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Mixed or average reviews- based on 94 Ratings
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2. Negative: 20 out of 94
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1. Nov 24, 2010
very emotional, cry a lot, and katherine is great. it was predicted as all romantic movies, but it is unique, in dialogue and direction.
I love it!
2. SteveT.
Jun 16, 2008
Funny how all the crappy people gave it a 4 or less and all the real people did 6 and up. Let's you know just how 'hard' our world has become. We need more movies like this. Calm, sweet, comedic and warm. Predictable, yes....a sweet love story usually means someone will fall in love....but then again we all know what's going to happen in a slasher movie or a end of the world saga. Katherine ROCKS! Collapse
3. StefanD.
Feb 25, 2008
This was the perfect date movie for us. Her situation was was but the expressive acting (e.g. stuffing her mouth full of food, his facial expressions) were just what we needed. It was humorous and engaging with plot twists to boot. It also didn't have overflowing sexuality which was refreshing.
4. MeghanC.
Feb 4, 2008
Ok so I loved this movies so much. i got hooked in the begging and loved it. the sex content was a little bad but did not take away from the movie.
5. AdrianL.
Jan 23, 2008
Of course it was predictable, it's a romantic comedy. It was one of the best written in the genre that I've seen in years.
Mixed or average reviews - based on 31 Critics
Critic score distribution:
1. Positive: 7 out of 31
2. Negative: 2 out of 31
1. While Heigl is terrific, this uninspired romantic comedy is considerably less so.
2. Reviewed by: Joe Leydon
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2. Negative: 6 out of 15
1. 75
One of the things I like best about Poolhall Junkies is its lack of grim desperation.
2. 50
For all his skill with a cue, the charisma-challenged Callahan is no Nia Vardalos in the acting department -- let alone a Paul Newman or Tom Cruise.
3. 60
Brassy and energetic, first-time director Mars Callahan's vividly photographed ode to the seductive allure of professional sharking succeeds in making the game seem genuinely kinetic and thrilling.
4. Plays out like a variation on an old design dictum: If you can't make it good, make it big.
5. Stole so many details from the earlier film, "The Hustler," that you have to think of it as either a bad parody or an unfortunate homage.
6. 10
Looks like a cheap polyester suit, an entirely synthetic composite of scenes from other movies.
7. Reviewed by: Todd McCarthy
Callahan mostly overcomes its grungy technical quality with entertaining dialogue, nervy confrontation scenes, decent thesping and some truly spectacular shooting on the green velvet.
9. Like too many sports-related movies, this one falls back on that One Big Game, the final score that will set everything right.
10. It isn't that nothing happens in Poolhall Junkies, it's that nothing interesting does.
11. 30
Callahan's feature debut is a one-way ticket to Palookaville.
12. 40
The result is by no means the embarrassment that many such offerings from unjustifiably vain actor-auteurs have been, but nor does it present much of anything new or compelling to demand one's attention.
13. Reviewed by: Jason Anderson
14. Reviewed by: Staff (not credited)
The movie can't live up to Robert Rossen's 1961 classic, "The Hustler" but with its strong performances, neatly crafted script, and low-budget feel, it comes a lot closer than "The Color of Money."
15. Reviewed by: David Ng
A movie that, in its unconditional embrace of an all-male subculture, amounts to little more than a rote circle jerk.
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Universal acclaim- based on 23 Ratings
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1. GlennM.
Mar 25, 2006
Awsome film about hustling, wasn't meant to win an academy award and is exactly what you'd be looking for if you or buy it.
2. Sebastian
Jan 8, 2006
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As mentioned, these are the biggest piles of shit I have sat through. Usually when I hear some complete crap I instantly turn it off or sometimes I listen to a couple of songs just to make sure it really is that bad. Now I'm presenting myself a new kind of challenge; to listen these albums completely! After all, with such a large fanbase, how could they be bad... yeah right.
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In the morning
When the birds are still asleep
You can feel it
No cars are on the street
It's anybody's day
It could go any way
Why wouldn't you want to make
The most of it?
In the morning
There's nothing left to prove
If it's your game
It's time to make a move
Don't look the other way
You're gonna have your say
Why wouldn't you want to make
It really count?
In the morning
Yesterday is just a dream
Out the window
Take a look at all you see
Baptized by the sun
Go on and have some fun
Why wouldn't you want to have
The greatest day?
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rtsspeaks writes:
When idiots without insurance or seat belts end up in the trauma unit and then on the public dole, the money from Obama is just a drop in the bucket.
Read the paper and see how many are killed and maimed because they didn't click their belt.
It's our tax money and we pay the freight.
Wake up idiots and wear the seat belt!!!
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I am sorry that you weren't a favorite. I'm sorry that you weren't included on all the big trips. I'm sorry that your lack of musical talent and commitment held you back in the eyes of your band director and your peers. I know first hand why you didn't get picked for any officer positions, get over it. You show the same lack of heart and mucisianship on this board as you did during the FBA district competition. Get over yourslf. There is always college band, except there won't be the Shark Boosters to hold your hand and Mr H won't be there to lend his gifts to everyone and make sure that you can play in tune.
Ha Don't be sorry I wasn't a favorite. All those people where so so so fake!! I'm not down with sucking up to someone because I don't have the skills to do it on my own... Plain and simple I'm not going to go back and fourth with you. He was the adult male and she was a CHILD. And if you think that's okay you are a sick sick sick person. You need a lot of help. If you think it's okay for an adult male to take advantage of a child I hope someday YOU are able to face the truth.
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Where Have all the Sunspots Gone? by felgab
If you’re a HAM radio buff, chances are you have been making some long distance connections over the last few weeks with very little interference from the upper atmosphere. You owe thanks in part to the solar wind, or a lack thereof.
Blowing outward from the sun at nearly 400 km/s, the solar wind normally moves around the earth’s magnetic field like water around a boulder in a stream. As the solar wind slides past the outer areas of the magnetic field, strong electrical currents are generated that flow into the earth’s upper atmosphere, often producing electrifying aurora displays. During intense solar storms, strong solar winds are capable of crippling satellites and causing havoc for radio and television transmissions.
Currently, however, the sun is going through a very quiet time. So quiet in fact that astronomers, physicists and climatologists are wondering about the long term effects on the earth and its inhabitants if it continues.
The sun normally goes through an 11 year cycle of solar storm activity. At its peak activity during the cycle, as many as 100 sunspots can be visible at any one time. It is during this time that satellite operators and communication engineers are pulling their hair out trying to keep viewers and listeners happy. Slowly, over the next 5 1/2 years of the 11 year cycle, the sunspots slowly disappear. During the solar cycle minimum, it is possible to not have a single sunspot on the surface of the sun. Communications are great on earth and auroras are weak, and usually visible only in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 />Polar Regions. This minimum is usually short lived with sunspots appearing in the middle latitudes shortly after the last ones disappeared, indicating the new cycle has started.
The last solar minimum occurred during 2007, indicating that we should be well into the next solar cycle, but that has yet to happen. The sun’s face is currently bare of sunspots, auroras are minimal and communications are great. While there is an upside to the lack of sunspots, there could be a downside that we know very little about.
The current lack of sunspots is the lowest since we began accurate solar observations during the 1950s, and no one is sure what to expect. The last suspension of the solar cycle, known to astronomers as the Maunder Minimum, coincided with the “little ice age” which occurred from 1645 to 1715. The temperature of the earth cooled only 1 degree Kelvin, but the effects were devastating. Crops failed around the globe and thousands of people perished. Frost Fairs were held in London on the Thames River when the ice was thick enough to support festivities; French vineyards were affected and it created harsh conditions for American troops at Valley Forge.
Scientists believe that the solar cycle helps to keep the earth at a somewhat steady temperature. However, if the sunspots fail to reappear, a solar inactivity period of only ten years is enough to put the earth back into a deep freeze. Given the current climate change the earth is experiencing due to global warming, this potential period of global cooling could be a blessing in disguise while we get our act together on implementing alternative energy sources. However, if mankind doesn’t reduce its carbon signature on the planet, the cooling will only be temporary, and the temperatures will rise again.
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0.046652 | <urn:uuid:21d1ee43-7920-4dd4-b696-8e862a89aa5c> | en | 0.961063 | SEC is second most valuable brand in football behind the NFL
Published on: December 08, 2011 | Written by: Clay Travis
Today CBS Sports announced that the three highest rated college football telecasts of the 2011 season were all SEC game: LSU-Alabama, the SEC title game (LSU-Georgia), and the LSU-Arkansas game all received a 15 share or better. (The LSU-Alabama game received a 20 share, one of the highest ratings for a college football game in the past cable era). Let's go ahead and kill the idea that a rematch is going to tank BCS ratings. If the SEC title game did a 15 share, an LSU-Alabama rematch will score high numbers as well.
More importantly, the SEC eclipsed its top competition in prime viewing, ESPN/ABC's hand-selected Saturday night game that features the best game from the Big 12, the Pac 12, the Big East, the ACC, or the Big Ten, for the third consecutive year.
The SEC on CBS posted a 4.2/9 average against a 3.5/8 for ESPN/ABC.
Why does that matter?
Because it proves that the SEC is becoming more and more of a national brand. This won't get as much attention as it should, but the best game of the other five major conferences wasn't able to beat the SEC for a third consecutive season.
Think about how shocking that is for a moment.
The best game that ABC could select from the rest of the country's top five conferences couldn't beat the SEC's game of the week.
What's more, sometimes those ABC telecasts were split to provide the best possible ratings numbers. That means that an ACC game might air in the South, a Pac12 game in the west, and a Big 12 or Big Ten game in the center of the country. (When Big East games were selected, ESPN/ABC executives would simply curl up in the fetal position and cry). Even with these split telecasts featuring local teams the SEC still won the ratings battle. That's because in a balkanized college football nation, the SEC has become the nation's preeminent brand.
It's more evidence of what I've been telling y'all for a while -- the SEC is the second most valuable brand in football behind the NFL and there isn't a close third. Every year the SEC's deal with CBS and ESPN makes the conference more of a destination for the nation's top recruits. And that was before Texas A&M brought the Lone Star state into the SEC's grasp. Right now has nine of the top 18 recruiting classes in the country from the SEC.
Sounds impressive, right?
Now combine it with this recruiting data from the past five seasons -- the 2007 recruiting class was signed a month after Florida began the SEC's run of dominance:
2007? Seven of the top 10 classes were from the SEC.
2008? Four of the top 11.
2009? Six of the top 12.
2010? Five of the top nine.
2011? Six of the top 13.
2012? More of the same.
Now want to feel really old? The kids who are in the class of 2013 were mostly born in 1996 and 1997. By and large kids start to pay some attention to college athletics around 8 or 9. (Stop with the emails, I know you or your kid starting paying attention when he or she was three or four. But you're abnormal. And so is your porn collection of Steve Spurrier shirtless photos).
That means, you guessed it, the next few classes will be made up of kids who came of age during the SEC's reign of dominance.
It's great if your team was stellar in 1988, but kids don't care. Hell, the class of 2013 doesn't even care about Tennessee's national title in 1998. They were one or two then.
Tally up all these recruiting classes and over the past five seasons the SEC has signed 28 of the top 55 classes in the nation.
Yep, over half.
Much of the media attention has been focusing on the amount of money that conferences receive for their broadcasts. That's all well and good, the money spent on collegiate programming is exploding and the numbers game is fascinating, but one of the details that has been missed is this -- the SEC has been slowly building a national brand via its television contract with CBS. Along the way more and more viewers across the country are selecting the SEC as their preferred game of choice over local or regional teams.
Why does that matter?
Because Mike Slive has been executing a brilliant strategy. He's been pocketing money while developing brand loyalty in the rest of the country. (Only Notre Dame can match the SEC's deal with CBS, and NBC's deal with Notre Dame pales in comparison because, quite simply, the Irish stink. SEC dominance can be cyclical, but the SEC game of the week is always going to be pretty good because you have 12, and now 14, teams to choose among).
Eventually the SEC's national brand is going to pay off big time, when the SEC and ESPN announce a new television network that will be worth billions over the lifetime of the deal. (The link is to a September piece I did on the coming ESPN/SEC Network. You should read that if you want to be ahead of the curve on that news coming down in the near future.) It's not just viewers in the SEC's expanded state footprint who will be clamoring for content -- it's viewers all over the country. But Slive has been smart, he's also assured that the best game of the week will be broadcast nationally to the entire country on CBS until 2024. That is, the national exposure to the best that the SEC has to offer will not wane.
But guess what happens in 2024? That deal expires. After a decade of the SEC-ESPN television network, what will the value of the SEC's game of the week be in 2024?
Come 2024, just 12 years from now, the SEC will face a really interesting decision, what if the SEC Network is so powerful then that it can put all of its games on that network?
How many more dollars in subscriber fees could the SEC on ESPN demand then from national viewers who have grown used to settling down on the couch every Saturday and watching the top teams in the SEC duel?
I'll tell you, the SEC's television package would become so valuable that the SEC might well have to be part of the standard cable package. And if the SEC Network is part of the standard cable package in much of the country, the SEC will truly be able to make it rain on college sports.
Make no mistake, the SEC's march to national brand status is well underway and each year it becomes more and more clear that ManifeSECt Destiny is the goal.
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WebKit, V8 Technologies could give Android phones a big advantage.
Sascha Segan
Google's new Chrome browser may be for PCs only right now, but it's raised my hopes for a better browsing experience on mobile devices. And right now I need some hope, because mobile browsing is still often pretty bad.
As I was reviewing the Blackberry Bold, I grumped and grumbled at pages that stalled on JavaScripts or rendered oddly. That's par for the course for mobile browsers, except for two—the browsers on the Apple iPhone and on Nokia's N-Series phones. I really like Opera's mobile browsers, but they aren't nearly as faithful to desktop pages as those two.
What do those two have in common? They're WebKit browsers, just like Chrome and Google's upcoming Android phone browser. WebKit is an unusually scalable browser framework that lets programmers design browsers that work roughly the same on PCs and on handheld devices.
Up until now, though, Apple's Safari was the only WebKit–based browser available for desktop Windows PCs, which means that site developers didn't pay much attention to it. (Sorry, Mac and Linux users. For a lot of major sites, it's as if you guys don't exist. Yes, that frustrates me too.)
Putting Chrome on PCs, and putting WebKit on Android phones, increases the possibility that WebKit will become a standard that developers will pay attention to. Since it's the first truly cross-platform rendering engine, that could ignite a trend towards a Web that works well both on desktop PCs and mobile devices. And if WebKit becomes a PC standard and a developers' standard, it may become more of a mobile standard, too.
If you think the PC browser wars are busy, you haven't paid much attention to mobile. Not only are there a whole bunch of "HTML browsers" out there, they all render pages very, very differently. On smart phones, you have Palm's Blazer, RIM's Blackberry browser, Microsoft's Internet Explorer Mobile, Opera Mobile, Opera Mini, Nokia's Series 60 browser, Apple's Safari, and Skyfire. At least.
On feature phones, you've got Teleca's Obigo, the Novarra browser, Bitstream's Thunderhawk, Opera Mini again, and Access NetFront. I'm sure I'm missing some. They all render pages differently. Only the simplest pages survive.
The browser on Android phones won't be Chrome per se, Google said at their press conference today. A lot of Chrome's innovations, such as draggable tabs and multiple sandboxed processes don't make sense in a mobile context where you rarely have more than one page open at a time.
But much like "desktop" and "mobile" Safari, the Chrome browser and the Android browser will share underlying technologies. That includes not only WebKit, they said, but V8, which greatly accelerates JavaScript and Web apps.
This one's a real thriller because mobile browsers have traditionally had awful support for JavaScript, DHTML and AJAX. Clicking on a JavaScript link on most phones (the iPhone excepted, again) is Russian roulette. Sometimes the bullet will fire. Sometimes the browser will crash. Sometimes nothing will happen.
V8 will be open source. If it actually works on mobile devices, browser manufacturers will have to be idiots not to use it. And pow, then you have another standard for site developers to write to—one that could cross browsers and platforms.
There's one piece of the puzzle left, then: plug-ins. And this one genuinely stymies me. Too much of the Web uses Adobe Flash or Microsoft Silverlight, proprietary technologies which mean that everybody's dependent on Adobe and Microsoft for providing plug-ins.
Instead of shooting for a cross-platform experience, Adobe has churned out a dizzying array of Flash derivatives for mobile devices—Flash Mobile, Flash Player, Flash Lite. The only thing they seem to have in common is that they don't make most mobile browsers work with desktop Flash sites (except the Nokia N-Series browser.) Adobe has to fix this. Microsoft is promising a future Flash plug-in for Windows Mobile and that their competing Silverlight technology will work on mobile devices, but not on enough devices, and without enough specifics.
Android doesn't need to rule the mobile world for Chrome to make its mark. As part of the WebKit alliance, Google has now teamed up with Apple and Nokia to try to build this standard. It's time to bring the smart phone world together. Unless RIM and Microsoft can match WebKit's compatibility and V8's speed with their own technologies, they should fall in line and fall behind the goal of making the Web a truly universal resource.
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A Blokey Sort Of A Fellow
A blokey sort of a fellow a real man some might say
His wife she washes his and their four children clothes and cooks for them every day
She even has a part time job to try to make ends meet
A hard working woman of rare beauty yet untainted by conceit
A broad shouldered macho fellow he barracks for the local football club
One of the loudest voices down at the local pub
His blokey mates much like him each to their own they say
They never help around the home to them that's not the manly way
One can judge the merit of a man by the way he treats his wife
Blokey sorts they see their women as their servants in life
To them women are inferior to men they do not believe in equality
One can say of them they suffer of spiritual poverty
His wife at home is working hard and the blokey sort of a bloke
Whilst at the pub with his blokey mates he drinks and laugh and joke.
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SELINA SCOTT will never forget the day she met Fidel Castro. It was at a lavish state banquet in Barcelona given by King Juan Carlos of Spain to celebrate the 1992 summer Olympics.
In a grand marquee that gathered together presidents, prime ministers, royalty and nobility - Mitterrand of France, Menem of Argentina, Princess Anne, Nelson Mandela of South Africa - it was Castro, the legendary Cuban dictator, who dominated the company.
He had arrived in his trademark green military tunic, combat trousers, army boots and, of course, smoking a fat Havana cigar. Even in this company he was the most compelling figure - the man who has seen off eight American presidents and seven Soviet leaders, survived the Bay of Pigs, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the failure of communism.
Selina Scott is well used to the company of powerful men. She is a personal friend of Prince Charles and in 1991 more than 11 million viewers saw her walking with him in the Outer Hebrides for a heart-to-heart talk. She famously crossed swords with American property billionaire Donald Trump and was once asked for her telephone number by Prince Andrew after a particularly flirtatious interview.
But few men had impressed her as much as Castro and it was at this moment that she decided to try to secure a major television interview with him, determined to confront him with questions that held the key to so much history.
After 40 years of communism in Cuba did he think capitalism could return to the country after his death? What is his view about the Bay of Pigs and the series of attempts to assassinate him?
And what is the real truth of Che Guevara's death?
Eight years on, her dream is set to come true.
After years of delicate negotiations between high-placed contacts in Havana, London, New York and Spain - where she has excellent relations with King Juan Carlos - Castro has agreed to let Scott, 49, interview him for British television. It promises to be compelling viewing. He has agreed to talk candidly about his life and times, from his earliest days of leading a guerrilla revolution with Che Guevara against President Batista, through the Kennedy standoff and the Cuban blockade, to the present time.
Castro, who speaks perfect English, has not given an interview to anyone from the 'capitalist' media for more than 10 years, since he agreed to be filmed by the doyenne of American TV anchorwomen, Barbara Walters. And never before has he allowed himself to be profiled, for international broadcast, in such deeply personal detail. Scott says: 'I was only given a short introduction to Castro at the banquet but I was immediately struck by his presence. He was so imposing and incredibly focused on the people he was meeting. There was just this air of command about him.
'At that time I was trying to work out who in the world I would like to interview for a programme I was doing on ITV and here was the person who was right at the top of the list. There are just so many questions, so many stories about Castro, so much fascination surrounding him. So I have kept tabs on him for all these years.
'Although Castro was born in Cuba, his father was a schoolteacher from the northwest of Spain and I am fascinated how, coming from this normal family in one of the poorest parts of Spain, he became, arguably, the world's most famous revolutionary and a seminal figure in 20th Century politics.
'He was only 33 years old when he took over Cuba, making him the world's youngest ruler. Now in his 70s, the world's longest-serving ruler and one of the last communist dictators, he is in a position to talk about his life and explain how he has kept such a firm grip on his country for all these years.
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Game Thread: Chicago Bears (7-6) at Cleveland Browns (4-9) by NFL_Modin nfl
[–]Teruyo9 0 points1 point ago
That's scary. Stop that.
PSA: Wraith Night is being abused for low priority games. by MajesticTowerOfHatsin DotA2
[–]Teruyo9 2 points3 points ago
The best success I've had in just a random pub match, without friends on voice chat, was as support Magnus. Empowered Sven and Legion Commander moppped up the enemies well enough, especially considering the lack of communication.
There are a few Heroes that do really well. Omniknight can be a huge asset with Heal bombs and Repel (Repel especially trivializes the Gyro/Clock wave, as magic immunity trumps the missiles). Axe is also great, even if you don't build much damage on him. I've personally had good success on Axe with Halcyon Boots, Vanguard, Blademail, Shiva's, and Heart. Axe has the ability to Counter Helix while channeling the heal from the boots, and Counter Helix and Beserker's Call are both really good at chopping through waves of enemies. And lastly, Windrunner is very OP, as she can put out a huge amount of damage with Focus Fire and face tank a lot with the now 11-second Windrun.
hey, i'm Lorde! AMA! by LordeMusicin IAmA
[–]Teruyo9 0 points1 point ago
No question. Just want to say how impressed I am with you. Not only to have such success at such a young age, but for your music to bridge genres like it does is something I'm infinitely envious of. Here in Chicago, "Royals" gets play on the adult-oriented rock station, the top-40 pop stations, and the hip-hop/R&B stations, and "Team" isn't that far off. So cheers!
The 99th Weekly Stupid Questions Thread - Wraith-Night Edition by Intolerablein DotA2
[–]Teruyo9 0 points1 point ago
Not a full build, but I've been having a lot of success with an early Phase/Medallion on LC. Medallion can help you secure a lot of Duel victories you might not otherwise get, and helps her be a bit more liberal with her skills.
So Reddit, how many of you are getting the new arcana item for legion commander and why? by Bludhungerin DotA2
[–]Teruyo9 0 points1 point ago
A big fat maybe. I tried out Tresdin last night, she was certainly fun, but I don't want to drop $35 on a Hero I barely end up playing (lord knows I had to convince myself that the $20 I spent on my CM staff was worth it). It does look really cool, though, and I've got like half a month to get it if I decide to.
More than anything from this patch, I want the new CM hair. Twintails~
"An impossible catch" by finnegarin CHIBears
Bears have ruled out Jay Cutler from Monday night game vs. Dallas. by CyReN_in nfl
[–]Teruyo9 0 points1 point ago
Goddammit. It's my birthday on Monday, everything was supposed to be perfect. Get off work, go out to eat, come home to watch Ditka's number being retired, and then Jay Cutler leading the Bears to a victory on Monday Night Football. Now everything's ruined! Ruined!
Dota 2 censored by Riot's Season 4 LCS contracts by Cyborgmattin DotA2
[–]Teruyo9 2 points3 points ago
It's really just a precautionary measure. Sylvanas Windrunner wasn't just a character in WC3, she was a major, big-time character in WC3, and she's in Heroes of the Storm.
Week 13 Post Game Thread by TurnerJ5in CHIBears
[–]Teruyo9 1 point2 points ago
The Eternal Optimist:
This game really told me very little I didn't already know. The Bears have a good offense, though the ship is missing its captain. The Bears' defense is too banged up to stop the run, especially against Purple Jesus himself. The Lions will probably win the division because they're the least-injured team.
So, what can we look forward to? Well, the defense could be back in form next season. With injuries healed, and new weapons gained during the off-season, the Bears have the potential to have that top-10 defense again, and their new-found top-10 offense isn't going anywhere. Also, after how narrowly he missed that kick, I think that Robbie Gould could make a 60, 61, 62, maybe even 63-yard field goal, though he'd probably have to be in Denver to make it from 66. With Cutler almost certainly back next week, we have the potential to give the Cowboys a run for their money.
I think if we can stay injury-free next year (and that's a big "if"), we can have a very good shot at the division title, maybe even the NFC Championship.
Game Thread: Chicago Bears (6-5) at Minnesota Vikings (2-8-1) by NFL_Modin nfl
[–]Teruyo9 1 point2 points ago
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[–]Teruyo9 0 points1 point ago
58 yards, yes.
[–]Teruyo9 4 points5 points ago
So what did we learn today? Robbie Gould may be able to make a 63-yard field goal. Maybe a 66 in Denver.
[–]Teruyo9 0 points1 point ago
And then I started hyperventilating. Holy shit, dude.
Are Next Gen Consoles Really Worth It? by Alkalisein technology
[–]Teruyo9 2 points3 points ago
I sunk a fair bit of money into a good gaming PC (nothing top-of-the-line, even when it came out, and it's two years old now). The criteria for me, when buying a video game system, is to ask what can it do that my existing hardware (PC, TV, other game consoles) cannot. My PS3 has a bunch of games that are console-exclusive, my Wii U has special hardware that helps enhance the game, and my 3DS has portability. Currently, the PS4 and the XBox One don't do anything that my PC doesn't do better, and their exclusive games do not interest me, so they are not worth the money to me.
I am, however, appreciative that the consoles exist. As a PC gamer, on more than one occasion I've played a game that felt gimped because it was multiplatform and had to function on the PS3 and 360. With the 8 GB of RAM and the upgraded processor in the new consoles, it should allow for better multiplatform games.
Why does nobody play Centaur? by DagonKnightin DotA2
[–]Teruyo9 0 points1 point ago
The only reason you wouldn't play Centaur is if you're not manly enough to play the manliest Hero in the game. Simple as that, bunch'a pansies.
Do you ever forget to use your active items? by FrankWest21in DotA2
[–]Teruyo9 0 points1 point ago
It depends. I almost always use stuff like Mek, Pipe, or Veil, but I'll completely forget I have a Force Staff or an Orchid in my inventory.
It's really hard to mess up the items I remember, though. Even if you pop Mek early and people aren't quite hurt enough yet, the bonus armor can be a huge boon, and Pipe and Veil are as simple as "use at beginning of skirmish" most of the time.
A thank you to all the modders. by InfiniteInfidelin arma
[–]Teruyo9 0 points1 point ago
Seconding this. The very first thing I ever played in Arma was Arma 2 zombies, with my friends. Nothing can compare to that feeling, deep in enemy territory with bullets whizzing overhead, and suddenly hearing that low groan of a zombie and having no idea where it is. I'd never played anything like it before, even though Arma 2 ran like shit on my old computer.'s Matt Lees posts a video criticizing Microsoft's use of youtuber KSI in the Xbox One launch - KSI uses a copyright claim to have the video taken down. by Tampajacketin Games
[–]Teruyo9 42 points43 points ago
UK law, not US law, but yes. (Just a clarification. TB is still correct in both countries' cases.)
Apology: Official Twitch Response to Controversy Involving Admins and the Speedrunning Community from Twitch CEO by optimizeprimein gaming
[–]Teruyo9 46 points47 points ago
This apology is a step in the right direction, but you need to do more than apologize. Unprofessional incidents of this nature simply can't happen anymore. Having unpaid community members with Admin powers also needs to change, especially on a website with a subscription/partnership model such as yours. There's no real accountability, it's a huge PR nightmare waiting to happen all over again.
Businesses live and die on its PR, and this was awful, awful PR. People need to lose their jobs (these community moderators, whoever runs the nightmare that is the Twitch Support Twitter account), other jobs need to be created (paid, accountable moderation positions), and something like this absolutely cannot happen again. The internet does not forget, and if another incident on this magnitude happens again, the fallout will be that much worse because of it.
Operational changes need to happen, too.
• Partnered streamers, or anyone that can garner 1,000+ viewers are your bread and butter, bringing in the bulk of your ad revenue. Listen to them.
• Do employee reviews, it feels almost painfully obvious that Twitch currently does not. With the long-standing reputation Horror has for abusing his power and bending the rules, it's almost absurd that he hasn't been let go, or at the very least been put on probation long ago over his unprofessional actions.
• Hire a PR representative. Seriously. Do it. I'll repeat, businesses live and die on their PR, and I've seen incident after incident that could have been handled with a professional PR representative over the past years, that instead was blundered and handled poorly, resulting in a lasting blot on Twitch's reputation.
Twitch is not some small start-up anymore, especially given the big contracts just signed with Microsoft and Sony for built-in console streaming, yet your organization continually acts like one, especially when it comes to incidents like this. If Twitch keeps mishandling incidents like this, it's only a matter of time before another company comes along and replaces you.
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[–]Teruyo9 1 point2 points ago
Ah, I love the weekly game of Spot Wayne Brady in /r/Colts banner.
Perspective: a League of Legends player talks about 'how frequently' DOTA gets updated in the LoL subreddit. by atm0in DotA2
[–]Teruyo9 56 points57 points ago
Well yeah. But it existed, and it existed for years before Riot added an official replay system.
Game Thread: Baltimore Ravens (4-5) at Chicago Bears (5-4) by NFL_Modin nfl
[–]Teruyo9 1 point2 points ago
At last! The 5 hour, 20 minute football game is over! I managed two full rounds of Dota 2 in the tornado delay.
How you know winter is coming in Chicago... by SweetHackinJusticein chicago
[–]Teruyo9 0 points1 point ago
Yes. The city officially recognizes it as trash, and will remove it under most circumstances. I remember an unofficial official exception for the first few days after the big blizzard a few years ago, but that's about it.
You know what would be better than Diretide? Community made maps *wink wink* by Denodein DotA2
[–]Teruyo9 0 points1 point ago
I for one eagerly await the completely meta recreation of WC3 in Dota 2.
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Well, if the parents don't want to help by learning English, then how in the world does anyone think this situation will improve? The school districts dealing with this type of obstacle should be given the Medal of Honor for showing up each day.
We should be comparing apples to apples. How do Spanish speaking American children test scores compare to Spanish speaking Non-American children test scores? Can it be that simply coming to USA gives them a leg up on their parents countryman? Totally explain why anyone would have their children here...just being HERE is better.
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0.025358 | <urn:uuid:9d7c6323-c72b-442c-8f96-8fa785da2d7e> | en | 0.969224 | UPDATE 1-MF Global execs fuel mystery over customer funds
Wed Mar 28, 2012 1:59pm EDT
* House oversight panel looking into missing customer money
* Several MF Global officials, JPMorgan lawyer to testify
* MF Global assistant treasurer may decline to testify
March 28 (Reuters) - MF Global officials who played critical roles in the final days of the futures brokerage are due to tell U.S. lawmakers that the discovery of a huge shortfall in customer money caught them by surprise.
