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Comment: Re:Just a failed publicity stunt (Score 1) 200
by fmaxwell (#41807701) Attached to: Google Nexus 4 Prototype Lost In a Bar
I realize that you are personally invested in seeing this phone succeed, and that you can site some minority of smartphone users who are fine with massive phones, but it doesn't change the fact that my argument is sound. If you want to talk into something the size of a small tablet, I'm not going to stop you, but don't be surprised when Apple outsells it with phone-sized phones.
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by fmaxwell (#41796951) Attached to: Google Nexus 4 Prototype Lost In a Bar
Hmm - if that is true, I wonder why Google wants to create the impression it has a security team that is quite happy to pretend to be law enforcement.
Because, unlike Apple, they could not get actual law enforcement interested in getting involved. So they needed to do something to add some drama, intrigue, and a sense of danger to the situation.
Comment: Re:Just a failed publicity stunt (Score 1) 200
by fmaxwell (#41796907) Attached to: Google Nexus 4 Prototype Lost In a Bar
I don't think it was intended to be funny. I think that it was intended to make people think that there is the same kind of buzz around this phone that there was around the iPhone that was left in the bar. The whole intimidating security routine was all part of the "just like Apple" routine they were doing.
I'm sure that there are some folks with big pockets that will like the phone, but I just don't see it having the kind of mass appeal that the iPhone does. On the other hand, a huge phone definitely can't be missed on a display filled with normal size phones, so it will get attention at Best Buy.
I've seen women with hands big enough to hold this phone comfortably. Of course, they used to be men. ;)
If you can imagine a 4.7" display functioning as a laptop replacement for routine stuff, you've got way better eyes than I have. I go nuts having to work on a laptop with a 13" display.
Comment: Just a failed publicity stunt (Score 1) 200
by fmaxwell (#41795635) Attached to: Google Nexus 4 Prototype Lost In a Bar
What's really funny about this is that it's a transparent publicity stunt -- but almost no one in the mainstream press even noticed.
Even if you're Google, you can't create much buzz about the release of yet another Android phone into an already overcrowded marketplace. It's about as exciting as a new inkjet printer.
Outside of the nerdosphere, there really isn't a lot of call for a phone that is almost the size of a small tablet . It dwarfs the iPhone 5 shown next to it, and bigger isn't always better in something that is supposed to be portable. Well-heeled consumers can afford both a smartphone and a tablet. They don't need a phone so large that it requires its owner to only buy clothes with massive pockets.
Comment: Re:Never designed to be network-aware (Score 1) 182
by fmaxwell (#41795485) Attached to: Craig Mundie Blames Microsoft's Product Delays On Cybercrime
Microsoft's entire security model was based on the idiotic notion that one could take a single user OS with no security (Win 3.x/95/98/Me) and years later create successors (NT/2K/etc.) that didn't break applications that were already written. It wasn't users -- it was coddling the software vendors that drove the convoluted, unmanageable pseudo-security that got pasted on to the OS.
No rational OS architect would have permitted end-user applications to write to OS system directories, nor would they have allowed Dynamically Linked Libraries to be created and added to OS directories with no entity controlling the namespace (meaning you could create a blorm.dll that installed with your product and I could create a blorm.dll that overwrote it when my product was installed).
Other ideas, like allowing some kid in the Philippines to e-mail you a script that automatically ran when viewed, were just examples of the level of stupidity that had permeated the Microsoft campus.
I continued to represent myself but never heard from him again.
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The Looming Library Lending Battle
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First of Two Installments: THE HEAVEN BELOW
Clare Boothe Luce
August 11, 1958
It lay in the crystal waters of a Bahamas reef and was found after days of storm. It was, as always, a place of beauty and adventure, a new world
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*"The Reef Fisher," from Collected Poems. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Co.
Afternoon. Sky clear; water so smooth sargassum weed floats on surface, motionless.
Art knows it is our turn, the turn of the lens-divers and the joy-divers. He gears up cheerfully. He drops me gently off the stern, and I gear up in the water, still sparing the back. I level off and, clearing my ears, glide down slowly....
This at last is it: the magic mansions of the sunlit reef, the heaven below. I swim down through liquid green heavens, down through the poem of the sea. Down to delicate castles of convoluted corals, pale fish and rainbow-hued fish, fishes supple and rigid, festoons of fish, festooning the coral festoons of the reefs. I set out on my explorations through waters satin smooth. I am a small child again. It is Christmas; I want to see everything, everything I see I want. I am a child in a summer field. I run from daisy to dandelion, from branch to bee to butterfly. I seem to touch, lift, pick, gather everything; but somehow I am always empty-handed. I go up and down, over and around the reef....
I am looking at an upended pipefish when I have an uneasy impression: something big and strange is following me. I rotate swiftly. Something is, something amazing: a thing part human, part fish, part machine, part firefly, and all held together somehow with strings. It is Dave in a scuba with a flashlight camera. He sprawls like a giant sea spider, trying to remain motionless while he focuses. His long legs, looking curiously thin and attenuated, end in big woolen socks, which are tied with strings at the ankle. They slosh over the heels of his giant blue flippers. He is wearing a purple shirt and red, blue and green Scotch plaid shorts. His hair stands on end, gently waving in the slight current. His black breathing tubes are like great mustachios. Behind his sea-washed mask, his eyes look like boiled onions. A blue plastic knife sheath dangles on a string from his wrist. Over his head, behind the big rusty tank, floats a black string bag full of white flashbulbs. He wriggles nearer, shoving his plastic-encased camera ahead of him. It looks like a big captive jellyfish. Then his flashlight pops and for a magical second Dave disappears completely in the flash. When I see him again he is losing his balance as he tries to snag a fresh bulb out of the string bag floating over him.
Unencumbered, Art, with only mask, flippers and spear, is a thrilling sight to behold as he prowls the sea. But Dave, held together by strings, Dave, who really isn't that passionate about "diving," is an inspiring one. He is modern man with all his weaknesses, resolute to conquer new worlds: his photographs are among the first records of man's new dominion under the Salt Curtain.
It is Louisa who first spots below her the big moray eel swaying in a pocket under a six-foot coral head shaped like a toadstool. She goes up and gets Art, who plummets down, beckons to me, and we swim to the moray's hole. While Art goes up for his interim lungful of air, I lie on the bottom, looking at the moray from a respectful distance. Three nasty feet of his slowly swaying, thigh-thick body jut out of the hole. He is the color of a rotten avocado. The end of his banana-shaped head is twain-split by a gaping mouth studded with rows of spiked teeth. Before I see Art, I see the spear hit. It pierces the neck of the loathsome creature. He shudders convulsively back into his hole. A thin plume of blood comes out of a crevice near the top of the coral toadstool, dissolves like smoke in blue water. Art goes up, comes down with a second spear. He peers in the hole, then swims around fast to the other side of the coral head. Cautiously I swim around after him. Not cautiously enough: there I am mixed up in a hideous brawl. Art's second spear has landed next to his first one in the eel's neck. Art is dragging at his spears, while a long slimy green tail, lashing furiously, tries to free the head it belongs to. Breathing fast, I start to swim away. But Art swims after me, and passes me the twice-speared eel. I am horrified, but I take it, because I know now that whatever Art tells me to do I can probably do safely. I spread the spears, holding them like the handle bars of a bicycle. As I flipper hard to the surface, the stabbed eel fastens its jaws around the nearest shaft, the tail gives one last anguished thrash, then body and tail coil themselves into a great slimy ball around suffering head and jaws which gnaw the spears helplessly.
Sydney gaffs the ugly thing from the water. He shakes it out over the side of the boat. It is five feet long. Then he lets it slither into the fish box among Art's and Don's other but handsomer victims.
I feel depressed by the slaughter of the moray. For a while, I bottom-swim after flounders as they plop along in the sand looking up with their black button eyes which are where any other creature's (except the octopus') shoulder blades are. The beauty of the reef slowly captures me again. I follow a small school of purple and gold fairy bass until they disappear under a ledge. Coles joins us and suddenly begins to behave in an extraordinary manner. He points under the ledge, then rolls over on his back, flips his hands in the air, rolls back on his face, looks at me eagerly. I proceed to do the same, though what it is all about I don't know. Coles shakes his head violently, points again, and goes through his "Fido-roll-over" routine, and again looks at me hopefully. Utterly baffled, I shrug my tubes and flipper away after a pair of French angelfish, until I lose them in the gorgeous Gorgonian gardens of the reef....
On board Coles tells me he was trying to show me, by imitation, that the blue and gold Gramma (the fairy bass) always swims upside down under ledges. Why, he couldn't explain.
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In the Strike Zone
Tom Verducci
August 01, 1994
The players, dead set against the owners' demand for a salary cap, are on the brink of a walkout that could jeopardize the World Series
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The two sides were scheduled to meet Wednesday, with no common ground apparent. The owners, for instance, recently released charts that suggest a gap in payrolls—from a low of $15.5 million for the San Diego Padres to a high of $52.1 million for the Braves—is "ruining" baseball's competitive balance. The players countered with their own bar graphs illustrating that such payroll gaps have been common since at least 1983 and that competitive balance has never been better. In the past 15 years, 23 of the 28 major league clubs have reached the postseason.
It was as if two doctors held the same X-ray up to the light, with one of them saying the patient required immediate surgery and the other declaring the patient perfectly fit. "I can't bring him around," Ravitch says of Fehr. "Only the players will bring him around."
The futility of the situation is exacerbated by a prickly relationship between the two principal negotiators. In one of their first meetings, Ravitch laid out to Fehr his preferred approach to negotiations: He likes to develop a personal bond with his opposite number to facilitate a deal through backroom bargaining. Fehr was jolted by the idea. Battle-hardened and adversarial after 17 years of negotiating for the players, he wanted no such coziness, and he would not think of excluding players from the front line. The personal conflict has heightened since. "It's a problem," admits one insider to the negotiations. "It's getting worse."
To further complicate matters, these talks are not about finding room for compromise on such issues as pensions (as was the case in 1972), free agency ('76), free-agent compensation ('81) or salary arbitration ('90). This time it is a yes-or-no issue: whether or not to adopt a system that would fix costs for owners. The players have come down resolutely on the no side.
How long will that stalemate be allowed to go on before Selig and other owners join Ravitch at the bargaining table, especially if the Ravitch-Fehr conflict worsens? The union may be more willing to listen to club executives with whom they have a cordial working history, such as Paul Beeston of the Toronto Blue Jays, John Ellis of the Seattle Mariners and John Harrington of the Boston Red Sox.
Oddly, the owners are betting the same development that has traditionally favored the players—that the other side will split when a substantial portion of its membership begins to feel the financial consequences—will work to their advantage this time. During the 50-day strike of 1981, the average loss per player was $1,079 a day, based on an average salary of $185,651. This year, with an average salary of $1.2 million, the average loss per player would be $6,977 a day.
The players have about $175 million in licensing money stockpiled as a strike fund, but that will evaporate quickly. For example, if that fund was disbursed at the rate of $6,977 per player each day, it would last 31 days. That means the players would soon be left to their own resources, which raises the intriguing question: Because the players now make so much money, are they better insulated to withstand a lengthy strike or are they more likely to give in because so much more money is at stake?
"That's a good question," says Kansas City Royal pitcher David Cone. "The union has cautioned us for some time to prepare for something like this, and the licensing money will help, so I don't think players are going to have trouble paying their mortgages."
If that's true, then October, with the emotional and financial wealth of postseason play, looms as the most likely breaking point—with the owners more apt to crack at that time than the players. By then most of the players are typically home, their seasons finished, and would not be getting paid anyway. For the owners, the postseason means 75% of their television income. The pressure to salvage that money may be enormous after weeks of lost gate receipts without the cushion of the $50 million in strike insurance that emboldened management in 1981; this year the owners have none.
That prospect did not stop Jerry Reinsdorf, the hawkish owner of the Chicago White Sox, from recently laying out a scenario in which the game would be shut down until 1996. "I don't think it was a prediction," Ravitch says, "as much as a statement that the owners aren't going to give up so easily. I remain optimistic. The owners and players are not going to preside over the ruination of the game."
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<button id="do">Do</button>
$("#do").click(function() {
alert('One page back');
alert('back from were you started');
Will execute history.go(-1); and end.
In the final usage scenario it will be used with jQuery UI tabs consisting of several tabs, and normally history.go(-1) will stay on same page but normally return to another tab, on the same page.
Can I solve this with chaining and how would it look like?
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history.go(...) leaves the current page and any js running on it will stop.
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@vbd what exactly do you want to do? – Neal Apr 5 '12 at 19:08
Is there an alternate command to history.go to achieve the same for e.g. a two step submit form where step one is submitted and I will go back to modify values before I resubmit and finally submit? – vbd Apr 5 '12 at 19:13
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Here's something that might help you. This uses an array to push/pop a history for the tabs.
Edit: It's not bulletproof, but it's something to go on.
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Good evening. I am looking at developing some code that will collect EXIF data from JPEG images and store it in a MySQL database using Python v2.x The stumbling block lies in the fact that the JPEGs are scattered in a number of subdirectories and further subdirectories in a root folder so for example 200 JPEGs may be stored in root > subroot > subsubroot1 as well as a further 100 in root > subroot > subroot2. Once all images are identified, they will be scanned and their respective EXIF data abstracted before being added to a MySQL table.
At the moment I am just at the planning stage but I am just wondering, what would be the most efficient and pythonic way to carry out the recursive searching? I am looking to scan the root directory and append any new identified subdirectories to a list and then scan all subdirectory paths in the list for further subdirectories until I have a total list of all directories. This just seems to be a clumsy way though IMHO and a bit repetitive so I assume there may be a more OOP manner of carrying out this function.
Similarly, I am only looking to add new info to my MySQL table and so what would be the most efficient way to establish if an entry already exists? The filename both in the table and the JPEG file name will be its MD5 hash values. I was considering scanning through the table at the beginning of the code and placing all filenames in a set and so, before scanning a new JPEG, if an entry already exists in the set, there would be no need to extract the EXIF and move onto the next picture. Is this an efficient method however or would it be better to scan through the MySQL table when a new image is encountered? I anticipate the set method may be the most efficient however the table may potentially contain tens of millions of entries eventually and so to add the filenames for these entries into a set (volatile memory) may not be the best idea.
Thanks folks.
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I would just write a function that scanned a directory for all files; if it's a jpeg, add the full path name of the jpeg to the list of results. If it's a directory, then immediately call the function with the newly discovered directory as an argument. If it's another type of file, do nothing. This is a classic recursive divide-and-conquer strategy. It will break if there are loops in your directory path, for instance with symlinks -- if this is a danger for you, then you'll have to make sure you don't traverse the same directory twice by finding the "real" non-symlinked path of each directory and recording it.
How to avoid duplicate entries is a trickier problem and you have to consider whether you are tolerant of two differently-named files with the exact same contents (and also consider the edge cases of symlinked or multiply-hard-linked files), how new files appear in the directories you are scanning and whether you have any control over that process. One idea to speed it up would be to use os.path.getmtime(). Record the moment you start the directory traversal process. Next time around, have your recursive traversal process ignore any jpeg files with an mtime older than your recorded time. This can't be your only method of keeping track because files modified between the start and end times of your process may or may not be recorded, so you will still have to check the database for those records (for instance using the full path, a hash on the file info or a hash on the data itself, depending on what kind of duplication you're intolerant of) but used as a heuristic it should speed up the process greatly.
You could theoretically load all filenames (probably paths and not filenames) from the database into memory to speed up comparison, but if there's any danger of the table becoming very large it would be better to leave that info in the database. For instance, you could create a hash from the filename, and then simply add that to the database with a UNIQUE constraint -- the database will reject any duplicate entries, you can catch the exception and go on your way. This won't be slow if you use the aforementioned heuristic checking file mtime.
Be sure you account for the possibility of files that may be only modified and not newly created, if that's important for your application.
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I would to know why I don't get anything with this. I have a function who return a byte array from SQL Server 2008 but I don't get anything, why? .getWhiteLabelingLogo() is a function which returns a byte[] with the image which I want to show at the jsp page. I access to this
import java.io.BufferedInputStream;
import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.rmi.RemoteException;
import java.util.Map;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
import org.apache.axis.MessageContext;
import org.apache.struts2.ServletActionContext;
import org.datacontract.schemas._2004._07.CCIS_Web_Services_PublicApi.PapiAccountInfo;
import org.datacontract.schemas._2004._07.CCIS_Web_Services_PublicApi.PapiUserInfo;
import Services.Web.CCIS.BasicHttpBinding_PublicApiServiceStub;
import Services.Web.CCIS.PublicApiService_PortType;
import com.opensymphony.xwork2.ActionContext;
import com.opensymphony.xwork2.ActionSupport;
public class ShowImageAction extends ActionSupport{
Map session;
private byte[] itemImage;
private InputStream str = null;
public String execute() throws RemoteException {
System.out.println("Estoy aquí");
HttpServletResponse response = ServletActionContext.getResponse();
session = ActionContext.getContext().getSession();
PublicApiService_PortType puerto=(PublicApiService_PortType) session.get("puerto");
MessageContext ctx=(MessageContext) session.get("contexto");
PapiUserInfo[] users;
users = puerto.getUsers();
Long accountID=users[0].getID();
PapiAccountInfo info=puerto.getAccountInfo(accountID);
str=new ByteArrayInputStream(itemImage);
return SUCCESS;
public void setItemImage(byte[] itemImage) {
this.itemImage = itemImage;
public InputStream getStr() {
return str;
public void setStr(InputStream str) {
this.str = str;
public byte[] getItemImage() {
return itemImage;
at index.jsp I have this:
<img src="<s:url value="ShowImageAction" />" border="0" width="100" height="100">
And in struts.xml I have this:
<action name="ShowImageAction">
<result name="success" type="stream">
<param name="inputName">str</param>
<param name="contentType">image/jpeg</param>
What I'm doing bad because I haven't anything. Thanks so much
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The source is difficult to read. Have you tried accessing the action directly? Have you verified the data from the DB? Have you checked the rendered HTML to make sure it's what you expect? – Dave Newton Aug 15 '12 at 19:18
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Well, for starters, you don't have an action method at all. You do have a method named execute, but it is static and returns void. Action methods are non-static and return a String, which maps to a result in the struts.xml.
Additionally, after you set the content type on the response, you never send any data.
There are other problems with this action as well, such as the use of mutable static fields on the action, which is not thread-safe.
Here are some steps to take:
• Change the execute method to be non-static and return a String
• Add a return SUCCESS; line at the end of the method
• Update the struts.xml mapping to refer to the result "success" (SUCCESS is a constant for which the actual value is "success")
• Make the three member fields non-static
• Set the content type in the struts.xml, rather than in the code (see example below)
• Remove the response.reset() and .setContentType() calls
<action name="ShowImageAction" class="package.for.ShowImageAction">
Then, if it is still not working for you, revise your question appropriately.
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Hi Steven, first of all thanks, second....it doesn't work and I don't know why because I have follow all your steps – zoit Aug 15 '12 at 18:01
@zoit Revise your question then using the updated source code. Please take the time to format the source code too, so that it remains readable. – Steven Benitez Aug 15 '12 at 18:03
I have change everything now as you said to me and you can see on the top of this thread once again. Thanks so much – zoit Aug 15 '12 at 18:27
Why it doesn't work?. Thanks – zoit Aug 15 '12 at 18:52
Try referencing the class name in your action mapping. Beyond that, are you getting an exception in your logs? Try setting a break point in your IDE when you run the application and see what is happening. – Steven Benitez Aug 15 '12 at 18:55
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How can you get similar highlightings to Zsh's Less than Bash's Less in Ubuntu?
I switched from OS X to Ubuntu. My Less do not work as expected in Zsh.
Manuals in my Less are green and black with or without the following code.
# comment these out in Ubuntu
export LESS_TERMCAP_us=$'\E[04;33;146m' # begin underline is now yellow
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# to have the indication of cursor's location and line numbers, and R
export LESS="-mNR"
# |--------- only ASCII color
The code makes manuals readable in OS X, but it does not work for Ubuntu in Zsh.
Ubuntu has excellent highlightings in Bash's Less. My manuals have the colors yellow, green and black in Bash without my code. Both Zsh and Bash use the same Less at /usr/bin/less. This suggests me that Ubuntu's Bash has some dot-files which configure it somewhere.
Where are highlightings for Ubuntu's Less in Bash?
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This works for me in zsh on archlinux.
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Thank you for your answer! – Masi Aug 11 '09 at 2:49
Thanks for the question - I did not know about this, but I always secretly wanted it.. – 0x89 Aug 11 '09 at 10:19
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My default shell is bash so take this with a grain of salt. Start with /etc/profile and see how it sources bash-specific files. You need to re-create that logic for zsh. Maybe the zsh-lovers package can help, at least its title of tips, tricks and examples for the zsh is suggestive.
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I have a div
<div class="blue>;
The class blue is:
.blue {
background-color: blue;
Now I know I can set the background color of the div in the console using:
$0.style.backgroundColor = "#ffcc00"
But what if I want to get the value of the background color for that element using the console?
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It's possible you may want computed style:
var style = getComputedStyle(document.body, null); // Gets the style for a passed element and optional pseudo selecter (eg. :hover)
It's important to note that computed style is the rendered result. If you have multiple rules for the same element, this will only display the ones that have been applied.
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You can do :
var blue = document.getElementsByClassName('blue')[0];
or you do:
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i hope you noticed the console executes javascript and no special command syntax – pfried Oct 25 '12 at 18:08
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0.691711 | <urn:uuid:579b167b-9054-41b1-84fe-588353a87c2b> | en | 0.853482 | Take the 2-minute tour ×
Looking for some advice with an iOS application.
Essentially what my app does is generate a CSV file that logs certain events within a period of time. So users can press a button and an entry will be added to the log saying "Event of type X happened at Time T"
The way I'm doing this is by maintaining an NSMutableArray which stores NSStrings. Each event adds a string to the NSMutableArray.
When the user is done with a session, they can "export" the file. I'm using the NSMutableArray's writeToFile; then I use an e-mail interface to send that file as a CSV to a target e-mail.
It all works, except the CSV file that is generated has some meta-data in it. Specifically, I believe at the top of the file I see and at the beginning of each row of cells when opened in excel.
Is this something inherent in the data structure (NSMutableArray) or data type (NSString) that I am using? Is there a way for me to just get the raw data?
I can upload code if need be (I'm not near the work computer now though, so I'm testing the waters to see if there is something simple I can do to stop seeing this meta-data).
Thank you!
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the writeToFile method will generate a plist file, not a csv file – phix23 Nov 20 '12 at 19:26
Okay, is there any way for me to write it to a csv file? Currently I'm just changing the extension (crude, I know). – Tyler.Williams Nov 20 '12 at 19:37
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CSV is a very simple format. You can separate the strings with semi-colons and then write everything to a file using NSOutputStream.
This code assumes you already have a string array with CSV rows:
NSOutputStream* csvoutput = [NSOutputStream outputStreamToFileAtPath:filepath append:NO];
[csvoutput open];
for (NSString* str in array) {
NSString* tempStr = [str stringByAppendingString:@"\n"]; //new line
NSData *strData = [tempStr dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
[csvoutput write:(uint8_t *)[strData bytes] maxLength:[strData length]];
[csvoutput close];
You better create a model class (Event) and fill the array with Event-instances instead of strings. Thats cleaner and more efficient. Then you would create the CSV-strings when exporting to a file.
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| http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13480544/nsmutablearray-meta-data-when-exported-to-csv-file | dclm-gs1-065630002 | false | false | {
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0.90638 | <urn:uuid:b19d0ecc-996b-4357-9e09-b18893536f99> | en | 0.91018 | Take the 2-minute tour ×
If I end up getting a pointer to shared memory of size mentioned in shmget. If that size is determined at run time . for example for a struct containing matrices which would be determined at runtime .I get a pointer to that struct. then how do I allocate memory for individual matrix ?
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You have to manage shared memory yourself. You get a lump of it, then you have to parcel it up and hand it out and keep track of it yourself - or with some kind of handy library.
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| http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15415315/how-do-we-allocate-dynamic-memory-from-shared-memory | dclm-gs1-065660002 | false | false | {
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0.18257 | <urn:uuid:a554c5aa-7ce0-4c80-bd1d-e6f595cfab2d> | en | 0.893421 | Take the 2-minute tour ×
In every background audio sample I have found for Windows Phone 7.5/8, I see the following construct, and I would like to know why:
private static bool _classInitialized;
public BackgroundAudioAgent()
if (!_classInitialized)
_classInitialized = true;
// Other static initialization
This is a really bizarre way to do static initialization - why not use a static constructor? I've experimented with using static constructors, and they seem to work without issue, as you would expect.
Despite the apparent uselessness of this style of code, I hesitate to dismiss something that comes from the authors of the audio API. Is there a reason not to use static constructors in background agents?
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Kind of looks like they're trying to obtain the same behaviour as a singleton class? Doesn't make much sense otherwise. – easuter Jul 19 at 9:15
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Browse other questions tagged or ask your own question. | http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17713280/static-constructors-in-background-agents | dclm-gs1-065670002 | false | false | {
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0.321821 | <urn:uuid:758bebb9-11e5-4487-8aca-796e338baf01> | en | 0.865138 | Take the 2-minute tour ×
At a step of provisioning the databases for synchronization, it is possible
to Get Descryptions For Tables including the triggers in that table ?
If yes, does anyone know how to do that ?
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No. the GetDescriptionForTable is simply for retrieving the structure of the table for purposes of data synchronization. Sync Fx doesnt sync schemas so it doesnt care about the other database objects such as triggers, views, stored procs, etc...
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Thanks for the answer. But, theres no other way to get the remote database objects such as triggers, etc ? – mmarques Sep 11 at 8:23
As I have mentioned, Sync Fx doesn't care about them. You have to code it yourself or script out the database and pre-create the objects rather than relying on Sync Fx provisioning. – JuneT Sep 11 at 12:12
Right. Thanks again :) – mmarques Sep 11 at 12:20
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| http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18717903/sync-framework-get-description-for-table | dclm-gs1-065680002 | false | false | {
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0.810048 | <urn:uuid:eeb5235b-1656-4eca-ad73-420c704cf14c> | en | 0.655116 | Take the 2-minute tour ×
Hi i am using plotly to generate graphs using Python, Bottle. However, this returns me a url. Like:
I want to paste the entire graph into my webpage instead of providing a link. Is this possible?
My code is:
import os
from bottle import run, template, get, post, request
from plotly import plotly
py = plotly(username='user', key='key')
def form():
return '''<h2>Graph via Plot.ly</h2>
<form method="POST" action="/plot">
Name: <input name="name1" type="text" />
Age: <input name="age1" type="text" /><br/>
Name: <input name="name2" type="text" />
Age: <input name="age2" type="text" /><br/>
Name: <input name="name3" type="text" />
Age: <input name="age3" type="text" /><br/>
<input type="submit" />
def submit():
name1 = request.forms.get('name1')
age1 = request.forms.get('age1')
name2 = request.forms.get('name2')
age2 = request.forms.get('age2')
name3 = request.forms.get('name3')
age3 = request.forms.get('age3')
x0 = [name1, name2, name3];
y0 = [age1, age2, age3];
data = {'x': x0, 'y': y0, 'type': 'bar'}
response = py.plot([data])
url = response['url']
filename = response['filename']
return ('''Congrats! View your chart here <a href="https://plot.ly/~abhishek.mitra.963/1">View Graph</a>!''')
if __name__ == '__main__':
run(host='', port=port, debug=True)
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Ever considered using templates in flask? – Games Brainiac Oct 14 at 10:47
i had templates. But how would it help? – user2834165 Oct 14 at 11:31
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Yes, that's possible. It's a little hard to get to right now (sorry-we're working on that).
But, here's the snippet:
<iframe id="igraph" src="https://plot.ly/~abhishek.mitra.963/1/400/250/" width="400" height="250" seamless="seamless" scrolling="no"></iframe>
You can change the width/height dimensions in that snippet.
Here's how an embedded graph looks in the Washington Post
Let me know if that doesn't work, and I'm happy to help out.
Disclosure: I'm on the Plotly team.
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| http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19356920/embed-plotly-graph-into-a-webpage-with-bottle | dclm-gs1-065690002 | false | false | {
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0.958452 | <urn:uuid:7a6ddd6b-62f3-4b03-8216-091bc63ec422> | en | 0.901856 | Take the 2-minute tour ×
I have an mu install with the typical blogs.dir folder storing files for each blog. When loading these images however they take forever to appear, but they eventually do. It seems that wpmu uses php to serve each image which is ludicrous. When using images from the same domain but in a root folder, the images are displayed quickly. Is there a workaround the blogs.php for rendering files? Could there be something else wrong in the settings of my install?
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Hard coding the Rewrite Rule instead of using blogs.php is a temporary workaround with huge speed differences. This can only work if you already know the blog ID's.
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| http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2639667/wordpress-mu-image-speed-problem | dclm-gs1-065710002 | false | false | {
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0.069604 | <urn:uuid:954c366a-3b27-4ab7-9e47-c39260134fb0> | en | 0.812535 | Take the 2-minute tour ×
My app worked ok on iPhone SDK 3.1. However, when I try to run it in 3.2 simulator, I get the following error and it crashes:
bool _WebTryThreadLock(bool), 0x5148280: Tried to obtain the web lock from a thread other than the main thread or the web thread. This may be a result of calling to UIKit from a secondary thread. Crashing now... Program received signal: “EXC_BAD_ACCESS”.
When I debug it, it leads me to this peace of code:
- (void)LoginViewToCheckView:(id)sender {
CheckViewController *tempTestController = [[CheckViewController alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewStyleGrouped];
[tempTestController setDelegate:self];
[self setCheckViewController: tempTestController];
[tempTestController release];
[navigationController pushViewController:checkViewController animated:YES];}
Other thing worth mentioning is maybe that I am calling this function from a separate thread.
Any ideas what could be wrong?
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Exactly that: you're accessing UIKit objects from another than the main thread. You cannot push a view controller on a background thread.
You might consider using NSObject's -[performSelectorOnMainThread:withObject:waitUntilDone:] to execute this method on the main thread.
And, b.t.w. methods start with a lowercase letter in Objective-C.
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0.787276 | <urn:uuid:d956216c-afa8-4502-9e26-433f1ae4a378> | en | 0.809773 | Take the 2-minute tour ×
I'm calling a C executable in my Rails(-v 2.3.5) application using the system() call.
makefile_path = File.expand_path('./c_executalbe', Rails.root)
Everything works fine on my local machine but for some reason that system() call won't run on the server(dreamhost). And there is no error message in log/production.log. I would like to see the returned output of that system call in the log. How can I do that?
Thanks in advance!
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See: http://ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Kernel.html#M005960
output = %x(command)
output = `command`
output = Kernel.send(:`, "command")
You'll get the command output.
If command comes from a variable, as in your case, you can interpolate:
output = %x(#{makefile_path})
output = `#{makefile_path}`
output = Kernel.send(:`, makefile_path)
To log it into log/production.log:
logger.info output
# or
puts output
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Thanks! This is exactly what I was looking for. – Jinru Nov 14 '10 at 6:37
I am unable to log it on production using Logger.info(cmd_output). I am using thin server. – Reality Oct 1 '12 at 18:56
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0.520795 | <urn:uuid:2ffa91d5-e8d9-4730-ac14-ff0ae72f7384> | en | 0.866492 | Take the 2-minute tour ×
How does one filter a list of records to remove those that have some identical fields, based on selecting the one with the minimum value in another field? Note that it's not sufficient to just get the minimum value... I need to have other fields from the same record.
I have a table of "products", and I am trying to add the ability to apply a coupon code. Because of how the invoices are generated, selling a product at a different cost is considered a different product. In the database you might see this:
Product ID, Product Cost, Product Name, Coupon Code
1, 20, Product1, null
2, 10, Product1, COUPON1
3, 40, Product2, null
I have a query that selects a list of all products available now (based on other criteria; I'm simplifying this a lot). The problem is that, for the above case, my query returns:
1 - Product1 for $20
2 - Product1 for $10
3 - Product2 for $40
This gets shown to the customer (assuming they've entered the coupon code), and it's obviously bad form to show a customer the same product for two prices. What I want is:
2 - Product1 for $10
3 - Product2 for $40
i.e., showing the lowest-costing version of each product.
I need a solution that will work for MySQL, but the preferred solution would be standard SQL.
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Are those your real column names? Spaces in columns names can cause problems if you forget to quote the column names. – Mark Byers Dec 11 '10 at 22:16
@Mark Nope... I had to simplify a lot of make it understandable. I should probably have used underscores to avoid any confusion though. – Chris Arguin Dec 11 '10 at 22:27
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Try this:
SELECT `Product Name` AS name, MIN(`Product Cost`) AS cost
FROM products
GROUP BY `Product Name`
) T1
JOIN products T2
ON T1.name = T2.`Product Name`
AND T1.cost = T2.`Product Cost`
To get the output exactly as you described as a string replace the first line with:
SELECT CONCAT(`Product ID`, ' - ', T1.name, ' for $', T1.cost)
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This will return duplicates if there are more than one record with the same (in this case, lowest) product cost. – OMG Ponies Dec 11 '10 at 22:20
Thank you, that put me back on the right track. I guess it's time for me to start getting comfortable with JOINS... – Chris Arguin Dec 11 '10 at 22:25
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0.045381 | <urn:uuid:901527ca-86aa-42f3-8038-c1e6bdca3fe1> | en | 0.753377 | Take the 2-minute tour ×
I've been trying to include the jquery ui effects (more specifically the shake effect) on my wordpress theme. So far, I've only been able to include the jQuery script, but I really have no clue where to place the ui scripts and how to enqueue them.
This is the code I have. It obviously doesnt work:
<?php wp_enqueue_script("jquery"); ?>
<?php wp_head(); ?>
<script type="text/javascript">
var $j = jQuery.noConflict();
$j(document).ready(function() {
//$j(this).animate({ opacity: "hide" })
// alert('asd');
$j(this).effect("shake", { times:3 }, 300);
Thanks for your help!
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I can't answer your question (hence comment), but you might be able to find Wordpress-specific help on the Wordpress Stack Exchange site. – David Thomas Jan 18 '11 at 22:21
I'll add this question there as well, thanks! – dabito Jan 18 '11 at 22:39
no problem at all, I'm just sorry I couldn't be more helpful =) – David Thomas Jan 19 '11 at 0:08
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It might be possible that the jquery-ui-core included with wordpress does not include Effects. The documentation is unclear(http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_enqueue_script#Default_scripts_included_with_WordPress) You might have to load a custom jquery-ui package from a url. Below will load full jquery UI from google cdn
<?php wp_enqueue_script("myUi","https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8.8/jquery-ui.min.js"); ?>
You can also use the wp_enqueue_script($name, $src) function to load your own scripts.
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It definitely does not include Effects: "jQuery UI Effects is NOT included with the jquery-ui-core" – Zach L Sep 10 '12 at 13:52
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My question is related to following questions.
1. Security of Android assets folder
2. Assets Security in Android.
Basically the application which I am making has some mp3 resources which I wanted to secure. So is there library which work on android to encrypt and then decrypt resources especially mp3 files.
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Keep in mind that any method of encryption that you use will need storing the key to decrypt the encrypted data. This key will have to be available to your application and thus to anyone who has access to your application. By encrypting the data you change the problem of hiding your data to the problem of hiding your key and there is pretty much no way around it. The most you can do is to make your data harder to read but it can't be made impossible to read, unless you run your application on a trusted computing platform, as I said in my answer to your previous question.
