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Creativity in Blogs and Music
Creativity in Blogs and Music
[EDIT UPDATE: I meant to mention men and women, gentle readers, that a relative of avant garde composer John Cage telephoned me last night, right before my own music composing session.
Cage wrote often of "chance operations" that result in art and anecdotes. A double coincidence: I had just downloaded the rare album "John Cage meets Sun Ra" (two of my favorite odd musicians) from Ubu Web.
This relative, guy named Jerry Davis, is researching my relative, one Howard Streight, who apparently was a modestly famous artist. I have had a link to info about Howard on my Art Test Explosion site, for over a year now. That's how he tracked me down, a living relative of the artist he was researching. A link that paid off.
See? You need lots of links in your blog or web site, for added value to your readers.]
I don't intend to turn this web usability blog into a "music blog", nor should you even care what music I like, but I pass on these items in the spirit of revealing my creative processes and productions.
The hope is that this information on music, legal music downloading, and free avant garde music downloads inspires you, if not actually able to please or guide you. Your ultimate practical benefit is in mind, as always.
Creativity in blogs and music are very intimately connected for me, in my own ultra-personal life. I listen to all kinds of music as I work on the computer, right now I'm listening to new favorite unknown genius artist: RENE VIS.
At the Rene Vis music web site,
Rene offers several albums for individual song downloads.
I plan to download all of it.
His instrumentals ("Arvytronics" oddly called) are not quite as strong, judging from the few I've heard, as his vocal-music mixes. The non-vocal material seems to be just "okay" techno type jams.
But his vocal songs!
These jingle jangles remind me of a delightful blend of The Residents electro juiciness, Severed Heads triumphant synthesizer stampedes, Joy Division or New Order melodic rock, and Pearls Before Swine psychedelic folk. I"ve downloaded "Captured in Realica", "Train is Passing", "They don't know what I am about" albums entirely or partially, so far.
Songs by Rene Vis that are highly recommended: "Back to Radio", "Honesty Got Lots of Spies", "War Machines Remix", "Honey Lips and Fingertips", "They don't know what I am about", "Over the Mountains", "How Many Songs", "Swansborough Bridge", "Black Vinyl", "Creatures of Conscience", "Teen-ager Man-ager", "Friday Night Forever", "Land of Fun", "Captured in Realica", "Fishes in a Tree"...
...I could go on and on.
If you like bouncy, juicy sythesizer rock, with often very profound and funny lyrics, you can count on Rene Vis to deliver. Innovative and highly enjoyable. Songs that you'll want to repeat play over and over, LOUD. Yeah buddy.
Even if you don't like the music I like or make, still, you can learn something from, for example, song and album titles, or CD cover art. I mean, you can actually learn from, or be inspired by, art in other realms.
Creative process in blogging is similar to what it is anywhere else, in music, cooking, sewing, sculpture, literature, horticulture, painting, mothering, architecture, birding, chess, engineering, sales, marketing.
You familiarize yourself witht the currently most popular *and* the early pioneers and historically acclaimed geniuses. Do NOT stick with only one or the other.
I suggest you balance historical pioneer familiarity with attention to contemporary, popular successes in your field. That will prevent you from being a mere imitative opportunistic dabbler, or a purely theoretical ivory tower aloof bore.
Last night, from about 10PM to 4AM, I worked on a new Steven Streight CompuMusik, my name for what I do when I mutilate sonic electric air.
Why "Audacity Crash Analysis music"?
I had to play re-booter all night long with this. So this is a true "bootleg" recording, requiring constant re-starting of the sound studio.
My Audacity audio editor tool, is a free download that I'm just learning how to work. I can already, intuitively, usually make it do most of what I want to do. But what happened last night?
The goofy thing kept crashing 9 out of 10 times I tried to add an effect on a segment of the sound path.
I suspect that my virtual memory is low for all that I try to do simultaneously. So I close out any windows I'm not using, rather than minimizing them for fast display. I need to defragment my hard drive, empty recycle bin, clean up unused desktop icons, delete cookies, and whatever else I can think of to free up space.
Suggestions from my betters are always welcome.
And, crabby obsessive that I am, I kept forcing it to obey me, over and over and over we struggled like Jacob and the Angel, and the invisible cosmic conflict resulted, through much anguish, and not a few actual pagan cuss words, in my new album.
Steven Streight CompuMusik
"Christian Noise Metaphysics"
1. inside the thought cube (3:47)
2. digital angel jazz piece (4:53)
3. ethereal nature setting (7:35)
4. mental exploration zone (5:04)
5. spiritual swarm attack mode (2:05)
6. life pulsations booster (1:46)
7. filibration-2 (2:52)
8. the day is bright (4:08)
9. desert monk meditation (7:38)
10. the glow (3:18)
11. returnity (16:01)
SSC-003, this third one is all instrumental, no voice, and is far more melodic, songy, softer, gentler than the others, the previous two Audacity-powered computer music albums I recorded a week days ago ("universings" SSC-001 and "New Sounds of Electricity" SSC-002).
I'm working as hard and fast as I can to get MP3s of SSCM music on this blog, hosted at Archives dot org, on Ubu Web, and so forth.
What I hope everyone, all my readers get out of this post, is how to aggressively make art come true, how to assist it in its struggle to survive, how to promote it and describe it, how to tantalize and satisfy.
[signed] Steven Streight aka Vaspers the Grate
1 comment:
René Vis said...
Hi Steven,
Thanks for your visit to my website and positive review. For any creative person it's always good to read the opinion of someone else on his own work, may it be positive or negative. In my believe you never can listen 100% objective to your own music.
And about Arvy Tronics (R.V. Tronics, you see?): Indeed, that's not really my cup of tea. It was merely a try-out about a year ago. In the near future I might use parts of some Arvy-tracks in other compositions.
At the moment I'm working on some new songs, with titles such as "Your Habbit" and "Rosa Parks". I'll keep you (and hopefully others too) informed through my website.
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Svalbard is an archipelago in the Arctic that constitutes the northernmost part of Norway. It is located about 400 miles north of mainland Europe, midway between mainland Norway and the North Pole. The group of islands range from 74° to 81° north latitude (inside the Arctic Circle) and from 10° to 35° east longitude. Spitsbergen is the largest island, followed by Nordaustlandet and Edgeøya. Svalbard is located in the north-western corner of the Eurasian Plate. To the south and east, the seabed is shallow at , while to the north and west it sinks down to about . North of Svalbard there is pack ice and the North Pole, and to the south mainland Norway. The Russian archipelago Franz Josef Land and Novaya Zemlya are located to the east, Greenland is to the west.[1]
The administrative center is Longyearbyen. Other settlements include the active Russian mining community of Barentsburg; the abandoned Russian mining settlement of Pyramiden (originally founded by the Swedish); the research community of Ny-Ålesund; and the Swedish mining outpost of Sveagruva. The archipelago is administered by the Governor of Svalbard, whose authority is granted by the Norwegian government.
The islands were first used as a whaling base in the 17th and 18th centuries. Several species of whales were hunted to near-extinction and whaling eventually ceased. Coal mining began in the early 1900s, and several permanent communities were established. The Svalbard Treaty of 1920 recognizes Norwegian sovereignty, and the 1925 Svalbard Act made Svalbard a full part of the Kingdom of Norway. This act also established Svalbard as a free economic zone and a demilitarized zone. The Norwegian Store Norske and the Russian Arktikugol are the only mining companies remaining on the islands. Research and tourism have become important supplementary industries. Two major research facilities are the University Centre in Svalbard and the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. No roads connect the settlements; instead snowmobiles, aircraft and boats serve inter-community transport. Svalbard Airport, Longyear serves as the main gateway to the rest of Europe.
The treaty defines Svalbard as all islands, islets and skerries from 74° to 81° north latitude, and from 10° to 35° east longitude. The land area is , and dominated by the island Spitsbergen, which constitutes more than half the archipelago, followed by Nordaustlandet and Edgeøya.[2] All settlements are located on Spitsbergen, except the meteorological outposts on Bjørnøya and Hopen.[3] The Norwegian state took possession of all unclaimed land, or 95.2% of the archipelago, at the time the Svalbard Treaty entered into force; Store Norske owns 4%, Arktikugol owns 0.4%, while other private owners hold 0.4%.[4]
Since Svalbard is located north of the Arctic Circle it experiences both midnight sun in summer and polar night in winter. At 74° north, the midnight sun lasts 99 days and polar night 84 days, while the respective figures at 81° are 141 and 128 days. In Longyearbyen, midnight sun lasts from 20 April until 23 August, and polar night lasts from 26 October to 15 February.[5] In winter, the combination of full moon and reflective snow can give additional light.[6]
Glaciation covers or 60% of Svalbard; 30% is barren rock while 10% is vegetated. The largest glacier is Austfonna on Nordaustlandet, followed by Olav V Land and Vestfonna. During summer, it is possible to ski from Sørkapp in the south to the north of Spitsbergen, with only a short distance not being covered by snow or glacier. Kvitøya is 99.3% covered by glacier.
The landforms of Svalbard were created through repeated ice ages, where glaciers cut the former plateau into fjords, valleys and mountains. The tallest peak is Newtontoppen, followed by Perriertoppen, Ceresfjellet, Chadwickryggen and Galileotoppen. The longest fjord is Wijdefjorden, followed by Isfjorden, Van Mijenfjorden, Woodfjorden and Wahlenbergfjorden. Svalbard is part of the High Arctic Large Igneous Province, and experienced Norway's strongest earthquake on 6 March 2009, which hit 6.5 on the Richter scale.
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During the Cold War, the Soviet Union retained about two-thirds of the population on the islands (with a third being Norwegians) with the archipelago's population slightly under 4,000.[7] Russian activity has diminished considerably since then, falling from 2,500 to 450 people from 1990 to 2010. Grumant was closed after it was depleted in 1962.[7] Pyramiden was closed in 1998, and since 2006, no coal has been exported from Barentsburg.[8] The Russian community has also experienced two air accidents, Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801, which killed 141 people, and the Heerodden helicopter accident.
Longyearbyen remained a pure company town until 1989, when utilities, culture and education was separated into Svalbard Samfunnsdrift. In 1993, it was sold to the national government, and the University Centre was established. Through the 1990s, tourism increased and the town developed an economy independent of Store Norske and the mining.[9] Longyearbyen was incorporated on 1 January 2002, receiving a community council.[10]
How places in Svalbard are organized
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Slice of Light
Literally anyone can pick up a camera and take a snapshot. Most can even take a pretty good snapshot. But to take a photograph requires a bit more. A photograph does not document, or if it does, it does so only accidentally. The photographer must not seek to capture a scene, a moment, an object, a person. The photographer, as against the snapshootist, extracts a narrow, carefully delimited slice of light. The skill with which he carves makes him a technician. The slice he selects makes him an artist.
Draw Something III
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Compare & Contrast
Our first production assignment in film school was to film and edit together a silent short, then give it a soundtrack that completely altered the emotional response of the viewer. It was a demonstration of the equally-matched emotional power of picture and sound. It was a challenging exercise. Today, I present you with two videos, both of which use nearly the same soundtrack, but with different pictures. This inverts the exercise. Watch them both, then tell me how each made you feel. Don’t think too much, and don’t try to limit yourself by thinking which is better. Just watch and [ . . . ]
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Incompetent Industrials II
Here’s a particularly bad one from a company by which I once was employed.
Incompetent Industrials I
Remember when you worked at that company? And they made you watch those cheesy industrial videos about sexual harassment in the workplace? You know, the one you slept through because it was so awful? Did you ever wonder why they’re so awful? Because the producers realize their target audience is an uninterested but captive one, so they try to overcompensate for the general lack of enthusiasm for these things. They are uniformly heinous, but some are more heinous than others. Here’s one touting Microsoft’s SP1 for Vista: If you have any awful industrial videos, send them to or post them [ . . . ]
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Music you can't hear in Outerspace
with Andrea Lee
other shows
Sunday, October 12, 2008
19:00 to 21:00
Artist Song Album Label New Request Comp
speckled red blues hurt my tongue to talk blues piano orgy delmark
tartit tabey tarate 20 ways to float through walls crammed discs
frankie hill the gift shrew'd: nz women's music flying nun records C
tom waits i don't want to grow up bone machine island R
jennifer o'conner here with me here with me matador
dania el hilwa di globalista: import - export trikont C
yan hristova stankova, elena petrova kefalova, magda georgieva visheva tsar murat mara dumashe in the shadow of the mountain nonesuch
mikveh vos vet zayn klezmer revolution rough guide * C
esperanza spalding espera esperanza heads up
bessie smith back water blues news and the blues: telling it like it is columbia C
mighty joe young as the years go passing by mighty joe young blind pig records
os mutantes a minha menina os mutantes omplatten
sun ra untitled some blues but not the kind thats blue unheard music
nick drake river man five leaves left rykodisc
v/a janger bali - folk music auvidis C
selda yaylalar selda finders keepers
pimp rubiah sri mersing folk and pop sounds of sumatra vol. 1 sublime frequencies
najma akhtar dil laga ya tha quareeb shanachie
huun-huur-tu sygyt: "lament of the igil" 60 horses in my head shanachie
barbara white in the castle when the smoke clears composer's recordings
mighty walker brothers god been good to me good god! a gospel funk hymnal numero group
mlimani park orchestra firkini nisamehe sikinde: tanzanie dance bands vol. 1 monsun
jimmy reed you don't have to go the new jimmy reed album abc records
hassan hakmoun and zahar soulalahoalih hassan hakmoun and zahar real world
detty kurina sunayama dari sunda riverboat
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0.027115 | <urn:uuid:946665d0-de1d-4a55-8670-105885e23fbc> | en | 0.969775 | Your Source for Concealed Carry Information Wed, 04 Dec 2013 20:36:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Benefits of Indoor and Outdoor Shooting Ranges Wed, 13 Nov 2013 18:09:04 +0000
Shooting Outdoors_You Can CarryWhen I first started shooting several years ago, I was a little nervous about going to an indoor shooting range. I wasn’t sure what the proper procedure was and it seemed like a pretty intimidating place. I had been outdoors with some friends and had a blast, but trying to break into shooting on my own after that was intimidating. Even if I wanted to go outdoors I was unsure exactly where I was allowed to shoot when there wasn’t a formal range–so other than the one single place I knew a lot of other people went shooting, I wasn’t confident in going on my own anywhere else. I’ve learned a lot over the years and one of the things that I have determined is that for me I am a more effective shooter if I go to more than one type of shooting range. For recreational or target shooting a single range is great, but for training to use a handgun for self-defense I found that I needed to shoot in different types of environments. Obviously every range is different so if you can get all the benefits from a single range then that’s even better–for me, without spending a ton of money I’ve found that going to indoor ranges, outdoor ranges, and just shooting outdoors all combine to make me a better shooter and more prepared for using my gun should the need arise to defend myself or my family.
Indoor Shooting Ranges
Indoor ranges are great for honing in your target skills and building muscle memory for the mechanics of shooting. You get good feedback on where your shots are going and can make adjustments as you go. Fire a few rounds at a paper target, then bring the target back and see how you did. You can slow down to work on your shooting mechanics and then speed up as you improve, keeping a good balance between accuracy and speed. You also get a lot of relatively loud gunshots from other shooters coming from both directions so it helps you focus on your shots even amidst other distractions. Many ranges also allow you to rent handguns so you can get experience with different guns. On the downside, the rules (and setup) of indoor ranges usually prohibit any moving and drawing a handgun from a holster, thus reducing some of the “real-life” training element. You can be the best shot in the world, but if you can’t draw your firearm from a holster quickly you’ll never get off a shot at an attacker. Some ranges do have interactive targets where you can get this added element of reality in your training, but it usually costs significantly more and the standard indoor range with regular booths do not have them. Another downside is the overall cost of indoor ranges is usually significantly higher than outdoor ranges.
Outdoor Shooting Ranges
When you go outdoors, there’s two types of ranges that I’m referring to, the first being an actual range. Usually these outdoor ranges have benches under a pavilion with standing targets that you can post your targets to. Sometimes they have a range officer there and sometimes they do not. Some have full retail shops on the property and some others just have a deposit box where you can submit payment for using the range. Often you follow similar rules as an indoor range, but some can be less strict, sometimes allowing you to move and draw from a holster. Many of these outdoor ranges are run by the local city or state.
The other type of outdoor “range” is simply public land where you are allowed to shoot (or private land you have permission to use for shooting). There are no benches, pavilions, or even target stands. It’s just me and the mountains (and probably 50 other random shooting buddies I don’t know if I go to a popular area on public land). This environment allows you to perform more movement and drawing from a holster while shooting, and allows more realistic training. When you go outdoors there are no established rules and no range officer to monitor the shooters. Only standard etiquette and safety procedures, which is different for each group of shooters. When going outdoors, shooters should be extremely vigilant in monitoring the environment to be sure it is safe. Not that you aren’t responsible for safety at formal ranges, but without defined lines and rules some other people out there may not make the best decisions.
Indoor vs. Outdoor Ranges
When choosing which ranges to go to there are several things to consider. First, the practices and safety of the staff and shooters at the range. The last thing I would want to do is go to a range where un-safe practices are common. I like to work on my shooting fundamentals and mechanics at an indoor range where I can get direct feedback on how well I’m shooting. Hitting a piece of paper allows me to see where my groupings are and make adjustments to hone in my shooting skills. Then I like to take those skills outdoors so I can work on drawing from a holster and moving while shooting. This adds some reality to my training. Shooting outdoors is also usually a hit/miss response. Either you hit the target or you didn’t. You don’t get a lot of feedback for where you missed, but hits are more noticeable and the response is more immediate if you are using cans/bottles/fruit/etc. as targets. You get to see a can fly off the stand or see the explosion of a bottle when you hit it. Combining both the indoor and outdoor range you can be more complete and well rounded as a shooter, better preparing you for a self-defense shooting.
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Where are all the concealed carry heroes? Mon, 07 Oct 2013 17:20:47 +0000
Guns are Welcome on PremisesLast December, Paul Smalera (an editor for sent out the following tweet that I’ve seen floating around the last year without a reply. I’ve seen it re-tweeted and quoted enough that I think it warrants a reply now almost a year later:
Understanding that tweets are sometimes hard to convey complicated thoughts (140 characters just isn’t that many) I may be reading into the tweet more (or less) than was intended. The main assumption is that permit holders are supposed to stop mass shootings. The tweet implies that concealed carry permit holders don’t stop mass shootings and so they don’t work and/or should be eliminated. While I agree that permit holders MAY use their permit to stop a would-be mass murderer, that isn’t the point of the permit. When I first applied for my Utah CFP I didn’t think to myself that I was getting my permit so that I might someday be put in a position where a mass murderer was about to start his rampage through a public area and then I could take him out with my handgun sniper skills. What I did think about when I applied for my permit is my family. I thought about the numerous situations that could lead to me and my family being in danger where a firearm could help. So discounting all concealed carry permit holders because they don’t do something that most permit holders don’t intend on doing is just silly. And to argue that concealed carry permit holders do not protect their own lives or the lives of their family members on a regular basis would also be silly.
But that’s not all. Think about this. His question is asking something that we simply don’t know the answer to. He wants to know if concealed firearm permit holders have stopped gunmen before they go on a mass shooting rampage. This isn’t really a claim that can be proven either way because you never really can know if you stopped a mass shooting before it happened. Just three days before this tweet was sent out a gunman killed two people in a mall before he saw Nick Meli, a concealed carry permit holder with a drawn pistol looking to protect himself and a friend he was there with. Nick didn’t fire on the gunman because of people positioned in the line of fire behind the target, but the gunman saw him and the next round he fired ended his own life. Did Nick Meli stop a mass shooting? Again, it’s hard to know exactly what would have happened had he not been there. But he was there, and the gunman did stop his attack right after he saw Nick, who responded with a calm and clear mind. And this isn’t the first time this has happened. Here are ten examples of people who have used their firearm to potentially stop a mass shooting.
Aside from that, most of these mass shootings happen where law abiding permit holders can not carry their guns. Schools are the most common (Columbine, Virginia Tech, Newtown, and more) and in almost every school in the country guns are prohibited (there are a select number of states that do allow permit holders to carry inside schools, but not many). They happen at military facilities that are gun free zones (Fort Hood, U.S. Naval Yard). They happen in malls (Trolley Square) or movie theaters (Aurora) that are posted as gun free zones. In fact, in the Aurora shooting, according to John Lott, there were seven theaters within a 20-minute drive of the apartment of the shooter that were showing the Batman movie that evening. The shooter did not choose the theater that was closest to him, but the only one with posted signs indicating that guns were prohibited. He goes on to say that with a single except (the Tucson, Arizona shooting that included Representative Gabrielle Giffords in 2011) every public shooting with at least 3 deaths has happened in a place where CCW permit holders are not allowed to carry their firearm (see here).
So even with the deck stacked against CCW permit holders, they can (and have) stopped mass shootings. But again, that still isn’t the point. I carry a firearm to save my family’s lives in the event that we are placed in a situation where that can help. So don’t try and take my permit away because I don’t use it for something that isn’t my main intention to use it for. I hope and pray that I never need it under any circumstance, but if I do need it, I hope I have it and am ready to use it.
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Gun Crimes Plummet as Gun Sales Rise [Infographic] Thu, 19 Sep 2013 16:05:22 +0000
We’ve all heard stats about crime falling as gun purchases increase. Here are some interesting stats from
Gun Crimes Plummet Even As Gun Sales Rise
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Reaction to George Zimmerman Verdict Mon, 15 Jul 2013 17:07:36 +0000
Evidence against George Zimmerman Was Not OverwhelmingAs the George Zimmerman trial concluded and the verdict was announced “NOT GUILTY” I’ve been surrounded by people who are furious over Zimmerman being set free. From the beginning of the case I’ve been on the side of “innocent until proven guilty” and there just hasn’t been much evidence to convict Zimmerman–let alone enough to be beyond a reasonable doubt. As someone who teaches concealed carry classes and self defense I’ve been interested in the case from another perspective. I wrote last year about how George Zimmerman’s life will never be the same–regardless of the verdict. The lesson learned is that you should AVOID situations where you may end up needing to use a firearm. PERIOD.
Based on my understanding of what happened, I understand what Zimmerman was trying to do. No less than 8 reported burglaries in had happened in the neighborhood in the previous 14 months with potentially dozens of others. Zimmerman had a bike stolen from his home the year before and another neighbor who had two black males break in while she was home. Luckily the police arrived quickly and no one was hurt. Zimmerman offered help and comfort to his neighbor but many others in the community were also concerned about the break-ins. Many brought up the concerns at an HOA meeting where Zimmerman was asked to head up a new neighborhood watch program.
Just weeks before shooting Martin, Zimmerman had called the police after witnessing another black male looking through homes in his neighborhood. A black teenage boy was later arrested for breaking into a home. Most people would consider this being a good citizen. Right up until February 26, 2012 George Zimmerman was looking out for the neighborhood that had a well defined problem with break-ins. That lead up to the point when Trayvon Martin was the boy who appeared to be looking into homes in the neighborhood. Again concerned after spotting Martin, Zimmerman called the police. Details are unclear after this point–Zimmerman was out of his car at this point and looking for Martin (many believe he got out of his car to pursue Martin, but there is also some that believe he got out of his car after the 911 operator asked where Martin was at that time–it wasn’t until later in the conversation that the operator told Martin to not follow Martin). Many people would have walked away at this point–and hindsight indicates that this would be the smart thing to do, but concern for his neighbors led him to stick around. Nothing about this is illegal. Just as Martin had a right to be there, so did Zimmerman.
It appears that Trayvon noticed Zimmerman and instead of leaving the situation himself he decided to stick around and approach Zimmerman. Again, nothing about this situation is illegal until it became physical. The key detail here is how the altercation started and, unfortunately, this part is completely missing. Nothing I have seen or read indicates strong evidence about who started the altercation, but it is clear that Martin was winning the fight to the point that it could cause serious bodily injury or death to Zimmerman, which led him to use his firearm in self defense. If Zimmerman initiated the physical altercation then it changes the situation. But the evidence doesn’t support this. Martin didn’t have any right to self defense from a person looking at him, following him, or questioning him. He didn’t have the right to start a fight over some “creepy ass cracker” just because he was nervous. Just as Zimmerman didn’t have a right to use his firearm just because Martin was looking in houses. But once it became a life or death fight Zimmerman was justified in using self defense. This could have been avoided several ways–but neither Zimmerman or Martin decided to leave. The situation is tragic but in order to convict someone of murder there has to be sufficient evidence. And in this case I didn’t believe it was there.
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Summer Shooting Outdoors Fri, 24 May 2013 16:39:37 +0000
Shooters Help Prevent WildfiresOne of the things I love about summer is the ability to get outside and do some shooting (I do some in the winter too, but it’s a lot colder in the snow!) But in certain areas it’s important to be careful, prepared, and in some circumstances not shooting when it becomes a hazard. Hot, dry climates were hit hard last summer with wildfires causing millions of dollars in damage and efforts to fight the fires. Last year in Utah shooters were blamed for 20 different wildfires.
While it’s not very common for a standard bullet to cause a fire, it can strike a rock in a manner that will cause a spark which leads to dry brush or grass to catch on fire. There have been plenty of people that have had it happen to them–but the bigger problem is people shooting tracer rounds or exploding targets. This significantly increases your chances of having a wildfire sparked. And in too many cases, the fire will spread and grow so quickly that it will take the fire department being called. Long range shooting also makes it more difficult to get to the fire quickly enough to do anything about it before it grows. A fire extinguisher and a shovel are two things that can help quickly in the event of a fire and should be taken on any outdoor shooting trip this summer.
The bottom line is to make good decisions when shooting outdoors. Be careful and be prepared–and in some cases stay indoors.
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Carry Alerts iPhone App Fri, 17 May 2013 16:15:31 +0000
carry alerts iphone app
Recently I was contacted by Ben who wrote an iPhone app to help those with concealed carry permits get notified when they are in close proximity of areas that they can’t carry. He offered a copy for me to review so I have just downloaded the app, called “Carry Alerts” and I’m just starting to use it. I’ll post a full review in the next few weeks or so after I’ve had a chance to use it in real life. You can check out the Carry Alerts Facebook page here. The app is currently available in the iTunes app store for $2.99.
After a quick glance it appears that the app comes pre-loaded with categories which you set based on your local laws. Then the app will notify you when you are within a set distance of one of those places. There’s a handful of settings that you can control but it’s a very simple concept and design. Simply tell the app where you are not allowed to carry and it will notify you when you are close to one of those areas. This definitely doesn’t replace knowing and understanding the laws, but can be a good notification/reminder to make sure that you have removed your firearm or to turn away from a prohibited place. Has anyone used this app or would this be something that interests you? Let us know your thoughts in the comments.
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Second Amendment Music and Songs Tue, 23 Apr 2013 17:53:37 +0000
There’s a little something for everyone if you like guns and like music. Check out some songs about the Second Amendment. Let us know what your favorite songs about guns and/or the Second Amendment are in the comments!
I Like Guns – Steve Lee
“I’ll Give Up My Gun” By Steve Lee
“Don’t Try an’ Take My Guns Away” by Jordan Bales
“Not Let’n My Guns Go!” By Nate Smoove
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One of my greatest fears . . . Wed, 27 Mar 2013 14:45:21 +0000
Police Raids Serving No-Knock WarrantsConsider this. You are home with your family in the evening enjoying dinner or a tv show when all of a sudden your front door bursts open and several men dressed in black with guns enter through the now open space yelling for you to stop moving. You have a concealed firearm on your hip and try to quickly determine what you should do next. This would be one of the hardest situations to deal with because it is lightning fast and involves the life or death of your entire family. One wrong move and you could all be dead. All the right moves and you still might be dead.
What compounds the complexity of this fictitious situation is that the men who just broke into your house are all police officers serving a no-knock warrant. As a law abiding citizen you never expect the police to show up at your front door, let alone break in without knocking. But this happens. And more often than it should.
Just a few weeks ago, court documents show a Chicago police raid on a home with six children. After breaking in and detaining everyone the family demanded to know why they were being held at which time the police produced the warrant. Unfortunately for everyone involved, the police raided the wrong house. The warrant listed the address of the apartment above the one that was raided by the police and not the actual home that they broke into. In addition to the mental and physical damage (both to the individuals and their property) that was caused, the police also killed the family dog. All because they couldn’t read the address on the warrant correctly. This isn’t the first time police raids have gone bad. There have been others across the country resulting in the terror, trauma, and death of innocent people.
Whether the police have the address wrong on the warrant, they read the warrant incorrectly, or the warrant lists your house based on false evidence or a bad investigation, all could lead to police breaking down your door. In the war on drugs police use no-knock warrants to catch drug dealers or users before they can destroy the drugs. In 2008 a Maryland mayor’s house was raided by police after his home was used as a random drop point by drug dealers. The investigators didn’t realize that the drug dealers were using the house as a drop and it wasn’t actually where they (or their operation) was located. They also failed to check on whose house it was before they served the no-knock warrant. Two family dogs were killed in the incident, but luckily no one else was. Imagine if this was your house and you had your firearm. You were in fear for your life and used your firearm as you have been trained to do. Do you think you would be extended any forgiveness by the officers on the scene or a prosecutor (in the unlikely event that you made it out alive) if you started firing at them? I can assure you that they would not take kindly to that and would use whatever means was necessary to end the situation (and most likely, you).
Any variation of these scenarios is bad news and causes real problems since you never really know who’s coming though your front door. If you guess wrong you are likely to end up dead. The hard part is that there’s not really much you can do about it. The only things I can think of is to better prepare your home to provide early warning signs to hopefully not be caught by surprise and allow time to control the situation and to pressure police departments to stop no-knock warrants. But that is a long shot at best considering they are only becoming more popular. It’s still a low probability that this happens to you, but I’d like to be prepared as best I can in the event that I ever did find myself in that situation. Does anyone have any ideas to help in these types of situations?
For more on the topic you can read Radley Balko’s article on the topic: Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids in America
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It all makes sense now . . .it’s legal to hunt people. Sat, 09 Mar 2013 21:41:30 +0000
I could never quite figure out why certain people came up with solutions to problems that most people with a sound understanding of the issue know won’t work. Senator Dianne Feisenstein was one of those persons. She seems to come up with things (although many before her proposed the same things) that wouldn’t actually solve problems when it comes to guns. One of her proposals has often been to regulate the size of magazines. I’m not sure why 11 rounds in a gun turns you into an evil person and limiting to 10 keeps you sane, but maybe she didn’t realize that most people who commit or attempt to commit mass murders do so with careful planning, often months, to get the details right.
Consider Virginia Tech where the killer had a bag full of magazines (almost 400 rounds loaded) and he had no problems re-loading as he fired off about 200 shots (probably somewhere around 15 magazine changes)–just like most novice shooters have no problems reloading. I always figured that mass murderers are criminals to the worst degree and will break whatever laws they have to. But what I didn’t realize was that the Senator thought that it was actually legal to hunt people. So she is probably just going after all the legal killings of people by law abiding citizens. Now her proposals make sense since law abiding citizens actually do follow the law. Yes–you read that correct. Senator Dianne Feinstein recently talked about the legal hunting of humans with high capacity magazines. See the video below:
It seems to make more sense now . . . but maybe she should just propose a law that outlaws murder.
h/t to Monderno
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Now this is how you celebrate a birthday! Thu, 07 Mar 2013 18:35:42 +0000
For anyone looking for ideas about their next birthday celebration, take a tip from Lucky Gunner and blow up your cake instead of eating it.
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Dr. Wadim Kurjanowicz and his wife, Christine.
Dr. Wadim Kurjanowicz saved many lives, using his medical talents to diagnosis and treat patients who otherwise would have died.
He also once saved his wife, his young son and his mother after they got a brutal form of food poisoning.
And, in the throes of World War II, Kurjanowicz's medical abilities spared his own life as well.
Kurjanowicz was born in Russia and moved to Poland with his family when he was a young boy.
He was in medical school there when Germany and the Soviet Union invaded Poland in 1939.
Kurjanowicz would have been forced into the Polish army if the government had not considered him more valuable as a medical student and allowed him to continue his training.
If he'd been drafted, Kurjanowicz likely would have been killed or imprisoned, as most other Polish soldiers were in the German and Soviet onslaught, said his son, George Kurjanowicz.
During the subsequent German occupation of Poland, Kurjanowicz used his medical knowledge to work as a pharmacist in Warsaw, often risking his life to smuggle food to Jews starving in the ghetto under Nazi rule.
Then, after the Soviets reconquered part of eastern Poland in 1944, Kurjanowicz was drafted into the Red Army. Most of those in his army camp on the Volga River were sent to the front lines to be cannon fodder, but he avoided that fate by working as a pharmacist on the base.
"That absolutely saved his skin," George said.
After the war, Wadim Kurjanowicz finished medical school and met his future wife, Christine. They had two sons, George and Andrew, and in 1960 they all moved to America, largely so they could more freely worship according to their Russian Orthodox faith.
They landed in Reading, where they already had family living, and Kurjanowicz set up his medical practice on North Fifth Street in 1964. He practiced there for two decades, making house calls, delivering babies and treating all types of illnesses and injuries.
He and Christine retired to Alsace Township, and he died Nov. 13 at 95. She passed away last year.
When Wadim Kurjanowicz was a young boy, a gypsy foretold that he would travel to America. Everyone laughed because it seemed impossible that anyone from rural eastern Poland could make that trip.
But Kurjanowicz was a man who often beat the odds, whether it was surviving the war or going on to be a successful American doctor.
He was quietly determined and could always imagine himself accomplishing far-fetched things, George said.
"Even when people told him he was crazy, that he couldn't do something, he always believed in himself," he said. "And he was very good at overcoming obstacles."
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The first Franklinites
January 17, 2009
By NATHAN BROWN, Enterprise Staff Writer
Malone was founded in 1805, under the name Hanson, reducing Chateaugay to include two townships in Clinton County plus Burke, Bellmont, Franklin and St. Armand. Franklin County was created in 1808, St. Armand went to Essex County in 1822, and the town of Bellmont was split off in 1833, including the territory that is the town of Franklin now. Franklin became its own town in 1836. Henry B. Hatch was the town's first supervisor, according to town historian Teresa Eshelman; the first town board meeting was held at his home on July 1, 1836.
Fewer than 200 people lived in Franklin when the town was formed. The first permanent settlers were Isaac McLenathan and William Wells, who came from Jay in Essex County in 1827 and built a saw mill and iron forge at what is Franklin Falls today but was McLenathan Falls until 1851. The first child born in the town of Franklin, Sanford Hough, was born here in 1840. The settlement grew to include a large store, a school and a hotel. Seaver wrote that their businesses never did well, as all lumber and iron products had to be hauled 34 miles to Port Kent to be sold.
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This picture of children standing outside a small schoolhouse in Vermontville was taken in the late 1890s.
(Photo courtesy of the Adirondack Research Room, Saranac Lake Free Library)
All 23 dwellings in McLenathan Falls and every other structure except a small shack was completely destroyed by a fire in 1852.
"So rapidly and fiercely did the flames spread that fowls, dogs and cattle perished in the streets, and the inhabitants themselves barely escaped with their lives," Seaver wrote. "Household goods, merchandise in the store, large quantities of lumber, and even the unsubmerged parts of wagons that had been hauled into the river were all destroyed."
Peter Comstock rebuilt the area somewhat and reopened the mills, and for 14 years a major lumbering operation under the direction of Christopher F. Norton of Plattsburgh was centered there, but they were closed again by the 20th century. There were other mills in Franklin, but never one as big. Only two were running by 1918. The hotel also reopened, changing hands a number of times, but it was never as big or bustling as it was before the fire.
Among the early settlers of Franklin were some African-Americans, former slaves brought to the Adirondacks by noted abolitionist, friend of John Brown and former gubernatorial candidate Gerrit Smith. Smith bought some land in North Elba and Franklin in the 1840s, and gave homesteads to the freed slaves and to some poor whites recruited from the cities also.
Merrillsville was settled in 1829 by Lamsons, Cates and Merrills. Settlement of Vermontville started in the early 1800s, with most of the pioneers coming from Vermont. Teresa R. Eshelman wrote in the local series "They Told Me So" that Irish and English emigrants hired in the 1840s to cut timber ended up clearing much of Vermontville and as far as Sugar Bush and Alder Brook. Settlers from Vermont, Clinton and Essex counties came, attracted by the cheap land. By 1918, Seaver wrote, Vermontville was the town's largest hamlet. It had no industries except farming; a foundry built in 1861 had apparently closed by then, as had a sawmill built in 1848.
The Delaware and Hudson and New York Central railroads came through the town in the late 1880s and early 1890s. Both lines had stops at Lake Kushaqua, Onchiota and Loon Lake; D&H stopped in Vermontville, too.
Onchiota was one of the later-settled parts of the town. A mill was built there after the railroads came through town, and most of the men and boys who settled around it worked there, wrote Hayden Tormey in the first volume of "They Told Me So." When the wood ran out, boarding houses sprang up, and wealthy city people came in to hunt and fish. Some stayed and built camps.
The only non-residential building in Onchiota in the early 20th century was the general store, which had the only telephone. You could catch a train out every half-hour, but a trip to Vermontville or Bloomingdale overland could take a half-day. Onchiota became a bit busier during Prohibition, as the rum-runners loved the back roads there and used to tear down them, shooting it out with pursuing federal agents.
Tormey wrote that Onchiota started to lose its remote character after World War II.
"Our general store changed, too; no people, no business," Tormey wrote "What to do, advertise? Yes; our slogan 'Off the beaten path.' Federal help programs came, then the Olympics of 1980. New paved roads replaced our once two-wheel rut roads. Progress..."
The Chateaugay branch of the Delaware and Hudson Railroad, which ran through Franklin, discontinued stopping at its Onchiota and Vermontville stations in 1940, although it continued to stop at Loon Lake until 1946. New York Central ended its passenger service from Lake Clear to Malone in 1957, although some freight service continued into the 1960s. Attempts to bring the railroad back for the Olympics were unsuccessful.
The highway department
The town of Franklin had 1,197 inhabitants according to the 2000 census, making it the 13th-most populous out of the county's 19 towns. Its area, however, is 180 square miles, making it the third-largest in the county.
"The story is told that one of the early supervisors, journeying to Malone to attend his first session of the board, after having driven all day, arrived at a primitive hotel, inquired what town he was in, and was amazed to learn that he had not yet wholly traversed his own," Seaver wrote. "The anecdote is illuminative of Franklin's broad reaches, and not less of the horrible highways that used to characterize it."
The Port Kent-Hopkinton turnpike was built between 1829 and 1832. It was the town's main highway in the early days, and it was lined with rustic inns offering travelers meals and lodging for next to nothing. Today, it is county Route 26, and it isn't always plowed beyond Loon Lake in the winter.
Franklin has 70.3 miles of town roads today. Highway maintenance has always been one of the town's greatest expenses.
"As early as 1851, the Town was divided into districts under the supervision of a Commissioner of Highways, who was Thomas Goldsmith," Eshelman wrote. "Each district was headed by its own Overseer of Highways serving under the Commissioner." The highway districts assessed the inhabitants for the manpower to repair the roads.
The highway department's 2009-10 budget is for $1,024,994 - about 65 percent of the town's total spending. The highway superintendent is a much more important, and sometimes controversial, figure in Franklin than in other towns, and a large part of town board meetings is spent on the highway superintendent's report and on questions for him.
The earliest records of schooling available are from 1878, Fran Oliver wrote in "They Told Me So." In this year, the town had one school, in Vermontville across state Route 3 from where the town garage is today. Seventy-six out of the town's residents between the ages of five and 21 went to school that year; an average of 26 showed up any given day. Later, there would be at least 12 schools, although they weren't all operational at the same time.
These schools only taught through primary grades; parents who wanted a high school education for their children, in the early days, had to pay to send them elsewhere and pay their room and board as well, according to Raymond Tuthill in "They Told Me So."
Betty Goff Wilson wrote abut her memories of attending primary school in a two-room schoolhouse in Vermontville in the 1950s that is the Franklin town hall today. Grades one through three were in one room, four through six in the other.
"Each day started with a recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance and the Lord's Prayer," Wilson wrote in They Told Me So. "On Monday mornings we each got a new drinking cup and had 'inspection,' which meant the teacher went up and down the aisles checking each student's fingernails, etc."
A cafeteria had recently been added to the school, and Wilson remembers helping the cook set the tables, dish up dessert and arrange condiments on the tables while in sixth grade.
The Sugarbush and Vermontville school districts voted to send their high schoolers to Saranac Lake High School by bus in 1934, and Merrillsville, Loon Lake, Onchiota and Franklin Falls later did the same. Private contractors brought the high school children to and from Saranac Lake until these little districts throughout the town centralized with Saranac Lake in 1968. At the same time, the one-room schoolhouses closed and the younger children started to go to Saranac Lake as well. Some of these buildings were sold to private owners; others fell into disrepair or were destroyed by vandalism or fire.
One article can only scratch the surface of the rich history of the town of Franklin. Its inhabitants, many of whom are descendants of the town's first settlers, have recorded its history painstakingly. It is a town of many separate hamlets, each with its own story to tell.
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The Churchill Club recently asked a handful of VCs to share a couple of non-obvious technologies that we expect to disrupt markets over the next five years. Here are my two predictions.
EyePhones Will Replace iPhones
Remember MS-DOS commands, and the WordStar keystroke combinations we had to memorize? dataentryThen the first Macintosh featured a mouse-driven GUI that was game-changing because it removed a layer of friction for both the data going in and coming out. When we tried that first model, we knew we could never go back to a C prompt.
And yet the impact of graphical computing was minor compared to how facial computing will change our lives, and how we all relate to The Collective. Think of it as a man-in-the-middle attack on our senses, intercepting all the signals we see and hear, and enhancing them before they reach our brains.
borgThis is not science fiction, and based on prototypes I’ve seen, it’s a good bet that design teams in Google, Apple, Samsung and various military contractors are building eyewear computers that will render smartphones as obsolete as the first generation of mobile computer. mobile90sI’m not talking about Google Glass, with its cute little screen in the corner. I mean an immersive experience that processes what we see, and then overlays graphical objects onto our field of view for true Terminator vision. The U.S. military has this capability today, so that troops can see pointers to their platoon members and markers of known IED locations. So now it’s just a question of making the hardware small, cheap and available in four adorable colors.
Not only will our favorite apps on eyewear computers be more immediate and engaging, but we’ll experience new computing capabilities so compelling that we’ll find them indispensible. For example, eyewear computers can record our lives and enable us to summon any relevant conversation or incident from our past. With eyewear computers, we can truly share experiences in real time, transporting ourselves to the perspective of someone on a ski slope, or in a night club, Wimbledon match or the International Space Station.
terminatorJust as Terminator did in the movie, we will air-click on actual things we see to interact with, investigate or purchase. We’ll integrate facial recognition and CRM for background data on everyone we meet. When we travel abroad, signs will appear to us in English, and when someone is speaking to us, we can simply turn on English subtitles.
A new generation of games will be more immersive and engaging than ever before.
Five years from today, when smartphone sales are in decline, we will ask ourselves: Remember when we used to spend our days looking down at those little screens?
Cyber Warfare Becomes Okay
wargamesEver since Hollywood gave us “War Games,” the fear of cyber apocalypse has gripped America. We’ve outlawed hacking to such an extent that if you’re shut down by a cyber attack, or your data has been stolen, it’s a federal crime to even probe the attacking computers, let alone disable them. Rather than educate and activate our best and brightest hackers, we prosecute and imprison them.
Businesses haven’t complained, because they’ve never wanted to fight back. You can’t prosecute the attackers even if you find them, and admitting a breach may spook customers and even invite more attacks. So, instead of fighting, we’ve just quietly taken the punches, and wished it all away. But wishing it away is like trying to reduce teen pregnancy by preaching abstinence.
Two years ago I watched a TED audience cheer Ralph Langner for exposing the Stuxnet worm which our government developed to retard Iran’s nuclear weapons program. It was as though the U.S. and Israel invented malware. Somehow, it was evil for us to use cyberspace to stop the most vitriolic, warmongering fundamentalist on our planet from making nuclear bombs. Because cyber is “unconventional,” we somehow consider it to be just as taboo to use as nuclear and chemical weapons.
chinahackMeanwhile, the New York Times reported this morning that “Hackers Find China is a Land of Opportunity.” Not only has China allegedly hacked Google and Evernote to spy on its citizens, but it has funded massive efforts to steal information valuable to economies and national security. Attacks on our banks, utilities and defense contractors can be traced back to units in the Chinese military. We even know what building they’re in.
As cyber war rages on around us, I predict that Americans will come to appreciate that cyber operations can achieve our military and intelligence objectives far better than bullets and bombs. Cyber weapons are faster, more effective, safer, and orders of magnitude cheaper than kinetic weapons. Stuxnet penetrated where missiles cannot.
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This sea change presents great opportunities for startups to build a new ecosystem of cyber capabilities that defend our nation and support our military and intelligence objectives. We’ve got the best security experts in the world. New startups are enabling the exchange of threat data, using honeypots to collect counter intelligence on foreign hackers, and deploying Hadoop clusters to track botnets. They even develop exploits around newly discovered vulnerabilities to deliver offensive payloads.
David Cowan is a partner in Bessemer’s Menlo Park, Calif., office. He invests mostly in network technology, infrastructure SaaS, consumer Internet and cyber security.
