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Going Far, and Fast, on Electrofuels
The speedy electric car and its driver Gisli Gislason from Northern Lights Energy, by Reykjavik lake. Credit: Lowana Veal/IPS.
REYKJAVIK, Aug 22 2012 (IPS) - A speeding ticket for driving an electric vehicle may seem at first a far-fetched possibility, but no. The director of Northern Lights Energy – a company specialising in promoting electric cars – was recently fined for driving 124 km per hour in a 90 km zone in Iceland in a Tesla Roadster vehicle.
Development of electric vehicles has come a long way, but electricity will never be able to power the heavy vehicles, intercontinental ships and planes that currently account for half of fuel use in the Nordic countries. In 2050 these will account for 80 percent of fuel use. Energy-rich fuels are needed. Enter CO2 Electrofuels.
“CO2 Electrofuels is the name of a joint two-year Nordic project launched last November that aims to use new high-temperature electrolysis techniques to produce fuels from carbon dioxide (CO2) and water. This can find applications where CO2 and low-cost electricity are available, for example in Iceland, or by combining biofuel production with wind power and solar cells,” explains Claus Friis Pedersen, research engineer at Haldor Topsoe and coordinator of the CO2 Electrofuels project.
The technique is also reversible. When excess wind energy is available, methane can be produced that can store the energy; when there is a shortage of energy the system can produce electricity from methane.
In the electrolysis process, an electric current is passed through water, which then breaks down into hydrogen and oxygen. Electrolysis of water is essential to CO2 Electrofuels, but conventional water electrolysis is an energy-intensive process taking place around room temperature and needing almost as much energy as that used in aluminium production.
But a new electrolysis technique using thin, ceramic Solid Oxide Electrolysing Cells (SOECs) enables electrolysis of CO2 and steam to take place more efficiently at temperatures between 750-850 °C than at the lower temperatures otherwise used for water electrolysis.
SOEC transforms CO2 and water into syngas (a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen) and oxygen, which are obtained as separate streams from the SOEC device. Then another process transforms the syngas to methanol or a number of other fuels, depending on the concentrations used in the processes. Heat is produced during this operation, and this can be recovered and reused as process heat.
The electricity required for the electrolysis reaction decreases with increasing temperature. At economically optimised operating conditions more fuel can be created from a given amount of electricity with high-temperature SOECs than with conventional low-temperature electrolysis cells.
In Iceland, the company Carbon Recycling International (CRI) is already utilising CO2 from the Svartsengi geothermal power plant to produce methanol which can be blended with petrol in various proportions. The hydrogen sulphide that is part of the steam is first removed, then the CO2 is combined with hydrogen to form methanol. Hydrogen is produced at CRI by using electrolysis at a low temperature, below 100 °C.
One of the Icelandic partners of CO2 Electrofuels is the refuse company SORPA. SORPA has been producing methane as an alternative fuel by tapping the methane resulting from landfill for a number of years, but another plant will be built in the near future to meet demand.
Asked whether SOEC would be used to increase fuel production in the new gas and composting plant, SORPA engineer Bjarni Hjardar says this would not happen immediately.
“However, it will be possible to use the SOEC process on a smaller scale after purifying the landfill gas in order to make pure methane and CO2, because gases such as hydrogen sulphide will be flushed out with the washing water,” he explains. SOEC technology could also be used to upgrade the capacity around 2020.
Hjardar says that SORPA will work in other ways on the CO2 Electrofuels project, for instance by investigating feedstuffs such as biomass, landfill and CO2 as well as examining the use of liquid methanol as a fuel for the shipping fleet and for transportation on land.
The Finnish company Wartsili is looking at the use of methanol in diesel engines in boats of varying sizes. Johan Danbratt says that this is particularly important because emissions from shipping contribute to air pollution and environmental problems.
Gudmundur Gunnarsson from Innovation Centre Iceland is the Icelandic coordinator for CO2 Electrofuels. He says that in Iceland, like in other places, SOEC technology could be used for hydrogen production by water electrolysis, which would result in cheaper hydrogen because of lower installation costs and reduced electricity use. This could result in up to 50 percent lower costs for hydrogen production.
“But another important advantage is that it is possible to electrolyse CO2 and obtain carbon monoxide,” he says. In methanol production, it is cheaper to use carbon monoxide than CO2 because less hydrogen is needed, and it is the production of this that is expensive.
“This would be a cheaper way of obtaining a blend of hydrogen and carbon monoxide for fuel production,” he said.
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Oil prices near a dangerous point for economy
If it stays long above $100 per barrel, recession could return
Each day that the per-barrel price of crude oil hovers near $100, chances increase that the still-sputtering U.S. economy could stall.
Soaring oil prices over time have proved ruthless in their treatment of the American economy - 10 of the last 11 recessions were preceded by a spike in oil prices.
Whether this latest run-up is enough to derail the recovery or simply shave a percent or two off the economy's growth rate remains to be seen.
The situation has the attention of people who watch markets for a living.
When oil prices top $100 a barrel, "that territory typically spells trouble for the economy," said Ethan Bellamy, senior energy research analyst at Robert W. Baird & Co.
"I would not at all be surprised to see another recession in 2012 based on the dampening effect of higher energy prices," he said.
Crude oil closed Monday at $96.97 per barrel, down from the triple-digit prices it touched earlier in February but up 23%, or $18.26, from where it was a year ago. That's enough to send ripples through the nation's collective wallet, market watchers and economists say.
"We're already elevated enough, price-wise, that we're going to start seeing some impact on the economy," said Jim Ritterbusch, president of Ritterbusch and Associates, an oil trading advisory firm in Galena, Ill., about 10 miles south of the Wisconsin state line.
Americans who are spending more on gasoline, diesel and propane - all refined from crude oil - have less to spend on other things, "whether it's food or clothing or whatever," said Kevin Kliesen, a business economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis who studies energy markets.
The national average price for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline jumped to $3.37 Monday, up nearly 27 cents a gallon in a month and 66 cents from a year ago, according to the AAA/Wright Express Daily Fuel Gauge Report.
The numbers begin to add up quickly.
U.S. oil consumption is about 20 million barrels a day. For every $10 increase in the price per barrel, $200 million a day that would have been spent some other way is used to buy petroleum. Multiply that by a year and the total ends up around $70 billion.
"You're talking about a half a percent of GDP," said Mark Griffin, chief investment officer for Milwaukee-based Clifton Gunderson. "It's a big deal."
GDP, or Gross Domestic Product, measures the total output of goods and services of a nation's economy.
"Our expectation is for roughly 3% GDP growth," Griffin said. "If oil goes above and stays above $100, we're probably going to have to revise that downward."
The effects touch everyone and reach far beyond the neighborhood gasoline pump.
"Crude oil prices are embedded by way of plastics and fuel costs in just about everything in the modern industrial economy," Bellamy said. "Look around your home or office and every molecule was in some way moved or manufactured with a liquid hydrocarbon."
One look at the stock market last week shows the potential impact. As oil prices were spiking early in the week, stocks were headed in the opposite direction. Major indexes posted gains for February, despite dropping 1% to 2% last week.
"The dynamic changed . . . when the civil unrest (in the Middle East) spread from a non-producing country to an oil-producing country, Libya," Ritterbusch said.
The uninterrupted rise in crude prices ended on Thursday when the price per barrel dropped.
Not fatal
James Hamilton, an economics professor at the University of California-San Diego who has studied oil price shocks extensively, says the U.S. economy can keep growing at $100 a barrel. "I don't think it's going to be enough to derail the recovery," he said.
"It is putting a burden on household budgets, but we've got some good news elsewhere to offset it," Hamilton said, referring to data showing the overall U.S. economy is recovering.
If oil prices move above $100 per barrel and stay there, then a greater impact would be felt. "This is potentially a bigger story if it gains momentum," he said.
"I think it has subtracted from growth already," he added. With the economy forecast to grow 3% to 4% this year, "even if you take a half percent off, or one percent, that's still growth."
Small businesses locally say they are trying to deal with fuel cost increases and absorb as much of them as possible.
At E-Freight Courier in Brookfield, the company is watching the situation closely, said Patrick Engeleiter, president and owner.
"How profitable we are as a company, a lot of it is very dependent on fuel," Engeleiter said. The company specializes in transporting medical items, including equipment, specimens and blood used in transfusions.
The company is trying not to pass higher fuel costs on to customers, Engeleiter said. If the cost continues to spike, he might have no choice, he said.
He's not alone.
"It's having an effect in how I set my rates," said Steve Ball, owner of Star Line Trucking Corp. of New Berlin. "It adds to the cost of the products we haul. "You can't automatically pass it on," he added. "Everybody's paying for it in the long run.
"It's frustrating."
That frustration grows with each crisis that grips the Middle East.
Oil price spikes "keep coming back, and we keep talking about them," Hamilton said.
He rattles them off - the Suez crisis of the late 1950s; Arab oil embargo of the 1970s; the Iranian revolution in 1978-'79; the Iran-Iraq war in 1980; the first Persian Gulf War in 1990-'91. "There's a long history of these things."
Smaller disturbance
This time it's different, at least so far.
Each of those price shocks resulted from a major disruption in the world oil supply in excess of 5%, Hamilton said. "Even if Libya were to go totally offline, that would still be less than half the supply disruption of those other events."
Also, this time around, the world has a plentiful supply of crude oil and the world's second-largest producer, Saudi Arabia, has unused production capacity it can tap to make up any shortfalls.
Russia is the world's largest producer.
U.S. imports from Libya are almost zero.
In addition, American companies are well-positioned to handle a price shock, Griffin said.
"They can absorb it for a while," he said. "The higher-quality companies are spectacularly profitable today."
Also, not much time elapsed since the last time prices shot up.
"I don't think we're quite so vulnerable to that at the moment, partly because people still remember $4 a gallon gasoline," Hamilton said. "I don't think even $3.50 a gallon has the same kind of shock value it had the first time."
Where it eventually ends up is anyone's guess.
Still, Hamilton said, "I don't think we're headed back to the days of cheap gasoline."
(in millions of barrels per day)
Russia: 9.5
Saudi Arabia: 8.3
United States: 5.4
Iran: 4.0
China: 3.8
Mexico: 2.6
Canada: 2.6
United Arab Emirates: 2.4
Iraq: 2.4
Kuwait: 2.4
(in millions of barrels per day)
Saudi Arabia: 6.4
Russia: 5.4
Iran: 2.2
Nigeria: 2.1
United Arab Emirates: 2.0
Iraq: 1.9
Angola: 1.8
Norway: 1.8
Canada: 1.5
Kazakhstan: 1.4
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, 2009 statistics
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Managing Multiple Jobs and Virtual Team Members
Project Management Software Viewpath with Gantt ChartSo how do you manage multiple jobs with many other team members that need access to client information and files? A great tool to start with is Viewpath. Viewpath is an online project management software with a free edition that does not expire. This powerful program does not get enough time in the spotlight and deserves a long overdue introduction. This writer uses it every day.
Though the free version has some limitations it’s a great place to start and see if you can actually get your process down to repeatable steps. Getting your brain down on paper can be very revealing. You can expect to change your process many times as you grow. The experience will also show you what good project management software is capable of without making you rush through the process so you can learn and try at your own pace.
With all team members on board it’s easy to track which tasks are on time and late with simple red dots marking the late tasks. Extending due dates or moving project start dates can be done by dragging the project visually or entering the desired date into the correct task.
Project Management Software Viewpath with project openThis all ties in nicely with the resource management aspect in the Gantt chart where you can take a quick peek at who is overbooked and who can accept more work. You can create unlimited projects and invite unlimited guests. “Guests” will be your virtual team members and can view tasks that have been assigned to them within a project to access files, mark them complete or a percentage complete, as well as add notes and links.
Project Management for Beginners
Project Management Software Viewpath with timelineThe beauty of starting with project management software early in the game is that you can get an idea of how much time it takes just to outline jobs and track progress so that you aren’t surprised by it later. You might even find that you dislike this aspect of the work and, knowing that, will help you hire the right kind of people later on down the road.
If you are new to project management software there are a few things you should know. These programs are big. They may look simple but they are capable of running hundreds of jobs and tracking hundreds of employees. There is a template creation process, reporting function, separate views, multiple categories and personal logins.
Being big means they can grow with you but they also require more attention at the start. Many freelancers dive in and find out quickly that to truly utilize all the functions it takes hours of learning and even more time planning. This time investment may feel like a turn off at first but asking hard questions only streamlines the process for later. Of course there is always the option of using it for the tasks you need immediately and learning as you go but don’t expect a quick “end” to the learning curve.
15 Hacks for Viewpath That Will Save You Time:
1. When selecting multiple rows at a time, hold shift and don’t click inside the check boxes—click to the left to make a large selection.
2. You can change multiple dates or resource names at once by selecting all the lines you want and jut typing the first letter of the name or the date.
3. Confused about making templates? Just create a job, create all the tasks and the next time you want to create a similar job, just choose to “create from existing” job instead of the template option.
4. The time-tracking clock does not work in free edition so stop clicking it.
5. Missing a job? You probably closed the tab. Go home, then to the project tab and double click it.
6. Archiving jobs is better than deleting.
7. Resources not showing up on a job? Go to a different job with resources in it, select them all, click edit copy and then edit paste into new job.
8. The little arrows move around everything you select, not just one task. Make sure only one task is selected and then place it in the hierarchy.
9. Don’t skip the tutorial. It’s super simple and takes about 3 minutes.
10. Tasks showing but can’t find them on the timeline? Check your year in the date column. Sometimes jobs get entered in for the wrong year and poof! They disappear.
11. “Duration” means how many days or hours you will let someone attempt to complete the task. “work” is how long you expect them to take and can be found in the dropdown menu of each header.
12. The home screen requires you hit the continue button in the middle of the screen before revealing the program when you first log in. Yes you are in the right place.
13. The free version does not expire but if you don’t login for over 4 months you may not have an account when you come back.
14. If you indent a task (move it to the right with an arrow key) the task above it will become a bold header. You can’t mark headers complete. They will become complete when all the tasks under them have been completed.
15. Create a task at the end of each project that says “ready for billing”, if the billing date goes past due it serves as a nice reminder.
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Exposure to asbestos can result in the development of a myriad of asbestos-related illnesses, including aggressive asbestos cancer, also known as mesothelioma. Veterans have one of the highest rates of mesothelioma in the country. Many veterans believe that they have no legal recourse when it comes to collecting compensation for the losses they suffered due to their illness. While it is true that veterans cannot sue the U.S. government for asbestos exposure, they can indeed bring suit against the manufacturers of the asbestos products used in navy ships and shipyards or anywhere else they may have worked while serving in the military.
A mesothelioma attorney can assist veterans who have been diagnosed with asbestos-related diseases. Because mesothelioma cancer is often diagnosed in the later stages, victims can often find themselves in financial difficulty. There are usually large medical bills to be paid, income to replace, and families to provide for. This can be daunting to the ailing veteran and create unnecessary stress making it that much more difficult to deal with the disease.
All mesothelioma cases are different, but filing a lawsuit against the responsible party/parties can help ease this burden. Finding a lawyer who specializes in asbestos-related lawsuits is important to securing a positive outcome. The right attorney can assist the victim in determining whether or not he/she has a viable legal case. In many instances, these attorneys do not take any money "up front". Rather, they are paid when a successful outcome is achieved. This makes it possible for a victim of asbestos exposure to file a suit even in financially difficult situations. The result of a successful lawsuit is long-term peace of mind for the mesothelioma victim during the remainder of their life and the comfort of knowing that their family will be provided for after they are gone.
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The Prince and the Pauper
Chapter XXVIII
The sacrifice.
Meantime Miles was growing sufficiently tired of confinement and
inaction. But now his trial came on, to his great gratification, and he
thought he could welcome any sentence provided a further imprisonment
should not be a part of it. But he was mistaken about that. He was in a
fine fury when he found himself described as a 'sturdy vagabond' and
sentenced to sit two hours in the stocks for bearing that character and
for assaulting the master of Hendon Hall. His pretensions as to
brothership with his prosecutor, and rightful heirship to the Hendon
honours and estates, were left contemptuously unnoticed, as being not
even worth examination.
He raged and threatened on his way to punishment, but it did no good; he
was snatched roughly along by the officers, and got an occasional cuff,
besides, for his irreverent conduct.
The King could not pierce through the rabble that swarmed behind; so he
was obliged to follow in the rear, remote from his good friend and
servant. The King had been nearly condemned to the stocks himself for
being in such bad company, but had been let off with a lecture and a
warning, in consideration of his youth. When the crowd at last halted,
he flitted feverishly from point to point around its outer rim, hunting a
place to get through; and at last, after a deal of difficulty and delay,
succeeded. There sat his poor henchman in the degrading stocks, the
sport and butt of a dirty mob--he, the body servant of the King of
England! Edward had heard the sentence pronounced, but he had not
realised the half that it meant. His anger began to rise as the sense of
this new indignity which had been put upon him sank home; it jumped to
summer heat, the next moment, when he saw an egg sail through the air and
crush itself against Hendon's cheek, and heard the crowd roar its
enjoyment of the episode. He sprang across the open circle and
confronted the officer in charge, crying--
"For shame! This is my servant--set him free! I am the--"
"Oh, peace!" exclaimed Hendon, in a panic, "thou'lt destroy thyself.
Mind him not, officer, he is mad."
"Give thyself no trouble as to the matter of minding him, good man, I
have small mind to mind him; but as to teaching him somewhat, to that I
am well inclined." He turned to a subordinate and said, "Give the little
fool a taste or two of the lash, to mend his manners."
"Half a dozen will better serve his turn," suggested Sir Hugh, who had
ridden up, a moment before, to take a passing glance at the proceedings.
The King was seized. He did not even struggle, so paralysed was he with
the mere thought of the monstrous outrage that was proposed to be
inflicted upon his sacred person. History was already defiled with the
record of the scourging of an English king with whips--it was an
intolerable reflection that he must furnish a duplicate of that shameful
take this punishment or beg for its remission. Hard conditions; he would
take the stripes--a king might do that, but a king could not beg.
But meantime, Miles Hendon was resolving the difficulty. "Let the child
is? Let him go--I will take his lashes."
"Marry, a good thought--and thanks for it," said Sir Hugh, his face
lighting with a sardonic satisfaction. "Let the little beggar go, and
give this fellow a dozen in his place--an honest dozen, well laid on."
The King was in the act of entering a fierce protest, but Sir Hugh
silenced him with the potent remark, "Yes, speak up, do, and free thy
mind--only, mark ye, that for each word you utter he shall get six
strokes the more."
Hendon was removed from the stocks, and his back laid bare; and whilst
the lash was applied the poor little King turned away his face and
allowed unroyal tears to channel his cheeks unchecked. "Ah, brave good
heart," he said to himself, "this loyal deed shall never perish out of my
memory. I will not forget it--and neither shall THEY!" he added, with
passion. Whilst he mused, his appreciation of Hendon's magnanimous
conduct grew to greater and still greater dimensions in his mind, and so
also did his gratefulness for it. Presently he said to himself, "Who
saves his prince from wounds and possible death--and this he did for me--
performs high service; but it is little--it is nothing--oh, less than
nothing!--when 'tis weighed against the act of him who saves his prince
from SHAME!"
Hendon made no outcry under the scourge, but bore the heavy blows with
soldierly fortitude. This, together with his redeeming the boy by taking
his stripes for him, compelled the respect of even that forlorn and
degraded mob that was gathered there; and its gibes and hootings died
away, and no sound remained but the sound of the falling blows. The
stillness that pervaded the place, when Hendon found himself once more in
the stocks, was in strong contrast with the insulting clamour which had
prevailed there so little a while before. The King came softly to
Hendon's side, and whispered in his ear--
"Kings cannot ennoble thee, thou good, great soul, for One who is higher
than kings hath done that for thee; but a king can confirm thy nobility
to men." He picked up the scourge from the ground, touched Hendon's
bleeding shoulders lightly with it, and whispered, "Edward of England
dubs thee Earl!"
Hendon was touched. The water welled to his eyes, yet at the same time
the grisly humour of the situation and circumstances so undermined his
gravity that it was all he could do to keep some sign of his inward mirth
from showing outside. To be suddenly hoisted, naked and gory, from the
common stocks to the Alpine altitude and splendour of an Earldom, seemed
to him the last possibility in the line of the grotesque. He said to
himself, "Now am I finely tinselled, indeed! The spectre-knight of the
Kingdom of Dreams and Shadows is become a spectre-earl--a dizzy flight
for a callow wing! An' this go on, I shall presently be hung like a very
maypole with fantastic gauds and make-believe honours. But I shall value
them, all valueless as they are, for the love that doth bestow them.
Better these poor mock dignities of mine, that come unasked, from a clean
hand and a right spirit, than real ones bought by servility from grudging
and interested power."
The dreaded Sir Hugh wheeled his horse about, and as he spurred away, the
living wall divided silently to let him pass, and as silently closed
together again. And so remained; nobody went so far as to venture a
remark in favour of the prisoner, or in compliment to him; but no matter
--the absence of abuse was a sufficient homage in itself. A late comer
who was not posted as to the present circumstances, and who delivered a
sneer at the 'impostor,' and was in the act of following it with a dead
cat, was promptly knocked down and kicked out, without any words, and
then the deep quiet resumed sway once more.
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UK release date: 13 September 2004
Beyer & Lenk feat Tiga - Heartbreak / Ananda
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This collaboration by renowned Swedish electronica types Adam Beyer and Jesper Dahlback (aka Lenk), and the Candian DJ Tiga - here on vocal duties - has a spare, minimal, stretched out sound that feels somewhat underdeveloped. The beats pound away, constant and throbbing, and you keep waiting for this track to go somewhere, for some kind of crescendo, for a moment of sweaty euphoria, but it never arrives. A male voice gasps H-E-A-R-T-B-R-E-A-K-E-R, panting occasionally and, though it's suitably sleazy, I was left wondering for a moment if he had one too many vowels in there.
At just over six minutes long this slice of slickly produced techno doesn't overstay its welcome, though it leaves behind a slightly sticky aftertaste and mental images of the club scene in a mid-budget movie, all strobing bodies, glistening skin and questionable outfits.
Second track Ananda initially seems like more of the same but then it confronts you with a series of sudden sharp howls, that at least don't put any further pressure on your mental spell checking abilities.
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bananas8187 writes:
in response to ex31539er:
First, I am not a Catholic.
Second, which is responsible for more child abuse in Collier County, the Catholic Church, or band directors?
That doesn't even take into account school board chairmen.
Just asking.
Apparently a Catholic Band Director would be as dangerous as a rabid Pit Bull.
And poor Nelson Faerber didn't do anything that many others in positions of authority have always done. He covered up his own dirty deeds, for sure, but not those of others. As far as we know, that is.
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straighttalkinnaples writes:
C'mon people, can't we all take the big view regarding religion today.
There's really just three absolute truths of religion:
1. Jews do not recognize Jesus as the Messiah.
2. Protestants do not recognize the Pope as the spiritual head of the church.
3. Baptists do not recognize each other at the liquor store.
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Geeky Female with Double Thumbs Up
Forrester recently published research proving (yet again) that people overwhelmingly trust what their friends say about a brand. And they rarely trust what brands say about themselves.
If we apply this to Facebook, it means that your community talking about you is much more powerful than you talking about yourself.
This is why People Talking About This is the ultimate metric on Facebook.
But don’t take my word for it.
Any honest Facebook marketer will admit that they fantasize about millions of people sharing their content. And while they might brag about reach to their boss, they certainly don’t fantasize about it.
Why do marketers brag about reach?
If brands ultimately care about people talking about them on Facebook, why is there such an emphasis on increasing reach and fans? Especially because increasing reach and fans doesn’t lead to an increase in virality.
Maybe overvaluing reach and fan quantity is a carryover from pre-social marketing practices (impressions, eyeballs).
Or maybe it’s just hard to accept that getting people to like, comment on, and share your content often feels impossible.
Whatever the reason, valuing reach and fan growth over PTAT is like valuing:
• Delivered emails more than click-throughs.
• Landing page views more than conversions.
• Handshakes are more than new sponsors.
Reach and Pages likes are both means to an end
Don’t get me wrong, reach and Page likes are important. But they are both means to an end. And People Talking About This is the ultimate end on Facebook. Just like the ultimate end on your website is conversions.
To use a baseball analogy:
The Red Sox focus on runs as their ultimate end. The means to that end include having the right number of players (page likes) and a nicely mowed field (reach).
Why is valuing PTAT above all other Facebook metrics important?
Imagine the shift in your Facebook results when people stop asking:
• “How can we increase our reach on Facebook?”
• “How can we get more Page likes?”
And start asking: “How can we get more people to share our Page updates with their friends?”
Post your hate mail below, marketers!
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U.S. v. Collins, Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals (Arkansas, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota), Nov. 14, 2012
Question: Is a person’s consent to search coerced, and therefore invalid, when peace officers warn the person of the legal consequences of refusing to cooperate?
Quick answer: No.
AG Encourages Collaboration on School Safety Measures
Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine encourages local teams of law enforcement and educators to attend a new school safety course that will be offered around the state beginning in January and to collaborate on required school safety plans.
Campbell v. City of Springboro — Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals (Michigan, Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee), Nov. 29, 2012
Question: Can a canine officer’s handler be civilly liable when the canine bites a suspect in the line of duty?
Quick Answer: Maybe. It may depend on whether the dog’s state certification remains current and whether the dog goes through periodic maintenance training.
State v. Garcia — Eighth District Court of Appeals (Cuyahoga County), Nov. 1, 2012
Question: When a peace officer in his patrol car tells a citizen to stop and talk to him, is this a consensual encounter?
Quick Answer: No, it’s an investigatory stop for which an officer needs reasonable suspicion.
State v. Miller — Second District Court of Appeals (Champaign, Clark, Darke, Greene, Miami, and Montgomery counties), Nov. 9, 2012
Question: If peace officers attempt a “knock-and-talk” but the occupant immediately slams the door and refuses to talk, do the officers have any authority to issue commands to the occupant?
Quick Answer: No. Without a search warrant, the officers have no authority to command the occupants to open the door or to open it themselves.
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TBR Challenge - It's Not Wallpaper But It's Still Not to My Taste
Over at AAR, Lynn Spencer posted a great piece on what a shame it is that so many Regency romances don't bother to take place in the Regency period.
Chatsworth House
Coincidentally, my TBR Challenge read for December is A Regency Christmas, a holiday anthology from Signet. It was published in 1989, theoretically the heyday of more historically appropriate regency romance. Apart from the issue of the value of money, which no one seems to get right,* there's enough of the flavor of the Regency period. For example, The Kissing Bough by Patricia Rice has two gentlemen soldiers returning from the Peninsular Wars. Gayle Buck's Old Acquaintances turns on a misunderstanding between the hero and heroine that resulted in her ending their engagement (four years before the story starts) without much discussion. That seems consistent with the lack of contact even engaged couples had back then; at one point Judith tells her erstwhile fiancé that there's been no opportunity to discuss anything: "Whenever we were private, we either fought or you kissed me."
Mistletoe in the wild
[It was at this point in my reading this post aloud to Brit Hub 2.1 that he pointed out how most of our ideas of what Christmas looks like come from the Victorian time. There's a wreath on the door in the cover illustration--a classic Allan Katt scene--and of course that's Victorian. But, to all five authors' credit, none of the Victorian traditions, such as ornaments and trees, show up in this collection.]
Alas, for all their sense of time and place, four of the five stories aren't romantic enough. Hell, one of them--Edith Layton's The Duke's Progress--literally doesn't identify the heroine (!) until the last two pages (!!). Drawn-out misunderstandings, the inconvenience of far too many extra characters (lecherous in one story and larcenous in another), and downright dawdling all add up to slow pacing and a distinct feeling that historical accuracy isn't enough on its own.
Mind you, I didn't need blatant sex. I needed romance. I needed the hero and heroine to meet each other quickly and have a relationship. Admittedly a troubled relationship, but one of interest or intrigue that leads to love. You'd think in a novella, this wouldn't have been hard, but it isn't until the very last story that the reader gets all the angsty goodness and charm of love rekindled.
Mary Balogh's The Star of Bethlehem makes up for the other four stories. It's got its own problems--we're asked to believe that a husband and wife can have marital relations for TWO YEARS and never discover that they love each other (well, maybe that's historically accurate, who knows)--but it's charming and sweet. And very romantic. I can't say much about the plot because I liked its surprising elements for just that reason: they surprised me. Period detail, a lovely romance, and even some surprises? Skip the other five stories, but don't miss this one.
* Here's the Parliamentary white paper on the subject, now updated to 2002. Yes, £1 in 2002 was the equivalent in absolute terms of £8 in 1812, but £1 in 1812 had the same purchasing power as £50 pounds in 2002.
So when the innkeeper decides to charge £2 for each member of a party of 8 stranded in a snowstorm--because, you know, there was a blizzard every single Christmas during the Regency--that would be the equivalent of £800 in 2002 terms. And they didn't all get separate rooms, either. For a night's lodging in a 3-star hotel, maybe, but that seemed a bit extreme for the coaching inn equivalent of a Red Roof Inn, even allowing for the market forces at work with insufficient choice and ultimate demand.
Me? I'd have had the innkeeper charge them two crowns per head--a crown for lodging and another for their meals. That's half as much and it strikes me as exorbitant but not nonsensical.
1. Janet W: I didn't think there was a Regency Christmas collection I hadn't read -- but this may be one. So impressed that not a single author slipped in a Victorian element: the amount of research everyone does -- and then carries so lightly -- is really something. I liked the Balogh story too -- particularly the twists and turns.
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The release of draft regulations for the TUDOR United SportsCar Championship has led to a week of heated debates, major decisions and a variety of pleas from within the Prototype paddock. RACER spoke with Scot Elkins, the man in charge of writing the TUDOR Championship rules on behalf of IMSA, the series' sanctioning body, to gain further understand the process and what's to come in the days ahead.
MARSHALL PRUETT: When we spoke a few weeks ago, you said the regulations would be released in the second half of October, and I know I was one who expected those rules to be final. How do you walk the draft rules forward and lock them in so teams can plan and spend accordingly?
SCOT ELKINS: Well, it's one of those deals where we tried to tell everybody this wasn't going to be the final set. So every time we'd talk to somebody we'd say, look, we're going to do a draft set of the rules, we're going to put them out. We want to get feedback from everybody and once we get feedback we'll go final with the rulebook. That's the way we've done it with the ALMS rulebook for the past three or four years. We get everything together as much as possible for a first look. You're not going to catch everything, so we try to put the draft together and send the draft out. We've always said that fourth-quarter was where we were going to try to get the technical regs out. Obviously, the big changes are coming to the Daytona Prototypes, so we wanted to get what we were thinking out and into everybody's hands so they could give us the opportunity to tweak on it after getting feedback from the teams. And we've pretty much been doing that all this week.
MP: We've heard every possible comment and critique on the proposed DP changes – what kind of feedback have you gotten from the paddock? Any united input on specific changes to make?
SE: It's been all over the place, honestly. Everybody has their own opinion about everything, which is good and that's the whole reason for doing this type of process. Everybody kind of agrees on one thing and then some half agree on this and half disagree on this. It varies. And I'm not 100 percent sure everyone had the understanding that the purpose we were doing this was to generate feedback. So we had to reach out a little bit harder than what we had intended on to get some of this information flow coming back to us. But we've heard from pretty much everybody now. Spent most of (Friday) afternoon putting together a comprehensive spreadsheet, as it were, on all the topics and where everybody's feelings are. It's been pretty varied.
MP: Where do you go from here? Teams are meant to be on-track testing in less than a month – are you able to give teams an idea of what to go buy or do right now, or does that need to wait until the final regs are published?
SE: The intention is to try to get something out within the next few days to give everybody an idea of how we've taken the feedback and what direction we've gone. This particular part of the technical specs will still be a draft but it will be more locked down on the second version to get everybody the ability to go out and make decisions. The idea was to try to get some things done prior to the test and that would cover technical regulations and sporting regulations. I don't know that we're going to get completely there, but the sporting stuff, we have a little bit more time but not a lot more time, because that covers pit stops and pit equipment and some of the other items everybody's trying to get sorted out and budgeted for before we get to Daytona. So I think there'll be a draft version 2 that will settle the waters a little bit and give everybody a good direction.
The tests at Daytona and Sebring are where we'll get the final data to finalize everything. And then from there we'll continue to keep working on what we're doing. I don't know that anybody can appreciate how difficult a process this is in taking two different rulebooks and putting them together. The ALMS rulebook was initially created off the international sporting code, it was originally written in French. So we've been able to tweak on that over the last five or six years that we've been a part of IMSA. And then now we're taking the Grand-Am rulebook, which is structured completely different. It doesn't have a base code to it. It has a base technical regulation and it has specific regulations for the classes. It's quite a task to try to put all these things together where it makes sense. | http://www.racer.com/tuscc-rules-qa-with-scot-elkins/article/318131/ | dclm-gs1-092470002 | false | false | {
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How The Dems Will Open Up ANWR And Blame The Republicans For Preventing It In The First Place!
I’m seeing polls today that show public support for domestic energy production approaching 75%. Given these glaring poll numbers, It’s time for me to make a prediction concerning this issue and the handwriting on the wall.
Read On:
Democrats are going to be forced to change their minds on ANWR and the OCS given that 75% of the country is against their current policy of obstruction. They have to make an about face in order to do this…the only question is, how will they do it Despite the fact that the Democrats have been the chief obstructionists of drilling in these areas for the last 10 to 12 years?
I would expect a Democrat Bill to come out within the next 30 days opening up dilling in ANWR and the OCS that includes pretty much everything the Republicans and President Bush have pushed for during that time. In order to provide themselves cover and avoid admitting the Republicans have been right all these many years Look for them/it to include:
1. Restrictions to provide cover with their kook base. They’ll make a show of fighting for them to placate Eco-nuts but will drop them in the end to make something happen by early to mid October at the latest.
2. They will lump in new money for clean technologies and to subsidize renewable energy sources and trumpet them from the roof tops. It won’t matter that Republicans have included these policies in all their energy bills to date, the Democrats will swear that this is the only thing that has prevented them from passing previous energy bills and it’s been the Republicans who have prevented their passage all along.
3. They will shamelessly use McCain’s statements comparing drilling in ANWR and the OCS with drilling in the Everglades and the Grand Canyon to support their false contention that is has been the Republican Party that has stood in the way of energy independence and the MSM will support them in this damnable lie leaving the Republican Party and her spokesmen speechless in the face of such audacious and despicable fabrications!
They’ve followed the same script for 50+ years to cover their behinds when the Republicans and events have backed them into a corner and it looks like they’re finally going to be forced to admit they were wrong about something. The only question left to be answered is, “Will the Republican Party be ready when they try this tactic and prevent them from getting away with it…or will they be caught flat footed as usual and be left sputtering like a babbling idiot like they always are?
I know where my money is!
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• gamecock
isn’t ace with stradamus redundant?
Brother, I agree with all you said and GC recommends.
• aceintx
• pilgrim
The bottom line for me is will new American jobs happen when Congress opens up new areas to be explored and drilled in the US, and nuclear plants can be constructed.
There is room for finger pointing and blame from every corner since the 40 year old oil spill near Santa Barbara and the TMI scare on nuclear power plants that came later,
It’s more important to me that US industries can move ahead unobstructed, than worrying about the political posturing to try and score political points.
• aceintx
if the other party is always allowed to define the issues and place the blame on you when the proverbial crap hits the fan because they always win in that scenario while they’re the party opposed to the issues you mentioned!
• pilgrim
The bottom line is that I want new American jobs created by Congress allowing companies to explore and drill in new places for oil and build new refineries and nuclear power plants.
Maybe I can’t have the other party admit that they are wrong. Ok, if I get my bottom line, then I really do not care whether or not they admit they were wrong.
• gamecock
Jesus sweated.