A House of Representatives panel has called General Counsel Laurie Ferber, Assistant Treasurer Edith O'Brien, and North America chief financial officer Christine Serwinski, among others, to appear before it Wednesday afternoon. Congressional investigators continue to probe why more than a $1 billion of customer money is still missing and who is responsible.
The prepared testimony provided some fresh clarity about funds desperately being shifted around in late October, but adds to the frustration of thousands of MF Global customers who are trying to get their money back, five months after the brokerage failed.
There has so far been no smoking gun to suggest criminal intent. Former Chief Executive Jon Corzine, who is also a former U.S. senator and a governor of New Jersey, has maintained that he "never intended" to break any rules and did not give instructions to misuse customer funds.
Much of the focus is on a $175 million transfer by MF Global to a JPMorgan Chase & Co account on Oct. 28, just three days before MF Global filed for bankruptcy protection.
Investigators are looking at whether any of this sum represented money from customers, who face an estimated total shortfall of $1.6 billion. Raiding customer funds is a violation of federal regulations.
Diane Genova, JPMorgan's deputy general counsel, in written testimony for Wednesday, said Corzine "assured" the bank that matters were being handled properly.
A critical figure is MF Global's O'Brien, believed to have been involved in authorizing the questionable transfer.
O'Brien, however, did not provide written testimony and is expected to invoke her constitutional right against self-incrimination at the hearing, the third into MF Global's collapse by the oversight panel of the House Financial Services Committee.
Corzine, who is not testifying on Wednesday, specifically named O'Brien on Dec. 15 before the same panel, saying she assured him that the transfer was proper.
Several other MF Global officials are due to testify on Wednesday that either the company did not believe it was raiding customer funds to shore up liquidity, or that they did not know of a shortfall until just hours before the bankruptcy filing.
Ferber said in prepared testimony that she resisted providing broad written assurance to JPMorgan that MF Global was complying with rules to segregate customer funds. She said a letter suggesting narrower language was drafted, but never signed.
Serwinski said in her prepared remarks that by Oct. 27 she was "not comfortable" with putting customer funds at risk even overnight, after having learned that there had been a "substantial deficit" in one metric on the company's books the day before.
Oct. 26 is when James Giddens, the court-appointed trustee for the MF Global brokerage unit, said the customer funds shortfall became apparent and began to grow.
Genova, meanwhile, said in her prepared testimony that JPMorgan had noticed overdrafts in MF Global accounts on Oct. 28, but was assured by Corzine that the company had "ample" funds to cover them.
Addressing the overdrafts was needed so JPMorgan could run a $4.9 billion bond auction to give MF Global needed liquidity.
Genova also said that MF Global gave JPMorgan multiple oral assurances that it was complying with Commodity Futures Trading Commission rules on customer-segregated accounts.
MF Global had transferred $200 million from a customer-segregated account to an MF Global house account in the United States, and then $175 million from that U.S. account to an MF Global account at JPMorgan in London. It is unclear how much of that second transfer represented customer funds from the first transfer.
Genova said that JPMorgan "promptly" provided its $73.5 million share of a $1.2 billion credit line from 23 banks, which MF Global drew down in its final week before entering bankruptcy, but that other banks did not uphold their end of the bargain.
MF Global executives believe the largest U.S. bank, which handled much of the day-to-day transactional activity keeping MF Global in business, was slow to deliver urgent funding in the final, frantic days leading up to the bankruptcy filing.
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Written on: 27/08/2012 by slimmer2012 (1 review written)
We paid £250 for the rally gold experience. Not worth the money at all. Would not use these again. Every thing seemed to be rushed. Every car I had driven had the engine management light on. One car broke down. One car that was gettting used didn't have any car tax on it run out in may 2012. There are too many cars on the roundabout at the same time. They say you can go upto speeds of 185mph, not in a million years. I also over heard one of the drivers saying the most you can do is about 106, so false advertising. I think all the cars are ready for the knackers yard. | http://www.reviewcentre.com/report_review/1664441 | dclm-gs1-045390002 | false | false | {
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Feb 24, 2013
No one else was injured Saturday afternoon at the venue in Trotwood, Ohio.
Trotwood police told The Dayton Daily News the man had just bought a holster and was putting a handgun in it when the gun fired.
Police said a bullet struck a finger on his left hand. They said they don’t expect to file any charges.
Yea, he sounds qualified to own a gun.
If we use your qualifier and apply it to cars, which by the way, driving is a privilege as opposed to a right, then I guess it would be OK for me to say Yeah, you sound qualified to drive a car. Let's apply this mentality to everyone who has ever received a ticket or been in an accident. After all, it should be pretty easy to take away since as I said, driving is a privilege granted to you by the state.
I would like to know all the details, but I doubt that'll happen.
Yup, it makes about as much sense (and is as big of a stretch) as qualifying gun owners by whether or not they ever make a mistake. If we used the same qualifications for cops, 40% of them would be ineligible to carry a gun at some point in their career. At any rate I really didn't expect you to get it.
Glad to see that you know how to use the edit function to change your original reply. LMAO. It makes it fairly obvious that even you realized how ridiculous you sound.
I try to be fair and reasonable and I felt it was a stupid argument not worth pursuing.
Your comparing cars to guns is pretty ridiculous.
Licorice Schtick
True. Cars are much more dangerous.
More dangerous than a criminal or a mentally unstable person owning a gun?
They have a 2nd Amendment "right" to own a gun?
Yes, by the statistics (I know, gun grabbers hate when we use them) cars are far more dangerous than firearms, heck, even hammers and baseball bats are statistically deadlier than firearms. Even those who favor "assault weapon" bans hate it when you point out the simple fact that 0.021% of deaths last year were due to rifle, and even then, 38% of THAT miniscule percentage were what the uneducated masses would label as an "assault rifle".
I find it comical that a man who has an accidental shooting makes news, yet the countless self defense shootings in the US a day, nor the 100+ school-age children in Chicago (Gun Control/Murder Capital, USA) make the news unless it serves the gun control agenda. Heck, we've heard more about Rubio's water drinking than we have about either how Chicago's failing anti-gun stances protect ANYBODY, or how many people are protected on a daily basis due to private firearm ownership.
John Harville
A 'well-regulated militia'....
The Bizness
NRA members seem to skip right over that part of the 2nd amendment don't they? Just about everyone does. Right now as a country, we are not 'well-regulated'.
Gun grabbers seem to skip over the abundance of literature written about the second amendment and the "well regulated militia" part. There are numerous writings by the authors of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights that simply blow away your assertion that the phrase was written to regulate gun ownership. In fact taken in the context of what the framers meant in the time it was written, they did not mean well regulated by the government. In fact, the following quote by James Madison pretty much refutes that line of thinking, "As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow citizens, the people are confirmed by the next article in their right to keep and bear their private arms." In fact the founding fathers made it clear that the first 10 amendments were in fact "shall not" areas where the government was forbidden to tread. Research, research, research!!!
The Bizness
It is also proven that the founding fathers never meant it to be tyranny from ones own government, rather keeping militias to maintain a ready militia if ever a war broke out.
Which proves you didn't read the quote from James Madison. Shall I include some more, or do you have the ability to research it yourself?
The term "regulated" means "disciplined" or "trained". In Heller, the U.S. Supreme Court stated that "[t]he adjective 'well-regulated' implies nothing more than the imposition of proper discipline and training."
-Heller, Opinion of the Court, Part II-A-2.
While I will agree that George Washington was at odds with many of authors of the Constitution and Bill of Rights on the issue, it should be noted that he was also not a big fan of the Constitution in general.
The Bizness
I read it and I have researched it.... I have no problem with people owning guns fyi, but I think the NRA is out of control.
(NRA out of control)
I think a little as well and I am a member. Should we make them a party, REP, DEM, NRA. I am about to go libertarian myself, it seems like those we put in office on either side do not know how to live within their means. I sure as s** cannot just tell the bank that they need to keep my checking account full cause I just need more money!
Newflash: The term "well-regulated" at the time meant that the militia was TRAINED AND EQUIPPED... Not the definition that we associate it with today. Funny how many people fail to actually research what they spout off. It must be a liberal thing...
The Answer Person
HA HA!!!
Darwin's choice
Darwin award!
Please! We are over-regulated on everything. Even cops have shot themselves so being qualified to own a gun does not guarantee safety regarding such gun. In any event, regulating gun owners will not deter mentally ill people from obtaining a gun and killing others.
In fact, if you research the statistics, cops experience a high percentage of accidental shootings and negligent discharges than the general population. We don't, however see the antigunners advocating disarming of police officers.
Don't give them ideas. Remember Obama's state of the union "they deserve a vote". dem·a·gogue also dem·a·gog (dm-gôg, -gg)
2. A leader of the common people in ancient times.
Which finger?
Does it affect his ability to express his distain?
Licorice Schtick
Would that be an ADA disability?
. . . . meanwhile 499,999 other gun show attendees remain uninjured after leaving the gun shows . . . .
There are probably more student deaths attributed to sports-related injuries than there are gun shot wounds - maybe we should outlaw high school sports.
Pterocarya frax...
What is your source for the sports injuries vs gunshots...or did you just make it up?
Don't give them any ideas. Obama has already stated that he wants to change football because it's "too violent".
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An incurable optimist in China
PUBLISHED : Saturday, 06 November, 2010, 12:00am
UPDATED : Saturday, 06 November, 2010, 12:00am
Having been in the health care business since the early 1980s, Al Gabor has seen some dramatic changes in that sector. Most notably, he has played a big part in bringing international-standard pharmaceutical operations to the China market and is still guiding initiatives to provide better health care for millions of mainlanders. As Pfizer's regional president for north Asia, Gabor is also responsible for expanding the company's activities in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand, Pakistan and Indochina. His experience and expertise have led to a number of roles with influential industry bodies. These include being vice-chairman of the Asia senior executive committee of the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association of America, and co-chairman of the body's China task force. He has helped to shape industry policies, expand market access, and improve operating environments to drive growth for the sector. He talks to Jan Chan.
What are the key management lessons you have learned?
In my 20-plus years of work experience, I have learned a lot about how to run a successful business. Perhaps the most important lesson is that strategies and plans are important, but execution is everything. I see this reality almost every day in China, where many of our competitors are pursuing similar strategies. The ability to execute better, day in and day out, is what gives Pfizer a competitive edge.
How do you deal with criticism and setbacks?
I have learned to accept setbacks and respect criticism. Both often help me to see things from different perspectives and to 'recalibrate' for future success. Also, as long as I have a strong belief in my ultimate objective, I can remain confident in the face of setbacks or negative comments, allowing me to retain my peace of mind and remain motivated. There is only one way to go and that is forward, so I choose to keep moving and focus on the future, with the firm belief that the patients we serve always come first.
How do you get the best out of individuals working for you?
Everyone is unique in terms of personality, interests, life goals and so on. I find it is important to respect them as individuals, take a strong interest, and help in their personal development. Sometimes, this is by coaching and mentoring. Often, it is just by rolling up my sleeves and working alongside someone towards a common goal.
In practical terms, how is it possible to make people enjoy their jobs?
This starts with ensuring they have the resources, competencies and direction they need to succeed. After providing suitable encouragement, it ends with recognition for a job well done. I'm a big believer in celebrating success even when it is just small steps, because recognition has an amazing way of inspiring people and recharging their batteries.
Which experiences most shaped your attitude to work and life?
Living and working in China has probably been the most influential factor. The sheer size of the country and the magnitude of the changes have made me realise that, to make a difference, one simply can't do it alone. You have to reach out and, in this respect, the company has been fortunate to establish partnerships with many key players in the health care arena. Seeing China's remarkable emergence on the global stage has also made me an incurable optimist, believing that anything is possible with the right plans, partners and investment.
What are the comparative strengths of young people today?
Our company's young leaders are very clear about their career expectations. They also have a grasp of IT that connects them to much broader sources of information and knowledge than I ever had as a youth. Other very positive attributes are their awareness of issues related to corporate social responsibility and a willingness to take action in support of their beliefs. My general advice is to follow your dreams and be patient in making them come true. Success is usually achieved one step at a time, so make every step count.
By the way
Gabor received the White Yulan Award from the Shanghai Municipal government in 2008
He believes that success in execution requires engagement
He is inspired by China's historic transformation
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When I first opened this book I was quite excited to see that the prologue was set in Liverpool, UK in 1967. Anyone from the UK will understand the importance of this time period and this particular location, even those like myself who were not born until a few decades later! I was, however, a little confused in the beginning. I’m not sure if it was intentional, but I struggled to connect with the characters we were introduced to, and I felt very hostile towards Alison after I read a little of her story (don’t worry, I won’t spoil it for you!). Anyway the confusion continued probably for the first three chapters, but then something clicked. I began to feel an emotional connection with the protagonist, Rafael Valverde, and I was left wondering just how the prologue fitted into the rest of the story, which was set mainly in Madrid. It kept me hooked and needing to know more. The story is written based on true-life experiences from the author, and he pours his passion into the words. The novel is both poetic and dramatic, while still believably human. It touches on issues that we as a culture are uncomfortable with, such as sickness, infidelity, and the human ego. This novel is both romantic and rough, and for that reason I highly recommend it.
Catherine Green wrote this review Friday, March 15, 2013.
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His Best Weapon
By Arlene C. Harris
Price: Free! Words: 9,650. Language: English. Published: March 25, 2012. Category: Fiction
Morale Officer Lt. Daffyd Allenby is about to be thrown out an airlock by the terrorists who have starjacked his transport. The good news is, he has a helmet. The bad news is, he's not sure he wants it. Because it belonged to his almost-was partner, Artemis Burke, who went in the 'lock before him. How did he get himself into this mess, and how will he get out of it: alive or dead?
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Series: Star Sails, Book 7. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 7,800. Language: English. Published: September 20, 2012. Category: Fiction
Captain Stone and his crew of the SS Falcon are still trying to figure out how to get home to Earth from the Virgo Cluster. Problem is, they don't have gluonite. And without gluonite they can't engage faster than light flight.
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As the federal government approaches the debt ceiling limit with Congress having no workable plan to either raise the ceiling or cut federal spending, I have been thinking about the humorist Will Rogers' observation on the government. On more than one occasion, Rogers observed that, "Congress ain't nothing but hired help."
What if the electorate actually treated politicians like hired help? What if members of Congress, senators and the president were hired like most other employees? Would the quality of leadership improve?
As I considered these questions, I thought about the many hiring decisions I had made. Having done a fair amount of hiring over the course of my career, I believe that three things are critical to any successful hiring decision.
First, it is important to clearly define what the employee is expected to do. Virtually anyone conducting a recruiting effort develops some outline of job expectations. A common mistake is to draft a comprehensive wish list that no single person is capable of satisfying. Successful hiring managers are able to distill necessary qualifications down to a handful of critical factors that determine the difference between success and failure for the employee.
Second, it is critical to strip personal preferences out of the hiring process. Otherwise, you will fill the organization with people who share similar viewpoints and lifestyles and can only see issues in one way. If the personal traits and behaviors of an employee do not influence job performance, the characteristics should not be considered.
Finally, ethics and integrity should be central to the selection. You cannot train people to behave ethically. If the search process reveals prior instances of unethical behavior, the hiring manager would be well advised to look elsewhere.
Given these criteria, what grade would the American voters receive for their selection of political leaders? To answer this question, consider the upcoming, as well as prior, presidential elections.
With regard to tightly focusing on critical success factors, most voters want a president who is competent in foreign policy and capable of managing the domestic economy. Many voters go awry by expanding this list to include matters best dealt with at the local level. The converse also occurs with voters in local elections placing international affairs at the top of their priorities. As one example, a group of activist-voters recently chastised the Austin Texas City Council for being pawns of the United Nations. In reality, the local city council isn't going to do a great deal to influence foreign policy, and the president has little power to curtail teen drinking or texting while driving. However, voter behavior doesn't always reflect this reality.
As a group, voters don't fare better when it comes to setting aside personal biases and prejudices. Indeed, irrelevant personal traits rise to the top of many voters' list of qualifications. Height, thickness of hair, and a propensity not to sweat are among the factors believed to have influenced past presidential elections. Yet, it is religion that is at the top of the list of personal traits that voters consider.
Has anyone read an article about Mitt Romney's campaign that didn't mention his religion? Romney isn't a single victim of his religion. There are active web sites attempting to prove that President Obama is Muslim.
The last criterion, ethics, presents a particular problem. Somehow, when politicians are found to have committed ethical violations, they leave reluctantly. Anthony Weiner's recent sexting incidents come to mind. Weiner only resigned under intense pressure from those in his own party. In some cases, the guilty manage to serve out their terms and a few get reelected. For many voters, ideology triumphs over ethics.
Many voters lament the lack of strong and principled leaders in Washington and at the state and local levels. If our leaders are lacking, we might want to place some blame on the folks who hire them.
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We've also spoken of transformer impedances—numbers that describe their primary and secondary coils—but those, too, can't be understood in isolation of the gear with which these coils will be used, or even each other. It's possible to describe the DC resistance of a coil simply by measuring it, but it isn't possible to describe the AC impedance of a coil without observing it at work, in a complete circuit with an exemplary source or load. Consequently, the impedance specifications published by transformer manufacturers should be thought of abstractly: For the most part, primary impedance specs are little more than numbers used to describe the source load to which that primary is best suited. The 3-ohm label on the input side of a Tamura TKS 83 transformer, for example, does not mean that the primary presents a 3-ohm load. (If it did, there'd be no way to explain why a 5-ohm Koetsu Black exhibits voltage gain, rather than loss, when driving it!) It means that the primary is appropriate for use with a source of approximately 3 ohms.
Primary colors
When considering a step-up transformer, the really important impedance characteristic is the impedance ratio between the primary and secondary windings. The difference in impedance between the input and output sides is, in fact, the reason a step-up (or step-down) transformer works at all: The greater that difference, the greater the voltage gain. Or, looked at from a mathematical point of view: Voltage gain, expressed as a factor, is equal to the square root of the impedance ratio of the primary and secondary coils. If the primary impedance is 40 ohms and the secondary impedance is 4k ohms, then the impedance ratio is 100 and its square root is 10. Thus, a 0.5mV signal at the cartridge's output pin becomes a 5.0mV signal at the transformer's output jack.
Because of that, the turns ratio of the transformer windings can also be used to predict voltage gain: It's also the square root of the impedance ratio—and equal to the gain factor. If the transformer in our hypothetical example has 20 turns of wire on its secondary, you can rest assured that its secondary has close to 200 turns.
There's more: By multiplying 20 times the base-10 logarithm of the turns ratio—which is the same as multiplying 20 times the log of the square root of the impedance ratio—you come up with the transformer's gain in decibels. The logarithm of 10 is 1, and 20 times 1 equals 20—so that one works out to 20dB. The log of 5 is 0.699, and 20 times that is 13.98, which we round up to 14dB—meaning that a turns ratio of 5 produces 6dB less gain than a turns ratio of 10.
Now let's take the math one step further: In addition to knowing how much gain a given transformer provides, we also need to determine the load impedance it will present to an MC cartridge when used with a typical preamplifier. Once again, we need to know the trannie's impedance ratio—which can be determined by squaring its turns-ratio/voltage-gain factor. Then, by dividing the transformer's impedance ratio into the preamplifier's input impedance, we'll learn the load impedance as seen by your cartridge. Assuming an input impedance if 47k ohms, a transformer impedance ratio of 100 will result in a cartridge load of 470 ohms.
And look what happens when we plug different numbers into those formulas, for which exercise we'll imagine a step-up transformer with a fixed secondary coil and a primary coil that has multiple taps. Let's say our hypothetical trannie has input selections for three different voltage-gain "settings" of 5x, 10x, and 20x. If we estimate a value of 4k ohms for that fixed secondary, we'll see that the 20x inputs correspond to a primary with an impedance of approximately 10 ohms—and that, when used to drive a 47k ohm preamp input, the overall cartridge load will be a perfectly appropriate 117.5 ohms.
For their part, the 10x input would have a primary impedance of 40 ohms and an cartridge load of 470 ohms, and the 5x input would correspond with a primary impedance of 160 ohms and an overall cartridge load of 1880 ohms.
And that's as it should be: All other things being equal, higher-output cartridges tend to have more coil windings than their lower-output brethren, and thus require a combination of lower gain and higher load impedances. Low-output MC cartridges tend to have fewer windings (less than two dozen per channel in my 0.3mV Miyabi, for example!), and thus require both higher gain and lower load impedances. Step-up transformers do all of that—naturally.
Exceptions might include cartridges that combine high-impedance coils with low output voltage, or low-impedance coils with relatively high voltage, often by using magnets that are notably weaker or stronger than average. The only one I know of for sure is the Allaerts MC2 Formula One, whose 32-ohm coils produce an output of just 0.15mV, thus confounding the usual formula. (The opposite would probably be more daunting, whereby an appropriate load impedance could produce excessive gain, and audible overload distortion at the preamp stage.) Here, as elsewhere, careful listening is the only real substitute.
Hats off to Hakko
The transformer I described a few paragraphs ago is more than hypothetical: Trannies with fixed secondaries and multiple primary taps are common as stones, and one such product is among the most recommendable phono products that I've tried in recent years.
K&K Audio of Apex, North Carolina (, which distributes the Swedish-made Lundahl transformers—used by Shindo, VAC, Rowland, and other notables, in certain of their products—offers the very thing, with selectable primary taps for 14dB (5x), 20dB (10x), and 26dB (20x) of gain. The K&K trannie is built into an aluminum-alloy box with a black powder-coat finish, with rhodium-plated Cardas connectors and silver hookup wire from DH Labs. The shielded transformers themselves are Lundahl's amorphous-core LL9206 units. The price? Just $335, direct from the factory. I can think of one place that wouldn't sell even a picture of a transformer for that little.
It gets better: For only $275, you can buy the same thing in kit form. I've just finished building one for myself, and not only is it eminently doable, it's downright fun. The only requirement, apart from a few common hand tools, is a decent-quality, temperature-controlled soldering iron. Without such a thing—or, at the very least, without a fair amount of soldering experience—you risk applying too much heat when hooking up the transformers themselves, even to the point of spoiling an internal connection. For this and other delicate work, I recommend the Hakko 936 soldering station, which you can buy brand-new for less than $100.
Before you set about building the K&K step-up transformer, you'll want to decide which of the three gain settings is appropriate for your cartridge—although you can always take the thing apart and redo the connections at a later date. If you think of the Miyabi 47 (1 ohm) as low, the Denon DL-103 (40 ohms) as high, and the mighty Ortofon SPU Mono (100 ohms) as crazy high, you'll have no trouble working out the rest.
Mechanical assembly is simple, requiring nothing more difficult than scraping some paint away from the grounding point with a hobbyist's knife, and mounting the input and output jacks with a couple of wrenches. Electrical assembly is more challenging, but surely not outside the abilities of the average hobbyist. Again, make your solder joints cleanly—and quickly. Use a clean tip, apply no more heat than your solder of choice requires, and be sure that your connections are mechanically sound before soldering.
K&K's instructions are good, and the penultimate step is something we should all take note of: Once everything is wired together, feel free to check your work with a multitester—but if you do so, keep in mind that you're also magnetizing the transformer core in the process, albeit very slightly, requiring additional run-in time before the finished product sounds its best.
One more caution, on more or less the same note: Unless you know for certain that your multitester is a modern, low-current type, you should not under any circumstances use it in an attempt to measure the DC resistance of a cartridge's coils. Some coil wires are exceptionally fine, and the current produced by old-style multitesters in particular is enough that the coil will act like a fuse and burst: a tragedy in one act.
So then: How did my finished transformer project sound? I wired my K&K trannie for the high-gain/low-load-impedance setting, so I could use it with the Koetsu Black, and while it's been in use for just a few days as I write this, I'm already very impressed. It's dynamic as all hell—indicating a good impedance match, if nothing else—and the midrange is clean and richly textured. As a bonus, the only way I've been able to make it hum in my system has been to hold it really close to my preamp's power transformer, at a screwy angle; in normal use, it's as quiet as . . . well, a mouse.
I expect that the sound of the K&K step-up transformer will continue to open up over the days and weeks to come. In the meantime, I'm gathering up as many other trannies as I reasonably can—not for a shoot-out, which would be pointless and counterproductive, given how context-specific all these things are, but as a sort of annotated survey. Among the units on hand or expected are the VAS MC-One, the Auditorium 23 Hommage, the Auditorium 23 standard (Denon version), the Audio Note AN-S4M, the Koetsu (yes, they still make one), and the ever-popular Many Others. Read about them here next month.
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Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Please Stand By
It's two days before Christmas.
I have last minute things to do.
I have to go to the Post Office. Yes, I have to go to the Palmer Post Office. Two days before Christmas. To pick up packages. I have to go.
I may need to be shot with a tranquilizer dart gun.
I have to take the kid with me, as in he can't be left alone to snoop around the house - if you're getting my drift here.
If I'm not arrested for murder and mayhem, you may see an actual post in a couple of hours.
Or you may be seeing some interesting news.
We'll see how it goes.
1. Jim's going to the PO? This should be fun. I think I'll start refreshing the ADN's homepage looking for breaking news on violent rampages in the Valley. Hee!
Michelle, you've had a rough week. As long as Jim's gone, want some chocolate and scotch? I'm sure we can find some around here somewhere. Jimmy's not supposed to be snooping, but he didn't say anything about US. *snort*
2. I've survived the post office trip.
120+ in line. At 9:00 in the morning. Don't these people have jobs? Fuck. Two postal androids behind the counter. Two. Two of the slowest, booger eatingest, poor attitude havingest retards you've ever seen. Goddamn, if they moved any slower it would be glacial.
3. Ooh! Chocolate and scotch! How did I miss this?
I've got some bourbon balls as well.
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Published on Sep 21, 2012
Obama suggests Romney is out of touch with America
MIAMI (AP) - United States (US) President Barack Obama cast Mr Mitt Romney on Thursday as an out-of-touch challenger for the White House, while the Republican countered that the US economy "is bumping along the bottom" under the current administration.
The two men crisscrossed hotly contested Florida, their travel plans nearly overlapping in Miami. Florida is one of a handful of battleground states with large Hispanic populations that are expected to decide the close race for the White House. The president is not chosen by a nationwide popular vote but in state-by-state contests, making these states especially important.
Mr Romney worked to move past the furor over a video showing him telling donors last May that nearly half of Americans see themselves as victims entitled to government handouts, and that as a candidate, his job wasn't to worry about them. But Mr Obama made his most extensive comments to date on the subject, seizing the chance to make the most of a controversy that has knocked his rival off stride.
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Zoe Saldana is a fashion risk-taker and bonafide movie star. Check out her red carpet choices and vote on the winning looks.
Which look is better?
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0.052791 | <urn:uuid:e3c60f96-3216-4214-b5ee-8043b1dbe8f3> | en | 0.962205 | Contradictions in debate over carrying guns
It soon will be illegal in South Portland to carry a pellet gun, slingshot or bow and arrow in public.
It will, however, be perfectly legal to carry a handgun in a holster or rifle slung over your shoulder.
Does this make any sense?
The South Portland City Council voted 6-1 last week to ban those far less lethal weapons at the urging of police Chief Edward Googins, who said the move was necessary to protect the community from "those who are acting unreasonably."
Googins, according to the Southern Forecaster newspaper, says the department has received calls about men in masks with guns, likely involved in war games with nonlethal airsoft guns. These are replica weapons that fire plastic pellets.
Which begs the question: How can a person carrying an airsoft gun in a public place be acting unreasonably when a person carrying a Colt .45 is not?
The new ordinance also comes on the heels of several recent open-carry events in Portland. These involved people with guns, but without the masks, simply making the point that they can carry their guns just about anywhere they like.
As we have pointed out in the past, just because you can do something doesn't always mean you should.
It is, indeed, legal for people in Maine to openly carry a gun. And nobody thinks twice about this when they see two hunters walking down a rural road with shotguns over their shoulders.
However, the same two men might cause a considerable panic if they strolled into the food court at the Maine Mall.
The chief had actually asked for a complete ban on pellet guns, slingshots, even on private property. The council thought otherwise, still allowing people to use pellet guns there.
The lone opponent to the new ordinance was Councilor Tom Blake, who argued that the city is over-regulating its residents. Blake did not believe the volume of police calls justified the ordinance.
"We're creating a regulation for a problem that doesn't exist," he said.
People with pellet guns, slingshots and bows and arrows do not belong in public areas or even in heavily used urban parks.
If they do not, then why do we think people bearing rifles and handguns do?
The Portland City Council's Public Safety Committee, meanwhile, voted Tuesday to recommend that the council seek legislation barring guns from public buildings.
Councilor Dan Skolnik, who proposed the measure, would like to ban guns from places like City Hall, Merrill Auditorium and the Cumberland County Civic Center.
Guns are already prohibited in schools and in the State House in Augusta.
"Guns in City Hall detract from an atmosphere of democracy," the Portland Press Herald quoted Cathie Whittenburg of Portland as telling the committee. "Guns introduce an element of intimidation that is contrary to the open exchange of debate on controversial topics."
Public meetings do get heated at times. Members of the public have even been removed from meetings for threatening behavior.
Who would feel comfortable sitting on a city council while being screamed at by a man bearing a gun?
Perhaps it is time for the Legislature to rule on whether guns should be allowed in government buildings.
After all, if legislators feel the need to ban guns in their workplace, why should guns be allowed in Portland City Hall?
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PAUL ST JEAN's picture
"It is a person's God given
"It is a person's God given right to defend themselves".......
That's true, taxpayer, but that right of self-defense is being eroded by the courts on a daily basis. We read so often about the person who acted in self defense is viewed by the aggressor or perpretator by law enforcement. Remember Bernard Getz, the New Yorker who was held up in a subway by 3 or 4 thugs? He shot a couple of them, one ended up wheelchair bound for life. Mr. Getz has done more jail time than any of the thugs who tried to hold him up. That is only one of thousands of incidents.
RONALD RIML's picture
Goetz wasn't "Held up."
None of the men threatened him with any type of weapon, though it was obvious they were going to try to shake him down through fear and intimidation. He then served 2/3 of a one year sentence for possessing an illegal weapon. That's it.
Here's what Bernie says on his website -->
"For a recent picture of me and my pet squirrel, Haystacks Calhoun, see:
To clear up any confusion about the Christmas 1984 New York subway shooting, here's what actually happened after I was surrounded by a group of 4 thugs and one of them calmly told me "Give me five dollars.":
I decided to shoot as many as I could as quickly as I could. I did a fast draw, and shot with one hand (my right), pulling the trigger prior to the gun being aligned on the targets. All actual shots plus my draw time occurred easily within 1.6 seconds, and possibly within 1.1 seconds. This is not as difficult to do as some might think, and occasionally I give a description of the technique along with a re-enactment.
