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the word regurge was made up by a group of young men on a mission to get pissed late at night, one night they ran out of beer and couldn't get anymore til the next day, it was then that "Regurge" was spat out of the young mans mouths
since then, regurge can mean anything that's bad, like not gettin any beer whaen ya want it!!
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Mahoning library system plans $20.1 million renovation, expansion project
Mahoning County’s public library system proposes $20.1 million in building construction and renovations over the next several years, with more than two-thirds of that amount targeted to main library renovation and expansion.
The first $70,000 of the $14.6 million main library project is budgeted for 2013, with the rest listed for expenditure in 2014.
But the actual amounts to be spent, the details of the work that will actually be done in future projects and the spending timetable aren’t etched in stone, library officials said. The expenditures listed are “just a road map” and will likely spill over into 2015 “and possibly longer,” said library Director Heidi Daniel.
Read the full story Monday in The Vindicator and on Vindy.com.
1Pyroc(104 comments)posted 9 months, 2 weeks ago
I thought the Library system was having fiance problems a year or so ago. Now they have $20 million to spend? Where did this money come from? Overdue book fines? I hope they use more common sense in spending it than they have in the past. Like why do the need the expensive walkway accent lighting at the Newport branch? Why do they burn all the lights all night long at their branches? They could greatly reduce their energy bills by cutting back on all the lighting they waste during the overnight hours. I can see the need for having a few lights on overnight, but no need to light up the facilities like the Vegas Strip. What about the environmental impact of burning so many lights?
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2sue(162 comments)posted 9 months, 2 weeks ago
Canfield's library is a dump.
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3bgreene(96 comments)posted 9 months, 2 weeks ago
....because....it's for the children....
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476Ytown(835 comments)posted 9 months, 2 weeks ago
See my comments relative to this in the following vindy article:
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JS_Harris - 10:54 am on Aug 27, 2009 (gmt 0)
Someone who has to squat on other companies trademarks to make a living likely can't afford 33 million anyway. You'd think they would round up every dime he has but all the ruling does is allow them to file for enforcement of the order which is like a whole new trial.
If Verizon wins an enforcement order the appeals begin, when finished other legal motions can be filed as well and finaly... bankrupt the company and keep right on squatting.
Laws, there are lots of them, none with gumption.
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Title: Groundcover for primary school in Illinois
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I'm looking for a ground cover to plant on primary school grounds. It will need to be able to handle foot traffic. Is there anything that flowers and is a perennial? The area gets full sun and is beside a sidewalk. The area can hold water during heavy rain but does drain.
Below are some suggested groundcover plants (with their light requirements) that are native to Illinois. However, I feel sure that none of them will stand up to heavy foot traffic. If the foot traffic will be an occasional person walking across it, then these should be fine once they are established. If this is an area where the children will be playing several times a day, however, I doubt that any of these will be able to survive successfully. In that case you would be better served by grass or sedges. In either case, you will need to limit any sort of foot traffic until the plants are well-established. Note: shade = less than 2 hours of sun per day, part shade = 2 to 6 hours of sun per day, and sun = more than 2 hours of sun per day.
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1. friendly or kind regard; good will; approval; liking
2. unfair partiality; favoritism
3. a kind, obliging, friendly, or generous act: to do someone a favor
4. sexual privileges granted by a woman
1. a small gift, souvenir, or token
2. Archaic a token of love, as to a knight from a female admirer
5. Archaic a business letter or note: your favor of the 15th June
6. Archaic
1. appearance or look
2. face or countenance
7. Obsolete attractiveness; charm
Origin: Middle English favour ; from Old French ; from Classical Latin favor ; from favere, to favor ; from Indo-European base an unverified form ghow-, to perceive from source Old English (ofer) gumian, to neglect, Czech hověti, to take precautions (with), spare
transitive verb
1. to regard with favor; approve or like
2. to be indulgent or too indulgent toward; be partial to; prefer unfairly
3. to be for; support; advocate; endorse
4. to make easier; help; assist: rain favored his escape
5. to do a kindness for
6. to look like; resemble in facial features: to favor one's mother
7. to use gently; spare: to favor an injured leg
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0.021724 | <urn:uuid:5aa7fff7-4327-4dee-a60f-88be2bcc37f6> | en | 0.88245 | Mr.Ben S. Bernanke Would Like To Wire You Some Money (From Nigeria)
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With Chairsatan Ben's days at the Fed officially numbered, it seems some enterprising Nigerian businessmen have already found a new (and far more reputable many would say) position for the man who never once in his Chairman tenure initiated a tightening cycle, and single-handedly exploded the Fed's balance sheet over threefold.
Date: Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 12:24 PM
Subject: From Chairman Federal Reserve Bank New York.
Attn: Beneficiary,
We have this 8th day of Oct. 2013 received a payment credit instruction from the Federal Government of Nigeria to credit your account with your full Inheritance fund of USD 10.5 Million Dollars from the Nigerian reserve account with our bank,Federal Reserve Bank.
However, you shall required to provide the followings datas below:
{1}. Your Full Name and Address.:
{2}. Your Confidential Tel, Cell and Fax.
{3). Your Bank name and address.:
(5). Your Swift Code / Routing Numbers.:
(6). Your Current Occupation And Your Working ID.
Thanks for banking with Federal Reserve Bank while we looking forward to serving you with the best of our service.
Mr.Ben S. Bernanke
Chairman Federal Reserve Bank New York.
Aside for the glaring inaccuracy in the Chairman's title, one which will be wrong on more counts than one come January, perhaps the Nigerian scammers have accidentally stumbled on the next "strategy" to be unleashed by the Fed: not NGDP targeting, not forward guidance, but direct bank wires of "inheritances" and other sundry reserve transfers from the Federal Reserve, in real currency, preferably in the millions, to any and every US citizen with an email account.
Because with ever louder laments that the Fed has failed to stimulate every economist's so much beloved inflation (in everything but asset, energy, food, education and medical prices), has failed to generate the wealth effect except for the wealthiest 0.01%, has failed to disintermediate the banks from the inflationary and monetary pipeline, is there really any better way to provide fiat injections to everyone than by unsolicited email, with scammy intent or otherwise?
h/t @LongShortTrader
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Tue, 10/08/2013 - 19:05 | 4036318 Bay of Pigs
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Tue, 10/08/2013 - 19:12 | 4036349 nope-1004
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Beats Yahoo, that identity-less web "portal". WTF is yahoo anyway? What do they make? How do they contribute to GDP?
Thought so.
Tue, 10/08/2013 - 19:18 | 4036376 remain calm
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Dear Ben
You don't have the nuts to print like Smellen Yellen, sit back and watch the bitch print. Adios Motherfucker.
Tue, 10/08/2013 - 19:30 | 4036414 XenoFrog
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Looks legit. :D
Tue, 10/08/2013 - 19:58 | 4036471 old naughty
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so, we'll see Ben heading to darker pastures...
Tue, 10/08/2013 - 20:55 | 4036691 Arius
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does this mean i wont get the money? i thought this was a new stimulus package ... was this a joke?
Tue, 10/08/2013 - 22:28 | 4036923 JayQuePublic
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Wait....what? I actually received this AND one from Christine Lagarde @ IMF on the same day - Quit my job, left the old battle-ax and bought a Saweeet 1957 Corvette convertible. Now you're tellin' me it ain't so? WTF am I gonna do?
Tue, 10/08/2013 - 23:15 | 4037003 merizobeach
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Carry on--you're three for three so far. If some little scam letter set you on the better course in life, so be it.
Tue, 10/08/2013 - 19:21 | 4036386 WelfareFTW
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imagine how low on the intellectual scale one would have to be to fall for this type of email. but then again in the land of the free, there are probably millions that fall into that category.
Tue, 10/08/2013 - 21:59 | 4036851 DeadFred
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Unfortunately for the Nigerians many of those who might fall for this store their wealth on EBT cards which are harder to transfer.
Wed, 10/09/2013 - 08:03 | 4037522 DblAjent
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For an extra mil, I'll throw in my mom's maiden name, the name of my first pet, and the street I grew up on.
Tue, 10/08/2013 - 19:07 | 4036331 world_debt_slave
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sign me up!
Tue, 10/08/2013 - 19:10 | 4036341 logicalman
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There ain't no Sanity Clause
Tue, 10/08/2013 - 19:13 | 4036345 y3maxx
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...Until proven otherwise, It's all Kabuki Theatre friends.
Two Parties?, not a chance.
Bernanke becomes the next USSA Ambassador to Israel.
Obama retires to Saudi Arabia to sell Camels
Boehner remains the Shabbos Goy
Tue, 10/08/2013 - 19:12 | 4036350 A Lunatic
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This looks identical to the Obamacare application.......
Tue, 10/08/2013 - 19:19 | 4036357 sixsigma cygnus...
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MDB, where are you? This is the perfect fix. Everyone gets a check for $1 million and the fiscal/monetary/economic problems are over. Instant fix, so easy!
Somewhere out there, Krugman is reading this and scratching his beard and thinking...hmmmm.
Tue, 10/08/2013 - 19:33 | 4036423 Pure Evil
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Yeah, and overnight the price of everything goes up 1 million dollars.
Me so horney, me love you long time, one millin dolla pleese!
Wed, 10/09/2013 - 04:07 | 4037231 auric1234
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Yes, but not because of excess of dollars. The serfs would use the helicopter drops to pay down their debts, thereby causing deflation but at the same time, supressing the demand for dollars down to zero.
They might even become wothless paper instantly.
Tue, 10/08/2013 - 19:19 | 4036372 Smegley Wanxalot
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Ben S Bernanke wants to ease you, quantitatively.
Tue, 10/08/2013 - 20:43 | 4036654 LawyerScum
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Lucky for the Bernank that the anti-sodomy laws have been struck down by the SCOTUS.
Tue, 10/08/2013 - 19:18 | 4036379 Clowns on Acid
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Nigeria... Zimbabwe...whatever....close enough for French bank work....
Tue, 10/08/2013 - 19:21 | 4036390 Dr. Engali
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I'll take my digital currency in large bills please.
Tue, 10/08/2013 - 19:25 | 4036394 MrNude
Tue, 10/08/2013 - 19:58 | 4036491 onelight
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Good times and riches and sonovabitches, I've seen more than I can re-call...(thanks Jimmy Buffett).
Tue, 10/08/2013 - 19:25 | 4036403 Al Huxley
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You can be sure it's a scam because the FED only gives free money to bankers.
Wed, 10/09/2013 - 04:00 | 4037227 auric1234
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Don't fall for the trick. It's not money!! They just exchange monopoly paper among themselves.
All the money the FED had is long gone already. Ask the Germans.
Tue, 10/08/2013 - 19:42 | 4036450 eatthebanksters
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The scammers are getting their info from the ACA application don't worry, not a lot of people will get scammed.
Tue, 10/08/2013 - 19:43 | 4036453 Quantum Darwinism
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I saw that email too this morning in my junk folder haha it cracked me up!! Those Nigerian what a great sense of humour!
Tue, 10/08/2013 - 20:09 | 4036520 DOGGONE
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The Public Be Suckered, here:
Tue, 10/08/2013 - 20:18 | 4036550 El Crusty
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you know, Mexico isnt looking so bad these days. just have to make good with the local cartel and you're fairly safe and will have a pretty reasonable chance to prosper. not so different than up here except down there you have the advantage of knowing who actually runs the show.
Tue, 10/08/2013 - 20:21 | 4036572 americanspirit
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Who woulda guessed that Ben was actually a Nigerian princess? I guess the facial hair should have given it away. But nice job on getting rid of the scars.
Tue, 10/08/2013 - 20:33 | 4036617 Zombie_Economics
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LoL, you have to admit, this is hilarious!
Tue, 10/08/2013 - 22:45 | 4036956 Money Squid
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10.5 million? pffffttttt they can keep that. Call me when Ben wants to send me some real money.
Wed, 10/09/2013 - 01:39 | 4037145 venzen
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Love Nigeria! love Nigerians! more of this, please!
This is exactly what the bank manager, local politician, senator and every other fucking suited scammer is doing day in and day out. But when a Nigerian does it descent folks get their knickers in a knot and the Financial Crimes unit gets a collective hard-on.
Think about that when you next pay bank service charges
Wed, 10/09/2013 - 02:46 | 4037184 kchrisc
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Greetings Fair and All Nice One,
Please, if it please you, let me have your deposits at the banks to loan out to others. I so promise to pay you 1% interest for my use of the money of yours.
if loan other no pay, i so promise to take his stuff and make mine. I still give you the 1% anyways.
if lot no pay, i will have your friend and uncle, i think he called Sam, pay me back with something called taxes. I still give you the 1% anyways.
If many lot no pay, Sam still pay me and we change your deposits to stocks in bank. You own part of bank and still get the 1%.
See, you can't loose.
No need to send info of personal, I already have. I just wanted to know you what I do for you.
Ben Berstake
Main President and Helicopter Pilot
Republic of Goldman Sachs
P.S. I have $12,678,905 US in account here in Nigeria stuck. I give you 15% if you help. Let know.
Wed, 10/09/2013 - 04:51 | 4037251 Disenchanted
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How about we 'wire' Berstanke and Yellen and then ship the pine boxes to Nigeria?
Yeah I know, who's this "we" I speak of kemosabe...
Wed, 10/09/2013 - 19:03 | 4039753 Polymarkos
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I really really really wish I had Bernanke's personal info...I could sign him up for Theft by Nigerians just like he's been stealing all our wealth for those behind the Fed Reserve.
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Blair Redford plays Ethan, an edgy “bad boy” who is the brother of a local police officer. After “Sutton” accuses him of stalking her, he realizes that the young woman he has secretly been dating is someone else – namely, Sutton’s twin sister, Emma. Luckily Ethan proves to be a loyal guy and is willing to act as Emma’s confidant as they both await Sutton’s return.
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"He is not a constellation.
You should not wish to be the cigarette touching his lips.
He will not appear through the fog and heal your wounds.
Only you can do that.
So get out of bed and put on some lipstick.
Stop falling at his feet.
Save yourself."
- Emery Allen (via rabbitinthemoon)
(via dggystyle)
"The rape joke is that you were eight.
The rape joke is that at the time,
you didn’t know people had sex to express love.
The rape joke is that the only other person
who’d seen you naked was your mom.
The rape joke is that he called you ‘beautiful’ first.
The rape joke is that he held your hands together
and told you to ‘try harder’ when you struggled.
The rape joke is that you believed him
when he told you were overreacting.
The rape joke is that your grandma
called him a nice boy and asked him to stay for dinner.
The rape joke is that he winked at you
when you apologized to your parents for not coming
downstairs the first time you were called.
The rape joke is that his friends
high-fived him for “getting some.”
The rape joke is that you still don’t feel like
you’ve regrown the pieces he stole.
The rape joke is that he was conceived when his
dad slapped himself into his snoring mother.
The rape joke is that her friends told her
she was lucky someone wanted her.
The rape joke is that each year in the United States,
32,000 other women’s bellies
ripen with life against their will.
The rape joke is that he never learned
to touch without scarring.
The rape joke is that your classmate thinks
‘have you seen what asses look like in yoga pants?’
is an argument.
The rape joke is your new boyfriend kissing
you and telling you he ‘raped’ his math test.
The rape joke is that ‘Why are girls so scared of rape? Y’all should feel pride that a guy risked his life in jail just to fuck you’
is a popular Tweet right now.
The rape joke is that you wake up to
the memory of him laughing,
“now that wasn’t so bad, was it?”
The rape joke is that it’s been twelve years and
you still quiver when someone touches you.
The rape joke is that he hasn’t stopped laughing.
The rape joke is that you forgot how to."
- The Rape Joke | Lora Mathis
Inspired by this. (via soggypoetry)
The rape joke isn’t funny and never has been (via conor-broberst)
pretty powerful
(via zeeedeveel)
(via fit-ivation)
(via vxis)
Make people understand
(via khadds)
(via abigaillx)
We live in a society that glorifies sexual assault to a degree that when I was a teenager I asked myself whether something was wrong with me for not being groped in the streets. The pride with which my classmates spoke of how apparently every random male hit on them made me wonder whether I was just too ugly to be desired. Something is rotten when harassment becomes the means young girls are taught to determine their self-worth with.
(via dggystyle)
"Friendship is weird. You pick a human you’ve met and you’re like, "yup I like this one," and you just do stuff with them."
- Bunk (via shonaaak)
(Source: mandyschmandy, via lovelylittlelovers)
"Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion."
-Saint Augustine (Confessions)
(Source: acynicalfuck)
- Adam - Girls (HBO)
(Source: somethingbeyond, via reionizeyourself)
"Why did you stop emailing me?"
"Because it wasn’t enough."
-Last Night (2011)
- Hunter Reve (via disimba)
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How Would Fonzie Feel About Facebook Picks?
Touchtunes, the supplier of those snazzy digital jukeboxes that can be found in over 30,000 bars and clubs, has teamed up with "social technology" company Loca Moda to provide a mobile social platform that connects consumers' favorite online social networks such as Facebook, MySpace and Twitter with their favorite social hangouts such as bars and clubs.
This is how it's meant to work: People in bars and clubs will be able to use their mobile phones to interact with flat-screen panels driven by Touchtunes' jukeboxes, so they can send the jukebox requests for songs or "gift" songs to their friends. In a stalkerish twist to things, online users of the social networks can actually see which of their friends are hanging out in their local bar by getting notification via data feeds of which friends are using their mobile phones to connect with the flat screens. They in turn can also gift songs from their computers to their friends in the different bars and locations as well as send messages, photos and other forms of user generated content to the in-venue screens. Brand content can also be displayed via the platform, giving opportunities for brands to interact with music fans in a social environment.
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Uganda: Just Writing - Graciously Learning Life's Little Beginnings
As I write this, the little guy just made fourteen months a few days ago and I'm very glad for that. Only fourteen months it's been but the things he has taught me... He doesn't even know who I am exactly. In his mind, I am sure I'm just another structure his eyes see every other day.
I am learning from the master anyway and feel like I will graduate summa cum laude come the end of my studies. At this age, he now walks and bubbles gibberish words in an attempt to have a conversation with me.
When I eagerly ask what he's saying exactly, he responds with more gibberish sentences, which draw laughter from me. He then follows suit and laughs like a circus imitator.
It's because of Jordi (that's his name though I call him Jo) that I now know that the persistent itching in the mouth that babies experience from around nine months is no cause to panic because their teeth are growing. And letting them chew on something, say a chicken bone, mitigates the itching.
I also know that a child should never be left alone. I don't care what your excuse is; you just can't leave a child alone even for a minute. A child can do a lot in just that short period that you will be amazed.
Right now I'm Jo's best buddy, considering the fact that he likes hanging around me whenever I'm near him. He hands me his toys, begging me to play with him and occasionally leaves his mother's arms and runs to me. When he cries, he runs searching for me but this is only after a fruitless search for his mother.
Now, wouldn't you say we are best buddies? Before Jo, I knew very little about babies. I had no idea that babies are bathed a week after birth. Some mothers do it earlier than a week, which is fine, but the fact that it's done days after birth shocked me because I thought they got bathed immediately after birth.
Don't get me started on the herbal stuff they use for babies' first baths. Apparently, it's supposed to cleanse their skin, making them smoother and softer. Watching Jo go about his business, only including me once in a while is amazing. I learn something new almost every day and just the other day I officially introduced myself as "Uncle Mike", which is who I am.
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73 Ancient People You Should Know
Most important names in Ancient / Classical History
21. Cicero
Cicero at 60. Marble bust of Cicero.Public Domain
Cicero (Jan. 3, 106 - Dec. 7, 43 B.C.), best known as an eloquent Roman orator, rose remarkably to the top of the Roman political hierarchy where he received the accolade Pater patriae 'father of his country', fell precipitously, went into exile because of his hostile relations with Clodius Pulcher, made a permanent name for himself in Latin literature, and had relations with all the contemporary big names, Caesar, Pompey, Mark Antony, and Octavian (Augustus).
22. Cleopatra
Cleopatra and Mark Antony on CoinsClipart.com
Cleopatra (January 69 - August 12, 30 B.C.) was the last pharaoh of Egypt to rule during the Hellenistic era. After her death, Rome controlled Egypt. Cleopatra is known for her affairs with Caesar and Mark Antony, by whom she had respectively, one and three children, and her suicide by snake bite after her husband Antony took his own life. She was engaged in battle (with Mark Antony) against the winning Roman side headed by Octavian (Augustus) at Actium.
23. Confucius
Project Gutenberg
The sagacious Confucius, Kongzi, or Master Kung (551-479 B.C.) was a social philosopher whose values became dominant in China only after he died. Advocating living virtuously, he put emphasis on socially appropriate behavior.
24. Constantine the Great
Constantine at YorkN.S. Gill
Constantine the Great (c. 272 – 22 May 337) was famed for winning the battle at the Milvian Bridge, reuniting the Roman Empire under one emperor (Constantine himself), winning major battles in Europe, legalizing Christianity, and establishing a new eastern capital of Rome at the city, Nova Roma, formerly Byzantium, that was to be named Constantinople.
Constantinople (now known as Istanbul) became the capital of the Byzantine Empire, which lasted until it fell to the Ottoman Turks in 1453.
25. Cyrus the Great
The Persian king Cyrus II, known as Cyrus the Great is the first ruler of the Achaemenids. Around 540 B.C., he conquered Babylonia, becoming ruler of Mesopotamia and the eastern Mediterranean to Palestine. He ended the period of exile for the Hebrews, allowing them back to Israel to rebuild the Temple, and was called the Messiah by Deutero-Isaiah. The Cyrus Cylinder, which some view as an early human rights charter, confirms the Biblical history of the period.
26. Demosthenes
Aischenes and DemosthenesAlun Salt
Demosthenes (384/383 - 322 B.C.) was an Athenian speech-writer, orator, and statesman, although he started out having a great deal of difficulty speaking in public. As official orator, he warned against Philip of Macedon, when he was beginning his conquest of Greece. Demosthenes' three orations against Philip, known as the Philippics, were so bitter that today a severe speech denouncing someone is called a Philippic.
27. Domitian
Denarius of DomitianPublic Domain
Titus Flavius Domitianus or Domitian (October 24 A.D. 51 - September 8, 96) was the last of the Flavian emperors. Domitian and the Senate had a mutually hostile relationship, so although Domitian may have balanced the economy and done other good works, including re-building the fire-damaged city of Rome, he is remembered as one of the worst Roman emperors, since his biographers were mainly of the senatorial class. He strangled the Senate's power and executed some of its members. His reputation among Christians and Jews was tainted by his persecution.
Following Domitian's assassination, the Senate decreed damnatio memoriae for him, meaning that his name was removed from records and coins minted for him were re-melted.
28. Empedocles
Empedocles as portrayed in the Nuremberg ChroniclePublic Domain. Courtesy of Wikpedia.
Empedocles of Acragas (c. 495-435 B.C.) was known as a poet, statesman, and physician, as well as philosopher. Empedocles encouraged people to look upon him as a miracle worker. Philosophically he believed there were elements that were the building blocks of everything else: earth, air, fire, and water. These are the four elements that are paired with the four humors in Hippocratic medicine and even modern typologies. The next philosophical step would be to realize a different type of universal element -- atoms, as the Pre-socratic philosophers known as Atomists, Leucippus and Democritus, reasoned.
Empedocles believed in transmigration of the soul and thought that he would be come back as a god, so he jumped into the Mt. Aetna volcano.
29. Eratosthenes
EratosthenesPublic Domain. Courtesy of Wikipedia.
Eratosthenes of Cyrene (276 - 194 B.C.) was the second chief librarian at Alexandria. He calculated the circumference of the earth, created latitude and longitude measurements, and made a map of the earth. He was acquainted with Archimedes of Syracuse.
30. Euclid
Euclid, detail from "The School of Athens" painting by Raphael.Public Domain. Courtesy of Wikipedia.
Euclid of Alexandria (fl. 300 B.C.) is the father of geometry (hence, Euclidean geometry) and his "Elements" is still in use.
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I'm writing a small little app that I want to submit to the Ubuntu App Review board, and one thing I'd like to do is for it to show the names of the detected Wireless SSIDs in a combo box. It's a PyGI app.
Has anyone got any pointers on how I can get those SSIDs from the system, preferably through a Python API? From dbus? From NetworkManager?
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You can do this easily from NetworkManager's pygi bindings:
from gi.repository import NetworkManager, NMClient
nmc =
devs = nmc.get_devices()
for dev in devs:
if dev.get_device_type() == NetworkManager.DeviceType.WIFI:
for ap in dev.get_access_points():
print ap.get_ssid()
Or from DBus directly, see
If you're inclined to just quickly script this in shell; an easy way to ask NetworkManager for this is to use:
nmcli dev wifi list
Or use iwlist scan, or better: iw dev wlan0 scan (or ... scan dump), after installing the iw Install iw package.
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Nice, exactly what I was looking for, thanks! – David Planella May 16 '12 at 14:31
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One option is to run iwlist scan on the command line, but it has to be run as root
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Ah, that's something I can use, but I'd prefer accessing them at an API level rather than through command line and subprocess calls, so I think I'll end up accepting Mathieu's answer. In any case, thanks for your answer! – David Planella May 16 '12 at 14:30
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Voron, LMDB and the external APIs, on my!
One of the things that I really don’t like in LMDB is the API that is exposed to the user. Well, it is C, so I guess there isn’t much that can be done about it. But let look at the abstractions that are actually exposed to the user by looking how you usually work with Voron.
1: using (var tx = Env.NewTransaction(TransactionFlags.ReadWrite))
2: {
3: Env.Root.Add(tx, "key/1", new MemoryStream(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes("123")));
5: tx.Commit();
6: }
9: using (var tx = Env.NewTransaction(TransactionFlags.Read))
10: {
11: using(var stream = Env.Root.Read(tx, "key/1"))
12: using (var reader = new StreamReader(stream))
13: {
14: var result = reader.ReadToEnd();
15: Assert.Equal("123", result);
16: }
17: tx.Commit();
18: }
This is a perfectly nice API, it is quite explicit about what is going on, and it gives you a lot of options with regards to how to actually make things happen. It also gives the underlying library about zero chance to do interesting things. Worse, it means that you have to know, upfront, if you want to do a read only or a read/write operation. And since there can be only one write transaction at any given point in time… well, I think you get the point. If you code doesn’t respond well to explicit demarcation between read/write, you have to create a lot of writes transaction, essentially serializing pretty much your entire codebase.
Now, sure, you might have good command / query separation, right? So you have queries for reads and commands for writes, problem solved. Except that the real world doesn’t operate in this manner. Let us consider the trivial case of a user logging in. When a user logs in, we need to check the credentials, and if they are wrong, we need to mark it so we can lock the account after 5 failed tries. That means either having to always do the login in a write transaction (meaning only one user can log it at any time) or we start with a read transaction, then we switch to a write transaction when we need to write.
Either option isn’t really nice as far as I am concerned. Therefor, I came with a different API (which is internally based on the one above). This now looks like this:
1: var batch = new WriteBatch();
2: batch.Add("key/1", new MemoryStream(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes("123")), null);
4: Env.Writer.Write(batch);
6: using (var snapshot = Env.CreateSnapshot())
7: {
8: using (var stream = snapshot.Read(null, "key/1"))
9: using (var reader = new StreamReader(stream))
10: {
11: var result = reader.ReadToEnd();
12: Assert.Equal("123", result);
13: }
14: }
As you can see, we make use of snapshots & write batches. Those are actually ideas taken from LevelDB. A write batch is a set of changes that we want to apply to the database. We can add any number of changes to the write batch, and it require no synchronization. When we want to actually write those changes, we call Writer.Write(). This will take the entire batch and apply it as a single transactional unit.
However, while it will do so as a single unit, it will also be able to merge concurrent calls to WriteBatch into a single write transaction, increasing the actual concurrency we gain by quite a bit. The expected usage pattern is that you create a snapshot, do whatever you need to do when reading the data, including maybe adding/removing stuff via a WriteBatch, and finally you write it all out.
Problems with this approach:
• You can’t read stuff that you just added, because they haven’t been added yet to the actual storage yet. (Generally not that much of an issue in our expected use case)
• You need to worry about concurrently modifying the same value in different write batches. (We’re going to add optimistic concurrency option for that purpose)
Benefits of this approach:
• We can optimize concurrent writes.
• We don’t have to decide in advance whatever we need to read only or read / write.
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Ayende Rahien
09/12/2013 09:49 PM by
Ayende Rahien
Rafal, Same thing we did in RavenDB a while ago. Take multiple concurrent transactions and merge all their writes. We have to change the API to do so, but I think it is worth it. See: http://ayende.com/blog/163554/voron-lmdb-and-the-external-apis-on-my?key=43b8ccf6dce64b4c918f965e2c64a0d8
Rob Ashton
09/27/2013 09:09 AM by
Rob Ashton
<3 for using sodding streams.
I'm in the JVM at the moment and the wrappers around any of the decent storage engines I'd want to use are all exposed as either large byte arrays or strings. Hiss.
Kyle Szklenski
09/27/2013 02:52 PM by
Kyle Szklenski
Incidentally, in case it matters to you, this is exactly the type of post of yours that I love. You asked a while back. API design and discussions (cost-benefit type stuff) is really fun and interesting, and it's always good to see other viewpoints aside from my own.
Howard Chu
09/27/2013 04:27 PM by
Howard Chu
The LMDB API was modeled after the BDB API. It was designed to allow rapid porting from BDB code. Since BDB is still the #1 embedded transactional key value store, it was a pragmatic choice.
Some things were tweaked for OpenLDAP's convenience, though. BDB doesn't treat read-only transactions any special way, but since the majority of LDAP operations are reads, it made sense to tailor the LMDB API for reads. That works fine for us, and it's real world for LDAP.
Also, in your login example, those really are two separate actions - checking the credential is a read-only action. Recording a failed login is a write action, and there is no valid reason why the two steps should be contained in a single transaction. You picked a pretty good example here, since 90% of the use for LDAP is in authentication systems...
Udi Dahan
09/28/2013 12:13 PM by
Udi Dahan
The failed login example would be better handled by publishing an event (LoginFailed) which would be routed to some subscriber responsible for recording the failure (as @HowardChu said) in a separate transaction.
09/28/2013 05:41 PM by
@Udi but as I understand it, writing and reading are always done in separate transactions. WriteBatch doesn't do any reading and the snapshot can't write.
Howard Chu
09/29/2013 01:51 AM by
Howard Chu
Rafal - the LevelDB API doesn't actually support transactions. In particular, transactions must allow reads within a txn to see what was written in that txn, while preventing anything outside the txn from seeing it. If you have a chain of dependent modifications, where each mod depends on effects of prior mods, you cannot support that using the Writebatch model. Likewise you can't do a simple Iterate + Modify loop where the modify actions alter the iteration scope. You can do that with real transactions, and most RDBMSs depend on this.
The WriteBatch model only supports blind writes - where what you're writing has no dependency on what already exists. Most RDBMS transactions that perform writes are read-modify-write operations.
This is why it's a bad idea to use LevelDB as a backend for an RDBMS (but the MariaDB folks are trying it anyway. Suckers.)
09/29/2013 07:41 AM by
So, now i'm not sure if i get Ayende's idea. The LevelDB API requires you to know upfront if you'll be reading or writing, so it's no better than the original LMDB/Voron API in this aspect. And the original API had an option to do R/W transactions, which LevelDB doesn't. Apart from that, i think it will not improve write concurrency too much. After all, the underlying database is based on a double-buffering mechanism so if you have two open read snapshots with two different versions no writing can be done, no matter how you shuffle and combine your transactions. So, the improvement in write performance can be only a result of these 'blind writes', which can be combined in any way because there's no reading in between.
Ayende Rahien
09/29/2013 07:44 AM by
Ayende Rahien
Howard, We run into that, and while it wasn't trivial to make that happen, it was pretty easy to have a merge of snapshot & write batch, resulting in pretty much the same thing.
Ayende Rahien
09/29/2013 07:46 AM by
Ayende Rahien
Udi, Great, now I have CQRS and messaging in my login page. And it doesn't handle the "last login time" for the success case, unless I make that into an event as well. There are many scenarios where pub/sub is never an issue (this blog, for example), and trying to introduce this in order to compensate for a feature issue would be bad.
Ayende Rahien
09/29/2013 07:47 AM by
Ayende Rahien
Rafal, The ability to read from a snapshot and create writes on the side, then write them in a single batch is what allows us to actually merge multiple transactions into a single lock. | http://ayende.com/blog/163554/voron-lmdb-and-the-external-apis-on-my | dclm-gs1-087490002 | false | false | {
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1. John Parker says:
The Deadline – Midnight 12/16/1773
As one "deadline" after another in the Debt crisis goes by, I am
reminded of another "deadline" faced by the patriots of Boston in
December of 1773. Unless they took action by the 16th, the Tea would
be landed and the Tax on it would become law.
More than 5000 of them crowded into Old South Meeting House on that cold, rainy morning determined to prevent landing of the Tea, "whatever the consequences". In this latest attempt at "Taxation without Representation" their relations with the British parliament had reached a tipping point. By midnight they would either make history, or, be history, risking all, one might say, to "get the gov't off their backs"
• Robert, TX says:
Yes, and they did all that to avoid a tax that amounted to less than 2%, so we could really use some of these type patriots today.
2. Bernard P. Giroux says:
Send them all back and vote in term limits.
3. Robert, TX says:
A solid article that is incomplete because you do not give full credit to the people responsible for this latest disgrace. John Boehner is not the most incompetent person to sit in the Speaker's chair – a tough job – considering the failures of Dennis (the Menace) Hastert. Plus, his Oscar-deserving, best supporting actor Mitch McConnell. Little johnny couldn't have "done" it without ya, Mitch. Oh, I'm sorry, it's big, bad Obama's fault.
4. Lloyd Scallan says:
Why do we not realize both Democrat and Republican leaders in Washington do not listen, and do not intent to listen to the American voter. They do not fear not bein reelected because they know the game is rigged. Without the ability of the voters to have a third political party to choose from, nothing in Washington will change. Ask the question: why is the old, established GOP so hell bent to destroy any true conservative? Because the know full well a valid conservative party, that nominates true conservatives canidates, will be the end of their thiefdom.
5. Curt Krehbiel says:
If 40% of each dollar spent is borrowed money, just imagine how much more money they would have to spend if the national debt were paid off and fiscal responsibility prevailed.
6. sdfultz says:
Good morning,
Do you guys / gals have an archived article about the mis spending budget busting article on the war?
7. ThomNJ says:
I think it is time for people in all the states to hold new elections – forget the current crop of politicians – let's organize new elections for the House, the Senate and the presidency – throw all of the encumbents out and just start over. It couldn't be any worse. Have all the newly elected candidates march into DC with a contingent of folks from every state and march the incumbents and their staffs right out the door.
Okay – so it is a fantasy. What else we got? Violence? I'd rather my fantasy.
• Dara says:
I've been dreaming the same dream! Send them ALL packing – save taxpayers some big bucks by cutting out of ALL of their bennies/pensions – and start over! … with term limits AND a Balanced Budget Amendment (put in place by We the People) – Oh! and no one who's in there now would be allowed to run either!
Get rid of anything that's NOT government responsibilty as laid out in the Constitution. (SS/Medicare would have to be phased out – as many seniors depend on those…) however, getting rid of the Alphabet Agencies/duplications, etc. would save a bundle of taxpayer dollars. The deletion of regs by those agencies would create a boom in jobs… win/win!
THAT would certainly 'drain the swamp' and return us to our former prosperous America.
*sigh* and then I wake up.
8. Edward P.Woolley says:
The day of reconning is approaching fast
9. A. Scott says:
Makes my head explode….
10. Ron says:
Every tax payer should read "Throw Them All Out" to understand what a bunch of nefarious creeps there are in congress. You can bet most of them stand to benefit from this and previous spending marathons.
11. Mrs. G says:
The state of things is so sad in Washington, I feel frustrated and helpless. What in the world can we do if the people we vote for won't or can't do what they need to do to get us on the right track again. I feel like I am watching my country be destroyed from the very people who are suppose to turning things around. There is no excuse for what has been going on in Washington. It is shameful! We the people are hurting out here and they are playing with our lives.
12. Leftshot says:
Just one Christmas I'd like to find a box from Congress under the tree that isn't full of disappointment. Is that too much to ask?
13. Teri Newman says:
Apparently the corrupt party hacks in DC didn't get the message in 2010. There's another one coming in 2012 because the message from the voters is crystal clear. STOP SPENDING OUR MONEY! I've got a plan for the maladies that face America. We MUST pass the STOCK Act to end insider trading by Congress–it's stealing, plain and simple. We have to stop all this wasteful spending and we have to balance the budget–HAVE TO. I am not interested in the blame game, and like you, I am furious at the way our elected officials have ignored us and enriched themselves at the public trough. In addition to making insider trading a crime for the members of Congress, I am also going to hire a CPA as part of my staff to go through the federal budget line by line to look for waste and fraud and I'm also going to look into the Medicare and Medicaid waste and fraud. I'm a businesswoman, I'm used to looking after the money and making sure it is spent wisely.
Teri Davis Newman
12th Illinois Congressional Candidate 2012
2010 Republican Nominee 12th Illinois http://www.terinewman.com
14. toledofan says:
So, no matter the logic and the research to show what and where the problem lies, it's clear that the only way to bring this to a head is to shut down the government. I mean we've been going through this exercise now for over 1000 days and nothing has changed. It's obvious that the Republicans are so affraid of being cast as the bad guys, the culprits who are forcing the problems, that they have lost sight of their principles and have abandoned the will of the people. Maybe it's just that the Republicans lack leaders, regardless, enough is enough, quit being so trying to reach across the aisle, stop trying to save the day, let the chips fall where themay, stand your ground and force the Democrats to do their jobs.
15. old timer says:
When are the U.S. taxpayer's going to decide it's past time for a good house cleaning in D.C.?
16. elsie says:
Someone please tell me how these life time politicans get reelected time and again.
• Steve S says:
because we allow it!
• bassboat says:
Human greed, humans always want something for nothing. The Politicians are spending other people's money to buy votes so they don't care. Until we throw out 85% of the ones in congress doing this we will continue down our slide into bankruptcy.
• guest says:
Favors to thier finacial supporters and name recognition. Most voters vote with the same scrutany as they did in high school ie. who's popular not who is the most informed and displays good judgement.
• Lloyd Scallan says:
17. Georga says:
Just another hum-drum day in America with the Congress spending money they don't have. This is all gonna come crashing down and it's gonna be ugly around the world….until then, "smoke 'em if ya got 'em."
18. Terrence Pohl says:
Wasn't the Canadian pipeline authorization supposed to be part of this bill?
19. philip peffer says:
Please translate this into a total federal spending figure for the current fiscal year and the inevitable deficit it will incur. I'm guessing the annual deficit will again be in excess of 1 trillion dollars.
20. John Galt says:
I wanted the government to shut down. This 1,200 page bill goes against everything that the Republicans claimed they were against and that they would not vote for.
It has become clear to me, that the older elected Republican officials are just as much of the problem as the Democrats.
It is time to clean house. ANY POLITICIAN that has served 2 terms needs to be voted out. NO exceptions.
• Robert, TX says:
Yes, and they should have shut down the government last February, but little johnny doesn't have the "guts" to do it. They claim that Harry Reid is a big meany, and he won't be nice to them. Well, if shutting down the gov't. is your only weapon, then you use what you have. Obama, his handlers, and the lobbyists cannot survive a shutdown – so, just like when they did it to Clinton – they will come around.
21. FlaJim says:
Unfortunately, it appears that all these clowns wanted to do was get this out of the way so they can take their 'much deserved' three or four week holiday break.
A change in leadership in both the House and Senate is clearly overdue. Perhaps Ryan in the House and DeMint in the Senate. Neither seem afraid of the GOP establishment and both seem eager to uphold conservative principles. Both would be instrumental in keeping the next president in line, too.
22. RennyG says:
Lack of responsibility! I suggest we give them a check book, one pen and one person responsible for it.
Put the money in the account and hold them responsible!!! If the cash is gone, that's it!!!!!! The problem is we have lawyers running the country!!!! You can't understand what they are talking about. Talk about transparity, with lawyers, you gotta be kidding!!!!!!! The lawyers will convince you the check book is not empty!!!! PRAY!!!!
23. Geore Birtchet says:
I firmly that the congresspeople should cut their spending in half.. All "earmarks should be attached to the personal budget of those who propose them. Too simple??? They already get special privliges on insider trading and other privliges which we do not get as mere citizens. What is wrong with the congresspersons getting just what the citizens get (besides being screwed)? There is many examples of people in congress going to the House of Senate with not a "pot to Piss in" and ending ujp as millionaires.
That is one of the reasons that I hope for term limits but unless we the citizens just unelect them after ie. a Senator gets only one six year term and a housemember gets only three(3) 2 year terms. And do away with lobbyist and any former congressperson cannot become a lobbyist for ten years after they serve their terms in Congress. You can take it further and do not give them retirement pay but they have to ;live on what the rest of us have to live on Social Security and our own private retirement plans. I can go on but I think I have said enough for now!!!
• Keith Bornmann says:
Term limits aren't going to help anything. When we have someone we like in office, let them stay long enough to accomplish something, When we have someone we don't like, we talk about term limits. Same thing witth the Judicial Branch. This can be a vicious fruitless waste of effort as we fight back an forth about term limits over the years based on who is in office. We need to be more concerned with the work at hand, than the workers. The older congressmen are able to play the system because they have been there and know how to work it; if they are corrupt vote them out, but if they are good for our country (Which right now we may not have one that is) then let them stay. It's too hard to find good replacements, and they won't get voted out if they are good.
24. Jim says:
It is interesting that we hear from pundits, polls, etc about the lousy approval rating Congress has. that is so beaten into th psyche of the Repubs that they have no spine to stand up and say "NO" in a clear voice. EVen our forefathers understood that a lot of the people would not be behind them but they forged ahead, thank goodness. Our present 'fathers'?, just a bunch of cry babies, wannabe conservatives, and where is my money politicians.
25. Blair Franconia, NH says:
Half a loaf is better than none.
26. candy tanda says:
why are repulicans ALWAYS afraid to be bold and constantly making apoligies for what they stand for. we need a speaker with the gall of Nancy Pelosie [you'l know what's in it when you pass it] , and the honesty of a Paul Ryan . we are milk toast and i don't know why…..
27. Deb P says:
Let us not forget who really runs the government………the lobbyists and special interest groups……..there is so much corruption related to lobbying and special interests that these congressional people are in it for their own payoff and not for the American people. Where else can you go worth $250,000 and within a few years your net worth is in the millions? Congress of course. If you are good little boys and girls, and listen to your all knowing lobbyists you will surely be rewarded. It is time for the "people" to take back our government. But the question lies in how do we stop these lobbyists and special interest group? We now need term limits, but who will bring the bill forward. Surely not congress. We need our own lobbyists and special interest groups, called the law. But who will enforce it………surely not the corrupt judges that are put in office by the corrupt government. This is a problem of major proportions and we cannot afford to go back to sleep. Congress just added another trillion to the 15 trillion we are already in debt for and have no means to repay. We will become a suppressed people if we don't start voting to overturn the congressional representatives every four years because they won't bring a term limit bill to the floor.