• gamecock
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A skilled predator, the cat is known to hunt over 1,000 species for food. It can be trained to obey simple commands. Individual cats have also been known to learn on their own to manipulate simple mechanisms, such as doorknobs. Cats use a variety of vocalizations and types of body language for communication, including meowing, purring, hissing, growling, squeaking, chirping, clicking, and grunting. With 69 million of them present in American homes, cats are the most or the second most popular pets in that country. Cats also may be the most popular pet in the world, with over 600 million in homes all over the world. They are also bred and shown as registered pedigree pets. This hobby is known as the "Cat Fancy".
Until recently the cat was commonly believed to have been domesticated in ancient Egypt, where it was a cult animal. However a 2007 study found that all house cats are probably descended from a group of as few as five self-domesticating African Wildcats Felis silvestris lybica circa 8000 BC, in the Near East.
Cats typically weigh between 2.5 and 7 kg (5.5–16 pounds); however, some Cat breeds, such as the Maine Coon, can exceed . Some have been known to reach up to due to overfeeding. Conversely, very small cats (less than ) have been reported.
The largest cat ever was officially reported to have weighed in at about (46 lb 15.25 oz).
The temperament of a cat can vary depending on the breed and socialization. Cats with oriental body types tend to be thinner and more active, while cats that have a cobby body type tend to be heavier and less active.
All felines, including the big cats, have a genetic anomaly that may prevent them from tasting sweetness, which is a likely factor for their indifference to or avoidance of fruits, berries, and other sugary foods.
Feeding and diet
Cats are classified as obligate carnivores, because their physiology is geared toward efficient processing of meat, and lacks efficient processes for digesting plant matter. The cat cannot produce its own taurine (an essential organic acid) in its own body and as it is contained in flesh, the cat must eat flesh to survive (see Taurine and cats). Similarly as with its teeth, a cat's digestive tract has become specialized over time to suit meat eating, having shortened in length only to those segments of intestine best able to break down proteins and fats from animal flesh. This trait severely limits the cat's ability to properly digest, metabolize, and absorb plant-derived nutrients, as well as certain fatty acids. For example, taurine is scarce in plants but abundant in meats. It is a key amino sulfonic acid for eye health in cats. Taurine deficiency can cause a condition called macular degeneration wherein the cat's retina slowly degenerates, eventually causing irreversible blindness.
Despite the cat's meat-oriented physiology, it is still quite common for a cat to supplement its carnivorous diet with small amounts of grass, leaves, shrubs, houseplants, or other plant matter. One theory suggests this behavior helps cats regurgitate if their digestion is upset; another is that it introduces fiber or trace minerals into the diet. In this context, caution is recommended for cat owners because some houseplants are harmful to cats. For example, the leaves of the Easter Lily can cause permanent and life-threatening kidney damage to cats, and Philodendron are also poisonous to cats. The Cat Fanciers' Association has a full list of plants harmful to cats.
There are several vegetarian or vegan commercially-available cat foods supplemented with chemically-synthesized taurine and other added nutrients that attempt to address nutritional shortfalls.
Cats have a fondness for catnip, which is sensed by their olfactory systems. Many enjoy consuming catnip, and most will often roll in it, paw at it, and occasionally chew on it.
Toxic sensitivity
For instance, the common painkiller paracetamol or acetaminophen, sold under brand names such as Tylenol and Panadol, is extremely toxic to cats; because they naturally lack enzymes needed to digest it, even minute portions of doses safe for humans can be fatal and any suspected ingestion warrants immediate veterinary attention. Even aspirin, which is sometimes used to treat arthritis in cats, is much more toxic to them than to humans and must be administered cautiously. Similarly, application of minoxidil (Rogaine) to the skin of cats, either accidental or by well-meaning owners attempting to counter loss of fur, has sometimes proved fatal.
In addition to such obvious dangers as insecticides and weed killers, other common household substances that should be used with caution in areas where cats may be exposed to them include mothballs and other naphthalene products, as well as phenol based products often used for cleaning and disinfecting near cats' feeding areas or litter boxes, such as Pine-Sol, Dettol (Lysol), hexachlorophene, etc. which, although they are widely used without problem, have been sometimes seen to be fatal. Ethylene glycol, often used as an automotive antifreeze, is particularly appealing to cats, and as little as a teaspoonful can be fatal.
Many human foods are somewhat toxic to cats; theobromine in chocolate can cause theobromine poisoning, for instance, although few cats will eat chocolate. Toxicity in cats ingesting relatively large amounts of onions or garlic has also been reported. Even such seemingly safe items as cat food packaged in pull tab tin cans have been statistically linked to hyperthyroidism; although the connection is far from proven, suspicion has fallen on the use of bisphenol A-based plastics, another phenol based product as discussed above, to seal such cans.
Many houseplants are at least somewhat toxic to many species, cats included and the consumption of such plants by cats is to be avoided.
For cats, life in close proximity with humans (and other animals kept by humans) amounts to a "symbiotic social adaptation" which has developed over thousands of years. It has been suggested that, ethologically, the human keeper of a cat functions as a sort of surrogate for the cat's mother, and that adult domestic cats live their lives in a kind of extended kittenhood, a form of behavioral neoteny.
Cats may express affection towards their human companions, especially if they imprint on them at a very young age and are treated with consistent affection.
Regardless of the average sociability of any given cat or of cats in general, there are still any number of cats who meet or exceed the negative feline stereotype insofar as being poorly socialized. Older cats have also been reported to sometimes develop aggressiveness towards kittens, which may include biting and scratching; this type of behavior is known as Feline Asocial Aggression.
Cats frequently tonguebathe themselves (see Hygiene). The chemistry of their saliva, expended during their frequent grooming, appears to be a natural deodorant. Thus, a cat's cleanliness would aid in decreasing the chance a prey animal could notice the cat's presence. By contrast, dog odor is an advantage in hunting, for a dog is a pack hunter; part of the pack stations itself upwind, and its odor drives prey towards the rest of the pack stationed downwind. This requires a cooperative effort, which in turn requires communication skills. No such communication skills are required of a lone hunter.
Cats will also engage in play fighting, with each other and with human partners. Humans "wrestling" with a supine cat, however, should be wary: if the cat is overstimulated or startled it may decide that the play has turned serious and cease to pull its punches; this can lead to serious scratches and occasionally even bites.
Much like their big cat relatives, domestic and feral cats are very effective predators. Domestic felines ambush or pounce upon and immobilize vertebrate prey using tactics similar to those of leopards and tigers. Having overpowered such prey, a cat delivers a lethal neck bite with its long canine teeth that either severs the prey's spinal cord with irreversible paralysis to prey, causes fatal bleeding by puncturing the carotid artery or the jugular vein, or asphyxiates the prey by crushing its trachea.
One poorly-understood element of cat hunting behavior is the presentation of prey to human owners. Ethologist Paul Leyhausen proposed that cats adopt humans into their social group, and share excess kill with others in the group according to the local pecking order, in which humans are placed at or near the top. However, anthropologist and animal scientist Desmond Morris in his 1986 book Catwatching suggests that when cats bring home mice or birds they have caught, they are teaching their human to hunt, or helping their human as if feeding (his words) "an elderly, inept kitten". Another possibility is that presenting the kill might be a relic of a kitten's behavior of demonstrating for its mother's approval that it has developed the necessary skill for hunting. Indoor cats will often retain their hunting instinct and deliver small household items to their owners, such as watches, pens, pencils, and other objects they can carry in their mouths.
Cats are naturally driven to periodically hook their front claws into suitable surfaces and pull backwards, in order to clean the claws and remove the worn outer sheath, as well as exercise and stretch their muscles. This scratching behavior seems enjoyable to the cat, and even declawed cats will go through elaborate scratching routines with every evidence of great satisfaction, despite the total lack of results. Some researchers believe this is due to scent glands located in their pads, and that scratching is effectively a part of marking territory.
Fondness for heights
Most breeds of cat have a noted fondness for settling in high places, or perching. Animal behaviorists have posited a number of explanations, the most common being that height gives the cat a better observation point, allowing it to survey its territory and become aware of activities of people and other pets in the area. In the wild, a higher place may serve as a concealed site from which to hunt; domestic cats are known to strike prey by pouncing from such a perch as a tree branch, as does a leopard. Height, therefore, can also give cats a sense of security and prestige.
Impact of hunting
House cats
In modern urban areas, some people find feral and free-roaming pet cats annoying and intrusive. Unaltered cats can engage in persistent nighttime calling (termed caterwauling) and defecation or "marking" of private property. Indoor confinement of pets and TNR programs for feral cats can help; some people also use cat deterrents to discourage cats from entering their property.
Interaction with humans
Many humans find the rewards of cat companionship outweigh the discomfort and problems associated with these allergens. Some cope with the problem by taking prescription allergy medicine, along with bathing their cats frequently (weekly bathing will eliminate about 90% of the cat dander present in the environment). There are also attempts to breed cats that are less likely to provoke an allergic reaction.
Indoor scratching
Scratching can be reduced and even eliminated by disciplining the cat with a quick spritz from a water bottle when the cat is scratching or by applying a product called Sticky Paws (similar to double-sided tape) to the surface the cat is prone to scratch. Cats are also repelled by citrus scents, and a citrus-scented product may also help stop unwanted furniture destruction. Pet supply stores also sell bitter apple spray, which cats do not like and will generally avoid.
Declawing is a surgical procedure, known as onychectomy, to remove the claw and first bone of each digit of a cat's paws. Declawing is most commonly only performed on front feet.
Declawing may be performed to prevent the cat from damaging furniture. Additionally, declawing may be performed on vicious cats, cats that frequently fight with other pets, or cats that are too efficient at predation of animals. In the United States, landlords sometimes require that tenants' cats be declawed.
Declawing is controversial and is uncommon outside of North America. It is sometimes prohibited by animal cruelty laws.
Daily attention to the litter box also serves as a monitor of the cat's health. Numerous variations on litter and litter box design exist, including some which automatically sift the litter after each use. Bentonite or clumping litter is a variation which absorbs urine into clumps which can be sifted out along with feces, and thus stays cleaner longer with regular sifting, but has sometimes been reported to cause health problems in some cats. Those with toxoplasmosis-infected cats living in habitat areas of sea otters may wish to dispose of droppings in the trash, rather than flushing them down the toilet.
Litterboxes may pose a risk of toxoplasmosis transmission to susceptible pregnant women and immuno-compromised individuals. Most indoor-only cats are not normally exposed to the disease and are not carriers. Transmission risk may be reduced by daily litterbox cleaning by someone other than the susceptible individual.
Domesticated varieties
• F. catus anura - the Manx
• F. catus siamensis - the Siamese
• F. catus cartusenensis - the Chartreux
• F. catus angorensis - the Turkish Angora
Coat patterns
Tortoiseshell and Calico
This cat is also known as a Calimanco cat or Clouded Tiger cat, and by the nickname "tortie." In the cat fancy, a tortoiseshell cat is randomly patched over with red (or its dilute form, cream) and black (or its dilute blue) mottled throughout the coat. Additionally, the cat may have white spots in its fur, which make it a "tortoiseshell and white" cat or, if there is a significant amount of white in the fur and the red and black colors form a patchwork rather than a mottled aspect, the cat will be called a "calico." All calicos are tortoiseshell (as they carry both black and red), but not all tortoiseshells are calicos (which requires a significant amount of white in the fur and patching rather than mottling of the colors). The calico is also sometimes called a "tricolor cat." The Japanese refer to this pattern as mi-ke (meaning "triple fur"), while the Dutch call these cats lapjeskat (meaning "patches cat"). A true tricolor must consist of three colors: a reddish color, dark or light; white; and one other color, typically a brown, black or blue. Both tortoiseshell and calico cats are typically female because the coat pattern is the result of differential X chromosome inactivation in females (which, as with all normal female mammals, have two X chromosomes). Conversely, cats where the overall color is ginger (orange) are commonly male (roughly in a 3:1 ratio). In a litter sired by a ginger tom, the females will be tortoiseshell or ginger. Male tortoiseshells can occur as a result of chromosomal abnormalities (often linked to sterility) or by a phenomenon known as chimericism, where two early stage embryos are merged into a single kitten.
True albinism (a mutation of the tyrosinase gene) is quite rare in cats. Much more common is the appearance of white coat color due to a lack of melanocytes in the skin. A higher frequency of deafness in white cats is due to a reduction in the population and survival of melanoblast stem cells, which in addition to creating pigment producing cells, develop into a variety of neurological cell types. White cats with one or two blue eyes have a particularly high likelihood of being deaf.
Body types
Cats can also come in several body types, ranging between two extremes: Oriental: Not a specific breed, but any cat with an elongated slender build, almond-shaped eyes, long nose, large ears (the Siamese and Oriental Shorthair breeds are examples of this). Cobby: Any cat with a short, muscular, compact build, roundish eyes, short nose, and small ears. Persian cats and Exotic cats are two prime examples of such a body type.
Feral cats
Feral cats may live alone, but most are found in large groups called feral colonies with communal nurseries, depending on resource availability. Most abandoned cats probably have little alternative to joining a feral colony. Some feral cat colonies are found in large cities such as around the Colosseum and Forum Romanum in Rome. The Roman cats are not truly feral because they are partly fed and vetted by the local authority. Because cats are adaptable, those in residential areas know that if they are friendly to humans they need not worry about food or shelter. Some urban "stray" cats have many houses/humans to support them.
Environmental effects
Feral cats are thought to be a major predator of Hawaiian coastal and forest habitats, and are one species among many responsible for the decline of endemic forest bird species as well as seabirds like the Wedge-tailed Shearwater. In one study of 56 cats' feces, the remains of 44 birds were found, 40 of which were endemic species.
In the Southern Hemisphere there are many landmasses including Australia where cat species have never been native, and other placental mammalian predators were rare or absent. Native species there tend to be more ecologically vulnerable and behaviorally "naive" to predation by feral cats. Feral cats have had serious effects on these wildlife species and have played a leading role in the endangerment and extinction of many of them. In Australia a large quantity of native birds, lizards and small marsupials are taken every year by feral cats, and feral cats have played a role in driving some small marsupial species to extinction. Some organizations in Australia are now going to effort of creating fenced islands of habitat for endangered species that are free of feral cats and foxes.
Ethical and humane concerns over feral cats
Etymology and taxonomic history
Scientific classification
The domestic cat was first classified as Felis catus by Carolus Linnaeus in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae of 1758. However, some contemporary studies have revealed evidence that domestic cats may be conspecific with (belong to the same species as) the Wildcat, classified as Felis silvestris by Schreber in 1777. This has resulted in mixed usage of the terms. The domestic cat is sometimes considered to be a subspecies, F. s. catus, of the species F. silvestris. Wildcats have also been referred to as various subspecies of F. catus, but in 2003, Opinion 2027 of the ICZN fixed the name for Wildcats as F. silvestris.. The predominant usage for the domestic cat remains to be F. catus, treating it as a separate species and following the convention of using the earliest (the senior) synonym proposed.
The word cat derives from Old English catt, which belongs to a group of related words in European languages, including Welsh cath, Spanish gato, Basque katu, Byzantine Greek kátia, Old Irish cat, German Katze, and Old Church Slavonic kotka. The ultimate source of all these terms is Late Latin catus, cattus, catta "domestic cat", as opposed to feles "European wildcat". It is unclear whether the Greek or the Latin came first, but they were undoubtedly borrowed from an Afro-Asiatic language akin to Nubian kadís and Berber kaddîska, both meaning "wildcat". This term was either cognate with or borrowed from Late Egyptian čaus "jungle cat, African wildcat" (later giving Coptic šau "tomcat), itself from earlier Egyptian tešau "female cat (vs. miew "tomcat).
History and mythology
Freyja — the goddess of love, beauty, and fertility in Norse mythology — is riding a chariot driven by cats.
There are also negative superstitions about cats in many cultures. An example would be the belief that a black cat "crossing your path" leads to bad luck, or that cats are witches' familiars used to augment a witch's powers and skills. This belief led to the widespread extermination of cats in Europe in medieval times. Killing the cats aggravated epidemics of the Black Plague in places where there were not enough cats left to keep rat populations down. The plague was spread by fleas carried by infected rats.
An exaggerated fear of cats is known as ailurophobia.
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2011 Book # 43: The Mysterious Benedict Society
I generally like kids' novels - Harry Potter, for instance, or The Hunger Games, or The Golden Compass, or The Blue Sword, etc, etc, etc. I think it's because I can usually identify with the characters, and an adult having written them probably helps. That said, The Mysterious Benedict Society didn't work for me. It might be aimed at a younger crowd than I'm used to, though these kids are 11 and 12, and Harry Potter started out at that age. I was also somewhere around 18 at that point - certainly nowhere near 30.
The Mysterious Benedict Society is about four kids, all of them basically orphans, who see an add in the newspaper offering adventures to kids who can pass a test. They're the only for who pass, and they're taken to a large house and, eventually, told what's going on: There's a Bad Guy who is sending out subliminal messages saying that he is awesome and that they should do whatever he says. He runs a school on an island just out of town, and they're supposed to infiltrate it and discover his secrets. Well, they do both, then, in a heroic move, they decide to stay and try to destroy him. Things continue to happen. The end.
Again, I'm not a fan. It almost seems like Trenton Lee Stewart started writing a novel for a slightly older age group, then, mid-novel, decided he should aim a bit younger. I liked the beginning well enough. Stewart's style is okay, though the characters are a bit flat, and there aren't any particularly slow points. I found myself thinking too many times through the novel that the kids were being dumb and taking risks that even kids wouldn't take. They seemed to be acting even younger than they were, which really irritated me. And then there are some stupid twists that made me roll my eyes. For instance (spoiler!): one of the kids is really short and pouty, though she turns out necessary. She's probably as smart of the rest of them, but she has a really bad attitude. We find out why at the end of the novel: she's a precocious two-year-old. Urrrrgh. Then, there are the life issues brought up in the beginning and then tied up way too simply at the end. Like (another spoiler!) one of the kids has a ridiculous photographic memory, and his parents take advantage of him, signing him up for game shows and amassing piles of money. He runs away, and his parents get tons of donations to help find him, which they spend on themselves. The kid seems a bit bitter, as he should be. At the end of the novel, though, when all the kids are being adopted (meh), his parents show up all apologetic, and all, saying they decided they missed him and went into debt looking for him. Instead of being angry like any normal kid would do, this particularly smart kid is perfectly happy to be reunited with his parents, and things go on as if nothing had ever happened. Yeah, right. I was annoyed.
So I guess I've just found a novel aimed at too young an audience with which I can identify, though the top of the book's cover claims that it was at the top of the New York Times' bestseller list, and I don't know how it could do that without a bunch of adult readers. It's also a series: the Mysterious Benedict Society has quite a few adventures on the bookshelves. I won't be checking those out anytime soon.
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BELLEFONTE, Pa. - The jury in the Jerry Sandusky child sexual abuse trial, having resumed deliberating at about 1:15 p.m. EDT Friday after hearing transcripts of two witnesses' testimony, returned to the courtroom briefly Friday afternoon to be given further instruction from Senior Judge John Cleland.
Cleland reread his instructions to the jury regarding the counts related the alleged victim No. 8, the unidentified boy Jerry Sandusky is accused of molesting in a Penn State shower in November 2000.
It's the second request the jury has made about parts of the case that pertain to an unidentified alleged victim.
After six minutes of instruction from Cleland, the jury returned to deliberate at 3:32 p.m.
James Calhoun, the janitor prosecutors say saw the alleged abuse, couldn't testify for the prosecution about the incident because of a medical condition, but Ronald Petrosky, the janitor Calhoun allegedly told about the incident, did testify about what Calhoun told him.
Cleland said the hearsay statement from Calhoun isn't enough by itself to sustain a conviction.
"You must decide if there is other evidence that supports that a crime was committed besides Mr. Calhoun's hearsay statement," Cleland said, adding that the jury will have to decide if direct or circumstantial evidence exists. And he said circumstantial evidence is just as valid.
The instructions from the judge were the same as what he first read to them in his instructions on Thursday before the jury left to deliberate.
Ed Blanarik Jr., a criminal attorney in State College, Pa., said it's not unusual for a jury to ask to be "recharged" by a judge, known as a "supplemental charge," if it needs more instruction about a charge or a point of law.
In the case of the Sandusky trial, Blanarik said, he thinks jurors have reached a decision about the incidents where alleged victims testified, but are still grappling with the merit of Calhoun's testimony.
"They're having a harder time reaching a decision on that, and asking the judge to reinstruct them on what is circumstantial evidence is probably getting to that issue," Blanarik said. "Can we find someone guilty on indirect evidence?"
This is the second time the jury has asked the judge a question. The first was addressed Thursday night, when the jurors wanted to know if they could hear the testimony from Mike McQueary and Jonathan Dranov.
The defense has sought the dismissal of the charges related to alleged victim No. 8 several times, including right after closing arguments Thursday.
Day 2 of jury deliberation began with the reading of the 115-page transcript of the testimony from prosecution witness Mike McQueary, who testified he heard "skin on skin smacking sounds" that made him sure he saw an "extremely sexual situation" in a Penn State shower room Feb. 9, 2001.
It wrapped up with the short reading of about 20 pages of testimony from Dr. Jonathan Dranov, who testified McQueary didn't use graphic terms in telling him about the incident regarding alleged victim No. 2.
Jurors returned to deliberating in courtroom 2 at 11:07 a.m. Sandusky, 68, faces 48 counts of child sexual abuse. A conviction could put him behind bars for the rest of his life.
The jury appeared attentive throughout the reading of the testimonies.
All but one juror - the Penn State student - took notes during the part of McQueary's testimony in which he recounted the alleged incident. The jury has been allowed to take notes throughout the testimony phase and they were allowed to do so again Friday.
In his testimony, McQueary said he saw the incident three times, but defense attorney Karl Rominger said McQueary's written statement and his grand jury testimony say he said he saw it twice.
Most jurors were taking notes when McQueary was asked on cross-examination by Rominger about the first look he had at Sandusky and the boy.
During the reading of Dranov's testimony, the jurors appeared to be most interested when Dranov said McQueary heard "sexual sounds."
The most prolific note-takers appeared to be juror No. 1, a woman who works at Walmart; juror No. 3, a woman who has been a longtime Penn State football season-ticket holder, juror No. 8, a man who's a retired Penn State professor of soil science; juror No. 10, a woman who works as an administrative assistant in the Penn State's department of energy and mineral engineering; juror No. 11, a part-time Penn State dance instructor and mother of a 6-year-old son; and juror No. 12, a woman who's a Penn State professor of mechanical engineering.
The juror who's a Penn State student didn't take notes and appeared to be fidgeting.
The jury didn't seem to react to the issue of the date change, from March 1, 2002, to Feb. 9, 2001.
Sandusky sat emotionless during the reading, sometimes closing his eyes. He shook his head and looked up to the ceiling when he heard McQueary say he didn't participate in Second Mile golf tournaments.
Sandusky's wife, Dottie, was in the courtroom for the reading of the testimony Friday morning. She was not in the courtroom for McQueary's original testimony. Also in court were their sons Jon and Jeff and daughter Kara.
The jury, which began its deliberations Thursday, had asked to hear the testimony of McQueary and Dranov, a family friend, again.
Senior Judge John Cleland said he understands why the testimony of McQueary and Dranov is important, but, in the future, unless the testimony is crucial, jurors will need to rely on their memories and notes.
"As a practical matter, we just can't go back and redo every witness," Cleland said.
)2012 Centre Daily Times (State College, Pa.)
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- Might Casey strikes out.
- Tiger hits one into the rough.
- Michael Jordan heaves a brick.
- “Wide Right†defines one of the key rivalries of the 90’s.
- Frank Deford pens a pile of garbage.
Even though Deford is one of the most renowned print journalists of his era, he threw up a real clunker when he decided that college athletes need to be paid. Let’s look at Deford’s thesis:
It is perfectly unconscionable that big-time college football and basketball players go unpaid. They are employees, and deserve to be paid based on the National Labor Relations Act.
Ignoring his thesis for a moment, here are a few reasons why I call the Deford article garbage:
- He makes almost no legitimate effort to defend his thesis.
- He makes no attempt at providing an even and fair presentation of the issue.
- He makes no effort to show how a New Deal law protecting the rights of workers to form unions somehow applies to college athletes.
- He doesn’t discuss the logical consequences of paying college athletes.
- He doesn’t discuss the potential problems of only paying male athletes in basketball and football.
- He appears to confuse “alot of money†with an “infinite of moneyâ€.
- He assumes that every athletic department in the country is flush with cash.
Let’s assume for a moment that the National Labor Relations Board agrees with Deford’s legal assessment and requires college to begin paying college athletes, what would happen?
This is where Deford’s shaky grasp of basic economic principles shows through his weak analysis. This is the same thing that all of the supporters for Title IX failed to grasp….chiefly that “a lot of money†is not equivalent to “an infinite amount of money.†Just because TV pays millions of dollars for broadcast rights, just because ticket prices continue to climb, and just because boosters donate millions more dollars…this does not mean that athletic departments all over the country are desperately looking for new ways to spend their ill-gotten gains.
What did we see with Title IX? Did we ever see an argument that women’s softball was more important than men’s wrestling?…..of course not. Title IX supporters only pointed at perceived inequities and wanted more money spent on scholarships for women. But in the end what we saw was that money for non-revenue men’s sports was transferred to fund new sports for women. (I didn’t realize this until I worked with a guy whose swimming scholarship was canceled as soon as Title IX became effective.)
Now is women’s softball more or less important than men’s wrestling? It’s hard for me to imagine that very many people care either way. But in the end, this is the type of choice that was made in order to come into compliance with Title IX…and the type of choice that would have to be made if you want to start paying athletes some sort of salary or stipend.
If the experiences of the recent past are not convincing enough, let’s look at a few real numbers. A quick search led to an article from the student paper at Penn State discussing their athletic department finances and a summary of the Big 10. They showed that three athletic departments in the Big 10 reported losses and one more reported breaking even (and two more were only marginally in the black). If athletic departments in a BCS conference are not making money, then how do you think that schools from some of the smaller conferences are doing?
- NOTE: All of the colleges file reports that include athletic expenses/revenues with the Federal Government and are available at Equity in Athletics. It doesn’t appear that the financial numbers are consistently reported from one school to the next…but most articles that you read on finances in college sports utilize the information from this site.
There is absolutely no way to start paying all (or even some) of the athletes a stipend or salary without negatively affecting the so-called non-revenue sports…and the athletes participating in those sports. How many non-revenue sports would be affected would vary by institution based on the total value of the proposed salaries (after all, Michigan is $17M in the black) .
Speaking of total salary cost, is there anyone that thinks that schools could get away with paying male basketball players and NOT paying female ones? How can you pay female basketball players and not pay the softball team? Deford assumes that you would only pay athletes from the revenue sports…but doesn’t bother to explain how the National Labor Relations Act distinguishes between football players and softball players. (Just like he avoids a lot of other details in his quest for truth, justice, and the American way.)
As soon as Dick Vitale gets his voice back, we will be subjected to hearing the same crap from him (after he gets tired of pimping for Coach K and Bobby Knight). Vitale’s pitch is normally made in conjunction with an attempt to tug at your heart strings with a reference to poor kids from the inner-cities. What Dick will fail to mention is that these poor kids are most likely already receiving money from Pell Grants. The bottom line is that things are not really so simple and clear cut as presented in many of these commentaries.
Look, I have no problem with paying all college athletes a stipend of some sort….just like I have no problems with the idea of a college football playoff. But to discuss either issue while willfully ignoring the financial aspects is simply folly. If you want to pay athletes, then at least be honest enough to list the non-revenue sports that you want to cancel.
Short of legal action, discussing whether or not to pay college athletes replaces Div 1 football playoffs on my personal list of the biggest wastes of time. I would much rather have someone explain to me why schools waste so much money on women’s basketball:
The ugly
Familiar with the low end of financial reports, the women’s basketball program loses money at an alarming rate. The Lady Lions were $1.76 million in the red last season, in which the team went 19-11 and played in the NCAA Tournament.
Upon being told for the first time of the women’s team’s losses, one source within the athletic department could only utter a monosyllabic response of surprise: “Wow!”
Women’s basketball has proven to be dead weight for the typical athletic department looking to stay afloat financially. Only seven programs in the country reported a profit last year.
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1. Astral Rain2
01/07/2008 at 3:30 PM #
One could argue that the non-revenue sports shouldn’t be mandated.
That will likely deliver a lot of howls from people, and probably rightfully so, but one can make a case that it’s not a good thing to fund those sports.
I’d say cancel most non-revenue sports.
2. BillyVest
01/07/2008 at 4:13 PM #
Once you start paying players to play…you’ll end up with bidding wars…I don’t see how you can require the payment for an athlete to be equal across the board…if Texas can spend more on its athletes than Texas Tech, for example, how can you restrict Texas from paying more to their players…
3. highonlowe
01/07/2008 at 4:16 PM #
College athletes DO get paid. Its called a scholarship.
4. Dr. BadgerPack
01/07/2008 at 4:17 PM #
^Not only that, but states with no income tax would have a more attractive “rate” than schools where the payment would be taxed by the state, so it would be REALLY hard to mandate a flat rate and make it work. Plus cost of living, and a host of other factors.
I always assumed that everyone was talking about a flat rate set by the NCAA. I never considered the effect of income tax.
5. Girlfriend in a Coma
01/07/2008 at 4:22 PM #
Plus all kinds of free food, books, travel, special tutoring, and more.
6. RAWFS
01/07/2008 at 4:43 PM #
What’s room, board, books and tuition worth on the average today? Add to that the taxes that they don’t pay and you have some darned good “pay” for scholarship athletes. Not only that, they will come out of college with no student loan debt to weigh down their earnings like many of their classmates will. It’s a pretty sweet deal.
7. whitefang
01/07/2008 at 4:57 PM #
This is ludicrous. As you rightly point out there is no way to make this work UNLESS you are willing to deep six the non-revs.
Plus then you would almost certainly guarantee a split in Div 1 to the haves vs the have-nots. The haves would rightly want to “block” the have-nots from the money bowls, NCAA b-ball tournments, etc in order to feed the monster that was created (of course they already do want to do this I suspect, but are not willing or able to force it). Not to mention the splits in conferences.
Then I guess we go to a high school draft or you have – “Son play for us here at Ohio State and I can pay you $500,000 per year – 4 times what Northwestern offered.” Then players aren’t going to the schools they want but the ones who drafted them.
This whole thing would make today’s recruiting wars look like a walk in the park.
8. VaWolf82
01/07/2008 at 5:16 PM #
What’s room, board, books and tuition worth on the average today? Add to that the taxes that they don’t pay and you have some darned good “payâ€
Add health insurance (no-deductible, 100% coverage) to the list.
9. Sweet jumper
01/07/2008 at 5:34 PM #
I agree with HighonLowe. College athletes are paid with a scholarship. Obviously a scholarship is worth more at Duke, Davidson or Wake Forest versus instate tuition at a public university. However, I don’t know how you put a price on a college degree. It is very valuable and opens doors for the rest of your life. The jock mentality and the quest for a pro contract overshadow this fact. A full scholarship is the only way to “pay” a college athlete or we will have bidding wars won by only the wealthiest institutions.
10. Sam92
01/07/2008 at 6:01 PM #
paying the players would take the heart out of college football (and basketball, and whoever else got paid). a big part of the enthusiasm the fans, students, alums feel for the team is based on an understanding, with all its faults, that the team really are students at the university not so unlike anyone else. this creates a feeling of identification – linking the players, the team and the fan base.
if they were hired to play, i think we’d all feel differently about the team – who are these hired guns anyway? and if they did get paid, what would really be the point of requiring them to be students – it seems like they should really be staff, and that’s hardly inspiring.
paying the players would forever destroy the mystique of college sports, and it won’t happen. ever.
there is some exploitation going on too though. high school football players cannot go directly to the NFL, they have no option for football other than college teams (indeed, the NFL gets the great benefit of using the college system as its minor league/farm teams) — so, people are paying to watch the games, i.e., they are paying to see the players, but the players aren’t getting any of that money (except perhaps the minuscule percentage of the revenue equal to the scholarship amount)
the players are raising a tremendous amount of revenue that they don’t get, and the “choice” to play college ball is suspect when there is no other route to the NFL. i love college football, but there is some exploitation of the players going on
11. bTHEredterror
01/07/2008 at 6:23 PM #
And once payments are intitiated, the next step will be someone like JJ Hickson negotiating a larger contract, because it would be “unfair” to pay him equally to a bench rider since he is more productive and likely to sell more tickets.
So this is inadvertantly an argument for a pernicious type of socialism? Where adults, almost totally unencumbered with any sense of morals, can strike it rich while the cogs in the machine, the athletes, get minimum wage in scholarship monies and should be glad of it?
A classic conundrum, and the NCAA has taken a Harrison Bergeron approach, punish (or limit if you prefer) the privileged for the good of the average. I think these kids will understand how great free market principles are when they enter the workforce.
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t advocate open checkbooks, but some of the external employment restrictions need to be relaxed.
My dad told me of some urban legends in Bama, where Ken Stabler was paid 400 a month or so to turn on the gym lights in the morning, when 400 a month was like 2500 now. So the NCAA says no one can work in season, walk-ons included, and off season employment is limited to a certain income level to avoid those type of suspect transactions.
If you allow the programs and sports full capitalist rights, there will be A LOT of programs & non-revenue sports going under. Lower divisions would go under. And millions of productive and integral members of society (but not going pro in sports) would be denied some great friendships and character building episodes that are a part of intercollegiate athletics. And a huge, and I think wonderful, aspect of American society would be reduced to an exclusive privilege.
12. jwrenn29
01/07/2008 at 7:27 PM #
Heck, they get paid. They just can’t report it. :D
13. TopTenPack
01/07/2008 at 7:41 PM #
Would people support college athletics if we paid our athletes? I do not think people will will donate money to professional athletes. In Chile, the large universities have professional soccer teams that use their name. Does that help or hurt the universities, I doubt it. Do people support their team like we do here, no.
I would like to see both the NFL and the MBA develop minor leagues that could accept talent who have no business in college. That way, great talent could be paid and not taint college athletics.
Off topic and non-athletic:
NC State #13 value in public education. There is something we can be proud of! Oh, well, UNX is #1.
14. BorntoHowl
01/07/2008 at 8:06 PM #
I heard this on NPR on the way to work and had one of those opinion changing moments about Deford.
I’m a traditionalist and purist agreeing a lot with what SAM92 says.
I might additionally add that some number maybe 95% of scholarship athletes do not play pro sports. Their pay is their degree of which many would not have received. One of the few good things about the NCAA is academic progress toward graduation which gets you the degree that you may not have had the drive or motivtion to get on your own.
On the other hand, the 5% that go on to the pros had a chance to develop their skills to prepare them for their profession. How many football and basketball players are ready for the pros out of high school… maybe 1 in 10,000. It’s a farm system extraodinaire playing in front of the most passionate fans in all of sports. Not to mention the possibility of a degree, or at least learning how to behave in public and not act like a complete idiot during an interview.
Title IX had good intentions, but deficit spending can only go on for so long.
I do think the coaches have substantially tapped into the increases in TV revenues at the expense of the minor sports, but most alumni and fans prefer a nationally ranked football team over fully funded vollyeball scholarships any day.
15. LRM
01/07/2008 at 8:12 PM #
He bases his “argument” on inequalities?
“…virtually the only athletes who are not paid are our college football and basketball players — whose numbers, ironically, include so many poor African-Americans.”
So if we’re paying athletes, do the rich, white kids like Peyton and Eli Manning not deserve to get paid, only the poor black kids? Great idea Frank, let’s make the NCAA a socialist organization.
I have a novel idea. Poor kids — white or black — that will never make it to the NFL or NBA should do what the rest of us that never had that chance did: take full advantage of the opportunities many had GIVEN to them — even though in many cases, they were undeserved whereas the rest of us had to work hard to get into and through college — and get a legit degree and then go find a job. At least they won’t owe $25K over ten years to pay it off.
16. choppack1
01/07/2008 at 8:53 PM #
In the world of big time college football and big time college basketball, there is huge exploitation going on.
It’s pretty stunning how much $$ big time football and b’ball generate for coaches, colleges and college communities.
Of course, these kids are already being paid the equivalent of anywhere between 20-50K a year depending on the school. Most scholarship athlete’s – even football and basketball- come out ahead in this deal.