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| http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5276017/library-to-encryption-and-decryption-resources/5276586 | dclm-gs1-065760002 | false | false | {
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0.634315 | <urn:uuid:cb249389-8772-4c5a-a7f6-e5b77925e88f> | en | 0.878855 | Take the 2-minute tour ×
I'm diving into the uses of htaccess/mod rewrite for the first time and I'm having a little bit of trouble with a redirect/mask.
I have a test directory in my root folder called modrw, in that folder is a index.php file with a nice and simple:
In the browser if I type www.domain.com/modrw/{word}/ then the word is echoed on the page, which is what I want.
If I type www.domain.com/modrw/name={word} then I am redirected to www.domain.com/modrw/{word}/ and the word is also echoed as I intended.
However, if I direct the browser to the URL www.domain.com/modrw/?name={word}/ the word is echoed but I am not redirected to www.domain.com/modrw/{word}/ like I hoped.
How is the ? causing troubles? In the RewriteRule code below the ? is included, I've tried it a couple different ways but can't get it working.
Here is my htaccess file:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
RewriteRule ^modrw/?name=([^/\.]+)/?$ http://www.domain.com/modrw/$1 [R]
RewriteRule ^modrw/([^/\.]+)/?$ modrw/?name=$1
What is causing the problem, is there a specific way to include the ?, does it not pick this up at all? Am I taking completely the wrong approach?
I've also tried using Options +FollowSymlinks but I'm not entirely sure what this does nor if it's needed at all...
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Remember that RewriteRuleonly matches REQUEST_URI. To match query string you must use RewriteCond with variable %{QUERY_STRING}. For ex. in your case:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^name=(.*)(&|$) [NC]
RewriteRule ^modrw /modrw/%1? [L,R,NC]
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Ah, okay, thank you! However, do I need to replace my current RerwiteRule or add this in addition, I tried adding this but by using both I get a redirect loop, and if I replace your code with mine, the redirection works for it with both a ? and without, but I get 404'd – Joe Sep 12 '11 at 19:18
Do you need to support both of these URIs: 1) www.domain.com/modrw/name={word} and 2) www.domain.com/modrw?name={word}? If yes then pls also post your access.log and error.log relevant output here. – anubhava Sep 13 '11 at 4:50
After a bit of thinking, I've decided the way I had gotten it working is actually good enough, links that are being masked/redirected are all links generated from my site, so unless someone manually types in a query into their browser I won't have any problems. Since they'll just get 404'd if the query doesn't match. modrw/name={word} redirects fine to modrw/{word}/ and if {word} doesn't fetch results with a mysql query an error messages is displayed anyway. I don't know why I didn't think about it before! But thank you for your snippet, it will definitely come in handy soon, I'm sure! :) – Joe Sep 13 '11 at 21:27
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Does anyone (here) know if Windows 8 will have a sort of fat exe that one can compile with Visual Studio 11 that will be supported on both ARM and x86 machines? I am guessing not, since you can't create fat binaries that will execute 32 or 64 bit code so far as I am aware (only solution available that I am aware of is 32 bit that creates a 64 bit executable on the fly).
It seems like it would be helpful of Microsoft to extend exe or create a fat binary format for Windows 8 and beyond at least that would allow one to compile a single executable for Window's expanding palette of platforms.
edit: The following link shows how to compile an ARM exe in the first dev preview. Figured I would add that because it gives no hint of fat binary support, but it is also early in the game. I don't think not having it now rules it out as a possibility. Compile for ARM
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I thought the focus would be to compile .NET programs, so it would work on x86/x86_64 as well as ARM. Interesting question. – Prof. Falken Oct 19 '11 at 12:43
I think this is a focus of the .NET byte code... however, if I am not mistaken, you still need to compile for a particular architecture. I think this is for the start code that launches the JIT compiler. Don't quote me on that, though. Also, the Windows 8 App Market will probably allow commits for each type of binary. Up-voted for the good commentary, regardless. – watkinsj Oct 28 '11 at 2:26
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Separate binaries are needed for execution on different systems. Similar as they have for win32 and win64.
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You're not familiar with the concept of fat binaries, are you? – onemasse Sep 22 '11 at 11:11
...or emulation layers as some OS have done in the past. – Brian Knoblauch Sep 26 '11 at 15:25
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I've seen no news, hints, or even rumors about such feature. Considering that we already have to keep a separate set of executables and DLLs for x86 and x64, I don't see this changing for ARM. Also, considering ARM machines usually have quite limited memory as it is, dragging along x86/x64 ballast "just in case" makes even less sense.
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I am aware of the constraints that ARM systems typically have, however I anticipate tablets and such will not have nearly these constraints, not to mention that the bulk of a complex program is not in the executable, but in the supporting files if I am not mistaken. – watkinsj Sep 23 '11 at 4:34
RAM is not an issue, the "wrong" fork would not be loaded. – Prof. Falken Oct 19 '11 at 12:42
So? The flash space is still limited, and if every binary is two or three times bigger than what's necessary, you can run out of space very fast. Either way, the first part of my answer still stands, so what's up with the downvoting? – Igor Skochinsky Oct 19 '11 at 15:31
The first is a guess and the other is wrong. (Nothing wrong with guesses though.) The up and coming ARM machines can have as large disks as any x86 notebook, and they can address at least 2 gigabyte RAM, maybe 4. Here is Windows 8 running on 1 gigabyte RAM ARM: tekgoblin.com/2011/04/13/… – Prof. Falken Oct 19 '11 at 16:08
For what it's worth I don't think either that Windows 8 will support FAT binaries. I think they will encourage people to go .NET – Prof. Falken Oct 19 '11 at 16:09
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It would appear that there has been no whisper or hint of any kind of fat binary support in Windows 8. It remains a faint hope that Microsoft will, in the future allow an executable to contain only CIL to be executed, allowing interoperability between the various platforms that Windows supports.
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I wish to use Stage3D and Context3D in ActionScript. For that I need to download the beta version of Flash Player 11. However, I can't find the equivalent Flash Builder SDK with the mxmlc executable that can compile ActionScript into Flash 11 capable Shockwave Flash files. Any clue as to where I may download it from?
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You do not need another SDK you need to modify the flex-config.xml file and add additional parameter to your mxmlc command. Look in sdks\4.5.1\frameworks\flex-config.xml and change the target-player node the swf-version to 13 and the node path-element to the correct playerglobal.swc (available on labs.adobe.com).
The compiler parameter is "-target-player=11.0.0" (if your flex-config.xml reflect that version).
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There's a download link for the playerglobal.swc at adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html – slowdog Nov 21 '11 at 19:43
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| http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7612557/from-where-may-i-download-the-flash-builder-sdk-equivalent-to-flash-player-11 | dclm-gs1-065840002 | false | false | {
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How can I display HTML tags in a .html page without having my browser try to execute whatever is in the tag.
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You must use use the escaped version. For example < becomes < (no quotes) and & becomes &.
You should be able to find a full list of transformations.
An example snippet:
<a href="http://google.com">Google</a>
is the escaped version of:
The standard's list of entities: http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/sgml/entities.html
A Wikipedia artcile on it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_XML_and_HTML_character_entity_references
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Please note that, unless you're not using UTF-8 for some ungodly reason, the only entities in that list that should ever be used are: <, >, &, ', & ". – Andrew Marshall Dec 20 '11 at 5:54
Thank you for your help! I really appreciate it. – MonuMan5 Dec 20 '11 at 5:55
That's a good point, @AndrewMarshall. I didn't even think about pointing out that escaping anything that can be escaped is not always necessary :). And no problem MonuMan5. Glad I could help. – Corbin Dec 20 '11 at 5:57
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The answer for inserting tags in the body part can be gone through <textarea> tag.The text or tags entered between the opening & closing <textarea> tag will be shown as such.
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I have an app with storyboard. In one scene I have a tableview with statics cell content. Is possible to change the background selected color to another color out of the default options (blue and gray)?
I know If I can change cell background color in forRowAtIndexPath but in this case I haven't any datasource function from tableview. I'm sure that it is possible from IB or another function that I can modify...
Thanks in advance!
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I had the same problem. The solution has two parts:
1) getting the cells, look at this. 2) changing the background color: you must create a UIView with the background color you need and set it as the selectedBackgroundView of the cell
For instance, I used this code in the viewDidLoad of the uitableviewcontroller:
UIView *backgroundSelectedCell = [[UIView alloc] init];
[backgroundSelectedCell setBackgroundColor:[UIColor colorWithRed:130/256.0 green:169/256.0 blue:171/256.0 alpha:1.0]];
for (int section = 0; section < [self.tableView numberOfSections]; section++)
for (int row = 0; row < [self.tableView numberOfRowsInSection:section]; row++)
NSIndexPath* cellPath = [NSIndexPath indexPathForRow:row inSection:section];
UITableViewCell* cell = [self.tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:cellPath];
[cell setSelectedBackgroundView:backgroundSelectedCell];
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Thanks Carlos... are you spanish? – Camacho Apr 25 '12 at 16:37
This approach probably works. I really don't know how it will behave when you have a bunch of cell and the table scrolls. In dynamic cells, they are cached and discarded when needed. Changing the background during the didLoad method will ensure that the first presenting cells have a correct background color, but may not ensure that the scrolling cells will keep that reference. Anyway, it needs coding, and a static cell is intended to use without the need of coding... I posted an answer that let you accomplish that without coding. – Leandro Alves Sep 21 '12 at 0:41
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You don't need to write neither a single line of code to accomplish that. You can do it all using the storyboard. Just do that:
1. Add a UIView to your UITableViewCell and link it to the selectedBackgroundView property of the cell (to find this property, you will need to drag the line from the "New Reference Outlet" and release it over the desired UITableViewCell)
2. Change the color of the UIView to the desired color of the selected state
You can do the same thing with the backgroundView property. Also, you can use a UIImageView to use a image, instead of the single color background of a UIView.
Here is a sample file using a custom UIViewController instead of a UITableViewController, but it works on both: http://uxp.com.br/downloads/CustomCell.zip
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great approach! This is the way to work with storyboards, that many of us aren't familiar with, and how they are thought to be worked with. Thanks! – brainray Oct 23 '12 at 23:14
How did you accomplish this without getting this error? stackoverflow.com/questions/13090338/… – Adam Ritenauer Oct 31 '12 at 3:24
I'm not using AutoLayout. Maybe that's why I don't get any error. But it looks like a bug to me. Have you filled a bug within Apple? – Leandro Alves Oct 31 '12 at 18:58
Hi, @MartinBerger. You can drag a UIView to a UITableViewCell using the Storyboard view. If you're having problem to drag it to the proper place, try dragging it using the hierarchy view: put the view anywhere in the Scene and drag it to be child of the cell. – Leandro Alves Jan 10 at 16:47
@MartinBerger, I just added a sample file on my answer. Open it and check it to see what you're missing. And sorry for the delayed answer. – Leandro Alves Jan 15 at 13:51
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I keep getting message "Disconnected: Incorrect netsettings" right after connect in some servers. Here is screenshot
What does it mean? How can I fix it? I tried to delete my config.cfg and autoexec.cfg files in left4dead2/cfg folder, but it doesn't seem to fix the issue.
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MajorBubbles 07 月 20 @ 7:08下午
yeh but prison tycoon sucks
snafu-maru 07 月 3 @ 9:58下午
you know there was a simalar game called prison tycoon and it sold for ten bucks.and it was a full game not a beta.
Mapper 06 月 27 @ 6:37下午
It's a fun game for a day or two but its not worth 30 dollars sorry. I played this on a friends account, but I would't buy this game for this high price .. yet. Lets see how it further develops.
There should a free build gamemode, with unlimited amount of cash you can build a prison.
Because right now 10k is a ridiculous low amount of cash when there are everyday eg8-12 new prisoners coming in. I never lasted longer than 10 days withouth an outbreak,( but not with 10k balance).
You could always edit the savefile for now, but it'd nice if its implemented in the game.
Mr. Freeze 06 月 26 @ 2:02下午
you should add gangs that fight oneanother that would be cool
Billy Doe 06 月 26 @ 9:48上午
lovely game! but some bugs thats annoy. of course a alpha!
* Power station to weak
* Prison breakers dont break out
* inmates gets stuck at any place and never moves after that
* Nurses are not working on there own
* Guards are bad on opening doors, sometimes everyone waits for the doors
* It says maximum 15 inmates even if you build 100's of cells
otherwise its fun for now!
EnragedSwampDonkey 06 月 25 @ 1:22上午
theanger danger level goes up to fast when im starting out. it makes it very difficult to enjoy this mastrpeice of gaming
Jasonmm 06 月 23 @ 11:02下午
love this game
avoitus 06 月 23 @ 11:14上午
Alpha or not, I've already spent 10 hours playing the game...and I just got it like 3 days ago...
laddins 06 月 23 @ 1:40上午
is the laundry already fixed? cant play it, everybody is rioting :/
Wally 06 月 22 @ 12:51下午
Looking forward to the final build. Ps the alpha isnt expensive, it's a free bonus on top preordering. If free is too expensive, just alt+F4 life :P | http://steamcommunity.com/games/233450/announcements/detail/2143991614685266567?l=tchinese | dclm-gs1-065910002 | false | false | {
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0.05025 | <urn:uuid:c0a162ec-3fcd-4c14-a993-1cdc43a72e21> | en | 0.925234 | Liberty en Pessimism <p>Column by Jim Davies.</p> <p> <strong>Exclusive to STR</strong></p> <p> It's very sad, to see so much of it around STR. Several whose fingers fly over the keyboard to make comments seem to think that government is a fixture, here to stay.</p> <p> This is not limited to STR, mind; I enjoy much of the work of Fred Reed on another site, and noticed a fine recent example called <a href="">Your Papers, Citizen</a> which expertly compared the America of today with the America of Fred's youth, with particular reference to guns and their control. It's chock full of delicious turns of phrase, such as “As women got in touch with their inner totalitarian, we began to outlaw large soft drinks and any word or expression that might offend anyone.” Yee-haw. But then he mars it by ending up with this gloomy prediction: “Nobody in America, ever again, is going to be left alone. Not ever.”</p> <p> In writing that, he falls into a serious intellectual error. <a href="">Not his only one</a>, alas.</p> <p> To suppose that government is a permanent fixture, like the weather, firstly takes <strong>no account of history</strong>. Admittedly, our knowledge of how human societies organized themselves prior to the discovery of <a href="">fixed agriculture</a> is very slim (writing was invented only after that discovery), but such as we have says that there was no government that we'd recognize as such today. There were personal quarrels, there may have been conflicts between small groups, but there is no evidence of organized war between large groups under the command of leaders. All that came <em>after</em> fixed agriculture was implemented. Tribes and villagers made any communal decisions by consensus. Remnants of this way of life were found – before destruction by the US Army – among American Indian tribes on this continent, and were noted in the much more primitive ones found in <a href="">Ecuador</a> by Christian missionaries in the 1950s.</p> <p> Accordingly, since <em>hom. sap.</em> evolved about 100,000 years ago but fixed agriculture was discovered only 10,000 years ago, our species lived government-free for 90% of our existence. The allegation that man needs governing is nonsense on its face.</p> <p> Second, the supposition takes no account of <strong>the nature of mankind</strong>. We are <em>self-owners</em>. There is no rational alternative to that premise, so it is an axiom. Now, control over a person's life and decisions can be exercised by only one entity: himself, or someone else. No other possibilities exist. Since (by the self-ownership axiom) each person has the right to do so, it follows necessarily that government does not. A is not Non-A. Hence, government exists only in flagrant violation of reason.</p> <p> Third, these pessimists are <strong>snared in the false logic of the G-Myth</strong>. That story is told as a <a href="">fable</a> about a society on another planet, heavily addicted to a certain substance which always makes everyone ill. Yet they continue to ingest it. What utter stupidity! All that's needed, to restore health, is to identify the poison and kick the habit.</p> <p> Fourth, some of these pessimists <strong>lack perception and compassion</strong> or blindly suppose that government isn't all that bad. This failure applies also of course to the great majority of the population including all who work for government, as well as to the pessimists here. The perception they lack is that government is utterly lethal and will, if not stopped, get worse. Consider just their war-making activities, and just the last three major wars, leaving aside the hundreds of smaller ones worldwide, and all the other kinds of misery and poverty they create on a daily basis:<br /> </p> <table border="1" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <colgroup> <col /><br /> <col /><br /> <col /><br /> </colgroup> <thead> <tr> <th> War</th> <th> Date</th> <th> Dead</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <th> Napoleonic</th> <td> ~ 1800</td> <td> 4 million</td> </tr> <tr> <th> WW-I</th> <td> 1914-18</td> <td> 16 million</td> </tr> <tr> <th> WW-II</th> <td> 1939-45</td> <td> 64 million*</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p>* Estimates vary from 50 to 80 million</p> <p> Notice the progression. Each major war killed <em>four times</em> as many as the previous one. If that continues (and why not, given the great increase in lethality of weapons?), World War III will kill 256 million human beings and WW-IV will liquidate over a billion.</p> <p> The species is doomed if wars continue, and wars will continue as long as governments do.</p> <p> Compassion must be missing, in the pessimists who warble “Peace; and there was no peace” (<a href=";version=KJV">Ezekiel 13</a>) because if they can grasp even part of that, they must have no feeling of pity for the future victims of government wars – not even their own children, and theirs, and theirs.</p> <p> Fifth, they apparently <strong>fail to apply their minds</strong> to the matter of how government might be terminated, once it's been identified as the culprit. If that task were found to be literally impossible, then of course I'd have to excuse the pessimism; but it certainly isn't. Once you seriously set about the job, the solution begins to leap out. The process is the same as that to be used to solve any other puzzle:</p> <p> </p> <ul> <li> clearly describe the problem</li> <li> specify the solution desired</li> <li> explore possible ways to obtain it.</li> </ul> <p> </p> <p> Only a modest degree of imagination is needed here. The problem is of course the massive damage done to humanity by government, along with its huge power of self-preservation. The needed solution is to end its existence altogether, the sooner the better. Then comes the exploration, needing creativity; all kinds of ideas are worth visualizing and most (or all except one) will be found unworkable. What's left after that sifting is the fix to be followed.</p> <p> Lastly – and inspired by Don Stacy's <a href="">recent STRticle</a> – some pessimists have just become <strong>discouraged</strong>, by lack of success in promoting anarcholibertarianism (gee, I wish we had a name for what we are that didn't need nine syllables and 21 letters!). This is perhaps a subset of the fifth category above, but is very understandable. My answer to it in brief is not to jump ship but to change course. If freedom is a <em>perfect fit</em> for human nature, it cannot at the same time be so poor a fit that mankind will never embrace it. That would be a contradiction, and contradictions exist only in the minds of those who fail to think clearly.</p> <p> For example, it's not surprising that political action doesn't work in promoting the libertarian world view. Why would it, ever? It is an alien method, foreign to the very non-aggression principle we advance. So, sit down as in #5 above and figure out a better way. The one that I recommend is <a href="">shown here</a>, and I don't get frustrated at all. I know very well that at any one time, well over 90% (99, perhaps) are just not ready and interested seriously to consider libertarian logic – <em>but it doesn't matter!</em> At any one time, we only need the one person who is. Then next year, another one; and by next year, a few of those whose mind is closed today will have experienced in life something that caused a reappraisal, a reconsideration.</p> <p> I get the impression that some pessimists just have not been through this intellectual process, vital and simple though it is. Perhaps some of them just like griping; they're gripers, and don't actually want a free society because then there would be little or nothing to gripe about, a bit like <a href=";version=KJV">Jonah</a>. Perhaps some have a martyr complex, and “enjoy” government maltreatment because of the prestige they earn from freedom advocates. Or just possibly (say it ain't so!) some are plain idle, they don't wish to leave their comfort zone. Maybe other explanations exist; but instead of getting to grips with the anomaly as above, they just say it can't be done and return to their gripes or to their particular form of invited suffering. Or to their couches.</p> <p> </p> Liberty Statism War and Peace Thu, 19 Dec 2013 13:18:06 +0000 Jim Davies 59067 at Liberty in 2013 <div class="field field-type-link field-field-url"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="" 0="a:0:{}" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Liberty in 2013</a> </div> </div> </div> <p>This wasn't a great year for liberty, thanks to government.</p> Liberty Thu, 19 Dec 2013 08:00:00 +0000 Westernerd 59048 at We Cannot Predict the Many Ways Freedom Will Improve Our Lives <div class="field field-type-link field-field-url"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">We Cannot Predict the Many Ways Freedom Will Improve Our Lives </a> </div> </div> </div> <p>But failure to satisfactorily answer the unanswerable in no way detracts from justified confidence that voluntary arrangements will do things better. In fact, the inability to answer helps explain why freedom works so well — it allows previously undiscovered beneficial arrangements that serve people more effectively to develop, even though no one knows exactly what will happen in advance.</p> Anarchism Liberty Thu, 19 Dec 2013 08:00:00 +0000 Westernerd 59050 at Who Can You Trust? <div class="field field-type-link field-field-url"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Who Can You Trust?</a> </div> </div> </div> <p>After you eliminate the State, who is left? Society – the dynamic of average people who produce and trade honestly through their own efforts.</p> Anarchism Liberty Society/Culture Thu, 19 Dec 2013 08:00:00 +0000 Westernerd 59055 at What It Feels Like to Be an Anarcholibertarian <p>Column by Don Stacy.</p> <p><strong>Exclusive to STR</strong></p> <p>One of my favorite libertarian articles is a January 2009 blog post by Professor John Hasnas entitled "<a href="">What It Feels Like To Be a Libertarian</a>." Hasnas is an Associate Professor of Business at Georgetown's McDonough School of Business, a visiting Associate Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center, and Director of the Georgetown Institute for the Study of Market and Ethics. His essay has nothing to do with libertarian bioethics, my usual topic of choice, but the theme he considers has been so rarely addressed that I thought I should bring his tract to the attention of the libertarian community.</p> <p> In this post, Professor Hasnas compares the internal life of the libertarian to the internal life of <a href="">Cassandra</a>, the Greek mythological heroine. To refresh the reader's memory, Cassandra was the most beautiful daughter of King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy. Apollo, the sun god, offered Cassandra the gift of prophecy in exchange for her love. Cassandra accepted the proposal, but then betrayed Apollo by refusing his advances after she had already received the prophetic gift. Apollo retaliated by cursing Cassandra, proclaiming that her prophecies would be accurate but disbelieved by all.</p> <p> Professor Hasnas speculates when he relates the inner life of the libertarian to the inner life of Cassandra, for Greek mythology does not explicate <em>what it feels like to be</em> Cassandra. But the generic comparison is undeniably reasonable, for we libertarians predict with uncanny accuracy the disastrous consequences of aggression, yet no one believes us. Hasnas notes that libertarians are "ridiculed, derided, and shunned" and "subject to unending scorn and derision despite being inevitably proven correct by events." Cassandra’s contemporaries responded to her in a similarly shameful manner, as evidenced by Clytemnestra’s verbal barrage prior to exiting the stage in Aeschylus’s <em><a href="">Agamemnon</a>:</em></p> <p> ‘Fore God, she is mad, and heareth but her own<br /> Folly! A slave, her city all o’erthrown,<br /> She needs must chafe her bridle, till this fret<br /> Be foamed away in blood and bitter sweat.<br /> I waste no more speech, thus to be defied.</p> <p> How does constant mockery make us libertarians feel? Professor Hasnas, who is neither a psychologist nor a psychiatrist, doesn’t provide a comprehensive analysis of the internal life of the libertarian. However, he does assert that being a libertarian "feels bad" and "means living with an almost unendurable level of frustration." To supplement the author’s hypothesis, I suggest the following negative emotions are also common libertarian internal states: anger, annoyance, contempt, disgust, irritation, anxiety, embarrassment, fear, helplessness, powerlessness, worry, doubt, envy, guilt, shame, despair, disappointment, hurt, sadness, and shock. The key for the libertarian is to not incorporate any of these negative emotions into her personal identity, for such assimilation leads to a hostile “personal style”—to borrow a phrase from Gary Chartier, Professor of Law and Business Ethics at La Sierra University—that has approximately zero chance of influencing a statist to adopt the libertarian philosophy.</p> <p> Is Professor Hasnas correct that libertarians feel “bad” and experience “an almost unendurable level of frustration”? Maybe. I think it depends on the worldview of the libertarian.</p> <p> Libertarians can broadly be divided into the two following subgroups: optimists and pessimists. Optimistic libertarians generally believe the State can be changed from within, liberty can be achieved in our lifetime, and non-libertarians can be easily persuaded of the merits of liberty if they are only exposed to the basic libertarian arguments. In contrast, pessimistic libertarians generally believe the State cannot be changed from within, liberty cannot be achieved in our lifetime, and non-libertarians are rarely persuaded of the merits of liberty even when they are exposed to the basic libertarian arguments.</p> <p> It is simple to intuit from this description that the two libertarian groups normally experience different levels of frustration. Optimistic libertarians generally experience a higher level of frustration because their worldview is idealistic and empirically false. Pessimistic libertarians generally experience a lower level of frustration because their worldview is realistic and empirically true.</p> <p> I once was an optimistic libertarian and EXTREMELY frustrated. However, reality eventually escorted me to the pessimistic camp, at which time my frustration level minimized and I became much more productive as an anarcholibertarian activist. I recommend a similar conversion for all optimistic libertarians.</p> Liberty Mon, 16 Dec 2013 13:17:20 +0000 Don Stacy 58984 at Lawmaking Lunacy <p>Column by Jim Davies.</p> <p><strong>Exclusive to STR</strong></p> <p>I'd be very scared if confronted by someone armed, and evidently mad or malevolent.</p> <p> The first type might well do me harm, fatally maybe, because he or she wouldn't understand or be responsible for the actions about to be taken. A young child, perhaps, slashing a kitchen knife while playing some martial-arts fantasy he has dreamed up. Or an adult in a subway, clearly spaced out on some drug. I'd step well back from the platform edge.</p> <p> Being ”armed” doesn't just mean holding a gun. All manner of artifacts can be used to kill someone, and natural things too; I'd not venture near a clifftop beside a drunk or an enemy. That's true also of deliberate killings, when the perp knows just what he's up to; governments have often used a piece of rope to break their victims' neck and sever the spinal cord. Other murderers have used piano wires and automobiles and bathtubs. Poisons have been popular.</p> <p> But water is not poisonous if drunk in moderate quantities, and none of those other weapons is harmful in normal use, any more than guns are. It is perfectly obvious to all but government junkies that people are killed not by weapons, but by their wielders. People.</p> <p> That gives quite a problem to said junkies. The only way they know, to fix any anomaly, is to write a law. Writing and enforcing laws are their sole occupational skills.</p> <p> So which is it to be: to ban weapons, to ban people, or to ban both?</p> <p> Consider the weapons-ban first. Outlaw all knives, all piano wires (and so, all pianos), all guns, all subway platforms and so on. Anything that can be used to kill, make it illegal. Easy; then there'll be no killing, right? Don't count on this, but I fancy that even some government people are going to grasp that there's some limit to feasibility there. How exactly does one vanish a cliff? Remove hands that might be used to strangle?</p> <p> So they back off a little, and consider banning just one kind of weapon: guns, say. Not a bad choice, because guns are very efficient killing devices. Recently I participated in a fast moving online discussion hosted by a famous ”liberal” newspaper, and several – <em>several</em> – of my adversaries were actually proposing a 100% gun ban.</p> <p> One hundred percent means total; all guns to be eliminated altogether. Did they mean all <em>government</em> guns, included? They didn't say so, and I very much doubt that they had even thought their silly idea through even that far, but if not, they were actively promoting totalitarianism. In any case, how exactly does one disappear 283 million privately owned guns? It's well known that many Americans like to own guns. So suppose they number 60 million and that 10% of them ignore the law to turn them in. One earnest participant proposed a 50 year prison term for such refuseniks. I'm quite sure he hadn't done the math, so I did it for him: taxpayers would on those figures be stuck with a <em>nine trillion dollar</em> bill. Plus the costs of prosecution. Plus the horrendous loss of liberty openly proposed by such as the <a href="">Daily Kos</a>, whose writer favors a ”A nice visit by the ATF or state police to find out if he really does still have . . . guns.” William Grigg reckons that in California, such visits have <a href="">already begun</a>.</p> <p> Alternatively, the junkies might propose banning the people – those with a propensity to kill. At first blush, that looks a lot more promising. At least it recognizes that weapons aren't animate.</p> <p> All they then need to do is to identify (in advance, of course) those who are bad or mad; and then lock them up or take them out. The German government famously tried the latter in <a href="">1939</a> with respect to the mentally impaired (though because their care was expensive, not because they were dangerous). Some of the difficulty in defining mental illness for this purpose is well explored here by <a href="">Reason</a>, while the former (the bad guys) are even harder to identify. And what about those who are normally harmless, but who under the influence of some drug become dangerously aggressive? That question may have been central to the Newtown massacre of one year ago this week, where <a href="">the drug in question</a> was administered under government supervision. No wonder the focus after that mess was placed firmly on the weapons used.</p> <p> So even the people-banning solution brings the knee-jerk lawmaker some real problems. To euthanize or imprison the mentally ill brings a whole slew of objections about who is and who is not sick and whether either “treatment” is appropriate in a civilized society, while to spot “bad guys” in advance has so far eluded the best efforts of psychoanalysis.</p> <p> But wait, the now increasingly desperate lawmaker will plead, we can write laws to ban certain weapons to certain people! Perhaps the problem can't be solved altogether, but that's no reason to do nothing at all! We can do <em>something!</em></p> <p> Actually no, not even that is possible. Such laws could be written, but not enforced. We know that, because it's what has already been going on, for the last century. It has failed.</p> <p> From <a href="">this page</a> I counted four Presidential assassination attempts prior to 1900, and 15 since 1900. Anti-gun laws began before 1900, and if I'd chosen an earlier year, the ratio would have been larger yet, but the bulk of them were written in the 20<sup>th</sup> Century, so it may be a fair choice. If they had any effect, it was to <em>quadruple</em> the rate – exactly the opposite of their advertised purpose, or a <em>strongly negative</em> correlation. Nor does the <a href="">overall murder rate</a> since 1960 (after which anti-gun legislation rapidly increased) show any relationship to those laws. In that year it was 5.0 per 100,000 population; it rose to a high of 10.2 in 1980, then fell back to 4.7 in 2011. There are several theories to account for that curious pattern, but anti-gun laws aren't among them.</p> <p> So writing laws, of any kind, doesn't cut it.</p> <p> Since government's whole activity is to write and enforce laws, any solution to the problem of violence must therefore be found outside of government and its laws, and there is good reason to expect that in the coming zero-government society, it will be drastically reduced; not just violence by government agents, which is by far the greatest part, but even one-on-one, individual violence. Here are my reasons.</p> <p> Violence springs from discontent. The assassins just referenced were politically minded men who thought the presidents were leading the country in a terribly wrong direction. Killers who murder in the course of robbery think they can acquire more wealth that way than by doing regular work. Spousal killers feel themselves trapped, bound to an unloved partner ”until death do them part.” Other murderers kill because they see no hope of justice without taking that extreme measure. There's a powerful, inbuilt taboo in everyone that restrains us from killing a fellow human (and suppressing it is a vital part of government's basic training courses in the military) so such an action is taken only in desperation, no alternative being perceived. And in the current law-ridden society, some of them may be right; there isn't.</p> <p> When government has vanished, that will no longer be so – or only to a vastly smaller extent. There will be no presidential assassins because there will be no presidents, nor any direction in which they ”lead the country.” There will be no rationale for robbery, let alone for murder in the course of it, because there will be no restrictions to making a good, honest living; there will be no unemployment, for example, nor any rules about who may buy and sell what, or at what price. There will be no government rules about marriage – just voluntary contracts, such as will govern all inter-personal obligations. An efficient <a href="">justice industry</a> will operate for profit in a competitive manner and for the repair of wrongs, not the punitive vengeance of government; so if anyone has a grievance, no systemic shortfalls will prevent its peaceful resolution.</p> <p> The well known “no justice, no peace” will be replaced by “justice, therefore peace” and contentment – not because of any change in human nature, but because the present <em>system</em> by which everyone's right to govern himself is over-ruled many times every day will give way to one in which all his choices are his own; in other words, the structure of society will <em>fit</em> his nature, for the first time in ten millennia. Discontent may be impossible to eradicate, but its primary cause will have disappeared.</p> <p> Yes, it may be said, that's all very well for the coming free society. But what can we do meanwhile, to minimize the slaughter of innocents while government continues to exist and to monopolize schooling?</p> <p> Sorry, I have no idea. I doubt whether, under that circumstance, any such option exists.</p> Guns History Laws Liberty Police State Society/Culture Statism Thu, 12 Dec 2013 13:19:20 +0000 Jim Davies 58934 at Crime and Punishment in a Free Society <div class="field field-type-link field-field-url"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Crime and Punishment in a Free Society</a> </div> </div> </div> <p>In a free society, crimes against person and property would be treated like torts. This would be a welcome change in a society that imprisons more people than any other, often for nonviolent and victimless “crimes.”</p> Anarchism Laws Liberty Thu, 12 Dec 2013 08:00:00 +0000 Westernerd 58923 at Where's the Dignity? <p>Column by Tim Hartnett.</p> <p><strong>Exclusive to STR</strong></p> <p>“Where’s the contempt for the common man?” ~ Montgomery Burns</p> <p>As emotional trends go, hate has seen better days, in theory, anyway. The feeling is so far out of fashion they’ve made a crime out of it, which is a first for an emotion, I believe. Always make sure you are being objective before beating the be-Jesus out of anybody, otherwise you’re beneath dirt. The fact that Nelson remains indifferent when he works Milhous and Martin over is what has kept him out of reform school all these years. Never misinterpret T-shirts proclaiming, “I love haters,” they’re supposed to be about talking people out of that miserable condition and not advocating for it.</p> <p> So it’s only natural that anti-hate is now a thriving industry and outing your ideological opponents as haters should not be confused with anything as self-serving as political convenience. People who are against having new rules and bosses perpetually imposed on them have sinister motives. Failure to recognize your own inferiority with so much love spewing down on us from the good people mass producing laws is the source of all the woe in this world.</p> <p>Still, there’s no getting around the fact that knowing who someone’s enemies are almost always tells us more about a person than identifying his friends. There are some who take absolute loathing from certain quarters as about the highest compliment you can get. Especially when it comes from those high-minded souls claiming to be above that sentiment.</p> <p>It’s dangerous business living to have people out there gunning for you. But the risk-free society that utopia-crats have planned for us all is a fate worse than death, anyway.</p> <p>A brilliant example of a man relishing in the animosity coming his way from the very vilest took place on November 26, 2010. Nigel Farage’s <a href="#view=detail&mid=C35D6AC9659679284FFAC35D6AC9659679284FFA">3 minute address</a> to the European Parliament is an instant Youtube classic. The video cameos MEPs as a litany of their high-handed actions against the euro-serf is recounted. These are the faces of power-drunk and physically sagging pencil pushers having their world turned upside down. They are supposed to be giving what-fer’ to hundreds of millions not taking it from someone honestly representing these helots.</p> <p>If you’ve never heard of the <a href="">UKip</a> leader, his “Who the hell do you people think you are?” speech is an ample introduction. This is exactly what the Bible is talking about when it tells us we should be “no respecters of persons.” Can there be anyone on Earth that <a href="">Von Rumpuy</a> and his gang hates the guts of as much as Nigel Farage?</p> <p>An incident like this is a sign that things might be improving for the human race after all. Two hundred and twenty years ago, a man standing up and telling the truth in France would have produced the same response from the Committee for Public Safety. The difference is that the European Parliament is lacking resort to the guillotine for the time being, so Farage still has his head three years later. Powerful people are often known for a violent aversion to having the truth thrown down in their presence. The hungry flunkies surrounding them define etiquette, so confronting the ones in a position to do harm to the human race is still considered boorish and rude.</p> <p>The attitude that rulers who openly rob you can demand respect for their authority isn’t strictly European. Here in the Land of the Free, nobody in power is asking more than one million employees in various branches of law enforcement who the hell they think they are. So the competition for which of our protectors can stoop the lowest in the daily news continues.</p> <p>Dick Thornburgh was appointed Attorney General by a president who ran on the 1984 slogan: “Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem.” This point was perfectly illustrated when Thornburgh used his office as a platform exhorting law enforcement to seize cash and personal property from ordinary citizens based on the whimsical suspicion the stuff was somehow “drug tainted.” In the following decades, thousands of travelers were routinely relieved of vacation money while out of state and vulnerable.</p> <p>The dragoons justify their scores using a principle invented by Thornburgh’s predecessor Ed Meese: “If a person is innocent of a crime, then he is not a suspect.” And if he is guilty of being a regular guy, it’s a lot safer to suspect him. Media, running the gamut from John Birch Society publications to those of the socialists, have been reporting on this rampant state of affairs in aghast awe for decades now. But we have yet to hear of anyone connected in law enforcement, politics or big business getting mugged this way.</p> <p>Unfortunately, no one was there to call out Thornburgh on his sleazy shakedown plan 24 years ago. Sure, he’d have wanted their heads on a platter for it, but a few waves may have averted the federal disregard for ordinary people that was seminal in the GHWB administration. Both Ruby Ridge and Waco were cooked up while Poppy was still babbling incoherently from 1600 Penn.</p> <p>When public employees can stop you at random and take whatever they want without risking prison or legitimately being shot on the spot, you have no rights. Anyone arguing otherwise either hates the human or believes public employees have a fuller membership in it.</p> <p>Since then, law enforcement at every level has erupted into a free-for-all of wild abandon: smashing people's doors down in the middle of the night over the flimsiest pretexts imaginable, groping, penetrating and rifling motorists at will, stopping everyone at the kind of checkpoints common in Third World despotisms, acquiring armored vehicles to deploy against no conceivable threat, shooting old men resisting medical procedures, murdering mentally deficient subjects who never presented a threat to anyone without a badge, bravely shackling 1<sup>st</sup> graders, tasing truant teenage girls who take flight and lots of other atrocities nobody would have imagined in this country 25 years ago. The various courts have responded in a series of inconsistent and opaque rulings that police hardly seem to notice.</p> <p>These kinds of events are almost unheard of in discussions on the floor at Capitol Hill or state legislatures. They are too busy caring to be distracted by such things. An onerous new health care infliction is something only a hater could be against. The rawest edge of government only has its boots on the necks of a free people, free of connections, that is, out of the sincerest form of love.</p> <p>The major media notices what’s up with police excess from time to time. But peasants with pitchforks are the sexier, more newsworthy threat. Eventually the FBI may even find one they can mentor into becoming some kid of threat. The theory is that mobs opposed to the onslaught of benevolence from Washington, D. C. secretly want to lynch gays, minorities and immigrants.</p> <p>There’s nothing wrong with eradicating hatred, but eradicators have an odd habit of finding it everywhere their authority is getting questioned. The gendarme with a club, an informant, an agent provocateur, an Uzi, a tank, battery of government lawyers and bosses with Wall Street banking executives on speed dial may not hate your guts but will definitely make you think twice before standing up.</p> Liberty Statism Tue, 10 Dec 2013 12:58:39 +0000 Tim Hartnett 58891 at After Newtown, Focus of U.S. Gun Control Battle Shifts to States <div class="field field-type-link field-field-url"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">After Newtown, Focus of U.S. Gun Control Battle Shifts to States</a> </div> </div> </div> <p>“In the year since the massacre of 26 schoolchildren and adults in Newtown, Connecticut, efforts to pass gun legislation have stalled in the U.S. Congress but shifted to the states, helped by the deep pockets of outgoing New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg.” However, Bloomberg fully supports his bodyguards having weapons to defend him.</p> Guns Laws Liberty Tue, 10 Dec 2013 05:00:00 +0000 Emmett Harris 58860 at Agencies Collected Data on Americans’ Cellphone Use in Thousands of ‘Tower Dumps’ <div class="field field-type-link field-field-url"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Agencies Collected Data on Americans’ Cellphone Use in Thousands of ‘Tower Dumps’</a> </div> </div> </div> <p>“Federal, state and local law enforcement agencies conducting criminal investigations collected data on cellphone activity thousands of times last year, with each request to a phone company yielding hundreds or thousands of phone numbers of innocent Americans along with those of potential suspects.” This reeks of another kind of dump.</p> Civil Liberties Crime And Punishment Liberty Police State Privacy Tue, 10 Dec 2013 05:00:00 +0000 Emmett Harris 58863 at In Iceland, When Police Kill a Gunman, They Apologize <div class="field field-type-link field-field-url"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">In Iceland, When Police Kill a Gunman, They Apologize</a> </div> </div> </div> <p>Icelandic police shot dead a man who refused to stop firing at them with a shotgun in the capital of Reykjavik earlier today -- and then they apologized. It was the first time that anyone in the country was killed by police gunfire.</p> Guns Human Rights Liberty Fri, 06 Dec 2013 05:00:00 +0000 Bradley Keyes 58776 at Here’s The Plan Behind An Incredibly Ambitious Floating City Called Freedom Ship <div class="field field-type-link field-field-url"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Here’s The Plan Behind An Incredibly Ambitious Floating City Called Freedom Ship</a> </div> </div> </div> <p>The plans for the Freedom Ship are certainly audacious. The one-mile-long and 25-story-high ship would circle the Earth every two years, spending roughly 70 percent of its time moored outside major cities and ports (it will be too big to go in most ports, so residents can fly to and from the shore from the Freedom Ship's onboard airport). On board the floating ship would have its own economy, with tens of thousands of people working in shops, bars, and other businesses, and everyone on board paying a maintenance fee to support infrastructure such as security services and fire fighters.</p> Discovery Liberty Technology Voluntaryism Fri, 06 Dec 2013 05:00:00 +0000 Bradley Keyes 58778 at What Are We For? <div class="field field-type-link field-field-url"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">What Are We For?</a> </div> </div> </div> <p>Libertarians don't have to be able to predict exactly how society would look if it were libertarian. But we do have to know what we're for, not just what we're against.</p> Liberty Thu, 05 Dec 2013 08:00:00 +0000 Westernerd 58755 at South Dakota Smoking Ban: Three Years Later <div class="field field-type-link field-field-url"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">South Dakota Smoking Ban: Three Years Later</a> </div> </div> </div> <p>“[S]ome of the health benefits proponents promised have shown up in statistics. The sharp decline in video lottery revenue that foes of the ban predicted also materialized.” Later in the article, we find that “these reductions in hospitalizations do not conclusively prove cause and effect,” but when you're trampling property rights, who cares? It's good to have a feel-good justification.</p> Economics Health Human Rights Laws Liberty Propaganda Property Rights Regulation Tue, 03 Dec 2013 05:00:00 +0000 Emmett Harris 58713 at Is Liberty on the Rise? <div class="field field-type-link field-field-url"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Is Liberty on the Rise?</a> </div> </div> </div> <p>Julian Adorney thinks so.</p> Economics Free Market History Laws Liberty Regulation Socialism Tue, 03 Dec 2013 05:00:00 +0000 Emmett Harris 58717 at | http://strike-the-root.com/taxonomy/term/12/all/feed?order=type&sort=asc | dclm-gs1-065930002 | false | false | {
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0.982906 | <urn:uuid:b29612a2-ed9b-4f3a-88a8-f26d7b3a39bd> | en | 0.976293 | mjohansen Wrote:
Jun 07, 2012 8:14 PM
If you are really convinced that women get less than 80% of what men get for exactly the same work, then let me suggest an easy plan to get rich: Start a business in a labor-intensive industry, hire only women, and pay them 10% less than you would pay a man. You are then paying them 10% more than they would get anywhere else, so you should easily be able to get the most qualified people available. But even at that your labor costs will be 10% less than companies that hire primarily men. You should easily be able to undercut the competition and still make a bigger profit than anyone else. Why aren't the liberals doing this and making a bundle? Hmm, maybe there's a flaw in the initial assumption that women are underpaid. | http://townhall.com/social/usercommentprint/4711998 | dclm-gs1-066050002 | false | false | {
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Jul 03, 2012 11:23 PM
It's a shame because the teachers union could be a great organization with a significant role in shaping the education environment of the U.S. instead their leadership focuses on short term self serving goals, and ensuring they line their own pockets instead of addressing the failures of members, like not teaching, or taking a stance that focuses on education and not blindly following the lead of the democrat party. What an absolute disgusting waste. | http://townhall.com/social/usercommentprint/4862144 | dclm-gs1-066060002 | false | false | {
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0.052473 | <urn:uuid:5dd636f6-a32e-4d87-a0d5-83b3d0efc0c7> | en | 0.985436 | Milt37 Wrote:
Aug 10, 2012 1:00 PM
I've never even understood men's boxing, let alone women doing it. It's got to be the closest modern day sport we have to the Gladiators going up against lions. Maybe if I understood it more I could see some skill. All I've seen is one guy holding up his gloves to protect his face while the guy tries to beat the krap out of him. I'm not much of a sports fan, so don't give me a hard time. | http://townhall.com/social/usercommentprint/5102722 | dclm-gs1-066070002 | false | false | {
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[resolved] List Category ID is where? (4 posts)
1. dorich
Posted 3 years ago #
This relates to WP Version 3.