28. William Baker says:
I have never been a supporter of term limits for congress, but after all this, it is time to change that point of view. This is totally unacceptable, and both parties are going to have to pay a price come November 2012.
29. Jim says:
Another Republican cave!!
30. JSNYC says:
RE: COST OF FUNDING THESE AGENCIES, their bureaucrats, and regulations
Q. What is the budget breakdown for each agency, what are the rules and regulations perpetuated by these Agencies, how many are Obama Administration rules and regulations, and will they necessary generate more red tape, redistribution of wealth and enterprise-inhibiting roadblocks to success?
31. PADDY O says:
I'll Veto this, I'll vetoe that, I'll veto once again He says it all the time!
Don't forget old Harry who will block it all again, He does it all the time !
Let us be sure to blame the proper party and not be drinking Koolade quite so hardy
They fooled us once, they fooled us twice and they'll fool us again
They do it all the time! They're going to try to split us, by giving it their spin,
They do it all the time!
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Vigilante (1983)
The story of “Vigilante” [1983] starts with Fred “The Hammer” Williamson (“Mean Johnny Barrows”) in an underground room, surrounded by several people. He starts to explain to them that he is sick and tired of being afraid at nights and how they need to take the streets back from the gangs.
The tone of the picture is officially set after this one shot.
Soon after, we see for ourselves exactly what Williamson was talking about.
This is the best “Death Wish” rip-off – one which even manages to surpass its inspiration.
What separates “Vigilante” from “Death Wish” is that William Lustig (”Relentless”) directed without concern for the box-office and attempted to see how far he could push the audience, resulting in a no holds barred film that manages to consistently shock its audience.
Simply put, it’s an exploitation masterpiece.
Robert Forster, (”Walking the Edge”), is an Oscar-nominated, underrated B-movie veteran who gives a brave and daring performance in “Vigiliante,” playing Eddie Marino, whose life is ruined after a gang of punks brutally murder his son and severely injure his wife. Although he continues to believe that the system will provide justice, a harsh reality proves just how corrupt society can be.
As stated earlier, Williamson’s character of Nick is sick and tired of seeing the trash run his neighborhood. He knows how unjust the system is and that is why he has taken the law into his own hands. He declares himself early on as “Judge, Jury and Executioner.”
Seeing Williamson distributing his own brand of justice to these punks is a thrilling endeavor. A chase between Nick and a drug dealer through the streets also provides ample thrills; especially because you can rest assured that “The Hammer” will catch him. It’s not until Marino finally decides to team up with him, the streets start to rain with blood.
Williamson seems to be playing himself in the film, but the truth is actually that he has a natural screen presence – and this performance is not nearly as showy as some others.
The supporting cast is also strong. Woody Strode (”Once Upon a Time in the West”) plays Rake, who befriends Marino while he is in prison and becomes his bodyguard. Strode never rose to great success in Hollywood, but has collected a huge list of credits, often playing the strong silent type.
The sleazy and always reliable Joe Spinell (”Maniac,” “Rocky”) plays a smarmy lawyer on the take. His brief appearance is good enough to make you believe he is an actual lawyer.
An apology to all you attorneys out there, but the man virtually oozes professional sliminess.
The real treat of ”Vigilante” is that it allows you to be a voyeur in an area you normally wouldn’t want to visit. That mood that the director controls quite nicely allows you to root for the good guys and wish death upon the punks on the streets. No one ever said that the characters were three-dimensional, but the appeal of “Vigilante” isn’t in its ability to provoke a critically thoughtful response – it’s in its ability to make you feel as though you’re there, in this archaic and precarious time and place.
When the camera is on the streets, fear is palpable.
Early scenes set up the uncertainty people risk when walking to the grocery store or coming home from work. The audience is instantly confused on what to expect, but feels safe once the vigilantes clean up the raw sewage.
Films like these provide good escapism as well. We are allowed to be exposed to the dark side of the world and our very own minds.
However, unlike the very complex and mystifying real life, justice on these factious streets always prevails.
1. I love revenge flicks that don't try to defend the violence in it. It's satisfying to live through someone who doesn't feel as if they have to justify his actions.
2. I couldn't agree more! So sick of movies where the good guy stops to think about what is right or wrong. I love that Forster and Williamson never really stop to worry about the bad guy.
The early scenes of violence on Forster's Family prove the bad guys are scum. You have a Favorite Revenge flick?
3. Vigilante Man (1983) is a revenge film in the style of the 70s, Italian crime film (he even shot in scope). Robert Forester plays Marino, an average joe working family is attacked by a gang of downtown.
4. The 1970s style in the film is one that is still very popular with films today.
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Floor to ceiling with Below and Beyond
Miami’s sludge punk band is back from obscurity
There's no reason why anyone should have heard of the band Floor. The Miami sludge-punk trio languished in obscurity from 1992 to 2004 and rarely played shows outside of their hometown of Gainesville, Fla., just up the road. So why, then, after fizzling out of existence six years ago, did Floor have to book two reunion shows in Atlanta to meet audience demands? And why is the group's catalog – most of which has remained unreleased – being issued in a mammoth box set from Robotic Empire?
As Factory Records founder Tony Wilson's character explains in the film 24 Hr. Party People, "The smaller the attendance, the bigger the history. There were 12 people at the last supper. ..."
Much of Floor's mystique comes from the fact that it's where guitarist/vocalist Steve Brooks cut his teeth before moving on to the more formidable band Torche. Floor was underexposed and underappreciated in its time, and went out with a whisper rather than a roar. Since then, the group has become something of a holy grail for Torche fans. The vast majority of their songs have been sitting on tapes, stored away in a fabled suitcase in a closet for years, their fate unknown. But after increased demand from Torche fans, the band has compiled almost everything they ever recorded into one ridiculously lavish box set titled Below and Beyond.
With the band Floor, Brooks, fellow founder/guitarist Anthony Vialon and three drummers (Beatriz Monteavaro, Jeff Sousa and Henry Wilson) unwittingly planted the seeds for the heavy balance of doom-laden riffs and sweet vocal melodies that culminate in Torche's epic, metallic pop sound. But neither Torche nor Floor have ever held any metal-minded ambitions. "We were the exact opposite of a metal band," Brooks says. "The music was sloppy, we never rehearsed, and we would write a bunch of songs the day before a show and then just play those songs. We did it for fun and we sang about things like Anthony's crush on a girl, or how much I hated my job. We never thought about making money, and we never played any songs about swords or dragons."
Brooks, who now lives in Atlanta, has carved out a niche for himself in the realms of noisy, post-grunge rock. As one of the only openly gay singers to front such an aggressive brand of music, he is a rare vocalist who understands that you can be in a heavy rock band without screaming your way through it. The first real sign of his melodic abilities appeared with Floor's self-titled '02 debut album (No Idea). Over the years, the group's sound went through phases as they sanded off the rough edges and settled on a streamlined hybrid of noise, staccato doom and pop.
As Vialon recalls, Brooks' burgeoning vocal style began on a whim. "Before we recorded the self-titled album, we didn't know what direction we were going," Vialon says. "We had the music down, but the vocals were literally an overnight decision. We just started writing these vocal melodies and hooks."
The self-titled record was the first album the group released, but it was by no means the first one they recorded. In '94 the group recorded an album titled Dove for Rhetoric Records. But when the label heard Brooks' nontraditional vocal style, they refused to release it because it wasn't heavy enough. "We were going to just rerecord some of the tracks and give them back, but Steve said, 'No, let's just do another record,' because we had a lot more material," Vialon says. "We went to Atlanta in '95 to record Saturnine and Tears, but we were disappointed with the production."
Dove was released by No Idea in '04, but Saturnine and Tears never got issued. Even after Vialon got kicked out of the band in '02, Floor carried on for a while, but drummer Wilson left the group soon after. Brooks returned with Torche in '04.
After getting kicked out of Floor for reasons he and the rest of the members refuse to discuss, Vialon removed himself from the music industry altogether. "That was it," he says. "Floor was mine and Steve's band and when it was over I didn't have any interest in playing music anymore." There's palpable tension in Vialon's voice when talking about Floor, but he's happy to be playing again, and the group's reunion shows in Miami, Gainesville and Atlanta offer him some closure. For each show the group is playing three sets, with each drummer featured on songs from their time with the group.
In the meantime, Robotic Empire has released Below and Beyond – a box set of 10 LPs, eight CDs and a 7-inch that compiles pretty much everything the group ever recorded – in a limited edition of 305 (because that's Miami's area code). "It's one of the coolest things I've ever seen and it blows my mind that enough people gave a shit," Brooks laughs. "There is some stuff that didn't make it on there, but dude, it's 10 records. ... That's good."
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8. to make or become steady
9. in a steady manner
10. informal go steady to date one person regularly
n , steadier, steadiest, steadies, steadying, steadied, steadies
11. informal one's regular boyfriend or girlfriend
12. nautical an order to the helmsman to stay on a steady course
13. a warning to keep calm, be careful, etc
14. (Brit) a command to get set to start, as in a race: ready, steady, go!
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1530, replacing earlier steadfast, from stead + adj. suffix -y, perhaps on model of M.Du., M.L.G. stadig. O.E. had stæððig "grave, serious," and stedig "barren," but neither seems to be the direct source of the modern word. O.N. cognate stoðugr "steady, stable"
was closer in sense. Originally of things; of persons or minds from 1602. Meaning "working at an even rate" is first recorded in 1548. The verb also is first recorded 1530. Noun meaning "one's boyfriend or girlfriend" is from 1897; to go steady is 1905 in teenager slang. Steady progress is etymologically a contradiction in terms. Steady state first attested 1885; as a cosmological theory (propounded by Bondi, Gold, and Hoyle), it is attested from 1948.
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"This "charity-house," as the wrecker called it, this "Humane house," as some call it, that is, the one to which we first came, had neither window nor sliding shutter, nor clapboards, nor paint. As we have said, there was a rusty nail put through the staple. However, as we wished to get an idea of a Humane house, and we hoped that we should never have a better opportunity, we put our eyes, by turns, to a knot-hole in the door, and, after long looking, without seeing, into the dark,—not knowing how many shipwrecked men's bones we might see at last, looking with the eye of faith, knowing that, though to him that knocketh it may not always be opened, yet to him that looketh long enough through a knot-hole the inside shall be visible,—for we had had some practice at looking inward,—by steadily keeping our other ball covered from the light meanwhile, putting the outward world behind us, ocean and land, and the beach,—till the pupil became enlarged and collected the rays of light that were wandering in that dark (for the pupil shall be enlarged by looking; there was never so dark a night but a faithful and patient eye, however small, might at last prevail over it),—after all this, I say, things began to take shape to our vision,—if we may use this expression where there was nothing but emptiness,—and we obtained the long-wished-for insight. Though we thought at first that it was a hopeless case, after several minutes' steady exercise of the divine faculty, our prospects began steadily to brighten, and we were ready to exclaim with the blind bard of "Paradise Lost and Regained,"—
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1. Jimmy Wilson Jimmy Wilson
Been working on a little personal project I started during AEA breaks last week. This is my first attempt at an iOS icon so any feedback would be awesome.
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2. Eric Hoffman Eric Hoffman
I think it's a great start. you have all the main elements in place, but it needs a tad of depth and some various treatments in my opinion. But... Im no icon designer. I owe you an email, don't I :)
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3. Jimmy Wilson Jimmy Wilson
@Eric Hoffman Thanks for the feedback. I'm still trying to find my way through the details, it's something that I've always struggled with, but I find I'm getting better w/ time. No worries on the email, you've had a crazy week and there's no rush on this thing.
I'm working on fixing a few details on the shadows, I'll post a rebound when I'm done.
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4. Made a bunch of corrections and added some depth to the icon for my (not so) super secret project. Think I'm getting closer, any critiques are appreciated.
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I have a quantity of LCD panels (from a wide range of dead laptop) and I would like to use only the CCFL + diffusors as a "creative" light source for a room in my house.
Is there some sort of "universal" CCFL supply that I can use to replace the panels inverter (that needs various undocumented control signals to works)?
Would those inverters for single CCFL tubes like this works with the panels (that have more than one lamp but just a single connection)?
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Effectively all you're salvaging is a small fluorescent light bulb. You could try buying an inverter that seems like a reasonable match for the typical bulb size from Digikey and seeing if it will drive each of the tubes, and if so, buy enough for your project of lighting them all up.
Aside from what tube size the inverter will drive, some notable variables will be the DC input voltage range and the connector to the bulb (which is not standardized). You might care whether the brightness control is an analog knob on the board or a digital control signal. There's a lot of variation in board shape and component height (for fitting into different types of products) that may not matter to you.
If the project gets too complicated, you could try salvaging only the diffuser panels and replacing the bulbs with a single bulb part number that you control. That way you can match the tube and the inverter and have control over the whole design. As the inverter cost is vastly more than the bulb cost, you're not saving much money by reusing old bulbs (which are likely already much less bright than when they were new).
For more technical details, you could start with this app note from Linear Tech.
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You're right about costs... I could consider salvaging also original inverters, but documentation about those boards are almost inexistent or extremely difficult to find. Vcc and Gnd could be located easily, but other control signals needed must be guessed, without an already working hardware... – Axeman Dec 5 '11 at 8:22
Since you probably want maximum brightness, the control signals might not have to be understood all that well. Have you tried removing the inverter board & bulb, feeding it power, and seeing if it lights up? How many pins are on the input side of the inverter board? It might only have DC power +/-, on/off, and brightness control (PWM etc). If you can take a look with a scope things might be easier to understand - but stay on the low-voltage side of the board! You only really need to know what the input connector pins are doing. Is there brand & part # labeling on the IC or the board? – Matt B. Dec 5 '11 at 11:52
If you buy any new CCFL parts, you'll end up with a very expensive, very dim lighting system. A <$10 LED flashlight will put out more light than a laptop backlight. Maybe you can just put some white LEDs on the diffuser? – Matt B. Dec 5 '11 at 12:03
Brightness is not an issue. I don't need to fill a room with light. I would like to use them to illuminate a sort of 3d-like layered scene. A normal 14" LCD monitor with a white screen is enough. But I need them to be very thin and very uniform. To answer your question, inverters that I have checket have all 5 or 6 pins on the input connector, no marking/brand/logo on the IC or on the board. Simply powering them (via a bench supply, slowly raising voltage to 12V) does not works. I could easily check signals with my Tek scope, but I don't have a working machine to read original signals. – Axeman Dec 5 '11 at 21:32
If you are sure which input pins are power & ground, and what voltage the signal pins run at, you could try powering the board and then toggling through all the combinations of high/low on the signal pins. You wouldn't have control over brightness but you might find a signal pattern that turns it on at full brightness. Also the laptop doesn't have to boot up, it just needs to turn on enough to light up the backlight, then you can scope the pins for some information, if the machine can get that far. – Matt B. Dec 7 '11 at 3:14
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In mathematical complex analysis, a quasiconformal mapping, introduced by Grötzsch (1928) and named by Ahlfors (1935), is a homeomorphism between plane domains which to first order takes small circles to small ellipses of bounded eccentricity.
Intuitively, let f : D → D′ be an orientation-preserving homeomorphism between open sets in the plane. If f is continuously differentiable, then it is K-quasiconformal if the derivative of f at every point maps circles to ellipses with eccentricity bounded by K.
Suppose f : D → D′ where D and D′ are two domains in C. There are a variety of equivalent definitions, depending on the required smoothness of f. If f is assumed to have continuous partial derivatives, then f is quasiconformal provided it satisfies the Beltrami equation
\frac{\partial f}{\partial\bar{z}} = \mu(z)\frac{\partial f}{\partial z},
for some complex valued Lebesgue measurable μ satisfying sup |μ| < 1 (Bers 1977). This equation admits a geometrical interpretation. Equip D with the metric tensor
ds^2 = \Omega(z)^2\left| \, dz + \mu(z) \, d\bar{z}\right|^2,
where Ω(z) > 0. Then f satisfies (1) precisely when it is a conformal transformation from D equipped with this metric to the domain D′ equipped with the standard Euclidean metric. The function f is then called μ-conformal. More generally, the continuous differentiability of f can be replaced by the weaker condition that f be in the Sobolev space W1,2(D) of functions whose first-order distributional derivatives are in L2(D). In this case, f is required to be a weak solution of (1). When μ is zero almost everywhere, any homeomorphism in W1,2(D) that is a weak solution of (1) is conformal.
Without appeal to an auxiliary metric, consider the effect of the pullback under f of the usual Euclidean metric. The resulting metric is then given by
\left|\frac{\partial f}{\partial z}\right|^2\left|\,dz+\mu(z)\,d\bar{z}\right|^2
which, relative to the background Euclidean metric dz d\bar{z}, has eigenvalues
(1+|\mu|)^2\textstyle{\left|\frac{\partial f}{\partial z}\right|^2},\qquad (1-|\mu|)^2\textstyle{\left|\frac{\partial f}{\partial z}\right|^2}.
The eigenvalues represent, respectively, the squared length of the major and minor axis of the ellipse obtained by pulling back along f the unit circle in the tangent plane.
Accordingly, the dilatation of f at a point z is defined by
K(z) = \frac{1+|\mu(z)|}{1-|\mu(z)|}.
The (essential) supremum of K(z) is given by
K = \sup_{z\in D} |K(z)| = \frac{1+\|\mu\|_\infty}{1-\|\mu\|_\infty}
and is called the dilatation of f.
A definition based on the notion of extremal length is as follows. If there is a finite K such that for every collection Γ of curves in D the extremal length of Γ is at most K times the extremal length of {f o γ : γ ∈ Γ}. Then f is K-quasiconformal.
If f is K-quasiconformal for some finite K, then f is quasiconformal.
A few facts about quasiconformal mappings[edit]
If K > 1 then the maps x + iyKx + iy and x + iyx + iKy are both quasiconformal and have constant dilatation K.
If s > −1 then the map z\mapsto z\,|z|^{s} is quasiconformal (here z is a complex number) and has constant dilatation \max(1+s, \frac{1}{1+s}). When s ≠ 0, this is an example of a quasiconformal homeomorphism that is not smooth. If s = 0, this is simply the identity map.
A homeomophism is 1-quasiconformal if and only if it is conformal. Hence the identity map is always 1-quasiconformal. If f : DD′ is K-quasiconformal and g : D′ → D′′ is K′-quasiconformal, then g o f is KK′-quasiconformal. The inverse of a K-quasiconformal homeomorphism is K-quasiconformal. Hence the set of quasiconformal maps forms a group under composition.
The space of K-quasiconformal mappings from the complex plane to itself mapping three distinct points to three given points is compact.
Measurable Riemann mapping theorem[edit]
Of central importance in the theory of quasiconformal mappings in two dimensions is the measurable Riemann mapping theorem, proved by Morrey (1938). The theorem generalizes the Riemann mapping theorem from conformal to quasiconformal homeomorphisms, and is stated as follows. Suppose that D is a simply connected domain in C that is not equal to C, and suppose that μ : DC is Lebesgue measurable and satisfies \|\mu\|_\infty<1. Then there is a quasiconformal homeomorphism f from D to the unit disk which is in the Sobolev space W1,2(D) and satisfies the corresponding Beltrami equation (1) in the distributional sense. As with Riemann's mapping theorem, this f is unique up to 3 real parameters.
n-dimensional generalization[edit]
Computational quasi-conformal geometry[edit]
Recently, quasi-conformal geometry has attracted attention from different fields, such as applied mathematics, computer vision and medical imaging. Computational quasi-conformal geometry has been developed, which extends the quasi-conformal theory into a discrete setting. It has found various important applications in medical image analysis, computer vision and graphics.
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Directed by Hari
Produced by M. A. Jinnah
Written by Hari
Starring Bharath
Poonam Bajwa
Simran Bagga
Sampath Raj
Y. G. Mahendran
Music by G. V. Prakash Kumar
Cinematography Priyan
Editing by V. T. Vijayan
Studio Jinnah Creations
Release dates 26 October 2008[1]
Country India
Language Tamil
Seval is a Tamil language action drama film released in 2008. It stars Bharath, Vadivelu, Simran Bagga and Poonam Bajwa in the lead roles.
The beginning is promising, at any rate, as you watch a Don't-Care Murugesan (Bharath) limp sorrowfully from the Central Jail, Palayamkottai, in a scruffy beard and glasses.
He has been incarcerated for 17 years. Naturally, there's a story which rewinds from 1989. In those halcyon days, he's an unruly youngster in pretty village Sivasailam, (Hari's forte, Thirunelveli District), the son of a hard-working flower-sellers (Rajesh and Yuvasri), with Thapaal Thangavelu (Vadivelu), who provides as much laughter as the posts he delivers.
Life is a long, sunny adventure for Murugesan who beats people up, sells his grandfather's land, runs over rooftops (like the rooster of the title) and incurs so much of his father's wrath that he's prophesied to meet a horrible end. Not that this gloomy prospect affects Murugesan—he continues on his own sweet way until he runs smack into Parijatham (debutante Poonam Bajwa), a demure, fair-complexioned, striking Iyer girl, the daughter of Panjami Iyer (Y. G. Mahendran) and the younger sister of Gayatri (Simran).
Thus we have the first half which is a series of rollicking fun interspersed with logical sequences; the two have sudden and quirky escapades.
In the meantime, the village's bigwig (Sampath Raj), who is magnanimous in public and a tyrant at home, casts his eyes on Parijatham. What sets his characterization apart is that he is not your average villain who shrieks and carries away the heroine; he places his pawns carefully, and is afraid of being found out and Parijatham is trapped and he starts removing her dresses. He and Murugesan come close to breaking each other's bones many times—but the situations defuse themselves in a perfectly natural fashion.
Several twists in the tale occur in a quick fashion, and Murugesan and Parijatham are bound in a net from which, seemingly, there is no escape.
Actors Role
Bharath Murugesan
Poonam Bajwa Parijatham
Vadivelu Thapaal Thangavelu
Simran Bagga Gayatri
The songs were composed by G. V. Prakash.[2]
Soundtrack album by G. V. Prakash Kumar
Genre Feature film soundtrack
G. V. Prakash Kumar chronology
Naan Aval Adhu
Ullasa Utsaha
Songs Singers
Kannamma Kannamma Vijay Yesudas, Gayathri
Namma Ooru Nallaarukku Tippu, Manickka Vinayagam, Anuradha Sriram
Odamarathu Mullapola Benny Dayal
Paarvaile Oru Yekkam Naresh Iyer
Thaayaramma Thaayaaru Karthik
Thulasi Chediyum Aralipoovum Hariharan, Deepa Miriam
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0.040493 | <urn:uuid:abf9603c-94bc-4e89-abba-6c4d2749a46b> | en | 0.930283 | Original (or Originald) was a male Christian name used until the 17th century in the North of England. It originated as a show of solidarity against Dutch immigrants in Lincolnshire.
The word "original" was used at that time to denote that something was British and not imported, quite different to the way we use it today when we mean to say "not fake" or "first".
In Northern social groups therefore the word "original" would be used when anything or anyone who was good, good being whatever was familiar and local.
It developed from this limited usage to mean something was valuable. It would be appropriate for example to describe someone as an "original friend" instead of a "best friend".
At some point this idea of general worthiness must have transgressed into proper nouns and the first "Mr Original Someone-or-other" would have emerged. This is not an isolated event, "Chastity" and "Faith" are girls names which are presumably supposed to encourage their namesakes. "Original" was probably intended to inspire boys to be good in the same way.
Of course this strategy doesn’t always work as Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner outline in their book Freakonomics. In his example, a man named "Winner" becomes a criminal whereas his twin brother; "Looser"; joins respectable society.
In the same way the only two examples of "Original" I’ve found, are names in court records.
Hardly conclusive proof, however the search for more "Originals" will be difficult, mostly because it is probably the hardest type of information to find using the internet. Searching for "original names" tends to bring up reams of websites for expectant mothers wishing to curse their babies with an "Acenzion", a "Sarika" or a "Taise".
To those parents I ask: How much more original would it be to name your child after the very thing you are so desperately striving for? The irony I’m sure will be uncovered by some.
Considering then that the name "Original" is based on the finest British traditions of assumed superiority, moralisation, criminality, idiocy*, and potential for irony; I am quite surprised that the name ever fell out of use.
A Glossary of Words used in the Wapentakes of Maningly and Corringham, Lincolnshire by Edward Peacock F.S.A. Published by the English Dialect Society 1877. (first edition)
Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. Published by William Morrow. 2005
*I am British and proud, the last sentence is mere self effacing humour - one of our more admirable national traits.
O*rig"i*nal (?), a. [F. original, L. originalis.]
Pertaining to the origin or beginning; preceding all others; first in order; primitive; primary; pristine; as, the original state of man; the original laws of a country; the original inventor of a process.
His form had yet not lost All her original brightness. Milton.
<-- #sic. "her" refers to form, apparently considered feminine in gender. -->
Not copied, imitated, or translated; new; fresh; genuine; as, an original thought; an original process; the original text of Scripture.
Having the power to suggest new thoughts or combinations of thought; inventive; as, an original genius.
Before unused or unknown; new; as, a book full of original matter.
Original sin Theol., the first sin of Adam, as related to its consequences to his descendants of the human race; -- called also total depravity. See Calvinism.
© Webster 1913.
O*rig"i*nal, n. [Cf. F. original.]
Origin; commencement; source.
It hath it original from much grief. Shak.
And spangled heavens, a shining frame, Their great Original proclaim. Addison.
That which precedes all others of its class; archetype; first copy; hence, an original work of art, manuscript, text, and the like, as distinguished from a copy, translation, etc.
The Scriptures may be now read in their own original. Milton.
An original thinker or writer; an originator.
Men who are bad at copying, yet are good originals. C. G. Leland.
A person of marked eccentricity.
5. Zool. & Bot.
The natural or wild species from which a domesticated or cultivated variety has been derived; as, the wolf is thought by some to be the original of the dog, the blackthorn the original of the plum.
© Webster 1913.
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David Stockman's dystopia
April 4, 2013: 6:38 AM ET
Ronald Reagan's former budget director, David Stockman, talks about his new book, what Republicans got wrong, and why private equity is the great deformation.
David Stockman
David Stockman
In a nutshell, Stockman lays out a painstaking account of how the country has deformed over the last 75 years. The title of the book is a riff on the Great Depression, which encouraged government growth and activist fiscal policy in a way that he says deformed "the two institutions that modern life depends on," politics and free markets.
In Stockman's estimation, Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan manipulated central bankers and federal budgets to burnish their reputations and strengthen their political influence. Subsequent presidents continued to embrace Keynesian economic policy -- explicitly on the left and covertly on the right -- to hide the fact that the real economy was weak. The true beneficiaries have been the military industrial complex and Wall Street. He mourns the passing of the gold standard. He wants to shutter the Environmental Protection Agency, slash the defense budget, and regulate Wall Street.
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The Great Deformation is like a funhouse mirror version of Stockman's own career, where his greatest accomplishments are -- to use a favorite Stockman word -- shibboleths. As an undergrad at Michigan State he protested the Vietnam War and was a member of the left-wing activist movement Students for a Democratic Society. After a turn at Harvard Divinity School, he served as U.S. Congressman from Michigan from 1977 until 1981, when he resigned to serve as Ronald Reagan's budget director. He worked at Salomon Brothers and The Blackstone Group (BX), and then formed his own private equity firm Heartland Industrial Partners. (The government investigated Stockman after Heartland's portfolio company Collins & Aikman filed for Chapter 11 but decided not to prosecute him.)
Indeed, a true despair lies beneath Stockman's pointed critiques.
"Well, I guess you could say that I'm pessimistic. The book is pessimistic. It's revisionist history that says we're not just going on some progressive path to bigger and better things, more prosperity with a stronger social order, financial system, opportunities and so forth.
"We've been living on borrowed time, borrowed money. And this is catching up with us. When the sins become this great, this massive, this ... you have to pay for it. So therefore the whole book is to say there really isn't much hope. We're at the Sundown era. But I wanted to end it by saying, yes, there are some ways out of this massive -- let's say, box canyon that we're in. But those solutions are so radical that in light of everything the reader would have read to that point about what went wrong, and the way the system deformed over decades, it's pretty obvious that most of them can't be done."
Clearly Stockman has a lot to say. But following a bombastic op-ed in the New York Times called "Sundown in America," he was quickly dismissed as a delusional goldbug , a crank, an empty ranter, and a parody of the iconoclast he used to be. No matter what you think of Stockman, he knows how to make people react.
The following are excerpts from his conversation with Fortune:
The Keynesian state has failed. Washington used the central banking branch and the Treasury to flatten the business cycle. It led to an apparent prosperity that the world had never seen before in the 1990s and the first seven years of this century. But it wasn't real. The financial crisis was a wake up call.
There's a notion that the Wall Street meltdown, Lehman and so forth, was like a comet from deep space that hit the earth. The government responded immediately. Bernanke was a hero. Paulson pulled a near coup d'etat in D.C. to stabilize the system. And this horrible thing was stopped cold.
I just knew it wasn't right. Washington simply doubled down on what caused the crisis -- low interest rates and and crony capitalism, the very things that led to a failing, bankrupt, paralyzed state.
Then it was clear to me that the financial crisis needed context. It needed history. We needed to understand how we got to a point when this could be taken seriously by Washington. It's how the book got to be so long, but I wanted to show that this didn't just happen overnight.
Your description of this process seems akin to recency bias -- where you base what you should do in the future on the most recent results.
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Would you ever re-enter politics, to try to work from within to fix some of the problems you've outlined?
No, it's truly futile.
Do you identify with either the right or the left?
The broken system can't be fixed by either party, which exist merely to help politicians compete for interest group money. And party identification never was that important because I've been an ideologue all my life. Ever since I marched on the Pentagon in 1967 to protest the Vietnam War I've changed my position many times over a lifetime of 40 years in Washington and Wall Street. The only time I've ever agreed with Keynes was when he said, "When I discover new facts, I change my opinion. What do you do, sir?"
You seem to have a particular loathing for the Republicans
We need to move to a citizen government model. That's why in the book I propose a constitutional amendment allowing people to serve any office for six years and never run for reelection or lobby. It's the only way to recapture government from the cronies of capitalism and from the K Street lobbies and have any sense of a democracy.
I'm hearing echoes of the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street.
Well, this is what I think goes on. They -- the state, the big government that we constantly talk about -- use a crisis like the Gulf of Tonkin to start a war in Vietnam. Bernanke and Paulson use the shock of Lehman's failure in order to stop the meltdown that was going on in the canyons of Wall Street. But Lehman should have gone down because it would have cleaned out a lot of the rot that had built up in the financial system. It would have re-introduced discipline.
Now you're venturing into Shock Doctrine territory.
The idea that the system exploits shocks in order to further the goals of various players and interest groups is correct. I don't see how you work your way out of that syndrome with a status quo view of the constitutional structure and the existing process of democratic governance.
You protested the Vietnam War. You lived through a time of intense social upheaval in the 1960s when people actually rioted over racism and the Vietnam War. As angry as you are now in this book, as angry as you sense some people may be today, why haven't we seen another revolution in the U.S.?
I've been a party to the things that I criticize. I've had my own recency bias. Collins & Aikman had taken on too much debt, but everybody in the buyout business was leveraged that way. We had downside cases that were not remotely bad enough to encompasses what would happen if the world unraveled; and the auto industry fell apart. I couldn't cut fast enough. I couldn't fire enough people. I couldn't impair the future of the company enough in order to pay the interest on the debt.
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I realized that the leveraged buyout business is one of the great deformations of modern policy. That's why I have some sections on it. It's an artifact of a very artificial policy environment that really shouldn't exist. You shouldn't be able to borrow that much money, and the whole tax system is biased in favor of capital gains and debt, and against equity. You shouldn't have such low interest rates that junk bonds and other speculative investments become larger because investors have to stretch for yield.
You say you're for free enterprise, but it sounds like you think Wall Street needs more restrictive incentives, or even regulation.
Banks are not free enterprise institutions. I'm very anti-regulation as you could tell from the book, and I say to deregulate true free enterprises. But banks are wards of the state. They need deposit insurance. They need access to the Fed window. They take demand deposits and loan them out for several years, while still promising depositors they can have their money back anytime. It's a dangerous business. Given all those characteristics, you need very comprehensive regulation of banking charters and banking behavior and banking balance sheets. Otherwise you'll have financial bubbles and blowups time and again.
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(Wikipedia) - Jordan, officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, Al-Mamlaka al-Urduniyya al-Hashemiyya is a kingdom on the East Bank of the River Jordan. The country borders Saudi Arabia to the east and south-east, Iraq to the north-east, Syria to the north and the West Bank and Israel to the west, sharing control of the Dead Sea. Jordan's only port is at its south-western tip, at the Gulf of Aqaba, which is shared with Israel, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia. Much of Jordan is covered by the Arabian Desert. However, the north-western part of Jordan is part of the Fertile Crescent. The capital city is Amman. Modern Jordan was founded in 1921, and it was recognized by the League of Nations as a state under the British mandate in 1922 known as The Emirate of Transjordan. In 1946, Jordan joined the United Nations as an independent sovereign state officially known as the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. In antiquity, the present day Jordan was in the heart of the earlier civilizations which prospered in the Fertile Crescent including the Babylonian and the Canaanites. Later, Jordan became a home for several ancient kingdoms including: the kingdom of Edom, the kingdom of Moab, the kingdom of Ammon and the prominent Nabataean kingdom of Petra. However, across different eras of history, parts of the country laid under the control of some regional powers including the Pharaonic Egypt during their wars with the Babylonian and the Hetites; and for discrete periods of times by Israelites who were taken under the captivity of the Babylonian, and who were later defeated by the Moabites as recorded in Mesha stele. Furthermore, and due to its strategic location in the middle of the ancient world, Jordan was also controlled by the ancient empires of Greece, the Persians, the Romans and later by the Byzantine. Yet, the Nabataean managed to create their independent kingdom which covered most parts of modern Jordan and beyond, for some centuries, before it was taken by the still expanding Roman empire. However, apart from Petra, the Romans maintained the prosperity of most of the ancient cities in Jordan which enjoyed a sort of city-state autonomy under the umbrella of the alliance of the Decapolis. With the decline of the Roman Empire, Jordan came to be controlled by the Ghassanid Arab kingdom. In the seventh century, and due to its proximity to Damascus, Jordan became a heartland for the Arabic Islamic Empire and therefore secured several centuries of stability and prosperity, which allowed the coining of its current Arabic Islamic identity. In the 11th century, Jordan witnessed a phase of instability, as it became a battlefield for the Crusade wars which ended with defeat by the Ayyobis. Jordan suffered also from the Mongol attacks which were blocked by Mamluks. In 1516, It became part of the Ottoman Empire and it remained so until 1918, when the Army of the Great Arab Revolt took over, and secured the present day Jordan with the help and support of Jordan local tribes. As witness to Jordan's rich history, the Nabataean civilization left many magnificent archaeological sites at Petra, which is considered one of the New Seven Wonders of the World as well as been recognized by the UNESCO as a world Heritage site. Beside Petra, other civilizations also left their archaeological fingerprints on Jordan including the Hellenistic and the Roman through their ruins in Decapolis cities of Gerasa, Gadara (Umm Qais), Amman, Capitolias (Beit Ras), Raphana, Pella and Arabella and the Byzantine site of Um er-Rasas. The Arabic Islamic Empire also left its unique architectural signature which is embodied by dessert palaces including Qasr Mshatta, Qasr al Hallabat and Qasr Amra which is recognized as World Heritage; in addition to the castles of Ajloun and Karak which combine the Crusade, Ayyobi and Mumlouk eras all together. The more recent Ottomans left some landmarks including several mosques, tombs, small railway stations and castles. Modern Jordan is predominantly urbanized. Jordan is classified as a country of "high human development" by the 2010 Human Development Report. Furthermore, The Kingdom has been classified as an emerging market with a free market economy by the CIA World Fact Book. The Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the United States went into effect in December, 2001 phased out duties on nearly all goods and services between the two countries. On the other hand, Jordan enjoyed "advanced status" with the European Union since December, 2010 as well as being a member of the Euro-Mediterranean free trade area. Jordan has more Free Trade Agreements than any other country in the region. It has a moderate "pro-Western" policy with very close relations with the the United States and the United Kingdom, and became a major non-NATO ally of the United States in 1996. Yet, Jordan is a founding member of both the Arab League, and the Organisation of the Islamic Cooperation. Recently, Jordan has be invited to Join the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). The Jordanian Government is one of only three members of the 22 state Arab League to have diplomatic relations with Israel, the others being the Egyptian and Palestinian governments. Jordan is a member of the WTO, the AFESD, the Arab Parliament, the AIDMO, the AMF, the IMF, the International Criminal Court, the UNHRC, the GAFTA, the GCC, the ESCWA, the ENP and the United Nations. 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Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan اَلمَمْلَكَة اَلأُرْدُنِيَّة اَلهَاشِمِيَّة al-Mamlakah al-ʾUrdunniyyah al-Hāšimiyyah Official language(s) Spoken languages Demonym Government Legislature Independence Area Population Currency Time zone Drives on the ISO 3166 code Internet TLD Calling code
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Motto: الله، الوطن، الملك (Arabic) "Allāh, al-Waṭan, al-Malik" "God, Country, The King"
Anthem: السلام الملكي الأردني as-Salām al-Malakī al-ʾUrdunnī Long Live the King
Capital Amman 31°57′N 35°56′E / 31.95°N 35.933°E / 31.95; 35.933
English · French Circassiana Chechen · Armenian Persian · Kurdish Turkish
Ethnic groups 98% Arab 1% Circassian (Adyghe) 1% Armenian
Unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy
- King Abdullah II
- Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour
- Upper house Senate
- Lower house Chamber of Deputies
- League of Nations mandate ended 25 May 1946
- Total 89,342 km2 (112th) 35,637 sq mi
- Water (%) 0.8
- July 2011 estimate 6,508,271 (106th)
- July 2004 census 5,611,202
- Density 68.4/km2 (133st) 138.8/sq mi
GDP (PPP) 2011 estimate
- Total $36.893 billion (98th)
- Per capita $5,899 (108th)
GDP (nominal) 2011 estimate
- Total $29.233 billion (90th)
- Per capita $4,674 (96th)
Gini (2002–03) 38.8 (medium)
HDI (2011) 0.698 (medium) (95th)
Jordanian dinar (JOD)
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- Summer (DST) UTC+3 (UTC+3)
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Jordan ( /ˈdʒɔrdən/; Arabic: اَلأُرْدُنّ, Al-ʾUrdunn), officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan (Arabic: اَلمَمْلَكَة اَلأُرْدُنِيَّة اَلهَاشِمِيَّة, al-Mamlakah al-ʾUrdunniyyah al-Hāšimiyyah) is an Arab kingdom in Western Asia, on the East Bank of the River Jordan. The country leader is Abdullah II. The country borders Saudi Arabia to the east and south-east, Iraq to the north-east, Syria to the north and the West Bank and Israel to the west, sharing control of the Dead Sea with the latter. Jordan's only port is at its south-western tip, at the Gulf of Aqaba, which is shared with Israel, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia. Over half of Jordan is covered by the Arabian Desert. However, the western part of Jordan is arable land and forests. Jordan is part of the Fertile Crescent. The capital city is Amman. According to the CIA World Factbook, Jordan has the second highest life expectancy in the Middle East, after Israel. The average life expectancy is one position behind the United Kingdom, although the age remains exactly the same (80.05 years).
The precursor to modern Jordan was founded in 1921 as the Hashemite Emirate, and it was recognized by the League of Nations as a state under the British Mandate for Palestine in 1922 known as The Emirate of Transjordan. In 1946, Jordan became an independent sovereign state officially known as the Hashemite Kingdom of Transjordan. After capturing the West Bank area of Cisjordan during the 1948–49 war with Israel, Abdullah I took the title King of Jordan and Palestine, and he officially changed the country's name to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan in April 1949.
Modern Jordan is classified as a country of "medium human development" by the 2011 Human Development Report, and an emerging market with the third freest economy in the Middle East and North Africa (32nd freest worldwide) . Jordan has an "upper middle income" economy. Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the United States went into effect in December, 2001 phased out duties on nearly all goods and services between the two countries. Jordan has also enjoyed "advanced status" with the European Union since December 2010, and it is also a member of the Euro-Mediterranean free trade area. Jordan has more Free Trade Agreements than any other country in the region. It has close relations with the United States and the United Kingdom, and became a major non-NATO ally of the United States in 1996. Jordan is a founding member of the Arab League, and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). Jordan was invited to Join the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). Jordan was the first Arab and Middle Eastern state to join the International Criminal Court. The Jordanian Government is one of three members of the 22 Arab League states to maintain diplomatic relations with Israel; the others are Egypt and the Palestinian National Authority.
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• 1 Geography
• 1.1 Climate
• 2 History of Jordan
• 2.1 Ancient history
• 2.2 Classical period
• 2.3 Middle Ages
• 2.4 Ottoman rule
• 2.5 Hashemite domination
• 2.5.1 British mandate on Transjordan
• 2.5.2 Under King Abdullah I
• 2.5.3 Under King Hussein
• 2.5.4 Under King Abdullah II
• 3 Government
• 3.1 Parliament
• 3.2 Constitution
• 3.3 Legal system and legislation
• 3.4 Police
• 3.5 Foreign relations
• 3.6 Military
• 3.7 UN Peacekeeping force
• 4 Political parties
• 5 Administrative divisions
• 6 Human rights
• 7 Demographics
• 7.1 Genetics
• 7.2 Language
• 7.3 Religion
• 7.4 Health
• 7.5 Standard of Living in Jordan
• 7.6 Education
• 7.6.1 Higher education
• 8 Economy
• 8.1 Agriculture
• 8.2 Natural resources
• 8.3 IT&Telecoms
• 8.4 Currency and exchange rates
• 8.5 Tourism
• 8.5.1 Medical tourism
• 8.5.2 Nature reserves
• 8.6 Transportation
• 8.7 Defense industry
• 8.8 Influence of the Southwest Asian conflict
• 8.8.1 Opportunity cost of the conflict
• 9 Culture
• 10 Globalization
• 11 See also
• 12 References
• 13 Further reading
• 14 External links
Geography Main article: Geography of Jordan
The mountains of Jerash GovernorateThe Gulf of Aqaba is named after the historic port of Aqaba
The Jordan Rift Valley of the Jordan River separates Jordan from the West Bank and Israel. The highest point in the country is Jabal Umm al Dami, at 1,854 m (6,083 ft) above sea level, its top is also covered with snow, while the lowest is the Dead Sea −420 m (−1,378 ft). Jordan is part of a region considered to be "the cradle of civilization", the Levant region of the Fertile Crescent. Major cities include the capital Amman and as-Salt in the west, Irbid, Jerash and Zarqa, in the northwest and Madaba, Karak and Aqaba in the southwest. Major towns in the eastern part of the of the country are the oasis town of Azraq and Ruwaished.
Climate Main article: Climate of Jordan
The climate in Jordan is semi-dry in summer with average temperature in the mid 30 °C (86 °F) (mid 90 °F) and relatively cold in winter averaging around 13 °C (55 °F). The western part of the country receives greater precipitation during the winter season from November to March and snowfall in Amman (756 m (2,480 ft) ~ 1,280 m (4,199 ft) above sea-level) and Western Heights of 500 m (1,640 ft). Excluding the rift valley the rest of the country is entirely above 300 m (984 ft)(SL). The weather is humid from November to March and semi dry for the rest of the year. With hot, dry summers and cool winters during which practically all of the precipitation occurs, the country has a Mediterranean-style climate. In general, the farther inland from the Mediterranean a given part of the country lies, the greater are the seasonal contrasts in temperature and the less rainfall.