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It's been hot
Vacation is extended till Wednesday because of the holiday. When I got in my car yesterday I found the sun roof opened. I couldn't remember driving it all week and we had some severe thunderstorms pass over on Friday. Why is it not wet in here? It will come to me.
Riding every day. Funny how the heat and humidity bothers some so much, unless your on vacation. Then you don't mind it.
We did go to see Sicko and can't recommend it strongly enough. Again Moore has exposed the corruption and Sicko is even better than Farenheight 911. Just go, you won't regret it.
1. Thanks for reminding me of a political battle I got into yesterday (and have since forgotten about) regarding this movie. I need to see how my trolling efforts are coming along.
At least you called it a movie and not a documentary. ;)
2. It's been hot and humid here, too. I'm trying to keep the riding going, but it's tough.
3. Your "sunroof" reminds me of the day I came down to my truck and found my bike locked into the traps in the back. I never leave my bike out overnight. It had also rained at some point that night and my saddle was still dry. "Hmm", I thought, "It will come to me". It never did. And I still think about that lost moment from time to time. Good thing I got used to the lost moments early on in my life. | http://amidnightrider.blogspot.com/2007/07/its-been-hot.html | dclm-gs1-124860002 | false | false | {
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The truths they don't want you to read....
Friday, December 14, 2007
Council Financial Settlement
So the Comhairle has received a budget increase of 3% (or 0.7% in real terms).
With salary increases running in excess of that; it means that cuts will be necessary.
As the (discredited) budget formula is based on population growth and changes in school rolls, the Western Isles is pushed further into a vicious circle of decline with only the 'floor mechanism' ensuring that there is any increase in the budget.
Against this, the decision to centralise schooling i.e. close small rural schools, looks not just eminently sensible from a financial perspective, but any contrary decision is simply storing up problems for future years.
Having long forecast that these four years would be financially very difficult appalling for the Comhairle, I now look forward to seeing what is to be cut, and how the books are to be balanced.
At least we seem to have been spared the ritual embarrassment of the sitting MSP telling us what a wonderful settlement it was for the Western Isles.
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The Joel and Stu Drinking Game
Perhaps we have been spoiled as Los Angeles Sports fans in terms of who we've enjoyed as our sports voices. Vin Scully. Chick Hearn. Bob Miller. Petros Papadakis. But is it just me, or is the river of awkward that is the Joel Meyers experience bustling like the mighty Mississippi this year? Check out his latest gem. And by gem, I mean diarrhea of the mouth.
A few nights ago, Kobe hits an insane fadeaway from the right wing and is fouled on the shot. He stumbles backward into the courtside seats near the Laker bench and Sasha Vujacic, excited from the acrobatics of the play gets up and slaps Kobe on the ass. Joel's call?
"Sasha likes it from behind!!!"
Wow. Oh and let's not forget about the Length of Lamar. My lord. The LOL. I understand that decribing a players length is a trend right now in basketball commentating with all the long-armed, versatile players scattered throughout the league. But Joel takes this to a whole other level. Wow, he was really bothered by the length of Lamar on that shot. Or, Lamar's length caused that turnover. It's like, it's not just Lamar Odom. There's Lamar. And there's the Length of Lamar. Both are sentient, tax paying citizens of the Earth according to Joel.
But you see, it's hard to pinpoint exactly what it is about Joel that bothers me. I mean, the Gay innuendos are one thing (and that "one thing" would be hilarious), but I think the thing that frustrates me the most is that I can't understand Joel's thought process as he's calling the game. I feel like the play by play man should describe the action and from time to time make some relevant observations about the context of said action. But Joel. Joel, Joel, Joel. Joel does not do this.
Here's a hypothetical example. The Lakers could be down by ten points with maybe 6 minutes to play in the game and then Joel will say something like, "The Lakers could use an 8-0 run here..." First of all, you're thinking well, no shit, Joel. But then the you think about it some more and you find yourself wondering, well, why didn't he say a 10-0 run? Hell, why not 20-0? But then you know what happens next? The other team goes on an 8-0 run.
But ok. I suppose every announcer is guilty of jinxing a team now and then. Fine. And of course, it doesn't happen that way all the time. What if say the Lakers do go on that 8-0 run, making Joel seem down right prophetic. Now say we got the ball with 30 seconds left, down 2 (remember, it was an 8-0 run from down 10). Kobe's dribbling out the clock a bit at the top of the key, he decides to make his move, and here is a classic Joel call of this play:
Kobe dribbles right. He's gets into the lane. HE'S CUT OFF! He finds Fisher in the corner. FISHER FOR THREE!!! OH!!! It rims out. Can't give Kobe the assist....
That's right. Can't. Give. Kobe. The. Assist. Seriously, who gives a shit about the assist. What about the fact that the game is probably over on that miss. It's like he gets fixated on certain things, usually statistical milestones for certain players, and it prevents him from commenting on the broader, more important perspectives. And honestly, it's becoming distracting as hell.
And I know that the above is not describing a play from a particular game. When I said before that I cannot pinpoint what bothers me about Joel, I really meant that I don't have a body of concrete examples of his ineptitude to list before you. But if you've been watching the Lakers closely during the Joel Meyer's era, tell me the above hypothetical does not sound all too familiar.
But either way, it looks like this is what we've got until the Lakers get wise and put Spero Dedes on TV. So you know what? Let's make the best of it. One easy way to do that: get shit faced. I present to you the Joel and Stu drinking game.
Rules: Buy some beer. Buy some liquor. Watch the local broadcast of the Laker game. Drink when you hear the following from Joel Meyers or Stu Lantz.
Level I: One sip
- Joel talks about Lamar Odom's length
- Stu refers to Pau Gasol as Pau Kasol
- Joel mentions points off of turnovers
- Joel or Stu uses the phrase Charity Stripe
- Stu says that the Lakers have "issues" if they are running late in the shot clock
Level II: Chug a beer (beer bong is optional, recommended)
- Stu says something about the Lakers "needing to Scratch"
- Joel mentions where a player played college ball more than once
- Joel talks about Trevor Ariza's length
- Joel talks about Andrew Bynum's length
- Joel talks about Pau Gasol's length
Level III: Take a shot
- Stu uses that metaphor about how big guys being far from the basket is like being high in the mountains/air is thin
- Stu says "Noiiiiccce"
- Joel talks about Kobe's Length
- Stu talks about Pau Kasol's length
- Joel uses the phrase "the rub down low"
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294 Ratings
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Ratings: 294
Reviews: 128
rAvg: 3.82
pDev: 12.04%
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Minnesota, United States
Style | ABV
Milk / Sweet Stout | 5.80% ABV
Availability: Year-round. bottle (120), on-tap (8)
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Photo of SolomonGrundy
2.13/5 rDev -44.2%
Holy mackerel, I still can't believe I'm this close to being finished with this project...Crikey....
Another extra from excellent trader GraniteSkunk, this time from uber-small Lucan, MN with a population of!
The basics: no idea on price and 5.8% ABV...cheers!
A little bit thin in color on the pour...I expect my stouts to be opaque, and this one lets some color through. A decent enough head forms and quickly disappears...Very slight lacing...
Aromas are sweet, as might be expected from a milk stout, what with the unfermentable sugars and all...Get a decent enough malt component among the milky chocolaty stuff...A bit faint if you ask me (and you didn't)...
Flavor is way more thin than I'd expect or hope to see in a milk stout. It's almost like water was added afer the fermentation process!! Really disappointing, in fact. It's almost like a Milk Stout Italian Soda!!! Super thin, and the malt component is almost absent...Very poor in my opinion...I'm actually surprised this is an oatmeal stout the body is so thin. Almost a drainpour in my opinion. They really need to work out the recipie on this. It's not serviceable at all...Very unfortunate as I was seriously hoping for more. Even the finish is like "what the heck was that...where'd it go"...This is the Calista Flockhart of Milk Stouts (as opposed to the, say, Keira Knightly of Milk Stouts) are big boys, figure it out...
What I like most: The price...(again, figure it out)...
What I like least: everything else...
Verdict: Unless it has a crapload of money you can spend, don't waste your time and if you do, don't brag to your friends about it...
<edit> I must be a totally uneducated beer drinker...Somehow 25 other people have rated this an average of an A-...That can't be possible with stuff like Mackeson XXX and Samuel Smith's Oatmeal Stout out there in the World, but I'm just a novice, right???
<edit #2> I am aware Samuel Smith's ISN'T a milk stout...It is, however, an oatmeal stout...I'm re-reading some of the other reviews of this and I can't possibly believe this is the same beer they drank...It's not possible given what I'm reading, but I'm looking right at the label on the bottle and it's the same...This stuff is watered down swill, in my opinion, and I can't believe they had the same stuff I'm having...sorry...
Serving type: bottle
04-30-2011 23:54:40 | More by SolomonGrundy
Photo of lurpy1
2.63/5 rDev -31.2%
On tap at Pat's Tap. The script with Brau is that everything is good with the beer until it hits the mouth. Then the trouble begins. Let's see how it goes this time. The Brothers should have a leg up - it's a style I love.
Pretty dark pour, not a lot of head. Good lacing though. Smell is more coffee than advertised. Roasts. Bittering. Not as many sweet smells as a fella might expect from a Milk Stout. Then again, a fella might not know what the F he is talking about. Still, an enjoyable smelling beer. So far so good...
...And right on cue, Moo Joos goes into the mouth and off a cliff. Bitter, malts, roast, and that damned, can't-escape-from-it dirty water Brau taste. Again with the dirty water? Are you kidding me?
Moving on to mouthfeel. You know, dirt doesn't just taste bad, it feels terrible in the mouth. Aggravating gritty feel. And this comes light years away from the thick, coagulating feel of a Milk Stout.
And with that, I throw my hands up in the air in dismay. I would love for another Minnesota brewery to step up and make like Surly and THB and be great, and I would love for it to be Brau. But they're not. Frankly I'm baffled by the ratings for this beer. In my book, if you can't get milk stout right, you can't really be redeemed. I can't tell you how many times I've seen a Brau beer and said "maybe this is the one they turn it around with". No more. This time,I mean it.
Serving type: on-tap
05-16-2012 21:41:02 | More by lurpy1
Photo of TheGordianKnot
2.98/5 rDev -22%
Another bottle sent from UngerTaker, thanks! Poured into tulip glass...
A- Dark, no head, still liquid, meh... Nothing to see here
S- Sweet vanilla and milk chocolate. Slight roast and a nice oatmeal finish. Smooth and balanced aroma.
T/M- Coffee flavor with some medicine mixed about. Milky and full of caramel. Nothing is extremely pronounced here, but the subtle blend of flavors work fairly well. Mouthfeel is watery with a lackluster carbonation. Body could use a pick-me-up...
O- Ok, but thats as far as it goes. Wouldn't seek out again as the finish was too medicinaly and the feel was thin and watery.
Serving type: bottle
11-12-2011 01:05:36 | More by TheGordianKnot
Photo of nrbw23
3/5 rDev -21.5%
A- Pours a dark brownish black color with a small tan head. Head is gone in a flash and no lacing left at all.
S- Smell is hints of chocolate and coffee. A bit of sweetness too. Nothing really jumping out at me here.
T- Roasted coffee, a bit of oats, chocolate and a touch of cream.
M- Lighter side of medium in body and carbonation.
O- Not really digging this one too much.
Serving type: bottle
06-06-2011 21:07:37 | More by nrbw23
Photo of Beerandraiderfan
3/5 rDev -21.5%
Serving type: bottle
05-08-2012 03:29:52 | More by Beerandraiderfan
Photo of JamesMN
3.01/5 rDev -21.2%
Appearance: Completely opaque black with a one finger soapy tan head.
Aroma: Exactly what you'd expect for the style. Dark roasted malts, some sweetness, milk chocolate, and a hint of light coffee.
Taste: Given its modest 5.8% ABV, Moo Joos has a decent amount of flavor. Roasted malts with hints of chocolate and bitter coffee. It's a little harsh on the palate because all the flavors seem very separate from each other like there are gaps in the taste. There is also an odd 'dust'-like flavor to it right before the finish (which ruins it for me). Some lingering coffee bitterness.
Mouthfeel: Just above thin in body with moderate carbonation. Average to slightly below average drinkability. Missing some of the smoothness I was expecting given the description.
Final Thoughts: I'm can appreciate a good low ABV stout. However, I have trouble truly enjoying an unbalanced one. It's a valiant effort, and one that some may like, but I just can't say I'm pleased with this one. Would I drink it again? No, but I would try an imperial version.
Serving type: bottle
01-12-2013 23:51:48 | More by JamesMN
Photo of OakedCanuck
3.05/5 rDev -20.2%
12oz bottle into shaker.
A - Pours a dark brown with light brown edging. Very little, faint beige head that was only around for a second or two. No lacing
S - Sweet lactic sugars, roast coffee, caramel, chocolate
T - Much like the nose however the presence of the expected sweet milk was very faint. There was the grainy oatmeal flavour along with some bittersweet chocolate and a bit of pine
M - Very thin. You expect a milk stout to have a certain distinct creaminess to the mouth, but not to be found here.
O - I think this beer overextended itself. I didn't get the creaminess of the lactose or the distinct flavour of rolled oats. Nothing really stood out.
Serving type: bottle
08-09-2011 23:17:08 | More by OakedCanuck
Photo of claspada
New Jersey
3.18/5 rDev -16.8%
Pours a very deep dark brown,with a small off-white head that leaves some nice lacing down the glass as the foam recedes.
Aromas are fairly roasted; dark cream, bitter baker's cocoa, dusty, dry and dark chocolate with a some light sweetness integrated.
The tastes are really roasted as well. Intense espresso and dark bitter chocolate. Fairly one-dimensional to be honest. Searching for the creaminess I usually associate with a Milk Stout but I am not finding it.
Mouthfeel is medium bodied with medium to high carbonation. This should be toned down for this style as well. Finish is fairly crisp and dry thanks to the intense roasted maltiness. Should be smoother and creamier as I mentioned earlier.
Overall this was a miss for me. Lacks any real sweetness or creaminess that is necessary for the style. Unbalanced toward the roasted flavors. There are much better examples, specifically Lancaster just to name one. Pass...
Serving type: bottle
10-29-2011 16:41:57 | More by claspada
Photo of zeledonia
3.23/5 rDev -15.4%
Been meaning to try this for a while, finally getting around to drinking it. Enjoyed 5 Feb 2012, reviewed from notes.
Pours very dark brown, essentially black. A hint of light through the edges, but this beer looks thick. Medium brownish tan head, one finger, okay retention and a bit of lacing.
The smell is really interesting. I've never had an oatmeal milk stout before, but this smells like what I'd expect from one. A pleasant full milky-oaty sweetness. It's a blend that works really well together. I don't get much of the stout, just a bit of roast in the background.
Taste is a little bland, IMO. That same oaty milky sweetness, but it's muted. And again, I don't know where the malts went, as they just don't present much flavor here. A mildly bitter back end rolls through. I want more flavor out of it.
Mouthfeel is quite nice. Silky, slick, and full, all in one big mouth-filling combo. Carbonation is right where it should be - medium-low.
An interesting combo, and a pleasant, easy-drinking stout. My main complaint is that I want more flavor. For a beer with this much involved, the taste should have more potency or more variety or both.
Serving type: bottle
02-09-2012 03:57:52 | More by zeledonia
Photo of gmfessen
3.25/5 rDev -14.9%
Poured from the bottle into a pint glass, Moo Joos is black in the glass with just the faintest crimson red border to it when held to the light. The head is mocha in color, very big and looks like you could bounce a quarter off of it. The nose is rather subdued, bits of burnt chocolate are all that is discernable. The taste has a bit more to it, although the burnt chocolate does take center stage; not as sweet as some oatmeal milk stouts I've had before nor as creamy. Mouthfeel is medium in body and pretty flat for a oatmeal milk stout. Overall, not a bad tasting beer but not impressive either.
Serving type: bottle
08-13-2012 00:13:41 | More by gmfessen
Photo of antlerwrestler19
3.3/5 rDev -13.6%
Beer poured from a bottle into a tulip was an oily pitch black with a nice looking thin creamy caramel head that dissipated quickly leaving a scarce amount of lacing - after awhile only a small tan ring remains around the surface of the beer. Smells of light coffee grounds, licorice, milk/cream. The taste is mainly of roasty malts and subtle milk chocolate but nothing is really standing out assertively. The mouthfeel is smooth with a skim milk like feeling - not super thick but not super thin - little to no carbonation. This beer doesn't really stand out to me, it was not bad by any means, but I have a couple of sixers and hope to find something different when I come to revisit it in the future.
Serving type: bottle
08-10-2011 05:17:20 | More by antlerwrestler19
Photo of mactrail
3.33/5 rDev -12.8%
Powerful tastes of chocolate, coffee grounds, and sugary milk. Hard to quibble with most of the other reviews. Interesting stuff and not quite like anything I've encountered with the word "beer" on the label. Still, the elements sort themselves out eventually. Dark rich caramel, burnt malt, scorched milk. Hops are a slow burn. The smell of doctored up milk is a little off-putting. Color is black with mahogany highlights. Decent head.
For the student of stouts in all their variations, this is a must-try. I would think it's a matter of chance whether any normal person would like this or not. I'm not so crazy about it. Bought with a bunch of other random stuff at International Beverage Selections in Grand Rapids.
Serving type: bottle
09-19-2011 03:16:29 | More by mactrail
Photo of match1112
3.35/5 rDev -12.3%
a: pours pitch black with no head, just a thin tan ring, and no lacing.
s: smells more like a weak coffee stout than a sweet oatmeal stout.
t: burnt malts, chocolate, coffee some oats and lactic sugar.
m: rather thin and water, expected a thicker, chewier body.
o: disappointed. the pour was rather flat. the taste is more coffee than oatmeal.
Serving type: bottle
12-20-2011 03:04:21 | More by match1112
Photo of TheSSG
3.35/5 rDev -12.3%
Pours a big, frothy, tan head. Rich, toasted coffee aroma. Black color. Starts with a tart, bright, acidic flavor that has notes of deeply roasted malt. Medium bitterness gives way for even more deep, toasted malt in the finish. As it lingers, roasted coffee beans sit on the palate.
Overall, not bad. I really like the toasted flavors, thought the acidity is a bit too high for my tastes. It's smooth, but not as thick as I'd like.
Serving type: bottle
05-28-2013 04:31:52 | More by TheSSG
Photo of Knapp85
3.4/5 rDev -11%
This poured out as a deep black color with a thin yellowish head on top. It faded really quickly, leaving hardly any retention and definitely no lacing. The smell of the beer is a little on the strange side... not really appealing to me, there are some subtle chocolate and roasted aromas but there is something else in there I'm not really caring for. The taste of the beer is a little harsh and burnt right away but as the beer warms up it becomes a little more chocolaty and creamy. The mouthfeel is lighter than I expected, decent carbonation also. Overall this beer was ok, but not something I need to have again. Glad I got to have it though.
Serving type: bottle
03-01-2013 01:57:15 | More by Knapp85
Photo of harrymel
3.43/5 rDev -10.2%
No bottle date
A: pours a dark brown with a small latte foam head with little resonance. Falls to a sheet of the same with spotty lacing. Looks good, but nothing impressive.
S: Cream, cocoa, hay, sheetgrass, cold pressed coffee. Nutty flavors. Malts are sweet and creamy. Very nice. Smallest hint of salted caramel.
T: Sweet and creamy yet again. Plenty of cocoa, latte flavors. Dry and roasted dark chocolate malts. The lactos is very evident here.
M: Medium body with moderate to spritely carbonation. Dry finish. I think the carb is a touch high for the style and the body a touch low.
O: Nice, easy drinker. The best milk stout, no, but good. Sweet in the right places.
Serving type: bottle
05-18-2011 23:14:52 | More by harrymel
Photo of BeerFMAndy
3.45/5 rDev -9.7%
12 oz bottle poured into a nonic.
String of numbers printed towards bottom of bottle. No other info. (5.8% ABV)
A - An aggressive pour glugs into the pint with force, filling it with a pitch black beer that rests, viscous-looking, after some short-lived cascading. The tall mocha head drops slowly, caking the pint in dense Swiss cheese-like lacing.
S - Undertones of lactose sweetness and oats do their best to soften the hard, astringent aroma of Moo Joos. Gritty, biting roasted bitterness attacks the senses with force, passively suggesting coffee and chocolate as the full bodied aroma finishes with hints of dark fruit. It's got a basement-type of smell stemming from old, old wood and dirt, though.
T - Upon the first sip I find myself cautious to say it's less aggressive than the aroma and a little sweeter, and my caution pays off. Within moments, this beer turns harshly bitter, biting with astringent roast that could rival any Russian imperial stout. Sweet lactose and soft oats continue their perilous quest to soften and smooth the roasted malt bill, but there's pleasure found within the complex undertones of chocolate, coffee, and dark fruit. It doesn't seem to venture far enough into the dirty wood basement thing the aroma does though.
M - Moo Joos is gritty and full bodied; almost cloyingly aggressive with it's heavily roasted, astringent bitterness. The oats provide a slick, smooth texture while lactose sweetens the flavor and feel for a roundness that's nice; if it wasn't there, I'd almost call it undrinkable. While full, the beer never becomes syrupy or throat-coating which is also an attribute which keeps this on the somewhat enjoyable side.
O - I pegged Moo Joos to be a good breakfast beer, but even as a heavily roasted black coffee lover, I find this beer, at the risk of beating a dead horse, over the top on astringent roasted bitterness. There are some really nice things going on in this beer; the undertones of coffee, chocolate, dark fruit esters, and even the oats and lactose but, these things are all overshadowed too greatly to elevate the beer to something really enjoyable. I'd knock the roasted malt back a bit and get some more caramel notes in there, personally.
Serving type: bottle
09-09-2012 15:55:20 | More by BeerFMAndy
Photo of papat444
Quebec (Canada)
3.45/5 rDev -9.7%
Thanks to kjyost for this one.
Poured from a 12oz. bottle, no freshness info.
Appearance: Down & dirty brown body, massive head the color of light milk chocolate that grips the sides. Nice large air bubbles around the sides.
Smell: Grainy oatmeal with layer of creamy chocolate then rounded out by flakes of oats.
Taste: Nice mix of oats & chocolate at first but not very strong. Room temp helps some but still not full in flavor.
Mouthfeel: Has a silky smoothness but a bit watery overall and not up to the body it should be.
Overall: Drink this warm for best results but the aroma was definitely better than the flavor.
Serving type: bottle
07-20-2013 11:29:54 | More by papat444
Photo of inlimbo77
3.48/5 rDev -8.9%
12oz, no date
Beer Scene open mouth snifter
A: Wholly carbonation! Big hiss and fully snifter full of fluffy medium tan colored head. Fizzy, marshmallow appearance. Pours a really deep brown color. Not completely thick and black.
S: Definitely getting that lactose sugar sweetness on the nose even through the head. Milk chocolate. Never used it before but anise is there. Minimal roast and/or coffee.
T: First thing I notice, prickly carbonation. Getting some light roast coffee. Some milk chocolate. Sweet lactose sugar. I thought I would get more smoothness from the oats. Finish is quite dry.
M: Medium bodied. Thin actually.
O: B- it's ok.
Serving type: bottle
11-05-2012 18:50:31 | More by inlimbo77
Photo of JackieTH
3.5/5 rDev -8.4%
Poured out of the bottle a dark brown/black watery liquid which was nearly opaque, with practice over the course of three bottles I was able to stir up a 1" head, however with a normal pour, just the faintest trace of foam appeared and didn't stick around long.
A pleasant aroma of roasted malt, oats, chocolate and sweet lactose, seems to be as advertised.
Taste was heavier on the roasted malt elements, definite chocolate presence, mildy sweet with a notable sweet/sour dark fruit element that I couldn't place maybe cherries or dark plums. Finishes slightly burnt/bitter. Mouthfeel is terribly thin, carbonation is light.
Overall the aroma hits the right notes, taste is 'okay', mouthfeel needs to be re-tooled but quite honestly I had no trouble finishing the six pack.
Serving type: bottle
05-02-2011 21:03:32 | More by JackieTH
Photo of AlCaponeJunior
3.53/5 rDev -7.6%
Not very nice to look at. Despite a pretty rough pour, there was almost no head or lace. Color was very dark black, like inky darkness.
Smell is quite good. Chocolate, vanilla, coffee, roasted malts, maybe some black licorice.
Taste is pretty good, plenty of milk chocolate, lots of coffee, plenty of roasty malts.
Body is medium and carbonation is very low. Lots of chocolate and roasty aftertaste.
Overall it's pretty good but could use a bit more carbonation. I'd like to try it on tap, and it would probably lend well to nitro-cans or nitro-tap.
Serving type: bottle
09-22-2011 20:47:44 | More by AlCaponeJunior
Photo of Mdog
3.53/5 rDev -7.6%
Appearance: Black, good sized brown head.
Smell: Roasted malt, mocha.
Taste: Coffee flavor, slight mocha sweetness, back to coffee bitterness for the finish.
Mouthfeel: Pretty light feeling, not as full feeling as some other milk stouts I've had.
Picked up a single of this to try since I like sweeter stouts. It didn't quite hit the mark as the sweeter flavors were overshadowed by the roasted coffee flavors. Not too bad though.
Serving type: bottle
12-16-2011 22:00:53 | More by Mdog
Photo of oline73
3.53/5 rDev -7.6%
Poured from the bottle into a standard pint glass.
Appearance: Pours an opaque dark brown bordering on black. There is a small layer of tan head that fades to a very thin ring around the edge of the glass.
Smell: A touch of sweetness with some dark chocolate an roasty. Not a very strong smell.
Taste: More assertive than the smell. Creamy roast and dark chocolate are the dominant flavors. There is a coffee note in here as well. The finish is roasty and slightly bitter.
Mouthfeel: Medium body with smooth yet tingly carbonation and a slightly dry finish.
Overall: This is a pretty good milk stout. Not quite as smooth as I would have liked, but I enjoyed it just the same.
Serving type: bottle
06-20-2012 00:53:52 | More by oline73
Photo of Greggy
3.58/5 rDev -6.3%
A - tan head over black body. Lacing is present
S - creamy chocolate lactose and great fruity yeast notes
T - milky lactose chocolate and fruitiness. It's not bold but aligns with the nose. Finish is dry and slightly tart
M- low carbonation and thin body
D- an average milk stout. Definitely worth a shot
Serving type: bottle
12-28-2011 02:38:32 | More by Greggy
Photo of DragonzBreath
3.59/5 rDev -6%
This dark creamy stout (oatmeal milk the label says) is a dark rich pour. It had a small tan head that didn't last long, but nice lacings remained. The smokey dark coffee taste was intense and in my opinion, the oatmeal prevents the bitter aftertaste that usually accompanies these stouts. I would buy it again.
Also, nice label. We love it when breweries take the time and effort to market with am imaginative and informative label.
Serving type: bottle
01-13-2013 01:14:16 | More by DragonzBreath
Moo Joos from Brau Brothers Brewing Co. LLC
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"I have known your kind before, Piraka. For more than 100 centuries, I have looked into the face of evil again and again. It sickens me."
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Comic 2: Vengeance of Axonn
Outside/Alt. Title Ignition
Author Greg Farshtey
Illustrator Stuart Sayger
Vengeance of Axonn is the second comic in the BIONICLE Ignition series. The comic was included with the May/June LEGO Magazine in 2006.
The Piraka (minus Hakann) are battling amongst themselves. Zaktan breaks up the fight as the Piraka will not be able to find the Mask of Life if they keep quarreling. After a brief exchange between Thok and Reidak, Zaktan continues and explains that there was a seventh Piraka named Vezon, and that he betrayed them and left. Zaktan orders Reidak and Thok to find him. Thok and Reidak come across the canister that he had used to come to Voya Nui, and deduce that he is not far from there from his footprints. They follow his trail.
Suddenly, the ground splits in two beneath their feet, and they barely hang on to the edge of the chasm. They soon find out that it was caused by Axonn as he picks them up, slams them together and deposits the Piraka on the ground, while relating his disgust for the Piraka and ascertaining their downfall, as well as the fact that Vezon has become a guardian of the Mask of Life. The two Piraka try to fight back, but to no avail. Axonn defends Voya Nui valiantly, but seemingly out of nowhere, Brutaka lands a hard-hitting blow on Axonn, knocking him to the ground. He talks to the defeated warrior, speaking about how he always used to help Axonn when the warrior jumped into action rashly, and that the island now belongs to him.
Elsewhere, six Toa Canisters wash up to the shores of the island. After being hit with lightning from the Red Star, the Toa Inika emerge.
See Also
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BIONICLE Ignition:
2006: Comic 0: Ignition | Comic 1: If a Universe Ends | Comic 2: Vengeance of Axonn | Comic 3: Showdown | Comic 4: A Cold Light Dawns | Comic 5: In Final Battle
2007: Comic 6: Web Comic | Comic 7: Mask of Life, Mask of Doom | Comic 8: Sea of Darkness | Comic 9: Battle in the Deep! | Comic 10: The Death of Mata Nui | Comic 11: Death of a Hero
2008: Comic 12: Realm of Fear | Comic 12.5 | Comic 13: Swamp of Shadows | Comic 14: Endgame | Comic 15: Mata Nui Rising
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It was not the first time there has been a massacre at an elementary school.
Back in March of 1996 a man in Scotland went into an elementary school and killed sixteen children and their teacher before he shot himself. He had been armed with four handguns.
The shooting led to the passage of the Firearms (Amendment) Act 1997 and the Firearms (Amendment) (No.2) Act 1997 in the United Kingdom which banned private ownership of handguns.
The passage of the 1997 gun control laws in the U.K. did cut down on the number of homicides committed with them but it did not prevent massacres. In 2010, Derrick Bird, a taxi driver killed killed 12 people and injured 11 in what is called the Cumbria shootings.
Clearly gun control laws will not stop these kind of killings.
Nor were any of these massacres stopped by the armed citizen.
And they are not particular to any one country although we lead the way in this.
What the countries on this list have in common is that most are Western and all democratic. They are free societies.
Is this tragedy, the ones before and the ones that will come after, the price of living in a free society?
The List:
July 20, 2012: At least 12 people are killed when a gunman enters an Aurora, Colorado, movie theatre, releases a canister of gas and then opens fire during opening night of the Batman movie ‘The Dark Knight Rises’. James Holmes, a 24-year-old former graduate student at the University of Colorado, has been charged in the deaths.
March 10, 2009: Michael McLendon, 28, killed 10 people, including his mother, four other relatives, and the wife and child of a local sheriff’s deputy, across two rural Alabama counties. He then killed himself.
July 18, 1984: James Oliver Huberty, an out-of-work security guard, kills 21 people in a McDonald’s restaurant in San Ysidro, California. A police sharpshooter kills Huberty.
(Via Aljazeera)
Thanks to Dan Gresham and his afternoon radio show. It made me think about this tragedy in another way.
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• Morning Bell: 10 Ways to Lower Gas Prices
The average price of a gallon of regular gas is now $3.66, and has been decreasing for eight straight weeks. This is causing some of the President Obama’s advisors to declare energy prices an irrelevant issue. Political advisor David Axelrod recently tweeted: “Gas prices have been going down for the past six weeks. You think the GOP will blame the President?”
In those six weeks, the only significant energy policy change at the White House was to make new coal production nearly impossible and thus vastly increase the cost of electricity. So, it is hard to assign this slight dip to the president after a record 75 straight weeks of prices exceeding $3.00. However, it is true that the president is not entirely responsible for gas prices.
Market and economic conditions play a large role. With unemployment creeping back up, new global turmoil and summer travel on the wane due to a sagging economy, demand is surely dropping. But that does not mean, and has never meant, that the president’s policies or Congressional action does not play any role in gas prices.
After three years of adding regulatory hurdles and blocking exploratory access and development, President Obama’s policies are helping keep prices higher than necessary. Having only three percent of federal land available for oil exploration is not a “market condition.”
But we are in luck. There are several steps Congress can immediately take, and President Obama can immediately support, that will help alleviate the pain felt at the pump by American families and would create economic growth, and importantly, jobs.
In a new paper, Heritage’s Herbert and Joyce Morgan Fellow, Nick Loris lists ten actions Congress could immediately take that would help improve gas prices in the short term and the long term:
1. Lift offshore and onshore exploration and drilling bans: We remain the only nation in the world that has placed the majority of its territorial waters off limits to exploration. Congress should lift the ban on exploration in the eastern Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, and conduct more lease sales off Alaska’s coasts.
2. Approve Keystone XL: The Keystone pipeline has bipartisan support and continues to be consistently popular, polling at 60 percent in November 2011 and 57 percent in late March. 69 Democrats joined House Republicans on a vote of support in April with Rep. Dennis Cardoza (D-CA) saying: “I think the president has made a very serious mistake here.”
Yet, President Obama continues to block it and the jobs that come with it. Had Obama not delayed approval, up to 830,000 barrels of oil per day would have come from Canada to Gulf Coast refineries by as early as 2013. That’s more than we bring in from Venezuela, our fourth largest importer.
4. Permitting process: The processing time for an Application for Permit to Drill (APD) extends well past the 30-day time limit. Loris recommends: “Congress should require the Department of the Interior to honor the law’s deadline unless the Interior finds fault with the application…[and] should ultimately transition the permitting process to state regulators, who are best able to balance economic growth and environmental well-being.”
5. Issue leases on time: Rather than implementing an efficient leasing process, the Department of the Interior keeps adding administrative regulations to make the process more burdensome and bureaucratic. Congress should remove unnecessary red tape and if Interior fails to issue a lease within 60 days, it should be considered issued by default.
7. Stop the land grab: Through Secretarial Order No. 3310, the Department of Interior is unilaterally and arbitrarily classifying federal land areas as “Wilderness” or “Wild Lands” restricting access to new drilling areas, preventing production on existing leases and halting economic growth. Congress should permanently block Secretarial Order No. 3310 and any similar designation should require congressional approval.
8. Implement 50/50 revenue sharing: States receive 50 percent of the revenues generated by onshore oil and natural gas production on federal lands and Congress should apply this allocation offshore as well. This would encourage more state involvement in drilling decisions and help state economies, whether by closing a deficit or aiding coastal restoration and conservation.
10. Repeal the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS): Soon, refiners will be fined when the amount of ethanol mandated exceeds the amount that can be refined for use but the mandate requires production of cellulosic ethanol, which no companies have been able to viably produce commercially. As a result, refiners paid more than $6 million in waiver credits or surcharges in 2011. It is an economic and environmental disaster and must be repealed.
President Obama is keen to accept credit for the windfall of oil production in North Dakota and in other private areas outside federal control, where jobs are plentiful and unemployment has plummeted. Meanwhile, production on federal land is decreasing and regulatory conditions are worsening. It would be to the president’s benefit to embrace some or all of these reforms that could immediately help American families filling up the minivan. Another 75 weeks with gas prices over $3.00, and household goods and food costing more as a result, will not help an already anemic recovery.
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1. glynnda says:
Sure Heritage, I know he'll jump right on it….and even if Congress tries to force the issue, the Senate will block it…….The smart thing to do would be to encourage Mr. Romney to pick up on these 10 items and have him MAKE them an issue that can be demonstrated to the public both for energy issues and for the ridiculous regulatory burdens that government puts on business.
2. none says:
How about increasing the value of our currency? (Being as its devaluation has been the largest contributor to the increasing price of nearly everything of tangible value.)
3. toledofan says:
Great article but I think you missed the most important reason and that's as long as Obama and the Democrats control the Whitehouse and the Senate nothing will change. So, to reduce the cost, Obama needs to be voted out, the Senate Democrats need to be sent packing and Americans need to let the country heal by tuning the Democrats out in general.
4. Chan Brown says:
and speculation influence?…..how about making the futures boys take possession of the product?…
5. Bill_n_Baltimre says:
How about drilling in ANWR ?
6. Victor Barney says:
7. Oh yeah rape and loot the wildlife. Burn the forest to the ground. Destroy the Ogala Aquifer. Oh and of course to make big bucks for the oil company, gas company and the day traders.
• Tip says:
• dodger says:
Nobody's going to "rape and loot" the wildlife or "burn the forest to the ground" and you know it. Also, the Ogallala (note correct spelling, Thomas) Aquifer already has literally hundreds of pipelines for different products running through it. As to oil/gas companies and day traders, without them we'd have NO gas! Here's a link to a map showing the existing & proposed pipelines:
• Fargoguy says:
Those are incredibly well-thought out comments . . . . do you have any other pearls of wisdom like,"We should go back to horse-drawn carriages to protect the environment!"
8. Earl Jones says:
Unfortunately these 10 things will not occur within this administration, they are against the policy of making this a socialist state. I'm not even sure Romney is the guy to pull it off, perhaps if he gets elected he will sign mass "executive orders" putting all or most of these items in play.
9. jaxon345 says:
you forgot the # 1 way-Get Obama out of office.
• Juan Martinez says:
and you forgot the #2 way: start a war against an oil-rich country (justified of course, as self-defense), invade and conquer it, spend our soldiers' lives to occupy it for 8 years, and try to convert it into a vassal state that offers us lots of cheap oil. That worked well for the last guy in the White House.
• Canger says:
Keep in mind, although I see and understand what you are saying, we wouldn't have to search/war/depend on those occupied countries nearly as much if we could just get access to our own natural resources.
10. Gordon says:
There are actually only two ways to reduce the price of Gas. One is to reduce demand and the other is to increase the supply. You have given 10 ways to increase the supply.
• Taylor says:
You're 75% correct. Increasing supply has little effect on prices for products with steep demand curves, those are products with high demand and few suitable alternatives. I would argue strongly that gasoline has a very steep demand curve. Therefore the best way to reduce prices would be to address the high demand. Congratulations on being 50% more right than the author of this blog.
11. Tom Elliott says:
I'm surprised Heritage missed the most critical component of all: inflation. If you look at a chart showing gas priced in gold, the price is falling: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/guest-post-about-th
The weakening dollar more than accounts for the overall rise in energy prices over the last three years.
• Pragmatic says:
This is false. Gold does not have a fixed value it floats just like other commodity prices (including oil). For your argument to work, all other currencies would have to be being devalued as well. There are obvious supply side issues and uncertainty – hence the increase in oil prices.
Further, treasury bonds are being sold at 1.5% interest. If investors were really worried about inflation they wouldn't be parking their money in treasuries at that low of an interest rate.
12. docboyer says:
Obama's agenda has not changed. First bankrupt America then bankrupt its citizens. The declare America
is a socialist country because capitalism didn't work. It is a short jump from socialism to dictatorship.
13. Jim says:
Obama is not entirely responsible for high energy prices. As he works to destroy our economy, that is putting downward pressure on energy demand and energy prices! ;-)
14. Century22 says:
I'll forward this article to my clueless Senator Brown in Ohio.
I have already reprimanded him for his STUPID ideas of more taxation and regulation.
Most of the ideas listed I have already told him about.
• EFWOSU says:
Libtard Brown's days are numbered as well. Most of his actions go against what is best for Ohio. There's not much he wants more than Cap and Trade.
15. Jeanne Stotler says:
He gave lots of money to Brazil for their refineries and drilling "We will be your best customer" that money should have gone to refurbishing our refineries and opening drilling up on federal lands. If we had done that you would have seen oil by OPEC drop quickly. We have the resources, we just need regulations relaxed so we can use them.
16. Ed Johnson says:
Require a single gasoline blending formula for all 50 states instead of allowing each state to have their own formula. This would significantly improve refining efficiency and the ability to minimize inventory shortages across state lines.
• sss says:
A Petition should be on this ASAP.
• Pat says:
While I understand where you're coming from, this isn't as good of a solution as it sounds. I don't want the same fuel in January here in Northern Wisconsin as you'd buy in Arizona. If you brewed it for up here, you'd complain of lack of power and poor mileage down there. Conversely, if you gave me the fuel from down there on a day that hit -20, my truck would barely run. In short, not all different fuel blends are the product of the epa, some are done to improve vehicle operation.
17. sue says:
The prices are not going down here in Utah. Where are they going down? Ours have been relatively low and are now increasing weekly. Sue
18. While there may be ways to lower gas prices, there are also plenty of ways to CONSERVE gas and thus pay less for it:
1: Ease up on the gas pedal and the brake. It is more fuel-efficient to drive in a gentler manner, rather than stomping on the accelerator as soon as the light turns green, and slamming on the brakes as soon as you come to a red light or a stop sign.
2: Drive a little slower. Everyone should know by now that you can get much better MPG at 55-60 mph than you will if you go screaming down the interstate at 85 mph.
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3: Buy a more practical vehicle. Sure, a luxury SUV is going to be comfortable, and no one is going to fault someone for buying a vehicle big enough to accomodate a large family. But if you're just driving yourself to work, use a smaller car. On the other hand, if comfort and convenience are all that are important, don't complain about the price of gas.
4: Invest in a bicycle, or just start walking a little more often. There's no point in jumping into your SUV and driving a mile to the 7-11 whenever you're in the mood for a Slurpee. Start flapping your own two legs a little more often. It's good for your health, the environment, and it's easier on your wallet.
20. I agree we also must decrease the demand for gasoline by requiring the car makers to build more energy efficient cars and trucks. They need to speed up the increases in the cafe standards or mpgs for these vehicles.
21. Eagle's Perch says:
If you were OPEC who would you want to have in the White House next January? Easy. Obama because he wants high gas prices. How would you help get him there? Create a horrible problem to make people feel badly about him and then miraculously solve it to make them feel good about him. Why not inexorably raise the price of crude oil so Obama's policies re no drilling, and no Keystone project, etc. raise gasoline prices and become a big issue for Republicans to blame Obama about and then just out of nowhere allow oil prices to come down big time just into election season. That would take the issue off the table and away from Republicans and make them look stupid and make people feel good about their president and want him to stay in office, would it not?
22. nick says:
You missed one.
11. Stop printing extra dollars at the Fed.
23. ken says:
Why not allow cars like Ford makes to sell in South American, which get in the neighborhood of twice the amount of mileage as those made for our use, to be sold here. The EPA Standards would still be met if they were computed on a per mileage basis.
24. Ed Johnson says:
Overide the numerous and different gasoline blending requirements individual states have required. This alone would save money in the refining process and also improve supply evenness across all states. This saving should result in lower gasoline prices.
25. Bobbie says:
Lift the regulatory bans that obama put in place! TODAY! Obama doesn't take responsibility for what he is responsible for! Hold him accountable! How much profit does the government make off the oil industries compared to the industries themselves INCLUDING EXXON as they've lowered themselves to be conflicts of their customers interest.
• Pragmatic says:
"How much profit does the government make off the oil industries compared to the industries themselves…"
They don't. In fact, our government subsidizes the oil companies and then taxes us on gas consumption. The oil companies also have really low effective tax rates.
• Bobbie says:
how much subsidies does oil get compared to green energy and what amount of those oil subsidies goes into research compared to green energy that pockets their subsidies to stay afloat of their wasteful inefficiencies who's interference is driving astronomical costs to efficient energy? The President has the power to fix this. NOW!
26. GoodOleBoy says:
So the states get 50% of proceeds, then why do land owners get 1/8 ? Anyway if Romney wins and the Senate stays Democrat Romney can do what obama has done. Executive orders and use the EPA to backpedal and strip away roadblocks.
27. DanJ1 says:
The single biggest contributer has to be Obama and his Fed's monetary policy but there are many more. The most thorough analysis can be found here: http://blog.reasonablethinkers.com/2012/03/12/whe
28. Mike88 says:
I have a much better idea concerning the Federal Permitting Process for drilling , totally eliminate the Federal Permitting Process and have the individual States issue permits to oil or natural Gas companies for Drilling or fracking. We need to get less Federal Control not keep the status quo. The Federal Department of energy was created in the 1970's to help the united states become less dependent on Foreign Oil, that apparently hasn't worked out so well for the united states has it. Today we are even more dependent on Foreign oil then we were back then, that means the status quo hasn't worked out very well. The individual States could oversee the drilling process much better then the Federal Departments because they know what their state needs.
29. malcolm says:
Bush's fault the gas prices are going down!
30. Blair Franconia, NH says:
31. Walter Bowen says:
Numbers 7 and 9 are straight out of the United Nation's Agenda 21 Handbook!
32. Barbara says:
I'd like to know where to get gas at under $4.00 a gallon. We pay $4.20 here in our town in Oregon. That's $.10 a gallon more than last week. Not going down yet here.
33. Public_Citizen says:
lets see….. My business is already producing the maximum amount of product that my plant is capable of using currently available technology but the law requires me to produce even more than that AND to use a mandated process that science has been unable to develop to something larger than laboratory research scale.
As a business owner responsible to a board of directors and stockholders I have to do everything I reasonably can to control costs. The government intends to FINE me [increase my operating costs] for not doing meeting an arbitrary bureaucratic target based on wishful thinking [no matter how well intentioned it is still based on fairy-tale logic]. It seems that my only prudent course of action is to eliminate this too costly business and find some more profitable and less subject to whimsical government predation place to invest the shareholders money.
This will lead to a further decrease in the production of ethanol and guarantee that the publicly stated goal becomes even more costly to the consumer.
34. PacRim Jim says:
You forgot one:
Never vote for a Democrat.
35. Rod says:
Here in California the cheapest gas I have found so far is $4.03 a ga. I would be over joyed if I could get gas for $3.50
36. ray says:
do not use gas and gasoline interchangably.
