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Re: How is the EVF on a M4/3 camera?
In reply to jalywol, Mar 11, 2012
jalywol wrote:
The EVF on your old Canon was tiny, low resolution, and not similar to current EVFs on M43 cameras. The Pentax you looked at had a particularly nice OVF....many of the current basic DSLRs have terrible, small, dark OVFs now.....
The EVF on the GH2 is large, bright, and very easy to use. The G3 is close to that in performance. The Olympus VF-2 is a hair smaller in use, but is a really terrific EVF, also. Both would run rings around the tiny Canon EVF you had before.
If you compared the G3 to a Nikon D3100 or D5100, I am quite sure you would prefer the G3 viewfinder. Those DSLRs OVFs are like looking through a tunnel.....
Why not try some out in a camera store? That would give you your answer pretty quickly.....
Thanks Janet, the problem is that most camera stores have the cameras disconected and with no batteries, so you can just pick them up but you can't try them out.
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0.018736 | <urn:uuid:76f23210-d38e-44f3-b7b1-1941be245d41> | en | 0.961804 | Japanese scientists are planning to print smells with ink-jets
Kenichi Okada and his cohorts are planning to present their latest invention in Florence, Italy this week. The Keio University scientists have figured out a way to use a modified ink-jet printer to squirt scents. If Okada has his way, his team's work could lead to prints that aren't just super glossy but could also stimulate the nose.
Okada's team worked with Canon, experts in cameras and printing to convert a regular printer into an "olfactory display" that can switch between four aromas. Okada says that ink-jets are perfect for creating smells because they can "emit tiny pulses of material to achieve precise control" — perfect for scents.
While the printer can currently create a few scents such as lemon, lavender and mint — associating the smells with images isn't ready yet. Okada says the next step is to sync the two together. It shouldn't be too hard, just as long as the smells are pleasant. Can you imagine if this smell tech landed into the wrong hands like the makers of all those fart apps?
We've always been fond of those stickers that you scratched off with the aromatic strawberry or lemon smells, so count us in for scented prints.
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0.076626 | <urn:uuid:fbb266ce-c6ed-4962-b9d0-35114122c832> | en | 0.966055 | SPAIN'S Socialist Party specialises in nail-biting leadership contests. Its new head, Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, followed this tradition on February 4th, scraping to victory by just 22 of the 955 votes cast at a convention in Seville. His opponent, Carme Chacón, a 40-year-old female former defence minister, would have made a more striking choice, but it was not to be.
Mr Rubalcaba is a party veteran who became deputy to José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero just as the prime minister's popularity plummeted in 2010. An aura of defeat already surrounds the 60-year-old. He was the party's candidate for prime minister at November's general election, when Mr Zapatero decided not to run again. The Socialists lost a third of their deputies, their worst result in 35 years, as the People's Party (PP) led by Mariano Rajoy swept to an absolute majority. Mr Rajoy may now stay in power for at least eight years.
The Socialists' ills extend beyond parliament. They preside over just two of Spain's 17 regional governments and could lose their stronghold of Andalusia to the PP in March. That would be a big blow to Mr Rubalcaba's standing. Today the biggest Socialist-run city is Zaragoza, fifth in size behind the PP-run Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia and Seville.
How can a man so closely linked to Mr Zapatero's failures expect to win back voters? Mr Rubalcaba's answer is to veer left. He supports bank taxes, looser budgets and less power for the Roman Catholic church. But Spaniards recall him as a member of the government that increased the retirement age, froze pensions, cut civil-service pay and raised sales tax in 2010. He offered not a squeak of complaint then.
Moreover, Mr Rajoy has stolen some of the Socialists' clothes. He has raised pensions and taxes on high earners, and also capped salaries for bankers who receive state funds. He wants the EU to relax Spain's tough deficit targets. At the behest of France's Nicolas Sarkozy, Mr Rajoy even backs a Tobin tax on financial transactions. Yet unemployment in recession-hit Spain, already running at 23%, could stay high for at least four more years—long enough for voters to start blaming Mr Rajoy. And the PP's determination to reverse some popular Socialist measures, including abortion on demand, may open fresh fronts.
Mr Rubalcaba is said by some to be preparing for a bruising battle as opposition leader before handing over to a fresh face, who would then take on Mr Rajoy. Potential candidates include the Basque regional premier, Patxi López, and another parliamentary deputy, Eduardo Madina. Ms Chacón is also still an option. Yet Mr Rubalcaba promised to step down after November's election, only to run again. Who is to say he will not want another go?
That would mean an even longer wait for Spain's first woman leader of a party and potential prime minister. But remember that she might not be a Socialist at all. Look out for Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría, Mr Rajoy's impressive deputy, who is the same age as Ms Chacón.
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Very atmospheric.
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Excellent, excellent photo. the greys are velvety...
3. pablokorona 108 months ago | reply
your framing in this speaks volumes... great shot.
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thank you guys! :)
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you keep a tidied room. very respectable.. :p i like the lighting.
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hellzyaaahhhhhhPosted 5/6/2013 12:17:50 AM
im playing a game of CTF
and well it was at 50 a few days ago but i lost it due to bad games
with quitting teams (whats up with that?talk about system error more on that at end tho)
anther bad team that was playing defense then all decide to go on att so the other team scores...
but there was a kid in tunnel camping shotgun he voice messaged me (sounded like some old weirdo...)
he goes " ha ha poor noob you mad cuz i can hold the tunnelz better then you"
i found this priceless... due to the fact most of the time he had 2 members of his team rushing on that side (basically protecting him) he had like 7kills all game to my 24 (i wasn't doing that well as my team was getting in way or just standing there waiting me try fight off 4 people at once) so anyway he acted all big and bad just because his team won (they did most the work and also ended up protecting him 85% time)
on to CTF team issue: so team doesn't like map they 3 people quit 2 vs 5
then 1 of there 5 drop out of the game... and end up rejoining... there team
rest of the game no new members... even tho there like 2200 people playing CTF
no grammar tolling / pointless trolling ect
COG_KillaPosted 5/6/2013 12:19:11 AM
When i'm alone I strip, cover myself with Vaseline, lay in my neighbor's garden and pretend I am a slug.
ALostGrenadePosted 5/6/2013 3:45:56 AM
"People die when they are killed."
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Smacking_BeesPosted 5/6/2013 4:52:06 AM
From: hellzyaaahhhhhh | #001
nd well it was at 50 a few days ago
No it wasn't.
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ssj3bladePosted 5/6/2013 4:53:54 AM
hellzyaaahhhhhh posted...
no pointless trolling ect
SunDevil77Posted 5/6/2013 4:55:35 AM
Wayyy tl
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iMillatimePosted 12/19/2012 8:52:41 AM
I like what they did and the effort they put into it, but i personally don't actually like the song. fun stuff, though.
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RihawfPosted 12/19/2012 9:00:35 AM
Pretty good.
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themagicpainmanPosted 12/19/2012 9:26:47 AM(edited)
Not a fan. Still, it has some nice effort in it and it's definitely fitting.
Draven and Kha'Zix have the best if you ask me.
_Yag_Posted 12/19/2012 9:30:32 AM
no way thats the actual login music, someone just pasted that on top.
RzulPosted 12/19/2012 9:36:16 AM
_Yag_ posted...
Vi is my waifu. Deal with it.
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MaurithPosted 12/19/2012 11:57:49 AM
While the style of music isn't going to be to everyone's taste, you've gotta admit it's extremely fitting for her. Not hard to imagine her listening to similar music either.
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chicostickPosted 12/19/2012 12:10:18 PM
Shake DAT ASS girl!
lordlugia_rocksPosted 12/19/2012 12:26:29 PM
I don't mind this genre of music, but this is just painfully bad. The lyrics makes me go "what?" I mean honestly. I don't really care for her personality either. It's cliche and just bad.
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CaoXingPosted 12/19/2012 1:32:31 PM
I like it. I liked every login music they've made so far, with Draven being the best. This one is 3rd for me, after Diana's.
Her_PaladinPosted 12/19/2012 2:49:08 PM
Cheesy, suits her though, etc. I like it, but I'll probably turn it off eventually.
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SaintZetsuPosted 7/20/2011 2:42:23 AM
That Megaman has been milked enough as it is? I mean there are literally over 100 Megaman games out there for play and everyone has suddenly gone ape**** over this one being cancelled. Why not try some of the others you surely haven't played yet?
I like my terrorists how I like my coffee. I don't like coffee.
Kitt ThrustPosted 7/20/2011 2:46:01 AM
I was thinking the same thing. Maybe this Megaman game just wasn't very good to begin with. I'd rather they cancel it then release some half-assed attempt that everyone would be b****ing and complaining about.
Go Go Big Underpants !
kukinginaPosted 7/20/2011 2:55:33 AM
Yea what's up with Megaman trying hard to be a Digimon clone?
They shoulda stopped with the spinoffs after the X series
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I now there is bloating, but I don't really get that too bad around the waistline. My clothes still fit good, and I don't really gain weight. However, I would rather have that then getting a fat face. And this isn't something I only notice, a lot of people do. My friends always know when I am on my period, and it's not because I get bitchy (well I probably do) or anything but because of my face, Why does it get so bloated, and why does it look so different. I've proven this is true too. I took pictures of my face during my period and when I wasn't. It's just something that bothers me because everyone judges people based on their face on first impression. I'm going on a date for New Years and I am going to be on my period, so I am going to look bad. It's a blind date.
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The answers to this question are so ridiculously stupid
It's water retention. It's possible to get bloated or swollen anywhere on your body.
If it's on your face, try sleeping with your head elevated on a pillow. Cut back on salty/greasy/sodium packed foods. Drink 8-10 cups of water a day.
^Do this a week before(and while on) your period and you might notice a reduction in the swelling.
Fluids tend to build up when you sleep on a non-elevated surface so an elevated head will help fluids flow downwards. Salt and sodium can lead to water retention. Water will flush out the excess fluids.
• Answerer
And I's normal. I've gotten it occasionally. I've found that drinking water and cutting salty foods outta my diet helps
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• sucka700
you needn't worry about the bloating...it's totally physiological due to rise in estrogen and progesterone which tend to reduce water reabsorption which leads to facial edema and the moodiness is part of another physiological phenomenon known as pmd or premenstrual dysphoria...some people get while some don't..it's purely based on the cellular structure...
• larry69
water weight gain
• Answerer
I wonder also...but I hope its nit too noticiable
• Question Asker
Yeah I know, but normal women get water weight every where. I only get it in just my face and no where else. Most people feel bloated so their pants don't fit. I've never had that problem. It all goes into my face. I was wondering why it's only my face and nothing else.
• avans
Maybe its time to see a doctor
Best way to find out is to google search it, not that hard...
• Question Asker
Yeah the first one was the whole body and face and the second one didn't even get an answer to the question. I was asking why it was just my face and nothing else at all. Again, if you had a problem with the question then just ignore it. And you also used examples of people ASKING WHY. You have such a huge problem with me asking a question on here, and yet you linked to sites where people asked the question. Get over yourself a**hole. It was for girls anyway.
• Answerer
GaG is so incompetent it astounds me despite seeing examples of it constantly.
• Question Asker
Or I could find people who have actually experienced it. People who have experienced it know better than just a google search. And for your information, I did before I asked here and I only found answers about bloat everywhere but the face. If everyone just google searched then Q and A sites wouldn't exist. I am allowed to use this site if I want to. If you didn't want to answer or didn't know, just ignore the question. It's not that hard.
Prolly because of water retention
• Answerer
Everybody's body reacts differently. For you, your bloating during your period probably occurs more in your face than other places in your body.
• Question Asker
Yeah I figured that, but why the face. Most people get it at the waistline, not the face.
• Lommelun
A) Either you're storing up water in your facial tissue.
b) Or you're you're hormonally incapable of looking at yourself objectively.
c) or both
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I think this is due to water retention.
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The young Spaniard had his critics during a testing first season at Old Trafford, but says he has faith in his own ability and is ready to win over any doubters.
Manchester United goalkeeper David de Gea has revealed that adapting to life at Old Trafford has been a struggle following his 18.9m euro move from Atletico Madrid last summer.
The 21-year-old suffered widespread criticism after a string of early mistakes at United, but has since established himself as a regular start under Sir Alex Ferguson, and the Spaniard believes he is finally beginning to get to grips with the Premier League.
"My English is getting better," De Gea told the Guardian. "I understand most things but I find it harder to speak. English football is different, especially for a goalkeeper. It's more aggressive, more physical. It's far, far harder. The ball is in the air more and you get pushed about. And the referees don't blow [for] anything!"
De Gea's slender physique was often touted as a factor behind his shaky start, while others have pointed to his eyesight, with the club even recommending he undergo laser eye surgery to improve his vision.
However, the shot-stopper is confident neither issue will prove problematic to his development at Old Trafford.
"Eat well and lots of gym work. We're not talking about a huge amount anyway, just four or five kilos," he said. "The other thing is that I am still young and I will naturally fill out anyway.
"I'm just short-sighted, like loads of people. I wear contact lenses - in fact, I've got new ones - and I can see perfectly well, just like anyone. I don't understand the fuss. I put lenses in and ... perfecto."
De Gea will feature for Spain at this summer's Olympic Games, having come through the ranks of the World and European champion, and the youngster insists that he has never doubted his own ability, but admitted being away from his native country has proved difficult.
"There have been doubts in the first season but I always had faith in my ability," he added. "The pressure at an elite club like United is huge but Ferguson just told me to do what I did at Atletico. You have to be as strong when things go wrong but I don't get nervous. Mistakes are normal, everyone makes them.
"I think that at times people don't realize that it's not easy. You travel a lot, you work hard. When you come home in Spain, your family are waiting for you. When you're in England, they're not. For a Spaniard it's different."
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Gigamon®, a leader in network traffic visibility solutions with the innovative Visibility Fabric™ architecture, announced today a new vision for software-defined monitoring based on a four-layer architecture. Gigamon's strategy is to develop a unified Visibility Fabric architecture that would ultimately deliver orchestrated visibility across physical, virtual and software-defined networks (SDN). This approach will build on Gigamon's existing architecture and the principles of SDN to provide a centralized, programmable approach that aims to bridge the gap between the raw data passing through the network and optimally presenting that data to the tools that monitor, manage, secure and ensure application and network performance.
"As data networks evolve from physical to virtual to software-defined networks (SDN), the role of network visibility needs to evolve as well," said Shehzad Merchant, Chief Strategy Officer at Gigamon. "The Gigamon Unified Visibility Fabric architecture has advanced the vision from providing intelligent traffic filtering and aggregation, to a centralized, policy driven fabric that serves multiple constituents, departments and tools, each with their own policy model. Going forward, we expect that the Unified Visibility Fabric architecture would enable customers to implement 'Visibility as a Service'. And, as Gigamon continues to develop its offerings, our vision is that this ability will not just be for the physical network, but also across virtual and SDN 'islands' as well."
"The industry has seen a wave of interest in software-defined networks and one of the big questions has been how to intelligently monitor these networks while maintaining visibility for traditional architectures," said Nick Lippis of Lippis Enterprises and author of the Lippis Report. "Gigamon's unified Visibility Fabric architecture offers a comprehensive strategy for how Enterprise and Service Providers can extend network visibility into the coming world of SDN. The advanced packet and flow processing, normalization, correlation and de-duplication that are essential capabilities for pervasive network visibility as software defined networks emerge, simply cannot be accomplished with general-purpose Ethernet switches."
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0.032784 | <urn:uuid:794e6eb6-bab1-4ca5-a947-601db20131d9> | en | 0.970234 | Mandeville Films en Modern-Day 'Houdini' Procedural in the Works at ABC, Mandeville (Exclusive) Lesley Goldberg Placeholder for Bug Laurie Zaks The production company best known for "Monk" has set up five new projects at the Disney-owned network, including a high-tech thriller from hot writer Stefan Jaworski.
Five months after being tapped to lead Mandeville's TV division, Laurie Zaks is wasting little time in getting started.
Todd Lieberman and David Hoberman's company has set up five new projects at ABC -- four dramas and a comedy -- joining the previously announced limited/event series based on The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
Among the sales for the ABC Studios-based production company are a modern take on Houdini and a high-tech thriller from hot Danish writer Stefan Jaworski as well as a military hospital drama and a mother-daughter crime-solving duo procedural from Castle's David Grae.
"David, Todd and I agreed that we would only develop projects that we were passionate about with writers we love," Zaks tells THR of the slate, with additional sales coming soon. "All of our projects are strong in character and dramatic storytelling with an element of fun. Things we would want to watch ourselves."
The producer -- who developed Castle for ABC -- joined Mandeville in April with the production company inking a development pact with ABC Studios, where Zaks has been based since 2006.
The five new projects come after Mandeville -- best known for USA Network's long-running Monk -- set up John Leguizamo comedy King John at the network last pilot season.
PHOTOS: Faces of Fall TV 2013
Here's a look at the new slate:
White Eye hails from writer/EP Jaworski and is described as a high-tech procedural thriller centered on a secret NSA unit spearheaded by a strong-willed female agent and her paranoid male counterpart. The duo use state-of-the-art technology to access every online camera on the planet. Turning cell phones into their eyes and ears, the next-gen investigators strive to keep the nation safe while privately struggling with issues of trust in their personal lives when their own most intimate secrets turn out to be anything but safe. For Jaworski, the drama joins A&E's Chloe Sevigny-starring remake of his Danish drama Those Who Kill and FX's American Psycho follow-up. Jaworski is repped by Paradigm.
Houdini will be written by Jeff Addiss and Will Matthews and follows legendary illusionist Harry Houdini when he partners with an unusually gifted female detective to solve the cases that baffle the LAPD in what is described as a fast-paced modern-day procedural. The drama comes as History will unspool its four-hour Houdini miniseries with Adrien Brody attached to star. Addiss and Matthews are repped by Gersh and Principato Young.
Chris Keyser will pen and executive produce Warriors, a drama about American soldiers and their families as well as the doctors and nurses who live and work at a national military hospital. Keyser is with CAA.
Zaks will reunite with Castle's David Grae on Life Is Murder, a mother-daughter crime drama. Grae will write the script and executive produce the project in which the daughter works as a robbery-homicide detective and the mother is a criminal psychologist/profiler. While solving crimes together in L.A. they also work to mend the problems in their relationship and personal lives. Grae is repped by Paradigm.
Lastly, comedy The Brothers Brink hails from Wilfred's Scott Prendergast, who will pen the script and executive produce the adult ensemble comedy about brothers Todd and Chet, who after growing up at each others' throats are now trying to forge a friendship. But old wounds die hard. Prendergast is with UTA.
For Mandeville, the projects join previously announced Esmeralda, the limited/event series based on The Hunchback of Notre Dame from writer Evan Daugherty that is also set up at ABC. Hoberman, Lieberman and Zaks will executive produce all six projects.
Up next for Mandeville Films is Muppets Most Wanted, which Hoberman and Lieberman are on board to produce. The company's film credits also include zombie romantic dramedy Warm Bodies. Mandeville is repped by UTA.
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'The Muppets' Producer Mandeville Re-Ups With Disney (Exclusive) Borys Kit "The Muppets" Premiere | Hollywood, Nov. 12 David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman The company, run by David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman, signs a three-year deal.
PHOTOS: 'The Muppets' Premiere Red Carpet Arrivals
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The Producers Behind 'The Muppets' On What It's Like to Relaunch A Classic, and the Possibility of a Sequel Jay A. Fernandez David Hoberman & Todd Lieberman EXECUTIVE SUITE: Mandeville Films' David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman also discuss the pressure of turning theme-park rides into films ("Jungle Cruise" and "Swiss Family Robinson" are upcoming) and reveal "Phineas & Ferb" details.
David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman followed up their 2010 best-picture Oscar nominations for producing The Fighter with a resurrection of the beloved Muppets franchise for Disney, burnishing their status as one of the most eclectic hit-making duos in the business. A Detroit transplant, Hoberman, 59, earned his stripes as a Disney executive in the ’80s under Jeffrey Katzenberg, eventually becoming president of the Motion Picture Group during the early-’90s era of Father of the Bride, Sister Act and The Joy Luck Club.After leaving the studio in 1994, Hoberman founded Mandeville Films and hired Lieberman, a much younger Cleveland native, now 38, in 1999, just before they left for Hyde Park Entertainment. Re-forming Mandeville together in 2002, the pair resettled as partners at Disney and have been making modestly budgeted hits ever since — Eight Below (2006), The Shaggy Dog (2006), Beverly Hills Chihuahua (2008), The Proposal (2009) and Surrogates (2009). (Their successful foray into TV, Monk, ran for eight seasons on the USA Network.) With The Muppets, the married Lieberman and separated Hoberman — who between them have five kids — have more than $1.2 billion in worldwide grosses under the Mandeville name, with more potential homegrown hits in the works, including feature adaptations of Disney theme park rides Jungle Cruise and Swiss Family Robinson and a film version of the mega-popular Disney Channel hit Phineas and Ferb. The pair recently spoke with The Hollywood Reporter about how their Midwest roots inform their tastes, why they’re like a Venn diagram and how shooting in Mexico nearly killed one of them.
PHOTOS: 'The Muppets' Premiere
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER: David, you've seen Disney from the inside off-and-on for twenty-five years. What makes it an interesting place to make movies for now contrasted with twenty years ago?
David Hoberman: As an executive [in 1985], we were an extremely hands-on studio. And when I started taking over towards the end, I realized that hands-off management is also a form of management — when you actually let filmmakers do what they do. And I think we've been very fortunate in the last several years, Disney has trusted us. We don't make expensive movies, and they let us make the movies we do with all the support we can ask of them but they don't really intrude on our process as much as help us when we need help.
Todd Lieberman: Yeah, we view it more as a partnership because, thankfully, we've got very good relationships with all the executives here. There's constant communication, we’re always trading information. It's not like pitching the studio something and then them telling you do or don't. It's really a let's-figure-it-out-together kind of mentality. That’s why it’s a great place for us to be.
THR: How would you describe your working relationship?
Lieberman: David and I have been working together for thirteen years, so it's definitely evolved. When I started with him, I was younger and definitely a more inexperienced executive who hadn't worked in the studio system before. So I was very fortunate to tag along and attach myself to someone who had so much experience in the business and certainly the political navigations that it would take to work within the studio system.I learned an extraordinary amount from just watching him and being a part of his working process. I'd come from the independent finance world. David has really amazing development skills and so I drafted off all that. And as our relationship turned into a partnership, it organically grew and I got more mature and more confident in my own skills. We've been working together for so long, we're almost like a Venn diagram, where our brains are kind of meshed together, and generally they overlap and maybe there's one portion where mine extends out and there's one portion on the other side where his extends out.
Hoberman: Listen, we've gone through growing pains as any relationship does. I would put that more on me than Todd because I've always either worked for someone or people have worked for me. So for me it was an adjustment. I remember I said, “I want you as a partner.” But it took me a while to accept that, and over the last several years I've come to embrace it.
Lieberman: In a sense it's like a marriage. I see more of David than I do of my own wife. There are ups and downs in any relationship, and certainly with a partnership it’s the same. But what I've found is that we both are okay as males talking about emotion and kind of putting it all out there. Our communication skills are very transparent, so when there's something going on we don't hide it.
THR: What's been the hardest film to make over the years, and why?
Hoberman: Surrogates. It was a difficult film that had a lot of visual effects. We turned in the script for that film the night before the writers' strike. And when the strike was over, we started pre-production and we were ready to go, and yet we really weren't prepared because usually scripts are a never-ending continual process. By the time we opened things up, we realized during production that the script needs a lot of work.
Lieberman: For me it was Beverly Hills Chihuahua, where I nearly died in Mexico. It was absolutely horrendous. I lost seventeen pounds, I went to the hospital three times, I was puking once a week. It was just absolutely disastrous for me.
PHOTOS: 'The Fighter' in Real Life
THR: What's been the most unexpectedly gratifying?
Hoberman: I'd have to say The Fighter.
Lieberman: Yeah. I was going to say The Fighter, as well. Because it came from a little story that we heard and turned into something that was well beyond what we ever would have hoped it could have been.
Hoberman: A lot of people wanted it when we sold it. But nobody wanted it when we had the thing put together.
Lieberman: The Fighter was extremely difficult to get going. That was probably the hardest movie to get greenlighted. But then once we got it going, it was an amazing experience.
Hoberman: In terms of gratification, I’ve got to put The Muppets up there. Because here's a movie that we developed, we made and we thought we made a good movie. I never thought that The Muppets would be one of the best-reviewed movies of the year.
Lieberman: I didn't realize the amount of pressure that was on this movie, because of all the people that love the brand and what could have gone wrong with it, until after we had made it. And finally when the reviews came out, I said to myself, “Wow, what would have happened if it wasn't received well?” In retrospect, thank God it turned out like it did.