I'm attempting to create two lists for a sidebar, each list would be selected by a link category.
The codex suggest I can do this by using
wp list bookmarks
with a link category argument
(string) Comma separated list of numeric Category IDs to be displayed. If none is specified, all Categories with bookmarks are shown. Defaults to (all Categories).
However, when I look at the table of Link Categories I don't see any ID.
How does this work, or where is there a reference that explains how to build the code snippet to accomplish a list based on list categories.
2. vtxyzzy
Posted 3 years ago #
Go to Admin->Links->Link Categories and hover the mouse over a link name. The ID will be shown at the bottom in the browser status bar as 'cat_ID=44', for example.
3. dorich
Posted 3 years ago #
4. vtxyzzy
Posted 3 years ago #
You are welcome!
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Jamie Dupree's Washington Insider
Posted: 8:12 p.m. Tuesday, May 27, 2008
From Our Listener Mailbag
By Jamie Dupree
Every day that goes by, I sometimes wonder, why is it taking so long for Barack Obama to wrap up the Democratic nomination?
Wednesday didn't move the ball down the field very much on the Democratic Delegate Scoreboard, as we wait for the Illinois Senator to finally end this race.
Obama did get the backing of a Wyoming superdelegate, while Hillary Clinton won the support of a newly named delegate from the U.S. Virgin Islands, a rare day when Clinton wasn't on the losing end of the delegate declarations..
The support of Nancy Drummond of Wyoming moved Obama to within 48 delegates of clinching the Democratic nomination.
"After much thought and prayer, I feel the time has come for me to endorse a presidential candidate," Davenport said in a statement.
Meanwhile, the Clinton controversy continued to bubble surrounding Clinton's odd reference last week to Robert F. Kennedy and the 1968 campaign, when he was assassinated after the California primary in June of that year.
"I am tired of people and parts of the media making excuses for Hilary assassination comment," wrote listener Dana Johnson.
I believe Hilary is upset with some of the Kennedy's because they are supporting Obama and unconsciously this is how she felt!!"
The other issue that continues to bring in comments is the high price of oil and gasoline, and the lack of any comprehensive energy policy deal between the two political parties.
"Jamie you of all people knows that the cost of oil is based on the dollar and as
the dollar value declines the cost of oil must rise," wrote Charles Crotty, who blamed both parties for catering to their respective special interests on the energy issue.
"The best and quickest solution is to replace all members of Congress; starting with the next election cycle," Crotty said, arguing for term limits.
That used to be a big issue in the Congress, but it has pretty much gone the way of $1.50/gallon gasoline.
"I'm one of the very few people that are modestly happy about high oil prices," wrote listener Riley O'Connor of Atlanta, who has a vested financial interest.
"I receive a small income every month from oil wells in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas. It's not quite so small as it used to be, and nobody was feeling my pain when it was $13.00 a barrel," observed O'Connor.
It wasn't so long ago that Congress was trying to find ways to give special tax breaks to those who had so-called "stripper" wells, which are considered marginal producers. And when the price of oil was low, they weren't bringing in much cash at all.
Times change argued O'Connor, who said Americans also need to change their driving habits and their energy use.
"It's my feeling that both the oil companies and Congress are waiting for things to reach crisis state so that the ultimate compromise doesn't cause them a lot of negatives with the voters," he said.
I couldn't have said it better myself.
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The return of defensive linchpin Anthony Faingaa was a pivotal factor in the Reds impressive showing against the Crusaders at AMI Stadium, becoming the first team since the 2000 vintage of the Brumbies to hold the seven-time champions try-less at home.
Offensively the Reds aren’t setting the competition alight, sitting tenth overall in terms of try scoring potency, while only the Lions have accumulated less points overall after week eleven.
Coach Ewen McKenzie said pre-season he knew that the Reds would be heavily targeted this year as defending champions, while early in the campaign he lamented ‘negative’ tactics as opponents based their game solely around shutting down the Queenslanders expansive approach.
As the season has progressed, the Reds have adapted, a key part of their success last year, and it seems that they have had a quantum shift in their approach, working hard to close down the Crusaders – a strategy that almost paid the ultimate dividend.
Faingaa, a key component in the Reds shutting down the vaunted attack of the Crusaders in last season’s decider, could be a player more valuable to the champion’s set up than Quade Cooper.
The Wallabies first five-eighth could potentially return against the Chiefs, after he was sighted running freely at Reds training, but McKenzie said there would be no timetable set on his enigmatic general’s return.
The other plus for the Reds has been the upward track of their forward pack, who hadn’t performed with the same intensity that allowed their front eight to surprisingly dominate most sides they played in 2011.
Captain James Horwill had arguably his best game of the season against the Crusaders, while Australian Under-20 captain Liam Gill was in devastating form.
While the Reds breakdown efforts last season were engineered to produce lightning fast ball to the likes of Cooper and Will Genia, against the Blues and Crusaders the champions were more content to slow down their rival’s ball clearance from the ruck.
If indeed there is a dominant defensive mindset from the Reds as the season comes into the business end, then their clash this weekend against the Chiefs will be fascinating, as the top-of-the-table visitors have a marvellous defensive system of their own.
So far most teams have highlighted Sonny Bill Williams as the key attacking threat from the Chiefs, and it probably won’t be any different for Queensland, but the Reds were one of the few sides last season that were able to contain the off-loading midfielder. | http://www.allblacks.com/news/19311/Reds-title-hopes-could-hinge-on-defence | dclm-gs1-066290002 | false | false | {
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0.04894 | <urn:uuid:5186d606-93e1-4e8e-bbf9-317b45468404> | en | 0.958586 | The 2013 Stanley Cup playoffs were the most-watched since 1997
Written by David Rogers on .
1. Boston (33.0)
2. Chicago (30.2)
3. Providence (22.5)
4. Buffalo (12.5)
5. Pittsburgh (7.8)
6. Minneapolis-St. Paul (7.3)
7. Milwaukee (7.0)
8. Hartford-New Haven (6.8)
9. Ft. Myers (6.3)
10. St. Louis (5.8)
Gary Oliver
Gary Oliver
Sry was thinking back to the first Hawks Cup in 2010... But still 2 games on a some what national network along with the rest of the playoffs being there hurts their numbers, but they take what exposure for the NBCSN as positive
Jason Cheseborough
Jason Cheseborough
Games one and two were on NBC, three and four on NBCSports Network, five and six back on NBC.
Gary Oliver
Gary Oliver
I wonder how much higher it would be if the first 3 games weren't on a network only small portions of this country receive
@Jason Cheseborough Wrong again. Only games 2 and 3 were on NBCSN. The opening game and any games where the cup could have possibly been won, 4-7, were on the big peacock.
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Through the late 1980s and 1990s, while hip-hop and grunge music took over the airwaves, another revolution affected nearly every listener, manifested in the way they consumed their favorite songs. The home stereo system, once a modular system of silver-plated and vacuum-tube-driven components devoted to high fidelity, or Hi-Fi, was replaced by “mini-systems” and “boom boxes.”
Recording great-sounding music isn’t dependent upon having world-class preamps and a locker filled with vintage microphones, since the quality of your work isn’t directly related to the quality of your tools. Simply placing equipment in the optimal position can have a major impact on your overall sound quality.
Apogee just announced the new Quartet, a USB 2.0 audio/MIDI interface that enables you to record up to 12 channels into an Apple computer, and will act as the centerpiece of your recording studio. Quartet features four combo-XLR inputs, each with a high-quality preamp for connecting microphones, instruments and line-level signals.
You can learn a lot about audio by recording your own music (or a friend’s music), and by volunteering to assist a local sound engineer. However, attending a formal audio school can also really help you learn the nuts and bolts of sound.
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Voice-overs are an essential ingredient in the creation of dynamic media. They can be an unseen character in a story, or just a friendly voice persuading you to buy pet food. Voice-overs are found in every form of media, from news reporting to experimental filmmaking. Even photo slideshows can benefit from a well-executed voice-over.
Just because the outdoor drive-in movie complex has largely disappeared from American suburbs doesn’t mean you can’t set up your own theater—in the driveway. You may already own some of the components, and they don’t necessarily have to be seated in a convertible.
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• Although the Roman empire was one of the longest lasting in history, it was never ideologically conceived by its rulers or inhabitants as a territory within fixed limits. Yet Roman armies clearly reached certain points-which today we call frontiers-where they simply stopped advancing and annexing new territories. In Frontiers of the Roman Empire, C. R. Whittaker examines the Roman frontiers both in terms of what they meant to the Romans and in their military, economic, and social function. Observing that frontiers are rarely, if ever, static, Whittaker argues that the very success of the Roman frontiers as permeable border zones sowed the seeds of their eventual destruction. As the frontiers of the late empire ceased to function, the ideological distinctions between Romans and barbarians became blurred. Yet the very permeability of the frontiers, Whittaker contends, also permitted a transformation of Roman society, breathing new life into the empire rather than causing its complete extinction. | http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/Frontiers-Roman-Empire-CR-Whittaker/9780801857850?a_aid=ahencyclopedia | dclm-gs1-066470002 | false | false | {
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Cornelius Vanderbilt was the name of this notable youth,—the same Cornelius Vanderbilt who has since built a hundred steamboats, who has since made a present to his country of a steamship of five thousand tons’ burden, who has since bought lines of railroad, and who reported his income to the tax commissioners, last year at something near three quarters of a million. The first money the steamboat-king ever earned was by carrying passengers between Staten Island and New York at eighteen cents each.
His father, who was also named Cornelius, was the founder of the Staten Island ferry. He was a thriving farmer on the Island as early as 1794, tilling his own land near the Quarantine Ground, and conveying his produce to New York in his own boat. Frequently he would carry the produce of some of his neighbors, and, in course of time, he ran his boat regularly, leaving in the morning and returning at night, during the whole of the summer, and thus he established a ferry which has since become one of the most profitable in the world, carrying sometimes more than twelve thousand passengers in a day. He was an industrious, enterprising, liberal man, and early acquired a property which for that time was affluence. His wife was a singularly wise and energetic woman. She was the main stay of the family, since her husband was somewhat too liberal for his means, and not always prudent in his projects. Once, when her husband had fatally involved himself, and their farm was in danger of being sold for a debt of three thousand dollars, she produced, at the last extremity, her private store, and counted out the whole sum in gold pieces. She lived to the great age of eighty-seven, and left an estate of fifty thousand dollars, the fruit of her own industry and prudence. Her son, like many other distinguished men, loves to acknowledge that whatever he has, and whatever he is that is good, he owes to the precepts, the example, and the judicious government of his mother.
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A cylinder with a piston contains 1.97 mol of helium. The volume is 0.350 m3 and the temperature is 3.00 cross 102 K.
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civeng writes:
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Yeah. Let's make them small enough that it prevents water from flowing through as quick as it could. Evansville could use a little more flooding to protect some ducks that might fall in once a decade.
It's just common sense.
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JamesShank writes:
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"Foreign-born gang members?" Has the C&P gotten so politically correct that they can't even print the words "illegal aliens?"
indthinker, does your entire life revolve around shoehorning issues into political problems?
This wasn't an immigration bust, it was a bust on gang members who also happen to be illegals.
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IntelligentThought writes:
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Vectren only has a license to provide electricity in this area because we (the citizens) grant it to them. We can play hardball with them on any concerns we have: rates, reliability, etc. We can revoke their license and assign it to someone else on better terms. Our Mayor used this approach with our previous private water company when they wanted to up the rates as their standard business model.
Unfortunatley, some of our elected representatives feel more compelled to represent Vectren's interests than the citizens who elected them. They also seem quite ignorant of the way things work (for the better) in places outside of Indiana.
So this next election should be about getting fair electric rates for SW IN. Ask the candidates what they are going to do about getting fair electric rates for this area. If they give you the Vectren press release, you know where they stand.
Here's one more example of 100% pollution free electricity at $.059/kWh up the river in Cincinnati. Even if you add in a Duke delivery fee of 15%, you're still at $.067/kWh, or half of my current Vectren rate!
Thats actually not accurate. Only the IURC has the authority to grant or revoke a companies ability to sell power in this state. The only thing the local government can do is complain to the IURC.
The mayor did not take away the rights of the water company and give it to another company. The city took over the services themselves which is a huge difference. The city paid for the upgrades to the water systems. The city does not pay for any electric grid upgrades at all.
If the City of Evansville wants they could build their own power plant and operate it and then sell power to the citizens in the city. Thats what Henderson does, but I don't see the good people of Evansville wanting to see thier taxes increase to pay the millions of dollars necessary to build and operate a power plant.
The electric lines, gas lines and transmission substations and power plants are all private property of Vectren and the city or state can not simply take them away because the citizens demand it.
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Coal miners are getting the shaft in more ways than one. Coal usage, as we've known it for the last century, is slowly coming to an end. The owners are squeezing every last drop of money out of the old system, that they can, on the backs of the miners. The owners are trying to destroy the unions and the government is trying to raise the retirement age to 70. Without the union there isn't a retirement system to take care of miners who's bodies are broken down by stooped work areas and coal dust. With the S.S. retirement age raised to 70 there is no chance a non-union miner will ever be able to work to full retirement. Between union-busting, republican, company, desk jockeys and union-busting, republican, politicians the miner is just a tool to be used up and thrown away when their bodies break down. Perhaps the letter Mr. King responded to should be a wake up call to all miners. You're getting a good wage now, use it to get an education in another field. Unions are being busted daily. The owners see you as a replaceable commodity. Conservatives see you as over-paid union thugs. Liberals see you as dumb tools of pollution. My father was, at first, a small farmer and then a ladle trove at a steel mill. Both occupations went from 10's of thousand to hundreds of employees. He retrained and became a machinist. I've never met a stupid miner so I'm sure any and all of them can find a new field to enter if they get their heads out of the sand and admit to themselves that only one out of every six of them are going to be working in the coal field in the next 20 years.
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As I said in a previous post on this subject I agree there a lot of over weight people in the area but who and how did they determine that this area is number one? Did someone go to every area in the country and poll its citizens? Just another bogus stat that can't be backed up.
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The Twitter14K dataset supports the work described in:
David Bamman, Jacob Eisenstein, Tyler Schnoebelen (2012), "Gender in Twitter: Styles, Stances, and Social Networks," [ArXiv]
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This dataset contains aggregated word counts of the most frequent 10,000 words (over the period Jan 1 - July 31, 2011) for each of 14,464 Twitter users from a total of 9,212,118 tweets. These are users who self-report their location to be within the United States, whose primary language (as observed in our data) is English, and who have an active social network of between 4 and 100 people (where an active tie is defined by two mutual @-messages between users, one in each direction, separated by at least two weeks); see the paper above for more details.
All of the data presented here has been anonymized.
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user_info.txt, which contains an identification number (1-14464), induced gender (1=male, 0=female), expected number of male friends in network, expected number of female friends in network, and proportion of network that's male.
1047 0 6.972 3.028 0.6972
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279 lot
1027 loud
2701 massage
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Diviner Inspiration
Craig Childs and the search for desert waters
Chief Inspector of Rainstorms. It's a job first held down by Henry David Thoreau, who appointed himself to the position some 150 years ago on the banks of Walden Pond. The chief duties include watching the clouds form, measuring rain puddles and following bees to their hidden cache of water. Somebody's got to do it. Right?
For Craig Childs, the answer is an emphatic yes. The Secret Knowledge of Water (Sasquatch Books, Seattle) is an integral chapter in the essential story of the human experience, an attempt to rediscover the misplaced tales in a landscape where water -- both in its scarcity and its abundance -- is everything.
If the elusive knowledge Childs writes of were to be captured in a visual image, a freeze-frame capturing the essence of the elemental, the best image would not be a raging river or bubbling spring, but perhaps the dry desert canyons themselves, fluid and ephemeral, negatives cut in sandstone, the etched out record of water's determined journey.
Childs -- who has a home in Crawford, Colorado -- touched base with the Indy from a recent backcountry escape to the Olympic Peninsula, "shin deep in water," as he described the rain forest climate. But the deserts of the American Southwest are the chosen canvas for his codex of water tales, the product of a two-year series of immersions that found Childs searching for waterholes in the parched Sonoran desert of southern Arizona, penetrating the walls of the Grand Canyon to explore the subterranean source of its springs, and racing flash floods down slot canyons like Indiana Jones, working without a script.
He is drawn to the driest of lands to discover the essence of water, and his book never wanders far from the central notion that "in the desert, water is unedited, perfect." Speaking from a pay phone on the edge of Washington's rainy west coast, Childs elaborated on the central motif of his desert studies, noting "the thing that is so compelling about water is that it is this raw thing. If you want to get down to the heart of the matter, if it's the physical properties of it or the mystical properties of it, water has got it."
Blending equal parts physical and mystical, in his book Childs searches out the sources of that raw, elemental existence, finding a kind of sanctity in underground springs, where "water had not yet learned about daylight, about carving a path with all of its slender grace. It's knowledge here was primal." The drop of water in a silent spring represents the ultimate act of creation, as does the first churning movement of a canyon flood assembling itself at his feet.
The Secret Knowledge of Water is largely the result of Childs' master's degree thesis in desert studies at Prescott College, a self-invented course of study that culminated in a book-length project equal parts scientific research on flash-flood hydrology and creative non-fiction. The end product is somewhere between a scientific study of the desert as eloquent and poetic as our most vaunted bards of bedrock, and a piece of nature writing that goes into uncommon depth, never satisfied to merely relish the mystery of the canyons when intuition leads its author to search for the order behind the mystery.
Though he doesn't think of himself as a reader, Childs is an addictive scribbler, jumping into the paths of water walls to retrieve his notebook, and working on five book projects simultaneously, having already published five books, including this one. He professes to read about a book a year, mentioning Barry Lopez and Terry Tempest Williams as writers whose work he admires. The kinship he shares with them in finding the sacred in desert rituals that embrace the natural world is unmistakable.
"I probably spend more time out than they do, but they probably think more about it than I do," he observes by way of comparison. "I don't put a lot of space between me, my writing and what I'm writing about. I don't think a lot. If I have a deep intellectual thought, it only goes a couple minutes and then I can't find the other end of it.
"I'm just poking around, prodding at water, trying to find different aspects of the secret," Childs explained.
There's an arc to his poking and prodding, taking his readers on a progression that moves from an environment where what is scarce enough to routinely claim lives by virtue of its lacking, to moments when the sudden abundance of the unpredictable force of water uprooting trees and carrying boulders the size of Clydesdales can be just as deadly. To anyone with even a passing familiarity with these twin fears of desert water, and the unfathomable bliss of discovering springs and pools and secret seeps, Childs' stories will be a welcome homecoming, transporting you to the oasis of memory.
"I think what it finally comes down to is that water's knowledge is desire," Childs explained, giving away the book's surprise climax. "It desires to have an economy of motion, it desires to move down. It embeds desire all over the place. I go to the desert because you've got this really raw physical property of water, and this really raw environment. Everything is brought down to this point that you can see desire. You know, if you've been down to these floors. You look around, the place is just ravenous."
Despite the "tell-all" trend popularized by the ubiquitous "Ten Best" series on Outside magazine covers, Childs' book does not exploit the desert or its secrets. "Whenever I write about something outside, I feel that I shouldn't be doing it, that I'm revealing too much information. There's definitely that catch," he said. "Am I writing so that I can give people a sense of this wildness that's still out here? Or am I trying to make a living by selling wilderness? I do have that debate pretty strongly. My next book is an archeological book, so I really have to be careful."
Childs has already been approached by Outside to write a "Ten Best Ruins" piece. "They made it clear that this is the way in. I question what I do enough, I question writing about just being out there. For me to go further and actually do something that I can full-on say is wrong for me, I can't do that."
Despite his quest for the "unedited," raw experiences of desert water, Childs withheld one story that he had originally written for the book. His father died of a heart attack in his desert home north of Phoenix during the floods that came while Childs was finishing his writing.
"The day after he died, a huge flood came down and almost took his house. I just ran into his yard, grabbed his canoe -- and I didn't put on any life jacket -- I just jumped onto the flood," he said. "It was a [normally dry] arroyo that was leading down into the city. It led me through neighborhoods, down streets and into the storm drain system. I destroyed the canoe and barely got out alive. It's a pretty rip-roaring story. It was definitely a stupid thing, something I try not to do very often, but it seemed fitting on that day."
There are plenty of breathtaking adventures remaining among the enthralling stories that make up The Secret Knowledge of Water, and the careful observations told with such remarkably evocative language makes Childs' own prose like water in the desert, quenching an insatiable thirst and inducing us to wallow in its pools until our extremities are wrinkled like perfectly contented prunes.
• Author Craig Childs searches for the secret knowledge of water.
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if one caught cheating they should not get
to go with nothing said,the get confronted
and it dealt with,a cheater always cheats
and liars always lie,this is why the RNC does not want us around
plus,they like things the way are now,this way they can still lie cheat and steal and get away with it
they can even change the voting times,and not tell all the delegates
oops too late,they done did that already
romney should have had charges brought upon him for trying to buy
votes,as well as bachman,but as we saw,nothing at all came from it
because it is all a crooked mess with the ones in charge a big part of
what is wrong with the elections and our country
liars do not like truth spoken to them,as it isn't in them
they live in the darkness and in the shadows,and they like it that way
our country will never see the light of day as long as these people are in charge
and letting them go to cheat another day,just makes them stronger and gives them more tricks to use against us in the future
and they will,make no mistake about it,the ptb love the ones they entrusted to keep it all crooked,that way they can install anyone they want,and they have been at this since this countries inception
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RE: This is just getting silly
By monitorjbl on 7/12/2011 5:10:17 PM , Rating: 2
I can understand the way you feel about the system as it stands today, but when it was written I honestly think its intentions were good. Remember, at the time the legal system was very friendly to the guy with the most money or social standing get away with anything he did, even in America. Our society and people were still pretty British at the time, we'd been a nation separate from Britain for about 6 years by the time the first patent was issued. Monopolies were basically guaranteed to exist without regulation in a climate like this; some rich guy would very likely come along and steal your idea, leaving you with no recourse but a bottle of wine (if you could afford it).
With patents, that could (almost) no longer happen. There would be a record of your filing at the patent office, so if some guy came along and tried to make money off your idea without your consent, there would be a mountain of proof against him that would make social standing and wealth less important. It's basically providing a ton of non-circumstantial evidence against the offender.
Unfortunately, the law is way too lenient on what a person is allowed to patent and who can own a patent. If you can't create a working prototype within a certain amount of time, your patent really should be revoked; in other words, you can't just own an idea because you were the first to think of it, you have to actually make something out of it. Furthermore, patents should absolutely NOT be transferable. There is no reason for another entity to assume ownership of something another entity conceived of and created. The only purpose for that is exactly what this article details.
RE: This is just getting silly
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RE: This is just getting silly
By monitorjbl on 7/13/2011 1:19:17 PM , Rating: 2
Sorry, it may have been more accurate to say 'steal your product and design'. In ye olden tymes, there wouldn't be a whole lot of evidence that this occurred if the guy who sole it just went to a different town or state to produce it. And if he had more resources to start with, he could probably do it much better and end up putting the inventor out of business. Nowadays, that's much harder to do.
However, monopolies absolutely exist without government. In a non-regulated market, the first one to market will absolutely and permanently dominate the market. With no regulation on price fixing, espionage, murder, theft, or any of the tactics that could be used to establish an absolute monopoly, a smart company will use all of them. The only reason they don't is because its not in their best interests to break the law. A company wants to win, not compete; it's in their best interests to own 100% of the market share because at that point they control the price, not the market.
In other words, a perfectly free market by your definition is one in which the companies are still bound by some code of ethics. Ethics are simply another form of regulation in this context, and as such would not exist in a perfectly free market. They wouldn't exist even in a real-world market if there weren't laws codifying them and dictating the punishments for breaking them.
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RE: The future
By Spuke on 5/31/2013 1:06:13 PM , Rating: 2
Yes, there would be a mix for a while. I can't see the government telling everyone they have to buy a new autonomous vehicle.
The gov can't (and won't) mandate these cars. I don't see this as very safe at all and it won't fix our traffic problems either. At least not until the majority are in self-driven cars.
RE: The future
By BRB29 on 5/31/2013 1:24:27 PM , Rating: 2
Yes, it won't eliminate traffic problems until most cars are autonomous. I can see that happening in the future.
The government won't mandate these cars but they can definitely mandate every car built will have an autonomous mode. It won't be any time soon but it's clear that it's heading that way. The fact that they allow them to be tested on some public roads means they are serious about this technology.
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RE: The future
By Mint on 6/1/2013 7:52:43 AM , Rating: 2
It should be able to help incrementally. Autonomous cars can form trains that move in sync safely at speed with a smaller gap, reducing bubbles and increasing the number of cars per second in a lane.
I also expect there to be HOV access and eventually dedicated lanes to autonomous cars to help this along, where they can take this principle to the extreme.
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49ers release statement on Ahmad Brooks assault case
By David Fucillo
Tuesday evening, reports came out that the Santa Clara District Attorney's Office was considering filing assault charges against 49ers linebacker Ahmad Brooks. The police report indicated Brooks had hit teammate Lamar Divens with a beer bottle. The San Francisco 49ers have released a statement as we continue to await word from the DA's office on potential charges:
Matt Barrows is reporting the DA's office indicated they were close to a decision on what to do with the Ahmad Brooks case. An arrest warrant application was submitted and signed, but the DA's office is now saying that was an "internal error". My personal guess is that "internal error" was someone going ahead with the charges without asking someone higher up the food chain.
The application was for felony assault, which carries a sentence ranging from a fine up to four years in prison. There are reports some in the DA's office view this as a wobbler, which means they could decide to simply charge Brooks with a misdemeanor. And they could also decide to not charge him at all. Divens has indicated he does not want to press charges. The DA's office has to make that call, but if the alleged victim does not want to be involved, it would not be surprising if nothing came of it. | http://www.daytondailynews.com/feed/sports/football/49ers-release-statement-on-ahmad-brooks-assault/fTwk9/ | dclm-gs1-066820002 | false | false | {
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Both the finite element method (FEM) for continua and the discontinuous deformation analysis (DDA) for block systems are special cases of this numerical manifold method. In the current development stage of numerical manifold method, by using finite cover approach, the extended finite element method can compute more flexible and visible deformations and movements of joints and blocks.