Atmospheric pressures during the summer months are relatively uniform, whereas the winter months bring a succession of marked low pressure areas and accompanying cold fronts. These cyclonic disturbances generally move eastward from over the Mediterranean Sea several times a month and result in sporadic precipitation.
Most of the land receives less than 620 mm (24.4 in) of rain a year and may be classified as a semi dry region. Where the ground rises to form the highlands east of the Jordan Valley, precipitation increases to around 300 mm (11.8 in) in the south and 500 mm (19.7 in) or more in the north. The Jordan Valley, forms a narrow climatic zone that annually receives up to 900 mm (35.4 in) of rain in the northern reaches; rain dwindles to less than 120 mm (4.7 in) at the head of the Dead Sea.
The country's long summer reaches a peak during August. January is usually the coldest month. The fairly wide ranges of temperature during a twenty-four-hour period are greatest during the summer months and have a tendency to increase with higher elevation. Daytime temperatures during the summer months frequently exceed 29 °C (84.2 °F) and average about 32 °C (89.6 °F). September to March are moderately cool and sometimes very cold, averaging about 3.2 °C (37.8 °F). Except in the rift depression, frost is fairly common during the winter, it may take the form of snow at the higher elevations of the north western highlands. Usually it snows a couple of times in the winter.
For a month or so before and after the summer dry season, hot, dry air from the desert, drawn by low pressure, produces strong winds from the south or southeast that sometimes reach gale force. Known in Western Asia by various names, including the khamsin, this dry, sirocco-style wind is usually accompanied by great dust clouds. Its onset is heralded by a hazy sky, a falling barometer, and a drop in relative humidity to about 10%. Within a few hours there may be a 10 °C (18.0 °F) to 15 °C (27.0 °F) rise in temperature. These windstorms ordinarily last a day or so, cause much discomfort, and destroy crops by desiccating them.
The shamal comes from the north or northwest between June and September. Steady during daytime hours but becoming a breeze at night, the shamal may blow for nine days out of ten and then repeat the process. It originates as a dry continental mass of polar air that is warmed as it passes over the Eurasian landmass.
Petra, one of the New Seven Wonders of the World History of Jordan Main articles: History of Jordan and Timeline of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan Ancient historyThe Roman Oval Piazza in the ancient city of Jerash
In antiquity, the present day Jordan became a home for several ancient kingdoms including: the kingdom of Edom, the kingdom of Moab and the kingdom of Ammon. Throughout different eras of history, parts of the country were laid under the control of some regional powers including Pharaonic Egypt during their wars with the Babylonians and the Hittites; and for discrete periods of times by Israelites. The Mesha Stele recorded the glory of the King of Edom and the victories over the Israelites and other nations. The Ammon and Moab kingdoms are mentioned in ancient maps, Near Eastern documents, ancient Greco-Roman artifacts, and Christian and Jewish religious scriptures.
Classical period
The Nabatean kingdom was one of the most prominent states in the region through the middle classic period, since the decline of the Seleucid control of the region in 168 BC. The Nabateans were most probably people of Arabian ancestry, who fell under the early influence of the Hellenistic and Parthian cultures, creating a unique civilized society, which roamed the roads of the deserts. They controlled the regional and international trade routes of the ancient world by dominating a large area southwest of the fertile crescent, which included the whole of modern Jordan in addition to the southern part of Syria in the north and the northern part of Arabian Peninsula in the south. The Nabataeans developed the Arabic Script, with their language as an intermediary between Aramaean and the ancient Classical Arabic, which evolved into Modern Arabic.
The Nabateans were largely conquered by the Hasmonean rulers of Judea and many of them forced to convert to Judaism in the late second century BC. However, the Nabataeans managed to maintain a sort of semi-independent kingdom, which covered most parts of modern Jordan and beyond, before it was taken by the Herodians and finally annexed by the still expanding Roman empire in 106 AD. However, apart from Petra, the Romans maintained the prosperity of most of the ancient cities in Transjordan which enjoyed a sort of city-state autonomy under the umbrella of the alliance of the Decapolis. Nabataean civilization left many magnificent archaeological sites at Petra, which is considered one of the New Seven Wonders of the World as well as recognized by the UNESCO as a world Heritage site.
With the decline of the Eastern Roman Empire, Transjordan came to be controlled by the Christian Ghassanid Arab kingdom, which allied with Byzantium. The Byzantine site of Um er-Rasas is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Middle Ages
The Arabic Islamic Empire has left desert palaces such as Qasr Mshatta, Qasr al Hallabat and Qasr Amra; and the castles of Ajloun and Al Karak which were used in the Crusader, Ayyubid and Mamluk eras.
In the 11th century, Transjordan witnessed a phase of instability, as it became a battlefield for the Crusade wars which ended with defeat by the Ayyubids. Jordan suffered also from the Mongol attacks which were blocked by Mamluks.
Ottoman rule
In 1516, Transjordan became part of the Ottoman Empire and it remained so until 1918, when the Hashemite Army of the Great Arab Revolt took over, and secured the present day Jordan with the help and support of Transjordanian local tribes.
During World War I, the Transjordanian tribes fought, along with other tribes of Hijaz and Levant regions, as part of the Arab Army of the Great Arab Revolt. The revolt was launched by Hashemites and led by Sherif Hussein of Mecca against the Ottoman Empire. It was supported by the Allies of World War I. The chronicle of the revolt was written by T. E. Lawrence who, as a young British Army officer, played a liaison role during the revolt. He published the chronicle in London, 1922 under the title "Seven Pillars of Wisdom", which was the basis for the iconic movie "Lawrence of Arabia".
British mandate on Transjordan Main article: Transjordan
The Hashemite leadership met multiple difficulties upon assuming power in the region. The most serious threats to emir Abdullah's position in Transjordan were repeated Wahhabi incursions from Najd into southern parts of his territory. The emir was powerless to repel those raids by himself, thus the British maintained a military base, with a small air force, at Marka, close to Amman. The British military force was the primary obstacle against the Ikhwan, and was also used to help emir Abdullah with the suppression of local rebellions at Kura and later by Sultan Adwan, in 1921 and 1923 respectively.
Arar (1897–1949), poet of Jordan Under King Abdullah I
On 25 May 1946 the United Nations approved the end of the British Mandate and recognized Transjordan as an independent sovereign kingdom. The Parliament of Transjordan proclaimed King Abdullah as the first King. The country's name was later changed from Transjordan to Jordan.
On 24 April 1950, Jordan formally annexed the West Bank and East Jerusalem, an act that was regarded as illegal and void by the Arab League. The move formed part of Jordan’s "Greater Syria Plan" expansionist policy, and in response, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon and Syria joined Egypt in demanding Jordan’s expulsion from the Arab League. A motion to expel Jordan from the League was prevented by the dissenting votes of Yemen and Iraq. On 12 June 1950, the Arab League declared the annexation was a temporary, practical measure and that Jordan was holding the territory as a “trustee” pending a future settlement. On 27 July 1953, King Hussein of Jordan announced that East Jerusalem was "the alternative capital of the Hashemite Kingdom" and would form an "integral and inseparable part" of Jordan.
Abdullah I was assassinated in 1951 by a Palestinian militant Mustafa Ashu, of the jihad al-muqaddas, as he was leaving the al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. The reason for his murder was allegedly the power rivalry of the al-Husseinis over control of Palestine, which was declared a part of the Hashemite Kingdom by Adbullah I. Though Amin al-Husseini, former mufti of Jerusalem, was not directly charged in the plot, Musa al-Husseini was among the 6 executed by Jordanian authorities, following the assassination.
Under King Hussein
Jordan, which became a founding member of the Arab League in 1945 and gained independence in 1946, joined the United Nations in 1955. In 1957 it terminated the Anglo-Jordan treaty, one year after the king sacked the British personnel serving in the Jordanian Army. This act of Arabization ensured the complete sovereignty of Jordan as a fully independent nation.
In May 1967, Jordan signed a military pact with Egypt. In June 1967, it joined Egypt, Syria and Iraq in the Six Day War against Israel, which however ended in an Israeli victory and the capture of the West Bank and East Jerusalem. The period following the war saw an upsurge in the activity and numbers of Arab Palestinian paramilitary elements (fedayeen) within the state of Jordan. These distinct, armed militias were becoming a "state within a state", threatening Jordan's rule of law. King Hussein's armed forces targeted the fedayeen, and open fighting erupted in June 1970. The battle in which Palestinian fighters from various Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) groups were expelled from Jordan is commonly known as Black September.
The heaviest fighting occurred in northern Jordan and Amman. In the ensuing heavy fighting, a Syrian tank force invaded northern Jordan to back the fedayeen fighters, but subsequently retreated. King Hussein urgently asked the United States and Great Britain to intervene against Syria. Consequently, Israel performed mock air strikes on the Syrian column at the Americans' request. Soon after, Syrian President Nureddin al-Atassi, ordered a hasty retreat from Jordanian soil. By 22 September, Arab foreign ministers meeting in Cairo arranged a cease-fire beginning the following day. However, sporadic violence continued until Jordanian forces, led by Habis Al-Majali, with the help of Iraqi forces, won a decisive victory over the fedayeen on July 1971, expelling them, and ultimately the PLO's Yasser Arafat of Jordan.
In 1973, allied Arab League forces attacked Israel in the Yom Kippur War, and fighting occurred along the 1967 Jordan River cease-fire line. Jordan sent a brigade to Syria to attack Israeli units on Syrian territory but did not engage Israeli forces from Jordanian territory. At the Rabat summit conference in 1974, Jordan was now in a more secure position to agree, along with the rest of the Arab League, that the PLO was the "sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people", thereby relinquishing to that organization its role as representative of the West Bank.
The last major strain in Jordan's relations with Israel occurred in September 1997, when Israeli agents allegedly entered Jordan using Canadian passports and poisoned Khaled Meshal, a senior leader of Hamas. Israel provided an antidote to the poison and released dozens of political prisoners, including Sheikh Ahmed Yassin.
Under King Abdullah II Further information: Abdullah II of Jordan
Abdullah became king on 7 February 1999, upon the death of his father King Hussein. Hussein had recently named him Crown Prince on 24 January, replacing Hussein's brother Hassan, who had served many years in the position. He is the namesake of King Abdullah I, his great grandfather who founded modern Jordan.
Jordan's economy has improved greatly since Abdullah ascended to the throne in 1999, and he has been credited with increasing foreign investment, improving public-private partnerships, and providing the foundation for Aqaba's free trade zone and Jordan's flourishing information and communication technology (ICT) sector. He also set up five other special economic zones: Irbid, Ajloun, Mafraq, Ma'an, and the Dead Sea. As a result of these reforms, Jordan's economic growth has doubled to 6% annually under King Abdullah's rule compared to the latter half of the 1990s. Foreign direct investment from the West as well as the countries of the Persian Gulf has continued to increase. He also negotiated a free trade agreement with the United States, which was the third free trade agreement for the U.S. and the first with an Arab country.
In 2005 BBC international published an article titled "Jordan edging towards democracy", where King Abdullah expressed his intentions of making Jordan a democratic country. According to the article, president George W. Bush "urged King Abdullah, a U.S. ally, to take steps towards democracy". Thus far, however, democratic development has been limited, with the monarchy maintaining most power and its allies dominating parliament. Elections were held in November 2010, and following the Arab Spring which started in 2011, a new prime minister was appointed. In June 2011 the King has announced a move to a British style of Cabinet Government.
Government Main article: Government of Jordan
The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan is a constitutional monarchy with an appointed government. The reigning monarch is the chief executive and the commander-in-chief of the armed forces. The king exercises his executive authority through the prime ministers and the Council of Ministers, or cabinet. The cabinet, meanwhile, is responsible before the democratically elected House of Deputies which, along with the House of Notables (Senate), constitutes the legislative branch of the government. The judicial branch is an independent branch of the government.
King Abdullah II, Jordanian Head of State.Queen Rania of JordanSee also: List of Kings of Jordan and Line of succession to the Jordanian throne
King Abdullah I ruled Jordan after independence from Britain. After the assassination of King Abdullah I in 1951, his son King Talal ruled briefly. King Talal's major accomplishment was the Jordanian constitution. King Talal was removed from the throne in 1952 due to mental illness. At that time his son, Hussein, was too young to rule, and hence a committee ruled over Jordan.
After Hussein reached 18, he ruled Jordan as king from 1953 to 1999, surviving a number of challenges to his rule, drawing on the loyalty of his military, and serving as a symbol of unity and stability in Jordan. King Hussein ended martial law in 1991 and legalized political parties in 1992. In 1989 and 1993, Jordan held free and fair parliamentary elections. Controversial changes in the election law led Islamist parties to boycott the 1997 elections.
King Abdullah II succeeded his father Hussein following the latter's death in February 1999. Abdullah moved quickly to reaffirm Jordan's peace treaty with Israel and its relations with the United States. Abdullah, during the first year in power, refocused the government's agenda on economic reform.
Jordan's continuing structural economic difficulties, burgeoning population, and more open political environment led to the emergence of a variety of political parties. Moving toward greater independence, Jordan's parliament has investigated corruption charges against several regime figures and has become the major forum in which differing political views, including those of political Islamists, are expressed. While the King remains the ultimate authority in Jordan, the parliament plays an important role.
Parliament Main article: Parliament of Jordan
The 1952 Constitution provided for the establishment of the bicameral National Assembly of Jordan (‘Majlis al-Umma’). The Parliament consists of two Chambers: The Chamber of Deputies (‘Majlis al-Nuwaab’) and the Senate (‘Majlis al-Aayan’; literally, ‘Assembly of Notables’). The Senate has 60 Senators, all of whom are directly appointed by the King, while the Chamber of Deputies/House of Representatives has 120 elected members representing 12 constituencies. Of the 120 members of the Lower Chamber, 12 seats are reserved for women, 9 seats are reserved for Christian candidates, 9 seats are reserved for Bedouin candidates, and 3 seats are reserved for Jordanians of Chechen or Circassian descent. The Constitution ensures that the Senate cannot be more than half the size of the Chamber of Deputies.
The constitution does not provide a strong system of checks and balances within which the Jordanian Parliament can assert its role in relationship to the monarch. During the suspension of Parliament between 2001 and 2003, the scope of King Abdullah II's power was demonstrated with the passing of 110 temporary laws. Two of such laws dealt with election law and were seen to reduce the power of Parliament.
Senators have terms of four years and are appointed by the King and can be reappointed. Prospective Senators must be at least forty years old and have held senior positions in either the government or military. Appointed Senators have included former Prime Ministers and Members of the Chamber of Deputies. Deputies are elected to also serve a four year term. Candidates must be older than thirty-five, cannot have blood ties to the King, and must not have any financial interests in government contracts.
Jordan is a constitutional monarchy based on the constitution promulgated on 8 January 1952. Executive authority is vested in the king and his council of ministers. The king signs and executes all laws. His veto power may be overridden by a two-thirds vote of both houses of the National Assembly. He appoints and may dismiss all judges by decree, approves amendments to the constitution, declares war, and commands the armed forces. Cabinet decisions, court judgments, and the national currency are issued in his name. The council of ministers, led by a prime minister, is appointed by the king, who may dismiss other cabinet members at the prime minister's request. The cabinet is accountable to the Chamber of Deputies on matters of general policy and can be forced to resign by a 50% or more of vote of "no confidence" by that body.
The constitution provides for three categories of courts: civil, religious, and special. Administratively, Jordan is divided into twelve governorates, each headed by a governor appointed by the king. They are the sole authorities for all government departments and development projects in their respective areas.
Jordan is currently ranked as 'not free' by Freedomhouse.
Legal system and legislation
Jordan's legal system is based on French code law system via the Egyptian civil laws while Islamic law is limited to civic status legislation for Muslims. Religious minority civic status is regulated by respective religious courts. Judicial review of legislative acts occurs in a special High Tribunal. It has not accepted International Court of Justice jurisdiction.
Jordan has multi-party politics. There are over 30 political parties in Jordan from extreme left (Jordanian Communist Party) to extreme right (Islamic Action Front). Article 97 of Jordan's constitution guarantees the independence of the judicial branch, clearly stating that judges are 'subject to no authority but that of the law.' While the king must approve the appointment and dismissal of judges, in practice these are supervised by the Higher Judicial Council.
The Jordanian legal system draws upon civil traditions as well as Islamic law and custom. Article 99 of the Constitution divides the courts into three categories: civil, religious and special. The civil courts deal with civil and criminal matters in accordance with the law, and they have jurisdiction over all persons in all matters, civil and criminal, including cases brought against the government. The civil courts include Magistrate Courts, Courts of First Instance, Courts of Appeal, High Administrative Courts and the Supreme Court. The religious courts include shari’a (Islamic law) courts and the tribunals of other religious communities, namely those of the Christian minority. Religious courts have primary and appellate courts and deal only with matters involving personal law such as marriage, divorce, inheritance and child custody. Shari’a courts also have jurisdiction over matters pertaining to the Islamic waqfs. In cases involving parties of different religions, regular courts have jurisdiction.
Despite traditional male domination, the number of women lawyers has been increasing. As of mid-2006 Jordan had 1,284 female lawyers, out of a total number of 6,915, and 35 female judges from a total of 630.
A female police officer in Amman Police Main article: Law enforcement in Jordan
King Abdullah II on a visit to The Pentagon. Foreign relations Main article: Foreign relations of Jordan
Jordan has followed a pro-Western foreign policy and maintained close relations with the United States and the United Kingdom. These relations were damaged by Jordan's neutrality and maintaining relations with Iraq during the first Gulf War. During the 1970s, King Hussein negotiated with Iran to halt the military buildup to annex the small Persian Gulf nation of Bahrain. In the 1990s, he tried to mediate the conflict between the United States and Iraq and tried to bring an end to hostilities while still condemning the Iraqi annexation of Kuwait. Jordan has historically been at the forefront of negotiating peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians. King Abdullah II is the mediator between Israel and the Arab League's negotiations for peace and normalization of bilateral ties.
Following the Gulf War, Jordan largely restored its relations with Western countries through its participation in the Southwest Asia peace process and enforcement of UN sanctions against Iraq. Relations between Jordan and the Persian Gulf countries improved substantially after King Hussein's death. Following the fall of the Iraqi regime, Jordan has played a pivotal role in supporting the restoration of stability and security to Iraq. The Government of Jordan signed a memorandum of understanding with the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq to facilitate the training of up to 30,000 Iraqi police cadets at a Jordanian facility.
Vladimir Putin visiting the Baptism Site Bethany Beyond the Jordan in the Jordan Valley, 2007
Jordan signed a non-belligerency agreement with Israel in Washington, D.C. on 25 July 1994. King Hussein and Yitzhak Rabin negotiated this treaty. Jordan and Israel signed a historic peace treaty on 26 October 1994, witnessed by President Bill Clinton, accompanied by US Secretary, Warren Christopher. The US has participated with Jordan and Israel in trilateral development discussions in which key issues have been water-sharing and security; cooperation on Jordan Rift Valley development; infrastructure projects; and trade, finance, and banking issues.
Jordan and Israel had generally close relations even before the signing of the 1994 Peace Treaty. On more than one occasion, Jordan warned Israel of an impending attack by Syria and Egypt. Also, during the Black September conflict in Jordan, Israel warned Syria that any Syrian intervention on the side of the PLO against the Jordanian monarchy would result in an Israeli attack. Israel and Jordan along with Lebanon were already negotiating a peace treaty as early as the 1950s. However, this friendship has been damaged several times due to the worsening situation in the Palestinian territories and the slow peace process with the Palestinians. In Israel in 2009, several Likud lawmakers proposed a bill that called for a Palestinian state on both sides of the Jordan River, presuming that Jordan should be the alternative homeland for the Palestinians. Later, following similar remarks by the Israeli Speaker of the Knesset, twenty Jordanian lawmakers proposed a bill in the Jordanian Parliament in which the peace treaty between Israel and Jordan would be frozen. The Israeli Foreign Ministry disavowed the original proposal.
The Jordanian General Intelligence Department is reportedly the CIA's closest partner after Britain's MI6. Also, the release classified US cables on Wikileaks proved the depth of US-Jordan relations. Over 4,000 military cables were sent from Amman, the fifth most popular origin of US military cables worldwide, higher than from London or Tel Aviv. Jordan provides extensive strategic and logistic support to US military forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. However, the leaked military cables show that America had kept Jordan's involvement in the War on Terror quiet whether it be its rendition program or Jordan's leading of counterterrorism operations in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Jordan also participates in the multilateral peace talks. Jordan belongs to the UN and several of its specialized and related agencies, including the World Trade Organization (WTO), the International Meteorological Organization (IMO), Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), and the World Health Organization (WHO). Jordan also is a member of the World Bank, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Nonaligned Movement (NAM), and Arab League.
MilitarySix USAF F-16 fighters in Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Azraq. JAF F-16's can be seen to the right.Jordanian troops in a military parade in AmmanJordanian Special ForcesMain article: Royal Jordanian Land Force
The Royal Special Forces is a unit of the armed forces of Jordan. The Commander was Prince Abdullah (now Abdullah II of Jordan), 1993–1996. In 2007, these forces received training from Blackwater Worldwide.
The Royal Naval Force is the Naval entity of the Jordanian Armed Forces.
The Royal Jordanian Air Force (RJAF) (Arabic: سلاح الجو الملكي الأردني, transliterated: Silah al-Jaw Almalaki al-Urduni) is the aviation branch of the Jordanian Armed Forces and includes the Royal Jordanian Air Defence.
UN Peacekeeping force
Political parties Main article: Politics of Jordan
Jordan's most executive power is the King and it is a constitutional monarchy with an appointed government. The King traditionally has held substantial power, however the democratically elected Parliament holds significant influence and power in national governance.
The reforms of 1989 legalized political parties and opposition movements. The result is over 30 political parties, but the only political party that plays a role in the legislature is the Islamic Action Front (IAF). Political parties can be seen to represent four sections: Islamists, leftists, Arab nationalists and liberals. Some other political parties in Jordan including the Jordanian Arab Democratic Party, Jordanian Socialist Party, and Muslim Centre Party, but these have little impact on the political process because of lack of organization and clear platforms on key domestic issues as well as differences and factions within these political parties.
AmmanAr RamthaAjlounKarakAqabaAzraqDeir AllaIrbidJerashMadabaMafraqMa'anRuwaishedRusseifaShoubakTafilahPetraSaltWadi RumZarqaAdministrative centers in Jordan Administrative divisions
Jordan is divided into 12 provinces named Governorates, which are sub-divided into 54 departments or districts named Nahias.
Governorate Capital Region
Ajloun Governorate Ajloun North
Aqaba Governorate Aqaba South
Balqa Governorate Salt Central
Capital Governorate Amman Central
Irbid Governorate Irbid North
Jerash Governorate Jerash North
Governorate Capital Location
Karak Governorate Al Karak South
Ma'an Governorate Ma'an South
Madaba Governorate Madaba Central
Mafraq Governorate Mafraq North
Tafilah Governorate Tafilah South
Zarqa Governorate Zarqa Central
Human rights Main article: Human rights in Jordan
Jordan ranked 141 out of 196 countries worldwide, earning "Not Free" status in Freedom House's 2011 Freedom of the Press 2011 report. Jordan had the 5th freest press of 19 countries in the Middle East and North Africa region. Civil liberties and political rights scored 5 and 6 respectively in Freedom House's Freedom in the World 2011 report, where 1 is most free and 7 is least free. This earned Jordan "Not Free" status. Jordan ranked ahead of 6, behind 4, and the same as 8 countries in the Middle East and North Africa region.
Graph showing the population of Jordan, 1960–2005 Demographics Main article: Demographics of Jordan
Jordan was often at the crossroads of civilizations, and so has diverse genetic remnants. Recent genetic studies have shown strong links between the modern Jordanian people and the core populations of the Levant and the fertile crescent. A study published by Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza found that the Jordanian genetics are closest to the Assyrians among all other nations of Western Asia.
Language Main article: Jordanian Arabic
The official language is Arabic. English, though without an official status, is widely spoken throughout the country and is the de facto language of commerce and banking, as well as a co-official status in the education sector. The spoken language is Jordanian Arabic. Modern Standard Arabic and English are obligatorily learnt at public and most private schools with French being a less popular elective. Radio Jordan offers radio services in Arabic, English, and French. Armenian as well as Caucasian languages like Circassian and Chechen, are understood and spoken by small communities residing in Jordan, with several schools teaching them.
Religion in Jordan
Religion Percent
Muslims 90%
Christians 8%
Other 2%
Religion Main article: Religion in JordanAbu Darweesh MosqueGreek Orthodox church in Amman
Islam is the predominant religion in Jordan. It is the official religion and approximately 92% of the population is Muslim, primarily of the Sunni branch of Islam. Islamic and Christian studies are offered to students but are not mandatory and do not factor into the University entry school exams. Jordan has laws promoting religious freedom, but they fall short of protecting all minority groups. Muslims who convert to another religion as well as missionaries face societal and legal discrimination.
According to the 2010 Legatum Prosperity Index, less than half of Jordanians regularly attend religious services (around 40%), a moderate percentage in comparison to industrialized countries. However, this rate is among the lowest of all the Arab countries and it is one of the lowest in the entire Muslim World.
Jordan has an indigenous Christian minority. Christians of all ethnic backgrounds permanently residing in Jordan form approximately 6% of the population and are allocated respective seats in parliament (The Department of Statistics released no information about the religion distribution from the census of 2004). Christians made up 30% of the Jordanian population in 1950. However, heavy Muslim immigration from Iraq and Mandatory Palestine and lower birth rates compared to Muslims have significantly decreased the ratio of the Christian population. Most Jordanian Christians belong to the Greek Orthodox Church of Jerusalem. The remainder include members of the Syriac Orthodox Church, Latin Rite Catholic Church, Melkite Greek Catholic Church, Syriac Catholic Church, Chaldean Catholic Church, Assyrian Church of the East, Maronite Church, Ancient Church of the East, and Anglican Communion.
Among the Christian non-Arab population, significant part is made up of Armenians in Jordan; the Armenian Apostolic Church and Armenian Catholic Church (and some in other churches). Others include expatriate Christians in Jordan from various countries, as evinced, for example, by some Catholic masses held in English, French, Italian, Spanish, Tagalog, and Sinhala. With Protestant services in English, Tagalog, Tamil and German. Many Iraqi Christians have moved to Jordan, mostly Iraqi Assyrian Christians.
Other religious minorities groups in Jordan include adherents to the Druze and Bahá'í Faith. The Druze are mainly located in the eastern oasis town of Azraq, some villages on the Syrian border and the city of Zarka, while the village Adassiyeh bordering the Jordan Valley is home to Jordan's Bahá'í community.
Health Main article: Health in Jordan
According to 2003 estimates, the rate of prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) was less than 0.1%. According to a United Nations Development Program report, Jordan has been considered malaria-free since 2001; cases of tuberculosis declined by half during the 1990s, but tuberculosis remains an issue and an area needing improvement. Jordan experienced a brief outbreak of bird flu in March 2006. Noncommunicable diseases such as cancer also are a major health issue in Jordan. Childhood immunization rates have increased steadily over the past 15 years; by 2002 immunizations and vaccines reached more than 95% of children under five. About 86% of Jordanians had medical insurance in 2009, the Jordanian government planned to reach 100% in 2011.
The King Hussein Cancer Center is a leading cancer treatment center. Jordan was ranked by the World Bank to be the number one health care services provider in the region and among the top 5 in the world. In 2008, 250,000 patients sought treatment in the Kingdom including Iraqis, Palestinians, Sudanese, Syrians, GCC citizens, Americans, Canadians, and Egyptians. Jordan earned almost $1 billion dollars in medical tourism revenues according to the World Bank.
According to the CIA World Factbook, life expectancy in Jordan is 80.18 years, the second highest in the region (after Israel). There were 203 physicians per 100,000 people in the years 2000–2004, a proportion comparable to many developed countries and higher than most of the developing world.
Water and sanitation, available to only 10% of the population in 1950, now reach 99% of Jordanians, according to government statistics. They also show that electricity reaches 99% of the population, as compared to less than 10% in 1955.
See: Medical education in Jordan. Standard of Living in Jordan
Jordan is ranked as having a superior standard of life in comparison to the region and developing countries as a whole. Jordan ranked as having the 11th highest standard of living in the developing world and the second highest standard of living in the Arab and Muslim World as measured by the Human Poverty Index-2. Decades of political stability and security and strict law enforcement make Jordan one of the top 10 countries worldwide in security. In the 2010 Newsweek "World's Best Countries" list, Jordan ranked as the third best Arab country to live in (53rd worldwide), after Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates. Globally, it ranks higher than China and South Africa. According to the index, its standard of living is on par with Turkey and Argentina. In addition, Jordan is one of the most liberal countries in the Middle East with a secular government. In the 2010 Human Development Index, Jordan was placed in the "high human development" bracket and came 7th among Arab countries, behind the oil-rich states and one place behind Tunisia. In the HDI index score excluding income, Jordan came in second in the Arab world, higher than most of the affluent Persian Gulf states, showing the huge emphasis the Jordanian government has placed on human capital in its development process. Furthermore, in the Inequality-adjusted HDI, Jordan came first among all the Arab countries showing that the average Jordanian was better off than the average citizen of any Arab country listed in the index.
A villa in West Amman
The 2010 Quality of Life Index prepared by International Living magazine ranked Jordan as having one of the highest quality of life in the Arab world and North Africa. Jordan ranked second in the MENA with 55.0 points after Israel and followed by Kuwait with 54.47 points, Morocco with 54.45 points, and Lebanon with 54.3 points. Only 1.6 percent of Jordanians earn less than $2 a day, one of the lowest rates in the developing world and the lowest among the Arab states, according to the UN Human Development Report.
Low income neighborhood in East Amman
Access to adequate food and shelter in Jordan is the sixth highest in the world, and a relatively 72% of Jordanians are satisfied with their living standards. Despite high levels of perceived corruption in politics and business, Jordanians have relatively high confidence in the government. Over 8 in 10 people approve of their government which is the 13th highest level in the 2010 Legatum Prosperity Index. Levels of support for the country’s policies to preserve the environment and address poverty are also among the top 25 nations. Jordanians are highly enthusiastic about their other civil institutions: 96% support the military, the seventh highest rate overall, and 70% have confidence in the judiciary, the 25th highest rate. Jordanians also enjoy high levels of safety in their personal lives. In a 2009 survey, just 2.8% of respondents said they had been assaulted in the last 12 months, and less than 7% had experienced theft: these figures are the 21st and 10th lowest in the world, respectively. Jordan is also among the top ten countries whose citizens feel safest walking the streets at night.
Life expectancy and public health levels in Jordan are comparable to the West with 88% of the population on medical insurance, one of the highest rates in the world. The remaining 12% are covered under Royal makruma. As of 2011, 63% of working Jordanians are insured with the Social Security Corporation, as well as 120,000 foreigners, with plans to include the rest of Jordanian workers both inside and outside the kingdom as well as students, housewives, business owners, and the unemployed.
In 2008, the Jordanian government launched the "Decent Housing for a Decent Living" project aimed at giving poor people and Palestinian refugees the chance at owning their own house. Approximately 120,000 affordable housing units will be constructed within the next 5 years, and an additional 100,000 housing units can be built if the need arises.
Despite these positive indicators, Jordan remains marred by chronic high unemployment rates, 11.9% in the fourth quarter of 2010 but some estimate it to be as high as a quarter of the working-age population. Also, an estimated 13.3% of citizens live under the poverty line. Wide disaparities in wealth are evident between urban and rural areas and even between the Western and Eastern districts of the capital Amman. Currently, there are over 700,000 highly skilled college graduates working temporarily in GCC nations like the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia. These white-collar workers send home more than three billion dollars in remittances to Jordan each year, a vital part of the Jordanian economy. High cost of living and lower wages push thousands of fresh college graduates to seek their fortunes in the oil-rich gulf.
In the 2010 Gallup Global Wellbeing Survey, 30% of Jordanians described their financial situation as "thriving", higher than the global median of 21% but still lower than the Americas and only marginally ahead of the European median of 28%. Jordan surpassed most of the Arab countries with the exception of Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia.
Education Main article: Education in Jordan
The literacy rate in Jordan is 93%. The education system has been significant in the shift from a predominantly agrarian country to an industrialized nation. It ranks number one in the Arab World and is one of the highest in the developing world. UNESCO ranked Jordan's education system 18th worldwide for providing gender equality in education. 20.5% of Jordan's total government expenditures goes to education compared to 2.5% in Turkey and 3.86% in Syria.
In scientific research, Jordan is ranked number one in the Arab world. Nature Journal reported Jordan having the highest number of researchers per million people among all the 57 countries members of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC); the average of OIC countries is 500 researchers per million people. In Jordan there are 2,000 researchers per million people. The top performers in the world were Finland, Iceland, Sweden and Japan with 5,000 researchers per million. Jordan is ranked 30th worldwide higher than some developed countries like Israel and the United Kingdom.
Jordan ranked 14th out of 110 countries for the number of engineers and scientists according to the Global Competitiveness Report 2004–2005 (WEF). Jordan has a higher proportion of university graduates in technological fields than any other Arab country. There are over 200,000 Jordanian students enrolled in universities each year. An additional 20,000 Jordanians pursue higher education abroad primarily in the United States and Great Britain.
There is a primary school enrollment rate of 98.2% in Jordan. Secondary school enrollment has increased from 63% to 97% of high school aged students in Jordan and between 79% and 85% of high school students in Jordan move on to higher education, an extremely high rate for a middle income nation.
According to the Global Innovation Index 2011, Jordan is the 3rd most innovative economy in the Middle East, only behind Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. Worldwide, Jordan ranked 41st beating India, South Africa, Greece and Russia.
Jordan is the top contributor among all Arab countries in terms of internet content. 75% of all Arabic online content originates from Jordan.
The illiteracy rate in Jordan was 6.9% in 2010, one of the lowest in the region. Secondary education consists of two years of school study, for students who have completed the 10-year basic cycle. It comprises two major tracks: Academic or vocational secondary education. At the end of the two-year period, students sit for the general secondary examination (Tawjihi) in the appropriate branch and those who pass are awarded the Tawjihi (General Secondary Education Certificate). The academic stream qualifies students for university entrance, whereas the vocational or technical type qualifies for entrance to Community colleges or universities or the job market, provided they pass the two additional subjects. Vocational secondary education provides intensive vocational training and apprenticeship, and leads to the award of a Certificate. This type of education is provided by the Vocational Training Corporation, under the control of the Ministry of Labour / Technical and Vocational Education and Training Higher Council.
After completing the 8, 9 or 10 years of basic education, Jordanians are free to choose any foreign secondary education program instead of the Tawjihi examinations (8 for IGCSE, 10 for SAT and IB). Such programs are usually offered by private schools. These programs include: IGCSE, SAT and International Baccalaureate.
Private schools in Jordan also offer IGCSE examinations. About 25% of school-aged students in Jordan are enrolled in private schools. Upon graduation, the ministry of Higher Education, through a system similar to UK tariff points, transforms the grades/marks of these foreign educational programs into the same marks used in grading Tawjihi students. This system is controversial, both as to the conversion process and the number of places allocated to non-Tawjihi applicants.
Higher educationMedical halls of JUST as seen with KAUH.Main article: List of universities in Jordan
Access to higher education is open to holders of the General Secondary Education Certificate or Tawjihi who can then apply to universities or community colleges. However, admission to public universities in Jordan is very competitive. The kingdom has 10 public and 16 private universities, in addition to some 54 community colleges, of which 14 are public, 24 private and others affiliated with the Jordan Armed Forces, the Civil Defence Department, the ministry of health and UNRWA. The first university established in the kingdom was the University of Jordan. A United Nations-supported research nuclear reactor and a synchrotron-light scientific facility (SESAME) are currently being built on campus of Jordan University of Science and Technology and the Hashemite University to establish the first nuclear facilities for academic research in the kingdom. All post-secondary education is the responsibility of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research.
In addition, Jordan is also a home for of foreign universities campuses such as NYIT, DePaul University, Columbia University, German-Jordanian University, Princess Sumaya University for Technology, and the American University of Madaba. George Washington University is also planning to establish a medical university in Jordan as well, with plans to make it a regional hub for the training of medical personnel in the Middle East and North Africa.
Economy Main article: Economy of JordanThe Jordan Gate Towers in West Amman
According to the Heritage Foundation's Index of Economic Freedom, Jordan has the third freest economy in the Middle East and North Africa, behind only Bahrain and Qatar, and the 32nd freest in the world, . Jordan's economic freedom surpasses many European countries like France and Spain and it is on par with South Korea.
Jordan is a small country with limited natural resources. The country is exploring ways to expand its limited water supply and use its existing water resources more efficiently, including regional cooperation with Israel. The country depends on external sources for the majority of its energy requirements. In the 1990s, its crude petroleum needs were met through imports from Iraq and neighboring countries. Since early 2003, oil has been provided by some Gulf Cooperation Council member countries. In addition, the Arab Gas Pipeline from Egypt to the southern port of Aqaba was completed in 2003. In 2005 the pipeline extended north to the Amman area, in 2008 it reached Syria and in 2009 to Lebanon.
Since King Abdullah II's accession to the throne in 1999, liberal economic policies have resulted in a continuing boom. Jordan is the 4th freest economy in the Middle East and North Africa, beating traditionally free economies like Israel, the United Arab Emirates and Lebanon. Jordan's developed and modern banking sector is becoming the investment destination of choice due to its conservative bank policies that helped Jordan escape the worst of the global financial crisis of 2009. With instability across the region in Iraq and Lebanon, Jordan is emerging as the "business capital of the Levant" and "the next Beirut". Jordan's economy has been growing at an annual rate of 7% for a decade. Jordan's economy is undergoing a major shift from an aid-dependent, rentier economy to one of the most robust, open and competitive economies in the region. In recent years, there has been shift to knowledge-intensive industries, i.e ICT, and a rapidly growing trade sector benefiting from regional instability. The Jordanian market is considered the most developed Arab market outside the Gulf states.
Jordanian exports in 2006Graphical depiction of Jordan 's product exports in 28 color coded categories.
Jordan has more free trade agreements than any other Arab country. It has such agreements with the United States, Canada, Singapore, Malaysia, the European Union, Tunisia, Algeria, Libya, Iraq, Turkey and Syria, with plans to include the Palestinian Authority, the GCC, Lebanon and Pakistan. Jordan is a member of the Greater Arab Free Trade Agreement, the Euro-Mediterranean free trade area agreement, and the Agadir Agreement. Increased investment and exports are the main sources of Jordan's growth. Continued close integration into the European Union and GCC markets will reap vast economic rewards for the Kingdom in the coming years. However, the main obstacles to Jordan's economy are scarce water supplies, complete reliance on oil imports for energy, and regional instability.
Rapid privatization of previously state-controlled industries and liberalization of the economy is spurring unprecedented growth in Amman and Aqaba. Jordan has six special economic zones that attract significant amount of investment amounting in the billions: Aqaba, Mafraq, Ma'an, Ajloun, the Dead Sea, and Irbid. Jordan also has a plethora of industrial zones producing goods in the textile, aerospace, defense, ICT, pharmaceutical, and cosmetic sectors.
The Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the United States that went into effect in December 2001 will phase out duties on nearly all goods and services by 2010. The agreement also provides for more open markets in communications, construction, finance, health, transportation, and services, as well as strict application of international standards for the protection of intellectual property. In 1996, Jordan and the United States signed a civil aviation agreement that provides for open skies between the two countries, and a U.S.-Jordan treaty for the protection and encouragement of bilateral investment entered into force in 2003. Jordan has been a member of the World Trade Organization since 2000.
The Four Seasons hotel in Amman, Jordan's capital.Hamleys – Amman
In the 2000 Competitive Industrial Performance (CIP) Index, Jordan ranked as the third most industrialized economy in the Middle East and North Africa, behind Turkey and Kuwait. Jordan was in the upper bracket of nations scored by the CIP index. In the 2009 Global Trade Enabling Report, Jordan ranked 4th in the Arab World behind the UAE, Bahrain, and Qatar. The report analyzes the country's market access, the country's transport and communications infrastructure, border administration, and the business environment of the country Textile and clothing exports from Jordan to the United States shot up 2,000% from 2000 to 2005, following introduction of the FTA. According to the National Labor Committee, a U.S.-based NGO (Non-Governmental Organization), Jordan has experienced sharp increases in sweatshop conditions in its export-oriented manufacturing sector. Jordan ranked as having the 35th best infrastructure in the world, one of the highest rankings in the developing world, according to the World Economic Forum's Index of Economic Competitiveness. It even beat several developed countries like Israel, Italy, Ireland, Greece and it was only two places behind the United Kingdom.
The proportion of skilled workers in Jordan is among the highest in the region. The services sector dominates the Jordanian economy. Tourism is a rapidly growing industry in Jordan with revenues over one billion. Industries such as pharmaceuticals are emerging as very profitable products in Jordan. The Real Estate economy and construction sectors continue to flourish with mass amounts of investments pouring in from the Persian Gulf and Europe. Foreign Direct Investment is in the billions. The stock market capitalization of Jordan is worth nearly $40 billion.
Jordan is classified by the World Bank as an "upper middle income country." Per-capita GDP was approximately US$5,100 for 2007 and 14.5% of the economically active population, on average, was unemployed in 2003. Education and literacy rates and measures of social well-being are very high compared to other countries with similar incomes. Jordan's population growth rate is high, but has declined in recent years, to approximately 2.8% currently. One of the most important factors in the government's efforts to improve the well-being of its citizens is the macroeconomic stability that has been achieved since the 1990s. However, unemployment rates remain high, with the official figure standing at 12.5%, and the unofficial around 30%. The currency has been stable with an exchange rate fixed to the US dollar since 1995.
Jordan is pinning its hopes on tourism, future uranium and oil shale exports, trade, and ICT for future economic growth.
Amman was ranked as the Arab World's most expensive city in 2006 by the Economist Intelligence Unit, beating Dubai. In 2009, Amman ranked as the 4th most expensive city in the Arab World, behind Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Beirut.
In relation to the population size, Jordan is also one of the largest suppliers of skilled labour and human capital in the world. An estimated 600,000 Jordanians or one fourth of the labour force are earning their living in foreign countries working primarily in high paying white-collar jobs. Between 1968 and 2003, the accumulated net number of emmigrants amounted to over 1.1 million persons. Most of the skilled labor that left Jordan emigrated on a temporary basis to the oil producing Persian Gulf states. Since the mid 1970s, migrants’ remittances are Jordan’s most important source of foreign exchange, and a decisive factor in the country’s economic development and the rising standard of living of the population.
Jordan has the headquarters of several large-scale global corporations despite its small size. Some of these include Arab Bank, Aramex, Maktoob, Rubicon Group Holding and Kurdi Group. Since 2009, there are 2 Jordanian companies listed in the Forbes Global 2000 list, Arab Bank (Rank 708) and Arab Potash (Rank 1964). In addition, Jordan has several billionaires as well like Ziad Manasir and Eyhab Jumean.
