TV screen.
If the TV is now switched off, then back on, the picture is about half size. The resolution has changed to 1920x1080.
If the MythTV computer is started with the TV off, then the TV is turned on, the picture overflows the screen. The resolution is 1600x1200 in that case.
/etc/X11/xorg.conf has only one option for monitor size, "1280x720"
I added Option "IgnoreEDID" "true"
to both the Device and Monitor sections of xorg.conf, but it made no difference.
How can I keep the resolution at 1280x720 after switching the TV off, then back on?
I found the resolution in the cases above by switching to backend and running
xdpyinfo | grep -B2 resolution.
System details: Mythbuntu 12.04 64 bit MythTV 0.26 CPU/GPU AMD Zacate E35M1-M PRO TV - AOC Envision L32W761, using HDMI input
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0.096376 | <urn:uuid:a7ae118c-d7bd-467b-bdc6-ccefeecffadb> | en | 0.933162 | The Worldwide Energy Budget
Examining worldwide energy use is important for two related reasons. First, one of the most thorny issues in setting a course toward sustainable energy is the problem of which countries should bear the cost of shifting their energy use. Currently, developed countries use far more energy per capita than developing countries do, and developing countries are understandably reluctant to inhibit their economic growth by agreeing to any restrictions in how they generate energy. At the same time, the magnitude of the problem we are facing with our energy supply can only be understood by asking the question, "What if developing countries do manage to bring themselves up to the level of the developed ones?" Therefore, the second reason for looking at worldwide energy use is that it provides rough guidance about what demand might look like in the future.
Table 1 quantifies the amount of energy consumed and the amount of greenhouse gases emitted by the five largest economies in 2005. The total for all countries is listed at the bottom of the table. One can see that these five countries make up 55% of the worlds gross domestic product (GDP), 47% of its energy use, and 47% of its greenhouse gas emission, but only 29% of the world's population. These numbers suggest that by considering only a handful of countries, we might be able to get a pretty good idea of how energy is used worldwide.
Table 1: Total Energy Consumption for the Five Largest Economies (2005)
Country GDP Population Energy Use Greenhouse Gases
(trillions USD) (millions) (billion MWh) (billion tons CO2 equiv.)
United States 12.4 296 29.5 7.0
Japan 4.5 128 6.7 1.3
Germany 2.8 82 4.3 1.0
China 2.2 1,306 19.6 7.2
United Kingdom 2.2 60 2.9 0.6
World Total 44.2 6,476 135.4 36.5
However, if you ignore China for a moment in the list of the top five economies, the situation appears even more skewed. The U.S., Japan, Germany, and the U.K.make up only 9% of the world's population, but account for 50% of GDP, 32% of energy use, and 27% of greenhouse gas emission. China, of course, is a developing country, whose economy is so large in part because it is so populous. Therefore, to produce a more fair comparison, one can compare the amount of GDP, energy, and greenhouses gas emission on a per person basis. Table 2 does this.
Table 2: Per Capita Energy Consumption for the Five Largest Economies (2005)
Country GDP Energy Use Greenhouse Gases
(thousands USD) (MWh) (tons CO2 equiv.)
United States 42.0 99.7 23.6
Japan 35.6 52.3 10.5
Germany 33.9 51.6 11.9
China 1.7 15.0 5.5
United Kingdom 36.4 48.1 10.6
World Average 6.8 20.9 5.6
One can see that the per capita energy use in the U.S. is twice as high as in Japan, Germany, and the U.K., and over six times larger than in China. Similarly, the per capita greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. are twice as high as in the three other wealthy nations, although it is only about four to five times higher than in China. Interestingly, China's energy use and greenhouse gas emission are more-or-less in line with the world average, although its GDP is considerably lower than the average (more on that here).
This can give us guidance as to the magnitude of the energy challenge we might be facing in the future. It seems reasonable to expect that most countries (with a few exceptions) desire a lifestyle that is at least on par with those of developed countries like Japan, Germany, the U.K., and the U.S. As it now stands, those "wealthy" lifestyles require 2--4 times more energy than the average lifestyle on Earth. So one unavoidable question is, even without considering population growth (The U.S. Census Bureau predicts the world population will grow to 9 billion by 2040, which represents an average annual growth rate of about 1%. For comparison, China's economic growth rate is about 9%, which, if this astounding growth can be maintained, would set it on a course to grow by a factor of 24 to match the 2005 U.S. GDP by 2042.), how can we accommodate future energy demands that might increase by more than a factor of 2?
Even more difficult is to imagine how we would control greenhouse gas emissions. The U.N. Human Development Report suggests that our goal should be to reduce the chance that the global climate will warm by 2 degrees Celsius in the 21st century to less than about 50%. According to their models, doing this would require that the global budget for greenhouse gases be around 14.5 billion tons of carbon dioxide equivalent per year by 2050. Per person, this is an allotment of 2.2 tons equivalent to carbon dioxide per year. This less than half the current worldwide average, and ten times lower than the per capita greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. Under this standard, even China would have to cut its greenhouse gas emissions in half.
So, how could we possibly reduce our greenhouse gas emission that much? There are only two tools (excluding those that involve a zombie plague or an asteroid hitting the Earth): conservation, and alternative energy such as nuclear, renewable energy, or fusion. We believe that it will benefit the U.S. to tackle the energy challenge through both means. Like it or not, the developing world looks to us as a model for their economies and lifestyles. We have the resources to develop technologies, and, if necessary, to change our way of life, so that we can export that to other countries. This could be a boon to our country, if we take the lead in developing technologies such as safe nuclear power, renewable energy, and a next-generation electrical grid.
On the other hand, if we do nothing to secure our energy future, we will find ourselves importing ways of dealing with cities that lie below sea level, in an uneven exchange for exporting more of our troops on missions to deal with troubled oil-rich countries, and aid to help millions of people displaced by floods or droughts.
The values for the table were compiled from four sources. The population numbers are from the US Census Bureau International Database. The GDP numbers are originally from the CIA World Factbook, but to get the year that I wanted, I went to Nation Master. The energy use numbers are from the international section of the Energy Information Administration. Finally, the greenhouse gas numbers are from the Climate Analysis Indicators Tool, version 6. I used 2005, because that was the most recent year that the greenhouse gas numbers were available for.
While doing this analysis, I checked my work against David MacKay's book, Sustainable Energy - without the hot air, which I originally found thanks to a post by Cory Doctorow on BoingBoing.
Michael Muno: mtspaceblog at gmail
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0.018665 | <urn:uuid:b2cce3a0-adc8-4319-ad0f-fc037b6125c7> | en | 0.951172 | The Washington Redskins face the Philadelphia Eagles in a NFC East contest on a chilly day at Lincoln Financial Field. The best that can be said for the Redskins is that they can win.
Not that anyone expects them to. The Redskins are 10 point underdogs to the Eagles. But Washington's effort against the Cowboys stokes the dying embers of hope that something good can emerge from the season.
The best chance for Washington to win this game is old fashioned football. Run the ball. Stop the run.
The absence of Clinton Portis and Brian Westbrook change the dynamics of the contest. Both were the leading scorers for their team. Both Westbrook and Portis scored 12 touchdowns in 2007. That's three touchdowns for every four games they played.
No back on either team is close to that performance this season. Eagles' receiver DeSean Jackson and tight end Brent Celek are on a pace for eight touchdowns each.
Jackson, who was judged too short to play for the Redskins, already gashed Washington for a 67 yard touchdown run and a 57 yard touchdown reception. Stopping Jackson means keeping him off the field.
The Redskin defense is the best in football against the pass, but not so good against the run. The Detroit Lions beat the Skins' 25th ranked run defense on the ground.
The Redskins have to stop Eagle rookie LeSean McCoy. If McCoy is not as versatile at Westbrook, he's more of a mystery to Washington.
Washington's throws its midget, Portis-clones at the Eagles' ninth-ranked rushing defense.
Neither Rock Cartwright, Quinton Ganther, nor Marcus Mason are as tall as Clinton Portis (5 ft. 11 in.). Maybe they can hide behind the line until they break through it.
Rock is as rugged as his name. Ganther may be a reliable blocker. Mason can gash for big yards on occasion. All offer the same advantage as LeSean McCoy. They are a mystery to the Eagles.
Washington's travails are a blessing for Jim Zorn, though he might not see it that way.
The knock about his play-calling is a typical misdiagnosis by the Redskin front office. Bill Belichick makes controversial fourth down calls. John Harbaugh was scored on cable TV this morning for mishandling timeouts in the Ravens loss to the Colts last Sunday.
No coach calls a perfect game. It wasn't Zorn's play-calling that led to a 3-7 record.
The Redskins were not prepared for the season. That says something about head coaching leadership. Why is that a blessing? Because Zorn is learning now that it's that head coaching management, ah, stuff, that must occupy most of his time.
That's an expensive lesson learned on Daniel Snyder's money. Zorn will apply that lesson for some other team in three years or so. Snyder won't get the benefit of Zorn's experience. | http://bleacherreport.com/articles/299281-redskins-and-eagles-look-to-ground-each-other | dclm-gs1-041740002 | false | false | {
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0.028223 | <urn:uuid:39793583-983b-4360-a27a-9975ac28b053> | en | 0.956064 | Pension option sparks attack
By JIMMY VIELKIND, Capitol bureau
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First published: Tuesday, June 22, 2010
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1. Bob says:
What these snake oil salesmen never mention is that 401k plans were originally developed to supplement existing retirement plans, especially for high-earners such as top managers and executives in business and industry. After regulatory changes made them even more available to the average employee, corporations dropped the defined-benefit plans and moved to these defined-contribution plans for the sole reason to cut expenses (and boost employee investments the their own company.)
The average amount in current 401k plans is $67,000. Prospective retirees in the private sector are already delaying plans for retirement due to the Great Recession and substantial losses incurred in their retirement investments. Given the windfall in fees Wall Street will gain from managing these 401k-like portfolios for public employees, and given the documented greed, crime, and corruption in Wall Street, how can anyone support this plan with a straight face? It just doesn’t pass the smell test.
2. Free Market Economics says:
Bob, I didn’t see in your comment where you said whether or not you agreed that defined benefit plans were affordable or not in the long run to the state or whether or not you cared.
3. been around the block says:
Politians lie just to get votes.
4. maverick100 says:
As I’ve explained to you dozens of times the cost of our pensions, please feel free to explain why they are so “expensive”.
In other words – put up or shut up.
5. Bob says:
The current pension system is affordable. What’s not affordable is when state and localities, as employers, make no annual contributions over a series years as a way of cutting expenses in the short term. Then they act surprised, that, lo and behold, they have to start making contributions at a significantly higher rate. State policy on public employer contribution rates results in peaks and valleys making it impossible to plan out-year budgets. The public blames the situation on “unaffordable” public pensions when the culprit is the withholding of contributions by public employers.
6. maverick100 says:
Still waiting.
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0.071607 | <urn:uuid:0a1ca9a2-d3b8-44b0-a579-8334375ec64c> | en | 0.953187 | So I was thinking about something or other today and wanted to refresh my mind on the details of it. I know that i had visited a site on exactly the topic at hand sometime recently.
This happens pretty often. I think browser bookmarks are next to useless, as the web seems to 404 itself into content-expiration faster than non-refrigerated milk. Also, at the time i'm at a site, i can't possibly be expected to judge wether or not i'll want to see this same site in the future. If it's so darn important that i KNOW i'll want it, i'll commit the domain to memory without really trying to (i used to have wuarchive's IP address memorized back in the day. typing out “ftp“ was much faster than trying to remember what came between “wuarchive.“ and “.edu“)
Usually what I do is google search for the exact terms that i think i would have used last time i was looking for info on this. Then i look for the link thats a different color in the search results.
Sometimes I look through my browser history, but thats too noisy to pick what i want quickly - usually doing a new google search of the entire internet is faster.
So today i had a great idea - what if there was a way to google search constrained just to links in your browser history. I was all set to go post this suggestion internally and see what people thought, but i figured i'd check IE just to make sure no such thing existed, as maybe a right-click option on the history pane.
Imagine my surprise as hitting ctrl-H yielded me my usual history tab, but up at the top, a button called “search”.
Nice. Glad i didn't make a big fit internally about how IE ought to let you search for terms in your browser history :)
That said, i think it'd be nice if the search UI categorized links under the same visual site heirarchy that the general history control uses. Are you listening, IE people ? :)
So, that's my useful it-was-always-there new feature of the day.
I wonder if a team of product experts across windows, outlook, SQL server, VS, etc observed my product usage habits for a week, what inefficiencies they'd notice ? MS does studies from time to time where they put a bunch of people in a room and say “do this task” and video tape it. This is great for understanding what things are cumbersome to use about our products. This IE feature had been under my nose and I had finally noticed my defective usage habit and thought “i wish a product did that!”. What other features am i missing out on? What other things do i do foolishly just because i am not aware of the built-in better way ? | http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mattev/archive/2004/06/28/the-feature-i-just-thought-of-has-been-there-all-along.aspx | dclm-gs1-041800002 | false | false | {
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0.023668 | <urn:uuid:44f0a3d4-2e23-4363-b409-8861c72965e7> | en | 0.952968 | [Poll] What's Your Favorite Megadeth Album?
On June 4th, legendary thrash metal band Megadeth will be releasing their 14th studio album Super Collider. The release comes just under 28 years after the band released their debut album Killing Is My Business…And Business Is Good! In anticipation of the upcoming release, we here at Bloody-Disgusting want to know what YOUR favorite Megadeth album is!
Here’s how it’s going to work: Below I’ve got a poll where you can pick your favorite Megadeth studio album. At the end of the day, I’m going to see which album has the least number of votes and remove it from the list. Then, tomorrow, we’re going to do it again! We’re going to keep doing this until we get down to the Bloody-Disgusting reader’s choice for Best Megadeth Album! So, without further ado, head on below and make your choice!
1. Avatar of EvanDickson
Peace Sells, then Rust for me. I’m also one of the lame-o’s who likes Countdown but hasn’t listened to anything after.
2. Avatar of Nasher
Risk was the last one i bought and was so tired an album that I was pretty much done. Listened to the next 2 when they came out and didn’t change my mind.
I just realized i don’t think I’ve listened to a Megadeth track in probably 5 years. Peace & So Far were really patchy lps with some really amazing tracks but always missing something in the ones that connected them.
3. Avatar of BadCrumbs
Wait. People actually listen to MEGADEATH? I thought they were a joke. Hmmmm.
• Avatar of STRIK9
Megadeth have sold millions of albums,you tosser. I’m curious what kind of weak ass shit you actually listen to while trolling on here.
4. Avatar of j.c
Tough choice between the first four and surprised to see Risk actualy has some votes(not criticizing, just sayin…LOL) For anyone who hasnt listened since Risk(and I can understand that, Im a fan and even for me that one was hard to sit thru), I would recommmend checking out Endgame as well. Its my favorite of the newer releases.
• Avatar of STRIK9
‘Risk’ is unlistenable aside from that prince of darkness song. I still cant believe they recorded and released such an album.
5. Avatar of STRIK9
They peaked on “youthanasia”. Its a brilliant album. A lot of fans don’t like it because its not as fast as thrashy like rust in peace. Mustaine should retire now though because his riffs are lacking and uninspired compared to venom he had on his earlier albums.He uses fuckin tamborines on like every song now too.
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Subject: Re: Plans for the New Year Date: 12/19/2000 3:09 PM
Author: caesium55 Number: 51894 of 307585
Is anyone else goal-setting for the new year?
1. Open a money market account or interest-bearing checking account where I can keep my quarterly/yearly virtual accounts (insurance, etc.), now that the balance is high enough to be worth it.
2. Start a 'Holiday Club' virtual account so I don't have to change my budget, as I did this year, to pay cash for Christmas presents.
3. My original debt-payoff plan had my CC payoff date in Sep '01, but I don't know if that will happen given recent changes. Keep working on the debts, definitely, and hopefully get the 2k Citibank and 1.5k First USA Visa paid off, and work on the 4k MBNA biggie.
4. Continue paying my car loan off and saving to a 'new car' fund.
5. Pay cash for copays and deductibles for doc visits and optometrist etc. I need to do.
6. Do my own taxes this year.
7. Continue to save and plan for grad school.
8. Move into a nicer apartment, but one I can still afford.
9. Actually get the emergency fund up to 3 months living expenses.
10. Start thinking about post-debt plans; investing etc.
Erk, that's a lot. :)
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Second, we tend to forget that companies can get in tailspins that they can't recover from. Witness the stunning declines in Nortel, Nokia(NOK) and Research In Motion (RIMM) .
Third, Hewlett-Packard has a tremendous amount of debt and has used a gigantic amount of capital to foolishly buy back shares.
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Fourth, previous CEO Leo Apotheker spent money like a drunken sailor with a terrible $10 billion dollar overpay for an information management software company, Autonomy, that really drained the corporate coffers
Lastly, right before he was fired, Apotheker announced that Hewlett-Packard was debating abandoning the personal computer business.
Add these up and you have a company that seems about to be carved up by IBM(IBM) , Oracle(ORCL) , SAP(SAP) and Accenture(ACN) on the underinvested consulting side, and by Dell(DELL) and the low-cost Asian companies on the personal computer and printer side.
Enter Meg Whitman. While she has a pristine reputation, her actual operating history at previous employer eBay(EBAY) was distinctly mixed. She had grave troubles taking the company to the next level. She also made a serious mistake when she came in, casting an extremely rosy picture of the business before she even had a handle on it. The stock had crept up in part because we figured she had to know something about how well the company was doing or she would have kitchen-sinked, meaning taken huge writeoffs, cleaned up the biggest messes and given herself some time for this massive turnaround.
Today what did she offer? Perhaps a vision down the road of a value added software and consulting company? Given the crowded nature of that field, with well-financed powerhouses already staking out the turf all I can say is good luck with that. A vision of cost cutting? The one thing that Mark Hurd seems to have done really right at Hewlett-Packard was to cut costs to the bone. Apotheker was so horrible that he also may have feather bedded during his miserable regime, but I think the biggest problem with Hewlett-Packard is that it underinvested and not overinvested in the core businesses. Whitman paid lip service to the need to innovate, but lets really be brutally frank, what does she know about innovation? I see nothing in her track record that would tell me otherwise. | http://business-news.thestreet.com/scsuntimes/story/jim-cramers-best-blogs/11433601 | dclm-gs1-041860002 | false | false | {
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0.053922 | <urn:uuid:67a71759-2435-436f-8623-a5bb47ea78b5> | en | 0.897826 | Eyes Without a Face (song)
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"Eyes Without a Face"
4 track EP cover
Single by Billy Idol
from the album Rebel Yell
B-side Blue Highway
Released 29 May 1984
Format Vinyl (7" and 12")
Recorded Studio A, Electric Lady Studios, New York, 1982
Genre New wave, hard rock
Length 4:58
4:08 (7")
Label Chrysalis Records
Writer(s) Billy Idol, Steve Stevens
Producer Keith Forsey
Billy Idol singles chronology
"Rebel Yell"
"Eyes Without a Face"
"Flesh for Fantasy"
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"Eyes Without a Face" is a song by Billy Idol, co-written with guitarist Steve Stevens from Idol's 1983 album Rebel Yell. The song is softer and more ballad-like than most of the album's other singles.
Song information[edit]
Released on 29 May 1984, this was the second single from the Rebel Yell album. It reached No. 4 on the Billboard Charts, becoming Idol's first Top 10 hit in the U.S.
In the liner notes for the Expanded Edition of Rebel Yell, Idol notes that this song was one of the first three written for the album (the other two being the title track and "(Do Not) Stand In The Shadows.") The original track was recorded in Studio A at Electric Lady Studios in New York, with a Linn drum machine and the bass parts played by Steve Webster. [1]
The song is notable for the female voice of Perri Lister that sings 'Les yeux sans visage' (French for 'eyes without a face') as a background chorus.
The title of the song refers to French director Georges Franju's movie Les yeux sans visage (1960).
In a retrospective review of the single, Allmusic journalist Donald A. Guarisco praised the song. He wrote: "The music plays against the dark tone of the lyrics with a ballad-styled melody comprised of yearning verses that slowly build emotion and a quietly wrenching chorus that relieves the emotional tension in a cathartic manner."[2]
Formats and track listings[edit]
• UK 7" vinyl single
1. "Eyes Without a Face"
2. "The Dead Next Door"
• UK 12" vinyl single
1. "Eyes Without a Face"
2. "The Dead Next Door"
3. "Dancing With Myself"
4. "Rebel Yell"
Music video[edit]
The video was directed by David Mallet and begins with a close-up of Idol's sneering face, interspersed with three female singers. During the song's bridge, the scene changes to Steve Stevens soloing on guitar while Idol poses dancing in a flaming hexagon surrounded by hooded acolytes. The highly aggressive imagery of the video contrasts with the relative slowness and restraint of the song.
The video was released in June 1984 and subsequently nominated for MTV Video Music Awards for "Best Editing" and "Best Cinematography". It was shot over an exhausting three-day period on a set with fog machines, lighting, and fire sources. Immediately after the shoot, Idol flew to perform in Arizona, where he discovered that his contact lenses had fused to his eyeballs, attributing this to the harsh video shoot and dry plane air. He was taken to a hospital where the lenses were removed, his eyes bandaged for three days, and his scraped corneas grew back.[3]
Chart (1984) Peak
German Singles Chart 10
Italian Singles Chart 14
Swiss Singles Chart 21
UK Singles Chart 18
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 4
U.S. Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks 5
"Eyes Without a Face" was written by Billy Idol and Steve Stevens and produced by Keith Forsey. Credits on the song include:
Cover versions[edit]
1. ^ Reesman, Bryan (2006-06-01). "Classic Tracks: Billy Idol's "Rebel Yell"". Mix Magazine. Penton Media, inc. Retrieved 2006-09-28.
2. ^ Guarisco, Donald A. "Eyes Without a Face - Billy Idol : Listen, Appearances, Song Review". AllMusic. Retrieved 2012-12-29.
3. ^ Tannenbaum, Rob; Marks, Craig (2011). I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution. Penguin. p. 16.
4. ^ http://ultimateclassicrock.com/trent-reznor-billy-idol-eyes-without-a-face/
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0.919812 | <urn:uuid:fa4d9fc3-70dd-471b-b770-63c49ce9f4a7> | en | 0.935734 | Kelvin–Helmholtz mechanism
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However, it soon was recognized by Sir Arthur Eddington and others that the total amount of energy available via this mechanism only allowed for the Sun to shine for millions of years rather than the billions of years that the geological and biological evidence suggested for the age of the Earth. (Kelvin himself had argued that the earth was millions, not billions, of years old.) The true source of the Sun's energy remained uncertain until the 1930s in which it was shown by Hans Bethe to be nuclear fusion.
Power generated by a Kelvin–Helmholtz contraction[edit]
Gravitational potential energy from Newtonian mechanics is defined as:
U = -\frac{Gm_1m_2}{r}
Recasting in terms of the mass of the sphere gives the final answer:
While uniform density is not correct, one can get a rough order of magnitude estimate of the expected age of our star by inserting known values for the mass and radius of the Sun, and then dividing by the known luminosity of the Sun. Note this will involve another approximation, as the power output of the Sun has not always been constant.
\frac{U}{L_\bigodot} \approx \frac{2.3 \times 10^{41}\ \mathrm{J}}{4 \times 10^{26}\ \mathrm{W}} \approx 18,000,000\ \mathrm{years}
Where L is the luminosity of the Sun. While giving enough power for considerably longer than many other physical methods, such as electrochemical energy, this value was clearly still not long enough due to geological and biological evidence that the Earth was billions of years old. It was eventually discovered that thermonuclear energy was responsible for the power output and long lifetimes of stars.