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52. So it sounds like...
You simply want to create a world where everyone thinks exactly like you do?
Here are some quotes from your post (I hope none of them are out of context, if anything is out of context, please call me on it) with brief responses to each:
"And would Sinclair or FOX be considered operating in the public interest?"
You mention Sinclair and FOX which makes me simply believe that you want any media organizations who hold conservative ideals to be brought down.
"As much as I like the idea of Air Americas competing with the conservative talk shows across the nation, I really think it is the road to disaster. It creates division and dissension ..."
Same thing here. "It creates division and dissension". Are you saying that the road to enlightenment is solely through eliminating the conservative talk shows so that ONLY the more liberal ones are heard? Or are you saying that all should be forced to air a more moderate message? Either one is censorship. The conservatives have just as much right to air their ideology as the liberals do. And while you might think THEY are given more time to spread their message, they believe that YOU are given more time. Who is right?
"... I see Air America as a temporary reaction to the subversion of the public interest by networks like FOX and Sinclair ..."
Same here, you only mention that FOX and Sinclair are involved in "the subversion of the public interest". None of the other media outlets? Please! However, these companies are not acting in a manner that could be construed as 'dangerous' to the public interest. By that, I would mean, for example, a power company that, because of its monopoly in an area, could raise its prices as high as it wanted. THAT sort of thing SHOULD be regulated. The media should not. Unless a media outlet literally started inciting violence, for example.
"We have the right to demand the time to respond to such trickery as that the Sinclair Broadcasting is ready to hoist upon us. And we have a right to demand that Sinclair offer the time to respond"
No, actually you don't. Or, maybe you do. We shall see what the FEC says. However, in my opinion, if Sinclair wants to use its collective power to support a candidate, then so be it. A competing company should buy time or offer time to support the other candidate. I know there are Kerry supporters out there with deep pockets, why have none come forward to buy this 'equal time'??
One thing I do disagree with in the Sinclair thing is them calling it news. Not that I think it 'might' not be news, I think it most likely isn't. But, my disagreement comes from this: if it were regular programming, I believe they have the right to show whatever they want. However, if they are calling it news, then, I believe they 'should' be simply reporting information in a completely unbiased manner. So, if they are saying this is news, then it should not be biased. But, we all know that ALL of the news organizations ARE biased one way or another. Do I think they should be? Nope. Do I think that the government should in any way be involved in help to make them unbiased? Nope.
THAT is the crux of my problem with all of this: That the government should be the ones who make the media outlets change their message in any manner. Not in my lifetime.
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0.154105 | <urn:uuid:d46b38ea-f58d-474b-9a2e-f043cf39b4e6> | en | 0.969699 | This summer s Black Forest fire in Colorado Springs burned more than 14,000 acres and killed two people.
These include a state-conducted rating system for homes in forest burn areas, a system that could cover more than 556,000 houses. As reported by The Denver Post's Bruce Finley, the proposed rating system would have a 1-10 scale, and houses deemed at high risk would be required to undergo a mitigation audit.
These audits would tell a homeowner what steps would need to be taken to diminish a home's wildfire risk rating. As an incentive to homeowners, those who didn't do anything to make their homes safer could see their audits shared with insurance companies.
We tend to agree with insurers that they shouldn't be forced to assess risk based upon state ratings. They have their own standards for determining how threatened a property might be, and forcing them to follow a state rating system could actually hurt competition.
But a rating system would put homeowners on notice that their property needs to be made more defensible.
We've previously said we support imposing a reasonable fee on homes in fire areas to help local governments pay for mitigation efforts.
And let's address one of the most controversial recommendations: statewide wildfire building codes for structures in forested areas. We recognize that local governments don't want the state to impose one-size-fits-all building codes for every city and county, but the problem here is that wildfires apparently do not respect city and county boundaries.
At a minimum, we would support laws that say homeowner associations cannot require homes to have wood shake roofs and other elements that make a home more prone to fire risk.
We think a full discussion about minimum wildfire building standards is long overdue.
What's not being discussed by the task force is any recommendation to penalize homeowners, through civil or criminal action, who don't make their homes more defensible from wildfires. That would go too far.
Some of these recommendations will no doubt cause outcry, but we think they're fairly modest. They should be sent to lawmakers. | http://www.denverpost.com/editorials/ci_24082711/modest-proposals-homes-colorado-fire-zones?source=rss | dclm-gs1-066850002 | false | false | {
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Short Fiction and Drama Course # 176
Credit: 1 AL: 1
Scheduling: Open to grades 11 and 12 Semester Block: Meets daily
Prerequisite: B+ Level 1 course; A- or better in Level 2 course (English 10)
Course Description: Students will read and analyze a variety of short stories and plays with emphasis on accurate
comprehension of contents as well as clear understanding of an author’s purpose, voice, point of view, style and
tone. Students will be given an overview of differing approaches to literary criticism (formalist, historical,
sociological) and will analyze according to the critical approach of their choice. Author’s own commentary on the
process of writing as well as reader-responses will also be used as a basis for discussion. This is an intensive reading
and writing course.
Last Revised Oct 14, 2003
Standards/Goals Benchmarks Assessments
Mission Statement Academic Goals Students will:
addressed: Student achievement of the Academic
Primary: Goals is evaluated through the
AG.1 Demonstrate effective skills in following assessments:
reading, writing, speaking, and (School wide rubrics are currently
listening. being developed for each academic
AG.10 Synthesize various points of goal.)
view in order to develop informed
2.6 Analyze differences in responses to Bulleted note taking of group oral
2. Students pose questions, listen to the focused group discussion in an presentations at the end of selected
ideas of others, and contribute their organized and systematic way. short stories. Oral presentation to the
own information or ideas in group class in debate form. For example, a
discussions or interviews in order to class debate on whether Gimpel is a
acquire new knowledge. fool in the short story “Gimpel the
Fool.” Students must apply critical
theory to short stories that they have
studied. For example approaching a
short story from a feminist point of
3. Students will make oral presentations
that demonstrate appropriate 3.17 Deliver formal presentations for Author project presentations, and/or
consideration of audience, purpose, and particular audiences using clear individual story presentations.
the information to be conveyed. enunciation and appropriate
organization, gestures, tone, and
3.18 Create an appropriate scoring Formative: Given performance task
guide to evaluate final presentations objectives for the author project,
students (as a class) create a rubric for
self and peer assessment.
Summative: Students must complete
evaluation of peer presentation
Formative: Given a terminology
4. Students will understand and acquire 4.26 Identify and use correctly new packet, students define words relevant
new vocabulary and use it correctly in words acquired through study of their to specific short stories and plays
reading and writing. different relationships to other words. Summative: Students answer Open
response questions, complete quizzes,
and answer test questions either using
or referencing terminology relevant to
specific short stories and plays.
Formative/Summative: Students
4.27 Use general dictionaries, employ research resources to acquire
specialized dictionaries, thesauruses, information for personal and academic
histories of language, books of use. For example, students use
quotations, and other related references reference materials when creating oral
as needed. reports, and responding to text
generated questions. (MLA format)
5.30 Identify, describe, and apply all Assessed throughout the semester.
5. Students will analyze standard conventions of standard English
English grammar and usage and
recognize how its vocabulary has Refer to 5.30
developed and been influenced by other 6.10 Analyze the role and place of
languages. standard English in speech, writing,
and literature.
6.11 Analyze how dialect can be a Formative: After reading texts such as
6. Students will describe, analyze, and source of negative or positive Merchant of Venice, A Streetcar
use appropriately formal; and informal stereotypes among social groups. Named Desire, and Death of A
English. Salesman, students discuss the use of
dialect in the text and its impact on
character interpretation.
Summative: Students analyze the use of
dialect in the aforementioned texts in
test essays.
Student achievement of the Academic
Goals is evaluated through the
following assessments:
READING AND LITERATURE (School wide rubrics are currently
STRAND being developed for each academic
Mission Statement Academic Goals goal.)
AG. 1 Demonstrate effective skills in
reading, writing, speaking, and
AG.4 Employ research sources to
acquire information for personal and
academic use.
AG.5 Demonstrate analytical and
creative skills.
AG.10 Synthesize various points of
view in order to develop informed
8. Students will identify the basic facts 8.32 Identify and analyze the point(s) Summative: Students synthesize
and main ideas in a text and use them of view in a literary work. various points of view in short stories
as the basis for interpretation. that they have studied in order to
develop informed opinions. For
example, after reading “A Pair of
Tickets” students choose two of four
assignments (essay, letter,
memorabilia) and trace the journey of
the two main characters in the story.
Students must use appropriate quotes.
Upon completion of projects students
present their work to the class.
8.33 Analyze patterns of imagery or Formative: Throughout semester
symbolism and connect them to themes students answer open response
and/or tone and mood. questions, and complete quizzes based
on patterns of imagery, or symbolism.
Summative: Students choose a short
story from the text and write a
documented literary essay linking
theme to the use of symbolism, point of
view, imagery and/or characterization.
After completing the unit on
symbolism students take a test which
includes objective and essay type
8.34 Analyze and evaluate the logic Open response questions and written
and use of evidence in an author’s assignments where students have to
argument. make lengthy connections across eras,
civilizations, and continuities in the
human condition. [Merchant of Venice]
9. Students will deepen their 9.7 Relate a literary work to the Summative: In depth research on the
understanding of a literary or non- seminal ideas of its time. background of authors as reflected in
literary work by relating it to its written response, research on author
contemporary context or historical projects, and visual projects, coupled
background. with oral presentation. The emphasis
here is on analytical and creative skills.
10. Students will identify, analyze, and 10.6 Identify and analyze Students analyze and evaluate various
apply knowledge of the characteristics characteristics of genres (satire, parody, forms of media. For example, students
of different genres. allegory, pastoral) that overlap or cut complete a comparison analysis
across the lines of genre classifications between Broadway production and
such as poetry, prose, drama, short original play script of Act III, Cat on a
story, essay, and editorial. Hot Tin Roof.
11. Students will identify, analyze and 11.6 Apply knowledge of the concept Connection between prose and poetry
apply knowledge of theme in a literary that a text can contain more than one themes within context of the scope of
work and provide evidence from the theme. the course.
text to support their understanding.
11.7 analyze and compare texts that Summative: Literary essay
express a universal Select story not in chapter and support
theme, and locate support in the text for themes with evidence i.e. pg 234-235
the identified theme. Students choose a short story from
others in book and link theme to some
other literary element.(style, symbol)
12. Students will identify, analyze, and 12.6 Analyze, evaluate, and apply Formal compare/contrast essay and/or
apply knowledge of the structure and knowledge of how authors use major essay component of the final
elements of fiction and provide techniques and elements in fiction for examination involving plays: Streetcar
evidence from the text to support their rhetorical and aesthetic purposes. Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,
understanding. and Death of a Salesman.
13. Students will identify, analyze, and 13.26 Analyze and evaluate the logic Style analysis project and
apply knowledge of the purpose, and use of evidence in an author’s Students compose a project where they
structure, and elements of nonfiction or argument. analyze the stylistic use of an element
informational materials and provide by two authors.
evidence from the text to support their For example- exposition in “The
understanding. Jilting of Granny Weatherall”
14. Students will identify, analyze, and 14.6 Analyze and evaluate the Research project on authors [#3.17,
apply knowledge of the theme, appropriateness of diction and imagery #9.7]
structure, and elements of poetry and (controlling images, figurative
provide evidence from the text to language, understatement,
support their understanding. overstatement, irony, paradox).
15. Students will identify and analyze 15.10 Analyze and compare style and Throughout semester oral, visual,
how an author’s words appeal to the language across significant cross- written response where appropriate.
senses, create imagery, suggest mood, cultural literary works.
and set tone and provide evidence from
the text to support their understanding.
16. Students will identify, analyze, and 16.12 Analyze the influence of mythic, See #12.6 as well as comparison
apply knowledge of the themes, traditional, or classical literature on assignments Merchant of Venice versus
structure, and elements of myths, later literature and film. 20th century drama and assorted short
traditional narratives, and classical stories. Students complete assignment-
literature and provide evidence from (question 2 on pg 188- textbook)
the text to support their understanding.
17. Students will identify, analyze, and 17.8 Identify and analyze types of Open response involving Merchant of
apply knowledge of the themes, dramatic literature. Venice, Pygmalion, and/or “Young
structure, and elements of drama and Goodman Brown”
provide evidence from the text to Refer to literary theory section of text.
support their understanding.
17.9 Identify and analyze dramatic
conventions (monologue, soliloquy, See #11.7.
chorus, aside, dramatic irony).
18. Students will plan and present Comparison of traditional conventions
dramatic readings, recitations, and (Greek and Elizabethan) with
performances that demonstrate contemporary drama through written
appropriate consideration of audience response and visualizations
and purpose. Role playing, scene reenactment- for
example editing and updating scenes
from The Merchant of Venice
Mission Statement Academic Goals .
AG. 1 Demonstrate effective skills in
reading, writing, speaking, and
AG.4 Employ research sources to
acquire information for personal and
academic use.
AG.5 Demonstrate analytical and
creative skills.
AG.10 Synthesize various points of
view in order to develop informed
19.28 Write well-organized stories or
19. Students will write with a clear scripts with an explicit or implicit Students have to compose their own
focus, coherent organization, and theme, using a variety of literary short story and/or
sufficient detail. techniques. create compositions predicting
alternate or extended storylines
19.29 Write poems using a range of
forms and techniques. As applicable.
19.30 Write coherent compositions
with a clear focus, objective See # 19.28
presentation of alternate views, rich
detail, well-developed paragraphs, and
logical argumentation.
20. Students will write for different 20.6 Use effective rhetorical techniques Tone or mood writing assignment,
audiences and purposes. and demonstrate understanding of demonstrating the appropriate
purpose, speaker, audience, and form objectives.
when completing expressive,
persuasive, or literary writing
21. Students will demonstrate 21.9Revise writing to improve style, Teacher input and assessment.
improvement in organization, content, word choice, sentence variety, and Revision of rough drafts
paragraph development, level of detail, subtlety of meaning after rethinking Peer editing
style, tone, and word choice (diction) in how well questions of purpose, MLA standards
their compositions after revising them. audience, and genre have been
22. Students will use knowledge of
standard English conventions in their
writing, revising, and editing. 22.10 Use all conventions of standard See 21.9,
English when writing and editing.
23. Students will organize ideas in 23.14 Organize ideas for emphasis in a See 21.9,
writing in a way that makes sense for way that suits the purpose of the
their purpose. writer.
23.15 Craft sentences in a way that See 21.9
supports the underlying logic of the
24. Students will gather information 24.6 Formulate original, open-ended In depth research project
from a variety of sources, analyze and questions to explore a topic of interest, (3.17,9.7)
evaluate the quality of the information design and carry out research, and
they obtain, and use it to answer their evaluate the quality of the research
own questions. paper in terms of the adequacy of its
questions, materials, approach, and
documentation of sources.
25. Students will develop and use 25.6 Individually develop and use
appropriate rhetorical, logical, and criteria for assessing work across the See 21.9
stylistic criteria for assessing final curriculum, explaining why the criteria
versions of their compositions or are appropriate before applying them.
research projects before presenting
them to varied audiences.
26. Students will identify, 26.6 Identify the aesthetic effects of a
analyze, and apply media presentation and identify and
knowledge of the evaluate the techniques used to create
conventions, elements, and them.
techniques of film, radio,
video, television, See #10.6
multimedia productions,
the Internet, and emerging
technologies, and provide
evidence from the works to 27.8 Create coherent media productions See #10.6
support their that synthesize information from Choice for designated projects for
understanding. several sources enrichment.
27. Students will design
and create coherent media
productions (audio, video,
television, multimedia,
Internet, emerging
technologies) with a clear
controlling idea, adequate
detail, and appropriate
consideration of audience,
purpose, and medium.
Evaluation: Evaluation is based on effective class discussion, interpretation and synthesis of texts, critical analyses
of texts, class presentations and projects, a fully documented research project, and daily homework assignments.
Critical Thinking: This course provides instruction in drawing inferences, supporting positions, discriminating
between essential and non-essential ideas, organizing ideas and data, and synthesizing information. In addition,
through individual and group projects, students will refine cooperative learning strategies and begin to become
independent critics of texts (written and visual).
Study Skills: The pace of the course and the varied material presented will reinforce the student’s need to organize
materials, be responsible for long and short-term assignments, and learn to actively interact with the texts.
Key Resources: Textbook: An Introduction To Fiction, X.J. Kennedy
Mechanics and Usage: Daily Language Workouts, grade 11
Merchant Of Venice, William Shakespeare
Death Of A Salesman, Arthur Miller
Choice selections:
A Street Car Named Desire, Tennessee Williams
Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, Tennessee Williams
Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw
A Doll’s House, Henrik Ibsen
Course Content: Topics and timeline
UNIT 1 Short Story (selections from text) 13 weeks
Reading a Story
Point of View
Tone and Style
Writing - essays on each element, 5-paragraph, revisions
UNIT 2 Short Story to Film 1 week
Where Are You Going - Where Have You Been
Smooth Talk
Writing: Comparison/Contrast
Film Analysis
UNIT 3 Drama to Film(selections from plays listed in resources ) 4 weeks
Writing: Comparison/Contrast
5-paragrph essay
Film analysis
UNIT 4 Research Project and Presentation 2 weeks
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1. Introduction
Business Plan presentations are made to audiences which may include bankers, venture
capitalists, consultants or others from whom you may be looking to obtain some type of
tangible support or your fellow students playing the role of similar individuals. You, the
presenters, are usually one or more individuals looking for financing of some kind and
they hope the members of the audience will be sufficiently interested to further explore
the business proposition you are putting forward in your presentation.
These notes aim to provide some information about how to make effective business plan
presentations, and have three parts. Firstly, preparation of a presentation is covered.
Secondly, the structure of a presentation is discussed. Thirdly, some techniques of
making a presentation to an audience are provided.
A presentation needs to be defined. A presentation is different from a lecture. On the one
hand, a lecture has:
an expert imparting knowledge to learners; and
an audience which wants knowledge to pass exams; and
a duration suitable for the breadth of the subject‟s material in the syllabus.
On the other hand, a presentation has:
a peer or subordinate trying to change behaviours and/or attitudes of the audience;
an audience which is often not yet convinced of its need even to give attention to the
presenter, let alone be persuaded by him or her; and
a limited duration determined by the organisation‟s or the audience‟s demands rather
than by the demands of the subject material – usually not more than fifteen to twenty
As a result of these differences between a lecture and a presentation, you must:
view yourselves as guides to expertise rather than as experts;
be persuasive, appealing to emotions as well as to logic; and
use every second of the presentation‟s duration to achieve this primary purpose of
2 Preparation
2.1 Purpose and structure
I am indebted to Chad Perry of Southern Cross University in Australia for permission to
adapt his material on Strategic Management Presentations for this purpose.
Three steps are involved in preparing a presentation:
identifying its specific purpose,
planning its structure, and
rehearsing.
The first step in preparing a presentation is identifying its specific purpose. For example,
a purpose could be „to persuade one or more private angel investors to follow up with you
subsequent to your presentation for further discussion of your investment opportunity‟.
Identifying this specific purpose must include finding out the current positions of key
audience members, what their interests are and what they need to know to be convinced
of your proposal. For instance, the audience will want to know „How will this
opportunity specifically benefit me and how can I get out at some time in the future if the
business is successful?‟ Finding out current positions and interests of key audience
members may involve some preliminary investigation or discussion with those key
members and/or with their associates. Your needs will not be met unless the audience‟s
needs are.
The second step in preparing a presentation is planning its structure (which will be
outlined in section 3). Whatever information is not absolutely necessary for the specific
purpose of the presentation can be relegated to the handouts which may accompany the
presentation, or must be deleted altogether. Notes should then be prepared from your own
spoken words. That is, the notes should not be written and then spoken from; instead
they should be spoken, then written, and then spoken from. This recommendation arises
from the different structure of spoken and written English. The alternative of using
written English as the basis of a spoken presentation will diminish its directness and
value. For example, in written English:
words are literary;
sentences can be read more than once to catch their meaning; and
different readers can progress at different speeds through intellectually demanding
On the other hand, in spoken English:
words are short and colloquial;
sentences are heard only once; and
each listener must keep up with the spoken word.
As a result of these differences between written and spoken English, you must:
use simple words and constructions (for example, „got a degree‟ rather than
„graduated‟, and explain or avoid jargon such as „synergy‟, „focus differentiation‟ and
„organisational design‟;
keep sentences short and provide reasons for a list of items before listing the items;
for example, „These two cars are similar: Accord and Camry‟ rather than „The
Accord and Camry are similar cars‟ (incidentally, a visual aid might help the audience
grasp the interrelatedness of a list of items); and
use stories and allegories to illustrate abstract ideas, to root the presentation in the
common experiences of the audience.
This second planning step of preparing notes should result in cards containing key points
and phrases. These cards are then tied together in order, so that they cannot be scattered
or lost. The cards must not contain a word-for-word typescript of the presentation, as
there would then be a dangerous temptation to just read it; they should merely serve as a
memory prompt. To repeat, a presentation must not be read. (However, to prevent
nervousness and a possible lapse in your recall, the first minute or two of the presentation
could be written out in full).
2.2 Rehearsal
The third planning step consists of at least three rehearsals, during which a non-presenter
should provide an independent assessment. In the rehearsals, timing should be
established: a presentation that goes over its allotted time invariably does so because of
insufficient rehearsal. Tape recording or video recording a rehearsal can be a valuable
exercise. Rehearsals of the answers to possible questions should be included as well.
3. Structure
The structure of a presentation was mentioned in section 2. This section examines that
structure in more detail. The usual six components of a presentation are:
introduction,
position,
issues,
possibilities,
proposal, and
postscript.
The three components of introduction, proposal and postscript are always present but the
middle components are sometimes transformed into other elements. All of these
components are incorporated in the following discussion.
3.1 Introduction
The audience‟s attention is highest at the start of a presentation. It then declines before
rising again at the end. So the introduction and conclusion are critical to a presentation‟s
success. You need “to grab them while they are hot”.
A presentation‟s introduction should:
start with opening courtesies, for example, „Good afternoon‟;
state the purpose of the presentation in an attention-grabbing way, with the
objectives relating to a specific recommenced action or example: „Our purpose today
is to show you why you should invest in our new LifeLink business concept‟;
state why the presentation‟s purpose is important; for example, „This project will
provide you with an 8% cumulative dividend on your investment as well as an
opportunity to realize a return on equity of 70% or more depending on the harvest
strategy pursued by the company‟;
outline the agenda of the presentation: „After outlining the concept behind LifeLink
Ventures Inc. I will explain the details of this attractive investment opportunity‟;
announce that questions will be handled at the end of the presentation, and whether a
handout will be available at either the start or the end of the question period;
introduce the speakers by name and position and outline their role in the organization
and the presentation; a brief comment which humanises the speaker and establishes
his or her common links with the audience could be appropriate, for example,
„Bram‟s ten years of experience in the medical technology field is impressive for
someone who looks so young; and
ask for the audience‟s agreement to the agenda – listeners will always nod their heads,
but pausing at this stage establishes their co-operation in the presentation and signals
that the introduction is complete.
3.2 Position
The current situation of the company should be briefly outlined to establish a common
basis of understanding. This section allows you to demonstrate your preparation and
understanding of the situation from the audience‟s point of view. The section is akin to a
stakeholder satisfaction analysis and SWOT analysis. You can often demonstrate the
commitment of some panellists or other audience members during this analysis of current
position; for example, „John, we spoke about this at the trade show last night and you
seemed to think it was a great concept‟.
3.3 Issues
A brief review of the strategic issues involved in launching the business could then be
presented. Avoid defensive terms such as „problems‟, instead, refer to „issues‟ or
„opportunities‟ or „challenges‟.
3.4 Possibilities
A brief indication of possible solutions to the issues raised could then be made, to show
that the advantages and disadvantages of a number of possible options have been
considered. Because of time constraints, any detailed information regarding these
possible solutions can be left to an accompanying handout (which should be distributed
after the presentation so the audience isn‟t distracted from your comments). There is
barely sufficient time to discuss the proposal you want to present, so precious speaking
time should not be wasted on details of proposals you have discarded. If a listener has a
question about your other considerations, he or she can ask it at the end of your
presentation (so you should be prepared for this discussion).
3.5 Proposal
Next, present and justify your recommended plan. A visual aid showing the detailed
elements of your proposal may be helpful. Emphasise its benefits from the audience‟s
point of view and do not dwell on its technical aspects. Outline clearly the steps involved
in bringing it to reality and demonstrate that they can be implemented.
3.6 Postscript
A brief summary of the presentation should precede a description of the precise decisions
or steps that the key members of the audience are being asked to make or do; for example,
„Invest up to $2,000,000 in 800,000 convertible preferred shares of LifeLink Ventures at
$2.50 per share‟. The last words said should refer to the specific decision or action you
want from the audience – your last words will be remembered, so do not waste this final
opportunity on unimportant words. This specific decision or action you want from the
audience should relate to the purpose stated in the introduction. Remember that people
will more readily agree to a small step rather than a large one; for example, you might ask
for a general commitment with a staged payment schedule according to certain
performance targets rather than requesting all the investment funds up front.
Finally, thank the audience for this opportunity to speak and invite them to ask questions.
At the start of the question period, your team members should stand and walk towards the
audience and stand away from any podium or lectern, without their arms crossed or
clasped. This procedure signals openness to the audience‟s concerns. Answering
questions should not be left to just one team member, so allocate areas of expertise to
individual team members beforehand. To prevent confusion by team members answering
questions, it is best to have the first or last speaker act as the chairperson during the
question period. The chairperson will first ensure that they understand what the
questioner means, and then allocate the reply to one or another of the team members. All
questions should be processed in this way through the chairperson.
At the end of the question period, close the presentation with acknowledgements of the
audience‟s involvement in a final „Thank you for this opportunity to speak with you
today‟ or similar words.
4. Rapport
As noted above, a presentation must persuade people to commit their behaviours,
attitudes and money to your vision. Persuasion is rooted in building rapport. The first
step towards building this rapport occurs in the preparation stage before the presentation.
This is when current beliefs of key audience members are unearthed and addressed in
constructing the presentation. Indeed, an ideal presentation is, in effect, a celebration of a
previous agreement co-operatively engineered by presenters and the audience. McKinsey
consultants call this „pre-wiring‟ the presentation so that you know what the outcome will
be because of previous meetings and discussions with key individuals in the audience.
Building rapport at the presentation itself begins with the initial establishment of
empathy. If possible, your team should mingle with key members of the audience before
the start of the presentation, They should also be suitably dressed (that is, you should not
be over-or under-dressed according to the standards of the audience). If it is possible, any
physical barriers between you and the audience such as a table, podium, or raised
platform should be removed.
The introduction should then establish the common ground between you and the
audience. You should not project yourselves as experts, but rather as guides to expertise.
That is, you should not deliver your opinions as foregone conclusions but should justify
your points of view by referring to facts, views of acknowledged experts, etc. Asking for
the audience‟s agreement to the agenda at the end of the introduction will accentuate the
co-operative air of the presentation. However, asking for agreement for the agenda is
usually the only time that the audience should be asked to speak before the end of the
presentation – time is short and you have a rehearsed, precisely designed „show‟ that
should not be derailed by audience intervention. If you do ask a question during the
presentation, you must be absolutely sure that the answer will be „yes‟.
You should demonstrate by your own enthusiasm and concern for your material the
acceptance and seriousness that the audience should develop towards the vision you are
presenting. The audience makes the decisions, and so should be treated seriously. Telling
jokes will trivialise the significance of your presentation to the audience.
To assist in building rapport during the presentation, you might refer to key individuals in
the audience by name and acknowledge their acceptance of your idea. For example,
„John, you indicated last night that this is the kind of concept private investors are
interested in today‟ or „Del, we know you are concerned about the short-term financial
viability of the business, so we have included detailed cash flow statements for the first
couple of years of the project in the material that was handed out‟.
In addition, maintain eye contact by not reading word-for-word from notes or using too
many visual aids. This eye contact is essential for building rapport.
Handling questions should also build rapport. Be sensitive to the real concerns of
questioners, not only to the words of their question. Questions about advertising costs
may mask a questioner‟s concern about other issues like the company‟s brand image.
Thus you must try to show understanding of the emotions of the questioner before
displaying your ability to answer the logic of the question. For example, „Judith, I can see
this aspect is a concern for you, and it was for us. We considered these points …‟, and
„Bill, your mastery of the whole field of marketing is superior to ours; the point we made
refers only to the specific area of …‟, and „Mike, we recognise one of the major strengths
of this firm will be our technology, and this has an important role in our plan‟.
If unsure of what a questioner is asking, ask them to be more precise and explain their
question in further detail; for example, „When you talk about our marketing strategy, are
you specifically referring to our advertising plan, the development of our sales force or
both?‟ After answering a difficult question, ask courteously, „Does that answer your
Incidentally, to help in preparing answers to questions, note that questions will probably
cover issues of:
business/industry risk; for example, „How will your major competitors react to your
proposed strategy?‟;
financial risk involving interest payments on debt; „You propose to provide an 8%
annual dividend on these preferred shares, but what happens to your cash flow if sales
revenue is 20 per cent less than you forecast?‟; and
organizational issues; for example, „Who will be your marketing manager and what
background and experience do they have in this industry?‟
In brief, presenters must construct a bridge of mutual understanding to the audience.
Voice and style
While building this rapport, you should also have a professional style. Stand upright
when speaking. Leaning on a table or sitting on a chair sends non-verbal messages that
you not really serious about the subject. You should not fold arms either, as doing so
sends non-verbal messages of defensiveness or superiority.
Speak clearly, and do not drop your voice at the end of sentences. Sound interested, not
Do not practise specific gestures; just let them come naturally. However, distracting
mannerisms such as continual clasping of hands must be consciously limited.
Finally, do not apologise for anything that goes wrong (such as a spelling error on a visual
aid), because doing so detracts from the major purpose of the presentation, and many
audience members may not have noticed.
4.3 Visual aids
Visual aids are powerful parts of a presentation, so they should be used sparingly to
prevent overwhelming the audience. A rule of thumb is that there should be no more than
about one visual aid for each two to three minutes of the presentation. Principles and
techniques for developing a PowerPoint slide or overhead transparency include:
A slide or overhead transparency should:
complement and not substitute for spoken words, that is, its purpose should be to
show in pictures or graphs those aspects of the presentation that cannot be spoken
about, or to list the major points of an idea in one showing;
have a title a the top;
have lower case letters, that is, letters should not be capitalized except for the title at
the top, the first letter of a name etc;
contain no more than seven lines of information or more than seven words per line;
contain single words or phrases, and not contain complete sentences (to repeat: a
visual aid complements the spoken word; it does not copy the spoken word);
have different sizes for headings;
have a slide number;
have different colours for different sets of ideas; and
have a style that is consistent with the other slides or transparencies; for example, the
same type of font and colour, and perhaps the logo or trademark of your company.
Using a projector requires skill. For a start, look at the audience while projecting a slide;
do not look at the screen and so lose eye contact. The projector should be turned off as
soon as the slide has served its purpose. Never have a slide on display that is not directly
related to the words that are being spoken – the audience will be distracted from the
spoken word.
When a graph is displayed, help the audience grasp its meaning by briefly explaining the
axes; for example, „Sales are measured along the top axis and years along the bottom so
that this point represents the sales level we expect to achieve in 2003‟.
Figure 1: Principles and Techniques of Visual Aids
Visual aids complement what you are saying
complement speech
words, phrases, figures
must be relevant
title, headings and colours
lower case letters
7 lines x 7 words
point or unfold
consistent style
You may use a laser pointer to refer to parts of a slide, but don‟t wave it around like a
light sabre from Star Wars.
Before the presentation, check that the projector is suitably placed and can be turned on
and off. Moreover, before the presentation, make certain that all the equipment works
properly and that your slides are in order and the presentation is functioning as planned.
Incidentally, ensure that all blackboards, whiteboards or noticeboards that may be in the
room are clear of irrelevant, distracting messages.
4.4 Touching or feeling
According to neurolinguistic programming researchers people receive information
through the three channels of:
sight;
hearing; and
touch or feeling.
A presenter is more likely to „get through‟ to all the individuals in the audience if all three
channels are used. The sight and hearing channels have already been discussed.
Recognising that visual aids are entrances to a separate channel from that of the spoken
word emphasises the points made above about the complementary nature of visual aids
and about the use of pictures, graphs and symbols.
The third, touch/feeling channel can be accessed by:
referring to the audience‟s feelings and to the feelings of people in any stories told
during the presentation; for example, „Customers have been very pleased about this
feature of the product. In fact, one was absolutely ecstatic when talking to me about it
just the other day!‟;
handing out relevant objects that the audience can touch; for example; a piece of cloth
for a presentation by a textile company (alternatively, the objects could be left on the
seats before the start of the presentation); and
demonstrating objects that might not be passed through the audience but that the
audience can imagine touching while using the object; for example, demonstrating the
opening of a drawer in a chest of drawers, wearing a new line of clothes, switching on
a working prototype of electronic equipment, or bouncing a golf ball.
4.5 Signposting
At frequent intervals during your presentation, you should „signpost‟, that is, summarise
what has been said and describe what is coming up; for example, „In summary, those are
the issues that we face; now I will briefly describe some of the actions we plan to take‟.
This signposting is especially important whenever there is a change of speakers. Before
handing over to the next speaker, you should first summarise what you have said, then
introduce the next speaker and the topic; for example, „I have reviewed the situation up to
now, in particular the financial and technological issues. John will cover how the issues I
have raised will be addressed next‟. The second speaker will acknowledge the
introduction before proceeding; for example, „Thank you, Hilary. Based on the position
you just presented, the issues we face are…‟.
5 Conclusion
Presentations are an important part of raising money to launch or grow new business
ventures. These notes covered:
the persuasive nature of presentations;
methods of preparing a presentation;
the structure of a presentation, including details of its introduction;
building rapport with an audience;
visual aid preparation and use;
incorporating touching and feeling into a presentation; and
signposting.
If you follow the principles of preparation, structure and technique outlined in these
notes, the realization of your plans to raise funds from external investors will be
successfully achieved.
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skyline windows
Model 1000 FL
P A R T 1 : G E N E R A L
A. Provide all labor, materials, tools, and services to install aluminum windows and related components as shown on
drawings and specified herein.
A. General
1. Provide certified independent laboratory test reports in full accordance with Section 1.03, Paragraph C.
2. Windows and component structural tests shall conform to the Voluntary Specifications for Aluminum
Windows; AAMA 101, meeting the performance requirements of class P-HC-60, unless other requirements
are specified herein.(P-AW-60 optional)
3. Note Well: All windows incorporated into this project shall be identical in manufacture, including hardware
and gaskets, to those represented in manufacturers test reports.
B. Test Units
1. Perform all tests unless otherwise noted on the project’s largest window, both frame and sash, or minimum
test size of a 5’ x 3’ 11” ventilator.
C. Test Procedures
1. Air Infiltration Test
a. Air infiltration maximum for ventilator 0.10 cfm per foot of crack length at 6.24 psf pressure
differential when tested in accordance with ASTM E283.
2. Water Resistance Test
a. No uncontrolled at 12.00 psf pressure differential with water rate of 5 gallons/hour/s.f. when tested
in accordance with ASTM E331.