Agriculture Main article: Agriculture in Jordan
Agriculture in Jordan contributed substantially to the economy at the time of Jordan's independence, but it subsequently suffered a decades-long steady decline. In the early 1950s, agriculture constituted almost 40 percent of GNP; on the eve of the June 1967 War, it was 17 percent. By the mid-1980s, agriculture's share of GNP in Jordan was only about 6 percent.
The main irrigated area in Jordan is focused in fertile lands of Jordan Valley. However, other non-irrigated lands which depends on the seasonal rain are also available. Most of these lands are in the northern region in the provinces of Balqa, Jerash, Ajloun and Irbid. Yet, some other lands are also available in the mid-western regions of Karak and Madaba. Recently, some desert land in the east of Mafraq have witnessed a large scale of irrigation projects, however, the sustainability of these projects is still in doubt, due to their dependency on groundwater.
Jordan exports many fruits and vegetables to the neighboring countries, the Gulf and Europe, including olives, citrus fruit, grapes, apples, figs, peaches, pears, plums, apricots, almonds, and cherries.
A farm in the mountains of Ajloun
Olive Farms in Souf, northern Jordan
Farms in the mountains of Sakib in Jerash
Naur's beauties
Natural resources
Although Jordan is a resource-poor country, it has significant deposits of oil shale and sources of uranium; these potential sources of indigenous energy have been the focus of renewed interest in recent years. It is one of the most water-scarce countries in the world and considerable water is required to develop its resources, particularly oil shale. There are very limited resources of timber and forestry products and timbering is strictly limited by Jordan's environmentalists. Nevertheless, the kingdom is home to several water parks for tourism purposes, and the capital alone has over 17,000 private swimming pools.
A phosphate train at Ram station
Phosphate mines in the south have made Jordan one of the largest producers and exporters of this mineral in the world. Potassium, salt, natural gas and stone are the most important other substances extracted. Phosphates are carried by rail from the mines to the port of Aqaba where it is shipped via cargo ship to other ports.
Jordan has one of the largest uranium reserves in the world. Jordan's reserves account for 2% of the world's total uranium. Jordan can extract 80,000 tons of uranium from its uranic ores, and the country's phosphate reserves also contain some 100,000 tons of uranium. Jordan plans that by 2035, 60% of the country's total energy consumption will be from nuclear energy. Four nuclear power plants are planned with the first one to be operational in 2019.
Since the beginning of 2010, the government of Jordan has been seeking approval from the US for producing nuclear fuel from Jordan's uranium for use in nuclear power plants that Jordan plans to build. Jordan is not required to obtain US approval since, as a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), Jordan has every right to produce nuclear fuel for peaceful purposes. However, in view of the U.S.-led sanctions against Iran over Iran's nuclear program, despite Iran being a signatory of the NPT, Jordan is first seeking US approval to avoid a fate similar to that of Iran. The government of Israel, not a signatory of the NPT, has made clear to Washington its objection to Jordan's nuclear energy program. According to Haaretz, Jordan learned that the US position is essentially the Israeli position, and the US has rejected Jordan's request for approval.
Natural gas was discovered in Jordan in 1987, and the estimated size of the reserve discovered was about 230 billion cubic feet, and quantities are very modest compared with its neighbours. It was the development of the Risha field in the Eastern Desert beside the Iraqi border, and the field produces nearly 30 million cubic feet of gas a day, to be sent to a nearby power plant to produce nearly 10% of the Jordan's Electric needs.
Despite the fact that reserves of crude oil are non-commercial, Jordan possesses one of the world's richest stockpiles of oil shale where there are huge quantities that could be commercially exploited in the central and northern regions west of the country. The extent the World Energy Council reserves Jordan approximately 40 billion tons, which established it as the second richest state in rock oil reserves after Canada (estimated), and first at the world's level of proven discoveries at a rate of extraction of oil up to between 8% and 12% of content, and could be the production of 4 billion tons of oil from the current reserve, which puts the quality of Jordanian oil on the one hand extraction, on an equal footing with their counterparts in western Colorado in the United States, which its estimated amount may rise to 20 billion tons. The moisture content and ash within is relatively low. And the total thermal value is 7.5 megajoules/kg, and the content of ointments reach 9% of the weight of the organic content. Jordan recently signed a deal with Royal Dutch Shell to extract and exploit shale oil reserves in central Jordan. It is expected Jordan will produce its first commercial quantities of oil in the year 2020, with an estimated production of 50,000 barrels of oil a day, 35 per cent of the Kingdom's energy consumption in "less than 10 years". Previous NRA studies have revealed that 40 billion tonnes of oil shale exist in 21 sites concentrated near the Yarmouk River, Buweida, Beit Ras, Rweished, Karak, Madaba and Maan.
Many of the world’s major software and hardware IT companies, including Cisco, Dell, Hewlett Packard, Intel, Microsoft, Oracle and Samsung, are present in Jordan. In addition to targeting the local market, a number of these firms use the kingdom as their regional centre. For example, Oracle’s regional office for the Middle East and Africa, as well as Central and Eastern Europe, is located in Jordan. The company undertakes a variety of activities from its Amman office, including pre-sales, sales, business operations, consulting and R&D. Cisco has also used the kingdom as a base to target markets across the region. The presence of such firms underlines Jordan’s attractiveness as a stable base with high-calibre human resources from which to serve the wider region. Factors such as the availability of financing for start-ups and the high calibre of human resources helped propel Amman into a list of the top 10 best cities in the world to launch a tech start-up published in January 2012 by the founder of venture capital firm Finaventures, Rachid Sefraoui, auguring rapid development and spurring comparisons with global start-up centers.
Currency and exchange rates
The official currency in Jordan is the Jordanian dinar and divides into 100 qirsh (also called piastres) or 1000 fils. In 1949, banknotes were issued by the government in denominations of 500 fils, 1, 5,10 dinar. From 1959, the Central Bank of Jordan took over note production. 20 dinar notes were introduced in 1977, followed by 50 dinar in 1999. ½ dinar notes were replaced by coins in 1999. Coins were introduced in 1949 in denominations of 1, 5, 10, 20, 50 and 100 fils. The first issue of 1 fils were mistakenly minted with the denomination given as "1 fil". 20 fils coins were minted until 1965, with 25 fils introduced in 1968 and ¼ dinar coins in 1970. The 1 fils coin was last minted in 1985. In 1996, smaller ¼ dinar coins were introduced alongside ½ and 1 dinar coins. Since 23 October 1995, the dinar has been officially pegged to the IMF's special drawing rights (SDRs). In practice, it is fixed at 1 US$ = 0.709 dinar, which translates to approximately 1 dinar = 1.41044 dollars. The Central Bank buys US dollars at 0.708 dinar, and sell US dollars at 0.7125 dinar,Exchangers buys US dollars at 0.708 and sell US dollars at 0.709.
An Arabian Desert castle in AzraqRoman ruins at Umm Qais Tourism Main article: Tourism in Jordan
Excavated remains of Bethabara, Jordan, where John the Baptist is believed to have conducted his ministry. Medical tourism
2011 and 2012 saw an influx of Arab patients from Libya and Syria entering the kingdom for treatment. It is estimated that Jordan received 50,000 Libyan patients and 80,000 Syrian refugees, who also sought treatment in Jordanian hospitals, in the last six months.
There are about 60 private health care institutions in the kingdom, four of which have been accredited by US-based Joint Commission International, which is considered the gold standard for international accreditation in the healthcare industry. Most of Jordan's doctors speak proficient English and many have been trained or are affiliated with top US hospitals. The main barrier to medical tourism is visa restrictions placed on some countries due to the fear of illegal settlement in Jordan. Jordan's main focus of attention in its marketing effort are the ex-Soviet states, Europe, and America. Top institutions that work in this industry include JORDICURE for medical tourism, King Hussein Cancer Center, Khalidi Hospital, Jordan Hospital and the Specialty Hospital among others. Most common medical procedures on Arab and foreign patients included organ transplants, open heart surgeries, infertility treatment, laser vision corrections, bone operations and cancer treatment.
Dana Biosphere Reserve Nature reserves Main article: List of nature reserves in Jordan
Being that Jordan is a transit country for goods and services to the Palestinian territories and Iraq, Jordan maintains a well-developed transportation infrastructure. Jordan ranked as having the 35th best infrastructure in the world, one of the highest rankings in the developing world, according to the World Economic Forum's Index of Economic Competitiveness. It even scored higher than several developed countries like Israel, Italy, Ireland, Greece and it was only two places behind the United Kingdom.
There are three commercial airports, all receiving and sending international commercial flights, two of them in Amman and the third is located in the city of Aqaba. The largest airport in the country is Queen Alia International Airport in Amman that serves as the hub of the international airline Royal Jordanian. The airport is currently under significant expansion in a bid to make it the hub for the Levant. Amman Civil Airport was the country's main airport before it was replaced by Queen Alia Airport but it still serves several regional routes. King Hussein International Airport serves Aqaba with connections to Amman and several regional and international cities.
Jordan has a well-developed road infrastructure with 7,999 kilometres of paved highways. The road system is centralized around Amman, which connects the capital to major cities and surrounding countries.
Two connected but non-contiguously operated sections of the Hedjaz Railway exist:
Jordan shares the longest common borders with the West Bank, there are two border crossings between Jordan and Israel in the Bisan merge (King Hussein Bridge) in the north in the Wadi Araba in the south.
The Port of Aqaba is Jordan's sole outlet to the sea. It handles all cargo bound to Jordan, Iraq,and in some cases the West Bank. The Main Port is being relocated further south and being expanded. An Abu Dhabi consortium will handle the $5 billion dollar deal. The project is set to be completed in 2013.
Defense industry
Influence of the Southwest Asian conflict
The ongoing Arab-Israeli conflict, the Persian Gulf War, and other conflicts in Southwest Asia have made huge impacts on the economy of Jordan. The fact that Jordan has peace with the surrounding countries, combined with its stability, has made it a preference for many Palestinians, Lebanese, and Persian Gulf immigrants and refugees. Though this may have resulted in a more active economy, it has also damaged it by substantially decreasing the amount of resources available for each person. Jordan has a law that states that any Palestinian may immigrate and obtain Jordanian citizenship, but must remit his/her Palestinian claim.. In November 2005, King Abdullah called for a "war on extremism" in the wake of three suicide bombings in Amman.
Opportunity cost of the conflict
A report by Strategic Foresight Group has calculated the opportunity cost of conflict for the Middle East from 1991 to 2010 at a whopping $12 trillion (12,000,000,000,000). Jordan's share in this is almost $84 billion. Every Jordanian family will also have the opportunity to increase their annual income by more than $1,250 if peace is established in the region and the Arab-Israeli boycott is lifted in full.
The report also outlines how an extremely significant cost to Jordan is that the country is host to millions of refugees who make up 40% of their population and are a drain on 7% of the GDP. Jordan also spends over 5% of its GDP on defense, and has one of the highest numbers of military personnel in the region, 23,500 military personnel per million people.
Culture Main articles: Culture of Jordan, Jordanian cuisine, and Sport in JordanMansaf, the national dish of Jordan.Prince Ali bin Al Hussein, Vice President of the FIFA.
Jordan is considered one of the Arab World's most cosmopolitan and westernized countries with its capital Amman becoming referred to as the "New Beirut". 67% of Jordanian youth identify themselves as liberals, second highest in the Arab World after Lebanon.
Although many people from different regions of the world have come to settle in Jordan, Europeans like the (Circassians and the Chechens) or other Middle Easterners like the Armenians, they have long been assimilated in the society and added their richness to the society that subsequently developed. However, the culture of Jordan, as in its spoken language, values, beliefs, ethnicity is Arab as the Kingdom is in the heart of Southwest Asia. Jordan has a very diverse cultural scene with many different artists, religious sects, and ethnic groups residing in the small country because of Jordan's reputation for stability and tolerance.
Jordan imports the overwhelming majority of its music, cinema, and other forms of entertainment from other countries most specifically other Arab countries like Lebanon and Egypt as well as by the West primarily the United States. However, there has been a rise of home-grown songs, music, art, movies and television, but they pale in comparison to the amount imported from abroad.
In the 2007 A.T. Kearney Globalization Index, Jordan was ranked as the 9th most globalized nation in the world. The 2010 AOF Index of Globalization ranked Jordan as the most globalized country in the Middle East and North Africa region, including Israel and Turkey. Jordan ranked in the top 10 for the economic, social, and political components of the index. Jordan scored high on the trade tables with high investment rates, large amounts of expatriate remittances, and a liberal trade regime. Jordan also had one of the most political engagements, organization and treaty memberships in the world. High technology penetration rates and its fast growing ICT industry earned Jordan high marks in the technology connectivity rankings. For example, Jordan has a 120% mobile phone penetration rate and a 50.5% internet penetration rate. 41.6% of all mobile phones in Jordan are smartphones, compared with 40% in the United States and 26% in the United Kingdom. 97% of Jordanian households own at least one television set while 90% have satellite reception which means they have access to other Arab and European programs. Furthermore, 61% of Jordanian households own at least one personal computer or laptop. Also, Jordan has one of the highest levels of peacekeeping troop contributions of all U.N. member states.
Jordan ranked as the 9th best outsourcing destination worldwide. Amman was ranked as one of the "Top 10 Aspirants", cities in this ranking have a good chance in making the top 50 outsourcing cities in the next ranking. The report said that Jordan had one of the region's most favourable business climates, a well-educated population, solid capabilities in the ICT industry, and Jordan was home to numerous outsourcing companies that compete successfully internationally.
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Shaving Cream on Tombstones
by Dr. Gregg Bonner
How gullible do you have to be
to believe that shaving cream harms tombstones?
So, you have fallen for the "shaving cream harms tombstones hoax", eh? The rationale that suggested the "acids" in shaving cream could harm tombstones sounded reasonable to you, did it? Don't worry - plenty of people much smarter than you have fallen for this hoax. This hoax is actually a slight derivative of the much more popular "Ban Dihydrogen Monoxide (DHMO)" hoax. The only difference is that "DHMO" has been replaced with "stearic acid" (or any other constituent of shaving cream chosen by the hoaxster), and 'bodily harm' has been replaced by 'harm to tombstones'.
The shaving cream hoax mirrors the ban DHMO hoax
in a number of important respects:
1. Both hoaxes rely on an ignorance on the part of the reader relating to knowledge of chemistry. In the case of DHMO, it relies on the reader being unaware that DHMO is actually just a deceptively technical way of saying "water". In the case of shaving cream, it relies on the reader being unaware of all the following: a) that stearic acid is so insoluble in water that the term "pH" is meaningless, b) that stearic acid is an organic acid, not a mineral acid, c) that the stearic acid in shaving cream is neutralized with triethanolamine, & d) that the pH of shaving cream is less acidic than ordinary rain.
2. They both have websites devoted to the continued preservation of the hoax. The ban DHMO website is here. The shaving cream hoax website you have already seen.
3. Both hoax websites contain material data safety sheets (MSDS) for the constituents. The ban DHMO website has a MSDS for DHMO, and the shaving cream hoax website has one for stearic acid. These MSDS sheets are included in the website design purely for tactical fear-mongering.
4. Both hoax websites have spurious icon tags. The ban DHMO website has one for the "United States Environmental Assessment Center", whereas the shaving cream hoax website has one for "The History Channel".
5. Both hoax websites foment fear by the use of the same fear-generating buzzwords. For example, both include references to comparison to "acid rain".
Rather than continue listing all the other similarities of these two obvious hoaxes, I think it better to simply refer to what (the popular online myth debunking website) has to say about the Ban DHMO hoax, as I think you will see that it applies also to the shaving cream hoax.
That said, this example does aptly demonstrate the kind of fallacious reasoning that's thrust at us every day under the guise of "important information": how with a little effort, even the most innocuous of substances can be made to sound like a dangerous threat to human life [tombstones, in the case of shaving cream - ed.]. The next time you receive an ominous message such as the one warning you that sodium lauryl sulfate (a common foaming ingredient used in shampoos) causes cancer, with the "proof" being that this caustic chemical is also used to scrub garage floors, keep in mind that the very same thing could be said of another ubiquitous cleaning agent ... dihydrogen monoxide [or of stearic acid - ed.].
For the whole text of's treatment of DHMO, click here.
If you want a more point-by-point refutation of the shaving cream nonsense, then please read below. But if you are a proselytizing Zohnerite, then don't bother.
Wrong and misleading comments made about shaving cream and its constituents
Misleading/erroneous comment:
Acids on marble and limestone dissolve the stone, leaving an inappropriate glossy and crystallized looking surface. This damage cannot be undone and the use of acids is also dangerous to you and surrounding vegetation.
Source:, and elsewhere online.
Why it is misleading/erroneous:
The item is misleading because it does not include the required modifier "some". It is true that some acids will dissolve marble and limestone. It is not true that all acids will do so. The acids that will dissolve the stone are the familiar strong mineral acids, like hydrochloric acid and sulfuric acid. Weak organic acids, like the long-chain hydrocarbon acids (stearic acid and palmitic acid, for examples) found in shaving cream will not dissolve marble and limestone.
The fact of the matter is that stearic acid is actually less of an acid than is plain old water itself. The pH of pure water is 7, whereas the pKa of stearic acid is 10.15. Since the pH scale is log-based (i.e., each integer increment is a factor of 10), this means that water is 1,000 times more acidic than stearic acid. The hoaxers rely on you not knowing the pKa of long-chain organic acids, like stearic acid, and, moreover, rely on you never thinking to look it up, but rather simply believe what they say without ever giving it any thought.
Source: Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 256:201-207 (2002).
Misleading/erroneous comment:
An experiment was done to test the effects of shaving cream directly, and it was shown that a 1mm depth of damage was done to the surface in 5 minutes.
Source: soc.genealogy.methods discussion (Subject: Reading tombstones) of June 1996, and subsequently cited many places online.
Why it is misleading/erroneous:
Because it is patently absurd even on its face. Think about this for a second. How far is 1mm? If the shaving cream disintegrated 1mm in 5 minutes, then how much would it do in one hour? That would be 12mm of damage. There are 25.4mm in an inch, so this suggests that nearly a half-inch of disintegration would be acheived with an application of shaving cream for one hour. That means that a 4" thick tombstone would be completely dissolved if shaving cream were applied to it for 8 hours.
The fact of the matter is that it is impossible/absurd to think a tombstone can be dissolved by shaving cream in 8 hours. The hoaxers rely on your lack of knowledge of the metric system and inability to apply simple mathematics. In short, the hoaxers rely on you believing this "experiment" without thinking about it at all. Even a cursory investigation into the claims made show it to be impossible. More recently, people who clearly lack a grasp of the fundamental concepts of chemistry have tried to explain that you can't extrapolate the results over 8 hours. For example, Drew Smith wrote this stunning misunderstanding of chemical application to the Roots-L list on 02 JUN 2008:
"You can't merely extrapolate from 1 mm damage in 5 minutes to 12 mm damage in an hour, because the removal is a *chemical reaction*. As the damage is done, the amount of shaving cream used is used up. When it all reacts, the damage stops at that point. That's basic chemistry."
Actually, basic chemistry is such that you can ADD MORE of the putatively limiting reagent DURING a chemical reaction, and it is no longer the limiting reagent, it being now the EXCESS reagent, instead. You could stand there with a fire hose pumping 1,000 gallons of shaving cream per minute on the stone, and it STILL isn't going to dissolve the stone in 8 hours. Where is your limiting reagent theory now?
The above is just another example among many where the shaving-cream-causes-harm-to-tombstones evangelists move the goalposts to try to defend their positions, and in so doing provide no more support for their position, but instead just re-proving that they don't understand the fundamentals of chemistry. How could anyone be so naive as to believe that shaving cream destroys 1 mm of stone in 5 minutes? Even if you don't like the extrapolation example above, perform this experiment in your mind (or in reality, if you prefer): You have a 1 mm thick piece of stone and you apply shaving cream to it for 5 minutes - now you wash off the shaving cream. Is there any stone left, or is it gone? If you think there would be stone left after 5 minutes of shaving cream, then you obviously don't believe that there is 1 mm damage done to the stone in 5 minutes.
Misleading/erroneous comment:
"Shaving cream does, indeed, leave an acid residue that does not wash off. It destroys marble and limestone".
Source: Newsletter of the Canterbury Genealogy Society Discussion Group, February 2000
Why it is misleading/erroneous:
Because the word "indeed" represents a factual basis. The statement should have read, "Shaving cream does, in our opinion, leave an acid residue that does not wash off.
The fact of the matter is that nobody has ever reported an experiment that even pretends to make a determination of the presence or absence of any residue. It is simply an opinion, masquerading as if it were fact. If it "indeed" leaves a residue, then what method was used to determine that a residue was present? How was it determined that the residue was from shaving cream? Where are the data/measurements that back up the claim that a residue persists? The answer is - nowhere...this experiment has never been done. The last part of the quote, about "destroying marble and limestone" is in error, as addressed above. The hoaxers rely on you simply believing a pronouncement without having need for ever providing any evidence that it is true.
Misleading/erroneous comment:
"Our professional conservators tell us it is definitely not a good idea to use shaving cream on porous gravestones..."
Source: Association for Gravestone Studies
Why it is misleading/erroneous:
This is logical fallacy known as appeal to false authority. Do any of these "professional conservators" have names? Of course not.
The fact of the matter is that the hoaxers rely on you believing that these "professional conservators" exist. If you ask for some names, then you will be met with another of the hoaxsters tactics...the goose chase. Why not just list the conservators' names with the comments supposedly attributed to them? Because it's a hoax.
Misleading/erroneous comment:
You can't cite any evidence which shows shaving cream does not harm tombstones.
Why it is misleading/erroneous:
This comment is logical error on two counts. Firstly, it creates an expectation that the other person could possibly prove a negative. Think about it this way - how would you go about proving that the Loch Ness Monster does not exist? You can't. Even if you drained Loch Ness, and found no monster, the believers would just say Nessie escaped elsewhere. Similarly, even if you tested a thousand stones in a randomized double-blind test with shaving cream and control group over 50 years, and found no evidence of damage, the believers would just say, "yeah, no damage yet". So this argument is even illogical in its conception. Secondly, it is a known fallacy known as shifting the burden of proof. Imagine if this were to happen; let's say you see online a claim of parentage for one of your brick wall ancestors. You e-mail them for proof, and get as a reply, "prove they are NOT the parents". Sorry, it doesn't work that way. The burden of proof is always on the original assertion. There is no burden of proof on the other side to prove the negative. The hoaxers rely on your not calling them on their illogical and fallacious thinking.
Misleading/erroneous comment:
"So now we have solid, logical reasoning backed up with hard facts as to why not use shaving cream on a stone."
Why it is misleading/erroneous:
Because the reasoning is neither solid nor logical, and there are no hard facts to back it up.
The fact of the matter is that the best way to convince someone of something is to simply prove it with evidence, and convert everybody to your way of thinking on the merits. Why are there never any "hard facts" brought to bear on this "logical reasoning"? Because there aren't any. The hoaxers rely on you reading their erroneous rationale, and being duped into believing that it is a good substitute for evidence.
Questions and Answers
Question 1: I understand shaving cream contains stearic acid. With a name like that, it really has to be corrosive, doesn't it?
Answer 1: Uhm, this is shaving cream we are talking about here. Does it feel corrosive when you put it on your skin? Is it really reasonable to think that shaving cream is going to cause stone to melt, when it does nothing even to your own skin?
Question 2: But that is my question, I read somewhere that marble and limestone are highly reactive to acids, and will actually sublimate in the presence of hydrochloric acid.
Answer 2: Uhm, this is shaving cream we are talking about here, not hydrochloric acid. I can't think of anyone who recommends pouring hydrochloric acid (one of the strongest acids known to man) directly onto a tombstone. Stearic acid is a very weak acid, being less than 1 ten-thousandth as strong as hydrochloric acid. Furthermore, what is not mentioned is the RATE at which sublimation occurs. Rock etchings, which employ acid use the strongest acids in the world, in direct application over the course of long time periods to achieve etch depths of microns.
Question 3: But I read that stearic acid is more acidic than acid rain. Isn't acid rain the stuff we get after a nuclear war or something? If stearic acid is stronger than acid rain, it has to be dangerous, right?
Answer 3: I don't know of anyone who is advocating putting 100% pure stearic acid directly on a tombstone. We are talking about shaving cream. Shaving cream is pH balanced, which means that it is not a net acid. It has things in it which neutralize the free acid and bring it into pH balance. The net acidity of shaving cream is essentially the same as water.
Question 4: Are you going to ignore my question about acid rain?
Answer 4: Oh yes, acid rain. It is not the result of nuclear holocaust armageddon. It may surprise you to learn that ALL rain is acidic, and it always has been. [Editor's Note: For readers who do not believe this, don't take my word for it - find out for yourself. Get some pH strips from your friendly High School Chemistry teacher, and go anywhere in the world, any day of the year, and collect rain in a cup. Then test the pH of the rain with the test strips to satisfy yourself that this is true.] I think a lot of people are confused by the pH scale. Anything less than pH=7 is acidic, and the closer you get to 0, the more acidic it is (and note that a 1M concentration of hydrochloric acid has a pH=0). Note the following picture:
The digram shows that ALL the rain that fell on the United States had a pH of less than 7, which means that it was ALL acidic. Moreover, note that stearic acid has a pKa=10.15. This means that the part of the chemical responsible for it being an acid thousand of times less powerful. Therefore, stearic acid is actually less acidic than normal rain.
Question 5: But I heard that the pH of shaving cream is about 5, so it is worse than acid rain. Isn't that true?
Answer 5: See the picture again. See how ALL the rain is pH of about 5, or even more acidic? If shaving cream has a pH that is more neutral than rain (for example, see the rain pH in the northeastern USA), then why aren't people advocating covering tombstones in shaving cream to protect it from the rain, seeing as how it is LESS acidic than the rain? Why are people so worried about shaving cream when it is obvious that it is not as bad as the rain. Why aren't people out covering graves with shaving cream to protect them?
Question 6: I am still not sure about this stearic acid stuff. I saw on a website somewhere a link for stearic acid, and when I clicked on it, I saw its material data safety sheet. It talks about breathing problems and irritation and stuff.
Answer 6: I don't know anyone who is recommending that you eat 100% pure stearic acid, or breathe 100% pure stearic acid. That would probably be bad. We, however, are talking about shaving cream here. Shaving cream. The white fluffy stuff people put on their face routinely.
Question 7: Okay, I guess I am satisfied with that, but why do professional conservators say to not use shaving cream? I saw a website that said "Our professional conservators tell us it is definitely not a good idea...."
Answer 7: Do any of these "Professional Conservators" have names? I have seen lots of people claim that professional conservators say not to use shaving cream, yet somehow, I never see any names or credentials. The only people I see mentioned are hobby-time genealogists who are stating their opinion that it is bad. And their reasoning always comes back to how evil stearic acid is. Perhaps I would feel differently about it if someone could turn up a professional who actually knows what they are talking about, rather than point to some tombstone discussion group online, whose membership is open to anyone, credentials or not.
Question 8: But won't shaving cream get in the cracks, and act as food for micro-organisms, which, when they grow, will cause the cracks to widen?
Answer 8: I guess so, if your shaving cream is made of meat. Generally speaking, things which are metabolizable are carbohydrates, fats, protein, and alcohols.
Question 9: But that is the point, doesn't shaving cream contain fatty acids and alcohols?
Answer 9: I am not aware of anyone who is advocating covering a gravestone in fat. We are talking about shaving cream here. Furthermore, foodstuffs must be "biologically available", which in many cases, means 'in aqueous solution at low concentrations'. Alcohol, for example, can be metabolized by humans. But go into ANY tissue culture laboratory, and ask the technician what they use to kill all micro-organisms. They will tell you that they use alcohol. The fact that alcohol can be metabolized has nothing to do with it. Alcohol is a disinfectant for a reason. Yet why are people not out there covering graves in alcohol to keep that pesky micro-organism growth down?
Question 10: I heard that using shaving cream is never recommended. If it is okay to use, then why is it never recommended?
Answer 10: What you heard is clearly a lie. It IS recommended. Do you know who Dick Eastman is? You know the guy who runs "Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter"? The Dick Eastman who is the one of the most respected genealogists in the history of this planet? Yeah, that Dick Eastman. He recommends it. Therefore, the assertion that nobody recommends it is clearly false.
Question 11: I saw a discussion of this before, and a guy posted before and after pictures of a tombstone. It looked awful in the picture taken after it had been shaving creamed. Don't pictures like this prove shaving cream is bad?
Answer 11: If it is the same picture I saw, then did they guy bother to tell you that that cemetery had also been in a fire? I don't know anyone who is recommending using shaving cream, then setting the cemetery on fire. I have no personal knowledge of it, but I would presume that fire would be bad for a tombstone. Shaving cream, on the other hand, is fine.
Question 12: I saw someone post that the tombstones were "her" ancestor's, like she had exclusive right to them. Isn't it arrogant of her to destroy these tombstones with shaving cream, seeing as how they are other people's ancestors also?
Answer 12: No - an example of arrogance is when people say that another person is destroying a tombstone just to get a picture for themselves, and without any regard for the tombstone for later persons, when the fact of the matter is that the person rightly knows that the shaving cream will not harm the stone, and would never do it if they thought it would harm the stone. This is simply an attempt at guilt by association. It is an attempt to say, "This person is arrogant; arrogance is wrong; thus this person is wrong; this person is using shaving cream; thus since this person is wrong and using shaving cream, it follows that using shaving cream is wrong". This is the kind of logical fallacy that is consistently used by the shaving cream opponents.
"Stearic acid, stearic acid, stearic acid" the mindless mantra of the opponents. They chant the words with pride, as if they mean something. And for proof, they will always send you someplace that is supposed to show "proof". Yet, when you get there, all you will find is more opinion.
This whole "no shaving cream" thing got started a long time ago when someone saw the word "acid" listed in the ingredients of shaving cream and got frightened. Then, to make matters worse, they began to look into the actions of acid on rock. Unfortunately, they found the information about hydrochloric acid, and presumed that it would apply equally to stearic acid, in spite of the fact that hydrochloric acid is one of the strongest acids known to man, and stearic acid one of the weakest. Since this time, all the arguments against shaving cream have either been roundly defeated, or have been shown to be without any scientific foundation, and only exist as the opinions of some.
Now, the shaving cream opponents no longer even attempt to make scientific arguments, but rather rely on the last refuge of the scoundrel. These come in two types:
1. Lie. Take two pictures of the same stone and alter one of them to look bad, then represent one to be after the effects of shaving cream. Or else, claim a quote from some famous conservator, who in actuality does not exist. There are many variants of these outright lies.
2. Paint the opponent. No matter how logical the counter-argument of the opponent, try to make him/her look like a selfish person, who cares only about getting their precious picture, and cares nothing about the stone. Don't even bother to try to defeat the valid points, and instead go straight to attacking their character.
The shaving cream opponents are now evangelical about their mission to stop shaving cream. That is to say, they no longer worry about any evidence required, but simply accept it as an article of faith. However, if pushed, you will note that they will always point back to the same website, which will always point back to the evils of stearic acid, and will always cite the same supposed unnamed professional conservators.
This author is not an evangelist - he simply calls them how he sees the best available scientific evidence at the time. And at this time, there is absolutely no scientific evidence whatsoever that shaving cream will cause any measureable harm to a tombstone over the course of thousands of years. What there is, is a lot of OPINION and BELIEF that it will cause harm. Moreover, the fallacious nature of the arguments against using shaving cream undermine the prospect that there ever will be any evidence shown to support their illogical notions. Doing things like linking to the stearic acid material data safety sheet are rather sophomoric and transparent attempts to capitalize on the fear of the reader, rather than to try to persuade them using any kind of actual scientific data. And to represent a tombstone as the after-effects of shaving cream when it is really the after-effects of fire is really just fraud.
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Such Transparency: US Government Admits Area 51 Exists
Richelson told CNN he believes this could signal a dramatic change in the government's willingness to declassify information about the famed base, meaning even more information could come out about Area 51 in the future.
So if Area 51 was just a testing site for two 50-year old planes, what's it doing now? What's been going on since the 60's? Sure maybe the site STARTED as a testing facility for planes, but what did it turn into? Take the liquor store down the street. Before it was a liquor store it was a Korean restaurant. See what I'm saying? Just because something started as something doesn't mean you haven't autopsied an alien up in it since.
Thanks to Tom and E V I L A R E S, who believe.
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• joevsyou
we all known area 51 was real.... People just have this conspiracy that it's used to hold aliens. truth is it's used to test and build new military plans Either way no matter what You never know what truly goes on at some of these bases as only the ones that needs to know is the ones that has access
• lorrrd
Funfact : balack prez has no permission 2 enter that area ( beside many other sites...)
why should O-bummer go there anyway?
• Wait, is that a baseball diamond? What would Area 51's baseball team be called? I'm gonna go with "The Weather Balloons".
• Kenlin Bros
• Stephen Casto
No, this is not a step in the right direction for the US government. Just like when they announced that they had a secret presidential bunker in WV, it was AFTER it had been shut down and moved someplace else. The same thing is happening at A51. They have had to move it because too many people know about it and the government can't cover it up anymore, that's all.
• Max Baldwin
I have a funny feeling that this is the place where they are creating Half-Life 3.
• JJtoob
No, they wouldn't have declassified it otherwise.
• Of course they aren't being stingy with info anymore, the things they did there aren't nearly as important anymore so they can finally talk about it.
They've moved away from super secret planes and such and do most of their spy work via the net and with drones now so a aircraft development base isn't priority when it comes to secrets. Sure they are probably still doing work there, but its not a primary focus anymore.
• Carissa Lynn Van Raak
Nope. Men in Black... end of story, I will accept no other answer.
• WhiteEagle2
Like Will Smith, Men in Black? Noisy Cricket?
• Carissa Lynn Van Raak
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January 31, 2008
When Intern George isn't rubbing our feet, scrawling "Mr. George Fug Girls" on his Trapper Keeper, or peeling grapes that he then feeds us from a silver platter -- as we lounge on our chaises and swoon, "Dahling, WHITHER the fug today, I shall simply PERISH if Mischa Barton doesn't soon leave the house in a Value Village tee!" -- we sometimes let him answer our mail. And today, we decided to let him print some of his answers. We swear on all things holy (so, on George himself) that these are all VERY real e-mails we've received at GFY HQ, with names removed to protect the somewhat innocent.
E-mail #1
Subject line: Not Above The Law
This is to say paris your not above the law !!!!!YOur driving that way and more than one time is pathetic , you could of killed someone and hurt them very badly .Can ya deal with that ????Hope the law gives you the most penalty that can be given , you deserve it totally , no sympathy for you period . And there's no muff for your tiolet seat either , so enjoy that !!!!!!!Get it good !!!!Not a Fan !!!!!!!
Dear Friend,
Playing Sherlock Holmes for a second on this vague, veiled missive, I am sensing feelings of rich disdain. A very wise person once told me, "The sum of your feeling equals the number of exclamation points you use when you're in a wicked strop." Here's a hint: Her name started with "M" and ended in "other Teresa." I thought we'd topped the scale at 14, which were the number she used in a handwritten missive to me raging against the cancellation of Models, Inc., but your 23 push things into the next stratosphere. Such passion! My toes are curling, pet. And you're right, if there's one thing that scaly heiress needs, it's a tiolet seat sans muff. But that doesn't mean I can't knit one for myself...
Getting it good,
E-mail #2
Subject line: (none)
hey can u tell amanda bines to stay out of my garbage can thanx
Dear Friend,
I understand your concerns; Anne Heche was once in my garbage can for three weeks. It was awkward, but she wove me potholders out of my old Coffee Bean cups, so how could I begrudge her? I urge you, put on your empathy pants and consider things from your visitor's perspective: Did it ever occur to you there might be a reason Amanda Bynes is in your garbage can? Maybe she was just passing by, and lost an earring. Maybe you threw out a sweater she thought would make a great piece for her clothing line. Maybe she's rooting around to try and find your Social Security Number so that she can steal your identity and run off to Fiji to escape memories of Sydney White. Gosh, maybe she saw an intergalactic wolf-sprite peeking out at her, begging her to return with it to another galaxy and save the world by spawning a new civilization with Andy Dick (although I've heard that before, ahem, ANNE, and it didn't happen, so tread carefully if Amanda tries that old chestnut).
My point is, stretch out your arms and embrace the unknown -- in this case, the reasons a Hollywood starlet is standing on your lawn nape-deep in your trash. There is nothing a hug of curiosity can't answer. But bring noseplugs if you ate fish recently.
Feeling whiffy,
E-mail #3
Subject line: words "Go Fug Yourself" sure is a fashion reject
the words "go fug yourself" sure is a a verbal fashion reject. it has very BAD connotation. you probably thought you were oh so cute, but it is a blight on the culture. here you are, pointing out the errors of others, with a blattant business name that is depressing and demeaning.
Dear Friend,
It is? It does? Bless, you sweet peach of knowledge -- I learn so much from reading the GFY e-mail. For instance, I only found out the other day that Britney is just like the rest of us, and that Hilary Duff needs her head shaved by someone who cares. But consider me your knight in shining tuxedo. Once I explain this to the girls, we'll have a renaming summit, going for something that really sends out positive vibes. We'll get all the best cuddle-monkeys in the business together -- David Cassidy, Faye Dunaway, that Verizon guy... It's going to be magnificent. Gird your loins, Officer Sweetpea of the Reject Police, because it's going to set them aflutter and the ensuing round of hugs will shake the smog layer clean out of Los Angeles.
E-mail #4
Subject line: hi
I am interested in know an famous people do you can help me ? Thanks
Dear Friend,
I can do better than that. I can hold you. I can sate your thirst, and sup on your elixir of yearning for some celebrity sparkle. My name is George. I wear many hats, but my most cherished is the Intern headdress strapped to my grateful cranium every time I get to man the bar at GFY HQ. I cherish sarcasm, pigs, human rights, and silk pillowcases. Sometimes when I close my eyes, I can whiff the world, and it smells like truffles. Hugs are my kryptonite but also my moisturizer. Feel this. Know me. Let's buy each other dinner and then watch it get cold, to remind us that the piece of our hearts we gave to one another lives somewhere else.
I must go. Celebrity Apprentice beckons like a post-coital sandwich.
You're hired,
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(Steiner writes, after writing about the ether or life-body....) The life-body is still something external to man. With the first stirrings of sensation the
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"The life-body is still something external to man. With the first
stirrings of sensation the inner self responds to the stimuli of the outer
world. You may search forever in what is called the outer world but you will
be unable to find sensation in it. Rays of light stream into the eye,
penetrating it until they reach the retina. There they cause chemical
processes in the so-called visual-purple. The effect of these stimuli is
passed on through the optic nerve to the brain. There further physical
processes arise. Could these be observed, we would simply see more physical
processes just as elsewhere in the physical world. If I am able also to
observe the ether body, I shall see how the physical brain process is at the
same time a life-process. The sensation of blue color that the recipient of
the rays of light experiences, however, I can find nowhere in this manner. It
arises only within the soul of the recipient. If, therefore, the being of
this recipient consisted only of the physical and ether bodies, sensation
could not exist. The activity by which sensation becomes a fact differs
essentially from the operations of the formative life-force. By that activity
an inner experience is called forth from these operations. Without this
activity there would be a mere life-process such as we observe in plants.
Imagine a man receiving impressions from all sides. Think of him as the
source of the activity mentioned above, flowing out in all directions from
which he is receiving these impressions. In all directions sensations arise
in response to the stimuli. This fountain of activity is to be called the
sentient soul. This sentient soul is just as real as the physical body. If a
man stands before me and I disregard his sentient soul by thinking of him as
merely a physical body, it is exactly as if, instead of a painting, I were to
call up in memory merely the canvas.
A statement similar to the one previously made in reference to the ether body
must be made here about perceiving the sentient soul. The bodily organs are
blind to it. The organ by which life can be perceived as life is also blind
to it. The ether body is seen by means of this organ, and so through a still
higher organ the inner world of sensation can become a special kind of
supersensible perception. Then a man not only senses the impressions of the
physical and life world, but he beholds the sensations themselves. The
sensation world of another being is spread out before a man with such an
organ like an external reality. One must distinguish between experiencing
one's own sensation world, and looking at the sensation world of another
person. Every man, of course, can see into his own sensation world. Only the
seer with the opened spiritual eye can see the sensation world of another.
Unless a man is a seer, he knows the world of sensation only as an inner one,
only as the peculiar hidden experiences of his own soul. With the opened
spiritual eye there shines out before the outward-turned spiritual gaze what
otherwise lives only in the inner nature of another being.
* * *
In order to prevent misunderstanding, it may be expressly stated here that
the seer does not experience in himself what the other being experiences as
the content of his world of sensation. The other being experiences the
sensations in question from the point of view of his own inner nature. The
seer, however, becomes aware of a manifestation or expression of the sentient
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Review: Fantastic Four: Rise of The Silver Surfer - Xbox 360
by Steven Williamson on 19 June 2007, 10:34
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If you're willing to invest some time learning each of the character's full range of super powers and combo attacks then there's still a small amount of fun to be had, such as knocking multiple enemies aside with The Thing's rush attack or using Mister Fantastic's elasticity to stretch across the screen to grab an enemy, but the fun is short-lived after you discover rather quickly that a few fancy combat moves is really all the game has to offer and isn’t enough to save it from being a forgettable experience.
The idea behind the gameplay style is actually very good and throughout the game you can switch between these four comic book heroes using the d-pad and use their specific strengths to beat the living daylights out of hordes of attacking enemies or to solve simple puzzles, before proceeding to the end of level big boss battles against the likes of the mighty Super Skrull. By using trigger and button combinations you can pull off a number of unique moves and melee combos, such as unleashing a periscope punch with Mister Fantastic's extendable arm, using the Invisible Woman's invisibility skill to ambush enemies from behind, unleashing a concentrated blast of thermal energy from the fingertips of the Human Torch or pounding the ground with The Thing's shockwave attack, knocking enemies to the ground.. The developers have done a decent job at creating some visually impressive combat moves and there are a few nice touches, such as the Fusion Attack system where you can combine your power with that of a team-mate, but the bland levels, which lack creativity and are devoid of any interesting or challenging puzzles or fights, means that it rarely feels as though your superhero powers are being used in the best way possible.
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1. Define Non probability Sampling
The difference between non probability and probability sampling is that non probability sampling does not involve random selection and probability sampling does. It can be divided into two broad types: accidental or purpose. In purposive sampling, we sample with a purpose in mind
2. Define various non probability sampling methods
Modal Instance Sampling
Expert Sampling
Quota Sampling
Non proportional Quota Sampling
Heterogeneity Sampling
Snowball Sampling
3. Define Modal Instance Sampling
In statistics, the mode is the most frequently occurring value in a distribution. In sampling, when we do a modal instance sample, we are sampling the most frequent case, or the "typical" case.
4. Define Expert Sampling
Expert sampling involves the assembling of a sample of persons with known or demonstrable experience and expertise in some area. Often, such a sample is done under the auspices of a "panel of experts. It would be the best way to elicit the views of persons who have specific expertise
5. Define Quota Sampling
In quota sampling, you select people non randomly according to some fixed quota. There are two types of quota sampling: proportional and non proportional. In proportional quota sampling you want to represent the major characteristics of the population by sampling a proportional amount of each
6. Define Non proportional Quota Sampling
Non proportional quota sampling is a bit less restrictive. In this method, you specify the minimum number of sampled units you want in each category. here, you're not concerned with having numbers that match the proportions in the population.