37. djw663 says:
There is absolutely no reason why gas should be over $2.00 per gallon. I have worked in this industry for the past 25 years and the regulations, especially in CA, are killing the small business' not to mention that the federal gov't, the state and the credit card companies all make more money off the fuel that the gas stations sell than they do! Why should entities that have no financial risk (except the CC companies) make more money off the fuels stations than the station owner? If the roads where in great repair I don't think anyone would care, but to have more damage done to vehicles each year thatcosts more money to fix the cars because of the roads being in such poor shape than it would cost to fix the roads is just another failed gov't project.
38. kevin says:
Gee, don't we need to ween ourselves off of fossil fuels. This was talked about in the 70's already. Oil is traded globally. As long as global demand increases they have us. Oil will continue to be more expensive to get and harder to get. Will we leave a better world for our children? Little things help. Walk, ride a bike if you can. Next time buy a more fuel efficient vehicle. To blame any president is crazy, we have ourselves to blame.
39. Ric109 says:
So your solution to petral prices being too high …is to remove regulations so we can find more petral. Mhm yeah! That's smart. Instead of investing our time in more clean and environmentally friendly fuel sources let's just keep digging up the same crap that we were before. Maybe while we're at it we could have ourselves another jolly old oil spill and kill a few more species of macro-organism. Don't forget about that beautiful global warming. Gotta speed that up even more. Looks like someone didn't watch captain planet as a child.
The problem isn't with the president. It's with minds like yours …hell bent on sucking the very life from our ecosystem so that you can keep your car running.
Americans. The oil hungry disease plaguing this planet.
40. Taylor says:
You seem to have an extensive knowledge of the supply side of gasoline. However you completely ignore simple economic theory in your approach to reduce gas prices. Gasoline for vehicles has an incredibly steep demand curve due to the fact that there is a high dependency and limited suitable alternatives. Regardless of the supply, as long as there is demand companies can charge whatever they want and still turn profits. No serious individual would have an entire list of ways to reduce gas prices and not even mention pursuing alternative fuels or electric cars…
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September 6th 2012 | Tags: programming ruby
Bundler is pretty darn good. Installing all your gems globally sucks. bundle install --path does a great job of fixing that but it means you need to bundle exec any shell commands you want to run, which again sucks. There are lots of attempts to fix this, but they're all fairly convoluted.
I'm a fan of simpler solutions wherever possible. I use zsh as my shell, which has a handler you can hook into if the command you're trying to run is not found. It's a simple matter to hook that into a custom shell script from your ~/.zshrc:
function command_not_found_handler() {
~/bin/command-not-found $*
I know bash supports this kind of handler (Ubuntu uses it to provide command helpers for not-yet-installed programs) but I don't know the exact details. Alas, my favorite shell ever, fish, only provides the executable to its corresponding helper, so while it can suggest an alternate command, it can't auto-correct it.
My script happens to be in Ruby, but it could just as easily be a standard shell script as all I'm doing is some file existence tests:
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# ARGV is the entire command we wanted to run, but we
# really only care about the actual executable for fallbacks
command = ARGV.first
def run(cmd)
$stderr.puts "Running #{cmd.inspect} instead"
when File.exist?("./.bundle/config") && File.exist?("./bin/#{command}")
run("bundle exec #{ARGV.join(' ')}")
exit 127
Now, as long as you're being sure to bundle install --binstubs it should Just Work. And because it only functions if you're in a directory that's been bundled, you don't run into the security risks that you would by trying to get ./bin added to your $PATH directly.
Lastly, the case statement instead of an if is a bit redundant in the simple case above, I've actually got a few more filters for things like isolate and git - don't forget to quote anything that might need space literals:
# Paste git repo url to clone it
when command =~ /^git(@|:\/\/).*\.git$/
run("git clone #{command.inspect}")
# paste compressed url to download+extract it
when File.exist?("./tmp/isolate/ruby-1.8/bin/#{command}")
run("rake isolate:sh['#{ARGV.join(' ')}']")
Joining Git Repositoires
May 15th 2012 | Tags: git
Moving files
% mkdir -p doc/api_docs
% for file in <files/dirs to move>;
do git filter-branch --tree-filter \
Merging the repos
% git log --oneline | tail -n 1
e7c9feb Initial commit
% git checkout e7c9feb
% git checokut -b doc_import
% git clone --bare myapp-bare
% cd myapp-bare
% git fetch -f ../api_doc_site for_transplant:api_docs
% cd ../myapp
% git remote add bare ../myapp-bare
% git pull bare api_docs
Parsing JSON in SQL
November 19th 2011 | Tags: ruby rails sql
The Problem: You have a database column with some data serialzed as JSON in it that you'd like to pull out into its own column to index it.
The Solution: Run a data migration to pull the value out. Table has 5 million rows and you don't want to round trip all that data through ActiveRecord? Just parse the json directly with some SQL:
def json(key, field='params')
key_json = "\"#{key}\":"
# key start/end locations, including ""
k_a = "LOCATE('#{key_json}', #{field})"
k_z = "LOCATE('\"', #{field}, #{k_a}+1)" # this is terminating "
# is there a space after colons?
spad = "IF(LOCATE('\": ', #{field}), 1, 0)"
# is value a string?
val_string = "LOCATE(CONCAT('#{key_json}', IF(#{spad},' ',''), '\"'), #{field}, #{k_a})"
qpad = "IF(#{val_string}, 1, 0)"
# value start/end locations, excluding "" if present
v_a = "(#{k_z}+1 + 1 + #{spad} + #{qpad})" # 1 for colon, spad for optional space, qpad for possible quote
end_if_string = "LOCATE('\"', #{field}, #{v_a})"
end_if_not_string = "IF(LOCATE(',', #{field}, #{v_a}), LOCATE(',', #{field}, #{v_a}), LOCATE('}', #{field}, #{v_a}))"
v_z = "IF(#{val_string}, #{end_if_string}, #{end_if_not_string})"
value_string = "SUBSTRING(#{field} FROM #{v_a} FOR (#{v_z} - #{v_a}))"
"IF(#{k_a}, #{value_string}, NULL)"
up do
execute "
UPDATE model_table
SET status = #{json('status')}
The generated sql looks pretty gnarly but mysql ran through it stupidly fast. I shudder to think how long it'd take activerecord to load and update each record individually.
Isolating Rails
January 19th 2011 | Tags: rails ruby
Rails 3 is now very friendly with regards to dropping Bundler support, only loading it if it's installed and a Gemfile exists. Since Isolate is so awesome, I thought I'd just drop a quick script in here to convert an existing Rails app to use Isolate instead of Bundler.
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require 'fileutils'"Isolate", 'w') do |isolate|
File.readlines("Gemfile").each do |line|
next if line =~ /^\w*#/
next if line =~ /^source/
next if line =~ /^\w*$/
line.sub!(/, :require.*(,|$)/, '\1')
line.sub!(/^([ \t#]*)group/, '\1environment')
if line =~ /:git/
line = "# Don't use git, build it as a gem\n# " + line
isolate.puts line
end"config/boot.rb", 'a') do |boot|
boot.puts("require 'isolate/now'")
This should convert an existing Gemfile to an Isolate file, remove the Gemfile (so that rails won't try to load it), and update the app to load Isolate appropriately.
I'm basically only guessing that the group/environment setup is correct, so if anyone has any corrections to this let me know and I'll update it.
Migrating Disqus
December 22nd 2009 | Tags: blog
In changing this blog over to jekyll, my urls changed (there's now a trailing slash). Easy enough to tell google about it, just set up redirects, but there's no easy way to tell Disqus about it so my comments migrate over.
The good news is that it's pretty straightforward using their API, the only bad news is that I can't delete the new threads auto-generated for the new urls, so I'm just moving them out of the way.
I'm using the HTTParty gem to wrap API access, like so:
require 'rubygems'
require 'httparty'
require 'json'
class Disqus
include HTTParty
base_uri ''
format :json
def initialize(key, version='1.1')
@key = key
@version = version
def auth
{:user_api_key => @key, :api_version => @version}
def get(action, opts={})
result = self.class.get("/api/#{action}/", :query => opts.merge(auth))
def post(action, opts={})
result ="/api/#{action}/", :body => opts.merge(auth).to_params)
p result
Do note that I'm adding trailing slashes to the api calls to avoid a redirect. Doesn't matter for the GET, but the redirect on POST was causing issues.
With this in hand, I'm grabbing my forum, looping through the threads, and renaming any that have comments (a whopping 3 of them).
key = "secret" # get yours at
disqus =
forum = disqus.get(:get_forum_list).first # I just have one
forum_api_key = disqus.get(:get_forum_api_key, :forum_id => forum["id"])
start = 0 # manual pagination, eww
loop do
threads = disqus.get(:get_thread_list, :forum_id => forum["id"], :start => start)
break if threads.empty?
threads.each do |thread|
posts = disqus.get(:get_thread_posts, :thread_id => thread["id"])
next if !posts.empty?
target_url = thread["url"]+"/"
# There's another thread in the way...
if other_thread = disqus.get(
:forum_api_key => forum_api_key,
:url => target_url
# free up the url we want to use
:forum_api_key => forum_api_key,
:thread_id => other_thread["id"],
:url => target_url + 'old'
# update thread url
:forum_api_key => forum_api_key,
:thread_id => thread["id"],
:url => target_url
start += 25
Et voilà, old comments are in the right place now.
Jekyll: Custom Liquid Tags
December 4th 2009 | Tags: blog
The base install of Jekyll at the moment doesn't let you run any arbitrary ruby code. This is so that they can use it for github pages and not need to worry about making a super-secure sandbox just to generate some HTML.
Unfortunately, that means we're out of luck for creating custom liquid filters. The most annoying deficiency for me is tags. The way the default liquid map filter works isn't friendly with @site.tags, so to generate my Tags page I had to do some really crazy stuff with capture:
<div id="articles">
{% for tag_ in @site.tags %}
{% capture tag %}{{ tag_ | first }}{% endcapture %}
<tr><th>{{ tag }}</th>
<th><a name="{{ tag }}" class="anchor"> </th></tr>
{% for post in @site.posts %}
{% if post.tags contains tag %}
<tr><td>{{ | date: '%b %e, %Y' }}</td>
<td><a href="{{ post.url }}">{{ post.title }}</a></td></tr>
{% endif %}
{% endfor %}
{% endfor %}
Fortunately, it wasn't to hard to make a fork, and in my fork I added a super simple code loading option. Now, I can add a quick extension in _lib/filters.rb like so:
module Jekyll
module Filters
def keys(input)
def tagged(input, tag){|post| post.tags.include? tag}
Now tags.html looks like this:
<div id="articles">
{% for tag in @site.tags|keys|sort %}
{% for post in @site.posts|tagged:tag %}
{% endfor %}
{% endfor %}
There's a bit of trickery there that liquid doesn't document very well on lines 3 and 5 - in the second half of the for block you can chain filters on the collection you're iterating over. The short format used is something along the lines of collection|filter:arg,arg,arg|filter...
Similarly, I had some ugly code in my regular archive page to group by year and put headings in:
{% for post in site.posts %}
{% unless %}
<tr><th>{{ | date: '%Y' }}</th><th> </th></tr>
{% else %}
{% capture year %}{{ | date: '%Y' }}{% endcapture %}
{% capture nyear %}{{ | date: '%Y' }}{% endcapture %}
{% if year != nyear %}
{% endif %}
{% endunless %}
{% endfor %}
Now, a few extra liquid filters later, it looks like this:
{% for post in site.posts %}
{% if post|last_of_year? %}
{% endif %}
{% endfor %}
If you want to get easy extensions in your own project, rather than maintaining Yet Another Jekyll Fork, please vote up my merge request on github.
As a side note, blogging about liquid is a pain. The least pain I've found so far is to use liquid to output the leading open brace for all tags. Looks like garbage in my text editor, but it gets the job done:
{{'{'}}{ post.title }}
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Written by Seth Rorabaugh on .
-We're posting this before it gets pulled down. Shea Weber doing the greatest thing in the history of mankind. Putting a shot throug the net:
-Canada 8, Germany 2. There supposedly was a game between Canada and Germany but you would never know it by this story. Pretty much the only thing is CROSBY-OVECHKIN!!!! NHL.com's recap.
-It's Team Geno vs. Team Sid. Who ya got?
-Canada finally found a winger for SIdney Crosby. It was Eric Staal, the guy the Penguins passed up to draft Marc-Andre Fleury in 2003. FIRE CRAIG PATRICK!!!!
-"It’s going to be intense." - Sidney Crosby on facing Russia today.
-Canada hasn't beaten Russa in the Olympics since 1960.
-Did Canada luck out by getting an extra game before the quarterfinal round?
-In Chicago, defensemen Duncan Keith and Brent Seabrook are a pair. With Canada, they're separated.
-Crosby ready to bear down on Germany's Thomas Greiss on a penalty shot:
-Crosby beating Greiss:
-Crosby ready for a faceoff:
-Crosby burying a puck:
-A Sidney Crosby fan with a jersey foul:
-Crosby being popular:
-Luongo having a moment:
-Luongo kept his eyes on ths puck:
-Canada's Brenden Morrow gave Germany's Jochen Hecht a ride into the bench:
-A rare bright spot for Germany and Marcel Goc:
-Luongo (and we assume Weber) being popular:
-Luongo's head being popular:
-Canada's Martin Brodeur trying to gouge out the eyes of Luongo so he can play congratulating Luongo:
-Canada's Chris Pronger just looking mean:
-Luongo and Greiss having a moment:
-Evgeni Malkin and Sergei Gonchar are good people.
-German defenseman Christian Ehrhoff picks Russia over Canada.
-Switzerland 3, Belarus 2, SO. The Swiss don't play boring games. NHL.com's recap.
-Switzerland's Jonas HIller making a the winning shootout save on Belarus' Sergei Kostitsyn:
-HIller kept his eyes on this puck:
-Hiller going All Valley Karate Championships:
-Happy times for Switzerland's Romano Lemm:
-Happy times for Switzerland. Not so much for Kostitsyn:
-More happy times for Switzerland:
-Happy times for this Swiss fan:
-Belarus' Andrei Mezin had issues with this puck:
-Mezin and a teammate handled this puck without issue:
-Switzerland's Hnat Domenichelli beating Mezin:
-Switzerland's Thomas Deruns beating Mezin:
-Happy times for Deruns:
-Handshake line:
-Team Miller vs. Team Hiller. Who ya got?
-"I think the pressure is off for us." - Switzerland captain Mark Streit on facing the United States.
-"[Switzerland] has the least to lose in this. ... They're playing with house money." - United States coach Ron Wilson.
-Team USA could be called Team Michigan.
-Czech Republic 3, Latvia 2, OT. Jaromir Jagr left the game in the second period due to a neck ailment. NHL.com's recap.
-Jagr looking rather uncomfortable:
-Czech forward Tomas Fleischmann had issues with Latvia's Kristaps Sotnieks:
-Happy times for Czech forward Tomas Rolinek:
-Happy times for Czech defenseman Marek Zidlicky, left, and forward David Krejci:
-Czech defenseman Pavel Kubina cracked Latvia's Lauris Darzins in the face with his stick:
-Happy times for Latvia's Mikelis Redlihs:
-This is what made Redlihs happy:
-Latvian goaltender Edgars Malsaskis being consoled by teammates:
-Slovakia 4, Norway 3. The Norwegians didn't go down without a fight. NHL.com's recap.
-Slovakia forward Lubos Bartecko was injured when he slammed his head off the ice after being elbowed in the head by Norway defenseman Ole-Kristian Tollefsen.
-Scary times for Bartecko:
-Slovakian forward and former Penguin Miroslava Satan being popular:
-Happy times for Slovakia. Not so much for Norway:
-Slovakia's Lubomir Visnovsky was roughed up by Norway's Marius Holtet:
-Happy times for Norway's Pal Grotnes:
-This photo of Grotnes and captain Tommy Jakobsen is just unfortunate:
-"We can go home with our heads high." - Norway forward/god Tore Vikingstad.
-Happy times for Vikingstad:
-Happy times for Norway's Anders Bastiansen:
-Norway's Martin Roymark mashed Slovakia's Richard Zednik into the boards pretty good:
-Grotnes had some improvisationa art on the back of his lid:
-Hand shake line:
-Jakobsen and Slovakia's Jaroslav Halak being sportsmen:
-Today's "NBC is Horrible" note is brought to you by Coyotes forward Radim Vrbata.
-The Penguins (remember them?) practice today at Southpointe beginning at 5 p.m.
-We haven't had one of these in a while. Will the Penguins bring back Colby Armstrong?
-Brad Thiessen made 17 saves for the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins in a 2-1 loss to the Portand Pirates.
-The Penguins had a six-game winning streak snapped.
-Happy 37th birthday to former all-star Penguins forward Alex Kovalev (right). Acquired from the Rangers along with Harry York in exchange for Petr Nedved, Chris Tamer and Sean Pronger, Kovalev was one of the team's most productive players throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s. Over parts of five seasons in Pittsburgh, Kovalev never failed to score at least 20 goals. His finest season as a professional came during the Penguins' memorable 2000-01 campaign when he had a career high 95 points in 79 points. He would appear in two all-star games (2001 and 2003) for the Penguins. An impasse over contract talks led the team to deal him back to the Rangers in the middle of the 2002-03 season along with Mike Wilson, Janne Laukkanen and Dan LaCouture in exchange for Joel Bouchard, Richard Lintner, Rico Fata and Mikael Samuelsson. In 345 games with the Penguins, Kovalev had 347 points, 16th most in franchise history. Kovalev is currently a member of the Ottawa Senators.
Southeast Division
-Capitals owner Ted Leonis is spitting out all kinds thoughts by way of his blog. Today's entry is a snipe at Team Canada for not taking "defense"man Mike Green.
-If you ask us, if Mike Green is on Team Canada, they lose to the United States by at least an extra goal.
-Steve Belkin, a member of the Atlanta Spirit ownership group which controls the Thrashers and the NBA's Hawks, has until tomorrow to come up with $2 million or he'll be booted out of the partnership.
Central Division
-The Sommet Center, the Predators' home Arena, are expected to announce a name change for the venue to Bridgestone Arena today.
Pacific Division
-The Coyotes recalled defenseman David Schlemko and forward Brett MacLean from San Antonio of the AHL.
Adams Division
-The NHLPA finally reached a settlement with deposed executive directory Paul Kelly.
(Photos: Olympics-Luis Acosta/AFP/Getty Images, Bruce Bennett/Getty Images, Cris Bouroncle/AFP/Getty Images, Harry How/Getty Images, Julie Jacobson/Associated Press, Alex Livesey/Getty Images, Chris O'Meara/Associated Press, Matt Slocum/Associated Press and Jamie Squire/Getty Images; Kovalev-Photobucket)
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Chicago Style Deep Dish Pizza In The Triangle?
crimsondago Dec 26, 2007 05:44 AM
Is there any to be had? I've seen it on the menu at various places but it only amounts to a pan pizza that I could get at Domino's.
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kgb1001001 Dec 26, 2007 06:35 AM
If you're looking for a real deep-dish pizza like at Lou Malnatti's or Giordanos, you won't find it in the triangle. However, there is an Uno's Chicago Grill at Briar Creek that does the same "knock-off" Unos pizza you can get anywhere else in the country at that chain. It's tolerable, but nothing like the real thing. | http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/472845 | dclm-gs1-125230002 | false | false | {
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0.022635 | <urn:uuid:059541bf-5f94-4799-a1a0-14eccf5fdba0> | en | 0.970171 | I hope that we can all remain civil here, even in a politically charged thread. I just can't stand how this country seems to be going. Everywhere I look in the news I see politicians and the media trying to divide us into little groups. Racial, economic, religious beliefs, when can we get back to being Americans first and foremost.
As a military man it just baffles me. We stress unity, despite our differences in the military. What happened to the campaign promises? I'm still waiting to see a bill from congress on the White House's web page to read prior to the Pres. signing the bill into law. Our politicians don't even know everything that is in the bills they are voting on.
I think our Washington's moral compass needs a tune-up.
What do you guys think?
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Politically charged? Sorry, only have Visa and Master Card.
OK, OK. Some people see groups (and those groups are potential voters), others see individuals that should have their own consciences and senses of responsibility.
I think, no matter which side you're on... we all feel there's enormous room for improvement. And, most are just plain disgusted with the whold damn thing! Now, having said that, I for one, don't have a clue as to how to fix it. Unfortunately, I think they call this syndrome, the "Catch 22". :-(
So many things to fix...
I'd like to see a few more political parties legitimized within our system... As we're currently arranged, it is much easier to try to knock down your opponent than to stand on your own convictions. My gut feeling is that 5 total parties would provide enough political diversity without too much confusion at the voter level.
This would, by no means, be a silver bullet but I think it would be a start to true dialogue as opposed to the constant bickering that goes on now.
I agree, Adventurer. This is my big beef with "the system." I sincerely believe that third-party candidates are almost always more qualified for office (at least ideologically), but they never garner the kind of support that they need to win.
And because we know they can't get the support, we throw our votes to one of the two stupid parties that remain standing.
Not to mention the electoral college. When did they ever support another party?
Unfortunately the house rules were written for a two party system. A third party congressman or senator has no influence, parliamentary tools, or clout to do anything of significance. They are powerless. In order to change the rules the TWO PARTIES have to agree on the rules and vote to pass them. Talk about screwed! I used to sit and bemoan the two party system until I took a Poly Sci 200 class and learned about parliamentary rules and the lawmaking process. The only way to change the system is to be a part of the system. Merely getting a third party candidate elected to any one office would be of little more than a historical note. Even a major office like president. A third party president would still be virtually powerless. The media would not play their part in the spin process; the parliamentary house rules would negate him influencing the introduction of any legislation; and he would be a failure in his term in office. Ideology is great but the ability to actually get something done is what is important. We have to change the minds, practices, and consequences of the members in office that are part of the two parties. We are getting close because there are hundreds of thousands of people that are sick of the taxing and over spending. They're pissed at both the Democrats and the Republicans.
From what I've been reading, a lot of people are changing their party affiliation to "independent" until just before the primaries. Then they change to whichever party and after the primary, they switch back to "independent". Not a bad strategy.
There's also a move to completely vote out the incumbents in 2010. This is a great idea.
The promotion of minor parties would have a very positive effect. The Republicrats need to know that they're not the only game in town.
I wish we could start by taking away Washington's Credit Card! While we're at it, confiscate that printer they use for making money. I keep trying to tell my kids that money doesn't grow on trees, I guess some of our politicians parents skipped that lesson.
I've been politically aware and active since I was 12. I've noticed that the American people are lazy. According to the Census Bureau, around 60% of the population is registered to vote. Approximately 83% of the registered population actually votes. That's less than half the U.S. population that votes. To fix the problem there has to be consequences to the broken promises and the corruption in Washington. For that to happen the media has to report it (Not spin it), cult like love and hate has to stop (Not likely), people have to get involved and educate themselves and not rely on the media to do it for them (That wont happen).
In Australia, there's a $300 fine for not voting. The electoral campaign is limited to three weeks, and nobody is allowed to use private or corporate money for their campaigns. There are televised debates on public television, and the moderator is a neutral journalist (if they can find one) who asks really tough questions to everyone. It's a brief, tough slog, and then there's a winner. I would lay down my life to defend the First Amendment, but somehow I feel that if we tried something like that here, freedom of speech is what would kill it.
I still like the non-voting fine. Remember the $300 President Bush 43 gave everyone a few years back? What if he only gave it to voters?
The land of the free and home of the brave? Not so much anymore!
It's tough, and I expect this thread to explode (but it hasn't yet!). I'll bite anyway, and address the specific promise you mention.
IWhy aren't these bills posted on the Internet as promised? It's been 8 months. Web sites are cheap. People in Congress and the White House have word processing just like the rest of us. The only conclusion I can draw is now that the elections are over, the people who made the promises see no point in keeping them.
And who can we blame for this?
I blame restrictions on campaign finance. It may have been unintentional, but by limiting contributions, those in power ensured that anybody who has a shot at a top post must either be a media darling; someone who's been collecting a war chest for many years, and is thus an insider (like them!); or is willing to flout the finance laws by taking anonymous contributions. You can't be an honest outsider with a popular message and get enough cash to advertise yourself. Paradoxical, but doesn't it often happen that people state an intention of doing one thing and end up doing the opposite?
To a lesser degree, I blame the media. It's often easy enough to identify who's a liar, by looking at his past record. But the media decided in our last election that the past didn't matter. At least I didn't see any coverage of the records of any of the Presidential frontrunners, beyond Romney's change in position on abortion.
And to a lesser degree, I blame us, the public. We knew we didn't know enough about the candidates, but how many of us investigated? The reason I don't entirely blame us is that in some cases we investigated and didn't find anybody that seemed honest and responsible. What do you do then?
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On Thursday, NBC aired a live production of the classic musical The Sound of Music. It starred country singer and American Idol winner Carrie Underwood in the iconic role of Maria and True Blood star Stephen Moyer as the stern but warmhearted Captain Von Trapp. The evening was a rousing success for the network. It earned NBC 18.4 million viewers, its best night since 2009.
It was easy to miss that fact, however. Media reports were mostly about the casting of Underwood and her performance. The singer received angry tweets both before and after that can be summed up to “you’re not Julie Andrews.” Other people in social media (at least on mine) got angry that the songs were in a different order than they were in the 1965 film.
The first issue is ridiculous. Characters are not museum pieces. They are played by different performers over time. Should all new versions of Cabaret be avoided because no one else is Joel Grey? Of course not. It’s a wonderful play and people should see it. Besides, Alan Cumming and Neil Patrick Harris, among others, have all received acclaim for their performances as Cabaret’s Emcee. That’s how theater works.
And really, all you need for Maria is an excellent singer who can look a little awkward, out of place, and naïve. I once saw Marie Osmond play Maria, and she brought all of those things into a perfect performance. Underwood did too. Sure, there are trained actors who could have played the role, but few of them could have brought live theater to 18.4 million viewers who may never have seen it before.
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Theater is alchemy. Every production begins with lead: a script. However good the play is, the script is nothing but an empty blueprint, a suggestion of what the play could become in its highest form. Through the hard work of interpretation, casting, set design and creation, and lots and lots and lots of rehearsal, that script is slowly transformed (one hopes) into the gold of a fully realized theatrical production. Like real gold, a good show pleases aesthetic senses while also turning a nice profit.
Perhaps this is the inspiration behind southern California’s newest theatrical group: Alchemy Theatre Company. A long time in the making, Alchemy finally has mounted its first show, Shakespeare’s popular comedy, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” In a gorgeous outdoor setting, Alchemy has transformed this classic tale of fairyland intrigue, ill-advised shapeshifting, and magically manipulated affections into its very first piece of theatrical gold.
This may well be Shakespeare’s most often-performed and most well-known play. While that can be a blessing, it can be hard to find a fresh new take on such a beloved show. Director Jesse Runde succeeds in this undertaking. Runde takes advantage of the outdoor, tree-lined location and the play’s trope of the comical band of misfit actors to create the historically accurate illusion that we are meeting a troupe of thespians in the woods. With a little improv and a lot of fun, our cast transforms from roving actors into the show’s characters right in front of our eyes.
This device smashes the fourth wall, establishing a lovely relationship between audience and actors. To further the relationship, the cast selects an audience member to play the tiny, unpopular role of Egeus. Marked by a red sash over his T-shirt and jeans, the brave volunteer reads most of his lines from the back of the house. It’s a really fun addition that mines humor (gold) out of one of the play’s most blasé characters.
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The four herbally-influenced lovers function as such a unit that it is difficult to mention them separately. Their words and actions bounce off of each other, intertwining like a chain. Thankfully, there is no weak link in this chain, and the charisma among Jeff Lowe (Lysander), Chelsea Harvey (Hermia), Lila Bassior (Helena), and Daniel Conder (Demetrius) is genuine and energetic. Their strange situation builds energy and finally explodes into a dizzying display of staging as the lovers have it out with each other. This is the play’s most entertaining moment, and all four actors fully revel in its fun (as does Puck, who watches with delight).
Speaking of Puck, Chelsea Feller delights in more than just that one scene. Puck is constant mischief, and Feller shines in the fairy’s sense of humor. Tiffany Berg is radiant as fairy queen Titania, especially in her profuse love for – for lack of a better word – Bottom’s ass.
Fairy king Oberon is a difficult role. He seems motivated more out of obtaining a servant from Titania than out of any love or hate of his estranged wife. He starts all the mischief, but takes joy in little of it. Donald Formaneck treads that tightrope admirably (and also does an
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excellent, mostly improvised job as the pre-show’s “Player King”).
What would Midsummer be without Nick Bottom? Perhaps the most popular role in Shakespeare, Bottom is a force unto himself. Yet, there can be a tendency to overdo some of his best moments, especially during his inter-species love affair with Titania. Tyler Campbell resists the temptation to over-overact. The result is a Bottom who honestly loves his fellow players, one we can feel affection for as Titania showers him with her fairyland charms. Then, when he finally arrives to perform with his troupe, we can cheer at his melodramatic yet lovable performance of Pyramus. Campbell has chosen an honest Bottom, and it works.
Alchemy Theater has burst onto the scene with a very strong production. They clearly have talent both on stage and off. There is a (forgive me) Puckish sense of creativity behind this production that I hope will continue as a thread throughout their future productions.
Aside from gold, of course, alchemists also look for the Philosopher’s Stone, that magic rock that can bestow immortality. Theater can bestow immortality. Wonderful performances and plays have a way of living forever in the minds and hearts of an audience. Alchemy is well on its way to theatrical gold, and hopefully it has begun that journey into immortality.
Aug 032013
Every cause has its effect and every effect has its cause.
Damn Yankees, the classic musical currently running at Mysterium Theater, explores exactly what happens when one man obliterates the natural order of things to get what he wants most in the world. Devout Washington Senators fan Joe Boyd wants his beloved team to succeed so badly that he is willing to sell his soul to the Devil to become the great player that will make it happen.
As things mushroom out of control (as they always do in these stories), he learns just how much he has hurt his devoted wife and what real love actually means. It is a beautiful intersection of baseball, time-honored songs, and Faust.
Stories of selling your soul are usually black-and-white morality tales about the dangers of falling for worldly temptation. Damn Yankees turns this trope on its head a bit, choosing to explore what happens when the purity and innocence of the damned soul turns even the Devil’s most effective demoness- sexy and seductive Lola- to his side.
The show’s themes are less “deal with the Devil and you’ll go to hell” and more along the lines of T.S. Eliot’s poetic question, “Do I dare disturb the universe.” Sure, you can change the world; but every little change will come back to haunt you. You don’t know what you have until you lose it.
Three characters drive every moment of Damn Yankees. While Joe Boyd, sweetly played by James Gittelson, it is the man he becomes that takes center stage. That man is the devilishly talented baseball player Joe Hardy, played by Cody Valentine, who comes out of nowhere and uses his demonically-gifted skills to lift the lowly Senators into the highest echelons of baseball. Valentine combines the perfect look of wide-eyed innocence, a strong voice, and just a hint of the wiser understanding that comes from his character’s true history into a touching performance as the heartsick superstar.
Then there’s then man who made it all possible, the man who tempts the older Joe with his forbidden fruit. As the appropriately-pseudonymed Mr. Applegate, Glenn Freeze is revels in his role. Freeze lacks the debonair charm that usually comes with Applegate, but he makes up for it in passion and humor. He particularly shines in his big number, “Those Were the Good Old Days,” a love song to all the most tragic events in history. Laughing as he reminisces about Nero’s fiddling and the plague’s devastation, Freeze fully comes into his own in this show-stopping number.
Lola, the femme fatale sent to seduce and destroy Joe’s soul, is the engine that keeps the story burning. Jennifer Ann marks is given a tough assignment with this one. Lola is constantly changing looks and styles in her grudging effort to ensure Joe’s damnation. She actually may have the strongest story arc of any character as she transforms physically and mentally from Joe’s wanton seductress to his love-struck supporter, all the while carrying the most demanding song and dance numbers in the show.
Marks is up to the task. From her opening exuberance in “A Little Brains – A Little Talent” to her role’s most famous number, “Whatever Lola Wants,” her talent and the manipulative glint in her eye are in full force. Her transformation into Joe’s biggest fan is fully capped off with “Two Lost Souls,” and in this number Marks makes Lola’s new outlook perfectly clear, leaving just a tinge of fear for the consequences of defying her infernal employer.
The supporting characters hold up the leads, performing some of the musical’s most well-known songs. Team manager Benny Van Buren (Scott Rubenstein) is passionate as a loser, and even more passionate as a winner. He leads the show’s signature song, “Heart,” with miles and miles of that substance you just gotta have. His players, Andrew Soto, Julian Ronquillo, Gary DeVault, and Scott Felver all back up their coach’s Heart with animated, fleshed-out characters of their own.
Sherry Domergo brings love, patience, and sympathy to Meg Boyd, Joe’s abandoned wife. Sara Oviyach’s performance as reporter Gloria Thorpe is filled with bright spots. Alice Villa and Glenda Wright are fun additions in their roles as Meg’s support team/Joe Hardy superfans.
There are a lot of brains and a lot of talent in this cast and in this production. Some portions of the script are hopelessly dated and painfully out of place for modern audiences, but this cast seamlessly works those sections in, fearlessly understanding that Damn Yankees is part of the musical theater Hall of Fame, and every song must be honored. Choreographer Sonya Randall and director Steve Biggs recognize this, and do a wonderful job keeping the historical period a major part of the show’s style.
Damn Yankees definitely stands as a warning against manipulating the universe for your own ends. At the same time, it tells us of the power of true love. That could be true love of a team, a spouse, or a struggling friend, but love is the ultimate victor. This venerated musical is, in the end, all about “Heart.”
Mar 032013
There is something so special in all things NEW. We spend our lives operating under assumptions and paradigms that have stuck with us for years. Those old paradigms can be about things as minor as our morning shower routine or as major as our religious beliefs and practices. They give us comfort, but they can also rot, transforming from a useful structure into an obstacle that keeps us from moving forward with our physical, mental, and spiritual lives.
But we’ve all had that experience of newness. Perhaps it was a new child that completely changed our lives, knocked the senses out of us, but resulted in a completely revised and healthier view of life. Perhaps it was a new job, one that forced us to think and act in a new way. For many of us, it was a new religion. We have all had that time where we were so excited about all the amazing things we were learning about the Goddess, about the Aesir, about whatever pantheon we attach to that we felt charged with excitement to get out and share it with the world. The Pagan community often refers to this as the “Fluffy Bunny” stage- a stage where everything about the world is rainbows and light and unicorns, and all you want to do is share those rainbows with the entire world.
Godspell, the now classic musical by Wicked creator Stephen Schwartz, opened this weekend at Mysterium Theater. It is an energetic, beautiful, and thoughtful portrayal of the Fluffy Bunny stage of Christianity. It really doesn’t matter what your religion is, anyone with a heart can connect with the love, excitement, and sheer ecstasy that comes from this musical as it plays and experiments with the art of newness, the art of fluffiness. The apostles of Godspell are just as supercharged about their messiah as the stereotypical 16 year old Gothic chick is about her first reading of Scott Cunningham, and this production surrounds us with that amazing excitement that comes with freshness.
Mysterium’s production emphasizes the new. The show is based on the Gospel of Matthew, and it features the reactions and development of the apostles as they learn a completely new way of life from their teacher, Jesus. They begin as a useless rabble, but they coalesce into a unified, energized new faith under their new rabbi. This show is supremely adaptable, and Mysterium has added everything from Jesus rapping to multiple renditions of “Gangham Style” to Toy Story references to update the piece and give it a flair of modernity and relevancy.
Torran Kitts leads the performance. His Jesus is intentionally young and innocent, and just a bit goofy. While Kitts joins the chorus for most of the numbers, his leadership is quite clear from the very beginning. The Jesus he present is young but powerful, and he radiates a charisma that helps us really believe that these societal outcasts would truly choose to follow him. This perfect love and perfect trust he honestly establishes with his followers makes his eventual crucifixion- the end of the Fluffy Bunny stage- all the more painful.
Brian Lofting brings a bit of energy and force as both John the Baptist and Judas. While his early proclamation demanding us to “Prepare Ye” for the coming of the Lord is a bit underwhelming, his strength improves as the story moves on. By the time we see him betray his good friend, with that friend’s blessing, we have fallen in love with him as a true believer and a compassionate, realistic portrayal of our own fears and earthly concerns. Lofting’s voice isn’t much better than the rest of the cast; his dancing is average, and you can see him sweat throughout the show, but that just seems to add to the grit of the story as it unfolds.
The rest of the cast absolutely glorifies in that fluffy feeling of newnesss and love. Those of us in the audience get this amazing understanding of the thrill and joy that the original apostles felt as they lived with and learned from this crazy young upstart who challenged the codified interpretations of the Law. Each lesson is accepted with love and respect, but each apostle gets the chance to broadcast their own power. The entire chorus opens the doorway to the inspirational love and light that the apostles must have felt as they realized the transformational lessons that their teacher was giving them. Particularly memorable are Kayla Cavaness’ soprano strength, Momoko Sugai’s second act intro, and Luis Ceja’s inspiring rendition of “We Beseech Thee.”
Director Rovin Jay and choreographer Sonya Lane’t Randall capitalize on Godspell’s openness to adaptation. Together, they meld classical elements like John the Baptist’s iconic “Prepare ye the Way of the Lord” number with more modern dance styles and parable interpretations that ride the wave of this show’s improvisational heart. The love that shines through from each number, regardless of the style of choreography, reminds us yet again of the joy that came from each of us as we learned a new religious point of view and broke away from old structures into a fresh new way of thinking, acting, and believing.
That freshness is exactly what this production emphasizes. All of us have had that joyous experience where we realized exactly where our spiritual path was leading us. It reminds us of what it was like to be fluffy bunnies, and taps into the spiritual joy that must have been felt by the early Christian bunnies. At some point we all have to deal with our own crucifixions that force us to see the dark side or our faiths, but this Godspell reminds us that- before all of that pain- we all danced happily in the “Beautiful City.” We have a lot to learn from that city, from that freshness, from that love.
Jan 132013
I have written before about my extensive history with Les Miserables. It was The theater geek musical of my high school years, leading me to a pretty intimate knowledge of the sweeping musical’s ins and outs, its triumphs and- looking at it now from a more mature perspective- its failures. Needless to say, my breath became baited the moment I first saw the trailer for the long-awaited film version.
Quite frankly, I don’t believe it deserves a nomination for Best Picture. It was good. There were some wonderful performances and a few brilliantly poignant moments, but there is more to a Best Picture than acting and moments, especially when the script is handed to you as a proven success. Overall, despite all that was right about the movie, there were too many times when director Tom Hooper simply didn’t take advantage of the wonderful opportunities the medium of film offers over the limitations of the stage, and he seemed to have lost all of his creative juices in the process.
If you are unfamiliar with this musical adaptation of the massive Victor Hugo novel, it’s a story of faith and redemption that questions the idea of shallow, sharp distinctions between good and evil. The good guy, Jean Valjean (Hugh Jackman), is an ex-con and a parole breaker who spends the entire musical running from the law. The “bad guy” is Javert (Russell Crowe), an incorruptible police officer who dedicates his life to capturing Valjean, despite the convict’s demonstrable embrace of all things good.
If nothing else, this central storyline should appeal to a Pagan audience. While the story is told through the filter of Catholicism, it clearly questions what truly qualifies as good and evil and advocates a view that coincides with the Law of Polarity: nothing is black and white; everything is grey. Sometimes breaking the rules is the right thing to do.
Of course, there is a lot more to Les Miz than that. For social activists, there is the story of the downtrodden rising up against their oppressors. This storyline hits hard on the dynamics of youth and their elders, questioning idealism in favor of the moderated wisdom of experience. For romantics, there is a classic love triangle subplot that forces young Marius to choose between a friend and a lover, his passion for his cause and his dreams for his future. Yet all of these plots seem to be rivers contributing to the overall “Is there such a thing as good or evil?” theme, which is a note that often resonates within the Pagan community.
So there is a lot to like here. Hugh Jackman fully deserves his nomination for Best Actor. Valjean is a role of extensive range; it requires a huge vocal range and a vast transition of character as the character transforms from prisoner to businessman to father to sick old man. We all knew Jackman could sing, but this role takes a special voice, and he has it.
Anne Hathaway’s nomination is also richly deserved. The role of Fantine doesn’t have as much range as that of Valjean, but she does sing one the show’s most popular numbers, “I Dreamed a Dream,” and her descent into destruction needs to be honest and believably complete. Hathaway does a wonderful job in this key role.
There are other spot-on performances. The somewhat infamous Sacha Baron Cohen was a brilliant choice for the thieving innkeeper Thernardier, and Helena Bonham Carter is the perfect match as his wife. This couple represents the movie’s much-needed comic relief. Unfortunately, some of their best shtick is directed out of the film, but what the duo is allowed hits the right combination of creepy and hilarious. Daniel Huttlestone is an adorably feisty little Gavroche.
But then there was what was wrong with the film. Let’s start with Russell Crowe. The man can act, and he looks great in his beautiful costumes as Javert moves up in rank over the years, but anyone with ears knows that he was not the right choice. His voice just isn’t up the demands of the music. This becomes clear in his first solo, “Stars.” The song ends with a long, emphatic note that, when properly sung, can send chills down your spine. Crowe’s rendition ends with a soft whimper, so much so that the scene just fades away, not even allowing him to finish the note. This pattern remains for each of his big endings, and each becomes an unsatisfying small ending.
There is so much you can do in a movie that you can’t do on stage. Camera angles can change, flashbacks can help tell the story, scenery can strike our heart and help us understand the setting. And Tom Hooper chose to take advantage of virtually none of that. Almost every solo is an extended extreme close up on the actor. We spend the entire song staring at the details of the actor’s/actress’ face when there is so much more a filmmaker could do with his medium. There is a sweet genuineness to the extreme honesty on each singer’s face, but it’s just too much. I’m much more well acquainted with the inside of Hugh Jackman’s mouth than I ever wanted to be.
The final sequence was a wonderful piece of filmmaking that had everything that these missed moments didn’t have. More of that, and I would be rooting for the movie to win.
One of the biggest advantages of Les Miz is the orchestra. Normally, the music is loud. It serves as just as much of a character as anyone on the stage. The rousing opening jolts you into sudden awareness, and from that point on the orchestra is ever present. However, in the film the music is so soft we barely notice it. The same opening that almost knocks you off your seat in the stage version is quiet and understated in the movie, and it never really rises to its full potential. That was a distinct waste of a good storytelling resource.
There are a lot of Oscar nominations that Les Miserables deserves. Costumes: Yes. Jackman and Hathaway: Yes. Makeup: Maybe. I liked the movie. I just don’t think that, taken as a whole, it fits as an overall example of excellent filmmaking.
Dec 112012
Hans Baldung’s 1508 “Hexen”
For those interested in experimenting with an authentic early 17th century Witches’ Charm: I recommend (with certain cautions) the so-called “Weird Sisters Charm” (well, I so-call it), from Macbeth (c. 1605). Based upon some (I don’t know; maybe 18 years?) study of the “Charm”- it can be used as an Empowering-Spell Invocation; it can be used as a Magickal Energies “Winding Up” (Energy-Raising) instigation. Like Shakespearean Play-Writing in general, it can be enormously versatile- it can range in expression across the gamut of human emotion. It can be exceptionally (almost weirdly) uncanny in its manifestation: and it will manifest, if you call upon it. With the joy of innocence, I believe that it delights in being used freely; addressing the darker manifestations of human experience, it exists in its potency of power. However: the Darker the subject matter of your Working, the more Cautious you need to be in the “Weird Sisters’ Charm” application.
In Act I, scene iii, of Macbeth comes the moment prophesied by the Weird Sisters since the first lines of the first scene: their first meeting with Macbeth (they will meet with him again, later in the play, during the famous Cauldron Scene of Act IV, scene i). After the sound-cue “A drum! A drum! Macbeth doth come!”: the Three Witches (called the “Weyard Sisters,” or the “Weird Sisters,” in the text, after the “Sisters of Wyrd” of Teutonic Legend) enact the “Weird Sisters’ Charm”: “The Weird Sisters, hand in hand, posters of the sea and land, thus do go about, about! Thrice to thine, and thrice to mine, and thrice again to make up nine! Peace! The Charm’s wound up.”
Please notice the nuanced brilliance of that last line: “Peace! The Charm’s wound up.” Almost an instruction to leave off your Spell-Working action, once the Charm has been enacted: Peace; it’s wound up. Nothing further is needed. Just leave the Spell alone now, and trust that your Magickal Intentions are in motion.
Witches “Winding Up a Charm,” in Orson Welles’ Macbeth
Curiously, the Charm can be invoked almost as a Buddhist meditation or as a Benediction: [imagine sitar music behind me, with the slow burning of sandalwood] “The Weird Sisters! Hand in Hand! Posters of the Sea and Land!” and so on. Or it can serve as a joyous celebration of living and merriment; I have fallen into rapture enough to perform the Charm almost like an ecstatic Hare Krishna round. Its versatility and adaptability are marvelous, and I believe that in the sincerity of Witchcraft Experimentation, a certain protection of innocence is conferred upon the invoker. Like Shakespearean writing in general, the “Weird Sisters’ Charm” invites the student to adopt the mindset of a 16th or 17th century individual (in this case, a 17th century Witch), creatively to inhabit the world-view of a Charm-Invoking Jacobean Sorceress. As such, I believe that the “Weird Sisters” of Shakespeare’s play enjoy being called into manifestation, in the Empowerment of their Charm (performed by the pure and the innocent, and the purely innocent Seeker).