3. Uniform Load Deflection Test
a. No glass breakage, permanent damage to fasteners, hardware parts, or damage to make windows
inoperable or deflection of any unsupported span (meeting rails, muntins, frames, mullions, etc.) in
excess of L/175 at both a positive and a negative load of 60 psf when tested in accordance with
ASTM E330.
Reference Note: Design wind pressures are obtained from ANSI A58.1, local building codes or specified boundary
layer wind tunnel data.
4. Uniform Load Structural Test
a. Unit to be tested at 1.5 x design wind pressure both positive and negative, acting normal to plane of
wall in accordance with ASTM E330.
b. No glass breakage, permanent damage to fasteners, hardware parts, or damage to make window inoperable
or permanent deflection of any main frame or ventilator section in excess of 0.2 % of its span.
A. AA (Aluminum Association):
1. Drafting Standards for Extruded and Tubular Products
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B. AAMA (American Architectural Manufacturers Association):
1. CW-10-82 - Care and Handling of Architectural Aluminum from Shop to Site
2. 502-90 - Specification for Field Testing of Windows and Sliding Glass Doors
3. 603.8-92 - Performance Requirements and Test Procedures for Pigmented Organic Coatings on
Extruded Aluminum
4. 605.2-92 - Specification for High Performance Organic Coatings on Architectural
Extrusions and Panels
5. 609-93 - Guide Specification for Cleaning and Maintenance of Architectural Anodized Aluminum
6. 610.1-79 - Guide Specification for Cleaning and Maintenance of Painted Aluminum Extrusions
and Curtain Wall Panels
7. 611-92 - Standards for Anodized Architectural Aluminum
8. 800-92 - Specifications and Test Methods for Sealants
9. 902-94 - Specification for Sash Balances
10. 904.1-87 - Specifications for Friction Hinges in Window Applications
11. 910-93 - "Life Cycle" Specifications and Test Methods for Architectural Grade Windows and Sliding Glass
A. Shop Drawings/Samples
1. Shop drawings complete and full scale details where practical showing construction of all components,
dimensions and details.
2. Samples of aluminum finishes.
B. Test Reports/Calculations
1. Certified independent laboratory test reports verifying compliance with all test requirements of Section 1.03,
Paragraph C, and structural calculations prepared by a registered Structural Engineer for compliance with
load requirements as specified in Section 1.03, Paragraph C.3 & 4 for windows and window members.
2. Structural calculations prepared by a registered Structural Engineer for compliance with applicable building
codes for anchorage.
A. Protect materials from damage before installation per instructions.
1 .Materials shall be packed, loaded, shipped, unloaded, stored and protected in a manner which will
avoid abuse, damage, and defacement in accordance with AAMA CW-10.
2. Store inside if possible in a clean, well drained area free of dust and corrosive fumes.
3. Stack vertically or on edge so that water cannot accumulate on or within materials.
4. Cover materials with tarpaulins or plastic hung on frames to provide air circulation and prevent
contaminants and condensation from contacting aluminum.
A. Aluminum Windows and Related Materials
1. Five-year guarantee on materials and workmanship.
B. Insulated Glass
1. Five-year guarantee of thermal and physical integrity of insulated glass units and glazing.
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P A R T 2 : P R O D U C T S
A. Series 1000 as manufactured by Skyline Windows is approved for use.
B. Manufacturers shall have been engaged in the manufacture of aluminum windows of monumental grade not less than
five years..
C. Substitutions: Other manufacturer's products that meet or exceed specified design requirements may be
considered. Submit the following information with request for substitutions:
1. Test Reports specified in Article - 1.02 TESTING AND PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS.
2. Samples specified in Article - 1.04 SUBMITTALS.
3. If requested, other information required for evaluation or proposed substitutions
A. Aluminum Windows and Components
1. Extruded aluminum prime billet 6063T5, aluminum sheet 5005 H32 (Anodic) or 3003 H14.
2. Minimum principal window member wall thickness .080”.
3. Minimum frame depth front to back 2 7/16”.
4. All frames and vents to have double tubular sections.
B. Weatherstrip
1. Ethylene Propylene Diene Monomer (EPDM) or Neoprene.
C. Sealants
1. Materials used between components and moving perimeter joints, to be high range type; i.e. silicone,
polysulfides , polyurethane, etc., dependent upon specific application and manufacturer’s recommendations.
D. Thermal-Break
1. Frame and Vent: shall be poured in place polyurethane into a prefinished cavity providing minimum .250”
E. Glass and Glazing
1. Glass size, type and materials as indicated on architectural drawings and as specified in Section 08800 with
size, type and strength to meet load requirements in accordance with Section 1.03, Paragraph C.3 & 4.
Glazing to be in accordance with FGMA Glazing Manual. Glazing shall be held in place by extruded
aluminum glazing beads. Glazing shall be set in minimum 5/8 inch glazing rabbet. All glazing shall have
glazing tape applied to exterior extruded glazing leg, interiors to have neoprene glazing rubber.
F. Hardware - General
1. All aluminum components 6063T5 (T6) or 6105T6.
2. Ventilation shall be mounted to the frame with two extruded hinges. Hinges shall have a nominal .250”
diameter stainless steel pin and nylon separators.
3. Hardware members bridging frame or vent thermal barrier to be suitable low conductivity, nonmetallic
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A. General
1. Finish, fabricate and shop assemble frame and sash members into complete windows and window systems
under responsibility of one manufacturer.
2. No bolts, screws or fasteners to bridge thermal barriers or independent frame movement.
3. Fabricate to allow for thermal movement of materials when subject to a temperature differential from – 30
degrees F to +180 degrees F.
B. Frame and Sash
1. Miter all corners and mechanically stake over aluminum corner key, (2 per sash and 2 per frame corner),
corner key to have minimum 1/4” thickness, set and sealed in structural silicone, or epoxy leaving hairline
joinery, and the seal weather tight. Joinery methods must not result in discoloration of finish or damage to the
C. Weatherstripping
1. EPDM sweep-type weatherstripping in extruded raceway at contacting sash to create a primary weather seal.
EPDM weatherstripping shall be installed uninterrupted on all four (4) sides of main frame, heads, jambs and
2. Fin type EPDM weatherstripping in extruded race about perimeter of sash.
D. Glass Drainage
1. Provision shall be made to insure that water will not accumulate and remain in contact with the perimeter
areas of insulating glass.
E. Hardware
1. Provide surface mounted perimeter rails which automatically activate compression locks at each sash head,
units over 40” to have two operators. Fanlight Operator shall be mounted to head section of frame and shall
allow the sash to be opened inward approximately 7”. Operator shall be attached to the main frame by means
of stainless steel machine screws. SS machine screws shall be tapped into extruded aluminum blocks.
Hardware connections through single thickness of frame (less than 1/4” thick) shall not be acceptable.
Operable sash shall have secondary safety stay arm, which shall allow sash to be tilted to interior 90 degrees
from window frame for cleaning. Perimeter rails shall shall be activated by way of a lever handle located at
window jamb (optional; crank gear located on window jamb with removable crank pole).
2. Lever handle or crank assembly shall be mounted to sash interior without exposed screws.
3. Hinges shall have stainless steel pins, 1/4” in diameter. Hinge shall be attached to main frame by means of
stainless steel machine screw. SS machine screw shall be tapped into extruded aluminum corner block
resulting in a solid connection. Hinge connection through single thickness of frame shall not be acceptable.
F. Finish
1. Finish of all exposed areas of aluminum windows and components shall be PPG Polycron III or approved
equal (optional Duranar or Anodic finishes). Color to be selected by Architect.
P A R T 3 : E X E C U T I O N
A. Verify that all openings into which windows are to be installed are the correct size to permit the proper installation
according to the manufacture’s installation instructions.
B. Do not install windows until unsatisfactory conditions have been corrected.
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A. Install windows with skilled tradesman in exact accordance with approved shop drawings and Specification.
B. Aluminum that is not organically coated shall be insulated from direct contact with steel, masonry concrete or non-
compatible materials by bituminous paint, zinc chromate primer or other suitable insulating material.
D. Plumb and align window faces in a single plane for each wall plane. Erect square and true. Anchor to maintain
position when subjected to normal thermal and building movement, and specified wind loads.
A. Seal joints at opening perimeters in accordance with approved shop drawing to provide watertight installation.
B. Joints and surfaces to receive sealants shall be clean, free from loose material, free of efflorescence or mortar leaking,
and dry. Sealants shall not be applied when temperature is below manufacturer's recommendations.
C. Clean joints and surfaces before sealing or priming, then prime joints in accordance with manufacturer's instructions.
D. Provide joint backing in all joints where a suitable backer to receive sealant is otherwise not available. Joint depth shall
be equal to 1/2 of width.
E. Caulk joint width shall not be less than 1/4" nor more than 1/2" unless otherwise recommended by manufacturer. Wipe
off excess material and leave exposed surfaces and joints clean and smooth.
A. After installation, windows and glazing shall be inspected, adjusted, and left clean and free of temporary labels and
dirt. Protect finished installation against damage.
A. On site tests shall be conducted on a typical window for both air and water infiltration with the window manufacturer's
representatives present. Owner's representative shall select units to be tested.
B. Those tested units not meeting the specified requirements and all units having similar deficiencies shall be corrected by
the window contractor to meet the specified criteria at no cost to the owner.
C. Cost for all successful tests shall be paid by the owner. Cost for all unsuccessful tests shall be paid by the window
D. Testing shall be conducted by a qualified testing agency selected by the Architect and the Window Manufacturer.
E. Windows shall be field tested in accordance with AAMA 502-90, "Voluntary Specification for Field Testing of
Windows and Sliding Glass Doors," using test method "A."
AAMA 502-90 specifies air infiltration and water resistance field testing for three (3) windows immediately after
installation begins. Default performance values for air infiltration and water penetration are also specified. Any of the
following optional paragraphs may be added to modify the standard specification. However, consideration should be
given to the cost of additional testing.
1. Test _____ additional windows for air infiltration and for water penetration as specified when _____ % of
the window installation is complete.
2. Air infiltration tests shall be conducted at a static test pressure of _____ psf. The maximum allowable rate of
air leakage shall not exceed _____ cfm per foot of sash crack length.
3. Water penetration tests shall be conducted at a static test pressure of _____ psf.
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Sure, not if your portfolio is tied up with bonds. But that's why most 401k's are administered by professional account managers that would know better than to make that your only investment vehicle.
Small businesses?
See my first point. The fed rate affects the cost of all lending. Ergo, small businesses benefit from lower borrowing costs. Not rocket science.
But lets not stop there, who do you think benefits from the fed dumping 85 billion dollars into the stock market each month?
Certainly my 457(b) and 403(b) plans have benefited by their bond-buying efforts, and pretty much anything else tied to markets, government finance, etc. have benefited from this. The government's debt rating, your tax rates, our troops' who still get paid, can thank the fed for keeping that program going. If the fed was not keeping up bond demand, yields would have to go up to attract enough purchasers to fund operations, putting city, county, state, and the federal governments on the hook for higher future spending on long-term interest obligations.
Think this through a little bit. The dollar is a tool for trade, its value determined by the state of the economy and certainly fed manipulation for the purposes of supporting economic activity. You want a store for wealth? Buy something tangible with it. The idea that the Fed is some evil cabal intent on depleting the savings accounts of Americans is absurd.
So lets look at the finance reform from Bawney Fwanks and company (democrats)...
You're going to need a bit more than just a "smell test" to sell me on this theory.
Liz Warren (D) wants to re-instate Glass-Steagall, which IMHO, would be a huge step in the right direction.
And the biggest flaw with your points: what did any of this have to do with "Obama's policies?". Bernake is Fed chairman and is not accountable to Obama or his whims.
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Tese 2 characters are fabulous i really love the fella with the moustache
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Love your drawing.
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What are these, clay? Cookies? Paper mâché? I can't find a description. They are really cute, but what are they made of?
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1. LarryB 92 months ago | reply
Mmmm, bacon in a tube. Must be the Norwegian analog of spray cheese.
2. bowb 92 months ago | reply
my mum brought me back caviar in a tube a couple years ago... it still remains untouched.
3. cknlomein 92 months ago | reply
wow bacon in a tube.
4. yi 92 months ago | reply
it's actually bacon cheese.
5. roboppy 92 months ago | reply
Ahh good point...it's bacon cheese. But that's still like.."Ehhh?"
6. yi 92 months ago | reply
wine in a box, food in a tube... why are people against this? it keeps food fresh! no air! get with the 21st century people!
7. roboppy 92 months ago | reply
But bacon cheese in any other container would still be...bacon cheese. I think the problem here is meat cheese, hehe. ;D I'm probably biased because I don't really like bacon (which surprises a lot of people).
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Bacon in a tube? Portable bacon! Righteous!
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oh my god...
10. @tomh 74 months ago | reply
bacon-flavored cheese spread, from what i understand.
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does anyone know if anywhere in the US sells the caviar in a tube? I love the stuff!!!!!!!!
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Caviar in a tube? Ikea maybe.
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#10 - heartlessrobot (01/05/2013) [-]
I can clearly see that man's anus.
#15 to #10 - megashot (01/05/2013) [-]
bu....but...he has no balls....
User avatar #20 to #15 - Tonkka (01/05/2013) [-]
Cold does that
#1 - dirkdirkmoo (01/04/2013) [-]
why is it making eye contact with me?
User avatar #3 to #1 - urfunnyman (01/04/2013) [-]
my sides
#35 - pandamoncia (01/05/2013) [-]
This should be on the science channel..
Cause I see two black holes
#2 - urfunnyman (01/04/2013) [-]
Comment Picture
#43 to #4 - tonkkax (01/05/2013) [-]
Our main cameracrew has caught footage of this amazing creature.
Our main cameracrew has caught footage of this amazing creature.
User avatar #11 - xtrmbragnrytz (01/05/2013) [-]
To be fair, windchill makes all the difference
#12 to #11 - aiicii (01/05/2013) [-]
and the fact that there is no wind in finland
User avatar #79 to #12 - thqp (01/06/2013) [-]
most certainly not no.. ever...
User avatar #5 - neonthethird (01/04/2013) [-]
...I'd much rather be in the U.S.A., and also... its really impossible to generalize in this situation, because the US is much bigger, and the temperatures vary wildly
#25 - prodick (01/05/2013) [-]
Pioneering the finnish image on the internet like no one before
Pioneering the finnish image on the internet like no one before
User avatar #8 - mattmanhemi (01/05/2013) [-]
why do Europeans on this site think they are better for the stupidest reasons.....
#13 to #8 - mattkingg (01/05/2013) [-]
Because we are
Because we are
User avatar #16 to #13 - mattmanhemi (01/05/2013) [-]
better at stupid things?
#17 to #16 - mattkingg (01/05/2013) [-]
o i'm sorry i can't hear you over the sound of my national health service
User avatar #53 to #17 - ivoryhammer (01/05/2013) [-]
Sorry I can't hear you over our giant population where free healthcare wouldn't work.
#54 to #53 - mattkingg (01/05/2013) [-]
You say that as if it hurts us?
we have free healthcare, you don't
User avatar #62 to #54 - heartlessrobot (01/05/2013) [-]
Don't you have to wait 10 times longer though?
#65 to #62 - mattkingg (01/05/2013) [-]
The only time i've ever really had to wait during nhs stuff where the times i broke a bone or somthing and had to go to A&E where you have to wait longer depending on how serious your injury is
User avatar #57 to #54 - ivoryhammer (01/05/2013) [-]
We also pretty much control the world. And while your healthcare might be free, ours has much higher quality.
#58 to #57 - mattkingg (01/05/2013) [-]
Yes you control the world, sure, you could just order china or russia to do whatever you want
also if we want we can pay for better healthcare, but so far in my life i have had no problem with the nhs apart from that one time where i saw the guy with a roadsign up his ass
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#63 to #61 - mattkingg (01/05/2013) [-]
I.. i don't know, i just walked into A & E (accident and emergency) because i was with a friend who'd fractured his shoulder, it was like 2am and i saw this guy getting wheeled into the emegency operating room with a ******* street sign sticking out of his ass
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#69 to #66 - mattkingg (01/05/2013) [-]
It was one of those deer crossing signs i believe (fyi it wasn't the actual sign part that was up his ass, it was the pole bit, although you probably guessed that)
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User avatar #60 to #57 - jaynsilentbob (01/05/2013) [-]
Wow you really think America controls the world? By that logic you wouldn't have needed to invade Iraq or Afghanistan.
#64 to #60 - mattkingg (01/05/2013) [-]
nah man, they needed the oil
User avatar #67 to #64 - jaynsilentbob (01/05/2013) [-]
Haha, well then surly if America is the overlord of Earth they could just demand oil from every country?
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User avatar #72 to #68 - jaynsilentbob (01/05/2013) [-]
hey whoa man I'm siding with you, no need for the **** word there.
#73 to #72 - mattkingg (01/05/2013) [-]
oh sorry i will delete that, i thought you were the guy that said america rules the world, sarcasm is hard to see over text
User avatar #74 to #73 - jaynsilentbob (01/05/2013) [-]
i completely understand. There's been many a time where **** like this has happened to me. I'm English, Scottish, German, and Czech. Of course i'm going to side with Europe.
#75 to #74 - mattkingg (01/05/2013) [-]
Damn that's quite a family history you have there, the only thing i know about my family is that we've been in england for a long ass ******* time we're in the doomsday book and everything
don't get me wrong i don't think america is bad, i just prefer Europe
User avatar #76 to #75 - jaynsilentbob (01/05/2013) [-]
Haha that's pretty cool. I don't hate America either. Hell i'm doing American Studies at University but i got to support my Homeland.
User avatar #18 to #17 - mattmanhemi (01/05/2013) [-]
I dont like free health care because it ***** over doctors
User avatar #26 to #18 - spacehawk (01/05/2013) [-]
The minimum wage for doctors in Denmark (we have universal healthcare) is 9.100 $/month... Paid by the government. That doesn't seem too bad.
User avatar #28 to #26 - mattmanhemi (01/05/2013) [-]
i think doctors deserve more then that. Doctors have to go to school for up to 10 years. Now the average america doctor makes about $230,000 a year (american Dr. dont get payed by the hour). If your free health care was so great, why do people all around the world (including Europeans) go to america for quality medical attention?
User avatar #31 to #28 - spacehawk (01/05/2013) [-]
Well, I think that medical care is seriously overpriced in the US. I believe that everyone has the right to good medical care no matter the size of their bank account. Btw, I have never heard of anyone going to USA for medical attention We have plenty of private hospitals in Europe.
User avatar #33 to #31 - mattmanhemi (01/05/2013) [-]
You seriously have never heard of any medical tourism. And U.S medical services are not over priced when they are better, its the price you pay for. In Europe you dont have the right for good medical care, you have the right for average medical care, which would always be better in america for a price
#38 to #33 - isbak (01/05/2013) [-]
I live in Denmark and we have privat hospitals aswell, some people use them and they are also better than the goverment hospitals sometimes.
#70 to #28 - mattkingg (01/05/2013) [-]
yeah but you only get quality medical care if you have money, if you don't tough **** you die
User avatar #22 to #18 - stealthfoxbrony ONLINE (01/05/2013) [-]
not really...doctors get paid a flat rate by the government....if they didn't like it, they would do something about it.
#78 to #18 - dirkdirkmoo (01/06/2013) [-]
they still get paid
#14 to #8 - shadowstuart (01/05/2013) [-]
I find it amusing that you would suggest otherwise.
#77 to #8 - dirkdirkmoo (01/06/2013) [-]
because euro **** is ******* awesome you ******
sincerely, American
User avatar #59 to #8 - nefarian (01/05/2013) [-]
Where, exactly, does it say we're better in anything in the content?
User avatar #21 to #8 - bjartur (01/05/2013) [-]
so there are no stupid people in america ?
to be stereotypical = you are all a bunch of fat faggots that take the escalator to the gym while giving ******* welfare.
#24 to #21 - mattmanhemi (01/05/2013) [-]
Americans never make stupid post on this site trying to look better. "we are better in the cold" "out beer is better" making fun of u.s's gun laws is fine,but about temperature is out right stupid
Americans never make stupid post on this site trying to look better. "we are better in the cold" "out beer is better" making fun of u.s's gun laws is fine,but about temperature is out right stupid
#27 to #24 - skybluetroll (01/05/2013) [-]
I agree that European countries consistently believe they are "superior" to the U.S. due to stereotypes, but regardless, all countries have pros and cons. Some more than others. And I think this post was meant as a joke and not saying they are superior, but differences of areas.
I also hate when the dimwitted mid-westerns are pooled together with the east and west coast. (Eastern master race)
But yeah, in this thread, Europeans are "establishing" dominance.
User avatar #29 to #27 - mattmanhemi (01/05/2013) [-]
Europeans are a minority on this AMERICAN website, but they act like they own it. not all europeans but alot. they bash on america even though most things they use on the internet come from america
#30 to #29 - skybluetroll (01/05/2013) [-]
They jelly.
#46 - spongen (01/05/2013) [-]
Is that what i think it is
Is that what i think it is
User avatar #9 - jtwagner (01/05/2013) [-]
It was -30C here in AK last month. My car froze to the ground.
#40 - anonymous poster (01/05/2013) [-]
This is an unfair representation.
One case of two people ******* around in Finland instantly makes it more badass than America?
I'm sure there are tons of drunk, ***** ***** running around in Minnesota and Wisconsin in temperatures much colder than that.
Op is a fag
User avatar #42 to #40 - kreekydoorS (01/05/2013) [-]
i don't think badass is the word you were looking for.
User avatar #41 to #40 - tonkkax (01/05/2013) [-]
Looks like someone is jealous.
#23 - werethwldgoosgoes (01/05/2013) [-]
#34 - rainbowjellibean (01/05/2013) [-]
Moral of the story...
Finnish people are idiots.
#37 to #34 - prodick (01/05/2013) [-]
We prefer the term "out of our minds"
We prefer the term "out of our minds"
#39 - tonkkax (01/05/2013) [-]
Looks like some boy has forgotten to wipe.
And to other affairs...
Looks like some boy has forgotten to wipe.
And to other affairs...
#6 - anonymous poster (01/04/2013) [-]
I don't mind the cold. It's a problem when it's windy and snowing, like in the US pictured above.
Finland, even at -31c, is probably easier to stay warm in. No wind chill.
User avatar #7 to #6 - thqp (01/05/2013) [-]
There is actually **** loads of cold ass winds.
User avatar #32 - mteverestand (01/05/2013) [-]
why is everything from scandinavia gay porn?
#48 to #32 - vikingfaen (01/05/2013) [-]
Excuse me?
User avatar #49 to #48 - mteverestand (01/05/2013) [-]
of the things I've seen from scandinavia, at least 60% is gay. It's very nice though.
The other 40% is death metal.
User avatar #50 to #49 - vikingfaen (01/05/2013) [-]
Have you been to scandinavia?
User avatar #51 to #50 - mteverestand (01/05/2013) [-]
that's why I say "things I've seen of it."
User avatar #52 to #51 - vikingfaen (01/05/2013) [-]
You should go there. Of all the places I've ever been to, I can't think of anything as beautiful as scandinavia.
User avatar #55 to #52 - mteverestand (01/05/2013) [-]
I will. I've always wanted to go backpacking around the continent for a while.
#56 to #55 - vikingfaen (01/05/2013) [-]
And I hope you do. Best of luck!
And I hope you do. Best of luck!
#47 to #45 - daemoniccoyote (01/05/2013) [-]
How can you tell the difference between Finns celebrating and normal Finnish drinking and shooting each other?
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Anyone else getting this? I signed into psn fine after that but then it signed me out again.
PSN undergoing maintainence or something?
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It's a 120GB ps3 slim btw.
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How many times have you tried to sign in since then?
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Ever been inside a banking F-14, trying to outmaneuver a set of incoming missiles while simultaneously keeping a bogie ahead of you in your sights? Yeah, we thought not. Well, we haven't either, but after piloting authentic jets, executing precise aerobatic attack patterns and generally blowing the hell out of everything, we can safely say this is pretty damn close to the real thing.
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War is the sixth game in a well-respected series that's always delivered the perfect blend of flight-sim detail and slightly sci-fi storytelling. On one mission you're cutting a path through the clear sky, shooting down traditional bombers and enemy planes, when suddenly a bus-sized laser splits the horizon and incinerates your buddies. You've just met Excalibur, the Belkan's monolithic tower of doom. Then there's an impossibly sized super-jet that practically blocks out the sun, bearing down on your allied base.
If all this sounds a little familiar, then you've probably been an Ace fan for a while. Each game unfolds the same way, plays out with the same mission types and resolves with the same bittersweet ending. The mission goals are mostly "blow up everything," with an occasional "don't let the Belkans destroy your friends." Even though you're supposed to be fighting back this vicious Belkan army, it seems to be on the run more than anything else.
But even though you're flying the same types of sorties as previous games, it's done so damn well that we can't complain. And thanks to some seriously increased AI, The Belkan War is easily the most intense game in the series.
Even if you're a fightin' ace pilot, you're gonna be put through Hell in this war. The Belkans have their own stockpile of rival aces to throw in your path that zip around the sky, dodging missiles with almost no effort. At first you're ambushed by just three - later in the game you'll have five of these crack pilots on your ass, and they are an absolute monster to bring down. During those missions, there's no time to think or plan - it's all survival mode.
Another introductory feature in The Belkan War is the Ace Style Gauge. As you play each mission, you're constantly graded on how you fight. You can go all mercenary, literally killing anything that moves, or take the noble approach and allow damaged enemies to escape with their lives. There's also a middle ground, where you kinda split the balance, but choosing one extreme or the other is the way to go - your actions will affect in-flight dialogue and mission updates, plus the game's ending.
A two-player, split-screen versus mode returns from Ace Combat 04, but still no online play. No big loss, as the huge hangar of unlockable, customizable jets is more than enough to keep one player bombing away. The live-action cinemas that narrate the game's passable storyline are a cheesy, unnecessary addition, but the truth remains that for modern-era aerial action, there's no substitute for Ace Combat.
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The nomination is part of a broader initiative under which Ban wants to establish a 2,500 strong UN "intervention brigade" in eastern DR Congo alongside the political efforts to be led by Robinson.
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Younis served as Moammar Gadhafi's interior minister until he joined the anti-regime uprising last year. He was killed in July 2011.
The blast and the raid on the city's jail underline Libya's tenuous security situation nearly a year after Gadhafi's ouster. Former rebels have refused to lay down their arms and operate as the de facto government in many parts of the vast Arab nation.
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Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler
Posted: May 21, 2009 03:47 PM
Narcissistic Night Sweats
Review of: The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement by Jean M. Twenge and W. Keith Campbell Ph.D. Free Press Publishing. 352 Pages. $26.00
As Americans fight off the swine flu, social researchers Jean M. Twenge and W. Keith Campbell have taken aim at a different kind of bug. In their new book, The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement, they argue that "the relentless rise in narcissism" in one way or another "has touched every American."
The authors begin by identifying five root causes of the epidemic: "self-admiration; child centered parenting; celebrity glorification and media encouragement; attention seeking on the internet; and easy credit." The symptoms are vanity, materialism, uniqueness, anti-social behavior, relationship troubles, entitlement and (oddly) religion and volunteering, and The Narcissism Epidemic concludes with a discussion of the prognosis and suggested treatment.
Like its poster child for the cultural crisis, Paris Hilton, the book's body is appealing but thin. Identified thirty years ago by the historian Christopher Lasch, the culture of narcissism is by all accounts a problem in modern America. But narcissism is an imprecise concept. Twenge and Campbell deserve credit for citing the best available empirical studies measuring the phenomenon, but the science is squishy and the analysis which flows from it is more than a bit shaky.
Twenge and Campbell see narcissism under every rock, from cheating on tests to cheating on spouses. Sometimes they're flat out wrong. They claim, for example, that narcissism is "the missing ingredient" responsible for the housing bubble. They don't realize that millions of Americans these days are petrified of debt. Nor are today's borrowers in any sense unique in reaching for the main chance. Even in the pre-credit card age of the Conestoga wagon, inner-directed rock-ribbed Republicans from Indiana would have grabbed a subprime loan to buy a home for their families. Although they might have been willing to stretch beyond their means --"on the come," so to speak - no one would have or should have adjudged them narcissists.
All too often, moreover, The Narcissism Epidemic seems like a self-help manual, long on harangues about MySpace and YouTube - and bromides. Don't be narcissistic, the authors keep saying. Teach your kids not to be narcissistic. Don't get married to or make friends with narcissists.
There are a few fine suggestions: don't give your kid an X-Box, Twenge and Campbell advise parents; design something yourself, like a poem written in crayon on construction paper. Far more often, however, they simplify a complex problem. For example, they think giving trophies to every kid in Little League at the end of the season sows the seeds of narcissism. Are they right? It seems to us that triumphant trophies for tots don't always send the same message as do meritorious medals for mid-teens. Self-esteem doesn't always lead to narcissism.
The authors sometimes have a thesis in search of corroborating evidence. They acknowledge that voluntarism is up among America's youth, but try to explain it away as a self-centered exercise in resume building, an argument that rings hollow - and maybe offensive, even for the affluent, whiter than Wonder Bread suburban youngsters who seem to be the "real" subjects and targets of the book. Equally empty are apocalyptic warnings about the nation going to hell in a handbag (designed, we assume, by Gucci) because of American Idol, tummy tucks, MILFS and Baby Einstein videos.
The limitations of the analysis are especially evident when one listens to the dogs that don't bark in this book, including the pervasiveness of fundamentalist religion in the United States and the fact that Americans work harder than their counterparts in other industrialized countries. Are these folks immune to the epidemic? Are they exceptions that somehow prove the rule? And, if you say, as the authors do, be less like Paris Hilton and more like George Clooney, aren't you endorsing the celebrity culture you've just indicted?
As Twenge and Campbell note, there are nervous-making developments in American culture on many fronts: vacuous "reality television" shows, declines in reading rates among young adults, and so forth. But, we believe that a transformation in American attitudes and behavior will not come from exhortation and hortatory comments, but from systemic change.
Plopped down in the middle of the Obama recalibration of the economy, society, and culture of the United States, Twenge and Campbell's narcissism narrative seems, well, so five minutes ago. Is it possible, we wonder, that the book is appearing at the very moment the epidemic has peaked? Or is such optimism the product of our fevered imaginations? | http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kevin-morris-and-glenn-altschuler/narcissistic-night-sweats_b_206466.html | dclm-gs1-067390002 | false | false | {
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Aren't they cool? Took me a while, but it was worth it. These were NOT created on Creative mode, I had to go find the materials myself so it's much more satisfying. Not a bad lil' project for a Minecraft n00b. I'm happy with them.
So, Minecraftians, what's the coolest thing YOU'VE built?
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Final Fantasy Celebration: GOM's Top 10 Favorite Characters (Playable) January 3, 2012 by
The Final Fantasy series is known for great story, and you can't have a great story without a diverse variety of compelling and deep characters. As such, a great place to start the celebration is by looking at my at my favorite characters throughout the series.
There are many great allies, enemies, and even NPCs in the Final Fantasy worlds. So in order to do this right, I shall section off my list into three different groups: The playable characters, the villains, and the story characters. Let's begin with those characters that you get to control yourself.
Counting down...
Ten - Celes Chere (Final Fantasy VI)
Final Fantasy VI is known for switching out the character you perceive as the lead quite frequently. Celes sorta takes that role over in the second half for awhile. But it's not before a few solid events. Her character grows tired of being a part of the Gestahlian Empire where she served as a genetically-modified super solider of sorts. Which makes her involvement in the Opera scene that much more interesting. She's a tough character capable of playing the act of vulnerable and beautiful.
Put perhaps the scene that drove me to love Celes the most comes when she awakens from a year long coma under the care of Cid. She finds herself in a world slowly sinking into darkness and despair. Eventually, Cid falls ill and Celes, who has fondness for him for saving her, tries to help. Depending on what happens, Cid will either live or die. The first time I played, he died. And the scene after blew my mind. Celes attempts to kill herself, which is one of the most shocking and sad scenes in any Final Fantasy game. Of course, she survives, and ends up bringing everyone back together to save the world.
Nine - Red XIII aka Nanaki (Final Fantasy VII)
Nanaki is a big lion, wolf... dog thing. And the only character in FFVII I found even the slightest bit interesting. Part of it is the fact he is the most mysterious character of the bunch. This is in part because of the utter lack of screen time he's had compared to other characters.
Which is a shame, because Nanaki is the most interesting of them all. A vastly intelligent, kind creature torn between his animal nature and his human-level intellect, he is never really sure how to project himself. He can go from being the wise, fact-giving scholar of the group one second to tearing the throat out of a baddie the next. Putting it bluntly: Red XIII is a genius AND bad ass. My favorite FFVII character, and he's the least used. Go figure.
Eight - Rinoa Heartilly (Final Fantasy VIII)
I think it says a lot when your female lead starts the game with more confidence than your male lead. From the very start I knew Rinoa was going to be a compelling female lead in the sense that she wasn't going to be another damsel in distress or princess that needed saving. She was working for a resistance group and ready to kick some ass.
But one of the things that amazes me is the layers of sadness and fear that she covers up. She's really put through some horrible events throughout the game, and in that way she becomes an almost tragic character. Her ties to the main story are fascinating, and the things she has to recover from lead you from one story piece to the next. She's fragile, but not in a over exaggerated faulty kind of way. Her weaknesses at times feel authentic, and forgiveable.
Not to mention, I think she's easily the most beautiful female character in the series. She isn't the empty-headed "hot" character, she's more of a natural, real beauty and it makes her character far more realistic.
Seven - Zidane Tribal (Final Fantasy IX)
Out of all the pretty-boy leads in a Final Fantasy, I think Zidane is the best. He starts out seeming like he'll be a fairly uncomplicated, cliche thief character. But his carefree spunk is only matched by his surprisingly virtuous attitude and determination to do good.
He tries to find a way to ease worry through humor and his interactions with Garnet early on help make their relationship seem a bit more authentic than most lead character love stories. However, it's not until late-game that Zidane's story gets blown wide open. Without revealing too much, Zidane's life gets turned upside down with a shocking revelation near the end which paints a whole new outlook on who he is and what he needs to be. He has a bit of an existential breakdown of sorts and the sudden flip in attitude for awhile creates some stirring moments. But he eventually rises above his despair for his newly discovered past, and returns to the hero that he started out being. He's a character you have to wait awhile for the real pay off, but when it hits, it hits damn hard.
Six - Eiko Carol (Final Fantasy IX)
Eiko may be one of the characters on this list that surprises a few people, but I always had a fondness for her. And it's not just because she has a best friend moogle named Mog (a relationship which in turn leads to one of the most tear-jerking moments I've ever experienced in an RPG!) or because she happens to live in a village full of Moogle buddies. It's because her personality strikes me as interesting.
She's very much the temper-prone little girl that you'd expect her to be. But for some reason, her stubbornness and attitude seem to cover up that she's shockingly self-sufficient and strong. She longs to belong and be loved and appreciated, and it makes her a real easy character to feel for. Despite her self-fantasied rivalry with Garnet over Zidane's affection, she's actually really fond of Dagger and stands by her when she's needed. She's a useful party member because of her kick-ass summoning ability and great healing skills.
Not to mention, she has hilarious dialogue throughout. Also, did I mention THE MOOGLES?!
Five - Claire "Lightning" Farron (Final Fantasy XIII)
Putting it simply? Lightning is bad ass. But there is a lot more to her throughout FFXIII. She starts off as a gruff, take-no-prisoners super solider. Pretty much throwing herself against impossible odds for unknown reasons and not caring who's ass she has to pummel into the dirt to keep going.