7. Define Heterogeneity Sampling
The sample for heterogeneity when we want to include all opinions or views, and we aren't concerned about representing these views proportionately. Another term for this is sampling for diversity.
8. Define Snowball Sampling
In snowball sampling, you begin by identifying someone who meets the criteria for inclusion in your study. You then ask them to recommend others who they may know who also meet the criteria. Snowball sampling is especially useful when you are trying to reach populations that are inaccessible or hard to find.
9. Define Accidental Sampling
Its just a means of convenience that this sample is being selected. Based on availability an no specific purpose or thought process is involved in this sampling.
10. What are the other synomnys of accidental sampling
Its also known as Haphazard or Convenience sampling
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1. Define Sampling?
2. Define sampling error?
The standard error is called sampling error. Sampling error gives us some idea of the precision of our statistical estimate. A low sampling error means that we had relatively less variability or range in the sampling distribution. The greater the sample standard deviation, the greater the standard error (and the sampling error).
3. The greater your sample size, the smaller the standard error. Why?
Because the greater the sample size, the closer your sample is to the actual population itself. If you take a sample that consists of the entire population you actually have no sampling error because you don't have a sample, you have the entire population.
4. Define Probability Sampling?
A probability sampling method is any method of sampling that utilizes some form of random selection. In order to have a random selection method, We must ensure some process or procedure that assures that the different units in your population have equal probabilities of being chosen
5. Define Stratified Random Sampling.
It also called proportional or quota random sampling, involves dividing theopulation into homogeneous subgroups and then taking a simple random sample in each subgroup. In more formal terms:
Objective: Divide the population into non-overlapping groups (i.e., strata) N1, N2, N3, ... Ni, such that N1 + N2 + N3 + ... + Ni = N. Then do a simple random sample of f = n/N in each strata.
This method assures that we represent not only the overall population, but also key subgroups of the population, especially small minority groups.
6. Define Cluster sampling
Cluster sampling is a sampling technique used when "natural" groupings are evident in a statistical population. It is often used in marketing research. In this technique, the total population is divided into these groups (or clusters) and a sample of the groups is selected. Then the required information is collected from the elements within each selected group.
7. Define Multi stage sampling
8. Define Systematic random sampling
Systematic sampling is a statistical method involving the selection of elements from an ordered sampling frame. The most common form of systematic sampling is an equal-probability method, in which every kth element in the frame is selected, where k, the sampling interval
9. Difference between Cluster sampling and Stratified sampling
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General Motors Sequel Chassis
Like other major car makers, GM R&D has been working on a fuel cell design for quite some time. So, when “Maximum Bob” Lutz needed a concept to offset the WKTEC bad press, the Sequel skateboard chassis, a fuel cell series hybrid, became the E-Flex drive train (video tour available).
Autoblog Green is one of many transportation publication noting that Ballard Power Systems, a renown maker of PEM fuel cells, has confirmed rumors that “they are in talks to sell their automotive fuel cell assets to Daimler AG and Ford Motor Company.” Actually, ABG is referring to the remaining controlling share of stock not yet owned by the two automobile manufacturers.
Ballard gives, as the reason for selling, the “lengthy projected timeline to commercialization and high cost of development.”
Lascelles Linton opines, “A statement like that coming from a major fuel cell company just may mean the end of politicians standing in front of fuel cell cars talking about a hydrogen future.” Tyler Hamilton asked Clean Break readers if the fuel cell car was dead and I had to scoff.
General Motors is deploying Chevy Equinox SUVs; Honda is commercially offering the FCX; and, Sebastian Blanco informs us, “the countries with the largest natural gas reserves are Russia, Iran, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.” Thus, the Reason Foundation contends that if transportation would switch to the Hydrogen Highway, as has been advocated, then supplying the hydrogen for all the cars in the U.S., would “significantly increase the need for foreign-produced natural gas.” The “soundbite”, says Seb: “Instead of depending on Middle Eastern oil, we would be reliant on the Middle East’s natural gas.” My money is on Death of Life as We know It on this Planet, before the Hydrogen Highway Hype dies.
Ballard may be unable to compete with Japanese residential fuel cell makers. Still Clean Break commentator mds makes a valid critique of the viability of fuel cell powered transportation:
On the second page of this article, Ian Wright compares the weight of his entire EV sports car to the weight of a hydrogen fuel tank.
Progress has been made but I think problems remain:
1. H2 comes from fossils fuels or is inefficiently generated from H20.
2. H2 transport infrastructure does not exist yet. It will be expensive to build. (…and if there’s a leak in an H2 pipe that catches on fire it will burn invisibly …nasty)
3. H2 tanks are heavy relative to other alternatives.
4. PEM fuel cells are expensive and can get poisoned from carbon and other impurities. (I think some real progress may have been made here.)
Basically, all the major aspects of using H2 for transportation have major critical-path development problems. Meanwhile electric transportation is on the edge of hitting mainstream viability.
Why solve all the H2 problems if there’s a viable PHEV and BEV alternative? H2 is DOA. Sorry.
Some of this already has been said numerous times. In response to Tyler’s post, Jim Fraser notes, “This has been my view since the start of The Energy Blog and I am glad to see someone else explicitly supporting my views.” This blog covered and remarked upon the Ballard response to the movie: “Who Killed the Electric Car?”
Paine Point #1: Hydrogen & fuel cells are a very inefficient way to power cars (someone in the movie says “three-to four times more energy required than using batteries”).
Ballard Response: Like all fuels, it takes energy to produce hydrogen and deliver it to a vehicle. The amount of energy required depends on how the hydrogen is made. Some methods require more energy than others.
While it may take more energy to produce and deliver hydrogen than it takes to produce and deliver gasoline or natural gas, the hydrogen fuel is used more efficiently in hydrogen vehicles. Fuel cells are two to three times more efficient than internal combustion vehicles. In many cases, the overall “well-to-wheels” energy usage can be much lower for hydrogen vehicles than for gasoline or natural gas vehicles using a conventional internal combustion engine.
Paine Point #2: Hydrogen & fuel cells are really just a diversion the car companies used to get rid of the Air Resources Board’s ZEV (zero-emission vehicle) rules.
Ballard Response: First, fuel cell vehicles are not a diversionary tactic. All of the major automakers have fuel cell development programs. And that’s because they see hydrogen fuel cells as being the ultimate replacement for the internal combustion engine. And remember that fuel cell vehicles are electric vehicles too! They’re just not battery-electric vehicles. Some fuel cell vehicles run only on fuel cells, others are fuel cell / battery hybrids.
Stepping up on the After Gutenberg soapbox…
This blog’s critique of Ballard’s response to Paine’s Point #1:
Well, when forced to tell the truth, Ballard will admit to the inefficiency of hydrogen, but then hedge about it. After the point is made in response, the WKTEC question still remains: if electric drive is the reason for an overall “well-to-wheels” energy usage that can be much lower than for conventional internal combustion engine, why then is electric drive unsuitable for other renditions, i.e., plug-in hybrids (Well, until oil becomes extremely scarce) or battery-powered, all-electric vehicles?
This blog’s spin on Ballard’s spin on Paine point #2:
Yes, all of the major automakers have fuel cell development programs. In fact, DCX [Editor's note: At the time, now Daimler AG] and Ford bought the rights to Ballard Power Systems effectively inhibiting other CanAm fuel cell transportation efforts. The Big Money business plan is to introduce fuel cells eventually. Meanwhile, as one pundit observed, in the Guinness Book of World Records, the world record is this huge number of miles per gallon. So, how is it that I am unable to buy an American car with anything better than 40 MPG or 52.1 MPG from a foreign car sold in America? Is it simply a matter of “real world” conditions, real herein defined as what the corporate advertising budgets can afford?
Bottom line: In terms of emissions during operation, a grid-able electric drive with a fuel cell range extender trumps other, plug-in hybrid configurations. It is the cost of the technology and efficient access to the fuel that continue to inhibit the prospects of fuel cell hybrids.
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EVWorldwire exemplifies the current mixed message about H2. Two stories from its feed, one relays an observation by Research Capital analyst Jon Hykawy that the dream of hydrogen fuel car is dead, while another story reports that General Motors is hoping to offer fuel cell cars through dealers by 2011.
Two other stories in the same feed note:
• “Automakers are at least 10 years from truly making a hydrogen powered car or truck someone can buy.”
• “Compared to battery-powered vehicles, fuel-cell cars can be driven farther: the Equinox can go 150 miles on a full tank of 9.3 pounds of hydrogen.”
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BBC Funding - A Radical Alternative
Instead of the £145.50 colour television licence required to watch television in the UK and NI, I propose that the BBC will be funded by the National Lottery - still run on its behalf by Camelot.
The money presently raised by the National Lottery for good causes will be allocated from taxation on a matched-funding basis depending on how much the National Lottery raises annually. But here's another radical change: on each lottery ticket tick boxes will be printed next to categories of causes, thereby enabling the ticket buyer to choose how the National Lottery matched-funding is to be allocated instead of the Great and the Good Jellabys picking their pet guinea pig projects.
The £145.50 formerly spent on the licence will be available for spending and will more directly and efficiently boost the economy and employment.
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SadButMadLad said...
TV license only £145? That's cheap. Sky customers pay on average £500/yr. That's on top of the £145. Just make the BBC subscription only. There's still ITV, CH4, 5 and loads of other channels for those who can't afford the subscription. It might even be possible for certain groups (pensioners, disabled etc) to have their subscription subsidised. | http://listeningblogger.blogspot.com/2012/11/bbc-funding-radical-alternative.html | dclm-gs1-088480002 | false | false | {
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A new book explains how the average cup of joe went from good to bad to good again
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Cover of 'God in a Cup' by Michaele Weissman.
In God in a Cup: The Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Coffee, journalist Michaele Weissman goes behind the scenes of the specialty coffee industry—a booming business that brings high-quality beans grown near the equator to popular coffee shops around the world. Weissman also explains why so much of the coffee we drink is, well, bad. (So bad, in fact, that many of us might not even realize what we're missing.) Weissman spoke with U.S. News about why consumers settle for low-quality beans, how the growing popularity of high-end coffee is affecting growers around the world, and when coffee snobbery crosses the line. Excerpts:
Is it elitist to focus on the specialty coffee business? Does good coffee really matter?
When a human story comes together with a culinary story comes together with a business story, to me that's extremely compelling. I fell in love with these people, and I wanted to know more about them because they are not typical business guys.
The story that I tell is really about a model of the global marketplace and the connection between consumers and producers. Coffee farmers who sell specialty coffee are doing better in a number of places in the world. They are learning what the consuming world considers quality to be. This specialty revolution has provided cupping training [for growers] and partnership with USAID and other nonprofits.
Can you give us a brief history of the coffee business?
From around the 1700s to the beginning of the 20th century, the farmer grew it the way he grew corn. Coffee was traditionally grown in the poor countries that span the globe around the equator, and then it was sold through middlemen to get to local roasteries. Most little towns had either local roasteries or grocery stores that roasted coffee. It was all pretty good.
Then, around the 1950s, we had the whole phenomenon of the industrialization of the food chain. We had increasingly national coffee brands, which weren't fresh because they were produced farther and farther away from the point of consumption. Coffee quality slid precipitously.
Then, in the 1960s, a lot of Europeans came here and started to roast coffee, and it started to swing back to quality. Starbucks launched in the late 1970s, early 1980s, and grew out of a swing towards quality. Then Starbucks became such a megalith that it started driving public awareness about coffee.
What do you think will be the future of the business? Will specialty coffee ever become mainstream?
I think it can be mainstream the way an interest in wine is mainstream. I think you can move the whole continuum upward so that even the most ordinary coffee is a little better and what's considered better is much better.
Can coffee snobbery go too far? You probably heard about the recent kerfuffle at Murky Coffee in Arlington, Va., after a customer tried to order an espresso over ice.
I think it has to do with age and gender. The most passionate coffee people are young, geeky guys, and young, geeky guys sometimes don't have the world's best social skills. What amazes me is the animus right underneath the surface. I think it has to do with hipster culture and a reaction against perceived economic elitism. The hipsters want to keep coffee separate and their own thing, they want to define it, and when they perceive that it's turning into something "shi shi froufrou", there's a certain kind of public rage.
What are your own coffee drinking habits?
I order coffee from the companies that I wrote about in my book. I see coffee as seasonal. I don't expect to drink Ethiopian all year round. I watch their websites and order what's just come in. And I make coffee at home in a one-cup ceramic filter drip system, so I do it one cup at a time. I have a large coffee in the morning and a smaller one in the afternoon.
So no lattes for you?
I have a passion for a really good cappuccino. The way when I was younger, I craved ice cream, I will crave cappuccino now. I can sit and think about the foam. If it were next door, I'd have one every day.
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hotel tuerkei of 12:26AM January 27, 2010
Well said about how Star Bucks is laughing their way to the bank. I'm trying to simply quit coffee because it stains my teeth, consumes my time in mornings, and can be expensive, if I puchase a cup from even from Dunkin' Donuts.
Amy of MA 2:02PM December 22, 2008
I have a fairly low end (no bells and whistles), older Krups espresso maker that works like a charm. So, I make and drink my own cappucinos. Like the author, I am usually disappointed by many local coffee brewers, but not always. McDonalds makes a surprisingly improved cup of Java now. Not to forget: freshness counts a lot. Even the best tastes like swamp water when it's been on the burner too long.
I agree with the comment about having an aversion to paying $4-$5 for a cup of coffee, unless maybe it's being served on the Boulevard St. Germain!
Mark of WV 7:03PM September 13, 2008
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The novel is based around the main character of Addie, who has lived most of her life in a government facility called the "Senses Bureau". Born with a highly attuned sense of touch, any living object she touches she can turn into. Now at the age of 18 her best friend Porter, who also lives in the facility and has a highly attuned sense of direction, says he'll grant her one wish for her birthday. Given much more freedom then Addie, Porter has lived more then half his life in the outside world and knows much more about reality than Addie. Yearning for answers about herself, Addie asks Porter for him to tell her about her family and her past. Reluctant but loyal, Porter ends up telling Addie that she has a twin sister. Determined to find her sister, Addie ventures forth into the real world in search of her sister and in search of answers. On the journey to find her sister Addie not only finds herself, but finds the destiny she was always meant to have.
The boy walked over to the girl on the ground and touched her head. He had heard her screams, had her heard commotion and cries of distress. She had a bump on her foerhead, but nothing too serious. He pressed down on the bump feeling the pain in the girl’s head.
It was an impulse, the boy could feel, just a knee-jerk reaction, but the girl whom he had been touching abrubtly shifted into a brown terrier. The terrier snapped at the boy’s hand examining the new attacker.
The angelic boy stared at the terrier in wonder. The terrier instantly put its head back down on the pavement and the brunette girl reappered. The boy smiled down at her and put his hand over her head again. Closing his eyes, the boys head was soon full of pain as he absorbed all the pain she had taken from the blow to the head. Feeling the pain for a minute or so, the experienced boy then stored the pain inside the corner of his heart that was impervious. It was the corner untouched by anything else, where no pain would ever resurface.
He watched as a small smile of relief appeared on the unconscious girl as she fell into the deep sleep that came with having pain instantly relieved. The boy smiled at the girl at peace and was reminded of his importance, of the good that he could do in the world.
The boy then looked over her quickly to see if the girl had substained any more injuries, and his eye caught a small heart on a silver chain around her neck. Lifting the heart ever so gently he noticed the engraved letters on its surface.
“Addie,” the boy whispered as he spoke the girl’s name on the heart. “Addie, who are you?”
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Toads are the most recurring summons to be seen in the series due to some of the main characters, Naruto Uzumaki, Jiraiya, and the Fourth Hokage, being able to summon them, come from the Toad Land, Myobokuzan. Toads possess a wide range of abilities, being able to spit water or oil from their mouths and occasionally utilizing weapons in battle. They vary greatly in size; Gamabunta, the largest toad seen so far, is as big as a building, at least 100 meters tall in fact, while his two sons, Gamakichi and Gamatatsu, are small enough in Part I to ride upon one's head. In promotional artwork for Part II, Naruto is depicted riding atop an older Gamakichi, suggesting that he and his brother have gotten much bigger since their last appearances. This has been proven after Jiraiya's death, when Gamakichi and his father are visitting Naruto in Konoha to bring him the bad news.
Gamaken, Gamabunta, Gamakichi, Fukasaku, Gamahiro and Naruto being summoned to Konoha to fight Pain.
Unlike most summons introduced in Naruto, each toad is shown to have a unique personality; Gamatatsu has a fixation for snacks and Gamakichi enjoys watching battles from a safe distance. Their father, Gamabunta, speaks like a yakuza gangster who won't work with anyone he doesn't respect. Despite this, he is fiercely protective of his children and Naruto, and will fight for their safety regardless of his respect for the summoner (or, more likely, whether or not Jiraiya is on his good side). Gamaken, a toad of comparable size to Gamabunta that is introduced in Part II, spends the bulk of his brief appearance commenting on how weak and stupid he is.
The toad elders seem to hold high positions in toad-society; the Great Toad Sage, an aging and senile toad, hands out wisdom and predictions to the younger generations. He is highly respected for his track record of always being right, and getting to meet with him is considered a great honor. A married toad couple, who simply refer to each other as Ma and Pa, assist the Great Sage in his work. They also seem to be particularly powerful, as Jiraiya summons them to help him during a battle with Pain. Jiraiya speaks to both of them very respectfully, whereas most other toads he treats as his equals. Although Ma and Pa constantly bicker over such things as dinner and Jiraiya's immaturity, their combined efforts are enough to defeat three of Pain's bodies.
Known Toads
To date, five people have signed the contract with the toads. Of these five, only the last three are known. They are, starting with the most recent signer:
The latest summoner of Toads, Naruto didn't usually summon them unless he needed Gamabunta (which ticked him off). However, upon Jiraiya's death Naruto become a sage through their methods and became more proactive with them. Naruto is highly respected among them since their leader foretold him as a "Prophesized One".
Nothing is known about Minato's relationship with the toads but apparently he was well-respected among them. His only known summons were Gamabunta whom he called to help him fight the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox and Gerotora who holds the key to the seal of the Nine Tails on Naruto's stomach.
The most frequent summoner of the toads, Jiraiya's techniques mainly consisted of toad based abilities. Jiraiya's nickname was even "The Toad Sage". The toads had a cordial relationship with Jiraiya, often making fun of him despite their great mutual respect. It is hinted that his preversion is the root of their jokes
• Masashi Kishimoto has stated that there are a number of different types of toads; the toad that appears on the cover of volume 13 of the manga he states to be a Shaolin kung fu master. He hopes to be able to draw many of these toads for the duration of Naruto.[1]
1. Kishimoto, Masashi (2007). Uzumaki: the Art of Naruto. Viz Media, 128. ISBN 1-4215-1407-9.
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Virginia: I’m really dragging right now.
Andrew: That sounds awful.
Virginia: That image, and the gesture you just did…
Nick: Open mic. What’s been on your minds? I know me and Andrew have been staring at these gun laws and wondering if guns will be illegal soon.
Andrew: Just reading these things are panic-inducing. Why would you do this?
Nick: The only guns we’ll be allowed are BB guns and water pistols. The assault rifle ban could ban water pistols. It’s based on the grips and sights.
Andrew: It’s only for chemically-propelled guns. Won’t apply to water guns. I did learn that Australia requires you to get a firearm license to buy a paintball gun.
Nick: I just think it would further explain the idiocy when you have 11 year olds waiting in line to buy their paintball gun.
Andrew: I think you have to be 18 to get a license, so kids won’t even be able to play.
Nick: It is pretty dangerous. I saw something funny on YouTube. It was the video of the celebrities calling for action on gun control. It’s “We demand a plan!”
Andrew: We demand a plan, but we’re not going to specify anything. It’s the typical “Won’t someone think of the children!” Emotional reaction.
Nick: Every time the celebrities would say something about gun control, they would cut to a clip of them using guns irresponsibly in movies.
Virginia: That’s awesome.
Nick: Some of them were people running down the street and firing into the air. That shows exactly how stupid those people are.
Andrew: Almost all of the actors and actress in that video have shot people in movies.
Nick: It’s funny because it’s easy to laugh at them. But, they also didn’t specify a plan. We can’t laugh too much or we’ll be classified as gun nuts.
Virginia: You guys are definitely on a list somewhere.
Andrew: I’m on more than one list, I’m sure. I don’t look forward to flying any time soon.
Virginia: When is the last time you flew?
Andrew: About a year ago. I’m actually probably not on a list. I’m a moral, upstanding citizen.
Nick: I’m on a list.
Virginia: Which list?
Nick: There’s countries you can’t go into.
Andrew: Bull. You mean the ones that no one in the US is allowed to enter due to their political climate?
Nick: No. Because I have some stamps from other places I’ve been, they wouldn’t let me into other countries.
Andrew: Are you serious. Like what?
Nick: Like Korea.
Andrew: So you can’t go to like South Korea?
Nick: No. I can to South Korea. There are countries that have issues with Korea. If you have a stamp on your passport saying that you’ve been to Korea, they won’t let you in.
Virginia. Why don’t you just get a new passport?
Nick: That’s illegal.
Andrew: It’s like renewing it.
Virginia: Then you have a new passport, and the stamp is gone. Problem solved.
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83.: ricardo to malthus1[Reply to 82.—Answered by 84] - David Ricardo, The Works and Correspondence of David Ricardo, Vol. 6 Letters 1810-1815 [1810]
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[Reply to 82.—Answered by 84]
My dear Sir
If your statement was correct this extravagant consequence would follow from it, that in proportion as population increased and worse land was brought under cultivation, the proportion of produce to the corn expences of procuring it would increase. If we now had 20 millions of quarters with an expence of 5 millions of quarters, we should when we expended 10 millions of quarters obtain more than 40, notwithstanding that in the latter period many more than double the quantity of hands were employed in cultivation, in consequence of the poorer quality2 of the land. If this be true the principle of population is false, because the more you increase the people the greater surplus of abundance will appear. Your statement is however very ingenious, and carries a great deal of plausibility with it; but I think you err in supposing it possible that the proportion of the whole corn expenditure, to the produce obtained, can fall, with an increase of the price of corn. The two are incompatible,— either the whole corn expences of production will be increased or not. If they be the price of corn will rise,—but if they be not I can see no reason for a rise in the price of corn. I admit that it is only the last portion of capital employed on the land which will be attended with an increased corn expence, but unless it renders the whole produce together at an increased expence the price of produce will not rise.
Suppose the produce of the country 10 millions of quarters, with the price at £4 pr. quarter, the number of labourers employed 2½ millions, each receiving 2 quarters of corn annually as wages. Suppose too that the population increases, and 5 millions of quarters more are required, but that it can not be obtained with less labour than that of 2 millions of men. If we suppose the price to increase in proportion to the number of men employed, it will rise to £4. 16, because to raise 10 millions of quarters an average of 3 millions of men would be now required instead of 2½ millions. Suppose now each man to consume one quarter annually for food, and to exchange the remainder for other necessaries, 14 bushels will be sufficient wages for him; the expenditure of corn for wages will then be for 15 millions of produce 7,875,000 quarters and for 10 millions 5,250,000. Before it was only 5 millions, consequently the proportion of surplus produce has diminished.
In making this calculation I have very much favored your view of the question, because the price of corn would not I think rise in proportion to the greater number of men employed but to the greater amount of wages paid,—it would not therefore rise to £4. 16. but to £4. 4 because as 5 : 5¼ :: £4 : £4. 4. - but, if the price was only £4. 4 - more corn would be required by the labourer than 14 bushels that calculation being founded on a greater exchangeable value of corn.—
It appears too that your statement if true does not account for the less proportion of the population now emp[loyed on]1 the land, because you always suppose more men to [be emplo]yed but at less corn wages.—It can never happen I [think] that profits can fall, and encourage the cultivation of poor [land in] the manner assumed in my table, without a rise in the price of corn. It is by the rise of the price of corn that all other profits are regulated to agricultural profits. If the price of corn remained low money wages would not rise and general profits could not fall.
If it be true that capital has become more and more productive on the land, it can I think only be accounted for on the supposition that great improvements have taken place in agriculture, and that wages have been kept moderate by the improvements in those manufactures which supply the poor with the necessaries on which a part of their wages are expended.—
What a dreadful change in our political horizon has occurred within a few days.2 —Will it be possible to remain at peace if Bonaparte establishes himself as sovereign of France? The prospect is very gloomy. Mrs. Ricardo unites with me in kind regards to Mrs. Malthus
Ever Yrs.
David Ricardo
[1 ]Addressed: ‘To / The Revd. T. R Malthus / East India College / Hertford’.
MS at Albury.—Letters to Malthus, XXVII.
[2 ]Replaces ‘quantity’.
[1 ]MS torn here and below.
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Even though Earthlings won the war against an alien race, they lost their home. Now it is the job of Jack Harper (Tom Cruise) to watch over the uninhabitable sphere. But an unexpected discovery begins to change the way he sees the past and future of the deserted planet. Get the movie review and more. »
Overall: C+
Violence: C
Sexual Content: C+
Language: D+
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Run Time: 124
Theater Release: 19 Apr 2013
Video Release: 06 Aug 2013
MPAA Rating: PG-13
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Violence: A character experiences peril while flying through a lightening storm. He later rides a motorcycle without a helmet. A man’s foot is caught in a bear trap after being ambushed by attackers who shoot at him. A rope breaks while he tries to escape and he falls to the ground far below. Scenes of post-apocalyptic devastation are seen. A man is hit in the head with a gun butt resulting in a bloody facial injury. Characters throw punches, grapple and fire at one another on numerous occasions. A man is choked until he passes out. Drones fire on and kill humans, blowing their bodies to bits. A man holds a gun to a woman’s head. She is later shot in the stomach. Numerous explosions occur.
Sexual Content: Partial male and female back nudity is seen in a shower scene. Female buttock nudity is shown when a woman undresses and dives into a swimming pool. Brief suggestive scenes of sexuality are included. Unclothed characters are seen in a state of stasis. Couples kiss and embrace. Some brief crude content and innuendo is also included.
Language: The script contains infrequent scatological slang, vulgarities, profanities and one use of the sexual expletive.
Alcohol / Drug Use: A secondary character smokes a cigar. A female attempts to inject a medical solution into another character.
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Biology Direct 2009;4:37.
We have previously shown that deviations from the average transcription profile of a group of functionally related genes are not only heritable, but also demonstrate specific patterns associated with age, gender and differentiation, thereby implicating genome-wide nuclear programming as the cause. To determine whether these results could be reproduced, a different micro-array database (obtained from two types of muscle tissue, derived from 81 human donors aged between 16 to 89 years) was studied.
This new database also revealed the existence of age, gender and tissue-specific features in a small group of functionally related genes. In order to further analyze this phenomenon, a method was developed for quantifying the contribution of different factors to the variability in gene expression, and for generating a database limited to residual values reflecting constitutional differences between individuals. These constitutional differences, presumably epigenetic in origin, contribute to about 50% of the observed residual variance which is connected with a network of interrelated changes in gene expression with some genes displaying a decrease or increase in residual variation with age.
Epigenetic variation in gene expression without a clear concomitant relation to gene function appears to be a widespread phenomenon. This variation is connected with interactions between genes, is gender and tissue specific and is related to cellular aging.
This finding, together with the method developed for analysis, might contribute to the elucidation of the role of nuclear programming in differentiation, aging and carcinogenesis
This article was reviewed by Thiago M. Venancio (nominated by Aravind Iyer), Hua Li (nominated by Arcady Mushegian) and Arcady Mushegian and Magelhaes (nominated by G. Church).
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2. Epigenetic hereditary transcription profiles II, aging revisited
Biology Direct 2007;2:39.
Previously, we have shown that deviations from the average transcription profile of a group of functionally related genes can be epigenetically transmitted to daughter cells, thereby implicating nuclear programming as the cause. As a first step in further characterizing this phenomenon it was necessary to determine to what extent such deviations occur in non-tumorigenic tissues derived from normal individuals. To this end, a microarray database derived from 90 human donors aged between 22 to 87 years was used to study deviations from the average transcription profile of the proteasome genes.
Increase in donor age was found to correlate with a decrease in deviations from the general transcription profile with this decline being gender-specific. The age-related index declined at a faster rate for males although it started from a higher level. Additionally, transcription profiles from similar tissues were more alike than those from different tissues, indicating that deviations arise during differentiation.
These findings suggest that aging and differentiation are related to epigenetic changes that alter the transcription profile of proteasomal genes. Since alterations in the structure and function of the proteasome are unlikely, such changes appear to occur without concomitant change in gene function.
These findings, if confirmed, may have a significant impact on our understanding of the aging process.
Open peer review
This article was reviewed by Nathan Bowen (nominated by I. King Jordan), Timothy E. Reddy (nominated by Charles DeLisi) and by Martijn Huynen. For the full reviews, please go to the Reviewers'comments section.
PMCID: PMC2265679 PMID: 18163906
3. Hereditary profiles of disorderly transcription?
Biology Direct 2006;1:9.
Microscopic examination of living cells often reveals that cells from some cell strains appear to be in a permanent state of disarray without obvious reason. In all probability such a disorderly state affects cell functioning.
The aim of this study was to establish whether a disorderly state could occur that adversely affects gene expression profiles and whether such a state might have biomedical consequences. To this end, the expression profiles of the 14 genes of the proteasome derived from the GEO SAGE database were utilized as a model system.
By adopting the overall expression profile as the standard for normal expression, deviation in transcription was frequently observed. Each deviating tissue exhibited its own characteristic profile of over-expressed and under-expressed genes. Moreover such a specific deviating profile appeared to be epigenetic in origin and could be stably transmitted to a clonal derivative e.g. from a precancerous normal tissue to its tumor. A significantly greater degree of deviation was observed in the expression profiles from the tumor tissues.
The changes in the expression of different genes display a network of interdependencies. Therefore our hypothesis is that deviating profiles reflect disorder in the localization of genes within the nucleus
The underlying cause(s) for these disorderly states remain obscure; it could be noise and/or deterministic chaos. Presence of mutational damage does not appear to be predominantly involved.
As disturbances in expression profiles frequently occur and have biomedical consequences, its determination could prove of value in several fields of biomedical research.
This article was reviewed by Trey Ideker, Itai Yanai and Stephan Beck
PMCID: PMC1500996 PMID: 16579860
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Love, Sarah
Thursday, 30 May 2013
My "Perfect" Life - Part 2
Intimacy is a word that sparks in me a feeling of being hugged and the experience of eye contact. The family home in which I grew up was decent and respectable to the outside world, but we were not intimate. It was a time when fathers were the breadwinners, and were responsible as role models. I suspect ours was more-or-less the norm. At least to the outside world we were a typical WASP household, where fathers were detached entities to be respected, feared and obeyed.
My father fought in World War II as a fighter pilot. I know nothing of his experiences. He never spoke about it himself. Second and third hand, through my mother and a first cousin: my father's sister's daughter, I've learned a little about how the war affected him. After the war, my father spent time with his sister 'recuperating' emotionally. Evidently, he had nightmares. Later, when he attempted to finish his law degree and write the Bar exam, he was too war-torn to manage it. He either didn't write the exam or flunked out.
Apparently, my father was a brilliant orator and law student never to have his dreams realized. I say 'apparently' because he never spoke to me about himself. My mother did a bit, but she wasn't the most reliable source of information as she was prone to exaggeration and embellishment. But it's safe to say he did leave law school to volunteer for the war effort a year before finishing, and he never practiced the Law. He'd been valedictorian of his undergraduate class and his yearbook says words to the affect: 'If this boy doesn't make a significant contribution to society there is no justice in the world.' Some time after his death, I found the yearbook when I was in my 30's. Upon discovering that comment, I felt proud for my dad.
His failure to complete Law was not only a personal tragedy but also indicative of the losses to society. This man - like so many others - put his own life 'on hold' to do what he felt was his duty, never to fulfill his goals or purpose.
The story I'll use to introduce my remote and harsh father is third hand. It's the only story I have about him as a child, but it gives me the impression that my dad was a sensitive and loving child. It is a story I'll call 'Sweet Kittens'. A cousin told me the story, which in itself tells you a lot about the lack of intimacy in my immediate family.
When my dad was little - maybe about five - the family cat had kittens. The family was never well-off.... (One reason my dad didn't finish law school was because he had to put himself through university and then law school; I don't know how he managed undergrad but by the time he got to law school he had to work a year, then study for a year, then work for a year... back and forth like that. By the time he was to study his last year the war was full-on and he felt he should wait no longer but go to fight...) ... the kittens were important to my dad. He played intently with them. But at some point, perhaps when they'd grown and needed solid food, or perhaps sooner when it was realized no one else would take the kittens, they were put in a sack and drowned. My father watched, helpless, and then he ran off, crying, devastated. I highlight in the story that he appeared to be alone in his grief. His older sisters and parents, it seemed, were unconsoling. A younger brother wasn't yet born.
Growing up in our house, we always had a cat. The third family cat is the only one I remember. I was three years old when we got him and he lived for ten years. He was wonderful! My dad was affectionate toward Boots and spoke words of affirmation to him. Boots lived a high life of soft cat food, roast beef and ice cream. When my dad would nap on the sofa, Boots curled up next to him. Dad flattered Boots. 'A thing of beauty is a joy forever' Dad would quote. Then he'd reach down and pat the cat and say, "Eh Boots." My mother looked on as the cat received open affection. The words of affirmation and displays of affection my dad showed toward the cat are the indications I interpret as the potential my dad had for displaying love.
When Boots died of natural causes, it was my father who found him. He took his body away for disposal and we never had another family cat. I don't remember my dad speaking about Boots or his death after that.
I admire my father in many ways. Now I choose to look upon our distant relationship as a tragedy that was rooted in his experience of war and having no acknowledgement or treatment for the effects.
While this post may seem bleak, it is not intended to be so. Some of life's events and relationships can be disappointing, how we take our experiences and make them channels for strength and learning are up to us. I believe every experience makes us stronger, healthier, more compassionate individuals, able to offer to the world insight and hope.
Have you family memories that this story triggers in you? I'd love to hear from you - about your family, or your thoughts about mine. And I'll bring a third installment of My "Perfect" Life next THURSDAY.
Jeannie said...
Sarah, thanks for sharing this. It's very sad but it's good that you can gain perspective on the relationship and be understanding of your dad's limits as well as appreciating his strengths.
At our group this morning a very random comment got us talking about the movie "It's a Wonderful Life." In that movie the main character can't realize his youthful dreams of going to college, seeing the world, building skyscrapers, etc. His bitterness ends when he has the opportunity to see all the people whose lives he's touched through his kindness, loyalty, etc. Unfortunately life doesn't always work out like a movie! -- but even here the lesson, that letting ourselves love and be loved is the ultimate success -- can be very hard to learn.
Sarah Tun said...
Thanks Jeannie,
I think what strikes me most is how I've come to value my father as a man of integrity and intelligence. It is amazing, isn't it, how our perspective changes toward people as we live through our own lessons. It is a useful discovery that can carry us through some difficult relationships now, knowing what we value now will inevitably change. And as parents, witnessing how our perspective has changed toward our own parents can help us to understand our children better.
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I'm having trouble using cv::sort functionality in C++ API of OpenCV.
I'm trying to sort cv::Mat contents in OpenCV using
cv::sort(InputArray src, OutputArray dst, int flags);
The following code gives me a compilation error. I'm not sure whats wrong with this code:
using namespace std;
using namespace cv;
int main(int argc, char** argv)
Mat matrix(5,5,CV_32F,Scalar(0)),m;
randn(matrix, 2.00, 1.00);
cout<<"before sorting:\n"<<matrix<<endl;
sort(matrix, m, CV_SORT_EVERY_ROW + CV_SORT_ASCENDING);
cout<<"after sorting:\n"<<m<<endl;
return 0;
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What's the error? – RutgersMike Apr 10 '12 at 0:53
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You have to use cv::sort() rather than sort(), even you are using namespace cv. That is because C++ has an implementation of sort() in namespace std and simply using sort() will make a conflict.
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it sometimes feels silly. It again reminded me that I need to be careful while using multiple namespaces. Thank you. – raul_w Apr 10 '12 at 14:43
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I generate Java classes from my XSD schema file using XJC command line tool. The ObjectFactory class generates incomplete content. It generates creation methods without JAXBElement<Type> createType decoration.
What may be the reason of this? Regards Dominik
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Only some types in a JAXB2 XJC-generated binding need JAXBElement wrappers. Those types that have the @XMLRootElement annotation do not need the wrapper, and so the object factory does not generate one.
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Do you have elements in your schema, or just types? This is usually the reason.
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I am working towards achieving +/- ms timing precision. I want the time between threads to be 10ms, but when I measure the time I get something closer to 15ms.
I am trying to understand if the problem is due to the way I am measuring time or if I am measuring the time accurately and there is some delay introduced by CreateTimerQueueTimer
My code looks like
#include "stdafx.h"
#include <iostream>
#include <Windows.h>
#include <chrono>
#include <ctime>
using namespace std;
int current;
long long* toFill;
void talk()
chrono::time_point<chrono::system_clock> tp = \
toFill[current++]=chrono::duration_cast<chrono::milliseconds>(tp.time_since_epoch()).count() ;
int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])
HANDLE hTimer;
current = 0;
toFill = new long long[1000];
for (int i = 1;i<current;i++)
cout << i << " : " << toFill[i]-toFill[i-1]<< endl;
return 0;
Output looks like
161 : 16 <-- Should be 10
162 : 15
163 : 16
164 : 16
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The accuracy of timers and the real time clock in Windows is limited by the clock tick interrupt rate. Which by default tocks 64 times per second, 1/64 sec = 15.625 msec. Just like you saw.
Increasing that rate is actually possible, call timeBeginPeriod(10) at the start of your program to get 10 msec accuracy.
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Not sure what you mean by "the real time clock in Windows". Schedulable timers indeed are only as accurate as the clock interrupt, but the time can be queried with much much better precision. – Ben Voigt Jan 21 at 21:33
The suggestion is a good one, but I don't think the statement about clock accuracy is true. The question I want to understand is if sleep() is wrong or if the clock::now() is wrong. When I increase the granularity by setting timeBeginPeroid(10) my sleep appears to wakeup faster (a similar code with mutex has them unlock quicker). This would hint that the clock::now() is always reporting the right time and that sleep() is the cause for the discrepancy. Sleeps too long. Perhaps, implementing a spinlock would clear this up. – Mikhail Jan 21 at 23:53
I don't know what _sleep() is. Use Sleep() instead. Regardless, it should have nothing to do with the interval between talk() callbacks. – Hans Passant Jan 22 at 0:06
@HansPassant, this is also not a bad suggestion, but I still need to know if discrepancies come from my measuring instrument (now()) or from the amount of work I am claiming to do sleep(). The way I understand your post, sleep(10) will sleep exactly for 10, but my metering (with now()) maybe inaccurate. I don't think this is the case. – Mikhail Jan 22 at 0:25
I just don't know what you are talking about. I explained where the 16 msec intervals come from and how you can change it. If you have some new problem or have "discrepancies" then I can't guess what that looks like, I can't see your screen from here. If you are hoping for exact 10 msec intervals then scratch that, Windows is not a real-time operating system. Good luck with it. – Hans Passant Jan 22 at 0:30
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If you need better resolution than 15 ms then this will hopefully help:
Implement a Continuously Updating, High-Resolution Time Provider for Windows
As for measuring time: If I had access to Windows or Visual Studio I would give high_resolution_clock a shot. (I switched to Linux 7 years ago, sorry, I can't check it myself.) As Xeo wrote: "high_resolution_clock is a typedef for system_clock with MSVC."
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high_resolution_clock is a typedef for system_clock with MSVC. :/ – Xeo Jan 21 at 13:07
@Xeo Thanks, I didn't know that. Edited the answer accordingly! – Ali Jan 21 at 13:10
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CreateTimerQueue is not meant for precise timing. It uses thread-pools underneath, which may introduce significant delays.
From MSDN's CreateTimerQueueTimer function document:
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is it possible to deploy mutiple instance of same war so that it can be accessed by different context?
http:// localhost:7001/app1 points to --> app.war
http:// localhost:7001/app2 points to --> app.war
http:// localhost:7001/app3 points to --> app.war
I have to use Weblogic server which is a constraint. I know it works with Jetty but cannot use it though :-(
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Since your question's tags include apache, please clarify if you are using an Apache web server in front of your WebLogic. – Viccari Jan 23 at 22:21
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Your problem is that the weblogic.xml defines the context root for your web application. If it is the same war with the same weblogic.xml, the 3 deployments will have context root conflict. You should look into the deployment plan, which can replace the context root defined in the weblogic.xml. For each deployment, specify the war file and the plan.xml either through the admin console or the command line deployer.
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I'm using the following code to download an image:
Dim strImageURL as string = "http://images.bookworld.com.au/images/bau/97817433/9781743315187/0/0/plain/the-storyteller.jpg"
Dim data As Byte()
Using client As New WebClient()
data = client.DownloadData(strImageURL)
'client.DownloadFile(strImageURL, "MyFile.jpg")
End Using
File.WriteAllBytes("\\mappedPath\Images\MyFile2.jpg", data)
The code works fine for most cases, but we've come across an image that once saved, is corrupted..
This is the troubling URL: http://images.bookworld.com.au/images/bau/97817433/9781743315187/0/0/plain/the-storyteller.jpg
I tried using the code above and then the "client.DownloadFile" line thinking that they may have different results, but I keep getting a corrupted file.
I am able to hit the URL and Chrome displays the image fine.. I can save the file to my local machine fine too.. but using the above code, I just get corrupted .jpg files for this particular URL..
I suspect the image is on some kind of image serving service and possibly not sending something quite correctly.. but I'm not sure..
I even tried the same code in C# to see what it would do, but I got the same result.. :-(
If anyone can help sort this out, I'd be very grateful..
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Check that stackoverflow.com/questions/3615800/… – Mate Mar 4 at 2:29
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Looking at the response headers from the web server for that particular URL reveals Content-Encoding:gzip. In other words, it's not returning a jpg, it's returning a gzip. Web browsers are clever enough to automatically decode the zip, but WebClient is not. Note that gzip is not your standard .zip or "PK zip", so don't try naming the file as a .zip and expect it to unzip.
It's possible to get WebClient to automatically decode a gzip response, but requires a few tricks - Uncompressing gzip response from WebClient
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That was so simple... Thanks very much.. I saw that the file was zipped but didn't even think that would be the issue.. – Ads Mar 4 at 5:04
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Usually, going to my website, would load the page transparently, without the /index.php part showing in the url. I've been trying to get rid of the .php extensions using .htaccess. This is the contents of my .htaccess file:
<Files />
ForceType application/x-httpd-php
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^.htaccess$ - [F]
RewriteRule ^([A-z,0-9,_,-]+)?$ $1.php [QSA]
RewriteRule ^([A-z,0-9,_,-]+)/index\.html$ $1.php [QSA]
ErrorDocument 403 php/error.php
ErrorDocument 404 /404.php
ErrorDocument 405 php/error.php
ErrorDocument 408 php/error.php
ErrorDocument 500 php/error.php
ErrorDocument 502 php/error.php
ErrorDocument 504 php/error.php
I need to meet 3 criteria:
1. ==
2. Visiting still loads my PHPBB forum at
3. loads the index.php file transparently, without it shown in the URL
So far my current .htaccess fulfills the first 2 needs, but breaks the 3rd. Help! :/
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Instead of blindly adding .php to everything, check if the .php file exists first
RewriteCond $1.php -f
RewriteRule ^([A-z0-9_-]+)?$ $1.php [L,QSA]
RewriteCond $1.php -f
RewriteRule ^([A-z0-9_-]+)/index\.html$ $1.php [L,QSA]
This still works for 1 and 2, and 3 now also works because the code will test if index.php.php exists (the request is for index.php), which it doesn't (I hope!), so the RewriteRule will fail.