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Ice fog over Fairbanks, Alaska in winter 2005. Temperature approximately minus 30F. Note the mirage at the base of the Alaska Range
Ice fog in Virginia City, Nevada, from an early 20th-century postcard
Ice fog is a type of fog consisting of fine ice crystals suspended in the air. It can happen only in cold areas of the world since water can remain liquid down to −40 °C (−40 °F). It should be distinguished from diamond dust, a precipitation of sparse ice crystals falling from a clear sky.[1]
In the United States[edit]
In the western United States, ice fog may be referred to as pogonip.[2][3] It occurs very rarely during cold winter spells, usually in deep mountain valleys. Ice fog can be quite common in interior and northern Alaska, since the temperature frequently drops below -40° in the winter months. Pogonip only forms under specific conditions; the humidity has to be near 100% as the air temperature drops to well below 0 °C (32 °F), allowing ice crystals to form in the air. The ice crystals will then settle onto surfaces.
The word pogonip is derived from the Shoshone word paγi̵nappi̵h, which means "cloud".[3][4] Supposedly, early settlers called it "white death" because they believed the crystals got into their lungs and caused death.
In The Old Farmer's Almanac, in the calendar for December, the phrase "Beware the Pogonip" regularly appears. In Smoke Bellew Jack London described Pogonip which happened to the main characters, killing one of them.
1. ^ "AMS Glossary - Ice fog". Retrieved 2009-02-14.
2. ^ "Pogonip".
3. ^ a b "Pogonip - Definition from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary". Retrieved 2009-02-14.
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The definite article can be used with a plural noun just as it can with a singular noun.
The boys are here.
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Definite article can definitely be used with plural nouns. The restriction is limited to indefinite articles only.
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In Illustrator CS6, I can only get the gradient tool to add a horizontal gradient.
I can not drag either of the end points around into a vertical gradient.
What is going on here that I can't see?
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With linear gradients, you can not drag the gradient annotator around to various angles. It will remain at the angle it has been set to.
If you want to drag an angle, use the Gradient Tool and click where you want the gradient to start then drag to where you want the gradient to end. You can click-drag any angle you need.
Alternatively, you can use the Angle field located on the Gradient Panel to set the angle of the gradient.
It is only with radial gradients that the annotator will rotate around it's center, never with linear gradients.
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Thanks, I've been using Fireworks for 8 years; old habits die hard! – Steve Jul 16 '12 at 7:22
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There is a slider in the panel for the angle of the gradient. You can also enter a numeric value there.
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Had the same exact problem. Make sure that your fill is selected and not the stroke. This was my issue. Hope this helps!
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I was having the same problem. What's happening is since in cs6 you can also gradient the stroke now, you have to toggle over to the fill so that the gradient tool will respond. For example, I was trying to make a black bar fade to 0% opacity. So I made my bar black and NO STROKE. Then selected my gradient tool and even used the gradient palette and nothing would resound. Finally, I realized I was trying to manipulate my non-existent stroke, once I toggled to the fill, it responded like normal.
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Kirbycolors This article is about the Spark + Bomb mix ability in Kirby: Squeak Squad. For the Spark + Bomb mix ability in Kirby 64, see Light Bulb*.
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Thunder Bomb
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Thunder Bomb
Name (JP) サンダーボム (Sandābomu)
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Mix ofBomb + Spark
AppearanceKirby gets the Bomb hat with the pom-pom on the end and the trimming having a greenish tint.
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Thunder Bomb is a combo ability available in Kirby: Squeak Squad. Kirby gets it by combining the Spark and Bomb abilities. It is similar to the regular Bomb ability but deals electricity damage. The Bomb Scroll is required.It also has the same effect as Spark on metal.
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Hold Bomb B Grabs bomb. Bombs can explode in Kirby's hands. None
• Just like Spark, once Thunder Bomb hits the ground on a metal surface, it will release sparks in both directions along the metal surface.
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is there a comprehensive howto on setting up wireless
I have a "Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection (rev
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What is the higher dimensional analogue for the arc of a circle?
I'd like to work with the set of all points lying within a certain distance of a given point on an n-sphere, and I'd like to describe these sets by the (generalised) solid angles which they subtend.
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A spherical wedge, or a spherical cap? – Ｊ. Ｍ. Aug 1 '12 at 2:33
Or hyperspherical, as the case may be. It's easy to denote it as an intersection of a ball and a sphere. – anon Aug 1 '12 at 2:38
@J.M. Make that an answer, would you please? – Rahul Narain Aug 1 '12 at 2:43
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By request:
It seems you want either the spherical cap or the spherical wedge, or hyperspherical versions thereof.
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Thanks, just what I was looking for. Thanks also to anon. – grain.man Aug 1 '12 at 3:10
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Find $$\int \sqrt{\tan x}dx$$
My attempt:
$$\text{Let}\ I=\int \sqrt{\tan(x)}dx$$
$$\text{Let}\ u=\tan(x), du=(1+\tan^{2}(x))dx$$
$$I=\int \frac{\sqrt{u}}{u^{2}+1}$$
$$\text{Let}\ v=\sqrt{u}, dv=\frac{du}{2\sqrt{u}}$$
$$I=2\int \frac{v^{2}}{v^{4}+1}$$
$$\text{Let}\ t=\frac{1}{v} \therefore dt=\frac{-dv}{v^2}$$
$$\therefore I=\int \frac{\frac{1}{t^2}}{1+\frac{1}{t^4}}\times\frac{-dt}{t^2}$$
$$I=-\int \frac{dt}{1+t^4}$$
Where do I go from here?
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Could you please tell me how I can know whether there is a duplicate before I post? I will go through the thread and see if the answer I am looking for is there. Thank you. – User79217 May 9 at 9:57
I changed the question. I do not think it is a duplicate now. – User79217 May 9 at 10:04
You are asking how to compute the integral in the last line. See accepted answer to that question. It is defenitely a duplicate – Norbert May 9 at 10:12
It is always difficult to determine whether your question have been asked before, just guess how would could look like the most confirmistic variant of your question and use search bar – Norbert May 9 at 10:18
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First let us compute the following $$\int(\sqrt{\tan x}+\sqrt{\cot x}) dx=\int\frac{\sin x +\cos x}{\sqrt{\sin x\cdot \cos x}}dx=\sqrt 2\int\frac{d(\sin x - \cos x)}{\sqrt{1-(\sin x -\cos x)^2}}$$ which is same as the $$\sqrt 2\int\frac{dz}{\sqrt{1-z^2}}=\sqrt 2\sin ^{-1}z+c$$ Again compute $$\int(\sqrt{\tan x}-\sqrt{\cot x})dx=\int\frac{\sin x -\cos x}{\sqrt{\sin x\cdot \cos x}}dx=\sqrt 2\int\frac{-d(\sin x+\cos x)}{\sqrt{(\sin x+\cos x)^2 -1} } dx$$ and this is same as $$-\sqrt 2\int \frac {dw}{\sqrt{w^2 -1}}=-\sqrt 2\int\frac{\sec u\tan u}{\tan u} du=-\sqrt 2\ln(\sec u +\tan u)+C$$ where $w=\sec u$. Now add both the integrals to obtain the result.
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I think you need to carry this one out. I don't think the minus integral works out as well. – Ron Gordon May 9 at 10:21
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The Wikipad 3D will Beat the Playstation Vita into a Plastic Pulp
BNR: Wait, what? How can a device you've never heard of shove another console from a megacorp like Sony into the dirt? By daring to be different. (Android, Dev, Industry, Mobile, Next-Gen, PS Vita, PSP, Sony, Tag Invalid)
Update UPDATE: This is the author speaking. I'd just like to say that I believe both machines are GREAT. I think I gave everybody the wrong impression- the Vita's got some (awesome!) stuff under the hood- it's just that I think the Wikipad does some things better than the Vita, and that it has some advantages. At the same time, the Vita's clearly going to have more polished releases unless the Android Market gets cleaned up- a LOT.
Also, thanks to the commenters who mentioned the Playstation Suite- I'll factor it into a later article.
Thank you for your feedback,
360GamerFG + 650d ago
Interesting. Does it do more than just play games though?
Dante112 + 650d ago
What the heck is a Wikipad?
Edit; @ Arnagrim
Yeah, I noticed lol. "Works with Ps3/Xbox for streaming".
"I wanna smash your handheld device but can you allow support for our Wikipad"?
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fear88 + 649d ago
All I have to say to this is Playstation Suite. There goes his whole argument.
joeorc + 649d ago
"All I have to say to this is Playstation Suite. There goes his whole argument."
100% So true
you know i was one of the only people that posted an made a thread about the WikiPad 3D in the forum section under the mobile gaming section for handheld gaming.
as a matter of point. about the Playstation Suite!
Thank you, we are in close talks with Sony and Nvidea – we will keep you posted.
All the very best and thank you.
Matthew R Joynes
1801 Century Park East
Suite 2400
Los Angeles CA 90067
Why would Sony have a problem with selling more playstation Software on the WikiPad 3D?
@ disagree's, So i talked to the president of wikipad 3d myself an getting a Q&A interview With them here an i get a disagree?
Ok..wow, people that phantom disagree's me when they themselves have not had any correspondence with the people @ wikipad 3d? good call people
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jujubee88 + 649d ago
The VITA support in this thread makes me proud!
I hope this tablet all the best.
To me wikipad is like the swapmeet (knock off) tranformer toy and the PS VITA is the special edition tranformer toy with all the neat features (remote controled, can fly, has blinking lights, better color and build, can shoot missles, can float underwater, etc). Sure the knockoff is fun for just messing around with your friend that has his action figures but, the VITA can kick the ass of the other toy.
That is my analogy anyways. It kind of fell apart at the end there. :p
Playstation Suite needs to come on to "bigger name" hardware. Sony need to look into Samsung, HTC, LG, VIZIO and other bigger hardware manufacturers first to make sure the hardware will have the best grade. If Sony where to make the first Playstation Certified device (outside of the Sony brand) than, it must embody some high quality design in order to maintain the integrity of the moniker "PlayStation Certified".
A removable controller with buttons of that quality does not really seem to be deserving of the Playstation Certification. Whoever makes the tablet and/or controller must look into really tightening up the design look. If re-modeling the design means bumping up the MSRP price, so be it; otherwise, Sony would just be content with keeping PS Certification on its own line of devices (and/or partnering with other major factories as written before).
MaxXAttaxX + 649d ago
It can't play any PlayStation games...
It only streams media from PS3/360 and only plays Android games.
Fantastic /s
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RankFTW + 649d ago
"Sony, if you want to change my mind, send me a Vita."
Haha the guy wrote the whole article to try and get a free Vita, the chancer ;>.
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rob6021 + 648d ago
More like this 'journalist' is openly accepting bribes; and would likely be reviewing the machine on different terms than a normal person cause he got it for free. What a sorry piece of trash. I bet you can tell which companies send him freebies.
Dmarc + 648d ago
sounds like something my gf use on her time of the month
I think im the only who notices this is a joke article.. atleast i hope it is ... i think it is (0_0 ) (0_0) ( 0_0)
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gamingdroid + 648d ago
Anything pooped out using Android tends to suck majorily so no, I don't think the Wikipad 3D will do anything, but flop.
PS Vita won't even notice the Wikipad 3D's existence, just like most of us here aren't even aware of it.
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SilentNegotiator + 649d ago
Oh cool, so when does the wikipad version of Uncharted release?
Quit screaming, Shirley.
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THESONYPS3 + 649d ago
Psvita :D
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THESONYPS3 + 649d ago
Agree for psvita
Arnagrim + 650d ago
"High Quality games for free"
Lol, okay. Good luck finding any developer whose okay with this.
Also lol at, "Works with PS3/Xbox for streaming"
Yeah a competitor is going to let your product interact with their software.
Jourdy288 + 650d ago
I think you misunderstood... That means it can be used to stream video to a device. Like, if you have a video on the Wikipad, you'll be able to stream it to your Xbox 360/PS3.
Arnagrim + 650d ago
A okay. I figured it worked like Remote Play or Media Servers where it could access remotely a video on your PS3/Xbox and play it from the Wikipad.
TheGamingArt + 649d ago
Actually it's a feature that almost any worth device now adays can handle via file sharing... I can already stream shit from my computer on my ps3, on from my ps3 onto my vita and visa versa.
ninjahunter + 649d ago
Suddenly my hand flew towards my upper face at high velocity.
TheGamingArt + 649d ago
That did not deserve my click. Idgits
Ser + 649d ago
Sorry, but no it will not.
Kintypoo121 + 649d ago
The Playstation Vita has the backing of big developers (and Sony ofc), so I doubt it'll 'fall' like the article predicts. The Wikipad sounds like a nice idea, but at the end of the day it's a tablet that will probably at best get ported games, not dedicated games, unlike the Vita.
I'm not a fan boy btw, just a realist XD
Jourdy288 + 649d ago
...Did you read the article?
"the Wikipad stands where the Vita falls". Does it say the Vita will fall and Sony will collapse? No. it says that the Wikipad stands where the Vita falls. That's all.
Kintypoo121 + 649d ago
I'd never imagine it causing the fall and demise of Sony and I didn't think what I said sounded even remotely like I meant it'd kill Sony.
I simply said "I doubt it'd fall like the article predicts." Sure, that can be taken several ways, maybe I could have worded it better.
And yes, I read the whole article and I didn't go all hating on it, just gave my own opinion about the whole thing.
Nutsack + 649d ago
lmao nice, another retarded article. Did they have some down syndrome people have a go and write 'gaming' articles for this specific website?
The internet, such a funny place! One massive facepalm
* grabs PSVita and continues playing
Oschino1907 + 649d ago
Lamo nice, another fart mop comments. I know some people with Down Syndrome that could have thought of a much more inteligent and witty remark.
The internet, such an ignorant place! One massive douche pile.
*grabs Bemis Toilet and continues pooping
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Nutsack + 648d ago
* lmao
* intelligent
Nice, bring your friends in mate. My comment wasn't meant to be witty, just stating the facts. The article makes no sense. It just seems that more and more articles and websites are made by some retarded ones, period. They just pull 'arguments' out of their asses.
r21 + 649d ago
so its basically a bigger ps vita mixed with a 3DS?
that does sound enticing...but its probably gonna be more expensive than either said handhelds.
joeorc + 649d ago
"so its basically a bigger ps vita mixed with a 3DS?
the price point was already set.$199.00 without the controller dock, $50.00 for the controller doc. or both for $250.00 its a freaking steal, in my opinion.
combined with the Playstation Suite an i think there is a real winner not just for gamer's but also Sony due to the more device's with physical controls that get released in the market is better for gaming on the go in the Mobile space, an with the Playstation Suite running on Android OS one of the most used mobile OS's for device's in the market, Sony wants to be on the toll position in mobile gaming.
r21 + 649d ago
woah, thats really cheap. btw to the disagreers, aint ya sensitive?
Awesome_Gamer + 649d ago
I just dont get why people want the PS Vita to fail! It doesnt make any fucking sense
one2thr + 649d ago
Remember when the PS3 first came out?....
xursz + 649d ago
agreed. PS Vita is an awesome gaming device. Gamers left and right should be cherishing how far gaming has come but instead we get the media riding Apple's c*ck and pushing for overpriced tablets with shovelware games to make it's way into the gaming market.
I know this is a bit off topic but gamers should enjoy dedicated gaming while it lasts because if they fail, soon all we'll look forward to is Apple's annual overpriced upgrades to play weak *ss games. No more uncharted or Bioshock on the go, just cheap knock-offs on a cluddered touchscreen with half the screen real estate covered by your palms.
Sounds fun....
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Jourdy288 + 649d ago
Ah, but Apple isn't behind the Wikipad.
It's running Android, and in case you haven't noticed, the there's no such thing as a "dedicated gaming console" anymore (in my opinion, anyway). Since we've started using our consoles for watching movies, social networking, etc., they've been moving steadily towards general multimedia platforms.
Ordinarily, this change wouldn't bother me. The trouble is, less focus is on actually make them run games well.
The Wikipad seems to come from the center of that multimedia device black-hole, but it's moving away from it towards gaming-oriented device, which is what I appreciate.
SandwichHammock + 649d ago
Delicious jelly
Moncole + 649d ago
Can I go on Wikipedia with it?
Jourdy288 + 649d ago
LOL, its name comes from the Hawaiian word for quick, thus 'wiki'.
Sobari + 649d ago
So it's essentially an Android tablet and a wireless display? Sounds awesome, but won't kill off anything since it's dependent on other devices for a good chunk of its potential content.
I'd love it if I could use this with my gaming PC. I wouldn't have to buy a 3D monitor, and could relax on my bed while playing a game if I wanted.
Sithlord-Gamble + 649d ago
Dear Author -
You sir, are a f****** idiot!
REAL gamers
Jourdy288 + 649d ago
Seriously, I think the Wikipad 3D is a better system. I never said it'd outsell the Vita. I just feel more comfortable knowing that with the Wikipad, I don't need to worry about getting overcharged for games that came out years ago.
Is it perfect? No. The Android Marketplace is flooded with crap.
But can it be better than the Vita? In some ways, yes.
Did you read the article, or just the title?
Also, you have no place claiming that I, the author, am not a real gamer.
b777conehead + 649d ago
ill stick with my vita it rocks.
Hicken + 649d ago
Dude, stop defending the article. It's a crap article.
I wanted to break down all the ways you're wrong, but that's a waste of time.
Sithlord-Gamble + 649d ago
Oh i read the article, and like alot of others here, i thought it was a complete joke, crap ass article.
To even remotely suggest that any .99 game is quality enough to compete with a dedicated gaming library of the vita (or anyother dedicated handheld) is just idiotic and to suggest that a handheld built for cellphone games that could even remotely take on sony or nintendo is laughable at best.
U sir do real gamers an injustice to even entertain or cheer on something like that. Furthermore, its people like u that add to the whole mobile vs handheld nonsense, and for you to wish a product like this to be made and further the decline of hardcore gaming is disgusting.
NOTHING in android/apple market can compare to even the worst game on a console/handheld.
So before u get defensive about peoples comments, stop urself next time u wanna make a stupid comment like "seriously, i think the wikipad 3d is a better system" ...
someone that makes statements like that in defense of a casual mobile handheld is NOT a real gamer. Sorry if that makes u butthurt.
U can go play angry birds with ur wife. The hardcore real gamers along with myself will happily pay and enjoy games like uncharted and gravity rush.
Let me know when android games even come close that kind of pedigree. Jackass.
murkster-dubez + 649d ago
A Tegra 3 tablet with a 3D screen for $199? that price cant be real.
joeorc + 649d ago
"A Tegra 3 tablet with a 3D screen for $199? that price cant be real."
that's the truth, I talked to them myself. I thought it was a typo myself. but it's true. that's why i said it was a steal.
check out the CES 2012 demo of the wikipad 3D
with Android OS 4.3 SO ICE CREAM SANDWHICH to boot, which mean's you can use your DS3 or xbox360 game pad's with it if you want.
im getting a Q&A with them here soon.
Waddy101 + 648d ago
It's running a single-core 1.2ghz processor which is no way near as good as the quad-core backing up the Vita.
nobiggy + 649d ago
Good grief.
SandwichHammock + 649d ago
Yes yes yes, the Vita sucks, and it will fail, durr durr durr...NEXT!
PersonaCat + 649d ago
This is real? lol I really thought from the description they were making a joke about the constant Apple vs Vita. Shame on me for thinking journalists weren't this bad.
knifefight + 649d ago
Hey guys did you hear Nintendo is making a 3D console that you stick your eyes into and you can view it in full 3D? Complete full 3D with no glasses, long battery life and a great controller. The Virtual Boy is going to destroy all other comers. Sorry Xbox, PlayStation, and gaming PCs, but your time is up. The Virtual Boy is here, and it is going to win.
hkgamer + 649d ago
Wait, shouldn't this be compared to the xperia play?
There is also a cheaper android faming tablet made in china,
MadMax + 649d ago
This thing is already a dud, before its even out the door! Seems like a real flop! Nothing comes close to Vita! 3DS is cool too!
AusRogo + 649d ago
The author must have something against vita to put this shit up! Hahaha free games
portal_2 + 649d ago
Sounds like pandora 2.0 to me
Razongunz + 649d ago
The writer is stupid.
i don't see a fair reason as to why the wikipad is actually better. all this dude writes about is how expensive the memory card is and how few games it got.
not of these things matter as to why wikipad is better that the PS vita.
the vita just launched so ofc it doesnt have alot of games.. and another thing, the wikipad is android..it play app games.. thats not something to can compare with when mentioning the ps vita... vita games and app games aren't the slightest comparable.
the controls and screen are about the same (quality vise)but the vita is smaller and the controls are better positioned than the wikipad, and then its the basic, hardware specs, the vita still has better hardware specs than any handheld, mobile and tablet device.
and the vita is getting playstation suite which will allow anyone to make app games for the vita. and then its the price..i'm sure the wikipad is more expensive that the vita. i have never seen a tablet for less than 300$(yet)
the writers reason for why the wikipad is better:
1: vita got expensive memory card
2: wikipad got 1000s of app games
this writer is full of crap.
Pana + 649d ago
How about that Gizmondo...
JQM78 + 648d ago
Wikipad is neat.. I've been following it for a while now.. I'll probably get one, but I don't think the quality of the games will hold a candle to some of the top tiered Vita games.
UltraVegito + 648d ago
didnt read the article,cause i know the stupidity flowing from it is downright insane.
author needs to stop sniffing shrooms while writing
SlyFoxC + 648d ago
seriously thought this was a tablet only for the Wikipedia website
extermin8or + 648d ago
ROFL the main devs aren't going to bother making proper AAA titles for that though are they? seeign as hardly anyones going to have heard of it; it looks ugly and surely the AAA games are one of the vita's main selling points...? plus it looks cumbersome and uncomfortable to hold unlike the vita- simply put the games exclusive to vita will be better than whatever that thing gets solely because sony have the experience and $ to put into the games they get for the vita not to mention various other reasons for this :p
raymantalk1 + 648d ago
right i have read the article and what he talks about is total rubbish in terms of the games on the vita they are going to be allot better than what they will be on the wikipad and about sony not keeping promises there are very few they have not kept and as for canceling games that happens on every platform and sony cannot make a developer keep making the game if they decide to cancel which happens for various reason such as running out of money striking a deal with a different hardware company anyway i can could go on and on but cannot be bothered anymore this is a a boring subject anyway just by a vita or a wikipad and play the games you want to play.
D0UbleF_ + 648d ago
How the fuck does this reach frontpage?
JoeSchmoh + 648d ago
Dude, it's an Ipad with a controller attachment, who cares. give me a PSvita or 3DS. I don't need a portable handheld thats a 15inch touch screen. The PSvita and 3DS is perfectly fine. I'm pretty sure the battery life on that thing sucks to, being so huge like that.
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Doom and gloom, go zoom to the moon!
Anyone who's read any of my previous blog posts knows that I am not a floaty, fluffy, 'it's all sunshine and moonbeams' kinda gal when it comes to this writing malarkey... I'm a realist. I'm all for realism. What I'm not a great fan of is scaremongering codswallop. So, the publishing industry's going through changes... has that never happened before? Book sales are down and, apparently, the end of the physical book is in sight... well, we're in the middle of an economic recession... money spent on social drinking is down, but who's going to suggest that beer's about to become extinct? There are less people reading and buying books than ever before! Really? Considering the fact that in early Victorian Britain a third of the population was illiterate, a further third was only semi-literate, and the working classes couldn't even afford to buy books, I find that very hard to believe. The silver screen was going to kill books dead, the TV screen was going to do the same thing... ebooks promised the same. When did it happen? I think I must have missed it, as I saw books in the bookstore at the weekend, and they were real... I touched one to make sure (ok, I admit it, I bought five).