The first shot hit Canty in the center of the chest. After the first shot my vision changed and I lost my sense of hearing. The second shot hit lightning fast Barry Allen in the upper rear shoulder as he was ducking (later the bullet was removed from his arm). The third shot hit the subway wall just in front of Cabey; the fourth shot hit Cabey in the left side (severing his spinal cord and rendering him paraplegic). The fifth shot hit Ramseur's arm on the way into his left side. I immediately looked at the first two to make sure they were "taken care of", and then attempted to shoot Cabey again in the stomach, but the gun was empty. I thought Cabey was shot twice after reading a media account no shots missed; I had lost count of the shots and while under adrenaline I didn't even hear the shots or feel the kick of the gun. "You don't look too bad, here's another" is a phrase I came up with later when trying to explain the shooting while I was under the impression that Cabey was shot twice. The legal nit-pickers can note that Cabey, who was briefly standing prior to the shooting, was sitting on the subway bench during all attempted shots. The others were standing.
Shortly after the shooting my vision and hearing returned to normal and I saw two women, who I thought also might have been shot. I talked to them and then sat down. The subway conductor entered the car, talked to me and the two women, and left the car. The train slowed down and stopped. I decided to make a break for it, climbed down to the tracks, ran to the Chambers Street Station, and took a cab home.
For accurate 1984 subway incident information, google: WIKIPEDIA GOETZ or read: "Subway Gunman" by Mark Lesly, Ch. 4 - 16. Almost all other sources are garbage."
Goetz was found 'Not Guilty' of all counts by a jury with the exception of possessing an illegal firearm. He served 2/3 on a one year sentence.
PAUL ST JEAN's picture
One report stated one of them
One report stated one of them poked something at him, which turned out to be a screwdriver. That is not mentioned in your presentation, so I must assume it didn't happen. Thanks for the enlightenment.
PAUL ST JEAN's picture
Carry anything you want.
Carry anything you want. Don't show it unless you intend to use it, and keep your mouth shut about the fact that you're carrying it. No one knows but you and anyone who wants to hurt you. No big deal.
PAUL MATTSON's picture
Your editorial board’s “Contradictions in debate over carrying guns,” missed the mark as it relates to the Maine Constitution, law and fundamental common sense.
Speaking to the issue of firearms, open carry of firearms is allowed by Maine law and there has never been an incident in the State of Maine where this lawful activity violated the rights or injured unarmed citizens. Never.
Individual law abiding citizens exercise open carry or concealed carry at the Maine Mall Food Court, because it is perfectly legal. Maine has a long list of prohibited persons: ( ) that may not own or possess a firearm. Should one of these individuals violate Maine law by simple possession he or she should be arrested and prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
Maine statutes specifically prescribe remedies for the armed citizen to protect themselves and innocent others in active shooter situations:
§101. General rules for defenses and affirmative defenses; justification Conduct that is justifiable under this chapter constitutes a defense to any crime; except that, if a person is justified in using force against another, but the person recklessly injures or creates a risk of injury to 3rd persons, the justification afforded by this chapter is unavailable in a prosecution for such recklessness.
§108. Physical force in defense of a person: 2. A person is justified in using deadly force upon another person: A. When the person reasonably believes it necessary and reasonably believes such other person is: (1) About to use unlawful, deadly force against the person or a 3rd person; or (2) Committing or about to commit a kidnapping, robbery or a violation of section 253, subsection 1, paragraph A, against the person or a 3rd person.
Creating gun free zones only affords the criminal element of our society the opportunity to harm innocent men, women and children of all walks of life. Maine’s low crime rate is attributed to the population’s high degree of gun possession and ownership. Portland’s Chief Craig has publicly stated he is amazed, Maine liberally gives out Concealed Firearms Permits and has a very low crime rate and where he came from, Los Angeles seldom authorized a Concealed Firearm Permit the crime rate was very high.
Councilman Skolnik’s proposal is in direct conflict with his oath of office to uphold the Maine Constitution and the laws of the State of Maine. A fifth grader could interpret Article I of the Maine Constitution~ Section 16. To keep and bear arms. Every citizen has a right to keep and bear arms and this right shall never be questioned.
Quite frankly, I feel safer knowing more law abiding citizens around me have a firearm on them should an active shooter situation arise. Law enforcement can’t be everywhere so I make it my personal responsibility to protect myself and family. After all, it is my unalienable Right under the U.S. Constitution.
Last but not least, Maine legislators did not ban guns in their workplace. It is a “RULE” created by the Bureau of Capitol Security.
Kevin Hanscombe's picture
The ignorance is amazing!
Police already have tools and LAWS on the books that enable them to enforce any kind of wreckless behavior involving these weapons. This city ordinance (which is NOT the same as a criminal law) is just stupid!
Not every little or even major infraction that police have to deal with requires laws to be changed, ordinances made, rights of honest and responsable citzens to be taking away... some of it might just be hey... that's life and lets deal with it. We might as well outlaw cars so we wont have any speeding problems anymore!!!
I am suprised that the chief felt it necessary to make such a request. Once again government is taking away your rights based on an illusion that they are making us safer?? Stop fixing things that are NOT BROKEN.
"Who would feel comfortable sitting on a city council while being screamed at by a man bearing a gun?"
well, who would feel comnfortable living in a society that only wants goverment to be armed? We know exactly where this is going......
Melissa Dunn's picture
don't need a license for a
don't need a license for a pellet gun or sling-shot, right? i don't care what the law is when it comes down to protecting myself regarding what is in my purse or not-regarding sling-shot, pepper spray, taser, needles, dental floss, lipstick lol... however for a gun i would abide by.
Ray Frechette's picture
We should be very careful
We should be very careful when it comes to regulating any type of weapon. The right to carry arms is a right that was won at a high price. Look at what happens to the populace in countries that ban guns. These laws only affect the law abiding citizens. Criminals do not care about ANY law.
RONALD RIML's picture
"Criminals do not care about ANY law."
If they didn't, there would be a lot more mayhem and murder as they shot everyone and everybody that ever tried to apprehend them.
I hope you know more about guns than criminals, Skippy - otherwise you're liable to blow your freakin' hand or head off some time.
PAUL MATTSON's picture
There is a little thing
There is a little thing called the Maine Constitution that should prevail: Article I of the Maine Constitution~ Section 16. To keep and bear arms. Every citizen has a right to keep and bear arms and this right shall never be questioned. My reply to the City of Portland is here:
RONALD RIML's picture
Most Military will vote Republican
It's so much easier than thinking when in that tribal mode.
And the Republican Party will act against the best interests of the working class families most military come from.
PAUL ST JEAN's picture
Bush's tax cuts "for the
Bush's tax cuts "for the rich" reduced my tax burden from 33% to 28%, and, as you might have guessed, being a pirate, I am not wealthy. That line about Bush's tax cuts being only for the rich is false. It's all part of the democRATS effort to keep feeding the class warfare beast.
RONALD RIML's picture
P.O.W. McCain scuttled by Chickenhawk Bushies...
So what's your Point????
(Other than you really have none....)
PAUL ST JEAN's picture
"lol! I laugh at the idea
"lol! I laugh at the idea because none of my republikkkan friends have ever served."
Not having served in the military makes a person a coward? ROFLMAO!!!. Joe Biden and Bill Clinton never served. What does that make them? War heroes, cuz they're dems?. I won't say you're an idiot, because I don't know you, but your post certainly is idiotic.
Granted, you may "never will be a republikkkan". But more importantly, will you ever be a man?
Douglas Mac antSaior's picture
The vast majority of our
The vast majority of our military votes Republican dumb ass. I invite you to walk onto any Marine base of your choice and start shouting coward.
PAUL ST JEAN's picture
Well stated, Mac.
Well stated, Mac.
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in response to BillyJoEdBob:
Why are the releasing this information BEFORE he has his day in court??? This is what people are talking about when they say "Trying the case in the media" Will the Defense Attornies be given the same oppurtunity to defend his actions.... if they can / wish ???
Because it is public record...
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Why were the lifegaurds permitting surf fishing in a swimming area? There's plenty of beach for everyone but few with lifegaurds for swimmers. The solution seems quite simple to me.
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This all goes back to the students and their parents. In Singapore you are fined for chewing gum on a public street. Imagine what school discipline is like?? The single largest factor that prevents our students from achievement is their total lack of self-discipline in the classroom. They spend all of their time chatting with friends, talking across the classroom, coming in late, sleeping, listening to their ipod, texting, etc. and there is no uniform consequence a teacher can enact that will be supported by administration and/or parents. Until the students take education seriously (which stems from their parental units) our students will continue to fall behind other nations. Think horse and water...
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Iranian court clears former nuclear adviser of spying
An Iranian court today acquitted a former nuclear negotiator of spying for the British government but convicted him of acting against the Islamic authorities.
The Iranian government charged Hossein Mousavian earlier this month with passing classified information to foreigners, including the British embassy, and the president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, called him a "spy" and "traitor".
"There were three charges raised against Mousavian: spying, keeping confidential documents and propagating against the ruling system. He was found not guilty of the first two but found guilty of propagating against the system," a judiciary spokesman, Ali Reza Jamshidi, said. Jamshidi did not provide details on the possible sentence against Mousavian, who served as a nuclear negotiator under the 1997-2005 reformist presidency of Mohammad Khatami. The former negotiator was briefly detained in May but is currently free on bail.
Mousavian, a moderate who favours compromise over Iran's dispute with the west, became the focus of a domestic power struggle between Ahmadinejad and the previous president, Hashemi Rafsanjani.
The attacks on Mousavian, a former ambassador to Germany, appeared to be part of a broader offensive against a coalition of pragmatic conservatives and reformists allied to Rafsanjani, who has emerged as a rallying figure for opponents of the hardline president.
Rafsanjani, chairman of the experts' assembly, an important clerical body, has warned that Ahmadinejad's confrontational rhetoric risks pushing Iran into a military confrontation with the US.
When the spying accusations were made two weeks ago, Mohammad Atrianfar, a political commentator and confidant of Rafsanjani, told the Guardian: "Ahmadinejad has made stupid allegations and now the intelligence ministry is forced to back them up. The intelligence ministry has never mentioned espionage allegations in its report against Mousavian.
"They are singling out the British embassy because Britain and the US are close allies and British policy is subordinate to America's. Reacting against Britain is tantamount to reacting against America." An embassy source called the spying accusations "ridiculous".
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Rebuke Gonzales and Torture
Neither prospect is beyond the realm of possibility.
Here are the particulars:
Deeds, Not Words
In his State of the Union address tomorrow night, we can expect Bush to riff on a familiar theme: the onward march of "freedom." When it comes to this President though, watch the deeds, ignore the rhetoric.
Few would argue that achieving "freedom" and "liberty" are valuable goals though, as historian Eric Foner reminds us, "freedom by its very nature is a contested concept, to which different individuals and groups have imparted different meanings." What progressives need to do is reclaim these terms from an Administration that has corroded their meaning. It's time to stand up for a redefined and affirmative vision of national security and US foreign-policy. The good news: there's a real political opening for a credible and alternative progressive security policy. And as John Powers observed recently in a provocative piece in the LA Weekly, "Money and organization can only take any political movement so far." Ideas matter.
We know what not to do. The New Republic's Peter Beinart recently argued that Democrats should adopt a get-tough crusade, launching a "war against fanatical Islam." But this strategy not only buys into the GOP's fear-mongering and militarized approach to the threat of terror, it is more likely to give life to Bin-Ladenism than it is to liberate people in the Islamic world or serve to protect America's security.
The muscular crusade against terrorism that some in the Democratic Party see as the only way to stop Islamic terrorism-and win votes--ignores the fact that it was previous crusades that helped create bin Laden in the first place. Crusades masquerading as foreign policy will weaken our security and divert precious resources from the real fight for hearts and minds in the Middle East and beyond.
Instead of engaging the Republicans on their terms, progressives need to have a debate framed by our own concerns and values. And fighting terrorism should not be the alpha and omega of America's security policy. Yes, Al-Qaeda remains a threat, but it's a plain fact that "terrorism" is not a menace meriting hysteria or neglect of other national priorities; nor is the "Global War on Terror" a compelling justification for US aggression around the world.
"Islamic fundamentalism is actually on the wane in much of the world," Fareed Zakaria, editor of Newsweek International, recently argued on the Sunday chat show ABC's This Week. Islamic fundamentalism "does not have the kind of appeal that worldwide Communism did,"Zakaria added.
Progressives can and should debate what an effective security policy would look like. But we also now know that in the fight against stateless terrorism, the war in Iraq was an act of self-sabotage; despite the relative lack of violence this past Sunday, and the courage of millions of Iraqis willing to risk death in order to vote, the invasion of Iraq was an act of hubris that has destroyed US credibility in foreign capitals, killed more than 1,400 US troops and tens of thousands of Iraqis, and drained the US treasury.
We no longer hold the moral high ground after the revelations of torture by US troops at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay. In general, Bush's "doctrine" has corroded the rule of law abroad and civil liberties at home, with no measurable gain for our security.
Writing recently in the Financial Times, Michael Lind persuasively argued that Bush's security policy has backfired. "A new world order is indeed emerging," Lind wrote, but Bush's strategies have generated so much ill-will abroad that "its architecture is being drafted in Asia and Europe, at meetings to which Americans have not been invited."
"Practically all new international institution-building of any long-term importance in global diplomacy and trade occurs without American participation."
A fascinating and underreported 119-page study, "Mapping the Global Future: Report of the National Intelligence Council's 2020 Project," recently issued by the CIA's National Intelligence Council, underscores Lind's arguments by highlighting the steep decline of US moral, political and economic capital. Available on the CIA's website, the report predicts that in 2020 China, India, Brazil, Indonesia and other nations will have emerged as powerful rivals to US global dominance, "transform[ing] the geopolitical landscape" and significantly eroding US power.
What, then, will a democratic alternative to Bush's doctrine look like? First, let's understand that there is a constituency in the US and the world for a progressive-left security policy. (Even Bush's staunch ally Tony Blair seemed to suggest as much in his speech at last week's World Economic Forum in Davos.) The Democratic Party should ground its affirmative vision in the reality of public opinion.
In November 2001, the highly regarded Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA) reported that a majority of Americans supported a multilateral approach, wanted a strong UN role in the world, and endorsed using humanitarian and development aid to build good will abroad. In April 2003, PIPA released a poll showing that the American people didn't like Bush's "global cop" vision, and that they endorsed global institutions like the UN that confronted global challenges.
According to a recent Chicago Council of Foreign Relations poll, a large majority of the American people think the US should have "strong evidence that the country is in imminent danger of being attacked" before we use military force. This is a powerful rebuke to the pre-emptive war doctrine, which is at the heart of Bush's security policy. So, too, is the finding also in the Chicago CFR poll that a majority of Americans support the use of diplomatic and economic tools rather than military ones to fight terrorism. Last week, the Pew Research Center revealed that 76 percent of registered Democrats believed that "good diplomacy is the best way to ensure peace."
Democrats, in particular, want to see a real alternative to Bush's go-it-alone jingoism; as The Atlantic's Jack Beatty put it, "the neo-cons are history's fools. The strategy they championed was the wrongest possible strategy for the wrongest possible moment in the wrongest possible region of the world." (Abject failure hasn't slowed down the neocons however; full of typical arrogance, in a letter to congress dated January 28, the neoconservative think-tank/power broker known as The Project for the New American Century (PNAC) essentially called for a draft without actually using the 'D' word.)
The second thing progressives should do is talk about a more constructive, intelligent use of American power exemplified by things like the founding of the UN, support for universal human rights, and our commitment, however imperfect, to a framework of multilateralism. We should urge America to support a leadership that wins respect at home and abroad through global partnerships, and understands that the key to world order, peace and prosperity is not American unilateral dominance but the strengthening of international governance and the global rule of law.
Third, the US needs to redefine security to meet the challenges of the 21st century, at a time when the world is increasingly interdependent. The reality is that overwhelming military power is ill suited to dealing with the central challenges of the early 21st century: stateless terrorists with global reach, the worst pandemic in human history (AIDS), the spread of weapons of mass destruction, insecure and decrepit nuclear arsenals in the former Soviet Union, genocidal conflict and starvation afflicting Africa, environmental degradation, and a global economy that is generating greater instability and inequality. These are problems that no one country, however powerful, can solve on its own.
The new definition of national security should include using US power to lead a global campaign to meet the UN's Millennium Goals--halving world poverty, cutting child mortality by two-thirds and guaranteeing every child primary education by 2015; strengthening multilateral and verifiable arms control treaties, encouraging nuclear disarmament and increasing funding for Nunn-Lugar and other programs aimed at eliminating nuclear stockpiles in the former Soviet Union; ratifying the Kyoto, ICC, ABM and other treaties to strengthen our alliances; reducing our dependence on foreign oil by forming a global alliance that invests in alternative energy sources; and engaging the world so that America becomes a source of hope, not fear
Democracy cannot be imposed from without on nations with different cultures and histories. Freedom, liberty and democracy are built not in the ashes of war and occupation but from a history of struggle, civic work and economic development. The American people have no appetite for a religious crusade. What they would like to see is a principled foreign policy. Progressives need to offer the American people an affirmative vision.
Iraq: Images vs. Reality
Dean Does NYC
Howard Dean was in NYC this weekend for the last of the candidate forums for DNC chair before the party's final meeting from February 10 to 12th. On Saturday he spoke to New York's DNC members; and on Sunday, he met with the state party chairmen. (About fifty of the DNC's 447 voting members have already announced support for Dean, far more than any other candidate.)
On Saturday night, I saw Dean at a small gathering where he spoke passionately about his vision for the Democrats. His smart and pungent comments about how the party needs to give genuine power to the grassroots and build the new politics at the "netroots"; support and build state parties; develop a fifty-state strategy; mobilize the young; change the way we talk about issues, without changing our core principles, makes me pretty certain that Dean has checked out Zack Exley's must-read "Letter to the Next DNC Chair."
Exley--former director of organizing for MoveOn.org, and former Dean and Kerry net mobilizer--describes a new kind of politics emerging and lays out a fascinating scenario for how the Democratic Party can build a vast, permanent field organization with the "New Grassroots" by leveraging email, the web and a little technology.
I particularly like this former, grassroots labor organizer's grounded enthusiasm about what can be done to reshape the party--and build a winning infrastructure for 2006 and 2008. "Using the online assets that Democrats built in 2004, we should be able to jump light years ahead of the Republican field organization. If we do, it will not be thanks to Internet Magic, but rather thanks to mixing new online tools and resources with good old-fashioned grassroots organizing, focusing on results."
Dean gets what Exley is talking about. As he said about one of the central jobs facing the DNC, "In order to make good on the new empowerment, we have to genuinely give power to the states and grassroots. I believe in order to have power, you have to give up power." Power needs to come from the grassroots." Dean gets it. Exley gets it. Do the DNC's 447 delegates get it? We'll soon find out.
Occupation Thwarts Democracy
Clean Elections in Maine
Thanks to Michael Sylvester, the executive director of Common Cause in Maine, for his letter clarifying some key features of his state's revoutionary Clean Elections Act. I'm pleased to post it below and you can check out Common Cause's website for more info. I'd also like to encourage further dialogue on this topic--and other issues that are addressed in this space--so please click here to send letters to Editor's Cut.
Dear Ms. vanden Heuvel,
I appreciated your recent Editor's Cut reviewing several progressive state initiatives. These laws are models for how we can create change at the local level even when national politics might not leave a very good taste in our mouths.
I wanted to point out, however, that you were mistaken about Clean Elections in Maine. You stated that the Maine State Legislature had approved the Clean Election Act when, in fact, the law is even more revolutionary because it was voted in by Citizen's Initiative in 1996. You also stated that over 50 percent of candidates made use of public financing but the great news is that nearly 80 percent of all candidates used public financing. This number (a hair over 79 percent) includes over 50 percent of Republican candidates and all Green Independent candidates.
The Maine Clean Election Act is an enormous success story and Common Cause is working with our allies to pass a similar law in the state of Connecticut. Yet even the Maine Clean Election Act's success has not stopped attacks on the law. In this legislative session, we will see bills to repeal MCEA and to allow loopholes in the law even as we fight to close loopholes in the current law and to continue to pass progressive legislation including a bill to limit all PACS to a $250 limit, to introduce Instant Run-Off Voting and bills to make election day a state holiday. Keep fighting the good fight in the states. Someday we'll get the chance to roll it out nationally.
Michael Sylvester,Executive Director, Common Cause in Maine
Stop the Violence
As the violence in Iraq escalates ahead of Sunday's national elections, there are disturbing reports of intimidation, death threats and murders specifically targeting members of the Iraqi Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU).
These reports come on the heels of the torture and assassination in Baghdad on January 4 of Hadi Salih, the International Secretary of IFTU.
In protest, please click here to join Nation writers Katha Pollitt, Doug Henwood, Marc Cooper, Adam Shatz, Norman Birnbaum, Carl Bromley and many others in signing on to the Campaign for Peace and Democracy's statement condemning attacks on Iraqi trade unionists.
And start making plans for what are expected to be a nationwide series of antiwar protests on Saturday, March 19, the second anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. The antiwar coalition United for Peace & Justice is calling for vigils, rallies, marches, nonviolent civil disobedience and creative expressions of antiwar sentiment of all kinds. Check out the UFP website for more info.
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Once again, it's time to talk back to Bush. All the remarks below come from George W. Bush's January 26 press conference--except for the italicized heckling.
And you raised far more questions than you answered.
During that address, you also made what seemed to be a short-term promise. You said, "All who live in tyranny and hopelessness can know: the United States will not ignore your oppression, or excuse your oppressors. When you stand for your liberty, we will stand with you." This sure suggested you were fired up and ready today to confront political tyranny wherever it may exist and assist democrats and dissidents currently challenging repressive rulers--say, in Russia, Saudi Arabia, China, Egypt, Jordan, Pakistan, and Uzbekistan. Now it looks like you're not truly ready and willing to "stand" with these folks. With this speech, did you write a check you can't cover?
Are you finally going to offer a Social Security plan with details? During the 2000 campaign, you said there was a dire need to alter the Social Security system. Yet five years have passed, and you still have not produced a plan for dealing with what you call a "crisis." Why are you lallygagging? By the way, the system will not be "bankrupt," as you assert repeatedly. Come 2042--or maybe even 2052--it will be able to pay out about three-quarters of scheduled benefits, according to conservative projections. That's a problem; it's not bankruptcy. If you don't believe me, please check with your old professors at Harvard Business School. I'm sure they will remember you.
Bush: We anticipate a lot of Iraqis will vote....I anticipate a -- a grand moment in Iraqi history. If we'd been having this discussion a couple of years ago and I'd have stood up in front of you and said the Iraqi people would be voting, you would look at me like some of you still look at me, with a kind of blank expression.
And if you had said "a couple of years ago" that the United States would still be in Iraq, that there would be no weapons of mass destruction found there, that there would be over 1300 dead American GIs and perhaps over 100,000 dead Iraqi civilians, that there would be a raging insurgency nearly two years after the invasion, that there would still be no clear exit strategy, and that the cost of the war to the US taxpayer would be $260 billion and rising, we might have looked at you with something other than a blank expression.
Car bombs, assassinations, kidnappings, threats of being killed if you vote, and a new police force that reportedly is corrupt and practicing torture. Some might call that exciting.
Bush: My inaugural address reflected the policies of the past four years...
Q: Do you see it as a policy shift?
The policy of the past and a goal for the future, but what about the present? Why do you think your speech was widely perceived as a shift? Since you're still explaining it a week later, doesn't that indicate you didn't communicate effectively?
Well, obviously, he's not been a strong enough an advocate. Let's put it this way: Do you give a fig about Ali Hatar? Are you willing to "stand" with him right now, as you vowed in your speech? Will you immediately ask to be briefed on his situation or order the State Department to investigate right away and then, if these are indeed the facts, call "His Majesty" and demand the release of Hatar?
And what if your friends in Russia, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia do not adopt these values?
Bush: Let me talk about Dr. Rice -- you asked about her confirmation. Dr. Rice is an honorable, fine public servant who needs to be confirmed. She will be a great Secretary of State. And Dr. Rice and I look forward to moving forward....And she is going to make a wonderful Secretary of State.
Q: No reaction to the lying [charge]? No reaction? (Laughter.)
Bush: Is that your question? The answer is, no. Next.
Why not? You and Rice have been accused of misleading the public to grease the way to war. You have no reaction? By the way, you did not answer a key part of this question: "Are you willing to concede that any mistakes were made?"
It's hard work, real hard work, to end tyranny around the globe. And it costs a lot. Don't you think you should ask current taxpayers to bear this burden, rather than charging it to the national credit card and passing the bill to future generations?
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Bush: I don't think foreign policy is an either/or proposition. I think it is possible when you're a nation like the United States to be able to achieve both objectives...In my meetings with Chinese leadership in the past, and my meetings with Chinese leadership in the future, I will constantly remind them of the benefits of a society that honors their people and respects human rights and human dignity...Vladimir Putin -- I have discussed with Vladimir Putin some of his decisions....I will remind him that if he intends to continue to look West, we in the West believe in Western values.
Do you believe that such "reminders" are effective. Here you tell us that you will be discussing the benefits of democracy with the autocrats of China and Russia. In your speech, you said you would be standing with the freedom-seeking dissidents and democrats challenging these autocrats. Is reminding Putin that "we in the West believe in Western values" an effective way to "stand" with such courageous souls?
Bush: I'm the President; I set the course of this administration. I believe freedom is necessary in order to promote peace, Peter. I haven't seen the article you're referring to....I haven't seen the article, I didn't read the article. Obviously, it wasn't part of her job interview. (Laughter.)
Good one, Mr. President. But now that the laughter is fading, let me ask this: Your number-one national security adviser (or tutor) writes a major article in the leading journal of foreign policy outlining your likely foreign policy, and you never read or saw the piece? Can you explain? Do you hate reading that much? Do you feel you can delegate and not have to check what happens after that? Were you not at all curious?"
During his confirmation hearings, Gonzales said that he and you oppose "torture and abuse." Yet in his written response to queries from the Senate judiciary committee, he noted that foreign prisoners held overseas can be subjected to treatment by US intelligence officers that is "cruel, inhumane or degrading," even though this sort of abuse is banned by an international treaty the United States ratified. So doesn't that mean that his public testimony to the committee was false? Perhaps a lie? After all, he clearly stated in that written reply that you and he do support "abuse" in certain cases. If this is not your view, then shouldn't you withdraw the Gonzales nomination? Shouldn't this issue be cleared up before the Senate votes on his nomination?
Bush: You're asking me to talk about specific proposals. And I'm looking over....And at the appropriate time, we'll address that -- that aspect of reform.
And can you tell us why it has taken you five years to present any ideas on this? And why you wouldn't offer any concrete proposal before the recent election?
Are you bullshitting or delusional? Let's hope that it's only the former and that you do realize the depth of the hostility you have engendered.
Before you trot off, please, tell us: in your second term, do you expect to set another record low when it comes to holding presidential press conferences?
The Power of Nightmares
The series does not claim that terrorism poses no threat, nor does it challenge the idea that radical Islamism has led to gruesome violence throughout the world. "The bombs in Madrid and Bali showed clearly the seriousness of the threat--but they are not evidence of a new and overwhelming threat unlike any we have experienced before. And above all they do not--in the words of the British government--'threaten the life of the nation.' "
First broadcast in Great Britain last November, The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear has yet to air on this side of the Atlantic. Why is it that no television outlet in the United States has yet to broadcast this critically-acclaimed film?
In a recent e-mail interview, Curtis told me he "is very keen" that the documentary be shown in the US, and that he is "talking to some people at the moment " However, he added, "I think the networks won't show it because they are frightened by possible reactions. I think this is very wrong. The reaction in Britain has been extraordinary with the overwhelming majority praising the BBC for its confidence in putting the series out.
Even the Archbishop of Canterbury, Curtis says, "quoted the films approvingly in his Christmas address to the nation. I think we were pushing at an already open door--and I suspect the same is true for America. There is a lurking feeling in many peoples' minds that this state of fear doesn't quite add up--and I have received hundreds of e-mails from people in the US asking to see the series since Robert Scheer published a column about the film in the Los Angeles Times on January 11. I am sure it will be shown somewhere."
I also asked Curtis what he thought Americans could learn from the film. His reply:
"The United States is the most powerful, confident and in many ways, the freest civilization ever in the history of the world. It is extraordinary that it has become so paralyzed by the fear of radical Islamist terrorism--it really is a lion quaking in the face of a mouse. Radical Islamists do represent a serious threat and will use terror against civilians, but when you look at them historically, as the series does, you come to see that they are not some new force with a unique power to bring the strongest nation in the world to its knees.
"Yet America has become trapped by that fear--riven by nightmare visions of 'sleeper cells' in its midst for which there is little or no evidence. The series attempts to explain why this strange state of affairs has come about and it argues that politicians have found in fear a way of restoring their power. In a populist consumerist age where their authority and legitimacy has declined dramatically politicians have simply discovered in the War on Terror a way of making themselves indispensable to their populations again by promising to protect us from something that only they can see."
Curtis has promised to send me a copy of the documentary. But millions of Americans deserve to see a film that offers a rigorously documented and credible counter to the conventional narrative of a "war on terror."
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a) As a consultant for the First National Bank of Monroe, you have been asked to solve a problem on the bank’s network that began on Monday. According to the bank manager, at the beginning of each day two of the 16 tellers have been unable to log on to the network. Two other tellers occasionally experience problems at the beginning of the day, but not if they get to work before everyone else. They receive an error that says something like “another machine is using that name”. When you arrive at the bank, the college intern who has been setting up the machines tells you that he is using a program called Ghost to clone all PCs from a single disk image. In other words, an exact copy of one machine’s software, operating system, and its properties has been copied to all of the computers. All of the PCs are brand new are running Windows 7, and use the same hardware and software. First National Bank’s network consists of two Windows 2008 servers and runs both TCP/IP and NetBIOS/NetBEUI protocols. It uses DHCP to allocate TCP/IP addresses. What might be preventing the two tellers from logging on to the network in the morning? (10 marks)”
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If the clones have the same usernames and passwords, then you have every computer loaded with the same username and password. Your security may be preventing more than two log-ins with the same username and password. Try adding the other usernames to their computers (with passwords). | http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/18359-63-solve | dclm-gs1-045830002 | false | false | {
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Corsair and Crucial Memory question
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What are the differences between Corsair and Crucial in general? I just replaced my Corsair ddr-2 667 with Crucial ddr-2 800 (4 sticks for a total of 3 gigs) one of the 1 gig sticks is bad. Ive always brought corsair but looking at the newegg reviews im giving them a try. Since 1 stick is bad im trying to decide whether to send everything back and get ddr-2 800 from corsair or just rma the bad stick? my mobo is a p5k-e wifi.