I've also removed the commas from the regex classes (you can't use those to indicate several groups, putting it in there just means commas are allowed in URLs), and added the [L]ast flag to the rules for better performance
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Great, condition 3 is now met, but unfortunately #2 broke. Perhaps it's a mistake in my links. Should my links point to /file.php or just /file? – XAleXOwnZX May 12 at 22:19
Right. The first rule should not work for URLs that start with /forum. Add RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/forum to the first RewriteRule (after RewriteCond $1.php -f, on a new line) – ScallioXTX May 13 at 9:22
it appears that /forum/ and /forum work the same way anyway – XAleXOwnZX May 14 at 0:25
Oops, i meant it broke #1, not 2 – XAleXOwnZX May 16 at 3:04
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The following .htaccess code automatically does all the extension hiding magic:
Options +MultiViews
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I have exported a graph of around 1300 nodes and 3500 edges from Gephi 0.8.2 beta into Neo4J 1.9RC1. However, after exporting I cannot connect to the server using REST API anymore because I cannot find any listener either on port 1337 or on port 7474. Hence, neither the shell interface nor the web interface is working.
Everytime I try to connect using the Shell it says "Connection Refused". When run in verbose mode it says "
D:\neo4j-enterprise-1.9.RC1\bin>Neo4jShell.bat -v
ERROR (-v for expanded information):
Connection refused
java.rmi.ConnectException: Connection refused to host: localhost; nested exception is: Connection refused: connect
at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPEndpoint.newSocket(
at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPChannel.createConnection(
at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPChannel.newConnection(
at sun.rmi.server.UnicastRef.newCall(
Could someone please explain what is going on? I have checked using netstat that the ports 1337 and 7474 are free and noone else is listening on them.
The same behavior is noticed on Neo4J version 1.8.2 enterprise stable as well.
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You are trying to start the shell, not the server. You want to run the bin\neo4j start command, then it should be listening on those ports.
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Thanks for your prompt reply. – user2384543 May 16 at 12:46
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Is it possible to set a base url on a page with a relative value?
For example, I have two websites (website A and website B). For Website B it will be located at So could I set the BASE href as '/website-b/'?
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I think it takes less than 5 minutes to try it yourself... – KennyTM Mar 28 '10 at 14:07
... and less than one minute to google the answer. – jholster Mar 28 '10 at 14:14
@KennyTM: Indeed, as long as you test it in more than one browser ;-) Although it's hardly worth mentioning (and I do so only as a response to your comment), IE8 in compat mode and IE7 or lower (incorrectly) support a relative URL for the base element. – Andy E Mar 28 '10 at 14:19
IE9 and IE8 (Compat Mode or not) don't support a relative base. Test page: – EricLaw Jul 1 '11 at 16:39
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No, base URL can not be relative. The closest reference I found was RFC 1808: and W3C
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Okay thanks, I guess I could use a bit of PHP for the domain so I don't need to change anything when moving from dev to live. Thanks. – Probocop Mar 28 '10 at 14:13
@Probocol if you can use PHP for the domain, why not use it directly where you specify the links? BASE makes things that much harder to maintain on the long run. – Pekka 웃 Mar 28 '10 at 14:25
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Not possible according to W3C specs:
href = uri [CT]
This attribute specifies an absolute URI that acts as the base URI for resolving relative URIs.
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I am having some trouble understanding when Linq is giving me an IQueryable result and when it is giving me an IEnumerable result.
I am using EF and I have two entities Location and Configuration. Each Location can have multiple Configurations.
The following query is giving me an IQueryable as result:
Context.Locations.Where(l => l.Name == "SomeName")
whereas the following is giving me an IEnumerable as result:
Context.Locations.Where(l => l.Name == "SomeName").First().Configurations.Select(c => c)
Why is that?
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The first query is giving you IQueryable? Are you positive? That should materialize a single object, there should be no IQueryable or IEnumerable. – user414076 Sep 28 '11 at 14:37
@AnthonyPegram You are right. I removed the .First() from my example to clarify. – Nils Magne Lunde Sep 29 '11 at 10:04
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In general, LINQ extension methods on IQueryable (defined in Queryable) return IQueryables, and the ones on IEnumerable (defined in Enumerable) return IEnumerables. In this particular case, Configurations is a collection (IEnumerable) on the first returned Location object. Therefore the .Select call returns an IEnumerable.
EDIT: To make it all execute remotely, you could try this:
Context.Locations.Where(l => l.Name == "SomeName").Configurations
Assuming that your filter on Locations is only going to return one row, you should get the same result. Of course it will be an IQueryable, but that shouldn't make a difference. If you need to materialize it, you can do something like:
Context.Locations.Where(l => l.Name == "SomeName").Configurations.ToList()
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That makes kinda sense as Configurations is a collection in the EF. But in the database it is still a separate table. How can I make sure that the entire query will be executed in SQL Server and not in memory? – Nils Magne Lunde Sep 28 '11 at 14:47
Try moving the First call further down the stack. I'll edit my answer. – Chris Shain Sep 28 '11 at 14:51
I will accept this answer because you answered my question. Regarding you suggestions for executing it on the server, it does not work. The result from from Context.Locations.Where(..) does not contain a definition for Configurations since it is of type IQueriable<Location>. I am a little bit concerned about some of my other queries now which are much larger than this. I guess I will have to use SQL Profiler to verify what is actually executed on the server. – Nils Magne Lunde Sep 28 '11 at 16:47
For those who are curious: my query, Context.Locations.Where(l => l.Name == "SomeName").First().Configurations.Select(c => c)actually executed in two steps on the SQL Server. First getting the Location, and then using sp_executesqlto get Configurations. By re-writing the Linq query I could get everything executed in SQL Server in one go, which is what I want. – Nils Magne Lunde Sep 28 '11 at 18:05
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Basically, IQueryable allows for remote data sources (like SQL Server). It will work against the database, if possible. IEnumerable works with in-memory collections.
So, if you are querying a SQL Server database, you will get an IQueryable. Otherwise it'll be an IEnumerable.
This article may further help you.
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So I have This EJB annotated at class level with @TransactionAttribute(TransactionAttributeType.REQUIRED), so that every method should execute in a transaction unless I override this behavior, when the transaction is committed, the data is meant to be flushed, right? So far so good. So now I have a public User find(String email) method, annotated with @TransactionAttribute(TransactionAttributeType.NOT_SUPPORTED) so this method is not executed in a transaction, as it only fetches data.
Ok so I am testing my app, and I have a booter method that creates a couple of entities using an ejb and then uses the find method to fetch one. What, in my opinion, should happen:
->I create entity 1 calling save(User u) which is executed in a transaction. It commits, the data is flushed.
->Repeat this step with 2 more entities. their transactions commit, the data is flushed.
->At this point I should have 3 entities in my L2 cache (using Eclipselink) and in my database.
->I call the find(String email) method. It finds an entity, returns it, no exception, and my code executes nicely, I get excited, I open a beer, and I don't need to ask a question in stackoverflow.
What actually happens:
->I create all 3 entities. No exception.
->I call the find(String email) method, it raises an EjbException because it doesn't find the entity, debugging I find out that when this method is called, the database is empty, no data has been flushed (even if i call the flush method when i create the entities explicitly, which shouldnt be neccessary anyway). It throws the EJbException, my code stops, I check the database again and NOW the entites are there, once the exception was thrown because they weren't there. If I remove @TransactionAttribute(TransactionAttributeType.NOT_SUPPORTED) from the find method, which causes it to execute the search inside a transaction, my code works.
->I don't open a beer.
So now seriously, what's going on? Why do I need to search for the entity inside a transaction otherwise it doesn't flush anything?
EDIT: Persistence Unit:
<persistence-unit name="TribunalExpedientes" transaction-type="JTA">
No Exception raised except for the one saying that no entity has been found when I search, after which, the cache is flushed to the database.
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My guess is that you do not have things configured correctly. Include your persistence.xml and what application server and database you are using.
Are you using JTA or RESOURCE_LOCAL, you should be using JTA and should be setting your target-server in your persistence.xml.
Also check for any errors. If an error occurs, then the transaction will be rolled back.
NOT_SUPPORTED is not a good idea in general, it means an exception will be thrown if this method is called in a transaction. Which may be what is occurring.
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that is the "NEVER" attribute, NOT_SUPPORTED suspends a transaction (if active) or if not active it executes the method outside a transaction. It makes the method non-transactional. It doesn't raise an exception if the method is called in a transaction. – arg20 Mar 23 '12 at 11:26
Then if you use NEVER instead, do you get the exception? – Chris Mar 23 '12 at 13:28
@Chris I get An exception yes! it says: javax.ejb.EJBException: EJB cannot be invoked in global transaction, you are right, the transactions were not committed, insted a "global" transaction was started. why? Is this some sort of optimization? I am calling from a RequestScoped CDI bean, the bean is non transactional. I don't know what's going on – arg20 Mar 23 '12 at 15:18
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Add which will show you when the statements are executed, and when the transaction commits. Since NOT_SUPPORTED suspends the transaction, you can only 'find' the data if the prior transaction has commited. Chances are good that your save methods are wrapped in a larger transaction which your find method is suspending. Flush won't change this because this data is still transactionally isolated.
Try using REQUIRES_NEW to have the save methods put in their own transactions that get commited when done.
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Well, committing a transaction doesn't require Eclipselink to flush the data. That's the reason. This in my opinion a really ugly behavior. Eclipselink is allowed to flush the data when it wants to do it. I had also some problems with that. E.g. when using @PrePersist or @PreUpdate it is not guaranteed, that this happens when committing the transaction. E.g. when calculating some statistics, your not able to use them within the same transaction, as Eclipselink could do the processing when the transaction is already finished.
You have to use the entity that you use in order to make a em.persist(). In case you perform a db query. Eclipselink is required to flush the entity, as the query might not be correct. But using em.flush() instead will cause some really really ugly performance problems when trying to scale the application.
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Why the "9/11 Truth" movement makes the "Left Behind" sci-fi series read like Shakespeare
A few weeks ago I wrote a column on the anniversary of 9/11 that offhandedly dismissed 9/11 conspiracy theorists as "clinically insane." I expected a little bit of heat in response, but nothing could have prepared me for the deluge of fuck-you mail that I actually got. Apparently every third person in the United States thinks George Bush was behind the 9/11 attacks.
"You're just another MSM-whore left gatekeeper paid off by corporate America," said one writer. "What you do isn't journalism at all, you dick," said another. "You're the one who's clinically insane," barked a third, before educating me on the supposed anomalies of physics involved with the collapse of WTC-7.
I don't have the space here to address every single reason why 9/11 conspiracy theory is so shamefully stupid, so I'll have to be content with just one point: 9/11 Truth is the lowest form of conspiracy theory, because it doesn't offer an affirmative theory of the crime.
Strikingly, there is no obvious answer to that question, since for all the many articles about "Able Danger" and the witnesses who heard explosions at Ground Zero, there is not -- at least not that I could find -- a single document anywhere that lays out a single, concrete theory of what happened, who ordered what and when they ordered it, and why. There obviously is such a theory, but it has to be pieced together by implication, by paying attention to the various assertions of 9/11 lore (the towers were mined, the Pentagon was really hit by a cruise missile, etc.) and then assembling them later on into one single story. But the funny thing is, when you put together all of those disparate theories, you get the dumbest story since Roman Polanski's Pirates.
A group of power-hungry neocons, led by Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, Bush and others and organizationally represented by groups like the Project for the New American Century, seeks to bring about a "Pearl-Harbor-like event" that would accelerate a rightist revolution, laying the political foundation for invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq.
For good measure -- apparently to lend credence to the hijacking story -- they then fake another hijacking/crash in the Pentagon, where there actually is no plane crash at all but instead a hole created by a cruise missile attack, fired by a mysterious "white jet" that after the attack circles the White House for some time, inspiring the attention of Secret Service agents who point at it curiously from the ground (apparently these White House Secret Service agents were not in on the plot, although FBI agents on scene at Ground Zero and in Shanksville and elsewhere were).
BUSH: So, what's the plan again?
CHENEY: Well, we need to invade Iraq and Afghanistan. So what we've decided to do is crash a whole bunch of remote-controlled planes into Wall Street and the Pentagon, say they're real hijacked commercial planes, and blame it on the towelheads; then we'll just blow up the buildings ourselves to make sure they actually fall down.
RUMSFELD: Right! And we'll make sure that some of the hijackers are agents of Saddam Hussein! That way we'll have no problem getting the public to buy the invasion.
CHENEY: No, Dick, we won't.
RUMSFELD: We won't?
CHENEY: No, that's too obvious. We'll make the hijackers Al Qaeda and then just imply a connection to Iraq.
RUMSFELD: But if we're just making up the whole thing, why not just put Saddam's fingerprints on the attack?
CHENEY: (sighing) It just has to be this way, Dick. Ups the ante, as it were. This way, we're not insulated if things go wrong in Iraq. Gives us incentive to get the invasion right the first time around.
BUSH: I'm a total idiot who can barely read, so I'll buy that. But I've got a question. Why do we need to crash planes into the Towers at all? Since everyone knows terrorists already tried to blow up that building complex from the ground up once, why don't we just blow it up like we plan to anyway, and blame the bombs on the terrorists?
CHENEY: And the Pentagon crash -- we'll have to do it in broad daylight and say it was a plane, even though it'll really be a cruise missile.
CHENEY: Because it's much easier to shoot a missile and say it was a plane. It's not easy to steer a real passenger plane into the Pentagon. Planes are hard to come by.
BUSH: But aren't we using two planes for the Twin Towers?
CHENEY: Mr. President, you're missing the point. With the Pentagon, we use a missile, and say it was a plane.
BUSH: Right, but I'm saying, why don't we just use a plane and say it was a plane? We'll be doing that with the Twin Towers, right?
RUMSFELD: Mr. President, in Washington, we use a missile because it's sneakier that way. Using an actual plane would be too obvious, even though we'll be doing just that in New York.
RUMSFELD: The other good thing about saying that it was a passenger jet is that that way, we have to invent a few hundred fictional victims and account for a nonexistent missing crew and plane. It's always better when you leave more cover story to invent, more legwork to do and more possible holes to investigate. Doubt, legwork and possible exposure -- you can't pull off any good conspiracy without them.
BUSH: You guys are brilliant! Because if there's one thing about Americans -- they won't let a president go to war without a damn good reason. How could we ever get the media, the corporate world and our military to endorse an invasion of a secular Iraqi state unless we faked an attack against New York at the hands of a bunch of Saudi religious radicals? Why, they'd never buy it. Look at how hard it was to get us into Vietnam, Iraq the last time, Kosovo?
CHENEY: Like pulling teeth!
RUMSFELD: Well, I'm sold on the idea. Let's call the Joint Chiefs, the FAA, the New York and Washington, D.C., fire departments, Rudy Giuliani, all three networks, the families of a thousand fictional airline victims, MI5, the FBI, FEMA, the NYPD, Larry Eagleburger, Osama bin Laden, Noam Chomsky and the fifty thousand other people we'll need to pull this off. There isn't a moment to lose!
BUSH: Don't forget to call all of those Wall Street hotshots who donated $100 million to our last campaign. They'll be thrilled to know that we'll be targeting them for execution as part of our thousand-tentacled modern-day bonehead Reichstag scheme! After all, if we're going to make martyrs -- why not make them out of our campaign paymasters? Shit, didn't the Merrill Lynch guys say they needed a refurbishing in their New York offices?
RUMSFELD: Oh, they'll get a refurbishing, all right. Just in time for the "Big Wedding"!
ALL THREE: (cackling) Mwah-hah-hah!
You get the idea. None of this stuff makes any sense at all. If you just need an excuse to assume authoritarian powers, why fake a plane crash in Shanksville? What the hell does that accomplish? If you're using bombs, why fake a hijacking, why use remote-control planes? If the entire government apparatus is in on the scam, then why bother going to all this murderous trouble at all -- only to go to war a year later with a country no one even bothered to falsely blame for the attacks? You won't see any of this explored in 9/11 Truth lore, because the "conspiracy" they're describing is impossible everywhere outside a Zucker brothers movie -- unbelievably stupid in its conception, pointlessly baroque and excessive in its particulars, but flawless in its execution, with no concrete evidence left behind and tens of thousands keeping their roles a secret forever.
We are to imagine that not one of Bush's zillions of murderous confederates would slip and leave real incriminating evidence anywhere along the way, forcing us to deduce this massive crime via things like the shaking of a documentary filmmaker's tripod before the Towers' collapse (aha, see that shaking -- it must have been a bomb planted by the president and his ten thousand allies!). Richard Nixon was a hundred times smarter than Bush, and he couldn't prevent leaks and cries of anguished pseudo-conscience from sprouting among a dozen intimately involved conspirators -- but under the 9/11 conspiracy theory, even the lowest FBI agent used to seal off the crime scene never squeaks. It's absurd.
I challenge a 9/11 Truth leader like Loose Change writer Dylan Avery to come up with a detailed, complete summary of the alleged plot -- not the bits and pieces, but the whole story, put together -- that would not make any fifth grader anywhere burst out in convulsive laughter. And without that, all the rest of it is bosh and bunkum, on the order of the "sonar evidence" proving the existence of the Loch Ness monster. If you can't put all of these alleged scientific impossibilities together into a story that makes sense, then all you're doing is jerking off -- and it's not like no one's ever done that on the Internet before.
Whenever anyone chooses to dismiss 9/11 conspiracy theorists, accusations fly; the Internet screams that you've aided and abetted George Bush. I disagree. To me, the 9/11 Truth movement is, itself, a classic example of the pathology of George Bush's America. Bush has presided over a country that has become hopelessly divided into insoluble, paranoid tribes, one of which happens to be Bush's own government. All of these tribes have things in common; they're insular movements that construct their own reality by cherry-picking the evidence they like from the vast information marketplace, violently disbelieve in the humanity of those outside their ranks, and lavishly praise their own movement mediocrities as great thinkers and achievers. There are as many Thomas Paines in the 9/11 Truth movement as there are Isaac Newtons among the Intelligent Design crowd.
There's not a whole lot of difference, psychologically, between Sean Hannity's followers believing liberals to be the same as terrorists, and 9/11 Truthers believing even the lowest soldier or rank-and-file FAA or NORAD official to be a cold-blooded mass murderer. In both cases you have to be far gone enough into your private world of silly tribal bullshit that the concept of "your fellow citizen" has ceased to have any meaning whatsoever. It may be that America has become too big and complicated for most people to deal with being part of. People are longing for a smaller, stupider reality. Some, like Bush, sell a prepackaged version. Others just make theirs up out of thin air. God help us.
Citizen James:
*sigh* can't argue much with what a pain these people are. Not only do we have to defend sanity and reason from the loons who have hijacked the GOP, now we have to fight off insantiy from the far left.
I can understand why some people would *want* to believe. Bush has been very oppertunistic in using the attacks to press various items in a domestic and foriegn agenda by using the sense of national unity and international compassion as "political capital" for his own unrelated projects.
I will buy the arguement that he ignored Clinton's warnings - his PNAC affiliated advisors tended to buy into the concept that only "state sponsored" terrorists could be effective. I am willing to consider the idea that having FBI agents searching for a "smoking gun" left over from the Clinton administration kept many from doing more important work such as tracking and stopping various terrorists. Heck, the major debate at the time of 9/11 was whether to fund SDI and refocus resources over to that program. (which he ended up doing anyway, despite being useless against terrorsits - why go through the rocket science of an easily tracable ICBM when you can use a truck or fishing boat).
But this nonsense. All this does is give right wingers a nice fat strawman which they can wrestle with while they ignore more rational and difficult questions.
Whether or not these people's conspiracy theories are true, at least they have a very astute understanding of the nature of politics and government in america and particularly the Republican Party.
Anyone who believes that nonsense needs a swift boot upside their heads. I get a big laugh out of the "kids" who think that a cruise missle hit the Pentagon, especially when the guy they quote describing it a cruise missle attack actually said it was a plane a sentance before hand (that, and there were hundreds of eye withnesses seeing the plane itself).
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Pilot hospitalized with minor injuries after emergency landing
A pilot of a single-engine Cessna was hospitalized this afternoon after he made an emergency landing short of a runway at Monmouth Executive Airport.
The unnamed pilot, who was the only occupant of the small plane, suffered minor injuries and was transported to Jersey Shore Medical Center after the abrupt landing around 4 p.m., according to a release from Wall police Chief Robert L. Brice.
The pilot was on course to land when he had to make an emergency landing at the northwest end of the airport, Brice said. The plane landed in a grass field and skidded on its underside after the landing gear collapsed in the emergency landing.
The red and white plane did not break apart on impact and was intact and resting on an embankment when viewed at 5 p.m.
Air traffic continued unabated at the Route 34 airport. Nearby businesses were unaware a crash occurred.
Wall Police, New Jersey State Police, New Jersey Department of Transportation's Aeronautical Unit, the Federal Aviation Administration, the National Transportation Safety Board, the Glendola Fire department and MONOC paramedics were on the scene.
Brice said an investigation into the accident is being conducted.
Ron McCallum Jr. July 22, 2012 at 02:01 PM
"Nearby businesses were unaware a crash occurred." That is because a "crash" did not occur. It was an emergency landing. True jounalism lies within the facts, not the sensationalism.
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CESSNA 182 INDICATED DESIGN FLAW Why did the NTSB walk away from Safety Recommendation A-83-6 twenty five years ago? What happened to FAA Safety Recommendations 99.283 and 99.284 about undetectable water in Cessna aircraft fuel tanks? Why did the NTSB ignore my petition about UNDETECTABLE WATER in the fuel tanks of Cessna aircraft? http://www.sumpthis.com/ntsbpetition/ntsbpetitioncontents.htm Why does SAIB CE-10-40R1 not mention anything about positive detection of water in the fuel tanks of Cessna aircraft? How many more pilots and passengers have to die for the NTSB to do a real world test on a Cessna aircraft for positive detection of water in their fuel tanks? I would be happy to provide the drop of red food color and ten ounces of water. I will also provide the aircraft for your test! NTSB your poor "investigations" are killing pilots and passengers! Pending the discovery of a catastrophic engine failure could it have been undetectable water in the fuel tank that caused this crash? Aircraft engines run on a rather simple principal, it is air, spark and uncontaminated fuel. Do you think the aircraft engine ran out of air after takeoff? Did you know that aircraft engines have two spark plugs per cylinder. Aircraft engines have two magnetos which provide redundant spark to all the spark plugs. Do you think the aircraft engine ran out of spark after takeoff?
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November 3, 2011 -- Sal Silvester
In Part 1 of this blog series, I wrote about the underlying assumptions that makeup the positive discipline process. Part 2 was focused on overcoming some of the common and costly mistakes leaders make that derail behavioral change. Part 3 was about the scaling levels of the Discipline Continuum.
Today's post is focused on having the actual discipline conversation.
Here is a simple 5-Step process for helping employees make commitment to change and reinforcing their ownership in the process.
Step 1 - Situation: Begin by describing the behavior you saw as specifically as possible - either a performance issue or behavioral problem.
Step 2 - Impact: Next, describe the impact of the behavior — on you, on other team members, your customers, etc. Describing the impact helps the employee understand the consequences of his behavior.
Step 3 - Input: Ask the team member for his input. For example, "What is your perspective on the issue or problem?" and "What ideas do you have to improve?" You are much more likely to gain a team member's commitment to change by actively involving him in the process.
Step 4 - Commitment and follow-up: Summarize the discussion, agree on an action plan, and schedule a follow-up. Literally pull out your calendar and set aside time to review progress. Follow-up reinforces behavioral change and increases the likelihood of improving performance.
Step 5 - Confirm continuum: Communicate where the team member is within the discipline continuum and provide encouragement.
Remember, positive discipline is designed to help a team member be successful. There are no threats. There are no warnings. There are no ultimatums.
There is simply transparency, open communication, and ownership to change.
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What's the first thing that comes to your mind when you hear the word 'Investing'? Some confident go-getters might see themselves accumulating vast amounts of wealth in short periods of time. Others see the financial universe as a mysterious place that is best left alone. They believe it is too complicated to navigate safely without expertise, and the benefits aren't worth the effort.
Many, particularly in India but also globally, are ideologically repulsed by the word and its elitist aura. Investing is materialistic capitalism at its worst: a gullible public tempted by the siren song of greed into a spiral of fraud and recession that never allows peace. Even if material gains come to a savvy few, they pay the heavy psychological price of attachment to wealth. Surely, they say, life is more joyful for the person who does not seek to accumulate more but is content with what is earned.
It will be helpful to read these presentations with an open-mind. It is precisely because this topic is weighed down by its image, positive or negative, that I wanted to provide an overview of it in my school.
I'll toss my view out into the open. Financial literacy is like any other literacy. It is merely a tool. While Mahatma Gandhi or a tyrannical ruler can put a pen either to great use or to great destruction, we do not condemn pens for the consequences. This imperfect analogy likens knowledge of writing to knowledge of investing: I argue that both are fundamental life-skills. Whether you are the master of money or money is the master of you depends on you, not on the markets. It depends on how you see money and where the 'point of enough' lies for you. Moreover, there are negative consequences of not teaching financial life-skills. Many people, though knowledgeable in their own domain, fall into vicious debt and rent traps that constrain their learning, lifestyle or relationship goals. Finally, all qualms about greed or psychological cost are subservient to the fundamental value of freedom of expression of ideas and knowledge.
But we are all entitled to our views. Therefore, the presentations respect readers of diverse ideologies by being as value-neutral as possible: they describe how the financial markets work for investors. You can put these principles to work for your materialistic goals, or your philanthropic goals, or your duty-bound goals (saving up to care for your elderly father, or for your child's college education), as you wish.
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TUSCALOOSA | Offensively, Stillman shot 49 percent from the field and 70 percent at the free three line, and its defensive pressure created 26 Concordia turnovers in its home win.
All 12 Lady Tigers scored in the win. Jamila McKinnis led all with 18 points and 10 rebounds, and Phyllice Eubanks scored 10.
Janice Richardson led Concordia with 11 points.
Stillman (2-2) is off until Dec. 2 when its hosts Miles College at 5:30 p.m.
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It might be just this simple...
Editor's note: For some reason, on some browsers the embedded picture isn't working. Here's the link.
Perhaps all the nuttiness has nothing to do with healthcare reform or socialism or Michelle Obama's shorts (I wish I was joking, do NOT get me started on folks telling a grown woman what she shouldn't wear to hike the freakin' Grand Canyon... oh I started a little bit. My bad - moving on).
Maybe it's just as simple as this parody above (kindly provided by Independent A). Mayhaps some folks are uncomfortable with People of Color posted up in 1600 Penn Ave (position of power and all those repercussions). And isn't that a shame in 2009? In 1990, Public Enemy put out an album called Fear of a Black Planet. Those songs get less radical and more real every year.
I've been pretty clear on my thoughts but what do you think? Will some people never accept Obama because of his race?
Max Reddick said...
It pains me to say this, but unless President Obama walks on water or turns water into wine, some people just will not accept him. Even if he did those things, some people will not accept him.
A successful black man is just so foreign to some of our countrymen's worldview that they are simply unable to grasp it, to wrap their minds around it.
Anonymous said...
I agree with Max - some folks just cannot get past it.
OnlyMe said...
I actually overheard someone saying "He may be the President but he's still a n-word to me."
Wow, two steps forward - three steps back.
True2me said...
yeah well they may not accept him, but why do we care if THEY accept him anyway..I have long gotten past being accepted by them..its a lost cause
Long as we treated fairly..I couldn't care less about what they THINK about me..bout "our" image and what not
Anonymous said...
I agree the controversy over her wearing shorts is ridiculous. But I think it is less about race, and more about a First Lady never being seen in shorts before (not that I can recall anyway). After all, there was the whole flip flop controversy with W. But I think Michelle is, and will continue to be, redefining the role of a first lady. And a woman wearing shorts on a hot summer day is perfectly acceptable. Go Michelle!
SpkTRUTH2Pwr said...
I think that some people will deny it is about race and use a perfectly logical explanation as to why he's unqualified...he's too young, to inexperienced, too liberal, too elitist, too soft, it won't fit, it's too much, he's got a big EGOOOOOO lol.
But seriously, I think that he being expected to prove himself as a miracle worker because he is so "different" from other presidents we have had. So the tolerance for any problems we have as a country is decreased as long as he is at the helm.
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Most frequent time signatures
Simple time signatures
4/4 (quadruple) Reel-common time: widely used in most forms of Western popular music. Most common time signature in rock, blues, country, funk, and pop
2/2 (duple) alla breve, cut time: used for marches. Sometimes called "in 2".
2/4 (duple) used for polkas or marches
3/4 (triple) used for waltzes
3/8 (triple) also used for the above, but usually suggests higher tempo or shorter hypermeter.
Compound time signatures
6/8 (duple) double jigs, polkas, fast obscure waltzes, tarantella, marches, and some rock music.
9/8 (triple) "compound triple time", used in triple / Slipjigs, otherwise occurring rarely
12/8 (quadruple) also common in slower blues (where it is known as shuffle).
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0.02041 | <urn:uuid:4a758514-2b5e-4037-9911-8cad145f7081> | en | 0.961979 | It seems the Fed has given up on the idea that the country can build a viable and stable economy through the conventional means. Instead, our central bank has resorted to once again growing GDP and increasing employment by the creation of asset bubbles. This is a dangerous game that no one, least of all the Fed, knows how to play.
We learned this past Wednesday that the FOMC decided to increase its purchases of longer-dated Treasuries by $600 billion within the next eight months. That means the Fed is on course to fund about 75% of our annual deficit! Such figures are the stock in trade of banana republics. While most of the rest of the world is fighting inflation and strengthening their currencies, we are doing everything in our power to end the dollar's status as the world's reserve.
Canada, China, India, Brazil, and Australia have all recently taken steps to raise interest rates and/or curtail bank lending. Compare that to the US, which has left interest rates at near-zero for almost two years. While other central bankers are tamping down expansionary rhetoric, Fed Chairman Bernanke is on record saying that he will do everything in his power to push up inflation (which he considers too low) and dilute the dollar. Foreign central banks and other investors may soon reconsider their plans to park cash in dollar-denominated assets. In fact, there has been a series of angry statements from top economic policymakers in Beijing, Berlin, Moscow, and Sao Paolo that show rising discontent with Washington.
The Fed rationalized its decision to upset the global monetary order in a November 4th op-ed by Chairman Bernanke entitled, "What the Fed did and why." Here's an excerpt:
"Although asset purchases are relatively unfamiliar as a tool of monetary policy, some concerns about this approach are overstated. Critics have, for example, worried that it will lead to excessive increases in the money supply and ultimately to significant increases in inflation. Our earlier use of this policy approach had little effect on the amount of currency in circulation or on other broad measures of the money supply, such as bank deposits. Nor did it result in higher inflation. We have made all necessary preparations, and we are confident that we have the tools to unwind these policies at the appropriate time. The Fed is committed to both parts of its dual mandate and will take all measures necessary to keep inflation low and stable."
But the facts contradict Bernanke's claims that monetary policy has not pushed up inflation. The Fed began the current round of accommodation in September of 2007 with a 50 basis point reduction in the Fed funds rate. At that time, the M2 money stock was $7.40 trillion. It has since jumped 18.5% to $8.77 billion. This increase is showing up in the form of higher prices.
The 19 commodities that make up the CRB Index have soared 55% since the beginning of 2009. Unless the Chairman desires to return to an environment where oil is trading at $147 a barrel, these surging commodity prices are already placing consumers and corporations under inflationary duress.
Here's where the danger lies ahead. Before the recession began in 2007, the ratio between M2 and the monetary base was about 10:1. If the Fed sticks to its announced schedule, the size of the base should grow from $1.96 trillion to about $2.6 trillion by June of 2011. Once banks start lending again and expanding base money through the fractional reserve system, M2 could increase exponentially. An increase in the money supply to $26 trillion (in line with the historic 10-to-1 ratio) would result in a major inflationary shock. However, even if the money multiplier were to remain much lower, the M2 money stock would still be much higher than today. In fact, the compounded annual increase of M2 in the last 4 weeks is currently over 9%.
Unless Bernanke has a "road to Damascus" moment, the money supply will continue to grow and inflation will accelerate over the course of the next few years. To make matters much worse, the interest expense on the nation's debt could reach over 40% of all revenue by the year 2015.
Faced with negative real interest rates, rapidly rising inflation, and a chronically weak dollar, foreign holders of US Treasury debt and other dollar-denominated holdings may begin to lose their nerve. They may start to repatriate their savings and thereby send Treasury yields soaring. The Fed - which is the Treasury's buyer of last resort - will then be faced with a perilous decision. The central bank will have to either join foreign sellers of US debt in sending interest rates higher (in the hopes of giving the dollar some footing and allowing high rates to encourage the return of real buyers) or ramp up the printing presses to keep the long end of the yield curve from spiking. It should be obvious that the Fed has already made that decision. They will never allow rates to rise. The debt will be monetized.
I have no doubt that Bernanke will be remarkably successful in his stated goal of driving inflation higher. I simply disagree with his nonchalance about the long-term consequences. There is currently no easy exit strategy for the Fed. There is only the prospect of Americans suffering through either a deflationary depression or hyperinflation. To survive such storm requires careful planning. If only we could convince the big chief to stop doing his rain dance...
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By | Team Register 21st November 2006 15:13
Dell touts servers based on Xeon-brand Opterons
Confusion in PowerEdge-land
Who makes the Opteron processors going into Dell's latest rackable servers? AMD, you'd think, but a casual glance at the PC giant's website might leave you with the impression that the processors were produced by AMD's arch-rival, Intel.
Check out Dell UK's PowerEdge SC1435 customise-and-buy page. What's that logo alongside the list of Opteron processors the two-way box can be configured with? Why, it's Intel's old-look Intel Xeon decal:
dell xeon opteron poweredge server
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Maybe Dell's in-house web designers are unhappy with their new AMD-based workstations and long for a return to the old Intel-only days? ®
Thanks to reader Karl for the tip.
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Book Review: A Contest for Supremacy – Dragon vs Eagle
China’s Foreign Relations
1. Does China have any strategy in foreign affairs?
3. How is China important in world affairs?
4. Does China have principles for its actions?
A Closer Look at “China’s Trapped Transition”
Recently, I read a widely discussed book called “China’s Trapped Transition” by Minxin Pei. Pei challenges popular arguments about China’s development as a neo-authoritarian regime: that economic development will provoke better governance; that gradualism works well to promote economic growth; that economic growth in China will eventually lead to democratization; and that authoritarianism is a better system to sustain economic development.
The underlying assessment of Pei’s book is that China has reached a phase in which its growth is stagnant. China’s political system, Pei argues, cannot be reformed because of its deep-rooted corruption issues and due to the lack of institutional infrastructure to address these issues. Pei labels China’s situation as “self-destructive political dynamics inherent in an autocracy caught up in rapid socioeconomic change.” While Pei provides credible statistics and evidence to support his assessment, he fails to incorporate an ongoing major factor of competition between China’s socialist ideology and capitalist ideology in other parts of the world. A re-visit of Pei’s assessment, published in 2006, is necessary because China has hitherto maintained its growth (more or less) while its system remains unchanged, and in some ways seems even stronger.
To Rebalance or Not to Rebalance: That is Not a Question for China
What is Asian development going to look like in the near future? Given that China remains the region’s leading giant, and one of its fastest-growing economies, the challenges for the new Chinese leadership have became the focal point of recent discussions on this topic.
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When I learned about China’s land-use rights system — that all land is owned by the government, and the citizens receive “rights” to use the land — I felt even more fortunate to live in a free country where people are entitled to own private land and personal properties. In recent years, land-use rights in China have been put to the test as corruption among the local government and real estate developers worsens. China’s rapid urbanization and the local governments’ need for additional revenue created a ferocious phenomenon of illegal land seizures. Farmers suffer from losing their land-use rights, and the compensation from the local government often barely makes up the loss.
Former Finance Minister on Philippines Transition to Democracy
Moving from a dictatorship to a democracy was not easy for the Philippines. It was a long and painful process due to corruption, doubt, financial issues, distrust of the government, and the absence of rule of law.
More than two decades after the “People Power” movement ousted the Marcos dictatorship in 1986, the Philippines continues to make progress. In the latest Corruption Perceptions Index report for 2012, the country moved up 24 points (to 105th out of 176) from its rank in 2011 (129th out of 183) — a tremendous leap compared to rank improvements in previous years.
CIPE recently had the honor to invite Dr. Jesus Estanislao to speak about economic reform during the Philippines’ transition to democracy. With his professional background and personal experience helping to guide the transition, Dr. Estanislao offers a unique perspective on economic reform and institution building in the Philippines.
A Chinese Professor’s Take on China’s Economic and Social Progress
Professor Mao Yushi. (Photo: NED)
CIPE recently had the honor of inviting Professor Mao Yushi, the winner of the Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty awarded by the CATO institute, to share his valuable insight on the current events in China. Professor Mao is the founder of Beijing Unirule Institute of Economics and is one of the ten most influential economists in China. In his opening remarks, Mao declared that China’s dramatic improvements to individual freedom are visible through its citizens’ abilities to travel and study abroad, to purchase foreign goods and services, and to invest in real estate properties and gold, which have all increased since 1978. He further stated that over 300 million Chinese citizens no longer live in extreme poverty, which is a great improvement when compared to other developing countries in Asia.
Despite these improvements, Prof. Mao also pointed out several major issues that act as stumbling blocks to China’s economic development, among them, income disparity between the rich and the poor, and between coastal and the rural areas, is becoming a significant problem in China. Furthermore, Mao suggested that the enormous amount of money invested in newly built and unoccupied real estate represents an incipient housing bubble; fewer than 30% of high-rises in big cities are occupied. Mao also stressed that the failure of the high-speed railways to turn a profit is especially detrimental to the economy – without profits, the huge loans that financed construction of the railways cannot be repaid on time, and may have to be written off.
Mao also argued that the low fertility rate and distorted gender ratio in China will hinder the country’s ability to stabilize its labor force over the next 5 to 10 years. He stated that the environmental issues caused by the rapid economic growth are neglected and that there is a lack of motivation to address them, noting d that all the lakes and the air in China are heavily polluted. Similar to Justin Lin‘s point of view in his newly published book, “Demystifying the Chinese Economy,” Mao believes that in order to continue the country’s remarkable economic growth, the Chinese government must address the above issues more aggressively.
When asked whether China 2030—a recent report by The World Bank that called for more private sector reforms in China – would have any impact on Chinese policy, Mao held that the real issues lie within state-owned-enterprises (SOEs). Prof. Mao stressed that the SOEs hold privileges over large amount of resources, as well as political power. SOEs often receive much lower interest rates on loans and also enjoy tax exemption privileges. Mao said that economic and political reform would be difficult if such privileges continue. In his view, should a major financial crisis occur in the future, the Chinese government must help pay off the debts of SOEs with state resources.
In his overall opinion on the last several decades economic development in China, Professor Mao acknowledged remarkable improvements in terms of both individual freedom and poverty levels in China. Nevertheless, he also demonstrated several major issues that could hinder China’s ability to continue with its high economic growth rate. These concerns included income disparity between the rich and the poor, the housing bubble in major cities, the bad loans invested in unprofitable high-speed railways, potential future labor shortages, and the environmental issues caused by the rapid growth rate in China. Mao’s unique outlook on China’s economic development and the future of SOEs provided a well-rounded conclusion for his visit at CIPE.
For another perspective on the forces driving China’s economic ‘miracle’ — and the reforms that will need to happen for it to continue — read the latest Economic Reform Feature Service article by Xingyuan Feng, Christer Ljungwall, and Sujian Guo, Re-Interpreting the ‘Chinese Miracle’: A Multi-Dimensional Framework. | http://www.cipe.org/blog/author/michelle-chen/ | dclm-gs1-090550002 | false | false | {
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Tiger85 writes:
Unless you expect the Grizzlies to make a deep playoff run next year, why not have AI here on a 1-year deal. If he boost tickets sales, fan interest and eventually end up running the team to victories then lock him up long-term before the year expire. If he turns into the unhealthy, ball-hawking, non-practicing, gunslinger, then bench him for the remainder of the year and move on. But WOW, it is great thinking about The Answer (the mature one) in Memphis!
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Hopefully it will have better sales there than in the consumer market
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So market it as such!
By Falacer on 3/29/13, Rating: 0
RE: So market it as such!
By Fleeb on 3/29/13, Rating: 0
RE: So market it as such!
By Argon18 on 3/29/13, Rating: -1
RE: So market it as such!
By Da W on 4/1/2013 2:04:38 PM , Rating: 1
RE: So market it as such!
By AntiM on 3/29/2013 1:06:28 PM , Rating: 2
Yes, that's the first I've heard of it being a "PC". I would imagine there was some meeting where the topic of discussion was the lackluster sales figures. Someone jumped up and said, " tell them it's a PC! " It's not a tablet, it's not a laptop, it's a PC dummy!
I personally haven't had any interest in the Surface, nor Windows 8, but now that I find out it's a PC, well golly gee, now I have to get me one!
RE: So market it as such!
By TacticalTrading on 3/29/2013 3:18:57 PM , Rating: 4
Seriously, The first time you have considered the Surface Pro being a PC.
With an Intel i5 processor and an SSD for storage (read: no painfully slow flash) you didn't already Know it is a PC in a remarkably small form-factor?
In fact, with an i5 processor, right out of the box, it is more powerful and faster than (guessing, anyone want to correct me on this) about 80% of all existing PC hardware, (video GFX not withstanding) and better than over well 50% of PC/Laptop devices on the market today.
To compare, call, or classify it with and or in a netbook, is an injustice. It has a 10" screen, but it is a 1920x1080 screen.
Note: Personal bias, I had one to setup for 3 days and am most confident my next device will be a Surface Pro.
Because, when was the last time you picked up your Android/iDevice to find some information, and then quickly decided (because it was taking longer than you wanted) to do it when you were at your PC/laptop/Mac-book?
Well, I can assure you, you will not put the Surface Pro down because it is making you wait longer than you should have to or expect to... Because it is a real computer.
Can they make improvement? Yes, but that has more to do with Windows 8 than the device. And Windows 8 actually works on the Surface. After a day with one, it suddenly all made sense.
RE: So market it as such!
By Nutzo on 3/29/13, Rating: 0
RE: So market it as such!
By Mitch101 on 3/29/2013 1:36:00 PM , Rating: 3
I like the idea of it being both and to me that's what it should be the power of a laptop with the ability to act as my tablet without me requiring two devices.
You see everyone trying to have phones with the power of their desktop computer so why not a laptop/tablet.