Some obviously don’t. Schools sell jerseys not just of the school, but of those players.
It’s really kind of an odd relationship – colleges get more benefit of the players, than the players get from the colleges.
Whether you pay them or not, there is a lot of “issues” caused by the huge amount of revenue:
If you pay them:
How do you distribute the revenue? Do all scholarship players get the same? Is it seniority based? Is it merit-based?
If you say that “these guys should be paid, because what they do generates so much money” – you should stick to your guns – and let the market decide.
Not “paying” them in an activity that generates such outrageous revenue is also questionable. I really think the following items should be changed to make the entire operation more ethical:
1) For football players and basketball players scholarships can’t be revoked unless a felony conviction, honor code conviction, multiple misdemeanor convictions.
2) Admission into graduate school studies for these same athletes and scholarships as long as student is working way toward degree.
3) Shared revenue w/athletes when selling jerseys w/ # for that athlete.
17. Trip
01/08/2008 at 4:23 AM #
Honestly, I don’t think the schools are making enough money off athletes to say they’re “exploiting” them. The profit that is made from basketball/football is put toward non revenue sports in most cases, which leads to all but maybe the top 10 universities barely balancing a budget. It’s not as if the university is pocketing all of this cash and spending it on 20,000$ toilet seat covers at the chancellors house, this is a University, not a typical greedy corporation. Most of the profit is going to CBS/ESPN/FSN. If anyone is going to pay the athletes, it should be them.
I’m not against a stipend that gives a little every week so that athlete’s can put gas in their car or buy plane tickets so that their parents can watch them play every once in a while but it should be a set amount that is regulated by the NCAA, not the university themselves. The only reason I’m for a stipend is because the NCAA currently bans all athletes from having ANY part time job, so if the school doesn’t supply it, they have to find the cash from their parents which in some cases just isn’t possible.
18. hoop
01/08/2008 at 5:25 AM #
That’s an interesting point about athletes not being allowed to have part time jobs.
I wonder though. Anybody know if these kids can not profit from having their own website? A blog from a famous collegiate athlete would definitely get lots of traffic, and adverts on the blog could generate income for the athlete. Anybody know if this is covered?
How about if they design their own line of clothing? Perform some type of design work?
Are athletes simply banned from generating any income for themselves?
19. LRM
01/08/2008 at 7:23 AM #
I believe athletes can have part-time jobs and many do (that’s how Rhett Bomar and JD Quinn got into trouble working at an Oklahoma car dealership), they just have to be university-sanctioned, I believe.
The biggest issue with an athlete working is that they don’t have time because all their time is accounted for practicing, doing offseason conditioning, and getting expensive free tutoring. Most of us work our way through college to PAY for college — their college is free. Call me callous, but I refuse to buy that college athletes are victims of exploitation.
The reason the NCAA is so strict on athletes working part-time jobs is to prevent $500 car washes for the star running back.
20. haze
01/08/2008 at 8:10 AM #
As for athletes being exploited, this statement obviously doesn’t apply to any athlete’s playing in non-revenue sports. For those kids, the school is paying out more in resources (e.g. full/partial schollys, coaches, facilities, etc.) than the kids exploits are apparently worth. Are the kids exploiting the school? Uh, no.
For revenue athletes, yes, the school makes a profit while the kids work their tails off for the previously mentioned $25-50k/yr in benefits. However, since most schools are just running these profits back into the other sports, while simultaneously improving the campus life of many non-athlete students, it’s not usually a pure profit motive. Plus, the kicker here is that it is the revenue sports, generally, that are most likely to lead directly to a professional career in sport. So, if the colleges provide the best “farm” system out there, then they are by definition providing these kids with the opportunity to improve themselves (through coaching, training, etc., all provided by the school) and present themselves to potential employers on the best stage available. That has a real, if somewhat intangible, value that is not offset by the fact that most kids won’t make it in the pro’s. Point is, they were given an opportunity to try in a system sustained by the colleges and at no cost to the student.
There are shades of gray here but nothing that really feels like exploitation.
21. RAWFS
01/08/2008 at 8:13 AM #
The NCAA is so strict that Oklahoma got nothing for Rhett Bomar’s “ghost job” at a car dealership, on the other hand:
Oklahoma Ousts QB
an internal investigation revealed two players received “extra compensation above that to which they were entitled related to their employment at a private business,” a violation of NCAA rules.
The moral of the story? If you are a highly marketable team, as is Oklahoma, then wring your hands and no punishment will come from a strict NCAA. The NCAA runs a multi-billion dollar business, after all, and they aren’t going to lower the value of that business by enforcing silly little rules about market-value compensation for working a part-time job. (Unless you are a peripheral team to the big picture.)
22. cacollin
01/08/2008 at 8:28 AM #
If I read the financial data correctly (from the Equity in Athletics link), State’s athletic department made a little over $1.1 million last year – anyone know who the other six profitable programs were?
23. RedTerror29
01/08/2008 at 9:23 AM #
Well said, Haze.
Of course these kids are paid, the scholarship has a monetary value. And there is an actual cash payment as well – football players, etc. get a check the same time as everyone else on financial aid.
I wonder how much they do wind up making an hour? I tried to calculate it myself once, but couldn’t find the number on how many hours a year they can officially devote to their sport.
It seems like the NCAA could just raise the maximum for the non-tuition, room, and board portion of the scholarship so the players got a bigger check. Of course, I’ve long said the federal cap on financial aid by loosening the “cost of attendance” calculation.
24. Noah
01/08/2008 at 9:39 AM #
Exploitation my ass.
If a college basketball or football player doesn’t think he’s being treated fairly…don’t play.
Seriously, how many players are we talking about here? How many guys are getting a raw deal? There’s 300 basketball teams in D1. There’s maybe 15 or 20 “stars” of college basketball in a given season….out of 3600 players? You’re going to pay OJ Mayo the same amount as the 12th man on the team at Prairie View?
I don’t know if the loophole is still in place, but athletes made all kinds of money in the past in college. Part of their tuition includes housing money. Because they were adults and had incomes of $0.00, they qualified for section eight housing. Most college towns have decent section eight housing units for their students. We’re not talking about “the projects.” So, they can pocket their housing money and live in decent off-campus housing.
There’s a hundred legal and illegal loopholes.
Not paid? Please.
25. VaWolf82
01/08/2008 at 9:44 AM #
so if the school doesn’t supply it, they have to find the cash from their parents which in some cases just isn’t possible.
In most cases, if the parent(s) are that poor then the kids would qualify for PELL grants. So the sob story about poor kids who can’t afford a new pair of jeans is BS in most cases.
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The 500 bioscience companies in Maryland are developing ground-breaking therapies for diseases like muscular dystrophy, inventing state-of-the-art medical devices and testing cutting-edge vaccines. These innovations are valuable and worth protecting. Indeed, just like designer handbags or secret family recipes, many want to imitate — and even duplicate — such successes.
Something seems off about comparing the desire to copy new disease therapies with the desire to make knockoff handbags, but I guess that was just meant to clarify things for anyone who didn't understand why ground-breaking medical research is valuable. Of more concern is his statement that the door is left "unlocked"—a blatant exaggeration that makes it sound like CISPA's data-sharing provisions are the difference between airtight security and no security at all, even though security experts question whether CISPA would have any real impact. He then goes on to do exactly what I criticized Rogers for doing, by focusing in on the one (supposedly) useful and genuine cybersecurity aspect of the bill while ignoring the rest:
This is just a bunch of half-truths, semantics and disingenuous statements. Firstly, while there may be some data sharing the government wants to do that is currently blocked by the law, there are also existing mechanisms that allow some sharing to happen. Rather than carve out specific exceptions to the specific laws that are getting in the way, CISPA creates broad immunity provisions that wipe out all existing privacy concerns.
Secondly, the bill does not "simply" allow what Ruppersberger says it allows. CISPA's definition of the information that can be shared allows for much more than just "suspicious computer code," instead potentially including all sorts of tangential data related to a network attack—which, yes, could include lots of personal information. CISPA also does not limit the government to using this information for merely technical purposes related to cybersecurity—it permits them to dig through whatever data they collect for evidence of certain types of crime. You'll notice that investigating violent crime and child exploitation (both specifically listed in the text of CISPA) are not mentioned anywhere in this editorial.
Thirdly, while both of Ruppersberger's assertions about what the bill "does not authorize" the government to do are technically accurate, only the latter is giving the full story. It's true that CISPA does not permit the government to shut down websites or require information from companies—but as for monitoring people and reading their communications, as I just described, it's a bit more complicated. No, CISPA does not allow the government to go out and monitor whoever they wish, but it does allow them to thoroughly mine whatever data is given to them—data that will undoubtedly include private information.
For good measure, Ruppersberger throws in some more fearmongering about terrorist hackers taking down power grids (even though CISPA doesn't include anything that would let the government put a common sense regulation in place, like, say, don't connect power grids to the internet) before circling back to the talking-point of Maryland's valuable medical research. Like Rogers, he plays up the imminence of the threat, claiming "it wouldn't take years from China to steal it all from us" and in fact "it could happen in mere keystrokes"—as if at any moment someone could just select "U.S. Economy" and press delete.
I have a feeling this won't be the last of these locally-focused editorials from the pro-CISPA camp. I'm rooting for a Las Vegas feature on the need to protect casino secrets, because while it would surely still be inaccurate and misleading, it might at least be interesting.
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But, as we've seen over and over again, filming police is one of the few ways to prove abuse of police power. Back in the summer of 2007, a police officer named Salvatore Rivieri in Baltimore decided to use his position to harass some skateboarding kids in Baltimore's Inner Harbor area. As part of his harassment, he took one kid's skateboard after throwing him to the ground and screaming at him. The whole thing was videotaped by another kid... and it was uploaded to YouTube a few months later:
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Chef Ramsay tells the blue team that there's dinner service that night, so they have to clean both kitchens, do the prep for both kitchens, and also get the smaller plates so they can do tapas. The red team ("Ladies! And Giovanni!") is going to the racetrack. You play the ponies, Gordon? The women mostly seem to dress up, although in my opinion the only acceptable attire for the track is a lime-green suit. And try to be chewing a matchstick or sucking on a lemon drop. Before they leave, Giovanni comes over to his four teammates and essentially tells them to stop fighting with each other.
The blue team does prep. Ben sniffs food for some reason. J cooks risotto, verifying that it involves half-and-half water and chicken stock, three boxes of both. Hmm. I always go through the rigmarole of measuring the water, blah blah blah, but this method of using the chicken stock boxes for the water, thus ensuring that you have the same amount, makes a lot of sense. I'm learning! We see shots of Lacey standing in the kitchen not doing anything, alternated with her interviewing tearfully (yes, again) that there was a lot of work to do.
The red team is at Hollywood Park, and Chef Ramsay is hanging out with them picking horses. I don't think he should start betting on horses, because this is where his insane competitive streak will kick in. The blue team gets the new plates from the truck. Lacey doesn't know what to do and asks for instructions. Upon being given them, she proceeds to complain that everybody orders her around. She's sent off to polish plates. At the track, Gordon's horse ("Stress Free", ho ho ho) loses to Andrea's horse ("Victory's Lady"). I imagine you could figure out what day this was shot on from that information, but I'm not going to bother. Andrea gloats.
Back to the blue team. Lacey is putting cookie dough in something (I think it's probably a proofer) and being told she's doing it wrong. She left the paper on, which we don't get a good look at, but I think it means that instead of putting the dough directly on the pan, she left paper between the dough and the pan. I don't guarantee that any of this is correct, although I have actually worked as a baker. It would be easier if we got one of those Amazing Race-style insert shots showing us what was happening. Anyway, whatever she did, Robert and J want her to fix, but she insists that if it's a mistake, she'll be the one who goes home. Robert interviews that he's going to use a Jedi mind trick and "choke the [bleep] out of that bitch. Mentally." I don't think you can get away with threatening to choke your competition just because you added "mentally." Lacey's interview includes calling Robert a "fat ass," so no one's really got the high ground here. Although Robert's also calling her a bitch in person. Lacey claims that if she fights with anyone, she'll leave. Everyone is in disbelief, and J calls her bluff. When she starts shouting, he answers, in a relatively calm voice, "This is a professional kitchen. If you wanna [bleep] go, go. I'll [bleep] do everything." She doesn't leave, but she does shut up. For a moment. Then she needs Ben to tell her where the fennel is, and he reacts with exasperation because it's literally right in front of her. So she declares that she hates them all because they are mean, and stomps out, saying she quits.
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1. A religious sacrament marked by the symbolic application of water to the head or immersion of the body into water and resulting in admission of the recipient into the community of Christians.
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1. (Christianity / Ecclesiastical Terms) a Christian religious rite consisting of immersion in or sprinkling with water as a sign that the subject is cleansed from sin and constituted as a member of the Church
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0.078159 | <urn:uuid:3ae4cc7e-d4f8-47ac-b9ea-646fba70328d> | en | 0.943229 | Science: GrrlScientist + Religion | Articles published by Science about: GrrlScientist + Religion en-gb Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. 2013 Sun, 30 Jun 2013 04:32:42 GMT 15 Science: GrrlScientist + Religion | Science book delayed when someone notices it's written by creationists | GrrlScientist <div class="track"><img alt="" src="" width="1" height="1" /></div><p class="standfirst">Once again, Evil Scientists have thwarted a plan by those vile Creationists to take over the world</p><p><em>Once again, Evil Scientists have thwarted a plan by those vile Creationists to take over the world.</em></p><p>Creation Science and its more moderate offspring, Intelligent Design (ID), have never been taken seriously by scientists. This is because most of the actual science is poor, and in ID, at least, is never about the designer. Because of this, ID's supporters have difficulty publishing in the scientific literature, so they have to resort to other methods of getting their message out, like starting <a href="">their own journal</a>. Their latest ruse is to hold a conference and publish a book of conference proceedings.</p><p> </p><p>This all unravelled last week when someone noticed. A long time ID watcher known online as "sparc" saw that the German publishers, Springer-Verlag, announced a book edited with the title <a href=""><em>Biological Information: New Perspectives</em></a>. The editors of the book were well known names: Robert Marks II, Michael Behe, William Dembski, Bruce Gordon, and John Sanford. Despite clearly being an ID book (more on that below), it was being published in the "Intelligent Systems Reference Library" series in Engineering and Applied Science, i.e., not in biology. The more cynical (<em>sensu</em> <a href=",_Minister#Episode_Four:_The_Moral_Dimension">Sir Humphrey</a>) suspected this was an attempt to get the book through the Springer review process by sending it to an editor less likely to understand the context of the book and its proposal. The senior editor (Marks) is a computer scientist, who apparently is well respected in his field, and it may be that his reputation helped steer the book proposal through the publisher. </p><p>After some digging around by ID watchers, the following story has emerged. The book is a collection of papers presented at a meeting held on the campus of Cornell University, in the School of Hotel Administration(!). About 120 people were invited, including roughly 27 speakers. Presumably this was arranged by John Sanford, who is a "courtesy professor" at Cornell (meaning, he <em>was</em> a professor, but retired in 1998, evidently to spend more time with his gene gun).</p><p>But what is the book about? This is how the book's blurb described it:</p><blockquote class="quoted"><p>In the spring of 2011, a diverse group of scientists gathered at Cornell University to discuss their research into the nature and origin of biological information. This symposium brought together experts in information theory, computer science, numerical simulation, thermodynamics, evolutionary theory, whole organism biology, developmental biology, molecular biology, genetics, physics, biophysics, mathematics, and linguistics. This volume presents new research by those invited to speak at the conference.</p><p>The contributors to this volume use their wide-ranging expertise in the area of biological information to bring fresh insights into the explanatory difficulties that biological information raises. Going beyond the conventional scientific wisdom, which attempts to explain biological information reductionistically via chemical, genetic, and natural selective determinants, the work represented here develops novel non-reductionist approaches to biological information, looking notably to telic [<em>sic</em>] and self-organizational [<em>sic</em>] processes.</p><p>Several clear themes emerged from these research papers: 1) Information is indispensable to our understanding of what life is. 2) Biological information is more than the material structures that embody it. 3) Conventional chemical and evolutionary mechanisms seem insufficient to fully explain the labyrinth of information that is life. By exploring new perspectives on biological information, this volume seeks to expand, encourage, and enrich research on the nature and origin of biological information.</p></blockquote><p>The clear themes sound pretty much like biology to me, only loosely linked to intelligent systems. It also differs somewhat from how the meeting was described by its organiser, John Sandford (starting at 30:08 <a href="">here</a>, transcribed by me):</p><blockquote class="quoted"><p>Well, it turns out that Darwin's theory is coming down. And there was a really exciting symposium at Cornell organised by myself and some associates, and it was entitled 'Biological Information: New Perspectives'. And basically it was over 120 people gathered, about half of them PhDs, 25 speakers were PhD scientists [who] talked about the reality [of] number 1: biological information in living systems is astounding, wonderful, beautifully [?] and wonderfully made and number 2: it is coming undone. And this conference had people from every field, from physicists, bio-physicists, chemists, biochemists, mathematicians, geneticists, molecular biologists, computer scientists. All these people came together. We were agreed one one thing, and that is that Darwin was wrong.</p></blockquote><p>So "Darwin was wrong" somehow is transmuted into "conventional chemical and evolutionary mechanisms seem insufficient to fully explain the labyrinth of information that is life" (this is Science Communication [tm] at its finest). An analysis of the titles of the talks at the meeting definitely identified co-authors for 10 of the chapters in the book, and provide good guesses for the identities for 10 more authors. Almost all are either YECs, young earth creationists (Sanford is a YEC), or part of the ID crowd, associated with the Discovery Institute in Seattle. The titles suggest the usual creationist nonsense, claiming that evolution can't create the complexity we see (but remaining almost uniformly silent on how this complexity arose).</p><p>As the contents of the volume are the typical ID/creationist subjects, how did this book get accepted by Springer-Verlag? Presumably the proposal to have the book published didn't mention ID (nor creationism), but what <em>did</em> it say? Presumably, it would have been more detailed than the book's blurb, and would probably have listed the proposed chapters and authors. I think this would have been spotted rather quickly by biologists, so sending the proposal to an engineering/computer science editor makes sense. But who were the reviewers? Marks II & co. would have provided some suggestions (presumably their friends), but did Springer ask anyone else? And did they query the book's suitability for their Intelligent Systems section?</p><p>A couple of days after the book was noticed, the announcement on Springer's webpages disappeared. The editors decided that "additional peer review would be necessary", according to their executive vice president of corporate communications, which sounds like there was a collective "oh bugger" when Springer realised their mistake, so they've bought themselves some time to sort out the mess. Of course, this may not mean that they won't publish the book anyway: they may decide that the extra sales to creationists is worth the hit to their credibility (especially if they reduce the price from the $179 <a href="">it was originally listed for</a>). This would also avoid the inevitable accusations of suppression of creationist viewpoints, recriminations that don't impress proper scientists. Perhaps Springer may try to have the best of both worlds by publishing it in their <a href="">Design section</a>, alongside titles like <em>Functional Aesthetics</em>, <em>Emergency Design</em>, and <em>Max von Moos' Surrealistic Depiction of War</em> [<em>Das surrealistische Kriegsbild bei Max von Moos</em>].</p><p>This is just the latest chapter in the normal fun-and-games saga that is the ID circus. But, bizarrely, the ID crowd hasn't come out to play this time. Since the withdrawal of the book announcement, all that we've seen has been a couple quotes in an article online, and a post on the Discovery Institute's blog, which was quickly taken down. This is surprising, as the Disco Institute is usually quick to leap up and down complaining that they're being oppressed. So why has there barely been a peep out of them? Don't they care any more? Are they too busy doing more Sooper Top Seekrit Science? Or are they being oppressed by their lawyers?</p><p>.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. </p><p>Thanks to the netizens at <a href="">The Panda's Thumb</a> and <a href=";act=SF;f=14">After the Bar Closes</a> for their research. </p><p>.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. </p><p><a href="">Bob O'Hara</a> is a biostatisician who conducts research at the <a href-"">Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre</a> in Germany. 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All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our <a href="">Terms & Conditions</a> | <a href="">More Feeds</a></div><p style="clear:both" /> Evolution Charles Darwin Biology Science Publishing Science and nature Science and scepticism Creationism Christianity Religion Religion Blogposts Wed, 07 Mar 2012 18:06:00 GMT GrrlScientist Science 2013-06-30T04:32:42Z Article 387009629 Jesus Potter Harry Christ [book review] | @BobOHara <div class="track"><img alt="" src="" width="1" height="1" /></div><p class="standfirst">My spouse stole this book from me before I had a chance to read it, so here's his review!</p><p><img align="right" src="" width="160" height="240" />There are some odd people in this world. Of course, people being what they are, I'm sure many of these odd people think me rather strange too. One group that I learned about are the mythicists. These people argue that Jesus Christ was not a historical figure, but was a mythical creation. Now I've finally read a book by a mythicist -- <em>Jesus Potter Harry Christ: The World's Most Popular Literary Characters</em>, by Derek Murphy (Holy Blasphemy Press: 2011; <a href="">Amazon UK</a>; <a href="">Amazon US</a>). </p><p> </p><p>As the book's title suggests, Murphy's thesis is that Jesus Christ, like Harry Potter, is a mythical creation. In his book he builds his case for this thesis -- not necessarily that there was no person called Jesus Christ wandering around the Middle East 2000 years ago (although it's clear that Murphy believes that there was no historical Christ), but instead that the figure in the Bible who has been worshipped for almost two millennia is a wholly fabricated being.</p><p>Murphy details the historical pre-cursor myths (like Gilgamesh, Pythagoras, Osiris, and Mithras) and their similarities to the Christ myth. Then he argues that Jesus was invented as a Sun God, with astrological symbolism built into the myth, and that his suffering and return from the dead was a part of this symbolism (to do with the "death" of the sun in winter and its subsequent re-birth in Spring). Murphy's contention is that these myths were built up and were used in a mystery cult, which were all the rage at the time. The cults would (like scientology - not a cult at all, oh good lord no) only reveal their inner teachings as their initiates advanced higher up the ladder towards being truly Enlightened. Some of Paul's epistles can be interpreted as Paul correcting initiates who have left the right path. This mystery cult aspect would explain why the hidden story of Christ disappeared: it was secret, and as the cult expanded through the Roman empire the secret aspect became lost, and Christians ended up only using the public teachings.</p><p>Murphy outlines his thesis in a clear and engaging manner -- I really enjoyed reading the book. But there it suffers from one large flaw: the argument is a load of Taurus. It simply doesn't hold together. The logic is so flawed at times it makes you want to take the opposite site, and argue for Biblical inerrancy. This is embarrassing, partly because I really enjoyed reading the book, it's extremely lucid, but largely because Biblical inerrancy sits poorly with my atheism.</p><p>The problem is Murphy's approach is to find all the evidence he can that can be used to support his views, and hoping that the reader will buckle under the weight of it. But the quality of the evidence is extremely varied. For example, he relates Mithras killing the bull to Christ's crucifixion by saying that "[s]ymbolically, the act of slaying a bull with a sword is identical to crucifying it on a cross" (p. 213). Mithras is identified with Christ, so I'm not sure what he was doing killing Himself. Similarly, he suggests that Matthew might have laid out his gospel to reflect the zodiac, although some of these links are rather tenuous: Sagittarius (the archer) represents the crucifixion, because although many sun gods were crucified (or buried under a tree) they were actually killed by an arrow. Like Jesus was. Even more bizarrely, the Sermon on the Mount was meant to reflect Aries the Ram, representing aggression and war. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall kick serious arse?</p><p>These are some of the worse examples, and many of the similarities are at least genuine similarities. The problem is to pick apart which similarities are bogus, which of the genuine ones are due to convergence (e.g. many myths have heroes popping off to the underworld) or coincidence, and which are genuinely the result of deliberate copying. Murphy never attempts this: the similarities are allowed to build up unchallenged. And there is no structure to the build-up: there is no indication of what sort of coincidence is important.</p><p>This is closely related to another problem: the core of Murphy's argument is that some people generated the myth of Christ, as the background to a mystery cult. But he doesn't give us any conspiracy theory to explain who these people were or how and why they did it. So we are given no clue about why they would chose a variety of sources, and how they would chose which bits of which myths to put together. It's also puzzling why Jesus, if he was fictional, was chosen to be Jewish: if his creators were Jewish, why draw so heavily on Greek and Egyptian myths? If they weren't, why chose to make him an outsider?</p><p>I guess most of us, if we thought about it, would accept that there was most probably a historical Christ, but that the accounts of His life given in the Gospels distort what the historical Christ said and did (I can heartily recommend <a href="">Phillip Pullman's fictional meditation on this matter</a>). I think there are interesting questions about how and why this was done (and why, for example, are the Gnostics so different: they may genuinely have been a mystery cult), but these issues aren't touched on. Add to this is the sense of definiteness: the academic style of being clear about what evidence supports a contention is missing. For example, it's well known that some of the Pauline epistles were not written by St. Paul, but Murphy goes further and claims that they were deliberately forged by communities trying to oppose Paul's teaching and confuse other communities (pp. 355-6). Well, possible I suppose but... </p><p>About this point you might be wondering what Harry Potter has to do with this. Unfortunately, not really a lot. His role is to hook us and drag us in, but the logic is typically tenuous: Harry Potter is a moral character who inspires many people, and so is Jesus Christ. Harry Potter is fictional, so Christ might be too. </p><p>It doesn't hurt that Harry Potter is popular, so a few more people will buy Murphy's book. </p><p>Much of this makes me want to suggest that the book isn't worth reading. But it is actually enjoyable and entertaining because of its clear prose and the well-structured argument. Even better, you can enjoy picking apart that argument. So if you like that, I can heartily recommend this book. </p><p>.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. </p><p><strong><a href="">Bob O'Hara</a></strong> is a biostatisician who conducts research at the <a href="">Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre</a> in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. He writes the blog, <em><a href="">Deep Thoughts and Silliness</a></em> at Nature Network. You can also follow him on twitter @<a href="!/BobOHara">BobOHara</a></p><div class="related" style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><ul><li><a href="">Religion</a></li></ul></div><br/><div class="terms"><a href=""></a> © 2013 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. 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I posted this in video cards, but after a few days of research, I've determined it might be a motherboard issue:
I had my computer shipped across the country and when I received it today I discovered that it won't send a video signal to my monitor. Everything seems to be powering up normally on the motherboard, but my monitors aren't getting a signal from the computer. I wish I could tell you more, but because I can't interact with my OS or bios menus, I have no idea what is going on. I'm not even getting a bios splash when I power the comp up.
The computer had been working normally for weeks while it was hooked up to my brother's television. I had it hooked up via hdmi to the TV. I have tried every possible connection to get it working again: different monitors, different cables, and different connection types. But still, when I turn it on, nothing. I don't have the original TV it was hooked up to anymore. And It's likely not a resolution issue because the resolution of all the monitors (including the one it last worked on) was 1920x1080.
I have tried connecting it by hdmi and dvi to two different monitors and another television. I can't boot into safe mode because I can't get a display. I have also observed that my usb keyboard isn't lighting up. I removed the cmos battery to see if I could get something by clearing the bios and still nothing. I've taken half of it apart already and that didn't help (gpu, ram, and unplugged and replugged all the connections). I also tried putting the gpu in a different PCIe slot. Obviously it didn't work.
My system:
CORE I7 930 2.80G
ASUS P6T 1366 X58
2Gx3 - OCZ OCZ3G1600LV6GK
Radeon HD5850
850w Power supply
a c 156 V Motherboard
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If not, continue.
Breadboard with just motherboard, CPU & HSF, case speaker, and PSU. Breadboard with just motherboard, CPU & HSF, case speaker, and PSU. At this point, if you do not have a system (internal case) speaker, you really need one.
If no beeps, LED's, or fan activity:
Check for line power at the PSU input. Extension cords, power strips, and power cords do fail.
If you have power and no beeps, suspect components in likely order are PSU, motherboard, and CPU.
If the system beeps:
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Sad failure of an idea. Stems from a brain fart that turns out to be a brain bubble of fart gas with a ransid odor of no use to anyone.
-I want to make a website thats rad for the youngsters
-dude you made a blubble
-I think Ill make a diagram that proves my theory
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Said as an alternate to the phrase, "I don't know." Usually said when a large amount of humorus tension is built up before the question is presented.
Doug, where you going man?!
"Ee doe nee'*
*(Tremendous amounts of laughter ensues)
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1. black triathlon
when a group of balck people try to run away from the cops. and to do so the usally throw that random wigger to the ground to distract the cops. so the cops bet the niglet out of the white kid. while the blacks are being tazerd
that black triathlon was so funny
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1. fakeability
The ability of a woman to fake an orgasm without her partner knowing. Or the amount of prior knowledge a person has about certain symptoms and therefore they have the ability to fake a medical or mental problem.
Man, Sally has fakeability, did you see her in the movie when Harry met Sally?
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5. shmuel
one who is very nice.
one whos head is deformed.
he/she usually smells because they never shower.
they usually get hit by a spade off their father.
they resemble an animal like an alpacker/llama.
a shmuel usually gets pissed on.
llama, alpacker, shmuel.
1. shmuel
To use manipulative writing or speech in order to take undue credit or aggrandize one's contributions.
To willfully play dumb when presented with evidence and ideas contrary to your own desires and biases.
To willfully play dumb when presented with evidence of your own shmuelling.
His shmuelling is pissing off the whole team.
To cater to his bullshit and then get shmuel'd makes me want to punch him.
2. shmuel
to argue a stupid point without end leading to the irritation of all surrounding parties
stop arguing with that bitch - your pulling a shmuel
he's shmuelin' out on that dude
3. Shmuel
A person who fails all his classes at school and is very anti-social. Also, he showers once every 2 weeks.
I feel like killing myself because my life is a Shmuel.
4. shmuel
an extremely mysterious person
who everyone seems to know
but no one has ever seen in the flesh
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person 2: who the hell is he? i talk to him all the time but i've never actually seen him
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What the fuck you talkin 'bout?! Derives from "shwiggity shwam", which translates to whatever the hell you want it to translate to.
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2. walk-and-talk
When you call someone on a cellphone while doing errands. Considered the lowest form of telephone communication.
I was gonna kill that bitch when she did a walk-and-talk.
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1. walk and talk
You bump into someone you don't like, they clearly want a stop and chat but quick as a flash you say "must go" and start to leave, but they come along too still babbling shit. You're pissed off, you want to hit them, you're in a walk and talk. (Not as cool as it looks on the west wing).
Jim: Saw that tosser Mike today, tried to get me in a stop and chat but i said i had to rush to meet someone.
John: Good thinking.
Jim: yeah but the twat followed me, didn't he. Ended up in a walk and talk.
John: What a cunt.
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WILMINGTON, Del. -- A Delaware judge on Thursday ordered the owner of the former presidential yacht USS Sequoia to sell the boat for $7.8 million, minus legal fees and loans, to a Washington-based investment group after a legal battle in Chancery Court.
Gary Silversmith, the Washington lawyer who owns the boat, argued that FE Partners used a $5 million loan agreement in an attempt to wrest control of the 104-foot yacht, which has an illustrious past.
President John F. Kennedy celebrated his last birthday onboard, and President Richard M. Nixon spent a night aboard the vessel in 1974 before resigning the presidency. President Jimmy Carter sold the ship, and it has passed through a series of private owners.
Silversmith, who has owned the yacht since 2001, turned to FE Partners to secure a $5 million loan to cover debt and expenses.
Chancery Court Judge Sam Glasscock ruled in favor of FE Partners, saying Silversmith must give the investment group the option to buy the boat for $7.8 million, minus other obligations, including legal fees and outstanding loan balances.
FE Partners, which is backed by wealthy mining magnates in India, is expected to exercise its option to purchase the boat, an option that was included in its original loan agreement with Silversmith. A spokesman for FE Partners said the group intends to keep the boat docked in the United States.
"For months, the owner of the Sequoia has tried to use the courts and media to defame and pressure us," FE Partners said in a statement. "During the litigation, he fabricated crucial documents, engaged in witness intimidation and destroyed computers on which critical evidence was stored."
In his order, filed Thursday morning, Glasscock said the "Sequoia parties fraudulently induced" FE Partners to provide the loan, including by producing a fabricated letter from Russian gas company Gazprom to buy the yacht for $20 million. Silversmith said he did not know the letter was fabricated, and submitted evidence to the court that he says proves another party was responsible for drafting the letter.
Silversmith said he could not afford to keep paying legal fees on the case.
"I'm disappointed but realistic that we cannot afford to keep litigating," Silversmith said. "We hope that the lender, FE Partners, does not buy the Sequoia, but they will have the legal right to do so."
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Developers discuss what they want out of next-gen systems
Here’s a blurb from each:
Tim Sweeney, founder of Epic Games: “To be able to easily buy and download games on future consoles as we do in the iOS App Store would be really valuable to us as developers, and make it easier to get our games out without an over-reliance on manufacturing a whole bunch of pieces of spinning plastic that we’d ship to consumers.”
Carl Jones, Crytek director of global business development: “I think that’d be really helpful [if the consoles were more open], because certainly we’re seeing a change in models in games toward more freemium content, and a quicker response to your community. You can be very successful with a game by giving a game away for free, and then giving players the content they want. And if they really want it, and are really enjoying it, that’s when they’ll pay for it. That’s appropriate. Why shouldn’t we do it like that?”
Christian Svensson, SVP at Capcom: “I’ll tell you something I’m hoping for. I’m hoping for a much more fluid means of providing updates to consumers, being able to have a much more rapid turnaround in between when content is submitted and when content goes live to consumers, to provide a higher level of service to them. I’m hoping that the networking and the processes in the future are built with that in mind.”
Anne Blondel-Jouin, managing director at Nadeo: “I have no clue about [console makers' exact plans]. So far we are looking with much interest at what Microsoft is doing with Windows 8 and DirectX 11. That’s something we’re interested in, as we’re still PC-oriented. … If the other [console] platforms were becoming as open as a PC is, then yes, we’d be very much interested, because the more players we can reach, the better. Trackmania and Shootmania and Maniaplanet are based on how many players are coming, how big the ‘fiesta’ is. We would need to get as close as possible to our players. Consoles have rules, and they’re great rules, and they’re rules to make their businesses work. We have nothing against consoles, but so far, we want as much freedom as possible for the players, and the only platform allowing that right now is PC, so we’re still PC.”
David Polfeldt, Ubisoft Massive managing director: “To help us be a better developer, the consoles would have to be more similar between each other than they are today. Now, the difference is too big between the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. So you really, really need to make two games, actually. That’s the way we feel. It’s extremely cumbersome, and the result is that they look the same. So that would be a huge leap forward, and we could spend more time making the game fun, or making more sexy features, rather than just adapting the tech. The second thing is that the new consoles should be connected all the time, 24 hours, so we know they’re there, and we can do things with them.”
You can read the full feature through the link.
03/04/12, 2:20 pm
once PC only developers interested in console LMAO
03/04/12, 7:25 pm
I agree with just about all of that and I hope Sony and MS are listening.
I’m sure people will disagree but I personally think next Gen consoles should be as close to a stream lined high end PC as possible. Make the submission for patches and such quicker as well. Its a shame that Skyrim on Steam gets patches so far ahead of consoles. If Sony and MS are smart they should try to remedy that…
03/04/12, 8:53 pm
Thats a good read. But everyone that commented had hands in developing games. In most cases the real power is with whom funds those projects and even with whom publishes them. Well the devs keep calling for more power, and the piece notes that more power means higher dev costs.
Its one of those glass ceiling things I was refering to a thread or two ago. Sure you could make a better looking game, but the price would go up. Like someone noted rage took 6 years to make at todays standards. Doesn’t make sense for it to take 8, 10 or 12 years to make. So there is a tuff balancing act. Plus, who wants to spend 90usd per game, plus “DLC”?
And you have to consider the cost of the hardware. If the new systems launch at or near 800usd(and I think they will be 600plus, prolly in multiple skus), its going to be tuff going. There just gets to be a price point where you can’t move hardware.