When I do a book signing (selling full-price books in this climate where, according to the 'experts', only discounted books stand a chance of selling), I sit in a bookshop for hours, watching the people come and go, search the shelves and then trundle off with their bundles of books. I listen to them talk about their hunger for more books to read, their frustration that the current economic climate means that they have had to cut back on buying books for the time being, and their hopes that when things get better they can go back to buying as many books as they did before. There's no sign that books have lost favour; they just aren't as important to the survival of mankind as food is, so when a choice has to be made, people buy that instead. I know, I know, who could have predicted that would happen?
Whilst Philip Roth is predicting that interest in fiction will dwindle to a 'cultic' minority enthusiasm within 25 years, I am going to predict only one thing... that in 25 years, people will be predicting that interest in fiction will dwindle to a 'cultic' minority enthusiasm within 25 years. So, doom and gloom can go fly to the moon. It's all happened before and, for anyone who knows the first thing about history, it was actually worse back then. If the end really is nigh, as it has been countless times since time began, I would like to be told when 'nigh' is going to be... I'm sick of waiting and I want to make sure I'm wearing clean undies for the big event.
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Ah, your post made me so happy. You put into words thoughts that have been tumbling through my brain as I read the many doom and gloom posts, which are starting to sound suspiciously like creaky voices stating "in my day . . . "
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Ah yes, in my day you could
Ah yes, in my day you could buy a hundred pairs of shoes for tuppence and still have enough money for the carriage fare home. Forgetting to mention that you had a good chance of dying before the age of forty and had to have your appendix removed without the use of an anaesthetic. The good old days... if only we could have some of those now. Nowadays are just the 'good old days' of future generations... when people travelling around in spaceships will be mourning the loss of conventional public transport.
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The good old days were always crappy for someone...
it just depended on which ethnic or economic group you belonged to. :)
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Despite a revenue base that dwarfs Apple's (AAPL) ($2.16T vs. $63.5B for FY'10), the U.S....
Despite a revenue base that dwarfs Apple's (AAPL) ($2.16T vs. $63.5B for FY'10), the U.S. government currently has less cash on hand than the world's largest tech firm. The Treasury said yesterday its "Total Operating Balance" is $73.8B; Apple's current cash reserves are $75.9B, as of its recent quarterly report.
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• Maybe Steve will buy the Capitol and evict the Government and turn the Rotunda into a huge Apple Store. It would certainly be more productive.
29 Jul 2011, 05:15 AM Reply Like
• Well, a company/organization having much better management will usually produce such a result.
29 Jul 2011, 05:50 AM Reply Like
• That's the way it's supposed to be. If the US gov't had a surplus people would be screaming that taxes were too high. In fact, that's what happened after Clinton left office.
The question is why aren't Apple shareholders screaming for a dividend.
29 Jul 2011, 05:54 AM Reply Like
• "The question is why aren't Apple shareholders screaming for a dividend."
Simple, because the stock has risen from $70 to $350 per share over the last four years and there is the prospect for further increase.
29 Jul 2011, 06:02 AM Reply Like
• They aren't BRK. The fact that they still have the cash means they haven't reinvested it. For acquisitions they could easily borrow whatever amount they need, given their guidance.
A more likely explanation is that they would have to repatriate a lot of the cash, and thus pay taxes on it. Another is that Jobs wants to maintain the image of AAPL as young and dynamic, even though their market cap is 50% greater than MSFT.
29 Jul 2011, 06:13 AM Reply Like
• BRK is the one which should be paying a dividend. It is a bloated mature conglomerate.
29 Jul 2011, 06:48 AM Reply Like
• Maybe because the smart AAPL shareholders realize that the company has been doing just fine spending it's money as it sees fit so far.
31 Jul 2011, 09:46 PM Reply Like
• What you do when .......... you (Steve Jobs) receive a call of POTUS asking you to lend "some" money?
29 Jul 2011, 11:32 AM Reply Like
• US should tax Apple.
29 Jul 2011, 11:38 AM Reply Like
• Hold your horses!!, a couple of points explain why Apple is getting only 14% profit in U.S....and why is fare enough!
1. Price arbitration: If you buy a IP4 in Germany or France or Spain you paid a nice €699, if in UK you pay SP 699, when you convert that into US dollars see that Apple is selling a IP4 in Europe for something between $ 1,015 and 1,125 per unit...same story for Japan and others, in US is only $ 699 so they are getting almost 100% of price tag pure and simple profit in pricing differentials....of course same applies to Mac´s, Ipod´s, Ipad´s and Itunes sales.
2. They are selling over 50% of production out of US with no sales effect in tax calculation because they already are paying taxes in the different countries before repatriation, so when they declare and compensate according the tax treaties US has with different countries in the world.
3. Apple is paying more than they should just for being in California, being in Delaware instead of Cupertino and they save the California "all world tax" plus many other high taxes of their employes and suppliers who could save a bunch living somewhere else in move Apple from California and this state declares bankruptcy
29 Jul 2011, 12:00 PM Reply Like
• Come on Advill, pay attention, the linked article points out that they aren't paying taxes on revenue earned in the US. And really, your (3)? Why doesn't Apple leave Cali then? Doesn't make much sense.
29 Jul 2011, 12:06 PM Reply Like
• Close the loop hole then if they do continue to do it it becomes a problem. As long as there are such loopholes businesses will avail themselves of them and should not be criticized for doing so. The problem here is not Apple or GE it is the ignorance, laziness and self-interest of the Congress in assembling these laws.
29 Jul 2011, 12:29 PM Reply Like
• I agree 7foot. It is legal right now.
29 Jul 2011, 12:35 PM Reply Like
• Is a good question to Mr. Jobs, i think he loves Calif. and Cupertino where he started........fortuna... for California, he is the way he is...on the other hand saying " they are not paying taxes on revenue" far as I know you pay taxes in profits in a company so big as this one I don´t think the IRS is being kind with them.
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Trayvon MartinTrayvon MartinI have something to say about the murder of Trayvon Martin. The problem is that not enough people are saying it, but I have to say something. The facts, as I continue to collect them, are that he was a 17-year-old boy who walked to the store for some candy and on his way home a grown man pursued him and called police to say that he was "up to no good." When the police told George Zimmerman, the murderer, not to engage with the boy because they had sent police on their way he didn't take their advice and got out of his vehicle and scuffled with Trayvon that ended with George shooting Trayvon in the chest.
George has not been arrested for this.
The facts that haunt me as a mother are that children are not safe from overzealous adults who confront them when they're supposedly guilty of something. From the reports about George Zimmerman I've learned that he sent e-mails to people in the gated community often detailing blacks who looked suspicious. How is it that a 200-pound man can go after a child after being told not to and end up shooting him in "self defense"? None of that makes sense.
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The facts that haunt me as an educator are that at the time of his murder Trayvon was home on a 5-day suspension for being tardy too much. From what I know about being a school administrator I know that this also makes no sense. Students should be in school, and we spend far too much time kicking them out for lesser offenses like being late to class. He's not on time to school or class and the punishment for that is NOT to allow him to come to school? I see that happen far too often in schools across this nation. Stealing education from children as their punishment for not showing up on time is absurd at best.
The facts that haunt me as a black woman are that Trayvon's mother, Sybrina Fulton, was asked what Trayvon was like at a press conference. Teary-eyed and stunned, she tried answering questions about her son and what he liked and a journalist asked whether or not he liked chicken. Chicken. Sybrina's son was gunned down in a gated community in Florida and the killer was walking free on the streets and someone in the news brought up the stereotype of chicken. I watched that video yesterday and when I went back to see it again it was removed. I don't know if I'm grateful for that or not. The mother of a murdered son can't remove that from her working memory. Or, maybe she can because she is devastated by the murder of her child.
It's like this tragic story of Trayvon's killing is riddled with every possible stereotype there is in a racially motivated murder.
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The facts that haunt me as an American are the constant conventional images of young black youth in this country which are uttered in the 911 phone call that George made to report Trayvon as a black boy who is "up to no good". I've listened to the tapes only twice because I can't bear to hear it again and George Zimmerman described Trayvon as "on drugs or something" and said that "he's got his hand in his waistband" and also said that "something's wrong with him." When I've listened to educators and parents discuss dress code in schools the most prevalent complaint is that teens are wearing saggy pants. Now, I'm not saying this is a good look or that I like it. But it is used to target a group and there are far more dress code violations of black boys in saggy pants than anything I've ever seen. That's not the real issue, and it has nothing to do with Trayvon Martin, but people seem to cling to that image and get desperately offended by it to the point of using it to vehemently oppose it. George Zimmerman makes an awful lot of conclusions about Trayvon in his call to police and it's more than dubious of him to do so.
Trayvon's Martin's familyTrayvon's Martin's familyThe facts that haunt me as a human are that a really good son was taken from his family. According to his mother Trayvon was a happy child who loved to play sports and wanted to fly planes. I know him. I mean, I've met plenty of Trayvons in my life. He loved math and wanted to be an engineer and loved to work with his hands. Those students are in my life every day that I work in a school. His English teacher said that he loved drawing and building things and was creative. I know this kid. Trayvon was a normal teenage boy like my own sons and my nephews and the male students in my school. I wish such peace to his family and pray for justice for him because Trayvon suffered a normal American racist death. One that we have seen over and over again for which equity and retribution aren't nearly as important as it is for their white counterparts. Yusuf Hawkins, Willie Turks, Michael Griffith and Emmett Till all come to mind.
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All of them were normal American teenagers who were targeted and described as something similar as Trayvon: up to no good. All of them were sons who had talents and brought joy to their parents. All these boys were normal kids who had interests and talents not very different from anyone else. All of them remind me to hug my sons and warn my nephews not to be in the wrong place.
All of these facts that utterly paralyze me as a mother, an educator, an American, a woman. Except that I'm working to change that crippling feeling by bringing attention to it. Help spread the word, would you? It's just not getting enough attention. Getting justice for his family is truly the only good that can come of this tragedy.
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The Story: This photo is in the Library and Archives of Canada with the following untrue caption: “Mary Greyeyes being blessed by her native Chief prior to leaving for service in the CWAC ”. Other places have Mary as an “Indian princess” being blessed by her father and chief. Also untrue.
Mary says, “I get a good lunch.”
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Meet the 1%: Stan Kroenke
Stan Kroenke, 57, is one of the 400 richest people in the world according to Forbes. He began with a real estate development company that builds shopping malls. He married Ann Walton who is an heiress to the Wal-Mart fortune. Although Kroenke denies that any kind of special agreement exists, Wal-Mart tends to be a tenant in his malls. One reason may be that Kroenke tends to split the tax incentives with the store. For instance, of the $117 Million in tax write-offs given by local governments to build ten malls between 1994 and 2006, $54 M went to Wal-Mart. And of course, Wal-Mart has paid a great deal in rent to Kroenke’s malls. One hand washes the other and, by the way, Wal-Mart’s good fortune is also Kroenke’s since he holds more than $3 Billion in Wal-Mart stock.
Stan Kroenke
But Stan has other interests. He has a couple of premium Napa Valley wineries, for example, but his big interest is sports. Kroenke owns the NHL Colorado Avalanche, the NFL St. Louis Rams,the MLS Colorado Rapids, the NBA Denver Nuggets, and a host of minor-league teams playing everything from indoor soccer to lacrosse. He has a controlling interest in the Arsenal (UK) football team and has a bid in to buy the bankrupt Los Angeles Dodgers. He owns stadiums including the Pepsi Center in Denver and has a fledgling cable sports network that will showcase his teams.
Stan enjoys playing with his sports franchises. He is supposed to be very involved in even small personnel changes. He plans on bringing the Rams and another NFL team to Wembley Stadium and introduce the English to American football. That should be fun.
Kroenke in the Arsenal dresing room
Another sport that appeals to Kroenke is fishing. Some years ago he bought the Douglas Lake Ranch in British Columbia. The ranch had belonged to billionaire Bernie Ebbers of Worldcom who went bust in the biggest personal bankruptcy ever — $11 Billion of debt. Kroenke bought the ranch at a distress sale in 2003 for $68 Million which is far less than Ebbers paid for it. The ranch includes a timber mill, a townsite, houses for twenty-five employees, four heavy duty equipment dealerships, and of course, cattle, twenty thousand or so head. It also contains an 8000 square foot stone mansion that Ebbers built and Kroenke now enjoys.
Kroenke owns at least four very large ranches including one in Wyoming and two in Montana. The Douglas Lake Ranch sits on a half milion acres of land. Some of this land, including a couple of lakes, is public or Crown property. In B.C. you can’t buy or sell a lake; it belongs to the people. What you apparently can do though, is fence off all the access to the lake so that no one else can use it even if that means closing public roads which is also not legal in B.C.
So little Minnie Lake, a prime fishing hole, is located on the Douglas Ranch and Kroenke has shut down the road that locals used to drive down to go fishing. Also, Kroenke has flooded a great deal of land, enlarging the lake — does that mean that the new lake area belongs to Kroenke as he claims leaving only a tiny bit of Crown property in the middle which can only be reached by trespass? Or is it still Crown property? (I kind of think that he should have been stopped from changing the lake but that’s a matter for the Ministry of the Environment which has very little presence in the current B.C. government.)
Douglas Lake Ranch from their webcam, 5:37 PM, April 6, 2012.
Kroenke has stocked Minnie Lake with trout and he has said that the locals who fish there are thieves, stealing his fish. They could, if they wished to be honest, pay $550 a night to stay at the lodge Kroenke has built on the lake. The locals say that they have fished there for generations, that they have proof that the access road is public, and are scraping together the cost of a legal battle they expect to fight very soon.
The province did acknowledge that the road to Minnie Lake was public up until a few years ago. But lately they have told locals that Kroenke is in the right. Now you shouldn’t leap to the conclusion that Kroenke has bribed anyone, at least not with big bucks; all it takes is a little schmoozing. More politicians have been bought with a steak dinner and a ticket to tonight’s game than with barrels of cash. Anyway, one way or another, the current government is on Kroenke’s side, which is the way with these one-percenters.
The Minnie Lake business has a medieval ring to it, like being forbidden to hunt the King’s deer in Sherwood Forest. But Kroenke has a lot more force on his side than the Sheriff of Nottingham and, unless the locals can find a crackerjack lawyer, they are going to be shut out of the public lands of B.C. by one of our new feudal lords, Stan Kroenke.
Louis Riel: Community Organizer
Today, February 21, is Louis Riel Day, a statutory holiday in Manitoba. Riel was not quite 25 years old in 1869 when he stopped surveyors mapping out settlement plots. The land belonged to the people of Red River, he said, and not to the Dominion of Canada. The people had to give their permission before land could be taken up by settlers and speculators.
Louis Riel (center) and members of the Provisional Council
The Dominion of Canada was brand new of course, and the Red River territory had been turned over to it by the Hudson’s Bay Company when the beaver trade collapsed. The Red River settlers were a diverse group. There were retired ex-employees of the Honourable Company, there were Métis, both English and French speaking, there were Indians — Cree, Assiniboine, Ojibway, and Sioux refugees from the United States, there were Catholic Green Irish and Protestant Orange Irish, there were Catholic and Protestant clergy, both claiming to speak for their congregations, there were Americans hoping to annex the territory into the United States, and there were the Canadians who wanted it to be part of their new nation. When the Hudson’s Bay Company gave up its sway over the territory, all these groups began assessing their own future.
Riel spoke for the French Métis. He had allies amongst the English Métis, the Catholic clergy, and the Green Irish. He also had enemies among these groups as well as opposition within the French Métis camp. But he had a single purpose, a just settlement for the people of the Red River, which made him a much-heeded man.
Chester Brown, Louis Riel: A Comic Book Biography
A hundred years later, young community organizers were signing up voters in Mississippi, union members in Rochester, and creating citizen groups in Toronto and Vancouver. These, like Riel, were largely untested human beings. They had the energy of youth but lacked the perspective of age. Still, they did pretty well. So did Louis Riel up until he committed the error that would haunt him for the remainder of his life: the execution of Thomas Scott.
Thomas Scott
Scott was a troublesome Orangeman and member of the Canadian party. He had been involved in an attempt at armed uprising by the group at Portage la Prarie and was arrested and jailed by Riel’s Provisional Council. Scott was a mouthy fool who had little sense of the danger he faced. He hurled insults and epithets at Riel and his Council every chance he got. One day, it all became too much for Riel who ordered a trial that found Scott guilty of insurrection and sentenced him to death.
Riel was a young man, sensitive about his Indian ancestry, who made a rash decision. When people tried to dissuade him from the execution, Riel replied that it was necessary to win respect. Youthful vanity and insecurity got in the way of what had been, to that point, a fairly successful venture.
John A. MacDonald could not ignore the Orangemen, a huge voting bloc in Ontario, when they demanded vengeance for Scott. He sent troops to the Red River, but he also agreed to the Manitoba Act, which set aside territory for the Métis and guaranteed their rights. Riel had argued for provincial status early on and, when he rode into exile, said, “No matter what happens now, the rights of the Métis are assured… My mission is finished.” Whether he was correct or not is a moot point that deserves a little thought, especially today, Louis Riel Day.
“Louis Riel”, Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Louis Riel by George F. G. Stanley
Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography by Chester Brown
The Doukhobors of B.C.: Final Thoughts and A Few Notes
The long (far longer than I originally planned) set of posts on this topic was intended to give some background to the current case being considered by the Human Rights Tribunal, brought before them by the New Denver Survivors, representing those who were children taken into care during the Freedomite troubles. The Survivors group has demanded an apology, compensation, and an explanation.
Here is the core of the story presented in the previous four posts: Doukhobor immigrants were invited to Canada, where the holdings that they built up over six or seven years were stolen from them. Some then moved to British Columbia where they ran into nativist locals who persuaded the provincial government to make their lives uncomfortable. The government used the pretense of requiring various official registrations to harass these people. Their leader, Peter the Lordly Verigin, pushed back by turning the schools into a battleground. When the government was uncooperative, children were taken from school. Eventually, the school buildings became arson targets. This phase was interrupted by World War I, when the province and the Doukhobors found cooperation mutually satisfying.
After the War, there was more friction, but it seemed as though the two parties might accommodate one another over time. The schools, however, were the continuing battlefield between the two factions. Verigin was indifferent to education but utilized school attendance as a weapon whenever he was displeased with the provincial government. This period ended with Verigin’s unexplained death in an explosion.
The new leader, Peter Chistiakoff, did not arrive in B.C. until three years later. In the meantime, the leaderless Doukhobors obligated themselves to certain large creditors. Chistiakoff spent years trying to pay off the debt incurred before his arrival. This was complicated by the onset of the Great Depression. Further, Chistiakoff was an erratic leader, a drunkard with a nasty temper who spent three of his ten years in B.C. in jail — a year and a half in a Saskatchewan prison, the rest made up of thirty and ninety day sentences mostly served in Nelson — and was incapacitated with illness in his final year. The property of the Community Doukhobors was seized for non-payment of debts and came into the hands of the provincial government.
The Freedomites, an extreme group of mystic believers, rose to prominence. Both Peter Lordly and Chistiakoff used this faction when they needed it and publicly rejected it when they didn’t. The Freedomites began using dynamite under Chistiakoff’s leadership. His absence during periods of incarceration left the group free to its own devices.
When Chistiakoff died, his successor was in a prison camp in the Soviet Union. The Freedomites therefore rejected the young John J. Verigin who assumed leadership of the moderate Doukhobor factions in B.C. The Freedomites fell under the control of various charlatans and con men, particularly Stefan Sorokin who took up residence in Uruguay. Freedomite actions were met with foolish countermeasures by both federal and provincial authorities, but the initiative fell to the arsonists and bombers who refused attempts at settling the disputes. By now protesting and bombing had become a way of life for many Freedomites, though there was nothing to be gained from such tactics except personal martyrdom.
Mass arrests in the early 1950s were followed by forcible seizing of children who were not in school — these were incarcerated at New Denver. Finally, in 1959, parents gave their promise that the children would attend school and the New Denver children came home. Bombings increased though, and became much worse. Police arrested and incarcerated all of the Freedomite leadership. Demonstrations against their imprisonment, including the Great March, drained energy away from other activities and the Freedomites were essentially broken. Since 1962, B.C. Doukhobors have lived peaceable lives of much the same quality as their non-Doukhobor neighbors.
An apology for some government actions — such as the theft of the Doukhobor settled lands in Saskatchewan – seems so belated that it lacks usefulness. Neither those who committed the deed nor those who suffered are still around. The provincial government has formally tendered its regrets over the New Denver incarceration of children, but not an apology. I suppose the difference is this: regret says we wished it had been done another way, but an apology (such as that given Japanese-Canadians interned during World War II) says we were totally wrong, you were right. But, in fact, it was the Freedomites themselves who made their children pawns in this power game. There are apologies due those taken from their families, but they are due from a number of people, beginning with Peter Lordly, who started this game. Compensation may be awarded by the Tribunal. It isn’t clear to me how much, if anything, should be paid and who it should go to, but I’ll go along with whatever the Tribunal says.
Some Notes:
Spelling: I have used various spelling of Doukhobor names that are very variable in practice. “Popoff”, “Popov”, “Poppoff” are all locally used variants of the same family name (though the first seems to have become preferred). Usually I have opted for “-off” rather than “-ov” endings except where it seemed the great weight of common usage was against me. I used the name Anastasia Golubova, because that is the most frequent occurence of that name on the Internet, but Anastasia’s last name is probably more correctly anglicized as Holuboff. I wrote “John Lebedeff” rather than “Lebedov” because that was, if I recall correctly (and I may not,) the spelling he gave to a community television crew who videotaped an interview with him in Wynndel in 1982.
Bread and Salt: Apparently there are states in the U.S. where witnesses in a trial must swear an oath on the Bible. In Canada, witnesses may “solemnly affirm”. “Eat bread and salt and speak the truth” is a Doukhobor saying that encapsulates certain beliefs.
Bread, a wooden salt keeper, and water on a Doukhobor table
At a 1974 trial that I witnessed, a Doukhobor man accused a woman, a relative by marriage and his next-door neighbor, of attacking him with an iron bar. When the man came to give testimony, he swore on the Bible. The Defense immediately objected on the grounds that the man did not believe in the Bible. Magistrate William Evans waved a hand. “He has taken the oath,” he said. When the man’s wife appeared to testify, she turned her head away from the Bible and Evans quietly asked for bread and salt. A pitcher of water was already present. A wire basket, like those used to hold papers on a desktop, was produced with slices of store-bought white bread and a shaker of salt like that you might find on a diner countertop. This was nothing like the great loaves of Doukhobor bread and the carved wooden salt receptacles that stood on every table, but the woman affirmed on them anyway. In the event, Evans’ decision, when he dismissed the charges, showed that he did not accept the testimony of either witness, though he did not ever mention perjury. I had some dealings with the alleged victim in the case and regarded him as untruthful — certainly he gave no evidence of having been beaten with an iron bar, though I did consider that he might have been slapped or punched. At any rate, I thought Magistrate Evans’ decision was just.
“White People” vs. “English”: As late as the mid-seventies, there was at least one loud-mouthed individual in the Slocan Valley who claimed to belong to the “White People’s Party” which he defined as, “non-Hippie, non-Indian, and non-Doukhobor”. He later was convicted of assault against someone he probably considered a hippy and moved from the area. The usage of the term by 19th and early 20th Century English immigrants to describe Russians does not surprise. Nor should it be surprising that non-Doukhobors are referred to as “English” by these Russians.