Do you all prefer one over the other in general?
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Well both RAMs have the same timings the only difference is in the voltage(which is minimal)
dont listen to the newegg reviews, they arent useful
In general, both are companies that make very good memory. In most cases it will boil down to brand loyalty or simply price. I certainly won't say anything bad about another RAM company as that is not how we do things. If there is anything I can help with, please just ask.
Your question is like asking "what's the difference between Ford and GM". Both companies market a number of lines from low-end to high-end. The items in your links are both from the companies' premium lines, so I wouldn't worry about them.
Ehh, drop the corsair sticks. If you plan to overclock that is....
The older revision of those corsair sticks (rev 1.1, 1.2, and 1.4) contained Micron D9 modules. Top notch quality sticks, the current 2.1 revision contains promo IC's...not very good for OC'ing if you plan to do so.
With the Crucials, you're guaranteed Micron D9 chips, whether it be the most received (and best) D9GMH, D9GCT, or D9GKX....they are all micron. Go with the crucial modules, Corsair was a very top notch brand. Still is in a lot of peoples eyes, but they have been swapping out a lot of their IC's for cheaper ones, which has made Corsair followers angry.
Also.....sort of off stick is probably not bad
32-bit OS's only support 4 gigs, thats including BIOS, graphics etc.
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It's generally accepted that for the sandy bridge cpu's the best chip for gaming was a maxed out i5 "there is contrary but for the most part an i5 is more than sufficient." None the less I wondering about the new chip series. Do you think an ivy bridge i5 will be equal to an ivy bridge i7? Or do you think the i7 will be better than the i5, particularly in gaming. All speculation and thoughts are welcome!
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Probably a slight slight increase in performance, but it would certainly not justify an upgrade if you already own a sandy bridge cpu. It's also too early to see how they actually perform and how they overclock. It usually no good to sit around and guess how good hardware will be, just wait till it comes out.
Ahh don't worry this is only between ivy bridges. I'm not buying my build until the end of april and hopefully chips will be up for purchase by then.
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i'm hearing they are toasty hot and don't OC as well, and oddly that the E0 stepping (ES) is worse that the E1 stepping (retail). though those are only rumours from the interweb. Tweaktown have a stable 3770K ES OC'd to 4.72 its at 98degC at load. The corresponding 2600K was a lot cooler. The 3570K seems to run cooler than the 3770K.
That said, i'm still getting a 3570K, OC to 4.2-4.4GHz, it'll give me PCI-E3.0 for the 2013 GPU upgrade, and more power than I really need.
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Since you said gaming the easy answer is i5. The i7's are essentially the exact same CPU with hyper threading enabled and since hyper threading generally does not help or sometimes hinders performance in games then the i5 it is.
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The 3rd generation Intel® Core™ processors should follow the same process for naming as the 2nd generation Intel Core processors. So the Intel Core i5 processors are going to be quad core processors while the Intel Core i7 will be quad cores with hyper-threading. The biggest reason why the Intel Core i5-2500K stands up to against the Intel Core i7-2600K and above in a gaming environment is because so few games can take advantage of more than 4 threads and the big price difference between them.
I am looking forward to building a new gaming system the new couple weeks with a new 3rd generation Intel Core i5.
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America’s entire existence is based on this document, which is still referred to and referenced in the American legal system on a daily basis.
Countless hours of research have been done by historians and lawyers into the creation and interpretation of this historic document.
However, with all of this research, there are many little-known (and sometimes strange) facts about the Constitution that are relatively unknown to most Americans.
10 Odd Facts About the Constitution
1. In modern times, it is common to hear about the need for government transparency, but many Americans do not realize that the Constitution was prepared in secret, behind lock doors. Many believed that Philadelphia Convention was going to update the Articles of Confederation; not create an entirely new government.
2. There are 39 signatures on the Constitution. However, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams never actually signed the constitution. Not because they did not agree with it, but because they were out of the country working as diplomats (one was in France, the other was in Great Britain).
3. On October 3, 1789, President George Washington proclaimed a day of Thanksgiving on November 26th to celebrate the freedom of America. In his proclamation he stated, "...we may then all unite in rendering unto him our sincere and humble thanks, for his kind care and protection of the People of this Country previous to their becoming a Nation..."
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4. The hand-written Constitution is far from being error free. Several of the words in the document use the British variation of certain words, such as honour instead of honor. Yet, the biggest faux pas made by the founding fathers is that Pennsylvania is spelled wrong in one part of the Constitution.
5. Benjamin Franklin was the oldest delegate to sign the Constitution. He is one of the few who signed the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. However, due to an illness, he needed help to sign the Constitution. According to accounts, he reportedly cried while signing it.
6. Samuel Adams and Patrick Henry both declined to become delegates to the Constitution Convention, because both believed that the existing government under the Articles of Confederation could still be used. It has been reported that Henry stated that he "smelled a rat" in the creation of the Constitution.
7. The word "democracy" is not used anywhere in the Constitution. Read it, it’s true! This is largely due to the fact that America is not a democracy. It is actually a Constitution-based federal republic. Though it has democratic traditions, it is not a full democracy.
8. Anti-Federalists believed that the Constitution would make the government too powerful and dominated by the rich. Is it possible that they were right?
9. The Constitution does not presume the innocence of people. This idea actually comes from English jurisprudence; however, it has been around so long that it is seen as common law. The presumption of innocence is explicitly implied in the right to remain silent, and a right to a trial by jury.
10. The Constitution does not give Congress the right to print money. In actuality, the Constitution grants the power to "coin money." The assumption being made here was that these coins would be made out of some sort of precious metal such as gold or silver. Some interpreters of the Constitution actually stated that the printing of paper money may be unconstitutional - it prohibited states from issuing "bills of credit." However, this is exactly what the federal government does now by printing paper currency.
These are only a few of the odd facts about the Unites States constitution.
It is amazing to realize how little we know about one of the most important documents in American history.
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That's just sweet.
So now we're the problem, huh?
I hope you tell us that to our faces you don't want us there, so we can stop wasting millions on that conflict and do what most other NATO members do: nothing.
You might want to look to your forces filled with bottom-of-the-barrel trash, that couldn't hold a civilian job first, then look for flaws in others. Iraq showed just what kind of hick degenerates you draft.
Stańczyk 4:14PM September 14, 2009
As a member of a US Army LNO team to the Polish Army in Iraq, I can tell you that although there may be teething problems, the Poles figured things out fairly quickly in Iraq. Most of the troops that are going to Afghanistan have experience either from Iraq or the Balkans. Some of the equipment may remind the Afghans of the Soviet occupation, but the problem of Polish equipment looking like Saddam's Army was also quickly dealt with in a satisfactory manner. Overall, the Iraqis were very positive about the Polish Army and I think that just because they don't do things in an "American" manner doesn't make it worse or better; just different.
Jack of GA 12:12PM January 23, 2009
Replacing the U.S troops particularly the 101st Airborne with the Polish troops is like presenting a beautiful multi-tiered wedding cake only to discover after biting into it a mouth full of substanceless styofoam. Once taste tested, no one will be fooled, to include the Talbian insurgents. It begs the question what will be NATO's reaction if this stragetic swamp is not a success?
Riley Upton of TN 10:43PM December 09, 2008
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The trailer's exciting. If that's not your thing, then try Hairspray. It grows on you.
STEVE WILKOS swears he's a gentle father and a regular person who hasn't had a beastly fight in years. Gazing into his baby blues while fending off the shininess of his bald head, I totally believed it, even though he's best known as JERRY SPRINGER's security keeper, the human guard dog famous for basically removing chair splinters from people's inbred butts.
Whatever the case, Wilkos is getting his own show in September, which he told me will be "like bringing a 911 call onstage and me reacting into it like I did when I was a Chicago policeman." Sounds a little like DR. PHILmeets DR. KEVORKIAN—and I'm scared enough to watch.
The Marine-turned-cop's ascent into the pop culture started when he was hired to be a guard on Springer for just one gloriously dangerous day in '94. As the show became more trashily confrontational, Wilkos got called back a lot, and by the time the producer asked him to shave his head—damn, it's contrived—he knew it was time to quit the police force and become America's most frosty sentinel.
"People always ask if the fights are fake," he told me at B Bar (where he interestingly brought his own sandwich). Maybe occasionally, he said, "but for the most part, we wanted real stories. Fakes are terrible. And when somebody's sleeping with your wife or husband, you don't need a lot of incentive to get very confrontational." Just ask O.J. SIMPSON.
The worst blowup of all, he said, was one pitting the kooky Klux Klan against some seething African-Americans. "The staff tied a row of chairs together," he remembered, "so if you threw them, you'd have to throw the whole row." Even MICHAEL RICHARDS couldn't go that far.
The most nauseating guest? "A guy had a sex fetish," related Wilkos. "He would drink this green liquid and regurgitate it into these girls' mouths. Half the studio audience vomited and ran out." The other half probably orgasmed. "I had to try to keep my own breakfast down," added Wilkos, who you'll remember is rather not-barbaric (though he still won't see Beauty and the Beast). And the biggest shock? "Jerry is as down to earth and well-mannered as anybody you'll ever meet." Stop! I'm vomiting now!
The Springer show, concluded Wilkos, "is a train that can't be stopped," even with green liquid. "It's still such a big thing in America," he gushed. "Springer's name pops up in the paper every day almost as a verb. 'I went to a hockey game and the Springer show broke out'." Oh, yeah? Well, the last time a doorman claimed I wasn't on the list, the Steve Wilkos show broke out.
Don't Springer me for saying this, but the new movie of Hairspray is for the most part delightfully candy-colored, with a virtually nonstop flow of rollicking music that makes for a shortbus that can't be stopped. My main problem is that having Scientologist JOHN TRAVOLTA play the Divine role is a little like getting MICHAEL JACKSON to play NELSON MANDELA. What's more, while Travolta's more than game and comes off even sweeter than Steve Wilkos, something's amiss with his overdone prosthetics, weird accent (he sounds like CHER on the bayou), and limited portrayal. And, of course, though the black guy kisses the white girl and the skinny guy kisses the fat girl, the husband never plants one on the drag girl! But like I said, the flick swings, and the Lord giveth, too: MICHELLE PFEIFFER, CHRISTOPHER WALKEN, and the young leads strike the right spoofy tone, and in a small role, ALLISON JANNEY is a scream and totally in synch with JOHN WATERS 's original vision.
Of course, the racial issue doesn't come across with any more gravitas than it did in Dreamgirls—no chairs will be flung—but this is basically buoyant fairy-tale fluff posing as social comment, and you eventually accept that it's basically Bye Bye Birdie with protest signs. The message? As we're told repeatedly, "The oppressed, fringey weirdos and underdogs are moving center stage!" They mean blacks and fatties, but believe me, it's really about the gays.
So, apparently, is the Encores production of Gypsy, where attendees have reported no line whatsoever for the ladies' room, but a long, winding one for the men's room, if you catch my demographical drift.
For yet more offbeat family fun, I anxiously checked out on a breathless recommendation. Alas, it turns out the site is not at all about Beauty peeing on the Beast ?—it's about boat rentals "on beautiful Clear Lake, California"!
I pulled up in my dinghy for Cocktails at Sunset, an ACRIA fundraiser hosted by Banana Republic at well-connected artist ROSS BLECKNER's Sagaponack home. Finding out that this was the former residence of Truman Capote, I tried to break in and write a quick masterpiece, but was asked to stay on the outside grounds with the burger buffet, which was just fine with me, belch. Among the nuggets heard in my Hamptons experience: "I'm opening a holistic spa. You know, organic"; "Do you have a house out here?" (i.e., "Are you rich and worth talking to or just a day tripper?"); and, worst of all, from a guy who'd seen me and my friend in a restaurant earlier that day: "You're eating again?"
Things went from gaudy to Saudi at Habibi, the gay Arab dance party that was the place to Iraq-and-roll when it swung by the roof of the Eagle last week. There, I met a whole slew of other raconteurs, most notably a guy who swears he inherited two of Saddam Hussein's cheetahs. (So what? I've got three cats that look like Hitler.) Outside, a gentleman was prostrate on his knees, and I was absolutely certain he was bowing and scraping to me until I realized he was facing Mecca. I ran off to go eat—again.
And yet again at Ye Waverly Inn's dinner for PATRICK MCMULLAN's "Who Is It?" show, which fills GAVIN BROWN's gallery with hundreds of celeb shots that comprise the surreal gossip wallpaper of LINDSAY LOHAN's dreams. At the Inn, we learned that Patrick's reality show wasn't greenlighted by Bravo—boo—but consoled ourselves with salmon bellies, cutely non-clichéd waiters, and ANGELA JANKLOW's revelation that her fridge contains a watermelon shaped like her face. I want to eat it!
According to a source, three record companies including Sony have bid to record the cast recording for the hit Broadway spoof Xanadu, but the best offers are contingent on current male lead Cheyenne Jackson being part of the project. Alas, since Jackson came into the show in a rush when James Carpinello injured himself, his contract didn't include cast album stipulations. Now they're trying to sway him into the recording studio on his skates or maybe lose the deal. Publicists for the show didn't respond to a request for comment.
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I started having severe pain on my left lower rib a couple of days ago, now the pain is worse and seems to have moved up to three ribs,,,haven't hurt my ribs and this is severe when I inhale a large breathe,,,,what can it be,,,,needed advise,,Rickey AB,,very sensitive to the touch,,,
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I would definitely suggest seeing a chiropractor regarding your lower back pain. Did you lift anything really heavy or awkward the day of the the day before you started experiencing your rib pain? It is possible that your pain my be caused by a rib being out of alignment. I have severe upper left shoulder/rib pain and when I went to see my chiropractor he told me my rib was misaligned. A chiropractor, if you do not already have one, can tell you exactly what is going on so I highly recommend you see one as soon as possible. Rib misalignment does not heal on its own and can only be fixed through chiropractic services. Good Luck!
I second Jillian's answer. The first time I experienced a rib moving out of place, the pain started out like a new brise from a punch. The next day I could barely breathe or get out of bed. I went to my doctor and was diagnosed with adult onset asthma, prescribed a rescue inhaler and put on the purple disc stuff. Of course it didn't help. When I went to my chiropracter for an existing back problem, he told me a rib was out, pushed it back into alignmnet, and all of my symptoms went away. To avoid being unecessarily drugged, see a chiropractor first. If you do not get immediate relief, see a medical doctor. An adjustment cannot hurt you but taking meds for nonexistent ailments can.
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Bedbugs with 'superbug' germ found
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Bedbugs have not been known to spread disease, and there`s no clear evidence that the five bedbugs found on the patients or their belongings had spread the MRSA germ they were carrying or a second less dangerous drug-resistant bacteria.
The study is small and very preliminary. "But it`s an intriguing finding" that needs to be further researched, said Romney, medical microbiologist at St. Paul`s Hospital in Vancouver.
The hospital is the closest one to the poor Downtown Eastside neighborhood near the city`s waterfront. Romney said he and his colleagues did the research after seeing a simultaneous boom in bedbugs and MRSA cases from the neighborhood.
It`s not clear if the bacteria originated with the bedbugs or if the bugs picked it up from already infected people, Romney added.
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Gunman kills self, 5 others at Texas roller rink Grand Prairie: A man attending a birthday party at a roller rink opened fire yesterday night after an apparent spat between family members, killing five people and wounding at least three others before fatally shooting himself, authorities said.
The shootings happened about 7 pm at Forum Roller World in Grand Prairie when police said the man drew a pistol during a fight between a husband and wife.
The victims' names and ages were not immediately released. Grand Prairie police spokesman John Brimmer said no young children or employees of the roller rink were among them, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported.
How the gunman was related to the other people who died was not immediately clear.
After the man arrived at a private birthday party, an argument ensued and "it escalated to the point where he pulled a gun and started shooting," Brimmer said.
The injured were taken to hospitals, and their conditions weren't immediately disclosed. Grief counsellors were available for witnesses, victims and family members, Police Chief Steve Dye said.
Derrian Harris, 18, of Grand Prairie said he rushed to the rink yesterday night after hearing about the shootings, joining others who stood in a bowling alley parking across the street.
Aaron Feldt of Grand Prairie told The Dallas Morning News he was across the street when he saw some victims run across the parking lot of the roller rink, where decorative lights were still flashing in the front windows.
"I saw family coming across the street looking panicked," Feldt said. "They had children along with some adults. You could tell there was a sense of urgency and panic in their eyes."
Great Southwest Parkway, a major street in an industrial area in front of the rink, was partially blocked off after the shootings.
About a dozen police vehicles with lights flashing and a few fire trucks were parked nearby, with a mobile command station in front of the building and police tape surrounding it.
As of 9:30 p.m., bodies were still inside the building, the Morning News reported.
Byron Raspberry of Grand Prairie said his children go to the rink frequently because it is near their home.
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A convicted child murderer testified in an Italian courtroom today that American college student Amanda Knox was not involved in the 2007 murder of her roommate. Mario Alessi, who was convicted in the kidnapping and murder of an Italian toddler, said he was told by drifter Rudy Guede that Knox and her ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were innocent and were not connected to the murder of Knox's roommate and that Guede's friend stabbed to death. Alessi claimed that "a knife appeared, almost out...Full Story
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This past weekend , I had volunteered for the kids winter art camp. Usually what it is, is that our high school kids get partnered with elementary kids from around our district and they help them do artwork. So , I was given a sweet girl named Glennis. She was very quiet and shy. Into an hour spending time with her, and as well getting to know her. I asked “do you see any friends you wanted to say hi to” and she responded …”no , I don’t have friends… because I’m different.” This girl is 10 years old , and here she feels that being different is the worst thing. And that day I told her I am her friend , even if I see her one day. “I’ll always be your friend ,Glennis.” Always. | http://adoreejenifer.tumblr.com/ | dclm-gs1-046140002 | false | false | {
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September 22, 2012|Reuters
* Headquarters of Islamist Ansar al-Sharia group targeted
* Group was linked to last week's attack on U.S. consulate
* Crowd also attacked pro-govt militia and arsenal in error
* Eleven killed, more than 60 wounded
* Libyans had marched in Benghazi to support democracy
By Peter Graff and Suleiman Al-Khalidi
BENGHAZI, Libya, Sept 22 (Reuters) - An Islamist militia was
driven out of the city of Benghazi early on Saturday in a surge
of anger against the armed groups that control large parts of
Libya more than a year after the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi.
A spokesman for Ansar al-Sharia, which some U.S. and Libyan
officials blame for the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi
last week in which the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans
were killed, said it had evacuated its bases "to preserve
security in the city".
In a dramatic sign of Libya's fragility, after sweeping
through Ansar's bases the crowd went on to attack a
pro-government militia, believing them to be Islamists,
triggering an armed response in which at least 11 people were
killed and more than 60 wounded.
The invasion of Ansar al-Sharia's compounds, which met
little resistance, appeared to be part of a sweep of militia
bases by police, troops and activists following a large
demonstration against militia units in Benghazi on Friday.
The two main Islamist militias in Derna, a city in eastern
Libya known as an Islamist stronghold, withdrew from their five
military bases and announced they were disbanding, residents
said on Saturday.
"Abu Slim had three camps and Ansar al-Sharia had two. So
it's five. Empty. All empty," Siraj Shennib, a 29-year-old
linguistics professor who has been part of protests against the
militia, said by telephone.
Demonstrators in Benghazi pulled down militia flags and set
a vehicle on fire inside what was once the base of Gaddafi's
security forces.
Hundreds of men waving swords and even a meat cleaver
shed for freedom shall not go in vain!"
"After what happened at the American consulate, the people
of Benghazi had enough of the extremists," demonstrator Hassan
people broke in and they fled.
"This place is like the Bastille. This is where Gaddafi
This is a turning point for the people of Benghazi."
Adusalam al-Tarhouni, a government worker who arrived with
the first wave of protesters, said several pickup trucks with
Ansar fighters had initially confronted the protesters and
said. Protesters had freed four prisoners found inside.
Libya's government had promised Washington it would find the
perpetrators of what appeared to be a well-planned attack on the
U.S. consulate, which coincided with protests against an
anti-Islam video and the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
The attack and the outrage directed at the United States
over the video across the Muslim world raised questions about
President Barack Obama's handling of the so-called Arab Spring.
Although Ansar al-Sharia denies any role in the consulate
attack, the latest events in the cradle of Libya's revolution
appeared at least in part to vindicate Obama's faith in Libya's
nascent democracy.
"It's a pretty clear sign from the Libyan people that
they're not going to trade the tyranny of a dictator for the
tyranny of the mob," said White House spokesman Josh Earnest.
Libyan political scientist Ahmad al-Atrash told Reuters:
"People in Benghazi and all over Libya want to get these
militias under control ... The overwhelming feeling is against
any element that keeps the situation unstable."
The second half of Friday night's protest proved his point.
Continuing to chant anti-Ansar slogans, the crowd, swelling
into the thousands, moved on to attack a separate compound where
the powerful pro-government Rafallah al-Sahati militia,
safeguarding a big weapons store, opened fire on the assailants.
As looters later tried to leave the scene, vigilantes
wielding clubs and machetes tried to prevent them driving off
with heavy weapons.
Officials at three hospitals told a Reuters correspondent
they had a total of five dead and more than 60 wounded from the
night's violence.
Police found six more dead bodies near the compound on
Saturday morning, police officer Ahmed Ali Agouri said.
The six dead men were bodyguards of a colonel in the regular
Libyan army who went missing on Friday, and the prospect that
the killings and kidnapping may have been the work of a militia
group suggested there could be more tension between the army and
militia in coming days.
"We came as peaceful protesters. When we got there they
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On a sweltering summer day, our heated bodies need to be cooled down. Popsicles, icicles, fans, anything with some modicum of “chill” to turn down the furnace under our skin.
OPUS Bar has an item to add to your list of summer coolants… The French (Canadian) 75.
Presented in its own petit bottle, the almost traditional cocktail contains Blanche de Chambly, a Quebec white ale, instead of champagne. Barman Martin combines Plymouth Gin, Orange Bitters, and Lemon Simple Syrup within the bubbles of the wheat coloured beverage.
Expect your tongue to fizzle with vibrant and sweet citrus flavours as your body reaches a more desirable temperature. You may even swear you’re in the middle of an orange grove if you close your eyes tightly.
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Magma ocean explains volcanoes on Jupiter’s moon
(Click image for a larger view.) This image from NASA'S Galilieo spacecraft shows Jupiter's moon Io. (NASA photo)
Scientists believe there’s a bubbling, subsurface ocean of molten magma on Io, the innermost of Jupiter’s four Galilean moons.
That goes a long way toward explaining why Io is the most volcanic body in the known solar system, producing about 100 times more lava every year than all the volcanoes on Earth.
Researchers determined the existence of the massive magma ocean when the Galilieo spacecraft detected strange patterns in magnetic field data from the moon.
“It turns out Io was continually giving off a ‘sounding signal’ in Jupiter’s rotating magnetic field that matched what would be expected from molten or partially molten rocks deep beneath the surface,” the UCLA’s Krishan Khurana, lead author of the study, said in a NASA statement.
Rock samples studied by Khurana’s team showed molten magma is present just under Io’s crush. Unlike on Earth, it’s not likely to just be gathered in pockets near fault lines.
Instead, scientists describe a “global magma ocean” miles below the moon’s surface.
That might have also been the case on Earth and the Moon billions of years ago, according to NASA:
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[goh] /goʊ/ Show IPA
verb, went, gone, going, noun, pluralgoes, interjection, adjective
verbs 46 nouns 7 interjection 1 adjectives 2 verb phrases 22 idioms 20
verb (used without object)
to move or proceed, especially to or from something:
They're going by bus.
to leave a place; depart:
People were coming and going all the time.
Can't you go any faster in your work?
to become as specified:
to go mad.
to continue in a certain state or condition; be habitually:
to go barefoot.
to act as specified:
Go warily if he wants to discuss terms.
to go into debt; to go to sleep.
to be known:
to go by a false name.
to reach, extend, or give access to:
Where does this door go?
to pass or elapse:
The time went fast.
My money goes for food and rent.
to be sold:
to be considered generally or usually:
He's short, as basketball players go.
to conduce or tend:
This only goes to prove the point.
to result or end; turn out:
How did the game go?
to belong; have a place:
This book goes on the top shelf.
Your tweed jacket would go well with these pants.
This belt won't go around my waist.
The cake went fast.
Those practical jokes of yours have got to go!
How is your new job going?
to move or proceed with remarkable speed or energy:
Look at that airplane go!
to make a certain sound:
The gun goes bang.
to be phrased, written, or composed:
How does that song go?
to go to court.
His eyesight is beginning to go.
to die:
The old man went peacefully at 3 a.m.
to fail, break, or give way:
The dike might go any minute.
to come into action; begin:
Go when you hear the bell.
to make up a quantity or content; be requisite:
Sixteen ounces go to the pound.
Three goes into fifteen five times.
to contribute to an end result:
the items that go to make up the total.
Their daughter is going to be a doctor.
to be permitted, approved, or the like:
Around here, anything goes.
to be authoritative; be the final word:
This is my house, and what I say goes!
to subject oneself:
Don't go to any trouble.
He finally had to go ask for a loan.
Informal. to urinate or defecate.
verb (used with object)
Informal. to endure or tolerate:
I can't go his preaching.
I'll go fifty dollars for a ticket, but no more.
to move or proceed with or according to; follow:
Going my way?
to go halves.
This field will go two bales of cotton.
to assume the obligation, responsibility, or function of:
His father went bail for him.
Informal. to enjoy, appreciate, desire, or want:
I could go a big steak dinner right now.
the act of going:
the come and go of the seasons.
energy, spirit, or animation:
a man with a lot of go.
a try at something; attempt:
to have a go at winning the prize.
a successful accomplishment; success:
to make a go of a new business.
Informal. a business agreement; deal; bargain:
Thirty dollars? It's a go.
The boss gave us the go on the new project.
Boxing. a bout:
the main go.
On your mark! Get set! Go!
functioning properly:
Verb phrases
go about,
1. to occupy oneself with; perform:
The shoemaker goes about his work with a smile.
2. Nautical. to change course by tacking or wearing.
go after, to attempt to obtain; strive for:
go against, to be in conflict with or opposed to:
It goes against the company's policy.
go ahead, to proceed without hesitation or delay:
If you want to use my car, go ahead.
go along,
1. to move or proceed.
2. to accompany in travel.
3. to agree; concur:
I can't go along with you on that idea.
go around,
to go around with a bad crowd.
2. to be sufficient for all:
Is there enough food to go around?
The rumor is going around that he was forced to resign.
go at,
1. to assault; attack.
2. to begin or proceed vigorously:
to go at one's work with a will.
go back on. back2 (def 7).
go by,
1. to be disregarded or not taken advantage of:
Don't let this chance go by.
2. to be guided by or to rely upon:
Don't go by what she says.
go down,
Prices went down. The swelling is going down.
2. to descend or sink:
When does the sun go down?
3. to suffer defeat:
to go down fighting.
4. to be accepted or believed:
This nonsense goes down as truth with many persons.
5. to admit of being consumed:
This food goes down easily.
6. to be remembered in history or by posterity.
7. Slang. to happen; occur:
What's been going down since I've been away?
9. Bridge. to fall short of making one's contract.
10. Slang: Vulgar. to perform fellatio or cunnilingus.
go for,
1. to make an attempt at; try for:
He is going for the championship.
2. to assault.
3. to favor; like:
It simply isn't the kind of life you would go for.
material that goes for silk.
go in for,
2. to occupy oneself with; engage in:
Europeans in increasing numbers are going in for camping.
go into,
1. to discuss or investigate:
Let's not go into the question of whose fault it was.
2. to undertake as one's study or work:
to go into medicine.
go off,
A gun went off in the distance.
The interview went off very badly.
3. to leave, especially suddenly:
She went off without saying goodbye.
4. to die.
5. to deteriorate.
6. Slang. to experience orgasm.
go on,
1. to happen or take place:
What's going on here?
2. to continue:
Go on working.
3. to behave; act:
Don't go on like that!
4. to talk effusively; chatter.
5. (used to express disbelief):
Go on, you're kidding me.
6. to appear onstage in a theatrical performance:
I go on in the middle of the second act.
go out,
Silent movies went out as soon as the talkies were perfected.
2. to cease or fail to function:
The lights went out.
3. to participate in social activities, on dates, etc.
4. to take part in a strike:
The printers went out yesterday in a contract dispute.
go over,
1. to repeat; review.
2. to be effective or successful:
The proposal went over very well with the trustees.
3. to examine:
The mechanic went over the car but found nothing wrong.
4. to read; scan.
go through,
1. to bear; experience.
2. to examine or search carefully:
3. to be successful; be accepted or approved:
The proposed appropriation will never go through.
4. to use up; spend completely:
He went through his allowance in one day.
go under,
1. to be overwhelmed or ruined; fail.
2. (of a ship) to founder.
go up,
2. to increase in cost, value, etc.
3. to forget one's lines during a theatrical performance.
go ape over/for. ape (def 6).
go bananas. bananas (def 2).
go for broke. broke (def 9).
go native. native (def 24).
go the whole hog, to do something thoroughly or consistently:
go to!, Archaic.
1. you don't say! I don't believe you!
2. let's do it! come on!
go together,
1. to be appropriate or harmonious:
The rug and curtains don't go together.
2. Informal. to keep company; date; court:
They have gone together for two years.
go with, Informal. to keep company with; court; date:
He went with her for two semesters.
Also, go out with.
let go,
1. to release one's grasp or hold:
Please let go of my arm.
2. to free; release.
3. to cease to employ; dismiss:
Business was slack and many employees were let go.
4. to become unrestrained; abandon inhibitions:
5. to dismiss; forget; discard:
let go with, to express or utter with abandon:
He let go with a sudden yell.
let oneself go, to free oneself of inhibitions or restraint:
Let yourself go and get mad once in a while.
no go, Informal.
1. futile; useless:
Tomorrow's satellite launching is no go.
on the go,
1. very busy; active:
She's always on the go.
2. while going from place to place; while traveling.
coffee to go.
1. walk, run, travel, advance.