However: there is a certain element of wildness, of unloosed elemental furies, implicit in late medieval Witches. This is seen with Prospero, in The Tempest; with the Witch-Dame in Masque of Queens (indeed, with their literary inspiration, Medea in Ovid’s Metamorphoses); this is particularly seen in early visual depictions of Witches, such as the famous “Hexen” [Witches], by Hans Baldung above. If you’re going to Invoke the “Weird Sisters’ Charm,” you need to have a willingness to embrace the Wildness of Nature and Witchcraft (and the potential Wildness of Magickal Response).
The Witches, in Macbeth; do YOU want to be the person who pisses these Ladies off?
Moreover: you need to be 100% certain that you are either operating in experimental innocence- or that you are 100% the innocent party in any Spell-Working which you seek to empower through the “Weird Sisters’ Charm.” Not for nothing is there serious theatrical superstition, that working with the Energies of “the Scottish Play” is not something to be taken lightly. Macbeth deals with dark and troubling issues- with the issue of crimes of violence and murder that humans can create. “The Weird Sisters’ Charm” is therefore ideally suited to address seriously dark and disturbing things, as I have come to believe that the Weird Sisters enjoy being unloosed to enact justice and “karmic blowback.” The darker the issue, the better able They are to handle it.
However: you cannot “play” or “game” the Weird Sisters. If you call Them: the first thing that They will do, is immediately to make an assessment of the situation at hand, and if They decide that you are trying to manipulate Them for nefarious reasons of your own- child, that Weird Sisters’ Charm is upon your head.
The Weird Sisters are infuriated by wickedness, evil, and cruelty, and truthfully love nothing better than to tackle and take down (in inimitable “Weird Sisters” fashion) Doers of Evil.
But they can’t be “played” (this is Macbeth’s final, most fatal mistake: he thinks that he can “play” the Weird Sisters. Oops, poor fool Macbeth: now there’s a Shakespearean Tragedy crashing upon your head). You have to be sure that you are in the “right” before you call upon the Sisters Three as arbiters of justice; because anything dodgy is going to be blown to the surface square-off.
If however, you are an innocent party- or are innocent of any motive beyond a desire to experience, and experiment with, early 17th century Witchcraft Invocation- you might find that the so-called “Weird Sisters’ Charm” of Shakespeare’s Macbeth can work wonders.
Incidentally, my friend Gary came across this cartoon in The New Yorker, and sent me this link: look for the one captioned “The Witches Discover the Wok”; it’s a hoot, and pretty obviously derived from the “Scottish Play!”
Dec 042012
Having “Wound Up” their Charm: “Hail Macbeth! Thane of Glamis and Cawdor! That shalt be King hereafter!”
In their book The Rede of the Wiccae: Adriana Porter, Gwen Thompson, and the Birth of a Tradition of Witchcraft (Olympian Press, 2005), Robert Mathiesen and Theitic discuss the “regular-meter” structure of traditional “Lore-Text”: “the metrical stresses fall on only the first, third, fifth, and seventh syllables, not on the second, fourth, and sixth. We write this pattern as ['-'-'-'].” (p. 59) What Mathiesen and Theitic recognize as “regular meter,” a Shakespearean will call “iambic meter”; meaning a line of verse, composed in alternating “STRESSED/ unstressed” syllables: “ONCE more UN-to THE breach, DEAR friends, ONCE more!” being the first line from the “Once more” speech from Henry V (Act I, scene iii), taught in Shakespeare Schools as an example of perfect “iambic pentameter.”
Shakespeare tends to write in “iambic pentameter,” meaning five groups of “iambs” (STRESSED/ unstressed syllables), resulting in a line of ten “beats” altogether. As Mathiesen and Theitic point out (p. 62), “In the English-speaking world, rhyming couplets in regular meter- as we have termed it- are traditional for literary representations of spells, as in Shakespeare’s Macbeth.” Mathiesen and Theitic go on to examine the “regular meter” structure (the “iambic” structure) of the “Eye of Newt and Toe of Frog” speech, from the Cauldron Scene (Act IV, scene i), as well as various other examples of Witch “Lore” such as Isobel Gowdie’s “Horse and Hattock” Charm, and an 1850s Healing Spell, before going to to consider the “regular meter” structure of some of the more antique of the rhyming couplets found in The Rede.
However much a Shakespearean will recognize “iambic pentameter” (a line of ten beats, of “STRESSED/ unstressed” syllables) as the Bard’s accustomed speech-pattern: Mathiesen and Theitic point out that “Witch Spells” tend to be rendered in sequences of seven; achieved by the tricky and witchy habit of ending each line on a “broken” iamb. Such an example we find in the “Weird Sisters Charm” of Macbeth (Act I, scene iii):
Macbeth’s Witches, “Winding Up” a Charm in their Cavern
“THE weird SIS-ters, HAND in HAND” [the first line of the Charm, consisting of seven syllables, in alternating "STRESSED/ unstressed" pattern, ending with a "broken"or an unfinished iamb]; “POST-ers OF the SEA and LAND” [ditto, as Mathiesen and Theitic say]; “THUS do GO, a-BOUT, a-BOUT” [note the "witchy trickiness" in emphasizing "About, About" at the end, which is a phrase often found in English Witch-Incantation]; “THRICE to THINE, and THRICE to MINE” [again, seven syllables of iambic "regular meter"]; “AND thrice A-gain, TO make UP NINE!!” [The last line requires eight syllables, leading to something interesting-]
The “Weird Sisters Charm” of Macbeth (Act I, scene iii) consists of four lines, of seven syllables each, before concluding in an eight-syllable line, with the Magickal Number of “Nine.” If you do the math: 4×7=28; 28+8=36; 3+6=9.
If you work your way through the text of the Charm: you kind of can’t help making your way through some sort of Magickal Labyrinth, towards some sort of Mystical Conclusion. At this point: “Peace, the Charm’s Wound Up.”
As Mathiesen and Theitic go on to note, the Witches resume this pattern of speech during the famous Cauldron Scene of [Act IV, scene i]; all of which suggests a habit of Witches deliberately speaking “Witchcraft” in a very “BOOM boom BOOM boom BOOM boom BOOM” way: which becomes somewhat hypnotic in a sense; a little meditative; a bit reflective; a little suggestive of rhythmic clapping or even the steady beating of a drum.
Following the example of the “Weird Sisters’ Charm,” at a minimum, you may wish to experiment with writing out “regular metered” Charms, each line of seven syllables, ideally ending with a rhyming couplet [two lines, whose two ending-words rhyme: "A drum! A drum! Macbeth doth come!" is actually a rhyming couplet.] You may wish to experiment with “the Charm” outright (I have some observations for you, if you do, as Part 3). At another minimum: consider the story told in “the Charm.”
The Weird Sisters (who are also “Posters of the Sea and Land,” meaning that they can travel with great velocity- almost like riding Magickal horses- over both sea and land; basically, they can fly) join “hand in hand,” forming a Circle. Now they “thus” go “about, about”: they begin to spin in a Circle. Following the instructions of the text, they go first “one way” three times; then they go “another way” three times; then they conclude “back this way,” three times.
Why do they do this? “Peace. The Charm’s wound up.”
They have “wound up a Charm.”
Now consider what Gerald Gardner says in Witchcraft Today (Magickal Childe Publishing, p. 20): “Witches are taught and believe that the power resides within their bodies which they can release in various ways, the simplest being dancing round in a circle, singing or shouting, to induce a frenzy.”
Dec 012012
Witches from Orson Welles’ Macbeth
“The Weird Sisters, hand in hand, Posters of the Sea and Land, thus do go about, about! Thrice to thine, and Thrice to mine, and Thrice again, to make up Nine! Peace! The Charm’s wound up.”
In Act I, scene iii, of Macbeth, the action of the play gets set in motion “for real” once the Three Witches meet Macbeth. Immediately beforehand, though, they enact an odd little ceremony, pausing to recite the above. What means this strange little instance, and why is it now, at this moment in the show?
Well, presumably, Shakespeare’s audience is going to recognize “Macbeth” as a Witch-Story (meaning, a story with Witches in it), and Jacobean folklore and drama indicate to us that the early 1600s English found “Witches” and “Witchcraft” to be very fascinating things. So presumably, they are going to anticipate some “Witchcraft” in this play (and boy, are they ever going to get it, in the single most famous depiction of Witchcraft in Western Culture, the Cauldron Scene of Act IV, scene i. But that’s not until later in the show.) In the meantime, here’s a tasty appetite-whetting morsel of a Witchcraft Ceremony- a Witchcraft Ceremony that (once you understand the concept of Lore-Text) suggests to my mind nothing so much as: an early 1600s Lore-Text, describing a Witches’ Energy-Raising Ceremony.
The text seems to arrive in response to an unspoken question: What do the Wyrd Sisters do? The imagined answer would seem to comprise the text of the “Weird Sisters Charm” (as I call it).
“The Weird Sisters”: one of the Mysteries and Conundrums of the “Scottish Play” is the number of Identities that the enigmatic Three can encompass (the incredible variety with which they are portrayed on stage and screen testifies to this). At a minimum: Shakespeare’s era does not make hard-and-fast distinctions between Supernatural Entities; however much the Scots legend of “Macbeth” (being obviously Celtic) depends upon the unique Celtic conception of One Magickal Female Who is also Three Magickal Females (or Three Magickal Females Who act as One), a configuration seen, for instance, in popular TV shows- even in the original sources for the legend, whether these Three are Witches or Celtic Faerey-Women is never clear, and by the time of Shakespeare’s Anglo-Saxon Celtic Romanized England, clearly the Wyrd Sisters of the Teutonic Norns had entered the picture. For the record: the Three are identified by the speech prefixes in the 1623 Folio as “First Witch, Second Witch, Third Witch.” There is actually only one instance in the text (a curious and interesting one, in terms of Jacobean Witch-Lore) in which they are identified as “Witches.” The rest of the time, the text calls the Three “the Weird Sisters,” spelled either as “wayward” or “weyard”: indicating dialect pronunciation as well as a certain “out-of-control” quality to their Magicks; like, be careful about invoking Them, because their Entrance into a Magickal Working can be akin to unleashing tempests.
Witches “Posting”
Back to the Unasked Question: What do the Weird Sisters do? Answer: The Weird Sisters, hand in hand (the Sisters join hands; they must form a Witches’ Ring or Circle in doing this, Witches and Faeries both being heavily associated with Circle-Dancing in folklore); Posters of the Sea and Land (“post” being an antique verb used in relation to riding a horse, the implication is that the Witches are riding horses- over both Sea and Land; since this is plainly impossible, it must be metaphoric or Magickal “horses” that the Witches ride- such as perhaps, brooms? The final “take” is that the Witches are describing themselves as having Powers over Earth, Sea, and Air: kind of like Hecate, in earliest Greek myth, actually.) Thus do go about, about! Having formed a Circle by joining hands, the Three begin to spin in a Circle, thus going “about, about!” For the record (please just take my word for this now): “about, about” is a formula that one will encounter often in Elizabethan/ Jacobean Witch-Use; its presence seems to indicate the moment that the Energies will fly “about, about,” or get flung off, through the velocity of the Witches’ Circle, into the universe. Thrice to thine, and Thrice to mine, and Thrice again, to make up Nine!
The suggestion is that the Three are getting more and more “caught up” in their Circle-Spinning, going faster and faster, and even- in most delirious and disorienting fashion- changing directions, from “this way” to “that way” and then “back again.” One can almost begin to imagine a kind of eldritch Vortex or focused Cyclone of Energy beginning to form in their midst. But why do they do this?
The answer to that unspoken question arrives: Peace. The Charm’s wound up.
The Weird Sister Witches have performed this ritual- in order to “wind up a Charm.” Which seems so much to me like what Gerald Gardner described as “Witches raising Energy” in Witchcraft Today, that I think it should be noted.
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Witches “Posting” over Sea and Land
I think that there is a case (given the traditional structures of their respective mediums) to be made for a comparison between William Shakespeare’s Macbeth (c. 1605) and Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 modern horror classic Psycho- in that both masters twist and subvert the established conventions of the Jacobean stage and Hollywood film-making, to create deeply unnerving, anxiously suspenseful atmospheres. Consider for instance, that Shakespeare manages to “start” Macbeth a good four times before the play really begins. It’s not unusual for the Bard to “start” a play a couple of times- Romeo and Juliet “starts” with the Prologue, and then starts again, with servants to the House of Montague getting into a fight with servants of the House of Capulet in the Verona marketplace. But four separate beginnings comes to seem a little schizoid- especially as the Witches appear to be directing the audience through the play’s various openings.
The first characters whom we see in the play are the Witches, who emerge in [Act I, scene i] with the specific objective of announcing that they intend to meet again (a little later), this time to meet with (wait for it) Macbeth. Having promised the audience a soon-to-come Witch-Return: the Witches leave the stage. A canny opening, as Shakespeare’s audience undoubtedly associates the Scots legend of “Macbeth” with “Witches.” (Is there any other character in Western Literature as closely connected to Witches as Macbeth, except for Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz?) Having immediately seen Witches, and eager to see more Witches (and Witchcraft), Shakespeare’s audience will presumably find patience to sit through [Act I, scene ii]: the Exposition Scene.
A somewhat unfortunate tendency with Shakespeare is to start off his plays with an Exposition Scene, or a scene where people explain who they are, and where they are, and what is going on at that moment (Henry V is the most notorious of this category, opening with a group of courtiers discussing the various genealogies of the English king, going back several generations). Persons can develop the idea, therefore, that Shakespeare’s plays are uniformly long, talky, stagey affairs, somewhat unfortunately clouding their opinion before the show properly gets started.
In this Exposition Scene, we learn (in addition to all kinds of other things) that Duncan is King of Scotland; the villain-traitor the Thane of Cawdor has raised a force against Duncan’s just Sovereignty; and Macbeth, noble, valiant Macbeth- has decisively put down the rebellion. (In an ironic touch, our first introduction to Macbeth has the King praising him as a brave and loyal subject; oh poor, foolish Duncan.) In another ironic move, Duncan orders that Macbeth- already the Thane of Glamis- be also awarded the traitor’s title “Thane of Cawdor.”
Image of Witches, “Winding Up a Charm”
Done with this second opening of the show, we meet the three Witches again, at the top of [Act I, scene iii], as they basically discuss how they have spent their time between the first scene and this one, the third. This is the single instance in the show where the Witches are seen purely in terms of stereotypical Jacobean Hags: angry, bitter, vindictive creatures plotting a revenge upon someone who has pissed them off. As with some other instances in the show (such as the grotesque ingredients with which the Witches will brew their cauldron), this portion can be read as a “sop” to the Anti-Witch mindset of the early 1600s English, which “officially” held that Witches were a malevolent plague and scourge to their innocent, hard-working neighbors. However much this attitude may have been debated on a local or individual level (given that so-called “White Witches” or Wise-Women were generally counted on for healing and “positive Magick”), the position of Jacobean authorities (somewhat set by James I himself) was that Witches constituted a social threat, being plotting, dangerous individuals; a smart play-writer like Shakespeare will make certain that he does not dispute this stance.
Or at least not obviously. It is clear from the number of “Magick-Using” Plays of the late 1500s/ early 1600s, that there was considerable interest in Wizards and Witches (Macbeth is one example of many, of plays centered around Magick-Use somehow), and the exciting opportunity to “see” Witchcraft performed on the stage must have been part of this mystique.
Satiric 19th century depiction of Witches as “Posters of Sea and Land”
All the more intriguing then, that- at the final “opening” of the show, when the meeting for which we have been in anticipation since the play’s first opening occurs, namely when the Witches are finally face-to-face with Macbeth- they pause first to conduct a strange little ceremony.
In response to an off-stage sound-cue, “A drum! A drum! Macbeth doth come!” [Act I, scene iii, line 30], which indicates to us, by the way, that the Elizabethans and Jacobeans had drums, though we tend not to think of them as a “drumming culture” (like modern Pagans): the Witches apparently join hands (“hand in hand”), forming a ring or circle, and then recite the following odd ditty.
“The Weird Sisters, hand in hand, Posters of the Sea and Land, thus do go about, about! Thrice to thine, and thrice to mine, and thrice again, to make up nine! Peace! The Charm’s wound up.”
At this moment- Enter Macbeth: “So fair and foul a day, I have not seen.” The Witches greet Macbeth as both the Thane of Glamis and the Thane of Cawdor (surprising him, as he does not know this yet), before making the famous prophecy, that he shall “be King hereafter!” (Thus setting into final motion, the Tragedy.)
What to make of this odd little instance? (A lot of productions apparently don’t know what to make of it, and so cut it from their play-texts; it is actually not often performed in the show, I assume because it seems so strange to people.) But having introduced the idea of Lore-Text: I want to propose the theory that the “Weird Sisters’ Charm” (as I call it) constitutes an early 17th century Lore-Text, that describes (in “Winding Up a Charm”) an Energy-Raising Ceremony.
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Alfred and Bruce are miles outside of town when their car mysteriously overheats. They go to a nearby boarded-up house to find some water for the radiator. Inside they discover a coffin and a very old sunlamp which Bruce accidently breaks. They split up to search when vampire Gustav Decobra exits the coffin and attacks Bruce who changes to Batman. Batman puts a wooden beam through Gustav's chest but finds that his heart is not where it should be. Batman and Alfred hide in the attic while Batman tells Alfred about Gustav who used to be a doctor who believed that hearts could be transplanted. Batman realizes that he may have surgically moved his heart elsewhere in his body. To find it, Batman decides he will fight Gustav vigorously and listen for his rapid heartbeat. Meanwhile Gustav summons bats to attack them in the attic while he bursts through the door. He heads for Alfred but Batman attacks him. The two fight vigorously but Batman cannot feel a heartbeat. The nearby grandfather clock, however, gets louder as the fight progresses. Batman grabs a wooden bow and arrow and shoots the clock where Gustav had transplanted his heart. Gustav dies and Batman and Alfred leave.
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[kawr-i-der, -dawr, kor-]
a gallery or passage connecting parts of a building; hallway.
a passage into which several rooms or apartments open.
a passageway in a passenger ship or railroad car permitting access to separate cabins or compartments.
a narrow tract of land forming a passageway, as one connecting two major cities or one belonging to an inland country and affording an outlet to the sea: the Polish Corridor.
a usually densely populated region characterized by one or more well-traveled routes used by railroad, airline, or other carriers: The Northeast corridor extends from Washington, D.C., to Boston.
Aeronautics. a restricted path along which an aircraft must travel to avoid hostile action, other air traffic, etc.
Aerospace. a carefully calculated path through the atmosphere along which a space vehicle must travel after launch or during reentry in order to attain a desired orbit, to avoid severe acceleration and deceleration, or to minimize aerodynamic heating.
1585–95; < Middle French < Upper Italian corridore (Tuscan corridoio), equivalent to corr(ere) to run (< Latin currere) + -idore < Latin -i-tōrium; see -i-, -tory2
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corridor (ˈkɒrɪˌdɔː)
1. a hallway or passage connecting parts of a building
2. a strip of land or airspace along the route of a road or river: the M1 corridor
3. a strip of land or airspace that affords access, either from a landlocked country to the sea (such as the Polish corridor, 1919-39, which divided Germany) or from a state to an exclave (such as the Berlin corridor, 1945--90, which passed through the former East Germany)
4. a passageway connecting the compartments of a railway coach
5. corridors of power the higher echelons of government, the Civil Service, etc, considered as the location of power and influence
6. a flight path that affords safe access for intruding aircraft
7. the path that a spacecraft must follow when re-entering the atmosphere, above which lift is insufficient and below which heating effects are excessive
[C16: from Old French, from Old Italian corridore, literally: place for running, from correre to run, from Latin currere]
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1590s, from It. corridore "a gallery," lit. "a runner," from correre "to run," from L. currere (see current). Originally of fortifications, meaning "long hallway" is first recorded 1814.
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OT - Barbecook Charcoal - Anyone tried
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Found this on a local Kijiji listing and it got me thinking... maybe it's easier than lighting a LBGE for quick weeknight cooks that are mostly searing things anyway.
Barbecook Charcoal BBQ Grill "Collosea Stainless Steel"
For a couple hundred dollars it's a lot cheaper than a small BGE in the great north and maybe better than putting money into new burners etc. for the old gasser. Thought it might be a great wok burner too.
Anyone tried one?
Large BGE
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Ixtana'Rax, a Gamma "honored elder" Jem'Hadar (2374)
Status: Active (2375)
Location: Gamma Quadrant
Alpha Quadrant
Affiliation: Dominion
Ikat'ika, a Gamma Jem'Hadar (2373)
Kudak'Etan, an Alpha Jem'Hadar (2374)
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For the DS9 episode with a similar title, please see "The Jem'Hadar".
"As of this moment, we are all dead. We go into battle to reclaim our lives. This we do gladly, for we are Jem'Hadar. Remember: victory is life."
- First Omet'iklan
A genetically-engineered humanoid race from the Gamma Quadrant, the Jem'Hadar were the military arm of the Dominion and one of the most powerful military forces in the galaxy during their time.
Physiology Edit
Jem'Hadar were generated in "birthing chambers." Their growth cycle was accelerated, such that they reached full maturity only three days after emergence. They did not mate, and so their species had no females. (DS9: "To the Death")
A Jem'Hadar birthing facility was referred to in DS9: "Penumbra" as a "hatchery." This, combined with their reptilian appearance, suggests that they were hatched from eggs. Alternately, the word is simply an appropriate metaphor for a series of birthing chambers.
As infants, Jem'Hadar strongly resembled mammalian species, with a complexion resembling that of Humans; within a day of maturation, Jem'Hadar children already had advanced language skills and cognitive reasoning; as they aged, their skin paled to a bluish-white, and became scaly and reptilian in appearance. (DS9: "The Abandoned")
Adolescent Jem'Hadar required food for nourishment. (DS9: "The Abandoned") Adult Jem'Hadar did not require sleep, and their sole source of nourishment was the drug ketracel-white, which provided the Jem'Hadar with all necessary nutrients, as well as an isogenic enzyme that had been deliberately omitted from their metabolism. As a result, all Jem'Hadar were addicted to "the white," which was regularly distributed to them by Vorta overseers. This was the Founders' means of ensuring the Jem'Hadar's loyalty to them. (DS9: "To the Death")
Without a steady supply of white, Jem'Hadar suffered withdrawal symptoms: their circulatory systems began to shut down, beginning with muscle spasms. Psychologically, they became uncontrollably violent, attacking their enemies, then their Vorta overseers, and finally each other. (DS9: "The Abandoned", "Hippocratic Oath", "To the Death", "Rocks and Shoals")
Jem'Hadar were designed to have excellent vision and strength several times greater than Humans. (DS9: "Favor the Bold") They also had the ability to "shroud" themselves, a form of camouflage that acted as a personal cloaking field, effectively hiding them and their weapons from both sensors and the naked eye. (DS9: "The Jem'Hadar", "The Abandoned") However, they had to drop this effect when attacking. (DS9: "To the Death") Also, Jem'Hadar lost the ability to shroud when they were suffering withdrawal from the white. (DS9: "Rocks and Shoals")
Jem'Hadar had extremely resilient bodies, such that phaser beams on "stun" intensity had no effect on them. During the Dominion War, Federation fighters quickly learned that only lethal settings could be used to stop them. (DS9: "Rocks and Shoals")
Ronald D. Moore stated "The [phaser] stun setting has no effect on the Jem'Hadar." (AOL chat, 1997)
After an enormous Jem'Hadar fleet was eliminated inside the Bajoran wormhole during Operation Return, the Gamma Quadrant was effectively sealed off from the Dominion forces in the Alpha Quadrant. The Dominion began to breed Jem'Hadar soldiers in the Alpha Quadrant known as "Alphas" in 2374. The Alphas' genetic and psychological profiles were designed specifically for combat in that Quadrant, and so the Alphas were regarded – largely by themselves – as being superior to original "Gamma" Jem'Hadar, so their introduction led to considerable friction with their Gamma Quadrant counterparts. The Founders believed this made them better leaders than the Gammas, though this opinion may have been revised after one of the Alphas' first missions, led by Kudak'Etan, became a disastrous failure. (DS9: "One Little Ship")
Psychology and lifestyleEdit
Jem'Hadar were engineered to be soldiers and ship crews, and nothing more. Their culture shunned all forms of relaxation and recreation, on the belief that such things made them weak. (DS9: "To the Death") For the same reason, Jem'Hadar fighters, and probably other classes of Jem'Hadar starships, were not equipped with chairs. (DS9: "A Time to Stand", "One Little Ship")
Like the Vorta, the Jem'Hadar were genetically engineered to revere the Founders as gods and to be unquestioningly loyal to them. However, this engineering was not flawless, which is why it was necessary to make them dependent on the white. When a Jem'Hadar company assigned to a Dominion science team on Vandros IV rebelled, Dominion experts nervously predicted that they could gather support from other Jem'Hadar units in the Gamma Quadrant, and effect a complete takeover of the Dominion in less than a year. (DS9: "To the Death")
Most Jem'Hadar died young in battle; as such, it was rare for them to live past 15 years of age. Few ever lived to the age of 20, and those who did were awarded the title "Honored Elders." To date, no Jem'Hadar has ever lived to the age of 30. (DS9: "To the Death")
Culture and tradition Edit
Although the Jem'Hadar worshipped the Founders as gods, the vast majority of the Jem'Hadar had never actually seen a Founder, and some doubted that they even existed. (DS9: "Hippocratic Oath") Yet they built their service to the shapeshifters into a religion, literally regarding the Founders as living gods, to the extent that the Jem'Hadar ritualistically committed suicide if they failed to protect a shapeshifter from harm. (DS9: "The Ship")
The Vorta, as the representatives of the Founders, were also given immense loyalty by most Jem'Hadar – even when such loyalty seemed unwarranted. Absolute obedience from the Jem'Hadar was further guaranteed by the Vortas' control of the ketracel-white. (DS9: "The Abandoned", "Hippocratic Oath", "Rocks and Shoals")
Although the glory of the Founders meant everything to the Jem'Hadar, they also showed a strong sense of honor for themselves. Ikat'ika, First of Dominion Internment Camp 371 showed this when he refused to kill Worf, even after he was ordered to by his superior Vorta. He chose rather to yield the fight than to kill Worf, saying "I cannot defeat this Klingon. All I can do is kill him, and that no longer holds my interest." He was ordered to be shot for this insubordination. This indicated that a Jem'Hadar might have preferred insubordination and therefore death to doing something he considered to be dishonorable (DS9: "By Inferno's Light").
Jem'Hadar combat units followed a very specific hierarchy. Normally, a Vorta commanded one or several units. Every unit contained a Jem'Hadar First, who was in command. Each Jem'Hadar after the First was also given a number rank (Second, Third, Fourth, etc.). In the event the First was killed, the Second took over for the First, the Third took over for the Second, and so forth. Although the succeeding Jem'Hadar assumed the duties of his superior, he only received the higher number rank if his Vorta commander granted it. (DS9: "Hippocratic Oath", "Rocks and Shoals")
Ritual practicesEdit
Before each battle, the following ritual was observed by the Jem'Hadar:
First: "I am [Rank] [Name], and I am dead. As of this moment, we are all dead. We go into battle to reclaim our lives. This, we do gladly, for we are Jem'Hadar. Remember - victory is life."
Jem'Hadar: "Victory is life." (DS9: "To the Death")
A similar exchange stated: "Obedience brings victory, and victory is life." (DS9: "Rocks and Shoals", "One Little Ship")
When ketracel-white is dispensed, the following ritual exchange usually took place between the Vorta overseer and the ranking Jem'Hadar:
Vorta: "[Rank] [Name], can you vouch for the loyalty of your men?"
First (or ranking Jem'Hadar): "We pledge our loyalty to the Founders from now until death."
Vorta: "Then receive this reward from the Founders. May it keep you strong." (DS9: "To the Death", "Rocks and Shoals", "Favor the Bold")
Jem'Hadar Firsts were also capable of distributing the white among those under their command. By 2374, Alpha Jem'Hadar no longer recited the ritual dispersal statement, as they believed they demonstrated their loyalty by their actions, not their words. (DS9: "One Little Ship")
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Technology and equipment Edit
According to Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Technical Manual (page 90), the Jem'Hadar pistol and rifle weapons were not plasma weapons, as the prop was identified in "Tacking Into the Wind", instead they fired phased polaron beams. According to the book, they had only a single setting, the lethal pulse. This would be inconsistent with "The Search, Part I", in which Major Kira takes a direct hit to the chest from a Jem'Hadar rifle set on a stun. Lethal to semi-lethal disruptor bursts that leave behind anti-coagulants have been seen in episodes such as "The Ship", "Change of Heart", and "The Siege of AR-558". Both pistol and rifle were seen to have the higher setting to vaporize humanoid targets, such as Jem'Hadar and Breen, in "By Inferno's Light".
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Individuals Edit
Appendices Edit
Appearances Edit
Background Edit
• When designing the look of the Jem'Hadar, makeup supervisor Michael Westmore was told to "design something that was tough, that they could shoot at but they couldn't hurt, they were indestructible, as an army they were unstoppable, and they would have thick skin." Westmore based the basic design on a rhinoceros skin, but also incorporated elements from dinosaur skin, and he has compared the top of the Jem'Hadar head to a triceratops. (Michael Westmore's Aliens: Season 5, DS9 Season 5 DVD special features).
• The sculptures for the Jem'Hadar were created by makeup artists Kevin Haney and Mark Shostrom.
• Two special effects face make-up lots for a Jem'Hadar was sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay, [1] [2] as well as a special effects gloves lot, [3] a prop pistol, [4] and a knife. [5]
• Ikat'ika is the only Jem'Hadar to appear in more than one episode of Deep Space Nine.
Apocrypha Edit
In the Deep Space Nine relaunch, Odo sends Taran'atar, a Jem'Hadar free of the addiction to ketracel-white, to live on Deep Space 9 to foster understanding of the Dominion.
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The Tyken's Rift being is a lifeform which was trapped in a Tyken's Rift near an uncharted binary star system.
Unnoticed by the crew of the USS Brattain and later the USS Enterprise-D in 2367, the being tried to communicate with the crew during their sleep and was responsible for the loss of the REM sleep. Betazoids were able to communicate with this being in their REM phase although the communication attempt was not clear.
The being tried to communicate with Andrus Hagan, the Betazoid science adviser on the Brattain and was thereby inadvertently responsible for the madness and the final death of the crew except Hagan, who was left in a coma like status.
Deanna Troi was able to communicate with this being and discovered that this species was trapped in the Tyken's Rift like the starship crews. With Data's help they've planned an attempt to leave the rift by helping the being to create an explosion. Troi, manually set by Doctor Beverly Crusher into the REM sleep, informed the being that the Enterprise-D will help them and release hydrogen from their Bussard collectors. The being finally appeared as a bright Human silhouette before Troi woke up.
After the following explosion, a glowing round vessel escaped from the rift. (TNG: "Night Terrors")
The voice of the being was provided by an unknown actor.
Memorable quoteEdit
"See the the dark! One moon...circles!"
-Tyken's Rift being describing hydrogen (2367)
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Welcome to NYC, where, around every corner, there is something on the wall. Each bend you turn there is another piece sprayed or written on the wall. They all vary: KEZ1...SUBJECT...TKZ...You watch people turn their heads in disgust as they look at this vandalism.
I turn and smile at it.
Welcome to the world of graffiti. However, before you turn your head from this page, know this:
If Leonardo Da Vinci had painted Mona Lisa on his neighbor's wall, then they would have turned their heads in disgust. But it was a professional canvas painting, and is now famous. But, due to the massive abuse of spray paint on walls, any form of calligraphy that has arrows, dots, stars,and fast curves in it is looked at with disgust.If anyone did that to my house, I'd get them locked up for it.
But as an artform, it's beautiful.
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Peithon or Pithon (Greek: Πείθων or Πίθων, about 355 – 314 BC) was the son of Crateuas, a nobleman from Eordaia in western Macedonia. One of the bodyguards of Alexander the Great, later satrap of Media and one of the diadochi.
Peithon was named one of the seven (later eight) Somatophylakes "bodyguards" of Alexander in 335 BC. After Alexander's death in 323 BC, Peithon was made the satrap of Media, the strategically important region that controlled all roads between east and west. Actually, the satrapy was too large for one man; Peithon would be very powerful, and could destabilize the entire empire. Therefore, he had to give up the northern part, which was given to Atropates, from then on known as Media Atropatene.
The soldiers who remained in the eastern part of Alexander's realm after his death grew agitated by their lengthy stay abroad, and began spontaneous revolts. The regent Perdiccas sent Peithon to subdue the revolters. He was given a contingent of Macedonians. Peithon easily defeated his opponents and accepted their capitulation. His men, however, having hoped to plunder, massacred their opponents.
After the death of Antipater, Peithon expanded his realm. He invaded the satrapy of Parthia and made his brother Eudemus the new satrap. From 317 BC however, the other eastern satraps united against Peithon and drove him out. The armies of the eastern satrapies, including contingents from India sent by another Peithon, son of Agenor, the satrap of the Indus, were joined by Eumenes who had been appointed by the new regent Polyperchon to subdue Antigonus. Peithon was saved by Antigonus who beat both Eumenes and his new allies at a battle near Susa. Following the Second War of the Diadochi, Peithon was among the most powerful diadochi in the eastern part of the Empire and he started to rebuild his realm. Antigonus didn't like his new rival and tricked Peithon to come to his court, where he had him executed.
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Pin-tailed Snipe (Gallinago stenura)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Charadriiformes
Family: Scolopacidae
A snipe is any of about 25 wading bird species in three genera in the family Scolopacidae. They are characterized by a very long, slender bill and crypsis plumage. The Gallinago snipes have a nearly worldwide distribution, the Lymnocryptes Jack Snipe is restricted to Asia and Europe and the Coenocorypha snipes are found only in the Outlying Islands of New Zealand. The three species of painted snipe are not closely related to the typical snipes, and are placed in their own family, the Rostratulidae.
Snipes search for invertebrates in the mud with a "sewing-machine" action of their long bills. The sensitivity of the bill, though to some extent noticeable in many sandpipers, is in snipes carried to an extreme by a number of filaments, belonging to the fifth pair of nerves, which run almost to the tip and open immediately under the soft cuticle in a series of cells. They give this portion of the surface of the premaxillaries, when exposed, a honeycomb-like appearance. Thus the bill becomes a most delicate organ of sensation, and by its means the bird, while probing for food, is at once able to distinguish the nature of the objects it encounters, though these are wholly out of sight.[1]
Depiction of a snipe hunter, by A. B. Frost
Camouflage may enable snipe to remain undetected by hunters in marshland. If the snipe flies, hunters have difficulty estimating a correct aiming lead for the bird's erratic flight pattern. The difficulties involved in hunting snipe gave rise to the term “sniper”, referring to a skilled anti-personnel military sharpshooter.[2]
"Going on a snipe hunt" is a phrase suggesting a fool's errand, or an impossible task. It is often used as a practical joke upon campers, and those unfamiliar with hunting, by those more experienced.[3]
See also[edit]
1. ^ This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainNewton, Alfred (1911). "Snipe". In Chisholm, Hugh. Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press
2. ^ "snipe publisher=Online Etymology Dictionary". Retrieved 2010-02-19.
3. ^ url=
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I would have had a few more details, but I was very busy and trying to shoot at the same time. This is the upside down canvas method. Basically, the canvas is stretched just enough to get the wrinkles out and then another crank or two on the come-along. The canvas is pulled tight along the inwales with canvas pliers and then the canvas is secured through the planking, rib and inwale with a 9/16's monel or stainless staple at each rib location. The stems are done up with tacks or 3/8's in. staples.
We canvassed the boat in a little more that 2 hours.
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Armistice Agreement Withdrawal: North Korean Belligerence?
Posted in north Korea by what's left on March 16, 2013
By Stephen Gowans
Why has North Korea withdrawn from an armistice agreement that has kept overt hostilities on the Korean peninsula at bay since 1953? Does the withdrawal portend an imminent North Korean aggression? Hardly. North Korea is in no position to launch an attack on its Korean neighbour, or on the United States, at least not one that it would survive. North Korean forces are dwarfed by the US and South Korean militaries in size, sophistication and fire-power. The withdrawal serves, instead, as a signal of North Korean resolve to defend itself against growing US and South Korean harassment, both military and economic.
US provocations
For decades, North Korea has been subjected to the modern form of the siege. “The aim of the siege is to reduce the enemy to such a state of starvation and deprivation that they open the gate, perhaps killing their leaders in the process and throw themselves on the mercy of the besiegers.” [1] North Korea withstood the siege, and even flourished, during the years it was able to trade with the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe’s socialist countries. But with the demise of Soviet socialism, the country has bent, but not broken, under the pressure of US-led sanctions of mass destruction.
Sanctions against North Korea are multi-form, and include a trade blockade and financial isolation. Significantly, no country in history has been menaced by such wide-ranging sanctions for so long. North Korea is, as then US president George W. Bush once remarked, the most sanctioned nation on earth. [2] Sanctions, military harassment (which I’ll come back to in a moment), and the US nuclear threat—Washington has threatened North Korea with nuclear annihilation on countless occasions [3]—have forced the North Koreans to bulk up militarily, build ballistic missiles, and test nuclear devices in order to survive.
Led by Washington, the UN Security Council has authored a number of resolutions to deny North Korea rights of self-defense and other rights that other countries are free to exercise: the rights to: build ballistic missiles; withdraw from the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty; launch satellites; sell arms abroad; and transfer nuclear technology to other countries. These are rights that every permanent member of the UN Security Council exercises freely. They are also rights that many other countries enjoy with impunity.
On top of besieging North Korea, Washington and South Korea have for decades kept up a campaign of unrelenting military harassment in the form of regular war games. The latest war games began March 1 and will last for two months. Undertaken as practice in mobilizing US troops and military hardware from abroad for rapid deployment to the Korean peninsula, the war games this year have activated not only US and South Korean militaries, but British, Canadian, and Australian forces, as well. While labelled “defensive,” the war games force the North Koreans onto a permanent war footing. It can never be clear to North Korean generals whether the latest US-South Korean mobilization is a drill or preparation for an invasion. The effect is to force Pyongyang to maintain its military on high alert, an exhausting and expensive exercise.
The view propagated by Western officials and, in train, the Western mass media, is that the sanctions are aimed at correcting North Korea’s “bad behaviour” and that the war games are carried out to deter North Korean aggression. But what’s called “bad behaviour”—the building of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles—is Pyongyang’s reaction to the US-led permanent state of siege. A tiny country with a military budget dwarfed by South Korea’s and the United States’ [4] is not credibly an offensive threat to Washington and Seoul, but the United States and South Korea are unquestionably offensive threats to the DPRK (the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, North Korea’s official name.)
After the UN manoeuvred the Security Council to slap still more sanctions on North Korea, and began its latest round of war games, the Wall Street Journal alerted the world that “North Korea [had] moved to further stoke tensions with South Korea…” [5] On the contrary, the United States had further stoked tensions with North Korea.
A dead letter
There are three reasons to regard the armistice agreement as existing in form alone, and not substance.
First, the purpose of the agreement was to set the stage for a permanent peace. Despite North Korea repeatedly asking Washington to enter into a peace agreement, none has been struck. After one North Korean entreaty for peace, then US secretary of state Colin Powell said “We don’t do non-aggression pacts or treaties, things of that nature.” [6]
Second, the agreement was to be followed by the withdrawal of all foreign troops from the Korean peninsula. The Chinese withdrew, as did most members of the UN forces. But US forces, which have remained in South Korea for the last 60 years, have become a permanent fixture on the peninsula. Incredibly, South Korean forces remain under US command.
Third, the agreement prohibits “the introduction into Korea of reinforcing combat aircraft, armoured vehicles, weapons and ammunition…” The US violated the agreement by introducing nuclear weapons into South Korea in 1958. And it’s questionable whether the war games-related deployment of massive amounts of US military hardware to Korea doesn’t violate the agreement, as well.
What Washington wants from North Korea
On March 11, U.S. national security adviser Tom Donilon announced publicly that what Washington wants from North Korea is open markets and the country’s integration into the US-led system of global capitalist exploitation. At least, that’s what he meant when he said, “I urge North Korea’s leaders to reflect on Burma’s experience.” [7]
Burma (Myanmar) turned its self-directed, locally-, and largely publicly-owned economy into a capitalist playground for foreign investors.
When Myanmar’s military took power in a 1962 coup, it nationalized most industries and brought the bulk of the economy under government control, which is the way it stayed until three years ago. Major utilities were state-owned and health-care and education were publicly provided. Private hospitals and private schools were unheard of. Ownership of land and local companies was limited to the country’s citizens. Companies were required to hire Myanmar workers. And the central bank was answerable to the government. In other words, Myanmar’s economy, inasmuch as it markets, labor and natural resources were used for the country’s self-directed development, was very much like North Korea’s. And like North Korea, Myanmar was an object of US hostility, subject to sanctions, and targeted by US-orchestrated low-level warfare.
Bowing to US pressure, Myanmar’s government began in the last few years to sell off government buildings, its port facilities, its national airline, mines, farmland, the country’s fuel distribution network, and soft drink, cigarette and bicycle factories. The doors to the country’s publicly-owned health care and education systems were thrown open, and private investors were invited in. A new law was drawn up to give more independence to the central bank, making it answerable to its own inflation control targets, rather than directly to the government.
To top it all off, a foreign-investment law was drafted to allow foreigners to control local companies and land, permit the entry of foreign telecom companies and foreign banks, allow 100 percent repatriation of profits, and exempt foreign investors from paying taxes for up to five years. What’s more, foreign enterprises would be allowed to import skilled workers, and wouldn’t be required to hire locally.
With Myanmar signalling its willingness to turn over its economy to outside investors, US hostility abated and the sanctions were lifted. President Obama dispatched then US secretary of state Hillary Clinton to meet with Myanmar’s leaders, the first US secretary of state to visit in more than 50 years. William Hague soon followed, the first British foreign minister to visit since 1955. Other foreign ministers beat their own paths to the door of the country’s military junta, seeking to establish ties with the now foreign investment-friendly government on behalf of their own corporations, investors, and banks. And business organizations sent their own delegations, including four major Japanese business organizations, all looking to cash in on Myanmar’s new opening. Announcing the easing of US sanctions, then US secretary of state Hilary Clinton enthused, “Today we say to American business: Invest in Burma!” [8]
That, then, is what the United States wants for North Korea: for a US secretary of state to one day announce, “Today we say to American business: Invest in North Korea!”
Effects, not causes
In the US view, North Korea is a militaristic, aggressive state, bent on provoking South Korea and its American overlords and setting the peninsula aflame, for reasons that are never made clear. Pyongyang must, therefore, be deterred by sanctions and displays of US military “resolve.” Yet North Korea has never pursued an aggressive foreign policy, hasn’t the means to do so, and unlike the United States and South Korea, has never sent troops into battle on foreign soil. (South Korea hired out its military to the United States as a mercenary force to battle nationalists seeking independence in Vietnam.) By contrast, the DPRK’s militarism, expressed in its Songun (military first) policy, is defensive, not aggressive, mercenary or imperialist.
It is a misconception that the incursion of North Korean forces into the south in 1950, marking the formal start of the Korean War, was an invasion across an international border. The boundary dividing the two Koreas had been drawn unilaterally by the United States in 1945, and never agreed to by Koreans. The Korean War was a civil war in which sovereigntists, and collaborators with the Japanese, now with the Americans, battled over control of their country, aided by foreign militaries. Had the United States not intervened the country would have been re-united under a socialist government committed to independence.
The US view, far from providing an accurate account of North Korea and its relationship with the United States, turns reality on its head. The reality is that US public policy, including foreign policy, is largely shaped by corporations, banks, and elite investors, through lobbying, the funding of think tanks, and placement of corporate officers, Wall Street lawyers, and ambitious politicians dependent on the wealthy for campaign financing and lucrative post-political job opportunities, into key positions in the state.
US foreign policy seeks to protect and enlarge the interests of the class that shapes it, by safeguarding existing, and securing new, foreign investment opportunities, opening markets abroad for US goods and services, and ensuring business conditions around the world are conducive to the profit-making imperatives of US corporations.
From the perspective of the goals of US foreign policy, North Korea’s publicly-owned, planned economy commits the ultimate sin: it reserves North Korean labor, markets and natural resources for the country’s own welfare and self-development. Accordingly, US foreign policy aims to reduce North Korea to such a level of deprivation and misery that the people overthrow their leaders and open the gate, or the leaders capitulate and heed Donilon’s urging to follow Myanmar’s capitulatory path. All attempts to resist integration into the US-superintended global capitalist system are deceptively presented by the United States as evidence of North Korea’s bellicosity, rather than what they are: acts of self-defense against an imperialist predator.
1. Tim Beal. Crisis in Korea: America, China and the Risk of War. Pluto Press, 2011, p. 180.
3. For more on US threats of nuclear annihilation against North Korea see Stephen Gowans, “Why North Korea needs nuclear weapons”, what’s left, February 16, 2013.