THR: How were you able to feel at ease putting it in the hands of screenwriters Jason Segel and Nicholas Stoller? How did you know you could trust them with it?
Lieberman: Well, they’re unbelievably talented. Everyone knew the box we were allowed to play in, and everyone was and still is a diehard Muppet fan. So it wasn't like anyone was trying to reinvent the Muppets. We just wanted to honor and nod to them. And we all wanted that same goal, so it was never the idea of, Do we think that Segel or Stoller or [director James] Bobin or anyone is going to take this into R-rated territory, because that’s what they are known for? There were never those discussions.
THR: After you're nominated for best picture for a film like The Fighter, does it change your taste in any way or make you less likely to make a movie like Beverly Hills Chihuahua moving forward?
Lieberman: My taste has always been and will always be all over the map. I love blatantly commercial movies, I love comedies, I love hardcore dramas. When I was at Summit, I was involved in movies like Memento and American Pie and Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels. I've always been that way, and our slate is reflective of that. So for every Muppets or Phineas and Ferb that would be considered blatantly commercial, we want to do the very best job we can for those movies and make them commercial. But we also like to do movies like The Fighter and other things that we are developing right now that are harder, grittier, dirtier.
Hoberman: I come from Disney. They weren't known for making dramas and star-vehicle movies, and that’s how I was brought up. I was brought up in the studio system, where we had to make a slate of movies and that slate of movies included any number of different kinds of movies. So when I became a producer, I had a real desire to want to make some dramas, but my reputation didn't allow it. I hired people from New York, I tried every which way I could to make movies like The Fighter. So it's not for lack of wanting. If anything, what The Fighter did is step up our desire and outreach to try to bring some more of those movies in and let people know that we want to make more of those and that we can do them well.
Lieberman: Exactly. Our taste is reflective of doing them. Now people can see that we can do them.
THR: When the studio throws you something like Jungle Cruise or Swiss Family Robinson that is based on an iconic ride, the expectations are obviously huge, especially post-Pirates of the Caribbean. What kind of pressure do you feel?
Hoberman: I have an attitude that I've developed as an executive, which is I really don't think about it. And I mean that honestly. We didn't with The Muppets; that was a huge responsibility trying to reboot that movie. All we can do as producers is to set out and make the best movie we can. If we get scared or nervous, or if we're too cognizant of what the outcome could be, we'll be influenced by it, and I don't think we'll make the best movie we can. I used to feel that way about doing an entire slate of movies, if I looked at how much money I was spending in the old days — which Jeffrey Katzenberg pointed out to me once. I had a freak out attack.
THR: You're making 21 and Over, the directorial debut of The Hangover writers Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, which we can assume will have some raunchy material in it. Is there anything in particular that we can look forward to?
Hoberman: You can look forward to a great throwing up scene.
THR: What's going on with Phineas and Ferb now?
Lieberman: It’s a big priority for everyone at Disney, and we love the show. So we hope that one is the next one for us.
Hoberman: Michael Arndt just turned in his draft.
Lieberman: The idea is to take those characters from animation and put them in the live-action world, kind of like Robert Zemeckis did with Roger Rabbit. Another world that we have never tackled is animation, so that will be an exciting learning opportunity.
THR: Do your Midwest upbringings inform your tastes as filmmakers?
Lieberman: A hundred percent, totally. My feeling is when I go back to Cleveland I'm reminded of where my taste came from, which is very populist.My parents were well educated, but we have very commercial sensibilities, and so even the smaller movies or the indie-style movies that we make — and I guess you could put The Fighter in that category — are still populist entertainment, they have a commercial appeal to them.
Hoberman: I have been out here for so long. I am pretty ensconced in Los Angles and Hollywood. My taste for making movies was really formed in my years at Disney.
THR: Is a Muppets sequel in the works?
THR: If you were Muppets, which ones would you be?
Hoberman: I'll pick Gonzo for Todd. Todd is the kind of guy who's out there and all over everything, he's fearless and he's not afraid to take chances and do crazy things.
Lieberman: By the way, I do eat a lot of chicken. I think David's Kermit because you don't really get a rise out of him, he doesn't go too low, he's pretty steady, at the center of the action.
1. The Proposal (Disney, 2009): $317.4 million*
2. Beverly Hills Chihuahua (Disney, 2008): $149.3 million
3. The Fighter (Paramount, 2010): $129.2 million
4. Surrogates (Disney, 2009): $122.4 million
5. Eight Below (Disney, 2006): $120.5 million
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Re: [hylafax-users] how is vgetty implemented these days?
You are completly right. I hadn't RTFM yet.
I relied on the ebuild on gentoo didn't have a dependency for
spandsp. I'll get it fixed.
Wouldn't it be great if IAX modem could RE-INVITE or use NSE to
convert the connection to use T.38 if the remote gateway supported
that protocol?
I read your comments on the FAQ about T.38. Now that spandsp is
supporting T.38 will you add support to IAXmodem too?
As for V.34 support it's best implemented in hardware. I thought I
read about it somewhere. I know capi4hylfax has got references to V.34
in changelog
" * set minimum of 4800 for V.34 primary rate renegotiations (02 Apr 2006)
* improve handling of V.34 control channel retrain (02 Apr 2006)"
So the code is already in the public domain for doing V.34 in a
softdsp. It would be nice to get it implemented in spandsp too!
Capi4hylafax pays it's licensing fees because it's intended to works
with Fritz hardware. Would there be patent issues putting it into
On 25/04/07, Lee Howard <faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Luke McKee wrote:
> SpanDSP which can be used with asterfax to answer incoming fax calls
> is planning to add V.34 support.
This is news to me. I bet it's news to Steve Underwood, too. (Unless he's holding back on me.) ;-)
> Lee - thinking of making a new faxgetty compatible application that
> uses spandsp?
> http://www.soft-switch.org/
> http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/spandsp
Thanks. I'm quite familiar with spandsp. You've mentioned iaxmodem a few times. I thought you knew...
> It's also worth noting that echo cancellation is good for voice, but
> when receiving a fax you need to turn it off.
Echo cancellation, if it were flawless, would cancel out only the echo, and thus there would be no problem with it and fax. However, echo cancellation on many VoIP products tends to foul up the audio in general - and since fax is largely a half-duplex communication anyway, there's really no reason to risk having the echo canceller do bad things when faxing.
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World Peace
I did it goooood. My arm and shoulder hurt like a big dog and from now on I am not carrying anything heavier than a $100 bill. The arm sling and cervical collar are not helping and I have an appointment with Dr. Jordan later this week. I hope we can adjust some medications and get back to where I was before I went and got all stooopid. If I am standing or sitting the only way the pain goes away is if I put my left hand behind my head with my elbow straight out. Hmmm, If I sling my right hand behind me and wear a skimpy red dress, I bet I would look just like this beauty queen!
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LONG PRAIRIE, Minn. - One of the teens involved in a sexually-charged hazing incident at Browerville High School waived his right to trial Friday and pleaded guilty by submitting an Alford plea.
Under the agreement, 18-year-old Connor Burns maintains his innocence but admits that enough evidence exists that he could be found guilty if a trial occurred. Rather that take that risk, Burns pleaded guilty to a charge of fourth degree criminal sexual conduct.
As part of the Alford agreement the judge does not actually accept the guilty plea, and no charges go on Burns' record. Prosecutors also drop all additional charges in the case.
Burns was charged with six separate criminal counts that involved helping co-defendant Seth Kellen sexually assault a teammate, and taking part in the assault himself.
If Burns does not violate conditions of his probation his criminal record will remain unblemished.
"The agreement is good for several reasons. One, his record remains clean, he has no conviction whatsoever," said Burns' attorney Ryan Garry.
"Two, pursuant to the Alford Plea he gets to tell the world I'm 100 percent innocent, and three he serves absolutely no jail time. He does not have to register as a predatory offender and he does not have to complete sex offender treatment and when you're looking at a case where the presumptive commit to prison is 48 months in prison that's a helluva deal."
A third defendant, a juvenile, faces lesser charges in the scandal.
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The Pakistani Taliban vowed to assassinate former President Pervez Musharraf if he returns to the country as planned Sunday, a spokesman for the terrorist group said in a video message online.
Tehrik-i-Taliban will send out a "death squad" to kill him, Ehsanullah Ehsan said Saturday.
One of the squad members addressed Musharraf in English, demanding the former president surrender himself.
After resigning in 2008, Musharraf spent five years in self-imposed exile in London and Dubai.
He plans to fly on a commercial airline into Karachi on Sunday, then attend a rally that will include Pakistani expatriates from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United Arab Emirates, he has said in a statement.
He plans to lead his political party into Pakistan's general elections slated for May.
In 1999, the then-chief of Pakistan's army became its president in a bloodless military coup. He remained in power until resigning in 2008 -- a period that included the U.S.-led invasion of neighboring Afghanistan.
A few months before he left office, Benazir Bhutto -- Pakistan's first elected female prime minister -- was killed in a gun-suicide bomb attack as she was wrapping up a campaign rally in Rawalpindi.
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Katakana サイファー Other Emblem.png
Romaji Saifā
Voice actors (Ja:) Takehito Koyasu
(En:) Will Friedle
Homeworld Twilight Town
Origin Final Fantasy VIII
Game Kingdom Hearts II
Kingdom Hearts II
Final Fantasy VIII
Self-appointed head of the "Twilight Disciplinary Committee."
Seifer does his best to keep the town up to his own rigorous standards, but not everyone appreciates his high-handed tactics -- take Hayner's gang, for example.
His followers Fujin and Raijin are never far away.
"I don't feel like cooperating with destiny."
Seifer is a Final Fantasy character in Kingdom Hearts II, who resides in Twilight Town. Seifer is always seen with his posse Fuu, Rai, and Vivi. He shares a rivalry with Hayner and his gang, and often picks fights with them.
Much like the original Seifer of Final Fantasy VIII, he is cocky, sarcastic, and a self-proclaimed protector of order, or at least, his idea of order, which is just bullying people into following what he says.
Seifer does not appear in Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days, but is briefly mentioned by Hayner, Pence, and Olette.
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[edit] Kingdom Hearts II
Seifer is the leader of the Simulated Twilight Town's Disciplinary Committee which includes his followers Rai, Fuu, and Vivi.
He is a rival of Roxas, always calling him a chicken-wuss and picking fights with him and his friends. He is also the town's Champion for the Struggle Tournament in Twilight Town. Seifer is the first evidence of a malfunction in the virtual world; when he taunts Roxas things start to get slow and strange.
[edit] Appearance
Seifer's clothes are slightly based on Final Fantasy VIII's original version, but redesigned to match with his age and new style, that includes a black tuque with the "Ore" kanji (which is a distinctly masculine and sometimes vulgar way of referring to oneself; the backwards kanji also stands for battle). He wears a blue crop-top vest with white lining underneath a floor-length white jacket. This jacket resembles the one he wore in Final Fantasy VIII, though it lacks sleeves and the red crosses it originally had. He has baggy, aubergine colored pants, with the legs tucked into black combat boots with light blue laces. Seifer's eyes are blue-green and his hair, partially visible under his hat, is blond. The scar Leon gave him in Final Fantasy VIII is also shown in the game, and it is the mirror of Leon's. It is unclear why Seifer has the scar here. In Kingdom Hearts II, Seifer's gunblade "Hyperion" is replaced with a Struggle Bat which he uses for all battles, but wields it in a similar stance to how he wielded Hyperion.
[edit] Personality
Seifer appears as very brash, rude, and taunting. He signifies himself as the "protector of the town". Seifer's personality contrasts in small ways from his personality in Final Fantasy VIII where he played as Leon's rival. His personality is more childish and a lot more brash than in his Final Fantasy version. This is probably reflective of his age. Although he often seems like a bully, he is shown to care about the town and is nice to Roxas or Sora when he sees fit.
Seifer often makes allusions to his character in Final Fantasy VIII. For example, Seifer calls Roxas a chicken wuss; this is a reference to his derogatory nickname for the character Zell Dincht on various occasions in Final Fantasy VIII. There also is an alternate cutscene if you lose the first battle with Seifer. This is likely a reference to him and Leon (Squall), because of how there was an alternate cutscene for Leon also. The fact that he is the leader of the Twilight Town Disciplinary Committee also could be considered a reference to his original game, where he was the leader of the Balamb Garden Disciplinary Committee.
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Seifer has a very defensive fighting style as he is always in a guard stance. He parries attacks quite easily and focuses on countering. He has the same battle stance as he did in Final Fantasy VIII, but his attacks are much less impressive. He can perform a basic slash and a spin attack. He can also leap high into the air and come down club first.
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Seifer Almasy is a classmate of Squall Leonhart in Final Fantasy VIII, as well as his chief rival. Like Squall, Seifer was one of the very few people to wield a Gunblade, his model called the Hyperion. Leader of the Balamb Garden Disciplinary Committee, he was close friends with fellow students, Raijin and Fujin.
Seifer was also training to become a SeeD member but was unable to make the cut due to his rash attitude and rebellious nature. He later on becomes a regular antagonist/anti-hero after being swayed by the main antagonist, the Sorceress known as Ultimecia, as it was his 'romantic dream' to become a Sorceress's Knight, although he realizes his wrongdoings and redeems himself in the end.
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My Uncle was a medical photographer for quite sometime when it wasn't even a profession. He was quiet accomplished. It was from his medical photos that surgeons learned about the body from the inside. I see nothing wrong with the human body. It is a beautiful thing. Created in God's likeness, so the bible says. I still have the photos of my small intestine when it twisted on me a few months ago. The surgeon then flipped the camera to get a photo of my appendix and ovaries. Never knew what they looked like. Quite interesting actually.
When we start to mutilate our bodies, that is when I have problems. Why would we do such things purposefully? All those body piercings and tattoos? I'm sorry. Its not for me. And my kids have better be straight A students before I allow them that luxury.
But back to the abortion topic - When a medical doctor takes an oath before the Supreme Court and makes up a lie and everyone believes in that lie, what did we do wrong? How do we expose that lie? The said medical doctor, a few years ago, exposed that lie. He admitted that he lied and he admits that the lie still exists. Who believes him? The two women who were Roe & Doe, the two court decisions that allows for abortion today, come out and said they lied and were lied to -- who believes them? When Planned Parenthood's Research team comes out with fabricated data that falsely states women die in illegal abortions -- and such research team admits that the data is faulty -- who believes them? Even with the blown up images of aborted fetus' at all life stages -- who believes the message?
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pj writes:
in response to cjjrmdixon:
both back wheels blown out? I'm not the smartest guy in the world but the van may have been overloaded.
The Titanic had a smaller debris field.
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FuckFuckFuckADuckScrewAKangaroo writes:
Actually, I'm in a compromising mood today. Howsabout instead of moving the public notices from your pages to the internet, we put a hard cap on how much those notices cost to publish?
Say, twenty-five cents a pop?
I mean, if the argument isn't about money at all, and it's PURELY about how newspapers have better reach, then surely you'll lower your prices to reflect what public notice publishers COULD be paying if they weren't stuck solely with having to use traditional news media, right?
Aww, come on. I thought this wasn't about the money. XD
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reform4 writes:
'Will any/all individual parts of the original 9 -NOT PASSED- be petitioned?'
I suspect anything not passed (or even modified) will be separately petitioned. The interesting thing will be whether they still stick with 4-question and 5-question petitions (duplicating those CC puts on the ballot), or if they will limit the petition drive to the 2-4 questions they don't put on the ballot. Given KCOQ's penchant for political foot-shooting, I wouldn't be surprised if they choose the former.
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The Legislature voted to raise the minimum wage. The governor said no.
Neither party asks, "Why do we have a problem in the first place?"
Fifty years ago, the minimum wage was 75 cents an hour and it paid for reasonable living. Today's minimum wage won't. Each time we move to raise the wage we argue "affordability" vs a living wage. However, the prices and underlying unemployment rate go up even in the years when the wage isn't raised. What else could it be? Market rigging?
Zoning/planning boards assure "maximizing" housing prices (and local governments love the higher "tax base"), and the development is done so that automobiles are required for transportation. Houses and cars are subsidized by "credit expansion" that eventually produces multiple mortgages on the same house and car loans that resemble mortgages. Whence comes the money? It is created! Create money and throw it into a market place, the value of the money decreases in relation to everything else.
Our trade treaties send millions of jobs to foreign slave camps paying microscopic wages. We get part-time, low-wage jobs. When the house of cards collapsed in 2008, the government bailed out the banksters and left the borrowers in the dumpster. Now a lot of politicians, at Wall Street's demand, want to dump the poor out of the dumpster into the sewage plant.
The same thing happened to medical care.
We shifted from healing people to treating them as cash flow device to pay a "business empire" called Wealthcare.
But we can't rig a livable minimum wage. That wouldn't be a free market.
Las Cruces
Parkinson disease
Parkinson disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disease, with no cure, that typically affects people in later life. With the senior population growing in the United States, and particularly in New Mexico and in our community, we will see more cases of PD. Therefore, there is a need to educate the public about Parkinson disease and to offer help in dealing with its associated problems.
On April 1, the City of Las Cruces proclaimed April to be Parkinson Disease Awareness Month in Las Cruces.
On April 6, in order to educate our community and those suffering with the disease, the American Parkinson Disease Association, along with the Parkinson Disease Support Group of Southern New Mexico, convened a symposium hosted by Memorial Medical Center. 120 attended the day's lectures. Speakers from Lubbock, Texas included Dr. Katie Hendley, MD (Parkinson's Disease Update); Dr. Roy Hendley, Pharm D, BCNSP (The Truth about My Meds); Yvonne Porres (Zumba-Let's Get Moving) and Jo Bidwell, M.Ed (Good Nutrition).
There are many who should be thanked for their donations, time, hard work and support. In particular, thank you Memorial Medical Center and John Kutinac, TEVA Pharmaceutical, LC Convention Center and Sonia Banuelos, the city of Las Cruces, Christy Chamberlin of Edward Jones, Jason's Grill, Highland Rehab Hospital in El Paso, Texas, Sandy Di Francesco, Robert Bejarano, the Devins, Ben Villmer, Pascale Blue, El Paso Electric Co., Derrickson Moore, Ernesto Garcia, and all those who worked behind the scenes.
The local PDSGSNM meets at 10 a.m. on the third Tuesday of the month. Those with the disease and those who would like to learn more about the disease are invited to attend. Call 575-680-2520 for more information.
volunteers for the Parkinson Disease Support Group of Southern NM
Las Cruces
AIDS deaths
Frish and Hviid (2006) interviewed 2 million Danes and found that men who did not know who their fathers were, whose fathers were distant or often absent, who lived with both parents for a relatively short period, and who were from broken homes were less likely to marry heterosexually than were children raised in intact families. Homosexual marriage rates were higher for women whose parents were married for a short time and whose mothers were absent or whose mothers abandoned them during the child's teen years. Two million is an adequate sample.
In a study of gay HIV rates, Steven Goodreau and Matthew R. Golden of the University of Washington, Seattle reported that as many as one in five gay men living in cities may be HIV-positive (Reinberg 2007). Given that the average, active gay man has three different partners per year, the active gay man has a 50 percent chance on average of having sex with an HIV positive partner every year. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Abstract 1441 (2012) reported that "In all, two thirds (67 percent) of MSM (men having sex with men) who met sex partners over the Internet were HIV positive." This high rate of HIV infection likely reflects the high rates of activity by MSM using the Internet to find partners.
In the U.S., MSM are the ultimate cause for most HIV transmissions and therefore most AIDS related illnesses and mortalities in our country. An estimated 56,300 Americans become newly infected with HIV annually (CDC). Since the epidemic began in the early 1980s through 2007, AIDS killed 576,000 people in the US. That is more Americans than died in World War II.
Silver City
Minds' Interrupted thanks
I would like to personally thank the community of Las Cruces for embracing the production Minds' Interrupted, (March 11 at the Rio Grande - in which seven local people told their stories of lives impacted by mental illness.)
This support has gone a long way. It seems people are calling more for information, wanting to speak out more openly. It was heart warming to see the diversity of the people who attended and speaks to the fact that treatment of the mentally ill is a community responsibility - a state responsibility - a national responsibility. With the mayor, some city council and county commissioners, police chief, school board president, judges, high school faculty attending, it speaks to the fact that leaders of the community want to find answers together.
The press and radio coverage was amazing - thank you Sun-News as well as The Bulletin and several radio stations.
It could not have been better.
Thank you Las Cruces.
Nami-Dac President
State Nami Board Member
Las Cruces
Tax dollars and war
Right now, our members of Congress, Representative Pearce and Senators Udall and Heinrich, are hearing from the Pentagon that cutting into their projected spending will be a catastrophe for national security. With so much of our tax dollars already going to military projects, I think that it would be a catastrophe not to reshape our country's budget to reflect our priorities as a nation. Congress has an opportunity - but will they take it?
Las Cruces
Endangered Species Act
Las Cruces
Hooks' column a hoot
Neal Hooks' op-ed "Straight talk about gay marriage" was really a hoot. I almost spit my tea thru my nose several times. But the one that really made me hold my sides was his statement that a homosexual lifestyle among others things "also results in high rates of promiscuity, obesity (in lesbians), compulsive behavior...etc.," just made my morning. By the way, he said he does not believe in evolution either.
What world does he live in? As I look just around Las Cruces, not to mention the USA in general, it seems all of the negative behaviors he mentioned are heavily (LOL) represented in our entire society. Maybe he just lives between the pages of Kohl's advertising.
And guess he flunked history too. From Egypt to Greece to Italy and beyond alternative sexuality is shown in art and written records. There have been harems all over the world, even in Utah! Many scholars who have studied the issues state that now, as well as historically, gays and lesbians make up about 10 percent of the population. It may even grow now that discrimination is beginning to wane. Three South American countries have now put into law that their gay and lesbian people can marry!
And his rant about if we do this, allow gay marriage, what could happen next? He then repeats all the hateful diatribes he has heard on Fox. Great bunch of folks there.
Las Cruces
Left vulnerable
By age 13, I knew I was different. Growing up in rural Colorado, I wasn't sure there was anyone else like me in the entire world. Then some guys at school started calling me "queer" and I had a label with which to identify. It wasn't a label of which I was proud, however.
I came out to a few close friends before I finished college. Fortunately, they were non-judgmental, and over time I accepted myself as a gay man, not that different from my straight male friends.
I've been blessed with two long-term relationships. My first partner, Randy, and I were together for 20-plus years when he died of lung cancer in 1995. Since our relationship wasn't legally recognized, I was left in a very vulnerable position. His family could have come to our home and taken just about everything, and I would have had no legal claim to stop them. Fortunately, they chose not to do so. Often in these situations, the opposite happens and the grieving partner is literally left with little or nothing.
Four years later, I met my current partner, Dean, and we will soon celebrate 14 years of caring for each other through sickness and health, family deaths, and joyful reunions. We have worked with an attorney and have tried to do all the paperwork to protect each other. But without the security of a marriage contract, will one of us be left at the mercy of the other's family? And in spite of our "Durable Powers-of-Attorney for Healthcare," will a hospital recognize us as a couple and allow us visitation rights in case of an illness or medical emergency? We just don't know for sure. If we had the security of a marriage contract, there would be no question.
Las Cruces
The source
Yes, Cherie McGinn, I learned from the liberal to cherry pick as they surely do. Is it an excepted principle, it appears so. You talk the lesser numbers of 8,583 killed by guns, which is a relatively small number to make your case of gun control. When you take the same FBI 2011 statistics such as forcible rape 78,287, aggravated assault 711,997, violent crimes 1,146,588 and murder 14,022, much greater numbers, and more reason to own a firearm. The last printed FBI statistic in 2010 shows a murder every 35.6 minutes and forcible rape every 6.2 minutes, a robbery every 1.4 minutes and aggravated assault every 40.5 seconds. A property crime every 3.5 seconds. As you acknowledge the FBI stats are reliable.
The best way that I know to simply describe a progressive is by a past experience.
I once had a liberal cow, I know she was liberal, because she got free food, free medical care and housing and bellowed all the time. I thought she was with calf but it turned out she had gas. I was taken to the cleaners like most trustworthy people; she on the other hand had a free ride, until I wised up and sent her packing (Packers) as we will do in the 2014 elections. Sensible people are seeing what is happening, that they are now awake and starting to speak. That gives a lot of us renewed energy and hope that we will show up this time.
Our president is best described as per a Ben Franklin quote of, "he that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else." We need leadership; it takes no great wisdom to spend someone else's money and not being held accountable.
Las Cruces
American values
I think our American values are being compromised out of existence.
Gun legislation
We have to register and re-register our vehicles and insure them. We demand background checks on employees, particularly those entrusted with our children. Despite the relatively small number of people killed on 9/11 (a lot fewer than are killed by guns each year), our lives have been dramatically affected by the forces of "homeland security." So why can't we have sensible gun safety legislation?