The Doukhobors of B.C.,Part 3: British Columbia
[Part One, Part Two]
In Saskatchewan, the federal government re-claimed all of the Doukhobor land allotment that had not been developed as Homestead laws required. Much of this was swamp or land non-usable as farming anyway and it probably amounted to less than 10000 acres out of a total allotment of 400000. But Interior Minister Oliver also explicitly reversed the policy of his predecessor Clifford Sifton on communal lands. If someone was not living on the land that he was working, then it was subject to seizure. Since the Doukhobors were living communally in scattered villages, this meant that much of their land was up for grabs. That seems to have been the plan. The government was now less anxious to populate the prairies — a great many people had moved out there already — and there was money to be made by turning over developed property. Doukhobors claim that their land was stolen from them and that seems exactly the case.
Speculators outside the Yorkton, Saskatchewan land office looking to buy up Doukhobor lands, 1899. (Koozma Tarasoff Collection)
It might have been that these lands could have been held if Doukhobors had been willing to swear oaths of allegiance. Certainly many individual Doukhobors did so and kept their property. But the federal government was beyond any bargaining. Anti-Doukhobor feeling was rising.
Not all the land was lost. Independent Doukhobors who left the community kept their farms. Various places where villages were located managed to escape. And there was the property of Verigin, purchased by Peter the Lordly and not subject to the Homestead Act. Later, some of the seized property was repurchased by Doukhobors who gave it back to the Community of Universal Christian Brotherhood, as Peter Verigin called his group. After the First World War the Community probably held about 50000 acres in Saskatchewan.
But a great deal had been lost: flour mills, saw mills, smithys, brick works were taken away as well as farm land. Machinery was removed and reused or sold but Verigin’s Community had gone deep into debt to finance its venture and still owed a great deal of money. The Community members in Saskatchewan and sympathetic Independents contributed as did Verigin’s new British Columbia holdings and all the debt was paid off.
In British Columbia, Verigin bought a deserted mining camp called Waterloo near the confluence of the Kootenay and Columbia Rivers. The military battle name was dropped and the place re-named Brilliant, for the way that the sun shone on the water. The land cost $150000. Verigin wished to avoid a bank-held mortgage so the title was put into escrow while the debt was paid off. Doukhobor men went out and worked, cutting railroad ties and clearing forest. They gave their wages back to Verigin and the purchase price was paid out in a year and a half.
Verigin also bought land around Grand Forks and, later, in the Slocan Valley and other places. He bought land that might be farmed for vegetables or planted with fruit orchards. Orchard farming had recently been introduced in the area by British immigrants. Table apples — eating apples — were still something of a novelty since most varieties had been developed only a decade or so before and there was a large market for this fruit. By 1920, the Community held more than 20000 acres in B.C.
The Jam Factory at Brilliant.
Verigin was a shrewd businessman with a long term vision. The Community would be internally self-sufficient. B.C. farms would trade produce and lumber to Saskatchewan in exchange for flour. Sawmills were established in B.C. A jam factory was purchased in Nelson and, after the Community got the hang of it, a new modern facility was built at Brilliant. A brick works near Grand Forks produced building materials. On the prairies, there were grain elevators and flour mills. Excess was sold outside the community. The government buildings in Grand Forks and other places were built from Doukhobor bricks. K-C (Kootenay Columbia) jam was known for its high quality and demand always exceeded supply (about sixty railcars full each season). And, always, there was a supply of young men sent out of the community to work and bring back pay cheques. Between the B.C. and Sakatchewan settlements there were about 20000 Community Doukhobors by 1918.
Verigin put all the land holdings in his own name rather than that of the Community of Universal Christian Brotherhood, but this was simply because he did not trust any other kind of official arrangement. At one point, when relations with the province were difficult, the Attorney-General considered bringing various suits against the Community, only to discover that it had, officially, no assets. In 1917, Peter the Lordly took all the Community assets and formed a corporation to be run by a Board of Directors. Each director was given a portion of the stock issued by the corporation and signed, on the back, a declaration that the property actually belonged to the Community. By the end of the First World War, the Community probably held $7 Milion in assets but it also owed more than a million dollars to banks and other lenders. Verigin was recognized as a capable businessman and a good credit risk. Deficit financing had helped boost the Community’s fortunes, but it would later prove its downfall.
With prosperity, many Doukhobors drifted from the Community. The Society of Independent Doukhobors formed in Saskatchewan and there were others, on the prairie and in B.C., who were superficially Doukhobor but who weren’t too invested in the idea that Peter Lordly was the living Christ. Meanwhile, the Freedomite group in Saskatchewan still held occasional marches and prepared for the new Paradise that was immanent on Earth. Verigin worked hard to keep the various elements in hand.
Peter Veregin and Anastasia Golubova
Peter the Lordly had driven about the Sakatchewan community in a coach. He had worn a top hat and operated out of a grand house in Verigin. In B.C. he wore a farmer’s overalls and went about in a simple buggy. Austerity was the message he was preaching to his followers. After the failure of Peter Verigin’s first wife to reconcile, he began introducing Anastasia Golubova as his wife. She was with Peter Lordly for twenty years and was highly respected by the other Doukhobors. Anastasia was one of three female directors on the corporation board.
The Community was now spread over a wide area, from Grand Forks, B.C. in the west to Verigin, Saskatchewan in the east. Further, it was cut up into small communities within its territory. The model community now consisted of two blocky two-story buildings that housed the families and a row of smaller structures behind the buildings that might include an oven, a bath house, an area for invalids and those recovering from illness, and so on. Downstairs in each building was a communal dining room and living space. Upstairs was divided into eight bedrooms separated by curtains. A family — husband, wife, small children — occupied each bedroom. Children reaching the age of ten or so were moved into another bedroom. At first there might be fifty people per house but with prosperity, that number shrank to thirty-five or a little less.
Remains of Doukhobor houses near Grand Forks.
Supplies were distributed on a regular basis from the Community store rooms. Food, clothing, tools, livestock and equipment, were doled out as people required. So, Peter Lordly decreed, no one needed money. Everything earned outside the community was supposed to be returned to it. There was no need for fripperies such as musical instruments, which many Doukhobors thought Satanic.
Noon meal for farm workers at Brilliant.
Community members got together in sobranie, meetings that were part religious, part political, part social in nature. Community problems might be discussed there and solutions sought. There was prayer and, above all, singing. Doukhobor hymns are atonal, droning music that is stirring and compelling. These hymns are the record of the Living Book, the Doukhobor’s history of their quest to realize the spirit within and bring it forth upon the Earth. Continue reading
[continued from Part One]
Leo Tolstoy, 1900
Cyprus. Athlassa farm, 1899
Aylmer Maude, circa 1930 (
John Tanner Between Two Worlds
John Tanner in 1828, forty-seven years of age.
Ojibway woman painted by George Catlin, 1832
Ojibway woman and children
Ojibway woman with child painted by Charles Bird King, circa 1836
Good Movies: Barbarosa
Australian director Fred Schiepisi had a hit with his movie The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith in 1978 and got an opportunity to try his luck in the United States. In 1980 he made Barbarosa which was released 1981 or 1982 depending on how you define “release” since, after a brief showing in a few theaters it was sent to the drive-ins — there were still a few of those around then. Fortunately for Schiepisi, most folks thought he got a bad deal and he was given a few more projects. Pretty soon he had some good movies to his credit, but Barbarosa never got a fair shake. Roger Ebert mentioned it as a great unknown movie and it had a bit of underground recognition but it wasn’t until its release on videotape that Barbarosa began to receive the recognition that it deserved.
The stars are Willie Nelson and Gary Busey and they, both of them, turn in fine performances. The story is about a legendary outlaw, Barbarosa, played by Nelson who operates in northern Mexico and into Texas. Gary Busey plays Karl, whose German immigrant family has moved to Texas. Karl kills his brother-in-law and goes on the run. He is in the desert, without food or water, when he runs into Barbarosa who is introduced in a fine shot that travels up his boots and leather chaps to his sombreroed head silhouetted against the sun. An eagle screams as the camera reaches his face, invisible for a moment against the backlight — oh yeah, this is the way to introduce a legend!
Barbarosa takes Karl under his wing and teaches him the outlaw trade. He steals anything – ”Cattle, horses…Anything except sheep. You couldn’t give me one of those wooly bastards.” But the reality is, he lives in caves and eats armadilloes while looking for something to steal. Meanwhile, the brothers of the man Karl killed track him down. Karl disarms them and sends them home but they are unable to countermand their father’s order to seek revenge and come back after Karl. Another outlaw kills them both.
Barbarosa is captured by that same outlaw and shot. Karl is given the task of burying him. But Barbarosa is still alive. Karl fills in an empty grave and he and Barbarosa escape to listen to people singing songs about the famous man, how he was killed and came back from the grave, aided by a gringo child. Barbarosa translates for Karl as they listen. “All you men of courage, grease up your guns and your knives…” Then Barbarosa breaks off, “This part is about how they kill Barbarosa.” He doesn’t want to hear more. He understands very well that his legend will end in his death, that it is the only possible end.
Karl discovers that Barbarosa has a relationship with a Mexican family called Zavala. He was engaged to a young woman of the family but there was some kind of brawl, Zavalas were killed, Barbarosa was maimed, and now the family and the outlaw are locked in a deadly relationship. Periodically, the Zavalas send out young men to hunt the outlaw and Barbarosa kills them. Periodically, Barbarosa sneaks into the Zavala ranch to visit the woman he loves and give her the gold he has stolen. The patriarch of the Zavala clan (played by Gilbert Roland) uses Barbarosa as a goad to make the family live up to an ideal — they must be great because their enemy is the legendary Barbarosa.
On one of Barbarosa’s visits to the Zavalas, Karl meets with Barbarosa’s daughter and the two are becoming romantically involved when Barbarosa bursts in to defend her honor and castigate Karl. The two escape the Zavala ranch in a hail of gunfire and, later, Karl discovers that Barbarosa isn’t all that upset with him.
C.P.Vaughan drawing from a still -- a treatment befitting a legend.(
Karl goes back to his family and tries to make peace with the father of the man he killed, whose other sons died trying to find Karl. It is no use and there are more deaths. The family disintegrates entirely. One day Barbarosa rides in to the ranch where Karl is now living alone. Karl abandons the place and accompanies Barbarosa back into outlawry.
One of the Zavalas finally manages to give Barbarosa a mortal wound. He runs away to tell the family. Karl attends the dying outlaw who tells him that it was a pretty good thing he had with the Zavalas, “A man couldn’t ask for better.” Karl tries to head off Barbarosa’s killer but he manages to evade Karl and return to the Zavala ranch. A great celebration to honor the killer is underway when a man rides in, firing his weapons. “Barbarosa!” chants the crowd and we are allowed to see that it is Karl, become the new manifestation of the legend.
There are so many great things about this movie — the theme, first of all, of myths and men who become heroes because they couldn’t ask for better; of families and the need to belong somewhere; then the representation of the terrible lonely frontier and how easilly people and their arrangements could fall apart there; then there is some fine photography; and also the wonderful dialogue that sounds too true to be really authentic but is funny and piercing and excellent.
Barbarosa made it onto Turner Classic Movies recently so I suppose that, somewhere, there is a good wide-screen DVD. I sure hope so.
The Logging Comics of Bus Griffiths
Bus Griffiths wanted to be a cartoonist. In 1930 he had a short stint as catalogue artist for Massey-Harris, then, for the rest of the decade, he worked as a logger in one small show after another. In 1940 he went back to drawing for Maple Leaf Publishing, one of the Canadian comic book publishers that sprang up with newsprint restrictions. He did a strip called “Now You’re Logging” and also worked up an eight-page comic on logging for the B.C. government. With the end of the War, Bus hauled his corks out of the closet and went back into the bush. He quit logging in 1971 at the age of fifty-eight and began working a salmon boat. He used his free time to study painting and began producing pictures of logging as it had once been practiced in British Columbia. The Provicial Museum became interested and encouraged Bus to document the work he had followed for almost forty years. The result was the book Now You’re Logging.
Now You’re Logging follows two guys working in the forest industry in the 1930s. It has a rudimentary storyline but mainly the book shows loggers at work. A logging show is set up and we follow it from hightopping the spar tree, falling, bucking, setting chokers, and working the donkey engine. What’s a bucker? That’s the guy that cuts up the fallen timber into usable logs. Here’s a bucker’s tools as compared to a faller’s:
The bucker and his tools. Click to embiggen.
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The Battle of Belly River
On the morning of October 25, 1870 an army of Cree clashed with Blackfoot warriors at the Belly River, near present-day Lethbridge, Alberta. When night fell and the fighting ceased, hundreds of dead lay on the ground or in the river. This was the last, largest, and bloodiest of the battles between Plains Indians. Famous personages from the history of western Canada figured on both sides.
The Cree faced great difficulties in the 1860s as their world shifted about them. This was not the first time the Cree had adapted, however, and they examined their options with care. Originally a forest people, the Cree had moved west and out onto the plains in the 17th Century. There they adapted to a life based on the great herds of buffalo. The Cree understood the implications of European settlement and moved away from it. They traded and worked with the English and French but never adopted their ways.
Big Bear
As they moved west, the Cree came into contact with other peoples and formed alliances with them. The Cree traded with Europeans, then bartered European trade goods with other Indians for items they needed, such as horses. And they allied against other peoples, such as the Dakotah tribes, that were hostile.
By 1850 or so, the Cree recognized that the buffalo herds were diminishing and they moved west again, to the Qu’Appelle area on the Saskatchewan. But in the 1860s, those herds, too, were thinning. Moreover, Metis from the Red River had begun to settle on the Saskatchewan in places like Batoche and St. Laurent as the beaver trade collapsed. It was time for the Cree to move on, but where?
Important Cree included Big Bear, a far-seeing and imaginative leader, and Piapot, whose followers included Assiniboine and other peoples. Big Bear and Piapot saw the problem in terms of encroaching settlers and lack of buffalo. West, in the Alberta foothills, there was plenty of buffalo and no settlers. But this was the territory of the Blackfoot Confederacy — the Blood, Peigan, Blackfoot, and at times the Sarcee.
Piapot, 1885
The Blackfoot tribes were also facing changes. Although they saw no problem with the supply of buffalo, American traders had come north. This brought both good things and bad to the Blackfoot. Bad things included alcohol and disease, good things were new repeating rifles and ammunition.
The American traders had come up from Fort Benton in Montana. The American Fur Company was the major trading outfit in the area. This company had been trading for beaver, fox, and other valuable furs but had thought buffalo hides of little value. The great expansion of steam power in Europe and North America in the mid 19th Century meant that there was a need for strong material for drive belts and buffalo hide leather was very suitable for this purpose. Demand for hides began to increase.
The American traders recognized an opportunity and began buying buffalo robes from the Indians. Toward the end of the 1860s, the traders looked north to their major suppliers and decided to set up a base there. Negotiating their way through the tribes, with the assistance of the US Indian Affairs Bureau, they traveled north to the Oldman River system and constructed Fort Hamilton, somewhat north of the Belly River.
Fort Hamilton was indeed a fortress. The outer walls had no windows, but plenty of rifle slits. Artillery was part of the fort’s armament. The Blackfoot never made the error of attacking the fort and, anyway, saw some advantage in its existence. They had less distance to travel to trade their hides and were secure in their own territory. It was the American traders who were afraid of them, not the other way around.
Indians who wished to trade were let into an enclosed area, the wall pierced with rifle slits. The trader stayed behind the wall, viewing his customer through a small opening through which he passed out the trade goods. These might be brand new Henry repeating rifles or it might be whiskey, the major item offered in trade. So much whiskey flowed from Fort Hamilton that it came to be called Fort Whoop-Up.
Blood Indians outside Fort Whoop Up. Note the gun slits, cannon, and company flag.
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by zugmeister (#45592411) Attached to: RF Safe-Stop Shuts Down Car Engines With Radio Pulse
When you use your brakes without the "assist" part of "power assist", you are now fighting against your brake booster, as well as the resistance of the brake system itself. Believe me, a car produced without the power option is not that difficult to bring to a halt.
Are you sure it was a Toyota Corona?
Comment: Re:Nature Of the Beast (Score 1) 477
by zugmeister (#45530385) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Best Laptops For Fans Of Pre-Retina MacBook Pro?
I've had really good luck with my jailbroken ipad3. There are a number of good VNC clients on the Apple store. Weather you like Apple or not their bluetooth keyboard is a great piece of hardware and with the jailbreak you can get BT mouse support as well. If you know anyone with a jailbroken iPad, it may be worth your time to check out.
Comment: Re:Cannot upgrade or repair? (Score 1) 477
by zugmeister (#45529855) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Best Laptops For Fans Of Pre-Retina MacBook Pro?
While replacing the air filter on her truck, my wife once tried to screw in the top of the airbox cover. Having little experience, she started the screws with a drill. Three of the four were cross-threaded immediately and she was angry at the drill, didn't know to start them by hand. I can totally see someone with a power tool installing plugs and cross threading them into the heads.
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by zugmeister (#45398083) Attached to: Netflix, Youtube Surpass 50% Mark of Internet Traffic
Netflix to the rescue! Offer to share your disks in exchange for borrowing someone else's stuff. Does Amazon have a used copy? Ebay? Check Redbox when the Library doesn't have it and can't get it.
If you really want something, find it and make your own copy. Don't wait for someone else to just give it to you.
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by zugmeister (#45333453) Attached to: Report Claims a Third of FOIA Requests To the NYPD Go Unanswered
..."No investigation at all. Get pulled over with a Marijuana pipe in your car and you'll have 3 squad cars on the scene within minutes."
Wouldn't this be more an example of a misappropriation of resources than an example of the lack of quality and skill exhibited by our police force?
Comment: With education, the battle is not lost. (Score 1) 548
While I find my Kindle a great device to read books on, it's important to separate the Kindle marketplace from the hardware. If your family members have to buy DRM laden books, show them how to strip it off. Show them where to get non-DRM'ed books as well. They can manage / upload their collection with Calibre or just copy the books to their Kindle's Documents folder. Show them how to archive off a copy (sans DRM) with their pictures and music.
If you can show them how to take control of what they've paid for, they can decide weather they want Amazon making this call for them. Unfortunately, you can't make them make the "right" decision.
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by zugmeister (#44938111) Attached to: California Elementary Schools To Test Anti-Piracy Curriculum
From that standpoint, the line between indoctrination and education may well be as fuzzy as the line between a cult and an upstanding religion. The difference in this case is that while I (probably) want my child to be a productive and successful member of society, any outside organizations (governmental, business or religious) will likely have an agenda of much narrower scope and of benefit to those organizations rather than the child.
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by zugmeister (#44937913) Attached to: California Elementary Schools To Test Anti-Piracy Curriculum
"And there will be enough food for everyone" that can afford to buy it.
Give the Monsantos of the world enough leeway and it may become difficult to legally grow your own. There are already cases of farmers being sued (successfully) by Monsanto because GM seed contaminated their non-GM seed and the farmer didn't have licensing.
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Meachem Crybaby Owners!
He doesn't get anything for that play. After the int it is a change of possession and New Orleans is no longer on offense but defense. So it is fumble recovery and td by the defense. You don't get individual points for defensive plays unless you have roster spots for individual defensive players in your league like a lb, cb, or de now stfu already and stop your f--king b-tching!
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• Meachem's play was very similar to one Keenan McCardell made Oct. 6, 2003. McCardell picked up a ball that the Indianapolis Colts' Mike Doss had fumbled (just following an interception), and returned it for a score. That play was credited as a return TD for McCardell similar to a punt return or kickoff return. Under your flawed analysis, you are implying that Meachem was on D when he got the fumble so it shoudl go to the Saints D.... but, wasn't he back on Offense again once he picks up the fumble and should be credited for the TD not the Saints D....after all you are implying that the Redskins defender who made the pick, became the offense when he intercepted the ball. You must have benefited from the Saints D getting the score. I am neither a Meachem owner or a Saints D owner, but the play needs to be score correctly as a TD for Meachem.
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• Interesting analysis, but using your same logic, who gets credit for the fumble recovery? I think if you try to reason this one out, you can go around in circles forever.
For what it's worth, the NFL scored it as a 44-yard fumble return for a touchdown.
• I think you use the following logic to determine whether a scoring event is credited to the team's offense or defense: "Was the player (Meachem) completing the event(s) (fumble recovery and TD) acting as an offensive player or defensive player." By definition a fumble recovery from an opposing player is a defensive play which means Meachem is acting as a defensive player. Ergo, both events are scored as defensive events.
• i assume todd is in the same position as a lot of us who are sick of this meachem shit. I don't own the sainst d or meachem and neither did my opponents so i did not benefit nor was i affected by the play in both of my leagues no one even owns meachem. But this getting ridiculous with all these stupid posts. And unless you have a stat for that in your league i doubt most people will get these points.
• Exactly....the two previous guys are stupid....there were two turnovers in that play and if a turnover causes a change in possession then Meachum was def at the INT, and went back to offense when he recovered the fumbled...so it should be an off TD for him
• This doesnt make any sense. How does an offensive player become a defensive player? So if a safety gets and interception, he now becomes an offensive player? I guess that means defenses cant score touchdowns,
BTW-I own Meachum and he got credit for the TD.
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• In my Yahoo league in the scoring & settings under Offense there is scoring of 6 points for offensive fumble recovery TD but Meachem hasn't got credit for the TD (yet). This must be causing havoc because Stat Tracker is giving 2 points to the Saints def/st but not the TD. On my league's overview page Yahoo has given both the fumble recovery & the TD to the Saints def/st. What a mess within Yahoo!!!
• I would check again because he DID NOT get credit for the TD in my league. Think of it this way. OFF throws a pick and the DEF returns it for a TD. The INT was made as a DEF and the ensuing TD is a defensive return TD. Now, how is that any different. There was a change of possession once and WASH tried to return the pick, Meachem, acting as a defender, causes another change of possession and returns it for a TD. It is clearly a defensive TD and anyone who says differently does not know anything about football.
• Bob Todd clarified what he said I know it might be hard to read all these posts but here: No my point is that possession changes hands on the int even though no whistles blows. And that those on offense are then forced to play defense and tackle which meachem did brilliantly. Now technically it is a fumble recovery by the offense and a returned td, but most leagues don't have that statistic. There is precedent from a Jacksonville game a few years ago. But depending on your league and yahoo meachem owners might not see points. And the major point is that this isn't the only freakin issues in fantasy but the boards are consumed with it.
• So I guess there should never be a D touchdown
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• Good point, Rob. I will start by saying I do have a dog in the fight because my opponet has the Saints D, but no one on the D did anything. It was a WR lined up for an Offensive play. There should be no fumble rec or TD credited to anyone unlesss your league rewards Offensive Fumble Rec TDs, which is very few of them, I'm sure. Though, now I would expect more leagues to add that category next year because Meacham made a helluva play and someone should get credit for it.
• That is the point everyone seems to miss
if the defense becomes the offence as soon as the interception, then there would never be a defensive touchtown
also, if the washington player returned that interception for a TD, the saint D would not have been charged for those points against, so that way of looking at it is simply not correct
• No, you couldn't be more wrong. After Washington' defensive player intercepted it, the offensive unit does not become the defense. Had Washington returned the interception for a TD, NO defense would not have been charged for giving up the touchdown, so since Meachem, a player on NO's offensive unit, scores a TD, NO defense should not be credited for it.
• OK. I would buy that except for two things:
1) Yahoo didn't award the DEF the TD. (In my league at least).
2) There is an Offensive scoring category for "Offensive fumble recovery for a TD" that awards 6 points.
If its the NO defense on the field once the INT happens then the D should get 6 (btw...its given the fumble recovery).
Does point #2 only apply if an Offensive player picks up a ball fumbled by their own team and runs it in for 6?
• Actually Todd, you are wrong.
Note: This play is NOT scored as a Defensive Fumble Recovery TD for the Saints Team Defense position, since their defensive unit was not on the field during that play.