4. The combined US-South Korean 2010 military budget was $739B (US, $700B; South Korea, $39K), 74 times greater than North Korea’s $10B expenditure. For more see Stephen Gowans, “Wars for Profits: A No-Nonsense Guide to Why the United States Seeks to Make Iran an International Pariah,” what’s left, November 9, 2011.
5. Alastair Gale, “Kim’s visit to bases raises tension”, The Wall Street Journal, March 12, 2013.
6. New York Times, August 14, 2003.
7. Alastair Gale and Keith Johnson, “North Korea declares war truce ‘invalid’”, The Wall Street Journal, March 12, 2013.
8. On Myanmar’s transition to open markets and free enterprise see Stephen Gowans, “Myanmar learns the lesson of Libya,” what’s left, May 20, 2012.
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1. Markov S said, on March 17, 2013 at 10:58 am
It is a rare thing indeed for anyone to write about the DPRK without evoking the insane belligerent comic-demon by the third sentence at the latest. Then they always lambast the eccentric and “isolated” regime, with no regard as to the cause of this “isolation”.
They have repeated that rant so often that you are considered a crazy person if you even try to make an objective statement regarding N.Korea’s situation. Thanks for this succinct and clear analysis.
2. xine said, on March 17, 2013 at 7:07 pm
This is just brilliant analysis–such a refreshingly sane account (in contrast to the jingoism and the cant that usually passes as commentary on North Korea). When it comes to North Korea, the received “truth” is almost always an inverted narrative that nowhere takes into account the asymmetrical terrain of force that structures U.S. relationship to that country. From North Korea’s very inception, the only consistent U.S. policy that North Korea has been subjected to is regime change–whether it be rollback in 1950 to U.S. policies today.
3. communistscientist said, on March 17, 2013 at 7:14 pm
Reblogged this on The Communist Scientist and commented:
A clear analysis of the North Korean behaviour, for once not explaining it by the whims of yet another madded dictator.
4. Dorothy Ogle said, on March 18, 2013 at 8:53 pm
It would be in the interest of the United States and both North and South Korea to negotiate a peace treaty to end the Korean War. A treaty must take into consideration the economic and security of both Koreas. We all are spending precious resources that should be used for the good of the people. The 60 year policy of sanctions has failed and the provocative military exercises could lead to an accidental war with great loss to all sides.
• what's left said, on March 18, 2013 at 9:22 pm
Dorothy, you write, “The 60 year policy of sanctions has failed.” Failed to do what?
5. Sally said, on March 22, 2013 at 7:41 am
Another fine article!
And, yes, S Markov, xine and communistscientist, I too am heartily sick of the capitalist media’s frothing at the mouth over the DRPK.
• communistscientist said, on March 30, 2013 at 12:47 am
One more piece of evidence that North Korea does not waste its people’s money on spin doctors.
One more piece of evidence that it wouldn’t all be wasted after all.
• Jorg Kontrel said, on April 4, 2013 at 1:30 am
I don’t understand your reply. What do you mean?
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Does economics make you selfish?
Ray Fisman reports:
All students [at Yale Law School] are required to take courses in contracts and in torts, and they're randomly assigned to an instructor for each class. Some of these teachers have Ph.D.s in economics, some in philosophy and other humanities, and some have no strong disciplinary allegiances at all. Professors are encouraged to design their courses as they see fit. Instructors from economics may emphasize the role of contracts in making possible the efficiency gains of the marketplace, while philosophers may emphasize equal outcomes for contracting parties. So economists teach about efficiency and philosophers teach about equality.
To figure out whether this affected their young charges, we put 70 Yale Law students in a computer lab, and had them play a game that would reveal to us their views on fairness....It turns out that exposure to economics makes a big difference in how students split the pie, in terms of both efficiency and outright selfishness. Students assigned to classes taught by economists were more likely to give a lot when it was cheap to do so. But they were also much more likely to take the whole pie for themselves. | http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2008/04/does-economics-make-you-selfish.html | dclm-gs1-125790002 | false | false | {
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3 Renegades
China's DNAWho's Your City
I've just watched one of my favorite films. The backstory:
Hundreds of millions of young students in India and China (and the rest of Asia) are hoping to escape their parent's lives of poverty, manual work, or stultifying government sinecures, and find a real professional job. To do that they need to claim a very limited slot in one of a very few good universities. And then graduate. Only a very tiny percent of those hoping for this dream make it. The pressures are immense.
It is not uncommon for Asian families to expect, even demand, that their sons be engineers and their daughters doctors. No questions, or unhappiness, permitted. It's your family duty.
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This is the cultural context for the mega-hit Bollywood film 3 Idiots. 3 Idiots tells the story of three engineering students who are pressured by their society to pursue a degree they are not really suited for, and how they are swayed by a renegade student who wants them to follow their bliss instead. Under his influence they begin to flunk out, unleashing all kinds of mayhem and ruining their lives. Now the film has the attention of every young person in Asia; what happens next?
The answer is two hours of very funny comedy, over-the-top self-spoofing Bollywood dance numbers, sappy romance, tear-jerk suicides, nutty antics in exotic locations, and a very profound message. I've seen 3 Idiots twice already, and am ready to see it again.
I am not the only one who thinks the film is great. 3 Idiots is the largest grossing Bollywood film of all time! It is the biggest hit India has ever seen. This film is a bigger event in India than imported mega-hits like Avatar. If it is not your story, it is the story of your best friend. Everyone in Asia connects with it.
If you have never seen a Bollywood movie and want a fantastic one to start with, watch this one (in Hindi with English subtitles).
More importantly if you want to understand the inner lives of all the hundreds of millions of young professionals ready to do your own job, watch this film. It's a blast.
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Don't be put off by the title or marketing posters. The 3 Idiots are not 3 Stooges, or 3 Dumb and Dumbers, but more like 3 Rascals or 3 Renegades. The official US edition (English subtitles) has just been released.
Amazon DVD,
My friend Tyler MacNiven produced a documentary about one of the actors in 3 Idiots. He follows the unknown Indian-American actor who plays "the Silencer." He gets his life turned upside down as he becomes a mega-star in movie-star-crazed India overnight -- mostly because of one very funny speech in the middle of this film. Tyler is premiering his documentary, Big for Bollywood, in San Francisco, Thursday, May 19th at the Red Vic Movie House; Screenings at 7:15 & 9:15pm. | http://kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2011/05/3_renegades.php | dclm-gs1-126010002 | false | true | {
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Kissing Cousins
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1. Congrats! What a wonderful time, and it's great that you have someone to go through it with! :) | http://knoteditorgetsmarried.blogspot.com/2010/11/kissing-cousins.html | dclm-gs1-126030002 | false | false | {
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Re: @debian.org email forwarding and SPF
>>>>> "Adam" == Adam D Barratt <highvol-debian-devel@adam-barratt.org.uk> writes:
Adam> It's not stopping the mail because it's spam - it's stopping the
Adam> mail because the sender address is provably false. What happens
Adam> when the virus starts sending mail claiming to be from
Adam> <validuser>@debian.org? It sails straight through the SPF check...
That's not the case. If the spam is not really sent from a computer that
the SPF record of debian.org approves, no matter whether the user-id is
valid the mail will not be delivered successfully. This is the whole idea,
and most discomforts also stem from that single idea. Of course, it is a
different matter if an approved computer of @debian.org get 0wn3d and the
spammer sent from there.
Adam> ("SPF stops spam" is a roughly equivalent argument to "blocking
Adam> executables stops viruses" - it's both inaccurate and confusing
Adam> cause and effect).
I think if all viruses are executables, then the statement "blocking
executables stops viruses" is a correct statement; and if "most" viruses are
executable the statement is not too wrong either. "SPF stops spam" is a bit
further from truth, since SPF alone really cannot stop spam. Instead, it
makes sure that mails are authenticated for those organizations that
publishes a stringent SPF record. Of course, spammers can be authenticated,
too. But then, other techniques like black listing can be much more
effective if mails are authenticated. And this also can't deal with the
case when spammers use the sites that have no SPF records. But at least,
(1) we can have hope that most important sites do have SPF records, so that
we can white-list rather than black-list on those sites; and (2) the sites
with SPF records are guaranteed that it will not be joe-jobbed, which is a
good effect alone, and which gives some intensive for the organization to
actually implement SPF.
Again, whether this is a good enough bargain for the discomfort brought from
SPF is something to be carefully examined, and depend very much on how
convenient the tools (e.g., for correct list management with SPF and for
sending authenticated mails from remote sites) actually are.
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Fossil Snake With Legs, 95 million years old found
Appearing like the punchline to an evolutionary riddle, a new fossil snake with legs has emerged from 95 million year-old deposits near Jerusalem. Its sedimentary surroundings suggest a seafaring lifestyle for this ancient reptile, but its advanced anatomy could overturn a current theory about the marine origin of snakes.
This intriguing new species, dubbed Haasiophis terrasanctus , is the second limbed snake to come from the site of Ein Yabrud, an ancient marine environment broadly similar to the still, coastal waters of today's Bahamian reef.
The first such species, Pachyrhachis problematicus, plays a pivotal role in a scenario that places the ancestor of snakes in the sea.
But a riddle remains: why do these two snake species have hind limbs? If legs were the norm for snake ancestors, it would make sense to see the species' advanced anatomy as only superficially similar to more modern snakes. On the other hand, the stubby limbs on the fossil snakes might represent an evolutionary reversal, where snakes with advanced skull design regain hind limbs that were lost.
Rieppel said that it is difficult to tell how the legs themselves might have been used, since they are too small in relation to the animal's whole body to have any locomotor function. Modern pythons have a rudimentary hind limb, usually little more than a "claw" of cartilage tipped with bone that they use during mating and occasional fighting, and it is possible that Haasiophis' leg served a similar purpose. | http://lumpysoceanlife.blogspot.com/2008/03/fossil-snake-with-legs-95-million-years.html | dclm-gs1-126140002 | false | false | {
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A study on the effect of the ratio of omega-6 and omega-3 fatty acids and the cognitive abilities of seven to nine years of age were recently published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
In the study, dietary data confirmed the ratio of each child's omega-6 to omega-3 intake. After taking a set of neuropsychological tests, Cheatham said, "children who were eating too many omega-6 in comparison to omega-3 had slower speed of processing on working memory and planning problems."
The comparison is important because omega-6, which is found in meats and refined vegetable oil is more abundant in the Western diet. Research has connected the over-consumption of omega-6 fatty acids to chronic inflammation, an underlying factor in heart disease, cancer and other common diseases. Omega-3 fatty acids are linked to the regulation of blood clotting and are considered heart healthy because they lower fats or triglycerides in the blood including the "bad" low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol. Unfortunately, the typical American diet includes relatively few foods that are rich in omega-3 compared to those high in omega-6.
"Think of omega-6 as as French fries and omega-3 as vegetables," Cheatham said. "Intake needs to be in balance because the metabolic pathways share the same enzymes. If the pathways get out of balance because you are eating more omega-6 than omega-3, the enzymes get used up, and you won't be able to make your own DHA ()because you will be out of the things you need to make it."
Genotype, DHA and Cognition
DHA is an omega-3 fatty acid proven to support brain, heart and eye health in and infants. It can be made by the human body, but dietary intake of DHA-rich foods like eggs, broccoli, cauliflower, spinach and salmon, tuna, halibut, cod, and other coldwater, fatty fish is recommended to maintain adequate levels. Because DHA is needed for the proper development and functioning of memory and the hippocampus, it is commonly added to baby formulas.
Cheatham found that seven percent of the United States population cannot make sufficient levels of the fatty acid. She wondered what effect this could have on the of children. Working with NRI colleague Mihai Niculescu, PhD, Cheatham started investigating a specific single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) related to . A SNP is a genetic variation or "misspelling" in a person's genetic code.
Based on this SNP, Cheatham designed an experiment with 16-month-old toddlers feeding them flaxseed oil for four months. The age is significant because toddlers are not on formula at that point. Cheatham theorized that the flaxseed would provide a consistent substrate from which the toddlers could make their own DHA.
Cheatham's findings were surprising. She found that if a mother had a GG genotype, her children had lower declarative memory abilities when the study started. A GG genotype is thought to mean that the mother cannot make DHA because of two recessive alleles at the specific SNP being studied. With regular flaxseed supplementation, these children finished the study with the highest scores on the declarative memory task with which they were assessed.
"There wasn't any difference across the four months in the children's cognition," Cheatham admitted, "unless we divided by not the child's genotype but by their mother's genotype. We are talking about 16- month-old children, and their mother's genotype is still more important to them metabolically than their own."
In another study, she looked at mothers with the GG genotype and the influence of DHA deficits in the placenta and breast milk. Similar to the toddlers, six-month-old babies from GG mothers had lower recognition memory skills at the time of testing.
"If mom is GG, her baby at six months of age could not tell the difference between old and new pictures in an electrophysiology paradigm, which all six month old babies should be able to do," Cheatham said. "These studies really speak to the need to identify the mothers who are GG and make sure they are eating enough and eggs."
And Cheatham emphasized, identifying these mothers is as easy as a genetic analysis of their saliva.
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Nov 09, 2012
The Internet is awash with text. Databases swell larger and larger by the minute. How can the vast amount of textual data be systematically analysed and managed, as the number of languages, domains, styles and dialects is getting countless? The task is too much for the human brain. Traditional methods for textual analysis run short. What we need are statistical methods, data mining and machine learning.
Mari-Sanna Paukkeri has studied how textual data can be processed and analysed automatically with machine learning methods. In her doctoral dissertation for the Aalto University Department of Information and , Paukkeri has developed computational methods for text processing independent of language or domain.
With these methods, textual data sets are mined with algorithms for statistical dependencies and structures, from which specific properties of texts can then be extracted.
"Languages appear to be alike: sequential symbols form words, which build up to sentences. Large masses of text are examined for co-occurrences and structures in the use of language in order to make sense of individual and words," sums up Paukkeri the principle of .
"Precisely these co-occurrences in language enable the computational study of texts regardless of the language or domain."
Unsupervised machine learning extracts relevant information from massive textual data sets
Paukkeri has especially studied the applicability of unsupervised machine learning to natural language processing. The field has traditionally made use of rule-based methods, in which the words and structures to be sought for are manually pre-defined for the data processing models.
"In unsupervised machine learning methods, the data set is not manually pre-processed in any way: the algorithms are left to their own devices to find out what the data is like and what kind of statistical dependencies and structures it holds. The methods are not told whether they are performing correctly or not; they work independently, without manual labour," explains Paukkeri.
Paukkeri finds an analogy for unsupervised machine learning in the way a child learns to use language.
"A child does not dabble in language grammar first, but imitates, experiments and combines fragments."
In Paukkeri's dissertation a method called Likey, co-developed with her colleagues and her supervisor Docent Timo Honkela from Aalto University, is applied to keyphrase and keyword extraction from text documents of 11 different languages.
"Likey finds out how common certain words and pairs, threes and fours of words are in a data set. This way it defines the keywords and phrases for a specific document – solely on the basis of their frequency and context in the text."
An everyday example of very refined computational unsupervised text processing would be Google's translation application. The translations are based on the automatically analysed, enormous amount of text the search engine has in its use.
"Companies also have an awful lot of text tucked away in their databases, usually with only a simple search functionality to utilise them. These databases exceed human management abilities, but with my methods they could be categorised and analysed."
Global companies in particular could benefit from methods with which to process their textual data in all of their working languages around the world.
Also the subjective variation of language use is within the grasp of . Paukkeri has studied the automatic assessment of difficulty and comprehension of texts aimed both at experts and lay people. Paukkeri's research experiments on medical texts, but the method is, again, independent of the domain.
"A search engine could predict the knowledge level of each user and customise the difficulty of the search results accordingly."
Language-independent text mining could also, according to Paukkeri, contribute to the discovery of universals, features that are common to all languages. They could be mined from data sets consisting of hundreds or even thousands of languages.
"Who says we cannot apply our knowledge of structural and lexical similarities between languages for systems? That is what people do as well when learning new languages," ponders Paukkeri.
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babylon without morals is sand in waiting
however applied to genome research
and cymatics a holographic symbol
map could be used for AI interfacing
or just stick to ordering by numbers in a chinese take-away! :)
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The Plastic Sax Interview With Brian Haas of The Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey
One of today's most compelling and forward-thinking jazz-oriented acts, The Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, performs late shows Friday and Saturday night at Jardine's. Plastic Sax conducted an interview with the band's keyboardist and co-founder Brian Haas.
Plastic Sax: I've been enjoying Petting Sounds, your new solo piano album. Given its title and other connections to The Beach Boys, I expected to hear obvious echoes of "God Only Knows." Instead, it's more like Erik Satie. Are you able to showcase your background in classical music at JFJO shows?
Brian Haas: Indeed I am, though the extent depends upon the material of that tour, and even varies from performance to performance. I used to practice classical piano incessantly, at age 16 I was performing Beethoven at the Performing Arts Center in Tulsa, and so in a lot of ways that classical edge is an inseparable piece of my playing. Many sylistic elements rear their head throughout a performance with JFJO. Also, currently JFJO is working on some reinterpretations of Beethoven's 3rd and 6th symphonies. Between that and Petting Sounds the classical background I have is more in the limelite than ever before.
PS: Do you feel that your musical eclecticism- your range includes classical, bop, swing and covers of rock songs- hurts or helps the appeal of JFJO? Or is it- as I suspect- a moot point because your creative vision gives you no other choice but to play all kinds of music?
BH: Great question. As a whole I'd like to think it really helps us, bringing in elements of music that interest and turn on a wide range of demographics. It's great because we can find a fan in some of the strangest places. For instance often a cover tune, by The Beatles, or The Flaming Lips, will bring on many people who might be hesitant to dive into a 'jazz odyssey'. Conversely people like to be able to label things, and when a band like JFJO sounds different every album, every year, every tour, well, people aren't alway comfortable with that change. Luckily we have an incredible fanbase of humans who like to listen.
PS: The remix promotion for "Tetherball Triumph" was incredibly cool. Did any of the submissions surprise you? If software like ProTools and GarageBand existed when you were a kid do you think you'd still have become a "proper" musician or would the technology have seduced you into pursuing performance and composition from a different direction?
BH: Not necessarily surprise me, but definitely made me smile, or do a double take at least. It's quite likely I'd still be playing the piano, but it's also quite possible I'd be playing DJ sets all over the globe!
PS: Petting Sounds is available as a free download. Several JFJO recordings are also available online for no money. What's your philosophy on giving away music? Do you and the band perceive recorded music more as a promotional tool than as a means of earning income?
BH: I think it is a genius incarnation of creative capitalism. Since we released those albums in the past six months, we have had lots of great growth. Our email list for instance, went from about 6,000 to 16,000+ contacts. The music and our message is finding more and more people every day, and that's what it is all about. That and jazz millions, which is why our next album One Day in Brooklyn is a an EP that we are actually selling. There is definitely a balance, but the free dissemination of music has really worked well for us by increasing our fan base, and thus bringing out more humans to our shows.
PS: One of the pet theories I espouse at Plastic Sax is that the future of "jazz"- at least in terms of a viable American audience- lies with the jam band fans. The people who remember jazz as popular music- be it Stanley Turrentine or Glenn Miller- are dying off. Yet many kids who are otherwise into rock bands like String Cheese Incident are also interested in progressive instrumental music- in other words, music like JFJO's. What's your take on this?
BH: JFJO has long been championed and ingrained within the Jam world. We are extremely grateful for our ability to appeal to such a wide range of people. We're also blessed to have found a niche inside such an open minded community as the jam scene.
PS: You played the inaugural Arkansas version of Wakarusa last weekend. How was it?
BH: Incredible. The Arkansas location is in the middle of some gorgeous country. I have hiked, camped, and canoed in the region many times, and our last album Winterwood was recorded in Arkansas, so the location really spoke to me. JFJO played a crushing set at the festival, with an incredible turnout and reaction to the new quartet lineup. I hope the festival continues to thrive in Arkansas for years to come.
PS: Can you share any inappropriate stories about your fellow Oklahomans The Flaming Lips? Since this interview is for a humble jazz blog, you're safe to fire away.
BH: Haha, I love the Flaming Lips, and wish I had some inappropriate stories I could share.
PS: You've previously played Jardine's in Kansas City. Do have any special connections to the club or to Kansas City? Are there any last-minute instructions or warnings you'd like to share with your fans in Kansas City?
BH: We love KC! The show last January was sold out before we got into the city. Our good friend Mark Southerland is a legendary human from KC, and will be joining us both evenings as special guest. Get your tickets early!
Can't get enough? The Star's Steve Paul also interviewed Haas.
punkyjunk said...
very well done and extremely interesting. more interviews!
Happy In Bag said...
Thanks, PJ. I'm up for doing more interviews. In this instance, the artist's manager reached out to me. That's all it took...
punkyjunk said...
amazing, isn't it? i usually have to go chase the management down to help them get the PR wheels moving for their artists. it's as if they just don't consider that a valuable part of their job...i don't know. it's strange.
Dominique said...
Happy In Bag what is your email address?
Happy In Bag said...
It's posted in the upper right hand corner of this site, Dominique: happyinbag 'at' gmail 'dot' com.
Lee said...
Nice interview, Bag! Does this mean you've resolved your ambivalence about jam bands?
Happy In Bag said...
Thanks, Lee.
If you wanna call JFJO a jam band, then, yes, I'm down with that scene.
I've been known to listen to Umphrey's McGee for pleasure and I'm glad that I saw The Dead shortly before Jerry passed.
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I'm a young programming student (17), very advanced in my age category, trying to learn and perfect common practices. In order to achieve this, I start multiple projects and try to complete them as far as possible. As I am in no way perfect, I often do searches etc. but sometimes don't manage to find what I'm looking for. This is why I joined stack overflow (and also to practice my already acquired knowledge by answering questions!).
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It's no secret that Broc's AMA-forced move to the 450 class has been filled with struggle thus far. Broc isn't afraid to face the music and speak openly and honestly about the struggles and what he is doing to try and put a stop to them.
Listen in as Broc describes the frustration and some ideas he has for righting the ship as the series moves east.
PMT Insight: Broc TIckle
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Jaguar XJ8 Loose wiper arm
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One wiper arm became loose, collided with the other wiper and ejected the wiper blade. Watch to make sure your wipers are parking correctly, if one is up it means that it is probably loose.
Open the hood and remove the plastic cap on the wiper arm end with a small screwdriver. Loosen the wiper arm nut using the apprpriate metric socket. Adjust the arm to the desired park position and tighten the nut, replace plastic cap.
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The Philippines and the Challenge of Climate Change (3rd Grading-No. 4)
Further warming and changes in the global climate system during the 21st century could occur if greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions equal to or higher than current levels will persist. Among these are increased precipitation that could cause flooding in certain parts of the world while more intense and longer droughts are experienced in other areas, rising sea level, decreasing snow cover, melting glaciers and artic warming that also contribute to sea level rise. Climate change, if left unchecked, will also affect biodiversity and ultimately the earth's natural systems and processes.
While the contribution of the Philippines to GHG emissions remains insignificant, there is no denying that the climate change issue affects all facets of the country's development. A business-as-usual option is no longer acceptable since the effects of climate change point to far-reaching consequences to the nation's food security, human health, water supply, settlements, and economic development. As part of the global community, the Philippines must do its part in helping mitigate carbon emissions.
Presidential Task Force on Climate Change
As a student, what actions can you do to help prevent climate change? (Bilang isang mag-aaral, ano ang magagawa o maitutulong mo para maiwasan ang tuluyang pagbabago (pag-init) ng ating klima at tuluyang pag-init o pagtaas ng temperatura ng mundo?)
Monday, November 23, 2009
Metro Manila, Air Polluted Beyond Acceptable Levels (3rd Grading-No. 3)
2. A study DOH sponsored along with the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, World Health Organization, and Asian Development Bank showed that Metro Manila's air quality was poor, and the volume of particulate matter in its atmosphere was above the baseline level of 50 micrograms per cubic meter (ug/m3) for clean air.
3. motor vehicles -- particularly buses -- were the major source of the pollution in the city, followed by industrial emissions.
4. Cities considered high risk or extremely polluted were Caloocan, Valenzuela, and Quezon City.
Quezon City air was deemed most polluted, with 96.9% of PM10 and 78.3% of PM2.5 or fine grain particulates.
Taken from an article written by:
Kristine L. Alave, BusinessWorld (18 Aug 2004)
As a resident of Metro Manila, how can you help reduce the air pollution? What is your suggestion to reduce it, if not totally eradicated it? ( Bilang isa sa mga nakatira/residente sa Metro Manila (Quezon City), ano ang iyong maisusuhestiyon o maitutulong upang mabawasan ang polusyon sa hangin?)
Sunday, November 15, 2009
The Extinction of Some Philippine Animals and Plants (3rd Grading-No. 2)
Dr. Edward O. Wilson of Harvard University estimates that if 1% of the world's tropical rain forests are destroyed each year—a conservative estimate based on current rates of deforestation—then over 100 years there would be a loss of at least 20% of all species, assuming extinction rates remain constant. Based on a total of 10 million species, the current annual loss has been calculated to be 20,000 to 30,000 species.
Humans can cause extinction of a species through (1) overharvesting, (2) genetic pollution, (3) habitat destruction, (4) introduction of new predators and food competitors, (5) overhunting, and (6) other influences such as global warming.
The best known groups of organisms are birds and mammals. Since the year 1600, a total of 83 mammals species (2.1%) and 113 birds (1.3%) are known to have become extinct. This number is expected to rise rapidly as the breeding populations of many species continue to decline.
1. How will it (extinction of some animals and plants) affect the ecosystem?
(Paano makakaapekto ang tuluyang pagkawala ng ilang mga hayop at halaman sa ekosystema?)
2. Although extinction is a natural process, can we prevent extinction of some plants and animals, particulaly in the Philippines? How?
(Paano natin mapipigilan ang tuluyang pagkawala o pagkaubos ng ilang mga hayop at halaman, lalong-lalo na dito sa Pilipinas?)
The Right Way To Post A Comment
To my students,
1. Make sure that your comment is posted on the right topic, or else, it will earn NO POINTS. The comment button is located below every post. ( The best way to post is to click first on the topics placed on the archive located on the right portion of the screen, then click comment link at the end of the post.)
2. As much as possible, avoid the use of abbreviated words like the way you write text messages.
3. If you have a difficulty in using the English language, the use the FILIPINO (tagalog) language is very much welcome.
4. As much as possible, edit your comment first before publishing.
5. Please sign in on the FOLLOWERS located at the right portion of the page so that I can easily identify you as my students.
6. As much as possible, write your FULL NAME and SECTION in every post for easy recording of your points.
7. Happy posting!
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Fossil Fuels and The Current Energy Crisis (3rd Grading-No.1)
Fossil fuels, coal, oil and natural gas, are a non-renewable source of energy. Formed from plants and animals that lived up to 300 million years ago, fossil fuels are found in deposits beneath the earth. The fuels are burned to release the chemical energy that is stored within this resource. Energy is essential to modern society as we know it. Over 85% of our energy demands are met by the combustion of fossil fuels.
Going back to the earlier days of Earth, the plants and animals that lived then eventually died and decomposed. The majority of these life forms were phytoplankton and zooplankton. When these ancient ocean dwellers died, they accumulated on the bottom of a seabed; this is how a good portion of our fossil fuel reserves began. The actual transformation process of these prehistoric creatures is not known, but scientists do know that the pressure, heat, and a great deal of time go into the making of fossil fuels.
Fossil fuels are excellent sources of energy for our transportation needs; however they are also the primary source of electrical energy in the world today. Coal power plants account for at least 52% of the world's demand. We, as a world, burn approximately 1.9 billion tons of coal a year to generate electricity.
We are currently in an energy crisis. Fossil fuels are the lifeblood of our society and for many others around the world. Our supply has a finite end. Fossil fuels will run out and the use of them will soon take the lives of many people. These are important reasons to find other means of getting the energy we need to continue our society as we know it.
So what are our options?
Welcome to Science Guro.
We are inviting all Manuel A. Roxas High School students to participate by sharing your thoughts, views and opinions regarding science and science related issues. Its your chance to be heard on some science related issues that are timely and relevant.
We are going to post one topic per week for you to discuss.
We are discouraging the use of foul words and obscene languages.
Happy Posting !
Mr. Rodelio P. Ramos
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Larry Rasmussen
Larry Rasmussen is Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics emeritus at Union Theological Seminary and author (with Dieter Hessel) of Earth Community, Earth Ethics and Earth Habitat: Eco-Injustice and the Church’s Response.
Articles by Larry Rasmussen
What does it mean that planet Earth is jeopardized by its supposed stewards, who fail even to wince at our species' cumulative threats to life?
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Force scribe was an upper tier Fallanassi technique that utilized the White Current to inscribe words on objects. Once written, the inscribing would never fade away, and could only be seen, read, altered, or erased by someone trained in the White Current. Conversely, the ability also allowed another to sense if scribing is present on an object, as well as where scribing would be on any given object.
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No checkpoints? ♥♥♥♥ YOU!
I thought this was a pretty good game, but then I realised there's no ♥♥♥♥ing checkpoints in the game! And it would've helped me with the boss in the game, because there's ♥♥♥♥ing saws EVERYWHERE and I have to keep restarting from the beginning over and OVER AGAIN! IT ♥♥♥♥ES ME OFF!
♥♥♥♥ YOU TEAM MEAT! You made the game a pain in the ♥♥♥ for me and I can't believe I wasted $3 on your ♥♥♥♥ty game, I could've bought Retro CIty Rampage with that money, you ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥s! I'm giving away your trading cards for free for not adding any checkpoints in your game you ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥s, see how you like it! Besides, the trading cards are the ONLY GOOD THING about this game you ♥♥♥♥♥! TEAM ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥!
Next time, I'm getting Retro City Rampage, a game that ♥♥♥♥ ton better than your ♥♥♥♥ing meat game!
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Milos Pinkman 20 ก.ค. @ 7:02pm
u mad bro?
Fred Fuchs 20 ก.ค. @ 7:32pm
That is the point of the game.
This is a long profile name 20 ก.ค. @ 7:59pm
There are no checkpoints because it takes about 30 seconds to beat most of the levels. You're supposed to try it again and again until you know what to do and what not to do.
Sup3rN1c 20 ก.ค. @ 9:21pm
I played it for almost 2 hours...
It's really funny and frustrating at the same point!!!
It's a great game... like the old ones!
Festive Kratos 20 ก.ค. @ 9:26pm
Ryan Jaxx 21 ก.ค. @ 12:10am
You're an idiot... seriously, uninstall Steam now before you hurt yourself. This must be a sarcastic post right? No one could actually complain about this for real could they?
Kuhaa 21 ก.ค. @ 12:26am
Super Meat Boy doesn't hold your hand, and that's why it's so popular. The levels take around 10-30 second to beat so there really isn't any need for checkpoints, and furthermore they would totally ruin the flow of the game. Maybe you should have done some research before buying, although $3 for this awesome game is practically free so I don't really get why you're so upset.
Ozymandias 21 ก.ค. @ 12:31am
Give me a break dude....
Gemfruit 21 ก.ค. @ 2:33am
Most levels in the game can be beat in under 20 seconds, and the hardest levels (which you didn't get close to) can be beat in under 50 seconds. The bosses are nowhere near as hard as most NES game bosses, at all. You're making yourself look pretty pansy QQing in this thread - just saying.
brownierisker 21 ก.ค. @ 2:49am
If there would be checkpoints, the game would be way too easy.
Ziabster 21 ก.ค. @ 6:03am
Why would you need checkpoints? The game is meant to be closer to hardcore games rather than casual games.
Alpha100f 21 ก.ค. @ 9:00am
Try "I wanna be the guy".
That game has checkpoints.
dq333 21 ก.ค. @ 11:19am
a bucket 21 ก.ค. @ 11:20am
Why do you care about checkpoints? the levels are too small, It would be stupid if it get saved each platform you jump on it would be the worst game ever...
Grouchymosla 21 ก.ค. @ 4:01pm
The difficulty makes the game fun, it's a nice challenging platformer. It warned you tough as nails...
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My summer memories as captured by a Sony Mavica floppy disk camera
In another privacy slip-up, today Facebook showed me who my friends wanted for PM in the UK General Election. On election day.
Today Facebook was continuing to push out it’s Democracy UK poll, and interested in what it did I tried it out myself. I idly pushed the “Cameron for PM” button wondering if it would just give me some results (actually that’s not how I vote as it happens) and I was presented with the results. There was a button to see how my friends had voted, and duly, up came people in my social graph and who they had voted to be PM.
Now, this is admittedly a poll which was started before the election today. The results of the poll were released on Tuesday.
But today the rules are different. Voting intention polls and exit polls are illegal on the actual election day. Which is why I was surprised that Facebook was allowing this poll to continue.
A spoksperson insisted to me that the poll “didn’t actually ask people how they were going to vote/have voted, it just asked who they would like to see as PM.” They said “it is the same as if they rang, emailed or text their friends who they had voted for, which is not an exit poll.” Facebook insisted the poll didn’t show how or where they have voted.
However there was no warning at all that I would be presented with who my friends had picked for PM or that they would see whatever button I had pressed.
In other words my friends may well now think I voted for a party that I didn’t actually vote for. Although it is worth pointing out that this did not appear in my feed, only on the polling results.
But shortly after I enquired as to why the poll was still running on election day Facebook took the poll down.
In any event, what basically just happened was that hundreds of thousands of people on Facebook saw who their friends wanted to the Prime Minister on the actual election day.
So their secret ballot was not so secret any more.
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0.044281 | <urn:uuid:2e3e6e2b-504c-480d-93dc-c0c0e539209c> | en | 0.946784 | Edouard Langlois and his wife Jeanne Chateau founded their winemaking estate in 1885. Later generations carefully expanded the estate, building one of the finest and most representative vineyard holdings in the Loire Valley, a region known around the world for the quality, variety and value of its wines.
The Loire Valley is France’s second largest producer of sparkling wine, so it was fitting that, in 1973, the Bollinger family took an ownership interest in Langlois-Chateau. Michel Villedey, a son-in-law to the Bollingers and a native of the Loire Valley, became president of the company. He joined Managing Director Jean Leroux, the grandson of Edouard Langlois and Jeanne Chateau, and together they oversaw an expansion that included development of vineyards in Saumur, Saumur-Champigny and Sancerre.
Langlois-Chateau is best known for its rich and elegant Crémant de Loire sparkling wines. Crémant de Loire is a rigorously regulated appellation that specifies hand grape-picking, light pressing and long maturation. Langlois-Chateau is the only Loire winery to control the winemaking process for its Crémant from start to finish. It has continually refined its own standards to exceed those of the appellation, including extended aging on the lees for 24 months, rather than the typical 12 months, for additional roundness and structure.
Langlois-Chateau is also renowned for its Sancerre, a superb, elegant Sauvignon Blanc varietal produced with fruit from vineyards surrounding Château de Fontaine-Audon, one of only four chateaux in the Sancerre appellation. The wine is handcrafted at low temperatures, resulting in a crisp finish, with gooseberry and mineral flavors. | http://terlatowines.com/brands/france/langlois-chateau | dclm-gs1-126850002 | false | false | {
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(exhibition, 1949)
Sonsbeek International Sculpture Exhibition. Since 1949 Arnhem has built up a legendary reputation as one of the major international art events of Europe: the Sonsbeek sculpture exhibition. An exhibition about the urge, the dream, the conflict and the struggle that are linked to this aspiration. The works of art show 'Grandeur on a human scale'.
Artists Sonsbeek:
Grandeur on a human scale | http://the-artists.org/artistsbymovement/sonsbeek/ | dclm-gs1-126860002 | false | false | {
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Republicans pounce on uptick in jobless numbers
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Those unemployment figures we had a moment ago have given Republicans another weapon with which to attack the president on a crucial election year issue.
At the center of the new attack a group the president appointed to work on ways to create jobs.
Here's White House correspondent when -- Campaigning in Florida President Obama said his goal is to rebuild the middle class that has been hard hit not just by the recession but by the policies of his predecessor.
As Americans we don't expect handouts.
Fully expect hard work to pay off.
We understand that there'll be setbacks.
But we also know that responsibility should be rewarded.
-- armed with an uptick in last week's jobless claims Republicans launched a coordinated attack.
On mr.
Obama's failure to meet recently with his own jobs council.
-- surprise that the president has not met with his jobs council.
In the last six months.
He doesn't -- time amigos own jobs council.
-- -- out their campaign in every day are looking for somebody else to blame.
The Republican National Committee even use mr.
Obama's -- spokesman's explanation on Wednesday for the lack of meeting us there.
Because it -- -- except the president suns got a lot of play on this day Jay Carney told reporters in an off camera briefing.
The president has acted on 90% of the job council's recommendations he can do want his own.
Congress is only acted on -- percent of the recommendations that require its approval.
The -- brought mixed economic news dropped last month that home sales but the largest increase in new home construction in four years.
As economic growth has slowed over the past few months.
Poll suggests the rising number of people feel the Obama administration has made things worse and that's contributed to a slight decline in how they -- his job performance.
Obama conceded the economy is not where it should be but he said the Republicans only remedy is to blame him for.
I guess that's -- plan to win an election but.
They can't hide the fact that it's -- a plan to create jobs.
It's not a plan to grow the economy.
They don't have a plan to revive the middle class.
Everything that they're proposing.
We drive for a decade and it didn't work.
But Florida's unemployment rate higher than the national average the job -- would seem to be even more significant there.
Polls put the president and Mitt Romney in a virtual dead heat in the state president will spend another day campaigning there on Friday Brett.
And the goal -- in the north lawn Wendell thank you.
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New film boosts immigration fight
Friday - 4/12/2013, 6:38pm ET
Associated Press
Guggenheim directed Al Gore's film on global warming, "An Inconvenient Truth," and 2010's "Waiting for Superman," on the wretched state of the nation's public schools.
His new effort, "The Dream is Now," tells the stories of immigrant youths here illegally who are eager to succeed in America but can't because they lack legal status.
Jose is trained as a mechanical engineer, but working as a construction laborer because he can't get a job in his chosen profession.
Ola hopes to become a surgical oncologist, but fears deportation even as she pursues her studies.
The 30-minute film was screened at the Capitol for members of the House and Senate earlier this week and it will be shown on college campuses and elsewhere in coming weeks.
"My hope is that people will watch this film, it'll open their minds about what's really at stake in immigration reform," Guggenheim said in an interview with The Associated Press. "You see firsthand what happens if we don't fix this broken system we have."
Laurene Powell Jobs chairs Emerson Collective, a nonprofit that supports education reform and other efforts. Through her work in education she encountered youths here illegally who couldn't advance because of their status, and became interested in their stories, Guggenheim said.
The youths in the film would benefit from legislation called the DREAM Act because it would allow citizenship to people brought here in their youths who fulfill certain requirements. Congress has tried but failed to pass that measure but it's expected to be incorporated in a comprehensive immigration overhaul bill to be released next week by bipartisan Senate negotiators.
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• Where to watch online
OK, this post is about something that happened on a rerun that
relates to a news story that's almost a year old, but the coincidence is too funny for words. On a rerun o...
Rebellious kids learn that there are serious consequences when they take things too far and break the law. From bar brawls to drunken driving and underage drinking (notice an alcohol-consumption theme?), plus assorted drug offenses, the temptations to encounter trouble are apparently too much for these wayward young adults to resist. Their stories are told through the eyes of the arresting officers, supplemented with commentary from the knuckleheads on why they thought they were above the law. | http://www.aoltv.com/show/busted/188892 | dclm-gs1-127160002 | false | false | {
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Bolt Beranek and Newman, Inc.
Cambridge, Mass.
File Transfer Protocol
(Aug. 12, 1973)
RFC 542 NIC 17759
See Also: RFCs 354, 454, 495
File Transfer Protocol for the ARPA Network
File Transfer Protocol (Aug. 12, 1973) RFC 542 NIC 17759
This document is the result of several months discussion via RFC
(relevant numbers are 430, 448, 454, 463, 468, 478, 480), followed by a
meeting of the FTP committee at BBN on March 16, followed by further
communication among committee members. There are a considerable number
of changes for the last "official" version, see RFCs 354, 385, but the
gross structure remains the same. The places to look for differences
are (1) in the definitions pf types and modes, (2) in the specification
of the data connection and data sockets, (3) in the command-reply
sequences, (4) in the functions dependent on the TELNET protocol (FTP
has been altered to correspond to the new TELNET spec). The model has
been clarified and enlarged to allow inter-server file transfer, and
several new commands have been added to accommodate more specialized (or
site-specific) functions. It is my belief that this new specificiation
reflects the views expressed by the committee at the above-mentioned
meeting and in subsequent conversations.
The large number of incompatibilities would complicate a phased
implementation schedule, such as is in effect for the TELNET protocol.
Therefore we have assigned a new socket, decimal 21, as a temporary
logger socket for the new version and a change-over date of 1 February
1974 Until that date the old (354, 385) version of FTP will be
available on Socket 3 and the new version (attached) should be
implemented on Socket 21. On 1 February the new version will shift to
Socket 3 and the old disappear from view.
The File Transfer protocol should be considered stable at least until
February, though one should feel free to propose further changes via
RFC. (Implementation of new commands on an experimental basis is
encouraged and should also be reported by RFC.) In addition, members of
the FTP committee may be contacted directly about changes. Based on
attendance at the March 16 meeting, they are:
Abhay Bhushan MIT-DMCG
Bob Braden UCLA-CCN
Bob Bressler BBN-NET
Bob Clements BBN-TENEX
Peter Deutsch PARC-MAXC
Wayne Hathaway AMES-67
Mike Kudlick SRI-ARC
Alex McKenzie BBN-NET
Bob Merryman UCSD-CC
Nancy Neigus BBN-NET
Mike Padlipsky MIT-Multics
Jim Pepin USC-44
Ken Pogran MIT-Multics
Jon Postel UCLA-NMC
File Transfer Protocol (Aug. 12, 1973) RFC 542 NIC 17759 Milton Reese FNWC
Brad Reussow HARV-10
Marc Seriff MIT-DMCG
Ed Taft HARV-10
Bob Thomas BBN-TENEX
Ric Werme CMU-10
Jim White SRI-ARC
I would especially like to thank Bob Braden, Ken Pogran, Wayne Hathaway,
Jon Postel, Ed Taft and Alex McKenzie for their help in preparing this
File Transfer Protocol (Aug. 12, 1973) RFC 542 NIC 17759 FILE TRANSFER PROTOCOL
The File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a protocol for file transfer between Hosts (including Terminal Interface Message Processors (TIPs)) on the ARPA Computer Network (ARPANET). The primary function of FTP is to transfer files efficiently and reliably among Hosts and to allow the convenient use of remote file storage capabilities.
The attempt in this specification is to satisfy the diverse needs of users of maxi-Hosts, mini-Hosts, TIPs, and the Datacomputer, with a simple, and easily implemented protocol design.
This paper assumes knowledge of the following protocols described in NIC #7104:
The Host-Host Protocol
The Initial Connection Protocol
The TELNET Protocol
The USASCII character set as defined in NIC #7104. In FTP, ASCII characters are defined to be the lower half of an eight-bit code set (i.e., the most significant bit is zero).
access controls
File Transfer Protocol (Aug. 12, 1973) RFC 542 NIC 17759 It is the prerogative of a server-FTP process to provide access controls.
byte size
The byte size specified for the transfer of data. The data connection is opened with this byte size. The data connection byte size is not necessarily the byte size in which data is to be stored in a system, nor the logical byte size for interpretation of the structure of the data.
data connection
A simplex connection over which data is transferred, in a specified byte size, mode and type. The data transferred may be a part of a file, an entire file or a number of files. The path may be between a server-DTP and a user-DTP, or between two server-DTPs.
data socket
The passive data transfer process "listens" on the data socket for an RFC from the active transfer process (server) in order to open the data connection. The server has fixed data sockets; the passive process may or may not.
error recovery
A procedure that allows a user to recover from certain errors such as failure of either Host system or transfer process. In FTP, error recovery may involve restarting a file transfer at a given checkpoint.
FTP commands
File Transfer Protocol (Aug. 12, 1973) RFC 542 NIC 17759 file
An ordered set of computer data (including programs), of arbitrary length, uniquely identified by a pathname.
The mode in which data is to be transferred via the data connection. The mode defines the data format during transfer including EOR and EOF. The transfer modes defined in FTP are described in the Section on Transmission Modes.
The Network Virtual Terminal as defined in the ARPANET TELNET Protocol.
A sequential file may be structured as a number of contiguous parts called records. Record structures are supported by FTP but a file need not have record structure.
A reply is an acknowledgment (positive or negative) sent from server to user via the TELNET connections in response to FTP commands. The general form of a reply is a completion code (including error codes) followed by a text string. The codes are for use by programs and the text is usually intended for human users.
File Transfer Protocol (Aug. 12, 1973) RFC 542 NIC 17759 server-DTP
The data transfer process, in its normal "active" state, establishes the data connection by RFC to the "listening" data socket, sets up parameters for transfer and storage, and tranfers data on command from its PI. The DTP can be placed in a "passive" state to listen for, rather than initiate, an RFC on the data socket.
server-FTP process
A process or set of processes which perform the function of file transfer in cooperation with a user-FTP process and, possibly, another server. The functions consist of a protocol interpreter (PI) and a data transfer process (DTP).
The protocol interpreter "listens" on Socket 3 for an ICP from a user-PI and establishes a TELNET communication connection. It receives standard FTP commands from the user-PI, sends replies, and governs the server-DTP.