Why aren't gun owners mandated to insure their weapons against the possibility that the gun, if stolen, is used in a crime? Why aren't people held criminally responsible if a child uses an unsecured gun to shoot himself or others? All businesses, with one significant exception, must comply with safety laws, yet the federal 2005 Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act makes the gun makers immune from lawsuits. No other industry enjoys this special legal protection. Why?
Las Cruces
Response to Hays
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0.020852 | <urn:uuid:5606e0f5-2c17-45fd-8ac6-84a13f35be58> | en | 0.99223 | The relatives of an American executive being confined by workers in a Beijing factory say his living conditions have improved since he opened labor negotiations with union and Chinese government officials.
Cecily Starnes says her husband, Chip, is now working with his third Chinese attorney to resolve a compensation dispute with workers who have held him since Friday.
About 100 workers say they have not been paid in two months. They are demanding back pay and severance packages identical to those offered 30 workers being laid off from the Coral Springs, Florida-based company. Starnes denies those allegations, saying it is a misunderstanding.
Cecily first learned that her husband was in trouble Friday when she received a text message from him. It read: "I am calling the U.S. Embassy for help."
"Your stomach just drops," she said in a phone interview Tuesday. "It's very scary."
Cecily, 45, said her husband had arrived in China to visit the factory of Specialty Medical Supplies last Monday, in part to arrange the transfer of some machines to India from the company's shuttered plastics division. But rumors had circulated that the entire plant was being closed, despite Starnes' assertion that the company doesn't plan to fire other workers.
That's when the workers held him captive, blocking exits and depriving him of sleep by banging on his office door and shining flashlights into the windows, Cecily said.
"They were trying to use intimidation to get him to sign contracts that he had no idea what they said," she said. "They were completely in Mandarin."
She added: "He's frustrated. He's angry. He's tired. He wants to get out of there."
Local police responded for "crowd control," she said, "but they haven't done much of anything else."
John Starnes, 36, said his brother's mood has improved with the changing conditions at the factory. After media coverage, Chip now has a cot to sleep on and is receiving three meals a day, he said. He also said his brother has received medication for eye infections he developed over the last few days.
Relatives said they speak to Chip by cell phone regularly and have been watching the news footage of him speaking to reporters from behind the bars of his office window.
"It's surreal," John Starnes said. "It's something you'd see in a movie or a novel."
Workers have said they believe the company is faring poorly and want to quit and get severance, anticipating a full-scale closure. Starnes has denied the closure rumors.
"It's crazy," Cecily Starnes said. "Even my husband said that's not how you do business, especially since the people who are doing this are the ones who still have jobs."
It is unclear how labor negotiations are progressing.
"Hopefully, it will come to pass soon," Cecily Starnes said. "He's never once given me, 'OK, we're getting close.' He just keeps saying, 'I want this done. I'm ready to get out of here.'"
She said she has tried to keep her family on a normal schedule, with the couple's three children attending camp. The children have spoken to their father several times since his captivity began, she said.
John Starnes said he hopes his brother will be moved to a neutral site to complete the labor talks so he can return home.
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Artist: jin Lyrics
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yo, if the rap game is whack, everybody's blamin you
you from brookyln? then biggie mush be ashamed of you
cause imma freestyle, show you how it is
matter fact, you from bk, i heard they murder things
only time he seen beef is when he go to burger king
i'm the player in the game, you cheerin in the stands
matter fact, durin the superbowl, he was cheerin for the rams
you don't even like football, that's a myth like unicorns
he just like seein' grown men in tight uniforms
i'm freesylin when im kickin it
so ridiculous, put yourself in a bad predicament
by the way, my little sister has somethin to say
"there's no way you'll beat my brother on freestyle friday!"
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Using a Meat Thermometer
Using a Meat Thermometer
Using a Meat Thermometer
No matter what your recipe says, the best way to tell if meat is done is to use a meat thermometer. These are generally used with larger cuts of meat - such as roasts - or with whole chickens or turkeys.
• Get a meat thermometer that is dishwasher-safe for easy cleaning.
• Meat thermometers can be used for things other than measuring the temperature of meat. Some can - for example - check the temperature of water to be sure it's safe to add yeast, or check the internal temperature of warmed-over leftovers to be sure they're safe to eat.
• Meat thermometers come in a variety of styles, including dial types, probes and stand-up types of thermometers. Some probe thermometers allow you to connect the thermometer to a countertop unit that gives you the temperature reading without having to open the oven. Microwave-safe meat thermometers are also available.
2. Make sure the thermometer is not touching bone, but is embedded deeply in the meat itself.
3. Put the meat in the oven at the recommended temperature.
4. Leave the meat thermometer in the meat throughout the cooking process.
5. Check the meat thermometer as soon as the recommended cooking time for the cut of meat you are preparing is almost finished. The reading on the thermometer - check the levels for the kind of meat you are cooking - will indicate when the meat is cooked throughout.
A meat thermometer gets hot in the oven. Use care when reading it or removing it after the meat comes out of the oven.
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 20 Critics
Critic score distribution:
1. Positive: 15 out of 20
2. Negative: 1 out of 20
1. They give the old noise pop formula enough of a kick to make this a very worthwhile addition to any noise pop fan's collection.
3. 60
Eventually Brad Hargett's depressive baritone voice will get you down, but not before it has demanded your attention. [Apr 2009, p.87]
4. 80
Alight Of Night is devoid of current context, making for a weird timelessness. A treat. [Mar 2009, p.108]
5. The crepuscular glow of this quartet should be embraced.
6. Alright of Night is an auspicious opening volley from a NYC act that exhibits boundless potential. [Year End 2008]
7. 60
Brooklyn's Crystal Stilts filter trembling surf guitar and tambourine shakes through echoing chambers of effects until their wistful, barely-there tunes seem to dramatically float out of murky, cavernous depths.
8. You'll find more wit and invention on a solitary track by Ethan Kath and Alice Glass than you will on this depressingly retro and lumpen homage to a scene that wasn't even all that back in the day.
10. This, of course, can be a drag, but when said influences are as carefully picked, pristinely melded, and precisely replicated as they are in the case of Crystal Stilts, it can be a real blast.
11. Easily the most exhilarating rock 'n' roll record to emerge in 2008.
12. These songs are dull because they are about dullness, as sad movies are sad because they are about sadness.
13. It makes for a workmanlike listen. For all the frills of doom and cadences of industry firing on all greasy pistons, the dynamics at hand are simple, rounded up summarily when the album presents its glaring contradictions as a matter of fact
14. Alight Of Night is a garage-weaned, art rock, squat-dirty masterpiece.
15. 60
Every song on debut Alight Of Night seems to be falling apart, mostly because vocalist Brad Hargett’s melodies are off the map.
16. Simply put, it's a decent album. There are a handful of great tracks and handful of tankers. The rest is just kind of there.
17. 80
Deceptively primitive-sounding, Alight Of Night is the definition of a "grower." [Nov/Dec 2008, p.84]
18. This is one of the best garage pop sides sine The Chills' own "Brave Words." [Dec 2008, p.70]
19. The sound on Alight of Night is a swinging, noisy, glammy and overall dark evolution of garage rock.
20. Ghostly pop transmissions from buzzy Brooklynites.
User Score
Universal acclaim- based on 5 Ratings
User score distribution:
1. Positive: 1 out of 1
2. Mixed: 0 out of 1
3. Negative: 0 out of 1
1. Feb 2, 2011
A brilliant blend of best moments from Velvet Underground,Pulp Fiction soundtrack and Joy Division.
This album brings light and warmth to my h
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Die Kämpfe in Watchmen 2 machen durchaus Spaß, mit den Kombos und dem Ausweichen bieten sie sogar ein wenig taktischen Anspruch. Allerdings brachten mich die immergleichen Gegner und Umgebungen schnell zum Gähnen. Dazu kommt die kaum vorhandene Story, was bei einer Lizenz wie Watchmen umso trauriger ist. Über die Streitereien der beiden Helden und im Multiplayer-Modus habe ich mich trotzdem amüsiert.
PC Gameplay (Benelux)
Watchmen: The End is Nigh 2 is eigenlijk een complete kopie van episode en daardoor juist nog slechter.
Xbox 360
Watchmen: The End is Nigh Part 2 isn't as exciting as the first episode, and that one wasn't exactly a smash hit to begin with. The story feels less fleshed out and the combat is as uninspired as ever. If you enjoyed endlessly and mindlessly beating up the same small handful of foes in the first episode, there's more waiting for you here. Might I suggest getting a hobby instead?
It's a bit sad that this is how the Watchmen game ends. Even when there is something interesting, like the moment where Rorschach and Nite Owl stop being crimefighting buddies, everything else is just so mediocre. As part of either the PS3 or 360 retail compilation disc that features both episodes together, it's an uninspired nightcap. As a stand-alone download, it's a short rendition of the Watchmen brawler experience that features more low points than high points -- but with an admittedly awesome moment of Rorschach punching a fat pervert.
Xbox 360
Xbox 360
Watchmen Part 2 therefore manages the rather impressive feat of actually being a worse game than its bone-headed predecessor. The gameplay is as leaden as before, but now there's even less of it, and a good chunk of it comes drizzled in an icky misogynist sauce. It's certainly the most unpleasant afternoon's gaming I've endured in a long time. If you can't find a better recipient for your Microsoft Points after the stellar line-up of the last month, you probably deserve every poorly rendered punch and kick coming your way. | http://www.mobygames.com/game/watchmen-the-end-is-nigh-part-2/mobyrank | dclm-gs1-102510002 | false | false | {
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Folk music legend Arlo Guthrie performs at Traverse City's Opera House
Northern Michigan Music: When Arlo Guthrie decided to become a singer and songwriter, he had some pretty big shoes to fill. His famous father, Woody Guthrie, had set the bar high with his numerous political, traditional and children’s songs (including “This Land Is Your Land”) and his status as a founding father of folk music. Such songwriters as Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs, Bruce Springsteen, John Mellencamp, Pete Seeger, and Tom Paxton have acknowledged Woody Guthrie as a major influence.
Son Arlo took up the mantle in the mid-60s, and by 1967 was a hit-maker in his own right, with “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree.” It was made into a movie (starring Guthrie) and he landed on the the cover of Time magazine in September 1969. He’s recorded and performed ever since.
On Oct. 4 he will be performing at the City Opera House in Traverse City. He took a few minutes from his schedule to answer some questions about him and his music.
Why did you decide to become a musician? Did you consider any other careers?
I wanted to be a bartender, or a forest ranger. It didn't work out.
How much did having a famous father help your career? Hinder it?
I've probably hindered his career more than having been hindered by his.
Your political stance has changed over the years. How has that affected your music and your fan base?
I haven't actually changed my political positions on anything for over 50 years. Maybe I'm just stubborn but I still believe in the same ol' stuff - Liberty, Freedom, Justice - Stuff like that. I have changed bumper stickers occasionally but don't let that fool you, and don't let others tell you what I believe. If someone wants to know, I've written extensively about a whole lot of things and it's all online, so you can see for yourself. In that sense, my music hasn't had to change very much. Same ol' same ol'.
How has your musical style changed over the years?
I've actually improved as a musician, the style is the same, it's just distilled.
How have the changes in the music industry affected you (starting your own label, recording technology, etc.)?
I left the music industry because I didn't want to be industrialized. I began my own company so we could do things our own way. Now of course, technology continues to change everything, but the music remains what it always was - a reflection of my heart and mind.
Do you still enjoy touring and performing? Any thoughts on retirement?
I do love traveling, although as I get older I'm enjoying down time as much as working. I look at my dear old friend and mentor, Pete Seeger, who is 94 and still playing. Any hopes of retirement at this point (at a mere 66) is silly.
What can an audience expect at an Arlo Guthrie show?
Well, Arlo Guthrie for one.
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Heraclitus writes:
in response to eagle1610:
Again - the commandment of God applied to a specific circumstance - don't roll it forward to today its application (do you have support otherwise?).
Yes war is over when you kill the enemy - good thinking general!
Our founders declared war on England - so please do not assume it is OK TODAY to go and attack British soldiers wherever you find them.
You ignore context - repeatedly.
Your words..."Yes war is over when you kill the enemy - "
My words "Even in Total War, when the war is over you stop killing the enemy... especially the women and children... especially the children and maybe even the fetuses."
You truly do need remedial reading comprehension.
The war isn't over when you've killed all the enemy... but you're supposed to stop killing the enemy when the war is over. How could you possibly misread that statement?... or have your preconceptions so blinded you?
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J Am Coll Cardiol. 1997 Jul;30(1):141-8.
Outcome and profile of women and men presenting with acute coronary syndromes: a report from TIMI IIIB. TIMI Investigators. Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction.
Department of Medicine, St. Luke's/Roosevelt Hospital Center and Columbia University, New York, New York 10025, USA. jsh4@columbia.edu
Women and men enrolled in the Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction (TIMI) IIIB trial of unstable angina and non-Q wave myocardial infarction (MI) were evaluated to determine gender differences in characteristics and outcome.
Coronary heart disease is the leading cause of death for women and men. However, the characteristics and outcome of women compared with men with unstable angina and non-Q wave MI have not been extensively studied.
The characteristics, outcomes and proportion of 497 women and 976 men with unstable angina and non-Q wave MI at the time of enrollment were compared. When these proportions were noted to be significantly different, we compared them with the 7,731-patient TIMI IIIB Registry, which represents the non-trial, screened population with these syndromes at these centers.
For both coronary syndromes, women were older, were less frequently white, had a higher incidence of diabetes and hypertension and were receiving more cardiac medications. The 42-day rate of death and MI in TIMI IIIB was similar for women and men (7.4% vs. 7.5%). Coronary angiography revealed less severe coronary artery disease for women than for men, with absence of critical obstructions in 25% versus 16% and mean ejection fractions 62 +/- 12% versus 57 +/- 13% for women versus men (p < 0.01). Medical management failed in women as often as in men, and rates of cardiac catheterization and percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty or coronary artery bypass graft surgery were similar for women and men in the conservative strategy arm as well as in the invasive strategy arm. Women in the TIMI IIIB trial had proportionately more unstable angina than did men. The proportion of unstable angina and non-Q wave MI for women was similar in the trial and Registry. However, proportionately more men in the trial had non-Q wave MI than men in the Registry.
1) Women with each acute coronary syndrome are older than men and have more comorbidity. 2) The outcome with unstable angina and non-Q wave MI is related to severity of illness and not gender. 3) Mortality associated with revascularization for unstable angina and non-Q wave MI was similar for women and men. 4) The proportion of women and men enrolled with each acute coronary syndrome is different. These rates reflect both the prevalence of disease and selection bias owing to trial eligibility criteria and other identified factors.
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YOU CAN'T hear it, which may be a good thing. Infrasound has a frequency below the lower limit of human hearing (about 20 hertz), and is emitted by just about every turbulent natural event on Earth, and some unnatural ones. If we could hear it, we'd be subject to a constant cacophony.
If it isn't audible, can it tell us much? Yes indeed. Acoustics researchers have monitored infrasound waves for over a century. During the 1950s and 1960s, infrasound sensors were used to track atmospheric nuclear tests, and now a global network of 60 sensors is being built to help police the UN Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. Scientists are excited because the network will also provide useful data about natural atmospheric phenomena.
Such as? One of the most intriguing prospects is analysing the build-up of severe weather systems such as hurricanes and predicting their development. One part of the network ...
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By Marcus Buckingham
Oprah.com | October 07, 2009
What's happening to women's happiness?
Imagine it is 1969 and we're in a thriving American city. Let's choose Detroit. The '60s were good to the Motor City, and the future would have looked bright as new chrome. Now, imagine stopping a working woman on Detroit's Woodward Avenue, perhaps a young bank clerk, and asking if she would cast her mind forward, decades into the future. Not to picture the flying cars and space-themed restaurants that always seem to pop up in visions of the future, but to think about the role of women at work, in business, in government, in life. What do you think she would have said?
1969 was an intense, rousing time for women in America. Betty Friedan had published The Feminine Mystique a few years earlier, and had founded the National Organization for Women in 1966. And Gloria Steinem had just published the essay in New York Magazine that clearly separated the modern Women's Movement from other oppressed groups, "After Black Power: Women's Liberation," in which she called for meaningful work, equal pay, and the goal for all women to be freed from the role of only "servicing men and their children."
Fast forward 40 years: no matter how optimistic the guesses of our "woman-on-a-Detroit-street," I bet they wouldn't have outstripped what's actually happened.
Women rising
I doubt she would have guessed that by the early twenty-first century, women would be running the governments of countries as powerful and widespread as Germany and Ireland, Bangladesh and New Zealand, Chile, Mozambique, and Jamaica. Or that the wife of one U.S. president would spend months in 2008 as the national favorite to become president herself and, barely failing in that quest, would become an outspoken Secretary of State, or that the Speaker of the House would be a woman, or that John McCain would choose a moose-hunting, helicopter-riding, crowd-pleasing mother of five as his running mate because she'd stared down oil companies as governor of the tough state of Alaska.
How about education? I'm sure she would have forecast that more women would be completing high school and attending college, but do you think she'd have predicted that during the 2008 school year, 59 percent of all the bachelor's degrees and 61 percent of all the master's degrees would be earned by women, not by men? Or that by 2009, four out of the eight Ivy League universities—Harvard, Brown, Penn and Princeton—would have female presidents?
And work? Again, she would probably have bet that, in the future, more women would be working, but would she have guessed that October will be the first month in which women outnumber men in the workforce, that women would be holding more management and supervisory positions than men, by a margin of 37 percent to 31 percent, that in like-for-like work women and men with the same amount of work experience would be earning the same, and that women's pay would actually be increasing faster than men's? I doubt it.
Yet the biggest surprise would have come if you had asked her just one more question. Given all the evidence of women running corporations and universities, hospitals, media empires, branches of government, army divisions, and countries, do you think women in the future will be happier?
Well, as it turns out, too easily.
Happiness lost
Each year since 1972, the United States General Social Survey has asked men and women: "How happy are you, on a scale of 1 to 3, with 3 being very happy, and 1 being not too happy?" This survey includes a representative sample of men and women of all ages, education levels, income levels, and marital status—1,500 per year for a total of almost 50,000 individuals thus far—and so it gives us a most reliable picture of what's happened to men's and women's happiness over the last few decades.
As you can imagine, a survey this massive generates a multitude of findings, (see the full report by Wharton Professors Betsy Stevenson and Justin Wolfers) but here are the two most important discoveries.
Sad all over
And, in case you're wondering, this finding is neither unique to this one study, nor is it unique to the United States. In the last couple of years, the results from six major studies of happiness have been released:
• United States General Social Survey (46,000 people between 1972-2007)
• Virginia Slims Survey of American Women (26,000 people between 1972-2000)
• Monitoring the Future survey (430,000 U.S. twelfth graders between 1976-2005)
• British Household Panel Study (121,000 people between 1991-2004)
• Eurobarometer analysis (636,000 people between 1973-2002, covering fifteen countries)
• International Social Survey Program (97,462 people between 1991-2001, covering thirty-five developed countries)
It feels strange to write that sentence, as though I'm mistyping or having a "backwards day," as my daughter would say. But I'm not. Though the trends in the data certainly don't suggest that all women are less happy as compared to men than they were back in 1972, the fact is that, across more than a million people, the trends are there, and they are going in the opposite direction than most would have predicted. And the sizes of these trends are meaningful. According to Stevenson and Wolfers, if you assume a strong link between being unhappy and being unemployed (which there is—the longer you're out of work, the more depressed you become,) the decline in women's happiness is as if women's unemployment has risen from 10 percent to 18 percent.
Happy girl to sadder woman
The second discovery is, this: though women begin their lives more fulfilled than men, as they age, they gradually become less happy. Men, in contrast, get happier as they get older. (These findings are drawn from the work of Professors Richard Easterlin and Anke Plagnol, who took the same U.S. General Social Survey data and sliced it in a different way. You can find their working paper here).
Slip-sliding away
But overall, the trajectory is consistent, and consistently downhill. By the time women reach age forty-seven, they are, overall, less happy with their life than men, and the trend continues on down from there.
Of course, this doesn't mean that every individual woman becomes less happy than every individual man—we've all got our own stuff going on, and man or woman, some days we're in a happy purple haze, some days we've got the blues, and some days we even succumb to the "mean reds," as Holly Golightly called them.
1. Over the last few decades, women, in comparison to men, have become less happy with their lives.
2. As women get older, they get sadder.
Running for the shelter of a mother's little helper...
What's goin' on?
Why? What is causing these trends (and what can we all do to reverse them?)
Some of the more obvious explanations are weaker than you might think:
For example, these trends are not caused by women working longer hours than men. We know this because women don't work more hours than men. In a mammoth study of twenty-five countries, ranging from the U.S. to France to Slovenia to Madagascar, men and women were asked to keep track of what they were doing at various times during the day, and then the hours for each activity were calculated. The results: in developed countries, men average 5.2 hours of paid work a day, and 2.7 hours of homework, for a total of 7.9 hours a day; and women average 3.4 hours of paid work, and 4.5 hours of homework, for a total of, yes, 7.9 hours a day. These averages are statistically identical in virtually every developed country in the study: women and men work the same number of total hours in a day. (It is only in less developed countries such as South Africa or Benin, where women have fewer choices and are largely excluded from the workplace, that women actually work more hours per day than men.)
Nor are they caused by gender-based stereotyping. Sure, forty years ago such stereotyping was still dominant—in 1977, 74 percent of men agreed with the statement "Men should be the primary breadwinner and women should be the primary caretaker of home and family." Today, however, that number has fallen to only 42 percent—which happens to be almost exactly the same as the percentage of women who agree with it (39 percent). Your opinion of which roles are most appropriate for men and women to play is not now determined by your sex.
Nor, surprisingly, is it caused by women bearing a disproportionate burden of the workload at home, the 'second-shift' as some have labeled it. This explanation falls not because women don't do more cooking, cleaning and child-caring than men; they still do. It falls because when it comes to the sharing of 'home' duties, the trend lines are all moving in the direction you would predict would lead to greater happiness and less stress for women: namely toward greater parity. For example, between 1975 and today women's housework hours declined from twenty-one per week to seventeen, while men's jumped from six to thirteen. In 1977 dads with non-teen kids spent 2 hours with them on an average weekday, while moms spent 3.8 hours. Today moms still spend 3.8 hours, while dads' kid-time has climbed to 3 hours per week day—and if you are a Gen Y dad, you're all the way up to 4.3 hours per day (Gen Y dads actually spend more time with their non-teen kids than do Gen X moms.)
So if it's not the hours, or the attitudes, and if the inequality of home-work is fast disappearing, where does that leave us?
Male mid-life crisis? A youth obsessed culture that is harder on women than men? The hormonal fluctuations of menopause?
My own analysis leads me to a specific explanation and accompanying prescription—which I've written about in Find Your Strongest Life.
But I'd love to hear yours. What's your explanation for, to borrow the title of Stevenson and Wolfers' paper, "The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness"? Share your comments below.
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Privately Funded Rocket Plane Reaches Outer Earth Atmosphere
The first privately funded spacecraft punched the outer edge of the Earth's atmosphere before safely gliding back to Earth Monday in front of a crowd gathered to watch the historic flight.
SpaceShipOne, funded by Microsoft Corp. co-founder Paul Allen and designed by Burt Ratan and a team at Scaled Composites, took off aboard a custom-made carrier aircraft from a runway in the Mojave Desert in California, about 100 miles north of Los Angeles.
The rocket plane disconnected from the carrier jet, the White Knight, at about 8 a.m. Pacific time at its launch point, about 50,000 feet above the desert, according to The Washington Post.
South African-born pilot Michael Melvill, 62, then fired SpaceShipOne's rocket to begin the steep ascent to his target altitude of 328,084 feet -- or 62 miles -- at the point considered to be the boundary between Earth's atmosphere and outer space.
The rocket prematurely shut down, but officials for the flight later said the craft had reached its target, the Post reported.
After a few minutes of weightlessness, Melvill reconfigured SpaceShipOne's wings to increase drag in the upper atmosphere and decrease speed. At the denser part of the atmosphere, the wings returned to their normal configuration and the unpowered rocket plane began to glide back to the Mojave Civilian Flight Test Center's runway, where it landed at about 8:15 a.m.
Later, Melvill described his trip as "almost a religious experience."
"You can see the curvature of the Earth," he said. "You got a hell of a view from 60, 62 miles."
Melvill is the general manager and a vice president at Rutan's Scaled Composites, which designed and built SpaceShipOne over three and half years. Allen has said the cost was in excess of $20 million.