One common "urban legend" we've heard about this play mentions "the NFL scores this as a defensive play". While that sounds like a convincing argument, unfortunately, it's not correct. The gamebook from the Saints/Redskins game most clearly indicates this, where, on page 5, it has a "Final Defensive Statistics" page. Note the statistics for Meacham's tackle, forced fumble, and fumble recovery are listed under the "Misc" heading, and not under the "Regular Defensive Plays" heading. So while the Saints, and Meacham, were in fact defending their goal at the time he stripped the ball away, the Saints offensive team unit, and not their defensive team unit, were on the field at the time of this play, and therefore, we feel that most leagues will want to not score this as a touchdown awarded to the Saints "Def" position. In short, the "Def" position is simply an invention made up by us fantasy footballers for the benefit of our hobby, and not anything that the NFL officially recognizes.
• Thats easy for you to say, he is still an individual player who is on my roster that carried a leather ball across the goal line and into the endzone for a TOUCHDOWN, and that is a point producing play that should be reflected on my lineup regardless of who started with the ball on the play
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• I think some people need to realize that it's not totally relevant how the NFL or "official" stats consider whether the Saints were on offense or defense during the play.
The DEF player position is an invention of fantasy football and exists only in that world. And in that world, DEF is the defensive squad of the team - i.e. the players who oppose the offensive squad of the opponent as the opponent runs offensive plays.
So the matter of whether or not a team switches from offense to defense on an interception might be debatable in the context of overall NFL rules and stats, but for Fantasy Football, it's irrelevant. The New Orleans Saints' DEF player position was on the sideline during the play and should be thus ineligible for any scoring on the play.
• As a Meachem owner I'm good he still got me 26 pts
• well said. unfortunately half of the people on here dont really know the rules of actual football. they just know the rules of fantasy football.
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• if thats the case then no def should get any points because they would instatly become off.. and i have been enjoying football way before i started playing ff but this is not real football its fantasy football and meachem was the one one who ended up in the end zone while the offense was on the field.. the way u say is that if wash scores instead of getting stripped then the def gets the points occording to the ff rules (not nfl rules) then NO offense was still on the field. yes i own meachem & still would have won regardless.. but some people got screwed bottom line!!
• LMFAO
Not only did I bench Meachem this week (Avant looked like a better start with DeSean Jackson out), I was also playing against New Orleans defense.
Fuck. That. Ironic. Shit.
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Reflections on the Great NFL Strike of 1982:
•As of last weekend, the central issue in the impasse continued to be the NFL Players Association's demand for a wage scale that would mean higher pay for defensive linemen and other spear carriers, but lower pay for such glamorous types as quarterbacks and running backs. Whether the NFL's star system should be thus undermined was an issue addressed by John C. Weistart, a professor of law at Duke specializing in sports law, who said, "When you go to a rock concert, you don't go for the drummer—you go to see the big star. You're willing to pay more to see the star—you want to see Linda Ronstadt perform." But Weistart conceded that a wage scale makes more sense in football than in baseball or basketball "because there are more players in football, like interior linemen, whose worth can't be directly measured by point production. In basketball or baseball, virtually all the players have the opportunity to score."
•The NFL Management Council was still hoping that more star players would break ranks with NFLPA Executive Director Ed Garvey over the wage-scale issue. The owners had, so far anyway, seriously miscalculated on this score. Most big-name players had gone along with the strike because of what one of them, Terry Bradshaw, characterized as a desire for "team unity." That's a sentiment, of course, that owners would ordinarily applaud. Another usually laudable factor contributing to the impasse was competitive zeal on both sides. As Jack Getman, a specialist in labor law at Yale, observed, "Strikes in sport are so bitter because the people involved are competitive by nature. That makes the negotiating tougher. They aren't as willing to compromise."
•There continued to be talk—by both sides—about the possibility of unilaterally playing football games. Some NFL owners advocated opening camps to union dissidents and free agents in hopes of resuming the season even without a settlement, but others reportedly felt that this could further unify the striking players and, if few of them answered the call, result in a public relations debacle. Because of fear of injuries and legal haggling with the NFL, the NFLPA meanwhile had trouble getting its proposed strike league off the ground. If the NFLPA could create a league with stable team rosters and geographically rooted "franchises" with which fans could identify, it might hope to throw a scare into the NFL. Such teams would lack the tradition of, say, the Chicago Bears, but tradition is less important in football than in baseball. In football, the spectacle of the game itself is of paramount importance, and a strike league could conceivably provide that. An intriguing historical precedent: In 1919, Hollywood's three biggest stars, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin, dissatisfied with their share of the revenues from their movies, founded their own film distribution company, United Artists, which became an industry giant.
•The possibility loomed ever larger that the 1982 season might be wiped out. The strike began on Sept. 21, and each team already had lost three games from its 16-game schedule. NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle said that teams must play at least 13 games for a "credible" season, while Dallas Cowboys General Manager Tex Schramm, chairman of the NFL's competition committee, spoke of a 12-game minimum. Accepting the 12-game figure, the number of regular-season games NFL teams played from 1947 to 1960, and taking into account that two canceled games could be made up between the end of the regular season and the start of the playoffs, the latest date on which play could be resumed would be Sunday, Nov. 7. To allow a week or so for players to get back into shape, the strike would have to end by Oct. 31. Mark it on your calendar. Halloween.
•In spite of everything, a settlement still seemed possible. On Sunday the two sides agreed to accept the services of a mediator, obviously a positive development. "The fact that both sides are beginning to visualize the strike costing them the season could be a great spur to negotiate," said Yale's Getman. "The players are scared, the owners are scared, the fans are mad. There may be a push now to try out new ideas. That often happens just when things look bleakest. What you have to look for is meetings between the union and its members, or between [Management Council Executive Director Jack] Donlan and the owners. That's the sign that new ideas are being sold. Right now things look grim, but I wouldn't be that stunned if there were a breakthrough and then round-the-clock negotiations to settle the strike."
Candace Dunlap, a 40-year-old mother of two in Santa Fe, N. Mex., is a former Chicagoan who catches the Cubs on cable TV. Recently she wrote a letter to Harry Caray, the veteran broadcaster who is now doing Cubs games, in which she complained about his excitable on-air style. She was surprised when Caray returned her missive with his comments scrawled in longhand in the margins. Dunlap's letter, with Caray's replies in italics and brackets:
"I called the Cubs' public relations office last week to complain about you and feel it only fair [nice of you to be so fair!!] to follow up my call with a letter so you are aware of one viewer's (make that ex-viewer) [we will miss you] opinion of the way in which you announce the Chicago Cubs.... You constantly seize upon every opportunity to gossip and impart down-home chitchat which couldn't be more boring or irrelevant [in your humble opinion!!].... Your screaming, shrill delivery of every Cub play is also unnecessary and ruins trying to follow the game. So, it is with you, as with Howard Cosell [He does pretty good or is success what really annoys you!!], a frequent retreat to watching a game with no sound [could you please write that way].... You are equally odious and unprofessional [I wonder what you are!! Maybe a dried up old prune!!!].... The Atlanta Braves...have the best announcers [you are finally right—Skip Caray is my son!!!] in the business. You could take lessons from them. Sincerely, Candace E. Dunlap [I pay two alimonies each month to women like you!!! Luv & Kisses]
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I've been using both Ubuntu and Linux Mint since April 2013. I may not know too much in general about Linux at the time of writing this, but I learn more everyday.
I'm a long-time Windows nerd, growing up with Windows 98, and learning other Windows versoins as I go, even if it means doing so through Betas. However, my movement to Linux has been largely due to Microsoft's bad decision making strategies as of late. Ever since that long gap between the release of XP and Vista, I've found myself wondering "What were they thinking?"
Now, I've come to see them as a threat to the computer industry, itself. I've also learned just how restrictive Microsoft's licensing can be, allowing only a handful of PC's to run a certain license/copy of Windows (or any other Microsoft product), while using short-sighted "anti-piracy" DRM-oriented tactics to enforce this, often at the frustration and expense of their own paying customers.
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Published: March 10, 2013 at 7:45 am
robot cloudProviding robots with intelligence that deserve comparison with the human brain has been a failed ambition of the artificial intelligence movement for decades. A new project by European Robo Earth sets out to try and close the gap.
It will utilize the Internet to try and assist robots with their thinking and decision making. A web-based database of information called Rapyuta has been created by scientists.
The database describes objects the robots have met, while also providing some computational assistance. Its creators hope that as well as making robots smarter, it will also make them cheaper, as less processing will need to be done within the unit itself.
The database forms part of the European Robo Earth project that was started in 2011. The project aims to create a standard for how robots perceive the human world.
The database aims to provide this uniform approach. So rather than each robot having to deal with situations based upon its own idiosyncratic experience, it can instead consult Rapyuta to find a desired response.
The scientists behind the project believe that it will prove useful for areas such as drone aircraft, self-driving cars and similar devices that are required to process extensive information on the fly.
In addition, the web-based service is able to do complicated computation on behalf of a robot - for example if it needs to work out how to navigate a room, fold an item of clothing or understand human speech.
It is hoped that using this type of system will allow robots to evolve towards more complex tasks that require dynamic processing of fresh information, and thus grow out of the controlled environments they currently thrive in.
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According to The News-Review in Oregon, Robinson's attorney filed an 11-page defamation suit, which says DeFazio is using "half-sentences and partial ideas" that are meant to convey a "false portrayal" of Robinson. But DeFazio told the paper that all the billboards are true.
"All of them are documented," DeFazio said. "They are accurate. He said all those things."
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When a radio host asked me what I thought of the massacre in Aurora, Colo., I had to ask for clarification. I said: "What do you mean? Who could deny it's an unspeakable tragedy?"
What he was really asking me was to address it in a political context. The problem is that I don't believe there was any political context to the shooting; not everything is political.
This is part of a leftist pattern to rush to the judgment that every such event is politically motivated -- by disgruntled right-wingers. The Daily Caller made a similar observation, citing such examples as The New York Times' speculating that the pilot who crashed his small plane into a Texas office building was "The First Tea-Party Terrorist" and Time magazine's wondering aloud whether tea partyers were behind the hanging death of a census worker in Kentucky.
So it was hardly surprising that ABC News' Brian Ross noted on "Good Morning America" that a person with the name of the alleged shooter, James Holmes, was a registered member of the Colorado Tea Party Patriots or that David Gregory, host of NBC's "Meet the Press," in discussing the Aurora shootings, casually invoked President Clinton's words about the Oklahoma bombing.
While pretending to refrain from ascribing political motivations to the Aurora shooting, Gregory said, "But President Clinton's words back in 1995 could be true today, couldn't they, about how some of the public discourse can fall on more vulnerable ears?"
No, David, they weren't true when Clinton said them in 1995; they weren't true when Democrats attempted to exploit the Tucson shootings for political gain; and they are manifestly untrue with respect to the Aurora shootings, so shame on you for hinting otherwise.
Some have correctly observed that the left is engaging in psychological projection in seeing conservative politics behind every act of violence. That's true, but I believe there's more to it than that.
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0.259774 | <urn:uuid:e74362ca-b07c-43d4-81f6-742856f0837e> | en | 0.912655 | ''Little Red Riding Rabbit'' is a [[TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation 1944]] WarnerBros Merrie Melodies cartoon, directed by FrizFreleng, and starring BugsBunny. This is the first time MelBlanc receives a credit for a cartoon.
It is a parody of the ''LittleRedRidingHood'' story, in which Red, a typical 1940s teenage bobbysoxer with a very loud, grating voice, is bringing a rabbit [Bugs] to her grandma "to have". Of course, a big bad wolf is waiting for them.
This short is also No. 39 on ''The50GreatestCartoons'' list. It also made it onto ''The100GreatestLooneyTunes'' list.
!!Tropes Found in this Cartoon Include:
* AssholeVictim: Red
* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:Bugs, annoyed by Red's interruptions, switches the Big Bad Wolf, who was about to fall onto red hot coals because of all the furniture Bugs threw on him, with Red. Bugs and the Wolf, arms around each other and sharing a carrot, watch proudly as Red soon gets what she deserves.]]
* HeyItsThatVoice: this isn't the first time [[Disney/ThreeLittlePigs Billy Bletcher has voiced the Big Bad Wolf]].
* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler: Red was being incredibly annoying, so Bugs puts her in the trap he set for the wolf instead]].
* NeverMessWithGranny: Though unseen, Red's grandmother is implied to be a Rosie the Riveter type who was out working a "swing" shift at Lockheed [an aircraft manufacturing company].
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed[=/=]ShoutOut: Red's voice is inspired by Cass Daley, a comic actress from screen and radio.
* NoIndoorVoice: Red
* PantyShot: Just not the kind you usually expect, given the era.
* RoadSignReversal: The wolf sends Red on the long way to Grandma's house.
* RunningGag: Red interrupting Bugs and the wolf.
* TheRuntAtTheEnd: The wolf finds a bunch of other wolves in Grandma's bed and tells them to beat it. After he lies down he feels something stirring and finds a small wolf left over.
* ScoobyDoobyDoors
* VerbalTic: Red ends a lot of her lines with the exclamation "Ta' Have!", just another thing that makes her so very ''irritating''.
* WaferThinMint: Bugs is about to add the literal last straw on the pile the wolf is holding when Red interrupts... which to Bugs is the metaphorical last straw.
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Laharl: It's because I'm not the main character! You guys only won because you're the heroes of the story!
"For every poorly explained piece of plot armor, there is a poorly explained plot bullet."
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"Explosions went everywhere and one hit l but he was a ghost and it cant hit him and he save so don't worry cos darks the hero of this story anyway."
"Wow, it's a good thing that Shana is the main character of an anime, or else getting impaled by that giant spike might have killed her!"
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Bob: What is it with you?! Why won't you die?
Mega Man: What do you mean?
Bob: No matter how many times I blast you to smithereens, you just keep coming back!
Mega Man: Oh, that. It's just a perk of being the main character in the comic strip.
Bob: There's just one thing you haven't noticed, Mega Man. My name is in the title of the comic, not yours.
Mega Man: Oh shit.
George: Does that mean...?
Bob: No. You still die.
Narrator: Poor George was really shot, but can't die because, let's face it, he's the hero.
"True, he was Kirk and therefore always got out alive while everyone else kicked the bucket but still..."
"Meanwhile, in the B Plot, Geordi is hurt, but will recover, while Hutchinson has a sheet over him, and that's why character shields are the most important part of Starfleet's arsenal."
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Panik: Why aren't you dead?!
Yami: As I explained earlier, I'm the main character. You, however, can just go right ahead and die.
"As the heroine, I somehow win every fight I'm in, even against clearly superior opponents."
Hakurei Reimu, in a Touhou comic
"Goddamn it, are you made out of plotanium?"
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"A thousand may fall at your side,
ten thousand at your right hand,
but it will not come near you."
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Solheim Cup needs snide women
In case you weren't aware, the Solheim Cup, the female equivalent of the Ryder Cup,
takes place between Europe and the US at Killeen Castle near Dublin in Ireland over
the weekend. Beginning on Friday and ending on Sunday, organisers are predictably giving
the biennial tournament the big sell.
"3 days. 2 continents. 1 Solheim Cup. It's
showtime." But showtime without the bitchiness. Bitchiness and the Solheim Cup is so last year, darling. The event no longer carries with
it a collection of snide players, according to the veteran European golfer and one-time ladies' world number one Laura Davies. Which is a crying shame really, for all concerned.
The somewhat feisty American player Dottie Pepper celebrated
like there was no tomorrow when Davies missed a putt during the 1994 competition before responding to questions about her behaviour by retorting: "I don't care."
Catrin Nilsmark - the 2003 European Solheim Cup captain - described
the American player Cristie Kerr as "a litte brat" while commenting that her playing companion Michelle
Redman "had no talent". It is perhaps no coincidence that Nilsmark oversaw Europe's last win in the tournament eight years ago. Or maybe it is. Maybe European women are just not good enough to emulate their male counterparts.
Davies is adamant that the bad old days of grudges are behind
the players in the event.
"The needle was a few years back when Dottie Pepper was
on the (US) team," explained Davies."She's a good friend of mine, but
we had a few words and other players have had words over the years.
"But I think the last four or five versions of the
Solheim Cup, there's really been no needle that I can remember that stands out.
"There's always a bit of chatting and a bit of banter
but that's what makes the Solheim Cup what it is."
Which is a pity, because gamesmanship, questionable manners
and a disregard - healthy or otherwise - for a struggling opponent may not be in
keeping with the etiquette of golf, but it certainly spices up such feisty team tournaments, especially when the US are on the sort of winning streak that saw
GB and Ireland morph into Europe in the late 1970s to return some sense of competitive element to the Ryder Cup.
It is squabbled over in the same format as the Ryder Cup: eight foursomes, eight four-balls and 12 singles on Sunday, which tends to be the day when the the trophy returns to America. In 11 meetings since 1990, Europe have won only three. They have lost the past three.
Does anybody really want to hear about the game and plucky
fighting qualities of a beaten opponent during such confrontations? Would Wayne Rooney refuse to celebrate if he stuck one past Joe Hart from 30 yards in a Manchester derby because they play together with England in football? If somebody wants to celebrate a missed putt, so be it. It is all good for the viewing audience.
It is surely better to be
like Justin Leonard and run over your opponent's line when he is still to putt, as the American player did after canning what felt like a putt from 50 yards against Jose Maria Olazabal during the singles in 1999. From what I recall, Europe were never shy about celebrating when they were winning.
Better still, be like the former European Ryder Cup captain Sam Torrance, who derided Tom Lehman after he lost the plot when draining one from distance against Lee Westwood in the same singles back at Brookline.
"It was disgusting and Tom Lehman calls himself a man of God," said Torrance. "His behaviour today was disgusting."
Yep, no doubt about it. The women could learning a thing or two from the men about being a bitch when it comes
to team competitions.
Who knows? It may even help them win the thing back, which is surely the whole point of turning up in Dublin on an autumnal weekend in September. Unless you are on the lash.
Lookers, not hookers (of the golf ball)
At the risk of being called sexist, Bunker Mentality decided to pick out a few of the players who make the cut even with a card full of bogeys. Spain's Azahara Muno has won one tournament, but likes to play tennis and shop when she is away from the golf course. She is looking not too terrible on it.
Making her fourth appearance in a Solheim Cup, Paula Creamer enjoys fashion, movies and music and shopping. She is undefeated in singles play at the tournament, and is the defending women's US Open champion.
She did not make the US team after three winning appearances in 2005, 2007 and 2009, but with a figure as good as a hole-in-one, BM decided a gratuitous picture of the American golfer Natalie Gulbis was worth it. Not much you can say about Gulbis, except that she brightens the game of golf and this Solheim Cup is poorer for her absence.
The spirt of Nilsmark
BM's advice to the European captain Alison Nicholas is to recall former leader Catrin Nilsmark's behaviour in 2002. She derided some of the US team yet ended up overseeing a crushing 17.5-10.5 victory over their foes only a matter of months later.
Nilsmark on Michelle Redman: "'I have to admire Michelle. She has absolutely no talent but still she keeps up with the best in the world."
Nilsmark on Cristie Kerr: ''The one I least of all would want to lose against. A little brat who has actually played really well this year.''
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1994 Chevy Cheyenne 6 cyl Four Wheel Drive Automatic 134000 miles
1994 deisel 6.5 turbo.. it keeps shuting off after running maybe 30 sec., sometimes longer up to 2 hours. sometimes it just starts and stops. does,nt seem to be starving for fuel. there;s no air in filter.
Acts just like it shuts the key off , no misfires or nothing. When it starts it starts right up. sometimes won't start and have to let it sit.
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If it feels like someone reached over and turned off the key and it fires back up right away it's the injection pump.
If the same thing happens but it has to cool down before restarting it's the PMD / FSD(pump mounted driver).
If it stumbles and than stalls then it is air in the fuel lines. If it is this one try switching fuel tanks and just turn the key to run but don't start the engine. Listen to the fuel pump for a change of noise pitch. The pump is really loud when the pump is out of fuel and will have a muffled sound when pulling fuel. Sometimes the baffle in the main tank will brake away from the tank and the pump will suck air when the tank is just off full.
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The bill was the centerpiece of AIPAC's legislative agenda early this month, as thousands of delegates fanned out across Capitol Hill to pressure politicians to sign on to the bill. AIPAC's lobbying worked: 58 senators from both parties are now co-sponsors of the bill, and a similar resolution in the House has garnered 94 cosponsors.
4. Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Florida
The chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Ros-Lehtinen is a leading hawk on Iran. She frequently rails against Iran's ties to Latin America, and has vowed that the US will stand “shoulder to shoulder” with Israel if it takes military action against Iran. She is a vociferous opponent of diplomacy with Iran, and has stated that the Obama administration “must not fall into the regime's trap and again pursue the failed policy of dialogue and engagement.”
Ros-Lehtinen is also the co-sponsor of a sanctions bill that would “ban business with any entity that does $1 million in a single trade with Iran's energy sector, or $5 million over one year.” Even more alarmingly, Ros-Lehtinen proposed a provision in that bill that would bar any US government contact with people affiliated with the Iranian government. As NIAC's Abdi explained, “the House is putting restrictions on the only tool available to prevent a nuclear Iran and prevent a disastrous military confrontation.”
Although the US does not currently have diplomatic ties with Iran (they were cut off following the 1979 revolution in Iran), experts have warned that the wholesale barring of diplomatic contact with Iran would make any US standoff with Iran more volatile by ruling out lines of communication that might prevent a further escalation. Currently, the Swiss government acts as the main go-between for the US and Iran.
Ros-Lehtinen's bill passed the House by a vote of 410-11. It is currently sitting in the Senate.
5. Representative Brad Sherman
This Democrat from California is a strong backer of Israel and an ardent foe of Iran, and it shows in his statements and the legislation he pushes. Sherman is sure that Iran's nuclear program has “no other purpose but” for a nuclear weapon. And he's proud that he has been “pressing for sanctions since 1998.”
The latest sanctions bill Sherman is pushing for was re-introduced last year, and is titled the Stop Iran’s Nuclear Weapons Program Act. It is under consideration in a number of House committees.
The aim of the bill is to further “tighten economic and diplomatic pressure on Iran and its remaining business partners.” But one specific provision in the legislation garnered a lot of critical attention: the prohibition on “the transfer of any goods, services or technology needed to keep Iran’s American-made aircraft flying.” Iran possesses 15 aircraft that run on US-made engines, which were sold to Iran when Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, a stalwart Western ally, was in power in Iran.
Sherman contends that Iran's civilian aircraft is used to facilitate “the supply of weapons to Syria, Hezbollah and other terrorist groups.” But critics say that Sherman's bill would harm the people of Iran and potentially lead to civilian deaths.
M.J. Rosenberg, a blogger highly critical of the Israel lobby and Israeli policy towards Iran, wrote in November 2011:
Sherman's legislation would prevent the president from permitting the inspection and repair of U.S.-manufactured engines on Iranian civilian aircraft. The planes in question were sold to the Iranians back in the 1970's (when the shah was in power) and are now dangerously out-of-date. Current Iran sanction laws prohibit the sale of new planes and parts to Iran, but a humanitarian exception in the law permits repairs and the replacement of parts necessary to prevent civilian air crashes. It is that exception Sherman is hell-bent to remove.
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Hanare Toride no Yonna Review
by: sothis
December 30, 2007
story 4/10
Hanare Toride no Yonna screenshot
It's short, it's fully CG, and it's seemingly a light fantasy anime that would be perfect to pass the time; but did Hanare Toride no Yonna succeed at stealing my heart?
Watching Hanare is less like watching an anime, and more like watching every FMV of an RPG from start to finish. At only thirty minutes in length, there isn't much time for any sort of a story to be developed. What little we know of Yonna is that as a young child, she cursed a boy who looked at her the wrong way - and was thus cast out of the village, along with her brother. Somehow, they end up at a large abandoned castle, and now are being hunted down by the Imperial Government for fairly unknown reasons (except that they have special powers). Little else is known, including why Yonna and Stan's powers are so unusual than the norm, why the duo is in the castle, and what else is going on behind the scenes.