The sort of ironic/funny part, for me, was that those guys all seemed to be asking for basicly a console that was more like a PC.
04/04/12, 1:17 am
“…the new consoles should be connected all the time, 24 hours, so we know they’re there, and we can do things with them.” – Hehe silly Ubisoft. But there were some pretty valid points there, a lot of them relating to the networking and how that’s handled. I imagine then, that that’ll be a large part of the new generation. But yea like OldGamer said, they literally all are present in modern PC’s. Now we wait for the trolls…
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0.021933 | <urn:uuid:54ae9f37-273b-40f5-b74c-f87ae5b9c236> | en | 0.951637 | In Egypt, coalition of groups opposed to Islamists is fracturing
Hassan Ammar/AP - A protester chants slogans as holds up the Quran during a demonstration, in Cairo, Egypt.
CAIRO — Egypt’s disparate opposition groups remain so divided that analysts and activists say they risk losing the last major decision-making body in the country to Islamists when the country votes in upcoming parliamentary elections.
Hostility to the country’s new Islamist-backed constitution drew thousands of protesters into the streets last month and degraded the Muslim Brotherhood’s credibility nationwide, a trend that the opposition claimed was reflected in a smaller majority in a national referendum on the document, compared with previous votes that the Islamists had rallied around. The crisis bolstered opposition optimism that they had been left with a prime opportunity to upset a string of Islamist electoral victories over the past year, politicians and analysts said.
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But petty infighting, ideological differences and disorganization in the ranks have rendered the chances of unity at the ballot box increasingly unlikely. The result, analysts say, is likely to be further gains for the Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party and the Salafist Nour party, which together won 72 percent of parliamentary seats last year, in the first national election since the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak.
“It is really a miracle that we are still sitting together,” said Mohamed Abulghar, the leader of the Social Democratic Party and a prominent voice in the loose and increasingly divided National Salvation Front, which formed last month to oppose the constitution pushed forward by Mohamed Morsi, the Brotherhood-backed president who was elected in June 2012. The NSF had vowed to present a united front going forward, but that unity has largely crumbled.
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Mace Hutchinson of Branson is charged in Taney County with armed
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vehicle. Sheriff's deputies say Hutchinson and Matthew Kraus of
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Wamukota X
08-14-2006, 11:08 AM
The Berlin Conference was held by the Major European countries to decide how they would "carve up" Afrika and slaughter the natives of an entire continent. Their is no other people on this planet that have committed such atrocities against Humankind. Evidently, we are not all the same Human. These are the Real Racist and anyone who harbors (their ideas) them or sides with them are just as wicked and evil. We post harmless Black History knowledge and are called racist yet we haven't harmed one hair on anyones head. The Devil continues to claim he doesn't exist, one of his greatest tricks.
1884-1885 - Berlin West African Conference carves Africa into spheres of control
In the second half of the nineteenth century, after more than four centuries of contact, the European powers finally laid claim to virtually all of Africa. Parts of the continent had been "explored," but now representatives of European governments and rulers arrived to create or expand African spheres of influence for their patrons. Competition was intense. Spheres of influence began to crowd each other. It was time for negotiation, and in late 1884 a conference was convened in Berlin to sort things out. This conference laid the groundwork for the now familiar politico-geographical map of Africa.
In November 1884, the imperial chancellor and architect of the German Empire, Otto von Bismarck, convened a conference of
14 states (including the United States) to settle the political partitioning of Africa. Bismarck wanted not only to expand German spheres of influence in Africa but also to play off Germany's colonial rivals against one another to the Germans' advantage. Of these fourteen nations, France, Germany, Great Britain, and Portugal were the major players in the conference, controlling most of colonial Africa at the time.
The Berlin Conference was Africa's undoing in more ways than one. The colonial powers superimposed their domains on the African Continent. By the time Africa regained its independence after the late 1950s, the realm had acquired a legacy of political fragmentation that could neither be eliminated nor made to operate satisfactorily. The African politico-geographical map is thus a permanent liability that resulted from the three months of ignorant, greedy acquisitiveness during a period when Europe's search for minerals and markets had become insatiable.
The French dominated most of West Africa, and the British East and Southern Africa. The Belgians acquired the vast territory that became The Congo. The Germans held four colonies, one in each of the realm's regions. The Portuguese held a small colony in West Africa and two large ones in Southern Africa.
After colonial rule was firmly established in Africa, the only change in possessions came after World War I. Germany's four colonies were placed under the League of Nations, which established a mandate system for other colonizers to administer the territories.
The Congo Free State, conceived as a "neutral" zone to be run by an international association in the interest of bringing science, civilization, and Christianity to the indigenes, received the Berlin Conference's blessings. Belgium's King Leopold II (above/far left) soon took control, reaping fabulous personal profits through the sale of land and development rights. Scandalously little was reinvested in schools like the one shown here.
BBC News site:
A man who exploited Congo's resources and contributed to up to 10 million deaths.
Result of Colonization:
The European colonial powers shared one objective in their African colonies; exploitation. But in the way they governed their dependencies, they reflected their differences. Some colonial powers were themselves democracies (the United Kingdom and France); others were dictatorships (Portugal, Spain). The British established a system of indirect rule over much of their domain, leaving indigenous power structure in place and making local rulers representatives of the British Crown. This was unthinkable in the Portuguese colonies, where harsh, direct control was the rule. The French sought to create culturally assimilated elites what would represent French ideals in the colonies. In the Belgian Congo, however, King Leopold II, who had financed the expeditions that staked Belgium's claim in Berlin, embarked on a campaign of ruthless exploitation. His enforcers mobilized almost the entire Congolese populations to gather rubber, kill elephants for their ivory, and build public works to improve export routes. For failing to meet production quotes, entire communities were massacred. Killing and maiming became routine in a colony in which horror was the only common denominator. After the impact of the slave trade, King Leopold's reign of terror was Africa's most severe demographic disaster. By the time it ended, after a growing outcry around the world, as many as 10 million Congolese had been murdered. In 1908 the Belgium government administrators, and the Roman Catholic Church each pursued their sometimes competing interest. But no one thought to change the name of the colonial capital: it was Leopoldville until the Belgian Congo achieved independence in 1960. | http://www.wutang-corp.com/forum/archive/index.php?t-24191.html | dclm-gs1-093620002 | false | false | {
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0.019982 | <urn:uuid:54c377cb-4f70-49cb-95d9-045fa8fcc209> | en | 0.954325 | scouts-l Mail Archive for November of 1999: popcorn sales From: Kent Wolfe (kentw@NSLP.ORG)
Date: Wed Nov 03 1999 - 13:37:06 CST
Darryl, this is in response to your question about my original e-mail
regarding what our pack does for those who don't sell popcorn. You had
asked about those who can't afford to pay.
Our pack lets everyone know that, if they can't sell for whatever reason,
they are to contact our committee chair to confidentially discuss their
situation. The pack is willing to waive the buy-out if circumstances
warrant. If the reason is strictly financial, however, the pack wants to
see the boy actually sell popcorn to help "pay his own way" and "help the
pack go". I've seen a lot of council camps' info, and having to sell
popcorn is in line with many campership qualifications.
Kent Wolfe
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It's time for a reality check, Chetan!
TNN Jul 11, 2009, 12.00am IST
(Chetan Hansraj )
Are we almost forgetting that Chetan Hansraj is also an actor?
Well, that's how it seems, what with the actor doing only reality shows these days. And how many of them! Practically every reality show has had Chetan on it. Now we hear he's also travelled to Malaysia for an upcoming show. Yes, we hear Chetan loves adventure, he likes to dance, he likes to do his histrionics, but please we can't have an overdose of you Chetan. Audiences need some variety too. | http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2009-07-11/tv/28209212_1_reality-show-chetan-hansraj-malaysia | dclm-gs1-093750002 | false | false | {
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Alcoholism can lead to deafness in babies
TNN Feb 3, 2013, 05.13AM IST
CHENNAI: Doctors in the west have seen it, ENT specialists here are now seeing it. Smoking and drinking during the first trimester of pregnancy, experts say, can cause deafness in children. While smoking prevents the formation of hair cells of the inner ear, the sensory receptor, alcohol prevents growth of auditory part in the brain.
Doctors at a national conference on speaking and hearing here on Saturday said one of the most important causes for deafness in Indian children was consanguineous marriages. "In most parts of the country, particularly the south, cousins marry. This leads to birth defects due to improper changes in the gene," said ENT surgeon Dr Mohan Kameswaran. Now, a growing number of pregnant women smoke and drink and they face the risk of a series of defects, including deafness in the fetus. "It is not as big a problem as it is in the west, but we are seeing it among the higher socio-economic groups here," he said.
Doctors at the Chennai-based TTK hospital said consumption of alcohol among women was on the rise. Dr Thirumagal, programme coordinator, TTK Hospital, said the problem was increasing in every segment of society. But fewer women seek treatment for alcoholism. On an average, he said, his rehabilitation centre got at least 12 women a year.
The problem with women not getting treated for alcoholism is they can't stop drinking even during pregnancy. "There are two kinds of women who drink, those who drink socially and those for whom it is a habit, though they cannot be called alcoholics. We limit them to one glass of wine a week, but some don't follow it," said gynaecologist Dr Jayashree Gajaraj, who consults at Fortis Malar.
In countries like the US, doctors advise women to keep off alcohol completely during pregnany or ask them stop drinking at least between the 4th and the 8th weeks of pregnancy. During this time, the embryo is rapidly dividing. The critical structure of the brain and cranial features form during the first few weeks, said Bharti Katbamna, professor of Speech Pathology and Audiology at Western Michigan University. "If this happens, the child is born with partial or complete deafness. Worse, these damages are irreversible," she said.
Children of alcoholics have abnormality in brain waves when exposed to sound. "Studies have shown this. In the US, before discharging a newborn they play a sound for the baby and monitor the brain waves to check how it responds. If brain waves are too marginal or absent, it means the child cannot hear the sound," she said.
Besides deafness, a baby born to an alcoholic mother can have learning disabilities and may not have the hand-eye co-ordination. "Alcohol can affect or shut down a gene which has a cascading effect on all the genes. So, even if the frontal brain is affected, it could lead to a series of complications, including deafness and blindness," said Katbamna. | http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-02-03/science/36721176_1_deafness-alcohol-brain-waves | dclm-gs1-093760002 | false | false | {
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Discussion in 'UK & Ireland' started by InVinoVeritas, Oct 29, 2012.
1. InVinoVeritas
InVinoVeritas Member
Saw this posting a while back, and I guess I had a delayed developing thought:
Since seekabrew doesn't extend its database to Europe, what's the distribute of craft American brews like in Europe? I know when I was in Australia, my most recent overseas trip, there were only a couple of the larger craft breweries, like Sierra Nevada. However, for the most part there wasn't much. What do you think the future will be like? How well received are our brews (Australia don't think it was to the taste of many), too hopped up, different cultures, or are we going to see a renaissance where distribution goes crazy? Wouldn't mind a couple Europeans feedback to feed my curiosity. Cheers!
2. Sierra Nevada
Goose Island
Flying Dog
Green Flash
Sam Adams
Pretty Things
Sly Fox
The Bruery
Bear Republic
Beer Valley
High and Mighty
Clown Shoes
Southern Tier
Hoppin Frog
Dark Horse
The Lost Abbey
Jester King
Cigar City
Magic Hat
Bear Republic
Just off the top of my head.
3. There's this really shit outfit called Brewdog that insists on bringing all the really wanky bits of American beer over here, without any of the good bits.
4. Zimbo
Zimbo Member
Absolute garbage.
BrewDog always is a bit of a trail blazer with good American beer which often can be found no where else in the UK. In recent weeks they have been showcasing beers from Firestone Walker and Alesmith with such beers as Union Jack IPA, Double Jack IPA, Wooley Jack, Old Numbskull, Horny Devil, Alesmith IPA, Yulesmith Summer, Speedway Stout etc.
Oh yeah, that stuff's 'wanky...without any of the good buts'. Very funny.
Its funny though, I was having this discussion at a couple of tastings in Edinburgh is recent weeks and the census from those in the know (ie people who've deen driking US craft for many years and those in the industry) is that the range of American beers available in the UK is growing all the time. Especially in the last couple of years. In fact American beers, which many of us traded just months previously, are now turning up on retailers shops. And even more frustratingly, in demand beers from the likes of Dogfish Head and Great Divide are no longer being exported because of domestic US demand. Its safe to say that open minded beer lovers here LOVE American craft beer. Its influence on UK breweries in recent years has been huge.
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5. I think there is a gulf of difference between 'distribute' and 'is available'. Although Essexman's list is comprehensive it's also misleading as many of those breweries do not distribute to Europe but some of their beers have been imported in limited amounts.
6. Zimbo
Zimbo Member
I'm not sure InVino was actually making s distinction between distribution and availability.
BTW, since when did October become 'Have go at Essex' month?
7. They're also all available to buy now here in the UK.
8. The bit about DFH made me sad. 90 minute ipa and PSM are some of the best beers i've tasted.
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9. InVinoVeritas
InVinoVeritas Member
10. and the question was which Breweries distribute to Europe, all I was saying is there is a gulf of difference between a Brewer distributing their beer and someone importing in small, irregular, quantities
11. He wanted to know which beers you get over here, and I answered him as such. You're just nitpicking.
12. not nitpicking, if you don't understand what the difference is then have a beer and chill
13. drtth
drtth Member
Here's a thought for both of you. Are you sure the OP understands the difference?
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14. Zimbo
Zimbo Member
That's what I was saying. And does the difference really matter?
15. drtth
drtth Member
Yeah, figured you having reinforcements wouldn't hurt.
16. Exactly, as I read it he just wanted to know what was available here.
17. LBerges
LBerges Member
In Germany, there are 6 craft breweries that are widely available:
Sierra Nevada, Anchor, Victory, Flying Dog, Left Hand, Great Divide.
Rest is occasional/private import.
18. boddhitree
boddhitree Member
Really? Where? Not in 99% of most Getränkemarkts in Germany. I've never seen any of those in Karstadt, Kaufhof or Edeka, though Braufaktum distributes/sells Boston Lager and Firestone Walker. Other than at Mahrun's in Pfungstadt, I've never seen ANY of the above mentioned beers in Germany.
19. LBerges
LBerges Member
Well, a Getränkemarkt is not the right place to look for good beer from U.S.A. Just as little as Karstadt or Edeka. There are at least three places in Berlin that have these beers. And some internet shops.
20. Bitterbill
Bitterbill Member
Ha! I only get brews here from 5 of the Breweries you listed in WY, we don't have the population to support that many Breweries.
21. FEUO
FEUO Member
Ontario (Canada)
Love it. Big list of stuff we can't get in Michigan either. :rolleyes:
22. It's because importers (who get in alot of small, one off shipments, as mentioned) target the ones that are rarer, so there's more demand, so they can get a higher price for them. Many of the beers mentioned go for like $20 per bottle.
23. You wouldn't feel so aggrieved if you knew the prices paid for them over here.
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Curtis Jackson, also known as 50 Cent (what his British name is depends on the exchange rate that day; today it’s 31 Pence), is not really somebody that I would associate with the world of movie-making. At least, not until I saw Gun and became aware of his previous output (you might be able to tell that I don’t pay much attention to the careers of rappers).
Gun is a film where the subject is what it says on the tin. Gunrunner Rich Taylor (50 Cent) is targeted by the Detroit Police force to stop rapidly raising crime rates (I’m on their side here and I feel most viewers would be too). He bumps into his old friend Angel (played by Val Kilmer, who has changed a lot since Batman Forever and Top Gun), who saves his life in a gun exchange with Machete‘s Danny Trejo. Things heat up as the gun squad tries to do what it needs to in order to take Taylor down. The film takes a fairly predictable course for the rest of it.
50 was prompted to write this film by the interesting nugget of information that sales of guns have gone up by 125% in a recession (a nugget so interesting that it gets used in an in-movie radio news bulletin). It is an interesting subject, and it does serve to show the kind of difficulties that a police squad would have in taking down gunrunners.
However, where the problem lies is the execution. They give the protagonist Rich a Batman-like backstory that is kind of confusing, given what he actually does because of this backstory. I don’t know if they were intending to go for this, or if Cent insisted on it (after all, he did write this) but there is a totally gratuitous sex scene with 50 that seemed to come out of nowhere, which could potentially serve to glamorise the gun-running life. Not only is it the kind of scene you do not want on your television in case anybody walks in (so you spend more thought on wishing it would hurry up than entertaining any thoughts of arousal or appreciation), but it was also rather more Naked 50-Cent Ass than I wanted to see. If he wanted to be a bit cheeky (if you’ll pardon the pun), he could’ve put in a bit of appropriate music for the sex scene, Kiss’ “Love Gun”.
One of the moments of genuine hilarity is the following piece of dialogue. Rich: “P90 Carbine uses 5.7mm. Designed to penetrate Kevlar helmets, vests and CRISAT protection. (Fires the gun into a vest and laughs) Extremely low recoil. Virtually no muzzle climb resultin’ in every shot on target. (Fires repeatedly) That’s the shit right here”. It’s as if the character has started to show that he’s really quite posh and well spoken, so he has to punctuate it with some swearing.
The film ended up being a fairly forgettable action flick that’s not bad, but not that good either. If you don’t like 50 Cent, it’s probably best you stay away, but otherwise it’s a fairly inoffensive way to while away 79 minutes. Since there are no special features on the DVD, that’s all you get. | http://blogcritics.org/dvd-review-gun/ | dclm-gs1-093840002 | false | false | {
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Okay, my therapist is being less than sympathetic, so I don't really know who to turn to. I'm recovering from anorexia nervosa (from bmi 14.7 91 lbs at 5'6), and a few days ago I was 112 lbs. I'm 5'7 now by the way. The goal weight set for me is at 118 lbs, at a 18.5 BMI. So the thing is, I weighed myself today and the same scale that I've been using read 116 lbs. I'm practically on the verge of relapse right now, I could really use some support. I haven't been this high a weight in years and I'm scared as hell and confused. I've barely reached 2000 calories the past few days, let alone the recommended 3000 for teens-I'm 16 years old. How did I gain so fast? What did I do wrong???
Other possible reasons for weight gain: CC has been telling me for the past couple of days that my sodium intake is like, twice what it should be, I've been doing a bunch of lunges and crunches, so maybe I gained muscle, or maybe it's just water weight? I don't drink a lot though- a few cups a day, so I don't know if that would really be it.
Replies would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, everybody.
EDIT: And I haven't even reached 600 calories today. After lunch, I was just too depressed and lost my appetite.
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When I first increased my calories, I thought that I'd gained from 106 to 118 in a matter of around 3 days. I'd only been eating around 1700 calories a day. I stayed strong and believed my family, who told me that I DID NOT look bigger.
A week later, I discovered that I'd actually lost 3 lbs.
It's water weight! You shouldn't see real weight gain for weeks or months.
Yep, water weight :) If you haven't been eating much in the past few days it could be that waste isn't moving through your system as quickly as normal either, and some of that is sitting around in your gut.
First of all 4 pounds is not a lot even in one day. I know it is scary but even healthy people vary by that much. In recovery some people can gain double digits within a few days and why it is important to be monitored. Also your goal weight is not healthy for most people and would be considered anorexic.
I understand the fears and battle. Right now you need to stay off the scale and focus on increasing your calories to 3000 if you want to recover. Will it be hard? Yes but is the only way. Try to take one day at a time and focus on the goals. The goal is to get a healthy body, repair your organs/tissues/metabolism and fully recover.
Abbi333, please could you explain why this goal weight is : 'not healthy for most people and would be considered anorexic.'
A weight corresponding with a diagnosis of anorexia is under 17.5, not 18.5 surely? - Just curious, as my team always told me my target was 117 (at 5' 7"), though they did make it clear that that is a MINIMUM, and following advice here, i may well overshoot this by several pounds.
Actually 18.5 is considered underweight. Also I think you know that for most of the world a bmi of less then 20 is not healthy. For recovery especially one needs to reach a bmi of 20 plus so their brain and body can heal and also one is less likely for relapse. I had in my recovery doctors set low target weights because I had been so bad that they settled for better which all it did was keep me trapped in the ed and constant relapse. When I fully recovered I got to a healthy set point and knew it had to be at least 20 bmi.
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Rice Krispie pancakes
steelykal Sep 16, 2011 02:23 PM
I've heard about them, but never had them. Can't find anything online. Anyone have a recipe? Or would I just make regular pancake batter, add the rice krispies before cooking and top with warmed marshmallow topping? Also dreaming about the possibility of throwing some peanut butter or Nutella somewhere in there...
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Muchlove Sep 18, 2011 11:03 AM
I was so curious about this I had to google it! You've definitely heard of this in connection with the sweet puffed rice cereal, correct? Not just crispy pancakes made of rice? I've had plenty of the latter but they had nothing to do with the breakfast cereal!
Google didn't help me much either, but it did bring up something on the rice crispies website itself, here: http://www.ricekrispies.com/recipes/b...
But it blends the rice crispies with the batter which to me seems pretty pointless.
Where have you heard of these?
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steelykal Sep 18, 2011 05:41 PM
They were a special on the menu of a breakfast restaurant I went to about a year ago. I've been dreaming of them ever since and didn't order them when I had the chance - When I recently went back, they acted like I had horns on my head when I asked about them. Officially, they were Rice Krispie Treat Pancakes - complete with marshmallow sauce. So, no, they were not "Crispy Rice Pancakes" of the ethnic variety...
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HillJ Sep 18, 2011 05:46 PM
Very popular with the college crowd according to my son, studying in PA. To your favorite pancake batter as you pour it into the buttered pan add a sprinkle of rice krispies (son uses cocoa krispies lately) to the unbaked side just as the pan side is firming up. Then flip and complete the cooking process. They pour semi melted marshmallow fluff, chocolate syrup and melted pb over the top. This super sweet pancake is referred to as Krispie Jacks.
and here's another riff.
2. todao Sep 16, 2011 07:07 PM
Most of what I've read about "Rice Krispie Pancakes" had the title "Rice Crispy Pancakes" and should have been called "Crispy Rice Pancakes" because they are typically prepared using rice flour rather than the breakfast cereal. That said, I see no reason why you couldn't incorporate some of the cereal in a pancake. But I wouldn't put it in the mix. I'd probably try sprinkling the cereal on top of a partially cooked pancake (about half done on one side) then allowing it to cook a bit longer before turning it onto the other side to finish. Things like peanut butter and Nutella would be difficult to use as a batter ingredient but could be spread on or, if thinned out, brushed on when plating.
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steelykal Sep 18, 2011 10:47 AM
I think waiting until the pancake is partially cooked is a great idea. I was toying with that since I didn't want my krispies to un-krisp. I only turned up recipes for crispy rice pancakes, which is something else entirely than I'm looking for. Thanks for the tips! | http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/807593 | dclm-gs1-093980002 | false | false | {
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Fourier Series Approximation of a Square Wave
Module by: Don Johnson. E-mail the author
Summary: Shows how to use Fourier series to approximate a square wave, as opposed to the sinusoidal waves seen previously.
The Fourier series representation of a signal, as expressed for a square wave by
st= a 0 + k =1 a k cos2πktT+ k =1 b k sin2πktT s t a 0 k 1 a k 2 k t T k 1 b k 2 k t T
says that the left and right sides are "equal". We need to investigate equality through an example.
Example 1
Figure 1: Fourier series approximation to sqt sq t . The number of terms in the Fourier sum is indicated in each plot, and the square wave is shown as a dashed line over two periods.
Fourier series approximation of a square wave
Fourier series approximation of a square wave (fourier4.png)
Let's find the spectrum of the square wave sqt sq t . The expressions for the Fourier coefficients have the common form
a k b k =2T0T2cos2πktTsin2πktTd t 2TT2Tcos2πktTsin2πktTd t a k b k 2 T t 0 T 2 2 k t T 2 k t T 2 T t T 2 T 2 k t T 2 k t T
The cosine coefficients a k a k are all zero, and the sine coefficients are
b k ={4πk if k is odd0 if k is even b k 4 k k is odd 0 k is even
Thus, the Fourier series for the square wave is
sqt=k134πksin2πktT sq t k k 1 3 4 k 2 k t T
As we see in Figure 1, the Fourier series requires many more terms to provide the same quality of approximation as we found with the half-wave rectified sinusoid. We can verify that more terms are needed by considering the power spectrum and the approximation error shown in Figure 2.
Figure 2: The upper plot shows the power spectrum of the square wave, and the lower plot the rms error of the finite-length Fourier series approximation to the square wave. The asterisk denotes the rms error when the number of terms K K in the Fourier series equals 99.
Power spectrum and rms error
Power spectrum and rms error (fourier5.png)
This difference between the two Fourier series results because the half-wave rectified sinusoid's Fourier coefficients are proportional to 1k2 1 k 2 while those of the square wave are proportional to 1k 1 k . In short, the square wave's coefficients decay more slowly with increasing frequency. Said another way, the square-wave's spectrum contains more power at higher frequencies than does the half-wave-rectified sinusoid.
Exercise 1
Calculate the harmonic distortion for the square wave.
Total harmonic distortion in the square wave is 14π2=20% 1 4 2 20 % .
Figure 3 (fourier4.png)
When comparing the square wave to its Fourier series representation it is not clear that the two are equal. The fact that the square wave's Fourier series requires more terms for a given representation accuracy is not important. However, close inspection of Figure 3 does reveal a potential issue: Does the Fourier series really equal the square wave at all values of t t? In particular, at each step-change in the square wave, the Fourier series exhibits a peak followed by rapid oscillations. As more terms are added to the series, the oscillations seem to become more rapid and smaller, but the peaks are not decreasing. Consider this mathematical question intuitively: Can a discontinuous function, like the square wave, be expressed as a sum, even an infinite one, of continuous ones? One should at least be suspicious, and in fact, it can't be thus expressed. This issue brought Fourier much criticism from the French Academy of Science (Laplace, Legendre, and Lagrange comprised the review committee) for several years after its presentation on 1807. It was not resolved for also a century, and its resolution is interesting and important to understand from a practical viewpoint.
The extraneous peaks in the square wave's Fourier series never disappear; they are termed Gibb's phenomenon after the American physicist Josiah Willard Gibbs. They occur whenever the signal is discontinuous, and will always be present whenever the signal has jumps. Let's return to the question of equality; how can the equal sign in the definition of the Fourier series be justified? The partial answer is that pointwise—each and every value of t t—equality is not guaranteed. What mathematicians later in the nineteenth century showed was that the rms error of the Fourier series was always zero.
limit K rms ε K =0 K rms ε K 0
What this means is that the difference between an actual signal and its Fourier series representation may not be zero, but the square of this quantity has zero integral! It is through the eyes of the rms value that we define equality: Two signals s 1 t s 1 t , s 2 t s 2 t are said to be equal in the mean square if rms s 1 s 2 =0 rms s 1 s 2 0 . These signals are said to be equal pointwise if s 1 t= s 2 t s 1 t s 2 t for all values of tt. For Fourier series, Gibb's phenomenon peaks have finite height and zero width: The error differs from zero only at isolated points--whenever the periodic signal contains discontinuities--and equals about 9% of the size of the discontinuity. The value of a function at a finite set of points does not affect its integral. This effect underlies the reason why defining the value of a discontinuous function, like we refrained from doing in defining the step function, at its discontinuity is meaningless. Whatever you pick for a value has no practical relevance for either the signal's spectrum or for how a system responds to the signal. The Fourier series value "at" the discontinuity is the average of the values on either side of the jump.
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NBC News reports from the Senate debate over shutting down the government today, where Texas Sen. Ted Cruz just wrapped up his 21-hour pseudo filibuster:
Arizona Sen. John McCain lit into Ted Cruz's marathon speech against Obamacare shortly after the Texas senator's 21-hour effort came to its conclusion on Wednesday.
[John] McCain, Republicans' 2008 presidential nominee, castigated the effort to use the specter of a government shutdown to defund Obamacare. But more pointedly, McCain sharply criticized Cruz for likening those who oppose defunding Obamacare to Nazi appeasers before World War II.
"I resoundingly reject that allegation. That allegation, in my view, does a great disservice," McCain said on the Senate floor. "I do not agree with that comparison; I think it's wrong."
Cruz had said Tuesday on the Senate floor in reference to those who are skeptical of the effort to undo Obamacare: "I suspect those same pundits who say it can't be done, if it had been in the 1940s we would have been listening to them. Then they would have made television. They would have gotten beyond carrier pigeons and beyond letters and they would have been on tv and they would have been saying, 'You cannot defeat the Germans.'"
It's not the first time Sen. John McCain has called out the excesses, rhetorical or otherwise, of the "Tea Party"-aligned crop of new and newly prominent Republicans in Congress. It's often the case that invoking a universally-regarded evil like the Nazis, in defense against which so many Americans died, clarifies not the point being made by the politician going there–only the ridiculous exaggerations they're willing to make to justify their behavior. However you feel about "Obamacare," there is nothing about it that any reasonable person would compare to Nazi Germany. It's simply absurd.
And seriously, don't go all "Nazi" in front of a combat veteran like John McCain without a very good reason.
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1. n3bn3b says:
Isn't this a blog about Colorado politics? If I want to read about John McCain I'll go to Daily Kos.
I guess you must be running out of things to talk about in Colorado, since it's all bad news for liberals here…
• Gilpin Guy says:
In your case it would be Red States so don't let the mouse hit you on the way out.
I would say that the shutdown of our national government will have a colossal impact on Colorado recovery efforts so it does have comment potential when we witness Republicans airing thier disagreements in public over something as stupid Nazi analogies.
• BlueCat says:
We discuss lots of national issues here. Always have. Is this the first time you've noticed?. If you really haven't noticed, a quick review of pretty much any thread will bring to your attention the fact that lots of non-Colorado pols and issues not specific to Colorado are discussed pretty much every day. Reagan ring a bell? I think we even have several recently posted pictures.
• Okay – try adding this to the end of the diary…
"Sen. McCain was responding to the upcoming threat of a Federal government shutdown, which would have serious immediate consequences for Colorado's economy, with troops stationed here being paid in IOUs, Medicaid payments being delayed or denied, and Federal road construction project funding drying up."
Now it's a Colorado diary. And Sen. McCain is still right (this time).
2. ModeratusModeratus says:
John McCain should understand that Republicans are going to fight Obamacare with everything they have. I don't support a shutdown, but I want every American to know that Republicans didn't stop fighting Obamacare until the end. If Obamacare comes apart at the seams as McCain and I both believe it will, I want the American people to know we did everything we could.
I don't condone Nazi analogies, but I respect Ted Cruz for fighting the good fight. I respect John McCain too, but he needs to realize that Obamacare is not business as usual. The fight against socialized medicine must go on.
• Littletonian says:
You aren't really familiar with the word "socialized," are you?
• I don't suppose we could get an FAQ on this site… 'cause some common definitions would be useful. "Socialist" is at the top of the list.
• ajb says:
I think it's socialist that we all speak the same language.
• BlueCat says:
From Merriam Webster
noun \ˈsō-shə-ˌli-zəm\
Obamacare doesn't affect private ownership of insurance companies. There are already certain controls, that is regulations, in place governing this and every industry. No Democrats I am aware of advocate government ownership, nationalization, of our major industries.
Republicans and Libertarians either don't know what socialism means or know perfectly well but find there is still some residual cold war paranoia left to be milked out of the term when applied to anything to do with the non-golden safety net for non-golden Americans or with any rational 21st century healthcare strategy.
Effective way to keep Joe Six Pack voting against his own interests. As for the more affluent sectors of the middle class, wouldn't you really rather risk bankruptcy if you get really sick, even though you do have insurance, than become a, gasp, socialist?
And there you have it.
• DavieDavie says:
We have "socialized" medicine today. Because we have ten's of millions of uninsured using ER's for their only access to healthcare, we, the taxpayers are stuck with the unpaid bills, which are higher than if they got regular care from a family physician or neighborhood clinic. You know the old GOP Mantra: privatize profits and socialize the losses. That's they system they are fighting to save.
So all our premiums go up, and the deficit goes up due to runaway medical costs. ACA is the modest first step in breaking that vicious cycle by having citizens direct their money into the pockets of private insurance companies (ok, maybe that fits your definition of socialism?) to pay for more efficiently delivered care (preventive care, care from a trusted professional that knows your history, etc.).
As with most things Tea Party — logic has nothing to do with it. Fear and Ignorance Rules!
• BlueCat says:
Yep. When we don't let children whose parents are uninsured and can't produce the cash be admitted to the ER then we will truly have pure free market healthcare. But that's not the way we do it.
As long as we admit and treat and cover the costs for those children then we do have a form of socialized medicine, universal healthcare, whatever you want to call it.
So all those who are supposedly resisting universal health care are a little late. It's not that we don't have it. We do. It's just that the kind we have is really crappy and inadequate and costs at least twice as much as the quality universal health care all the other civilized countries have. We're number nowhere even close to one. Cheers for us? Seriously?
What the connection is between freedom, mom, apple pie and the American way and Americans continuing to pay the most per capita of any country on the planet for health care, including all those ER bills, while getting so much less bang for the buck escapes me. You'd think righties l would be for getting the best value for their money.
• MADCO says:
In the late 20's and early 30's Social Security was the slippery slope to Cummunism – no serious politician of any party affiliation has tried to repeal it. And we are not communist.
After that it was the military industrial complex that was going to ruin us.
In the late 50's early 60's it was Medicare, the sure step on the path to socialism and then communism.
In the 90's it was sex.
And now it's Obamacare.
When it's implemented and most people hate it, the GOTP need only shake their heads, mutter "told ya" and win every important election in 2014, 2016 and 2018.
Democracy works. Win some elections, legislate like you care about every American, and you will win some more.
Instead, do what you've been doing since ….2008 and see how that works out. GLWAT.
• Duke CoxDuke Cox says:
please explain to me how the ACA consitutes socialized medicine…or I will be forced to use a very unkind, but funny, ad hominem attack upon you to demonstrate my contempt for your continued inappropriate mislabeling of our nations' new health care law.
How am I doin', guys?
• DaftPunkDaftPunk says:
If you don't condone Nazi analogies, how can you say Cruz fought "the good fight?"
3. MichaelBowmanMichaelBowman says:
~The Princess Bride
PS: It's hard to miss the irony that the moral of the story "Green Eggs and Ham" was that you should't say you don't like something until you've tried it….
• ClubTwittyClubTwitty says:
"I do so love green eggs and ham."
• Gilpin Guy says:
And green eggs and bacon. And ice cream and bacon. And pre-existing coverage and bacon.
• BlueCat says:
It really is the ingredient that makes everything better. Next time you make beef stew, fry up some bacon first, brown the flour dredged beef cubes in bacon grease augmented with butter, don't crowd the cubes, add some red wine along with usual liquid and bacon pieces along with the usual stuff you like to throw in and voila! Really yummy, classy beef stew without all the fuss of slavishly following Julia Child's beef bourguignon recipe.
Now what were we talking about, again? I think I need to run out and by some high grade chuck. Already have the bacon.
• mamajama55mamajama55 says:
Ruining a good book. Thanks, Ted Cruz. Just please, stay the hell away from "Good night, Moon," or "Where the Wild Things Are". I would like to have some books that I can still read to my grandchildren.
• notaskinnycook says:
You noticed that, too, MichaelBowman? I burst out laughting at the television when I heard what that clown was reading. And what's that they say, "The first one to bring up Nazis or Hitler loses the argument."?
• notaskinnycook says:
As partially noted earlier, we have all kinds of socialized medicine in America: Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP, and as Geo.Bush The Younger noted: "No one in America has to go without healthcare.Just go to any emergency room and you will be treated." He failed to add "And the cost of your care will be passed on to insured patients in the form of $10.00 Tylenols, $5 Band-aids and sugeries that cost, at minimum, twice what they do in countries with evil socialized medicine."
• BlueCat says:
Left out the VA. So we're all a bunch of socialists already, by the righties' definition if not by the actual definition. We're all covering the ER costs of the uninsured already. Then why are we having arguments about whether or not to have something we clearly already have instead of discussions on how to do it rationally for less than half the money and with better outcomes, the way it's done in the rest of the 21st century modern industrialized world? The whole thing is not so much Green Eggs and Ham as pure Through the Looking Glass nuts.