RE: So market it as such!
By kleinma on 3/29/2013 1:59:06 PM , Rating: 5
I can tell you don't own one, so you are just making judgments based on perception.
I own a surface pro, and I love it. Even my skeptic friend who loves his nexus tablet and iPad mini was extremely impressed when he messed around with my surface and was running some desktop apps using his finger and the pen.
This thing is both a tablet and an ultrabook. I use it constantly with or without the keyboard. The fact that I have keyboard + touchpad + finger + pen + wedge mouse means I have a plethora of ways to provide input. Sometimes I just find tapping the screen is easier than using the mouse, sometimes the mouse and keyboard rule the task I am doing.
The point is it really is a no compromise machine. No I don't think Windows 8 is perfect, but its a hell of a lot better than people are making it out to be, largely because they simply dismiss it without using it. Microsoft should have done a better job in its marketing and commercials to show some of the new interface navigation. It would have let people know how to use the thing better out of the box, like apple does. I am a Windows guy, but I will still admit the have no idea how to market anything there.
The OS storage thing is nonsense. It does not take up half the storage of your machine. Likewise, you can pop in a 64GB microSD and you have an instant bump in storage for media. You can get a small form factor USB3 hard drive or thumb drive for more storage. iPad owners just get to wait to buy a new one with more storage.
I have Windows, Office Professional, Steam (handful of games), Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio 2012, SQL Express 2008, and a couple of other daily use apps on my surface pro. I am no where near filling my hard drive.
RE: So market it as such!
By The0ne on 3/29/2013 2:55:04 PM , Rating: 2
I agree with you. Most people that complain have not explored it enough or don't use it differently enough to like the new "features" that Windows 8 bring. For engineers I understand completely that even with dual screen setup you do want the real estate to be very productive. At the same time it doesn't hurt and does provide benefits if you were to use it, with multiple screens if you choose.
I want to buy a Pro but am waiting for the price to be lower. I tend to use it for both work and play. Heck, even our company is considering dumping all laptops and going Pro, for business and in production. I can't wait.
RE: So market it as such!
By corduroygt on 3/29/13, Rating: -1
RE: So market it as such!
By Mint on 3/30/2013 11:17:56 PM , Rating: 2
What ultrabook can you get that's IPS, 1080p, and under 2 lbs?
And why would you even mention the 1024x768 ipad mini?
RE: So market it as such!
By corduroygt on 3/31/2013 2:45:41 PM , Rating: 2
1080p on a 10.6" on windows (which means either text too small or text is 150% size and is overflowing from the sides of buttons and other UI elements) is a waste. You can get a proper 13" 1080p screen that's easier to read without blowing up the fonts with an Asus ultrabook for less than 3 lbs.
The ipad mini is a much better tablet than the surface pro because of the number of touch friendly apps it has. If you don't like Apple, fine, get a Nexus 7. Both will get 10+ hours battery instead of 4+ hours and won't be a thick 2 lb brick like the Surface pro when using it as a tablet by holding it in your hands.
RE: So market it as such!
By Da W on 3/31/2013 7:05:24 PM , Rating: 2
Why do i give a damn about 10 hours of battery life on a sissy-ass plastic low-res tablet that doesn't do anything more than my phone does? My surface pro got 5 hours battery, which means that when my battery is down i should probably stop using it and go outside do something ELSE!
I got ONE machine that does it all.
My alienware rig, gone.
My desktop, gone.
My phone: used as a Wi-Fi hotspot for my surface pro.
I upgrading my HTPC with PS4-like component to fill the gaming duty. Yes it has Windows 8 too.
I think apple mini is for girls. I won't even talk about nexus 7 which is for gays.
RE: So market it as such!
By hopsandmalt on 3/30/2013 9:14:29 AM , Rating: 2
COMPLETELY agree with everything you say. I own one.. one of the best hardware purchases I have bought in a long time.
Work - Outlook, One Note (all meeting notes taken by hand), Excel and Powerpoint....All constantly working.
Home - Outlook, Guild Wars 2 (play that on your ipad or android tablet), Beer Smith 2(enter data about my homebrews).
If I need anything Android.. well I have imported that as well with Bluestacks.
I dont think I sit at my desktop anymore. The Surface Pro is hands down probably one of the best devices out there.
RE: So market it as such!
By FXi on 3/30/2013 12:31:43 PM , Rating: 2
You are correct on the device. It is a LOT better in practical day to day use than people realize. But that's why the PRO sold out so fast.
RE: So market it as such!
By damianrobertjones on 3/30/2013 12:16:37 PM , Rating: 2
It is a pc.
It is a laptop.
It is a tablet.
Better than most people give it credit for
By dgingerich on 3/29/2013 1:01:24 PM , Rating: 1
Windows RT is better than most people will admit. It's a tablet OS running on tablet hardware with near the full capability of a PC. I own a Dell XPS 10, and I love it. I use it for all sorts of things. Of course, I go to my main machine, a desktop, for things like editing documents and gaming, but I use the tablet more often these days. It's far ahead of the iPad or Android tablets for functionality, yet uses the same, or near the same, hardware.
I haven't tried it on an enterprise level, but I believe it can be joined to a domain and issued group policy security settings. It doesn't need or even have 3rd party AV because it is not susceptible to the viruses of regular Windows.
It's not a full blown PC, but it is a very capable tablet.
RE: Better than most people give it credit for
RE: Better than most people give it credit for
By kleinma on 3/29/2013 2:01:01 PM , Rating: 2
clearly you don't live your life in Microsoft Office like a huge chunk of corporate America does.
Do you know how many people's jobs consist of them working in Word and Excel all day long?
RE: Better than most people give it credit for
By Argon18 on 3/29/13, Rating: 0
RE: Better than most people give it credit for
By dgingerich on 3/29/2013 5:22:31 PM , Rating: 5
I work in IT, but we have zero Microsoft products here. 100% UNIX and Linux shop, even the desktops.
I feel sorry for your users. I've supported MS products for 16 years, and started supporting Linux and Unix server products over the last 4. Linux and Unix are such a HEADACHE. Everything has to be done the hard way. AIX and HP-UX being the worst by a large margin.
I asked one of the Linux admins here why it's all command line and all unautomated. His claim is that "you have to know how it works in order to support it." Yeah? I know a lot about the inner workings of Windows servers and how to troubleshoot and fix a great many issues, yet I have nice guis that let me add things quickly and easily, and gives me warnings about invalid data entry and helpful hints about what I need to enter by labeling the boxes I fill in.
A person does not become a better driver just because they learn to engineer a car from the ground up, just like a person isn't a better computer user just because they learn how to program.
I detest Linux and Unix. They're antiquated crap being held up by people who only want to secure their own jobs by keeping the people who know how to use it and support it to a bare minimum. They prevent or remove gui controls specifically to keep people from having and easy way to do things. (RedHat version 6 is a prime example. They took out several gui control panels that were highly useful in version 5. DNS, for instance, had a gui that allowed someone to add a record in seconds, and it would automatically add the reverse lookup record. Now we're back to editing text files, deep in /var/named/chroot/var/named/zone, is a very specific format, with a horrid text editor that is about as intuitive as a De Dion-Bouton, as well as adding the reverse lookup record separately. What took <15 seconds in RHEL5 now takes several minutes in RHEL6, and is a hundred times as annoying for someone who has fingers that won't type right, like me.) I just wish it would all go away, but stupid people keep bringing them back.
RE: Better than most people give it credit for
By Reclaimer77 on 3/29/2013 5:33:45 PM , Rating: 2
Yup. I've said it for years. The only thing stopping Linux from being ready for prime time is a disjointed minority of elitists who are stuck in the 1990's, desperately clinging to this weird power trip about being better than you because they can do everything you can, but through the "magic" of command lines! Wooo hoooo.
Great post man.
RE: Better than most people give it credit for
RE: Better than most people give it credit for
By nrhpd527 on 3/30/2013 8:56:39 AM , Rating: 2
To further this thread, let me explain my dilemma. I am a technology liaison for a campus with 230+ teachers, administrators, counselors, and other staff. We have numerous iPad carts with 30 iPAds each. While I am by no means an IT expert, I am better with technology than 99% of the teachers I know, including many of the business teachers who teach webmastering, etc.
Overall, the iPads are useful. However, these things are major pain in the butt for the following reasons:
1) No real way to update iOS all at once. Yes, you can download the update on the master Macbook and try to install it that way, but it fails more times than it's successful. Thus, you basically have to pull each iPad out and go through the update process one at a time...we're talking about 2 hours, IF everything goes smoothly, to do a 30 iPad cart.
2) No way to set up the apps in folders a specific way on one iPad and have that cloned to the other iPads like a Windows PC can be "imaged."
3) No "user" accounts. Thus, if one student uses an app and leaves data there while working on a project, the next kid on it can use that data to cheat, or can overwrite, delete, or damage the first student's work if it's one of the apps that does not require signing in, like Pages or Keynote.
Thus, I think that if they can get the prices down a bit on the Surface Pro, with at least half of it's 64GB of storage useable AND the chance to use real user accounts and other Windows features in addition to a REAL MS Office experience as opposed to the MS Office clones like CloudOn on the iPad, it at least has a place in education. If I could set one up, clone that image to 39 other tablets with ease, and use the advanced computer management properties of Windows to control updates / etc., then life would be far better for us.
However, the problems as I see it is there is no education / volume licensing program for apps right now, so we as a large district would never make the switch. Right now, the iPad's cost of about $640 for a 32GB version with the warranty our district buys is high enough that we could easily argue for the Surface Pro if we could get one w/ about the same useable storage (28+GB) for apps and data for $699-799 WITH the keyboard, full Office app, and a decent app store volume licensing agreement.
By fiveohfour on 3/31/2013 5:24:49 PM , Rating: 2
have update days, at start of class plan for non iPad using tasks and start off by having each kid grab an iPad and check for update and apply.
RE: Better than most people give it credit for
By 91TTZ on 3/29/2013 2:50:46 PM , Rating: 2
But the people who use MS Office all day are most likely going to be using a desktop or a laptop, not a tablet. Why would you buy tablets for employees when they're doing tasks optimized for mouse/keyboard?
By dgingerich on 3/29/2013 5:39:08 PM , Rating: 2
Voice recognition has come a long, long way in recent years. Win8 has voice recognition built in, but I haven't tried it yet. I haven't even seen if they have it in WinRT. In my opinion, that is the perfect user interface, and it doesn't cause carpal tunnel problems.
I use my main machine for editing documents and responding to email. (My "main" machine depends on where I am. At work, I have a laptop, which stays at my desk all the time, and at home I have a big gaming desktop.)
I use my WinRT tablet for many things that I just can't do comfortably with my main machine: read ebooks, watch Hulu or Netflix in bed or on the couch, or read news while eating breakfast, or at work I administer servers through remote desktop for Windows or SSH for Unix or Linux, look up documents for config information, record inventory information of systems coming in or going out, or look up web sites for info on how to fix or set up some things in Linux or Unix. I find I use the tablet more often than my main machines.
Surface Pro
By hood6558 on 3/29/2013 6:14:14 PM , Rating: 2
Brilliant! But why didn't they market it to the enterprise sector from the beginning? Seems like a no-brainer; $1000/unit is chump change in a corporate environment, and nobody's limited by their slow phones, tablets or laptops. I expect it will eventually replace the office desktop, especially as wireless display technology (WiDi) becomes more prevalent. It's kind of a new ball game when you have a powerful, fully connected PC paired with this kind of portability. It will show up as increased productivity and decreased overhead on the IT side. What's not to like?
LTE and Haswell
By FXi on 3/30/2013 12:30:26 PM , Rating: 2
If the current model had a Verizon LTE option, we'd have a bunch of them already. It does not so we don't. Portable devices, today, need to operate both on Wifi and on LTE (ATT and Verizon both because businesses are not limited to one or the other), in order to qualify as portable. Haswell will help with the other element of the equation is that they need to receive pushed email in the background. To be fair most laptops can't do this without being "on" so it's not as much of a fault. Haswell will fix this as well as add battery life (7-8 hours is the max I'd try to attain. Beat that and I'd put more effort into increasing performance.) But lacking LTE as at least an "option" puts many other tablets higher in pecking order, even if they are less good at being business machines. Businesses analyze data, send information back and forth, ask key questions all from the most remote locations and businesses who value security don't let their people just use the local wifi internet café.
Win 8 enterprise dream
By mike66 on 3/31/2013 8:01:21 AM , Rating: 2
Last employer I worked with had a 100,000 user capacity, takes about 2 years to approve the use of a new OS on our network, the transition from XP to win7 required very little training for staff, win8 would be a massive effort as the user interface is quite different from what they are used too, not even mentioning new methods for securing those new devices. MS can dream on all they want, they are not going to make one sale to them. Oh yes no ipads either as our employees are not that stupid.
By Motoman on 3/29/2013 3:31:28 PM , Rating: 1
Surface is ready to "take on the enterprise" like Justin Bieber is ready to "take on" Mike Tyson.
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Diesel cars are plentiful in Europe
The Chevrolet Cruze Diesel will arrive in '13
Source: Detroit News
Comments Threshold
RE: Can't wait
By angryplayer on 11/30/2011 11:57:22 PM , Rating: 1
1 + 2. What? He's comparing EU vs EU. eg. Ford Mondeo - 65mpg vs 40 mpg (source: Ford Mondeo UK). OK, so he's embellishing, but that's still a whole 25mpg better. Converting is roughly 1 US mpg = 1.2 UK mpg (source: ). 65 UK mpg is STILL 54 US mpg. Ridiculously bad hybrids like a Lexus LS 600h only have 25 US mpg using EU tests (source: Lexus UK). You'd have to compare to the smuggest of smugmobiles at 72 UK mpg, and frankly, the Prius is HIDEOUS compared to the new Fusions (rather nice for a run-of-the-mill family sedan) and I don't think that constitutes a COMPARison.
3. Assigning arbitrary percentages and swings to the environmental cost of diesel? Well, this was about $/m, but hey, let's play YOUR game. I could argue that because Diesel is denser, it is therefore more efficient to transport, requiring 40% less trucks to deliver the same number of miles produced. And how the hell does pollutants affect mpg? Even if we used your silly equivalency numbers 60% more miles delivered -12% -20% is still 28% more miles delivered, still outweighing the extra 10% cost (some places sell diesel 20% CHEAPER, so there's some benefit of doubt in your favor).
Also, did you know that gasoline is worse than gasoline? Wait, what? Yep. Mythbusters, season 9, episode 13. OK, Mythbuster numbers aren't the best, but they give a rough idea. Apples and oranges!
TL;DR: If you're going to bash someone, at least do the research. Also, apples and oranges.
PS Don't nitpick my percentages, i.e. how 60% should acutally be 62.5%. My issue is there's no demonstratable evidence (as opposed to accuracy/precision) for Solandri's percentages.
PPS silly spam filter.
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November 25, 2003
Creating a Database for a Different User
As you have seen, when we create a user when connected to the instance as postgres, the database created is also created with postgres as the owner. There are many times when you want the owner of a database to be someone other than the connected user. To do this PostreSQL gives you an alteration to the CREATE DATABASE command that allows you to create a database under a different user. The user must first exist to the instance. You can easily create a user and create a database for that user as in Listing 5.
Listing 5
template1=# CREATE USER jkoopmann;
# CREATE DATABASE db3 OWNER jkoopmann;
You can now see the new database and it's user by issuing the same SQL commands you did in Listings 2, 3, & 4. Listing 6 shows the sequence of SQL and the output. Just take note of the new database and user.
Listing 6 Verification of new database under a new user
db1=# select datid, datname from pg_stat_database;
datid | datname |
16976 | db1 |
16977 | db3 |
1 | template1 |
16975 | template0 |
(4 rows)
db1=# select datname, datdba from pg_database;
datname | datdba |
db1 | 1 |
db3 | 100 |
template1 | 1 |
template0 | 1 |
(4 rows)
db1=# select usename, usesysid from pg_shadow;
usename | usesysid |
postgres | 1 |
jkoopmann | 100 |
Getting Rid of a Database
Just as you can easily create a database, it is just as easy to get rid of a database. The reasons are many as to why someone might want to get rid of a database, just be careful since this command will drop all existence of the database and you will loose everything of importance in the database. In order to drop a database you must be the owner of the database or the superuser. Listing 7 shows a failed attempt to drop the db1 database because someone was connected to the database. Listing 8 shows the successful DROP DATABASE command and the acknowledgement of the drop command. Listing 9 shows us that we did in fact drop the database as it is not returned from the SQL statement against the pg_database table.
Listing 7
Failed attempt to drop database since a user was connected to it
template1=# drop database db1;
ERROR: DROP DATABASE: database "db1" is being accessed by other users
Listing 8
Successful drop of database db3
template1=# drop database db3;
Listing 9
Verification of successful drop database command
db1=# select datname, datdba from pg_database;
datname | datdba |
db1 | 1 |
template1 | 1 |
template0 | 1 |
Creating a Database from Another Database
Another alteration to the CREATE DATABASE command is the ability to clone a database. Just as in the DROP DATABASE command, no users can be connected to the database you are cloning. Listing 10 shows the failed attempt to clone a database while someone was connected to the template database and also shows the successful command to create a database (db4) from database db1.
Listing 10
Creation of a database from another database
template1=# create database db4 template db1;
ERROR: CREATE DATABASE: source database "db1" is being accessed by other users
template1=# create database db4 template db1;
The ability to create databases at will and have them available for use in PostgreSQL is only a few commands away. I personally was amazed at the simplicity behind the creation process which makes me wonder if it is too good to be true. I will accept it for what it is and begin to populate my database to determine the real implications of the simple installation of software and database. I hope it holds up as simplicity is hard to find now a days.
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Immunohistochemistry using different fixation procedures. Immunohistochemical detection of pHp in human lung tissues using a mouse monoclonal primary antibody and horseradish-peroxidase conjugated polymer for detection with aminoethylcarbazole as a color-substrate. Image-acquisition was performed using a Leica DM-LB2-microscope with 40x PL-Fluotar optics and a Leica DFC 320 camera with Leica software (Leica Microsystems, Germany). White balance, and contrast were adjusted using FixFoto (Koopmann, Germany). A: FFPE lung tissue revealing granular staining in AECII (400x). B: HOPE-fixed lung tissue revealing ‘greasy’ staining (400x). C: HOPE-fixed lung section, which was briefly formalin-fixed after de-paraffinization displaying granular, FFPE-like staining (400x). A: one example of 115 FFPE lungs, B: one example of more than 15 HOPE-fixed lungs, C: one example of more than 15 lungs.
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Chapter One
Hubbard was one of those places where you could still have your choice of oceanfront trailers--old rusting aqua and silver tunafish cans with moisture problems. Highway 101, the West's westernmost route from Canada to Mexico, was the town's only through street, a straight and single shot lined with gift shops and candy shops and kite shops and a Dairy Queen, shell art and postcards and forty-six flavors of saltwater taffy, homemade right here. There was everywhere a spirit of cheer, clutter and nakedly opportunistic goodwill: what Hubbard had it would happily sell you, and if you didn't see it, just ask. Everyone loved a tourist, and the fatter the cat, the better. To a point. The locals maintained their own entrances to the Dairy Queen, Anchor Grill and Wayside Tavern: unmarked doors around back by the service entrances, where there was no parking problem.
In this town, beautiful even if no-account, lived two women, old friends, Petie Coolbaugh and Rose Bundy. Rose was a big, soft woman of calm purpose and measurable serenity. Petie was small and hard and tight and flammable, like the wick of a candle. They were both thirty-one, and ever since grade school had been celebrating good times, hunkering down in lean ones, hiding truths from each other's families, sitting up with each other's babies. In the last six weeks they had also become business partners. They made soup for a living now.
Two months ago a cafe and coffeehouse had come to Hubbard by way of a brother and sister, fraternal twins from Southern California who'd had the idea of coming north to slow down. They had bought the old barbershop at one end of town and moved in tables and church pews and giant green ferns. They bought crockery dishes, an espresso machine, quilted tablecloths and posters for the walls. They sanded the old fir floors and built a mahogany counter of great beauty and grace. They installed a tiny kitchen, named the place Souperior's, and then, instead of hiring a cook, they held auditions.
Bring your best soup (they invited all of Hubbard, on index cards in city hall, the post office and the Quik Stop) to Souperior's next Saturday afternoon. Winners get on our menu. Grand winner gets a job offer.
Although Hubbard loved its tourists, resident newcomers were a source of suspicion. For a week or so the little index cards--tacked up fresh and bright among the curling notices about firewood and crab pot repairs and handmade dog figurines--excited a lot of comment, most of it skeptical. On the other hand, an invitation to compete against your neighbors didn't come along often except for the county fair, and in the end, sixty-four soups were entered in the contest and were judged during an open house and soup-feed by the cafe's owners, Nadine and Gordon Latimer. Petie and Rose won with a jointly submitted bottomfish stew born of desperation the year Eddie Coolbaugh broke his foot and couldn't work for three months. A fisherman Rose had been dating then had fed them all from the junkfish left behind on a sportfishing charter boat. Two more of Rose's soups also made it onto the menu. When she was offered the job of soup cook, she asked if she and Petie could share it. The deal was that they would supply the cafe with two fresh soups each day, Tuesday through Sunday, and they could work from home. Breads came from the Riseria in Sawyer; Nadine handled the salads herself. Every day the soups would be different until the menu was exhausted and they could start again. New soups would always be under consideration.
Rose had been working at the time as a waitress for the Anchor Grill, 3 a.m. to noon shift--a job from which she'd come and gone for years. Bad hours, good tips. Petie had been cleaning motel rooms at the Sea View Motel: bad wages, good people, good location. In either case, cooking sounded better and the money was only slightly worse. Plus as long as they could stand a steady diet of soup, they could feed their families for free.
The Coolbaughs lived in a shabby little rental on the north side of town, on a dead-end road called Heyter Place. The house was old and had been no good to start with, but Petie knew how to put a good front on things. Small, exquisite watercolors hung on the walls: still lifes of balloons and baby toys; wildflowers and action figures; cooking utensils, bouquets of keys. She'd painted the kitchen walls and ceiling brilliant white with lemon yellow trim, and even the sickly sun of winter seemed to try a little harder there. Now, in robust late September, the cheap white curtains were so saturated with light they seemed incandescent.
While Petie diced fifty carrots, Rose read aloud from the weekly newspaper about old Billy Wall, who had just been indicted on sodomy charges.
"You know what I think? Hand me that peeler." Petie weighed it thoughtfully in her hand, then pointed it at Rose. "I think if he did what those kids say he did, the guy deserves to have a bad thing happen to him. I mean worse than shame and a jail term. I mean something bad. They should take him just like you'd take a carrot, and peel him down real slow, you know, real careful, layer by layer until you've got him peeled naked as an egg, and then you bring him to Hubbard Elementary and you lock him in the gym with twenty mothers with baseball bats. You put some Gatorade in there, and some high-nutrition snacks, and maybe have an alternate or two who can substitute when one of the women gets tired." She traded Rose the peeler for a paring knife. "The son of a bitch."
For several minutes Petie's knife made sharp regular reports like gunshots on the cutting board. She had thick, strong, shiny black hair--Indian hair, although she was no part Indian--that she'd tied back from her face with an old rolled-up bandanna. Stuffed under it were some straggly ends, old bangs. She was always trying to grow out old bangs or some other hair fiasco. Once, Rose remembered, she had bleached out a central stripe in her hair. She'd looked strange as a skunk with the jet black running up against the peroxide yellow with no warning and no apology. That was back in high school, in their freshman year. Petie's mother had died four years before, and she and her father were living up at the top of Chollum Road in a twelve-foot camp trailer. Old Man Tyler had always been mean, but after Petie's mother died and he had to declare bankruptcy, he'd been even worse. But as far as Rose could tell, even before Petie's mother died, the only time Old Man Tyler had really paid attention to her was when he was yelling at her; otherwise, he took no notice. Petie swore she didn't own a dress until she was twelve, and by then it was too late to get a feel for them. She'd have gotten married in pants if she'd had her way, but Eddie Coolbaugh had balked so she was married in a homemade lace sheath Eula Coolbaugh made for her, a dress that showed how essentially boy-shaped Petie was. And how small. Everyone thought she was bigger, including Rose. In her own way, she took up a lot of space.
"What are you thinking about?" Petie said, scraping the cut carrots into a big plastic Tupperware container to use tomorrow morning.
"That time you bleached your hair out."
Petie chuckled. "I looked just like a skunk."
"That's what I was thinking. I never thought it bothered you, though. You didn't show it."
"Of course I didn't show it. I didn't tell anyone Old Man beat me over it, either."
"He did?"
"Well, he was drunk."
"Then again, you never really knew, with Old Man. Chances are, he would have beaten me anyway."
"What do you think will happen to those boys Billy Wall messed with? I've heard kids don't recover from something like that, ever. Do you think that's possible, that those poor kids have been ruined?"
Petie shrugged. "I don't know. They'll grow up. They'll date, they'll make stupid choices. At some point they'll realize their lives aren't nearly as good as the ones they expected. Same old same old. Everyone's ruined somewhere along the line."
Rose started to laugh. "Oh, Petie."
"Really. Sooner or later something terrible's always going to come along. It's really just a question of timing."
Rose took the carrot peeler and started scraping potatoes, a small mountain of them, into the sink. "Something terrible like what happened to those boys is not going to happen to everyone, Petie. My God."
"Of course not. It could even be something that seems like not much--moving to another town, say, or having bad acne or liking beer too much. Or it could be something quiet like hopelessness or boredom. No one ever said that ruin always comes in a big loud package."
Rose watched Petie tear apart some sprigs of parsley and toss them into one of the pots. "Well, I'm thinking I might start driving Carissa to school."
"Does she worry about the trip?" Petie stirred some heavy cream into one of the pots.
"Does she complain about having to wait after school?"
"No, but--"
"So she's a smart kid. She can take care of herself. Stir." Petie put her spoon in Rose's hand.
"You worry about the boys," Rose pointed out, stirring.
"I worry about Ryan. I fear for Loose. There's a difference."
Five-year-old Loose Coolbaugh (short for Lucifer, although even that wasn't his real name) was a fearless, physical kid: he would hit before he'd concede he was wrong. His playground daredeviltry had already made him, in less than a month, an object of admiration in his first grade class. He'd been to the emergency room over in Sawyer twice in just that time period: once for a minor concussion when he swung into thin air off the monkey bars, once for stitches in his hand from an old can he'd systematically broken apart with a rock.
Ryan, on the other hand, was frail and suffered for it. At eight years old, he still had frequent asthma attacks, night fears and daytime dreads: large dogs, sneaker waves, public toilets, physical contests. He was also bookish, which no one in the family could fathom. Loose needled him mercilessly, and often got the upper hand. Eddie Coolbaugh used to push him to try harder, be bolder, cry less often, but since Loose had come along Eddie had lost interest. Petie and Rose often took turns bringing Ryan along on after-school errands, just to give him a break from the household. Petie protected him when she could, but she admitted to Rose more than once that she didn't exactly get the point of him, either.
"I think this is ready," Rose said. "It's getting late. We better go." Petie was cutting Rose's scraped potatoes and stowing them in a Tupperware container filled with water, for the morning. The finished corn chowder on the stove was one of their favorites. The other vat was lentil, a recipe of Rose's that wasn't even on the Souperior's list. The soup was supposed to have been vegetable barley, but Petie refused to fix anything submitted by Jeannie Fontineau. Jeannie Fontineau was nothing but a sad-eyed fat woman now, but she had fooled around with Eddie Coolbaugh a little bit years ago, before she got so fat but after he and Petie were married. Jeannie Fontineau wasn't the only one Eddie had ever fooled around with, but she was the first, and that made her stand out. Nadine would be mad about the soup substitution, but they'd just tell her something.
Petie stowed the Tupperware container in the refrigerator and said, "You call Nadine and tell her we're on our way. I'll load the car." The vats of soup were too hot and too heavy for either of the women to carry, so Eddie Coolbaugh had rigged up a table-high dolly for them, and a ramp down the two steps outside. From there they just slid the vats into the back of Petie's old Ford Colt. Together they jockeyed the huge pots onto the dolly and out the kitchen door. Petie disappeared down the ramp while Rose dialed. It was ten-thirty in the morning; Souperior's started serving lunch at eleven. Nadine answered on the first ring.
"You're pushing it, you guys," she said when she heard Rose's voice. She sounded unusually testy; Rose guessed it was a migraine day.
"Petie's got the engine running. Corn chowder and lentil."
"Where's the vegetable barley?"
"We got a deal on salt pork, so we switched. Does it matter? Did you publish the menu in the paper?"
"As it happens, the ad doesn't start until next week. But I'd like to have known. You should have asked me. I'm the owner. You're the employees."
"You sound like you have a headache."
"I have late soup, is what I have. Give me a break, Rose."
"We'd be there already if we weren't talking."
Nadine sighed. "You're both taking advantage of me."
"Yes," Rose said, "but we're completely supportive. Look for us in five minutes." Rose retrieved the empty dolly and closed the kitchen door behind her, smiling. She'd just been kidding about a newspaper ad.
Souperior's turned its back on the highway to moon westward from the high and rocky rim of Hubbard Bay. Petie remembered when the shambly little place had been the barbershop and all the Hubbard men had looked alike because old Walt Miller hadn't gone to barber school up in Portland yet to learn a second way to cut hair. Petie's father used to hang around the place half plowed making a pest of himself, especially after her mother died and they lost the house and had to move into the camp trailer up at the top of Chollum Road. Old Man was a contentious drunk; sometimes Walt had had to sneak out of his own shop to get away and call her to come get him. Once, while Walt wasn't looking, her father had taken his little buck knife and carved into the shop's doorjamb, I got fucked in '74. JST. That was the year her mother's uninsured hospital bills came to seventy-five thousand dollars and she died anyway. Walt had sanded most of the message away, but he'd left the JST as an expression of sympathy. Although the initials had been covered over with a few coats of paint by now, Petie could still feel a faint depression with her fingertips.
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La Gerusalemme liberata Torquato Tasso
The following entry presents criticism of Tasso's epic poem La Gerusalemme liberata (1581; Jerusalem Delivered). For discussion of Tasso's complete career, see LC, Volume 5.
La Gerusalemme liberata was Tasso's greatest achievement, an attempt to emulate and even surpass classical authors such as Homer and Virgil and to provide Italy with a national epic poem. While indebted to works of classical antiquity, Gerusalemme liberata is at the same time close to medieval romance; and while depicting events from the First Crusade, it also reflects the quandaries of the poet's own time, when Jerusalem was governed by a sultan and Europe was in the crisis of religious division. With Gerusalemme liberata Tasso sought to create a masterpiece that would deserve comparison with the great epics of the past; he succeeded in composing one of the most widely read and cherished books of the Renaissance.
Biographical Information
Active at the end of a splendid developmental period in Italian literature, Tasso sought to surpass his predecessors (especially Ludovico Ariosto, with whom he is often compared) and to provide Italy with a national epic poem. However, Tasso's times were far different from Ariosto's, as the passing of the Renaissance in Italy was marked by a shift from a spirit of inquiry to the inquisitional watchfulness of the Counter-Reformation. In literature, there was a growing tendency toward prescriptive theory and conformity to rigid and established compositional rules based on the theoretical writings of antiquity. Excessively solicitous of his colleagues' and the clergy's advice and opinions, Tasso is said to have possessed the spirit of the Renaissance only to be constrained by the Counter-Reformation. Fearing that any uncorrected unorthodoxies might prevent the publication of Gerusalemme liberata, Tasso began to lend partial manuscripts of the work to colleagues, critics, and friends for their critiques. Their comments, however, irritated and humiliated him, and while he continued to defend the work, portions of it—often inaccurate—became widely available, further aggravating his concern for his reputation. He suffered a nervous breakdown in 1577 and was confined to a hospital for the next seven years. It was during this period that an unscrupulous printer published without Tasso's approval an incomplete and flawed edition of Gerusalemme liberata under its original title Il Goffredo. This prompted Tasso to publish a version of the poem himself, despite his dissatisfaction with it. The debate over Gerusalemme liberata lasted throughout Tasso's confinement, while he continued to revise the poem. He was finally released in 1586, and in the years following resumed work on his epic. In 1593 Tasso published his epic—finally purged, to his satisfaction, of its impurities—under the title Di Gerusalemme conquistata (Jerusalem Conquered). With many episodes deleted or changed to answer religious objections or to adhere to classical unities, and with the language refined to the point of diminished beauty, this revised version is unanimously deemed inferior to Gerusalemme liberata.
Plot and Major Characters
Di Gerusalemme conquistata is an epic poem in 20 cantos of about 100 stanzas each. Much of its action concerns the fall of Jerusalem in 1099 to Godfrey of Boulogne and his European allies during the First Crusade. Although Godfrey led the Crusade, it is Rinaldo who is the main hero of the poem. He undergoes a fall from grace when he succumbs to the beautiful Armida and is banished from the Christian camp, but is recalled to his sense of duty in Canto 16, returns to help the Christians enter Jerusalem, and kills the Saracen hero Solimano. Similarly flawed is a secondary hero, Tancredi, who is also in love with a Saracen female warrior, Clorinda. In a tragic episode he unwittingly kills her in combat, but is roused to great deeds at the end and slays the giant Saracen Argante. The poem ends in Christian triumph, not only with the capture of Jerusalem, but also with the conversion to Christianity of the Saracen heroines, Clorinda as she dies, and Armida at the end of the poem.
Major Themes
Gerusalemme liberata is an overtly serious work, stoutly Christian, explicitly moralistic, and deeply concerned from its inception with such theoretical matters as the relation of truth to invention and the problem of historical authenticity. Its subject matter, a protracted military contest between Christians and Muslims, had contemporary significance in a time of continuing struggle between the Italian states and the Ottoman Empire for commercial domination of the eastern Mediterranean. Moreover, the themes of loyalty and treachery, and the conflicting claims of public and private obligation—so important for Renaissance epic in general—were still pertinent to the court ethos and inter-state political rivalry characteristic of the age in which Tasso lived. In the poem, the blood and gore of antique epic are mitigated by idyllic and lyric passages which derive more from Petrarch and the Greek and Latin elegiac and erotic poets than from Homer or Tasso's own sometimes rough-hewn epic forbears. The women of Tasso's poetry, in particular, and the love interests they give rise to provide a more complex foil to the traditional military skirmishing and bravado, in part because all of Tasso's characters are more fully realized and psychologically developed than those of his predecessors.
Critical Reception
Tasso's attempt in Gerusalemme liberata to combine classical epic with traditional romance elements was the source of much critical conflict during his lifetime. Strict classicists attacked Tasso's use of the miraculous and the lack of a strict unity of action. Meanwhile, those who looked at its romantic elements denigrated it in comparison to Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando furioso, while others condemned it for vague or emotional language. In addition, the Church denounced the portrayal of pagan magic and the loves depicted, both for their sensual quality and for the pairing of pagans with Christians. In Tasso's own time, his work was well received by the public despite the controversy in critical circles. While consensus on Gerusalemme liberata cannot be reached, it is clear that the epic had an effect on such significant figures as Edmund Spenser, John Milton, and John Dryden. Milton considered Gerusalemme liberata the only modern epic worthy of imitation. Twentieth-century critics have examined Gerusalemme liberata from a variety of perspectives. In his study of the poem, C. P. Brand maintained that the influence that the classical writers had on Tasso and his epic cannot be understated: “it is typical of Tasso's approach to art, to style and language to build on the great achievements of the past.” Other critics have analyzed the political aspects of Gerusalemme liberata. David Quint has claimed that looking at the “political picture turns Tasso's First Crusade into an emblem of the Church Militant, whose quest for souls is finally indistinguishable from the imperialist conquest of new territories and dependent subjects.” While many modern critics have praised Gerusalemme liberata for its mixture of romantic with classical elements, Dennis Looney has argued that this mixture is the poem's greatest flaw because it causes confusion and compromises the work, so that it can be considered neither as a romance nor as a true epic. For his part, Andrew Fichter has characterized the poem as a “Christian epic,” based on the theme of redemption. “Tasso's choice of redemption as a theme,” he asserts, “is perfectly suited to his purpose of constructing a true Christian epic, a poem based on Christian principles but one that also possesses the formal properties of the Aeneid, wholeness, magnitude, and unity of plot and character.”
Principal Works
Il Rinaldo (poem) 1562
Aminta (play) 1573
*La Gerusalemme liberata (epic) 1581; revised as Di Gerusalemme conquistata, 1593
Discorsi dell'arte poetica (essays) 1587
Il re Torrismondo (play) 1587
Scielta delle rime (poetry) 1591-93
Discorsi del poema erico [Discourses on the Heroic Poem, 1973] (poetry) 1594
I due giorni del mondo creato [Creation of the World, 1982] (poetry) 1600; also published as Le sette giornate del mondo creato [enlarged edition], 1607
Opere. 33 vols. (poetry, pose, criticism, and drama) 1821-1832
*An earlier, incomplete version of this work was published as Il Goffredo in 1580.
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C. P. Brand (essay date 1965)
SOURCE: Brand, C. P. “The Epic: The Gerusalemme Liberata.” In Torquato Tasso: A Study of the Poet and of His Contribution to English Literature, pp. 79-118. Cambridge: At the University Press, 1965.
[In the following essay, Brand argues that Gerusalemme liberata is a “fusion of the heroic epic and the chivalrous romance” and that Tasso's style attempts to follow the classical precedents set by Homer and Virgil.]
Structurally the Liberata is a fusion of the heroic epic and the chivalrous romance, and represents a conscious attempt at the perfection of a literary form. Few poems have been less ‘spontaneous’ in the conventional sense: years of reading, thought, discussion, correspondence, even formal declaration of principles preceded and accompanied the composition of the poem. For Tasso the peaks of literary achievement had been reached by Homer and Virgil in the epic and his aim was to rival, where possible to excel them. It is typical of Tasso's approach to art, to style and language to build on the great achievements of the past, and he deduced his principles for epic poetry very largely from the Iliad and the Aeneid, and from the classical literary theorists, particularly Aristotle and Demetrius.
His epic thus treats an heroic theme of large scale, the siege and capture of Jerusalem in 1099 by Godfrey of Boulogne and his allies; it...
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Andrew Fichter (essay date 1982)
SOURCE: Fichter, Andrew. “Tasso: Romance, Epic, and Christian Epic.” In Poets Historical: Dynastic Epic in the Renaissance, pp. 112-55. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1982.
[In the following essay, Fichter calls Gerusalemme liberata. “a true Christian epic,” based on the theme of redemption.]
The dynastic couple in Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata consists of Rinaldo, the strong right arm of Goffredo, commander of the Christian forces in the First Crusade, and Armida, who until her sudden conversion in the poem's closing stanzas plays the part of the meretrix, the principal agent of the demonic plot (instigated by Pluto himself) to subvert the Christian cause. Armida may seem a surprising choice for the role of progenitress of the House of Este,1 but Tasso could not have found a more effective means of illustrating the scope of Christian deliverance, the theme of his poem. Tasso's dynastic heroine is no Bradamante, no championess of chastity, fundamentally virtuous if initially incomplete, but something of a Mary Magdalen, a creature in whom the precept that grace ultimately extends to all of fallen nature finds one of its most dramatic confirmations. Tasso's Rinaldo, too, falls further than does his counterpart in Ariosto's poem. In canto 16 Rinaldo is found, like Ruggiero before him, in the locus amoenus of romance truancy, Armida's garden, but to the faults of...
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James T. Chiampi (essay date 1987)
SOURCE: Chiampi, James T. “Tasso's Deconstructive Angel and the Figuration of Light in the Gerusalemme Liberata.Stanford Italian Review 7, nos. 1-2 (1987): 111-27.
[In the following essay, Chiampi maintains that Gerusalemme Liberata “is at constant pains to foreground its concern with unity, transparency, and univocal conformity” to an unchanging truth.]
At the beginning of book two of the Discorsi del poema eroico, after establishing that the dignity of man arises from his capacity for intellectual choice, Tasso digresses on its virtue, prudence:
Ma qual'è più incerta, quale più instabile, quale più incostante della materia [della poesia]. Prudentissimo, dunque, conviene che sia colui il quale non s'inganni nello scegliere dove è tanta mutazione e tanta incostanza di cose: e la materia [della poesia] è simile ad una selva oscura, tenebrosa e priva d'ogni luce. La onde se l'arte non l'illumina, altri errarebbe senza scorta, e sceglierebbe peraventura il peggio in cambio del meglio. Ma l'arte distingue fra le cose disposte a ricever la forma, e quelle che non sono disposte.1
Tasso figures the matter of his epic poem with traditional epic imagery: matter is a selva oscura through which art must serve as guide. He understands the informing act of writing as a critical one whose nature...
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Timothy Hampton (essay date 1990)
SOURCE: Hampton, Timothy. “The Body's Two Crowns: Narrative and Martyrdom in Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata.Stanford Italian Review 9, nos. 1-2 (1990): 133-54.
[In the following essay, Hampton discusses how exemplary figures are presented in the narrative in Gerusalemme liberata and the way in which action defines the self, both for those characters and their humanist readers.]
“Nothing moves me like the examples of illustrious men,” writes Petrarch in a letter to his friend Giovanni Colonna.1 With these words the first modern humanist evokes a central topos of the aristocratic humanism that informs Renaissance culture. By asserting the connection between the examples (words and deeds) of the “illustrious men” he has read about in history and liberature (most specifically for him, Scipio Africanus) and the “movements” of the self, Petrarch recalls a principal feature of the humanist appropriation of the past. He defines the question of imitatio, much discussed in recent years as an issue of poetics, of writing, as a problem of interpretation, that is, of reading. One of the basic tenets of Renaissance humanist hermeneutics is that ancient poetry and history have a moral and political significance: the heroic actors of classical culture offer models of comportment upon which the...
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David Quint (essay date spring 1990)
SOURCE: Quint, David. “Political Allegory in the Gerusalemme Liberata.Renaissance Quarterly 43, no. 1 (spring 1990): 1-24.
[In the following essay, Quint discusses the religious aspects of Gerusalemme liberata, which, he argues, celebrates the triumph of the Counter-Reformation.]
In 1553, six years before Tasso first began to sketch the poem that was to become the Gerusalemme liberata, the Catholic monarchs Philip II and Mary Tudor acceded to the throne of England, after the Protestant reigns of Henry VIII and Edward VI. The event was celebrated in an encomiastic oration, De vestituta in Anglia religione (“On the restoration of religion in England”), by the minor Modenese humanist, Antonio Fiordibello. In one passage Fiordibello searches for a precedent to the achievement of the new English rulers.
Quorum igitur Regum, Imperatorumque res gestae tam amplae unquam ac tam magnificae & gloriosae fuerunt, ut sint cum vestrae hujus actionis pietate, amplitudine, gloria comparandae? Admirari solent plerique vel maxime res a Gottjfredo Boemundo, & Balduino clarissimis Ducis gestas, qui cum ingentibus olim copiis ex his occidentis partibus in Asiam profecti, victis ac superatis Christiani nominis hostibus, urbem Hierosolima, & sanctissimum illud Christi liberatoris nostri sepulcrum receperunt. Et sane illi optime de Christiana...
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Albert Russell Ascoli (essay date 1994)
SOURCE: Ascoli, Albert Russell. “Liberating the Tomb: Difference and Death in Gerusalemme Liberata.Annali d'Italianistica 12 (1994): 159-80.