SpaceShipOne is the leading contender for the Ansari X Prize, a $10 million reward for the first privately financed three-seat aircraft to reach 62 miles and repeat the feat within two weeks.
Twenty-six teams from seven nations are vying for the prize, according to the foundation's Web site.
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0.045229 | <urn:uuid:3505b683-42f4-4021-a585-f3094a470748> | en | 0.92955 | Integrating maintenance and spare parts management
David Berger describes the critical areas of integration that yield maximum benefit.
By David Berger, P.Eng., contributing editor
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In Part I of this multi-part column, an argument was made in favor of running spare parts management as a fully integrated module within your CMMS, as opposed to integrating to a separate and distinct software package such as a corporate ERP system. For similar benefits, it was also suggested that those responsible for spare parts inventory, such as stock keepers, should report to the maintenance organization, and spare parts procurement specialists should report at least dotted-line to the maintenance department. This is to improve the accountability for optimizing key measures such as service level, inventory level, obsolescence, and response time.
In this column, we continue to explore optimization through integration of maintenance and spare parts management modules. Described below are critical areas of integration that yield maximum benefit.
Master data
Fundamental to integrating maintenance and inventory management modules is the sharing of master data. For example, each piece of equipment may have a standard list of spare parts recommended by the manufacturer to keep on hand. When the scheduler begins to schedule a given work order, this standard parts list, or some subset, can be seen from within the work order scheduling screen. For parts relevant to the job, the scheduler can then determine, from the same screen, whether parts are in stock, reserved, on order, or in transit. This level of integration can be very difficult or expensive to achieve if the maintenance and inventory data are resident in two separate software packages.
Some packages can display a complete hierarchy of equipment and parts using an indented and hierarchical format, similar to the manner in which MS Windows Explorer displays nested and hierarchical devices, folders and files. The more advanced CMMS packages have a drag-and-drop capability so that users can easily move components and parts from one asset to another, assuming they have administrative rights to do so. Other sophisticated packages have built an interactive interface between the hierarchy in one window and a graphic parts book in another window. As you double-click on hot spots to drill down within the graphic, you can observe the equivalent movement in the hierarchy and vice versa. A few packages display the master data or historical cost data in another window, which dynamically changes as you move up or down the hierarchy or between the graphic layers.
Another integration dilemma is to what level cost data should be kept current. In order to estimate accurately and report on the cost of completing a work order, the cost of spare parts must be obtained from some database. Even if maintenance and inventory control modules are fully integrated within the CMMS, there is still the issue of what amount was actually paid to the vendor by accounting. Perhaps there was a disagreement between what was ordered, what was received, and what was invoiced. Will the inventory cost data reflect the actual cost paid?
The benefit from achieving this level of integration is not worth the cost of doing so because the variances over the course of the year are typically small. Maintenance can still make effective management decisions, even if the equipment history reports show costs that are potentially out by a few percentage points. Accounting and finance, however, require absolute accuracy for financial reporting.
Another complication for those companies that choose to separate maintenance and inventory management modules lies in defining and controlling which parts are:
1. not kept in stock and do not appear on the parts master (handled through a direct purchase)
2. not kept in stock but appear on the parts master (for faster retrieval of header information such as manufacturer’s part number)
3. kept in stock and appear on the parts master (controlled by min, max, reorder point, reorder quantity, lead time)
4. kept in stock like a part but also comprise an asset to which work orders are assigned and for which equipment history is tracked (rotating assets).
It’s difficult and expensive to determine which parts are required for a given job, provide an estimate of work order costs, purchase the parts, and track equipment history accurately for parts used internally or by outside contractors, if maintenance and inventory control modules are not properly integrated.
When a planner creates a job plan for, say, preventive maintenance work on a given asset, it should include a list of parts required. When the work order is then initiated, it should automatically check and reserve stock or launch a purchase request for non-stock parts. This is easier to do when maintenance and inventory control modules share the same system.
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Date: Sunday, December 14, 2008
Location: Honolulu, HI
Ivuti of Kenya won in 2:14:35, beating fellow Kenyan Stephen Njorge-Kinyanjui by more than three minutes.
Ivuti, the 2007 Chicago Marathon winner, broke from a pack of Kenyans about halfway through the course. He is the brother-in-law of six-time Honolulu champion Jimmy Muindi who finished 5th in 2:21:43.
On a day when President-elect Barack Obama's half-sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng was an official race co-starter, Kenyans swept the top five spots in the men's race.
Shimahara became only the second Japanese citizen to win at the Honolulu Marathon in either the women's or men's races. She won in 2:32:36, beating her running club (Second Wind AC) teammate, Kaori Yoshida, by 2 minutes.
Shimahara, bothered by an unsettled stomach, stayed with Kenya's Alice Timbilili who ran a determined race. Timbilili gained about a 10-meter lead near the 17-mile mark but Shimahara erased it. By mile 21 Shimahara began to pull away.
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Quality Measurement: Is It Good?
June 1, 2007
The automotive industry has many applications for force measurement. Source: Mark-10 Corp.
How does one know if the product his company manufactures is “good”? How exactly would one qualify a good product?
There are a large number of factors that contribute to the quality of a good finished product. From receiving raw materials and components to fabrication and final assembly, every step in the production process has an influence on the quality of a product. In today’s competitive manufacturing environment, it is more important than ever to ensure quality throughout the manufacturing process.
Medical tubing terminal pull-off ensures proper functioning in the field. Source: Mark-10 Corp.
There are many ways with which to assess product quality, and these vary depending on the item being manufactured. Typical parameters to check include physical dimensions, chemical composition and hardness. One parameter of particular interest to companies in virtually every industry is force.
When using products in everyday life, varying amounts of force are constantly exerted on them. Similarly, these products contain numerous mechanical components, each of which interact with and produce force on each other. In order for one’s experiences using products to be pleasant, it is often critical to perform force measurement testing to ensure the product performs to expectations.
A tension spring test yields force and deflection values. Source: Mark-10 Corp.
Three-step process
Determining if a product is good entails a simple three-step process:
1. Understand what needs to be tested and how.
2. Obtain appropriate force measurement instrumentation. Subject samples to standardized or internally developed test procedures.
3. Analyze and interpret the results, using simple criteria or advanced analysis software.
A typical wire terminal pull-off test performed in the wire harness industry. Source: Mark-10 Corp.
What needs to be tested?
In short, almost everything needs to be tested. Virtually every industry has applications for force measurement. A selection of typical applications includes:
• Automotive industry. Vehicles’ bills of materials typically include many different types of springs. In a compression spring test, the sample will typically be compressed to a specified height, and the force will be measured at that point. The resulting relationship of force to displacement is called the spring rate. A similar procedure is performed with tension and torsion springs.
Vehicles also have many driver-operated electronic controls, such as the turn signal stalk, buttons on the climate control panel and knobs on the radio. A common force test is to press on the control until it makes contact or snaps to its intended position.
Other applications in the automotive industry include door latch opening force, wire terminal pull-off testing and weld force testing.
• Medical and pharmaceutical industries. In recent years, the medical and pharmaceutical industries have adopted many stringent requirements for quality testing, some of which are related to force measurement. One example is medical tubing. When healthcare professionals use this tubing in the field, it is essential that the tubing does not become disconnected from fittings and devices. In order to prevent this from occurring, tubing is typically subjected to terminal or connector pull-off testing. The force at which it disconnects from the body of the tube is of crucial importance.
Sutures need to be tested in the same fashion. When a surgeon has completed a procedure and is using sutures to close a wound, he should be confident that the stitches will hold long enough for the skin to heal. Manufacturers of sutures need to test their products prior to shipping to ensure durability in the field.
Other applications in the medical and pharmaceutical industries include needle sharpness testing, catheter torque testing and pill crush testing.
Components of a typical force measurement system. Source: Mark-10 Corp.
Force measurement instrumentation
Force measurement instrumentation is generally quite affordable when compared to the materials testing machines many quality professionals are familiar with from their engineering classes or their company’s research and development lab.
One of the most basic force measuring instruments is the electronic force gage, a handheld instrument that integrates a load cell with electronics and display. The gage will typically display force in units of pounds (lb), Newtons (N) or kilograms (kg).
Force gages are typically used in conjunction with a manually operated or motorized test stand. By regulating the speed of tests, test stands help ensure consistency between tests.
Force gages and test stands are available in a wide range of force capacities, reflecting the great number of different products that need to be tested. Various grips and fixtures are available for use with these instruments, which vary based on the sample being tested. Many force gages and some test stands can output measurement data for further analysis.
Force measurement software can help analyze the behavior of a particular product. Source: Mark-10 Corp.
Interpreting force data
Force data can yield a wealth of information for quality assurance professionals. The value of most interest in many testing applications is the maximum force, that is, the force at which a sample broke, engaged or loosened. This ultimate strength is often how companies gauge the performance of their product.
As important as the maximum force is, in many cases more data is desired. That is where having the correct instrumentation and software is important. Force measuring instruments are capable of providing a continuous stream of real-time force data that can be output to a PC or data collector for further analysis. Force measurement software can accomplish a number of goals for quality professionals, including:
• Plot force vs. time or force vs. distance. Graphical force data can be helpful in analyzing a sample and visualizing its behavior under stress. The slope and behavior of a curve can be analyzed to yield such values as the modulus of elasticity, modulus of toughness, resilience, yield point and work.
Besides plotting real-time data for a single test, software may be used to accumulate results from multiple tests in order to provide statistical analyses of the production process for an entire batch or lot.
• Statistical calculations. Values such as minimum, maximum, mean and standard deviation can help quantify the quality of a product.
• Data management. Data can be formatted into customizable reports that include data in tabular and graphical format, or only selected data points. Data export capabilities allows the operator to customize data presentation to their needs through the use of programs such as Microsoft Excel.
There are many reasons to consider assessing quality through force measurement. Facility audits often require documentation for such testing. Government regulations in some industries may also necessitate some testing. But even if these factors were not present, it still makes sense to force test your products.
This 1-2-3 process is a quantifiable approach to quality testing, enabling one to make a well-informed assessment of a product’s quality. Use these techniques so when the next time someone asks you how good your product is, you can say with certainty that it is in fact “good.”
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Would luv some feedback from folks on this.
Libertarianism seems like an ideal system--in a perfect world. However, given that most people--I would argue at least a majority--out there are not, nor are they anything close, the "great unwashed" need rules & regulations to keep them, the idiots, in check.
From what I understand, this system says people should be able to self-govern. Period. End of Story. Well, again, in a perfect world.
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I would love there to be improvement in society. I just think revolutions and theoretical social models would require a fundamental change in the way every person thinks and behaves.
A change, yes. But not a fundamental one.
I don't know how anarchy is meant to work, which is why I'm asking what I think are the obvious questions.
I don't know how government is meant to work, which led me to ask the questions that led me to the conclusion of anarchism.
I don't want a society where only the "prime movers" survive, and the infirm are left to waste away while soliciting "voluntary good will" from the more fortunate.
Me neither. But those "prime movers", or more generally the rich and powerful class, is a product of the state. Power and money have always gone hand in hand, with money buying power and power buying money. The state, the original elitist social organization, is the root cause of all other elitism in social organization. The state, bought and paid for by the richest of the rich, is the cause of almost all the inequality we have today. Some inequality is normal, just out of some people being better or faster workers, but the distinct classes we have today is not. The class of purpetually involuntarily unemployed is not.
The current corporate climate doesn't inspire me to hand more control over to private interests. That may not be the explicit goal here, but neither was it in the forming of this republic.
I don't trust corporatism or corporations either, and privatization is almost always a banner waved when giving a government-owned monopoly on say, garbage collection, to the friend of a politician to have the whole monopoly. The corporate sector is a part of the statist sector waving the banner of "the free market" and "private property" when it is neither. I don't want the government to "hand more control over" to anything. I want it to either take it's hands off this moment, or I want it stolen from the government (if you could call it theft, the government doesn't own one piece of legitimate property anyways) and given back to the rest of society.
There is no republic. There is no country. There is no legitimate Constitution. The whole state system is lies backed by guns backed by lies. If challenged according to universal legal principles it could be easily shown that there is no such litigant as the United States, nor the united States, nor any of the 50 States, nor the counties within, nor the cities within those, nor any other government. "This republic" was never formed. "This republic" exists just like god exists; it is a lie. The "Constitution" is true just like the Bible is true; it is an arbitrarily chosen work of (legal) fiction by people who had no right or power to do what they claimed to be doing.
The Monty Python sketch... is about skipping over details.
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Hanya SLouch Hat
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28 stitches and 28 rows = 4 inches in 2x2 ribbing relaxed
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The Hanya pattern is written in two silhouettes, a long straight slouch or a larger mushroom style slouch. The straight slouch continues from the ribbing without any increases. Essentially it’s a beanie that is worked longer than normal. The mushroom style slouch increases in stitches after the ribbing to create a looser fitting top. (This style is great for curly haired folks!) | http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/hanya-slouch-hat | dclm-gs1-102910002 | false | false | {
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A Bubba Crosby Retrospective
#8 September 24, 2005 - A fine diving catch.
Happy New Year!
4 comments to “A Bubba Crosby Retrospective”
1. Red Hot Mama says:
Shades of Ryan Freel. You know, Freel was largely ignored in the minors (and during his brief, recurring stints in the majors) despite perfectly adequate performance.
Maybe this will be the place for Bubba as well. Damn, between Crosby and Freel, they wouldn’t need anyone else in the outfield. Dunn could use those half-innings to sit in his massage chair.
2. BubbaFan says:
Boy, Freel sure has an interesting history. How do you get send down to A-ball again when you’ve been playing at the Triple-A level?
It does make you wonder how much talent there is in the minors, blocked because of big names ahead of them, or politics, or projections. Neither Robinson Cano nor Chien-Ming Wang were supposed to amount to much, according to their projections. Now they are not only starting, they are stars. But the only reasons they got a chance were 1) No one wanted them, so they weren’t traded, and 2) Injuries that forced the Yanks to give them a try.
Bubba’s never said much about the team that drafted him, the Dodgers, but from things his teammate and fellow tradee, Scott Proctor, has said, it sounds like they were pretty dysfunctional. They had three different managers in only a few years. The people who had drafted Proctor and Crosby were soon gone, and their replacements just weren’t very interested in their predecessors’ prospects.
3. Red Hot Mama says:
Freel, for whatever reason, just couldn’t get noticed. Now, there isn’t a more popular guy on the team. And, looking back on it, there wasn’t anything he did to finally get his chance. He was always plodding along, waiting for someone to recognize him.
Sure, plenty of the guys in the minors would never make it at the big-league level, but there’s got to be at least a few guys who would have been superstars who will never get the chance for some stupid reason or another.
Sucks for the sport, but really sucks for those guys.
4. BubbaFan says:
I dunno. I could see not getting promoted if you’re not noticed. But getting sent down two levels…seems like someone noticed, and not in a good way. You sure he didn’t run over the GM’s cat or something? ;-) | http://www.red-hot-mama.com/2006/12/30/a-bubba-crosby-retrospective/ | dclm-gs1-102920002 | false | false | {
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The Kills Announce Release Date for 4th Studio Album, Blood Pressures
What an announcement, and specifically on 1/11/11 around 11:11am to boot. It's like the mega madness mondo radness of wishes coming true! In their words: The Kills are very excited to announce that their 4th album Blood Pressures will be released around the world (excluding the U.S.A.) on April 4th, and in the U.S.A. on April 5th. To let you know a little about the new record, we've included the track listing for you... which is a lot like looking at a list of words. Enjoy.
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1. Future Starts Slow
2. Satellite
3. Heart is a Beating Drum
4. Nail in My Coffin
5. Wild Charms
6. DNA
7. Baby Says
8. Last Goodbye
9. Damned if She Do
10. You Don't Own the Road
11. Pots and Pans
We recorded Blood Pressures at Key Club in the state of Michigan, with Bill Skibbe and Jessica Ruffins. Jamie HInce produced the record and Bill Skibbe co-produced. Whilst in Michigan, Alison went through 52 blank cassette tapes in her 4-track recorder. Jamie bought 3 guitars and a mellotron. The studio dogs ate 360 pounds of dog food. We drank all the red wine, watched VHS tapes on Vietnam, got blown down thte street by hurricane force winds, watched lightning storms, rode bicycles / crashed bicycles. We started a game of rummy and never finished it. We tried to BBQ and realized we weren't that way inclined.Soup was better. Soup is better. And so it went, the record was completed... but not in Michigan! We finished the last few songs in London with our Michigan friends and Alison found a dog to borrow to have the studio to make things more "normal". Does this sound confusing? Good. We'll be in touch.
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kakashichidori asks: Added Aug 16th 2006, ID #65036
Question for Naruto: Ultimate Ninja
Ha! I am a Hokage. I have been one for a while now. The ranks are academy student, genin, chunin, special jonin, jonin, ANBU, then Hokage. That means I beat all the practice, D, C, B, and A rank missions (thats all the missions in the game besides S but those don't realy count). I have done four S rank missions too. So any questions about mission mode just ask me and ill answer them. Also if there is anyone who is a Jonin, ANBU, or Hokage in the game let me know.
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rock lee hiden justu answered: Added 17th Aug 2006, ID #142795
On rank b how do you beat saukura when you can't fight on land and water???? Just tell me!!
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rock lee hiden justu answered: Added 17th Aug 2006, ID #142792
Ok I'm a chunnin and I'm on Rank B and on the saukura mission when you can't go fight on land or water what do you do? I only use air attacks but it is hard though! Give me some hints
kakashichidori answered: Added 17th Aug 2006, ID #143043
That means that you can't hit her while you are on the ground or water. You have to be in the air. To do that juts press x twice really fast so you jump in the air, dash at them, and hit them. Then when you hit them that one time keep hitting them by pressing the circle button afew times (but not for to long because then you will be hitting him on the ground). Do that to damage them and win.
dr.g answered: Added 20th Aug 2006, ID #143643
So then tell me what time should I press l2 or r2 when the computer uses a substitution jutsu when I do an additional blow please help me?
kakashichidori answered: Added 21st Aug 2006, ID #144029
Those don't count as a substatution jutsus but you have to keep pressing circle and the directional button backwards to counter.
owner answered: Added 22nd Aug 2006, ID #144264
Can you help me on the second mission in practice mode please
kakashichidori answered: Added 23rd Aug 2006, ID #144436
A special ninja tool is that yellow star (shuriken) in your item stock. To get it you need to break object till you get one or when your support character has one go get it from him. So all you have to do is win the battle when you have one of those.
NeoRiku answered: Added 14th Jan 2007, ID #167970
Hey I'm on this freakin hard A rank mission JOnin 5 I dunno I swear I've destroyed everything!! Evrything!! I'll even named off what I've destroyed! Is there something like hidden or hard to see or something!! I've even gotten the two things on the high platforms I don't know what to do! Please help
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Christian Saenz wins the US Southwest Conference Open Men title
Thursday, 13 May 2010 11:17
Christian Saenz: bright future ahead
The tenth and final stop of the 2009-10 Southwest Conference Open Season wrapped up at Huntington Beach Pier on May 1-2 in fun and rippable chest high peaks. Reigning West Coast Champion Luke Davis from Capo Beach, showed his savvy of HB Pier’s peaks and infamous reform sections as if it was his own home break.
Recently coming off a big runner-up performance at the ASP Pro Junior at the pier a few weeks ago, Davis surfed the southside lineup sticking blow-tails and lightning quick air reverses with beautiful technique and form. The win was his second of the season and now he will turn his focus on defending his Regional title with the West Coast Championships coming up May 19-23 at HB Pier.
The other big news of the weekend was Huntington Beach local Christian Saenz clinching his second consecutive Southwest Conference Open Men’s title. Saenz, a senior at Huntington Beach High School and a seasoned veteran on southside gave Davis a run for the money in the final taking second place by a fraction of a point. Perhaps the biggest statement of the season was made by Saenz who became the first surfer to win back-to-back Southwest Open Men’s crowns since Tom Curren pulled off the feat back in the 1981 and 1982 seasons.
Peru’s Martin Jeri made his fourth appearance of the year in Southwest competition taking third behind Saenz while fourth place finisher Parker Coffin continued to prove himself in the NSSA’s premier division making the Open Men’s final for the fourth time this season.
The final in the Juniors division matched up Parker Coffin with Kanoa Igarashi, Jonah Carter and Patrick Curren. Throughout the weekend, in both the Men’s and Juniors heats, Coffin put on a great display of surfing blending full rail carves and power beyond his years. Coffin really found his rhythm in the Juniors final where he jumped out to an early lead with a 6.0 and then followed it up with an 8.33 which was the highest wave score of the division. His 14.33 total score left Igarashi needing a near perfect 9.66 and Carter and Curren in a combination situation. Coffin’s victory rocketed him to first in the standings, and his second conference title of the season (he claimed the Gold Coast Boys title last week at the season finale at Ventura’s C Street).
To sum up the Open Boys division, it was the most competitive in years with many young 12-and-unders on the rise. Reigning conference champion Kanoa Igarashi, who took over the overall win record with 30 wins in the 2008-09 season, claimed his second consecutive title but not without facing stiff competition from the growing field of talented kids. However in his local waters, Igarashi stamped his authority winning both event #10 and and makeup event #9. In addition, his second place showing in the Juniors was even more impressive. Igarashi’s keen eye of southside’s tricky shifting conditions continued heat after heat in both the Juniors and the Boys divisions as he pulled out all the stops in the wave he surfs every day.
In Women’s competition, Newport Harbor High School senior Kaleigh Gilchrist comfortably surfed to her second victory of the season. Chandler Parr started the final off strong taking an early lead with a 5.67 and 4.70. Lakey Peterson and Shelby Detmers who is also a student at Newport Harbor, struggled to find their groove in the unpredictable peaks. Gilchrist fought back posting a solid 6.33 score. Needing a low 4-point for the win, she paddled into a buzzer-beater earning 5.07 clinching the victory and dropping Parr to second. Reigning National Open Women’s Champ Peterson claimed the Women’s conference title on the strength of her five victories and two runner-up finishes this season.
Kairi Noro fresh off the plane from Japan came out swinging in the Mini Grom division with a 3-event sweep. Noro displayed his incredible talent ripping HB’s peaks with speedy snaps and good cutbacks on the reform section. Noro has been a dominator in the water winning seven straight events plus the 2009-10 Southwest Conference title. In the Longboard division, HB local Shaun Thompson has been the surfer in the spotlight taking his seventh victory in event #10 and clinching the conference title.
The Southwest Conference Open Season is a ten event season. Competitors who qualify through the Southwest Conference Open Season are invited to participate in the NSSA West Coast Regional Championships to compete for slots to the 2010 NSSA National Championships. The West Coast Championships will be held May 19-23 at the Huntington Beach Pier. The NSSA National Championships will be held June 16-19 at Salt Creek in Dana Point and June 29-July 3 at the Huntington Beach Pier. The 2010 Southwest Open Season Champions will be announced and presented at the West Coast Championship Awards Ceremony on May 23 in Huntington Beach.
The NSSA Southwest Conference is proud to have support from Nike 6.0, Huntington Surf and Sport, Java Point, Surfing Magazine, Sex Wax, Channel Islands and Sugar Shack. The NSSA is a member of Surfing America, the ISA-recognized National Governing Body for Surfing in the United States.