Her bluntness makes her come across as a harsh asshole, but ultimately she turns out to be a very caring and kind person deep down. Basically, she goes from telling you to suck it up and quit being a pussy, to telling you she's got your back, to kicking the crap out of a whole squadron of soldiers by herself. Lightning doesn't really show sadness until mid-game, but when it cracks through, it doesn't come through as whiny tear-soaked sob stories. It's more of a "this is why I'm calloused and cold" kind of deal, and it makes her character more understandable.
I've heard her called the "Female Cloud" before, which I think is absolute nonsense. Lighting would whip the snot out of Cloud and leave him begging for mercy.
Four - Auron (Final Fantasy X)
Again, putting it simply? Auron is a bad ass. As soon as you see him for the first time in FFX, you know he's going to be awesome. Of course, you aren't expecting him to have a stellar personality and backstory.
He very much so starts off as the gruff, weathered warrior who feels more at home stomping enemies into the ground without a second thought. But you seem to sense something more to him. He's calm, quiet, and fairly understanding in a "well, it'll be fine if we keep moving" sort of way. He's a power-house with moves so bad ass that one special attack animation actually has the rest of the party flee in terror for fear of getting caught up in the slaughter that's about to take place. However, the real shock (and ultimately, the biggest bad-ass moment in bad-ass gaming moments ever) comes when you learn his back story. If you haven't played FFX, I won't spoil the moment. For those of you know have, you know damn well what I mean. The dude is relentless.
Three - Ffamran mied Bunansa aka Balthier (Final Fantasy XII)
The leading man himself! Balthier has the best dialogue of any character I've ever seen in an RPG. Listening to him talk was compelling regardless of what he was saying because they made his character so damn slick. He's a smooth-talking pirate with a surprising buried past. His relationship with Fran is one of my favorite one-two punches in gaming.
Balthier's odd sense of heroism makes him kind of an anti-hero of sorts until you learn about his real intentions and true identity. But the thing I can never get over is just how damn casual he is. He has a real cool-under-pressure demeanor and never seems to let things get to him. A leading man has to be tough, right?
Two - Oerba Dia Vanille (Final Fantasy XIII)
Surprised? It's always depressed me how much mindless hate fans throw at Vanille. It's so easy to write her off as an obnoxious, upbeat tag-along that's just a cheap rip-off of Yuffie or Rikku. The problem is, Vanille is so much more than that. So much more.
It's almost impossible to write up a summary of her and why I love her character so much without blowing substantial chunks of plot. Her entire overly-bubbly personality is on purpose and covers up a dump-truck load of guilt and sadness. As Vanille's story unfolds, you begin to understand her more and more, and it's absolutely tragic. Never have I felt so terrible for the burden a character has had to carry, but man do I just wanna give Vanille a hug sometimes. The scenes between her and Sazh when some of the truths come out? Breathtaking and eye-moistening. She's a truly refined and developed character. And quite frankly, fuck the naysayers. She's fantastic.
One - Vivi Orunitia (Final Fantasy IX)
Vivi is, without a shadow of a doubt, my favorite video game character of all time. That's a pretty lofty title for a character you initially believe is going to be a shallow comic-relief character. Vivi's story has reduced me to tears and left me staggered at what video games can achieve with story development. From innocent, lost child to manufactured killing machine to a individual trying to understand his very existence, Vivi runs the gauntlet of emotional stories.
You'll laugh at his cute tripping and adjusting of his hat. You'll cry at his scenes in the Black Mage village involving conversations on the very meaning of life. You will be blown away when he ends up kicking the crap out of stuff with his overly bad ass magic skills. Vivi is one of the finest examples of a character done absolutely flawless. Right up until the end, I was so compelled by every moment Vivi grew as a character. I could write a whole month celebration on him alone. If you haven't played Final Fantasy IX, Vivi is the one reason I insist you do.
So there you have it. My top ten (playable) characters list. It's a bit different than most people's, but that is the real beauty of the series. What are some of your favorite characters in the series? Feel free to post those in comments or write your own blog covering your favorites.
Until next time,
Keep Playin', Players!
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Final Fantasy Celebration HubJanuary 1, 2012 by
Here it is. The hub blog for everything related to the Final Fantasy Celebration. I will continue to update this with links to my posts, as well as links to any and all submissions made by other members of the community. If you're planning on submitting anything, please send me a link on my wall or catch me on Skype: godofmoogles. (I will not post your submissions if I don't see them!). Also, if you wrote a Final Fantasy blog a long time ago that you think would fit, I'd love to put it up as well.
We've reached the end! The celebration has been a great success! Thanks to everyone involved! Here is the final post from me, the Final Fantasy Podcast!
End Of The Celebration Podcast
Main Blog Series
My Top Ten Characters Series
Protagonists | Antagonists |
My Familiar Faces Series
| Part One | Part Two |
User Submissions
Jon's "Ode To The" Series
| Thief | Monk | Dragoon |
Ticloudus's FF Music Playlist
| Part One | Part Two |
paleselan's Song Of The Day
Jon's Series On The Evolution Of Final Fantasy
Part One (NES-era) | Part Two (SNES-era) | Part Three (PS1-era) |
deraj626's Series On The Ever-Changing Game Mechanics Of The FF Series
Part One | Part Two |
Jon Plays Through Final Fantasy VI
Part One | Part Two |
drin-chan Plays Through Final Fantasy IX
| Part One | Part Two | Part Three |
And to help improve traffic to my blog, here is a picture of Gabby (somegamergirl) holding a moogle plush that she refuses to give to me because she's a jerk. Please feel free to make this picture into an internet meme or rob her and send me the moogle plush.
And if we're going to shove a picture of Gabby in here, we might as well put up one of Jose for all you ladies to check out. And some of the men too, because... hawt! Check out the Cactuar!
Of course, even the main IGN website is celebrating the coming of FFXIII-2, with Ryan Clements putting together a few articles about the series' history.
IGN Official Articles This Month
Older FF Blogs From Around The Community
Final Fantasy IX is underrated (by GamersUnanimous)
Top Ten Final Fantasy Summons (by karuhi)
Top Ten Optional Bosses (by karuhi)
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Why Final Fantasy?January 1, 2012 by
To kick start the Final Fantasy celebration, I figured I'd just discuss why I'm even doing it in the first place. Why is a series like Final Fantasy worth celebrating, and why has it been all over the place since 1987? What makes it's fans rage at every little change and embrace every game like it was sent from the gods?
Different fans will name different games are their favorites. Full-on arguments can be started defending or going against almost any game in the series depending on who you ask. Why is such a series taken so seriously by so many people, and for so long? Is it really THAT great of a series, or is it just another JRPG series that didn't want to stop?
Let me try and examine some of the most known reasons why the series is well-respected, highly rated, and generally loved by most that play it.
1) Enthralling Story
The Final Fantasy series not only continues to put forth fascinating, unique storylines, it may very well be one of the biggest contributing factors of large-scale epic stories in console games!
The early NES Final Fantasy games didn't do too much for story, but then again, not much back then did. It wasn't until the SNES days that the series began to stretch it's chocobo wings and put the plot into the driver's seat of the entire franchise. FFIV started the trend with some very character-based storyline, presenting one of the most crafted tales of it's time. This was only amplified ten-fold with the release of FFVI, which at the time was one of the largest stories ever weaved into a console video game. A real focus on using full-on epic scenes to deliver a story that's engaging, emotional, and full of twists and turns.
FFVI's Opera Scene Is Considered By Many To Be One Of The Greatest Scenes In Gaming History
When the 3d era rolled in and the Playstation picked up the franchise, the increased emphasis on cinematic experiences only grew. With the dawn of FMV (Full Motion Video), which made it's debut in FFVII, the series was able to truly push the boundaries of how a story was told in a video game.
When a series presents a new story and new characters during each of it's core releases, you'd expect them to still maintain the same general story. However, the Final Fantasy series has managed to take their storylines in so many different directions, it's sometimes hard to even see a connection or theme similarity at all. And this is not a bad thing.
With stories ranging from political deception, fantasy wars, quantum mayhem, and even the bending of reality itself, you never know what you're truly in store for when you put in a Final Fantasy game. One thing is for certain though, it's going to be impressive, and it's going to stretch your imagination to it's limit.
2) Memorable Characters
Final Fantasy is a series known for it's character development. Even people who have never picked up a Final Fantasy probably know a few FF character names simply from their importance in the gaming community as a whole. The story relies heavily on it's characters, and the backstories tend to be some of the most beloved parts of any great FF game.
Don't get me wrong, Final Fantasy is known for it's obnoxious characters just as much as it's amazing ones. For every Vivi, there is a Quina. For every Auron, there is a Zell. And for every Cecil, there is... THIS:
Cait Sith: A... cat wearing a crown... carrying a megaphone... riding an obese moogle? WTF?!
Every fan has their own favorites. Every fan feels differently about key characters than others (for instance, I think Cloud was about as endearing as a punch in the kidney. Other's think he is Jesus in polygon form.). And ultimately, that just speaks volumes to the lasting power of the characters put forth by the series.
Even the villains range from lunatic, to tragic, to even being pitiable at times. From crazed warlords to killer clowns, the Final Fantasy series gives you new, interesting people to save the world from every time. I mean, let's face it, who wouldn't want to travel across an epic landscape to smack the evil out of this guy:
Seymour: I promise, he's more bad ass than he looks...
3) Sprawling Worlds
For a game with "Fantasy" in it's name to really work, it needs to cast you into a world far beyond the scope of traditional imagination. And the Final Fantasy universe has taken people on some wild rides. The first time you step foot into the Archylte Steppe or Zanarkand, you are brought into something you've never seen before.
From beautiful mountains to enormous towns, the Final Fantasy series continues to invent worlds you'd actually like to go visit. Scenery as breathtakingly gorgeous as it is breathtakingly dangerous. You never know where you're going to go next, but you do know that it's going to be pretty interesting when you get there. Giant trees, ornate palaces, even the MOON!
Yes, I Said "Moon"
The open-world nature of (most) of the series is often cited as one of the favorite aspects of the game. So much so that people stop short of burning down Square's headquarters when the world is more straight forward and linear. This attention to crafting a living, breathing world is what makes it so easy for people to sit back and lose themselves in the locations they visit. It's easy to wander the map for hours looking for hidden locales or new adventures. Jump in your airship and fly off into the horizon to see if there happens to be something even more amazing on the other side of the world.
4) MOOGLES! (And other creatures of lore)
Final Fantasy is known for having quite a lot of recurring creatures in it's lore. From vicious monsters, to enemy-crushing summons, to adorable mascots, the series ties itself together with it's beloved creatures. From the well-known and versatile Chocobo, to the silly-yet-dangerous Cactuar, to the ever-adorable Moogle, the Final Fantasy world has more than one reason to own a plush doll with the "Final Fantasy" name on it.
From game to game, many of the recurring creatures get a makeover or out-right changed entirely. But they're still there in spirit. The same goes for the very enemies you're fighting, which may very well be just as loved as the cute mascots. Every time you start a new game, you can't wait to slay your first Bomb or get every status ailment imaginable all s at once from your first Malboro (well, ok, maybe that's kinda irritating...), or go toe-to-toe with the killer Tiamat. You cringe as the slow-but-steady Tonberry finally stabs you with it's tiny knife, knowing full well it could off your character in one strike.
But it's ok, because fans always have their trusty summons at hand. It's hard to imagine the Final Fantasy series without the ability to call on Bahamut or Ifrit to wreck havoc on your foes. It's quite empowering when you have this guy on your side:
5) Time-Eating Length
The Final Fantasy series prides itself on eating up substantial chunks of your time on this planet. They love to toss down lengthy stories, and tons of mini-games and side quests to keep you glued to your controller and caught up in the world they created.
From throwing down Gil on Chocobo races to powering up your weapons/party to face down the vicious hunts, to even going out of your way to dig up secrets about your own allies, you always have a break from the story if you need it. The first time you knock out the optional Ruby Weapon fight or win a rare card in Triple Triad. Don't expect to put a Final Fantasy game in and be done in 10 hours. You're in it for the long haul, and fans have no problem burning 50-100 hours per game searching for every little secret and side quest.
Triple Triad: Addicting Shit! (MiniMog Card! WANT!)
This is only the tip of the mountain of reasons why people love this series. Character development, mood-setting music, engaging battles. It's all there, and any one of these things can be put as the main reason someone falls for a Final Fantasy game. And all of these things are things that players are more than willing to discuss at-length with others.
So, Why Final Fantasy? Because it's a series that has stretched the imagination and limits of gaming. So much time has been put into crafting each game, and playing them. The series sits on a foundation made from so many things. It's hard not to marvel at what it's accomplished in it's 25 or so years of existence. From a last-ditch effort to save a falling company to a flagship series that covers almost every system, the Final Fantasy series is important and beloved.
Let the celebration begin!
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Joseomatic > The Rest Of You ClownsDecember 16, 2011 by
I have received yet another awesomesauce gift, compliments of JoseOmatic, aka Fucking Awesome Dude!
Let's see here. It has a moogle. It has Pip. Yup, it's awesome. :D
Thanks again, man. I love this so much I would marry it.
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You dont disprove my facts, you just call names and attack .. The resident rightwingnuts cry, issue after issue, the 'guvment is a wastin their tax money'.. LOL.. Dont really believe they pay a huge amount of taxes, and if you look at federal taxes as user fees, for schools, roads, protection, banking, and other intrastructure and services, they get much more back than they pay in.. Funny the concearn for spending only became a problem after a Obama won the election.. Most TEA Partys only worry about spending when the working poor are on the reciving end, when it was Wall Street and Exxon, it never bothered them.. Of course, it can be argued, these 'target' areas are in the most need of help, and ownership, brings pride, and homes are maintained and kept in good states of repair, which is a far better plan than public housing..
Your facts are always the same. It's all Bush's fault. When your savior of the world has spent more in his short time in office than any president in history. I do pay my fair share of taxes because I work for a living. Also, there are taxes on gas, and we also have a road tax to take care of roads and infrastructure. It's just that you are such a leftwingnut and say the same things in every thread. It really gets old!
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0.022753 | <urn:uuid:d5cd428a-380a-4926-99f6-dba14910cb73> | en | 0.988429 | John Cole: Good afternoon and, to those of you who are not Library employees, welcome to the Library of Congress. I'm John Cole. I'm the Director of the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress. It's the reading promotion arm of the Library and we do many things to help promote books and reading. We have a network of state centers throughout the country. We also do programming here, at the Library of Congress. We play a major role in the National Book Festival. We feel pretty good about concluding the largest Book Festival we've had in our seven-year history. We also help host book talks that have a special connection with the Library of Congress. That series is called "Books and Beyond" and you'll find the schedule of past talks this fall and forthcoming talks on the table as you go out the door. We are very happy today to present a book that has many connections to the Library of Congress as you will learn through the presentation. Robin's talk is actually co-sponsored by two other Divisions in the Library: the Music Division and the Manuscript Division, which, as you will learn, have major MacDowell-related holdings. Thus, this is a volume that has come out of the Library of Congress in almost every possible way. All of our "Books and Beyond" talks are filmed for later showing in cybercast form on the Library's and on the Center for the Book's Web site. With that in mind, I want to remind you to turn off all beepers, if you would. Secondly, we are going to have a chance to talk with our author at the end of this. I hope you have questions -- I know that she'll have answers -- but if you do ask a question, that constitutes your permission to be part of our Web cast and I would like you to know that. We're pleased to have you here and I am pleased to have Janice Ruth, who is the Women's History Specialist in the Manuscript Division, to introduce Robin, our speaker. Janice? Let's give Janice a hand. [applause] Janice Ruth: Thank you, John. Good afternoon. It's my great pleasure to be here today to introduce Robin Rausch and to say a few words about the research journey she started -- more than nine years ago? [laughter] Well, when Robin joined the Library staff in 1988 after a 3-year stint as a music cataloger at the University of Maryland's McKeldin Library, I did not make her acquaintance until 1997 when she and I were brought together, along with a number of other subject specialists throughout the Library, by the publishing office to produce this 420-page book, American Women, which is a guide to the Library's holdings in the area of women's' history and culture in the United States. Robin was well-prepared to write the Music Division's chapter of that book. She had received a Master's in Library Science from the University of Maryland in 1985 and a Master's in Music with a specialty in Music History the preceding year from Bowling State University. Upon joining the Library of Congress, she worked briefly as a music catalogue editor before becoming a music specialist in the [unintelligible] section of the Music Division, a position she holds today. In addition to combining, quite successfully, her vast subject knowledge as well as her well-honed information skills, Robin is a very gifted writer who produced, not only a wonderful synthesis of the Music Division's collections for the American Women Guide, but she also wrote an especially appealing overview of the entire Guide that appeared after its release in the Library of Congress Information Bulletin. Robin at the time was on detail to that office as part of the Library's Leadership Development Program and the authors and editors of the American Women Guide were very pleased that she took on the task of publicizing the book while she was on that detail. It was while working on the Music Division chapter that Robin first became interested seriously in the life of Marian MacDowell and the MacDowell Colony. The American Women team had always envisioned that the Guide would be a combination of chapters about the different divisions in the Library but also topical essays that would cut across the divisions and showcase how the Library's collections could be used in different ways. From the beginning, we knew that we wanted a biographical essay to illustrate how the Library's collections could be mined for this type of research. At this point you might think that I will tell you that Robin immediately suggested that Marian MacDowell be the subject of that biographical essay. Actually, in going through my project files, I found an e-mail from Robin dated May 15, 1998 in which she voted to have the biographical essay focus on: 1) Claire Booth Luce, 2) Margaret Sanger or 3) a First Lady whose papers were in the Manuscript Division. So you see no Marian in sight, although Robin did close her e-mail by volunteering to write an essay for the book but added " order to justify the time spent to my chief, it needs to be one related to the collections here in the Music Division." Well, I think she was hooked. Despite some reservations by a few of our academic advisors, who felt that Marian wasn't the prototypical feminist they had hoped would be the subject of our biographical essay, the team was persuaded by an e-mail Robin wrote shortly after the March 4, 1999 team meeting in which she had initially suggested Marian at that time. She had been doing work on the Music Division chapter and had been getting into the MacDowell Colony records and Marian's papers and thought that this would make a really good biographical essay. So she suggested it at that meeting. A few days later she wrote to us and she said, "Marian MacDowell was the proverbial woman behind a great man and as Founder of the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire; she became the woman behind many great artists, both male and female." Robin explained how Marian traveled around the country giving talks and performing her prematurely deceased husband's work to raise money for the Colony, which she planned, designed and ran for its first 40 years. Robin also noted how much material could be found at the Library on the MacDowells. Both the Manuscript Division and the Music Division hold personal papers of Marian and Edward and the Manuscript Division also holds the records of MacDowell Colony. There would also, of course, be photographs in newspapers in other divisions and Robin's colleagues in the Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division found several recorded interviews with Marian and a 1954 Hallmark Hall of Fame special about her, which I recall the team gathered in the Motion Picture Division to watch one afternoon. Robin ended this convincing e-mail by stating "I do think Marian is a viable candidate and I await your verdict." Little did she know that she would be sentenced not only to write the wonderful essay of Marian that appeared in the American Women Guide, but her research would blossom into a major exhibit at the Library on the MacDowell Colony and also she would receive an invitation from the Colony's directors to write a history of the Colony on the eve of its celebration, which is the subject of Robin's book talk today. Without further ado, I present Robin Rausch. [applause] Robin Rausch: Thank you, Janice, and thank you, John and the Center for the Book for inviting me here today to talk about A Place for the Arts: the MacDowell Colony, from 1907 to 2007. One of the perks of working at the Library of Congress has to be being able to see a project like this take wing and grow and this one certainly has. As Janice said, the American Women's History Guide was my introduction to Marian MacDowell and it is what brought me to the attention of the MacDowell Colony. Naturally, I was very interested in seeing the place after having done so much research about it and, in August of 2002, they invited me to come up for Medal Day. Medal Day at the MacDowell Colony is celebrated every year in August. It's when the Edward MacDowell Medal is awarded to an American artist for contributions in the arts. That year, I believe it was Robert Frank, the photographer that won the Edward MacDowell Medal. It's the only day when the MacDowell Colony is open to the public and, after a ceremony, the grounds are open and you are free to walk around and visit the studios and the current artists-in-residence are there to talk about their work. Needless to say, it was a great thrill for me to finally make it to Peterborough, New Hampshire and to visit the MacDowell Colony. I had no inkling of what future lay ahead, as far as my relationship with the MacDowell Colony, until I arrived for the first time at Colony Hall, which is the social hub of the MacDowell Colony. It was converted out of an old barn -- it's a huge old barn that has been made into a dining room and a social center. After I had parked my car and was walking up to Colony Hall, a cocktail party was just ending and people were coming out the doors. I walked up the steps and there was an old man sitting in an Adirondack chair on the porch and he looked at me and he said "It's about time you got here. We've been waiting for you." [laughter] I started laughing and I just looked at him and I said "I know." Because I did indeed feel that it was about time that I had made it to the MacDowell Colony to actually see it for myself. It was that weekend that I met the Board of Directors of the Colony and learned that they were just beginning to plan special events for their centennial year in 2007. My interest in both Marian MacDowell's life and the MacDowell Colony was sufficient that, not really knowing what a next project would be, I wanted to continue my research on it and I made them aware of that. A year or so later, they approached me and asked me if I would write a history of the MacDowell Colony for a book that they were planning to publish to commemorate their centennial anniversary. I balked at first -- and I told them -- and I said "You have to realize my interest has been in the life of Marian MacDowell and she died in 1956. I know nothing about the MacDowell Colony from then on." And they said, "Oh, no problem. We will open up our New York headquarter archive to you and you can come up and do the research you need to bring it up to date." So, I thought this would be a very good opportunity for me and I agreed to do it. Now, the book is more than just my history. The history is the central core of it and takes up the most space, but there are also contributions from Colony Fellows and a wonderful essay by Robert MacNeil, the journalist and writer, formerly of MacNeil-Lehrer, who is the Chairman of the Board of the MacDowell Colony. The criteria that I was given was that they were looking for a history of about 15,000 words and they wanted it to focus on the artists who had been at the MacDowell Colony. Now, I had never written anything quite so big to specification before and 15,000 words sounded like a lot of words to me. So I just plunged right in. I had been doing research on the 1910 Peterborough Pageant, which was an historical pageant that Marian MacDowell had organized to bring attention to the MacDowell Colony. I was fascinated by this event -- it was highly successful -- and so I thought I'm just going to start there because that's what I've been doing my research on. I ended up with a 2,000 word essay on a single event that took place in 1910 and that was when I realized that I was in big trouble. [laughter] I figured a hundred years, 15,000 words, I've got about 1500 words per decade. That ended up being the hardest thing about doing this because there was so much that I had to leave out and every decade just ended up being a little vignette. I would pinpoint the most important things that happened during that decade that I simply had to include and then I would work around that. I want to read one of these little vignettes for you so that you can get something of a flavor of the history. I chose the 1920s, which is one of my favorite periods in the MacDowell Colony history. Because by this time, it has been established, it is a success and the artists that are starting to come there weren't quite big names then but they became big names, as you will discover. So this is from the '20's. "The Colony began to thrive in the 1920's. By 1922, its 17 studios could accommodate roughly 50 colonists per year. They were chosen by an admissions committee from more than 300 applicants each season. Colony life had settled into a well-established routine. Women were now housed in "The Eaves," a converted farmhouse acquired in the Tenney Farm deal, and in "Pan's Cottage," an annex that was built in 1919 with donations from the Sigma Alpha Iota, the international women's music fraternity. The men's lodge was finally completed in 1924. Breakfast and dinner were taken communally in Colony Hall, now the social center of the Colony, and lunch baskets were discretely delivered to studios in a ritual that dated back to the days when Marian had taken one to Edward while he was composing in his log cabin. Many who came to work at the Colony during these years became distinguished names in American arts and letters, brothers William and Stephen Benet, Willa Cather, Aaron Copeland, DuBois and Dorothy Heyward, Thornton Wilder and Eleanor Wiley counted among them. Colonists' works were receiving accolades. Three of the best books of 1927 were written at the Colony: Edward Robinson's Tristram, which won the second of the three Pulitzer Prizes he received in his lifetime; Thornton Wilder's The Bridge at San Luis Rey, another Pulitzer Prize winner; and Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop. Honor also came to Mrs. MacDowell when she was named the winner of Pictorial Review's five-thousand dollar Annual Achievement Award for 1923, a prize given to the American woman who makes the most valuable contribution to American life during the year. Marian called these "The Golden Years." Dorothy Kuhns was a playwright from George Pierce Baker's English 47 class. She met poet, DuBose Heyward, at the Colony in 1922. They were allegedly the first couple to admit getting engaged in the Sheep Pasture. [laughter] Mrs. MacDowell reportedly frowned on Colony romances. She decreed that colonists were not to return to their studios after dinner, a rule that was second only to the prohibition of uninvited guests to the artist studios. She insisted that it was for reasons of safety. Studios had no electricity and the threat of fire was a constant worry. At the end of each day, Mrs. MacDowell rode through the Colony to check that each studio was secure and safe, a habit that some regarded as spying and considered a vain attempt to thwart budding liaisons. Relationships were made and broken at the Colony nonetheless. The many weddings that were held at Hillcrest suggest that Mrs. MacDowell was not as draconian as she seemed. She gave her blessing to DuBose and Dorothy and, when their daughter Jennifer was born, Marian was named godmother, a role she would play to many Colony children. Mrs. MacDowell was always aware of the public face of the Colony, for the public was the base of her support. She did not hesitate to ask colonists to leave if their behavior while in residence reflected badly on the Colony. Her Victorian social mores, however, did not prevent some colorful characters from gaining admittance as the only criterion for acceptance was talent. When he was at the Colony in 1928, Marc Blitzstein gained notoriety for his afternoon ritual of bathing, covering himself with talcum powder and lying naked in the bed of the men's dormitory with the door wide open. Poet Maxwell Bodenheim was once arrested for vagrancy. During one several residencies in the early 1920's, a Colony staff member assured him that they were happy to accommodate many kinds of people at the Colony, the talented gentle folk and his kind, too. Known for his self-destructive Bohemian lifestyle, he was later murdered in a seedy neighborhood in New York City. And the beautiful Eleanor Wiley was as vain as she was glorious. A renowned femme fatale, she had left her husband and small child in 1910 to run off with a married man. William Benet became husband number three in 1923. Composer Mary Howe found her so scandalous that she refused to be introduced to her at a Colony gathering. Howe later regretted this decision, became an admirer of Wiley's poetry and set several of her poems to music. The Heywards returned to Peterborough in 1924 with their new baby daughter in tow. DuBose was working on a novel, doubtful that his poetry could support his new family. He shared his work with a few colonists in Barnard studio. "We all agreed that the story of the little crippled Negro was atrocious," Chard [spelled phonetically] Power Smith recalled, "and that he, Dorothy and Jennifer would be wiser to starve for poetry." The novel was called Porgy and DuBose finished it despite their criticisms. It was Dorothy Heyward who saw the dramatic possibilities in the story and turned it into a play before George Gershwin immortalized it in 1935 as Porgy and Bess. In 2000, Steven Sondheim was moved to pronounce DuBose's lyrics to Porgy and Bess "the best lyrics in musical theater." The Colony was unique in its premise that artists working in different fields could influence one another. In the summer of 1926, Willa Cather expressed interest in seeing Grant Reynard's paintings when she learned he was a fellow Nebraskan. Over tea in his studio, she told him how her desire to do fine writing brought her some acclaim but that "it wasn't until I suddenly thought of my youth in a great wave of nostalgia for the early Nebraska days that my work took on a new dimension." She advised him "the crux of this whole art experience is in that word, "desire", an urgent need to recreate a vital life experience which wells up within and must find release in the writing." Reynard's meeting with Cather left him stunned. He recognized that he was mixed up in "arty ambitions" and re-thought that his whole approach to his work. Cather never returned to the Colony but her presence was keenly felt the season she was there. Despite the artistic prosperity of the 1920's, financial security was elusive. A taxicab accident in December 1922 and a more serious illness in 1927 kept Mrs. MacDowell from fulfilling numerous engagements. The loss of her income was sorely felt and developing an endowment fund became a top priority. Had it not been for Mrs. MacDowell's loyal club women, the Colony might well have become insolvent. The New Hampshire Federation of Women's Clubs wanted to help but preferred a tangible goal rather than making a contribution to the endowment fund. So Marian half-jokingly suggested they pay off the mortgage. To her surprise, they agreed, and by the end of 1930, after blitz of fundraising efforts around the State to which Marian pledged her assistance, the New Hampshire Women's Clubs had wiped out the $35,000 mortgage on the property. No less stellar were the efforts of the National Federation of Music Clubs which launched a MacDowell crusade in 1926 under the leadership of Jesse Stillman Kelly [spelled phonetically]. It captured the country's imagination and turned into a major fund-raising drive. Music clubs around the country held concerts, bake sales and teas, radio stations and the national motion picture distributors provided advertising free of charge. The week of March 7, 1927 was proclaimed MacDowell Week. The Federation called it the most popular campaign ever undertaken in the name of music. The drive culminated at the 1927 biennial meeting in Chicago where Mrs. MacDowell was presented with a check for $10,000 and pledges of more to come. Conductor, composer and pianist Ernest Schelling became President of the Edward MacDowell Association in January 1929. He was the first professional performing artist to serve in this role and his connections in the musical world brought many new friends and supporters into the MacDowell fold. In December 1929, he organized a benefit concert at Carnegie Hall billed as "A Musician's Gamble." It featured 24 celebrities who delighted the brilliant audience of arts' patrons with their musical antics. Schelling and pianist Harold Bauer played on lawn mowers while soprano Lucretia Bori blew on a tin whistle, all under the direction of John Phillip Sousa. There were serious numbers, too. The highlight of the evening was Mrs. Edward MacDowell's performance of the andante movement from her husband's "Celtic Sonata." As she took to the stage and turned to acknowledge the applause, the audience rose to its feet." If you notice me turning multiple pages while I was reading this that is because this book is filled with wonderful photographs that were commissioned and taken just specifically for this. It's really a coffee-table-type book. They did a very nice job on it and there are vintage photographs as well. That's about it. Does anybody have any questions? Sharon? Female Speaker: I wondered what the effect of the wars was on the Colony and whether there were more women or fewer people. [inaudible] Robin Rausch: Well, it was more women because the men were gone. There's a very funny story. During World War I, there was actually a working farm on the grounds of the Colony. There was a garden and they had cows and chickens and the colonists all pitched in to help. Marian tells the story of going into town one day and the colonists were working in the garden, weeding. She came back and they had pulled out all the beans and left all the weeds. [laughter] So I think that experiment was short-lived. Male Speaker: What's the current status? Robin Rausch: They just celebrated their 100th Anniversary. They're doing really well. I think that at this point in their history, they're probably doing better than they have. They have an endowment now and in the '60s, with the creation of the National Endowment for the Arts and other grant-funding opportunities, they started getting grant support. That was probably -- the most precarious time in its existence was the late '50s, early '60s. It was really amazing. Marian MacDowell was really the one-woman show that kept this place going and she was 98 when she died. After she died, a lot of the women's clubs that had supported the Colony were sort of going out of fashion and the support really dropped off after that. Aaron Copeland became President of the MacDowell Colony in 1962, I believe it was, and he was very responsible for bringing on board the support of a lot of people in the arts that were in a position to support the MacDowell Colony. Yes? Female Speaker: Please, I'm sorry. I missed the date when these women's clubs came to the rescue of this [unintelligible]. Robin Rausch: Well, there were several, but that was in the '20s. Female Speaker: In the '20s? Robin Rausch: Yes, it was in the '20s, so we're talking right about the time of the Depression. It was a difficult time anyway and the fact that they were able to come to the rescue and keep things afloat was really amazing. Female Speaker: It is, given the fact that these artists that you identified, they hadn't become famous yet. [unintelligible] Robin Rausch: No, and the artists themselves became significant supporters of the Colony because many of them, once they'd been there, realized how important the Colony was. Thornton Wilder, for example, used to go out, in the '30s especially, and stump for the MacDowell Colony. He would give talks at some of these women's clubs around the Country. By then, Marian MacDowell wasn't able to really tour as much as she had in the past. I think the fascinating thing to me about the history of the MacDowell Colony, that is perhaps not as evident from where we sit today, is that in the early part of the 20th Century when it was starting, the role of artists in America was very precarious. They were really searching for an identity in the arts and the Colony really played a big role in that. I think part of the reason Marian MacDowell was able to get so much from all these clubs all over the country as she toured around was that they recognized the MacDowell Colony as being sort of an incubator of American arts and by supporting it, they were investing in American arts. It was much bigger -- they saw the much bigger picture. Yes. Female Speaker: After they had been nominated, how long was their tenure there and was it just maintenance while they were there or was there any other financial support? Robin Rausch: Right. That's a good question. Thank you for asking that because in the early days the Colony was only open during the summer. It was open from like June until the end of September -- the winters in New Hampshire, as you can imagine, are pretty severe -- and the early Colony was pretty primitive, there was no electricity, there was no running water, they didn't even have bathrooms in the studios for many, many years. Artists would apply and the time that they would apply for would vary depending on what the project was that they were working on. You could apply for a specific amount of time and it works that way today, too. In the '50s, it started going year round and now I believe they have the year divided into three different seasons and you apply for a specific season for a specific time. Depending on how they fit people in all the studios, you're given either all that you asked for or part of what you asked for and it's just for when you're in residence there. But they do have fellowships now to help for travel expenses, like if you live on the west coast or somewhere else -- they do have international artists come in -- you can apply for a travel grant to help with the expenses of getting there. Yes. [Female Speaker] [low audio] Male Speaker: Would you please repeat the question? Robin Rausch: Oh, sure. She asked what the longest and shortest tenures were. I know that the artist George Bellows actually applied to be in residence for 6 months, which was basically the whole time that it was open at the time and was granted it. That was considered really unusual. They really tailor it to what your project is and what your need is. Sometimes, if an artist is at the very end of a project and just needs 2 weeks of concentrated quiet, they might just go up for 2 weeks. So there's a lot of flexibility with the amount of time. Male Speaker: It has been a large inspiration. There are three, I think now, arts councils in the country that provide retreats like this for written work and for periods of time in the summer like what you're describing. The Americans for the Arts has been pushing it to all arts councils to consider it and to adopt. It hopefully is growing. Robin Rausch: Right. It is. There's actually an Alliance of Artists Communities and, in fact, they're having their annual conference in Washington, next week, I think. They have a Web site. There are hundreds of artist colonies in the United States and worldwide now. Male Speaker: MacDowell was the first? John Cole: I put this in the press release, Robin, because I got it off something you had written. I said it was the first artist residency or something like that. [laughter] Robin Rausch: Right. They were not the first artists colony but they were first artists colony of its kind. That's why they distinguish it by saying the first artists residency program. John Cole: An overnight stay -- Robin Rausch: Also the fact that you have to apply and that your application is put before a panel and it's adjudicated. There were a lot of informal artists colonies in the United States in the late 19th Century and they tended to be more loose gatherings of artists that just said "I'm going to be here this summer. Let's all meet here and go outside and paint." That kind of thing. John Cole: Where it was very influential was in creating all the others. In that sense, it had an influence. Robin Rausch: Yes, it has and the other unique thing about the MacDowell Colony that you don't find so much in other colonies, especially historically, is the premise that artists working in different disciplines can have a positive influence on one another. That's why they bring together composers, visual artists, writers -- they've expanded the disciplines today. They have photographers now and film makers and interdisciplinary artists is a relatively new discipline. In the '80's, they started having people like Meredith Monk, who considers herself a performance artist but she's really a composer, a choreographer -- she didn't really know what category to apply in -- and they started having people like that. Spaulding Gray was another one. So, in the late '80s, they created this new category to apply in called Interdisciplinary Artist. Cynthia. Cynthia Wayne: I'm not sure -- I don't know if this is inappropriate. Can I say something about the Web site? Robin Rausch: Oh, please. Cynthia Wayne: For those of you who didn't get an opportunity to see the exhibition, it was on view from spring through last summer, and Robin's work in visualizing the exhibition, the exhibition is online if you go to the Library of Congress Web site and click on Exhibition. Actually, it's sort of an unusual online exhibition because it's got an interview with Robin and Katherine Blood, the Fine Prints Curator [inaudible]. It's a wonderful document of the exhibition and I think another example of how [inaudible]. Robin Rausch: Yes, thank you for pointing that out. You don't really need to know the Web address, you just go to the Library's homepage and click on Exhibitions and it's up there. It's called "A Century of Creativity" and they did a really super job with that online exhibit. Yes. Female Speaker: It's reputed that Thornton Wilder, of course, drew his inspiration for Our Town from Peterborough. I was curious if there were other artists who recognizably drew their inspiration from the town or surrounding area. The second question is the relationship between the Colony and Peterborough, has it always been positive or have there been some notable incidence along the way? Robin Rausch: The first question was about Thornton Wilder and his play Our Town and that it was allegedly based on Peterborough. That is true. Grover's Corners, New Hampshire, which is the town in Our Town, I think he said it was an amalgamation of several small towns in New Hampshire and Peterborough was certainly one of them. They certainly think that they were because when you go, there's an Our Town realty and an Our Town this and Our Town that. [laughter] I mean, they just love that, but I've been told that the Peterborough Historical Society does a tour of one of the local cemeteries and they show you the Gibbs - there's a Gibbs family plot there - so it does appear that way. And, yes, other artists have taken inspiration from Peterborough. Just from the natural setting of Southwestern New Hampshire, many artists mention the presence of Mount Monadnock, which is there on the horizon. Galway Kinnell the poet actually wrote a poem called "Flower Herding on Mount Monadnock" after a climb when he was at the MacDowell Colony. Many painters have painted scenes - I'm not going to remember his name - but, yes, they have drawn inspiration. The citizens of Peterborough absolutely loved the MacDowells and the MacDowells loved them. Edward loved escaping the life of New York City and his responsibilities and getting away to Peterborough. He loved the unpretentiousness the people. He played golf with the minister and the doctor and the local lawyer. They got really behind the MacDowell Colony after this pageant in 1910, which was really a very brilliant move on the part of Marian MacDowell because historical pageantry at that time was like community theater on a grand scale. It utilized the townspeople and this pageant told the history of the town. There were more than 200 townspeople that took part in this pageant, which at the time was roughly 10 percent of the population. It was just a huge production and the whole town supported it. They closed all the stores during the 3 days of the performances. You asked if there's ever been any bad will. I don't know if you're obliquely referring to... I know, in the news recently, there has been an issue of the Town of Peterborough deciding that the MacDowell Colony is not tax exempt and is not a charity and they're trying to get property taxes. That's been in the news a lot. The Colony won the case. It's being appealed, so that's still to be seen. Yes. Female Speaker: Do they maintain the rule that you can't have guests while people are there? I'm wondering about spouses. Robin Rausch: Okay. There's a question about whether you can have guests when you're there. Spouses, if both parties were artists, often came together, like the story of DuBose and Dorothy Heyward. In the past there was actually a separate building if people's spouses wanted to visit them. I mean, in general it was discouraged because part of the whole reason of the Colony was to sort of get away from all those regular obligations to do your thing. The one big rule at the Colony is that you are not allowed to visit another artist in their studio unless you have been invited. And so if you are just, you know, in the throes of some big creative project, you can go to your studio and just stay there all day and be guaranteed that nobody's going to bother you. Anybody else? Well, thank you all for coming. [applause] John Cole: I just want to note, not only to thank Robin, but that the celebration of the MacDowell Colony continues at the Library of Congress because there's a poetry reading on November 8th, by poets from the MacDowell Colony. And, Robin, you told me -- is there a concert on the same -- Robin Rausch: On the 9th. John Cole: On the 9th, which is just another demonstration of the spin-off, I think, from the rich collections that the Library of Congress has. Cynthia, I thank you for bringing up the Web site and something about the exhibit. The exhibit is something we tend to forget about once the exhibit is over except we can't forget about it because they're perpetuated in a Web-site version online. Again, that just becomes another resource for all of us -- and not just for us, but for everyone -- about some of these wonderful collections that are here at the Library. We have a chance to buy the book. If you'd like to buy this beautiful book, we have them from the Shop outside. It's 20 percent discount, $32, and it's quite a gorgeous book. As Robin was saying, it's peppered, really, with poetry and with essays -- short essays -- from a number of the artists themselves, the people who have been there. Robin's history is the centerpiece and it's very well done and the volume is quite attractive. So, with that invitation to talk some more over the book signing, let me thank, one more time, Robin and her colleagues who are here. And let's give Robin a final round of applause. 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Paltrow's cigarette battle helped with addict role
Paltrow's cigarette battle helped with addict role
Gwyneth Paltrow "understood" how to play an alcoholic in her new movie Country Strong because she struggled to beat her tobacco addiction - even after her beloved dad died from throat cancer.