TELNET connections
The full-duplex communication path between a user-PI and a server-PI. The TELNET connections are established via the standard ARPANET Initial Connection Protocol (ICP).
The data representation type used for data transfer and storage. Type implies certain transformations between the time of data storage and data transfer. The representation types defined in FTP are described in the Section on Establishing Data Connections.
A human being or a process on behalf of a human being wishing to obtain file transfer service. The human user may interact directly with a server-FTP process, but use of a user-FTP process is preferred since the protocol design is weighted towards automata.
File Transfer Protocol (Aug. 12, 1973) RFC 542 NIC 17759 user-DTP
The data transfer process "listens" on the data socket for an RFC from a server-FTP process. If two servers are transferring data between them, the user-DTP is inactive.
user-FTP process
A set of functions including a protocol interpreter, a data transfer process and a user interface which together perform the function of file transfer in cooperation with one or more server-FTP processes. The user interface allows a local language to be used in the command-reply dialogue with the user.
The protocol interpreter initiates the ICP to the server-FTP process, initiates FTP commands, and governs the user-DTP if that process is part of the file transfer.
With the above definitions in mind, the following model (shown in Figure 1) may be diagrammed for an FTP service.
!! User !! --------
!!Interface!<--->! User !
!\----:----/! --------
!/------\! FTP Commands !/---------\!
!!Server!<-----------------! User !!
!! PI !----------------->! PI !!
!\--:---/! FTP Replies !\----:----/!
! V ! ! V !
-------- !/------\! Data !/---------\! --------
! File !<--->!Server!<---------------->! User !<--->! File !
!System! !! DTP !! Connections !! DTP !! !System!
-------- !\------/! !\---------/! --------
Server-FTP User-FTP
Figure 1 Model for FTP Use
File Transfer Protocol (Aug. 12, 1973) RFC 542 NIC 17759 In the model described in Figure 1, the user-protocol interpreter initiates the TELNET connections. At the initiation of the user, standard FTP commands are generated by the user-PI and transmitted to the server process via the TELNET connections. (The user may establish a direct TELNET connection to the server-FTP, from a TIP terminal for example, and generate standard FTP commands himself, by-passing the user-FTP process.) Standard replies are sent from the server-PI to the user-PI over the TELNET connections in response to the commands.
The FTP commands specify the parameters for the data connection (data socket, byte size, transfer mode, representation type, and structure) and the nature of file system operation (store, retrieve, append, delete, etc.). The user-DTP or its designate should "listen" on the specified data socket, and the server initiate the data connection and data transfer in accordance with the specified parameters. It should be noted that the data socket need not be in the same Host that initiates the FTP commands via the TELNET connections, but the user or his user-FTP process must ensure a "listen" on the specified data socket. It should also be noted that two data connections, one for send and the other for receive, may exist simultaneously.
In another situation a user might wish to transfer files between two Hosts, neither of which is his local Host. He sets up TELNET connections to the two servers and then arranges for a data connection between them. In this manner control information is passed to the user-PI but data is transferred between he server data transfer processes. Following is a model of this server-server interaction.
TELNET ------------ TELNET
-----------! User-FTP !------------
! -------->! User-PI !<--------- !
! ! ! "C" ! ! !
V ! ------------ ! V
! Server-FTP ! Data Connection ! Server-FTP !
! "A" !<-----------------------! "B" !
-------------- Socket(A) Socket(B) --------------
Figure 2
The protocol requires that the TELNET connections be open while data transfer is in progress. It is the responsibility of the user to request the closing of the TELNET connections when finished using the FTP service, while it is the server who takes the action. The server may abort data transfer if the TELNET connections are closed without command.
Files are transferred only via the data connection(s). The TELNET connection is used for the transfer of commands, which describe the functions to be performed, and the replies to these commands (see the Section on FTP Replies). Several commands are concerned with the transfer of data between Hosts. These data transfer commands include the BYTE, MODE, and SOCKet commands which specify how the bits of the data are to be transmitted, and the STRUcture and TYPE commands, which are used to define the way in which the data are to be represented. The transmission and representation are basically independent but "Stream" transmission mode is dependent on the file structure attribute and if "Compressed" transmission mode is used the nature of the filler byte depends on the representation type.
Data is transferred from a storage device in the sending Host to a storage device in the receiving Host. Often it is necessary to perform certain transformations on the data because data storage representations in the two systems are different. For example, NVT-ASCII has different data storage representations in diffeent systems. PDP-10's generally store NVT-ASCII as five 7-bit ASCII characters, left-justified in a 36-bit word. 360's store NVT-ASCII as 8-bit EBCDIC codes. Multics stores NVT-ASCII as four 9-bit characters in a 36-bit word. It may be desirable to convert characters into the standard NVT-ASCII representation when transmitting text between dissimilar systems. The sending and receiving sites would have to perform the necessary transformations between the standard representation and their internal representations.
A different problem in representation arises when transmitting binary data (not character codes) between Host systems with different word lengths. It is not always clear how the sender should send data, and the receiver store it. For example, when transmitting 32-bit bytes from a 32-bit word-length system to a 36-bit word-length system, it may be desirable (for reasons of efficiency and usefulness) to store the 32-bit bytes right-justified in a 36-bit word in the latter system. In any case, the user should have the option of specifying data representation and transformation functions. It should be noted that FTP provides for very limited data type representations. Transformations desired beyond this limited capability should be
performed by the user directly or via the use of the Data Reconfiguration Sevice (DRS, RFC #138, NIC #6715). Additonal representation types may be defined later if there is a demonstrable need.
Data representations are handled in FTP by a user specifying a representation type. This type may implicitly (as in ASCII or EBCDIC) or explicitly (as in Local byte) define a byte size for interpretation which is referred to as the "logical byte size." This has nothing to do with the byte size used for transmission over the data connection(s) (called the "transfer byte size") and the two should not be confused. For example, NVT-ASCII has a logical byte size of 8 bits but an ASCII file might be transferred using a transfer byte size of 32. If the type is Local byte, then the TYPE command has an obligatory second parameter specifying the logical byte size.
The types ASCII and EBCDIC also take a second (optional) parameter; this is to indicate what kind of vertical format control, if any, is associated with a file. The following data representation types are defined in FTP:
ASCII Format
This is the default type and must be accepted by all FTP implementations. It is intended primarily for the transfer of text files, except when both Hosts would find the EBCDIC type more convenient.
The sender converts the data from his internal character representation to the standard 8-bit NVT-ASCII representation (see the TELNET specification). The receiver will convert the data from the standard form to his own internal form.
In accordance with the NVT standard, the <CRLF> sequence should be used, where necessary, to denote the end of a line of text. (See the discussion of file structure at the end of the Section on Data Representation and Storage).
Using the standard NVT-ASCII representation means that data must be interpreted as 8-bit bytes. If the BYTE command (see the Section on Transfer Parameter Commands) specifies a transfer byte size different from 8 bits, the 8-bit ASCII characters should be packed contiguously without regard for transfer byte boundaries.
The Format parameter for ASCII and EBCDIC types is discussed below.
File Transfer Protocol (Aug. 12, 1973) RFC 542 NIC 17759 EBCDIC Format
This type is intended for efficient transfer between Hosts which use EBCDIC for their internal character representation.
For transmission the data are represented as 8-bit EBCDIC characters. The character code is the only difference between the functional specifications of EBCDIC and ASCII types.
End-of-line (as opposed to end-of-record--see the discussion of structure) will probably be rarely used with EBCDIC type for purposes of denoting structure, but where it is necessary the
<NL> character should be used.
A character file may be transferred to a Host for one of three purposes: for printing, for storage and later retrieval, or for processing. If a file is sent for printing, the receiving Host must know how the vertical format control is represented. In the second case, it must be possible to store a file at a Host and then retrieve it later in exactly the same form. Finally, it ought to be possible to move a file from one Host to another and process the file at the second Host without undue trouble. A single ASCII or EBCDIC format does not satisfy all these conditions and so these types have a second parameter specifying one of the following three formats:
This is the default format to be used if the second (format) parameter is omitted. Non-print format must be accepted by all FTP implementations.
The file need contain no vertical format information. If it is passed to a printer process, this process may assume standard values for spacing and margins.
Normally, this format will be used with files destined for processing or just storage.
TELNET Format Controls
The file contains ASCII/EBCDIC vertical format controls (i.e.,
<CR>, <LF>, <NL>, <VT>, <FF>) which the printer process will
interpret appropriately. <CRLF>, in exactly this sequence,
also denotes end-of-line.
Carriage Control (ASA)
The file contains ASA (FORTRAN) vertical format control characters. (See NWG/RFC #189 Appendix C and Communications of
File Transfer Protocol (Aug. 12, 1973) RFC 542 NIC 17759 the ACM, Vol. 7, No. 10, 606 (Oct. 1964)). In a line or a record, formatted according to the ASA Standard, the first character is not to be printed. Instead it should be used to determine the vertical movement of the paper which should take place before the rest of the record is printed. The ASA Standard specifies the following control characters:
Character Vertical Spacing
blank Move paper up one line
0 Move paper up two lines
1 Move paper to top of next page
+ No movement, i.e., overprint
Clearly there must be some way for a printer process to distinguish the end of the structural entity. If a file has record structure (see below) this is no problem; records will be explicitly marked during transfer and storage. If the file has no record structure, the <CRLF> end-of-line sequence is used to separate printing lines, but these format effectors are overridden by the ASA controls.
The data are sent as contiguous bits which, for transfer, are packed into transfer bytes of the size specified in the BYTE command. The receiving site must store the data as contiguous bits. The structure of the storage system might necessitate the padding of the file (or of each record, for a
record-structured file) to some convenient boundary (byte, word or block). This padding, which must be all zeroes, may occur only at the end of the file (or at the end of each record) and there must be a way of identifying the padding bits so that they may be stripped off if the file is retrieved. The padding transformation should be well publicized to enable a user to process a file at the storage site.
Image type is intended for the efficient storage and retrieval of files and for the transfer of binary data. It is recommended that this type be accepted by all FTP
Local byte Byte size
The data is transferred in logical bytes of the size specified by the obligatory second parameter, Byte size. The value of Byte size must be a decimal integer; there is no default value. The logical byte size is not necessarily the same as the transfer byte size. If there is a difference in byte sizes,
File Transfer Protocol (Aug. 12, 1973) RFC 542 NIC 17759 then the logical bytes should be packed contiguously, disregarding transfer byte boundaries and with any necessary padding at the end.
When the data reaches the receiving Host it will be transformed in a manner dependent on the logical byte size and the particular Host. This transformation must be invertible (that is an identical file can be retrieved if the same parameters are used) and should be well publicized by the FTP
This type is intended for the transfer of structured data. For example, a user sending 36-bit floating-point numbers to a Host with a 32-bit word could send his data as Local byte with a logical byte size of 36. The receiving Host would then be expected to store the logical bytes so that they could be easily manipulated; in this example putting the 36-bit logical bytes into 64-bit double words should suffice.
A note of caution about parameters: a file must be stored and retrieved with the same parameters if the retrieved version is to be identical to the version originally transmitted. Conversely, FTP implementations must return a file identical to the original if the parameters used to store and retrieve a file are the same.
In addition to different representation types, FTP allows the structure of a file to be specified. Currently two file structures are recognized in FTP: file-structure, where there is no internal structure, and record-structure, where the file is made up of records. File-structure is the default, to be assumed if the STRUcture command has not been used but both structures must be accepted for "text" files (i.e., files with TYPE ASCII or EBCDIC) by all FTP implementations. The structure of a file will affect both the transfer mode of a file (see the Section on Transmission Modes) and the interpretation and storage of the file.
The "natural" structure of a file will depend on which Host stores the file. A source-code file will usually be stored on an IBM 360 in fixed length records but on a PDP-10 as a stream of characters partitioned into lines, for example by <CRLF>. If the transfer of files between such disparate sites is to be useful, there must be some way for one site to recognize the other's assumptions about the file.
With some sites being naturally file-oriented and others naturally record-oriented there may be problems if a file with one structure is sent to a Host oriented to the other. If a text file is sent with record-structure to a Host which is file oriented, then that Host should apply an internal transformation to the file based on the
File Transfer Protocol (Aug. 12, 1973) RFC 542 NIC 17759 record structure. Obviously this transformation should be useful but it must also be invertible so that an identical file may be retreieved using record structure.
In the case of a file being sent with file-structure to a record-oriented Host, there exists the question of what criteria the Host should use to divide the file into records which can be processed locally. If this division is necessary the FTP implementation should use the end-of-line sequence, <CRLF> for ASCII, or <NL> for EBCDIC text files, as the delimiter. If an FTP implementation adopts this technique, it must be prepared to reverse the transformation if the file is retrieved with file-structure.
The mechanics of transferring data consists of setting up the data connection to the appropriate sockets and choosing the parameters for transfer--byte size and mode. Both the user and the server-DTPs have default data sockets; these are the two sockets (for send and receive) immediately following the standard ICP TELNET socket ,i.e., (U+4) and (U+5) for the user-process and (S+2), (S+3) for the server. The use of default sockets will ensure the security of the data transfer, without requiring the socket information to be explicitly exchanged.
The byte size for the data connection is specified by the BYTE command, or, if left unspecified, defaults to 8-bit bytes. This byte size is relevant only for the actual transfer of the data; it has no bearing on representation of the data within a Host's file system. The protocol does not require servers to accept all possible byte sizes. Since the use of various byte sizes is intended for efficiency of transfer, servers may implement only those sizes for which their data transfer is efficient including the default byte size of 8 bits.
The passive data transfer process (this may be a user-DTP or a second server-DTP) shall "listen" on the data socket prior to sending a transfer request command. The FTP request command determines the direction of the data transfer and thus which data socket (odd or even) is to be used in establishing the connection. The server, upon receiving the transfer request, will initiate the data connection by RFC to the appropriate socket using the specified (or default) byte size. When the connection is opened, the data transfer begins between DTP's, and the server-PI sends a confirming reply to the user-PI.
It is possible for the user to specify an alternate data socket by use of the SOCK command. He might want a file dumped on a TIP line printer or retrieved from a third party Host. In the latter case the user-PI sets up TELNET connections with both server-PI's and sends
File Transfer Protocol (Aug. 12, 1973) RFC 542 NIC 17759 each a SOCK command indicating the fixed data sockets of the other. One server is then told (by an FTP command) to "listen" for an RFC which the other will initiate and finally both are sent the appropriate transfer commands. The exact sequence of commands and replies sent between the user-controller and the servers is defined in the Section on FTP Replies.
In general it is the server's responsibility to maintain the data connection--to initiate the RFC's and the closes. The exception to this is when the user-DTP is sending the data in a transfer mode that requires the connection to be closed to indicate EOF. The server MUST close the data connection under the following conditions:
1 The server has completed sending data in a transfer mode that
requires a close to indicate EOF.
2 The server receives an ABORT command from the user.
3 The socket or byte size specification is changed by a command
from the user.
4 The TELNET connections are closed legally or otherwise.
5 An irrecoverable error condition occurs.
Otherwise the close is a server option, the exercise of which he must indicate to the user-process by an appropriate reply.
The next consideration in transferring data is choosing the appropriate transmission mode. There are three modes: one which formats the data and allows for restart procedures; one which also compresses the data for efficient transfer; and one which passes the data with little or no processing. In this last case the mode interacts with the structure attribute to determine the type of processing. In the compressed mode the representation type determines the filler byte.
All data transfers must be completed with an end-of-file (EOF) which may be explicitly stated or implied by the closing of the data connection. For files with record structure, all the end-of-record markers (EOR) are explicit, including the final one.
Note: In the rest of this section, byte means "transfer byte" except where explicitly stated otherwise.
File Transfer Protocol (Aug. 12, 1973) RFC 542 NIC 17759 The following transmission modes are defined in FTP:
The data is transmitted as a stream of bytes. There is no restriction on the representation type used; record structures are allowed, in which case the transfer byte size must be at least 3 bits!
In a record structured file EOR and EOF will each be indicated by a two-byte control code of whatever byte size is used for the transfer. The first byte of the control code will be all ones, the escape character. The second byte will have the low order bit on and zeroes elsewhere for EOR and the second low order bit on for EOF; that is, the byte will have value 1 for EOR and value 2 for EOF. EOR and EOF may be indicated together on the last byte transmitted by turning both low order bits on, i.e., the value 3. If a byte of all ones was intended to be sent as data, it should be repeated in the second byte of the control code.
If the file does not have record structure, the EOF is indicated by the sending Host closing the data connection and all bytes are data bytes.
For the purpose of standardized transfer, the sending Host will translate his internal end of line or end of record denotation into the representation prescribed by the transfer mode and file structure, and the receiving Host will perform the inverse translation to his internal denotation. An IBM 360 record count field may not be recognized at another Host, so the end of record information may be transferred as a two byte control code in Stream mode or as a flagged bit in a Block or Compressed mode descriptor. End of line in an ASCII or EBCDIC file with no record structure should be indicated by <CRLF> or <NL>, respectively. Since these transformations imply extra work for some systems, identical systems transferring non-record structured text files might wish to use a binary representation and stream mode for the transfer.
The file is transmitted as a series of data blocks preceded by one or more header bytes. The header bytes contain a count field, and descriptor code. The count field indicates the total length of the data block in bytes, thus marking the beginning of the next data block (there are no filler bits). The descriptor code defines: last block in the file (EOF) last block in the record (EOR), restart marker (see the Section on Error Recovery and Restart) or suspect data (i.e., the data
being transferred is suspected of errors and is not reliable). This last code is NOT intended for error control within FTP. It is motivated by the desire of sites exchanging certain types of data (e.g., seismic or weather data) to send and receive all the data despite local errors (such as "magnetic tape read errors"), but to indicate in the transmission that certain portions are suspect). Record structures are allowed in this mode, and any representation type may be used. There is no restriction on the transfer byte size.
Integral number of bytes greater than or equal to 24 bits
! Don't care ! Descriptor ! Byte Count !
! 0 to 231 bits ! 8 bits ! 16 bits !
The descriptor codes are indicated by bit flags in the descriptor byte. Four codes have been assigned, where each code number is the decimal value of the corresponding bit in the byte.
Code Meaning
128 End of data block is EOR
64 End of data block is EOF
32 Suspected errors in data block
16 Data block is a restart marker
With this encoding more than one descriptor coded condition may exist for a particular block. As many bits as necessary may be flagged.
The restart marker is embedded in the data stream as an integral number of 8-bit bytes representing printable characters in the language being used over the TELNET connection (e.g., default--NVT-ASCII). These marker bytes are right-justified in the smallest integral number of transfer bytes greater than or equal to 8 bits. For example, if the
File Transfer Protocol (Aug. 12, 1973) RFC 542 NIC 17759 byte size is 7 bits, the restart marker byte would be one byte right-justified per two 7-bit bytes as shown below:
Two 7-bit bytes
! ! Marker Char !
! ! 8 bits !
If the transfer byte size is 16 or more bits, the maximum possible number of complete marker bytes should be packed, right-justified, into each transfer byte. The restart marker should begin in the first marker byte. If there are any unused marker bytes, these should be filled with the character <SP> (Space, in the appropriate language). <SP> must not be used WITHIN a restart marker. For example, to transmit a six-character marker with a 36-bit transfer byte size, the following three 36-bit bytes would be sent:
! Don't care !Descriptor! Byte count = 2 !
! 12 bits ! code = 16! !
! ! Marker ! Marker ! Marker ! Marker !
! ! 8 bits ! 8 bits ! 8 bits ! 8 bits !
! ! Marker ! Marker ! Space ! Space !
The file is transmitted as series of bytes of the size specified by the BYTE command. There are three kinds of information to be sent: regular data, sent in a byte string; compressed data, consisting of replications or filler; and control information, sent in a two-byte escape sequence. If the byte size is B bits and n>0 bytes of regular data are sent, these n bytes are preceded by a byte with the left-most bit set to 0 and the right-most B-1 bits containing the number n.
1 B-1 B B
Byte string: !0! n ! !d(1)!...!d(n)!
^ ^
!---n bytes---!
of data
Count n must be positive
To compress a string of n replications of the data byte d, the following 2 bytes are sent:
2 B-2 B
Replicated Byte: ! 1 0 ! n ! ! d !
A string of n filler bytes can be compressed into a single byte, where the filler byte varies with the representation type. If the type is ASCII or EBCDIC the filler byte is <SP> (Space, ASCII code 32., EBCDIC code 64). If the transfer byte size is not 8, the expanded byte string should be filled with 8-bit <SP> characters in the manner described in the definition of ASCII representation type (see the Section on Data Representation and Storage). If the type is Image or Local byte the filler is a zero byte.
2 B-2
Filler String: ! 1 1 ! n !
The escape sequence is a double byte, the first of which is the escape byte (all zeroes) and the second of which contains descriptor codes as defined in Block mode. This implies that the byte size must be at least 8 bits, which is not much of a restriction for efficiency in this mode. The descriptor codes have the same meaning as in Block mode and apply to the succeeding string of bytes.
Compressed mode is useful for obtaining increased bandwidth on very large network transmissions at a little extra CPU cost. It is most efficient when the byte size chosen is that of the word size of the transmitting Host, and can be most effectively used to reduce the size of printer files such as those generated by RJE Hosts.
File Transfer Protocol (Aug. 12, 1973) RFC 542 NIC 17759 ERROR RECOVERY AND RESTART
There is no provision for detecting bits lost or scrambled in data transfer. This issue is perhaps handled best at the NCP level where it benefits most users. However, a restart procedure is provided to protect users from gross system failures (including failures of a Host, an FTP-process, or the IMP subnet).
The restart procedure is defined only for the block and compressed modes of data transfer. It requires the sender of data to insert a special marker code in the data stream with some marker information. The marker information has meaning only to the sender, but must consist of printable characters in the default or negotiated language of the TELNET connection. The marker could represent a bit-count, a record-count, or any other information by which a system may identify a data checkpoint. The receiver of data, if it implements the restart procedure, would then mark the corresponding position of this marker in the recieving system, and return this information to the user.
In the event of a system failure, the user can restart the data transfer by identifying the marker point with the FTP restart procedure. The following example illustrates the use of the restart procedure.
The sender of the data inserts an appropriate marker block in the data stream at a convenient point. The receiving Host marks the corresponding data point in its file system and conveys the last known sender and receiver marker information to the user, either directly or over the TELNET connection in a 251 reply (depending on who is the sender). In the event of a system failure, the user or controller process restarts the server at the last server marker by sending a restart command with server's marker code as its argument. The restrart command is transmitted over the TELNET connection and is immediately followed by the command (such as RETR, STOR or LIST) which was being executed when the system failure occurred.
The communication channel from the user-PI to the server-PI is established by ICP from the user to a standard server socket. The user protocol interpreter is responsible for sending FTP commands and interpreting the replies received; the server-PI interprets commands, sends replies and directs its DTP to set up the data connection and transfer the data. If the second party to the data transfer (the passive transfer process) is the user-DTP then it is governed through the internal protocol of the user-FTP Host; if it is a second server-DTP then it is governed by its PI on command from the user-PI.
File Transfer Protocol (Aug. 12, 1973) RFC 542 NIC 17759 FTP COMMANDS
The File Transfer Protocol follows the specifications of the TELNET protocol for all communications over the TELNET connection - see NIC
#7104. Since, in the future, the language used for TELNET
communication may be a negotiated option, all references in the next
two sections will be to the "TELNET language" and the corresponding
"TELNET end of line code". Currently one may take these to mean
NVT-ASCII and <CRLF>. No other specifications of the TELNET protocol
will be cited.
FTP commands are "TELNET strings" terminated by the "TELNET end of line code". The command codes themselves are alphabetic characters terminated by the character <SP> (Space) if parameters follow and TELNET-EOL otherwise. The command codes and the semantics of commands are described in this section; the detailed syntax of commands is specified in the Section on Commands, the reply sequences are discussed in the Section on Sequencing of Commands and Replies, and scenarios illustrating the use of commands are provided in the Section on Typical FTP Scenarios.
FTP commands may be partitioned as those specifying access-control identifiers, data transfer parameters, or FTP service requests. Certain commands (such as ABOR, STAT, BYE) may be sent over the TELNET connections while a data transfer is in progress. Some servers may not be able to monitor the TELNET and data connections simultaneously, in which case some special action will be necessary to get the server's attention. The exact form of the "special action" is related to decisions currently under review by the TELNET committee; but the following ordered format is tentatively recommended:
1 User system inserts the TELNET "Interrupt Process" (IP) signal
in the TELNET stream.
2 User system sends the TELNET "Synch" signal
3 User system inserts the command (e.g., ABOR) in the TELNET
4 Server PI,, after receiving "IP", scans the TELNET stream for
(For other servers this may not be necessary but the actions listed above should have no unusual effect.)
File Transfer Protocol (Aug. 12, 1973) RFC 542 NIC 17759 ACCESS CONTROL COMMANDS
The argument field is a TELNET string identifying the user. The user identification is that which is required by the server for access to its file system. This command will normally be the first command transmitted by the user after the TELNET connections are made (some servers may require this). Additional identification information in the form of a password and/or an account command may also be required by some servers. Servers may allow a new USER command to be entered at any point in order to change the access control and/or accounting information. This has the effect of flushing any user, password, and account information already supplied and beginning the login sequence again. All transfer parameters are unchanged and any file transfer in progress is completed under the old acccount.
The argument field is a TELNET string identifying the user's password. This command must be immediately preceded by the user name command, and, for some sites, completes the user's identification for access control. Since password information is quite sensitive, it is desirable in general to "mask" it or suppress typeout. It appears that the server has no foolproof way to achieve this. It is therefore the responsibility of the user-FTP process to hide the sensitive password information.
The argument field is a TELNET string identifying the user's account. The command is not necessarily related to the USER command, as some sites may require an account for login and others only for specific access, such as storing files. In the latter case the command may arrive at any time. There are two reply codes to differentiate these cases for the automaton: when account information is required for login, the response to a successful PASSword command is reply code 331; then if a command other than ACCounT is sent, the server may remember it and return a 331 reply, prepared to act on the command after the account information is received; or he may flush the command and return a 433 reply asking for the account. On the other hand, if account information is NOT required for login, the reply to a successful PASSword command is 230; and if the
information is needed for a command issued later in the dialogue, the server should return a 331 or 433 reply depending on whether he stores (pending receipt of the ACCounT command) or discards the command, respectively.
This command terminates a USER, flushing all I/O and account information, except to allow any transfer in progress to be completed. All parameters are reset to the default settings and the TELNET connection is left open. This is identical to the state in which a user finds himself immediately after the ICP is completed and the TELNET connections are opened. A USER command may be expected to follow.
This command terminates a USER and if file transfer is not in progress, the server closes the TELNET connection. If file transfer is in progress, the connection will remain open for result response and the server will then close it. If the user-process is transferring files for several USERs but does not wish to close and then reopen connections for each, then the REIN command should be used instead of BYE.
The argument is a decimal integer (1 through 255) specifying the byte size for the data connection. The default byte size is 8 bits. A server may reject certain byte sizes that he has not implemented.
File Transfer Protocol (Aug. 12, 1973) RFC 542 NIC 17759 DATA SOCKET (SOCK)
The argument is a HOST-SOCKET specification for the data socket to be used in data connection. There may be two data sockets, one for transfer from the "active" DTP to the "passive" DTP and one for "passive" to "active". An odd socket number defines a send socket and an even socket number defines a receive socket. The default HOST is the user Host to which TELNET connections are made. The default data sockets are (U+4) and (U+5) where U is the socket number used in the TELNET ICP and the TELNET connections are on sockets (U+2) and (U+3). The server has fixed data sockets (S+2) and (S+3) as well, and under normal circimstances this command and its reply are not needed.
This command requests the server-DTP to "listen" on both of his data sockets and to wait for an RFC to arrive for one socket rather than initiate one upon receipt of a transfer command. It is assumed the server has already received a SOCK command to indicate the foreign socket from which the RFC will arrive to ensure the security of the transfer.
The argument specifies the representation type as described in the Section on Data Representation and Storage. Several types take a second parameter. The first parameter is denoted by a single TELNET character, as is the second Format parameter for ASCII and EBCDIC; the second parameter for local byte is a decimal integer to indicate Bytesize. The parameters are separated by a <SP> (Space, ASCII code 32.). The following codes are assigned for type:
\ /
A - ASCII ! ! N - Non-print
!-><-! T - TELNET format effectors
E - EBCDIC! ! C - Carriage Control (ASA)
/ \
I - Image
L # - Local byte Bytesize
The default representation type is ASCII Non-print. If the Format parameter is changed, and later just the first argument is changed, Format then returns to the Non-print default.
File Transfer Protocol (Aug. 12, 1973) RFC 542 NIC 17759 FILE STRUCTURE (STRU)
The argument is a single TELNET character code specifying file structure described in the Section on Data Representation and Storage. The following codes are assigned for structure:
F - File (no record structure)
R - Record structure
The default structure is File (i.e., no records).
The argument is a single TELNET character code specifying the data transfer modes described in the Section on Transmission Modes. The following codes are assigned for transfer modes:
S - Stream
B - Block
C - Compressed
The default transfer mode is Stream.
The FTP service commands define the file transfer or the file system function requested by the user. The argument of an FTP service command will normally be a pathname. The syntax of pathnames must conform to server site conventions (with standard defaults applicable), and the language conventions of the TELNET connection. The suggested default handling is to use the last specified device, directory or file name, or the standard default defined for local users. The commands may be in any order except that a "rename from" command must be followed by a "rename to" command and the restart command must be followed by the interrupted service command. The data, when transferred in response to FTP service commands, shall always be sent over the data connection, except for certain informative replies. The following commands specify FTP service requests:
This command causes the server-DTP to transfer a copy of the file, specified in the pathname, to the server- or user-DTP at the other end of the data connection. The status and contents of the file at the server site shall be unaffected.
File Transfer Protocol (Aug. 12, 1973) RFC 542 NIC 17759 STORE (STOR)
This command causes the server-DTP to accept the data transferred via the data connection and to store the data as a file at the server site. If the file specified in the pathname exists at the server site then its contents shall be replaced by the data being transferred. A new file is created at the server site if the file specified in the pathname does not already exist.
APPEND (with create) (APPE)
This command causes the server-DTP to accept the data transferred via the data connection and to store the data in a file at the server site. If the file specified in the pathname exists at the server site, then the data shall be appended to that file; otherwise the file specified in the pathname shall be created at the server site.
This command may be required by some servers to reserve sufficient storage to accommodate the new file to be transferred. The argument shall be a decimal integer representing the number of bytes (using the logical byte size) of storage to be reserved for the file. For files sent with record structure a maximum record size (in logical bytes) might also be necessary; this is indicated by a decimal integer in a second argument field of the command. This second argument is optional, but when present should be separated from the first by the three TELNET characters <SP> R <SP>. This command shall be followed by a STORe or APPEnd command. The ALLO command should be treated as a NOOP (no operation) by those servers which do not require that the maximum size of the file be declared beforehand, and those servers interested in only the maximum record size should accept a dummy value in the first argument and ignore it.
File Transfer Protocol (Aug. 12, 1973) RFC 542 NIC 17759 RENAME FROM (RNFR)
This command indicates to the server to abort the previous FTP service command and any associated transfer of data. The abort command may require "special action", as discussed in the Section on FTP Commands, to force recognition by the server. No action is to be taken if the previous command has been completed (including data transfer). The TELNET connections are not to be closed by the server, but the data connection must be closed. An appropriate reply should be sent by the server in all cases.
This command causes the file specified in the pathname to be deleted at the server site. If an extra level of protection is desired (such as the query, "DO you really wish to delete?"), it should be provided by the user-FTP process.
This command causes a list to be sent from the server to the passive DTP. If the pathname specifies a directory, the server should transfer a list of files in the specified directory. If the pathname specifies a file then the server should send current information on the file. A null argument implies the user's current working or default directory. The data transfer is over the data connection in type ASCII or type EBCDIC. (The user must ensure that the TYPE is appropriately ASCII or EBCDIC).
This command causes a directory listing to be sent from server to user site. The pathname should specify a directory or other system-specific file group descriptor; a null argument implies the current directory. The server will return a stream of
File Transfer Protocol (Aug. 12, 1973) RFC 542 NIC 17759 names of files and no other information. The data will be transferred in ASCII or EBCDIC type over the data connection as valid pathname strings separated by <CRLF> or <NL>. (Again the user must ensure that the TYPE is correct.)
This command is used by the server to provide services specific to his system that are essential to file transfer but not sufficiently universal to be included as commands in the protocol. The nature of these services and the specification of their syntax can be stated in a reply to the HELP SITE command.
This command shall cause a status response to be sent over the TELNET connection in the form of a reply. The command may be sent during a file transfer (along with the TELNET IP and Synch signals--see the Section on FTP Commands) in which case the server will respond with the status of the operation in progress, or it may be sent between file transfers. In the latter case the command may have an argument field. If the argument is a pathname, the command is analogous to the "list" command except that data shall be trasferred over the TELNET connection. If a partial pathname is given, the server may respond with a list of file names or attributes associated with that specification. If no argument is given, the server should return general status information about the server FTP process. This should include current values of all transfer parameters and the status of connections.
This command shall cause the server to send helpful information regarding its implementation status over the TELNET connection to the user. The command may take an argument (e.g., any command name) and return more specific information as a response. The reply is type Oxx, general system status. It is suggested that HELP be allowed before entering a USER command. The server may use this reply to specify site-dependent parameters, e.g., in response to HELP SITE.
This command does not affect any parameters or previously entered commands. It specifies no action other than that the server send a 200 reply.
File Transfer Protocol (Aug. 12, 1973) RFC 542 NIC 17759 MISCELLANEOUS COMMANDS
There are several functions that utilize the services of file transfer but go beyond it in scope. These are the Mail and Remote Job Entry functions. It is suggested that these become auxiliary protocols that can assume recognition of file transfer commands on the part of the server, i.e., they may depend on the core of FTP commands. The command sets specific to Mail and RJE will be given in separate documents.
Commands that are closely related to file transfer but not proven essential to the protocol may be implemented by servers on an experimental basis. The command name should begin with an X and may be listed in the HELP command. The official command set is expandable from these experiments; all experimental commands or proposals for expanding the official command set should be announced via RFC. An example of a current experimental command is:
Change Working Directory (XCWD)
This command allows the user to work with a different directory or dataset for file storage or retrieval without altering his login or accounting information. Transfer parameters are similarly unchanged. The argument is a pathname specifying a directory or other system dependent file group designator.
The server sends FTP replies over the TELNET connection in response to user FTP commands. The FTP replies constitute the acknowledgment or completion code (including errors). The FTP-server replies are formatted for human or program interpretation. Single line replies consist of a leading three-digit numeric code followed by a space, followed by a one-line text explanation of the code. For replies that contain several lines of text, the first line will have a leading three-digit numeric code followed immediately by the character "-" (Hyphen, ASCII code 45), and possibly some text. All succeeding continuation lines except the last are constrained NOT to begin with three digits; the last line must repeat the numeric code of the first line and be followed immediately by a space. For example:
100-First Line
Continuation Line
Another Line
100 Last Line
It is possible to nest (but not overlap) a reply withiin a multi-line
File Transfer Protocol (Aug. 12, 1973) RFC 542 NIC 17759 reply. The same format for matched number-coded first and last lines holds.
The numeric codes are assigned by groups and for ease of
1 The first digit specifies type of response as indicated below:
0xx These replies are purely informative and constitute neither a positive nor a negative acknowledgment.
2xx Positive acknowledgment of previous command or other successful action.
6xx-9xx Reserved for future expansion.
2 The second digit specifies the general category to which the
response refers:
x3x Primary access. Informative replies to the "log-on" attempt.
x5x FTP results.
x6x RJE results.
File Transfer Protocol (Aug. 12, 1973) RFC 542 NIC 17759 x7x Mail Portocol results.
x8x-x9x Reserved for future expansion.
3 The final digit specifies a particular message type. Since the
Each TELNET line delimited by a numeric code and the TELNET EOL (or group of text lines bounded by coded lines) that is sent by the server is intended to be a complete reply message. It should be noted that the text of replies is intended for a human user. Only the reply codes and in some instances the first line of text are intended for programs.
The assigned reply codes relating to FTP are:
000 Announcing FTP.
010 Message from system operator.
020 Exected delay.
030 Server availability information.
050 FTP commentary or user information.
100 System status reply.
110 System busy doing...
150 File status reply.
151 Directory listing reply.
200 Last command received correctly.
201 An ABORT has terminated activity, as requested.
202 Abort request ignored, no activity in progress.
230 User is "logged in". May proceed.
231 User is "logged out". Service terminated.
250 FTP file transfer started correctly.
251 FTP Restart-marker reply.
Text is: MARK yyyy = mmmm
where 'yyyy' is user's data stream marker (yours)
and mmmm is server's equivalent marker (mine)
(Note the spaces between the markers and '=').
252 FTP transfer completed correctly.
253 Rename completed.
254 Delete completed.
257 Closing the data connection, transfer completed.
300 Connection greeting message, awaiting input.
301 Current command incomplete (no <CRLF> for long time).
330 Enter password.
File Transfer Protocol (Aug. 12, 1973) RFC 542 NIC 17759 331 Enter account (if account required as part of login sequence). 332 Login first, please.
400 This service not implemented.
401 This service not accepting users now, goodbye.
402 Command not implemented for requested value or action. 430 Log-on time or tries exceeded, goodbye.
431 Log-on unsuccessful. User and/or password invalid.
432 User not valid for this service.
433 Cannot transfer files without valid account. Enter account and resend command.
434 Log-out forced by operator action. Phone site.
435 Log-out forced by system problem.
436 Service shutting down, goodbye.
450 FTP: File not found.
451 FTP: File access denied to you.
455 FTP: File system error not covered by other reply codes. 456 FTP: Name duplication; rename failed.
457 FTP: Transfer parameters in error.
500 Last command line completely unrecognized.
501 Syntax of last command is incorrect.
502 Last command incomplete, parameters missing.
507 Catchall error reply.
550 Bad pathname specification (e.g., syntax error).
TYPE - ASCII Non-print
MODE - Stream
BYTE - 8
for the default values
The initial default values for transfer parameters are:
TYPE - ASCII Non-print
BYTE - 8
MODE - Stream
STRU - File
All Hosts must accept the above as the standard defaults.
The server protocol interpreter shall "listen" on Socket 3. The user or user protocol interpreter shall initiate the full-duplex TELNET connections performing the ARPANET standard initial connection protocol (ICP) to server Socket 3. Server- and user- processes should follow the conventions of the TELNET protocol as specified in NIC #7104. Servers are under no obligation to provide for editing of command lines and may specify that it be done in the user Host. The TELNET connections shall be closed by the server at the user's request after all transfers and replies are completed.
The user-DTP must "listen" on the specified data sockets (send and/or receive); these may be the default user sockets (U+4) and (U+5) or a socket specified in the SOCK command. The server shall initiate the data connection from his own fixed sockets (S+2) and (S+3) using the specified user data socket and byte size (default - 8 bits). The
File Transfer Protocol (Aug. 12, 1973) RFC 542 NIC 17759 direction of the transfer and the sockets used will be determined by the FTP service command.
When data is to be transferred between two servers, A and B (refer to Figure 2), the user-PI, C, sets up TELNET connections with both server-PI's. He then sends A's fixed sockets, S(A), to B in a SOCK command and B's to A; replies are returned. One of the servers, say A, is then sent a PASV command telling him to "listen" on his data sockets rather than initiate an RFC when he receives a transfer service command. When the user-PI receives an acknowledgment to the PASV command, he may send (in either order) the corresponding service commands to A and B. Server B initiates the RFC and the transfer proceeds. The command-reply sequence is listed below where the messages are vertically synchronous but horizontally asynchronous:
User-PI - Server A User-PI - Server B
C->A : ICP C->B : ICP
C->A : SOCK HOST-B, SKT-S(B) C->B : SOCK HOST-A, SKT-S(A)
A->C : 200 Okay B->C : 200 Okay
C->A : PASV
A->C : 200 Okay
C->A : STOR C->B : RETR
The data connection shall be closed by the server under the conditions described in the Section on Establishing Data Connections. If the server wishes to close the connection after a transfer where it is not required, he should do so immediately after the file transfer is completed. He should not wait until after a new transfer command is received because the user-process will have already tested the data connection to see if it needs to do a "listen"; (recall that the user must "listen" on a closed data socket BEFORE sending the transfer request). To prevent a race condition here, the server sends a secondary reply (257) after closing the data connection (or if the connection is left open, a "file transfer completed" reply (252) and the user-PI should wait for one of these replies before issuing a new transfer command.
The commands are TELNET character string transmitted over the TELNET connections as described in the Section on FTP Commands. The command functions and semantics are described in the Section on Access Control Commands, Transfer Parameter Commands, FTP Service Commands, and Miscellaneous Commands. The command syntax is specified here.
File Transfer Protocol (Aug. 12, 1973) RFC 542 NIC 17759 The command codes are four or fewer alphabetic characters. Upper and lower case alphabetic characters are to be treated identically. Thus any of the following may represent the retrieve command:
RETR Retr retr ReTr rETr
This also applies to any symbols representing parameter values, such as A or a for ASCII TYPE. The command codes and the argument fields are separated by one or more spaces.
The argument field consists of a variable length character string ending with the character sequence <CRLF> (Carriage Return, Linefeed) for NVT-ASCII representation; for other negotiated languages a different end of line character might be used. It should be noted that the server is to take NO action until the end of line code is received.
The syntax is specified below in NVT-ASCII. All characters in the argument field are ASCII characters including any ASCII represented decimal integers. Square brackets denote an optional argument field. If the option is not taken, the appropriate default is implied.
The following are all the currently defined FTP commmands:
USER <SP> <username> <CRLF>
PASS <SP> <password> <CRLF>
ACCT <SP> <acctno> <CRLF>
BYTE <SP> <byte size> <CRLF>
SOCK <SP> <Host-socket> <CRLF>
TYPE <SP> <type code> <CRLF>
STRU <SP> <structure code> <CRLF>
MODE <SP> <mode code> <CRLF>
RETR <SP> <pathname> <CRLF>
STOR <SP> <pathname> <CRLF>
APPE <SP> <pathname> <CRLF>
ALLO <SP> <decimal integer> [<SP> R <SP> <decimal integer>] <CRLF> REST <SP> <marker> <CRLF>
RNFR <SP> <pathname> <CRLF>
RNTO <SP> <pathname> <CRLF>
DELE <SP> <pathname> <CRLF>
LIST [<SP> <pathname>] <CRLF>
NLST [<SP> <pathname>] <CRLF>
SITE <SP> <string> <CRLF>
STAT [<SP> <pathname>] <CRLF>
HELP [<SP> <string>] <CRLF>
File Transfer Protocol (Aug. 12, 1973) RFC 542 NIC 17759 NOOP <CRLF>
<username> ::= <string>
<password> ::= <string>
<acctno> ::= <string>
<string> ::= <char>|<char><string>
<char> ::= any of the 128 ASCII characters except <CR> and <LF>
<marker> ::= <pr string>
<pr string> ::= <pr char>|<pr char><pr string>
<pr char> ::= any ASCII code 33. through 126., printable
<Host-socket> ::= <socket>|<Host number>, <socket>
<Host-number> ::= a decimal integer specifying an ARPANET Host.
<form code> ::= N|T|C
<type code> ::= A[<SP> <form code>]|E [SP> <form code>]|I|
L <SP> <byte size>
<structure code> ::= F|R
<mode code> ::= S|B|C
<pathname> ::= <string>
Certain commands require a second reply for which the user should also wait. These replies may, for example, report on the progress or completion of file transfer or the closing of the data connection. They are secondary replies to file transfer commands.
The third class of replies are informational and spontaneous replies which may arrive at any time. The user-PI should be prepared to receive them. These replies are listed below as sponteneous.
One important group of spontaneous replies is the connection greetings. Under normal circumstances, a server will send a 300 reply, "awaiting input", when the ICP is completed. The user should wait for this greeting message before sending any commands. If the server is unable to accept input right away, he should send a 000 "announcing FTP" or a 020 "expected delay" reply immediately and a
File Transfer Protocol (Aug. 12, 1973) RFC 542 NIC 17759 300 reply when ready. The user will then know not to hang up if there is a delay.
The table below lists alternative success and failure replies for each command. These must be strictly adhered to; a server may substitute text in the replies, but the meaning and action implied by the code numbers and by the specific command reply sequence cannot be altered.