1. Luke Davis-Capistrano Beach 11.26
2. Christian Saenz-Huntington Beach 10.44
3. Martin Jeri-Peru 9.67
4. Parker Coffin-Santa Barbara 9.30
1. Parker Coffin-Santa Barbara 14.33
2. Kanoa Igarashi-Huntington Beach 8.64
3. Jonah Carter-San Clemente 7.66
4. Patrick Curren-Santa Barbara 5.74
1. Kanoa Igarashi-Huntington Beach 13.53
2. Jake Davis-Capistrano Beach 10.40
3. Colt Ward-San Clemente 9.87
4. Kody Clemens-Carlsbad 9.33
5. Jake Marshall-Encinitas 7.67
6. Kei Kobayashi-San Clemente 4.80
1. Kairi Noro-Japan 16.50
2. Ryland Rubens-San Diego 10.27
3. Tyler Gunter-Newport Beach 7.37
4. Eithan Osborne-Ventura 6.06
5. Nicholas Marshall-Encinitas 5.20
6. Sam Wickwire-Seal Beach 3.00
1. Kaleigh Gilchrist-Newport Beach 11.40
2. Chandler Parr-Santa Monica 10.37
3. Lakey Peterson-Santa Barbara 9.60
4. Shelby Detmers-Newport Beach 8.90
1. Shaun Thompson-Huntington Beach 10.66
2. Nathan Thompson-Huntington Beach 5.83
3. Jason Schechter-San Diego 5.33
4. Stephanie Schechter-San Diego 4.77
5. Bryn Lutz-Carlsbad 4.33
6. Justin Brand-Seal Beach 4.23
7. Lucas Foster-Carlsbad
1. Kanoa Igarashi-Huntington Beach 11.93
2. Jake Marshall-Encinitas 10.57
3. Griffin Colapinto-San Clemente 10.23
4. Jake Davis-Capistrano Beach 9.60
5. Corey Colapinto-San Clemente 9.23
6. Kei Kobayashi-San Clemente 9.10
1. Kairi Noro-Japan 12.97
2. Ryland Rubens-San Diego 7.63
3. Eithan Osborne-Ventura 5.30
4. Nicholas Marshall-Encinitas 5.30
5. Tyler Gunter-Newport Beach 4.87
6. Shane Borland-Topanga 4.60
1. Lakey Peterson-Santa Barbara
2. Taylor Pitz-Laguna Beach
3. Lani Doherty-San Clemente
4. Chandler Parr-Santa Monica
1. Shaun Thompson-Huntington Beach 13.26
2. Jason Schechter-San Diego 8.84
3. Bryn Lutz-Carlsbad 5.60
4. Justin Brand-Seal Beach 4.27
5. Lucas Foster-Carlsbad 4.23
6. Nathan Thompson-Huntington Beach 3.67
7. Stephanie Schechter-San Diego 3.56
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WALL is a London-based singer, songwriter and producer. Her minimal pop music is causing taste-makers to fawn over the intimacy of the tracks. After releasing the haunting 'No Secrets' on Soundcloud the team at Black Cab Sessions stepped in to get involved. They quickly signed WALL for her debut single and as the first act on their newly born label, BCS Records. They have also filmed two exclusive Black Cab videos, a proper video for ‘Magazine’, and released her debut single on 7" and digitally. Influenced by artists such as St Vincent and Patti Smith, WALL takes her lead from women with a strong sense of identity, using her unique formula of layered production as an integral part of the writing process. Favouring rudimentary recording equipment over state-of-the-art studios, she captures not only the intended notes but also encourages the ambient sound in the room. From these scratchy beginnings, WALL creates sparse soundscapes, with only muted bass lines and scattered keyboards to frame her voice. While the production creates an intriguing backdrop, it is WALL's sense of melody and turn of phrase that takes centre stage. Subtle nods to classic refrains, mingled with her own inflection, suggest a writer who draws from many different eras. The result is a sound that is both timeless yet modern. 'my favourite track of the year so far' Steve Lamacq - BBC 6Music 'Cloaked in enigmatic wooziness, the female fronted trio trade in eerie, yet soul-stirring dreamscapes' NME 'Her innocence, the purity of her voice, the maturity of her song craft, it is all remarkable, but perhaps more than any other factor it was the hypnotic nature of her quirky pop songs' THE RECOMMENDER 'Magazine; one of the most bewitching singles we’ve heard all year. A captivating vocal tangibly crawls along a sea of slight, but wholly essential, organic electronica and says so much more by holding its cards close to its chest; never revealing the full picture of what lies behind the ambiguous lyrics' GOLD FLAKE PAINT 'Producer/singer Wall does a nice line in dusty pop, the lead track on single release ‘Magazine’ reflecting in its production the lyrical theme of yearning for the spring and warmer, better times.' CMU 'APPROVED' 'WALL produces sparse soundscapes dripping with ambience, utilising heavily layered production via analogue recording techniques to capture not only her unique vocal inflections but also the natural rhythm of the world around her.' FAUX MAGAZINE | http://www.sxsw.com/video/2013/wall-magazine-sxsw-2013-showcasing-artist | dclm-gs1-103190002 | false | false | {
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Many enterprising people have looked for alternative energy sources. Some have even turned to the Tesla generator to provide power for their homes. Such a device is said to generate power from nature alone essentially making it free. With the help of Tesla generator blueprints, many people have made their own units.
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It is important to be sure any generator plans acquired are valid and from a reliable source. One could use similar plans that have been inspired by Nikola Tesla’s design, but it is best to work with a design that follows Tesla’s original plans if possible. Those who understand how to make the device will find that it actually works. Many websites sell the “secret” Tesla generator blueprints, but sometimes the companies are not reputable and similar plans can be found for little or no cost elsewhere.
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This device works by drawing on the properties of the attraction and repulsion of magnetic poles. When there is constant motion in these properties, it is converted to electricity. Furthermore, the generator tends to produce more electricity than it consumes, which is one of the features that makes it attractive for those looking beyond wind and solar energy possibilities. This means that after buying the materials, and building your generator using the Tesla free energy plans you will then be able to produce free electricity.
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Well. I appologise for not posting sooner. But hey at least i got it done. Anyway, Let's get this started. Few things about me, Around large crowds (ex. School) I can pick out the people and personally mess with them or my friends. I may act crazy but I'm usually very calm and collected alone, or with only a few people. I'll try and answer any questions but im busy at times (And by busy I usually mean lazy or forgetful.) My likes; Videogames, fighting (I don't get in many usually try and stay out of trouble but, s*** happens.) I also swear alot but since this a pg 13 place i'll try and limit it. Try. I ain't promising anything. I'm gonna be real and totally honest. Oh and I'm practicing my works, cuz they suck so don't expect any artwork from me any time soon. Well I'll stop annoying everyone. Later. | http://www.theotaku.com/worlds/straightjacketparadise/view/262870/ | dclm-gs1-103350002 | false | false | {
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1. A system of government that embraces bad ideas as central doctrine.
2. A movement with bad ideas that has power without holding government.
3. Criminal gangs holding political muscle.
1. North Korea is a fuckwitocracy for the wacky administration and the harm it brings to innocent citizens.
2. The Taliban in Afghanistan is fuckwitocracy. They don't hold government but their influence has dragged the country into a deep mire.
3. Warlords & cartels. Lets just say that fuckwitocracy is the result when the authorities have lost control.
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12. Jersey Turnpike
A delicious shot, usually served after closing time. When cleaning up the bar, the contents of the rubber bar mat are poured into a shot glass (or glasses) and drunk in one gulp.
The alcoholic version of a graveyard.
Ah, you're out of money but if you have another shot you'll pass out and shut the f**k up? How about a jersey turnpike?
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1. Jersey Turnpike
Face down ass up dancing.
He got a boner from the way that she Jersey Turnpike.
2. Jersey Turnpike
Slutty dance made popular by Deena Nicole from Jersey Shore.
The instructions for the dance are as follows:
3. Grind up against a juicehead guido.
3. Jersey Turnpike
4. jersey turnpike
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A dance move. Face down, ass up.
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1. cherry on top
Something good that follows a series of other fortunate events.
A kicker
surburban home: like cherry on top
surburban home: c.o.t. feeling
surburban home: like you went to lunch at a good restaurant, went to a show that night, met the band THEN come home and find out kevin got fired
surburban home: cherry on top
2. Cherry on top
n., the sexual act of spiraling whipped cream around a female's nipple, then biting the nipple in order to make it a bead of blood, forming the "cherry" (often a rite of passage for British royalty)
1. Prince William and Princess Kate are horny blokes. They often make a cherry on top when they feel extra sodding kinky.
2. My girlfriend is feeling adventurous. She wants to try to put a cherry on top tonight.
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1. hallcest
Having intimate relations with a person residing in the same hall of your dorm/apt/etc.
Person1: "Hey, Molly is really hot."
Person2: "No way man, she's only three doors down. That's like hallcest."
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2. hall-cest
going out with people from one's own living group
hallcest often results in bitter exes living next-door to each other, dating each other's exes, in a vicious cycle.
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There were plenty of grounds for not taking last month's John Ruiz/Evander Holyfield matchup very seriously. But the most obvious reason was right there on the fighters' underutilized fists: Ruiz wore white gloves, while Holyfield wore purple. Not exactly a championship-caliber color palette, especially for two guys supposedly vying to be the baddest man on the planet.
For better or worse (guess), boxing gloves are now available in every color of the rainbow, but such was not always the case. In fact, black and dark brown were the only options until the 1960s, when the rise of color television led to the advent of red gloves, which at the time was considered a radical development. Brown and red maintained a rough parity from the mid 1960s through the mid 1970s, as exemplified by Muhammad Ali's career: The Greatest wore brown gloves in his 1964 title bout against Sonny Liston, red in their 1965 rematch, brown in 1967 against Ernie Terrell, red in his 1970 comeback fight against Jerry Quarry, brown for his 1971 battle with Joe Frazier, and so on. Ironically, it was the meat-and-potatoes Frazier who really brought the heavyweight title into the Technicolor era, wearing orange gloves with green thumbs for his 1973 mauling at the red-gloved hands of George Foreman.
Red gloves became the norm in the mid 1970s, but other colors began appearing about 10 years later, paving the way for unsightly spectacles like Holyfield/Ruiz. Holyfield's purple predilection appears to have begun in 1996, when he wore purple trunks (but red gloves) for his first bout with Mike Tyson. Uni Watch, struggling mightily to resist terms like purple reign and violet violence, notes that Holyfield has worn purple or purple-trimmed trunks in nearly every fight since then, and he donned red gloves with purple highlights in the second Ruiz bout. But the third Ruiz tangle marked the first time Holyfield outfitted his fists in solid purple. Of course, if he continues to fight as poorly as he did in that bout, he may soon be purple in a lot of other areas too.
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Title: Tips for space battles
Description: -by Kalak Jerros of SWAGD
Tyris Hauker - July 16, 2010 09:28 PM (GMT)
It's a well known fact among RPers, at least Star Wars ones, that space battles are not easy things to do in a text-based RP. The most common reason is that unlike a land battle, they have three dimensions. Land battles, of course, have ships too, but not in the same numbers as a space battle. This tutorial, hopefully, will make your next full-scale space RP a little easier.
1. Get used to using three dimensions.
I can't stress this enough - having three dimensions to fight in makes things a whole lot more complicated. In a land fight, you've just got one plane. In space, there's an infinite number of planes to go to. You're not limited by sky or ground. What I notice a lot of people doing is just using that one plane; for instance, when in a battle where an attacker is going for a planet, the defenders move a unit of ships to block. But, the defenders don't say they're using a screen - they're assembled in a line. More often than not, the attackers simply try to break through when a simple dive under their line would make things much easier.
Of course, if the attackers were going for a specific point on the planet a dive wouldn't work, but you could use a dive and climb split, where a unit of ships moves straight at the defending line, then branches off with one unit moving up and above the enemy while the other goes under. The defenders have to maneuver to get the bulk of their firepower aimed at the lower ships, as the underside usually has the least heavy armament, which leaves the upper ships open to fire on the undersides of the defending ships.
For the most part, space battles are a matter of manipulating the third dimension - elevation. Once you can do that, you're golden.
2. Manage your capital ships like capital ships and fighters like fighters.
Another thing I see that annoys me quite a bit is when people use their capital ships and fighters together, saying, "The capital ships move through the opening with the fighters." This, for one, is just about impossible, unless the fighters were moving at the same pace. The thing is, capital ships like Star Destroyers are much slower realistically than fighters.
This is actually a good thing; you can use fighters to harass large ships, as the main guns of a Star Destroyer are just about ineffective against fighters, while your capital ships move in to deliver the heavy weapons to destroy enemy capital ships. You have to learn to move them independently and not bunch them into one movement.
3. Practice by using a visual reference.
Basically, this just means play a game that has a visual element and takes place in space. There's tons of examples, such as Wing Commander, Dark Star One, Spaceforce 2: Rogue Universe, or any of the Wing Commander games. My personal recommendation though is to get your hands on any Homeworld game. A RTS set in space, in Homeworld you'll use a variety of ships ranging from probes to destroyers and carriers, all on that critically important three dimensional plane. Star Wars: Empire at War is okay, but it's space battles are flat and don't have a depth element to them. This is where Homeworld'll prove to be great practice material.
I know this isn't a whole lot of tips, but participating in a space battle isn't truly difficult. It just takes breaking into that elevation dimension and changing your RP command style to accomodate. Playing Homeworld or some space sim will help with this, so you get a feel for attacking the undefended or lightly defended sides of an enemy and using pincer attacks from above and below.
I hope this helps you all, thanks for reading.
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Drangu Mundas is a Ogre faction occupying northeastern Kal Tirikan and northwestern Wolgast.
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Kal Tirikan Drangu Kala
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Humans -40
Elves -40
Dwarves -50
Orcs -20
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Foshnu Ob Wulpor30Friendly
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morning. hi, everybody, i'm jenna lee. jon: and i'm jon scott. dramatic new developments in that debt standoff in washington, and we are all over them. president obama speaking just moments ago urging republicans and democrats to reach some kind of compromise. he's warning the u.s. will lose its top credit rating if it falls into an unprecedented default. jenna: and it could lose that rating anyway. that's something we've been hearing a lot this week, that despite some of the decisions made in d.c., we could still see a downgrade. now, the political standoff as we know it is escalating this hour. a senior gop official, a house aide, i should say, telling fox news that house republicans will pass their debt plan today. we thought that yesterday. we'll see if it happens today. a bill that senate democrats say is dead on arrival, though, as they move ahead with their own debt limit bill setting up a showdown vote really for this weekend. ahead of that host of your world, neil cavuto, is live on capitol hill with his observations about what's happening down there in d.c., neil. first of a
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We’ll just see how much longer that system lasts.
The most important takeaway from the Chicago Bulls offseason, to date, is the strained relationship between head coach Tom Thibodeau and general manager Gar Forman.
Generally both quiet public figures that avoid unwanted attention, Thibodeau and Forman have been no strangers to headlines this offseason. Recently, top assistant Ron Adams was let go by Forman for undisclosed reasons. This prompted Yahoo! Sports NBA writer Adrian Wojnarowski to call the relationship between Thibodeau and Forman's coach/GM relationship: "easily the worst in the NBA."
While the motives behind the decision have not been confirmed, the dismissal of Adams, who was recently hired by Boston, is certainly puzzling to say the least.
Thibodeau has called Adams one of the top five coaches in the league, period. And while the actual value of an NBA assistant coach is essentially impossible to measure, the move gives anyone following the Bulls reason to speculate towards what could be the beginning of the end of the Forman/Thibodeau marriage as we know it.
Yes, predicting the end of one of the most successful (from a winning standpoint, at least) coach/GM tandems in the league due to the dismissal of an assistant coach is a bit premature. But in today’s NBA, executives and coaches are more eager than ever to prove that they are the reason for an organization’s success.
Need evidence? Look no further than the Memphis Grizzlies, Lionel Hollins and what could be the beginning of the basketball saber metric fad.
That said, the Bulls have not quite reached that point. As it stands, Forman would be out of his mind to fire Thibodeau
But a 2013-2014 campaign ending in anything less than an eastern conference title would only increase friction at the Berto Center, warranted or not. And while the roster looks like it can contend, they aren’t necessarily the favorites to come out of the east.
The issue doesn’t seem to be going away any time soon, either.
Forman knows Thibodeau is arguably the franchise’s second-most important piece behind Rose. He has to. While the roster was certainly changed, the core of Joakim Noah, Luol Deng and Derrick Rose was only good for an eight seed in the playoffs the year before Thibodeau’s arrival.
Bless Vinny Del Negro’s heart, but that’s no coincidence.
The speculated problem, which has been discussed at length in the Chicago papers over the past few weeks, is Forman’s issue with the heavy minutes Thibodeau continues to exert on his core players. Luol Deng led the league in minutes played once again this year.
Essentially, Thibodeau has been known to treat every regular season game like it’s game seven of the NBA finals. Forman appears to want his style to morph into one more like Greg Popovich, who seems to treat some regular season games as if they are exhibition contests against the Flint Tropics.
Jackie Moon references aside, the bottom line is the Bulls have limped into the playoffs the last three years, when they should be peaking.
Still, many franchises envy the spot the Bulls are in. They have a relatively young roster with high character assets, play in city rich with basketball tradition and have a 24-year-old former MVP—who can hopefully stay healthy—running the show.
Unfortunately for everyone involved, Adams served as a symbol of a much greater message that could ultimately spell trouble: Gar Forman wants to be “the man” in Bulls-land.
He’ll seemingly do anything it takes to display his power over Thibodeau besides firing him, because he knows doing that would be detrimental to the franchise. And, while Adams was just an assistant coach, difficult decisions with players such as Luol Deng and Carlos Boozer will need to be made next summer.
If personal agendas reign supreme over basketball strategy in those decisions, how much longer can Forman and Thibodeau really co-exist?
To be blunt, the situation is more toxic than people give it credit for.
Bulls fans are no strangers to rocky GM/head coach relationships that still proved to be functional. Jerry Krause and Phil Jackson had their differences, but still won six championships.
Unfortunately for the Bulls, situations like those are more of a rarity than a normality. The Bulls are known as a team of high character individuals that are prone to overachieving. That attitude and culture should start from the top.
But how can Bulls brass preach it if they don’t live by it themselves?
Tom Thibodeau signed a four-year contract extension in October. And, while he has proven to be a great regular season coach that has not fared quite as well in the playoffs, the resounding belief is that he will hopefully finish out that contract, perhaps with a championship ring or two by the deal’s end.
It would be sad, and, frankly, downright silly, to see the Bulls and Thibodeau part ways due to a seemingly childish dispute. Still, in today’s NBA, stranger things have happened.
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Someone on Quora recently asked this question, here are my thoughts on the subject:
TL;DR: Track performance, not the location of your reps – you pay for their performance not their time.
Two questions to ask yourself:
1. Are my outside sales reps hitting their performance targets?
2. Do I trust that they are acting in the best interest of the company?
If the answer to both is Yes, congratulations, you have nothing to worry about. The whole point of paying salespeople on commission is that you’re paying for RESULTS not TIME.
If the answer to question #1 is no, then tracking their key performance metrics (calls/day, meetings/day, etc…) makes sense. The best way to determine what’s important to track is to take their monthly quotas and work backwards.
EXAMPLE: If you’re reps have a $100k per month target and an average sale of $10k, they’ll need 10 sales per month to make their quota.
If it takes: 10 meetings to get a sale & 5 calls to get a meeting, they’ll need: 100 meetings per month & 500 calls per month.
Based on a 21 day work-month, they’ll need to make: 4.7 meetings & 23.8 calls per day to hit their quota and earn you $100k in monthly revenue ($1.2 Million annually).
If the answer to #2 is no, then fire them. You can’t let people you don’t trust be responsible for the financial health of your company.
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In a 25-page opinion, Judge Lifland acknowledged that any method for calculating how much investors should be repaid is fraught with challenge given the “complex and unique facts” of the Ponzi scheme and that any calculation method risks benefiting some victims of Mr. Madoff’s fraud at others’ expense.
“In this zero-sum game where funds are limited, hard choices must be made,” the judge said, according to a transcript from Tuesday’s hearing.
The ruling is a victory for Irving Picard, the trustee leading the effort to recover investors’ stolen funds. He had argued that allowing interest or inflation wasn’t legal and represented a “poorly disguised” effort by some investors to boost their payout at the expense of others.
Mr. Picard and his team “look forward to this matter reaching a final, unappealable order from the court. When that occurs, we will seek to distribute, at the earliest possible opportunity, the funds then available to defrauded [Madoff] customers with allowed claims,” Amanda Remus, a spokeswoman for Mr. Picard, said Wednesday in a statement.
In less than five years, Mr. Picard has recovered $9.35 billion of $17.3 billion in stolen principal. He so far has returned approximately $5 billion of those recovered funds to victims.
An attorney for a group of investors that had argued in favor of inflation adjustments, Richard A. Kirby of K&L Gates LLP, on Wednesday expressed disappointment in the ruling.
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A lot of Hollywood directors have their "stable" of go-to actors. For instance, Adam Sandler casts Rob Schneider in everything, presumably because they touched swords once at summer camp and he doesn't want him to tell anyone. Rob Zombie has gone in... a different direction. Creating his own traveling side-show of B movie actors who scare the shit out of me in real life. Does that translate to the big screen? Sometimes? Either way, he posted this pic of Sid Haig in "Lords of Salem" to his Facebook, and now I'm posting it here. Isn't the internet neat?
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Science History for January 28
1999 - Element 114 discovered.
Radioactive SymbolArchitetto Francesco Rollandin, openclipart.org
Creation of Ununquadium (Element 114) was reported by scientists at Dubna (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research) in Russia.
1988 - Klaus Fuchs died.
Klaus Fuchs (1911 - 1988)Department of Energy/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Fuchs was a German physicist who became known as the 'Atom Bomb Spy' when he was convicted of espionage for passing vital information about atomic weapons to the Soviet Union. He was part of the Manhattan project to built the atomic bomb and passed notes along to a Soviet contact and had a significant effect on the Soviet atomic weapons project after the war. He was convicted of espionage and served 9 years of a 14 year sentence.
1986 - Challenger Tragedy
Challenger Shuttle CrewNASA
The space shuttle Challenger exploded shortly after liftoff, killing all seven astronauts on board.
1928 - Michael Foster died.
Michael Foster (1836 - 1907)Wikipedia Commons
Foster was an English physiologist who introduced modern methods of teaching biology that emphasize training in laboratory. His methods would put Britain on the forefront of physiological studies and research and make physiology a scientific profession.
1922 - Robert W. Holley was born.
Robert W. Holley (1922 - 1993)NIH
Holly was an American biochemist who shares the 1968 Nobel Prize in Medicine with Warren Nirenberg and Har Gobind Khorana for research into how DNA controls synthesis of proteins. He determined the sequence and structure of alanine tRNA, which incorporates the amino acid alanine into proteins. This helped determine the synthesis of proteins from messenger RNA.
1903 - Kathleen Yardley Lonsdale was born.
Ben Mills
Lonsdale was a crystallographer who established the chemical structure of benzene. She was also the first woman to become a Fellow of the Royal Society.
1864 - Benoît Émile Clapeyron died.
Benoît Émile Clapeyron (1799 - 1864)
Clapeyron was a French engineer and physicist whose studies on steam engines and heat of vaporization of fluids led to the Second Law of Thermodynamics. He was the first to graphically illustrate the closed curve processes of a engine cycle on a pressure vs. volume chart. He is also known for his contributions to civil engineering through his work on static mechanics.
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Dee Burris Blakley ([personal profile] dee_burris) wrote2010-12-29 19:41
Those Places Thursday: Commerce Street, Downtown Russellville
That one was stuck in the Williams family photo album.
And it could be before 1914...
[identity profile] 2010-12-30 03:01 (UTC)(link)
My guess is 4th of July parade... The cars look to me like late 19-teens to 1920s, but that's kind of a vague and wobbly estimate.
(Anonymous) 2010-12-30 14:12 (UTC)(link)
Great picture. I bet somebody in the Historical Society knows what this was about.
[identity profile] 2011-01-01 18:05 (UTC)(link)
(Anonymous) 2011-01-01 23:33 (UTC)(link)
I believe this is a picture of downtown Russellville, Arkansas. Leonard's Hardware is a local company that was orginally located downtown.
[identity profile] 2011-01-01 23:40 (UTC)(link)
You might be right.
The date would have to be earlier though. My Williamses did live in Russellville, but not during World War I.
So that would make it before 1914.
I guess someone could have mailed it to them. But a photo like this in that album usually means that somewhere in that crowd, I ought to be able to point to a little dot and say, oh lookee's great-granddaddy...
(Anonymous) 2011-01-01 23:53 (UTC)(link)
Here is another picture of downtown Russellville during the same time period:
[identity profile] 2011-01-02 00:08 (UTC)(link)
By George, you are right...
Fixing my post title now...
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RICK CLEVELAND: Stars rise on Fridays ’round here
Rick ClevelandJACKSON – As another Mississippi high school football season begins, this question looms as pertinent as ever: What is it about Friday nights in our state that produces the greatest players in the history of the sport?
How did small-town Mississippi high school football produce the leading passer in NFL history (Brett Favre), the leading receiver (Jerry Rice), the leading scorer (Rice again), the second leading rusher (Walter Payton) and the patriarch of the first family of American football (Archie Manning)?
And while we’re at it, let’s throw in the all-time leading yardage producer in NCAA history (Steve McNair).
These are small-town guys who grew up in Kiln, Crawford, Columbia, Drew and Mount Olive and they have set the standard for people from much larger, more populous states. Surely, Mississippi has produced more pro football players and more Pro Football Hall of Famers per capita than any state.
How could this happen in a rural state, so small, so relatively poor? What is it? Is there something in the water, the soil? How has Mississippi produced so many Pro Football Hall of Famers, so many legends of the fall.
What is it?
What makes Mississippi high school football so special?
My take: It is because football is so much a part of our small-town culture. It is handed down from generation to generation, ever since Winona and Yazoo City squared off in that first high school football game more 108 years ago.
Towns rally around their teams. Friday nights, we go to football games. Sunday mornings, we go to church. Monday mornings we go to school or work and start talking about next Friday night’s game. It’s our culture, part of our fabric. It’s who we are.