1. stay.
go1 (ɡəʊ)
vb (foll by by or under) (takes an infinitive without to) , goes, going, went, gone
3. to depart: we'll have to go at eleven
6. to operate or function effectively: the radio won't go
19. to be known (by a name or disguise)
23. to fail or give way: my eyesight is going
25. to die: the old man went at 2 am
26. (often foll by by)
c. to be guided (by)
27. to occur: happiness does not always go with riches
31. to attend: go to school; go to church
40. (tr) cards to bet or bid: I go two hearts
41. informal chiefly (US) (tr) to have as one's weight: I went 112 pounds a year ago
42. (US), (Canadian)
44. not standard (tr) to say: widely used, esp in the historic present, in reporting dialogue: Then she goes, ``Give it to me!'' and she just snatched it
45. informal go and to be so foolish or unlucky as to: then she had to go and lose her hat
47. slang go ape to become crazy, enraged, or out of control
48. slang go ape over to become crazy or extremely enthusiastic about
49. go astray to be mislaid; go missing
50. go bail to act as surety
51. go bush See bush
52. go halves See half
53. (often foll by with) go hard to cause trouble or unhappiness (to)
54. slang go it to do something or move energetically
55. informal go it alone to act or proceed without allies or help
56. informal go much on to approve of or be in agreement with (something): usually used in the negative: I don't go much on the idea
57. informal go one better to surpass or outdo (someone)
58. informal go the whole hog See hog
59. let go
a. to relax one's hold (on); release
b. euphemistic to dismiss (from employment)
c. to discuss or consider no further
60. let oneself go
a. to act in an uninhibited manner
b. to lose interest in one's appearance, manners, etc
61. to go
a. remaining
b. informal (US), (Canadian) (of food served by a restaurant) for taking away
n , goes, going, went, gone, goes
62. the act of going
63. informal
64. a turn: it's my go next
66. informal hard or energetic work: it's all go
70. informal a bargain or agreement
71. informal all the go very popular; in fashion
72. informal from the word go from the very beginning
73. See get-up-and-go
74. informal no go impossible; abortive or futile: it's no go, I'm afraid
75. informal on the go active and energetic
76. informal (postpositive) functioning properly and ready for action: esp used in astronautics: all systems are go
go or I-go2 (ɡəʊ)
[from Japanese]
I-go or I-go2
[from Japanese]
abbreviation for
general order
go out
vb (usually foll by with or together)
1. to depart from a room, house, country, etc
2. to cease to illuminate, burn, or function: the fire has gone out
3. to cease to be fashionable or popular: that style went out ages ago!
4. to become unconscious or fall asleep: she went out like a light
5. (of a broadcast) to be transmitted
6. to go to entertainments, social functions, etc
7. to associate (with a person of the opposite sex) regularly; date
8. (of workers) to begin to strike
9. (foll by to) to be extended (to): our sympathy went out to her on the death of her sister
10. cards to get rid of the last card, token, etc, in one's hand
11. go all out to make a great effort to achieve or obtain something: he went all out to pass the exam
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2. ground out
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go out
1. Be extinguished, as in All the lights went out. [c. 1400]
2. Die; also, faint. For example, I want to go out before I become senile, or At the sight of blood he went out like a light. The first usage dates from about 1700 and was at first put go out of the world. For the variant, see under out cold.
3. Take part in social life outside the home, as in We go out a lot during the holiday season. This usage dates from the second half of the 1700s and gave rise to go out with someone, meaning "to date someone."
4. Stop working, as in To show their support of the auto workers, the steel workers went out too. This expression is short for go out on strike. [Late 1800s]
5. Become unfashionable, as in Bell-bottom pants went out in the 1970s but made a comeback in the 1990s. This usage is sometimes amplified to go out of fashion or go out of style, as in This kind of film has gone out of fashion, or These boots are going out of style. [Late 1400s]
6. Cease to function as before. This sense appears in go out of print, said of a book that will no longer be printed. Also see the subsequent idioms beginning with go out.
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Nicolas Léonard Sadi, 1796–1832, French physicist: pioneer in the field of thermodynamics.
Carnot (ˈkɑːnəʊ, French karno)
1. Lazare (Nicolas Marguerite) (lazar), known as the Organizer of Victory. 1753--1823, French military engineer and administrator: organized the French Revolutionary army (1793--95)
2. Nicolas Léonard Sadi (nikɔlɑ leɔnar sadi). 1796--1832, French physicist, whose work formed the basis for the second law of thermodynamics, enunciated in 1850; author of Réflexions sur la puissance motrice du feu (1824).
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Author Sayyid Qutb
Original title Ma'alim fi al-Tariq
Country Egypt
Language Arabic
Publisher Kazi Publications
Publication date 1964
Media type Paperback
ISBN 1-56744-494-6
OCLC Number 55100829
Sayyid Qutb
Ma'alim fi al-Tariq, also Ma'alim fi'l-tareeq, (Arabic: معالم في الطريق) or Milestones, first published in 1964, is a short (12 chapters, 160 pages) book by Egyptian Islamist author Sayyid Qutb in which he lays out a plan and makes a call to action to re-create the Muslim world on strictly Qur'anic grounds, casting off what Qutb calls Jahiliyyah, the pre-Islamic ignorance that the world has lapsed into.
Ma'alim fi al-Tariq has been called "one of the most influential works in Arabic of the last half century".[1] It is probably Qutb's most famous and influential work and one of the most influential Islamist tracts written. It has also become a manifesto for the ideology of "Qutbism". Commentators have both praised Milestones as a ground-breaking, inspirational work by a hero and a martyr,[2] and reviled it as a prime example of unreasoning entitlement, self-pity, paranoia, and hatred that has been a major influence on Islamist terrorism.[3]
English translations of the book are usually entitled simply "Milestones," the book is also sometimes referred to as "Signposts." The title Ma'alim fi al-Tariq translates into English as "Milestones Along the Way", "Signposts on the Road", or different combinations thereof.
Ma'alim fi al-Tariq marked the culmination of Qutb's evolution from modernist author and critic, to Islamist activist and writer, and finally to Islamist revolutionary and theoretician. It was written in prison, where Qutb spent 10 years under charges of political conspiracy against Egypt's Nasser regime, and first published in 1964. Four of its thirteen chapters were originally written for Qutb's voluminous Quranic commentary, Fi Zilal al-Qur'an (In the shades of the Qur'an).[4]
Less than a year after its publication, Qutb was again arrested and brought to trial in Egypt under charges of conspiring against the state. Excerpts from the book were used to incriminate Qutb and he was found guilty and sentenced to death by hanging in 1966.[5] His death elevated his status to Shaheed or martyr in the eyes of many Muslims. Milestones became a bestseller and widely distributed across the Arab speaking world. To date, close to 2,000 editions of the work are said to have been published.[6]
In his book, Qutb seeks to set out "milestones" or guiding markers along a road that will lead to the revival of Islam from its current "extinction."
According to Qutb, much of the Muslim world approaches the Qur'an as a means to simply acquire culture and information, to participate in academic discussions and enjoyment. This evades the real purpose, for rather, it should be approached as a means to change society, to remove man from the enslavement of other men to the servitude of God.[7] He also says "The Muslim community has been extinct for a few centuries" and reverted to Jahiliyyah ("The state of ignorance of the guidance from God" (p. 11, 19)) because those who call themselves Muslims have failed to follow "the laws of God" or Sharia (also Shariah, Shari'a, or Shari'ah), traditional Islamic law. (p. 9)[8] Following the Sharia is not just important but a defining attribute of Muslims, more necessary than belief itself (p. 89), because "according to the Shari'ah, 'to obey' is 'to worship'." This means Muslims must not only refrain from worshipping anything other than God, they must not obey anything other than God: "anyone who serves someone other than God" — be that someone (or something) a priest, president, a parliament, or a legal statute of a secular state — "is outside God's religion, although he may claim to profess this religion." (p. 60)
Qutb sees Sharia as much more than a code of religious or public laws. It is a complete "way of life ... based on submission to God alone," (p. 82) crowding out anything non-Islamic. Its rules range from "belief" to "administration and justice" to "principles of art and science." (p. 107) Being God's law, Sharia is as much a part "of that universal law which governs the entire universe, ... as accurate and true as any of the laws known as the 'laws of nature,'" like gravity or electricity. (p. 88, also p. 45-46)
"The establishment of God's law on earth" will lead to "blessings" falling "on all mankind." (p. 90) Sharia is "the only guarantee against any kind of discord in life. " (p. 89) and will "automatically" bring "peace and cooperation among individuals." "Knowledge of the secrets of nature, its hidden forces and the treasures concealed in the expanses of the universe," (p. 90) will be revealed "in an easy manner." Its "harmony between human life and the universe" will approach the perfection of heaven itself. (p. 91)
Just as Sharia is - in Qutb's view - all encompassing and all wonderful, whatever is non-Muslim (or Jahiliyyah) is "evil and corrupt," and its existence anywhere intolerable to true Muslims. "Islam cannot accept or agree to a situation which is half-Islam and half-Jahiliyyah ... The mixing and co-existence of the truth and falsehood is impossible." (p. 130) "We will not change our own values and concepts either more or less to make a bargain with this jahili society. Never!" (p. 21) In preaching and promoting Islam, for example, it is very important not to demean Islam by "searching for resemblances" between Islam and the "filth" and "the rubbish heap of the West." (p. 139)
According to Qutb, to ignore this fact and attempt to introduce elements of socialism or nationalism into Islam or the Muslim community (as Egypt's Arab Socialist Union government was doing at the time) is against Islam. Qutb stresses that in the early days of Islam, Muhammad did not make appeals to ethnic or class loyalty. Though these crowd-pleasing appeals would have undoubtedly shortened the thirteen years of "tortures" Muhammad had to endure while calling unresponsive Arabs to Islam, "God did not lead His Prophet on this course. ... This was not the way," (p. 25-27) and so must not be the way now. So although many of Qutb's ideals about how to run a just society would seem socialist to the western observer, he denounced socialism because socialism works from the idea that classes of people do exist, while the whole point of Mahammed's postulating of Islam was that he abolished a very rigid class and cast system in the then Christian-Jewish-animist Middle -East by declaring all people equal.
Islamic vanguard[edit]
To restore Islam on earth and free Muslims from "jahili society, jahili concepts, jahili traditions and jahili leadership," (p. 21) Qutb preaches that a vanguard (tali'a) be formed modeling itself after the original Muslims, the "companions" of Muhammad (Sahaba). These Muslims successfully vanquished Jahiliyyah (Qutb believes) principally for two reasons:
• They cut themselves off from the Jahiliyyah—i.e. they ignored the learning and culture of non-Muslim groups (Greeks, Romans, Persians, Christians or Jews), and separated themselves from their old non-Muslim friends and family. (p. 16, 20)
• They looked to the Qur'an for orders to obey, not as "learning and information" or solutions to problems. (p. 17-18)
Following these principles the vanguard will fight Jahiliyyah with a twofold approach: preaching, and "the movement" (jama'at). Preaching will persuade people to become true Muslims, while the movement will remove by "physical power and Jihaad for abolishing the organizations and authorities of the Jahili system." (p. 55) Foremost amongst these organizations and people to be removed is the "political power which rests on a complex yet interrelated ideological, racial, class, social and economic support," (p. 59) but ultimately includes "the whole human environment." (p. 72) Force is necessary, Qutb explains, because it is naive to expect "those who have usurped the authority of God" to "give up their power" without a fight. (p. 58-9)
Remaining aloof from Jahiliyyah and its values and culture, but preaching and forcibly abolishing authority within it, the vanguard will travel the road, gradually growing from a cell of "three individuals ... to ten, the ten to a hundred, the hundred to a thousand, and the thousand ... to twelve thousand," and blossom into a truly Islamic community. The community may start in the "homeland of Islam" but this is by no means "the ultimate objective of the Islamic movement of Jihad." (p. 72) Jihad must not merely be defensive, it must be offensive, (p. 62) and its objective must be to carry Islam "throughout the earth to the whole of mankind." (p. 72)
True Muslims should maintain a "sense of supremacy" and "superiority," (p. 141) on the road of renewal, but it is important that they also prepare themselves for a "life until death in poverty, difficulty, frustration, torment and sacrifice" (p. 157), and even to brace themselves for possibility of death by torture at the hands of Jahiliyyah's sadistic, "arrogant, mischievous, criminal and degraded people." (p. 150) Qutb ends his book by an example of persecution against Muslims from the Quran's "surat al-buruj," enjoining modern-day Muslims to tolerate the same or worse tortures for the sake of carrying out God's will. After all, "this world is not a place of reward"; the believer's reward is in heaven. (p. 150, 157)
Two of Qutb's major influences were the medieval Islamic scholar Ibn Taymiya, and contemporary Pakistani/Indian Islamist writer Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi. Both used the historical term jahiliyya to describe contemporary events in the Muslim world.[9]
Two other concepts popularized by Qutb in Milestones also came from Maududi:
• al-'ubudiyya, or worship, (which is performed not only by praying and adoring but by obeying); and
• al-hakimiyya, or sovereignty, (which is God's over all the earth and violated when His law, the Sharia, is not obeyed).[10]
Qutb's precept that Sharia law is essential to Islam and any self-described "Muslim" ruler who ignores it in favor of man-made laws is actually a non-Muslim who should be fought and overthrown come from a fatwa of Ibn Taymiya.[11]
Qutb's intense dislike of the West notwithstanding, some of his ideas are strongly reminiscent of European fascism:[citation needed]
• the decline of contemporary Western civilization and "infertility" of democracy,
• inspiration from an earlier golden age and desire to restore its glory with an all-encompassing (totalitarian) social, political, economic system,
• victimhood from malicious foreign and Jewish conspiracies, and
• violent revolution to expel alien influences and reestablish the power and international domination of the nation/community,[12]
Where it deviates from most forms[citation needed] of fascism is that it works from the assumption that all men, irrespective of race, skin color or nationality, are equal in their being a Muslim or in their ability to become a Muslim. So where fascism centers around exclusion, Qutb tried to strive for a world in which everybody is included. Fascism having made some impact among anti-British Arab Muslims before, during, and after World War II.[13] The influence of particular fascist thinkers (particularly French fascist Alexis Carrel) in Qutb's work is disputed.[14]
The centrality of an Islamic 'vanguard' (Arabic: tali'a) in Qutb's political program also suggests influence from Leninist thinking.[citation needed][who?]
Qutb's book was originally a bestseller and became more popular as the Islamic revival strengthened. Islamists have hailed him as "a matchless writer, ... one of the greatest thinkers of contemporary Islamic thought,"[15] and compared to Western political philosopher John Locke.[16] Egyptian intellectual Tariq al-Bishri has compared the influence of Milestones to Vladimir Lenin's pamphlet What Is To Be Done?, where the founder of modern Communism outlined his theories of how Communism would be different than socialism.[4] Author Gilles Kepel credits Milestones with "unmasking" the socialist and "nominally" Islamic "faces" of the Egyptian regime Qutb lived under.[17]
Outside the Islamist context, however Ma'alim fi-l-Tariq has been criticized by Muslims for the takfir of "jahili" Muslims, and by non-Muslims for its accusations against same, particularly following the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001.
The claim that the entire world was jahiliyya meant that mainstream Muslims were not actually Muslims, which meant they were potentially guilty of apostasy, a capital crime in traditional Sharia (though rarely enforced). Critics allege that Qutb's Milestones helped to open up a Pandora’s box of takfir (declaring a Muslim to be an infidel) that has brought serious internal strife, in particular terrorism, to the Muslim world in recent decades.[18]
Christians and Jews as Polytheists[edit]
Qutb repeatedly proclaims that "serving human lords" is intolerable and is a practice Islam "has come to annihilate." (p. 60) Christians and Jews are guilty of it since, according to Qutb, they give priests and rabbis "the authority to make laws" and "it is clear that obedience to laws and judgments is a sort of worship." [p. 60] Because of this, Qutb says, these religions are actually polytheist, not monotheist.
Western and Jewish Conspiracies[edit]
• Qutb asserted that "World Jewry" was and is engaged in conspiracies whose "purpose" is:
to eliminate all limitations, especially the limitations imposed by faith and religion, so that Jews may penetrate into body politics of the whole world and then may be free to perpetuate their evil designs. At the top of the list of these activities is usury, the aim of which is that all the wealth of mankind end up in the hands of Jewish financial institutions which run on interest. (p.110-111)
• He also alleged that the West had a centuries-long "enmity toward Islam" which led it to create a "well-thought-out scheme ... to demolish the structure of Muslim society," (p. 116) At the same time, "the Western world realizes that Western civilization is unable to present any healthy values for the guidance of mankind," (p. 7) and "the American people blush" with shame when confronted with the "immoralities" and "vulgarity" of their own country in comparison with the superiority of Islam's "logic, beauty, humanity and happiness" (p. 139)
Olivier Roy has described Qutb's attitude towards the west is one of "radical contempt and hatred" for the West,[19] rather than reasoned criticism, and complains that the propensity of Muslims like Qutb to blame problems on outside conspiracies "is currently paralyzing Muslim political thought. For to say that every failure is the devil's work is the same as asking God, or the devil himself (which is to say these days the Americans), to solve one's problems." [20]
Milestones and Islam[edit]
Other questions involve Qutb's ideas of Sharia and freedom.
Qutb's ideology is premised upon Sharia law and its application to every aspect of life. He does not explain or illustrate how any specific statutes are better or different than man-made law - evidence to support assertions in Ma'alim fi al-Tariq is limited to scriptural quotations - but does assure readers Sharia is "without doubt ... perfect in the highest degree" (p. 11), and will free humanity from servitude to other men.
Some, such as scholar Khaled Abou El Fadl, have questioned Qutb's understanding of Sharia, and his assumptions that Sharia is not only perfect but accessible to mortals in its completeness.[21] While Islamic scholars of Sharia traditionally have two decade-long training from schools such as Al Azhar, all Qutb's formal post-secondary schooling was secular.[22]
Insofar as Qutb's book follows the fundamentalist prescription that "the Quran is our law,"[23][24][25] it comes under modernist criticism of Islamism and Islamic fundamentalism which points out, for example, that of 6000 verses in the Quran only 245 concern legislation, and only 90 of those concern constitutional, civil, financial or economic matters.[26] Sharia law is based on Sunna as well the Quran of course, but even this legislation is notably short on help dealing with modern problems such as traffic control, price stability, or health care.[27]
Qutb explains that Sharia law needs no human authorities for citizens to obey and thus frees humanity from "servitude" because
• God's law has "no vagueness or looseness" (p. 85) which would necessitate judges to settle disputes over interpretation, and
• no need for enforcement authorities because "as soon as a command is given, the heads are bowed, and nothing more is required for implementation (of Shariah) except to hear it." (p. 32)
This uniquely free socio-economic system not only frees Muslims to be true Muslims, but explains why offensive jihad to "establish the sovereignty of God," i.e. true Islam, "throughout the world" (p. 62) would not constitute aggression towards non-Muslims but rather "a movement to wipe out tyranny and to introduce true freedom to mankind," (p. 62) since even the most contented and patriotic non-Muslim living in a non-Muslim state is still obeying a human authority. These non-Muslims must be freed by Islamic jihad, just as the non-Muslims of Persia or Byzantium were freed by invading Muslim armies in the 7th Century AD.
The alleged problem here [28] is that conquered non-Muslims would have no incentive to obey un-enforced Sharia law since non-Muslims by definition do not consider Islamic law to be divine. However, if obedience were not voluntary, offensive jihad would lose its rationale as a movement to wipe out tyranny.
2. ^ Moussalli, Radical Islamic Fundamentalism, 1992, 14-15
3. ^ What has been the impact of Milestones?
4. ^ a b Kepel, Prophet, (1986), p.43
5. ^ Qutb was executed despite the fact that he was not the instigator or leader of the plot to assassinate the President and other Egyptian officials and personalities, only the leader of the group planning it. (Sivan, Emmanuel, Radical Islam : Medieval Theology and Modern Politics, Yale University, 1985, p.93.;
(Fouad Ajami, "In the Pharaoh's Shadow: Religion and Authority in Egypt," Islam in the Political Process, editor James P. Piscatori, Cambridge University Press, 1983, p. 25-26.)
6. ^ Lisbeth Lindeborg, Dagens Nyheter, (Stockholm, Sweden), Oct. 25, 2001.
7. ^ ['Milestones'], Ch. 1,p.7
8. ^ All page numbers given refer to the English language edition of Milestones published by The Mother Mosque Foundation, 1981
9. ^ Sivan, Radical Islam, p.65, 128; Kepel, Muslim, p.194
10. ^ Two terms Qutb uses: al-'ubudiyya, or `worship` and al-hakimiyya (also al-`uluhiya), `sovereignty,` appear in The Four Key Concepts of the Qur’an by Abul-a'la Mawdudi. (Kepel, Prophèt p. 48.)
11. ^ Sivan, Radical Islam, p.97-8.
12. ^ Berman, Terror and Liberalism (2003) p.60+
13. ^ example: Opinion piece by Jack Bloom in The Sowetan (Johannesburg), October 2, 2001,
14. ^ See Discussion section.
Aziz Al-Azmeh, Islam and Modernites, London, Verso Press, 1996 p. 77-101.)
Tariq Ali, The Clash of Fundamentalisms, Verso, 2002, p.274
15. ^ Ahmad S. Moussalli, Radical Islamic Fundamentalism: the Ideological and Political Discourse of Sayyid Qutb, by American University of Beirut, 1992, p.14-15
16. ^ "Syed Qutb - John Locke of the Islamic World," Muqtedar Khan, The Globalist, July 28, 2003
17. ^ Kepel, Prophet, (1986), p.52
18. ^ Kepel, Prophet, (1986), p.65, 74-5, Cook, David, Understanding Jihad, University of California Press, 2005, p.139
19. ^ Roy, Olivier, Globalized Islam : the Search for a New Ummah, Columbia University Press, 2004, p. 250.
20. ^ Roy, Olivier, The Failure of Political Islam, translated by Carol Volk, Harvard University Press, 1994, p.19-20
21. ^ Abou El Fadl, Khaled, The Great Theft, Harper San Francisco, 2005, p.82
22. ^ Gilles Kepel, Le Prophète et Pharaon : aux sources des mouvements islamistes Seuil, 1993, p. 58.
23. ^ Muslim Brotherhood
24. ^ Constitution of Saudi Arabia "The Quran is supposed to be the supreme law of the land ..."
25. ^ King Faisal of Saudi Arabia speaking in 1966 about whether the KSA would adopt a constitution: "Constitution? What for? The Koran is the oldest and most efficient constitution in the world." from: Political Power and the Saudi State by Ghassane Salameh footnote page 7, which in turn is from Le Monde, June 24, 1966
26. ^ "Islam - Society and Change" by al-Sadiq al-Mahdi from Voices of Resurgent Islam, ed. John L. Esposito, (1983), p.233
27. ^ Schirazi, Asghar, Constitution of Iran, I. B. Tauris, 1998
28. ^ Sayyid Qutb's Milestones and equality
• Berman, Paul (2003). Terror and Liberalism. W.W. Norton.
• Haddad, Yvonne Y. (1983). "Sayyid Qutb: ideologue of Islamic revival". In Esposito, J. Voices of the Islamic Revolution.
• Hasan, S. Badrul (1982). Syed Qutb Shaheed. International Islamic Publishers.
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• Qutb, Sayyid (2007). Milestones. Maktabah Publishers.
• Sivan, Emmanuel (1985). Radical Islam : Medieval Theology and Modern Politics. Yale University Press.
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MilSim is an abbreviation of Military Simulation, and refers to military simulations conducted by civilians for entertainment purposes. There are several forms of MilSim: airsoft games, paintball games, and video games simulating military scenarios and tactics.
Weapons used in MilSim are commonly airsoft or paintball guns. Airsoft guns are used more often in MilSim than paintball guns due to their availability as replica weapons without any modification.
Also, in real-world military and law enforcement training environments, airsoft equipment is favored almost exclusively over paintball counterparts. Primary factors for the use of airsoft equipment includes the realistic audible report, the ease of use and reliability of airsoft guns and realistic magazine sizes and more realistic gun models. Modern airsoft guns, especially those designed with milsim in mind, can support the full range of tactical upgrades using standard weaver sight rails and RIS rails, which accommodate everything from Red Dot Sights, Lasers, foregrips to pressure activated tactical flashlights.
MilSim most often falls into two different categories: reenactment and simulation. Reenactments focus on a particular event in history and aim to provide the most accurate representation of the time period, events, and outcomes of the historical event. Simulation, however, may only focus on a particular time period and representation of which course a particular situation may have taken in history. In most cases a simulation event includes fictitious characters, groups, and political situations.[1]
A player with an airsoft G36E takes aim during a game
Airsoft is a sport in which individuals participate in the simulation of military combat also called MilSim or law enforcement-style combat.
Some Airsoft Teams specialize in Milsim and historical reenactment intended to get the participant "inside the head" of the characters from history. This is an immersive experience and gives participants a chance to live recent history. Many airsoft groups have ex-military members seeking the camaraderie of their old units without the commitment. Some groups support military charities as part of their mission.
Airsoft has its roots in late-1980s East Asia, specifically Japan where firearms were difficult or impossible to obtain due to local laws, so people sought a legal alternative for enjoying their passion. Airsoft is still today most popular in several Asian regions, such as Japan, Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, South Korea, and to a certain extent, the Philippines, and Indonesia. The vast majority of airsoft guns, accessories and after market upgrade parts are also manufactured in these countries.
There is also a growing interest in North America and Europe, especially in the United States (with the largest groups in California, Massachusetts, Colorado, Texas, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Florida), Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Spain, Russia, Sweden, Poland, Lithuania, Portugal, Greece, Finland, Norway, Italy, Belgium (which is also visited by Dutch players, with the game recently having its launch in April 2013 with fields coming soon), Denmark, Ireland, Chile, Argentina, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and South Africa, bolstered by an active and expanding Internet scene.
The United Kingdom's MilSim scene includes a number of airsoft event organizers who specialize in MilSim events run in conjunction with Live Action Role-Players (see LARP) at British Army training facilities such as Copehill Down and Catterick Garrison.
Paintball is a sport in which participants eliminate opponents from play by hitting them with paintballs, spherical gelatin capsules containing primarily polyethylene glycol, other non-toxic and water-soluble substances, and dye, shot from a compressed-gas-powered gun, commonly called a marker.
Paintball draws a wide array of players, and the Sporting Goods Manufacturer's Association estimates that over 30 million people play annually in the United States alone. Insurance statistics show that paintball is one of the safest sports in existence, even more so than tennis.[2]
Games can be played either indoors or outdoors and take various forms, of which some of the most popular are woodsball, scenario and speedball, also sometimes known as tourneyball under various circumstances. Rules for playing paintball vary widely, with most designed to ensure that participants enjoy the sport in a safe environment. The sport requires a significant amount of equipment and has even developed its own slang.
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2. ^ (2003): National Injury Information Clearinghouse of the U. S. Consumer Product Safety Commission in Washington D.C. (Published by Minnesota Paintball Association) [1] URL accessed on 2007-02-19
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October 17, 2013
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Former Brazil international Romario has called for protests over the Brazil government's alleged neglect of vital infrastructure to continue during next year's World Cup.
Protesters on the streets of Belo Horizonte
GettyImagesProtests marred the Confederations Cup.
There is continued backlash in Brazil as citizens argue that too much money has been spent on organising the tournament at the expense of vital public services.
World Cup winner Romario, who is now a politician in his home country, would welcome a repeat of the public protests that marred July's Confederations Cup.
"I want people to see where their money is being spent and I am sure my message is getting across," he told Radio Globo. "One of the big positives is that people have taken to the streets and I want them to keep protesting up until the elections next year, and I believe they will."
It was widely reported that a number of stadiums used for the Confederations Cup were completed in excess of their budget and Romario claims public transportation and other services were sacrificed as a result.
Although the former Barcelona and Flamengo striker was quick to insist he is not taking a stand against the World Cup, he made his opposition to Brazil's preparation methods very clear.
"I am not against the World Cup but I can't be for the money that is being spent on it," he said. "As much as we want the World Cup the Brazilian people deserve respect, they don't deserve this open abuse of their money."
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I am developing a small Top-down Game (Much like the old Zelda Games) and I'm having an issue in terms of Collision detection (The actual theory itself rather than assigning Tiles as solid, etc.)
I have a function called "checkTileCollision" which takes two parameters, X and Y, and is called through the Player's Move function. X and Y are the location of the player AFTER they have moved, as it's suppose to check the position the player is moving to for a solid Tile(s), and if it finds any, returns true to stop movement.
My Player is larger than a Tile (For examples sake, let's say each Tile is 32x32 and the Player is 26x60) and I need to know an efficient way to detect whether or not the player is attempting to step on to a Solid tile. The Player doesn't move on the Grid and is free-moving, so X and Y are true positions and not Tile co-ordinates.
Please note; I am aware of things such as Box2D but I'm wanting to do this without the use of third party libraries.
Any help is appreciated!
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You need to check each corner of the character sprite to detect if any of them enter a solid tile. Also since your character is larger than your tiles, you'll need to check midpoints as well to prevent the player from straddling a single block.
To turn your true positions into coordinates, divide the true position by the tile width (the ground not the player) and that will give you the tile coordinates.
Also I've found it much easier to check for collisions prior to moving than it is to check after moving. Just a thought. :)
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Thank you for your comment, currently I do check each corner and the problem arose with not having a midpoint. Although; Entity Height and Width are both variables that can always be changed, so can you think of a good way to determine the amount of midpoints to have, and also where they should be? – Thomas Mosey Apr 15 at 15:34
I didn't realize this but your character sprite is much taller than your ground tiles, you should be able to get a good effect if you use a 26x26 box at the characters feet for collision detection, that way the top half of the character can overlap tiles (not sure if that's what you are going for). – UnderscoreZero Apr 15 at 15:40
Ah yes - I completely forgot about this method. Thank you for your help! – Thomas Mosey Apr 15 at 15:42
This won't work in general. For example, if you have 4x4 tiles and 64x64 characters, there's a very small chance that any of the corners or midpoints of the character will be within a single solitary solid tile. The problem that's being described here is an AABB intersection test. – Mokosha Apr 15 at 16:56
@Mokosha Going on his situation alone, there is no need to check more than a few points seeing as how his characters and tiles are very close to the same size. – UnderscoreZero Apr 15 at 17:08
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"Show Us Your Papers"
I am way too busy these days for long political rants.
Thanks for listening.
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Laura Mandell
Aug. 14th, 2012 04:30 pm (UTC)
we shall overcome
Thank you for speaking up. The Doonesbury cartoon series welcoming Jim Crow back says it all.
Christopher Arthur
Aug. 14th, 2012 04:37 pm (UTC)
Same issues I always see
I always like to see someone who isn't afraid to state their viewpoint and call out those they see as being wrong. However, It never ceases to amaze me how a perfectly intelligent person can fall victim to the same madness as everyone else. On the first page of comments you reply to a poster with this:
"You really to turn off Fox News and listen to some fact-based reporting.