COMMAND SUCCESS FAILURE
USER 230,330 430-432,500-505,507
PASS 230,330 430-432,500-507
ACCT 230 430-432,500-507
REIN 232,233 401,436,500-507
Secondary Reply 300
BYE 231,232 500-505,507
BYTE 200,331 402,500-505,507
SOCK 200,331 500-505,507
PASV 200,331 500-507
TYPE 200,331 402,500-505,507
STRU 200,331 500-505,507
MODE 200,331 402,500-505,507
RETR 250 402,433,450,451,454,455,457,
Secondary Reply 252,257 452
STOR 250 402,433,451,454,455,457,
Secondary Reply 252,257 452,453
APPE 250 402,433,451,454,455,457,500-507,
Secondary Reply 252,257 452,453
ALLO 200,331 402,500-507
REST 200,331 500-507
RNFR 200 402,433,450,451,455,500-507,550
RNTO 253 402,433,450,451,455,456,500-507,
ABOR 201,202,331 500-507
DELE 254 402,433,450,451,455,500-507,550
LIST 250 402,433,450,451,454,455,457,
Secondary Reply 252,257 452
NLST 250 402,433,450,451,454,455,457,
Secondary Reply 252,257 452
SITE 200,331 402,500-507
STAT 100,110, 450,451,455,500-507,550
HELP 030,050 500-507
NOOP 200 500-505,507
Spontaneous Replies 000,010,020, 400,401,434-436
TIP User wanting to transfer file from Host X to local printer:
1 TIP user opens TELNET connections by ICP to Host X socket 3.
2 The following commands and replies are exchanged:
TIP HOST X
<---------- 300 Awaiting input <CRLF>
USER username <CRLF> ---------->
<---------- 330 Enter Password <CRLF>
PASS password <CRLF> ---------->
<---------- 230 User logged in <CRLF>
SOCK 65538 <CRLF> ---------->
<---------- 200 Commmand received OK<CRLF>
RETR this.file <CRLF> ---------->
(Host X initiates data connection to TIP socket 65538,
i.e., PORT 1 receive)
<---------- 250 File transfer started <CRLF>
<---------- 252 File transfer completed <CRLF>
BYE<CRLF> ---------->
<---------- 231 User logged out <CRLF>
3 Host X closes the TELNET and data connections.
Note: The TIP user should be in line mode.
User at Host U wanting to transfer files to/from Host S:
In general the user will communicate to the server via a mediating user-FTP process. The following may be a typical scenario. The user-FTP prompts are shown in parentheses, '---->' represents commands from Host U to Host S, and '<----' represents replies from Host S to Host U.
ftp (host) multics<CR> ICP to Host S, socket 3,
establishing TELNET connections
<---- 330 Awaiting input <CRLF>
username Doe <CR> USER Doe<CRLF>---->
<---- 330 password<CRLF>
password mumble <CR> PASS mumble<CRLF>---->
<---- 230 Doe logged in.<CRLF>
retrieve (local type) ASCII<CR>
(local pathname) test 1 <CR> User-FTP opens local file in ASCII.
(for.pathname) testp11<CR> RETR test.p11<CRLF> ---->
Server makes data connection to
<---- 250 File transfer starts
<---- 252 File transfer
type Image<CR> TYPE I<CRLF> ---->
<---- 200 Command OK<CRLF>
byte 36<CR> BYTE 36<CR>LF ---->
<---- 200 Command OK<CRLF>
store (local type) image<CR>
(local pathname) file dump<CR> User-FTP opens local file in Image.
(for.pathname) >udd>cn>fd<CR> STOR >udd>cn>fd<CRLF> ---->
<---- 451 Access denied<CRLF>
terminate BYE <CRLF> ---->
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0.025383 | <urn:uuid:6e0a844d-3028-47be-b75e-6b45d3491f9c> | en | 0.974991 | The Boston Globe
Appeals court backs new sentencing for serial killer Gary Lee Sampson
Gary Sampson looked on during his arraignment in Brockton District Court in August 2001.
Associated Press / File 2001
A federal appeals court has ruled that serial killer Gary Lee Sampson’s death sentence must be vacated and a new hearing held to determine the penalty for his crimes.
Upholding a ruling by US District Judge Mark L. Wolf, the court said “we conclude — as did the district court — that the death sentence must be vacated and a new penalty-phase hearing undertaken.”
The appeals court said Sampson deserved a new hearing because of juror dishonesty. Sampson claimed that a juror had been dishonest during the voir dire before the sentencing portion of the trial, in which a jury decided Sampson deserved the death penalty. In the voir dire process, jurors are questioned to determine whether they are suitable to sit on the case.
“This case is a stark reminder of the consequences of juror dishonesty,” a three-judge panel of the court found in a decision written by Justice Bruce M. Selya. “Jurors who do not take their oaths seriously threaten the very integrity of the judicial process. The costs, whether measured in terms of human suffering or monetary outlays, are staggering.”
Sampson was sentenced to death in 2003. He was the first person to receive a death penalty sentence by a federal court in Massachusetts and the first sentenced to execution for a crime committed in the state in more than half a century.
In federal death penalty cases, a special hearing is held before a jury to determine whether death is justified.
Wolf, who was then chief of the US District Court in Boston, ordered a new hearing for Sampson after ruling in 2011 that a juror who was involved in the original penalty-phase hearing had lied about her past, possibly tainting the jury’s verdict. Prosecutors appealed the decision.
Sampson killed Jonathan Rizzo, 19, of Kingston, and Phillip McCloskey, 69, of Taunton, in Massachusetts in July 2001. He then killed Robert “Eli” Whitney, of Penacook, N.H., in New Hampshire in what prosecutors called a bloody, weeklong rampage. Sampson pleaded guilty but contested the death penalty.
In the years after, however, lawyers handling Sampson’s appeal found that one of the jurors had lied.
The juror did not report that she had once been threatened with a gun and that she had a daughter who had a history of drug abuse and had been sent to jail before.
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A sign that racism still permeates our society
The acquittal in the Trayvon Martin case is a travesty of justice, and it speaks to the fact that racism still permeates American society. Exactly what transpired during the struggle between George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin may never been known, but, the opinion of the jury notwithstanding, it seems undeniable that Zimmerman chose to pursue Martin because of the color of his skin and his attire.
As teenagers, my own two sons (while wearing hoodies) had minor skirmishes with the law. I am convinced that if they had been black, the consequences could have been extreme — jail, physical abuse, or even being shot.
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August's LFP was 63.2%. The LFP was 65.7% when Obama became president:
In July, the Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated that there were 144,285,000 Americans with jobs. In August, the BLS estimated there were 144,170,000--a decline of 115,000.
The LFP measures the percentage of working-age people currently participating in the labor market. This can mean that they are either employed or actively seeking employment. When the LFP drops, it means that people have left the labor market. Some retire, some give up looking for work out of sheer frustration at not being able to find a job.
Since the unemployment rate is based only on those participating in the labor market, if people give up looking for work and the LFP drops, the unemployment rate drops. In other words, if everyone looking for a job gave up the search for work and went on welfare, the unemployment rate would drop to zero.
With our LFP now at Carter-era levels, no one believes this is due to people retiring. Especially with almost 9 million people on disability (an all-time record) and food stamp rolls also hitting record highs.
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In May 2004, Cincinnati-based Chiquita Brands announced that it had voluntarily told the U.S. Justice Department about payments that its Colombian subsidiary, Banadex, had made to unspecified Colombian terrorist groups.
At the time, the story made few headlines beyond wire-service reports and a piece in the Cincinnati Enquirer. It was soon all but forgotten. It looked like Chiquita had performed a masterful bit of “scandal management,†the branch of public relations that contends, “The cover-up is always worse than the crime, so get it all out as soon as possible.â€
Yet since the announcement late last week that Chiquita and the Justice Department had agreed on a $25 million fine in exchange for a guilty plea, the Chiquita story has only drawn more attention and debate in both the United States and Colombia. Why is this?
1. The details. Unlike Chiquita’s 2004 unilateral announcement, the plea agreement discusses at length what the U.S. company – the successor to the notorious United Fruit Company – is guilty of doing. The indictment – available thanks to a good analysis on Slate – explains:
Defendant CHIQUITA began paying the AUC in Urabá [northwestern Colombia, near Panama] following a meeting in or about 1997 between the then-leader of the AUC, Carlos Castaño, and Banadex’s then-General Manager. At the meeting Castaño informed the General Manager that the AUC was about to drive the FARC out of Urabá. Castaño also instructed the General Manager that defendant CHIQUITA’S subsidiary had to make payments to an intermediary known as a “convivir.†Castaño sent an unspoken but clear message that failure to make the payments could result in physical harm to Banadex personnel and property. Convivirs were private security companies licensed by the Colombian government to assist the local police and military in providing security. The AUC, however, used certain convivirs as fronts to collect money from businesses for use to support its illegal activities.
It turns out that Chiquita made over 100 payments to the AUC, totaling about $1.7 million over nearly seven years.
2. The Colombian government’s unexpectedly strong reaction. Though Chiquita has portrayed its payments as extorted “protection money,†both President Ãlvaro Uribe and Attorney-General Mario Iguarán have called for eight accused Chiquita executives’ extradition to face trial in Colombia.
Uribe may be seeking to distract attention from an ongoing scandal that has consumed several of his supporters in the government and Congress, all of them accused of helping paramilitary groups. With his extradition demand, Uribe sends a message that the list of paramilitaries’ backers in fact goes beyond his support base on Colombia’s right wing.
The call for Chiquita executives’ extradition also taps into a commonly felt frustration among Colombians. Many see their government handing over Colombian citizens to face long jail sentences in the United States, but believe that U.S. citizens accused of trafficking drugs or supporting armed groups in Colombia – including rogue U.S. military personnel who have dealt in drugs or weapons – get slaps on the wrist, such as fines or a few months in prison.
Either way, if the Colombian government wishes to begin punishing foreign executives whose corporations have paid “protection money†to illegal armed groups, it is within its rights to do so – but it may find itself extraditing a lot of people. Such payments are widely believed to have been commonplace for decades. Candidates for extradition run from the German construction company Mannesmann – whose payoffs to the ELN when building the Caño Limón-Coveñas oil pipeline practically underwrote the guerrilla group’s revival from near defeat in the 1980s – to various oil, coal and beverage companies accused of paying paramilitaries to kill union organizers.
3. The convivir connection. It is not good news for President Uribe that, according to the indictment, Carlos Casta̱o ordered Chiquita to funnel its money through a convivir security cooperative. The convivir were a bizarre mid-90s experiment in which the Colombian government encouraged the formation of legal citizen militias to assist the security forces. Predictably, many of the convivir ended up committing abuses and linking with Рor evolving into Рparamilitary groups. They were abolished in 1998.
One of the most ardent promoters of the convivir model was Ãlvaro Uribe, who encouraged their formation during his period as governor of Antioquia department (January 1995-December 1997). The Urabá region, where Chiquita was operating, includes part of Antioquia; the convivir to which Carlos Castaño instructed Chiquita to send payments (the “Papagayo Associationâ€) was in fact founded during Uribe’s term as governor.
So much for “scandal management.†The Chiquita story is likely to be with us for some time – especially if Attorney-General Mario Iguarán makes good on his pledge to keep pursuing “para-businesses.â€
3 Responses to “Chiquita: so much for “scandal management—
1. richtiger Says:
It’s amusing (to me) to think of Chiquita executives being extradited to Colombia; but I’m not sure there’s any moral argument against it.
Really, any American citizen who sells or uses Colombian cocaine is, in some sense, “extraditable.”
Colombians are on firm ground when they assert that their drug problem wouldn’t exist without American users.
2. SJH Says:
Screw morality, Colombia needs to extradite for the reason elucidated in Adam´s post:
“Such payments are widely believed to have been commonplace for decades.”
If they don´t extradite and punish, then MNCs are going to continue to come to Colombia, pay off paramilitaries or guerillas and fund the violence.
Make no mistake. Shutting off this resource valve won´t stop the war, but it´s vitally important that the Colombian government take every effort possible to restrict paramilitary funding sources and this is obviously a valuable one.
I would also add that not included in Adam´s post is the 3,000 guns that were delivered by Banadex. This goes beyond just paying “protection money” and falls into the category of active support. How many poor farmers were forced off their land by the barrel of those guns? How many innocents killed? How many child soldiers? Etc, etc, etc.
It´s an utter disgrace that the US gov is only giving the responsible parties a slap on the wrist. It´s not up to Colombia to ensure that these “gentlemen” get the justice they so richly deserve.
3. Tambopaxi Says:
Folks, for the sake of equal time on this, during the time I lived in Colombia, (1994-98) and beyond oil outfits were paying the FAC big, big bucks to protect their various pipelines. The money went for proactive protection purposes (i.e., to defend against FARC, ELN, attacks, as opposed the “insurance” payments made to Chiquita to the AUC). Oil company payments, btw, went for everything from salaries, food, and gas, to the purchase of boots and guns. Point is, if you’re some big outfit (I don’t care what country or what industry) and you’re really intent on doing business in the Colombian campo, you’re perforce going to be dealing with one or more of the armed groups operating out there. Colombia’s a bad enough place as is, given its history of violence, but the Uraba region, where Chiquita has historically operated is probably some of the baddest territory going up there, and the FAC and USAID are most likely operating there. Chiquita apparently felt it good work there, make a profit, employ people and keep it going by making payoffs to the AUC, who to be clear, are the worst people and force by far, of any/any group operating in Colombia. Still, given the GOC’s inability to project stabilizing force in that area (and a lot of the rest of the country), what’s the alternative? Fix it so that Chiquita et al, can’t do anything to operate in producing a legitimate, non-coke product? If so, than good bye to that kind of business (I thought the GOC was encouraging alternative crops!) and you can declare the Uraba and similar areas either true no-man’s land or land controlled by someone other than the GOC – which seems to more and more the case, btw down in Putumayo and Caqueta….
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By Proteusza on 9/1/2008 12:48:17 PM , Rating: 3
An XBox 360 Arcade goes for £150, while a Wii goes for £180. An XBox 360 Premium goes for £190.
So much for the Wii being the cheapest console, far from it.
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By SectionEight on 9/1/2008 12:56:33 PM , Rating: 4
Yes, but if you want a Wii, you say "I want a Wii" and you pay one price and get a Wii. If you want an XBOX 360, you say "I want an XBOX 360, but which version should I get? What are the differences and how do they affect my experience?" and, according to at least the Japanese sales figures, you pay one price and get a Wii.
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By StevoLincolnite on 9/1/2008 2:07:35 PM , Rating: 2
Problem with that is... Money.
The Arcade costs less for Microsoft to Produce, so they loose "less" on the console. (If not profit from it)
The Arcade also out-sells all the other Xbox 360 models because of the price, and some people do not require a Hard Drive at all.
Besides, HDMI cables don't cost that much anyway, and here the play and Charge Kit is only $14 at Kmart which isn't to bad, but if Microsoft sold a Million consoles, that's "14 million dollars" that is in our pockets and not there's, it's smart business sense really.
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By StevoLincolnite on 9/1/2008 2:58:29 PM , Rating: 2
Microsoft is still a company, if they can save a few cents by cutting a corner and ultimately achieve it's main goal of: Making more money, don't you think they will?
The flaw in your logic is that you're forgetting scale.
RE: Thats already the case in the UK
By Etsp on 9/1/2008 5:52:03 PM , Rating: 3
The problem with that argument is... Money. The difference between the Arcade and the other Xbox 360 models is the hard drive, or rather, the lack of one. (Simplified... I know there are other minor differences in the higher end models...)
The hard drive SHOULD be the single part of the system that makes the most profit for Microsoft, as it is ridiculously overpriced. If they aren't making a profit from that part, then they really need to rethink their manufacturing for it, which is unlikely.
So, the arcade does NOT cause Microsoft to make more profit, it in fact does the opposite. They are simply trying to lower the cost of entry for the consumer because of what DOES get them profit: Games sold, which is a function of Xboxes sold.
RE: Thats already the case in the UK
By MrSmurf on 9/1/2008 1:29:57 PM , Rating: 3
I know. That is so complicated picking out which version you want. Why can't it be like buying a house, car, tv, vacuum, cable tv service, a pet, etc.... ?
*Note the sarcasm.
RE: Thats already the case in the UK
By BladeVenom on 9/1/2008 1:50:51 PM , Rating: 2
Yes, forget simplicity, everyone should just buy a PC and learn how to use it for gaming.
By gradoman on 9/1/2008 2:38:53 PM , Rating: 3
Youch! You forgoet to take your dose of StarForce!
RE: Thats already the case in the UK
I have the Arcade version.
The Arcade was the model I chose because:
1) It was cheap.
2) I can still play online happily.
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Let's get something clear from the start: Galaxy is definitely not a straight forward successor to Sunshine, and that's a good thing. For me at least, Sunshine was good but way off great, something we've come to expect from Miyamoto and Mario.
You haven't played anything like Galaxy, that's fact. Miyamoto's genius has once again pulled out all the stops to create a entirely new Mario experience. What's his new play toy? Its quite simple... gravity. The Japanese developers have created a traditional 3d platform game with a huge emphasis on gravity, this concept is quite hard to explain in words, so you'll just have to play it to see what I mean.
As with any Mario game, the story doesn't really play a huge part... but what has Bowser done this time? Not to our surprise, he's kidnapped Princess Peach.. and recruiting the help of some UFOs he's managed to transport Peach's entire castle into outer space. The standard stuff, although we are treated to a so-so cut scene showing our princess being abducted by the villain.
When I first saw footage of Mario running around these tiny spheres I had quite strong doubts in my mind as to how it was going to work- what happened to the large 3D environments we're used to? My fears were almost instantly put to rest as I started to play Galaxy. Straight away gravity becomes Mario's closest ally as he jumps effortlessly between planets.
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Once you've picked up the controls, which can take a little getting used to, seeing as you can now walk upside down, and caught a few pesky rabbits, you find yourself aboard the observatory- the central hub of Super Mario Galaxy. It's worth pointing out that this hub is nice and small unlike those of other recent platformers.
Scattered around the observatory are a number of domes, each dome grants access to a number of galaxies, and each galaxy has a number of stars available; these are the actual levels. Collecting stars is the name of the game, each level you complete gains you a star, and defeating a boss gives you a grand star which usually opens up another dome's worth of galaxies. Simple.
What the Dickens do I need stars for? For Mario, gaining 60 power stars will allow him to travel to the center of the universe to save his 'gal. That's right, fortunately for our hero it only requires 60 stars to initially finish the game.. however, there are an additional 60 stars available to complete the game and unlock a special reward.
Super Mario Galaxy is the truest 3D platform game I've come across since the original Mario 64. It has deep roots in platform action, not adventure.. I can't stress enough that this is not an adventure game. Sunshine sometimes felt like you were just running around collecting stars, Galaxy is so much better, every single level has been designed with platforming/puzzle/action in mind- obviously they vary in difficulty, but the bottom line is that platforming Mario is back and better than ever.
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I'll bring this up again since everyone seems to have forgotten: Ubisoft used to call these games "standalone expansion packs". Everyone knew where they stood. What you were getting was more of the same; new levels built on the same tech with the exact same gameplay, and, as a result, a price tag of less than twenty quid. Take Rainbow Six 3: Black Arrow, and Ghost Recon 2: Summit Strike - great examples of fan service, and we gave both 8/10. Had they been full-price, we might have been grumpier about what were blatant retreads, albeit quality ones. It's all about context.
But since the so-called next generation rolled into town, that approach has been replaced with near-annual updates dressed up as full sequels. GRAW 2 just about got away with it last year, mainly because it was a far more polished offering than the unfinished original and everything it should have been in the first place. Rainbow Six Vegas, though, got most things right first time. More of the same is just...well, going over old ground.
Lasting just seven 'acts' (over 25 scenes each lasting about 10-15 minutes), the single-player campaign is woefully short-lived. Putting the game on at 10am on a leisurely Sunday morning, I'd finished the whole thing before my belly started rumbling for an evening meal - and that's factoring in numerous breaks for snacks, IM chats and idle net-browsing. Your mileage will vary related to difficulty level and your ability to nail terrorists, but the ongoing trend for shorter single-player experiences in blockbuster releases is blatantly in evidence here, with six hours likely to be the average first run-through for most.
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Kicking off in Paris five years before the game's near-future setting, the game quickly moves on to the neon trash of Sin City once again, where those dastardly terrorists are up to no good with chemical weapons. "No good", of course, gives us the excuse to shoot some more funny foreigners. Wacka-wacka. The story's not exactly the game's strong point, with a typically anodyne cast and dialogue that washes over you, but, for once, the scale of the task at hand seems credible. It's a slightly more personal affair, where your best efforts don't always yield the desired results. The entire universe isn't going to perish at the hands of someone with short man syndrome or anything; trying to stop trains from blowing up, people being gassed to death and hotels exploding seems a bit more like the sort of thing Rainbow Six would be tasked with.
For the fourth game in a row (if we include both GRAWs), each mission is book-ended by Ubisoft's trademark chopper ride to your destination, complete with stunning, popup-free views. Admittedly the impressiveness of the effect is somewhat dimmed by its predictability and recent over-use, but it's still one of the best ways to get a mission underway, with your briefings and background details formed from the chatter during the journey. On the ground, it conforms to the Rainbow Six template - train stations, office complexes, underground car parks hotels, rooftops, blah - with alternative routes through levels on offer and, thankfully, very little to do on the casino floor (handy, since we left all our money at the games shop).
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While we ponder over the fine detail, it's easy to forget how refined the control system is, and how well it serves a once-complex game. The slick system employed allows you to move freely while dictating the position of your men - whether stacking them up against the next door or requesting them to fall in behind you. Using a combination of context-sensitive commands and intuitive d-pad commands, the game second-guesses your intentions correctly. You can make use of cover by holding the left trigger near to where you want to go, moving the left stick to peek out in the required direction, with options to blindfire too. The overall range of commands has been reduced since, say, 2004's disappointing Lockdown, but all the essentials remain, like being able to frag or flash and then clear, and tagging enemies you want your team-mates to take out first with the left bumper. Ill-advised additions like heartbeat sensors and overly convoluted go-codes are firmly in the dustbin of history, it seems.
The major addition since last time out is the character-creation ranking system, whereby every kill (in every game mode, whether in single or multiplayer - previously, this was a multiplayer only feature) awards players with a certain amount of XP, whether carried out by you or your team-mates. A simple, no-frills kill might bag you a single point of XP, but pull off an impressive feat and you'll not only gain more XP but a skill-point bonus which counts towards ranking up one of three categories: Marksman (for headshots, long-range, opponents killed while using a rope, etc), CQS (close-quarters kills, such as using blindfire or short-range attacks) and Assault (for killing turret-gunners, killing through cover, downing shielded opponents, etc). If you've played the previous Vegas, you'll get a bonus portion of 1250 XP and some equipment to get you underway (thanks!), and from there on, how you work your way up the 20 ranks to Elite status is in your hands. The lower the difficulty you play on, the fewer XP and skill-points. The new XP system is an unexpectedly fantastic addition for numerous reasons. Progressing through the ranks unlocks lots of better weapons, armour and visual upgrades (like comedy camouflage), all of which you can take with you into multiplayer sorties, not to mention other supplementary modes like Terrorist Hunt and co-op.
While you might initially feel a sense of "is that it?" when the credits roll on the somewhat brief story mode, Vegas 2 certainly isn't lightweight. There are 12 Terrorist Hunt missions, for a start, which is almost as good as having an entire extra campaign, mainly because it's wonderfully replayable off or online and perfect for a quick session. Crank up the enemy density and skill level and it becomes a fantastic war of attrition - especially if you're attempting to scoop the Achievement points for finishing all 12 on Realistic.
Rainbow Six: Unlikely to further their careers as window cleaners any time soon.
Online, Vegas 2 has the usual impressive array of options and modes to keep series fans and newcomers happy. Story mode and Terrorist Hunt modes can also be played via Xbox Live (publicly or privately), System Link, or split-screen if you prefer, although we're now limited to two players rather than four in story mode (boo!). In terms of the five Versus modes, across the same 12 maps used in Terrorist Hunt, up to 16 players can engage in team-based and free-for-all. Attack & Defend mode is a self-explanatory team-based affair, Team Leader involves defending your leader while also trying to assassinate your opponent's, while Total Conquest involves capturing satellite transmitters and holding them for the duration of a countdown. Elsewhere, Deathmatch and Team Deathmatch tick old-school boxes. As usual, you can tinker with settings for each and specify weapon-restrictions, respawn count, round duration (up to 20 minutes), and whether players can join a match in progress. Even your chosen spoken language shows up in the match search, which helps. There's nothing especially revolutionary about any of it, but the maps are intricate and varied and it's a game anyone can jump into and not feel overwhelmed. Just expect a few frame-rate dips here and there if you fancy playing the story mode in co-op.
Regardless of failure, every kill counts towards improving your rank, so there's a lessened sense of despair when you fail. The fact that your investment of time is counting towards something is an excellent payback that other games could learn from. The other positive element of the XP system is that it encourages you to stop relying on your squad-mates so much, with your feats of skill rewarded more than if your team-mates bag the kill. So not only is there an added incentive to play the offline modes on a tougher skill level, the game also rewards positive and skillful play on every game mode.
Check out my camouflage. No-one would ever know I'm here...
In short, the inclusion of the XP system has unexpectedly saved Vegas 2 from feeling like a lazy cash-in release. Although it barely offers anything new elsewhere, this single innovation does enough to make you play more than you otherwise might - and in new ways, too.
On the downside, the overall technology hasn't really moved on in two years. GRAW felt like one of the first games to make the generational leap, but Vegas 2 stands still. There's no doubt the game has the capacity, on occasion, to hold its own against the best Unreal Engine 3-powered shooters, but that's all it does. Worse, screen-tearing issues are still rampant, and texturing is often alarmingly bland. For a full-priced product pitched as a full sequel, you'd expect a bit more - especially when you consider you can pick up the original for probably less than half the price if you shop around. Overall, Vegas 2 feels like an incremental expansion, despite the success of the character-creation feature. The annoying thing is that with a bit more investment these quickfire sequels would feel like true follow-ups, which would go a long way with those of us who've been following the series for the past ten years. As it is, we'll still go to Vegas, but we'll be grumpy on the way home.
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Yeah, But Its Not Think, Its Know...
I wish I was pretty enough for my friends, for my boyfriend, for my family. I wish I was the skinny girl I use to be, I hate the jokes from my parents, and my brother and his girlfriend. I hate being called ugly, and fat daily. I am practically starving myself to get skinny again, I hate that I have health problems, and that it makes it so impossible to lose weight. I'm sorry I;m not pretty enough for anyone, even if I lost all the weight I wanted to, I'd still be ugly, and thats one thing that would never change...
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I'm sorry to hear you say that ); I wouldn't go so far as to say something trivializing like "I know exactly how you feel", but I do experience that urgent, almost desperate need to be beautiful, too. My problem is not really obesity but persistent acne.
I hate that people are mean enough to say such things to you. They have no right, and you should not take that from anyone!
But I suppose, sometimes it's easier said than done. I agree with the other responder. Others may say such things, but you are the only one you can depend on. Don't think about beating yourself up or anything, because who, then, will you rely on to be on your side?
Only inner beauty will win you love, in the end. Take care.
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Don't let them steal from you your right to be happy. Don't let them infect you with their own self-hatred. Hide your soul from this...keep a piece of yourself.
I was the same way. I allowed my family's obsession with beauty to demoralize me, they called me names made fun of me and it was all because they were jealous. Jealous of my happiness, jealous that I was not affected by the self-hatred they were. I was happy and they wanted me to be unhappy like they were. No matter how hard you work you will never make them happy because they have no idea what that perfection is.
Since then I have taken my life back and refused to allow them to make me lose out on my chance to live life and be happy.
Love my dear is not won with beauty...ask all the Hollywood starlets if that is the case.
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There are myriad 16th-century legends surrounding Lange Wapper, the water devil, but all agree he lived near water. That's why a bronze statue of this famous demon trickster, built by Albert Poels, was placed by the Scheldt river in front of the Steen Castle, now the National Maritime Museum.
Lange Wapper could change his size—he could make himself as small as a baby or as large as a giant. As a formidable giant, he would stand with a foot planted on either side of the canal and frighten drunks during the night. Many men who stayed too long at the bars used Lange Wapper's antics as an excuse for lateness.
Virile and cheeky, he garnered the reputation of a fertility god—it's claimed that young women who visit the statue after marriage go on to bear many children. Himself a philanderer, he used every ploy possible to get close to women. One story tells how he turned himself into a newborn baby and waited on a public bench. A woman who had just given birth pitied the foundling and proceeded to breast-feed him, only to receive the fright of her life when he transformed into a grown man!
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What are some good challenging ways to play the Pokemon games?
GTRagnarokPosted 1/27/2013 1:35:11 AM
Things like only using the starter Pokemon. But that inevitably leads to grinding which doesn't really make for a fun challenge.
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taexPosted 1/27/2013 1:38:15 AM
Choice Band - Tackle only.
Mmm... Pies...
ashcrvPosted 1/27/2013 1:40:34 AM
go play something else if you want challenging
Nerwrax15Posted 1/27/2013 1:41:36 AM
NaughtyGhost, my fav person on gamefaqs. Props+forever=
Nerwrax15Posted 1/27/2013 1:46:25 AM
Or Reverse Nuzlocke. If a Pokemon Dies on your team, you must keep it in your Party forever. Can't use revives in battle and if all 6 slots are locked with pokemon, you lose
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ElectricNovaPosted 1/27/2013 1:47:53 AM
No hold items
Vulpix only
Final destination
Official Rayquaza of the Pokemon X and Y boards
FowhawkPosted 1/27/2013 2:32:56 AM
Nuzlocke Challenge
1.) Can only catch the first Pokemon in each area and nothing else.
2.) If a Pokemon faints it is considered dead and must be released.
3.) Nickname all your Pokemon to grow closer bonds with them.
A couple other rules you can add to further vamp up the challenge.
1.) No catching duplicate Pokemon, thus ruining most routes if it is something you already have.
2.) No buying any items.
3.) Battle style is on Set.
4.) No Pokemons level can be higher than the next gym leaders highest level Pokemon.
5.) If you white out it is a game over.
I played through a Nuzlocke with that ruleset and it gave me DS snapping frustration with certain fights.
*angrly stares at Fantina*
sinfulGrimoirePosted 1/27/2013 2:34:37 AM
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Sophomore Katie Grill-Donovan
Sophomore Katie Grill-Donovan
Oct. 26, 2007
Final Stats
NORMAL, Ill. - After 110 minutes of soccer between Illinois State and Missouri State, neither team had a tally on the scoreboard and the game ended in a 0-0 tie. For the Redbirds (7-4-3, 3-0-2 MVC), it was their second-consecutive draw, after tying Evansville 1-1 last weekend, and their first scoreless draw of the season. ISU and Evansville are tied for first place in the Valley with 11 points apiece. Both ISU and Missouri State (6-9-2, 2-1-2 MVC) are still in the hunt for the top two spots in the conference.
Sophomore Katie Grill-Donovan made six saves in goal to record her fifth shutout of the season, moving her into sole possession on fourth place on the Illinois State single-season list. Sophomore Raquel Rattray led the Redbirds with three shots and seniors Shannon Duggan, Yvonne Northover and Carrie Schurr each had a pair of shots.
Both the Redbirds and Bears registered 11 shots and 12 fouls in the game. The Redbirds had an advantage in saves, 6-5, and corner kicks, 5-4, while the Bears held an edge in shots on goal, 6-5.
The Redbirds supplied plenty of pressure in the Missouri State end of the field in the early going. Three minutes into the action, sophomore Shannon Eccleston lobbed the ball into the left side and Northover had an open shot from eight yards out on the left post, but Missouri State goalkeeper Jackie Jasper made the save. In the 12th minute, Northover brought the ball up the right side and played it in front of senior Bethany Russ, who was in behind the Missouri State defense, but Jasper came sliding out to stop the ball.
Northover continued to spark the Redbird offense in the 15th minute when she took a corner kick from the left side and played it over the box to the far post where Schurr took a shot that went just over the crossbar. Schurr had another chance three minutes later when she took a sort pass from Russ in nearly the same spot, but her shot was right at Jasper. Northover came back in the 21st minute with a hard blast from the right side, but Jasper was there yet again to make a diving save.
After a goal kick, Missouri State had its first offensive threat. The Bears played the ball over the top of the Redbird defense and before Grill-Donovan could come out to play it. Caroline Sweeney hit a low line drive shot past her that hit the post. The ball bounced back into play to the feet of Lauren Heck who got off another shot that Grill-Donovan stopped. There was a brief scrum in front of the net, but the Redbirds were able to clear it out.
In the second half, the play was up and down the field, but neither team threatened to break the scoreless tie until the 57th minute when Missouri State went on the attack. The Bears brought the ball down the right side and Nicole Logan took a shot from just outside the penalty box that went into the side of the net. On the ensuing Redbird possession, Duggan had a clear shot on the left side that sailed high over the crossbar. Rattray had a long shot from 30 yards out that Jasper just got a hand on to deflect over the goal.
In the first overtime, Duggan took control of a loose ball on the left side and had a shot to the far post that bounced just wide. Duggan later crossed the ball from the left side to junior Mel Routledge, who one-timed a shot wide. Missouri State's first scoring chance came in the 96th minute when Lauren Galati had a header from the middle of the box over the net. The Bears regained possession quickly and put the ball on goal again, but Grill-Donovan knocked it away.
Jenna Laughlin had a breakway down the middle of the field for the Bears at the beginning of the second overtime, but she couldn't capitalize as her shot went wide left.
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The phone call and timeline that led to UBL
Shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, detainees in the CIA's secret prison network told interrogators about an important courier with the nom de guerre Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti who was close to bin Laden. After the CIA captured al-Qaida's No. 3 leader, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, he confirmed knowing al-Kuwaiti but denied he had anything to do with al-Qaida.
"Hassan Ghul was the linchpin," a U.S. official said.
If they could find the man known as al-Kuwaiti, they'd find bin Laden.
Ahmed was identified by detainees as a mid-level operative who helped al-Qaida members and their families find safe havens. But his whereabouts were such a mystery to U.S. intelligence that, according to Guantanamo Bay documents, one detainee said Ahmed was wounded while fleeing U.S. forces during the invasion of Afghanistan and later died in the arms of the detainee.
By mid-February, the officials were convinced a "high-value target" was hiding in the compound. President Barack Obama wanted to take action.
Brennan told CNN Tuesday that "there was no single piece of information that was an 'ah-hah' moment." He said officials took "bits and pieces" of intelligence gathered and analyzed over a long period of time to nail down the leads they needed.
Before dawn Monday morning, a pair of helicopters left Jalalabad in eastern Afghanistan. The choppers entered Pakistani airspace using sophisticated technology intended to evade that country's radar systems, a U.S. official said.
Officially, it was a kill-or-capture mission, since the U.S. doesn't kill unarmed people trying to surrender. But it was clear from the beginning that whoever was behind those walls had no intention of surrendering, two U.S. officials said.
Thanks to sophisticated satellite monitoring, U.S. forces knew they'd likely find bin Laden's family on the second and third floors of one of the buildings on the property, officials said. The SEALs secured the rest of the property first, then proceeded to the room where bin Laden was hiding. A firefight ensued, Brennan said.
Ahmed and his brother were killed, officials said. Then, the SEALs killed bin Laden with a bullet just above his left eye, blowing off part his skull, another official said. Using the call sign for his visual identification, one of the soldiers communicated that "Geronimo" had been killed in action, according to a U.S. official.
Bin Laden's body was immediately identifiable, but the U.S. also conducted DNA testing that identified him with near 100 percent certainty, senior administration officials said. Photo analysis by the CIA, confirmation on site by a woman believed to be bin Laden's wife, who was wounded, and matching physical features such as bin Laden's height all helped confirm the identification. At the White House, there was no doubt.
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TV Ratings: Disappointing premiere for The CW's 'Melrose Place' on Tuesday
'90210' outperforms 'Melrose,' but NBC and FOX rule Tuesday ratings
<p>Laura Leighton of 'Melrose Place'</p>
Laura Leighton of 'Melrose Place'
Credit: The CW
Fast National ratings for Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2009.
Not only did The CW's "Melrose Place" reboot fail to equal the ratings for last year's "90210" reboot premiere, but the soap opera couldn't even hold onto the significantly less robust ratings for the season season launch of "90210."
The CW will attempt to spin the ratings later in the day. For now, though, your full results for the evening, which was won by NBC and FOX.
Among adults 18-49, FOX averaged a 2.7 rating, edging out NBC's 2.4 rating and the 2.1 rating for CBS. ABC was fourth in the coveted demographic with a 1.6 rating, while The CW's 1.3 rating was fifth for the night.
Overall, NBC averaged an estimated 10.065 million viewers to go with a 6.2 rating/10 share. CBS was second with a 5.4/9. FOX was a distant third with a 3.5/6, followed by ABC's 2.9/5. The CW trailed with a 1.8/3.
CBS began the night in first with a strong 6.9/11 for "NCIS." FOX's "Hell's Kitchen" and NBC's "America's Got Talent" repeat both averaged a 4.4/7, though FOX averaged more viewers and got a 3.5 rating in the 18-49 demo, the hour's best. ABC's "Shark Tank" repeat was fourth. The CW's season premiere of "90210" did a 1.8/3, averaging 2.56 million viewers and a 1.3 demo rating.
Because we know you want a little point-of-comparison, last fall's "90210" premiere averaged 4.9 million viewers.
NBC won the 9 p.m. hour with a 7.2/11 for "America's Got Talent." CBS' "Big Brother" was second with a 5.0/6, nearly doubling FOX's "More to Love," which nipped the 2.5/4 for ABC's "Shaq Vs." The "Melrose Place" premiere did a 1.7/3 for The CW, averaging 2.27 million viewers and the same demo as "90210."
The CW will attempt to give those numbers meaning later in the day by emphasizing young female viewers and whatnot.
In the 10 p.m. hour, NBC stayed in first with "America's Got Talent," which dipped slightly to a 6.9/12. CBS' "The Mentalist" took second, edging the 4.0/7 for ABC's "Primetime" special featuring Jon Gosselin.
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HR personnel run and review the HR7010 report after they have added or updated specific information on an employee’s record in SCUPPS to ensure that the data will pass via the interface to SEMA4. This report will display the status of transactions as either passing or failing the interface, and will also include an error code and brief explanation for transactions that are failing. There are two versions of the HR7010 report. A brief description of each version is shown below.
This variation of the HR7010 displays the transactions for the current pay period, the two prior pay periods, and one day, the status of these transactions and any data differences between SCUPPS and SEMA4.
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0.206991 | <urn:uuid:420d5512-9af9-4af8-a01c-334f611cc084> | en | 0.850645 | Jill Shaw Ruddock 2013-12-12T05:48:56-05:00 Jill Shaw Ruddock http://www.huffingtonpost.fr/author/index.php?author=jill-shaw-ruddock Copyright 2008, HuffingtonPost.com, Inc. HuffingtonPost Blogger Feed for Jill Shaw Ruddock Good old fashioned elbow grease. Why the Verdict of the Oscar Pistorius Trial Will Reveal More About Us Than Him tag:www.huffingtonpost.com,2013:/theblog//3.2801572 2013-03-05T19:18:08-05:00 2013-05-05T05:12:01-04:00 Jill Shaw Ruddock http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jill-shaw-ruddock/
What is it about human nature that we want to think the worst and believe someone is guilty until proven innocent? We can't help ourselves as we obsessively watch and track with eager anticipation every detail as to how the good and the great fall from grace. Do we as human beings begrudge meteoric success or is it simply the reversibility that satisfies our sense of symmetry? The faster they rise, the more self satisfied we are when they fall.
The verdict of this trial in Pretoria will ultimately reveal more about us than it will about the Paralympian champion. If proven innocent, those of us who assumed his guilt will have to look in the mirror and question just why we jumped to the conclusion that a young man born with no legs to overcome adversity and become the first double amputee to compete in the Olympics would kill his beautiful girlfriend on Valentine's Day night.
We have all watched endless hours of television and read millions of lines of newsprint tracking how other revered heroes have crashed and burned from dizzying heights. In sport: Lance Armstrong, OJ Simpson, Tiger Woods. Politicians: Bill Clinton, John Edwards, Cecil Parkinson, Jesse Jackson, Silvio Berlusconi. Religious leaders: Cardinal Keith O'Brien, Evangelists Jimmy Swaggart, Marvin Gorman, Jim and Tammy Bakker. Movie and television stars: Mel Gibson, Lindsay Lohan, Jimmy Saville. Financiers: Bernie Madoff, Ivan Boesky, Raj Rajaratnam... to name just a few.
Yet, how many of our well known personalities or even successful entrepreneurs/industrialists who have tried to shun the spotlight have been wrongfully singled out, dragged through the scrutiny of the press, chewed up and left with reputations wrongfully destroyed or lingering doubts and hatred in the minds of the public without cause? Do you remember when the idea took traction that Madeleine McCann's parents, Gerry and Kate became the prime suspects in the disappearance of their beloved daughter after the Portuguese police could not find her kidnappers? Or, when Lord McAlpine was accused on the front page of every newspaper in the world of child molestation for it to be a case of mistaken identity?
The Lord Justice Leveson inquiry has not even scratched the surface as to how to control the poison the traditional press and 21st century new media spread. If you Google "Oscar Pistorius innocent" you will not find one mention of his possible innocence in the 1.2 million results. Are we all victims of summary trial by the media without the full facts?
Although we need role models to look up and aspire to, we have been taught through the Internet, tweeting and unethical and unrelenting investigative journalism to believe the worst. So let's not judge this Paralympic champion until we know exactly what happened in the dark of night when even a super hero can transform into someone simply human.]]>
Is Gluten the Culprit in Our Fight Against Obesity? tag:www.huffingtonpost.com,2012:/theblog//3.1882582 2012-09-15T08:19:47-04:00 2012-11-15T05:12:01-05:00 Jill Shaw Ruddock http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jill-shaw-ruddock/
For the past 30 years, the mantra to lose weight has been to cut out all starchy carbohydrates from our diet. However, the latest weight loss craze sweeping America is the great compromise for carb lovers: eat carbohydrates as long as they are gluten free. The premise is you can eat gluten free bread, pancakes, pasta, cereal, cookies, and cakes - and still lose weight, while reversing plaque, high blood pressure, arthritis, diabetes, and many other health problems.
The author of the Wheat Belly Diet, cardiologist Dr William Davis, has based his diet on the belief that "wheat is the single largest contributor to the nationwide obesity epidemic - and its elimination is key to dramatic weight loss and optimal health." Davis maintains that the modern wheat sold today has been genetically modified and has little resemblance to the four foot "amber waves of grain" referred to in the song "America the Beautiful" written in 1910. You don't need to be a sufferer of coeliac disease or IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome) to shop in the gluten free aisles; gluten free has now gone mainstream!
When I think back to when I was growing up in the late 1950s and 60s, there were maybe one or two fat kids out of the hundreds of children in the school playground. If in the 'good old days' we could eat whatever and whenever we wanted and not gain weight, is genetically modified wheat the cause of obesity that has become a generational phenomenon that started around the mid-1970s as Davis maintains? Is wheat the only culprit or could it also be the way that much of our food is produced and reared? Or are we getting fatter because food is too readily available and cheap?
Houses and cars cost 14 times what they did 50 years ago, but the price of chicken hasn't even doubled. Food has become much cheaper in real terms. This means that our weekly food shop today is a smaller percentage of the average family's budget than it was in 1960. Does it make you pause and wonder why you can buy a whole chicken at the supermarket for less than it costs to get a latte at Starbucks?
We will never see an advertisement on television promoting the nutritional wonders of a fresh apple or a bunch of celery. But manufacturers can make sugar-frosted cornflakes, chocolate pops or cereal bars sound like the most nutritious option of the day. In fact, the average 'healthy' cereal bar has more than eight teaspoons of sugar per 100 grams.
Due to the rise of factory farming and the use of additives and chemicals, most of the food we eat has been grown and reared in a different way than it was when we were growing up. This has had an impact on our overall health - and our waistlines. Fifty years ago, food did not have anything like the amount of preservatives it does today. Our mothers shopped daily at their local butcher and greengrocer and kept little food in the house. Children were told they needed to eat more to grow big and strong. Now 'big' is a national epidemic.
What is now considered to be safe farming practices are very different from what they were even 50 years ago. We have genetically modified foods, animals routinely fed antibiotics, and even beef full of growth-enhancers if it's reared in America. A bewildering number of chemicals in the form of colourings, preservatives, appearance enhancers and more are added to our food to keep it looking better for longer.
When it comes to bigger bellies, I think back to the breakfast I had this summer while on vacation in America. The three very overweight people at the next table all ordered corn pancakes because they were gluten free. They also ordered extra butter, bacon on the side and whipped cream on top but were furious when the waitress told them there was no sugar free maple syrup. It is clear as we try to find the answers to the obesity epidemic; gluten is just one of many culprits.
Part of the text for this blog has been excerpted from Jill Shaw Ruddock's book, The Second Half of Your Life]]>
Pourquoi l'avortement s'invite au premier rang du débat politique américain? tag:www.huffingtonpost.com,2012:/theblog//3.1835378 2012-08-28T03:51:25-04:00 2012-10-27T05:12:03-04:00 Jill Shaw Ruddock http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jill-shaw-ruddock/ les Républicains modérés et les supporters mécontents d'Obama ont caressé l'idée que le candidat républicain Mitt Romney pourrait être une alternative viable aux élections de novembre. Romney commençait réellement à passer pour un "Républicain modéré" sur des questions de société fondamentales, tout en ayant l'expérience entrepreneuriale nécessaire pour remonter une économie en difficulté. Mais lorsqu'il a choisi Paul Ryan comme candidat vice-président, les électeurs indécis et les supporters ont recommencé à se demander : "Qui est Mitt Romney et que représente-t-il ?"
Les électeurs ont reçu des premières réponses claires cette semaine.