4. rathmone says:
As long as we're noting Cruz's offensive WW2-era analogies…
He said this too:
5. RavenDawg says:
Know thyself, John McCain.
By selling out and legitimizing Sarah Palin and her Tea Party followers in 2008, McCain empowered the people he now denounces. He was stuck–he could do what he did, or he could have stood by his established conservative "maverick" positions and won more moderate/independents, but lost the far right Repubs. At another time in our history he might have had a better shot to make the presidency. As it is, he betrayed his own credibility, and now we're supposed to take him seriously? I agree with him in this case but don't have any trust in his integrity–He burned his bridges with me when he stood by and let a brother officer and decorated veteran be smeared by a partisan campaign of lies. Maybe that's too harsh but he is going to have to deliver some real movement in the Repub caucus to earn any cred as a leader.
• BlueCat says:
And there was enough reluctance to vote for a black guy with a funny foreign African/Muslim name that McCain might have pulled it off by tacking back toward the center after winning the nomination, maybe losing a piece of the wacko fringe (most would have come over to oppose their idea of the Prince of Darkness anyway) but with a lot of people in the middle jumping on board who might have been relieved to excuse themselves from voting for Obama if the other option had been good ol' Maverick McCain instead of blatantly dense and loony Palin a hear beat away from the presidency. Obama definitely benefited from bad advice accepted by both HRC and McCain. Speaking of which HRC had better boot the old team this time out.
6. ClubTwittyClubTwitty says:
Newsman Colbert reports on Canadian Senator's heroic effort to waste America's time.
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The first law of thermodynamics is that matter/energy cannot be "created" or destroyed. We can convert energy from one form to another. For instance, in a car, we convert chemical energy (actually the binding energy of electrons) to heat, which in turn is converted to kinetic energy (motion).
Your question has a similar answer. When you rotate a magnet, you are using kinetic energy to move it. This kinetic energy can be converted to electrical energy by taking advantage of the properties of electromagnetism. Since you can't "create" energy, the amount of electrical energy produced will always be the same or less than the amount of energy you put in. Actually, it can't be exactly the same, because there is always at least some energy converted to heat by friction. This wasted energy results in an energy conversion "efficiency" which is less than 100%. The classic application of your example is the electric generator.
One of the most useful and beautifully symmetric principles in physics is the connection between electricity and magnetism. This connection can be described like this. Electrons feel the force exerted by a magnetic field. This is because electrons behave like tiny magnets, with North and South poles. So a magnetic field will have an effect on electrons in that field. If the field moves, the electrons in it will try to move. Conversely, if we have electrons in motion (electric current in a wire, for instance), these moving charges exert a magnetic force (because of their magnet-like property). So, if you glue a magnet onto an axle, and turn the axle, you create a spinning magnetic field. Place a length of wire around the spinning magnet, and an electric current (moving electrons) will occur in the wire. This is called induction. If you wrap the wire multiple times around, you increase the amount of current induced. You can verify this if you have a very sensitive ammeter to measure the current with. Now we can also take a length of wire and coil it up, then run electric current through it. Because of the magnetic properties of electrons, this coil becomes an electromagnet. And we could go even further. Take that electromagnet, and spin it (we'll use something called 'slip rings' to keep our wires from twisting up), and you have another spinning magnetic field from which you can induce electricity.
The next thing we'd have to talk about is the idea of direct and alternating current, which we don't have room for here. But there are plenty of good web sites where you can get more information on this topic. Here are some I've come across: AC Alternator, Generators, Magnetism.
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The bouncing ball is a device used in video recordings to visually indicate the rhythm of a song, helping audiences to sing along with live or prerecorded music. As the song's lyrics are displayed on the screen, an animated ball bounces across the top of the words, landing on each syllable when it is to be sung.
The bouncing ball was invented at Fleischer Studios for the Song Car-Tunes series of animated cartoons (both Max and Dave Fleischer later claimed to have devised the idea). It was introduced in September 1925 with the film My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean.[1] In these earliest films using the device, the bouncing ball itself was not animated. The effect was created by filming a long stick with a luminescent ball on the tip, which was physically "bounced" across a screen of printed words by a studio employee. The movement was captured on high-contrast film that rendered the stick invisible.[2] The ball would usually appear as white-on-black, though sometimes the ball and lyrics would be superimposed over (darkened) still drawings or photographs or even live-action footage. Later versions of the bouncing ball have used cel animation or digital effects. Some modern video editing programs achieve the same effect as the bouncing ball by highlighting each displayed syllable as it is sung.
The bouncing ball cartoons continued production at the studio formed after Paramount ousted the Fleischer Brothers, Famous Studios. The revived series, retitled Screen Songs, began in 1945 with Old McDonald Had A Farm, and continued into the early 1950s. An attempt was made to revive the series in 1963 with Hobo's Holiday, using a more modern folk music style. Meanwhile, in the United States, younger generations of children continued to be familiar with the cartoons from television rebroadcasts into the 1970s.
The bouncing ball has been used in many films and television programs over the years.
Mitch Miller's Sing Along with Mitch program (1961–1964) is often thought to have used it, although Mitch himself denies there was a bouncing ball: Ms. KAREN HERMAN (Director, Archive of American Television): Talk about the bouncing ball concept. Mr. MILLER: Never was a bouncing ball. Everyone says there's a bouncing ball. We just had the lyrics and, as I told you, had the two cameras and the stuff in black. Ms. HERMAN: Why do you think that everybody thinks that there was a bouncing ball? Mr. MILLER: Because there was in the theater. There was a - when the organ would teach you a new song in theater, the organ would play and there was a bouncing ball. And then there was a cartoon - Looney Tunes and all that, they had a bouncing ball. So people, you know, drew that from their memory.[3]
More recently, it was used in the Disney Sing Along Songs series of children's videos (where the "ball" is shaped like Mickey Mouse's head) and in The Simpsons episode "22 Short Films About Springfield" (in which it accompanies Cletus the Slack-Jawed Yokel's theme song).
The bouncing ball is also used in some karaoke devices and software.[citation needed]
1. ^ John Grant (2001). Masters of Animation. Watson–Guptill. ISBN 0-8230-3041-5.
2. ^ Maltin, Leonard. Of Mice and Magic: A History of American Animated Cartoons (New York: Plume Books, 1980), 89.
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How do you refer to men who are unable to get women for courtship?
Context of the question: A man might want a woman for sex, just for sex, for marriage, for a relationship that might not necessarily lead to a marriage, etc. But whatever might be the reason, the man needs to be able to talk to/impress/approach the lady. If a person is unable to do so and thus has a very hard time getting women, what would you call him?
Also, please do not consider paying a woman in the same way as I am trying to express getting a woman. Both are totally different things. Whatever the a man might want from a woman, he needs to go through a test of sorts. That could be having a soft heart for some women, simply wealth for others, with some it is social status, etc. What do you call a person who does not pass this test (or hardly ever passes it) with any woman.
Also, I am not looking for slang terms.
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I sometimes call them Redditors. :b – Zairja Sep 9 '12 at 15:56
While 'unattractive' is usually used in reference to physical beauty, the term in its broader sense simply means to be 'unable to attract' whatever the reason. – Jim Sep 9 '12 at 18:21
I voted to reopen this. The question is specific enough - we want a word that means "unlucky in love" or "involuntarily without a girlfriend". The OP specifically mentioned courtship, as opposed to sex, so that it's clear what's required. The whole point of the question is that it's NOT about WHY this person is in this state - so "unattractive", "socially awkward", "unlikable" and so on don't qualify as answers. And it is not going to result in a long list of possibilities - we haven't seen a great answer yet. It seems to me that questions like this one are exactly what the SWR tag is for. – user16269 Sep 9 '12 at 18:39
@RitwikG- If you are willing to introduce a playful/teasing aspect you might say, "My friend seems to repel women." – Jim Sep 9 '12 at 19:13
@Ritwik G: I'm not in favour of this question having been closed, but we'd have more chance of getting it re-opened (and maybe even answered) if you'd edit the question to say whether you want a slang, normal usage, or technical (academic, psychiatric) term. And whether it's men who can't get sex, or can't form close and/or lasting relationships with women, or whatever. – FumbleFingers Sep 9 '12 at 20:46
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A man (or woman) may be "friend-zoned":
. . .where one person wishes to enter into a romantic relationship while the other does not.
Assuming the man lost his partner, he could be lovelorn ("bereft of love or of a lover") because he is unattractive, unlikable, uncouth or for any number of reasons.
It's often said that "nice guys finish last" or a "nice guy" is "unlucky in love". However, not all who fail romantically are necessarily "nice guys".
As has been pointed out in the comments, it's possible the man is involuntarily celibate. Such people are colloquially referred to as "incels".
Edit: What follows is supplementary but "closes" the question in my mind. I offer few inline citations since the words I suggest are general reference.
First off, I would argue this question falls somewhere between "not constructive" and "not a real question" as per the FAQ. It has clearly created extended discussion and is too broad to be reasonably answered.
Simply put, there is no well-defined term that meet's the question's requirements. Nevertheless, we can examine a range of possibilities and, given better context, one may be selected.
The man is incompatible with some women. Whether it's due to his choice in women or his own traits is irrelevant (and not clear without context). We can add that the man is romantically incompatible with some women to be more precise. Furthermore, we can say, "As far as establishing relationships go, he is a born loser," i.e habitually unsuccessful in his attempts. Again, whether it's because of a social anxiety disorder, negative personality traits, bad luck, poor decision-making in mate selection, etc. is irrelevant although this context would be far more informative than trying to describe the result as the question wishes.
The man may be considered a social or romantic reject ("one rejected as not wanted, unsatisfactory, or not fulfilling requirements"), romantically ostracized, or a social outcast, though there is some dubious circular reasoning here -- but we're not trying to describe or ascertain the why of the situation which is implicit in many alternative descriptions.
The man is the male equivalent of a spinster:
[. . .] a woman who has not formed a human pair bond by the time she is approaching or has reached menopause and the end of her reproductive lifespan.
There is no word with the exact same connotations for males. The closest we have is bachelor, further qualified in unwilling bachelor (see Section (h), e.g.). As a single person, he may be considered "on the shelf".
Ultimately there appears to be no single word to describe all the nuances the question may wish to convey. Sadly, one will have to rely on multiple words (perhaps even multiple sentences!) to express the situation.
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Ultimately there appears to be no single word to describe all the nuances the question may wish to convey ... But you took a valuable effort nevertheless. Thanks ! – Ritwik G Sep 14 '12 at 6:25
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CAVEs, or CAVE Automatic Virtual Environment, come with devices called trackers. One tracker is located on a pair of shutter glasses that the user wears. This one tracks the location of your head, which then adjusts the screens for distortion. The other tracker is located in a device called a Wanda, which is much like a Wii-mote but about 100 times more accurate. The trackers use a magnetic field that fills not just the sides of the CAVE screens it self (10x10x10 foot cube), but beyond that.
Microsoft's innovation appears to be that it does the same thing, but with just one projector, that uses the walls around the room for peripheral vision - a highly useful feature (just ask any hardcore FPS gamer who has changed his FOV setting). It's probably not as accurate or as pretty, and it's likely going to be somewhere below the half a million you need to build a legitimate CAVE.
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Bioelectric Stimulating Technique is a natural health device that helps your body to strengthen and balance itself. The human body functions by electro-magnetic signals which travel from the brain to each part of the body and back to the brain. When cells have enough energy they are able to function properly. When they are bogged down with toxins, however, all functions of the system are impaired, leading to fatigue and eventually illness and disease.
Blood cells that are filled with toxins also tend to clump together and become congested and slow moving. Live blood analysis using the bioelectric detox method show that after a session, the blood cells flow more freely. That means that our organs are nourished more efficiently and we are better able to fight illness and disease.
The Bioelectric Stimulating Technique is a simple procedure in which the energy spa energizes water (in which your feet are soaking) and charges your body. This allows the system to absorb vital energy on a cellular level, creating cellular balance. Once the body receives the energy, it begins its natural process of detoxification. The process is different for everyone, but the results are always dramatic in the way that you feel after the session. It is safe for everyone except those individuals with pacemakers.
Not only does the body release waste and toxins more readily during treatment, but it continues to release waste products naturally during regular elimination for the next several days. We have been using it with great results on Candida, Fibromyalgia and other diseases, and have found that it is also helpful in the treatment of acne. Another outstanding benefit is the relief it provides from joint pain.
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It’s no secret (pun intended) that the main characters and actresses of the hit TV series Pretty Little Liars are style icons.
I’ve gotten my share of people asking, “How do I dress like Troian? Or how do I dress like the character Aria?” When asked to provide celebrity style inspiration, lots of girls are saying “I love Spencer’s style.” And even, “I want to steal Shay Mitchell’s closet.”
Well, sometimes it can be confusing as to whether people like the style of the character or the actual person. A lot of us forget that stylists and costume designers are the ones who piece together and create looks for the character; the character’s style can be a lot different from the actresses’.
I’ve spent some time researching the aesthetic costume designer, Mandy Line, had in mind when creating looks for these characters. I even took it a step ahead and dug deep to find what the girl’s consider their own personal styles.
Below, I’ve provided a set of “must-haves” that you’ll need to achieve both the characters and the actress’s style!
Troian Bellisario ”Classic and feminine.” Pair shorts, knee highs and boots with a blazer, long necklaces and a fedora.
You’ll Need: 1. A loose tank top $29 2. Knee high socks $20 3. Fedora $15 4. Knee high boots $11 5. Shorts $32 H& 6. Long necklace $14 7. Blazer $32
Spencer Hastings “Preppy, menswear inspired, classic.” Pair button downs with argyle sweaters and oxford shoes.
You’ll Need: 1. Button Down 2. Oxford Shoes 3. Argyle Sweaters 4. Gold Watch 5. Boyfriend Jeans
Shay Mitchell “Girly.” Think sequins, ruffles, floral dresses and lots of accessories.
You’ll Need: 1. Sequin Top $34 2. Girly Accessories 3. Floral Dress $24 4. Flared Skirt $6.38 H&M 5. Ruffle Sandals $14 6. Girly shoulder bag $40
Emily Fields “Sporty, Comfortable.” Wear striped tops, jean mini skirts, converse and loose layers
You’ll Need: 1. Converse $35 2. Striped Top $15 H&M 3.Simple Necklace $20 4. Jean skirt $20 5. Cardigan $16 H&M
Lucy Hale “Girly with an edge.” Pair girly clothing with tough accessories
You’ll Need: 1. Gem Necklace $16 2. Feminine Dress $40 H& 3. Jacket $20 H& 4. Heels $23 5. Studded Bangles $8
Aria Montgomery “Eclectic, edgy with some vintage mixed in.” Think feather earrings, tights, black with splashes of color here and there
You’ll Need: 1. Flirty Black Dress $48 2. Vintage shoulder bag $30 3. Feather earrings $29 4. Patterned tights $25 5. Gladiator heels $40
Ashley Benson “Vintage Girly.” Blend different styles, mix vintage pieces with leather jackets, mini skirts and heels
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Hanna Marin “Trendy, glamorous, sophisticated.” She’s all about looking fashion forward and wearing the latest brands and trends
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Sunday, Dec. 6, 2009
Finding satisfaction in being ourselves
Growing access to information and the ease with which we can compare ourselves to others is making people less happy in life, says psychiatrist Rika Kayama
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Psychiatrist Rika Kayama is an outspoken doctor specializing in mental illness, a best-selling writer and a popular social commentator.
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The right medicine: Psychiatrist and best-selling writer Rika Kayama says many people develop mental illnesses because they have unrealistically high expectations about what they will achieve in life. SATOKO KAWASAKI PHOTO
Her latest book, "Shigamitsukanai Ikikata" ("A Way of Life in Which You Don't Cling to Anything"), has sold 422,000 copies since it was published in July.
In the book, Kayama, based on her clinical experience and research, suggests 10 rules by which stressed people can live happy lives. The rules recommend people not cling to money, love or children — and not pursue dreams through employment.
The book, with its realistic and laid-back take on life, has attracted much attention — in part because one rule stated, "Don't try to be like Kazuyo Katsuma."
Katsuma, an economic analyst and writer of self-improvement books, has become an icon as a successful businesswoman and has many fans.
Kayama, however, in her book, says not everybody should work hard to improve themselves in the way Katsuma does — because some people are at risk of developing mental illness due to stress.
The 49-year-old doctor has treated such people for 23 years, and in pondering how their problems relate to social issues, Kayama has concluded that the way patients suffering from stress-related illness think about their condition has changed.
Decades ago most of her patients blamed themselves, but an increasing number nowadays blame others, she said in her book "Waruinowa Watashijanai Shokogun" ("I-Am-Not-to-Blame Syndrome"). Kayama's analysis was that the spread of neoliberalism (based on market fundamentalism) in Japan in the last decade caused intensified competition among people, which lead them to blame their illness on their colleagues, family members or others in order to shield themselves from the criticism that develops in a highly competitive atmosphere.
Kayama offers deep insights into the human condition and she seems to be a perfect fit for her role as a psychiatrist. But she says her job was not her first choice of career and she has never been carried away with her work.
Born in Sapporo in 1960, Kayama, the daughter of an obstetrician, entered high school in Tokyo at age 15 and hoped she would become a scientist. Upon failing the entrance exams for the universities she wanted to attend, she studied medicine at Tokyo Medical University, where, as a student, she started writing for a minor magazine under the pen name Rika Kayama. (She reserves use of her real name for her work with patients and her private life.)
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Working woman: Rika Kayama is shown in 1987 in Hokkaido, where, after graduating from Tokyo Medical University, she took a job as a psychiatrist at a hospital where she wrote articles for magazines on mental health. RIKA KAYAMA PHOTO
She wrote her first book, "Rika-chan Complex," while working as a psychiatrist in a hospital in Hokkaido in 1991. In it she analyzes various mental illnesses. Since then, she has written more than 90 books on this topic, as well as social issues and culture. She is outspoken about famous people who experience mental illness, including Crown Princess Masako, who she says suffers from being career-oriented but is at a professional impasse.
Kayama works at a Tokyo clinic and at the same time has columns in newspapers, appears on TV programs as a commentator and teaches at the College of Contemporary Psychology at Tokyo's Rikkyo University.
On a mid-November day, Kayama spoke with The Japan Times at her office in Tokyo's Harajuku district.
In your latest book, you said growing numbers of people don't feel that they live in happiness or are satisfied. Do you see a lot of these people at the clinic where you work?
People say the gap between the rich and the poor is widening in Japanese society, and I see this gap reflected in patients who come to the clinic. The clinic is focused on psychiatry, so everyone who comes has problems such as depression, sleep deprivation or fatigue. Although people can develop depression for no reason, there are causes behind the cases of many people. So I listen to patients talk about their life and I have found two different tendencies. First, more and more people in Tokyo face difficulties because they cannot find jobs or are forced to move out of their homes (because they cannot pay the rent). Some are threatened by debt collectors or suffer domestic violence. The realities these people face are clearly tough, and they need to solve these problems before receiving medical treatment. Second, many other patients don't have such problems at all. They are in a good environment. They have houses and dependable incomes. But they are not satisfied with themselves, feel empty and get depressed.
Why are people in the second group unhappy and unsatisfied?
Not in mental science but in social psychology, it is said that when people become rich, they seek fulfillment and want to think of themselves as different from others: They want something to live for. Such hope may be inevitable in a rich society. And it is good to seek something to live for. But, on the other hand, some people are blind to their existing happiness, and they think, "I don't have anything" or "I am not privileged compared with others." They are denying themselves, which is a significant problem. Because people have easy access to a lot of information nowadays, they can see themselves relative to others and lose their own way of evaluating themselves, saying, "Others make much more effort than I do" or "Other people are more successful than me, even though they are same age as me."
You wrote 10 rules to achieve happiness in the book. One of the rules is, "Don't try to be like Kazuyo Katsuma." Why is that?
There are people nicknamed "Katsuma" who aim to be like Ms. Katsuma. I have seen patients who are actually fans of Ms. Katsuma. They said they studied her methods vigorously but failed to achieve their goals. They blame themselves by thinking, "I am lazy," or "I am one of society's loser dogs (makeinu, a term used to describe single women aged over 30)." Even those who achieved their goals still think, "I am not as happy as Ms. Katsuma, and I don't find life worth living everyday in the way she does." Kazuyo Katsuma is a huge icon, especially for serious, hardworking women. I hope such women acknowledge and accept themselves, because they have worked hard enough and gained many things.
You debated Ms. Katsuma in the magazine "AERA." How are your opinions different?
We have different models of the human precondition. Ms. Katsuma trusts human beings and believes everybody can achieve something if given opportunity and education. I think it is difficult to give everyone equal opportunity. And even if everyone is given equal opportunity, their personality can affect how hard they work. There might be freedom in not working hard. Some people, despite working hard, may have accidents befall them and fail as a result. Life holds uncertainty. I think it's better to think that unexpected things will happen in life — extra bits, rather like the tabs used to glue together a cardboard box. Not everyone will be able to work hard and improve themselves. In that sense, I may not trust human beings. Ms. Katsuma doesn't believe there are people who don't want to make an effort. But I think it is human nature to be bad, lazy or dishonest.
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clarifies the present BJP president, Nitin Gadkari :
On the issue of the Babri Masjid demolition he said, though the incident was “unfortunate”, what was demolished was a disputed structure and not a mosque.
“A mosque is one when prayers are offered regularly… Moreover, a Ram idol was kept there,” he pointed out.
I don’t really see why he has to give reasons because honestly, it is laughable when someone tries to justify the demolishing. He might as well be honest and say Yes, we totally pwned it, you n00b !
On the anniversary of the Babri Masjid demolition, the leaked Liberhan report and when the RSS is looking to increase its stronghold over the B.J.P. once again, I recommend this piece of Vir Sanghvi. This bit, I liked best :
I don’t wish to make too much of Advani’s pious hand-rubbing or his crocodile tears. But the furore about the demolition should serve to remind us that no matter how reasonable BJP leaders may seem on television, at the heart of the parivar, there lurks a nasty fascist core.
A fascist core — that is what is common to so many parties today. Even considering Vir Sanghvi’s Congress leanings, I can’t find much to complain about in what he puts forth.
In a discussion, a friend once claimed that the RSS/BJP kar-sevaks didn’t really demolish the masjid and it was the Central government that completed the task after nightfall. All I say is, I still hold the RSS/BJP responsible for the demolition and every death that occurred consequently.
Advani has done plenty for the country, but speaking for myself, I won’t be disappointed if history remembers L.K. Advani as just the architect of the Babri Masjid demolition.
Link via @amitvarma.
As I had speculated a couple of days ago that if Kalyan Singh could distance himself from the Babri Masjid demolition, so could anyone else. Uma Bharti quickly follows suit :
After former BJP leader Kalyan Singh’s claim that he was kept in the dark about the Babri masjid demolition, another temple movement leader Uma Bharti on Monday said that “everyone” was in the dark about the demolition.
“We still don’t know who did it,” she told PTI at Atrauli near here.
Ok fine I’ll give it to ya. Everyone was in the dark.
P.S. : Wasn’t it done at night ?
I deeply admire the way Kalyan Singh has distanced himself from the Babri Masjid demolition ever since resigning from the BJP. The latest statement is :
I was told that nothing will happen (demolition of mosque)… there was a conspiracy by BJP behind it. Two big leaders who were kar sevavadis, had given to Supreme Court in writing that only a symbolic kar seva would be held there (in Ayodhya),”
“Kya Muslim nahin chaahte hain ki BJP ka naash ho? Tumse zyada to Kalyan chaahta hai ki BJP ka naash ho. Maine BJP ki kabr khod di hai, aap us per mitti daal dena is baar.” (Don’t Muslims want the BJP destroyed? More than you, Kalyan who wants the BJP’s destruction. I’ve dug the BJP’s grave, this time ensure you seal it with earth.)
Maybe in a few years, the BJP can rename itself BJP_new and blame the BJP for the demolition.
With the tough talk and war rhetoric all around, I was pleasantly surprised to read this interview of Mrs. Kavita Karkare :
Q : Your daughter who has graduated from the London School of Economics, how has she taken to the incident?
Kavita Karkare: She was very close to her father so she was extremely depressed. My elder daughter asked her; should Kasab get harsh punishment? She immediately reacted that Kasab is only 21-years-old, so we should try and change his ideology and his thoughts. He should be given oppurtunities so that he can change.
Kasab should and will get a deserving punishment by law, but that isn’t the point here. This is a much much larger statement about us. That we were the home of a certain Gandhi and countless other similar thinkers all through our history. They just got a name with Gandhi.
Without proceeding further, I very humbly submit that I haven’t understood Gandhi, but I am equally sure that I haven’t not understood Gandhi.
Gandhigiri might come from movies and go to the dirt.
But this is still the land of Gandhi.
The Shiv Sena supremo snubbed the Karkares for this statement.
I leave you with this poem penned by Mrs. Karkare :
Mere pati shaheed hone ka mujhe gam zaroor hai afsos nahi
(My husband’s matyrdom makes me sad, not sorry)
Mere pati shaheed hone ka mujhe gam zaroor hai afsos nahi
(My husband’s matyrdom makes me sad, not sorry)
Shaheed ki patni safed sari pehenti nahi, apna sindoor mitati nahi, apni chudiyan nikaalti nahi
(A martyr’s widow wears no white, doesn’t remove her sindoor and bnangles)
Vedic kaal mein jinke ranbhumi se laut ke aate the, unke aurate unke naam ka sindoor lagane ke liye mana karti thi
(Wives don’t honour those who return unharmed from the battlefield)
Mere pati shaheed hone ka mujhe gam zaroor hai afsos nahi
(My husband’s matyrdom makes me sad, not sorry)
Phir bhi kuch sawal dil mein aate hai, par jawab mil nahi paate
(Still some questions remain for which there are no answers)
Main apne pati ko helmet pehante dekha tha, woh helmet kyun nahi thik baitha tha. Iska kuch jawab tha.
(I saw my husband wearing his helmet. It didn’t fit. Why? There is no answer)
Bulletproof jacket sirf ek dikhawa thi, bulletproof gadiya pradarshan ka ek anokha drishya tha
(The bulletproof jacket and car were just for show)
Lekin apne department mein disaster management ki itni dayneeya avasta kyun hai
(Why is the department in such a pitiful state)
Man kehta hai pagal tu kisse sawal karta hai
(My mind tells me, “Fool who are you questioning?”)
Mere pati shaheed hone ka mujhe gam zaroor hai afsos nahi
(My husband’s matyrdom makes me sad, not sorry)
Yeh teeno hi aage kyun gaye? Yeh sawal bar bar aata hai
(Why did those three lead the way? I question time and again)
Kartavya ke aage unki raftaar ko kaun jaanta hai
(They were driven by a sense of duty)
Baaki sab kahan the yeh jawab milna namumkin hai
(But where were the others? No one has the answer)
Baaki sab kahan the yeh jawab milna namumkin hai
Samaj kehta hai aapke pati ka dharaska, aapka bewa hona jawab hai
(People say your widowhood is an answer to your husband’s bravery)
Samaj ke kuch log keh rahe the ki inke pati ko hero giri karne ka shauk hai, isiliya aisa ho gaya
(Some say that he was trying to show-off, trying to be a hero)
Lekin main maanti hoon, apne pati ke kartavya tatparta ka main sakshad sati ka roop hoon
(But I believe I’m a symbol of my husband’s sense of duty)
Ab meri behno se meri koi shilkayat nahi ki kyunki Hemant Karkare hi nahi rahe
(Now I have no compalints to make against anyone. Because Hemant Karkare is no more)
Par aage chalne waalo ko yeh badlaav zaroori hai, iske liye sabhi adhikariyon ko paribharshit karna zaroori hai
(But for those who follow, every officer’s duty must be defined)
Mere pati shaheed hone ka mujhe gam zaroor hai afsos nahi
(My husband’s matyrdom makes me sad, not sorry)
Angrezo ke ched aur bhed raj ne Bharat mein dwesh ka beej boya
(The Britishers sowed the seeds of dive and rule policy)
Usme khaad paani dal kar, intekaam ki aag mein bada kiya
(It has fed on feelings of revenge)
Babri masjid girane ka yahi toh ek jawab hai
(This is what led to the Babri Masjid being felled)
1993 bomb blasts usi ka toh tamasha hai
(That is why we saw the spectacle of 1993 bomb blasts)
Sabarmati Express ka jaljana Pakistan ki chaal thi
(Pakistan was behind the Sabarmati Express burning)
Isme humari na samjhi ka prateek Godhra hatya kaand hai
(But the Godhra carnage was boen out of our ignorance)
2006 ka railway bomb blast usi ka toh udharan hai
(And so were the 2006 train bombings)
Kyun ruk gayi Afzal Guru ki phaansi, har Bharatwaasi ka dard bhara sawal hai
(Why is Afzal Guru not hanged, every indian wants to know?)
In sawalo ka jawab milta nahi, yehi toh atank ki dard bhari dastan hai
(There are no answers and that is terror’s sad story)
Malegaon bomb blast ki mere pati ne jaanch poori ki hai
(My husband has completed the Malegaon blast probe)
Saara desh toot jaane par shaheedo ne bhachaya hai
(Martyrs have saved India from breaking-up)
Bhagat Singh, Rajguru shaheed hue tab angrezon ki rajniti thi
(When Bhagat Singh, Rajguru were martyred, English ruled India)
Karkare, Kamte aur Salaskar shahhed hue, ab toh Bharat mata ki rajniti hai
(Karkare, Kamte and Salaskar were martyred under “self-rule”)
In shaheedo ne duniya ke saamne ek adarsh misaal rakhi hai, yehi unki deshbhakti ki amar nishani hai
(Their sacrifice is a symbol of their undying patriotism)
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You could do just fine on an e-tune, even an OTS tune would probably be OK for an interim period. I'd imagine Shamar has tuned a ton of 16g setups, just log after your tune to make sure it's safe.
I'm in the camp of "if it's a street car you should have a cat", but to each their own I guess. You'll see zero performance gain going catless, just a bit of savings.
Going with the etune and upgrading the oil lines per BNR would leave you about $175 to play with--you'll probably need that anyway for random bits such as hardware, heat wrap, etc.
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Stela: The "Stone Tree"
The Maya carved hieroglyphs on large stone monuments called stela, or "stone tree". These carvings frequently recorded important historical events in the lives of Maya rulers.
The Maya celebrated k'atun endings approximately every twenty years. At the end of the 20-year k'atun period, Maya rulers erected a stela to commemorate the event. They depicted themselves at the time of these ceremonies.
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The entire nation watched as the church and those who have a same sex agenda faced off over whether or not a business man had the right to have an opinion about marriage. To some it was called religious bigotry, but to the Christian realm it was a matter of principle.
So many lined up around the building to support a biblical concept of marriage. By doing so they were saying to the owner, ”We support your right to have a religious opinion.”
So what’s the big deal about this marriage thing, and why are so many people energetically supporting this institution?
We are going to endeavor to define biblical marriage, look at what the Bible defines as immorality, and finally we will examine expectations. Which expectations are moral and which are immoral? | http://lifespringonline.com/multimedia-archive/the-marriage-controversy/ | dclm-gs1-094790002 | false | false | {
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Good News, Bad News
First the bad news. For the next month, I will be working an hour extra every day. So instead of an 8 hour day, I'll have a 9 hour day. Bleah. Why am I so blessed?
The good news, G20 summit is coming to the 'Burgh and working downtown will be WAY too difficult. The options given to our IT department were work from home risking a dropped connection, take personal time, or do make up hours for the three days and take the days off. I opted for the last one.
With my cousin getting married that Saturday and my crazy aunts (you know who you are :) ) coming in, it seemed like the best option. Just this time? Can you please give me a better Danny's hoagie heads up?
Tomorrow I'm going to try for pictures. Tonight seems risky as the lights are already flickering.
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With an event at Phipps and an event planned for on-campus at CMU, Chris is expecting to telecommute a couple of days as well. I'm so glad that there's no reason I need to come close to downtown while that's going on! Nice big Mt. Washington between me and the craziness. I just hope the city pulls this off safely. | http://livetoknitknittolive.blogspot.com/2009/08/good-news-bad-news.html | dclm-gs1-094820002 | false | false | {
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Flooding in India: Why wasn't the government ready?
Three million people have been displaced. Critics call for more help from the Indian Army.
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More than two weeks after floodwaters inundated the impoverished lowlands of the Indian state of Bihar, untold numbers of residents remain perched upon their rooftops, still waiting for help to come.
An estimated 3 million people have been displaced by the River Kosi, which is now 10 miles wide in places. The state and central governments have struggled to cope.
Local media suggest that residents in some villages have had to coordinate their own relief efforts, including setting up refugee camps in college dorms. A group of prominent Indian scholars has criticized the government as "virtually a mute spectator" and called for relief operations to be handed to the Army.
Monsoon floods are a yearly occurrence for India. Yet even among experienced aid workers, there is a sense that this is something different. "This is the mother of all floods," says Unni Krishnan of Action Aid.
When the Kosi first broke through the embankment intended to contain it on Aug. 18, the breach was only about 1,300-feet long. Now it is more than a mile. Eighty percent of the river is pouring through the gap and into some of India's poorest districts. The strong flow of water from the Himalayas means that engineers might not be able to plug the gap until December.
The task of rescuing and then organizing food and shelter for 3 million displaced people "is such that only the Army can handle it," says Parshuram Rai, director Centre for Environment and Food Security (CEFS) in New Delhi.
His letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh demanding that "relief operations be launched on a war footing" was countersigned by 49 Indian scholars and activists.
Mr. Krishnan of Action Aid, who was in Bihar until Tuesday, agrees that only the Army has had any effect. "Wherever the military has been deployed, it is saving lives," he says. "But why is it taking so long? Why have so few military people been deployed?"
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The Nature of Astrology
Many people wonder where an astrologer gets his or her knowledge. Are astrologers real? How can they seem know such personal things about your life? Is it a gift or are they just guessing based on where the planets were in the sky on your birth date? In the past, astrologers were used to guide wars and plan the fates of countries. It could be said that the rulers of the day won those wars because they believed that fate was with them. A person's confidence can go a long way toward a positive outcome.
How Do Astrologers Predict Outcomes
Grant Lewi, one of the famous astrologers in American history, wrote that "astrology... maintains a unique and lonely position in human thought. It is believed in by a number of people who know practically nothing about it; and it is disbelieved in by even more who know absolutely nothing about it. Of no other art or science can this be said." He wrote this in his famous book "Astrology for the Millions". If you think about it, it's a true statement. Real astrologers make their living based on people believing in what they say, yet most customers can't tell you how they do it. Some people aren't even sure what astrology is.
For one thing, well trained astrologers aren't the same as psychics or palm readers. An astrologer uses a combination of the position of the planets as well as the sun and the moon on the day of your birth to create a birth chart. This chart is a representation of the potential journey of your life. The astrologist then uses the birth chart to show you what to expect in your future. Real astrology actually uses mathematics, so it is more scientific and technical than other disciplines that practice fortune telling.
These days, it can be hard to find a true astrologer; instead, many people use tarot cards, palm reading or psychic powers in combination with astrology. Since many people don't really understand what an astrologist does, it is very easy to be scammed by someone claiming to be an astrologist. The real astrologers go to school and get a degree in astrology. They also can get certified from one of two different professional astrology organizations, the American Federation of Astrologers or the NCGR - Professional Astrologers' Alliance. You shouldn't be afraid to ask a prospective astrologer about their credentials, and you should shop around for the best astrologist in your area.
Even though well trained, real astrologers can get a degree and be certified, their word shouldn't be considered absolute. The birth chart can reveal things about you that are eerily accurate, but at the same time there are going to be things that don't really match your life. As far as your future goes, they can tell you that a business venture started when you are 35 is going to profitable—and maybe it will be. The key to the business venture being profitable is your confidence and hard work, not just that an astrologist said so. On the other hand, your confidence was boosted and you worked harder because the astrologist said the venture would be profitable, so in a way they did help you.