Though I would have liked to, I didn't enjoy Hanare. The story is too short and confusing to appreciate, especially given that there are plenty of things that we don't understand from beginning to end. I like knowing a little bit about the world an anime takes place in, and its people; Hanare doesn't bother explaining any of this, and that ends up being a definite handicap.
There are plenty of scenes that are completely unnecessary, as well, and seem thrown in simply to show off the animation. For example, there is a lengthy sequence where Yonna summons an (admittedly cute) imp of sorts that tries his best to amuse her. The creature doesn't show up again, and otherwise this wasted several minutes that could have been used on the story.
The lack of character development, combined with the skeleton of a story makes Hanare a very uninspiring watch as far as plot goes.
animation 7/10
Hanare is fully CG-animated, and that alone makes it worth watching for fans of eye candy. The characters are strongly reminiscent of Final Fantasy 9 or Shrek - they are short and stubby and sprite-like, with features that make them appear almost like animals (Yonna, for example, looks an awful lot like a cross between a pig and a monkey at times). Backgrounds are incredibly gorgeous, with shots of the fortress and a forest that appear to be real. The physics engine clearly needs work though, as shots of flowers falling to the grass appear incredibly fake once they hit the ground.
If you watched Hanare for any reason, you'd watch it for the animation.
sound 6.5/10
Though forgettable, Hanare's audio track fits the tone of the anime nicely. Like the overall story, the audio is reminiscent of an RPG, and is light and orchestral. Voice acting is fine by everyone involved.
characters 2/10
Totally undeveloped and misunderstood, the characters of Hanare are a major disappointment. This is because of a single reason: the lack of history. We don't know any details about practically any character, except for the bit about Yonna mentioned above. The characters seem 100% flat personality-wise, and we don't care about any of them by the end of the anime. Perhaps this would have been solved with a longer length, or stronger personalities that stand out well enough, even with no additional character development.
overall 5/10
The story is unfulfilling and the character development is non-existent - two major negative points for any anime. Thus, Hanare is good to watch if you are interested in the unique animation; otherwise, it's definitely one to pass up. For a much better take on the idea of a person being locked up in a castle, in a fantasy-rich world, check out Studio 4C's Princess Arete.
Anime Info
• Movie (1 ep x 33 min)
• 2006
In a solitary fortress, two people with unusual powers, Stan and Yonna, hide from the rest of the world. The Imperial Government has sent two agents to retrieve them – the flying creature Piggott, and the young Garuda. While Piggott tries to sweet talk Stan, Garuda uses his stealthy tricks to enter the fortress undetected – but not for long! Will Garuda be able to convince Yonna to leave with him, even against her brother’s wishes?
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Nice review, but why did you give the story a 4/10? You didn't mention a single good thing about it ._.
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Dear Ask The Doctor: Hi, my name is TJ, I'm male, I weigh between 150-160lbs. And I'm 5'9 tall. Latly, after I take a poop and start wiping my butt, small spots of bright red blood will be on the toliet paper. It's not everytime either. And it's never a large amount of blood. It's very small amounts. And only when I wiping my butt. I don't know what this is, and I'm very worried. Sometimes I feel constipated, I don't know if that has anything to do with this, and I always drink 1-2 energy drinks to keep me going almost everyday. I dont know if that effects anything. I'm really worried about this, I am a smoker too, so the first thing that came to mind was cancer, even though my butt has nothing to do with my lungs. It doesn't hurt when I poop or anything, just small random spots of blood when I wipe. Sometimes I do push to get it out, and sometimes my poop, let's just say, seems to be to wide for such a small hole.... Sorry, I didn't know how else to say that. Please, please, please help me!
Dear TJ: I can certainely understand your concern and worry. From the symptoms that you have mentioned it seems that you may be having some internal or external hemorrhoids or an anal fissure which is leading to the bleeding. Hemorrhoids are clusters of blood vessels which can either be present outside the rectal area or inside the rectum. Anal fissure is a tear in the normal mucosa ie the wall of the rectum and thus it leads to bleeding. Either way both these conditions occur when one has chronic constipation or hard stools. You can use some topical ointment or gel like anusol on this area . However long term treatment wise you need to drink more water during the day, increase the amount of fibre in your diet by increasing the intake of grains, fresh green vegetables etc. In case you are chronically constipated you could also take some over the counter meds like colace or metamucil which will help relieve the bowels. In case the bleeding continues or gets worse please see you family doctor. All the best.
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The local market has goods for sale and it is not from the actual maker and they have been there for years.
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Answered . No it's not legal, and violates the actual rightsholders trademarks. Just because something is common doesn't make it legal (or morally ok). There's plenty of internet downloading of copyrighted songs and movies, and internet copying of copyrighted photos, and flea market and eBay sales of counterfeit trademarked goods from content owners such movie studios and major league sports teams ahnd famous clothes designers. Some or all of these thieves will eventually be caught and sued, and maybe criminally prosecuted.
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Answered . Probably not legal. If a CD, a book or other recorded media containing copyright material is duplicated without permission of the copyright holder, it is a form of copyright infringement. As a general matter, copyright infringement occurs when a copyrighted work is reproduced, distributed, performed, publicly displayed, or made into a derivative work without the permission of the copyright owner.
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I only had THC in my system, as I am permanently disabled and have a medical marijuana card. No other substances. Driving pattern was good (not stopped for erratic driving).
No odor of marijuana, nor possession of any in vehicle.
I gave blood. Can someone please give me a scale of levels vs. impairment, etc.
When I get results, I want to know what they mean in layman's terms.
Thank you.
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They are offering a "Wet Reckless" but that is pretty much the same as "DUI." I had drunk some marijuana tea at 8 am and got pulled over at 1 am the next morning. I was in no way impaired or influenced by the marijuana, and I use it regularly for medical reasons.
Due to liver-damaging prescription pills that I have been taking since 1998, my doctor advised the alternative pain alleviation of medical marijuana. I had been using since April 2011 and was cited in September of 2011, so I’m sure it was in my system, but I was not affected by the use from approximately 17 hrs prior to stop. This is ludicrous for them to try to enact the law this way. They are currently trying to enact a law of NO TOLERANCE but at this time it is not so. With the way they are pursuing my case, they think they can take the law into their own hands and charge me as if it were already so. I will take it to trial regardless.
Do Public Defenders really work for you, or do they side with the D.A. as they are also county employees?
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Answered . Blood THC levels do not correlate to a level of impairment in the way that alcohol does. Numerous factors apply and, while the prosecution may produce a Department of Justice toxicologist that will testify that high THC levels in the blood correlate with impairment, there are numerous studies that cast doubt on such claims, particularly for heavy users.
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Answered . Laws vary from state to state, but in general, operating under the influence of drugs does not require a certain level being present in the blood. It is the fact of their being present at all.
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Answered . Knowing what they mean won't necessarily help you. Depending on any priors and circumstances surrounding the arrest, you may be able to get the charge reduced.
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Answered . Asking what level of Delta 9 equates to impairment is a very loaded question, because different experts will testify to the fact that different levels may cause impairment in different subjects.
For example, some experts will testify that most people are impaired at a .05% blood alcohol level, while, others will say it's more like .07-.08%, but they all agree that .20% would be "impaired for the purposes of driving."
To be sure, you'd need a blood split to verify the levels and an expert to look over the levels and the case.
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Depending on how you look at it, he has.
It was 1958 when his parents, Joseph and Annette Cooper, traveled to New York to watch the Baltimore Colts and New York Giants battle for pro football's championship in what became known as "The Greatest Game Ever Played." They left their two young sons at home, but they had company of sorts: Annette was four months' pregnant with Brian.
"I tell people I was there [at the '58 game] and they say, `How were you there?' Then they figure it out," says Cooper, whose family owns Alex Cooper Auctioneers in Towson.
For many now rooting for the Ravens, such references to bygone days of Baltimore football are out of place in the era of Ray Lewis and Shannon Sharpe. But the select fraternity of fans whose football education dates to the 1950s and 1960s says these harbored Colts memories are in no way a betrayal of the present.
For them, the Ravens' rise merely closes a circle that rolled through the years, only to be severed with the Colts' dead-of-night flight to Indianapolis in 1984. Now, like a wayward uncle welcomed home after a long and mysterious absence, Baltimore football is back, and all again feels complete.
A similar enthusiasm
"There was a real enthusiasm, very similar to what we're witnessing the last few weeks. Everybody seemed to be connected to what was going on," says Ray Marocco Jr., recalling the days when he accompanied his father to Colts games at Memorial Stadium. "It's something we've rarely experienced since then, something that seemed to have disappeared with the advent of the modern sports age. It's nice to see we can still experience it."
For some, the associations are particularly vivid. Take Kay Wargowski. Sometimes, when a Ravens opponent is threatening late in the game, her mind winds backs four decades, and she's calling out names that mean nothing to the 11-year-old nephew watching at her knee.
"I'm telling people, the only thing we need to have now is Lenny Lyles or Milt Davis, to make sure that long pass doesn't get away," says Wargowski, 59, invoking the names of two former Colts defensive backs.
Fans with a long memory link today's Ravens with yesterday's Colts, while recognizing that the comparison is imperfect - so very much has changed since the Colts' Alan "The Horse" Ameche broke into the end zone for the winning touchdown in sudden-death overtime of the 1958 game.
The game took place at a time when sportswriters breathlessly reported the amount that winning players would take home as a championship payoff: $4,600 each. It was a time when Friendship Airport touted the imminent introduction of commercial jetliners; when classified ads listed a "colored garden apartment" on Cherry Hill Road for $13.75 a week.
Back then, Wargowski watched the games with her father, James Bory, a sports fan with eight children but not a boy among them. Together, father and daughter struggled for Sunday television rights at their Highlandtown home against Kay's seven younger sisters, who had no taste for football.
"I felt so sorry for Dad, having to work six days a week and then fight with my sisters to watch the games on his day off. So I kind of sided with him, and became a big fan with him," Wargowski recalls.
Sometimes, Bory won a pair of tickets to Memorial Stadium through his employer, H&S Bakery. When he did, he shared them with his ally Kay, who helped him bag bread on Saturdays. The games were nothing like those at PSINet Stadium, Wargowski says - there were no fancy food counters, no escalators, just big blue banners and chants specific to every section in the park.
"Now, it almost makes you feel like you're not outdoors. For outdoor screaming, it was Memorial Stadium. It was the insane asylum," she says. "That's the shame with the great purple thing they have now - people who take their young ones now won't be able to take them to see the craziness at Memorial Stadium."
Ravens maniacs who paint their bodies purple might dispute this assessment of relative rowdiness, noting that Colts fans, after all, attended games in suits and fedoras and didn't even tailgate.
But Wargowski isn't imagining things - accounts of Colts fans at Yankee Stadium in the moments after the 23-17 win in 1958 describe one small man who accosted a much larger Giants fan with the greeting, "We beatcha. Wanna make something of it?" Another "rather undignified gentleman overindulged in his ecstasy" had to be carried out of the stadium, but "every now and then would blink his eyes open and yell `Yeah' in a soft voice, then let his head loll again." | http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/ravens/bal-lennymoore012401,0,5178617.story | dclm-gs1-043720002 | false | false | {
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This Dino De Laurentiis-produced re-creation of the decisive Italian military operation top-bills Robert Mitchum as a battle-weary war correspondent. Robert Ryan and Arthur Kennedy play generals, Peter Falk is the lovable Brooklynese corporal, and Earl Holliman is the country-boy sergeant. Anzio was based on the book by Wynford Vaughan Thomas. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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I guess that this movie was supposed to be some kind of "social commentary". It surely wasn't anything one would label as a documentary, or even historically accurate. It used the war more as a backdrop for trying to preach some sort of message that ended up making no sense at all. Some good supporting acting is all that (partially) salvaged this movie for me. one for being given an impossible job to accomplish. The entire movie can be summed by Mitchum asking himself a question at the beginning of the movie, which he tells the answer to to a general at the end of the film. "Why do men go to war and kill each other?", is the question (I am paraphrasing). The answer at the end of the movie? "Because they enjoy killing each other!". Wow, what philosophy!!! I've seen more insight in a Chinese fortune cookie. That's really the "take-away" message of the movie, which makes the entire film seem like a waste of time when it's over.
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Bob and Roberta S.
I guess this is an Italian's view of what he thinks American solders are like. Ridiculous and not even entertaining. Don't waste your time. There are a lot of great war movies . This isn't one of them.
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I am a war movie fan of sorts and enoy books on military history. I wondered why I had not seen or heard much about this one since I was kid. Now I know why. This is a pretty crummy war movie! Very slow paced at the beginning. Little better toward the end. 2 stars may be generous.
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NFL2009 writes:
This guy can live anywhere in the United States. Why on Earth would he choose to live in South Texas??!
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giveitupliberals writes:
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of course they shun DAIRY off to the side ,, no mammal drinks milk after they have teeth except the humans that have been fooled into it by the meat industry.. especially serving the milk of another species to their kids..
Cow's milk was designed to put 400 pounds on a heifer and it does the same to humans .. look around you .
read CHINA STUDY ,, and get the facts ,,milk feeds cancer cells ( foci ) among other things ,, the production of meat wastes resources,destroys more topsoil , uses more water and pollutes more rivers than any industry and is killing humans who ignore their health and diet.
like any other career, i think that all chldren should be taken to a slaughter house to see where their Happy Meals and food comes from ,,just like we learn about other careers .. then let them decide if they want to eat dead animals and blood . Most adults would not touch meat again if they did ,, why would you ?
we are not carnivores ,,they can crack raw bones with their teeth due to the high magnesium content ,our teeth would break ,,,,,,
we do not have the digestive tract of a carnivore . they have stong acids and their food passes thru quickly,,we eat meat and our long digestive tract keep it there and our digective tracts are compromised
Milk is tested for PUS content ,,if it is too high they cannot sell it ( due to infections on udders from milking machines ) there are groups that want the PUS content of the milk to be written on the containers like the fat/sugar/cholesterol etc.. wanna read that ?
For the first time the sales of dairy are plumetting and plant based ( coconut, rice, almond )milks are winning the race ,,with 50% more calciium and no cholesterol .. and no PUS.
check for great recipes and oh yes ,, FACTS
and yes ,,I am a vegan ,,, you can get healthy too .........
Naga is that really you????????
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rom12921 writes:
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If supply side works so well why did GHW Bush call it voodoo economics,and now all these years later most economists agree? And because of being in office more causes the odds to shift against the office holder for a recession,and has nothing to do with their economic policies. Okay and the dog ate my homework too.
R's held the WH 3/4's of the time since 1950 so most recessions happen under Republican presidents. It is true.
IMO I don't think President Bus (41) understood economics that well, but then again most Presidents don't seem to have a grasp on anything outside the partisan message in contemporary times anyway.
Still, I don't think most of the Dems wanting more taxation are really aware they are advocating for federal control of more of the GDP than those producing. Federal gov spends 22%+ of GDP, add in the stae,county, muni it's 40% and look at where we are - a fiscal cliff.
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Until about the second half of the 19th century the role of music in ballet was secondary, with main emphasis being on dance, with music being a compilation of danceable tunes. Writing "ballet music" used to be a job for musical craftsmen, rather than for masters. For example, critics of Tchaikovsky mentioned his writing of ballet music as something demeaning.
From the earliest ballets up to the time of Lully (1632–1687), the music of ballet was indistinguishable from ballroom dance music. Lully created a style that was separate, wherein the music told a story. The first "Ballet d'action" was staged in 1717. This was a story told without any words. The pioneer was John Weaver (1673–1760). Both Lully and Rameau wrote "opera-ballets", where the story was party danced and partly sung, but ballet music became gradually less important. The next big step occurred in the early years of the nineteenth century, when principal dancers changed from using hard shoes to ballet pumps. This enabled a more free-flowing style of music to be used. In 1832 Marie Taglioni (1804–1884) is credited with being the first famous dancer to dance "en pointe". This was in La Sylphide. It was now possible to have music which was more expressive. Gradually dancing became more daring, with men lifting the ballerinas into the air.
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Put a drag-racing strip on an Indian reservation in the wild hills east of San Diego and invite electric car nuts to race, and what do you think they'll wanna do?!!
Watch this cool video of some high-voltage dragsters drag-racing, plus a weird and wonderful collection of Electric Vehicle's and their owners and the spectators on parade.
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I attended the one day only, but I was impressed by two things in particular (okay, three things):
1. It brought people from all walks together informally because of something tremendously important, i.e., EV's. I think most people came away with a positive experience in mind. People were friendly, no war, just peace, love and groovy.
2. We were up in the hills, away from the 'valley villains', and with clean air and wide-open spaces, it was a great location where everyone could unwind and have some fun.
3. The EVent gave opportunity for EV enthusiasts and 'newbies' alike, to participate in an EVent where they could learn about electric vehicles, see them perform, and talk to one another about everything in between. Very positive. (Laughter and happiness provided much welcomed relief from the sometimes overwhelming bad news we are all so used to hearing about lately).
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I'm certainly looking forward to day 2 in May (31st),2008, when attendance figures should improve, (500 people turning up over two days, hey, nothing too shabby there).
Finally, I'm all in favor of getting the message out so people begin to understand that even one of their 'several' cars could be a candidate for EV conversion, and this is an environmental issue more need to learn about. An EVent like Electric Dragin, so let us not underestimate the impact value of what it represented.
Co-op is such a great idea I think for getting enthusiasts involved with each others projects, and in so doing, demonstrating how things can be done. The point is, whatever a persons background, regardless of race, creed, religious beliefs, you wouldn't be reminded of that if you were all involved together making EV's, ...and EVen electric boxes have their place. Look at the smiles it brought!
Unfortunately, the co-op idea is almost 'foreign' in concept to a lot of people I think, due to how society has become so divided up, individualized, disjointed and unfamiliar with a co-op's simple but purposeful design and beauty. Much too much emphasis always seems to go into making everyone think it's 'normal' to do everything on their own, solo, and this is the unfortunate results of just what the industrial revolution has done to separate members of society from one another, and break up the cohesiveness that is necessary to make America great.
Before the industrial age, an agrarian way of life was more about families, friends and neighbors working together to plant, tend and harvest food for crops. They tended to socialize more back then than now, and wasn't life quite a bit slower than it's become in recent years as the rat-race became a term people would joke about, but look at 'em now going endlessly back and forth on the streets and freeways at reckless, wasteful, dangerous speeds, and so, where is everyone going in such a hurry??!!
The Electric Dragin EVent slowed everyone down long enough to just get together and relax a little and unwind. I can't tell you how valuably theraputic that is, just for people to get out of the cities long enough to breathe fresh air again.
Electric Dragin was I think the almost perfect venue for all sorts of environmentally based causes, but in the case of promoting what should be everyone's cause, that is to get the message across to others that we don't have to wait for the latest and greatest (and most expensive) new electric car to come along, when what can be done now to RE-CYCLE what we already have is crucial to Survival, so why not cooperate to facilitate?
I have always thought your idea, Q, to mobilize and organize the co-operative is a good one.
I'll end where I began ...A co-op would bring people together rebuilding EVs, and that's a good thing (just like the work shops, comradarie, pooling our interests, supporting one another, etc., etc. The fact that EVeryone wins when a new electric car is reborn, is of tremendous worth, because it steers us all away from becoming idle do nothing nobodies that just sit around waiting for someone to tell us what to do.
Dare to be different, I say.
We're certainly not fighting dirty perpetual wars when we're all busy agitating for peace and teaching others, (to teach others), how to revolt against the madness.
The politics of such a movement cross all boundaries and divisions, and create an alternative I firmly support and believe in.
Long Live the REVolution!
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Msshass writes:
If the state wants to stand up to "big brother" stop taking federal money. Be self suffient. You cant sit here and say "give me all the federal money you can federal government but dont tell us states to do this or dont tell us to do that"
Instead why not start working on the budget, and start making harder crime bills etc..,etc..., etc..,
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Blackreign007 writes:
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Only you werent the first to break this news since Wolken said it a few times tonight on his chat and twitter. Unless of course FGEORGE is really Wolken...Fraud!
Okay..Ive been gone for awhile but why is this Kid on Suspension,,?
didn't he just get off a suspension...?
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Meeksman writes:
Ummm, do we not recall that JP was at least the third, if not fourth, option as replacement for Cal? Do you honestly think the fourth peg down - with NO PRIOR HEAD COACHING EXPERIENCE - was going to produce serious quality within the first five years? He pulled a rabbit by landing that first recruitng class - kudos for that. The ability to recruit does not equate to the ability to coach. Here's my nugget so listen up - JP learned under Cal. Cal has always (and still does) win by putting better players on the court than the other guy and letting them just play. My five are going to be better than your five 8 outta 10 times basically. That is what JP learned under. Lute at AZ wasn't much different to be honest. JP is not on track to be a true 'coach' because he didn't get brought up based on x's and o's. As years go by, he will slowly learn from past mistakes and eliminate some of these type 'breakdowns'. However, just like Cal (and basically Lute - excluding one fluke title)he will over recruit and under perform once he has them. Example: Cal and the five pro's he had last year that didn't even make the Final Four.
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I see why your name is ManOhMan, that is what people think when they hear you speak. Is he really that shallow and uninformed. There is a difference between driving a forklift and driving the people who drive the forklifts. I am a driver of people not machinery. Now laugh at that, if you knew anything about anything you would know that while a broker has a realtor license a realtor needs a broker to function. Brokers are typically owners or partners with other brokers in the agency. I bore of educating you, I can't correct what years of neglect by MCS did for you.
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Topix is a site that needs to be shut down, thats what the police needs to do. It is a site that just let these young people bash each other with lies and threats. It is sad that there is such a site. The moderators of that site should be a shamed of their self. People are saying young girls have herpes and HIV and all those things that are covered under hippa law. (even if it is true it is not their place to state that). people talking about people the way they live, how they run the daycares and all kinda things. That is slander. all of them on that site shoud be shamed of their self.
Please know the "law" before giving out misinformation.
"HIPPA law" only covers:
- to sum it up "HIPPA" does not cover information given out by the average person even if that information is of a medical nature.
As to "slander"... actually it's "libel" which is "A published false statement that is damaging to a person's reputation; a written defamation", it is not "libel" unless such information is untrue.
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deez_nutz writes:
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Another fishy story. Nobody with any brains tries to do a random robbery in the 1000 block of Jefferson.
What makes the 1000 block of Jefferson so special? Most robbers don't have brains anyway.
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PanzerGren writes:
We, the Brits and the russians shot thousands of SS troopers that were captured during the war. The SS were elite as our special forces and marines are, most were not killers, just a hard fighting well trained group, altho there were some that did commit war crimes but who is now to judge as we have done the same. Would not bomber Harris of the RAF and Curtis Lamay of our 8th airforce not be guilty when they made a point to carpet bomb Dresden and other German cities with the intent to kill as many civilians as possible to break Germanys will. Let this man who saw the horrors of the Russian front live out his life-He has saw more hell than most men ever have and I'm sure he has suffered enough.
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I bought it, so did Gary North and a lot of other smart people, we were duped, time to admit we were wrong and move on
Katherine Albrecht debunked this story on the radio yesterday, here are other headlines from this Satire site:
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I believe this story is a hoax.
This story is a joke. First, the idea will not work, and secondly, the author has put taunting, BS posts in the comment section. RFID does not have a range to make the idea practical and disabling an RFID chip is easy. It can be accomplished without disabling the firearm.
Don't get upset. Have a laugh at a stupid attempt to get you riled. It is the sort of thing Andy Kaufman would try. His jokes were always on his audience. He was out to entertain himself, not others.
Some banks are putting RFID chips in credit and debit cards. That is why companies are selling aluminum wallets to prevent the cards being read while they are in your pocket.