Cette semaine a été longue pour le duo Romney/Ryan. Dimanche, dans le Missouri, le candidat républicain au sénat, Todd Akin, a fait la une avec sa remarque sur la façon dont le corps des femmes pouvait, d'une manière ou d'une autre, empêcher une grossesse en cas de viol légitime ou forcé. Le candidat vice-président Paul Ryan a même appelé Akin à se retirer de la course "pour le bien de l'équipe". Le fait est que les positions de Paul Ryan sur l'avortement diffèrent très peu de celles d'Akin et de la plupart de leurs collègues républicains de la Chambre des députés, qui ont fait de la restriction du droit à l'avortement une priorité.
Les camps de Romney et Ryan ont immédiatement déclenché une riposte médiatique cherchant à tout prix à prendre leurs distances avec Akin. Mais voici comment l'adage "Faites ce que je fais, pas ce que je dis" devient pertinent.
Dés mardi, le comité responsable du programme électoral républicain a porté son soutien à un amendement constitutionnel rendant l'avortement illégal, sans exception sauf en cas de viol ou d'inceste. Le parti a également approuvé un plan éducatif promouvant la seule abstinence, comme il l'avait fait en 2008 : "Nous renouvelons notre appel à remplacer les programmes de planning familial pour les ados en augmentant les financements de campagnes en faveur de l'abstinence, qui prônent l'abstinence jusqu'au mariage".
Le droit à l'IVG et le retrait des subvention de l'Etat pour l'accès à la contraception sont apparus très tôt comme étant les problématiques clé dans la course des primaires républicaines aux Etats-Unis. Les candidats se sont surpassés pour faire une priorité de leur position par rapport au droit à l'avortement, bien avant celles sur l'économie, l'éducation environnementale, la santé, le terrorisme ou les impôts. Rick Santorum qui mena un temps la course à l'investiture républicaine, déclara qu'il s'opposerait à l'avortement même en cas de viol et que "les femmes devaient tirer le meilleur parti d'une mauvaise situation". Le candidat vice-président Paul Ryan co-signa cette proposition de loi et vota avec Santorum.
En 2008, Sarah Palin avait mis le refus du droit à l'avortement et l'abstinence comme forme de contraception naturelle au sommet de son agenda de campagne. Quelques semaines après avoir été désignée comme potentielle vice-présidente par John McCain, il apparut clairement qu'elle avait oublié d'expliquer à sa propre fille, Bristol, ce qui arrive quand on ne s'abstient pas, qu'on boit trop, et que l'avortement n'est pas une option. Palin devint alors un boulet et coûta à McCain les élections.
Alors pourquoi l'avortement est-il de nouveau au premier rang du débat politique américain ?
Aujourd'hui, aux Etats-Unis, plus de femmes sortent diplômées de l'université que leurs homologues masculins (trois femmes pour deux hommes), elles détiennent 60 % des Masters, et la moitié des diplômes de droit et de médecine. Les femmes vingtenaires vivant dans les plus grandes villes gagnent désormais davantage que les hommes du même age. Ces gains par les femmes pourraient-ils être l'une des raisons pour lesquelles tant de personnes sont devenues d'ardents défenseurs des fœtus ?
Cela ne fait pas si longtemps que l'avortement a été légalisé : il l'a été en 1967 au Royaume-Uni et le 22 janvier 1973 dans tous les états des Etats-Unis. La légalisation de l'IVG a donné à la femme les mêmes droits que l'homme qui la fécondait : le droit de pouvoir faire l'amour sans le poids et la responsabilité de devoir vivre toute sa vie avec les conséquences de cette décision.
Abolir le droit des femmes à l'IVG est une façon de les empêcher de disputer des postes et de siéger aux board d'entreprises qui ont historiquement toujours été occupés par des hommes. Prôner la réinstauration d'une société pro-life est une autre façon de dire "Dégagez-moi ces femmes, aujourd'hui et à l'avenir."
Parce que la société post-industrielle a moins besoin de forces physiques qu'à une époque, et préfère au 21ème siècle valoriser la communication et l'intelligence sociale - des qualités considérées traditionnellement comme féminines -, l'homme moderne n'est plus sûr de ce que sa place dans la société devrait être ou est. Comme les hommes ont perdu le levier économique et social, ils s'accrochent désespérément au moindre pouvoir qui leur reste.
L'histoire du déclin des hommes a déjà commencé. Même Newsweek, le plus neutre des hebdomadaires d'actualité, estima que cela valait le coup de faire récemment cette couverture "Soyez mâles ! L'homme traditionnel est une espèce menacée". Est-ce que l'homme traditionnel peut continuer à prospérer en ce monde post-industriel où, pendant des dizaine de milliers d'années, il a dominé par la loi du plus fort, du plus rapide, et donc du plus malin ?
Les hommes ont eu leur part du gâteau et l'ont mangée durant des milliers d'années. Cela fait à peine 60 ans que la balance penche en faveur des femmes occidentales, rétablissant une égalité de droits et leur offrant celui de pouvoir choisir quand et si elles ont envie d'avoir un enfant.
Peut-être que lorsqu'un amendement imposera aux hommes l'obligation légale d'assurer les soins et payer la moitié des coûts pour élever et éduquer chaque sperme éjaculé qui devient un embryon viable, le débat républicain sur la légalisation de l'avortement et le retrait des fonds d'état dédiés à la contraception sera relégué à l'arrière-plan politique américain.]]>
Why Abortion Is Taking a Front Seat in American Politics tag:www.huffingtonpost.com,2012:/theblog//3.1831535 2012-08-26T14:16:27-04:00 2012-10-26T05:12:07-04:00 Jill Shaw Ruddock http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jill-shaw-ruddock/
Voters started to get some clear answers this week.
This has been a long week for the Romney/Ryan ticket. On Sunday, Missouri Republican Senate candidate Todd Akin made front page news when he remarked how women's bodies can somehow block an unwanted pregnancy in instances of legitimate rape or forced rape. Vice Presidential hopeful Ryan even called Akin and asked him to bow out of the race for "the good of the team. The fact is that Paul Ryan's record on abortion is largely indistinguishable from Todd Akin's and most of his Republican House colleagues, who have viewed restricting abortion rights as one of their top priorities.
Both Romney and Ryan's camp went into media spin overdrive vehemently trying to distance themselves from Akin. But here's where the adage "Watch what people do, not what they say" becomes relevant. By Tuesday, the Republican platform committee approved language calling for a Constitutional amendment outlawing abortion with no explicit exceptions except for rape or incest. The party also approved a plank supporting abstinence-only education, as it had in 2008. " We renew our call for replacing family planning programs for teens with increased funding for abstinence education, which teaches abstinence until marriage."
The right to have an abortion and the withdrawal of state funding for contraception emerged early as the key issue in the Republican presidential primary race in America. Candidates went to extremes to put where they stood on a woman's right to abortion at the top of their agenda -- ahead of the economy, education environment, health care, terrorism or taxes. Rick Santorum, who at one time was frontrunner in the Republican race, stated that he even opposed abortion in cases of rape and "women must make the best of a bad situation." Vice Presidential hopeful Paul Ryan co-authored this bill and voted with Santorum.
In 2008, Sarah Palin put anti choice and abstinence as a form of birth control at the top of her campaign agenda. It became clear just weeks after she was named John McCain's running mate she forgot to tell her own teenage daughter, Bristol, what happens when you don't abstain, drink too much, and don't have abortion as a choice. Palin became a liability and lost McCain the election.
So why is abortion once again taking a front seat in American politics?
Today, in the United States, more women graduate from university than their male counterparts (three women for every two men), women now earn 60 percent of all master's degrees, and half of all law and medical degrees. Women in their 20s in their largest cities already out-earn men of the same age. Could these gains by women possibly be one of the reasons why so many have become the chief defenders of the unborn?
It wasn't that long ago abortion was legalized: in 1967 it was made legal in England, Wales and Scotland, and on January 22 1973 abortion was legalized in every state in the United States. The legalization of abortion has allowed women the same rights as the man who impregnated her: the right to have sex without the burden and responsibility of having to live with the lifelong consequences of that decision.
Abolishing a woman's right to abortion is one way to keep women from competing for the jobs and boardroom seats that have historically been occupied by men. Re-instituting a pro life society is code for, "Get these women out of my way -- now and in the future."
Because post industrial society does not need physical strength as it did ,but rather values open communication and social intelligence in 21st century -- skills that have traditionally been considered female -- the modern male is not sure what their rightful place in society should be or is. As men lose economic and social traction, they are desperate to hold onto whatever power they have left.
The story of the decline of men has already taken traction. Even Newsweek, the most mainstream of the weekly news magazines, thought it newsworthy to have as their cover story recently, "Man Up! The Traditional Male is An Endangered Species." Can the traditional male successfully thrive in this post industrial world where for tens of thousands of years he has dominated on the basis that he is stronger and faster thereby making him smarter?
Men have had their cake and eaten it too for thousands of years. Western women have had just 60 years of the pendulum swinging in their direction of equal rights and the right to decide when and if they want to have children.
Perhaps when an amendment is passed that enforces every man is legally bound to both care for and pay 50 percent of the costs of raising and educating each and every ejaculated sperm that becomes a viable embryo, the Republican debate in the United States about legalizing abortion and withdrawing state funding for contraception will move to the backseat of the American political agenda.]]>
Should We Blame our Leaders or the System? tag:www.huffingtonpost.com,2012:/theblog//3.1688657 2012-07-20T06:58:51-04:00 2012-09-19T05:12:38-04:00 Jill Shaw Ruddock http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jill-shaw-ruddock/
How has it gone wrong so quickly for the charismatic and clever leader and his team of equally intelligent Ministers? Sure they took some serious missteps and u- turns since the March budget was announced: the 'pasty tax', 'caravan tax', 'heritage tax' and 'charity tax', but their fundamental thinking is sound and we know as a country we can't go on spending the way we have in the past.
When Gordon Brown became Chancellor in May 1997, he was handed a strong and stable economy on golden platter by the Conservative government. Britain had more money in its private pension plans than all of Europe combined. Under Brown, the scope and role of government grew and grew until he bankrupted England. Cameron inherited a country with empty coffers. We all remember when Liam Byrne, The Labour Chief Secretary to the Treasure, left a note to his successor, "I'm afraid to tell you there's no money left".
Voters have short memories, but this is only part of the problem. I believe it is the structure of government that also the culprit.
In the United Kingdom, most of the heads of government departments are not experts in their fields- in fact- most have spent their working life in government working their way up to become career MPs. If we are completely honest, the skills needed to be a first rate Member of Parliament has little to do with the expertise needed to efficiently budget, run and deliver the needed services to the largest corporation in the United Kingdom, our taxpaying citizens and the six million civil servants who work in the public sector.
Would anyone of sound mind even think of applying for a job as CEO in the private sector without years of prior experience? If they did, the standard letter of rejection would surely be in the post the next day. How can we expect our Ministers to effectively manage the business of running the nation's health care, education, energy, and transportation departments when they have come to the job with little or no business or operating experience?
I don't think you will find anyone who will say David Cameron, George Osborne, or any of the Cabinet Ministers aren't intellectually accomplished. They graduated with firsts or 2:1s from Oxford or Cambridge. But when you look at their work experience before pursuing a career in politics, the management experience is close to nil. Take George Osborne. His first job was entering the names of people who died in London into the NHS computer. Also on his CV, before joining government, was that he briefly worked for Selfridges refolding towels.
In America, heads of government departments are selected for their expertise within their fields and they do not have to be serving politicians to be appointed by the president. In the United States, no Cabinet member is allowed to be a member of Congress (it's in the Constitution- separation of power). To be considered for the post of Government Minister in Britain, one must be a member of one of the two Houses of Parliament.
Clearly, things aren't going too well in America either, but I believe it is for other reasons. The president's authority to lead the nation is limited by checks and balances that were added by the framers of the Constitution. Without approval by Congress, the president can't get legislation passed. Without the support of the Supreme Court, the president can't do anything either. The checks and balances have created a log jam that makes it almost impossible to pass new laws. But as far as the President's Cabinet, it is filled with the brightest and the best from the private sector. However, the other parts of the American system are so deeply flawed that it negates the leadership and experience in the business sector that his cabinet brings to government.
Is the solution to vote for Ed Milliband and Mitt Romney in the next election or is it time to start a serious debate on how to restructure government to make it more effective?]]>
To Snip or Not to Snip Is Not the Question tag:www.huffingtonpost.com,2012:/theblog//3.1658241 2012-07-09T04:06:07-04:00 2012-09-07T05:12:12-04:00 Jill Shaw Ruddock http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jill-shaw-ruddock/
The other was to ban circumcision.
Assisted Death or Assisted Living tag:www.huffingtonpost.com,2012:/theblog//3.1643056 2012-07-02T19:00:00-04:00 2012-09-01T05:12:12-04:00 Jill Shaw Ruddock http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jill-shaw-ruddock/
For the past six years, I have watched my father deteriorate to a point where he has lived in diapers for the past four, didn't recognise either of his two daughters or remember my mother, his wife, who was the love of his life. He could not feed himself. He lived but he did not have a life. He passed away in his sleep two weeks ago at the age of 94. He had batted nine good innings but just as in baseball, there is no prescribed limit to how long a game can go into overtime.
Our beloved 14-year-old cocker spaniel Sammy who has lived for the past six months with senile dementia, blindness, a lack of bowel control and use of his legs, was put to sleep yesterday. With our dog we were allowed to choose when to end his life so that he could die with dignity and achieve a 'good death'.
We were not allowed that option with my father.
It is unclear when and who decided it was right for doctors to keep the very sick and helpless alive through the latest advances in medicine even if it means prolonged suffering. And when and who decided that it is right to keep our parents, our grandparents, our friends, siblings, and children alive at any cost? Human suffering is long and drawn out whereas our pets suffer only until we make the decision that they should suffer no more.
In the United Kingdom, in the past 20 years the number of people over 85 has doubled - a total that could double again by 2033. Long term care costs for Britain's growing elderly population has increased 67% between 2007 and 2009, and could cost up to £106 billion a year, equivalent to paying for a second NHS, according to Henry Featherstone, Head of Policy Exchange's Health and Social Care Unit.
Most experts believe that technological change in medicine is the driving force behind the long-term rise of health care spending. However, if one analyses health care expenditures, over half of health care expenditure in both the UK and the USA are spent on patients who die within one year. It is unclear just how much is being spent for services that are not only unnecessary but unwanted. What needs to be analysed is who is benefiting from the billions being spent on health care for people who are being assisted to live against their wishes.
Currently, assisted death is legal only the countries of Belgium, Luxembourg and The Netherlands and the states of Washington and Oregon in the United States. There are stringent guidelines that require two oral and one written request, two physicians to diagnose the patient and determine if the patient is competent, a waiting period, and physician verification of an informed patient decision. The percentage who apply for voluntary assisted death is estimated to be as low as 1% and as high as 3%.
Shouldn't this difficult decision on how to die be the choice of the individual: whether it means clinging on to life for as long as possible or to end one's life when they have full cognitive functions to decide? For the small percentage of the population who choose assisted death, it doesn't seem right that our current laws deny them the right to escape an intolerable life of pain, sickness, and suffering should they wish to do so.]]>
The Solution Can Not Be More Debt tag:www.huffingtonpost.com,2012:/theblog//3.1550553 2012-05-28T19:00:00-04:00 2012-07-28T05:12:10-04:00 Jill Shaw Ruddock http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jill-shaw-ruddock/
Proper budgeting has always kept households solvent, and in most families this responsibility usually falls to the woman. If we find we have spent too much, the next month we cut back. We don't keep spending because we know if we do, we will end up losing our home, most of our personal belongings and a life we hold dear. Balancing expenditures against income means not having sleepless nights worrying about how we are going to survive. Having enough money means both security and freedom.
But now that the recession is biting hard, there are growing numbers of economists and political advisors who believe the only way to get out of this recession is to spend our way out of it. The number of boarded-up shops on the high street and half-finished building sites are just the beginning signs of the double dip recession and the new austerity we face. There is a growing chorus of naysayers who believe that austerity is not the solution, and if we spend more, our assets can be rescued and revitalised. They want us to believe that we can "spend our way out of this recession" and return quickly to the 'good times'. The economy just needs to be infused with cash in order to increase liquidity; then lending will start to flow again and the good times will return.
The mantra of the Cameron administration has, from the start,been that, "Reducing the deficit is a necessary precondition to growth". But is he right? In the UK, we have now had 18 months of essentially no growth and the latest forecast is for no growth this year. It is predicted that the UK won't get back to pre-recession levels until sometime in 2014. Already, this is this is the slowest recovery on record, including what happened after the Great Depression.
Years of economic greed, having more and wanting more, caused the subprime mortgage crisis and the European debt crisis. Perhaps we can learn from Iceland, a country that was bankrupt but has improved its economic status dramatically.
Iceland is now run predominately by women. Women know that the only way to run a fiscally responsible home is to balance incoming revenue with outgoing expenses. You don't need to be master of the universe or head of a country to figure out that a balanced chequebook, no matter how big it is, is, quite simply, the 'financially responsible' way forward. So, my advice to Prime Minister David Cameron: stay close to your female ally, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, stick with the austerity plan and no u-turns on what will be a painful but necessary process to a balanced budget.]]>
Who Will Suffer This Time? tag:www.huffingtonpost.com,2012:/theblog//3.1517754 2012-05-15T10:26:32-04:00 2012-07-15T05:12:09-04:00 Jill Shaw Ruddock http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jill-shaw-ruddock/ Travelling Light at The National Theatre. It is a beautiful play about the birth of motion pictures, documenting local life in a Russian village (a shtetl) at the beginning of the last century . Although the play is a kind of love letter to the movies from the vantage point of a Hollywood director who looks back on his life, it left me feeling a loss about the destruction of Jewish folk heritage and a way of life which dominated Jewish culture for hundreds of years.
There was always an undercurrent of anti-Semitism in Russia, and in 1791 Catherine the Great solved what her predecessors could not -- to successfully create The Pale, a large Jewish ghetto to remove Jews from Russian life. However, in 1861, when Czar Alexander II abolished serfdom in Russia , anti-Semitism grew as Jews became traders instead of field hands. Russian workers began to see them as competitors and an economic threat. What followed was repressive legislation, edicts of expulsion, state enforced anti-Semitic policies and pogroms which destroyed the very existence of shtetls and Jewish life in Russia.
In times of economic and political turmoil, we need an enemy: bankers, the wealthy, countries, and other races. Greece, Italy and France are leading the way to economic and political instability that can only spread to the rest of Europe and the rest of the world. We remember too well what happened in Germany, after the Wall Street Crash of 1929. The United States called in its loans to Germany and the German economy collapsed. When the Great Depression ruined the lives of most Germans, they voted for Hitler in increasing numbers.
In a crisis, we want someone to blame, and look to extreme solutions. Hitler in 1932 offered both. He promised everybody something. Both France and Greece have voted for new leadership, rejecting the austerity measures laid out for them. With France crippled by public debt, high unemployment, weak growth and the euro zone crisis, Hollande is making promises that will either bankrupt France or he can't keep. Youth unemployment in the Eurozone is estimated to be a staggering 25 to 50 percent. In Greece, voters furious over years of painful budget cuts and higher taxes hammered the conservative New Democracy and socialist PASOK. Greece's radical Syriza leader, Alexis Tsipras was given the mandate to start building an anti-austerity cabinet a day after the conservatives failed to form a coalition.
The election last week in Great Britain dealt an enormous blow to Cameron's austerity measures and deficit reduction program with a huge swing to Labour (+823 seats). A majority of citizens voted to reject the cutting of social care services and any change to public sector pensions; they want government to continue to subsidize their increasingly longer lives in the manner they have become accustomed to -- even though they fully realize that government cannot afford to do this anymore. Are you starting to notice a connection?
As economies around the world continue to nosedive and we look for solutions to the reckless spending and entitlements to keep a way of life we have stolen from the next generation, just who do you think will suffer this time?
Jill Shaw Ruddock is the author of The Second Half of Your Life and the 2012 Winner of The Jewish Care Woman of Distinction Award.]]> | http://www.huffingtonpost.fr/author/index.php?author=jill-shaw-ruddock | dclm-gs1-128190002 | false | true | {
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Robin_in_Manette writes:
Conservatives who complain about government are convinced that government is bad. Their hero told them 30 years ago that government was bad and he proved it. They continue to elect folks who promise them bad government.
So government is bad, and you blame it on Progressives? We're trying to clean up your mess.
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By CNN's Bryan Koenig
POSTED: 06:26 PM MDT Sep 18, 2013
(CNN) -
Red state-blue state governors Rick Perry and Martin O'Malley debated job creation and healthcare on Wednesday, with Perry equating adding people to Medicaid via Obamacare with "putting tens of thousands on the Titanic knowing how it's going to turn out."
Both men are thought to be contenders for the White House in 2016 and on CNN's "Crossfire," they aired out some of the key issues that are likely to define their campaigns should they run.
Perry has been noncommittal about his plans to pursue the Republican nomination for a second time after the Texas governor's campaign imploded last year. He showed none of the hesitation of 2012 on Wednesday night however, hammering home points about Texas job creation through limited government policies.
When challenged on the disproportionately large number of minimum wage jobs created in Texas along with the large number of Texans without health insurance, Perry stuck to his talking points.
"We're about giving people freedom," Perry said, the freedom to have a job and the freedom to choose whether or not they have health insurance.
Perry continually cited the businesses that have set up shop in Texas, including Amazon, Facebook and Toyota.
"They didn't come there if they were worried about whether or not there was not going to be a skilled workforce, or people were going to have healthcare," Perry said.
Perry and O'Malley clashed most sharply over jobs, in large part spurred by Perry's media outreach aimed at poaching Maryland businesses.
In response to Texas' business-friendly environment, O'Malley fell back on job-creation language coined by President Barack Obama.
Rather than Texas policies that seem to disproportionately create minimum wage jobs, Maryland has chosen to focus on "building an economy from the middle out," O'Malley said, via things like improving education.
O'Malley, a Democrat, told Perry that Texas is "not an economy that is actually lifting up the middle class."
The two came at their different positions with radically different statistics and perspectives.
O'Malley spoke of talent creation and entrepreneurship encouraged in Maryland while Perry trumpeted improving education standards and the various options Texans have for healthcare, although he didn't elaborate.
Texas and Maryland have also taken polar opposite views on the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, Obama's signature legislative achievement better known as Obamacare.
O'Malley has continued to hold up Maryland's early adoption of Obamacare while Perry has refused federal money to expand Medicaid via the healthcare law.
Perry argued that expanding Medicaid and embracing Obamacare would ultimately end up costing Texas $100 billion.
Putting "tens of thousands of people on a system that is broken," Perry said of adding them to Medicaid, is akin to "putting tens of thousands on the Titanic knowing how it's going to turn out."
In turn, O'Malley argued that the flexibility of the Obamacare healthcare exchanges that get underway next month, regardless of the inevitable hiccups in the system, will offer Maryland workers a competitive advantage - allowing them to move from job to job without worrying about losing their health insurance. | http://www.krdo.com/news/Debating-O-Malley-Perry-on-healthcare-putting-more-people-on-the-Titanic/-/417220/22009938/-/view/print/-/7r8nv0z/-/index.html | dclm-gs1-128310002 | false | false | {
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Fri., Dec. 17, 7 p.m., 2010
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0.030951 | <urn:uuid:f49fcad7-0121-43bb-be23-cf5ab57d43be> | en | 0.970962 | Agriculture Rules The South
In contrast to New England and the middle colonies were the predominantly rural southern settlements, Virginia, Maryland, the Carolinas, and Georgia. Jamestown, in Virginia, was the first English colony to survive in the New World. Late in December 1606, a group of about a hundred men, sponsored by a London colonizing company, had set out in search of great adventure. They dreamed of finding gold; homes in the wilderness were not their goal. Among them, Captain John Smith emerged as the dominant figure, and despite quarrels, starvation, and Indian attacks, his will held the little colony together through the first years.
In the earliest days, the promoting company, eager for quick returns, required the colonists to concentrate on producing lumber and other products for sale in the London market, instead of permitting them to plant crops for their own subsistence. After few disastrous years the company eased its requirements and distributed land to the coionists.
In 1612, a development occurred that revolutionized the economy of Virginia. This was the discovery of a method of curing Virginia tobacco to make it palatable to the European taste. The first shipment of this tobacco reached London in 1614, and within a decade it had become Virginia's chief source of revenue.
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The cultivation of tobacco exhausted the soil after several crops. Breaking new ground, planters scattered up and down the numerous waterways. No towns dotted the region, and even Jamestown, the capital, had only a few houses.
Though most settlers had come to Virginia to improve their economic position, in Maryland the neighboring colony, religious as well as economic motives led to settlement. While seeking to establish a refuge for Catholics there, the Calvert family was also interested in creating estates that would bring profits. To that end, and to avoid trouble with the British government, the Calverts encouraged Protestant as well as Cathoiic immigration.
In social structure and in government the Calverts tried to make Maryland an aristocratic land in the ancient tradition, which they aspired to rule with all the prerogatives of kings. But the spiritof independence ran strong in this frontier society. In Maryland, as in the other colonies, the authorities could not circumvent the settlers' stubborn insistence on the guarantees of personal liberty established by English common law and the natural rights of subjects to participate in government through representative assemblies.
Maryland developed an economy very similar to that of Virginia. Devoted to agriculture with a dominant tidewater class of great planters, both colonies had a back country into which yeomen farmers steadily filtered. Both suffered the handicaps of a one-crop system. And before the midpoint of the 18th century, both were profoundly affected by black slavery.
In these two colonies the wealthy planters took their social responsibilities seriously, serving as justices of the peace, colonels of the militia, and members of the legislative assemblies. But yeomen farmers also sat in popular assemblies and found their way into political office. Their outspoken independence was a constant warning to the oligarchy of planters not to encroach too far upon the rights of free men.
By the late 17th and early 18th centuries, the social structure in Maryland and Virginia had taken on the qualities it would retain until the Civil War. Supported by slave labor, the planters held most of the political power and the best land, built great houses, adopted an aristocratic way of life, and kept in touch with the world of culture overseas. Next in the socioeconomic scale were the farmers, placing their hope for prosperity in the fresh soil of the back country. Least prosperous were the small farmers, struggling for existence in competition with slave-owning planters. in neither Virginia nor Maryland did a large trading class develop, for the planters themselves traded directly with London.
It was reserved for the Carolinas, with Charleston as the leading port, to develop into the trading center of the south. There the settlers quickly learned to combine agriculture and commerce, and the marketplace became a major source of prosperity. Dense forests also brought revenue; lumber, tar, and resin from the longleaf pine provided some of the best shipbuilding materials in the world. Not bound to a single crop as was Virginia, the Carolinas also produced and exported rice and indigo. By 1750, more than 100,000 people lived in the two colonies of North and South Carolina.
In the south, as everywhere else in the colonies, the growth of the back country had special significance. Men seeking greater freedom than could be found in the original tidewater settlements pushed inland. Those who could not secure fertile land along the coast, or who had exhausted the lands they held, found the hills farther west a bountiful refuge. Soon the interior was dotted with thriving farms. Humble farmers were not the only ones who found the hinterland attractive. Peter Jefferson, for example, an enterprising surveyor-father of Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States-settled in the hill country by acquiring 160 hectares of land for a bowl of punch.
Living on the edge of the Indian country, making their cabins their fortresses, and relying on their own sharp eyes and trusty muskets, frontiersmen became, of necessity, a sturdy, selfreliant people. They cleared tracts in the wilderness, burned the brush, and cultivated maize and wheat among the stumps. The men wore buckskin, the women garments of cloth they had spun at home. Their food was venison, wild turkey, and fish. They had their own amusements-great barbecues, housewarmings for newly married couples, shooting matches, and contests where quilted blankets were made. | http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/outlines/history-1990/the-colonial-period/agriculture-rules-the-south.php | dclm-gs1-128390002 | false | false | {
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'Tis the Season for Holiday Baking - love, crumb and pies
Yes, the crust on pies is delicious. But it's hard to argue that a pie topped with crumb isn't a wonderful thing. If you've never made it at home, worry not. As long as you don't mix the three easy ingredients just until it is crumbly. Any more, your chunks will be too big!
What you need:
1 cup flour
1 cup sugar
1/4 cup butter, diced
Once your filling and bottom layer is ready to go, place a sheet of parchment paper over a baking sheet. You can put the crumb on top by scooping and heaving. You want it to look like you've added it too high. The filling (especially if it's apple) will shrink in the baking process.
Happy Baking!
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The release of ValuSource Pro Version 4 features new analytical tools that redefine the meaning of power and precision in the valuation process. Here are just a few of the remarkable new enhancements to help you be more efficient and effective:
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0.031256 | <urn:uuid:a2e25aba-a658-46fb-8c68-ff10eeac08fc> | en | 0.955322 | Introduction to Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F major, BWV 1047
By Nikolaus Harnoncourt. Concentus Musicus Wien
Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Bach, those two names who fit perfectly together meet again here for the complete Brandenburg Concerto.
“Everyone who knows the Second Brandenburg Concerto thinks: ‘Oh great, a Baroque trumpet concerto!’ Hence: Baroque trumpet, physical power, high tones, sound – and everything else is secondary. But that’s just what it is not: Bach wrote a concerto for four different but equal instruments: trumpet, recorder, oboe, violin. The art was to create a dialogue among these four instruments, and this is obviously only posible when the trumpet plays as softly as the recorder and the recorder as loud as the trumpet."
"The trumpet which we use is a natural trumpet, i.e. there are no technical means such as valves and keys. The player has to do everything on his own. How was it played in Bach’s time? I think that there were exceptional talents on specific instruments back then just as today. And we know that there was a phenomenal trumpet player in Bach’s day who could play everything an octave higher. Bach must have had such a trumpet player at his disposal, since the level of difficulty of this piece is unusual for its time.” (Nikolaus Harnoncourt)
Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos, named after their dedicatee the Margrave Christian Ludwig von Brandenburg, have been part of Nikolaus Harnoncourt’s permanent repertoire ever since he founded his Concentus musicus ensemble. The ensemble has recorded them and played them on their tours throughout the world. The impulse which led Harnoncourt to establish the Concentus musicus in 1953 was his dissatisfaction with the traditional way of interpreting early music.
The uncommon and sometimes radically different style of the Concentus musicus, as well as its exclusive use of historical instruments, secured the ensemble its international reputation. Harnoncourt introduces the concerto with a moving and fascinating analysis of the piece. Interesting musical examples, which Harnoncourt inserts in a humorous and relaxed manner, make this introduction an informative and entertaining guide to this masterpiece of music. The production was filmed in the historical Baroque monastery library in Wiblingen, Germany.
Concentus Musicus Wien
Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Movie director : Klaus Lindemann
Duration : 20 min
Production date : 1982
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Published by leslielyyoung
January 22, 2013 at 01:40
Irreconcilable break-ups between couples happen when one party gets involved with another person romantically. A partner's infidelity will be considered as a strong ground to break up a conjugal relationship between spouses. There are break-ups that don't involve third parties. There are those that involve finances. Without you knowing it, your partner may be hiding certain finances that you ought to know about.
No Third Parties Necessary
Financial infidelity can happen in every relationship. It may start out small and there are instances where the other party may not be aware that they are guilty of it. This type of infidelity can be used against you and will lead to a destruction of the basic foundations that you have with the person you chose to be your lifetime partner.
Credit Card Purchases
One type of financial infidelity arises out of credit cards. You'll have to carefully review the contents of each monthly statement. If you see charges for flowers, lingerie, jewelries or gifts that you personally didn't receive, then that means your partner is hiding something.
Undeclared Cash Withdrawals
There are couples that have joint bank accounts. Each partner can withdraw an amount anytime and as a sign of respect to your partner, you have to disclose withdrawals that you make and where you used them. So if you discover a withdrawal which is undeclared or unauthorized, no matter how small or how big the amount, you have to start investigating.
Check the Account Number
You must also remember your bank account number. It's not important that you memorize all the numbers; all you have to do is make sure that you are familiar with the numbers that's on it. So when you see a deposit slip or a bank statement of a different bank account, then you'll know that there's another bank account, which only has the name of your partner and not yours. Why do you think it exists? Your guess is as good as mine. Call the bank’s toll-free number right away!
Check Liquidated Assets
Make sure you have an idea regarding where the family assets are situated. Assets can come in the form of stocks, bonds, collections, artwork, properties or jewelries. When your partner suddenly liquidates them to finance something that they have not declared, then you have to start asking questions. Make sure you get a plausible explanation.
Check the Paycheck
Salaries don't remain the same in the span of 5 years. On a yearly basis, companies provide raises, bonuses and extra payment for overtime work. If your partner brings home the same amount of money as it was five years ago, start hiring a detective and I'm sure, you'll discover something interesting.
Revelations in Tax Returns
Spending a vacation can be very relaxing and at the same time lead to income tax returns make sure that you check the income tax returns of your spouse for vacations that they never mentioned. It will definitely contain some travel-related deductions that will require some explanation.
Count Withdrawals
Some families withdraw a specific amount on a weekly basis just to cover the week's budget. You have to know the number of times that withdrawals take place. Get a hold of your bank's statement and find out if the withdrawals that are reflected there match the number of times that you know a withdrawal should take place. If not, let him or her know that you are aware of it so that they can open up and explain them.
Consistency of Disposable Income
There's always a certain amount that the family needs in order to buy the weekly essentials. When this disposable income declines, you have to start investigating and find the root of the issue.
Audit Financial Records
You don't have to be a good accountant to learn to examine your spouse's financial records, cancelled checks, the receipts in his or her pocket or other documents. Find out if those figures that you see there match your family's activities. If new records or receipts show that your partner is paying for someone else's bill, then get ready for a long discussion of this.
Financial infidelity doesn't always point to a third party involvement. It may mean that your partner used the money for something else, which he/she failed to disclose. You have to know their reasons and you have to evaluate if the explanation that they give out is acceptable or not.
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0.055275 | <urn:uuid:e754a3cc-403d-4324-ae63-6b2c15d8e1ca> | en | 0.977892 | It was cool of the Navy to remember local staffers and the local media Tuesday when it announced the new president of the Naval Postgraduate School, Ronald A. Route. The word went out here before making it to the national wires.
Unfortunately, however, the Navy didn't finish the job. Left unannounced was Route's compensation. Later, says the Navy.
It is a sore subject because officials were absurdly slow providing basic public information about the salaries of his predecessor, Dan Oliver, and the previous provost, Leonard Ferrari, and seem not to have learned much from that. And because 4,500 civilians at the school and within the Presidio of Monterey are on rotating furloughs for financial reasons. And because taxpayers are paying the bills.
The government knows that by not making the salary available on the day of the announcement, it likely will never receive wide circulation in the media. We're not saying that's what happened here. It's just as likely that someone in the chain of command didn't send the right authorization form to the right person in the military bureaucracy.
Either way, here's how those with the right authorization should look at these things: Name, rank and salary. | http://www.montereyherald.com/opinion/ci_23674199/editorial-naval-postgraduate-school-should-reveal-salary-new | dclm-gs1-128610002 | false | false | {
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0.309445 | <urn:uuid:83a67541-6118-40a2-bfac-b7dfad0a2270> | en | 0.958654 | The Wife Test
by Betina Krahn, historical (2003)
Berkley, $6.99, ISBN 0-425-19092-7
Structurally, The Wife Test is written in a way that mirrors the author's previous book, The Husband Test: we have a road trip for the first half of the book, court stuff in the second half, and enough stupid heroine antics to make me wish someone would swat all these horrible creatures to pancakes with some giant almighty fly-swatter. Seriously, watching Chloe of Guibray and her entourage of near-nuns crashing through the wilderness is like watching a bunch of children running through a Nazi concentration camp thinking it's a new Girl Guide jamboree gathering site.
The stupidity begins early on, when our heroine Chloe persuades the elderly nun to let her, a know-it-all empty-headed loudmouth, lead the other four women from the Convent of the Brides of Virtue to England. See, the patron of the Convent, the Duke of Avalon, is unable to get his people to raise enough ransom to free him. So he decides to use his four "daughters" (which he really doesn't have) from the Convent to ransom himself off. Chloe decides to go because she is sure that she will find her real heritage in England. Leading the bunch of brainless hens is our hair-suited hero Hugh of Sennet and his bunch of men. And the old woman who's supposed to lead these women let Chloe secretly take over. Because she feels that it is the right thing to do. Really.
Firstly, Hugh and the Mother Superior conspire to keep Chloe and the other brainless hens from the real dangers these beautiful women will face out there in the wilderness. So we have our heroines chattering really loudly when they are among men who are, shall we say, less than chivalrous after a long hard journey abroad. Then they are attacked when they stupidly wander off by themselves. Hugh and his men save them, and these idiots repay the men by insisting that they camp right there near the spot they are attacked because the girls are too horrified to go on. These idiots wail at the most inopportune moments, acting like high-maintenance divas, and I love how Chloe especially demands to be allowed to interrogate men Hugh have captured.
The thing is, Chloe knows nothing. She doesn't even understand why Hugh let his men wear the near-nuns' clothes and go the other way in some attempt to distract and trap their attackers. She sneaks off to bathe - alone - when the last thing she should do is to be alone and get naked in the process. There is a chilling scene where the enemies attempt to rape the "nuns" (Hugh's men dressed up), which drives home the fate that will befall the Idiot Brigade if Hugh isn't around. So why is the author letting the Idiot Brigade go around acting and mouthing off like that? Does she want me to laugh at how wrong her heroines are?
Once they reach the court of King Edward, Chloe is the first to mouth off to the King, insisting on a Wife Test (read: the men having to court the women). Expected "hammy" antics ensue as the women, suddenly bestowed with at least a little knowledge of what transpires between men and women, start flirting with the men. Then, out of the blue, there is a murder plot to off poor Duke of Avalon, and oh yeah, Chloe finds her Daddy. Whatever. As for the romance, pffft. Hugh is more like some indisciplined hormonal fruitcake whose "love" for Chloe is tantamount to a testicular testosterone Chernobyl. As for Chloe, well, who knows what she is thinking. I don't even want to try to understand.
Toxically drunk on stupidity passed off as entertainment and comedy, The Wife Test is more akin to The Lizzie McGuire Sound Of Music sensory massacre than a humorous medieval romance. I've read better. Way better.
Rating: 48
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titanbite writes:
in response to Godstheboss:
Apparently that cave you have been living in doesn't get any news. Muslims have opined their hatred of Americans as well as anyone that does not share THEIR faith. It is not about faith; it is about hatred and their vow to kill Americans.
I believe we have another option. The Muslim Community that lives in America should be standing on the corners of America denouncing radical extremest Muslim of the world that vow to kill us. Until that group makes a commitment to denounce the Muslim goal, I see no need to pat you on the back for your opinion or your continued judgment of any Christian. While you prefer to defend the Muslim faith, you have no problem denigrating Christians.
Your "not shoving your religion down my throat" attitude seems to change when you speak of the Muslim and their rights under our Constitution.
Unless they want to start denouncing the Muslim cowards that attacked our Country, they cannot be a participant in our protection under our Constitution. They live here for a reason and perhaps that is our freedom afforded us by our Constitution; however, that freedom has a cost and they have not paid the price for that option as yet.
Yes, they have a choice and until I hear their public crys from the dais so do we!
And take Obarmy with you! Peace be with you!
And Christians have opined their hatred for Muslims,we get it,you don't like them,understandable,being taught fantasy since birth about how other religions can't possibly be "Godly" since they're not Christian,one must have a deep-seated dislike of anything not Christian.
I liken your dilemma to that of being taught to hate something like seafood from birth,except the seafood is real,if I had an imagination such as yours maybe I could understand where you're coming from,fortunately,that's not the case,so,I can't understand why you would advocate for a municipality to take action against a particular religious group simply because some,definitely not all,who follow the same religion have it in for the U.S.
The Japanese,the German,the Russian,the British even,have had it in for the U.S. at one time or another,do you hate them still?
Do you believe that since they all wanted the United States to fail,that they too must have been Muslims at one time?
None of the terrorists involved in the 9/11 attacks have anything to do with those involved with building the mosque,they're dead!
Well,most are,the guy who supposedly masterminded the attacks is still loose,but,his family are Bush Family friends,so,I'm not surprised.
Would you advocate for the usurpation of the Constitution if a Christian group wanted to build a church in Salem Massachusetts,of course you wouldn't,although,we're all familiar with what the Christians did to their fellow Christian citizens when falsely accusing them of practicing witchcraft,right?
Perhaps we should ban all churches in the areas surrounding the sites of their numerous atrocities,the majority of all Christian churches in this country would have to come down,many of which were built on land stained with the blood of the true Americans,the Native American Indian.
Your "Church" is a hypocritical joke that has no place in modern society,the fantasies it promotes,the lies it spreads,the rapes,the torture and suffering perpetrated by the "followers" of Christianity span the ages,starting with it's story-tale beginning,continuing right on through to it's current pathetic existence.
Then,to add insult to injury,the religiously superstitious pot wants to call the religiously superstitious kettle,black!
Holding everyone who espouses a belief in Islam responsible for the actions of men who will use their people's faith to reach their terrorist ends,is not.
With EVERY religion,even the religious faiths that feel they are the epitome of peacefulness and tolerance,there comes distrust of other beliefs,it's ingrained into every religious belief system that has ever existed across the earth,since the very first day man could write a religiously tainted fairytale,followers of those religious superstitions,invented by man,have been taught to "Hate those who believe not like us".
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Marewa business owners are angry with Napier City Council plans to redevelop the roads around Marewa Shopping Centre, saying they have not been consulted and the changes will reduce customers.
Napier Mayor Barbara Arnott said the changes were required to improve safety at the Douglas Mclean Ave and Kennedy Rd intersection, which is the No1 crash site of all Napier controlled roads, and it was "very rare" for the council to turn down such safety recommendations.
The roading changes include a new cycle lane, the removal of the right-hand turns off Douglas McLean Ave, and the creation of a traffic island and one-way entry and exit points to the carparking on Kennedy Rd.
More than 20 affected businesses organised a meeting last week to discuss the changes, which were passed at the April 4 Napier City Council meeting.
At the council meeting a resolution to leave it on the table until there had been further consultation was lost in favour of a resolution passing the changes with consultation undertaken "prior to any work commencing".
Marewa Epic Cycles owner Julie O'Regan said the business owners had no consultation until the afternoon before the recommendation went to the council, and this consisted only of a brief chat with a council planner.
"This was the day before this plan was to be approved," she said. "And it went ahead and was approved the next day even though our two representatives here asked that it be put on the table and that we be consulted.
"They vetoed it through so it was carried and we still have not been consulted with. Even though they said they'd have a meeting with us, we're still waiting.
"We're very upset that we are the last people to find out about this. All the other businesses, it is their livelihoods and they don't even know what is going on.
"We just feel that they haven't even consulted anyone, so it is just disappointing, upsetting, and people are very angry about the whole business."
She said the business owners agreed with the removal of the right-hand turn on Douglas McLean Ave due to accidents, but said other changes, such as installing specific entry and exits points, would reduce the shopping centre's customer turnover.
"The turnover is definitely going to drop. It has been like this for some time and it is working, it works well. It allows people to get in, get what you want, and get out quickly, which is ideally the style of the shopping centre we've got here."
Mrs Arnott said the changes were aimed at improving safety for car users and pedestrians in the area.
"Safety is the No1 issue and the changes certainly give what the council sees as the best outcome in terms of safety," she said.
Mrs Arnott also said they would be organising a meeting with the business owners this week, and she was happy to tweak any aspects of the plan if the focus still remained on safety.
Asked why there had been no consultation, she said it was because it would be "rare" for the council to turn down safety recommendations.
"If we can tweak anything or change anything that better suits the business people then we'll do that whilst keeping the focus firmly on safety."
She was also confident the changes would make the area safer, and did not believe that it would harm businesses. "I can't see that that would happen, because every car has still got access in the same way ... All we're doing is making it safer for the cars to enter and exit."
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Alan Turing’s research base Bletchley Park gets £460,500 grant
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1. Brian Burton 29 Sep 2009, 8:16pm
Money to spruce Bletchley Park up is welcome. If only Churchill had not given the order to destroy the contents of Bletchley on VE day. Then there would have been some remarkable exibits to see.
2. If Alan Turing was alive today he would of wanted that amount of money spent on new research not history.
3. Good news and a most welcome memorial to one of the greatest gay men in history for future generations to learn from
4. Good point, but history is also important, Abi. It helps us avoid the same mistakes in the future.
It isn’t a huge amount of money, really. Scientific research would and does get a lot more. Besides, there is private money for research, whereas heritage projects which are likely never to turn a profit, are dependent on these sort of funds.
I hope Alan Turing’s work is going to be given maximum and prominent display in the new exhibitions.
5. Rose: “Good point, but history is also important, Abi. It helps us avoid the same mistakes in the future.”
Rose, is your surname “Coloured-Glasses” by chance? Don’t talk such utter crap. It might be nice to think that people do take note of such things, but if that was the case, why do we still continue to fight, have wars, bomb innocents, abuse children, rape and murder?
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Determining low product cut off using Ct - How to decide Ct level at which expression is unreliable (Mar/25/2007 )
I am using SYBR green for relative quanification, and analysing my first real-time data.
The expression levels of my target gene are quite low or no expression in some tissues that I am looking at.
I was wondering if anyone knew of a method (justified and preferably published) for creating a cut off point for when your Ct value gets beyond 37 and when some replicates (in a triplicate) are undetectable.
Hope this makes sense. I can try to explain further if needed.
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