It’s so rich a heritage: a skinny wide receiver named Rice, a drum major-turned-running back named Payton, a freckle-faced redhead named Archie, a coach’s son named Favre, a mama’s boy named Stevie McNair.
I grew up on it. Most of us did. I still remember the first high school football game I ever saw: Laurel vs. Hattiesburg, Thanksgiving Day, 1958. I still remember the score: Laurel 48, Hattiesburg 12. Afterward, my daddy introduced me to Laurel’s coach, Barney Poole, the great Army and Ole Miss end and College Football Hall of Famer. Barney picked me up with hands as big as a first baseman’s mitt. I thought he had to be the largest man in the world.
And that brings to mind one of my favorite stories in Mississippi sport. The Poole brothers – Buster, Ray and Barney, all future Mississippi Sports Hall of Famers – grew up in Gloster, where the school only went through junior high. When it came time for high school, Buster went off to Natchez, where he lived in a boarding house. In Natchez, Buster Poole was introduced to football. As all the Pooles, he was big, strong, rangy and broad-shouldered. He could run and catch and block and tackle.
As the story goes, Buster returned to Gloster for the holidays after that first autumn of high school and excitedly told his younger brothers, “Boys, have I found us a game we can play.”
And, boy, had he …
Rick Cleveland ( is the executive director of the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum.
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Mississippi does LOVE it’s football! And High School Football is football at it’s best. We get to watch these awesome kids play every week and for a few hours we forget everything but…FOOTBALL. What a life! How blessed we are.
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When I was a jr. high teacher and then a high school counselor in West Point, I could be bone tired on Friday afternoons in the Fall, but around 4:00, that tiredness began to leave my body and I was ready to watch Greenwave football. Retired now, I still love it, and always will. | http://djournal.com/sports/rick-cleveland-stars-rise-on-fridays-round-here/ | dclm-gs1-104260002 | false | false | {
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THIS is not THAT, Part One: Contraception is not Abortion!
Interesting discussion on MMFA today. And unless you're a truly brainwashed right-winger, I can't imagine how ANYONE could have a hard time admitting that Coakley's words were cleary being taken out of context, to the point where the meaning of her whole message has been dramatically altered. But RightOn kept right on rolling, demonstrating that when it comes to partisan politics ENGLISH is apparently not his native tongue. (Reading Comprehension FAIL, though I still enjoyed the debate. He's one of the guys that I know I can hit hard, because I know he'll come back at me just as hard. That's what makes it so worthwhile! I really had a blast today! LOL) And should you have any doubts about MY interpretation of her words, here's FACT CHECK's take on it. From that, it's pretty clear to me who's doing the lying, and who's merely making partisan points that are, in fact, TRUE in thier ads! And Coakley'd ad, addressing Brown's absurd health care ammendment, alone might have been worth posting about, but Pongowinston TWICE refered us (in the same trhead) to THIS NONSENSE.
Now... first let me handle that laughably hypocritical blog post. (1) Only Right-Wing morons think that voting for a bill means that you whole-heartedly support every single aspect of that bill. (And even THEN, only when it serves their purpose too!) So it's utter nonsense to think that by supporting the health care bill in general, that some how means she anti-abortion, becuase of the one ammendment in their in a vain attempt to pccify REPUBLICANS. Which brings me to (2) We all know who the "Pro-Life" (anti-Choice) party is, and who that ammendment is in there for. So don't go trying to make the Dem's look bad by saying their anti-abortion, even in cases of rape. They aren't anti-abortion at all, ins't that your lot's usual narritive? And seriously - since when did conservatives start caring about a woman's access to abortion services anyway? But even putting the author's hypocritical accusations aside, the two ammendments are a false comaprison anyway.
Brown's, which would allow providers to opt out of emergency contraception on religious grounds, is not the same thing as what's in the bill that Coakley supports, which would allow providers to refuse to perform abortions on religous or moral grounds. (And I love how he says that "even nmore broad" as if only religious people have the right to have principles! Typical RW, Christian arrogance.) But after reading all this, I thought I'd say a bit about how I see the abortion vs. emergency contraception argument.
I'm actually OK with the ammendment that Coakley can live with, and utterly despise the one Brown proposed.
With regards to abortion, I am 100% OK with a Doctor or other health care provider refusing to perform abortions, in all cases that don't save the life of the Mother. And Religion does not need to rear it's ugly, horned head in order for this to make sense. The principle here is very simple: The OB need merely see both mother and baby/fetus as his patients for his hypocratic oath to prevent him from doing harm to either. I will not put an instrument in someone's hand and legally compel them to do soemthing they feel is immoral. I will never "force their hand." What's more, I can support it on practical grounds, because abortions that are not life saving, very rarely (never?) need to be done RIGHT NOW. A given person usually has options other than the just the one doctor, and if they don't at the time, they still have some time to find them.
The situation is entirely different with emergency contrception. In order for this to be effective, it MUST be given within a specific time window. And the clock is ticking. If you're in a rural area, and the next hospital is a few towns away... THAT'S NOT AN OPTION. Niether is waiting until the next day. Now... let's say the Nurses, Doctors, etc... are all strict Catholics. Well... the church says. "No contraception." So... what does that mean for them? IT MEANS THAT IF THEY ARE RAPED AND FACING A FORCED PREGNANCY THAT THEY CAN'T HAVE ANY!!! It certainly DOES NOT give them the right to deny legal and accepted medical care to a rape victim who either INS'T Catholic, or decides (as 99% of them do do) "Screw the church, I'm not having my rapists baby!" And refusing to give someone else emergency contraception is tantamount to raping them all over again. Worse actually, as it forces them to actually BEAR THE CHILD of their attacker. It's nothing more than a despicable forcing of THEIR RIDICULOUS SUPERSTITIONS onto someone else. Your religions binds YOUR OWN ACTIONS only. It does not bind those of anyone else.
And I feel every bit as strongly about pharmacicsts who refuse to fill birth control pill scripts. Putting aside that estrogen is used for far more than just contraception, this again is nothing more than them telling you how to live. Them forcing their values on YOU. If THEY don't believe in contraception, then it is on them not to practice it. They have no say in what YOU DO. YOUR LIFE is none of their business, nor does THEIR RELIGION compel YOU to act in any given way. It is just not thier call. And I would be 100% happy to revoke the liscense of any pharmacist who does business that way. Period.
One final thing, because I titled this, "Contraception is not Abortion," I'd like to use some logic from a RW anti-abortion bumper sticker that I'm sure we've all seen: If it's not a baby, then your not pregnant! Well... I've already spelled out my thoughts on when the potential for life begins, but let's take that, and apply it to the bumper sticker logic... How about: If you don't have a fetilized embryo implanted in the wall of your uterus then you're not pregnant! Sound good? And how about: If you're not pregnant, the it's not an abortion? Here's another popular one: Abortion stops a beating heart! Well... Not if the embryo never implants in the uterine wall it doesn't! Because it never happens! And that what emergency contraception does. It prevents abortion (with is the ending of a pregnancy) by preventing the pregnancy from ever happening. No reasonable definition of "pregnant" could fail to include an embryo in the uterine wall, and no pregnancy test in the world would detect the embryo until after it implants. And once it does, no method of contraception will continue to work.
So, like I said: The clock is ticking. And the ER sure as hell is not the time or place to force your superstitious nonsense onto a rape victim, and end up victimizing her all over again. It's absurd, and anyone who would support such a measure fails basic logical reasoning, biology 101 and constitutional law. Any health care provider who would victimize any human being in this way deserves to lose their liscense revoked. Period. (After they've been sued for whatever they can be.)
You cannot have freedom of religion, until you have freedom from religion. And ALL of the founding fathers knew this to be true, regardless of what the modern conservative revisionist would have you believe.
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Posted by Gareth Maher
Noel KingGettyImagesNoel King speaks to Andy Reid (left) and Darron Gibson ahead of the game.
Nothing is ever guaranteed in football, yet when the Republic of Ireland targeted clinching second place in Group C of their World Cup qualifiers it actually did look like being a real possibility. That was until the games started.
Yet to fully shake off the hangover from the 2012 European championships, where they were humiliated by Croatia, Spain and Italy, the team -- and everyone connected to them -- naively thought that more football would be the answer to their woes, rather than properly addressing them.
It was blatantly clear that serious issues were bubbling up with manager Giovanni Trapattoni about his lack of trust in the team, negative tactics, bizarre selections, horrendous man-management, appalling communication skills and an insistence on not watching players for their clubs. Yet it was all ignored, as results would be best remedy for their Italian headache.
Then the wake-up call arrived. It came after 37 minutes of their opening qualifier away to Kazakhstan when a team ranked 116 places below saw Kairat Nurdauletov strike to put them behind. This wasn't how it was meant to be, trailing to a team that their supporters expected to beat easily. Something was clearly not right in the Ireland squad.
Late goals from Robbie Keane and Kevin Doyle eventually saved the team's blushes in Astana, but the following month saw them get ripped apart in a 6-1 loss to Germany in front of a sold-out crowd at the Aviva Stadium. Suddenly panic set in, calls for Trapattoni's exit got louder ahead of a trip to the Faroe Islands, and it looked as though change was on the way.
The two problems with replacing the 74-year-old were that the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) didn't have the money to pay off his contract (Trapattoni's 1.2 million euro salary was being largely funded by billionaire businessman Denis O'Brien) and the stubborn manager was not about to walk away. It was agreed that he could change his ways and turn things around to still compete with Sweden and Austria for second place.
It's important at this stage to state that Irish football supporters are quite realistic. They know the limitations of the current crop of players, they understand that the FAI is crippled with debt and they acknowledge that other nations have made significant strides ahead of them. But once their team stops being competitive, that is when they have a problem.
Once it was accepted by Trapattoni that the team could only achieve so much and go so far, the Irish public deemed that to be unacceptable. Of course there were bigger issues at play, such as the FAI's slow-motion approach to youth development, but there were plenty of talented individuals available to the manager -- he just chose to overlook many of them.
A friendly defeat at home to Greece -- the team Trapattoni said Ireland could emulate following their Euro success in 2004 -- really stung, but draws away to Sweden and home to Austria set them back even further because it was clear that both of their rivals in Group C were extremely average and very beatable.
The confidence around the Ireland squad was lifted somewhat by a decent display in a friendly with England at Wembley, which was followed up by a 4-0 thumping of Georgia and a second qualifying win over the Faroe Islands. But trouble was ahead with defeat at home to Sweden and away to Austria ending their qualification hopes ... and Trapattoni's five-year reign.
Having finally got what they wished for, the Irish footballing community was then left wondering where to go next. The common call was to appoint former Celtic boss Martin O'Neill as he could restore some pride to the set-up, but the FAI has, wisely, decided to take their time in finding the right man. So in the meantime, it promoted under-21 manager Noel King to the senior set-up for the final two qualifiers.
Darron Gibson IrelandGettyImagesDarron Gibson had not played for Ireland since before the European championships last year.
King, a shrewd tactician and excellent coach, opted to do things his own way. For starters, he recalled three exiled players (Darron Gibson, Andy Reid and Anthony Stokes) and switched to a 4-2-3-1 formation, which required the team to actually work on team shape in training -- something that should be expected at international level, but was not done under Trapattoni during the latter part of his tenure.
Although, instead of recognizing the positive approach that King was making, certain members of the media labeled him as "tactically illiterate" because they were the ones who didn't understand what he was doing. The players certainly did and were full of praise for the interim boss, yet a backlash continued against someone who was addressing key areas in the team.
Defeat away to Germany was inevitable despite the fact that Ireland contained them well to an extent and should have scored a couple of goals themselves. Then they beat Kazakhstan 3-1 with a more attack-minded game plan working well, Reid was outstanding in the playmaker role, but still the negative comments came and questioned King's ways.
From the start of the campaign to the end, the only consistent thing for Ireland was that their standards continually fluctuated along with their confidence. That isn't good enough when trying to qualify for major tournaments and it reveals a deep problem within Irish football, because there are issues to address at every single level of the pyramid.
Appointing someone like O'Neill would be like applying a plaster to the situation. Instead, the FAI needs to be brave and go for someone who recognizes what they are working with, can achieve results and work on the development side, while helping to raise the standards.
It will be interesting in the next few months to see what decisions are made. If they get this call wrong, the FAI could be setting Irish international football back 10 years, such is the rapid progression of other nations.
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0.888224 | <urn:uuid:12f7980e-aedc-417b-9906-fedd53106e51> | en | 0.962038 | So let's say you've got a horse, only it's not just any regular horse, it's a magic one. No, not even just any magic one, but a doubly magic one. For, you see, it has wings, like the mythic Pegasus; and it has a horn, like the equally mythic unicorn. So what is it? A horned Pegasus? Or a winged unicorn?
And remember, please do, that where the unicorn is just a type, Pegasus is the name of a single, particular mythic creature. And, get this: its father (according to the myth) was the God, Poseidon. And what is it with mythic Gods parenting horses, anyway? In Norse myth, Sleipnir is the offspring of Loki, who (despite being a male God) was actually the horse's mother. Loki accomplished this by coming down in the form of a mare and getting boned by studly stallion Svaðilfari. Poseidon, on the other hand, did the reproductive deed with Medusa. But then, the horse was born from her neck when she experienced a cooling decapitation at the hands of Perseus. How a horse came out of there.... well come to think if it, it's proportionally actually not much different from the other place where newborns come. But I digress, since Pegasus was not even born alone, but came out with a lesser known sibling Chrysaor, the winged boar. So, yeah.
Now, coming back to the unicorn, those are just running amok all over the place, going all the way back to the Bible. Oh, sure, modern translations have omitted reference to "unicorns" and instead substituted "wild ox" for the Greek monokeros (literally "horse with one horn coming out of the center of it's freakin' forehead, bitches"). But we know a unicorn when we see one.
A horse which is both winged and one-horned might be imagined to spring from the union of Pegasus (or "a pegasus") and a unicorn. But mythology, especially the Greek variety, portends some bizarre stuff when it comes to reproduction, though. There's no guarantee that a mating between these creatures would produce any kind of horse at all, instead of, who knows, a chimera with the body of a lobster, tail of a cat, and neck and head of a swan. But should the more intuitive offspring occur, the horse with broad-feathered wings and a single sterling twirled horn, it would properly be either a pegacorn (which, to me, sounds like a large quantity of corn somewhere between a megacorn and a petacorn, of which you'd have to take a petabite), or a unisus. Not to be mistaken for Unisys.
And what are the characteristics of a unisus, other than being a winged horse with a horn? There's one in the classic Filmation cartoon spin-off, She-Ra -- just as He-Man turns his cowardly cat Cringer into the mighty Battle-Cat, so does She-Ra transform her horse, Spirit into the unisus "Swift Wind." That one can talk as well, like Mr. Ed or a Biblical donkey. But seriously, it's a freakin' winged horse with a horn. What more can you ask of it? | http://everything2.com/user/Pandeism+Fish/writeups/Unisus | dclm-gs1-104490002 | false | false | {
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What's Missing?
Lately I've been reading in the blogosphere about the dire straits of worship in the church and how it's trying to "get something going." This shows up in the music, the entertainment sermons, and so forth. I think this must be a true assessment since for the past three years, during the summers, I take a few weeks off from my own church here and there to visit other churches my larger area (Northern Los Angeles County just above L.A. City). I go to all types of churches within the "evangelical" tent. Some are Charismatic, some Pentecostal, some non-C/P but kind of open to the C/P worship expressions, and at least one very anti-C/P one. Except for the one anti-C/P one, where I truly did sense the glory of God and no one was trying really hard to "make something happen," the rest were pathetic. And it's sad I have to say the anti-C/P one was the best one. Among the worst were the Charismatic and Pentecostal churches which seem to be dead as a doornail. Of course, I didn't go to any Third Wave Charismatic churches as I consider them to be either bordering on, or pell-mell into, the occult.
The first thing I noticed when I visited these churches was the absolutely awful greeters/ushers. Doesn't anyone train these people? It really makes me appreciate my church which seems to have the best of these around. I've also heard this from our church leaders who have visited other churches. They report back to us that our greeters and ushers are remarkable. They actually say hello to you in a welcoming voice. In many of the churches I visited, you wouldn't believe what passes for greeters and ushers. But perhaps I will blog about that another time since today's is a totally different theme. In every church I visited (except at the anti-C/P one) the worship team tried very, very hard to get "something" going. I guess that "something" was the Holy Spirit's presence. I wish to report to you, sadly, that they failed. The Holy Spirit was nowhere to be found (except of course inside of believers, hiding out). The sermons were even worse, if that was possible. Dry, dull, long, boring, mostly psychobabble and self-esteem teaching. Those teachings that were more Biblical were just dead, dry and tedious. Why? Even though most of the churches 40 years ago were fairly dispensational and anti-C/P, many of the sermons seemed to be more Spirit-led than the ones I hear today. Somehow, and for some reason, the Holy Spirit has left the building. Why? Part of the reason, of course, is the apostasy that has flooded into the church. But what about those that are still hanging in there with fairly cogent doctrinal views? That is a mystery to me and I will be looking for answers in the future. I do know where we should be headed. And, I've said this here before, toward a much more Pentecostal view - a balanced one between Word and Spirit (revelation). Then why are the Pentecostal chruches so dead? Aside from those that have strayed from the Pentecostal foundations, I must admit I don't know why. But I intend to find out. So stay tuned here as I begin to concentrate on finding the answer to that question and dilemma.
Friday, May 29, 2009
How the Russians See Us
The link below is utterly fascinating IMO. And while some is exaggerated in order to promote a point of view, much of it is valuable to see ourselves in the current American way of life and culture which seems to be falling apart. I especially was intrigued about the author's American religious conclusions. This is a column written in the main Moscow newspaper, Pravda (this is the English version), and is the view of one of their columnists. But I'm wondering if it also reflects other people's views and feelings in Russia?
Here are some tidbits from the article, and then I give the link which I do hope you'll read.
Thursday, May 28, 2009
THE Question of the Hour-1
I never thought I would ever see this as THE question evangelicals would need to ask within their own churches and culture, but today I think it surely is. And, that question is:
What exactly is a Christian?
From time to time over the next few weeks I will present various answers to that question with my comments (of course.....)
Here is a quote from A.W. Tozer (1987-1963), a very well-known pastor and author of many cherished Christian books (thanks for friend Joe for this quote),
I consider it a good sign that some people are still asking questions like these in our churches: "What should happen in a genuine conversion to Christ?" and "What should a man or woman feel in the transaction of the new birth?" If I am asked, my answer is this: "There ought to be a real and genuine cry of pain!" That is why I am not impressed with the kind of evangelism that tries to invite people into the fellowship of God by signing a card. There should be a birth within, a birth from above. There should be the terror of seeing ourselves in violent contrast to the holy, holy God! Unless we come into this place of conviction and pain concerning our sin, I am not sure how deep and real our repentance will ever be. The man whom God will use must be undone, humble and pliable. He must be, like the astonished Isaiah, a man who has seen the King in His beauty!
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Postmodernism and the Emergents
If you read much postmodern philosophy (Postructuralism, Deconstructuralism, the New Criticism, etc.), you might very well stumble across the term doing violence to the text. Basically (I am saying this in a humorous, tongue-in-cheek way) this means interpreting it the way the person you are reading wants you to interpret it. Philosophically it means to just attend to what is written in the text and not bring in cultural assumptions, author's intent, and so forth. I keep writing here that the emergent church is a movement bringing in postmodern philosophy to the church. Here is something that proves my point.
This next example is so classic I can't believe I actually stumbled over it. John Chisam relates what happened on his radio show when his co-host interviewed emergent Tony Jones. Please pay particular notice to Jones' reply (I put it into bold type). Does it sound familiar in relation to the first paragraph of this post?
Recently, [on]our radio show , My co-host Rusty Beals gave a testimony of His conversion, and how God changed Him. (this starts about 33 minutes into the show)Tony dismissed the fact that his very nature had been changed by God out of hand. I quoted a number of verses, and Tony Jones called that doing violence to the Bible.
I rest my case.
Source of Chisam's remarks about the radio interview with Jones:
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Let's Play "Who Said"
Who said this?
Scroll down for answer (probably no surprise here)
Martin Luther
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Monday, May 25, 2009
The "Letter"
I would love for someone to write a letter like this,
Dear Emergent Pastor,
You have been my pastor now for three years and I have gained much from you. However, I recently found out that I am made right with God through what Jesus did on the cross for me. But you said it was for social justice and also Israel. Why didn't you tell me the truth? I found out that I don't have to do all the good works you taught to be right with God; that they should flow naturally after conversion. Why didn't you tell me that? In fact, why didn't you teach me the Bible the way it was written instead of bringing in your postmodern philosophical spin onto it. I just don't get it. Why would you hide such a wonderful gospel from me. And, from the others in the church? Why would you change it so drastically.
Thankfuly, I recently met someone who finally told me the real gospel. But what I really don't get is knowing that you heard the true gospel in your church while you were growing up. So, why in the world wouldn't you tell US? I mean, even if you presented both "gospels," that would be better than hiding the one from us. So, with great respect, I am withdrawing my membership from your church and going to a real one.
Yours truly,
Your emergent church member (former)
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Another one Agrees with Me - Politics Will Not Change the Society
For the past thirty years I've been screaming and ranting that Christians can only change the society through conversion and witness, not through passing political laws only.
Now, finally, I am reading scads of Christians who agree with me.
Here is one, from the blog, Biblical Awakening in a post entitled, Politics, Power & Pride. Here is the first paragraph, but do read the entire post (I posted the link again after the quote),
Evangelicals may finally be realizing that political activism is not the path to preserving the Christian character and culture of America. After 30 years of the Moral Majority, the Christian Coalition and the religious right, America, last November, elected what are probably the most liberal president and congress in its history. Since that time 5 states have legalized homosexual marriage and others are poised to follow suit. Chuck Schumer, the influential, liberal senator from New York, gleefully declared that, “All this talk about family and traditional values is a thing of the past.” In the midst of all this, Dr. James Dobson, whom many would consider the most prominent voice of the religious right, solemnly announced, “We (evangelical Christians) have lost the culture war.
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Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Why the Emergent Drives so Many of Us Crazy!
And you wonder why I have big problems with the emergent village "beliefs."
This from an interview with emergent Tony Jones,
Recently, [on] our radio show , My co-host Rusty Beals gave a testimony of His conversion, and how God changed Him. (this starts about 33 minutes into the show)Tony dismissed the fact that his very nature had been changed by God out of hand. I quoted a number of verses, and Tony Jones called that doing violence to the Bible. But the theme of regeneration- God giving us a new nature-Paliggenesia- is seen throughout the New Testament.
Monday, May 18, 2009
Why Are We Changing Our Message? Others Don't
Lately I've been thinking about how postmodern Christians seem to want to change our faith to fit both their postmodern sensibilities as well as the worldly mindset. But when you visit a Mormon church, do they change their beliefs to acommodate non-Mormons? No. If you visit a muslim mosque, do they change their message to acommodate a non-muslim? No. So, why are we doing it? I was listening to a radio talk show this morning and the host commented that too many churches today (he was talking about both Protestant and Catholic) are changing their faith to fit in with today's political/philosophical idealogies. Then he posed this question:
Are our churches supposed to be churches? Or simply social/political halls?
While I don't mind a postmodern approach, I do agree that we need to stop tinkering with the message.
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Are We Giving Enough Information?
I like to get to the root of things. That way you can really resolve the issue instead of simply putting bandaids on it. For the past few years I've noticed that the Young Calvinists are having conniptions about who is and who isn't born again in evangelical churches. But I think they have at least one good point and that is - how much gospel do you have to hear to become a Christian. And that leads to the second question - are people hearing enough today to become Christians? I'm not talking about "Jesus Followers" of Rabbi Jesus. I am talking about people getting converted through Jesus Saviour. So, what do you think? How much gospel do we need to hear? I am not asking HOW we should present it (that will be another post), only IF we are giving enough information.
Friday, May 15, 2009
Why is the Cross so Offensive to Evangelicals Today?
I've been thinking lately why so many churches are not preaching the cross and what Christ did with our sins and his mediatorial work there. I mean who wouldn't want to receive Christ's work to make you righteous with God instead of trying so hard and never getting anywhere? I just do not get it. Or maybe I do. I began to think about what is replacing it. Good works. Helping the poor. Taking care of the environment. In other words, man's works. Why does man want to cozy up to God with good works? The answer is.............................................
People who do good works to get to God feel as if they are in control. When God does it all, or I should say did it all, you're not so much in control right?