[In the following essay, Ascoli examines the fundamental importance of entombment and liberation in Gerusalemme liberata.]
Like much Counter-Reformation writing, Tasso's epic of the Crusaders' conquest of Jerusalem represents and then represses several varieties of threatening difference—religious, sexual, racial, psychological, even textual. In his fundamental study of the Liberata, Sergio Zatti (1983) has shown that the struggle of the “uniforme cristiano” to overcome the “multiforme pagano,” that is, the heterodox multiplicity of the Islamic “other,” can be read as an overt allegory of internal difference and otherness. Zatti identifies several strata of internal “difference” and deviation—the tensions within the Christian camp itself (the “compagni erranti” of Goffredo di Buglione, whom one might be tempted to read as so many protestant schismatics [see Quint 1990 & 1993]); the tensions within individual characters such as Rinaldo and Tancredi, whose errant desires take them beyond the pale of the Christian soldier's duties; the tensions within the poet himself (who identifies himself as a “peregrino errante” in need of Duke Alfonso II d'Este's guidance) and within his poem, with its Armida-like recourse to...
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Dennis Looney (essay date 1996)
SOURCE: Looney, Dennis. “Tasso's Allegory of the Source in Gerusalemme Liberata.” In Compromising the Classics: Romance Epic Narrative in the Italian Renaissance, pp. 142-69. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1996.
[In the following essay, Looney claims that Tasso uses an episode in Gerusalemme liberata concerning a source of water as an allegory of his own use of literary sources.]
Dice ancora Aristotele che … quella [la favola] de l'epopeia è simile a vino troppo inacquato.
Tasso, Discorsi del Poema Eroico1
In the previous chapter, we observed Torquato Tasso's troubled reaction to the fusion of sources in Ariosto's Furioso. In chapter 1, by contrast, we saw how Torquanto's father, Bernardo, was able to accept the Furioso into his personal canon, despite its problematic confusion of romance and epic. Here I shall deal more directly with Torquato's ability and need to compromise sources in his own poem. In this reading of Gerusalemme Liberata, I argue that Torquato inscribed in the poem an allegory of imitative poetics, which provides the critic with a theoretical gloss on the poet's use of sources. Tasso develops an episode in the story line of canto 13 around a literal source of water—a spring in the desert outside of Jerusalem—to highlight a crisis in his use of...
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Giovanni Da Pozzo (essay date autumn 1997)
SOURCE: Da Pozzo, Giovanni. “Last Assaults and Delayed Victory in Tasso's Liberata.1Italica 74, no. 3 (autumn 1997): 319-38.
[In the following essay, Da Pozzo considers impulses toward both indeterminacy and finality in Gerusalemme liberata.]
In the series of critical interpretations over the past ten years, a variety of methodological combinations have been presented regarding the reading of Tasso's main poem both in its singular parts as well as a complete work. These combinations demonstrate not only the ability to renew contemporary critical activity in this field of study, but they also contain these interpretative contributions within the Mannerist field, where Tasso seems to have been placed. It is certainly not necessary to refer to the most significant critical contributions as it would be equivalent to telling the recent history of Tasso's criticism, which is already available in specialized literary reviews.
As for Mannerism,2 with which Tasso is often associated, one could observe that in general terms it is frequently used as an alternative to Pre-Baroque. This practice, motivated by the notion that Baroque was a more effective referent because it was considered more clear and homogeneous, produced the opinion that Baroque was able to be used more efficiently as a cultural signpost. Such is the case with the prefix “pre-” placed before...
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Sergio Zatti (essay date 1999)
SOURCE: Zatti, Sergio. “Epic in the Age of Dissimulation: Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata.” In Renaissance Transactions: Ariosto and Tasso, edited by Valeria Finucci, pp. 115-45. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1999.
[In the following essay, Zatti argues that the “theme of dissimulation—the disguising of bodies, sentiments, or intentions—plays such a large role in the Gerusalemme liberata because Tasso's text is itself born from a discourse of dissimulation.”]
The themes I wish to consider here may be counted among those that best justify the Gerusalemme liberata's placement among so-called mannerist texts. These themes absorb from mannerist literature the principle of a self-reflexive moment, wherein the semantic referent appears inscribed in the act of textual enunciation.1 In other words, I wish to argue that the theme of dissimulation—the disguising of bodies, sentiments, or intentions—plays such a large role in the Gerusalemme liberata because Tasso's text is itself born from a discourse of dissimulation:
O Musa, tu che di caduchi allori
non circondi la fronte in Elicona,
ma su nel cielo infra i beati cori
hai di stelle immortali aurea corona,
tu spira al petto mio celesti ardori,
tu rischiara il mio canto, e tu perdona
s'intesso fregi al ver, s'adorno in parte
d'altri diletti, che de' tuoi, le carte....
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Walter Stephens (essay date 1999)
SOURCE: Stephens, Walter. “Trickster, Textor, Architect, Thief: Craft and Comedy in Gerusalemme Liberata.” In Renaissance Transactions: Ariosto and Tasso, edited by Valeria Finucci, pp. 146-77. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1999.
[In the following essay, Stephens argues that Tasso uses Homeric imitations in Gerusalemme liberata that have important implications for the poem and its representation of authorship.]
In canto 18 of Gerusalemme liberata [GL], writing irrupts into the plot of Tasso's highly intertextual poem. Attacked by a falcon, a carrier pigeon takes refuge with Goffredo, who discovers a letter from the Egyptian general Emireno to King Aladino in Jerusalem, announcing the imminent arrival of Muslim reinforcements for the besieged town. As if this adaptation of Homeric bird omens were not already abundantly explicit, Goffredo announces to his assembled lieutenants that the messenger (freighted with overtones of the Holy Spirit) has brought a revelation from divine providence: “—Vedete come il tutto a noi riveli / la providenza del Signor de' cieli” (“See how the providence of Heaven's king can reveal all things to us”).1 This incident inaugurates an extensive series of Homeric imitations that will occupy much of cantos 18 and 19. The progression and tension among these imitations have striking intertextual and metaliterary...
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Further Reading
Bellamy, Elizabeth J. “Troia Vittrice: Reviving Troy in the Woods of Jerusalem.” In Translations of Power: Narcissism and the Unconscious in Epic History, pp. 131-88. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1992.
Examines the influence of the Aeneid on Tasso's writing of Gerusalemme liberata.
Benfell, V. Stanley. “Tasso's God: Narrative Authority in the Gerusalemme Liberata.Modern Philology 97, no. 2, (November 1999): 173-94.
Explores Tasso's attempt to equate God and poet in Gerusalemme liberata.
Chiampi, James T. “Tasso's Rinaldo in the Body of the Text.” Romantic Review 82, no. 4 (November 1990): 487-503.
Provides a philosophical and critical analysis of the character Rinaldo in Gerusalemme liberata.
Chiappelli, Fredi. “A Possible Source-Fission for Two Tasso Characters.” Stanford Italian Review 1, no. 1 (spring 1979): 121-32.
Examines the characters of Argante and Tancredi in Gerusalemme liberata and explores the complementary affinity between them that Tasso created.
Craig, Cynthia C. “Enchantment and Disenchantment: A Study of Magic in the Orlando Furioso and the Gerusalemme Liberata.Comitatus 19 (1988): 20-45.
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AC power transmission losses are greater than DC losses. That is hardly an industry secret. In fact the reason you can wirelessly charge a cell phone is because any changing current will radiate away some energy. You just need to coil the wire up to gather some of that energy in a convenient place. At the Three Gorges Dam in China, high voltage DC transmission lines were chosen to bring the power to the people for a variety of reasons. Many power companies are now starting to rethink the decisions that made AC transmission the obvious choice in the previous era.
Depending on the voltage, wire characteristics, and environment, other parasitic losses in AC transmission can become insidious, much more so than the relatively small radiative loss. At a mains power frequency of 50 or 60 hertz, the skin effect — where the majority of the current travels only on the surface of the conductor — starts to become more important. If most of the current is travelling in only a portion of the total cross section available, it will see an effectively higher resistance. To combat the skin effect, more expensive, multi-stranded wire must be used.
Capacitive coupling to the ground and other objects also sap some energy from AC. You can think of this effect as being like a football player running out on to the field at the start of the game and the numerous hands of fans rising up along the way to high five him, slowing him down a bit. The numerous hands are charges of opposite polarity inside of other elements in the surroundings that feel the attractive force of charges in the wire.
Tesla vs. Edison
Topsy The Elephant, who sadly got executed in the name of science
So why do we use AC? To begin with, it typically comes hot off the presses as AC. In other words, it is most efficiently produced in this form by three-phase-alternators at the power station’s turbines. If you then want to transmit power any significant distance from the point of generation, you need to step up the voltage quite a bit just to get something worthwhile on the other end. If, for example, you are starting with 20 volts and are dropping one volt every mile because of the resistance of the wire alone, 20 miles out you will have next to nothing. Actually the losses will diminish a little less than linearly but you get the idea.
Transforming to higher voltages is simple for AC, you use a transformer — but for DC, it typically means using motor-generator sets or other fancy elaborations. When you then manage to get some power transmitted, your biggest customer might very well be a large motor that compresses, pumps, or other moves stuff, and runs on — you guessed it — AC power. The three-phase AC induction motor, first envisioned by Tesla, is far and away the most efficient way to convert electricity into mechanical power. DC motors, until recent times, required graphite brushes for commutation which severely restrict maximum RPM, reliability, and lifespan.
It may be worthwhile to make a quick comparative note on power generation in automobiles. A long time ago cars used DC generators in their electrical systems, but today they use AC alternators almost exclusively. This may seem a bit strange to the casually informed observer because a generator can charge the battery directly, without need for rectifier diodes to convert AC to DC. In practice, generators do not work as well since cars need to extract electrical power across a range of engine speeds, from idle to redline. Since alternators create their magnetic field with a “field current” instead of magnets, they can change this field according to need and optimize the alternator function. So in this case, the intuitively obvious solution, using a DC generator, is not necessarily the best solution.
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• Torqueobama
Awesome article. Why did Three Gorges choose DC? Also, how much LED light circuitry is for reducing the voltage and dumping the heat due to losses in that process? If you had a ready household source of 5V DC, how much would an LED light cost?
• http://www.facebook.com/MatthewTuel Matthew Tuel
Probably as little as a standard incandescent does today. I suspect that regardless of what direction the grid goes, new homes and remodels will have the lighting circuits as 12V DC, with one transformer per circuit or leg. 12V would probably be ideal since many existing circuits would have longer runs, and 12V is only 1/10th of line voltage. We will still need 120V for appliances, I don’t think anyone wants to use a “0″ or “1″ gauge wire to power a vacuum cleaner.
• jhewitt123
True. and on a safety note, the roomba uses a pretty big DC charger, and it is 24 volts I think. The charger has a tail that when not plugged in to the roomba, a child could put that in their mouth and if they byte down, they could get a real dangerous shock. Not real safe.
• some_guy_said
That’s a good point. LED lights only work on DC power while incandescent lights don’t care what kind of power is used.
So the LED lights have to convert the power, which wastes electricity and causes heat that LEDs hate. They would be even more energy efficient if we had DC power delivery.
• http://www.facebook.com/people/Yair-Yepez/100000555072149 Yair Yépez
The problem with current or voltage drop has little to do with the question of using AC or DC…it has to do more with the bad design / bad idea of having the power generation source hundreds ( thousands) of miles away from the comsumption end. Electric power should be generated “next door” or “next street”…”next neighbourhood” by the most and not “next town” as it is today. Distance is the worst enemy of electricity.
Even today we are designing renewable generation plants (wind, solar, and others) far away from where the electricity is needed. This is not only not-efficient but also fragile in case of war or an attack. We need to start producing electricity (aC or DC) in our roofs, in or backyards…inside our urban areas not miles away from it, afterall the true advantage of renewables is their low to zero emmisions…that allows us to have ‘em nearby instead of toxic coal or gas fumes.
• jhewitt123
Can’t argue with generating power on all scales, big and small, to be maximally responsive, fault tolerant and to empower different collectives with ownership. How about superimposing the AC on top of a DC bias for transmission so that the different needs of AC and DC end users can be solved in one transmission. If you need to power motors, just skim off the AC with the equivalent of a huge AC coupling capacitor?
• some_guy_said
Almost all consumer devices run off DC power. AC delivery is not on the basis of need, but on the basis of technology and power grid setup of the time – It was the most efficient process at the time.
Ok, let’s imagine the next scenario: We all have DC installed at home, at office, at factories, everywhere. DC is available at everywall outlet.
Then…. what do we do with all the AC designed equipment, gadgets, and other stuff?? it is not a matter of a simple step-down transformer, we will need “DC designed/compatible” stuff. Batteries are not designed for DC recharging…DC recharges any battery faster (something that nobody other than Electric vehicles owners need) but shortens its life and limmits the batteries to be recharged to limited time for cetain period of time (something like once every 24hrs)….DC recharging is a high temperature process, that is waht shortens the betteries life.
DC motors are far less efficient than AC motors and they have the problem of friction. Compare a DC motored blender or vacuum cleaner with a silent, powerful and efficient AC motored one.
Light is where DC really comes handy. LED’s will work better under DC voltages and they will not need integrated power supplies to work.
But even with this wonderful (no sarcasm intended) scenario the problem still is there. DC and HVDC also have current drop due to high distance transmission. Generating electricity (AC or DC) far is not an “energy lost free” design.
Distance is the worst enemy of electricity. Period.
• some_guy_said
I’m not going to really respond to this, because you obviously don’t understand how many common gadgets/devices work.
For example: “Batteries are not designed for DC recharging”
“Furthermore you keep pressing this “Distance is the enemy of electricity.” thing.
That “sure” part is all that I wanted to hear. thanks.
About “there is no AC battery” you are right…and DC over the grid will eliminate the use of brick cables you are also right…but why bother?
Thanks for your comments.
• some_guy_said
Where the wind blows, where the water flows, and where the sun shines.
This isn’t a new problem, and it is not exclusive to renewables.
Traditional power plants have been located far away from urban centers due to the huge amounts of pollution they generated in the past – Poison fog and such.
While new plants are much cleaner, and most would be acceptable in cities today (except coal – but not for the reasons you think) It is still expensive and thought of as an eyesore to have a power plant on high value land in a city.
Your proposal is fairly ridiculous under today’s infrastructure and technology. We won’t have decentralized local power until consumer solar or small scale thorium reactors develop and mature and are adopted in sufficient numbers – decades out.
And you know what? Once that happens, DC will become even more favorable, so we’ll still want to convert to it.
You said: “DC will become even more favorable, so we’ll still want to convert to it.”
That will happen when batteries, equipment, motors, compressors, electronics, and every other single gadget we now use. All of that, even 12V battery powered iPads, are designed for AC.
I own DC LED lamps, a DC fridge, and a DC blender…only the LED lamps are more efficient under DC, the others only become merely handy because they cna run directly form Batteries and Solar panels, but they are far less efficient than their AC similars.
DC, AC, HVDC….any of them have a problem…distance kills them.
• some_guy_said
“This will happen when BATTERIES, equipment, MOTORS, compressors, ELECTRONICS, and every other single gadget we now us. all of that, even 12V battery powered iPads are designed for AC.
I can’t even begin to tell you how wrong you are.
BATTERIES ARE DC. PERIOD. Anything with a POWER BRICK is converting AC to DC. ALL SILICON BASED ELECTRONICS AND ALL LEDS are DC POWERED. You’ll replace brick cords with just…a cheap power cord.
The power flowing from the cord into your iPAD IS ALWAYS DIRECT CURRENT.
More than 50% of the objects in our household have to convert AC to DC power, because that is what they use. If we converted to DC, we could plug them straight into the wall without a converter.
There are a few things that would still need AC. We would get a converter to convert from DC to AC for those objects, primarily brushless motors in three of your appliances – Heat Pump/AC, washer/dryer, and refrigerator compressor.
You are right…just as much as I am right when I say that the problem is not using either AC or DC to transmit electricity over long distance the problem is only one:
DC, AC, HVDC….any of them have a problem…distance kills them…and you know it is true.
• some_guy_said
I never disagreed with the distance problem. In my first comment, I said that it was always a problem and that renewables don’t particularly change that.
I would also point out that HVDC is considerably more efficient than HVAC, and after a certain distance, overcomes conversion losses (From AC to DC and Back) – This is why they use HVDC lines at all.
And even though you deleted “iPad” from your list of “AC devices”, it still doesn’t make it look like you have the firmest grasp of all the complexities of AC and DC standards.
Actually renewables are the only generation process that has real potential to be electricity generator “next door”…they are low to zero emmisions…that is enough to bring energy generation closer and forget about shifting form AC to DC to fix our grid design…the grid design is what is wring no matter the type of current used.
Thanks for keepthe dialogue alive.
• VirtualMark
He is right, the idea is sound. Only peoples attitudes are wrong, yours included.
• Nenad
Little bit superficial article John, don’t you think? You should mentioned all the reasons why Chinese had used HVDC instead of AC transmission. And one of the most important is actually less expenses at some distances without any intermediate reactive power to reenergise the circuit but at the end of this HVDC cables you need to have very expensive station for converting DC to AC for voltage regulation. So in some cases (long distance underground or underwater cables) HVDC may be better solution but not as main energy source or energy transfer instrumentality but only as accessory way not the main stream. So rest assured that Tesla will not turns at its grave because he wasn’t that kind of the man even if all together HVDC would be main solution for all energy transfer. Another reason is because he is not buried, his ashes is leaved to rest in metallic sphere in Nikola Tesla museum in Belgrade, Serbia.
• jhewitt123
Yea, it was a little superficial perhaps, part II will bear your comments in mind.
• Taylor Holmes
There’s no way this will be viable until we can make almost-lossless DC to DC converters (that can handle transmitting gigawatts of power, mind you) as cheap as we can make transformers. In Tesla’s day this wasn’t possible, but it’s still pretty damn tough today. You just can’t beat the transformer.
Let’s not forget that AC lines are naturally ISOLATED from each other inside the guts of every transformer. This is useful from a reliability and safety standpoint. To do this with DC, we’d need optoisolators that can handle transmitting gigawatts of power… Yeah, that’s not gonna happen.
Also, the reversibility of 3phase motors is incredibly useful.
The advantages of DC are attractive, however. Due to the RMS nature of AC voltage, we could increase voltages on DC lines to about 1.41% of what they are today and still avoid corona discharges. (This is a figure the author should have included to make his case. You know, the square root of 2 and all that.)
We would also be able to bury lines underground without worrying about the capacitive coupling as a problem. In fact, capacitive coupling would be advantageous on DC lines.
DC motors would be attractive too, since they can start under full load.
The author missed a LOT of stuff that could have made his case in this article, as well as a lot of stuff to refute his proposal.
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• http://twitter.com/nickpraeger Nicholas Praeger
root mean squared:i.e. the square root of the average voltage when squared. or in laymens terms the average voltage (ignoring +ve or -ve signs).
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• whats_his_face
I thought the problem with long distance DC was that both the positive and negative had to be connected to the source?
• jhewitt123
Don’t know exactly. For various reasons, telephone companies here in the Northeast at least, preferred to use 24 volts DC, not positive 24 DC, but a NEGATIVE 24 DC.
In a small closed system, I would expect one could only run DC in one direction up to the point where there were no more electrons or charge carries left to carry them. The earth is pretty big though, and with cosmic ray input is definitely not a closed system.
• Asterix
Going to DC doesn’t get rid of problems enumerated for AC, particularly in the arena of power transmission. If I look out my back window, I see a 500KV 3-phase AC transmission line originating about 200 miles away at Bonneville Dam. The high voltage is because power transmitted is equal to the voltage times the current passed through the line, but the current-carrying capacity of a line is determined by the conductor cross-section. That’s why, for example, the battery cables in your auto are nearly the size of the cables feeding your AC panel. So pushing higher voltages through transmission lines means that a given size wire can carry more power. From that 500KV line, power goes to a nearby distribution substation where it’s reduced to 6600V AC. That 6600V goes via buried cable to a disconnect box at my driveway, where it proceeds to a transformer in my front yard and is reduced to 240AC, center-tapped (120V-0-120V). Doing the necessary conversions using DC would entail a fairly high equipment cost at each voltage change. A transformer can easily put in 50 years of unattended service–I’ve not seen anything about the reliability of DC-DC converters working at similar voltages.
My heat pump, refrigerator and well pump all employ high-efficiency AC motors, as well as a shop full of stationary power tools, such as a lathe and vertical mill. It would be very expensive to replace them with DC equivalents–and they would likely be nowhere as efficient.
I think it would be fair to say that most DC-DC conversion entails some AC in the middle. For most switch-mode power supplies, that’s certainly true.
I don’t have anything against AC or DC per se, but I still see LED auto tail-lights that flicker like crazy as well as those damned LED Christmas lights that look like they’re inhabited by a bunch of nervous ants. (Yes, I’m very sensitive to flicker) So DC does have its place also. Each type of power for its best application.
• http://profiles.google.com/ivor.oconnor Ivor O’Connor
We need HVDC lines so we can pump the power generated across our nation to where it is most needed. Sometimes the wind and sun will be shining everywhere and all will be good. However the backbone of renewable energy in the future will be based on an infrastructure of HVDC lines and the laws of large numbers. We’ll have to overproduce so in those rare situations there are storms everywhere but in sunny California it will be enough to power the rest of the nation via the HVDC lines. And on those days it’s windy and sunny everywhere we’ll take the excess energy and produce hydrogen for the fuel cells used for transportation and such.
• JonTanneguy
Tesla was moving toward high voltage pulsed DC anyways. In fact, there is a way of utilizing only ONE wire to transmit power and it does not provide the risk of electrocution.
Check out this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcvSXQHvFLg
They’re taking credit for what Tesla was already doing. Of course the technology today is more advanced with better materials to work with. So I wouldn’t say that Tesla is turning in his grave.
• Cheryl Auger
I thought this article was very interesting. The history of US power
supply could have gone either way – AC or DC, recollecting the San Francisco DC
line that still exists, and others that are gone. But, as the T&D industry transitions
over the next decade, there needs to more thought into the usefulness of the
grid and the resources. We don’t have the ability to continue to squander our
resources, even with fracking. So while I hate to toss anything aside to the
landfill, I am disinterested in investing money into an antiquated T&D
system that is not useful or good for our future. And I believe that is where
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App Store for the Mac: Will It Be a Home Run?
Tucked in among the expected announcements from Apple today (new MacBook Air, sneak peek at the upcoming version of OS X) was a surprise revelation: The App Store has been working so well for mobile devices that Apple will soon launch a version of the store for its desktop and laptop computers.
On the surface of it, the idea of expanding the App Store to serve Mac and MacBook users seems both brilliant and obvious. The App Store makes it drop-dead easy to find and acquire apps. All the apps are gathered in a single place. Top 10 lists show you what’s hot. One-click functionality lets you buy and install, and bang, you’re done.
So why not port that idea back to the Mac and make the process of discovering, buying, and installing new software just as easy for desktops and laptops as it is for mobile devices? Or, as Apple CEO Steve Jobs said of the Mac store -- which will go live sometime in the next 90 days -- “the App Store has completely revolutionized how people get their apps on the iPhone and the iPad. Why not the Mac too?”
As compelling as the idea sounds, it might not be the no-brainer that Jobs is hoping for. Here are some issues that will need to be fleshed out.
Do developers who make apps for mobile devices have anything to offer desktops and laptops?
The App Store has been a blazing success because the people who develop apps for it have made apps that work great on mobile devices. But are those entrepreneurs going to be able to make apps that people want to use on their desktops and their laptops? The two are compeletely different computing environments. The things you like to do on a mobile device aren’t necessarily the things you like to do on a PC. So much functionality is available on a browser that there seems little point in replicating it. You won't need a Netflix or Hulu app in the Mac App Store, for instance.
Will the big software developers play ball?
Jobs announced that Apple will offer the same revenue split on the App Store for the Mac as it does for apps built for the iPhone and iPad: 70% for developers, 30% for Apple. So far that’s worked for mobile app developers, whether they be game-maker Zynga, DataViz (makers of Documents to Go), or some entrepreneur coding an app in her downtime.
But what about Intuit, makers of Quicken, TurboTax, and QuickBooks? Or FileMaker, makers of FileMaker Pro?Or, how about Autodesk, which just announced it’s going to start making AutoCad for the Mac? Are these companies going to want to sell their software through the App Store?
Even if large, established companies are keen, it will be a while before many are ready to begin selling their wares there. Setting up a new sales channel, especially in a large company, is not a simple thing. That's why Apple has announced the new store way ahead of its launch, and even further ahead of the launch of Lion in summer 2011.
Will users take to the new store?
Almost certainly. The majority of iMac and MacBook users are also users of at least one Apple mobile device. They’ve proven that they like the App Store just fine. The only question is how many of the apps in the store they’ll actually want to download to their desktop and laptop computers.
Will a new class of software emerge?
The introduction of the App Store produced the birth of a whole new industry: Tiny bits of software that had a fraction of the functionality of traditional boxed software and that was orders of magnitude easier to produce—many are coded and tested by only a handful of people—but that consumers snapped up in droves because they were perfectly suited to the mobile environment.
Given that the App Store has proven a fantastic channel for those new businesses to sell and distribute their software and given that the App Store will now offer a channel to desktop and laptop computers, is it possible that these small, scrappy entrepreneurs will generate a whole new class of software? Software that is similarly lightweight—fewer features, easy to code and test—but that is geared toward the kind of computing that takes place on the desktop and laptop?
Much of that kind of software already exists, of course. But it’s possible that the introduction of this new sales channel will fuel growth in that industry—and possibly start giving larger, more cumbersome boxed software a run for their money.
What does Apple get out of this?
That's an easy one. Apple has got little to lose. The App Store has been working well for the iPhone and iPad. Why not give it a shot on PCs? No matter how well—or poorly—it does, it's just more money in the bank for them. | http://www.fastcompany.com/1696668/app-store-mac-will-it-be-home-run | dclm-gs1-091210002 | false | false | {
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Class Act: Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
If you're looking to try a martial art for both fitness and self-defense, you may want to give Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu a try. Jiu-Jitsu stands for "flexible art" and is considered by some to be the oldest form of martial art. It originated in India, spread throughout Asia into Japan, and eventually landed in Brazil.
Even though this combat sport is practiced mostly by men, it's especially great for women to learn to defend themselves in unsafe situations. Why? It's all about the belief that it doesn't matter if you are small or weak. As long as you master the techniques of gaining leverage over your opponent, then you'll be able to protect yourself against an attacker who may be larger or stronger.
Check out this video to see what it's all about.
Want to hear more about Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu? Then read more
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ) focuses on grappling, which basically means you're holding, gripping, and controlling your opponent without kicking or punching. It's a lot like wrestling where you're rolling around on the ground trying to obtain the dominant position over your partner. You'll learn chokeholds that affect your opponent's ability to breathe, grappling holds to control your opponent, and joint locks where you're holding a person's body in such a way that their joints reach their maximum point of motion. With BJJ, it'll work your entire body, enhance your sense of balance, flexibility, and strength. It will also benefit your cardiovascular and respiratory health, and build personal courage and self-confidence.
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Motivational Fitness Quote About Obstacles
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UberDataPosted 4/14/2010 9:32:17 AM
I'm planning to give this type of game a shot, but with most reviews being poor I was wondering what your guys opinions are on which game is best in the series.
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stingwraithPosted 4/14/2010 8:59:49 PM
Out of this, DW2, and DW3, I'd say it's this one, simply because it's a unique experience. DW2 and 3 are standard RPG fare, and that's been handled a lot better elsewhere. DW3 isn't bad but the second game is pretty awful.
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Jackz_GuyzPosted 4/14/2010 9:33:27 PM
Digimon Digital Card Battle has a high replay value and gameplay fun.
It is a very good game.
Please open this link guys... Thanks.
Med_Jai(Moderator)Posted 4/15/2010 5:19:54 AM
Most of them are good in their own way but there was never another Digimon World game made just like this one.
Paladin_DannyPosted 4/15/2010 6:24:13 AM
For a more smaller but more unique experiance: Definately play Digimon World
For a bigger experiance with many many digimon: Digimon World Dawn and Dusk
Both great Digimon games
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RelvamonPosted 4/15/2010 9:22:37 PM
Digimon DS games are mostly fail, probably because they mimic the gameplay of most Pokemon games. I'll probably play Digimon World DS if I could choose amongst all the Digimon DS games.
DW1 is one of its kind, as original as it can get (from the original Pendulum keychain). Even though the digivolutions might seem weird, they are the closest to the true/original digivolution (before DW2/DW3 made more popular/fanboy lines). Unlike most other RPG games, DW1 gives you the freedom of choice. You can do whatever you want, when you want, so there is no 'one correct way' to follow.
I would probably play DW3 also, since it's a much bigger world compared to DW1 and the gym features of DW3 are pure win. You don't have to catch them like Pogeymans and unlocking different Digimon with your levels is rather nice too. I guess I like both DW1 and DW3 equally.
MintyDreams7Posted 4/16/2010 7:21:37 AM
This was the only Digimon game that I've played which has been most true to Digimon's roots.
Probably because it was made before the Digimon anime series came into existence, and every game afterwards seemed to cater almost exclusively to the anime's weird canon.
That's fine for most people, but I am a fan of the Digimon as they were orginally: Keychain virtual pets.
This is why Digimon World was the best Digimon game for me.
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HeavenwargodPosted 4/16/2010 12:44:19 PM
My favorites were Digimon World 3, Digimon World, and Digimon Digital Card Battle in no particular order. Those three were really fun.
Digimon World 2 is horrible.
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Jackz_GuyzPosted 4/16/2010 10:09:08 PM
DW 2 wan't too horrible.
It got many Digimons varieties, and will took you a good chunk of 50 hours if you can be patient to complete it.
But yeah, seeing those same animation again and again with the slow battle sequence is horibble.
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ProminencePosted 4/17/2010 6:52:54 PM
This game is timelessly unique.
I love the obscure detail in the environments. It's nowhere near as black and white as pokemon, leaving it difficult to discern obstructions from items from sheer decorations.
Play it. It's not an overly easy game either.
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I want to install Oracle Database 11g + Oracle Developer Suite 10g on the same Windows XP Desktop. I did the following steps :
- Install Oracle Database 11g in ORACLE_HOME "C:\oracle\product\11.1.0\db_1".
- Create a database DEV
- Startup database DEV, listener and configure sqlnet.ora+tnsnames.ora
- Connect to the database with sqlplus system@dev => connection succeeded
- Install Oracle Developer Suite 10g in ORACLE_HOME "c:\oracle\product\DevSuiteHome_1" and choose Installation Type "Complete (1.13 GB)"
When I install Oracle Developer Suite 10g I receive the following error:
Oracle Developer Suite 10g ( cannot be installed into existing Oracle9i or higher Oracle Home.
I don't understand why I receive this error. Oracle Developer Suite creates a separate Oracle Home, so I don't understand why the error says that it tries to install into an existing Oracle Home.
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Is There Lemon In This Curry?
"What does that prove? The kid is money -- who cares if he does badly by some cockamamie ranking system you just made up?" How I've missed you, Imaginary Quoted Guy! How are your holidays going? "Good, good... can't complain. How was lunch with your dad?" Good. I'm going to continue this blog post now. "Okay."
IQG has a point. The SCORE system, surging Internet phenomenon though it may be, is not infallible (nothing spells "hinkiness" like Chris Paul finishing in fourth). But if you examine the core components here, Curry's low placing is no accident: he's the seventh-worst point guard by Individual Win %, the sixth-worst by PER, he gets lit up defensively more than almost anyone, and we do worse when he plays. Almost every other starting point guard rates as at least average by one of these metrics... Steve Blake can point to the Blazers' success when he's on the court, and Aaron Brooks has a good defensive showing in his favor. But there's no way to slice things so that Stephen Curry comes out looking even average. He's not the second-worst starting point guard in the league, but he's ensconced comfortably in the bottom ten, and probably in the bottom five.
"You're just cherry-picking here, by finding each team's best player at the point and calling them the starter." Not so. All of the other players who could arguably be called their teams' primary point guards -- Tyreke Evans, Andre Miller, Kyle Lowry -- also rate much higher than Curry. In fact, we actually did the kid a favor by choosing Ford over Earl Watson in Indiana.
"Well, whatever. He's a rookie point guard. Of course they're gonna struggle." Sure. Inexperience explains some of the struggles of guys like Stephen Curry and Jonny Flynn. But it doesn't explain why they're struggling more than Tyreke Evans, Brandon Jennings, Ty Lawson, Darren Collison or Jeff Teague... it also doesn't explain why Curry's passing numbers are worse than even James Harden's, or why--
"Okay, stop stop STOP. I'm not going to listen to any more of this craziness. I don't care what the numbers say. Stephen Curry is awesome, and FUIUD." Fine. Say hello to Imaginary Quoted Guy's Wife for me.
Let's try to have a clear-eyed conversation about Stephen Curry.
1) Stephen Curry may eventually be very, very good. He's still learning his position, and more importantly, still getting used to top-tier competition. It's sometimes said that the game is too fast for some young players... for Curry, I think you could say that the game is currently a bit too long, as the kid has had real trouble adjusting to the freakish wingspans of NBA opponents. They have the reach to affect shots he thinks he's open for, to intercept passes he thinks they can't reach, and to swoop by him to the hoop, forcing him to slap their arms rather than the ball. If he can re-calibrate himself, and realize that his opponents are 10% bigger than he thinks they are, he could get better quick. His story is not yet written.
2) Right now, Stephen Curry simply isn't good. He's been a below-average point guard, a below-average rookie, and a below-average Warrior. Curry looks a bit worse than he is because the quality of the average point guard in the league is extremely high right now. But that's still a problem. If we're outgunned at point guard pretty much every time we go out there, Curry's not gonna be a big asset, no matter how skilled or unskilled he is.
3) Stephen Curry needs to shoot more to be effective. He's been a bit more productive this month than last, and the main reason has been his increased willingness to call his own number. Curry's scoring efficiency is a tick above average, and thus far, it has not seemed to suffer when he's taken more shots. That's the best way he can help us right now, because he's a very bad defender, and...
4) Stephen Curry will probably never be a great natural point guard. It's okay... relax. The sky is not falling. Stephen Curry is a very good passer, and as fun as Baron was, you don't actually need a ten-assists-a-night guy to succeed in the NBA. But Curry's current passing numbers rate somewhere north of Jamal Crawford's and somewhere south of Tony Parker's, and there's no real reason to think he's destined to end up well above that spectrum. Speaking of which...
5) It's time to cool it on the Steve Nash comparisons. Nellie irresponsibly lit this match, and it's a talking point that persists to this day... anyone who wants to get people excited about Curry tells them to check out Steve Nash's first couple years. The statistical comparison is, indeed, fairly close (although Nash's passing numbers were never as bad as Curry's are). But that says more about Steve Nash than about Stephen Curry, as Nash started unusually slowly for a future Hall-Of-Famer. If Stephen Curry's on pace to be Steve Nash, eleven other NBA players are too. It's a silly comparison, and should be shelved.
6) As things stand, Stephen Curry's absolute ceiling is Mark Price. And that's by no means a bad thing... Mark Price was a helluva player for a couple years there, with his deadly-accurate shooting and decent playmaking more than making up for his steal-it-or-forget-it D. Price was no MVP candidate, but he made four All-Star teams in his time, and probably deserved to. If I could lock in Mark Price's career for Steph Curry right now, I'd do cartwheels. A lot of things have to go right just for Stephen Curry to become Mark Price. Expecting anything more than that out of a kid who's one of the worst starters at his position just isn't realistic.
Merry Christmas.
Dave said...
Is college winning, especially when carrying a crappy team, and especially under the highest pressure, any predictor of future NBA success? And if so would that give Curry a few more potential points? Has anyone tried to run some analysis on that correlation?
FreeZarko said...
I'm a stathead and I found pre-season calls to replace Ellis with Curry ridiculous but...On pure, mushy, subjectivity I think his ceiling is higher than a Mark Price. Maybe it's because I attended Curry's best pro game, but I'm sanguine about his future. I blame his early troubles on a lack of continuity (It's the Warriors). I hate, HATE, making an argument like this, but Curry has swag. He has the ability to create his own shot from anywhere, and to take over a game. What he probably doesn't have, is the ability to share the ball with Monta Ellis.
Owen said...
While I don't know how formalized such analyses have been (or even could be), I'm sure there's a connection. That said, Curry was not only saddled with crappy teammates, but blessed with crappy opponents. Curry didn't face top competition very often, and he was far more likely to struggle when he did:
That's not to discount his college career entirely: it's a big point in his favor. But had Curry been on, say, Wake Forest, his numbers would've looked a lot different. And he'd probably be making the transition to the pros a bit more smoothly, as the rise in the level of competition wouldn't be quite as jarring.
Owen said...
"Maybe it's because I attended Curry's best pro game, but I'm sanguine about his future."
I am too! I like the kid a good bit. The Mark Price comparison really isn't meant to be derisive... most young players don't have a ceiling as high as the career of a four-time All-Star.
But I think it's worth noting what that best pro game of Curry's looked like: 27 points on 19 shots (5 of 9 from three), eight boards, four assists, two turnovers, four steals. It was a strong *scoring* game, not a huge passing game. His best success came when he stopped passing and let it rip. Curry's December was much better than his November, and it's because of his increasing willingness to shoot. His assist totals have actually gone *down* this month.
For all of his big-minute nights, Curry hasn't recorded ten assists in a game as a pro, and he's gotten nine only once. Conversely, he's had six four-turnover games, two five-turnover games and two six-turnover games; when playing 30 or more minutes, he's had at least four turnovers as often as not. All I'm saying is that I don't see Steve Nash here. Curry's passing results need to get a lot better just to get to Mark Price's level.
"I blame his early troubles on a lack of continuity (It's the Warriors)."
You'd certainly be hard-pressed to argue that we've had a lot of continuity, and I think it's more than fair to attribute his defensive issues to that. On offense, I think that explanation only goes so far; Curry's gotten tons of minutes, a green light and a long leash, on a team that's hell-bent on scoring. If you put Brandon Jennings in the same situation, Monta and all, I think it's a good bet that he'd be averaging a lot more than twelve a night.
"What he probably doesn't have, is the ability to share the ball with Monta Ellis."
This is a big factor. I think both guys would be more effective if the team dropped all pretense that Monta was a playmaker, and I'd definitely like to see Curry get more time on the floor when Monta's off of it. But it's possible to have a big night next to Monta: we've seen Morrow do it, we've seen Maggette do it often, we saw Jack and 'Buike do it early on. If Curry were ready to make a huge impact, he'd have exploded a couple times already no matter who he was playing with. We haven't seen that yet. The kid's not quite there yet.
FreeZarko said...
Thanks for the thoughtful response. Can we start talking lottery since it's about the only thing that matters barring some insane trade? I'd love nothing more than to grab a higher selection and wait Thunder-style on our maturing talent. Of course, our completely insane FO will chuck the youth out the window in pursuit of quick ticket sales... | http://www.goldenstateworriers.com/2009/12/is-there-lemon-in-this-curry.html | dclm-gs1-091450002 | false | false | {
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False. The state's chief medical examiner, H. Wayne Carver, said the victims were shot multiple times with the same Bushmaster rifle.
yes he did say a bushmaster was used in the shootings.....but he was wrong(apparently he lied or he is just an idiot).there is a video of a police officer searching the trunk of the shooters car and unloading the bushmaster,it was never taken inside the school. 4 handguns were the weapons used by the shooter
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I already explained that. You're just too dense to understand.
There are literally thousands of social programs and charities dedicated to helping the poor and laws exist for th sole purpose of protecting abused children.
Obviously not the case with the unborn, who you ignorantly referred to as mere "blobs of tissue".
You explain a lot of things. The problem is, you don't actually say much. You are avoiding the question and you know it. If you are "pro-life", why don't you fight as hard for the living as you do the unborn? Sure, there are laws in place, but that doesn't prevent suffering from happening. Why won't you tell us why they're not as important to you?
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By GreatSchools Staff
What does good science instruction look like?
What is taught in science?
Physical science
Life science
The life sciences include everything from the human body to ecology. With so many topics, at any given time students in middle school might be immersed in studying a particular insect, or observing a terrarium or aquarium to learn about ecosystems. Junior life scientists also learn about plants, including the basic processes, like photosynthesis, that allow them to thrive.
Earth and space science
Middle school earth science lessons begin with a look at how the earth was formed. Kids should learn about the earth’s orbit around the sun as well as the moon’s orbit around the earth. Parents should help their children make connections between orbits and time. Kids should understand that a year is the length of time it takes the earth to orbit the sun and a day is based on how long it takes for the earth to make one rotation on its axis.
Teachers often include a geology lesson that focuses on a single point of interest like the Grand Canyon. By studying the Grand Canyon, for example, students can follow in the footsteps of professional scientists, learning to read geologic lessons in the rock and discern the effect erosion has on the earth’s natural features.
Science and technology
Many middle schools emphasize the relationship between science and technology. To help them make the right connections, science teachers lead children in a variety of activities. These technology-focused activities might include a study of bridge design or a discussion about robots’ value to society. Lessons should give special attention to the way science and technology can be used to solve human problems and meet human needs.
Scientific inquiry
While studying science, your child will also be learning about the process of scientific inquiry — how to ask incisive questions, design experiments, gather evidence, formulate answers, and communicate the results. It’s not uncommon for students’ ideas and misconceptions to be challenged or changed.
By contrasting and comparing, students hone their critical thinking skills, analyzing errors and making summaries of what they’ve learned. Many other soft skills should grow and develop while studying science. For example, students might begin to learn the importance of recording their observations or recognize the limitations their own memories.
Using math skills in science
Rock solid math skills are crucial to success in science. Whether students are being asked to create a new calendar for an imaginary world or calculating sea rise from an arctic ice melt-off, they’ll use a wide variety of math skills involving basic arithmetic, geometry, and pre-algebra.
Creating graphs and tables, measuring to scale, calculating ratios, determining weight, distance, and volume – all these are math skills needed for science.
How can you help?
Children learn through hands-on activities. By questioning, seeking answers, gathering evidence, and recording results, middle-schoolers can build on their natural curiosity. But it's important to make sure that activities are connected to a scientific idea or concept. In addition to guiding the learning process, you can help your child develop enthusiasm — all that's required is your own interest and excitement in the project.
At home
At school
Preparing for high school science
The foundation students build in middle school will support them throughout their education. By the end of middle school, students should be familiar with the language of science and have a grasp of its basic concepts.
For example, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School District in North Carolina lists these concepts:
• Cellular structure and theory
• Skeletal, muscular and other human body systems
• Heredity and genetics
• Population dynamics
• Diversity and adaptations of organisms
• Change over time of life and form
• Structure of the earth system
• Earth in the universe
• Transfer of energy
• Motion and forces
• Properties of matter
• Flow of matter and energy
Middle school is often the time when students embrace or abandon their natural curiosity about science. Students who choose to pursue that interest might turn science into a career or simply use their new knowledge to gain a better understanding of the world. Either way, parental involvement is key to kids’ success. | http://www.greatschools.org/print-view/students/academic-skills/393-middle-school-science.gs?fromPage=1 | dclm-gs1-091490002 | false | false | {
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