It is popular to keep firearms in a safe. Do you honestly think an RFID chip can be read through the wall of a gun safe if they can't be read through an aluminum wallet?
I think a mailing campaign is needed
Physically mail your representative a copy of the Colorado recall results and a blank recall form.
Mailing works!
Much better than phone calls!
Update from Lew Rockwell:
Gary North fell for
a joke article.
George Washington in response to a proposal for gun registration in 1790 said: "ABSOLUTELY NOT. If the people are armed and the "federalists" DO NOT KNOW WHERE THE ARMS ARE, there can NEVER be an oppressive government."
The ability for the Citizens to "bury their cannons", Cannon balls, Huge stocks Gun Powder, Rifles and other necessary arms in their fields and in other places, allowed them the MEANS to defend against their own oppressive government.
The "RIGHT to conceal" from the federal government or any government; The purpose clearly stated to have the power to put down an oppressive federal government. This is clearly in line with the 12th Grievance of the Declaration of Independence. This defines the Intent of the 2nd Amendment and the intent of the Founders.
President George Washington's statement presented his mistrust in the federal and other oppressive governments very clearly; and defined the "true intent" where the powers should lay, and that is in the hands of the civilians, without oversight from government.
We also can draw from James Madison as to:
The True Definition of "MILITIA":
James Madison - Federalist #46 (Paraphrased):
"The highest number to which a "standing army" can be carried in any country does not exceed one hundredth (1/100) part of the souls, or one twenty-fifth (1/25th) part of the number ABLE to bear arms. This PORTION would not yield, in the United States, an (standing) army of more than twenty-five or thirty thousand men.
To "these" would be "OPPOSED" (APP: indicating that the "MILITIA" is to be a "OPPOSING force" to the standing army, as well as that of foreign enemies)
a (CITIZEN) MILITIA amounting to near half a million CITIZENS with arms in their HANDS,
"officered by men chosen from "AMONG THEMSELVES",
(not by government or the standing army - a indicator of the true definition of "MILITIA")
fighting for "their" (the citizen / militia's) common liberties and united and conducted by government"S" (local) possessing their (the citizen / militia's) affections and confidence.
It may well be doubted whether a militia thus circumstanced could ever be conquered by such a "proportion" (ratio) of regular troops (i.e. standing army).
Besides the advantage of (the CITIZENS) being armed, it forms a barrier against the "enterprises of ambition" (Banks, Corporations Foreign Interests), more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of.
LET US NOT INSULT the free and gallant CITIZENS of America with the suspicion that they would be "less able to defend the RIGHTS" of which they (THE / ALL PEOPLE) would be in "ACTUAL POSSESSION" than the "debased subjects" of "arbitrary power" would be to rescue theirs from the hands of their oppressors."
Mr. GEORGE MASON. "Mr. Chairman, a worthy member has asked who are the militia, if they be not THE PEOPLE of this country, and if we are not to be protected from the fate of the Germans, Prussians, by our representation?
I ask, Who are the militia? They consist now of the "whole people", except a few public officers. But I cannot say who will be the militia of the future day. If that paper on the table gets no alteration, the militia of the future day may not consist of all classes, high and low, and {426} rich and poor; but they may be confined to the lower and middle classes of the people, granting exclusion to the higher classes of the people.
Read the Virginia Ratifying Convention 6-16-1788 in FULL: http://www.americanpatriotparty.cc/americanpatriotpartynewsl...
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Get Educated and Educate Others.
Know the FOUNDATIONS on which you stand, so that you will know that your actions will have the power of RIGHT.
So when you hear either the Left or so called "Right" (who often "sound" like they are for the Constitution but actually only to those things that benefit them)... say that there should be "some" government regulation, correct them and say, no, there should not.
Arms are not limited to rifles and pistols. And if you hear someone say, "they didn't have weapons like that back then"...Remind them: Without any application to any government, Numerous Cannons could be bought & mounted on ships with enough powder and munitions to level a coastal town. Grapeshot in a cannon or other device could stop a charge of armed men or fend off attacks simply by it's presence on a field. Anyone who could afford could own & bare.This gave us our Liberty. APP
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find your stolen gun, right? Yeah, sure. They will now know where to find ALL weapons so that confiscation can begin. Burying them will not help, only some type of RFID shielding. http://www.lessemf.com/
"The man in rags who speaks pure wisdom is ignored in the west"
-Alan Watt http://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com
If They Pass This
Just happen to put a lead or cooper lined sleeve/sticker around the RFID tag area
Or stick it in the microwave oven for about 20 second.
or wrap it in aluminum foil.
Political Suicide
Challenge everyone that voted for this, and then defeat them.
lots of Patriots up in Kentucky.
Support these Liberty Candidates and find and add more !
Defeat John Cornyn
Something is wrong here...
I have been looking for more info on this story and every article goes right back to the National Report article by Jane Agni. I looked on kentucky.gov...Not a word about this.
I just don't believe it.
Where is the NRA? Where is the GOA? Someone besides the commenters should be screaming bloody murder.
Ms. Agni's piece reads as though it could be on The Onion!
If anyone knows what the Bill number is, then by all means share it with us.
UPDATE:Someone from Kentucky commented, "Kentucky's General assembly is NOT in session. It was recently called for a 5-day extraordinary session for one topic: redistricting. That was the only thing considered, or could be considered under state law."
The 2nd Amendment is a joke.
And not a very funny one at that.
please explain
2nd amendment is just writing on a piece of paper. No piece of paper should be able to tell anyone if they can own a fire arm. Fire arm ownership is a liberty we were born with.
If that is the point you are getting at, then I would agree.
Either way it doesn't matter.
What good is a right if people are too afraid to utilize it. So what if we have a right, given or natural, to own weapons. If the weapons are not used to defend our inalienable rights as intended then it is useless.
It is no secret that the right to bear arms was intended to defend against a tyrannical government. Like I said What a Joke. "We may loose everything but we still have our guns to play with."
Do you understand what I am saying?
I would say that we chip every
Kentucky rep who wants this insanity. Then we follow the RFID trail they leave and show it to everyone. Bet the trail leads to some payoff from a ROths-Zio cabal member.
Recall s'more legislators perhaps?
What would the Founders do?
Just ignore the government.
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TIME: Viewpoint Why Fewer Young American Jews Share Their Parents' View of Israel
Dana Goldstein Thursday, Sept. 29, 2011
"I'm trembling," my mother says when I tell her I'm working on an article about how younger and older American Jews are reacting differently to the Palestinians' bid for statehood at the United Nations. I understand the frustrations of the Palestinians who are dealing with ongoing Israeli settlement construction and sympathize with their decision to approach the U.N., but my mom supports President Obama's promise to wield the U.S. veto, sharing his view that a two-state solution can be achieved only through negotiations with Israel.
2 votes
Map of a Single Israeli-Palestinian State
I've always wondered what this would look like, so I decided to make a map myself. Took a bit a research to actually find the current districting and what a single-state would look like.
Posted this in off-topic because it is, but posted it here because I keep noticing this issue come up on the forums.
1 vote
BIG NEWS: Palestine UN Bid Upside, Israel's Hoes, World War 3
"Interestingly, along with the Jerusalem post reporting that the majority of the Israeli people (70%) saying its time to recognize a Palestinian state,Haaretz came out with a headline the other day and basically flat out said Netanyahu must be stopped from attacking Iran...they understand this push to attack Iran is all coming coming from Bibi Netanhayu... Iran is not a threat to anybody, Iran has never invaded and tried to conquer another country since they became an Islamic republic in 1979... in fact they haven't done it for 200 years.
20 votes
Veto a State, Lose an Ally
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Babel the next installment from Mumford and sons - Babel - Mumford & Sons Music Album
Newest Review: ... feel maybe they haven't but compared to other music in the charts at the time of the release and after it is up there with the best. Someon... more
Babel the next installment from Mumford and sons
Babel - Mumford & Sons
Member Name: claireylulu
Babel - Mumford & Sons
Date: 16/05/13
Advantages: Not a track I dislike, gets your foot tapping and singing.
Disadvantages: Not quite as brilliant as Sigh no More
Mumford and sons music will always hold a special place in my heart. My boyfriend introduced my brother-in-law to the first album Sigh No More and he became addicted. We all enjoyed the album and the different type of music they have produced at the time but not like he did. And when he died last year everyone mentioned his love for Mumford and sons music and how he converted many friends, comrades and family to their music. So when they released their new album in September of last year it was a must.
If you haven't heard of Mumford and Sons before (which I find hard to believe) they are an indie/folk band. If you are into really up beat dance music move on now. That isn't too say some of their tracks aren't upbeat and you will find your foot just can't help but tap! After that brilliant first album Sigh No More I was a little dubious that they could provide an album as good if not better and personally I feel maybe they haven't but compared to other music in the charts at the time of the release and after it is up there with the best. Someone once said to me Mumford and sons music all sounds the same and in reply I said that's because you can't appreciate good written music with meaning lyrics because that is what they offer.
The album consists of twelve tracks lasting a total of 52 minutes. Of the twelve tracks three of the tracks have been released to date. The first being track number 3 I will wait in August 2012, the second being track number 6 Lover of the light in November 2012 and the third being track number 2 Whispers in the dark March 2013. The album itself debuted at number one and became the fastest selling album of 2012.
The album begins with the track that the album is named after Babel. I have to admit there isn't really a track that I don't like on the album. This one starts off quite upbeat but don't be fooled as its lyrics are quite deep. It is a certain one to get you feet taping. Moving onto the released Whisper in the dark they slow the pace down that is the thing about Mumford and sons you find yourself on an emotional rollercoaster through their album. The words of their songs are deep their instrumental music is a joy to listen too. I will wait the third track on the album is like a rollercoaster itself the intro starting off upbeat but the singing comes in and the tone is bought down for it gather pace again. You will find yourself bleating out those words 'I will wait, I will wait for you' at the top of your voice. I find myself doing it every time I have it on in the car.
My two favourites (if I have to choose) tracks are number 4 Holland Road and track number 6 Lover of the Light. Holland Road is maybe one that not everyone will like. It begins slowly and quite mournful talking about being beaten down by your callous mind but as the pace of the music picks up so does the mood of the song as 'I rose and I rose , and I paid less time, to your callous mind.' The music in this particular song is excellent and is probably one of the main reasons I like it as it shows of their talents and again is one I can join in with! The other track Lover of the Light has been released so will probably be more known to many of you but still a joy. As with most albums the first half of the tracks get listened to the most and that is no different with me but I try to make that extra effort to listen to the last tracks of the album and this is an album I would highly recommend you do so with the likes of Hopeless wonderer and Below my feet.
Mumford and Sons have been criticised for being repetitive with their music especially with the pace of the music beginning loud then quieten and becoming loud again. But I personally I like the fact I know what I am getting. Compared to their first album it maybe does lack that bit originality they first had but it still gets me singing and tapping my foot. To me this album is best played in the car nice and loud!
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Kenneth J. Goodnow, Essex US
Kenneth J. Goodnow, Essex, VT US
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20080212977FIBER OPTIC TRANSMISSION LINES ON AN SOC - An optical transmission method. Signal transmissions between cores of an integrated circuit are performed. Each signal transmission is between two cores of a different pair of cores of the integrated circuit. Each signal transmission includes transmission of an optical signal in the visible or infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum at a wavelength that is specific to each different pair of cores and is a different wavelength for each different pair of cores. There is no overhead for decoding or arbitration in preforming the signal transmissions that would otherwise exist if a same wavelength for the optical signals were permitted for pairs of cores of the different pairs of cores.09-04-2008
20090058457REDUNDANT CRITICAL PATH CIRCUITS TO MEET PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENT - Method, system, IC and design structure for meeting a performance requirement using redundant critical path circuits, are disclosed. In one embodiment, the IC includes a plurality of redundant critical path circuits, wherein at least one of the plurality of redundant critical path circuits meeting a performance requirement is operational and the others are non-operational.03-05-2009
20090125744Structure for a System and Method of Predicting Power Events in an Intermittent Power Environment and Dispatching Computational Operations of an Integrated Circuit Accordingly - A design structure for a system and method of predicting power events in intermittent power environments and dispatching computational operations of an integrated circuit accordingly. A power management prediction system includes a controller executing a prediction algorithm, an arrangement of computation circuitry, a non-volatile storage device containing a power requirements log and a power history log, a clock generator, an intermittent power source, and a power monitor circuit. A method of predicting intermittent power events and dispatching computational operations includes: storing power requirements of each computational operation, monitoring the intermittent power source to generate a history log, predicting a subsequent power event based on the history log, retrieving actual power requirements of one or more computational operations, comparing the predicted power event with actual power requirements, determining whether actual power requirements are satisfied, dispatching one or more computational operations that correspond to one or more actual power events, or performing an error recovery operation.05-14-2009
20090132732UNIVERSAL PERIPHERAL PROCESSOR SYSTEM FOR SOC ENVIRONMENTS ON AN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - A universal peripheral processor architecture on an integrated circuit (IC) includes first and second data buses coupled to interface logic devices for enabling communication between the first and second data buses including enabling interface of multiple signaling protocols. One or more processors communicate with the first and second data buses to manage control functions on the IC. A data path enables transfer of data between the first and second data buses, and communicates with data storage devices. A data control path enables communication between the data storage devices and the processors.05-21-2009
20090152594On-Demand Power Supply Current Modification System and Method for an Integrated Circuit - A circuit that selectively connects an integrated circuit to elements external to the integrated circuits. The circuit includes an input/output element that selectively connects an input/output pin as a function of a power requirement or a signal bandwidth requirement of the integrated circuit. The input/output element includes one or more switching devices that connect the input/output pin to an external element, such as a power supply or external signal path. The input/output element also includes one or more switching devices that connect the input/output pin to an internal element, such as a power network or internal signal line.06-18-2009
20090287905PROCESSOR PIPELINE ARCHITECTURE LOGIC STATE RETENTION SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A solution for retaining a logic state of a processor pipeline architecture are disclosed. A comparator is positioned between two stages of the processor pipeline architecture. A storage capacitor is coupled between a storage node of the comparator and a ground to store an output of the early one of the two stages. A reference logic is provided, which has the same value as the output of the early stage. A logic storing and dividing device is coupled between the reference logic and a reference node of the comparator to generate a logic at the reference node, which is a fraction of the reference logic, and to retain a logic state of the information stored on the storage capacitor. Further mechanisms are provided to determine validity of data stored in the logic storing and dividing device.11-19-2009
20100191385SYSTEM FOR PREDICTION AND COMMUNICATION OF ENVIRONMENTALLY INDUCED POWER USEAGE LIMITATION - Disclosed are a power management system and associated method that not only initiate a “greenout” to avoid the negative impact of high loads (i.e., to avoid high power cost, negative environmental impact, brownouts, and ultimately blackouts), but can also predict the initiation of such a “greenout”. Predicting the initiation of a “greenout” and communicating the prediction to one or more of the various electronic devices connected to the power grid allows the electronic device(s) to take preparatory action to avoid and/or limit any negative impact that may be caused by the “greenout”.07-29-2010
20100333058METHOD FOR INCREASING THE MANUFACTURING YIELD OF PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC DEVICES - A method for increasing the manufacturing yield of field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) or other programmable logic devices (PLDs). An FPGA or other PLD is formed in several sections, each of the sections having its own power bus and input/output connections. Each section of the FPGA or other PLD is tested to identify defects in the FPGA or other PLD. The FPGA or other PLD is sorted according to whether the section has an acceptable number of defects. An assigned unique number for the FPGA or other PLD chip or part identifies it as partially good. Software for execution and configuring the FPGA or other PLD may use the unique number for programming only the identified functional sections of the FPGA or other PLD. The result is an increase in yield as partially good FPGAs or other PLDs may still be utilized.12-30-2010
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Jean-Francois Tortorici, Montpellier FR
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20090139956Dielectric Insulation Gasket for a Vacuum Bottle - The gasket makes it possible for the apparatus, in particular the vacuum bottle, to be assembled and disassembled relatively easily and conveniently. It imparts high dielectric performance to the apparatus. The inside and the outside contact surfaces of the gasket are smooth, and, for example, each of them can be made up of two cylindrical portions (06-04-2009
Joseph Tortorici, Mount Sinai, NY US
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20090130635HYBRID ORTHODONTIC APPLIANCE - An orthodontic appliance is provided for controlling positioning of a patient's teeth. The appliance includes at least one dental encasing component formed to overlay at least one of the patient's teeth and at least a portion of a palate of the patient. The at least one dental encasing component has a lingual surface and a labial surface. The appliance also includes at least one rigid component fused to an entire length of the lingual surface of the at least one dental encasing component and over a portion of the at least one dental encasing component overlaying a portion of the palate of the patient.05-21-2009
Pietro Tortorici, Montreal CA
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20120246242SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ELECTRONICALLY CONFIRMING APPOINTMENTS - The present relates to a method and system for electronically confirming appointments. The method and system access by a coordination module an appointment database and assign by the coordination module an appointment identifier to an appointment to be confirmed. Then, the coordination module generates a verification message comprising appointment information and the appointment identifier. The verification message is electronically sent by a communication module to at least one electronic address of a corresponding client. Then, the communication module receives a response message comprising the appointment identifier from the client. The coordination module treats the response message, and updates the appointment database in accordance with the response message.09-27-2012 | http://www.faqs.org/patents/inventor/tortorici-6/ | dclm-gs1-044200002 | false | false | {
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Xefer: Wikipedia:
I find it far far too easy to get sucked into this little tool. You
enter a term, and it charts the shortest difference from the term to
Philosophy within WIkipedia. It does this in real time, scrolling the
scanned interim terms on the left while the radial graph keeps
bouncing around reforming itself as it discovered newer and shorter
paths to the target.
Add one term, and it shows a straight line. Add more sequentially, and
it keeps spinning off interactions with your original. If you wish,
you can also add multiple terms at once separated by commas. I tried
taking nouns from a list of titles of Basho's most popular haiku in
English translation.
snow,bee,caterpillar,cicada,rain,night,cuckoo,cotton,infirm,monk,tea,m orning,skeleton,wild,pond
I did another image exploring relationships between concepts in a
class one of my colleagues is teaching soon. I think I'll share that
with her.
I wish it would allow you to enter both a start term and a target
term. That would make it a really nifty teaching tool, supporting
exploration. As it is, this is an interactive tree. You can mouse over
terms to highlight them, and click on one to open the corresponding
Wikipedia article. I could imagine asking a student to choose a term
or assigning terms, and asking them to write something exploring the
relationships between the concepts. Could be very interesting. Or use
it to generate improv prompts, or poetry prompts. Lots of potential.
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1. 4 large baking potatoes
2. 2/3 cup butter
3. 2/3 cup flour
4. 6 cups milk
5. 3/4 teaspoon salt
6. 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
7. 1/2 teaspoon white pepper
8. 4 green onions, chopped and divided
9. 12 slices bacon, cooked and crumbled
10. 1 1/4 cups cheddar cheese, shredded and divided
11. 8 ounces sour cream
1. Wash, dry and prick potatoes with a fork. Bake at 400 for 1 hour or until done. Let cool and cut in half lengthwise and scoop out the pulp, set aside. Use the skins for something else, such as fried potato skins!
3. Add potato pulp, salt, peppers, 2 Tbsp green onion, half the bacon, and 1 cup of the cheese. Cook until thoroughly heated. Stir in the sour cream.
4. Add extra milk if necessary for desired consistency.
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Assassin's Creed III DLC Erasing Saves
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• Really annoying bug. Made me lose interest in the game and go right back to Borderlands 2.
• I am thankful that something like this has only happened to me once. It was back on the PS2; if I played a certain demo it would erase my whole memory card. That sucked... hard.
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Britain, Argentina: more Falkland's anniversary saber rattling
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Falkland War anniversary, deja vu all over again
30th anniversary of Falkland War between Britain and Argentina is approaching and the two nations resume verbal sparring.
Falkland anniversaryEnlarge
The Falklands conflict must have seem like ancient history to this young British soldier in 2000. But it is still a source of tension between Britain and Argentina. (AFP/Getty Images)
The Falkland Islands is an archipelago in the South Atlantic around 290 miles off the coast of Argentina. They have been a British Overseas Territory since 1833 and today a little over 3,000 British people live there. But Argentina has always laid claim to the Falklands calling them Las Malvinas islands.
Thirty years ago this led to war.
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Nowadays, it’s movies based on ’80s and ’90s TV shows, and anything by Van Halen or 2Pac is considered nostalgic.
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Calvin’s dad’s final appearance, yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay
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0.109223 | <urn:uuid:8a8dac78-f46c-41b8-b26b-38238e5a5470> | en | 0.959033 | Promote and empower what works. <![CDATA[All That We Perceive]]> 1) Did I have a choice in becoming a student of journalism?
2) Did you have a choice in the matter of reading this blog?
3) What's the big idea here?
Questions 1 and 2 I don't the answers to because 19 is too young. The answer to the third question is obtainable only because it would take the most parsimonious theory to answer.
The big question here is are you in control of your life?
It's a matter of perception. It is impossible to filter and control every sudden thought and action. But what you do have for certain is a limited mastery of perceiving your surroundings. You have the freedom to react.
It's time to stop being sedated by the thought that the knotted rope hanging from your dreams is too wide for your hands to grasp. If you believe in a dream whole-heartedly then your hands will grow. If you can open your eyes and visualize where the rope will lead you then you can travel there. Perception is the key.
It basically comes down to the law of attraction. Whatever you aspire for in life has a better chance of happening if you constantly put yourself in the position to attract that aspiration. Start by simply thinking about what you desire in life. Be precise. From here on out, only react to your surroundings in a manner that will lead you to your desire. Once you perceive that you are the center of everything then you can attract anything you can visualize.
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Preparation Time20 MinCooking Time2 Hr 20 Min
Ready In2 Hr 40 MinDifficulty LevelMedium
Health IndexHealthyServings4
MethodMain Ingredient
Hare - 1
Carrot1 Large
Flour4 Tablespoon
Butter2 Ounce
Allspice - Pinch
Onion1 Large
Stock1 Cup (16 tbs)
Bouquet garni1
Port wine1 Small
Salt1 To taste
Pepper1 To taste
1. Clear and cut the hare.
2. In a large mixing bowl, put together 1 cup red wine, 1/2 cup wine vinegar, 1 small carrot and 1 small onion, both chopped fine, 1 bay leaf, pinch parsley and thyme.
3. Add the hare meat and mix well to marinate.
4. Cover the bowl and refrigerate overnight.
5. Just before cooking, remove the hare from the marinade and dry.
6. In a frying pan, add a little fat and brown the marinated hare meat.
7. Preheat oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit.
8. Clean vegetables and chop them.
9. Into a soaked Romertopf, put the browned hare meat.
10. Add the vegetables, all the seasonings and the marinated vegetables as well to the Romertopf.
11. Add the stock.
12. Cover the Romertopf and cook for about 2 hours until the hare is tender.
13. In a saucepan, drain off the liquids.
14. In a bowl, mix butter and flour; stir into the liquids in the saucepan.
15. Gently heat and continuously stir until the liquids thicken and an even consistency is achieved.
16. Stir in port wine and pour the mixture over the hare.
17. Serve Jugged Hare with forcemeat balls, boiled potatoes and redcurrant jelly.
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Try this delicious version of Viennese Crescents. I am sure, once you taste this mouth-watering Viennese Crescents, you'll always love to share it with your friends and family!