Monday, May 11, 2009
The Blood of the Lamb-silly
This really happened in my "drifting rapidly into emergent/liberal Protestantism" church. We had a guest speaker from Intervarsity. This used to be a wonderful organization but recently I am hearing really weird stuff about parts of it. Also, a lot of the emergent books have been published by Intervarsity Press (IVP). Well, after our guest speaker I can believe Intervarsity is in trouble. He blathered on like they all do today about how we used to evangelize with bad news (I guess he meant things like God's wrath and hell), but today he has discovered the "good news" to tell others. The good news of course never mentions the cross or what Jesus did there. At least he never mentioned it. The "good news" is that God loves us....Period. I would submit to you that people cannot get born again from that "gospel." Then he went into the usual, "secular society today doesn't understand Christianese terms" routine, like you know (he slightly laughed-smirked) the Blood of the Lamb, to which 1/2 of my church congregation laughed. I was stunned.....and terribly grieved in my spirit. Reverence anyone? What he should have said was the secular society doesn't understand many of the Bible terms. These aren't terms that "we (fundamentalists I guess)" use. We got them from somewhere. We didn't just make these terms up from out of the air. What should have been done was to use the Biblical terms but explain them for, and in, a non-Christian context - not dump the terms and then laugh ourselves silly.
Saturday, May 09, 2009
Quote of the Week
From the Onward, Forward, Toward Blog,
The church is not dead. It is asleep and in a state of slumber (Romans 13:11-14). In fact, the church is very similar to the little girl who was to the point of dying in Mark 5:21-40.
And at the end of the post is what the blogger thinks should be happening in churches. And a say a great BIG Amen!
To the heart of the peculiar people:
Doctrine replaces Dominionism
Holiness replaces Heresy
Healing replaces Heterodoxy
Hermeneutics replaces “holy heebie-jeebies”
Repentance replaces randomized guesses to unlock the blessing
Private prayers and repentance replaces public posturing and power brokering
True Worship replaces Wanton Whoredom
Sanctification replaces spiritualized salivation
Friday, May 08, 2009
Steve Gaines on Liberal Protestanism
Wow! My computer was at the computer doctor's for a whole week. I almost went stir crazy. But I am baaaack.......
A pastor named Steve Gaines has written an interesting book entitled, When God Comes to Church. The reason I call it interesting is because he's a Baptist pastor (Southern Baptist I believe) but seems to be more Charismatic without actually calling himself or his church Charismatic. But then, I'm learning this is becoming more and more common in Baptist churches.
In the chapter entitled, "Liberalism," he writes,
In my opinion theological liberalism has sent more people to hell than the effects of secular humanism and radical atheism combined.
I couldn't agree with that statement more as I grew up in liberal Protestanism. I don't think most evangelicals understand it or its dangers which is I guess why so many formerly very evangelistic churches, collees and seminaries are drifting into it.
Here is another quote from that chapter,
Liberals [he's talking here about theological liberals, not political liberals necessarily] start out denying the accuracy of Scripture and before long they're denying the authority of Scripture. "We don't care what the Bible says about this or that; we're going to do what we think is best."
An excellent encaspulation of what the core problem of liberal Protestanitsm is.
Saturday, May 02, 2009
Computer is "sick"
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IntelliCell BioSciences, Inc. Message Board
• art.condor art.condor Mar 22, 2011 8:58 PM Flag
Today's volume
The stock went from .013 to .0175 today with over 200K in volume.
We need to realize that there is no outside buyer,yet!We are just trading amongst ourselves.If there is no formal going out of business notice,we could generate a rally or a sell off daily.
I panicked last month and sold 500K shares in 2hrs,and one of you jumped on it! Was that a rally? After some SEC filings I bought back
almost as much at twice the cost.Was that a rally?
The next filing will bring us up to date and any news after that could bring in outside investors.If not,we will just remain the "Ship of Fools".
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• I'll rate your post.
5 stars.
With a company like this one just goes with the flow. The latest financial statements reflect a company beyond broke (they had something like $200 in cash and accounts payable of a bazillion dollars). Until given reason, don't take it too seriously.
On the positive side--go back through the cash flow statements in recently filed financials and you will see that our president--some guy named Joe that ran a golf organization at one time--has a bundle tied up in CWLC. Why not try and make it work.
They have lost a lot of dough over the years and have substantial loss carryforwards as a result. Were they to liquidate the loss carryforwards disappear. Something one would not want to happen when one considers the potential impact on the next 20 years (that's the period of time loss carryforwards last).
Bottom line--if you are into a company deep as is Joe C. and you have large NOL carryforwards why not take a stab at making it work.
The extent of SEC filings over the past several months is a firm indication to me that this is the plan.
Yes they have not filed for 2010 and will soon be behind for the first 10Q for 2011. But hey, they are closer to being current. Just go with the flow, keep your speculative investment modest and see what develops.
Go with the flow.
• I agree with your comment. There is no investor relations activity. Why should there be? This company is not current in their filings. They are making progress in their filings. I assume they'll file their 2010 Qs and K by the end of the month to be caught up and compliant. IF their story is REAL and they have raised capital to execute their business plan, we would not see the current stock price ever again. However, if what the Whiz guy is saying come true, then your last sentence is true. I remain confident that this company will turn around. You can speculate all day on the stock price, but this company needs to get current to make an impact for the company, shareholders and investors. Anyone communicating with the company to find out what is delaying the filings?
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RollerCoaster Tycoon
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RollerCoaster Tycoon
Developer(s) MicroProse
Publisher(s) Hasbro Interactive
Designer(s) Chris Sawyer
Release date March 31, 1999 (NA)
April 12, 1999 (EU)
Genre Strategy, simulation
Mode(s) Single-player
Age rating(s) ELSPA: 3+
ESRB: E (Everyone)
OFLC: G (General)
Platform(s) Windows, Xbox
Media CD-ROM
Input Keyboard and mouse
System requirements Intel Pentium 90MHz CPU, 16MB RAM, 55MB hard disk space, 1MB GPU
Credits | Soundtrack | Codes | Walkthrough
RollerCoaster Tycoon is a simulation strategy computer game that simulates theme park management. Developed by MicroProse and Chris Sawyer and published by Hasbro Interactive, the game was released for Microsoft Windows on March 31, 1999 and was later ported to the Xbox game console. Later, a special edition called Roller Coaster Tycoon Deluxe was released which contained the original game and the two expansion packs. It is the first game in the RollerCoaster Tycoon series and was followed by RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 and RollerCoaster Tycoon 3, but RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 was developed without input from the franchise's creator, Chris Sawyer.
Chris Sawyer originally wanted to create a sequel to his highly successful Transport Tycoon, but after becoming obsessed with roller coasters, he changed the project into RollerCoaster Tycoon. Sawyer wrote RollerCoaster Tycoon almost entirely in assembly language, a difficult feat considering the game's complexity. Some functions were written in C to interface with the Windows operating system.[1]
The game was to be called White Knuckle for the majority of the game's development. However, to follow the tradition of the Tycoon titles, most likely for marketing purposes, the game was renamed accordingly.
For his efforts, Chris received over $30 million of the $180 million brought in by the highly popular game.
A feature length movie adaption is set to begin production, as Sony Pictures Animation has pre-emptively picked up rights to the video game. Harald Zwart is spearheading the development of the big-screen adaptation as a possible directing project and will executive produce. David Ronn and Jay Scherick are attached to write what will be a live-action/CGI hybrid.[2]
The premise of the game is to complete a series of preset scenarios by successfully building and maintaining theme parks. The key to any park is building a large amount and diverse range of rides for the visitors. Players can choose from dozens of roller coaster types and can also build log flumes, carousels, bumper cars, haunted houses, go karts, ferris wheels and swinging ships, among other rides. The player also has the option of building their own roller coaster designs as well as other rides by laying out individual track pieces, choosing the direction, height, and steepness, and adding such elements as zero g rolls, corkscrews, vertical loops, and even on-ride photos, using a tile-based construction system. The intensity and type of rides must be balanced, as visitors' preferences vary significantly from person to person; some prefer exciting rides and have high nausea tolerance levels, while others are just the opposite.
Roller coasters must be designed carefully so that they do not crash. Rides must be properly maintained, for example by building brakes, or the chance of a crash caused by ride malfunction increases (very old attractions are also highly susceptible to such malfunctions). When a crash happens, and the park manager opens the ride without any modifications, the guests will not enter the ride for their safety. In an event of a crash, park guests will die, which will drastically decrease the park rating and will lower the park's popularity.
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A screenshot showing a log flume.
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The geography and landscaping of the park can be modified, allowing the player to lower/raise terrain and add water to improve the park's attractiveness, as well as to allow rides to fit into their surroundings more easily. Track rides (such as roller coasters) and pathways may be constructed underground, either partially or even entirely. Players must also balance the needs of the visitors by strategically placing food stalls, concession stands, bathrooms, and information kiosks. Paths must be added to connect the attractions and must be done efficiently so that the visitors do not become lost and lose happiness. If there is no path leading from the exit of a ride, for example, the guests wander around until they find a path.
Adding items such as garbage cans, benches, lights, and various thematic elements and forms of architecture will improve the visual quality of the park. Coordinated themed areas please park guests and increase a player's approval rating. However, garbage cans and benches also serve a practical purpose, keeping the park clean, as it will allow the visitors a place to throw away trash and rest after rides (preventing them from vomiting). Park maintenance is also important to keeping visitors satisfied, and the player must hire handymen (to sweep paths, empty garbage, water flowers and mow lawns), mechanics (to inspect and fix rides), security guards (to prevent vandalism), and entertainers (to increase the happiness of guests). The player must also balance his/her budget by managing the staff and ride operation costs, as well as setting ticket prices, entry fees, and concession prices.
There are 21 scenarios included with RollerCoaster Tycoon, as well as 30 more in the Corkscrew Follies extension pack, and another 30 in the Loopy Landscapes extension pack, leading to a whomping 81 scenarios if you have the whole set installed. Some scenarios afford the player empty tracts of land on which to build from scratch, but most place the player in control of an already operational park (although these parks are usually underdeveloped, dilapidated, or suffering from poor planning). To complete a scenario and unlock a new one, a certain objective must be met. For most scenarios, the objective is to have a minimum number of guests by the scenario's deadline of one to four years. Years in the game are only eight months long; from the start of March to the end of October (mirroring the seasons real-life theme parks are in operation, except in the southern hemisphere). On some scenarios, the player is also required to raise the park value above a certain level by building roller coasters and other rides and maintaining the park well. However, scenarios in the Loopy Landscapes extension pack are usually very unique and contain winning conditions that are extremely different from those in the rest of the game. You'd need to see the Expansion packs and sequels section of the page for more info.
There is also a built-in tutorial that can be accessed from the main menu. It takes place in Forest Frontiers, the easiest scenario in the game. It shows how to build a merry-go-round, open the amusement park, build a custom roller coaster, hire a mechanic, and exit the game. The player can take control of the tutorial and play it as a normal game at any time by clicking or pressing a keyboard button.
Guests are the visitors to the park. They have specific tastes in rides, such as liking rides with an intensity rating "above 4" or "between 2 and 6". Their nausea tolerance levels vary, from "none" to "high". Guests have ID numbers instead of names ("Guest 212"), but there is an optional feature which gives them random names that comes with the expansion packs or they can also be renamed individually by the player. Players can choose to track certain guests. Guests only vary in clothing colors, they all have the same age, hair color, style, and skin color. Visitors bring certain amounts of money with them to the park, but they may have different amounts. A guest will always pay to enter the theme park, as long as they have enough money to pay the entrance fee. Guests have opinions about rides, the park's scenery, and what they need at the time. However, the guests' AI is very limited, with little common sense type behavior. For example, a guest may get on a roller coaster that is obviously bound to crash (too steep a hill, etc.), or not be able to find a particular ride even with a park map.
RollerCoaster Tycoon features 21 scenarios, with the first five open from the start. Successfully completing a scenario will unlock the next one. Additionally, Mega Park is unlocked when all 21 scenarios are completed. This scenario has no objective (except "Have Fun!"), but allows the player to build on nearly the entire map, and eventually has all attractions available to build. This is the closest to a "sandbox" park, except the player does not have an unlimited amount of money to work with, only a $50,000 loan.
Diamond heights
The Claustrophobia (black) and Agoraphobia (white) dueling coasters in the Diamond Heights scenario
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Some scenarios are based on real parks. For example, 'Katie's Dreamland' (Katie's World in the US Version) is based on Lightwater Valley, complete with that park's signature The Ultimate roller coaster (The Storm).
There are two official scenarios available for download from Atari's website, Fort Anachronism and Alton Towers. Alton Towers was included with the Loopy Landscapes expansion and was updated to take advantage of the new game components. Both scenarios are also included as part of RollerCoaster Tycoon Deluxe. The UK edition of RollerCoaster Tycoon Deluxe contained Blackpool Pleasure Beach in place of Fort Anachronism.
The original PC version was wildly popular for its originality and success in simulating a theme park. GameSpot rated the game 8.6/10,[3] while IGN scored the game an 8.5/10.[4] Common complaints about the game were that it lacked a sandbox mode and that there were sometimes awkward building situations caused by the isometric camera angle.
The Xbox port got mixed ratings due to very little improvement. The only exclusive features are no menu buttons (they were accessed by holding the X and B buttons) and a magnifying glass cursor that can be toggled by clicking the left thumbstick.
Within the theme park industry and roller coaster enthusiast community, the game received high praise for its extremely accurate representation of real-life roller coasters, including easily identifiable characteristics of various manufacturer's products.
Expansion packs and sequelsEdit
There were two expansion packs released for the original RollerCoaster Tycoon game. The first was Corkscrew Follies (known as Added Attractions in the UK), which added additional scenarios, rides, facilities and also new scenery with additional themes. One of the most important additions of this expansion pack is a banner sign, which can be set to display a "Do Not Enter" message to guests - a rule that they will always adhere to. This allows the player to designate certain paths as being only for staff, or control guest movement on busy paths using a one-way system.
The second expansion pack, Loopy Landscapes added much of the same, but also introduced a wider variety of scenario objectives beyond the park value or visitor number criteria used previously. For example, the player might now be expected to build a set number of rollercoasters above a minimum excitement rating, or achieve a certain amount of income from ride tickets. Other scenarios allowed the player an unlimited amount of money to build the park and hire staff, with failure occurring if the park rating dropped below a fixed minimum.
Two sequels would follow RollerCoaster Tycoon (and its expansion packs): RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 and RollerCoaster Tycoon 3, and a special edition was released that included the core game, plus both expansion packs.
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The Miss America pageant used to be a great place to see incredibly conventionally attractive women answer questions about world peace and then march around in bathing suits. It's still a great place for that, but it's also a great place to get a peek into a sort of crystal ball of American politics, a showcase for women who may use their beauty queen crown as a launching pad to actual, non Disney Princess-style clout in the not-so-distant future, a preview of future female powerhouses. There she is. Madame President. Hail to the chiffon.
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In recent years, the Miss America pageant has emphasized being hot less and being smart more; it had to in order to survive social evolution of women from silent decorative knick knacks to decorative knick knacks that occasionally worked outside of the home. And sometimes Miss America was actually ahead of the curve — long before it was de rigueur to send young women to college, for example, Miss America was awarding scholarships to its contestants. And in the 1990's, the pageant introduced the concept of "platforms" to the contest, requiring aspirant Miss Americas to choose an important social issue and devote their year of crowned service to their cause. (Sort of like what we make First Ladies do, hopefully minus the whole "kiss the President for TV cameras" thing.)
While Friedman argues that it makes perfect sense that a vigorous schedule of public speaking, smiling, hand shaking, and waving perfectly train Miss America contestants for a life in the public eye, she goes a little easy on both the state of the pageant and the state of American politics. More beauty pageant contestants aren't running for office because America's stupid — I refuse to buy into this fucking terrible idea that beautiful women don't count because they must be dumb and unattractive women don't count because they're ugly; there is no correlation between attractiveness and actual intelligence. Rather, pageant contestants are successfully segueing into politics because circa 2012 politicians are little more than opinionated news anchors. And not only to Miss America contestants have the drive to succeed, they also look the part.
Are Miss America contestants intelligent and ambitious? Absolutely. But maybe they're just exploiting an obvious opportunity afforded them by the evolving nature of what politicians actually do — they're not the serious frownyface stateswomen who spend their days writing their own speeches and studying history and the Constitution and stuff and who, fashionwise, are incapable of pulling off basic blue jeans without making them look dorky. They're figureheads and window dressing, essentially elected pundits who operate as the official spokespeople for enormous grinding machines fueled by corporate money and power. Sure, they vote on stuff, but they don't write the laws the introduce anymore; think tanks and special interest groups funded by billionaires do. To advance in the modern political system requires the same sort of savvy/hotness combination that it takes to advance in any career that requires appearing on TV a lot and successfully repeating strategically designed talking points.
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1. Efrén Paredes, Jr. said:
Great post hermana. You should have seen Joe Arpaio yesterday on CNN with Rick Sanchez. This guy is absolutely ridiculous. He admitted that he detains Latino immigrants based on the way they talk and the clothes they wear, among other ridiculous reasons. He and others like him are just among some of the reasons that the 287(g) program should be eliminated.
2. cookie said:
It is imperative that we engage trained local authorities to assist in immigration enforcement. The Feds simply do not have the resources to be everywhere in every little town across America. No one’s rights are being violated and the Sheriff has never been proven guilty of not operating within the law. Just because some ethnocentrics say so, doesn’t make it so.
So let’s see, if I broke the speed limit but rumor has it that they “might” change it to the speed I was going, I shouldn’t be fined at the time I was speeding? What kind of reasoning is this?
3. Grandma said:
This is the oath of office all law enforcement officers have to take:
the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign
that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or
Seems to me Sheriff Joe takes his oath seriously and does a darn good job doing it.
4. maryelizabeth said:
I like it when Marisa describes Arpagio’s game as a “witch hunt”. There isn’t a better way to describe what has become of the 287G program nationwide. Cops instructed to chase and arrest Immigrants for no apparent reasons except quotas for profits in a prison system. Meanwhile our streets are not protected from real crime. One day we will walk into the more updated witch museum in Salem Mass. and along with the witch trial history that took place with the hangings of innocent people on Gallow Hill…all the way to the McCarther era; we will move along to view another chapter in history where witch hunts again took place and we will see wax figures of Immigrants with a tour guide lecturing. We will look back and see how in this country we racial profiled people and tortured them in these detentions all because of “the fear minoritys would vote Democratic in the future” and for “cheap labor”. There is always a $$$$ agenda behind the political manipulations which is no different from the hanging of people in 1692 on Gallow Hill after acuseing them of being witches and stealing their land. Rather than learning from our mistakes we acknowlege what we have done on a entertaining family vacation and say that was awful and we are glad were not like that anymore. Americans are so caught up in surviving to just stay middleclass that they become nieve and uninformed to what is really happening in a system that has a clever mask from the truth. We believe we are better people then the rest and we have made the US a better country in the name of “God” meanwhile we look the other way with our Prada handbags and our Gucci tinted sunglasses while our hardworking Immigrants are being abused in our country and familys are being torn apart and Moms and Dads taken from children. Many of us believe the rhetoric that is used for political gains and the wedge issue held against Immigrants to scapegoat the solutions to the real issues so that rich 1% can continue to milk the American system. It is only when that rich 1% get so out of control that they destroy our Middleclass lifestyle we get up and try to change the system.
5. Karen said:
Obama can’t even protect the human rights of Americans in Arizona.
6. maryelizabeth said:
Obama is protecting the human right of Americans in Arizona. He is making sure that their familys are not split up and their children are not left motherless or fatherless in the “horror show” of a system. Good change is comming but it is a slow progressive movement. I just wish it could move faster to protect people.
7. Doris said:
It’s interesting how Latino illegal aliens appear all too willing to abandon their children before they will keep their family together by bringing them back to their homeland. My Korean in-laws had children in this country and never even considered leaving them behind. I guess every ethnic group has its own set of ethics.
8. cookie said:
Many if not most leave their families behind in the homeland to come here also. It was their choice and no for the most part they or their families were not starving they just wanted better but at what sacrifice? You got it! At the cost of separating themselves from their families for months and even years.
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It's been more than a year since my first endeavor to setup a healthy environment to deploy Django (as I was rudely reminded by the Ubuntu repositories for my server's version ceasing to function). In that time I've learned a lot, and have also stretched my original setup to its breaking point, but inevitably the day comes for a fresh deployment with better configurations and more flexible folder layouts.
From my last server setup guide, a number have things have remained the same: still using Ubuntu, Memcached, Postgres and still using Nginx as a proxy server infront of Apache2. A number of things have changed as well: using mod_wsgi over mod_python, cmemcache over python-memcached, and a more intentional folder layout along with virtualenv to make it straightforward to host multiple projects and domains (including some serving only static files or PHP scripts).
More than just an update, I've also included a few side-quests like using your server as a remote Git repository over SSH, and installing pluggable Django libraries. Finally, in the vein of my previous tutorial, I tried to include every keystroke required to transform a naked Ubuntu Intrepid server into a full-featured multi-site Django-loving server.
Please let me know if you run into any problems, or have suggestions on improvements!
Setting up your Server
1. Somehow get a Ubuntu Intrepid server or VPS. (Perhaps go to your SliceHost console and request a new Slice running Ubuntu Intrepid (8.10). ;)
2. Write down root password and IP address for your box.
3. SSH into your server.
ssh root@
4. Update your apt-get sources.
apt-get upgrade
5. Make sure there is an editor that suits your taste available on the system. Vim is pre-installed, but I prefer Emacs...
apt-get install emacs
6. Setup any non-root accounts you want, and one for Django.
useradd django
mkdir /home/django
chown django:django /home/django
useradd will
mkdir /home/will
chown will:will /home/will
passwd will
7. Unless you like sh, change your default shell to something more humane.
chsh root -s /bin/bash
chsh will -s /bin/bash
chsh django -s /bin/bash
(These changes won't be applied until you log in the next time.)
8. Give your account (but not Django) root permissions.
Then use the down arrow for find a line that looks like this:
root ALL=(ALL) ALL
Replicate that with your username:
root ALL=(ALL) ALL
will ALL=(ALL) ALL
9. Open a second terminal (leave the first one logged in while we keep configuring SSH, incase something goes horribly awry), and SSH in as your non-root user.
ssh will@
Verify it works, then exit back to your system.
10. Now it's time to setup password-less login. Return to your home system,
scp ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub will@
ssh will@
mkdir .ssh
mv id_dsa.pub .ssh/authorized_keys
chmod go-w ~/.ssh/authorized_keys ~/.ssh/
Now exit and ssh back in. You should have been logged in without needing to supply your password.
11. Now it's time to restrict ssh a bit.
sudo groupadd sshers
sudo usermod -a -Gsshers will
sudo emacs /etc/ssh/shhd_config
Make these changes:
#X11Forwarding yes
X11Forwarding no
And add these lines to the end of the file:
UseDNS no
AllowGroups sshers
Save the file, and then restart the ssh service.
sudo /etc/init.d/ssh restart
exit your VPS, and once again try logging back in. If that worked, again open /etc/ssh/sshd_config.
sudo emacs /etc/ssh/sshd_config
And append this line to the end of the file:
PasswordAuthentication no
And once again restart the ssh service.
sudo /etc/init.d/ssh restart
Finally, disable password access to the root account.
sudo passwd -l root
Now your VPS is only accessible through your approved account from machines with the correct SSH key.
12. Now it's time to start installing some general libraries.
sudo apt-get install subversion git-core gcc curl
sudo apt-get install python-egenix-mxdatetime memcached postfix
13. Now it's time to configure Postgres, first we need to grab some libraries.
sudo apt-get install postgresql-8.3 postgresql-server-dev-8.3
Rather than a typo, I really did need to run the above command twice for a successful installation.
Next we need to configure the postgres user.
sudo -u postgres psql template1
ALTER USER postgres WITH PASSWORD 'password';
(Make sure that you used a real password, rather than 'password' in the above example.)
We also need to modify Postgres' configuration file.
sudo emacs /etc/postgresql/8.3/main/pg_hba.conf
Move to the bottom of the file, and comment out (add a # at the beginning of the line) all lines which begin with host. (This prevents external access to your database.)
It should look like this:
# Database administrative login by UNIX sockets
local all postgres ident sameuser
# "local" is for Unix domain socket connections only
local all all password
# IPv4 local connections:
#host all all md5
# IPv6 local connections:
#host all all ::1/128 md5
Note that we switched ident sameuser to password for the second local line! Then restart Postgres to have it reload its settings.
sudo /etc/init.d/postgresql-8.3 restart
And there we have it, Postgres is setup and functioning.
14. And now it's time to setup memcached. This is a two part process. First we need to start memcached, which is very easy, and second we need to build cmemcache, which is a bit harder.
sudo memcached -u www-data -p 11211 -m 32 -d
That runs memcached on the standard port, with the standard www-data user (standard for Ubuntu, that is), with 32 megabytes of ram. You might want to allocate more, depending on how much data you're expecting to store in memcached, and the size of your VPS.