A good astrologer does have a gift for working with numbers and planet positions. A successful astrologer will have a gift for convincing people that their predications are truths about the future. In those ways, astrology is an art and can be seen as a gift. However, their influence can only work if you believe it can. That belief may be the reason you choose to make confident choices and work hard. No matter what anyone says, free will and choice ultimately decide your future and only you have control over those aspects of your life. | http://m.womensforum.com/are-astrologers-real.html | dclm-gs1-094880002 | false | false | {
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The international security contractor formerly known as Blackwater has agreed to pay a 7.5 million US dollar (£4.8 million) fine to settle federal criminal charges related to arms smuggling and other crimes.
Documents unsealed in a US district court in North Carolina said the company, now called Academi, agreed to pay the fine as part of a deferred prosecution agreement to settle 17 violations.
The list of violations includes possessing automatic weapons in the United States without registration, lying to federal firearms regulators about weapons provided to the king of Jordan, passing secret plans for armoured personnel carriers to Sweden and Denmark without US government approval and illegally shipping body armour overseas.
Federal prosecutors and law enforcement agents said the agreement settles a long and complex case against the company, which has held billions in US security contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Chris Briese, special agent in charge of the Charlotte Division of the FBI, said: "For an extended period of time, Academi/Blackwater operated in a manner which demonstrated systemic disregard for US government laws and regulations. Today's announcement should serve as a warning to others that allegations of wrongdoing will be aggressively investigated."
Blackwater was founded in 1997 in North Carolina by former Navy SEAL Erik Prince. The company rose to prominence after winning massive no-bid security contracts from the US government at the beginning of the Iraq War.
In 2004, Iraqi insurgents in Fallujah ambushed two pick-up trucks, killing four armed Blackwater contractors and hanging their bodies from a bridge. In 2007, Blackwater contractors guarding a US State Department convoy in Baghdad opened fire on civilian vehicles in an intersection, mistakenly thinking they were under attack. Seventeen Iraqis died.
In 2010, the company reached a 42 million dollar (£26 million) settlement with the Department of State as part of a settlement of violations of the Arms Export Control Act and the International Trafficking in Arms Regulations.
The company changed its name to Xe before being sold last year, becoming Academi. In a statement, Academi officials said they were pleased to settle the case with federal prosecutors on what they termed a "legacy matter".
"The agreement, which does not involve any guilty plea or admit to any violations, reflects the significant and tangible efforts that Academi's new ownership and leadership team have made," the statement said. "The company is fully committed to this agreement and looks forward to successfully fulfilling its obligations on this legacy matter as we continue to lead by example in our regulatory and compliance efforts." | http://news.uk.msn.com/world/articles.aspx?cp-documentid=250848313 | dclm-gs1-095100002 | false | false | {
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Julie Gilhart Hates Frankenstein Shoes, Thinks Sexy Lingerie Is ‘Very Important’
During her eighteen-year stint as a buyer for Barneys, Julie Gilhart defined the effortless, quirky chic that became the store's trademark. Her breezy, hippie-girl style, set off by her deep tan and friendly Texas drawl, was always a welcome sight in the front-row crowd at fashion week, where she'd cheerfully confess that she'd rather be surfing. The fashion world was aghast, therefore, when Gilhart was abruptly let go from her position as women's fashion director this past November, amidst widespread re-shuffling under the company's new CEO, Mark Lee. She's since laid low, working primarily on pet projects involving eco-fashion and Japan relief, and she recently took a three-week trip to Mexico to regroup. But Gilhart fans rejoice: She's diving back into the fashion trenches, taking a number of fashion consulting jobs and working with the National Resources Defense Council to promote sustainable clothing. "Right now, I want to have my fingers in a lot of different pies," she explained. We called her up to hear about her future projects, her shopping strategies, and why no girl should wear a shoe that's heavier than her foot.
Well, it's really about making conscious decisions that aren't wasteful. Like with Lanvin, one of my favorites, there's nothing organic about it. But Alber [Elbaz]'s clothes tend to be very well made, and they never go out of style. So in Lanvin's case, you're buying a jacket that you can wear for years. I have a jacket that I bought that's from 2001, and I'm still wearing it. It's very difficult to buy 100 percent organic or sustainable, but the number one conscious decision is to not buy more than you need, and to buy things that last. If I had a choice to buy a T-shirt that's made in New York City versus a T-shirt that's made in China, and they're very similar, I'm probably going to choose the one that's made in New York, you know? And if I choose the one that's made in China — and that would be because it has a certain look, or a certain fit, or a certain price that's appealing — then I'm going to buy it and keep it and wear it for a long time. It's just about not being wasteful.
How would you describe your own personal style?
It’s natural, but with some intention. I'm very aware of what I'm wearing and where it came from. Many of the things in my closet are from someone I know. I really like to know where things are made and the person behind making them. I think that holds a certain energy, and that energy creates a certain style. Right now, I'm at home, and I've got on a pair of sweatpants that somebody gave to me, and even though I don’t know who made them, whenever I put them on I think of that person who gave them to me.
Where do you like to shop?
I like Mollusk Surf Shop in Williamsburg, because I can walk in that store and feel like I'm just about to go surfing. If you can't be in the ocean, then you can go to Mollusk. They've got boards and wetsuits and books and films about surfing. And all the guys in there are really cute!
What's a shopping pet peeve that you have?
Bad customer service. When I shop, I like for people to know what they're selling. It’s an exchange; selling products is an old tradition, and I think it’s nice to uphold the tradition of knowing the products you're selling and trying to connect with who's buying it. Otherwise I'll just shop on the Internet. But if I'm going to go out and shop, then I want to have an experience with another human being that's pleasurable.
Do you shop on the Internet a lot?
No, I actually don't. I’m not a big shopper in general, to tell you the truth. I shop when I need something, but when I do, I usually don’t shop on the Internet, because I like to go in and try it on. But I have to say, some websites offer really good customer service. I was on Patagonia recently, and I was on there for five seconds, and a little box popped up, and it says, "Hi, my name is Dave, can I help you find something?" [Laughs uproariously.] And I was like, "Yeah! I'm looking for a women's wetsuit!" It was just so quick! And he really helped!
What's something you bought recently that you really love?
Ooh, I bought this necklace in Mexico directly from the guy who had hand-carved it out of wood. It was a carved feather made of wood that's indigenous to Mexico. Every little groove in the feather had been hand-carved. I love it.
Are there any trends that you really hate?
Clunky shoes on girls. Half the girls right now look like they're wearing Frankenstein shoes. It looks like they put their foot in cement and pulled it out. One of the sexiest part of a woman are her legs, and you can put an amazing shoe on a woman and she can rock it. But if the shoe is heavier than your foot, then you're not rocking it. And another thing I don't love are those baggy low-crotch pants. I mean, I get it — they're stylish, and they're comfortable, and they look cool on very cool girls, but I'm not buying it!
What's something you're saving up to buy?
I'd like to have a really good sound system for my very small apartment.
What are staples that every woman should own?
I think sexy lingerie is really important, because it makes you feel like a woman and it serves as a foundation. I love Araks and VPL, and Deborah Marquet — she's great.
Would you ever consider designing?
I have been in such awe of designers for my entire career that it would be if like someone was watching NFL football and said, "I think I'd like to give it a go!" So, I don't think so. I'm not trained as a designer. I'm also a little too star-struck to consider myself one of them.
What's something you never leave the house without?
My rings. I have a Lion of Judah ring that I got in Ethiopia, and three moonstone rings, and two water buffalo rings that I got in a tiny little village in Sumba. They're sort of like my talismans. And then I have another little gold ring that is by friend Aurora Lopez, just a simple gold ring.
You’ve been really involved in Fashion Girls for Japan. What other projects are you working on?
I was just in Mexico for nineteen days, and since I got back last week, I’ve been trying to nail down a few projects. I've started consulting for a large e-tailer, and I'm writing about sustainability in fashion for a few sites. I’m still in the contract phase of some other fashion consulting projects, too. I'm also involved with the NRDC, which has a great program called Clean by Design, which is about manufacturing textiles and creating criteria for factories to reduce their carbon footprint, especially in countries like China and Bangladesh and India.
Would you want join a specific brand or store again?
Right now I want to have my fingers in a lot of different pies. I worked at Barneys for eighteen years, so I want to explore and taste some new things before I decide if I want to settle down and do one thing again.
I read that you initially only wanted to work at Barneys for a year.
I know! I said, "Okay, okay, I'll work for you, but only for a year, I just want to be perfectly clear." And they were like, "Fine!" Then I don't know what happened. But it's definitely a reflection of fashion. I started working at Barneys in 1990, and fashion has changed so much, so I never got bored or restless, really, and there's amazing talent. So a year turned into eighteen years, and that was that.
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A Criticism of Critics
How often have the critics, trained
To look upon the sky
Through telescopes securely chained,
Forgot the naked eye.
Within the compass of their glass
Each smallest star they knew,
And not a meteor could pass
But they were looking through.
When a new planet shed its rays
Beyond their field of vision,
And simple folk ran out to gaze,
They laughed in high derision.
They railed upon the senseless throng
Who cheered the brave new light.
And yet the learned men were wrong,
The simple folk were right.
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Close, but no cigar for Celtics volleyball
Trinity Catholic's Martha Lynn Andrews dives for a ball against Eastside on Monday night at Trinity Catholic High School in Ocala. The Celtics fell in three close games to the visiting Rams. (CYNDI CHAMBERS/SPECIAL TO THE STAR-BANNER)
Some volleyball sweeps are massacres. The kind that make you turn your head and hope the losing team will put 10 points on the board just so it can say it reached double figures.
And then there was Monday night's matchup between Gainesville Eastside and Trinity Catholic.
There, the Celtics lost a hard-fought 26-24, 25-22, 25-22 contest that conceivably could have gone either way. Unfortunately for Trinity Catholic (12-7), when a big point was needed, more often than not it was the visiting Rams (11-10) who got it done.
"Give Eastside credit, (it) came to play, and we didn't come to play up to Trinity Catholic standards," said Celtics coach Christie Mitchell, who got 18 digs and nine service points (four of which were aces) from libero Emilee Larger. "It's up to the girls to be ready to play. A coach can't play for them.
"They have to do it themselves, and that didn't happen (against the Rams)."
Mitchell, who did say her team gave a good effort, didn't want to use a knee injury that will keep setter Marissa Anahory out until the end of this week at the earliest or the fact that fellow starter Cavi Drake saw her night end with EHS up 20-19 in the first game after inadvertently butting heads with a teammate as excuses. The collision stopped the match for about five minutes and left Drake with an egg-sized knot above her right eye that would make Rampage Jackson proud.
For his part, Eastside coach Josh Crow said he liked most of what he saw from the Rams, but added there is fine-tuning that still needs to be done.
"We have to start doing a better job of taking advantage of our opponent's shifts," said Crow, who got major contributions from Tara Forrest (20 digs, four kills), Rebecca Rosenblat (16 digs, seven service points), Alex Mueller (22 assists, seven digs) and Emma Lannon (nine kills, six service points, three digs, two blocks). "Let's face it, with every team, there are good lineups and lineups that aren't as strong. When we have the advantage, we have to start performing better.
"There have been too many times where we haven't taken advantage when we should."
Crow pointed to the moment Drake went down, saying it was troubling that his team then gave up five of the next seven points, before rallying while down 24-22 to take the set.
"Trinity deserves some credit for hanging in there and actually almost winning it," Crow said. "But we should have been able to put it away sooner with her not on the floor."
While the contest had no meaning in either team's district, both coaches acknowledged it should help each squad - both schools have reached regional finals in recent years - better itself by providing playoff-type opposition in a match where every point really did matter.
"Any time you can come down here and play Trinity Catholic, you are going to gain something," Crow said. "Christie is a really solid coach, and a lot of her kids play club ball - in fact, that's where I primarily know them from. That alone is a big thing, but knowing they kept this match close while down two kids tells you how good a coach she is and how good a program she has.
"Plus, it's not often you get to face a team with a blocker as imposing as Laura Duffy (eight kills, two blocks), so having to make points with her in front of you, makes you better.
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Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Misunderstanding Paul's Letter to Corinth
"Or do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers shall inherit the kingdom of God." I Corinthians 6: 9-10 New American Standard Translation
The term "effeminate" did not exist in either the original Hebrew or original Greek of the Bible. The word has actually changed meaning since 1611 when it was first used. Words have changed meaning over the centuries as they have been used in common language, like the word "gay" being once used for "happy". The term effeminate then when the Bible was translated into the King's English in 1611 meant "soft". So effeminate as it was MEANT would be a person soft in their faith, or since Paul was writing to address a specific issue he saw happening in the church in Corinth, people teaching the law even though they didn't completely understand the law.
The next line "abusers of themselves with mankind" is also mis-translated from the word: "Arsenokoitai" which is made up of two parts: "arsen" means "man"; "koitai" means "beds." Although the word in English Bibles is interpreted as referring to homosexuals, we can be fairly certain that this is not the meaning that Paul wanted to convey. If he had, he would have used the word "paiderasste." That was the standard Greek term at the time for sexual activity between males. We can conclude that he probably meant something different than people who engaged in male-male adult sexual behavior. The letter of Paul was being written to church leaders in a town where the common way for idol worshippers to practice their worship was through male prostitutes at the idol temples throughout the city. Historical records from several sources confirm this. Those idol temples raised money for their temple through prostitution and Paul was probably writing warning the churches to avoid this practice. We are not clear as THAT WORD appears no where else in historical records nor in ANY original translation of the Bible.
Thursday, July 19, 2012
Better Than Kentucky Fried Chicken
Commerce Kitchen Fried Chicken (adapted from James Boyce)
2 cups flour
2 tablespoons salt
2 tablespoons pepper
4 tablespoons paprika
1 teaspoon garlic salt
1 tablespoon dry mustard
1 tablespoon French thyme, ground
1 tablespoon dried sweet basil, ground
1 teaspoon oregano, ground
1 tablespoon Jamaica ginger, ground (regular ground ginger will work too)
2 cups buttermilk
2 2 ½- 3 lb. chickens, cut into 8 pieces each
Vegetable oil for frying (canola and peanut oil work too)
Mix dry ingredients in large bowl. Set aside.
Put chicken and buttermilk in two large plastic Ziploc bags or a flat dish and marinate in the refrigerator for at least two hours, turning every 30 minutes. This tenderizes the meat as well as removes any blood.
When ready to cook, remove chicken pieces from buttermilk, shake off excess liquid. Toss with dry ingredients. The chicken should be lightly covered, but it's okay if there are a few missed spots. You can also shake chicken with the dry ingredients in a large Ziploc bag.
Fill a large, heavy bottomed skillet or deep pot with enough oil to cover halfway up the largest piece of chicken. Heat oil to 325-350 degrees. If you don't have a cooking thermometer, wait for small bubbles to form.
Adjust heat so the oil bubbles are steady but not too rapid. Working in two or more batches, place the coated chicken in the hot oil. After about eight minutes, the chicken will be golden brown underneath. Turn over once and cook for an additional eight minutes or until nicely browned on both sides. The cooking process will agitate the pieces slightly, so you don't need to shift them around in the pan.
After frying, place chicken on a metal sheet tray covered in a paper towel and transfer to 200-degree oven to keep warm until serving. The chicken will stay moist for up to an hour.
Sunday, June 17, 2012
Gay Marriage in 1991 - Chip Rowe and Randy Starnes
My husband, Kenneth "Chip" Rowe, and I were married at a Pride Festival in Atlanta in 1991 as part of the Mass Commitment Ceremony. This was back when a real wedding and the possibility of gay marriage was just a dream. For us though, it was as meaningful and as deep a commitment we could publicly have. It was pouring down rain and everyone was holding large plastic sheets up with one hand and holding their loved ones' hand in the other, almost like we were all under one big chuppah. And just as we were ready to say, "I do!" the rain just stopped, like a large water faucet in the sky was shut off. Everyone starting cheering, and off course, I and thousands of others starting crying. Then as someone in the crowd yelled, "Look! It's a rainbow!" we placed the rings on each other's fingers. It is a day I will never forget.
Chip never forgot it either. He was restless the night before his extraordinary light left this planet. He could barely talk, and he kept trying to turn over from side to side; rocking and mumbling incoherently. Hillary, his best friend helping take care of Chip there at the end, asked him, "Chip, what's wrong? Are you in pain?"
He said barely in a whisper, "How will they know?"
Hillary and I exchanged questioning glances as I asked, "How will they know what, honey?"
"How will they know we were married?" I of course couldn't answer, not because I knew an answer to give but because of the love he felt for me was on his mind in these last moments of life so strongly. I KNEW he loved me. And I was crying.
Ken's Morning
As morning now steals the night,
And graceful dawning yields a new vision,
I see your grace and courage in pain
As glimpses of what we all must endure.
As misery gave way to joy,
And release was but a breath away,
I saw your love and dignity given
As a guidepost and map for life again.
To have known and loved you,
I'll cherish for life-
To have cared and comforted
Has given me strength-
To have lost and grieved you
Has given assurance-
To have held you in dying
Brings trust for tomorrow.
As morning now steals the night,
And graceful dawning yields a new vision,
I see you and savor your spirit
And honor just how deeply I was loved.
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Situation-al Prayer
God, I am so glad You have the infinite wisdom to take perfect care of me. Give me the ability to rest in Your wisdom and not rely on my own. God, if it is really important that everyone knows I'm right in this situation, then You will work it out. I trust You to work it out. I will stay in peace.
In the midst of trials and confusion, I trust in You, O GOD. God, You are so good to me. Even though things don't make sense to me right now, I trust that You have my best interests at heart. I have tried to figure things out on my own and I can't. SO I'm leaving it up to You, O GOD. I will trust in You.
God, thank you for Your goodness and faithfulness. My prayer is that I might learn to truly trust You and Your goodness in all circumstances. I know Your timing is not always my timing. With Your help, I want to hold on to my hope and joy today as I wait for Your answer.
I have been discouraged and down, but You are God! And you can change my heart, mind and circumstances in a split second. Jesus, You could heal blind men with just a touch, and they would walk away completely changed forever. I pray to experience this amazing and life-changing turnaround.
I look at my situations as obstacles and insurmountable losses, but God, You see victory! In just a moment, You can heal my spiritual blindness to see things the way You see them. God, thank you for seeing victory where I see defeat. Give me eyes to see things the way you see them.
In Jesus' name! AMEN!
Sunday, May 13, 2012
HAPPY Mother's Day? Sort of!
It is always difficult picking out cards for my Mama and Mother's Day is especially difficult. I have to read through so many to say just the right words; nothing to sentimental, nothing to lovey, and nothing stating she was the best Mother in the world. I WISH I had grown up in a family with a loving, kind, sweet, encouraging and non-abusive mother, but the fact is, I didn't.
For several years I hated my mother. I kept bottled inside all the pain and abuse caused by her words and what-should-have-been loving hands. The poison and destruction that did to my soul were a burden that I physically and mentally carried. It colored many decisions and prevented me from knowing and experiencing a genuine love and affection for people around me.
It wasn't until several years had passed that I finally met someone who showed me what true love was all about. My Chip helped me to "settle down" and with him I finally felt whole. The years spent with him grounded me and were the happiest years of my life. Because I was able to finally realize what true love was it made me sad for not knowing it all the years of my childhood. My heart still carried around that hatred, and my soul still had a void that could not be filled.
It was these years with my Chippie that I finally realized what was missing was God. And it was a friend and co-worker, Dianne Stohrer, that brought me back to church where I was again able to connect with that which was divine in my soul. Within the depth of that divine light is all the strength, peace, forgiveness, and love anyone would ever need. Admittedly, I have allowed myself to shut off my access to it and have not heeded it's gently knudging me toward more peaceful and healthy decisions. I had a hard time seeing and hearing the direction along the "divine path" planned for me by a loving Creator because I allowed all my past mistakes, my pain, my self-doubt and inner self-destruction to push it from view and out of hearing range.
God had to find a way to get through to me so that I could hear Him. It came in the form of dreams. When I was asleep my mind, I guess, would be still enough to hear the soft voice of a loving Creator whispering His love in my heart. And it was God who gave me a vision on night that allowed one of the greatest weights to lift from my soul. A vision just as clear and sweet to me today and when I felt it. It lifted a weight from my shoulders that I had become so accustomed to and removed a wall which kept access to that which is divine always out of reach.
Here is my dream...
My sister and I were on our way to have a private supper with Pop-Pop (God had revealed Himself to me in an intimate way that modeled the term Abba, or "Daddy" in Hebrew, which for me was revealed to my mind as Pop-Pop). We arrived and met Him at the door of His house. It wasn't a temple, but it was definitely deserving of a King yet comfortable to come into more because of the way God treated us as His children and less about the furnishings.
He led us down the hallway to His private dining room. This was a smaller room than the Main Hall where all of His children would gather on occasion. As we walked past a large tapestry on the wall I happened to notice the beautiful pictures woven into the tapestry. It was almost like a map, but if you looked very closely and studied it, you could see it moved. I realized that this was how God watched the world and saw how intricately it was woven so that a single thread affected so many others. We are all connected more closely than we in our human minds can understand, but with Pop-Pop it was all so easy to see.
We continued till we entered a door to the private supper room and my two brothers, Lynn and Danny, were already there. We were all happy and smiling at each other; joking around in "our way" of poking sarcastic comments toward love but yet words understood as being loving. (Here on Earth, this would NEVER happen as we don't even speak to our two brothers anymore). As I looked over to Pop-Pop to start, I asked, "What's for Supper?"
He said, "We can't start yet, we're not all here yet!"
But I said, "We ARE all here, Pop-Pop! There is Lynn and Danny and Faye! And I'm here so who is left?"
God said, "My Sweet Angel isn't here yet!"
As He said those words, the door to our intimate encounter with God opened, and in walked my Mother!!! And Pop-Pop said, "THERE'S my Sweet Angel!"
I woke up in tears at this point. In just the smallest part of a second, all the weight, the anger, the hatred, the mental tapes of my mother's voice were all erased! I was healed of all that had kept me from realizing that Louise Starnes was just another of God's children just as were Faye, Lynn, Danny and myself. I had certainly NEVER thought of her as a "Sweet Angel" before. I realized that if God could still call her His angel and love her even though she treated us all as abusively as she did, then who am I NOT to do so?
I had been speaking to Mama on the phone every Sunday and our weekly call had become our ritual. We never talked about anything important, mostly safe stuff like the weather, or the news, or the Tennessee Vols football game, or the Nascar race on TV. So Sunday morning, after having this dream, Mama answers the phone and the first words out of her mouth are, "THERE'S my Sweet Angel!" I knew then that my dream was true; that God had healed me of my resentment.
We still keep our conversations "safe", as it is very difficult for her to show love and emotion. Lovey-dovey words and sentiments are just lost on her and you can tell if you try that she is uncomfortable. Yes, I wish I had the kind of Mom my friends had, but that dream has brought me more peace and Mother's Day isn't such a bad day anymore.
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
My First Christmas Memory
When I was a child, we didn't have a fireplace for Santa to deliver presents so he had to leave them on the front porch. When Santa knocked on the door I would be the one to open the door. This year, I was about 4 or 5 years old, I had a brilliant idea! Instead of listening for the knock on the front door, I would listen for the creak of the front porch floor boards.
As my sister and I sat and played checkers, I was listening for Santa, and sure enough, I heard the creak of the floor boards! I jumped up and was running to the front door when my sister yells out, "Santa Claus better move his ASS, or Randy's gonna catch him!"
I threw the door open and sure enough, all the presents were there in front of the door on the porch, only this time, the front porch swing was rocking back and forth! I was SO EXCITED! Not only did I almost catch Santa, but I had physical PROOF that he was real! (Later, I find out my brother had leapt from the porch catching his foot on the swing causing him to land face down in the snow!)
My sister comes up behind me with my jacket and says, "Let's go outside, look up in the sky and see if we can spot Santa and his reindeer!". So outside we were in this star-filled night, clear skies, a light snow on the ground, baby brother (me) looking excitedly in the sky, and big sister down on one knee with her arm around my shoulder looking up into the sky with me. A TRUE Hallmark moment in my life if there ever was one!
Just then, Louise (our Mama) ran out onto the front porch with her shotgun and fired, "BOOM! BOOM!" and screamed, "You fat son-of-a-bitch! I told you to stay off my god-damned roof!"
I start screaming, "No Mommy! Don't shoot Santa Claus!"
My sister yells, "Mama! What the hell are you doing?"
Neighbors come outside to find out what had happened asking, "Louise! What's wrong!"
Mama says, "Aww Hell! It's time he quit believing in that Santa Claus BULLSHIT! I'm the one who buys all the god-damned presents in THIS house!"
No more dreaming, or fantasies, or make believe in my Mama's house! By God, she made SURE of that!
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Where I Am Today - Wanting Something ELSE!
People have been asking me how I am since I moved to Nashville. Here is the only answer I can come up with: I am doing the best that I can. Sometimes it is just a day to day survival, and sometimes it is minute by minute. I had moved here to Nashville to what I thought would be a chance to regroup, recover, reassess, and reimagine my future. But it is more stressful here than it was in Birmingham! Great! From the frying pan into the fire.
What was so stressful about Birmingham? My lover, Darrell Fitzgerald (who calls himself a Rev....HA!), of 7 years left me for a member of the Board of Directors at our church Covenant Community Church Birmingham. That backstabbers name, Clif "Sissy" Davenport, (yes, he prefers to be called Sissy) left his lover of 14yrs. Darrell and Clif broke up with the two of us on the SAME DAY! Of course Clif had been trying to get in Darrell's pants since the first weekend we attended church. (Some church, huh? Well, let's just say it's the leadership!) Clif even tried to get Darrell to convince me to get a 3-way going. I mean really?!?
And WHO was the pastor of this unethical church staff? My best friend of 14 years, J.R. Finney,II. What did J.R. do? Abso-Fuckin-lutely NOTHING! EXCEPT tell ME that if I didn't quit telling people what happened (since when is the truth wrong?) that he would have to ask me to leave the church. NOT the lying staff-clergy who commited adultery, or his home-wrecking Board of Directors Slut! I was devasted! (and several other emotions including RAGE that J.R. and his fake-healers tried to "heal" me of, but which EVERY psychologist and counselor I have seen told me I have EVERY RIGHT to feel) I had to draw a line in the sand with J.R., as there are some things that I refuse to back down on when it comes to my religious convictions. I believe in forgiveness, but refuse to allow leaders to have two sets of rules. Two for themselves and only one for the rest of us. I am sincerely apologetic that my 'line in the sand defense' included throwing away an entire congregation of people. But after the pastor of the church forces me out of HIS church (obviously not a Christ centered church, but rather a pastor centered church) and nothing is done to my ex or board member, it looked like I had done something and people started being cruel, not to my face of course, but to my back. It got back to me what was being said. But as one counselor asked, "Randy, why do you WANT these people as friends? They're hypocrites, liars, and backstabbers and you are better off without them!" Why did I want them? I loved them....once!
Losing JR as my best friend hurt worse than Darrell and Clif's betrayal and I am still in pain over it. It rocked my faith for a while, and I still refuse to ever trust another person claiming to be a preacher. Too many wolves! It did force me to see that no person or objectified person should ever be placed on a pedestal. Pedestals fall, and I should only look to God for my strength, comfort, and friendship. My faith has actually come out stronger because of it. Not at JR's or anyone else's hand, but rather by a loving Creator who literally DID come after me like a lost sheep.
I love and miss my first husband, Chip, who died in 1996. I want to see him again in Heaven, where I know with an assuredness as strong as my faith in God's love, Chip will be there! He will ride up to me on his horse, long blond hair shining from the Light of God on His Throne, Chip's blue eyes reflecting the sky of that Unclouded Day, and shirtless and barefoot as he said he always was as a child on his father's horses (and now, his Father's horses!). Too see my Chippie, I know it is imperative to forgive all three of them. I am still struggling with letting that pain and anger go.
My health deteriorated quickly after the suicide attempt, losing my job and after the foreclosure on my home, and I have had to move in with my sister. I haven't been able to work since Nov 2010. I refused (or was too proud) to let people know I was sick and needed help. I figured I was either gonna lay on my couch and die or tell my family what was going on. My sister responded with, "git yer ass up here!" I thought it was going to be different here, but it's still the same old things that drove me away from family (and kept me away). We put the FUN in dys-FUN-ctional!!! And now, she is losing HER house to foreclosure and we will have to find a new place to live. Add to that mix my nephew's two sons (11 and 9yr olds) who will be moving in with us because he can't take care of them and....well you get the picture! Cody is ok, but the youngest, TYLER? He couldn't tell the truth if his life depended on it. If it isn't nailed down, he steals it. He is a bully to the kids at school, forcing several parents to write letters to the school in complaint, and he can't read or do math. And his mouth! The kid will NOT shut up! And he is always in trouble for this at school.
I am trying for disability, but that doesn't look to happen anytime in the near future. I do like the new Care Facility I go to. I may like my new doctor, or "fellow", but I ain't too sure yet. I like Nashville Cares very much but can't get to them as often as I like. I cannot talk to anyone or my sister goes into "over protection" mode. I'm just dealing with it until I can get disability started and then I am looking for a roommate and getting outta here! I didn't have high blood pressure until I moved here and now it's high everytime I go to the doctor. Stress is slowly undoing all the good work my physicians and counselors are trying to do. I am just resigned to the fact that right now, it doesn't look like I will ever lead my own life again or be happy.
That's where I am tonight. Unhappy, hopeless, and wondering "why the fuck didn't the suicide work?" I don't want to be like this, but it looks like cutting ties completely with my family will be the only way I can survive. That's a sad thing to say! | http://randyswildride.blogspot.com/ | dclm-gs1-095420002 | false | false | {
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This is How Kim Jaejoong Digging His Own Grave
I have saved our group members on my phone.
I would save it as “Uri Yunho”, “Uri Junsu” and I would put a red heart next to it, I don’t know why Yunho was saved differently
It says “Uri Yunho-ya~ <3”
After one show I was walking pas some fans towards our van. We had that moment and I was looking at my messages and some of them have seen this, ever since then people love Yunjae a lotT
This little heart things change my heart.
It depends how you think of a heart that you have put next to the member’s name.
I think you could think and love someone more from this simple stuff, and even with the “ya~”….
*take a deep breath - sigh - awkward laugh - abruptly change topic*
hmmm, I wonder too, Jaejoong… why did you put the ya~
Allow me to Dong Bang your Shin Ki.: I HAVE A PERFECT SONG FOR NAYOON NAO.
~Sings~ [Colors of the (YunJae) Wind]
You think you own whatever lips you land on?
That Muwoon’s just a straight thing you can claaaiiiiim?
But Uknow Yunho is watching, every fangirl, every shipper who has a name~
You think the only couples who are couples, are the couples that are hetero…
FLYING FAITH: [Yunjae info]
lately Jaejoong gave his signature for a Yunjae fan(on the pic of them in Dream concert 2008). When the manager asked why he was so shy in that pic, Jaejoong pointed at Yunhos armpit hair and said:[ because of this]..ROFL…so cute.
Plz dont ask me for more info coz I also…
wae you’re soooo cuute??
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Chapter XIII
1. THE Light of Jehovih now spread over Haot-saiti and lined the Road of Salkwatka, in etherea, extending from the Orian Banks of Loo-che-wan to the Oixanian Spars of Ochesu. The Cross Roads, Chi-ea-wha-chong, and the plains of Sha-tumatz, were as seas and worlds of crystal fire. And in the piercing light, the old-time Gods, of millions of years agone, sped forth in awful majesty, in answer to the prayers of Cpenta-armij.
2. And there rose over the earth and her heavens, farther than Chinvat, a trident arc, broad as a world, of shimmering light, the countless rays of ethe, as mortals see the glimmering air in a summer's day; but the ethe was of every color, hue and tint, reflective and brilliant, the clear soul of things separate, the very breath of Jehovih. It was the beginning of the form of the arc of Spe-ta, the deliverance of the earth and her heavens into p. 350a a new condition; to give, to bestow it upon itself, ratified by the ceremony of a festival for the Gods and Goddesses of that neighborhood, hundreds of millions of miles around about!
3. Meanwhile, their high-raised companion, Cpenta-armij, known and loved in hundreds of etherean worlds, was down on the low earth, laying the corner-stone for Jehovih's everlasting kingdom, whereon should fall, presently, from out the arc of Spe-ta, a shaft of fire, the feast for the purified Chieftainess, who had for four years subsisted on the coarse provender of the lower heavens!
4. And, touched by the hand of Immortal Light, was Brahma, long trained to look toward Jehovih; for his angel wife rose upward, leading his vision toward a realm amongst the Gods and Goddesses, whom he beheld in countless numbers receiving her most royally. Thus gazing on the glorious scene, the great man in soul came forth, leaving his corporeal part stretched on the ground. And Cpenta-armij and God took him; received the soul of Brahma, and held, in obedience to the sacred purpose, his place in the sacred circle with mortals three days.
5. Then, on the fourth, the Chieftainess signaled her swift messengers; and they touched the currents along, till they ran high beyond the earth's vortex, where the stationed Gods of etherea fastened on the ethe'ic wave, extending to the great arc over all.
6. It was the signal for the shaft of light; of which mortals have a weak and coarse symbol in the electric currents which tear things unmeaningly and without judgment; but the ethe'ic current is not so small and purposeless, but mighty, and a tool from Jehovih's fountain of All Power, with skill, and learnedly directed by such high-raised angels as have had millions of years of experience, who know well what prayers deserve an answer from the Immortal spheres.
7. And Cpenta-armij's name, and word, and wisdom, had long been in fellowship with mighty works on many worlds; and her well-trained thought, so tuned to the Creator's purpose, kept ever in concert with the ethe'ic foundation of the place and administration of thousands of Gods and Goddesses.
8. And when the signal shot upward, and the shaft of light began to pierce the earth's vortex, making way for Craoshivi, it was also the signal for Owks, and See-wah-Gon, and Ha-o-ha, to fly instantly for their arrow-ship and make all speed for Cpenta-armij; the which they did now, even as a flash p. 351a of light darteth forth, guides and directors of Jehovih's flame to the grave of Brahma and Yu-tiv.
9. As Cpenta-armij, standing by her ship, saw the shaft descending, she flew forth to the centre of the circle; her hand pointing to the graves, she said: There, O Jehovih! Come forth, O earth! Earth, in Jehovih's name! 'Tis I command!
10. And down fell the bolt of light, piercing the new disturbed ground, rich with mortal tears, and thus made powerful to the soul current; and as a breath of wind would move a heap of feathers, so did the light, by the wave of Cpenta'armij's hand, blow the earth away, and lift up the buried forms of two dead lovers, Brahma and Yu-tiv, and marched them full before the mortal audience, newly animated, and lovingly, hand in hand, triumphant over death.
11. Then spake Hog, the youngest mortal son, an Osirian in belief, seeing the resurrected forms: It is, it is! The very Brahma! And Yu-tiv! My father and mother!
12. The great Brahma, now quickened in Cpenta-armij's arms, and God's, spake from Jehovih's throne, a few words, to the loving sons and mortal concourse, then took final leave. Cpenta-armij seized the folds of the shaft of light, as a mortal would the ropes and canvas of a toy ship, and wrapping the earthly part of Brahma and Yu-tiv about securely, then wheeled in line her own ship and raked in the etherean current from high heavens.
13. Tossing up her hand, the known signal to the great workers in the trident arc above, the exchanging currents of the traveling flame began, and now raised up the whole etherean hosts and the bodies of Brahma and Yu-tiv, the which had not raised a mile before they were etherealized, scattered and gone, and the souls of the two sweet loves in cognizance and fellowship with the millions of Jehovih's Sons and Daughters now swiftly making way for Craoshivi.
14. Cpenta'armij's work was done. In the arc of light and companionship of her compeers, the feast was open, and the thousands of millions in rapport sat along the series of tables, hundreds of millions of miles, to relish soul food brought from more than a thousand worlds.