Your post is full of so many misstatements, distortions, and outright lies that I hardly know where to begin refuting it.
Let me just state, for starts, that the "blocking the military from voting" is completely false, as one of the other posters documents below. Whoever told you that was case was a spin doctor, to be generous... but it's not true."
Without putting too fine a point on it, that middle paragraph is an excuse not an argument. Its a bullying attempt plain and simple. You are basically telling this poster that it isn't worth your time to argue any real points. Your just going to browbeat them with equally tilting opposite spin. You might as well have said simply, if you don't agree with me then quit posting on my rants.
The one that really gets me though is the part about spin doctoring. In your own post you use derivations of the phrase "Show Us Your Papers" which is obviously an attempt to evoke the U.S.S.R. or even Nazi Germany. That is a textbook example of spin doctoring if ever I've seen it.
One last little point I want to make is that I must identify myself with a non-anonymous signin and an IP address to make this post. Liberal high horse hypocrisy, "show me your papers" indeed Mr. Martin.
P.S. - My indignity aside, I am perfectly able to separate my like of you in general from my dislike of this post and possibly your general political viewpoint. Any disparaging remarks taken personally I apologize for, but I feel that this kind of thing must be called out and halted since it accomplishes nothing but bad feelings on both sides.
Christopher Arthur
Aug. 14th, 2012 06:16 pm (UTC)
Re: Same issues I always see
After some more thought it occurs to me and has been pointed out by a friend whose opinion I value, that I'm being petty. This issue really is a pretty cut and dry one. I never disagreed with the fact that your opinion might be correct just that maybe some of the opposite argument could be correct as well. I jumped on the chance to show where arguments tend to break down without taking the matter into full account. I apologize. This is a matter of rights and making sure those rights are enjoyed by all something I feel we have to protect with all our effort. I'd like to retract a good bit of what I printed above. I believe in using plain speech and allowing a point to make itself. I don't like spin doctoring or divisive phraseology and I allowed that to cloud my mind. The key point here is that a solution to a non-existent problem has been introduced in what could possibly be an attempt to gain traction for a political party at the cost of voter rights and that cannot stand. I'm very sorry, and a bit ashamed that I would allow myself to go too far down this path.
Re: Same issues I always see - Sam Trenholme - Aug. 14th, 2012 07:10 pm (UTC) - Expand
Re: Same issues I always see - Christopher Arthur - Aug. 14th, 2012 08:06 pm (UTC) - Expand
Gwendolyn Lord
Aug. 14th, 2012 04:44 pm (UTC)
George you rock!
Shane Roberts
Aug. 14th, 2012 05:55 pm (UTC)
Teabagger? Racist? That's kind of crude. What's with the name calling? As one of your readers/fans I just wanted to say it sucks to get insulted and called a racist by someone you admire. Also, for what it's worth, I had to provide more proof of my identity to post on your boards than I did to vote last election day.
Aug. 14th, 2012 06:01 pm (UTC)
Re: Teabagger?
It is the next election day that is the issue.
Aug. 14th, 2012 06:55 pm (UTC)
You're better than that George
Hey George, please stop. You're better than that.
Aug. 14th, 2012 10:18 pm (UTC)
Aug. 14th, 2012 07:52 pm (UTC)
Not seeing the "police state" aspect; unless every other part of our lives is a "police state"
At my local polling place (and I was there last for the Democratic primary), my father's name, my brother's name, my brother-in-law's name are all listed. Yet my father passed away a number of years ago, and my brother and brother-in-law have moved to new localities where they are now registered to vote. So, in my polling place, I (or someone else) could come back to vote 3 times. And these are not aberrations - they are the norm. I still see people on the rolls that no longer live there, adding a number of other names.
So there is certainly an opportunity for people who want to cheat the system to vote early and often. More so in larger polling venues than mine.
In New Jersey, it costs $24 to get a non-driver id license. Yes, not free. But similar ID is needed for a number of programs that service the indigent and elderly, including food stamps, welfare, and medicare. In most places, you cannot cash a check without photo id. Photo ID is sometimes required when using a credit card. In many pharmacies, prescription drugs will not be given without a photo id. You cannot send a child to school without substantial proof of identification and long and private forms regarding medical data (including immunizations, etc.). I cannot even walk into a parent-teacher conference at my child's public school without a photo id. I can't go to the public pool without a photo id. I can't get a library card without a photo id. In many places, you cannot take standardized tests (SATs, etc.) without a photo id. We are required, every year, to present to the government our most sensitive financial information (and we request of our public officials that they disclose theirs to the public on a regular basis).
I am very sensitive to privacy concerns, but also sensitive to fraud. How many people did it take in Florida in 2000 to drive the Bush tally above the Gore tally? Could there have been fraud? Of course. There were reports of extensive voter fraud in the 1960 election in Chicago and Dallas. In close elections, every vote counts and there's not a lot to prevent fraud.
We are verified in nearly every other transaction in our lives (indeed, you personally have opted to log IP addresses for any poster which some could consider an invasion of privacy or the hallmark of a "police state"); why is only voting (and gun purchases!) exempt?
Honestly, I think this can be done in a careful, bipartisan way that does not inhibit voting (as long as it is done with enough time before the applicable election so people will be given sufficient time to plan). And if cost or location is the issue, allow the post office to provide IDs at minimal cost.
I mean, even Egg Targaryen carries around a signet ring for ID!!!
Edie Sellers
Aug. 14th, 2012 08:31 pm (UTC)
Thank you.
Aug. 14th, 2012 09:01 pm (UTC)
voter suppression shows desperation
Thank you for expressing your anger...this is justified! The world is changing and the 'little people' are finding their power in the internet. Voter suppression demonstrates how desperate the gop really is...
Jordan Gould
Aug. 14th, 2012 09:14 pm (UTC)
George I feel sorry for you because arguing with ignorance is like trying to get a cat to talk. I am an educated person I know more on this issue than most people here I also happen to live in Florida. I could go on about how Rick Scott is currently violating the voting rights act or the numerous ways this violates countless laws, but who am I? just a person on the internet.
People here they attack GRRM for stating the facts as he sees them, asking for proof while showing anecdotes or what have you. So to them I say this: this topic was discussed at length on the Diane Rehm show on monday June 11 2012. This is an npr show 1 hour in length where the topic was voter suppression in the 2012 election. The three guest who talked for the full hour were Wendy Weiser director, Democracy Program, Brennan Center for Justice,
Hans Von Spakovsky senior legal fellow, Heritage Foundation and manager of Civil Justice Reform Initiative and
Doug Chapin director, at the University of Minnesota. These experts have more education and knowledge on this issue than anyone posting on this board they also span from both sides of the isle. Their conclusion was that voter fraud is not an issue in the 2012 election and these efforts are a violation of the voting rights act and constitute voter suppression. Don't take my word for it, this is an npr show, everyone has access to it thanks to efforts on the left and not the right. Please educate yourselves with real sources spanning the isles before speaking out against GRRM. Because his views are very much in line with the leading experts regarding this issue. And to those trolls who will scoff at this as liberal propaganda because it aired on npr.. really? the Heritage foundation is liberal now, where is the logic in that?
Aug. 14th, 2012 09:22 pm (UTC)
Say what?
And for us non Americans, perhaps you could link to something explaining what is going on.
Because on the face of it, it does seem to make sense that only your citizens get to vote, and only once.
But I'm assuming this is more than that.
Aug. 14th, 2012 10:39 pm (UTC)
Re: Say what?
Part I (This is a Game of Thrones board, after all!):
Historically, the US, like many other countries, had voting laws that only allowed property-owning literate white males to vote. After the Civil War ended in 1865, African-American males were allowed to vote (by an amendment to the Constitution) in all states (previously, only free African-Americans were allowed to vote in Northern states). (Women were only allowed to vote (with a number of exceptions on a state-by-state basis, by passage of a Constitutional amendment in 1920 - still better than France in 1944 or Switzerland in 1971). For a number of years after the Civil War (while the North was still "supervising" reconstruction), there were actually a number of African-American senators and congressman. But, soon enough, the legislatures of the former slave-owning states put into place restrictions on voting (known as "Jim Crow" laws) that effectively made it very difficult for African-Americans to vote. There were literacy tests, poll taxes (economic test), etc. that were very difficult for recently freed slaves to meet and for poor classes to meet. And the administrators of these tests were exceedingly racist and would fail even those with Ph.D's etc. These types of restrictions continued through the years, until the civil rights struggles of the 50's and 60's (and the Voting Rights Act signed into law by Lyndon Johnson) bore fruit and did away with "Jim Crow" in theory. Even after "Jim Crow" tactics were outlawed, there were still a lot of stumbling blocks (through deceit and intimidation) that were put in the path of minority race US citizens in many states.
So, there is a healthy suspicion in the US of ANY type of restriction put on voting that could make it more difficult for particular classes of citizens to vote. And it has now been typical over the last 40 years for people to be able to vote just by signing their name (or putting an "X" if they are not literate) in the book of registered voters before being allowed to cast their vote.
George raises issues here of whether proof of identity should be required for voting and how it is alleged (or, in George's position, it is absolutely the truth) that those who are requiring proof of identity are doing so intentionally (and, some argue, with racist bias) to make it more difficult for people who typically vote Democratic (e.g., the poor, African-Americans, Hispanics, the elderly)to cast their vote. George's argument seems to be that it costs money and is difficult to get photo ID, so the legitimate concern of fraud is offset by the legitimate concern that one political party is trying to limit the voters of the other main political party.
Edited at 2012-08-14 10:44 pm (UTC)
Re: Say what? - harryfenton - Aug. 14th, 2012 10:41 pm (UTC) - Expand
Aug. 14th, 2012 09:22 pm (UTC)
The same requirements to vote as to buy a six pack of beer amounts to bigotry, racism and an attempt to keep minorities from voting?
I had no idea that minorities had an onerous time buying adult beverages, cashing a check, opening a bank account, or renting an apartment.
Or maybe I just have a higher opinion of minorities than liberals do.
Also, polls show that African Americans overwhelming support voter ID. Voter ID has already been used in states and it didn't suppress turn out (except among frauds).
Aug. 14th, 2012 10:22 pm (UTC)
Re: Seriously?
Aug. 14th, 2012 09:50 pm (UTC)
They get so mad when they are presented with facts. Truth had a liberal bias.
Get'em George.
Aug. 14th, 2012 10:00 pm (UTC)
The poll tax these so called "Republicans" wish to impose on your Gran to obtain a birth certificate is deplorable.
I find their will to skew the election in their favor a repulsive stab in the back to our democracy. </p>
Let them meet Khaleesi's dragons. Dracaryus!
Paul Molnar
Aug. 14th, 2012 10:14 pm (UTC)
Thank You
You have rather elegantly expressed how many of us feel but couldn't say nearly as well. Thank you.
Jim Treacher
Aug. 14th, 2012 10:17 pm (UTC)
Let's make voting the one thing you don't need a valid ID to do.
Lynn Bentley
Aug. 14th, 2012 10:40 pm (UTC)
So according to 'you' any person who is in this country should be allowed to vote in our elections? You have to be kidding me! Only documented citizens can vote for the public offices of this country. If it were not so every other country that was against the US would instruct their citizens to vote for people that would be for the benefit of their country. Illegal aliens in this country have no say in our elected officials nor our laws. Period.
Aug. 14th, 2012 10:44 pm (UTC)
overwhelmed, not overcome
for Dog's sake!
Will someone please just finally commit a Godwin's Law violation, allowing GRRM to gracefully terminate this thread forthwith?
You cannot argue some people out of what they are hard-wired to believe. There's a serf born every minute!
Aug. 14th, 2012 11:12 pm (UTC)
Re: overwhelmed, not overcome
But but but but....Argh!!! Nazis!!!!
Aug. 14th, 2012 11:02 pm (UTC)
I am just curious, all of you people who find the term Teabagger offensive, have you gone to Michelle Bachman, Allen West, Rush Limpd*ck, Glenn Beck, Fox News, Sean Hannity, or any other ignorant mouth paice's website when they called Liberals, traitors, communists, socialist, terrorists, etc and told them how offensive they are?
When Michele Bachman started her Muslim Witch Hunt did you write to her?
No? Why?
James Jr.
Aug. 14th, 2012 11:17 pm (UTC)
Re: hypocrisy.
Do you actually know what teabagging refers to? If you don't, google it and then get a mental(or visual)image of that and tell me you don't find that extremely offensive. I love how you refer to Rush Limbaugh and lose all your credibility on being civil.
Edited at 2012-08-14 11:19 pm (UTC)
James Jr.
Aug. 14th, 2012 11:11 pm (UTC)
Let's turn the tables...
Tell me would you support this voter ID law if the majority of these people without ID's(which in itself is ridiculous, why do people not have a picture ID anyway?)were voting Republican? I think so. Fortunately, a VAST majority of ALL Americans do not think it unreasonable to show an ID card when voting.
Edited at 2012-08-14 11:18 pm (UTC)
Aug. 14th, 2012 11:23 pm (UTC)
Re: Let's turn the tables...
I have no problem with showing an ID. After the government provides free of charge one standard voting id card to every registered voter. But that is not what this is about.
You and your friends want to make up wild false stories of voter fraud so you can stop people from voting. People that don't vote the way you do.
If it is so important, do it right. But the way it is being done right now, real American are losing their vote. Why are you ok with that?
My grandmother had no birth certificate and no driver license. She had 2 husbands that fought for this country and 6 sons that served. Thankfully she has a family that can help her but there are many elderly people who do not have that help. You sneer and say it is ridiculous that these people don't have ID. How very patriotic of you. God Bless America.
(no subject) - zoewiseman - Aug. 14th, 2012 11:28 pm (UTC) - Expand
Re: Let's turn the tables... - Jordan Gould - Aug. 14th, 2012 11:27 pm (UTC) - Expand
Christopher Keelty
Aug. 14th, 2012 11:26 pm (UTC)
"People Without ID"
Folks, I want to clear up one major misconception here - and mind you, I can't speak for every state, but I'm well informed about Pennsylvania. When a scientific survey was done of eligible voters in PA ("eligible" meaning citizens who are 18+, but not necessarily registered) it turned out that more than 99% of those people possess some valid form of photo ID that they use for day-to-day requirements. However, because the state's voter ID law (like those in many states) is so restrictive, only 84% of those same individuals have photo ID that is VALID FOR VOTING PURPOSES. For example: hospital ID cards, veteran ID cards, and 80% of college ID cards, including those issued by state-run universities, DO NOT COUNT. The crisis, you see, is not that "lazy people can't be bothered to go get ID," as many proponents would have you believe. The crisis is that Pennsylvania legislators passed a law that invalidates many otherwise valid forms of ID.
Why did they do this? I can't tell you for sure, but it certainly appears they intended to disenfranchise and suppress a portion of the electorate in order to sway the election a certain way. The best proof of this, IMHO, is to look at Rhode Island's voter ID law, which has been on the books for some time. RI's law is clearly written with the intent of verifying identity while minimizing the number of people it disenfranchises - to that end, the ID requirement is phased in over several years, accepts a wide variety of forms of ID, provides a reasonable period of time for verification of provisional ballots, and permits eligible voters to register at the polls. This law was an existing model in PA, TX, WI, and the other states that passed voter suppression laws. In PA, when the existing law was being debated, many amendments were proposed to make it less burdensome. The people pushing these laws through weren't interested. They also happen to be the same people who have been extending early voting in predominantly GOP areas while reducing it in predominantly Democratic areas; reducing the hours at DMV locations in heavily Democratic areas (so as to make it more difficult to obtain photo ID) and purging voting rosters of "presumed dead" voters, but only in Democratic areas.
It's not that the concept of verifying identity at the polls is a bad one. It's that these laws aren't really intended to verify identity - they are intended to suppress the vote and swing the election. They're quite effective at doing just that, and that's why they need to be repealed. These laws are patently undemocratic, and defending them, at least once you are informed about their background and their obvious effects, is outright anti-American.
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You'd be forgiven for thinking that the comics industry has gone movie mad this week, judging by the books hitting stores tomorrow. Well, more movie mad than usual, perhaps. If it's not Marvel capitalizing on the success of Iron Man with two new Iron Man series and many other books starring the chrome crusader, it's a sequel to one of last year's summer blockbusters, and the long-awaited conclusion to a story by one of Hollywood's one-time top directors. Celluloid craziness and more, under the jump.
Summer Movie Madness Hits This Week's ComicsS
Given the lead time required to prep all of tomorrow's books, Marvel took quite a gamble preparing such a glut of Iron Man comics. Luckily, the movie is a massive success, which will hopefully create more interest for the new ongoing series The Invincible Iron Man (written by Casanova's Matt Fraction, and therefore worth your attention). There's also a new mini-series, Iron Man: Viva Las Vegas (written by Iron Man movie director Jon Favreau). And new collections Iron Man: Enter The Mandarin and Iron Man: War Machine (Those of you who liked Jim Rhodes in the movie may want to check out the latter, by the way; it's what happens when he gets his own armor). And then there are other Tony-Stark-starring books like Avengers/Invaders, Secret Invasion, Invasion tie-in Mighty Avengers and the paperback version of New Avengers: Illuminati (which leads directly into Secret Invasion, for those who didn't know). Just imagine what would've happened if the movie had flopped?
Summer Movie Madness Hits This Week's Comics
Much safer to take the route that IDW have taken, waiting a year to produce the first issue of Transformers Movie Sequel: The Reign of Starscream, an officially-sanctioned-but-sure-to-be-ignored-by-Michael-Bay follow-up to last year's Shia LeBouf vehicle that was more than met the eye. Wondering what happened to the bad guys that weren't Megatron after the credits rolled? This will be your place to find out, as well as where you'll get to meet some new robots in disguise. If you'd prefer a more nostalgic take on the franchise, IDW also has an old-school reprint, Transformers: Best of The UK: Dinobots, collecting stories from the UK comic of twenty years ago. Excuse me, now I feel old.
In comparison, DC has low movie magic this week, offering just Action Comics Annual #11, the sixth and final part of "Last Son," which is Superman: The Movie director Richard Donner's co-written (with Geoff Johns) resurrection of General Zod and the rest of the Phantom Zone villains from the second movie. Oh, they have other books - I'd point out new monthly House of Mystery and Lost-meets-dinosaurs mini-series The War That Time Forgot in particular as worth your time — but when it comes to movie tie-ins, they can't give you lights or camera... only Action.
As is always the case, you can find all of this week's new releases - movie-related and otherwise- listed over here and find your closest shop filled with four color wonders by clicking through to here. All popcorn is optional, and you have to bring your own. | http://io9.com/387413/summer-movie-madness-hits-this-weeks-comics | dclm-gs1-046960002 | false | false | {
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Re: RFS: julius - speech recognition engine
Hi Felipe,
Thank you for taking a look at the Julius package.
2010/7/13 Felipe Sateler <fsateler@debian.org>:
> - Why do you modify the manpages via sed instead of patching them?
Because IMHO it's much easier to maintain than having a big patch
which I have to update every time a manpage changes.
> - You say you remove a manpage because you have a better one, but there
> is not actually one (dfa_minimize)?
Good catch, fixed.
> - Any reason why you don't enable parallel builds with DEB_BUILD_PARALLEL?
Not really. I've added that now.
> - Why are there only static libraries?
It's what upstream's build system provides, and I was told that the
libraries do stuff like calling abort() so I haven't really bothered
about it. I want to look into this some day though and maybe patch it.
> ... and I'm not quite confident about the license, specially about the
> Kyoto District Court venue thing (clause 5).
Uhm, isn't that a common thing in licenses? It's the least clause I'd
have expected to be problematic, personally I'm more worried about the
advertising clause. In any case, I could live with it if the package
goes into non-free.
I've updated the package to include the manpage and to enable parallel
building. http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/j/julius/julius_4.1.5-1.dsc
Siegfried-Angel Gevatter Pujals (RainCT)
Free Software Developer 363DEAE3
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This is disgraceful. The White House spent nearly $5,000 per person at the Mexican state dinner in 2010, and his first two state dinners came to a whopping $1.45 million.
Both invoices can be viewed following this news story.
The Washington Examiner first reported on Oct. 25, 2012, that White House spending on state dinners has skyrocketed under Obama. (Read More)
He needs to raise taxes so he can throw more parties and take more extravagant vacations.
Oh, and his public inauguration in January is going to cost over $100 million! But they tell us they can’t cut spending.
Why isn’t he giving anything up while he’s asking others for sacrifice?
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The issue has been bandied about on industry listservs and has longtime member—and former chair of MPI’s Task Force on Diversity—Joan Eisenstodt of Eisenstodt Associates, Washington, D.C., disappointed and angry over what she considers to be MPI’s failure to deal sensitively with issues of inclusion.
Eisenstodt believes the association’s leadership has violated its own “Principles of Professionalism,” particularly the section “Respecting Diversity,” which calls for MPI to “embrace and foster an inclusive business climate of respect for all peoples, regardless of national origin, race, religion, sex, marital status, age, sexual orientation, physical or mental impairment.”
In a statement responding to the PEC/Passover issue, MPI Spokesperson Lee Lancaster said, “As we further develop our cross-industry partnerships, MPI must coordinate events, programs, and services around some already established parameters--holidays, in some instances. In this case, our partnership with IMEX necessitates that we coordinate the timing of our Professional Education Conference-Europe (PEC-Europe) with that event, which happens to coincide with Passover. In a global community like MPI, it's inevitable that one of our many events will coincide with one of the world's thousands of observed holidays.”
This is not the first time MPI has scheduled an event that conflicts with a religious or cultural holiday, Eisenstodt said. She pointed out that one of the first MPI PEC/Europe conferences was held over Passover, and that the 2004 PEC/North America, held in San Antonio, coincided with the Martin Luther King holiday.
The New England Meetings Industry Conference and Exposition began on the day after the first night of Passover in 2006. In this case, conference organizers explained in the conference brochure that there was no alternative to the selected dates, expressed regret for causing “any inconvenience,” and reported that the schedule had been altered to eliminate the pre-conference program and reception that would normally have been conducted on the afternoon and evening on the day before NEMICE.
Eisenstodt said she is disappointed that MPI has rejected her suggestions on how to make the PEC-Europe more inclusive by, for example, holding a community seder (the ritual feast that takes place on the first night of Passover). “Every time this happens, everyone says it will never happen again,” says Eisenstodt. “But it keeps happening. It just shows a lack of sensitivity.”
Eisenstodt insists the issue is “not about me and Judaism,” but instead is an example of how organizations like MPI “are not paying attention to who their members and customers are.” This is particularly ironic, she adds, considering MPI is in the process of making a major push to expand its reach globally. | http://meetingsnet.com/print/association-meetings/mpi-pec-europe-passover-problem-2008 | dclm-gs1-047220002 | false | false | {
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If you're planning on buying an Apple TV, make sure you have some extra A/V cables on hand. According to the Apple Web site, the only items included in the box--besides the Apple TV unit itself--are the remote, a power cord, and the instruction manual. Indeed, a more detailed overview of the product elsewhere on Apple's site lists the cables you'll need to supply: either HDMI (which can carry audio and video to compatible HDTVs) or component video, and--if using component--a pair of analog stereo or an optical digital cable to handle the audio. Those not … Read more
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The company is touting these USB cables as simple tools for garage guitarists and other amateur musicians who don't want to mess around with complicated recording equipment. (Even its name sounds like a rock band.) Dubbed a "sound card in a cable," the LightSnake requires no drivers and will work with a variety of … Read more | http://news.cnet.com/8300-5_3-0-49.html?keyword=cables | dclm-gs1-047370002 | false | false | {
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You've said Steve Nash is one of your favorite players. What is it you like about his game?
"The way he stays aggressive, he's always attacking, always using the pick-and-roll, never gets tired, finds the open guy, hits the mid-range (jumper), his crazy layups, hits the 3 when he's open. I've always been a fan."
How do like all the attention you've received lately?
"Hey, I answer a couple of questions and trying to keep it going. It's working out."
Do you sense you have more fans now?
"Oh, no question. Anytime you're playing like that and you're helping the team win, you're going to make more fans. That comes and goes, though."
Do you think you have so many fans because you're small?
"I don't look at it that way. I'm playing basketball and it's working out for us."
Does your success depend on who is guarding you? Does it matter if your defender is tall, short, strong, sleek?
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Why can't the ISO level on most digital cameras be set below 80
So, take your typical DSLR sensor. It probably tops out at anywhere between 1600 - 6400 ISO.
The reason for this is that (as far as I understand) it gets expensive to make a more sensitive sensor, because all the components need to be more refinded and just generally of a better quality.
The big thing that I don't get though, is why sensors 'bottom out' at around 100 ISO (or 50 ISO, if you're shooting on something particularly expensive like the 1D). Why should it be that sensors are limited to being this sensitive?
Surely it's easy to just set an electronic component to be less sensitive (say, to get 50, 20, whatever ISO)?
I was looking at this Whirlpool Forums thread, and there doesn't seem to be anything on there lower than 50. Then looking at the beautiful film, this blog mentions that there was Kodak film that went down to a phenomenal 6 ISO!
The main reason I'm asking is because if we could set our cameras to a much lower ISO, we could all do daytime long-exposures without ND Filters. Oh, and I'm sure there's some other purposes for it too. Maybe.
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This may be relevant: photo.stackexchange.com/questions/3789/… – rm999 Apr 14 '11 at 6:17
Also see: photo.stackexchange.com/questions/9051/… for further background... – Jay Lance Photography Apr 14 '11 at 6:43
Also, yes you could make the sensor less sensitive. But then it would be less sensitive all the time, you'd be crippling the low light performance for the sake of longer exposures in daylight. Not a good trade off when you can simply screw on an ND filter. – Matt Grum Apr 14 '11 at 10:21
Thanks for the referrals, all. Slightly annoyed that those others didn't come up both when searching, nor within the "suggested similar questions" section when you post the question. Nevermind - Thanks for the help, all. – nchpmn Apr 14 '11 at 23:47
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This is down to the way digital sensors work. This tutorial is a good introductory article on the way digital sensors work.
For the purposes of illustration, think of the light cavity as a bucket. Let's assume that a well exposed image at the sensor's base ISO of 100 will fully fill the light cavity of a photosite. Therefore, going from ISO 100 to ISO 200 will halve the exposure time and will only half fill the light cavity. Each stop of increment in the ISO speed will result in the corresponding halving of the amount of light filling the cavity. This is why you have a usable ISO range on digital cameras, e.g. the light cavity is full at base ISO and it is "almost empty" or filled to the minimal amount that is usable at maximum ISO.
With most cameras, you get a usable ISO range of about 6-7 stops which corresponds to an ISO range of ISO 100 - ISO 6400. Camera manufacturers are free to shift the sensitivity window of the sensor to any value they like. The reason most cameras choose to have ISO 100 - ISO 6400 is because it's the most useful range for a wide variety of photography as opposed to a camera that went from ISO 6 - ISO 400. It's also doesn't hurt that having a bigger number always impresses!
While you may be able to push the camera below the base ISO, e.g. setting your camera to ISO 100 and overexposing by +2EV. This is equivalent to going to ISO 25 on a sensor with a base ISO of 100. You'll end up with an image that clips the highlights as the light cavities have overflowed and you won't be able to recover them. This is similar to what you get at the opposite end, where if you push a camera beyond it's maximum rated ISO you will end up with clipped shadows. For more information about these techniques, please look for the term "Push Processing".
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In rough terms, each photon that impacts a photosite induces one electron of charge to be stored for that sensel. There's a limit on the number of electrons the site can store, which (in turn) acts as a lower limit on the ISO speed rating. That leaves only a few ways to lower the base ISO.
The first and most obvious would be to reduce the number of electrons that can impact the photosite. The primary way to do that would be to insert filtration in front of the sensor. If you used neutral density filtration, this would only accomplish the same thing you already can by putting an ND filter in front of the lens. The difference would be that you couldn't change or remove the filter -- ever. An ND filter in front of the lens is clearly better in almost all respects: it can be removed when light is low, swapped for a stronger filter when light is particularly high, etc.
Another possibility would be to use stronger color filtration. This would at least potentially provide a small advantage in providing a broader gamut. The problem is that current cameras already support a gamut that's as broad as most people care about. To an extent this seems to already happen anyway. Just for example, Sony sensors appear to use slightly stronger color filters than Canon's sensors. This does (at least according to sites like DxoMark that test such things) give a slightly broader gamut. It also, however, gives noisier pictures at higher ISOs. Based on sales of (for example) the Canon 5DII versus the Sony Alpha 850/900, it would appear that a lot more people find other factors like video and/or lower noise at high ISOs more important than the broader color gamut at low ISOs.
There is yet another possibility (that has also been implemented in real cameras). This is to simply simulate a really low ISO by taking multiple pictures and averaging them together to minimize noise. This has a couple of obvious problems. First of all, it's only good (as low ISOs tend to be in general) for still-life type subjects. Using the ISO 6 you mentioned as an example, consider that the "sunny f/16" rule says the normal daylight exposure should be 1/6th of a second at f/16, or (for example) 1/250th at f/2.8. with a "pro" level zoom, you'd still be shooting wide-open to just edge into the lower end of the range where you can hope to freeze much movement.
I think from most people's viewpoint, there's a simple lack of need: below ISO 200 (or so) most current cameras have so little noise that trying to reduce it further is simply pointless, at least for most people. Quite a few routinely shoot at ISO 400 (or higher), even in broad daylight, just because dropping the ISO below that doesn't gain enough to be worth bothering, at least in most cases.
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Nothing. It's just a function of the fact that when presenting a list of settings, there has to be a cut-off somewhere. There are hacks for Olympus cameras that will take the ISO lower.
If this is bothering you, buy a neutral density filter.
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-1 It's not just a cut off, it's a limitation of the sensor - the lowest ISO is determined by the saturation point of the photosites (pixels) i.e. how much light they can receive before becoming full. The Olympus cameras must have just set the min ISO higher than it could be for some reason. – Matt Grum Apr 14 '11 at 10:20
Very informed - Olympus are faking out their users. – Marcin Apr 14 '11 at 12:25
How can I read more on this? I own a couple of Olympus... thanks! – Jahaziel Jun 3 '11 at 22:19
@JZL: Probably ask on the flickr Olympus E-system group. – Marcin Jun 4 '11 at 6:55
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Schizophrenia; Childhood; Autism
8. Expanding the clinical spectrum of the 16p11.2 chromosomal rearrangements: three patients with syringomyelia
16p11.2 rearrangements are associated with developmental delay, cognitive impairment, autism spectrum disorder, behavioral problems (especially attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder), seizures, obesity, dysmorphic features, and abnormal head size. In addition, congenital anomalies and abnormal brain findings were frequently observed in patients with these rearrangements. We identified and performed a detailed microarray, phenotypic, and radiological characterization of three new patients with 16p11.2 rearrangements: two deletion patients and one patient with the reciprocal duplication. All patients have a heterozygous loss (deletion) or gain (duplication) corresponding to chromosomal coordinates (chr16: 29 528 190–30 107 184) with a minimal size of 579 kb. The deletion patients had language delay and learning disabilities and one met criteria for pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified. The duplication patient received a diagnosis of autism and had academic deficits and behavioral problems. The patients with deletion had long cervicothoracic syringomyelia and the duplication patient had long thoracolumbar syringomyelia. The syringomyelia in one patient with deletion was associated with Chiari malformation. Our findings highlight the broad spectrum of clinical and neurological manifestations in patients with 16p11.2 rearrangements. Our observation suggests that genes (or a single gene) within the implicated interval have significant roles in the pathogenesis of syringomyelia. A more comprehensive and systematic research is warranted to study the frequency and spectrum of malformations in the central nervous system in these patients.