The Oscar-winning actress plays Kelly Canter - a fallen country performer battling personal problems and alcohol addiction who attempts to resurrect her career - in the acclaimed new film.
And she threw herself into her part by recalling her own experiences with addiction, remembering how she couldn't give up nicotine even though her father Bruce died from smoking-related cancer in 2002.
Paltrow tells The Sun, "I understood what it was like. I used to be very addicted to cigarettes, which is obviously very different to where Kelly is.
"So I did understand that thing of, 'I know this is potentially going to give me cancer and I know it's given my dad cancer, but I'm going to smoke it anyway,' like that sort of disconnect.
"So I tried to extrapolate that out as much as possible, but what I didn't understand was how you could wreck someone's life or wreck your own life and then just keep going."
The actress turned to her Iron Man co-star Robert Downey, Jr., who won his battles with drugs and booze, for advice on living with an addiction.
She adds, "I said, 'Explain this to me - how you can cheat, how you can be a total disaster and really hurt people and just kind of wake up and have a cup of coffee? How does that work?'
"He explained it to me really well and I credit him with helping me to understand how addiction is in the present, in the physical."
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Average Movie review score: 58
Highest review score: 100 The Host
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2. Sumptuously hued in its emotional and visual tones, this drama is also a fairy tale, its plot contrivances beautifully justified by its minimalism.
3. Almost cagily creating understated drama from high-stakes reality.
4. A scene set inside the chicken-pie-making machinery proves that the Rube Goldberg formula is infallible.
6. It may not be “The Bridges of Madison County,” but the latest Kevin Costner romance is nearly as good as they get.
7. This remains one of Godard's most appealing and underrated films, relatively relaxed and strangely optimistic.
9. This is a powerful story and a splendid spectacle.
10. The visuals are wild, the sound track has the audacity to underscore the subtext instead of just echoing the obvious, the comedy is irreverent and occasionally slapstick, and the metaphorical details are consistently strong.
11. Neil LaBute delivers his most interesting and powerful film to date, though it's also his most unpleasant and disturbing.
13. Birmingham and coscreenwriter Matt Drake adapted a short story by Tom McNeal, elaborating on its plot but beautifully capturing its low-key poeticism.
14. Inspired, elaborately plotted, and unusually satisfying variable-speed chase comedy.
• 78 Metascore
• 90 Critic Score
Old-fashioned, beautifully crafted biopic of painter Jang Seung-up.
15. It's easy to suspend disbelief and embrace this historically creative fiction, whose clever relationship to what's known and what's unresolved is part of what makes it so intriguing and so romantic.
16. I'm not prone to like socially deterministic films of this kind, yet Loach is so masterful at squeezing nuance and truth out of the form that I was completely won over.
17. An astonishing tour de force--especially for Irons, whose sense of nuance is so refined that one can tell in a matter of seconds which twin he is playing in a particular scene.
18. A genuine rarity: a sex comedy with brains.
19. This offbeat and unpredictable comedy-thriller throws so many curveballs, one right after another, that I doubt I've had more fun at an American movie this year.
20. It's virtually guaranteed to make us squirm.
21. Brutally honest and brilliantly acted.
23. Departing from a masterful manipulation of space, Lang transforms the futuristic city of the title into a field of dreams centered on death and sexuality.
24. One hell of a movie.
25. There are even more characters of interest here than in "Nashville."
26. Ten
The film offers a fascinating glimpse of the Iranian urban middle class, and though it eschews most of the pleasures of composition and landscape found in other Kiarostami films, it's never less than riveting.
27. This is better than good, it's wonderful: if facial expressions can be compared to colors, Gedeck works with an unusually broad palette, constantly surprising us, and she helps her costars shine.
• 90 Metascore
• 90 Critic Score
The movie's searing conclusion left me numb and overwhelmed.
28. Persuasive, intelligent, and provocative.
29. Powerful and haunting.
30. Gripping...compelling.
31. As this wonderful adaptation reminds us, Dickens endures mostly because of his characters.
32. Caine has already been cited as a likely Oscar nominee for his performance, which is clearly one of the most nuanced to date from this first-rate actor, and Fraser is funny and effective as a foil to the old pro.
• 82 Metascore
• 90 Critic Score
33. A quantum leap in ambition from "Hard Eight" and "Boogie Nights" and is, to my mind, much more interesting.
34. To my knowledge there's no one anywhere making films with such a sharp sense of contemporary working-class life -- but for the Dardennes it's only the starting point of a spiritual and profoundly ethical odyssey.
35. A brilliant satirical diagnosis of what's most screwed up about life in this country, especially when it comes to sexual frustration and kiddie porn.
36. Its intelligent characterizations make it one of the best movies I've seen this year.
37. A movie whose story may be even more innovative than the superreal solidity of the animated characters.
39. Their calm assurance -- Hallyday as a grizzled icon, Rochefort as a melancholy mensch -- is a pleasure to behold.
40. The first Ang Lee film I've seen that I've liked without qualification.
41. Enchanting and impressively crafted.
42. He doesn't lose his stylistic identity either: in addition to the very Mamet-like delivery of unfinished sentences, his command of rhythm and flow remains flawless throughout.
43. The film persuades us to think long and hard about what prison means, and Lee has shaped it like a poem that builds into an epic lament, especially in a beautiful and tragic closing that risks absurdity to achieve the sublime.
45. If, like me, you've been wondering how Terry Zwigoff, the brilliant documentary filmmaker who made "Crumb," would negotiate his shift to fiction filmmaking, here's your answer: brilliantly.
46. Magical, visually exciting, affecting even in its sincere hokeyness, and extremely provocative.
• 90 Metascore
• 90 Critic Score
Aquatic joyride.
49. Utterly fresh and beguiling.
50. The most astounding cinematic testament to flock mentality since Hitchcock's "The Birds."
51. Carpenter displays an almost perfect understanding of the mechanics of classical suspense; his style draws equally (and intelligently) from both Howard Hawks and Alfred Hitchcock.
• 81 Metascore
• 90 Critic Score
Absorbing, beautiful documentary.
• 87 Metascore
• 90 Critic Score
52. Arcand's fondness for the good old 60s can be cloying, but despite an uneven cast, he finds a tonal balance between sentimental and cynical that keeps the conversations real and heart wrenching.
53. Sly, inventively drawn, brilliantly executed cartoon.
• 77 Metascore
• 90 Critic Score
54. Responsibility for the ensuing tragedy is so finely calibrated that neither can be comprehensively blamed or exculpated.
55. The narrative, capped by a brief bad dream and the capture of a mouse, isn't always legible, but it feeds into a monumental, luminous visual style like no other.
56. Kiarostami's brilliantly suggestive script, which is quite unlike anything else he's written and is marred only slightly by one of his obligatory sages turning up gratuitously near the beginning.
57. The best Australian feature I've seen in years.
59. This remarkable British silent (1929) is special in many ways.
60. Beautifully structured and emotionally wrenching.
61. This terrifyingly beautiful movie blends metaphor and stark social commentary to achieve a spontaneous grace.
63. A witty, canny meditation on the power of pop culture in general and the rationalizations of cinephilia and film criticism in particular.
64. This installment delivers more of the pleasures that made Tarantino the wunderkind of 90s cinema: offbeat scumbag characters, narrative sleight of hand, an extraordinary visual sense, and affectionate genre pillaging.
66. Not to be hyperbolic, but Richard Linklater's first big-budget movie may be the Jules and Jim of bank-robber movies, thanks to its astonishing handling of period detail and its gentleness of spirit, both buoyed by a gliding lightness of touch.
67. Richard Linklater goes Hollywood (1995) -- triumphantly and with an overall intelligence, sweetness, and romantic simplicity that reminds me of wartime weepies like The Clock.
69. Waters builds to a didactic message that he underlines with Disney-esque dream dust (in various colors), as if to protect his sincerity with the disclaimer of self-mockery.
70. Thomsen's transformation from easygoing entrepreneur to ruthless executive is so engrossing I didn't pick up on the story's chilling Freudian subtext until very near the end.
71. This is vicarious cinema at its best.
72. Impressive for its lean and unblemished storytelling, but even more so for its performances.
• 87 Metascore
• 90 Critic Score
A virtuoso performance by Al Pacino and some expert location work by Sidney Lumet add up to a tour de force genre piece. (Review of Original Release)
73. A triumph not only for its technical mastery but for its good taste.
74. That rare sequel that surpasses the original.
75. For all its minimalism, Tsai Ming-liang's 81-minute masterpiece manages to be many things at once.
76. The film delivers old-fashioned star turns and glittering cameos (Jon Voight and Mickey Rourke are especially good, but Danny DeVito, Mary Kay Place, Danny Glover, Virginia Madsen, Roy Scheider, and Dean Stockwell--not to mention old-Hollywood icon Teresa Wright--also provide considerable pleasure).
77. A half-baked conspiracy subplot in the last third makes Carruth's knotty narrative even harder to follow, but this is still scary, puzzling, and different.
78. Much of the film's potency derives from its personal edge -- the passion for precise period decor, the title dedicating the film to Leigh's parents (a doctor and midwife), and even the childlike classification of many characters as either good souls or villains.
79. Despite a few narrative confusions, I found it pure magic.
• 68 Metascore
• 90 Critic Score
80. Months after seeing this, I still feel I know most of these people as if they were old friends.
81. This is absorbing throughout--not just a history lesson but, as always with Rohmer, a story about individuals
82. A finely crafted entertainment that works better than most current Hollywood movies.
• 79 Metascore
• 90 Critic Score
Tsai Ming-liang's most exciting and original to date.
• 88 Metascore
• 90 Critic Score
84. An excellent film, still as fresh as the day it was made.
85. The film is both wise and tender in its treatment of relationships -- between birds, between people, and between birds and people.
87. It's by far the least controlled of Penn's films, but the pieces work wonderfully well, propelled by what was then a very original acting style.
• 84 Metascore
• 90 Critic Score
Arnaud Desplechin's best movie to date.
88. So fraught with unresolved issues of class, sexuality, and spiritual need, and so carefully observed by Pawlikowski, that it opens out like the movie's West Yorkshire countryside.
• 78 Metascore
• 90 Critic Score
A spellbinding, beautiful, enigmatic film with a mysterious, allusive two-part structure.
89. Exhilarating.
91. The hues are so muted you may remember this as a black-and-white film, but its emotions are as vivid as primary colors.
92. Compared with the novel, the movie might seem predictable. But compared with other movies, it stands alone.
93. Woo's third Hollywood movie, Face/Off, is the first to balance his visual imagination with the emotional intensity of his Hong Kong films.
94. At 85 minutes the movie is beautifully focused, reaching deep into its characters as they confront terrible secrets but never sacrificing momentum as the mystery unravels.
95. Director George Tillman Jr.'s screenplay covers an array of events in the characters' lives so replete with drama it could easily be too much, but the movie's humor is vibrant, the sorrow unexploitive, the sexuality character enhancing, and the love heartfelt--and Tillman is tremendously skilled at bridging the vast shifts in tone.
96. The scenes are so dramatically cogent the characters' lives seem to stretch far beyond the concluding blackouts.
98. Unprecedented in its intellectual ambition, this is endlessly stimulating; it probably tries for too much, but it shames many other contemporary essays that try for too little.
99. The extraordinary subject and the filmmaker's near total access make for a singular documentary.
100. Writer-director Wong Kar-wai makes these five self-consciously idiosyncratic types--often seen through distorting lenses in cinematographer Christopher Doyle's somber, garish Hong Kong--fully and instantly believable.
101. A harrowing drama spun from the most mundane material.
102. A superior nail-biter.
104. This quiet, elegiac road movie hinges on a few beautifully underplayed scenes between Daniel London and Will Oldham.
105. Helen Mirren's flinty performance as Elizabeth II is getting all the attention, but equally impressive is Peter Morgan's insightful script for this UK drama, which quietly teases out the social, political, and historical implications of the 1997 death of Diana, Princess of Wales.
106. The outrages of pedophile priests have generated screaming headlines but relatively little understanding of the Catholic culture that permitted and concealed such crimes, which makes this informed documentary by Amy Berg all the more valuable.
107. In one sense, this seemingly melodramatic plot premise is contrived, registering more as myth than as real possibility. Yet thanks to what the movie has in mind and especially what the actors bring to it, it's a lovely myth, one that has the ring of deeply felt truth.
108. The script updates Ian Fleming's first Bond novel to a post-9/11 world and scales back the silliness that always seems to creep into the series; director Martin Campbell (The Mask of Zorro) contributes some superior action set pieces but keeps the camp and gadgetry to a minimum.
109. Action-adventure pictures have a lamentable tendency toward mindlessness, but Edward Zwick's epic story has numerous virtues apart from suspense and spectacle.
• 76 Metascore
• 90 Critic Score
110. The skillful Patrick Marber (Closer) adapted this gripping drama from a novel by Zoe Heller, and it's both literate and urgently plotted, with a voice-over from Dench that cuts like broken glass.
111. "Weird but cool," as one character says -- yet the movie is also remarkably touching.
112. Critics have faulted this 2005 British feature about the Rwandan genocide for focusing on a couple of white characters instead of the 800,000 Tutsis who were slaughtered, but such easy judgments miss the point entirely: this is a spiritual drama, not a political one, drawing a thick line between our good intentions and the selfish choices we ultimately make.
113. Pedro Almodovar's 1995 comic melodrama seems in many ways his most mature work, in theme as well as execution.... Almodovar's control over the material and his affection for his characters never falter.
115. This deserves to be seen and cherished for at least a couple of reasons: first for Joanne Woodward's exquisitely multilayered and nuanced performance as India Bridge, a frustrated, well-to-do WASP Kansas City housewife and mother during the 30s and 40s; and second for screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's retention of much of the episodic, short-chapter form of the books.
116. Levinson's dialogue feels fresh and improvised, yet it hits its mark every time, and the performances he gets are complex and original (particularly from Mickey Rourke, who plays a lothario with a late-blooming conscience) - enough so that Levinson's occasional forced "cinematic" effects cause barely a ripple in the smooth, naturalistic surface.
117. Taking off from the format of a typical teenage sex comedy, Brickman deepens the characters and tightens the situations, filming them in a dark, dreamlike style full of sinuous camera movements and surrealistic insinuations. Brickman found a tone I hadn't encountered previously - one of haunting, lyrical satire.
118. Under the thoughtful direction of Guy Ferland - what emerges is solid and affecting.
121. Cronenberg's follow-up to "A History of Violence" -- starring the same lead, Viggo Mortensen, in a very different part -- lacks the theoretical dimension of its predecessor, but it's no less masterful in its fluid storytelling and shocking choreography of violence.
122. By focusing on Strummer and giving a fair amount of screen time to his years in the wilderness before and after the Clash, Temple arrives at a more poignant and mature statement of what this committed band was all about.
123. This poses some tricky moral questions, and its troubling ambiguities rank a cut above the dubious uplift of "Schindler's List."
124. Brett Morgen (The Kid Stays in the Picture) has made an electrifying picture.
125. Cluzet's brooding performance propels the movie, and writer-director Guillaume Canet, best known here for his own acting work in "Joyeux Noel" and "Love Me If You Dare," skillfully orchestrates the cascading revelations.
126. Hammer overplays his indie hand with an abrupt and unsatisfactory ending, but his three leads are so credible that their aching, tongue-tied characters linger in the memory.
128. Sinister and beautiful, this mostly black-and-white animation from France culls the talents of six artists and designers.
129. Despite all the horror and anguish, the film ends on a note of serene acceptance, deep gratitude toward the dead, and wonder at the unlikely miracle of life.
131. Up
133. Writer-director Cary Fukunaga keeps the story lean while peppering it with realistic details.
136. Smart, gripping, and untainted by the influence of Michael Moore, this muckraking 2008 documentary transcends anticorporate demonology to build a visceral but reasoned case against modern agribusiness.
137. Koreeda was inspired by his guilt over having neglected his own parents, and the story is remarkable for the quiet, seemingly casual way he depicts the fallout of bitterness and grief.
138. It's a beautiful picture but very quietly so, and definitely not for the ADHD set.
139. Its great distinction lies in re-creating an age when thoughts and feelings were to be carefully considered and precisely enunciated. The best costumers, set designers, and property masters can’t conjure up the mental and emotional spaces of a simpler era; that requires a filmmaker who knows the virtue of quiet, patience, and attentiveness.
• 83 Metascore
• 90 Critic Score
142. The grand architecture of Milan and the icy rhythms of composer John Adams set the tone for this elegant Italian drama about the suffocating power of family, wealth, and tradition.
144. The notion that only whites can be racist barely survives this riveting 2009 documentary.
146. This moving documentary sidesteps the usual art-world debates over the authenticity and legitimacy of outsider work; instead director Jeff Malmberg simply immerses us in Hogancamp's world, just as Hogancamp immerses himself in the title town and its horrors.
147. Alternately harrowing and humbling, this is a story of ordinary men whose compassion is tested in the cruelest, most profound fashion.
148. Cinematographer Eduardo Serra underscores the sense of dread with a rich charcoal palette, and the outstanding CGI and 3D effects make the otherworldly threats more corporeal.
149. His first feature in 21 years, this is also Monte Hellman's finest work, a hall-of-mirrors masterpiece about moviemaking with diversions more complex, and more enticing, than in the director's previous efforts (Ride in the Whirlwind, Two-Lane Blacktop).
• 82 Metascore
• 90 Critic Score
It's smart, energetic filmmaking that also makes for engrossing entertainment.
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| Mon Apr. 20, 2009 9:53 AM GMT
A few days ago, when I read that bank lending had dropped 2.2% in February, I didn't think too much of it. In fact, it didn't really sound all that bad. Given that we're in the middle of a serious recession, a decrease of 2.2% seemed like it might be reasonable even if there were no bank crisis at all.
But I wasn't reading closely enough. First: this is not a year-on-year decline. It's a one-month decline, which annualizes to about 30%. Second: that number is a median. Total lending decreased 4.7%. Third, it's an average, and some banks cut back a lot more than others. The Wall Street Journal reports:
That's a big drop, even for the middle of a recession. What's more, as the Journal's chart shows, some of the biggest drops came from Citigroup and JPMorgan, both recipients of big TARP bailouts. Even with all that TARP money, they're apparently not capitalized well enough to keep lending at a healthy level — which means that far from being able to pay back their TARP dough, they might very well need even more. Pat Garofalo at the Wonk Room:
If a bank is truly healthy and can pay back TARP money while maintaining lending, more power to it. If, however, a bank is paying back TARP because it wants to get out from under the program’s restrictions — while not lending and clinging to other government funded rescue programs — that’s problematic.
For instance, Wells Fargo (which received TARP money) has posted a profit and maintained lending. If it announces a desire to exit TARP, the administration should seriously consider the offer. However, this is going to make it transparently obvious which banks are in the best shape. The administration will then have to decide whether the others will ever be anything more than zombies — limping along thanks to government support without actually doing any good — and be honest about the need to take them over and wind them down.
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| Mon Apr. 20, 2009 9:18 AM GMT
Reihan Salam on Adventureland:
I saw it the first time with an old friend, a new friend, and two pre-friends at a beautiful movie theater that serves milk shakes, burgers, and nachos, which is one version of heavenly bliss. Our shared verdict was positive, though the movie is definitely a little shambolic....I suppose there’s more to say about Adventureland, and about nostalgia for the late Reagan-era, etc., but this post is prompted by the fact that the movie opens with one of my favorite songs of all time, “Bastards of Young” by The Replacements [etc.] .....
I'm constantly struck by how strongly reaction to movies depends on whether you, personally, can identify with the characters. I guess I shouldn't be, but I am. I saw Adventureland last week, for example, and for only the second or third time in a decade I almost walked out halfway through because I was so thoroughly bored. Did anybody do anything in that movie that was even remotely engaging or compelling or unexpected or anything? It sure didn't seem like it to me. I didn't hate it with a passion or anything, it just seemed like a total snoozefest filled with uninteresting, cardboard characters.
But de gustibus and all that. I kinda liked the generally ridiculous Seven Pounds a little bit, for example. I do have one question, though: why did the movie take place in 1987? With a couple of very tiny and unnecessary exceptions, there was really nothing in Adventureland aside from the fashions that placed it in that era. It could have taken place in 2009 just as easily. So why was it made into a period piece?
Paging Karl Marx
| Mon Apr. 20, 2009 8:36 AM GMT
On my initial scan through the news the morning I read that the Treasury is planning to convert some of its preferred shares (purchased under the original TARP bailout for distressed banks) into common stock. It's supposed to be a way for the feds to stretch their bailout dollars because, according the New York Times, "The change to common stock would not require the government to contribute any additional cash, but it could increase the capital of big banks by more than $100 billion."
That didn't seem to make any sense, but hey, what do I know about high finance? And then I got annoyed by California's latest ballot initiative, and then intrigued by the Jane Harman wiretap, and forgot all about it.
But I guess I'm not crazy after all. (Not totally crazy, anyway.) James Kwak, who knows a thing or two about this, says the whole thing sounds ridiculous. Here's Kwak highly condensed:
If you don’t give a bank any more money, it doesn’t have any more money. By converting preferred into common, you haven’t changed the chances of the bank going bankrupt....If you accept the idea that converting preferred into common creates new capital, then you are implying that those preferred shares weren’t capital in the first place....Tangible common equity and Tier 1 capital are just two ways of measuring the health of a bank. Taking money that wasn’t TCE and calling it TCE doesn’t serve any economic purpose.
Right. Back when the original TARP bailout money was handed out, the preferred shares were very deliberately and very conspicuously called Tier 1 capital. That's the bestest capital there is, and converting it into common stock doesn't make it into super-duper Tier 1. It does get the banks off the hook for paying dividends on the stock, but since most of these banks are (or claim to be) extremely cash flow positive, that shouldn't be their biggest worry at the moment.
So....I dunno. This is weird. Might there be text hidden in the conversion contracts that releases banks from those horrible restraints on executive pay that they hate so much? Or is there more to this than meets the eye? Stay tuned.
Quote of the Day #2 - 4.20.09
| Mon Apr. 20, 2009 8:12 AM GMT
“This conversation doesn’t exist.”
Juicy! So I wonder who leaked this?
Ths Scourge of the Ballot Initiative
| Mon Apr. 20, 2009 7:57 AM GMT
Life in the Golden State:
California voters routinely use the ballot box to approve big spending on big things — canals and superhighways, light-rail systems, levees and social programs.
Now, with the state struggling financially, they're being asked to do some ballot box demolition.
State lawmakers fighting to escape a riptide of budgetary red ink have two propositions on the May 19 special election ballot that would yank more than $2 billion from a pair of popular programs that help some of the state's most vulnerable: young children and the mentally ill.
This is one of the reasons I loathe the initiative process these days. Take Proposition 1E. It asks me if I'd like to temporarily transfer some funds earmarked for mental health services to the general fund. The amount at stake is a little over $200 million per year.
This is ridiculous. I have no idea if this is a good idea or not, and for a trivial sum like this I'm not about to spend hours poring over ballot arguments. It's like having a municipal initiative here in Irvine to decide if we want to plant a new tree in front of city hall. But year after year, we keep passing these absurd initiatives because, after all, they're all for a good cause. Education! Mental health! Children's hospitals! Bullet trains!
Bah. This is why we elect a legislature. Unfortunately, thanks to some even earlier initiative nonsense, the California legislature is unable to actually pass a budget during a recession. Our current pile of six initiatives (1A through 1F, for some reason or another) is on the ballot solely because one (!) member of the state senate extorted them as the price for his vote on a compromise bill to raise some taxes and cut some spending a couple of months ago. So now we have a special election, at a cost of God knows what, so that the good people of California can decide, among other things, whether to move 0.2% of the state budget from one account to another.
Quote of the Day - 4.20.09
| Mon Apr. 20, 2009 7:22 AM GMT
From Atrios, after attending a technology conference:
I do think there's a tremendous not very understood generation gap forming between those who grew up online and those who didn't, along with the class-based digital divide within generations.
I agree! And lately I've been wondering if this is quite as benign as I used to think. Mysteriously, however, I'l have to leave it at that. More later, maybe.
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Good News, Bad News
| Mon Apr. 20, 2009 3:20 AM GMT
By coincidence, one of the things I puzzled over a bit while I was researching my piece was the total size of the cannabis business in the United States. Basically, the numbers I saw didn't seem to make much sense, but since I wasn't planning to use them anyway I didn't bother trying to track down the problem. Perhaps in honor of 4/20, though, Michael Hiltzik did it for me:
Let's start, as [Jon] Gettman did, with a standard quantification of U.S. domestic cultivation today: 10,000 metric tons, or 22 million pounds. This figure has a curious history. It first appeared in a 2003 report by the Bush White House. Yet, as Gettman observed, that was nearly triple the estimate of 3,500 metric tons the feds had been using for years.
....The government backpedaled in 2007, when the Justice Department estimated the domestic crop at 5,650 to 9,417 metric tons. That's a huge margin — like saying the distance from L.A. to New York is between 1,000 and 6,000 miles.
....Gettman acknowledges that concrete information is exceedingly scarce in this field. "When you drill down, the only hard fact is they seize a lot of plants," he said.
The "soft facts" include the size in dollars of the U.S. marijuana market. Gettman's 2007 estimate of $113 billion is in the stratosphere compared with some others. In a 2001 report, the federal government pegged the black market at $10.5 billion, a discrepancy that suggests either that we became a nation of total potheads over the following few years, that pot prices experienced an inflation rate that would make the rise in college tuition look sick, or that somebody's numbers are way off.
In other words, no one really knows. Which doesn't surprise me. One of the things I've found out over the past few weeks is that virtually all of the research related to cannabis is, perhaps fittingly, sort of hazy. The research is hard to do, it often points in contradictory directions, and natural experiments are hard to come by. We know a fair amount, but our confidence level in what we know isn't all that great.
But enjoy 4/20 anyway. Just don't blog while high, OK?
| Sat Apr. 18, 2009 3:08 PM GMT
Blue Girl comments on recent research showing that phthalates (substances added to plastics to increase their flexibility, pronounced THAL-ates) may be one of the causes of skyrocketing childhood obesity:
I spent a significant portion of a 24-year career in endocrine research. In the first fifteen years, I did not see a single case of Type II [diabetes] in a juvenile. Toward the end, I routinely taught diabetic education counseling classes that were geared exclusively to groups of teenagers....That is a lot of diabetic kids. And what I can tell you anecdotally is that every single one of the things that have gotten the blame for the epidemic I have observed to exist, so this is a 'big picture' problem if ever there was one.
Diet and exercise can not be discounted, we have always had chubby kids who didn't eat a proper diet or get enough exercise, but very few were considered obese, and literally none of them were diagnosed with Type II diabetes, a disorder of the endocrine system....But we can't overlook the revolution in food packaging over the last thirty years or so, either. When I was a kid, in the 60s and 70s, soda pop (which wasn't made from corn syrup back then) came in aluminum cans or glass bottles, not in plastic; and meat came in butcher paper, not polystyrene trays and plastic wrap.
Childhood obesity is far higher than it used to be, but it's not brand new: there have always been kids who were sedentary and ate lots of crappy food. But 30 years ago, these kids just got flabby, they didn't get diabetes. Today they do, and it's possible that phthalates may play a role in this. More research, please.
Politics as Entertainment
| Sat Apr. 18, 2009 10:17 AM GMT
Matt Yglesias passes along an email from a reader:
One interesting thing about how much Fox news and friends are covering these tea parties is that it’s illustrative how much conservatism has been transformed from a political movement into an entertainment demographic. Political movements, I would think, are defined by a common set of semi-coherent policies and proposals that movement sympathizers hope to see implemented by government. Entertainment demographics are defined by shared tastes or predilections that media companies can target for ratings.
Actually, doesn't this apply to all politics these days? Bob Somerby has been on a tear recently against the snark-based lefty shows on MSNBC hosted by Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow, for example, and although I don't buy his entire argument, he does have a point. Unfortunately, this is just the way things are. An old saying says that politics is show business for ugly people, but in the past this mainly meant that politicians themselves were showmen at heart. Today, though, with the rise of Rush Limbaugh and Crossfire and CSPAN and Fox News and Drudge and Politico and Jon Stewart and now MSNBC, the entire enterprise is thoroughly infused with the ethos of Hollywood. Like it or not, liberals had to get with the program or die.
Given the fact that virtually everything in the world has been entertainment-ized these days, it's hard to see how politics could have avoided this fate. Finance is entertainment. Cooking is entertainment. Science is entertainment. Real estate is entertainment. Sports has always been entertainment. Hell, entertainment itself is having a hard time competing these days. What are the odds that politics, of all thing, could have bucked this trend?
I guess about zero. After all, it's a better way of making money. Paddy Chayefsky was right all along.
Kevin Drum Smackdown Watch
| Sat Apr. 18, 2009 8:39 AM GMT
A couple of days ago I asked why Goldman Sachs was paying back its TARP money even though it also had an outstanding $5 billion investment from Warren Buffett on far more onerous terms. Why not pay Buffett back instead? What's more, why do a risky capital raising first? If they're really well capitalized already, why not just pay back the money immediately?
A reader appears to have the all-too-obvious answer: they can't. The terms of the TARP agreement say this about repurchasing shares other than the Senior Preferred shares issued by the Treasury:
The [Treasury's] consent shall be required for any share repurchases [...] until the third anniversary of the date of this investment unless prior to such third anniversary the Senior Preferred is redeemed in whole or the [Treasury] has transferred all of the Senior Preferred to third parties.
So until they pay back the TARP money, they can't repurchase Buffett's shares. As for the capital raising, there's this:
Senior Preferred may not be redeemed for a period of three years from the date of this investment, except with the proceeds from a Qualified Equity Offering (as defined below) which results in aggregate gross proceeds [...] of not less than 25% of the issue price of the Senior Preferred.
Goldman got $10 billion in TARP money, and they weren't allowed to pay it back unless they raised at least $2.5 billion first. So that's what they did.
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(1016 Posts)
Tortington Sat 03-Jan-09 15:31:23
just wondering, as i can't find it.
Now I am persitent...but even I had think...
Thomcat Tue 06-Jan-09 22:13:24
really? I mean like really?
Thomcat Tue 06-Jan-09 22:02:31
PMSL - never fear there is now a part 4!