15. Meanwhile, God, to finish his labors, resumed his throne in Craoshivi, just in time to receive the twelve avalanzas sent from Yuckowts' factories, in Abarom, in etherea, to receive p. 352a the four and twenty thousand million Brides and Bridegrooms in Jehovih's name, who were to take the degree of third resurrection and be raised beyond the earth's vortex and emancipated in the etherean realms of Hoat-saiti.
16. Chue-in-ista, Goddess of Oambuyu, chief commandress of the fleet, having been apprised of the number of initiates, had prepared twelve thousand rings, a thousand for each avalanza; and the fleet in turn was in a ring, and the ring extended sufficiently wide to encircle the holy capital and throne in Craoshivi, so that when it had descended to its place, God and his officers, and the Holy Council of heaven and earth, now thirty million members, were in the centre of the audience. On every side, far as the eye could see, stood the Brides and Bridegrooms of Jehovih, arrayed in spotless white, fearless before the Light and ceremonies.
17. When the fleet landed, Chue-in-ista, the commandress, came forth from the east, facing God on the throne. She said: Thy voice, O God, hath called the name of Jehovih. Behold, I am His Daughter, sent by Him to know thy will and Holy Desires ?
18. God said: Behold, I am His Son! Thou art my Sister! Hear me, then, in our Father's name. I have here a harvest of four and twenty thousand million angels brought up out of the earth, pure and holy, for Jehovih's emancipated kingdoms.
19. Chue-in-ista said: In His name let them answer before me, that I may witness their wisdom and power sufficient to dwell in All Purity. My Father and I are one; my hosts have crossed the Nirvanian pastures; they no longer feed on substance rising from below, but on the Light emanating from etherean realms above.
20. God said: I know Thou hast provided me, O Jehovih!
21. Then here responded the hosts of Brides and Bridegrooms, saying: By Faith I know I am safe in Thy kingdoms, O Jehovih. Take me to Thy emancipated worlds; give me scope and power and wisdom for greater works.
22. Then followed the full ceremony in the usual way of the third resurrection; and when it was completed, the which had been witnessed by Cpenta-armij and other Chieftainesses and Chiefs above, who were at the feast of the arc of Spe-ta; and when God had said: O Jehovih, give me crowns for Thy Sons and Daughters, Brides and Bridegrooms for Thy etherean worlds!--there were cast down by Cpenta-armij and her hosts, p. 353a four and twenty thousand million crowns; and they alighted on Jehovih's Brides' and Bridegrooms' heads.
23. And now God turned to Thale, who was to be his successor for the next two hundred years. God said: In Jehovih's name, to thee I bestow the crown of earth and her heavens. And to thee also do I bequeath the triangle, symbol of these regions and the inqua, and the trident, the latter being new in these worlds, and symbolical of the arc of Spe-ta; and the interpretation of the trident shall be The Three Lights, Jehovih, His Son, God, and the Star in the mortal soul, emblem of resurrection.
25. Thereupon, he that had been God laid the crown and jewels on Thale, saying: Hail, O God of earth and heaven! Hail, O God of earth and heaven! Hail, O God of earth and heaven!
26. Thus ended the ceremonies. He that had been God descended to the foot of the throne and sat down; and then God, who had been Thale, came down and took his hand, saying: Arise, O God, and go thy way! And he rose up and prepared to depart, for now had the ceremonies lasted one full day.
27. Cpenta-armij, seeing it was finished, signaled the hosts for the close of the festival, and with her airavagna passed over and above the fleet, and gave Chue-in-ista, the commandress, the sign, whereupon the ascent began. The tens of thousands of millions of angels entered their respective places. The music of the es'enaurs and of the trumpeters sounded, and resounded, to the distance of a hundred worlds.
28. Upward rose the fleets; downward fell the showers of flowers and perfumes to those left behind. Higher and higher the great world of lights; higher and higher, till soon they passed beyond the earth's vortex, the boundary Chinvat.
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Your Florida Tax Dollars at Work: Daytona 500 Sponsorships
Interesting taxpayer expense that was floating under the radar until Michael Van Sickler from the Tampa Bay Times wrote about it this weekend: $174,500 in FDOT money to sponsor a pair of NASCAR stock cars in Sunday's Daytona 500.
Van Sickler writes it's designed to remind Floridians not to hit pedestrians:
(FDOT), which is known more for building highways than sidewalks, picked this week because accidents spike during the international event.
Every year more than 250,000 people attend the big race at the Daytona International Speedway — and they do so by walking along and across the eight-lane road that runs in front of the race track.
From 2008 to 2011, there were 10 crashes involving pedestrians within a 5-mile radius of the racetrack during Speedweeks, including three last year, according to the state.
Yes, there is an elevated walkway that a $2 million state grant paid for back in 2000 to avoid such accidents, and "people use it," McPherson said.
"But the majority of the people still use the street," she said.
So your tax dollars will pay for a campaign that includes sponsorship of two stock cars on a team that includes champ and native Floridian Joe Nemechek. That's one Nationwide car on Saturday and one Sprint Cup car on Sunday, each car's hood festooned with a public service announcement in the shape of a red bull's eye, perhaps a crude reminder of where a pedestrian would land if smashed by a car.
Yes, it might be hard to notice the slogan as cars whiz by at close to 200 mph. But the exposure could be valuable, according to research conducted by Joyce Julius & Associates. Depending on how Nemechek does this weekend, the state could receive millions of dollars worth of television exposure.
What's more, an airplane will circle over the speedway for three hours Sunday, pulling a banner that reads: "Alert today, alive tomorrow: Safety doesn't happen by accident."
Asked if the fans swigging Bud Lights in the grandstands would understand that this message from on high had anything to do with pedestrian safety, McPherson explained that the message is intended to be about more than pedestrians.
"The car has to be alert, too," McPherson said. "Everyone has to be alert. We didn't want to just focus on pedestrians."
(We're assuming McPherson doesn't want the race drivers looking up at the banner.)
The campaign includes radio ads for drivers 65 and up, a class of drivers that are more prone to crash into pedestrians, McPherson said. They will air in April. Additional ads will target impaired drivers, who also have higher rates of hitting pedestrians, McPherson said.
Asked why the cars sponsoring pedestrian safety have to go so fast, McPherson laughed.
"Because they're a race team," she said.
When told about the campaign, Rep. Mike Fasano, R-New Port Richey, also laughed.
"I laugh only because it's so stupid," said Fasano, who served as chair of the Senate's transportation appropriations committee from 2004 to 2010. "I don't see how spending $174,500 at the Daytona 500 will do anything to promote auto safety. No one in attendance will take any notice of this message."
1. The track itself, as well as the race, have benefitted from tens of millions in public subsidies. In the little noticed US Court case that centered, among other things, on the appropriateness of using public monies to subsidize a sports venue, we all can learn much that applies to the Rays situation.
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Do babies born during a recession have more problems as they grow up? (Photo: Thinkstock)Kids born during the economic recessions of the 1980s had a higher chance of substance abuse and arrest as teenagers, a new study has found, leading researchers to wonder if babies born in recent years could face a similar fate.
"The mechanisms involved may be different in intensity and severity, (but) based on the study it seems like there would be some effects," Dr. Seethalakshmi Ramanathan, a researcher at State University of New York Upstate Medical University and the lead author of the study told Reuters.
Related: Things You Need to Do While You're Unemployed
The study, which was published online this week in JAMA Psychiatry, used data from 8,984 people born between January 1, 1980, and December 31, 1984, who had participated in the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, when they were 12 to 17 years old. There were two recessions in the 1980s, from 1980 to 1981 and then another in 1982.
Related: Are We Regulating Ourselves Back Into Recession?
The BLS' survey included questions about education, income, attitudes, expectations, thefts, arrests, drug use, alcohol use, gun use, and cigarette use, among other things. Ramanathan and her team found that certain destructive and delinquent behaviors were more common among kids who were born in areas affected by high unemployment rates. (A recession is defined as a general slowdown in economic activity with drops in Gross Domestic Product levels, incomes, business profits, and inflation while unemployment and bankruptcy rates rise; measuring the unemployment rate is one way to judge the severity of a recession in a given area.)
The risk for being arrested, joining a gang, smoking pot, stealing, drinking, and smoking were all slightly higher (by 6 to 17 percent) for kids who were born in or spent their first few years in areas with high unemployment rates, even if their families were wealthy or not unemployed -- and even though the U.S. economy was well on the way to recovery by 1997, when the teens surveyed were exhibiting their less-than-stellar behavior.
"It basically went across all socioeconomic strata," Ramanathan said. Since the increase in risky behavior wasn't limited to one area of the country or one socioeconomic class, "From a national level, it seems like everyone is affected," she added.
For every 1 percentage point below the mean regional unemployment rate, kids in affected areas had a 9 percent higher chance of using marijuana, a 7 percent higher chance of smoking tobacco, and a 6 percent higher chance of drinking when they were teenagers. Also higher: Gang affiliation (9 percent), petty theft (6 percent), major theft (11 percent), and the chance of getting arrested (17 percent). More serious problems -- like gun violence, assault, destroying property, and abusing hard drugs -- were not affected by higher unemployment rates.
But why? The study doesn't speculate, but high unemployment obviously causes plenty of stress for families. According to a 2009 Pew Research Center survey, 14 percent of people of child-bearing age said that they were delaying having a child because of the recession, which could mean that pregnancies during that time were less likely to have been planned; kids born as the result of an unwanted pregnancy often suffer from poorer mental and physical health, have less-close relationships with their parents, and may have higher levels of delinquency during adolescence when compared to children born from intended pregnancies, the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy reported in 2008.
Also, tough economic times can force stay-at-home parents back into the workplace, which could impact a child's early years; and the forced-back-to-work parents may have jobs and still be crippled by financial concerns. And psychologists point out that long-term unemployment can have serious mental health consequences, including depression, and can lead to higher rates of domestic violence and alcohol abuse. With all of these factors, it stands to reason that living in an area with a high unemployment rate can take a toll on every household, even ones in which the parents still have jobs.
So does this mean that kids born since 2009 will be acting out and getting into trouble a decade from now? Not necessarily. Though the correlation is strong, researchers say that being born during a recession doesn't necessarily doom you to a difficult life.
"We can't say high unemployment caused the effects," Ramanathan said. "We don't know what the mediating factors are."
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I have a web application written in Ruby on rails that uploads videos from the user to the server using a form (I actually use a jquery uploader that uploads direct to s3, but I dont think this is relevant).
In order to decrease the upload time for a video I want to downscale it e.g. if the video size is 1000x2000 pixels I want to downscale it to 500x1000. Is there a way to do so while the video uploads on the client side? Is there a javascript library that can do that?
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Recompressing a video is a non-trivial problem that isn't going to happen in a browser any time soon.
With the changes in HTML5, it is theoretically possible if you can overcome several problems:
• You'd use the File API to read the contents of a file that the user selects using an <input type="file"> element. However, it looks like the FileReader reads the entire file into memory before handing it over to your code, which is exactly what you don't want when dealing with large video files. Unfortunately, this is a problem you can do nothing about. It might still work, but performance will probably be unacceptable for anything over 10-20 MB or so.
• Once you have the file's data, you have to actually interpret it – something usually accomplished with a demuxer to split the continer (mpeg, etc) file into video and audio streams, and a codec to decompress those streams into raw image/audio data. Your OS comes with several implementations of codecs, none of which are accessible from JavaScript. There are some JS video and audio codec implementations, but they are experimental and painfully slow; and only implement the decompressor, so you'd be stuck when it comes to creating output.
• Decompressing, scaling, and recompressing audio and video is extremely processor-intensive, which is exacty the kind of workload that JavaScript (and scripting languages in general) is the worst at. At the very minimum, you'd have to use Web workers to run your code on a separate thread.
• All of this work has been done several times over; you're reinventing the wheel.
Realistically, this is something that has to be done server-side, and even then it's not a trivial endeavor.
If you're desperate, you could try something like a plugin/ActiveX control that handles the compression, but then you have to convince users to install a plugin (yuck).
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At first I thought it wasn't possible but YouTube seem to be able to do this when you upload the video, so I imagine there is a way. currently I am resizing and converting on the server side I just want to be able to do it before the the upload from the client – Itay k Apr 17 '12 at 7:32
I just tried uploading to YouTube -- the data sent to the server was byte-identical to the video file on my hard drive, so there's definitely not any client-side compression going on. – josh3736 Apr 17 '12 at 15:58
You may as well just give detailed instructions to the user on how to compress their video before uploading using existing tools, or at a pinch roll your own user interface on top of ffmepg or something and let the users download it. – Matthew Lock Oct 31 at 1:13
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You could use a gem like Carrierwave ( It has the ability to process files before storing them. Even if you upload them directly to S3 first with javascript, you could then have Carrierwave retrieve the file, process it, and store it again.
Otherwise you could just have Carrierwave deal with the file from the beginning (unless you are hosting with Heroku and need to avoid the timeouts by going direct to S3).
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Thanks but that only happens after the movie is uploaded. I basically want to do it before the file leaves the user's machine, meaning while it streams to the server or on the client's machine – Itay k Apr 16 '12 at 14:21
I suspect that isn't possible. I can't imagine you can do it client side and I would also be surprised if you can do it without having the whole file. I certainly could be wrong, no doubt someone here will enlighten us of that if it's the case. – Joel Friedlaender Apr 16 '12 at 14:26
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The best solution I've come up with is just a set of instructions telling the website visitor how to download a video converter program like Handbrake or Miro Video Converter and how to convert the video to a smaller size before uploading.
Not ideal, but better than nothing.
A left field solution would be to take an open source video converter as mentioned above, and add an HTTP upload phase into the program and offer it to your clients as a video uploader program for your site.
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$(foreach name, $(patsubst lib%.a,%,$(LIBS)), \
$(eval lib$(name).a : lib$(name).a($$($(name)_OBJS))))
Make fails in the above line saying missing separator.
:68: *** missing separator. Stop.
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I do not know the answer to your question. The double expansion you want is tricky. However, I see the $$ in your Makefile text. If you are using GNU Make, have you investigated the .SECONDEXPANSION target? – thb May 27 '12 at 21:17
I get *** No rule to make target `libLIB.a(OBJ.o)', needed by `libLIB.a'. Stop. – Neil May 27 '12 at 21:29
Also, you should be able to use $(LIBS:lib%.a=%) which is shorter than the equivalent patsubst invocation. – Neil May 27 '12 at 21:30
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From the GNUMake manual:
foolib(hack.o kludge.o)
is equivalent to:
foolib(hack.o) foolib(kludge.o)
However this doesn't seem to apply to prerequisites (GNUMake 3.8.2):
# This works:
flib: foolib(hack.o) foolib(kludge.o)
# This doesn't:
flib: foolib(hack.o kludge.o)
So we just need a small modification (using @Neil's shortcut and some careful handling of parentheses):
# Change this:
$(foreach name, $(LIBS:lib%.a=%), \
# to this:
lparen := (
rparen := )
$(eval lib$(name).a : $($(name)_OBJS:%=lib$(name).a$(lparen)%$(rparen))))
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I will try this solution!!! – user1293997 May 28 '12 at 17:15
There's a space just before $(eval. To avoid that I have the command in just a single line. – user1293997 May 29 '12 at 20:28
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I came across a programming assignment from Princeton University that deals with simulating guitar string plucks (see here).
I tried solving it to C# but I am currently stuck with actually playing the sound. In the example they do it by calling with a double value in the range [-1;1]. StdAudio is a class provided by Princeton (and can be found here).
So basically my question boils down to: How would I go about porting the StdAudio class to C#?
Thanks in advance!
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the second answer here may help… - edit if thats not the question, it looks like taking time to figure out how to convert the code yourself – Sayse May 2 at 10:18
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Instead of porting StdAudio to C#, have a look at this
It shows a way to create audio from arbitrary values.
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Generating audio waveforms is not the problem, playing on the other hand is. – chrischu May 20 at 16:02
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I have been given the task of bringing three legacy systems together into one user interface. This will be an Asp.Net Mvc application.
I have a Sql Server 2005 instance on one server, a Sql Server 2008 instance on another, an access database that holds compliance data and is populated through a custom plugin, and a Powerflex dat file database accessed through odbc.
For every user who accesses this new interface all of these databases need to be queried. One of the Sql Server databases and the Powerflex database has millions of records.
My question is what is the most efficient way to handle this situation?
Do I link the Sql Server databases and write a single query with joins for those servers?
Do I use disconnected in memory datasets?
Do I use minimalistic queries with a data reader?
Do I attempt to utilize the Entity Framework (I haven’t looked into a connector for the Powerflex database)?
I have never attempted to bring this many back ends together before and I am concerned about performance. A minimum of four round trips screams poor performance to me without ever writing a line of code. Any tips would be appreciated.
PS: Bringing them all together into a single database is out of the question at this time.
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All the things you suggest in your question have good potential for simplifying your code, making it more readable, or easier to maintain. However, none of them will affect performance in any way, simply because you will still have 4 different physical data connections (even a linked server definition from SQL 2005 to 2008 or vice versa will not help with that).
To get any real performance benefits you will have to try and consolidate the data somehow. For example:
• Move the SQL 2005 database onto the same physical SQL Server instance as the SQL 2008 database. You can then write cross-database joins between tables rather than cross-linked-server joins, which will be more efficient.
• Is the Access database kept in that format because it is being used by Access forms or reports? If so, you could use the Upsizing Wizard to move the tables into SQL Server, but keep the Access forms and reports unchanged in the MDB file.
If you can do both of those things, you will end up with only 2 physical data connections to worry about (SQL 2008 and Powerflex). You can then optimise data access manually on a case-by-case basis. For example, if you are joining resultsets from both data connections, execute the one that is likely to return the least number of rows first, then use the results of that to narrow the search criteria for the other query.
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The access database cannot be moved because one of the legacy applications utilizes message queuing and writes data to this database for compliance purposes. Its nasty and for now, unchangeable. – W.Jackson Nov 10 '10 at 22:04
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Is the following an option:
1. Move the SQL Server 2005 instance onto the SQL Server 2008 machine (still in it's own database, possibly even running the SQL Server 2005 version if necessary.)
2. Import the Access database onto the SQL Server 2008 machine into it's own database. You can reference this from Access if it still needs to be updated by access.
This then gives you two main data locations (With 3 SQL Server databases) and the Powerflex database.
Use joins between the SQL Server databases (Which don't need to link to other servers, so should be relatively performant), and then merge the data from Powerflex together in a middle tier.
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you could also use the ODBC driver to have the SQL2k8 instance do a linked server. Now you have all 4 DBs interfaced through the same connection. – Bengie Nov 10 '10 at 20:56
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There are a couple of ways to do this off the top of my head.
One, use DataSets. You could query information from all the different databases into one DataSet and then query from that dataset.
Two, use Entity Framework to get models for all of these and use LINQ to query against the different entities.
And, I think you are right. There really is no way around poor performance if you can't combine them into a single database.
EF might be your best bet here.
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Have you considered using Microsoft's Enterprise Library for this? You can query all of these databases transparently. It implements the Factory pattern; the right versions of the database drivers are loaded and used based on the specific database being accessed.
Here's the link:
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If at all possible, import all the needed data into yet another database, one that is under your control.
Establish protocols for updating the data coming in/out from the different systems (how often data needs to be transferred, what data and how).
You will gain control over your application data and will not need to worry about the multiple other databases (so long as the imports/exports work correctly), management of many data sources and the need to manage data consistency across them in your application.
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I had a similar project with lots of sql servers over lan (different versions), the purpose of the app was to view and rarely edit data. I did write for each server a windows service that exports/sync data every hour with a WCF service on the app server. The repository was a SQL Server 2008 and on top of that Entity Framework. If your app doesn't required instant access to real time data this solution could do.
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That is one of the problems and I should have mentioned it. Two of these databases have a requirement for real time data. That is one of the reasons for the new interface. – W.Jackson Nov 11 '10 at 1:19
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There are several options open to you, depending on the workload / query structure you have.
If you have long-running queries on multiple databases it might make sense to use some kind of asynchrony like BeginInvoke()/EndInvoke() as available.
If you have to receive many records from multiple databases and transmission latency becomes a problem you can hand off data reception to worker threads and combine the results afterwards.
If the result sets are so big that you cannot hold them locally in memory consider a streaming approach. Server side sorting and "merge"-type algorithms can help tremendously here. A join for example would sort by the join key and matching tuples would automatically be the first transmitted from both streams.
If you have smaller and larger sets to join, you can first query the smaller and use the data to filter on the bigger database.
As always, keep in mind that manual hard-coded optimizations break in the worst way when encountering unexpected workloads and data distributions.
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This is Captain Allen of the federation star ship Andromeda with an important message for all User Generated Content authors, you are the future of Star Trek Online. The quality of your work will contribute to the success or failure of the last best hope for the future we’ve spent our lives dreaming about. For the first time you will have access to a large audience for your Star Trek stories, but you have a lot of work to do if you want to design something that reads like Star Trek, plays like Star Trek and ultimately feels like Star Trek. The goal of this column is to help you with one of the most challenging aspects of writing science fiction while staying true to the rich, detailed universe; to help you speak technically.
Here is one of the famous examples of speaking technically, or what the folks at Memory Alpha affectionately call “technobabble”.
“What if we’ve been looking in the wrong place? What if the nacelles aren’t being torn from the ship; what if the ship is being torn from the nacelles?”
“The hull of the shuttle is made from a tritanium alloy. At the speeds we’re talking about, that alloy could depolarize…”
“And create a velocity differential! The fuselage would be traveling at a different rate of speed than the nacelles!”
“That means all we have to do is create a depolarization matrix around the fuselage!”
“That’s it! Neelix, you’re a genius!”
Tom Paris and Harry Kim, solving the problem of traveling at transwarp with technobabble
Now that’s a good example of technobabble, although none of it appears contradictory it just doesn’t make any sense, and that’s okay for a TV show. In the context of a video game, some readers are going to either ignore all the text and just click “Next” or will scrutinize every word for violations of ‘canon’, but most are going to read and enjoy the story you provide because the entire reason they would play UGC is that they are looking for something new. Cryptic developers have confirmed that there will be a rating system, so to be a successful author you will need to consider that most of your audience will want something more than “Captain, there are 5 ships. We need to kill them.” The correct use of technobabble will turn a good story into a good Star Trek story.
I would like to examine the conversation between Tom Paris and Harry Kim above and point out the differences between real words and technobabble so you can avoid common pit falls.
• The word “nacelle” refers to the device that creates a warp field, you will notice all human constructed federation star ship vessels have these (most have 2 or 4 nacelles and a few rare ships have 1 or 3). Not all warp capable ships need a nacelle or a pair of nacelles, Klingon dialog options should reflect that they do not use nacelles to generate a warp field (or warp bubble).
• The word “tritanium” refers to a type of metal found in federation star ships, it is not real.
• The word “depolarize” would imply that the metal’s electric field is no longer uniform and somehow affect the acceleration of some parts of the ship (and not others) and apparently tear the nacelles and the hull apart.
• The phrase “velocity differential” is a fancy mathematical term that means “acceleration” or “change in velocity”. The phrase “different rate of speed” would make any physics professor cringe, although most of Star Trek terminology already does that. Just say “acceleration”.
• · The phrase “depolarization matrix” doesn’t seem to make sense here, since the problem is the depolarization of the hull and/or nacelles. A matrix is a mathematical term in Linear Algebra (math rules applied to collections of numbers rather than just numbers), and this phrase implies a technical device (not specified) would create a field (described by a matrix) that would depolarize (or perhaps re-polarize) the hull in a controlled fashion, which would hopefully prevent the “velocity differential” that would tear the ship apart.
Okay, that may or may not have made any sense to you and don’t worry if it doesn’t, the beauty of Star Trek is that the technobabble really doesn’t have to make sense, it just has to be arranged in a way that implies there is some technology that solves a problem (real problems like Newton’s first law or made up problems like depolarization). So this is the whole point of this article, is to show you how to arrange it in a way that makes as much sense as possible and helps maintain or enhance the player’s suspension of disbelief. Here are a set of rules that should help with that goal in mind:
1. Do your research on Memory Alpha‘s wonderful Science portal
2. Whenever possible, change your rough draft laymen speak into technical speak and then clarify the meaning of the phrase afterwards. ”And create a velocity differential! The fuselage would be traveling at a different rate of speed than the nacelles!” See that? Technical speak followed by laymen (oversimplified) explanation.
3. Never cause a mission’s progress to stall because a player doesn’t know a technical term. Make sure every mission critical term is explained thoroughly in some fashion (I thought the Bajor non-combat mission with the Cardassian’s did a fantastic job of this with the research you did at a computer terminal).
4. Multiple bridge officers should be involved with dialogs and provide lots of information, even if it may seem extraneous, just make sure it isn’t overly redundant (don’t specify a planet is class M if you are following someone who beamed down to the surface, the context of the situation should affect the dialog). Note that this example conversation occurs between two bridge officers with a 3rd person observing.
5. Make the player characters think they are the ones solving the problem and not their bridge officers, give them choices that matter and give them the necessary information to make informed decisions. Above all else, avoid the Deus Ex Machina solution and avoid characters who are a Mary Sue. In the example dialog above, the player could be the one asking their bridge officers the question ”What if we’ve been looking in the wrong place? What if the nacelles aren’t being torn from the ship; what if the ship is being torn from the nacelles?” Make the player central to the solution, they are the star!
It sounds like we won’t see any hard data on how to create dialog until the Foundry system goes beta in the first couple weeks of November, so start your research now to make sure your first mission’s dialog is a colorful technically as it is witty. Speaking of witty, I am the wrong guy to ask, I never took college level writing courses. Tune in next week for more specific tips for dialog involving the topic with which I am more familiar: Physics.
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marchettaanthony 7 feb, ore 21:38
A PORTAL MOVIE? Seriously now?
I wish I could say I was joking. But I'm not: http://herocomplex.latimes.com/games/jj-abrams-portal-half-life-valve/#/0
For those who don't know, Abrams is the director of the new Star Trek movies (the first one was actually a really good movie, believe it or not). But a Portal movie? No. Just...no. It doesn't make any sense. The only way to make the movie any good is to create a completely new plot and add new characters and...ugh, what a disaster.
That said, it's possible to do a really good job with a Half-Life movie. But Portal...no. Just no. Don't even try.
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marchettaanthony 8 feb, ore 22:27
Wow, I'm surprised nobody else is interested.
Ericrct 9 feb, ore 14:24
Companies always plan to make games based on movies but it never happens. Don't count on it.
Wheatley 9 feb, ore 17:33
If I Say Apple Then They Will Put It In A Movie?I AM IN!!!!!!!!
Master Machiavel 9 feb, ore 18:21
This is superficial interest at best. J.J has already got his hands tied just trying to balance the twin 'star' franchises, Star trek and Star Wars, do you honestly think he would(or even can) really commit time to a Portal or Half Life movie? I think he just demosntrated interest to gauge the gaming community's opinions(which appears to be wholly averse to the idea).
marchettaanthony 9 feb, ore 18:39
Don't be so sure about EVERYBODY being averse. I've talked to a few people who really liked the concept.
Anyway, sometimes video game movies fall through, but they HAVE made a few of them, Doom and Tomb Raider being the two that come to mind quickest.
At any rate, it wouldn't be for a few years at least, true.
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My son received a DVD with some AVI files of his soccer game. (I think they're from a Sharp camcorder, but I'm not 100% sure of that).
How can I convert them to a format that he can view on his iPod Touch?
I have a Mac, Linux and Windows machines available, so any platform-specific recommendations are welcome.
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If you're Mac is fairly recent, it should already have iMove installed. I would try that first. – Joe Internet Apr 1 '10 at 2:25
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HandBrake is a free cross-platform program and converts just about anything to anything including iPod/iPhone.
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I heard handbrake stopped supporting avi's. Was that just for outputting avi's? – Nifle Mar 31 '10 at 21:46
AVI is still a supported input format - but yes, as of version 0.9.4 it no longer supports writing output in the AVI container. – Goyuix May 11 '10 at 3:14
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I'm very happy with WinX Free iPhone Video Converter, pretty fast and decent quality.
It throws up an UAC-dialog then an error when starting up (It's trying to check for updates) on my win7 x64 but I just ignore the error and everything works like a charm.
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Tommy Dee
Close your eyes for a second and think back to where you were July 8,2010. Think about the scenarios Lebron James faced before sitting down with Jimmy Roberts Jim Gray. By that time we all knew Miami was the decision and some of us felt badly for the Knicks and some may have even felt for the city of Cleveland as well. But, more importantly, what I felt was a shift in balance that the NBA was going to have to deal with for the next 6 seasons. My first reaction was that the Knicks were in a good position to bring in Carmelo Anthony and from a talent perspective they could at least compete with the heat. In the end, though, that feeling you had in your stomach when you heard heard, “I’m taking my talents…” was the fear of knowing that you weren’t going to be seeing a championship.
Fast forward and now the heat are firing on all cylinders in the exact way you thought they would. And it’s not going away any time soon. Dwyane Wade’s knee is healthy, James is playing at an All-Time clip and Chris Bosh stopped crying.
The heat are unbeatable.
So when Carmelo lips out of the line up I have to say I get upset at the media types who are quick to attack. The fact is Carmelo has delivered this year to this point. With a healthy Melo, the Knicks continue to be above .500 in a stratosphere that some Knicks fans have never seen.They are back atop their division and are in the top 4 of the Eastern Conference. They were poised to host a playoff series and take flight at the Eastern Conference Finals and have a crack as the underdog in a series against James and company. A series, by the way, that no one would ever expect them to win.
So how does Melo win? His knee is cranky and he has to get himself back in MVP-esque form.He has to allow for his body to say, “OK, I’m ready for the final leg of the marathon.”
But does it matter? Did it ever? Do Knicks fans and NBA fans point to Melo’s weaknesses because he’s a flawed player or because they know his odds of being a legendary figure are so small that they’d rather be right than be happy?
People drool over the ease and “all-around game” that Lebron has over Melo and that’s fine, except it’s still pretty unacceptable and cowardly how he ended up in Miami to begin with.Why can’t Melo earn more credit for having the guts to take on the challenge of BIG BAD New York and the media? Why does Lebron continually get a pass that he did a deal to get ESPN and their writers in his pocket safely away harsh criticism?
If the basketball gods are real then I hope they recognize this and allow Melo to regain health and make a passionate push for legendary status here. I hope Melo has his day here and captures the hearts of the city.
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Mollie Bean
Historical Figure
Nationality: United States (Confederate States, 1861-65)
Date of Birth: ?
Date of Death: ?
Occupation: Soldier
Affiliations: Confederate States Army
Turtledove Appearances:
The Guns of the South
POD: January 17, 1864
Nationality: Confederate States
Occupation: Soldier, Prostitute
Spouse: Nate Caudell
Mollie Bean was a North Carolina woman who, pretending to be a man, joined the 47th North Carolina, a unit of the Confederate States Army in the American Civil War. She was wounded twice, and, given the regiment's history, may have served at the Battle of Gettysburg. She was captured in February, 1865, and subsequently imprisoned as a spy. The press of the day insinuated that her comrades had to know her gender, and that she probably engaged in sexual intercourse with several.
Mollie Bean in The Guns of the SouthEdit
Mollie Bean was a prostitute who joined the Confederate Army as a career opportunity. Nonetheless, as Melvin Bean, she served the 47th North Carolina ably during the Second American Revolution and was wounded at Gettysburg. After the war, she returned to Rivington, her home town. She was able to experience firsthand the technological marvels the Rivington Men, such as electric lights and air-conditioning. In 1868, she stole a book called The American Heritage Picture History of the Civil War from Benny Lang which triggered the chain of events which led to the Richmond Massacre and final confrontation of the Confederate Army with Rivington Men. After the battle of Rivington, she married Nate Caudell and relocated with him to Nashville, North Carolina.
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In his afterward, Harry Turtledove acknowledged that he was not able to find Bean's company.[1] He also admits that her career as a prostitute is fictional.
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->''"A good cop can't sleep because he's missing a piece of the puzzle. And a bad cop can't sleep because his conscience won't let him."''
-->-- '''Ellie Burr'''
''Insomnia'' is a PsychologicalThriller film directed by Creator/ChristopherNolan (''Film/{{Memento}}'', ''Film/TheDarkKnight'') and starring Creator/AlPacino (''{{Scarface}}''), Creator/RobinWilliams (''OneHourPhoto''), and HilarySwank (''MillionDollarBaby''). The American film, released by WarnerBrothers in 2002, is a remake of a 1997 Norwegian film of the same name. The remake was a financial success both in the U.S. and abroad, and it received high praise from critics.
"White Night" (or "The Midnight Sun") is a phenomenon in which the sun is still visible after midnight in settlements near the Arctic Circle -- in some cases, it won't set for months at a time. It is during this season when the savagely beaten body of a local 17-year-old girl is found in Nightmute, a quiet Alaskan town whose only claim to fame is the title of "Halibut Fishing Capital of the World". The vicious nature of the killing and the meticulous manner in which the body was cleaned has confounded the local police, who soon realize that they need help.
Will Dormer (Pacino), a legendary detective from the Robbery and Homicide division of the Los Angeles Police Department, is flown to Nightmute to assist the locals in tracking down the girl's killer. With his partner in tow -- and with the assistance of a local rookie named Ellie Burr (Swank) -- Dormer uses his wealth of experience with violent crimes to find leads that could bring the case to a swift end. All is not right with Detective Dormer, however: an Internal Affairs investigation back home has put his division under pressure, and the threat of his partner cutting a deal could put his entire career in jeopardy.
The stress of the investigation combines with an extreme case of insomnia (brought on by the White Nights) and begins to overwhelm Dormer; as he goes several days without sleep, the lines between fantasy and reality start to blur, leaving him to question the sins of his past and the bleak prospect of his future. Little does he know that the man he's been hunting is watching him closely, and one tragic mistake is all the killer will need to exploit the detective's weakness...
[[SimilarlyNamedWorks No relation to]] the Creator/StephenKing novel ''Literature/{{Insomnia}},'' or the gaming/philosophy website, or the Legend of Zelda fanfic ''Fanfic/{{Insomnia}}''.
!!This film contains examples of:
* AccidentalMurder:
** [[spoiler:Will Dormer accidentally shoots his partner Hap while they're tracking Kay's killer through the mist, but he covers it up because he had a motive for killing him. Towards the end however, not even he is sure whether it was an accident or not.]]
** [[spoiler:Subverted with Kay's death. Walter Finch claims that this is how Kay died, but he's just making excuses. When she died, rather than panicking, he meticulously and calmly prepared her body to remove any evidence. Dormer also reveals near the end that the research shows that he would have to have taken around 15 minutes to beat her to death, making it anything but accidental.]]
* AffablyEvil: [[spoiler:Walter Finch is very polite and friendly towards Will, viewing him as a similar mind.]]
* AssholeVictim: Randy whom the two men set up for Kay's murder. He didn't kill her but was certainly abusive.
* BerserkButton: [[spoiler:Walter Finch beat Kay to death because she pushed his. When she came to him for comfort after having a fight with her boyfriend, he came onto her. She laughed at him, and he reacted with violence.]]
* BluffingTheMurderer: Detective Dormer pulls this off almost immediately after arriving in Nightmute which consequently tips off the killer that he's not just dealing with "backwoods locals" any more.
* BraidsBeadsAndBuckskins: A mechanic and police constable, both Native American, have long braided hair.
* BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler:Ellie's view of Dormer.]]
* DealWithTheDevil: The killer, having witnessed Dormer [[spoiler: accidentally shooting his partner]], offers to remain silent on the matter if Dormer agrees to help clear him of the girl's murder.
* FilleFatale: Katharine Isabelle's character.
* ForeignRemake: Of the eponymous 1997 Norwegian thriller.
* FramingTheGuiltyParty: [[spoiler: Dormer's sin, which he is concerned IA will discover. Also, Finch's rationale for framing the dead girl's boyfriend.]]
* HeAlsoDid: For once ChristopherNolan directs a story that [[InMediasRes starts at the beginning,]] [[AnachronicOrder plays out in chronological order,]] [[MindScrew features only a minor plot point]], [[MichaelCaine and has no Michael Caine.]] Still got the "psychologically disturbed guy haunted by his past" protagonist though.