PMCID: PMC3025795 PMID: 20959866
16p11.2; chromosomal rearrangements; deletion; duplication; developmental delay; syringomyelia
9. Genetic studies in children with intellectual disability and autistic spectrum of disorders
Indian Journal of Human Genetics 2009;15(3):103-107.
Autism is one of the five disorders that falls under the umbrella of Pervasive Developmental Disorders (PDD) or Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), a category of neurological disorders characterized by “severe and pervasive impairment in several areas of development.” ASD is characterized by varying degrees of impairment in communication skills, social interaction and restricted, repetitive stereotyped patterns of behavior. The five disorders under PDD are autistic disorder, Asperger's disorder, childhood disintegrative disorder, Rett's disorder and PDD-not otherwise specified. ASD can often be reliably detected by the age of 3 years and, in some cases, as early as 18 months. The appearance of any warning signs of ASD is reason to have the child evaluated by a professional specializing in these disorders.
PMCID: PMC2922625 PMID: 21088714
Autism; genetics; mental handicap
10. Communication, Interventions, and Scientific Advances in Autism: A Commentary
Physiology & behavior 2010;100(3):268-276.
PMCID: PMC2860058 PMID: 20093134
autism spectrum disorders; social; communication; language; gender differences; behavior modeling; Picture Exchange Communication System; mice; genetics; BTBR; Center for Autism and Related Disabilities; education programs; translational research
11. Deletions in chromosome 6p22.3-p24.3, including ATXN1, are associated with developmental delay and autism spectrum disorders
Interstitial deletions of the short arm of chromosome 6 are rare and have been associated with developmental delay, hypotonia, congenital anomalies, and dysmorphic features. We used array comparative genomic hybridization in a South Carolina Autism Project (SCAP) cohort of 97 subjects with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) and identified an ~ 5.4 Mb deletion on chromosome 6p22.3-p23 in a 15-year-old patient with intellectual disability and ASDs. Subsequent database queries revealed five additional individuals with overlapping submicroscopic deletions and presenting with developmental and speech delay, seizures, behavioral abnormalities, heart defects, and dysmorphic features. The deletion found in the SCAP patient harbors ATXN1, DTNBP1, JARID2, and NHLRC1 that we propose may be responsible for ASDs and developmental delay.
PMCID: PMC3351998 PMID: 22480366
6p deletions; Copy-number variants; Array comparative genomic hybridization
12. Adenomatous polyposis coli and a cytogenetic deletion of chromosome 5 resulting from a maternal intrachromosomal insertion.
Journal of Medical Genetics 1994;31(4):312-316.
We present the clinical and laboratory findings in an institutionalised adult patient originally referred for autism. A high risk of colorectal cancer was predicted when an interstitial deletion of the long arm of chromosome 5, del(5)(q15q22.3), was detected in her lymphocytes and deletion of the MCC and APC genes confirmed by molecular analysis. Adenomatous polyposis coli and carcinoma of the rectum were subsequently diagnosed in the patient. She was profoundly mentally retarded, autistic, and had minor dysmorphic features consistent with those of previous patients with similar deletions. The deletion arose as a result of recombination within the small insertion loop formed at meiosis by the direct insertion (dir ins(5)(q22.3q14.2q15)) found in the patient's mother. This family further confirms the cytogenetic mapping of both MCC and APC genes to 5q22 and comparison with other recent cases suggests that both genes and their closely linked markers lie within the 5q22.1 subband.
PMCID: PMC1049804 PMID: 8071957
13. Novel copy number variants in children with autism and additional developmental anomalies
Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by three core symptom domains: ritualistic-repetitive behaviors, impaired social interaction, and impaired communication and language development. Recent studies have highlighted etiologically relevant recurrent copy number changes in autism, such as 16p11.2 deletions and duplications, as well as a significant role for unique, novel variants. We used Affymetrix 250K GeneChip Microarray technology (either NspI or StyI) to detect microdeletions and duplications in a subset of children from the Autism Genetic Resource Exchange (AGRE). In order to enrich our sample for potentially pathogenic CNVs we selected children with autism who had additional features suggestive of chromosomal loss associated with developmental disturbance (positive criteria filter) but who had normal cytogenetic testing (negative criteria filter). We identified families with the following features: at least one child with autism who also had facial dysmorphology, limb or digit abnormalities, or ocular abnormalities. To detect changes in copy number we used a publicly available program, Copy Number Analyser for GeneChip® (CNAG) Ver. 2.0. We identified novel deletions and duplications on chromosomes 1q24.2, 3p26.2, 4q34.2, and 6q24.3. Several of these deletions and duplications include new and interesting candidate genes for autism such as syntaxin binding protein 5 (STXBP5 also known as tomosyn) and leucine rich repeat neuronal 1 (LRRN1 also known as NLRR1). Lastly, our data suggest that rare and potentially pathogenic microdeletions and duplications may have a substantially higher prevalence in children with autism and additional developmental anomalies than in children with autism alone.
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The online version of this article (doi:10.1007/s11689-009-9013-z) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
PMCID: PMC3164008 PMID: 21547721
Autism; Copy number variation; Structural variation; Mental retardation; Dysmorphology; Chromosome 6q24; STXBP5; Chromosome 3p26.3; LRRN1; Chromosome 22q11.2; Chromosome 4q34.2; Chromosome 1q24
14. Effects of Picture Exchange Communication System on Communication and Behavioral Anomalies in Autism
Communication skills deficits and stereotyped behaviors are frequently found among people with pervasive developmental disabilities like autism. These communication and behavioral oddities of autism are often considered to be difficult to treat and are challenging. Picture exchange communication system (PECS) is a six-phase picture system based on applied behavior analysis and is specially designed to overcome these communication difficulties in children with autism by encouraging the child to be the communication initiator. The present paper throws light on the process of using PECS along with other traditional behavioral approaches in managing communication deficits and behavioral stereotypies in a seven-year-old male child diagnosed as having childhood autism. The identified target behaviors of repeated head turning, flapping his hands, poor communication skills were assessed using various rating scales including visual analogue scale as per clinician observation and parental reports and managed using PECS as an adjunct to traditional behavioral techniques of contingency management, differential reinforcement, task direction and reprimand. Outcome was assessed using same tools after thirty-two sessions of interventions spread over three months. Significant improvements of around 60% were observed in the target behaviors.
PMCID: PMC3122547 PMID: 21716776
Autism; behavioural management; PECS; stereotyped behaviour
15. Behavioral and Cerebellar Transmission Deficits in Mice Lacking the Autism-Linked Gene Islet Brain-2
Deletion of the human SHANK3 gene near the terminus of chromosome 22q is associated with Phelan-McDermid syndrome and autism spectrum disorders. Nearly all such deletions also span the tightly linked IB2 gene. We show here that IB2 protein is broadly expressed in the brain and is highly enriched within postsynaptic densities. Experimental disruption of the IB2 gene in mice reduces AMPA and enhances NMDA receptor-mediated glutamatergic transmission in cerebellum, changes the morphology of Purkinje cell dendritic arbors, and induces motor and cognitive deficits suggesting an autism phenotype. These findings support a role for human IB2 mutation as a contributing genetic factor in Chr22qter-associated cognitive disorders.
PMCID: PMC3200367 PMID: 21048139
Cerebellum; granule cell; Purkinje cell; mossy fiber; climbing fiber; AMPA receptor; NMDA receptor; behavior; cognitive; memantine
16. Autism, language delay and mental retardation in a patient with 7q11 duplication
BMJ Case Reports 2009;2009:bcr05.2009.1911.
Chromosomal rearrangements are found in a subset of patients with autism. Duplications involving loci associated with behavioural disturbances constitute an especially good candidate mechanism. The Williams–Beuren critical region (WBCR), located at 7q11.23, is commonly deleted in Williams–Beuren microdeletion syndrome (WBS). However, only four patients with a duplication of the WBCR have been reported to date. Here, 206 patients with autism spectrum disorders were screened for the WBCR duplication by quantitative microsatellite analysis and multiple ligation-dependent probe amplification. One male patient with a de novo interstitial duplication of the entire WBCR of paternal origin was identified. The patient had autistic disorder, severe language delay and mental retardation, with mild dysmorphism. The present report concerns the first patient with autistic disorder and a WBCR duplication. This observation indicates that the 7q11.23 duplication could be involved in complex clinical phenotypes, ranging from developmental or language delay to mental retardation and autism.
PMCID: PMC3028180 PMID: 21686962
17. Parent Report of Community Psychiatric Comorbid Diagnoses in Autism Spectrum Disorders
Autism Research and Treatment 2011;2011:405849.
We used a national online registry to examine variation in cumulative prevalence of community diagnosis of psychiatric comorbidity in 4343 children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Adjusted multivariate logistic regression models compared influence of individual, family, and geographic factors on cumulative prevalence of parent-reported anxiety disorder, depression, bipolar disorder, and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder or attention deficit disorder. Adjusted odds of community-assigned lifetime psychiatric comorbidity were significantly higher with each additional year of life, with increasing autism severity, and with Asperger syndrome and pervasive developmental disorder—not otherwise specified compared with autistic disorder. Overall, in this largest study of parent-reported community diagnoses of psychiatric comorbidity, gender, autistic regression, autism severity, and type of ASD all emerged as significant factors correlating with cumulative prevalence. These findings could suggest both underlying trends in actual comorbidity as well as variation in community interpretation and application of comorbid diagnoses in ASD.
PMCID: PMC3420588 PMID: 22937248
18. Alterations in GABAergic Biomarkers in the Autism Brain: Research Findings and Clinical Implications
PMCID: PMC3190183 PMID: 21901839
19. Translational animal models of autism and neurodevelopmental disorders
Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder whose diagnosis is based on three behavioral criteria: unusual reciprocal social interactions, deficits in communication, and stereotyped repetitive behaviors with restricted interests. A large number of de novo single gene mutations and chromosomal deletions are associated with autism spectrum disorders. Based on the strong genetic evidence, mice with targeted mutations in homologous genes have been generated as translational research tools. Mouse models of autism have revealed behavioral and biological outcomes of mutations in risk genes. The field is now poised to employ the most robust phenotypes in the most replicable mouse models for preclinical screening of novel therapeutics.
PMCID: PMC3513683 PMID: 23226954
neurodevelopmental disorder; autism; genetics; mouse model; social behavior; therapeutics; olfactory; ultrasonic vocalization; repetitive behavior; self-grooming; anxiety; cognitive; Fragile X; tuberous sclerosis; mGluRS antagonist
20. Cytogenetic abnormalities and fragile-x syndrome in Autism Spectrum Disorder
Autism is a behavioral disorder with impaired social interaction, communication, and repetitive and stereotypic behaviors. About 5–10 % of individuals with autism have 'secondary' autism in which an environmental agent, chromosome abnormality, or single gene disorder can be identified. Ninety percent have idiopathic autism and a major gene has not yet been identified. We have assessed the incidence of chromosome abnormalities and Fragile X syndrome in a population of autistic patients referred to our laboratory.
Data was analyzed from 433 patients with autistic traits tested using chromosome analysis and/or fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) and/or molecular testing for fragile X syndrome by Southern and PCR methods.
The median age was 4 years. Sex ratio was 4.5 males to 1 female [354:79]. A chromosome (cs) abnormality was found in 14/421 [3.33 %] cases. The aberrations were: 4/14 [28%] supernumerary markers; 4/14 [28%] deletions; 1/14 [7%] duplication; 3/14 [21%] inversions; 2/14 [14%] translocations. FISH was performed on 23 cases for reasons other than to characterize a previously identified cytogenetic abnormality. All 23 cases were negative.
Fragile-X testing by Southern blots and PCR analysis found 7/316 [2.2 %] with an abnormal result. The mutations detected were: a full mutation (fM) and abnormal methylation in 3 [43 %], mosaic mutations with partial methylation of variable clinical significance in 3 [43%] and a permutation carrier [14%].
The frequency of chromosome and fragile-X abnormalities appears to be within the range in reported surveys (cs 4.8-1.7%, FRAX 2–4%). Limitations of our retrospective study include paucity of behavioral diagnostic information, and a specific clinical criterion for testing.
Twenty-eight percent of chromosome abnormalities detected in our study were subtle; therefore a high resolution cytogenetic study with a scrutiny of 15q11.2q13, 2q37 and Xp23.3 region should be standard practice when the indication is autism. The higher incidence of mosaic fragile-X mutations with partial methylation compared to FRAXA positive population [50% vs 15–40%] suggests that faint bands and variations in the Southern band pattern may occur in autistic patients.
PMCID: PMC548305 PMID: 15655077
21. The Creatine Transporter Gene Paralogous at 16p11.2 Is Expressed in Human Brain
Autism is a complex neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by impairment of social interaction, language, communication, and stereotyped, repetitive behavior. Genetic predisposition to autism has been demonstrated in families and twin studies. About 5–10% of autism cases are associated with chromosomal abnormalities or monogenic disorders. The identification of genes involved in the origin of autism is expected to increase our understanding of the pathogenesis. We report on the clinical, cytogenetic, and molecular findings in a boy with autism carrying a de novo translocation t(7;16)(p22.1;p11.2). The chromosome 16 breakpoint disrupts the paralogous SLC6A8 gene also called SLC6A10 or CT2. Predicted translation of exons and RT-PCR analysis reveal specific expression of the creatine transporter paralogous in testis and brain. Several studies reported on the role of X-linked creatine transporter mutations in individuals with mental retardation, with or without autism. The existence of disruption in SLC6A8 paralogous gene associated with idiopathic autism suggests that this gene may be involved in the autistic phenotype in our patient.
PMCID: PMC2396218 PMID: 18509488
The relationship between relative metabolic disturbances and developmental disorders is an emerging research focus. This study compares the nutritional and metabolic status of children with autism with that of neurotypical children and investigates the possible association of autism severity with biomarkers.
Participants were children ages 5-16 years in Arizona with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (n = 55) compared with non-sibling, neurotypical controls (n = 44) of similar age, gender and geographical distribution. Neither group had taken any vitamin/mineral supplements in the two months prior to sample collection. Autism severity was assessed using the Pervasive Development Disorder Behavior Inventory (PDD-BI), Autism Treatment Evaluation Checklist (ATEC), and Severity of Autism Scale (SAS). Study measurements included: vitamins, biomarkers of vitamin status, minerals, plasma amino acids, plasma glutathione, and biomarkers of oxidative stress, methylation, sulfation and energy production.
Biomarkers of children with autism compared to those of controls using a t-test or Wilcoxon test found the following statistically significant differences (p < 0.001): Low levels of biotin, plasma glutathione, RBC SAM, plasma uridine, plasma ATP, RBC NADH, RBC NADPH, plasma sulfate (free and total), and plasma tryptophan; also high levels of oxidative stress markers and plasma glutamate. Levels of biomarkers for the neurotypical controls were in good agreement with accessed published reference ranges. In the Autism group, mean levels of vitamins, minerals, and most amino acids commonly measured in clinical care were within published reference ranges.
A stepwise, multiple linear regression analysis demonstrated significant associations between several groups of biomarkers with all three autism severity scales, including vitamins (adjusted R2 of 0.25-0.57), minerals (adj. R2 of 0.22-0.38), and plasma amino acids (adj. R2 of 0.22-0.39).
The autism group had many statistically significant differences in their nutritional and metabolic status, including biomarkers indicative of vitamin insufficiency, increased oxidative stress, reduced capacity for energy transport, sulfation and detoxification. Several of the biomarker groups were significantly associated with variations in the severity of autism. These nutritional and metabolic differences are generally in agreement with other published results and are likely amenable to nutritional supplementation. Research investigating treatment and its relationship to the co-morbidities and etiology of autism is warranted.
PMCID: PMC3135510 PMID: 21651783
23. Investigation of autism and GABA receptor subunit genes in multiple ethnic groups
Neurogenetics 2006;7(3):167-174.
Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder of complex genetics, characterized by impairment in social interaction and communication, as well as repetitive behavior. Multiple lines of evidence, including alterations in levels of GABA and GABA receptors in autistic patients, indicate that the GABAergic system, which is responsible for synaptic inhibition in the adult brain, may be involved in autism. Previous studies in our lab indicated association of noncoding single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) within a GABA receptor subunit gene on chromosome 4, GABRA4, and interaction between SNPs in GABRA4 and GABRB1 (also on chromosome 4), within Caucasian autism patients. Studies of genetic variation in African-American autism families are rare. Analysis of 557 Caucasian and an independent population of 54 African-American families with 35 SNPs within GABRB1 and GABRA4 strengthened the evidence for involvement of GABRA4 in autism risk in Caucasians (rs17599165, p=0.0015; rs1912960, p=0.0073; and rs17599416, p=0.0040) and gave evidence of significant association in African-Americans (rs2280073, p=0.0287 and rs16859788, p=0.0253). The GABRA4 and GABRB1 interaction was also confirmed in the Caucasian dataset (most significant pair, rs1912960 and rs2351299; p=0.004). Analysis of the subset of families with a positive history of seizure activity in at least one autism patient revealed no association to GABRA4; however, three SNPs within GABRB1 showed significant allelic association; rs2351299 (p=0.0163), rs4482737 (p=0.0339), and rs3832300 (p=0.0253). These results confirmed our earlier findings, indicating GABRA4 and GABRB1 as genes contributing to autism susceptibility, extending the effect to multiple ethnic groups and suggesting seizures as a stratifying phenotype.
PMCID: PMC1513515 PMID: 16770606
Autism; SNPs; GABA receptors; Association; Ethnicity
24. Are Autistic Traits in the General Population Stable across Development?
PLoS ONE 2011;6(8):e23029.
There is accumulating evidence that autistic traits (AT) are on a continuum in the general population, with clinical autism representing the extreme end of a quantitative distribution. While the nature and severity of symptoms in clinical autism are known to persist over time, no study has examined the long-term stability of AT among typically developing toddlers. The current investigation measured AT in 360 males and 400 males from the general population close to two decades apart, using the Pervasive Developmental Disorder subscale of the Child Behavior Checklist in early childhood (M = 2.14 years; SD = 0.15), and the Autism-Spectrum Quotient in early adulthood (M = 19.50 years; SD = 0.70). Items from each scale were further divided into social (difficulties with social interaction and communication) and non-social (restricted and repetitive behaviours and interests) AT. The association between child and adult measurements of AT as well the influence of potentially confounding sociodemographic, antenatal and obstetric variables were assessed using Pearson's correlations and linear regression. For males, Total AT in early childhood were positively correlated with total AT (r = .16, p = .002) and social AT (r = .16, p = .002) in adulthood. There was also a positive correlation for males between social AT measured in early childhood and Total (r = .17, p = .001) and social AT (r = .16, p = .002) measured in adulthood. Correlations for non-social AT did not achieve significance in males. Furthermore, there was no significant longitudinal association in AT observed for males or females. Despite the constraints of using different measures and different raters at the two ages, this study found modest developmental stability of social AT from early childhood to adulthood in boys.
PMCID: PMC3150391 PMID: 21829684
Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder consisting of a constellation of symptoms that sometimes occur as part of a complex disorder characterized by impairments in social interaction, communication and behavioral domains. It is a highly disabling disorder and there is a need for treatment targeting the core symptoms. Although autism is accepted as highly heritable, there is no genetic cure at this time. Autism is shown to be linked to several genes and is a feature of some complex genetic disorders, including fragile X syndrome (FXS), fragile X premutation involvement, tuberous sclerosis and Rett syndrome. The term autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) covers autism, Asperger syndrome and pervasive developmental disorders (PDD-NOS) and the etiologies are heterogeneous. In recent years, targeted treatments have been developed for several disorders that have a known specific genetic cause leading to autism. Since there are significant molecular and neurobiological overlaps among disorders, targeted treatments developed for a specific disorder may be helpful in ASD of unknown etiology. Examples of this are two drug classes developed to treat FXS, Arbaclofen, a GABAB agonist, and mGluR5 antagonists, and both may be helpful in autism without FXS. The mGluR5 antagonists are also likely to have a benefit in the aging problems of fragile X premutation carriers, the fragile X –associated tremor ataxia syndrome (FXTAS) and the Parkinsonism that can occur in aging patients with fragile X syndrome. Targeted treatments in FXS which has a well known genetic etiology may lead to new targeted treatments in autism.
PMCID: PMC3498468 PMID: 23162607
Fragile X Syndrome; Autism; mGluR; GABA; treatment
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A weak nigga eatin' in my hood? Niggas'll put a beam on 'em! (beam on him...)
I'll have 'em like shit was all good just a week ago. ("Lights oooooooon! ")
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Let this fake niggas get you in the mood for looove
Dope fiend, morphine, cocaine dilemma;
Fuck pill poppin'; a strap, I pop that!
But I got the kinda flow that'll stop World hunger
SK, I got nothing but energy! (energy!)
"Hi" again in case a hater don't remember me
I happen to be what these rap niggas here pretend to be
Hittin' you won't be enough, you gotta finish me
Or it's Ruger time, - the SR-9!
Fragments ricochet and ya ass go blind
Don't maake mee, - don't maake mee
Don't maake mee! - seem so complicated
Don't maake mee, - don't maake mee
Don't maake mee - show you wassup. - Don't make me fuck you up!
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Listen! Any bitch on the milk box ain't missin'
I mean some of these hoes runnin' round with Pippen
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I ain't even fire back, the shit's squuaashed
These niggas so fake, it make my skin craaawl
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Now Face North
Aimee Payne reminded me how an entire family is affected by coming out, in her story "Summer's Last Stand."
May is "Short Story Month."
One of the things that I loved about SPEAKING OUT was how often the families of the LGBT youth in question were so central to the tale - some supportive, some in transition, some opposing. One of the things about being gay that's a struggle is that you're not (usually) like the rest of your family in this regard, and generally speaking, people are assumed to be straight and cisgendered unless they say or do something to change the assumption. For the family, this can be one heck of a rude awakening.
The next tale in BOYS OF SUMMER is "Summer's Last Stand" by Aimee Payne, and it paints this familial fallout deftly. Corey and his sister are living with their Grandmother after the death of their mother (their father having bowed out long ago). Things have become very tense since Corey's coming out and his declaration that post-graduation he's going to leave their small town for somewhere better. He's not sure why his sister now seems to hate him, but he's tired of being a target. Their relationship is lovely and rings true: "I'm Corey, and this is my brat Emily," Corey says, introducing his sister to his friend's cousin.
The romance here sparks and just barely begins when the brother and sister find themselves at a party crashed by some of the town bullies, and hook up with Corey's friend and visiting (cute) cousin in their attempt to sneak away. "Summer's Last Stand" has a lot of tension to it - what's going on with his sister? What's going on with the cousin? Are they going to manage to avoid a smackdown? Of all the tales, it was the one that made me twitch the most in anticipation of something potentially going south.
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Noah Webster's Dictionary
1. (a.) Bright; glittering; fiery.
2. (v. t.) To soak in a liquid; to macerate; to extract the essence of by soaking; as, to soften seed by steeping it in water. Often used figuratively.
3. (v. i.) To undergo the process of soaking in a liquid; as, the tea is steeping.
4. (n.) Something steeped, or used in steeping; a fertilizing liquid to hasten the germination of seeds.
5. (n.) A rennet bag.
6. (v. t.) Making a large angle with the plane of the horizon; ascending or descending rapidly with respect to a horizontal line or a level; precipitous; as, a steep hill or mountain; a steep roof; a steep ascent; a steep declivity; a steep barometric gradient.
7. (v. t.) Difficult of access; not easy reached; lofty; elevated; high.
8. (v. t.) Excessive; as, a steep price.
9. (n.) A precipitous place, hill, mountain, rock, or ascent; any elevated object sloping with a large angle to the plane of the horizon; a precipice.
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Steep (7 Occurrences)
Matthew 8:32 And he said unto them, Go. And when they were come out, they went into the herd of swine: and, behold, the whole herd of swine ran violently down a steep place into the sea, and perished in the waters. (KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Mark 5:13 At once Jesus gave them permission. The unclean spirits came out and entered into the pigs. The herd of about two thousand rushed down the steep bank into the sea, and they were drowned in the sea. (WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Luke 8:33 The demons came out from the man, and entered into the pigs, and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake, and were drowned. (WEB KJV ASV WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 7:19 And they have come, and rested all of them in the desolate valleys, And in holes of the rocks, and on all the thorns, And on all the commendable things. (See NAS RSV NIV)
Ezekiel 38:20 so that the fish of the sea, and the birds of the sky, and the animals of the field, and all creeping things who creep on the earth, and all the men who are on the surface of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS)
Micah 1:4 The mountains melt under him, and the valleys split apart, like wax before the fire, like waters that are poured down a steep place. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)
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I know that you can set Security Group rules with ec2-authorize and ec2-revoke. How do you view the rules of a given security group?
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All commands available within the Amazon EC2 API Tools are documented in the Amazon EC2 Command Line Reference - informational commands usually follow the ec2-describe-* pattern, and the one you are looking for is ec2-describe-group:
Returns information about security groups in your account. This includes both EC2 security groups and VPC security groups. For information about how the two types of groups differ, go to Security Groups in the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide.
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Thanks for the great link. – kalaracey May 13 '12 at 13:53
hi Steffen, would you provide a full command-line example, including which environment variables to specify? – Seamus Abshere Jul 20 '12 at 20:16
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~$ ec2-describe-group |grep GROUP
will show the list of all security groups
~$ ec2-describe-group |grep GROUP|cut -f4
to get only security groups names
~$ ec2-describe-group|grep <YOUR_GROUP_NAME>
to get the policies for that sec group
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I have a page with a placeholder content block. Once the page is loaded I'm replacing the default block with some AJAX content, which is either loaded by default or by user interaction.
I'm replacing the loaded content like so:
// inside AJAX success handler
// data is JSON string sent via AJAX
// target is the element containing my default content
var makeUp = data;
target.addClass('fade out').html( makeUp ).trigger('create')
.removeClass('fade out').addClass('fade in')
This works nicely and I can replace the content whenever the user does something on the page.
However if the user leaves the page and comes back when it's still in the DOM, I want to show the default content. Right now, the last AJAX content is visible. So I'm looking at binding to page hide and restoring the default content from somewhere.
What's the best way to store the default content on the page. It's not much ( 1 controlgroup, 2 text blocks), but I'm reluctant to add this to the wrapper container as a data-default-string. There must be a better way.
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According to this CanIUse page, you should be able to use HTML5's web storage feature to store some values - I am looking specifically at a few mobile browsers that may be relevant to you.
The values could be a few keywords which will allow you to retrieve the textblocks and populate the placeholder, or if it's small enough, you could store and retrieve the two textblocks themselves.
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hm. Good starting point. I like the idea of only storing a reference and maybe pulling in some default content based on the referencen. Then again, to make certain it works in non-web-storage browsers, I would put this reference on the page element using data or jqmData. Then it will be there for sure. THANKS – frequent Jul 8 '12 at 19:51
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I'm looking for executing a .xib (with its own controllers and libraries) precompiled on a server, downloading it on runtime. Is it possible?
So could somebody give me an example of a program that uses NSBundle that executes other app? And how do I create the bundled application?
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Possible as in 'allowed' or technically possible ? – Jessedc Aug 6 '12 at 11:52
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I don't think you can import a xib into the application's bundle at run-time (which you would have to in order for this to happen). Others may know more and correct me!
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Actually you can, but as Chris explained - if one wants to publish apps on the AppStore, such functionality is prohibited (for security reasons, I imagine). See: developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/… – Wolfgang Schreurs Aug 6 '12 at 13:56
I've tryied to do it, through the documentation, but there isn't any example code. I'm so newbie in cocoa/touch, but I need achieve it! Could you explain me in a easy way? I'm not pretending to get it to apple store. Thanks! – user1573607 Aug 7 '12 at 15:04
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I can think of a couple of ways you could try to do this, but are you aiming to get it in to the store?
This is expressly prohibited by Apple Developer Guidelines.
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Hey Chris, can you explain that ways you have just say? I'm not trying to get it to apple store, only for internal business usage. Thanks! – user1573607 Aug 7 '12 at 15:01
Hey, the method that @Caleb mentioned will work fine. As he mentioned, you won't be able to dynamically link any code associated with those XIBs, but you could do something like change the nib used for inWithNib: on a Class that's already in the bundle. – Chris Maddern Aug 8 '12 at 0:00
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A .xib file is just a data file, so there shouldn't be any problem loading one that's outside your app's bundle. I can't say I've ever tried it, but as long as it's in a bundle, you should be able to:
1. Create an instance of NSBundle using the path to the bundle containing the .xib you want to load. See +[NSBundle bundleWithPath:] for that.
2. Load the .xib using the bundle you created in the previous step with any of the normal .xib-loading methods, such as -[UIViewController initWithNibNamed:bundle:] or +[UINib nibWithNibName:bundle:].
with it's own controllers and libraries
That part won't work. iOS doesn't allow dynamic linking to frameworks other than the ones provided by the system, so there's no way to load your code. If you can build all the code you need into your app, though, you should still be able to use downloaded .xib's as described above. That would let you do things like update the way your views are laid out or what targets and actions your controls are connected to.
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I can load images from feed file into text box in normal flash as3 application, but When I load same file into Air for Android it does't work. here is the code please read and help me.
"This is Air application for Android in flash as3"
var txt:TextField = new TextField();
txt.htmlText="image url"
from the above code image is not loading.
but the same code works in normal flash as3.
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have you tried to use StageWebView for displaying html content (like an image in your example)?
also if the html text didn't worked have you considered using Loader class
var img:Loader = new Loader();
img.load(new URLRequest("image url"));
also the sample above doesn't include vital parts like IOError handling and other elements but this you can find on your own:)
best regards
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The files are saved to public/data using:
def upload_vault_data
if params[:dump][:file]
uploaded_io = params[:dump][:file]
File.open(Rails.root.join('public', 'data', "data_#{session[:campaign_id]}_#{uploaded_io.original_filename}"), 'w') do |file|
This works as expected, but how to let the user delete the file once it has been uploaded?