Next we need to setup cmemcache. First grab libmemcache,
sudo apt-get install libmemcache-dev
Next we actually build cmemcache.
su django
mkdir ~/libs/
cd ~/libs/
tar -xjvf cmemcache-0.95.tar.bz2
cd cmemcache-0.95
We'll need to actually install the library later when we setup our virtualenv.
If you are unable to install cmemcache, follow these instructions.
Alternatively, if you want to use the Python based python-memcached (runs a bit slower, but no C module to build and install), you can do that as follows.
wget ftp://ftp.tummy.com/pub/python-memcached/python-memcached-latest.tar.gz
tar -zxvf python-memcached-latest.tar
cd python-memcached-1.43
# later on use python setup.py install inside virtualenv
The preference for cmemcache is strictly based on speed. But python-memcached is still quite usable, and if the choice is between python-memcached and not running memcached as your caching backend, picking python-memcached is the clear winner.
15. Next it's time to setup Nginx, which is a lightweight server we'll use to serve static content as well as proxy requests to Apache21.
sudo apt-get install nginx
We can quickly verify that it installed correctly.
sudo /etc/init.d/nginx start
Should return:
<title>Welcome to nginx!</title>
Now we're going to modify the nginx.conf file a bit (based on the advice here).
sudo emacs /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
Right now we only need to make two minor changes, first change line 2 to use four worker processes,
worker_processes 4;
And next uncomment line 18,
tcp_nopush on;
We won't need to edit this file again, because of the last line,
include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*;
which makes it easy to declare site specific settings in their own files, and really cuts down on clutter in nginx.conf.
We also need to create a proxy.conf file, which is a common Nginx practice for keeping nginx.conf clean.
sudo emacs /etc/nginx/proxy.conf
Which should contain these lines:
# proxy.conf
proxy_redirect off;
proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
client_max_body_size 10m;
client_body_buffer_size 128k;
proxy_connect_timeout 90;
proxy_send_timeout 90;
proxy_read_timeout 90;
proxy_buffers 32 4k;
Finally, stop and start Nginx (I don't know if this is still the case with the current version of Nginx, but historically I've never gotten it to reload a configuration file with just a reload or restart).
sudo /etc/init.d/nginx stop
sudo /etc/init.d/nginx start
16. Now it's time to setup Apache2. First we grab the necessary libraries.
sudo apt-get install apache2 libapache2-mod-wsgi
Because we already have Nginx bound on port 80 it will throw a bit of a complaint
no listening sockets available, shutting down
Unable to open logs
But no worries, we're going to be alright.
The first thing we need to do is to setup Apache to run on the internal instead of on port 80.
sudo emacs /etc/apache2/ports.confg
Then modify these lines:
We also want to make a modification to apache2.conf:
sudo emacs /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
Search for KeepAlive (it's around line 77), and change its value as follows:
# KeepAlive On
KeepAlive Off
We do this because Nginx doesn't yet support the KeepAlive option. Now let's try starting Apache, again.
sudo apache2ctl start
Which may complain yet, again.
[Thu Feb 12 17:14:46 2009] [warn] NameVirtualHost has no VirtualHosts
But once, again, no worries, it's just a phase in the process.
17. Finally we get to actually grab Django. Switch over to the /home/django folder we created earlier, and it's time for us to create some folders.
su django
mkdir domains
mkdir libs
mkdir .python-eggs
Then let's do some permissions wrangling.
sudo chown django:www-data .python-eggs
sudo chmod g+w .python-eggs/
sudo usermod -a -G www-data django
sudo usermod -a -G www-data will
sudo chgrp -R www-data /home/django/domains
sudo chmod -R 2750 /home/django/domains
Then let's grab the Django source code.
cd libs
Normally this would be a great time to symlink the packages into /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages, but we're going to go a slightly different route instead and use virtualenv to encapsulate each of our projects.
sudo easy_install virtualenv
We'll take care of setting up virtualenv later, because it is done on a per-project basis.
18. Our last step of generic preparation is to remove the default sites for both Apache and Nginx. With properly configured setup files for Nginx/Apache (we'll get to those soon ;) you won't run into many situations where you are accidentally showing the default pages, but they often will be displayed when visiting the page directly via it's IP address.
While that isn't a terribly common event, it's probably undesirable nonetheless.
sudo rm /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/default
sudo rm /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/default
sudo rm /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default
You'll need to restart the server for the changes to take effect.
sudo /etc/init.d/nginx stop
sudo /etc/init.d/nginx start
sudo apache2ctl graceful
19. Now we're going to actually setup a Django project. You'll be able to follow this same process to setup any number of Django projects later.
1. First we need to create the folders for each domain. (I'll walk through this example using the domain substanceis.com, which was hosting an old project long since forgotten.)
cd /home/django/domains
mkdir substanceis.com
sudo mkdir -p substanceis.com/{public,log}
sudo mkdir substanceis.com/public/media
sudo chown -R django:www-data substanceis.com
Some people like to have private and backup directories as well. Feel free to add your own special spice.
• The public directory will be for publicly accessible files served by Nginx.
• The log directory will store the Apache and Nginx logs for the domain.
• We'll keep the project dir in the substanceis.com folder itself. (And the mod_wsgi config file in the project directory.)
2. Now we need to setup a virtual environment for the project. If you haven't experiment with virtualenv, it makes it easy to sandbox your projects, so that each project can have different versions of libraries (Django 0.97pre for one project, Django 1.1 for another, Pygments 0.6 for one project, Pygments 1.1 for another, etc).
This makes it an essential tool for developing or hosting multiple applications on one server.
Note that we previously downloaded Django from SVN into the folder /home/django/libs/django.
su django
cd ~/domains/substanceis.com
virtualenv --no-site-packages --unzip-setuptools substanceis.com
cd ~/libs/django
~/domains/substanceis.com/substanceis.com/bin/python setup.py install
cd ~/libs/cmemcache-0.95
You will also need to install psycopg2 (Python interface for Postgres).
cd domains/substanceis.com/substanceis.com/bin/
./easy_install egenix-mx-base
./easy_install psycopg2
For packages without easy_install or setup.py support, you can symlink them into the virtual environment's site-packages folder:
cd ~/libs/
ln -s `pwd`/some_app /home/django/domains/substanceis.com/substanceis.com/lib/python2.5/site-packages/
Now that we've done our installations, go ahead and test it out.
Then try importing it.
>>> import django
Whereas if you do that with the normal python:
You get a different experience:
>>> import django
Traceback (most recent call last):
ImportError: No module named django
Now that we're done setting up the virtualenv go ahead and exit the django user.
3. Next we need to create an Nginx virtual host for the domain.
sudo emacs /etc/nginx/sites-available/substanceis.com
If you wish to strip www from your domain, you should begin the file with this server directive:
You'll need to update to be the IP address of your VPS/server.
server {
server_name www.substanceis.com;
rewrite ^/(.*) http://substanceis.com/$1 permanent;
Regardless, the remainder of the file should be in this format:
server {
server_name www.substanceis.com substanceis.com;
access_log /home/django/domains/substanceis.com/log/access.log;
error_log /home/django/domains/substanceis.com/log/error.log;
location / {
include /etc/nginx/proxy.conf;
location /media/ {
root /home/django/domains/substanceis.com/public/;
expires 1d;
Note that if your static media changes frequently, then you'll want to remove the expires 1d setting. That adds a header saying that such content will not change for the next day, which means that the browser won't try to refetch it for that period of time.
This means faster page loads for your users, and lower server load for you. If you want the benefits of future expires, but have frequently changing media, then the standard solution is to add a version number for your media files (me.1.png, me.2.png, etc). django-compress provides some support for automating the versioning process for JavaScript and CSS files (and is highly recommended).
Next we need to let Nginx know that the site is enabled, by symlinking it from sites-available to sites-enabled.
sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/substanceis.com /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/substanceis.com
Finally you'll need to stop and start Nginx before Nginx knows that this virtual environment exists.
sudo /etc/init.d/nginx stop
sudo /etc/init.d/nginx start
And you're done configuring Nginx.
4. Now let's quickly create a default Django project.
su django
cd ~/domains/substanceis.com/
./substanceis.com/bin/python substanceis.com/bin/django-admin.py startproject hello
5. Link the Django admin media into the public/media/ folder.
sudo ln -s /home/django/domains/substanceis.com/substanceis.com/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/media /home/django/domains/substanceis.com/public/media/admin
Then update the ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX setting in your hello/settings.py file
sudo emacs /home/django/domains/substanceis.com/hello/settings.py
to look like this
#ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX = '/media/'
ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX = '/media/admin/'
6. Next let's create a Postgres database for this project to use.
sudo su postgres
createuser -P pg_substanceis
# should not be a superuser
# should not be able to create databases
# should not be able to create more new roles
createdb --encoding=UNICODE db_substanceis -O pg_substanceis
Then we need to update the settings.py file with the proper settings.
sudo emacs hello/settings.py
And modify the DATABASE_* fields to look like this:
DATABASE_ENGINE = 'postgresql_psycopg2'
DATABASE_NAME = 'db_substanceis'
DATABASE_USER = 'pg_substanceis'
DATABASE_PASSWORD = '123456789'
DATABASE_HOST = ''
DATABASE_PORT = ''
Finally let's try to sync the database to verify that we got the settings correct.
~/domains/substanceis.com/substanceis.com/bin/python hello/manage.py syncdb
Assuming you entered your username, database and password correctly you should see something familiar.
Creating table auth_permission
Creating table auth_group
Creating table auth_user
Creating table auth_message
Creating table django_content_type
Creating table django_session
Creating table django_site
7. Our next step is to setup the project to memcached as its caching backend.
sudo emacs hello/settings.py
And add these settings:
CACHE_BACKEND = 'memcached://'
CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX = 'sis' # SubstanceIS
You'll have to decide what values of CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS and CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ANONYMOUS_ONLY are appropriate for the particular project you're configuring. There is more information available here.
The value of CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX should be unique for each project using memcached.
8. After a tremendous journey, we reach the final step: configuring mod_wsgi and Apache to serve our project.
sudo emacs /home/django/domains/substanceis.com/hello/hello.wsgi
And add this code to hello.wsgi:
ALLDIRS = ['/home/django/domains/substanceis.com/substanceis.com/lib/python2.5/site-packages']
# note that the above directory depends on the locale of your virtualenv,
# and will thus be *different for each project!*
import os
import sys
import site
prev_sys_path = list(sys.path)
for directory in ALLDIRS:
new_sys_path = []
for item in list(sys.path):
if item not in prev_sys_path:
sys.path[:0] = new_sys_path
# this will also be different for each project!
os.environ['PYTHON_EGG_CACHE'] = '/home/django/.python-eggs'
os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = 'settings'
import django.core.handlers.wsgi
application = django.core.handlers.wsgi.WSGIHandler()
Next we need to create a virtual host for our domain.
sudo emacs /etc/apache2/sites-available/substanceis.com
And add this VirtualHost definition.
ServerName www.substanceis.com
ServerAlias substanceis.com
<Directory /home/django/domains/substanceis.com/hello/>
Order deny,allow
Allow from all
LogLevel warn
ErrorLog /home/django/domains/substanceis.com/log/apache_error.log
CustomLog /home/django/domains/substanceis.com/log/apache_access.log combined
WSGIDaemonProcess substanceis.com user=www-data group=www-data threads=25
WSGIProcessGroup substanceis.com
WSGIScriptAlias / /home/django/domains/substanceis.com/hello/hello.wsgi
And finally enable substanceis.com.
sudo ln -s /etc/apache2/sites-available/substanceis.com /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/substanceis.com
And restart Apache2 to have it pick up the new site.
sudo apache2ctl graceful
You can repeat these steps to host as many projects as you want.
Some Additional Options
At this point your mod_wsgi server is setup and fully functional, but here are a couple of suggestions for things you might want to do with your fresh server.
1. At the moment if you go to your VPS's ip address, then you'll notice that it isn't serving anything at all. For most people that is probably the correct behavior, but you might want to serve a static page when they reach your VPS via its IP address (also, you can do the same thing to serve static content for some of your domains, rather than a full Django project).
First we need to create some folders
sudo mkdir /home/django/domains/default
sudo mkdir -p /home/django/domains/default/{public,logs}
Then create an index page
sudo emacs /home/django/domains/default/public/index.html
with this html
<body><p>Hi. Welcome to my default site.</p></body>
Now we need to configure the Nginx site
sudo emacs /etc/nginx/sites-available/default
with these settings (you'll need to change to your VPS's ip address):
server {
listen 80;
access_log /home/django/domains/default/log/access.log;
error_log /home/django/domains/default/log/error.log;
location / {
root /home/django/domains/default/public;
index index.html;
Then symlink it into the sites-enabled folder.
sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/default /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default
And finally we need to stop-start nginx.
sudo /etc/init.d/nginx stop
sudo /etc/init.d/nginx start
Now if you navigate to your VPS's ip address in a browser, you'll see your static site. (Note that browsers typically limit the number of concurrent http connections to one domain, so you can speed up page load for heavy pages by using these steps to setup a media only subdomain--media.example.com, etc--for your Django sites and serving static media from them instead of the same domain as your site.)
2. One of the most helpful packages around is PIL, which supports a wide variety of image manipulation techniques. It's also used by some pieces of Django. It seems to be improperly packaged for installation with easy_install, but it is still straightforward to install.
su django
cd ~/libs
wget http://effbot.org/downloads/Imaging-1.1.6.tar.gz
tar -xzvf Imaging-*
cd Imaging-1.1.6
/domains/substanceis.com/substanceis.com/bin/python setup.py install
And now the substanceis.com virtual environment will have access to the Image module:
>>> import Image
3. The more Django development you do, the more you'll be creating pluggable applications and reusing those made by others, so it's a good process to be familiar with. So let's take a few moments to install a couple common reusable Django applications developed by the Django community.
One of the downsides of using virtualenv is that you'll need to install pluggable apps into each of your environments one at a time. Of course, it also means that you can freeze a production site to use a certian version of a pluggable app while another plunges ahead into the unknown.
It is important to note the benefits of installing with setup.py or easy_install in conjunction with virtualenv. It means that you'll get a frozen copy of the code, and even if you update the source code later on, the environments won't be running different code.
On the other hand, if you're actively developing code, then you would be better off symlinking the code into the environment's site-packages directory so that you don't have to redeploy the code on changes.
Both approaches have their place, just be careful to use them appropriately.
First let's install django-compress, which I mentioned earlier and helps automating the merging and compression of JavaScript and CSS files.
su django
cd /django/home/libs
sudo svn checkout http://django-compress.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ django-compress
cd django-compress
Now let's make sure it's usable.
Then within Python try
>>> import compress
As long as you don't get an error, then it installed correctly.
Next let's install django-faq, which is a pluggable application for creating faqs on websites (managable via the Django admin).
Just for fun, let's symlink it in (more convenient for active development) instead of using setup.py.
cd /django/home/libs
sudo git clone git://github.com/RockHoward/django-faq.git
cd django-faq
ln -s `pwd`/faq /home/django/domains/substanceis.com/substanceis.com/lib/python2.5/site-packages
Finally let's install django-mailer, which supplements Django with a more robust mailing framework.
cd /django/home/libs
sudo svn checkout http://django-mailer.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ django-mailer
cd django-mailer
sudo ln -s `pwd`/mailer /home/django/domains/substanceis.com/substanceis.com/lib/python2.5/site-packages
Wait, is it okay to recommend one of my projects? Ok. You should consider taking a look at django-monetize, which supports dynamically serving different kinds of advertisements (and requests for donations, etc) based on a page's context.
cd /django/home/libs
sudo git clone git://github.com/lethain/django-monetize.git
cd django-monetize
sudo ln -s `pwd`/django_monetize /home/django/domains/substanceis.com/substanceis.com/lib/python2.5/site-packages
Moving past these pluggable apps, there are also a number of projects which have expanded to be something akin to mini-frameworks on top of Django. They provide a great amount of functionality, but often at the expense of somewhat non-standard installation patterns.
Two of the more popular are the social framework Pinax ( installation ), and the webshop platform Satchmo ( installation ).
4. Another thing I like doing is to use my VPS as a Git repository, which is--thanks to the manifold joys of DVCS--unexpectedly simple.
mkdir git
mkdir git/scripts
cd git/scripts
echo "# a test" > test.py
git init --bare
Then exit your VPS and return to your machine. From your home machine you can clone that repository by using SSH.
mkdir my_repo
cd my_repo
git init
echo "a test" > test.py
git add test.py
git commit -m "Initial commit."
git remote add origin ssh://
git push origin master
Note that using the --bare keyword means that repository will keep all its files in its .git folder, so you won't be able directly interact with your files in that hosted repository. If you do want to interact with the files from that git repository on your machine, you should git clone from the origin repository and then push and pull like you normally would.
(If you're wanting to use Git as a mechanism for pushing code for your Django projects, you might want to read up about using something like Fabric.)
5. Although admittedly not as glamorous as being a Djangonaut, there are a number of situations where you may want Apache to also run some php scripts for you.
sudo apt-get install php5
sudo apache2ctl graceful
Then just place .php files in a directory served by Apache (not by Nginx), and they'll be executed. You'll probably want a combination of the Django and static Nginx configuration files that we've put together through the course of this walkthrough.
These articles draw heavily from my previous nginx+apache+mod_python+django and lighttpd+apache+mod_python+django articles from last year, but have taken advantage of new resources as well.
1. The mod_wsgi page on Google Code is a great launching point.
2. As is the mod_wsgi page on integrating with Django.
3. Setting up Nginx Virtual Hosts on Ubuntu.
4. A full example of an Nginx config file.
5. Setting up mod_wsgi with Django.
6. Having Nginx serve ip addresses.
7. Using virtualenv with mod_wsgi.
Many thanks to those who created these above resources that made this all possible.
Updated 2/13: Virtual Env
Tom Schreiber mentioned that virtualenv is a great tool for developing multiple projects with differing versions of libraries, and on his recommendation I updated the walkthrough to include it. Thanks Tom!
Updated, Again 2/13: Misc. Tweaks
A helpful Redditor pointed out some ways for improving. Particularly using chsh for changing shells (instead of manually editing the /etc/passwd file), and having Apache listen only to instead of binding to *:8080, which makes it externally accessible, and having Nginx listen to external-ip:80 instead of *:80.
1. Hey kids, did you know that Nginx is pronounced "engine x". I sure as hell didn't. I actually had a coworker tell me how it was pronounced a while ago, but without seeing "engine x" written it never quite worked for me. Now I get it. Finally.
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What I am loving is my GoogleDocs account. I'm doing my lesson plans on there this year, and I like that the documents are available no matter what computer I use and where I am (home or school).
What's going on so far:
geometry - we just learned CPCTC. I'm following the curriculum I taught in New Jersey, and we're doing flow proofs. I think those are more logical than 2 column proofs, and it shows me and the students what statements are needed and how for what conclusions.
algebra 1 - we have just covered patterns and linking them to tables, graphs, rules, and descriptions using tiles. I moved away from tiles the 2nd day, and wanted them to find rules and use the rules without drawing pictures, and I like the problems I gave them. Sample:
Suppose 13 15 17 19 21 ... is a sequence of "tiles.
a. Let "13" be the 1st figure in the sequence, write the rule.
b. Let "13" be the 5th figure in the sequence, write the rule.
c. Let "13" be the 20th figure in the sequence, without counting backwards, write the rule.
d. Let "13" be the 100th figure in the sequence, write the rule.
e. For "a.", suppose you have used 51 tiles, what figure number are you at?
f. For "a.", suppose you have 200 tiles to use, what's the maximum figure number you can create?
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All 6 tracks on the EP are strong with no sign of weakness (watch the video below to hear samples of each track). With so many top tracks to choose from picking my favourites was difficult. However, both ‘Last Nights Stains’ and ‘Look.See.Don’t.Trip’ stand out with their high energy crazy good time sound.
The guys are currently busy playing lots of gigs and promoting the EP but they spared me some time to answer a few questions. This is what they had to say.
Kismet Ryding? How did the band’s name come about as it sounds unusual.
‘Kismet means fate/destiny and due to the natural way that things flowed, including even how we became a band, we joked that we were "riding" fate.’
How would you describe the bands sound?
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Scala: Is it possible to constrain a type parameter to be non abstract?
Are any other constraints possible except view bounds, upper bounds and lower bounds for type parameters and abstract type members? In C# for example, which I'm familiar with, you have the additional generic constraints:
where T: Class //Not sure if this covered in Scala by T<: AnyRef
where T: interface
where T: struct
where U: T //naked type constraint
where T: new () //This ensures that a type parameter is non-abstract and allows one to instantiate an object of the type in the generic class.
The last one is particularly important as it allows you to construct your unknown type, although its a shame you can only proscribe a parameterless constructor.
Can =:= <:< and <%< only be used on method parameters?
In response to the comments, the immediate trigger for the question was the need for a "T: new()" restraint or some equivalent mechanism.
class ExampleClass[T <: AnyRef] {
val example: T = new T()//Won't compile as the compiler
} //doesn't know if such a constructor exists
The uses of some of the C# constraints are particular to the needs of C#. For example one restraint that you don't have in C# that people are always wanting is "T: numericType" That issue is already solved in Scala. I'm still very much boot strapping my way up the Scala language, so aside from the above, I was just trying to clarify exactly what tools are and are not available to me in this facet of Scala syntax, even though I don't know yet exactly how I might want to use them in the Scala context.
I'm not sure if this is fully related but sometimes it seems the compiler (Eclipse 2.1.0.M1 with Eclipse 3.7.2) won't let me instantiate collections of unknown element type. The following code now seems to compiles fine. So I'd like to know what the rules are:
abstract class Descrip [T <: DTypes]()
val hexs: MutableList[T#HexT] = new MutableList[T#HexT] //compiles fine
val sides: MutableList[T#SideT] = new MutableList[T#SideT] //compiles fine
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It's not clear what your question even means. Can you please include some examples? – missingfaktor May 24 '12 at 6:27
Question edited for clarity – Rich Oliver May 24 '12 at 10:21
Thanks for this interesting question. Could you also give some practical examples where these constrains are useful? – DaveFar May 24 '12 at 10:27
@DaveBall Edited again in response. – Rich Oliver May 24 '12 at 11:55
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The need of new T() is normally resolved by using Manifests. For example this code compiles:
class ExampleClass[T: Manifest] {
val example: T = manifest[T].erasure.newInstance().asInstanceOf[T]
The drawback is that if the T for which ExampleClass is instantiated doesn't have a no-arg constructor it will fail at runtime...
Regarding Numeric, Ordering, etc., they are type classes and are part of the standard library, not part of the language. You can build your own type classes. The case of Manifest is special because it do have support from the language to provide the implicit object.
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I haven't looked into Manifests. I didn't know they could be used for that purpose but there doesn't seem much point in learning about them as they're depreciated in 2.10. I have no idea it type tags can replace them for this purpose. – Rich Oliver May 25 '12 at 0:34
I still have to study the new additions for Scala 2.10, in particular the reflection API. Don't know how mature it is at this time, but I'd say that given that is a very new feature, going with Manifest is not a "too bad" decision for now... Maybe you should ask for the right Manifest replacement for Scala 2.10 in the scala-user mailing list. – gerferra May 25 '12 at 20:11
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I would like to compare two histograms by having the Y axis show the percentage of each column from the overall dataset size instead of an absolute value. Is that possible? I am using Pandas and matplotlib. Thanks
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Add normed=True to your plt.hist(). – Rutger Kassies Jul 26 at 6:26
Thanks! for some reason that option is not documented at pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/dev/generated/… . I am however getting values on the Y axis that are equal and great than 1 (e.g., 1.4). Any idea how that's possible? My intuition was that once normalized the values should be between 0-1. – d1337 Jul 26 at 7:38
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The normed=True returns a histogram for which np.sum(pdf * np.diff(bins)) equals 1. If you want the sum of the histogram to be 1 you can use Numpy's histogram() and normalize the results yourself.
x = np.random.randn(30)
fig, ax = plt.subplots(1,2, figsize=(10,4))
ax[0].hist(x, normed=True, color='grey')
hist, bins = np.histogram(x)
ax[1].bar(bins[:-1], hist.astype(np.float32) / hist.sum(), width=(bins[1]-bins[0]), color='grey')
ax[1].set_title('hist = hist / hist.sum()')
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Btw: Strange plotting glitch at the first bin of the left plot.
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Great, thanks!! – d1337 Jul 26 at 10:18
awesome (and such a good example of how to use subfigures, too) – Caroline Alexiou Nov 12 at 11:51
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