** This is because the film (and the Norwegian original) was made before he started to employ any of those conventions, except for non-linear narrative and mind screw. However Dormer's [[spoiler: planting of evidence]] is told in something of a call-back to Nolan's preferred narrative style.
* [[spoiler:TheHeroDies: Dormer himself at the end. It straddles the line between downer and bittersweet. He redeems himself for his sins and kills Kay's murderer, and he ensures that Ellie Burr maintains her integrity. On the other hand, by doing so Dormer ensures that a large part of his life's work will be undone when his dishonesty gets out.]]
* TheInsomniac: Played in realistic fashion by Will Dormer, as well as the killer who sympathizes with the detective in a series of taunting phone calls.
* LargeHam: Surprisingly averted by both AlPacino and RobinWilliams, who both give very restrained and understated performances.
* ManipulativeBastard: [[spoiler:Walter Finch.]]
* MeaningfulName: Played ironically. Dormer's name is a cognate for the word "to sleep" in several Romance languages.
* NaiveNewcomer: Ellie Burr is a rookie cop and wide-eyed idealist, who thinks of Dormer as an infallible hero and role-model. As the film progresses, she begins to learn that things are not always as clear-cut as she first thought.
* NeverTrustATrailer: The trailer made it look like a serial killer movie in the vein of ''TheSilenceOfTheLambs'' and even went so far as to add a line (naturally not found anywhere in the movie itself) that claimed the killer kept his victims for 3 days before killing them,
* NotSoDifferent: The killer attempts this on Dormer several times throughout the film. At one point, he mentions that he's always had a great deal of respect for cops, and wanted to be one himself, though he couldn't pass the physical exam.
* PlayingAgainstType: RobinWilliams [[spoiler: at his most evil, with no FreudianExcuse whatsoever]].
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Dormer's sins keep accumulating throughout the film. First he is living with the guilt of betraying his own ethics to get a criminal behind bars, then of shooting his partner possibly intentionally, then of helping another murderer get away to protect his legacy. He atones by turning against Finch, but dies in the shootout shortly after killing Finch.]]
* StargateCity: Though the story is set in Alaska, much of the movie was filmed in Vancouver and smaller towns in British Columbia.
* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: [[spoiler:Walter Finch, as played by Robin Williams.]]
* ToBeLawfulOrGood: How Dormer initially sees the choices he make.
* UnfriendlyFire: Implied between [[spoiler: Dormer and his partner]], as questions arise as to whether it was truly an accident.
* VillainProtagonist: In the original Norwegian film, the protagonist was far more of a dirty cop, who gets progressively worse as the film goes on. In the remake, Pacino's Dormer is more of a good cop whose past mistakes are coming back to haunt him in his sleep-deprived state.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Many of Will's actions were done out of a genuine belief in Justice and to make sure guilty people get caught.
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ExxonMobil Paying More Than Its Fair Share in Taxes?
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Well it was a record day or near record day -- one of the world's biggest companies ExxonMobil.
Now the oil giant barely -- a record for full year earnings today just under 45 million dollars.
340 million shy of its -- -- 1008 record profit.
Exxon said its net income equaled two dollars and twenty cents a share or about ten billion dollars.
Even with revenue falling 5% it's a huge number Kodak company.
As a result of the success people on the left rail against is companies saying hey they don't deserve the massive tax breaks they're getting.
These big -- oil guys have to pay their fair share like the rest of successful I mean I'm sorry wealthy -- -- expense take a look at this.
For the fourth quarter Exxon paid nearly seven and a half billion dollars in income taxes.
Nearly eighty billion in sales taxes and nearly nine billion an assorted other taxes that's a total.
A more than 24 billion dollars in taxes -- Let's revisit the top of the segment for a moment.
According to today's earnings report Exxon earned about ten billion dollars last quarter.
With the old oil giant paid 24 billion in taxes look at comparison.
And that's just the fourth quarter for 2012 -- -- earned 45 billion and paid a 102 billion.
In fact their tax rate 31 point 4%.
And doesn't sound like our free right to me.
To put it into perspective their tax bill was greater than the entire GDP of Morocco think about it an entire -- but country.
Talk about their fair share if that's something we're really striving for Mr.
President the IRS would have to give ExxonMobil some of -- -- -- back.
Plus unlike your pet projects like so Linder at.
Exxon is more than profitable a huge win for shareholders and actually puts money back into the economy.
And the form of nearly 37 billion dollars in energy investment.
Stop making them out to be the -- guys.
I -- other successful Americans read that take pride in a US company being number one in the world it's -- good -- Coming up. | http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/2135284277001/exxonmobil-paying-more-than-its-fair-share-in-taxes/?playlist_id=937116503001 | dclm-gs1-096000002 | false | false | {
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Man of Steel review: may not be super, but still decent
By Brady Lass Staff Writer | September 13, 2013 | Arts & Entertainment
Superman is one of the most iconic fictional characters ever created, but he has not exactly aged well in recent years. People claim that he is “too overpowered” and “boring” whereas other heroes have traits that draw the media closer to them. Iron Man has interesting technology, Spider-Man is relatable, and Batman is, well, Batman! Superman may have had a good start with the first two Christopher Reeve movies, but after two awful sequels and an unsuccessful reboot/sequel, he was due for a makeover. With visionary talent Zack Snyder as the director and the epic Christopher Nolan as the producer; does Man of Steel power Superman’s popularity like the sun, or bring it down like kryptonite?
Due to an overuse of its natural resources, the alien planet Krypton will explode. While Jor-El tries to warn the council of the planet’s fate, Kryptonian General Zod instead directly attacks the council and tries to take over. Jor-El and Lara Lor-Van decide to save their newborn son, Kal-El, by sending him to Earth where he will grow up as Clark Kent, but not as a normal human. Like Batman Begins, there are various flashbacks to Clark growing up. He is bullied by the other boys in school, and his Earth father, Jonathan tries to make him hide his powers until the time comes. As an adult, he now travels the world to try to discover who he truly is, and is followed by persistent reporter Lois Lane. However, Zod has returned with plans to make Earth into a new Krypton, and Clark must become the Superman he was destined to be.
Although Man of Steel may not have gotten the best review, at least we can all enjoy Superman’s ABS-olutely toned musculature. Creative Commons
The movie feels like a fresh new start for the character. Superman is not accepted into society, but rather feared by it. It’s the perfect way to make Superman darker, and a decent chunk of the movie did that. Superman’s interactions with his two fathers, Earth and Krypton, were well done (though his Earth father, Jonathan Kent, should have been a little more clear on what Clark’s motives should have been). They also did a good job with his conversations with his Earth mother as well. Lois is thankfully not the typical damsel in distress, and Zod is a decent villain with understandable motives.
But the plot did have some major flaws as well. While it did a great job focusing on the aspects I mentioned above, it did not focus too well in some other areas, one of those being Clark and Lois’ relationship. Yes, they do have moments where they care for one another, but I never truly got the idea that they’ve seen each other enough to have decent chemistry.
During the last third of the movie, action takes over opportunities for character development, and you kind of forget for a little bit that Zod is the villain until near the end. Between the identities of Superman and Clark Kent, Superman gets a large focus, and this may disappoint some fans who believe Clark to be one of the best aspects of his character. I get the idea that they are establishing the Superman mythos here, but they still could have altered some stuff to get a nice balance. The first Superman movie starring Christopher Reeve had the perfect blend of establishing characters, great chemistry between Superman and Lois, and fitting everything that should be in the Superman mythos in without being too distracting. Heck, the first three episodes of the 90s animated series had all those elements, and it was shorter than both the movies!
Then it hit me. What was lacking was heavy sci fi action involving a man with an extraordinary amount of abilities. People think that Superman Returns was boring, and the first two Reeve movies were too cheesy. Snyder mainly wanted to make a Superman movie that the general audience wanted, but he should have been combining what the people wanted, and what they have ignored in what makes Superman a good character. The plot can really be thrown up in the air and can be very good or bad depending on how you think of it.
Henry Cavill does a good job as the “Man of Steel.” He knows how to portray a troubled soul who is very conflicted with his role in the world. The only problem is that Superman’s positivity helps establish his character, and you really never see it until the end. Amy Adams does an okay job as Lois Lane, but like Superman, lacked the positivity and upbeatness her character once had. Michael Shannon is threatening as Zod and always on edge, but nothing too memorable. Russel Crowe does a decent job as Jor-El and thankfully won’t be singing any tunes this time around.
Zack Snyder is very memorable for his visual directing, and when you’ve got a character who can fly at hypersonic speeds, you know you’re in for a ride. With the rogue Kryptonians bearing the same powers as the man of tomorrow, Superman is allowed to cut loose and engulf the audience in an epic battle. Intense speeds, capes flowing, explosives, this—is always the Superman movie you’ve always wanted visually (minus the red underwear), but one problem is that some action scenes drag a little too long. Superman and Zod, however, do have a very climactic final battle which I think more movies should emulate.
While it does miss the ball on some parts due to lack of focus with the supporting cast and in choosing great visuals over character development, it does succeed in the fact that it is a fresh, new start for the character. His relationship with his family was interesting to watch and the visuals were pure eye candy. Since Clark Kent’s character got pushed aside for his alter ego, I cannot say this is the definitive Superman film, but it’s decent for what it’s worth (Even though it does have moments that can really tick off some hardcore Superman fans).
1. joe bates says:
Terrible job on the movie. This movie bounced around so much that it ruined the show.
2. Amos Hermens says:
Great review. Its amazing how polarised the reviews are of this movie. Just goes to show how varied us humans can be!
I personally think Zack Synder was in a lose-lose situation. There was no way he could have returned to the 1980s jokey “don’t you cross that line or else god darn it” ,making it more serious he was always going to offend the people who were loyal to Christopher Reeve type character.
A lot of people wanted a more family friendly Superman. But for those who have watched Batman and naturally 300, you were never going to get that with Zack, and especially with Christopher Nolan watching over your shoulder.
But yes hopefully we get a lot more character development in MoS II, III etc.
Also what did you think of the soundtrack? I loved it but again I know a lot of people who were disappointed the original John Williams theme didn’t make an appearance especially as Warner Bros owned the rights to that music.
• Brady Lass says:
Thank you! You summarized it perfectly right there! As for the soundtrack, it was great and sounded epic, but sometimes a little too repetitive (Like that piano piece in the flashbacks…)
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Does a torn hymen mean a girl is no longer a virgin?
Question Posted Wednesday September 7 2011, 8:40 am
if the hymen in the virgina is torn without the woman having sex does it mean that she is no longer a virgin
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Carriebeca answered Monday September 12 2011, 6:58 pm:
A woman can have a torn hymen and be a virgin.
She could have had full penetrative sex but still have an intact hymen.
Virginity is a male obsession, designed by men to control women and their sexuality through the ages, to maintain their legal rights and patriarchal authority.
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adviceman49 answered Thursday September 8 2011, 8:10 am:
There are a number of definitions of Virginity and the loss there of.
The most common definition of being a non-virgin is when a female is penetrated by a male penis in her vagina. The least common definition of being a non-virgin is when you have any type of sexual, I'll use the word intercourse all though it does not mean vaginal sex, intercourse. Meaning Being fingered or hand lob given, oral sex given or received or any other type of sexual contact.
A broken Hymen is not a sign that a women is no longer a virgin. A women can break her hymen riding a bike, horse back riding or doing athletic exercise.
The short answer to your question is: No; a torn Hyman is not a sign a women is not a virgin.
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DangerNerd answered Thursday September 8 2011, 2:43 am:
Nope, she actually has to touch another human in a sexual way for that to happen.
The only problem is that SO many women lie about this constantly, that a guy would be absolutely stupid to believe her in many cases.
If you doubt that, I can point you to hundreds of questions here from women who have had anal sex, oral sex, and, if you can believe the stupidity involved in all of this... still claim to be a virgin.
Some people would say: "Well, virginity means different things to different people." Sorry folks, the word has a meaning. Look it up in a real dictionary, and by golly there it is.
I usually ask people who say the above: So, how do you think it would go if someone who killed a woman goes before the judge and says: "Well, your honor, this is the thing... murder, well it means different things to different people, so I don't think you should hold it against me that I killed her."
Same difference. Words have actual meanings, and if we make up our own meanings for them, we become liars every time we use a word we just made of a definition for.
Sorry, back to the point: Yes, many ways to tear a hymen by accident. Will anyone ever truly believe you? I wouldn't, as I have been lied to about that before. Guys are catching on to the whole lying about what virgin means situation.
Only the good guys care, though, so if you find a good guy you have a chance he will trust you, or at least try to trust you and stomp down the constant doubt about it. The most important thing is to not let it be a surprise. This way if he is like: "NO hymen, no future." You will know sooner than later, and you can look for someone who doesn't have that same outlook.
Good luck.
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Zane answered Wednesday September 7 2011, 7:23 pm:
No, Generally in order to no longer be a virgin you would need to come in sexual contact with another person. Meaning intercourse
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littlemee answered Wednesday September 7 2011, 1:23 pm:
no, because the hyman can tear due to tampons and things. Your only no longer a virgin once you have had sexual intercourse.
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'The Least Important Person in Washington'
Daniel Joppich
Apparently our campaigner-in-chief didn't get the memo. He seems to think that jetting around the country giving veiled campaign speeches and fundraising appearances is more important than dealing with the real problems the country is facing.
Yesterday he was in Texas looking over the millions of acres of scorched land destroyed by wildfires. Oh, that's right. He didn't have time for that.
He did have time for a speech on immigration reform that was more an attack against the Republicans than a serious call for meaningful change. It lacked any specifics or a plan but was full of partisan attacks:
In a creative stretch he even tried to tie job creation to immigration reform.
Never mind that comparing these educated, LEGAL immigrants to poor, uneducated illegal aliens is like comparing apples and cumquats.
Interestingly, the official White House transcript of the speech even includes call outs by the hand-picked audience. Comments like "We love you!" and "They're racist!" You would almost think these people were planted in the audience. Surprisingly, there was no mention of anybody yelling "You lie!" or mumbling "That's not true."
Similarly, Obama's recent speeches on deficit reduction and oil prices have contained the same lack of substance but were loaded with rhetoric.
They had to pull the guy off the golf course last week and drag him to the situation room for a photo op before claiming full credit for murdering OBL.
You would think that our community-organizer-in-chief would have more important things to do. Even Jimmy Carter understood that the problems of the country had to come before campaigning.
The deficit, the debt ceiling, jobs, chronic unemployment, underemployment, fuel prices, floods, hurricane ravaged towns, the economy, monetary policy, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, trade deficits, illegal immigration, al-Qaida backlash, Obamacare, Medicare, Social Security, drilling moratoriums, over-regulation, housing and foreclosures, etc., etc., etc. Somebody has to take the lead on these things and unfortunately we'll have to wait a couple years for that person to step up since our current leader is too busy trying to raise a billion dollar campaign war chest.
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Let's start right out: Hey, wha happened?
WIsconsin 35 - Minnesota 32
Absolutely one of the strangest games of the season. Minnesota led this thing 21-7 at the half, after capitalizing on Wisconsin turnovers and ridiculous field position (the average starting line of scrimmage for Goldy's first three scoring drives was the Wisconsin 36). Bielema did something at the half, and Wisconsin responded by scoring 17 on their first three series in the second half, then getting a full-fledged momentum shift by forcing a fumble/safety on the ensuing kickoff. Brewster looked helpless, and he was; you don't mess with Big Mo. Minnesota scored a late touchdown and 2-point conversion to pull within 3, but a hideous Adam Weber pass was intercepted to end it.
The second half was the first glimpse of how good Dustin Sherer might be. Despite a horrible start, Sherer finished with 242 yards on 18/31 passing. Wisconsin has exhibited nothing remotely resembling a passing offense until Saturday; if they found it, they're officially dangerous.
As for Minnesota, well, we're totally going to kill Minnesota.
Ohio State 30 - Illinois 20
That's Eddie McGee. He plays quarterback. He replaced Juice Williams, who fumbled the ball away deep in his own territory and threw a pick. Things are not good in Champaign. Illinois is 5-6, and has to beat Northwestern next week for a trip to Detroit.
Ohio State, on the other hand, isn't even attempting to throw the ball anymore. Wells, Pryor, and the supporting cast combined for 305 yards rushing, and Pryor needed just 49 yards on 10 passes to dismantle the Illini. Both Beanie and Pryor went over 100 on the ground. It was the first time Ohio State had two 100-yard rushers since the 2006 Iowa game. Sorry for bringing it up.
Northwestern 21 - Michigan 14
Michigan and Northwestern were practically even in everything; Michigan outgained the 'Cats by seven yards, both teams turned the ball over twice, third- and fourth-down conversions were practically identical (though Michigan did attempt a staggering 6 fourth-down conversions). Nick Sheridan reverted to the mean (8/29, 61 yards passing; 35 yards rushing) in horrible conditions. C.J. Bacher returned to the lineup and did his usual C.J. Bacher thing (17/29, 198, 2 TD, 2 INT). The only difference was field position. Northwestern converted their two short-field opportunities into 14 points, and Michigan's offense sputtered to a halt in the third quarter (12 total yards in their first 4 possessions of the second half).
My knowledge of Michigan is limited to the coverage I get from the nineteen great Michigan blogs in my RSS reader, but is there something to be said for personnel consistency? When every week involves two different quarterbacks and four different running backs, can you really expect the offense to work effectively? This season is a lost cause for the LOLverines, with a school-record number of losses and Ohio State on the horizon, but Rodriguez's constant tinkering can't be helping matters.
Penn State 34 - Indiana 7
No alarms and no surprises.
Indiana was held to just 57 yards passing and 180 yards of total offense. Penn State had more than that in rushing yards alone. Clark played like he was still pissed about last week (20/36, 240 yards, 2 TD, 1 INT). Despite a net -2 turnover margin, it was an out-and-out thumping.
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This exciting moment is not representative of the game as a whole.
The nightmare continues for the Portland Trail Blazers (and their fans), as they struggled from the opening horn, eventually losing a lopsided game to the Indiana Pacers. The Blazers were outclassed throughout, unable to make shots, and unable to stop any Pacer on defense. Also, Marcus Camby hurt his shoulder on a drive early in the game and did not return. Chris Johnson also turned his ankle late during garbage time. There was no immediate sign if it was serious.
There is no need to list any Blazer leaders, since none played particularly well tonight. A quick shout-out to Indiana's Louis Amundson though, who put together an eye-popping game off their bench.
The game started with Camby hurting his shoulder. It didn't improve from there. 3 minutes in, the score was 2-0 Indy, as the Blazers were energetic but bricking. With 6:30 left, it was only 8-3 Indiana, and Nate needed a timeout. From there, Indiana's Kryptonite was the foul, as the Blazers went to the line repeatedly. This quarter was worse than you'll see in the first round of the NCAA Tourney, with Indiana eventually leading, 19-15. Of the Blazers' 15 points, 11 came from free throws. Yes, you read that right. They were 11-14 on free throws in the first quarter, and 2-15 from the field. You were never so lucky to be stuck at work. And the Blazers were lucky to not be playing Chicago.
Indiana came out smelling blood in the water to start the second quarter. In two minutes, they outhustled, outrebounded, and outscored the Blazers 8-0, and Nate called timeout. Aldridge hit a turnaround after the timeout, finally improving the Blazer shooting to 3-18. Aldridge and Crawford valiantly tried to keep the Blazers close, but only at the offensive end. On defense, Indiana teed off from wherever they wished. But eventually, the lack of defense caught up with them, as Indiana piled it on, pushing the lead to 18 with 4 minutes left. However, a late Blazer run brought the deficit down to 10 at halftime. Indiana's size advantage helped them dominate the points in the paint, 26-6.
Without Camby, the Blazers went small-ball to start the second half. They stay close for a few, but Indiana eventually reopened an 18 point lead. Meanwhile, Aldridge looked visibly frustrated while the GDT denizens got distracted with non-Blazer trade rumors. Later, after winning a jump-ball, Tyler Hansbrough completed a three-point play at the other end as the Blazers (down by 19) increasingly looked defeated. By this point, Indiana's bench was outplaying Portland, who again looked like they gave up. It was 75-52 after three.
The fourth quarter began with pure domination. Unfortunately, by Louis Amundson. And another Nate timeout. Then a 29 point lead for the Pacers. With 6 minutes left, the bench checked in, and that's all that needs to be written. Well, maybe a quick note that Indiana won the assist battle, 24-5. That probably was a factor tonight.
Don't bother with the box score, then watch for Dave's recap later. It won't be pretty. The Blazers are back on the court tomorrow night, getting a chance to make a mediocre Knick team look good.. -- Tim
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Matt Garza buntWith the Houston Astros headed to the American League, and the attending equalization of the split between the AL (15 teams) and NL (15 teams), we’re going to see interleague play throughout the season in 2013. The net increase in interleague games is relatively small, but the fact that interleague will be in our collective face all year will probably bring the distinction between the two leagues into greater focus.
And that means a debate about the designated hitter rule.
For whatever reason, that NL designated hitter debate flared up yesterday, sparked, it seems, by an article by Yahoo’s Anna Hiatt. The gist of Hiatt’s piece:
Don’t pay attention to decades’ worth of howling from baseball purists. The DH doesn’t ruin America’s national pastime. Forcing pitchers to hit is essentially just adhering to tradition for tradition’s sake. When the AL succumbed to reason in 1973, the rule change — which takes pitchers out of the batting lineup and replaces them with a designated hitter who doesn’t play in the field — did baseball a world of good. Batting averages rose. So did attendance. The games were far more exciting. Baseball became less a battle of managers and more a competition of athletes.
Essentially, the AL game is a better game, argues Hiatt.
Craig Calcaterra then wrote in reluctant agreement:
Again, the thrust of the argument is that pitcher’s batting is no fun, making NL games less enjoyable than AL games. Craig’s right, by the way, that the presence of the pitcher in the lineup leads to tactical discussions about how best to operate with the knowledge that a crappy hitter is coming up after the next two hitters. Is that more or less fun? It’s probably debatable.
The decided weight of the punditry that I have observed, however – or at least those who have chosen to weigh in over the last year or so – is in favor of the NL picking up the DH, for a variety of reasons. Among them: (1) pitchers are terrible hitters; (2) the game is higher scoring and thus more fun to watch; and (3) pitchers risk injury by batting.
The opposition to the DH in the NL is generally some variation of “TRADITION!,” shouted with neck veins emerged and pulsing. The thing on that one, though, is that, as each year passes, it becomes harder to rely on “tradition” when the tradition on the other side – the AL DH – is now 40 years old. The DH is now pretty traditional. (And, for the record, I used to be a traditionalist, myself … I guess I’ve just grown weary of watching pitchers flail away or sacrifice bunt. I hate sacrifice bunts, except in extremely limited circumstances. So, I guess I’ve become biased. But that’s not why I changed my stance … )
I think both sides miss the greatest point, and it is one that cuts heavily in favor of expanding the DH to the NL.
While an AL team is able to dedicate a roster spot to finding the purely best hitter it can find, and then deploys that guy when the AL and NL square off in interleague games and the World Series, the NL team is left to pick a guy off of its bench when in AL parks. Because pitchers as hitters – whether AL or NL – are roughly equal in performance, the fact that the AL team has a dedicated DH puts the NL team at a decided disadvantage in half the games. I am not OK with this. Ironically, it is because I’m an NL guy at heart that I think they probably should adopt the DH. I can’t stand the unequal footing.
Since the DH ain’t going away in the AL, the only way to even things up is going to be the DH coming to the NL. And you purists should probably resign yourselves now to the idea that it is coming: with the DH being a player who makes a whole lot more money than a random bench guy, the possibility of 15 additional high-paying jobs is going to be enough to get the MLB Players Association on board with adding the DH to the NL. That’s 50% of your fight right there. Get a few NL owners on board, and things can change very rapidly.
238 responses to “The National League Should Probably Adopt the Designated Hitter”
1. notcubbiewubbie
not to mention that the dh cheapens the game; keeping washed up old guys who can’t play in the field playing longer. brutal. brutal . brutal. ps. also make the pitcher get in the box we don’t need an elongated putter in the national league; see how that worked out on the pga tour.
1. Mike
@ notcubbiewubbie: I like your point, more or less. Guys who are more known for their hitting, and not-so-great defense get to hit DH in the AL. So, using the pro-DH argument against itself, I say, let the pitchers bat, even if they aren’t generally known for hitting well. Seems if DHs in one league can hit if they aren’t so good at fielding, why can’t pitchers bat? Keep the DH in the AL only.
2. Okie Cub
Your journey to the dark side is now complete. Let’s put them in shorts and give them aluminum bats while we’re at it.
3. Mike
There is no argument for the DH that doesn’t lead one to rationally ask why not just have an offensive 9 lineup and a defensive 9 lineup. Yeah, pitchers can’t hit. But there are plenty of guys who can’t hit, and plenty of guys who can’t field. What’s the rationale for only ONE DH other than neck vein bulging “TRADITION”?
Alfonso Soriano, for example, is a classic case of a guy who would be in anyone’s offensive 9 setup if they didn’t care about where they would stick up in the field (last year’s improvements notwithstanding).
1. Kyle
Slippery slope fallacy.
2. Patrick W.
Sure there is. The pitcher is involved in every single pitch of the game. The pitcher, and the pitcher alone, touches the ball every single time it is officially in play. So, because the pitcher is already involved in a way that no other player is (remember the Catcher doesn’t touch a batted ball every time) it can be argued that reducing the role of the pitcher to just that defensive action is acceptable. That’s one of the arguments that was made when the DH was instituted 40 years ago. You might not like the argument, but it is a rational one.
1. Patrick W.
Edit: One of the arguments made when the DH was instituted, to limit it to PITCHERS only.
4. George Altman
Two words in favor of the DH – Dan Vogelbach
5. johnny kelroy
I agree that the arguement of “Tradition” is getting old. But am I alone when I say that bringing the DH to the NL will decrease a lot of strategy. I love watching an NL gave over an AL game just because there is more strategy involved. Late in the game a pitcher may be dealing, but his spot may be up so it leaves the manager to decide if he keeps the pitcher in to keep in his arm in the game, or does he pinch hit, lose his pitcher and have to come up with someone else out of the pen.
Situations like this are what I worry about losing. You simply do not see this type of strategy to this extreme in the AL. The AL is still Major League baseball, but in my mind as a fan, not nearly as entertaining to watch.
1. Spriggs
I used to care very passionately about these kinds of issues. Now I just want the dang Cubs to win. That’s about all.
6. Mark Gruhlke
I think pitchers need to hit in both leagues and here’s why: Baseball is not a game of athletes. It really is almost as mental as physical and there is probably no other sport that can say that besides maybe golf. At the end of the day your mind is as important as your body in the NL. If you throw in the DH in the NL then you take away the importance of managers. Ozzie Guillen is my example there. Baseball is supposed to be played by baseball players which just don’t seem to exist any more. Guys get payed millions to throw against one batter a game, or hit over 30 HR’s a year, or have a high fielding percentage. It’s very one dimensional. It’s about time to make baseball baseball again, and it starts by making baseball players baseball players again. If you can step onto the diamond you can step into the box.
1. DocPeterWimsey
“It’s about time to make baseball baseball again, and it starts by making baseball players baseball players again.”
Ah, the myth of the good old days that never were. Today’s baseball players are far superior athletes to the baseball players of yore. Remember, before Marvin Miler, baseball players were part-time athletes: they had to take jobs during the winter to survive. As Nolan Ryan noted in his HoF speech, it was only after salaries increased that baseball players became 12-month a year athletes.
It was not long after that that 12-month training became the norm. Again, prior to the 1970′s, ballplayers played from March to October, and then stopped. The biggest point of Spring Training was to work the flab off of the players. Players soon learned that working out all year and hitting the weights did not decrease playing ability (as commonly believed: supposedly it left you worn out and the added muscle slowed down your swing and throwing arm!).
Here is the thing: pitching and batting are two fundamentally different things. No pitcher is in MLB because he can hit: it’s irrelevant to the job description. THIS HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE CASE.
1. hansman1982
And the ones who can hit don’t pitch.
A player batting and pitching in high school or in the minors or in college has as much importance in the DH discussion as a player playing baseball, football and basketball in high school.
Remember, most of the guys who get drafted each year are athletic studs in their high school. Doesn’t mean you want your pitcher barreling into the catcher on a close play.
1. DocPeterWimsey
Very true. But I think that there also is a belief that in “the good old days,” pitchers were just as apt to be doing barreling into catchers as position players. However, pitchers were bad hitters and bad base-runners decades before the DH appeared. Ted Williams always said that he never saw a pitcher who could actually hit. Now, Teddy’s standards for hitting were a little higher than most other people’s, but the general point stands: back in “the good old days,” pitchers were not good hitters.
7. Will
This has been a no-brainer since 1989 and the bash bros… The one thing I’ve learned in my 31 years on this planet is that YOU MUST EMBRACE CHANGE to prosper. Long overdue. Much needed. Watch the NL light up like a Christmas tree when this goes into effect. The minute you realize the AL ain’t NEVER going back to batting pitchers is the same minute you become convinced there’s no other way but DH in the NL.
8. Dougy D
If the DH is in in the NL, I am out. The DH is as lame as not being able to hit a quarterback in football.
1. MichiganGoat
Dougy you might want to pack your bags because it is happening, but seriously you give up on baseball over a DH? Seems a little hyper-reactive- right.
9. DCF
It’s almost funny that the empty strategy-argument is used over and over and over even though Brett already anticipated it in his original post.
The decision-making in NL Games vs. DH games is just different, not superior.
There’s not one single manager in the history of the game that has proven to be a better strategizer regarding pitcher-hitting/double-switch/etc. decisions than everybody else.
There’s not one single pitcher who has added any amount of significant value to his career by being a better hitter/bunter/sac bunter than Matt Garza or me.
If the “strategy” had any importance at all on the outcome of games, there should some track record of it in the history of the games, shouldn’t it?
Maybe some could go thorugh the Cubs last season and count the number of occasions where D.S. had to make a strategic decision and estimate the hnumber of times this decision was are hard one or meant anything at all anyway (i.e. in a game that was close to begin with).
I doubt you are able to find more than a handful of situations.
10. Tom
It’s time the N.L. to adopt the D.H.?
LOL it’s time for you to lay down the crack pipe.
1. Adventurecizin' Justin
Lay down the crackpipe, huh? Did you realize that after high school baseball, the DH is used most of the time for pitchers at the collegiate and minor league levels? Yet, we expect NL pitchers to suddenly dust off their bats and try to be efficient at the plate? That makes ZERO sense.
So, if you think it is wise to keep the NL DH-free, you must change the DH rule at the collegiate and minor league levels.
Pitchers have enough to worry about when it comes to shoulders and elbows. They shouldn’t worry about hitting and bunting, in my opinion. Especially if they are getting paid millions for their arms.
11. Windy City Misfit
Where I come from… If we put 10 players on the roster… We let our women and children play and throw the ball underhanded… We also use a bigger ball…
Not a traditionalist… Just a purest…
1. Myles - OV
Where I come from, we played offense and defense. Also, we had to use only 5 players per team and the court (we called them courts back then) was made of wood. We could only find really big balls that bounced all the time. We couldn’t afford bats, so we just threw the ball at the fence, which was 10 feet high and had a big circle bolted up there. We also decided to shake things up by making home runs worth “the other team has the ball,” and when you had the ball you had to keep hitting the ground with it.
Those were the good old days.
12. Galvan316
Simple Question:
How can the DH make the game more exciting, and more about the athletes on the game when in the last 10 years.
The National League has had 6 World Series Winners?
3 of which have been back to back to back.
Seems to me that, the DH and the AL makes the game LESS exciting and less competitive when looking at the big picture and that is who hoists the World Series Trophy in October.
1. DocPeterWimsey
The AL has been routinely kicking the NL’s butt in interleague play. The WS games do not count any more than those games do when it comes to testing the general statement: in a game between a team that usually has a DH and one that does not, the team with the DH has a better/even/worse chance of winning. We can emphatically reject even/worse in favor of better given interleague play (including the WS) over the last decade. The DH is not the only reason: but the huge difference in OPS provided by AL DH’s over NL DH’s has certainly contributed. (There have been seasons where AL pitchers outhit NL pitchers in interleague games, too: however, given the low frequency of success by pitchers, that’s just a chance thing.)
13. Aaron
I’m not sure if anyone has brought this up, but I’ll post it anyway. Last offseason Ned Yost commented that one of the reasons the Brewers couldn’t match the Tigers’ offer on Prince Fielder was because they couldn’t justify the length. AL teams have a colossal advantage here with the DH. They can afford to sign the best hitters in baseball to the deals they demand because they can stick them at DH when they’re no longer viable fielders. Ultimately, I think this is one of the main factors that will expand the DH sooner rather than later.
14. Brittney
I am a geek! I have always loved baseball because of the math, the stats, and I dislike watching AL games because there’s the DH. it takes away a certain aspect of the game for me. Yes the pitcher usually sucks but it forces critical thinking in the NL. It makes or every late game that’s close move to be very critical. I love that managers may have to use certain players at certain times. I wish the DH would be ditched! I will watch an NL game over an AL game any day!
15. the sandman
Please-adopt the DH. Cubs have a perfect up-ad -coming kid whod fit there just swell. His name is Dan Vogelbach.
1. Internet Random
“Please-adopt the DH.”
Why do you hate baseball?
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The more things change ... well, that's it, isn't it? Things do change, no matter how fervently Lord Grantham and fans of “Downton Abbey” may wish otherwise.
The third season of the justifiably popular British import, created and written by Julian Fellowes, comes to PBS on Sunday with the first of seven new episodes set in 1920.
Perhaps that solution might be found by hitting up Cora's visiting mother, Martha Levinson (Shirley MacLaine), a cross between Dolly Gallagher Levi and Molly Brown, who swans into the Abbey with her rough-hewn ways and a forthrightness that adds an extra inch to the Dowager's frequently raised eyebrow.
Just as Lord Grantham battles to keep things from changing above stairs, butler Carson (Jim Carter) struggles to maintain decorum among the household staff. Footman Thomas (Rob James-Collier) is still scheming against fellow staff members, while the formidable O'Brien (Siobhan Finneran) is out to undercut Thomas in order to advance her nephew in the household pecking order.
In the past, it's been easy to overlook other issues, such as the similarities not only between “Downton” and the Robert Altman film “Gosford Park,” whose script was also crafted by Fellowes, but also between “Downton” and “Upstairs Downstairs” as well. It would be less easy to overlook the flaws in the scripts for season 3 of “Downton,” were it not for the fact that we already know and love the major characters so well.
But if we allow ourselves some distance, Fellowes gets lazy, particularly in the early episodes of the third season, by occasionally advancing the plot at the expense of characterization. One major character gets a letter containing information that will have a far-reaching impact on his life, but doesn't choose to open it until it's convenient to do so in the company of another key figure in the story.
At another point, a character offers to help with the Crawleys' financial problems yet, despite ample opportunity to clarify, fails to say, “Oh, by the way, that wouldn't include actual money, you understand.”
Other characters demonstrate questionable inconsistency. Are a particular husband and wife truly devoted to each other and part of an indestructible partnership, or is the wife becoming a bit of a shrew? How does Tom's character manage to adjust so easily to life within the upstairs formality of Downton life while still professing to be such an Irish rebel? Is the Dowager a tolerant modernist or a rock-ribbed traditionalist?
On the one hand, all of this smacks of the kind of convenience and coincidence often found in 19th century novels. Yet, in Dickens, for one, when a character needed to announce his or her intentions before following through with them, or even when one of Hardy's doomed title characters was subject to fatalism, at least it was within range of our understanding of who the character is. That isn't always the case in the third season of “Downton,” whose characters occasionally behave, well, uncharacteristically.
On the one hand, our love of the characters makes it more than possible to overlook the sloppiness of the scripts. On the other, though, it's because we do know these characters so well that we notice the inconsistencies in the first place.
Again, none of this detracts significantly from our enjoyment of the series. But since it's just been renewed for a fourth season, perhaps Fellowes can take more time with future scripts to let events play out more realistically and treat his characters with the respect they've earned by virtue of how well they were crafted in the first place.
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