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Rails allows you to execute system commands using the method called "system".
system 'ls'
More info here: Execute script with Ruby on Rails?
In your case, you can probably do a
system "rm #{path-to-my-file}"
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Exactly what I was looking for, and it worked! – iamtoc Oct 6 '12 at 9:11
But as Ryan has mentioned, there are many elegant solutions available to handle file uploads. You should definitely check them out... – Vibhor Mahajan Oct 7 '12 at 15:01
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I would recommend looking at using something such as dragonfly, paperclip or carrierwave to handle file uploads in your application, rather than hand-coding this.
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To delete file using rails use
File.delete("Path of file").
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I have a C#.NET dll which gets plugged into the main executable which is built from VC++ code(not targetting .NET).This main exe has an exe.config file which is just used as normal xml file(using non validating parser).But problem comes when some internal code(oledbconnection) in dll tries to load the config file and because it finds this config file as invalid , it crashes. I dont even need any of the values in exe.config file, so i can safely ignore that. So what i need to do here is either stop dll from using the exe.config or tell dll that its valid config file(even if its not). How can i do this? or is there any other way?
PS : I cant change the exe.config file and make it as valid file
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Do you have the source code of the VC++ project? – Mohammad Goudarzi Nov 6 '12 at 15:25
yes, i do have source code of vC++ project. But as i said i can't change xml config file or the parsing code in that. – user1447725 Nov 6 '12 at 15:27
All the ".config" files are for .net applications as we have "machine.config" or "web.config". If your .NET dll is using the file, existance of it is not necessary. You can delete the file, but I think you're reading the config file from the C++ code. Is it correct? – Mohammad Goudarzi Nov 6 '12 at 15:34
You could check solutions mentioned here: stackoverflow.com/questions/10466098/… – GTG Nov 6 '12 at 15:47
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Suppose I have the following data structure: a Customer entity that has a collection of Orders (1 to n relationship). So, Customer.Orders() returns an array of zero or more Orders.
Now, I create a new Customer newCustomer, and a new Orders entity array. This Orders entity array is assigned to the Customer. All entities have the "Added" entity state.
Then, I call saveChanges() as follows:
I used the saveChanges()'s [entities] parameter according to this documentation: http://www.breezejs.com/sites/all/apidocs/classes/EntityManager.html#method_saveChanges
I would expect that both the newCustomer and its Orders array would be saved in the server, but only the newCustomer was saved.
Is there any way to save the newCustomer and its Orders array? Maybe I could pass all entities in the [entities] parameter, but this would be verbose and a point of bugs. I know I could call only saveChanges() method to save all entities, but I want to save only a specific entity completely.
Thanks in advance,
Bernardo Pacheco
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Excellent question, BP. Your concern about omitting entities that should be saved is why we discourage calling saveChanges(array-of-entities). The routine, safe thing to do is simply call saveChanges(). This will save every entity with pending changes in a single transaction.
We offer the selective save overload (the one you tried) for the special case in which you need to cherry pick the entities that should be saved. You must be careful when you do this; you don't want to orphan related entities ... such as the new orders that you added to your new customer. It's really easy to make a mistake ... as you rightly point out.
I can see that you want Breeze to infer that it should include the child orders with the parent customer. But you're asking Breeze to guess what you really want to do. If Breeze followed the cookie trail from newCustomer down every branch of every navigation path, who knows what it would save ... or not save? We give you the option to cherry pick; now it's your responsibility to say precisely what you mean.
If you really needed to save the newCustomer and its orders, you could write:
var entitiesToSave = newCustomer.Orders().slice(); // Make sure it's a copy!
entitiesToSave.push(newCustomer); // add the newCustomer too.
manager.saveChanges(entitiesToSave); // save newCustomer and its orders.
But I beg you to avoid this approach. If you find yourself often in this position of needing to save subsets of entities-with-changes, I urge you to re-examine your workflow. Perhaps you need multiple managers ... as described here.
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Great @Ward! I'll follow your advice and avoid this approach. Thank you! – Bernardo Pacheco Nov 27 '12 at 13:35
@BernardoPacheco - to be clear, there are times when you want a simple way to get an object graph from cache starting from an aggregate root. DevForce developers have "FindEntityGraph". Vote it up on User Voice if you want it as "getEntityGraph" in Breeze too. – Ward Dec 11 '12 at 23:19
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This question relates to Unix-like-systems and C. If you don't happen to have an answer, you can still help by:
1. making your best guess,
2. suggesting a methodology that works to quickly answer a question as specific as this.
Steps to reproduce:
1. Create a new file on Android 4.2.1 at /sdcard/file.txt. From adb shell, note the time it was created by calling date and also double-check with ls -l on the file.
2. Copy-paste code described from the page for stat
3. Compile then run the program from adb shell with input argument for /sdcard/file.txt.
The output from this <sys/stat.h> program consistently shows the file is +5 hrs. off from the time it was actually created (noted at step 1)!
This holds for every "time" field on the struct stat. Can someone please explain this difference between what Android's <sys/stat.h> function says and the file's actual last modified time?
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Perhaps the time on adb shell is different from your local time? Does the time match with the time of date command? (I expect it should). – Blue Moon Feb 5 at 7:49
@KingsIndian I will check tomorrow. – mathStudent Feb 5 at 7:53
The program that you are pointing to prints out raw times, that is certainly not a good idea. From your SO page I see that you are in DC, so this is UTC -5 if my information is correct. The 5 here is probably not a coincidence. I don't think that your question is very constructive, voting to close. – Jens Gustedt Feb 5 at 8:29
I dont know what @Jens Gustedt means with raw times, but the code on the man-page tries to output local time. It is impossible to make timezone related code robust, since there are so many settings affecting it. In this case I think the android phone has some environment settings correctly set to washington DC timezone, but not all. – thuovila Feb 5 at 8:58
@JensGustedt can you suggest why is this question not constructive or how to improve it? – mathStudent Feb 5 at 22:13
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Definitely looks like an issue with locales or more specific timezone settings. Try calling the example code with "TZ=[your timezone] ./a.out" e.g. TZ=UTC+5 ./a.out
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I want to create dynamic menus according to user permissions. As was already discussed here and by the the documentation itself, I know that I can achieve this in the templates using the following snippet:
{% if perms.polls.can_vote %}
<a href="/polls/vote">Vote</a>
{% endif %}
But the problem is that for security reasons I want to limit the access to the views too. The snippet that I found in the documentation is the following:
from django.contrib.auth.decorators import permission_required
def my_view(request):
# ...
my_view = permission_required('polls.can_vote', login_url='/loginpage/')(my_view)
Isn't this against DRY principle? Isn't there a way to define only in one place what is the permission needed for each url? Perhaps in urls.py?
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EDIT: (See end of post for the original text of the answer with the initial, simple idea.)
After being kindly stricken with a cluebat (see the OP's comment below), I find I can see more to the problem than before. Sorry it took so long. Anyway:
Would this kind of template be alright for you?
{% for mi in dyn_menu_items %}
{% if mi.authorised %}
<a href={{ mi.url }}>{{ mi.title }}</a>
{% endif %}
{% endfor %}
To make this work on the Python side, you could use RequestContext in your views with a custom context processor setting the dyn_menu_items variable appropriately. In case some background information is required, the Advanced Templates chapter of the Django Book introduces RequestContext, shows how to use it with render_to_response (kinda important :-)) etc.
Also, I guess at this point it could be useful to put the view functions responsible for the locked-up sections of your site in a list somewhere:
_dyn_menu_items = [(url1, view1, title1, perm1), ...]
Then you could map a couple of functions, say prepare_pattern and prepare_menu_item across that list, having it work roughly like so:
def prepare_pattern(menu_item):
url1, view, title, perm = menu_item
pattern = PREPARE_URLCONF_ENTRY_SOMEHOW(...) # fill in as appropriate
return pattern
def prepare_menu_item(menu_item):
url, view, title, perm = menu_item
return mi
These could be combined into a single function, of course, but not everybody would find the result more readable... Anyway, the output of map(prepare_menu_item, _dyn_menu_items) would need to be a dictionary to be passed to your views by a helpful context processor (the figuring out of which, it being the slightly tedious bit here, I'll leave to you ;-)), whereas the output of map(prepare_pattern, _dyn_menu_items), let's call it dyn_menu_patterns, would be used in patterns('', *dyn_menu_patterns), to be used in your URLconf.
I hope this makes sense and is of some help...
Based on your short description, I'm not sure what solution would be best for you... But if the permission_required snippet does what you want, just not DRY-ly enough, how about rolling your own wrapper:
def ask_to_login(perm, view):
return permission_required(perm, login_url='/loginpage/', view)
You could put this anywhere, including in URLconf. Then you could replace all mentions of '/loginpage/' with reference to a variable defined towards the top of your URLs file and you'd have yourself a solution with a single mention of the actual login URL, for one-place-only update of said URL should you have to move it around. :-)
Of course the views would still need to be wrapped explicitly; if that bothers you, you could try to make ask_to_login into a decorator for easy wrapping at the definition site. (But perhaps it's really best not to do it, lest you force yourself to dig your views from under the decorator in case you need them undecorated at some point in the future.)
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Thanks, but I was looking for something "DRYer" like code.google.com/p/greatlemers-django-tools, but I do not know if the project is still active. – jbochi Dec 20 '09 at 19:07
Yeah, I can see what you mean now... I edited my answer to include a sketch of a possible solution, I wonder if that's of any use to you? – Michał Marczyk Dec 20 '09 at 22:13
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I'm aware this question was asked a couple of weeks ago now, but you mentioned http://code.google.com/p/greatlemers-django-tools/ in one of your comments so I thought I'd chip in.
The project is still active (although it's slightly on the backburner at the moment) but I'm not sure if it is as DRY as you're after. You would still have to specify permissions twice, once in the model object for the menu item and once on the view. This isn't necessarily a bad thing however as the permissions that you define on the menu item may be slightly different from those on the view.
If you wanted to do everything in one place I'd probably suggest a combination of a utility function for use in urls.py that can add restrictions to a view whilst also storing said restriction somewhere for use with a special template tag. I'd imagine it may look something like this.
# Stored in a file named access_check_utils.py say.
from django.conf.urls.defaults import url
from django.core.urlresolvers import get_callable
from django.contrib.auth.decorators import permission_required
access_checked_urls = {}
def access_checked_url(regex, view, kwargs=None, name=None, prefix='', perms=None, login_url=None):
if perms is None:
perms = []
callback = None
if callable(view):
callback = view
elif isinstance(view, basestring):
if prefix:
view_path = "%s.%s" % (prefix, view)
view_path = view
callback = get_callable(view_path)
callback = None
if callback is not None:
# Add all the permissions
for perm in perms:
callback = permission_required(perm, login_url=login_url)(callback)
if name is not None:
access_checked_urls[name] = perms
callback = view
return url(regex, callback, kwargs=kwargs, name=name, prefix=prefix)
That should work for the pit needed in urls.py called the same way as you would with a normal url but with the added perms and login_url parameters (perms should be a list of all the relevant ones).
# In a templatetag folder somewhere
from django import template
from django.core.urlresolvers import
# This needs to point to the right place.
from access_check_utils import access_checked_urls
register = template.Library()
@register.inclusion_tag("access_checked_link.html", takes_context=True)
def access_checked_link(context, title, url, *args, **kwargs):
perms = access_checked_urls.get(url, [])
if not perms:
allowed = True
allowed = context.request.user.has_perms(perms)
return { 'allowed': allowed,
'url': reverse(url, *args, **kwargs),
'title': title }
This would have an associated template file like:
{% if allowed %}<a href="{{ url }}">{{ title }}</a>{% endif %}
I've not tested this fully, but it should work (or at least be a good basis for something that should work). I'll probably even look to adding something like this into gdt_nav allowing it to check for these base permissions if they exist, and then checking for any extras added.
Hope this is of some help.
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Thank you so much for your very detailed answer. It's also good to know that the project is still active! I will give it a try :-) – jbochi Jan 2 '10 at 16:16
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I'm trying to compile a simple c++ program to run inside ESXi 3.5 console window. It seems I'm linking with wrong libraries... Is there a setup described somewhere - which version of G++ and libraries do I have to be using in order to do so?
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Here's how I resolved the issue. I did following to compile:
1. Compiled using gcc under ubuntu
2. Ran ldd on executable
3. Copied all libraries that showed up as dependencies to subfolder ESXi-3.5-lib. In my case they were:
4. Added following switches to gcc:
• -nodefaultlibs (to not attempt to link with default libs)
• -lc (prevented link error in some crt library)
• -fno-stack-protector (prevented another error, some other function was missing)
Following was my final build command:
g++ file1.cpp file2.cpp file3.cpp -o output-biinary-file-name \
ESXi-3.5-lib/ld-linux.so.2 ESXi-3.5-lib/libc.so.6 ESXi-3.5-lib/libgcc_s.so.1\
ESXi-3.5-lib/libm.so.6 ESXi-3.5-lib/libstdc++.so.5 \
-nodefaultlibs -lc -m32 -fno-stack-protector
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I'm having problems in Firefox with 302 redirects coming from my Rails app.
Right now I have
url: '/model/33',
type: 'POST',
data: 'authenticity_token=efjowiejfoiwej&_method=put&model[value]=aaa',
complete: myFunc
function myFunc() {
//do what I want
This works fine in other browsers, but in Firefox nothing happens, even using a complete callback instead of just a success.
Anything I can missing here?
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Doesn't completely solve it, but requesting the output as JSON worked, so url: '/model/33.json'
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Probably because your Server side code doesn't redirect .json requests where as it was for /model/33 – blak3r Mar 29 '12 at 17:46
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In my rails application, i have modules which are required and included in the controllers. The problem is: i have to restart the application every time i make any changes in these modules. Any solutions?
included module
module Services
module TestService
def start
'Service started successfully'
class TestController < ApplicationController
require 'services/test.rb'
include Services::TestService
def index
render :text => start
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Please edit your question to include code that shows how you are including the modules in your controllers. – John Topley Jul 5 '10 at 20:52
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In development, it should reload every you access. In production mode, you can turn off cache by modifying
Change the following line to false.
config.cache_classes = false
And restart the application.
It reloads the changes without restarting the server.
Update You might try load instead of require.
load 'services/test.rb'
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No, this happens in the development mode – Ibrahim Hussein Jul 6 '10 at 11:59
I updated the answer. With 'load', it reloads every time. – OmniBus Jul 7 '10 at 10:33
It worked! Thanks – Ibrahim Hussein Jul 9 '10 at 0:16
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I have a java class as follows:
public class Query implements Serializable {
static Object[] o= new Object[8];
private long oid= (Long) o[0];
private double[] region= { (Double) o[1],(Double) o[2],(Double) o[3] };
private boolean filter= (Boolean) o[4];
private float[] vel= {(Float) o[5], (Float) o[6]};
private float[] pos= {(Float) o[7], (Float) o[8]};
public Query(Object[] b){
Class Query will be an array of objects and I want to establish dependency between Object[] o and oid, region,...
If I change region's value, the corresponding value in object[] will be changed automatically.
Could you suggest me some way to do it efficiently. Thanks!
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You need to wrap all primitive/immutable types in a mutable type so that you can just reference it. Using a Javabean is a common approach for this.
public class Data {
private long id;
private double[] region;
private boolean filter;
private float[] vel;
private float[] pos;
// Add or generate c'tors/getters/setters/equals/hashcode/tostring here.
So that you can just do
public class Query {
private Data data;
public Query(Data data) {
this.data = data;
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I would definitely use builder design pattern here. It will ensure type safety in the first place. And you could use primitive types... In your implementation it takes only one error on class client side to receive runtime exception. Does that answer your question?
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well Javascript confirmation gives the Ok/Cancel Button but I want to create a Confirmation with Yes and No in Javascript can anyone help ??
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The buttons in a confirmation box cannot be changed by Javascript.
I would suggest rolling your own in the form of an inline popup. Just create a div with position:absolute; in the centre of the page and then show/hide it.
The code below will outline what you need to do in vanilla Javascript. You will probably want to spend more time styling it, but the key points are:
position:absolute; So that the popup will appear in the centre of the page. display:none; So that the popup will be hidden when the page loads. The link has a href so that it will still be functional even without Javascript. The onClick attribute of the first link has return false; This stops the link from redirecting.
You can change the two onClicks inside the popup to do whatever else you want them to.
<style type="text/css">
border:1px solid blue;
onClick="document.getElementById('popup').style.display = 'block'; return false;"
>Go to example.com</a>
<div id="popup">
<p>Are you sure you want to go to example.com?</p>
<a onclick="document.location='http://example.com/'; return false;">
<a onclick="document.getElementById('popup').style.display = 'none'; return false;">
To get a more professional result I would recommend learning more about Javascript and jQuery and investigating some of the options suggested by the other posters.
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can you please give a Simple Example ? i am newbie to JavaScript please it will be nice? – PHPSeeker Oct 18 '10 at 10:15
@BuhBuh great example. just a small note - the id of the div needs to be changed to popup to match the css – esther h Nov 21 '11 at 8:47
@esther h Thanks a lot, done. There's always something small that goes wrong! – Buh Buh Nov 21 '11 at 12:41
@BuhBuh no problem. i only noticed because i tried out your example... thanks for the code – esther h Nov 21 '11 at 19:24
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You cannot impact the use of the usual window.alert, window.confirm and window.prompt() native popup windows.
However, you could use other existing libraries for this, for instance ExtJS's MessageBox.
MessageBox is part of ExtCore, so you wouldn't even need the whole library but simply the core functions.
Below is an easy example, using the Google AJAX Libraries API loader.
within the <head> section of my.html:
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.google.com/jsapi?key=MY_API_KEY_GOES_HERE"></script>
in my.js:
google.load("dojo", "1.5", {
uncompressed: true
function OnLoad() {
function processResult() {
/* do something here */
title:'Save Changes?',
msg: 'You are closing a tab that has unsaved changes. Would you like to save your changes?',
buttons: Ext.Msg.YESNOCANCEL,
fn: processResult,
icon: Ext.MessageBox.QUESTION
For more information, you can refer to my answer to another question on how to use the Google CDN.
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The basics are:
1. Create a transparent (or semi-transparent) iframe to cover the browser viewport, which does a couple of things for you:
• Eats clicks outside your confirmation box
• Prevents OS-drawn controls (like select boxes) from appearing on top of your confirmation box (which they'll do otherwise, on IE at least and possibly others)
• And lets you (optionally) shade the rest of the page to highlight your confirmation box. Give the iframe a z-index (100, say, unless you have other elements on the page with a higher z-index than that).
2. Create a div that contains your yes/no question and buttons, append it to your main page's DOM, position it where you want it, and give the div a z-index greater than that of the iframe. Believe it or not, this means that the page is behind the iframe, but the div is in front of it. Exactly what you want.
3. Handle clicks on the buttons to tear the whole thing down (and to get your answer).
4. Remember that this will not be inline with your JavaScript logic. You use callbacks from the buttons instead.
It really is that easy (or that complicated). :-)
Having said that, this wheel has been invented. Look for "lightbox" or similar components. jQuery UI has one called Dialog, for instance, but just adding that to a page where you're not using jQuery UI for anything else may be a bit heavy.
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In index.html.erb I display all products, and next to each product I have Edit and Delete actions:
<% @products.each do |product| %>
<%= link_to("Edit", edit_product_path(product.id), :class => 'action') %>
<%= link_to("Delete", product, :method => :delete, :class => 'action') %>
<% end %>
The Edit link works ok. However, the Delete link does not work. I get the following error:
Unknown action
The action 'show' could not be found for ProductsController
I guess it is because the request method is GET rather than DELETE. But, I don't know why this happens if I set explicitly :method => :delete.
routes.rb is pretty simple:
root :to => "products#index"
resources :products
I have Javascript enabled.
Please suggest.
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Did you try adding the show action, even though you are not using it so that your routes have you covered?... Just a thought – Richard Dec 15 '10 at 4:50
Do you have delete action in your controller? And also try rake:route command to see if delete path is defined properly. – ranendra Dec 15 '10 at 6:06
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Do you have rails.js specified in a javascript_include_tag? This is required for the unobtrusive DELETE method to work. If you're using jQuery then there's a solution for that too.
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In the page source I see that rails.js is loaded. I do use jQuery 1.4.4. Is this a problem ? I just downloaded it from the official site and put it in javascript_include_tag. Should I replace it with files from your link ? What exactly should I download ? – Misha Moroshko Dec 15 '10 at 5:02
@Misha: Download the rails.js file in the src directory and put it into your public/javascripts folder as rails.js. If you're using jQuery, you must replace the Prototype rails.js with the jQuery equivalent. – Ryan Bigg Dec 15 '10 at 5:40
@Ryan: Thanks a lot for guiding me! If I use jQuery rather than Prototype, do I still need javascript_include_tag :defaults ? – Misha Moroshko Dec 15 '10 at 9:31
I removed javascript_include_tag :defaults and put javascript_include_tag 'jquery-1.4.4.min.js', 'rails.js' instead (the new rails.js, from the link above). The error is still the same: The action 'show' could not be found for ProductsController. What else could be wrong ? – Misha Moroshko Dec 15 '10 at 9:49
@Misha: You can change the defaults using this in config/application.rb config.action_view.javascript_expansions[:default] = ["jquery", "rails"] – Ryan Bigg Dec 15 '10 at 10:59
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Dont forget to include jquery_ujs in your application.js file:
//= require jquery
//= require jquery_ujs
// ...
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It needs to be product_path(product) instead of product in your delete link.
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Tried, it didn't help. Same error. – Misha Moroshko Dec 15 '10 at 4:37
What does the resulting HTML look like for the link tag? – Beerlington Dec 15 '10 at 5:08
<a rel="nofollow" data-method="delete" class="action" href="/products/73">Delete</a> – Misha Moroshko Dec 15 '10 at 9:23
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I had same problem - actually I had changed my old 'delete' action to 'destroy' - but forgot If your using SSL.. (e.g ssl_required :destroy)
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I feel silly for not being able to figure this out, but how do I turn off wordwrap? the css word-wrap property can be forced on with break-word, but cannot be forced off (only can be left alone with normal value).
How do I force word wrap off?
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You need to use the CSS white-space attribute.
In particular, white-space: nowrap and white-space: pre are the most commonly used values. The first one seems to be what you 're after.
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This works really nice on table cells! – Mvision Oct 19 '11 at 11:55
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Is there a straightforward way to convert an Erlang fun to a string? A call to io_lib:format only prints the function reference, e.g. something like "#Fun<erl_eval.20.67289768>". For example, I'd like to be able to do this:
1> Fun = fun() -> atom_to_list('hello world') end.
2> FunStr = fun_to_str(Fun).
"fun() -> atom_to_list('hello world') end."
I'm looking for how to implement fun_to_str. In javascript, some interpreters have a .toSource() function that can be called on any object, including functions, that print their string representation. Any info is appreciated, thanks.
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First, get the environment variables for the fun (which includes the abstract code):
1> {env, Env} = erlang:fun_info(Fun, env).
[{atom,4,'hello world'}]}]}]]}
The last element in the list is the abstract code:
2> Abs = lists:last(Env).
[{call,4,{atom,4,atom_to_list},[{atom,4,'hello world'}]}]}]
Pretty print it using erl_pp:
3> Str = erl_pp:expr({'fun',1,{clauses,Abs}}).
[[[[["()"]," ->"],
["\n ",
[["atom_to_list",[[40,["'hello world'",41]]]]]]]]]]],
4> io:format([Str|"\n"]).
fun() ->
atom_to_list('hello world')
(You have to add {'fun',1,{clauses,...}} around it to make it a complete Erlang expression)
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In practice, this works really well, but sometimes I'll write a non-trivial fun and using this method to convert it to a string produces the following: fun()-> end with no body. Any ideas on what could cause this? – Travis Webb Mar 16 '11 at 14:52
What do you mean with a non-trivial fun? Can you give an example? – Adam Lindberg Mar 17 '11 at 9:19
any fun that does something inside; I can run your commands in the shell and it works, but doing the same thing inside my program doesn't. The fun_info step returns no tokens other than fun and end, even though the function is syntactically correct and compiles and all that – Travis Webb Mar 17 '11 at 12:37
Funs in compiled code are just a reference to a hidden function compiled into the module they're defined in. Have you tried to compile your modules with the option debug_info? – Adam Lindberg Mar 17 '11 at 13:04
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You might be able to use erlang:fun_info/2 for that, atleast i get some information from the shell when doing
1> erlang:fun_info(fun() -> test,ok end, env).
You want the last list with the clause atom and then pretty print it using for instance erl_pp
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first excuse me for my english it isn't the best one.
I'm pretty new to django and python and i try to programm a user authentification. I used the django documentation and everything works fine with these code below:
def anges(request):
username = []
password = []
if request.method == "POST":
username = request.POST['username']
password = request.POST['password']
user = authenticate(username=username, password=password)
render_to_response ('registration/login.html', {'username': username, 'password': password})
if user is not None:
if user.is_active:
login(request, user)
angestellte_list = Employee.objects.all().order_by('lastname')
return render_to_response(("emp/angestellte.html"), {'angestellte_list': angestellte_list})
return HttpResponse('disabled account')
return HttpResponse('invalid login')
But this is just a function and i want to use this object oriented for my other functions in my views.py, because of DRY. This is just a first test but it doesn't works because the debugger says:"global name 'request' is not defined" That's my code:
class einloggen:
def __init__(self):
self.Username = request.POST['username']
def angestellte(self):
return HttpResponse("hello")
How can I use the request variable in classes or is there anything more to consider?
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Django already has a complete User Authentication application. Why write your own? – S.Lott May 25 '11 at 12:05
... or in other words, what does django.contrib.auth lack that you need? – Mike DeSimone May 25 '11 at 12:16
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Quite obvious that you can't use the request variable in __init__ in the einloggen class, because, quite frankly, you don't send the request variable in to the constructor.
I can't see you making a einloggen object anywhere in your view either, but you should probably to something like:
class einloggen:
def __init__(self, request):
self.Username = request.POST.get('username')
and then in your view (where you've got the request variable):
def anges(request):
myobj = einloggen(request)
However, Django already has an authentication system. And you'd be much better off using that. You can use the beautiful decorators to make it really easy and nice to «protect» views.
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I have a web service written in C#. I need to call it from classic asp page.
The way I call it from asp.net 3.5, C# application you can see here:
using (var validation = new Validation())
if (id == validation.ValidateId(userId))
return true;
return false;
How can I call the same web service from classic ASP page?
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This might help 4guysfromrolla.com/webtech/070302-1.shtml – Lasse Edsvik Jun 13 '11 at 14:57
Even this can be an example – Vikas Jun 13 '11 at 15:00
here is a simple method and example stackoverflow.com/questions/55297/… – Dee Jun 13 '11 at 18:03
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In our shop, all the developers have read only to the code. Everyone has been put in a group called TFSReader.
In TFS 2005, whenever I create a new project, I have to add the group to the [Project]\Readers group.
We are now looking to upgrade to TFS2010 now and we're wondering Is there a way to configure TFS to automatically put the TFSReader group under [Project]\Readers?
Should I be messing with the processTemplates?
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I presume you mean that all the developers have read access and that some developers have full access to the code? Otherwise it would be difficult to change it. – John Saunders Jul 8 '11 at 19:24
You are correct John. I just want to cut down on instances of me forgetting to add some permissions. I would have hoped that ms would have implemented something like this in 5 years... – Lareau Jul 8 '11 at 22:00
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While there isn't a way to pre-populate that I am aware of, what you can do is use the tf perm command, scripted out, and just run that whenever you add a new project.
In your case, you would do (from command line):
tf perm /allow:read /collection:http://SERVER:PORT/tfs/COLLECTION /group:TFSREADER $\
This says: "Give read permission to the TFS collection for everyone in the group in all files starting at the root of each team project"
If you want to read more about the tf perm command you can here:
Permission Command
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Ngm, would this not be the same thing as giving the group read permissions at the root? I'm guessing that the group will only have access to the source control & not work items etc. I'll test it out on monday. – Lareau Jul 8 '11 at 21:59
Yeah, it is version control specific. The same thing can be done in TFS API. I am not aware of a way either via TF, TFPT or TFS API that would set it at the WI level for this you would probably need to do work on the template and have a global server permission. I haven't been down that road before though so I wouldn't be able to provide guidance for that assuming it is possible. – NgM Jul 8 '11 at 22:25
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So it turns out the process template was the right way to go.
I got an answer over at the msdn forums. http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/tfsgeneral/thread/108ad70b-2a4a-4ec4-b8e0-e41d72766484
I downloaded the process template, made a copy and change the GroupsandPermissions.xml file.
I added the Member tag and uploaded the new process.
It worked like a charm!
<group name="Readers" description="Members of this group have access to the team project.">
<permission name="GENERIC_READ" class="PROJECT" allow="true" />
<permission name="VIEW_TEST_RESULTS" class="PROJECT" allow="true" />
<permission name="GENERIC_READ" class="CSS_NODE" allow="true" />
<permission name="WORK_ITEM_READ" class="CSS_NODE" allow="true" />
<member name="MyDomain\TfsReader" />
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Cool good to know. – NgM Jul 14 '11 at 18:18
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I am trying to run a script that connects to a ssh server over two different ports (one normal and one over a known non-default port). But the ssh server is given back two different fingerprints which breaks my script.
Is there a way to avoid this (having two different entries in 'known_hosts' for different ports)? Or the only way out is to talk to the admin?
PS: Nothing hacky - just trying to get Gerrit to run on my local desktop instead of a server.
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The problem occurs when you have two different adapters - one working as NAT and other working as a normal adapter.
This happened to me when I was using ssh from two different ports on a virtual machine. The VM was configured with NAT and Bridged adapter.
When I tried to ssh on default port, NAT was being used, giving me a different fingerprint than when I trying to ssh via non-default port (for which bridged adapter was getting used).
HTH for those who run into the same problem...
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I'm using the tufte-book class and I like it so much!
However, I'd like to have the references in the natbib-way, so that I can use both textual (\citep) and parenthetical (\citep) citations. I have a lot of citations, and I don't want them to take all the room in the page margin (tufte class extensively uses side notes).
All I'd like to have is a working natbib reference style. How can I modify the tufte-common.def file?
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The class only redefines the \cite command, you can use \citet and \citep as normal. It works in a document that I have using the package.
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You, as the Sleeper, wake up, put on your massive armour, and go figure out what the heck is going on.
The game is unique in many ways, including the in-game world, which was hand-drawn just for it and is included as an extra on the game disc, were one to put it into a computer.
More to come, I'm almost out of time.
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