Wonder what new things will be said??!! grin
Thomcat Tue 06-Jan-09 21:52:07
It's bored itself to sleep and hasn't noticed!
thing is thread is past 1000...why isn't it finished?
fishie Tue 06-Jan-09 21:34:25
<sits on hands>
see so proud of es...because he is a rebel....whilst he recognises the existence of the "popular kid" he hasn't got aspirations to join that one....just because...bless!
nooka Tue 06-Jan-09 21:27:08
If nothing else happens as a result of this whole farce can we add Bob and Algie to the MN folklore?
If my children came home with a story like this (minus the sexual shenanagans that is) I would give them a lecture on tolerance and being nice to people, probably ending with "how would that make you feel". I certainly wouldn't let them have their club in my house. It does sound very little girls in the playground, something that I hope dd will grow out of pdq (very keen on little clubs with innies and outies, she is, and quick to be upset if she thinks she falls in the later group).
morningpaper Tue 06-Jan-09 21:21:30
<puts hand on Bob's thigh>
rhubarbs even
chipmonkey Tue 06-Jan-09 21:20:46
What, is CBB on now?
flipping hell hubarbs Baby/Babies is/are on BB...yikes
BobbingBob Tue 06-Jan-09 21:20:32
It weren't me, guv.
<looks for next potential OW>
Flamespar Tue 06-Jan-09 21:20:08
I wanna be 1000
oh thank you chipmonkey...still like my suggestion for yours and custys group...custard& some ring to it grin
Flamespar Tue 06-Jan-09 21:19:40
Having turned on Celeb BB would be worrying me, let alone posting about it
almost 1000
and shockinly I just started to post on the Celeb BB is that for desperation grin
chipmonkey Tue 06-Jan-09 21:18:02
Passes plate to <<<FLRAL>>>
chipmonkey Tue 06-Jan-09 21:17:22
There, there, Flame.<<makes some cocoa and biscuits>>>
Feck...I think I must be pished...cause...well...nothing makes sense anymore now....
Flamespar Tue 06-Jan-09 21:15:35
<rocks in corner confused but grinning>
Flamespar Tue 06-Jan-09 21:14:55
Ah, christmas with the inlaws - MIL apparently has some sort of memory loss (it must be that and not just being annoying wink), and missed off the last 2/3 letters of each of our names for the entire stay.
I have never been a Chris. I hate it. angry
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I was going to post this reallyyyy long blog about how I cant sleep because of a stupid nightmare and if I do I'll die?................................But I hit a button on the laptop computer and it went to my homepage and destroyed/erased th whole thing.I was a couple words from being done too.Oh well...Your luck I guess.
Now you get to hear about other things....
First- MCR concert in August..I want this new camera it's really pretty (I think).My mom said she almost got it for me but she didnt have the money at that time. :(
Second-Ever have those nightmares where your about to be killed and you try to scream and run away but you can only stand there and open your mouth like an idiot? I hate those...I think there's a certain name for them too.
Third-I was supposed to get my glasses today (or yesterday because it's 2:39 am) but they never came sooooo I guess I get them tomorrow (or today because it's 2:40 am).Im kinda psyched about it now,Thanks to the people cheering me on in my other blogs :)
Fourth-My dad is taking my siblings and I nightfishing at 5:00 am.I dont feel very well and I havent slept in a while so maybe I'll stay,Write some more blogs,Draw,and post my artwork. :)
Fifth-Camera I want in photo.It looked like the one I wanted was longer but thats the closest picture I could find to my beuty. =p
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praetorian writes:
in response to rags123:
Dennis Thompson got hired in the middle of the night by a school committee overwhelmed with ego and smoke and morrors.
He is bright, did his job that they wanted him to do, then the politicians fired him because he wouldn't kneel when they walked into the room.
The people got rid of the committee and then the new people got rid of him, but not becuase he couldn't do the job--he wasn't their guy.
Faces have changed, but not the issues.
Well said!
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PLAYTIME is becoming increasingly hi-tech with these toys.
.1. FURBY Hasbro, $99.99
Rating: 4.5/5
The toy that sparked worldwide Christmas sell-outs in 1998 is back and packing significantly more technology. The new Furby resembles the early model, with big ears, colourful fur and a sweet expression, but its eyes now use LED displays and its ears move wildly. But, best of all, this Furby promises to develop its own personality based on how you treat it. If you play nicely, tickling its head and playing music, it giggles and squeaks pleasantly. Pull its tail and toss it about and the Furby will virtually fart and act mischievously. Another addition is the Apple app that lets users virtually feed a Furby and translate its language. The robotic toy uses four AA batteries (not supplied) and features no "off" button, but it's highly interactive, full of good humour and does eventually fall asleep.
Mattel, $78
Rating: 4/5
Fijit Friends are a range of chatty robots for the pre-tween set and they're already in high demand. There are four robots - from the purple-hued Willa to leafy green Sage - and while they look like Teletubbies, they're more articulate. Fijits, named for their fidgety movements, are designed for long, interactive discussions. Their faces and bellies light up when they're charged and ready to chat, and they're programmed to recognise 30 words spoken into a microphone atop their heads. Sage, for example, loves to tell jokes and ask about the weather or your feelings. She'll also dance to your music, rocking back and forth with vigour, or provide her own songs, complete with a light show. The robot uses five AA batteries and is bound to make a lot of young female friends.
Fisher-Price, $54.99
Rating: 4/5
Fisher-Price clearly struck a chord with last year's Apptivity Case, allowing parents to safely hand an iPod to toddlers. The company's latest Apptivity creation comes in the form of a purple monkey who also lets six-month-olds operate an Apple gadget with minimal risk. The Apptivity Monkey features a compartment on his tummy that will fit an iPod Touch or iPhone 4S, locking it into place with a stiff mechanism and behind a plastic cover. A stiffer plastic border at the bottom of the compartment keeps small fingers from leaving apps and making calls. The toy chats when you squeeze his paws and Fisher-Price offers five free educational apps for use inside his compartment. The toy uses three AA batteries but won't fit an iPhone 5.
Moose Enterprise, $20
Rating: 4/5
Remember winding up toy cars of old by reversing them on the carpet? Technology has moved on a lot since then and these Australian-made cars prove it. Micro Chargers are tiny toy vehicles, just over 3cm long, that charge rapidly and release even faster. Created by Melbourne-based Moose Enterprise, the toy cars feature two metal points at the back of the car that, when placed against metal contacts inside the handheld charging station, power up in just eight seconds. The cars can then be released at speeds of up to 1000km/h - faster than a racing car, just not quite to scale. This $20 pack comes with a loop and circular burnout track, though racers must provide two AA batteries. While the cars are sure to be easy to lose, they're amazing to watch.
Hallmark, $34.99
Rating: 3.5/5
Read-along stories used to involve a record and a lot of bell noises when it came time to turn the page. Hallmark's version is a lot more interactive. The latest version of the company's Interactive Story Buddy package, Bell's Big Move, comes with a stuffed toy dog named Bell, a CD-ROM and a picture book. Young readers can press on Bell's ear to activate her voice-recognition software that listens for pre-programmed phrases and triggers the toy to respond, by barking or talking. Alternatively, less advanced readers can play the CD narration of the book to watch Bell interact. The CD version makes the set-up more complicated, but the package does bring new interest to bed-time stories. | http://www.news.com.au/technology/gaming/hi-tech-toys-reviewed-and-rated/story-e6frfrt9-1226497630411 | dclm-gs1-067900002 | false | false | {
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Paul Little is a Herald on Sunday columnist
Paul Little: It's Yahweh or the highway
Religious instruction in schools is divisive. Photo / Getty Images
Religious instruction in schools is divisive. Photo / Getty Images
Religions do a little good and a lot of bad. But you don't have to believe to see that starving people need feeding and the homeless need a roof over their heads. However, to hate someone and want to kill them because of the god they worship takes a leap of faith.
Which is why so many people are sensitive to the notion of children getting religious instruction in a third of secular schools.
I've written before about the advisability of children being taught what all religions believe so they can understand the way their adherents behave - the more the better given the panoply of faiths that are afflicting the world in their extremist forms, from the hate-filled Muslim radicals of the Middle East to the hate-filled Christian radicals of the American south.
But the sort of religion being taught in our schools is not the comparative, make-up-your-own-mind variety. Much of it is clearly a matter of "Yahweh, or the highway".
The instructors know that there are lines they should not cross, but you don't have to spell it out for kids to realise that, even though the teacher isn't actually saying they will burn forever if they don't believe, that's the risk they could be taking.
State schools, being secular by definition, effectively have to "close" for a half-hour or so to allow religion to be taught - transformed into a sort of intellectual transit lounge where the shackles of reason are thrown off and replaced with the loose-fitting robes of superstition.
Although we can't be sure of the exact nature of what is being poured into all those young minds - because 56 of the schools providing religious instruction say they don't know what's going on in those classes.
Seriously, if that was your school and you had to answer that question, wouldn't you just lie rather than admit you didn't know what was happening in your own institution? Or at least make it your business to find out so you could answer the question with a bit more than a shrug and a "dunno".
We do know that the most popular programme uses Christian Bible stories to illustrate positive qualities. But why should this be restricted to Christian scripture only?
Many of those virtues taught by the Churches Education Commission can be found in the holy writing of other religions: respect and good manners in the story of Arachne, turned into a spider for disrespecting the Greek goddess Athena; unselfishness in the pronouncements of the Buddha; reliability and trustworthiness exemplified, sometimes negatively, by Oden and Thor in the Norse Edda; self-discipline and self-control throughout the Hindu scriptures, and respect for rules in the writings of L Ron Hubbard.
Since there was a flurry of fuss about this not so long ago, things have changed somewhat. Children whose parents require them to be exempt from religious ed are not being forced to sit in a corner and made to feel like they've done a bad thing and made Jesus cry.
They're given alternative activities and made to feel like they've done a bad thing and made Jesus cry.
So there's one important aspect of religion being taught in the most practical of ways - it's separating believers and non-believers in school just like it does in real life.
I stood in the duty free shop recently, staring at the rows of duty free cigarettes with the smugness of an ex-smoker - and given my high default level of smugness, it was a wonder anyone could move for the amount of smug in the air. It was worse than Saturday morning in a Grey Lynn cafe.
But I found myself wondering why we continue this practice. Why do we make it more affordable, if only to the extent of 200 fags a trip, for someone to maintain their pernicious habit by giving up our tax?
And why is it a treat? Something most people only get when they go on holiday? "How can we make an already great time even better? I know. Cheap poison!"
The duty free allowance is just prolonging the agony for sufferers, and it's probably time we kicked the habit.
Debate on this article is now closed.
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Online NewsHour
June 16, 1999
David Gergen, editor-at-large of U.S. News and World Report, engages Freeman Dyson, professor of physics at Princeton University, on his new book, The Sun, the Genome, and the Internet: Tools of Scientific Revolution.
JIM LEHRER: A Gergen dialogue. David Gergen talks with Freeman Dyson, Professor of Physics at Princeton University, author of The Sun, The Genome, and The Internet: Tools of Scientific Revolutions.
DAVID GERGEN: Dr. Dyson, at the heart of your new book is this statement: "The new century will be a good time for new beginnings. Technology guided by ethics has the power to help billions of poor people all over the earth." Tell us more about that.
FREEMAN DYSON, Author, The Sun, The Genome & The Internet: Yes. Well, that's, of course, a hope rather than a prediction. We don't know that it's going to happen, but at least there's a chance it could, and if we push hard enough, we can make it happen. Technology by itself, of course, doesn't particularly favor the poor. It tends to favor the rich. As we see at the moment, the Internet, in some respects, is making the gap between rich and poor wider. People who are wired are better off, and the people who are not wired are worse off. However, it could be different, and the point of this book is explaining how it could be different. And I think one of the things we have to do is to be willing to learn from other countries. This country, in fact, isn't leading the world in all respects. In some respects it is. But, for example, Finland has a much higher fraction of the population on the line, hooked up to the Internet than we do, and there are many such examples. Smaller countries very often are leading the way, and this country should be prepared to learn, not just to pretend that we know everything.
DAVID GERGEN: Well, you say there are three revolutionary forces in technology that in particular should change the way poor people live. One is the sun, the second is the genome, and the third is the Internet.
FREEMAN DYSON: Right. Of course the sun means solar energy, and we don't yet know how the make solar energy cheap. That's a big problem. That's a technical problem. I think that the key to that is probably genetic engineering. That's why the genome is important. If we can engineer trees and other such crop plants to produce chemicals cheaply from sunlight, that will help enormously. And that's of course something we don't yet know how to do. One could imagine genetically engineered trees producing gasoline or alcohol or any kind of useful chemicals at a much lower price than we can do it today. If so, it could compete with coal and oil, and so it would spread the wealth much more evenly over the earth. It's just a happy thing about solar energy is that the sun shines more on the tropics than it does anywhere else, and that's where most of the people live.
DAVID GERGEN: All right. Now, so it would be that combination of solar energy coming into the rural areas or the poor areas of earth along with further developments on the genome side so that you could grow crops, particularly trees, much more cheaply.
FREEMAN DYSON: Well, we could genetically engineer trees so that they'd produce gasoline instead of wood. The trouble with wood is it's such a -- it's messy to harvest. You have to chop down the trees in order to harvest the wood. That's clearly an undesirable thing to chop down forests all over the world. If you could get out the energy without chopping down the tree, that would clearly be a huge plus.
DAVID GERGEN: Well, now we're transfixed by the human genome project, but it's interesting that you think that the genome projects that pertain to crops and to trees actually may hold so much more promise.
FREEMAN DYSON: I don't say more promise, but just extra promise. I mean, the fact is, of course, the genome is a huge promise for all kinds of reasons. It applies to humans, it applies to diseased bugs, it applies to mice and fruits flies and also wheat and barley and oats and rice, all the major crops. All those genomes are being done. I don't think anybody's yet doing trees, but they soon will.
DAVID GERGEN: So what you could envision with the use of breakthroughs in technology is that people could continue to live in rural areas or in villages in poorer parts of today's world, but actually would, by harnessing solar power, harnessing the genome and then bringing the Internet into those communities, it would make it a very desirable place to live, and you could raise their living standards.
FREEMAN DYSON: Right. It's something like what happened in England, where I come from. In England, 50 years ago, I mean, we had when I was a kid 70 years ago, we had two technologies, electricity and the automobile, which changed the face of the English countryside, and because of electricity and the automobile, it meant that people moved out from the cities to live in villages and gentrified the villages. So the villages became beautiful and pleasant to live in and no longer just poor peasants but middle-class people.
DAVID GERGEN: So you have an IBM headquarters in an old village, an old English village.
FREEMAN DYSON: Exactly, which is a village where near I used to live. It's not the headquarters; it's one of the big centers for IBM Europe. So you have these high-tech industries dispersed in villages, and I think the same thing could happen all over the world. It doesn't mean that people have to live in villages, but it means that you don't have to move out. The people who are living there could actually afford to stay there.
DAVID GERGEN: What are the chief impediments to getting to this new world, this brave new world? Are they -- will the marketplace alone do it?
FREEMAN DYSON: Well, the marketplace helps undoubtedly to get things started, but also you have to have politics and you have to have ethics, all has to work together.
DAVID GERGEN: What do you say to those free marketeers who say we should just let the marketplace have a free hand because that's what's produced so much technology in this country?
FREEMAN DYSON: Well, I would say that it's not really true that we're on the cutting edge. Sometimes we're on the cutting edge, and sometimes we're not. But there's this terrible arrogance in this country. I mean, look at the way we go into a panic about bomb secrets being stolen by the Chinese. There aren't any bomb secrets. I mean, that's all a lot of nonsense. The bombs are pretty much the same in China as they are here. And we have this illusion that somehow we're ahead of everybody, but it's not true. And it's even less true, of course, in other fields. So we should relax a bit and be willing to learn from the others.
DAVID GERGEN: Let me ask you a final question about the lessons of the 20th century regarding technology, because you've studied these so closely. We've had an uneasy relationship with technology in this century, and what can we learn from that that would help us in a more positive direction in the next one?
FREEMAN DYSON: Well, we have to be prepared, of course, to push to get technology widely accessible. I think -- there should be strict laws about access to the Internet, for example, just as there have been in the past for electricity and telephones. If a company has a monopoly to serve a piece of the country with electricity, they're by law required to give everybody equal access, and the same was true of telephones and various other monopolies. Something like that should apply to the Internet. At the moment it doesn't, but I think in the future it could, so -- and the same is true, of course, about biotechnology. When the time comes, which won't be very distant, when we can decide to program our babies to make them better, that also has to be accessible to everybody. Otherwise you'll get an even worse division of humanity into different genetic castes, where only rich people can afford to have healthy babies, and that's clearly unacceptable. So we have to be prepared to make rules, which are not just free market rules. The free market is fine within its limits, but it mustn't be allowed to prevail over everything.
DAVID GERGEN: Dr. Freeman Dyson, thank you very much.
FREEMAN DYSON: You're welcome.
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I think you may have misunderstood the intent of the original subroutine. Given an integer, it should produce a list of three values: red, green, and blue. It does not produce anything like "0000FF"; rather, given 0x0000FF (note the difference, BTW), it should produce the list (0, 0, 255). Which it does.
Where you say that it is returning 00255; it actually is not. It's returning a list containing (0, 0, 255), and when you print that out, it's getting automatically joined on the empty string, and so you see 00255.
But the actual usage is like:
my($red, $green, $blue) = hexa_triplet(0x0000FF);
And then the $red, $green, and $blue would be passed into GD, since that's what the OP needed this for.
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Can you explain the result?
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sub func { my ($delimiter, $text) = @_; return 1 and 0; } use Data::Dumper; print Dumper(func());
guess what?
the result is $VAR1 = 1;
anyone knows the reason?
seems that Perl gives return the same priority as an ordinary sub,is this really a good design?
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by RMGir (Parson) on Dec 06, 2011 at 13:20 UTC
Sure. The result of your function is the value 1, and that's what you're passing to Dumper...
Now, if you called
print Dumper(\&func);
on the function reference, you'd get a slightly more interesting result:
$VAR1 = sub { "DUMMY" };
I guess my version of Dumper isn't up to decompiling subs - I'm guessing that's expected.
shouldn't 1 and 0 be false/0?
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by choroba (Monsignor) on Dec 06, 2011 at 13:26 UTC
It does. Try with print instead of return to see.
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Rather than worrying about why Perl does this, it may be simpler to just do return (1 and 0);
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Could someone please explain to me why homosexuals don't pursue civil unions in the State of Texas? Why is it always "marriage?" Marriage is strictly a religious covenant and always has been even if the word use has become common for non-believers. As long as homosexuals are fighting religious groups, they won't get what they want...why not fight for legal status? Millions of people get "married" by the Justice of Peace in civil unions all the time. They are just as married, legally.
Sure, the Texas Legislature passed a law that says nothing resembling marriage can be recognized for same sex couples.
Change that law, and endow "Civil Unions" with all the rights and obligations of "Marriage" and same sex couples woud flock to the courthouse to file.
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0.030138 | <urn:uuid:75fff54f-6f7f-43c9-a79f-f4fc20fe2142> | en | 0.89831 | Complement activation induced by purified Neisseria meningitidis lipopolysaccharide (LPS), outer membrane vesicles, whole bacteria, and an LPS-free mutant.
Department of Pediatrics, Ullevål University Hospital, 0407 Oslo, Norway.
The Journal of Infectious Diseases (Impact Factor: 5.85). 02/2002; 185(2):220-8. DOI:10.1086/338269
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ABSTRACT Complement activation is closely associated with plasma endotoxin levels in patients with meningococcal infections. This study assessed complement activation induced by purified Neisseria meningitidis lipopolysaccharide (Nm-LPS), native outer membrane vesicles (nOMVs), LPS-depleted outer membrane vesicles (dOMVs), wild-type meningococci, and an LPS-free mutant (lpxA(-)) from the same strain (44/76) in whole blood anticoagulated with the recombinant hirudin analogue. Complement activation products (C1rs-C1 inhibitor complexes, C4d, C3bBbP, and terminal SC5b-9 complex) were measured by double-antibody EIAs. Nm-LPS was a weak complement activator. Complement activation increased with preparations containing nOMVs, dOMVs, and wild-type bacteria at constant LPS concentrations. With the same protein concentration, complement activation induced by nOMVs, dOMVs, and the LPS-free mutant was equal. The massive complement activation observed in patients with fulminant meningococcal septicemia is, presumably, an indirect effect of the massive endotoxemia. Outer membrane proteins may be more potent complement activators than meningococcal LPSs.
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ABSTRACT: Toll-like receptors are essential pattern-recognition receptors of the innate immune system. They recognize a range of conserved molecules of invading microorganisms. The innate immune system is developed to protect the host, but can be deleterious if activated uncontrolled or inappropriate, such as in sepsis with Gram-negative bacteria. New approaches for treatment, like inhibition of innate immune responses, may be beneficial for the outcome of such conditions. Toll-like receptor 4 associated with CD14 and MD-2, is the lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-receptor and one of the candidates for such intervention. We investigated the newly described cyanobacterial LPS analogue CyP as a potential inhibitor of Escherichia coli (E. coli) LPS-induced inflammatory response in porcine whole blood. Pro-inflammatory cytokines and soluble terminal complement complex, sC5b-9, were used as read-outs. CyP, in contrast to E. coli LPS, did not induce cytokine production using doses up to 1mug/mL whole blood, indicating a lack of agonistic effect of CyP. In contrast, CyP was an efficient LPS antagonist, dose-dependently and completely inhibiting E. coli LPS-induced TNF-alpha, IL-1beta and IL-8 production. CyP was a modest activator of porcine complement compared to LPS from other Gram-negative bacteria. When CyP was pre-incubated in porcine whole blood before adding whole E. coli bacteria, a modest, variable and non-significant inhibition of cytokines were seen, reaching an average inhibition of 44% for IL-1beta. We have demonstrated for the first time that the cyanobacterial LPS analogue, CyP, is an efficient inhibitor of E. coli LPS-induced cytokines in whole blood and may be a candidate for therapeutic LPS-inhibition.
Molecular Immunology 09/2008; 45(13):3553-7. · 2.65 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: The clinical presentation of meningococcal disease is closely related to the number of meningococci in the circulation. This study aimed to examine the activation of the innate immune system after being exposed to increasing and clinically relevant concentrations of meningococci. We incubated representative Neisseria meningitidis serogroup B (ST-32) and serogroup C (ST-11) strains and a lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-deficient mutant (the 44/76 lpxA mutant) in human serum and whole blood and measured complement activation and cytokine secretion and the effect of blocking these systems. HEK293 cells transfected with Toll-like receptors (TLRs) were examined for activation of NF-kappaB. The threshold for cytokine secretion and activation of NF-kappaB was 10(3) to 10(4) meningococci/ml. LPS was the sole inflammation-inducing molecule at concentrations up to 10(5) to 10(6) meningococci/ml. The activation was dependent on TLR4-MD2-CD14. Complement contributed to the inflammatory response at >or=10(5) to 10(6) meningococci/ml, and complement activation increased exponentially at >or=10(7) bacteria/ml. Non-LPS components initiated TLR2-mediated activation at >or=10(7) bacteria/ml. As the bacterial concentration exceeded 10(7)/ml, TLR4 and TLR2 were increasingly activated, independent of CD14. In this model mimicking human disease, the inflammatory response to N. meningitidis was closely associated with the bacterial concentration. Therapeutically, CD14 inhibition alone was most efficient at a low bacterial concentration, whereas addition of a complement inhibitor may be beneficial when the bacterial load increases.
Infection and immunity 06/2008; 76(9):4183-9. · 4.21 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: Non-typeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHi) are human-adapted Gram-negative bacteria that comprise part of the normal flora of the human upper airway, but are also responsible for a number of mucosal infections such as otitis media and bronchitis. These infections often recur and can become chronic. To characterize the effect of long-term co-culture of NTHi with human tissues, we infected primary respiratory epithelial cells grown at the air-liquid interface with three NTHi strains over a range of 1-10 days. Scanning and transmission electron microscopy of tissues confirmed that intact NTHi were persisting paracellularly, while organisms observed in intracellular vacuoles appeared degraded. Furthermore, the apical surface and tight junctions of the infected tissues were undisturbed, with high transepithelial electrical resistances, while the basal cell layer displayed more junctional disorganization and wider intercellular spaces than the uninfected control tissues. Although the tissues elaborated the cytokine profile reported for NTHi-caused otitis media in vivo, there was little change in the dynamics of cytokine secretion over the time points tested. Finally, we report that NTHi strains released outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) during extended co-culture with the tissues, and show that these OMVs directly interact with host cell membranes.
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0.050991 | <urn:uuid:cee65744-d8e1-45d0-a709-bf3aad2f145f> | en | 0.885972 | Reelin sets the pace of neocortical neurogenesis.
Instituto de Neurociencias, Universidad Miguel Hernández - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Campus de San Juan s/n, E-03550 San Juan de Alicante, Spain.
Development (Impact Factor: 6.6). 12/2011; 138(23):5223-34. DOI:10.1242/dev.063776
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ABSTRACT Migration of neurons during cortical development is often assumed to rely on purely post-proliferative reelin signaling. However, Notch signaling, long known to regulate neural precursor formation and maintenance, is required for the effects of reelin on neuronal migration. Here, we show that reelin gain-of-function causes a higher expression of Notch target genes in radial glia and accelerates the production of both neurons and intermediate progenitor cells. Converse alterations correlate with reelin loss-of-function, consistent with reelin controlling Notch signaling during neurogenesis. Ectopic expression of reelin in isolated clones of progenitors causes a severe reduction in neuronal differentiation. In mosaic cell cultures, reelin-primed progenitor cells respond to wild-type cells by further decreasing neuronal differentiation, consistent with an increased sensitivity to lateral inhibition. These results indicate that reelin and Notch signaling cooperate to set the pace of neocortical neurogenesis, a prerequisite for proper neuronal migration and cortical layering.
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ABSTRACT: Gene duplication provides genetic material required for functional diversification. An interesting example is the Amyloid Precursor Protein (APP) protein family. The APP gene family has experienced both expansion and contraction during evolution. The three mammalian members have been studied quite extensively in combined knock out models. The underlying assumption is that APP, amyloid precursor like protein 1 and 2 (APLP1, APLP2) are functionally redundant. This assumption is primarily supported by the similarities in biochemical processing of APP and APLPs and on the fact that the different APP genes appear to genetically interact at the level of the phenotype in combined knockout mice. However, unique features in each member of the APP family possibly contribute to specification of their function. In the current review, we discuss the evolution and the biology of the APP protein family with special attention to the distinct properties of each homologue. We propose that the functions of APP, APLP and APLP2 have diverged after duplication to contribute distinctly to different neuronal events. Our analysis reveals that the APLP2 is significantly diverged from APP and APLP1.
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0.031833 | <urn:uuid:453a4a5d-7402-433c-8600-d254bbc933f3> | en | 0.913071 | The involvement of the orbitofrontal cortex in the experience of regret.
Institut des Sciences Cognitives, CNRS, 67, Boulevard Pinel 69675 Bron, France.
Science (Impact Factor: 31.2). 06/2004; 304(5674):1167-70. DOI:10.1126/science.1094550
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ABSTRACT Facing the consequence of a decision we made can trigger emotions like satisfaction, relief, or regret, which reflect our assessment of what was gained as compared to what would have been gained by making a different decision. These emotions are mediated by a cognitive process known as counterfactual thinking. By manipulating a simple gambling task, we characterized a subject's choices in terms of their anticipated and actual emotional impact. Normal subjects reported emotional responses consistent with counterfactual thinking; they chose to minimize future regret and learned from their emotional experience. Patients with orbitofrontal cortical lesions, however, did not report regret or anticipate negative consequences of their choices. The orbitofrontal cortex has a fundamental role in mediating the experience of regret.
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ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a disorder of automatic, uncontrollable behaviors and obsessive rumination. There is evidence that OCD patients have difficulties performing goal-directed actions, instead exhibiting repetitive stimulus-response habit behaviors. This might result from the excessive formation of stimulus-response habit associations or from an impairment in the ability to use outcome value to guide behavior. We investigated the latter by examining counterfactual decision making, which is the ability to use comparisons of prospective action-outcome scenarios to guide economic choice. METHODS: We tested decision making (forward counterfactual) and affective responses (backward counterfactual) in 20 OCD patients and 20 matched healthy control subjects using an economic choice paradigm that previously revealed attenuation of both the experience and avoidance of counterfactual emotion in schizophrenia patients and patients with orbitofrontal cortex lesions. RESULTS: The use of counterfactual comparison to guide decision making was diminished in OCD patients, who relied primarily on expected value. Unlike the apathetic affective responses previously shown to accompany this decision style, OCD patients reported increased emotional responsivity to the outcomes of their choices and to the counterfactual comparisons that typify regret and relief. CONCLUSIONS: Obsessive-compulsive disorder patients exhibit a pattern of decision making consistent with a disruption in goal-directed forward modeling, basing decisions instead on the temporally present (and more rational) calculation of expected value. In contrast to this style of decision making, emotional responses in OCD were more extreme and reactive than control subjects. These results are in line with an account of disrupted goal-directed cognitive control in OCD.
Biological psychiatry 02/2013; · 8.93 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: Considering the neuroscientific findings on reward, learning, value, decision-making, and cognitive control, motivation can be parsed into three sub processes, a process of generating motivation, a process of maintaining motivation, and a process of regulating motivation. I propose a tentative neuroscientific model of motivational processes which consists of three distinct but continuous sub processes, namely reward-driven approach, value-based decision-making, and goal-directed control. Reward-driven approach is the process in which motivation is generated by reward anticipation and selective approach behaviors toward reward. This process recruits the ventral striatum (reward area) in which basic stimulus-action association is formed, and is classified as an automatic motivation to which relatively less attention is assigned. By contrast, value-based decision-making is the process of evaluating various outcomes of actions, learning through positive prediction error, and calculating the value continuously. The striatum and the orbitofrontal cortex (valuation area) play crucial roles in sustaining motivation. Lastly, the goal-directed control is the process of regulating motivation through cognitive control to achieve goals. This consciously controlled motivation is associated with higher-level cognitive functions such as planning, retaining the goal, monitoring the performance, and regulating action. The anterior cingulate cortex (attention area) and the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (cognitive control area) are the main neural circuits related to regulation of motivation. These three sub processes interact with each other by sending reward prediction error signals through dopaminergic pathway from the striatum and to the prefrontal cortex. The neuroscientific model of motivational process suggests several educational implications with regard to the generation, maintenance, and regulation of motivation to learn in the learning environment.
Frontiers in Psychology 01/2013; 4:98.
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ABSTRACT: One of the most intriguing frontiers of current neuroscientific research is represented by the investigation of the possible neural substrates of morality. The assumption is that in humans an innate moral sense would exist. If this is true, with no doubt it should be regulated by specific brain mechanisms selected over the course of evolution, as they would promote our species' survival. In the last decade, an increasing number of studies have been carried out to explore the neural bases of human morality.The aim of this paper is to present a comprehensive review of the data regarding the neurobiological origin of the moral sense, through a Medline search of English-language articles from 1980 to February 2012.The available findings would suggest that there might be a main integrative centre for the innate morality, in particular the ventromedial prefrontal cortex, with its multiple connections with the limbic lobe, thalamus and brainstem. The subjective moral sense would be the result of an integration of multiple automatic responses, mainly associated with social emotions and interpretation of others' behaviours and intentions.Since converging observations outline how lesions of the proposed neural networks may underlie some personality changes and criminal behaviours, the implications of the studies in this field encompass many areas of the scientific domain.
Annals of General Psychiatry 03/2013; 12(1):6. · 1.57 Impact Factor
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Department of Experimental Pathology and Oncology, University of Firenze, Firenze, Italy.
Cancer Research (Impact Factor: 8.65). 02/2004; 64(2):606-11. DOI:10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-03-2360
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ABSTRACT The acquisition of the capacity to invade surrounding tissues confers a more malignant phenotype to tumor cells and is necessary for the establishment of metastases. The understanding of the molecular mechanisms underlying cell invasion in human solid tumors such as colorectal cancers could provide not only more sensitive prognostic analyses but also novel molecular targets for cancer therapy. We report in this article that K(+) ion channels belonging to the HERG family are important determinants for the acquisition of an invasive phenotype in colorectal cancers. The herg1 gene and HERG1 protein are expressed in many colon cancer cell lines, and the activity of HERG channels modulates colon cancer cell invasiveness. Moreover, the amount of HERG1 protein expressed on the plasma membrane is directly related to the invasive phenotype of colon cancer cells. Finally, both the herg1 gene and HERG1 protein were expressed in a high percentage of primary human colorectal cancers, with the highest incidence occurring in metastatic cancers, whereas no expression could be detected either in normal colonic mucosa or in adenomas.
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ABSTRACT: Kv1.3 channels regulate proliferation of normal lymphocytes, but the role of voltage-gated potassium channels in transformed hematopoietic cells is not known. We examined transcripts for Kv1.3, h-erg, h-eag, and BEC1 genes in primary lymphocytes and leukemias and in several hematopoietic cell lines. Surprisingly, BEC1, formerly thought to be brain-specific, was present in all the primary leukemias examined, in resting peripheral blood lymphocytes, and in proliferating activated tonsillar cells, lymphocytes from Sjögren's patients, and Epstein-Barr virus-transformed B-cells. Only h-erg mRNA was up-regulated in the cancer cells, but this was not due to proliferation per se, because it was not elevated in any of the proliferating noncancerous lymphocyte types examined. Nor did h-erg transcript levels correlate with the B-cell subset, because it was elevated in immature neoplastic B-CLL cells (CD5(+)) and in a CD5(-) Burkitt's lymphoma cell line (Raji) but not in Sjögren's syndrome cells (enriched in CD5(+) B-cells) or Epstein-Barr virus-transformed B-cells, which are mature CD5(-) B-cells. The protein and whole cell current levels roughly corresponded with the amount of mRNA expressed in three hematopoietic cell lines: CEM (an acute lymphoblastic leukemic line), K562 (a chronic myelogenous leukemic line), and U937 (an acute promyelocytic leukemic line). The selective HERG channel blocker, E-4031, reduced proliferation of CEM, U937, and K562 cells, and this appears to be the first direct evidence of a functional role for the HERG current in cancer cells. Selective up-regulation of h-erg appears to occur in neoplastic hematopoietic cells, thus providing a marker and potential therapeutic target.
Journal of Biological Chemistry 06/2002; 277(21):18528-34. · 4.65 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: Hypoxia-inducible factor 1 (HIF-1) transactivates genes the products of which mediate tumor angiogenesis and glycolytic metabolism. Overexpression of the HIF-1 alpha subunit, resulting from intratumoral hypoxia and genetic alterations, has been demonstrated in common human cancers and is correlated with tumor angiogenesis and patient mortality. Here we demonstrate that hypoxia or HIF-1 alpha overexpression stimulates Matrigel invasion by HCT116 human colon carcinoma cells, whereas this process is inhibited by a small interfering RNA directed against HIF-1 alpha. We show that HIF-1 regulates the expression of genes encoding cathepsin D; matrix metalloproteinase 2; urokinase plasminogen activator receptor (uPAR); fibronectin 1; keratins 14, 18, and 19; vimentin; transforming growth factor alpha; and autocrine motility factor, which are proteins that play established roles in the pathophysiology of invasion. Neutralizing antibodies against uPAR block tumor cell invasion induced by hypoxia or HIF-1 alpha overexpression. These results provide a molecular basis for promotion of the invasive cancer phenotype by hypoxia and/or HIF-1 alpha overexpression.
Cancer Research 04/2003; 63(5):1138-43. · 8.65 Impact Factor
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