Vanilla bean1⁄4
Confectioners sugar1 Cup (16 tbs), sifted
Walnut meats1 Cup (16 tbs)
Butter1 Cup (16 tbs) (At Room Temperature)
Granulated sugar3⁄4 Cup (12 tbs)
All purpose flour2 1⁄2 Cup (40 tbs), sifted
Nutrition Facts
Serving size: Complete recipe
Calories 5508 Calories from Fat 3070
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 346 g533.1%
Saturated Fat 128.8 g643.8%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 483.8 mg
Sodium 31 mg1.3%
Total Carbohydrates 535 g178.2%
Dietary Fiber 34.3 g137.3%
Sugars 267 g
Protein 77 g153%
Vitamin A 112.5% Vitamin C
Calcium 27.8% Iron 127.9%
*Based on a 2000 Calorie diet
1. Chop the vanilla bean. Pound it in a mortar or pulverize it in an electric blender with about one tablespoon of the sugar. Mix with the remaining confectioners' sugar. Cover and let stand, preferably overnight. Reserve while cookies are baked.
3. Cut the walnuts with a sharp knife into very small pieces. Pound the pieces to a paste, using a mortar and pestle.
4. With a wooden spoon or the fingers, mix the walnuts, butter, granulated sugar and flour to a smooth dough. Shape the dough, about a teaspoon at a time, into small crescents, about one and one-half inches in diameter.
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Like Yesterday (Album Version...
Ryan Adams & the Cardinals
I'm just staring at the moon like it was yesterday
See my face reflected in the lights on the window in the window pane
Trees outside are still I take a sleeping pill and feel a little less pain
You're just sitting in the sun watching the boats roll by
Boats chained to the pier
In the window boat there's a picture of a family younger in their years
Well, I saw our time come
And I saw our time go like a fog in the lights
Out on the blackening ocean side
It doesn't feel like yesterday [Repeat: x4]
But it's yesterday
Oh, like yesterday
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Connecting with the Connectors
It has become part of our accepted wisdom that six degrees is all that separates us from anyone else in the world. How can that be? Because some of those degrees (people) know many, many more people than the rest of us.
Call them super-connectors. We all know at least one person like this individual, who seems to know everybody and who everybody seems to know. You'll find a disproportionate amount of super-connectors as headhunters, lobbyists, fundraisers, politicians, journalists, and public relations specialists, because such positions require these folks' innate abilities. I am going to argue that such people should be the cornerstones to any flourishing network.
What Michael Jordan was to the basketball court, or Tiger Woods is to golf, these people can be to your network. So who are they, really, and how can you get them to become prized members of your circle of associates and friends?
In his bestselling book The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell cites a classic 1974 study by sociologist Mark Granovetter that surveyed how a group of men in Newton, Massachusetts, found their current job. The study, appropriately titled "Getting a Job, has become a seminal work in its field, and its findings have been confirmed over and over again.
Granovetter discovered that 56 percent of those surveyed found their current job through a personal connection. Only 19 percent used what we consider traditional job-searching routes, like newspaper job listings and executive recruiters. Roughly 10 percent applied directly to an employer and obtained the job.
My point? Personal contacts are the key to opening doors— not such a revolutionary idea.What is surprising, however, is that of those personal connections that reaped dividends for those in the study, only 17 percent saw their personal contact often—as much as they would if they were good friends—and 55 percent saw their contact only occasionally.And get this, 28 percent barely met with their contact at all.
In other words, it's not necessarily strong contacts, like family and close friends, that prove the most powerful; to the contrary, often the most important people in our network are those who are acquaintances.
As a result of the study, Granovetter immortalized the phrase "the strength of weak ties by showing persuasively that when it comes to finding out about new jobs—or, for that matter, new information or new ideas—"weak ties are generally more important than those you consider strong.Why is that? Think about it.
Many of your closest friends and contacts go to the same parties, generally do the same work, and exist in roughly the same world as you do. That's why they seldom know information that you don't already know.
Your weak ties, on the other hand, generally occupy a very different world than you do. They're hanging out with different people, often in different worlds, with access to a whole inventory of knowledge and information unavailable to you and your close friends.
Mom was wrong—it does pay to talk to strangers. As Malcolm Gladwell wrote, "Acquaintances, in short, represent a source of social power, and the more acquaintances you have, the more powerful you are.
Throughout this book, I try to emphasize that what's most important is developing deep and trusting relationships, not superficial contacts. Despite Granovetter's research, I believe friendships are the foundation for a truly powerful network. For most of us, cultivating a lengthy list of mere acquaintances on top of the effort devoted to your circle of friends is just too draining. The thought of being obligated to another hundred or so people —sending birthday cards, dinner invites, and all that stuff that we do for those close to us—seems outlandishly taxing.
Only, for some, it's not. These people are super-connectors. People like me who maintain contact with thousands of people. The key, however, is not only that we know thousands of people but that we know thousands of people in many different worlds, and we know them well enough to give them a call. Once you become friendly with a super-connector, you're only two degrees away from the thousands of different people we know.
A social psychologist by the name of Dr. Stanley Milgram proved this idea in a 1967 study.He ran an experiment that set out to show that our big, impersonal world is actually quite small and friendly.
It was Milgram's experiment that created the notion of "six degrees of separation. In the experiment, he sent a package to a few hundred randomly selected people in Nebraska with the instructions that they forward the package to an anonymous stockbroker in Boston whom they did not know. Each person could send the packet only to someone whom they knew on a firstname basis, and who they thought was more likely to know the stockbroker than they were themselves. About a third of the letters reached their destination, after an average of only six mailings.
What was surprising was that when all those chains of people were analyzed,Milgram found that a majority of the letters passed through the hands of the same three Nebraskans. The finding drives home the point that if you want access to the social power of acquaintances, it helps to know a few super-connectors.
Connectors can be found in every imaginable profession, but I'm going to focus on seven professions where they most commonly congregate. Each of these kinds of connectors provides me with a link to an entire world of people, ideas, and information that, in a very significant way, has made my own life a little more fun, helped my career along, or made the businesses I worked for more successful.
1. Restaurateurs
Fifty-seventh Street isn't exactly lower Manhattan, but it was downtown to Jimmy Rodriguez, the nightlife impresario who made the Bronx hip for the A-list with his first eatery. Jimmy's Downtown, his second restaurant, lured the same set of celebrities, politicians, and athletes looking for good food and good times.
When I was in New York, it was my spot. The scene was exclusive without being pompous: soft light, a gleaming onyx bar, and a pumping R&B soundtrack makes the place feel like a hip country club. Jimmy would fly around tables hooking you up with free appetizers and introducing you to people he thought you might want to meet.
It was like a private club, without membership dues.
My memories of Jimmy were of a true-blue connector. In fact, it's a requisite for most people who own restaurants.When I was in Chicago, it was Gordon's Restaurant, and in L.A., it is Wolfgang Puck. The success of their enterprise depends on a core group of regulars who see the restaurant as a home away from home.
And it's quite easy to get to know a restaurateur. The smart ones will go out of their way to make your experience delightful. All you have to do is reach out and go there often enough.
When in a new city, I generally ask people to give me a list of a few of the hottest (and most established) restaurants. I like to call ahead and ask to speak with the owner (though the maître d' will do) and tell them that I go out regularly, sometimes in large parties, and I'm looking for a new place to entertain, a lot!
If you don't go out as often as I do, find one or two restaurants that you enjoy and frequent them when you do go out. Become a regular.Make a point of meeting the staff.When you're entertaining for work, bring others there.When you have to cater an event, use them.
Once you get to know the owner, it'll become like your very own restaurant—a place that has the patina of exclusivity and cachet a private club imparts with all the warmth and comfort of your own home.
With some advance planning and a little loyalty, a restaurateur will not only share the bounty of his kitchen with you but introduce you to his other roster of clients as well.
2. Headhunters
Recruiters. Job-placement counselors. Search executives. They are like gatekeepers. Instead of answering to one executive, however, the really successful ones may answer to hundreds of executives in the field in which they recruit.
Headhunters are professional matchmakers, earning their wage by introducing job candidates to companies that are hiring. Should you get the job, the headhunter gets a sizable commission, typically a percentage of the successful candidate's first year's compensation.
As a result, headhunters are an interesting blend of salesman and socialite. To find candidates, headhunters often place job ads. They also contact likely candidates directly, perhaps on the referral of a friend or colleague. In the industries in which they specialize, they become invaluable resources of names and information.
The sweet spot for a headhunter revolves around two issues. You're either hiring them to do a search or you're helping them do a search on behalf of someone else. If you're in the market for a job, let as many search firms as are willing hit the phones for you.
I keep a file of headhunters: who they are and what they're looking for. And I return every call from them, helping to tap my network to find people for their jobs. I know they'll help me with access to some of their clients when I need their help. After all, they are in the networking business!
Can anyone contact a headhunter? To be honest, headhunters prefer to be the one contacting you. But if you're careful about not trying to sell yourself before you offer up the network of contacts you can provide to them, they'll be receptive. In the early years of my career, when I was not in the position of hiring them and didn't know people who were using search consultants, I would ask pointedly,"What searches are you working on? How can I help you find people?
The other advice in this area is to act as a pseudo-headhunter yourself, always on the lookout to connect job-hunters and jobseekers or consultants and companies.When you help people land a new gig, they'll be inclined to remember you if they hear of a new position opening. Moreover, if you help, say, a vendor of yours land a new client, they'll usually be more open to negotiating prices on your next project.Helping others find good employees is a real currency.
3. Lobbyists
Well informed, persuasive, and self-confident, lobbyists are generally impressive networkers.
By virtue of their job, they are intimately familiar with the ways of large organizations and how local and national government work. They are almost uniformly passionate people whose goal is to sway politicians to vote on legislation in a way that favors the interest they represent.
How do they work? Lobbyists will often host cocktail parties and dinner get-togethers, allowing them to interact with politicians— and their opponents—in a casual atmosphere. Their more grassroots efforts involve long hours spent on the phone and in writing letters, trying to rouse the community to get involved behind an issue. All of which makes them a rather easy group to please. Can you hold an event for them? Volunteer your services? Refer other volunteers to their cause? Introduce them to potential clients?
Lobbyists tend to bump up against a lot of people who it might be helpful to know, including those who are powerful and successful.
4. Fundraisers
"Follow the money are words fundraisers live by. They know where it is, what it will take to get it, and most important, who's most likely to give it away. As a result, fundraisers, whether they work for a political organization, university, or nonprofit group, tend to know absolutely everybody. And while they have the unenviable job of trying to convince people every day to part with their well-earned money, they are almost always incredibly well liked. It's a selfless job often done for the best of reasons, and most people recognize that anyone who has a good friend who is a fundraiser has an open door to a whole new world of contacts and opportunities.
5. Public relations people
PR people spend their whole day calling, cajoling, pressuring, and begging journalists to cover their clients. The relationship between media and PR is an uneasy one, but at the end of the day, necessity brings them together like long-lost cousins.
A good friend who works in PR can be your entrée into the world of media and, sometimes, celebrity. Elana Weiss, who coleads the PR firm I used called The Rose Group, introduced me to Arianna Huffington (through someone she knew in her office), the noted author and political columnist. Arianna has since become a friend and confidante and one of the dazzling lights at my dinner parties in L.A.
6. Politicians
Politicians at every level are inveterate networkers. They have to be. They shake hands, kiss babies, give speeches, and go to dinners, all in the name of gaining the trust of enough people to get elected. The stature of politicians is derived from their political power rather than their wealth.Anything you can do to help them gain power with voters, or exercise power in office, will go a long way to ensuring you a place in their inner circle.
What can a politician do for you? Local city hall politicians can be key to working through the thicket of local governmental bureaucracy. And politicians at any level, if successful, are celebrities —and their networks reflect that.
How can you reach out? Join your local Chamber of Commerce. Local executives, businesspeople, and entrepreneurs generally populate the Chamber. In every community, there are plenty of young politicos looking to climb the political ladder. Early on, before their rise to prominence, you can engender a lot of loyalty and trust by supporting their goals and chipping in when they decide to run for office.
7. Journalists
Journalists are powerful (the right exposure can make a company or turn a nobody into a somebody), needy (they're always looking for a story), and relatively unknown (few have achieved enough celebrity to make them inaccessible).
For years, since I was back at Deloitte, I've called on journalists at different magazines, taking them to dinners and pumping them full of good story ideas. I now know people in top positions at almost every major business magazine in the country. Which is one of the reasons why in less than a year after I took over YaYa, with barely a shred of revenue to its name, the company—and, more important, the idea YaYa was trying to sell—appeared in publications like Forbes, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, CNBC, Brand Week, Newsweek, the New York Times . . . the list goes on. These are seven different professions tailor-made for superconnectors. Reach out to some. And there are others—lawyers, brokers, etc. Become a part of their network and have them become a part of yours. Cut the umbilical cord to the folks around the office water cooler. Mix it up. Hunt out people who look and act and sound nothing like you do. Seek out ideas from people you don't ordinarily talk to who inhabit professional worlds you don't ordinarily travel in.
In one word: Connect. In four better words: Connect with the connectors.
Paul Revere (1734—1818)
Understanding Paul Revere's legacy to the world of networking is as simple as grasping the following: Some people are much more well connected than others.
If you moved to a small town and wished, for some reason, to meet everyone in town, what would you do? Go door-to-door, greeting one resident at a time? Or would you try to find one plugged-in resident who could open all the doors for you?
The answer is clear.
Today, that plugged-in townie might be, say, the high school principal, the Little League commissioner, or the church pastor. But in Paul Revere's day—think of the 1770s in the Boston metro area—the most plugged-in people were like Revere, the owner of a silversmith shop in the city's North End, businessmen and merchants who dealt with individuals at every level of Boston society and culture.
Revere was also an extremely social individual: He formed several clubs of his own and joined many others. As a teenager, he and six friends formed a society of church bell ringers; as an adult, he joined the North Caucus Club, a society founded by Samuel Adams's father to choose candidates for local government. In 1774, when British troops began to seize munitions, Revere formed yet another club, of sorts, responsible for monitoring the movements of British troops. In addition, Revere belonged to the Masonic Lodge of St. Andrew, through which he was friendly with revolutionary activists such as James Otis and Dr. Joseph Warren.
All of which helps to explain why Revere, among all Bostonians in the year preceding the Revolution, served as courier for the Boston Committee of Correspondence and the Massachusetts Committee of Safety, riding express to the Continental Congress in Philadelphia. It was also he who spread the word of the Boston Tea Party to New York and Philadelphia. Revere, in short, was a man who knew not only people—he knew gossip, he knew rumors, he knew news, and he knew it from every level of Boston society.
In April 1775, Revere caught wind of British orders to capture rebel leaders and forcibly disarm the colonists. So Revere and his fellow rebels devised a warning system: Two lanterns shining from the steeple of Boston's Old North Church (the city's tallest building) indicated that the British troops were advancing on Boston by sea; one candle indicated a land advance. Either way, the rebels in Boston and its surrounding suburbs would know when and where to flee and take up arms.
We all know the "one if by land, two if by sea part of this story. What's less known is that Revere's networking savvy is what allowed him—and maybe only him—to be the one entrusted with illuminating the church steeple.
The church, as it happened, was Anglican; the rector strongly supported the Crown. But Revere knew the vestryman, John Pulling, through the North Caucus Club. And through his shop, he knew the sexton, Robert Newman, who had a key to the building.
Revere's connections were crucial to him that fateful night. After lighting the lanterns, Revere needed to reach Lexington, to warn rebel leaders Sam Adams and John Hancock. First, two acquaintances rowed Revere across the Charles River, to Charlestown; there, a horse was waiting for Revere, lent to him by another pal, Deacon John Larkin.
Chased by Redcoats, Revere was diverted north of Lexington, to the town of Medford. Because he knew the head of Medford's military, Revere rode to his house and warned him. With the militiaman's help, Revere alerted the town of Medford before heading to Lexington.
Most of us know the Lexington part of the story. Less known is that on the same night that Revere made his midnight ride, a man named William Dawes went galloping off in the other direction to muster the militias to the west of Boston. Revere's ride stirred up an army, while something like three people showed up from the towns Dawes visited. Why? Revere was a connector: He knew everybody, and so was able to storm into one village after another, banging on all the right doors and calling out all the right people by name.
Historians say Revere was blessed with an "uncanny genius for being at the center of events. But it doesn't take genius for that— just involvement and active interest in your community and a friendship (or two) with a connector.
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Jewish Bris Ceremony Shows You're Never Too Young for Tradition
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Bubbe (grandmother) Susan cradles sleeping Ryan, not yet two weeks old, in her arms and will not give him up to other relatives. The little guy is utterly and completely at peace, his mouth slack and one arm draped casually over his forehead. He can trust bubbe.
"Oh, you sweet, sweet thing," coos Susan Sockol, the doting bubbe who strokes wisps of Ryan Michael Sobil's brown hair. "You have no idea what's going to happen, do you?"
No, he certainly does not. Ryan is blissfully unaware that this is the morning of his bris--the 3,000-year-old circumcision ritual that is a Jewish male's first rite of passage, followed by his bar mitzvah at puberty and later his wedding ceremony--and bubbe has been entrusted by parents Marc Sobil and Ilona Sockol to make sure he stays content.
All around Ryan, though, activity buzzes at the Sobils' Palo Alto home. Friends and family scurry in the kitchen, setting up the table spread for the post-bris repast amid a drone of blenders and clanging of pans. Kids sit politely in front of the TV, engrossed in the animated antics of Sponge Bob Square Pants. Men in yarmulkes (head coverings) huddle in the living room, talking sports and stocks, but nimbly avoiding any mention of the ceremony to be undertaken.
But in the dining room, Dr. Fred Kogen is all business. Kogen is a mohel (person trained to perform a ritual circumcision) who has traveled from Los Angeles to conduct the ceremony, and he arranges the dining room table like a compulsive interior decorator. Everything must be just so. See, even in a reform Jewish brit milah (the formal Hebrew name for a bris), traditions must be kept.
So, Kogen props up framed photos of deceased family members, sprinkles pink flower petals around the embroidered tablecloth, arranges candlesticks away from the pillow where the procedure will take place, puts the family's kiddush (blessing that is recited over wine) cups in spots of honor and prepares the ceremonial empty chair for the Jewish prophet Elijah.
Just when Kogen seemingly has the perfect bris placement, he rearranges things once more. Marc and Ilona look on, nodding. "Reform Jews like the ceremonial aspects of the bris and they don't mind blending traditions," Kogen says, as he checks placement. "In more orthodox ceremonies, it's more rigid. I fill many hats. I'm set designer, religious officiant, the surgeon, part showman, part director, part comedian, part psychologist.
"See, there's anxiety, fear, trepidation, sometimes even negativity in the room. My job is to bring all of this together and make this tribal blood rite a memorable occasion."
Kogen knows his business. He's been called the "mohel to the stars," and has removed the foreskin of the sons of actors such as Michelle Pfeiffer and Jason Alexander, among other celebrities. A doctor and licensed mohel since 1985, Kogen has traveled all over to do his job, even once performing a bris for a baby born to a woman in a Hell's Angels motorcycle gang in the Mojave Desert.
Marc and Ilona don't have any special requests for Kogen, other than he handle Ryan with care. Ilona says she was sold on "Dr. Fred" because he uses anesthetic on the baby's penis before cutting. She said she did not have a bris for her 5-year-old son, Alex, because she wasn't aware at the time that reform mohels could anesthetize the babies.
"That's very, very important to me," she says, "to minimize the baby's pain."
Bris table set, finally, Kogen takes the parents and Ryan upstairs to the baby's room for pre-circumcision instructions. Kogen administers a topical anesthetic lotion to Ryan--who finally wakes up and bawls--and reviews the prayers, poems and other rituals he and family members will invoke during the ceremony. Then he explains the particulars of the circumcision to Ilona and Marc, complete with graphic before and after photos.
"Uh, that's a little more than I need to know," Marc, says, squeamishly. Kogen smiles. They walk downstairs with Ryan, who has fallen asleep once more. Friends and family are invited to gather in a circle around the table. Marc and Ilona stand behind Kogen, while grandparents Susan and Jack Sockol sit to Kogen's right.
The mohel, known as a real cutup for his below-the-borscht-belt humor during bris ceremonies, explains to the crowd how Ryan has been anesthetized with Tylenol, the topical lotion, and will be given a touch of kosher wine. "That lotion is the greatest thing since Viagra for a male, right Grandpa?" Kogen quips.
Bubbe Susan serves as the "sandeck," or special helper. Kogen hands her Ryan after the baby is wrapped in a tallis, a Jewish prayer shawl. "Now he looks Jewish," Bubbe Susan exclaims.
"He'll look really Jewish after I get done with him," Kogen says, as nervous titters spill from friends and family.
Time to the light the candles, but Ryan's big brother is still off watching Sponge Bob. Two relatives are dispatched to fetch Alex. Meanwhile, Ilona's friend, Mona Siegel, reads a poem to Ryan "on this, the second of many significant days in your life." Alex arrives, but runs off when asked to light the candles. Grandpa Jack ably fills in as candle-lighter, while Marc gives a brief speech.
Kogen then recites, first in Hebrew and then in English, passages from the Torah about how Abraham circumcised Isaac on the eighth day after his birth. After Marc and Ilona recite, "Joyfully do we present our son to the covenant of circumcision," the room becomes quiet.
Ryan is back on the pillow in front of Kogen and the tension seems so thick that you could cut it with, oh, never mind. Kogen solemnly unfolds his metal instruments, then sighs audibly.
"Hmm, let's see if I remember how this is done," he deadpans, and the room erupts in laughter.
All part of the shtick, folks.
Marc, Ilona and Bubbe Susan circle Kogen and lend a hand in holding down Ryan's arms and legs.
"Talk to your son," Kogen advises Ilona. "Tell him not to pee on the mohel."
More nervous laughter.
At last, Kogen starts the 30 second surgical procedure. An awkward silence engulfs the room. It doesn't last long, though. Ryan now is awake and wailing, which Kogen cautions is to be expected. A glance around the room shows that most guests are wincing or looking away, and some are sipping at their cups of kiddush wine even before the final benediction. Ilona gently caresses Ryan's cheek, while Bubbe Susan murmurs, "Oh, Ryan, my baby, I'm ssooooo sorry."
In no time, it seems, Ryan is cut, swabbed and wrapped in gauze. His diaper and outfit are refitted. He's back in Ilona's arms and no longer crying. Kogen looks up at the crowd, clasps his hands together and says with mock seriousness, "OK, guys, who's next?"
After the final benediction, and a round of robust "mozel tovs" (congratulations) with the wine, the guests repair to the kitchen for the feast.
Bubbe Susan again clutches little Ryan, who has once more fallen asleep. That's understandable after such an eventful half hour which, thankfully, he will have no sense memory of as he gets older.
Hebrew for "fit" (as in, "fit for consumption"), the Jewish dietary laws. Yiddish for "prayer shawl," a ritual item that is worn and has knotted fringes (tzitzit) attached to the four corners. Yiddish for "grandmother." Hebrew for "circumciser" (Yiddish term is "moyel"), the person who performs a ritual circumcision. The feminine form is "mohelet." The first five books of the Hebrew Bible (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy), or the scroll that contains them. Hebrew for "covenant," often referring to the ritual for Jewish boys when they are 8 days old ("brit milah" - "covenant of circumcision"). It is commonly known as "bris," which is the Ashkenazi or Yiddish pronunciation of "brit."
Sam McManis is a staff writer for the San Francisco Chronicle. You can email him at
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Mick_-Sheldon (Inactive) writes:
Looking forward to the next debate . It has become obvious liberalism has fallen off the cliff of sanity . When confronted the President can not rely on attacking Reagan , Bush or even Fox News.Racahl Maddow can not break in and point out the lying nature of republicans and the evil rich . The President has to defend policies supporting his own special interests and their failures .
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He has to wait to after the debate to spin the story the moderator lost control , Romney lied , and after all , it is the fault of Bush .
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Gays Win, Babies still Die, Great Justice in this world...
How creepy is it that the two are somehow related to justice in your mind?
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